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Hallelujah, there are many, many mediocres in the body of Christ, wrapping their mediocrity around Christian sentiments and wondering why they are not prospering. If I give you a project, and your project is to clean this place, even if you are praying in tongues and you don't clean it well, and it does not meet the standards of excellence, I will love you, but you will go out, be on your way out quickly, because you have not communicated value. You will not be rewarded. It's as simple as that. Show me a man who has identified his value, refined it, and served it with excellence, I show you a man who will not beg.
Number two, favor through relationships. The second way financial resources come to men is favor through relationships. You are as powerful as the relationships you have. Hear what I'm saying, you are as powerful as the men that stand by you, even financially, to support you. The quickest way to rise and scale financially is through the ministry of men, is favor from God, but through men. I've shared with you the story of Isaac, of Abraham and Lot. I've shared with you the story of Aimc and Abraham. I've shared with you the story of Esther and Ahasuerus. I've shared with you the story of Ruth and Boaz. All of these people prospered through relationships. Who hates you does not matter. I will repeat, koinonia, but who likes you matters. May good people like you. When God wants to accelerate your journey into becoming financially blessed, He will connect you, not by your manipulating your way into their lives. He will connect you by His Spirit. When you meet someone of means, he will bless you according to His riches in glory. There is glory in riches. Did you hear what I said? Yes. Most likely, if you meet a billionaire, the likelihood that he will give you 10,000 um, he may not be, because no matter how he tries to reduce it, his real does not allow him to give you less than a particular amount. It's not pride, it's just how they are. Their unit of operation is somebody else's miracle, whether you believe it or not. It's not, I am telling you how it works. It's as honest and as simple as that. That means many of you have not received from God, because if what I have said is true, then if God really reaches down to you, and it does not surprise you, it has not arrived. Are we together?
Now, let me tell you how God blesses. Cast your net to the right side. Immediately, did you see what they caught? Let me tell you how God blesses. Your wine, your oil, your flour will not deplete, and that woman lived up to it. Let me show you how God blesses. By this time tomorrow, and Samaria was in an avalanche for someone. Whilst you are seated here, your part from heaven, after many, many days and many years of witchcraft operation stopping it from arriving, whilst you are here in koinonia, it has finally arrived. The world of men, and in the name of Jesus, listen. Let me tell you the truth, and I hate to sound arrogant, and forgive me if I do, but even as a human being, in my own little way, God has used me to extend love and compassion in the area of finances to people, and I have seen what it has done to them. This is me as a man. I've had the honor of giving somebody one naira, two naira, and I've seen how it changed their lives. How much God, what are you saying? God can end your prayer request in a moment. I'm telling you, you don't believe me. I'm not talking about finances. Oh, but as I just said it, it's just compassion that came from my heart.
Value, favor. Now, let me tell you the truth. Value is your own responsibility. But you see, you can have what to give and be serving the wrong people, they would still not bless you. It is the assignment of God to keep rearranging your audience till you find yourself in the midst of the people who have a recognition for what you carry. And I'm praying it for someone, because you are gifted, truly, you have worked on your gift, but the audience you have been serving are wrong audience. They don't have. Listen, if you find yourself in the midst of people who are not ordained to celebrate what you carry, they can despise you, even if you are a champion. When God wants to help such a man, He rearranges your audience. I have taught you here, Joseph interpreted the dream of the butler. The same gift that made him a king, but nobody rewarded him because of the person's dream he interpreted. He interpreted the dream of the wine presser, he remained there. But when the king dreamed and he interpreted the king's dream, immediately he became prime minister. Same gift, not an addition, just a change of audience. Let me prophesy to someone, may my God change your audience. May my God bring kings before you, gatekeepers before you, captains of industry before you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Let me tell you the truth, for many years I served many territories with the grace God gave me, but of course, it's the law of process. I serve many territories that had disdain for this grace that you celebrate today. But when God wanted to show me mercy, He changed the audience and brought you. Hear me, there are many businessmen hearing me here. What you carry can give you an international standing, but it is wrong people who have been seeing your ideas, and they will be striking a pen on great destiny altering ideas. What you need is for the right person. There are people who have been praying for you, they just don't know you are the one they are praying for. They have been praying for a secretary, and yet you are close to them. You are the kind of secretary that, even if it's 1 million naira per month, they will pay you if they really discover that you are the one. Do you know a man can pray and not know what he's praying for? A man can pray and not know how his answer will look like? I'm praying for you again. The person ordained to reward you for what you carry, to reward your many years of investment, I call upon the God of my covenant tonight. Between now and the end of next month, may you find these people. May they find you. May you find them. May they find you. May there be a meeting point in the name of Jesus Christ.
