THIS IS NOT YOUR REST PROVOKING HUNGER & DISSATISFACTION Micah 2;10 (1)

Allelulia. Let's live the hands to Jesus. Give him all the praise. The one who is worthy of our praise, worthy of exaltation. Let's the name of the Lord. Glory be to Jesus. Someone is giving God quality thanks. Give him all the praise, Give him all the praise, all the glory. Shapa la caaprandescadeb and laka baradosiat the one that working power of our God, the wisdom that flows from his world. This will be your encounter tonight. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, that the Lord will visit you. Are you praying, Father, tonight? Let it be my night of visitation. Let it be a knight of encounter, that I will never be the same. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray, Spirit of the Living God. We pray that you will breathe upon us tonight. Every time we gather. We gather because you have called for us. And when you call for a people, it is to bless them, it is to lift them, it is to reveal yourself the more. Father. We pray in the name of Jesus that tonight will be an extra ordinary night of encounter. Prune us, build us enlighten us, empower us in the name of Jesus. And that's your word comes that it. Brings healing to the sick, deliverance to the oppressed, hope to the hopeless. In the name of Jesus, we vow us always that you will be glorified exulted in Jesus' mighty name. We pray. One thing we ask of you. One thing that we decide is that as we worshiped you, Lord, come and change singing again. One thing we ask of you, One. Thing that we is signed. That we wa ship you Lord, co man. Hourrah rah. Around areas, take a place, be a. Says he. Oh, please see. Around around, take cutely. Be through. Allah, praise. A rise. He got kids holy as we see arash around. Around Arah. Let me prophesy over someone in the name of Jesus made the Lord a rise on your case tonight. May my God rise for you tonight. May he take away shame and reproach from your life tonight in the name of Jesus. And I declare over you that every tree that has not been planted by my Father at the instance of God's word, maybe of rooted forever, of rooted forever, of rooted forever, in the name of Jesus for someone. I speak to you with not for the book is open, with not, for the book is open. I call your days of weeping and mourning over. I call your days of weeping and mourning over every course sitting upon your head, your family, your destiny, your life. I decree and declare me it be rolled away forever. May it be rolled away forever. And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh, and that all who here will laugh with me. May the Lord give you the blessing of Sarah, the d of blessing that causes you to laugh, in the name of Jesus Christ. And the Bible says, and Jabez was more honorable than his brethren. I prefer side to you shame reproach, Mediocritian smallness. I cost it from your life forever. I cost it from your life. Forever. I cost it from your life forever. It says, you have turned my morning to dancing and my sorrow to joy. I speak to you, Let's sorrow give way in your life. Let's sorrow give away in your life. Let's sorrow give way in your life. In the name of Jesus I pray for you, men, my God, give you rest roundabout, rest round about, rest round about in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, everything God declared over your life. From January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, now November. Let this be your month of performance. Let this be your month of performance. Let this be your month of performance. Let this be your month of performance. Anyone saying where is your God, this is the month your results will answerdem. May your results answerdem. My Bible says, sure, Lidia is an end for you. I prophessized. Shame comes to an end. The reproach comes to an end. Captivity comes to an end in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, for your shame received double. For your shame received double. I say to you again, for your shame received double in the name of Jesus. Job forty two, Verse ten. The Bible says, and God turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his brethren, and God restored Job. God restored he gave twice. I pray for you everything that has left your head, and not by God, whether by demons, whether by error, whether by mistake, whether by ignorance. I decree and declare by prophecy, May it gravitate back to your destiny. May it gravitate back to your destiny in the name of Jesus. In Luke chapter fifteen, the Bible says a woman was given ten silver coins, and for whatever reason, she lost one, and even though she had nine left, her hunger insisted that she must find that one. I don't care what is walking in your life, son, is the area that is not working in this season. God will bring completion. Someone did not receive it. I said, God will bring completion in the name of Jesus. It says he that all you have received nothing. It says asked that you may receive. That your joy may be fool. May the fullness of joy be your portion. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Please turn around to your left and right, greet someone, and you may be seated. Turn to your left and then to your right. Tell someone this is coin on hea. I welcome everyone in the name of Jesus. It's an honor to be in the house of the Lord. The psam is said, I was glad when they said, unto me. Let us go to the house of the Lord. My God will do you good tonight in the name of Jesus. Even though you have been appreciated, this is the house of honor. Let me one more time appreciate all those who are worshiping with us. For the first time. You have come from outside of this city. You have come from outside of this nation. We're receiving the name of Jesus, and we declare the blessing of the Lord and the blessing upon this house. Let it rest upon you in Jesus' name, a man who want to appreciate and bless the Lord. For Missus k jim Ovia, the wife of the chairman of Senate Bank, May God bless you. Let's give her a big God bless you. Thank you, thank you so much. Mar the Lord bless you in the name of Jesus. And then Missus Jenny Adioshun, the wife of the former Minister of Finance, May the Lord bless you in the name of Jesus Christ. We appreciate you, and we use this to us an opportunity and as say a reference to say, God bless you, and welcome to everyone who is truly deserving of honor. In Jesus' name, we pray two announcements very quickly. I promised us last week that I would bring more announcements about our medical outreach, so please allow me a minute to do that. It will be on the twenty third. Now there are two sessions. One session will be a training, a training for our doctors paramedics. We're having consultants come from John Hopkins, a few within Nigeria here and so all those who desire to be part of the training please you would need to register after service. Just go to the PR desk or the medical stand and you'll be guided on how to register. But I see that there is a QR code. I don't know how many people they can take, and I don't know if it will be streamed online. I doubt, but you can get all of that information. The venue will be Daughters of Abraham, our other venue, and it will be Friday, the twenty second. Time is nine am. Prompt, so please make sure that whilst you register you plan to attend, so that you don't stop others from attending and then not calm yourself. But I'm concerned about the Saturday meeting is an outreach. We do this as a responsible ministry. We do this as agents of change, and we believe that we are also contributors to national development community development. We cannot do everything, but we can do our bid to see that we better the lives of people. And this is court to see our media department allowing them that liberty of expression. On our behalf to attend to those who would require medical medical attention. A lot will be happening at that time. I'm sure that they will be attending to various kinds of need. It will also double as a welfare program, of course, it won't be limited to just medical attention. Well, do our best to see that we're able to help and reach them with maybe a few foodstuff, whatever it is that can make their lives better. The venue will still be the Daughters of Abraham. It's nine am in the morning on the twenty third. Now we need more hands. You know that once you make a declaration that people will come to receive free medical treatment and free food, you're going to have so many people and our hands are limited. We have a robust medical team, but in truth for this kind of project will require a lot more hands. So if you are in displace, and your medical practitioner, perhaps a lab scientist, a pharmacist, even a doctor, or any expression around the medical field. Your hands, your commitment, your service is greatly needed. After the service, you can do well to register you intend to support and be part of this project, giving us your intellectual resource so that we make this a reality. We do not want to overstretch our medical team. And for those who may not be part of the Coinonia family, but you want to serve in that capacity, I believe there's a room for you. You can scan the QR code and then do well to reach the medical team for more information. Let's stretch our Hence, in one minute, just pray over this project for the twenty second and the twenty third that the Lord will empower our medical people. It will indeed be a medical outreach with a difference. In the name of Jesus Christ. Are you praying. That they will not only receive treatment for their bodies, it will be an opportunity for them to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus. Our philosophy in this ministry is that everything that is done by one is done by all. All of us may not be there, but we are there in the spirit Allelujah. Then, as always we are a people who have been trained, and so I have the liberty to challenge us to also sow into this project. Not because the medical team is in one the budget has been paid for in full. But it's a Kingdom culture that every time you are doing anything that is pro Kingdom and you are within a family, it's important to participate not just with your prayer, not just with your commitment, your presence, but also your resources. And so if you want to be a blessing to that project, why not you can meet the head of department and the treasurer and communicate your support adequately, and the Lord will bless you whilst you do that. In the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God. Amen and Amen. Tonight's message seeks to impart upon you the finisher's grace. Tonight's message to bring an end to short term impact in the Kingdom. The Lord plays a very strong burden in my heart to bring this teaching tonight. Tonight's teaching will provoke you and bring hunger and dissatisfaction no matter what you have done, no matter your level of accomplishment in the spirit. This is one message you should listen to that will challenge you to press for more, will plant in you a desire to stretch your appetite for more of God, and it will erode this cancer of complacency from your life and empower you to become a greater tool, a greater witness for Jesus. I pray for you already that God will grant you the ears that here are you saying amen, that God will grant you the eyes that see, and that your profiting will appear onto all in the name of Jesus. Tonight we're considering for a topic might cat Chapter two and verse ten. This is not your rest, it says, arise ye, and depart my car. Chapter two and verse ten. It says, for this is not your rest because it is polluted, and it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. I read it one more time. It says, arise ye, and depart from that place, that level, that face, that location, that realm. It says, for this is not your rest. There is a rest, but this is not your rest because it is polluted. It shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. This is not your rest. I'm challenging the arrival mentality. I'm challenging complacency, the cancer that has destroyed the great and stop people from reaching completion. This teaching tonight is a press for completion. It is the kind of teaching that will insist stop on your destiny, that you move beyond progress to completion. Tonight's teaching in parts upon you the grace to finish, not just to go forward. This challenges you beyond an appetite. For advancement and insists that you must finish. And for everyone under the sound of my voice, I speak over your life that what God has begune with you, in you, through you, may he finish it. In Jesus' name. You will never be an aborted destiny. I'm only speaking to someone who is open to receive. You will never be an aborted destiny. And I pray for someone. May your life never be a negative lesson for others. That when others are being warned about how not to fail or how to fail, may your life not be the reference. In the name of Jesus Christ. Josh Watchapter thirteen and verse one, very profound and simple scripture. Now Joshua was old and stricken in years, and the Lord said to him, thou art old, and you are stricken in years, and dear, remain it yet very much land to be possessed. You are old, you are stricken in age. You have so john for a very long time. You've made commendable progress, But it says, dear, remain it yet. Very much land to be possessed. Let me start my teaching tonight by doing a recap in one of the series Navigating Prophetic Seasons. I began that series by challenging us on a script. Shop is that chapter forty three from verse eighteen and nineteen. The Bible says, remember ye not the former things. It says, neither consider the things of old. Verse nineteen says, behold, I do a new thing, and it shall spring forth, and shall ye not know it. I will make a way in the wilderness and reverse in the desert. And I just want to draw out a few things that are communicated in that series. Number one, have that over dwelling on the past, You still remember that overdwelling on the past, both negative and positive, has a consequence on your destiny. It has a consequence on your tomorrow. The Bible says, remember it not the former things, provided it is former, provided it is the past. The Bible gives you a caution that overdwelling on the past, whether negative past or positive past, has a negative effect overall on your destiny. And I did teach us at the time that a positive past creates complacency, creates pride, creates over confidence in discipline a way together now. When people overdwell on their rides of yesterday, when people overdwell on their accomplishments of yesterday, yesterday can mean yester years. Yesterday can mean you know, decades ago. Our world is full of people who will always remind you of pleasant stories of yesterday. Strikes in the area of business, ministerial strides, family strides away together, academic intellectual, educational strides. Our world is full of people who are passionate about reminding us of yesterday, not necessarily for the purpose of pushing us into tomorrow, but that that is the only story they have to tell. The Bible says Jesus is the same yesterday, but then it also considers today and considers forever. Over Dwelling on a negative past, even if positive, can hinder your passion to finish, your passion to press. I have taught you in this house that many people today are failures because they once succeeded. Their greatest nbecoming was that they were a history of success in their lives. Oftentimes you find this most evident in the field of sports, where you can find an athlete who becomes a celebrity, a winner, a champion by every definition for a period of time, and then they plunge into some kind of decadence, they deplete, dictorial rate, eroded, and they become very very sorry versions