The Path To Greater Glory by Apostle Joshua Selman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

With your destiny it will look like others have gone ahead of you.

Don't compare yourself with someone who has gone, because when God is done with you, sometimes in one day He can bring 10 years into your life

The secret of longevity of impact

What you will learn is the reason why some people never go down

Behind the extraordinary exploits of people in the Kingdom are secrets

Nobody rises in this Kingdom and nobody thrives in this Kingdom, commanding consistent results, by luck or in ignorance

This is the secret by the mercies of God that will insist that you never have a better yesterday

Hearing happens automatically. Listening has intention connected to it. Your attention has been invested for the purpose of growth. Don't just hear, listen

The path to greater glory

Haggai 2:9

This is the secret that transits men from glory to glory, stepping into a realm of glory that excels

Proverbs 4:18

In the economy of God a man is never supposed to have a better yesterday

Your life should never be so full of darkness that you only have to look back to find hope and to rejoice.

God designed and desires that we go from one exploit to another, from one level of glory to another

Job 8:7

It didn't say "would". It says "should", based on God's laws

There's nothing wrong with starting small but remaining small is against God's design for your destiny

There is a prophetic declaration, a verdict over your life already, that the latter end should greatly increase. This is ministerially, financially, family wise, in your job and career

A baby is given an allowance of time. After 5 to 6 years, if the child cannot talk or walk, it now becomes a health issue

Haggai 2:3

Newer versions give a better perspective. The house looks pale, weak and diminished compared to the former glory. That is an anomaly and it has to be corrected

Haggai 2:9

That thing has to be corrected

More and more is the heritage of every believer in Christ, not just a few people

Mindset

Psalm 107:2

Not wish so, not hope so. It matters what you believe, it matters the frame of your mindset

Your mindset is your contribution to your failure or your success. It is a submission of what you have chosen to believe

Believe that the more and more is your destiny in Christ. Don't allow any strange philosophy to preach you against that understanding

God is not against your rising. God is not against your shining. God is not against your becoming. He is not against your excelling

If you do not believe this you will not open your heart to receive that which makes your destiny more and more

Have it at the back of your mind that an enviable destiny, a great destiny, is my heritage in Christ Psalm 71:21

Genesis 17:6, Genesis 12:2-3

Why God desires that we continue to scale heights in destiny

John 15:8

If you truly want to see God glorified in the world of men, it happens through the results that come from your life

John 15:16, Ephesians 2:10

God is glorified when you excel, spiritually and financially

Matthew 5:13-16

God wants men to see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven

Galatians 1:24

God can be glorified in a man. God can be glorified through a man

Living epistles 2 Corinthians 3:3

A living epistle means you should be the continuation of everyone's Bible study. When people see you, it's like their Bible just opened again and they continue from where they stopped

Your life should be a sermon, like a recording in motion preaching the faithfulness of God, the restoring power, the preserving power

Every day somebody should learn God from your life, from your results

Results are evangelists. Results can preach. There is an audience that listens to that evangelist called results

Consistency

God is interested in our bearing fruit and in our consistency

Many people start well, excellently, gloriously, but only a handful remain. Not just those who started, but those who have continued Luke 22:28

There are people who started ministry excellently, with vibrancy, and today some of them are nowhere to be found. Same with people who started business

When your yesterday looks better than your today, it is an attack

I have studied people in ministry and business who have succeeded for at least 40 years and distilled a few keys responsible for sustainable glory.

Not balloon success, where you are up today and down just before people are done clapping

Results are impactful not just when they are produced but when they are sustained. When results are not sustained they do not create the Kingdom impression that they should

5 keys to greater glory

These keys are for ever increasing glory, that you become and you remain at the epicenter of Kingdom relevance without fading

Illustration: the sun

The sun is older than every one of us and is not depleted in its intensity and glory, while men pale and fade

People can be 25 or 30 and then look 50, and they say "life happened to me, I wasn't always like this". The sun, with all the wars on earth, remains unchanged in its intensity

Greater yielded brokenness and surrender

This is a very subtle but deep and serious mystery. Many people started by engaging this mystery but stopped somewhere along the way and their glory began to fade

The deeper your consecration, the higher your flight in destiny

Many walked in brokenness and yieldedness, and when God began to lift them they became distracted by the success. Success is a noise maker. Even if you don't speak, it will speak.

