WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:07.759 Welcome to Global Harvest Calgaries Podcast, where faith becomes real and purpose comes alive. 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:16.960 We pray that today's message helps you recognize the hand of God in your everyday life and discover the unique purpose He has placed inside you. 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:26.480 Our heart is that you don't just hear a sermon, but truly experience his presence, his guidance, and his love in a personal way. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:33.600 Whether you're in a season of searching, rebuilding, or stepping into something new, you're not here by accident. 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:39.200 God is closer than you think, and your purpose is greater than you imagine. 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:41.280 Enjoy the message. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:44.479 And like the place of your tent. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.600 Stretch your tent curtains wide. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.359 Do not hold back. 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:50.960 Lengthen your coats. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:52.880 Strengthen your things. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.560 Therefore, you will spread out of the right hand to the left. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:58.320 I thought somebody would say that. 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:01.920 Therefore, you will spread out of the right hand to the left. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.680 And your descendants will be the designation. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.319 And settled in their desolate nations. 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:09.439 Amen. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:23.680 And I believe strongly in my heart that you have been taking us on the journey saying to us, it's time to all the time. 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.200 And declaring wants to use you and I to achieve those plans. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:35.519 But there's something we must know when you say to you. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:42.480 Imagine we got right now the community, then the community clean up went out outside. 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:51.040 And then if I had one window, where we volunteered the church with a community. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:53.519 So imagine that you've been out there walking. 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.359 I don't want to be on the community guide. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.840 Now we know that it's very important to be good to everyone in the community. 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:01.920 And because we are good. 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:03.599 And you know that. 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:07.599 We know that. 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:13.439 And we're walking. 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:15.280 1 p.m. 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:16.240 2 p.m. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:17.120 3 p.m. 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:29.280 And all of a sudden the coordinator announces what are we going to be doing? 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:31.840 We go to what sets, right? 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.960 So we all eagerly go to this table. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:40.560 In fact, with the speed, which you want, you know, like you just want to drink a lot of water. 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:53.120 And then you get there only to realize that the rate at which you're going to be quenched, or that thirst is going to be quenched, is a function of your container. 00:02:53.439 --> 00:03:06.159 Because the coordinator already said before you came, while you were registering that please, there's going to be water, there's going to be food, but please bring your spoons, bring your forks, bring your cups, bring your water bottles, bring your everything. 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.000 And then you get there. 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:14.400 The water is available. 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.520 The supply is available. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:19.599 The giver is willing. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.919 In fact, he is capable, he's able, and is very willing. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:26.879 Can I have my first picture up, please? 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.039 So, like I said, the water is there. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:45.520 Your face is legit. 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.639 You've been working all day, all morning. 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:56.080 Can you just turn off yeah for a minute there so that we can see? 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:00.080 Because a picture is what is worth a thousand words. 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.199 So somebody comes with a teaspoon. 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.800 The other guy comes with a very tiny cup. 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:19.120 And there's a third one there that came with a bowl. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:24.800 Who do you think is gonna be satisfied quicker? 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.000 So the water is not the problem, right? 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:31.199 The water is not the problem. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:37.120 And imagine you're not saying, I'm thirsty, give me more water, give me more water, and more water is brought. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:39.519 What begins to happen? 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:42.000 Can you put on the second picture, please? 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:59.600 So because you're so thirsty, you need more water, they bring more water, so more water is available, but you haven't increased your capacity to draw from the water, nothing changes. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:08.720 At some point, you have to stop screaming, give me more water, and start saying, I need a bigger container. 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:18.480 Because you've realized that the problem is not water, and in the same vein, the problem is not God, it's not his supply, it's abundant. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:27.360 That he's asked us to occupy is because there's abundance of what he's calling us into. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:37.120 So at some point you have to start screaming, I need a bigger bowl, I need a bigger cup, I need a bigger container, I need a bigger capacity. 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.839 So this is where we begin to say, Lord, increase my capacity. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:55.360 Because sometimes we can turn on the light, please, so that the people um online can enjoy the service too, and they're just not seeing a black screen here. 