wheelhouse
In the white and amid fire burns My heart is captured to work
I have in me the burning fire Oh, a sound of great things
I have in me the burning fire
Don't stand there, I do. Lift up your voice
Oh, thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Lift up your two hands one more time.
You want to prophetically speak into your ears, like prophetically.
Even as the Lord has led us as a ministry with a direction
that 2023 is going to be our year of far-reaching labor.
You want to lift up your voice and say, Father, I'm included in this agenda.
I am included in this agenda.
Come on, come on.
I'm included in this agenda.
Kada vabai.
Thank you Jesus.
Hallelujah. You may be seated.
Praise the name of the Lord.
Look at somebody and tell the person, we are exceeding every fixed limit.
Say, we are exceeding every fixed measure.
How about time? We are exceeding every fixed measure.
Come on, we are exceeding every fixed measure.
Come on, say like you mean, say we are exceeding every fixed measure.
Praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah.
I pray for you in the name of Jesus that throughout this year
you will be so firm in the things of God.
I pray for you that in this year you will be so firm,
so firm in the things of God that nothing will move you.
Things that shook you last year will not move you.
Mistakes that you did last year will not move you.
Are you understanding that? And that you'll be able to lay everything aback
and focus on what the Lord seeks to do with you.
I'm telling you, you are included in where the Lord is taking us.
Did you hear what I just told you? You are included in where the Lord is taking us.
The Lord is taking us somewhere.
How many of us believe that the Lord is taking us somewhere?
See, and that this year you will realize so much growth.
So much growth. So much growth.
So much growth. So much growth. So much growth.
So much growth. So much growth.
Growth over weaknesses, growth over sicknesses,
growth over worries and anxiety. So much growth.
So much growth. So much growth. So much growth.
The things that caused you to worry last year,
you will see them and you will just walk over them.
You will see them and you will just walk over them.
In the name of Jesus.
Shatna Bahasaya.
I pray for you.
That even just by the first three months,
you will so much see the driving force of the Spirit.
Are you understanding that? You will so much see.
You will so much see that you know you are going somewhere.
But in that three months, these 90 days ahead of us,
not just are you going to know that you are going somewhere,
but you'll be driven by the Spirit of God.
To the direction of the Spirit. To the direction of the Spirit.
To the direction of the Spirit. You'll be so much driven.
So much driven. So much driven.
Even as the Lord gave us a prophecy last night,
that there will be unrest in our spirits.
Until we do the bidding of the Spirit.
Unrest, unrest, unrest, unrest.
Oh glory to God. Unrest.
Unrest. Hallelujah.
We'll see that for some few minutes.
The month of January is the month of feasting on the fullness of faith.
Feasting on the fullness of faith. Hallelujah.
It means that this month,
our focus as a ministry is on faith.
Now this year, the Lord gave very beautiful direction to all of us.
He gave very beautiful direction to us.
All your pastors, in fact all of us as pastors,
we are going to be preaching the same thing.
See, I will not be talking about the Holy Ghost here,
and you'll be talking about Rapture somewhere.
Praise the Lord.
We are all going to say the same thing, preach from the same thing.
I mean if you were to be in your church today,
you would have heard your pastor saying the same thing that I'm saying.
Hallelujah.
Yes.
Tell somebody we are feasting.
Come on, tell somebody we are feasting on the fullness of faith.
Tell another person by your side, say we are feasting.
Isn't it amazing that January 1st, first Sunday of the year,
we are supposed to have maybe, you know, like a get together here or something.
We are feasting on faith.
This is the powerful feast.
Praise the Lord.
So we are feasting on the fullness of faith.
So by the time we are done with this month,
you should be able to have a grasp on faith.
Our devotion is in circulation.
Praise the Lord.
And let me use a few minutes to talk about the devotional.
So the devotional is also one of the directions the Lord gave for the year.
And you know, from the past devotionals,
when I get up, whatever I'm inspired to write, that's what I write.
Or sometimes what I use as my, how do you call it, my quiet time is what I share.
But then this year, this is what the Lord wants us to do.
The devotional is alongside what is being taught in church.
So today's episode was, how many of you have read that?
Let me see your hand.
Come on.
Wow. How many of us have not seen it?
Okay.
How many of us have not been online today?
Okay. So that's why.
So do well to read, because the message is that the devotionals are attracted
to go alongside with what is being taught in church.
The devotional is first of all for you.
Praise God.
Praise God. Come on. I said, praise God.
It's first of all for you.
So you, whatever you're taught in church,
like it, it adds up to it.
Are you understanding that?
You'll be shocked that you read a devotional, you go to church,
and your pastor will be teaching on that devotional and expounding the devotional.
Hallelujah.
Come on. Praise the Lord.
So it means if you really want to flow this year in the spirit or in the direction of this ministry,
as the Lord has given, one of the things you are going to really pay attention to and be religious about is the devotional.
Praise the Lord.
See, it is not first of all for sharing.
It is first of all for studying.
So you read it, you study it, and then you share.
What a lot of people do, oh, it's in.
There are prayer sessions in the devotionals.
So you want to spend some time after you read and pray in there.
That prayer writing there, let me say this, the prayer writing there is not necessarily what you're supposed to pray.
That prayer there is to give you a direction of your prayer.
Hallelujah.
Yes.
And then there's also one year Bible reading plan.
Now that is one of the most important things to me in the devotional.
So if you are able to read the devotional daily and then read the Bible plan,
by the time we are done with the year, you would have read the Bible, the full Bible.
You know, there are people, I mean some of you are here, you've never read the Bible like at a go, like you read.
How many of you have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation at a go?
Like you read, you read, see nobody.
So it's an opportunity for you to fully read the Bible and you know, it's a challenge.
So pick it up and say, Father, as part of the many things you want to do with us,
I am going to read the word of God from cover to cover.
Hallelujah.
Are you understanding that? From cover to cover. I'm going to read the word.
So don't joke with it.
I mean I think average you are going to read like four chapters in a day.
Don't miss any.
Hallelujah.
Read it.
And most importantly, read it with your hard copy Bible.
Alright, with your pen.
As you read you are underlined because you are going to, see you are going to meet amazing things in the word of God.
Amazing things in the word of God.
Amazing things in the word of God. David says, open my eyes that I might behold wondrous things from your word.
So there are wondrous things in the word of God.
Hallelujah.
See there are Christians who don't read the Bible.
May God help me not to change my message.
I will close very soon. I'm not going to take a lot of time.
There are Christians who don't read the Bible.
And let me tell you what, without studying the word of God, God cannot help you.
Not God will not help you. He can't.
God cannot help you.
See that one of the main reasons for people going through challenges for a long time.
I've been in this situation for 10 years, for 12 years, for 15 years.
You know, because they don't know what the Bible says about that situation.
No, just take for example, if you are somebody who constantly have the,
you have the temptation to commit suicide.
That means you are facing depression.
Are you here with me? So you go into the word of God and you find out what God says about peace.
The promises of God in the Bible concern soundness of mind.
You read the Bible and the Bible tells you that,
cast all your cares upon him for he cares.
You don't just read it, it, it, it is not about the word of God.
You don't just read it, it, it will enter into your soul.
Hallelujah. And the Bible tells you be anxious for nothing.
