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Welcome to Global Harvest Calgary's podcast, where faith becomes real and purpose comes alive. 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. 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. Whether you're in a season of searching, rebuilding, or stepping into something new, you're not here by accident. God is closer than you think, and your purpose is greater than you imagine. Enjoy the message.

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So we thank God because as a church, as a people, is launching us into this, he has launched us, I beg your pardon, into the supernatural. Amen. Amen. And we know that as people of God, as children of God, we're meant to constantly and consistently walk in the supernatural. Amen. And I also realize that the supernatural is always dramatic. You know, sometimes there is a thunder, there is the rain, there is the wind, there is a fire, but sometimes it's just in the quietness. Amen. So it's not always dramatic, sometimes it's in the quietness. And if it were dramatic, we would not be expected to consistently and continuously walk in it. Because how much of drama can you sustain in your life on a daily basis? But we're saying that whether it's morning, noon, or night, we are to walk in the supernatural. And last Sunday, PF did a good job on you know walking us through that unstoppable victory in Christ Jesus. Amen. How many of you remembered service last Sunday? It was amazing. And then on the other day, we went on to look at the ministry of angels because these are the things, this is our heritage in Christ Jesus, right? These are the things that are that are ours in Christ Jesus. And one of the things we realize quickly is we are gonna need the ministry of angels. It means that life is not a playground. Even in playground, there are fights. Have you ever followed a child to the playground and they start throwing sands at each other and saying, leave, it's my I got there first. So even at playground, I'm saying that it's not always fun. But life is definitely not a playground, it is a battlefield. And as Christians, we face all manner of attacks. Sometimes it could be spiritual, it could be mental, it could be emotional. You know, we face temptations, we face fear, we face discouragement, we face deception, we face opposition in different phases of our lives and in different stages of our lives. Sometimes we look around and we're wondering what's going on. But we thank God that He has not left us defenseless. Amen. He has provided our armor, he's given us solution, he's given us way out so that we can stand firm and live victoriously. Somebody shout, Amen. God expects us as people to stand firm and to live victoriously. And Paul, in writing to the Ephesians, because every time we talk about standing strong, where do we go to? Church. We go to the book of Ephesians, and where do we go then? About the armor of God. We go to chapter six, amen. So, and that's exactly what I did when this topic was given to me. I went to Ephesians chapter six, and then I started to read from the book of um from verse 10, and I'm gonna read. But as I read, the Lord began to nudge me in a different direction. I'm like, God, this is not conventional. When we're talking about standing strong, we look at the armor, amen. And Ephesians chapter 6, verse 10 to 18 from the NIV. Oh my god, media is in the spirit. Hallelujah! Amen. So he says, Finally, church says finally, he says, Finally be strong in the Lord and his mighty power. Put on the all the full armor of God so that you can take your stand. Church says, Stand against the devil's schemes. For we struggle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground. Church says stand. And after you've done all to stand, do what again? Stand firm. Amen. So he now tells us how to stand firm. He says, with the belt of truth buckled round your waist, with the best place of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all of this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the element of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is what the word of God. 18, and it says, Pray in the spirit on all occasions, and on and on and on and on. And I look at the list, I'm like, Yeah, these are beautiful things as believers that we should know and understand. You know, we talk about the the belt of truth, the breastplate, the shoes, the shield. But you know, as I kept, you know, just brooding on that and asking God for inspiration, he says, Go back to the first place you read. And I went back to Ephesians chapter 6, verse 10. And what did we see there? What does the Bible say again? Finally. And in the power, amen. So if I say now, so this is the final part of my sermon, or I come up and say, Finally, brethren, you'll be like, you've not even started the message. Why are you talking finally? Do you understand where I'm going with that? You don't start a conversation with finally. So he took me to the book of Ephesians and I started reading. And he took me on this journey. And this journey through the book of Ephesians will eventually land us in first Samuel chapter 17. But first, Ephesians. So finally, before you hear the word finally, there had to be something that's pre that is assumed that has been spoken. Some events have happened. Church, are you with me this morning? Or you are so cold you're asleep. No. Okay. So I went, I started from Ephesians chapter 1, and I started reading. And I read the entire of the six chapters. And as I read, I saw that Ephesians chapter six talks about attacks. The entire chapter. But it begins to break it down. So there are generally three attacks we face. The first one is in our mind. This one talks about our identity. The second one is our work. We talked about our relationship with each other and the way we relate with the world. And then finally, it talks about the spiritual attacks. And you know, I began to look at it again, and I saw that the first three chapters, six chapters, five close on six, right? But one, two, three. Paul focused on our identity in Christ. Chapter one talks about who we are in Christ. Two talks about what God has done for us. And chapter three talks about his purpose for our lives. And I realized all of a sudden, guys, identity is everything. It's your value. Amen. Amen. It defines everything. When