GOD'S JUSTICE SYSTEM 5

Ecclesiastes chapter number 9. Are you sure you're ready for strong meat tonight? All right. Verse 11: I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill. But time and chance happens to them all. Let me have 12 people form a circle with me. When we're learning maths— come, don't worry, just form a circle. Spread, let's spread. No, form a circle, don't worry, form a circle. When we're learning mathematics, um, whether it's maths, I don't even know, um, clock or time, they say from here to here is 5 minutes, from here to here is 5 minutes. How have you learned like that? It's one of the reasons why Nigeria is the way it is. From here to here is 5 minutes. 5 minutes, 5 minutes, 5 minutes, 5 minutes. If God appoints something to happen in your life at this particular time, because this time there's an appointment that has to do destiny with this time, This time is no longer chronos, a calendar time. It is now kairos, an appointed time for something to happen. So let's say this is where you were, 12 PM, and this thing is supposed to happen by 10 AM. How long will it take you to move from— how many hours will it take to move from 12 PM Till 10 AM. Huh? 10 PM. 10, 12. No, don't confuse me. 12 PM, that's 12 in the afternoon, till 10 PM. 10 hours. So it will take you 10 hours to get to that point where that thing is supposed to happen. From the moment it is said that something's supposed to happen from by 10 PM— oh, sorry, 10 AM— 10 PM, then the time it takes to move from this point to this point can no longer be called delay. It must be interpreted correctly as preparation, time for preparation. Now If you misinterpret the time it takes to move from where you are to the appointed time, you will not recognize the appointed time, talk less of maximizing it, because it will never carry a label. Your Kairos moment will happen like normal time. Moses said he thought that the Israelites will know that by this time God was going to rescue them by his hand, but they did not know. So we found out that it will take God— the same way it will take you 10 hours to get to this, it will take God 40 years to re-oscillate for the presentation to happen again. Hope you know that when God called Moses and said go, it was second— it was presentation. Listen, it is wrong Bible interpretation to think that when Moses went the first time, God didn't send him. Look at what he said in the book of Acts when Stephen was recounting that. He said he thought that they should know that by this time, meaning that the first time he appeared, that he was dealing with the Egyptians. It was God. Was there a spectacular dream? Was there a spectacular vision? Was there a mountain appearance? That's the way life happens. Sometimes you need those spectacular appearance because you miss a season that didn't have it. Are you following what I'm saying? So if God did not show you that 24 angels descended with oil on your head, you will not know you have a calling. That the reason why something has been moving you to do this and think like this, it's your calling speaking. Let me tell you something: when people miss seasons, they will have to wait for the next oscillation. Don't miss seasons. The powerful law. And the devil knows that the easiest way to miss a season is to miss the time of preparation for the season. Are you still there? Femi Lazarus. Please be seated for a moment. So what the preacher was simply saying is that I have discovered that those who are in front are not in front because they are the fastest. They are in front because they were the ones who recognized their season. Okay. When God appoints something for a season, grace is available. You know, when the Israelites missed their season, Pharaoh multiplied their burdens. The time it would take to recover lost time is usually more painful. Let's pray in tongues. So that your eyes will be open, at least. In Jesus' name we're praying. Look up now. Moses came, huh? They did not design it. What was the next thing that happened? They, they increase their body. Once the devil— look at it now— once the devil has discovered that God initiated something that almost took you out of his grip, he will want to take you so far that before anybody will reach you again, it will take time. So the best thing is the moment God show up, reach out your hand and let him grab you. Life is sweet until you begin to know the agony of missed seasons. All right, so I'm going to continue from there and I'm going to bring you to The third law is called the law of prioritization. The law of prioritization. I'm going to explain what that means and show you Bible text for that. John chapter number 15. John chapter number 15. We'll start the reading from verse 1. And look at what the Bible says: I am the true vine, and my Father is what? The husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth what? Not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it. That it may bring forth what? More fruit. Look at this in— go back to verse 2. Let's read it in Message translation. What's the first statement there? He cuts off every branch that doesn't bear grapes. Now, this is, this is not just a biblical principle. It works for organizations. If an organization is going through a season, a downtime, What they want to do is to check for people whose job is not so important, those that they can do without. That's when you move beyond learning to do