It's Your Season Pt.6- Rev. Funke Ewuosho
Category
📚
ÉducationTranscription
00:00 God is good. Thank you Julie
00:05 Julie for doubling us as a
00:06 prayer leader tonight. Thank
00:08 you Kuda and thank you Robert.
00:11 Amen. Let's put our hands
00:13 together for them. God is good.
00:16 And a very good evening to
00:19 everyone. I trust we are all
00:22 keeping well. Uh I'm sure we
00:25 are happy. Amen. I tell you, no
00:29 one deserves to be a man. I've
00:32 observed that about even the
00:33 Psalmist. Sometimes he will
00:34 start a psalm. You know, maybe
00:36 morning and whatever. You know,
00:38 by the end of the day, he's
00:39 just praising God. I tell you,
00:42 there's nothing not to love
00:43 about this our God. I tell you,
00:46 he deserves all our praise.
00:49 Deserves all the glory. We
00:50 thank him for keeping us alive.
00:53 You know, for keeping us alive.
00:54 Bible says it is because of his
00:56 mercies that we are not
00:57 alone. The Bible says that a
01:00 living dog is better than a
01:02 dead lion. When you are alive,
01:04 there's hope. Can someone say
01:06 amen? Amen. When you are alive,
01:08 you have hope. You have hope
01:10 for a better tomorrow. You have
01:12 hope. I always tell people that
01:13 even if you dreamt and you saw
01:14 yourself dead in the dream. As
01:16 long as you are weak and you
01:18 are alive, you can't turn any
01:20 situation around. Hallelujah.
01:24 The word of God is a final
01:26 say. God has a final say. The
01:31 Bible says no one can say a
01:33 thing and it comes to pass
01:35 except the Lord God commanded
01:36 it. Except you agree with it.
01:38 He said, whatever you bind on
01:39 earth shall be bound in heaven.
01:41 That is whatever you disallow,
01:43 whatever you refuse to permit
01:45 on earth shall not be allowed
01:48 in heaven and whatever you
01:50 permit shall be permitted. So,
01:52 we refuse to accept sickness
01:55 and disease in our bodies. We
01:57 refuse to accept the plan and
01:59 the will of Satan in Jesus'
02:01 name. Now, the scripture we
02:02 used to pray, you know, when I
02:04 came up last week, he said,
02:05 what do you conspire against
02:07 the Lord? Nehum chapter one. He
02:09 said, God, we make an utter end
02:11 of it. We make an utter end of
02:13 every demonic and satanic
02:15 conspiracy. In the mighty name
02:18 of Jesus Christ. He said, God,
02:19 we make an utter end of it.
02:21 Amen. And we have authority. We
02:24 have authority to win. We have
02:26 authority to lose. You don't
02:27 have to sit down like a lame
02:28 duck. Waiting for what Satan
02:30 said to come to pass in your
02:32 life. You have authority. Can
02:34 somebody say amen? So, I've
02:36 always said to people, even if
02:37 you dreamt and they were doing
02:38 your funeral, as long as you
02:39 woke up and you're like, this
02:40 is me, I'm still alive. You can
02:42 turn that around. Can somebody
02:44 say amen? But that is not God's
02:46 will for you. As long as that
02:48 thing is not the will of God,
02:50 you have authority to change it.
02:55 Amen. You have authority to
02:57 change it. Praise the Lord. You
03:00 have the authority. And never
03:02 relinquish your authority.
03:04 Never abdicate your
03:05 responsibility. Never let the
03:07 devil have the final say in
03:08 your life. In Jesus mighty name.
03:11 As long as it's the will of God,
03:12 you see something in the will of
03:13 God, you establish God's will
03:15 in Jesus name. Whatever the
03:16 enemy is saying, that is him
03:18 saying it. He is a defeated
03:20 spirit anyway. And you have to
03:21 rise up and take authority. You
03:23 don't allow the things that the
03:24 enemy throws at you. You don't
03:26 do that. Can somebody say amen?
03:28 You don't do that. Anything
03:30 that is contrary to God's will
03:32 for your life. The Bible says
03:33 Jesus gave himself for us. He
03:36 gave himself to deliver us from
03:38 this present evil age according
03:40 to the will of the Father. So
03:41 God's will is for you to be
03:42 delivered from this present evil
03:44 age and not by dying. Because
03:47 God has already delivered us.
03:50 Out from the dominion of
03:51 darkness and translated us into
03:53 the kingdom of his dear son. In
03:54 whom we have redemption through
03:56 his blood. The forgiveness of
03:57 sins. Can somebody say amen?
04:00 That is who we are. And we must
04:02 always affirm who we are. Can
04:05 somebody say amen? Don't you
04:07 ever let the devil get the best
04:09 of you or the better part of
04:10 you. When David said, I'm going
04:13 to kill you. He didn't have a
04:15 sword. He said, I'm going to
04:16 cut off your head. Hallelujah.
04:20 And he ran towards him. Never
04:22 let the devil have the last
04:24 word. Can somebody say amen? As
04:27 long as that thing is contrary
04:28 to the will of God, you have
04:31 what it takes to change it. You
04:33 have. Amen. You have. Whatever.
04:38 I don't care where it is coming
04:40 from. I don't care who spoke to
04:42 you. If it's negative, if it's
04:45 not God's will and how do you
04:46 know it doesn't come except for
04:47 to steal, kill, and destroy. So
04:49 anything that has to do with
04:50 stealing, killing, and
04:52 destruction is of the devil.
04:55 Stop it. Even if it is God
04:58 showing you that this is what
04:59 the devil wants to do. Change
05:00 it. As I said, no matter who
05:05 your source is. You know Elijah,
05:08 was it Elijah? I think Elisha
05:10 was in his house and he will be
05:12 picking the things, hearing, you
05:14 know, what the king of Assyria,
05:16 Syria was planning in his
05:17 chambers. And then he will leak
05:20 it to the king of Israel. The
05:23 enemy exposes the enemy
05:24 defeated. So even if the Lord is
05:27 revealing to you what the enemy
05:28 wants to do, you don't just sit
05:30 down and say, "Qui sera sera."
05:33 And what will be will be. No.
05:35 And if it is devil, then that's
05:38 good. When I wake up, I say,
05:40 "It's even good that you let me
05:41 know what you want to do. It's
05:44 even good. Can someone say amen?
05:50 May the devil not slap you from
05:51 behind. It's even good that you
05:55 let me know what you want to do.
05:57 Uh-huh. I'm not going to sit
05:59 down and die. As long as it's
06:02 contrary to God's will, I'm
06:04 going to change it by the word
06:06 of God. Because that's why we
06:07 have the word of God. Can
06:09 someone say amen? God is a
06:11 faithful God. When His people
06:14 sinned, He would tell them, "If
06:16 you return to me, hallelujah."
