Ascend Part 2 by Apostle Selman

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Ascend Part 1 by Apostle Selman

Deuteronomy 1:6-8, Revelation chapter 4 and verse 1.

You must understand that Revelation chapter 4 comes after 1 2 3. Those three chapters were already spectacular. John was in the Island of Patmos. He had seen so many things. He’d written the letters to the seven churches that were in the then Asia Minor representing the universal church. Came with messages. He had seen the similitude of God, the brightness of his face. I mean, you would think there were no room for anything more.

But the Bible says, “After this after all those encounters, after all those dimensions,” he said, “I still looked. I was not distracted by the results of the past. After this I looked.”

Many people will not look again after this. The this means Revelation 1, Revelation 2, Revelation 3. If you see what John saw in chapter 1 2 3, it’s enough to stop looking. I mean, what else? I’ve seen Jesus. I’ve written to the churches. But he said, “After this.”

It takes stamina to look after some these. After the success, I still looked. After the victory, I still looked. After I won yesterday, I still looked.

He says, “When I looked, I saw that a door was still open.” Doors talk of opportunities. Doors talk of continuation to your journey. After this I looked and I saw a door was open and a voice spoke through that door. And even though he was already in heaven, he said, “Come up hither.” Can you imagine that? That you are already in heaven and he said, “Come up.” There are some things you cannot see from this height. You need to come up hither. You have seen the things that will be, but I need to show you the things that will happen after. It was when he came up hither that he now saw the worship of the lamb. He never saw that in chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3. He saw the seven lampstands and he saw the similitude of Jesus, but he never saw the things that happened in the throne room until he came up higher. Then he now saw the worship of the lamb. Hallelujah.

There is always room for more. No matter what God has done in and through your life, there is always room for more.

Now, moving higher and upwards immediately suggests that you are moving against gravity. Flight has taught us that when you are moving, especially when you are lifting, it’s one of the most delicate parts, the lifting of a plane and the landing. In fact, that is one of the areas that measure the professionalism of a pilot. When the flight is on autopilot, it doesn’t you can literally walk away as a pilot and even go to bed and do some other things. But lifting and landing, especially when you are rising, you are rising against the tides.

There are times when the plane is about to lift, they preempt you that because of the weather condition, the ride is going to be a bit bumpy. No cause for concern if you find the plane bouncing. You see that now. And once he hits the runway and lifts in seconds, literally seconds, you’re in the air. But that ascendance will continue. The pilot gets determined and then he gets to a point where they beep you and they say you can now do some other things. Maybe remove your seatbelt and so on and so forth.

So it’s very important to know that moving higher and upwards is always against gravity. Like we learned yesterday, the gravity of history will want to pull you down. The gravity of systems will want to pull you down. The gravity of men, antagonists, will want to pull you down. All of these have an emotional, psychological, gravitational force that wants to pull you down. Your history, your background wants to pull you down. The system, unfortunately, that is already by default fighting you by reason of your conviction, trying to pull you down. And then antagonists.

The Bible called them wicked and unreasonable men. For he said, “Not all men have faith.” There are people who are just instruments in the hand of Satan who are determined to perpetually be in partnership with him to thwart everything God, everything destiny. May you not find such people in your life. And if you do find them, the grace to navigate your path away from them, receive it in Jesus’ name.

I have to give you maybe four or five of these keys. They double as the price, the price it takes for ascendance in life, in destiny. What does it take for a man, for a woman to ascend against the tide of your history, your background, against the tide of system and status quo, against the tide of the antagonisms that surround your you know, your environment and all of that.

• Number one, the first price you must pay if you desire to ascend, to advance, to press, to go forward, to become a voice in any generation is a burning desire.

1. You must have a genuine desire for growth.
2. You must have a genuine desire for increase.
3. You must have a genuine desire for advancement.

A burning desire. It must be a desire that eats you up. It must be a desire that can help you overcome the inertia of status quo. A burning desire. Micah chapter 2 and verse 10.

This is a good place, but it is not your rest. This is a great financial level, but it is not your rest. It’s a great dimension of the anointing, but it is not your rest. At this level there are you will not be able to conquer much land.

I like what Reverend Sam said before I came up. He immediately from his statement, I know there’s a basic course, there’s an intermediate course or something like that, and then there is an advanced course. He encouraged everyone, but he was honest enough to tell them, “Look, there’s a journey at every level.

