DON’T SAIL WITHOUT JESUS! — What Happens When Christ Isn’t in Your Boat?

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Glory to God forevermore. Hallelujah Jesus. Amen. Amen. Once again want to bless God for his goodness to us and his faithfulness to us. This is the study on the miracles of Jesus. You have been on the 5th and is being a journey thus far. Amen to Jesus. Yeah the first miracle took a while and the February results taking a long while. Also Amen to Jesus that we are just enjoying God and doing the revelation of God's word. Amen to Jesus. Once again want to welcome all our listeners from over the nations of the earth. The good Lord bless you in Jesus name. Amen. And to our media evangelist for the great work you do. Share them on the platforms. Share the God bless which things Jesus name Amen. Great to me in the studio here with me the Lord bless you in Jesus name.

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We announce you by announcing the course of the teaching and you can also go to Grace Life podcast on Spotify and click about to see about the ministry and also see our giving channels. Send the Lord gift to us today. We are blessings always in Jesus precious name. Amen to Jesus. Right before we go into the study of the word of God, I just want to pray for those who are seeking their body, believing God for healing. Those who are believing God for miracle. If you're seeking your body, put your left hand on the sickness and of your right hand you're believing God for a miracle. Put your left hand in the point of contact of a miracle. And they need to do what he believed has called him to. I am the Lord that he let me. I am the Lord thy love. That's what the Lord is saying. Oh, I sent my word and he. I am the Lord. You sent your word. You sent your word and you hear when you hear the Lord. You are the Lord. I will see jesus. Jesus with the healer. You heal before. You heal now and you heal always. So I ask that you heal everyone under the sound of my voice right now. Root cancer is healed now in the name of Jesus. Cancer within the rectum, the anus region healed now in the name of Jesus. Cancers of all kinds are healed now in the name of Jesus. For that woman who've been hemorrhaging in the name of Jesus. That immoral stops now in Jesus precious name. That young man whom you have been coughing blood, the name of Jesus. That affliction is terminated now in the name of Jesus. Swellings are melted now in the name of Jesus. Tumors are dropping off now in the name of Jesus. Fibroid is melted off now in the name of the Lord Jesus. Pains of all kinds. Pains of all kinds. They have been destroyed now in the name of Jesus. That person on the right side of your body has judged few pains. I don't know what that medical condition is, but in the name of Jesus. That is the end of the pain now forever. For that person who's been experiencing this pain around your mouth, just around your mouth, in the name of Jesus. You are healed forever. No more pains, no more pains in Jesus precious. That basically you cannot bend forward. You cannot bend forward because of the Sever wisp. In the name of Jesus, that pain is checked back. Your health forever in Jesus precious name. Pains in the knees, pains in the ankles, they are healed now. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Motor neuron disease is healed now. In the name of the Lord Jesus, There's a woman your left breast. You felt this, you know, this lump and you've been seriously afraid because you don't want to hear what you don't want to hear. In the name of Jesus. That lump dematerializes now forever in Jesus precious name on that one in your leopard. You're feeling this, you know, secretion that you know it's foul and smell and you are afraid now that secretion dies forever in the name of Jesus. And we are made whole forever. In the name of Jesus. That person who you're just feeling your right leg go shorter than your left leg. I don't understand what that medical condition is all about. But in the name of Jesus, that satanic affliction ends now. And the legs of our lives now. In the name of the Lord Jesus, I cancel cancers in the name of Jesus. Terminate terminal disease. The name of Jesus. Cast out every spirit of infirmity. In the name of Jesus. Every bit of being is cast out. In the name of Jesus. I decree healings for God's people. In the name of Jesus. Don't believe in God for you. The Lord is turning around that situation in your favor. In the name your favor is turning around the name of Jesus. God is turning around your favor in the name of Jesus. For documentation issues. God is sorting them out. In the name of the Lord Jesus. For openings. You're believing God for openings. Open doors. Doors are open for you now. In the name of those believing God for a. A contact. There's a contact. You've been living God now that contact is given to you. In the name of Jesus. Somebody been trying to call a particular line for a particular, you know, business or whatever and it's not been pulling through. It's not been pulling through that number. That line is going to call you now in the name of Jesus. And what you're believing God for is coming to your. In the name of Jesus.

God is bringing miracles. Miracle alignment. In the name of Jesus. Your destiny path aligning. People's destiny path aligns with yours. The name of Jesus. No more mistaken relationships. No more misplaced parity. No more wrong matchings. Yes, you are matched rightly now in the name of Jesus. Opportunities are yours. What you have been pressing and praying for it's given to you now in the name of Jesus. Miracle conception, miracle delivery, miracle spouses between each other. Now it's done. In the name of Jesus Breakthroughs on all on all sides in the name of Jesus. Amen. For the lady that Lord said I should tell you your time to smile and you must smile. So it is in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Thank you Lord Jesus for the precious name we pray.