Listen, let me tell you, when you find the man your gift was sent to bless, they will almost worship you. You will be mattered and say, "You mean this thing I have despised?" Hello, look up. I hope you know the people to buy the oil of the wife of the prophet. Maybe they were praying, "God, you mean nobody has oil?" Whereas the oil they would buy was in our house, but was in a quiet jar somewhere. After the prophet spoke and it multiplied, he said, "Go and sell it." Meaning, there are customers you just have not seen them. There are people that when they see your oil, will not spend the night. They will say, "We have been praying for you." There are architects here. You have been meeting the wrong people. You should be designing cities, and yet you are still begging for many projects because of the wrong audience. I pray for you, may the God of my covenant rearrange your audience. Rearrange your audience. Rearrange your audience. Can I tell you the truth? Listen to me. When the right people see your gift, they will announce to their circle. That's what makes it, the factor becomes so. It's like wildfire. They will call all their friends and say, "The person we have been praying for, the HR consultant we have been praying for, the man of God whose messages we've been praying to hear." Whoever is praying for you, praying that you arrive, praying that you come into their space, by prophecy, I push you to their space. Hallelujah. Please be seated. Take it down for me. Are you learning tonight?
So when the glory of God wants to find expression in your life, it finds expression as wisdom, it finds expression as power, it finds expression as wealth. Wealth provides possibilities. There are things you cannot do if you are not blessed. You cannot do. You can make noise and you cannot do it. It's as simple as that. I will always make reference to the privilege God has given us to hold the conferences we are holding across many nations. That has happened by the Spirit of God. It is one thing to hear God, but it's another thing to have the capacity to obey Him. There are many of you who God has given instructions to, but the wherewithal to obey is not there. Again, I pray for you one last time in the name of Jesus. I know you have ideas, but may help us start the financial journey for you. May God raise someone to help you with your rent. May God raise someone to buy you a vehicle. May God raise someone to give you a house. It's not laziness, it's called the help of God. It doesn't make you lazy, it only gives you acceleration. Receive it in the name of Jesus. Sit down.
So, number one, wisdom. Number two, might or power. Very quickly, I'm just touching them because I'm really, my emphasis tonight is how God is glorified, not just how the glory is manifested, but I needed to say this so that it brings perspective to what I'm saying. Power or might is the second way the glory of God is manifested in the world of men. Let me tell you the truth, you cannot manifest the glory of God without power. Spiritual, supernatural power, intellectual power, power in and might in all its ramifications. What is power? The ability to produce results. What is power? The ability to compel compliance. What is power? The ability to compel desired outcomes. It's called power. When God wants His glory to flow through a man, He grants that man power. The glory of God revealed as His healing anointing. If it's to flow to you now, it will come through the healing power of God. Are we together? Now, when God wants His glory to come to you, bringing you understanding, it will come through the teaching grace power. You need power in your life, genuine power. Power is beyond falling down and standing up. No, those are just physical expressions of the presence of the power of God and the Spirit of God walking in the midst of people, removing things and delivering things. Genuine power, the capacity to produce results. And I'm praying for someone, the right level of power needed in your life and destiny, especially in the seasons that are before you, I release it upon your life.
