1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,760 Don't be left in the dark. Get proper understanding of life 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,880 through the Word of God. My people perish for lack of 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:08,760 knowledge. The Word of God is an 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:10,920 illumination which gives direction. 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,920 Remain placed as Reverend goes far and illuminates your mind 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,640 with the Word of God with all simplicity and clarity. 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:29,520 A new topic titled the principles of spiritual 8 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:33,680 fervency. The principles of spiritual 9 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:40,360 fervency Romans chapter 12 starts with I mean starts with a 10 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:47,520 pleading from Apostle Paul on what the believers private life, 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,520 personal life with God should be. 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,480 I beseech you therefore, brethren, give yourself to God, 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:59,960 a living sacrifice. It proceeded to highlighting the 14 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:05,480 interconnectivity that you operate between believers. 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,560 Praise the name of the Lord and then by the time we go to verse 16 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,760 11, we're categorically to not to be slothful in business. 17 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:25,480 We must be fervent in spirit serving the Lord, not level in 18 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:31,080 business, fervent in spirit serving the Lord. 19 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:37,440 I pray in the name of Jesus that anyone you are connected to, you 20 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,600 will be a positive influence on them in the name of Jesus. 21 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:50,160 Now there are three prongs to success in life. 22 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:56,960 In other word, if you liken success to a fork, I mean, or if 23 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,840 you liken success to something that can be picked by a fork, 24 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,400 the kind of fuck you will use must have 3 prongs. 25 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,720 If it is 2, it will not succeed to pick it. 26 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,960 If it is one, it will not succeed to pick it. 27 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,680 It must have 3 prongs. And what are they? 28 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:27,480 The first one, it's what I call divine clemency, if you like, 29 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:39,920 you call it undeserved favor. The second one is what I call 30 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:51,600 practical vibrancy. And the third one is spiritual 31 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,600 vacancy, which is going to be our focus. 32 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:03,480 So for you to attain success in life, these three must be in 33 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:09,240 place. The first divine clemency, the 34 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:18,200 second practical vibrancy, and the third is spiritual vacancy. 35 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,440 So by the first one, define clemency. 36 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,920 I'm talking about the place of the grace of God. 37 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,120 It's not of him that will it, it's not of him that run it. 38 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:38,160 It's of God that soweth mercy. So the place of the grace of 39 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:45,080 God, you cannot wish it away if you will make headway in life. 40 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,120 Then the second one is the place of practical vibrancy. 41 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,240 And by that I am talking about the place of the skill of man, 42 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,200 the place of practical responsibility by man himself. 43 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:09,280 So life is not a place whereby God will do everything for you. 44 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:18,320 Hello, We expect you to also do certain things by yourself. 45 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,240 So when you talk about clemency, it looks like all responsibility 46 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,200 is on to God. But there's also the place of 47 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:35,680 practical vibrancy is the reason God has gifted you with life. 48 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,560 He has gifted you with the Holy Spirit. 49 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,760 He has gifted you with practical skin and so many things that God 50 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,000 we expect you to apply. Praise the name of the Lord. 51 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:56,160 Then by spiritual vacancy. That is the place of spiritual 52 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:01,680 responsibility of man. So you do not only have 53 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,240 practical responsibility, you equally have spiritual 54 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,920 responsibility. So this teaching that may take 55 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:19,040 us couples of weeks to engage is focus on this third prong, the 56 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:24,480 place of spiritual responsibility. 57 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:31,600 So we are examining the topic, the principles of spiritual 58 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,840 faculty. What is the necessity for 59 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:38,480 spiritual faculty? Why must you be spiritually 60 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:45,800 faculty? Life is a place of contestation. 61 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:54,480 Life is a place of confrontation, and because of 62 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,840 that, spiritual privacy is inevitable. 