AT 4 YEARS OLD, I GAVE MY MOTHER A ROYAL TITLE TO CALL ME
ANYBODY WHO IS TRUSTING GOD TO BE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, YOUR FOUNDATION IS BEING BORN AGAIN
VISION IS A MAJOR DETERMINANT OF DESTINY BECAUSE WHAT MAN SEES DETERMINES WHAT GOD GIVES
LIFE MUST BE LIVED BY CHOICE, NOT LEFT TO CHANCE
IF YOU CAN SEE IT, NO devil CAN STOP IT
IF IT DOES NOT CROSS YOUR MIND, IT CANNOT CROSS YOUR LIFE
REALITY HAPPENS TWICE. FIRST IN THE MIND AND THEN NEXT IN REAL LIFE
NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, YOU CAN’T GIVE ME MONEY BY HAND WITHOUT ENVELOPE AND I COLLECT
THERE IS A LEVEL OF MENTALITY YOU MUST CARRY TO RESCUE YOUR LIFE FROM THE LOW LEVEL
I DECIDED NOT TO BEG AND NOT TO BORROW. I ALLOCATED MYSELF THE LEVEL OF DECORUM THAT ROYALTY DESERVES.
WHETHER YOU ARE A STAR IN THE SKY OR A SAND IN THE SEASHORE AS A SEED OF ABRAHAM IS A MATTER OF MINDSET
IT TAKES A FIGHT TO TAKE AND RETAIN A TERRITORY FOR THE KINGDOM.
INTEGRITY WITHOUT MENTALITY EQUALS SCARCITY AND MENTALITY WITHOUT INTEGRITY EQUALS ADVERSITY.
IF YOU WANT TO ARRIVE IN THE REALM OF ROYALTY, YOU MUST BE A MAN / WOMAN OF DETERMINATION.
MANY THINGS WILL TRY TO FIGHT AND BATTLE FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN YOUR JOURNEY TO ROYALTY.
MENTALITY PLUS INTEGRITY EQUALS AUTHORITY, PROSPERITY AND ROYALTY.
YOU NEED TO FIGHT THAT FUTURE YOU FEAR TO STEP THERE.
IF YOU CAN’T FIGHT, YOU CAN’T BE FREE.
YOU ARE A MEGA THREAT TO THE devil WHEN YOU BECOME SUCCESSFUL.
– Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche on “A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD – THE MAKING OF A KING” || Kingdom Power and Glory World Conference – Day 3 Evening Session || Glory Dome, Abuja ||
We have witness from everywhere that God has been so favourably disposed towards us. Calls from everywhere, messages from everywhere of the weight of impact that we have been receiving. Church Gist. Tonight, more is coming and your life will never be the same.
Again, 1 Peter 2:9. Message tonight is, “A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD – THE MAKING OF A KING”. In the morning, we saw the making of a Priest. Since we are kingly Priests, now, we are seeing the making of a king. Church Gist. Our objective is to understand what it takes to become a king, understanding the requirements for kingship. Since in the realm of the spirit, we are neither male nor female, it’s referring to all of us.
The Bible made it clear that God has ordained that his people be a kingdom of Kings and Priests. Revelation 1:6. Revelation 5:9-10. That is who we are meant to be but not everyone is functioning and operating as a king. Now, what kind of people exist as kings? What people are the kingly people?
1. People with a royal heritage.
That is, if you’re strictly in the natural realm. No matter how rich you are, you cannot be a King or a Queen in England, except you’re from that Royal Family. Church Gist. In our country today, there are some ethnicities and places across Africa where the throne is strictly reserved for those from that royal heritage. In the spirit realm, the royal heritage is connection to the blood of our King. Being connected to the bloodline of the King of kings and the Lord of lords. This qualification is actually talking about being born again. If we are going to Kings and Priests of God, our number one baseline qualification is being born again. Revelations 5:9-10. Revelation 1:6. It’s a kingdom of Kings and a kingdom of Priests. Church Gist. So, it is imperative to say at this moment, that anybody hearing the sound of this voice who is trusting God to be a royal priesthood, your foundation is being born again. So that you can have the royal bloodline of the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
– somebody say a loud Amen!