06:20 You see, let me say something to
06:21 you. You must know how to defeat
06:24 the devil in your life. Even if
06:26 he tells you that what is
06:27 happening to you or what wants
06:28 to happen is because of your
06:29 sins. I would say if you
06:30 confess your sins, God will
06:31 forgive you. That's how the
06:37 blood of Jesus speaks. Better
06:38 than the blood of Abraham. He
06:40 speaks forgiveness. He says,
06:42 "Don't let the devil corner you.
06:44 Don't let him tell you that this
06:45 thing has to happen to you
06:46 because of your sin." The Bible
06:49 says in 1 John chapter 1, "If
06:52 you confess your sins, he is
06:54 faithful and just to forgive
06:55 you and to cleanse you from all
06:56 unrighteousness." And if he
06:57 tells you that, "Well, God has
06:58 forgiven you, but you have to
06:59 bear the punishment," tell him
07:00 that the Bible says, "The
07:01 punishment that brought you
07:03 peace was upon Jesus." The
07:07 punishment. He brought your
07:09 punishment. He took your
07:12 punishment. The Bible even says
07:15 in Psalm 103, "He will not
07:16 punish us according to our
07:17 sins." Hallelujah. You see, the
07:21 devil has all kinds of tricks
07:22 and he says things, but if you
07:23 are knowledgeable in the word,
07:25 if you let the Holy Ghost lead
07:26 you into the world, you always
07:27 have an answer to counter all
07:29 this useless stuff. The Bible
07:33 says in Romans chapter 8, "Who
07:35 will bring any charge against
07:36 you when you are first elect?
07:39 When it is God who acquits."
07:42 Did you read that one? It's
07:44 under the same with Isaiah 54
07:47 that says, "If anyone accuses
07:50 you, you're going to show them
07:53 to be in the wrong." Romans 8
07:55 says, "Who is going to bring any
07:57 charge against you? When it is
07:59 God who," not acquitted, read
08:00 it, acquits. That's how you
08:05 read the Bible. This is how the
08:06 devil will stop you from reading
08:08 your Bible. He doesn't mind you
08:11 praying because he knows that
08:13 if your prayer is not based on
08:14 the word, nothing will happen.
08:17 Faith does not come by prayer.
08:19 It is the prayer that is based
08:20 on the word that gets results.
08:22 And some things are praying
08:23 about when you know the word,
08:24 you don't even have to pray
08:25 about them. You just take what
08:27 belongs to you and tell the
08:30 devil to take his ugly hands
08:31 off. That's the truth. So he
08:35 doesn't mind you praying. I've
08:37 met people, they can fast for
08:38 100 days, he doesn't face them,
08:41 but they don't have the word.
08:43 Faith doesn't come by prayer.
08:45 It doesn't come by fasting. You
08:47 see, your fasting is effective
08:48 when it's based on the word.
08:51 When you have knowledge of the
08:52 word, revelation of the word,
08:54 you know, I've always given
08:55 this example, you know. I've
08:59 never been in an exam hall
09:01 before, you're taking an exam
09:02 and there's somebody who's
09:03 always collecting papers,
09:04 writing, writing, writing,
09:05 writing. I've never seen them.
09:07 They're always writing,
09:07 writing, you know. At the end
09:09 of the day, you expect them to
09:10 be A star or something. Then
09:13 they have A from behind. They
09:16 just see somebody, can somebody
09:18 say amen? You know, you know, I
09:21 studied law and you see where
09:22 people are marking, they have
09:23 marking scheme. They know what
09:26 they're looking for. If you
09:27 like, talk from here, they know
09:30 the things, the points. So you
09:33 can talk and talk and talk, the
09:35 Jesus don't say something, but
09:36 think by the volume of their
09:37 words will be heard. If they
09:41 gave you a story, for instance,
09:43 you know, about maybe a murder,
09:45 whatever and whatever, there are
09:46 things they're looking for. If
09:49 you didn't mention those things,
09:52 it's not in the volume of your
09:54 words. So your teacher has a
09:56 marking whatever, yet they're
09:58 looking for points. So you see
10:00 this person collects just, you
10:02 know what I mean? You know, I
10:04 studied not take more than what
10:05 the unit gave her. The chief of
10:09 where they gave it, they know
10:09 it should be enough. So this
10:14 person just come, you know what
10:15 I'm saying? With panache, you
10:17 know, just write the thing. You
10:18 get what I mean? You know, when
10:22 you know something, you know it.
10:24 When you don't know it, you
10:25 don't know it. So you see, your
10:27 prayer must be based on the
10:28 word. Because there are
10:31 different types of prayers. When
10:33 you want to pray about a
10:34 certain thing, you must know the
10:35 type of prayer that you should
10:37 pray. And that's why you need
10:38 the partnership of the Holy
10:39 Ghost. And when you use the, you
10:45 pray the right prayer, can
10:46 somebody say amen? So when you
10:49 are praying the prayer of
10:50 petition, you are not saying,
10:51 Lord, if it be your will, heal
10:52 me. How can you say if it be
10:56 your will? It's his will. Praise
10:59 God. Oh, Jesus said, if it be
11:01 your will, the garden of get
11:02 saved, man. No, that's the prayer
11:02 of consecration. When he wanted
11:07 to raise Lazarus, he didn't say
11:08 father, if it be your will,
11:08 Lazarus come. Then Lazarus
11:09 come forth. And there's a
11:12 prayer, the one that get
11:13 beautiful, they didn't pray to
11:14 God and they just said, rise up
11:16 and walk. You should know when
11:18 to use that one. Can somebody
11:21 say amen? When Peter was held,
11:23 the Bible says they prayed to
11:25 God for Peter to be released. So
11:28 must know when you are praying
11:29 to God, when you are speaking
11:31 directly to your mountain,
11:34 amen? God is faithful. You see,
11:40 that's why you should just, you
11:41 can't hear enough of God's
11:43 word. What you see, I plan my
11:46 life around God's word. Praise
11:48 God. When you are not at work,
11:51 just get some message rolling.
11:54 Oh, that's a very dull life.
11:56 Well, look, anyway, let me mind
12:00 my business. Have you received
12:03 anything? You know, you have to
12:06 be victorious because that's
12:07 God's will for you. You are
12:09 more than a conqueror.
12:12 Hallelujah. God is faithful.
