The Road Map To A Triumphant Destiny

Lift your hands to Jesus and bless him tonight. You can change through me, lived through me, blessed through me, annoying true me, transform through me. Someone is blessing his name. Sha Grande brothers, Lets it be the name of the Lord, from everlasting to everlasting. You are God. We crown you King, We acknowledge you as Lord. Thank you. For Jesus' name. We pray. I'd like you to ask the Lord to if you're an encounter tonight, the Bible says, the Lord appeared again onto some well by his word. I like you to pray and cry that this is my shillow. Appear on to me by your word in the name of Jesus, who is the son of the Living God. Appear again by your word. Appear again by your word. Schalibra that cas ca libra abrasi. The word that brings me lifting, the word that brings me advancement, the word that will shift me to a new dimension. I receive in the name of Jesus. My heart is open to receive in the name of Jesus. The Bible says, they go from strength to strength. As many as appear before the Lord in zire. You don't appear before the Lord and go down. When you appear before the Lord is from strength to strength. Allelujah. Father, tonight we pray that you will speak to our hearts. We have come with our hearts open. We have come determined to lend, determined to access higher dimensions of grace and wisdom. Spirit of the Living God, move among us, and let Jesus be glorified. In Jesus name, I pray God bless you, please be seated so always a blessing for us to be gathered here again, says I was glad when they said unto me. Let us go to the House of the Lord, and we bless the Lord again for the manifold wonders that he continues to do in our lives and across the nation. In Jesus' name, May I encourage you to remain resolute as far as your spiritual growth is concerned. Allelujah. The times that we're living in will require high level spiritual illumination if you were to excel, and it's very very important. As for me, I've made a commitment under God that acts chapter twenty and verse twenty will remain a reality in this house, in this ministry. It says, I kept but nothing that was profitable onto you, but have showed you and have taught you publicly from house to house. I have kept but nothing provided It makes for your spiritual growth, it makes for your transformation. It's pounsles. You're encountering the power of God and it can transform you. You can be sure that it will not be held back from you. Allelujah. So tonight, please be attentive. There are always people who come to church and they allow the devil to cheat them by being distracted. Inasmuch as God connects destinies in church. The church is not a place for business discussions. It's not a place to look around. When you were before the Lord, you must give him your attention. Allelujah. The Bible says the man who was a beautiful Peter said, look on us, and he looked at them, expecting to receive something. Allelujah. Made the word tonight, bless you, shouted louder Amen. Made the teaching tonight be a ladder that will lift you to rams beyond your imagination. He said, I went up by revelation. It takes revelation to sponsor your advancement. And the Lord himself is going to do us good tonight in the mighty name of Jesus. Let's start with Second Timothy chapter four, Second Timothy Chapter four, and let's look at verse seven. As I prepared for tonight's teaching, I just decided to meditate a bit on this scripture, and it struck me so so much, and I thought to just share my contemplations. Peter is speaking. I'm in poor is speaking. To his son in the Gospel Timothy, and he said, I have fought a good fight. What is a good fight? A fight that has eternal value, A fight that is pro destiny? Are we together? A fight that has the rewards in this life and even in the life to come. He said, I have fought a good fight. Then he says I have finished my cause. And then he says I have kept the faith. Paul here redefines destiny for us in a very spectacular way. Number one. He teaches us from this statement that life and destiny is a fight, and that the earth here is a battleground. It's a very powerful information he was teaching his son in the Gospel. He says, I have fought a good fight. So there is a dimension to life and destiny that requires warfare. There is a dimension to life and destiny that is a fight. Now, whether you are aware or not, it does not change that reality. Number two, he also teaches us that life is a race hallelujah, is a journey and akin to a race. Some versions who say I have finished the race. He says I have finished my cause. So he gives us the picture of an athlete or someone on a journey away together. Then he says I have kept the faith. Number three, he teaches us that life is a gift and life is a treasure that must be guarded and protected. That the possibility of losing your life and your destiny is there. Notice, very carefully, please back to KJV. Thank you. It says, I have in fact live and ivy so that I can use it for the discussion. I have fort a good fight. So life is a battleground. Life will require a fight and warfare. Number two, it says I have finished the race. You have to start to finish, And then it says I have kept the faith. This is very powerful because you see, if you understand the various dimensions that are captured in life, you will also know the kinds of preparation you need to make to face those dimensions away together. If you know that life is a fight and it is a battle ground, then you will pay the price to learn the amory of a warrior. You will not only learn about it, you will pay whatever price it takes to make sure that the amory of a warrior one determined to Imagine with me, for instance, that someone, maybe a military man, is mandated to go to some visa or one of these hideouts for terrorists, and then he goes there with a shortneaker like he's running, and then a short naker, a T shirt, a bottle of water in his hands, and his sneakers ready to fight. The destination is correct, but the preparation is wrong, because what you're about to face there is not a race. The people you meet in a warfare and not your competitors their enemies. In a race, you don't have to fight enemies. Are we together? You call a race competition, not warfare, but you call it back to warfare, not competition. So knowing the various dimensions, I hope God is speaking to someone already. Knowing the various dimensions that are captured in life and death helps you to make sure that, as you saw John, make sure you have the regalia of an athlete, so that if you do find yourself in the field. Imagine now the flip side of the story. Imagine that someone gets into an Olympic field carrying AK forty seven RPG, well dressed with the helmet, and stands at the line together with the rest. As soon as they say on your mark said go, he's start shooting around the correct destination or the preparation. Then the Bible says, I have kept the faith. This is very powerful. That means there is something at the end of your life, at the end of your life and destiny, there are some things that should still be with you. There are some things that can drop on the way, childishness, youthfulness, But there are some things you should protect and never lose. If at the end of the race you do not find them, you lost your life. You don't have to be dead to lose your life. To lose your life. And to lose the faith means someone would have taken your bishopric. You can lose your bishopric, You can lose your lampstand, your place, your relevance, your influence. Very powerful information. So he says I have fought the good fight. In other words, when I began my journey, I didn't know what to expect. He's mentoring his young son in the Gospel. He said, listen, you are a young man, and you are going to face life in. A dynamic way. Let me teach you how to prepare for life. Do not prepare only to run. You must prepare to fight, and you must prepare to keep and to protect. That means your arsenals should carry the memory of a warrior, should carry the clothes of an athlete, and should carry a treasure chest, if you will allow me to use that word, because there are some things that need to be guarded and protected. Now. There are people who see life only as a battleground. Unfortunately, when life is presented to them as a race, they are busy shooting around and wondering why they are not making progress because that is not the demand for that scenario. Are we together? Imagine someone who has a beautiful jewelry, gold, and all of that. He puts it in a treasure chest and keeps it somewhere outside, maybe close to the road, and says nobody should touch it, just leaves it open and goes away. It does not know that there are many people who desire that same thing. Are we together? And he leaves it there only to come and find that it's been taken away. I have to meditate on this scripture myself and to pray for myself, and it gave me such a profound revelation. Life is a battle ground, but not a battleground alone. Life is a race, but it's not a race alone. Life is a gift that must be cherished and protected. So in my preparing for life and destiny, if I find God training me like a warrior, I don't feel I'm losing because there is a place for that training. There is a point where God will suddenly change your training. Listen carefully and you find out that in a strange way, the training has switched, but you still want the training of a warrior alone. And God says, remove all your warrior gament. Why are you on the shots of a runner and athlet? God? I thought I'm going to be fighting all my life. And then there are times you would come for training and the only training you will receive is how to keep things. You'll be wondering, God, I should be fighting. There are many people because you do not know this dynamism. You have refused to attend certain classes in the spirit. Listen carefully, and it is about to become catastrophy. In your life. A mighty warrior is only relevant when he is in the battlefield. When a warrior gets to a stadium to run, that warrior can be a disaster because the requirement for being a good athlete is speed, agility, not just their not just being a warrior. Are we together? So this upfront is a message for you, respect and discern and believe the various forms of spiritual training that God is subjecting you to. Are we together? There are some of you. When you see God training orders as athletes, you want to leave the battle ground and just go and change regalia. And God is said, remain there. The amount of time it takes to train a military officer, it's not the same amount of time it takes someone to run. Is that true? There are people without any training. They could run and win, but it's impossible to shoot and shoot excellently without a training. There are people who naturally they can keep secrets, they can storm out things and keep it there. But there are people who have to be trained. My call for you tonight. Listen to me. These three groups of people are scattered within this congregation this night. As you are listening to me. Although everybody is listening to the same thing, it is not the same thing the Holygos is doing. There are some people through this teaching you are receiving the training of a warrior. Make sure you discern there are people you are receiving the training of an athlet. There are people. You are receiving a training of one who needs to know how to protect what is given to him God. By this training week in without for some of you, you have not even started the training of a warrior. He decided to start with you on how to keep so every time you see people pray the prayer of a warrior, you laugh because the level of your own training is just to protect you. Don't worry. Keep the class going eventually, so don't be surprised. God has never told you to fast for forty days. He has never told you to pray. It doesn't mean you won't say it. You are still in another training that does not necessity those equipments. You will get to a point in life. For some of you. The reason why God did not start with the training of a warrior is because you had the privilege of being close to a warrior. So there are battles you didn't need to fight somebody else's victory. You are still enjoying it, but make no mistakes about it. There is a battle with your name on it. I have fought, I have finished, I have kept. If you fight a loane, your race is incomplete. Have you finished? If you finished a loane, your race is not complete. These three things must be captured in your life and your destiny. I have fought, I have finished, I have kept. Some people have fought, they even finished, but when they got to the finished line, they didn't find their soul again. What shall it profit a man? In the process of running, they left the major things in life, looking for money, looking for fame, and they lost their soul. Other people lost their bishopric at the end of their life. When God showed them the blueprint of their destiny. They were told that they were supposed to be mighty apostles and revivalists, but they found out that they ended up being civil Sabba. Still they finished, they lost a bishopric. He says, I have kept the faith. Are we together? So when you come to church. Don't come to listen to what you want. Come to listen to listen for the things that are needed. And don't be surprised when God suddenly switches in his training with you and becomes unusually street. He did not change. Is are not that kind of training he's giving you. And don't stop somebody from being trained as a warrior just because you are being trained as an athlete. Because there are times that you can see you can be trained as an athlete or one who will keep secrets. And you look at the rigorous training of a military man, you can go to him and say, no, God does not train like this my own God only trains you on how to keep things. That's a dangerous theology because everybody in his lifetime you must be trained to fight, You must be trained to finish, You must be trained to keep. Turn it into a prayer request. Are you obtain grace, oh God, the grace to submit to the training that kills me to fight? Are you obtain grace? Someone is praying to sub me to the training that empowers me to finish. Are you obtain grace to submit to the training that helps me to keep and preserve my bishopric? The mandate's given to me in my life and destiny. Go ahead and pray. Are you praying? No? Why as sin no gear has hurt what God has prepared for