Now, as it is in the physical, so it is in the spirit. Not everybody in the Royal Family of England becomes King or Queen of England. True or false? Not everybody. Church Gist. We may be in the Royal Family now in the Kingdom of God but not every of us may reign or rule as we should. There are things we must further do in order to reign and that takes us from number 2 to the last numbers.
2. People with vision and decision for royalty.
Vision is a major determinant of destiny because what man sees determines what God gives. Genesis 13:15. Proverbs 29:18. Church Gist. I heard this translation I’m about to give you almost 30 years ago from our father in the Lord, Bishop David Oyedepo. He said, “where there’s no vision, people are stripped of honour and dignity”. You lose honour, dignity and royalty if you have no vision. Your royalty is at the mercy of your vision. Where you see yourself determines where you’ll find yourself. Example Joseph. In Genesis 37:5-9, Joseph kept seeing himself in charge. Church Gist. He kept seeing the stars bowing down for him. He kept seeing the grass and the bundles bowing them for him and what he saw of himself many years ago became where he found himself in the future.
Jeremiah 1:11-12. It was Frederick K. C. Price who once said, “we have not succeeded by chance”. Life must be lived by choice, not left to chance. Your future is at the mercy of your choice, not at the mercy of chance. Anything you cannot find, you don’t see coming will never come. Papa Oyedepo said and the way Papa talks atimes can get any devil angry. Church Gist. He doesn’t care about protocol to talk to any devil. He said, “I am surprised at where we are”, because he saw it coming. He said, “I would have been surprised if we were not here”. One Journalist asked me many years ago, he said, “when you were leaving medical practice and said God called you, what was your plan if the ministry didn’t work”. I told him, I said, “there was no plan because not working was not an option”. “If it didn’t work, what would you have done?” Something like, “I’d have gone back to my medical practice or this or that”. Church Gist. I said, there was no plan because it not working was not in the picture. Because it was either we succeeded or we succeeded.
Let me tell you, if you can see it, no devil, power, force or hell can stop it. We are talking of 49 countries in one meeting tonight. We saw it and said it almost 20-something years ago. Church Gist. We kept saying it, longest time. There are people connected now from probably 150-190 countries as we are talking right now that are not here in person.
– if God is speaking to you, say a loud Amen!
About the year of 1967, Bill Clinton was in the Whitehouse amont the American Legion Boys like a Boys Scout kind of thing. He was right there and met with the President, J. F. Kennedy, shook hands with him as a young teenage boy and right on that spot, he caught the vision that “one day, I am coming here not to shake hand with the President but to be the President”. Church Gist. It happened many years later. One small boy was in a classroom and they said, “what do you like to become when you grow up?” He said, “President of America”. Another of the Presidents, he became. Nelson Mandela was inside the Methodist Church when the Preacher was preaching when he caught the vision of becoming President of South Africa. Small boy, I was about 4-5 years ago when I told my mother, “call me king”. I told her the title to call me. Yes. You’ll be interested to know the title if I call it. You see the way they greet Kings and say, “kabiyesi”, I gave her the title. She didn’t know where it came from. Church Gist. Even myself, it’s a shock how I knew it. The title was of another dialect but the title of greatness. As a toddler, “call me this title”. Are you hearing what I’m saying here today? It is what crosses your mind that will cross your life. If it does not cross your mind, it cannot cross your life. Church Gist. If it does not occur to you, it may not occur for you. Reality happens twice. First in the mind and then next in real life.
– somebody say a loud Amen!
3. People with a royal mentality: when I say ‘vision’ I’m talking about, seeing it ahead, where you will like to be. When I say, ‘mentality’ I’m talking about mindset – the mindset currently. Proverbs 23:7. Mindset determines outcome. Show me how your mind is set and I will show you how your life will turn. Church Gist. Mentality affects reality and there is a mentality for royalty. Psalm 49:20; Psalm 82:5-7. You carry the gene of Elohim. You’re not the big letter “G” God; there’s only one of that but you are the god after the order of Moses when God told Moses in Israel in Exodus 7:1; Psalm 82:5-7. Understanding makes outstanding. If anybody must be outstanding in life, he must be possessed with the relevant understanding. You may not be on the throne yet but you must walk like one. I am not there yet but I am going somewhere.