you were coming to church this morning, did you wonder should I go to Triwood or should I go to um North Point or should I go to downtown for service? Did you did you did you have that debate in your heart? It was clear where we're going. Why? Because you know that church comes to Triwood. So when you got here, again, I want to check out. How many of you thought should I come to JT or should I go to Collingwood? JT Strait. Nobody thought about Collingwood. Why? We usually have service here, and if we're going to Collingwood, what would happen? There would have been a notice. You would know. So when you were coming, it was straightforward. You came directly to JT in Drywood, because this is where we normally serve. This is where this is who we are. Imagine when you got here, you saw a different banner at the door. What would be your response? What's going on here? Because in your mind, this is our space, at least for this morning. Amen. It's the same thing with Adenqu. When you know who you are, who you are in Christ, it begins to form the foundation of everything you do with Christ. When you know what God has done for you, it begins to make you rethink the way you deal with yourself and think about yourself and talk to yourself. And then lastly, when you know the purpose that God has for you, it gives you hope regardless of where you are currently. Amen. Church, are you with me this morning? In the book of Matthew, chapter 16, from verse 13, you know, Jesus was asking the disciples. The first thing he said in verse, um, let me see here, he said, Who do men say that I, the son of man, is or am? Amen. Who do people say? So look at it. It sounds like, who do people say the son of man is? The son of man is the son of man. He already knows who he is. So he's now asking you, who do people say I am? And Peter says, Oh, some says you are, you know, some says you are Jeremiah, some says you are Elijah, some says you are the Baptist, some says you are one of the prophets. And Jesus now asked him, so what's your take? What's your position? Who do you say I am? And thank God for Peter. He says, You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. And Jesus says to him, flesh and blood are not revealed this thing to you. So you know who I am, you know my identity. And based on his identity, we know how to deal with him. Amen. Amen. So identity is key. That's why chapter 1 to 3 focused on identity. When a child is a child, it doesn't matter who his father is, he's treated like a child. In fact, the Bible tells us in the book of Galatians, chapter 4, verse 1, it says, as long as the air remaineth a child, it's not different from a slave. When we give birth to children, the first thing we do is what? We name them. Why do we name them? To give them an identity. Because that is what they are going to grow into, that's what they are going to walk into, that's gonna define everything they do in their lives. Amen. So here is what I mean. When a man dies, this is the WE version, his son is to receive his property. But as long as the son is not grow up, grown up, he cannot have it. He has no more right than the servant, even though he really owns all the property. But the day that child knows number one, who he is, what his father has done, and the plan of the father for him, what do you think happens? It changes, it changes everything. The day you know who you are in Christ Jesus, the day you know that before the beginning of time, God has designed that you will be here. It changes everything. And then when you realize that it didn't just design for you to be here, that he had paid the ultimate price, he gave you the best of heaven, then it changes everything the more. And then you then you now realize it's purpose for your life. It changes everything. When we're growing up, we had carers in the home, and they would give us a pup, and they would put one sugar in there. One cube of sugar. And think about it. I'm talking about not the pup that you take off the shelf that we know in Canada, the one that's been soaked and it's very tangy. They put one cube of sugar and they now pour water on top of it, so that if you pour the water, guess what is gone? Your sugar is gone. If you mix it, it becomes very, very fluidy, and then you know, and they will take four or five, and you can see, and you can do nothing. But the day a child becomes a son and realizes when I real the day I realized that man, I'm grown. No more cubes for Kemi. If I'm not waiting for them to put the cube in my pop, if I'm not even drinking the pop, because I don't want pop this morning. Amen. Do you understand where I'm going with this? The day a child realizes who they are in Christ, the day you realize, really, really realize who you are in Christ, it changes everything. So our identity changes everything, it changes how we stand. This morning, truth be told, how many of you considered should I come, should I not come? Truthfully, hallelujah. Thank God for the saints in the house. But some of you came because you had no choice. I'm the one singing, I'm the one backing up, I'm the one that I'm the one preaching. Amen. You have no choice because now you have an identity, and it doesn't matter how you feel, whether you have a headache, your thumb is pain, your legs are aching, you will rob whatever you have to rob, and you get to church because of your identity. But this same us, if we were in other churches where they're like many people and nobody knows you, what do you do? It's still identity. You join online, and then while you are joining, paper hallelujah. So identity is everything. So chapter one to three, it talks about identity. Chapter two, um, four and five, it focuses on our work. Paul talks about how we should live, and five talks about how we should love, it talks about unity, maturity, purity, and our relationships. It begins to try and you know, move from doctrines into practical living. So the first thing is your mind needs to be able to conceptualize who you are in Christ, and then based on who you are, you go and live in the world. Paul calls believers, you know, he tells us that he encourages us to put off the old self and put on the new self, right? And he teaches us to walk in love, to walk in purity, to walk in wisdom, to walk in maturity, holiness, and in light. It gives us instruction on how should you deal with your spouse, how should