Growth Masterclass 3

Growth Masterclass by Dr Olumide Emmanuel is a powerful 20-week podcast series designed to help listeners achieve personal, financial, and professional transformation. Each episode delivers practical insights, proven principles, and actionable strategies for growth, equipping participants to build discipline, expand their mindset, and unlock their full potential. It’s a structured journey for anyone committed to becoming a better version of themselves. 

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In mighty name we have given thanks. Father, this morning we return all the glory to you. Amen. And we thank you for many things you have done and many things you will yet do. Amen. Lord, let the miracle continue. Amen. Let the testimonies be permanent. Amen. And let your name and your name alone be glorified. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Hallelujah. You may please sit here in God's presence with the mighty God. We serve. Welcome to church this morning. Today we wrap up our 14 days of corporate fasting and prayer. So it's been a journey. Praise God. And today, in the second service, we're going to be having the anointing service. We're going to release the oil of God upon your life. Now you can go and resume fully and begin to possess your possessions in the name of Jesus. So by 3 p.m. today, you are free to break your fast. Fasting is over. And for those that are continuing to 21 days, 40 days, God will help us. Amen. Anything after 40, I don't know about that one. The one I've seen in my Bible is 40 days. Anything after 40, the Lord will help you. Amen. Well, every general we set things in motion to help us to position ourselves in the covenant as God's children so that we can be responsible covenant believers. One of the covenants that is established in the Word of God is the covenant of tithing. And everything you have belongs to God. But when God blesses you, he says, if you acknowledge that I am your source and you acknowledge that everything you have belongs to me, then I would like you to bring the first 10% of every income that you get and bring it to me as an act of worship in honor of me so that I can bless the rest. So we have what we call the covenant of tithe, and everyone that is a part of this house is expected to tithe. You are expected to bring the first 10% of all the income in your life to honor God so that you can play your own part as part of being a kingdom citizen. So as a church, we have what we call a tithe booklet. Now, the tithe booklet, you don't um you only need it to have a number. So when you get the tithe booklet, there is a number there, and that number becomes your own number. So even if you don't have the booklet, anytime you're bringing in your tithe, just quote the tithe number or the number on the booklet, and your name will be put on the database as a tither. So if you are here today, you are not a title or you've been a tither, but you do not have this tight booklet. What it means is you don't have a tight number. But with these booklets, you can now have a tight number. So if there's anyone that does not have the tight booklet, you've not been using it, but you now want to have a booklet. Can you please rise up so that we can give you one? If you don't have it, please rise up. Ushers, please give it to them. So just get it. Once you get it, you just note the number. And that's all. The number, that's your tight number. And then anytime you give your tithe like a check, you can just fill one, you submit, and then you have the stump, and that's it's just like a checkbook. So it gives you a memorial. So you can know how much tithe you have paid in a year, and you can use it as a point of contact to pray and to talk to God about your journey in life. So it helps you by the time you look at your tithe and you see that you are paid a tithe of 16 million. That means that an average of 160 million have crossed your hand. You will now ask yourself, What did I do with 160 million? Hello. So if you check now, you see that your tithe is 400,000. It means that 4 million has crossed your hands. So you ask yourself, What did I do with 4 million? It also helps you to you know speak to yourself and correct yourself. There are some people still standing. What's happening, ushers? There are people standing there. Let's move forward fast, please. Are there no ushers on that side of the auditorium? Please, this should be corrected in the second service. We need to make sure that we do things with speed. We don't want to keep people just standing for too long. Please, let's correct that in the second service. Yeah. Is that is somebody standing in the gallery or is that an usher? Okay. So let's make sure we correct that in the second service. Make sure you are well spread so that we'll be able to correct that. Thank you very much. God bless you. Well done. Um, the second thing we're going to talk about is the power partners. We've been talking about this now for the last three weeks. Like I've said over and over again, and for those that have not heard about that, power partners are people that give towards the outreach of this ministry, the mission outreach of the church. Um, as a church, we believe that God has called us to the body of Christ to be a blessing. One of the things that we do is to raise kingdom ministers and ministries through the kingdom ministers conference that we host all over the country and all over the world. Um, we also host a lot of conferences around relationship for single people and married people to help people in their relationship and their families. And we also host a lot of finance and leadership conferences. We are on TV in different nations, and we're going back on radio uh this year. So all