Be anxious in, in nothing. Be anxious.
Don't fret, don't be scared about anything. God, God, God is a big deal.
And did this guy know what we are going to be dealing with? He says don't be scared.
Don't be perplexed about anything.
But in everything, by prayer and supplication.
So it means that if I am a student of my Bible,
things that come to me to get me to commit suicide or to get me to be worried and all of that,
I will pray them out.
Hallelujah.
So you find one person, he's in a situation for long.
And it's like a cycle.
It stops, then it comes. It stops.
It stops, then it comes. It stops, then it comes. It stops, then it comes. It stops, then it comes. It stops, then it comes.
The Bible says the word of God is living and active.
God's word is alive. It is active.
See, the moment you introduce the word of God into any situation,
the power of that situation is broken.
The power of that situation is broken.
It's broken.
The Bible says it's my word, not like hammer, that breaks the rocks into pieces.
So if I give my mind to God's word, there is no situation that can be a mountain, an unmovable mountain in my life.
I just have to keep on supplying the word of God. It will explode.
It will explode.
Christians are not supposed to suffer.
Now write that down.
Christians are not supposed to suffer.
We are not supposed to suffer sicknesses, we are not supposed to suffer depressions, we are not supposed to... No.
See, one of the elements that brought people to Christ was the joy of the brethren.
The joy of the brethren.
Because the very moment somebody becomes born again,
in the early church, they will see that person, suddenly, in the face of trouble, he is happy, he is joyful.
And they are like, what is happening? What have you seen?
That is one of the main characteristics of a child of God.
So if you are a child of God and you are not constantly excited, something is wrong.
Hallelujah. And that's why the word of God is there for you.
It does not... See, there is no sickness in this world.
There is no sickness yet to come that the word of God cannot heal.
Think about it.
Just one word.
Just one word. There is... My goodness.
There's no sickness.
Even if it's in the bones, the world can travel there.
If it's in the blood, the world can go there.
If it's in the head, the word of God can go there.
The word of God can go even into the dead and bring the dead back to life.
You ask a Christian, do you read the Bible? He says, no, I don't feel like reading the Bible.
And you allow the devil to make you think you don't feel like reading the Bible.
That's like... It's like an abomination.
See, it's like your life has been taken away from you.
Now, if somebody right now comes to attack you and you have the means to defend, wouldn't you defend?
Come on, wouldn't you defend?
Are you going to say, I don't feel like defending?
Let there be a fire outbreak in this building right now.
Do you know the first thing we'll do? We'll go outside.
We'll go outside.
Who among you here will say, I don't feel like going outside?
This year, you are going to learn a lot of things.
There are a lot of stupidities of last year. You are not bringing it this year.
Yeah, the word of God is quick and active.
Very powerful.
There is no power in this world that can be compared to the world.
The Bible says it is able to separate, to draw a perfect distinction between the spirit and the soul.
And it's a designer of thoughts.
See, I was talking about the devotional.
So that's why the one year Bible reading plan challenge is very important.
Yeah.
You read it and don't read it while you are doing a lot of things. Have time for the word.
Are you understanding that?
I said do what?
Yeah, have time for the word of God.
Have time.
Have time for the word of God.
Have time.
And then there is the feather study.
So whatever is taught to you in the devotional, one or two scriptures are put in there to, I mean, to extend your knowledge of what, because you know, if I really want to write, every day will be a book.
Glory to God.
Every day will be a book.
Faith that works, but one, one book.
Faith that works, part two.
And it's from part one to part seven.
Yes.
So you have seven books.
That's how we are going to be writing books this year.
Glory to God.
Yeah.
And then when you study it, share it out for the people you are sharing to, you can't really instruct them to do all these things.
It's, it's must.
You can, you can, you can actually admonish them.
But you know, this devotional primarily is not for people out there who would have continued with Reina's devotional.
That's why the name is changed.
It's for those of us in church.
And like I told you, every message in the devotional for this year is something that's going to be taught in church.
So you stand a better chance of understanding it well.
Hallelujah.
I mean, except you don't want, you don't follow it.
You don't read it.
I need to be seen in your life.
Yeah.
I need to be seen in your life.
See, there's a grace that I have in writing.
When you read anything I write, it's like I'm standing there talking to you.
Am I lying?
Yeah.
I can't lie.
Minister Fever was editing, proofreading one of the books.
I think it was this Jesus.
And then he, she called me and we're talking and she said, once I was reading the book, I could just imagine you walking in the room.
I could see you walking in the room, talking.
I said, yeah, that's how it is.
Hallelujah.
Yeah.
I think one of the SHS students or something, yeah, gave a welcome to Christ to with a senior or something.
And he went to see the person slain in the Holy Ghost.
Reading that portion on tongues and how to receive tongues.
The person got slain.
If I was to be a courtic man and my books would have been very powerful.
Like how to suspend in the air.
You will read it and you suspend.
See, so read it.
Are you going to read it?
Yeah, read it.
And by the time we are somewhere in the middle of the year, we'll take your testimonies from the devotionals.
If you don't have testimony, then we know you are part of those who don't read.
You wake up early in the morning, the first thing you are looking for is what people are saying on WhatsApp.
Some of you, you are not busy in life.
That's your problem.
Because you know, if you have, if you are running behind time, you will not even know where your phone is.
Hallelujah.
So read it.
Glory to God.
Praise God.
All right.
So I'm talking to you about faith, right?
As a teacher.
Faith, right? As a teacher.
Okay.
So we are talking about the ABCs of faith.
The title of the message is ABCs of faith.
ABC apostrophe S.
I'm simply talking about fundamentals of faith.
Hallelujah.
What is faith?
Oh, it's 12 already.
That's a few minutes.
Says, I don't believe you have few minutes.
I do.
What is faith?
Now, before we get to know what is faith, let me just give you a glimpse of how important this subject is.
Are you here with me, everybody?
Yes.
How many of us have heard faith, faith, faith?
You've heard faith, faith, faith, faith.
How many of you have heard faith before?
All right.
So almost every one of us have heard faith.
What is faith?
The faith that you heard.
What is faith?
Uh huh.
Now, don't come and tell me faith is a substance of things.
What is faith?
So, like I said, before we know what faith is, I want us to look at just three reasons faith is very important.
All right.
So let's go to Habakkuk 2.4.
Based on my...
Are you all there?
All right.
All of you read it out loud.
One, two, go.
I don't like how you're reading.
One, two, go.
One more time.
The sun, his sun which is lifted up is not upright in him.
And that's what we're trying to look at.
I could have given you the background and stuff like that, but that's not needed now.
But the just shall live by...
They just shall live by his faith.
Now who is a just person?
A just person is a man who works with God.
In this context.
the just is one who works with God. Somebody who identifies with God.
Hallelujah. One who identifies with God. One who who says I am a godly man. I'm a
man that knows God. That is the just. The moment you get born again, you've become
a just man. Hallelujah. Now because you get born again to work with God, the Bible
says that God is faithful by whom you were called onto the fellowship of his
son. Alright? 1st Corinthians 1 9. So we are called to work with God and then he
says the moment you come into that fraternity, the moment you come into the
assembly of a man who is working with God, the moment you make up your mind I
am living or working with God, then you live by faith. It means that if you live
by faith then you die by... Can you imagine that? What kind of analogy is that? You die by faith.