It’s important to celebrate where you are, but don’t get too distracted with where you are.” He says, “Arise and depart.”

You know what it means to depart, especially when you are not at a place of failure. It makes sense to rise and leave the place of failure. But if you have to rise and leave success for greater success, it is difficult.

There are many people today who began to lose because they succeeded. Their losses began from the last time they succeeded.

A burning desire. I like it. Paul puts it beautifully speaking to the church in Philippi. He said, “This one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind.” He never said forgetting the bad things. He never said forgetting the disappointment. Provided there are things behind, whether they are yesterday’s trophy, whether they are yesterday’s success, once they are behind, he said, “Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching forth for the things that are before me.” Then he uses a beautiful word. He didn’t just say, “I desire.”

He said, “I press.” I press. Against gravity, but I press. Against popular opinion, [music] but I press. Never been done in my family, but I press. Never been done.

When Zechariah was met by the angel and they announced the soon arrival of John, and they said that his name would be called They said, “No, no, no, no, no. What kind of thing is this?” Zechariah’s mouth was shut, so he would not use the anointing to destroy the destiny [music] of the prophet because that will have an implication on Jesus. Hallelujah. And later on when they were about to search for the names, they said, “John.” They said, “No, no, no. We’ve not This kind of name is not used here.” And his mouth would not open till he agreed. Even though it was not It was not usual. When he wrote John without prayer, his mouth opened.

The fact that it’s not been done before does not mean it is wrong. Hallelujah. Somebody must always start something, a new order, a new dimension. I pray for you in the name of Jesus. Let the grace to pioneer new frontiers in the spirit, in life, in destiny, that grace be released upon you.

There were some things we never knew were possible in the body of Christ until someone believed God enough and took that step to press. A burning desire. A burning desire.

One of the ways you cultivate a burning desire is to examine the consequences of stagnation and stuntedness. When you examine the consequences of stagnation and stuntedness, it can help cultivate a burning desire in your heart.

Jesus said in John chapter 15, he says, “Every branch that does not bear fruit, I will cut off.” You know what Jesus did to a fig tree that did not produce? He didn’t advise it. He didn’t counsel it. That’s the epitome of love. The Bible says he cursed it, and it was not the time of figs, but provided it was connected to the earth, he said you should still justify the fact that you are receiving from the earth. And he cursed it. He said, “No man eat of you again.” And by the morrow it had withered. Jesus seemed to have zero tolerance for unfruitfulness. Zero. No excuses whatsoever.

Five loaf and two fish, he said, “Put the people down and feed them.” They said, “Master, don’t cause trouble. You finished a great crusade. Allow these people to quietly go home.” He said, “No, I won’t leave them that way.” Get them something to eat. They said, “Huh, even if it’s a year’s wages, we can’t have enough to feed these people.”

A burning desire. Many people do not have a burning desire to be anointed. Many people do not have a burning desire to damage ignorance. They have a casual, passive, replaceable desire. I think I am I don’t like where I am, but I’m not sure it’s particularly I know I’m not that prayerful, but I’m not the only one. We’re like that in our family.

Once you hear those kinds of statements, once you still have excuses, your desire is not strong enough.

You know, what pursues you determines how [music] you run.” If it’s a fly, you can wave your hands while you distract yourself, but when you hear the roar of a lion, you you run with the might of a warrior.

There are people running because of the awareness of the consequences. I know where I’m coming from. I know what it means if I don’t pray. I know what it means if I don’t fast. I know the temptations that destroyed those who went ahead of me. Once you have a burning desire, That you were given the option to be a priest onto the devil, and you ran from there. And so you know that this one is either I serve God or I serve the devil. Either ways one of them wants me. And since I ran away from one, I better plunge myself into the things of God. No wonder when people repent particularly from other religions into the Christian faith, you find out that their zeal, they are fervent because they know what they left behind.

I’m praying for you in the name of Jesus that God will open your eyes to see the destinies connected to you. That God will open up your eyes to see the lives that are connected to your obedience. That your saying yes means the arrival of many people in their place of destiny. [music] And whatever stagnates you, I decree and declare may it give way now.

It’s a burning desire that drives you to pray until you break through. It’s a burning desire that makes you buy books instead of clothes. The clothes can wait. Let me dress my mind before my body. My body should not look finer than my mind because my mind will strip my body of what it’s wearing now. Hallelujah.