the funds that we used to do that comes from what we call the power partners. So power partners are a group of people who, apart from their tithes and offerings, they make a commitment to give every month. And there are different levels. You can do 10,000 naira a month, which is the platinum platinum level, and that's just 120,000 a year. You can do 5,000 a month or above, which is 60,000 a year. You can do 3,000 a month, which is 36,000 a year, and you can do 1,000 a month, which is 12,000 a year. You give this every month or as the Lord enables you, and it is these resources that we put together along with the mission income from the mission, and then we use it to go out there and be a blessing. So if you're here today, you've been around, you've not joined Power Partners, you've been praying about it, or you just heard about it, but you'd like to be a part of Power Partners in 2022 at whatever level. Can you please rise up on your feet if there's anybody like that? So that we can give you a booklet. Please rise up on your feet and please remain standing so that we can pray. Ushers, please give them the booklet and then we're gonna pray. And just remain standing, we're just gonna pray together. Please stand up, take the booklet, and let's pray. And then um, just an housekeeping, just because of um, I don't know why we keep changing things. You're actually supposed to be in front and not behind, so that you can see where you're standing. Because if you are standing and people are standing behind you, you will not be able to see. It's better you stay in front like that. God bless you. It's it's it's that's that's the way it should be, so that you will see where you're standing, and then you just approach them, and then you're able to, you don't approach people from the back, you approach from the front. I've said this thing over and over again. We shouldn't be saying this on the pulpit. These are things that we should just do, you know. Please, please let's lift it up as we pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the privilege we have to be your children and to be part of the kingdom. We thank you for the opportunity you are giving us to make a difference with our seeds as we become a blessing to people. Lord, we ask that as our seeds go forth to be a blessing, let Avers be our portion in different dimensions. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. God bless you. May please be seated. Next is club 50. Club 50 are people that, apart from their tithes and offering, they give towards the um outreach of the church within the community. We call that community outreach. As a church, we are the salt and we are the light. We can't just gather in church and all we are doing is jumping and screaming and dancing and getting excited, and the world out there is perishing. If you are the crusade on Wednesday, um Thursday and Friday, you see, even yesterday morning, if I had testimonies upon testimonies upon testimonies, that's what the kingdom is all about. It's about change lives. There are people out there that are sick, they need help, people are confused, they need direction, people are in sin, they need redemption. People are hungry, they need food. He said, when I was hungry, you you fed me, when I was thirsty, when I was naked. And that's what we do. So when people give towards Club 50, it puts resources together for us to go beyond just the church, to reach out to people in our community through what we call the church shift. So every Sunday, hospital outreaches, hotels, motels, prison cells, garages, and there are so many people that God has touched and changed as a result of church shift. Um, if you want to be a part of that, there are levels. You can do 2 million and above, which is platinum. So you can do that as an individual, as a family, or as a business. You can do a million and above, you can do 500,000 and above every year, and you can do 250,000 and above. The minimum is 250,000. So everyone should begin to trust God to come into a place where your resources will be available to be a blessing to your generation because money is nothing but a tool for the fulfillment of purpose. And when money is not fulfilling purpose, it's nothing but a problem. So if you are here today, you say, Pastor, I would like to be a part of Club 50 in 2022, either as an individual or as a family or as a business. If there's anybody like that, can you please rise at whatever level so that we can give you the card? If there's anybody that would like to be a part of Club 50, so there are people standing up, ushers look around. Um, there's nobody facing this side now. My sister. Hello, nobody's facing that. So you help us settle that one. Uh-huh. I hope the ushering coordinator is noting this for second service. Please, this should not repeat itself in second service so that we should do things the way it's supposed to be done, so that every angle is covered. Every angle is covered. Praise God. Please remain standing. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the covenant of obedience. Thank you because the Bible says if we are willing and obedient, we eat the good of the land. Thank you for this act of obedience by your children. Lord, cause them to eat the good of the land this year. In Jesus' name we pray. God bless you all. Please be seated. Um, the church will contact you, club 50 members. We're going to be having a club 50 dinner at the end of the month, and um, so that we can meet together, pray with you, and release impartition over your life for this year. So don't miss that. The church will be contacting you. Do we all have um the family life conference um fly? Please go through your part that you got to be sure you have it. Do we all have it? These are next major events. Praise God. It's the next major event every month of February in this church, it's all about the family. So the entire month, every service, we talk about family, preach about family and relationship. So, and then we host an annual conference that we'll call the Family Life Conference. And this year we're going to be having my friend, Reverend Christine Batoure, all the way from Port Arcot, massive, awesome woman of God that God has raised, especially in the area of addiction, rehabilitation, infidelity, recovery, all kinds of stuff. She has um a rehabilitation center. She's been in ministry for well, close to 30 years, doing amazing stuff. I've known her since 1997. Yeah, 1997. We did ministry together in the 90s. So I've known her for years. She's been my friend for well, close to 30 years. So this is an amazing, amazing woman of God, and she's going to be coming. It took a lot to get her to be able to give us three days. So she's going to be with us Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for three days. And I want everyone of you, and you'll be amazed when she opens the Bible and begins to show you some things. You know, everybody has their area. You'll be amazed. It's going to be a massive, massive deliverance for families. Because many of you have no idea what's happening with your children today. We have a lot of issues with drugs, alcohol, coding, you know, all kinds of things, pornography, you know, lesbian, all manner of things that are happening, you'll be amazed. I'm telling you, you'll be amazed at the kind of things that are happening inside church. You'll be shocked. Parents, you know, incest inside church. Yeah, you know, all kinds of terrible things happening. And people come to church, you think that everybody that is in church is normal. But sometimes they are trying to be free, but they just can't help themselves because they don't understand what is holding them. So she's going to be taking us through a lot of things on how to work on your mind, how to change patterns and paradigms and tendencies and believe. You know, it's going to be an amazing time. So we're looking forward to her coming. And then on Saturday morning, uh, we're going to have the uh singles breakfast in the morning, and then the couple's dinner in the night on Saturday. Then on the Sunday, um, is going to be the global day of fruitfulness. On Sunday, the 13th Global Day of Fruitfulness is going to be an amazing weekend. So let's make sure we prepare ourselves to be a part of that. And we're going to be having our own um in-house ministers come to bless us. Praise God. Praise God. So, once again, I want to especially thank and appreciate all the workers and ministers in the house for the crusade. You guys did an amazing job, and the God of heaven will bless and reward you in Jesus' name. Praise God. Okay, success business and leadership school. The Success Business and Leadership Service is our first service, and because we're a kingdom church, as a kingdom church, we are raising kingdom ambassadors that will go forth into the marketplace to be a salt and to be a light. And we need to equip them to be able to do that. So every Sunday morning in the first service, we have this particular session where we teach people on how to become the best version of themselves and maximize their possibilities through the success, business, and leadership service. And a few weeks ago, we started a 20-week series that we're called the Growth Masterclass, which is geared towards helping you to come into a place of all-round growth as an individual and as an organization, so that you can be assault and aligned in the marketplace and you will not be left hanging. And we've looked at a lot of things which we will not be able to go back to. But today we want to go straight into the second law, which is the law of awareness. The law of awareness, because we've looked at the law of intentionality and we wrapped up by saying that everybody should become a student in the school of intentionality. So today we want to look at the law of awareness. If you are going to grow, you need to understand that you need to engage this law of awareness. And the law of awareness is very simple. It means you need to know yourself to grow yourself. That's all. You need to know yourself to grow yourself. So if you are going to grow, you need to know yourself. Because if you don't know yourself, how can you grow yourself? That's what the law of awareness is all about. No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. You can't become great if you are not honest with yourself. Self-assessment is one of the greatest maturity levels of life. When you can assess yourself, honestly assess yourself. Self-assessment. Don't wait for people to assess you. Assess yourself. Every day when you get back home in the night and you lie on your bed, the first few minutes before you sleep is to do an assessment of the day. To begin to run through your mind, what happened in the morning, afternoon, what did I do right? What did I do wrong? What could I have done differently? And then you pray and then you sleep and you wake up with a greater level of wisdom. So, but when people don't assess themselves and they don't take time to thoroughly look at themselves in the mirror and speak the truth to themselves, when somebody else does that, they feel hot because they have not told themselves the truth. But if they have told themselves the truth and somebody else is saying it, it's a confirmation. And they are happy that God has put prophets in their life. Do you understand the difference now? So you're like, oh, thank God. That means if I have not known, you have actually put people in my life that can help me to be right because they are confirming