Have you ever heard the Bible say somebody died by faith? You don't die by faith. If
you live by faith, you die by unbelief. Now, babies of you are thinking about
Hebrews 11. All these died. All these died. They died. Okay. They died in faith and
they did not receive a promise. Alright? They had a good report of faith. They
died in faith. They didn't die by faith. And there are two different things. In simple
English. So, the just shall live by faith. It means that if the just abandons faith,
if the just abandons his faith, he has no life. Now, this is very important. If a
just man lives apart from faith or apart from his faith, he's got no life. Tell
somebody 2023. I will live. Come on. Say it again. In 2023, I will live. Now, how are you
going to do that? By faith. So, it says it is by faith or it is by the just faith that he is
alive. And the word alive here is not talking about to exist. Alright? To exist.
But to be full of energy. To be full of strength. Now, most importantly, one says
it means to be sustained in life. The just shall be sustained in life by his
faith. By a somebody. Say in the name of Jesus. I will not break down. Come on.
Say in the name of Jesus. One more time. In the name of Jesus. I will not break
down. You know what I mean? It's in the name of Jesus. I will not break down. Do
you know why? Because I live by my faith. I live by my faith. The just shall live
by faith. The just shall live by his faith. So, it says you are sustained. To
live means to sustain, to be sustained, to be kept together. Hallelujah. To be kept
together. I mean, steady in faith. I've come to conclude that if we have any
issue at all, we can solve it. Whatever issue it is. So, there is faith is your
sustenance in life. Faith is your sustenance in life. So, faith is not something
abstract. Are you understanding that? It's not something abstract. I have faith.
I have faith. No. Don't begin from. It is by faith you are sustained. The very
moment it looks like you are shaking and you don't have sustenance, you've let
you've let go of your faith. See, and faith is a practical walk. It's not just
a mental, it's not a mental assent. It's not something you know by your mind.
Are you here with me everybody? It's not something you know by your mind. It is a
practical walk. So, it says the just shall be sustained in life by his faith. See,
when it looks like you don't have any grip on your life, when it looks like your
life is going anyhow, don't look at their life. The disciples came to Jesus and
they actually will look at that in details. Not today. They came to
Jesus and they told Jesus. I mean, a man brought his son for them to heal and
they weren't able to heal. They couldn't. And Jesus comes and just cast it out.
Jesus cast out the devil simply. Then in private, these guys came to Jesus, the
disciples, and they said, Master, why could we not heal the boy? In fact, the father of
the man said, please help me with my son. I brought him to your disciples and they
couldn't. They couldn't cast out the devil. That's funny. He says they couldn't. But you
know these disciples have heard or have seen people who are not even following
Jesus casting out devils and they came to report to Jesus. And then now is a
demon. I can imagine all the 12 of them. You know that kind of prayer when a
pastor and his pastors are casting out demons. A demon is very stubborn and a demon is
not going. They've sweat. In fact, they've swat. They've lost their voices.
And you see Jesus. While Jesus was talking with the man, the demon
manifests. I charge you, come out, come out. And that was that. The disciples were
marveled and they said, Master, why could we not cast out the devil? And Jesus says,
because of your little feet. And the word little feet there is not talking
about your small feet. Little feet means because of your lack of faith. That is
the proper rendering. Because of your lack of faith. Then Jesus says this kind
does not go except by prayer and fasting. Come on. Now a lot of people have said a
lot of things about it that there are some demons you need to fast to cast
them out. That is a high sounding nonsense. You don't need to fast to cast
out a demon. Jesus never did one. The Apostles never did one. I mean you meet a
demon, you cast the demon out. But the problem is doubts. Unbelief. So Jesus says
the demon did not respond because of your unbelief. Oh man, I will talk to you
about what it means to have unbelief. What unbelief means. Not today. This year
we can do all things. My goodness. I said we can do all things. We can do all
things. So Jesus is this kind. This particular unbelief. You deal with it by
prayer and fasting. Hallelujah. So you get sustained. You get collected. You get
efficient by your faith. Now number two. It means to progress. To make progress.
So the righteous or the just shall make progress by his faith.
Ha ya ya ya. Barastonbe. Glory to God. By the fullness of the faith of God, you are
making progress. See it's not really so much about how much you know. It's not
really so much about some expertise somewhere. But when there is a deposit
of faith in a man, he is compelled to make progress. See I cannot be hid.
Did you hear what I told you? I cannot be hid. My life cannot be stagnated. No, my
progress cannot be impeded. Faith is my force. Ha ya na masha maya. See Jesus says
if you have faith, as little as a mustard seed, you will see to this
mountain. It means that faith is mounting moving. See God knows that we
are going to have obstacles. Ha ya. Can I talk to you a bit? God knows we are
going to have obstacles. God knows that some of us, where we are going to be
born from will be obstacles. Just by where you were born alone is enough an
obstacle to stop you from progressing. God knows that as we grow, some friends,
some experiences in our lives are enough to set us. Hallelujah.
Think about a young girl at the age of four, getting raped by her uncle. Not just
one time, multiple times. Think about it. It would take something more for this girl to grow up and
become normal. People have gone through awkward situations. Very awkward. The
things you complain about. Your name is Jarrah. Say I can be whatever God wants me to be. Now let's say I will be. Like you mean, say I will be all that God wants
me to be. Come on say it again. Say I will be. Like you mean, say I will be all that God wants me to be. Like you mean, say in the name of Jesus, I have what it takes to be all that God wants me to be.
Hallelujah. Sometimes you look at where you come from and you you know boy I
can't be what God wants me to be. That is like an obstacle. Right before you, you
want to achieve this thing, you want to see this thing, but there are a lot of
obstacles. My goodness. The Bible says the righteous, the just shall progress. My
God. So it means that the recipe for my progress, the catalyst for my progress,
it's not with God, it's with me. My faith. Are you understanding that? That's why you
can shout, I will be so big. And somebody's going to ask you, why are you God?
Then you say, listen, I've got what makes men big, regardless of obstacles. He never
said the mountains will not come, the mountains will be there. But he's giving
me faith. Listen, faith does not respect the rules, the natural laws. Because where
there is no way, faith is the power to pass through. The Bible says by faith, they
subdue kingdoms. Do you understand? This is a powerful force. He says by faith, my goodness.
All you leaders and pastors, you're here with me. This same faith, we are conquering
kingdoms for Jesus. Yeah. So it's like saying, you pick, you pick one somebody
and you throw the person in the wilderness. You don't give the person money,
you don't give the person anything. So you know what? Take faith. Faith is enough.
So never say you can't. This year, never say you can't. If your pastor tells you,
we are going to run a crusade at Independence Square, maybe your church is
just 20 people. Don't say we can't. There's something, there's something in you,
there's something in you. Hallelujah. There's something in you. I'm telling all
of us, there's something in us. We progress by it. We get it done by faith.
Are you understanding that? We get it done by faith. So whenever you feel like,
boy I can't. It's an anomaly. It's something is wrong because God has said
the righteous shall progress by his faith. Not like he's going to progress by the
number of people around him. He's going to progress by his faith. Let me, for the
sake of time, let me just chip this in. One of the most powerful definitions of
faith is godly persuasions from God. Deposited or bestowed upon a man. What is
faith? The persuasions of God that he be are. That cracked my mind. I progress.