Amen. Praise God forevermore. Hallelujah to Jesus. Once again I want to encourage you please if you you see the healing you received a miracle, please feed us back. Testimony shapes your Amen and Amen. Amen. Hallelujah to Jesus. Amen and Amen. Praise God forevermore. We've been looking at the February of Jesus Jesus working on water. But we've been looking at the prelude him walking on water. And we've been on a while looked at he went alone to pray. And that took us a series of sessions. Alone to pray is coming out in a book on his own. Because that study of prayer that was very very awesome. And so watch out for the book. It's going to come out. Praise God forevermore. A lot of books we have to bring out. We're trusting God to help us. We need all the help we can get to be able to get our materials out. And we trust going to help us that use you to help us. Amen to Jesus. Amen. All right. I'll be looking at why the disciples had to go and say living Jesus to pray and they went with sin. Amen to Jesus. And we've been looking at that. Been a wonderful story. Go ahead and listen to all the other studies. And today we're going to be looking at the dangers of sinning without waiting for Jesus Christ Sin with us and also looking at how to wait for Jesus. Amen to Jesus. All right. We're not going to be looking up everything about how to wait for Jesus but look up some of it. Amen. What's your time? And then continue in our next study. But let's look at the dangers of sinning without waiting for Jesus. It's extremely dangerous sinning without Jesus in our books. Are we together? We cannot sail alone. Life is a rex on its own and it is a dead end without Christ. We don't actually know how those who are doing without Christ are doing it. Are you getting what I'm saying? Life is a ricks of the school and is a dead end and a dead trap without Christ. And so if you claim to be of Christ, then you need to ensure that he's in the ship with you. You can't be in the ship without Christ. One of the things notice in this ministry location is Christians. They go to church corporate gatherings when they feel like how they feel like. And when it's not, when it's raining, they don't go to church. You know, and some of them will tell you, I did it online. It's in my worship, God in my heart and every of that. Amen to Jesus. They say if you don't go to church, you go to hell. You see, the Bible says let us lay aside every weight and sin that easily beset us. Weights are not sins. Are you getting what I'm saying? But if you keep carrying weight, they slow you down and impede your speed. And the more your speed is impede in a distant time, it discourages from the journey. And before you know it, you get tired of the journey and fall off the journey are you know what I'm saying? A Pilgrim's Progress is a very beautiful book that explains that to us. And not even a movie, the cartoon movie and the book they explained to us. As a child of God, you should not allow wits. One major weight that a lot of Christians are carrying is the weight of seeking the assembly of the saint. Bible speaks of that. We should not forsake the assembling of the saints as the man of Isom do. Many reasons why, but no reason is justifiable. No reason whatsoever is what Justifiable. That's when the devil creeps into the heart of it. Now we are having issues with especially Pentecostal believers. Character is zero. The. The. The. The Christian virtues is nonsense. They don't have it. And yet. Okay, when you go to the Bible says iron sharpening iron. So the countenance of your brother sharpening that of another. When you go to for iron to sharpen, you are. You get what I'm saying? You won't go there. And then even when some go, they go one off or they go without. The under sign of iron has to sharpen iron and it's all messed up. Are we together? So these things are serious issues. Anything that will make you not sail with Jesus, you have to remove it from your life. Are you getting what I'm saying? We have to remove from life. It's been a very hectic week for me. But even preaching now, it's not an easy task. But we keep doing what the Lord has said we should do. Why? Because it's better to be on fire. Are you get what I'm saying? Though you are tired, are you together? Than to be strong in your body and to be what? Lukewarm in your spirit. It's better to be on fire in your spirit. Though your body is tired. Than to be strong in your body and be lukewarm in your word, in your spirit. Jesus says if you are lukewarm, he will do what spew you. I refuse lukewarmness. Amen to Jesus. So the first danger of sinning without Jesus is that we are the mercy of the whips. Till he shows up. Dangerous danger. Another disciples were suffering. Is that also? They were the mercy of the waves. We looked at the waves and we said the waves were troubling. Are we together? They are the mercy of challenges of life. Until Jesus showed up. How can you live at the mercy of challenges? That's not a life to live. You wake up in the morning, it's challenge that wakes you up in the afternoon. The challenge wakes you up in the morning. Challenge carries your day to your place of work. Your place of work. It is challenges you. You are just. Life is just on top you. I get what I'm saying. Life is just on top you. Life is tossing you up and down, tossing you everywhere. Are we together? When people look at you, all you have to say is how life has been on you. I get what I'm saying. How life has been on you, not how you have been on life. That's what disciples are saying. They were the mercy of the waves to Jesus showed up. Whenever you discover that you are the mercy of life, notice it. You have saved without Christ, but the mercy of the wave. Life is just on top of you. Every time is one challenge to the other that you cannot solve. The challenges are oppressing you. You cannot solve anyone. No solution it keeps because it keeps gifted hard on you. You are pressed on all side. But the Paul said, we are pressed on all side, but not abandoned. Persecuted, not abandoned. Press down, but not what? Destroyed but not crushed. I get what I'm saying. Why? Why would be persecuted but not abandoned? Because Christ is not sheep. Why are we pressed on one side, but not because Christ is not sheep. Jesus told Peter I said the devil sought to sit you have been you. When you are strong, what strengthen your brethren are. You get what I'm saying? Why? Because yes, life wants to be on us. But life will be on you. When Christ is not with you and in you are we together. But when Christ is in you and with you, you'll be on life. You'll Be sailing on the now suers wait for strong waves to sail. Is that also Surfers wait for strong waves to surf on what the strong waves, it's not the height or the size of the wave that matter. It's the device which you are using. To what? To surf the surface. That device thrives on what? What is troubling others is what device needs to move forward. To move. Is that also that's what the surfing board needs. The surfing board needs that same thing that others are afraid of down the surfing board. To do what? To move. So when Christ is in you and in your sheep, what happens is that you are on the surfer that surfs on the waves while others the waves are tearing them down. So it's dangerous to sail without Christ because you'll be at the mercy of the waves till Christ shows up. And pray that you remember to ask