what you have already told me. Do you get it now? But when you have not been able to discover anything, everybody that is trying to help you, they are your enemy. You see them as bad people. They don't like you. It's what is wrong in your life that they are always seeing. It's because God wants them to be the nature of your life to help you live right. So the question is: do you have a sense of direction as an individual? Do you have a sense of direction? Because there are three sets of people when it comes to having direction in life. Number one, those who don't know what they would like to do. Even at 35 years old, they are still confused. They don't know what they would like to do. So if you ask them what it is, I don't know. If I'm just confused, what do you think I should do? They are asking people that didn't create them to tell them what they should be doing. Am I the one that created? How can I tell you what to do? You are supposed to discover it from the person that sent you. The person that created you is the person that will tell you why he created you, not me. Hello. Number two, there are those who know what they would like to do, but they don't do it. They know what they would like to do, they know what they should be doing, but they are not doing it. For many reasons that we might not be able to postulate. They're not doing it. You know you should pray, do you pray? You know you should give, do you give? You know you should invest, do you invest? You know you should work hard, do you work hard, you know you should forgive, do you forgive? You know many things you should do, but are you doing it? And then number three, there are those who know what they would like to do, and they are doing it. And they are the ones producing the results. Because they know what they should do and they are doing it. No procrastination, no assumption, no too much analysis. They just jump out and start doing it because too much analysis leads to paralysis. You are just analyzing and analyzing. I hope to, I plan to, I intend to, I'm working towards you. I've been open to 10 years ago, you are still open. So everybody that wants to become the best version of themselves must enroll in the university of self. Hello? I think it was this year I spoke to you about self-love versus selfishness. I think we said whether it's a midweek service or so, I think it's the yeah, when we're doing uh holistic growth. Self-love is not selfishness. Hello, you have to love your neighbor as yourself. So if you don't know how to love yourself, no wonder you can't love other people because the way you are treating yourself is is even questionable. So you need to enroll in the university of self. And what do you do in the university of self? You need to find out the following is number one. What's your passion? What's your passion? What is that thing that you are passionate about? These are the courses that you study in the university of self. Passion 101. Number two, what's your purpose? Purpose 101. What's your purpose? Why do you exist? Why are you alive? It was my small that made us to understand that when purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable. So, what's your purpose? So you need to go to the school of purpose to find out why do I exist? Why was I born? Why was I created? Why did I get born again? Number three, your strengths. What are your strengths? In management, we call it the SWAT analysis. Strengths, opportunities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. So, what are your strengths? What are the things that you are good at? You need to identify them. And then what are your weaknesses? Because listen to me, when you know your strengths, you sit down there. When you know your weaknesses, you don't go to a place where your weakness will be exposed. You know, when we're growing up, they used to tell us, work on your weaknesses, work on your weaknesses. And then many of us now ignore our strengths. We are trying to work on our weaknesses, and that's the only thing we are focusing on, and we become discouraged because it's a weakness. Then other people continue to see the weakness and will become valueless because all this is our weakness. But there is nobody that does not have weakness. So stop focusing on your weaknesses, focus on your strengths. When you focus on your strengths, you will be so good at what you do that your weakness will be inconsequential. Not because it's inconsequential, but because it won't be a major topic. Hello? So let me ask you a question Is Mandela a good person or a bad person? Everybody will say, Mandela, Mandela, Mandela. Why? Because all you see is the strength. All they talk about is the strength. But how many wives did they have? How many children? How many, by the time you start going to other things, ah? Do you understand that? Because when you focus on strength, everybody has weaknesses. But every time you have, let me work on my weakness. You are focused on your weakness. You'll be discouraged. Then other people will be seeing your weakness. They will devalue you. But when you focus on your strengths and your strength is offering value, they say, Ah, the man, yes, anger problem, but he's a good man. Ah, she's very, you know, but because your strength, then people begin to help you to pray about your weakness, and then your strength will cover and then grace. Do you understand that now? So focus on your strengths. But if you don't know your strength and your weakness, even in um management, we'll call it Pareto. 