12:14 And sometimes the spirit of God
12:16 can put it on your heart that
12:17 you need to repent of one thing
12:18 or the other and then you repent
12:19 of it. And after you have
12:20 repented and asked God to
12:22 forgive you, the devil still
12:23 wants to be handing you because
12:25 with condemnation, accusation,
12:28 and then you can say, "No, the
12:29 Bible says if I confess my
12:31 sins, God is faithful and just
12:33 to forgive me." God doesn't
12:34 move the goalpost. There's no
12:39 unrighteousness in him. There's
12:41 no duplicity. He doesn't speak
12:45 from two sides of his mouth.
12:48 When you are about to score,
12:49 then he moves the goalpost. No.
12:51 He said, "If you confess your
12:52 sins and have you and did you
12:57 mean it, were you genuinely
12:58 repentant, then he's not going
13:01 to withhold forgiveness from
13:02 you." And the Bible says not
13:03 only will he forgive you, he
13:04 will cleanse you. That's why he
13:06 doesn't remember that you even
13:07 did it. You are the one that
13:09 still remember you can't bring
13:10 in it all. He said, "There are
13:11 sins and there are iniquities.
13:12 I will remember them no more."
13:14 Because sometimes you have asked
13:15 God to forgive you. The devil
13:16 is still, the accuser of the
13:17 breadline, still playing on
13:18 your mind because he's the God
13:20 of this age. He likes to
13:22 manipulate things in the
13:23 natural. He wants to manipulate
13:25 your feeling, "Oh, I don't feel
13:26 forgiven." It's okay. Your
13:31 feeling will catch up later.
13:33 Sometimes your feeling did not
13:34 get the memo on time. It will
13:37 get it later that this one has
13:39 been forgiven. These are the
13:41 things. The Bible says if our
13:44 heart condemns us, we don't have
13:46 confidence towards God. So the
13:47 enemy attacks your heart. And
13:49 that's why you must put on the
13:51 breastplate of righteousness,
13:53 knowing that you are the
13:54 righteousness of God in Christ
13:55 Jesus. For God made him who knew
13:58 no sin to be sin for you. So how
14:01 can you say that you are bored?
14:03 Bored how? You see what I've
14:07 been talking about? I'm a
14:10 world practitioner. Amen. I'm
14:12 busy. One of my grandbabies
14:15 used to say, "You're boozy."
14:17 She used to, but now she's
14:18 graduated from all of these
14:20 things. Amen. I'm busy. I'm
14:22 doing a great work. Hallelujah.
14:25 Not down moment. I'm very, very
14:28 busy. Can somebody say amen?
14:30 Somebody say, "I wanted to talk
14:31 to you, but you are busy." I'm
14:32 sure I'm busy, but if you want
14:33 to talk to me, tell me you want
14:34 to talk to me. I'll make time to
14:35 talk to you. But if you think
14:37 I'll come to a place where I'm
14:38 not busy, I'm not busy doing
14:40 nothing. I'm doing a lot. Have
14:43 you received anything? It's your
14:46 season. All we have said is
14:49 part of it. Do you understand?
14:51 Because you have to produce
14:53 fruit in every area of your
14:55 life. In your prayer life. The
14:59 way people will bring in those
15:00 days, harvest. You must bring
15:01 harvest of answers to prayers.
15:04 When next you come to church on
15:06 Thanksgiving Day, which is just
15:08 on Sunday, you must come with
15:10 sheaves in your hand. In those
15:16 days, they will bring the fruits
15:17 of the field. You will bring
15:18 fruits of answered prayers in
15:22 the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
15:26 Where we are going to be like,
15:28 you know, falling all over
15:29 ourselves to give our
15:30 testimonies. Because those who
15:32 go crying, weeping, they will
15:34 doubtless return. Bearing sheaves
15:36 in their hands, and that will be
15:38 your portion in this season of
15:40 fruitfulness. In Jesus' mighty
15:42 name. Father, we give you
15:44 thanks. Lift up your hands and
15:45 give thanks to God. We give you
15:47 thanks, heavenly father. You are
15:48 faithful. You are a good God.
15:51 You are not a man that you
15:52 should lie. Lord, you are
15:53 dependable. You are reliable.
15:55 You are faithful. Faithful are
15:58 you who promise. Lord, have you
16:00 spoken and will you not do it?
16:02 Have you promised and will you
16:02 not carry through? Lord, we
16:04 thank you. Because our vines
16:06 will not cast their fruit
16:07 before time in the season.
16:09 Father, in the field. Father,
16:11 we thank you. God thinks you
16:12 come to maturity for us. Every
16:14 testimony will come into
16:15 maturity. Our stories will come
16:17 into maturity. There will be no
16:19 frustration. There will be no
16:21 premature death in the mighty
16:23 name of Jesus Christ. Father,
16:25 we thank you once again for our
16:26 time in worship and our time in
16:27 prayer. And Lord, as we continue
16:28 tonight, I hold myself under
16:29 your mighty hand as our God will
16:31 grant me utterance and ask you,
16:32 God, that you will bless your
16:33 people indeed. In Jesus' name.
16:37 Amen. It's your season. It's
16:40 your season. Can somebody say
16:42 amen? The season of
16:44 fruitfulness in every area,
16:47 physically, materially,
16:49 financially, spiritually. Amen.
16:52 The season of prosperity,
16:54 breakthroughs, abundance, and
16:56 blessings all around. And our
16:58 best text, this is part six. I'm
17:00 going to stop at part eight.
17:02 Okay? Whatever happens. Amen.
17:06 Our best text is Psalm 1, verses
17:08 1 to 3. "Blessed is the man who
17:11 walks not in the counsel of the
17:12 ungodly, nor stands in the path
17:14 of sinners, nor sits in the seat
17:16 of the scornful, but his delight
17:18 is in the law of the Lord, and
17:19 in his law he meditates day and
17:21 night." Can you see that? What
17:23 we've done now is meditation.
17:24 That's meditation. Speaking the
17:26 word to yourself. And you know,
17:28 there's something about
17:29 connection. The Holy Ghost just
17:31 connects scriptures, amen, and
17:33 brings one here and brings one
17:34 there. And that is meditation.
17:36 That's what you do in your
17:37 private moment as you're
17:38 driving, as you're walking
17:40 around. You're meditating.
17:41 You're speaking the word to
17:42 yourself. That's what we just
17:44 did now. Can someone say amen?