Come on, I said I progress. Some of you are not saying. I said I progress by faith.
Speaking tongues for one second. Come on. Come on, speaking tongues. Speaking
tongues like you mean. All that you have heard. Come on, speaking tongues right now.
Come on, gather it, gather it, gather it in the language of the spirit.
Colasta, colasta, colasta, colasta.
Oh shadi, shadi, shadi.
Wodabai.
Come on.
Pastors, you're here with me. This year we are progressing by faith. In every set
of ministry we are progressing by faith. In the name of Jesus, no obstacle, no
mountain will survive. We don't come with our natural strength. We come with
the persuasions of the divine. Now lift up your right hand. Say I can do all
things. Come on, say I can do all things. I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me. One more time, I can do all things. I can do all things. One more
time, say I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Sit down.
Glory to God. It also means to be alive.
The just shall be alive by his faith. It means, the word alive there means to be
filled with all the energies necessary for living. Now I think about somebody
who begins to progress in a particular family and then a witch or somebody
starts someone say no no no no no I've got to cut this person short his life
short and then they kill the person. Not for the man of faith. No no no no. You
cannot spread powder, feathers, red cloth, mirror or whatever around my door and have
me die. Now people are really going through things man. You cannot put me in
a pot. It's impossible. I say it's impossible. No no it's not possible.
You can't. You see, incantations, enchantments, machinations, they don't work on me.
Oh glory to God. They don't work on me. Like I'm here then the demon will wake me to the
point that I don't I don't want to what I don't want to preach. There's no demon
that is born like that. I have all the energies that is required for life. So as
long as my faith is active in the Lord, man I am in short of nothing. See this
here there are some things don't let it come out of your mouth. I don't know why
anytime I pick the Bible to read something comes on me and I begin to
sleep. Ha. Look at someone say ha. Do your face like I say ha. In surprise, in shock say ha.
A man of faith. You pick the Bible and something came upon you. The only thing
that is mandated to come upon us in the New Testament says and it's a come to
pass I will pour my spirit upon. I've got the Holy Ghost upon me. I can't have any
other appointment. Hallelujah. There's some things don't let it come out of
your mouth. Glory to God. So I don't know when I started to go to church then by
the time I realized I didn't want to go again. Then you say pastor please pray
for me. Never pray that prayer for any of your people. When they come to tell
tell you that you say you need to be slapped there's something wrong
upstairs. You have not been mopping upstairs for a long time. Shine your
brain. You are a child of God. See there are some things it's an embarrassment
for a child of God to see. It's shameful. Imagine apostle Paul saying
that I wanted to go to Macedonia and I don't. No. I understand that. Yeah. Now
those of you who know Bible runner you are thinking about I wanted to come to
you but the devil the Satan hindered me. When Paul said Satan hindered me he was
talking about persecutions that got to him. They told him that the wicked
men are lying in wait to kill you. That was that. And so the Lord directed
him elsewhere. But Paul gets up in the morning. He says I don't feel like
preaching again. See there is a mindset when you get there are some suggestions
the devil will not bring to you. He will not bring to you. No think about it like as
we are here then we are going to see maybe Rabbi say that I will stop church.
That is the day I will know the devil is at work. I won't cast the devil out. I
will slap him. And the devil will get out from the ear. There is a way you make up your
mind. Some suggestions will not come to you. For example getting up to church and
thinking whether you go to church or you don't go to church. You are sick. No I don't
mean that in in a funny way. There's something wrong. Yes very important. So
there are things that you don't say. It's a disgrace for the child of God to say
so. I'm not trying to make it. I'm not trying to. No that is what it is.
I don't feel like reading my Bible. It's a disgraceful thing. Today I don't feel like praying.
When my thing comes when it happens like that I don't want to pray.
Your team. What team? Ask somebody what team? Now 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and 7
quickly. I've done like 20% of what I want to share with you. But I'm not going to
do that. I've done like 20% of what I want to share with you. But I mean today is the
first Sunday of the year. What time are you thinking we are going to close? Let me
hear from you. What time did you start church? You want us to be in church for
the first Sunday of the year? Whoever said no God bless you. May the Lord increase you
this year. Abundantly. If you agree with them receive it. Some people are so quiet.
Alright all of you read together. 1, 2, go. 5, 7, 2nd Corinthians.
One more time. One more time. Now don't just read it. Meditate it. 1, 2, go.
Close your eyes and say it. 1, 2, go.
For we walk by faith and not by sight. Now the word walk is the word paripatio.
Paripatio.
It means to make due use of opportunities. Paripatio means to make due use of opportunities.
It talks about progress by taking hold of opportunities. It talks about advancement
born out of taking hold of opportunity. Making due use of opportunities. So let's take
what are some of the opportunities people get these days?
What are some of the people called opportunities?
Traveling abroad. Yeah. Alright. Alright so Aha so Sylvia has gotten admission to
Kentampu. Kentampu whatever. College of Health. So she's going to study what?
Ah it's not science. Radiological technology. Yes. The people do x-ray and they interpret
x-ray they go into your bones and yes. So let's say now listen. So this girl right
now in her life no matter how big she is growing whether she likes it or not she's
an SHS graduate. Then she has gotten admission so there's an opportunity for her to
advance her study. Are we together? Now Paripatio is the ability to walk into that opportunity
and then advance in that opportunity. Are you understanding that? Yes. Sit down.
So they just shall seize opportunity and then advance in that opportunity. So Paul
says we walk by faith. Now what it means is that the way we realize opportunities
and we advance in them is not when there is opportunity. Oh man. Did you see that?
Paul is saying that by faith we see opportunities or by faith we create opportunities and we
advance in them. So it is for we walk by faith. We make due use of the opportunities giving
us in the Lord by faith. And not by what we see. Because by what we see there are no
opportunities. By what we see it looks hard. By what we see it looks impossible. By what
we see it looks unbearable. By what we see it looks draining. So if we use our eyes,
if we really want to advance and we are going to use our eyes, our optical eyes it's not
going to work. I don't know who I'm talking to. So we are going to see a dry land and
we are still going to see city in the dry land. Are you here with me everybody? That
same meeting or self meeting or whatever the Lord told you to do. That you constantly,
instead of four people you constantly have one zero one zero. The faith, that's what
Paul is saying. Faith is your ability to see in that one person that is coming consistently.
See nations in that one. Are you understanding that? Yes sir. That small group that pastor
has handed over to you and the people are coming like they will come, they will not
come, they will not come, they will not come, they will not come. God says there is a conviction
you must have. Hallelujah. Because if you are going to use your eyes to look at them
you will be disappointed. You will be disappointed because sometimes those that you really trust
they stare your anointing, they will be absent. Then you go and meet those that when you begin
to drink all your anointing yet you must have an eye beyond what you see. Are you understanding
that? Beyond what you see. The pastoral work is some way, some way. It's only this work
that we don't convict people to praise. Even when they are guilty. Yeah. Now if you meet
a pastor who is condemning people you are going to hell, you are about to die and all
of that. So the person has gone to sin, has gone to fool. The pastor must be able to have
a composure to see God's agenda, God's mandate and God's calling in that person and speak
to that. See normally when people mess up and I call them the first thing I do is that
I reiterate the prophecies God has given me. I tell them that. I don't begin by saying
what did you do? I now begin to, I will speak to the God in you, the God factor in you.
