3 Key Elements of a Valuable Relationship

[Music and Singing] [Speaker 1] Church fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God desires a godly home. These are words of restoration and instruction on righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Singing] Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom, thanksgiving and honor, power and might, be unto the Lord, forever and ever, amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom, thanksgiving and honor, power and might, be unto the Lord, forever and ever, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom, thanksgiving and honor, power and might, be unto the Lord, forever and ever, amen. [Speaker 2] Hallelujah. Praise ye the Lord. We want to welcome everyone again to this first Saturday in the month of September, the ninth month of the year. We want to welcome everyone to this edition of Singles Club for the ninth month of the year. 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Lord, our eyes on You this morning as we gather, that nothing will prevail against Your purposes, our lives in the name of Jesus. Lord, as we look into the topic "Key Elements of a Valued Relationship", Lord, I pray, may these elements become part of our lives in everything we do so that Your word indeed will be a place where we get instruction for correct living in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank You, Eternal Father. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Let me remind us again everyone on Mixlr, on Telegram, we who are here physically, please don't forget as we move on together, at any point at which you have a question, at that point please just place the question on the Telegram page or you place it on the WhatsApp page. And we who are here physically, please put yours into writing and drop it appropriately so that once it is 11:30, we are already aware that there are questions. We can just shift to questions at whichever point we have gotten to and then respond to those questions. We are trusting God that one of these days it is going to be an interactive forum where brethren online will be able to interact with us, we who are here physically. We are working towards that and I hope that very soon it will be a possibility in the name of Jesus Christ. So we are looking at a very important topic today which is "Three Key Elements of a Valued Relationship". Let me just give the first thing, the opening or the background to the topic. When you look at the topic, when you talk about key elements, of course you are talking about three important things. That's another simple way of putting it. Three important things about a relationship. Of course, relationship is clear. Relationship can be marital relationship, relationship can be career, relationship can be business, relationship can be a fellowship, it can be a friendship, it can be family relationship, father-daughter relationship, it can be father-son relationship, mother-daughter, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law, daughter-in-law to father-in-law, just relationship. It can be whichever angle, anyway you look at it. Anyway you look at relationship, there are three key elements. Key elements talk about important things that we need to, if we don't have them, covet them. And if you have them, maybe you have been seeing them and you have not paid special attention to it, then please, the purpose of this talk is to make you pay attention to it. In case you have some of them, not all of them, you can add the one that you don't have. And in case you have been seeing it in people and you have been wondering, maybe that is their personality, I want to tell you it's not about their personality. It's about having a correct concept of how God sees relationship. And the first thing I want to say as we open up this morning is to call your attention to the reality that God is a God of relationship. God is a God of relationship. God values His relationship. That is why He is a covenant-keeping God. God is a God of relationship. God creates relationship with people. In fact, the very purpose why God created man is for fellowship. You remember in Genesis chapter 3, Bible says and God came down in the cool of the day. I am very sure that ordinarily that will not be the first time God is coming. God would have been coming. The reason why I said that is because this time around He was saying, "Adam, where are you?" Adam now said, "I heard Your voice and I hid myself," which means at former times when God comes, he doesn't hide himself. Then God said, "Have you eaten?" So something happened to the relationship. So there was an existing relationship. God is a God of relationship. And let me tell you if you don't have value for relationship, my prayer for you is that God will open your eyes. Don't seek to be a lone ranger. Don't try to be a lone ranger. "I know what I'm doing, I know where I'm going, I can do all my things by myself, I can become what I want to become, I know what I will be." Please don't be a lone ranger. It's dangerous. The way we have been designed, we have been designed to be dependent on each other. It's just like look at the members of the body. And let me say a supersonic excellent eye cannot function like a nose. Even one nose will still function as a nose better than a supersonic powerful eye. The eye can only see, that is all it can do. It cannot breathe. The nose can only do for breathing, it cannot walk. And you discover that like the Bible said in Corinthians, he said even those parts that you don't see, they are very, very valuable. You may not see the heart, you may not see the lung, you may not see the bile, you may not see the liver. What you see all the time is we beautify our face and