Thank you, Jesus. Let's kindly take our seat. We give praise and we give glory. We give praise and we give glory.
In the house of God, there is liberty, there is peace, there is freedom, and there is fullness of joy. Hallelujah. And that is the whole essence of fellowship. Hallelujah.
He does more in the body when we come together. And he does with a single presence in Hallelujah. Let's acknowledge the presence of our Father. With a standing ovation, the most reverend, Dr.
Richard and Dr. Deepak. We say good morning and we are so welcome this morning. We thank God for your life.
We celebrate you for how good you are to all of us. Thank you so much for this privilege. I'm so honored and let's recognize the presence of our mama, mama, mama, mama, hallelujah. Let's do it all for the reverend and the status as well.
Let's kindly take our seat. Hallelujah. Lord bless you so much for being in the presence of God this morning. It is a joy to wake up, to see the sunlight every day.
Hallelujah. It's a blessing. It's a blessing. It's a blessing.
This is a year of excellent and lifting up Hallelujah. I bring you no other message but the message the Lord declared on to all of us from the beginning of the year. Hallelujah. Concerning what a year is all about.
Hallelujah is a year of excellence. Hallelujah. And this morning the Lord will want will have me remind all of us once again. In case we have forgotten the Lord will have us have me remind all of us that things will have to be done the prescribed way.
Hallelujah. For whatever lifting that must come to us individually. Hallelujah. Year after year we received the word of the Lord to carry us through and this year was without exception.
Hallelujah. And the Lord said it's a year of excellence and is a year of lifting up. Hallelujah. And we want to look at what excellence is all about.
Hallelujah. If the Lord is saying that the year is about excellence and lifting up what are we to expect or what are we to do? Hallelujah. Because this is the word of the Lord.
Hallelujah. And it's prophetic. Everywhere of God is prophetic. Hallelujah.
Because the man of God goes to God, spent time with God, spent time in his presence and the Lord speaks to him. Hallelujah. It is not what he thought or it's not something he went to read and then came to tell you. But it's something he received directly from God.
Hallelujah. And that makes that word prophetic because it came by the Spirit, not of the will of man. Hallelujah. And that word must be fulfilled.
Hallelujah. We must situate that word comes to pass in our life so that we can also experience the blessing. Everywhere of God that comes to us carries a blessing. Everywhere of God carries a blessing.
Now if we are diligent to do what the word prescribe or if we are diligent to adhere to what the word is demanding from us then we also partake of the blessing. Hallelujah. And this yet the Lord is calling all of us to excellence which means things must be done in an outstanding way. Hallelujah.
Look at whatever you are doing now or whatever you have been doing from the previous year. Whether you are a student, whether you are a worker, whatever you do. The Lord wants you and I to look at that thing critically well. Hallelujah.
And do it in a way that it cannot go unnoticed. Because when we talk about excellence we are talking about that which is outstanding. Hallelujah. In the midst of all you can spot that thing alone.
It's distinct. Hallelujah. So another word for excellence is what? Distinction.
Hallelujah. So look at what you are doing either in your office, in your home, ministry, whatever you are doing. The Lord is saying look at it again. Hallelujah.
Because in that very thing you are doing there is a lifting up coming. Hallelujah. There is a lifting up. There is a blessing.
There is a unique blessing in that thing coming up. Hallelujah. With the ice of the flesh you can see it. Hallelujah.
The word of God gives us direction. It's only the word of God that can tell us where we are going and what to expect from where we are going. Hallelujah. So we say excellence and lifting up.
So two things. Hallelujah. Telling us what we have to do and what we have to anticipate. Hallelujah.
So look at what you are doing again and do it well. And let it stand out. Hallelujah. Now excellence like I said earlier is the quality of being outstanding or extremely good.
It means that you strive to be the best you can be and to do the best you can do. Excellence reflects moral virtue and therefore strive towards what is positive, valuable or praise-ready. Hallelujah. It strives.
You must strive. In other words when excellence comes to mind that is where it is. You must put in more effort. When children's results come you see good, you see bad, you see very good, you see excellent.
Hallelujah. So one of my nephews results recently, Oprah Ponce's result, I think I saw something, said beyond something, said this one, there is beyond excellence. It was my beyond something. I forgot the word they used.
I was like wow. Which means he put in more effort. Hallelujah. What you do can be good.