63 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:10,120 Life is a place of contestation. It's also a place of 64 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,840 confrontations. So there are things that will 65 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:20,000 confront you in life, and of course, virtually everything in 66 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 life. You must contest for them. 67 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:31,120 You must desire them to. Desire is part of the components 68 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:39,840 of contestation. To develop vision is part of 69 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,200 what you require in life. It's a component of 70 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:51,000 contestation. Then to pray for it, to demand 71 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,400 for what you desire in life is part of contestation. 72 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:04,120 Then beside that, life is full of confrontations and to be able 73 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:10,560 to contest and to overcome the things that confront you, you 74 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,840 cannot waste away the place of spiritual vacancy. 75 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:22,440 So what makes spiritual vacancy inevitable is because life take 76 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,200 it and understand it that way and approach it that way. 77 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:33,760 It's a place of contestation. It's also a place where you are 78 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,840 going to be faced with numbers of confrontations. 79 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:44,080 So life is a place of contest and conquest, the place of 80 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,840 contest and conquest. So you contest for so that you 81 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,560 can conquer. Life is never a comedy space. 82 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,400 Life is never a comedy space. Life is not a space for the 83 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,560 funniest. SO life does not deliver its 84 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,960 best to the funniest, it deliver its best to the fittest. 85 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Hello, are you with me? So you are not here to joke? 86 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,640 Tell your neighbor you are not here to joke. 87 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,800 And I tell yourself I am not here to joke. 88 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,920 Life is a serious business. Are we together? 89 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:34,039 Life is a serious business, so even from onset of every 90 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:42,200 individual life, life always start as a race, even from mass 91 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:48,880 conception. Those who did a bit of biology 92 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,240 and medical science, OK, they will tell you that very clearly 93 00:08:53,680 --> 00:09:02,240 that you were conceived because the contest, OK, of millions of 94 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,360 spermatozoa from your father, you won the race to fertilize 95 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,120 the egg. Hello. 96 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,320 Are we together? Do you understand what I'm 97 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,400 talking about? So even from the beginning of 98 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,440 life, right from conception, life started as a race, as a 99 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:28,400 contest. That been the case in life, 100 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,080 opportunities are banned for everyone. 101 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,480 So what is available for everyone for free, OK, is 102 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,760 opportunity. But contest, I mean, conquest in 103 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:49,200 life goes to the fittest, conquest goes to the fittest, 104 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,000 and probably the smartest is never to the funniest. 105 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,040 In fact, the slackest has no chance. 106 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:09,040 You want me to say that again? Because life is a place of 107 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:17,200 context and of conquest. Opportunities are banned for 108 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,080 everyone. So the only thing that are 109 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,440 banned for everyone is opportunity. 110 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,600 But when it comes to conquesting life, it goes to the fittest, 111 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,840 probably to the smartest, never to the funniest. 112 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,640 And of course the slackest has no chance. 113 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,920 If you slack, you have searching yourself. 114 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,840 If you slack, you have what searching yourself. 115 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:51,840 I am a Roosellawa. I am a Project Gelawa. 116 00:10:52,720 --> 00:11:02,400 Hello, Kisaye do kusibe sousibe Maura massafe ma sawada aye. 117 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,080 Did this you do Shire rush up to your responsibility? 118 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:17,320 Am I talking to somebody? Yes, I have mentioned the issue 119 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:23,800 of clemency, the place of all the software favour. 120 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,800 That too is a principle of the Scripture. 121 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:35,520 But even when you find favour, you must be sensitive to 122 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:41,880 recognize it. Not only that, you must be 123 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:47,320 competent to manage it. Why? 124 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:54,520 Forces are banned that are ready to fight and snatch it from you. 125 00:12:03,550 --> 00:12:10,670 Jacob overtook his song Hello and examples upon examples like 126 00:12:10,670 --> 00:12:14,070 that in life. So even when you find favour, 127 00:12:14,470 --> 00:12:16,710 you must be sensitive to recognize it. 128 00:12:17,470 --> 00:12:25,070 You must be competent to manage it because life is a place of 129 00:12:25,110 --> 00:12:30,520 contestation and concave. There are forces around you that 130 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,360 are willing to snatch it from you. 131 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,600 So when we say life is not a competition, because that may be 132 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,800 going on in the mind of some people that are we, am I now 133 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,480 saying that life is a competition? 