80-20 principle. You see, when you understand what works for you, to have a better year, focus on what works. I've practiced this for over 20 years. Every year I sit down, I look, I've done it in December already. How much did I make? Where did the money come from? So when I know that, okay, below what you were 2022, focus there. There's no point wasting. So don't go to things that are not working for you. If you have six products, you should know your best-selling products. So once you know that is this one selling, why do you say no? This new year, our focus is to push this one to begin to sell. You are wasting time. Trying to push the one that is not selling by force. You will now ignore the one that is selling. You will now begin to have lower turnover. That one that is selling, in fact, come up with different variants of what is selling. Do you understand what I'm saying now? You won't know it if you don't do an analysis. We are doing consulting for a company that I've pushed them and said, Look, I don't have time, we'll start in March. But when the CEO sent stuff to me about the stuff, the brief, she said, I have identified that in the last six years we have been having low turnover, low profit. I've been trying to find out the reason. But when she said, I've noticed for the past six years, I knew that it was going to be an easy job to do. Why? There is data. I said, you actually have a data for you to know that six years is been down. That means you have data. You say, yeah, I say, Oh, okay. But by the time I say, I say, okay, I say, how do you work? How do you charge? I said, no, the first analysis is free to show you the value so that when I charge you, you will know that we are not joking here. So I said, let me just send you a form, you fill it, and I'll do an initial analysis to let you know. By the time we finish analysis, it was very clear. Say, okay, so I'm not ready now, I'm busy. So many say, but by March, I can have time. So you my boys can come and start in January. But if you want me to be involved, March, April, you say, no, I'll wait. And one of the things that came out of just the analysis is the fact that in the last six years, she has spent more than six months in America every year. And you want your business to grow. So, because of family, I have to be there with my children. I said, So, there's no devil anywhere. It's not devil. It is your business. So, the following are the things you should begin to consider towards our discussion. Number one, are you ready to let go of the business? Maybe it's time to sell it. You have done 27 years. Face your family, you are retired. You are not hungry. Must you work forever? So consider whether you are ready because you will be emotional attachment to the business. You don't want to say. So, number two is are you ready to share the business? So that the people managing it will become shareholders. They will no more be staffed, they will know that profit sharing. And so these are the things we'll be looking at. So start thinking because I'm only spending two weeks on your case. Hello? So it is why am I bringing all this? It's doing analysis. What's your strength? What's your weakness? Because many of you, you don't even know your weakness. And you are sitting down where your weakness is, and your ministry is built on your weakness. Every your business is built on your weakness. Your life is built on your weakness. And you are wondering why things are the way they are. Then your temperament. Your temperaments. Now, where are we now? University or self. What's your temperament? Are you introverts? Melancholy, sanguine, phlegmatic, whatever, all those ones. You say it's not in the Bible. No problem. Go and study it. That's sociology and psychology. Go and study all these things. Because somebody, one of the people came yesterday and was asking a question. That, and when he even stood up, the way he was talking, you know, that he's just he's saying that you know this prayer thing, that you have to be praying and be shaking. That is it that if you don't do that, God will not hear. I say, God will hear. Adeboy does not need to shake. I said, even the DK Ulukoya of Ulukoyas, he doesn't shake, he doesn't shout, it's just there. His voice is just there. Somebody shout, hallelujah, pray. Every demon of your father shall pray. I say he himself doesn't make noise like the people. His temperament. Hello? It's temperament. So you can't say because everybody shouts in you that don't have voice to shout. I say some people's noise is still low decimal. When they shout, somebody shout at me, hallelujah! That's the highest they can go. It's temperament. Understand yourself. Hello? And here the boy will stand behind the puppets four by four. Even if he move, he will stay, it can't be four feet by four feet. But if T DJs try that one, there'll be trouble. Hello. Know yourself. What's your temperament? So if you know that you are a hot-tempered person, you know that you have a tendency to manifest. Don't, you know, just know yourself. Say, hmm, what you do? It's boiling. Okay, excuse me. So let's continue tomorrow. Because you have gone to the school of so. Know your likes and your dislikes. These are all the love awareness. If you are going to grow, all these things matter. What are the things you like? What are the things you don't like? You know very well that you still have a problem with alcohol. You now get a job as a waiter in a nightclub. And you are giving testimony that God has given you a miracle job after fasting and prayer. It's not all doors that are open doors. Because even the door to prison is open. Hello. It's not all that glitter as it's gold. You that used to be a poor dancer, stand on the pole. That was what you were doing. You now got born again. They now say you are going to be an usher in nightclub. Oh, no, we're talking about too much. From usher, they will usher you in. So you have to know your strength and your weaknesses. Know your likes and your designs. So