It can be very good. But beloved, excellent brings some level of attraction. Hallelujah. You can all sing.
Let me take sinking for example. But it will take something special for your sinking, your style of sinking alone to be appreciated by all people. Hallelujah. Though everybody is singing, we can all be engineers.
But it will take something unique, something special for one particular engineer to be sought out for at all time. It's because what they are doing, what they are doing, with some level of touch. Hallelujah. And that is what the Lord is calling all of us onto in this year.
Hallelujah. That we should look at what we are doing again. Hallelujah. Because it's taking us some way.
Let us not do it anyway. Hallelujah. Let us not do what we are doing anyway. Anyhow.
And if by chance you drop something you used to do, this is time to pick it up again. Hallelujah. This is the time to take it up. Because whatever the Lord has said, he would do with your life, it is through that thing.
So if you stop it, you have to go back for that thing. Hallelujah. Joseph did not know how he was going to get to where the Lord has promised him. Hallelujah.
He had a very big dream. The dream was big. But how to get there? So one thing you realize about God, throughout Scripture, in most places, God doesn't reveal the process.
He only speaks the end so that you can use the end to inspire and comfort and encourage yourself. So that even when you feel down or you fall down along the line or in the journey or you make a mistake, you can look or make reference to what he said, get up, dust yourself up and then move on. So the end vision is very, very important. Hallelujah.
The end, even our Lord, He looked at the end. He says, for the joys set ahead of Him or before Him. He endured, He despised the shame. Hallelujah.
So let's look at what we are doing again. Hallelujah. We've not been called to an ordinary life. So all of us must strive for whatever you are called to do, for whatever you are doing, for whatever you have studied, whatever skill you have.
Beloved, it is time to strive harder. Hallelujah. It is time we strive harder. Do not allow anything to weigh you down.
Hallelujah. Let us not allow anything to weigh us down. Let us not allow anything to discourage us. Hallelujah.
If you fall seven times, rise up seven times and keep going. Hallelujah. Because what is ahead is glorious, amen? So let's look at what we are doing.
Let's look at it again because excellence is not a wish. To be excellent at what you do, you can't just wish to be excellent. No. You put to work, into it.
Hallelujah. Whatever you are doing, you put to work, into it. Every great person has done something over and over and over again and they kept at it. Hallelujah.
They made mistake, they failed, but they continue. Hallelujah. Because once you can see the target or what you are aspiring, once you can see that vision, it propels you to keep going. Hallelujah.
So we are we are being called to put in more effort. The Lord commands our good works and all that we are doing, but He's asking for more. Hallelujah. He's asking us to do more.
And for us to do more, like I said, we need to put in more effort. Even in grace, you must grow. Hallelujah. Even in grace, we confess grace, grace, the Bible says, grow in grace and in the knowledge of God, which means put more effort.
Even in grace, put more effort. Because growth comes with what? Effort. If you don't make effort, if a child wants to work, he stands for us.
He gets up. Until he begins to work and he perfects it. Hallelujah. So even in grace, we need to put in more effort.
Otherwise, we will be at one place in grace. Hallelujah. He said, grow in grace, which means there are levels of grace. We must occupy so that our light will shine in a unique way that people will come asking of you.
What is your secret? Hallelujah. The man of God says that if you put a candlelight in a football field, he says, though you've put on a light, but that light cannot brighten the whole place. Hallelujah.
You need to move to higher light. So our Lord Jesus says, let your light so shine. He didn't just let your light shine. He said, let it so shine.
And if He has to so shine, it means you must do something so much. Hallelujah. We have to do more than we are doing. Hallelujah.
We have to put in more effort in our individual life where we are going as a Christian and as a child of God. We have many examples in the Bible we can look at. Our scripture for this is Daniel 6, 3. In Daniel 5, 11, he said, there is a man in the kingdom in whom is the spirit of the Holy Ghost.
And in the days of the light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him, whom the kingdom of the king, the book of Nisa, the king I say, the father made master of the magicians, astrologists, guardians, and soot, sayers. Hallelujah. Daniel stood out. Hallelujah.
He knew he saw us. So he connected stronger. Hallelujah. So this is the time to connect stronger to whatever the Lord is doing.
Hallelujah. How many of us are tied with the ordinary life? Some hands were hesitant. It's like you hesitate it doesn't mean that you kind of love the ordinary life a bit or you know that let's be tied with the ordinary life.
