OUR WALK Of FAITH || Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

Coming to you with words and teaching that will change your life forever. All things that you would ever need in your life, they're wrapped up in the word. Go for the [Music] word. You need to understand this thing. And when you get a hold of it, keep saying it. Don't stop talking it. Keep saying it. Keep saying it. The Bible says in the city of Ephesus so mightily grew the word of God and prevail. Can you shout amen? Seven of course that I must follow in the name of Jesus. Prosperity is mine in the name of Jesus. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the seal waters. He restoreth my soul. Pastor Chris, worth hearing.

Were you in church today? [Applause] Did you have a beautiful service? Did you learn something? How many of you were here yesterday? That's great. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I want us to look at a few things I believe will be enlightening and beneficial to us in our walk of faith. You know that man is a spirit and God is a spirit and God has given us the same life with himself that we should be like him. He gave us the written word to help us to be trained in the things of the spirit so that our spiritual life can be perfected so we can learn how to walk by faith. I told you about well um the program was a different one yesterday so I know some of you weren't here but I did express some things about faith how that faith is a law and why we need faith why faith is so important. Hallelujah.

Well, you know, every Christian, everyone that's born again has faith. You know that, don't you? Everyone that's born again has faith. You know, some people say, "Oh, God, I wish I had faith." Well, you do. You do. In Romans chapter 12 and the third verse the Bible tells us that God has dealt to every man among us. Every one of us the measure of faith. Each one of us has the measure of faith given to us. And then you grow that faith that God has given to you. You grow it and it can become giant faith. Praise God. And you can do big things. You start out with little things with a little faith of God and then you can do big things. Hallelujah. God wants every one of us to be a champion. That's a fact of life. Every one of us to be a champion. He put us here for that. He doesn't want any of us poor. as he doesn't want any of us sick. He wants every one of us to be prosperous and sound and strong and successful. We ought to be. That's important. It's God's idea. It's his idea. It's his dream for his children. Otherwise, they cannot they cannot preach the gospel to the ends of the earth. Otherwise, they cannot inflame the world with what they've got. Hallelujah. Oh, dear dear, dear. Mhm. Mhm.

Imagine, you know, people say, "Oh, um, the judiciary has been polluted." Well, if the if the court judges were born again, things will be different. Don't you think so? Of course. if they were born again and taught the word of God. I'm talking about, you know, some somebody says he put up his hand in the church and said he was born again and then never lived like it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about genuine Christians. I'm I'm thinking about you. If you if you imagine if you were the um the [Applause] Wow. No, just think about it. If you were the governor, if you were the president, I'm sure you you do big things for God, right? Oh, so why are you not You can. You got to learn to dream to be. Yeah. Why do you think God wants you well? You know, we talk about health. God wants us well, healed, sound, and healthy. Why does God want it? So you just be well and stay at home? No. So you can influence the world. No. Think about it. A Christian organization, for example, wants to use the stadium. And then the stadium officials who are even employees, they don't even own the stadium. Then they say, "Well, um, why? We don't want to give it to you." Or you want a restaurant. You you go to a restaurant and say, "We want to have a fellowship in this restaurant." um when you're not operating then they say we don't want you. You feel bad and you go away but if you owned it they wouldn't talk like that. That's the way I think. Are you hearing me? That's the way I think. That's the way I want you to think. Think big. Think differently. Think of [Applause] ownership. I know that you see um the the higher number of you here are less than 50 years old. Okay. So, I believe I can drive something through your spirit. Yeah. Do you learn to become possessors? That's what I want you to think. Think differently. You know, all the time when I think about churches say we're looking for a venue. were looking for. I I think about it. I remember years ago when I was in that situation, driving around the streets, all the streets in Lagos. Oh my goodness. I went from street I was looking for a venue for church. But I felt it. Not even the some of the so-called Christian landlords will give their buildings for church. Some of them wouldn't. Why? I know why they were not well taught where they were. They weren't grounded in the things of God. That's why. So, I couldn't blame them. That's all they knew. Even TV stations wouldn't want to give us air time. The only reason they started giving Christian air time was because they were broke. Yeah. And they couldn't turn down Christian money. That's the only reason. That's why When they got broke, they let them in. But I said, "Dear Lord Jesus, let's call their bluff." That's the way I think. Said that newspaper house is writing nonsense. Buy it up and change the managing [Applause] director. Then he can only write what you want. That's all. [Applause] Yeah.