of themselves. We have this in the world of even in the academia. You have this in the world of technology. There are gadgets today that at the point that were discovered, invented, and manufactured, it looked like the world would never have anything better. And instance typewriters. Today we have a generation that does not even know what a typewriter looks like. Are we together? We used to have all kinds of gadgets. Who are viewing better mads vhs and then see these flowy these now people don't even know what that means. The Bible says, remember ye, not former things. There are people whose only crown is in there yesterday. We're learning now, and so they are not able to move forward because they are so emotionally connected to the strikes of yesterday. They will tell you all kinds of stories. I was once a commissioner, I was a great man. Those days when we were anointed you, yet as if God suddenly died from the throne. Those days when we used to raise people from the wheelchairs, Those days when we used to organize school. Say it, those days when we were serious with God, Those days when I was a pastor, those days when I used to pray, Those days when I used to first Not like now, I don't do all those things again, but those days. Our lives and stories are full of those days, those days on campus. I used to be on fire those days on campus, and today you wonder where the fire had gone. I'm praying for you whatever I will have to make you to make reference to only yesterday. I cost that spirit from your destiny away together. And then the Bible also talks about the possibility of meditating on a negative past that also has a very adverse effect on your destiny. What does it do? Number one, it creates fear. There are three levels of hear. There's fear of yesterday, There's fear of today, and there's fear of tomorrow, and either ways you will be met with a very very grave consequence if you embrace any of the fears. There is the fear of yesterday. Usually it is the fear that comes with history. I once tried and I fail. You heard the testimony of the dear lady submitting visas in spite of saying God manifest through my face in her dream. The sister got the visa, and then the gentleman didn't get the visa, and he was angry, he was, you know, and all of that you find those kinds of testimony. Something happens when people fail. Is the reason why it's important to learn the loss of success early in life and the loss of the spirit early in life, so that you're success rate will be greatly minimized. Something happens to a human spirit. If you have a track record of consistent failure away together. Usually your mind buls. Your mind is educated from the lens of your failure. There is a way you begin to look at life even when you fail again and again and again. There are certain possibilities your mind can no longer capture or easily captured. For instance, for an individual who would have failed all his life. When you teach things like a grace called favor, when you teach things like speed, they will shout aimen. But the truth is there's no capacity to believe that kind of possibility. It's never been captured in their lives. Allelujah. Negative pasts can bring fear, too. Negative fasts can bring discouragement. It can fight your passion to continue to fight your passion to press. There are people who you will try to challenge them, and after wasting your I'm wasting minutes and even hours of motivation, they will tell you, I'm really thankful for your heart and your commitment for me. But as for me, I've concluded. You find this most evident in the life of people who have suffered prolonged infirmities. If you've ever had anyone that you've had to manage their health for a very long time, a time comes they stop saying Amen to prayers. And it's not just unbelief. It's what happens when your yesterday does not improve, when your yesterday keeps traveling into your today and even into your tomorrow. I'm praying for you, may yesterday come to an end over your life. I think it was in Cooynonia. I preach one time that yesterday is a very very jealous phenomenon. It always wants to relieve itself into your today. Yesterday is so jealous it will never allow your today and your tomorrow go in peace. It is obsessed with relieving itself today. And you have to create that door and that border to say yesterday, thank God for the lessons learned. But as this door is shut, it will never open again. Maybe that's someone's prayer tonight. You're saying there are certain events, certain things that happen in your yesterday, failure, pain, regret, mistakes, challenges that you never want to find expression in your today and tomorrow. And I'm praying for you since you have desired to have a better today and a better tomorrow. The power that closes the dog yesterday permanently. May that power be released over your life in the name of Jesus Christ. Philippians chapter three thirteen and fourteen. Very profound scripture. Philippians three thirteen fourteen. Pauly speaking, now, brethren, he says, I count not myself to have apprehended. Are learning now? It says, but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth on to those things which are before. I like this, I thought you already. Let's trite one more time. First towards ready one to go. I press again one last time, he says, I press. I press towards the mark. Take note of that. Will revisit that statement in the course of our discussion. I press towards the mac for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. So it says, remember you not the former things I have learned from scripture and from experience. Honestly, not because I'm preaching it that if you cannot learn how to look forward and stay looking forward, you will most likely not arrive. Nobody runs and runs to win by looking backwards. Are we together? Do you know that even as you drive, those who design the mechanics of driving, there's not so much liberty to drive backwards indefinitely. For instance, there's only one reverse gear. There's no reverse one, reverse two, reverse three, because they don't expect you to go down for too long. If you move back, it's only to reposition yourself to go forward when you're driving forward. There, as we know, manual driving gear one, two, three, and whatever it is away together. When you are going forward, they give you the liberty to accelerate and increase your speed. But when you are going backward. The manufacturers of the car, even though many of them were not directly filled with the Holy ghosts, they knew instinctively, which is consistent with scripture, that nobody keeps going back indefinitely. And you want a reverse gear two, reverse gear three, reverse gear. Five, it's not necessary. Everything about the mechanics of the car rejects that approach. But when you are going forward, even self driving cars don't reversing definitely backward because you are just supposed to turn at a bend and then you keep moving forward. I don't care what has pegged your eyes to keep looking at yesterday. Hence you for this service tonight, I decree and declare the grace to turn your attention forward may be released over your life. Let me tell you one of the disasters of focusing on yesterday. It keeps justifying you're not going forward. Yesterday can give you sufficient reasons to not rise again. Yesterday can give you sufficient reasons to not press forward again. Away together now, and you see, yesterday will always come with a sense of legitimacy and entitlement. It will justify why you are failing and why you keep failing, justify why your life may not move forward. There are people today who will not take responsibility over their lives and their destiny courtesy the excuses of yesterday. The wise man once said the best time was yesterday. He said, the next best time is now. There's nothing you can do about yesterday. If it's good, glory to God. If it's bad, it's gone. But now that you have the gift of life energy and your mind is still sane and coordinated, you can begin to make profitable pro destiny decisions. This is not your rest. So the starting point of any destiny, I wrote here is the desire to make progress. Usually there is no Now. I know that there are all kinds of you know, cars to their especially podcasts that are purported to jump from zero you know, kilometer per hour to almost one fifty in as little as four seconds, five seconds, six seconds, maybe less than that. But at least we know that it is not a jump from zero to one fifty. It must start from one, two, three, four, five, no matter how fast. So the starting point of any destiny is first a desire for progress. You're not going to be able to break that inertia if you do not have a desire to make progress and to advance in life and destiny. The starting point if you want to become, you want to evolve spiritually and in every ramification, you must have a desire to make progress. But something happens to men when you begin to make progress, especially commendable progress. The passion to press, the passion to continue, and the passion to finish seems to evaporate. And most people, even those who start well, even those who make commendable progress, never seem to be able to finish. Allelujah. My assignment tonight, as guided by the Spirit of God, is to give us keys, keys that provoke dissatisfaction, that, regardless what's tried, what progress you have made in the spirit, that as I dish out these keys, like serving you a spiritual meal, it will cause a holy anger, a holy provocation within your spirit, and you will tell yourself, this is not my rest. As much as I've seen God move greatly, this is not my rest. This is not the greatest level of the annoyting I can carry. This is not the greatest level of revelation I can step into a way together. This is not the greatest credence I can give to my call and my ordination, my election. The Bible says to give diligence to make your calling and your election show. It is your responsibility to partner with the spirit of grace to bring validation to the authenticity of your call. There are keys, As always there are keys. Completion does not just happen. Ever, increasing glory does not just happen. The Bible already gives you the basis of your press and confidence, but you must understand the keys that make what is written become your experience. I have taught you in this scripture in Coinonia that there the Bible has two expressions. There is what we call finished realities from God's standpoint, profit realities. Ed W. Kenyon will call it the legal side of redemption. And then there's the prophetic experiential manifestation, the vital side. When what is written now becomes a reality in your life. Your assignment is to master how to convert the truths that are written a compendium of God's promises, God's desire, God's expectation for you to engage by faith through knowledge. Are we together and turn whatever it is that is written to now become your experience, your Christian experience. For show will be frustrated if you keep reading things in the Bible that never find expression in your life. Reading it in the Bible should provoke you so that you engage the keys. Are we together that commit God to perform the things that are written so that they speak in experience in your life. And I'm praying for you everything you have written that has been written and you have desired to see manifest in your life. As I hand you these kiss tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. May these keys become laders. May they truly take you to the place of completion in your life. Say amen, I've not been in ministry for too long. I'm not just starting by the message of God. Been around for a bit, and I have seen people rise and fall. I have seen great businesses. With all due respect, I've seen servants of the Living God rise with fire and vibrancy, such momentum, such dexterity and passion. And you will think sometimes that people who arrive they will complete their assignment in one year. But I've seen people literally evaporate like smoke before the wind away together. And yet I have seen others who started in a way that you wonder if, even if they are given many lifetimes, they would not finish. But somewhere their journey, the mercy of God meets them. Their hunger and their passions were spared, and some of them are still standing. They look like they will not stand, but they're still standing today. I land very early in life and ministry that an arrival mentality is cancerrous. By an arrival mentality, we do not mean just having a vision to arrive. We mean a mentality that brings you to a point of self sufficiency and complacency. And arrival mentality can bring an unwanted in natia over your life. It is an extra luggage upon the vehicle of your destiny, such that the speed the momentum that you require to drive your destiny to completion, you lose that momentum because of an arrival mentality. I used to think when I started out in life and I started my work with God, that only failure provokes people to you know, failure brings discouragement and stops pull from finishing strong. But I learned later on that Eventually, both success and failure can be enemies of your destiny. It is only that one is a more visible enemy than the other. Success is a friend that later becomes an enemy. Success does not start as an enemy. It starts as a friend. But when you entertain its presence too much, it can distract you until it becomes an enemy. Are we together? Many have failed because they once succeeded, failed in business, failed in destiny. Many pastors have failed. Are crawling through the doors of destiny, the gates, the corridors of destiny, barely trying to survive relevance and impact. And the simple reason is because we got to a point where we violated a major spiritual law. Paul educates us, and yes, what it says that, not that we are sufficient in ourselves to think anything of ourselves, is that ours efficiency is of God, who has made us able. Ministers away together after the spirit, not after the letter, for the letter killed, but the spirit gives life. So I want to hand you these keys, and please, I want you to lend me your attention in the name of Jesus Christ. Make sure you are allert, make sure you're not just looking what you are receiving. Away together you receive through your eye gate, you receive through your ear gate, and other impulses that your spirit, the mechanisms built within your spirit to receive the world, but principally your eye gate and your ear gate. The Bible says he that has an ear, let him hear. That means not everybody has the kind of ear that translates to attentiveness. I come by the grace of the sower, and see it's about to be planted to over glorious destinies now. And some of you, I hope you will not be careless to fall asleep and allows set and come and play and something else. And for others, I'm praying that your heart has been prepared so that it is not funny ground, so that it is not you know, any kind of soil that is unconducive for the seed. I'm praying for you that on account of what you will hear tonight, may you produce harvests harvest of thirtyfold, sixtyfold. And if you are really connected to this ministry, may you never rest till you produce a hundred fold. In the name of Jesus, I will never be, never be saddest, fine so here I am, fill me up with your rest. I will never be, never be saddest. Fight so here right, fairy up with your real death. Sprayer for more, Sprayer for more. That's prayer for more, more more. You desperate for more, desperate for more, desperate. For more and more and more. The first key, according to scripture, that provokes this satisfaction and sponsors continuity even onto a point of completion, regardless your current results. When you hold onto this key, it sustains the power to consistently