Life is inherently designed for progress and advancement, and achieving this requires a strong spiritual foundation and a proactive, forward-thinking mentality.
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laying foundation for advancement.
laying foundation for advancement. Let
me begin by saying that generally
speaking, life is made [music] for
progress. Life is made for progress. You
are born to be progressive. I'll look at
it. Have us to look at it from different
perspective beginning from biological
life, social life to spiritual life. You
are born to be progressive.
You are born to be progressive. Say with
me, I am born to be progressive.
Now say it like someone going somewhere.
Aha. You can make it louder right now.
Now I like you to please take note of
this. Why do we ask us to speak?
The reason among others is because when
you speak, angel will pick for God to fix.
fix.
You speak it. Angels will pick it.
Angels are always around your mouth.
They pick it. [music] They take it to
God to fix it.
Don't miss that.
Life is meant [music] to be progressive.
Biologically speaking, we understand
that movement or growth is a [music]
major characteristic of every living
thing. If it is not moving, then it is
not living.
If it is not moving, it is not living.
If your business is not moving, [music]
it's already dead.
Movement is a sign of growth. Movement
That's why non living things don't move
except someone moves them.
The stool in front of me will not move
except someone carries it.
In the human system, nobody enjoys being carried.
carried.
No one truly enjoys [music] being
carried. Fulfillment is in movement.
That's why stagnation is frustrating.
Advancement is exciting and applive.
People applaud you when you make
progress, when you move. People discard
you, discontent tenant you when you
[music] are stagnated. People pass by
and say, "Ah, this man is still here."
They despise you when you are not
moving. They applaud you when you are
making progress. I decree that come
Nothing frustrates destiny like stagnation.
stagnation.
The next door neighbor to stagnation is
murmmoring. When you are not moving, you
murmur. When you are not moving, you
castigate people. When you are not
moving, you envy those who are moving.
Why do some pastor
accuse the others that is moving and
give them names
and propound theories that does not
exist as to the reason why they are
growing is because they are at the back.
All of us have gotten to know that
bybiters are in the [music] front. I
mean at the back. You never see anybody
making progress talking about those who
are making progress because is the
subject of progress and not a discussant
Wherever there is advancement, there
will be excitement. Wherever there is
advancement, [music]
there will be excitement. In your
family, in your business, in your
career, in 2025, there will be excitement.
excitement.
PASTORS WHO ARE HERE, in your assembly,
ministers who are here in your
ministries, there will be excitement. I
said there will be excitement. There
will be progress in the precious name of Jesus.
Jesus.
Have you realized
that even in the human body
because God uses everything to teach us
there are certain parts of your body
that conotes God's intention for your progress?
progress?
Have you wondered your feet
are made to go forward?
The palm of your feet are created
fashioned by God for forward movement.
No one intentionally goes backward.
Everybody unconsciously goes forward.
You go forward with confidence. You go
BECAUSE GOD DID NOT DESIGN YOU FOR BACKWARDNESS.
Let's learn even from the things we see.
He created the soul of your feet for
forward movement. And when you move
forward, you are conscious of progress.
When you move backward, you are not happy.
happy.
THAT'S WHY REVERSE GEAR cannot be as
You move forward with confidence, you
move backward with caution.
May I pray for you therefore that in
2025 you will not know the way backward.
I'd like you to say a very reactive amen
to that.
IN 2025 YOU WILL NEVER KNOW the way backward.
backward.
You will always know the way forward. [screaming]
When you are taking a match, your hand
swings forward.
Those of us in the military understand
what I'm talking about. And you will
realize that the movement of your hand
goes upper in front compared with the
back. The back movement of your hand
does not swing to the angle to [music]
which the one in front moves.
God intended for you to go forward from
the way he created your souls, the souls
of your feet and the movement of your
head. LOOK AT THIS ALSO. WHEN GOD WAS
GOING TO BE GRACIOUS, GRACIOUS TO CREATE
YOUR EYES, WHERE DID HE put them? Let me
hear you very well. Do we have anybody
here with some eyes at the back? No. In
front. In front to see forward. So you
[music] can go forward. To see forward,
so you can go forward. To see backward,
you got to turn.
