Sunday Service | Nov. 8

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If you remember to do it, can you stretch your hand to the person beside you and said, good morning to you. Can you help appreciate their look? Celebrate the glory of God upon their lives. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Tell your neighbors say your season of harvest is here. I didn't hear that very well. So your season of advert is here. So your band shall be full. Your storehouse shall be full. Men, we come to celebrate with you. In Jesus' name. Let's put our hands together for the Lord Jesus. I believe you had a great time in the course of the week. And on Sunday, with the minister of the word of God, I was unable to be here 2 Sundays also. I had to be somewhere else. 3 Sundays ago, I also had to be somewhere else, but 2 Sundays ago, I was still here

before I went somewhere else. I'm so excited having you around today. And I know that God has something in store for celebrate Jesus, everyone. Praise the Lord. God has something to stop. Tell your people, say, God has something special for me today. I'm not going home empty handed. Say in fact, my blessing will be bigger than your own. Whatever you say, I don't care. But mine is gonna be bigger today. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord forevermore. So please, I'd like you to be very hopeful as we enter into the month of harvest. Somebody say harvest. The month of harvest. I'm gonna be saying just 4 things here. And then we're going to receive the word of God afterwards. And I want it to be open. My heart is heavy for you. This last two months of the year shall be a season of great harvest for you in Jesus' name. Quickly come with me. Let me look at the scripture or two, Proverbs 20:4.

Proverbs 20:4, he said the slug God will not plow by reason of the cold. Therefore, shall he beg in harvest and have nothing that shall not be a portion in Jesus' name. James 5:7, which is very key. James 5:7. He said, be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. He said, behold, the husbandman waited. For the precious fruit of the half and at long patience for it until you receive the early and the latering. Somebody say, I shall receive the early and the latering in Jesus' name. Father, in this short while as I share with your people, I ask God that your light will shine inside we come in Jesus' mighty name we pray. I'm not going to be preaching to you today for some reasons, uh, best known to me, so I want to be patient, but I want to drop something for you, uh, as much as my strength could permit me to do today so that you can be open to receive

the mission of the word of God we're going to receive today. As I said to you, I'm just saying 4 things, just giving you 4 points here. Now, well, this is the month of harvest. Now, the first thing you need to know when we talk about harvest is that harvest don't come until seeds are sown. Hello? Does that make any sense? We don't have harvest. Until it's a soul. If you and myself are going to be claiming harvest this month and next month. If we are going to be claiming harvest this season of the year, is from January, 10 months have gone, we're in the 11th month. If we are going to be claiming harvest, then we must check around what have I shown. What have I sown? What have I invested? We can mention harvest until there is clear-cut seed that has been sown. So the first thing I'd like you to see is this. Before harvest, there is what we call intentionality.

Can you write that down if you can? Intentionality So there was an intention that had been expressed in sowing seed. There has been something we have done clearly with an expectation. The seed we have sown with the vision that something will come out of it. Every worker at the beginning of every month starts to work, and at the end of the month, he's expected to collect salary. He labored for the 1st 30 days, and then at the end of the 30 days, he's expected something. Why? Because it is going to be the fruit of his 30 days, 25 days, 28 days of labor. So, there is an intention given to every action. So you and I, myself are going to be receiving harvest this year, I need to ask myself, we need to ask ourselves, what are the seeds we have sown. So before you think of harvest, count 123 seeds. So I'm asking you today right now, what seed have you sown from the beginning of this year?

Have you sown the seed of relationship? Have you sown any seed that is going to be back in quality relationship? Have you sown business seed relationship? Have you sown seeds of time in somebody's life? Somebody was sick, were you there to visit the person? Somebody was down financially, were you there to assist? Have you sown such seed? Have you sown the seed of help to people? Have you some business seed? Time invested is a kind of a business. Is our time just an expedition, is our life just an expedition of time? We're just spending time or is a quality investment to something? Are you in school? Are you learning a skill that after two years, you'll be out of that school and You have, you are sure of your skill. Are you doing something? Are you working towards something that you are looking at 2 years to come and doing a master, 2 years to come will be true,

1 year to come will be true. Is there any investment? Is there any seeds being sown towards a particular harvest? Praise the Lord Are you with me to this point? And we'll soon see. And so they see, it's not too late to go to school. It's not too late to read more. It's not too late to have added additional, I mean, added qualification. It's not too late. There has to be an investment, an intention towards something. And then at the end of the day, at the end of the year, at the end of 1 year, at the end of 6 months, we're having an harvest of a new certificate, and harvest of a new skill, and harvest of something. That we have really done. There has to be intentionality. What do you focus on? What do you face? What do you look at that you're expecting something to come out of? Praise the Lord forevermore. You do get that one answer. That's the first level to receiving. Number 2 level

is cultivation. You had sown the seed. Then you need to watch over the seed, the seedlings. You need to go there from time to time to weed, to weed the grass, to ensure that the things you have planted is not been eradicated. The, the speaker, this one who was leading us in the service was speaking about the Medianite, terrible people. The medianites at the end of the service and even take that prey upon home and raise the spirit of medianites. They come during seeding time. They come even during the time you're cultivating. They come also during the time of harvest. They just don't want you to be your best. Some people just want to come around. They see people have said there are some rodents, there are some animals. They don't go after your seed. They don't go after anything. By the time the thing is coming out fresh, that's when they begin to eat it. You need to learn how to protect.

