Creating the Atmosphere for the Supernatural

Every effort to make things happen in your own power is a sign that you are walking in the flesh.

The extent to which you have the love of God in your heart is the extent to which you are furnished and influenced with the manifest presence of God.

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It is a teacher since my God. The light of your word with the gospel of Christ. Open up your hearts and shine.

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And I trust the Lord that what is set to do in your life, in my life, will be done tonight. In the name of Jesus. I don't know, this service is specially for someone. That is passwords to answer prayers. How many of us remember that? And we're supposed to go into the part three of that message tonight. But last night I had a strong burden to pray, so spent some hours praying. And when I was done, something that I've been talking to God about. You see, when I look all around, I saw so many things in the lives of believers that are not meant to be. Listen, we started teaching on Sunday that is titled The Mystery of Sufferings and Scars. But I would like to tell you that sickness is not part of it. Hello. God does not want us to suffer through sickness. Because if you search your Bible very well, the sufferings of the apostles had nothing to do with sickness. It has nothing to do with disease. Yes, I thought showed us that there are some sufferings that are self inflicted. But we are also aware that our God is merciful. And He has made provision for us to overcome even the afflictions we might bring upon ourselves. That no one in house of this strength will die by sickness. That when anybody's time comes, peacefully let the heart just stop. Is it not possible? Without any torment, without any. So I've been asking the Lord, you know, there is a someone that I had the testimony of this great man of God some years ago that he taught their church to the extent that by the time he has taught them the gospel for over 20 years, it got to a time. He said before that time, they knew him in all the hospitals around. In fact, they called him the pastor of that sick church. Because every now and then he had to visit his members in one hospital or the other. But after years of teaching, and the people were comprehended, it got to a point that nobody was sick in that church till he became old and died. God's word is true and powerful if we believe it. I've also been asking the Lord that in the past I've done church. As pastors do church, we just let the people be blessed, let the church grow, let the people prosper, let everybody be okay. But church is more than that, sir. We are meant to grow into the stature of the fullness of Christ. We are not meant to be spiritual consultants. We are meant to bring God's people to a point where they live and behave like Christ. Where our life embodied Christ wherever we go. Whether somebody is watching us or not. Listen, I'm saying this with a great sense of responsibility. The church lacks the power of God the way it ought to be today. I'm talking about the entire body of Christ. We have become satisfied with things that are nothing. You know, unfortunately, many of us, pastors, are part of the problem. Members are part of the problem. Do you know how? A pastor may have a good intention to raise the people the way God wants. But a lot of members have been brainwashed to believe that except your pastor is financially prosperous, he's not anointed. Most people judge pastors by their financial standing and by how glamorous they look. And they believe that this is the person that carries grace that I need is deception. And that's why look as if the church has become barren of the genuine power of God. So we have to settle for lesser things. We have to manage our lives like unbelievers manages their own. And the funniest thing is that when we talk about this finance, we can't compete with the world. They will always beat us hands down when it comes to financial matters. And in the power sector where we are supposed to rule and reign, we are nowhere to be found. This has been the burden of my heart. For me, life goes beyond what to wear. Yes, there was a time I felt that we also must show that we have arrived so that people will respect us. But that was then. Praise the Lord. As I'm growing, I'm seeing better. I don't care if somebody believes I'm anointed or not. There are many people who believe I'm anointed. Praise the Lord. So last night, the Lord brought this thing I've been asked, Lord. I'm asking that you make the house of this praying a revival center. Where the power of God will be tangible. Where someone can walk into the church and become convicted that the life they've been living is not right. Hello. Where the word of God will flourish in people's hearts. You know, all over the world you see all manner of things. People come to church every week, day in, day out, but they change it not. They live worse than sinners outside. And yet in church, they are ushers, they are choir members, they are deacons and deaconess, they are pastors, they are whatsoever you call them. And that's why the reason is because the church has missing the place of power. But this is the end time. If we are going to fulfill our assignment and fulfill our ministry, we must walk in the genuine power of God. Alternatives have been created. You know, you go to places people want to. I had somebody said a big man of God, he said, don't wait for God to move. He said, You move. Sincerely, one of the lessons God has taught me. You see, I'm talking to us as disciples. One of the things God has taught me now is