everything, look as if all about us is all our face. But you don't take time to take care of your liver. Do things that will destroy your liver, even though people don't see it. Very soon that face that is shining will go down because the face that is shining depends on the liver to do some work. So you see don't ever think of yourself as an empire. Don't ever think that a tree can make a forest. Many times I wonder too why we have the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. And at creation, you see God saying, "Come, let us make man in our own image." God is a God of relationship. Don't say, "I value my being alone, I don't want anybody around me." It's not a correct lie. It's not a correct lie. Value relationship. Build a strong one. Maintain it. Maintain it. And you will discover that life is all about relationship. I've taken time to discuss this in one of our messages, I can't remember the date now, "Understanding Relationship". Life is all about relationship. And let me tell you this as I try to leave the background. I want to make you understand something. I'm looking for the best way to put it and that it will be very simple and straightforward. One thing you need to realize is that if everything about your life comes only from your struggle, then you are not blessed. If everything about your life... "I did it myself, I did..." If there is no place of blessing, receiving, you giving, you getting, then you are not a blessed person. You are not a blessed person. There is so great a blessing in giving and receiving. That is how God has made us. You give, you receive. You give, you receive. So that you find yourself, people climb on your shoulder to rise, you climb on people's shoulder to rise. That is the way life works. I pray for you, you will not be abandoned. You will not be alone. You will not be alone. Yorubas will say, "Eniyan laso mi." That is human beings are my clothes. Human beings are my clothes. That is the reality of it. May God give us a correct perspective towards relationship. And like I told the married people when we were having a meeting on relationship, I said how much more your marriage relationship. How much more that. How much more. Anybody who troubles his marital relationship will inherit the wind. That person will inherit the wind. Marital relationship is so... it's the peak. Family is... marriage is the king of all relationship. Marriage. I'm telling you it's another dimension in relationship. So God is a God of relationship. God values relationship. God created man, made man in His own image, let them have our likeness so that we can communicate, we can talk, we can come around in the evening to talk around with them. "Okay, what have you done here? How have you done this? Okay, take charge of this place for Me, be accountable to Me." Just look at that. And it was a fellowship. It was a fellowship and they were having a good time in that relationship until Adam did otherwise. Until Adam did otherwise. And that was the beginning of something that affected the relationship. But you notice something about God. Because God greatly valued that relationship, even though God was the offended, God still went ahead to do everything to bring man back to Himself. God paid the price of the offender even though He was the offended. And He says, "I have come to seek and to save that which is lost." God still went back to look for man that was lost. I'm telling you now how God believe in relationship. I'm telling you to make you see how God value relationship. And then look at how God now told us. He said how many times will my brother sin against me that I will forgive him? Seventy times? No, He said seventy times seven times. Telling you to see how God want us to preserve and keep relationship. How God want us to do everything again. You see Jesus said if your brother sin against you, go and show him his fault so that if he listen to you, you would have won your brother back. Look at Him again. He said if you bring your gift and you remember your brother have anything against you and you want to offer something, don't offer it to Me. First go and meet your brother, reconcile with your brother, then come and offer it. I'm showing you how God values relationship. So when you see people who don't value relationship, they are godless people. Mark my word. They are godless people. They are not like God. They are not like God. God paid the highest sacrifice to retain His relationship with man. He was the offended and He still went ahead to restore it. He came seeking man, He came looking for man. The first thing I'm giving you in this background is that please, before I come to the keys, is please, do you value relationship? Are you a godless person? Do you value relationship? Do you see the need to preserve relationship? Do you see the need to restore relationship where there are offenses? Do you see the need to see, "Oh, my fellow Christian brother, oh my dad, oh my mom, oh my younger sister, oh my elder brother, oh my daughter-in-law, oh my father-in-law, oh my husband, ah no, no, no, I can't wound this person, let me make sure we are together, let me do something, let me..." People who are not like that, the keys are useless to them. You don't need the keys. You don't need them. So the first thing in looking at this thing is please understand the background. Open up your heart and say, "God let me be like You. You are the one who started relationship. You are the one who created fellowship." You are somebody who... even You Yourself as great, as sovereign, as almighty as You are, there is the Blessed Trinity. There's the Father, there's the Son, there's the Spirit. The God we serve is not a lone ranger. And when you look at something about this God, something that thrilled me so much about God and it's something I saw in Proverbs. Background to the keys is what we are taking. We just have three aspects, two aspects to the message. The background to the keys and then the keys. So I'll soon be through with the A aspect, background to the keys. Look at something I saw in Proverbs chapter 8. Please open your Bible to the book of Proverbs chapter 8. [Speaker 2 Sings: "God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, thank You. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, thank You. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit..."] Proverbs chapter 8, are you there? I want to take it from verse 22. From verse 22. I'm reading from the New King James Bible. It reads like this: [Proverbs 8:22-31] "The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there was no depth, I was brought forth. When there was no fountain abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth. While as yet He had not made the earth or the field or the primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens..." So this that was before anything started, just quickly match it in your mind, the Gospel according to John. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him, without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, the life... In Him was life and the life is the light of men. The light shines into darkness and darkness cannot possibly resist it. And then in verse 14, he said that Word was made flesh. I behold the glory of the Word as the glory of the Son. So you know who is talking here now. We are talking about the Son. He was with the Father from the beginning. He was before the beginning. Through Him all things were made. So we are taking an account here. This is just an account that is a corollary of Gospel according to John chapter 1. Look at it. He said when He prepared the heavens, I was there. "Come let us make man in our image after our own likeness." When He prepared the heaven, I was there. When He drew a circle on the face of the deep. When He established the cloud above. That's the sky, the firmament. When He strengthened the foundations of the deep. When He assigned to the sea its limit so that the waters could not transgress His command. When He marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was beside Him. I'm showing you relationship. I'm just trying to show you something. I was beside Him as a master craftsman. Through Him all things were made. Without Him was not anything made that was made. I was a master craftsman. He spoke and it was done, don't forget. It was when God speak that things began to happen. So things came by the Word. He sent His Word and His Word was creating things. He was the master craftsman, the Word of God. I was a master craftsman and I was daily His delight. Relationship. Relationship. I was daily His delight. And look at it: Rejoicing always before Him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Fellowship. Relationship. What are you thinking, what are you doing? He says, look at something. The place that thrills me so much. Verse 31. He says, "Rejoicing in His inhabited world and My delight was with the sons of men." Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My delight was with the sons of men. So when there was a need to seek and to save them, why wouldn't He come? Why wouldn't He go? Why wouldn't He come and pay the price? His delight was with the sons of men. His joy was in people. And I'm telling you, I pray for you, may your joy not be in things. May your joy be in people. There are people who value things more than people. The joy of some people, that is why some people can kill because somebody mistakenly spoiled their phone. They value their phone more than human beings. Some can kill. Some can do anything because somebody did something to your property, to things, to things. Because you don't have real value for people. That is why because you are having a challenge with somebody, that's why in your heart you are saying, "Let God just kill him." Maybe because the challenge is about maybe the person did not give you back your five thousand naira or your ten thousand naira. And that is in your heart that God should kill the person. You see I'm just talking about where is your delight. You see situations where people because of certain things so reduce people, so downgrade people because of things, I mean because of things. I've seen where situation where a man slapped his wife because of his car. He said, "My car, car." You value car more than your a human being. Where is your delight? I'm showing you where the delight of Jesus is. Where is your own delight? What is your greatest value? I told somebody if you want to build to last, let your greatest investment, let it be in people, not in things. Invest into people. Invest into people. Invest into people. Let your greatest value be human beings. Value human life. Let your rejoicing be that, "Oh, it was through me that this person got to this point. It was through me, oh, I was able to assist when this person needed this. I was able to help." I'm not talking only about money. I'm not talking only about food. I'm talking about every way you can help. Where all you can give is your time. Where where you can give is your intellect. If what you can give... let your rejoicing be in humans or else you don't have the heart of Jesus. The day I encountered this scripture, it was a turnaround for my life about relationship. Value relationship. Invest into people. Don't underestimate anybody today. Don't downgrade. Don't because of position trample on people. Don't because of who you are just see that this person cannot become anything. "Get out of my sight, you useless thing." Don't