See, that's the phase that we're [Applause] [Music] into. That's the phase. Become powerful. Take the pace. Get big. Tell five people, get big. Get big. Get big. Get big. Get big. Get big. Hallelujah. Yeah. I refuse to be small. You see, the word of God that I share with you will make you a champion. That's the truth. It'll destroy all the barriers and take you on through. Amen. Amen. You know, oh dear dear dear. [Applause] I have many things to tell you. [Applause]

You know that sometimes in a way there are myths things that people believe just because they probably experience something or they read some isolated scriptures. For example, people think that uh um if bad things happen to you, maybe you're not walking in the will of God. If you got enemies, maybe God is not with you. For example, uh the the book of Proverbs, there it says in in in chapter 16, I believe. Turn there and look at it. Proverbs chapter 16 and verse number seven. I want you to read it for me. Have you seen it? Yes, pastor. Okay, read it out. Want to go. Okay. Well, now that that's good. He says, "When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with you." Okay. Now, if your enemies are not at peace with you, that means your ways don't please God. Hey, come on here. Let's begin with Jesus. His enemies were never at peace with you. Are you telling me his ways didn't please God? What about Paul? He got in prison many times. His enemies were not at peace with him. Does that mean he wasn't pleasing God? No. No. There are different kinds of enemies. There are enemies that God has determined must not be at peace with you for a reason. It's for their defeat. You see, because if your enemies If your enemies make peace with you, God has no option other than to bless them. So sometimes he stops them from making peace with you. So he can be angry enough to deal with them. That's what he does. So never feel bad when things happen to you or around you and you say, "Oh my goodness, I wish there'll be at peace with me." No. If you try to make peace and they wouldn't make peace, leave them alone. God has a plan. He has a plan. Years ago, God told me something. He said, "Never mind." He said, "Everywhere that they try to shame you," he said, "I'll give you double." Then he said to me, he said, "If you ask for something and they don't give it to you," he said, "I will make sure I make you their competitor and you'll be bigger than them." God told me. He told me. He told me. That's what he told me. And it's been that way. That's why I don't care. You know why I'm telling you these things? So that you can pick up the same spirit. Paul said, "We also having the same spirit of faith." As it is written, I believed and therefore have I spoken. He says, "We also believe and therefore speak." So I want you also to believe and therefore speak. Can you shout amen? Yeah. [Applause] That's the same spirit of faith that's working in you. It's working in you. No weapon fashioned against you shall pass. Hallelujah. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. Are you receiving something? [Applause]

You know, in the church a lot of times you you you find different kinds of people there. Those who don't know what it is to be happy. They're not happy. They can't be happy. They say, "How can I be happy when things are going bad? Where are these things going?" said, "Well, things are going bad in my my job, my family, my finances, my everything. Things are going bad. So, I can't be happy." The trouble is, if you're not happy, those things cannot change. You see, your happiness should never be dependent on what is happening to you or around you. Your happy spirit conditions what happens around you. You see that you dictate what happens from the state of your spirit. Don't let the happenings dictate what happens to your spirit. Oh, come on here. You know, people think if things were going well, I'd be happy. No. The reason the things are no longer going well is because you didn't learn to be happy every time. Where did the devil come from then? a loophole somewhere. You open it up. You saw a little thing and you allowed that sadness to take charge of your mind. And then you didn't know that through your state of mind, you opened a large door for the devil. Now he's come right in and you're thinking, "If things change, then I'll change." No, you change first. Change first. Change from inside first and everything outside will change. No, I listen. There are a few of you here. You You look older. I don't have to call your name. A few of you. Most of you here, you're looking younger than you know. But there are there are few of you here. You're looking older than you're supposed to be. You know why you're looking? People are looking any problem? You say no problem. Do I look like [Applause] a reason you're carrying worries, unnecessary worries? Let me show you something from the Bible. You ready? Okay. Let's begin with Philippians chapter 4. That's a simple one. Have you seen Philippians chapter number four? Okay. Read verse six. I don't know what you read. Oh, let me tell you what I have in my own. Be careful for nothing. Is that what you read? Okay. It didn't sound like it. Be