09,VESSELS OF MERCY ,NOT MERIT PART 1 BY GBILE AKANNI

living seed media brings to you god's word which is his comprehensive equipment for changing lives may the lord impact your heart as you encounter his word [Music] for further enquiry or counsel contact peace house p.o box 971 boco benue state nigeria telephone numbers zero seven zero three zero three six three six five nine zero seven zero three seven six eight one email address ls media at livingseed.org or visit our website at www.livingseed.org let us sit back and listen as the servant of god brings forth the word of life now there are few things that i will want you to bear in mind even as we press on our journey with god even this time again and as we continuously please listen carefully to this as we continuously press and believe god and hold god for the manifestation of a divine visitation in our day we believe that what god is doing now the way the holy spirit is working in our lives now we believe that there is something about to break forth we believe that we are at a threshold of another move of god we don't want you to forget that god is not gathering you here for nothing god is not just having a pastime just to engage us to be coming up and down just to do something i wanted to know that god is not just doing something and starting another group that's not what god is doing we believe and we're saying that it is time for god to favor zion it is indeed time for god to walk through the length and breadth of our nations and of the nations even this morning as i'm sitting down there while our brother was speaking about what you must pursue in becoming like jesus the critical matter that is deep in my heart that god is still pointing and flashing to me was before that and it is time and it is time for the glory of god to break forth in the nations and it is time for god to manifest himself in glory among his people even though yes we look at our lives we look at so many things that are not yet in place and some of you you may look actually into yourself and say can i ever be ready for this thing that they are talking about when will i ever fit into this as our brother was pointing at all that the devil may likely come to check in order to discredit you some of you can immediately say if he dare check my marriage i mean problem if he checks this i am in trouble if he checks that i am in trouble if he checks this i don't think i can go anywhere i want you to remember where god started this meeting the bible says ananias said i have heard this much about this man how injurious he is how he is a you a terrible man and god said go your way he is a vessel in my hand i feel like saying to you again this morning go your way god has agreed that you will be a vessel in his hand in the coming days listen how will that happen what will god do to bring you to that experience the first answer to that is what we are beginning to read not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves but our sufficiency is of god not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of god god is the one who could make you able ministers of this arrangement that god is making only god can qualify you to be able to step into the things that god is talking about only the spirit of god will be able to enable you to be able to fit into the things that the spirit of god is talking about do not forget that the spirit of god began to say some very strategic things in this meeting even me i told you that to me it was difficult i reminded you that if i were left on my own i would like to simply speak about where i think you are but i see god speaking ahead i see the lord saying do something that is a little oversized because in a very short while you will have to step into something bigger than you then god began to say every man who became a vessel of glory they were first and foremost people who have obtained what mercy if it is not mercy you can never merit what is about to come so as you are going from this meeting set your heart on obtaining mercy set your heart as you are going you know that honestly speaking if god does not have mercy on you you cannot come near what the spirit of god is about to do can never come by merit but the mercy of god will cause all the complications in your life to be straightened out the mercy of god will resolve all the contours of your life and character that the devil will have said this one cannot fit in you know sometimes when the devil comes in to accuse have you ever fallen into the hand of policemen before how many of you have ever fallen into the hand of policemen before can you argue your way out from the hand of police eh if a policeman wants to deal with you no matter what you say if he checks this he checks this is check this he's thinking in his head he will go and look for something remote that you never could even imagine he said what of this and then because you don't have that they say you are caught when the lord set out to trap a man there's nothing he can do to come out of it but we thank god that we do not operate on the law the sufficiency of our life is not of ourselves the sufficiency of your life is of him so that nobody can claim anything as of himself as we go from here i want you to go with an understanding two things i want you to understand there's a glory coming for that glory we can't step into it except we have obtained what mercy it's going to be too difficult for me to exhaustively explain to you that you will need mercy for anything that god is going to cause you to step into as you go in life you must report at the throne of grace where we do what obtain mercy to find grace in time of need i want you to trust god that you will be a permanent patient in the intensive care unit of god's mercy now when we talk about that we are not talking about being careless we are not talking about being willful sinners we are not talking about persisting in hypocrisy we are talking about trembling to meet god at the point of his mercy not that we are sufficient of ourselves as to think anything of ourselves but our sufficiency is god turn to somebody and say your sufficiency in this journey is of