Your Prayers Aren't Working Because You're Praying Against Open Doors

Nothing has shifted. It's like your prayers goes on death ears like you know like as if you are saying God Did you hear me? It's not because God ignored you But it's because something in the system is locked Something in the system is locked. I Mean you you even obeyed when God asked you To do certain things and and as you obeyed You say mother God. I I have listened to you Yet nothing changes What is it? You know, you know like Sometimes when when when things happen in your life There's a transition in your life where you need to go to the next level Suddenly you don't feel worthy For that next level Suddenly you feel like no, no, no I'm not I'm not worthy. Let's let's make an example. You get a promotion at work And and for some reason the promotion at work is not It's not feeling all right for you all these things that you're going through It's a transition Time and This transition moving you to your next level suddenly your inner being tells you it's wrong So all these things you've been going through and I mean Sometimes it's not that but you see somebody else who doesn't pray as hard as you pray Who doesn't go to church more often than what you go to church? And sometimes you think but this one is swearing a lot of times and You you're seeing all the wrong they do and yet you feel like mother God Why are you stalling in my life? Why are you not moving forward in my life? Why is it that that person or this person or that one you see so all these things? Comes to mind and you feel your but it's not fair You're not even rebellious like some of them are you know when when somebody is rebellious You know when I wanna what I talk about rebellious like somebody God tells them To go to Nenefi They still don't want to go so all this Makes you to feel like you're you're What is it And your faith is high you you don't you're not faithless You have faith in God your faith is only on God Your faith is not like some people who says Some people who says ah mother God is not for me. He doesn't work in my life and yet They are prospering you call them. What is that one? The people of atheist is atheist the one that doesn't believe in God Imagine Some of them are even more prosperous than you so you start Each mother why why why this why that? So the questions that you have is more frequently coming too many of us are fighting for doors to open Few know The doors are already opened opened with past tense Few of us know that God already opened doors. He doesn't always Tell you the door is open. It's our Disobedience that makes us not to go through the door He said I have said before you An open door and yet You are awaiting for the open door Your prayer is God open the door But yet nothing happened because there's inaction from your side Your disobedience Made you not to know that the door is already open and the worst part of it Is that you do see the door open, but you don't thank God for open doors And that is the reason why the most of the time our Usaimans on down by it Ungrateful does say thank you possible your ungrateful ways of being ungrateful is the reason why the systems that has been said there and Yet your prayers is against them Yet your prayers is against them. I Mean, how can you pray for an open door? But yet not know that an open door goes with obedience where God said I said before you God gave you so many answers. He said this net in Romans Way, he said I But I'm trying to get the scripture correctly Let me Where's my Bible really that good? Oh, I think let me go there Let's go to Romans 10 I'm worried. I'm going to say it incorrectly Who's a man? I'm going to read it incorrectly. I want to I want to see it as what the Bible is saying The Romans 10 no man, not Roman. Sorry, John 10 was 10. Sorry This Matthew thank you much This is what he says now the thief comment not But for to steal and to kill and to destroy You hear what he says the thief comment not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy now he came he says I am I Am come that they might have life and that they might have life in more abundantly you see Now when he said that Then in another scripture he said before you life and death You see so what is the what is the reason for setting it before you? it's for you to show obedience as to which one you choose because although he said it that he said before you life and death He also go as far as to say to you that But yet I want you to choose life So it's almost as if I can say he give you an order to choose life but the system that he used is Sometimes the same thing that we pray against So when we pray let our enemies be scattered the question is the enemies that is scattered Didn't he say sometimes in? Exodus 14 verse 14 I I so much want I so much want to To say the thing as I have it in my mind, but sometimes my mind can play To a to a different way. I'm saying it and when I say the different way It makes a different sense. It says that the Lord shall not not he will He shall fight for you and he shall hold your peace. So what it means is that Whenever there's a fight For you is to be obedient in a sense of saying that God Mara didn't you say you will fight for me? Why is it? These are the