provoke this satisfaction and to drive your life to sponsor continuity until you finish. Strong Number one is called vision. Vision. The first factor according to scripture that provokes dissatisfaction and drives men, all kinds of men, to never stop, to never be satisfied until they finish, until they attain onto God's expectation, is called vision. What is vision? A picture of your prophetic destiny? A picture of your prophetic destiny? What is vision a picture of God's standard, God's expectation for you? I'm giving you a slightly different definition other than that which you would hear in a mainstream leadership discussion. And as much as this applies to leadership. My focus here is on destiny actualization, particularly your spiritual growth and advancement. Vision a picture of your prophetic future, a picture of the benchmark you see that. One thing I know about vision is that it helps you to benchmark your progress. It helps you to bench mark your progress. If you do not have a God ordain reference for your life, any standard you attain greater than where you wear will be enough for you. Did you get what I just said? If you do not have a standard high enough, challenging enough, even if you take one step ministerially, one step financially, one step career wise, one step in leadership, once you are better than yesterday, you will arrive and settle. And I submit to you that there has been a territorial programming on many of us by reason of the various cultures that we come from. There are cultures that, by default, if you are borne into those cultures, you stand a risk of being complacant in life. Not because you are evil, not because those who came from are evil. It is a culture that does not celebrate any press for continuity. I think better than where you are is enough. And some of us we have embraced some of these things to our detriment. Once you are better than yesterday or better than someone else, and I hope you know, according to scripture, were not called to a life of competition. Competition has become the unbecoming of many. I will always give an example in this house. Let me repeat it one last time that if you have a student who's cost thirty percent, and another's cost twenty percent, another ten percent, another five, and another zero, who got the highest care thirty percent, but who passed the exam none, if you are to award them based on that standard, you will give the award to the guy who got thirty percent, But based on the rating that shows true success, all of them failed. The guy who did not write the exam, the guy who got zero, one, ten, thirty all failed. There are many of those who have been receiving awards for years only to find out that your calling destiny has wien less than ten. It's only that those around you have so failed you look like a celebrity. Are we together now? It is often said that in a world of blind people, the one who can see a little is usually enthroned as king. Doesn't matter what else he's not seeing until he later becomes a slave to another king who sees well, are we together? Many many people today celebrate mediocrity because they look around and they find people who are not even prepared to start the race, and because they are privileged either by messy, by mistakes, by law of time and chance, to take a step or a few steps ahead of there yesterday, ahead of those who are there yesterday. They settle, and sometimes they use those lid to strikes. They build monuments around it and tell all kinds of destop stories around it. I used to be great. I used to do all of that. I'm praying for you again in the name of Jesus Christ. Whatever makes you to just compare yourself with those around you and keep giving yourself fake awards, awards that the realm of the spirit is not recognizing awards that life and destiny is not recognizing. I pray for you that spirit of mediocriity may live your life forever, in the name of Jesus Christ. Vision vision is very powerful Habakuk Chapter two, from verse two and three. I will learning tonight. It says, right the vision, right the vision. Listen carefully. Then it says, make it plain. I like what it says that he may run that reads it, not he may run that writes it. The one who writes it may not run. But the one who reads it, who keeps re visiting that vision what God told you. There is energy that comes when you open the book again and look at what he told you, what he told you in two thousand and eight, what he told you in two thousand and nine. The book may be old, but the vision is still fresh. If you can open that old book, that old iPads, see what it told you, you were more discerning than you are now. For some of you, when he told you, you can trust what you told you because the things that dead and his voice were not yet in your life. You can't trust the purity of what you had that time. Are we together now? Most likely that time you were still four. Most likely that time you were not married. Yet. Most likely that time you still had needs. There were of your needs that made your retreat here. It was true, the deception of fame. I've not distracted your hearing right the vision it says you will run that reads it. Many of us are priding in the fact that we've written, but we've not read it. It is impossible to keep and then remain complacant. I still visit my old notes today, and sometimes I am flattered by the level of dissigned then and accuracy receiving some of the things that God said. I wonder how I got to receive those things. I know because now knowing what I know, I know the kind of alignment that would have brought those prophetic words. I now know that it was truly messy. Are we together? Let me tell you this, there are many of you. If you took what God told you that you wrote, if you read it and revisited it, your life would have been greatly enhanced till now. What most of you do is you write it and then give others to read it, but you don't read it yourself. You would tell people the stories. I know what God told me. I am a kingdom financier. I know what God told me that there is an apostle within this frail vessel. There is a prophet within this frail vessel away together. The reason why you have not sustained the grace to submit to the disciplines that make for that prophecy to manifest is because you stop reading it. Some of you don't even know where the notebooks are. I learned from Dr Miles Munro before he went to be with the Lord. He said his office would seldom have awards. He's received all kinds of awards in his lifetime, but he said that he doesn't put too much of those awards. And I learned that from him. Quite honestly, I have received a number of awards in my life, quite and I'm very grateful. I don't know where some of them are. Some of them are still wrapped. I've not even opened them. A few of them are in my office just because of space. But I make sure that I'm not tempted to stand there and look. I pass as I go to seat, because when you stand there, you can become like Lot's wife. Lot's wife is a lesson to anyone who looks back. The Bible says, remember Lot's wife. Your sodom and gomorra can be anywhere, and right in your office, right in the place of grace and opportunity. You can turn to a pillar of salt. Are we together? Vision Anybody who is visionary, let me tell you the truth, has to pray that God should help them sleep, not because they have a health problem, because there is something that drives you. You know, sometimes I'm amazed. I check the time and maybe it's nine in the morning, and next time I'm checking it's like four or five, and I'm like, my God, what happened? You are literally begging God? Can you are two more hours before it's twelve midnight? Some of you are tired by nine. You mean, this long day? What am I going to do with all the time? It is lack of vision. It's not an attack. When you are a visionary person. Let me tell you, God will have to preach to you and say, my son, take rest now arrested? Are we together? And sometimes you wake up and check the time, and you almost want to ask God for apologies, to say, I'm sorry, it's a same you've seen against your destiny. How did this time just pass like that? Because there is always what to do in the life of a visionary person. You will never find idleness. Always something to do. There prayer to pray. You have your prayer targets, you have your word study targets. Are we together? You have your personal development targets, your spiritual growth targets. There are things you have. You may be alone, but you are busy. Let me tell you visionary people. When you tell people you are busy, they think you are lying because our idea of busy is I mean the midst of people. You can be all alone, yet so occupied that you have to beg for more time. Visionary people many your first year do not have vision. Is the reason why life is not worth living. No meaning, no drive, no nothing. You get up in the morning. If you are fortunate to have a destiny, waste to call you unfortunate for you? Are you free? What do you want to do today? I'm it's okay. Can I come around sometimes? Oh there's this movie that just came out. Are you aware there's another one? I have all of them. I bought it. Don't worry about buying it. Let's just watch and time and your days continue to go, and then once you finish, you move to Twitter, Facebook, balance it up with all the rest, and then as you finish you can gossip, and then your whole day finishes. You see that, and then you get up and wonder why or thats are making progress? Great news, good news is always around your camp, and for you, you are stunted every distraction around your life. In the name of Jesus, every enemy fighting your vision. I decree and declare, May it giveaway now? Please be seated. When you find a man with no time for marking time, when you find a man with no desire to come and build a monument around his success and his strivees of today, there is something greater than today driving him away. Together. We read that earlier. I like Paul, he says in Philippians chapter three. We read that earlier, verse thirteen. It says this not that I have I have apprehended three thirteen. Can you give us Philippians three and verse thirteen. I doubt not myself to have apprehended. I hope you know. The guy speaking wrote two terms of the New Testament. Excellent apostle by every in definition. Next the God of the Bible, a man who. Was not part of the Apostolic community, but came from behind. Talk about speed that Peter said, Ah, this guy, I'm the chiefest of the Apostle. This man, his writings are hard, eighteen years in the wilderness of Arabia, came back with fire. I count not myself to have apprehended. But this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth for the things that are before now. The emphasis is verse fourteen. It says, I press towards the mac shouted, Say the mark one more time, Say the mark one more time, say the mac look at me. How many of you know that the way most coaches train athletes, especially those who run, the way they train them is that if you are going to be a national person running for your nation for say a hundred meter dash, they don't train you with hundred meters. No, they will train you with about one hundred and fifteen meters. And the psychology is to program your mind to build energy, momentum, and expectation. Are we together like a time of start? That means every time you cross hundred, your mind still assumes that you still have fifty. That's how they train champions. If you train a champion to run a one hundred meter race, and you train hi one hundred meters, he will most likely take last orthers to stretch. The bad do two hundred meters. The guys running two hundred meters, but the real preparation is four hundred meters, and he will run and finish. He wants to stop, but his mind is saying you are failing because the bar has been stretched some of you. Your boite is too small, too small, destinies demanding hundred meters, your training is five meters, and you keep celebrating yourself, only to stand at the field and see that you're not able to cross five. Vision is powerful. What does vision do? It gives you focus? What does vision do? It gives you legitimacy to say no? When you are a visionary person, you have a legitimate ground to say no. Too many things. You must learn to say no, even to good things. Let me tell you, when the devil brings evil and you say no, you will bring good. The most important thing is your destruction, whether through good or evil. You must learn to say no. When you are visionary. You can tell even nice friends who I am happy for this, but I'm sorry I may not have the time for this. Will reconsider another opportunity. Vision allelujah. Vision gives you the discipline to supervise yourself, the discipline to supervise yourself. First Conturns, Chapter nine and verse twenty four. Paul was admonitions and says that know ye not that they which run in a race. He says they run all, but only one receiveth The price leaves you with a charge. He says, so wrong that ye may obtain run in such a way that the end of your days, your life would not have been wasted, your energy would not have been wasted, ministerially, financially, family wise, maritally, in every carrier. Wise. It says running away that you will win. Hallelujah. Vision is the first key I can tell you by the message of God. Every ministry, every business, every individual. I remember those days when we started. We were not so many, but every time we had the opportunity to gather, I will say the future of this ministry was in that world here and I then I would say that word I international. The mandate was to the globe, even when we are not gone anywhere. The mandate was to the globe. Are we together? The Zukabags and the elnmosques and all the people today that were celebrating, go and hear how they started. Some of them started in garages, some of them started in rooms. Are we together now? And do you know for some of them they still maintain such a lifestyle. Do you know why? Because they're simulating an atmosphere that forces them to continue. I used to wonder why rich people deliberately make their life very modest. It's because they have found out that success beyond a level becomes cancerous. Let me repeat that success beyond a level becomes cancerous. It becomes a body. First, success becomes an instrument of healing. It heals you from the perception of being a failure. Then it finally proves the point to all ansoundary that you cannot be a failure again. Then it starts killing you. Most people do not know that you need to be trained to be successful, then you need to be trained to manage success. I can tell you managing success is harder than becoming successful. Are we together? It's just that many people never really truly become successful, and so because they're obsessed with using success as a tool to heal them from the perception of being considered as failures, they will no matter what the body is, they will receive it with joy. It's like someone let me just give a humorous example. It's like someone who is having his first opportunity to fly overseas. Say, for instance, are we together? Unlet's say he's transiting from one nation to the other. Do you know that even if you are going to spend two days on that journey because it is your first journey. You are happy to sit down there in an airport over a transit flight for one whole day, and you are still not angry. At least you left your country for instance. Are we together? Yes? But a time comes when, as you travel again and again that pressure the point has been proven, you will now realize that such a journey is really aboding, and a time will come. You would deliberately reject such an offer because you now value all that things greater than the need for validation, like your peace and your time. This is