Righteous Invasion of Truth

Dr. Abel Damina: Father, we give You praise in the name of Jesus. Father, we rejoice that this morning we have this another opportunity to come before Your holy, precious written word. Thank You that the mighty Holy Spirit lives on our inside. We rejoice that in this service, Your word comes with clarity. There is no error in this environment. There is no limit in this atmosphere.

The entrance of Your word brings light and brings understanding to the simple, so mindsets are corrected and thought patterns are corrected. The clarity of Your word builds up Your people. We decree that sick bodies are healed in the name of Jesus. We rejoice that by the end of this service, we will all be the better for it. In Jesus' name we pray, and every believer says a powerful amen. Lift your right hands to heaven. Let us release our faith together as we say these words.

I am born of God. I am born of the word. The word of God is my nature. I do not struggle to do the word. I do the word naturally. Therefore today, I will understand the word of His grace. I will be built up. By the end of this service, I will never be the same. Never ever be the same again in Jesus' name. Every believer says a powerful amen.

Grab your pen, your notebook, and your Bible. You can be seated this morning. Are you ready for the word of God? All right, let us get into it. Understanding Satan: Myths and the Truth. Second Corinthians, the second chapter, the 11th verse. PJ, let us go.

Guest (Male): Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Dr. Abel Damina: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices. This means anywhere ignorance thrives, Satan rules. Anywhere there is ignorance of Satan and his devices, it is an advantage for Satan to take advantage of people. So, you must understand this adversary of yours called Satan, and this understanding is critical. With all your getting, get understanding. We are not ignorant of the devices of the devil because the devil does not want to be known.

The devil does not want to be exposed. The devil does not want anybody to know him. He wants to stay covert and operate without anybody knowing him. I was speaking to one of my lawyers, and he was asking me who did all the killings in the Old Testament. Is it not God? I said, "No, it is not God." In the Old Testament, there are two things that are not well known. God is not well known in the Old Testament, and Satan is not known at all. There is no mention of Satan.

Even Moses, with all his revelation and knowledge, the best of Satan he could say was "the serpent." He could not even explain; he just called him the serpent. So, Satan hid in the Old Testament and put on a mask. He carried out a lot of evil acts, and they were attributed to God. Just like today in the legal profession, when there are natural disasters, they call it the "act of God" because legal knowledge does not unveil Satan.

Since they do not know Satan in the legal field, everything, both good and bad, must be an act of God, just like they were in the Old Testament. You will never know Satan until you know God. It is the knowledge of God that exposes Satan. You have got to know God to know what God is not. You have got to know God to know what God is not, and you can never know God outside His own word.

The devil does not want you to know him, so today, Satan paints different pictures to make sure you do not ever know him. He will use preachers of the gospel to teach you things like Asmodeus. Have you heard of Asmodeus? Incubus and Succubus. All those are Satan’s masks so that you do not know him, and you can keep blaming Incubus, Succubus, Semiramis, and Bacchus Bacchus.

These are all names that have been communicated by preachers to try to give people a belief system that the devil will use in holding the people captive. There are belief systems the devil creates to deceive people so they will not know him or understand his modus operandi. But we are unveiling him for you to see, because the scripture says, "Lest Satan should take an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices."

The devil thrives where there is ignorance. The devil is darkness. The Bible calls him the prince of darkness, the ruler of the darkness of this world. But in First John, chapter one, verse number four.

Guest (Male): And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Dr. Abel Damina: God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. What science calls absolute light. God is absolute light; there is no atom of darkness in Him. Satan is absolute darkness; there is no atom of light in him. God is absolute light; there is no darkness in Him at all. But the devil is darkness. John writes that the whole world lies in darkness. First John, chapter five, verse 19.

Guest (Male): And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Dr. Abel Damina: The whole world lies in wickedness, in darkness, or in the wicked one. The devil, being that illegitimate god of this world, puts the world in darkness. But Jesus says, "I am the light of the world." So, the devil thrives in darkness. The devil thrives in darkness because darkness means ignorance. It depicts ignorance.

For years, Africa was called the dark continent because we were not educated. We were called the dark continent because darkness is synonymous with ignorance. Darkness depicts ignorance and where there is deficiency of knowledge. Look at the book of Ephesians, the fourth chapter, the 17th verse.

Guest (Male): This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

Dr. Abel Damina: Gentiles, non-believers, walk in the vanity of their mind. Because there is darkness in their understanding or deficiency of knowledge, they are alienated from the life of God. How? Through the ignorance. That is why their understanding is darkened, because there is ignorance that is in them. This is as a result of the blindness of their hearts. In the book of Isaiah, the fifth chapter, the 13th verse.

Guest (Male): Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Dr. Abel Damina: My people are gone into captivity not because Satan is powerful. My people are held captive not because Satan is too strong, but because they have no knowledge. So, their ignorance creates an enabling environment for Satan to take them captive. Look at Hosea, the fourth chapter, the sixth verse.

Guest (Male): My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Dr. Abel Damina: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you because God is a God of knowledge. God is a God of knowledge, and it is the entrance of God's word that brings light. So when you hear the word and hear the word, the coming in of God's word into a man illuminates that man and breaks the power of darkness. It breaks the control of darkness. The entrance of God's word.

Somebody was trying to make mockery of me and said, "Damina is just a word, word, word person with no power." I laughed at his ignorance. He said, "Damina just teaches word, no spirit." I laughed at his ignorance because the words I speak to you are spirit and they are life. You cannot have spirit outside words. Words control spirits. The word of God works with the Spirit of God. The word of the devil works with the spirit of the devil.

Where the word of a king is, how can you say I do not have power when what I am giving is the word of a king? The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. That guy is just a victim of ignorable ignorance. He is an *idiotis* settling properly in the school of the unlearned. The entrance of His word gives light, and the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. Psalm 119:130. The entrance of His word gives light. Isaiah, chapter nine, verse number eight.

Guest (Male): The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Dr. Abel Damina: The word that came to Jacob illuminated Israel because God's word carries God's light. He sent a word into Jacob, and it has lightened the nation of Israel. The Bible tells us that although there be that are called gods, give me the book of Psalm 82, verses five and six.