Number three, what is the third channel for expressing or manifesting the glory of God? Riches or wealth. I like to call it wealth. The Bible uses riches, but write it down, please. Do you hate poverty? That's a very good thing. You have done well by hating poverty, because if you like poverty, something is wrong with your understanding. You are not a bad person, you just don't understand God's program. The subject of wealth and poverty has nothing to do with flamboyancy and glitz and glamour. Are we together now? When you see poverty based on the things you see on social media, you will hate it, and it does not carry anything kingdom. There, but when you see poverty as a tool that empowers you to reveal the glory of God, empowers you, like I've taught you, to live a comfortable life, empowers you to be efficient, empowers you to fund the program of God, now your orientation has been adjusted properly. You have added kingdom come to that concept, and it changes everything. When believers begin to pursue the subject of finances outside of purpose, outside of God, outside of kingdom, it becomes a blind and a vain pursuit that just sells self and canal, leading to their destruction. This is not what we're advocating. But I can tell you, based on the authority of scripture, and like you know, poverty is bad in every ramification. It strips men of dignity and honor. It cripples you from living out your destiny. It stops you from being a blessing. That part of being a blessing is an important component in being wealthy. Most people focus on being blessed, but the last instruction, Genesis 12 and 2:3, indeed, in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Not just that I will bless you. Can I tell you something? I was studying on fruit-bearing, and I got to find out that any fruit that eats itself is called rotten. You know what it means for a fruit to be rotten? That means it starts eating itself, because every fruit leaves to be eaten by someone else, not itself. Whatever eats itself and consumes and enjoys itself begins to rot. The principles of fruit-bearing is that, number one, fruits carry out the manifest fruits, point the tree that birthed them. When you see a mango fruit on the ground, most likely the tree is closer there. So trees, fruits are signs, they point you to the tree, and they carry the character of the tree that has birthed them. And then all fruits are visible. Maybe they are invisible fruits in the spirit, but in the world of men, all fruits are visible to the eyes. And then, number three, fruits serve others. They serve a cause bigger than themselves. When they start eating themselves, they rot. So when your entire understanding of finances is just me, how I will buy a car, buy a house, live for myself, you are being a fruit that is not fruitful. Are we learning? This is very important. But wealth is very important. You cannot run a ministry with integrity without wealth. You cannot run business without wealth. You cannot take care of your children without financial resources. Settle it once and for all that you need financial resources more than you will ever realize. I'm not talking of an obsession for money. There are people who are obsessed about money. You want to wake them up, shout money. You want to redirect them, shout money. Everything around their life revolves around money. That's not what I'm talking about. There is no kingdom program I know that is not dependent on finances. Hallelujah. I have seen for myself, as a man of God and as a leader, the necessity of financial supplies. You will not be poor if you don't believe it. Allow your neighbor receive him peace. You will not be poor. Truly, poverty strips men of dignity. I tell you, there is nothing glorious about it. It strips you of dignity. I've told you that there are three things that will happen to your life if you remain in poverty perpetually. Number one, you will steal. Number two, you will tell lies. You will not lie because you are bad, you will lie because you are poor. Wealth is a defense. It helps protect your integrity. Number three, you will compromise. You will compromise. You will do many things you should not do. There is dignity when you have wealth with vision. There is dignity when you have wealth with purpose. There is dignity when you have wealth with a heart that loves Jesus passionately and understands the assignment of wealth. Again, I'm praying for you. Whatever has robbed you and robbed your family from the dignity of accessing financial resources, here and now, in the name of Jesus, we open the door for a new season. I've told you, you will not sit under this grace and only be spiritually vibrant. In order of priority, your spiritual growth and vibrancy is my number one assignment, but every other dimension of God that gives you dignity and gives you wholesome living must be added to your life. Genesis 17 and 6 says, "And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee, not into thee, out of thee." That means someone who may be ordinary now, for want of word, by the time the word of God works on your heart, works on your mind, works on your hands, and grace is deposited upon your destiny, you will marvel at what your finances become