things that we should know Now I want to go to to something and From what what I've spoken about you could hear where I'm going to number one is obedience So when the Bible says He talked about obedience He says obedience is better Than sacrifices what it means is that whatever you are doing On your own a God It's not necessary to do it Just obey what God is asking you to do so when you pray When you pray God I have been giving my my brother the water every day Whenever he feels thirsty Did he ask you to do it? Was it part of his? Did he command you let me say that way yeah, did he ask you to do it Because if he didn't ask you to do it It means that there's still a disobedience because remember This obedience is not Something That when God says do not kill You go and kill It's not always that It's the things that you don't do and he's requesting you to do is also disobedience Like like I'm just making an example where the Bible says that You need to go to the widows the orphans and the homeless and support them Sometimes you see a homeless and in your mind the only thing that goes through your mind This one looks like he's on drugs Do you know that? When somebody is hungry Even drugs Can't Win the battle between hunger and drugs Drugs and and hunger they can win. He will not go and spend on drugs He will rather use the bread. So when you give him bread the obedience in that is giving the bread and I want to Give you two weapons That we can fight the enemy in this new here The number one one is obedience Obedience Number one is obedience and number two is Thanksgiving This is two weapons that whenever the enemy is about to come to you You will use it. This is you can almost call it spiritual laws It's a spiritual law that the enemy can't help Let me let me say Thanksgiving. Thank you Let me talk about Thanksgiving first if you read some 100 verse 4 If you read some 100 verse 4 Thank you into his gates Where do you go you enter into his gates So what it means is when you come before the Lord You enter into his gates with Thanksgiving Then he says and into his courts with praise Be thankful to him and bless his name. I want to show you an ad This is this is not about emotion. This is not about emotion Nor is it About there's a word I'm looking for Okay, but let me let me leave that one but If you're talking about gates It means that gate is a something that gives an access control so only some will be able to go into that gate and When you go into that gate If you enter his gates with Thanksgiving It's a law that will open up the gate for you to go there if it makes sense Isn't it why someone goes into prayer and Starts wearing God's mother Yet he doesn't understand why why is his prayers not yet answered? I'm getting there. I'm getting there, please I'm not trying to Confuse you I'm just stating Scripture did you hear what I said I am stating scripture. I'm not changing the scripture I'm just saying When there's a gate, it means that there's a controlled access to that and then it goes on further it says and Into his courts now courts is is a legal Place that you go into so when you can enter his gates you have a legal right to be in his court and To open that you need to come in with Thanksgiving So when you come in with Thanksgiving Bah bah bah I think I think I need you to to understand something that I need you to understand something Wait, wait, wait, let me let me read read a scripture for you some quickly before I go further When you go to Romans 1, I want you to to read into in Romans 1 now Romans 1 Says the following Romans 1 21, sorry Romans 1 21 he says Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God Neither were thankful Did you hear he says neither were thankful but become vain in their Imagination and a foolish heart was darkened Did you hear that? Notice notice something there number one on Dumb are it Pastor help me ungrateful net ungrateful and the thinking is almost as if it's useless thinking and and and and it goes as Follow then it talks about Their hearts who was darkened is filled to is What the what the? What the scripture call it what you saw you will reap It's sewing and ripping If you are not if you don't know the Bible or don't like the Bible It's cause and effect. It's a cause whatever Let me say ungratefulness it's it changed the mindset it Darkens the mindset like it makes it hard to think Have you ever seen when when when somebody died and there's a world out Then when the world goes out They now read this one gets the house. This one gets the car that one get this that one get that somebody Will have a big thing, but yet Are so ungrateful because they wanted something else somebody get a house But they like the v6 more than the house the v6 valued at 300,000 the house valued at a million the ungratefulness Makes them to think that the v6 is better I'm just saying I'm just putting some perception or perspective sorry so that you can understand What I mean? But something that you should understand now God gave us a Choice between two things death or life you see There's also something that you should understand that In life as Much as there is good There's bad as well Now I need you to follow me. I need you to follow me I'm trying to say So that it doesn't