The Reality of Internal Struggles

The Power of a Transformed Heart 2: The Reality of Internal Struggles -
You must become the watchman of your heart. Failure to guard one's heart is the reason for constant internal struggles that lead to a life of confusion and frustration. If your heart is not guarded and protected, it will be subjected to the influence and control of the fallen human nature — the flesh. The conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the reason for constant internal struggles in the life of the believer.

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So the title of your word with the gospel of Christ. Open up your hearts and shine.

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This morning we are going to continue from where we stopped last Sunday.

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We started the series The Power of a Transformed Heart.

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The power of a transformed heart.

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And last Sunday we look at the subtopic. The matters of the heart. Today we are we are looking at another subtopic. The reality of internal struggles. The power of a transformed heart is a series. The subtopic is the reality of internal struggles. Actually, most of the things technology and all those things learn them from God. The principles expect from God. And hear this expect if you are going to expect equipment very well. And for the equipment to deliver to you and serve its purpose as you intend it. You must know how to operate that equipment.

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Expect.

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Is that true? Expect if you have a car and you don't know how to drive, you won't enjoy the benefit of that car. Even though you own it. Expect the same thing with your life. Expect if you don't know how life runs, God forbid, you just struggle, struggle, struggle, do cut and join.

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Expect at the end of the day.

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You are not sure whether you actually expect fulfill God's perfect plan for you or not. Expect may that never be your experience. This message is to help us to further understand how life runs. How life was. So your heart determines what you get. We shared so many things about the heart last week. I don't want to go back to them now. I told us the state or the condition of a man's heart is what determines the outcome of their life. No devil can walk in your life beyond how your heart permits that devil to walk. This is hard. But it's the truth. No, we all enjoy apportioning blame. It's easy to blame every other person for our woes except ourselves. In fact, your freedom begins when you stop blaming anybody for where you are. That is the beginning of your freedom. That is what true freedom is all about. When you understand that no one can destroy you without your permission. Check, check, check, please. I want you to think, you see, this is not just a message that's it's not just a sermon. It's something, it's a message I want you to digest and consciously apply it to your life. See where you are in the journey of your life. I was telling my ministry sons in a meeting with them yesterday. I said, nobody is late in this kingdom. You are not late. People might have concluded you, and they think you are going nowhere. But I've come to announce to you this morning that my God and your God will prove them wrong. In the name of Jesus, the Lord will prove them wrong. I tell myself, if Jesus can achieve so much in three and a half years, I can do a lot in the next three and a half years. I don't know about you, I'm talking about myself. Am I also talking to you? Do you know who your father is? As vast as the earth is, as diverse as the creations on earth are. That is the spirit of he that dwells in me. So who told you you are late? They told you it's over. I'm telling you, it's not over. What needs a change is your heart. I'll be sharing a lot of things with me as the Lord has helped me to see. I want to take it one step after the other. And if rapture no comes, we continue. Praise the Lord. So no rush. I don't want to say too many things at a time again. Praise the Lord. So I told you that the condition of your heart determines the outcome of your life. And that is the reason. In the book of Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 23, the Bible says, keep your heart. With what? Walk. With how many diligence? All. All. That is walk diligently on your heart. For out of it spring the issues of life. Another translation says, life begins from there. Life begins from there. So to keep your heart with diligence means you must be committed and intentional about guarding or protecting your heart. Did you hear that? You must become the watchman over your heart. It's not everything you see you must watch. It's not everything you hear you must listen to. Because your eyes and your ears are the gateway into your heart. What you see and what you hear will either corrupt your heart or transform your heart. Everything you are hearing and you pay attention to, everything you watch, you pay attention to. Whether you know it or not. See, some of you, your marriage is going on well until you started watching certain things on Z World. You now learn from unbelievers how husband should love the wife. And you are now expecting your husband to love you that way. So if he's not loving you that way, you are now playing the game that you learned from unbelievers. Ah, it won't work.

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Praise the Lord.

