-Dr Pastor Paul Enenche
Day 5, Morning Session, DRC 2021
* If the Anointed is your son and he has the anointing, value him.
* My mother would be waiting for me to come and lay hands on her knees.
* My father would be shouting fire when I arrive and people have gathered
3. Value for counsel – 1 Samuel 9:6-10, Proverbs 11:14, 15:22; 24:5
He told his servant, “it is time to go back home in case our father starts looking for us.”
What kind of man is he that will listen to a counsel even if it was coming from a slave?
If you cannot be advised, you cannot be advanced. There are many whose journey have been arrested because nobody can advise them. Nobody can talk to them: their wives can’t talk to them, friends can’t talk to them, spiritual fathers can’t talk to them; pastor cannot talk to them.
It takes wisdom to accept counsel. I have seen many people destroyed:
“That girl, don’t marry” – everybody including God know that I must marry.
“That man is not good for you” – No, I must.
“That friend is not a good friend” – There are people who have lost their lives because of imperviousness to counsel, because of a naughtiness of spirit.
Beloved brothers and sisters, when we started writing ‘Seeds of Destiny’, the Printer automatically assumed what he wanted to do, so he was putting my picture on every page of the Seeds of Destiny. One of the members in this Church, I don’t know who the person is, sent me a text message and said, “excuse me sir, we see your face on the page of all the Seeds of Destiny. I don’t think it is yourself you want to present to us. So that we can focus on the messages.”
I didn’t say, “the Lord rebuke you. Go and die. Who are you to talk to me like that?”
Genuinely from my heart, I replied: It didn’t originate with me. I asked no Printer to put my picture, he put it on his own. I can assure you, you won’t see the picture in the next edition.
I called the Printer, I said, “take that picture off. I didn’t ask you to put it.” He said, “Yes Sir.” That’s how it went off.
No matter how wise you are, you can’t see the back of your head. There is somebody who needs to see it for you.
No matter how anointed you are, there are things people will draw your attention to: don’t get angry.
It is just a way of getting you to your destiny.
Just calm down. It was the donkey of Balaam that saved his life. If a donkey of a man can assist a man to fulfill his destiny, how much more a fellow human being!
I believe God saw that in Saul and God said, this man is qualified for the anointing.
4. Value for the anointing and the anointed – 1 Samuel 9:7-8, Matthew 10:8
It’s not about what they carried in their hand, it is about the value from the heart. Bishop Oyedepo, our father said, “your sense of value will always determine the flow of virtue.”
When they met Samuel, there was no opportunity to present what they had before Samuel started prophesying; from the beginning to the end of their contact, there was no record of the gift released.
There was not one, “Excuse me Sir, before you continue prophesying, I brought an offering?”
For where!
No genuine prophet need what you have but you need what they have. Anyone who is putting you under pressure for what you have is a fraudster, he is fake, he is a spiritual merchant, he is a trader. There are those who charge people for counselling, charge people for family deliverance.
“Let’s go to your village, the cost is 100,000 Naira” – those are thieves, Judas Iscariot.
Let me announce to you here today, no amount of money is a condition for seeing anybody here. If anybody charge you anything or suggests it, arrest him! If anybody charges you anything or even suggests it, “before you can see the Pastor, you need to hold this amount!” Arrest that person.
He said, “freely you have received, freely give.”
But when we do out of our own volition, from a deep-rooted sense of value, then there is a connectivity that leads to a transmission. Samuel already saw the heart with which they came, he had no time to look at anything they brought. There was no opportunity of take and give, but Saul had a deep rooted value for spiritual, for the anointing and the anointed.
If the anointed is your son and he has the anointing, value him
Value is the foundation for profit. Where value is not confirmed, profit is never released. You don’t profit from whatever you don’t value.
God gave me parents that gave birth to me from their womb and value the anointing so heavily. My mother would be waiting for me to come and lay hands on her knees.
My father would be shouting fire when I arrive and people have gathered. He would be saying, “Fire yahhh. Ola Ola.” He is just shouting it on my behalf. He was in our Crusade in 2011, he came all the way, sat down. Healed of hypertension, diabetes.
Any oil you don’t value will not flow for you. Church Gist. Profit travels in the direction of value. Don’t see your Pastor as your age mate even if you are age mates. No you don’t. There is a spiritual protocol, water does not flow on level ground. If it must flow, there must be a gradient. Even if you have someone that you were at the level before and God has lifted him, recognise the lift and release the value.
Do you know what happens in the military: this man and this man are course mates, suddenly they lifted this man and made him Chief of Army Staff or Chief of Naval Staff and they made him a 3 star General, his other course mates are still 2 star General.
The moment they see him: Good Morning Sir.
Even in your dream, you can’t disregard him because he has just been lifted. You were course mates before, but now something shifted his level: he deploys you at will.
“I move you now to be the Commander of this, of that.” It is not his fault, it is the authority that shifted him. We must understand it and spirituality is military. He said, “we are soldiers of the Lord.” We must recognise shifts and lifts. Don’t take it for granted, recognise it.
5. Spiritual understanding and sensitivity – 1 Samuel 9:5; 10:2; 1 Chronicles 12:32
When you are a man of understanding, you will always be in command (1 Chronicles 12:32).
Sensitivity brings authority.
6. Value for divine guidance and direction – 1 Samuel 9:10
7. Deep humility – 1 Samuel 9:19-21; 1 Samuel 9:3; 1 Samuel 10:20-24; Lamentation 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5
Deep humility made him to receive counsel from a slave
Deep humility made him to refuse that he had influence (1 Samuel 9:19)