Hallelujah. Let's be tied with the ordinary life because what God has promised us is not the ordinary life. So when we are living the ordinary life is because we are comfortable and we become complacent. Hallelujah.
If Joseph had given up in the prison, trust me, he would have kissed a goodbye too. He'd become the Prime Minister or the world leader at the point. Hallelujah. But because he had a dream, he had a dream.
He had a dream. Hallelujah. For our father to come this far, definitely he had a revelation. To be in ministry for over 40 years, that's a lot.
Hallelujah. That's a lot. It means he had a revelation. He had a vision.
He was giving something special, something unique. Hallelujah. We need to do much more than we are doing. Hallelujah.
Because one of the benefits of striving harder at whatever we do, it makes people see the essence of our God. Because when we remain at the same level, at the same place, people question our God. You say great things and big, big things about your God. But we can't even see some of those things in your own personal life.
When it comes to that point below it, you don't need arguments or debates. You don't debate with them. You only go back to your closet, hide there and call upon your God. Hallelujah.
There are times your mouth must keep quiet and let your life speak. Hallelujah. Because when your life speaks, it becomes much more better. Far better.
Hallelujah. We must take things seriously. Because something is a stick. The testimony of our Lord is a stick.
Hallelujah. We can experience the best of God when we strive harder to excel us. Hallelujah. You may be here.
Some part of your body is afflicting. It means you must press harder in God. Hallelujah. I believe in divine healing.
I do. I do because that provision is made available. So if it's made available, why can't I benefit from it? That's why I question myself.
So if I'm not benefit from it, it's because I'm not pressing harder. It's just by his stripes, you were healed. So how come we are experiencing affliction? It means we are not striving harder.
Maybe we are comfortable. Something is making us comfortable. And it's about time to identify what is making us comfortable. Because there are things in life that will make you so comfortable that the approach must give to the word of God.
You lose it. The faith that you must yield to the word of God. You lose it. Because something is compensating for that.
Something is compensating for that. Hallelujah. So let's strive harder. Let's strive deeper.
In our pursuit of God, Hallelujah. Because what becomes of our life is critical. Like I said, Elia, people will appreciate our God better when they see what is happening to our lives. Hallelujah.
So for God calling us to excellence, our life is another avenue for evangelism. Hallelujah. What happens to our life? The transformation, the changes, the increase, the progress.
This thing is testified. Hallelujah. It testifies to the world. Hallelujah.
It is up to us to prove the word of God. God has nothing to prove to the world. But we must prove the word of God by our obedience, by our faith, by our allegiance, by total surrender. Hallelujah.
So now what the word says? People can see it. Hallelujah. It is not enough.
Speaking to people about who the Lord is anymore. Let them see it for themselves. Hallelujah. If we preach power, let's demonstrate power.
If we preach prosperity, let's strive stronger and harder in God. Hallelujah. So that we will experience this prosperity. Hallelujah.
Let's follow what we must follow. Let's do what God says we should do. Let's take heed to every instruction that comes from our Father in this house. Hallelujah to us.
Because the testimony of the Lord is our stake. The Lord wants to make us bosses, masters, in our various jurisdictions. Hallelujah. Whether you are a student, whether you are a career person, whether you are a minister of the gospel, the Lord wants to enthrone each one of us.
Even in our homes, in our families, Hallelujah. That it will come to a point where when there is something wrong, the first person they call is you. Hallelujah. Just like it was in the case of Daniel.
When the king was troubled, there's only one person that comes to mind in the kingdom. He says, the Hebrew boy, he has an excellent spirit. He knows something the rest don't know. Beloved, that must be our life.
Hallelujah. And if that must be our life, it means we must look at what it did. Hallelujah. They were all men of diligence.
What they were given from the beginning, they held onto it tight and they work with it well. Hallelujah. One of the benefits of doing what you are doing very well is because not only that you are preparing for yourself, but you are also perfecting yourself in nothing. You are perfecting yourself.
If you do it any way, anyhow to, you realize that you'll be where you are. So you just don't do it for somebody to notice you, but you do it to perfect yourself. So at any point in time when you are called upon, or somebody needs that particular thing, you'll be the first person. They will call.
The first person. Hallelujah. Are you in the market place? There must be a reason why when everybody is coming to the market.
They are coming directly to you. Not that they want to go around in the market looking for the same product and then when they can't find them, they just know. It means when they set down from the house, they know who they are coming to direct because when you are looking for the best, it is without person. Hallelujah.
