The Ultimate Demand of Your Calling 1

Every believer in Christ has a calling. What God has invested in you can't be quantified by any natural thing. God has invested His life in you. Your calling is so high, that human intelligence is insufficient in bringing it to pass. You are not called because you are wise or sound, you are called because God chooses you. Your calling can't be fulfilled by your talent, gifting and any natural thing alone. A heart that is barren of God's love can't fulfill His calling.

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It is a teacher sent by God to light up your word with the gospel of Christ. Open up your hearts and shine.

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Father, thank you. Hallelujah to Jesus. This is the last Sunday in the month of June. We give thanks to God, who has been our shield, who has been our fortress, who has been our preserver. This morning I'll be sharing God's word with us, and I would like you to pay attention to what God has to say to you this morning. What I'll be sharing this morning, the ignorance of it is the reason why a lot of people fall out of it. Listen, church, especially in Nigeria, you see crowd everywhere in churches. But most people, including pastors, does not understand why they are part of the church. I've been sharing with us lately the need for us to change our mindset about how we see God. Because a lot of believers only patronize God the way they patronize their doctors the way they patronize other people who will do one thing or the other for them. But hear me, child of God, you need to have a clear understanding of what God has brought you into. So don't just think I'm in church because I have a need. No, no, no, no. You are missing it if that's your mindset. So this morning, I'll be sharing with us the message I've tied to the ultimate demand of your calling. I'll start today. We conclude it next Sunday by God's grace. You see, every believer in Christ has a calling upon their life. Every believer in Christ has what? You see, if you don't understand this, you just keep approaching God on the basis of your need. And when you think the needs are not being fulfilled, you look for alternative. And when the need is fulfilled, you become complacent until another need will arise. Do you understand what I'm saying? I've seen people who are very fervent, very zealous in the things of God until their needs are met. Suddenly, the same persons became cold, and the blessing they receive became the excuse why they are no longer fervent. Oh, I've been trusting God for the fruit of the womb. Now God has answered me. And the reason why I can't come to church, you know, this baby didn't allow me to sleep in the night. The blessing became the reason why they are separated from God because they do not understand that they are not just serving God for things, for miracles. They have a responsibility to God because there's a calling upon their lives. How many of you will be glad to spend 250 million naira on a car and you drove it home? Only for you to want to drive it the following day. The car is not starting. Will you be happy? Because 250 million naira. Is that true? Now what God invested in us cannot be quantified by any natural thing. The life of Christ. And if he has invested his own life to have us, now it will be too bad. If as believers, we do not know the purpose of our calling. Or we do not know that we are called. In the book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 26 to 29, let's look at something. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 26 to 29. He said, For you see your calling, brethren, for you see your calling. You do what? You see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. On verse 27. But God has chosen the foolish things of this world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty. The best things of the world and the things which are despised, God has chosen, and the things which are not to bring to nothing the things that are. Very important, verse 29. But no flesh to glory. In other words, so that no one will have anything to boast about. So you have a calling upon your life. Listen, your calling is an invitation into the divine life. Your calling is an invitation into eternal life, and your calling is an invitation to a divine assignment. Please, I want you to listen carefully. Your calling is your own spiritual vocation. Is your what? Your own spiritual vocation. When we talk about vocation, your handwork, your work. So, but God's calling upon your life is your own personal spiritual vocation. Or divine assignments. And it is God Himself that qualified you. Your qualification for that assignment is God, not certificates. That's why go back to the scripture we read. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 26. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh. It's not because you are intelligent. Intelligence is good, but it will not fulfill your calling. Your calling is so high that human intelligence does not have what it takes to bring it to pass. That not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. You are not called because you are born into a noble family. You are not called because you are very sound. You are called because God chooses you. He picked you, made you his own, called you into his own kind of life, and then assigned you. What am I trying to say to you? I'm simply saying when we talk about your calling, it cannot be fulfilled by your talents or your giftings or any natural things alone. One of the worst mistakes I've seen pastors made, and I've made it in the past too, is to think that if we have money now, ministry will move. Your calling cannot be fulfilled by money. It takes God. Because see, money can make you do things that will bring crowd. But gathering of crowds alone doesn't mean you are fulfilling your calling. See, even for us who are pastors, there are things God specifically wants us to do. If you are not sure of it, you can just be gathering people, and yet heaven does not recognize your work. I've told you, there is no time in my life I've had so much peace. More than how I have it now. Because I now know that I'm doing ministry for the right reason, and I'm preaching the message that God wants me to preach. So for every one of us seated here this morning, and those who are watching online, there is a calling of God upon your life that material things alone cannot fulfill. It takes the life of God in you to fulfill the calling of God upon your life. Listen, listen, please. Real calling of God can never be fulfilled without the love of Christ. A heart that is barren of God's love cannot fulfill his calling. A heart that is empty of the love of Christ. Because the abundance of the love of God in your heart is what determines the presence of God in your life. Listen, you can you can whip up emotions and God is not there. You make a lot of noise. I have the pastor said, if you can't feel the presence of God, you create it. Oh you don't create the presence of God, you experience the manifestation, and there is a demand for that. God is always with you, he's always with us as believers, but he doesn't manifest himself all the time. Except you are able to meet the demand that will make the manifestation possible in your own life. Listen, the world is getting tougher, and it will get tougher. I hope you know. Let me remind you, Second Timothy chapter 3, from verse 1. Let's read from NRT from contemporary English quickly. May there be fast this morning. You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days, in the last days, we are in the last days, so there will be very what? There will be very what? Are times getting difficult?