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Listen carefully. Failure to guard one's heart is a reason. Listen carefully. Is the reason for constant internal struggles that leads to a life of confusion and frustration? Do you know that you can have money and still be confused and still be frustrated? You can be well positioned, occupy a fantastic position, and yet your heart is not at peace. And you can even have little and be at peace. Listen, if your heart is not guarded, protected, it will be subjected to the influence and control of your fallen human nature that the Bible refers to as the flesh. And I told us before now that the strength of Satan and of the world is in your flesh. Satan can't get to you, the world can dominate you outside your flesh. The only thing that will give them access to your life is your flesh. And that is why on the cross at Calvary the flesh was crucified. But the challenge we have is that we are not allowing the flesh to remain dead. Now look at what happens. If you allow the flesh that should be dead to still be active in your heart. Don't forget this, child of God, that our heart is our inner man, inner the inner mind. Our mind reasons. That's why you reasoned everything. Our heart doesn't reason. Anything that enters your heart becomes the reality of your life. In fact, the bulk of your decisions are from your heart, not even your mind. I'm going to show you why we go through that internal struggle and how it affects our lives. Galatians chapter 5, verse 16 and 17. Galatians chapter 5, verses 16 and 17. Galatians chapter 5 verses 16 and 17. I say then, I say then, walk where in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill. So that means that something the flesh is always trying to present to you. That the only thing that will save you from it is walking in the spirit. The next verse, verse 17. For the flesh lost against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. Let's read this verse 17 from different translations. Give me a note, please. I want you to catch it well. The sinful nature that's your flesh wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the spirit wants. And the spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly doing what? Fighting each other. So you are not free to carry out your good intentions. You see, when you see a man living a godly life genuinely and consistently, that man has fought something. See, being good once in a while is not goodness. You see, the goodness you can't sustain is from your mind. Even though you know it's good to be good, but if in your heart you have not been transformed in such a way that the life of Christ, Christ is formed in your heart. But you'll be explaining it away. You only be good when it will favor you as a strategy. Not because you love anybody. Let's read, let's read, let's read DNC. For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the spirit wants. And what the spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are what? Enemies. And this means that you cannot do what you want to do. Now get this, church. Your body has been trained by that fallen nature, has been trained by sin. So your body is always seeking the things that the human nature wants it to seek after. I remember when my wife was pregnant. I said that crave, die. That craving, die by fire. The person craving for shawma, please sit down. He's already weighing one sixteen. But do you know that's what the body wants? You crave for things that satisfy your flesh, that feeds your ego, that pump your pomposity. Do you know that every one of us, including yours truly, likes to be appreciated? I don't know about you, maybe you are falling from heaven. But I know that those of us who are born on earth, we love to be. So he started trying to make money at all costs. And he entered into trouble. The person he wanted to impress was infuriated, upset, call him a disgrace. But he fell into that trap because he was looking for appreciation, recognition. Listen, if you don't allow the Lord by his spirit to walk on your hearts, for the influence of flesh to be broken over your heart. Even though, as a born-again child of God who hears the word of God, who wants to practice the word of God, your heart will keep overriding what you know in your mind. No, no, be truthful. There are some things you know that as a child of, I can't do this. I don't want to do this. But before you know it, you're already doing it. Don't raise your hands up. But I believe many of us has been look at, look at, okay. Look at the your resolution on January 1st. I will not do this again. The child of God, I will not do this again. I will not do that again. I will not do that again. The next few hours, you're already doing some of them. What went wrong? Your mind knows that that's not right. But what controls you actually is not your mind, is your heart. Do you know that trying to change the hearts of God's people of Israel was what kept them in the wilderness for 40 years. And at the end of the day, because they wouldn't submit to God, for God to change their hearts, they all died. Is their children whose heart was not corrupted in Egypt that entered the Canaan land? See, some of us seated here or watching me, the greatest challenge you have is your inability to break the mindset you came with when you got born again, when you came out of the world. As a child of God. When you didn't have Jesus, anytime there is a financial problem, the first thing that comes into your heart is where to borrow from. So when you cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry. Now said, what should I do? I don't want to trouble you. But I don't know where to go again. Let's say don't complete now. Get this. If in your heart the reason why you did that is not just because no, some somebody can do that sincerely. Just confuse, just don't know what to do. But some is a is a strategy. Is a what? Strategy. Do you know that God doesn't walk according to what you say? He works according to your motive. The content of your heart. He deals with you according to your heart. I've told you over and over as your pastor, I can tell you anything. I can project myself to be anything. But God sees the motive of my heart and He will deal with me according to my motive, not according to what I tell you. I tell my ministry sons that you do something wrong and it works. So to continue in it is to set up yourself a problem. Because whatsoever influences what you do without you thinking much actually comes directly from your heart. Church, think about this, ask yourself. That's why. Let's read that Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 2, quickly. And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years. Where? In the wilderness. To do what? To humble you and to do what? And to test you. How? To know what was in your heart. Whether you will keep his commandments or not. See, God knows what was in their heart. But if he told them that this is what is in your heart, I say, Ah, but now, Father, it's not like that to. Ah no, we love you. We love you with the whole of our heart. God said, Okay, let me put you under small pressure. Then let's see the content of your heart that you won't be able to deny.

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Church.

