BREAD AND STONES 4 || THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE 2

Matthew chapter number 4. Matthew 4. If you're there, say amen. We'll start the reading from, um, verse 1. Um, Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterward an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. And he answered and said, it is written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed— or that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Is that in your Bible? Is that in your Bible? Does man live? Now let me still have the same presentation, um, in different translation. Amplified said, but he replied, it has been written, man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. All right, Good News Translation says, the scripture says human beings cannot live on bread alone but need every word that God speaks. God's Word Translation says, scripture says a person cannot live on bread alone but on every word that God speaks. Message Translation It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God's mouth. Amen. Good. Now there are two things that I highlighted there, and, um, I don't know how we're going to squeeze all this in one. Um, the word there is 'man shall not live by bread alone,' meaning that there is a possibility that man can live by bread. I need us to be fast now. Are you there? Good. But it is important that it is not bread alone. All right, so now there is the difference between the bread-powered life and the word-powered life. The bread-powered life is a life that is powered, sustained by what can be seen, felt, or touched. The word-powered life is the life of the spirit. That's the life of the supernatural. The bread-powered life, the conclusion of your asset and what you have, is based on what can be seen, felt, and touched. Amen. The word-powered life, or the supernatural life, the asset of that life is the quantity and the quality of the word in your spirit. There is the natural human life, it's called zoke. You have that same life in goats and dogs, sheep, cow, and all that. It's the natural life, it is powered by bread. But there is the supernatural life, or the life that we have in God, it's called zoe. That's the life of the Spirit. It is powered and sustained by the word. Amen. Now, it is not confession that determines which life you are living. No. So for instance, the fact that you confess that I live the supernatural life doesn't mean you are living the one saying it, but not true of the one repeating it. For instance, If I am ministering in a meeting for men and I say, say after me, I am a good man, all right, this, this, and then you say that as a lady, that doesn't change your gender. Talk to me now. It doesn't change your gender. So sometimes We get into the delusion of thinking that the fact that we repeat what is said in church, meaning that that's the life we are living. It's not true. Are you there? Are you sure? Can I take you on a journey? Are you sure? Want to leave the street and enter express? Should we enter express? Are you sure? Lift your hand. Say, from today I receive grace to live the supernatural life. Say it again. From today I receive grace to live the supernatural life. Say it again. From today I receive grace to live the supernatural life. All right. Now look at this. So Hebrews, which is one of the scriptures that have been quoted again and again, but let me take you to another part of Hebrew today. Hebrews chapter number 5. Let's start the reading from verse 12 to 14. Hebrews 5, from verse 12 to 14. Can you please give us in King James translation? Hebrews 5, from verse 12 to 14. Say, for when— for the time ye ought to be teachers Ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk. Are you seeing that? And not strong meat. All right, if you want to understand what he was saying, look at it. 1 Corinthians chapter number 3. We're going to come back there. 1 Corinthians chapter number 3. Look at the Um, let's start from verse 1. Look at the frustration of Paul when— 3 from verse 1, when Paul was speaking. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. Hold on a minute. So as much as, as newborn babes— that's what Peter said— you desire earnestly the sincere milk of the word, is that okay? That you may grow thereby. Milk, you grow with it, but you must not remain on it. You grow with it. Okay, maybe when you give your life to Christ, you were told that all your troubles and your tribulations will be over. Amen. Amen. And you felt encouraged, and when you came to Christ, you felt peace that you have never felt before. That's fantastic. But as you go on to maturity, you begin to hear Jesus say things like, in this world you will have tribulations. Idamu. In fact, the way the Yoruba Bible puts it is, you know, we sometimes we compare Hebrew and all that. It's time we start consulting Igbo Bible, Yoruba Bible outside. You get what I'm saying? Oh yes, what the Yoruba call is iporu. It's a lot of problem. Everything is— you, have you been in a case whereby there is no sign of light anywhere? He said in this world you will have such, say, but be of good cheer, I've overcome the world. Meaning that it doesn't matter what it is. You must function from the end that are fixed. It's a fixed game. The match is fixed. Let me explain. How many of you watch WWE? How many of you only gueul to regret wasting your emotions? And it didn't occur to me, I wasn't thinking about it, that John Cena will hit someone, then say, 'You can't see me,' and go there and there and punch. He jump up. Come to UFC and come to boxing where they will give somebody a punch and the destiny will leave him behind. But now, this is it. The fact that most of those matches have been fixed and rehearsed doesn't mean that the victor will still get it cheap. You still have to function according to the script, even though fixed. If not, they can take you to the hospital, and that's not part of the script. Amen. Failure to align with God is dancing out of the script, and you're going to live a life that will look like there was no script authored. Amen. So Paul speaking said, I could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. Say, you are carnal, you are babes. So babes can't handle strong meat. So we go back, all right, let's go back now to that Hebrews 5. In fact, if you continue this, what Paul was telling them, he began to say that we don't speak wisdom among babes. Many of the reasons why it looks like the body of Christ is going through highlighted criticism every time is because we are casting our pearls before swines. Somebody was— somebody shared a screenshot and the screenshot said, 'I post— Femi Lazarus blocked him, and then another pastor I respect blocked him.' Say they don't want to win my soul. Oga, where soul de-stress-o winner? Are you there? Soul be winnable. All right, well, let's leave that. That's on a lighter note. We want to win souls. When the soul is now affecting the sheep, we blacklist that soul and then pray for you from afar. Yeah. Oh, what I have said now, is this scriptural? Let me show you in the Bible. Ah, I will show you. Mark 4:12. Look at it. Mark 4. All right, start from verse 11. Says, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom, but to those who are without, these things are done now in parables, so that in seeing they will see, they will not perceive, in hearing they will hear, they will not understand. So there are people that Jesus quarantined his wisdom from. Yes. Are you following what I'm saying here? Quarantined the wisdom. All right, what I have to teach you can change your life, but you are not at a spiritual state that you can receive it. You can stress the word, the word that should change your life. You may not be at the spiritual state to receive it. So it is not enough that the word is taught. Have you availed your heart to receive with meekness the engrafted word? That's what the Bible says. James chapter number 1, it says, receive with meekness. How do you receive with meekness? How do you receive with meekness? How do you receive with meekness the engrafted word of God which is able to save your soul? That's not salvation. The saving of the soul is not new birth. Mm-mm. You receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to work the work of transformation in your thinking. There is the work of transformation that needs to happen in your thinking, because as a man think in his heart, so is he. Look at what the Bible says. Romans chapter number 12, let's start reading from verse 2 now. Romans chapter number 12 from verse 2. All right, look at it. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye what? Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, acceptable, and what perfect will of God. When the devil said turn stone to bread, it may be acceptable, that's not the will of God. If you renew your mind halfway, you may do what is good. If you go further, you may do what is permissive. All right, that doesn't mean that it's a damnable offense. What you have done is permissive, but this is not the time you ought to be doing that. So now you can understand what Paul was saying, because we believe Paul authored the book of Hebrews. All right, Hebrews 5, let's continue from there, verse 13. Now, are you still learning? For everyone that use milk is what? Unskillful in the word of what? Righteousness. For he's a what? Babe. Milk is soft. Milk can be easily absorbed. Milk is sweet. When every time what you hear is, oh glory, keep on drinking milk. There are times God will speak, your response is, oh Lord, please not again. Because this is strong meat. And when you are eating strong meat— strong meat. Have you taken strong meat before? Not meat, strong meat. Is that what the Bible says? Listen now, that's the Bible, you read it. Say after me: strong meat. Have you taken a meat? You were attending a party. And you, out of assumption, thought that the meat will cooperate. Maybe pomo. Only to bite it and you have to look to the right and to the left. Number one, I can't remove this thing, it's public. Number 2, I can't swallow it, I will choke. Number 3, I can't continue the remaining food until this is out of the way. When, when you eat strong meat, it pauses you for a while. I'm telling you, you will not rush. You will pause. The instruction that I've received today— ah, let's pause. You don't eat that one rush rush. It's not crème de la crème. You take your time. Amen. Amen. That's how we are powered. Strong meat. Now look at it, continue that scripture. Say, strong meat belong to them that are of full age. Don't put it in the mouth of babies, they can't chew. When we start talking about obedience, now we're getting to the meat part, you see. Listen, let me give you an illustration. Pastor, come. If your pastor was going towards, um, Streams of Life there, and he was heading there, and I met him and I said, follow me, what he's doing looks like obedience, but it is agreement. Why? The instruction agreed with his direction. When you are in agreement, you can boast, even though you are doing it as what you would have loved to do. But this is obedience. Follow me again now. Look at this. This is obedience. Obedience is that is walking towards streams of life. And I say, follow me. Disobedience. The process of meeting him here where he was going, turn around, and I said follow him. This is what we, particularly the Pentecostals, have abused, okay? This process, this meeting point of me going here and him going there, and the instruction will counteract him, is what we call an encounter. Encounter changes your direction. If it doesn't, if it doesn't, you've just seen a movie. It must change. The day Jacob had an encounter, it became Israel. He will no longer have to lie anymore. Mary was going as a single girl betrothed to a man. When she met the angel, after that encounter, she will be a mother at the time that she didn't plan for it. Every encounter that refused to change your direction is not genuine enough. Encounter changes where you're going. Amen. As we get to subject like obedience, do you know what obedience is? Whether it is convenient or not, when God says it, I tremble at his word. Oh, you know See, I mean no disrespect to any ministry gift. I've seen people who sing say, I'm Davidic. I am— I mean, please get me right, okay? And but it is not music that makes the Davidic anointing. Ah, you don't know? Let me show you. It's not musical. Ezekiel chapter number 34. I want to show you scriptures. Are you tired of me? Maybe I should go to Lekki next week. Amen. Oh, praise God. Are you there? Now look at it. Ezekiel chapter number 34. Let's start the reading from verse 22. Therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between cattle and cattle. Yes. And I will set upon them— I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant who— David. He shall feed them and shall be their shepherd. The Davidic anointing is a pastoral anointing, not a music anointing. It is the ability to put your life— hey, you see, David was going through the worst distress. His life was under attack. If you come now and you say, I'm owing someone, say, how much are you owing? Say, I'm owing— let me have the protocols. Please come, come. So he says, I'm owing someone. So how much are you? Say, I'm owing 250,000. Say, I'm owing someone also, that's why I had to run away. So how much are you? Say, I'm owing 250 million. Say, I'm owing someone. So how much are you? Say, I'm owing 70 million. Say, I'm owing someone. So how much are you owing? I'm owing, um, let's say 85 million. And I say, but at this point We want to follow you. Ah, who told you that the anointing on me is for debtors? That's what the natural human mind will say. Okay, this was the event playing out in the Cave of Adullam. The man that they all gravitated towards, his own problem was much more. Why? Because someone wanted to take his own life. The Davidic spirit was that he didn't turn them away. When he was done with them, they became mighty men. They became mighty men. That's the anointing there. And such to raise, commit to people at the worst moment of your life is a testimony to the way you take God with gravity. There are times that ministry is sweet. There are times that the oil that is driving the minister is his own blood. As poor, yet making many rich. We're talking about strong meat here. Obedience. Which of these do you think is the reason why God said, I found David a man after my heart? The harp he was playing, or when he said, is there anyone left in the house of Saul that I may do him good? You may sing well, but God has left the stage. But when there is a heart ready for love, it doesn't escape God's notice. That's obedience. That's, that's meat. If everything, every instruction you have received since 2024 are things that, you know, when God— you just dance, glory, God just spoke to me that before the year ends I'm going to have so and so amount of money in my account. Please sit down. Glory, glory. We will know what life you are living when God allows that money to come and now tell you the purpose of the money. Amen. You've gotten it, then God showed up and said, thank you. You know, while God was teaching me about giving on campus, um, I returned with a bag full of foodstuff and many things like that. Then God said, put the bag at the door. So I put the bag at the door and he said, the owner is coming. So I put the bag at the door. Everyone that I heard that was around and were trying to come and greet me, I was looking at them with bad eye. Ah, Pastor, so good time. Yeah. And finally one brother came. I didn't really like him because his wahala is too much. Then God said, that's the one you bought the food stuff for. God, let's settle this matter. If while I was in the market you told me that this milk you are buying, I won't drink it, I would not have bought the