have that kind of heart. The rejoicing of Jesus is in people. Where is your rejoicing? Where is your rejoicing? That's why you see some people get into marriage and money break their marriage because they value money more than people. People get into marriage and food scatter their marriage. People get into marriage, phone scatter their marriage. "I don't want her to know my password. I have some secret treasure that the person should not see." I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. It's so such ridiculous what is going on today in society and unfortunately among Christians. Young man, young woman, listen to me. If you don't set your life right, you will not treasure your relationship because I tell you, it is where your treasure is, that is where your heart will be. It is if you see... it is where your treasure is, that is where your heart will be. You notice that when man sin and man went off and there was no way that man can come back, somebody who treasures, who treasures man, somebody whose man is his treasure, said, "No, I will pay the price. Father, I will go. I will pull down all My divinity. I will bring them back. We will restore them. We can do something about them." And the Son came. The Bible says He count it nothing to pull down divinity. He count it nothing. And He descended Himself, put on the form of a man despite His glory and power. Look at the look at the condescending. Look at what He became just because He wanted to lift us out of our wretchedness. He came into that wretchedness. He entered into the mud to bring us out of that mud, to bring us into glory. It was because His delight is in the sons of men. I pray for you wherever you are, anywhere your eyes have been blinded by things and you value things more than human. You value things more than human. May every covering cast of the devil be taken away from your eyes in the name of Jesus Christ. Everywhere you have tied one human being down. "I won't forgive my father for what he did to me when I was a teenager. I won't forgive this my friend for what he did to me when I was this. I won't forgive that one for what he did when he was this. In fact, if I have opportunity, God will give opportunity to punish this person back." Everywhere you have lock up people in your heart, I pray may you release them today in the name of Jesus. I'm talking about relationship. What am I saying in this background? Let the mind which is in Christ, let it be in you. The Bible says let this mind that is in Christ let it also be in you. This mind of Christ. The mind. I've addressed your nature. Do you have the nature of God? Now I'm addressing your mind. How do you think? Do you think like Christ? Do you think like Christ? Do you have the mind of Christ? Young man, young woman, you have not married now. A lot of thing is coming back to affect your marriage. The kind of mind that you are. The way you will run your relationship depends on the kind of mind that you are. The way you will run it. The way you will behave to your fiance who later become your fiancee, who becomes your husband, your wife. We begin with the kind of... the kind of person you are whether you are like God, then the kind of mind you have whether you are like Christ. May the Lord help His church. May the Lord help His people. May the Lord help His people. What is happening among us as Christians today, you will know that many of us don't have the mind of Christ. Many of us don't mind... we don't have the mind of Christ. Believers kill believers because of money. They murder, they speak evil, they say all kinds of things, hatred, division over property. Pastors fighting pastors because of money. May God help our heart. May God help our mind. May we value humans. May we value humans more than things. May the Lord help us in the name of Jesus. Now what are the keys? What are the keys? Keys. Three elements. I'm through with the A part. Please if you have any question with the A part, please just send your question online. Let us have your question. We will relate to your question. Whether on the Telegram page, whether on the Mixlr page, we will relate to your question. Whether on the Telegram page or the Mixlr page or our WhatsApp group page, we will relate to your question. If there's a question about the the first part that we have just finished. We want to move to the second part now. The three keys. The three keys of valued relationship. The three keys. Let me begin with something I told our married people when we're having a meeting. I want to begin with something there and I want us to see something in the book of Luke. Luke chapter 7. Let's open our Bible to the book of Luke chapter 7. Luke chapter 7. Let's get there quickly. Let's see what the scripture says in that place. Luke chapter 7. I will be reading from the around verse 1, verse 2 there. Luke 7, I begin from verse 2. Luke chapter 7 from verse 2. I'm reading the New NKJV Bible. It says: [Luke 7:2-7] "And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and ready to die. So when he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to Him, pleading with Him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they begged Him earnestly, saying that the one for whom He should do this was deserving, for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue. Then Jesus went with him. And when He was already not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, 'Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof. Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.'" Now what I want you to see in this place is two things. The Bible says in the verse 2 of that scripture, he says there was a certain centurion's servant who was dear to him. That servant was sick and ready to die. Do you notice something? The masters don't want that servant to die. Why? The Bible gave us the link. It said the servant was dear to him. You know when people say "my dear", "dear this", "dear that". I want to give you another reading of that thing. When you say somebody is your dear, your dear... He said it was dear to him. I'm reading now NLT translation. "Now the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death." So the highly valued. That is NLT, New Living Translation. "Now the highly valued slave of a Roman soldier officer was sick and near death." Are you getting something? Are you following something in this place? I don't know whether you are getting what I want you to see and seeing what I want you to get. Do you notice that it is because this slave was highly valuable to the master, that is why the master don't want that slave to die? The master don't want that slave to die. The master want that slave to be there. He want him to be there. What make that slave to be valuable? What is it about that slave that made him valuable? Now we will get the key in the next scripture. In the next scripture, he says now when he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to Him, pleading with Him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they begged Jesus earnestly. They too earnestly begged Jesus that the one for whom He should do this was deserving. NLT. So they earnestly begged Jesus to come with them and help the man. If anyone deserve your help, it is he, they said. Why? They said, "For he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue." Do you get that? Do you get that at all? I'm talking about one key element of building value. Key element is service. Service. Service. How serviceable are you to people? How serviceable? How serviceable are you to people? The centurion don't want the servant to die because of his service. The Jews said this man deserve it because of his service. He has become so valuable to them because of his service. I tell you young people, I'm pleading with you. This is something we discuss so much with the married too. I tell husbands and wife if you are not serviceable to your husband, you are not serviceable to your wife, you will discover that there will be nothing to miss you for. There will be nothing to miss you for. There will be nothing. It is service. I'm showing you the secret of why a wife will want to travel and the husband don't want her to travel. He said, "No, I want you around." The husband want... he said, "No, dear, when will you be back?" And when the person said, "Wait, they have been talking, talking, talking, talking." So high is the place. These things, it's not magic. You see many times we take ourselves for granted as Christians. We just believe things will just work because I've married a believer. It will work. After all, she's a Christian, I'm a Christian, it will work. It's not true. It's not true. If we don't value relationship and as a result, use this key, be serviceable to people. Be serviceable. Don't just be in a place and you are not there. It looks as if you are not there. What makes the Bible describe that servant as a highly, highly valued? May that be what you are in your relationship to the other person. Highly valued because you are serviceable. And what I notice most of the time in people today... "God, give me, give me, give me, ah, somebody who will do this for me, give me somebody..." Look, let me tell you the truth. It is depth that calls to depth. It is death that calls to death. It is death that calls to death. It is where the carcass are that the eagles gather. The thing is not about, "God, give me somebody that is..." No, it is God, make me. It is God, make me. God make me. And let me tell you this secret. Because I know I'm dealing with... it's our Singles Club. I know some of our married couples too join this forum but the focus of this particular meeting is for singles, even though some of our married people join us severally and they testify to they are learning some things and people have given testimony, even married people, for what they learned. Now so, I'm trying to make you understand something and I want you to get this this very, very important thing. You see the a secret that many people don't realize about service is that when you are not, when your life is not serviceable, when your life is not serviceable, over time you will lose valuable people. Go and mark my words. The reason why some people end up in marriage not finding valuable people is not because they are not praying. It's because their own life is not serviceable. You see that's one thing I want you to see, one thing I want you to get. How you will lose because one thing I want you to know, it is where the carcass are, where the carcass are, that is where the eagles gather. That is where the eagles gather. Let us be mindful of these things. Let us be careful about how we live our lives. Let us be careful as Christians. A lot of people are having serious struggle today, serious problem in their marriages because of this thing that we are discussing with you young man, young woman. A lot of people are they are just saying, "Oh, I wish something will just take me out of this marriage. I wish something will just take me out." Because they found themselves in a situation where relationship is not valued, where where the person that they are dealing with has higher value, places higher value on other things. May the Lord help us. So we must be serviceable. It's a key, it's a very, very important key. We must be serviceable. We must prepare our heart. And it is not when you get into marriage. And I show you something about this, another secret when it comes to marital choice. Let me tell you. If