for Christ to show up. I hear what I'm saying. Yeah. Because some of the times, like we say, it's not because Jesus was not there, it's because we left him. The disciples left him. Are you they couldn't wait for him. I get him when it's mercy, he always show up. But some of the times, even when the person show up, we want to stop him from showing up. Are you getting me? Praise God forever more. Mind me the story I heard. I heard a pastor, preacher. He said, there's a particular man who came to meet their senior pastor for prayers. Suddenly he was very wealthy. Suddenly his wife took ill and he started spending, spending on her treatment. And at the end she died. Then the next thing, his daughter took ill. And instead of spending on the treatment, spending on treatment, the daughter died. By this time he started selling his properties. And his other child took ill also. And he spent and spent and spent. That child died. And finally at this point, he had sold all his property, had become a pauper. Finally he took him. Now there was no money to spend again. It was then he came to look for Jesus. And the pastor said, why did he have to wait that long? Sometimes when we think we have the resources, we forget bond. But unknown to us, God is the one who gave us the resources. And we need the more that we need the resources. So why did you have to wait that long? The moment anything happens, call on the name of the Lord that you shall be saved. It's not because you are trying to preserve the money. Are you getting what I'm saying is the life that is more important. If you had follow the name of the Lord, the wife would have been preserved, the children would have been preserved. Are you getting me? Why not to be that Lord? It's dangerous to sell without price because you'll be at the mercy of the babes till he shows up. Are you getting me? I may not be apportioned in Jesus name. And the second danger of it is that we become miracle seekers instead of miracle workers. We've said that before and this is not who we're meant to be. Are we together? That's not. We're meant to be workers of miracles, not seekers of miracles. Praise the Lord forevermore. And we have a high seeker sensitivity in the church of Jesus. High seekers and things. Because many of us are sailing with our past. There's a natural thing that's, let me use the word natural for everyone who is born of God. The truth remains that if you sin, you don't need to be an apostle, a prophet, an evangelist, a teacher. Are you going to say don't to be any of those five foot ministry? Jesus says, I give unto you power. That power has given unto you as a child. Record are you don't need to be in the five foot ministry to operate in the power of God. Only to be is to be in Christ and Christ in you to operate in the power of God. So once you are in Christ, you are a miracle worker. That's who you are meant to be. You don't need to be a pastor to be miracle worker. I don't need to be. You see, I think of one of the things that God has done in my life and he keeps in my life. When people see me, they don't look, I just look like the everyday person. I get what I'm saying, just the everyday, everyday person. So you don't see anything powerful about me. And when the Lord begins to minister to me, they bring me like, are you sure this is the person who saw this person that you're seeing now? You know, it just bows there. And I thank God for that. And by the time I'm done ministry, I don't see look like you know what I'm saying, hey, I did any extra, any extra thing. But because that's meant to be, the life is the life of the miracle worker. I get what I'm saying. That's who we are meant to be. That's what the church of God is meant to be. But when we do not sail with Christ, we start becoming miracle seekers. See miracle seekers everywhere, the Christian. That's why many of them have moved from spirituality to spiritism. They move from spirituality to spiritism, they are two different things entirely. I get what I'm saying. We are meant to be spiritual people. I get what I'm saying. People that Bible says we live in the spirit does also what? Walk in the spirit. He says walk in the spirit should not feed the desires of the flesh. We are meant to be people who live and work in the spirit. That's what it means to be spiritual. I get what I'm saying. But spiritism is when you start going into divination. Are you getting me? A divination takes some sly and very deceptive measures. When you try to add something to Jesus, you are no longer spiritual. You are practicing spiritism. It's as simple as that. When Jesus Christ is not enough for you, again, you are no longer a spiritual Christian. You are practicing spiritism. And that is dangerous for you. Because you cannot serve God and mammon. You cannot serve God. Jesus cannot serve two masters at a time. You cannot be spiritual and a spiritist at the same time. You can't be the two. You must choose one. You want to be a spiritist? Go and practice spiritism. Full flesh. But if you want to be a spiritual child of God, then stay with Jesus. Jesus should be enough and more than enough. Are we together? And so sailing without Christ puts you at this dangerous spot where you become miracle sick. Somebody told us, told me something. Come on. I want to give me. Do you know you are dealing with. Do you know who you are dealing with? Before you even got born again? We have already encountered Jesus. I was thinking about. I said thank God I encountered you before I encountered Christians. Thank God I encountered Christ before I encountered Christians. Because if I encountered Christians I'm seeing here before I encountered Christ, I would have never had a relationship with Christ. But thank God it was Christ I met before I met these Christians, these caliber people I'm seeing. I call themselves Christians. Christianus means followers of Christ. That's what it means in a Greek. But look at what we have today. Are they actually Christianus? Because they are not behaving like Christianus. They are behaving like what they want to be like. You don't look like. You don't look like who you are following. How you following the person. Are we together? Don't follow the person. Pray God, Reverend. Hallelujah. And I'm thankful to God for who I met first. Are you get what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm thankful to God for who I met first. I'm thankful to God and that's why I having a lot of challenges you're talking with. Somebody said, there is no Christian here. Wow. And I don't, I don't, you know, judge the person for the person's statement. There is no place I support you because looking at what we have here, it's all messed up. Practicing spiritism today and then you are in church tomorrow. What are you up to? And then we will use Bible to support the spiritism. They use Bible. My dad always told me something, he said, he always said, you can use the Bible as a defense tool for anything you want to do. When people let me not go into history, you can use the Bible as a defense tool for any nonsense you want to do. But you cannot use Christ Jesus as a defense tool for immorality, for Satanism, for spiritism and for demonic operations. Jesus has his. His operations and we cannot go otherwise. That's why we see we have a lot of miracle seekers instead of miracle workers, because we don't have these basic principles in place. But I pray the Lord will help