how it is with destiny. There are people who will not mind walking through fire, provided it will give people an expression of them being successful and truly because of your press the point will eventually be proven. But when it is proven, you will now see the burden that comes when success is not managed. Who is learning tonight? The House of God is where we learn wisdom. So when God is telling you take it easy, listen to him. Or he has never failed. It's not that he failed and learned from his failure. He has never failed. Are we together? Vision? Vision is very powerful. There is a benchmark. Listen, there is an expectation. Man of God your expectation is not the program you're organized. Thank God for it. But if that is the only thing you have been clapping for till today, then you are not doing well. You need to trust God for grace. There is a bah. I look at Coynonia every time I stand before you, and let me tell you what I see. I see what I'm doing now, but. There is a dissatisfaction in my heart because I compare what I'm seeing now to what was written in that old notebook. And there is still a serious gap. And so while I'm preaching to you, I'm hurrying not to finish with you so that I will go back and say, oh God, let's cover this gap. Let's cover this gap. Thank God for what we're doing across the nations. Thank God for the level of anointing. Thank God for the level of wisdom. But there is more. Someone shout there is more. One more time, said there is more. One of our lovely ladies sang a beautiful song and said there is more than this. Oh, yes, there is more. There is more. You must get angry within your heart and tell yourself there is more. There is more. Thank God for the level of prosperity. You have gotten to from. Begging and borrowing. At least now you can pay your rent before you start wasting your time and having an arrival mentality. See that now, For as long as you are still thinking about money and worrying about it and lying about it, you have not arrived. So don't cut yourself at the back forever you are not the househowner. Thank God for what he has done. But let their dear hunger in you. The day you now buy your house, thank God for it, until the day you can give. Don't stop. Who is learning? Thank God for the Man of God. You know. If I have any advice for people, especially you know, sometimes people meet me who God is helping giving visibility, and they say, Apostle, if you have any lesson what would you teach me? I'll tell them. Let me tell you this success, you see, you must learn how to manage it, if noted to tear you like a wild animal, because the higher you rise, the more impactful your fall is. If you're on the ground, you can fall and nobody knows. But when you are up as you fall it it's even more painful. I remember a vision that I had many years ago. In that vision, I was in a program. I don't know how many times I've shared this, but I was in a program and I think it was the stage, a living fake stage like Canan Land, if I recall. And then I was to stand and preach. But the way the stage was you stand on the poor pitch, not the ground. So there is a skill. If you don't know how to stand, you will fall. And I remember I stood there. I was shaking, but I was learning how to stand. I was not really I didn't fall, but I was not stable at that time. When I woke up, I remember I wrote it down. I said, the devil is a liar. I must know how to stand on this thing. Listen, I've taught you learn how to force life to work. Learn how to force life to work. I mean what I'm saying. If you think life will work on his own, you are wasting your time, right from the days of John until now. Business man. If it's not talking, first, it to walk, more knowledge, more grace, more prayer, more counsel. First, it to walk, Allelujah. If you're somebody who gives excuses, you will never be able to work with me. Never I will be a burden to you. No, you don't come before me and give flames the excuses. Tell me the problem is. Start suggesting the solution before I continue, so my people know. Once you are telling me a problem, make sure at the back of your mind you are already prepared to suggest atole this a hands of what are you doing now? As a leader who is learning? Use this as a CEO. Train your people. Don't always come and bring troubles to the table. Not promote anybody who is not providing solutions. Vision. Everybody, say vision one more time. Say vision. I like you to be anger in your spirit this night that, in the name of Jesus, every distraction. I must have a theme for my life. Are we together now as a couple? Come together? We are married, We have three children, But what is the vision for this one? We just married though, and thank God that the children are growing? What happens to them? Now? Listen? The Bible says without vision, the people perish as an organization. What is your vision so that by the time you hit a profit of one million, one billion, one trillion, you don't clap for yourself and say we are no. No. What is the vision? I listen years ago to an interview by Steve Jobs late now. It was a nineteen ninety two interview. Listen tearfully. He was doing a training, very rare video. He was doing a training for his core leaders at the time, and he was sharing with them the vision of the Apple Corporation. Do you know there was no mention of profit, There was no mention of computers in that discussion. His passion was to simply make life better for people based on what he was teaching them. So the gadgets that later evolved were simply offshoots of that desire. Are you seeing that now? That's why when one gadget fails or is outdated, the vision is still the same. They invent another gadget. The vehicle is not the reason for the company. There is a goal. All the Apple phones, the gadgets, their vehicles have a vision for your life. Are we together? You break that vision into goals, then break them into steps, strategy steps. What is the vision for your life? What is the vision for your ministry? Let me tell you the truth, and I submit to you. You have been trained. Never follow a man who cannot define the vision. Never become part of an organization or part of any movement that does not have a defined vision. Where are we going? Are we together? Now? Vision? They may tarry, but let there be a vision. Let there be a vision for your life. Okay, we are going to Legos. Legos by road? Is how many hours? Now twelve? It's twelve hours. But twelve hours is not twenty four hours. There are people going that way. The driver who is driving that can nose you will be twelve hours on the road by seven hours. He looks like he's going to the end of the earth, but he's still going to get there. And suddenly, slowly but surely, are we together. Sometimes they may have to stop to rest. Sometimes, unfortunately they may say this maybe a security challenge, and they may have to highlight for a while, But it doesn't deter the vision. Let me tell you this. Every time you find yourself constantly in need of motivation, especially external motivation, your vision is not strong and not clear enough. When your vision is strong and clear enough, it sustained such power. It drives you by yourself saying the name of Jesus. Please shout it like you believe. Saying the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that I have a vision for my life. Vision helps you to know what to be part of and what to not be part of. There are many good things you should not be part of because there will be burdens to your life, burdens to your destiny, and they will be counterproductive. To your call election ordination. Are we together? My life is full of all kinds of proposals, people wanting me to be this, be patron and this with this, and sometimes I politely greet them and I just rejected. I tell them, well, I'm sorry, I may not have the liberty. There's no reason accepting this responsibility. I'm not giving my best to it. It is wiser better to have a few things on your table and then you commit to pressing them till they finish away together. If you wake me up, is coin Onia? Call me any days? Coin Onia? My mind? Is what God is doing next through. This platform, to bless people, to impact that fire of revival, to reveal Jesus. Anybody who has come for coin Onia, at least one service must have heard something along the lines of Jesus revealed, Jesus glorified. When you say this is Coinonia, you are not saying this is Josha Salman. There is there are different ways of capturing the vision so that it is bunting your heart. It's not publicity, it is training. When you don't train believers, they become ill trained and they become ineffective. Do you know by the training? And I say this, I know I'm speaking to the globe, but let me talk for a moment to a family. Do you know there is an orientation with sustaining this ministry, whether or not who are here, It doesn't matter which of our expressions and knew where you find yourself. People function as though there at home here. That means that sometimes we travel to a place and if there was someone serving in the protocol here, once he hears that I'm coming, or there's a crononia expression, the person gets to duty immediately. It's the orientation. Your service is beyond location. It's governed by vision. Everybody say vision one more time, say vision number two. Let's hurry up. This is not your rest where you have attained, even though you received awards there, even though you were commanded there, even though you've done well there. But the Lord sent me tonight to announce the You man of God, businessman, captain of industry, regardless how good you have done, well done, but this is not your rest Number two? What is the second key that challenges people, provokes dissatisfaction, and causes people to continue and move beyond progress until they get to completion Number two? The second key is maintaining a vibrand spiritual life. Maintaining a vibrand spiritual life. Spirituality is a spounsor of completion a five brand spiritual life. Some sixty three, please very quickly, Media help us. From verse one Psalm sixty three, Oh God, thou art, my God, it says, Early, will I see THEE? My soul tasted for THEE, my flesh longer for being in it dry and thirsty land where no water is. Verse two, it says, to see Thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen in the sanctuary of Verse three, it says, because thy loving kindness is better. Than life, My lips shall praise THEE. For reading to eight. First, will life bless THEE? While I leave? I will lift up my hands in your name. Five. My soul shall be satisfied with marrow and fatness, and my mouth with praise shall praise with joyful lips. Verse six, he says, when I remember upon my bed, say obsession, say passion that this guy has left the house of God. And even on his bed his mind spiritually minded and made ditate on the in the night watches passion, because that has been my help. Therefore, in the shadow of your wings, will I rejoice? Final verse My soul followed hard. Hard, that's the word. I'm chasing enough after you, no matter. What I have to do. I need you more and more. Lord, I'm chang. Enoughter you, no matter what I have to do. And need you. Show me a vibrand spiritual life that is always in touch with God. Let me tell you this, most times when you lose fire is because you lost presence. When you lose fire, the fire to continue. Something about His presence is no longer in your life. And the fact thought that reminds you of that journey has died. And let me tell you this, it doesn't have to be something evil that distracts you. Sometimes the bodom of responsibility you later become an administrator like they wanted to make the Apostles in at chapter six and verse four. Are we together to leave the ministry of the world and prayer and go to serf tables? And they say no, no, no. Administration was not part of our mandate. We will set up people there to do that, but we will give ourselves continually six verse four us to prayer and to the ministry of the world. Second Chronicles, chapter twenty six. And we'll read verse five, verse fifteen. Then I'll show you a part of not shown you before. Ready. And he sought God, that he being Usiah, he sought God in the days of Zachariah. Please follow carefully. Who had understanding in the visions of God. And as long as he sought, the Lord finishes with me. Cononia, I want to go. God made him to prosper. Jump to verse fifteen. Please jump to verse fifteen. The Bible says he made in Jerusalem on the strength of his encounter wisdom, creativity, with the inventions rested upon him. He made in Jerusalem engines invented by conning me to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones without And the Bible says his name as a result of the vibrancy of his spiritual life, his name spread abroad, for he was maveluously helped of the Lord till he was strong. Here is a lesson verse sixteen. But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction. Is not only down, there is still destruction up to his heart was lifted up to his destruction for his transgress against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar when it was not his duty. That that's a different discussion, but just for you to know that he got to a point in his life where God was no longer with him. Read verse twenty one, same scripture, verse twenty one, Please give it to worse. Verse twenty one, he says, and Usiah the king, he became a leper. That was the consequence when his hat left the Lord. He began to work in defiance with God's pattern for him. The result was that he became a leper. And because he became a leper, even though a king, they banished him and his son Jotham now reined in his teath. Can you imagine a destiny that was Firebrand was now caught shot and his son had to come in his state. The Bible says he dwelt in several houses being a leper, for he was caught off from the house of the Lord, based on the ordinances God gave them about unclean people. And Joe, thank his son, was over the king's house judging the people of their land. I'm praying for you whatever will have to make God replace you, because you have become such a liability to the kingdom even in his love, that he is forced to make do with another. I'm praying for you. May you never get to that point in your life. May you never get to that point in your destiny. In the name of Jesus. Maintaining a vibrant spiritual life, Lett goes chapter six, twelve and thirteen. It gives you the revelation on how to keep your spiritual fire burning. Listen, please, and the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it, it shall not be put out, and the priest shall burn wood. You say that there's a maintenance system. I can't help you light the fire, but I will not help you maintain it. You have to find wood and put that wood talks of sacrifice wood, And you burn it every morning and lay the bond offering in order upon it, and he shall buron there off the fat and the peace offerings. Thirteen. It says the fire shall ever be burning on the altar. It shall never go out spiritual vibrancy. Let me tell you this. I have taught you in this house the power of periodic retreats. No matter how busy you are. Don't wait for the end of the year alone to practice retreats. You can create different models of retreats weekly, monthly, quarterly. Before your birthday. We have a culture in this ministry when it is your bedday a few days, you shut down as much as possible and flog it out with God before you eat cakes and turkeys and all of that. Beddays is not the time to lead a social media with picture when you have not flogged it with God. Let the world celebrate you after God has assessed you. Are you learning now? What makes your bedday happy is that God told you well done, not that you eat cake. If God does not say well. Done, eat anything, you