you are relating with somebody, you are relating with somebody and you notice that it is only towards you that the person is serviceable. The person is not serviceable to other close people around, other people around. Another relationship here and there you don't see that service... it looks as if the concentration is on you. You may need to look inward and look at that person better because being serviceable is not about because you want to now marry somebody, you now become serviceable to that person. It means you are doing it just because you want to get the person. After you have gotten the person, you will revert back because you have not seen it... you only did that because you want to get something. So you are just investing, you are just investing to get something. And that's why you see some people before they get into marriage, they do all kinds of lovable things to the person they want to marry. But after they enter into marriage, the courtship stop. All the buying gifts for them, all the trying to get their attention, all those things will just stop. Shebi she's my wife. Shebi he's my husband. They don't understand this thing. You must get this thing. When you notice that others around him is not like that to them, or she's not like that to them, it is just around you, you, you alone. You need to look, you need to prayerfully look at that relationship. The person may just be doing that because the person wants you. Not because that is who the person is. We are not looking for people who are trying to make up things. May God give you a real woman in marriage. May God give you a real man in marriage. A lot of people are not real. They are not real. They do certain things just because they want to get certain thing at that time. And after they have gotten it, they revert back to who they are. And that is why I'm saying that our prayers today for you know and our teaching to our young men and women, we need to be teaching our young men and women, "Pray God to give you a serviceable wife. Pray God..." No. Pray God to make you. Many people are not today, many of our young men and young women, they are not serviceable people. They are not they are not people that have this key. So they cannot make their their marriage so valuable. Their husband don't get attached to them. Their wife don't get attached to them. They start getting attached to other because they are not valuable to them. [background noise] Oh, we have a network issue there again. Okay, I think we have been able to deal with that. Sorry brethren online, it is about the network. It's not really about the technical. The network seems to be fluctuating, but as they make signal to me, I stop wherever I am and so you have not missed anything. You have not missed anything. Now, so it's very, very important. Be a real person. Understand the key to making relationship valuable. Understand this key: I must be serviceable. I must be there for this person. I must be there for that person. In you know to the extent to which I can. We are not ask you to do more than you can do. No. We are asking you to just where you are. Know there is this adage in Yoruba. The Yoruba normally say... I will interpret it. I know all our hearers are from different part of the world, but I will interpret it. You know there is this thing which we say as Yorubas. We have this adage as Yorubas. We will say "Ohun t’eyan ba ma se nile olowo, talaka la ti n mo." That is what an individual will do or be even when the person have abundance, you will notice it when the person still have little. The point is that if you don't... if you are not serviceable with your one thousand naira, by the time God increase you to ten thousand, you will still not be serviceable. By the time God increase you to ten million, you will still not be serviceable. If this place you are now, you are still... let me begin with our brethren who just finished serving. You are in the position you are now, you are just still a corporal and you are not serviceable. People could not benefit from your cup influence. Maybe you are sent to a school, the student around you could not benefit from your life as a corporal. That position could not benefit them. By the time God increase you from corporal and maybe God give you, let me use what I'm more familiar with, God make you an assistant lecturer. You are now higher than a corporal. People will still not benefit from that position. By the time you go on and become professor, people will still not benefit from that thing that you are. You see it's about the person. It's not about the position. It's not about the abundance. That is what Jesus was saying about the widow who gave her mite. He said the woman gave more. The woman gave out of her poverty. She was having... she was giving almost her last and she was still giving it to God. He said the other gave out of the abundance. You know what it means? They gave God out of their spare. What is not a sacrifice to them. Somebody has hundred billion and he gave God ten naira. And somebody have ten naira and he gave God eight naira. Who has really given to God? Who have given sacrificially? Even though one is ten naira, one is eight naira. But if you look at what the person have and out of all the person gave. That's what we are talking about service. If you... if your life is serviceable, you it is not about the abundance. No, it's not about how many you gave. It's about the kind of person you are. I pray that our young men, our young women will become serviceable today. Many people in marriage are... by the time we we counsel with married people, what husbands, Christian husbands are doing, what Christian wife are doing, I just wonder where is the spirit of service. I said if you can do this