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Jesus did not call you as you see yourself. He calls you as he sees you. If the Bible says something, that is what every Christian should be. Our concern in this house has been that we want to be everything that Jesus said we should be.
In Matthew, Jesus himself said: "You are the light of the world. You are a city built on a hill and you cannot be hidden by anybody." This is not the claim of anybody, but of the one who created the heavens and the earth. Nobody will light a lamp and put it under a bushel—your light must shine.
We do not believe in doctrines of men. We believe in the word of God. Any doctrine, no matter how popular, means nothing to us except what is written in Scripture. Jesus said in Matthew 24:4: "Be very careful. Don't be deceived. Many will come in my name and lead many astray."
False prophecy has its root in the devil. The devil's craftiness began with the word itself. He said to the woman, "Did God really say...?" He recognized what God said but presented a counterfeit. The devil is so deceitful that till today he is still deceiving many.
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In this house, any doctrine that is not exactly as Jesus said it—you cannot believe it. You cannot be a member of this house and follow a different word. "Follow me as I follow Christ."
Your body is the temple of God. When we gave our lives to Jesus, we did not take it back. This is the premise for your victory and for the victorious life you live in Christ Jesus.
When the Spirit of God moves in your body, it is the spirit of the Most High. Because the Bible says: "Do you not know that your body is the temple of God?" We did not give our lives to Jesus and then take them back.
Tonight's meeting is three meetings in one:
Whichever one you are looking for tonight is yours. This is a place where God speaks and those things he says happen exactly as he has spoken them.
Today is the seventh day of this conference. Get ready to go into the deep waters of God tonight. When we have an agenda, we have it to regulate ourselves—but not to regulate God. When we come to His presence, the supreme one who is supreme over all, He intercepts our meeting. The wind blows wherever it wills; nobody knows where it is coming from or where it is going.
Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." And then He said to you: "You are the light of the world." He is the light of the world, and if He gives that to you, therefore you cannot be darkness of the world. You are certainly the light of the world—because light begets light. Darkness begets darkness.
How can you be afraid of darkness when you are light from the light? Darkness sees you and runs. But you must remain the light of which God says you are.
Can a Christian be afraid of Satan or demons or cults? That Christian has lost his mind. You are light from light. You did not make yourself light. The eternal light made you light. Out of eternal light were you born.
Jesus explained why He is the light of the world in John's Gospel. There was a man born without eyes—totally blind from birth. The disciples asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents?" They believed his condition was because of sin.
But Jesus said, "No, God is the one who caused this so that the son can bring glory to the father today. As long as I am with you, I am the light of the world."
Jesus took mud, spat into it, and formed a new set of eyes. He put it on the boy's face and said, "Go and wash in the river called Siloam." And when he washed, eyes formed. And he could see.
From that very Scripture in John, we understand: if you are light of the world—which you are by virtue of accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior—creative power is inside you. You have creative power to create solutions when nobody sees a solution. To invent things that humanity will be running after.
Jesus put His light to work. He created eyes. Whatever works of life, whatever career, whatever business we are in—there are hidden streams of operation that human beings have never been able to fathom. By the virtue that we are lights from light, if we do the same things that light does—that Jesus did—we can do the same thing that He did.
Jesus validated this in John 14:12: "If you have faith in me, you do the things I have been doing and greater works than these shall you do."
When you leave this convention, think globally. Jesus did not say, "You are the light of New Cross" or "You are the light of one village somewhere." He said, "You are the light of the world."
Be global-minded. You are a city. Don't be room-minded. Be city-minded. Innovation begins from you. There are still many things in you that the globe needs.
Yesus said that light must be put on its stand. Light has its own lampstand designed for it. You cannot put a golden lamp upon a stand that is made of straw. The stand is not where people put you—but where God ordained you to be placed.
If you are not in your office that God has ordained, tonight, in this month of signs and wonders, promotion has happened to you already. As you enter the month of July, you move to your place. Your place is glorious. Your place is powerful. Your place fulfills all that heaven has said.