134 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,560 I'm not saying life is a competition. 135 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:53,040 I said life is a place of contestation and of context. 136 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,000 I mean of conquest. So why we are correct to say 137 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,440 life is not a competition? OK, you must realize that 138 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,920 there's a thin line between competition or a clear 139 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:10,160 difference between competition and contestation. 140 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,320 So it's not a competition with your neighbor. 141 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,800 So when we say life is a place of contestation and conquest, we 142 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,480 are not saying it's a place of competition with your neighbor. 143 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:26,760 Never. Rather, it's a contestation for 144 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,520 what you need. They're not competing with your 145 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:34,520 neighbor hello, But you are contesting for what you need to 146 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:41,760 prosecute life. It's a place of contestation to 147 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,160 have your share of what life has to offer. 148 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:52,360 There are greedy men around who will want to corner everything 149 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:59,440 to themselves. So if you are the Jelly time or 150 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:07,360 digestive type, AM I talking to somebody? 151 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:20,520 So you are not in any form of competition with your neighbor 152 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:31,520 but realize that you are in contestation first for what you 153 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:39,720 need and in constestation to have your share of what life has 154 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,800 to offer. And life has many good things to 155 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,080 offer. But if you are not spiritually 156 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:50,920 favoured and sit up for your own share, they will take all the 157 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:58,040 good and push the back to you. They will take the best and 158 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,000 leave you to manage the remnants. 159 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,440 So what I'm saying essentially is that in life there are things 160 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:21,040 to fight for. I want you to understand life 161 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:29,600 this way. Life is a tree, a tree with ripe 162 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:34,680 fruits that may never fall on their own accord. 163 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:42,840 You know when you have a tree that is full of fruits, OK, 164 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:47,760 After some time, whether you climb it or not, OK, whether you 165 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:53,240 you use sickle, go to hell, whatever instrument of avesting 166 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:58,920 fruit or not, at some time the fruit will become so ripe that 167 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:04,720 it will be fallen by itself. But that is not life. 168 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,480 Life has many fruits on its tree. 169 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:18,240 But these fruits, even when they arrive, they may not fall on 170 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,880 their own accord. What do you do? 171 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,800 You have to block them. Tell somebody, go get your 172 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,760 sickle. Tell someone to go get your 173 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,000 sickle. Go get your go to hell. 174 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,080 You know what they call go to hell? 175 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,360 That's the one they used to harvest Coco. 176 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:43,960 Am I right? So in life there are things to 177 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,040 fight for, if not virtually everything. 178 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:51,000 Life is a tree whose ripe fruits may not fall on their own 179 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,560 accord. You have to pluck them. 180 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:58,760 So that's what makes life a place of contest, not a place of 181 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,840 competition with your neighbor. You are contesting for what you 182 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,119 need. You are contesting to have a 183 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:10,599 fair share, OK, of the opportunities that are banned in 184 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:12,920 life, OK. And what? 185 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,280 One of the basic things that make you ready and fit is that 186 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:18,560 you must be spiritually fashioned. 187 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,880 So life is not a thing. You approach with a casual 188 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,160 mindset. You approach life with spiritual 189 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,520 mindedness. With what spiritual mindedness? 190 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,560 People, people. People are going to learn. 191 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,040 People are travelling far. Hello. 192 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,400 They are going to what lands and they are travelling far and you 193 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:55,080 can also travel far in Christ. You can travel far in Christ. 194 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:02,360 You can reach the deepest level in Christ, whereby you become 195 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:09,360 unshakable, whereby you become well positioned to have your 196 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:13,080 fair share of what life has to hover. 197 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:20,600 Then life offers confrontations. We are looking at necessity for 198 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:31,640 spiritual vacancy. De Meru ninoye El ridojico 199 00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:45,960 ninoye El NI bapadi ninoye El NI que *** Life offers 200 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,760 confrontations. So there are things to confront. 