Come to hash But let me let me spoke the words of job Do you know that job says isn't it that Whenever you take the good from God is the bad not also sharp I mean How would you be able to know? Something good if you have not seen something bad So gratitude is not always saying donkey real a boha Yeah, bong about no. It's not always the thank you. It's the seeing the best From the worst still that is What gratitude is? Although things is not sharp. I'm still thankful The worst part is it that you are looking at being sick More than the fact that Somebody just died yesterday This gratitude in that attitude of gratitude saying that wow, I'm still alive But because of your focus is so much on the bed You forgot There's some good. I hope you You are coming with me now The Hebrew word for Thanksgiving is toda Now toda it does not mean gratitude after victory. Can you see? This doesn't mean it's Only thanking God after you have won the victory No It means it's an acknowledgment before the outcome It's an acknowledgement you acknowledge that God wow Wow Thank you for still making sense What I can't make sense of it's like almost an agreement with God's authority ahead of the evidence You know like you you you you know God Will be able to do it You know it and You're already saying thanking him. There's a there's a prayer There's a prayer Somewhere in the New Testament Okay, no, no, let me let me not confuse myself big just now I I get to Because if I can't remember the scripture, it's no use. I I want to talk about it, but let me let me leave that one so This Thanksgiving is a toda. It's a it's a a pre Acceptance of God's greatness So you you already accept that God can do it and you already say thank you you already comes with a grateful heart and You say oh Thank you. I know you're going to do it Although my mind is coming against it. I know you're going to do it. So that is what toda means and remember Complaining shut this gates I'm talking about now Complaining shut the gate that you can't go into his courts when you complain It's a it's a key to lock the gate to the courts, you know Why why some of us our prayers don't get answered? We've prayed Raka shekere bo Saka Lara you played and you prayed and you prayed and you prayed You said God this kit of mine that doesn't want to hear what I'm saying or that doesn't want to do what I'm asking you have prayed and Suddenly, you don't understand why the prayers don't get answered. I Prayed for that new job God. I've prayed Prayer opens the excess but thanksgiving keeps it open It keeps it open because when when when when prayers when you've opened up the courts By the Thanksgiving it stays open. I mean Let's let's talk about Jesus. He gets scuffed in from Like small scuffed in from the lady small scuffed in For the guy like I mean if you are a kid and a grown-up Asking you for your scuffed in Jesus asked this guy fish for the scuffed in Fish for those who don't know scuffed in. Lunch box. Thank you, prophet Lunch box Now He says this as follows John 6 verse 11 and Jesus took the loaf and When he had given thanks He distributed them Before he can distribute he gave thanks first And when he gave things it's what multiplies this lunchbox Multiply it first. He gave thanks first and when he gave things Yo It was like it was it came into Sufficient the sufficiency You know like there's enough for everyone and Yo, it's not to say Thanksgiving Went and say Wow. Thank you for provision He said thanks first before provision There's a difference There's a difference if you Let me let me let me not get into this one, but let me let me ask you How many of you? Came to a point where you are so used to certain things Every morning there must be bread You are used to it. There were there will be bread. Let me rather say that way Not knowing that it's not because of there will be bread that there's always bread It's because somebody was thanking God for bread The daily bread and therefore it's multiplied You see it's like it's like we're getting so used to Certain things is there Until one day you will understand the significance of that It's to say thank you some 50 verse 23 says the following whoever offers praises glorify me and To him who orders his conduct a right I will show the salvation of God So here is two conditions. The one is praising which means it's to get it to give gratitude Sometimes our understanding of of gratitude is only by thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's not in. Thank you It's in way more than just a thank you. It's a way more than just a donkey You know when you read the Colossians 2 verse 7, this is what it says rooted and built up in him and established in the faith Then it goes on and he says abounding in it with thanksgiving Let me read the whole because I just I just Scribbled it Let me rather read the whole one so that you can understand when you go to Colossians. Yes Yeah, Colossians 2 It reads as follow 2 verse 7. Sorry rooted and built up in him and Establishing faith as ye have been taught. So can you see as ye have been taught? Abounding therein with thanksgiving. So I'm teaching you to Abound in that teaching I'm giving to you with thanksgiving now when Thanksgiving It shows here that it's not a result of fate The Thanksgiving here it and force the fate So when you say thank you, it's a belief you believe that it will be there So it Enforces you to have more faith Let me make an example. It's my birthday Thank you mommy that you from a party halfway That's it. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like you thanking your parents already Thank you for we're going to have a party You didn't ask you just say thank you. Do you know how it It pushes your parents to do something. I'm just giving you a tip I shouldn't have but Just remember this You know, there's a guy. There's a guy called a D Martini Dr. John D Martini, you must actually One day when you have a chance There's a book. I think he wrote something about Thanksgiving or thanks. Thank you or something. I can't remember He says whatever resist Whatever you resist persist. Do you know what I'm trying to say now? Whatever you resist like you don't It's what we call in in in in the times of the Israelites murmuring kept the Israelites in the wilderness So the more they murmured the more they were kept in the wilderness That's what they That's what they resist It kept on persist And when you're looking at numbers 14 He says how long shall I bear with the evil congregation who complained against me? That's a numbers 1427 So there the complaining did not anger God emotionally, huh? It locked them in the same perception Because they could only see Ah my god, you take us from the nice pot There you bring us to a pot here Why that pot? Is better Than the pot I am in now Not knowing the quills not knowing the mana that came every day But yet complaining about the pots that they left behind remember gratitude Is a weapon Gratitude is a weapon Number one what it does, right? It shuts down the accusations You know the accuser He stands there every day accusing you Do you know the accuser satan? He accuses you day and night before god But when you comes with gratitude it shuts down that accusations And when it when it shuts down accusation It restores the clarity So you can clearly see what you want it's like you No, no, no, let me make an example You can clearly see certain things in our lives We run after ghosts Like I want this car And I keep on Looking for this car The day when I get the car I realize it's not the car that i've been looking for I've chased after ghosts And now suddenly I realize ah, but this is not the car that I actually wanted. I hope you understand what i'm talking about because i'm trying to I'm trying to stay away from the direct thing that I want to say to you I'm looking for E09 keyboard Then when I get the E09 keyboard It doesn't have the pad that i'm looking for the pad sounds Now When I say thank you to god For what it has It gives me clarity on what I have That's what I mean by Gratitude and remember it gives the authority back to god Because you acknowledge god you are the one So the authority goes back to god and you thanking him Here is the scripture I was talking about and I couldn't remember it earlier on Paul writes in first Thessalonians 5 verse 18 in everything give thanks Did you hear what he says in everything he didn't say everything good Good or bad Give thanks Good or bad give thanks Regardless so in everything give thanks For this is the will of god in christ jesus for you Everything yo I didn't get the increase that I wanted In everything give thanks I've got an increase I didn't get the the the the position that I wanted Yes, give thanks Ah the christmas present my mom gave me. Oh what? It's not the one I wanted But give thanks I got something the way Let me leave it at that now Give thanks It's not because everything feels good. Ah, ah Just give thanks regardless feeling good or not Because gratitude also keeps you in alignment with the truth just remember Whenever we run through into some questions about being grateful or not There's some questions that you have to ask One of the questions is what is the benefit here? Like for argument's sake Something bad happened to me. I got into an accident When when I got into an accident My question was ish maragot This car bumped me You know, I walk across the street the car bumped me i'm not talking about this accident where I'm in the car. That one is in the car. We bump each other. Not that kind of accident. I'm talking about Ish maragot english is not englishing me, but it's also called an accident. I walk across the street the next thing I got bumped Then after that The benefit I got from there was that I needed to understand that By god's grace i'm still kept safe for my kids I could have died My wife could have uh had some Fat cook and cabbage and what would it would it have helped me? I mean what would have helped? My being dead that day my feminine I'm thankful i'm still alive I still have another chance That's the benefit of me walking out there A lot of scars. Yes It happened but it's important to ask the question Where is god? Or how do you say how is god working in this? Even though it's bad You know that that the one thing I can tell you sometimes what we want is not what we want Let me ask you do you think judas when he got the money He was all right judas He he wanted the 30 pieces of circle of silver He was after the money But when he got