It has a deceptive way of distracting you

If you lose your consecration and yieldedness, you are like a fan with no power. It seems to rotate, but it is only rotating to stop eventually

The greater your yieldedness, the greater your brokenness, the greater your surrender, the greater the glory that is revealed through your life

2 Timothy 2:20-21

The difference between the vessels is the material, the level of endurance, the level of glory that can be emanated

Some vessels by their design and alignment are unto honor, some unto dishonor

The key is in verse 21. It is a personal responsibility. You can transit from a vessel of clay and wood to a vessel of gold

Proverbs 25:4

If the dross is still within the metal, the silversmith will not bring the shape that is desired

The obsession with fame

We live in a world with an obsession to be celebrated, to be an influencer, a celebrity. How many likes, follows, shares

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When your obsession for fame, power, recognition becomes greater than your obsession for His presence, you are in trouble. The devil does not have to attack you

Many start with God in the depth of prayer, fasting, the word, consecration, worship. They lock themselves in and cry out for God to search their heart Psalm 139:23-24

Fame has a deceptive way of making the presence of God look like a burden. "Why do I need to visit His presence again? Whether I study or not, I still have something to preach"

Grace doesn't depend on what you do. God can defend you and convince you that because the plate is broken and still carrying food, you should not do anything about it.

A broken plate can still carry food, but not for long

I have a covenant with God that anything ministerial or otherwise that will distract me from His presence, I would rather cancel every ministration for that year.

Let me be a failure before men and maintain my stance with God. I consider myself a success

The presence of God is where glory resides

Imputation of glory is like marinating your meat. You soak it in the sauce and leave it, and there is an infusion. This is what happens in the glory

You don't give God 5 minutes and carry glory. Time is a currency everybody uses to purchase whatever they want, and many people waste it

If you are in ministry, minimize the obsession to be known and heard. Stay in His presence. Your greatest publicity is your secret place, not posters and billboards

One song, one sermon, one idea can come from there. This includes business people. Don't say "I'm a businessman, thank God I'm not a pastor". You should stay even more

Return to God and say "Father, your boy is back again". After the world claps for you, get down on your knees and say "I'm still on my knees after 30 years.

I'm not coming to you as apostle, I'm coming as that boy you found"

Because you have done this, God says let's go into the next level. When you think you have exhausted them, another weight of glory comes upon them.

That does not happen on stage, it happens in the secret

Those who need to return after this, extend it into a retreat and go back and say "Lord, I'm sorry. You are the lover of my soul but I left You in search of fame.

I left You looking for what only Your presence can give me. I would rather not be known by men and let me be known by You"

People say "Apostle, I want power. I have revelation, power is the only thing missing". Power is not just a jar of oil. Your heart can perforate a vessel that carries oil.

Your heart condition can drain away and waste impartations

As I grow in ministry I am not hasty to lay hands on people, because I have been wasting oil on hearts that are not yielded. The head is ready but the heart is not ready

Proverbs 23:26

Love Him more than ministry, more than titles, more than fame. You know you love Him by doing the things that please Him John 14:21

Encounters from His presence and ideas that have accelerated me in life and ministry could not have come any other way

The world is exalting intelligence and intellect above His presence. I appreciate intellect, knowledge and education, but there is an ancient secret and our generation is losing it

Some things cannot be bought in the market, found in a library, stored in the bank or sold on earth. Greatness is not sold anywhere else. You find it in His presence

I don't know what has affected your passion for God. Something has dried your secret place, your hunger and your zeal for God

There is an obsession to be known. All you are interested in is who knows me, or let me have some money

God wants you to have all the money, but any money you have to leave God to get is demonic money that sends you to hell

I know you want to make it and you desire to be great, and truly God desires to make you great.

But the secret to being known by the world is to know Him and stay there until He builds you and prunes you. Men will call you by your titles but God will not

When I'm before Him I don't go as Apostle Joshua Selman. God, search my frail heart. Who knows whether pride has crept in as men were clapping.

Don't mind what I'm wearing, what people are saying, the posters. Search my heart and if you find anything that can destroy me, kill it

Cry the cry in the secret first. It is better than crying it in the open. There is no shame in His presence

One way you know you have met Him: there will always be something to adjust. If you step into His presence and leave with nothing to change, you met a familiar spirit

How God builds people

God does not prune everything at once. It will be too heavy. He prunes level by level

There are things He will prune and leave others. Others will observe that weakness but God keeps quiet. He is not endorsing it.