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Every time God wants to promote you, He gives you a problem. Why a problem? He might not be the one that will give you directly, but he allows a problem to come. You see, solving that problem is your key to your next level. See, when challenges come, look at how your spontaneous reaction to that problem. That reveals the state of your heart. Serving God is not bread and teal. Even the things we say carelessly matters to him. I taught my wife one bad habit. I called them a name in another dialect, which means animal. I call them animal. Until a few weeks ago, God told me those people you call anima are created in image and likeness. So you know what that means. I said, No Lord, I'm not calling you animal. He said, then don't call them animal again. But you know that after God has spoken to me, I think the second or third day, I was going out. I don't say nanko. I love us because in my heart I have seen many of the keke drivers. And you talk I'm not the meaning. See, in your heart you can say, in your mind, you can just like somebody. But because of your old traumas, the things you have gone through that have made your heart so corrupt that you hardly trust anybody. Your mind is appreciating the good thing the person is doing, but deep down said, bye bye. You won't catch me on the way. And you are planning evil for them to safeguard yourself. Listen, we go through a lot of struggles when our hearts are not fully reformed or transformed, sorry. Understand this. The conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the reason for constant internal struggles in the life of a believer. The spirit of God in you, within your spirit, and if the flesh is still ruling, controlling your heart, hear this. The two of them, the spirit of God and the man's falling nature, have absolutely nothing in common. They have absolutely nothing in common. They have different desires. They have different thoughts, they have different aims, purpose. Therefore, they will always be at war against one another. So, in your mind, you hear God's word, you study the Bible, and you know what the word of God says. But unfortunately, you only have sense knowledge of the word. The word has not gone through your mind into your heart. Listen, that's what the Bible talks about the importance of meditation. Meditation is to fill your mind with God's word that it not overflows into your heart. Because whatsoever enters your heart becomes what will begin to find expression in your life. Listen, the day you genuinely believe in your heart that you can't be sick, you discover that suddenly your body will begin to adjust to that. Because your heart is what influences your body. The day you believe, based on the revelation of God's word, that you cannot be poor, it doesn't matter how symbolistic the economy of the nation becomes, you will prosper in the midst of it. See, what prospers in you is not what is happening around you, is what is going on in your heart. Your heart is a seat of your imagination. Now, no, no. Be truthful to yourself. How many times have you sat down? And all you can imagine about yourself are negative things. That is to suggest to you that your heart needs transformation, sir. It needs transformation now. Several years ago, when I was still in order, a young man. Then was this Slovakia or one of those um poorest on country then they were having they're just breaking. So they were having issues. There was a conflict. I said, I want to go to that place. I said, Where then they fight? He said, That place, money day, anywhere, trouble day, money day there. I said, What if they kill you? He said, No. He said, anywhere with money day, risk day. Do you not know that? I followed him to, I think it's is it Slovakia? I can't remember exactly the or Slovenia, either Slovenia or well. I followed him to the embassy in Lagos. Because nobody was applying for their visa. So when he came, they were surprised. They took him directly to meet the ambassador. He said, in my country, there's a problem. What do you want to go and do there? He said, just leave that one for me. Just leave that one for me. Funny enough, the ambassador was so surprised with his confidence. He said, I'll give you the visa. He said, But anything that happens to you. This young man left for that place. I have come to Porta Cot. This church was already on when I was told he came visiting Nigeria. That is already building, doing so. I said, did he make money in the midst of a problem? It's a mindset, sir. What others are running away from. He saw something in it. He ran there. It's a way of thinking. He's a mindset. There is something programmed into his heart that tells him opportunities are there, and that's why he survived it. There is no goody goody in comfort zone no goodie goody in comfort zone. Now there are things God wants you to do. The flesh will be against it. There is a way God wants you to live. Your flesh wants you to live in the opposite of it. And that's why there's so much struggle with him. You know what is right, but most of the time you are not doing it. Because of that internal struggle. Your heart is the one that influences your actions and decisions. Your heart is what determines the things you do when you are not consciously thinking about it. Listen, church. I say it about myself. I say it to everyone. You actually don't know what you can do until you find yourself in certain situations. When things happen. Let's look at Jesus our Lord when He was here. How can how can somebody's coming? And he met a crowd. And he said, What happened? They said, A widow just lost his only son. And the whole city were following him to go and bury the son. Crying. Because that's the only thing they could do. And in the presence of everybody, he walked to the casket. He tapped the casket. Said, young man, rise. Why is it that the rest crying couldn't do that? Because in their heart, it was not possible. But in the heart of Jesus, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. So if I'm the life, if I see someone held bound by death, death means the absence of life. I only need to be there and say, uh-uh, I'm here. Let him go. All the time Jesus raised the dead in the Bible. Did you say anywhere where he rebuked death? You will not find the ones. When he said death, lose your hold. We just call their name. Because in his heart, there