Before You Explore The Jakpa Bandwagon 2

Thinking of relocating abroad? Before you jump on the “Jakpa” trend, this episode uncovers the vital truths many people ignore. Dr Olumide Emmanuel shares practical, faith-based insights to help you make wise, informed decisions—spiritually, financially, and strategically.

Don’t move with the crowd—move with clarity and purpose.

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Amen. Okay. So last week's Sunday we started a series and um it has created some controversies because of the generation that we live in. That is a is a generation of lazy people. People that are mentally lazy and physically lazy, that are not going to take time to go and do their due diligence. And then they will listen to one minute clip or two minutes clip and they conclude instead of going to just listen to 30 minutes and get the full story. But uh we're going to part two today. Are you ready? Because next week's Sunday is combined service, and I have limited time to share with us. Let me see how far we can go today to pour out a lot. So we've done the foundation of um before you join the Jakwa bandwagon, vital considerations to note. And like I said to us last week's Sunday, as a pastor and as a leader, as a father, it's our responsibility to give guidance and direction to people under our area of coverage. So that whatever decision you want to make, you make the decision based on accurate information so that you will not become a victim. Because when you become a victim, unfortunately, we also become part of the victim because we are the ones that will not be playing catch up. We have had to send money to people to return them to Nigeria. We are here, we've had to send money to people to return them to Nigeria when they got into trouble in different places. We have had to do fasting and prayer for divine intervention for people that jack by into trouble. And when we are here, but they are still having to call us. We have to be doing fasting and prayer for something that could have been avoided. And that's why, in order to reduce our prayer points and reduce somebody saying, Send me a ticket, I want to return. Let us help you before you enter the trap. So there are five vital considerations, and let's see how many we can cover today. There are five vital considerations that you need to put in place before you go into what we call the jack bar. And um, all these things are very, very important, and I want you to take them. Like I said last week, I'm going to take it slow so that you can get it and really understand. Number one, where are you going to? Where are you going to? So you want to jack bar? No problem. We have, you know, whether it's the will of God or not, is between you and God. We have settled that last week. But now, where exactly are you going to? We have heard stories of all kinds of people. We see the stories in the public domain. The Nigerian Diaspora Commission, led by Honorable Abike Dabili, has released all kinds of stories of all kinds of intervention. We have seen Nigeria have to bring people, different airlines, different government past have to bring people from different places where they thought they were going into a greener pasture, only to discover that it's a synthetic fiber and astrotov, not regrass. Hello. Listen and listen, well, it's not all open doors that is a breakthrough. And it's not all that glitters that is good. Like I've always said, even when you went to enter prison, the prison door will still be open for you to enter. Hello. So we have heard of stories of people in Libya. You know the Libya story. Some people will gather money across the uh deserts, that they are going to Libya. They're from Libya, they want to enter boat and come out in Italy. We have heard stories of people in Saudi Arabia. We have heard stories of people in different Arab nations. We see them where they will tie them, where they are all like sardine in one place. We we've seen all kinds, we've seen people that have gone to, you know, it I don't know if you remember Italy, Italy, Italy, Italy. The whole Edo State was like an Italian transit center, and people were just going to prostitution. I remember I've told you the story of when I stopped going to Italy. That I stopped going to I used to go to in 2002. God spoke to me about you know um mission to Europe. And I went to all the Schengen countries from 2003 all the way to somewhere around 2006. Every year I was going to like five, six European nations. I was told in the whole of Europe. And we even had an office in Italy. We kept going to Italy, Italy, Italy, where the doors open, all kinds of cities in Italy. But one day I said, I can't do this, it just can't work. I went to preach in a church, and when I finished preaching, I made an altar call because it was a serious message, and everybody, the choir was wonderful. Now, God forbid, but imagine the way we are blessed. How many of you were blessed by the ministry this morning? Now imagine that as you are blessed, you now discover that the person that