big size. I would— you get what I'm saying? I will buy something less. I speak as a man, okay? That's what I would have done if while buying the rice you told me that you are not the one that will eat it. Maybe I would have not bought that one. I would have bought ofada or something, something, something that the person too will eat and shout, oh God! You see, I want to say something very strong. You treat people right. The person you are treating bad today can become the teacher of your children in school tomorrow, and they will reap part of the seed you have sown. The ability to know that I am a steward of anything God has given me is not milk. That Joseph was sold as a slave, I— it would never react. That's not milk. That you look at people— are you following what I'm saying here? Say it again: I live by the word. Say it again. Say it again. Man does not live by bread alone. But by every word that proceed from the mouth of God. So the same way people eat bread, that's the same way I must learn to stay on the word, and then I live by it. All right, when you eat bread— bread there, for instance, is a compound word that means food. When Jesus said, my meat is to do the will of my Father, he's not talking about cow meat, my food. Okay, so it means that I live by the word the same way you need to live by balanced diet. There are foods that you eat but you don't like, because if you don't take food like medicine, you take medicine like food. So there are food supplements that you have to take because it is healthy, not because it is sweet. In fact, anything sweet is an enemy of the body. Okay, so you, you, you learn to train yourself to feed on the word. Whether it is pleasant or not. That's supernatural living. Strong meat belongs to them who are of full age. It belongs to them. Go back to that scripture, Hebrews 5. Strong meat belongs to them who are of full age. All right, who are of full age. Verse 14 now, quickly. All right, even those who by reason of use— somebody say reason of use. Come on, say it again, say reason of use. Those who by reason of exercise, those who have consistently put themselves or put their spirit man to use, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised. Look at it. To discern both good and evil. If you need discernment between good and evil, it means they can be close. There are evil things that you might even want to share testimony about, but they are evil. Amen. Are you there? Say it again. Those who have their senses exercised. So what are the senses now? They have their sight, their sense of sight. They exercise it and train what it should see. They have their sense of hearing. You train your ears as touching what to hear. Because listen to what I'm saying, there are wrong things that when you hear, you don't know how much they are formed in your subconscious. That's why we don't sit in the seat of the scornful. Give me in Amplified Translation. Psalm chapter number 1 from verse 1, Amplified Translation. Are you there? Psalm chapter number 1 from verse 1. Now look at this. I think I spoke about this briefly in PPC this morning. Blessed. You know what you read in King James is the word blessed is the man, but this is the breakdown. A blessed man is happy and enviable. Look at it. See, don't just claim that one. It doesn't stop there. The kind of man who embodies this quality is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly, following their advice, plans, and purpose, nor stands submissive and inactive. That is, where things contrary to God's will are said, they are not— they are neutral. And you must have a stance. Are you there? I'm speaking because I know I'm speaking to a media-savvy world where, you see, you need to get what I'm about to show you now. Give me Psalms chapter number 91. Psalms 91. I want to show you something there. We're still going to go back to that, um, Psalms 1. Psalm 91. If you're there, say amen. Let's start reading from verse 1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowl and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and thy buckler. Look at it. And thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor the arrows that flies by day. There are arrows that flies by day. Are you following what I'm saying here? You say, Apostle, what are you talking about? Psalms chapter number 11 from verse 2. Psalms chapter number 11 from verse 2. Look at this now. Let's read this together. 1, 2, 3, go. For lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrow upon the string that they may shoot privily at who? The upright in heart. Listen to what I'm saying. What is attracting the arrow is the uprightness of their heart. They want to stop it. If the world cannot understand the things of the spirit, they can't advise a spiritual man. You have to get that. There are conversations you hear on certain blogs, they are arrows. This one is not arrow from Father's House. This one is more sophisticated than Father's House. And let me tell you this, the least intelligent kidder of darkness are witches and wizards. The least intelligent kidders. Or if you— if you— are you following what I'm saying? You want to see more sophisticated Caders of darkness, then go into government, go into where policies are made. Policies, they will finish an entire move with pen. Have you two wondered why they broke down the categories of darkness into rulers, powers, principalities? Of all the categories there Wookies and Weasels are too infinitesimal to make the list. So in Africa, we focus our attention dealing with them when police write off your Christianity. You know, there are things I hear online, and I don't care even if you're a man of God that says that, I block you off. All right, on Sunday I stood here to address issues of not giving road safety guns. Say, why should you— should leave that and preach Christ? Yeah, I'm addressing matters that will not— so that they will not kill those that preach Christ too. Are you following what I'm saying here? Listen to what I'm saying. When people say preach Christ, what they are talking about is that preach the salvific work. That's for newcomers. There is the principles, there is also now the kingdom, and it is Christ. Are you there? Because one of the— that's one of the misconceptions of the end-time believer. He doesn't know if he has a role to play. Is confused. And unfortunately, some Christians are trying to relegate his relevance to church wall, and then you now empower darkness outside, and they will choke you out. So the wicked bend their bows. The devil is after your heart. Arrows. He wants to puncture it. Why is he after that? You know why? Because that's where issues of life flows from. That's where life— hey, say it again, I have life. Hey, come on, say it again, I have life. Say it again, I have life. Do you have life? Do you have life in your spirit? Do you have the word of God dwelling there to speak to situations? John chapter number 1, let's start reading from verse 1. Let's see how life works. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God. Are you there? And the, and the word was God himself. Yes, was God himself. Yeah, please go to King James. All right, go to verse 2 now, quickly. Thank you. The same was in the beginning with God. Yes, quickly. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was what? Made. Look at this. Can we read this together? Come on, say it again. So we can gauge the level of life at work in you by looking at the level of light at your disposal. That's level 1. Level 2, we can gauge the level of life in you by looking at the level of light at the disposal of those who are around you. Amen. Look up. Let me teach you something. Look up. Tell you something, and you should never forget this. Is that okay? If you have the life, the life that you should have, not only can you never get stranded, that life ensures, or that light ensures, that those around you don't get stranded. Sit down. Relax, relax. Let me explain. Look up, look at me. If you sit in a physics lab and you have what you call your white light, all right, I mean, this is elementary physics. And you pass that white light through a glass, all right? Um, not just any glass. We say it's a glass prism, all right? That a glass that can absorb, then it will now identify different strokes of light there. It breaks it into different colors. You have the ROYGBIV— red, blue, violet, indigos, and all that. What the natural man sees is white light. When you pass that white light through that glass, you see that— hold on— it is not just white. There are different, um, streams of light coming together to produce that one. It separates them. It's not just Zoe. There are many things inside. That's the richest life. Then, you know, I'm, I'm going to have to teach because I've started, but I'm glad Camp Meeting is coming by December because I won't, I won't stream I will not. And it's happening here. Amen. Are you still there? Look at it. For instance, if you take what you call your crude oil and you pass it through a fractional distillating column, all right, at different temperature gradients, different things are separated from it. Nobody needs to use their hand to separate this. Give them heat. Just make sure you have something that can receive at each temperature gradient. Then you can get your cooking gas, you can get your, um, PMP, you can get your diesel, you can get your kerosene, you can get your aviation fuel, you can get your bitumen, you can— it looks like you can't even exhaust. There's almost no waste. What you say is that I am baptized with the Holy Ghost. For instance, in Acts of the Apostles 2, the Spirit of God came upon them, sat upon each one, clothing tongues of fire. Are you there? Yes, sir. Then you read scriptures like Luke 4:18, Isaiah 11:1. Let's start from Luke 4:18. And Jesus answered and said unto— Luke 4:18, 18, 18— the Spirit of the Lord is upon what? Me. That's the one that you know, but look at different dimensions of it. One, there is an anointing embedded in that that has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. Look at it. There's also an anointing for healing the brokenhearted, to also preach deliverance to the captive, recovering of sight to those who are blind, and set at liberty them that are— these are different streams of one anointing. Different streams. Someone says that there is no such thing as a believer being called to help other believers get wealth. Deuteronomy chapter number 8. I'm just going— the swine blogs can pick anything, will teach out of context, but it doesn't matter. You that you are in the house, listen to everything in context. Is that okay? And I use the word swine blogs without apologies. Because it's spells, so they can't understand it. Are you there? 8, verse 18. Read it together. 1, 2, 3, go. For it is he that give There is a dimension of that grace that when it comes upon you, it empowers you to get wealth. But that doesn't make it our pursuit, but it empowers you to get it, and it's still embedded in the anointing. Whatever one your doctrinal persuasion allow you to settle for your life will be a demonstration of it. For instance, if you see Jesus as the Savior but not, not the Healer, you'll be saved, but you can die. You'll make it to heaven fast, very fast, so fast that your angels are shocked. Are you still there? Isaiah 11 from verse 1. I'm trying to open your heart to see that there are different dimensions trapped in you. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his root. Yes. And the what? The Spirit of the Lord. This is apart from what we read in Luke 4:18. Now these are different dimensions entirely. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. One what? The Spirit of wisdom. Look at it. The spirit of what? Wisdom. Then you start reading Proverbs 24, says true wisdom is a house built by understanding. When you carry the spirit of wisdom, you have the builder's grace. Are you there? You see Paul speaking in 1 Corinthians 3 from verse 10, say, I as a wise master builder have laid well the foundation. Wisdom is not the ability to say nice things. Are you writing literature? Have you seen people who say very nice things but their life is empty of it? You can do la cram la por, copy and paste. When we see wisdom, we see what is being built. And by now you should know I'm not talking about physical structure. Amen. So there is— look at the different dimensions of the anointing, but yet one Spirit. In him— that's where we were, so you don't get lost— in him was life, and the life was what? The light of men. Meaning that people, whatever the situation is, there is a light for you. There is a light for you. Amen. Amen. Are you still there? Let me show you a scripture so I can help your minds, because you must understand. Ephesians chapter number 3, if I'm correct. To the intent Yeah, Ephesians 3:10. Let's read King James, then we read other translation. If you are there, say amen. To the intent that now also principalities and powers in heavenly places might be made known, might be known by the church, the what? The manifold wisdom of who? God. Look at this same scripture in Amplified Translation. Look at it. The purpose is that through the church— who are the church? Talk to me now. Huh? Through— if you are part of the church, raise your hands. Are you sure you are? Through you and you and you and you and you and you and you. The complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in its infinite varieties and innumerable aspects. We have not been called to wear school uniform. We wear diverse colors. Are you there? Look at it. The complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be what? Made known to the angelic rulers and authorities, principalities and powers in heavenly spheres. When this one beams a color, you are wondering. Then this one beams his own, you are wondering. Then this one beams his own. When God told Abraham, he said, look at the stars. He made sure to give him the picture of what brings many colors. Are you there? You see, go back. I'm not going to get distracted. To that 1 John— sorry, John chapter number 1, verse 3. Go back. The assumptions you have is that when you choose the instructions of God You have chosen suffering. Is it possible for suffering to be a part of the package? Oh yes. All right, look at what Peter said. He said, be sober and be vigilant. For the devil, your adversary, roams about— give me that scripture— like a wounded lion looking for whom he may what? Devour. You know, when you read that scripture, the problem is that you stop there. Look at it: seeking whom he may devour. Now go to verse 9: Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished by your brethren that are in the world, meaning that as you take your stand to resist the devil and his advances and choose the way of God, there are actually packages of affliction that follows. If you are sacked from work because you refuse to compromise and sign an illegal document, don't let anybody tell you that because they sack you for doing what is right, you won't be broke for a while. You can be broke so that by the time you are stranded, you are not saying, oh Jesus, were you not there when I was suffering for you? Let me ask you a question. If you went to a party, okay, and you— come, you're a married man, wife is watching you. And someone disrespect your wife. I know you're a calm one. Christians don't fight. And then you tell the person, why did you do that to my wife? I say, who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? And the fellow disrespects you too. Do you go tell your wife, see how I'm suffering for you? Talk to me now. See, see, see, see how I'm suffering for you. See, I'm suffering for you. That's what he said because of you. No, but when you have little inconvenience because you stood for what is right, God see what