god what will make you to accomplish the purpose of god even to become conformed to the image of jesus christ as many of you are saying yes that's my desire that's what i want the sufficiency that will make that to happen is also going to be supplied by god hallelujah hallelujah who also has made us able ministers of the new testament when we started this meeting the first night i was surprised the way god started speaking i was surprised that god began to speak about the fact that yes for many of us you don't have a good past if you look at your past it is depressing if you look at what has happened to you how things have been muddled up and if you keep looking there you will think that you are a bundle of confusion and that there is nothing that anybody can pick out of it but that's not what the holy spirit says today the holy spirit says go your way he is a chosen vessel all the issues that god is spending time to talk about even the issues of who takes the glory it's all because god is saying concerning you he is a chosen vessel in my hand i feel in sense this morning to pray with you to knee down around your heart and say god for south africa for southern africa oh god accept these men as your vessels and walk on them are you hearing me you see if god there are times there are times some of us we used to lecture we used to be lecturers and we sit on admission and we decide who to admit there are times that we just look at one particular area of the country where there are not enough candidates and we know that if we do not do something about that area we will never have candidates so we set up what we call a media program what is a remedy program an extra attention that you give candidates that are a little deficient in order to meet of the challenge of their colleagues it's an extra label you put on their lives to remedy them and bring them up so that the candidates from that area will not be vacant are you hearing me and when we have done that some of them that would have been totally dropped out because we spent an extra time of a remedial program for them they came up to meet their colleagues and some of them are first class students i perceive i perceive that god has decided to have mercy on some of us mercy is making god to give you extra attention mercy is making god to make a space to concentrate on making you to fit into his divine purpose mercy is making god to speak so elaborately what he would have said in passing is being is saying it again and again in a way that you will pick it up because you are a chosen vessel in his hand as you go from here this morning you must go with a sense of divine appointment on your life i'm a vessel in his hand i don't merit it hallelujah i don't merit it i cannot look at my credential and say i am qualified if they were looking for people who are qualified they would have bypassed me long ago but mercy brought me here so before we go back now and i want you to go to chapter four and read verse one and verse two together with me again and the reason why you need to understand that is because why we do not qualify for mercy are you hearing me why we do not qualify for mercy we have an obligation to justify the mercy of god on our lives what did i say we cannot do we cannot qualify for mercy but having obtained mercy we must justify it and what is it that the holy spirit is saying here therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have done what as we have done what as we have received mercy we do what we do what we faint not let's go over it again let's go over it again therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not how did niv put it maybe some of you are reading niv that's why you are not able to follow me yes sister yes since because of god's mercy we have this opportunity of service we have this ministry we have this grace to be involved in what god is doing we do not do what lose heart we don't get discouraged now let me tell you don't lose heart the mercy of god has considered you for a place the mercy of god has included you in what god is about to do the mercy of god has brought you into the limelight of the divine purpose you don't merit it you don't qualify for it your credentials are not good enough but mercy brought you here mercy brought me here mercy not merit i did say to you that if you will not tamper with the glory of god you must keep knowing that it's not merit that brought you here it is the mercy of god and because mercy brought me here whatever i am faced with i will not lose heart for he who decided to have mercy on me will have mercy on me until i qualify for his will we faint not there will be many reasons why some of you will want to faint sometimes the devil will show you so many wrong things and you would like to faint sometimes the devil will show you so much that is yet to be done in your life and you say if it is like this i can't make it and you would like to find and say what what is what is the need of making effort why bother why bother listen when god has decided to show mercy to you he has already calculated all it will cost him before he started to show you mess god has already calculated all the complications in your life all the contours of your character that it it will take god to straighten it and he knows what it will take him to straighten it and he decided i have decided to have mercy on whom i will have mercy i have decided to have compassion on whom i will have compassion so it is not of him that runneth is not of him that will but it's of god that showed mercy because god had decided to show mercy to your life my brother my sister god will not faint you should not faint tell somebody by your side say don't think you will turn out right you're hearing me you will do what you will turn out right god does not do any abandoned projects god does not begin something that he cannot finish somebody began to sing a song to us the other day he said he is faithful do you remember the song that natalie began to teach you and say he's faithful and i wonder why the holy spirit was emphasizing that he's emphasizing that because to be a vessel of glory it could only be by the mercy