WHAT KILLS CHURCHES IS THAT THEY START AS A MIRACLE, FROM MIRACLE THEY BECOME A MINISTRY, FROM MINISTRY THEY BECOME A MOVEMENT, FROM MOVEMENT THEY BECOME A MONUMENT AND FROM MONUMENT THEY BECOME A MUSEUM

85 PERCENT OF THOSE INVOLVED IN SPORTS IN THE USA END UP BEING POOR AGAIN BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE AGILITY BUT NOT THE MINDSET OF A WINNER WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCE.

THIS IS WHY A MAN LIKE MIKE TYSON CAN MAKE 360 MILLION DOLLARS AND THEN BECOME BANKRUPT

THIS IS WHY YOU HAVE SOMEONE LIKE LEON SPINKS WHO FIGHTS MUHAMMAD ALI AND MAKES ABOUT 30 MILLION DOLLARS, GOES BACK TO REMAIN A BARTENDER

• Pastor Mathew Ashimlowo at COZA Global Workers Congress 2021 themed “Break Forth”

Halleluyah! What a joy it is to be here this morning, to come and share the word trusting the Lord that I will be a blessing to you in the name of Jesus. I’ll like to celebrate and appreciate the presiding pastor of this church and his dear wife, help me thank God for Pastor Biodun and Pastor Modele for the grace of God on their life, for the call of God on their life, for the hand of God on their life, for the leading of God, for all that God has done for them, where God brought them from, where He is taking them, eye hath not seen nor ear heard, what God has in store. Come on help me to celebrate them this morning. I’ll like to celebrate all the pastors who left their ministries to be here, I celebrate you, we thank God for you, may you be blessed beyond measure. I’ll like to celebrate the pastors of various COZA branches, please put your hands together for these men and their wives, we thank God for their lives. I bring greetings to you from my dear wife of 40 years and it is also a great joy to know that this morning, while I’m preaching here, my son is preaching in London, this thing is generational and I believe that the same anointing will rest on your house, the same kind of blessing will rest on your house, in the mighty name of Jesus. Glory to God.

Ruth 3: 1-5
This morning I just came to encourage you to break forth into significance and I believe that in the brevity of the time we have, God will minister to us. Hebrew history, not the Bible, has it that Ruth and Orpah were actually sisters. Hebrew history also has it that they were actually princesses. So, a man, because of the challenges in his land, leaves with his two sons, comes to Moab and marries two princesses to his sons but not long after that, battle comes. First son dies, second son dies, the man himself died, so three widows are left. Naomi looks around and thinks, “These girls have lost their husbands but I have lost three people, my husband and two sons. I can’t call myself ‘Sweetness’ – Naomi, I’ll rather call myself ‘Marah‘- Bitterness. I’ll rather go back to where I came from. Hey, you long ladies, stay where you are, don’t follow me”. This is a point in life where you are at a crossroad, where it seems as if all doors are shut, particularly with the persons around whom you are. That is the point where you will know if you are connected to them or unconnected and I want you to know that at such a time, if you allow your flesh to make decisions, you might just regret for life but if you allow the Holy Spirit to lead you, you might just make the decision that will lead you to greater significance.

So, two sisters, two destinies. Orpah chooses to say, ‘Mama, thank you very much for releasing me’ and she fell into oblivion, we never heard of Orpah anymore. Maybe her sister showed up in America called Oprah or whatever. But Ruth said to the old woman, ‘Entreat me not to leave you or to stop from following after you, for where you go, I will go, where you live, I will live, where you die, I will die, where you lodge, I will lodge, your people will be my people. Please Mama, the only thing that will separate me and you is death’. By the way, Naomi had no food to give her, Naomi had no son to give her.

Listen! Your life is too precious, too great, too awesome, too powerful, for you to just throw it around. You’ve got to know what steps to take in order to break forth into significance because there are too many people who do not realize it’s more than me laying hands on you, me pouring oil on you, you’ve got to take some steps. So, this morning, I want to lay a few things before you that you need to do if you are going to walk and not just walk but break forth into significance. Significance is more than success. You can be successful in one area but have no significance. If you want to break forth into significance, you’ve got to do the things that don’t look regular, that don’t look okay with some people because there are public opinions but there is God’s opinion and you’ve got to look for God’s opinion for your destiny, in order to enter it.

1. Know What you are After: What do you want? Where are you going? Where will you be in the next 5 years? Clearly define it. Have a target. Don’t stay with the wrong people. Forget the past, forget the people who hurt you, know what you are after, because if you don’t know where you are going, you will miss it even when you arrive. Stop Procrastinating. Enjoy the moment but know what you are after. Don’t put off what you should do. Orpah didn’t know what she wanted. Maybe she was just looking for a nice, incredible hulk of a man and since that one was dead, she was looking for another one, but Ruth was looking for something better than that.

• Someone is here today, you are coming into your destiny, you are coming into your purpose

1. Capture Your Thoughts: If your thoughts are little, you will be little; if your thoughts are great, you will be great. I can never raise you beyond the greatness of your thought. Two things can work for you or against you, T and T or M and M – Your Thinking and Your Talking or Your Mind and Your Mouth. Orpah believed it was over. When your thinking is wrong, what you receive is wrong, when your thinking is wrong, your breakthroughs don’t come, when your thinking is wrong, you limit yourself. You are one thought away from your breaking forth.

• Someone is here this morning, every barrier of negative thinking that has held you in the place of failure, you are coming out of it. You are coming in to your significance.