Guest (Male): They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Dr. Abel Damina: They know not, neither do they understand. So because of lack of knowledge and understanding, they walk on in darkness. My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. They walk on in darkness where Satan takes them captive at will. They know not. I have said you are gods. Verse six. I have said you are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High. But because they know not, neither do they understand, they walk on in darkness and the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Belief systems are critical, and that is what we have been examining in the course of this series. They walk on in darkness because they know not. The devil is a champion of illiteracy and ignorance. There is only one ignorance a child of God is supposed to have. Only one ignorance a child of God is supposed to have: to be ignorant of evil. To be ignorant of evil, in malice be children.

We discover that the devil thrives in ignorance. When you do not know, and I told you last week, what most believers do is shadowboxing. They try to smell the enemy and just be throwing punches that are going nowhere. But you see, when you get in the word of God, the word of God equips you with where to hit strategically. It equips you with where to target. It is like a cruise missile.

The word of God gives you a target with precision where you just hit at the point. You and Satan are not sweating together; you strike at the right points. The word of God is God's wisdom, and when you begin to walk in the word, you walk in the light. In the light, you do not stumble. There is no occasion of stumbling.

We discover, therefore, that a believer cannot continue to be hitting and missing. Understanding who the devil is, what he does, and how he functions is very key. What do you know and understand about the devil? Because if you do not, then you cannot see the victory that you so desire. The church has played for many years. You hear them sing songs like, "Macha Macha, Satan don fall for gutter. Macha Macha."

Go and look at the gutter around your house whether Satan is there. And Satan is laughing. "Satan don fall for gutter, Macha Macha." You see everybody dancing and sweating, and Satan is clapping for their stupidity. Many of them as they are singing like that, he is knocking their head in that service because Satan doesn't fall in the gutter. Even African gutters that are dirty, Satan doesn't fall in them, talk more of gutters in the Western world that you hardly see the gutter.

They sing songs that don't have biblical sense, stupid songs that appeal to carnal reasoning but no power. "Satan don fall for gutter." What kind of nonsense is that? Glory to God. You won't sing such songs in Western countries because they will just be looking at you. They will just be looking at you. We said the devil thrives in ignorance. First John, chapter five, verses 19 and 20.

Guest (Male): And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Dr. Abel Damina: And we know that the Son of God is come, and His coming gave us an understanding of God. So, we know God in Christ. We know God in Jesus. Jesus reveals God to us, and our knowledge of God exposes Satan, his schemes, and his modus operandi. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John 8:12.

So, anytime you see darkness, it is a work of the devil. Anytime you see darkness, it is a work of the devil. Glory to God. Is there anybody that wants to write? You came today for the first time, you did not come with a notebook? We have notebooks for you. Ushers, get those notebooks. If you lift your hands up, they will get you a notebook quickly.

Ushers, why is it that every time I ask you for something I instructed you since yesterday, you move like you do not know what I am talking about? Are you also without understanding? Let it not happen again. Notebooks for people that need notebooks. You have come without your notebooks because you do not know whether we use notebooks or not, so we prepared some notebooks for you so that at least you have something to write.

Thank you, ushers. Move, ushers. There are still hands up. You need a pen? If you do not have a pen, you and somebody should share your pen. Glory to God. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." Anytime you see darkness, darkness is a work of the devil. Genesis, chapter one, verse number two.

Guest (Male): And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Dr. Abel Damina: Now, why was there darkness? Because there was the absence of the knowledge of God. So, you grow in the knowledge of Christ. Glory to God. All right, so the earth was void, without form, and darkness. In the midst of darkness, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water. Next verse. And God said, "Light be." That is the way it is in the original, and light was.

Because what God has created was destroyed, and the very first thing God said to the earth was, "Light be." That means that the only solution to darkness is light. The only solution to darkness is light. The only solution to ignorance is not prayer. The only solution to ignorance is not fasting. The only solution to ignorance is not going around for deliverance.

The only solution to ignorance is light. Every time you come across darkness, do not fast and pray. Look for light. The cheapest way to humiliate darkness is not to cry, it is not to fast; it is to turn the light on. When light shines, automatically darkness disappears, and it is the entrance of God's word that bringeth light. So you cannot beat the place of the teaching of God's word.

Those deliverance theaters where everybody they see needs deliverance, they do not even know the meaning of the word deliverance. Deliverance is not prayer. Deliverance is not rolling people on the floor. Deliverance is salvation; it is a movement from one kingdom to another. It comes by the preaching of the gospel. When people hear the message, believe the message, receive the message, the entrance of God's word into the heart of a man makes him a citizen of the kingdom of God.

So he moves from darkness to light, he moves from death to life. The book of Colossians, chapter one, verses 12 and 13.

Guest (Male): Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Dr. Abel Damina: Who had delivered us. Salvation is deliverance. Receiving Christ is deliverance. But there is a difference between deliverance and casting out demons. Deliverance is what happens to a man when he hears the gospel. A man that has heard the gospel and believed the gospel does not have demons cast out of him. He is the one that goes around casting out demons from people that do not have Christ.

So salvation is deliverance. Casting out demons is to expel demons; they are not the same. But anyway, there are those deliverance theaters where everybody they see needs deliverance. Then they will ask you questions like, "Do you eat in your dreams?" If you say yes, they say, "Hallelujah. What do you eat?" "Meat." "Oh, meat. That is witchcraft. The people they have killed, they share the meat for you in the dream." Then you start panicking.

Me? I do not dream, but all the times I ate in the dream, I asked for more. All the time. Every time I have dreamed and I saw food, I asked them for more. I did not start it, you started it. Bring more. I am just following the word of God because the word of God says whatever is set before you, eat, asking no questions. Anything set before you, eat, asking no questions. First Corinthians 10:27. PJ, read for me.

Guest (Male): If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

Dr. Abel Damina: If an unbeliever, somebody that is not born again, maybe the food they want to give you they have sacrificed to a shrine, and they brought it and cooked and gave you, and you be disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no questions. Just eat. So if you see food in your dream, eat, asking no questions. I like dream food because it is Satan that cooks it.

Satan is experienced in cooking; he has been cooking for 6,000 years. So he has cooking skills, and the food he cooks will be very sweet. Thou preparest a table before me, so everywhere I see a table, what do I do? I eat. Bible says the food is sanctified by thanksgiving and prayer. Glory to God. When you have knowledge, you see how little Satan is. Little, myopic, microscopic. He is so microscopic that those who know him know how little and insignificant he is.