When I was a very young man, I didn’t dress like my age mates – neatly suited with tie, shined shoe and I did that permanently. My slippers is in the bathroom because it is called bathroom slippers. To catch me wear slippers in the house is an abomination. Wear slippers in the house? Even in the room (I won’t). Even when I travel. You see, there is a level of mentality you must carry to rescue your life from the low level. Church Gist. No matter who you are, you can’t give me money by hand like this and I collect (probably without envelope). I said, that is beggar’s collecting money; don’t call me a beggar. Somebody carry Dollar, he said, take (demonstrates). “Me? Dollar? Because I haven’t seen it before?” Respect yourself! Go and look for envelope and put it inside. People squeeze money into your hand? It is beggars that collect money like that. I decided not to beg and I decided not to borrow. I allocated myself the level of decorum that royalty deserves.
My wife said, “why do you dress sharp like this all the time? Are you not just going to the office?” I said, I don’t know who I will meet. If I meet the President of a nation I should be equal to the task. The Lion is not king by size; the Hippopotamus is bigger than the Lion. Church Gist. It is king by sense. The Elephant, the Rhino are bigger than the Lion but it carries a sense that, “I am in charge of all these people.”
– Every defeated mentality, every deficit mentality, every mentality of a pauper, I declare it cleared out right now!
Whereas the children of Israel were telling themselves, “we are grasshoppers in our own eyes and so are we in the eyes of the …” (Numbers 13:33) mentality dey o! The difference in people is mindset o. Church Gist. I’m going to say something very serious now: in the same breath of Numbers 13:33, what is the destiny of a grasshopper other than to hop on the grass? Can you have the mentality of a grasshopper and achieve the destiny of an eagle?
You know, they divided the Bible into chapters for ease of reference, that story continued to chapter 14. In the same breath, another man came up his name was Caleb. He said, “I hear that there are giants on Hebron, give me that mountain. Give me the land of the giants.” Joshua 14:6-12. One person said, “we are grasshoppers” – that is, they will match us to death, another person said, “I will whip them.” Church Gist. In the same land, same God, same Church, same congregation. No wonder God said to Abraham, “I will make your seed like the stars of Heaven” – that is one group, “…and the sand of the sea shore” – that is another group from the same loins. So whether you’re a star in the sky or a sand in the seashore is a matter of choice; it’s a matter of mindset. I don’t know about you but I am a seed of Abraham and my destiny is up. You need to change your mindset.
Let me tell you something: where is your place? Above only! One rich man had 2 sons; we called one of the sons the prodigal son. Prodigal son had a rich father, wealthy, influential father, royal background. Then the small boy came and said, “Father, give me the portion of goods that pertaineth to me.” That is, I am aware that you are wealthy, I am aware that I have a portion with you. His father didn’t say, “why? Why do you want to go now?” He gave him the portion of goods that pertains to him. He gave him his portion, his inheritance. Church Gist. He carried and went to a far country. (Luke 15). The Bible says he squandered it on riotous living. Smoking, drinking, alcoholism, womanizing, all manner of things and after he spent all, there arose a mighty famine in the land. (Luke 15:14-15). Royalty reduced to pig level. Then, he came to his senses.
You know adversity corrects mentality. Luke 15:16-32…“How many years am I in Church – in the Kingdom serving you? I am not drinking, I am not smoking, I am not fornicating. I am not cheating, I am not duping. I have been faithful in my department in fact I haven’t married yet – I don’t know a man and yet you didn’t give me a baby goat that I might celebrate with my friends but as soon as this your boy came who devoured your living (your money) with harlots” – it is from him that we are getting the revelation that harlot was involved. (He is giving us the details because I’m sure he was receiving feedback from people who saw the boy.) “And you have killed for him the fatted calf”…and he said unto him “ah boy, you have not seen anything, you are ever with me. The only thing I gave him was the fatted calf but for you, everything I have is yours. Church Gist. All that I have is yours. This celebration is only a tiny expression of gratitude.” Oh! Here we have the fundamental difference between people in the Church. The prodigal son had a mentality without integrity. He knew what was his, he knew where he belonged but he had no character.