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Yes, sir.

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Yes. We are in a time that children will go to school and their parents are preparing. When my children come, make I get what they will eat, only for them to receive a phone call. That kidnappers have carried them. Difficult times. We are in a time that people, somebody go to work, and they are expecting the person to return, and the person becomes the missing person case. That in the last days there will be very not just difficult times, very difficult times. Why? Verse 2. For people, for people. For who? In other words, because the reason for difficult times will be traceable to people. For people will love only themselves and their money. That's why somebody can kill. Because he wants to make money. That's why somebody can kill a fellow human being to sell their organs. For people will love only themselves and what? And their money. They will be boastful and proud. Scoffing at God, mocking God, disobedient to their parents. And what? Ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They play with everything. They play with church, they play with God, they crack joke. They make God, they make church, they make the things of God caricature, they just make jests of everything. Verse 3. They will be unloving. And what? Unforgiving. See, if they say you should forgive, you refuse. You are one of the people making the world difficult. There will be what? Unloving. And what? Unforgiving. They will slander others and have no self-control. You are making the world a difficult place to live in when you keep saying the things you are not sure of about others. They will be cruel and do what? And hate what is good. They will betray their friends. They will be reckless, be puffed up with pride. Nobody can talk to them. And love what pleasure rather than God. They will love pleasure rather than God. Verse 5. They will act religious. They will speak it as well. They will say, Jesus. But they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that. Do what? Stay away from people like that. What am I trying to show us? This is the end of the end times. Things will be more difficult. It takes those who know they are called to survive this error. Because if you don't know why you are called, if you don't know you are a called of God and how to fulfill your calling, you will be on a survivalist mode. You just want to survive. So God's calling upon your life cannot be fulfilled by the arm of the arm of flesh. Your natural ability cannot fulfill it. Your intelligence, your human connections cannot fulfill it. Your giftings, your talents. That's not enough to fulfill your calling. If you like, be an orator, you preach, you speak, people are licking your mouth. They feel like licking your mouth. That is not what will enable you to fulfill your calling. Because fulfilling your calling required that you walk in love. Because if it is God's calling, It will require love to fulfill. It will require what? Love. It will require what? Love. That's the reason Apostle Paul called it a holy calling. A what? Second Timothy chapter 1, verse 9. Quickly. A holy calling. 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9. For God saved us. New King James. Who has saved us? And called us with what? And called us with a holy calling. Not according to our works. But according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began. So your calling did not start when you were born. Your calling didn't start when you got born again. You were called before the world was created. That's to show you the importance of your calling. Listen, it shows me how much God values me. Because if he called me when I didn't know myself, it shows that I existed in his heart before I came into existence. It shows the value God placed upon me as a person. Do you know? We believers, I wonder what will be going on in the mind of angels when they see us how we behave. Are you aware that angels were not created in the image and the likeness of God? Are you aware that they are messengers? They are meant to minister to us. The privileges that have been given to us in Christ, angels doesn't have it. That is why it's ignorance, raised to power one million, power, a billion that will make a human being a child of God to worship angel. Taws chapter 1. Let me quickly show you so that you understand something. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 14. Let's start from verse 12. Quickly, quickly. Like a cloak. Verse 13. But to which of the angels, can you hear that? Has he ever said, Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to do what? To minister for those who will inherit salvation. Angels are ministering spirits to help you fulfill your calling. Angels are not to be worshipped by believers. So your calling is a holy calling. It does not have its root in your natural existence. Your calling has its root in God Himself. Say you are called in Christ before time began. So your calling is important. And fulfilling your calling is what determines your placement in Christ, in Christ's eternal kingdom. Your calling, the fulfillment of your calling is what determines your placement in Christ's eternal kingdom. Let me show you from the Bible. Second Peter chapter 1. Let's quickly read from verse 10 to 15. Second Peter chapter 1, from verse 10 to 15. Listen. Your reward. We talk about reward. When we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, you'll be rewarded based on the fulfillment of your calling. Not on how you existed. Of this salvation. Second Peter chapter one. From verse 10. Therefore, therefore, brethren, be even more diligent. Be even more what? What does it mean to be diligent? We don't know diligent. To be diligent, to put lots of effort. Be even more diligent to make your call and election sure. Now, for if you do these things, you will never stumble. If you make your calling and your election sure, you will not stumble. I will read that place from another translation, another version for you so that you understand it better. Okay, give me from I think NOT, just verse 10. So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and what? And choosing. Do these things and you will never fall away. Go back to New King James. I told you earlier on the reason why people fall away from the faith is because they come looking for God's hand. And God's face doesn't matter to them. Their eyes are on God's hand. What God will give me, what God will do for me. So if they are not getting what they think that God can do for them, they fall away. That's why a so-called believer will go and patronize native doctor, patronize spiritualists, and say, after all, we can come and give testimony in church. You are deceiving yourself. I'm not deceiving anybody. See, there is nothing you do, there is nothing I do that is hidden from God. We can hide it from ourselves, but we can't hide it from Him. And it is not we that we judge ourselves. The one who is a righteous judge is watching everybody. So people fall away if their expectations are not met, or if it is overmet. God is not needed again. Why they've gotten what they are looking for. So when they need another one, they will come looking for God. That is why I don't relate with politicians. They use pastors the same way they use native doctors. They have believed that money is our problem. So just give them money, then go pray. They are mango speed. Let that hunger kill me. I'll rather die than to follow them and collect money. Because they will kill your ministry, and you give account to God at the last the last day. A lot of pastors cannot do not know how to trust God and believe God for anything again. Because they are used to free money. But there is nothing, nothing is free. Whatever you receive is costing you something. You are trading something for something. Ah. You are doing what? Trading something for something. You might not know immediately. It will tell later. But when God is your provider, you are always good to go. Go back to where we are reading. So, therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. The next verse. For so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into what? Into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For this reason, I will not be listen carefully for you to see the importance of fulfilling your calling. Hear what Apostle Peter was saying. He said, For this reason, I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things. To remind you always of making your calling and your election sure. Though you know and are established in the present truth, verse 13. Yes, I think it is right. As long as I am in this tent, do you know what he calls tent in that place? His body. So this body is a tent. So when you hear that there is a mansion built for us, it's not talking about physical building, no. It's a new body we are going to receive. Yes, I think it is right. As long as I am in this tent to steer you up by reminding you. You see, when people think every money you give will create block for you in heaven. It's not true. Your new body, immortal body, that death cannot touch, that sickness cannot touch, that will be exactly like the body of Christ is your mansion. This one you have that is killable. Now tense. Now what? Tense. Go back. Yes, I think it is right. As long as I am in this tense, to steer you up by reminding you. I will keep reminding you. It's important for you to make your calling and your election sure. Verse 14. Knowing that shortly I must put off Jesus. Christianity sweet. If you have understanding, Peter said, very soon, I will soon put off this tent. Just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me, just as our Lord Jesus Christ, please, sir, please, ma'am, are you here? Are you here? Stop following people's dream. The dream that you die. They are not Jesus. Yes, sir. And you are now afraid of death. Stop that thing. Yes, sir. You know they sleep. Why not then come the dream for you? And watch it. By the time they dream for you and share it with you, very soon you will have the dream too. Because they have sown a seed into your heart. Am I talking to somebody? Yes, sir. When people bring any cancellate, stand in the name of Jesus and say, This is not my lot, for the Lord Jesus has not told me so. See, that's why you have to develop your relationship with God so that you will not be a victim of hearsay. Go back. So knowing that shortly I must put off my things, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me in verse 15, then we'll stop there. Moreover, listen carefully. I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my disease. That is, after I'm dead, I will have put in things, means of reminding you of your need to make your calling and election sure. It's so important that even when I'm dead, I will still be preaching it to you.