of god as we have obtained this ministry having received mercy one of the things that keeps me going listen i want to tell you now is that somehow i know that what drew got to me is not me it's his mercy and if he began to have mercy on me oh it's messy and direct forever his mercy will see me through his mercy will take me to all that he wants me to become in his purpose so even when i have reason to give up i will not give up for this reason we faint not so as you are going i want to charge you do what do not think the light that god began to show you the light of his divine purpose the things that the holy spirit is beginning to draw out of you it is beginning to show you about how to be a christian how to become like jesus he who began that work he will finish it never you faint you will turn out right tell somebody you will turn out right in the name of jesus i don't think god will deliberately be wasting his time if nothing will come out of your life i don't think god will be investing this much if nothing is going to come out of you something is going to come out of you the mercy that began it the same message we finish it in the name of jesus christ we faint not i realized that it was a very deep understanding in the heart of paul when he said we faint not it was a deep understanding in his heart despite all that he had to go through he said we are knocked down we are pushed around we are discouraged but we are not discouraged i wanted to go from this meeting with an understanding that you did not start it what did i say you did not start it he who started it will finish it some of you are in this meeting you don't know why some of you were brought into this kind of of exposure is strange because it's not the kind of church you are going before this is not the kind of people you are moving with before many of you were engaged in so many activities that would not have taken you anywhere but god in his mercy cornered you to show you this because you did not start it by the grace of god he who started it is able to finish it i'm going to see so many of you because listen i already listed i listed you know for me action point is more important when this our brother was bringing the word of god i said god and god began to speak to me as he was speaking and i was drawing my note again and part of it that was bothering me is god where are we going to get men and women who will overrun africa where are we going to get men and women who we liberate africa from the kind of mentality that the devil has cast upon us and you see i'm looking at your faces and god said go your way this man there are going to be vessels in my hand so i started putting down those who will go to rwanda we will go to mozambique we go to all those other sides those who will face east africa if you see my note now you see i'm noting them down those who will go to east africa ethiopia uganda tanzania kenya eritrea somalia and they have to arise from these bundles you know you are looking like bundles of confusion but you are going to turn out right in the name of jesus christ if anybody looks at your past if you look and say there is nothing here there's nothing here but that's not what i'm hearing you at least please say this morning i hear god saying no no no no go your way go your way stop worrying about what you have heard before go your way i have decided to have mercy on them i will have mercy not sacrifice those who are whole they don't need doctors i am happy for those who are weak who are broken who are sick who are crippled who look as if they have no backbone at all those are the ones i want to help and i'm happy that you are one of those that god wants to help so we faint not but then what must you do listen listen but verse 2 we have done what renounce so my friends why you do not qualify for the mercy of god you have been called upon to do what to justify it don't allow god to be ashamed that it is you he decided to have mercy on are we together don't allow god to have the contradiction that it was you he decided to show messi too so bravo said since we have obtained mercy by being put into this privileged service and since we are not sufficient of ourselves as to think of ourselves but our sufficiency comes from god for this reason we have renounced the hidden things of this honesty what i'm asking you to do is to do what renounce hidden things of dishonesty when we talk about desire for glory i said yesterday that part of the manifestation of desire for glory is a desire to hide things because you don't want to be seen to not do well forget that let me ask you to be open it is not your impression that chose you it was the mercy of god are you hearing me it is not that you have never been a sinner that's why god brought you here no it is his mercy so why do you need to cover it we have renounced what hidden things of dishonesty you see when he said we have renounced hidden things of dishonesty as far as i'm concerned he is not particularly saying we are perfect he's only saying that one of the things we decided never to do again is to hide anything in dishonesty and if i can have people who are sincere who are open who don't hide anything god will help you very quickly you are not hearing me at all i want to be sure that in your discipleship you are not hiding anything let me imagine that we are you are in discipleship as husband and wife you are a couple in discipleship and you have renounced hidden things of this honesty when you know that between you and your wife you are not doing very well you don't need to hide that it was not because you were doing very well that god chose you it was messy so why do you need to hide that why don't you come up and say excuse me there is still this rough age in our marriage that needed to be dealt with many of you you will hide it because you think that if you if anybody saw it they would throw you away because you thought that your credential of being accepted is because you are perfect as a husband no it was mercy that brought you here so if it is mercy that brought you here despite the contours of your character why do you hide it for you to grow and become this