blessed you has something that can confuse your life. That's I was in that church, the choir was out of this world, everything was wonderful, and then I made an altar call, and everybody came out. The whole choir, maybe just two people were there. Everybody in the choir, even ministers, people came out. So I'm like, man of God, what's happening? They say, No, no more, just pray for that. We'll explain later. Explain later. I said, What's the problem? About 70% of them were prostitutes, as in the commercial sex workers. I said, I don't understand. So he said, Go and call. So I had to speak, sit down to interview some people. They speak in tongues, they sang well, they love God, but they are prostitute. And they said that when they were in the door, somebody came to tell them that uh there is a job, and they got the job, uh, but only when they now got there, they now started telling them to do covenants. They took the air on their private parts, the air on their amped, and that they said they have to pay them 30,000 euro or 50,000, 100,000 euro back before they are free. They sleep with old new eight, ten people a day, sleep with animals. True life. So I was there, it's not as if I was sitting down interviewing this. And I said, You mean you can't even the lawful captive shall be set free? He says, Sir, we have tried that. This is that so-so-and so that left. She had vaginal cancer. The very minute she left, decided to say, So they are just praying for God to help them to pay off so that they can be free. That day, I could not judge them, I could not change the scripture. When I left there, I was asking God, I said, But so these ones now they will go to heaven, Abby. But because they love you, Abby, they love you. We can bother. I say, So, God, I don't feel committed. That's the last time I went to Italy. True life story. I could not go because I can't fathom that. I just see tomorrow. I don't have answer, so don't ask me. I don't have answer. No, I'm telling you, I couldn't fathom exactly all these people born again, so and you're a process every day. You wake up, you are going to do runs, and that is your career, and you're I I couldn't understand it, but I know that the scripture cannot be broken, so I would rather stand on the side of scripture and let other things take care of itself. Hello? So, where do you want to go to? Because many of the we have heard of Northern Cyprus, where they say they are going to Turkey and they are going to Cyprus, and Northern Cyprus, we are even told it's not even a country that is not even a recognized country, but because we are looking for cheap school, because I want my children to go, I don't want my children to suffer what I suffer. Many parents have lost their children. Is it no what look at what's happening in Dubai now? With Nigerian students that were going to do courtism a year and a year fighting, it's just amazing. So, where do you want to go? Where? I hope you remember that many people were displaced from Ukraine because of this Ukrainian war. I think I told you the story of a guy that got into Ukraine and died the same day. The guy entered Ukraine and died the same day. And we have a brother, one of our sons, yeah, he's also in Ukraine. When I heard that, I said, Ah, so I called, I said, Come, what happened? This guy does I say, No, that uh that most of these people, that's his cold that killed him. He's not devils, he's called. See, most of these people they will go to agents that will just get them visa, but the agents themselves have never traveled. So they don't even understand what they are. They won't tell them the kind of clothes to wear. He said, The guy came, he said, because the hosted eaters are not working well. That's why you have to still buy a smaller ether to be able to connect so that you can put the eater close to yourself. See, because this is you know very cold weather. So the guy came from Nigeria with normal Nigerian shirt, entered there, the place was cold. He said, We buy it out tomorrow. He slept, he didn't wake up, woke up. He said, sir, he was like crayfish. He said it's the heat, it's the cold that killed him. And he was the only son, not the only son. They had the woman had two children, one boy, one girl. He died. He entered Ukraine the day where he entered, and he died. Where are you going? Have you done a research of the country you are going to? Have you researched the country? Do you know what the country is all about? Have you found out the laws of the country? One of our brothers here traveled to one country, and in that country, prostitution is legal. That you don't even have, if a prostitute solicits you and comes to you to say, Alpha, you cannot insult the prostitute to say, How dare you say that you can't do that? You will now be the criminal. No true life story. The brother is a member of this church. Hello. He said, by the time the person was coming, thank God for the person that was there that was with him. And they say, What kind of nonsense is this one? He said, brother, cool down. You better adjust