How many of you know that sometimes when we are planting something in our house, in our, in our farm, and the rest of them, they used to do this net that covers the plants. Talk to me. Am I correct? Yeah? Thank you. They're all farmers. We are protecting the seed we have sown. We are protecting our investment, our efforts. Butolana, how to protect. That's the second level you cultivate, you defend, you protect the seed you have sown. You protect the effort you have invested in something. That's why when a woman, you see the state of a woman, right, from the time she got pregnant to the time she delivers, it's all about this process I'm talking about. It's all about this process. There's an intentional move. The pregnancy came in there through an intentional effort. And after that, you need to protect the baby inside. That's why sometimes they tell the woman for the next 3 months,

the first trimester period, sit down, don't go to work, don't go anywhere, don't visit any place, just stay at home. Am I correct, somebody? We are protecting the seeds that have been planted that is at the verge of growing. Then the third one is patience. I love this. Patience. That's why I shared that scripture for you. 5 verse number 8, patience. 9 months, the woman will carry the baby. Patience. You sow the seed, maize, you have to be patient. You sow some other plants, in 5 years, you have not started to reap. In 6 years, you have not started to reap. Even 12 years, you have not started to reap. Patience. Are you ready for the patients? Are you ready to wait? There's always a waiting period. If you're too in a hurry, ah, we planted this maize. Why is it not coming out? You want to go and begin to check. Is it still inside? It will kill the stuff. Allow for patience.

Somebody say patience. So they can say patience. When we give space for patience, that we're able to receive that which God has prepared for us. This is your season of harvest. Be patient for God to bring forth the harvest. You shall receive it in Jesus' name. How many of you are here today waiting for your harvest? I say you shall receive it in Jesus' name. Some of us have waited from the beginning of the year, you have sowed something, you have done some things. I'm saying to you, but this season of this year, you will reap your harvest in Jesus' name. Your harvest of goodwill, you will receive it in Jesus' name. Your harvest of effort in people's lives, you receive it in Jesus' name. Your harvest of business investment, I command receive in Jesus' name. Your investment financially effort-wise will not be vain over that business move in the name of Jesus. Somebody shout, I receive it.

And lastly, is the labor of harvest. Label of harvest. I love this. When a woman has been, has carried the pregnancy for, for 9 months, it gets to a stage of her life that the labor will come and the effort we come pain will come. And she needed just little 111 time effort. Just this one time effort. Oh, you've got to give this effort. The midwives will be there and say, just push. It's like, I don't have enough strength. Oh, you've got to get the strength. You've got to push now. I say, I don't have strength. I'm feeling weak. Oh, you can't afford to be weak now. At the point of birth, you can't be weak. At the point of delivery, you can't be weaker. Wherever the strength will come from, let it come from there because you just want to have. It's 12 to push out. There is a strength needed. There is a labor needed. There's an effort needed. There's a power needed at the last phase

of your harvest. Somebody will not be tired here. Somebody will not be tired here. Who am I talking to? I release gentle pony here. Somebody said, I've labored. I've tried from the beginning of the year. I've done this. This is 2 years now. Since 5 years now, and it seems as if God has not answered me. Look at what I've done now. Look at all the effort I've put in place. I thought by now so and so and so should be happening. I thought by now God would have done it. I thought by now so and so and so should have been done. But look at me. I'm tired. I'm fed up. No, don't be fed up because what is needed now is the labor for harvest. Someone say labor for harvest. Did I hear you were saying labor for harvest. There's a labor needed. There's a labor needed. When that labor comes upon women, the bad, giving bad, it becomes very strenuous. The pain was more, far,

far more than all the 9 months put together. The anguish becomes more. It's like the pain is here. The pain is here. The pain is everywhere. You can't even tell where. It's because you needed the strength. You needed the labor to push fully through. And after that push. Jesus said, by the time the woman is battered of the baby, the Bible says she forgets the pain she went through at the point of labor. How many of you know what I'm talking about here? I had an auntie many years ago when we were growing up. When this woman was to give birth to her firstborn, the woman shouted. Ishiduma cried and said, in fact, the pain was too terrible at the warding. By the time the woman came back here, she came back home, the woman said, Ah, forget it. No more child. Forget it. I yeah be mommimo niku niku me be mommimo. I don't know how many women here have promised themselves, said, ah, just one over

husband, no more, no more childhood. This one is enough, just this one. And then the same woman after some time.

You know what I'm talking about? What you gonna mean? Right. Somebody who said I'm not gonna give birth to any child or come a man who. Counted 5 children who Because when you feel that labor, it's like, hey, I can't go through this again. But the beauty of having given birth, the beauty of being a mother, the beauty of that child, the beauty of you being the mother of a son, mother of a daughter becomes too much. You forget about the pain of the labor. Is somebody going to celebrate here today. I welcome you here, ladies and gentlemen. I welcome you to a season of celebration. It doesn't matter the labor you're gonna go through. It doesn't matter the pain you're gonna go. But the joy of your harvest will be too good, to be too great for you not to celebrate. Welcome to your time of harvest. Who am I talking to here today? Stand to your feet. Welcome to your time of harvest.

My time of harvest is here. I will not mind the labor I'm gonna go through. I will keep that strength. I will keep that energy. I will keep that power. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Lift your voice and pray. Yes, somebody, give God time. Pray for that strength. Pray for that vehicle you need. You need that strength. You need that vehicle. You need that energy. Your time is here. Your time is here. Your time is here. Your time is here. Some of you may need to just push a little more. You have been pushing before. You have not gotten the results, but just a little more push. You need just a little more push, and there you are. The joy will be full. The blessing will come. The hand of God will be upon you. Your time is here. Return the glory and praise lebrogazika totalinabobazia lebrobazika to.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Just make this last push, the power to push, the labor to push. Yes, your time is here. Your time is here. You will receive the grace. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. God blesses you. As I release upon you this morning. New strength, new grace, new patience to receive indeed your harvest in the name of Jesus. You will not miss your harvest. I said you will not miss your harvest. You have waited patiently for it. You will receive it in the name of Jesus. The strength required to push the last round, receive it in the name of Jesus. And your season of joy is here. Your season of celebration is here. Somebody shout out a savage. Put your hands together for Jesus. Still standing on your feet. Welcome with me today, Minister. Um, oh say me,

put your hands together for the midst of the Word of God. Hallelujah. It's gonna be ministering to us powerfully today. Hallelujah. Come over, come over, come over. Keep putting those hands together for the Lord.