201 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:54,720 It's also the reason you must be really perfect. 202 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:01,800 You must be well equipped to engage life, OK and be 203 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:07,120 victorious. So life of our confrontations, I 204 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:11,960 often say to people that Jesus never deceived anybody to follow 205 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:16,040 him. He made it very clear what we 206 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,720 are going to encounter as we follow him in this world. 207 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,960 He said you will experience tribulations but be of good 208 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,520 years. I have overcome the world. 209 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:39,000 So any preacher promising you is is an ever smooth route to 210 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,720 travel on your journey of faith is deceiving you. 211 00:19:48,930 --> 00:19:51,690 There will be times where you will descend into the valley, 212 00:19:52,450 --> 00:19:55,130 there will be time where you will have to climb steep 213 00:19:55,330 --> 00:20:01,330 mountains and there will be time when things will play too. 214 00:20:02,050 --> 00:20:04,570 When it play too forever for you. 215 00:20:05,010 --> 00:20:09,810 Check it. OK, you may not be travelling on 216 00:20:09,810 --> 00:20:13,120 the right Rd. Am I talking to somebody? 217 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:22,120 So life offers confrontation that require the right spiritual 218 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:27,000 orientation to resolve. If you don't have the right 219 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,200 spiritual orientation when certain confrontations are 220 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,800 coming up, OK, let me get you confused. 221 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,400 You may lose your balance. Am I talking to somebody? 222 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:48,280 You may quit from the fit life. You may have reason so even 223 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:55,080 doubt God if you don't have the right orientation about life. 224 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,240 So life offers confrontations that requires the right 225 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,440 spiritual orientation to resolve. 226 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,480 And if you lack the right spiritual orientation, you 227 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,560 should be prepared for spiritual molestation. 228 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:15,560 Life will molest anyone that is not engaging life with the right 229 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:20,200 spiritual orientation. Life will embarrass anyone that 230 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,280 is not engaging life with the right spiritual orientation. 231 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:29,560 You take everything to be casual. 232 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,040 Hello. Everyone that smile at you, you 233 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,240 take them to be friendly. When the scripture made it very 234 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,120 clear that not all men have feet. 235 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,640 And these are men that are sitting in church. 236 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,800 These are men that you are shaking hands together on 237 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,040 campuses. These are colleagues. 238 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,360 Hello, that you sit down together in the boardroom and 239 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,480 you think you are on the same mission. 240 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,360 You think you are of the same mind. 241 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,440 Praise the name of the Lord, but behind the scene they are acting 242 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,400 differently. Behind the scene they are 243 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,960 plotting dangerous things against your destiny. 244 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:20,560 Am I talking to somebody? So if you don't engage life with 245 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,920 the right spiritual orientation, they prepare for spiritual 246 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:33,440 molestation. Like I said earlier, you are not 247 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,680 here to jest, you are here to fight. 248 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:46,160 So life is not a space for comedians, it's a space for 249 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:52,080 fighters. So the search of encounters you 250 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:57,160 will experience in life will either turn you to a fighter or 251 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:06,040 to a victim, depending on the kind of orientation with which 252 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,360 you are approaching life. If you approach life with the 253 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:14,680 right orientation, where you are confronted with challenges, you 254 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,640 become a fighter, you stand up to it, you bring out your 255 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,360 spiritual asanas because over time you have been preparing 256 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:24,800 yourself to be spiritually fashioned. 257 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,800 But we are. It is. 258 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,640 Otherwise encounters in life turns you to a victim. 259 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,480 You will not be a victim in life. 260 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,640 You will leave the testimony of a man, a believer that is indeed 261 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:49,800 more than conquerors, in the name of Jesus, in the name of 262 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,200 Jesus. So what am I saying? 263 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:59,800 Principally, I'm saying you must be spiritually fit to run the 264 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,600 race of life. So Spiritual Pharmacy is about 265 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:08,880 being spiritually fit to run the race of life. 266 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,960 Much of the battles of life are not to be confronted with 267 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,080 motion, For we rest do not against flesh and blood, but 268 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,720 against principalities and power. 