the money he was not happy Me So sometimes the things that you think that you want Might be the reason why god is not giving it to you because he knows it's going to be your suicidal Who's meant you're going to kill yourself the english That's what I want. I'm trying to say to them Some of the things that you do really want It might not be the things that you really want Or that you really are in need of And that is why your prayers are praying for a time while god knows that that car will be causing you to go to Places that is not necessary to go to Sometimes And i'm not saying all the time, please don't get me wrong god's perfect will Is for for giving thanks gift. Thanks sometimes many battles are existing because Our perception of things is too low Like you can't You don't understand the things And sometimes that battles Is because our emotions are too Charged up like they are too high your your your murmuring is too much That is why we are still staying in the in the the wilderness Sometimes that bad battles Is because we forgot who is the one that is on top Which is god that is why we keep on fighting and we Forget to go to the the exodus 14 verse 14 where he says keep your peace These are the things that we Yes Now I want to I want I don't I don't want to take too much on obedience But I want to give you a brief on obedience Deuteronomy 28 verse 1 says now It shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the lord your god Did you see he said if you diligently obey the voice of the lord Your god the lord Your god will set you high above all of All nations of the earth Why are you below is because of disobedience Why are you below No mara this guy he doesn't even know the lord he doesn't even go to church But you can you see the way this guy is prosperous the way he's driving big car The way he's having big house and i'm mentioning this because of i'm just making an example of this because it's easier to understand But sometimes somebody who doesn't know the lord the stature that they are having you Like like me having mukava Sometimes I pray god ish mara these people that eat too much They they gimba Their stomach is they're not as big as mine who doesn't even eat a lot You see what i'm saying Is is these things? But our obedience is that I should have done the Setups I should have done the setups because being obedient is doing what is Sometimes going against The things we don't want to do Or that we do want to do but don't want to do Okay, what does the apostle say the thing I want to do I don't do them You know That scripture he says the thing I want to do ish mara. I can't do it. Why? The thing I don't want to do I keep on doing it so sometimes obedience is the things that we don't want to do that we just have to do and here I need you to understand the the order of things It's first to be obedience Then elevation will come this is according to the tronymate 28 verse 1 He says now it shall come to pass you diligently obey the voice of the lord after that it says The lord your god will set you high above all nations of the earth. So elevation comes after obedience Elevation comes after obedience Sometimes we just need to understand that there's some structures In things and this is the reason why our prayers We keep on praying Is why? We keep on having issues Because our prayers Comes from a wrong order of things God elevate me Did you send in your CV because it's no use Asking for promotion And you have not no no You say god, please give me a promotion But you have not spoken to the boss that you're working for or sent your cv to a higher position Makes sense what i'm trying to say So sometimes our prayer first needs something that we need to obey for first I mean The hebrew word for obey is shama shama it does not mean to hear no, no, no It means to hear but to internalize and to respond with action It's our year of action It's to hear and to internalize like from within And respond to what you have heard Sometimes we think Obedience is is is how you comply to god It's not compliance our Obedience is not compliance obedience is alignment It aligns you don't comply align Because there's a difference between compliance and align alignment Sometimes What we do is God says pick up the rod What is rod stuff, yeah I almost sound like i'm talking about my good one pick up the stuff now to you You see snake You see It's like it's like our thinking and our mind Is so delusional sometimes that When god just say do it The first thing that comes when you pick up the stuff Why it is a snake and you drop Obedience is even if it is a snake Get hold of it I want you to understand that When first samuel 14 verse 22 says something there he says to obey Is better than sacrifice He says to obey is better than sacrifice what it means is that Sometimes I sacrifice my time But god has not asked for time He just asked to do something You know, let me let me make an example, right? Sometimes our sacrifices We are trying to impress people I went to the mountain for 40 days. I put the camera like this I'm i'm studying day one of day 40 The next day the camera again day two of day 40 of the 40 No food look look look there's no food around me There's not even water around me impressing Impressing Have