vessel that we are talking about we have renounced what hidden things of dishonesty what i want to see in this discipleship is people that are sincere hallelujah people that is not because they have become anything big but they are sincere so that god is free to help us hypocrites will not make progress because hypocrites are those who pretend to be where they are not so when god is looking for them where god is looking for them is not where they are standing they miss the help of god in their lives mercy brought you here not married if it is merit you have to be careful so that nobody will discover that you didn't have the qualification but if it is messy mercy overlooked your disqualification so why are you now hiding your disqualification can you open it up so as you are going one of the things that will give you good progress in your faith and in your discipleship is to be open hallelujah even if god had to deal with an issue over and over and over again be open allow the light of the spirit of god to shine on those dark corners your life will grow quickly excuse me we are not looking for impressionable people we're only looking for impactable people not impressionable people no people who dress up to impress no people who speak bogotly to impress that is not going to carry us anywhere we only need people whose hearts are impactable those who when they hear the word of god they're receiving fear and trembling and they are looking unto god's help and mercy to make a change we don't need people who dress up with makeups we are looking for women like esther eh who will walk in like this because there's no way makeup even if you shake them nothing will fall down but when you're a woman with makeup even your air is an attachment do you understand what you are putting is an attachment so if you move too far and you shake your head the attachment may fall off and we may see your badness on the head we don't need such it is not such merit that brought you it is messy and if it is messy why do you hide anything in this honesty we have renounced hidden things of dishonesty we have renounced not working in what not working in what in craftiness did you see the bible we are not doing what working in what in craftiness what is craftiness eh thank you she's speaking to me in kosa now of course that's good that's the only way she can express it very freely a crafty person doesn't walk straight a crafty person is tricky he moves here he must have so you can't trace his road you see if since god intends to include you in what he is doing by mercy don't be crafty you hear me don't be crafty don't do like this like this let god bear you record can i tell you the kind of record that god wants to bear you let god say even though you see her she's not perfect but she's truthful she's not up there but she's sincere whatever she says she's speaking the truth from our hearts she's not trying to impress you and she's not trying to impress god do you know how many times people come here to impress god oh i love you love i love is that the truth so you know when i go to such fellowship and i see sisters [Music] as if they are angels these are the same girls when you go to their house the way they will shout on their house gear the way they will get annoyed with their husband but when they cry [Music] impressionable people but not impactable no we are not even trying to impress god it is not impression that brought you into this it was messy knowing that we have obtained this ministry not by merit no by qualification but by mercy i have nothing to protect i have nothing to protect some people when they come to me to my house for discipleship i tell them i said look i cannot because of you be wearing a masquerade i'm not intending to impress you i can only give you what i have so when you come to my house we don't try to make you special to eat anything different from what we are eating those of you that have come have we impressed you with anything in my house there is no water i tried we tried to get water but when there is no water what do we tell you guys when you come say look go and fetch water from the well and as they are fetching water so you carry a small bucket because there's no water you cannot actually have shower you only have that small pocket and we we teach you how to use small bulb to put water on your head it's strange it's strange you see yesterday when there was no light here several of you were panicking you're wondering i relax because for me i'm used to that i'm used to having no light even for hours even for days so as soon as you came what did we give you we give you can do say light you can do we don't impress you we don't go into debt to go and get diesel to be running generator 24 hours because you are here no no no listen what brought me into what i am doing is mercy not merit if you cannot follow this way of discipleship as you see it leave it leave it it is mercy that brought us to what we are doing is nothing the kind of things that god does you can't trace it to any of us because the mercy of god if you see where we are sitting down to do a meeting full of dust we brought one young man from um from south africa one time to boco and when he went to where our media people were walking inside dust he looked he opened his mouth he said is this from these dusts that all these things that you people are producing is coming out this must be nothing but the miracle of god that's what we want everybody to know it's not merit it's not expertise it's messy it's messy some of you will be thinking that oh this kind of men that are international preachers when you go to their house oh everything is perfect nothing nothing when i brought these guys they slept in a house without floor eh felicia isn't it and i said i'm doing it deliberately so that you can know where you have come we don't need impressionable people it is not those things that brought us into what we are doing is messy i don't know why i only say oh how he loves me oh jesus loves me yes jesus loves me he loves me you i don't know why i only say oh how he loves me i don't know why i cannot explain that this is why he loves me if