yourself. That you have to beg her, that you are not ready and look for a way to tell her you come and see her later. That because if you fight, you are the one that would arrest her. So when they say, Oh, how are you? You look beautiful. Okay, don't worry, you know. I'm not I'm actually going out now. So, where can I see you when I'm ready? Just to escape, and you, you just carry yourself, go. Many of you don't know what you are to do, you don't know anything. So, that country you are going to have. You done your research about the country you are going to? Because many of us are just so passionate about the location, but we are too lazy to even do a research. To even check weather, to even check culture, to check language, to check location. You are not ready. It's just, I just want to go, I just want to go. Number two, why do you want to jack back? What is your reason? Like I said last week, Sunday, people have different reasons. For some of you is academic reasons, some is marriage, some is mission, some is a job, you want to pursue your career, some is just an aspirational goal, you just want a better life for yourself, and there's nothing wrong in that. God didn't create you to suffer. I've told you before, you're a global citizen. Now, the question you now need to ask yourself is why am I going? Other people may have come up with their own reason, but what is your own reason? Because one thing we have come to realize is that majority of the people that relocate, the highest reason for relocation is economic migration. That's the highest reason, economic migration. And most of the time it's because people think that when they when they migrate, they have a better economic possibility. But what many of them do not realize is that where they are going to, there are people that were born in that place that are still poor. Where they are going to, there are people that have gone thinking that it should be better, but they are actually struggling and they wish they can come back to Nigeria. When I was going around, one of the countries I went to was France, Paris, France. And a man came to see me when I finished doing the School of Money. Um, it was this school of money to minister's conference I was doing around Europe. One of the guys that came to see me was an a man, you know, elderly man. You know, when I say elderly, it was in the 50s, and then you know, 2003, me, I was still a hair. So to me, he was an elderly man. Now maybe he's a hair. So I and I saw the man, and the man came to me. He said, Sir, he said, All these things you are saying. Say, do you know I used to be a bank manager in Union Bank? So I was a bank manager, you know, Union Bank. Ah, I was a manager of this. He was telling me stories. He said, But I just felt that look, let me relocate, let me relocate. He says, sir, do you know what I'm doing now? He said, I wish that I didn't sell all my property. He said, I sold house, I sold car, I sold shares, I sold everything. I'm leaving this country, this God forsaken country. I'm leaving this. He said, He said, sir. Nigeria is better. He says, sir. What I'm going. He said, Do you know what I do now? I said, What do you do? He said, I work in a factory. He said, Do you see all those? You know, they will use iron to hang a pig or cow. He said, We are the one that works in those sorts. He said, And to end to work in the factory, it's only boxer you will wear. Because they think you are going so you will wear boxes. So Bimoshitold, you married man with children. No, you see, all of us will now wear trousers with big belly, big bomb. Everybody will not enter. And without they will be cutting meat, will be cutting meat. So by the time you do that from morning tonight, he said, My back. See, you bend down. You say, by the time you say, He said, Look, sir, as I am now, I have erectile dysfunction. I can't even sleep with my wife. My erection can't stand more. He said, Because kinny has battered me, yeah, the kind of work I'm doing. He said, No, he was telling me by himself, this is not third hand study. Because you want to economically migrate, but you have forgotten. Because, see, when you are thinking, poverty is a mindset, one of the definitions of poverty. You see, let me tell you how you think. No, when I relocate, my friend told me that the minimum salary, minimum salary is two thousand dollars. It's not a lie if the friend told you that. So, in your brain, two thousand times seven hundred one point four. I gave you one point four. I'm here. Ah ah 2G 1.4. 2G that we are both earning 70,000 years. When did it go? But you have forgotten that out of that 2,000, his rent is 850 per month. That 850 per month is your own annual rent. Yeah, oh, you have forgotten now that the person earning the 2000 is not going to be spending nine hours, so it's not 1.4. 