• Number two. The second price that you have to pay if you want to ascend, if you want to rise to an enviable place in life and destiny, is the price of transformation.

The price of transformation. Contending for superior belief systems. The price for transformation. I cannot say this enough. The price for transformation.

One of the greatest investments you can make in your life, second only to your relationship with Jesus Christ, is an investment to host a superior belief system. An investment to host a superior belief system.

There is what we call a winner’s mentality. And there is what we call a loser’s mentality.

1. When people win, there is a mindset called a winner.
2. There is a mindset called a loser.
3. There is a mindset called an unbeliever.
4. There is a mindset called a vibrant Christian.
5. There is a mindset called an illiterate.
6. There is a mindset called a professor.
7. There is a mindset called a mediocre.
8. There is a mindset called a champion.

It’s just that the bearers of the mindset are those we credit those names to. But what really qualifies them is the mindset.

1. When you call someone a thief, you are naming a kind of mindset.
2. When you call someone diligent, you are naming a kind of mindset.
3. When you call someone vibrant spiritually, you are naming a kind of mindset.
4. When you say someone is disciplined, you’re not just describing a personality. You are tagging a person to a mindset.
5. Laziness is a mindset.
6. Discipline is a mindset.
7. Spiritual vibrancy is a mindset.
8. Laxity spiritually is a mindset.

I’m saying it again that second only to your relationship with Jesus, the greatest investment I know that you can make is evolving yourself through knowledge to the most superior version of you at any point in your destiny.

The version of you that receives your assignment is not the version that can fulfill it. Impossible. There are two versions there at least. Just because the version of you was developed enough to receive the assignment does not mean it will fulfill it. There needs to be that intellectual evolution, spiritual evolution. You have to change, mold I call it, into a more superior version, a stronger version, more emotionally intelligent version, more psychologically stable version.

Most believers do not know that it is their responsibility to use the word of God and to develop for the sake of their destiny what we call a winner’s mentality, a mentality that insists on the word till it works.

Now, when I talk about superior beliefs, I would always note this. I’m not just talking about being more Western. Being Western does not mean being superior in your belief system. Being more technological does not mean being more [music] superior. You can still be a more sophisticated confused person. It’s just that your own falsehood and confusion is more technological. It’s more relatable, but it’s still confusion.

When I talk about a superior belief system, I measure it with respect to the word compliancy of your understanding, not just how Western you are.

You can leave the village and go to Europe and in terms of exposure, you may have improved, but in terms of your worldview, in terms of your understanding the laws of life, you are still as weak as someone who never saw light. A winner’s mentality.

There is a loser’s mentality, a belief system based on lies, a belief system-based on deception, a belief system based on opinions.

There are essentially about five ways that mindsets are formed.

1. Number one, your background or your history.
   The first way your mindset is formed or framed is your background or your history, your upbringing and every experience.
2. Number two, the second way mindsets are built is your culture, your culture.
   If you’re Yoruba, there is a way you were trained to look at life. If you’re Igbo, there is a way you were trained to look at life. If you’re Hausa, there’s a way you were trained to look at life. You are an American, an European, a Caribbean, there is a way culture shapes you to look at life. And a part of it is wonderful, great, especially the part that has to do with respect, moral excellence, etc. But there are certain subtle but destructive ways. That culture can shape and mold you to look at life in a way that insists you always lose.
3. Number three, mindsets are formed from our past experiences. You call it your past.
   Your past can do something to you that does not allow you to be a winner all the time. Number four, very quickly, your level of exposure. Your mindset is predicated on your level of exposure at any given time. To be exposed means that you are aware of what else is there. You broaden your horizon beyond your current scope. Exposure is powerful, especially when it is a healthy exposure.

Exposure. You need to know what else is there. You need to know who else is there. You need to know what else God is doing. Hallelujah. It’s one of the greatest blessings, in my opinion, of profitable travels. It creates exposure. But thanks to technology, if you don’t have the privilege to travel, your mind can travel for you. The internet has given people access. It’s literally taken off the barrier.

You don’t need a visa for your mind to travel. Traveling to spaces and depths where you can learn things. You may not be there physically, but your mind can travel. And one thing I’ve learned, anywhere your mind gets to, it will drag your body there eventually. It’s not the embassy that gives you a visa. Many times it’s your mind. Let it go there and it will break every barrier, including the sentiments of embassies and whatever, in a very mysterious way. It’s a law.