careful for nothing. Another version says, be anxious for nothing. Another one says, have no anxiety about anything. Amen. Be anxious for nothing. Have no anxiety. That's God's word. Listen, Christians are word doers. Okay? We do the word. We don't obey the word. We do the word. We act the word. Now, when it says be anxious for nothing, I automatically change my position. I changed my attitude right away. I refuse to be anxious. If I had been anxious, I refuse now to be anxious. I am not anxious anymore. He says, "Be anxious for nothing." Now, if you remain anxious, you are short circulating the power of God flowing in your life. You see that? You are stopping the flow of the spirit. You're stopping the move of God in your life. Because you see, let me tell you something, something that's so important for us to catch about the word of God. There's a difference between the operation of the Old Testament and the operation of the New Testament. In the Old Testament, God told them to obey. So if God had said in the Old Testament, be anxious for nothing, then the guy would say, okay, God says, be anxious for nothing. So, okay, I'm not going to be anxious. He says, be anxious for nothing. Okay, I'm not going to be anxious. Okay, so okay, I'll not be anxious. What is he trying to do? He's trying to obey. In the New Testament, it's not the same. It's something many people don't understand. God is not asking you to obey it. When he says be anxious for nothing, he is giving you a picture of what you are supposed to be. He shows you what you're supposed to be. Be anxious for nothing. Oh, I'm not supposed to be anxious about anything. Praise God. I'm not anxious. Glory to God. You see, uh, listen to this. The word of God becomes your confession. You get that? The Bible says for us to celebrate him, praise him with our confessions. So, it becomes my confession. It's not I don't try to obey it. I become it. Oh, I refuse to be anxious. I'm okay. I'm not going to be No, no, no, no, no. I refuse to be anxious. Glory to God. I'm not anxious. Hallelujah. I see what I'm supposed to be. The man that's not anxious and I cannot be anxious. I will not be anxious. Hallelujah. You see, it's a joyful celebration of the word. We are doers of the word. Not obeyers of the word. Big difference. That's why he calls the word of God a mirror. He says it's a mirror. You look at it and you act it. He says, "You look at it, don't forget what you look like." So when you look at it, be anxious for nothing. Oh, my new nature doesn't get anxious. Yeah. Glory to God. I'm not anxious. That's doing the word. That's doing the word. Are you listening to this?

All right. Now, look at First Peter chapter 5. Somebody says, "I'm I'm just worrying h since my husband traveled. The whole trouble is on me. Five children, I am the school fees, the house rent, the whole thing is on me. That is why you see me like this." Hey, do you know what you're doing? You're digging yourself down. Don't do it. It feels like it. Yes, I know. I know it feels like it. I know that when you look around, you think about all the problems. Yeah, it feels like it. I know. I'm not telling you. I don't know that the pain is there, the trouble is there, and that one that's sick is there, and you got a lot of people to take care of. I'm not telling you I don't know about that. I know. But you know what? your worry will worsen it. It'll worsen the situation. And God knows already that if you worry, it'll worsen the situation and you're never going to come out. So God says, "Hey, hey, stop the fear. Stop the worry. There's a better way." That's what I want to read to you now. 1 Peter chapter 5. Hallelujah to Jesus. Are you there? Say, "I love my Bible." I love my read verse seven. Did you see that? Casting all your cares. Cast everything. He says, "Casting all your cares upon him." Why? For he cares. He cares. So someone say how will I not worry now if I don't worry oh how will I do it how will I have to worry okay continue 2 years after you're still going to be worrying 5 years time you're still going to be worrying until you stop there will be no change just keep worrying some people love worrying they just love it they they'll feel like they are sick if they don't worry they have to worry They cannot not worry. They just have to worry. You can't be happy around them. Leave me now. Happy happy. They think it is responsible to worry. What a life they're living. They think that if you're happy all the time, you are irresponsible. They think you're not serious about [Applause] life. Continue to worry. Things can't change that way. You're not wiser than God. Hey, look at the kind of God who's talking. God says, he says to a man who cannot walk, get up. How else? Now this guy who knows how to work say how can you tell him to get please? He can't get up now. You know he can't walk now. You see that? But God says get up to the man that cannot walk. G. That's the way God talks. If that man doesn't get up, he will not be healed. He must get up. You see that? In the same way to the man that worries, no more worries. [Music] The things he worries about will begin to change. You see that? I will show you the principle in a