all these things are very, very important. If you are going to do what? If you are going to become the best version of yourself. So become self-aware and then you continue to grow. Now let's move on to the next law. The law of the mirror. The law of the mirror. The law of the mirror. The law of the mirror. What's the law of the mirror? The law of the mirror states that you must see value in yourself to add value to yourself. You must see value in yourself to add value to yourself. When you don't see value in yourself, buying a 10,000 naira book will be too expensive. It's not the book that is too expensive, it is your value of yourself that is cheap. You can't buy a$10,000 book to grow, but you can fix 50,000 naira with one to still remain single. See where your priority lies. You can't go for a$35,000 seminar to fix your career, but you can fix eyelashes and fix nails for$40,000. Are you seeing now that the problem is not that the seminar is expensive, you are cheap. You don't value yourself enough to invest in yourself. Where your money goes to shows where your priority is. You are ready to eat 6,000 naira food in the restaurants, but you are not ready to pay 2,000 naira for an online course. You are arguing. So the law of the mirror is you must see value in yourself to add value to yourself. So every time you see something that you need and you consider it to be expensive, it's a revelation of how you see yourself. That you are too cheap to spend 100,000 on a course. Hello? But you want to travel and spend 500,000 on an economy ticket. Because in your mind, that is the bridge to where your real value is. And then you get there and go and wash plates or become a taxi driver. Hello? So the law of the mirror says what? You must see value in yourself in order to add value to yourself. So when we are saying go and go do master's, go do an MBA, do your PhD, get more certification, and like in the kidney, UBOK, app. It's because you are not seeing value in yourself. To you, you are nobody. Who am I to go and be spending that kind of a money? And that kind of mindset will even affect you when money comes. You won't be able to eat good food. Because you'll just be thinking it's too expensive. You won't be able to live in a good house. You will think it's too expensive. Do you know that some people, the kind of money we spend in this church to them, we should share it for them as well here? Because they don't see the value we see in excellence and in God. All this money they are spending, don't they know people are hungry? So just share it. All the palettes we shared, has your life changed? Hello? The poor you have with you. Oh the solution to poverty is not welfare. The solution to poverty is what? The gospel. He said to preach the gospel to the poor, not to give food to the poor. The food is not the gospel. The gospel is empowerment. Empowerment empowerment is not food. Empowerment is knowledge to create knowledge to make money and that's empowerment. So when we say they are doing empowerment, you know, politicians have messed up your life with empowerment and they share rights, they call it empowerment scheme. So they give you rights, give you guardita, but that's not empowerment. That's welfare. Empowerment is to teach you how to fish so that you will not return. When you are empowered, you you flow from there and empower other people. Hello. When John the Baptist sent them to ask Jesus, are you the one or should we look for another? What did Jesus Christ say? He said, Go tell John, the blind see, the lame walk, the dead are restored back. When he got to the poor, he said the poor has the gospel, preach to them. He didn't say the poor have food. He didn't change it, he said, the spirit of the Lord goes upon me. He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. At the end, he still said the poor has the gospel. So he knows that the solution to poverty is teaching people how to create wealth. But when we are empowering people, teaching and saying all these pastors, they don't know. They are just no problem. Stay with poverty. I'll be waiting for people to share rice for you so that they will lock your life in the warehouse. Hello? All the palliative that was given to politicians to share, didn't you see the end? Listen to me. Even a fake pastor will have shared that palliative. A fake pastor. If it's churches they gave to even a fake pastor to deceive more people and get more members to deceive Omar Queen. And they are using palliative as souvenir for birthday. Shameless people. So the law of the mirror. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort. You are worth the time. And you are worth the energy that is needed to develop yourself. Personal development is what is the belief that you are worth the effort. One of our daughters sent me an email sometime last year. Young girl doing well, first class student, working one of the top five banks, growing steadily in her career. And she said she needs to go and do her MBA. And that she's already enrolled, and she's thinking maybe she might need to resign. That's okay, no problem. We'll see. Before the time we see, she has sent me another one. That day I've resigned. I'm focusing on this thing. By the time I sat down with her, she said, You have taught us that I just thought about it. That because all the salary, you say, I have over 3.00 million that I've saved. Because I'm not married. I'm living in a free house. So you have taught us, so I've just saved, saving, saving. So I already have the money to pay for the school. If I decide to continue to work, I may not have first class or pass very well. Let me go my resign, face this thing. She was talking like that. I was like, wow, it's amazing. Now for a young girl. So when I got to