If your body’s refusing to go somewhere, leave it behind. Let your mind get there. Once your mind gets there, it will drag your body inevitably to get there. I tell you this. It’s an advantage if both of them go together, but they seldom go together. Usually, the mind will go and spy the land and return back and tell the body, “I’ve seen it. Let’s go.” You can be in the state of poverty, in a state of nothingness, let your mind go. Your mind will explore virgin dimensions in destiny, the place of the great, the place where no fowl has gone to, the webs of the lion has not gotten there. It will come back and take your body. I am telling you.
It’s difficult to get where your mind has not gotten there first. Your mind will be the first person to get there, then it will drag your body there.

Your belief system is your official contribution to your failing or succeeding in life. Not just what you do. What you believe is your official contribution to your becoming a failure or your becoming a success. Meaning, if you fail in life perpetually, your contribution to that failure, yes, the devil may be there. Yes, parents may be there, but your own contribution to your failing is offering your mindset to be misused by the devil. If you succeed in life, yes, it’s the grace of God. It’s the mercy of God. But your contribution to your becoming, to your rising, to your thriving is the investment of a healthy belief system. It is true.

For as he thinketh in his heart, See that? As mighty as God is, a man can limit God in his life. A man can limit God in his church. A man can limit God in his business. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

Jesus did not just win because he was the son of God. He won because he paid the price to invest in building a superior belief system. When Satan came to him, he said, “It is written.” He didn’t say, “I think.” He didn’t say, “They say.” He didn’t say, “What is trending?” He said, “It is written.”

It is written is greater than I saw. It is written is greater than I heard. It is written is greater than they said. It is written is greater than this is what is trending. Forever, oh Lord, your word is settled.

Build your life around opinions and you watch it crumble when civilizations change. But build it on the word, the storms can come, the flood, the rain, and it will stand like the house that is built on a rock. Your mindset.

Don’t tell me what you believe. Your mindset will tell me. Don’t say I believe in victory. No, allow your mindset do the speaking. Eventually, your mindset will tell me if you believe in victory or otherwise.

If your confession betrays your reality perpetually, then I know that something is wrong. There is a conflict between your belief system. You see that now? The price of a superior belief system.

Vision is a product of that software. Consistency is a product of that software.
And if the mindset does not change, the body is a merciless errand person. The body just is an executor of a belief system.

You never change people until you change that software. Once you have not worked on that software, change your clothes, it’s the same driver that will lead you to the mud.  Mindset.
Whatever your mindset is looking for, you will find it.” If your world is full of chaos and anarchy, you are right. If your world is full of victory and order, you are right. You will still find it within the system. It’s my responsibility to train my mind on what to find.
– When I enter a land, I find God.
– When I enter a land, I find relationships.
– When I enter a land, I find opportunities.

I don’t go around looking for the devil. No, I don’t go around looking for failure. You will find it. When I enter a church, I look for peace, [music] not conflict. If you look for conflict, you will find it. Isn’t it amazing that there are people, once they enter [music] a place, they gravitate to a group. They don’t know what moves them there. They step into a church, and immediately they join the troublemakers. They don’t know why. It’s a mindset. Something about your disposition fights peace. It is comfortable only when there is conflict. So, when you go where they are praying, you say, “No, no, something must be wrong in this church.” And someone said, “You know, deep calls onto deep.” It’s true. It’s true.

This is the intellectual GPS system of your destiny. If you find yourself in a wrong location, don’t blame your legs. It only obeyed. The mindset took it there. Lay your hands on your head in 1 minute. And say, “Father, in the name of Jesus. I contend for a superior belief system.” Someone is praying, particularly on a day like this. I contend.

Please take this one seriously. Take this one very seriously. Belief systems. There is a mindset that can pastor a congregation of 100 and stop there, no matter how you pray and fast. Even if you see in your visions that you’re leading a great ministry like this, that mindset You see, let me tell you this. When you try to get results that are inconsistent with your mindset, right?
There is a principle And this is a principle in psychology. It’s called the principle of cybernetics. It’s the same principle that an airplane uses to remain in its trajectory. Those of you who are pilots or conversant with everything aviation. So, when a plane is moving from where it is to its final destination, When it’s locked in, there is a trajectory it must follow. Now, occasionally it will delve. When it moves beyond a certain angle, the principle of cybernetics will kick in and return it back to its course. That’s how your mindset is.

