Vexing Righteousness Part 3

In this episode, we explore the importance of understanding spiritual principles, recognizing patterns, and refusing to live a life of comparison. Discover why many people remain stuck in the same cycles and how wisdom can help you avoid repeating mistakes that have affected previous generations. This message challenges listeners to stop dwelling on problems and take responsibility for the future they are building.

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

So we're still on the topic of uh vexing righteousness. Praise the Lord. We looked at Numbers chapter eleven on Thursday. Amen. And so we will continue with Numbers chapter eleven. I think um by now it's uh you should know why we are so so aggressive about uh your church attendance. Praise God. The more you know about God, the more you can apply about God. Amen. And the more results you get. So we unpacked quite a few things in Numbers chapter 11 on Thursday. Raise your hand if you were there. Did you learn a lot? So I was uh talking to you about season, the season in which you're in, praise God, forevermore. Talking to you about the season that you're in at the moment and that you you cannot find yourself comparing uh yourself to others because your where you are at the moment is very different to where they are. You are journeying, and they may not be journeying, and when you journey, you do not carry the same weight as when you're at home. Praise God forevermore. So you must understand that God will give you provisions for the journey, and provisions for the journey does not look like home cooked food. Amen. On the journey, you don't have a bed. You must understand that when you're on your on your way somewhere, you may not have a place to sleep. And so the Bible says, Jesus, it says foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head because he was journeying. He didn't compare himself to punctious Pilate and say, I'm a king, and Pilate has all these palaces. Jesus knew that he came and he was on the journey. And so someone who has spiritual wisdom, praise God, someone who has spiritual wisdom does not find himself comparing to other people. You just can't. Praise God. It's so unwise to compare yourself to other people. And this is something that we find in the body of Christ, uh, young Christians and even older Christians comparing themselves uh to each other. Praise the Lord. Uh you you find uh parents competing with each other through their children. Yeah, they meet quarterly. How are you? You know, they they talk, how are you? How are you doing? And then and then they ask, oh, how is your son doing? And then the mother says, Oh, he's a he's a training doctor. Oh wow, congratulations, but she's not happy when she says congratulations. No, she's like, Wow, her son is a doctor. My son must also be something. So you're competing and comparing through your children, and don't find yourself around that. Amen. You don't get your pride from your kids. It's nice, your son is a doctor, but your pride doesn't come from your kids, it comes from the gospel. Are you listening? Say my pride comes from the gospel, my value comes from the gospel, it's the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's where everything is rooted. The gospel of Jesus Christ. Praise God. Sit down, sit down. So, what we do in Christian and being a Christian is it can be in you can enjoy it. It's enjoyable. Praise God. Serving God is fun, it's nice, and it's enjoyable. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Serving God is fun. Amen. When you're so busy serving God, you're not concerned with vain babblings. Yeah, you're not concerned with that, you're too busy serving God. I'm taking you somewhere. Amen. And it gets more enjoyable. Yeah. I enjoy I enjoy serving God more, not only when I'm so busy in his work and in my mission, but I enjoy serving him more because I understand his ordinances. So I understand uh the way of the Lord. Yeah, there's something called the way of the Lord, the the manner in which he does things, what he has asked of me and how he wants me to relate to him. Praise God. And one of the things I learned very early on is studying patterns. So I'll give you an example. Um I took to uh an illustration that I heard uh a couple of years ago that really shook me to my core. There was um a family in uh in a particular country in Africa who who um they lived in the village, and some developers came alright into the village and said, Look, this is an area that we can actually build houses in this area. And uh, but the issue was that there was a lot of natives living there, you know, and they were living in their type of houses. Praise God. So the developers came in, they struck a deal with the government and said, Look, we'll pay all of them a certain amount to rehouse them into the city. We want this village so that we can build here, and this will bring more tourists, which is more money. So, of course, the government said that's a good initiative. The government said, We're not putting up the money, they are, so no problem. So everyone agreed, all the villagers agreed, as long as we get this sum of money, we'll be fine to relocate. But there was one family, one head of the home, who said, This was my father's house and his father's house, so I will not move. And he stood his ground. Praise God. So the developers pleaded with him, they begged him eventually to no avail. And it was, you know, stuff like that can halt the project. Everyone's moved but him. So the developers went to the government, the government legally couldn't move him because it's consent, you know. So the developers were speaking with the leaders and the head of the uh village. You know, every village has a chief. So the chiefs said, we know how to get rid of him. Amen. So the chiefs began to curse him, they cursed the head of the family. Him, his brothers, his children, his wife, cursed them. And you know what? One by one, they started dropping dead like flies. One month, then two months later, another would die. Eventually, four people died in the family, and that's what weakened this man. And he came forward and began to ask now, and he said, Okay, I'll take the money and I'll leave. And they said that offer sailed away. Now you have to leave for free and find your own way. Praise God. This gentleman had lost four family members before he decided I must go. So he left and relocated. Now, when this happened, he had three three sons. Alright, the firstborn was just two or three years old. Amen. See, just a young boy, so he didn't know what had happened. He grew up in the city, amen. He had no idea that all of this stuff had taken place. So many, many years later. Am I boring you?