They will come and address the, the, the peripheral matters. Because that's what Paul will do.
Paul begins to say don't you know that you are the temple of the Holy Ghost? That is
faith. Don't you know that there is a healing anointing on your life? Don't you know that
you've got the spirit of prophecy? Don't you know that the power of God is at resident
in you? And most often than not as you begin to talk the person will begin to cry. Then
you begin to. You understand what I'm talking about? Yes. So Paul says we walk by faith
and not by sight. You can't be a Christian by walking by sight. For example, we are going
for Amor Camp. The first thing that comes into your mind, I don't have money. The first
thing that came into your mind, I don't have money. Listen, by the time we are, February
2 we'll be talking about faith. After we are done with the two months, we have to see faith
advancements. Are you understanding that? Or what, what, see what will come into your
mind the moment you hear Amor Camp, then the first thing that comes into your mind is that
alright I'll find a way of going and I'll not pay. Why? Because I don't have money.
If my pastor is not going to be, he's not going to give me a free slot, I will go. So
if I go let them, truly when you come we may not be able to suck you. But listen, you are
not growing. You are not advancing. Hallelujah. You are not advancing. Maybe we all, oh they
say okay we are buying this offering box. The first thing that came into your mind is
that this is for the workers. This is for the, you know what, you're walking by sight.
You don't believe that there's a little faith somewhere in you or small faith somewhere
in you that you can even contribute a city to the 10,000 Ghana City offering box you
want to buy. Hallelujah. See, you know some people when I get money, when I get money
like the way I will give, no, it's a hat, it's not cash. Are you understand that? You begin
to point people in the ministry, huh? Oh yeah, I will give, daddy will run away. Then you're
giving, release the giving. I am telling you, because I don't get moved by cash rough rough
like that. It must be huge, palatable, and sumptuous. Palatable money, that's right.
So we walk, we advance by faith. We advance by, listen, take up challenges. Can I say
that again? Take up challenges. And work your faith out. See listen, things that you do
over and over and over again, you now begin to have that strength to do it easily. Easily.
So it may be that 10 cities that came into your hand that you say, Lord, from this year,
any amount of money that comes into my hand, however, whichever way, I will give some to
support the work of God. One thing this year we are going to do in all the churches, there
will be a special offering taken for the World for Jesus campaign. Every church will do it.
Every church. Now you say, Lord, this is, I am sponsoring, I am partnering with you in
everything that you are doing in this ministry. We are not talking about large money. Even
if it is 50 persuades that you can be consistent, be. You know what you're doing? You are harnessing
a spirit. You are, you are harnessing a spirit. Listen, for example, if you want to walk in
healing and demonstrate the power of God, you know, those kind of stuff. It's not like
you are just dead, then you begin to throw your hands and people are falling. No. I've
prayed for people, I've prayed for people and they never get healed. In fact, last year
I got some. Until last year I was dead and a brother who was healed called me that a
baby has died. One year and a half, so we should pray. We pray that baby didn't rise.
The baby is buried. I'm still preaching to you. So why do I still have the boldness that
the dead shall be raised? You are exercising your muscles. You understand what I'm talking
about? The best way to walk in the in the anointing of healing is to just continue,
continuously, you just put your hand on people and pray for them. Maybe first 20, you'll
not see any any testimony. Don't worry. How many of I prayed for people and you never
saw any testimony before? You prayed and you're like, God, you have you have filled me, my
God. Why does not mean stop? It doesn't mean stop. Maybe suddenly you begin from, oh, my
headache is gone. Then you focus on the headache. By the time you realize, see, listen, when
you exercise your muscles, it becomes stronger. Not the same way in the spirit. No, for example,
those who came to stand here this this dawn and you want the grace to teach. How do you
begin? By teaching. By teaching. So it's not like you'll be there and then the Lord will
come to you. No, no. You begin to teach. I mean, of course, you don't begin to teach
without studying. You don't have the grace to teach. Today I'm talking about many, many.
You displace yourself. There's there's a gift I have. I don't know the name. That if you
have it, if God does not grace you, you will continuously never study your Bible. You know
what? I can change this message right now and say I want to preach on anything. I just
need one scripture. I can talk on that scripture for long. You know, I've not studied it. And
by the time you go and study it, you go and study it, you'll find something like that.
Hallelujah. All of these things are levels and it's grace. Because there are men of God
who began church before my mother was born. So they cannot preach for twenty minutes.
One person was preaching, said, today's message, you have to be very serious. Take it very
serious. Use it. Because I suffered today. And he preached for fifteen minutes. And I'm
like, what a message. If you want to, if you see how many of us want to preach for long,
like one day when you want to preach for long. Lift up your hand, let me see. So begin. Don't
talk to a soul for ten minutes. No. No. Sometimes after you save the soul, after the person
receives Christ, then you say, OK, OK, second thing, you have to, you have to, you have
to pray in tongues. Then you begin that one. Then you begin that one. Yes. See, when we
were going for missions on, inside and all of that, always my soul is, there were not
ten souls. Three. Four. I've never won ten souls in a mission field before. Sometimes
when we go, and so I want these people today, they are expecting us to go to different,
you know, like extent. I won't go. The people are, yeah. Yeah. Because there are some souls,
the moment you begin to talk and their responses, it's tell you, why should I struggle to look
for another person? You should be saved by somebody else. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know,
sometimes like how people be like, they will come and they have about twenty-five souls.
I'm like, what, how did you do this thing? You are likely not to have any of them follow
you. Yeah. And you know, it was true. Some of the brothers, they will go, they will come
with a lot of names. And one day, daddy said he had a partner came to tell him that if
you talk to his partner, because he'll do one and he'll say, oh, my, he'll be saying,
oh, yeah, for you. So, we're not, we're not the number. Or more message. Because I can
do a trick. No, no, no, no. Me, when I come to you and you tell me you are busy, I won't
force you. I don't tear my hand like that. You are the one dying. I am not the one dying.
And there's equally another soul there dying. So, if you're unsavable today, that you, the
life giver, you begin to beg. The person has not seen his death enough. Shall I allow the
person to be? Don't, don't rush. And see, when you are winning souls, those who will
be, you know, arguing with you, then you want to answer, you want to prove. Let's say, this
year, don't do stupid labor. Are you honest? I said this year, don't do stupid labor. Don't
do stupid labor. We are looking at efficiency. Are you understanding that? One soul, every
day, I'm not ready for church. I'm not ready. Leave the person. Your pastors don't like
what I'm telling you. I'm serious. See, there are some, that moment you talk to them, they
follow you. They say they are very restless. Then go to the wrestles. No, I'm not telling
that you go and there are people, when they are even talking to you, you know that they
are seeking for answers. There are people who are stubborn. You meet a staunch Jehovah's
Witness. Leave the person. See, the Bible says, if you go to a house and they don't
accept you, shake off the dust of your feet and Jesus says, there's no time, go to the
next house. Let your labor this year be efficient. Yeah, let it be efficient. Don't be, and this
soul, you are on this soul for three months. No, I don't know why all your children are
happy. What are you going through? What is your pastor making you go through that you
are not telling me? The guy is killing you. See, when you leave them, then you pray for
them. Yes, pray for them. Just say, God have mercy on their souls. I always tell you, there's
some stupid things that never happened to me. When I got born again, I just got born
again. And I followed. Some people, even after they are born again, you have to drag them
out like goats. As if we are going to kill people in church, you know? Yeah. I've been
with you. I've been with you. Why is it? Shallow goats this year. Say no goats this year. No
goats. No goats. No goats. You know, when you put a rope on the neck of a sheep, you
just do. And that's that. You know what this thing means? I'm ready. Ha ha ha ha. Nobody
is going anywhere. Hallelujah. Say far rich in labor. Come on say far rich in labor. Far
rich in labor. Far rich in labor. The spirit of God will be supplied. Oh. Recovered by
the spirit of God. He's so pious. You are not doing this with your eye. No. With the
eye of the Holy Ghost. With the eye of the Holy Ghost. With the eye of the Holy Ghost.