You can do better, do it for Jesus. You can do better, do it for. Do it for Jesus. Do it for Jesus. Thank you, pastor I want to appreciate us who can have a seat in the presence of the Lord. Thank you, sir. The words are coming to us now. And I pray for more anointing upon you, fresh fire always. The Lord will keep you safe and sound and guide you in all your ways. And that which you desire, the Lord will bring to pass quickly in the name of Jesus. The Bible says the Lord is in the midst of her. And she will not be moved. That's in Psalm 46:5. And the Lord will help her, write Helen. I pray unto us and majorly to my pastor that the Lord that is in the midst of you, He will not make you to be moved in the name of Jesus, and you will never be put to shame in the name of Jesus. And the Lord will arise highly for you in the mighty name of Jesus. And to every one of us,

the Lord will arise highly for us in the name of Jesus. Psalm 19:. 3 says there is no voice. Or language Where there, there is no special language where their voice is not heard. The lines move through holy heads. I pray for our ministers, music, music ministers that your lines that go through holy heads in the name of Jesus right there. The Yoruba is said that Iro one labukwaega Iroya layega neuko Jesu. The music that you are giving us, sir, is heaven bound, and the world will hear you in the marty name of Jesus. Praise the Lord. I want to thank, uh, first of all. Our director of pastoral care. My pastor, our pastor, for this great privilege to minister on the horse this morning. And I know that it is God that has spoken unto him for me to come here. And I do not take it lightly, and I want to appreciate our ever supportive mama for the great work that he's doing on our daddy.

We thank you, ma'am. And my appreciation also go to the chapel administrator. He's my daddy, daddy of Bashimola. And when you look at that, he reading me, I drank under him directly because he was the head of uh minister in charge of counseling. So whatever you hear me say, it is skewn from him. I always get it from him. I'm my daddy, daddy, I would you do, you know, Daddy is always smiling and he always tell me one or two things and to my That they are not in absentia. So, and to my other colleagues, board of ministers, I appreciate you and I thank you so much for such a great privilege to stand this morning. And I'm going to be sharing on what pastor has shared. Someone once told me, they said, when the, when the pastor, our pastor, when the minister before you, there's nothing else for you to say. And today I confirmed it. Do you understand? So when they say the word is intentional,

it's just in line with what I have for us today. But anyways, I'm still gonna preach it because that is the word of the spirit for us, and we're going to take it and go on with it. So this morning I'm going to be speaking. On swing the sickle for the harvest is here. Swing the sickle for the harvest is here. I'm going to be taking two Bible readings, Mark 4:29 and Galatians 6:7. Galatians 6:7. So we take the first one, which is Mark 4:29. I don't know if the publication can reject it. Yes, he said Mark 4:29. He said, but when the fruit is brought forth. Immediately, he puts in the sequel. The harvest is come And I have on my side here. Ban Standard Bible and he was talking about swinging of the sickle and he said, and as soon as the grain is ripe, he swing the sickle because the harvest has come. And I'm telling you this morning that the harvest has come.

We are in the harvest. The number 2 Galatians 6:7. If we have it, let's just project it is that be not deceived. God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sweats, dashai hustle. I'm not going to dwell more about being not being deceived. God is not mocked. The pastor has talked about intentional. But I'm going to be going through from whatsoever a man's soul that he received. And so Heavenly Father, we thank you. We give you praise, for we know that the entrance of the world brings light and grants understanding onto the simple heart. Father, today we have the Lord, that your word will come unto us as lights. And it will illuminate every area of our mind in the name of Jesus right there, and it will open us up for the harvest that is around us in the mighty name of Jesus right there. Lord, help me to say this word in the way that you have given it unto me, that your people shall be blessed

and the glory shall come unto you. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for in Jesus mighty name we are prayed. Praise the Lord Church. Uh, let me welcome you again and also I want to welcome everyone online that is with us today at this meeting. So going forward, I'm gonna be looking at uh briefly what harvest is. The pastor has given us the definition, but for the purpose of this, I just want to say it in a way. Harvest majorly in an agrarian setting, agrarian community where agriculture is predominantly practiced. And in most parts of the rurals in Nigeria. That is what they do. Then we can also put harvest as a seasonal gathering. A seasonal gathering, something that comes with season, a seasonal gathering and harvest to some other fields of profession can be a resource collection. We are collecting resources like extractions of minerals, extractions of gold, extractions of silver, bosites,

anything, even crude is harvest. They are harvesting from what they have. And in the medical field, the doctors talked about extracting cells for research. They extract organs. So those are harvesting. They are harvesting something from what they have. In data analysis, when you have the gathering of automated information, when you automate information for collection for gathering, then it's also they are harvesting information from a source. And when it comes to software, the software management is the tracking and invoicing software programs which are used in businesses because you are collecting data and as you collect data, you process it. That is harvesting. Which also can be done manually. This is what Harvest is all about. Harvested on its own is not isolated. Harvest on its own It is not a prerequisite. Harvest is an end product. The pastor mentioned it,