is this consciousness that the dead in the grave, we hear his voice, they will come back to life. So he only acted according to his nature. See, you are just one right step away from the breakthrough you are looking for. But your heart is not allowing you to take that step. Because there's this argument. Don't go and disgrace yourself for what of if it didn't work. What of if? What of if? And you have so much what of if you are not doing anything. See, it's not just you alone, even me, yours truly. And they struggle with it. You know the funniest thing. I wanted to start a building project. Don't laugh at me. And I was looking at Michael will be looking at me somehow now. I was looking at the cost. But you know, from the moment I started planning it last year. One person outside the church, an elder in another church, came for me, said, Sir, they gave me quick notice. In my house, and I that he has a land at Erico. That he had just about two or three months left. He said, and there is no money. He said, I believe that if you pray for me, money will come. And I'll build that house. I want to build it to taste. I'm packing. I said, kneel down. He said, I won't build. And I did fear. In the name of Jesus, all that you need comes to you now. He got up, put a seed in my hand. I said, Don't do. Go. He gave me an expensive shoe. The guy has a boutique. Gave me an and said, Daddy, in less than three months, I do the house. Another person came, the same thing. Thought nursing, the same thing. I said, Oh boy, what is your problem? What of you? You are praying. And then I made excuse as poor, yet making many rich. You know that's what we do to ourselves. We excuse our fear. Those are the internal struggles. It happens in different ways. I'm just using this as an example. So as you need transformation, I need to. Because there are a lot of things God wants me to do. I'm still counting the cost. And God says, I am your source. But that is in my head. My heart is still. I've not come fully. You know, there are some of you, if you need one million, it won't give you a problem. You just know it will come. And it will come because your heart has set that limit for you. See, the limitations we have is a thing of the heart. That's one of the best things you can do for yourself is to allow God to build you up so that Christ can be formed in your heart. When Christ is formed in your heart, he becomes the center of your life and begin to live through you. Whatsoever is impossible for him is the only thing that will be impossible for you. Is somebody hearing that? Listen, until you become intentional about letting your heart to become transformed, you will never be consistent in your work with God. That's the most important area I want to talk about. If your heart is not transformed, your walk with God will be weak. And listen, if your walk with God is weak, it will affect your fulfillment in life. Did you hear that? Let's let's look at. Matthew, I want you to learn something. I want you to see something. And I want you to make up your mind that Lord, by your grace, I'll pay attention to my heart. The period you spend in running after men, use it to work on yourself. See, the people you need, when your heart is indicting the right thing, the people you need will be drawn into your life. We are meant to attract and not pursue. Now, Jesus asked, asked the disciple, what do people say? Who did people say I am? Some say you are John you are um Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Elijah, all manner of things. He now said to them, But who do you say that I am? I've heard what people are saying about me, but you, my disciples, who do you say that I am? Verse 16. Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Verse 17. Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Bajona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. But my father who is in heaven. He got a revelation of God, of Christ. But he couldn't stick to it because their heart was not yet transformed. Okay, in the same chapter, look at what happened. Go quickly to verse 21 to 23. From that time, Jesus began to show to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised the third day. Verse 22. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, Far be it from you. You took the tongue. Lord, this shall not happen to you. The next verse, verse 23. Then we stop there. But he turned, who turned Jesus, and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan. You are an offense to me, for you are not mindful of the things of God. Listen, the flesh will always be an offense to God. You are an offense to me, for you are not mindful of the things of God. But the things of men, your consideration is not my thing. Is what has to do. Now, in my opinion, in my opinion, in my opinion, I think, don't say, I just want to, I think that what was in the mind of Peter when Jesus said they will suffer, will be killed, was that this might want to spoil our business. You don't know the honor we enjoy by following you. Which kind of nonsense that you wanna? No trial no. Only God knows how many people have gone to Peter behind and say, Want to see the master. And it feels important. Okay, uh let me see what I can do for you. Now you want to stop that kind of thing. I will now become ordinary like the rest. Don't try it. What kind of nonsense debt is that? See, it was easier for him to accept that Christ is Lord, is the Son of the Living God, because that is not affecting his bread and tea. But the one that says Jesus will die. Listen, church, let's look up. Everybody look at me. Do you know one of the reasons we miss the move of God in our lives? We often think that when God is the one working in your life, it will be free of problem. If it is God, it will be smart. No go stress me. You never know anything, no. Some genuine people that God wants to use to, they will stress you to bring you out of mediocrity. They want you to act excellently. You know, um when I was young, after my father's death, my mom didn't go to school at all. But it's a book past those who went to school. Not that he she could read, though. He said, Come and read this thing, come and read. I'll read, read. He said, is that how to read it? In my mind, she doesn't even know. I thought she would say, that is not how to read it. But you don't know how to read. How come you now know this one that I'm reading?