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Yes, sir.

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Because it's very important to you. So understand this, child of God, that your life as a believer is not just about God. Bless me. God, give me this, God, do that for me. God do that for me. You have a calling. And I your calling is an invitation into the life of God. For you to live the life of God on earth and then engage the life of God to accomplish God's plan and purpose on earth. Do you understand what I've just said? He told Abraham, he said, I will bless you so that you can become what? A blessing. And you know what? The blessing is not about material things. I was meditating on Friday night. I was just meditating on God's word, preparing for this message. And I thought about Esau and Jacob. How many of you remember them? Esau. Who got the blessing? Let me hear your voice. Jacob. But are you aware that when Jacob was returning back from Leban with all his wealth, with everything, he met Esau to pacify Esau. He sent a message with all manner of animals to tell Esau. And he called the one who got the blessing, call Esau my Lord. So he said, I have all this gift for you. Esau said, I have more than enough. He didn't get the blessing, but he has wealth. So seeking the blessing is not just about you making wealth, it goes beyond things on this side of the divide. Blessing is eternal in nature. Can I say this to you? Wealth is just a byproduct, a side effect of the blessing. Just one of his byproducts. Is somebody getting something? Because Esau that was not blessed, he was as rich as Jacob. But one thing is this, he was not relevant in God's program. He was an outsider in God's program. That's why it has always been the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, not the God of Esau, the God of Jacob. That's what the blessing did for Jacob. In spite of his flaws, he was choosing, he had a call. Focus on what is eternal in nature, what is beyond this earth. How many of us watch what happened in Iran when America and Israel were bombing Iran? Or in Lebanon. You people know the word CNN or Jazeera. Stop knowing for my hand. We did life. Before the people watching things say we did for village. Praise the Lord. You will see how buildings were destroyed. Natural things can be destroyed. Money can lose value. See. This guy drove to church. I bought it. 2023. September. The money I bought, the amount I bought that car, 2023, if I kept it in the bank. Now you know who go near the car. Because money has lost value. My son drove the car somewhere, I think, to fix something for. So somebody said, was offering millions. He said, no. He said, I said, what do I think? Now you're a good ride. What am I saying? Money is losing value. So if your confidence is in money, that means you are also losing value. Let's quickly look at some examples in the scriptures. For time's sake. For time's sake. We just look at two examples. One in the Old Testament, one in the New Testament. To show us the importance of our calling. Let's look at the example of Moses. Moses was called by God to deliver Israel from the captivity of Egypt. I want you to learn a lesson. Moses was vast in the wisdom of the Egyptians. Acts chapter 7, verse 22. Quickly. Acts 7 22. Acts 7.22. And Moses was what? Learned in all, not few, in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. And was mighty in what and did. But that could not take him near the fulfillment of God's calling for his life. With all the wisdom of the Egyptians that he learned and he was vast in, as much as he was mighty in words and deeds, he ran from Egypt. What am I trying to establish? God's calling for your life is not, I mean, the fulfillment of God's calling for your life is not according to your degree, in as much as it's good for you to have the degrees. Am I talking to somebody? Very good. Because it will be useful for your for your work, not your calling. Moses could not use the wisdom of the Egyptians to fulfill his calling. Now the same Moses fled. He ran from Egypt. He fled to become a dweller of Midian. Acts 7.29. Acts 7.29. Then at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons. Now understand this. He became a dweller in Midian. And he was dwelling there as a shepherd. Rearing animals became his work. But that did not negate his calling. What am I trying to say to someone under the sound of my voice? Your work is good, but don't be satisfied with your work. You need to fulfill your calling. You need to do what? Fulfill your calling. Stop mixing your work and your calling together. So Moses became a shepherd in Midian, but his work as a shepherd could not replace his calling as a deliverer. He was there at the backside of Midian working for his father-in-law. But there was a calling hanging upon his life, upon his head, that will make him a voice in the whole world of that time that will make him somebody that will shake the strongest nation of that time. Don't be satisfied with little. Your calling is important. In New Testament, under the New Testament, Paul was called by God to be an apostle, to preach the gospel of Christ to Gentiles. But I hope you know that Paul was a tensmaker. Acts 18. Let's quickly look at verse 1 to 4. Acts 18. Chapter 18, from verse 1 to 4. After these things, Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth, verse 2, and he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. And he came to them. The next verse. So listen to this. Because he was of the same trade, was of the same trade with Aquila and Priscilla. He stayed with them and worked. For by occupations they were tenth makers. Paul was a tenth maker, but that did not negate his calling as an apostle. Romans chapter 1, verse 1. Romans 1 1. The Bible says, Paul, a born servant of Jesus Christ, called to be who? An apostle, separated to the gospel of God. Today we are not talking about a bostle Paul that he was a successful tent maker. We are talking about the spiritual impact he made as an apostle of Jesus Christ. In that verse 2 of Acts chapter 18. They made mention, it made mention of Aquila and Priscilla. They were what? Aquila and Priscilla were who? Thanks makers. But they were also called into the ministry of help. Here the greetings of Paul to them at the time. Romans chapter 16, verse 3. Romans 16, 3. Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my what? My fellow workers in Christ Jesus. That means this people, this couple, husband and wife, function well in their calling. They supported the ministry of Paul. In fact, somewhere in uh Acts chapter 18, I think verse 26. Acts 18, verse 26. Quickly. Let's check. I think. Start go back to 25. 