1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,960 Who is this of Wisdom Bible? Church, The Church of. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,080 A distance generation passion for impact is still the therapy. 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,600 We are running on the fourth leg on this very important 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:25,120 discussion and for today, we will focus on how to generate 5 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:30,440 passion. Last week we traced the root of 6 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,960 passion and we blessed God for our mummy in the house that the 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,920 Lord used very mightily. I was following on all the way 8 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,240 from Ibadan and it was such a wonderful session. 9 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:48,280 Can we appreciate God in our life? 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,840 So we did that last week, tracing the root of passion 11 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:00,440 because the ability to trace the source of the thing guarantee 12 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,120 the opportunity to assess and even possess that thing. 13 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,440 What you want to assess? What you want to possess. 14 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,680 OK, you must learn to trace its source. 15 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:20,000 For instance, if you know where to get fish, you will search for 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:27,880 it in the woods. Hello, who carry is gone, bows 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,880 and arrow into the woods, into the forest, because they want to 18 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,040 catch fish, they want to catch fish. 19 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,200 Since you are aware that fish live in waters, you go to the 20 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,360 river. I pray that you will be guided 21 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,640 by the Spirit of God. You will be led by the Spirit of 22 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:53,080 God to the place where your success and destiny is 23 00:01:53,080 --> 00:02:03,320 guaranteed in the name of Jesus. So based on the earlier three 24 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:09,919 previous studies we have had, I think by now you should know 25 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:19,000 that the acts of indifference, that is people who are generally 26 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:29,000 disinterested on matters, the act of complacency in form of I 27 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,320 don't careless, a fair attitude, including the Big Brother of 28 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,840 them all. Indolence which you know as 29 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,600 laziness can be traced to absence of passion. 30 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,280 Where there is passion for a thing, you will not be lukewarm 31 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,760 towards that thing. Where you have passion for 32 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,840 collective sources, you will not be in the group and be passive. 33 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,640 There will not be. There will not be complacency. 34 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:08,120 Where you have a goal that you are pursuing now, you have 35 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,720 passion for it. Listeners and everything that 36 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,000 represents all points in the direction of listeners will not 37 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,040 be part of your attitude. So by now, from the previous 38 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,960 studies we have done, you should know that anywhere you see 39 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,760 indifference, complacency and indolence, such can be traced to 40 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:36,960 absence of passion. Say, Father, baptize me with the 41 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:43,160 Spirit of passion. Say it again, baptize me with 42 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:48,520 the spirit of Passion. You see to make it ultimately in 43 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:55,920 life you need safe motivation to make it ultimately a life you 44 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:02,360 need self motivation and passion is the power behind self 45 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,880 motivation. Anybody who will be self 46 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:13,520 motivated must be passionate. So passion is the power behind 47 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:23,880 self motivation about You can be an active person, but the type 48 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:29,160 of action that will produce the desired result must be powered 49 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:35,320 by the right passion. Must be powered by a passion 50 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,480 that is well channeled for positive purpose, for godly 51 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,200 purpose. Am I talking to somebody? 52 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:50,520 So a passion back action is the only type of action that can 53 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:57,880 produce the desire results and that is why today we will focus 54 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:06,760 on how you can generate passion. You must know fundamentally that 55 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:15,840 vision or put differently, purpose must precede passion. 56 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,800 Otherwise any action you take will be fruitless action. 57 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,080 So before we can talk about passion, there is always 58 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,640 something behind it, something that must come first. 59 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 And that thing that must come first is vision, which otherwise 60 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,440 you can call purpose. So in the step by step sequence 61 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:55,560 of success, you know success is built precept by precept, line 62 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,000 upon line. Success is not something 63 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,080 sporadic, OK, you build drop onto success. 64 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,680 Success don't jump on people. Am I talking to somebody? 65 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:15,960 So in the step by step sequence of sources, vision, which I also 66 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,000 call purpose, must precede passion. 67 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,520 Vision must precede what passion? 68 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,520 You must have a specific destination in mind. 69 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,040 That's what we mean by vision or purpose. 70 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,360 You have a specific definition in mind. 71 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,480 If you don't have a specific destination in mind, are you 72 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,920 engaged in locomotion? You are moving, you are taking 73 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,440 action. Such action will hand in mere 74 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,120 fruitless activity. So without a specific 75 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:01,440 destination in mind, locomotion is a mere exercise in futility. 76 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:06,680 I pray over your destiny. You will not label in vain in 77 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,400 the name of Jesus. You will not plant so much and 78 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,040 adverse nothing in the name of Jesus. 79 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:20,080 So you must have a destination in mind Before you're running up 80 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,560 and down can be meaningful and fruitful. 81 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,240 Before you're running up and down can be meaningful and 82 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,120 fruitful. You must have a specific 83 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,320 destination in mind. And that's why I'm saying vision 84 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:42,800 must precede passion in the step by step sequence to success. 85 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:48,280 Visual or purpose must precede passion. 