unknown 10:04

No, sir.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Many, many years later, of course, his father passed and they passed, and so on, and so forth. He also got married. Amen. Found himself in an area in the city. Praise God. And uh a church came by. 20 years later, a church came by and said, We want to buy this land and build a church here, you know. So we'll pay everyone off here. Praise God. Yeah. So, lo and behold, the church was offering a lot of money. So everyone said, Yes, we'll take it, we'll relocate. Guess who said no? That one gentleman, he didn't know what came over him, he just said, No, no, why should I move? Why should a church come and move me out of my place? He said, No, I'm not moving. He didn't know his daddy walked in the same footsteps. Tell your neighbor, study ordinances, study patterns, study the principles of God so that you may get ahead in life. Amen. Some of you, you know, we came up together. I I I I I raised you, and I told you from early, study your parents. How many bullets did you miss? Some of you, some some of us would have been drunkards. Yeah. Because our parents were, right? But you found a principle. One of the principles are let me study those I came from. It's it's a principle. Do you understand that? But that's not what I'm I'm majoring on, but I'm starting there for a reason. So, nonetheless, should I continue the story? So, nonetheless, this young gentleman said, I am not moving. Now, one fun fact that I didn't give you throughout this entire uh illustration is that this young gentleman actually took the money. Praise God. He took the money, yeah. He took the money. So you know the church came and the church said, the church said, Alright, I'm we're gonna pay everyone in this area off. Yeah, those that took the money left. He took the money and stayed. So so effectively he did what his father did, but he did it in a different way. So he took the money from the church and stayed. So you know what happened? The pastor said that guy, every single member of his family will start dropping like flies. That money that he took from us will start killing the people in the family until the boy realizes first calamity, his wife. Second calamity, his child. People of the church had to come and beg him, please leave. You know, as a church, we don't curse, but what you've done is terrible. What you've done is terrible. He didn't know that 25 or 30 years ago, Daddy did the same thing. It's something he realized later on. Praise God forevermore. So you have a responsibility to study ordinances, study God's principles because it will get you ahead in life. Study God's principle, find out every single principle you can find in the scripture because it will get you ahead in this life. Do you understand? Some things you won't have to fight because you know the principles. Amen. If you know the principles, you know that there's some battles you don't want to fight. But in your days where you didn't know the principles, you'd fight anybody. Amen. Two years ago, three years ago, you'd be fighting everyone. But you're different now. Praise God. Numbers 11, chapter 24. Numbers chapter 11, sorry, verse 24.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Thank you, sir. Thank you. Numbers chapter 11 from verse 24 says, So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. Verse 25. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders, and it happened, when the spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again. Verse 26. But two men had remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad, and the spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle, yet they prophesied in the camp. Verse 27. And the young man ran and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, Moses, my lord, forbid them. Verse 29. Then Moses said to him, Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. Verse thirty. And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Amen.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