17:46 That's what we just did. I'm
17:48 more than a conqueror. I cannot
17:50 be defeated. Greater is he who
17:51 is in me than he that is in the
17:52 world. I've overcome all wicked
17:54 spirits because the one who
17:55 lives in me is greater than he
17:56 that is in the world. Jesus
17:57 Christ has destroyed him who had
17:58 the power of death. That is
17:59 Satan. He has disarmed
18:01 principles and powers. He made
18:02 a public show of them,
18:03 triumphant over them in his
18:05 cross. And then you begin to go
18:06 on and on like that. Can
18:07 somebody say amen? The devil
18:09 cannot come near you. Praise the
18:12 Lord. He meditates in his word
18:15 day and night. Even when you're
18:17 lying down in your bed, before
18:19 the sleep takes you off, you
18:22 keep speaking the word. That is
18:25 what I do. Amen. That's as I
18:27 have pain in my body and I'm
18:28 speaking, I'm speaking, I will
18:29 know when to sleep. I just wake
18:32 up in the morning. Praise God.
18:33 Okay. It has gone. Praise God.
18:38 This is what I do. And like
18:41 that, you say, oh, oh my God,
18:43 oh my God, where is this pain
18:44 coming from? Where is it coming
18:46 from? Just speak the word.
18:50 Amen. I just begin to say
18:52 surely he has borne my
18:53 sicknesses. He has carried my
18:55 diseases. Oh, he bore them
18:58 away. He carried them away.
18:59 Hallelujah. He bore us my
19:01 substitute. He carried them. He
19:03 took them. He bore them away.
19:05 Hallelujah. The same way he
19:06 bore my sins, he bore my
19:08 sickness and my diseases. You
19:10 know, some of you don't have any
19:10 problem believing that he bore
19:12 your sins. Because you
19:13 meditated in that long enough.
19:15 But don't you know that the same
19:17 way he bore. You know where
19:20 they got that from? It's a
19:21 Leviticus word. Where they say
19:25 the scapegoat shall bear the
19:27 sin. The high priest will come,
19:30 will lay hands on that
19:31 scapegoat. Confess all the sins
19:33 of the people on the exegete
19:34 and then let the scapegoat go
19:35 into the barren land. That's the
19:40 same word they use in Isaiah 53.
19:44 Praise God. And 1 Peter 1, 224,
19:47 is it 1? 224 says, himself bore
19:53 our sins in his own body. What
19:54 does that mean? Bible says he
19:55 was crushed for our sins.
19:58 Bruised. So, when you look at
19:59 his body, you see the marks of
20:01 your sin. So, your sin that did
20:02 that. So, he bore. Is somebody
20:05 showing you that? This car, they
20:08 tell you the story. By his
20:10 wounds, we were healed. By his
20:13 stripes. And you keep saying
20:16 that. You keep saying that. He
20:17 carried my pain. You take
20:19 Matthew chapter 8. Himself took
20:22 my infirmities. And I'm saying
20:24 that, I'm saying that. And then
20:26 the next thing, you know, maybe
20:28 you wake up to go and use the
20:29 bathroom or something. You know
20:30 where was that thing? It's gone.
20:32 So, he said day and night. He
20:34 keeps speaking the word. That's
20:35 meditation. Not just thinking
20:37 about the word is part of it.
20:39 But you speak it to yourself.
20:42 Day and night. Can someone say
20:44 amen? What is the light is in
20:45 the law of the Lord. And in his
20:47 law, he meditates day and night.
20:48 He shall be like a tree planted
20:51 by the rivers of water that
20:52 brings forth his fruit in its
20:53 season. Whose leaf also shall
20:55 not wither. And whatever he
20:56 does shall prosper. And in the
20:59 first part of this, because we
21:00 divided this into three parts,
21:02 we looked at the characteristics
21:03 of the season. When something is
21:05 in season, number one,
21:06 fruitfulness and productivity.
21:07 Is that not true? And number
21:09 two, what did we say?
21:10 Ripenness, readiness, maturity.
21:13 The Bible says that in Malachi,
21:15 as a blessing, when you bring
21:17 your tithe and offering, you say
21:19 your vine will not cast its fruit
21:21 before time in the field. It's
21:24 going to ripen. It will come
21:26 into maturity. Everything you
21:28 set your hands on to do will
21:29 come into fruition. Every effort
21:32 you are putting out will not be
21:34 aborted. There will be no
21:36 abortion of destiny. There will
21:38 be no abortion of purposes. Can
21:40 someone say amen? And then
21:46 number three, availability
21:47 spread. Number four, abundance.
21:49 Number five, freshness. Can
21:51 someone say amen? And number
21:53 six, prosperity, prosperousness.
21:57 And then number, rightness,
22:00 appropriateness. Amen.
22:02 Hallelujah. Then the second part
22:06 was what to look about what to
22:07 do to come into your season. And
22:10 we said because you must know
22:12 how to come into your season.
22:14 Praise the Lord. Not just say
22:16 it's my season, it's my season.
22:18 What to do to come into your
22:20 season. Amen. And last Sunday I
22:22 highlighted to us the connection
22:24 between the written word and the
22:26 prophetic word. A lot of times
22:27 we talk about overnight miracles
22:29 and they have big banners
22:30 advertising Joseph was whatever
22:32 today, and the next day was the
22:34 prime minister. There's nothing
22:35 called a 24 hour miracle. Watch
22:39 anybody that gets that. There's
22:41 something they've been doing.
22:44 There's a connection. A
22:48 connection between when the word
22:52 comes to you now that says it's
22:53 your season. There's something.
22:57 There are things that have been
22:58 going on. And I gave us some
23:01 examples. Another example that
23:02 came to me was the father of
23:04 Zechariah. I remember Zechariah,
23:07 the father of John the Baptist.
23:09 Read the Bible. The Bible says
23:10 he was in the temple. He was like
23:15 an usher. You know when they
23:16 wrote to you, he was on the
23:18 rotor. Go and read your Bible.
23:22 He didn't say because my wife
23:23 does not have a child. Because
23:25 we don't have whatever. You know
23:26 some of you, you wear your
23:27 problems on your face. The first
23:32 person that suffers when you
23:34 have a problem is God and his
23:36 work and his kingdom. Not your
23:39 food. Your food doesn't go
23:40 first when you don't have
23:41 money. Before it comes to your
23:44 food, God would have suffered.
23:47 Oh, I'm going through this. The
23:48 first thing that goes, let me
23:51 stop giving. Then your church
23:53 commitments. You should be
23:56 eating three square meals.
23:58 Nothing changes. Then by the
24:02 time everything, then the last
24:05 thing, maybe you drop one meal
24:06 out of three. That was the
24:12 first to go. Can someone say
24:14 amen? This is always the
24:16 kingdom of God that suffers.
24:18 And for me, that just shows, it
24:20 shows your lack of revelation.
24:23 It just shows. It just shows
24:25 your lack of revelation. I want
24:27 you to know you need God in your
24:29 life. You need God so seriously.
