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When you see me cry about favor all the time and I teach you relationship principles all the time, it is because this is not one of the many ways I tell you sincerely; it is the accelerator factor in your becoming prosperous. So when God says it is a season of abundance, that means He's bringing you greater wisdom. That means He's purging your heart. That means that He's granting the blessing upon the work of your hands. But more than that, it means that you must begin to pray. It says you ask for the rain at the time of the latter rain. When you see that the time has come, you participate in prayer: "Lord, who is that one man? Who is that one woman strategically connected?" And you learn how to discern them and receive them when they come. Because if you pray like I have taught you and you do not know how your answer looks like, your answer will pass you, and God will say, "I answered you since January," and you kept driving away your answer. Your answer came as a destiny helper, but because you do not know what to do with destiny helpers, you push them away.
Can I show you one more thing before we pray? Is someone learning who is ready to receive, walking in abundance, moving with the speed of the Holy Ghost? I am. I am walking in abundance, moving with the speed of the Holy Ghost. I have taught you in this place that relationships are advantageous connections. I've taught you that relationships must be mutually beneficial—not equally beneficial, but mutually beneficial to the parties that are involved. Listen carefully now. I've taught you in this place that relationships are bridges. If you recall, they are bridges to an exceptional life—the bridge between your yesterday and tomorrow. The quality of your yesterday and tomorrow is a relationship. The same way you can stand because a bridge is broken, you are seeing where you need to go to, but you are not able to get there because the bridge is broken. That is what happens to a man when the strategic relationships that are meant to birth prophecy in your life are not there. You can even see—not by vision, but you can see the kind of future you should step into, but never get into that future.
I've taught you that relationships are currencies. Please hear me, prophetic people: relationships are currencies that can buy anything money can buy. Let me say it again: anything you think about, anything money can buy, relationships can buy it. If money can buy you a house, relationships can buy that house. If money can buy you any means of mobility, relationships can do that. If money can fund a crusade, relationships can fund a crusade. Say anything at all; relationships are currencies. In my teaching here, teaching you on true riches, you may want to make reference to one of the currencies that we use to buy money: relationships.
Now listen carefully. I taught you here that the easiest way to succeed in life is through strategic relationships and destiny connections—the easiest way to succeed, even financially. But among the many things I've taught you about relationships, I want to recall one that is important to connect with this prophetic word. Recall that I taught you the tripartite nature of relationships. Remember that I taught you that you have your relationship with God, your relationship with men, and your relationship with things. Let me take that again: your relationship with God, your relationship with men, and your relationship with things. You must have a healthy relationship with God, you must have a healthy relationship with men, and you must have a healthy relationship with things. If you default in any one of these levels of relationship, you will pay for it.
There is a way you are supposed to have a relationship with God to succeed. There is a way you are supposed to have a relationship with men to succeed, and there is a way you are supposed to have a relationship with things to succeed. For instance, allowing things to control you, allowing things to possess you, is a bad way of relating with things. That includes money. It is often said that money is a bad master but a good slave. You see that now? There is a healthy way to relate with things such that you profit from their presence, but you are not corrupted by their presence. There is a way to handle money, there is a way to handle increase, there is a way to handle influence, and there is a way to handle opportunities in a way that becomes profiting unto you but does not corrupt nor destroy you. There is a way to walk with men such that you can derive maximum utility from their presence without being corrupted by their presence.
Are we together now? If you recall, I taught you that there are two ways you step into the world of greatness, the world of men. One is through the door of need and the other through the door of value. If you step into the presence of greatness through the door of need, you will be in the presence of greatness, but you will remain a slave there forever. But when you step in through the door of value, even the great will acknowledge you as great. Is someone learning tonight? You see the implication of receiving prophetic words? You don't just jump and celebrate; you understand the implication, and then you will see the results. Because God is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent. If He has spoken on His own part, He is ready to do it. But it is your receiving, aligning with prophecy, and engaging it by faith that delivers to your table. Hallelujah!