2,000 is 2,000, not 1.4. Because it will now be spending, and you'll not be sure. We have seen people that relocated only to discover that their annual rent is now their monthly rent. And now they are spending money. Look, many times next month again, I'm taking people to Dubai. I travel regularly, I do a lot of meetings. One of the things you will see when people relocate is people start carrying calculators. No, you don't. They will just say, Ah, sir, uh, Baba, Kilefi, I'm to calculate the lady. Ah, because of the man tiny. You know, they'll be calculating because in their mind, it's like, ah, how can I spend this kind of money to buy this thing? But that's the reality. When you relocate, you are no more going to spend naira, you will now be spending the currency you are making. You will now discover that you are not going to have the kind of disposable income that you think you are going to have. So, desperate people do desperate things, but by the time they get to the other side, they realize that there's trouble. Few things I would like to put before you for your consideration. When you are asking yourself the question, why do you want to travel? Number one, is your marriage or relationship strong enough for the move? Is your marriage or relationship strong enough for the move? Let me tell you something for free. Africa helps marriages. Africa helps marriages, African culture helps marriages. Forget about all the you know different excesses of some stupid men and some stupid women. But Africa actually helps marriage. Because in Africa we are communal, in Africa we love, we respect, in Africa, we are we are not just out there. No time, no, no westernization is trying to swap, but an African man, an African woman, there are some basic culture and values that come with us that are cultural, even if they are not born again, they are just some culture that helps marriage. Once you cross to the Western world, you need to ask yourself, is your marriage strong enough for that move? Because listen to me, one of the things you will realize is by the time you cross over, you will suddenly realize that many of the things you believe are cultural, not global. Hello? You know, because many of you now, for instance, in Africa, in marriage, you believe that it is the woman that should cook, the man does not cook, it is the woman that should do school run and take care of children, the man does not do that. You now carry that African virus and enter her abroad, and then your wife said, I'm going to work. So don't forget to wash the plates. You're let's master all right. But once you cross over, there's nothing like the wife is the one that cooked. All those things are African mindsets that are not global. Then you now realize that your marriage is not strong enough. So many marriages break when people relocate. Because a lot of women in Africa that have been you know coward into submission, submit, submit when they now enter, then nobody needs to preach human liberation, they just they are just liberated because by the time they go out, they are yelling, no, and they are yelling different stories, and then all of a sudden, so is your marriage strong enough for this move that you want to make? You that you are in Nigeria with all of us available to counsel you, you are fighting, we are talking. I hope you know that even to go to a counselor for mediation is 200 pounds per person for two hours. So you pay your own 200 pound, your wife will pay our own 200 pounds, and you sit down with somebody just to help you mediate. The one we are doing here, free love offering, you won't bring birthday, you won't remember Christmas. Because pastors in Nigeria are just free, and you still insult them. When you go, it is a counselor or a country that will charge you money and give you two hours, and they can put you on eight sessions, 400 times eight. In Nigeria, your marriage is there, you can quickly call your neighbor and put your child with your neighbor, or call your cousin or your brother. Sally Bamidrotaw. Someone called me yesterday. She's supposed to be on the trip to Dubai. I said, sir, I'm sorry I will not be able to make the trip again. Why? There's nobody to leave my children with. I thought that my sister will be able to make it, but she just said she won't be around. I spoke to this, so I have to stay with my children. That's what abroad, there's nobody to keep your children with. You see, the money you will pay for daycare alone for your children, is more than the salary that you are collecting. So by the time you have two children, and daycare is 650. 