There is no lack for people of light. You will not try to shine—because the light lives in you. You will shine automatically.
Do not believe anybody who tells you that somebody can hinder you. God did not create what can hinder you. That is why Jesus calls you what He is—light from light.
A Christian should not be afraid to die. When we go to heaven, we go to be with Him. So why should you not be bold? Be bold. Do not let fear govern your life.
You can never see God fight unless you go and look for a fight for Him. And God will do it for every one of His children.
God told Joshua: "Be strong and courageous. You will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers." This scripture tells you—because you are ordained by God to be a leader in your field—it takes courage. It takes strength. It demands rewiring your systems. It demands a change of mind, a shift in the realm of your human mind.
One of the things it demands is courage. How can you say something different to those who are leading you, who are your boss? How can you say something different to your professor? You raise their brows. But you can say it. If you can come up with a different and better way of solution that they have never imagined, they will soon praise you.
You must make sure your traits are in line with your leadership objective or your career objective. You must have adequate knowledge and appetite to add more knowledge and values to yourself because of the future that is uncertain. By the word of God, these are terrible times. You must be able to innovate systems of leadership that are not normal.
Joshua did not crack his brain to look for what God is saying. He had Moses over him who had God's distinct word. Joshua did not hold the doctrine of Israel in which he was brought up—he dumped it. He did not have his own mind—he dumped it. He began to operate in the mind of Moses.
How will Joshua not be able to finish what Moses started? He was a carbon copy of the man. How will God not rely on him in your office? If you are an MD with a director above you, and you simulate what that director does, and then it comes time for the director to leave—who would they recommend? Is it not the one who is your mentor?
Those who are mentees are supposed to replicate their mentors. If a mentee can replicate his mentor accurately before he thinks, "We can do better," don't let the devil deceive you. This is God's order.
Elijah had to come and bow down to Elisha after they crossed Jordan together. And Elisha alone saw the chariots of God picking his master Elijah. But here is something you need to know: everything that Elijah did, Elisha could do, and he did it even better.
It is recorded that the bone of Elisha raised the dead after Elisha died. We did not read that the bone of Elijah carried life. But the bone of Elisha did—why? Because Elisha was pouring water into the hands of Elijah. Everything Elijah did, Elisha did also.
The same thing is true with Joshua and Moses. But what shipwrecked Solomon is that Solomon did something that his father David did not do. That is distinction. Don't let anybody deceive you.
Joshua was formidable. He could never be overcome by anything. He did not have enough ammunition when he went to war, but he was so bold because God said, "You will have victory." God told Moses, "You will lead them to Canaan. But you, Joshua, you are the one now. As I was with Moses, I will be with you."
What was it like when God was with Moses? Remember Exodus 14. When the enemies closed in on Israel, God said to Moses, "Advance." Moses stepped into the sea. The sea parted. The upstream formed a defense. The downstream that should flow away came back. When the king of heaven stepped into the midst of your sea, the one that was running away he brought to himself. The one that was coming against, he brought up. The Bible says the sea congealed.
Miriam the prophetess said, "He blasted by the nostrils of himself, God...the sea congealed." How did Miriam understand the physics of congelation? She understood it in the vision. Is that not the God Christians have? Is that not the God we serve?
He will do wonders through you. I don't know whether something is challenging you from moving forward in life. Get rid of it. Be what God says you are.
God appeared to Solomon and asked him, "Ask me for something." Solomon asked for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to govern God's people. He said, "Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may lead this great people. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?"
Solomon showed humility first before the Lord. "Not by your power, not by might." God was so pleased with him that He said: "Since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for riches or honor or the death of your enemies, I will give you wisdom and knowledge. And I will also give you wealth and riches and honor, such as no king before you ever had and more after you."
God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand of the seashore. "Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the men of the east." He was wiser than any man, wiser than Ethan, Ezra, Heman, Calcol, and Darda.