You are one thought away from your significance. A man can never rise beyond the level of his thinking. Everything you went through was preparing you for where God is taking you. I teach something that is called ‘The Wealth Master Class’ and I want you to know that poverty or wealth starts with your thought. No man can make you wealthy if your mind is a poor mind. In fact, if they put a billion dollars in your hands, you can be broke in a few years. That is why ninety-five percent of those who win the lottery lose all the money because their thoughts have not changed from a poverty mind-set. They only thought of money as something they use to show-off not to create wealth. That is why a man like Mike Tyson can make 360 million dollars and then become bankrupt. That is why 85 percent of everyone involved in sports in the United States of America end up being poor again. Why? They have the agility, the strength but not the mind-set of a winner when it comes to finance. So, they make the money and they lose the money. That is why you have someone like Leon Spinks who fights Muhammad Ali and makes about 30 million dollars, goes back to remain a bartender. Your thoughts can wreck you and your thoughts can lift you. These two sisters were confronted with destiny but one didn’t see the reality of what was going to happen with Naomi.

3. Have a Vision of What you Want: What are you breaking into? Are you sure of what you want? Is this for you? Not because it is good for someone else. Ruth told herself, ‘I know what I want. Mama, don’t beg me to leave you, I will follow you, I sense something great in your destiny’. Desire what God wants for you.

• The people God has connected you with, every thing the enemy is trying to use to disconnect you, we curse it in the name of Jesus.
• Every arrow of darkness will fail in your life. Favour will follow you. Testimonies will follow you.

3. Pick your Fight: You’ve got to know what to handle, you’ve got to know what fight to take on. Not every fight is deserving, not every battle requires your attention. If it will not deliver anything, don’t get engaged. Move on! The battles are getting you ready, they are defining your moments because you are about to break forth. Don’t swing your Mercedes 500 because you are trying to kill a fly. They are not worth it. They don’t deserve your attention. Pick your fights. If you must break forth into significance, you can’t be stopping at the roadside and be dealing with minor things. Know your defining moments. Ruth just sensed, ‘There is something to this thing. How come it is now that there is bread in Bethlehem that these men died and this woman is travelling back? This is a defining moment. I’ve been a princess here, there is no bigger thing to be, this must be my chance to be somebody’. You need to know your defining moments. Know where you are going with your life. Don’t waste your opportunity in some mediocrity.
4. Know where you should hang: Stop hanging out with the gossips. Make sure you hang with the busy people, people who are going somewhere, people who want to break forth into significant. Choose your relationships. The higher you go, the lesser the crowd.

• I am speaking to someone here today, I am declaring into your life, your destiny will rise.

They got to the land and Naomi said to Ruth, ‘In this country, according to the book of Leviticus, if you don’t have food, you just go the various farms and pick up the leftovers by the roadside’. She left to pick up food but then providence made it that the first farm she comes into is the farm of a Bachelor Millionaire who is also related to them. When Boaz saw her, he spoke to her and then told his men to give her a handful on purpose.

• I declare today is the poorest you shall ever be. Harvest will meet harvest in your life, favour will meet favour.

1. Wash your Face: Ruth 3: 3. The mask of yesterday is removed from your life. The failures of yesterday will not stop you.

• People of the past will not be able to stop you.
  -Every history of yesterday, the pain of yesterday, the things you went through will not be able to stop you
  Wash your face; don’t ruin the new thing that is coming. You can’t move forward until you wash your face. Don’t look like yesterday anymore. Don’t go to Boaz looking like a Moabite. Deuteronomy 23: 3. The man won’t want to marry the face of a Moabite.
• From today, every satanic covering on you, making people not see you, we remove it in the name of Jesus.

1. Anoint Yourself: COZA! Put something new on. Give them something to talk about. Brighten your countenance. Serve with gladness. Move away from attitude, anoint your face. Let people never see you complaining, let them see you walking like you own Nigeria.
2. Set Goals: Set goals that you will make you ask questions. What do I need? Who do I need? Move away from distractions, set goals. COZA was birthed in Ilorin but now, it speaks in the four corners of the earth. It is not where you start, it is where you reach.

• I don’t care where you were born, I stand on this altar today, you are breaking forth into significance
  -You will go to places they never though you will go to
  -Your vision will speak. Your destiny will speak.

1. Change your Garment: Ruth 3: 3. You need to dress ready for your coming favour. Listen to me! Prepared people get there faster. Remove the garment of complain, remove the garment of limitation, prepare the one that is cut for favour. When you enter a plane, you can tell who the captain is, he is dressed for the occasion. Dress up for where you are going to.
2. Go to the place: Don’t be held down in yesterday, go to the place. Don’t be held down in what you have achieved, go to the place. What kills churches is that they start as a miracle, from miracle they become a ministry, from ministry they become a movement, from movement they become a monument and from monument they become a museum. Not here! You’ve got to go to the place. Go to the place of fire every day, go to the place of favour every day. COZA, go to the place of the anointing every day, go to the place of His power every day, go to the place where you connected to him, every day, go to the place where He is working every day.

• You will not be a monument! You will not be a museum! You will not be a movement! You will always be a miracle!
  There is a place prepared for everyone. It is better to get there and look like you don’t fit than to be in yesterday.
• By the anointing on my life, I severe you from yesterday. I cut you off from yesterday.
• You are going to your place. You are going to your testimony. You are going to your position.

1. Shut your mouth and Wait: This time, it’s not you that would talk, the Holy Ghost would just be moving. You don’t need to force anything, you don’t need to push anything, the doors will just be opening by themselves.

• COZA! God will be opening mind-boggling doors.
  No man will be able to shut it because the world didn’t give it to you and the world can’t take it. Just get there, shut your mouth and wait. The next thing you just will see is mind-boggling doors opening on their own accord.
• You won’t need to fight for the coming favours
• COZA members, anyone who came, you won’t need to fight for yourself. I release the spirit of vengeance, anyone fighting you, God will fight them

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