86 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:54,320 So if your life will not be about motion without movement, 87 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,200 if your life will not be about activity without productivity, 88 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:04,000 then you must live for purpose. Tap your neighbor, say neighbor, 89 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,920 live for purpose. Tell somebody live for purpose. 90 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,880 So if your life will not just be about motion without movement, 91 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,960 if your life will not be Mr. Atlas, OK, we're engaging in 92 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,480 motion without movement. If your life will not be about 93 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:31,200 activity without productivity, then you must live for purpose. 94 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,360 If your energy will not be wasted, if your investment will 95 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,120 not be wasted, you must live for purpose. 96 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:44,080 So the focus of today's study, like I mentioned earlier, is to 97 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:49,920 now put in your hands tools that you can engage to generate 98 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:55,400 passion, tools that you can engage to generate passion. 99 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:00,680 And then we are going to study the life of the patriarch Jacob 100 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:11,280 in the Bible, how he was able to mobilize his passion and channel 101 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,720 it properly for purposeful achievement. 102 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:24,640 Genesis 27, we read verse 41 to 46. 103 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,440 Then we'll go to chapter 28. I will also partly read from 104 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,440 chapter 29. Are we set to go church? 105 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:41,960 Are we set to go So Genesis chapter 27 from verse 41 and 106 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,480 Esau he tell Jacob because of the blessing we are with his 107 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:54,240 father blessed him and Esau said in his heart the days of 108 00:09:54,240 --> 00:10:00,720 mourning for my father and then will I slay my brother Jacob. 109 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:09,440 So if from here Jacob will respond to the situation around 110 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,400 him, it will not be responding to vision, rather it will be 111 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:18,360 responding to persecution. Am I talking to somebody? 112 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:23,600 And that is the problem of so many destiny rather than 113 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,480 responding to vision, OK, one thing or the other has happened 114 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,800 around them that is making them to respond to persecution. 115 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,080 So you see people labour in place of prayer. 116 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,440 They're actually not labour in place of prayer to be focused in 117 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:44,120 life about their purpose in destiny, but rather their energy 118 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:51,040 is being depleted or distracted, OK Labouring on what the enemy 119 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,680 wants to do to them. As many of you that are 120 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:58,400 listening to me and the issues surrounding your destiny, the 121 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,640 issues that the adversities are racing against you is the reason 122 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,000 you are not living for purpose. The Lord with silence such 123 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,720 powers that are distracting you in the name of Jesus. 124 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,360 Do you understand what I'm talking about? 125 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,080 This was a man that has a great destiny ahead of him, spoke even 126 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:25,040 before he was born. But one thing or the other that 127 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,200 you can also not absorb him from happened. 128 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,840 You know the the way he plays some games and they offended his 129 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:40,920 brother, made his brother to say OK, one day when our father is 130 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:45,080 gone, I know what to do to him. I will slay him. 131 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,600 OK, So when you not see him running, he was not running 132 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,680 after purpose. He was running away from 133 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:58,440 persecution. AM I talking to somebody then 134 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,480 verse 4 through and this was of Esau our elder son were total 135 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,920 Rebecca as he sent and called Jacob our younger son and said 136 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:14,120 unto him, Behold thy brother Esau as touching the dot comfort 137 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:21,080 himself proposing to kill thee now Yeah, it's another man that 138 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:27,240 had a purpose but a purpose in the wrong direction, not a 139 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,240 purpose to fulfill his own destiny, but a purpose to fight 140 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,200 his brother. I pray again in the name of 141 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,840 Jesus, you will not be an instrument in the hand of the 142 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,280 devil. Your passion will not be 143 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:45,880 mobilized to pursue wrong purpose in the name of Jesus. 144 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:52,360 There was 43 now. Therefore, my son, obey my voice 145 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:59,040 and arise, flee down to Lebanon, my brother to Iran, and tally 146 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,160 with him a few days until thy brothers fully torn away. 147 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,080 So the mission the mother was sending him was not to go there 148 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,280 and be fulfilled, but to just escape for a moment from evil 149 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:20,680 and return empty handed. Waste his years in exile was 150 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:24,240 fortified on to thy brothers. I got turned away from thee and 151 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,000 he forget that without us done to him. 152 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,120 Then I will send and fake thee from them. 153 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:37,000 Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day and verse 26 154 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:42,360 and Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the 155 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,800 daughters of heads. So she has to come up with the 156 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,120 reason that we justify his movements to exile. 157 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,840 Not necessarily that that reason he was putting up OK was 158 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,880 concrete enough a propose that Jacob should pursue. 159 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,600 Am I talking to somebody? Because as we are reading all 160 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,280 you will now see a Rebecca said. I think I am wary of my life 161 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,560 because of the daughters of em. If Jacob take a wife of the 162 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,520 daughters of em such as this, which are the daughters of the 163 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,920 land, what cool shall my life do me? 164 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,880 Then when you get to chapter 28, you will not see the way the 165 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,400 manner she went to the father and I told the father that let 166 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,760 us allow Jacob to relocate to go and get married. 167 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,880 Marriage is good but everything about life is not marriage. 