I taught you that your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. Your relationship with God, please write it down, this is how wealth manifests: your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. Please write that down. Your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. Now, wisdom and favor give you access to men and systems. Your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. When you have wisdom and favor, it will now give you access to men, and it will give you access to systems. Men will now give you access to resources and influence. You see how it works? Men will now give you access to resources, and they will now give you access to influence. Then you finally use the influence and the resources for your profiting and to serve the purposes of the Kingdom. This is how it happens.
I will read that whole equation for you again: your relationship with God gives you access to wisdom and favor. You have that down? Wisdom and favor give you access to men and give you access to systems. Men now give you access to resources and give you access to influence, and then you now use your resources and the influence that you now have to serve God, to be a blessing to men, and to live a successful life. This is how it happens. Compromise on this equation, and you will not make it in life, even financially. It starts with God, but it ends with a successful life. I’m demystifying that wealth equation for you—that it is not as mysterious as people have made it. Your relationship with God grants, among the many things that relationship affords you, wisdom and favor.
Please look up. When you have wisdom and favor—genuine wisdom and favor—you will never be alone. Men will come because men were not designed to just come on their own; they come in response to wisdom. They come in response to favor. The men carrying the money you need, the men who will give the influence you need to reign in life, they will only answer to wisdom and favor. Say wisdom. Say favor. One more time: say wisdom and favor. So it stands with God. Your loyalty to God, your covenant with God, your loving Jesus, your worshiping Him, your studying scripture, your praying, your accessing resources—what it does to you is that it imparts wisdom. When wisdom arrives and favor arrives, get ready; men are on their way coming.
When the men come, they will come like the Magi, bringing you gifts of gold, of frankincense, and of myrrh. Whether they are coming in exchange for your value or coming to reward your wisdom, it doesn't matter. One thing you will never lack when men are with you is resources. Listen, you are as wealthy as the men whose hands are open towards you. You are as wealthy as the men whose hands are open towards you. Let me say that again: you are as wealthy as the men whose hands are open towards you. Imagine that the men who open their hands towards you are called Pharaoh, Solomon, and Ahasuerus. Will you be poor? No! Your relationship with God, purified, motivated by loving Jesus, understanding the purpose of abundance, the purpose of Kingdom wealth, understanding the purpose of the blessing of the Lord—all together impact upon your life, among other things, wisdom and favor.
When you carry wisdom and favor, you become a living magnet; you will attract men. I tell you, get wisdom and get favor, and remain inside a hole; men will come and meet you there. The moment you see men coming to you, listen please, once you see men coming, know that with men are resources. Please look up. There was the wisdom of God that was in the prophet Elijah, am I right on that? When Naaman, who was a captain of the Syrian army, wanted to go and meet Elisha at the recommendation of the slave girl, question: when Naaman became healed, did he carry gifts to go back? That is always what happens in the presence of wisdom. The greatest corporations in the world—the Facebooks, the Instagrams—are businesses of numbers. The reason why they are wealthy to the capacity that they are today is because the little bit you are bringing is multiplied across the billions of the people on Earth. Numbers! You are as wealthy as the men whose hands are open towards you.
Let me tell you again: as the men whose hands are open towards you. It is an irrefutable strategy. Look up please. This is my fault; I'm holding a mobile device in my hand. What made the company that produced this mobile device billionaires in dollars? Is it that they were the most creative in the world? No! But they spread their products to men—many enough. Many people wanted their products enough. Why do you produce something very exceptional and then spend money advertising? Who are you advertising to? The men who will buy the products. Your relationship with God brings you wisdom, brings you favor. When wisdom and favor rest upon your life, watch this, Koinonia, listen to me: it brings you resources and also brings you influence. Are we together? When you have resources and influence, then you can now use it to serve the purposes of the Kingdom, to become a blessing to many, like you covenanted with God, and to live a successful life.