us in the name of Jesus. Amen. No matter how, how, how long God takes it better. It's better he takes long and the miracle lasts long. I get what I'm saying. Than for you to look for a shortcut that we cut short immediately. It happened. They did some whatsoever and the thing went. But it has come back. That's not God. That's not God. Whatsoever the Lord do it shall be forever. Not entering, not intermittent. That's not good. I was talking to somebody like they did something. They did some, went to some spiritualism and they did something. It stopped after we went there. Stopped. It made us buy some things. And after I stopped and now the thing has come back again. And I told the person I say, see, that thing I say was an issue. That same issue I had over 20 years ago. God spoke to me. I held on to the word of God. I prayed and God told me the solution to it. And then finally, at the end of the day, when they gave me a medication, I took it. I gave it to my dad. I said, daddy, you are a pastor. Pray for this mercy. I believe God to him in all this mercy. And he prayed for it over 20 years. That devil can never come back. Whatsoever the Lord doeth shall be forever. Whatsoever the devil do it shall be intermittent. He will give you a cap and take your head. He will give you shoe and take your leg, your feet. He will give you wristwatch and take your wrist. Why is it not better to be without a cap and still have my head than to wear a cap and lose my what is used for the cap when I don't have a head to put it on? What's the use for a wrist when I don't have a wrist to put it on? What's the use for a shoe when I don't have feet to wear it on? And that's how Christians have mortgage their destiny. For morsels of bread, for porridges that don't make sense. Jesus is not in the ship. Be a miracle seeker, not a miracle worker. And I pray that the Lord will help us to focus on Christ in us instead of looking for Christ outside us. It's not outside, it's inside. Stop looking for Christ that is outside. The one you're looking for is that Jesus is not the same. When people tell you that Jesus is here, Jesus is there. Say don't believe there. You don't believe because he is in you. He's not outside you. Bible say Christ, he knows the world. The hope of stop looking for the Christ outside. That one is the fake. The only original one is the world inside you and inside me. So when you see them in the end time, they tell you Christ has appeared. Christ is there. Christ, don't believe them. Don't believe them. There was one time it was really my country say Jesus of Oibu. I mean Jesus faded off. Jesus is not outside. He's inside me. I'm looking for him outside. He's not in the venue. He's not in the meeting. He's not. He's inside me. I can't take him to the venue. I take him to the meeting. I take him to the gathering. They try to remove. Remove our. Our. Our operation base. You think that my power is enough is in this in that is a location. No, no, no, no. If my power is in the location, that means I was powerless before I sl that location. My power is not the location. My power is inside me. I'm the location. I carry the power of God everywhere. I carry everywhere. I know what I'm saying. I power. I got the microphone. Somebody was asking me, he said that your tablet is there. I. My mother said, because I know. I teach. I teach. Is it an iPad? I say, I don't. I say no, it's not an iPad. My mother says, is it iPad that makes your notes? Is he iPad that makes it powerful. But that one, look at what I'm using here. It's not iPad. Are we together? And that's where we have messed it up as Christians a lot. I'm inside the church. And as I miss that they looked at me and they looked at us that this was a woman. I'm not because is he me? He's not around me. He's not in a location. Stop looking for Jesus outside. Locate him inside. Look at him inside. Stand with him and stop looking for him outside. That's why Christians are missing it. That's how they jump from pillar to post, from frying pan to fire, from prayer mountain to prayer city, from prayers to prayer valley. And after they jumping from one prayer point to another prayer point and prayer post or that prayer post, their problems become more complicated than it was before they began. Or you focus on Christ within. No matter how long it takes, he will always make a way. And when it is done, it will be forever. My miracle is still lasting and will forever keep lasting.

The order that they went to meet the devil is doing them intermittent miracle. The miracle that God gives is permanent, not intermittent. We are living proofs of the permanence of God's working power. Not intermittent Satanic operations. Are we together? And I'll start to make them understand these basics operations. When they talk, we'll finish and they will listen. But then he has finished talking again. We'll laugh, we'll go. But I keep making them understand this. I keep making them understand it. You see, Christ in us is the hope of glory. The source of walking, of miracles. That's the source. As you're seeking miracles. Check Is Christ in you? I get what I'm saying. And if Christ is not in you, you will seek miracles to enter inside magic. I get what I'm saying. Are we together? If Christ is in you, you won't seek miracles. You walk them out. I pray the Lord open our eyes in the name of Jesus. Amen. Let always s with the consciousness of Christ. Me. I get what I'm saying. Don't be unconscious of it. Once again. The Lord will help us. In the precious name of Jesus. Amen. Now let's look at how to wait for Jesus. How to wait on Jesus Using the word intermittent. Am using for and and on. Together are we together. Praise the Lord forever more. To understand how to wait for Jesus and how to wait on him, we must first understand the meaning of the word wait. Are we together? Meaning of the Lord of the word waits. You see, we are looking. We are looking at Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 31. Let our wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as evil they shall not. Shall walk not. What Faint. And the word wait upon is one word. Are you getting me? The phrase great upon is one word in the Hebrew Are we together? So great upon is from the Hebrew word kava kava and kava means it's amazing. It's amazing. When you see the meaning of this word the first meaning it will that means the word confuse you because it doesn't relate Are we together? When we talk about weight or what should be thinking of first the first word to explain with what should be your mind patient that should be the first word that should explain the first way even in English now the first synonyms that the first synonym they used to explain Are you getting me? It's what best projects that work Are we together? The first synonym is to explain is what best project the first expansion is what best project and then begin to explain what more words that best project the meaning of that word Are we together? And then they begin to use other words that best project the based on different context Are you getting me? So the first word is the best projector of the meaning of that particular word. So the first word for cavalier is actually it looks like why? Well it doesn't really sit well let's go and sit well and see what it mean. The first word meaning for cover is to bind together with bind together. I get what I'm saying. Wait upon and bind together