24:31 Like somebody said, you are too
24:32 busy not to have time to pray.
24:36 Have you ever seen people, they
24:39 are driving, speeding,
24:40 overtaking you, and then you get
24:42 to the front, you see them,
24:43 maybe they've been arrested, or
24:47 they had an accident. So now
24:50 they are stopped. Now you won't
24:52 traffic. That was good. You
24:53 know what I mean? Then you look
24:54 at them. You look at them. You
24:58 know, a lot of people are going
24:59 nowhere fast. That's the truth.
25:03 Beating every light. Then, you
25:07 know, you don't need all of
25:08 that. Can somebody say amen? You
25:10 don't need all of that. So it's
25:12 the lack of revelation. It's
25:16 like me saying, God forbid. If I
25:18 always pray that prayer, God,
25:19 don't let me say any problem that
25:20 will make me ditch you. Why? It's
25:28 the lack of revelation. You need
25:32 God in your life. God is not
25:35 your spare tire. Can someone say
25:41 amen? Oh, I'm doing something.
25:43 Oh, I want to stop giving. You
25:46 don't do that. I want to stop
25:48 giving. You don't do that. That
25:51 means you don't understand why
25:52 you come to church. Oh, they are
25:55 saying this because they are
25:56 pastors. I'm so glad, you know,
25:57 every time I talk to my
25:58 spiritual daughter, you know, in
26:00 the U.S., you know, she's, I
26:03 mean, they just even moved from
26:05 another state to another state.
26:07 And they've blocked themselves
26:09 again in a church. And yesterday
26:11 she was telling me, yes, and
26:12 she's so busy back to back. Oh,
26:15 we have prayer meeting. She was
26:16 there. She was there. Thank God
26:19 for the way they were raised and
26:22 the fear of God, the love of God.
26:25 Do you understand? She's a
26:27 coach. She's a financial,
26:29 whatever, back to back, she's so
26:31 busy. So you lack revelation.
26:36 That's what happened to you. And
26:38 the Lord will help you in Jesus'
26:39 name. Because if you read the
26:41 story, if you can help me put
26:42 the story of Zechariah, the guy
26:44 was burning incense. And then
26:47 the angel came. Please put it on
26:50 the screen for me so I don't
26:51 have to turn to it. John chapter
26:53 are you there? Is that the one?
26:57 Who is he to? It's Luke. It's
27:02 not Zechariah. The father of John
27:04 the Baptist. Okay, let me go
27:06 there. Please help me be looking
27:07 for it on the screen. It's
27:09 better to have it on the screen.
27:10 Luke chapter one, please. The
27:12 father of John the Baptist.
27:15 Okay, when I say Zechariah,
27:16 that's the name of the man. Is
27:18 that not his name? Okay. Luke
27:21 chapter one. So it was that
27:30 while he was serving as priest
27:35 before God in the order of his
27:37 division. Let's go on quickly
27:40 please. According to the custom
27:42 of the priesthood. Can you
27:43 imagine? His Lord fell to burn
27:47 incense when he went into the
27:49 temple of the Lord. Go on
27:50 quickly. And the whole multitude
27:52 of the people was praying
27:55 outside at the hour of incense.
27:59 Then an angel of the Lord
28:00 appeared to him standing on the
28:03 right side of the altar of
28:04 incense. And when Zechariah saw
28:08 him, he was troubled and fear
28:09 fell upon him quickly. But the
28:12 angel told him, do not be
28:13 afraid Zechariah. For what?
28:17 Your prayer is heard. That
28:18 means he's been praying. And
28:23 your wife Elizabeth will bear
28:25 you a son and shall call his
28:27 name John. And we have joy and
28:31 gladness. You see when your
28:32 prayer gets answered, you have
28:33 joy and gladness. And many will
28:37 rejoice at his birth. Many will
28:39 rejoice at the answer to that
28:41 prayer. Let's leave the other
28:45 things. What I wanted to show
28:47 us, because I was talking about
28:48 it, you know the connection
28:50 between the written word and
28:52 the prophetic word. There's not
28:54 like a 24 hour miracle. Don't
28:57 let anyone deceive you. Watch
29:00 those people. Joseph had been
29:03 serving. Serving his brothers,
29:06 serving in Potiphar's house,
29:08 serving. He didn't just become
29:10 a prime minister overnight. God
29:12 doesn't work like that. So I
29:20 wanted to emphasize that again.
29:21 Is that okay? If the clouds are
29:25 full of rain, they empty
29:27 themselves. That's why I've been
29:29 told not to stand. You keep
29:30 standing. You keep doing those
29:32 things. And what were the things
29:34 we said we should do? By being
29:36 planted. How are you going to
29:38 be planted? Meditating on the
29:39 word day and night. Amen?
29:42 Waiting on God by praying,
29:44 seeking his face, worshipping,
29:46 keeping your ears to his mouth.
29:48 Can somebody say amen? How else
29:50 do you get planted? Through your
29:51 relationship with the Holy
29:52 Ghost. He's the spirit of
29:55 wisdom, the spirit of knowledge.
29:59 Whenever I want to do something,
30:00 I ask the Holy Ghost, what
30:02 should I do? How should I go
30:03 about this? How should I answer
30:04 this person? How should I answer
30:07 this person? Because he's the
30:09 spirit of wisdom. He's the
30:10 spirit of counsel. Can someone
30:12 say amen? I ask for his help all
30:14 the time. All the time. All the
30:18 time. You don't come to a place
30:21 where you don't need him. I
30:24 always ask him for strength, for
30:26 help. You will sometimes say,
30:28 "If I'm feeling somehow maybe in
30:30 my body and I have to go and do
30:31 something, I draw strength from
30:33 him." For they that wait upon
30:36 the Lord, they shall renew their
30:37 strength. They shall mount up
30:39 with wings like eagles. They
30:41 shall run, they will not be
30:42 weary. They shall walk and not
30:43 faint. Where young men are
30:45 falling and fainting, you're
30:47 going to keep going on. Because
30:50 you are planted. Amen. So
30:53 waiting on God, sitting at his
30:55 feet like Mary did. Martha was
30:57 troubled by so many things.
31:00 Praise the Lord. And then we
31:02 said, what again did we say? So
31:04 number one was what? Implanted.
31:08 And number two, preparation.
31:11 Preparation. You cannot. That's
31:16 why we said there's no overnight
31:18 miracle. There's nothing called
31:20 24 hour anything where God is
31:23 concerned. You know I said in
31:25 the course of this series, you
31:28 see there are many ways you can
31:29 do stuff. I always tell people,
31:32 like if you are looking for a
31:33 husband, there are many ways to
31:34 find one. You know I don't like
31:36 making it look like there are no
31:37 other ways. You have to count
31:40 the costs. There are many ways,
31:44 praise God, there are things you
31:46 can do and you can just get your
31:47 husband overnight now. Come and
31:48 tell us, oh I found somebody.