Show me anybody who has prospered in the Kingdom, prospering with the dignity of Kingdom integrity, and you will see this formula: it started with God. God imparted wisdom upon Solomon, and with that wisdom came favor. Solomon's wisdom and favor attracted people and attracted the kings of the earth. Now he had enough resources, and one day he built God a house. You always see the pattern. That means you can reverse engineer this thing I just said to explain why your hands are empty. That means if your hands are empty, it is because enough men have not opened their hands. And if enough men have not opened their hands, it is because wisdom and favor have not drawn them. And if wisdom and favor are lacking, you go to God. Does any man lack wisdom? He says, "Let him go to God that giveth." You want to prosper? I've shown you a key that connects this prophecy.
Father, I thank you because you are the giver of wisdom. Are you seeing that? It’s unwise to ask God directly for money. He can be faithful, but this is the equation. This is how it comes. You don't just say, "Oh God, please give me money." Now, a miracle can happen to solve an immediate problem, but let me tell you, classically, God answers people's problems by giving them wisdom and favor. Wisdom and favor attract men. Men come with resources and influence. Once you have that, it is called financial dominion because you can repeat the circle again for as long as your relationship with God remains intact.
Now, if you are Satan and you want to make someone poor, what will be the greatest point of your target? It's not men; it's a person's relationship with God. Whatever I can do to keep you from receiving wisdom and favor, I have done you a disservice as far as becoming prosperous is concerned. Now, are you seeing that true prosperity should not make you leave God? Does this make sense to you now? True prosperity does not make believers leave God; it's a lie. It's the system of the world that tries to bypass this formula. You should be more spiritual the wealthier you are becoming because God should be the source of that wisdom. That means your fellowship with God becomes a continuity for more wisdom, greater wisdom.
So in what way does somebody become prosperous and then now forgets God? That means that person is going to go down soon. All wealth starts from the realm of the spirit. If you don't receive it from God Almighty, you will receive it from a familiar spirit. Both of them have covenants you must answer to. Are we together? If you go to Satan and say, "Make me wealthy," he will say, "That is fine, but here are my terms: you will serve me, you will worship me, you will draw people to me, you will destroy lives, you will destroy homes, you will live a foolish life, you will not be able to spend your money, you will die miserably." Is this a covenant? You say, "Fine." Once you sign it, what Satan will give you is also wisdom and favor. He won't give you money; it's still the same formula. He will place something on your life that makes you unusually wise to your detriment. With that wisdom, you will come up with services and products that will still attract the same men. When those men come, they will still bring the resources. But the only thing is that when you have the resources and the influence, Satan will remind you, "Remember what we agreed on." And if you say, "Don't disturb me," you'll be surprised. All he needs to do is withdraw what brought them, and what you have—no matter how much—will deplete mysteriously.
Prosperity is not money; prosperity is your relationship with God and the wisdom that is endlessly flowing from Him to you, and the favor that endlessly comes. That capacity to gravitate strategic relationships to your life, and with the coming of those relationships will be resources and influence. And with the resources and influence, you are now mandated to remember the reason why He blessed you: to be a blessing to the world, to live a responsible life with dignity, and to advance the program of God. So when God says it's a season of abundance, what in your understanding do you think He's saying? He's saying it's a season to get closer to Me like never before. Did you get that? Now, because wisdom truly comes from God, it can be imparted through careers, but ultimately, wisdom comes from God. Wealth is relational—always. Your relationship with God, then your relationship with men, then your relationship with things, and that includes resources.
Apostle, so what becomes the answer for my empty hands? Now, the absence of men—enough men to bless you—or a certain kind of men who don't have the means to bless you. And I've taught you here, and I will still pray that prayer for you tonight, that when God wants to help you, He relocates your audience. Did I teach you that? He brings to you strategic men. Find a way of believing this—strategic people. For the lack of this simple understanding, there are believers praying foolishly. There are believers going around in circles and wondering why they are not prosperous. Regardless of what happens, they respect things more than men. For most believers, all that is in their mind is the arrival of naira and kobo and pounds and dollars. It doesn't work that way. How do you know you need wisdom? Because nobody is around your life to drink of that wisdom. That means you don't have it. I tell you the truth: wisdom and favor are so scarce. When you carry that grace, you will never be alone. Men will look for you. You don't have to be a preacher; you can be a banker, you can be a graduate. The moment you carry genuine wisdom—wisdom that can solve problems—wisdom, oh, that there is oil and treasure to be desired in the dwelling of the wise. There is treasure to be desired in the dwelling of the wise.