your own job to multitasking. Listen to what I'm saying. I've said it, learn it. Anywhere your replacement is not scarce, don't make noise. Don't make noise. Learn wisdom. Are you still there? Any aspect that produces result will be prioritized. We can check the application of this law in many regards. Let me touch a sensitive part that itches the Nigerian church, and I want to set the balance. When you come to church— and I want you to listen— I want you to listen particularly because there will be those who claim to love you, but they want to use you as a scapegoat. Please listen. When we gather in God's house, the most important activity of a local assembly is that you are fed with the word of God. Um, Ezekiel— I want the media to get that out for me— Ezekiel 34, speaking about the shepherd, he said, and I will send again David my servant He's talking about David as a replica of pastoral ministry. Now look at this. If they can get me that scripture, Ezekiel 34, look at it. Thank you. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them. The word shepherd there is what? Poimen. That's pastor. And he shall feed them, even my servant David. He shall feed them and they shall be their shepherd. What does that mean? When we come to the local assembly, the most important activity going on is that believers are being matured through the word. That's also, um, Ephesians chapter number 4 said that too. The most important activity of the local church is not music. The reason why people are putting musicians in trouble is because the word is cast. So we push that and push that, and if care is not taken, you guys will not grow by the word. Everyone else will, not the musician. And meanwhile, David here was a musician. We don't do 2 hours jamboree, 15 minutes word. Anytime God's children gather, the most important activity is the word. That's the protocol. That is what— because until the word is taught, you can't worship. You know, I began to say to myself while praying yesterday that we need to go back to reinvestigate the wordings in our worship. That it is slow doesn't make it worship. We need to go back. What, what is the theological framework of this song? I know what I'm going to do, and I know what I have to do. Because I know I have to sit with you guys for months, and I'm talking about the music department, till the fragrance oozing out is Davidic. Because you may sound like a sadist. Ah, ah, Apostle, I'm trying to prepare you for the coming of Jesus. And there's a kind of church he must meet. I'm wrapping up this series now, so I have to quickly help you get some balance. There was a worship song in Revelation chapter number 5. Let me show you. Revelation chapter number 5. Are you still with me or you are tired now? Let's start reading from verse 1 for you to understand that And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with 7 seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open the book and to, um, and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders said unto me, weep not, behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose the 7 seals thereof. Yes. And I beheld, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the 4 beasts, in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having 7 horns and 7 eyes, which are the 7 spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the 4 beasts and the 4 and 20 elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors, which are what? The prayers of the saints. And they sung a new song. Oh boy, new song is not a mere product of learning how to compose. It is a product of interaction in the spirit. Songs are better based on the activities you are privileged to witness. You don't understand, you don't. What's the song about? The activity he just saw. Thou art worthy to take the book, to open the seals thereof, for thou was slain and has redeemed us unto God by your blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. This is the lyric of a song. This is a song. So that's where it begins from. When you are well taught and well fed— ah, the road is long. And let me tell you something, worship begins when you stop entertaining men. The moment you don't mind if your song doesn't have traction, that's where true worship begins from. A musician is not a hustler trying to break in to get views. That's not it. And that's why I told them And those are difficult stands to take, but those are things that are trending. And that's why you don't build in the market. You shut the doors to build, and building takes effort and work. Anyone who can't get their hands dirty can't build. You follow the tide of your generation and be missing for life. Are you following what I'm saying here? Take note. So the substance that we gather around— that's why you see that even Holy Ghost experience, it doesn't matter how heavy the atmosphere is, I say sit down. Why? The substance of every meeting is the word of God. That you must give room to prioritize it. Once we start doing that, pastors will prepare. You pray before every meeting, you study. Then people will now learn to gather in churches not because of the way the drum sounds, the keyboard, or the music, but the quality of the message. How many people can go to small churches where there are no good instrument but the word is there? Say I hear. I hear. Now look at this. The way the principle of prioritization works is anyone that is fruit-bearing