that the more you put effort into making things happen, the more you are proving that you are in the flesh. Every effort to make things happen is a proof that you are depending on yourself. You don't need to put effort, you just flow with the Spirit of God. You relax, you are at rest, you are not tensed up. You expect Him to flow through you. You expect Him to honor His word. And it is not about how you That's why look as if grace is not speaking the way it ought to speak. So last night I heard the Lord say to me, What you are asking for, I've done it. But you need the right atmosphere. The first statement God brought to me, to my heart, in the middle of the night, last night is that he said, if you see anyone that appears great in this kingdom, but it is the person is proud. He said, His or her greatness is not from him. He said, the person made it happen. He said, because the scripture can never be broken. And actually, people can work themselves. That's why there's so much self-exaltation, all manner of things. Listen. This is the end of the end time. Anyone that has to fulfill God's perfect plan for their lives must flow in the power of God. No matter how intelligent, how which word again? How much you can push, how much aggressive you are in pursuing your work, doing it by your efforts. Listen, there will always be limitations placed upon you by the flesh. Yes, things can happen for you to a certain extent, but there will always be limitations. But when you flow in the power of God, you will have rest. And when things begin to happen, you will know that this is God. You won't pretend to say it is God. Because some of the things that happen is that so that people won't say, Oh, he's taking the glory of God for himself. They will say, This is God. But they know they are the one making it happen. I know what I'm talking about. So the Lord drops some things in my heart. And I told myself, I'm going to teach. I've thought along that line before now. But I said, so we'll prepare for. To teach along that line. The Lord said, teach on it this evening. That was this morning. I said, but Lord, we are doing a series. Don't let us interrupt it. Then he kept quiet. Didn't say anything. So I thought he has agreed with me. I got to the office. I think I came to, I arrived church three minutes after five. So I got to the office and I heard the voice of the Lord say, Do what I asked you to do. That's why I came out late. I said, which kind of thing is this? And then he brought it to my heart again that if you are going to walk with me, you are you can't afford to be rigid. You see, one of these, one of the signs that you are humble in the hands of God is that you become flexible. Because you didn't send him, he sent you. Is that right? So and if he sent you, you must listen to. You see, there are times I told our pastors, I said, there are times they are going to preach. I have not started that with them. But I'm starting very soon. You are preaching Bible study. On Thursday evening, I will inform you on Thursday afternoon by 3 p.m. As a good soldier of Christ, you must always be ready. Is that true? In fact, there are times, Pastor Dan, get radio. Pastor Duque, Pastor Juliet, admin, Pastor Precious. Uh Pastor Chuks and the rest of the pastors. There are times service will have started. Pastor Aya, God bless you. In fact, I was listening to your testing. I say over the last one year, you have greatly improved. I think very soon you'll pastor a church. Let me see the magic you do. That is when you learn to say, God help me. Am I talking to somebody? You know, I'm telling you ahead. So that you won't say that you won't disgrace me. Now I've told you ahead. God bless you. Please take your seat. Because that's what God is doing to me. I will do likewise to you. Praise the Lord. It was to six. I started preparing this message. You know, I was following the service, praying in tongues. I thought. So he waited for me till 5:30. And he said, What you want to preach is not what I want you to preach. And I know it's because somebody is here very important. You must, maybe tonight is your night of understanding and revelation from this subject. You catch something that will turn things around in your life. Creating the atmosphere for the supernatural. Praise the Lord. Ephesians chapter 3, verse 17 to 20. Not just in your individual lives. You know, all of us put together at the church. If we say a church is powerless, that means the people are powerless. If we say a church is poor, they are saying the people are what? Poor. So that as you are seated, you are emitting grace. So anyone that comes into the church with one need or the other, maybe it is the grace you emit the person need. Now the Jewish had uh a story. He said that was at his early years as a pastor. He said the meeting was going on, and then suddenly somebody began to manifest while preaching was going on. He said, the lady sitting close to the person, the lady sitting close to the person just got up. He said, He and other people didn't know what to do. He said, but this lady got up, walked to the person that. Was manifesting. Put her hand and saying the name of Jesus, come out of him now. And the spirit left. The person fell. The person was delivered. He said, the person got up, was wondering what happened to him. He said, it became obvious that that man just received a miracle through the ministry of that lady. He said, he went home bodied. Say, Lord, how can a small girl do such a thing? Me as a pastor. I couldn't do anything. He said, so he's praying. He said, then he had the Lord said to him that she could do that because she flies more than you. He said, Lord, is