When I learned this as a principle, the greatest secret of the help of God upon my life is my relationship with Him. Now, I don't seek Him just because I want wisdom; I love Him for who He is. But you see, it's impossible to strengthen your intimacy with God and not have, among the many things that pour into you, ever-increasing wisdom. And as that wisdom keeps coming, His favor keeps resting upon you. You know what happens? Men will keep coming, and those men will not come empty. Even if you are a baby, they will not ask you how old you are. They will not ask you whether you are male or female. They will not ask you whether you are Igbo, you are Yoruba, you are Hausa, you are American. They will not ask you that. No! Genuine wisdom defies all those sentiments, and when it comes, it will come with resources—limitless resources, resources as many as the men that come.
Please hear me: the multitude of men is also the multitude of wealth. Do you believe what you just heard tonight? When God tells us that we are stepping into a season of abundance, let me help you make sense of what this prophecy is, and then we'll pray. Number one, it means like never before you should get closer to God because He is the fountain of wisdom. He is the only one who can give men wisdom, and He is the only one who is the true source of favor. When wisdom and favor rest upon you, men will come. They will come in their numbers; they will come from different nations. You don't need to travel around the world to meet the men who are holding the resources that are yours; you just need to be valuable.
I wish I had the time; I would have shown you what happened between the widow in Zarephath and Elijah. Whenever the brook Cherith had dried, God told him to go to Zarephath. He says, "I have commanded a widow to feed you." I have commanded a widow to feed you. When he got there, the woman did not sound like she was commanded. The man said, "You know what? Since I am here now, I have come with value. Your relationship with me is why I will not die, but my relationship with you is why you will live too. Your oil will not be spent; your flour will not be spent all through the period of famine." And in return, she kept cooking the food that would not be spent, and both of them benefited. Wisdom brings men; wisdom brings men. Favor brings men. With the coming of men, you will always find resources.
Therefore, if your hands are empty, what you should pray for is not money. What you should pray for is the wisdom and the favor to the degree that can draw strategic men. The Bible puts it this way: "Gentiles shall come to your light." Koinonia, hear me. He says, "Kings"—these are the people you are looking for—"Kings." Kings don't come to your light; kings come to the brightness of your rising—the brightness, the excellency of that wisdom. Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Spirit of wisdom, rest! Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Spirit of wisdom, rest!
Look at me. I hope you know that the same way a man receives wisdom, a business can also receive wisdom. A ministry can also receive wisdom. Receive favor, and the same thing that happens to individuals will happen to the business, will happen to the ministry. The same way a man can receive wisdom, receive favor, men will come to that man as a single entity, bringing gold, frankincense, and myrrh. A ministry can receive wisdom by the same principle of intimacy, by the same principle of access, favor. And the same way men come to the person is the same way men will come to the vision and bring to that vision resources. So you don't just pray and say, "Lord, bring money to run this church." That's not how it works. It starts with intimacy. Intimacy brings wisdom and favor. Favor attracts men, then graduates the men to quality men, then graduates them to kings, nobles, gatekeepers, captains of industry. And when they come, they give to match their level of growth. They give to match their level of growth. A billionaire will never give to somebody he loves and honors as a pauper. No, he will not do that. Are we together?
If a billionaire considers you valuable enough to him—not that he's just doing charity—he considers you an asset. He will give to match his mindset. This is what brings acceleration. So in one day, you can have an allowance of decades because somebody with such mindset and such resources granted access to you. Now, you may say some of the people who give sometimes are not believers. Some of the people who come are not believers. God allows that because the earth still belongs to Him. Even if they went to the devil to get that money, provided you know it's evil money and you reject it, God will honor you. But you don't have the liberty to know how everybody made their money. That is the reason why when the money comes to you, you purify it with thanksgiving. This is what the Bible says, which is the reason why it is dangerous to steal money in church. Hey! Dangerous to do what? Because you don't know what you are stealing. Someone may pray all the prayers in his life and say, "Lord, on this seed, let this thing rest," and that's the one you carried.
Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Spirit of wisdom! [Music] I want to ask you a question: are there men in Abuja? Are there men in Lagos? Are there men in Nigeria? Sir, are there men in the UK, in America, everywhere, including your village? Are there strategic men in Abuja? Are there strategic men in Nigeria? If God is the God of portions, your portion has been distributed. Listen, listen to me. I want you to believe this: God is a God of portions. He said the increase of the field is for all, and that even the king is fed. You can explain your wealth. Even if the world's economy may not understand it, wealth is not magic; it comes from men. If I become a billion naira richer, a billion dollars richer, it came from men. The question is, if you get it by pointing a gun, you are a thief. It is still men you got it from. Every robber got his money from men. The only thing is that that relationship was not profitable because he pointed a gun at their head to collect it. Whether you are a thief, whether you are an entrepreneur, whether you are, God forbid, an occultist, it is still men that the resources will come from. It is how it is gotten that glorifies God or otherwise.
Men, in all your getting, if you ignore men, don't pursue contracts and ignore men, you are making a mistake because the person approving the contract is a man. What you need to pray for is, "Lord, give me wisdom. Give me favor—favor enough to make anyone, including Cyrus, want me." How many of you know that wealthy people also have a need? And everybody's need is his point of contact. The rate at which we chase people for money—God never told you wealth is not something you pursue; you attract it by who you are becoming—the excellency of the wisdom of God that works in your life. If I prosper today, it's not because I'm a preacher. No! If I prosper today, it is because I have received, by mercy, wisdom and favor that is applicable to enough men, and those men can gravitate towards me. And in honor to that wisdom, whether sold or dispensed freely, they will honor it. And if those men are sufficient enough, I will not beg for bread.
Are we together? Listen to what I'm telling you: God and men are the two secrets I've given you today—God and men. Not just products and services. Respect whoever taught you what they taught you, but ask the person whether he's rich first. God and men are the greatest secrets I know to wealth. God and men give value to products and services. Give value to businesses and estates—whatever it is. God and men are the secrets. If I was solving all my discussion as a mathematical problem, at the end of all of that, I would remove all the variables, and the only two that will be left are God and man. The heaven of heavens belongs to the Lord, but the earth has He given to the children of men. Every other variable is almost inconsequential. If God says no and men say no, carry your products places; you will see you will be poor. But if God says yes, He will put something in you that will force men to say yes.
The greatest secret I know—the greatest secret to wealth—are strategic relationships. But it does not come by chasing people. We used to call it, those days, "friends for food"—people who just look for a rich person and inconvenience them. It doesn't work that way. You attract strategic people by displaying the excellency of the wisdom of God. Are we together? And that includes those you know. We say it a lot in church that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous. It will not happen just by you folding your arms. God will give you wisdom—wisdom that dumbfounds principalities and powers. Wisdom that is needed even in the Babylonian camp. They will search for men with that kind of wisdom and not find it, and they will come to you to entreat your favor. And when they come to you, like Naaman, they will not come empty.
If Elisha was hungry, he would have collected the gift from Naaman. Elisha said, "No, no, no, you go." Look at what Elisha told the woman in Shunem: he said, "What should I do? Should I talk to the king for you?" I can talk to the king. "King, attend to a woman here." And if you say, "Prophet, I ignore you," you will see what the wisdom of God can do. She will also say, "By this time tomorrow," and that king will leave that place quietly. Are we together? This explains the wealth of many in the Kingdom. I'm saying it again: if your wealth is by crook, by bribery, and corruption, it will not fit this equation. But if it is with the dignity of Kingdom integrity, don't tell me it did not start with God. Wealth does not start with ideas. Kingdom wealth does not start with ideas. Business people, I respect all that you have learned, but I submit to you, by the authority of scripture, wealth does not even start with business. It does not start with investments. Wealth starts with your relationship with God. From that relationship comes the wisdom and the favor that can translate to quality investments. The investment will come as an advice from a man. The investment—whatever you are doing—it is still men.