we deal with our children, how children should deal with their parents, amen. And he compares the love that Christ has for the church to the love between the husband and wife. What he's saying here is now that you know who you are, let your lifestyle reflect your identity in Christ. Who you are should determine how you live. That's why the Bible says that we are not like unbelievers that have no hope. If we lose someone and they are in Christ, we do not weep and jump into the grave with them. Because we resurrection is coming. Amen. Every time I think about my earthly father, I just say resurrection is coming. And that morning. That morning. Amen. So who you are should determine how you live. And then finally, it goes to the third chapter, chapter six, where he talks about the weapons of our warfare, our victory. So remember, we started with saying that we face attacks in different dimensions in our mind, in our work, and then we talk about the spiritual component of things. So let me bring this home. I pray God helps me here. The weapons of our warfare is not going to serve us as it should if our identity is not intact, and if our work is not sound. Let me say that again. The weapons of our warfare, and I know what I'm talking about. We're talking about the breastplate, we're talking about the helmet, we're talking about you know your faith, your the word of God, we're talking about all of these things, we're talking about praying in talks, praying always. It will not serve us as it should. If our identity is not intact and our walk is not solid, first Samuel chapter 17, verse 1. It's quite a lengthy one. I'm gonna read it. I mean, just keep from there. We already know the story of Uncle David and Goliath. Amen. First Samuel chapter 17, verse 1. So verse 1 says, Now the Philistines gathered their forces at war for war and assembled as soccer in Judah. And it went on and on. Verse 10. Then the Philistine, now talking about Goliath, he says, This day I defy the army of Israel. Give me a man and let us fight each other. Verse 11 on hearing the Philistines' words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed, and they were what? Terrified. For 40 days, men and brethren, the Philistine came forward every morning and evening, and he took his stand. And verse 20. And in the morning, David left the flock in care of the shepherd and loaded up and set out as Jesse had directed, because his father said, Go give your brothers, you know, some supplies in the war. So he got to the camp. He read the camp as the enemy, as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. So I just want to tell a little bit of story here. There was gonna be war, Philistines and the people of God. Every day they would gather themselves. The Bible says here that amen. Verse 20, it says, He when he got to the camp, as the army of Israel, they were going out into their battle positions, they were shouting war cry. So every morning for 40 days they will come out shouting and screaming like they've got the power. Amen. And verse 23. As he was talking to them, David, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from the lines and shouted his usual defiance. Meaning it's not the first time, right? Usual. And David heard it. Verse 24. Let's read that together. Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from in great fear. Now, I need you to say this. 40 days, morning. We come, hey, we're gonna fight. The man shows up, we run away. Second day, we come out, hey, we're gonna fight. The man shows up, they run away. 40 days. This was going on. Amen. The Bible says they fled in great fear, just because of one man. Yes, Goliath was over nine feet tall and heavily armed, so it made the Israelites to be afraid. And David asked before going to the fact, there was a ransom put on Goliath's head. They said that any man that conquers this man, first off, the king was gonna give him a lot of wealth. Next, he was gonna give him his daughter to marry. Number three, we're gonna be tax-free for the rest of their lives. Canadian speak to me, amen. Hey, hallelujah! Amen. And David, when he got there, he heard all the rumblings and the fight. The man got angry, but he did not go out in anger. He said, What will be he wanted to be sure what is the price for this man? What is the value of this man that is standing and defying the armies of God? And he said, First, great wealth. Secondly, oh, you have a wife or free. Number three, tax free for all your generations. And then the man was ready to war. Again, he wanted to understand the value of the battle he was fighting. So, verse 49, still in that first Samuel chapter 17. Can we go to New King James version now? Amen. Thank you. Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a slinger and a stone and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of the sheath, and killed him, killed him and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they did what? They fled. And then the men of Israel and Judah rose and shouted, and they pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley and to the gate of Ekron. Amen. So again, let's look at this clearly. A man was carrying everybody. We know the price on him. And David said, Bring it up. And you remember, if you've read that story, that they tried to put a lot of things on him. The guy said, I can't walk with this thing because I'm not used to it. But this guy that is defying the army of God today, you're coming down. The same way God gave me, you know, the head of I'm bringing you down. And the Bible says that when Goliath saw David coming, but like, are you guys are you guys for real? He disdained him. Amen. He disdained him. No. He ran and with a sling, he hit the Goliath on the forehead. And the Bible says that Goliath fell. Church, we are Bible scholars. When Goliath fell, Fell, did he die immediately? So now imagine. Because we're talking about identity, he has been the key to everything we do, right? When that stone, have you ever seen a man that has concussion before? They lose, they lose everything. They don't even, they can't remember their name for that brief moment. So the guy was like, Oh, what's going on? What's going on? Who am I? Am I uh and then down he fell. What would you have thought? So, again, where I'm going there with that is in that instant, Goliath lost his identity. Church, Goliath lost his identity.