my told my say, babe, how much you got 3.17 million or my kid. I thought that's I have never seen her with any money cool, the lady could wash up, conceal. You know, you see a very normal girl. Not all this uh fixing everything. You have not fixed your life, you are fixing every other thing. You won't see her carrying back that is beyond that. Look at Murabi, no, no extravagance. Now she's sponsoring herself for MBA. By the time she now comes now, maybe they will not hear she's a big girl. They say, Yeah, I get money. Where you get money, they won't know that she trusts in herself and believes in herself to empower herself. Ordinary 10,000 book oh, near that could tie 15 invaluable losses. See, how many of you have bought it? But even in fasting, you have eaten. No, you mean look, if look, if you come here and we are just massaging you, we are deceiving you. If we can't tell you the truth to change your life here, let's close church. Think of it. How much have you invested in your life to better your life? You are buying bag and shoe. You are buying a bada, you are buying clothes, and your knowledge base is the same, skill set the same. How can they promote you? What are you bringing to the table? Read it again. Personal development is what? The belief that you are worth it. That's the law of the mirror. Look at yourself in the mirror and see yourself, the man in the mirror. You are worth the efforts. My wife did a meeting. I mean, I was telling her 25k. Oh, this 5,000. Do 25. So they settle for 15. And she was saying, I said they will register. I said, you don't need crowd, though. I said, my baby, you have to begin to. We don't need crowd though. I said, see, I'm a pastor. I have done so many free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free. And nobody's life has changed. All the free, free, because when people don't pay, they don't pay attention. I see you be what they are. But the people that pay two million within two months, one testify. Why? Once on what? They pay attention. What was on two million? Oh, they can't cut off one. When people don't pay, they don't pay attention. They say, and one woman called me, what do you think? And that maybe she can pay instrumental. I say there's nothing. If she can pay$15,000, forget it. You don't need those kind of people. Instrumental, only$15K. This is an executive meeting. If you can't bring 15 kish, it's not for you. Small, small, small, small. Somebody that cannot buy one million land and pay one million. You are saying 50-50,000 for two years. It's a recipe for disaster. I see many of these boys doing the same thing, and I laugh. Because anybody that can't pay one million cash, that is paying 50-50,000 over two years period, is a prophecy. They can never build. It's not the cost. Because you don't build instrumentally with 50-50,000. It's not going to work. So by the time they now finish buying the land, you now say solve it is 300. Ah, government does not collect the instrumental. That's where the business will die. I've been there. Land I sold in 2001. It's still there. It's a bush, they bought one of the worship solve it. They can't build. Hello? That's what we're now coming up with instrumental payment for house. Okay, be paying for house, small, small, too. She said, I said no, she should look for the money and pay cash. If she can't pay, let her not come. This is not that it's not a church service, it's not emotional sentiment. Hello? But everybody that came for that meeting. In fact, one of them was saying, You mean this is what I will have missed because of 15,000? Because of the impact. Hello. I took people to Rwanda. 52 people. Some people paid 5,000, some paid 4,000. One guy was telling me, sir, I'm bringing some of my staff. Can you give me this car? I said, no discount. I said, no discounts. I know I'm the one that knows the value of what I'm going to do. It's not by force. Go on your own. By the time we finished, the guy came to my room and said, he knelt down. He said, Baba, what you have done in my life, I don't understand. He said, when you were telling me I just respected you by anointing. On top. I didn't know it's like this. Do you value yourself? 15 lots now. You have not bought. Even if you buy, will you read it? Because in your in your reduced mind that you're Pastor Tinkoa, do I really need to read it again? Pastor has done the job for us. I'll be there for 20 weeks. Value yourself, my people. Value yourself. You are worth the effort. Hello? Anytime you see free seminar, go. But when you see paid one, also register. Self-esteem is the single most significant key to a person's behavior. Self-esteem is what? It's the single most significant key to a person's behavior. When you have low self-esteem, it affects many things about you. Even when people appreciate you, you doubt their appreciation. Because in yourself, you are not good. You know? So when they are saying oh, you are looking so good, are you sure? Are you mocking me? You even be insulting that are you mocking me? Mocking said, No, which is not Aswani that I bought this one. This one is Katangwa. Nobody asks you a question. Have you seen some people when they are fighting you? They will start by advertising all their weaknesses. Listen, me, I know I'm ugly, I know I'm short, oh, I know I'm not as fine as you, but I get crazy. And you're like, you have never seen them as ugly. You have never looked at them as somebody called I'm I know I'm short, I know I'm not tall like you. I'm not, I know my hair is not long like your hair, but I get crazy. And you're like, what is this? Who did this to you? No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. Do you think somebody will look at them and say, forget this ugly man? And you think it will matter? It