You just carry this equation and go and work wonders with it: God and men. God and men. They will give value to ideas. God and men will give value to estates. God and men. Someone, God can give you a wisdom now to build an estate, and before you finish, a strategic man will come and say, "My company wants to put in 50 people," and you just build the estate. You already have occupants. That one is not an idea; it's favor that has come from men. Men! Men! Let me remind you again before we begin to pray: you are as wealthy as the men who open their hands towards you. Either they open their hands to transact with you. When you call someone a contractor, who is a contractor? A contractor is not just one who builds roads or supplies; a contractor is one who needs favor with men first. Your tractor will remain there until men give you access. Am I right on that?
So Satan has suggested various ways of attracting men: bribery, corruption, going to the harlot. All of these are unnecessary. God's superior way is to stay with Him, and He will grant you wisdom. The wisdom will direct you on what to do. The wisdom will direct you on how to relate with those men. Well, I've taught you relationships. You can be in the place of prayer with God, and God can tell you, "Buy a pack of wine; go and greet this man." That is the wisdom for your next level. It may not be applicable to everybody, but it came in the place of prayer. Just when you are going to greet the man, that's when your destiny helper just came to see the man too. And they'll say, "Aha! This is the man that I told you can build." And the man will look at you and say, "I don't know what is. Can you take a contract of 10 billion? Will you be able to do it? Take 5 billion to mobilize you first." And someone will see you and say, "No, this guy must have gone somewhere." The person is right; you went somewhere, truly.
Listen, let me challenge all business people and contractors here. Trust me, if you are part of this vision, I'm showing you how to be wealthy. Leave all those contract papers in one minute and take a day or two. Stop chasing around people. People insult you; you still say, "Yes, sir." No! Go with God. Place something upon my head, oh God! Place something upon my business. Place something upon my construction company. Bring honor to my becoming. Let me not become as a slave and owe everybody. Thank you! Someone sees you tomorrow, even in your height, he still wants to kick you like a football and says, "I made you." Oh, uh-uh! Abraham said, "Let it not be that anyone will say I made Abraham rich." All blessings come from God, but through men. Don't allow any man tell you he's the one who made you. That's absolute nonsense. But that is the consequence of making men become God. Men are in the success equation, but it starts with God. The formula is: in the beginning, God.
Is someone ready to pray in the spirit? Go ahead and pray in the spirit for one minute before I speak. I release these prophetic words over your life. Don't waste this dream; don't waste this dream. It has come as a prophetic guide for our season of abundance—a season of abundance by the power of the Holy Spirit. Abundance of grace, abundance of resources, riches and wealth, empowerment and supplies for the sake of the Kingdom, for the sake of God's program, for the sake of your dignity. Someone pray! Take a minute to pray. God is not a man that He should lie. God is not the son of man that He should repent. Had He said it, shall He not make it good? Go ahead and pray.
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There are kings, there are kingdoms, there are mountains, and there are thrones, but only Jesus will reign forever. To His kingdom, there be no end. There are kings, there are kingdoms, there are mountains, and there are thrones, but only Jesus will reign forever. To His kingdom, there be no end. There are kings, there are kingdoms, there are mountains, and there are thrones, but only Jesus will reign forever. To His kingdom, there be no end. There are kings, there are kingdoms, there are mountains, and there are thrones, but only Jesus will reign forever. To His kingdom, there be no end.
In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I made a covenant with my destiny that I would never be poor, that I will not serve God in poverty—not when I found this. It is God and men, and they are all in abundance. God is not them that call upon Him. There are 8 billion people on earth. I told you, everybody cannot hate you. The formula for your wealth is already there. So the Bible says the increase of the earth is for all, and that even the king works by the same formula. If the king wants to prosper, it is still wisdom, favor, men, resources. If you go to serve Satan, it is still the same thing—your covenant alignment and your loyalty revealing the purpose for that wealth. Then you will have a negative expression of wisdom and favor bringing men.