So, there is a mentality you have, and there is [music] a rule in your life. Don’t rise beyond 10 million. The day 50 million kicks in, is a law God created. Your mindset will send a beep to your destiny that an error has happened to this man. He has possessed a reality greater than his mindset. It will alter your behavior to start behaving in a way that brings depletion until you get back to the amount consistent with your belief. Then your body now says, “Normal.” That’s why there are people promotion is useless to them, because their mindset does not interpret that they’ve been promoted. They complain and say it’s the economy. Double their money, something will still happen to them. It will appear like a series of coincidences, but there is an exact spiritual law that governs it. It’s not carelessness. The shirt began to assume the state of their mindset. This is a research that has been done. I’m not just speaking. Oh, yeah. It’s true. It’s true. It’s true.

To be educated is part of the process of transformation, but it is not transformation.
You can be educated, meaning you have stored useful information in your mind. To be educated is like buying rice and dropping it in your house as a bag of rice. It doesn’t mean you will be fed. It’s only that the potential to be fed is now within your domain. If you don’t open the rice and know how to combine it, you can have 10 bags of rice. Call it your degree, call it your master’s, and I’m not insulting [music] it. And put it there and see we die in of poverty. And when you are long dead, they find a lot of rice in your house. Who is learning?
The real miracle is not deliverance from demons. The real miracle is deliverance from thoughts and belief systems. It With one word, you can cast out a demon spirit, and it leaves.
But you cannot cast out ignorance. You must invest it, because ignorance is not a demon. You don’t cast it out with one pronouncement. You invest a replacement and a teaching. Oh, yes, a replacement. It will take a replacement, sir. It will take a replacement.

The Bible says about the law of replacement that you will never are able to gain dominion in a place until you overcome the current force that is there.

It says, “When a man greater than he, when a thought greater than he” If failure is the king of your mindset, it will occupy your space and your universe. But when another thought, more word compliant, more superior, more destiny defining as it arrives, there is warfare, a warfare of thoughts.

Let me tell you this, getting transformation is real warfare. You are fighting against ancient thoughts, the thoughts that made your father a failure, transferred sincerely to you, the thoughts that made your mother a failure, the thoughts that made territories failures.
Let me tell you this. It is very easy for demon spirits to hold a territory sway. They don’t hold it by attacking everybody one by one. They hold it by creating a mindset and selling that mindset like a software to everybody, then assigning spirits to become protectors of that mindset. That’s what is called a stronghold.

A stronghold is a faulty belief system that has demon spirits protecting it to keep the victim perpetually thinking that way. Is somebody learning? Yes, sir. If this is all you get today, wishing for a great tomorrow. Mindsets.

Number three, the third price. The next time people tell you, “You are really lucky.” Open your notebook and say, “Sit down. Let me show you how luck works. That I was here at Advance and I learned the keys. I want to show you how lucky I am. Lucky to be attentive. Lucky to listen. Cry, but listening. Tired, but listening. And these are the keys that spell my definition of luck.”. Yes, sir.

• What is the third price to ascend? To explore new territories. To rise to greater dimensions. The price of building and attracting strategic relationships.

The price for building and attracting. Please underline those two words. I use my words very carefully. Building and attracting strategic relationships.

Now, generally speaking, when we teach on relationships as a concept, there are three levels.

1. Your relationship with God,
2. Your relationship with men,
3. and your relationship with things.

Your relationship with God, your relationship with men, and your relationship with things. You have to learn relationship at these three levels.

Most times, people only focus on relationship at the level of men.

No. You need to know how to relate with God for your victory. You need to know how to relate with men, and you need to know how to relate with things.

You can know how to relate with men efficiently but not know how to relate with things.

Did you ever read about a man in the Bible called the rich fool? He did not know how to relate with things.

The Bible says, “Love not the world, neither the things.” So, the things also matter to God.

There is a way you can love the things of this world. It’s from the word eros, where you get the word lost. An ungodly and an unhealthy affinity and attachment that is destructive towards things.

1. You must know how to relate with money.
2. You must know how to relate with material possessions in a way that they don’t own you. This thing comes by training. Hallelujah.

But let me say this, ladies and gentlemen, the truth of the matter is that the word be fruitful also means be relational. Because both biology and spirituality teaches us that fruitfulness at any level is a product of relationships.