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At the age of nine, he asked me, from today you start cooking for yourself.

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Give me gary dry fish. Rice every Sunday evening. He said, These are what you will eat the next Sunday. He said, if you like, cook them. If you like, eat them like that. He said, if you like, finish them on Wednesday. You will fast till Sunday. Sincerely, I saw her as a very wicked woman. That's why at the time I asked her, I said, Luz, I want to see my mommy. And he said, You want to see your mommy? I said, Yes. He said, Go and dress up. That woman was an actress. I happily went inside. Dress up, pack my bag. She locked the door. Brought out Koboko from the hangar. No question, no comment.

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Ew, why?

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As I jump in on Chia, jumping, suddenly I came back to my senses. I said, I've seen her. I have seen her. He said, Well, I said you are the one. He said, Are you sure? I said you are the one. So she returned the. So one day when she was very happy, I asked her, Mommy, why are you doing this to me? You know, I don't get father. I said, my dad over pampered me. Because he lost ten children before me. And so this one will live. And I was enjoying it. No, when I look back today, I say, thank God that man died though. My God for the comeback from my illness. Because it will have spoiled me completely. I would have been useless to myself. See, there are people who stress you at times. They are the best for you. Do you know? I tell people, I said, the only regret I have today, my mom died in 1997. I didn't have an opportunity to tell her, thank you. Thank you. You helped me. Because then I saw what he was doing as wickedness. In fact, I told that wife, she said, You are a witch. A witch. So I said, Why did you do this? She said, Your father didn't tell us before he left. I won't tell you before leaving. He said, I will not leave a useless son who could not, who won't be able to take care of his younger ones behind. He said, So I want you to be able to live by yourself, even if there's nobody to help you. And sincerely, I'm telling you, I didn't enjoy family help. Until I became a pastor, that's when I know that somebody can just look at me and say, sir, have this. I didn't know that. So that made me not to know how to disturb people for things. I'll rather die alone than to inconvenience anybody for what I need. It looks like pride, but that was what she put in my heart then. So there are a lot of things in our hearts, many of them are negative, and some are positive, but they determine how we are living our lives now. And so God wants us to get our hearts transformed. It's not everything that appears negative that is against you. When your heart aligns with God's word, you will begin to see through God's lens. Do you know what Jesus called his going to the cross? He said, The hour of my glorification has come. How can you call shameful death hour of glorification? There was something in his heart that has seen beyond what was about to happen. The shame of the cross. There is something in him that has seen it. Listen, church, you had to allow God to walk on your heart by his spirit. Because that heart has been delaying you. When you see through God's eyes, you will approach problems differently. People's attitude will not mean anything to you. Do you know why? You just know that they are living according to their heart. They might not even like how they are living. I will never allow somebody's state of heart to become my headache. Because the person might be. Fighting his or her own internal battle. I may just be a temporary victim. Somebody insulted you, got angry, call your manner of name. Rig, rig, rig. Hey. Do you think it's easy to get angry and be shouting all over the place and be acting like six person dead mad? There is something in that person's heart that is behind that anger. If you know it, you pity them instead of condemning them. When Jesus says, Love your enemies, he sees beyond what you can see. He knows that it is not some enemy's will to be your enemy. They are even enemies to themselves. Somebody who sees evil about himself. You are now complaining that they are talking evil against you. You are angry. Listen, church, listen, please. When you are fighting a serious life battle, it's not everybody that should know about it. Because the heart of man that is not transformed naturally sees evil in everything. So the moment plenty of people begin to imagine evil against you, if you are not strong in faith, you are gone. You are gone. That's why if you are going to share your challenges, your problems with people, let it be men and women of faith who can see solution with you, and not those who will see evil and see shame and see death and see and they are already crying for you when you are still alive. Not because they are wicked, but they can see better. That's how far their heart could see. At times I feel somehow. My wife will say, Are you okay? What is it? I say, I'm very, very okay. And the man of God was not okay. Because I know she is still growing. She easily gets worried about every little thing. So instead of allowing her to see any negative picture, I start quoting scripture. And I tell God is it is after the thing is over. I would have tells her that day. Leg one leg day for heaven, one day for here. I said you could do okay. Now begin to imagine in your head. Negative. That's why. Be careful. Some problems are prolonged because of the people you told about. Not that they are wicked, not they are bad people, but they can't handle it. That's why I look as if most of the time pastor suffer alone. That's why I tell every man of God. I say, may God give you friends. I'll be a friend indeed. Genuinely from your heart. Hello. People, you can be naked in their presence and not be ashamed. People who will not use the weakness of today against you tomorrow. You know that people, if you tell them you quarrel with your wife. Hey. A nonsense man of God. I've been like that before when I didn't understand all these things. Let me tell you something, church. Can I say something to you? Be careful of how you judge others. Because judging them means you are saying you will handle it better if you are that person. By judging them, you are applying for the problem. Because God says, since you know how to handle it better, let's allow you. So that you'll be able to teach others how to do it better. Some of us, I'm telling you by the spirit, you have no business in being in some of the troubles you are in now. Your mouth.

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By the mercy of God, let them be cancelled. Let them be canceled. Let them be canceled. Mercy settled this for you. Mercy wipe them away.