please today, today, today relating Anyway but this is the first word used to the first explanation for wait upon and that means it's the best word definition and the best projection for this world. I want you to understand what this entails. Are we together? It means to bind together Perhaps by twisting. Are you getting me? You see, sometimes when you just listen to teachings watch I I like this style Lord because I love the teachers that come up there. Wow, they have beautiful teachers and word of God and I listened to one of my beautiful beautiful teachers Charles Stanlo and you know when I finished listening to him we thank God Papa is going to build the Lord but his legacy still owned for us to enjoy God bless him in touch ministry. And when I finished listening to him the those you know those are going to be commenting and saying you know some stuff after him teaching us over. You get what I'm saying? And a young man who came he began to explain what Dr. Charles Stanley talked about waiting upon the Lord are you getting me? And then he began to explain karma and he explained buying together. You see when I listened to it that day he explained buying together. It was an African American young man who spoke, you know, attacked and Stanley thought You know, he just explained kava. And when he explained it, I was like, whoa. Do you know what? I never knew that that explanation I got that day is going to be useful to me today in this teaching. So when I saw to bind together, perhaps by twisting, the Lord took me back to that explanation. Like that was the exciting reason why I sat down to listen that teaching. So I encourage please listen to teachings. They're going to help you. I get what I'm saying. It means to bind together, perhaps by twisting. It means to collect. That means figuratively to expect. It means to gather together. It means to look, means to patiently, means to tarry, means to wait for, wait on, or wait upon. When I say wait upon, it also means to wait for. You are saying wait upon. You are saying to wait on. Saying wait upon. It also means to wait upon. Are you getting what I'm saying? So you see, we are talking about wait upon the Lord. We're talking about waiting for the Lord, waiting on the Lord, waiting upon the Lord. That's why waiting for Jesus, waiting on Jesus, waiting upon you is the same thing. I get what I'm saying. Praise God forevermore. Let's look at to bind together, perhaps by what? Twisting. All right. In the Old Testament, when a cloth was woven, two people bought the yarns from its two ends and they bond them together by twisting them together to become one. Are you know what I'm saying? That's what they used to do. So two people hold the different yarns together. Are you getting me? From two different ends. And they begin to twist the yarns together, together, until all the yarns they've twisted together become what? One breadth. Now, to wait for and upon the Lord means we are twisted with the Lord. We are twisted with the Lord to become one with the Lord in world, character, life and what our hoping. I love this, I love this, I love this, I love this. And this is the part that is not easy. Are you what I'm saying? As it is in heaven, so are we on this earth. But you know what that means. There is a practical operation to make that a reality. It is waiting upon where he begins to twist you with him. I remember years ago, I told my mentees and I said, until God makes you feel what he can in Christ Jesus on earth, why he walked the face of the earth. There's a level. God cannot use it, but it makes you feel what Jesus felt. There's a level he cannot lose. So he twists us with himself. So we are one with God. Yes, in our spirit. But see, in our daily life, in our character, you get what I'm saying? For that oneness to become a reality, it entails twisting, twisting, twisting. Are we together? And by the twisting, the twisting method binds us together with the Lord and we become one with him in work, in character and in lifestyle. This twisting is done by what? By life situations and challenges. That's the purpose of life situations and challenges. The purpose of life situations and challenges to twist thoughts. Sometimes you wonder, why am I still being twisted? It's because you are still in the waiting process. God is making you one with him in character, in words and in life. Some of us are just only excited with the truth that we are the righteousness of God in Him. Very true. But in character, are we revealing that righteous nature in words, are we revealing it? Creation, reality? Are we one with Christ in the world? Are we one with him in character? Are we one with him in lifestyle? Are we together? It is the situations and the challenges of life that twist us till we become born with grace him in our world, in our character, life. I remember a couple of days ago, I was going through a lot of mental challenge, mental thoughts. You know, there were thoughts that were just going through my mind that were stressing me, stressing me. And I was like, God, Lord, I'm sorry for the wrong thoughts. Oh, for these thoughts that are stressing me. I know what happened. I use you Bible. I know they give us best for the day, every day. So after that was the morning I woke up. The thoughts were troubling, troubling, troubling. I just said, lord, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for the thoughts that have been troubling and every of that. As I was on my way out, I checked my new Bible for the verse for the day and what was the word for the day? Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in that sight. I said, thank you Jesus. So I knew what the Lord was telling me that day. In other words, my son, take responsibility of these thoughts, take responsibility of these words. These situations are twisting you. These things are twisting you and they are twisting you so that you become one with Me in thoughts, in words and in actions. So waiting on the Lord is God allowing situations and circumstances to twist us, lead us together with him, to become one with him in thoughts, words and actions, not in spirit. Because we are already one with him in spirit. But the Holy Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are children of God. We are already one. Bear witness. Is the word superficial? It means to hold hands together. Do you get what I'm saying? So it's one with our spirit, but now in our thoughts are we one with Him? In our words, are we one with Him? In our actions, are we one with Him? It is the waiting process that translates our spiritual identity into our mental and physical identity and reality. Because every one of us must wait. Those who don't want to wait on the Lord and try to manipulate and boycott the waiting process at end of discover that they don't look like who they are. That's why you have what they call Christian hypocrites. Why? Because in their spirit they are one with the Lord, but in their words and their thoughts and their actions, they are not one with the Lord. Is. It's called Babel Confusion. I get what I'm saying. Confucian. The word hypocrite in the Greek actually means to wear a mask. Because back then in the, you know, in the Gentile nations they had circuses. And these circuses they had, you know, clowns. Are you getting me? Who used to wear masks to perform, you know, we used to even see it. There were children, they wear, they, they paint them their