With the eye of the Holy Ghost. With the eye of the Holy Ghost. With the strength of the
Holy Ghost. Now sit down for two minutes. Let's just let me try to wrap up because you
know, you're going to have a long night today. My God. Say my God. Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Say
my God. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Ha ha. Ay ay ay ay ay. Glory to God. Far rich in
labor. Right? Do you believe that? Do you believe I'm going to do more for the Lord
this year? Like you're going to really do things you've never done for the Lord before.
And do more. Do more. See one of the things you can do this year is to find the souls
list. Make this this church will have a soul list book. Find one. And then begin to pray.
Say, Lord, this year, I'm winning 200 souls of which I am establishing 20 in church. By
life, by death. Yeah. Glory to God. Very important. Very important. So whatever supply that is
available to you, I'm ready. I'm ready. You can also write it down. Lord, this year, I
want to heal the sick. So much. At least 50 tangible testimonies. 50. You can also write
it down. I want demons to cast out devils. My God. Shailety. I want demons to cry out.
The Bible says, and with loud voice, they cried out. Yesterday, daddy was casting out
devils. He said, I, I, I. Then he stopped and said, wait. One stupid thing about demons
is that day to day they feel pains. Hallelujah. See, they inflict pains on people. As though
they don't understand what it means to be pained. Then he came back. He said, I want
to punish you. Hallelujah. Please, please, please, please. Throne of Corp. What is faith?
Faith is from the Greek word Pistis. Pistis. Or Pistis. Pistis. Pistis. I can spell it in
Greek, actually. Hallelujah. You want that one? You can't, you can't write it. Alright.
Now, Pistis refers to God's divine persuasion. God's divine persuasion.
So, when we're talking about faith, we are talking about God's own persuasions. Man,
I can teach on this for twelve years. Non-stop. God's divine persuasion. See, how many of us
believe we have faith? Now, alright, how many of us believe we need some faith? So, you
all believe you have faith? Alright, Romans chapter twelve, verse three, the Bible says
so. That God has dealt with every man the measure of faith. So, every Christian has
faith. In fact, the Bible says you are saved by grace through faith. So, without faith,
it is impossible to be saved. So, if you believe that you're saved, you don't need faith. You
don't need faith. Say, I have faith. Say, I have faith. Now, that faith that you have,
oh my god, can I teach a bit? Okay, okay. Maureen, I love you. I love you. All of you,
you are not my children. Can I teach a bit? Those in the middle, no matter what I say,
you don't mind me. Why are you like that? Why are you like that? Can I continue a bit?
Can I continue a bit? Can you excuse us? You people leave us. So, peace this. God's divine
persuasions. The persuasions of God. Hallelujah. Now, this means faith cannot be humanly generated.
You can't generate faith. It ought to be God's own gift to you. Hallelujah. It's God's own
gift to you. Now, faith is different from belief. I'm going to teach that on Wednesday.
Hey, yeah, Wednesday we'll be here. We'll have our last service. Before we go to, I'm
going to come. Wherever I will be in the spirit, I'll come and teach. Yes. So, I said, faith
is different from belief. Belief is man generated. Belief is, you know, the Greek word is bestial.
It actually talks about the persuasions of man toward God or anything. That's why people
can believe in idols. You cannot have faith in idols. Are we together? Yes. There's no
Muslim with faith. They believe in Allah. Are we together? They can even say they have faith,
but I'm telling you, they don't have faith. Because faith is given by God. It's God's
own. It's God's own persuasions. God's own cogitations and persuasions. The settlement
and the convictions of God handed down to us in the gospel. Are you understanding that?
That this is the best teaching on faith ever. I don't care which ones you have heard. So,
God carries his own persuasions and give it to a man. So, what is faith? God's, uh-huh,
come on, talk to me. What is faith? God's divine persuasions. What I mean is this. If
we are to walk by faith, if we live by faith, it means that we live by the persuasions of
God. Listen, we don't live, we don't live by our persuasions of God. We live by God's
persuasions. Two different things. I'm not talking about from, from down to up. I'm
talking about from up to down. So, let's take for example. Hi. So, this is a guy in a wheelchair.
Now, somebody come. Who said that nobody wants to come? Sit down, sit inside. So, he has
the innocent face like an invited pastor. An invited guest. That's, they have a mischievous
way of smiling. Yeah. So, this is a guy who has never walked before. In act, oh my, I
want to teach. This is, I'm, I'm now getting into the teaching. Can you give me like 30
minutes? 30 minutes. Oh no, I could see I believe in God. Believe also in me. So, in
act fourteen, the Bible says, Paul was preaching the gospel. And while he was preaching the
gospel, there was a man who had never walked. There was a crippled man. So, as he kept on
listening to Paul, the Bible says, Paul saw that the man had faith to be healed. Ah. So,
let me tell you what happened. I say the gospel. You can't preach any other thing. As he was
preaching the gospel, Paul was preaching the persuasions of God. It's called the gospel
of faith. It's called the word of faith. You read Romans chapter ten, it says, which is
the word of faith which we preach. The gospel is the word of faith. It means it is the words
about God's persuasions. So, what was the persuasion of God that got the man healed?
Paul heard that when Jesus Christ died, he died for everybody. And all our sins were
placed on him. All our sicknesses were placed on him. All our depressions were placed on
him. All our troubles were placed on him. That if a man would believe that these things
that God did in Christ are so, the sicknesses will leave. So, in the gospel, God has a persuasion
that let Jesus die and then I will rise him up again. When I raise him up again, I, God,
I believe that when he rises again and then the Holy Ghost comes to the earth, by that,
man can receive absolute healing regardless of what situations they have been. Then Paul
said, you might have been born a cripple but God has persuasions about you in the gospel.
So, he sent Jesus to die and God was believing. God was believing. God was believing. God,
you see, our faith is God's belief. So, God was believing that if I do this thing, I think
that brother who has never worked in his life, if he gets the chance of hearing what I have
done in Christ, he would jump up because he's gonna see the reason why he should not die.
He should not be a cripple again. Push it back. So, as Paul kept on preaching and preaching
and preaching about the convictions of God, the guy said, no, no, no, I'm not supposed
to be this. I might have been born this way. I'm not supposed to be this because Jesus
paid for it. Are you here with me everybody? Come on. You here with me everybody?