that girl a witch? He said, no. That she prays more in tongues. And that is why she was sensitive to the voice of the spirit to know exactly what to do. He said that was one of the things that prompted him into a life of praying in the spirit. The issue is that if you sit down and stop others, begin to do behind you, won't you run? So I'm trusting Jesus to build us to a point where we go forth individually, manifesting the person of Christ, the power of Christ. You are to work anywhere you find yourself, you are manifesting Christ. That's why you need to understand how to create the right atmosphere that will be conducive for the supernatural because you and I are not called to live a natural life. So you and I need to understand how to create the right atmosphere. And remember, at the beginning of this month, we are led to pray along that line. Everything about you are meant to be supernatural. I think if he's late, he will come and share the testimony by himself. They conspired against him in his office where he works. And they transferred him to a place that is called a dry place. That's so he got there, no office, nothing. You know, in the civil service. So he told me about it. I said, God is working in your favor. He's not, we don't go down. How many of you have asked me? He said, most of the time, the way up is the way down. Because God will not walk according to your calculations. That's why He's God. So I prayed for him and I encouraged him. Because it looked as if they messed him up. He's an accountant. How can they now throw him and drop him in one of the parastators? Doing nothing. So most of the time he doesn't even go to work because no office, nothing. But I knew. But I didn't know how to explain. You see, when it comes to the supernatural, things work beyond our human comprehension. To call long story short, after months of enduring that humiliation of being in a place where he looks useless and not valued and not needed.

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And before he knew what was happening, he became the director of Finance at me. When he was sent there, he wasn't anticipating that. So I told him I'm going to see you. So that you understand how God works. You see, when you carry his atmosphere, nobody can work against you successfully. When they seem to be working against you, I bet, let me use that word, Gen Zit language. I bet they are pushing you to your place of testimony. Am I talking to somebody? Ephesians chapter 3, verse 17 to 20. The kind of testimonies God is giving us. He said, it's only people that the management, the board considered as having integrity. Those are the only set of people they allowed. So in the whole organization. So they selected four of them. Am I talking to somebody? So, how to create that right atmosphere for the supernatural. Because that's what will make the fulfillment of your assignment possible. That is what guarantees you to end well. No matter who or what is against you. Sincerely, I was just thinking overnight. Certain things I had, certain things that happened. I I just see this I'm this man, God has shown mercy. I was just saying, Lord, I don't fight. I don't pray against anybody, but I'm the most dangerous person anybody can fight. See, after now, God will jealous over you to the extent that you become impossible to touch by anyone. So when God says pray for your enemies and you are fighting with it, it's because you are full of yourself. It's because you want to fight by yourself. In fact, the way we deal with them, I can't deal with them like that. Someone under the sound of my voice, as the Lord lives, something is changing for the best in your life. The supernatural is activated in your favor. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Can I say it again? You will never be ashamed. I've said it before, I'm saying it again. Glory does not accommodate shame. When it looks as if you are going through shame. Glory is about to erupt in an unprecedented. Do you remember what Jesus said? Oh Lord, help me this night. John chapter 12, verse 23. When it was time, when the time of going to the cross was at hand, look at what he said. But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come. The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. He didn't say shame. But that process looked like a process of shame. To nail somebody on the cross like a common criminal. He said the hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. What is what is what looks like shame, mockery to everybody? He called it glorification. Because there is no shame in this kingdom. No shame. No shame. No shame. He doesn't exist. If we dwell in his glory, if he said the glory he gave, the father gave to him, he has given to you no shame. No shame. Oh, what is happening is looking like shame. He only looks like it is not. Because when the glory is rot, everybody will forget what they call shame in your life before. Because they will need you, sir. They mock you today, but they are going to need you as a savior tomorrow. Oh, I think that prayer is for somebody here. So let's go back to where we are reading. That atmosphere. I was just thinking I'll share briefly, then we pray. But Jesus answered, no, no, no. Ephesians chapter 3, verse 17 to 20. Ephesians chapter 3. That Christ may dwell in your hearts. Through what? Through faith. That you, say me, being rooted and grounded in what? In love. May be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height. To know. To do what? To know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him, when you are filled with all the fullness of God, now to him who is able to do how? Exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us. So when you have around you the right atmosphere for the supernatural, it is not just your prayers that will be answered, your thoughts will be answered. And it is not just your prayers and your thoughts that will be answered, it will be answered exceedingly, abundantly above how you ask or think it. Are you getting that? Because it's not your effort now that will make anything happen. You are not working anything out, you are just aligning with the father. You are just aligning yourself with his will. And then he's the one doing the work. Far beyond what your natural effort, your natural abilities can make happen. Hear me? Persetters, get beyond this calculative living. Go beyond it. We calculate too much and we calculate ourselves out of God's program. Let me tell your neighbor, you have helped God for too long. Allow him to help you now. Now, from this scripture, something is certain. The knowledge of the love of Christ or the awareness of the love of Christ is what fills us with all the fullness of God. Fasting is powerful, I fast regularly. Prayer is powerful, I pray. But those ones are the building blocks. A foundation is necessary for the supernatural. You can't build something or nothing. That's why a lot of people they fast, they pray, and they get frustrated that the more we fast, the more we pray, the worse things become. And they look as if do God still answer prayers? Bruh, sister, God still answers prayers. But laid the right foundation. So the knowledge or the awareness of the love of Christ fills us with all the fullness of God. This means, listen carefully. This means the extent to which you have the love of Christ in your heart is the extent to which you are furnished and influenced with the manifest presence of God. Furnished. Influenced with, not by, with the manifest presence of God. Furnished. You know, there are houses you get to. You will be furnished with the fullness of God. And you'll be influenced. I'm supposed to show you grace as the second password to answer prayers. That means your the answers to your prayers are not going to come because you made effort. They are going to come because of the sacrifice of Jesus. And that's what makes it a guaranteed answer. Because that sacrifice is valid for all time. Am I talking to somebody? But that's not where I'm going. Before I the Holy Spirit draw my air and say, Is that what I asked you to be sharing this evening? The more you are rooted and grounded in love. That is the love of Christ. The more you experience the manifest presence of God, and the more you are influenced by that presence. Let's talk about people that you can see. Some of us, some of the challenges you are faced with today are because of the wrong people that came into your life. They influenced you wrongly. Trusting the Lord for the transformation of the life of the husband. Now, allowed someone who is carnal in nature to come into her life and saw some of the things the husband is doing and said, Neo, I won't take this from any man. Ah, this men, all men are like that too. If you allow them to walk on your head, they will just mess you up, they will just use you, they will just destroy your life for nothing's sake. And before you know it, you had that over and over and over and over, and then the thing entered into your heart, and before you know it, you started reacting. And so your husband has been improving. Suddenly, some assaulted again. Because he's now beginning to react to your current attitude. So canality can't jump to canality. And it will now look as if what the person told you is true.

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Okay, now through the talk about this man, thank God. By the time I read something in the news, was it early this year or late last year? The lawyer that encouraged a woman to leave the husband, marry the husband. He helped, he helped, she helped her to secure the divorce. So when the divorce process was over, the next thing he had, she had that Indo married the husband. They didn't even cut for long. I said, no, cause we go, cause and we go work. Because she was organically stupid. Her stupidity is natural. It's organic. So get this, church. It is the manifest presence of God that releases to us exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think. But that presence, the manifest presence cannot be genuinely seen without the love of Christ in your heart. Don't deceive yourself. Listen, church, some problems in your life are not going to be solved until you choose to walk in love. Because any problem that your natural effort cannot solve will depend on the manifest presence of God. If you are not walking in love, you'll be managing what you should overcome. Now you need to understand this that as a child of God, born of the Spirit of God, you have the capacity to love as God loves. Tell yourself, I know. Because I am born of God, I have the capacity to love as God loves. Because the Bible says, when you became born again, the Holy Spirit has shed abroad into your heart the love of God. But you have to understand how to nurture it and allow yourself to be rooted and grounded. Do you know what that means? When a tree is rooted, it simply means the tree has what it takes to take nourishment from the soil, is that? That means your nourishment must come from love. You can't be spiritually nourished, you cannot be emotionally nourished without you being grounded and rooted in love. Listen, church, let's not deceive ourselves. If God decided to show the state of my heart and your heart on these screens, will you be comfortable? We will be able to say, can't so this person