Solomon did not go to university. But one presence of God before him—when God left, by the power of induction, everything went out of God into him. He did not feel shaky. He did not speak in tongues. But in one night, God changed the whole paradigm to the place whereby till today, thousands of years after, people are still studying Solomon and they cannot understand it.
But now, in 1 Kings 11:1-8, we read of Solomon's fall. "King Solomon, however..." When they say "however" in a law court, when the judge has been praising you, talking good of you, and then says "however," be careful. Something contrary has taken place.
"Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Sidonians, and Hittites." God had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them because they will surely turn your heart after their gods."
"Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love." You will never love what God hates. He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines. When you mix righteous blood with unrighteous blood and give birth to children, they are demonized.
A man to whom God appeared twice—which God did not do even for David—now just loved what God hates. He held fast to them. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods. "And his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been." He followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.
"Solomon did evil in the sight of God." He built about 700 temples for Satan. One temple for God, but 700 minimum for evil spirits. The money God gave him—he used it to build temples for demons.
"The Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice." Although God had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, "Solomon did not keep the Lord's command."
God said to Solomon: "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates."
The man to whom God gave peace—who had never fought a war—woke up one day and adversaries had been raised against him. People who sang his glory began to invade him.
The sin that led Solomon to this is the sin of adultery and fornication. Adultery and fornication is the easiest sin Satan uses to catch people.
If you are not married and you don't go to bed with anybody, but you look at the opposite sex lustfully, you have committed fornication. If you are intending to marry and you sleep with that person without putting rings and marrying them, you are walking in fornication.
I cannot understand somebody who calls himself born again and looks at pornography. Who are you looking at? Demons. And you don't go to the demon feast without a demon entering into you.
Some people may call themselves Christian, may be called pastors, may speak in tongues, but they are baggage of devils and demons. When the power of God moves in the midst of people, you can see somebody who is a child of God manifesting a devil. That devil cannot possess him because he claimed to be a Christian. But it could torment him.
If a demon torments you for a little while, he will stop you from getting your due. You will lose your salvation. He will give you every attitude that will cause you to lose salvation.
If you struggle with anything in the flesh, you must go to God in sincerity before Him and repent, asking for mercy. This is the medicine to deliver you—not anybody laying dirty hands on your head.
When I was thinking about some of my colleagues who have gone astray, somebody will talk about them and some people think you are judging them. But Paul said, "Are you not supposed to judge yourselves?" You are Christians.
One day I felt so heavy about it and I said to the Lord, "Lord, I want to make a covenant with you." It took me to tears. I said, "If all these my colleagues have gone astray, I promise you—look at me and use me as a solace. I will stand with you and by you till my last breath."
I knew how all of us started 40 years ago, some of them 35 years ago. God blessed people financially, honored them, and they turned against God. They will be lying against God in the presence of God and in the midst of the saints and say, "God is saying this to me," and it is not so.
One of them mounted the platform and started all that nonsense. I took the microphone and got him to give me his turn to preach. I finished him. He could not move because it is an insult to move when an elderly statesman is speaking. I opened the Scriptures. I told him the curses awaiting those who lie like that. The God of Israel will never by word of knowledge tell anyone what he should give. The God of Christians does not say, "There are 100 people here who will give £1,000." If he says that, he is Satan.
The god of my father and my grandfather is the one who takes money for miracles. Those are the gods of pagan lands. You want a miracle? They will tell you to put your money on the floor. Then demons come and do their work in the church. A preacher is preaching and they come and throw money on the floor. When I asked them why, they said, "Oh, that money is for the preacher." I said, "Did the preacher come here to solicit for money? We came to show you the way of the Lord."
You cannot give God Most High money by throwing it on the floor like an offering to a demon. God is not so relegated that you are throwing money on the floor for Him to pick. Think about it. Would you go to your own father and throw money on the floor?