can eat your destinies at reach the vibrancy of your spiritual fire. Let me tell you this. Show me a man who even may not have a vision for his life, but as an obsession for God, the messy of God will fish that guy back to alignment. Away together for as long as that fire is there one day by the messy of God, he is sewing into the spirit. And the Bible says, here is the souce to the flesh, will rip off the flesh corruption. Here that source to the spirit will rip of the spirit. Life eitanal. Everybody is a farmer. You saw to the flesh to your detriment, or so to the spirit and rip life everlasting, maintaining a vibrant spiritual life, prayer life, vibrant word, study life, vibrant passion for the House of God, vibrant passion for the things of God, vibrant, ever vibrant in getting the teachings that build your spirit. Show me such a man. I show you a man who will never settle, because by the time the devil wants will tempt him with an arrival mentality. You will come for corenonia. Or you will listen to one message online and at the end of it, how many of you have started listening to a message, and as you go to five six minutes, you'll listen to a thirteen minutes message for three days, because you have to stop after nine minutes and say, ah, God, this is the character of serious people, not the one that I'm sleeping while the message is played nos theater. You hear one word, an interpretation of scripture in a way that you've never heard. Ah, and on you carry that anger and transfer to the conference you are going to one preaching like a those theater. You hear a message for five minutes and pray for one hour first. Then you now continue and sit down again. No light, you don't care. You hold your torchlight my destinymus answer lay a parasupran de gay barratodusia. You are suffering. Your poor things are not working. One revelation, one revelation, one revelation away together now, yes, one revelation. Fire from the altar just comes and you stay with that scripture. And sometimes do you know, you will be surprised that you will see something that was not even in the message, because the spirit of grace is there helping you bring in greater enlightenment. And from that vibrance you will write certain things. A message of ten minutes can become a series for you. For one way, in the name of Jesus Christ, I pray for you whatever is eating up your spiritual vitality and you've been watching it continue like that. May you receive grace tonight to fight it to death, chrace to fight it to death, Christ, to fight it to death. In the name of Jesus. They are if you in this is that test spirituality. Let me tell you, and I want you to be able to These are like you know how you go to the hospital and they check your vitals. There are a few vitals. That once you check and you find out there's a problem, meet a doctor immediately, not a medical doctor and not a witch doctor. Doctor meaning a teaching priests, spiritual person who helps you. You see that among them. Let me tell you this. You see this thing called glutony, gluttony and I resistable appetite for food. Now, food is good. Don't get me wrong. I mentioned food. Now some of you are not happy food. It is a great test of spirituality if you can tame you're eating. Am I saying it's not good to go and eat? What I'm saying the moment is something that you cannot reseive is Number two sleep Sleep. Sleep. As much as sleep is a very important thing, you need to be careful. Some of you slumber, you wake up, the Holy goes wakes you and just to get up and stretch yourself and take your destiny serious. There are many people who will not do that. Slumber are we together? Number three, The eroding of your values, eroding of your values, eroding of your values. Vibrands is spiritually. I'm praying for you in the name that is above all names, that every attack on your spiritual life. I hope you know when the devil attacks your spiritual life, it's not just prayer. He's attacking. No, it's not just the word. He's attacking a weay together, It's not just your consecration. He's attacking. Let me tell you what is attacking. He's attacking what prayer wa chief? What the study of the world were chief? Your prayer and the rest and the word study is not the end. It's the means to one end that your life becomes a greater host of His power and his glory. And let me tell you the truth. As he is fighting it back. You will not see the destruction in one day. Just allow it continue one day to fall upon you like a pack of card, and you will see that there is no strength again for someone you came to church tonight for a renewal. And I'm praying for you whatever has quenched your fire upon that altar in the name of Jesus. Since the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord made, the spirit of the Living God lights that candle afresh, lights that candle afresh. Look at me, please? You don't off a rotating fan by risking your hand to stop the blades from moving. How do you off a rotating fan? You disconnected from souce am I right? You're disconnected from source. Once you match given, if it's by mistake, the cord that connects it to the power source, the blade will still be rotating, sometimes still first and then gradually gradually, and then at any time it stops, and sometimes it can stop one day to you entering the next season of your prophecy, allelujah. Why is it that people do not obtain the grace to finish? Why is it that they become complacant the dis destructions that come to you, the suggestions that come to you when you reduce yourself from spirituality to carnality. What am I doing? Now? Tell me the progress? Am I doing? Very well? What is yourself? What are they saying about you? And then if you surround yourself with psycho fans, and naysayers. Ah, you are king of kings and Lord of lords. In fact, the last place is said, you're kind of a from Bible, this aside from Paul nobody, and you say you mean it, and you foolishly believe that thing. Because the spirit of counsel is no longer with you. Counsel comes with might. There is something you here to sustain your strength. Someone learning. Now I'm planting a fire in you tonight that you can see a man of God. After you return from a meeting lifting people from wheelchairs, you get back to the place of prayer as if you have never killed the sack before. Now, that is the attitude of a winner. In the spirit, that's the attitude of a winner. I tell you the truth before God, and I lie not. It doesn't matter what kind of meeting I go to. It doesn't matter how spectacular the manifestations of God. As soon as I return back, once I leave that church auditorium, I return back Father, thank you. Once I'm done from Collinonia, I get back home. Get on my knees, Lord Im for the mighty things you have done. Next, get to work. You check my phone. Now there is a series of teachings that I'm following building my own capacity. I suspended it to come to choice to teach. When I return back home, I have to listen to the quarter that I have and then listen to tonight's teaching, no matter how tired. It's a ritual, It's a covenant. They say, oneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Most people want a crown that is clearly not the size of your head. See that you are so small the crown will even fall down. Your whole body cannot even carry it. And yet we wish and correct things we don't have capacity for. Build your spiritual higher, build your capacity for someone. You're saying a person, where do I start your prayer life? Immediately, I will tell you your prayer life. Make up your mind. Are we together. One of the things that I'm designing by the spirit of God now is a ministerial model for coin Onia that to become a minister anywhere across the globe, coon your global These are the standards that you must keep, non negotiable prayer standards, fasting standards, world standards, leadership standards, development standards. If you cannot go through this, unfortunately, it doesn't matter who you are, for your short of the standard, so that at every point you can standard that is impact and whether it is US, UK, wherever that anywhere, you know that there is a certain threshold of spiritual impacts, you will not fall short off. Please go back to your altar. Get the world. Go back. Some of you. You have no finish one book of the Bible this year. One, not even Jude, not even Jude. You are not even aware that you can finish you. It's bad. It's bad. I owe you to teach you. It's bad. I'm telling you if no one has told you, it is bad, and it is eful. If you're a pastor, what are you teaching them? Do you know? You can't teach in ignorance. So you need high level intellectual and spiritual knowledge. You need to join two of them together. Give me oil in my life. Let my life ever beat, Keep me burn and keep men until the coming of the king. Give me a. Hel in my life. Let my life never be Keep me wort the take one minute to blasting tongues and say, Father, fire from heaven, Let it fall upon me. Fire from heaven, fall upon me, Watch study fire, prayer, Fire fall upon me. Please go ahead and pray shupper like aparakatos cata brienda ga baratto's theata. For as long as you sought the Lord, the Lord made him to prosper. Oh, there's no arriving in God, no arriving ever hungry, ever passionate, ever hungry, ever passionate, in the midst of exploit, still striving from all, in the midst of great things, still pressing from all, in the midst of mighty things. Refuse him to be distracted by results. Paratos ca paratos, Oh yes, so yes, oh yes, no sadling. In the name of Jesus Christ. Five franch spiritual life, five prime spiritual life. Are you still praying? Prime your hunger? Come on, crime your hunger, prime, your hunger, prime your hunger, multiply your statist passion. In Jesus' name, we pray please be seated. Number three. Let's hurry up. You want to be hungry and this satisfied enough to finish, not just make progress, not just have results. Are we together? You want to move past the ramware results just heal you that they provoke you to the next level. You want to last, You want to finish. The third key, are you ready. Now. You must be and remain a student of history. The third key that pushes men until they finish is that you must become and remain a student of history. There is something about history. In as much as I'll challenged you over yesterday, there is something about history that educates you today and gives you the passion to drive. History can be powerful. There are lessons to learn from yesterday. History sustains such a rich heritage of wisdom. When you read about those who started and did not finish you're a man of God. There are certain mistakes you should not make in righteousness, because there are enough people who made it in yesterday to educate you. There are people whose lives show the consequences of prayerlessness. There are people whose lives show the consequences of violating the patterns that preserve grace. There are people whose history shows how they took God for granted and they paid for it. The things that are written afore time Romans fifteen four. I believe the Bible says they are written for our learning. Whatsoever things were written a full time, they were written for our learning, that we through patience and the comfort of scripture. My fine hope let me tell you this. The direct consequence of wisdom from history is humility. The moment you find people excessively proud, they have short memories. History is a teacher. History is a track record, has a track record. Of being a very brilliant lectura. It can teach you. There have been billonneires who crashed down to nothing. There have been five brand men of God who were instruments of envy in their generation, and they crashed down. There have been five brand people who made a shipwreck, and they were others who did not start well but finish well. There were others who started well and finished well, like the prodigals. On he started well, something happened, but the finish well. There are various variations, a buffet of lessons to pick from from history. Away together. You are not the first to be poor. You are not the first to be born poor. You are not the first to be rich who most likely would die poor. You are not the first to be anointed. You are not the first to lose the anointing. You are not the first to take God for granted. Ax herold Ax whosireh baby shed so much blood when you wanted to build God The house gods, A David, I love you, but there is an ordinance. Who shall ascend to the heel of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy heels He that has clean hands. You have a pure heart, but you don't have clean hands. You can do this, transfer it to Solomon. Are we learning? You must be a student of history. There's a saying that if you see your neighbor's beard on fire while you are criticizing him, look for water quickly and soak your own. Look for what and do what? Because your beard is made of the same material. And so if you see your neighbor's bed burning, get water and soak your own face before you pray for your neighbor, because that fire intends to spread. It doesn't intend to stay with your neighbor. Students of history, when you study history, that's why it's important to read books and study materials. Some of the people who wrote those books have gone to be with the Lord, and some of them were honesty enough to show you both their crowns and their scars. Refer to my teaching lessons from an overcomer. I have read books where the people were open. They did not hide anything. They told you their pain. They told you their mistakes, They told you where they missed it, they saw the consequences, they told you how they were restored. And as you read it, you are seeing yourself in there yesterday, and you are saying, Lord Grace that when you get to a pitch for Grace to jump and praying for someone where you have ignored history, you have ignored the warning that has come from others. Look at me. Listen when Lazarus are we see Bible students, when Lazaros met with the rich man at the bottom of Abraham, the rich man requested when he saw you know, the rich man was busy burning and Lazarus was at Abraham's bossom. The Bible says the first request was, please let Lazarus dip his hand in water and quench my test. I'm not looking for a cop And he said, no, that's not possible here. And he says, next option, Please, I'm perishing here. But can Lazarus go back to the earth and tell my brethren that there were decisions I made with my life that landed me here. Do you know what he was told? He said, they doesn't need to go. He said, they have Moses, and they have the prophets. That means there are people I have given insights to. There are principles, and there are insights from the spirit. They can tap into realities beyond their understanding and bring it through the frame of their mind and communicate it. If they will not listen to them, even if someone were to come from the dead and speak to them, they will not listen. You know what that means. There are people today who are custodians of history, both the pain and the crown of history. And sometimes they are honest and lavish enough to teach you and tell you this is how it works. It is the reason why dishonoring fathers is foolishness of the highest order. They may not be perfect, but they have They are custodians of history. They have navigated through the waters of time, and that they are still sailing till today. There is something they know. Experience is not the best teacher, but is a teacher, especially as taught by a survival. Are we learning the student of history? This business you are doing, who has done it before? This ministry you are doing, who has done it before? This persecution you are going through, who has gone through it before. That's the reason why the Bible is such a