be. What is setting you back is not outside you. The day you come to term with that, that is the day you take responsibility for your life and begin to give yourself to what matters so that you can operate from the right atmosphere and become everything God has ordained you to be. Now, the issue is this. We have the love of Christ in us, we have the capacity, but we often don't deploy it. One thing is to have something, another thing is for you to know how to use what you have. Do you understand that? First John chapter four. If you are going to effectively get rooted in the love of Christ and love as God loves, you must know or you must be aware of how much you are loved. Listen, if you don't know how much you are loved, you will live like someone who is not loved. And every time you live as someone who is not loved, the Holy Spirit is grieved. And when he's grieved, he's not going to leave you, but he's not going to be active in your life. Do you understand that? With all respect. Forget, it's not everybody that has a capacity to say, Holy Ghost, move. Uh-uh. Because you see someone, say, Spirit of the Lord, move, and there was a palpable move of the Spirit of God. It's not everybody that can operate in that dimension until you begin to walk in this reality. Verse 16 to 19. And we have known. We have what? We have what? We have known and believed. We have known and do what? Believed. We know it and believed. The love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love does what? He who abides in love abides in who? In God. And God in him. The next verse. Love has been perfected among us indeed. That we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Because as he is, so are we in this world. Verse 18. There is no fear in love. Perfect, but perfect love casts out fear. Because fear involves what? Torment. But he who fears, he who fears has not been made perfect in love. Now, church, before I read verse 19. He who fears. Your fearful living is a sign that you are not rooted in love. It's a sign that you don't know how much you are loved. Every fear. Because if you know you are loved and you know the capacity of him that loves you, who are you going to be afraid of? Who is it that can overcome the one that loves you? Who is it that is stronger than the one that loves you? You know, I learned from everything, even from my own experience. You know, my little boy at home, from time to time, when they put his food on the table, I'll go and open it and check the level. We need to buy another. I said, I don't buy them. I don't know. Nobody needs to preach that to me. I love the boy and I know he's a baby. It is my responsibility to sustain him. So out of my love for him, I plan ahead. We'll rather not eat in the house than for him not to eat. I was jokingly saying it today. I said, I carry his uh sister. I said, only God knows how many blocks, nine cheese block, therefore inside this year. One can. So the mother said it's like 600. Ah, I said the blocks plenty. I said, but you are more importance than a building. If you know the one that loves you, that he loves you when you never deserve to be loved, you will never be afraid, no matter what is happening. And I will soon show you. This is why if you are going to enjoy the supernatural presence of God, the supernatural power of God, you have to be rooted in love, you have to be grounded in love, you have to be persuaded that you are the object of God's love. Verse 19. We love him. Why? Because he first loved us. Listen, church, we do not measure God's love by our experience. He said, God loves me. Now, landlord wants to throw me out of the house. He said, God loves me. I'm struggling to eat. No, no, no. That is to talk out of ignorance. You don't measure the love of God by your experience. That is why many people miss it. Many believers miss it. If God loves me, why is it I'm not pregnant by now? If God loves me, why is it that I don't have a job? If God loves me, why? Why? Why? Why? You have underestimated God's love for you. Look at what the Bible says. This is how to measure God's love for you so that you can become grounded. The devil wants to remove your focus from the real thing and wants you to judge the love of God for you by mundane things. But you have to be wiser. Romans chapter 5. Let me quickly read from verse 6 to 10. Romans chapter 5. Verse 6 to 10. For when we were still without strength, in due time, what happened? Christ died for the godly. For the ungodly. You are not useful to him. I was not useful to him. Yet he chose to die for us. What manner of love is that? Do you know what it meant to be ungodly? To be an enemy of God. You know, when I heard that, Jesus said, He regarded us as friends, and he said he was going to die for his friends. We that he was supposed to see as enemies. When we were satisfied enemies, he still saw us as friends. Many of us today, when people hurt us, we rejoice in their suffering. Why is this place quiet? When people somebody has done what pain you, what hurt you? If you are not grounded in love, you'll be expecting bad news concerning them. If the person had a testimony, a good news, your mind will spoil. Don't pretend. Because your joy is in their suffering. But God doesn't operate like that. Do you know that even in our misbehaviors, do you know how much we disappoint him on a daily basis as believers? Yet he will never give up on you. That's why he said, My father who gave them to me is greater than all. He said, Nothing can pluck us out of his hand. I hold not the rock.

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Mother Rock holds me. The rock holds me. The rock holds me. I hold not the rock.