faces. Are you getting me? And the jokers and how to perform now when they wear the masks, they perform with the masks. After they perform, they remove the marks. So hypocrite is a marks person. That's the person that has two identities. That's all. Are you getting me? And if you have a spiritual identity and then your mental and physical identity is different, you are simply able to stop shouting mercy and grace. Are you getting me? What you need is to wait on the Lord. It's not mercy and grace. Shout. Now mercy and grace have been availed for you to wait. So wait so that your soul and your physical identity will align to your spiritual identity. Simple, simple. Ah, these challenges are too much. This reason is because of alignment. Twisting, twisting, twisting. Because God wants to bind us together with him so that we become one with him in words, in thoughts and in actions. Who we are spiritually becomes who we are in our soul and who we are in our body. That's the journey we are all here doing. That's the journey of maturity. And that's when a lot of Christians run away from are we together? So to wait. This is what it entails. Are we together? Praise the Lord forevermore. And so this makes us understand that the purpose of challenges and life situation is to twist us till we become one with God who is on the inside of us. That's the purpose of these challenges and situations. Sometimes I thought, I've passed this level of challenge. God said, no problem. I still twisting, still twisting. There's still something I'm still twisting into and twisting out of. I'm twisting something, you know, I like. Okay. Another thing that explains this is when they are trying to squeeze fluids to get dry, when you are twisting the cloth, that you are squeezing water out of the cloth because there are still some water. That means that I'm squeezing out. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. Praise God. But at least he wants to be one with himself. Isn't an exciting experience, but it's an important experience. And God is going to allow situations and challenges do that. Yeah. To become one with God, who is on the inside of us. One with him is on the inside of us. Become one with him in our soul and in our what? In our body. And so by this, we'll begin to what? Begin to think, talk, live and walk like God. I get what I'm saying. We begin to think, talk, live and walk as God, the Bible says, as he is in heaven, so are we on this earth. We are not just living like Him. We are not similes of Him. We are him on earth. Are you getting what I'm saying? So until the twisting process is complete, we cannot be as he is here on this part. So the purpose of the three sneeze will also think, talk, walk and live as it is. And many of us like the situations, none of us like the challenges. But we must understand the purpose behind them. It's the purpose that matters more than the pain itself. What is God doing? I get what I'm saying. Everything he allows is because of what he's doing. I get what I'm saying. So you should not focus on what he has allowed. You focus on what he's doing. One of the challenges that life we have as Christians is that more often than we focus on what he loves and lose focus on what he's doing, may the Lord open our eyes to focus on what he's doing. Amen. Not what he has allowed. It takes a lot to get to this point where you focus on what he's doing, not on what he has allowed. It takes a lot, a lot of maturity to get to this point. And I and I pray the Lord will help every one of us to get to this point of maturity where we focus on what the Lord is doing. Know what has allowed to happen to us if he allow. I told the Lord, I said, lord, if you allow me get into this. That means you have a plan to get me out of it. The Holy Spirit led Jesus to the wilderness to be tempted. Bible said clearly he led Jesus to the wilderness to be tempted. He didn't say led you to fast. You know what I'm saying? Jesus was the one who chose to fast. But the purpose of the Holy Spirit led in Jesus there was to be tempted of the devil to test. Are you getting me? But Jesus said, no, this test have to fast. Are we together? But the only thing that led him in also did what led him out. If God allowed you in, he will take you out. But you should not focus on what he allowed you into or what he allowed into. You should focus on what he's doing in you. Is it that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. And that's the twisting put together this rule of twisting. Are you getting me? So we have to focus on what he's doing, not what he's allowing. And that's the reason why we should not run away from twisting. That God allows to come to us. Because they make patience have a perfect work. And this makes us practically and physically one with God. Thoughts, think, talk, walk and act as him. That's the purpose of what God allows upon. They make us practically and physically one with God. James 2, verse 4. James 1, verse 4. But let patience have a perfect work. Let her. That means you can also unlearn. Are you get what I'm saying? You can also prevent her. And why use her for patience, woman, patience. I have not even looked at it in this life before. One day we look at why use her for wisdom. Now I still use half for patience. What is the issue? What's the thing about the her agenda for patience and wisdom? I get what I'm saying, right? Select patience, have a perfect that he may be what perfect and entire, wanting nothing. The idea behind the twisting, the binding is for us to be what perfect and entire world. The Bible said that Jesus was the God of this world cometh and he findeth nothing in me, nothing in me not. Because I am what I am perfect, I am entire. I am wanting nothing. So he cannot find anything. So the binding together by twisting is the act of waiting on the Lord. God is going to be binding us together with him by allowing situations like twisters, twisters, twisters, challenges, twisters. They look at you and say ah. But you said God told you, you said you are called on God. You said, how come you are living like somebody that is not called of God, how come you are living like somebody that is not a child of God? Jesus, when he walked the face of the earth, he never lacked anything. The resource was always there. Even Judas was stealing from the pause. But he never. He never dropped the pause. How come you are still experiencing some financial challenges and before you know it, you want to put your hand into spiritism because spirituality is not working again for you. Or you say spiritualism is too slow. The word of God and prayer has become too slow. So let me add something to Jesus so that I can fast track Jesus. Jesus has his space, the devil has his face. And I rather follow the place of Jesus no matter how slow it is, than to try to fast track me. And what end before my time? Are we together? Because these situations and challenges want to twist you so that we can know whether you can stand for Jesus or not. Imagine Jesus that was healing the sick, raising the dead. Nathaniel came to him and he told him an Israelite without guy. And he said, how did you know me say, when you under the tree, I saw you. What kind of. What kind of prophetic precision is this? The same Jesus that could be telling somebody about himself told you Samaritan woman, you have had five men and the six year you are with is not even your husband. And