me? So why submit to your work in me till Christ be formed in me? No? Why as sin no ear has hurt what God has prepared for me? So why submit to your work in me till Christ? Before? No Why has six say? No ear has heard what God has prepared for me? So why submit to your work in me till Christ? Before no Why has seen no ear has heard one God has. Prepared for me? So why submit to your worth still drives one? More? Know? Why? Since as one God has prepared for me. Work till Christ befomed in me, till. Your glories farm in me, your wisdom befarm in me? So why submit to your work in me till Christ be farmed in me? That's why you are here is a training for some of you. Here find strength. You are going through the training of a warrior. The nature of the job, description of your destiny. You are not just going to be keeping your bishopric. There are battles to fights that you have no idea of, and you have to be trained like the mighty men of David. The Bible says those men became mighty. One of them stood in one position, and forty eight hundred people slewed them with the sword, and the sword would not leave his hand. Someone trained him. So I submit to your work in me till Christ beformed in me. Yes, I submit to your work till crimes. You can miss certain classes in the High Stitution of learning, and you can read of during exam. There are times you may be maybe sick, or you may be busy or just careless, and you may not attend certain lectures. When you hear that is the time for an exam. That's what we call totoria, and you can sit down and in three hours summarize the lecture. But in the School of Destiny, any class you miss, even if it's after thirty years, you must write that exam again. You can get annointing and miss character one O one character two o one, and after thirty years the absence of character two o one, even though you have anointing will reduce you back. You have to sit down past that exams. You can study at nineteen one oh one and forget finance five oh one and say it does not matter. The cry of your children, the cry of your wife, are we together, the cry of everything around you will bring you back to that school. Listen, it is true that no knowledge is a waste, but every time is not conducive to learn everything. Imagine a woman of fifty five years wearing a short you know, scatch and blouse, this thing that they wear in primary school, and you sit down in the midst Those students are young, their minds are still alive. A woman of fifty five years in primary school. Congratulations for her courage, but she will most likely keep getting zero in everything because she will be sleeping when other students are alive. And it is not wrong. If she did what she should do, she should be sleeping correctly at that time. Listen. There are some of you. I don't mean to scare you, but you came to know Jesus Christ late. There are some of you your family had alters. You don't have any leverage of Godliness to give you an edge in life. Some of you, right now, what you are learning is not even for your destiny. Yet, what you are learning is to correct the rubbish that you met before you now starts tabilizing for your destiny. So when somebody whose father is a missionary, whose mode is a prayer warrior, whose wife is an intercessor, whose first son is a prophet, it can miss Savis for three weeks. They have these systems of advantage. But for you is which is a wizards all kinds of the money people around you, and you also joined to miss the service till Christ before in me. Let me tell you, in this kingdom, the king's business requires haste. Are we together? You've heard me say it takes time to know God. You know. Let me tell you sincerely, when I see the kind of attention and the laxity sometimes that believers show towards the things of God. There are times that people come to church a message is preaching like this, and they're browsing. They're just just sing and laughing and saying, in fact, I'm just I'm enjoying myself honestly this place. What you said is correct, and they're not learning anything. When you come to the House of God and the world comes anything that distracts you find out what the Bible says is the name of that thing. It is the devil. It doesn't matter whether it comes as whatever. Five minutes of actuate training. Being touched the world of God will give you the tools. For some of you, you are almost done with your training of a warrior. Maybe what you are receiving tonight is the helmet, and you can stand and Heaven can clap for you and say we can go to the next training. Some of you, the day we gave the sword, you were not there. You didn't come to church, and you were careless about it. So you are a warrior without a sword, because the day the training that gives you the sword is there, you were not there and you didn't care to listen. There are some of you as you are like this. You are already in the battlegroundble, you are naked from head to toe. You need to listen to the things that will equip you first, because the war sound is about to start and it does not care whether you are prepared or not. The Bible says there were criest in Rama. The little children were inno sand but they did not have the training of military people. And you would think life will spare them because they were children. They all died, Man of God. Could it be that the teaching you're about to hear tonight is what you need for this season in the ministry for someone you are watching online and God is already speaking to you. You have learned how to fight, but you've not learned how to finish. Be careful so that you do not clap for yourself too long. You can fight, but unfortunately, if the exam that is set before you requires an athlete, you're in trouble. Students are allowed to read everything. A school of ministry students wrote their exams. I think it was last week or so a week before last, and they were taught across a number of courses. They will not be told what question will come out? Are we together? The student can have an idea, but as a good student, you read everything when you get to the exam hall because you have read and you are first. Is that true? When they ask questions across several subjects, you can respond. But there are students who just guess where they want and just read and then they get to the exam or question one to fight. None of it was what they read. Did they read? Yes? Did they read well? No? I'm preparing for destiny. I agree, But let me see what you are doing. For ten years? All you have been doing is focusing on battle. You will be surprised that the fight you want to fight. God has put you in a ministry where that grace will do that fight for you. And by the time you will be having your own fight, you should have used the time to learn how to run so that when that battle comes, your training plus the training there will give you a leverage and you'll simply move. Listen. In the name of Jesus, I pray for you every dimension of training you need in your life. You will not lose. You will submit yourself, and you will lend. You will be thoroughly trained. Some of you have gone through the training of a warrior. You have gone through the training of an athlete. But you have not gone through the training. You have not learned the dynamics of how to keep what is given to you until the end. H help us, Holy Spirit. That's not my message, that's a charge I just shared with you my devotion. Allelujah. Now let's go to the teaching. Wherever we stop, will pray. I know we'll finish in Jesus' name. The road map a triumphant destiny. The road map to a triumphant destiny. Tonight's teaching is very powerful and truly it would change your life, the road map to a triumphant destiny allelujah. Before the coming of Uber and Bold, people had to make do with cabs. It would take a cab from one location to the other, and the major trouble with that pattern of transportation was that many times the driver would have to know the location where you are exactly by head and would have to know where he needs to take you off. And there are times where both the person going and the person driving don't even know where they are know where they are going all together, and so it was a serious challenge. There are people who would spend over thirteen minutes on a journey of ten minutes simply because there was no accurate system of knowing the place and the advantage of you know, businesses like Uber and Bold, they did not give you a car necessarily. They didn't even give you the ability to learn how to drive. They introduced the GPS system to make it available. Are we together now so that it can become a breach that it is possible that even though by memory you may not know where your passenger or whoever it is that is making the order, you may not know where that person needs to go. But there is a device that can help connect you from where you are to where you need to be or where that person needs to be. And that simple thing that was introduced now made people to prefer that pattern of transporting themselves to a regular cap It's incredible how just introducing a system that provides a roadmap change the dynamics of people's appetite as far as patronizing the transport business is concerned. Are we together? And so you see that it is not enough to know that you have a great life and a great destiny. It's important for you to know that a roadmap is required. There has to be a roadmap that guides you from where you are to the place that you need to be. Failure to have a roadmap will make you lose destiny and end up in shame and end up with regrets. Probabs Chapter four, from verse eighteen and nineteen. The Bible very clearly tells us that every believer in Christ, because in Christ we are justified, We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And the Bible tells us that in Christ, and by reason of the provisions of redemption, our path it says, is as the shining light that shined more and more. You've heard me say, more and more is the heritage of the saints. Are we together? The Bible has designed a destiny, or God himself has designed and revealed through scripture, the more and more destiny for the believer. It says, it shines more and more onto the perfect day. In Jeremiah, chapter twenty nine and verse eleven, it says, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, said the Lord. They are thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. So there is an expected end. In fact, from versions who say a future and a hope, there is a future in Christ, there is a future of for your destiny. Are we see together? However? Eclesies this chapter ten and verse fifteen. Popular scripture Ecclesias this chapter ten and verse fifteen. I hope we're still together, it says. The labor of the foolish weary. Yet every one of them, Why because you know not how to go to the city, remember our oh. By example, the man is not foolish as an insult. He's foolish because he focused on the city. But he did not focus on the road map. The problem was not knowing that there is a city. The problem was knowing how to go to the city. Knowing that you have a great destiny in Christ is a good information, but that alone would not help you actualize your prophetic destiny in Christ. Are we together? So we have a great destiny, every one of us in Christ, a prophetic destiny, regardless the level and the area God would want to use you, weather in ministry, in business, and government, and family. It does not matter. We have a great destiny in Christ. The Bible says those if for new he predestined away together he called, he justified, and he glorified. The end of the journey is your glorification. Now let me present to you a roadmap. If you follow the roadmap that I'm about to show you tonight, I give you a guarantee, by. The integrity of scripture. That you will arrive at it. Try your fun destiny, a destiny that is full of beauty and color, that God will be so greatly glorified in your life and all through your lifetime. If that is you, shout aloud, Amen Daniel. Chapter eleven and verse thirty two, very popular scripture. But let's see what God has to teach us about this scripture today. And such us do wickedly against the Covenant, shall he call up by flatteries. The bee part is my verse of emphasis. But the people that do know their God shall be strong and shall do exploits. Let's read the bee part together from the world but ready want to read. But the people that do know their God uh huh, shall be strong and shall do exploits. So this promise is for people, not animals, not birds, not inanimate things. As we know. It says the people that do know their God, they shall be strong and shall do exploits. Now in biblical exegesis, please listen carefully theologically speaking, Now, when you are drawing forth light from scripture, there are rules that you follow. Number one is that in understanding scripture, the first approach is to treat it literally. Are we together? Because more than a prophetic book, or in addition to being a prophetic book, the Bible is a compendium that contains literature. The Bible is an archaeological material. The Bible is also a historical material. Are we together? And not everything in the Bible is prophetic at plain sight. There are some things that mean exactly what they say. So in approaching scripture, your first approach should be to try to interpret it directly, verbatim, as it is written. If it does not make scriptural and natural sense, then you would need what the Bible calls the presence of two or three witnesses. You would have to bring other scriptures that express the same thought so that you can now look at it contextually and now find out if it will make sense by combining other scriptures and then looking at the verses before or after. If it still does not make the kind of sense you want, then at that point you will have to buy into the wisdom of the spirit of prophecy and the spirit of revelation. Are we together to draw out the prophetic meaning? If you were asked to interpret the dream that Pharaoh had, you most likely will fail because I am shocked at the interpretation that Joseph gave over that dream. Are we together that cows fat, cows et lim cows? How in the world does a cow meantime? How in the world does an air of corn meantime? My first interpretation to that dream will be, Pharaoh, you are under attack. This is witchcraft. Abundance is eating poverty. That's going to be my intact. I'm being honest with you. And yet Pharaoh is said, there's nothing witchcraft