Yes. So, the man tapped into the convictions of God. Think about it. For God so loved the
world that he gives only because his hand. That who so ever believes in him shall not
perish but have everlasting life. This was God's persuasion that drove him to give his
son to be killed because he believed that if I give my son to be killed, men can have
eternal life. And the Bible says that the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him.
See, that is why faith comes only through by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
In fact, in the magic, in the Greek, it says by hearing and hearing the words of Christ,
which is the gospel. So, faith is only bestowed when the gospel comes to a man because the
faith of God is buried in the gospel. So, as the gospel is preached, then God's faith
comes to the hearer. When the hearer decides I'm going to believe this thing, then faith
comes to the hearer. And that is the conviction and persuasions of God. Let me, let me, let
me go higher. You are called as a pastor. You've never pasted before. You don't know
how it tastes like. You don't even know how it is like. I said this year, you would do
things. You would do things. I said this year, you would do things. You will do things in
the name of Jesus. Higher. So, this lady here is called to pastor. She's got no experience.
But you know, the first thing is, does God, does he have a persuasion that this girl who
has not pasted can pastor successfully? No, does God has a persuasion, does he have a
persuasion like that? If God has a persuasion, then all that this girl has to do is to just
tap into the persuasions of God. I may not look like it. I might have not even tasted
it before. I don't even know how it looks like. But there is a God somewhere in me that
believes I can do it. Therefore, I do it. Come on. Hallelujah. Do you get it? That is
faith. Come on. That is faith. That is faith. Oh, and it's filled with, the word of God
is filled with a lot of examples. Faith is only generated by the word. You can't hear
the words in her face because faith is God's persuasion to us. Are you here with me? When
the Hebrew boys saw that a decree had gone forth for all magicians to be killed and
interpretations of dreams and stuff like that, Daniel asked, why is the king's decree
so hasty? Then the guy said, no, no, no, no, take me to the king. Take me to the king.
Take me to the king and tell him that he should give me some few days. I will not only come
with the interpretation, I will come with the dream. That was Godly. So the guy said,
hey, you know what? God has a persuasion. There is a Godly conviction. God believes
that I can make a man know and understand. So I am going to God and introduce myself
to God that here I am. Let it come. This is faith, brothers and sisters. It is
practically what you believe that God is convinced of. So what is the and the
convictions of God are buried in his words, especially when you hear God prophesying.
Let's take for example, I'm a pastor. I'm doing what I have to do. I'm praying, I'm
fasting, I'm reading, I'm reading. Yes, church is not growing. Church is not taking
form. What is God's conviction? Let me tell you one. He said a little one shall
become a thousand and a small one shall become a great nation. So oh, God has a
conviction. God has, God has a God is persuaded about the fact that I am
becoming.
I am. Hey.
Paul says therefore we with the same spirit of faith. We believe. Therefore we
speak with Maya toast. We might have not seen it, but we know what God thinks
about the matter. We know the mind of God about the matter. We believe and
therefore we speak.
Huh? If anybody believes that my life can amount to nothing or is going to amount
to nothing, it's not a fighting matter. God says my thoughts are higher than your
thoughts. There are higher thoughts. Hallelujah. If my mother thinks I will
amount to nothing, the thoughts of God. What is the thought of God say? Jesus
says, I believe you are the light of the world. Jesus says, I believe you are a
city that is set upon a hill. That is the Jesus has a believe and that is what I
believe. I am a that is what I believe.
So, this sickness, can it be cured? This problem, can it be dealt with?
What is God thinking about? What is the thought of God? What is the
persuasion of God? Am I talking to somebody? What is the persuasion of God?
He believes I can heal the sick. And that is faith. He believes I can
heal the sick. He believes I can raise the dead. See, Jesus picks these
teenagers. Then he says go. Heal the sick. Raise the dead. Cleanse the lepers.
Let the lame walk. Let the blind see.
Peter, the Bible say he saw a certain man. And the man I think for eight years or so
had been bound to his bed and mattress. He was not able to walk. The moment
Peter got there, he says, brother, the Lord Jesus makes you whole. He makes you
whole. He makes you whole. You know why we are going to stand boldly before sick
people and declare? Because we know the mind of God towards the situation. God
that I am a God that's not one man to be bound on beds and mattresses. God that's
not one man to be inhabited by demons. God that's not one man to be broken and
sick, sated and destroyed and in chains. That is faith.
So Jesus says, he tells the disciples, he says have the faith of God. Have the
persuasions of God. It means be persuaded like God. Be persuaded as God is
persuaded. I am a Shander by her. Ah Jesus sold us the secret. Why he will
step in a city and heal the whole city? Because he knew what God was thinking.
He knew the persuasions of God about sick people.
Hey.
What is the persuasion of God?
Shout it, I'm full of faith. Like you mean to say, I am full of faith. One more
time, I'm full of faith. I want to say like you say, I am full of faith. Come on
now. I am full of godly persuasions. Say I am full of the persuasions of God. I
am full of the persuasions of God.
God asks the question, can a nation be born in one day?
The answer to man is no. Then he says, I can do it. I, if I had I would have told
you faith is the mind of Christ. He says, I can do it. I can do it. And watch me do
it. Watch me do it. I need I need a lot of hours to make this thing sink but but
it's fine. What what can give God that boldness and audacity to look at a man
who is dead and still come and give me a word that you will give birth in the
mind of God. In the persuasions of God. It is not possible to be barring.
Regardless of what you see in the in the mind of God, barrenness is
impossibility. There's no barrenness before him. He does not believe in
God. No. No. No. That's his mind. I said that is his mind. That is his mind.
Listen. We are walking by godly persuasions. I say we are walking by godly
persuasions. Are you here with me? Say we are walking by godly persuasions. Hey.
Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. So the next time you are laying hands on the
sick, don't look at what is coming out of you. No. Just know what God believes
in you. That's all. That is your faith. We walk by what God believes about
life.
Maya.
See, God believes that promotion does not come from the east or the west.
God believes that he can pick up the poor. The beggar from the downhill and
set him among princes. God believes that he is not limited by poverty. God, that
is God's belief. So if I am a pastor and I have the conviction, I have the
conviction, I have the belief of God, I also know that I can carry any church
member to any level that God wants him to be. And nothing will stop it.
No. Are you understandin that? Yes, sir. So if I came to God broke weak, will God
complain? No. God knows that he has what it takes. God knows he has what it
takes and that is what he has carried into us. So Jesus says something, Jesus
says something, this is what I believe. I am the light of the world. He who
follows me shall never walk in darkness. The belief of Jesus is that I will never
walk in darkness. So if I'm going to walk by faith, I'm a command. Darkness
has no power over me. It's as simple as that.
Hey, are you understandin that? No. Think about this. If your father and your
mother went to do wangu wangu and you got born and then you have sickle cell
anemia, in the faith of doctors is something that is incurable. But what is
the mind of God? No, what is the mind of God? There's nothing we can't do.
Do you understand? There's nothing we cannot do. I want to say this again, there's
nothing we cannot do. Pastors listen to me. This year, you will carry the
church of God as far as your faith. I say in the name of this year, you will
carry the church of God as far as your faith, as far as your faith, as far as
your faith, as far as your faith. How much can you believe? How much, how much,
how much, how much, how much.