but I'm only saying it for us to see that harvest is not a prerequisite. It's not the first thing to do. Harvest does not stand in isolation. Something must be done before you can have harvest. Harvest is the resultant result of an action. An action has to be in place for you to harvest. Harvest is the return in terms of restoration. Harvest is restoration. When they say harvest, that means something has gone ahead. And you want to retrieve it. Is it a seed that was planted? You have planted a seed, but you need to restore it. That is what harvest is talking about. Harvest is not an isolation. Harvest is not a prerequisite. Harvest is an end product. It comes at the end. Harvest is restoration and it's a resultant effect of an action. In science they say action and reaction are equal and opposite. But in harvest, they are not equal and opposite, but you know that the action

must go in first. The reaction that comes out of it is what becomes our harvest. And in my topic, I said swing the sickle. For the harvest is here. So I'm trying to break it down for us to understand what swinging the sickle means for the harvest is here. What do we mean when we say the harvest is here? The harvest is here expresses the fact that There is a time for sowing. There is a time for waiting. There is a time for praying. You can see the sequence. Our verse is here. You see, there is a time, it's expressing the time. When we sow. Then it's talking about another time when we wait. Then another time when we start praying for that we shall see. These times when it transformed. Into a time, a season of divine fulfillment. This kind of transition, we have a transition, a time transition when it transits

into a period of divine upliftment. Spiritual awakening and reaping, that is what is called the harvest is here. Harvest is here is a time factor. And I want to say to her that harvest is time bound. Harvest is time-bound. When we are talking about being transit treated into a season of divine fulfillment, spiritual awakening and reaping, then I'm saying unto us that harvest is time-bound. And this same harvest runs in circles. Harvest runs in circles, and somebody has, what do you mean by harvest run in circles? The truth of the matter is that every month of the year there is something that is available for farmers to sell. Every month of the year. From the path that I walk from. When it comes to January, February and March, they have a particular cash crop that is of huge and immense profit to those who engage in it, and that's cashew. Raw cashew nuts is

Like when you have gold at the moment. So in that part of the world, there are so much activities because they are harvesting a particular crop. And when it gets to mash, I can tell you because I get it from there, mangoes comes out. And the mangoes will run, you see a lot of trading around mango will run towards crab the April. When it's come to the middle of the year, I think orange. We begin to see orange, you begin to see a value more. All those things work and towards this time you begin to see cassava, but science has evolved. As science evolved, even cassava can be gotten every month of the year. And we have science involved until it gets onto us here, some of these crops that we talked about, we can be getting in every month of the year. Harvest is a circle for those who are on the white-collar jobs. 30 days circle, we receive our harvest.

Don't you know the salary that we receive is harvest? We harvest every 30 days. But for businessmen, they harvest every day, every day. And that's what they say that if you want to have money, if you want to be wealthy, do business. Because the harvest comes on a daily basis. On a daily basis, they can take the financial records of their sales and tell you today I make a margin of this, which is the profits. And the beautiful thing in there. Is that in the Episotes 5:9, it says the profits of the heads is for all. Even the king is far from it. I'm saying unto us that harvest is here. That is the word. Harvest does not have to be when we get to the December. Lord, the Bible says he crown it the year with goodness. And our paths run with fatness. Are we not moving every time? That means there is fatness upon our paths, but it crowned the year with its goodness.

And that is why we need to understand that in whatever we do, harvest is in circle. It can be every day, it can be in 30 days, it can be on a quarterly basis. You can make it on a half-year basis and you can say it's annual, whichever you want to do. I'm saying unto us, remember, harvest is here. Harvest is here. Harvest is here. Check around you. Harvest is here. Even Jesus, for you to know that harvest is 10 pounds. In John 9:4, he said he would do the work of Him that sent him because the night coming when no man can walk. You want to say to me in the developed world and I walk in the night. Good. I'm not arguing, but Jesus knows what he will say. That the 9th coming, the 9th coming where no man can walk. It can even imply in this instance of our age as human. A certain time, even government knows that you have to retire. When you retire, the 9th is there. With the harvest and not.

To take you home for the rest of the year. Sometimes even in business, if business is not automated, if you had a business, something happened, your shop has to be closed. How do you get back your harvest? We need to understand that a night coming when the man work. So we need to take hay by the hand, take hay and do what we need to do now. I moved to Swing the sequel. What is the sequel? For us that I did agricultural science in secondary school, we know what a sequel is. But for the benefit of those who don't know, I would say that a sequel is a simple farm tool. You can say a siku is an agricultural instrument or implement that is mainly used for harvesting grains. In those days, in the days of the Bible, which is more of agrarian, they do more of grains. They talk about wheat. They talk about barley, and this sickle is a sharp curved instrument, sharp curved blade

that is having a short handle. And if anyone else has seen it, it's something you just hold. And make it work for you. What is saying there is that swing the sickle. For farmers, they know what to do when they have to go into harvest. Swinging the siku is talking about intentionality as pastor said. You cannot just stand there. The harvest is here. Swing the sickle. Bring the harvest in. Bring the harvest in. That's what it means. And we're going to be looking at um Rosiku means Accessible is an agricultural implement and it's a device. For harvesting And metaphorically speaking, I'm going to be relating the sequel to horse. What device do you have in your hand? The sequel is a device in the hand of a farmer. Not every one of us is a farmer, but metaphorically speaking, what is there in our hand that we want to harvest with? For some of us it's talents.

For some, it's gifts. For some, it's a finance that God has given unto you. For some, it might be your character. For some, it might be your potential. For some, it might be the certificate. That you had pass us of the birth certificate. And for some It might be the gospel And that is what I love the most. The gospel, the word of God. And somebody's asking, All these devices, how do I get to make use of it? The truth is, if you have talent, if you have gifts, how well are you using it? Those are things that God has given unto you to harvest, to bring him that which you have. You have a gift of singing. You can sing. You have a sonorous voice. You sing in the home and everybody is saying, Oh, how wonderful is the sound. Or you sing in church and you bring down the heaven. You dwell in the praise of his people. The Bible says, But when you sing, people are filled with the anointing of God.