you seen The the the trouser the very first day the trouser was sitting Look at the trouser already Trying to impress The bible says To obey is better than to be giving sacrifices The way I saw every day I gave that guy a car I sacrifice me walking So that the guy can have a car turn my way Sacrifices sometimes is to impress the people but when it comes to obedience it realigns What is supposed to be done? my father who I who is seeing What i'm doing in the closet He will lift me You know like you know the scripture i'm not I don't want to say the scripture nicely. I want to make sure that You don't you do see what i'm trying to say sometimes When god asked us to fast He says Put vaseline If you don't have vaseline take fat Take oil If it is that that for days you haven't eaten anything Don't go and complain to others. Hey, you know for days I didn't eat Don't put program on the first of january we are we are fasting for the next 22 days Or 30 days or whatever the case may be it's no use Who does it serve? If he says that whenever you fast I don't I don't I don't like this thing of fasting publicly I I understand why people are doing it But yet I don't understand putting it up Showing my sacrifice Showing i'm sacrificing I don't understand you just please Forgive me But this is my point of view i'm not saying you It's it's you or it's my point of view Mr Sometimes when I fast after the third day, you know i'm fasting next because I will just say i'm not going to eat now The next day no, man. It's fine. Put my foot in the fridge The next day. Ah I'm still sharp Immediately after two days My wife knows me by now She will know i'm fast, but she will still put the food for me Just to make sure that I have not stopped my fasting I don't do this thing of telling In fact, I am of the opinion I must not tell I've done the last time I told you at first and it flopped after day seven Was it day seven? After day seven, I wanted to do 21 days ma I wanted but because of me and my mouth I think that was more impressed than Sacrifice or what equal it was more of a Impressing somebody that's why it failed Obedience is better than sacrifice My question to you is if you if you go to to to joshua 6 verse 20 Let's let's read joshua 6 verse 20 josh Joshua 6 verse 20 It says the following It says So the people shouted when the priest blew with a trumpet And it came to pass when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and the people shouted with a great shout That the wall fell Down flat so that the people went up into the city Every man straight before him and they took the city and they took the city. Why why did the walls fall? It was not because of the noise. No, it was not because of the noise. It's because obedience Completed a divine sequence Like the way they were asked that's how they did it. I want you to understand something when When I talk about obedience I'm i'm i'm i'm watering it down now What i'm saying now, it's it's watered down There's more into obedience than what I can meet but the the thing is sometimes Our question in obedience stops us From uh, how do you call it from? gaining momentum in christ Yes, here's where i'm coming from God spoke to me once saying I must go and Tell a certain person something I did not and for two days I was uneasy Like how do you call it like I wasn't sharp like my mind was busy Thinking if only I should have told that one I was so disobedient that it ruined two days of my life And by ruining I mean The thing that was on my mind Was unsettling. It didn't sit well with me so remember Wait, I have not moved. What am I saying? sometimes this obedience Is not you going against the will or the word of god? But it's you not doing anything By not doing anything it's a sign of disobedience Yes When the bible says go ye out there and make disciples of men And you sit inside and are waiting for people to come to church Question I have not asked I have not said i'm just saying question What do you think? Does the bible say why do you think the bible says go ye out there like out? Out and you sit in the church or waiting for somebody to come Grave you remember you were asking me Why don't we do outreach? It hit me, you know, it warren clapped me It warren clapped me Because I knew It was wrong not to go there. You warren clapped me so much that at that day I thought about it like for I think it was few hours I started making plans. What am I what are we going to do? And it was not a me thing It's a we thing you see It's not a me thing. It's a we thing We as a as a as a church of god should be doing certain things But we don't It's also a sign of disobedience bishop Let me ask when last When last did we do the The cooking in the big pot Ma you even remember Can you even remember It's almost too long ago to remember Yet we do give some days we we we go to somebody and just put the something in the hand to help them because um When was it? Uh miss cat banner So yesterday I was telling my wife When this guy I saw him one day He had a knee that was as big as you see look It was it was bad And then what I did is I gave him I gave him money To go and buy anti-inflammatories But what I why i'm mentioning this to you is that some of the things we don't do like the way We