168 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,000 Are you listening to me? Marriage is wonderful, but 169 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,760 everything about life is not just what married. 170 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,920 This is a this is a man that the patriarchal anointing is upon 171 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:58,960 him to bear responsibility, OK, for the covenant that was with 172 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,640 the grandfather Abraham, and they just wanted to reduce him 173 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:15,400 to just a child bearing machine. So yeah, we discovered that 174 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:21,040 Jacob left home without a personal destiny scripts. 175 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:30,280 Hello. He left home without a personal 176 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:38,600 destiny scripts to pursue. He left home only to carry out 177 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:45,800 the instruction of the model. Whatever you see Jacob doing, 178 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:51,680 stepping out OK was not a thing that was intentional about 179 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,920 himself, was not generated by himself. 180 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,800 For how long will you continue to live by the script written 181 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:07,560 for you by others? When will you sit down and 182 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,680 identify by yourself the purpose you must live your life to 183 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,280 fulfill? A godly 1. 184 00:16:21,210 --> 00:16:28,570 He left home without even a map of his destiny, no clear 185 00:16:28,570 --> 00:16:34,770 understanding of the map of his destiny, not a personal script 186 00:16:34,810 --> 00:16:41,600 of the purpose he should pursue. He left home unprepared, but 187 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,480 thank God along the line, he developed the passion to 188 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,240 continue the journey because he caught a passionate vision. 189 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,960 We're going to read that in chapter 28 so that I hear 190 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:04,280 listening to me where you left. Oh, maybe just on the structure 191 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,079 of the father. My father want me to go to 192 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,400 school. My mother want me to study. 193 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:19,720 Mercy, am I talking to somebody? My uncle is ready to sponsor me 194 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,680 to go to school. Why are you in school? 195 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:27,119 You don't know. At the end of the schooling, to 196 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,680 what purpose and destiny will you apply your study? 197 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:38,280 You don't know. Are you a Hardy years upon 198 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,840 years? It is time for you to catch a 199 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,880 concrete vision that will generate passion in you to live 200 00:17:47,880 --> 00:18:00,560 for purpose. Is that time so for Jacob, OK, 201 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:07,280 he left home. No personal Destiny scripts, no 202 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:12,080 Destiny map, he was not even prepared for where he was being 203 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:16,640 sent to. Even the married thing that the 204 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:21,240 mother cooked up, OK, it has never occurred to him that that 205 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,160 was the next purpose to pursue in Destiny. 206 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,640 But tango that along the line he was able to develop the passion 207 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,400 to continue the journey because he caught a vision. 208 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,960 That vision is so along the line became the fuel that triggered 209 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:49,480 his passion. Initially, as I mentioned, it 210 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,680 was merely responding to persecution. 211 00:18:54,440 --> 00:19:01,120 Suppose persecution, it was not running towards a predetermined 212 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:05,720 destination. May I say to you and warn you, 213 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,680 your life should not just be based on responding to 214 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,640 persecution. Your life should not just be 215 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,920 based on responding to what the enemies, the adversary are doing 216 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,880 around you. You are wasting too much energy 217 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:29,400 concentrating on the enemy. Hello, rather than running 218 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,360 around because of the enemy, run towards your vision. 219 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,680 So your life should not be based on responding to provocation. 220 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:48,520 It should be a baronet towards a predetermined destination. 221 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:54,360 Can we read verse 10 to 16 of chapter 28? 222 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:57,800 We are moving from chapter 27 to chapter 28. 223 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:06,520 How the story eventually change? For Jacob, let's stay. 224 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,240 Are we there? Are we there? 225 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,760 And Jacob went out from Bathsheba and went towards Iran. 226 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:24,440 He level, and he lighted upon a certain place, and started there 227 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:32,440 all night, because the sun was said. 228 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,160 And he took off the stone of that place, and put them for 229 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,400 pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 230 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,560 And he dreamed. And behold a ladder set up on 231 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,040 the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. 232 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:53,240 And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on him. 233 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:58,440 And behold the law stood above it and said I am the Lord God of 234 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:03,720 Abraham, thy father and the God of I See the land we are on down 235 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,840 lies to thee will I give it and to thy sea. 236 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,880 Hello. That where you are going to 237 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,920 don't get there OK, and get married and become distracted. 238 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:25,160 There is a purpose that is higher than you just going to 239 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,240 here. And am I talking to somebody 240 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,280 now? If this encounter had not 241 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:37,720 happened, Jacob will have just gone there, get married, have 242 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:42,920 all the prosperity he had, and continue forever in that place. 243 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:46,680 But God was saying to him, that place where your mother is 244 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,000 sending you is just a land of preparation. 245 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:54,880 It is not your destination. AM I talking to somebody? 246 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,880 And I still shall be as doors of the earth, and thou shall spread 247 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,640 abroad to the West, and to the east, and to the north and to 248 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,600 the South, and in the And I see shall all the families of the 249 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,880 earth be blessed. And behold, I help with thee, 250 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,520 and we keep thee in all places without that way, and we bring 251 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:23,760 thee again to this land. So where you are running to is a 252 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,360 land of preparation is not your destination. 