But here is something amazing: when God was building up Solomon, does God not know that Solomon will end like that? He knew. God knew what Solomon would eventually choose. But how will God then still appear to him, still be generous to him, still bless him and promise him and bless him?
Because God is faithful in His path all the time. And that is God's prudence. That is what puts God as a righteous judge. He will show you: "I did my part, but you did not. I knew you would not. And yet, as I ordained you, I still did for you."
That is why God is justified over Lucifer and all those angels. He knew Lucifer would become the devil. And yet, He created him—different to all other angels—because that is in His plan. He used instrument to build his body so that nobody after him can understand instrument up to him. In music, you cannot beat the devil. And God knew he was going to mess up. But He still did it.
We are going into July. Everybody is going to move out in power. We cannot remain like this. England is crying and Christians are wondering. No—we manifest.
If you can follow me on this rampage, the right history will be written in this nation about the church of the living God.
Don't end like Solomon. May you never end like that. Not to end like that is what I am teaching you. What do you want in this world? Take God out of the equation, and everything is useless.
You who are young bachelors and spinsters—do not trade your God. Do not open your nakedness to a useless man or woman. Take your stand before God and don't disgrace God. It always leads to regret.
There is a song: "Onward Christian Soldier, marching as to war, looking unto Jesus who has gone before." All those treasures of darkness will be given to us for nothing. The Lord will use this house as a repairer of old bridges that were devastated.
In conclusion, let us pray. Father, I dedicate my life and my heart to you. Everything that can hinder me from becoming what you ordained, take it away from me.
From all you have heard about Solomon, pray for yourself. Satan will not shipwreck me. Satan will not shipwreck my children. Satan will not shipwreck my ancestors. The deception of Satan will not overcome any one of us.
Jesus, help me. Jesus, help me. Tell the Lord, "Help me, Jesus." Anything inside you, anything around you that can influence you negatively and make you miss God—tell the Lord, "Send your fire into my body. Send your fire into my mind. Send your fire into my soul. Purify my heart, oh God. Purify my mind, oh God. Purify my soul, Jesus."
Plead the blood of Jesus over your conscience to cleanse your conscience from every dead work of Satan. Tell the Lord, "Prepare me for next month's move. England is waiting for direction. Help me, Jesus, not to deny you. Help me, Jesus, not to derail from you. Deliver me, Lord Jesus, my soul from the pits of hell. Help me to stand before you, my God."
When a Christian sees himself doing things that are not right before God, the remedy is to stop and go to God in your closet and really weep before Him. "Lord, I have been doing this. I am so sorry." A prayer of tears brings mercy. It is different from saying, "Lord, I am sorry, Lord, I am sorry." If you die like that, it is hell.
God is able to save completely those who truly come to Him. I beg you for two things. First, so that you and I can fulfill everything God ordained for us on earth. Second, that when His saints gather before Him, you will not be missing and I will not be missing.
God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand of the seashore. Do you think you and I cannot reach there? We can.
Listen to me. First Kings 4:29-31. "God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand of the seashore. Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the men of the east...and his fame spread to all the surrounding nations."
Solomon picked economics from nowhere. He will take you from where you know and take you deeper than where you don't understand because of one visitation.
Lord, this is my brain. Bless it. This is my mind. Bless it. Give us knowledge today from you, God. The wisdom that will distinguish us among many people. Father, understanding that people don't have. When there's a problem in my career, raise me up to solve it. Inventions that eyes have not seen—use me, Lord.
You did it to Solomon. Give him—give me—as a breath of understanding as measureless as the sound of the sea. Visit me in this very month. This is the month of signs and wonders.
Wonders will never end with me. I ask for wisdom. I ask for knowledge. I ask for understanding. Breathe your breath upon my brain. Breathe your breath upon my mind. Breathe your breath upon my understanding.
Give me understanding like the breadth of the sea. Don't ask God for fame. Ask God for knowledge. When the knowledge of God comes upon you, your fame will go everywhere. Tell the Lord, "Give me your power."