in the name of Jesus Christ. That you will do ministry with dignity. There are people here, you will literally single-handedly sign the annual budgets of ministries by January on your own because of how much you love the Lord. You will be so blessed. I'm saying it to you as a prophetic word, that you will set up an organization, and your services is to identify pro-kingdom ministries and send support to them. Literally, you will filter ministries from across Africa, across the globe, and literally allocate resources. Let this mission agency have this, let this one have this. I speak it to you in the name of Jesus. I'm very, very unapologetic about the relevance of financial resources. And let me tell you one truth, prosperity and finances does not necessarily affect your spiritual life. It's not true. If it were true, God himself would have backslidden. The one who owns the earth, His wealth has not affected His Holiness, nor His spiritual life. When your spiritual life is affected because of money, it is a result of poor mentorship. You were not mentored well to understand the value. It was just maybe just receive money, money, money, money. No, I'm not being critical, but I think it's the balance that needs to come to the body of Christ. Once we keep foiling the lust of believers, oh, just have money, just claim this, just claim that, you find a lot of visionless believers who are obsessed about money. They can kill for money, they can lie for money, they can do everything, they can backslide for money. No, that is a very poor advocacy. The same way you seek grace for prayer as a tool for your excelling, the same way you seek the anointing as a tool to represent God, that is how you must sincerely desire finances as part of the equipping. Please look at me. When you have a car to drive your children, will you be a better father? Will you be a more effective father? If God moves you from being a tenant to being an honorable house owner, if you take care of your family, having that peace, do you think it will give you a better atmosphere to serve God? I think so. I think so. If you have enough resources and you can bless your aged parents, your brothers, your sisters, if you can send your loved ones and other children to school and they have the opportunity to go, are you a blessing doing that? There is a deception that has trapped the body of Christ. Two deceptions. Number one is an advocacy that negates the value of financial empowerment. Number two, marketing of canal wrapped around the subject of finances. They are both deceptions from hell. Well, I've made my choice. For as long as I live, in the name of Jesus, as for me and for koinonia, you make your decision by yourself. But as for me, I've made up my mind that as I serve the Lord, it will be with dignity. In the name of Jesus Christ, that the absence of financial resources will not affect my efficiency as a person, nor will it affect the program of God. We will serve God to the very end with dignity. Whatever it will take to win souls to the nations, God will grant the wisdom, grant the empowerment, and the resources. Can I tell you the truth? I have taught you that there are two ways resources come into the hands of people. If someone is learning tonight, number one, value. I just thought to point that value. If you are not valuable, and your value is not needed and useful within the context of a civilization, you will be poor. There is a science to wealth. There is spirituality to wealth, but it's important you have the foundational understanding. Being superstitious over the issue of finances is childishness and even foolishness. You want to prosper, you must be valuable. It is the person who receives your value that rewards you. If you are not valuable, or valuable enough, your value must be packaged, refined, and served with excellence. It is evidently clear that the scripture will not lie. The children that God has given to me, they are for signs and for wonders. By the mercy of God, God has blessed our father and the Lord, Apostle Joshua Selma, with His word, the spirit of revelation and light. And as He has poured it upon us, we of no doubt are children of signs and wonder. And so you are. Don't forget this reality. Live with it day by day. Sleep with it. Wake up in the morning with it. Go out in the street, to the office, to your place of work, the schools, and everywhere you find yourself with this consciousness. Go there with it, that you are for sign and a wonder. Nothing dies in your hand. No situation overcomes your life. Your life is being built and is being strengthened, lived upon the authentic word of the Lord, the infallible word of the Lord, the consistent living Logos, which is the word of the Lord. Don't forget that everything the word comes in contact with, it has a power to change, and it begins with you. You are a sign and a wonder. It doesn't matter what you see now, because Jesus is working on your matter. The world may not see it, but you are a sign and a wonder. Live with this consciousness every day as the day goes by, and see Jesus being glorified in your life. Thank you for staying tuned to Lifetime with us, Unreflected Hope TV. God will not lie. God bless you.