Plus, Jesus disarmed him. He has no armor. So he is not an object to be afraid of, except you have a lot of ignorance that he can use against you. And that is why you go for knowledge. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. That same First Corinthians 10, after he said eat asking no questions, he then said, "For the earth is the Lord's." First Corinthians 10:27 to 31, you will see it there.

So the meat in your dream is the Lord's. The rice in your dream is the Lord's. Do not be ignorant of the devil. Are you aware that the devil is a spirit and you are a spirit? And he is one spirit like this that you are in charge of. You know, in deliverance churches, if a sister is very, very yellow, she has a marine spirit because they believe that marine spirits are beautiful.

As a growing Christian, I was told that when you are a baby Christian, every prayer you pray God answers very fast. But when you grow, it becomes technical and difficult. So I said, "I do not want to grow." If that is the way it operates, then who wants to grow? All those beliefs are propagated by the devil. The Bible tells us in Him, in Jesus, was life, and that life was the light of men. The light that lights every man that cometh into the world. This is the true light.

So, Satan thrives in ignorance. You know there are myths. A myth is what we call superstition, superstitious beliefs. A belief that people have held onto for a long time, but they do not even know that they believe it. Yet they believe it because of who told them and because it is a long-standing belief. The devil hates to be demystified. But that is what the word of God does: it demystifies mysteries.

The entrance of His word giveth light. It demystifies and makes mysteries, things that are complicated, look so simple. I warned you last week that do not, never use people's experiences to know the devil. Never, never use somebody's experiences to know the devil. Some people's experiences are man-made, and some stories people tell are lies, very big fat lies.

After all, what story are they about to tell you? They will tell you what the devil told them. How can you believe the devil when he is the father of all liars, when to tell the truth is out of character for the devil? Some of them are just fantasies, and that is why the Bible tells us, "They that lay hold to lying vanities forsake their own mercy." Read it for me, Jonah, chapter two, verse seven. PJ.

Guest (Male): When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Dr. Abel Damina: They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Lying implies false, a false report. Vanity is the word *hebel* in the Hebrew. Vanity means emptiness. So they that observe false reports coming out of emptiness forsake their own mercy. I was casting out some demons some time ago from a lady that was a student of Uniuyo, and as I began to cast out the demons, she spoke with a loud voice. "Yes, yes, I am Satan's second wife."

Then I began to laugh. I just started laughing. Satan's second wife? Then how many does he have? And you, number two, are from Uniuyo? You are a young girl. So Satan did not marry long ago? He waited for 6,000 years for you to come and made you number two? I just knew it was a lie. I just laughed. "Out and do not speak again." The devil left. God filled her with the Holy Ghost.

When she opened her eyes, I said, "You said you were Satan's second wife." She said, "When?" I said, "I knew it was the devil speaking using your vocal cords." Many people go to some of these so-called deliverance churches free, and they come back with demons. You did not hear that. They go there free and they come back with demons because they lie all over the place. They teach things that are not consistent with the word of God, and Satan likes that kind of environment.

He takes advantage of that environment. These people are blind. So I just took her through the word and told the demon never to come back again, and that was it. Now in John, chapter nine, we saw a myth last Sunday, and this myth is about the case that Jesus addressed. Read for me again, John, chapter nine, verses two to five. Pay attention.

Guest (Male): And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Dr. Abel Damina: In other words, I am here. The boy did not sin, his parents did not sin. It is not a generational thing, it is not family, nothing. But because I am here now, I am here to manifest the work of God. And Jesus healed him. There is no reason why he was born blind; he was just born blind. But I am here now to heal. It is not as a result of his sin that things are bad; it is because in life, anything that human beings handle will have imperfections.

Stop attributing everything to demons. You did not hit your leg because there is one demon standing by the road. You hit your leg because human beings sometimes hit their legs. It is as easy as that. No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man. If the devil had that much power, do you think you would be alive? You would not be alive now. You are alive to show that he does not have that much power.

You came to church today; he did not stop you, to show that he does not have that much power. If he had that much power, do you think he would allow us to gather here? I have dared him all my life. They burn you well; appear here, idiot. Let me land you a clean slap on your face. Nonsense ingredient. This is how I have always talked to the devil all my life, since I knew Christ. He knows; he knows those that have power over him. He knows. Glory to God.

And you have the same authority. You have the same authority. Somebody shout, "I am in authority here." Shout it very loud. Shout it louder. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Did He destroy them, or He will destroy them? He has already destroyed the works of the devil. So the devil, Satan the devil, the deceiver, does not have armors. All he has is deception.

That is all he has got. Fiery darts, schemes, wiles, strategy. That is all he has, and you have the word of God, which is the wisdom of God, to outsmart the devil. In Acts, chapter 10, verse 38, the Bible tells us how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. So sickness is an oppression of the devil. It is an illegal and unjust treatment of the devil on a man.

So sickness was not working the working of God. Blindness is not a work of God; it is an oppression of the devil. It is an unjust treatment of the devil on a man. That was what it was, but healing is the legal merciful kind act of God. The legal merciful kind act of God for a man. Sickness is an unjust illegal punishment meted out on a man. Illegal. So you must know the difference.

Jesus said, "I showed up to give healing. The devil showed up to bring disease, but I showed up to give healing." But do not forget the mindset of the people was that it was the handiwork of God on the blind man. They thought it was the parent's sin and God was punishing him by making their child blind. Jesus said, "No, it came from the devil." Generational curse, somebody did him, nobody did him. I showed up so I can free him from what the devil has done. Glory to God. I said glory to God.

And we saw that generational curses in the Old Testament, there was nothing like that. When God said, "I will visit the iniquities to the third and fourth generation," it was, "I will take care of." The word is *paquad*. "I will take care of" to make sure it does not affect the children. Because everyone that is not born again is an open gate for Satan to afflict, but the moment you receive Christ, the devil has no hold over you.

So, Satan is the mastermind of misinformation. Do not miss that. He is the mastermind of misinformation. You must be misinformed for Satan to take advantage of you. He has to ensure you are misinformed. You are not well taught the word of God so that he can take advantage of you because when you are misinformed, you are mentally deformed. So you must understand Satan.