So my Bible says, And Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the tabernacle. And the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke unto them, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy. And it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and did not cease. Amen. Now, last uh on Thursday we saw that uh the Lord said to Moses, Because you're tired, I will take the spirit that you have, I'll place it upon the seventy elders, and when I do that, they will be able to help you with the work. They will carry the burdens of the people. Now, the Lord said, Bring them tomorrow, and I will appear to them. Praise God. I will appear to them and I will speak with you guys. So as God appeared to them and spoke with them, the Bible says the Spirit of the Lord rested upon the seventy and they began to prophesy. Now, why is that significant? As the Spirit of the Lord rested on them, they began to prophesy. That's very significant. It tells you that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, the first weapon that He gives you is in your mouth. It's in your mouth. Prophecy is not telling someone what they did yesterday. Prophecy is speaking forth. Prophecy isn't even foretelling. Because there's foretelling. Four telling is this is what will happen tomorrow. You understand that? Yeah. But here it's forth telling, not foretelling. So there's a difference. Alright? Fourth telling is you speaking out what you want to see. So if there's there's unrest in the camp, these 70 elders have been anointed by God to speak out what it is that God wants to see. Do you understand that? And you you can do that with boldness when the spirit of the Lord is upon you. But what is it exactly in your life that is going so bad? What is it that's going left? You can you're looking at your life, you can see your life is going left. It's actually going left. Things are going bad. Do you sit there and lament? Or do you recognize that first the Holy Spirit is upon me? And that when He is upon me, He's empowered me to speak forth what I want to see. I can do it. Say it, I can do it. I can speak forth what I want to see, and it's exactly what will happen.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

And it's exactly what will happen.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Yeah, you can.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

Yes, I can.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Not because you're so powerful, but because the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Lord, is upon you.

unknown 20:24

Amen.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

You I don't think you believe it, brother.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

The Lord is upon me.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

What is it that's been that's been terribly haunting you? Sit down, sit down. This thing has been haunting you, attacking you. You you come out of the house and you're you're worried. You see, in the in the things of God, yeah, if you don't know your identity, yeah, and you don't know what Christ has given you and what he's done for you, you'll be a victim. You'll be a victim to your own mistakes first, then you'll be a victim to the voice of the enemy. Because if you give him a paintbrush, he will paint you as himself.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

Exactly. Exactly, closer.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

You you're not allowed to give Satan space, you're not allowed. The book of Ephesians says he sent a letter to the church in Ephesus. He said, in Ephesians 6, I think he said, Do not give the enemy a foothold, don't give him space, don't give him space. That is, don't let him convince you of anything. Don't let him convince you of anything. How can you, a Christian, a believer, someone that has the spirit of God upon them with the ability to prophesy? How do you find yourself in depression and doubting yourself? Is God really with me? How do you find yourself there? How did you get there, brother? How did you get there? How did you get there? Pastor, I'm sick. How did you get sick, brother? How'd you find yourself there? Are you supposed to be sick? Why are you there then? Tap your neighbor, get out of there. Tap your neighbor. Get out of there. Listen, the Bible gives us guidelines. It says you're not allowed. You're not allowed. You know what you're not allowed to do this means? I take it a step further when I meditate on these things. I don't think to myself, I'm not allowed. I don't think like you know, that's not where it stops for me. I I take it to the level of I cannot. I cannot think like this. I don't have the ability to think like this. Do you understand that? I don't have the I'm listening I'm going to close a business deal and I'm thinking, what if they don't accept me? How can you not accept me? How can you think like that? I cannot think like that. The way I think is, and the way Christ asks me to, if I go in there, I'm the one that chooses whether I like you or not. I choose to take your money or not. That's it. That's it. That's it. Praise God. That's it. You are filled with the Spirit. The Bible says the Spirit of the Lord came upon the 70 and empowered them to deal with what needs to be dealt with. I gave you the testimony where I was uh I was eating, right? Uh I had just finished fasting. Yeah. I just finished fasting. I'm uh the woman of God she brought me food. I'm about to eat. And uh my Bible was there. Do you remember that? And the voice of the enemy came in. Why are you how can you eat? Why are you eating? Amen. Your Bible is there. How can you eat? And I thought to myself, you know what? Should I not eat? Should I starve? Praise God. The reason why I'm ministering this thing to you, the way I'm ministering it, is because in this life, there will always be problems. Do you hear what I said? I said in this life, there will always be problems. There will not be a time where problems will cease. But what can happen is how you interpret them. So do you still interpret this as problems or do you interpret them as things that need to be solved? Praise God. There will always be something. Always. As long as we're here, because the Bible talks about an adversary. There will always be something. Amen. There will always be something. You could watch something and the enemy starts talking to you. You know, you know, you see ads online, and it tells you, you know, if if if you're experiencing this, it means you got cancer. Yeah. And and the ads are getting more aggressive now because they want to catch your attention. Do you understand? Yeah. If you're sleeping over nine hours, you got cancer. And in your spirit, you're like, I slept more than nine hours yesterday.