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:57.439 Amen. 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:14.720 So at some point, you realize that God needs to increase our capacity because sometimes God isn't withholding the blessing, he's waiting on the vessel. 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:36.000 Sometimes it's not because he can't do it now, it's not because it can't be immediate, but he's waiting on you, is waiting on me to increase our capacity to develop into that person that can actually accept and retain what he has for us. 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:36.959 Amen. 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:44.959 So we're talking about increasing capacity, and I'm saying, make room for what God is about to do. 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.079 Tell your neighbor, make room for what God is about to do. 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.120 Turn to somebody else and say, make room for what God is about to do. 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:00.399 When I read that same scripture, Isaiah 54, verse 2 and 3 in TPT, I'm just gonna read from here. 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.439 It says, Increase is coming. 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:14.319 So enlarge your tent, add extensions to your dwelling, hold nothing back, make the tent ropes longer and the peck stronger. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.040 And the reason is very simple. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.040 In verse 3, it says, You will increase and spread out in every direction. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.800 Your sons and your daughters will conquer nations. 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:26.079 Amen. 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.240 And revitalize desolate cities. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.680 That is deep. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:40.800 And I saw an inkling of that yesterday when we had our teens and our um young adults hangout, or open hair crusade, like we like to call it. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:49.040 Young people screaming at the top of their lungs, dancing to gospel songs, unashamed. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:51.279 Unashamed. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:58.879 We didn't care that anybody was looking, we didn't care that some people were getting married, we didn't care that the entire car park was filled with cars. 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:00.959 Amen. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:07.120 Your sons and your daughters will conquer nations and revitalize desolate cities. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:15.600 Hallelujah! So, increase is coming, and the Bible says, increase your tent, enlarge your tent. 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:27.759 Increase is coming, so because increase is coming, you have to increase your capacity, enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.240 Do not spare, do not hold back. 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.159 Look at the language God uses, it talks about enlargement. 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.240 For some of us, yeah, we need God to enlarge our coast. 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.159 It also talks about stretch, extend. 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:49.600 Sometimes stretching is not an easy thing to do. 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.440 Sometimes stretching is not convenient. 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.559 Most of the time, stretching is uncomfortable. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:07.440 It says lengthen, make it longer, it says strengthen, which is make it stronger, right? 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:10.240 Increase your capacity. 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:17.679 And I believe that God is speaking to us as a church because we are yet to see you know the fullness of what he has promised us. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:23.519 But he's saying we need to extend, we need to expand. 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:25.919 Amen. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.200 We need to strengthen, we need to lengthen. 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.960 So God is saying to us, prepare before that increase arrives. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:37.039 Prepare. 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.919 Get ready before it happens. 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:46.960 Because that means that your preparation sometimes, in fact, most of the time, it precedes your manifestation. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.320 Your preparation must precede your increase. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:55.519 Amen, church. 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.559 So, point number one: God wants us to increase our capacity. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.000 And what is capacity? 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:16.240 Capacity is your ability to receive, to carry, to manage, to sustain, and multiply what God places in your hands. 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:19.360 I'll take that again. 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:35.440 It is your ability, your capacity is your ability to carry, to receive, to carry, to manage, to sustain, to multiply what God placed in your hands. 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:40.320 What if God gives you a blessing that your character cannot sustain? 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.879 What if He gives you money, but your wisdom cannot manage it? 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:51.759 The Bible says the fool and his money, they are soon separated. 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:58.080 What if God gave you influence and emotions cannot handle it? 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.240 How many times have we seen on socials? 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:05.039 We've read in the news, somebody of influence and they do something you're wondering, how? 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.240 Why? 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.519 How could this why would you even why would you even do something like that? 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.879 Influence without emotional intelligence. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:21.039 What if God gave you people, but your leadership cannot steward it? 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:30.080 What if God gave you an opportunity that your preparation cannot maximize? 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:37.279 So God is saying, before I enlarge what is around you, I want to enlarge what is within you. 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:40.559 It comes from the inside. 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:54.080 Before I expand you on the outside, before I enlarge what is around you, I need it's important that I enlarge what is in you, what is within. 