moment. It's very important. When you discover it, you start using it. Now, he says, "Casting," he says, "Casting all your cares upon him, for he carth." Why should both of you be caring together? He's wiser than you. He says he cares. So cast your cares upon him and leave them with him and let him take charge. You say, "Father, it's all with you." Glory to God. I am free of [Applause] worry. I'm just concerned. Just my uncle that the thing is spending me. Just my uncle. Oh my uncle. Oh. Oh, and he has little children. Oh, okay. Continue. After you have cried and worried, his situation will remain the same. Do you want a change? That's what's important. Do you want a change? Look at Jesus. He came to a man. Oh, I love that story. He came to a man at the pool of Bethesda and uh there were the Bible tells us there was a multitude of important folks in that place. Blind, hard, maimed. There were a rendevu of broken humanity. That's what was there. It was terrible. And and and Jesus came there. Now, I want you to notice something that's striking. Jesus always looked healthy. Jesus was sound. Jesus was strong. Jesus looked like a man. All right? Didn't look like a woman. Didn't look like a boy. He was a grown man. And he came to where this man was and he said, "Do you want to get well?" The man said, "I don't have anybody to help me. I don't have anybody to help me. Before I get into the water, another person steps in before me." He didn't say, "Please help me." He complained and never asked Jesus for help. That will show you the kind of man he was. He didn't ask for help. He complained. There's a big difference between making a complaint and making a request. Most people make complaints in their prayer. They never make a request. Oh father, oh father, my uncle. Oh my wife. Oh my husband. They just keep, you know, complaining. See what I'm going through. Oh father, see what I'm going through. I've been saving you all these years. People are asking me where is my God? Oh, where is my God? You are complaining, complaining, complaining. You've complained for 5 years. What do you want? You have not made a request. The man didn't make a request. Jesus helped him out. Thank God he was compassionate. He helped him out. He said, "Now take your things and go home." Thank God the man didn't even know who Jesus was. Can you imagine that? He didn't even know who he was. He hadn't heard about Jesus before. Picked up these things and got up and was healed. Wow. And walked away from that place. Imagine if he had continued his complaints. You think you you think I'm here for nothing? The Bible says the man had been listen that man, you know why I was concerned about that story was this. I was searching just like in the program we I was asking a question why do many people get sick? All right. And we endeavor to answer that. Now I was searching why do some people suffer for a long time? The sufferings of certain people just continue for a very long time. For some people they suffer for two weeks and things change. Some suffer for two months and things change. Some suffer for 2 years and things for but some suffer 15 years. 20 years they just continue suffering. Say for how long has this been? 15 years. 25 years. How can a man suffer for so long? So I started looking for stories of men and women that suffered for a long time. I wanted to know why they suffered for so long. What was responsible for the longevity of their suffering? I was amazed at what I found. I was amazed at what I found. This man, for example, I just told you about suffered for 38 long years. 38 years to be sick. 38 years his family members finally abandoned him. That's why he had nobody to help him to the water. Everybody finally left him. 38 years. The Bible says, "And Jesus, knowing that he had been a long time in that case, said to him, "Do you want to get well?" What a question. He didn't say yes. Read the Bible. He didn't say yes. Say every time I want to enter the water, nobody here to help me. Another person enters before me. He was bitter. He was bitter. Nobody to help me. See what I'm going through. Everybody has abandoned me. Nobody to help me. That's why I'm here. Jesus could have said, "Okay. All right. Okay. back. What he wanted was sympathy. Oh, nobody nobody to help you. Mm- It's okay. He didn't say help me. He didn't say can you help me? Wait with me. No, no request, complaints only. Jesus could have gone. But he had compassion on this man. He said, "Get up. casting all your cares upon him for he cares for you. It's time to drop the load the [Applause] cares. Remember that scripture in Romans chapter 5 and verse 17 where he says, "They which receive abundance of grace, they which receive abundance of grace, they which receive abundance of grace, they which take a hold of the abundance of favor, favor. Do you understand? Favor. They take a hold of the enormity. of God's God's favor. They just collect grace. Father, I thank you. I'm alive. I'm happy. I'm strong. Glory to God. He says those who choose to be happy and walk in and become happy. Those who choose, he's telling you can make a choice. Like as fast as you snap your finger, the guy who was sad becomes happy. He just