I've done. If not for you, now will I be going through this? If you can count it, it doesn't count. Are you there? You suffer affliction, normal. What did I say? Normal. See, sit down. That's what the people of other faith understand more than Christians. The foundation of teachings that brought them in is a foundation of selflessness. That's the foundation— selflessness. You can see 15 of them sitting together around one big tree. Eating. It's not the other faith they are practicing in the West though. I'm talking about the conk one. Go to Sokoto, go to Kano, all right, go to those who are going to Makaranta. I don't want to mention names now. And they wake up in the morning and with hunger they are reciting what they are telling them to recite. That's the reason why when they get into politics, their purpose there can be more about agenda That doesn't mean they don't steal, but they will push agenda. That's what Christians don't understand. We lack it. Kingdom, kingdom, kingdom. We don't— that culture is not formed. An average believer, once he gets enough money that gives him a feeling of satisfaction, he bolts out. On God and on men. Oga settled him, he's done, and that's it. Because that is his mindset. His definition of abundance is fiku. What somebody is asking for as a proof of God's power is what another person who doesn't know that God is spraying in party. I'm saying they are spraying your future net worth in club. So it means that can't be all that God is about. Do you get it? It can't be. The definition about house, cars, chairs— I don't care how beautiful they are. I don't care, as fantastic as they are. Because if you make these things your pursuit, you'll be out of the race soon. What do you want to pursue again if you have received your prize? 'What I'm pursuing in God is that I should have my house, my car, my wife and children, enough money to spend. Leave us on an island alone with internet, limitless food.' Look at the way that such mind is bent. The person is thinking upside down. Meanwhile, just one stream amongst the many streams of light you carry can be giving people this every month. That's— listen now, please listen, listen. Eternal life, eh. Steve Jobs did not bet Apple. It's not eternal life. Much more, think of what that life can produce. I know what I've said now is controversial, but hear me now. If you follow church history, you will know that technological advancement always follows the move of God. They move side by side. There are people that God supplied the wisdom even without them knowing that it was God. Okay, so look at this. Ah, I pray that your eyes will be opened. I was watching the, um, program where Elon Musk was talking about was, um, they were displaying the new self-driving car, unsupervised. It's something about something, something like that. So what they said was that the car, you can enter and even slip off, it will get you to your destination. It doesn't matter the traffic, what the issues are. All right, it's been built so Now I also saw another advertisement from Volkswagen where they were showing a car that if the person driving the car slips off, the car will park itself. Okay, it will begin to honk, then the door will open by itself calling for attention. That will minimize safety. Then that puts your doctrine wrong, that when people die by car accident, say God brought it, so God give it, God take it. One aspect called wisdom is showing that some deaths, many deaths, only happen because wisdom has not been tapped into. So I want us to get it. And what's the problem of the church? You just sit down and let them tap into it, then you enjoy it. Look at me, look at me. Why do you struggle? You struggle for that which is not meat. So you hear argument. You see, sometimes when you allow the world condition your thoughts, they have reduced you to their level. Look at this. I'm not— you have heard argument like Any pastor telling people to give tithe in this economy, the pastor is a stupid pastor, he's a useless pastor. Have you heard that before? Okay, it's okay, I know you hear them. Then you too, you move from life to self-pity. It's true, it's true with the masses. It's true. Anybody who understand this economy— in fact, church now should even abolish giving so that they won't serve us rice as we come. Where exactly are you? You ought to be powered by a life that functions through light. Then you wander out of that light and begin to speak from darkness, because everything about bread is affected by the policies of Egypt. But when it is Spirit-inspired living, Spirit-inspired life, Spirit-inspired ideas It's not limited by all those stuff. What are you saying? I don't blame you for talking. It's because you are pastors and, and they give you offering. I don't take salary, just so you know, so my heart can be pure when I teach, okay? Aha. And I was talking to my mentees yesterday. So, because how many of you were in the meeting or some of those meetings? When you finish it, you have to go and sit down and rest your head so it's not too heavy. And we have not even started. So I was talking to them about a friend of mine who asked me to help train his team. They were not getting up to the results they should get. So I said, okay, I'm going to train your team. I will give you an hour. An hour of my time is too much, but I'll give you because you're my friend. How much will you pay? He said, how much do I want? I said, when you look at me, what do you think is my worth? So he begged and said, let me give you 2 million for 1 hour. So I said, no, I will teach them. Keep the money, you pay me with something else later. From the day I have that wisdom to impart them and many others. I am no longer subjected to paper. Look at you, listen to me. You know, there's a part of this teaching that I'm saying the world can get me wrong. But hear me, before they started spending paper currency, the history of money, everything was money. A curriculum was given to you that re-engineered you, that the purpose of being in school is to finish and queue, so that every month you also queue. And then someone studied for 5 years and NYC for a year. And then Q in a secondary school and say, we also have master's graduates who are begging us for this work, so we're going to give you 40,000. Then it trade time, effort, knowledge, 3 things. For one. And then we say the country is bad. The country is bad because your thinking is faulty. Say it again. In him is life. Say it. Let's ease the tension. In him is life, and the life is the light of men. Say, I have life, I have light, I have life, I have light. And of us are nepa-powered. Nepa powered. Was he not here? I taught you, taught you many things that by now you ought to be a wonder to the world. And that's where you're going. I didn't hear amen to that. That's where you're going. I said again, that's where you're going. I said again, that's where you're going. Glory to God. Are you tired of me? Should I wrap up? Maybe I should get out of your sight. Are you sure? Say it again. In him is life, and that life is the light of men. Say it again. In him is life, and that life is the light of men. Say it again. In me there is light— or there is life, sorry— and that life is the light of men. I solve problems because I carry that life. I am a solution provider because I have that life. That life is the life of God. Okay, so you wait now. That life, just a stream of it is what you see on Daniel that made him relevant with several kings. Just a stream. That same life, just a stream of that life, is what you see on Joseph that made him relevant to rescuing the entire nation of Egypt from death and drought at the time that other nations were going bankrupt. It is not enough to have that light shine. It, it must solve the problem around you. You see, you must move— are you there? From thinking about one day I go make am to thinking about we will build universities. We