The elder brother had integrity without mentality.He was a good boy – good character. He is a typical Church person who will not smoke, steal or kill but he didn’t know what was his. He didn’t know his rights and privileges in Christ. Church Gist. He didn’t know where he belonged to in God – oh no! “I want you to give me the mentality of the prodigal son and the integrity of the elder brother”…and then you have royalty. “Give me the mentality of the prodigal son and give me the integrity of the elder brother.”
The problem of the prodigal son was not that he asked for what was his. The problem was that what was his, separated him from his father first and what was his, was applied without wisdom and he had possession without character. Church Gist. That was his main problem but it is good for many to think like him – “there is something that pertaineth to me with my father.”
I announce to someone here today (you say “all these years I have been serving God, I have not seen results”)…I announce to you today “your result is coming right now.” What is yours, no devil shall deprive you of! If you’re saying Amen shout the loudest Amen!
Integrity without mentality equals scarcity. Mentality without integrity equals adversity. Do you hear that? Integrity without mentality equals scarcity. Mentality without integrity equals adversity. Church Gist. What we need (is) mentality plus integrity that equals authority and prosperity and royalty. That is where I believe someone is going! Don’t be in one extreme or the other – throw away character and be confessing faith and confessing “I am the head and not the tail” and be confessing all of that. Or throw away that realm and then just, “🎼🎵all I want, just take the whole world and give me Jesus..yes, that’s okay but the devil will not have the whole world because the earth is the Lord’s and its fullness thereof. Someone say a loud Amen!
Integrity without mentality equals scarcity. Mentality without integrity – adversity. Mentality plus integrity equals prosperity, authority, royalty, tranquility, ‘equanimity’. (Laughs) Do you understand what that means? Church Gist. It means that you have the means and you have the authority and you have the royalty and rulership and you have the peace of mind that does not make sense. Hallelujah!..and so who are the people? It is the people with royal mentality – that was number 3.
Let’s go to number 4. I trust God that we will finish tonight.
4. (This is exciting) People with determination, resilience and a fighting spirit. If you want to arrive in the realm of royalty, if you want to be qualified to reign as a king, you must be a man with determination – a man / woman with resilience and you must be possessed with a fighting spirit because it is confirmed that it takes a fight to attain a height. Church Gist. It takes a fight to take a flight. Isaiah 60:1,8. You cannot fly until you fight. Am I speaking? Are there people who fought in scriptures? Yes!
1. Jacob fought. He fought the fear of the future. He fought the fear of Esau. In Genesis 32, he saw Esau coming, he was afraid of what he was going to confront. From verse 24 to 28, he wrestled with a man. By the time he has reached verse 28, after the fight, he has become royalty. Prince is royalty. He fought to become a prince. Your royalty is a threat to the kingdom of darkness – your royal status.
When you are more successful than what you are, you are a mega threat to the devil. Not necessarily that you are releasing anything from your resources but the fact that ‘that’ is a child of God – it’s a knockout for the devil. Church Gist. “That billionaire is a Christian – Bible carrying”…are you following what I’m saying here today? There are some people here today, you need to fight that future you fear to step there.
2. Jabez – Jabez fought his history. He wrestled with his identity. They called him Jabez which meant sorrow. He fought…his history was fighting his future – he engaged it in a fight until Jabez became more honorable. You know the Bible at times, God declares the end from the beginning. So at times, He will tell the story of the success first and then tell the story of the struggle later. For example, He already told us in 1 Chronicles 2:55 that Jabez is a city then He is now telling us in chaper 4 how Jabez battled. The Jabez in verse 9 (1 Chronicles 4:9) that was more honorable than his brethren was not more honorable from the beginning of his life. Church Gist. He became more honorable after the fight. He was miserable first because his mother called him sorrow. Sorrow means misery. It was from miserable to honorable ( I preached that message about 20 years ago in Area One) – from ‘Miserable to Honorable’.