should be doing it, but we still do something. It doesn't mean we don't Don't So when I gave him the the money for the anti-inflammatory I didn't I didn't tell him to go tell people I gave him this I didn't But you know what happened? When he went into the chemist The moment he went into the chemist and he came out He come and say thank you to me showing me the the the anti-inflammatories Somebody else comes after him And says he knew This can only be somebody that he knows And i'm like but what do you mean Somebody that you know No, when the guy came in there, he says this guy but this guy gave me money He says I must go and buy this kind of thing I must call it the anti-inflammatory because this knee it needs it has an inflammation and it needs an anti-inflammatory and Here's the money. I want the anti-inflammatory. He took the anti-inflammatory He took the the the change that because it was I didn't give him like the exact amount He came to me. He come and back and he says thank you and when he left this guy came and he says I knew it's only one person that can do this And at that time I say thank you god Because the worst part of it is when he came out the guy was long gone And I was still sitting there And he came straight to me saying I knew it can only be you That whatever we are doing People are seeing it out there Man In our disobedience some of the things we still obedient bishop Do you remember we went into the into the garage? the other day But as we went into the garage the next thing Somebody came with the bread at the back and you said No, it's fine, sir And you paid for the bread You remember you can't even remember but i'm just reminding you It's things that we do constantly without Blowing the the passing matters passing The horns or the whatever we don't blow on We don't announce. Yeah, that's the word i'm trying to say but what i'm trying to say is that some of the things we already Doing in obedience Although we feel we are disobedient so do remember although a a a Hammer strike a big rock You don't see anything But with every hit that you hit on the rock One of the other day that rock will go There's a guy called All right, no, no, I forgot the guy's name but the guy did the statue of david You you can google it. I don't remember the guy's name, but he was an artist or he is an artist so He explained that He had the thing in his mind like what he wanted to do with this big rock He had the the whole david picture in his mind The only thing he remember is to strike the the rock with the With a hammer keep on striking it For months and months and months He did not see anything until one day The form started to come And people started looking and saying oh this looks like a a human being And then the the longer he took it started looking like a specific person And they even said ask him. Is this david? And he said yes It was what was in my mind from the beginning So some of the things we have already have the goal or the vision in mind And therefore what we do daily We already on our way to see the vision I don't want you to think that whatever we are doing is in vain No I just want to I just want to maybe maybe no It doesn't matter Whatever i'm doing It's to to show the proof to you If you go online And you look at youtube or Facebook Yeah, i've done today i've done only youtube and facebook you will see our our forms looks different or our Videos looks different It's no longer like the way it used to be before It's just one thing that we have done as a church to make our Message To be looking stronger And I want to prove a point to you If if somebody is now online You can see What is happening on the screen there I didn't have this before to to be able to to show but as a church We came so far That I can now show you This is what the message says the message is entitled the system you are praying against without knowing and when you see surrounding the the the this You can see the church's colors It's called branding the branding of the church I can even go as far Okay I'm not going to i'm not going to go Uh, I just want to show you can you see if you are online can you see there's a sign of the churches? Even though it's the old emblem because i've not updated the softwares yet You will see it So we strike the rock small small small small We're getting there There's a next phase I think I should say it online as i'm as a as a uh, what what say means as a proof Like to to keep my word As a proof, yeah This this building is too small now this this What what is it called the dining room? Is too small now We need to move out And the only way god can Can show our obedience to be big bigger Is by us moving out here Is by us moving out here because we restrict god In the space we use because The space he gave us Is only the space We can see That he has he can use Let me make an example The woman with the with the um That the guy Come to to a house Saying bring containers The only time that the oil stopped Was when the containers Were no longer there Bishop am I am I talking the right thing like It almost sounds like i'm saying wrongly But it's right. Yeah. Yeah, so The the the man of god says to the lady go and borrow From your neighbors containers for this oil and the lady thinking