unknown 26:19

Actually, last night.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Yesterday. Praise God. Yeah. If if you see this in your health, praise God. Yeah. It's how you, if you're experiencing chest pains, it means that you know this and this is happening. They're giving you their own diagnosis. Amen. And you can fall for these things very quickly. You can fall for these things very quickly. The power of God is there to be used. It's there to be used. Use it. Use it by prophesying. And the beauty of it is when the Spirit of the Lord rested upon the 70, the Bible says, now this is a massive, massive revelation. As it rested upon the 70, the Bible tells us that uh there was two out of the 70. The others, the 68, the Bible says they stopped prophesying. So it there was a time span to it. This anointing was flowing for a time. Now there was two. The Bible says they kept going. They kept prophesying. They didn't stop. So they look like Moses because Moses could do it for as long as he needed to. So of course, Joshua, you know, the Bible says Joshua, who was Moses' right-hand man, was a young man that he went to Moses and said, There's two guys in the camp who are prophesying like you. I think you should stop that. And you know what Moses said? Moses said, Why should I stop that? Are you jealous on my behalf? And you know what Moses said? Moses said, uh Isn't it that God would want everyone to prophesy? He would want all of us to prophesy. God wants every single one of us to be able to stand up and speak.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Brother, listen, listen, think think of it, think of it as a plane. Yeah, the plane, the plane is going in the wrong direction. You are trying to turn this thing, and it's heavy. You understand? You're turning this thing. Do you like how your life looks right now? Turn the boat around. Turn the boat around. Does someone have to shake you? Turn the boat around. How do you turn the turn the boat around with your mouth? You don't like where you live? Get up in the morning. You keep hearing testimonies and testimonies and testimonies and testimonies about us because I won't stop. I won't stop. Listen, this place will be filled up before long. You understand? Filled up. Now it's not about just being filled. Because I'll show you some things here. It's about being filled with quality and loyal sons and daughters. You understand that? Quality, loyal sons and daughters. Not ones who sow division. Sowing division. We don't need those ones. So anyone who has experience in life will tell you when you're trying to build with quality, it takes a little time. Yeah, praise God. Quality takes a little time. But it it arrives, right?