it is merit you shouldn't be listening to me because there are people who are more sophisticated people who write in their jets if you when they are coming here you see powerpoint have you seen any powerpoint since you are here eh i don't have powerpoint i don't know how to use it honestly speaking that's not what gave me ministry it is messy and if it is messy we renounce hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness because it is mercy that is including you in what god is about to do renounce every hidden things of of dishonesty because you are not impressing anybody if it is impression oh let's decorate this place so that people can come let's do this so that they can be coming for our meeting i will never come here again anytime i see you doing things that is beyond your ability i will leave you because i'm not interested in hypocrisy for any work to be denied it has to be genuine you've got to be genuine you've got to be sincere it is nothing that is bringing people it must be the mercy of god that draws people and as you see me here i will speak to presidents i will speak to people all over i don't need to change because what will bring them is mercy it's not anything else not working in craftiness hallelujah no handling the word of god how deceitfully you see you know why i need to say this to you guys god has decided to include you by mercy and those who have received ministry by mercy not by gimmick not by merit not by hard work they need to justify that it is mercy we don't want to be doing painting so that people can come that's why that's why since you have been coming have you seen my photograph eh i don't want to impress you have i allowed you to tell the people how big the work we are doing in nigeria we don't want to impress you because not impression that brought us is the mercy of god so even there are thousands and thousands of people that are coming for meetings it's not important because that's not what will bring you it's only if god has mercy on us and he said go and listen to this man we don't impress you by preaching some fluffy message fluffy hallelujah god is here god is going to bless somebody here glory to god amen hallelujah yay there's a millionaire in this meeting today hallelujah hallelujah fluffy message fluffy as if that is what would gather people no we have obtained this ministry by mercy those who have obtained ministry by mercy they are different by from those who are struggling to enter ministry by by impression by bribery and corruption by by by artificiality by we are different we are different i'm different from them some know how they are getting their ministry by begging for sponsorship by begging members by promising them promotion by appointing them to arbitrary positions so that they can be coming like some of you now if we want to make you to be coming here regularly so that you feel sense of something we say director of ministries we will give you nothing of such because we we have not been brought into this ministry by bribery and corruption mercy brought us the message that brought us we bring us audience that's why we don't promote anybody here that's why you see there are chiefs that sat here did we mention their name and say okay let them come and just give us a special word no we don't need that we don't need that governor's come for a meeting i call judges come senior advocates come vice chancellors are there many many professors are sitting in the meeting do you what do we do for all of them everybody sees now sit down if you are annoyed that you are not recognized don't come again you know the reason you don't know the reason we have received this ministry by mercy not by merit if it is by merit you've got to maintain it i get to me if it is by impression you've got to keep that impression if it is by by connection you've got to maintain the connection are you understanding that now if you got some people to be in your church because you gave them a position you must maintain them in that position otherwise they will be annoyed but we have not received this ministry by merit but we receive by mercy since it is the mercy of god when god began to talk to me i said you cannot enter into what i've called you to do unless you obtain mercy i had nobody to teach me like i'm teaching you now nobody taught me about that when god said but i have called you but there's a problem i say what is it you cannot enter into what i've called you to do until you obtain messages why do i need mercy why do i need mercy i'm already leaving my job i'm living my convenience do i still need mercy god's er you don't understand you don't understand you know are you i thought that because i left my job i am already suffering that that is enough for god to consider it and say yes this boy has already left something so we must compensate him ministry for me is not a compensation god doesn't compensate anybody there's nothing you give to god that god has to pay you back you need mercy so i began to need and i said god have mercy on me nobody will listen to me if you don't mention me nobody will read my book if you don't have mercy on me nobody will come to the meetings if you don't have mercy on me what was dragging some of you here you don't know is the mercy of god on me people say what are you going there for how are you driving all the way from malawi to that place what are they giving you what is it all about what are they doing can you show us the photograph have you ever seen any photograph here eh you are not talking to me you have seen anybody coming to take your photograph to go and put it in a magazine no we didn't receive ministry by propaganda we didn't receive ministry by publicity one of the things that some of you will complain about is that our publicity is too poor i right because we are not on the television we are not on the internet to to say yes something is something serious is taking place um tata for jesus biliakani storms um tata with heavenly message no that's not what gave us ministry what gave us ministry brothers and sisters mercy [Music]

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Published: Sat Feb 13 2021