That woman in the book of Luke, chapter 13, which was bound for 18 years, Jesus said, "Lord, this woman has been bound by Satan." By Satan. So, sickness comes from Satan, and God is not giving you sickness to try to teach you a lesson. Someone said God made him sick to teach him a lesson. I said, "God made you sick and you went to the doctor for treatment." If it is really God that made you sick, you should have stayed at home and allowed the sickness to teach you the lesson well.

Do not take any medication. God does not use sickness to teach His children a lesson. No. Sickness is not one of the weapons that God uses. If God wants to teach you a lesson, He gave you the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the teacher of the believer, not sickness and disease. Glory to God. Luke, chapter 11, verses 11 to 14. Pay attention.

Guest (Male): If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Dr. Abel Damina: If you that are evil compared to God know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father? Your son cannot ask you for bread and you give him a stone. He cannot ask you for fish and you give him a scorpion. How can God give sickness to teach people a lesson? God is good; there is no evil in God. So, there is no parent that will send his child to Boko Haram for treatment.

It is wrong to think that God did it. God will not test you or bring you evil. So the wrong idea has led people to live defeated lives. The wrong idea about God and how God operates has led people to live defeated lives. But Brother James, and I love Brother James, Brother James put things for us in perspective. In the body of Christ, we have seen church like a solution-from-problem center. You are sick? Come to church to get healed. You are poor? Come to church, God will make you rich, tap into the anointing of prosperity.

Some have even advanced it; they go to church for business contracts. That is on the very carnal side. But as the body of Christ grows in the knowledge of Christ more, you will discover that the reason why we come to church is to hear the word. We do not come to church to meet our needs; we come to church to hear the word. To hear the word. Now the question I ask some people is: if Adam had not fallen, if Adam had not sinned, if man had not sinned against God, everything was perfect, no disease, no sickness, no lack, what will you be doing?

You would be learning the word of God. If there was no problem, all you will be learning is the word of God because you have to learn the word of God to know how to relate with God your Father. And that is why many pastors and preachers, when they leave Nigeria, their ministry is irrelevant because their message only works in a Nigerian economy. Because in those countries, they have social security. In those countries, they have less poverty because they have health insurance, they have Medicare.

Their railways are working well. You do not even need a car to move around. There are railways, there are buses, and these are beautiful buses, beautiful trains. You just walk out, jump in one, and you are where you want to be. So you do not need a preacher to say, "Receive your car. Receive your house. Receive your house." No. The bank will give you a loan to fix your house and buy you a beautiful house, and you can pay for that loan 50 years of your life. Very little peanuts every month, but you already have a house.

You do not have to fast and pray for these things because that society is well organized. It is only in Nigeria you buy a car, "Amen." You buy a car, "Amen." Because of the way we have found ourselves. Banks will finance everything you want. They even beg you with loans. Banks will call you and say, "Do you want money? Money is available." They beg you with money, and the payment is very easy. Just small, small. Nothing like "today is your day."

If you say that abroad, they will just be looking at you. "When was it not my day? Why is it today?" "Your breakthrough is coming this week." "Break what? Through where?" So you just become irrelevant. You will just be shouting alone, everybody is just wondering what you are doing. So why do we come to service? We come to church because we come to learn the word of God.

Somebody said, "Why first service? Why second service? Why midweek service? Why conferences?" Because we are revealing God to His people. We are revealing God to His people within the pages of His word. That is why Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:16, "Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers that you will have a car." "Cease not to give thanks for you," that is I am praying for you all the time, making mention of you in my prayers for that breakthrough you have been waiting for.

"I cease not to pray for you, making mention of you in my prayers that that connection, connection for collection, collection for connection, unction to function with gumption." "I cease not to pray for you, making mention of you in my prayers." What is the prayer? "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the wisdom and revelation of the Spirit in the knowledge of him."

That is why I am praying. "That the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." Next verse. "And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, power, might, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all."

That is my prayer for you, that you will come to that place of knowledge, a place of accurate, precise understanding. That you may know the hope of His calling, that you may know the inheritance which is the mandate of God, that you may know the power He has provided. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think, according to the power that worketh in you. The believer is not deficient; the believer is God-sufficient. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

In Jesus dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power. He has given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness. He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. Who is blessed in this house? Can I have you shout glory? Sit down, let us push a little more.

So my prayer is not for you to have. My prayer is for you to know that the communication of your faith may become effectual, how? By the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you because you are where? In Christ. Somebody shout, "I am complete in him." Say it like you know what you are talking about. Say it like you know what you are talking about.

You see, that is how you come to church or join a church: to be aware of all that God has done. And when that revelation grows in you, what happens to you is that you fall more and more in love with God. Do not come to God for things; come to God for Him. Come to Him for Him. Come to God for Him. That is why you come to church. When you get healed, it is by the way. When you get a favor, it is by the way.

Paul said when we come, we come to edify, to build up one another spiritually. To know God, to be built up. Not for your next day's need. No, to be aware, to acknowledge every good thing that is in you because you are in Christ. Because the truth of the matter is that when you grow in the knowledge of Christ, it will affect your lifestyle. Right believing produces right living. Right believing produces right living.

The more of Christ you know, it will affect your belief system, which translates into how you relate with people. The more of Christ you know, it will affect your belief system, which translates into how you relate with people, your conduct in society. A transformation happens to you by the renewing of your mind. I taught on the renewing of the mind in the first service; just check it out, it is on social media, it is on my page. You can follow the first service and get all the info there.

So the way you see circumstances and situations begins to change when you see who you are in Christ. That is why we come to church. We come to church to hear the word of God and to grow up, to know God more. The greatest joy in all my life is knowing You. The greatest joy in all my life is knowing You. That is the greatest joy, to know Him. Bible says if any man glory, let him glory in this, that he knows Me.

That is our glory: the knowledge of Christ. When I see Christians who say church is very far, I want to go to a church that is near my house. No, sir. Do not go to a church that is near your house; go to a church that is near the Bible. Go to a church that is close to the word of God. You want to go to a church that is near your house, but your children's school you went far, far to get a school for your children.

