Soar: Eagles and Winds

[Music] today on excellent leadership with Samedi ma was current at 10:13 says there is no temptation that has come to you but such as is common to man but God is faithful he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear he will with the temptation also make a way of escape in other words storms are custom made yours is different from mine but God will never allow you to experience a storm that is too much for you he said you've been designed we're the team that will overcome this Thomas inside you already listen the best of a human being does not come out until you in trouble Isaiah chapter 40 verses 29 to 31 it's on the screen let's go he gives back to the weak and to those who have no might he increases strength even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young man shall utterly fall but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not fail amen you tassel our discussion today Eagles and wins Eagles and wind we have emphasized the fact that egos prefer to saw than to flap their wings we said likewise the Christian life is designed to be run on the platform of grace for the last time we said that we should try not to celebrate in put modern we celebrate output in other words sometimes we celebrate our efforts we don't focus on the results so we derive ferment from making a lot of effort but sometimes those efforts don't necessarily bring results and and that doesn't make us strategic because the Eagle is strategic it has strategic vision and it does not waste its energy it waits carefully for a wind strong enough to come by and then it uses the wind to rise so it sauce more than it flaps however let's approach it from the other angle today when the wind comes before the Eagle gets to the height where it will soar it has to flap all right it has jump off from the branch of the tree it has to spread its wings and it has to do a little bit of work good so this is encouragement for the Christian who loves to receive visions receive dreams receive prophetic blessing you know receive prophecies but who does nothing I came to encourage you to please not waste God's wings like we learned about the ego it's not all the time that the wind is there we said one of its qualities is its precious that sometimes it's waits for hours before it will get the right wind sometimes it waits for days so we we realize also that the Eagle is very sensitive to storms it has the capacity to sense a storm long before anybody knows there is going to be a storm when the storm is coming the long way of the Eagle picks it we need to maintain our sensitivity okay we maintain our sensitivity true fellowship with the Holy Spirit we fellowship with the Holy Spirit through prayer through fasting and through meditation in God's Word and of course coming into the company of believers where were inspired when we worship and praise God and where God's Word is being taught we need to maintain our sensitivity but when the wind comes we need to learn to jump a div' to take action this is very important James chapter 1 verse 22 James the Apostle said be doers of the word and not hearers only he said deceiving yourselves so it is deception in fact self-deception for you to know what you're supposed to do for God to give you a vision give you a dream give you an instruction and for you to do nothing about it I say that the gap between what you know and what you do is the measure of your self-deception your success will remain in potential for your promotion your breakthrough will remain in potential form when this church was started the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said imagine a car that is suspended in the air the ignition is on the Jay is engaged he said axillary toe is down so the tires are spinning fast he said but the car is going nowhere because the tires are not touching the ground he said that is a description of the spiritual lives of many Christians he said they have a lot going for them in the realm of the Spirit they pray the fast they confess there's a lot going for them in the realm of the Spirit he said but physically they are not effective he said because the arroba is not touching the road they are too theoretical in their approach to their christianity so my passion is for application I don't want to fit that will not impact on my life of what uses it preaching a message on Sunday that people will forget on Monday morning simply because it does not connect with their lives okay so when the wind comes the Eagle still has to do its own part it needs to jump into the wind it needs to take some action I want to encourage us to combine strategic vision with strategic action the Eagle yes has strategic vision but it also must take strategic action to see any results I was watching some videos some days ago and it was the behavior of an eagle when a storm comes while other birds dived for cover the Eagle dives into the stop and literally just plays enjoy the storm so I was watching somebody you know was recording an ego you know that was just I mean it was just sorry like that in the stalk that's what it should be like for a Christian you don't run away from challenges my pastor said once just because we taught Christians to believe and to confess some people that's what they sat down with believing and confessing I believe it I confess it I receive it but they don't do anything then we start a business they won't apply for a job they won't go at really