Look at this. A dot cannot become a line because it is one point. But once you put another dot, you can now draw a line. A line is defined, watch this, as two connecting dots. At least two. Am I right on that? You cannot draw a line. Mathematics, geometry. You cannot draw a line with a dot. It remains alone. But once you add another dot, now there comes a point, regardless of the circumference, you can draw a straight line.

Your destiny as is at the mercy of the relationships that formed it. Your destiny is as expensive as the bankruptcy of your relationships.

If you do not have strategic relationships, your destiny might become so expensive, you may not be able to afford it. It’s true.

Let me say a word or two very quickly about relationships. There is what we call blessed by association.

I preached that message many years ago, that a man can be blessed by association. Say that after me. Blessed by association. One more time.

The Bible says God called Abraham. He never said God called Lot. But he makes a profound statement. He said, “And Lot went with him.” And Lot went with him. That was it. And Lot went with him. And the ignorant man followed a wise man. Lot went with him.

Thank you. Praise God. And Lot went with him. Relationships are very powerful.

I define relationships as advantageous connections that are profitable to all the parties involved. Advantageous connections. It has to be advantageous. If it’s a connection that is disadvantageous, it’s not considered a relationship. It can be considered a threat. If an armed robber joins himself to you with a gun, that’s not a relationship. That’s a threat. So, it must be an advantageous connection that is profitable to all the parties that are involved.

Now, let me tell you a few things I’ve learned about relationship very quickly. Relationships are bridges. Particularly for our dear students, please hear me. Relationships are bridges. They lead you from where you are to a place of decline, or from where you are to the place of destiny.

If you find someone leaves where he or she is to a better place in life and destiny, the bridge that took them there is called a relationship. If you find someone declined spiritually, morally, financially, I can tell you a relationship helped make that happen.

Remember the story of the prodigal son? He never spent the money alone. There were advisers who were initiating his rebellion. He did not just go on his own to say, “My father.” He had friends. The Bible says those guys were nameless, but they were their effect was on him. He told the father, “Look, I’m of age.” And the father said, “Have you considered- Yes, I’ve considered it. Give me my

The Bible says as soon as the guy collected that thing, those guys were there. They helped him to spend it riotously. And when they did, you can use the prodigal son’s template to know why your finances is depleting. Find out what he did with his money and don’t do it. Because he had the money, and then he began to do certain things with friends, and depletion started until he became like, you know, a servant feeding swine.

And do you know, the Bible tells us, or well, the Bible does not tell us, but we can see there that none of the friends were there when he was feeding with the swine. Do you know where they left? Can you guess where they went to? The next person. After they left him, there was a day they said it looks like this man has is famished. There’s no money again. Let’s start.

Those who helped destroy you don’t intend to destroy you alone. There are many other people in the list. You are just their focus for now. So, as they flatter you, don’t get carried away. The same thing they are telling you, they are telling 10 other people. Relationships.

I think I said it in this church one time that relationships are a stream of income. The next time you are writing your stream of income, real estate, write relationships. And don’t laugh at yourself while you do that.

The easiest way to succeed is to join a chariot of wise people. Even if you don’t know where you are going, the chariot can help you get there while you figure out where you are going. There are people today whose financial level is not a reflection of their transformation. It’s the leverage of the relationships they were part of.

I’m praying for you. May your life be a leverage to others. Say amen. That someone can say I seem to be a failure in life, but since I joined myself to you, there are doors. Doors, you become a door that can open up the destinies of many.

Many of you have immersed yourself in this program now learning. Only God can tell the things you have learned and the quality of decisions. You see, the justification of wisdom is the superiority of decisions that come from the standpoint of wisdom.

I know you have learned by the quality of the decisions you will now take because decisions define destiny. The value of wisdom is that it helps to inform your decision to improve your decision-making ability so that you make wiser destiny-defining decisions. If wisdom does not translate into a more superior decision-making process, then you did not learn.

The real profit of wisdom is in its ability to upgrade your capacity to make decisions. Relationships.

Let me charge everybody here. If you say you don’t have a friend, thank God you are in a ministry that has the grace over relationships. And I’m not just talk Let me tell you this. If your only relationship is marriage relationship, you’re in trouble.

Now, I don’t talk so much about marriage and all of that. Everybody abide in his calling. You don’t find me there but let me tell you this. A time will come when I will talk about it. But I can tell you.

Now, Listen. But I will tell you this much. I will tell you this much. If the only relationship you have in your life is a marital relationship, get ready to cry many tears in your life because marriage was not designed to solve all emotional problems.