You don't have the strength for that circumcision yet, so He allows you to be encouraged by results first

When you are ready to dig deeper, there is an issue He kept quiet about, like pride, even though people had seen your power in spite of it. This level can't carry it.

There is another kind of purification

When a measure of circumcision happens, He gives you an opportunity to experience the glory that comes by your yieldedness

So next time, no matter how painful, you are consoled that you yielded yesterday and saw the benefits

God can keep quiet over an issue for 10 years. It doesn't mean He is silent. Keep growing. One day He says "Son, empty your account". You say "I cast that spirit, it can't be God"

God says, by this test I am leading you to the next phase. I don't need your money. I am only showing you what is sitting at the core of your heart.

An idol has been quietly lying there

Sometimes you think if you just tell God "okay, I will give it", He will say "okay, don't worry", like He did to Abraham Genesis 22.

But you will really do the transfer, and it will go

You may think a breakthrough will come the next day to show it was God you obeyed.

Instead, for that one year you will walk around as if you lost your identity, and yet you are in the will of God

As confused as you are, you are still in the will of God

Faith is not always about obtaining things. Faith is a process that builds your trust in God beyond things. If the object of your faith is just the promise, the promise can be an idol

The journey of faith should lead you to a point where you build trust in God. Not everyone obtained the promise in Hebrews 11, but all of them obtained a good report.

It is a testimonial of faithfulness

I desire Him. It is truly my desire that nothing will ever take His presence and His place

When it has to do with the business of God you should not be ashamed

When people see your hunger for God they sometimes mistake it for fanaticism. There are fanatics who don't love God, it's just the motions of spirituality. Love has an energy you can feel

• You are everything. Thank God for the things You have given me, for the platforms, but You are everything.
• You are not just greater than money. You are not greater than my certificate. They don't come close to You. You are in a class by Yourself in my life.
• Search my heart. Let there be a circumcision. Take away pride, take away lust, take away flesh, everything that can destroy my tomorrow.
• Lord, let's start afresh. This is not how I was with You. Something has distracted me. A man came into my life and took Your place.
• A woman came into my life and took Your place. A job came into my life and took Your place.
• Let there be a restoration. Afresh that hunger, afresh that passion, greater than ministry, greater than business, greater than fame, greater than the desire to be known.

The Lord spoke to me years ago: "Son, if you will let men see Me, there is nothing I will not give you"

There is an equation to success that only God can complete. Success works based on principles: diligence, relationships, value, productivity.

But there is a part of the equation to greatness where nobody knows what answer to put. There is only God

If you can explain completely how you became great, then God did not make you great. There must be a part you will know was the finger of God

Circumcision

There are many apostles that should have risen but for the bankruptcy of the secret place, in search of power and faith

There are people today who by God's program should be handling the wealth of nations, but the hand wants to receive it while the heart is not ready. That circumcision has not happened

Those He loves He chastises. Your remaining at the same level is not an attack, it is the mercy of God. You have been weighed.

If another measure of glory comes without this circumcision you will become a casualty to yourself and to everybody

There are levels of anointing you will never step into. You may fast and pray, but something must die for you to press into the deeper dimensions of God

This is not a popular sermon in the body of Christ. Many think that because God is gracious and loving, everything in the Kingdom is a gift.

There are things that are rewards, testaments of endurance, of staying planted until you are made

Grace is resting on someone. God is saying "I've been looking for you, I'm hungry for you, I'm thirsty for you."
A renewed relationship with the Holy Ghost, back to the place of power, consecration and His presence, more than before

There is a depth in God. When you touch that depth you will become a sign and a wonder. It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you

There are levels of seriousness that if you give as an investment, God will make a vow with His integrity that you will never look for certain things again.

The price would have been paid in the secret

God will vow that they will never be in a position of need. Their lives look magical. It's not magic, it's a testament of that glory 1 Corinthians 15:41

Anybody who runs away from the chastisement of the Spirit has taunted themselves

Many fast and many pray, but the problem is the heart. What gives power to your prayer and fasting is not the motion, it is the sincerity of your heart

Show me a man who looks like a failure by any definition and the only thing he has is the fear of God with sincerity

I show you a man who is a sign and a wonder about to happen

2 Chronicles 26:5

You need money, a job, fame, a child. God wants you to have more money than you want to have. But first cry before the Lord, a cry of repentance.