No matter how you route it, it is the same formula. So you now understand what men like God's servant Bishop David Oyedepo will say: that God said, "Get down and make my people rich." Now, many people have misunderstood it, but I understand it to mean get down and become an agent of imparting wisdom and favor upon my people. Because when they have access to my wisdom, God makes you an agent of blessing men—not just by making you a businessman; He makes you a custodian of the wisdom of Heaven, a custodian of the favor of God. You should never be under this grace and struggle financially because these virtues, by the Spirit—this wisdom and favor—are in abundance. Try to believe what I'm saying. Believe that I love you enough to not deceive you.
So as I pray now, know that God took you from home and brought you here to receive a higher dimension of wisdom, to receive a higher dimension of favor. And you now know what to watch out for from a financial standpoint: that when wisdom comes upon you, when favor comes upon you, what becomes your next prayer point? "Lord, give me discernment because I know men are coming. Let me not abort prophetic seasons." And you now begin to rehearse all that I've taught you about relationships—to practice the law of honor, to be friendly, to be cautious. Are we together? So that when the men come, they will stay, and when they stay, they will bring to you gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And when they bring to you gold and frankincense and myrrh, listen carefully: as they bring that to you, then you remember the Lord thy God, for it is He who has given you the power to prosper. You will not brag around and make a lot of noise because before you started the journey, your agreement with God is that His blessing upon you will not distract you. You will still be on your knees as a billionaire. You will still be on your knees as a giver to the work of God.
Only He will reign forever. Look at me now. You know how Solomon prospered? God did not give him gold. He loved the Lord enough and offered a thousand burnt offerings. God came to him in the night and said, "Solomon, what should I give you?" And Solomon said, "I'm a young man. Grant unto me an understanding heart to know judgment." And God said, "You are wise. Who taught you this? You did not ask for the life of your enemies." Because your enemies are not the only hindrance to your going forward; it is principally wisdom. And He said, "Because you have asked this and not the life of your enemies, I have given you this." As soon as Solomon got up, the first manifestation of wisdom was judging the case of two harlots. The story spread around. Kings started coming. The Bible says they came to learn the wisdom of Solomon. Who is this man? And they came with treasures.
If you knew Solomon in January 2024, by May 2024, with the spirit of wisdom, you may look at him and say, "What get-rich-quick scheme did you get into like this?" I told you I don't believe in get-rich-quick schemes; it's a scam. But my God can give you acceleration by wisdom. How about favor? Is there any man in the house of Saul that I may show kindness for Jonathan's sake? And he carried Mephibosheth and said, "From today, you will dine with me here all the days of your life." Who likes you matters. Who likes you matters. When God wants to help you, He will make Pharaoh like you. He will make Ahasuerus like you. He will make Boaz like you. He will make Azaroth like you. Don't you see it all through scripture? There is no magic to this thing. When God wants to help you, by God, He will amplify your little efforts so that other men who already have what is yours will leave it there and run away, and you will come and find abundance.
Even when He says, "By this time tomorrow," it happens through men. Even when it gets to Jehoshaphat, how do people go for war carrying gold? They all fell as dead men. They were dead, but they were still men, and the gold was still on them. Even though they were dead men, what gives value to everything that drives us today—oil and gas, real estate, investments, whatever you call it—is men. And if those men hate you and stand as a blockade, you will be surprised how gifted you can be, and yet you will remain limited. So to someone here who has been unemployed, to someone here who has been fighting to make ends meet, God has announced to you. I want to pray now these two graces on your life: wisdom and favor. And I want you to receive it. And I'm praying this over our global family and as many people who believe in this mystery. You will marvel and wonder. I know what the wisdom of God can do. I know what His favor can do to an individual, to a ministry, to a people. Can I pray for you now?