How well are you using it? You need to hunt or sharpen that skill that it can bring in harvest for you. Glow is about to come on and I'm a little bit privileged to know some of the ministers that we are calling and I started hearing figures that I cannot even fathom. So if somebody's going to harvest that kind of figure in a day, you know what it means? If they have to do that kind of activity 4 times in a month. Probably have to go and learn how to sing. Because it is wonderful. Those figures are humongous. So that is what talent can give unto you. Do you know how to draw? If you know how to draw and you can draw very well, it's a God-given way and hearts with him. You can turn it into money, harvesting through it. Maybe you need to go to school. Maybe you need to go and learn. What area of this art can bring value to me? What area of the art, not just sitting in the corner and drawing

the president of Nigeria, and you think that's going to be enough to bring harvest to you. If you are good, learn. What are people drawing? There is a kind of drawing is this still, still live or something that when they draw. You will not see anything on it. But those paintings, those paintings are very, very expensive. Sometimes they put it in the museums just because somebody can make up colors and they can bring an interpretation to some certain minds. What do you have finance? For some people, finance, nature make it possible for you to attain finance. When you have finance, where are you investing? Where you saw him What sacrifices are you making? And I try to compare what sowing and sacrifice means. And when I was asking her hi, It shows that sowing is just an integral part of sacrifice. Sowing on its own is sacrifice. So when you say you sow, you are sacrificing.

A farmer who put a seed on the ground can decide to eat it. But he decided that he's not going to hit it so that he can have more. He put it on the ground. When you give, in terms of sacrifice giving, is it not paining you? Don't you have something else to do with it? So your finances can work in terms of when you sow it and you make sacrifice in the life of people. Sometimes a lot of people say, what else can you do money in accounting records you can invest, put it in treasury bills, put it in fixed deposits, look for money markets, even in money markets, you know, the beauty about money markets, when you put your money in there, you have an app on your phone and you can see the daily dividends coming in. You have a certain amount to put in the bank or in money markets. You can check from your app. You'll be seeing today I've made 10,000. Tomorrow I've made $10,000. It's hard enough.

That's what investment can do to youth. And you can use your money to invest in people. And somebody said, the best investment is when you invest in people. When you invest in people, when they become somebody, when they become, they will not forget you. I know in some palace, some school of thought, the present president of the Federal Republic was said to have developed people and he rode on their shoulders to where he is now. And he's still riding on it, and the men are still working for him, whether you like it or not, he builds men. And what are we saying? Even our Father in the Lord, Reverend George Adewe. He has men that he has. He invested in them, not just this time. He invested, even in finance, sending them to school, and he's still doing it from PA, investing in people. There was a guy I met, uh, a colleague at work and was telling me about Reverend George.

The certain time that he was practically living in Reverend George's house. His needs are met in the house, but at some point, he ran away. It's still on it anyway. Without efforts Jesus' name You have experience Your experience can be the circle in your hand. What are you using the experience to do? People who know of consultancy work. People share experiences and counseling for money. They called you because you have experience to come and give us a 30 minute lecture, and they are paying to monetize it. That's what they're saying. And a preacher came here. And he said that for those who have hope that they can share your story even online. That when you begin to share your story, that in a way, way high will help you to rewrite your story and people will start reading and it can bring about traffic. And you can even do books on it, e-books and put it on Amazon and you'll be amazed.

People are paying for it. Experience is also a good advice for harvests. On this part, I go to the last one, which is the gospel. It's not all sufficient, but this is what I'm able to come up with the gospel. The word of God. The Bible says it's word I found, and I did hit them, and they are unto me joy and the rejoicing of my soul. What else can you find that will bring joy and rejoice into your hearts? What a man needs is to have patience. What a man needs is to have joy. What a man needs is to have peace. Do you think it's easy for us to be running around looking for things of the world that will not even come? But the truth is when you see the word of God, when you hear the word of God, this word, the Bible says is a lamp. Psalm 119:14, a lamp onto my feet. Onto our paths, a light onto my paths. You see, those are walls that guide you, that

give you the direction in which you need to go. And in Acts 19:20, it said the world prevailed. The world grew and it prevailed. That is what the word of God will do. The word of God in you, I can assure you, is going to grow. And when it grows, it will prevail in harvest, the word will grow and it will prevail in Jesus' name. And this word in Hebrews 4:12 is saying, That the word of God is quick and powerful. It's sharper than a two-edged sword piercing into the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit. Of the joints and of the marrow. It's the design and of the thoughts and intent of the heart. That's the saying that the word of God is a beautiful device that can be in our hand. When the hearts come to church, listen to the word, hear the word, let the word of God bring joy in you. When you have the word of God, I can tell you, you stand firm. Because that is the solid foundation.

And what are we saying? The foster pastor of the church came here. You know what he said? He did not have the privilege to go to school, a former classroom, let me put it that way. But what transformed his life? What gave him others the world? Ever since he has been preaching the word, he has been to every four corners of the world preaching the word of God. The word of God in your hand is all sufficient for us to bring in the harvest, and I pray in the name of Jesus right now that the Lord will open us up to this world in the name of Jesus right now, and new insight will come onto us. I will look onto this world in the name of Jesus right now. Can you project The Mark 9:29 for me. Swing your sequel therefore means Swing your gifts. Swing your talents. Swing your finance. Swing the word of God in your hands. But when the fruit is brought forth, the Bible says

immediately he put in. The sickle because the harvest is come. I'm telling us this morning that the harvest is here. I'm telling us this morning that you had a harvest. That the harvest is all around us, that God's intention for us in harvest is not for us to be a side looker. God does not want us to sit on the fence or be on the sideline. The intention of God for us is for us to be actively engaged, to be an active participant in the swinging of the sickle because the harvest is plenteous. The harvest is plentiful. The intention of God is not for us to come and just sit in church. God wants us. To rise up, swing that gift that you have, swing that finance. Swing the good character that you have, swing your experience. Change the life of people. Change the world. Let the world recognize you as someone who has been here and make an indelible impact in the times of time.