there. This is simply the cost of time happening. So there are things that when you look at it physically, it. Does not make sense. But now when you approach it from a prophetic dimension, it will now make sense. A wea together back to this scripture. Now you will understand why I said everything I said, no, no, no, not Exodus forty. Let's do Daniel eleven again. So it says, but the people that do know their God. Now there is a contextual meaning for this. You have to read the verses before and after, and then you fit it within the context that it was used. But because the Bible is also a prophetic book, away together you can still draw forth a very supernatural lesson from it that has nothing to do with the context has discused. I think this is the mistake that most people have sometimes means theologians and people who submit themselves to learning scripture. When they see that men and women of God draw out prophetic meanings from certain scripture, they say it is wrong. No, you don't have a right to say it is wrong. It's a prophetic book. It is only that in order of priority, there is a contextual meaning. Are we together? And if you focus on the prophetic meaning and lose the contextual meaning, then you would not have done justice to that scripture. But if you understand the contextual meaning, you have the right, based on the prophetic character of scripture, to derive a prophetic meaning from it. Are we together? I'm teaching you so that when you are listening to the message of a man of God and you hear him say something else about his scripture, whereas, based on maybe a higher. Level of study, you see. That from a contextual standpoint, that person failed, but God provided that prophetic meaning, will still be able to feel something about the character of the kingdom. The spirit of God will still annoy It. Only that when you are mentoring people to be off stature and maturity, and you are teaching them the world, then you will need to be able to teach them to understand from a theological and a contextual standpoint while still holding onto that prophetic meaning. So you know that this is actually what the Bible was saying. However, I can still use it to relate to this Are we together now? Now I want to give the interpretation for that verse Daniel eleven. That really is our chise of study tonight. The Bible starts by giving us three keys that represent the major road maps and the junctions to our destiny. Number one, the Bible starts with the statement know their God knowledge match the word no. The second word that I want us to pay attention to is the word be. And then the third world I want us to pay attention to is the word do. Don't assume you know what I'm teaching. Just listen carefully. But the people that do know shall be and shall do? Are we together? Forget what else they know and what else will happen? The people that do know shall be and do. Now let me read it for you. Are you ready? Please look up. The only people that do are those who be, And those who be are those who know. The only people who can do who exploits are those who be strong, And the only people who can be strong are the people who know. Let's discuss these three words. The first is the word no. No. Talks of knowledge be, talks of transformation do, talks of action. The Bible defines for us the prophetic roadmap to a triumphant destiny. That if these three faces of approaching life and destiny is not captured, you will never be able to actualize your prophetic destiny, knowledge, transformation, and action. But they are not as cheap and empty as they sound. Let's explore by the spirit what does it mean and what does it imply to know? The Bible immediately tells us that actualizing destiny is knowledge dependent, knowledge dependent more than desire dependent. You can have desire, but until and unless you have the requisside kind and level of knowledge that your destiny demands, you may never actualize a great destiny. Are we together? What is the implication of knowing or knowledge? Number One? For you to know anything at all in life, especially that which relates to God and your destiny. Number one, you must be meek enough to receive. That is the first implication of knowing. It is mandatory that for knowing to be a reality in your life, you must be meek enough to receive. Gems Chapter one and verse twenty one discussing knowing now and the implication James one twenty one. It says, wherefore layer parts all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. And received with meekness. Someone says, with meekness one more time, Please say, with meekness, with meekness the end grafted word which is able to save your soul. That means the realm of knowing is only for people who are meek. The moment you do not have the quality of meekness, knowing will never be a possibility with you Acts Chapter twenty and verse thirty two, Popular Scripture. And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the world of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified. He's saying, listen, I know the value of the world of God. I value in this sense of spiritual knowledge. It is able to give you an inheritance, to build you up capacity and give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified. There are many people who cannot arrive at the place of destiny because they do not know, and knowing is far from them because there is no meekness at heart. Is someone learning? What else does it mean to know? Or what does it take to get to the realm of knowing? Number two. For you to be a knowledgeable person, you must master the art of asking questions. Please write it down. Dr Mudoc would say, a question is the seed for an answer. That means you are not authorized for an answer until you can ask a question. Are we together? Most people do not know in life because they do not know how to ask questions. Questions are very powerful. One day, one of the fathers of faith in this nation was talking to me, and he was teaching me the power of questions. And he said, Apostle, always ask questions, Always ask questions, Always ask questions. The next time we spoke, he said the same thing again. He said, always ask questions. I wrote it down and I made up my mind. Do you know those who know how to ask questions never stay in the same position for long. Are we listening now? But don't assume you know how to ask questions. Matthew Chapter seven, seven and eight. It says, ask and you shall receive seven and eight. Ask and you shall receive, and it shall be given on to you. That means, if it is not given on to you, it is because you did not ask. Is that true? Sik and you shall find it, says knock, and it shall be opened onto you. Let's reaverse eight together one to read. For everyone that asks get receiver. Just stop there. So the blessing of receiving from asking is for everyone, everyone, regardless gender, regardless race, regardless whatever your orientation. The moment you are someone who can ask, you immediately become a receiver. The gift of information, the gift of access to knowledge. Most people do not know how to ask. James, Chapter four and verse two. Apostle James was teaching us again, and it made a very profound statement. He said, ye lost and have not, Ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain James for two. He says, ye fight and war, and ye have not simply because ye ask not. There are many people who are grounded and stagnated in life simply because they have not mastered the art of asking questions. Let me tell you my definition of what it means to ask. I'll give you three definitions. Number one, to ask means to request information or to request for an answer by saying or writing. That's the first thing. It means. If you want to ask, or if you are asking, you are requesting for an information or you are requesting for an answer, either by verbalizing it or by writing it. My first definition of asking. The second definition of asking means to invite into or to allow into your space. That means when you ask, you are giving permission for someone or something to come into your space. Powerful When you ask, it means you are authorizing that information, that realm of reality, to come freely into your space. Number three, asking means to inquire the price of or the cost of. If you are asking, it also means you want to know the cost implication of. That which you want to have. So there are many people who ask, but all their doing is just making requests. They have not sat down to count the cost. You're counting the cost. The cost dimension of life is also asking. It's God helping us. This is what it means to know the people that do know their God. In order to know, you must be meek enough to receive. Number two. You must master the art of asking questions is how does this happen? How does this happen? The man who came to share the testimony, one of those men that came from the East. I was struck by what he said. He's honesty to admit that was the part of the testimony that blessed me. Many of you didn't hear so much, only the amount that the chief would collect. And you were clapping. I'm joking, are we together? But I listened to something that he said. He said, I've been in the faith for a while, but he was honesty enough to add that the things that I had were not producing for me. There was a man who made that kind of confession in the Bible called Nebokat Nezza Neboka Nezza. When he saw what happened to the three Hebrew boys, he was honest and open and said, blessed be the God of daniel A, Shadrak Messhak and abtnego A. Wea together now, and he wrote a decree. He was not ashamed to acknowledge. Listen, when your away is not working, stop trying. Provided there are results happening, you most humble yourself. This thing I'm doing, I've been in Abuja for ten years, fifteen years. I don't even have a plot of land. Now, don't just credit everything I minister deliverance for people. But listen, we're not stupid people. It is not everything that is just demons, because there is a dimension of deliverance that is simply a transfer of responsibility. There are many people who don't want to take responsibility over their lives. Adam still missed it. In the garden of Eden. There were no causes. There was no demon his mother. He didn't even have a mother to say there's anything foundation. There was no foundation from mother and father in the garden of Eden. I yet he still failed. Away together, you must be willing to ask my way is not working. I humble myself. I've been doing ministry, but there is no growth. There is no increase when. I teach my people. Even when I joke, they don't laugh. They are always angry and frowning at me. I think the people are wicked. Know your view of them is that they're wicked. Jesus said, come and le of me. That means there is something you don't know. He has vettered you and said, come and lend comme and learn. Someone You need to in your mind prophesy to yourself that I need to learn. There are things I do not know. Are we together? What is the implication? What does it take to know? Remember we're dealing with three words. Have I lost you? What does it take to know number three? In order to gain knowledge that translates to your advancement, you must be willing to sacrifice your time, your energy, your resources to buy the truth. When the Bible says, the people that do know it takes a lot to be in the place of knowledge. You must be willing to sacrifice your time, your energy, your resources to buy the truth. Matthew thirteen fourteen Matthew thirteen, from verse forty four to forty six. Here what the Bible says, I love Jesus again. The kingdom of Heaven is like onto a treasure hid in a field. Is that in your Bible? It says the which a man had found, he hid it, and for joy he got and selled all that he has and buy the field. Look at this kind of man. He found treasure, and with respect to that treasure nothing else that he had mattered. Again he could sell anything to buy next verse again, the kingdom of Heaven is like onto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls forty six, who when he had found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. Apostle, where do I get the money to buy the truth? You get it by selling the inferior truths? Are we together the money it takes to buy The truth comes by selling what else is not the truth. There is a transaction that happens. Nobody has the capital to buy the truth by default. Get my message. I appreciate it. In Takoradi in Ghana. Buy the truth. You can get it on Colnonia Global. Please listen to it very carefully. I teach them that there are five currencies that we used to buy the truth. Currency number one is meekness. Meekness and humility is the first currency we used to buy the truth. Are we together? The second currency we used to buy the truth with its honor. Another currency we used to buy the truth is hunger. Where you do not have the currency of hunger, you cannot buy the truth. Are we learning? The Bible tells us that a man found goodly pearls, and he sold everything to have more capital, and he now brought what you considered his treasure. Let me tell you this. Please look up. Most people are not in the place of knowledge because they are unwilling to sacrifice their time. They are unwilling to sacrifice energy and to sacrifice their resources. With all you respect to everyone here, I am amazed and humbled at the amount of international guests that come in every week from around the world. You would think it's a conference that is happening all the time. There are people who would travel as fast Australia US to come to Cononia for a normal service. We're not even talking about. Of course, every service is supernatural, but not a dedicated service to minister to people. And some of these people, you will be surprised they would come down to a buja and some of them will still travel to follow some of the ministrations within the And you're wondering, couldn't they just sit down and follow online? There's something they're looking for? Are we together? And yet there are people. Who don't even stay. They stay a two three minutes distance. They just look through their window and once they see someone falling in wow ah man is POWERFULO and then they go back. And I'm not being sarcastic, please, but you look at the life of that person. There is nothing that has beauty and color. Can I tell you the truth. A hospital does not go around looking for patients. If you are sick, you are the no matter how sick you