Some of you sent your children abroad for school. But the knowledge of God, "any church near my house." Why did you not put your child in that school by your house? Your job, you fly to Abuja for work. You fly back every Friday. Why did you not apply to that carpentry workshop for work? But then for church, you want to go to the one near your house because you have no value for your spiritual life, which actually is what controls your physical life.

Do not go to a church near your house. Go to a church where the word of God is unveiled, where Christ is revealed. Why do we come to church? To be aware of what Christ has done, who God is, what God is doing in me, what God is doing with me. For me, it advances the way I live. When I join a church where the word of God is taught me, it brings value to my quality of life and it brings value to my quality of mind.

I guarantee you stay with me in this church for three months, even the way you speak changes because value is added to your life. The way you carry your life changes. The way you conduct yourself changes. Your world view is totally transformed. True or false? Stay with me three months; three months is even too much. Just give me your ears for one month every day. It is *impossicant*, if there is English like that, and if there is none we created one just now, for you to remain the same.

Good word, good teaching, upgrades the value of my life. The more I know about God and what He has done for me in Christ, how precious I am in His sight, my value goes up. I value myself much more when I see myself the way God sees me. Say with me, "I am what the word says I am." I want the radio audience to hear you. Can I hear it louder? You know what happened to Eve in Genesis was because Eve was not taught the word of God.

In other words, we have to be, we ought to have been taught. If Adam and Eve had not fallen and man was not a sinner, we would still be taught the word of God. Of course, we would not be taught how to get a job, how to build a house, or how to make money. We would be taught to know God. That is why we come to church. Most of our parents and other believers go to church today because of problems, because they do not know God from a child.

All they knew from a child is how to solve problems. Okay, so if there is an alternative to native doctors who solve problems, this church alternative is better than the one in the bush. So they came to church. But for us, that is not what we are looking for. We are looking for value added to our quality of life and quality of thought, and that comes by the teaching of God's word. Say, "I hear you."

So James, chapter one, verse 13.

Guest (Male): Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.

Dr. Abel Damina: Of course, that statement is wrong, but let no man say it because if you say it often, it will affect you. And then you will adjust to the devil and think that it is God. Let no man say, do not say it, that I am tempted of God because it is wrong. Do not say God is trying me; it is wrong. Let no man say. Why did James say that? Because James brings back a factor. He says, "For God cannot." Somebody shout, "God cannot." Say it again, "God cannot." So we are going to see quickly what God cannot do.

For God cannot. God cannot. You mean God cannot do something? Yes, there are things God cannot do. Now there are two things: there is what you cannot do, and there is what you would not want to do. I am not saying that there are things God would not want to do. I said there are things God cannot do. He cannot. How many of you believe you can fly? You guys are too smart. I would have made you fly, I would have said stand up and fly.

Can you fly? Can you fly? Okay, everybody spread your hand. Fly. Why can you not fly? Because you cannot. You lack the ability to fly. You lack it. Even people that do witchcraft, witchcraft in the sense of astral projection that rise from the ground, they only rise small and land back because gravity is waiting to teach them a lesson. Even where there is demonic power, you can only rise small and go back sharp-sharp.

Because man is not designed to fly. Man is designed to walk. He is not wired; he lacks the capability and the capacity to fly. So the same way man cannot fly, God cannot. There are things God, even if God wants to do it, He cannot. He doesn't have the faculties that makes it possible. Now in your mind you are thinking, "Ah, Damina, do not commit abomination. How can you say that?" It is you that is committing abomination for thinking against what I am saying that is correct.

Glory. Tell somebody, "There are things God cannot do. Even if He wants to do it, He cannot do it." Then they think God is omnipotent. God is omnipotent, which means all-powerful. Now it is not that God does not want to do it, God cannot. For example, God cannot do evil. He cannot do evil, even if He desires to. Now how many of you have been caught in traffic before and you felt frustrated? Especially those kind of Lagos traffics.

Not Akwa Ibom. Akwa Ibom, you can come down and trek and just get home fast-fast. I am talking about Lagos traffic where you sit down for four hours, nothing moved. People came out of their car and sat on top. At that time you are so frustrated, you feel like flying, but you cannot fly. If there is a time to fly, is that not the time to fly? But you cannot fly. Why can you not fly? Because you cannot. Say, "I hear you." Write down, "I cannot fly."

So the same way you cannot fly, God cannot do evil. In other words, God lacks the ability to do evil. So we want to look at what God cannot do. Not just what God will not do, but what God cannot do. Because God is constant. He cannot. He lacks the ability to bring it to pass, even if He were to think it. He lacks the ability to bring that evil to pass. So when you say God cannot, let us start with the things God cannot do, the things that God lacks the ability.

I am talking about Jehovah-Nissi, Jehovah-Jireh, Jehovah-Shalom, Jehovah-Mekaddishkem, Jehovah-Tsidkenu. He lacks certain abilities. He just can't. If He were to think about it, He can't do it. It is like you trying to fly. So Numbers 23 tells us what God cannot do. Remember, let me give you the background. Balaam was hired to curse the children of Israel, and as he wanted to curse, he started to bless them. They asked him, "See what Balaam said." Read for me, PJ. Numbers 23, the 16th to the 18th verse.

Guest (Male): And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken? And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor.

Dr. Abel Damina: So rise up, Balaam, and hear and all of that. Read for me, read more. Next verse.

Guest (Male): God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Dr. Abel Damina: God is not a man that He should lie. So number one, God cannot lie. God cannot lie. He does not have the ability to tell a lie. If He thinks about it, He cannot bring it to pass. God cannot lie. He lacks the ability to lie. Titus, chapter one, verse two.

Guest (Male): In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

Dr. Abel Damina: Which God, that cannot lie, promised. So what do you mean lie? The word lie means to deceive. It means to paint a wrong impression. It means to say what He does not mean, or mean other things that He does not say. He says God does not have the ability to lie. Lies also mean deceit, fear, doubt, myths, mysterious things. God does not have that ability. In Him is light. He doesn't have the ability to produce a lie.

Not that He does not want to lie; He cannot lie. You know one day the angel appeared to Mary and said, "Mary, Hail Mary, you will carry a baby and you will give birth to a baby." "How can these things be, seeing I know not a man?" "The power of the Holy Ghost shall overshadow you. The power of the Highest shall come upon you. You shall conceive and bring forth that baby."