makes up his mind. From today, no more worrying in my life. Then go and stay in front of a mirror. Put your mirror in front of you. Start practicing how to smile because you've not been smiling for a long time. Yeah. You haven't laughed for a long time. Even when someone laughs around you say, Mhm. So now you take your mirror only you just Yeah. Do you know what the Bible says? Do you know what the Bible says? They which receive lambo. They which receive, who take a hold, who catch abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness. He says those who act like that, he said they shall reign in life. They shall reign in life. Before long, those people that knew you around your area that used to greet you say, "Don't worry, madam. Things will soon change." Okay. Oh, madam. Do you know what this time they say? I hear you are the one reigning now. Hallelujah. Yeah. Hallelujah. Somebody shout hallelujah. Yeah. That's right. They which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, they shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. All right, let's look at another scripture. Glory. My oh my. I'm running with the king. I'm reigning with the king. Are you ready? Can I tell you something? You know the Bible says, "Why do the heen rage?" He says, "And the kings of the earth, the quietness of the earth," he says, "why." Then he says they have come together and built an idea and they have said let us destroy. He says he that siteth in the heavens shall laugh. You know what it tells you? God's attitude to his the to the boastings of his enemies. He laughs. So when you want to reign with God, when you see tough things, begin to laugh. Wa! Hey! Glory! Yeah! Yeah! Glory! Do you remember something? I told you. I told you I told you something last year. I said, "Practice talking sessions." Okay, there's another one I didn't give you. practice laughing sessions. Yeah. Hallelujah. That means you just take a chair and you sit down. You [Applause] go. Yeah. Woo. Glory to God. Hallelujah. It doesn't matter what you've been going through. It doesn't matter for how long it's been. Put this to work. Put it to work. You'd be amazed at the resource. Because man is a spirit. Are you hearing me? Man is a spirit. Put this to work. Man is a spirit. You've got to control your life from your spirit, not from the outside. Don't let your life be controlled from the outside. Control the outside from the inside. When the laughter, that laughter is the laughter of a king. Are you hearing me? When it comes out of you, God is laughing through your spirit. Then the Bible says, "Let God arise and his enemies shall be scattered." Hallelujah. He says, "Let God arise." That means allow him to stand up. He says, "Let God arise." And his enemies shall be scattered. Why are the enemies not scattered in someone's life? Because he has not allowed his God to arise. How do you let your God arise? Somebody say, "Oh, my God arise." No. He listen God and his word are one. Let his word come up from your spirits. That means stay up the word from your spirits. That is how God arises in you. Then that word comes out of your mouth. It becomes a prophecy. And no one resists the power of a prophet. Oh, come on here. Oh, glory to God. I'll never be a failure. Glory. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I'm a success. I'm a success. I'm a success. Hallelujah. I'm a success. Glory to God. I'm a success. Woo. Woo! Hey! What a success! My oh my. Hallelujah. Hey. Hallelujah. Sit down for a moment. Now let's take another one here. Glory. I said you can control your life from the inside. Everywhere you want to go, everything you want to do, everything you want to be. from the inside. Inside. Inside. Inside. Hallelujah. From the inside. Oh, how important this is. How important this is. How important this is. Let me read to you Proverbs chapter 4. Beautiful portion of the Bible verse 23. And I want y'all to read it to me. One, two, go. One more time. He says, "Keep thy heart with all diligence." Why? That's so powerful. He says with all seriousness, with all the diligence that you can muster, guard your heart, protect your spirit. That's what he's saying. Guard your spirit. Let me read it to you from another version. I want to read it to you from the Good News Bible. He says, "Be careful how you think. Your life is shaped by your thoughts. Did you see that?" Be careful how you think. Your life is shaped by your thoughts. I read to you from the New Living Translation. Guard your heart above all errors. It determines the cause of your life. He says, "Guard your heart, your thinking process, guard your spirit. Guard it. Protect it." How do you protect your spirit? Oh, I tell you, first of all, you need to understand what is your heart for. Thoughts come to you. It's a place where you reason. All right? Thoughts come there. Words come there from other people. Information comes there. So he says mount guard over your heart. You see something is trying to enter. Hey. Hey. Hey. Not yet. So you are there. He says guard it with all earnestness. You must be watching. So it matters what you read. You carry newspaper today, tomorrow, every day you carry negative newspapers. What