25. Let's start from 24. I want you to see the name of the man. Now it's that thing Jew, named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent, eloquent man, and mighty in what? In the scriptures. Mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord. That's Apollos. And being fervent in spirit, that is a good uh report about him. A good CV. He spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. There are some paradox. He taught accurately the things of the Lord, but his accurate teaching has it had limitations. He only knew of the baptism of John. Look at verse 26. So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla had him, what happened? They took him aside and explained to him the way of God more. I'm looking forward to the day when many of us here will be able to put some pastors aside and explain to them the way of God more accurately. Aquila and Priscilla, they were not preaching in the synagogue, but they had an understanding because they have been helper of the ministry of Paul. They have deep understanding of the ways of God. So they call, they say, Oh, guy, you they try you, but you are limited in revelation. You are talking about the now like this. They taught him. And he continued his preaching. Am I talking to somebody? Yes, sir. Is there calling? They operated in the ministry of help. So every one of us seated here, and those who are watching online, including everyone in Omagua church, you carry a divine calling upon your life. May you not miss it. I say, may you not miss it in the name of Jesus. As a believer, you have an assignment within the body of Christ and in your local church where you are planted for the growth of the body of Christ and for the advancement of the kingdom of God on earth, your calling is meant to translate to growth for the church and expansion, advancement for the kingdom of God. Can I say something to you? If anyone is suffering in our midst, it's because one of us is not playing his part well. Before coming to church, please. Somebody will say, What kind of foolish question is that? Praise the Lord. When you wanted to take your bath, did your head say, Please, I'm the one that is on top, I'm the one that shows how we move. I'm not small. Don't bath me. I would like to bath myself. We foresee them for your face this morning. Because water for never touch your face, for never touch. Except you put your head under. Do you understand what I'm saying? The hand has to do some work to take care of the body. The legs. Wait, wait, wait. Do you know there are parts of the organs? I'm showing you this so that you stop complaining. It's because you don't know your calling and you don't know how important you are in the body. God forbid. Do you know what it looks like in the night? You are sleeping. Your hand resting, your leg resting, other part resting. Your heart now says, What kind of nonsense is this? Everybody says, Sleep. Me serve, I won't sleep. What happened? One will five. Why? Because the heart has to keep working for the benefit of the whole body. The day is got angry. Say, all of you, for night, eye, you go sleep. Close. You're not going to see anything. You are rested. Hand, you stay. You are not walking. Mouth, you're rested. Tongue, you are not talking. You just stay. Everybody adjusts like that. Am I your servant? So, because of that, me too, I'm not working this night. Everybody must sleep so that we can get up refreshed. There will be no getting up refreshed in the morning. Do you understand that illustration? Let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Verse 26 to 28 from NLT. If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it. And if one part is honored, all the parts are glad. That's why when we share testimony, we clap. We rejoice. We give thanks to God. Because that's how it's supposed to be. But what you should also know is that when somebody is not fulfilling his calling, you are making somebody suffer. You are making somebody do what? Suffer. Some of you, you have been called to a ministry of prayers. Something tell you you must be praying for others, but you are too consumed with your own need. You only pray for yourself. So the suffering of somebody else might be because you have refused to pray for them. Nobody is meant to lack in the body of Christ. Am I talking to somebody? So all of you together are Christ's body. And each of you is what? Can you turn to your neighbor? Say, neighbor, are you born again, sir? With all respect, ma, are you born again? If you are born again, if you are born again, I can identify that you are a part of Christ's body. See even the parts that seems not to be doing much makes us look great. Our nose, for example. Do you know that we can do without this? They can be removed and will still be breathing. But the only challenge is this bacteria will easily be entering. Because the hair in our nose are meant to filter dust. So the one you think is not actually working is actually doing something protecting. That's what God wants us to understand. You see, that's why your calling is important. If you are not fulfilling your calling, something is somebody is suffering, and things are being hindered. We call Satan in everything, but may we not be the Satan that is causing problem. Because if you are not functioning in your calling, you are creating a problem in the body. Am I talking to somebody from years back? I ate and after three, four hours, my stomach just went on like just swell up like that. I was uncomfortable. What is it? At the end of the say it's indigestion. That's or maybe an allergy or whatsoever that I was reacting to something that I ate that's my this thing was not my digestive system was not operating well. The whole of my system was not. How many of us have been there? I went for a programming by ESA some years back near my twin. I don't know what happened that day. I was holding up along that Yenegua. Suddenly my stomach started turning me. Before I know that, I was feeling pressed. Jesus, it's not good for a man of God to be pressed, and there is no toilet. Very bad thing. I was sweating. So my twin said, Twin, you know they talk again, and they talk since you know. I in my mind said, What didn't they bite me? This is my brother. No, no. The stomach told me I was. And somebody was driving us. I think I can't forget or remember who was my PA then. The person was in. I said, How can I be seen in the presence of the person driving and the PA that's a depressed? I've been small picking. But do you know one thing? It got to a time. I didn't know when I opened the door. Now, like this at the run. I think I will stop. Because it looked as if somebody something wanted to drop. May God forgive you the talent. Suddenly I saw a pharmaceutical store. I just rushes. I say, Oh God, please, your toilet. He said, Ogar, come, come, come, come. The man, I believe, has had that experience before. He didn't ask questions. Say, Og, come, come, come, come, come, come, come. One part of my body choose