And then the angel said, "For with God all things are possible." Now that is the King James. The original said, "No word of God is void of the ability to make it good." No word of God is void of the ability to make it good. In other words, God has in that word He speaks inherent ability to make His word come to pass. That is to say, if God says it, it does not depend on you. In what He has said is the ability to make it happen.

That is why He cannot lie. He cannot because when He is speaking, His words come out of Him with ability to make His words come to pass. So the ability to lie is not in Him; He doesn't have the ability to lie because He cannot lie. You know there are some people, it is very hard for them to tell the truth. If they tell the truth, you have to be careful.

So now Balaam said also by the mouth of God, God cannot change. Number one, He cannot lie. Number two, He cannot change. What do you mean by God cannot change? How many of you have had parents who today you and your parents had a nice time, watched movie, played together in the sitting room, slept happy? The next morning, your father wakes you up ready to flog you. "Stand up."

"Uh-oh, we just watched film last night. Are we not supposed to be friends in this family? We were all laughing and rolling on the floor." "Stand up." Today, Daddy is in a bad mood. Your father has changed. So your father is like this: one time he is happy, one time he is unhappy. So you too you have learned to adjust. And some people think that is the way God is. Any day God wakes up on the right side, be blessed. Any day He wakes up on the wrong side, you will die young.

God cannot change. The way He was yesterday is the way He is today is the way He will be tomorrow, irrespective of you and in spite of you. There is nothing you will ever do that will make Him change. He is consistently, constantly constant. There is no shadow of turning with Him. He cannot change. Even if He wants to, He doesn't have the ability to change. He doesn't have mood swings.

God doesn't have mood swings. He is not off and on. He is constantly good. That means the fact that God cannot lie means God cannot change. He doesn't have bad days. He doesn't have bad moods. And Jesus showed us how God is. Because Jesus is the word made manifest. Jesus showed His hatred for sin but demonstrated His love for sinners. He hates sin, but He loves the sinner.

"Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus, make haste. Today I am coming to your house. Salvation is coming to your house." He got to the house of Zacchaeus, they sat down, He ate with a sinner. Why? He never changes. He doesn't love sin, but He loves the sinner. He ate with a sinner. God cannot change. Man can't make Him change. He is constant. Malachi, chapter three, verse six.

Guest (Male): For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Dr. Abel Damina: I am the Lord, I change not. He is the same. Somebody said the God of the Old Covenant is different from the God of the New. Who says who? God is the same in the Old and in the New Covenant. He never changed. It is not the God of the Old Testament that is different from the God of the New Testament; it is how people saw Him that changed. It is how people saw God that changed over time, but for God, He is consistently, constantly the same.

That is why Jesus said, "I am come to show the Father," which implies who before then was not known. "I am come to reveal the Father who before then was not known." And somebody says, "But if God doesn't have mood swings, why do I have mood swings?" Because you are still growing. Many of you, your mood swings is immaturity, spiritual immaturity. You are not eating the word of God enough, so your moods are just dancing around the place.

You cannot eat the word of God and be filled with God's word and have mood swings. It is not possible. It is not possible. Even what they call bipolar. There is a way you get drunk with the word of God and full of God's word, bipolar disappears. What is bipolar? The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, gentleness, meekness, temperance. When the Spirit of God in you begins to exhibit His fruit, you stabilize. Mood swings disappear.

It is when you are low spiritually, low on the word of God, low in the place of prayer. And when you are low on the word and prayer, your joy is no more finding expression, then you start dancing around. When you are full of God's word, nothing perturbs you. You are stable. The word of God stabilizes. Am I teaching good? It stabilizes. It takes care of all those mood things. It takes care of it. All these personality disorders. When you allow the Spirit of God, there is no personality disorder in Christ. You are a new creature.

You are not a new creature deficient; you are a complete new creature. You have the fruit of the spirit, you have the gifts of the spirit, you have ministry gifts, you have all of God on your inside. But it is not automatic. As you grow in knowledge, as you grow in His word, the word of God builds you up. The word of God stabilizes you. The word of God makes you consistent.

The word of God in you causes your character that came inbuilt in you with your new nature to now find expression. You have self-control. When you feel like yielding to anger to break the TV box, you hold yourself back. You say, "No, no, you can't control me, Satan. No. TV, I bought you with money. I can't break it. My wife, I love her. I can't slap her. Instead, I will slap the wall. Pa!" Tomorrow I will not slap again. Yeah, you begin to control yourself.

You don't just throw yourself over for Satan to just use you anyhow. Then after, you start regretting and apologizing all over the place. "I am sorry. I am sorry. Had I known, I know not. Oh, have mercy. Help me to beggy." No. When you begin to allow the word of God, you begin to act like your Father. Yes. You become stable. You become calm, gentle, kind, good, patient, long-suffering. That is the character of a child of God.

What we call fruit is the character of the believer. Am I teaching good? Somebody said, "What if it is medical?" The word of God is life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. If you really consume God's word, it will heal you. You won't even know when it has healed you. It is only after a while you find, "Uh-oh, it is a long time. I didn't even know when I dropped this bad habit." The word of God grows, you outgrow it.

Word of God grows you. That is why the word of God must fill you up. That is why Bible teaching has no option; it has no alternative. So God cannot lie, God cannot change. James, chapter one, verse five and six.

Guest (Male): If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Dr. Abel Damina: God does not upbraid. The word upbraid is the Greek word *oneidizo*. It means God does not find fault. God does not find fault. God cannot find fault. That is the word upbraid, *oneidizo*. He does not find fault. He doesn't look for what you have done wrong, and He doesn't have a notebook that He writes your bad things. He doesn't have a video cassette that He records your bad things to play on the judgment day. God doesn't have such records.

Jesus manifested God's word to us. One day they brought a woman to Him who had done wrong. And Jesus said, "Any one of you that is without sin, cast the first stone." They said, "The law of Moses says stone." I say, "Any of you." They all walked away. Jesus looked at her and He said to her, "Woman, where are thine accusers? Hath no man condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." He didn't say, "Is it true? What did you do? Say it again, let me hear it. Say exactly what you did. I want to hear it very loud. Stop whispering, speak out. Now tell me, how did you do it? Explain, explain. Who was the person you were doing it with? Call his name, his full name and his father's house. Say it quickly. Bad girl."