happens? Fear enters. You wonder where your fear came from. Why you no longer trust in the naira. You have 5 million naira is as if you don't have anything. You don't know what to do with it. Say this is this is not money. Why? Because of what you read. $5,000 doesn't mean anything to you. See your money is no longer working. Can you see it? 50,000 naira looks like you see no more value. Why? Because of what you read. Meanwhile, that is seed. Listen, the power of a seed is not in its size. Did you hear that? The power of a seed is not in its size. I remember a major British company, a major British company that was sold a few years ago for £10. It was sold for £10 with all his assets. Everything was sold for £10 because they felt that it would take the man who buys it or the man who was going to buy it more money to fix it. So they thought they were selling him a liability. But guy was smart. He bought the whole 10 pounds. You haven't seen anything yet. Listen, when God is on Oh, boy. He said, "When he's with you, when he's with you, anything is possible." You know what God always says? He says, "Son, what do you have in your hand?" He wants to do something for him. Said, "What do you have in your hand?" You see that? When that woman was crying, there's no money. The creditor is coming to take my children for born men. Then the prophet said, woman, no need to cry. What do you have in your house? You see that? He said, what do you have in your house? Anything that we can put the power of God on? Said, what do you have in your house? She said, I only have a cruise of oil. Said, don't worry. Go and borrow vessels. Hey He said, "Start pouring into the vessels. According to the word of the Lord, it will not stop the flow. Go on." She poured and poured and poured and poured until she became an oil distributor. See that from a cruise of oil? I said it's not the size, is the faith. What do you have in your hand? Don't let things become valueless to you. No, you serve God. Everything he puts in your hand is valuable, is important. Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Guard your heart with all diligence. Where does fear come from? From the things you hear. Why are you the way you are today? Think about you. You are very unique. You, this special you. You see, nobody else is like you. You are the only one that reasons the way you do. The Why is your mind like this? This you. Now you no longer know whether I'm am I happy with this you or you are wondering what I mean. Well, what I'm trying to say is this. You as you are, why are you the way you are? You are so unique. Nobody else in this world is like you. You are the only person that thinks the way you do. Whether positively or negatively, you are the only person that is like you. The trouble is you became the way you are now. Whether winning or losing, you became the way you are now through everything you have digested. The words, words make us. Words break us. Words build us. Words destroy us. It depends on what words you have actually received. All of these things that you have accepted, the kind of thinking that you have allowed, you see your mindset, that is why you are the way you are. If you want to make an adjustment, you must then make an adjustment in the kind of things you allow, the kind of thoughts you dwell on. That's why I'm giving you new materials to work on so that you can add to your personality for the next few years. Can you see it now? Yes. Then as you get along, you open up new opportunities for yourself and create a new environment for yourself. and then expand your horizon and think again and plan again and build again so that your greatness will never stop. See God's plan for us is not to go up and come down. The people of the world that is their that is that is their story. They go up to come down. They are supposed to come down. Doesn't matter how high they go. They will come down. Their prosperity is not for always. It's for some time. David said, "I saw the wicked rise like a green bay tree." He said, "And then I turned." The next time I looked, he said he was no longer there. See, but your prosperity is for all time. Hallelujah. Are you hearing this? Yes, sir. The part of the righteous is as a shining light that shines brighter and brighter onto the perfect day. Hallelujah. Oh, come on here. Yes, Lord. You are going to be so prosperous. Hey, you are going to be so successful by the power of the Holy Ghost. Glory to God. Let me tell you another thing. He says, "Guard your heart with all diligence." As you guard your heart, you must know who enters and who doesn't enter. Every thought that tells you you can't mm- don't enter my heart. Thoughts of sickness and disease. Mm- Thoughts of opportunities. Yeah. Listen. Start dreaming. I'll tell you how to create your dreams. Start dreaming. Start dreaming of opportunities. When you go to sleep, either of dreaming of bombo Instead of hold on instead of dreaming of somebody carrying something and pursuing you instead of dreaming of someone using a maget and coming after you said I don't know the kind of dream I had last night. Oh, set the circumstances of your dreams. I always have nice dreams. I always