And in turning, when you are not
cautious, you can break your neck.
There is no tension in looking forward.
But there will always be crisis in
looking backward.
He created your eyes to see forward. He
didn't put one in front and put one at
the back. Then two at the front.
this 2025 you will see great things with
your eyes.
You will see mighty things with your eyes.
eyes.
He said, "Call unto me and I will answer
you AND I WILL SHOW you
great and mighty things which thou
[music] knowest not."
So you got no business looking at the back.
back.
The only time you should look at the
back is to consider what the Lord has
done for Thanksgiving. If you check the
scriptures very well, that is the only
reason why God wants you to look back.
He wants to be to be reflective so as to
If there is anything you should look at
at your back, it is the goodness of the
Lord. The goodness of the Lord. He said,
"Remember you not the former things, for
I will do [music] a new thing." Say loud
amen. Again, I pray that in the year
2025, you will never never ever know the
way backward.
ANYTHING THAT ATTEMPTS TO PULL YOU
backward will be dropped off you as you
continue to move forward. If you
believe, say, I believe. Help me tell
your neighbors next to you, you are
going forward. You are going forward.
You are going forward.
But let us quickly realize please
that advancement
is rooted in the covenant.
Proverbs 4:18, the path of the just man.
The one who has made a covenant with God
through salvation shall be as a shining
light which continues to shine brighter
and brighter until the perfect day.
Your perfect day is in your future. So
for as long as you are moving towards
the future, you are to shine brighter
and brighter. Brighter. Say with me
brighter. Say it again. You shall have
whatever you say. You shall have
whatever you say. One more time. He
shall the part of the just. And remember
we ARE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH WHEN WE GIVE
OUR LIFE TO JESUS. is as a shining
light, not dull. Shining that shineth
more [music] and more and more and more
continuously until he arrives [music] at
his future.
2025 is another future. You will shine
than you shine in 2024.
You will never have a better 2024 next year.
year.
Raise your voice and prophesy that to
yourself right now. In 2025, I'm shining
brighter and brighter, brighter and
brighter, brighter and brighter in my
ministry, in my assignment, in my work,
[music] in my business concerning my
children. I'm shining brighter and
brighter in my spiritual life. I'm
shining brighter and brighter and
brighter. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
Amen.
We saw how that Abraham
somewhere and he ended up being a prince
among kings.
Kings were bowing to Abraham. You know
there are kings statutory kings on the
throne and there are stat there are
[music] kings by influence
in every nation.
Presidents who [music] are voted recognize
recognize
men of influence. They go to their homes
to meet with them. Not everybody goes to
government house. I've never applied to
go to any in my life. I've been in some
places before that have government
houses. I've never requested, can I come
to government house? No. They need you
because you're a man of influence.
When a king was in trouble, Abraham was
invited to help him fight.
He fought and he overtook the enemies.
And the king came to meet with Abraham
and asked, "What will be your pay?"
Abraham said, "I don't take pay. I'm in
the covenant."
And he CAME TO THE PLACE OF ISAAC, a
stranger in the land of the Philistines.
But his influence was so much that he
controlled the economy.
THE INFLUENCE WAS SO HEAVY THEY
REQUESTED him to please go to one side
because it was tampering with everything
they were doing
all in one year. Many of us are familiar
with that scriptures. Genesis 26 verse
12 beginning. In one year Isaac sowed in
that land. As you sow in 2025
amazing blessings will come your way.
AND HE RECEIVED THE SAME YEAR, THE SAME
YEAR, THE SAME year and 100fold. And the
Lord blessed him.
And the man works great. Another Isaac
is imagine in 2025. You will work great.
You will work great. You will work
great. And what more? And he went
forward. Where are you going to? You
will work great. You will go forward.
AND YOU WILL GROW UNTIL you become very great.
great.