Bad girl, even the way your eyes are looking, you look like a bad girl. No. He said, "Neither do I condemn you." He didn't say, "Bad girl, where are thine accusers?" Woman. They called her an adulterer; Jesus called her woman. He gave her back her value. "Woman, where are thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?" "No man, Lord." "Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more." And this is how to sin no more. "I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

Go and sin no more. He doesn't find fault. What people think happened, which is wrong thinking, is the fact that in the Old Testament, God did good and evil. That is the way people think. Then in the New Testament, He has changed; He has become a good boy. Then the devil took over from God and became the evil one. You don't understand. In the Old Testament, God was good and bad, good and bad, good and bad. Then in the New Testament, God became born again. Then He handed over the mantle of evil to Satan and remained a good boy.

You look at that kind of thinking. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He was good yesterday, He is good today, He will be good forever. He never changes. He never killed anybody, He has never killed, He will never kill. God cannot. He cannot be tempted with evil, and He does not tempt anybody. There is no darkness in Him. No darkness.

Jesus said Satan is the liar. The devil has no truth in him. So God and Satan did not exchange roles. There is nothing you can do that can change God. There is nothing you can say that can change God. There is nothing the unbeliever can do that can change God. He can never change. The only one who changes because he is deceitful is the devil. The devil is the deceitful one.

One day they accused Jesus of working on the Sabbath day, and He laughed. He said the Sabbath was created for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Then He said to them, "Which law was David obeying when he entered into the temple and ate the bread that belongs to the priest and gave it to his boys?" Man is not made for the Sabbath. The Sabbath is made for man, and I am the Lord. I am the reason for the Sabbath. So I cannot be worshipping what I am the reason of. Then in John, chapter one, verses 16 and 17. Are you blessed? PJ.

Guest (Male): And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Dr. Abel Damina: For the law was given by Moses, but grace, which is the truth, came by the gospel. Came by the gospel. Is Jesus Christ the gospel? Came by the gospel. But as you study the Bible, you see a progressive revelation in the Old Testament that now ends up in a climax in the epistles. Christ comes into your heart. The Bible says in John 17:3, "This is eternal life," or "this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." And Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.

Somebody said, "Oh, Papa, teach your sons how to treat their wives," and somebody else said, "Oh, Papa, teach your daughters how to treat their husbands." So everybody has to be, has to learn how to treat each other. If you allow the fruit of the spirit, you will treat your wife right. If you allow the fruit of the spirit, you will treat your husband right. Our interpersonal relationships will be affected by our quality of relationship with God.

It is not just for you and God to relate well. When you have the character of the spirit finding expression, it will affect how you treat your neighbor, how you treat your wife, how you treat your children, how you treat people all over the place. It will affect everywhere, it is the same. The character of the spirit is consistent. It is not just for treating believers; it is for treating your wife. What did Peter say? Peter said, "Wives," put it up, First Peter, chapter three, verse one. PJ.

Guest (Male): Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives.

Dr. Abel Damina: Wives, behave well at home. Even if your husband is an unbeliever, your behavior will get him born again. That is what he is saying. Wives, behave well. Do not have razor blade mouth. Your husband says, "Ah," and you say, "Sh-sh-sh." No. Look at it. Put it up. "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, because it is a word thing, if they do not obey the preaching of the gospel, they also may without the preaching be won by the lifestyle of their wives." The most expensive beauty of any woman on earth is character.

The beauty of a woman is character. Whose adorning, put it up, PJ.

Guest (Male): Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel.

Dr. Abel Damina: Don't just plait your beauty not be on Brazilian hair, American hair, Australian hair. "I bought this hairstyle for 500,000, the other one is 800,000. This one is human hair, one million." You wear it, but your character is far from the gospel. Man, you wear a wristwatch of $100,000, shoes of $50,000, but your character stinks. No. That is not handsomeness, that is not beauty. Beauty is your character. See, even if somebody is ugly and you start interacting and the inward beauty comes out, the color of the person's face disappears.

I know what I am talking about. Because I have seen people who got married and I wondered, "How did you get married?" He said, "Papa, the character. The character." When you encounter the character, you forget how the body looks. You forget the skin. Some of you have skin minus character. It is like they bought a carton, a package from America and put sand inside. So you bought the package without the content.

You understand? It's capital international scam. Same thing with a man. A man's character will be a reflection of the word. If you are full of the word of God, it will tame you; it will make you behave right. You will speak right, you will function right. Don't miss what I'll be teaching next Sunday in the second service, because next Sunday we're going to be dealing with right thinking, right believing, right behavior. All of that is part of it, which stems from the belief system, because what we're dealing with here are belief systems.

God cannot lie, God cannot change, God does not record evil. He doesn't record evil. So when God's word fills you up, it affects the way you behave. It is right believing that produces right behavior. Right believing is a product of right thinking. Right thinking stems from right hearing. When you hear right, you will believe right, you will think right, you will behave right. Yeah, it starts from what you are hearing. It starts from what you are hearing.

The Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we may know. Hallelujah. Galatians, chapter four, verse nine. Or rather, we are known by God. And then Jesus said, "He that has seen me has seen the Father." As I wrap up this service, he that has seen the manifested word has seen the Father. So God cannot change. He is not the one that kills children. He is not the one that brings sickness. He is not the one because He has never changed.

And I know that the more you know Him, the more you love Him, the more you become confident in this life. That is why if God does something for you, it is not for a special reason; He does it just because that is who He is. It is just because of who He is. So in engaging Satan, you engage Satan from the answer. Know the answer and engage Satan from the answer. I will stop there and start from there next week.

You engage Satan from the answer. Do not engage Satan from the question or from the problem. Always confront him from the answer. So you must know the answer to engage him from the answer. Jesus engaged Satan from the answer. "Turn the stones to be made bread." "It is written," that is the answer, "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God."

So once you understand that there are things that God cannot do, it begins to help the way you believe and the way you look at things. It begins to fashion you to live a life of victory and a life of triumph. Glory to God. Say to your neighbor, "Right hearing produces right thinking. Right thinking produces right believing. Right believing produces right living."

Right hearing produces right thinking. Right thinking produces right believing. Right believing produces right living. It all stems from what you hear. That is why you must allow your mind to be corrected, because there are many things you have heard over the years that need to be restructured, flushed out, so you can have the right belief system, so you can begin to walk in the victory that is yours in Christ Jesus. Somebody say with me, "I am a victor, not a victim."