There are certain levels of emotional comfort that should come from your relationship with Jesus.

1. Only Jesus can give you that level of comfort.
2. There is a certain level of comfort that comes from finding purpose.
3. There’s a certain level of comfort that comes from growth.
4. Then there is a certain level of comfort that comes from your spouse.

If you leave Jesus, leave purpose and now expect your spouse to fulfill all the emotional needs that only Jesus will bring, that purpose will bring, you will overwhelm the person because the assignment, your husband or your wife was not supposed to take the place of Jesus, purpose, destiny. Marriage does not solve all emotional problems.

And if you fail in every other area, then use marriage as a healing process and you now dump every emotional need on marriage, it will never be enough, no matter how yielded your spouse is. Hallelujah.

But let me tell you this. Take me serious when I say you must There has to be someone who likes you. And it is your assignment to have a profitable relationship in your life. Not marital relationship alone. Destiny relationships.

Even Satan has men who believe in him. So, you cannot say everybody hates me. There are people who believe in the devil.

There are people who believe in Jesus. I pray for you in the name that is above all names.  The relationships needed for the next level of your life, may God connect you strategically. [music] Who is receiving it as a as a prophetic word?

The relationships that are needed for this next level of your life, in the name that is above all names, I release grace upon you. May you find those relationships. Everything in life advances on the basis of relationship.

• The fourth key, which doubles as the fourth price, if you want to ascend, advance, make progress in life, is the price of spiritual warfare. The price of spiritual warfare. The price of spiritual warfare. 1 Corinthians 16 and verse 9.

A great door with every great door, a door talks of opportunities. A new season. The Bible says a great door and an effectual is opened before me and there are many adversaries.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are giants on every mountain. There is no mountain that is void of giants. The fact that there are giants there does not mean it is not your possession. You have to learn how to arise and fight. You fight to displace the giants before you enjoy the milk and the honey that is in the land.

In Luke chapter 8 from verse 22 to 28, the Bible says while Jesus deciding to go to the other side, there arose a great storm of wind. Remember? As they launched forth, there was a great storm of wind. But the presence of the storm did not mean they were in the wrong direction. It’s one thing you have to learn.

It’s one thing you have to discover that the presence of storms does not mean you are wrong or in the wrong direction. In fact, in many regards, I must tell you the presence of storms sometimes mean that you are in the right direction. And when there is excessive quiet, it may mean it’s because you are not going anywhere.

The reason why the storm arose was because they were going forward. The presence of storms does not mean you are wrong. It doesn’t mean the decision is wrong. Sometimes adversaries and storms confirm that you are in the right direction. And so you fight.

Someone shout fight. No, Say fight. Fight. In the name of Jesus Christ.

The price of spiritual warfare. You need to fight. Oh, you need to fight. There is a fight of faith to break through. There is a fight of faith contending against limiting thoughts, contending against territorial spirits.

Because you prepare for battles when there is peace, not when there is trouble. When there is trouble, you cannot go to the market and buy what you need. You prepare when there is peace.

Let me encourage anybody here. You may have heard it say to my people, “Fight your battles with honor. Never be ashamed of your battle. Let others laugh while you fight. Fight it with honor. What trapped down your father, what trapped down your mother, what trapped down people there. Oh, Apostle, marriages don’t work. Fight. Ministry doesn’t work. Fight. Spiritual life doesn’t work. Fight. And while you are fighting, don’t mind the naysayers.

Can I tell you the truth? Most of those who are mocking you are also admiring you. They are admiring your stamina. They are admiring what you are doing that they are unable to do. Fight. Fight.

I made up my mind and I prayed a prayer. I said, “Lord, every battle I inherited, in the name of Jesus, grant me grace to fight and establish that victory in my life and in my lifetime.”

I don’t have time being ashamed of my battles. I fight. I don’t have the energy to explain my battles. I’m busy fighting. Don’t ask me to explain my battles. I’m fighting. Wait for the victory. There will always be a story.

Imagine if Jesus had to explain to everybody saying, “Now, just to let you know that I’m on my way I’m on my way to Golgotha and don’t think that I’m a sinner. Just to let you know, look, it’s a long story. I can’t start explaining. I know that it’s sinners that carry the cross, but I want to tell you that I’m innocent. You can see Jesus would not have died. He set his face like a flint.

Believe all you can believe, my results will explain it later. To explain it later. Is someone learning? That pressure to always want to explain yourself is why you fail.