269 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,600 The Bible also mentions spiritual wickedness in high 270 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,840 places. Hello, 271 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,320 always been ahead of those that are against you. 272 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:01,360 So in addition to whatever knowledge you have or the 273 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,920 philosophy you may hold about life, you must, in addition to 274 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:12,320 them, understand life as a fireplace and as a battlefield. 275 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,720 Life is what a fireplace and a battlefield. 276 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:26,760 Life is a furnace. It's a fireplace. 277 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,520 It's also what a battlefield and anything that goes through the 278 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:35,120 fire, is it that that they get consumed or it get purified? 279 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:39,320 There are no, there are no three ways about it. 280 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,160 When you once you take anything through fire, is it that that 281 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,440 thing gets burnt, get consumed, get destroyed or that thing gets 282 00:25:49,440 --> 00:26:01,680 what purified? Put polythene through fire, it 283 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:06,000 will be consumed, but put gold through fire, What happened to 284 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,240 it? And of course, different 285 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:14,560 elements, OK, I have that different degree of of, of it 286 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:23,160 that they can endure the fire that we purify. 287 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,880 Good. OK, go and put aluminium in in 288 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,280 it. What happened to it? 289 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,160 Are you an aluminium Christian or a good Christian? 290 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,760 That's it. That is the retrospective 291 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,760 question you should be asked introspective question you'll be 292 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,640 asking yourself. So in addition to whatever 293 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:50,000 knowledge, whatever philosophy you may hold about life, you 294 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:55,120 must, in addition to them understand life as a fireplace 295 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,600 and as a battle feed. And that summarizes the fact 296 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:06,000 that life is a place of contest and of contest it's also a place 297 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:12,880 of confrontations. So life is a fireplace of 298 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,480 consumption for those who are not tough enough to survive 299 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,920 their daily confrontation. Then you become a victim. 300 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:28,400 Then on the other hand, is a refiner place, a faunas that 301 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,760 refine, a place of purification for those who are made of the 302 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,200 right stuff. They are made of the right 303 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:42,000 stuff. We have developed your capacity 304 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,480 in the spirit and in your emotion. 305 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:52,040 Then when you go through fire, you come out finer. 306 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,920 Hello. You come out refined, you come 307 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:03,840 out brighter. But where it is not so, may I 308 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,000 tell you, life is ready to consume you. 309 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,120 Life is ready to do what consume you. 310 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:14,760 If you are not tough enough to fight through, say O Law, 311 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,480 baptize Me with the grace to fight through the fire of light. 312 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,880 And of course He has promised you that when you pass through 313 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,520 fire you will be with you. So because you carry His 314 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,680 presence is the reason you will go through OK and you will not 315 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:40,480 be consumed. So if you are not tough enough 316 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,760 to fight through, you will consume. 317 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,600 So generally you must be spiritually strong. 318 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,520 And that is the summary of the message. 319 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,080 We are just opening up the message today. 320 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,480 We are laying the foundation for why you must give attention to 321 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:04,120 this message. So you must be really strong and 322 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,440 then you must be emotionally tall to survive life challenges. 323 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:21,320 Must be strongly strong and emotionally tough to survive 324 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:26,840 life challenges. So how much have you prepared 325 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:32,000 your mind to withstand the challenges that life may throw 326 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:38,320 at you? So in essence, spiritual Fabian, 327 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,280 which is the topic we're engaging, is not an option for 328 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:48,280 those who are not willing to be consumed by challenges that life 329 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,560 has got over. Life has got challenges to 330 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,360 offer. And because of that, spiritual 331 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,320 fervency is not an option for you. 332 00:30:08,750 --> 00:30:15,510 Put differently, spiritual warfare is not an optional 333 00:30:15,510 --> 00:30:17,750 vocation in this school of faith. 