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What do you think should have happened to his army?

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So imagine that if Goliath fell and the army, his army came forward, surrounded him, and tried to lift him up. Do you think these are gonna come and fight? No, your identity, your relationship with the world, your brethren, your people, the church of God. Because their identity was tied into the identity of Goliath, they ran, left him behind. Amen. And the question is, even the armor bearer, because the Bible said he had an armor bearer that was bearing the armor in front of him, the guy dropped, brought dropped armor and ran. Church, if we don't know who we are, in fact, the Bible says that David now ran to him, took his, oh, because David, the Bible says David had no sword. So David didn't know how to speak in tongues. He took the man's sword and used it to kill him and then cut off his head. Church, if you don't know your identity, the armor will not work as a. If you are not careful, it will become it will become a tool in the hands of your enemies. God forbid. So we need to know who we are, and that's why sometimes we come to this country. Most of us here believe that coming to Canada was a miracle in itself. And now you are here. What do I hear? Ah, this country they just want us to come because they are looking for people that will do all these odd jobs. Oh, this country is so difficult. Oh, this country just pay tack for the rest of your life. Oh, this country just I bro.

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Amen.

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Amen. A child, as long as he remaineth a child, is subject to all the rules and the laws of the slaves. In fact, he is worse than a slave until the time when he comes to the full realization of who he is in Christ Jesus. And this, in my opinion, breaks the heart of God. Because we as believers, we forget our identity, we forget who we are. We see a little bit of challenge that we start to become jittery. Oh, life is happening to you, and you refuse to stand up, you begin to wonder, oh, this is like the children of Israel. He brought us here to come and kill us. Amen. Your identity in Christ Jesus. Who are you? Who are you? What has he done for you? And what is his purpose for you? He says, You are the light of the world, you are the salt of the earth.

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That's what he says.

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And he says, Our light affliction. It's not for a moment. These things are but for a moment, church. Oh, I'm looking for this. I need this. I want it right now, and you don't have it. Oh, I've applied 20 times, I've not gotten any response. Our light afflictions, church. It doesn't change who you are. Oh, but this project of wanting to do and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. Our light afflictions, church. It doesn't change who you are. And it doesn't change who God is. And I found something very interesting. When I was looking at the picture of Saul, you would see that every time he just wore the helmet, it was not covering his forehead and all of that. Maybe I don't know. I don't have time for all of that. Maybe I don't know, some other time. When you look at the armor of Christ or the armor of God, the element covers up to the forehead. I think the church is learning. It covers up to the forehead so that even if you throw a stone, it's hitting the metal. But the but again, the battle has shifted. It's no longer about the forehead anymore. As God helps us, there's going to be a teaching on that. The eyes are open, the mouth is open.

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Because those are the gates to the mind. Amen. The Lord will help us in Jesus' name. Amen. The devil looked at Jesus.