will be maintained to produce more. The one who is not fruit-bearing will be cut off. Even nature functions like that. So whether you run an organization or you run a system, um, You prioritize result. It means God is result-oriented. That's the way life works. You like when I say 7 prayer points. Yege debo, Father. You know why? Because you don't need any responsibility at the end of that. But when you are taught, you need a responsibility to act on the word. You need to do something. So it's easier. Don't you think I don't have the kind of meetings I can call that there will be tent outside? Because by the grace of God, he's anointed me. So maybe if I don't function in power ministry, it will look like it's because he doesn't know what power is. That's why they are just teaching. Have you heard things like teaching without power is lecture? Na lie o! Where the word of God is, there's power. The most important power we need is the power to transform lives. And that happened without people falling under the anointing. There's also the move of the Spirit where many things can happen. Are you still here? In, in, in the, in management world, they call this principle of power, law of prioritization, or principle prioritization, the 80/20 rule. You probably must have heard of that before. That only 20% of, um, whatever it is in every establishment generates 80% of the result. And it's proven across life. You don't wear all your clothes, you wear probably 20% of them all the time, maybe for comfortable or many other reasons. The reversal, or the result, or resultant effect of that law is that it is important that you also channel 80% of attention to the 20% generating the effectiveness. There are meetings that takes place in Light Nation that you don't know about. It is focused on the leaders that are across different branches. The idea is more attention will be channeled towards the source of result. Even God functions like that. Look at Deuteronomy chapter number 8. We start the reading from verse 18. I mean, you know that Deuteronomy 8 from verse 18. Let's read. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to what? Get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to who? Unto thy fathers, as it is this day. It is the Lord your God that giveth you power to get wealth. Say, the Lord my God gives me power to get wealth. Say it again. The Lord my God gives me power to get wealth. That he may establish his covenant which he swore unto Abraham. And I showed you what that covenant was. God told Abraham, look and count the stars. If you can number them, so will anyone be able to number your seed. Is the promise of men as stars. Daniel came to bring an expansion to that. Said those that win souls will shine as Femi Lazarus, and those that turn men to righteousness as the stars of heaven. Is the star project. He said the Lord your God giveth you power to get wealth, that he may establish the covenant of kingdom advancement. The day man think that the purpose of what you have is for self— there was only one man who publicly said that in the Bible. He died. It's a rich fool. Wow. Are you still there? Laws are to be respected. Now Because I'm going to get there, then I'm going to show you the law of law and order. But laws are to be respected. What that means is, if you decide that you are more kind than God, that any branch that bears no fruit you keep there Wow, you'll find out what that means. That sacking people in any organization is biblical. If you value a law to break another law, they sack you. It's biblical. Oh, we just finished 21 days fasting and prayer. Oh, I feel like I'm on fire. It is possible that in the process of that, you've broken the law that governs your work ethics or your place of work. You may finish that 21 days having done whatever it is you've done with the Lord, you get back to the place of work, on the account of their own law, they sack you. What I'm saying is that you can't pass one to bribe the other. You must understand how it works. You learn from simple to complex. If you have been taught linear equation and you say, well, I don't need it. Let's go to some complex stuff. When you get there, you will meet certain things that require you to have known the other ones. That's the way it works. There's nothing that you are looking for that is cursed. There's nothing. There's nothing. What are you looking for? There's nothing that you are looking for that is scarce. You are the one who doesn't have it. Then the next question is, why? What is it that you don't know yet that has put you in the position where you don't have it yet. Some people say, you know, um, usually I don't give offering in church because I don't have enough. It's the other way around. There is a reason why you will not have enough, because all your life your mentality around it is to soon finish. Meanwhile, the one who is your source is the God of all sufficiency. Praise God. What do you want? Listen, as far as Anna was concerned Children was scarce till the day she said, give me, Lord, and it's yours. Done. The reason why you must have knowledge before you pray is so that you can know what key open the door. If you throw bunch of key and the door opens, you can't repeat the result. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So I've said to you, if you are asking at the level of God, give me this, give me that, give me this, give me that, you may just be quiet. The day it occurs to him that your mentality, thinking and reasoning, you've gone beyond the level of survival to thinking his project, he will finance you for his project. You to be alive, to beget. You want to know beget? Matthew 1. What's the first statement? Isaac begets Jacob begets Anis, and Judas begets Ampheres, begets Anzarath, begets— listen to what I'm saying. Have you traveled before on the main road, express road, and you just pass a junction? See, some people used to drop at this junction. How many of you have done that before? Express road, maybe you are going to Kaduna or going to— aha. But that junction may look small, but there are people living inside there. You now drive inside, you find out that the whole city is there, but outside is a what? So when you get to the junction of Aram begets, that's the junction. If you open Aram's life, he lived the whole life, but in terms of the activity of God that is consequential, you describe him as begets. Even fools beget. There's nothing I can do. Are you still there? So why should God bless you? Talk. All you have saved on your phone is the kind of gown you want to buy, the kind of suit you like, the kind of native you want to sew, the kind of house that you like. The kind of car that you like that somebody else is driving. Show me something you have saved that is not about you but a project bigger than you. Show me the structure you have drawn, maybe for a school for the less privileged. Nobody wakes up sleepless night for that. Go and check what you have saved now. Plenty clothes. For Poseidia. If begat is what a man's life will be summed by from the moment he begat— hope you know he's using extra time. Oh, you don't know? Why should a tree exist without fruit? Yesterday I should not be teaching you this, but I was introducing my mentees to the reality of hope. And out of that, what many Christians have been running with is not faith but hope. Hope was not designed to be your lifelong companion. You start with it and drop it as quickly as you can and move to faith. Can finish you. You, you just believe that you deserve to live long, right? When you see people die, just something just tells you that you are different. It's because your day has not come. Those who died yesterday thought they were different. Is sensitive. Let me leave it. You are different. By what metrics? Hope. No root. Hope. That's what you have built your life on. I will have money tomorrow. By what metrics? 2025 will end differently. By what metrics? I'm asking you. God is the one who is— he has principles managing human existence and all that. And we are showing that one of the principles is the principle of prioritization. Okay, this world is a big space, but it's choking all of us. Why will you be the one to live longer? By what metrics should you be allowed to continue thriving when we keep searching that tree and it is bearing what is not fruit? It shows flowers, promises. You check again, fruit should start coming out now. Nothing. To make the confessions in church and just believe it is automatic is to be set up for trouble. Shout it loud and clear, we have the covenant of life! You've never said it that bad before. I'm shocked. Say it again loud and clear. Come on, one more time. Say it again. We have the covenant of ease. Easy for you. I'm not going to stand here and have the opportunity to pastor you then set you up for failure. I have never pastored you before, that's why you are like this. Have I? No, sir. So I'm having this one-time opportunity before God to make sure your life changes. I will not blow it. Amen. That's why those who receive personal coaching with me, I tell them, if your life doesn't change in 6 months, I expel you. It's not the word that is difficult, you are the one who is not practicing it. The word is that predictable. And one of the ways to waste your time as a pastor is to keep— let me leave it, because if you don't do these things now, your, your transformation will end. It will end at the level of mm and WhatsApp status. Today was powerful. Where's the food? Nothing. But I'm just trying to show you, after Anna dropped Samuel in Shiloh, she had more children. It was never difficult all along. God was waiting for her to think beyond peppering arrival. The moment the conception was no longer a matter of pepper them, God was ready. And that's why you see Genesis chapter number 17 or 19, when God showed up before Abraham and said, I'm the Lord God of all flesh, walk before me and be perfect. How old was— what's the name— um, um, Sarah? By what drama did she give birth? By this time next year, period. All along, why didn't the word come earlier? He was waiting for them to be aligned to the point where they can be worthy of it. What you call delay can be God waiting for you. So you are not even the one being delayed, is him waiting that when will your head be correct. Amen. Some people who believe they have a call to ministry No, people— oh boy, people deceive themselves. They say, I had a vision, I saw Pastor Iya Adeboye was laying hands on me, he poured oil. Okay, uh-huh. I'm saying people have died who also saw the vision. It's not— it's no guarantee. The way things are— see, the other time I saw Lester Sumrall, T.L. Osborn, Kenneth Hagin, they came together and covered me with their abada like this, emu. And they, they, as they were praying, something, something jacked up within me. So