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See, if I'm the one holding him, you could get a good tire. But I abide in him. He abides in me. So even though I'm holding him, but he also holding me stronger. So when my hands want to slip up, his hand always holding me. That's why he said he's able to save unto the uttermost. Those who came to him through Christ, he's able to save to the uttermost. Go back to where we are reading. Romans 5. For when we are still without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. Verse 7. For scarcely, for a righteous man will one die. Yet perhaps for a good man, someone will even dare to die. That's it. But God, now look at God's love demonstrated. But God demonstrates his own love towards us in that while we were still sinners. While we were still sinners, what happened? Christ died for us. That's why the people you want to kill, he wants to save. Much more than. Somebody say much more than. Having now been justified by his blood. He didn't stop at dying for me to save me. He didn't stop at dying for me. Say, I don't save you. Figure the rest out by yourself. Much more than having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Look at verse 10. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. Much more, much more, much more. Having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. So that means he didn't just leave us saved. He took it upon himself to save us from whatsoever might want to destroy us and might want to hinder us from assessing the eternity that he has ordained for us. Now listen to this church. Don't allow your hearts to be deceived. Many believers talk about heaven, but actually they don't believe in heaven. Oh, it will make heaven. But their focus is more on earthly things. If you truly value heaven, you won't feel less loved because you don't have money. Because if you understand that God has secured heaven for you, you will know that the value of eternity is far, far more than any natural thing here on earth. But our mind, our heart have been trained to value natural things above spiritual things. Do you know why when we say give thanks to the Lord for all he has done for you? A believer will look at and say, What am I thanking him for? Because you don't value the eternity he has purchased for you. Because the natural thing, the money you appear not to have, is more important to you than the eternity he has secured for you. The child you are yet to have is more important to you than the eternity he has secured for you. For you, can I tell you something, church? Whatsoever you have in the natural, you are going to live one day. That eternity that you don't value is where you face. Am I talking to somebody here? So if God in his love has secured eternity for us, there is no love greater than that. Sincerely, I say it with absolute confidence in God. If God will not do anything for me again, the one he has done is more than enough. It's more than enough. My eternity is secured. The Bible says, if we suffer with him, we will also be glorified with him. That is what matters. And no matter how much I live in this world, it is a short time, sir. It's a short time, man. Am I talking to somebody? Even if you don't want to die, your body will tell you at a time. Am I talking to somebody? There are times, there is a time of life you are able to run up and down. Giddy giddi giddy. Gada gada. How many of us watch Portugal match? Ronaldo did not Ronald anything. The 41-year-old man couldn't function on the field. He just walked up and down. He couldn't run actively. How many of us watch it? You see, this is a challenge I have with. You people watch some things for entertainment. I watch them for learning. My interpretation of things are often not the same thing, you the same way you will interpret it. I just look at it. Every now and they say, Where is Ronaldo? Where is Ronaldo? I didn't look for him. At times I know see him. At the time, my wife said they have removed him. I said, No, they have not removed. They have not removed him. He just know they're active. He don't hold him. Don't hold. He would have loved to make a you see, his spirit was willing, but his flesh was weak. He desired to win this World Cup and boast of it that he retired. But it was not possible. What am I saying? No matter how long you live, it is still short life. 120 is short life compared to eternity. Short life. No, no, no, no. I've told you. You see, when I look at our elders, and I'll look at myself. When I go and see Daddy Douglas at 85, say I've seen bone. I said, like play, like play, like play. Once upon a time, they were all young. But gradually, they are getting old. So why should I value the natural things above the most important thing? My eternity. That doesn't mean I will make my natural life useless. But I'm going to value more. I'm not going to look down on what Christ has done for my eternity and now feel not loved. That is what even kills your good experience in this natural world. Because until you see how much you are loved, you cannot walk in the reality of that love and experience the supernatural power of God that guarantees your fulfillment on this side of eternity. Do you understand what I've just said? So let me conclude with this. What are the proofs that we know how much we are loved by God? Because you have to know that you are loved. You have to assess yourself now. So that you can change your focus and begin to meditate on what God has done for you in Christ. When we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God's love for me is bigger and greater than any material things. Listen. To have a baby now, there are different ways. Human beings have a solution. IVF. If not, IVF, surrogacy. Thank you. Baby go