are, even if you cannot walk, you must find somebody who picks you to the hospital. A hospital just keeps being equipped, but it will never go around. I don't know any hospital that lives from the foundation going around to every home. We live in a generation where we want truth and knowledge at our terms. Is a thinking of mediocress. When you truly desire knowledge, you seek and you pursue it with everything within you. Allelujah, very very powerful. You must be willing to sacrifice your time, your resources to buy Proverbs Chapter two. From verse one Proverbs chapter two, Please, my son, if thou will receive my words and hide my commandments with the uh huh, so that thou incline thy air onto wisdom and apply thy heart to understanding. Three, it says yay, if thou criest after knowledge and lifted up thy voice for understanding, reading to six Verse four. If thou seek hast her as silver and search for her as for his treasures, then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth wisdom, but he doesn't give everybody. He gives those who seek passionately, and out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding to who, to the one who is seeking as silver, You are my strength when I am weak. You are the treasure that I seek. You are myly not. I'm seeking. You are suprescious. Jure not to give from your mind? Can I tell you respectfully speaking? There are people who. Are not passionate about anything. There is nothing in their lives that can keep them awake in the night. There is nothing in their life that can make them forget food. There is nothing in their life that can make time pass without them being You will not be great that way. There has to be something in your life that keeps you awake. Jesus said, my meat. My satisfaction comes from doing and finishing the will of Him that has sent me away together. There are many people who are very passive. If you are passing and you see something on TV, you just watch, oh wow, I just learned something now, But they never pursue knowledge. The people that do know are the people that sick with meekness. The people that do know are the people who are willing to ask questions and never stop till they find answers. The people that do know are the people who are willing to sacrifice their time, their energy, and their resources to buy the truth. Number four, The people that do know are the people who have the power to value and to retain superior knowledge. That is the fourth price it takes to be in the realm of those who know. You must have the power to value and to retain superior knowledge. Value and retain superior knowledge. There are many many people who, even by the message of God, they encounter valuable knowledge, but they are not mastered the art of placing value on and retaining knowledge that is useful. The same Matthew thirteen, let's look at forty seven and forty eight. Matthew thirteen, forty seven and forty eight, please look up again. The Kingdom of Heaven is like onto a nect that was cast into the sea and gathered every kind. Everybody say every kind. Usually this is truly the product of passion. When you pursue knowledge, with passion, you will gather every kind useful knowledge, useless knowledge, knowledge that is structured knowledge that is cattered. Your assignment is in verse forty eight, which when it was full, they drew to show and sat down and gathered the good into the vessels and cast the bad away. Are we Bible students. Sometimes you will not have the luxury of having refined knowledge. This is where the gift of Pastos, who are according to the heart of God comes in Are We Together? Now? This is why you must value what you are receiving here and any other place where you find a man of God who has worked with the spirit through pain, through tears, through study and experience to filter out this is what we do before we come to church matchw thirteen forty eight. You cannot believe the amount of research and study and prayer and deep thought and contemplation that comes into bringing one message. What you receive is the filtered, finished version. But I'm telling you classically speaking, if you want knowledge, and you pursue knowledge, please go to verse forty seven. Don't forget it. You are going to gather as media help us forty seven. You are going to gather every kind. There are times where I'm researching, maybe on the Holy Spirit, and then I'm studying. At my goodness, you will see some videos with some kind of demonic occultic information. It's part of the price of seeking. If you seek, you will find Are we together? Some of you want to study about finances, and you will meet all kinds of nonsense that it is. Don't be angry in the midst of all that rubbish. Ask those who mind. Have you seen people who mind gold? It's not pure refined gold that just comes and you put it in your pocket and go and sell it. No, there is nothing you mind from the earth that comes here. When you mind it from the earth, you now sit down forty eight. When you sit down, then you gather. Do you know it takes time man sacrifice? Okay, this one I found them. Let me read this article they wrote on the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit is a woman with this nonsense? And you throw it away and you don't feel bad. Sometimes you spend the whole day by in a book and midway you have to read half of the book to know it is wrong. Are we together? The COVID is excellent. It starts with a powerful scripture. Is halfway the Holy Ghost who said no, stay ho, Holy Spirit, you would have just told me from the bookshop that this thing is going to waste my time. Truly, we live in a generation that does not respect knowledge, the sacrifice of knowledge. Are we together? So you must be willing to value knowledge? Proverbs chapter four. Let me show you something Proverbs chapter four, from verse twenty Proverbs for twenty, My son, we're reading from verse twenty to twenty my son, attend to my words. Incline your ears to my sayings. Aha, let them not depand from your eyes, so they can depart from your eyes and keep them in the midst of your heart. Twenty two. They are alive to those who find them, not those who want them, Not those who want them, those who find them, and health to their flesh. Can I tell you the truth? When people do not pay the price to retain knowledge, this is why this generation has no excuse to fail, because technology has made retention possible. Are we together? There was a time where if a man says something and quotes a scripture, that is the scripture tied. To your next level. If you didn't hate, Sorry for you, you have to either buy the tap or come next year for that conference. But now you can go back. You know you are a student of knowledge when a fifteen minutes message takes three hours to finish, because for every one or two minutes you are stopping. Has that happened to you? A message of one hour, you hold on with your laptop or eyepad. You come back later on again the fire was too much. You calm down. You're not in a rush. God, what are you saying, and light will come out of that knowledge. Revelation I've told you is not just knowledge. Knowledge is important, but revelation is understanding mixed with knowledge. Are we learning? The people that do know a quick recap are the people that Number one must be meek enough to receive. That's what it takes to know. The people that do know are number two. The people who mass start the art of asking questions and don't stop. The people that do know Number three are people who are willing to sacrifice their time, their energy, their resources to buy the truth. Number four, the people who know are the people who place value on knowledge and have sustained the ability to retain superior knowledge. Allelujah, I can tell you retaining knowledge is not the show of being dollar intelligent, is the show of being serious with your destiny. There are people who cannot tell you last week's message. They don't even remember, honestly, franklyspeacause sometimes your mind can play games you can forget, but they can't even. Remember any point. Ought not to be so. The people who know. That means if you want an excelling destiny, please listen carefully, whether in ministry, whether in whatever it is it was Bishop Jerko who taught us that. When they were about to build Covenant University, he said he researched a number of world renowned universities. There were other universities already, but he paid the price to study them, put up a panel that onder studied it. Are we together? And then at the end of it he came to a conclusion that Covenant University, he wanted it to become the new generation Harvard. Now there's Landmark and they're all making tremendous contributions. Are we together? Many years ago I was in a feber Baalora University to preach, and my goodness when I got to hear about the standard and so of the things happening there, and that that man was then at that time, I think he was in his eighties. Now I don't know, or maybe eighties. I don't know. How he is now and his passion. He will still come to the office and sit down and coordinate all kinds of things. I had to tell myself. Anybody that says it's too much, think again. Some of us are already young twenty five, and they tell you how you are tired. You have tried nothing, You are not impacting anything you have not utilized given ten percent of the mental potential that the spirit of God gave you. Please challenge yourself in the name of Jesus, that you will go for structured knowledge and don't stop a young man who is sleeping twelve hours. You are in the first level of your life. You will wake up towards the last level of your life when other people are sleeping. Trouble will keep you awake. It's not a cause. It's because you have not prepared your way before the Lord. Go for knowledge. Go for knowledge. Most of the time people who used to live a fake life would have been used in getting knowledge that produces what is genuine. Are we together? The time it takes to hide around cars and snap and says your car, the time it takes to sit down in an office and say you were in London all that time is the same time you can settle down and study in your one room, even with a candle. Shaba lacatos. Lord, I know that in the name of Jesus, things will not remain like this, and the spirit of Grace is honoring your sincerity and your investment. But the people that do know. Are we together? Very quickly, let's go to the second world. Be the people that do know their God. Knowledge, as powerful as it is, is not enough. Knowledge must translate to transformation. Now there are many people who know. They've paid the price to know in terms of awareness, but they are shocked that what they know is the truth, and yet it has not producing their life. Knowing and doing will cost you trouble. Knowledge must become transformation before you take action. Are we together? Please give it to words? They are you know? Many years ago I was tudying, particularly about finances. I wanted to make sure that I had a destiny of beauty and color financially. And every time I read the books that people wrote about finances, they didn't write the businesses that they were doing. They were just writings like character think well value relationships. I said, these guys are liars. What are you doing that is bringing you money? That's all I want to know. How foolish I was? They were focused on my becoming. I was focused on doing many of you have been doing for years. Because when you do what you have not become, life will see that there will be a red card there that will be shown you you are doing something illegal. Are we together be strong. Let's look at the word b The word be there talks of transformation. What does it mean to be transformed? To change states spiritually mentally? What does it take? The people who are transformed, the people who become are those that number one those who recognize that you are not yet your best version. The only people who contend for transformation are those who admit, thank God for what I am and where I am, but this. Is not the best version of me. That there is more Philippians, Chapter three, from verse twelve. Those who will contend for transformation beyond the realm of knowledge are those who will recognize and act knowledge that you are not yet your best version. I tell myself that all the time, Joshua Sellman, thank God for how far God has brought you. Thank God for everything God is using people to say across the globe. But be sure that you are not yet your best version. There are still virgin heights and virgin versions. Of me that are still calling me to come up higher. Virgin levels of power, virgin levels of understanding and illumination. Sometimes the demon that stops your progress is your current level. It's not an attack from the realm of the spirit where you are can greatly stop where you need to be Philippians three twelve. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. This is Paul. You have to understand the man. Who is speaking here. Paul wrote two thirds of the New Testament even without meeting Jesus. He was not a nonentity. All was his cribe. He was a doctor of the law, intelligence for excellence, acknowledged by God, acknowledged by men, even the enemies of the Cross, they acknowledge his intelligence. And then he encountered Jesus directly. And then she. Spent eighteen years in the wilderness of Arabia under all kinds of training. That's the man who is talking, not that I've already attained. It's like a professor Emeritus saying I don't know much. He's talking to his students who I don't know much, a professor who has been a professor for twenty years, a foremost researcher, one of the few authorities across the globe. And they say, Professor, what do you have to tell us? And he says, well, my dear people, I can only attend. I don't know much. Ah who now marks the script when every other professor who was there was accredited. By that one man. And yet he's telling you he does not know much. Listen, those who contend for transformation are those who always know that everything I am now is only for now. There is still more. Please give us a scripture. Let's finish it up. If someone learning tonight it says, either were already perfect, but I follow after that, I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Jesus Christ Christ Jesus thirteen. We're reading to fourteen. Brethren. I count not myself you count me to have apprehended. You call me Paul the Learned, Paul the anointed, Paul the Great. But I count not myself to have apprehended. But this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind. He didn't say forgetting the bad things that are I know you received an award in January congratulations, what is over. You will never receive an award for that rem again. So you drop it, pant yourself at the back, and after that you move forward. Can I tell you? Forward thinkers are people who they rejoice at the current level of success, but they do not stop there. They move forward, They move higher, but this one thing I do forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before. Four Team, I press towards the mark of the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Listen, Those who become are those who never settle. They know that there is always a better and greater version. In this man's standing before you is still a better man of God. In this man standing before you is still the potential for a more anointed man. Thank God for the bodies that were healed. What are the ones that we're not here yet? Are you saying God cannot touch them? God is true? The problem is the limitation of the vessels. We have not yet contended for that level. You must be honest and sincere and strict with yourself. Champions. Don't let their tears spare the discipline of pressing forward. When people commend me on what God is doing here in the ministry and across the globe, I thank them. But I know that no, no, no, no no. You always hear me say. This is a step out of the cave. Never get to a point in your life where you say, is there anything else? You are dead already, even in heaven. John was caught up in heaven in the spirit, and when he was in heaven he wrote the letters so the seven churches, and he still had the voice that said, come up hither in order. Words in heaven still come higher for someone God is already speaking to you. The version of you of twenty nineteen is still the version of you today because you have not seen anything to challenge you higher, Man of God. There are still grounds, believe me, Man of God, there are still realms of power. This is why pride is dangerous, because pride is a full stop in your life where you should put a Comma allelujah. No matter how powerful a meeting is. If you ask me how was the meeting, I would just say fine. That answers it. Oh boy, what should else should I say? Fine? Ten people got off from the wheelchair out of how many we have to verify how many people were on wheelchair in the city where you came versus the number. We are grateful, but it should not sponsor mediocrity for someone God is challenging you right now. Stop celebrating any arrival even when you have not started. There is still there are many heights. Stretch yourself. Transformation requires a recognition that you are not yet your best version, that there is more. Number two, those who become be those who are transformed. Are we together are those who realize and recognize that changing. Listen carefully. For you to be transformed, it will demand you changing or upgrading your references and your models. You can never be transformed until you sustain the courage to change your models and change your references. For some of you, the reason why you are where you are is that the reference you are using is too small, is too low. Transformation cannot happen until you have a superior reference. A superior model someone who is calling to the educational sector, for instance, by the time that person has a degree and his reference is a professor and one who has PhD and dscs like a thermometer, by the time you are a master's older. That is that is, that is, that is commendable. But because your model is high, even when you have PhD, it looks like you are just having a school living certificate. Because the reference is high. Are we together? If you are a man of God and your reference is very high, your model is high. The even when you are doing exceptional things based on the context of your environment because your bar is high. Not from a competitive stand. This is we're talking about someone who wants to maximize destiny. There are many people live there were Jesus. They will not need to die again after that triophant entry straight they will go to heaven that you claim that. Donkey that's the end from that donkey strait. You will leave a mess under no apostles, trained, no nothing. The mission would have died within one year, but Jesus didn't thorough walk, not distracted by his results. He would finish a powerful who said and sit down with one woman and be talking as if. He's not the same person who raised the. Dead, and never make reference to what he did before. He will not talk to us. Madam, I'm giving you ten minutes, and you're wasting my time. Do you know what happened to Lazarus? You're playing with me. You've not heard about me. Look at this. When Jesus resurrected, you thought that you would take the time to and joy and celebrate. Resurrection is not a small thing. You know what happened in hell. As soon as they got up, he said, listen, I'm here for forty more days. We are behind in our lectures. All of you come together. Oh you are the one. You are reason I'm raising. You've seen me. That's all right, Sit down, Let's get to walk forty days non stop. Afterwards you told them, Now I can go. When you get to the world of champions. Celebration is minimal, only enough to motivate you and give God glory and then you fire on. Are we together? So you must change your references. I've thought you here that transformation is difficult. Without a reference, you cannot become nothing. You need to become something exact. My question is what or who is your reference? If your reference, respectfully speaking, is a medio car, you see, there are references that when you put even if you don't go high, you will still feel comfortable. Watch this. Let me go down just for sake of explanation. If sorry for those who may not be able to see me. But if this is my reference, watch this, this first step, this is my reference? Do I need to jump seriously to get there? Even if it's by mistake? I can stumble there? But can you stumble here by mistake? So while you are here, those who are here clapping for you and say, what else is left? You must be able. To focus, and then you climb higher and those who are down are saying this is too much at what kind of annunting are you looking for? Whereas there are results that only those who are standing here can produce. If someone learning now you must change your references. You must change your models or braid your reference is upgrade your models. What kind of church do you want to produce? What kind and quality of believers do you want to produce? Are we together? What do you want the testimony of the average believer under your kid to look or sound like. It's not just having a crowd of people. You must be interested in quality. Someone learning number three? What is the implication and what does it take to be? What does it take to be transformed? Are you ready? Those who become and those who are transformed are those who are willing to give up age long limiting on scriptureal and anti destiny beliefs. Those who contend for transformation are those who are willing to give up age, long limiting on scriptural and anti destiny beliefs. Just because a mindset has been there for a long time does not mean it is correct. Africa, we need to trust God for grace we are people of grace and potential. Now let me tell you when I talk of dropping wrong mindsets, I'm not, respectfully speaking, I don't necessarily mean picking Western mindsets. I mean picking scriptural mindsets. You can drop an African mindset and pick is a Western mindset and you are still in the same place spiritually. So I don't mean getting a more technological error. That's not what I'm teaching. Africa's error. Maybe could there you now pick and advance a technological error is still error? Are way together. You will never contend for transformation until you are willing to give up age long limiting on scriptural and antedstiny beliefs. Let me confess to you upfront that this is very, very hard because we usually are emotionally connected to our mindsets. If no matter how wrong it is, there is an emotional affinity you have towards your mindset. And stripping yourself of that mindset to embrace a new scriptural and superior belief system. It's almost like asking you to remove your clothes and stand naked. There are people who would rather die than to contend for scriptural transformation. Respectfully speaking, we come There's six Your political zones within Nigeria. And I submit to you that every geopolitical zone has its blessing and advantage territorially speaking, but every geopolitical zone has its limitation programmed by demon spirits territorially. If you want to rise and do much for the kingdom, you have to obtain grace from God to put a superior reference that is higher than your territory. The scripture God gave me that delivered me from the limitation of my territory was John one, six and seven. There was a man send from God. That thing changed my life. Send from God. That means the physical point of my arrival is not really the basis for my victory. It is where I came from. I never came from heaven. I was sent. He didn't say there was a man who came from God. That means my arrival was the conclusion of an intelligent discussion between divinity. I saw the space that my relevance can produce as far as king dom com I was sent with intention. When I arrived the earth, my parents gave me a name, lovely name. By the way, May God bless them they're watching next verse verse seven. The same came for a weakness. So it tells you immediately the basis of your victory. That comment from above. He says, it's above all. And I made up my mind that I refused to be limited by the thinking and the influences that are associated with my region. Someone learning. A young lady was crying and complaining to her mom about life, and she just felt that life was unfair, and she was shouting and yelling at the mom, and the mom didn't say a word. The mom just went in front of a gus cooker, a four four bonner, the one that has four compartments, and the mom put three three pots and put what on them. Well, the lady was yelling, mommy, are you hearing me? Life is unfair? And in one of the pots that was boiling, she put an egg ewg. In one of the pots that was boiling, there she put coffee away together. And then in one of the pots, I can't remember again what she put there, rat carrots, thank you away together. And she allowed it for a few, for a few maybe sometime, and then she called the young lady and opened the pots and said, tell me what you see. And she found out. That number one her observation was there was fire under the pot, on all all three pots. So they went through the same situation of heat. Are we together? But for the egg that was fragile and could just you know, fall to the ground and you would lose it, it had now become hard and strong. You could even peel the back and you would not destroy it. For the carrots that seemed to be very hard. Now you could almost bend it, and it would bend like this. But she noticed something strange with the coffee. The coffee looked like the smallest of the seeds there, and when she put it, the entire water had turned to the coffee color. And she said, all of them were subjected to the same situation. One influenced the system and turned it to look like the color. The other one became a victim, became hard, the other one became soft. But the other one said, I would not only change, I would transform the system. Someone learning, Now you can be one of these three. Some of you were very hard, now some of you were very soft. Now some of you look very small, and you're looking at yourself and say, small me in such a system, learn from the coffee seed. It transformed everything. There same thing happens with salt. You pick a pinch of salt and put it around and turn it, and that's it. You don't see it again. But you taste the food, it will establish its presence there. Even if you keep even if the food spoils, the taste of salt will still be there. There are certain foods when they're spoiled, they will taste like something else. But as for salt, it will still be there. Someone learning, you must be willing to drop age long limiting on scriptural and anti destiny beliefs. Number four. Those who become those who contend for transformation are those who are ready and prepared to face and endure the consequences of growth and progress. Are we together? Let me take it again. Those who become those who are transformed are those who are willing and are prepared to face the consequences and to endure the consequences of growth and progress. Let me tell you the truth. Contending for growth and progress comes with consequences, sometimes on favorable consequences. But if you really want to be transformed, you must be ready and prepared to face and endear the consequences of growth and progress. Daniel, Chapter three For the sake of time. Let's start from verse six. Then will jump to verse twelve, and will continue till I ask you to stop. This was Shadra Messhak and a bet Nego. Remember King Nebucadnaza. There was a ninety fifth statue of pure gold that was built, and it set at the sound of whatever it is now they should bow down. They would have bowed down and remained there, no promotion, no increase. But yet this is the Bible says, whosoever fallt not down and worship it shall at the same hour be thrown into the burning, fiery furness. Now go to verse twelve. The Bible says, there are certain Jews. They were reporting them now. An old king. They have not regarded you. They have not served your gods. They have not worshiped the golden image that you have set up. Next verse Nebucadnazza heard this. He was angry. Listen to me. There are consequences for desiring to go forward. When Jesus said, let us go to the other side, the consequence of that decision was there was a storm. The disciples almost love your life. Advancement is not convenient, Transformation is not convenient. It will change many things about you. When you make up your mind that you want to carry genuine spiritual power, you make up your mind that you want to be learned and sounding scripture. I submit to you, it will change many things. Are we together? They brought this man before the king fourteen Nebulcardnazza speke to them and said, is it true that you have violated my commands? Fifteen Watch this now? It