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If you are the son of God, turn the stone to bread. Who was he trying to attack? His identity. If you are the son of God, if really you are the son of God, do this. Has life battered you so much that your identity is dented? You're so overwhelmed, overwhelmed, and you seem to have temporarily lost the sense of who you are in Christ Jesus. You doubt yourself, you doubt the system, you doubt all the miracles that you have ever experienced in your life. And you doubt who God is to you. You look at your situation and you wonder, like Gideon. Judges chapter 6, verse 11. And the angel came and sat under the ark in Ophra, and that belongs to Joash, the Aberzite. And when his son Gideon was threshold in the wine press to keep it from the Midianites, when the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior. And Gideon said, Pardon me, my Lord. If the Lord is with us, why has all of these things happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt? And now the Lord has abandoned us. And then all of you suddenly remembers that sometimes mothers forget. He said, Even if they do, I will never forget you. Rebecca prayed. She wanted a child. And eventually the Lord answered her. Double for her trouble. And then Rebecca began to think, Why is this happening to me? Why is there this turmoil in the inside of me? We want the miracles. We don't want the process. We want to live life. We don't want to war. We don't want to battle. Amen. Amen. You have to be standing to take the armor of God. You have to be upstanding. He says, finally be strong in the Lord. Put on the armor that you might be able to take your stand against the wiles and the schemes of the devil. When the day of evil comes, he didn't say if it comes, you must be able to stand. And he now says, stand firm then with the belt of truth. That is verse 14. So he assumes you're already standing. And the reason the place where we stand is in our mind. It's in our mind. If you're not standing, you can't be picking anything. If I tell you, if I say, Dademo, stand firm. Or let me show you how to stand. The next thing I expect is that you're gonna get up to come and watch. You're not gonna sit down where you are and be saying, okay, how should I stand? You stand first. When we're in high school, I went to the kind of school where the gate man had a stick. So what typically happens is we were in the boarding house, we're not allowed to go out during break. But some of us we like to go out, children of disobedient. Thank God for Jesus. So when we're coming towards the gate, we begin to size up the man. If the man is sitting, even though he had a cane in his hands, we're don't get me wrong. We need our armor, we need our helmet, we need our shield of faith, we need all of those things. But the first thing is start here so that we do not drop our armor and run. So that we don't drop it and run. Child of God, you're precious, you're valuable, you are bought with a price. God moved the entire of heaven and earth to get you to where you are today. You need to know who you are in Christ Jesus, you need to know your value in Christ Jesus. Because without value, abuse is inevitable. If I see a fly on the wall now and I'm like, ah, I need to kill this fly, typically, for some of us, what do we pick? Flippers. But if I chill this mic, you're gonna be like, oh. In fact, PF is gonna go red, like eh. Amen. Because of the value we place on what I'm opening. The heart of God, the mind of God, is that when you wake up on a daily basis, you understand how much you're loved, how much you're how precious you are to him. That no matter what you're going through, it doesn't change the fact that he loves you. Standing in front of you this morning is Olua Kemi than Ola be supernatural. That supernatural is what defines me. That's what defines me. That's what gives me the hope. That's what gives me the effantry to be able to attach and attract and attack things that typically you say is out of my league. Because as Kemi, I was probably nobody. But when you hear my last name, like, oh ah, I know her husband. Even if you wanted to try to mess with me, you would think twice. Yes, amen. But now I'm saying that on top of that, there is a supernatural behind my name. Amen. That even Mr. Dan cannot mess with me because I am Kermit and all I'll be supernatural. Amen. It changes everything. So this week, God is asking you, do you know who you are? Do you know what he has done? And do you know his purposes for your life? When you know you have boldness, boldness to attack that project, boldness to go back there and write that letter again, boldness to reach out, boldness to try to attain to what the Lord has already given you. Boldness in Christ Jesus. Church, we need to stand and stand firm. We hold our own place, we don't shift. The devil will come in different many directions. And until we lose our identity, we have not lost anything. And peradventure, sometimes we forget. That's why we come back to church for a recharging. You remember the five and chapter four and five. That's why we stay with this brethren so that even if one falls, the other can do what? Pull him up. That's why PF will call you and say, How are you doing? And if you're not fine, you can say, PF, it gets as it be. And then you know you are getting encouragement. Amen. Amen. We need ourselves, but first we need to know who we are. You know that you belong to this body, you are part of this family.

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Standing strong.