will build hospitals. We will build— are you there? We shine the light for the world to see. That's where the church should be going. We don't define our effectiveness by number of those who warm our chairs. What's their social and spiritual capacity like? Lift your hands. Let's make confessions that change thinking. I am not waiting for anyone to come help me. I've been sent to help people. I am not waiting for any helper. I've been anointed of the Lord to go forth into the world and help people and set them free. And provide for the needy, and be eyes to the blind, and be ears to the deaf. This is the anointing I have. Glory to God! Please be seated. You see, and I speak because I know sometimes in our Bible studies across our centers, we have ministers of other ministries that come to join and sit. Just to be blessed. I have to make up my mind as a pastor that I will not wait for honorarium or be powered by brown envelopes. How then do you get your finance sorted? Steady streams of word. Say, be realistic. Apostle, that's my reality. The fact that it's not yours doesn't mean it's not a reality. That's my reality. Amen. We solve problems. Amen. This is who I am. How can I have that life and men around me are in darkness? So we are seeing— hey, look up, look up, look up— that if you give the project of a house to a bad engineer and the building crashes on the people, and they die. Religious Christians say, hey, God is sovereign, he does as he pleases. God did this, God killed them. No. So even if the engineer who did that drawing is tongue-speaking, he is not godly. Because when God works, he preserves. Since the day he has established the foundation of the earth, it has not crashed. You doubt what I said? Let me show you scriptures now. Those who believe in Big Bang, you see, I sit with different scientific theories. The most miserable of them all is Big Bank. Look at what he said in Job 38. See how detailed this God is. If you truly walk in this life, you'll be an asset. I'm telling you, nations will be looking for you. Amen. Amen. But the problem is that you are looking for bread and biscuits. You, you see, let me tell you, this is how your life change. You get to a point, you are— you may still be in that one room apartment, but in knowledge you become bigger than it. You just get to the point where it can't take you anymore. You are too big for that. You are exploding on the inside. That's how life change. Not by saying I deserve more. Prove it. You should know I deserve more. You should know this company is there. People just put me one big queue. I deserve more. Prove it by producing streams of life. Oh, glory to God. That's why even in music Don't, don't, no, sit. Don't, don't be caged. Don't. There are sounds that the world have not heard. There are progressions that the world have not heard. When I started seeing AGL Basematics and do the things they do and, you know, play the stuff and call, do this, do that. And I'm like, who is this guy? Then you know the next thing, and this is what kills our world. Everybody just duplicates. I'm like, no, if there's one, it shows you that there's more than a billion. You see, if you only repeat what is done You have reduced yourself to the result of the first person to do it. Wisdom is not repetition. There is the spirit of creativity. You see, that's why people wonder why I, I get bored. In fact, coming from Um, getting back, there are songs I've written down that we are no longer going to sing in this church again. Not because they are not good songs, but because they will affect our mental capacity to think if that's what we are doing. In heaven, they worship God with new songs. While I love the pattern of writing songs and follow the pattern, man, you can be on that stage and receive new songs. If you know who you are, and to see that you are still operating at level minus whatever out of billions of levels, that there is a light that will flow through you And Visa is no longer a testimony. Why won't they open their gates? They need you. But if you want to japa, you need them. But they need you, and they know how to negotiate. When you have what they need. God has told me, and I've been saying it now, that we're entering the season where our people will begin to come back to rebuild. When Nigerians will realize that you can't wait for the next 10 years to solve the problems of your nation, for the next 4 years, and say depends on who you— you get to work. Say it again. I have life. Say it again. I have life. There's nothing normal about me. See, I know it. No, not you now. Not me. Not you. Me. Me. I know it. No, wait now, and I'm not joking, and it's not pride. I know it that, um, men like me are not common. I tell you, you see, and it's not pride. I just know the weight and the quality of God's investment. In my life, and I feel it will have been a waste of investment to have gone about life the way I wanted to. All right, I would have been— when I started the flow of my life and it was interrupted. I used to cry. All right, I gained my first admission to study medicine. I lost that, had to reapply again. Okay, and, um, I used to cry that I was gunning to be a doctor among doctors. One day, one of my lecturers came to meet me. He was lecturing and he just got angry, and he held my head and he said, Lazarus, If you don't become a prof, you have wasted this thing. I am more than a prof. And don't you think this thing is just by confessing it too. You have to read into it and study into it. Is that okay? Uh-huh. I have timeline. Certain aspect of my life I've mapped out as inspired that while I do ministry in this season, I have to get a degree in this, I have to get a degree in this, I have to get a degree in this. So that you don't just think you just sit down in church and say, 'I'm Ogarit, sir.' At least let that wisdom show that you can pass. True. How do you say that? 'I know I have it,' but you have not passed. Pass first now. If not, I scam now. True, scam. Pass first. Put yourself to it. Lift up your right hand again. Say, 'I have life.' I have life. Say it again. I have life. I have life. And that life illuminates the world. Illuminates the world. Say it again. I have life. I have life. And that life illuminates the world. Illuminates the world. So it means there must be something you are betting that is helping people see, helping their life better. Can I give you some seconds? I still have more time. To help you confess. Stretch yourself, stretch your spirit. Is that okay? Do you mind standing? And see, listen, don't play church. Don't do it because I said to do it. I want you to get angry. Are you there? Get what? Angry. And begin to make confessions. Begin to call for the things within you. Come on, go ahead. You have the next 2 minutes. You have the next 2 minutes. Please pray. Pray. I have life. Life. I am powered by this life. I am powered by this life. I am powered by this life. I am powered by this life! I empowered— Powered by this life? Empowered by this light? I'm powered by this life! I empowered by this life?! Thank you very much for your attention today. God bless all of us. Amen. I am powered by this life. To see you, I lift that up, shining in the light of your glory. Pour out your power and love as we sing. Only, only, only, only, only, only I will receive. I have life. This is my reality. This is the life I live. This is the life I live. This is the life I live. Oh, thank you. 30 more seconds. I have life. I have life. I have life. I have life. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Shout it loud enough: I have life! Sit down for a while. Oh, glory to God! Are you still there? I'm having an encounter tonight. I I'm talking about you now. You're having an encounter tonight. And what's the encounter? You were going towards a life where the fulfillment according to you is that you have things, but now the definition is changing. Your life must be the light of men, that in your light they what? See light. I have a grace. Now look at this. I want— I don't know about you, but if you can extract several things from crude oil at different temperature gradients, there is a grace I carry that the brokenhearted can be healed from, jobs can be created from. Some people insult the church because they feel the church has no economic importance. That's not true. That's not true. There are churches that are singularly employing tens of thousands of people, and I like to make boast about Covenant University. Why focus on the price and forget that this university has been topping the list The university produced, if I am correct, this recent convocation, 319, if I'm correct, first class graduates. See, don't beef people. You see, many of you who went to where you went to, some of you are first class materials, unless that you were taught by sadists. Who believes that if they could not get it, why should you be better? Many Nigerians travel outside the country to clear records. I'm telling you, I've seen people who finish there with third class break record. See, let me tell you something, if you know what God has placed on you, it is only the wrong system that is trying to define you. I am saying we have economic importance. We bring the system of justice and righteousness. If a person deserves it, give them. Light Nation is going to have a university. Okay, no, we will. And permit Forgive me, I made a mistake. Universities. Listen, I have sat down with God and certain matters have brought me to the place of tears. Father, I don't want it to be said in my generation that the university was built through contribution. Let me tell you, I'm going to mention names just so you can understand. I was hearing this from Dr. Paul Eneche. A man came to me, Bishop Oyedepo, and said, I want to give massively towards the Ark Project. Then Bishop said, if you want to give to us something else, you can say, but as far as the Ark project is concerned, down to when it will be dedicated, fully paid. Fully paid. There's no vacancy. Femi Lazarus, fully paid. If such structure was built in Nigeria— because see, some of us have to teach to answer questions because many of you are hearing rubbish, so we need to detoxify. That is true. Was built by a state governor. If, if, okay, you say, oh, they are building infrastructures. Why? Because you feel it's going to produce jobs. What makes you feel that one for the church produce less jobs? The builders are employed, the engineers, the electricians, the plumbers, they're employed. The carpenters, they employed. All right, then those that will manage the aesthetics, the decorators, those who construct the chairs, they employed. If you check it through and through, except for it, billions is going back into the economy. Take the Nigerian church out of the economy of this nation, there'll be trouble. Don't speak— see, people speak People think when they shout online they are smarter than us. Lowkey, just put two of us together in one room. Just let's stop all this nonsense because people are crowd talking and you keep watching the church. You forgot the scripture you read. Let me show you again. You forgot Psalms 1, verse 1. Amplified. Psalms 1:1 Amplified. Blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly, following their advice, plans, and purpose, nor stands submissive and inactive in the path where sinners— don't be inactive. If not, the jabs they are throwing is sinking into your soul. You get to a point you want to rise like a mighty man, you will not know you've been quenched. You don't belong to the world. You don't think what they think. You don't say what they say. Are you there? You stand for the kingdom. You are not inactive. I'm saying there is a stream of grace that is flowing on your life and you become a center of employment. You, what you carry, will need that people are placed on salary. So how will you be at that point and your problem is job? What God give man is not job, is work. Meaning that if that thing— that's why I ask everyone that works with me, and it's a very important question, I ask again and again and again and again: do you feel fulfilled doing this? Because if you don't, why do it? You must feel fulfilled. That's more than salary. That shows that your life is being used for the purpose for which it was created. Are you there? If every time you have to go to work you are angry, wrong work. Wrong work. You can't stand them. Until it's time to pay salary, wrong work. But you get to a point that even 30 minutes of your time is gold. So important what is coming out of you. We live by steady streams. Ami river flowing. Oh, glory to God! I feel like keeping you here till 9 PM, but don't worry, I'll leave. Hallelujah! Say it again, I have life. Say it again, I have life. Say it again, I have life, and that life is the light of men. In my light, they see light. Oh, glory! Oh yes, in my light they see light. Please sit for a while. You are the light of this world. A city that is set upon the hill cannot be hid. You're the light of this world. Give us that scripture. Matthew chapter number 5. Give me that scripture. We read in King James, then we read in Amplified and Message. Amen. You will not be reduced to a piece of bread. Oh glory! Look at it. Can we read it together? 1, 2, 3, go! You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Are you seeing that you don't beg for influence? There's just— see, listen— there's just something coming from you that even if they don't like you, they can't ignore. You may not like me, but you can't ignore. The fact that the hand of God is on Femi Lazarus. You may not like him, you are permitted to it, but you just can't ignore. Amen. Praise God. Now that same scripture, Matthew 5:14, can we read Amplified Translation? I would have loved to read Message first, but give me Amplified quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly. Oh glory! All right, the media people need light. Oh yes. Oh glory! Are they there? Look at it. No, they've given you something else. Let me read from here. Oh glory! Someone says that, how do you people do it that you know the Bible, um, back and back? And you know, how do you know what scripture to call when you are preaching? And there are no scripture, you eat it. Let me tell you something. Never attempt to teach a good message. What did I say? Never attempt to do what? Teach a good message. I never come out trying to teach a good message. I come out trying to make you understand. In the process, a good message is born. Are you there? Now look at this. Let me read from Message here. Matthew 5:14. You see, here's another way to put it: you are here to be light, bringing out the God colors in the world. The God colors. God is not a secret to be kept. We are going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. Amen. Glory to God. You see, I can stay with this and get into your finances, stay with this and get into your homes, stay with this. It's just an explosion of many colors. Many colors. See, look at me. One of my books is coming out this year. It's going to be maybe almost 900 pages or 1,000 and more. It's a blueprint. It's a, it's a, it's not— I won't call it a legacy project. I have too many things are coming in front. By this time next year, I want to have written at least least, um, maybe moderately 60 books. Moderately 60. It will happen, I'm telling you, it will happen. All right, but I have thought and thought. The problem is that you don't have the discipline listening to go back to my old messages. Start— if even if you don't want to go as far as that, start with the message I taught during crossover, because I will teach the part 2 during this year crossover. Ah, look at you! December 31st, I taught a message. I showed you How the curriculum of Egypt reduced the nation that Joseph belonged to, a think tank, into a nation that had no other