now gave them one last chance. Doesn't it look like what life does? Choose to remain here and be comfortable or go through the controversy that comes with advancement. Sixteen Shadrack Messhak and a bed Nego answered and said to the king O neboccardnaz that we are not careful to answer you on this matter. Look at this, gentlemen. Eighteen. It is that if it be so, our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us from this burning, fiery funess, and he will deliver us out of your hand. Eighteen. But if not, But if not, I know based on the word of God, that as I advance into this business, as I advancing ministry, this is what should be. But if not, I rather fail following God than to mark time and fear. Those who listen, those who move forward and are transformed, are people who are willing to go through the discipline and the consequences. There are many of you. Please listen to me. There are many of you making a decision for Jesus, and making a decision for a meaningful life may cost you the sponsorship of those who are currently helping you. They will make up your mind their minds and say I will never help you. There are many people who are of many different faiths who came to Jesus. Christ and your family members want day and say listen, We're giving you one last chance. Think about it and remain with startuscore and find the comfort or make up your mind. And they made up their minds and for five years nothing changed. They really suffered as a result. Let me tell you the truth. Advancement comes with severe consequences making. Up your mind for Jesus. You would think that after such a bold statement, God would not even allow the story continue. He would step in. Do you know how frustrating it is to stand and defend the name of the Lord. And the trouble they told you will happen still happens. As though God were not watching nineteen learn something tonight. Nebocadniza was angry at what he perceived to be their disdain, and he commanded that they should hit the fire seven times hotter. Let's rush twenty. He commanded that the boys be cast into the fire. Next verse, and the boys were bound as at the time they were trying them brothers and sisters. God was watching in heaven. I wonder what they were saying. You thought that they were not afraid. They just said, God, you will come. It's a lie. They were humans. They were shaking like relieve. So this is how we're going to die. But Lord, we defended you. How many of you know that there were people who stood before terrorists and they told them to renounce your faith and will kill you. They said, we will not. They shot them and they died. There are consequences when you want to go forward, my people. There are people today who have been billoonereus with compromise. But they gave up billions. Everybody called them full, including whe pastors. They say, there's a way you have done this thing. You are really stupid. And they felt stupid later on because they thought that at the end of living a nice life. They're superior. Call them and say, I've watched you. I should bless you. They said, now that your tenure is over, get out of this place. Let the person who work with us come. Do you know how difficult it is When you're loving, God makes you look stupid. When you're honoring God makes you look stupid. You would have compromised, and by now you would have had a. Job, But for three years you have refused. What of the politicians who would have compromised and become a governor or a senator. He was given the offer, and he said no, for the sake of my faith. If someone learning transformation is costly, It's not just sitting in your room and changing states. You must be ready to face and endure the consequences. Let's finish the scripture twenty two. Therefore, because the king's commandment was urgent, the fiery finance was put so odd it slew those that the men through twenty three and the three boys fell down bound in the burning fires. There are times where God can stop you from even entering the fire. But there are times, sadly, ladies and gentlemen, you will still enter that fire. But trust Him enough trust him enough. So you are making up your mind you will never follow any man for money again. You are making up your mind You're going to serve the Lord and have a dignity, a destiny of dignity and color. And your friends can warn you. You know that your accommodation in Abuja. You know how where are you going to get one point two million from? And you make up your mind, and then your rent expires and you drop your prayer request in a miracle service, and afterwards your land lord is waiting for you. You flog it out and nothing seems to happen. You have a choice to go back. But I've said it here. The same energy it takes to go back is the same energy takes to move forward. Whether you go back or go forward, you are not where you were, and you are not where you need to be. It is wiser to continue. Is someone learning twenty five? He answered, and said, lo, I see four men who were loose walking in the midst of the fire. They have no heart, and the form of the fourth is like the son of God. I don't know everything about God, but there is something I know about God that when God decides to honor your pressing into him. I've thought it here. For many years you would look like a fool. But the day your deliverer arises. For many years, your church may not seem to grow because you have refused. You would not go and double your hand and collect any power whatever. For many years, they will not promote you in the office because they told you that they should corporately collect bribe, and you refuse. They insulted you for being a Christian. You cried and said this and that and that God can arise. Oh, he does arise. And when God arises, he said, let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered. Twenty six watch this Newbolcaranezza came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and he said, ladies and gentlemen, this and that and that come forth. And they came out in the midst of the fire. Twenty seven were stopping at Tatty. The princes, governor's captains, and all those people were there. The Bible says not a hair of their head was singed their bodies. The fire had no power, and there was no smell of fire that passed on them. Then Nebucanza spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshack, and abet Nego. He gave a decree by reason of their courage to remain for someone. God is speaking to you. Remain. Turning back is wasting the destiny of the thousands connected to you. You have already started the journey of transformation. Don't go back. When your father got to this point, he was tired. The mockering was too much. You had to go back. Now you are suffering it. By the time you go back, your children. Who suffer too. It is better to press and finish. You know. I found to God and I said everything, If there are any negative things that came from my background, I would rather pay the price and go to it as a person. Let me be the one to stand by God and win that war that all who come from me and all the generations after us are we together. Now, Yes, some of us may need to make that decision. The lineage of poverty that. You came from. Now you want to work in the dignity of kingdom integrity. Sometimes it may mean sacrificing ten years of your comfort to contend for transformation. But if and when you do that, you would have started a dynasty of kingdom, wealth and blessing. Are you willing to go that far? In many parts of Africa, when the missionaries came and they brought the gospel, some of them when they waved their wives goodbye, they really meant it. Their wives knew they would not come back. They knew they would not come back, and yet they still went allelujah. You must be ready to enjoy the consequences of growth and progress. Who is this that is staying in our house? You are always praying. You are not a pastor, but sir, you know the background. Don't pray everything. If you are going to continue praying and continue studying, you are getting out of my house. And sometimes you're going to have to make that choice. And you go out of your house, you carry your little bag and you are strolling like a madman in the middle of the night, and you're saying, Lord, I'm doing this for you. Listen to the part of the teaching that I taught you and Cooinonia. When God is silent, it is a painful thing. When God is silent, God speaks, but he's not always speaking. He can be silent. The call for you at that point is to keep changing keep changing, Lord, but I love you. I thought by now I would have been able to pay this rent. I thought by now ministry would have opened up. I thought the business would have worked. Let me tell you the truth, there are many times in your journey towards destiny actualization that you will not have answers. Don't be under pressure to give answers. Wait for the answer to come, especially the answer where is your God? Anybody who asks you where is your God? If you answer it, you are wrong. You are not the one who who answered that question. The moment they say where is your God, that answer should be transferred back to God. You've heard me say, if you take the shame, you have been taking the glory you can be taking God cannot be taking the glory, and then you take the shame. Whoever takes the glory must take the shame. Together you claim you're a man of God. Nobody has been healed. The people who are blessed today ten members to their fifty members. And someone will tell you that something I can do, and in one month your ministry will change. And sometimes it can be tempting, because you're a human being. Somebody will say I told you five years ago, you will be a failure this God thing. Remember when you're on campus, I told you this stupidity will land you in trouble. Now ten years later, you are passoring twenty members. I haven't estate somewhere. There are times it looks foolish to stand on God's side. But when you stand there, as surely as the sun rises after night, I can tell you your deliverer will come. And when he comes, you will come in grand style. He will pick you in the presence of all who saw you. I'm speaking this prophetically for someone, because for someone, you came to church. And every time you hear people prophesying, maybe you are a mother outside, maybe you are someone. Maybe you're a man of God stealing your spiritual. Your walk with God. And sincerely, things are not working. Every time you see people testify, I hear you can't say they are lying, but from their testimony you keep asking God, is it that you are not seeing me? I come early from miracle service. By ten o'clock, I am here. Nobody calls me, nobody prophesighes. Other people are falling down and rising. I'm just there watching them as if God is not aware of me. And then instead of things getting better, it even gets worse after the miracle service. It's like the louder I shout amen. The more it does not happen. Can I tell you it is okay to cry? It is not on scriptural even Jesus wept. But one thing you are not allowed to do is to draw back. Listen very carefully. The Bible says, fear not, I have redeemed you. I have called you by name, and you are mine. It says when you pass through the waters, I will be with you through the rivers. It will not overwhelm you. Then it says, when you walk through the fire, when it has to do it, fire, you do wrong. You walk through the fire. And I wish God would tell you only work for one year. Sometimes you will work for a long time, a long time, a lonely path that does not make sense. When Job was sitting down, ladies and gentlemen, do you know what it meant? If I were to interpret job situation, I would say, this man must have been an evil man. Nemesis would have caught him. The world who said the law of Karma has caught him, And that was a sincere man who sat down to the point that his last support. You know what it means when your wife looks at you as says they sten you know, I love you. We've been on this journey for a long time. But please, I prefer you dead. So I can't rest if some nay say I is talking somewhere. You don't care. But now your wife and job said, do he slay me? Do he slay me? Yet? Well, I trust him, dough he slay me. Some of you, your classmates will come and see you. And after ten twenty twenty five years of graduation, they're coming with their estates and their chips and everything, and you are there. They say, what are you doing now? I say, well, well, I'm a secretary one church and they just nod their heads and say, oh dear, if you need any help, please call my Nigerian office. I live in Dubai now. And there is a way people can say it that they rob it on your face and you just stand there and say, God, what is this? If you have not gotten too this rem, it's because there's something you are not doing right, I assure you. If it is the road to destiny, you most meet this rem someday. No, these are not rems. You pray away, you only pray for grace to pass through it. The journey of becoming only happens in that wilderness. The journey of becoming does not happen when you are taking coffee and sipping. No, no, no, no. It's a painful, Johnny, for many years in your life. Let me repeat it again. No matter the kind of leverage you have, if it is God you are seeking and his kingdom, there will be a level where nobody is, someone will really be able to matter to you. Again. You will have to be the preacher and the profits of your destiny at that point. If it does not happen to you, I'm informing you ahead of time because for some of you, maybe you are about to enter that season. Remember what I taught you about trainings. You have been receiving the training of one who protect. So when you see warriors, you say, oh the I pity these people. Now you are about to begin the training of a warrior. Go and go to NDA and see how they train military men. Sometimes this man asked to roll inside mode. You would say this is dehumanizing. But they are preparing them and they. Kick them kick them again. Yes, sir, I feel no bye the water steal muscle. My hard will trust in you. My ard will trust that dog walk. Through the fay. Look, I feel my heart even when I don't trust in it. I can't trust in you, even when I'm no longer trust in the future. Do you know? There are times people can ask you, how is that future? And sincerely? If you are to be honest, you don't even know what to say again. There are times people, are you still in the ministry? Will you still continue? If you are honest? There