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Everything that has become an idol, call it by name and nail it at the cross

Repentance is not for unbelievers. Repentance means to realign. The glory of the moon comes by its alignment to the sun.

To the degree the moon aligns to the sun is the degree to which it shines

Those who are like prodigal children returning, I do not condemn you. God does not condemn you

• Lord, I repent. Let's start afresh. Father, restore my prayer life. Restore my passion for the word. Restore my consecration.

The oil for the next level is at the mercy of the depth of your yieldedness

This is the way of power, the way of glory. There is a relationship between death and glory John 12:24

Enter a covenant with your destiny that no matter how God lifts you, you will never break the consecration of His presence. Cancel any meeting and stay in His presence.

You are not a fool if you do that

When money, ministry, open doors and anointing no longer distract you from placing value on Jesus and His presence, then you are ready for another level of glory

No power can touch you when you stay in His presence. It is a place of immunity, of grace and of power

For someone who is not even saved. You go for programs and hear an altar call, but it is none of your business.

For others who are saved, between you and God you cannot say you are serious with God, and you are not interested in being serious

I propose to you greater hunger for God, the value of loving Him more than anything else. When men love Him, the secret to the many things we seek is found in His presence

Jeremiah 29:13

If you look for money first, money will run away. In His presence it will come and meet you there.

You will look for fame and a generation will not pay attention to you, but when you leave them and stay with Him, He will announce you from the secret place

Because God is in the business of taking you from glory to glory, the grace to maintain your consecration rests on you now in Jesus name

Light, high level spiritual illumination

The dimension of God's glory you carry is a direct product of the quality of spiritual understanding you have

Proverbs 16:16

Leave gold and silver, important as they are, and pursue wisdom and understanding. Be passionate about spiritual understanding and continuous learning

1 Corinthians 8:2

This scripture delivered me from an arrival mentality. There is a standard in the spirit for every dimension of glory that must be manifest in your life, and it is governed by light

Genesis 1

God made many lights, but He made two great lights

Your command of dominion and power in this Kingdom is a product of the truths of scripture that you know John 1:5

Nobody emerges and works in ever increasing glory in ignorance or at the level of yesterday's knowledge. God is calling you to upgrade and stretch your spiritual understanding

Isaiah 60:1

The glory of God has always been there but it will never rise upon you until light comes

There is a level of spiritual illumination that when you have it, you see

Your ministry, business, career and leadership will only rise to the level of your spiritual understanding. A pastor will only raise people to the limit of his understanding of spiritual things

Contend for light. I am passionate about learning what I do not know. I don't pamper ignorance in my life

I have knowledge rituals I practice every day. Books I read, messages I listen to across ministry and leadership. Non-negotiable, no matter how tired I am. It's a covenant I bound myself with

When you want the world to celebrate God's hand upon your life there must be an investment in light. You don't celebrate darkness, you celebrate light

The greater your light, the greater your competence. Fear is a product of ignorance. When there is too much gap in knowledge, the courage to deliver is not there

A consultant is confident when called to speak. What made you a consultant is not the cloth you are wearing. You took time to invest in knowledge

Buy the truth Proverbs 23:23

The truth is not free. You use the currency of humility, hunger and adaptation Proverbs 18:1

God wants to lift you, but your limitation in knowledge is a cancer to your own growth

Damage ignorance in your life. You don't need to know everything, but press for the knowledge connected to your destiny, the knowledge connected to your rising.

Don't pamper yourself, wake up and pray and press for knowledge

I will buy the truth

Two levels of truth you must buy

• The truth that comes from scripture, the knowledge of the Holy One and of spiritual things
• The knowledge of the laws of life, the ways of the universe. You find it all in scripture, it's just the dynamics of operation that differ

Job 38:33

Your destiny is at the mercy of what you know

Illustration: the trumpet

A minister can be a compendium of vast knowledge. As anointed as that trumpet is, you try playing it. There is light in it, it's not just anointing

I have never even tried to play it. I convinced myself that every man should abide in his calling

There is the genius of music and the creativity that goes into writing songs. It's not just inspiration, inspiration is enhanced by knowledge

The Holy Spirit makes use of the raw material of light within you to frame the answers and solutions that come

Many are doing business but the level of knowledge you have has brought you thus far. The reason you mark time is because there is no knowledge to take you further.