One man who was sleeping in a shopping complex in Area One with his children – they called him free of charge to come and contest election in Akwa Ibom State. Living and sleeping with about 4 or 5 children inside the shopping complex (store like a basement store or something). Next time I saw him, he was being driven with a police orderly. He said “you are the one who preached ‘Miserable to Honorable” and they call him Honorable so and so. Are you hearing what I’m saying here today? But Jabez fought it. Is there anybody who is ready to fight?
I release upon you today the spirit of a fighter, the spirit of the fighter to fight your way and take your place at the top!
To attain the territory, to retain the territory and to maintain the territory requires a fight. Anybody else fought?
3. Joseph. What did Joseph fight? Delay! He battled with delay. He battled with depression, he battled with false accusations. What he didn’t know anything about that they said he did for 13 solid years. Church Gist. At the end of the battle, he became the most important Person in the most important Nation of the World at that time (Egypt). Genesis 41: 39-44.
I don’t know who is here who is in a battle with delay. You see where you think that God wants you to be but the devil has held you back. You are experiencing delay because the enemy has detained you. Delayed because (of) being detained. I am here by the Mantle of God to break that detention and to command your release into your destiny! If you are saying Amen, shout the loudest Amen!
You need to move. You need to keep on running. There is something the military people call ‘endurance race’. When you just keep on running, you keep on running, you just keep on moving, you keep on moving. You just keep on moving, keep on moving (and) by the time your leg is tired, it is your mind that is moving you and you are moving because of the consequences of no motion. There is consequence for not moving. No dropping, no dropping, keep on moving. (Laughs) That is how the journey to royalty is.
Many things will try to fight and battle for your attention. You need a fighting spirit. I am looking at one of our fighters here who is a jet pilot fighter in the Military. I won’t embarrass you. Don’t worry, I won’t pull you out and do you know what? She’s a woman. She said they hit some of our people some time ago. Papa (Daddy) pray for me”. Next thing I saw, clips. Just flew past – casualties on the ground. Fighter!
If you can’t fight, you can’t be free. Free, free, free!
4. David.
Somebody here, the one I’m about to mention now may relate to you. David battled all the way to be king. You know the battles of David? Battle number one, rejection. Church Gist. When it was time to anoint the king, nobody thought that he was qualified to be King. “Bring all your children”, they left him. “Why didn’t you bring all of them?” ” It’s because you said you’re looking for a King. He doesn’t look like a kingly material”. Mother didn’t call him, father didn’t call him. He didn’t have any friend among his brothers. In a large family, at least one or two may be your friend. No wonder he said, “when my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will pick me up”, Psalm 27:10. Church Gist. He was speaking from experience. He battled with rejection, battled with danger. He confronted danger – lions, bears. If you have a great destiny, the devil may attempt your life.
I told you my story before. I had convulsions as a child, febrile convulsions. Black of the eyes gone, only the white you’re seeing. Fitting. Anywhere mother is, she’ll be running back home. Church Gist. Young boy, adolescent boy, undiagnosable abdominal ailment. No food for 7 or 12 days amidst others. David battled danger and threat to life on his way to becoming King. He battled the Goliath, then the major battle began, jealousy, murderous jealousy. Jealousy that made Saul wanted to pin him to death. Church Gist. He battled all of that and at the end of the day, he came out, gidigba. After another 13-23 years, he was the non-contestable reference King of Israel.
David battled, Joseph battled, Jacob battled, even Abraham battles, Isaac battled. Church Gist. He dug the well, they resisted it, he dug another well. Where do you want to reach without battling?
– right now, I announce to somebody, every fight you’re involved in today, I declare that fight is victorious in your favour! That fight is over!