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In the name of Jesus. Until it became my tongue. A child of a man of God will misbehave. I said, the man is not serious. Didn't take care of his family. So how can you be a man of God? Until it became my tongue. If a man of God lost a loved one, I said he didn't pray well. What kind of thing is that? When we say they should pray, they won't pray. Until it became my tongue. So I was not sleeping, I was praying. I was praying. Now I've made covenant with my mouth. This mouth, you know, go put me into trouble again. You learn from it too. Because every time you mock people's pain, you are applying for it. Because you are saying that you can do it better. You are saying you are more mature to handle it. And everything you believe, you will be tested by it. It's a spiritual principle. You know what somebody should have done. And you're not saying it from a heart of love. Why their marriage will not break. You just talk, talk, talk anyhow. Let me visit your own small. My twin in Lagos, Pastor Vitalis. One day he called me and said, My twin, pray for me. Satan just remembered me. There are certain things that will happen in your life. It will look as if Satan has back his things to your house. I mean, what Peter was saying to Jesus that time, by understanding needs of Satan's idea. Satan, because the heart of Peter was under the influence of the flesh. So, and anything that is under the influence of the flesh will be under the control of Satan. So Satan suggested what to say. So Jesus didn't look at it. He said, Get behind me, Satan. He didn't stop there. Another time. Jesus called him Simon Simon. Luke chapter 22, verse 31 to 34. Luke 22, 31 to 34. Simon Simon. He says, Satan has asked for you. Hey. Church. At times you are just sitting down and chopping life. Yet Satan is making requests. Because he cannot touch you directly. Let me just I'm the man I'm asking. Let me just try this one. Since he said he's smart. Let me try him. Satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat. The next verse. But I have prayed for you. That what happened? That your faith should not fail. And when you have returned to me, strengthen your brethren. That means what Satan wanted to do with Peter's life, we take him away from Jesus. But Jesus says, I've prayed for you. It is by your faith you overcome. I can't tell the Satan not to touch you. But by your faith you can overcome him. And that's why I've prayed for you. And that's why today, even though Jesus died for our sin, resurrected for our justification, he is still interceding for us. Don't give up in the midst of challenge. Even if nobody is praying for you, Jesus is praying for you. The consciousness of that will see when you are conscious of what Jesus has done and what he's doing for you in your heart, it will influence your approach to life. To help you to face life. You have heard me say that. My life is not in the hand of any bagger, not any man. Nobody. When Christ, who is my life, will appear, I will appear with him in glory. So Christ is my life. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. Every tongue that rises against me in judgment, they are condemned. See, that is my heritage as a servant of the Lord. That means whatsoever you say about me that is not of God, you will be found to be liars at the end of the day. You are a liar. You can't marry. You are a liar. You can't prosper. You are a liar. That sickness will kill her. You are a liar. Are you getting something? Yes, sir. When you meditate on God's word and your heart is programmed, you stand irrespective of what you are feeling around. I saw something this morning damage me. Where I had money, I couldn't access it. And I look at my offering. The account I have access to on. I look at this account, this account. One account has uh six thousand plus. The other one had uh sixteen thousand. And I said, okay, let me remove 15 to even though it will still not be up to the offering. Let me add it to where there is 60 and 6,000, so that I will give um, I'll be able to give offering, even though it's not up to my normal offering. I transfer from CUDA to access. I'm telling you before God. 15,000. When CUDA, when the amount entered assessment, fifteen thousand twice. I said, we'll go settle and later. I look and I thought they will reverse it. They're not gonna reverse it. They will reverse it. The same. I opened the app, the same, they followed themselves back this morning. I said, I know God at 15,000, God forbid that I steal. I said, Lord, is this a way to ensure that my offering is complete? I said, on Monday, if they're not, I'll go go meet them for. I said, that's why I say check out for your system, what did happen? But the reality is this: God knows my heart that that thing must complete. He made it happen anyhow. Get ready for something on Asia. Get ready for strange miracles. Get ready for strange promotions. Get ready for connections that is beyond human comprehension. Am I talking to somebody here? I thought, I mean, I thought I said, What kind of thing is this? How can it have never happened to me before? Double posting. So first thing tomorrow morning, I they go access. Said now, so I say I'm so what how do we do it? Where is the extra 15,000? Because the account where it came from doesn't have the most important thing is that the immediate provision has been made. Can I speak over somebody's life? I stand before the Lord, I decree over your life that whatsoever hinders the manifestation of your miracles, they are operated from your heart right now. Whatsoever wrong seed the enemy has planted in your heart that does not allow the flow of the power of God that will make the difference in your life. Not again will any human being prevail over your life. Not again, not again. It doesn't matter how many there are. As you agree with your stronger sentiment, they will not prevail. In the name of Jesus, please take your seat. You know, Peter's need for transformation also showed in that Luke chapter 22. Verse 31 to 34. Quickly. Let me handle. But I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail. And when you have returned to me, strengthen your brethren. Verse 33. But he said to him, Look at the mind of Peter