This is true for ministry and destiny too

In the name of Jesus, I contend for light

Bind yourself with a covenant under God that you will not have any week pass where you don't learn something new, something pro destiny, pro Jesus, pro Kingdom. You don't need to know everything

There is a relationship between ignorance and shame

I made a covenant with my destiny that I will only admire people but I will never be intimidated. Anything I don't know I will go and learn. The amen must be backed up by diligence

Daniel understood by books Daniel 9:2

Where ignorance has recycled shame around your life, may God through knowledge take away shame from your life forever

Competence and anointing together is a beautiful sight

In the studio you can see the level of competence and intelligence, things you take for granted: the sound quality, the coordination. These add up to produce the result

It's easy to say "it's just anointing, it's just glory"

I reject ignorance in my life

There are many people willing to help you if you are humble to learn. Five minutes in the presence of competence can damage years of mistakes

Life can teach you a lesson slowly for as long as you want to learn.

You can bring a season to an end through knowledge, or keep recycling that season like the hand of a clock through pride

Many people are stunted by simple things. 10 minutes of humility under structured mentorship can bring you out

"Ministry is not working, they don't like me in this city" is not the answer. It's your pain that gave you that answer.

Ecclesiastes 10:15

"Foolish" there is not an insult. It is a description of a person bankrupt of knowledge

Those who are not where they should be by their prophetic calendar, ignorance has kept you. I plant within your spirit a passion for knowledge and wisdom in the name of Jesus

Humility

Proverbs 29:23

Honor can uphold the humble. It is difficult to criticize a humble person. Even if the person is ignorant, humility shields. Pride is usually an enhancer to pride

1 Peter 5:6

When you find people who never go down, it is because they have found a way of humility. It may sting your ego for a while but there will be no end to your rising

Jesus came as the word incarnate. By humility He was exalted and given a name Philippians 2:5-11. There is always exaltation for the humble

Humble and simple are two different things. You can be simple and proud. Not using an expensive phone is simplicity, not humility

What humility is

Humility is a state where you perpetually acknowledge that outside the help of God you will not attain whatever result you have

Humility is not refusing to acknowledge what God has done. You stand confident in what God has done in your life Philemon 1:6

If God has made you the head and you say "I am the head", it's not pride. There are confessions I will never make. It's not humility, it's destruction. I won't program myself to death

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I can stand before you and say the God of heaven is the reason I am what I am. Paul puts it beautifully 1 Corinthians 15:10

When the world claps and makes your success look like a fabrication of your own creativity

Be quick to say "I partnered with the grace of God, but I am what I am by the grace of God"

Philippians 4:13

That sounds like an arrogant statement, but then he says "through Christ". If he had stopped, you would say Paul can do all things. Once you bring Jesus into the equation you are safe.

Once you keep Him out it becomes pride

If you are rich you are rich. If you are blessed you are blessed. If God has helped you He has helped you, it's not a lie. However, point men to Him

A pastor puts it beautifully: "When you are done, take the glory. I am satisfied just to see You glorified." That is one of the most concise captures of humility

Pride is a killer. The anointing does not fight God, it only fights what is against God. When God is opposing you, the only prayer that can save you is the prayer of mercy

Have you ever seen God fight a man? It's not a good sight to behold

God is a warrior. He has not stopped being a warrior Psalm 68:1

An enemy of God is not just somebody you don't like. An enemy of God is anybody who becomes a perpetual interruption to the manifestation of His will, even if you are Jonah

God can anoint you to be a prophet like Jonah, but because you disobey the instruction you become His enemy at that time. Not in terms of Him hating you.

You become antagonistic to His will and bring yourself to a position where judgment has to be meted out on you

The cancer of pride

There is a lot of pride in Africa because of our background. "Who do you think you are? You don't know who I am". Everybody is a big man in Christ

The obsession to show that you have made it or arrived is unnecessary. If it's true success, it speaks. If you have to help success speak, you are not successful

Very wealthy people just wear whatever. The man is rich, it doesn't matter what you think

The spirit of pride has destroyed many in ministry, in business and in destiny. Those who watched their parents go down because of pride have seen it eat up preachers, businessmen and family people

The malleability to learn and to acknowledge God is what most people do not have

For some, this is the one problem in your life. You are a good person but there is this issue of pride

Let this kill pride finally in your life. May God grant you the grace to truly be humble in the name of Jesus Christ

Greater Kingdom service

The greater your service in the Kingdom, the greater the glory upon you. Service is a very deep mystery that few people understand.