to misbehave that day. Put the whole body under tension. Do you know that if there was no, sincerely, sincerely, I was thinking that if I didn't see anywhere, I will just enter gutter. Bend down for inside the gutter there. One part that choose not to behave well was almost disgracing the whole body. I hope you are getting the message. If it's to Jesus, we can do better. Go back to where we are reading. So all of you together are Christ's body, and each of you is a part of it. Verse 28 28. Here are some of the parts God has appointed for the church. First are apostles, second are prophets, third are teachers, then those who do miracles, those who have the gift of healing, and those who can do what? Who can help others. Those who have the gift of leadership. Those who speak in unknown languages. Listen, church, there is something God has called you to do in the body. You need to identify it for your good and for the good of the entire body. Your fulfillment is tied to it. Your own personal fulfillment is tied to it. You see, it's an error and it is ignorance. To make you as a believer in Christ, say, My own is to come to church. I don't want problem. I don't like problem. I'll just come to church. Let Pastor Sonjo preach. I listen to him. Let him profit. I say amen. And after grace, I carry myself. I go home. Tina Sunday. No. You are punishing the body. There's something significant in you. You might not value it, but it will make things easier for the body. Do you know? Do you know? Some of you are gifted in saying the right word. You meet some of somebody is not looking good. But you you didn't plan it. But you have the right word to say to that person. That will make the person feel relieved. Am I talking to somebody? Somebody once told me, he said that it's like it's impossible to enter your office sad and go outside. That's why when they say, when I when you come to my office, they will say five minutes so say, not be the person who comes, go waste time or not himself. I don't say makeuna go caught, go report to me. Because whatsoever is worth doing is worth doing well. If you come, you truly believe that God can use me to say something to you or minister to you, it would be inappropriate for me to just rush you so that I can attend to another person. The purpose is to solve the problem, not to just talk to you. Hello. Some of you, you are blessed with that ability to smile, those charming smiles. That you just smile at somebody. You've made their day. Am I talking to somebody? All of us are not the same. My children, my my men, because if I call them boys now, my insult. My men, they know that the worst thing they can do when they want to snap me is let that they smile. I know Sadi acts. My smile go look like cry. But when I'm just talking and they know how they do me like small picking at times, they will just talk and talk, and the person that wants to snap, just snap. That's where you see natural laughter. But if you ask me, smile. But some of us, when they say smile, it just comes, you just smile without effort. Don't you know that is a gift that can be useful in being a blessing to somebody? You can talk, talk right. Stop talking off key. Gossip is talking off key. Am I talking to somebody? You have seen some of us, we are called to help others. Start from where you are, from the little you have. Don't wait till when you have plenty. You don't know. What you give to someone might mean to that person at that moment. Am I talking to somebody? Don't say something is too small to give to somebody. What you consider too small might be what the person needs at that moment to overcome shame. Let me tell your neighbor, neighbor, you have a calling upon your life. In this body of Christ that you belong to. Somebody's life depends on your calling. See, when people tell, what is God looking at? Why has God not done something? It's because somebody that's supposed to do something has not done anything. Oh, Pastor Duke God said something to me last night. I was traveling in prayers, and I needed to pray for a dear son in another country. And I was praying, I've prayed for the person, and it looked as if I said, Lord, this person in Canada, before I finish praying, you don't answer. Why is it that this one? He said, Because you have you pray regularly for Canada. Because of your affinity, your connection to Canada. He said, but this person in this other nation, he said, you have never prayed for that nation. He said, you don't have authority in that place. Says start praying for the nation. It opened my eyes. Do you know why some of you will? Hey, Nigeria must deliver to me. You have never prayed for Nigeria. The nation you have never prayed for. In fact, waiting, they come out of your mouth about Nigeria. Now, of course, if it's coming to pass, with all dunk pie. Have you not had some people say Nigeria that useless country? Nothing they work in Nigeria. In fact, now suffer everybody, they go forbid. And the Lord reminded me when I used to intercede for the Arab nations. That was a time we were in others. An Imam, this alpha, was living in the boy's court of the house where I was staying. My third son, Nicholas, was around two, three years old. The man's son also was the same age. So I was interceding for Arabic nations. I was interceding for all those Islamic nations until I didn't know that my tongues had started sounding Arabic. I was praying one day. The man was passing by the window. I just thought that he stood outside the window. Later that night he came back. He knocked my door. He said, Pastor, come on. But now, Pastor, you be. How come you they speak Arab fluently? He said, You are just speaking about the goodness of God. Talking about how great God is. He said, You don't follow us, learn Arabic. I said, No. I don't know what you are talking about. I said, I was praying in tongues, not Arabic language. He said, That thing, that's what he was here. He said, he had to say, he said, there was goose pimple all over him. Feeling. It was because of us, they packed out of the house. Because when this little boy will come and play with Nicholas, he will say, lie, illila. Nicholas said, Shut up. Jesus is Lord. Say Jesus is Lord. So that boy will say, Jesus is Lord. Until one day we had the father was beating. Don't say Jesus is Lord. Say lie, lie, ill, lie. He said, uh Nikki said, Jesus is Lord. We captured him. So the father said, You Christian are hogs. If they catch other people's pecan, say, before you catch my pecan, finish at the pack come out. Listen. The things that is hindering you can be traceable most of the times today. To your failure in abiding in your calling. And to somebody's failure in abiding in their calling. Now, personally, for me, I saw what where I've missed things most was in my praying. I focused so much on us, I forget, I forgot about the rest