I’m sure you remember the legendary fight of Abraham Lincoln to become American President? I don’t have to go through it. But that man knew he was meant to be President. He knew. He battled from level to level. He contested everything, lost everything, including Vice-presidential nomination. Church Gist. Anything – congress, he lost; senate, he lost – everything. He kept going from the lowest level. That is, let’s use Nigeria. You couldn’t win local government election, then you say, “in that case, let me go State Assembly”. You couldn’t win the State Assembly election. Then, you said, “in that case, let me go for National Assembly”. You couldn’t win the National Assembly. Then you said, “in that case, let me go from the House of Rep to the Senate”. Church Gist. You couldn’t win that one. Then, you said, “okay, let me present myself for nomination for Vice-president”. They couldn’t nominate you. You said, “okay, in that case, let me contest for President”. See mindset. The one he contested, that very last one, he won. Now, is there any way you can mention American Presidents and not talk of Abraham Lincoln? If you talk of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, J. F. Kennedy. That was the war President of America that prevented America from tearing apart. Church Gist. There wouldn’t have been a United States of America now if Lincoln wasn’t there. He declared prayer and fasting three times during the war. Men dey oh! What have you faced that you’re tired? “I’m tired. I’m tired of life. I’m tired of all these things. Enough is enough”. Wake up, my friend!
You heard the story of Wilma Rudolph? Was born with polio and lobar pneumonia. They didn’t give her any chance to live beyond 2 or 3 years. She had metal braces on both legs. Church Gist. From a family of about 12 children. When it was time for food and everybody ran to the table, she would be the last to come because of her leg. Once in a year, they took her to a town about 40 miles from her city to meet a doctor who was handling the leg. Church Gist. One day, on the way, she told the mother, “this little village that I am in, I will leave it one day and go to the world and make a name that you’ll year”. She went to school gradually. In school, she developed interest that she wants to play basketball. Basketball? With which leg? But before then, one of the days she went to the Doctor, she came back home and removed the brace and began to force the leg to walk for one year. Church Gist. By the time she arrived, when the Doctor saw her legs and the muscles and so on, “what have you been doing?” She thought she did the wrong thing. She said, ” I’m sorry, Doctor”. He said, “No. Whatever you have been doing, keep on doing it, it is working”. She enrolled in highschool basketball. While she was playing the basketball, the coach noticed that she had an ability that is better than basketball. Ability to run. What? Run? With the same leg. Church Gist. You have heard nothing yet. This girl began to run. Enrolled in highschool racing and began to win medals. Long story made short, she said she’s going to run for Olympics. Wilma is a Christian girl. Yes. She went to Australia in 1956, Melbourne, Australia Summer Olympics and came third in 200 metres dash. She won the bronze medal. She felt devastated. Bronze ?medal? When she got back home, she began to walk for about 16 hours a day for 4 years. Practicing in readiness for the next Olympics in 1960 in Rome, Italy. Church Gist. When she arrived there, a tigress arrived. 100 metres dash, gold. 200 metres dash, gold. 4×4 relay, gold. First woman in history to win 3 gold medals in an Olympic, born cripple. And she didn’t win the Olympic for cripple’s relay race, not disability Olympic. I don’t care how you were born and where you were born. Church Gist. Jesus was born in a manger but He didn’t die there. He didn’t remain there. He was born there but imparted the whole world.
– Look at your neighbour and say, “I don’t care how you were born and where you were born. What matters is how you’ll end!”
If nothing has touched you, what you just heard now should touch you. You didn’t fail because the devil is powerful. You failed because you refused to fight. No one is failing because the devil is impossible. People are failing because they have refused to engage in the fight.
Let’s begin to round off. What kind of people are the people that end as kings?
5. They are people of excellence.
Excellence is the way of eminence and prominence. Excellence means giving every task of your life the very best you have got. Church Gist. It means doing your work at the highest possible level. Giving the task of your life the very best you have got. Living life at its very best to see the best out of life.
You cannot say you’re going to be king in the Medical field when you’re a mediocre there. When you’re the kind of surgeon that did that surgery gave somebody a fickle fistula – no! When you’re such a shabby tailor – you tailored 100 times, you forgot button holes. How many of you have seen tailors that are so annoying? Church Gist. You want to rush to the Church, you’re wearing the cloth for the first time and you realize that the button does not have hole? The hand does not have cuff link? One shoulder is on the other side and it is hanging down like hanger and you want to be a king in the Fashion industry? No!