talking. He had a good mind towards Jesus. He said, Lord, I am ready to go with you, both to prison and to death. See, you can only practice what is embedded in your heart, not just what is in your mind. But he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death. Verse 34. Then he said, I tell you, Peter, I know what is in your heart. The rooster shall not crow this day before you will deny three times that you know me. In his mind, he will stand with Jesus. See, that's why. Listen, church, don't kill yourself because some human being betrays you. In their mind, they might want to, it's just that their heart is not prepared for it. Their hearts are not. Their hearts are corrupt. And they are not aware. In their mind, they want to stand by you. But their hearts will not allow it. Even you, you wish you can stand with some people, your heart will not allow it. Listen to this. No one can truly be loyal to God. No one can truly be loyal to his kingdom. And no one can truly be loyal, genuinely loyal to other people if the person's heart has not gone through a transformation process. Loyalty is not of the mind, it's of the heart. Let me give you one example. I close. We'll continue next Sunday. Rachel and Jacob. Rachel's mind was loyal enough to abscond with Jacob without his father's knowledge. I hope you know that story. After Laban has cheated Jacob and God has helped Jacob to recover everything. So, because Jacob was afraid that if he informed Laban that he wanted to live, Laban might collect everything from him. So he planned with his two wives, Leah and Richard. Remember that Rachel was his preferred wife. It was because of Rachel. He labored for the first seven years. So when Laban was to give him the wife, he played the first one. He said he was in a hurry. He didn't check the face of the wife. You see that something's happened. Just say what is in this person's head. So you know how to serve another seven years. Oh, you know the funniest thing. The person he loved was not loyal. Genesis chapter 1, verse 34 and 35. Look at what happened when they ran away. As you are running away without the father, he was loyal, his mind was loyal enough to run away with Jacob, but he carried his father's idol because he was not loyal to the God of Jacob. No wonder she didn't give that on time. Now Rachel had taken what the household idols put them in the Carmen saddle and sat on them. When Laban got home, he found out they had run away and that his idols were missing. So he came and said, My you ran away. That is not you carried my idol. Jacob said, What am I going to do with your idol? I have a God. The God of my father is my God. You found your idol here. Kill any whosoever you found your idol with. Because he was not expecting that any of his wives. Even the househead, the slaves, the servants that were that was given to Jacob as wife were more loyal to the God of Jacob than Rachel. It's a thing of the heart. Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the careless saddle, and sat on them, and Laban searched all about the tents, but did not find them. Look at the lie told. And she said to her father, Let it not displease my Lord that I cannot rise before you. For the manner of woman is with me. And he searched, but did not find the household idols. He was sitting on a on a uh donkey. So all those loads, she kept the idol there. She now told the father that she was menstruating, that she won't be able to come down. So that the father won't be able to search that mind. This money. And the content of your heart will determine your reaction, your response. I told you before. Years ago, many years ago. When I read the Bible says love your enemies, pray for them. I neglected the other one. I just forgot to pray for them. I got sad. Not because he spoiled my name, but because he's sowing an evil seed for himself. So I went back. I said, Lord, show him mercy. Show him mercy, Lord. Show him mercy. Don't charge that thing again. Lord, this is a do me. But you see, when God is working on your heart, you can't explain it. You just see that you are changing. You don't even know why. How. The things that used to annoy you. Let it go, let it go. That means God is working on your heart. That is what God is going to accomplish in our hearts. You will enjoy a peaceful life. See, when your heart is at peace, no one can put you in trouble. Let them do anything. Your peace of mind. If you have peace of mind, you will enjoy sound health. Because one of the requirements for good health is peace of mind. Listen, George, nothing kills one's health. This one offended me. This one did me this. This one did that. You carry everything. Sincerely. Oh my goodness. I'm telling you before God, there are things you would do to me now. After one week, I've forgotten. I know exactly that you offended me, but I will have to think and think and think to recollect the exact thing you did. It's the distance of the problem that is hurting you. I don't want to remember. That's why. Thank God for my wife. We say anything anybody is doing talk about it. Do you know why? Those who don't like you like it when you didn't know. You had your voice. You that was laughing so then you can now. And you look at it, look at him, you select. Don't give anybody that power like that. Laugh where they are when they are not expecting you to laugh. Even when there is nothing to be happy about, be happy. When they say your head, now kokoro head, don't worry. Let's rise up for now. My heart, my heart, my heart. That's where true freedom lies. In your heart. May God free you in your heart this morning. In the name of Jesus. Can you just lift up your voice and say, Father, every burdens of my heart that is depriving me of your blessing, Lord, let it be rolled away, let it be rolled away. Whatever I have allowed into my heart that the enemy is using to hinder me from receiving from you what you have for me. Father, let such be uprooted, let such be uprooted. Everybody's every burdens, everybody's Father, every burdens in my heart that gives the enemy the opportunity to assess my life, to deprive me of what you have for me. Father, let them be rule the way right now. Let them be rule the way. Let them be ruled away, completely ruled away.