of the world. But now I intercede for the sake of the kingdom. I pray for churches, for believers, and for nations. Because God has helped me to see that the nation you don't intercede for, you don't have authority in. That's why the territorial spirit over such nation can tell you, we don't know you. You can't come and dictate things to us here. I listened to Apostle Ropo. He was talking about when the first time he was invited to um South Africa. He said he carried, he flew to Lagos to depart from Lagos. They told him he could not go. Because the visa was issued on a passport that was already filled up and he got a new one. They refused to allow him to go. So he has to go back. See the next time they invited him again. He went. As he arrived, they say he cannot enter. They want to. It took he had to wait for several hours because they finally there was intervention. He said, because he was not prepared for the territorial spirit over that land. My first time of traveling to South Africa to preach. I had my own was not a visa problem. Everything went smoothly. The welcomers. But the day my preaching engagement was to start, I started shivering. They came from nowhere. They came to pick me from the hotel to carry me to the church. My leg was this kind. Disgrace with this. Carry myself all the way from Nigeria to come and preach. Suddenly, it started suddenly. I have to talk to the man who came to pick me. I said, is there any pharmaceutical shop so that we can buy parasitamol? So we he has to drive me to I use parasitamol. So my star turning me. That was when the Holy Ghost told me, you are just stepping into a nation without taking authority that you have never interceded for this nation before. But that time I didn't still get it until recently. So when we got to the church, I said, please carry me to the pastor's office first. So it was a rica soda bladora in an in the name of Jesus. I testify against principalities and powers that you are defeated. Jesus Christ, my Lord, defeated you over 2,000 years ago. He disarmed you, he triumphed over you publicly. Therefore, in the name of Jesus, I break your influence over my body now. As I was praying, all the fevery condition disappeared. Everything disappears. The stomach turning disappears. Listen, church, you have a calling. Don't live life as if it is. I make money, I chop life. Ah. You one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ and explain to him why you didn't fulfill your calling. Let's stop. Let's continue next Sunday. Time don't go. Let's rise up. Today I've shown you the importance of fulfilling your calling. But next Sunday we are going to see the demands, what it takes. The ultimate demand. Because you are meant to function in the life of Christ, to fulfill the vision of Christ. See, what you are called to do is not easy for your flesh. What you are called to do is not what? What you are called to do can never be convenient for your flesh. So until you understand the demands of your calling and you are willing to step into it, God will begin to move freely in an unusual way in your life. You begin to see the manifestation of his presence. And it is in that way, even your own personal need will be met. Your own personal problems will be solved. Because when the glory of God is revealed upon your life, it touches every area of your life. Am I talking to somebody? I charge you in the name of Jesus. Make up your mind to make your calling and your election sure. The world is waiting for you. The body of Christ is waiting for you. Are you aware that this church meets every week, Thursday, Sunday, Tuesdays? Because some people are fulfilling their calling. Some people are fulfilling their financial calling, some people are fulfilling their ministerial calling. They are contributing in such a way that keeps the church running. And can I say something to you? There is a way we all begin to function. Then we burst into an atmosphere that makes progress easy, that makes rising easy. That because you just step into this auditorium, things happen in your life. Am I talking to somebody? Atmosphere are real. Atmosphere. Both right and wrong. Some of you, you are going through troubles now because you step into some wrong atmosphere. If you relate with wrong people who have a negative spirit, you have allowed a wrong atmosphere around your life. If you carry in your heart words that has their origin from demon spirits, you have created a wrong atmosphere around your life. This morning, you are going to call the name of Jesus. Let that wrong atmosphere be dispersed now. Let it fade away. Atmosphere around my life that make it easy for sickness to hibernate in my body. In the name of Jesus, I command that negative atmosphere to flee. The power of God rules them away. The things that also cause negative atmosphere are the things you believe which are not right. Am I talking to somebody? The state of your heart, if it's full of bitterness and hatred, you are killing yourself instrumentally without knowing it. When Peter wanted to stop Jesus from fulfilling his calling, Jesus said, Get thee behind me, Satan. He didn't reject Peter, but you had to show him that time that you are speaking for Satan. He said, You are not mindful of the things of God, you are mindful of the things of men. He said, So Satan borrowed your voice. That looks like words of comfort, that looks like words of help. Am I talking to somebody? May the Lord open your understanding. Every listen, church. Hold on, hurry. Listen. Listen. I believe strongly in my heart. When someone is always there, when they speak evil about you, it simply means they speak evil about you first time, second time, third time. And the person is always there to bring it to you. I believe that there is something there is a disposition the person has that makes it convenient for the other party to speak against you in their presence. Is that true? If it's That means they created a conducive atmosphere. You know, there is a way somebody is talking, and there is a way you will carry your eye. The person will change the topic. Because they will know that you are not flowing with what they are saying. Am I talking to somebody? Unless time we say, hey, this one, nine friends. Because you refuse to allow the atmosphere to be conducive for them. Now if there is any atmosphere that is hanging around your life that make it easy for sickness to enter, that makes it easy for your enemy to penetrate and wreak havoc this morning. That is see an atmosphere that allows losses to take place easily. No, it must end now. Can you lift up your voice and say in the name of Jesus? In the name of Jesus, every negative atmosphere around my life, I break it now, I dispel it now. In the name of Jesus, I command every negative atmosphere around my life, atmosphere of strife, atmosphere of bitterness.