usefulness than unskilled labor. The purpose of adversity is to kill the might in you, so that Gideon, a mighty man, will relegate himself, will start sifting wheat to hide. He can no longer see his strength because adversity taught him a message that if you are broke, then something is wrong with you. That's why when Nigerians leave Nigeria, they start changing. I'll do it in context because we are still teaching those who are there how to break it with that life. We're driving from Leicester to London. I told my friend Said, all these lands, they're good. They cost the arm and the leg. It's okay, we'll pay. People don't bite people. I am not them. You must choose to dance apart from the tune, powered by the life. Now, for this— this is where I'm going. Proverbs chapter number 4, verse 23. You see, thank God for church. But what we really need is not just teaching, teaching. This kind of teaching, I will teach you, we will pause, you will pray, you will meditate, you will soak it in, ah, till you break out in joy. We continue. That's what we'll be doing at the camp meeting by December. Ah, there's no message time. Once we start start till we finish, till he's satisfied. Go rest, come back. So by the time you enter 2025, you are not talking anyhow. Amen. Are you tired of me? All right, let's read this together. 1, 2, 3, go! Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are what? The issues of life. Come on, one more time. For out of it are what? The issues of life. Say it again. I have life. If you can put this scripture side by side, Matthew 4, when he says that man does not live by bread alone, he was quoting what God said in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapter number 8, it said, thou shalt know the way which the Lord your God led you 40 years in the wilderness to test you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you deny him or not. And afterward he caused you to hunger, all right, and fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers know anything about, that he might make you know. So the concept of man does not live by bread alone, but by every word. So to live by every word is not what you enter by impartation, it is what you are made to do. You are made to do. Let me show you the Hebrew word for the word make there in that, um, Deuteronomy chapter number 8. Look at it, give me a moment. Oh, thank you, Lord. I have life. I have life. That life illuminates my world. Oh, glory! Are you still there? Look at it. That he might make thee to know The word there is the word Yawda, although spelled Yada, which means praise, but is pronounced Y-A-W, Yaw-da. It's D-H, that's da, Yawda. Which means to make you acknowledge. I love it. This is one of the word there, to make you aware. Now let me give you an illustration. Please come, give me your pen and your note. I'm going to write 10 numbers in certain order. All right, 10 numbers. I want 3 people to come cram the these words quickly. Cram the word. I want to show you what it means. Have you crammed it? All right, thank you. So what's the fifth word there? And the fifth number? One. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. He got it. Clap for him. So, Pastor, I, I, you know, I didn't call you. So, Pastor, he's reciting, you know, he studied engineering. All right, look at it. What's the 8th word there? Okay, yeah, your pastor didn't get it, but I'm going somewhere. I don't know why you come out to pastor's wife. So let me ask you, what's the— what's the 8th word there? Is there 8 number there? No, 11 is not even there. So now listen, now that doesn't mean they are not smart. The kind of knowledge that I'm demanding from them is the knowledge to articulate numbers. What you've read is called scientific a specific knowledge, all right? It's a form of knowledge. It is debatable. You can bring what you said and I can argue it out and win, just like I've done. But look at this. Are you a boy or a girl? Boy. He got it! He got it! He got it. How about you, male or female? Eh, wow, he got it. He caught it because this kind of knowledge is not scientific knowledge, it is awareness. That he might make you aware the same way you I can't doubt your agenda that I live by the word. It means that if people can argue it out on social media, it is not awareness yet. That's where you're going. Amen. I live. It makes me to be aware. It brings me to the point where it is unmistakably so that I can't die young. Not God knows, unmistakably so. I have found the word that through that word he made the heavens and the earth. That word dictates and determines the course of my life. I am aware that's where we are going. Oh glory! Let me tell you this. Please see, let's give them a big hand. Please sit. The proof that he has made you know that man lives by the word is that you will have something called rest. The day you find the word, the proof is that you will rest. Rest. Tell your neighbor, rest. Oh glory! If I have word in an aspect, I rest. If God said it's done, it can't be undone. It is as— it is more powerful than seeing the physical manifestation. When God told me, I will give you a city in this city, from that moment it's done. So after that moment, when I want to talk about my problem, that thing that God said is settled is not permitted to make the list. So what then, what then do we do? And Jesus said you should pray and then keep praying till your joy is full. Your joy should be full when the word comes. So the case, there's no physical manifestation yet, but it's spoken. So what then do I do when I'm praying. This is what you should do. Pray about the rest, praise God about this. Are you there? When you get to this one, you dance and rejoice. And they say, um, Sarah, you don't have a child yet. The one who made me has spoken. That by this time of life you will be with a son. So I rejoice. When Eli said to Hannah, go thy way, it will be according to what you have asked for, she went. They said, ah, please let them— there is tenacity and there's stubbornness. Amen. Once he has spoken, once I have a word about something in my spirit, I should rest. What is rest? Look up. Rest is what you have when it is done. Amen. When God finished making the heavens and the earth, he rested. Let's see, if you didn't understand the word 'he rested,' then you would think the Bible is lying. Let me show you a scripture that contradicts your definition of 'he rested.' Isaiah 40, start from verse 29. Isaiah 40, from verse 29. Quickly, I have to release you now. All right, no, start from verse 28. Hast thou not heard? Is it 27? Oh yes. Have thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does what? Fainted not, neither is he weary, and there is no searching of his. So what's he resting from? God doesn't rest from tiredness. He rests because it is done. From the moment he made everything, the end and the beginning must align. This is the way man works. Man works from point A to point B. So while he's walking from point A to point B, he's anxious, he's confused, he's worried, he's checking. I don't know what tomorrow holds. But this is the way God works. He makes point A and point B, huh? He finishes, then go back to start. If you don't understand this, then you don't understand Jeremiah 29:11. Look how the Bible says, I know the thoughts— Jeremiah 29:11— that I think towards you, thought of peace, not evil, to give you the end. Listen, not an end. There is an end that I fixed. That's my expectation when I see you. If you don't function the way God functions, anxiety will catch up with you because you are not resting. Sit down. Those who have bread will shiver when the economy shakes. Those who live by steady stream of life of the word, they will be like Mount Zion that cannot be moved. This is our life. We are not the world. We don't function by the same intelligence. This is the wisdom of God. Have you been blessed tonight? Let's give Jesus a big, big hand.