SPEAKER_04 30:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:33

When you're even even these are these are basic rules when you're cooking. Raise your hand if you're a good cook here. That's nice. That's good. So if you know how to cook, then is it is it is it right for me to say that uh that healthy food takes a little time. Am I wrong to say that? When you go for fast food, with fast food, as fast as it comes is as fast as it goes. Praise God. Yeah. You arrive, you order fast. You know, and based on that principle, I you should you should be afraid when you get to a a place and you say how long? And they say 30 seconds. Ha! Why is the food ready? 30 seconds? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'll go somewhere else, please. Wisdom is you get there and they tell you half an hour. Okay, we understand. We understand. No, because we know principles. You don't get angry. Half an hour. Ah, half an hour. Why? No, it's because they're taking care of you. Amen. Fast food. Anything fast goes just as fast. Amen. Yeah. So when I go and pray, I'm speaking and I'm prophesying. And it doesn't mean that God told me that. It's I'm prophesying, I'm building my future. I said God is sending me quality children. Children you can build on. That you can send off into the future. God is bringing hungry people into the ministry that are ready to serve God. Amen. And you should be doing the same about your life. Don't cry. Stop crying. Nobody's gonna feel sorry for you. Are you listening? Nobody will feel sorry for you. Learn to fight. Are you homeless? Learn to fight. Are you in debt? Learn to fight. And you should be speaking so much that when those debt collectors see you, they see your words. Oh Lord Jesus, you've been speaking for so long that the debt collectors they come to the house, they're knocking at the house, they open the door, they see you, and they say, Why are we here? Why are we here? Why are we at the wrong house? Amen. They're taking back different reports because you've been speaking the right things. Stop talking like a carnal person. I've been teaching about this for years. Stop talking like a carnal person. Stop saying stuff like I hate my life. Or I hate myself. Like, what's wrong with me? I'm dead. You heard that one? I'm dead. Some people say I died yesterday. Why I declare that you're alive in the name of the Lord Jesus, you are blessed, and you are alive, and you are well, and the Holy Spirit is on you. And the Lord Jesus loves you. And the number that you are speaking from today is coming to pass. Sit down, sit down, sit down. I'm anointed. I'm anointed. I will prophesy my future. And everything I say is happening. One by one. It's happening. Praise God. Hallelujah. I told you you fall victims to the systems you have. Yeah, you won't achieve your intentions. You will always do what your discipline can carry, what your systems can carry. That's what you find yourself doing. Praise God. So if you have a system in place in your private life where it's holding up your in your your your prophecies, you understand that? So you created a system where wherever you go, it's reminding you who you are. Take care of your life. Take care of your life. Amen. Oh Pastor, everywhere I go, I'm suffering. Pastor, everywhere I go, I'm suffering. They're doing this to me, they're doing that to me. How about you say everywhere I go, I'm blessed. Yeah. Everywhere I go, I am blessed. And now, can I teach you something? Don't do this. Praise God. When you're in trouble, yeah. So kidnappers have arrived. They've come to your door. They've kicked the door down. They've seen you. They've seen you. And you're the Lord said I will not die. The Lord said I will not die. I can never die. I can never. No, brother. That's not how it works. No, no, no, no. You should have done this yesterday. And they and the kidnappers have arrived. And you look at them and say, What are you doing here? No, you're asking them, What are you doing here? Do you know what I did yesterday? What are you doing here? What are you doing here? Yeah, you're talking to them. What are you doing here? How dare you come here? What are you doing here? Praise God. So when the devil shows up, brother, he shows up in front of your door. What do you do? You prophesy. He said, You're not a lot. I place an embargo on you. What are you doing here? Praise God. Say, I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. My life looks like my words. And my words are powerful. Praise God. Can we continue reading? Take a look at this. Take a look at this. Verse 31. And there went forth a wind from the Lord. And brought quails from the sea. You know, just before that, God said to uh Moses, God said to Moses, they will eat not for one day, not for two days, not for 20 days. They will eat until the food comes out of their nostrils. That's what God said. Moses said, I have 600,000 men alone. So are you gonna take all the fish in the sea and all the birds to feed all of us? Look how small Moses' mind was. He didn't know how big the world was. So he's now talking with God. He's saying, God, are you gonna kill all the fishes and bring them to us? God said, Is my hand waxed short? And God said, You will see what will happen. I told you ministry growth is not difficult, financial increase is not difficult, marriage is not difficult, good health is not difficult, but all he has to do is send a wind for that season. It's in your Bible, maybe it's just mine. It says here, and there went forth a wind from the Lord. Now, let me give you a revelation. It didn't say and they went up a wind. It said went forth a wind from the Lord. Just before that, they prophesied. This is for the mature now. Hey, now you gotta be mature for this one. Just before that wind went from the Lord, forth. Do you understand that? From him forward, they had spoken. Now the Bible doesn't tell us what they spoke, but the Bible tells us that they spoke. Some spoke for a day, others kept on speaking. Then the wind came. Now I asked the Lord, what when you came down in a cloud, what did you speak to them about? The Lord said, That's what I spoke to them about. I told them if they want, I God didn't tell the general population. You understand that? He didn't tell the people, he told the leaders. He said to the leaders, if you want to see provision for the people, you guys have to speak. When you speak, then I will send the wind. So are you the head of your home?

unknown 40:39

Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Are you the head of your home? Yes, sir. Some of you are just at the door of marriage, and then a complication has arrived, and then another complication has arrived again. Then another one has arrived again, and it's like you're being hit on the left, you're being hit on the right, you're being hit in the belly, you're being hit everywhere. You're like, you have a choice. You can say, I give up on this marriage thing. This is not for me. Or you say no, no, no, no, no, no. If I give this side to the devil, he'll come for my health. That's how you have to think, brother. If you give him one side of your life, he's coming for the next. Allow him to take your marriage, your health is next. You allow him to take your health, your money is next. You allow him to take your mind, your body is next. What when when will you learn this thing that I'm trying to teach you right now? When will you learn? Praise God. Look at all the guys or all the women that go through mental health, they're all broke. And those who are rich that go through mental health are becoming broke. Gather all the mental health people broke. What happened? They were attacked, they're not broke by choice, they're broke because they were attacked, and then they took their plaque cards and said, We are hungry. All we are saying is we are hungry. They are protesting. So the government, we are hungry. Universal credit, we are hungry. Instead of standing up, listen, you see, if you're the odd one out, they will look at you in a way. You can ex you could have experienced mental health. Okay, no problem. But I'm not staying here. You look to the left, we are hungry. You look to the right, oh, we are saying you say, No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. This ain't my environment. I declare and I decree. In the name of the Lord Jesus, I am rich enough. I'm a sex I'm touching for the football in my life. I'm touching my children. Praise God. Tell your neighbor loving this thing. You understand me? Yeah. What you want to see in your kids? You talk about it. Because the spirit of the Lord is upon you. It's in the Bible. Can we can we read it on? Look at this. Look at this. This is where I'm gonna end it. I'm getting too happy. Look what it says here in the look at this. And they went forth a wind from the Lord and brought quails from the sea. I think what is a quail? Let's look at that first. What is a quail? Can someone tell me what is a quail? It's it's a bird. Okay, where does this bird live? Have you done your research?