have nice dreams whether they are useful or not useful. They have to be nice. They have to be nice. Nice dreams. I don't wake up if you if you know what I saw. No, no, no, no, no. Only good things allowed. Praise God. Hallelujah. I had a dream. Say, what dream? Say it was terrible. Some people always have doomsday dreams. No, there are different kinds of prophets. Some people have been set aside for certain kind of prophecy. Some of us were set aside for another type. John the Baptist came fasting and eating only locust and white horn. Okay. All right. When Jesus came, it was bread, milk, butter. Do you know what? Some people didn't like it and they asked him one time they said why is it that the disciples of John fast? Your own disciples don't [Applause] fast. Jesus said fasting is not all the time. They will fast sometime. But John's disciples [Applause] So Jesus has come. Jesus has died. Jesus has been buried. Jesus has been raised. Jesus has ascended. Why are you suffering for nothing? You see that he has completed his assignment. Now is the time for us to enter into his glory. Why are you suffering for nothing? He said preach the gospel. Gospel means good news. What type of good news is your own with the suffering? Good news means shout all things have been changed from bad to good from darkness to light from the power of Satan unto God. That's gospel. Somebody say well the gospel of prosperity is not good for the church. Okay. Okay. Stay where you are and leave me alone. Hallelujah. Paul said, "I know how to abound and I know how to be hungry." I do. I know how to abound. I also know how to be hungry. I didn't eat last night. I was hungry. I slept like that. It's true. But I had food. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, I know how to abandon. I also know how to be hungry. I know how to be hungry. What God does not like is your hunger out of penury. Hunger. You know, fasting because there is no food. God doesn't like that type of fast. God wants you to have food and say no. Hey. Hallelujah. Yes. That is genuine fast. That is genuine fast. You're hungry. You say no. No. Not that when there's no food, you say I convert it into a fast. Oh hallelujah. Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it that part of it is so important. He says out of it are the issues of life. Hey, that means everything that you require in this world, everything you will be, everything you will have, everywhere you will go is inside your heart. Question. You said you want to go to France. You have business to do in France. Why have you not gone? You said they didn't give me visa otherwise I would have gone. Why didn't they give you visa? Because it's not in your heart. The visa is not in your heart. when the visa comes to your heart, you will get there. I was still a student in school. All right? I had not yet seen what visa was like. I didn't know what visa was. Then I said, "All countries are open to me." That's what I said. I said, "All nations are open to me." I said, "No nation can stop me from entering. All nations are open to me. When I want to enter a nation, it open to me." As a small student in school, I already had that mentality. So I had the visas to all nations from inside me. Today, no country can stop me. Anywhere I say I'm going, I'm entering. Why? I created the entry from my spirit. My spirit carries it. carries it. Are you still there? The business you said you want to do, why have you not been able to do it? You have prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed. You fasted and fasted and fasted. It still eluded you. Now you are angry. Don't be angry. Ask yourself, was this business inside your spirit? If it was inside your spirit, nothing would have stopped it. You would know because inside you, you' be basking in the glory of it. They'll ask you but is it how? You say don't worry I have it. Why? Because it it's a conviction. [Applause] It's a conviction. You have possessed it. Let me tell you what faith is. So you can understand this because a lot of times because of the misunderstanding of the principle of faith even the simple definition of faith some people get angry with God and get angry with their Bibles. He says faith is the title deed. All right. He says faith is the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of unseen realities. Evidence. That means the proof. It means you have it. You cannot say I am trying to fate it. You cannot say I'm trying to get it by faith. No. Faith means you have the proof that it is yours. Faith is a proof. Can you see that? So if it's true faith, you can't come back and say, "But I had faith for it and it didn't work." How could it not have worked? Because faith meant that it has worked. Can you see that? Faith meant it had already worked. Faith doesn't try to get something. Faith doesn't try to receive something. Faith claims it has happened. He doesn't claim it has happened so that it will happen. Faith claims that it has happened because he has possessed it. Faith is the evidence, the proof of it. And because he has it, he acts that way. He talks that way. He thinks that way because he has the proof. The proof is in his spirit. Now if someone is