31:50 And then when we see the person
31:51 we know who found who. And there
31:54 are many ways to make money. It's
31:58 only by God. Amen. You can lie,
32:03 you can cheat, you can steal.
32:06 How many things to do? Because
32:12 you see if we didn't know this,
32:14 you will not think well. So when
32:19 you know there are many ways,
32:20 you're not considering your
32:21 options. You know what I found
32:23 out that it's just good to stay
32:26 on this straight and narrow path.
32:28 Amen. Having considered
32:30 carefully the different options.
32:34 You know like the life of faith.
32:36 What's the option? The
32:37 alternative is not good. It's
32:40 not good. So if you thought
32:43 living by faith is hard, try the
32:45 alternative. So I've just made up
32:49 my mind, let me just stay here.
32:51 Do you get what I'm talking
32:52 about? Well here there's peace,
32:54 there's joy. Can somebody say
32:56 amen? Amen. So you see the end
32:59 of that man is peace, prosperity.
33:02 Praise God. Nobody's looking for
33:04 me, I'm not looking for anybody.
33:06 I'm just cool, I'm calm. Can
33:07 somebody say amen? Praise the
33:10 Lord. Amen. It's a very peaceful
33:12 life. Hallelujah. I'm not saying
33:15 who said that, who's there, who
33:17 goes, no. Amen. Somebody's
33:21 looking for you, who, who, who.
33:23 I'm just calm. Praise the Lord.
33:26 So preparation. And we said how
33:29 do you prepare yourself? We saw
33:33 how God told Mr. Jeremiah, from
33:36 your mother's womb before you
33:37 were even formed, I called you.
33:39 But he now said get yourself
33:40 ready. You have to get yourself
33:43 ready. And we said number one,
33:46 through what? Study, hard work.
33:49 Is that not true? I want to say
33:51 something on this point. You
33:54 know? I want to say something
33:55 because I, I, I, on this point
33:58 of study and hard work, can
33:59 somebody say hard work? Can
34:01 somebody say hard work? You
34:02 know, we talked about that
34:03 first Timothy 5, 17 to 18, where
34:07 Bible says that elders who rule
34:09 well should be counted worthy of
34:10 double honor, especially those
34:12 who labor in word and doctrine
34:14 to show how important the word
34:16 and the doctrine, doctrine there
34:17 means teaching, amen? You know,
34:19 very important, amen? In our
34:22 sense, if you read on to verse
34:24 18, for the scripture says you
34:27 shall not muzzle an ox while it
34:30 treads out the grain. And the
34:33 laborer is worthy of his wages.
34:36 That was the full context in
34:37 talking about the elders who
34:39 labor, especially those who
34:40 labor in what? Word and
34:42 doctrine. And let me say this to
34:44 us before some people start
34:45 feeling funny. You see, what
34:47 happens is this. If you are a
34:48 laborer, you go to God who
34:51 called you. Do you understand?
34:54 And you will know that God pays.
34:58 If you judge yourself to be a
35:00 laborer in the kingdom, are you
35:02 following what I'm saying? God
35:04 is not going to owe you. That's
35:10 where I'm going. You see, it's
35:11 the value you place on yourself.
35:16 If you consider yourself to be a
35:18 laborer, not just because you
35:20 thought so or you wanted to, you
35:23 are actually a laborer. You are
35:25 actually laboring. God says a
35:30 laborer is worthy of his hire.
35:33 And I'm not saying this to refer
35:35 to people, but nobody can pay
35:38 you. You understand? But God
35:42 pays very well. I can testify.
35:48 He pays very well. It's human
35:52 to forget, but God doesn't
35:55 forget. So I'm saying that you
35:58 should not look to people. This
36:01 is not about looking to people.
36:04 This is about you valuing
36:05 yourself, first of all. It's
36:08 like when you are in a company
36:10 and you are working hard and
36:12 you're doing your best, you
36:14 should value yourself. Do you
36:16 understand? Instead of joining
36:19 the people that complain, "Oh,
36:22 you know, look at me. I've been
36:24 working. Look how much they pay
36:26 me." Why don't you just put a
36:28 value on what you're doing and
36:31 know that even if people are not
36:34 paying you well, God will remove
36:36 you from that place and take you
36:38 to where they will value you
36:39 well. Instead of you to stop
36:44 giving your best because you
36:47 think you are not being well
36:48 valued, why don't you put your
36:51 best in and let God, when he
36:56 says that they don't deserve
36:57 you, Rabbi talks about some
37:01 people that even this earth is
37:02 not worthy of them. Do you
37:06 understand? So that's what I
37:08 want to say to you on this. So
37:11 when we say, "A worker deserves
37:14 his wages," I'm not talking
37:15 about you. I'm not looking to
37:18 anybody. You know, some people
37:19 when they start talking, they
37:20 start getting afraid. No, it's
37:22 you, me, valuing myself. And do
37:25 you know what? I value myself.
37:28 Like Nehemiah said, I'm doing a
37:29 great work. Praise God. I value
37:32 myself. I value the work I'm
37:34 doing. And God has been raising
37:36 people, you know, who are really
37:40 saying, "Thank God for your
37:42 life. Thank God for what you're
37:44 doing. Thank God for your
37:46 consistency." So value yourself.
37:51 And if what you are not doing,
37:53 what you are doing, even
37:54 yourself, you can't give yourself
37:56 a note, up your game. Praise the
37:59 Lord. Jesus told his disciples
38:03 when he sent them in Luke 10
38:05 7, he said, "And remain in the
38:06 house, eating and drinking, such
38:10 things as they give." You know
38:11 what this tells me? You don't
38:12 feel, you don't have to
38:13 apologize. And be apologetic
38:17 when you're a worker. Because
38:23 you're going to deserve every
38:24 good that comes your way. He
38:31 said, "Eating and drinking, for
38:32 the laborer is worthy of his
38:35 wages." Do not go from house to
38:37 house. He told them, he said,
38:39 "Heal the sick." That means
38:41 that is work. There are people
38:44 with incurable diseases that if
38:46 they had money, sorry, if money
38:48 could cure them, they would pay
38:49 anything. And then God gives you
38:52 the power. And you lay hands and
38:56 they get healed. Freely you
38:58 receive, freely you give. You
39:00 don't expect them to pay you,
39:03 but you are putting a value. Are
39:08 you following what I'm saying?