are times you don't have an answer. Hear the word of the Lord when you cannot trust in it, trusting it when the boats can no longer carry you, trusting the person who is living in that boat. My heart will trust in you, Lord, on you. My heart will cry, Lord, my heart. Hear me. There are rams you get to wear. No matter how strong you are, your tears will not ask you again. It will come by itself. You will stand here, courageous, sometimes maybe helping orders trudious tombs. But there are times that tears will say, I've tried, I've waited for five years. It will have to come. Jesus, the miracle worker who raised others from the dead on his way to becoming that king of kings and Lord of lords. In experience, the Bible says, he wept, he prayed. I wonder what he was saying. The Bible gives us a little and he says, he repeated it again. Father, if it be thy, will, let me tell you there are times that this journey to destiny is very hard. Someone who came to marry you and he's not ceelous with God. You would have said yes, you would have married a wrong person, but you would have been free. You said no ten years ago until now ten years later, and people will see you and say, where a stupid girl? You would have simply married that unbeliever. You stood expecting God to honor you, and it's ten years now. What do you do when what people are saying about you is true? Oh, I work through the ver. They warned you not to organize the crusade. They told you there is witchcraft within that territory, that if you organize that crusade, it can cost you your life. And you still went. Souls were saved, and on your way returning, there was an accident. How do you explain that you stood on the crusade ground and you shouted, and you told them Jesus heals. Let me tell you this, when what you believe is not yet your reality, here is what you do. Stand. Stand, Stand, Stand, Stand, Stand. I'm professor. You know I'm not preaching some of you. In the night, while you are sleeping, you will hear the voice of this preacher again telling you remember God's to him. Stand. You are about to compromise. Stand, you are about to abord destiny, whereas Heaven is clapping for you for your stamina and your endurance. Stand stand stand, Harleika to theater. Stand politician, stand, Man of God. Stand. Remember nobody has reason as a revival a revivalist. In your village. Stand. You are the one God is counting on. It is painful, but stand. Stand. Let me sing one song for you, and then wrap up. I will hold on through the storm. I will hold on to your world. My life will soon reveal you're the lifter, rough man, lifter, rough man. I will hold on through the storm, and I will hold on to your work. My life will soon reveal you're the lifter, rough man. Man. I know a man of God, very simple man of God. He's going to be with the Lord now great healing man of God. Loved God with all his heart. And one day they discovered. That he had cancer. And initially he shrugged it off and waved it off. Then they say has left, and he said, thank God, Ah, what happens when your naysayers find a reason to rejoice over you? Was it not the psalm is that said onto thee, O Lord, do I live top my soul? He says, Oh, my God, I trust in you. Let me not be ashamed, and let my enemies not triumph over me. Listen, that man's health began to deteriorate and deteriorate, and deteriorate and deteriorate. And I saw the way it shook the family. This is a believing family that loved Jesus. And finally he couldn't stand again and he had to go. Please hear me. The Lord sent me to bring this message. These are not popular. Let me submit to you by God, becoming is very difficult. Becoming becoming an annointed man of God. One day God will give you an instruction to first for one month, one year, one week. There are levels of consecration that will look as if God wants to kill you. This announ thing. You see, it's not just by leying on of Handso believe me, you want to speak over people and swing open the gates of their destinies. There are sacrifices, but those who become are those who must be willing to know that God is in this and I will go all the way. I will go the way, all the way, all the way. There are missionaries why in Nigeria today are in parts of Africa, they literally left their people, left their comfort, some of them resign from jobs. Are successful people, and they answered the call ah bah my people. Except you are motivated by something greater than the comfort of the now, you cannot make that sacrifice. Some of the men of God. You see that sometimes we abuse and insult. You don't know the things they left to serve the Lord. For many men of God, especially in Africa, it's not like they were total failures and they did not know what to do with their lives. Some of them were mandated by God to give up things and they stood to bear the cross like fools. Some of them even onto death. Please sit down, let's rapple. Cornonia is quiet, but it. Is the truth. Let's rapple. But the people that do know their God. This is the scripture we're discussing. We have looked at knowledge, the demands to have knowledge, the demands to be transformed. Now watch this. This is the last step of the success equation. And very few people ever get to this third realm because the pain of overcoming the realm of being transformed. Most people cannot endy on to the end if you walk their way through. The finish line. But sadly they just stop at the level of transformation. And that's why possibilities don't manifest in their lives. Do exploits James, Chapter one. Doing is the last step as far as destiny actualization is concerned. Action is demanded. Until and unless, at some point in your life action is taken, you will never be able to see results. James one twenty two. Please give it to us. Let's hurry up so we can pray, he says, But be ye doers of the world, not hearers, only deceiving yourselves. Reading to twenty five, it says, for if any be a hearer of the world and not a doer, he is like onto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, for he beholdeth himself and go at his way and straightway. Forget that what manner of man is he was? He says, But whoso look into the perfect law of liberty listen carefully and continuate therein he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the world. Let's finish the remaining What will happen to that man? He said, This man shall be blessed in his deeds action action? What exploits? Now, I'm not talking about the verb. There is the verb exploits right, which means to selfishly take advantage of another for profits. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the noun exploits, and that means I wrote here notable outstanding or heroic accomplishments, exploits notable command, outstanding or heroic accomplishments. Do not forget what we are looking at the road map to a triumph fan destiny. That's the topic we're dealing with tonight, and we're considering for a text Daniel eleven and thirty two the bepads the people that do know their God, they shall be strong and shall do exploits. We're bringing out the revelation from the statement no be and do we said this represented three the tripartheid junctions. As far as the roadmap to an excelling life is concerned, Knowledge number two B becoming transformation. Now we're looking finally at doing. Write this down. Action requires courage. The first demand for doing is that you must be courageous. Action requires courage. Numbers Chapter thirteen, number thirty numbers thirteen thirty. Action requires courage and callapse. Still, the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once. We heard the world. We understand what God has said. We've taken our time to understand the demands. It says, let us go up at once and possess it. It takes going up to possess, not just talking about, not just meditating on it. Hearing the information and the instruction is wonderful. Meditating upon it until you believe is wonderful. But if and when you are done with becoming, the next thing is to go up at once and possess it. For we are well able, we are well able to overcome it. The Tounomy, Chapter twenty, from verse one to four. This scripture has blessed me for many many years. Pay attention as I read the Toronomy twenty one to four. We're wrapping up. When thou goest out to battle against thy enemies, and see it horses, chariots and a people more than thou, it says, be not afraid of them. For the Lord that God is with thee, which brought thee up from out of the land of Egypt, reading to fall. And it shall be when ye are come night to the battle. Men of God, Remember you have a guilty to approach and speak unto the people. Because battle is a moment of fierceness. There must be a system of encouragement, and it is given to the men and the women of God, the priests. You are the ones who will speak to the people Verse three. And you shall say onto them, here, oh coyn onia, ye approach this day onto battle against your enemies. Let not your hearts faint. He will come and say you. He will come and say you say to the weary. Ones, your God will surely come. He will come. And say, My God will come and say, he will come and say, lift talk. Your eyes to me. You will arise. He will come and say, let not your hearts faint. Fear not, and do not tremble, neither be yet terrified because of them for for the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and save you. Please hear me. If anyone tells you action does not require courage, that person lied to you. Action requires courage. You are toring virgin dimensions that you may never have gone there. It takes courage. Number two. Action requires persistence and resilience. Do exploits. Those who do exploits are people who are persistent and resilient. Hebrews, chapter six and verse fifteen. Hebrews six fifteen. Please and so after he had patiently endured he been Abraham, he obtained the promise. Galatians, chapter six and verse nine. Galatian six and verse nine, it says, and let us not be weary in well doing, for in due seasons we will reap if we faint not. It takes persistence, and it takes resilience. The first time we heard our crusade gauging by the standard today, you would not call it a very successful meeting, because when that many things went, you know, we'd be very few people. Am not sure we were up to fifteen that entire theater for the crusade, after weeks of praying and preparing you would look and say, this person is a failure discipular failures. And the very next as we were returning, God gave an instruction to do another one. God for you, he will act as if we didn't see what happened to you. Away together, you give somebody a lift his tole your phone. By the next day God to say, make sure you carry to people and bless them. Action requires persistence and resilience. Number three, action requires conviction. Second timoth Year one twelve. Action requires conviction. You will never be able to act until you are full of conviction. For the witch course, I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, he said, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which is committed onto him against that day. Let me tell you the truth. The strength of your conviction determines the speed of your action. You see why transformation is very important, because as you begin to push against these walls by faith, it will take conviction. I submit to you, by the God of Heaven, even if I came to a buja here and coinonia started and I failed, I would not return back in shame. One thing for sure I would have done is I would have gone for a retreat to verify and re verify again God. Is it my mind? Am I just acting in the flesh? Or is this true? Can I tell you? There are many things that are not working now in your life, But it does not mean that God is not there. All you need to do is to stay pushing with resilience, resilience and persistence. Number four action requires on bending focus. Action requires on bending focus three thirteen Philippians three thirteen. Action requires on bending focus Breadthren, I count myself, not myself. To have apprehended. But this one thing. Somebody say one thing, one most I've say one thing. When you are focusing on ten things, you don't have focus. It is usually one thing at a time. There has to be something driving you. This one thing I do forgetting the things that are behind and reaching forth to the things that are before me. I press proverbs for twenty five on bending focus. Proverbs for twenty five on bending focus. It says, let thy eyes look right on and let their eyelids. Look straight before the That means you can run. How many of you have seen people who are running the finals of a one hundred meter dash, and whether someone is insulting you or someone is clapping for you, you don't turn back. Your eyes is set on the finish line. Part of the trainings of a winner is that the moment to start looking, ah, you are clapping for me. When it has to do with the race of life. Both commendation and criticism came distract. You need to remain focused. On bending focus. Look chapter nine and verse sixty two. Action do exploit. Doing exploit requires on bending focus. Jesus set on to them. No, man, haven't put his hand on the or to the plow, and looking back is fit for the kingdom. Focus. Remember Lot's wife. The Bible wants us about the wife of Lot. She was already on her way out of Sodom and Gomorrah. With the warning not to turn back, he says, And if any drop back Hebrews ten. I believe thirty eight or so. And if any draws back, my soul will have no pleasure in him, Allelujah. If any draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Finally, doing exploits requires patience Hebrew six twelve, patience Hebrew six twelve, and that ye be not slot for but followers of them who to faith and patience. That's what it takes to inherit the promises. First pit Tou chapter five and verse ten. We're wrapping up first Bitter five and verse ten. But the God of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, listen, He says, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, entire Now establish you, strengthen you, and then set to you. After you have suffered a while, and remain pushing, praying, pressing, acting, It says, you will make you entire, perfect, establish you, strengthen you, settle you. Romance chapter eight and verse eighteen. It says, for I reckon eight eighteen, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. Action requires courage. Action doing exploits requires persistence and