spectacular book because it has an array of life situations and how people came out of it. You literally have the liberty to pick the one that relates to your current state, and there will be a straight line, a compass from your pain to your joy the Bible. Be and remain a student of history. Help does and that the anoinging are we learning tonight? History reveals hidden dangers. History educates, History enlightens. History reveals codes that open up doors in the future. Number one, vision case that provoke this satisfaction, plant hunger, and sponsor continuity. Until you finish. Vision two, you must maintain a vibrand spiritual life. Number three, you must become and remain a student of history. Learn from yesterday, Learn from yesterday? Number four? Are you ready? The fourth key that helps people to drive ontil they finish is mentorship? Mentorship mentorship? What is mentorship An opportunity for you to learn through the wisdom the experience, the pain of others who have gone ahead of you. An opportunity to learn the wisdom, the pain, the experience of others. I wrote something here and I wanted to listen. Mentorship creates the platform for your progress. Mentorship celebrates your progress, and mentorship challenges you to press for greater hides. Mentorship creates literally the platform for your progress, and mentorship celebrates your. Progress while you are following that path, and. Then it challenges you to press for greater heides. If these three things doesn't happen to you, you are not enjoyed mentorship number one. I repeat, it creates the platform for your progress, literally creating a platform by teaching, by educating, by training, by bringing enlightenment, by pruning, by correcting, create a platform sets you on the sale to an excelling. Life spiritually and otherwise. The same mentorship is there to celebrate you. An example of a mentor is a coach. Bring an athlete who would later become a world champion. Literally from nothing, that coach begins to build him. Are we together? Perhaps that person comes most likely overweight, fagged out, joints not moving, and the coach literally begins to set the sale for that person to be a great boxer, a great athlete, or whatever it is a footballer, and then the coach is usually at the field celebrating the goals that are scored when a player a footballer, especially in soccer player when he'scorsed the goal. Usually after rejoicing with the colleague, some of them run to their coach, I did it you set, I'm a champion, and they come and give them a big hug, then go back to continue playing. Only a foolish players cause a goal and then goes to sit down and says I'm done. I mean, that's it. Provided the final whistle is not blown, anything can happen. Histree is full of scenarios, especially in soccer, where sometimes at the eleventh hour people's pride we turned to pain and lessons football. As you say, remember mentorship. It is important for you to have people and systems in your life that your success cannot intimidate. Hear what I said. If everybody around you is intimidated by your success, none of them qualifies to be a mentor to you. There must be someone in your life that no match that does strive, you can return back, receive a part at the back, and even without being told, you still know that there is a bad that is higher away together. Unfortunately, what most people call mentorship is not mentorship because the people they claim to look up to they are greater than them by every standard. And while wisdom is not dependent on physical results, there is an expression that most key be humble. The human spirit does not easily get humble until there are obvious results. Away together. If a billooneire is mentoring you the first day you make one million dollars, it will be a miracle to all your contemporaries. Say I mentioned money, and people who knows, maybe that's the graz that is flowing. You don't believe it. Most of us don't need it. But for those who need it, why not away together? So you make a million dollars and among your contemporaries subordinates you are a miracle worker. But you now get to a mentor and you say, sir, I made a million dollars and he says, oh, really interesting. That means the law is working. All right, congratulations, pay your tides, go and so acid and then get to work. Let's go to the next place. It means I'll become harder and stricter on you. And you're like, so everybody is celebrating me. That's a purpose of mentorship. A mentor is not a friend. Are we together? No? A mentor is one who challenge This utely brings out the best, sir, Just to let you know that I went for a meeting, and my God, I've begun to see grace many first through me that I've never seen. I was calling out names. I'm prophestighing, and someone rose up from the wheelchair and he says, wow, that's interesting. Okay, so that's all right. Let's get to walk away together. There must be a benchmark that is high. Oh, sir, just to let you know, by the grace of God, I've been able to build my house. And he says, congratlations, but don't settle till the day you start building it as a seed in the house of God. Let's get to work. I'm praying for you in the name of Jesus. Everything that makes you set to over small results, I challenge it from your life in Jesus' name. Listen, I want to make a statement. At the risk of sounding arrogant, let me say this. If you are a man of God, or a businessman, or anybody frontiering the management and the building of people, let me tell you the truth. Your first assignment is to do the best in righteousness, to make a major part of the world walk in your own life. It is more convincing. Your leadership is more powerful as God grants you grace to enjoy certain of your results in your life away together. Now, there are things that where you are teaching people, even if they don't understand, they will believe you, and it will be foolish to argue it because you are not the one at a loss away together. Now. It's the reason why we most keep praying even as leaders. Greater evidence back me up, poor God, greater results. Do you know many things I'm saying now. I said the same thing years ago, but it did not carry the same effect because there were certain results that needed to be added together. Now, Yes, the same thing I'm saying now. If christ tarists, I will be saying it ten years to come. But there will be an audience that is not listening now, but they will listen then because you're profiting. Would have appeared. Allelujah. With all humility, I'll share with you something I remember when we had our first you know, international conference. Down, sit down, please, and you know when God did the wonderful things that he did when I returned back to the country and preached my message on Sunday when we returned from that conference was who is on the Lord's side. And after I was done, I returned back. Someone sent a long text, great person I used to know years ago, and he staid, Apostle, you said this thing, he said, as I watched on YouTube, and he said he kept crying almost all through, especially the final session, and that he went back and cried to God, who were not necessarily very close. But then he was around and he heard the things that people were saying, and he said, my God, look at this. That the thing challenged him, and he was telling his wife. He said, no excuse again, no excuse again. The same Lord is rich onto all, and he wrote something there He said, I admitt that I deserve to beware because I was not serious with God. I just encouraged him and said, look, you can start from any level. God grants grace and praying for you. May it never be that while God is giving you an opportunity to be mentored as others are learning, you are sitting down acting. I know, I know, I'm praying that after ten years, twenty years, five years, two years, you will not look back and be angry at those who are your friends today simply because you refuse to listen. He said, my son, pay attention to my words. In tine your ears to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your heart. Keep them in the midst of your heart. He says. They are alive to those who find them, and health to your fresh I pray for you the malliability to receive, the ma liability to betrayed from my heart. I declare my God supply that grace for you. Allelujah. Mentorship is showing you a roadmap. Mine not's the pain factor. Mine not the pain factor. Please sit down, Please sit down. I remember years ago, a very sincere man. You know, he came and he was talking to me. Then when Zaria and he met me and he said, apostle. You know, he was complaining about finances, and I was just trying to calm him down. I wanted to, truly just explain a few things to him because I was seeing from what he was saying, decisions that he was making that were not correct. But he would not know. You see, but ignorance is like being a child. A child does not know he's a child until he grows. Is there any child that knows he's a child? No, until you grow and look at your yesterday's picture. You'll be like, my God, God, you mean I was this small? No baby knows he's a baby. That's how ignorance is. So you can be making a lot of mistakes and not know because the frame of your understanding cannot teach you otherwise. It is until you grow and look at your former self, he will be surprised. So I was trying to talk to the gentleman in love. You know. It was the father of I think two children also, if I recall, and I was saying, sir, and then the man shot me down. He was angry, and I understood. He shut me down. He said, do you know what it means to pay the schoolfees of? Was it two of for children? I can't remember? Maybe do you know what it means to pay the schoofies of? For children? And I kept but I said, I'm sorry. At that time, I'm not sure I was paying schoofies for less than one hundred people. And I was just looking at the man. I said, let's pray. You know that I kind of prayer. Father, you are the god of all messy and grace. You send rain both on the good and the evil. I commit to you you know, that kind of general prayer, not saying anything exactly. Let that man just live in peace. I used to counsel then, and a gentleman came and as soon as he entered where I was counseling, I saw a spirit behind him. And you know, men of God sometimes, especially when you start minishing, you up burning with a lot of zeal and I was trying to explain to him that there was a situation. I was said in the spirit. The man shot me that. I say, I cannot have any spirit following me. I can't. I mean, that guy just shot me down. I kept quiet. This is how I sat down. I understand he preached. I'm sure I read a book and he was trying to be to believe what he read. And I told him, I said, okay, let me pray for you. Do you know It was after one hour or so the guy got off from the ground, after shouting, manifesting disturbbing everywhere. He went home, and over the next two or three days he kept sending me a text this apostle, what happened? I mean, I believed all these things, and he was surprised. He said me, you know, that's turtles of a man of God. And with all the things you have said on stage, here is the guy rolling around. I see something is wrong with him. And he was not a revelation problem because he knew what he knew. And yeah, there was still a spirit there. See, barn, there are heights in the spirit. There are levels in the spirit. Apollos, listen, you have done well. But there are things. There are things. There are things in the spirit. There are heights, there are dimensions in the spirit. We have handled this thing about the annunting for a while, but kai there are levels. There are levels. There are levels. There are levels. There are levels. I'm challenging someone who is falling online. Maybe you're a man of God. Great you have results. Let me tell you this. Come to terms with the fact that there are levels in the spirit, and honestly, not everybody's on that level. There are dimensions God has brought me to. There was not there. There are dimensions have not yet gotten to. And I aspire, by God's grace that I'll be able to touch certain dimensions in the spirit. But once you have an arrival mentality, you will surround yourself with mediocrity till you become frustrated and I have taught you won't be types a man of God who becomes exhausted in the presence of members. Members are interesting people. They know when you don't have anything to offer again, there will still say yes sir, There will still say emogi, my pastor my but in their art they know you have your platued. There's no more again. Are we together? Yes? There are helpers who know when you don't need them again, because the seeds they are giving you does not have an assignment again. You are platoon in vision, you are platoon in wisdom. You are platoon in power of what benefit is still investing in your ministry? Do you know every time when I pray for the givers in coin Onia, I pray and say, Lord, let the people who give to this ministry never become frustrated because they cannot see the foot that comes from their giving. Are we together? There is a way you give, and you see that you are helping the nations receive. You can hear message and I say giver, I say partner. You can say my God, thank God for my seed. I mean inspired to do more by the message of God. I help a lot of people. I take care of so many people and families, and sometimes especially for the one that are in school, when they return with their results, you see them happy, waiting to show me, and they show me, and sometimes you can see nine straight a's and I'm like, my God, give me a big old what do you want you see? And all of that, and then the ones who didn't do too well, you see them feeling bada, No, don't worry, you can start again. But I know how motivated I am as a man when I see results. Are we together? Just know that there is more than what you have seen. The body that was healed in your meeting is not the greatest that can be healed. The prophecy you gave, no matter how accurate it is, one over ten, it is still f creative. Bah, my God, become like Samuel. Are we together? Now? That is world does not fall that if you tell. People who lift up your hands, someone. Who say thank you, he's finally about to speak, not as human worship. They have lands by experience. How powerful your words are a father and the Lord that the Jew will stand and say there's somebody here to many people. If you come to me and I said there's somebody here, you may say no, I call my name now, But why do you go there? And he says, there's somebody and you are satisfied because you have seen a track record? Are we together now about it? There is more? There is more, There is more. So someone I came with a prophetic word for you. This is not your rest, oh woman of God, this is not your rest. Man of God, this is not your rest. Business man, this is not your rest. God has a lot more. He only tested you. He only tested you. Allow mentorship to become a ladder and for some of you, a lift. Don't we try to reinvent the wheel. Whereas there is a way, there is a way of the anointing. There is a way of ministerial exploits. There is a way of power. There is a way of transgender there's not influenced. There is a way of freshness. There is a way of ever increasing grace. There is a way you can tap into wisdom that you can prove. There is a way of accessing the graces that compel kings to hear you. There is a way when God brings it close to you, don't fight it, my son, here the words of my mouth. I tend to my sayings tend to my sayings. There is a way to be wealthy. You have gone around this mountain long enough. You didn't find it. Sit down and Len, Sit down and Len. Of course, when I got your job, it didn't work. I claim I'm a business man. It didn't work. I started programs. It didn't