YOUR REALM IS NOT IN WHAT YOU WEAR, YOUR REALM IS THE PEACE YOU HAVE FOR EVERY LEVEL THAT YOU OCCUPY.
-Bishop Irabor in reference to the house that God built for him.
MIRACLES ARE TRIGGERED BY PRINCIPLES.
INTEGRITY IS A LIFTER OF MEN!
PRINCIPLES WORK FOR EVERYONE WHETHER YOU ARE IN THE CHURCH OR IN THE demonic coven.
INTEGRITY IS THE FOUNDATION FOR UNUSUAL WEALTH!
INTEGRITY IS THE KEY TO PROSPERITY AND POSTERITY!
EVERY DECLARATION WITHOUT SCRIPTURAL INFORMATION IS A DECLARATION THAT WILL END IN FRUSTRATION.
NEVER LOOK FOR MIRACLES TO THE POINT WHERE YOU HAVE NO REGARD FOR TEACHING.
UNTIL YOU ARE TOUCHED BY GOD’s WORD, YOU CANNOT BE ‘TOUCHED’ AND ‘TOUGH’!
IF A SINNER IS DOING BETTER THAN A CHRISTIAN, THAT CHRISTIAN IS A FOOLISH CHRISTIAN.
CONTENTMENT IS TO BE CONTENT WITH YOUR CONTAINER!
INTEGRITY WILL INTRODUCE YOU EVEN BEFORE YOU SPEAK!
INTEGRITY IS A DOOR OPENER!
IF YOU GO AFTER SILVER AND GOLD AT THE DETRIMENT OF A GOOD NAME, YOU WILL LOSE BOTH NAME AND SILVER AND GOLD.
YOUR IMAGE IS YOUR GREATEST ASSET.
-Bishop Wisdom Irabor on ‘THE DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES FOR HARVESTS’ at ‘From Doctor’s report to praise report’ || Answers Assembly, Warri || 12th February, 2023|| First Service
Luke 5:1-9, that’s our running Scripture for this Month of Unusual Harvests. Peter encountered unusual harvests, so we will be teaching the Principles of unusual harvests. One of my sons shared a testimony last month saying, ‘I have lived all my life in one room (Face-me-I face-you)’, he said but for the first time, I broke the yoke of ‘Face-me-you-face-trouble’, I am now living in a flat. Church Gist. If you have not lived in ‘Face me-I-face-you’, you won’t understand that testimony because some of you were born with silver spoons while some were born with golden spoons and people like us were not born with spoons- There was no spoon in our compound, we dey chop with hand.
-You will break a record this month!
Never look for miracles to the point where you have no regard for teaching Luke 5:3. The target was to do miracles but the process was teaching. And if you check in this Church, people who are prosperous are those who have respect for teaching. Miracles are triggered by principles. Church Gist. Every declaration without Scriptural information is a declaration that will end in frustration. Before we tell you what to do, we will tell you what God is saying that you should know.
Until you are touched by God’s Word, you cannot be ‘touched’ and ‘tough’! I am a product of many-sided teaching, nothing can shake me. Church Gist. When all the drama is over, we will still be standing because forever the Word of God is settled even in Heaven. Unusual harvest! The money that you cannot help people with is not the money we are talking about.
-God will bless you to the point where you will be helping people! It will overflow!
If you understand the Bible, you will know why some people who do not know God or go to Church are richer than Christians. Principles work for everyone, whether you are in the Church or in the coven. You don’t need to be born again for principles to work- This is a miracle that Jesus performed for a man that is not born again Luke 5:8. Church Gist. Are you telling me that Jesus never knew that he was a sinful man? But when it comes to principles, your Spirituality is not the issue. Let a muslim plant corn, the corn will grow but if a Christian does not plant, the land will just be barren. Principles work for everyone, even for the sinners and non-Church members out there!
I defined principles in my own language as, ‘Anything that makes a process simple’! In this month of unusual harvests, we will be looking at, ‘THE DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES FOR HARVESTS’!