SPEAKER_02 44:04

In the water. In the water.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

In the water. God could have given them fish. I told you about this last Thursday. He could have given them fish, but fish was of Egypt. So he said, No, no, no, no. I'm gonna change your appetite. You understand me? I'm gonna change your appetite. I'm not gonna give you fish, I'm gonna give you quail from the sea. Yeah. And you know how it happened? A wind went forth from God. Then the Bible says, and it brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp. Now we can't just skip over that. There went a wind forth. Let me start again. There went forth a wind from the Lord and brought quails from the sea. The wind brought quails from the sea, the food they needed. Ha! God said, I'm gonna feed them so much the food will come out of their nose. He has a sense of humor. No, you gotta read it, isn't that? God said, I will feed them not for one day, not for two days, not for 20 days. I will feed them so much they will get tired of the food. Two things you can learn from there. Come on, come on. Two things you can learn from there is this. Number one, if you apply the principles, you will get what you want. No, no, it's not a will it work, maybe how it didn't know. If you do this thing that I'm teaching you properly, you will get what you want. See that thing that you so desire, you will get it. First thing. Number two, I told you this generation of Israel did not enter the promised land. Do you want to know why? Because of this, this very blessing slowed them down. Remember, I told you on the journey is finger food. They were asking for home food. God said, Okay, you want home food? I'm gonna give you home food. So he brought so much food that it slowed them down. People were putting on weight, and the clothes were growing with them. That's what it says in the Bible. So imagine you're journeying on you know onto Canaan land, and God says you're gonna get there in 10 years. It took them 400 years. These were the guys that were supposed to see Canaan, but it was their children's children that saw Canaan. Are you listening? Listen, don't try to advise God. This is what I keep telling you. He knows what's best for you. You may want proper food. Say, God, I want an A class. My friend has an A class and he's he's living whatever kind of life. I'm in church every Sunday, I want an A-class. God says, I don't want to give you an A class right now. If I give you the A class now, you won't get the Roseroy Slater. Maybe I should end this thing. Shouldn't he give you an A class now? Money so we can slow you down. Do you know some beauty is just it's so nice that you won't move, you'll be locked in. You're too quiet then. You're acting as if you ain't seen a lady and you thought, hey, and you stood there and you looked for at least five minutes. It slowed you down, brother. No, some luxury isn't for you right now. No, say no to it. What are you talking about? Let me give you an illustration quickly. Sit down. Let me give you another. There was a great man of God who said, Yeah, he said that when the Lord took him to uh paradise, he saw you know the different renovations that were going on there. Because the Lord said, I'll go and prepare a house. I'm going to prepare mansions, sorry, for you. In my father's house, there are many mansions, sorry, he says, right? And he says, I'm going to go and prepare a place for you. So he got there and he saw the place that was prepared for him. And then the the property, according to his words, that was next to his was far bigger. So he asked the question, he said, Um, whose property is that? He didn't feel away about it, but he was just wondering, who is that? And the Lord said, Oh, that's the lady in your church who's in a wheelchair. And the angel of the Lord mentioned the name of the lady. He said, But how is her own property bigger than mine now? Like, and then he started naming all the things that he's doing. And the angel of the Lord says, Let me tell you something you don't know. Your ministry has survived because of that lady. All she does every day is pray for you. That's all she does. She wakes up, prays for you. She eats, showers, then prays for you. She doesn't pray for anything else, anyone else but you. Your ministry has single-handedly been held up by that lady. He couldn't believe it. So when he came back into his body, all right, and recovered from his sickness because he got there because he fell ill and he died, actually. So after you know, recovering, he came back to the church and said to that lady, I want to pray for you because this man walked in healing. I mean, he will come to you. Once his shadow touches you, you're you're healed, man. Whatever it is, you're good. You're you're okay. He moved in so much power. So he got to her and said, I want to pray for you. He she was the first lady he looked for. Took her to the side and said, I want to pray for you. You will walk today. Do you know what she said? She said, No, I don't want to walk. He said, Why? She said, If I walk, it will distract me. You're too quiet. You don't understand. You don't understand these things. She said, If I walk, I'll be distracted. I won't pray for you anymore. I'll look for a husband. That's what she said. Now, I'm not saying you should go and get sick now. I'm not saying that. I'm saying, take the meat and throw away the bones. You understand that? She said she was able to recognize in what form her distractions can appear to throw her off what God has called her to do. God has put in her heart, pray for this man. He needs it.