You'll be having qualifying adjective in 2025.
2025.
You will be taken from among the general
class to a superior class. You will be
taken to the class where great men will
be calling you very great.
BEFORE POOR PEOPLE USED TO CALL YOU VERY
POOR. IN 2025 great men will be calling
you very great.
I SAID GREAT MEN WILL BE CALLING YOU
VERY GREAT.
He was progressive.
Progressive. Progress
is [music] not real if it's not measurable.
measurable.
Don't say God knows who is making
progress. It's not true. Human beings
also know who is making progress. There
are religious statements that we make
that takes us nowhere. Only God knows
those who are making progress. You are
right but not absolutely right. God
knows and human [music] beings know. In
case you have been assuming that God
knows you are making progress in the
year 2025, get ready. Human beings will
know. I said human beings around you
will know.
In the year 2025, I see many people
graduating from being tenant to landlord.
landlord.
I SEE MANY SEATED HERE graduating from
looking for job to become employer of labor.
labor.
IF THAT'S YOU I'M TALKING ABOUT AND YOU
In Galatians 4:28, the Bible tells us
that we
as Isaac was
are the children of promise. [music] As
Isaac was, please take note of that.
That means there's a new generation Isaac.
Isaac. Isaac
Isaac
was an emblem of approval of the covenant.
covenant.
And the covenant never changes. [music]
The covenant never fades. God means to
say that through you and I seated here
or watching this service live or at any
time you will be open to it, you will
become a new generation Isaac.
>> I thought I'm talking to an Isaac here.
If you are that Isaac, let your amen
On this note, therefore, as we continue
tonight, you need to begin to develop
advancement mentality.
Advancement mentality. Listen to this.
The greatest attack
on the believer's destiny is his mentality.
mentality.
What are you thinking? What are you saying?
saying?
What you see you think. What you think
See [snorts] 2025 as going to be a
If you don't change [music] your mentality,
mentality,
Even God could not help Abraham could
not help Jeremiah outside of what he saw
or outside of what he saw.
Your mentality
will reflect in your utterance. your
mentality. For as a [music] man thinkketh,
thinkketh,
Proverbs chapter 23:7, as a [music] man thinkketh,
thinkketh,
the process of your thinking determines
the outcome of your destiny.
The interesting [music] thing is that
your thoughts cannot be arrested by any man.
man.
It is private to you. People may steal
your money, but they cannot steal your idea.
idea.
They cannot corrupt your thinking. People
People
may rob you of your colorful dress like
they did to Joseph. They took his dress
from him forcefully but they could not
YOU MAY BE A SLAVE today
physically but don't be a slave in your mind.
YOU MAY BE AN EMPLOYEE TODAY BY PAPER
BUT DON'T BE AN DON'T BE AN employee in
You may be given pay back today by an
employer but see yourself as issuing
paybacks to others who will work under you.
you. Mentality
Mentality
is your creativity of your future. Your mentality.
Your passage
is not your present.
Your future is set before you. You will
surely get there. I said you will surely
You must have covenant advancement mentality
mentality
in order for you to have it in [music]
actual sense. Now remember what we are
looking tonight is foundation for
Foundation matters
to building any [music]
structure. Look at this beautiful
edifice we are in tonight.
We can see the outcome beautiful the
outward but we need [music] to dig to
the foundation. Whatever looks beautiful
today has a foundation.
If you don't have a foundation you are
building on rubbles. You are building on
rubbles. Time will tell because the wind
will come. The storm will come.
You are not called to be here just to
shout advancement [music] of destiny.
You are called to be built.
Psalm 102 verse 16. When the Lord has
built up Zion,
he shall appear in his glory. Glory
comes on [music] building with
structures. I mean with with with foundation.
foundation.
Do you want to HAVE A GLORIOUS DESTINY
IN 2025?
Then let's dig for foundation. There is
no high-rising building that does not
have deep foundation. The depth of your
foundation will determine the height of
your glory. The depth of your foundation
will determine the height [music] of
your glory. 2025
2025
you will see glory.