And I pray as we do this, the Lord will help us in the name of Jesus. Proverbs 16 said, a little sleep. A little slumber A little sleep, a little slumber. I will not do the other part. You know what it means. We cannot afford to sleep. We cannot afford to slumber. Do not be an onlooker. Ave is everywhere. By version of where I work and my condition as a person, I tell you. Others is everywhere. I'm saying the truth. They said the land is not good. It's not true. It is the gift. It is the sickle in our hands that we are not swinging until we intentionally swing the single, the sickle, we will not get the harvest. A vest is all around. Harvest is in the land. We'll get there and we'll talk more about some of those things. A vet is all around us. The preacher preaches to himself. I'm not preaching because I've done this part.

But the way the spirit minister to me is what I'm giving out. So I'm also preaching to myself, don't begin to look at me. Does he have all these things he's saying. I know my harvest is there. And I'm saying, Ham, they have this. Are you going to say that to yourself too, that we had the harvest. We are living in the harvest time. That's the truth. We are living in the harvest time. And that's what Jesus said. That the end time Jesus is coming, he's going to harvest us and bring us in. This is the harvest time and we need to do it. Swinging the sequel is actually doing the harvesting. We must harvest. Let's begin to look at how do I know. That the harvest is here. For some of us, we need to hatch is the harvest here. Then we check um. John 4:35. He said, lift up your eyes. And look on the field For their whites. Already to Harvest All ready to harvest. He said, lift up your heights.

Lift up your eyes And look on the field for their whites already to harvest. There are just 4 months, and then comment harvest. Behold, I say unto you, he was saying there is 4 months. Or ready to harvest. But he said, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the field for their whites. And ready to harvest On that I'm going to tell us. That it's amazing to know that many a times when we look, we don't actually see. Because when we look, we only glance. We do not see that we need to see. So in this place, the Bible is telling us for us to lift up our hearts, for the harvest is ripe. When you say white, it means ripe, that the harvest is ripe, and I'm saying unto us, the harvest is ripe. But what are we looking at? When you look to the land, a lot of people are saying, no, there's no harvest in this land. And I tell you, billions are passing through accounts

on a daily basis. And I know people who do transactions on their phone in terms of billions on a daily basis. That's exchange. When we look at budgets of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, when they run a budget, what do we say? Ah, only to go budget group Mojadi. But those who have the highest will look through the budget and see what was allocated to social ministry. What was allocated to these parastatus and they begin to work. They will not waste their time in the parasita that has always been receiving huge. Budgets, but the present year is not as simple. They will move to. Those are what contractors do. Even when you're not a contractor, look at the field where you'll be relevant. There is a way fun flows. There is a way fun flow. You know they call it currents. Money is currency, so there is a way fund flow. If you don't follow the way that fund flow, you will be on the sideline.

That's the truth. We will be on the sideline. So when we look, raise up your eyes, stop complaining, begin to look. When you look, you begin to see the direction that the fund is going. In our MPL Minister Tunde will know they say follow the money. They tell us, follow the money. And sometimes we call it value chain. You have to follow the value chain. Where is the fund? Is it found in schools Is a fund in government private sectors. Is it in construction? Where is it? Follow it. And sometimes building construction works and you see a lot of movement around that. And sometimes when school resumes, as marketers, we are hoping and we believe that our account will be funded at that time. And we are reporting that I have schools on my hands. By the time the school resumes, it happens also billions and millions in the account. That's the way to follow.

We know money is going in that direction. And this is electioneering season. Do you know money is flowing? I say one pillar that one is a lie. Somebody got over 200 deciennas to one pillar that one. Somebody got a project to buy the cars. And if you know somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody, and you tell them I have siennas for sale, don't think, don't you think they'll buy from you? They are purchasing houses Will you say it's a fraud, it's not. You are only in the line of the value chain and you do your legit business and you're fine. There's something called black market BDC. People are in there and they make their margin. They're not stealing. Say, OK, probably somebody will want to say, uh, what do they call it? They are laundering. No. Black market is legalized. If you are on that value chain, you make your margin. You can be an agent. Somebody wants to sell the land.

And you know that they want to sell the land. If you happen to know anyone around it, tag along. By the time they are sharing dividends, the harvest will come to you. But when you sit down, a little sleep, a little slumber. A little folding of the hands. He's gonna creep, you know, it is gonna creep him. Don't let us walk in fertility. Let us understand the trend where things are happening that we can go. The story was told. I know the pastor has said it here. Of A salesman that was sent to a city. When he got, was it a city, let's say a rural area, when he got there. It's discovered that nobody was on shoes because the companies are selling shoes. He got there, he said, Nobody is wearing shoes here. They are barefooted. They're calling the company. Please recall me. We don't have business here. We don't have business here. They're recording and they sent in another marketer.

The moment the marketer got there, huh, he called the head office. Please, this 1 container is not enough. Send us 10 containers. Everybody here needs a shoe. That's the way it works. What are you seeing? Are you seeing right? Businesses are everywhere. Money is exchanging hands. And when he talks about the things of the spirit, the word of God is directing us. The Bible says it will teach us, instruct us, and guide us in a way in which we should go, and with his eyes, he will guide us. You see, those are what the word of God will do to us when he begins to minister to us and tell us the direction to go. 2. That first one was visualize the field. You have to see, see the field. Number 2, I like this. When Jesus is in the boots. When the Lord of harvest is in the boats, when God is with you, when Jesus is in your situation, do you need any other thing to tell you that harvest is here?