I know that God is going to use me to touch the world. You ain't going to touch any world. Are you touching your village? Look, it's in the Bible. Look at it, Acts 1:8. Is it not there? You, you think— look at it. You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall be what? Witnesses unto me in both what? Jerusalem and all what? Judea will not open till you conquer Jerusalem. And don't talk about the uttermost part of the earth if you ignore Jerusalem. You see, your boss will say that— I don't know how to interpret it. The person that the future will be bright, there will be signs. Oh, there will be. Ah, oh, you know, I saw a comedy. The guy was praying, he said, oh, that's money that will come, we suddenly breakthrough, we open doors, we are lying. We are having major change in orientation from what the church has taught you before. That's why we're having the problem. Look at what you were used to. Come, 3 of you. No, sit down. I need drama ministers. Se wedu, come. Okay, can I have 4 more males? Come, describe. Do like the people at the Pool of Bethesda. Ah, come. Ah, this one is too Bethesda. Look at this. Let me have I need more. Let me have more meals. At least you can act like you are sick now. Let your face look like it. Wow, so I even took duvet to Bethesda. You are too— this is your vintage for Bethesda like this. Look at it. Pull up Bethesda. Every— let's say, ah, you know, drama was my first ministry. That's the reason why I always do this. Now let's say every once in a year, right? Ah. There's a reason why he's the one in church. Bishop say, come, you look like an angel. Angel. So the angel will now come, follow me now, and stir the water. Whoever can make effort to jump in is whole. The rest of you, till another one year. He will come again. Okay, how many years left? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. If this is our pattern of church, there will be frustration. It is not like there are no testimonies, but it is not corresponding to the number of people who need it. Jesus came to bring a new dimension. He saw a man there and said, do you want to be made whole? Pick your bed and go. Listen, it means this new dimension, if all will hear and respond, all of you pick your bed and go. The only way to reduce the frustration of Christians in Nigeria and in the world is to teach them the word and get them to respond to it. That's the only way. If we try another thing, we'll see miracles once in a while. If I can happen often, but compared to the number of those who need it. With the first dimension— sit down again— with the first dimension, let's say the pastor, because pastors are so-called angels, that come to stay. Except to the angel Church of Ephesus, right? Is the Superman. The second dimension, he teach them and point them to Christ. I will know I am working hard in this church when counseling line reduces, because the idea is not a Superman pastor. It is the teaching of the word that gets people. You will know the truth By yourself, the truth will make you free. Let me show you what the Bible says. Isaiah chapter number 10, verse 27. Give me YLT translation, Young Literal Translation. Look at the way this thing works. Isaiah 10, verse 27. And it had come to pass in that day, turn this burden off thy shoulder and this yoke from off thy neck, and yoke shall be destroyed because of prosperity. Okay, this is YLT. Now hold on there. Can you give me NLT translation also? King James says the yoke shall be destroyed because of, um, the anointing. He said, in that day the Lord will end the bondage of his people and he'll break the yoke of slavery and lift it from thy shoulders. Yes, this should not be the end. Okay, give me the translation that talks about your neck becoming so big. Is that New— no, not New KJV. Is it Message? No, not Message. Give me Amplified. Thank you, Lord. Look at this. And it shall come to pass in that day that the burden of the Assyrian shall depart from off your shoulder and the yoke from off your neck. The yoke shall be destroyed because of what? Fatness, which prevents it. From going around your neck. Meaning that as you are eating fats without falling under the anointing, the same yoke that used to embarrass you, that the devil brings it, is now undersized. You have become so big, it's not for your kind anymore. That's the way it works. Thank God for miracle meetings where we stir the waters, but this one that we are doing now is more powerful than 10 of them put together. And I'm telling you, say it again: I receive the word of the Lord in my spirit. I receive the word of the Lord in my spirit. I live by the word. I function by the word. I grow by the word. I will not remain the same in the name of Jesus. I experience radical transformation. Get up! I experience radical transformation. I experience radical transformation. Through the power of the word, in the name of Jesus, nothing remains the same. Every aspect of my life is conforming to his word, in the name of Jesus. That's the way it works. Sit for a moment. You want to ask yourself, in John 5, when Jesus went to meet the man at the pool of Bethesda, they watched him tell someone, pick your bed and go. Why were the rest quiet? Why? Institutionalization. They were still expecting the stirring of the waters, and that was Jesus telling them it's no longer coming. This is a new pattern. There is a point you get to that the expectation of God for your