The more you serve God sincerely, the more He adorns you with His glory

Don't just come on Sunday to warm benches and say "I'm not the type that wants to work"

Service is governed by your love for Jesus. That is the first motivation. Second, it is a mystery that lifts men mysteriously

Anyone who started ministry correctly started by service. Anybody who has not served before and is leading will most likely be a dangerous person.

Not because the person is evil, but service teaches you something you don't get if you do not go through the gate of service

I'm not talking of transactional service. Service born out of sincere love for God, seeing it as a privilege to be part of God's program

Luke 10:7

A worker, not one who just comes to church. Plunge yourself into God's payroll. I am a worker in the vineyard of God.

I work because I love Him, because it is a privilege and an honor to do what I do

There is a covenant of service Exodus 23:25-26

Can you show the difference between your salary and the blessing that came from service?

Few people are really serving God. Many come to church but few are in service

Illustration: out of service

A restroom or ATM with an "out of service" notice has no business being stood at. It does not become desirable because it is out of service. Some of our lives are like that

Favor comes and meets you out of service. Destiny helpers come and meet you out of service. They were only instructed to come to those who are in service.

You are too big to serve, so favor says no

Benefits of service

• It teaches you discipline
• It helps to expose your gifts
• It makes you accountable
• It creates a routine of discipline that makes for greatness

Many people didn't even know they were called. While serving they began to discern the grace of God. "Lead prayer for 5 minutes. It looks like there's a grace on you, sister"

How you know those who are in service: those who love God and are not strangers to His presence, those actively part of God's soul winning agenda

If you are not an active soul winner you are not in service. You can be in church 1 Timothy 2:4

If you are not actively participating in the transformation of men, you are not in service

If you are a laborer, you are a worker in the house of God and there is an allocation for you. It's not something you pray about

If you have been a faithful worker and it looks like your reward has not come, I agree with the grace and speak to you speedily: may your reward manifest, with back date

• Everything God sent to you that did not find you in service and went back, by mercy may it return to you now.

The day you become too big to serve in the house of God, an end comes to your rising.

The glory of God rests upon people who desire to serve and remain at the place of service

The hymn writer says "I'll be a true soldier, I'll die at my post". At my post, not outside of my post

Consistent Thanksgiving

Jeremiah 30:19

You can be multiplied and not glorified. It's a burden when numbers don't carry glory. It's like having 10 children and none of them is great. That is multiplication without glory

When you begin to thank God you receive both multiplication and glory. When you thank Him with five loaves and two fish you will feed 5,000 people with it

When a man is small, he needs God to glorify him. When the glory is upon you, you cannot be small. It makes you expensive, adds to your worth, spreads you

• Father, thank You. We do not take Your faithfulness for granted. I'm staying in a rented apartment but I will lock my door and dance in that rented apartment.
• I may not have all the food to eat but I'm grateful. I don't have school fees for all my four children but I am grateful.

We live in a world with an obsession for more. Our eyes always see what God has not done and we forget

Illustration: the ten lepers Luke 17:11-19

Ten lepers came to Jesus. He said go and show yourselves to the priest. As they went a miracle happened and all were running

But one said "I didn't deserve this, this came as a result of His kindness" and went back. Jesus was passing but he remained there.

The man came and said "Sir, I just came to say thank you"

Jesus asked, "Were there not 10 of you?"

Thanksgiving is highly memory dependent Psalm 103:2

Something happens to men when they forget the faithfulness of God

God has been good to you this year. You don't have a job, you never begged from January till November, and you cannot explain how the rent came

Many people died because they went to bed and never woke up

Christians in turbulent times are taught to give thanks in all things 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Go and read your Bible and see what happened when people murmured before God. God hates murmuring.