resilience in the face of negative situations discouraging situations. Action requires conviction, Action requires on bending focus, and finally, action requires patience. Now let's look at Danielle eleven thirty two. As we prepare to pray. Now you will understand the scripture. But the people that do know, they shall be and they shall do. This is my message tonight. The road map to a try young fan, destiny to a tryon fan life involves knowing, becoming, and doing in that order. You can do without becoming. You can become without knowing. So let me read it this way. For you to do exploits, you need to be strong, and for you to be strong, you need to know. In this case their God. If you ever see anybody doing exploits, know that that person must have been strong he became to do, and for that person to have become a week together, that person must have submitted himself to knowledge. A naive medical student goes to the university as a school living certificate holder with the potential of becoming a doctor. What happens knowledge knowledge? They keep pumping knowledge for over six seven years, and the medical doctor is evolving out of the ordinary person. There is a becoming happening, and do you know, within the limit of his practice, he will not be allowed to do certain things because he's still becoming. Sooner or later he gets a custom to the medical practice. And then by the time he's done. He's now giving liberty to start doing, and then the process reverses. The process continues again. Even though he is a graduate, he's not called a consultant. Is that correct knowledge starts again and not that version of becoming happens, and then he can do. Exploits greater knowledge greater becoming greater exploits small knowledge. Small becoming small exploits high level knowledge, high level transformation, high level exploits. The choice is yours. I set before your life and death. I set before your media cared destiny and the life of kingdom, exploits that brings great glory to God and dignity to you and posterity, charging you faithful by reason of your finishing strong. I have fought a good fight. I have finished my cause. I have kept the faith. I remind you again as I started, that in destiny you must know how to fight. You must know how to finish. You must know how to keep rise up on your feet. I will hold on through the store. I will hold on. To your word. My story about to change. You're the lifter of men. If you can, for one minute, may I request that you hold the hand of someone just close to you we're about to pray. Please, let's minimize movement there. Let me just make a very important announcement. Please, as much as possible, avoid walking out before the service is over. It's spiritual indiscipline. If you have stayed for no matter how long, the extra five minutes you spend will not change anything, not your going home. Not whatever is in discipline are we to In many assemblies, they close the door, they do whatever. We don't have to do that. Please, there is nothing that is such an emergency. You're Russian to get a car, You're Russian to do this. One prophetic world in closing the service may be your world. God can reserve your word to the end. I notice that every time we make altar calls. You see, once we're done, many people are It's an attitude of a baby Christian. And for some of you who do that, some of you are past us. Your leaders avoid that. Hallelujah. Yes, let us close with decendency, and then you leave. It does not take more than a minute to do an autar call, more than a minute or two to say a prayer. I just needed to say this. Don't do it in Cononia, don't do it anywhere except for very specific reasons. Maybe you're a guest minister and you need to leave or some kind of thing. There is a system that allows you, but ordinarily don't do that. This is part of the kingdom culture that we must learn. Hallelujah for some of you. You can be living where us, the people God brought you to church to meet after church are there. But because you are rushing, we are rushing into nowhere. It shouldn't be. So please, I love you, and that's why I want you to reive. It's a culture that you should not practice. It is very, very wrong. Whether you are outside you are inside, discipline yourself as much as possible. If you have enjoyed two, three, four hours, five more minutes, I'm not sure. If it's an. Emergency, that's fine, but aside that, please discipline yourself. So stay and join the prayer and let us pray. I owe a responsibility to teach you the culture of the kingdom. And in this house we're a house of order and were house of honor. So even when you invite people to come, please let them learn. We don't believe in policing people and using force, but revelation should upgrade you to a realm of maturity away together. So we pray just to prayer points tonight. Number one, You're going to cry to God and say, Father, I you obtain grace to contend for knowledge and the transformation that comes with that knowledge, and then the grace to act. Go ahead and pray. Go ahead and pray. Pray from the depth of your heart. Someone is praying from the depth of your heart. Shali kaparovska tivalasa. Lift your voice to Jesus. Thank you Father, the people that do know. I obtain grace to know. I obtain grace to know in the name of Jesus. Someone is praying. I obtain grace to know. In the name of Jesus. I receive the meekness that helps me to know. I obtain grace to ask questions that help me to know. I obtain grace to be willing to sacrifice my time, my energy, my resource is to buy the truth so that I will know. I obtain grace to place value on knowledge and to retain superior knowledge. Now pray on becoming shiprah katos Kaliataba. I contend for the graves to become. Before doing. I recognize that this is not the best version of me. I lay aside my current failures, my current successes, and I press in the name of Jesus, becoming a greater spiritual version, a greater financial version, a greater intellectual version. I a great my references, kingdom worthy models and references that guide and challenge my transformation. In the name of Jesus, I give up edge long limiting on scriptural anti destiny believes, and I am pray is superior beliefs. In the name of Jesus, I obtain grace to face and endure the consequences that come with growth, that come with transformation. Now pray for exploits. I receive grace to be courageous, courageous even when it does not look like it, to hold onto the world of God and to believe. I receive grace to be persistent and resilient. I receive grace to be a person, a man of God, a businessman, a family man, a politician with convictions, convictions that provide the energy that drive to take action. I receive grace to be of bending focus on bending focus. And in the name of Jesus, I receive the patience, the staying power to remain until the world of God manifests in my life. For in Jesus' name we pray last prayer point. I want you to declare that your prophetic destiny, the place that has been a map for your prophetic destiny. If it requires a fight, declared that you are a victim in Christ. If it is a race, require declared that you run with the speed he says. It says, he makes my feet like hands, feet, that you run and redeem time, and you're bishopric, that you will keep it and none will take open your mountain. Pray in the name of Jesus, the grace to fight a good fight of faith, the grace to run with the speed of a gazelle, the speed of of the fastest animal, to run with it in the name of Jesus, and with the strength of an ox, the grace who keep the faith, to keep the call to remain, to stay, to be strong to the end. For in Jesus name, I pray now very quickly, our time is up. There are people here who are yet to surrender their lives and their everything to Jesus. Once you heard the word coming, the Holy Spirit began to speak to you, telling you that you need to make your ways right. Or you are here and you are saying, apostle, I remember giving my life to Christ, but right now I need a re dedication any of those two categories. Whether you are inside, remember the first person to know is God, not just your destiny. Help us, not just an information. The people that know their God. And you're saying, apostle, I cannot really say I know my God. This is eternal life John seventeen and verse three, that they may know you, the one true God and Jesus, whom thou hast sent. I want to make this altar call right now. Our time is up. As I count one to five, I want you to leave your seat, whether you're inside or outside. I want to come and stand here very quickly. Jesus wants to give you a new beginning. And don't wait for someone to come before you follow them to come Allelujah wherever you are. I begin my counting. Now, let's celebrate them as they come. One God, bless you. Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. If you're coming, rush, please come to Jesus. Please able to give you a new beginning. You can start afresh again apostle. I'm not sure if I'm saved or not. Come and join them. You can have the assurance of salvation this night. God bless you, God, bless you, God bless you. I'm about to lead them to pray. So if you're coming, please run. You may need to double up. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Hallelujah. I want to salute you for making this courageous decision. We just taught that it takes courage to take action, and you have taken a very noble action. This is the wisest decision that any man can make under the sun. Thank you for the courage to have made this decision. May I request that you please lift your right hand. That includes those who are watching from home, those who are watching by way of television, even by way of a rebroadcast. It is never too late to surrender your all and your everything to Jesus. Please lift your right hand and say this after me. Let it be loud and clear from the depths of your heart. Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your word. I need to know you. I declare that I cannot help myself, but I believe that you died for me. I believe that you rose again for my justification. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my Lord, my Savior, and my King. I declare that the power of Sain, Satan, Hell and the Grave is broken over my life. From tonight and forever, I go for whatever and backward never. In Jesus' name. The Lord bless and honor your prayer. And I declare by the authority of Scripture that you have bonafide recipients of eternal life. You go from glory to glory, grace to grace in Jesus name. May I please request that you follow the counselors. You're in front here there by my ranks. May God bless you. Let's appreciate them very quickly. Hallelujah. Now before I speak over your life. Finally, just to remind you that this this week on Friday, will be having the School of Ministry graduation ceremony for Zaria, a Zaria campus, So we'll be in Zaria on Friday, but for Abuja is going to be on Sunday. So next week, please let us come to celebrate our graduates. Hallelujah. Our School of Ministry students. By the way, for their Buja campus. This is the largest set we have ever taken. Their over five hundred students who will be graduating. Can you imagine that? Hallelujah? So invite your loved ones, Invite everyone and come and share your people. Let's celebrate. What God is doing is going to be a time of importation. They'll be receiving their certificates, will be speaking over their lives in the name of Jesus Christ. A few announcements very quickly. The Public Relations department is opened for a Buja now is open for new members. All applicants, all those who want to become part of our Public Relations and Correspondence department. Please send in your request your application via email to pr coin Onia pr cooin Onia as one word at gmail dot com indicating your interests address the letter to the head of department. Application closes by eleven pm this night, eleventh September. You can go to the PR desk after just outside the main auditorium for more information and then the Ushering Department. Our ausshers need more hands. God is expanding the ministry. There so many people and the ushers are limited, so they're asking for more hands. All interested persons should Please meet a representative at the part desk. So you want to be part of the ushering team, Please wait outside very briefly after the service at the pr desk, and you will be an official there who will address you. Have you been blessed tonight in the name of Jesus made the Lord bless you. I speak over your life that your week beginning will be full of science and wonders. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that this is a week of exploits for you, even as you have learned the grace to put what you have learned to practice. In the name of Jesus, no weapon fashion against you will prosper, And every town that rises up against you, let it fall in judgment. You are blessed in the city, you are. Blessed in the country. I profess I favor upon you that when people are testifying or favor next week, you must be part of them. In the name of Jesus Christ. May the grace for honor rest upon you. Your fire, your prayer, fire remains in the name of Jesus Christ. Your word, fire remains in the name of Jesus Christ. There is no going down for you you go more and more in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen, God bless you together less share the grace in fellowship. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and a Bible with us nouns forevermore. Amen, surely all the days of our life. Amen, God bless you and see you next week. My night is a bow to end. My morning is so bound to bring. You what your work to perform. You're the lif term landey, the lifter of man. My aunt is so bow to. My party is so bound to bring to your work to perform. You're the lifter of land. The lifter of man. I will hold down to the stormy, I will hold down to your world. My life will stun be you. You are the litter of men, the litter of man. I will hold on to the storm, and I will hold on to your work. My life will son with pill. You are the lifter of man, the litter. Saying I will hold, I will hold it is saying in my life song, Yeah, You're the letter of man. Water sing, I will al done, sing. I will look gone, yah, say my. Life the time Yeah, You're the lifter of the litter of man. What I say, I will. Sing iby sin in my lives. You are the litter of that And was saying starts just changing. No morning life among my way to Panaday