1. The Principle of Integrity Proverbs 11:3. Now integrity works for both sinners and Christians- You don’t need to be born again. Never buy fake goods and tell people that it’s original- That’s integrity! This is the foundation for unusual wealth! Integrity is the key to prosperity and posterity! Church Gist. Are you aware that posterity is superior to prosperity? Prosperity means, it (wealth) starts with you and ends with your generation. After you what happens? Prosperity with posterity is rooted in integrity Proverb 13:11.
Somebody said that people are doing better than him and I said, ‘You are mad! Mention the people! And all the people that he mentioned were fraudsters. And I said, ‘You are a fool’! You don’t understand the Bible’! If any sinner is doing better than a Christian, that Christian is a foolish Christian. If you understand the Bible, you are superior to them (sinners)! Integrity is a lifter of men! Anywhere that you see lifting, at the root of it is integrity! Psalm 5:12.
Integrity will introduce you even before you speak. I went to cut my hair somewhere a few days ago and I gave them the old naira notes but they refused. Church Gist. I tried making a transfer and it was unsuccessful. And the boss said, ‘I know him (Referring to me), let him go! He will transfer the money anytime the network gets connected’!
And the accountant of the boss looked at me because they had been bouncing people out of the shop while others were standing there battling with network connections. Church Gist. I told the man that brought our ladder to drop his account details while I transfer his money later in the night, he dropped it and left! And I made the transfer at night!
See! This your problem is not about the devil oo, you lack trust! When you lack trust, people will not entrust it (trust) into your hands. I bought something worth N632,000 last week and they said, ‘Go! Transfer the money when the thing opens up’! I’m not teaching you myself, I am teaching you what will help you in life. Church Gist. If you suffer for too long, you lack integrity! Integrity will make someone pick interest in you and just help you! Integrity will introduce you even before you speak! Integrity is a door opener!
What then is integrity?
1. In my own way, integrity is the quality of being honest! Having strong moral principles.
2. Integrity means doing the right things at all times. Shortcuts may be very fast but it will always cut short your life very fast. There are members in this Church, I trust sinners more than them. Church Gist. A sinner that understands integrity is more useful than a Christian without integrity. Somebody in this Church said, ‘I’m coming’! And he didn’t come! A sinner said, ‘I am coming and he came. Who would you trust?’ Businessmen and women, don’t go and start anything if you don’t have integrity. Every Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is integrity-made.
Six (6) ways to achieve integrity?
1. Be determined to walk in integrity.
This one I’m even telling you can free you from sickness because all the people ‘swearing (Cursing)’ for you, wetin you do them? Integrity failed and that’s why their ‘swear’ is working against you! If you are a follower of that which is good, nothing will harm you… 1 Peter 3:13. Church Gist. The strength of your enemy is in that verse. They took one of my daughter’s name to a shrine and when they got there, they quarreled- Integrity made them quarrel. You know integrity? Another name for integrity is Scriptural Spirituality! 1 Peter 3:13 is my anchor!
When I tell you, ‘No witch will harm me’! This is what I mean. I fornicate with the witch? I follow the witch thief? Me and the witch sit-down gossip? Wetin me and the witch do wey em fit kill me? If I even do am, I get that revelation. That one dey one side, I no go show you make you no go dey do bad things! Church Gist. If they harm you, then you are wrong somewhere! Have you not heard that, ‘He who keeps himself, the wicked one will not touch’! Jesus said, ‘The prince of the world came to me but he had nothing in me’. It’s a realm!
2. Relate with people of integrity.
If everybody is your friend, you are the biggest fool.
3. Live a life of contentment.
Dem never born the person that will make me live ahead of my time. I’ll now be living 2030 in 2023! No! I take it step by step. When I displayed the house that God built for Himself and handed to us on Monday, somebody called and said, ‘We dey pity you, so you better pass us? So now you are free from the landlady and landlord in Church and in your house as a tenant! For us now, we still dey under landlord and landlady for both Church and house’! You know why they were pitying me? Church Gist. I don’t enter the boutique that they enter! So they think that is in the realm that I have not entered! Your realm is not in what you wear, your realm is the peace you have for every level that you occupy. That is, you are at a level where you are not under stress!