Shout it very loud, "I am a victor, not a victim. I am a stranger to failure." Can you stand up and say that to somebody by where you are? "I am a stranger to failure." I like you to look at four or five people and tell them, "I am a stranger to failure." Tell somebody, "For me to fail, God will have to fail." Say it again to somebody. Tell somebody else. And God cannot fail, therefore I cannot fail.

Now tell somebody, "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." No, speak like you are preaching like me. "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." Tell your neighbor you are in charge. You are head over principalities and powers. Tell your neighbor you trample over serpents and over scorpions and over all the power of the devil, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Glory!

Somebody say, "Charms don't work on me. Incantations don't work on me. Nothing the devil offers that can operate in me. I am seated with Christ far above, far above principalities and powers." Somebody say, "Oh, they are planning for you." They shall surely gather, but for your sake, wherever they gather before the meeting is over, they lack the ability to carry out what they plan. Somebody say, "I hear you." Say with me, "The devil has lost me forever, and I am in charge. He is under, I control him by the power of my words."

Now tell your neighbor, "Mind what you say." Angels and demons respond to words. Mind what you say. The angels told Daniel, "Oh Daniel, from the first day you pray, your prayer was answered, and we are come for your words." Angels come for words, demons also come for words. When you go around saying, "I know myself, nothing works for me," Satan will say, "Thank you, thank you. Let us complete the work. Nothing must work here."

But when you say, "I know myself. I know myself. I am too blessed to be stopped. I am too blessed to be limited. I am the redeemed of the Lord. Everything is working for me." Somebody shout, "Yes!" And let me tell you one more thing before I pray. Two things: there are times the devil and his problems will leave quietly, there are times they will leave with noise. Some demons left while Jesus just spoke quietly, but some they would throw him down, tear him, and then torment him.

Then Jesus said, "Torment him not." So when dealing with demons, there are time situations of life will leave quietly; you win. And there are times it will put up a little noise. When you are hearing the noise, do not be moved. When you are hearing the noise, the head of the chicken has gone. All that noise is an announcement that "we have disappeared."

Though the weeping endure for the night, joy comes in the morning. And let me tell you something else: when the battle is delaying, it is because you have won. The reason why it is delayed is because Satan wants to try your patience. So in patience, possess your soul. Hold yourself together, and having done all to stand, stand. You pray for that sickness, it starts changing face. Refuse to notice. Pretend you didn't notice and maintain, "I am healed." Stay there. Stay there and wear the devil out.

You have long-suffering, you have patience. Wear the devil out. There are some situations you pray and pray and pray; they look like they are no move, it's like delay. Start praising and celebrating the victory. Do not pray again. You too become stubborn. Start praising and celebrating. One day Kenneth Hagin said God healed him of a heart condition, then all the symptoms came back. Everything came back after many years of healing.

So he went to the bathroom, and he wanted to use the toilet, and the devil followed him and said, "You will never be healed this time around." Very loud. "You will never be healed this time around." Kenneth Hagin said he just understood what the game was, so he started laughing. So Satan said, "Why are you laughing?" He said, "Because you said I will never be healed." Then he laughed again. Then Satan said, "But so why are you laughing?" He said, "Because I don't need healing. I don't need it, so there is no point saying you cannot, because I don't need it." Satan said, "Why?" He said, "Because I was healed."

That is having done all to stand, stand. There are times when the devil wants to prove stubborn. Become more stubborn in the word. Say, "I hear you." And you know who wins. Nay, in all these things we are what? Conquerors. Do you know what it means to be more than a conqueror? A conqueror is one who goes to battle, fights, and wins and comes back with the medal of victory. Okay, let's say you were the daughter of Mighty Igor. When wrestling was wrestling, not this one that they are doing drama.

And Mighty Igor went to fight and won, and they gave him the belt and a check of 20 million dollars. And as he is walking out of the ring, you the daughter just saw him and ran, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" So you collected his belt, tied it, collected the check, and you started bouncing. The daughter is more than a conqueror. The father is the conqueror. He got it by fighting. The daughter did not fight, but she collected the same reward. That's what it means to be more than a conqueror. I didn't fight; Jesus fought. He won the victory and I'm walking in that victory. I am running in that victory. I am enjoying the victory. You are more than a conqueror!

So lift up your hands. I speak over you this afternoon. Whatever is not planted by God around your life is rooted out. It's rooted out. I rebuke sickness, I rebuke disease, I rebuke oppression. Satan, get your hands off. Body, be healed. Mind, be healed. Mind, be healed. Now that situation around you that the devil has been manipulating, I rebuke the wind, I rebuke the waves, I rebuke the storm in the name of Jesus. Peace be still. Peace be still. Peace be still in the name of Jesus.

I speak to your business, I speak to your career, I speak to those papers you need for citizenship, I speak to that contract, I speak to your money that is delayed from being paid. As your amen is coming like thunder, I command it release right now. Release right now. Receive favor. Receive favor. Receive favor. And I declare throughout this week, it will be victory in everywhere. Wherever you are found, it will be victory.

And I decree that you are kept, you are preserved. You are preserved. Your body is well and strong. Your heart is healed. Your emotions are healed. Depression, go! Oppression, go! Suppression, go in the name of Jesus. And we rejoice in the victory that we have in Christ. And we thank You, Father, for testimonies that abound in this house. In Jesus' name we pray, and every believer says that amen on the note of finality. Take 30 seconds and celebrate that victory anyway you wish to celebrate.

Celebrate answers, celebrate solutions. Celebrate answers, celebrate solutions, celebrate healing, celebrate favor. Glory, glory, glory! Done, done, done! Glory to God. So through this week, wherever you are found, take charge. Amen. Take what? Take charge. Amen.

So everybody grab your honor offering. For those of you who want to give online, the banking details for offerings are online. Lift up your offerings. Father, we give in faith, we give with joy. Thank you for the privilege to make a difference through our givings in this service. Thank You that our offerings are a sweet smell before You today. In Jesus' name we pray, and every believer says a powerful amen. All right, the baskets are before us, church. Hit the music. Let's do it as we worship Jesus, the risen Lord.