come. Nobody go argue, say not be you. You can even adult. And the baby is your own. Am I talking to somebody? Human beings have solution to that. Oh, things are tough. No money. No money. There are solutions. Natural solutions. But your eternity has no natural solution. Nobody can help you with the issue of the eternity outside what Christ has done for you. Set your mind on that. Set your mind on that. Look at what Colossians chapter 3. Let's read from verse 1 to 3. Is somebody getting something? I don't know. Even me that is preaching, I'm getting blessed. If then you are raised with Christ, do what? Seek those things which are above. Where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Verse 2. Set your mind on what? On things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Verse 4. Verse 4. When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Church, irrespective of what you don't have, rejoice. You have something more important that has been secured for you through the love of Christ. You have what money cannot buy, you have what man cannot give. A glorious eternity with Christ. It is secured, it is guaranteed. You know what the Bible says? So, why am I fretting? If he can secure my eternity, look at what Romans chapter 8, verse 32 says. If he did not spear his own, he who did not spear his own son, but did what? But delivered him up for us all in demonstration of his love. How shall he not with him, with Christ in your life, also freely give us how many things? All things. How many things? For all things are yours. Verse 22. Whether Paul or Apollos or Kephas or the world or life or death, all things present, all things to come, all are yes. See what love has done for you. The next verse. And you are what? Christ. And Christ is God. And you are Christ. Stop living as if you don't get anybody. It is a statement of ignorance. Permit me, forgive me if it hurts. To say I don't get anybody. You are not that man beside the pool of Beseda. Even when Christ, the resurrection, the life himself was standing by him. He was still complaining. I have no man. Because his life was limited to what could be done in the natural. So the one that doesn't need the one that is a river of living water himself. Said, what do you want? I don't have anybody. Wake up from that. If you know how much you are loved, you will know that you have somebody. And the person you have is the most important person. And he is so gombarded to you that he cannot leave you. So what are the proofs that we know how much we are loved by God? Number one. Let's read first John chapter 5, verse 1 to 3 first. Quickly, quickly. Quickly. Are you the person that this message is meant for? Thank you. First John chapter 5, verse 1 to 3. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ? Then you are born of God. And everyone who loves him who begot also loves him who is begotten of him. Hold on. Go back to that verse one. Do you understand grammar? Do you understand that grammar? Everyone who loves him who begot, that is the father. Also loves him who is begotten. That means if you love the father who begot Christ, then you also love Christ that was begotten of the Father. Verse 2. By this we know that we love the children of God. When we love God and keep his commandments. Verse 3. For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. What is that commandment that is not burdensome? John 13 34. So if you say it's not burdensome, don't see it as burdensome. 13 34. Can we read it together? One to go. A new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you. That you also loved. We'll come back to that. So number one, I'll just rush through it because of time. Number one, how do you, what are the proofs that you know how much you are loved by God? Number one. By your love for God. By your love for God. By your love for God. How do you know you love God? 1 John chapter 5, verse 3. 1 John chapter 5, verse 3 that we read earlier on. For this is a love of God that we do what? That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not bodisome. The proof that you love God is for you to keep the commandments of love. Church, can I beg you for something? Anything you are going to do to anyone today, ask yourself, with what heart am I doing this? Is it with the heart of love? Ask yourself, is this what God's love wants from me? If you know that the steps you are about to take, the decisions you are about to make is not coming from love. Calm down. Do what? Do what? Calm down. Any decisions that are not from the heart of love will not pay you at the end. Because there will be no supporting power. The power that makes all things work together for good will not be available. It is when you walk in love and it looks as if people want to take advantage of you. God, who is love, will make all things work together for your good. Do you understand it? That is why this Christian journey is a journey of faith, it's a journey of trust. Yes. I love something about those three Hebrew guys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. When the king asked them to bow to that um golden image, and they refused. People went to report them to the king. And the king, because of Daniel, he said, Let me, because of Daniel, oh, I will not just kill you. Let me give you a second chance. Go and think about it. He said, King, don't waste your time. We have nothing to think about. We are not going to bow to your idol. Let it be known. He said, Let it be known to you, O king, that we will not bow. That means we are ready to burn. He said, Now look at faith. Our God is able to deliver us from your fearfulness. They now say, even if he did not, we will still not bow. That is trust. Reckless abandonment in the hands of the one who loved them. He will