I went somewhere with somebody, when they gave us money. He just entered one boutique and came out with suits, shoes and shirts. Boom! The money is finished! As I came out, ‘Hello Engineer! That quotation for plumbing, how much did you call it? N850,000! ‘Okay, send me an account details so that they can finish everything’! I finished the plumbing between November and December but I paid in February last year. The money came in bulk and I pushed it to plumbing! Live a life of contentment! Church Gist. Most especially if you have some clothes in your wardrobe that you have not worn, it means that you don’t need new clothes! Some of you have some clothes that you wore in June last year, that means God has blessed you!
Contentment is to be content with your container! If your container is forty or twenty footer, be content! Don’t have a twenty footer container and be envious of a forty footer container. Church Gist. He who entered the boutique and came out with different clothes is still a tenant, but can I even shock you? If me and him dress come outside, I still dress pass am! It’s not in the amount of clothes that you have but in the ability to combine clothes! They call it, ‘Capacity to combine clothes’!
I used one suit in the year 1997 and people were praying to be like me because I was just changing the ties worth of N50 and N20 on a white shirt without them knowing that it is the same white shirt.
4. Do things for the long term benefit and not for the immediate return.
I got invited last year for a programme and it clashed with Glory Reign and I said, ‘I’m not going to attend it’. The Pastor was angry because it was their anniversary programme, the whole Church was in a mess, everyone was stranded and as I landed Warri, I went straight to see him. I said, ‘Sir, I am sorry, I can’t disobey Ibiyeomie and obey you, the programmes clashed! Anytime you want me to return to Warri, I will go, do with me as you wish!’ He said, ‘My people are angry thinking that I deceived them but today is our Midweek Service’. I said, ‘I will enter the Church to see them so they can see me’, and I did. And then, I was able to restore that relationship for the long term benefits. So this year’s anniversary he called me and said, ‘I know that you are going for Glory Reign, I have shifted the anniversary to the first week of February’. Church Gist. I agreed to this because I value relationships, I don’t think about today alone but tomorrow.
What that person gave me after the programme, only the furniture in the house can explain. He said, ‘Bishop, you made my people happy and made them also know that God can use somebody’! He said, ‘Anything that I give you is just nothing! Church Gist. I’m expecting something bigger and I will send it. If I didn’t consider 2023 in 2022 by saying, ‘To hell with him’!- The chair for parlour na em money! Some of the mattresses na em money.
5. Always tell yourself that a good name is better than silver and gold.
If they place silver and gold side by side, choose silver and gold because they will always follow a good name. If you go after silver and gold at the detriment of a name, you will lose both name and silver and gold but if you go after a good name, silver and gold will always look for you!
6. Have a standard.
If you are a man and woman of standard, they cannot use you as sandal. For those who are selling cream, maintain a standard and don’t mix black and yellow and reduce them on another day! I told one man one day in Warri, do you wish to last in this dry cleaning business? He said, ‘Yes’! Do you rent our clothes out? He said, ‘No’! And I asked him again after three times, and I said how can someone bring clothes for you on 1st October and by 31st October, he has not collected the clothes after 31 days? Church Gist. Are you normal? When you are surrounded by people who give out people’s clothes after three days?
When I finished with him, he called a board meeting and I said to him that I will show him the receipts that I have paid to other people within the 31 days of withholding my clothes. We calculated the money that I spent at another dry cleaning place and it amounted to N60,000 plus. I said, ‘What is that person doing that you are not doing? Church Gist. Because this amount of money should be for your company. And I advised him to give out the clothes in his shop to the customers so that new ones can come. Have a standard because if you don’t have a standard you can’t stand out!