253 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,080 For I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have 254 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,800 spoken to thee of. Now at this point God is not 255 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,440 giving him a personal destiny script. 256 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,000 I will give on to thee that which I have spoken to thee of. 257 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,040 Have you come to that level in your intimacy with God, in your 258 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,840 personal relationship with God in the place of prayer, study of 259 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,440 the Word of God and meditation to be able to say that this is 260 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:05,840 the purpose for which God wants me to apply my talents. 261 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:13,320 This is my pursuit in destiny. This is my personal destiny 262 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,840 script. This is what I will leave to 263 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,200 achieve. Tell somebody again, leave for 264 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:25,320 purpose. I can't hear you which I have 265 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:31,320 spoken to the of and Jacob awake out of his sleep and he said 266 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:37,560 surely the law is in this place and I knew it not. 267 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,320 So from that time on. He did not wait for others 268 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:51,720 before he will do the needful. So shortly after that vision of 269 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:57,760 following that vision immediately what we saw Jacob 270 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,520 demonstrate was passion. And one of the way you identify 271 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,880 a personal demand is that it need not wait for instruction to 272 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,160 do the needful. Hello. 273 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,840 A personal person need not wait for instruction to do the 274 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,120 needful. A personal person need not wait 275 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:22,760 for instruction or be teleguided before we do the right thing. 276 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,080 He knows that there's the need for him to wake up early. 277 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,480 He wake up early. There's need for him to observe 278 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,440 quiet time. You observe quiet time. 279 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,240 There's the need for him to set up a schedule of what he will do 280 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,680 daily. He does all of that and he 281 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,400 ensure that without being teleguided, without being 282 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,280 monitored, he's doing the right thing by himself, for himself 283 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,040 for all that and for destiny fulfillment. 284 00:24:53,640 --> 00:25:01,960 Chapter 29 The 1st 10 verses Then Jacob went on his journey. 285 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:07,240 He need not wait again. He went on and he came to the 286 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,000 land of the people of the East, and he look and behold a well in 287 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,440 the feet. And lo, there were three flocks 288 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,600 of sleep lined by he. For out of that world they 289 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,800 watered the floor, and the greystone was upon the West 290 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,640 mouth. Take note, a greystone was upon 291 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,040 the West mouth, and leader were all the flaws gathered. 292 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,440 And they rolled the stone from the West mouth, and watered the 293 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,920 sheep, and put the stone again upon the West mouth in his 294 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:44,360 place. And Jacob said unto them, the 295 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:49,160 men he met around the world, my brother, where do you come from? 296 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:54,160 And they said of Iran are we? And they said unto them, Know ye 297 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Lebanon, the son of Naha? And they said, We know him. 298 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,400 And he said unto them, Is he well? 299 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,920 And they said It is well and beyond Rachel his daughter 300 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:11,880 cometh with the sheep. And he said no it is yet I pay 301 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,120 listen to the several very critical. 302 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,200 He now said to those other indifferent complacent men who 303 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,960 had sheep that are tested for water. 304 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,440 Are we together? And they allow those sheep to 305 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:35,120 lie there because they were not self motivated enough to lift 306 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:39,120 the stool. We are afraid that that world 307 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,280 will always be covered by a stone. 308 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,120 And it said to them, it is high yet high day. 309 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,520 Neither is it time that the cartoon should be gathered 310 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:59,680 together. Make ease answer me, I can't 311 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,680 hear you. Why the sunshine? 312 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,320 But why the sunshine? They were sleeping no passion, 313 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:15,840 but the man that has encountered gold that not had a vision and a 314 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,040 purpose that is living for he didn't get there and join them 315 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,960 to be whiling away when the ship should be watered. 316 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,840 He confronted and he said to them what are doing strange? 317 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:40,960 Why you at ease It is yet I day my brother it is yet I day my 318 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,080 sister it is yet I day this was said I will walk. 319 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,080 Why the day is still on for the night comet when no one can walk 320 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:58,760 but when it was I day and the ship need water. 321 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:04,960 This man from Iran OK they were by the West side but could not 322 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,840 lift a finger to remove the stool so that they can water the 323 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:15,800 animal. You have the energy now to run 324 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,840 around. What are you applying the energy 325 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:29,160 to? And no, it is yet I day neither 326 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,520 is it time that the cattle should be gathered together. 327 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,160 What are you, the sheep? And go and feed them. 328 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,200 And they said, look at the excuse. 329 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:49,760 We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, until they 330 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,640 roll the stone from the worst mouth. 331 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,880 Whose responsibility is it? I had Mama saying to you last 332 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,200 Sunday that there are some of you, OK? 333 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,680 You live at the mercy of others. People's favor and your style 334 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,120 and attitude to life is that every other people should do 335 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,360 everything for you. You are not ready to do anything 336 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:14,920 either for yourself or for others. 