that The holder what what's him in the hour? Oh, maybe the the container Is this small? She only bring The size of what she has saw We are only restricted By the The building we see now I wish you can you can hear my My clean tongue I don't know what what is clean to me the back The back of my voice you can hear over there What i'm trying to say is that we restrict god By the size of this Small hole and this one Is even big There's something That we we take taking in consideration that is smaller It's for us to move out our obedience will prove That the oil that has been flowing in this fountain of grace ministries The oil that has been flowing We have been using two small containers We have been using two small containers I look at somebody Like a ministry I look at the person's ministry and I saw we are doing better than what they are doing But do you know? What makes them? To be better than us was the fact that they have faith in what they do Like They don't care The mic Hey, these of you should see that guy the mic they they are using is It's fault. So this part of the top of the part is so skewed Did the guy care? He oh I saw the the time When they were praying for the people the lineup of people that was there I was like, wow This is powerful But when I look at the message I felt like I don't think this was really And wow But the spirit of god behind the message Took the people from their places And take it take them out to the front and here Whenever I will I will say Let's do a Alter call I can guarantee you now two people And then we will even be saying I feel uncomfortable for standing Because there's not a lot of people If I say close your eyes all of you And those who didn't take the up the lord as the lord and savior The moment somebody here somebody get up We are so used to each other That work Sounds like ricardo's work We know each other Bishop and my two heart This is the year of action James 1 22 James 1 22 I will keep on saying it every Servers through I will keep on saying it It's important to understand that When we talk about james We don't talk about Something that is unnecessary That is unnecessary We talk about something That is taking us to the front James 1 22 but be your doers of the word and not hear us only Deceiving your own selves It brings back the thanksgiving And it brings back the obedience It just summarized it all in this one scripture be your doers And when it says be your doers it goes back to saying the scripture First Thessalonians 5 verse 18 in everything gives thanks Yeah, he says in everything gives thanks good or bad Happy or sad in everything give thanks For this is the will of god In christ jesus for you That is what it says And i'm leaving you with this Every time whenever we are getting into a new Season of our lives The seasons is all about us Taking action And I want us To stand as we declare Just four declarations only four we declare or let me say Let me make it as let's let's make it Uh, who's a man's personer Let's say I declare Let's say I declare According to some 100 I'm going to start verse four. That's all I enter every gate God opens through thanksgiving According to romans 1 Verse 21 I refuse in gratitude And walk in clarity according to the trinomy 28 verse 1 I align through obedience And walk elevated according to first samuel 15 22 I choose obedience over religious activity In the name of jesus Now as we as we are closing Remember Power open doors Order keeps the open It's like the force that you use to open the door It's nothing to do if there's no order If there's no order And remember I said it before and i'm going to say it again Thanksgiving seals our excess enter His gates meaning the gate Can be entered by Thanksgiving And how do you enter his courts? By praises. So the only place you can go into the court Is by giving access through thanksgiving Or get the door open by thanksgiving It is never About our emotions because our emotions sometimes go high Sometimes go low Today we are happy today Same two minutes after that we are said it has nothing to do with our feelings But it has to do with the order we do things In the order we do things heavenly father I come to you in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior and I say thank you For giving us thanksgiving today In obedience to that We will be saying thank you everywhere we go Even though we feel pain we will even give thanks in pain as well Even though we feel neglected we will even give thanks in that neglect as well In the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior. I pray that today for the god In our obedience for the god We obey every word you say and your will is for the perfect Well for us is to give thanks and thank you for that in the mighty name of jesus christ We will be giving thanks even if it is how small A thing is we will still say thank you in the mighty name of jesus christ our lord and savior with much thanksgiving and praise Amen and amen Now may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the sweet fellowship of the holy spirit Rest and abide with us all until jesus comes Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives And we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever in jesus name amen