39:10 There are some who money is not
39:11 their problem. If they could pay
39:15 for their healing, for the
39:17 doctors to heal them, but doctors
39:19 say, "We can't help you." And
39:20 then you carry something in God.
39:22 And I'm saying that you should
39:24 value that. That's what I'm
39:27 talking about. Value what you
39:28 carry and heaven will pay you.
39:32 Not man. Because what price can
39:34 you put on that? Somebody that
39:37 God used you to bring healing to
39:39 somebody who has an incurable
39:41 disease, terminal disease. You
39:45 value what you carry in God. Can
39:50 somebody say amen? The hard
39:55 working farmer must be first to
39:58 practice the crops. These are
39:59 the days where people have
40:00 misplaced priorities and they
40:02 have things arranged wrongly.
40:06 You know the Bible says spirit
40:07 first, body second, soul body.
40:09 But in devil's kingdom, it is
40:11 body first. People are body
40:16 ruled. But in the kingdom, you
40:20 should be spirit ruled. Can
40:23 somebody say amen? What am I
40:24 saying also? You have put more
40:26 priority and put a higher
40:28 premium on those who are doing
40:31 entertainment. That they don't
40:34 see anything in them earning
40:37 $10,000 or what do you earn per
40:38 week? Some people. They will not
40:41 raise any eyebrow on that. But
40:43 when God blesses his servants,
40:47 but the Bible says the wicked
40:48 will sit and nudge their teeth.
40:49 Is that not true? So you want to
40:51 choose if you are wicked or not.
40:54 It's up to you. Oh, Beyonce
40:59 works hard. That's why she's
41:00 rich. What of the work? Oh, she
41:05 spends that many hours in the
41:06 studio. How many hours do I
41:08 spend? And for what will not
41:13 last? Will you carry what will
41:17 last? Jesus said you labor for
41:21 food that will not last. Are you
41:25 following what I'm saying? You
41:26 see why nobody can put me down?
41:28 I don't even know what planet or
41:30 where that person will be coming
41:31 from. Because I value myself. I
41:36 value the call of God upon my
41:37 life. I value what God has
41:39 called me to do. And God is
41:41 helping me to put in my best.
41:49 So you eat the fruit of your
41:50 labor. That means you have to
41:53 labor. And labor has fruit. Can
41:56 somebody say amen? The hard
41:58 working farmer must be the first
42:01 to partake of the crops. 2
42:04 Timothy 2.6. About the virtuous
42:07 woman in Proverbs 31 verse 31,
42:09 give her of the fruit of her
42:11 hands and let her own works
42:13 praise her in the gates. Let her
42:17 own what? Works. I thank God I
42:20 found this scripture a long time
42:21 ago. Give her of the fruit of
42:24 her hands and let her own works
42:28 praise her in the gates. And I
42:29 will say honor her for all that
42:32 her hands have done. And let her
42:34 works bring her praise at the
42:37 city gates. The New Living
42:39 Translation says reward her for
42:41 all she has done. Let her deeds
42:44 publicly declare her praise. You
42:47 see this is what God will do.
42:51 And God doesn't need anybody's
42:52 permission to do that. If you
42:54 keep doing what you should do. A
42:58 man who excels in his work,
43:00 Proverbs 22.29, he will stand
43:02 before kings and not unknown
43:06 men. The Amplified says, do you
43:08 see a man diligent and skillful
43:10 in his business? He will stand
43:12 before kings. He will not stand
43:14 before obscure men. The Bible
43:17 says your light will shine in
43:18 obscurity. In Isaiah 58. The
43:24 one about the fast. So it's not
43:28 the will of God for you to
43:29 remain in the backside of the
43:30 desert. Praise God. You will
43:33 stand before kings and not stand
43:36 before obscure men. The message
43:39 Bible says observe people who
43:41 are good at their work. Skilled
43:44 workers are always in demand and
43:47 admired. They don't take a back
43:51 seat to anyone. Can someone say
43:53 amen? I'm going to round up with
43:55 this story. That's what I wanted
43:57 to mention to you. On this
43:59 point, I want to talk about
44:00 self-development. You need to
44:02 develop yourself. You need to
44:05 work hard on developing
44:07 yourself. Remember this point
44:08 where we said study. Study to
44:10 show yourself what? Approval to
44:12 God. A workman that does not
44:13 need to be ashamed. Rightly
44:17 divided, the word. It says
44:20 skillful people are in high
44:22 demand. Anything you do, you
44:25 want to acquire skill, you want
44:26 to develop yourself. Can
44:29 somebody say amen? You don't
44:31 take a back seat to anyone. You
44:33 will be in demand and admired.
44:35 I remember some years ago when I
44:37 first came into the university
44:38 and started living here, I went
44:39 to a salon to make my hair.
44:40 There was this girl that I used
44:42 to make. I had been going there.
44:44 There was this lady that used to
44:45 make my hair. One day I went and
44:48 I saw this other lady making a
44:49 client's hair. I observed the
44:52 way she was making it. How many
44:53 people know that that was the
44:54 last time the other one made
44:55 her hair? I just observed her
44:59 making somebody else's hair.
45:01 The way she was, you could see
45:03 how meticulous, you could see
45:06 how painstaking. That was how I
45:11 started using her. People who
45:15 are diligent in their work. I
45:18 mentioned something about
45:18 self-development and I'll tell
45:19 you this story. When we talked
45:22 about fruitfulness, we talked
45:24 about the fact that you're not
45:27 going to force ripen. Like I
45:31 said, there are different ways
45:33 of getting something. I
45:36 remember a couple of years ago,
45:39 there was this lady. She had
45:42 just lost her husband. They had
45:45 a church and the church is still
45:47 going on. We had a conference.
45:50 She came for the conference.
45:53 We also had this other lady who
45:56 was a speaker. After the evening
45:58 session, we were all just
46:00 talking and fellowshipping
46:02 around the world and just having
46:03 fellowship and all of that. This
46:06 other lady said, concerning this
46:09 lady who had just lost her
46:12 husband not too long before
46:14 then. She said, "Mama, what this
46:21 lady needs is someone like
46:25 mentioned one big name, one big
46:28 preacher in America." I don't
46:30 want to mention the person's
46:31 name. A big preacher, big name,
46:35 preacher. That's the kind of
46:38 thing this lady needs. She now
46:43 told the story of how that big
46:45 preacher gave exposure to one
46:49 person who also became a
46:52 household name. That that is the
46:54 kind of a thing that this sister
46:58 needs. I looked at the lady who
47:01 was talking. She's much older
47:04 than me. Not much, a couple of
47:06 years. I looked at her and I
47:07 said, "Mama, what she needs is
47:13 not that. What she needs is to
47:15 come and give her that exposure."