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I reject them now, I disperse them now. In the name of Jesus, let there be a turnaround, a change in my heart, and a change in my environment. Let there be a new atmosphere. Atmosphere conducive for the move of God, for the flow of the power of God. Let the such atmosphere be created around me, around my family, around my business. For in Christ Jesus I live. In Him I move. In Him I have my being. Lift up your voice and begin to declare. Dispel every wrong atmosphere.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, every negative wrong atmosphere I dispel. Let them be dispersed, dysphone. In the name of Jesus Christ. Because I live a bully right. I declare that my life be up to the big up spec. Let that be the way. I did place a new atmosphere. Atmosphere of paper. Atmosphere is goodness. Atmosphere is love. That my love will begin to above. A new atmosphere. I create a better atmosphere. Come on.

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Every atmosphere, conducive for death and sickness. To be dispersed from your family. Command it to be dispersed around your life. Every atmosphere conducive for sickness and death. In the name of Jesus, I break it around my life. I break it around my family. I command such atmosphere dispersed now. Let the life of Christ in me begin to find expression. Let the life of Christ in me begin to find expression.

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Father, we thank you. In the name of Jesus Christ, we are praying. See, anywhere you step into today, if the atmosphere is wrong, it will change in your favor. Listen, listen. You are going to pray one more prayer before we take the offering and we conclude the service. I went for a vision one day, I was saying young believer. I went for a rigid one day and I gave Please, I want you to listen, I want you to pray. Because here you are in an environment that is polluted and corrupted, that is working against your destiny in the name of Jesus. As you go back, as you step into that environment, this will change in your favor. He told me that as soon as he back into the house, they transferred him to Idi Roko. That was in Songo. They transferred him to Idi Roko, but he didn't want to stay around in D Roku, so he opted for Songo. He said, Not all to a month and house. Something happened at work. He didn't write anything about it. They held him responsible. His boss was supposed to speak for him, didn't speak for him from Abuja. That was how they acted. And everybody abandoned him. So he didn't have anywhere to go. He was not selling his property little by little. The other man, I asked him, I said, What happened? Are you not working before? He said it was officer. He said, But when he walked into this house, he didn't know what happened. He lost his job. You know, he had this television. He said, You sold that one and use it to buy. He also started selling his property little by little. And you know the funniest thing. The landlord doesn't get angry if you didn't rent. So when it's after three years, maybe if you saw that he has drained every good thing in your life, he will now give you, he will now give them money. We take fresh person and the person saw also lose jobs. Another person was selling pass. He said he had three stores. But when he moved into that house, gradually, everything collapsed. And he started sitting at home in the atmosphere. That was when they my quest for questions. They now told me there was a time in that house where somebody will just be running around the house and be crying. So when security men will approach because they have all this vigilante, they will now open when they say, I beg on, somebody they cry around this house. They will walk around, they won't see anybody. So when they told the landlord, he said, Okay, the person that he cont that when he bought the land, the person that contested with him did something. So he brought a white cock. He said on the corridor, because trouble kind of you will see that they have exhumed the place and plastered it back. At that spot, he salute the white cock and told them to march on the blood on the blood. Everything went right. Then hunger, no good though. You will not eat the food of your enemy. Then he gave them the foul to chocolate. Then a few months after the experience came back, they told him this time around he brought a sheep, a white sheep, slaughtered it, and gave it to them to cook. They were all happy. So when they told me that, I said, the man who happened to be a mechanic, the boy has about 15 water troughs for this water tanker. In his workshop, you know the work. I went to meet him in his workshop. I said, Oh God, you see what you did to do. I don't see him. I said, everybody go here. He said, Sonja, we can't tell me that. He said, Okay, I'll I will pay for two bedroom flats for you. Anywhere of your choice. Let's not I say your blood money. So he pointed me to the present that said, That's how I left the house. Eventually, everybody from the moment I exposed them, I exposed them. People stopped renting their house, and their house became, and that was the beginning of his falling. Why did I take long? Why did I tell this long story? We are in a very wicked world. That is why you need to manifest your sonship, you need to stand. Jesus says, Behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and on scorpions, and over all the powers of the enemies, that nothing shall by any means hurt you. So if you don't exercise your authority, things will hurt you. You are going to call the name of Jesus. That everywhere that is polluted and corrupted, depriving me of my peace, depriving me of my joy in the name of Jesus. As I go back and step into the place, let there be change in the atmosphere. In the book of Joshua, chapter 1, verse 3. Every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. You are going to take back your environment. You are going to take back the place of your business.