Somebody said he wants to sow me cloth. So he sowed me (laughs) the cloth and when I wore it, (demonstrates unfit dress). This guy has sown cloth for me, may be 7, 8 or how many times, it is hard to wear one and I don’t want to dampen his zeal. You know what he did? Church Gist. He now worsened the case – that so, the next one he wants to sow he needs money for material. I should release money to sponsor mediocrity? If you need welfare, let me know. I can assist you with money but not for suit. Don’t you see what I wear? Don’t you see how I look? Or you want where I will offend you?
That is why there are so many Christians that are battling with mediocrity. Mediocrity will only keep you in obscurity. You must make up your mind that if you claim that you belong to God, do it better than those who don’t know God. Whatever be your field, your realm, do it better than those who don’t know God so that God can be justified for placing you on top of them. Church Gist. God did not just position Joseph over the magicians of Egypt, Joseph was better than them – true or false? God did not just position Daniel over the magicians and academicians or politicians, he didn’t do partiality and say, ‘even if you’re worse than them let me place you on top of them,’ – no, he was far better than them. David was far better than all the musicians – that was how he found his way to the Palace. God is a just God; he won’t do injustice.
Friends, excellence took Joseph, David, Daniel, even Solomon who was already a king. He was ‘kingest’ (king kinger kingest) when another royalty came and saw what Solomon did…(1 Kings 10:4-5). When we dedicated the Glory Dome newly, they brought one woman from the village, real typical village. As soon as they entered here, she asked the daughter to pinch her – “are we alive? We are still on Earth? Tell me that I have not died.” That was what she felt because of where she was coming from. Church Gist. The Queen of Sheba fainted. Royalty is known for excellence. If you go to a presidential palace, everything is exquisite – the colour, paintings, movement, soldier, military and all of that, everything is detailed. Now, this woman was seeing more details than any detail she has ever seen. So she was enumerating it one by one – see their uniform, the way they’re walking, the sacrifices, the cup bearers. She just lost it. No wonder he was the King of other kings. He exceeded the Kings of the Earth.
– Pastor, Ministers, Business men, go from here with the Spirit of excellence! Do everything you can to make the King of kings and the Lord of lords proud to call you his own!
Let me tell you: excellence is going to cost you but it pays more than its cost – don’t forget! To do things anyhow doesn’t cost much but to do things excellently is costly but it is going to pay you more than it cost you. The price of the rug we put on the ground at the opening of the Glory Dome will be able to build 2 Churches. The price they cost us per square metre of the floor. The price of the perimeter beam, that is, the steel that the roof is sitting on, not the roof itself, can build 3 Churches. Church Gist. That is what we paid – not the steel itself, what we paid for custom duty. Not the price of the thing, what to pay as duty to import can build 3 Churches – big ones. Not everything o, only that perimeter beam, the one that you cannot see now – Ola Ola (fire fire). The price of excellence is less than the cost of mediocrity. What it will cost you to be a mediocre is higher than what you will pay to excel. So, pay the price. We don’t talk too much.
Somebody said to me, ‘you’re not talking, you’re not saying anything. Crusades are happening all over the world, offering is not taken at the Crusade ground, millions are being spent, you’re not saying anything. 99 per cent of the places we go, we went private that was paid for including America, UK. Church Gist. You’re not saying anything and so many people that are doing nothing are making so much noise.’ I’m only saying some of these things now to… because if I say everything, some people’s brain will burst.
I heard that Mama Idahosa when Archbishop Idahosa came home one day and said he’s having the leading that they should give, is it 80 or 70 per cent of their income back to God, that that is the leading he got. She said, “really? Then why don’t you just ask God to kill us?” You want to give everything to God? Church Gist. It’s better that God kills us then we know that we have given ourselves to God. There are things that the mind cannot fathom but I announce to you today, as you make up your mind to pay the price it will take to excel, I prophesy to you today, it’s a new day for you!