deliver us. But in case he chooses not, we still not bow. You see, if they stopped us, he will deliver us. And they bound them the way they did. And they are carrying them close to the fire. They say, Lord, where is your face? Is this how you do? We trusted you. We believe you will save us. Now you are going to allow them to throw us into that fire. They will complain into the fire. And that doubt will kill them. But they said, even if it did not, we still not bow. That is why. I perceive they were just praising the Lord as you are carrying them into the fire. To the extent that those who carried them, the heat killed them. I now ask myself. Listen, no, this is the way I reason at times. So I now ask myself, they have not entered the fire. The Bible says it's the heat from the fire that killed us. How did they now get inside? They crawl inside. See, since now the thing where you want, we go crawl inside. Because if the people carrying them there has died, that means they dropped them. And yet they still enter the fire. Since King, fire now, your problem. We go enter. They entered by themselves. And the moment they entered, the first thing was that the rope that was used to tie them, hands and legs, the fire burned them off. And so they started walking in the midst of fire. And the king looked at them and suddenly he came back to his senses. He said, Shedrach, Meshach and Abegnego, servant of the most high. He caught revelation of their God immediately. He said, Come, come hither and come near. Don't just come out. He said, Come out and come near. Don't just come and come close to me. I need you because you carry something that my fire cannot handle. Listen, by the manifest presence of God in your life, nothing will consume you, nothing will destroy you. In the name of Jesus, what is meant to tie you down? The fire of God will burn them off. In the name of Jesus. When you are prayed with the manifest presence of God, because you trust Him, nothing can destroy you. It was their love for God that never allowed them to bow to another idol. Number two, the proof that we know how much we are loved by God. We love the children of God. We love who? The children of God. We love fellow believers. They are my family. Every born-again child of God are my family members. And you have to genuinely love them. 1 John 5 2. Quickly, quickly. 1 John 5 2. By this we know that we love the children of God. When we love God, the first thing is you love God. Your love for God is a proof because you can't love God and not love his children. You say, Oh, I love Pastor Sonjo. I just love him. I now find that you hate my children. Okay, you hate me. You what? You hate me. You can't claim you love me, you hate my children. It's not gonna work. Am I talking to somebody? So the proof that you love God is. Loving the children of God that you see around you. I told you. You see, one of the best things you can God can do for you is to make you sensitive to his voice. There is something I learned. One man of God who is one from his particular tribe. So when we drive together in the car and the maybe all these keke people, this keke boss and keke the miswave, we say you are in Nankwe. So I said, What is Nankwe? He said, Animal. So now so I copy back, you know. So before I know it, I said, You this nanquelistic tendency that you exhibit. So it became my language. What's wrong with this nanquel for God's sake? Until one day I heard the Lord say to me, Are you can you remember that they were created in my image and likeness? So calling them animal. Think about it. Say, Lord, no, no, no, no, no. I don't think I'm rich like that. My wife will tell you many times I've forgotten. When they misbehave, I want to say this now. I'll just so she will just burst into laughter. Because I've been told that calling them animals, even though they misbehave, is despising the image and the likeness in whom they are created. Am I talking to somebody? So love of the children of God. You are creating an atmosphere of love around yourself, and that is the atmosphere of the supernatural, where your labor is less and your resort is more, where you experience favor in a dimension that cannot be explained. Am I talking to somebody? Where things work beyond what effort can deliver, where you get it better than you expect it. And that becomes your testimony. In the name of Jesus, we are paceetters. How are we going to set the pace? We set the pace by walking in love. And we are going to push it. We are going to push it until we get it. Let me tell your neighbor, you must get it. You must get it. You have no choice than to get it. And number three, the proof that you know how much we are loved. We live free of fear. You are not afraid of tomorrow. What of if? What of if? What of if? Oh, they are plotting against me. Let them not uh pull me down. See, there are some of the things I say to us, and it will resonate with you. Do you know why? I've been through it. See, there was a time in my life when I look at what people what was going on around me.

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Yes, yeah, with TRSO unto the lawyer unto the lay of myself. Let me not be ashamed. Try off.

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Now it's funny to you now. It was not funny to me then. I look right, I look left. It's like there was no solution. It's like shame was looming. I didn't know the prayer. I've read all the prayers I knew to pray. And it looked as if they are not working. So I decided to bribe God with some tears. Unto the Lord. I will sing that song. 11 p.m. 2 a.m. I was still singing that one song. 3 a.m. I was still singing that one song. The prayer in there, let me not be ashamed.

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