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.039 It's not comfortable, but it's going to stretch our faith. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:07.600 As it's asking us to occupy, God is going to stretch our faith, it's going to stretch our thinking, it's going to stretch our patience. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.519 Oh, patience. 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.200 You know, there is this um cartoon that I saw. 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:22.399 It says you are saying, um, I have self-control, I have patience, but you are living alone on an island. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.600 How is that even possible? 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:31.440 How do we know you're patient? 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.639 So when you're praying, you need to understand what you're praying for. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.279 If you're saying, God, I need patience, you're saying, God, bring people to test me. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:44.960 Almost to the point of frustration. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:47.039 Amen. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:48.559 Amen. 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:58.000 So God is stretching our stretching our leadership, he's stretching our discipline, he's stretching our vision. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:59.759 How far can you see? 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.360 What's your vision for your life? 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.320 For your family, for your community. 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.960 And sometimes we ask God, why am I going through this? 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:15.360 And God is saying, it's because you need to increase your capacity. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:18.480 Amen. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.960 So tell somebody, this stretching is preparing me. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:28.960 If you believe it, say to somebody again, this stretching is preparing me. 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:36.720 And let me congratulate you if the Lord is stretching you because it shows that something is on the way. 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.960 It's telling you that I have bigger plans for you. 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:42.559 Amen. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:43.919 Amen. 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:53.759 You know, back in the uni, my first hostel, it was all manner, and I'd just give my life to Christ. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:14:01.120 And imagine there were like eight of us, six of us in the room, all manner of human beings. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:06.080 Amen. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:13.759 And being the first child, most of the time, when you say sit down, what do your siblings do? 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.960 They sit down. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.879 When you put your cup there, you can even say you come and carry this cup or you leave it there. 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:20.320 You expect it to be there. 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:22.960 But the story changed quickly. 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.759 And I had just given my life to Christ. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.559 And I was told that you have to be Christ-like. 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.240 And Christ-likeness involved what? 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:33.200 Patience. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.200 In fact, long suffering. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.840 Sometimes you're smiling when you feel like slapping. 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:43.759 Sometimes you're blessing when you feel like cursing. 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.039 But you have a choice at that juncture. 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:53.600 Either to say, What today we'll settle it, then later we'll pick up Christ. 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.840 Or to say, I give myself away. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.360 So you can use me. 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.919 I give myself away. 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:07.039 Amen. 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.399 This stretching is preparing you. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:18.799 And in the same vein, I remembered after I think about two years or three years, I now got into a hostel where it was the fellowship that got the hostel. 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:20.960 So now we're brethren in the room. 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:21.919 Hallelujah. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.120 Life was easier because if my food is down, my food is there. 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.080 If you put your water, nobody, they're not gonna steal anything. 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.240 We are brethren, right? 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:36.399 And one day I thought to myself, I said, Ha, are we setting ourselves up for success or for failure? 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:42.720 Because in the world that you are going out to, it's not a controlled environment. 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:43.919 Amen. 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:51.519 And I know some people that came from year one into that controlled environment, they gave their lives and they moved into that controlled, and everything was good. 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:55.519 But then when you go out there and real life happens. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:00.159 So I remember when I got to year four, I told the fellowship, I said, I'm moving out. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.960 We're like, what's going on? 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.759 I said, moving, living in the room doesn't mean backsliding. 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:06.960 There are two different things. 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:13.360 I said, I'm moving out because what we are doing here, I don't think is sustainable. 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:15.440 Amen. 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:23.200 It's comfortable, very comfortable, and sometimes it could be like you know, even when you wake up in the morning, you don't want to pray. 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:27.759 Somebody's already you will stand up, right? 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.679 You will pray in the morning because other people are praying. 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:34.960 But what when you're alone? 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:43.519 So God is preparing us, amen. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:45.120 Amen. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.240 This stretching is preparedness. 00:16:49.919 --> 00:17:00.559 This stretching is preparedness, and you get to the workplace to sometimes you look at the face of the person talking to you, and you are listening to what they are saying, and your brain is calculating that. 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:01.759 What is this? 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.319 And you smile and you walk away. 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:12.319 Well, I hope not from the fear of not losing your job, but because you're supposed to be there as a light to shine in the darkness. 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:13.279 Amen. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:15.119 Amen. 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:30.000 So God will stretch us, and he expects us to yield to that stretching because that is where the growth is, that is where the business, the opportunity is, that is where that occupying can actually happen. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:31.599 Amen. 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:34.319 So, point number two. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.200 Stop asking God only for more. 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.720 Ask God to help you be more. 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.400 Ask God to help you be more. 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:52.000 We're very good at praying. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:57.039 God give me more money, God give me more opportunities, more clients, more businesses. 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:02.160 I need more people, I need more influence, I need a bigger platform. 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:07.039 But what if our prayers begin to change subtly? 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.279 That God make me more capable to carry more. 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:28.079 Make me more capable to handle what you're bringing my way, develop in me, grow in me the capacity to be able to carry to bear what you're bringing my way. 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:40.160 Sometimes, you know, in the course of life when I'm working and I'm talking to people who are doing their financial needs, and people say to me almost regularly, that you know what, I've touched money before. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:05.920 Amen. 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:07.680 Amen. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:14.960 If God blessed you in Nigeria, Canada is not too far for the hands of God. 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:16.559 Amen. 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:33.599 If you experience miracle upon miracles upon miracles in Nigeria, it's the same God, it's the same you, it can be replicated here. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:36.480 Hallelujah. 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:43.599 God give me the capacity to be able to carry more because more money with the wrong mindset, of course, will create problems. 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.960 If you have influence and poor character, it will lead to a greater damage. 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:49.920 Amen. 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:53.920 And then poor leadership will create confusion. 00:19:54.160 --> 00:20:06.160 So the blessing is not just what comes into your hands, the blessing is becoming the person that can handle and sustain what God is bringing to you. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:15.839 So I'm saying, God, help me to be ready, help me to grow more, help me to be more conscious of where you're taking me to. 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:29.759 What? 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.359 To move in the direction of the increase you're seeking. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:34.079 Because what? 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:36.400 If wishes were horses, what would happen? 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.400 Beggars would ride. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:52.319 If I can just say I say, Oh man, I just if God can just bless me and I hold a uh outdoor crusade, an event, and then 5,000 souls came to Christ. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.599 Is it possible? 00:20:54.480 --> 00:21:04.240 But there's work to be done, and that's why I said last week that the blessing you are asking for is on the other side of the work you don't want to do. 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:08.960 It's on the other side of it. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.880 So if you're thinking, I want to become the manager in that organization. 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.279 Are you willing to walk in the direction of that increase? 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:31.279 You have to seek knowledge, you have to become more matured, you must be able to lead people, to carry people, carry their weight on your back without bending, without flinching. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.359 We must increase capacity. 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:34.799 Amen. 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:41.440 We must increase our capacity for knowledge if we're going to be able to occupy. 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:45.920 The Bible says my people are destroyed for lack of what? 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.119 And we know that there are places that your current knowledge cannot take you. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:55.680 In fact, if you get into such rooms, you'd better keep your mouth shut and listen. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:58.960 Because the moment you open it, they already know where your level is. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:05.759 Because we always say that once you enter into your mind, you start talking, just one minute we can tell. 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:10.079 Amen. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:11.599 Amen. 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:20.640 So we have to be willing to learn, we have to be willing to read, we have to be willing to study, ask questions, get around people that know. 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.119 Get around people that know. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:35.920 Canada is a community that most people say, yeah, it's everybody, you know, we're to get each for each by themselves. 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:42.720 But we also know that if you're gonna move forward quickly in this community, you've got to network. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:46.799 And it's not because you're a believer, people will come and be knocking on your door. 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:47.839 Hey, Mr. 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:49.839 Sam, they don't even know you're a pastor. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:56.079 They say, uh, Sam, Sam, you know, I just I was thinking yesterday and I couldn't stop thinking about you. 