337 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:25,840 Everybody man who by profession, by career are shepherd that 338 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,040 should be concerned about how to water the animal and feed the 339 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,160 animal. They kept the animal by the 340 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,480 website. They did not hold the stool 341 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,360 waiting for people who will do it for them. 342 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,640 And they said, can you see that in verse 8? 343 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:51,160 We cannot impossibility thinkers when there is no passion. 344 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,600 You always parade excuse when there is no passion, OK, 345 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,640 Excellence will not characterize your activity, your daily 346 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,760 living. And they said we cannot also all 347 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,360 the floss be gathered together until they roll the stone from 348 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,280 the West mouth. I will never want to allow you 349 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,280 Kutakuru. Who are those days that should 350 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:24,040 do it for them. Then we water the sheep and I 351 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,600 often say to you that your motto in life should not be I do my 352 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,400 best, I live the rest. Your motto in life should be 353 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,520 after you have done your best and that is small to do you have 354 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:41,080 the rest. So they are trying to observe, 355 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,680 observe a protocol, A protocol that we don't allow the animals 356 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,480 to be welfare, that it is some people that roll away the store. 357 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:56,720 Ours is to water the sheep and the person that rolled the 358 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,480 stone. If that person didn't come, your 359 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,200 animal will not be fed. Who is losing? 360 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,680 Am I talking to somebody? Can you see the sequence there? 361 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:21,720 I want to. Hello. 362 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,400 The fact that the people that surround you are not serious 363 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,240 does not mean you should not be serious. 364 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,160 You should be different. Tell somebody be different, tell 365 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,760 somebody be different. Let's check that. 366 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,360 Verse 20, verse 8 again, Chapter 29. 367 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:42,120 And they say we cannot until all the flocks be gathered together 368 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,000 until they rolled the stone from the well mouth. 369 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,560 Then we water the sheep. But yeah, they are they are 370 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,040 friendly and they are failure. We are factual negatively. 371 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,920 Why would you rush up OK, and not limit yourself to all your 372 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,400 own duty? Hide their own duty. 373 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:09,880 So that one if it were copied. And why he expect with them? 374 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,360 Rachel came with her father ship for she kept them. 375 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:22,760 Look at a woman. She had she had brother. 376 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,960 So hello. She had what? 377 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,040 Brothers. When animals were to be taken to 378 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,080 the feed, it was richer. When animals were to be water, 379 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,680 it was richer. Do nothing. 380 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:42,320 Elder brothers, am I talking to somebody only for them to wake 381 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,040 up late and begin to fight Jacob, who came in from nowhere 382 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:52,200 to replace them in terms of family business, You know, there 383 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,360 were the people that eventually conspired against Jacob. 384 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,720 They said he has taken everything that belongs to our 385 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:03,080 father, that would belong to their father that they did not 386 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,240 manage. They left to their sister to 387 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:10,560 manage. And we have some young men like 388 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,640 that in families. The only productive member of 389 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,760 the family is the daughter. What can we get back in the name 390 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,280 of Corinnewa of Corinne Lada? Hello. 391 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:35,470 And that's what you prefer? So why must it be rich and not 392 00:33:35,470 --> 00:33:39,350 those brother that were later that that later were fighting 393 00:33:39,710 --> 00:33:42,630 Jacob over sharing of family inheritance? 394 00:33:44,030 --> 00:33:51,640 Don't forget the Yoruba poem that says I bought you local of 395 00:33:51,640 --> 00:34:02,300 your a fool sheeta still of a stain. 396 00:34:02,420 --> 00:34:05,420 It came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Lebanon 397 00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:09,139 is brought his mother's brother, and the sheep of Lebanon, his 398 00:34:09,139 --> 00:34:15,420 mother's brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone 399 00:34:15,420 --> 00:34:19,120 from the worst mouth. And what are the flock of 400 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,159 Lebanon? His mother's brother. 401 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,800 None of these were the duty of Jacob. 402 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,639 Hello. He was such a newcomer. 403 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,960 He was a stranger asking for direction. 404 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,520 Are you with me? But the storm that this man that 405 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,639 have been there refused to roll away. 406 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,920 What did he do? He went there. 407 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,400 He didn't even ask them to to join him, support him to do it. 408 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:54,239 He did it alone by himself. Now the duty of watering the 409 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,920 ship, the ships that were not even his own, he went ahead and 410 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,640 do what? What are them? 411 00:35:06,590 --> 00:35:11,510 So what I will say, essentially we are connecting this with the 412 00:35:11,510 --> 00:35:16,950 fact that even though he left home without a personal 413 00:35:16,950 --> 00:35:23,520 Destiny's creep or a Destiny map along the line, he caught the 414 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,040 vision and that vision translated to passion. 415 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,880 And the way the passion manifested was the fact that 416 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:37,080 from that point on, he started to do the needful without any 417 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,720 external prompting. That's passion. 418 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:50,680 That's what passion. So we are tracing the roots of 419 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,720 passion, how to generate passion. 420 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:59,440 So from here we can conclude conveniently that vision, 421 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:05,120 otherwise known as purpose or which you can also call sense of 422 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,080 direction, was the source of Jacob's passion. 423 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,280 So vision will always come before passion. 424 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,200 Where there's no vision, there will be no passion. 425 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:26,160 So how do you generate passion? Let me attempt to discuss one 426 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:31,520 out of three today. Number one, you must discover 427 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:38,680 purpose and live for it. Discover purpose and do what? 428 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:44,160 And live for it. Where there is no purpose, there 429 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:50,040 will be no passion for impacts. And what is it that we call 430 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,320 vision? Vision is basically tangible 431 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,720 purpose. That's vision. 