matters they won't sell anything so he said so some of our brethren have confessed and confessed and now they have become confused don't waste the wind that God sends you don't waste your season don't waste your opportunity put in the required effort to maximize your opportunities see we caught some wins in this chart before year 2000 or August past Anakin highway in Dubai on vacation and I was asking the Holy Spirit some questions I said coming to the end of the fifth year of our church what do you have for us for the sixth year and I began to study in the Bible everywhere that 6th year of course and then I think it was Leviticus 25 and then God was talking to Israel so I was reading it and the scriptures were jumping out at me I need the Spirit of God was speaking to me the seventh year will be your year of rest you will not plant anything you will not to reap anything I said Wow the year of rest thank you lord I said what it's the 60 I'm asking about you're talking about the severed and I right behind the passage it says well just in case you are wondering what you will eat there in this 70 year he said there in the 6th year I will give you the harvest of 3 years I said Holy Spirit what does that mean for us he said I'm going to give you acceleration I said what it will take three years to accomplish our accomplish it in the next 1 years oh thank you Jesus thank you Jesus what do we do is that as soon as we get back home the first pastors meeting fix a date for breaking into two services were running only one service then and trusting God for more people to come to church I was expecting the church to fill up for every seat to be taken every space to be taken maybe to even have a few people standing then we could break the services we were not there yet you know even when the church seemed fool it was just simply because the average person was sitting in business class or first class what I mean is everybody had a lot of space we spread the chest out so the judge was in full yet but the spirit said start to services so we got back September the first meeting which was a date October 15 yeah mm so we started and then it was like what happened cause between two said I was seen the figures jump every Sunday between two Sundays I remember the particular week between two Sundays the figures jumped by 300 people and we had no special program I said where did they come from Wow in six weeks both services were packed out then we started the third service and then we started the fourth one so we moved from running one service to running for services in just 10 months it was a wind okay the Spirit of God sent us a wind and we cut on it through obedience we caught on it through action okay not waiting for perfect conditions you wait for perfect conditions you never get anything done according to 80 CSS 11 verse 3 or verse 4 so my encouragement this morning is that we should not waste those opportunities that God is sending to us when God does his part he expects us to do our part and our part is action amen it's not a strength thing for you to invest a lot of energy when you are just starting of a venture it's not a strange thing for you to invest a lot of energy and the take-off point it takes a lot of effort takes a lot of hard work that's normal so some time ago I was on this flight from Abuja and sitting right next to me was on the teju baby face so as the plane was taxiing on the tarmac to take off they just tell you that this is the part of line that I don't like I said yeah the takeoff he said yes I don't like it I said this is the part of line that I enjoy best very weird person sir I said what are you afraid of he said you were the one that taught us that some laws are superior to others and that when the superior law kicks in it suspends the lower one partially or fully so you said that when the plane takes off it's the loss of aerodynamic you know so spending gravity partially that's why the plane is able to take off so obviously when the plane is taking off aerodynamics is struggling with gravity so he said my prey at that point is the aerodynamics must not fail well interestingly why I enjoy it is the amount of power that the airplane puts out to take off taking off from zero to this speed at which it takes off it's a lot of power you can feel it I can't that's why they they shot down the lights shut down everything so the power can be concentrated it rose to a particular speed and then takes off climbing up requires Peraza you can feel it until it gets to cruising level so it it there is nothing extraordinary happening to you if you have to spend all your money if you have to spend all your time if you have to do all day and walk all night if you have there's nothing strange about that to overcome impetus the power that keeps you at a particular position you need more energy than it takes to maintain momentum if you've ridden a bicycle before you understand what I'm talking about putting the required effort the required energy okay don't waste grace first Corinthians 15 verse 10 Paul the Apostle said but by the grace of God I am what I am and His grace toward me was not in vain grace can be wasted he says but I laboured more abundantly than day Oh yet not i but the grace of God which was given to me so Paul the Apostle that was given unusual grace matched it with unusual able to maximize the grace so today when Pastor nikka does real woman seminar Legos humans I'm in Atlanta it sounds really