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What forms are the distractions coming to you that you have missed? You've allowed them into your life. Those distractions they've stopped you from pursuing God the way he wants you to pursue him. What are the distractions that you have allowed into your personal life? What are those distractions? For her, it was a miracle. For you, it could be a job. For you, it could be a relationship. That shiny object has arrived, you can't think straight. Yeah, that's why you're quiet. That thing has arrived and it's become your world. You're no longer chasing the gospel. I declare that I will never get distracted. I will not get distracted. I will not. So you can understand. Sometimes when you're begging God, you're crying out to God, Lord, please. I've been waiting for so long for this miracle or for this thing. God is looking. He said, I love you, my daughter. I love you, my son, but I cannot, I do not want to do it. If I do it now, I will kill you tomorrow. He knows now. He knows. Because these same children of Israel, God killed them. Serpents came into the camp to bite some of these people that he fed. Can you imagine that? Is this too deep for you? You have a responsibility. Say, I'ma figure it out. I'ma figure it out. I'll I'll discern where the distractions are coming from. I'll pick on them, I'll pick them up. Where the distractions are coming from, and the distractions look good. Trust me, they look shiny, they look nice. But it's distractions. Yeah, they come in all kinds of forms: sums of money, relationships, job opportunities. I had a dream, multiple things they distract you. Let's finish up this verse. It says, There went forth a wind from the Lord that brought quails from the sea. Let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. You don't know how high that is. That means that they couldn't walk past there was no space for you to see the ground. There was so much food that you'd finish eating and get so full, and all you have to do is put your hand here and grab another and eat. God was upset here. Look, the Bible says here that God sent so much quail for them to eat, yeah, whilst being upset. What that tells me is that sometimes increase is a curse. In this life, in this life, be spiritual. Sometimes promotion, that promotion is your death certificate.

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Yeah. Have you ever heard of uh that place they send you? It's like an oil rig, right? It's very cold over there. But they send you to to do these are it's a very dangerous job. So you're working in very volatile, very dangerous environments. Okay, I was studying a documentary on it like two years ago. Amen. And I saw a testimony of a gentleman who he got this promotion to go, they will go for like two weeks to like Wales, right? Far to work on this oil place, it's a very dangerous place, and then come back after two weeks. So you can't go home and go back and forth, you have to stay there because you're also exposed to certain radiation and stuff like that. So I have a lot of rules to these places. Um, but when you got this promotion, because they that we're we're looking at about 10,000 USD a week, ten thousand dollars a week. Amen. So if that's if you're employed by an American organization, but if it's a UK organization, we're looking at 10,000 pounds, 9,000, 8,000 a week. Because it's such a dangerous, high-risk job. Anything can happen, and it's even in your contract, that they will not be held liable. And yes, of course, they have the necessary insurances and whatnot. So this gentleman, this young man, very energetic, he got this call-up and he was excited. I get to make this money, 10,000 a week. His wife said, Please don't go. He said, But we've been struggling, we've been struggling. She said, Please don't go. I don't have a good feeling about this. Please don't go. The gentleman went and died there. You went and died there because some increase are distractions and curses to distract you from the real thing. Praise God. But nonetheless, you have the power, as the Bible has told us, you have the power to order that wind to come into your life and change things. These are the two things I want to drive into your spirit today. Open your eyes and look out for the distractions. Praise God. Notice them and run away from them. Get focused. Amen. After after the revelations I've given you today, you you you can be you can be ill and and in lack. And you're staying in there. Praise God. Thank you for listening to Pastor Max's teachings. Make sure to subscribe and for more information, find us at Faith and Victory Wallace.