He is the Lord of harvests and he's in your boat, then you are rest assured that harvest is certain. And when we check out Luke 95. Luke 5:1-11. The story when Jesus came on board after preaching, he was with Simon Peter and he used his boat. And the story had it that as I finished fishing, it hugs them to push the boat to certain parts of the sea. And at that point he told him, let down the nets. And Simon looked at Jesus and said, oh. The rabbi, we have toiled day and night, you know, those are experienced fishermen. They know what it means To fish, to harvest, that they have toiling all day, all night rather, but there is no fish, but, but at your word, he understood that he is the Lord of the harvest. And he said, but at your word, I will let down my net. What does the Bible say? They had a net breaking. Their net broke that even their boat could not contain the fish.

And they have to call in orders into the harvest. The harvest was too much that they could not even contain it. He has to call orders to join them in harvesting. Because Jesus was with them. He's the Lord of the harvest. If Jesus is with you. Are you still complaining of harvest? Harvest is with you. Do you know Simon did not even take from the overflow of harvest? Because he followed the harvest, he left her, it was like a leftover. So much it was, but he could not even stay. He said, no, let me follow the harvest. Did you not receive his harvest? We are talking about Simon Peter today because what if he has stayed with the first initial harvest that he had, are we going to be mentioning him? Because he was with the harvest and the Lord makes him a harvest. He said he will make him a fisher of men, and that's what God did to him. Another one on the part of Jesus,

you can have Matthew 9:35-38, scattered multitude. When you begin to see scattered multitudes. The Bible said Jesus looked at them and he had compassion upon them because they are perplexed and they are helpless. These people are perplexed and they are helpless, but Jesus had compassion on them. And because he had compassion upon them, what did he do? He said the harvest is plenteous. He said it himself. So in a situation whereby you see a large gathering, somebody's going to feed them. Somebody's going to feed them People are gathered in parties today. When you see gathering, does it not show to you that that is harvest? Because somebody is spending the money. Do you know how much they take for her these days? Then that means harvest is here. Like we say, Nigeria is tough. People are still spending for, we call it why do you have to spend money for its waste.

But we need to get there so that we understand that it's not, that it is part of our tradition, part of our life, and we're going to live it. So when you see scattered multitude. Know that compassion is around and Jesus is there and he's ready to harvest them. Another one is Hearing from God. When you hear from God, The Lord will tell you about harvest. We can look at the story of Isaac in Genesis 26:1-12. You know, God appeared unto Isaac and he told him not to leave that land. That they would tell him where to stay. And he gave him all the promises. That he has, he told him never to depart or to go down to Egypt, that he will show him the path, and he stayed in Gera. And they said there was famine in the land, but when God is speaking to you, the law of famine is suspended. When the Lord is telling you to do something, laws, protocols are suspended. But at 12, they said, not he,

can you project here for me? Then Isaac saw in that land and received in the same year 100 folds. And the Lord blessed him. You know what that means? Because he hears from the Lord. When you continue to hear from the Lord, then the Lord will tell you where harvest is. We need conviction of the heart. And I want to enjoin us. Like we made down the noise in our soul. Our mind is so noisy, including me. We have to tone it down. We are complaining we cannot hear God, but there's so much noise on our hearts. Our heart is not at peace. Somebody say, why would my heart be at peace when I don't even have water to heat when I get home from church. Remember the word of God. Let the word of God reign in you. And let your heart be at peace. Turn it down. Stop complaining. Complaints does not bring anything. Rejoice in the Lord when your heart is so noisy, you need to hear, but to hear from God,

we need to be at peace with Him. This small still voice is still speaking. The Bible says that once he spoke twice we had that all powers belong unto God before you can hear that power. Then you need to quiet, quiet your mind. Let your mind be at rest. What is it that you are running after? Stay with Jesus I was looking on Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him. You despise the shame. He withhold The pain and it sets at the right side of God. You see, those are the words that we need to know that you must hear from God. I have another one here. So, when people around you are getting blessed. That's beautiful. It shows that the harvest in the corner. The harvest is here. When people around here get them blessed, it's easier for those who do white-collar job. When your colleagues of the same age get promotion, you know,

you don't feel happy because you didn't go with them. But the truth is, The promotion is around the corner. When your brother, your sister, even us, we are congregation, if any friend of hers makes it and is doing well, is telling you that harvest is around hanging there. Let's look at this part of the Bible, Matthew 20. 6 to 7, particularly. And I was talking about uh Jesus lightening the kingdom of heaven with a householder. Who went about looking to hire servants into his uh vineyard. That story had its That when he went out in the early morning, he gather some, he give them one pen, one penny, right? Then at the 3rd hour, he went out again. He brought in orders. At 6th hour and 9th hour, he went out and brought in servants into his vineyard. And I just felt all of a sudden at 11th hour. 11th hour, you just stroll out into the market

and still find some people I do. Ah And I said, what are you guys doing? And they said they've not gotten someone to hire them. OK, OK, go to the bank, go and work. That was 11th hour. Did they give up? They could have gone back to their homes and be sleeping because they saw that the men that they were together have been hired. And they remain that their hometown will come. They did not come? They said the God of 11th eyes is here and he will surprise you with the 11th hour blessing in the name of Jesus. God is here. It doesn't matter what time it is. Harvest is every time. Some got their own harvest in the morning, probably because of compassion or favor or something they are doing right, but some got it at the 3rd at the 6th hour. Some got it at the 9th hour. But some, now God is at the 11th hour, and they only work 1 hour. Do you know what happened? They received the same amount