work, my brother, Sit down. You're not the first to look for money if it's not working. There is something you don't know, and in grace you do not have. Are you learning? You are still struggling to build a house and people are building nations. Sit down, that's something you don't know. You organize a program, for instance, with all your respect, you put posters everywhere. Nobody came. Sit down. There is something you don't know. Are we together now? What is it that does not make quality people? We make quality people? Run away from you. No body of influence comes to you. There is something you don't know. Sit down for someone. You must challenge yourself. No, I'm tired of entertaining bankruptcy of results. I most press pressed until things work in my life. Allelujah. This issue of begging for rent every month, every year, begging for rent, lord, there is a way out in the name of Jesus. I am tired. I've read the books. I didn't see the lights there I did whatever. I didn't see the lights there. Go to them that cell and bye, Go to them that cell and bye. There are many many people saying I'm a billioneer owing all around you see that now, but they will not sit down to lend. He who has the sun has it turned life. I have the sun, so I have returned. Let me tell you something about mentorship. Mentorship demands an awareness. Light comes from a higher dimension to the dimension that is needed. If I stand before a man of God who is more grace than me, I would be stupid to stand and say, you know what, pray for me. Imagine me going to one of our fathers and say pray for me. No, I will not do that, miss stupid. Pray for me. I will find what to do. If it's a see to connect, a book to read, something to listen to. That connects and transfers that grace. Are we together now? Don't be ashamed. Learning from those ahead of you does not remove the title that in boxing, there's featherweight. It is a featherweight, light middleweight or lightweight further or lightweight. There is midweight. You can be a lightweight champion. You are a champion. But there are people you will see nor try. You don't have to be spiritual to not try them. You will die because when you get to the realm of heavyweight, even those who are beaten there are still champions. There is a rem we're both the winner and the loser as champions. They have crossed a certain mark. Let me tell you there are people. If you see the weight they carry in the spirit. If you think it is their words that will tell you their weight, you'll be making a mistake. We have all kinds of animals in the world. We have elephants, we have giraffes, we have hip oppose and most of these animals don't make too much noise. But you measure them or go online and find out their weight, you won't believe it. The blue whale, for instance, These are fishes that are you know, sizes of boats and sheeps. It is sense that I think the heart of a blue whale, if I'm not mistaken, The hat is about very a vehicle, a car. The hattle is like the car you are entering, and yet the thing is quietly moving the water, and there are tiny animals that you can see only the noise. Have you seen animals that am like cricket? Your noise somewhere, and the noise is what will bring you to me to kill it because it won't keep quiet, does not have any defense, and it won't keep quiet. There are many people who are like that. But watching her, say, my God, what is the what is this? If fool? Even if is silent, you are regarded wise until you totally become wise. This is not your place. This is not your rest, This is not your rest. Get angry in your spirit. If you have the call of God upon your life. Here, let tonight's teachings challenge you. Get angry. Listen to teachings. Listen to teachings. Build capacity. Are we together now? Build capacity? Build capacity? Please be seated. Let me give you the last key. Then I'll do an importation on your head mentorship number five, the fifth key, and this will be the final for tonight. If it is true that this is not your place, then you must be humble. You must be humble, practice humility James four and verse six. The fourth key that I would give you tonight that will plant a hunger for more humility many years ago I read a book by Rick Joyner called The Final Quest. Many of you have read that book, and the book is an animation of the realm of the Spirit as a review to him, and it simulated a lot of scenario, you know, using many traits of the flesh and the spirit. So it personified certain traits like humility, like prayer, like power. So if somebody who were home, you would see an expression like a warrior wearing an armory. And I remember, if I recall very well in you know, towards the end of the book, he said there was somebody who could not see far, and there was like a glass that was blinding the person. And the name of the blindfolding glass was called pride. That individual war he had capacity, but he wore that glass of pride, and you could not see evil forces that were ganging not together to come and attack him. It took someone to talk to him, and as he repented and broke down in humility. A simulation of that in the realm of the spirit was that those glasses were taken away and suddenly he saw that there was already a build up of an attack. Let me tell you this pride is a blinder. It stops you from seeing what is coming to kill you. It stops you from seeing opportunities that left you to the next level. If there is anything at all that I dread in my life is pride. Pride always acknowledge the Lord as the basis for any results. We live in a world where there is an obsession to receive the applause of men and to make it look as though it were by our power. I think I was listening to was it doctor Paul and Cher not too long was having a meeting, I think one of his sons. And I was just sitting in the living room and they were airing it, and I decided to listen. I was so blessed. He was talking about people who are not gone anywhere arriving and I just sat down. I said, look at this man with the kind of grace that God has given him, and the kind of exploits. When a man with that kind of result is talking about humility, you listen. You listen. The foolish who argue to their detriment, are we together? Listen? I turned that meeting. We pray emitting quietly in the parlor. Lord, some of us who are coming from behind, granted us grace. Granted us grace to swallow our pride. The moment you become uncomfortable acknowledging the help of God in your life, the moment you become embarrassed acknowledging the help of God in your life, you are dying already. Pride is eating you. An are we together? It's important. There are things that you have to be very careful about. I will tell you a story, something that I've not shared with you. An institution called me and they told me, sir, we sat as a board and we want to give you an honor PhD. And I told them, I said, you know what, you're making me very uncomfortable. Now, people should just I appreciate all of you and thank you very much building relationship with your pole and I place. I'm a child of God. Just allow me to just go and stay with God. And please, I know it may not easily be your policy. You're a secular institution. But please, if you just allow me, let me just stay with God, I will get back to you. Till today, I've not gotten back to them, not because you know, I just think about myself and I say, Lord, I'm trying to decongest my things, of the things that stop me from finishing. You know, my heart, more than myself, is this thing going to kill me? God has not answered me till today, and I refuse to answer them. Who knows. Maybe the answer is yes. You see that you have to be honest with God in this business of destiny. No body is two anointed to fail. You can carry all the annointing on your head and crash like you did not get anything. Allelujah. I love success, I desire greatness, and I thank God for the bits that He's done in my life. But it's always been my prayer and my cry and my passion that God will protect this fragile hat, this vulnerable hat that likes power, this vulnerable hat that like's influence. Ah, this vulnerable hairt that like's name. Apostle Joshua Selman. When I go to price, say Lord, hold this. My hat and rap it, rap it again, rap it again, and help me. Because this big devil world, even Judas can give you something. You think if Judas comes to you now, he will kiss you. No, the spirit of the devil reinvents himself. When it came to Jesus, it was a kiss for you. Now he knows you're hungry, you will bring bread. He's still Judas. Judas is a system that can use your vulnerabilities and destroy you. He knows that Jesus is called ther bable, said God is love, and he came with a kiss. When it comes to you who is hungry, he comes with bread. When it comes to you who likes hearing people say things about you, he will come like a Hito fell and speak well. But all the same is still Judas and praying for some of you who are already eating, or by pride gathering psychological awards in front of you. That is blinding you from seeing what God is doing. You see that there's a difference between pride and boasting. You can be arrogant and not boastful. Both fool is giving expression to pride. The worst kind of pride is the one that does not come with boasting, because no bodica easily see to address you. You carry a semblance of humility, and yet you are absolutely full of yourself. The one who runs his mouth at least that one can even receive deliverance first, because. We will know immediately that you this your pride. But the one who keeps quiet, and in his mind he is saying, Okay, I'm here and I'm looking. His Bible says say not in your heart. Two places in Scripture Deuteronomy chapter eight, Let it not be that when your heart is lifted up? Are we together? And then Romance chapter ten, he says, say not in your heart. Your heart has a voice that is the voice of pride, because most times when it is lifted against the counsel of God, it is your destruction. I want you to finish. I want you to continue. This is November, and in one month, by the grace of God, we're going to be rapping this year. Do you know that your destiny is counting every day? And I owe you to use the principles of scripture. Are we together? There are times that we settle over doctrine directly, we examine certain things that believer us, identity, your union with Christ. But there are certain times that the messages come tailor made to address the current needs of your life and to become for you not just a source of enlightenment, but a road map. My goal for you not just to be enlightened. My goal for you is to also make constructive progress towards your life and destiny. And occasionally God is God gives us words that help to build us in a firm understanding of doctrine, your right in Christ. You know the ways of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the flesh, the Spirit Man, the spirit life. But there are times God brings messages that help us to navigate through the maze of destiny, so that whilst you know God, whilst you learn doctrine, you obtain wisdom by scripture to arrive. Well, are we together now? This is not your rest it says our Rise and depart, and depart, our, Rise and depart. This is not your rest our, Rise and depart, depart, depart, Turn away from that thing. It doesn't matter how successful you are. You sang a great song, thank you, but go forward. The Bible says, scene then that we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses. It says, let us lay aside every weight and the scene, every weight and the scene, every weight and the scene. Some of you are laying the scene, but you are living wags. The weights don't have to be evil. Weights. Is anything that can impede you, It can affect you. An extra luggage in your life. I want more of you. I want more of you, Jeeesus. The more I know you, the more I want to know Jeez, that's bad. You made my life so beautiful, and that's you. You have made me raba. There's nothing rader that deed. That's why I loved you. Made my life. That's you all. You have made me a rebella. There's nothing rader that, dude. That's why I loved you. For you have a bahi whi. Jeeus, the mo. The far. Jesus more, Jesus more, Jeesus. Listen to me. It will be a tragedy. Coin on here hear me. It will be a tragedy that one day we wake up and then we see you at the corridors of shame, the corridors of compromise, and the corridors of phil And if we ask you why, you will say it is because I succeeded for a season apost when I was a failure. I loved God. I firsted, I prayed, I came to church. But the moment I became a millionaire, the moment my name started appearing on posters, the moment I was upgraded to a managerial role, the moment I became a captain of industry, reckoned by all and sundry, friends and allies. The moment I became a politician, commissioner, governor, whatever, the moment I became an apostle, a prophet. With my lifting, my fire died with my lifting. I became visionless with my lifting. My prayer died with my lifting, My focus, my concentration, everything died. It will be a tragedy. The Lord has sent me with this word to speak to someone. Arise, not just shine this time around the path. The path. You need to wave your crowns. Look at them one more time. You still have my own, even if you are not on my head. There is not that kind of crown I need on my head. So I'm happy I went together. Now get back to that place of fire, Get back to that place of power. While you are looking at three hundred people, Abraham from your house trained men, three hundred and twelve yere about my goal for used to be the father of nations. Do not allow the three hundred and twelve year about people make you so feel that you're a success that you cannot open up yourself for the more, the more that I'm doing, the more that I'm providing in your life. Let me tell you the truth. Some of you God has prospered you, But the reason why your finances stopped was pride came into your heart. The truth is you are not begging for money. You will never beg for money again, but you will never also be able to do the things that you should do. Do you know the wealthier you become, the mody expectation of the kingdom. There is a kind of offering to they I cannot give God. It will be seen between me and God. There is a kind of help today. If people are giving to the House of God. There is something I cannot give you less. It's not pride to me and God. It to be seen because God will say, no, I've shown you messy modernness. To whom much is giving, much is required. There is a time I cannot pray less it will be seen between me and God. I will be wasting the grace that He has given. That kind of prayer life would be so somebody who just got born again, or somebody who is just going through maybe the foundational things in the spirit. There is a level God can stay with me all through the night and not apologize for taking my time because the level of grace is. Given can afford that kind of discipline. Are we to get now? Yes? If God tells me to empty my account today, he will not need to tell me twice. It would be a bad thing. Do you know why? Because He's trained me to the point that he has shown me his faithfulness beyond that level of doubt. That's why he was strict on Moses. Moses, you were with me for ninety days. Zechariah, you are a high priest ministring. There are certainities to whom much is given. There is a standard of impact that must happen from my life in every meeting. If I ever go below that standard, I will go back to God and cry and say what happened. It doesn't matter if men are clapping. It's me and God that knows the benchmark. You see in a school of ministry, when it's only A and B. We don't do C, we don't do D, we don't do E. For those of you preparing to attend next said, this is teaser. If you