What does it take for a king to be made?
1. People with the royal heritage
2. People with vision and decision for royalty
3. People with a royal mentality
4. People with determination, resilience and a fighting spirit.
5. People of excellence
6. People of character. Proverbs 25:25. Thrones are established in righteousness, in character, in uprightness. Character was the foundation of the rise of Joseph. Character! Genesis 39:9, Genesis 42:18. What about Job? Church Gist. Character made Job king in his world. It put him in charge of his realm. Job 1:1,3. Character took Daniel up. Daniel 1:8. Look at what Jesus said in the prophetic Psalm in Psalm 45:3-7. You want to ride in majesty? ‘You ride in truth, you ride in meekness and you ride in righteousness.’
What is the difference between the eagle and the vulture? Character! An eagle does not taste anything that is rotten so it flies high. The vulture eats smelling dead things. That’s the eagle there (pointing to the picture on the screen) – king of the air, no food that is rotten, married to one mate for life. That is its character. What of vulture? Church Gist. Anything that smells – the more smelling it is, the better for the vulture. That’s right! They are from the same family o. The vulture, the eagle, the kite, the hawk – all from the same family. But look at the vulture, see its neck. All the things it’s eating, no reflection on its life. It’s permanently malnourished. ‘He may be a young man but see his gray hair.’ (Laughs) Compare the 2 pictures!
Anybody who sees an eagle in the dream, it’s an encounter. What of vulture? Nightmare! (Laughs) “Oh, I saw a beautiful eagle, it just flew and landed. All of a sudden, something happened to me” – that is an encounter. Church Gist. Vulture! “I bind you, fire, catch fire. You demonic vulture, anywhere they sent you from whether it is from my village, anywhere you came from – fire!” (Laughs) You see how reproachful it is because of lack of character. I don’t know who is advising it. “Can’t you feel the smell?”
The lion is the king of the forest. The lion behaves like the eagle – fresh! Beloveth, it is a matter of character. Let me round off and let you know.
I have seen as a pastor of Church of almost 20 something years now and I have been preaching and ministering before (becoming) full-time pastor, I have come across people. I have seen people that character raised. One of the men told me (I told you one of the men that gave us his aircraft for crusades.) He said “if you gave him 100 million (whatever currency) and you say hold this for me.” He said “if you return back one year later, you will find out 100 million in the same note you gave him.” He won’t as much as invest it and give you back when you come because he didn’t agree that with you.
I know another young man. He said he was involved in a business that was not clean. A certain kind of business that most people do in this Country. That was not clean. He said he was making money but he was in debt. He was making money but he was in struggle. Everything was upside down until one day, he said “you know what? I am through with this business. If I cannot succeed with a business that is clean, then let it be.” He closed it up and packed himself and began to wait on the Lord. He registered a company. He said “sometime ago, somebody gave him a call – can you do so and so business? He said “yes, I can.” Clean one. He went and did it. Now till today, he said “he doesn’t look for jobs anymore, jobs look for him in billions – 20 billion, 50 billion.” He said “he won’t touch with a stick any business that is fraudulent.”
God is struggling to take you up, don’t struggle to keep yourself down!
I will give you a third example. I know somebody that money looks for him without struggle but he is effortlessly falseful – lies, deception, falsehood, lack of integrity, failure of keeping promises, failure of customers, borrowing without paying nosedived to zero. He nosedived to calamity.
There are many in the Church that God wants to lift but they are using their own hands to keep themselves down with fraudulent resources that will not lead anywhere.
Beloveth brothers and sisters, if we are a Church that want money from any source, I won’t be telling you what I’m telling you. But in this place, not all money is acceptable here. We have asked people before “how did you get this money?” They couldn’t explain. “Go with it.”
Somebody say Amen!
If character took Joseph up, it took Daniel up, it took Job up…Abraham – “I’ve lifted up my hands that I will not take anything that is dying in case you say I made Abraham rich.” Those people that are standing out in scriptures…then beloveth it is time to clean up so that you can step up. Your place remains? Above only! Where is your place? Where is your place? Where are you going after tonight?
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