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In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed.

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Can I give somebody an instruction here? Whatsoever they have done to you, put it behind you. You are you might not have plenty cloths. The one you have, iron it well. Expect don't wear rumpled cloths. Expect for them to see that something is going on in your life. Expect iron it well. Rejoice forevermore. That's what the Bible says. Do what? Rejoice forevermore. The Bible says the joy of the Lord is your strength. They want you to frown, refuse to. They want you to cry. Don't cry. Frowning and crying is a proof that what they are doing to you is getting to you. Am I talking to somebody here? They are alive. Get to work tomorrow. That colleague has been victimizing you. Greet him or her cheerfully. I think you just want a jackpot. Your boss has made things difficult for you. Greet him or her cheerfully. I saw somebody at the supermarket yesterday. I was telling my wife. The person has misbehaved in the past. As soon as I wanted, I came back from the car to go and greet the person. The person pick race. I said, Are you the runner? Who are you running to? Let them be the one running from you. You are not running from anyone. Church is not over. Doesn't matter where you are today. All you need is a right heart. Those who said no to you, they are not in charge of your life. Those who said, Let us see how it will succeed without us. They are inconsequential. They are not your source. The whole hell was happy when Jesus went down into the grave, but he he rose up on the third day. Can I speak over somebody? Your third day happens this year, 2026.

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This year is your year of resurrection. Your business rises up again. Your marriage rises up again. Your carriage rises up again. In the name of Jesus. Your children rises up again. Your spouse rises up again. Your spiritual life rises up again.

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In the name of Jesus. Doctor have told you you can't conceive again. That is medical science, not God. Whose report will you believe?

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For with God, how many things? All things are possible.

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Can these dead bones rise? Ezekiel said, Lord, you know, and he said, Speak to them. Can you lift up your voice and begin to speak to every good thing that appears to be dead? So in the name of Jesus, I speak to my business, come alive. By the power of resurrection, I speak to my career, come alive.

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I speak to my father's family where everything seems to be down. Come alive. I speak to my spiritual life, come alive. My body, come alive, my health, come alive. In the name of Jesus, there is an anointing here that will make it happen. If you can lift up your voice and speak.

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Appointed for an attack against your destiny is aborted in the name of Jesus. Listen, church, I found out something that there is nobody that checks, secretly check on you more than your haters. Do you know why they check on you? Expecting bad news. But I stand before the Lord this morning. Whatsoever bad news anyone is expecting concerning you will not happen. I am force it by the authority of the name of Jesus that only good thing will be heard concerning you and your household.

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Only good things will be heard concerning you and your family.

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In the name of Jesus, every satanic expectations concerning you and your household, right now they are rendered ineffective in the name of Jesus. Many of you under the sound of my voice, how things will work will beat your imagination. When you think I don't know what to do, the one who is the only wise God, the all-knowing will show up for you now in the name of Jesus. I was listening to a testimony of a wonderful man of God. Um in the community where the church was then. People were fighting over the Real Highness, too. There were two factions. So the other faction began to fight back. He said, and they are struggling for the church to grow. The church wasn't really growing much. He said, So the other one told me, he said, he begged them. That see, I'm not on anybody's side. I just want I'm just serving God. And we are just privileged. They gave all that place to use free. And they now renovated the place. With the little money the church had, then this other faction said they are coming to bring down the whole place. So he said that day they said you are coming here, and with some of his leaders and workers, they fasted, they prayed. Only for them to hear the noise of the voice that were coming with the other faction. Listen, you learn from it. He now said, If you are afraid, please. I don't want them to harm me. He said, Everybody left him. Remaining him alone. He said he stood there. His heart was doing. He didn't know what to do. He said, Because if one of them slapped him there, what would he do? In the midst of crowd, how many people will he find? And he didn't want them to pull down the place because that's the only place they had. Carry the bottle from the altar. The oil. Carry the oil. He said, Come outside. He said, why he was doing that? He said, if they touch him at that time, he go collapse. But he went outside. He said, he poured oil. See, you don't have to be strong to experience strength God's strength. He said, His strength is made perfect in weakness. He said, at times when you are too strong, you won't enjoy him. He said, after putting the oil, drew a line. He said, If they burn your papa well, cross it. He said he was saying it fearfully. That if they cross this thing, he don't finish. He said they got to that place where they all they stop. So the leader, so it said, you cross. He said, Oh God, now you there in front, cross. Told another one, you cross. He said, I don't say, Oh God, now you there will follow you. It's after argument, and he said, Pastor, now because of God, though, we won't leave you today. So they left. He said, On Sunday, the auditorium was filled, outside was filled. Because people were watching what happened. He said, indeed, this man is a man of God. What looked like a problem become a reason for his breakthrough. Listen, when God wants to set you off for something great, at times it becomes like a trouble. May you see it from God's perspective. Whatsoever is meant for evil against you as your household, as you agree with your three loudest statements, in the name of Jesus, let them walk together for your good. For everyone with their right hand on their head, I decree. I declare it by the authority of the name of Jesus. That the enemy will not rejoice over you. The wicked will not rejoice over you.

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In the name of Jesus! The word of God prevail in your favor. The word of the Lord prevail in your favor.

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The power of God prevail in your favor. In the mighty name of Jesus.

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So it is.com. Thank you, and God bless you.