c e F you are not going to graduate. It's only am B. And that standard came from my walk with God. There are things God respects If God grants me the opportunity to teach in a conference. If God grants me the opportunity to mix strategic people and I have ten minutes of their attention and I waste their time, Heaven will say, no, it is a difficult thing to find somebody. I lived to this level, and now that I brought you, you did not prepare. Don't. I'm prospered because you prepared this way before the Lord someone learning. Please, you are an adult. Drop that feeding bottle, Drop that feeding bottle, prayer, feeding buttle, Bible study, feeding bottle. Giving some of you. God has veluously helped you, but you at levels less than unbelievers. Even those who got born again are more efficient in their kingdom service. Let it change, Allelujah, Let it change. My message for you tonight is this is not your rest. That was the singular test that distinguished those who will continue with Gideon. That the two thousand people came out when you blew the shovel. But it it still took some down, about twenty thousand thereabout. He kept reducing them, and all of them went to a river. And there was a strategy those who burn down to take those who lap like dogs. I always saw that thing, and it did not make sense to me. How is it that those who laughed like dogs are the ones he says to go? Do you know why? Because when animals go to the river, they take water and do the things they do with their feet standing, they know they will continue the journey. Those who set to there are the ones who were actually go home. No matter what God does on the way, Whilst you're on the way actualizing destiny. If manner ever falls from heaven, don't be busy packing it forever. Pack for the JOHNI and say, Lord, I continue with you. Are we together? Now? I want you to rise up. You're going to prayer, and then I speak over your life. Please stand, please stand, Please stand, please stand. I want to give you one minute to cry before the Lord. For those of you who have not started honestly experiencing any manifestation of Kingdom's success in your life, spiritually, financially, in leadership, in ministry, your prayer is that God will grant you grace to begin to make progress. Let it be a consolation to your Christian experience. But for those particularly who God has helped to achieve some results in ministry, my major prayer for you now, which would be your prayer first, is that God will help you to engage these keys. Let it planty hunger within you. Lord, take away a rival mentality, a rival mentality that has tampared with my prayer, life, tampared with my hunger, tampared with my love, my zeal, humility to serve. Lift your voice and begin to pray. Lift your voice and begin to pray. Pray personately, pray seriously. Spar laca tempractica, paranto scotto, bragaty, Arise and departs that level. Arise and departs that dimension. Arise and departs. Depart from those celebrating you. You have received enough applause for that level. Move to the next level, Move to the next season. Come on, someone is praying. Allelujah, allelujah. Listen to me. Listen very carefully. You've heard me say it many times. I'll say it one last time before I speak over your life. The Lord spoke to me years ago, and he said, son, if you will let men see me, there is nothing I will not give you. There is nothing I submit to you. At the risk of sounding proud, one of the greatest blessings in my life today is detachment from things. I stand before the God of Heaven. I'm speaking to the globe. May God forgive me if I'm lying. But things have no power over my life. Car cheer, tea bread. Now, whether I entire a tractor, or I entire an suv, or I entire golf or a bike or whatever, it is seen for the physical convenience, as far as my orientation is concerned, it makes no difference to me. I tell you sincerely. I tell you sincerely. There are things today because of the level God has brought me. People may never allow me do it, whether for security reasons or just personal efficiency, but it does not take anything from me, and is the reason why many times I deliberately create things that keep me in touch with a simple life. It has proven to be a wise way of balancing between honor this so called celebrity life. Are weay together? Sometimes I kneel down quietly, and when I'm crying before God, I remind myself again. I like seeing my old books because there are stories behind them. All these iPads and wonderful things, I thank God for them. But I like seeing the old books a bit torn, not too fresh, but as ancient as ancient words. I open them and I watch my sincerity. As I wrote before the Lord, I did some of those things, and sometimes I'm amazed at the time three thirty am, two twenty am, four thirty am. Very strange times. Allelujah. Write them down there, go back home tonight. Put your life to order. Some of you go. You have iPads. I respect you. You have devices. Go and buy a notebook, look for a wedding daughter, a beirdday. Yotta added to those things. Right, there are things you need to write, come up with resolutions. Further, I make up my mind. This captat prayer. Life it needs to come to order. It is better to pray one hour a say, discipline, be effective, and then you can grow from there. One thing to do five hours, eight hours. When you cannot do fifteen minutes, you're only wasting your time. Start from there. If you are not consistent in the study of God's world, go and buy a devotional. Humble yourself, even if they call you emog. Go and buy good devotional and humble yourself from people who have become addicted to the world that they can help others to be strong and settle down away to there. Make up your mind, create times for retreats, take some time alone with God. If you are busy and you are a working class person, use your nights, even if it's thirteen minutes one hour. Come up with the healthy spiritual ritual. And when people ask you why are you doing this, you tell them number one because I love Jesus. But number twelve want to become such an aligned vessel that it will please His Majesty to host his power, his wisdom, his grace away together now to pull me as a drink offering to save the nations. As for me, let me say me first before I say my house. As for me, I've made up my mind that in this life there is no settling for me. It doesn't matter where I get to AH, and I'm praying, may God help me to keep this decision. It doesn't Thank you for your applauds, Thank you for clapping, Thank God for sound of Reviver, Thank God for all of the things that God is doing across the globe. Thank God for coining on your global But as for me, and my purpose of teaching you tonight is to join me in this hunger campaign that no matter what level I get to, I will continue to foil my staying power with vision. Foil my staying power with my passion for God. Five brand spiritual life. Foil my staying power with mentorship. Learning from history. When you hear about someone's strug, don't go sip about it and laugh. Allow that trouble. Be a lecturer quickly and teach you that if such a person were careless with his life, and that was a consequence, it says, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation you have to end. Let me pray for you Father, in the name of Jesus. I stretch my hands over my precious people. I love them with all my heart. I have a responsibility for their spiritual growth, their development. They are attaining onto stature, and you're manifesting as ambassadors. I decree and declare the grace that immunes people from being small, from aborting destiny, from not finishing even after a glorious start. I pray for you. May that grace rest upon you as a shield. May that grace rest upon you as a shield. May that grace rest upon you as a shield. I pray tonight that my God will give you the gifts of hunger, hunger for his presence, Hunger for the things of the spirit, Hunger to actualize of your destiny and your goals in Christ, Hunger to evolve until you become a man of power. In the name of Jesus Christ. Every distraction comparing with your focus, I pray for you from the depth of my heart, made that destruction vanished like smoke before the wind, in the name of Jesus Christ. And I pray for you that every rebellion that is locked up in your heart, that it will not allow you the ma liability to learn and become. Let that spirit of rebellion be cast out of your life now in the name of Jesus. Financially, will prosper until you attain onto the standard God has for you. Spiritually, you will be vibrant until you become as strong as a nation. In the name of Jesus. In every aspect of your life, go forward, Go forward in career, rise and be a giant. In your family, rise and be a giant. You are not the needy, You are Savior. I say it again, You are not the needy, You are Savior. You begin to manifest the dominion power of this kingdom. In the name of Jesus May your life be a sign and a wonder, and I pray for you for the remaining parts of this year. Finish strong, Finish strong, Finish strong, phinish strong, Finish strong, Philish strong, Finish strong. In the name of Jesus. The dimensions of your annoycing you have never seen in your life. May your hands begin to command it from today access to more superior dimensions of revelation. May God open your eyes to see I imparted upon you the spirit of faith, go and do exploits for the Kingdom. In the name of Jesus, and every grace that is needed in your destiny but missing required to help you finish this year well, I pray for you. Made the Holy Spirit deposit it in your life right now. Dear me, for the last three weeks, I've been hearing this world restoration when I let me tell you the truth in all honesty. The last three weeks I've preached across a few places, but I've been using it to pray, because when I hear I first pray for myself for everyone, and let me just use that as my last prayer. I don't know whether this means anything to anybody in this place, you have lost things, relationships, time, money, access, opportunities, levels. In the spirit, I pray for you whatever is missing in your life. By prophecy, I command restoration. Hear me. Even but Canessa was restored, he became an animal, body, became a king again. I pray for you whatever took you away from your throne, whatever took away your crowd, took away your septare, took away your honor. I cry restall, I cry restore, I cry resta, I cry resta, I cry resta. Restoration in your finances, Restoration in your zeal, restoration of wisdom, restare es of opportunities. In Jesus' name, we pray. We have your hands to Jesus. Give him praise, Give him praise for tonight. You will never be the same. Let this teaching shape your ideology, planting you a fire. Many of you years to come. You will refer to this teaching when you are alone, when you would have become so great and there are not many voices around you again because of the height you would. Have attained, you will draw from your archives. Teachings like this, and you will hear my voice again, even in your palace, and it will speak to you, challenging you to finish. May the Lord bless you in Jesus name. I pray you want to make it right with Jesus tonight. There is always room at the cross. You came invited by God through whoever invited you, or perhaps you came on your own and you said, let me just attend coin on your today, or perhaps you have been coming and honestly, once you heard me speak, the spirit of God began to put it in your heart, especially when I spoke about spiritual vibrancy. Wherever you are, I want to give you an opportunity to make it right with Jesus. I count one to five. Were out of time, Very boldly, confidently, leave your seat and walk to the front. Your bad's, your bibles, everything you came to church with. Please make your way to the front. One. Let's ano them as they come. God bless you, God, bless you, thank you, Thank you, my sister, thank you, my brother. Let's celebrate them. They are coming. God bless you. Come to Jesus. He's able to give you a new beginning. He's able to start afresh with you again. Come come. I count five, and I begin to pray. If you're coming. Please double up quickly. Those who are in the overflows you can make do with your early they screams. And then those connecting online, here's your chance to make Jesus Lord of your life. Keep clapping. Let's encourage them. For God bless you, God bless you. This is for your destiny. This is for your children born and on board. This is for your family members. You're finally answering that call that turns you to a deliverer. It stands with Jesus, always stants with Jesus. Here's the corner stone. Five God bless you, allelujah. I want to say very big thank you. Every time we make a call like this, it is because we know that God desires for all men to be saved and then to come onto the knowledge of the truth. May I request that you lift your right hand. That includes the overflows. That also includes someone who is following online who needs to make it right with Jesus. Do not allow this service come to an end without you responding to this nodgin of the spirit. Those of you in front and all who desire to make this call, this confession, say this loud and clear. Time you say Lord Jesus. Tonight I have heard your word. I love you with all my heart. I believe that you are the son of God. I believe that you died for my sin. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my savior, my Lord, and my King. I declare that I'm a child of God. From today, Jesus is my Lord, and I go for whatever backward. Never Amen, keep your hands lifted. Father. I declare over these ones the grace to walk in victory as the righteousness of God in Christ, excelling from one level of grace to another. Let that grace be released upon you in the name of Jesus Christ. From my heart, I pray for you. You will experience what the Bible cause the joy of salvation. In the name of Jesus Christ. You will begin to move forward. Things will begin to work in your life. Your passion for Jesus will never go down. You will enjoy a rich fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Go from glory to glory in Jesus' name, we pray, Amen, please do me a favor to move to my right. There's a counselor waving the placard, and they will have a word with you. Thereafter you return to your city. Let's honor them as they go. Let's honor them as they go. Cononia, Is this the best you can do? Allelujah, prays the name of the Lord. Have you been blessed to night? Please rise upon your feet. Thank you for your patience. I bless your weak I decree and declare you will experience the power of God this week. Shout I believe in Amen. Let's testimonies follow you this week. I declare unto you, from glory to glory, from grace to grace, favor to favor, honor to honor, wisdom to wisdom, power to power, result after result, shame is far from you. No tragedy is too late over your life. Help us are coming speedily. Lift us are coming speedily. May you hear a voice from behind saying this is the way walking in it. In the name of Jesus Christ, I call you proof producers. I call you signs and wonders. The wisdom of the Spirit is at work in you. Your life will be a portrait of a believer. Indeed, in the name of Jesus, the testimony will show on Sunday, Maid manifest this week. In the name of Jesus Christ. I release my faith with you, and I declare you will not cry. Let this be a week of surprises. May the Lord that correct your life with honor. In Jesus' much less name. We pray, Amen and Amen. Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and a bide with us noun forever a man, surely, all the days of our lives, as we dwell in the house of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen. Greek. Someone professite to them, and then see you on Sunday. God bless you.