struggling with his faith and saying I you know I really tried my faith you know I tried I I prayed I I claimed it but somehow I don't know why it's not happening. The truth is it was not faith. You didn't understand faith. There's a big difference between believing and having faith. You see that you can believe something and it will not work. But faith puts it in the past that it has happened. That's the difference between faith and believing. See that you can believe and go to hell, but you cannot have faith and still go to hell with it because faith claims it has happened. When your your believing translates into faith, you have made it. You see that? Um James talking about this he said don't say I believe I believe he said the devils believe they so much believe that they tremble he said so prove your believing with your action that action is what you call corresponding action of faith the action that corresponds with your faith I'm healed I'm healed but uh give me those two tablets let me just again cuz I I I but I'm healed. If I just, you know, you are not healed. You are claiming to be healed. You are not healed because your spirit has not gained the mastery. When your spirit gains the mastery, your healing, oh God, faith is a life beyond the physical. I want you to understand it. Faith is a life beyond the physical. Faith is looking beyond your body. Faith is looking beyond your purse, looking beyond the natural. That is what faith is. Faith is that connection between the spiritual and the physical where we translate ourselves from the physical realm into the spirit realm and then we start walking there as possessors. That is what faith is. It catapults us into God's realm of life, God's ways of doing things where we play, hallelujah, with forms, spiritual realities. That's faith. That's faith. So when you're functioning there, the people of this world can understand you. Baby Christians can understand you because your language is different. You don't talk like them. Your language is different. They can't understand you because you are seeing the invisible. You see that? You're seeing the invisible but the invisible is vis visible to you. You are seeing it. They can't see it. So you talk there. You relate with this invisible things which they cannot see. They cannot touch. So you look like a strange person in their midst. But that is the life he has called us to. The life to see the reality of the invisible. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. What I told you is in the Bible. It's there. You study 2 Corinthians chapter 4. Read from verse 16 to verse 18. You see it there. Praise the Lord. Say this with me. I'm a faith man. I'm a faith man. Say, "I'm a faith woman." I'm a faith woman. Yeah. Don't ever let the devil tell you you don't have faith. The day you were born again, faith came with the message and it was stamped in your spirit. All God is telling you now is use it and grow it. Put it to work and then grow it. Start testing your faith. Are you hearing me? Start testing your faith. If you were on on tablets, five tablets a day, reduce it to two. Start testing your faith. What five tablets were doing? Two will do now. Then after some time, take it to one. Then when the symptoms come, don't say hey, I went to one tablet, I almost died. No, you said, "Damn, you're a liar. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivered him out of them all." You use the word, you fight. Fight. You know what the Bible says? Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Then you win. Then you say, "Wow." Wow. I put the devil to flight. Wow. Hallelujah. Then you'll start enjoying life without drugs. Life without drugs. Life without pains. Satan will try to fight you every way. Bring the pains to your body. You wake up in the night and you're you're not able to get up. Your body be heavy. Hey, you're trying to touch the cup of water. Is it today? Oh, God. Is it today? Am I coming to home today? Oh, you say, "Oh Lord, into thy hands I command my spirit." Don't go like that. When you feel that pressure, when you feel that pain, maybe you just have little strength at that time. Just go. Now, let me tell you this. Don't go like this. Don't do like this. Don't do a weak one. No. You may die with that. Don't look. You'll get weaker and weaker. [Applause] Don't do that. I'm warning you. Don't do that. Are you hearing me? You know what? You go. [Applause] Yeah. You know what? You must tell the devil out. When you maybe hit yourself against something, what you do? You go. Oh, you go. Daddy, mommy. N No, let me tell you years ago I stopped that foolishness many years ago. When something like that happens, heal here. Then sometimes you still feel a lot of pain as every beat. Every bit, every heal, heal, heal. [Applause] Yeah. Hey. Woo. Woo. Say, "I'm full of the Holy Ghost. I'm full of the power of God. I'm a champion. I'm a winner. I'm a victor. I've got the life of God in me. I got the life of God in me. Every fiber of my being, every bone of my body, every cell of my blood, I've got the life of God in me. It's in my head. It's in my heart. It's in my hands. It's in my legs. It's all over me. Glory to God. Hallelujah.