432 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,160 It's not about sleeping and dreaming dreams. 433 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,680 OK, it may, It may come that way. 434 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:10,200 But basically vision means tangible purpose that you are 435 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,160 living for. And that purpose of vision is 436 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,040 the reason you will choose diligence over indolence. 437 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,680 Purpose is the reason you will choose courage over despair in 438 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:30,320 Left home in fear. But it became both to pursue 439 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:35,720 destiny because it caught a vision and that vision 440 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:39,720 translated to passion. Purpose will compel you to pay 441 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,120 the price been demanded by sources. 442 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,440 This purpose that will make you or compel you to pay the price 443 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:50,640 that has been demanded by sources. 444 00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:55,920 Purpose is the brain behind the power you need to define all 445 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,880 odds to attain sources. There are always obstacles on 446 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,200 the way to success. OK. 447 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:07,200 It is when you have purpose that you will now generate the power 448 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,200 that you need to define all those all before you can attain 449 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,800 sources. And without purpose, passion 450 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,840 cannot be triggered. Without purpose, passion cannot 451 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,720 be triggered. It is purpose that generate 452 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:29,480 passion. But we need to not ask ourselves 453 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:35,880 how do we develop purpose? So what are the things that can 454 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,280 generate purpose? What can we describe as the 455 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,600 stimulus for purpose? Things that can stimulate 456 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,920 purpose. Take note of this and hold it 457 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,800 tight. Purpose does not evolve. 458 00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,640 Purpose does not evolve by itself. 459 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:12,680 Rather, purpose is informed. Purpose does not evolve by 460 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,640 itself. So purpose is not a thing that 461 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:23,320 metamorphosize, OK? It doesn't have X stage, sea 462 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:28,200 lava stage, Puppa stage and then the complete inset stage. 463 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:34,640 No, purpose don't evolve OK Rather purpose is informed. 464 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:41,160 It is not a spontaneous phenomenon, is an intentional 465 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,680 affair. It is a stimulated endeavor. 466 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,680 You have to be deliberate about life before you can live for 467 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,040 purpose. You have to be intentional about 468 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,920 wanting to achieve in life before you can have a purpose 469 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,520 that you will live for. So purpose does not evolve. 470 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,360 Purpose is informed. Purpose is not a spent 471 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,320 spontaneous phenomenon. Purpose is a stimulated 472 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,960 endeavour. And what are those things that 473 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,960 can stimulate purpose? Let's quickly run through them 474 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,160 and close for today. Stimulus of purpose, number one, 475 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,360 is information. That's why I said purpose does 476 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,520 not evolve. Purpose is informed. 477 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,720 You must have had it said over and over again that if you are 478 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,360 not informed you will be deformed. 479 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,040 Have you had it said before? If you are not informed, you 480 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,760 will be what you will be deformed? 481 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,200 So #1 symbol of purpose is information. 482 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,360 But I want to hardly write that to that popular saying. 483 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,320 If you are not informed, you will be informed that if you are 484 00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:00,640 deformed, you cannot perform. It is said that if you are not 485 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,560 informed, you will be deformed. But I am adding a writer to it 486 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,720 that if you are now deformed because you are not informed, 487 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:15,080 you will not be able to perform. In life, nobody can operate 488 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,720 above the level of information that is available to him. 489 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,800 So whatever you can do to have the right information about life 490 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,720 because it will have to stimulate purpose. 491 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,720 OK, Please do your best to be informed. 492 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,400 Tell your neighbor, do your best to be informed. 493 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,880 I can't hear that sister. I can't hear that Mama. 494 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,840 Let me hear that Father. Do your best to be want to be 495 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:49,200 informed and I will point to you directions or how good from 496 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,360 which you can gain the right information. 497 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,800 Number one education #2 inspiration. 498 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,240 So you obtain information by education. 499 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:14,960 I describe education as the natural route to purpose, the 500 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,400 natural route to information. Education. 501 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,240 Then inspiration is virtual link to information. 502 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,920 Are we together? The natural route to information 503 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,800 is education. The spiritual roots that is road 504 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,560 or link to information is inspiration. 505 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:47,080 So that information you seek by practical means is education. 506 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,000 The one you seek by spiritual means is revelation. 507 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,360 Hello, do you understand the two dimensions? 508 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:04,400 Now? The natural Rd. you travel to to 509 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,720 obtain information is through education. 510 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:13,360 The spiritual route to obtain information is what inspiration. 