Oh, I know you are about to hear something about me, but let me just say before it arrives, um it’s not me.

Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, victors are too busy.

You don’t explain your story on the journey. You explain your story when you win.

We live in a generation that is so emotionally fragile. The pressure to explain yourself to everybody. Don’t get me wrong, there are stakeholders in your life who deserve to take inventory of your progress, but not everybody is a stakeholder. You are accountable to the stakeholders in your life and no one else.

I pray for you. Be delivered from the pressure to explain yourself to everybody.

Can I tell you this? In life and destiny, be guided by three things.

1. One, the fear of the Lord.
2. Number two, conscience.
3. Number three, posterity.

Once you are guided by this, fire your life on all four cylinders. The fear of the Lord, conscience, posterity. But there’s a warfare dimension to life, my brothers and my sisters. There is a fight of faith. At every level.

Next time you hear God saying there is a door that is open, don’t just wear a nice cloth, get a warrior’s armor. Because as soon as you open that door, the first thing you will meet is not milk and honey. The first thing you will meet are giants. Bring them down, then you can eat of the milk and honey.

I pray for you. The grace of a warrior. Some of you need to return back to the place of prayer because you are in a prophetic season. You war with messages like this, you don’t just rejoice, you war with them. That Satan has seen that a great door and an effectual is about to be opened for you, for your wife, for your children, he will fight. He will use anything, sickness, wrong relationships.

It’s your assignment to fight. Someone say, “I will fight.” Say in the name of Jesus, “I obtain grace to fight.”

Just when God is opening a door, a husband and a wife begin to fight unnecessarily, unreasonably, over matters petty matters, digging up issues that were I can tell you it’s not a marriage issue. There is a reaction in the spirit that a door is about to open and the unity of the couple is needed, needed for that breakthrough. And you find How many of you have invested in the place of prayer and you find out people are just annoying you. The devil is trying to trigger something. He wants to waste that prayer moment because you are receiving something mighty and once you abort that process, the antagonisms will die down. Learn how he works.

There are many contentions that are not about the human actors. It’s a reaction from the spirit. A mantle is coming. A grace is coming. A door is opening. A dimension is opening up. And the devil begins to trigger everything that can allow demons access to your life. Anger, pain, you begin to get gaslighted by everybody. Your boss becomes petty and sarcastic. Your spouse becomes petty and sarcastic. It’s not a spouse problem. It’s not a children’s problem. I’m telling you it’s a reaction from the realm of the spirit fighting you and you must fight back. Warfare.

• Number five, the prophetic advantage. The prophetic advantage.

You want to ascend, you want to go forward, you need the prophetic. Exodus 14:14-15. Exodus 14 and verse 14.

The broader way of looking at this really is the ministry of the Holy Ghost. And there are many aspects to it, but I will select the prophetic dimension just to wrap up my discourse this [music] morning. Exodus 14:14. The Lord shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace. Verse 15. And the Lord said unto Moses, “Wherefore criest thou unto me?” He said, “Speak.” What did he say to do? So you can speak to go forward. Not just move to go forward.

There is a dimension of going forward that is speaking dependent. He said, “Speak that they go forward. Speak that the door opens. Speak that the relationships come. Speak that they go forward.”

Someone say, “I speak.” To my destiny be open. Say, “I speak.” To my destiny, open up. I speak to my life, go higher. Go forward. Advance. Make progress. Say, “I speak that I am the head and not the tail.” Say, “I speak that I am above and not beneath.” Say, “I speak that 2026 is a great year.”

Say, “I speak that I ascend.” Say, “I speak that I’m victorious.” Now shout, “Speak.”

There is a prophetic dimension. Let me wrap up with this. There is a prophetic dimension to being victorious. For every prayer that will be prayed here today, ladies and gentlemen, obtain the grace to pray it.

And for the rest of your life, know that when it has to do with advancement and ascendancy, you use your mind, you use your feet, but you also use your words.

Learn to speak. Speak when it is comfortable. Speak when it is uncomfortable. Speak when doors are closed. Speak when doors are open. Speak when you are alone. Speak when you are in the midst of people. Speak when you are laughing. Speak when you are crying. Speak when there is peace. Speak when there is war.

The secret to your advancement, never-ending advancement, among these things that I’ve taught you, is to speak. May God bless you. May God increase you. In Jesus’ mighty name we pray.

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