nice the take-off was not like that it was a when oh sure I should go but she decided she was going to do it and rented some small space at a restaurant on Allen Avenue acacia and Legos that could take 70 people and some people don't realize the reason why they overwhelm themselves is because they are comparing themselves with people that have been there for a long time the fact that you are reading my book now and written this reading the stories there does not mean that it is I wrote there happened now you need to track the timing very well okay so you don't frustrate yourself everybody season is different so start small start small you say you want to start a okay I own is excellent a Leadership Conference is excellence and customer service conference okay so how do I gave you to add rent a small space she rented a place that could take seventy people and then informed people and that day I think my estimation was about about 120 or so showed up because the place was packed out and people were standing outside and standing right up to on the steps to the ground floor that's it that would be encouraging to you the place was packed out if they ask you how did it go - it was a breakthrough - tell brick true the place was packed out people couldn't even find where to start you don't tell anybody any figure the place was bad people can't even comment attitude is very critical in this matter I'm very critical so I was watching this video you know during the week of an ego a golden eagle and it was an experiment in the studio somebody held the ego then at the opposite end they had a fan that blew air set up at the highest point the fan was blowing at 20 miles per hour they wanted to see how the ego would respond to the wind the Eagle just spread its wings like that tilted it at some angle straight the feathers so they focused the camera you know on those wings focus the camera on his tail that sweat spread its tail and was literally floating on that wind the person holding the ego said I can't even feel the weight of the Eagle anymore see Eagle has been designed to handle the wind you've been designed to handle the storms that are coming your way and for you it may not be wings or tail for you it is attitude for you to your thoughts it's your emotions and there's a place you will position yourself the storm will knock you down but as a place you'll position yourself internally in your mind and the very storm that is running about our people down is what you will use to fly to fly or to swap yeah adversity comes for a purpose first I believe that challenges come to separate people that are serious about their dreams from the ones that are not serious about their dreams or their aspirations some people don't realize that when the challenges come they want to separate the people who have strong desires from those that have Mia wishes okay secondly somebody said in the face of adversity some developed wings others go for crutches lots of people use their challenges as excuse for their failure there is no me it's because of the problem I had 1st Corinthians 10:13 says there is no temptation that has come to you but such as is common to man but God is faithful he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear he will with the temptation also make a way of escape in other words storms are custom made yours is different from mine but God will never allow you to experience a storm that is too much for you he said you've been designed we're the team that will overcome this tom is inside you already listen the best of a human being does not come out until you're in trouble we are like tea bags you put tea bag in cold water you'll get nothing when you put the tea bag in hot water that's when they anointed the juice the value of the tea will come out I say that the fastest human beings will not be discovered at the Olympics I don't think so if you have the opportunity of holding a stopwatch when someone comes face to face with a liar in the forest you will find the fastest man in the wall I'm telling you whoa when you find yourself in hot water in challenges you never thought you would your genius will come out it's this the challenges that bring the best out of us did I hear you say MA this storm didn't come to run you down it came to get the best out of you don't let adversity bury your dreams James chapter one verse two the first time I read it as a young Christian I was surprised I thought they made a mistake right in that verse in the Bible brethren count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations trials intelligence I should be counting it joy that I have trouble there's knowing this that the trial of your faith works specious that's it it's a matter of perspective it's how you see it okay it's how you see it it's attitude when I say these days I can never be poor again the rest of my life for some people it doesn't make much difference it's of course except if you mismanage the opportunities that God has given you now why should you be poor again the rest of your life I think that's what some people be thinking but I began to make that statement as a jobless graduates finish you service almost two years come get a job and Fort mental battles but through prayer after God spoke to me showed me my future Clell and I could tell people broadly I could I could despise the situation defied the circumstances I can never be poor again the rest of my life I was telling people I'm not a local