doesn't matter, it's your opinion. Mouth is for talking. You are free to talk. I'm free to reject your words, I'm free to see to ignore you and render you redundant and inconsequential. You are giving too much attention to unserious people. There are some texts you should not reply. There are some uh comments you should not even answer, just block and delete. It's a free zone. They join, you block. That's all block their mouth. If blocking is allowed, block it. Every end of my should be blocked. Read your Bible, Isaiah. Every tongue that rises up against a judgment, condemn. Pa, delete, pa, delete, pa, delete, block, delete, block, delete, block, delete. It is your own. You registered it by yourself and give people access to join. And you kept them there to pollute your life. And you are hungry. Block. Delete. Delete. Low self-esteem puts a ceiling on your potential. Because even when they want to lift you up, you'll be recommending other people. But I know a man who is very good in this area. He's low self-esteem. You'll be recommending other people for your glory because you don't believe you can. Has A dam ever named animals before? No. God said name them. Over 5,000 names came out of a man because he believed God. Any opportunity that God has brought your way, he has prepared you for it. Hello? Let his grace see you through it. Let's close with this. We'll continue next week. The value we place on ourselves determines the value that people place on us. The value we place on ourselves determines the value that people place on us. As I began to grow in ministry, even when I could afford business class, I was doing economy. Until I sat down with economic business class, I'm a businessman. That is for business people. So I just changed. I just decided. And everywhere I go to minister, because I was doing economy, I we business class is not even the discussion. We just buy tickets, you just enter. But when I started flying business class, I knew that since I'm already flying it, I value myself to that level. So anybody that is inviting me, it became a standard. Business class for me, economic class for my PA. If you cannot afford it, let us know. We add money to your economy money to buy the business class, but it is not an option that I will fly economies. So it's not about money. I don't need your money. I can pay by myself. But since you are the one inviting me, it's your responsibility. No man goes to you. But if you can't afford it, please do let us know so that we can send the difference. Because it's not humility. I've labored. So and then, so there are some things I don't compromise anymore. What I eat, what I wear, where I sleep, it's not the joy. I value myself. I'm in my 50s. I've worked for over 30 years. Over 30 years. So what to cook? 30 years of labor. You are now be managing as what. Hello? Are you gonna say now? Place value on yourself. If people see what you wear, it determines what they will buy for you. Do you understand? If they see the kind of food you eat, it determines what they will buy for you. If they see the kind of things you drink, it determines what they will buy for you. There was a time one of our pastors brought a particular wine, they call it Chamdo. That wine, I don't know where it came from. It's one pastor that brought it. And then we're doing pastors' meetings from house to house. So we went to the bed, and that's it. They say, Oh, it's Chamdo that pastor drinks. I don't know where it came from. But because that's how the news spread, they say it's after they now they they just I say it. I said, I just I just they just because it's the way you treat yourself, people just conclude that that's what you want, they begin to treat you like that. Hello? So if you don't like what people are bringing your way, check how you are treating yourself. Hello? If you don't like the way, check how you are treating because they are treating you sometimes the way you are treating yourself. And let me tell you something, because I've been there, I'm going through the process in many levels. When you are a Christian that is humble and you understand that you are a product of grace, there are many things you find difficult to do. Because you are like, ah no, it's just no, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. But sometimes that cannot, it might not be good. It might not be good. So no, no, no, I don't want that, I don't want that because you are just trying to be simple. But sometimes, if you God has honored you, you are honored. Enjoy the honor. He said you will meet three men going up. They will greet you, accept the greeting. Say they will give you two out of three. Collect, don't say, uh-uh, I can only take two of you, share one. No, collect the honor. Hello, it's God that has honored you. So next week's Sunday, we are now going to go into the 10 steps to building yourself self-image. 10 steps to build your because this love, awareness, and then love the mirror is very key. So, how do you build your self-image? How do you build your self-esteem? How do you build yourself to a level where you are able to see yourself the way God sees you and value yourself so that people can begin to value you? That will be next week's Sunday. God bless you. This is the book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. Tell your neighbor, say, neighbor, value yourself enough to get a copy. Respect yourself enough to start reading the copy you get so that you can become a testimony this year. In Jesus' name. Lift up your hands and give him thanks for this awesome session. Just thank him, just appreciate him. Thank him, appreciate him, thank him, appreciate him. It's not by power, it's not by mind, but by my spirit, says the Lord. Just thank him and appreciate him.