Hey, see, this year when you are confronted with anything, the first thing
you have to do is that what is the mind of God concerning this? Don't rush,
don't cry, don't, first of all, what is the mind of God concerning this? Then
you begin to search through the scriptures. You search through the
scriptures. You search through the scriptures. Then you begin to say, alright,
I know the mind of God now. Your situation, you are not staying. You are
not staying. Hey, shout it, I have the spirit of faith. I have the spirit of
faith. I have the spirit of faith. I have the spirit of faith. I have the spirit of
faith. I have the spirit of faith. Don't rush. When assignment is given you, what
is the mind of God concerning this? In the mind of God, can I do this? You find
it. Because if God says you can't do it, then it means that God, you don't have
any faith in that matter. And the Bible says anything done outside faith is
sin. Think about it. If you are a Christian, if you do anything outside
God's persuasion is sin. God's persuasion is that I cannot, I cannot be
locked up in chains. I can't be locked up in chains. Chains of addictions, chains
of whatever, I cannot be locked up. Because in the mind of God, he has freed
me. He has freed me. So God believes that I am free.
Once I had a pastor, he says God does not heal anybody. You know, this guy. But now I
understand. Because in the mind of God, we are all well. We are well. So the
problem is simple. Just see how he believes and just walk it. That is why
when Paul told the man, rise up on your feet, the Bible says he leaped. He says,
I am not just rising, I will leap. So for all these years, all this sickness
was fake. It was fake. Because the mind of God is the real thing. See, it's
sometimes all the things you are crying about, they don't matter. Because if you
know what God's mind is, listen, my life will never end up in a ditch. That is
God's mind. It's not possible. It's not possible that I will have a terminal
sickness in my body. In the mind of God, I should not be carrying diabetes. In the
mind of God, I should not be carrying hypertension. In the mind of God, I should
not be, whatever, I should not be carrying. We with the same faith, with the
same spirit of faith, we declare as God is saying. We declare as God is saying. If
somebody says you have, you have disappointed the whole family, you have
disappointed me, you don't cry. In the mind of God, am I a disappointment? I'm
going to lead you to pray for 15 minutes, then we close. Are you understanding? You
are going to say I walk in godly persuasions. This year, the only thing
that matters is what God thinks. The only thing that matters is what God
believes. If God does not believe it, it's not my life. If God does not believe it,
I don't even think about it. If God does not believe it, I don't worry my head
about it. See, it was from this same thing that the evangelist will tell
somebody after prayer, they say whatever you could not do, do it. Because in the
mind of God, you are doing it. Are you understanding that? In the mind of God,
you are doing it. In the mind of God, you are doing it. I want you to take the
teachings of your pastors very seriously this year. Because they will make you. I
said they will make you. They will make you.
Paul said something. Paul called himself the wise master builder. The wise
master builder. That's what Paul believed that God believed about him. Yeah.
Paul says when he pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb to
reveal his son in me, I conferred not again with flesh and blood. The same Paul
that have killed many for faith. Now came to, ah, he came to believe the same
thing I killed people for. I'm going to save people. That is God's mind. He says
when he pleased God. So when he got to know that ah, actually this is God's mind
about me. He says no, I conferred not again with flesh and blood. Sometimes the
reason why we don't take actions, the reason why what God tells you delays and
all of that is that you are not thinking like God is thinking. You are not
thinking in his persuasion. Because God is saying my persuasion is that you are
walking here. Then you are also walking in the opposite direction. But this year
shall not be so. Come on, I say this year shall not be so. This year shall not be
so. This year it shall not be so. Say God's persuasion. All the way. Come on,
God's persuasion. All the way. God's persuasion. All the way. God's
persuasion. God's persuasion. All the way. So you are going to stand before the
sick, fearless. Do you understand that? You will stand before the sick, fearless.
You will look at the sick and say I know what God believes about this matter.
Then you tell them be healed. You are not looking for a power from anywhere.
Hallelujah. You just tell them be healed. Are you understanding that? And they be
healed. You are not saying be healed so you will see whether it's working or not.
You know that is God's mind. This year we are healing a lot of sick people.
We are casting out a lot of demons. Like a lot, a lot of demons.
So, ministry will expand. In all shape and form. As a ministry will expand.
In all shape and form. Say my faith. Is what God believes. Alright, let's put it
well. Say what God believes. Is my faith. Say what God believes. Is my faith.
What God believes is my faith. What God believes. What God believes is my faith.
We are going to be praying for the next 15 minutes. Solid. I want you to pray
with so much fervent. Don't just sit down and be speaking in tongues. As though
the tongues is recorded in your mind. With all kinds of seriousness. With all
kinds of seriousness. All kinds of seriousness. You are praying. And then
assemble as many issues that you know what God thinks about. That will ginger
your prayer. So for example, you pick healing. Sicknesses and healings. The
moment you know that this is what God thinks. This is my faith. This year I'm
doing this. Let me read this thing to you before we finish. Before I, I, I. 1720
I believe Matthew.
And Jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief, for verily I say unto you,
if you have faith, it means if you have godly persuasions. If you have godly
persuasions, as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall see unto this mountain,
Dunder place, and it shall re. Come on. It shall re. It shall re. What I want to
tell you. And nothing shall be impossible unto you. If you have godly persuasions,
even as little as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you.
So he says if you have really actualized a little fragment of the mind of God,
nothing shall be impossible. What is an impossibility to God? Nothing. And he
says if you can, ee, ee, ee, ee. No, think about if you were with God and God says
I'm going to create the whole universe out of nothing. It doesn't sound sensible.
At least you need some raw materials. And God said nothing. I'll bring it out of
nothing. And he did. So that kind of life is what we call faith. But it's God's
life. Faith. The things we call faith, they are God's life. Constantly living in
the miraculous. Constantly living in the miraculous. Ah, I wish I can open your
heart and put this message into you. So if you're walking with me and I have the
mind of Christ and I have received the persuasions of God, I can say alright.
This guy here, who can't walk? He can walk. And I'm not going to apply any
injection whatsoever. He can walk. And if you also have the same spirit of faith,
you will shout in joy. You will not open your eyes as though you are looking as
whether it will work or not because you know that the God's persuasions, nothing
is impossible. He says nothing shall be impossible. I pray for you in the name of
Jesus. That this is your story. That this year, nothing shall be impossible. This
is what we are going to pray about. Like I told you, I walk in godly
persuasions. I walk in my godly persuasions. I walk in my godly
persuasions. Over every matter I walk in my godly persuasions.
Over every matter I walk in my godly persuasions. Not the persuasions
of the world or not the persuasions of the minds of people, but the
persuasions of God. Come on lift up your voice. Lift up your voice. Lift up your
voice. Lift up your voice. Lift up your voice. Come on for the next fifteen
Jesus. Come on. In the name of
Jesus in this month, you are
feasting on the fullness of
faith. Your faith is alive.
Your faith is alive. You are
not waiting for the for for for
the middle of the year. Your
faith is alive. Your faith is
alive. You are achieving God.
In the name of Jesus, you are
not waiting for the for for
Jesus. You will not be weak.
You will not be weak. You will
run and not be weary. In the
name of Jesus.
For the perfect day.