650 times two is already like 1,000 three, 1004, and your salary is 2,000. One person will have to sit that at home and be the father or mother at home. So many times the person that has the highest salary, and by the time you relocate, if your wife is a nurse or she's in the medical profession, she's the one that will be making the money. You that uh you are just a struggler hustling in Nigeria, you'll now get there, you will sit down, the woman will go to work, you'll be doing child run, you'll be doing school run, you'll be doing nappy diaper, you'll be doing food, and then you will now begin to feel that you are not a man. Because Africa has made you believe that being a man is going out to go and bring food for the woman that is sitting down like a jobless woman. Is your marriage ready for it? Is your marriage ready? These are things that nobody will tell you. We know how many people we have canceled, you many of the people you are seeing they have divorced, they have separated, they are just roommates in the same house. There is no more marriage because they relocated without considering the cost of that relocation on their marriage, and you suddenly realize that people that have a strong marriage value they begin to tell you new revelations as if the Bible changes. Let me even tell you one of the problems you are going to face. It's not only about the two of you, it's about the people that are monitoring you. You say, Pastor, what are you talking about? You see, in the Western world, there are so many old women and old men and gossiper and prognoser that are just jobless at home, opening window to check who is up, what's happening. No, true life story, and they are the ones that will call police. Say, I think this couple are having issues. I heard the sound. True life story. Hello, they are the ones that will come up because they are jobless old women, jobless, they don't retire, nowhere to go. Now your life be there at school. I was impressed. Pastor Lakon, you know him, Pastor Lake. This happened in this. So just this uh one that I went to this April, and what happened? A couple that has relocated, you know, these uh elderly redeemed, mommy Joe, that you kind of people that I know that's the way the couple is. So they have relocated, and then in the school where the woman is doing uh her masters, they now form them into small, small groups that they should do a pro. Project together. The project group now said, Ah, we are going to meet so so and so time. The woman innocently said, Ah, I will not be able to make it that time. Oh, that I have to go home to cook for my husband. Great mistake. Oh, pario. Just innocent conversation in a group. Ah, no, that time you people are fixing. It won't work for me. I need to go. The next thing. Excuse me, what are you talking about? You came here to school, uh, you paid for school fish. We're talking. So, what has your husband feeling? Is he handicapped? Is he incapacitated? Can't he cook for himself? And instead of how to keep quiet and change this, he said, No, what do you mean? That's not the way it works. The husband is the head of the family. You have to she continue to preach. She didn't hear true life studio. It happened through life pressing England. She now continues to push the agenda. Your husband is the head of the house. I have to go and cook for him. She left. The next day, they were in their house. They have reported that the woman is being abused by the husband. True life story, lady that the woman is being abused by the husband. That because she the way she was saying she's going to cook, that she was speaking. You can see that she's under bondage. You can see that she does not have control of herself. That can somebody be doing masters and a man is sitting at home doing nothing and he cannot cook for himself. That that woman is a true life story. So we're very jackwanding jackwa. Second consideration is your work with God strong enough for your relocation? I hope you know that many of you are not serious with God. I hope you know. You know, and I know. No, I'm telling you, you know. I mean to announce you. How many of you have spent one hour in prayer alone with God by yourself in the last 10 years of your life? Many of you never. How many of you have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation since you got bought? Many of you know, you see, in Nigeria, do you know one of the reasons? Let me tell you something. I've said this before, I'll say it again. Whenever you see something that is becoming so popular, don't join the band wagon. Think deep. One of the reasons why the online prayer movement in Nigeria is blowing up is because of the shallowness of Christians. A lot of Christians don't have a personal prayer life. So all those online prayers you see, 10,000 people, 5,000 people, it is not a testimony of a new move of God. It's actually a testimony of the weakness of the church. If you sit down by the spirits, it's actually a testimony because many of you don't have a prayer life. So once you wake up in the morning, you connect to this one. After you finish that one, you connect to that one, and in your mind, you are telling yourself you have prayed, Abby. To your mind, you are now a Christian. Because every day you join a prayer group, you do one hour here, and then you now say, I prayed one hour. You did not pray one hour. Because your Christian life does not grow by communal efforts, your personal Christian life grew by personal relationship with God, and that is why when the lockdown came, we saw how weak the Nigerian church is because many people backslidden with the lockdown. I told you before the lockdown, as we are entering it, I said it's not just a health pandemic. I told you it's going to be a