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.079 So I said, I'm gonna come check you up in your house. 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:00.079 And then one person knocks and they comes in, they sit down. 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:05.200 Another person comes, oh Sam, you know, I was thinking about you yesterday, and I'm thinking you need a community, right? 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:06.160 You say, Yes, yes, yes. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.039 Come on, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:08.240 That's why I came to visit you. 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:10.559 The number two, it's not gonna happen. 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:15.119 Sam is gonna have to go outside to go and find the community. 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:24.880 And I always say, if you sit down and you think here that you know there's something missing, I wish, I wish somebody would, you know, who that person already is. 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:37.680 It's you if there's something missing in your community and you see it, in fact, the fact that you can identify it shows that you've been given that assignment, most likely. 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:42.720 So, what we need to do yet is move in the direction of that increase. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:46.480 Move in the direction of that increase. 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:53.440 If you want to, if you want to, I said get around people that know. 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:57.519 If you want to lead, lead people, you must learn leadership. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:03.359 If you want to build a business, you must learn the business. 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.119 If you want to build wealth, you must learn about wealth. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:12.720 If you want to influence your generation, you must study the generation. 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:14.319 Amen. 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:18.480 There were some things I learned yesterday from just hanging out with these wonderful people. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:20.960 Sometimes we don't want to clap, we do something instead. 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.759 And I was like, ooh, there you go. 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:26.640 Amen. 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:30.559 And I was like, wow, okay, I'll take it. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:31.839 That's amazing. 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:37.119 If you want to influence your generation or a generation, you must study that generation. 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:41.200 You want to influence teenagers. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:45.839 In fact, the Lord is your muscle. 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:49.200 Amen. 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:54.480 If you want to influence your generation, you must study your generation. 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:04.799 Your next level may be hiding in that information, that knowledge that you are yet to acquire. 00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:07.279 For some of us, you'll be. 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:10.240 I wrote, I said, go back to school. 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:12.559 Say to your neighbor, go back to school. 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.400 Say to your neighbor, go back to school. 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:22.079 Okay, say to your neighbor, I will go back to school. 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:26.559 Amen. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:42.480 See, I'm not necessarily talking about physical school, I'm talking about the school of learning, the school of humility, the school of mentorships, the school of books, study. 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:45.440 The Bible says study to show yourself approved. 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:46.319 Amen. 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.960 If it's engineering, store D. 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:54.240 Human resources, study, study. 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:56.559 What are the new trends? 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:58.799 What is happening in your world? 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:02.880 Enroll in the school of wisdom. 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:05.599 Enroll in the school of what? 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:06.640 Experience. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:11.200 And I know that some of us, most of us, we when we hear school, you know, that thing we don't. 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:18.400 I remember when I finished my first degree, I said, Ah, God, school, me and school, let this be the end. 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:19.839 That I am done. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.880 If I remember very well, I know that I raised my hands up to God. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.400 I said, God, you will help me get through this engineering course. 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:27.279 No more. 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:31.039 And I'm sure God will be like, uh, really? 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:34.880 Your journey is still far. 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:35.440 Amen. 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:36.640 Really? 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:39.680 Because that was as far as I could see then. 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:48.319 But as knowledge, exposure, I realized that, ah, shoot, maybe I need a master's. 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.680 And I quickly went to grab one, University of Lagos. 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.000 And I started studying the trends. 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:59.119 I saw again that maybe you need an away from Nigeria masters. 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.440 Somebody that says I'm done with studying. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:04.000 I ended up having two masters in civil engineering. 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.039 So I went again to the UK to go and get another one. 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:12.079 And would you know that those journeys they were difficult? 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:13.759 Because the second one I was already married. 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:16.400 In the first one, I was writing my final paper before I got married. 00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:20.559 The second one I was married, I had to leave my husband and my child at home to go. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.680 It was one of the toughest decisions of my life. 