334 00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:31,120 Hello spiritual warfare is not an optional vocation in the 335 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:36,680 school of faith, but very unfortunately many of us three 336 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,240 spiritual warfare as a special duty. 337 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,520 It is stuff for the prayer squad. 338 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:52,640 Hello, their husbands like that as a reserve duty for their 339 00:30:52,640 --> 00:31:02,840 wives, a reserve duty for their parents, a reserve duty for 340 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:31,360 merchand merchandise prophets. There's this song by Is he 341 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:42,960 telling me? OK, No, I think Baba Iowa by me 342 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:49,480 Bell Rumio. Baba by me Bell Rumi maceda meda 343 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:57,320 bucata MI oges but the late umi Dina babas we came up. 344 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:17,800 I said, yeah, it may, It may sound funny, OK, but you know 345 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,440 that there are times that when God will use a donkey OK to 346 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:29,920 speak to His prophet. So take it. 347 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,600 Spiritual warfare is not a special duty reserve for only 348 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:42,440 the prayer squad. Spiritual warfare is a general 349 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,760 vocation for all believers. It's a general vocation for war 350 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:57,790 for all believers. Life is a place of constant 351 00:32:57,790 --> 00:33:03,710 battle. Life don't reward indolence. 352 00:33:06,430 --> 00:33:17,630 Life reward, competence and diligence, free prongs to 353 00:33:17,630 --> 00:33:24,800 success in life. Divine clemency, practical 354 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:31,000 words, vibrancy and then spiritual vacancy. 355 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:37,800 Ebodo Kojani. That tripod, that cycle must be 356 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,960 completed. If you enjoy divine Clemency 357 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,120 that is favoured because a lot of him that we let all of him 358 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,040 that are honored, but of God has sweared mercy, even that mercy, 359 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:55,280 OK, that which mercy has drawn to you, you must be spiritually 360 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:00,320 sensitive, perfect to be able to recognize it, OK, and assess it 361 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,200 and where you have assess it to. If you are not spiritually 362 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,920 strong enough, somebody beside you will snatch it for you. 363 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:16,199 So we recognize the place of divine clemency, OK, However, 364 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:24,639 practical vibrancy and then spiritual fantasy, all these 365 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:29,120 three, you must take them together when you are engaging 366 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,000 life. So spiritual warfare is a 367 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,679 general application for all believers. 368 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,679 Life is a place of constant battle. 369 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,520 Life does not reward indolence, rather it's the words competence 370 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,679 and diligence. Diligence not only in your 371 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:52,400 physical world but also diligence in spiritual vacancy. 372 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:59,000 Many of you are diligent in your day-to-day activity, your study, 373 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,440 your business, your career. Fine, wonderful. 374 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:09,480 But in addition, hard spiritual vacancy has spiritual fervency. 375 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,120 Don't get to the place of prayer and be cool. 376 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,840 Don't get to the place of prayer and be cool and casual. 377 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,880 Hello. Hello. 378 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:30,620 Life is never a regular ship. Life is not a trunk. 379 00:35:30,740 --> 00:35:33,460 It's not a rectangle. It's not a squad. 380 00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:40,180 Life can take any ship. Are you with me? 381 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,160 It is you that we are just unfit him to be able to move on. 382 00:35:51,820 --> 00:35:53,460 Life pattern. Can you get pattern? 383 00:35:57,820 --> 00:36:02,340 Hello, can you get pattern? You have to watch the wind. 384 00:36:03,180 --> 00:36:04,580 You have to behave like the eagle. 385 00:36:04,580 --> 00:36:16,630 Jesus himself attested to that in Gospel chapter 3. 386 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,320 So wherever the wind one, that's where it's Bluetooth, Only a man 387 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,320 of the Spirit will know how to kill him. 388 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:35,720 You won't miss divine flight. I prayed again. 389 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:41,400 I said you won't miss divine flight in the name of Jesus. 390 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,120 So diligence not only at the spiritual office, I mean at your 391 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,360 physical work, you know, but diligence and spiritual vacancy 392 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,800 too. Spiritual vacancy is not 393 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:59,080 something to be outsourced. I've said that it's not 394 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,160 something you outsource to a spiritual merchant. 395 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,440 It's irresponsible to be undertaking personally. 396 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:17,320 If spiritual vacancy were responsible to be delegated, God 397 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,320 will not require us or border us with prayer. 398 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:28,080 Hello. God himself spoke to the prophet 399 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:35,540 Jeremiah when he was incarcerated. 400 00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:41,260 God was aware of his condition. Are we together? 