511 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:20,240 So whether you are now get it by education or by revelation, the 512 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:23,680 important thing is that information is key to destiny 513 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,000 pursuit. Information is very key to 514 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:32,240 destiny pursuit. When you see a man that you call 515 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:37,120 an activist that cannot watch injustice, it is because he has 516 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:43,240 education. There is no ignore Amos who is a 517 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:47,480 freedom fighter. When you see somebody rise up 518 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,480 and fight against injustice and defend the oppressed, there is 519 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,560 an information he has that others don't have. 520 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,640 There's a perspective to life that they ask that others don't 521 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,320 have. If you live in ignorance, they 522 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,080 will be cheating you. I will not know that you are 523 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,760 being cheated. Am I talking to somebody? 524 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,160 So an activist can stand up against injustice because he has 525 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,400 education. If you have education, you will 526 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:19,600 hate intimidation. So if you enjoy intimidation, I 527 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,440 query the quality of your education. 528 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,240 I query the Genuity of your education. 529 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,400 If you are passive and indolent, if our happenings around you and 530 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,960 you can ask responsible question and seek the right answer. 531 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,800 I query the kind of education you are parading. 532 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:45,800 Am I talking to somebody? Ditto for spiritual revelation. 533 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,640 If you have it, you will escape frustration. 534 00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:00,720 If you are spiritual revelation, you will not be comfortable 535 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,000 around mediocrity, and it will help you to escape frustration. 536 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:10,040 You see, those who succumb easily to intimidation are 537 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,800 without passion because they lack information. 538 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,920 If you succumb easily to intimidation, you succumb easily 539 00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:22,920 to injustice, you succumb easily to poverty, you succumb easily 540 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:30,280 to anything less than excellent is a pointer to the fact that 541 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,360 you lack passion because you are not operating by the right 542 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:46,000 information #2 stimulus of purpose is observation. 543 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:52,440 You recollect that in one of the previous session we had, there 544 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:57,320 was this terminal testimony given by Dickness Ulubenga on 545 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,120 how she observed a head passionate episode 1 to dress is 546 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,960 wound and from that day on she developed passion for the 547 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,960 nursing profession and today is an excellent nurse. 548 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,960 Praise the name of the Lord by what observation? 549 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,800 But many of us, OK, we don't even take note of our 550 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:23,120 environment, the scarcity in our environment, the abundance in 551 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,160 our environment. That's what there is a thing you 552 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,680 can do about this scarcity in your environment and lead to 553 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,600 lead you to prosperity. There's something you can do 554 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,960 about the abundance in your environment, OK, and lead you to 555 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,280 become a manager of resources. Am I talking to somebody? 556 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:50,320 So wisdom is the form of education you don't pay school 557 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:56,640 fees to assess. If you are a master of managing 558 00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:01,240 your observation, you gain wisdom that you don't pay school 559 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:07,640 fees to assess. Church are we together? 560 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,560 So when look at we know, we know, we know. 561 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:26,400 Go. Are you following the logic? 562 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,600 So that is that form of education. 563 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,760 You don't pay school fees to assess and it is called wisdom. 564 00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,960 And one of the way to assess that level of education is that 565 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:46,360 you are a person that observe and you make good out of your 566 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:51,680 observation. All you need to do that is to 567 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:57,720 have a teachable heart and you master the act of learning by 568 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,000 observation. You learn by observation. 569 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:07,720 You see somebody doing well, OK, and you query what is he doing 570 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:10,160 differently? You may not even move closer to 571 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,800 that person from a distance. You observe and you gain. 572 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,760 You clean wisdom from that person. 573 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,800 You see somebody failing and you see and you take a decision by 574 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,560 looking at his life and the trajectory of where he's heading 575 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,280 to. And you avoid and say, this is 576 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:30,320 not the type of person I can move with just by mere critical 577 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:37,560 world observation. But if you are not a master of 578 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:42,960 observation, OK, you will leave. You will, you will leave the 579 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,200 person that can help your destiny. 580 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,080 And you also say with the person that will ruin your destiny. 581 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:59,440 The third one, inspiration, if you are not inspired, you will 582 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,200 easily retire from the center of action. 583 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,360 We are not inspired, you easily retire from the centre of 584 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,160 action. It is passion that keeps a man 585 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,640 in the centre of action without losing interest. 586 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:24,240 If you start and finish strong and you will not lose steam, you 587 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:28,320 must be regularly inspired. So what is the source of your 588 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,040 inspiration? How close are you to the Bible 589 00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:36,080 to draw inspiration? How much of your pastor's 590 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:41,880 message you listen to after Sunday to draw information that 591 00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:47,800 will give you the energy OK to stay strong in the race? 592 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:52,080 Because outside there are there are many discouraging factors. 593 00:49:54,480 --> 00:50:00,400 Am I talking to somebody? So it is passion that keeps a 594 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,440 man the center of action without losing interest. 595 00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,720 And you must be divided, connected by having a rich 596 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:12,000 personal life or devotion through the story of the Word of 597 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:16,080 God and by meditation to stay inspired. 598 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:23,560 So that brings me to the fourth stimulus of purpose, meditation. 