I say you will see glory.
Foundation provides base, strength and
stability. Permit me to repeat that
again. Foundation provides base,
The max zimum attention in [music] any
construction is paid to the foundation
to the foundation.
Inquire from specialists in this field.
The best attention, the maximum
attention is paid to the foundation
because if something goes wrong with any
other part of the body, it is
replaceable. But foundation is not replaceable.
replaceable.
Foundation has to be properly supervised
and built.
Once the foundation is strong, any other
foundation therefore is not to be
assumed or wished but to be built. Psalm
11:3 If the foundation be destroyed,
what can the righteous do? You don't
have a foundation, you are wasting your
energy. You don't have foundation, you
are wasting your time. You don't have
foundation, the future is insecured.
Paul the apostle said he was a builder
of foundation. 1 Corinthians 3:10,
Hebrews 3:4, every house is built by
[music] someone. You don't assume
foundation, you build it. So what
foundation is
to building is what spirituality is to destiny.
destiny.
And that's why the subject of foundation
we are talking about for advancement is spirituality.
spirituality.
Build a strong [music]
viral spiritual life.
strong var spiritual life to secure
progress in the year ahead of you.
Jesus our example laid [music] a
foundation for his advancement in
Luke chapter 2 vers 40
and 52. Building
Building
building your future by being spiritual
has no substitute. And we are going to
see the reason why. And the child grew.
See me I will grow. Let me hear you very
well. And wax strong. Wax.
Those of you who know candle, you will
have a picture of wax. Candle is a form
of science of storage of energy. Wax.
Actually, when you are burning a candle,
you are burning off the consolidated
energy from wax.
And you agree with me, those of you who
have been using candle before, some
candle can burn in 1 hour, some burn in
one week, some burn for up to 1 month. I
don't know the highest level of it, but
I know some candles you'll be burning it
and it will still be strong bringing
light to you because it was well waxed.
That's what happened to Jesus. He was
waxing strength that will take him in
his [music] journey for 3 years. He was
building. He was building. When you are
going on a journey, you would pack your
load according to the length of the journey.
Many people are preparing as if they are
going on one day journey in 2025 is 12 months.
months.
52 weeks 365 days. YOU DON'T JOKE WITH
PREPARING FOR THAT LONG JOURNEY.
YOU DON'T GET TO JANUARY 15 AND START
GASPING, counting your defeat when the
journey has just started. You need to
wax strong.
Jesus was never weary in his journey. He
took time to wax.
He was waxing strong [music] in spirit
and getting filled with wisdom
and building up THE GRACE OF GOD UPON
HIS LIFE.
and you will go from here with the
assignment to continue to build to
build. Today is 27th. What will you do
with 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st? Four solid
days and nights.
YOU CAN UTILIZE THAT MOMENT TO BUILD up
to wax. The journey is long. You need to
wax strong. and 52. And the child
increased in wisdom and [music] status
and in favor with God and man. Look at John
John
the man who came before him. The same
Luke 1:8. The same story,
the same [music] process. I like talking
about process a lot. Because if you
follow process, you will not miss your product.
product.
There is nothing any man is achieving
that you cannot achieve. If you will
learn to follow his process, don't
admire where somebody is.
Search for the process he followed to
arrive at where he is and you become the
next example. Look at it. And the child
John grew and walked strong in spirit
and was in the desert TILL THE DAY OF
HIS MANIFESTATION. SEE THERE IS THE DAY
OF MANIFESTATION and there is the day of
BUILDING OF STRENGTH.
THERE WILL BE NOTHING TO MANIFEST IF
THERE IS NOTHING BUILT.
There will be NO GLORY TO SHOW IF THERE
IS NO investment made.
There is no cheap result in life. Like
they say in the business world, there is
no free lunch. You pay for everything OF
VALUE. YOU PAY THE PRICE.
You work strong. You build up. When Zion
is built, then he shall appear in his glory.
glory.