with the person that even started from the beginning. And they were the first to be paid, the last to the first. Who says God cannot open your eyes while you swing your sickle to bring in your harvest. Say, I will swing my sickle. I will bring in my harvest in the name of Jesus. Say to yourself, believe it. And that's what it's gonna be. Let's quickly begin to look at steps. To reap in your harvest. Pastor has said some of it, but it's too good for us to go through it. I know what exactly Our expectation is in them. Number one, sow for your harvest. You can say sow a seed, but sow for your harvest. We said harvest is not in isolation. Others is not an isolated thing. Harvest is a resultant effect of an action. And the pastor said, you must sow. So what you are sowing now depends on you. In Nigerian settings they talk about planting,

but we need to plant. Is it a good character you want to plant? Is it the word of God that you want to plant in the soul? The Bible says, I've kept his word in my heart that I may not sin against Him. Psalon 1 verse 11. If you begin to bring the word of God in your heart, then he will not allow you to get messed up anyhow. We need to sow What is it that you want to sow? Check what you have in your hands. You can only reap and you can only harvest when you sow. Galatians 6:7 was talking about uh. Do not be deceived God is not mocked. Whatever a man sow, God is gonna reap. You see, those are the standard law of nation. There are some extant law that guides the hearts, the principle of the heart, and that's why the pastor would say that. Whether you do anything or you don't do anything, if you are even a pagan. If you are not even a Christian, you make money. Do you follow the laws?

It's the law of sowing and reaping. You don't have to be a Christian to make money. So then maybe you are wondering what are those people doing outside? How are they making their money? You don't have to, but you have an advantage having Jesus with you because the money you make, you see, he, he, he gives us you without sorrow. That's what the Bible says. It comes without sorrow and it gives you a peace of mind. So much money outside, no peace of mind, but you will have this peace, the inner joy of being with the Lord. But you must sow. If you do not sow, you cannot reap. So don't deceive yourself. You cannot mock God. Like even if you are a farmer, you go to the farm, you just go there, you go and gist. You are not doing anything, you gist the people, you go back home. Or even if you are working, you are a white-collar job, you don't do your job the right way it should be done.

You just go in there, go to the toilet, go out there, sleeping, using phones. You are not sowing right. In your relationship, the way you are dealing with people, are you so repulsive? You are not amiable, fine, but what do you do? How do you affect the life of people? If there's anything I would have loved and I still want to do, it's for me to say, ah, I sent this person to the university. I sent this person to the university. I sent it to the university. Everybody who knows me knows. Building men The best I could do now is to do more counseling. I call young boys. I begin to talk to them. I begin to do the kind of thing that, you know, what, you know, after all these things, what happens? What remains? Invest in the word of God. Invest in the little knowledge that we know. The things that I know now, I did not know them yesterday. I wasn't born a Christian. I was not

But I've been so close with the Bible, but I was not. And this is my first church. But there's a joy in the Lord, and I pray we all find it in the name of Jesus right now. That is the joy that gives others. The number one is saying you must sow. So, don't deceive yourself. When you sow, sow in joy. When you sow, sow in faith. You know what faith is? Without faith, it's impossible to please God. Hebrew 11:6. It is impossible to please God. You need to sow in faith. Know what faith means. Believe when you are putting a seed on the ground. When you invest in people, pray for them, know that they will come out fine. Have to talk about sowing up. Even if you cannot sow money, you can sow good versions for somebody up. Ah, that the Monique in Kinney. Uh, that is about is in mom. Just show that you care about somebody might go a long way in if it's an investment.

You're placing a call through to a friend that you have seen for a long time. He has not called me. You never knew something can come up and it's gonna remember you. There was a story I told my friends. I think they know, uh, at the university. I'm always a low ranger. Honestly speaking, I'm always a low ranger. I always have my book at the back of my pocket. So I just go to class, workout, go to class, workout. The sciences where I go to class every time. There is this force He always complain about me. He always, we don't have any confrontation. But seeing me, he will always complain. What is wrong with this brain? That I see in his eyes. Then we went back from NASA, the same guy, the same pro of radar. Hm And when we finished masters, uh, you know, the way those who run around profs started doing in the class and they were asking me, what is our results. What is our results?

We didn't say anything. So we now organize a certain match between lecturers and postgraduate students. They just stood there. I was somewhere that even if I don't know anybody's results, is it that one there, that one there, I know his results. And he told them. And they came to tell me that I was smiling. But what I'm saying is this, I finished, I got a job. I was working in a bank and uh about 6 months, let me say 6 months, was close to a year down the line. Something that has never happened in the department was in chemistry. Then I'll give them an opportunity to pick 4 persons, those 4 names. To work in an oil and gas company, whatever. You know, epic about hoarders. Probably 2 from my set and 2 from another set. A day came. I wanted to do close around that I wanted to do PhD. Started a PhD program in also in UI. I went to him and I met him in his office. Ah, this guy,

where have you been? You know, we now talk and I work in the bank. Why is it that every one of you, the sciences is, uh, working in the bank? And I told you, and I ask him as a proof, you had the opportunity to fix us up. But he didn't call me And he heard his head I said, he did not remember me. He said he did not He said he did not, that he was racking his brain for what names to put because he's been away for 6 months to 1 year. He said he did not, that he was sorry that if any of such opportunity comes, opportunity comes but once in a while. So let's put that call through. Don't say no, you don't want to call him. Call friends. Check on people that you know before. They could be the result of the harvest. When opportunity comes, they remember you and they call you. Even the job that I got today, it was a friend. I called a friend. I called a friend that called me. About 4 lines.