champion I'm not the look I wasn't living in Legos then I was in the backside of the desert oh yeah I said you know I'm going to the wallet I'm not a local champion I'm going to the world James chapter 1 verses 2 & 3 in the message Bible it says consider it a shared gift friends when tests and challenges come at you from all sides you know that under pressure your faith life is forced into the open and shows its true colors I like that he that is you is greater than he that is in the world let me round up by saying this you must never assume that because some people super achievers because life is easier on them never make that assumption it would be a wrong assumption never assume that it's because things are easier for others that's why they are succeeding as much as they are succeeding you will be amazed when they tell you their stories why Yoruba adage says the bigger the head the bigger the headache some people don't realize the reason why God will not give you bigger challenges along with the bigger blessings and opportunities that come with them is because the small ones have almost killed you God is doing you a favor by not promoting you because of what you have shown your anticipates with small challenges never assume that it is because things I easier for people that's why they are succeed in the way they succeed never it's not more my stories that you have had cause I'm not my business to bore you with my challenges on t well the stories have changed to break through then they can be inspiring some years back right at an airport in Europe and the whole family had done Christmas Day we had just left some nine days or so before and I arrived for some it was a business trip and like joke it was like joke you know it was like and then they were asking me questions and asking me questions told me to wait brought someone who began to interview me then brought somebody else who said I need to check to your things check through my hand luggage checked through my bags you know took me back sit down brought somebody else I checked all through again everything before they took me in interviewed me and then detained me at the airport for the whole day and then cancelled my visa and said they were sending me back to Nigeria oh yeah so the earliest flight I could find to Nigeria was going to Abuja so I got on that flight I visa cancelled shipped back to Nigeria when I arrived in Abuja as we're walking out of the aircraft the head of the cabin crew when I got there said Reverend you won't be able to work out easily like that these two gentlemen you have to go with them they were officials of the Niger emigration they had been informed that there was somebody on the plane that was their customer so it's just that when the treatment Amazo me daddy what happened what happens up let's go let's go out tell you this story we have is a council okay so when I was wondering it seemed like just a few weeks later you know this powerful minister of the gospel if I mention is name everybody here would know him flew in private jet in the same country and they told him to go back like a dog and he had a conference not in that day he had to record a message by video inside the aircraft that he went to play quickly arranged people that would do the preaching because they told him to fly back to his country okay you won't hear that right so everything seems smart and you don't realize it is because of that capacity to master storms that capacity to dive into the storm and use it you don't even realize it is this talk that we're riding on like that you can can you system you can see the wind now you only see the ego like come on so far like the some friends and I went to prayer city the Kings were international presence and I when they had just bought their new property massive beautiful thing that's we walked by would pass the Mathieu Chuvalo ah one of us said Lord do my own pass the matter said be careful how you say that prayer before you commit my blessing be sure you are not coveting my trouble listen whatever it is that is running order P put down this year heaven will cost you to write oh right and the thin that is knocking people down is what God will use to push you up this year the one that God trouble but did not understand its purpose i prophesy by the power of the Spirit of God that in the name of Jesus Christ as you see God working in your life and you choose to obey Him whether it is convenient or not whatever was a talent before this service I declared has become your step isto what was meant to be your season of trouble has become your season of promotion what was impossible before this service has become possible now if Satan stole anything from you I declare your season of restoration is here that thing that has been so rough about your life that people have been talking about some have criticized you some of assaulted you alright I declare by the power of the Spirit of God they saw you down they will see you sorry the days of slander the days of mockery the days of shame those days are over that days of celebration are here i prophesy the heavens are open over you receive wisdom like you never did before receive visions like you never did before receive dreams like you never did before in the mighty name of Jesus Christ your season of promotion is here Thank You Heavenly Father would you like to share your thoughts with us on 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Published: Wed Jun 06 2018