401 00:37:41,740 --> 00:37:45,540 He was the servant of God himself, genuine servant of God. 402 00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:49,660 God was aware of his condition and the response of God to him 403 00:37:49,660 --> 00:38:00,200 was call upon me. Hello, let's check the matter. 404 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,960 The three from verse one. Moreover, the word of the Lord 405 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:09,000 came unto Jemaya the second time while he was yet sought up in 406 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,880 the court of the prison saying does say the Lord, the maker, 407 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,720 the arrow, the Lord that formed it to establish it. 408 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,240 The Lord is his name. Then verse 3 call unto me. 409 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,400 It's so clear from US1 that he was aware of his condition and 410 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,680 he asked all the power to deliver him and he say you will 411 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:45,870 take you want to be there. If you don't call on me, tell 412 00:38:45,870 --> 00:38:51,910 yourself I will accept personal responsibility for my spiritual, 413 00:38:52,190 --> 00:38:57,920 for my spiritual obligations. Call unto me and I will answer 414 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,080 thee and see the great and mighty things without noise. 415 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,800 Note. So we must call him before you 416 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:10,520 answer us. There must be a practical 417 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,960 provocation before we can experience divine intervention. 418 00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:24,740 So life is not a convert zone of no effort before success. 419 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:32,240 So that is the attitude of some people to lie a covert zone of 420 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,400 no effort. That's what's a good thing take 421 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,120 life to be. But life is never a comfort zone 422 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,760 of no effort before success. And some of the prayer points we 423 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,240 pray during our revival services. 424 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:53,240 Hello suggest to us that life is a converse zone of no efforts 425 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,360 where some people live or we will just enter their office. 426 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:08,600 Some of this attitude to life suggests that you are saying God 427 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,800 is the God of injustice. You want more soon. 428 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:19,000 Hello our coma she said he was in my query. 429 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:24,360 He said, well, life is a combat zone. 430 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000 Of efforts to gain glory. It's a combat zone of efforts to 431 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:37,200 do what to gain glory. So life offers opportunities to 432 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:42,160 all, like I said earlier. But these opportunities that are 433 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:47,080 banned in life require opportunity before you can have 434 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:52,960 the testimony of a breakthrough. Opportunities are banned, but 435 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,760 the only people who can assess the opportunity are people that 436 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,120 embrace the principle of importunity. 437 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:09,440 I want I want, I want to work bad. 438 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:21,680 Rather Coco to you that benefit Co CSE to back back, we will 439 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,240 continue for 21 days. They will continue. 440 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:28,000 We have the example of Prophet Elijah in that regard 7 times. 441 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:33,000 We have the example of Prophet Daniel who stayed there for 21 442 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,920 days until the answer of joy comes. 443 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:41,240 So opportunities are banned in life, but only those who engage 444 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:46,280 live with the principle of importunity, who will not give 445 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,000 up suddenly, who will not be discouraged. 446 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,320 They are the one that will have faced the opportunity. 447 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,800 So in life you must go through and pray through to 448 00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:04,720 breakthrough. So you go through and while you 449 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:09,560 are going through you are praying through and suddenly and 450 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,680 eventually breakthrough become your portion in life. 451 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:19,400 Nobody, I say it again, nobody is accepted from life's battle 452 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,680 and that is the reason believers must enlist as prayer warriors. 453 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,440 All believers must enlist as what prayer warriors. 454 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,960 In life, you are not expected to surrender to faith. 455 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:45,360 Rather you must engage your faith to pursue whatever life 456 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,880 has to offer to you. Those who surrender to faith 457 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,800 should prepare to fade out. You will not fade out. 458 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,120 I say. You will not fade out in the 459 00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:00,440 name of Jesus. You are not entitled to favour 460 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,760 until you activate your faith for it pursuits. 461 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,880 May I say this as I begin to see how we can wind down today and 462 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:20,800 continue next week. Some of you want to bank on 463 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:28,480 innocence to deserve the best. You want to bank on innocence. 