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You are going to take back that office. Every place that you will find yourself must respond to you. Lift up your voice, call the name of Jesus, and say, Wherever I step from today, will answer to me, will work in my favor. I break every negative atmosphere. Wherever I find myself.

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I take authority. I take authority over every territorial spirit.

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I take authority! Over every weaker spirit in the environment where I live, where I walk. I take authority over them now in the name of Jesus! As I go back, let my environment be subject to me! Let my atmosphere be conducive for my drug! Be conducive for my fruitfulness. Of the country where you walk to be subdued before you! Come on the atmosphere! Of the environment where you live to be subdued before you!

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Let the atmosphere of where we walk! Stop you before the atmosphere! Stop you before it! Let me up!

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Every environment I step to will favor me from today! Everywhere I must favor me from today! But the earth is a lot and the fullness there off! Everywhere I go! The atmosphere favors me! The environment favors me! The environment has substituted for me! They work in my favor! Nothing walk against me anymore!

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Nothing walk against us anymore! In the name of Jesus! For the edge is a big baby, Yabo winning! We broke it!

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Father, we thank you.

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In Jesus, mighty name we have prayed. Your light shall break forth like the morning. Your healing spring forth speedily. Your righteousness goes before you. The glory of the Lord be your rear guard. Isaiah 58, verse 8. Your light breaks forth like the morning. I say your light breaks forth like the morning. Your light, see if no devil with all their activities can stop the day from breaking. As you agree with your three loudest amen, in the name of Jesus, no one will stop your glory from shining. One prayer came into my heart, and it came in Yoruba language. But let me interpret it. Anyone hiding to punish you, they hide to punish you. Today I speak before the Lord of hosts.

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The Lord exposed them publicly, the Lord exposed them publicly, the Lord exposed them publicly.

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Anyone hiding, tormenting you in the secret, afflicting you in the secret, and yet they are telling you sorry. They are pretending as if they have concern for you. I stand before the Lord of hosts, I decree in the name of Jesus, as you agree with your strongest amen.

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For your sake, they come to an open shame. They come to an open shame. Oh, why are they coming to an open shame? Jesus disgraced Satan, their master, publicly, he disgraced them publicly on the cross. Therefore, anyone hiding, walking in the secret to make you suffer in the public. In the name of Jesus, their influences are broken over your life now, and for your sake, they come to an open shame. Whosoever they are, they come to an open shame, their evil acts will no longer be hidden, their wicked works will no longer be hidden. I command their activities over your life broken forever. In the name of Jesus.

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Look up, look, look here, please. The good things they have suspended in your life, I command them release now. Because the worst they can do is to suspend it, they can't terminate it. If they have put your marriage on hold, they have put your health on hold, they have put your joy, your peace on hold, they have put your finance on hold. Whatever they have put on hold in your life, in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, I command their release back to you now.

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Your portions are released back to you now. In the name of Jesus, go and get pregnant, go and be pregnant, go and get married, go and get married to a good spouse. Prosper in your career, receive your long-awaited promotion. In the name of Jesus. Today I stand before the Lord, the embargo over your life and family is broken. It is broken, it is broken. You are released from that bondage. That word in the spirit that said this is how far you can go. You can't go beyond it. Today, if you can agree with your stronger statement, your boundaries are enlarged. I command your boundaries enlarge, your spiritual boundary is enlarged, your financial boundary is enlarged, your business boundary is enlarged, your marital boundary is enlarged. In the name of Jesus.

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One of us here many years, some years ago. A highly placed person in this state. Congratulations, I know someone is going to give me a little bit of a good thing. The man is right in the game. He said, I want to appreciate it. He said, I don't know why I did it. Get out, get out, get out. You think it's from my heart? Whether it's from their heart or not, what is due to you be delivered to you now.

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They are delivered to you now.

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In the name of Jesus. Listen, step into something new. Step into something new as you lead this auditorium. The atmosphere around your life and family has changed.

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Your struggle is over. It is over. Your struggle is over. I stand on the infallibility of the word of God by the power of His spirit. I announce it into the spirit and into the physical. Your struggles are over. They are over. Your financial struggles are over. Your health struggles are over. Your marital struggles are over. Your business struggles are over.

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There's a spirit of prophecy in the house. There is a steering in my heart. Something must change. July is your month.

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The month of July is your month. You are experiencing quantum leap. Quantum leap on every side.

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In the name of Jesus.

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