Rest on me! [Music] Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! Spirit of wisdom, rest! Oh, rest on me! Oh, rest on me! [Music] Father, when you send the word to Jacob, it is so that it be lightened upon Israel. You showed me this dream—a shoot growing in a moment of time to become a giant tree—and I saw a season of abundance. Lord, we receive as a ministry your prophetic word as individuals, as a ministry, as all the businesses and all the value-adding services connected to this vision. And now, oh God, I have taught your people as you've placed in my heart. I pray that you will honor this prophetic declaration, that this grace truly will come on them. I decree and declare over everyone under the sound of my voice in this place, across the overflows, online, in the name of Jesus, tonight, by reason of this prophetic word, receive right now the spirit of wisdom. Receive right now the spirit of wisdom—extraordinary wisdom, wisdom as strange solutions, wisdom as divine direction, wisdom as the capacity to speak right, to say what needs to be said in the presence of your helpers, wisdom as capacity upon your mind to think productively. Receive it in the name of Jesus!
For everyone who has struggled financially as an individual, as a ministry, as a business, as a believer, as a family person, I decree and declare: wisdom bails you out of pain and shame. Wisdom bails you out of pain and shame. Wisdom bails you out of pain and shame. [Applause] Are you ready to receive favor? Father, this grace that you have placed upon men called favor—that can draw kings, that can draw nobles, that can rearrange a platform to honor a man—upon everyone who is here, let that grace rest upon you now. Let favor rest upon you now. Let favor rest upon you now. Let favor rest upon you now. Let favor rest upon you now, in the name of Jesus! And by this impartation, all the men—whether you call them business partners or destiny helpers or announcers or whatever it is, in whatever capacity—I gravitate them towards your life. I gravitate helpers towards your life. I gravitate the wealthy towards your life—helpers of the world. May they find you! May they bless you! May they find you! May they bless you! May they find you! May they bless you! May God use them to lift you! May God use them to announce you! I say it again: may God use them to bless you! May God use them to announce you in the name of Jesus!
When the prophet told the woman who was in debt, he said, "Go and borrow vessels." You thought it would be about oil? No, it was not about oil. It was not the oil that gave her money; her money came from men. He said, "Now that you have the oil, I have prophesied some men that will be waiting for you. Go and sell it to them; they will be willing to buy it." Let me pray for someone: your wisdom will not be a waste. The favor on you will not be a waste. I say it again: the men that must show up to honor the presence of wisdom, to honor the presence of favor, may God send them to you! May God bring them to you! Send them to you! Bring them to you! In the name of Jesus! [Applause]
Christ! And when those men come, may God work upon their hearts to open their hands financially towards you. May God work upon their hearts to open their hands financially towards you. Hear me again: may God work upon their hearts to open their hands financially towards you in the name of Jesus Christ! Everyone here who is in debt, you are in financial problems, in the name that is above all names, by this same mystery of wisdom bringing men, bringing resources, come out of that financial situation! Come out of borrowing and begging and owing! I say it again: come out of begging and borrowing and owing! You will owe no man nothing but love in the name of Jesus!
Final prayer for you: listen to me. Covenant wealth, Kingdom wealth, like I've taught you, is hinged on your vowing before God that everything He brings to your life will be for your comfort, His kingdom, and the world around you—your comfort, His kingdom, and the world around you. By this agreement, when you step into it, God can be free to release to you now whatever comes because He knows it will not destroy you. I'm praying for you: grace to not be distracted by every blessing God gives. Receive it! Grace to take care of yourself, your children, your family when He blesses you. Receive that grace! Grace to support the work of the Kingdom without coercion and manipulation. Receive it! Grace to be a blessing to everyone around you. Receive it in the name of Jesus!
God will give you wealth that will last. You will not go up today and down tomorrow. You will not be wealthy today and be a beggar tomorrow in the name of Jesus! Now I pray for you: any one of you who has been involved in any practice, financially speaking, that has drawn a curse to your life or to those around you, you see that now—the integrity of heart and loving Jesus, serving Him and living for Him, even with your finances. Your finances are also an act of worship. I pray for you: if there is any embargo that authorizes hell to keep recycling poverty and pain and want and lack around your life, in the name of Jesus, let the blood speak! Let mercy speak! Let the blood speak! Let mercy speak! Therefore, by this impartation, go and prosper! Prosper mysteriously! Prosper miraculously! Prosper consistently! Consistently! Consistently! In ever-increasing dimensions! In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Give Jesus a big hand clap! Give Jesus a big, big hand clap! It's a new season for you!