Six (6) benefits of integrity:
1. Somebody gave me the money (in millions) he was owing another person last week to help him to pay that person- I stood as a guarantor! When this money entered, ‘I said that I need this money for everything, I’m packing this period’! (Laughing). Church Gist. And the Spirit of integrity spoke to me and said, ‘You cannot spend what is not your own, if you spend it now, you will pray the prayer of breakthrough later and I will not answer you! Push it first to the bank that owes it and then send the proof to the person who sent you’! I just did it and had my peace.
Most of you in this Church, that is when you will shine! Then after thirty days, you will now start doing, ‘Mother side and father side, you will not check your side oo- Your side is always the problem’! Who your father and mother hold money? Church Gist. But do you know that after I gave that money, Heaven opened. When you follow integrity, the blessings of God flows. If I had spent that one, God would have left me with that one!
2. It gives you a clear conscience with God and man.
Clear conscience fears no evil Acts 24:6. After nine years of running Answers Assembly, nobody has come to tell the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to bring your Pastor down from the altar because he is going to the Police Station for owing some money- Peace with God and man.
I bought tiles for about 4.2 million to 5 million naira aside from labour. My Chief Security Officer is aware of this, we had issues with the time seller from the beginning but I had to absorb and forget about it. I said, ‘It was just a miscalculation but give me some period of time to clear off the money’. Church Gist. Today, I can send even the devil to go and collect goods from his hand. For the building of the security house I only sent Pastors and he called to confirm that I sent them and I said, ‘Give them’! And he did. This business that you are doing, there is a future if you have integrity!
Don’t go for ‘Esusu’ (Contributions) and pick to be the first person to collect the money and you take the first round of the money and run away. You are the number one problem of the people! You know there was an ‘Esusu congregation’ at Daniels Club where Answer Assembly started, one of my daughters dey take number one round of collecting the money- She will come one day for Answers Assembly and another Sunday, from Living Faith to Catholic Church and so on. Na em dem come meet me after Service and said, ‘Sir, your daughter collect money run away, I said, ‘That one na slaughter! Church Gist. My daughter cannot take ‘Esusu’ and run away! I have taken the number two rounds of ‘Esusu’ for two years (one million naira per month) for three years now and this year for number one, I’m the only outsider in that group. That money is the safest money anywhere, no interest! You no go put anything for ground! No collateral except your integrity! If you lack integrity, your suffering has just started, everybody that wants to help you will be afraid!
3. It gives you boldness in the marketplace Proverbs 28:1.
For the painting of my house I just said, ‘Supply it to them, I’ll pay you as they (Labourers) are painting’! ‘Yes Sir’! I was in Port-Harcourt and they said that they needed more materials and I simply said, ‘Supply to them’! Church Gist. When you are going to a customer and he runs whenever he sees you, you lack integrity.
4. It gives you promotion and upliftments
The person who painted my house left their scaffold at the back of the Church building because they will continue to work for us in the Church, ‘Dem neva born the person well, wey go bring another painter’! We have seen painters, fighters and destroyers, is he our member? Church Gist. Do I know him? They don’t need to know you, let your integrity speak for you!
You know how many jobs that you have abandoned? You come use your hand become an abandoned project for Heaven? I don’t know him from anywhere. He’s not from Edo State or a member of Answers Assembly. One customer that is happy is a lifetime breakthrough that you will never recover from! Who connected him to me? A member of this Church who he painted his house! It gives you boldness in the marketplace! Instead of you to repent now you are reacting that Papa said that I don’t have integrity!
One of my members called me last week and said, ‘Papa you are too transparent to a fault, your transparency is why I believe in you! I have checked everything that you told us’.
One of my daughters had issues with somebody and she broke into the person’s inbox and all of the messages that person shared with people, she had access to them! Did you know what it means to me? Church Gist. That person is my son and we have even communicated on a few occasions on Facebook, I did not shake for once! I have this consciousness, ‘Live the way you will live as if it’s a television that people are watching’! I called my daughter and said, ‘Help me check my own ooo because I no know wetin I don talk?’ And the few things that I said was even in defence and in favour of my daughter!