464 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:35,760 OK to be accepted from life battle in the Omageege Timon 465 00:43:35,760 --> 00:44:01,480 Loggege Timoni, Gegege Ekumuru. So that you are not ready to 466 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,680 fight does not stop those who are ready to fight against you, 467 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:14,520 even for no reason. So battles are not optional in 468 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:21,920 life. Battles are among the inevitable 469 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:31,960 constants, inevitable words, constants, constants, or a 470 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:37,600 constants that is common to all men in life. 471 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,800 You can choose success, you can choose failure, but you don't 472 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:49,080 choose battles, you meet them. Is somebody listening to me? 473 00:44:54,480 --> 00:45:03,640 Hello. That's why I describe battles as 474 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:08,120 constant, inevitable constants in the journey of life. 475 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,840 Battles confronts you without seeking your consent. 476 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:24,400 Hello. Hello. 477 00:45:44,800 --> 00:46:10,000 Am I talking to somebody? Hello. 478 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,240 But no it you want, no need to, no need to. 479 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:36,120 In fact, I will come up with these are the things Jesus was 480 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,320 teaching us in Gospel to Saint John chapter 10. 481 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,840 Now the chief comment not that to kill, to steal and to 482 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,160 destroy. It is in that same text of the 483 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:56,200 Scripture that Jesus was talking about the fact that only a thief 484 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:22,760 will come through the window. So battles confront us without 485 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,880 seeking our consent. They don't take permission. 486 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,800 So BIM Battu Reddy is a spiritual vocation and that's 487 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,920 the meaning of spiritual being battle ready, it's a spiritual 488 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,800 vocation and it's not an optional vocation. 489 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,440 Being battle ready, it's a spiritual vocation and it's not 490 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:51,880 an optional vocation. All believers must all avoidably 491 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:59,000 be spiritually affair. Don't delegate your warfare. 492 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,040 Face it, don't outsource your warfare. 493 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:09,080 Face it, we are counting on your pastor. 494 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,000 Your pastors are also facing greater challenges. 495 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,320 If you have always been counting on your father, don't forget 496 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,920 that your praying father is aging. 497 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:28,240 Hello, we have always been counting on your father. 498 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,920 Your praying father is what is aging. 499 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,960 If you have been counting on your mother, your prey mother is 500 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:39,640 not getting younger, Your prey mother is not getting what 501 00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:44,800 younger. And the aging of your parents is 502 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,920 telling you that you will soon be left alone. 503 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:59,670 They will suffocate the space. So I said the responsibility to 504 00:48:59,670 --> 00:49:04,320 fight your own battle. Accept the response. 505 00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,400 To do what? Fight your own battle. 506 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:18,040 I conclude by saying that even if life were a bed of roses, 507 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:29,320 remember roses to have tongues. Even if life were a bed of 508 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,760 roses, roses to have what thorns? 509 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,400 Listen to this testimony of the spiritual giants. 510 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:44,440 Second Timothy 4 by 7. I have fought a good fight. 511 00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:49,720 This is opposed to Paul. He didn't say I have played my 512 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,720 way through. I have jested my way through. 513 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,520 He said he has fought what a good fight. 514 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:04,480 So life is a battlefield. I have finished my course and in 515 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,920 the process I have kept the feet. 516 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:13,680 He fought and he kept the feet. But those who don't have the 517 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,680 right orientation to lie, if they, if they are confronted 518 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,040 with fight, they will lose their feet. 519 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,080 So if you don't retain your spiritual vacancy, or if you 520 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:29,880 don't attest virtual vacancy and retain it OK where you fight, 521 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,000 you may lose your faith in the process. 522 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,280 But I pray no matter what you are going through as you fight 523 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,200 on, you will not lose your faith. 524 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:44,600 It's a place of contestation and you will conquer in the name of 525 00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:48,440 the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 526 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,440 We believe you'll be blessed by the ministry of this message. 527 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,000 You will do well to be the doer of all you've heard. 528 00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:00,200 For further inquiry and spiritual help, contact this 529 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:08,800 number is 08035685882. Or worship with us at Oasis of 530 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,400 Wisdom Bible Church or just since University of Ellorin 531 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,040 Teaching Hospital. OK, OK, say Ellorin. 532 00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:15,960 God bless you.