life— you'll be in meetings, no prophecy will come for you because by now He expects you to have outgrown what is meant to be a sign and a proof. The way he now leads you is through his word in your spirit. Nobody will confirm the fact that you have a calling. You that you are called, nobody. Prophet, who this one? You, you say me, me, me, me. They won't see you. It's not God rejecting you, it's maturity. And listen, there's also a level you get to that all the things you used to feel in his presence, you stop feeling it. Babysitting is over. Now the just walks by faith and not by feeling. Now you don't have to feel anointed to manifest the anointing. There's a point like that. Amen. Glory. Oh, glory to God. I see it. Come on. I feel it. Testimonies are everywhere around. I see it. I feel it. Testimonies, testimonies are everywhere around. Take it two more times. I see it. Thank you, Lord Jesus. You get to a point in your walk with God that you understand what he means when he said that the spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord with which he searches the inward part of the belly. It begins to guide you towards destiny through his word in your spirit. You just get to a season and know that everything is about to change. How do you then respond to that? It's not enough to know. You know so you can respond. You are not knowing to feel good. Every time you sense a new season and it ends at rejoicing, you have aborted it. Every time you sense a new season and it ends with glory, thank God, a new season— if that's where it ends, you've wasted it. The rejoicing is a sign of faith, but faith without work is dead. You sense this so you can know what to do. Unfortunately, I have to still use examples from what I taught yesterday. Let me give you an instance. This is the, this is the life you were prepared. This is the life they told you. Come, guys, let me have 3 more. This is the way they taught you to prepare for life. Look at the way they taught you to prepare for life. They taught to prepare for life knowing what you should do. Once you know what you should do, you You walk in wisdom, you are skillful, you're fine. You know what you should do, so you walk through life like this. Let's go. That's the way you walk through life, that once you know what to do, everything will be fine. Don't you know what to do? Is everything fine? Yes, sir. Why do they teach you how to drive? Can I have 5 more people coming? They taught you. Now listen, the— join— just 5 of you coming. Yes. This— what I want to give you is a very tough one. So this is the way you ought to learn about how to deal with life. Close your eyes, the 5 of you. Leave your hands. Walk towards us. You are facing resistance, and you can't assume that it has sense. Don't just learn the wisdom for your own success, learn their foolishness too, so you can know how to avoid them. If you think they don't exist, they will shock you. The wisdom of the wise is not enough to build. You need to know the foolishness of the fools so they don't catch you by surprise. It is only in life you prepare for one-way traffic. Whose football team only brought their own player and score goals? You have opponents, you must learn their ways. Yes, yes. Listen to what I'm telling you, because if you understand this, you'll understand that it takes more than academics to succeed. You need higher life. Selah. The fourth law is the law of contribution. Let me show you a text so you can have an idea. Romans chapter number 1, the law of contribution. Romans chapter number 1, and we're going to go to verse 20. Nisambika, Nisambika, Nisambika. Now hold on a minute, what's the meaning of the song? It says, oh Lord, you are my light, you are my light. Yes, wherever you, wherever you— yes, that's where, that's where I will go. I will follow you. Follow you. Now follow you. That's what it means. Because I want us to understand that the wisdom of God is his maintenance protocol for your life, and that's what is placed as the guiding light into destiny. There's no other way except you choose the ways of men and you're going to struggle. What has happened in the pattern of church we have understood is the pattern where, oh, if all we do is just pray, pray, pray, nobody's taught, the man of God will rise but the people will not. And because the man of God is rising, new billionaires will come to be his partners, but those are his old disciples will be nothing to show up about. But we can rise together by learning the word of God. Now without the drums. Loud, everyone, the loudest you can. Nisambika. Two more times. Nisambika. Nisambika. Nisambika. Ke ne aske na. Nisambika. Loud and clear. One more time. Nisambika. Nisambika. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Please sit for a moment. Thank you, Lord Jesus. You know, before I showed you this, I remember a song. It's just on my key. That we used to sing. Oh, you may not know the song. As a futuristic song that tomorrow will be better. There might be weeping that endures for the night, because the Lord is, we can face our tomorrow. How do you know that tomorrow is assured? Because we're engaging the word today. That's the only guarantee, not just by mere believing. Don't anchor your life on hope. Hope is gentle but can be an abuser. Amen. Amen. Praise God. All right, look at what the Bible says in Romans 1:20. Look at this. Don't forget what I'm about to show you. For the invisible things of him— that's God now— from creation of the world are clearly what? Seen, being understood by the things that are made. That is, we can understand invisible things by studying the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without what? Excuse. I mean, it is appalling that it is even scientists that will postulate the idea of Big Bang Theory. That tells you that once a godless spirit is at work in your life, it will rubbish your wisdom. The other— and by the way, there is a meeting point of the Bible and science. Those are the kind of teachings I've not started teaching. There's a meeting point. How do you say you understand the Bible and you don't know there's a meeting point? Right. But what you must not accept is for science to become your God. So as we study nature, we kind of have an idea of what God's management system looks like. Um, many of you might find this shocking to believe, but Abuja is actually one of the states in Nigeria where you find clean air compared to Lagos. Then there are places that you go to and discover that there are cleaner air. You go to Glasgow. The air is clean, so clean and fresh. London is not so fresh, but Glasgow is. You go to Atlanta, there are trees everywhere. God created the earth in a way that entities can interact for each other's survival, and the way they interact is by contributing. Plant contributes oxygen, man contributes CO2. The both of them need what they are bringing. We survive by contribution, by contributing. It's a law. Once you are not adding, you are a liability. It's called dead weight. There must be something that is flowing from your life that is a part of God's program to make life easier. There must be. It's similar to the other law, but they are not the same. Even in your biological family Once they discover that once there's a meeting, you don't have anything to say, once they are contributing, you don't have anything to give, they will start having meetings behind you because a law is being breached. And that's the law of what? Contribution. If you don't have money, be hospitable. I say, ah, great grandma is dead though. Ah, cry the loudest. You've contributed a measure of sympathy. Not like you don't have anything to contribute to what they want to do in the family, and you also don't even have any statement, good or bad. When you were studying chemistry, you have what is called your periodic table, all right? For elementary level, you study 20 elements— hydrogen, helium, and all the likes. Good. Hydrogen, helium, on the shell of helium, complete, 2 electrons needed. Complete. It has no— there's something called electron affinity. That's the ability to be interested in something, to have to complete you. It doesn't give, it doesn't take. It's a neutral element. Once you are like that in life, you are not needed to be a part of anything. How do we apply this? Believers who don't have desires for anything They don't desire poverty, but they don't desire greatness. They are just there. They follow the biological order of existence. Be born, born, die. No desire, nothing. Nothing pains them. If they lose, it's okay, that's life. If they win, thank God. Um, prepare for something. Ah, what will be will be. So you can be sure, let 50 prophets lay hands on this one, they have no affinity. You can't trace greatness to them. You know why? Greatness is not an enforcement. Ah, even if you marry a spouse that— so this is— my Lord, as you have said, my Lord, person is not contrib— because listen to what I'm saying, there are homes that are being stressed because there's no mental compatibility. Don't do fine. Let the person talk. You too. Oh no, man. First statement: our kids will be beautiful. No doubt. Will they be smart? That's the question. Ah, our children will be beautiful together. You're already using AI to check the kind of children you will born. I'm shouting, I'm shouting. What's your drive? What keeps you awake? What keeps you awake at night? What are you pursuing? Everything surviving, or everything thriving, thrives by being a part of the system, interacting with the system. So look at this, let's apply that law. Those you are interacting with and you are contributing to are the one whose levels you belong to. You are not going to climb a ladder that you have nothing to offer. Ah, that's the way you understand favor and mercy, is that Lord, by your supreme power, lift my head up. Ah, at the expense of who? God, I receive an excellent woman who going to help me throughout life. If God gives you that girl, is she blessed or judged? Because you are either a blessing or a judgment. They are walking, living, moving, smiling, white throne judge. Amongst us, if you employ them, you are judged. If you give them contract, you are judged. You give them opportunity, you are judged. You marry them, you are judged. If you give birth to them, I don't know. You go they give judgment cloth me so. You are judged, sentenced. In those days, we used to buy 7-Up. They say you can win free drinks. You buy some drinks, you put try again. Therefore, encouraging words, hope, is not based on anything. How do you live your life on luck? Luck, good luck. That's the way it works. Because I'm about to show you operating in the corridors of power. That ought to be my next series. But I see a rumbling in my spirit. I need to first teach you something so you can now learn that, because that's the