spiritual pandemic, it's going to be a relational pandemic, it's going to be what a financial pandemic. Now, people are attacking mental health, depression, suicide. It's COVID that came to strengthen those things. A lot of churches have not recovered till now because people have now already tired. Every program now, is it online? Now we are doing program next week. Some of you, even though you live too straight away, you will not come because something is wrong with you. Say, I will join online. I pray that God will not only show up online for you. No, that's my prayer for you. Because if all you need God has to be showing up online alone, that means no more marriage, no more children. Many of the miracles you have today, they are not online miracles, they are physical miracles you are enjoying. If God has to limit his interaction with you to showing up alone online, many of you will now suddenly realize the errors of your ways. So, question is your relationship with God strong enough? Because many of what we are practicing in Nigeria is religional. Something further and die, every enemy of my soul. Oh Lord, send me destiny, Lord, give me breakthrough. Once you relocate, about 80% of the prayer of a Nigerian Christian becomes useless in the Western world because there's no devil to fight. Water is working, light is working, car is working, nobody's going on strike, your food is regular, everything's regular. You will now suddenly realize that all your prayer life has been about things, things, things, things, things, not God. Look at your prayer life. So all this online prayer. How many of the online prayer is about Lord? Make me what you want me to be, deliver me, Lord, transform me, Lord, help me to love you. It's all about this your day. Today is day of goodness, tomorrow, day of blessing, tomorrow, day of favor. You are just fooling yourself. You are fooling yourself and you are just moving in cycles like children in the wilderness. Am I saying don't join your life prayer? I'm not saying that, but that should not be your menu. That should not be the definition of your prayer relationship with God. I'm telling you, so is your Christian life strong enough? Many people fast in Nigeria because of fear. Many people give because of fear. By the time you now get to the Western world, most of all those confusion about tithe offering and everything about church, most of the people saying that online, they are diasporans. Because they just feel that no, since I've been here, I don't tithe, I don't give, and everything is working. So, what are you talking about? Because when they were in Nigeria, instead of teachers teaching the people the truth, they kept using the pulpit to manipulate people. Because majority of pastors themselves don't know better, and because we are in an economically deprived location, economic ministry has become a way to tell people God will hear you look, God will deliver you, God will bless you, God will this you, God will that you. So, even in saving people, even the salvation is come to Jesus, he will save you. Come to Jesus, he will deliver you. Come to Jesus. So, even from the point of recruitment, we are recruiting people into a relationship with God for what God can do for them, not for what He can make out of them. So, is your Christian life strong enough? There are people that the day they left Nigeria, that was the last time they ever fasted. They have not fasted now for 15 years, they have been abroad. Many of them have never titled in the last 10 years, and as far as they are concerned, I'm doing well, my career is moving fine, everything's moving fine, all these Nigerian pastors, they are deceiving you. Why? Because people have not been well too so. Is your relationship with God strong enough for that relocation? Number three, let's see if I can do one more. We'll continue next week Sunday. How are you going? By air? By road? By sea, by desert, by the streets. Don't you know there's witchcraft? It's also a craft. Whether it's aircraft or witchcraft, it's a craft. So how are you going? Few things to note. To enter a country with visitors' visa, knowing well that you intend to stay in that country is an error. Majority of the people that travel travel with visiting visa. There are different classes of visa. So you are going, say, I'm going on holiday, or I'm going for a business trip. And you now collect visa. Maybe they give you three months, or they give you six months, or one year, or whatever. But in your mind, child visa, no. Tobatia mama said, Collect visa, but to bat it walay when you enter, we'll take care of the other ones. I am standing before you right now. There are people that I know, not third party people that I know that have been abroad for over 20 years. They can't come home. It's been 20. Their father died, they couldn't come. Their mother died, they couldn't come. There are people that have left thinking that, oh, don't worry, let me go first. Then you will come and join me. They have gone seven years ago, 15 years ago. The wife is still here with