You don’t pray out Evil.
You also do not pray out Mindset.
A fighter when he is down, struggles to get up.
Those are the people God is looking for.
He is not looking for lazy minded people who easily give up.
When a pastor travels abroad, he cannot preach because he can’t tell a white man that his wife is the cause of his failure. That message will not sell
It only works here in Africa because we are lazy.
We are unproductive in this country because we are lazy.
My prayer today is that We will be able to conscript ideas and make them reality
Jesus saw Peter was hard-working and Called him.
After he finish preaching,He asked Peter to cast his net to the sea.
When peter cast his net into the sea, the catch was so large that he needed assistance.
if not laziness, we shouldn’t have follow up department in the Church because the Muslim have no such preaching and yet they are thriving.
A dying Alhaji will not call an Afar to pray for him without setting a ram aside.
But in Christainity, they expect the Church to pay and pray for them..
When you are asked who you are, It means there is an explanation that needs to be given about your personality.
There are several discoveries that have been made in this world but none is as great as self discovery.
it is a question of identity to be asked Who you are.
If you are asked Who you are, what are you going to say.
Some of you don’t even know who you are.
You have been told so many negative or positive things about yourself that you are not sure who you are anymore.
Jesus was one man that never had identity crisis.
Psalm 40:7
John the baptist never had identity crisis until towards the end of his life.
Hebrews 10:7
People backslide because of Identity Crisis.
Most times, much of the evil we commit is a result of search of Validation.
Most people, especially ladies have identity Crisis.
Until you know who you are, you cannot be useful to God or yourself.
Matt.16.13 - When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Matt.16.14 - And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Matt.16.15 - He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Matt.16.16 - And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Matt.16.17 - And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Jesus didn’t say that Peter was going to be the foundation of the Church.
Peter is the small rock and Jesus is the big rock on which the Church is built.
We need to be clear on who we are in the World before we can be effective.
The seven sons of sciva wanted to perform miracles like the apostles.
They met a possessed man and tried to cast out the demons. The demons replied by telling them that they knew Jesus, Paul and Peter but didn’t know them ( the seven sons of sciva) and with that the demons beat them up and stripped them naked.
No demon will know you until you know yourself. It is a terrible thing to try to venture out all in the name to do God’s work and come back a failure. Unless you are deep in the word, you will not know if you are driven by vision or by ambition
Reverse Psychology is doing what your parents did even though you didn’t want to do it.
_How do you save yourself from having that behavior?_
It is to deepen your knowledge and be Caring for those who are victims
Care for your parents, don’t withdraw from them.
Ananais and Saphira were driven by ambition, by lust but they had good hearts.
We should be warned ahead of time to know the difference between Vision and ambition.
If every one of us keep to our lane and do our jobs, the church will grow.
Every Christain has his uniqueness
Find you, Find your uniqueness.
Until you know who you are, you will be chasing other people’s vision.
Why are marriages breaking up?
Marriages are breaking up because we try to model our marriage like the ones we watch on soap operas.
*You don’t know yourself, you lose everything.*
Who are you?
If you don’t know who you are, you try to impress everybody.
If Jesus didn’t know who he was, he would have vowed down to worship Satan.
And we won’t be alive if Jesus didn’t know who he was.
It is people that didn’t know who they are that will try to impress other people.
If you are given Ten thousand dollars, the first thing you will buy is a car.
This is identity crisis. You are trying to impress People. Unless you are buying the car as and asset or as a liability.
Anytime you try to impress you get depressed.
If you fight with a pig, you will get dirty and the pig will be happy because it has dragged you into the mud with him.
If you don’t know who you are, you will always try to prove a point.
Never try to prove a point.
Luke.16.10 – He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
What are we trying to prove?
Do you know some people rent an expensive car just to show up
Stop impressing people or else you will get depressed.
John 1:6-8, 19-28
John.1.6 - There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John.1.7 - This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.
John.1.8 - John himself was not the light; he was only a witness to the light.
John.1.19 - And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
John.1.20 - And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
John.1.21 - And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
John.1.22 - Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
John.1.23 - He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
John.1.24 - And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
John.1.25 - And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John.1.26 - John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
John.1.27 - He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
John.1.28 - These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
1)John the baptist was so powerful that even when he was beheaded by Herod and Jesus ministry rose, Herod could not believe that another person could be as powerful as John
2) John was so powerful that he never wrote any book, his ministry was not in an air conditioned room,
never wore designer clothes, never invited anybody but people was coming to hear him. As harsh as the message of John was, his Church didn’t reduce.
John could have come out and claim to be the Messiah, but he didn’t do it because he knew who he was.
Do you know who you are?
Can you stay on your lane?
Can you maintain your position?
How many of us will rise to become a governor and still attend this kind of Church?
John stayed on his lane because he knew who he was
If you don’t know who you are, you can’t confront demons.
You carry something..
Job 1:10
Job didn’t know that there was a hedge of protection around him, if he knew, he wouldn’t have lost all he had.
There are some of you that carry fire but it has no heat.
To be a fiery furnace, you need to pray daily for Equipment.
Everyone here has a calling.
A calling to fulfil destiny..
PJC 