47:19 What she needs is not a big man
47:21 of God to come and give her that
47:23 exposure. That's the first right
47:26 name. That's where that story
47:27 came to me. Sometimes instead of
47:32 people developing themselves,
47:34 going through this process, they
47:37 look for one big man of God or
47:40 one big woman of God that will
47:42 give them a platform. But do you
47:45 know what? Both the big man and
47:48 the one that they gave the
47:50 platform to, interestingly as I
47:52 was thinking about it, I've not
47:54 heard of them again. Because
47:57 when this other lady lost her
47:59 husband, I was talking to her. I
48:01 called her from here in my
48:02 office, talking to her in
48:03 Nigeria. She's not a member of
48:05 our church, but they used to be
48:06 back in the day. They passed
48:08 through our church. I think
48:09 they even got married in our
48:10 church, but they have their own
48:11 church somewhere in the south
48:12 and all of that. They're doing
48:13 well, but the man died
48:14 suddenly. I was speaking to her
48:16 and she was telling me all that
48:17 was going on in church. I said
48:19 to her, "You know, your
48:20 husband, one of those alpha
48:24 male, very domineering, doing
48:27 everything. Maybe he thought he
48:29 would live forever. I don't know
48:31 what he thought, but he was
48:32 all over the place. Never
48:33 allowed her to do anything." I
48:37 said to her, "Because of the way
48:39 your husband was and because you
48:42 were not doing anything in that
48:44 church, you were doing what I
48:45 said, people will leave."
48:46 There's something like, "Leadership
48:48 leads." Is that not true? I said,
48:52 "People will leave who cannot
48:53 see you as their leader." I said,
48:55 "But some people will stay who
48:57 can accept your leadership.
49:00 Because you cannot force people."
49:02 There's something called what?
49:03 "Leadership leads." Is that not
49:06 true? If you're number seven and
49:09 the person who is your leader is
49:11 number five, on number five, that
49:13 person cannot lead you. I said,
49:15 "That will happen." I said, "But
49:17 you know what you're going to
49:18 continue to begin to do? You
49:19 start developing yourself." I
49:22 said, "Some people will leave.
49:24 Some people will stay. But as you
49:26 are developing yourself, new
49:28 people will start coming." I had
49:32 that conversation with her before
49:34 I went to Nigeria and then we had
49:36 this women's conference. Then
49:37 this discussion was going on and
49:39 this other woman said, "What she
49:41 needs." I said, "That's not what
49:43 she needs. I'm telling you
49:46 today what you need is to
49:47 develop yourself." All this
49:50 flash in the pan, all this
49:51 somebody came. Because that
49:53 story truly about this man of
49:55 God, very big man of God, very
49:57 great man of God, I mean big
49:59 name, household name. What he
50:02 did truly was he just gave this
50:04 lady an exposure. Brought her to
50:09 his platform. Overnight became a
50:14 big name. In fact, she got
50:16 married. Her marriage was not up
50:21 to one year. They came to this
50:22 UK, they said they wanted to do a
50:24 dinner, herself and her husband.
50:26 You know people like hype. They
50:28 were charging people. I don't
50:30 want to exaggerate, but something
50:32 close to a thousand. You know
50:34 people paid. That marriage didn't
50:36 last. I don't think it lasted one
50:38 year. I'm not deriding anybody.
50:40 You know even the people that
50:42 paid were fake. God tell me what
50:46 somebody who got married barely
50:48 how many months. What are they
50:51 going to tell you? You know
50:54 flesh, we like hype. Wait to see
50:57 and be seen. Thank God my
51:00 husband and I will be 35 years
51:02 married next month. If we said
51:04 come, we say those people.
51:09 Somebody who was barely. By the
51:12 time the marriage broke down,
51:13 like I said I'm not pulling
51:14 anybody down. But you see how
51:17 fake. Those things are fickle.
51:23 Somebody who barely got married
51:26 doing marriage seminar. What are
51:29 they telling you? You know what
51:31 drew them there? The name. And
51:35 that's why people will do
51:36 anything and everything to get
51:40 that type of a name. But the
51:43 Bible says they are falling but
51:44 we are rising forever. Like I
51:46 said it's not to deride anybody
51:48 or mock anyone, but to bring
51:49 this reality of life. That's how
51:53 we talk about force ripening.
51:54 You can force ripen. Somebody
51:58 will give you a platform. You
52:01 are not developed. You know it's
52:05 like when you see a cake that is
52:07 not baked inside. But on the
52:08 outside it looks baked. Let me
52:13 ask you a question. If you saw
52:15 those two buildings by the wise
52:17 builder and the foolish builder,
52:19 would you think anything was
52:20 wrong? What if it took 20 years
52:24 for his tongue to come at all?
52:26 That means for 20 years
52:28 everything will be looking good.
52:30 Is that why Paul said don't let
52:32 us judge anything before it's
52:34 time. May God help us. I said
52:39 what she needs is to develop
52:42 herself. And I said that story
52:44 to tell you that what you need
52:45 is to develop yourself. And then
52:48 whatever you have, we outlast.
52:52 Because when we come on Sunday,
52:53 we're going to begin to look at
52:54 what? How to perpetuate. Have
52:57 you received anything? So what
53:01 do you have? We outlast you.
53:03 And generations to come we'll
53:07 still be talking about you in
53:10 the name of Jesus Christ. Like
53:14 somebody said I'd rather be part
53:16 of a big thing that starts small
53:18 than be part of a small thing
53:19 that starts big. It doesn't take
53:21 anything for something to start
53:22 big. That's an example I gave
53:24 you. Just go and cozy up to one
53:27 big man who already has a big
53:29 platform. And what I mean, they
53:33 said the person took a very big
53:35 offering that is very
53:36 irresistible. And that's opened
53:38 the door. And therefore you know
53:40 that next convention you're a
53:42 speaker. And then the next thing
53:45 you become a household name.
53:48 That is it. That's why I said
53:50 there are different alternatives.
53:52 Do you understand? When people
53:54 have chosen to stay with God it's
53:56 not because they don't know what
53:58 to obtain somewhere else. But it's
54:00 not because God is a small God.
54:02 It's a big God. It depends on how
54:05 you define bigness and greatness.
54:08 Let's worship the Lord with our
54:10 offerings. Father we give you
54:14 praise. Lord we worship you.
54:19 We thank you for the word
54:20 tonight. Thank you for our time
54:22 in prayer, our time in worship,
54:24 and time in the word.
54:26 (Applause)
54:27 time in worship and time in the word.