the children, marriage is over. The man don't do a RG to marry another person, to say he won't get document. You don't know what people are going through. I've been passing this church for 27 years. There are people, if I tell you cases even in this church, a sister here, that's how I will go and join the man. Now, so one year one, year two, year three, year four. After a while, by the time she finally kidded, they have been telling me a story. The thing she finally killed, I say, Look, my sister, leave that side. Start building your own career, go to Ghana. From Ghana, go to Kenya. Just begin to build before you know it's one day. Don't put his name on anything, just go on your own personal level. I said, Because this one you are going, the man may have married. And every time you are feeling for him, you are putting his name, but his name and your name are no more telling based on some things he's not telling you. That's how the sister said that after about three years, she finally made it to London. That's where the man, the after this, the man came to London. Now then the man sleep with her, impregnate her, go back to America. She came back to Nigeria, discovered she's pregnant. That's how she gave birth to a child to enter London again. To go to America, you know. Now she's a single parent. I can tell you stories upon stories. Another one in this same church, oh, there are plenty like that. The man has left, and the stupid woman, they agree that no one but she might shame here. Because you see, when poverty is your software, compromise is a normal thing to you. Because many of you say you are Christian, but me, I know you're old. Clean coconut, you are not clean, nothing. You are just a bunch of carnal Christians that claim to know God, but you are ready to do anything carnal with your minds of my God will forgive us. Mercy. Hello, they agree, though, that the man will go there and enter and arrange marriage. Because some people pay 3,000, 5,000, 8,000. You do an arranged marriage, then you get married. After you get married, you now divorce the woman, and then you now bring your family. That's the plan, oh. As I'm speaking to you right now, the man doesn't enter Ku. Even the woman in Nigeria, too, she too has started, she doesn't get psychok. You do not sleep around for Nigeria yet. They are in this church, or it's not a long time in this same cavalry. She's already even in Doctor Don't Cash in Mama with somebody. What are you talking about? You are you are just messing away the life of your children, messing destiny away without it. So if you are relocating, visiting visa is not immigrant visa. Hello? To say you are going to visit, you now get there. They say we are going to change status. Have you gotten the right information? Have you gotten the right information? I can tell you stories about stories. I have friends, even from men of God, where the husband and wife are to separate. The wife went to marry somebody and range it. The husband to marry somebody, arrange it, and they are pastors and they are still in the same house and they are pastoring the church. To enter a country illegally and cowers okay. What does that mean? Seek for asylum. With the hope that it will end well, you may end up in shame. A woman in New York, we all know as Yadura, she's been in New York for 24 years. She's back in Nigeria now. 24 years asylum. Asylum case can be on for decades. Once you say asylum, they give you temporary documents, begin to work. But your case will be there. I joined, I joined. 24 years. She has bought houses, she has opened restaurants and eaten the restaurant before your adura. She's back in Nigeria. After 24 years, she went for another appearance in the days of Trump. Thinking is like the usual one that they were joined from there. Log deportation camp, old land in Nigeria the Strait. After 24 years. So many of the people you are saying that they are not coming home, they are not coming, they don't have documents. They are waiting for the asylum, and that has become another major ministry for Nigerian pastors abroad. Documents, your document will be released. Is it's not a prayer? There are services over documents when you go abroad. We carry the same Nigerian spirit, go there again, continue the same Nigerian kind of church. So to enter a country with a plan to change status inside the country and become Legal may turn out contrary to what you think. Because many of the people you are trying to follow, they are not telling you the whole story. I'm telling you, they are not telling you the whole story. I hope you know there are many people that you know. If you see them coming to Nigeria, one thing you should do is passport in, yes, there will be visa infirmity. Let me see how Americans stay. You will be shocked when they give you their passport or they have to it's another name that is there. The name you know them for, they have gone to do some people are working. Oh, the lord is somebody else's name, they're easy to walk. A sister in this church, let me not tell you longer. The