599 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,720 Meditation. The number one thing we mention 600 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:39,520 is what? Answer me #2 #3 and #4 Moses 601 00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:43,880 told Joshua. This book of the law studies. 602 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:50,600 Meditate on it day and night. Do what you have learned from 603 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,240 me. And if you do that, what would 604 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:59,600 be the end result? Good success, Good success, 605 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:05,320 Success with quality, success that will challenge others. 606 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:11,640 Now, meditation life is a mixed bag of motivation and 607 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:16,560 discouragement. In fact, the happenings around 608 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:22,720 us that motivate joy, they are happy around us that inspire 609 00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:26,720 positivity are not so much available by your personal 610 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:31,880 meditation. You can sort out issues and sift 611 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,640 out those. That can poison your. 612 00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:37,760 Mind, that's what is one of the things you do by meditation. 613 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:44,360 Hello. Meditation is not about 614 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:49,120 negative. Thinking, OK, it's about putting 615 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,000 the old issues around you together. 616 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:56,280 Are you able to sort them out? The one that will serve like a 617 00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,840 poison to your mind. You trust them. 618 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:03,160 Many of you don't know how to trust negative thoughts. 619 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:10,520 You dwell on them. And I said to you in life, if 620 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,640 you want. To be among the smartest in 621 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,600 life, then you must engage your mind in meditation. 622 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,680 Meditative people are the smartest people you always 623 00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:25,040 encounter and that is why. When people. 624 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:29,080 Misbehave. Have you had? 625 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:46,240 It said. Before in Yoruba, when people. 626 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:58,960 All the time. Hello my all the time. 627 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:24,520 I keep on saying it, Are you everybody like they would say in 628 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:28,120 this part of the world? Everybody. 629 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:31,960 What do you think? They give you your personal 630 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:38,200 name. You know why we go there? 631 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:46,440 Just to distinguish you. And the last? 632 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,480 Before I draw the curtain, today is irritation. 633 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:58,720 Irritation. As it applied to the. 634 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,280 Regular function. Of the biological system. 635 00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,720 So it applied to Destiny Pursuit. 636 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,520 Who said they did Barbados or say they did Barbados or say 637 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,480 they did nothing irritates you. What manner of person are you? 638 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:35,810 What about? What can say you? 639 00:54:35,810 --> 00:54:37,570 See those people you see as activists? 640 00:54:38,490 --> 00:54:41,210 What inform their passion is irritation. 641 00:54:42,210 --> 00:54:45,450 So more often than not, activists develop passion for 642 00:54:45,450 --> 00:54:48,920 advocacy because they cannot stand up pressure. 643 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:58,570 They cannot stand up pressure the room you. 644 00:54:58,570 --> 00:55:03,490 Want to sleep is smoky. OK, and you are not even feeling 645 00:55:06,010 --> 00:55:11,490 it and let people begin to ask. You are sleeping in this house. 646 00:55:16,610 --> 00:55:40,000 Am I talking to somebody? AM I talking to somebody? 647 00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,000 Do you know if there's? A false man around you, whether 648 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,200 you passive or you don't passive it something. 649 00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:50,040 Will you take your test board? Am I? 650 00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,800 Talking to somebody. But why you? 651 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,040 Don't engage your irritation, OK? 652 00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,800 Anything, any a life of anything goes. 653 00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,560 Please instead of. Lamentation. 654 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:15,640 Choose Confrontation. And the way you can. 655 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:22,160 Do that is where you develop your capacity for irritation let 656 00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:23,560 failure. Irritate you? 657 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:28,400 AM I talking to somebody? Don't be. 658 00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:34,400 Comfortable with failure or failure, they commit an 659 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:35,560 assignment. To your hand you are not 660 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,680 produced in. Banana Uncle life continue. 661 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,680 You will not see that and say, OK, what do I do differently so 662 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,320 that this kind of failure will know I will not repeat it. 663 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,320 Children. OK, you you break. 664 00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,640 Up. OK, I say. 665 00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,520 They also broke it last week and that didn't say anything. 666 00:56:55,880 --> 00:57:06,120 No remorse. So instead of lamentation, 667 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,360 choose confrontation. And there is what we are happy 668 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,200 to do that is where you engage in the teacher. 669 00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,600 The difference between activity and other member of that is that 670 00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:19,240 order can only more more. Are you with me? 671 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:24,400 But the activists have. Passion, Passion to make sure 672 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:29,560 that everything goes well for everybody and I. 673 00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:38,800 Conclude by saying. In life you. 674 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,080 Will experience things that irritate? 675 00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,680 You and I call those things garbage. 676 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,680 And you need to manage them because if you can. 677 00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,800 Manage your garbage. It will produce garbage. 678 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,440 You know what cabbage is as I'm a church, you know. 679 00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:01,320 What cabbage is? OK, and by the time you use your 680 00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,240 garbage as Manor for cabbage, your cabbage will do well. 681 00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,680 So engage the things that irritate you. 682 00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:12,400 Turn them to manure that will inspire you to go for greatness. 683 00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,800 God bless you. We believe you'll be blessed by 684 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,760 the ministry. Of this message you will do well 685 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,200 to be the duer of all you've heard. 686 00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,440 For further inquiry and spiritual help, contact this 687 00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:34,760 number is 08035685882 or worship with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible 688 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,800 Church, adjacent University of Illorin Teaching Hospital. 689 00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,160 Occursi Illorin, God bless you.