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.480 Many nights I will cry, like, what are you looking for? 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:32.240 In fact, some of my colleagues, they could, when they hear that you already have a master, the question is so, what are you looking for? 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:36.640 But God is preparing you. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:41.119 This stretching is not for nothing, it's because of something. 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:46.799 And eventually, when it came time to come to Canada, it was those two masters that saved my life. 00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:50.000 Because I was the last generation of paper application. 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.880 So it was a different kind of point base than what they do now. 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:57.119 Amen. 00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:58.480 Amen. 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:04.160 The blessing that you're looking for is on the other side of the work that you don't want to do. 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:07.680 Sometimes it's on the other side of the person you don't want to talk to. 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:10.160 The knowledge. 00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.799 Increase your capacity to for character because this is very important. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:23.519 Now, a gift can open the door, but character will keep you in the room. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.160 Should I say that again? 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:28.240 A gift can open the door for you. 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:30.799 You can talk in a meeting, and somebody says, Ah, you know what? 00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:35.759 That you know that guy, the way he was speaking, we need to pull him in. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.440 Bring him on the committee, and they bring you there. 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:43.759 But will character keep you in there? 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:51.359 Joseph had a gift, David had a gift, Samson had a gift. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:56.079 King Saul had a gift. 00:28:57.119 --> 00:28:58.799 But gifting is not enough. 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.279 So God is looking for people that can be trusted for what they are asking for. 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:04.240 Amen. 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:09.279 So the question is: can God trust you with influence? 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:12.720 Can God trust you with money? 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.920 Can God trust you with secrets? 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:18.000 People's secrets. 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:22.720 Some of us we are horrible gossips. 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:28.000 In the name of bro, let's pray for, you know, ah, Sammy, please, we need to pray for Sanami. 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:32.720 You know, Sanami is going through a lot, oh ah, that girl, she's going through a mighty lot. 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:38.799 And then you begin to say everything she's going through. 00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:42.880 Do you need to explain everything before we pray? 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:45.759 Because we're not praying to, I'm not praying to Salami. 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:47.440 She's not praying to me, we're praying to God. 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:50.480 And before I came, God already knew. 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:51.519 Amen. 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:54.160 Can God trust you with people? 00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:01.119 Can He trust you to take care of young people, the people in your life, even at your workplace? 00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:02.160 Can He trust you? 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.400 Because there are God's people in there. 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:07.599 In the marketplace, there are God's people in there. 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.440 Can He trust you? 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:12.799 Can He trust you when no one is watching? 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:14.960 Can He trust you when you're successful? 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.359 Can He trust you when you're promoted? 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:26.400 Because sometimes the greatest test of character is not adversity, it is abundance. 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:30.720 Amen. 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.839 Lord, increase my character to match my calling. 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:39.440 God give me capacity. 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:43.039 Hallelujah. 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:50.319 Increasing capacity for money. 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.440 In my opinion, ability to make wealth is a function of two things. 00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:01.759 One is your giving, the other is your value. 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:04.960 And I say this because we're spiritual beings. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:09.200 I always say to us that we are spirit beings that we are having a human experience, right? 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:12.400 So this is not all that there is to me. 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:13.440 I'm just here. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.920 This is a transition zone for us. 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.839 We're going back to eternity where we came from. 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:25.279 So, yes, we need capacity to make money because these are part of things that will make our life here. 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:28.000 This this transition smoother. 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:37.519 If you are asking God, bless me, bless me monitorally, what value do you have? 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.519 Every single time you say, What do you have in your hands? 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:44.799 What do you have in your hands? 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:51.039 That woman whose husband, the wife of the prophet that died, and says, Oh, help me. 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:53.519 They are coming to take my children, my two sons. 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:55.039 What did the prophet ask? 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.119 What do you have in your house? 00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:58.319 Amen. 00:31:58.640 --> 00:31:59.680 And that is one story. 00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:00.160