one way they're here. Went to America and the person, no, just come. Once you come, I'm gonna take care of you. In fact, you will stay with me. In fact, I will tell my guy you will get a job in the same place, I'm gonna get a job. And she came to me and said, It's not easy like that. Nobody gives people free house in London, come on for a little fair. It's not possible. Except if it's your family member or somebody that is really blood or somebody that is really doing well, that wants and they can't. I said, once you stay there, max one month. By the time you start collecting money, you start paying your own. You say me, I judge that no problem. If you don't learn by revelation, you learn by experience. By the time she landed, she landed, the girl picked out from the airport, she got to the house two weeks. You know, when you first come, they are cooking for you, you are watching television, they are giving you remote within two weeks. She got a job. The girl, Epa, true, true, get a job, but she doesn't have account, so it's inside the girl's account, and with the girl's name, they are paying a salary into the girl's account, and they pay salary every two weeks. So by the time they pay the first one, instead of collecting like 1008, the girl gives her 600. Is it what we say? No, okay. I'm paying rent. Pay the rent now, it's two or four. So I've removed the rent, you know, Nepal bill, you know, light bill, gas bill, the girl share them. 5050. See, you didn't tell me that one that I was already planning that this one I will send 500 to my family at home. Say, so me, I don't have family. That's how the trouble started, though. I'm telling you, a brother left here. They told him, Don't worry, once you get to South Africa, we'll meet you there. When he landed at the airport in South Africa, the phone number didn't work again. The phone number of the person that said, Land, I will take care of you, didn't work. He ended up sleeping in uh in a church. He asked for a Pentecostal church. It was a Pentecostal church, he now went to sleep on a beer hotter that doesn't even have a rug like our own. Uh two birds in move inside winter for South Africa. Now, so it begin claws, but now from there he begin coloss. Hello, you begin color. I'm trying to look for there. Is a South Africa I went to. There are some people that went with us. We met some people at the airports. I'm trying to look for about two people that went with us. At the airports, we met a Cavalian at the airport, stranded. We met ah, we met him there. There are two people that I'm trying to look for them. They were we are you here they say, No, ah, we have been here since yesterday. I slept at airports, I don't know anywhere. The person number is no more working. I say, I'm telling you. So I can tell you stories upon stories upon stories upon stories upon stories of people that did not think of all these things until they got there, and now they are basically there. I have a friend, he was a minister of the gospel. When he got to America, we still spoke about three weeks ago. One of his greatest regrets now is that he's not in ministry. He's doing well, he has car, he has houses, but he's no more in ministry. Why? Because he has to be hustling and he's been in America now for over 20 years. But the call of God upon his life has been suspended because he can't do ministry. Do you know how many marriages have been scattered? Even men of God's marriages. You can't keep two homes, wife and children in one place, you in one place, all the people you see doing it that you are envying them. Don't let anybody deceive you. Marriage was never meant for husband and children to be one place, wife and children. It was that's not the plan of God. There are sacrifices they are making, there are pains they are going through that they will not tell you. Stop envying what you don't know. Stop envying what you don't know. Say, don't worry, I'll be going to every three, every quarter, every this and that. And I hope you know that all the children you are raising now, but you don't know how far. At the age of 18, that's when your report card will come out. Many of you, what you are doing now, you are setting yourself up for pain and sorrow in old age when you suddenly realize that you don't even know your children. And it's men that suffer more because you just they'll be collecting your money to take care of themselves, to settle themselves after a while. You are a bad father. So there are tribal advisory services, there are consultants that will help you give you clarity on all these things, but it's not free. So I would rather that you go and pay$1,000 to get counseling and consulting from somebody that knows, that has a track record so that they can guide you right than to go and enter only to discover that you should have done it this way because it will affect many things. It will affect many things. Well, I hope with this few point of mind. I've been able to convince you to think very well before you japper so that you don't become any japper. God bless you.