You see my wife Mama, in 18 years that I’ve known her there is nothing she hides from me. Integrity!
5. It gives you referral and connection with the best.
Never bury your image while trying to manage any relationship. Your image is your greatest asset, when the image is dead, likeness is buried!- You are created in the image and likeness of God. You know why? Your image will make them like you. When your image is affected, your likeness is the payment. Church Gist. That’s why Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo said, ‘I will fight with my last blood against anybody that spoils my name, I’ll carry the highest lawyer, sue you and fight your generation! Because he said, ‘My name is all that I have’! It’s not a thing of ‘Let peace reign’. You don’t know names! Some people are unmarried today because of names because somebody tagged them lesbians, husband snatcher and wayward and they were not privileged to ask them.
And you know what? A Pastor (A father in Nigeria) called me last week, I mentioned his name on Wednesday and said, ‘This is what I hear and I said that I won’t believe it until I hear from you’. He is somebody that if he turns his back on me, I will not be happy, it’s a relationship that I don’t want to lose but he carried his phone and called. What about if he didn’t call me and close his door and heart against me? And started spreading it to others? If they say that your product is fake, fight them to the highest level and prove it! And as a married woman, they said that the saw you with a man in the hotel! Fight that person! He should prove it! Church Gist.
Don’t leave matters for God hand alone, even God dey fight! Who is the man of war? Mighty man of battle? And the one who fights Pharaoh? Who do you now resemble if you are not fighting! Fight for your name! Fight till the point where they will write it and say, ‘Na lie we lie, we didn’t mean to say it! When I have this understanding nobody ever falls for my trap, if na before, I go say, ‘Let go’! I used to think that when you’re fighting for your name that you are fighting for a wrong course! But name is everything that you have.
6. It gives you prosperity and posterity.
When it comes to your posterity, you enjoy your wealth in your time and beyond your time, others will eat from it! I took a Pastor somewhere outside Delta State to get a loan and they gave him 2.5 million naira and then he paid and I said, ‘Give him 5 million naira’. And he paid for it! When he came the third time and I asked him what he wanted to do with the money, he started talking up and down. Church Gist. And then I called the finance institution and said, ‘I withdrew my recommendation’! Then, he went behind me and he was informed that I’ve withdrawn my recommendation. Why will you deny a man what you can give to him when I’m not giving you anything? The only thing that I have to offer is a record of integrity!
I started relating with them from 2013 till date and I’ve never failed. I don’t need them again but people who need them goes to them and call me for recommendations. I beg of you! If life is too hard for you, you are too stubborn. Have I mentioned money? But this is how people get money! Church Gist. This is money month! Harvest month! Unusual harvest of financial prosperity! But if you don’t lay this foundation, you have missed it! Tithe, giving and sowing is good but integrity is the baseline for the other things you do to work!
Therefore, your own may not be physical sickness, it might be integrity sickness! If you are sick of integrity and you take the communion, you will be healed. Even when it’s painful, I keep my integrity.
—–ALTAR CALL—-
Integrity means, don’t say it if your hands are not up! It begins that way because these are little things. Pastor Amah, What you have just heard is the only reason why a sinner and muslim don’t have to repent but they will trust him more than a Christian. Christianity is actually supposed to be full of integrity but we leave this aspect and start speaking in tongues. Na person money you just thief! Na married woman you just slept with!
In those days when our Mama marry, no courtship na examination! Dem go throw the money under bed so that if you dey sweep, you go see am. If you thief the money, your marriage is over! And courtship has failed! They should bring back those good old days. Your own dem no go just put money, na phones, say if you go WhatsApp, courtship is broken! When you reach WhatsApp you no see, you go install am come dey chat your husband to be friends! Integrity! Somebody left his phone in my car and he travelled out of town. And he needed to come back the following day. I didn’t touch the phone! I just saw it and left it there till he came back! Not that there was a password oo, I didn’t touch it.
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