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Standing strong. Standing strong in God. Standing in the awareness of what he has done and what his plans and purposes are for you. The last illustration I'm gonna use is I always joke that when I got my visa and came to Canada, because of the hype on the internet that Canada is looking for engineers, they are looking, they are looking, they are looking for people, they are looking for workforce. I almost thought that the moment I landed at the airport, I would see, like, you know how you see banner saying, Amen. You see how you will see that banner and there'll be some people's names. So you know they're the ones to pick you up at the airport. Somewhere in my very naive mind, I almost would not have been shocked, honestly. If I seen welcome Kemi Dano Labi to Canada, I tell you the truth. Because in my mind, I felt the country was ready for me. But then you get to the plane, you land, the first thing that hits you is the cold. I had the case of a man that literally ran back into the plane. He refused to get down. They had to drag him down that bro, you have landed. Like, true story. He didn't want to get out of the plane, and then you get on the plane and you begin to go through all the customers, they begin to ask you all of these things, and then you settle, you are fine, you are trying to settle the first one week, boost, it hits you. What am I doing here? The first month, the second month, the third month, you begin to wonder, God.

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Amen. Children of God, yes, he did send you.

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He did send you, and in the fullness of time, he will make everything perfect. But it takes time. Even Jesus, when he was born, he didn't die the day he was born. He had to first grow into maturity. He had to grow into maturity, he has to learn hard work, he had to learn how to carry a cross by walking in the house of a carpenter. Because they carry wood in that place. Amen. Some of us, if we were to carry that cross, we will not last one minute. So you had to learn because in everything there is a sequence of events. So where you are right now is not your final destination, it's not the end point. You are work in progress. But the material doesn't change in the process of the work, it is still the innate material. You are a child of God, you are precious in the sight of the Most High God, He values you, you are valuable. Say to yourself, I'm valuable. Say to yourself again, I'm valuable. Call your name and say, Kemi, I am very valuable.

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I'm valuable to God. Add that to it.

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And that should settle everything. So probably next week, I don't know, as the Lord will lead PF. Maybe we'll now go into the armor. And then we now say, now that we are standing, what are we carrying? But let nothing bow down your head, let no situation bow down your head, child of God. Let no scenario, let no word from any man make you bow down your head. I think I've told the story before when I first got my first engineering job here, and my project manager looked at me and said, She didn't even look. That was another. I almost felt like nothing. To walk into a man's office and doesn't even acknowledge your existence. I was telling my engineering manager, just tell her to stay away from my guys. How am I gonna work with these guys as an engineer if I'm to stay away from them? I'm human too. And for a moment I felt this job is a miracle. I literally didn't even write a single application letter for this. I interviewed first before I wrote the application letter. Because the engineering manager interviewed me and said, Okay, I really like what I'm hearing. So you know what? There is a process on you need to write, and then so that we can finalize this. So tell me if that is not enough of a miracle. So I would have thought that when I got there, there would have been a ban and say, Hey, KDO, welcome.

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What is this?

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Immediately, something rose in the inside of me. I'm like, oh my god, if only you knew who was standing in front of you, you will stand up to acknowledge me. Because in the inside of me, I carry the entire blessings of heaven. I walk in here, blessings walking. This project is going to be successful because I am here. So if only you knew, and I say, God, ah, oh, cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha. Sometimes anger needs to well up in the inside of you based on who you are, and you tell tell that situation enough. And things change quickly to the point that the guy will start telling the superintendent, better go and talk to Kemi. Make sure that you are holding her tight whenever you want to make any decision. So the point that he went, I he got me, well, I think it was 2017. He got me a 2018 truck in 2017. That was a man that would not acknowledge my presence. So I'm saying, don't allow it. Don't allow it. Church, always be standing, always be on your feet, always be conscious of who you are. Yes, I might just be walking around as a financial advisor. I'm not just an ordinary financial advisor. I might be in that school as a student, I'm not an ordinary student. I might be walking in that place. I'm an associate, I'm not an ordinary associate. This is associate supernatural. Amen. Whatever you're doing, you're not ordinary church. And you need to know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that nobody can take away who you are. It might somebody walking up to you and saying, Oh, you know what? You are no longer Kemi Danova. Now your name is Kemi Chunchunchun. I'm like, What are you high? I can't. That's who I am. That's my name. You are who you are in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah. Is somebody gonna stand strong this morning? Church, stand up on your feet and let's give God a praise.

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