It's time for us to sit down and build a solid,
solid,
viral spiritual life.
We live and operate in spiritual realms. [snorts]
[snorts]
There is more to what you see physically
in the world of the spirit whether
positive or negative.
Every human existence has a connection
to the spiritual world. EVERY HUMAN
EXISTENCE. YOU WONDER WHY YOU ARE TRYING
SO hard physically and things are not
working. There is a control from the
realm of THE SPIRIT.
YOU WONDER WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE WINNING
DESPITE ALL PHYSICAL OPPOSITION because
they have taken charge in the realm of
the spirit.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE SPIRITUALLY,
YOU'LL BE A LOSER PHYSICALLY. If you are
not in charge spiritually, you'll be a
loser physically.
A few scripture to establish this.
2 Corinthians chapter 10
3 all the way to six.
For though we walk in the physical,
we do not war after the physical.
I can see you physically but there's
something more about you that nobody can
see. That's why I tell people when you
look at me don't look at me according to
my weight or according to my height.
In case YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY know who I
am, come and touch me. THE FORCES THAT
BACK ME UP WILL show to you that I'm not
We live in the flesh but we are waring
in the realm of the spirit. If you don't
take spiritual charge, you will be
discharged physically by men who are
higher than you.
Let's get to the realm of the spirit.
That is our realm of victory.
Fights are won in the realm of the
We are going to see shortly after we
finish reading the scriptures how that
there are spiritual hierarchies. Recognize
Recognize
anywhere you go. You are rated according
to your spiritual ranking. Now let's
quickly go through this scripture. For
the weapons, say with me, weapons. Let
me hear you very well. THE WEAPONS OF
OUR WARFARE, WE ARE IN WARFARE ARE NOT
PHYSICAL. THEY ARE NOT CANN but mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
strongholds.
Casting down, casting down imaginations.
There are imaginations against your
well-being. There are people seated
somewhere CHARMING YOU RIGHT NOW. THERE
ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE VOWED THAT YOU WILL
NEVER MAKE PROGRESS IN THE YEAR 2025.
There are CHURCHES THAT DEMONIC FORCES
HAVE RISEN AGAINST that they will not triumph.
triumph.
Let me tell this story.
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were in Germany
Germany and
and
our spiritual son who was taking care of
our [snorts] well-being said
when we are talking about spiritual
things, he told the story of a woman who
traveled from Nigeria to help cater for
her grandchild.
She was a prayerful woman AND SO SHE WAS
PRAYING IN the night in that community.
And when the day broke, two demonic
women came to that house at daytime to
knock at the door. And they said to our
son or son-in-law, "There's a stranger
in your house here,
that stranger was disturbing us last
night. Didn't he allow us to carry out
our activity?"
And they began to threaten. You better
send that person out of this house or
you will see our trouble. That's the
world in which we live.
They were threatened and they went back
to threaten the one threatening them.
That's why I tell you, you must be out
to trouble your troublers. You must be
out to threaten those who are
threatening you. YOU MUST CLAIM TO A
HIGHER SPIRITUAL REALM.
THE WEAPONS OF OUR WORLD ARE NOT MIGHTY
THROUGH GOD. CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS,
EVIL THOUGHTS of men. They don't want
you TO RISE. THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO MOVE
FORWARD. You have to stand in a POSITION
THAT IS HIGHER THAN THEM.
You don't fight and win at the same
level with your opposition. You need to
climb higher. Help me tell your
neighbor, climb higher. Say to another
neighbor, climb higher. Pastors,
Pastors,
there are forces that won't want the
church to grow under you in your
community. They hate you. They don't
like you because you are disturbing
them. That's why I used to tell pastors
if the community where you are like you
so much they don't want you to leave
that community. Uh you are operating at
their level.
I have never seen any church where the
immediate community likes.
We don't like them. Let them leave this
place. No, we don't want them. No, they
should leave. Why? You are tampering
with certain negative forces. Say loud man.
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