We are being called to excellence. Hallelujah. We might be comfortable in our own self now. And when we are that place, it simply means we've lost sight of where God is taking us.
Just like Israelites. God delivered them leading them. They kept complaining. Some became so comfortable.
They said they wanted to go back. When you behave this way, it means you've lost sight of what God is doing and where God is taking you. Hallelujah. The top is our place.
Hallelujah. The top. Even if we don't know anything, one thing that is sure, the top, our father always makes a declaration of our life. He says, we can only go up.
We cannot come down. Hallelujah. So if you are down at any point in life right now, it means you must move higher. Even if you are the highest position, you must move higher.
Hallelujah. We must move higher, higher, higher, and higher. Because our Lord is the Messiah. So until you get to His level, it means you are not there.
Hallelujah. Let us not be tired. This morning I came to exhort us and comfort us with the word of God for the year that we should look at what we are doing again. Let's do it very well.
It is taking you somewhere. Hallelujah. It is taking you and I somewhere. The Lord knows that place.
You don't know that place. But thank God we know God. So follow God. Follow God.
Hallelujah. He knows the place. But we know Him. So let's follow Him.
And we will get there. Hallelujah. If you used to pray, small, please pray, Hadda now. If you used to spend small time with God, spend more time.
Hallelujah. That was the secret of the old men. Whatever the new was God. Daniel will always pray because that is the source.
We live in a world that is no longer safe. It is no longer safe. Everybody believes in different things now. Hallelujah.
And they keep to what they believe and faithful to it. So you and I also, this God we have, we must keep to Him and we must be connected stronger. Hallelujah. Because that is the only way we can work stronger and stronger day by day.
Hallelujah. Let us not wait for something bad to happen before we are running to God. Those times should be over. Hallelujah.
When we are, when you are free, you are in peace and you don't have any trouble. We love it. Build a stronger connection with God so that He can begin to tell you what is ahead. Five years, two days, one week, two weeks.
Even your children's destiny. He can begin to speak to you so that you begin to guide them. Now that they are young, you can begin to guide them so that when your children are growing, they are not confused about what, which way does you go? Because the Lord has spoken to you, the parent already.
So you begin just to guide them. There is always something to pray about. There is always something to go to God for. Hallelujah.
There is always something. Hallelujah. So let's get stronger, connected to our God. And let's do what we do.
Let's do it so well so that we can experience the lifting that comes with excellence. Hallelujah. The Lord bless you. And the Lord help us in this year to live up to His word.
Hallelujah. The Lord help us in our endeavors to do the needful. The Lord grant us strength. Hallelujah.
Strength to carry on. If you fall, get up. Hallelujah. Be careful of discouragement.
Don't be discouraged. Hallelujah. The Bible says, whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly onto the Lord. So in this year, whatever we do, or whatever you want to do, see God.
Because he alone will reward you. Hallelujah. Only God's reward is sufficient. But men's reward cannot match up to God's reward.
Hallelujah. So when you are doing or whatever you are doing, do it looking up onto God. Hallelujah. It's about how I have shotly and pray for yourself.
Pray for yourself. But in this year, the Lord should help you in all that you have set your mind to do. And what He has asked you to do, the Lord Himself should grant you strength so that you'll be able to do what you do with a golden touch. So that when God looks down from heaven, He'll be able to see and spot what you are doing.
And reward you duly. It takes the strength of God. Pray for yourself. Ask for strength.
The year is still young. And the same God that has brought us this far, even in the year, is able to carry us even to the end. But pray. And ask for strength.
Before the year comes to an end, you will be built up in every area of your life you needed to be equipped. Someone will look at you in this year and can tell of what is changing. The various transitions you are going through. What God is doing with your life.
Let us be everyone's prayer. Pray for yourself. As God for grace, as God for strength. As God to grant you the hunger to carry in His presence.
As a businessman, as a businessman, you go before God in prayers and new ideas will be birthed. That you move from waking for somebody and now you own your own thing. Pray for that grace. It is the Lord that gives it a grace too.
As God for that grace. For He said, it is told Moses, I have called by name Bezalil of the Son of Eury and the son of the tribe of Judah and I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge and in all manner of craftsmanship. So the Lord is able to give ideas too. Ideas that will lead into powerful exclusion.
Pray for that this is our prayer.