Life can press you, but you must learn to look away from what you think God has not done and say "Lord, thank You, I count my blessings, I name them one by one"

Lord, I've not been lifted yet but You gave me a great voice. I want to say thank You

I don't have a child yet but thank You for giving me a good husband

I have three children, but thank God there are children who can wake up in the morning and pray with their parents

There are parents who don't know where the first born is, where the second born is, and know the third born is in prison somewhere

Psalm 92:1-4

Context of thanksgiving, acknowledging God's faithfulness. If you don't have 10 strings, use 10 fingers

Psalm 92:10

We quote this scripture and forget how the Bible started. The horn exalted came in the context of thanksgiving

A unicorn's horn never faces down. Even if the head is down the horn is still up. Storms can come, rain can come

Psalm 92:11-14

There are certain battles you will not need to fight when you are thankful

It is the righteous who is thankful that flourishes. After 30 years you are still relevant, still standing, ministry still rising

Fresh oil, fresh grace upon my destiny, because I have been thankful and have acknowledged Him

• Thank You for delivering me from accident. They diagnosed me with a condition and You healed me miraculously. This was the year You terminated barrenness.
• You anointed me this year. You gave me visibility. You didn't allow the desires of my enemies to come upon me.
• I lost the job but thank You I am still alive. I lost my father, my sibling, but thank You.
• Thank You for life, health, wisdom, influence, mercy and loving kindness. Thank You for my children, my business, my job.
• My words are not enough, my vocabulary fails me, but make me to give You thanks.

The sound of release

Trumpets in ancient times did not just announce seasons, they announced triumph when people were returning. There were trumpets and dancing

Isaiah 61:3

Challenge every altar

There are times that spirits challenge the manifestation of the glory of God in your life. There are altars and demonic things

I don't know what you saw in the life of your parents that you are now seeing reproduce itself in your life. They go forward and they go back.

They want to make progress and something ties them

He may have tied you for 10 years, for 15 years. Nothing is working in your life

Moses and Aaron didn't just go forward, the Lord advanced them 1 Samuel 12:6. It is God that moves people to another level

I tell you by prophecy, write it down: the season you are in has ended in the spirit, but you've not been able to move because the door that should open has not opened

Doors stand for access. Your kitchen is separated from your bathroom by walls and doors. When a door is not open there is no motion

The grace for greatness

God has lifted a man and given him global visibility. There is no nation he goes to where he is a stranger.

When God personifies His possibilities in men, it is so that we can see and believe

People do not rise by luck. It is the grace on your head that determines whether you will rise or remain

Psalm 71:21

Don't be part of this vision and not draw that grace. For some it is familiarity. Familiarity is a grace killer. Don't be crying over something God has brought close to you

Those who have prayed and fasted even to get a visa stamped on their passport, and every time it has been no, you need a grace on your head

If life is hard for you, don't give excuses around it. Be angry in your spirit. You will never be able to serve God if all you are thinking about is making ends meet

Don't just look at your pastor. See a man helped by God, a man God has shown mercy, a man God lifted, a man for whom God crumbled barriers.

He has never gone to any nation where he was rejected

Number two: freshness

There is no year that God does not turn out prophetic songs. Just when you think you have heard one, another one comes

Prayer over finances

You can never talk about glory, no matter how modest you sound, and bypass economic empowerment

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Wisdom has glory, riches has glory, might has glory

There are laws that empower people: diligence, relationships, competence, value. But there is a prophetic advantage we have in the body. It is true God can help men, God can empower men

There is tea and bread in my house and it is a consolation to my serving God.

I don't serve God because of tea and bread, but I am grateful I can finish preaching and go home and there is tea and bread

If there's tea and bread on my table, I must be a wicked person not to pray that God will place the same on your table

Hunger always takes Israel to Egypt, even though they know it will later be a place of slavery Genesis 42:1-2. Even a prophet who is hungry will die.

Until there rose another pharaoh who knew no Joseph and they became slaves Exodus 1:8

I'm not praying for lazy people. The prayer for lazy people is that God will help you to not be lazy

I'm praying for people who are diligent but mysteriously there is a factor and this thing is not working

The sentiments of men corrupt the potency of principles.

A diligent hand should be made fat, but I can say "you are not my tribesman" and even though you are diligent I will not promote you. My sentiments corrupted the potency of that principle

In the life of many people the equation is not balanced, and it is not a diligence problem.

Some live with men whose hearts have been seared with a hot iron 1 Timothy 4:2, who say "for as long as I'm alive you will not be promoted in this place"

For some, financial failure today is a result of inherited battles. Someone fought with your father and found out you carried the son's name. You inherited battles you know nothing about

Altar call

You need Jesus. For someone who has never made this decision, or someone who wants to rededicate your life and take Jesus seriously, come

God is able to give you a new beginning. John 6:37

Perhaps you say "Apostle, you don't know what I've done, how my life has been". Even now He is able to give you new life

No assumption: if you are not sure whether or not you are saved, then you are not saved

You can have the assurance of salvation