law of contribution. When Joseph contributed to solving problem of somebody in the prison, he was appreciated in the prison. When he contributed to solve the problem of somebody at the palace, he was brought to the palace. Those whose problem you solve, that's the level you belong to. All right, the, the problem people can have with my kind of teaching is that it is blunt, it is not emotional, it doesn't spare you. Well, let me ask you a question. How do you wake up at the beginning of your life and decided that you want to be repairing worklock? I will tell you one statement. I will leave you to go and figure it out. Your employment— in fact, let me tell you like this: anything that can predictably determine your financial level in the next 10, 20 years, it's not the will of God. For you. Anytime you are involved in such, you must know God more than that, so that a resource will not be the source, except if that thing is your calling. In your calling, you have limitless opportunity. You should not be contented doing what doesn't bring you fulfillment because it puts food on your table. Listen, job is a curse, work is a blessing. Job brings food, work brings fulfillment. It also brings food, but it brings more than food. Yes, that's why when people work with me, I call them periodically. Are you feeling fulfilled? You don't have to do bad to be relieved. If you are not feeling fulfilled, I'm, I'm, I'm contradicting a law. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. What? Have you been blessed? Let me wrap up with this. God is omnipotent. You know what that means? All powerful. Is that not amazing? The God who is all-powerful said to Moses, these Israelites, let me kill them. The wallah is too much. I will start something new with you. Forget about what I told Abraham. You too, you are part of the seed. I will start something new with you. Moses said, God, if you kill them, people— it's not like Moses too doesn't want them to die, but they were stressing him. People will say that you were not able to take them to the land, and it's the reason why you killed them. God thought, I repented. As powerful as God is, people's lifestyle made him look powerless. So much so that when they got to the promised land and saw the people there, you know what they said? They said, let us make captains amongst ourselves and return back to Egypt. God can be so powerful everywhere else but in your life. Are you following me? Yes, sir. I taught it now. Go and read my book now, A Crowd That Wants Small Things. You don't buy books, that's the problem. So I've written so many things. I have a book, The Market Called Life. It's a book about time and chance. Serious. It doesn't— book doesn't forgive. It's direct. You will read it and cry at some point, but it will heal you. And put you in the right direction. Listen to what I'm saying. Don't envy me if God bless me. You can't envy my harvest if you don't know my seed. We are all contributing at our own level. I'm not sitting down and say somebody prophesied over me. I know prophecy doesn't happen by itself. If Samuel come, the one who is busy is the king, not the one who is waiting for Samuel. Selah. All right, because Samuel is coming, go and cook, go and cook, go and cook. What is that cooking? What does he have to do with the palace? But while David was keeping sheep, stewardship, he had learned to kill a lion and bear. It was important for Goliath, was important for the throne. Because it's not just about God, it's also about you. If you decide to make yourself a wimp, God will have no choice. He will not wrestle with you. I will show you two scriptures, Psalms 82 Then Deuteronomy chapter number 30. Psalms 82, we start from verse 1. All right. God's standing in the congregation of the mighty, he judgeth among the gods. How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and the needy, rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Yes, they know not. Neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High, but ye shall die like men and fall like one of the— what?— princes. Why? They don't know who they are. Deuteronomy 30:19. This is the part that concerns you now. This is God's disposition, and I end this series with this text. I call heaven— I'm repeating after God now— and earth to record this day. Whether it is for you or against you is your choice. That I've set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, what? Choose life, that both you and your seed may live. If you get it right, Your children will be born in their daytime. If you get it wrong, even from bed, they are born into the night. A place, a time of despair, hopelessness, no association. You must understand, life functions by laws. Respect it. Avail yourself to it. Pursue it like your life depends on it. Be aggressive. Don't take it calm. If the word of God is true, it must not end at, hmm, deep. You practice it. You run with it. Praise God. Respect these laws and you're going to be able to interact with life better. This brings me to the end of this series. I want us to pray that Lord, the grace to practice all that I've heard or I've learned I receive the grace Lord I received— Grace! I receive grace, I receive grace, I receive grace, I receive grace wisdom wisdom wisdom wisdom Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. Revelation knowledge, revelation knowledge. Oh, we bless your holy name. In Jesus' mighty name we pray.