woman said, come and say man who are too many parties about me. The same Jesus that he doesn't need to see you to tell you about you. Are you getting me? Same Jesus, same Jesus went suddenly they blindfolded him and they were hitting him and were telling tell us we hit you, child. What a ridicule. Prophetic anointing at his peak was being humiliated. And yet like a sheep to the slaughter, he opened not his mouth. Three the gift that the anointing not this one prophetic gift. It's prophetic. And prophetic himself was not really good. And he should have gotten angry and said, it is silence that does it. Me Silas. Now I cross your hand. Let her. Let her hand wither. Why can't you do that one Ah. Jacob will hold himself because we don't want his hand to wither. Is that also power would have been living silence. Just hit me. Why are you coming with Amy? Why are you making a mess? Have I not here with you since? Could you do me anything Coming with army and see if you are coming to catch a robber. I'll be here. It's because now I want to go. That's why I'm allowing you. So stop feeling like it's mama. Say ah. Don't you Know I can get. I can free you up. Say, stop there. Even with all this beating, they are bit me. The Son of man has the power. To do what? To lay down his life and to pick it up. My life is not in your hands. That was a situation where he should have shown. He told them, he said, can tell my father to send a thousand battalion of angels to come and rescue me now. But this is not the time for that. When you come to a time where it's like everything that you, you know, that you know, God told you he's been tested. And they are mocking you. They are mocking. They mocking you. They say you're a man of God. No car, no house. You can't even do this. You can't even do that. You say you're a child of God. See the way your life is like, you're not serving a living God and every other. And then you start. The devil start telling you, do you know what this means? You can just still add me to this equation and they will not know. And that's how many have added the devil to the equation, thinking that others don't know. But the others don't know. God knows his own Bible said, let every man appoint the name of Lord, depart from iniquity when the twisting, when the binding by twisting is ongoing. The purpose is to be the focus, not what is allowed to do the work. Because patience. You don't. You don't worry. Patience are. You get what I'm saying? That's why it's called Patience. You don't worry Patience. I was talking to somebody. I told me, okay, I saw somebody, a flyer. Now, I went to do a pinny job and I saw that the person's name was Mr. Sacrifice. I said, sacrifice. I don't like that kind of name. No, no, no, no, no. I can't. I can't be an academy Sacrifice. No, no, no, no. I can't get. I know that kind of thing. Sacrifice. No, I can't be that kind of you. And I told the person, I said, there was a guy in my secondary school, his name, his parents gave him Endurance Primary School. Sorry. We attended primary school. Parents gave me Endurance, the second school I attended for only jss. He attended secondary school with me. By the time we came to secondary school, he had changed his name from Endurance to Faithful. Ah. Ah. There are some nails. I don't know what the gambas had endured. He thought, he said, no, but I cannot contain. How will there be an equal sacrifice? What's that? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, I don't that kind of thing. Give it to sacrifice, not to me. So when you hear patience, forget. There's nothing you can do but be patient. You can't fast track patience. That's why the Bible says, let patience don't. Let. Don't focus on other things. Let patience do his work. But if you are trying to fast track patients, you'll be wasting your energy. Let patience have a perfect. That you will be perfect and entire. One thing. Not again. You know, the word patience is a great word. Ellipse. An ellipse means to anticipate with pleasure. Ah, that's. That's the beautiful part about ellipse. It's not just to anticipate, but with what pleasure. So if there's no pleasure after, the anticipation is not yet patient. It's called torture. And God did not call us to torture us. So don't torture yourself. See if you like, frustrate yourself, cry, moan. What else Again. Grief. Roll on the floor, Wear sackcloth, washes on yourself, do penance. The period. God says the period, that's the period should not change anything. It did not change anything. My brother, my sister, not change. So the best is Allah. Patience. Have a word. Perfect work. Are we together? So we wait for Jesus by what? Joyfully accepting and facing the situations and challenges that they allow us to come to us. Because they make us manifest oneness. We joyfully accept them because of their purpose, not because we like them. You understand what I'm saying? Get it clear. We joyfully accept these challenges and situations not because we like them, but because of their purpose. What's their purpose? They make us become physically and practically one with him. So we focus on the purpose, not on the challenges and situations. Not only things they allow. Are you getting. And we focus on it joyfully. When they mock, you, laugh. Hallelujah, Glory to God. Nowadays my wife always say, I'm not ashamed of the gospel, which I'm not ashamed of the gospel. I was talking to somebody. I said, I granted from university, first degree, 20 years ago, PSC accounting. To read Cost Accounting, Management Accounting and taxation Accounting, Behavioral science. To read all those things, it's not child spree. And to come out with a degree is not child spring. And then I worked in an audit firm also. It's not just me. There was a bank. Opportunities were there for me, which I didn't take, I didn't take hold of. And then when the Lord called me to Paul Newtown, I left every of the certificate. Every time I take with my Father, I said, thank you, Daddy, for allow me to leave certificate. Because he didn't, he didn't. I didn't go to a federal investor, a government investor, it was a private investor. He allowed me, he paid all that money and allowed me to leave them. You think it's effort that our life, their child, allow me leave that money and say, God, I'm preach, Focus now. I'm preaching Jesus. So some people look at us here and they think that we are just some pushovers who didn't know what to do with our life. And that's how we are preaching the gospel. I told the woman, I told him, I said, and my wife is an engineer by profession. She's an engineer. I told him because he has, he has worked in the engineering field also before he came into business. And I told him the names of the company. Shouting was like, what? And you guys left all that to preach this gospel? I said, yes, we left all that to preach gospel. All the nonsense we received from people here, they've not seen, they've not touched, they've not handled the things we have seen, they have not. And some of them will not and cannot. But we are not ashamed because we know what we have sacrificed to preach his gospel. So we are not focused on the situations and challenges. We are focused on the problems. Are you getting me? Because there is nothing we sacrifice that is as big as. As though he was rich, he became poor that through his poverty we may be made rich. He sacrificed the riches of glory to take the poverty of what humanity. He sacrificed the riches of divinity to take the poverty of humanity so that we have the riches of divinity. There's no sacrifice that I will make that will be as big as what he made. So when I shame on the gospel, insult me. That's all you can do. Talk nonsense, that's all you can do. I get what I'm saying, but I've not sacrificed as much and I can never sacrifice. Even the patriarchs are patriots who were martyrs. They knew that what he sacrificed was too much. That even their life is not even one millionth of what he sacrificed. Matters have sacrificed. They sacrificed their life for the gospel. They know that even their life given as sacrifice is not compared to the sacrifice made. I'm not ashamed. What does it for you to tell me? I don't have money, I don't go there, it's not big there. I hear what I'm saying, there's no problem. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed. I remember one of my pastor Friends. Hey, it's good to see you walked after you regretted. I said, why? I said, see, if you did not work, you have looked like you are just one rift who granted from school and entered into ministry because you don't know how to do a secular job. I said, serious. I said I did not know. It's good that you have musical knowledge in drums. I said. I said, why? He said, because you see, when your musicians are playing off, you can easily correct them. I say, I did not know. A lot of things I did not know. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Sir, we didn't do this thing because we are school dropouts are. You know what I'm saying? We didn't listen because we don't. We didn't have a career path. We didn't do this because we did not have a future. We did this because we saw what is bigger than what we call a career. We saw what is bigger than what we call a future. Our future in him is bigger than the future that our career could give us. So, sir, insult me. I don't give a damn about your insult because I'm not ashamed. See, I am more focused on the purpose than the challenge. I'm more focused on the purpose than

because the purpose is to make me physically one with him, practically one with him. And so what do we do? We joyfully receive these challenges and these situations knowing that if God allowed them to come to us, he will do what will bring us out of them. If he allowed them to come to us, he will bring us out of there. I'm too sure. So about the person like this, I am persuaded that neither death nor life neither presides or pass. Neither things present or things to come. Neither any of this can separate us from the love of God. I am persuaded that if he allowed it come to be, he will bring me out of it. Why? Because the purpose is not for the situation that challenge to kill me. It is for me to manifest physical oneness with him. Simple. So I focus on the purpose. And the challenge you keep having is few days. In no time it will get tired, it will fizzle out. The challenge will fizzle out, but the purpose will remain. The challenge will fizzle out, but the purpose we remain focus on the. That's how we wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord by focus. Lord, why are you allowing this thing come to me, Lord, why? Some say, Lord, the challenge is spirit may remove it. Well, the Apostle Paul told the Lord, Lord, this challenge has Been troubling me in the movie that there was a messenger because of the abundant revelation I received. There was a messenger that sent to me to perfect me a thorn in my flesh. And three times I asked the Lord to move for me, said what happened? And the Lord told me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in your weakness. And he said, therefore do I glory in my weakness. For his strength is made what perfect in my weakness. He was focusing on the challenge. He was focusing on the situation. And God told him, you are focusing on a transient issue. Focus on my purpose. The purpose of this thorn in your flesh is for you to see see my strength in your weakness. Glory to God. So we stop. Stop focusing on challenges, stop focusing on situations, focus on purpose. God, why are you allowing this to happen to me? And God tells you the reason why it's and begin to joyfully accept it. Joyfully live your life even with it. Joyfully serve the Lord. Excitedly I yesterday in a prayer meeting and the Lord began to give a straight prophetic word to somebody. And the person was hit on that by the power of the Holy Ghost. Just all over the lady, she was crying, she was laughing, she was slain by the power and a clear prophetic word. The Lord told me what the challenge was. And when she came after the meeting, she came to me there and said. I said I knew exactly what the challenge was and the Lord had told me. And the best thing to do now just keep celebrating it, keep praising me, keep thanking me, even in this challenge. That's the hardest thing to do. But by the day I begin to understand it better. I read the book Prison to Praise years ago. But the Prince of Praise was one of the most beautiful books I've ever read in my life. Small pamphlet, but the weight of that book is heavy. Prison to praise. I read it, but it couldn't sit well with me. Because me, I prefer to pray when I'm in problem than to praise when I'm in problem. Because my body always wants to pray when I one problem come, I don't like it. When challenge come, when situation come, I don't like it. So I'm rested before until I come to a point where I realized that if I put that this is prayer, it can become a weapon of prophet. I use against myself. The pulling down of stronghold, not the pulling down of ourselves. So if I continue this way, this I will put up myself. A lot of people are still praying, say it doesn't work, it doesn't work. No, it's not that it doesn't work. It's that you use your weapon of warfare to put down yourself, use the time to put down stronghold. That's the devil started it. Simple. So when we pray and we understand the purpose for the challenge, what do we do? We begin to pray, focus on the purpose and leave the challenge to keep wasting his, to keep widening his time. When he's done whining, his time it will go. Are you getting me? A pastor once told me, said, chimdi, the pain will go, but the man will remain. Yes, Chimdi, the pain will go, but the man will remain. Why should the man allow the pain? Kill him. When the pain is transient and the mind is permanent, Challenges are transient. We are permanent. The word of God above all is eternal. So I am permanent. The word of God is eternal. I hold on to the eternal word of God as a permanent man. And eternity, the transient challenge, we go. That's how it works. That's how it works. That's how it works. He'll bring us that. Amen. We're coming out victorious. Amen. We coming out more than amen. I supposed to touch two today, but I can't touch two in this. We coming out. Amen. Coming out. We are coming out better, brighter, more beautiful. We are coming out more powerful. We are coming out looking as God is here on this earth and the devil is in a mess. Amen. We want to receive grace, to joyfully focus on the purpose of the things, to just refocus on the purpose of the things, the challenges that God allows our way, and rejoice in the Lord irrespective of the presence of the challenges. Focus on his strength, not on our weaknesses, and see him bring us out of. We are asking the Lord today, If

will believe in you.