to a husband or to a wife, you have been a wretched person before you enter into this marriage. You are not a serviceable person. Please let's take this key, the key of service. Make up your mind. I will be serviceable. Ask God to help you. Tell God, open my eyes to... you know if you don't ask God to help you, ask God to open your eyes to how you can help people, how you can be available. Sometimes because you are close, you may not see how you can be helpful, how you can be useful. But by the time you begin to talk to the Lord, look at how Jesus said how I can be helpful to these people. I can go and die for them. We can still bring them back. And we were killing Him, we were doing everything to Him, He was still doing everything for us. And today we loved Him because He first loved us. You can see it. Today He's not the only child of God. He has brought many. He is the firstborn among many brethren. And by the time we meet with Him there again, look at the fellowship. Unlike, "Let them die they want to die. Why did they disobey Me? That's their cup of tea. Me, ah, they cannot come let them not come, let them remain there." But today look at how many people will say, "I will die for Jesus. I will live for Jesus day after day. I will go for Jesus. Oh, Jesus I love You. Oh Jesus..." Look at the thousands of people. I tell you this truth, young man, young woman, listen to me and learn wisdom. Except a grain of wheat fall to the ground and die, it will abide alone. May you not be a loner. May you not be a loner. Except a grain of wheat fall to the ground and die. If you don't die, you cannot multiply. If you don't change, if you don't die... you need to fall to the ground and die. You need to understand this principle. And then you multiply. And then you multiply. I pray for you. You will call one, a thousand will answer you in the name of Jesus Christ. There is power in multiplication and that is why God told man, "Be fruitful, multiply, replenish, fill the earth then subdue it." Dominion is about multiplying. It's about when you multiply, it gives you dominion. When you can say, "Oh, I need to get this... I need to do this in London. Okay, let me call sister Bose. Sister Bose, please we need to get... Okay, don't worry, I will get that done. Oh, we need to do this one in Lagos. Oh, let me call brother Godwin. Please..." I'm telling you the power that is in multiplication. You have not left where you are and yet you are doing things. Yes, you are just in a location. Why? Because the grain of wheat fell to the ground. It died and then it multiplied. If you don't multiply, if you don't replenish, if you don't fill, you cannot have dominion. You will remain a loner. You will remain a loner. And many people are experiencing that today. Believe in people. Yes, people are bad, people are this, people are that, people are wicked, people are this. I'm telling you God can lead you to your own people. God can choose friends for you. God can raise people for you. If you believe in His word, it is the way of God. Yes, there were Pharisees, there were Sadducees, there were people, there were multitude who killed Jesus. But there was the twelve disciples. There were those who believe in Him. There were those that He could commit the work to. There were those after He resurrected, He came back to. There was one-twenty at the upper room. The one-twenty multiplied again. Let me tell you, there are even people there are good people. Don't close your eyes. "People are wicked, this one, that everywhere." Oh. That's why I'm showing you that there are even people there are good people. Go the way of God. And there are Pharisees, there are disciples. Even among the Pharisees, there was a Joseph of Arimathea. After Jesus died, he was among them, he didn't show up. He was following Jesus online. Like we are doing it today. There are people who have been so a great blessing to me that I've not seen with my physical eyes. He was following Jesus online. He could not follow Jesus physically. But when Jesus died, he was the one that came, he had the boldness. The one who were following physically, they all ran away. It was an online brethren that came and demanded for the body and he went to his own grave, the one he broke for himself, and he buried Jesus in that place. At his death, He was with the rich. Somebody who was somewhere. You know what I'm trying to make you see? Please, multiply. Cast your bread upon many waters. Don't think people are evil, everybody is evil, nobody can do you good, everybody... Look, you will also miss your own people in life. That's why you also miss who you will marry. That's why you miss who's supposed to be your husband or your wife. That's why you will miss good people. You will miss valuable people. Make your life serviceable. I pray for you. I pray for you. I pray for you. May the Lord break everything, everything that makes you not want to fall to the ground and die. Everything holding you back. I pray the Lord will break them. I pray the Lord will open your eyes. I pray the Lord will set you free. I pray the Lord will make you like Him in the name of Jesus. That spirit of service, a key element. Key element in a valuable relationship. May your relationship be valuable once. The spirit of service. The second one I want to call your attention to, the second key. Keys that you must use. Keys that you must operate. Keys that you must pray God should be in your life. The second key. This time is a very popular story so we may not need to read the story because it is a very, very long story. But it's a story I believe everybody knows even from our Sunday School. The story of Joseph. Joseph. Joseph. The story of faithfulness. Faithfulness. Faithfulness. Key, another key, apart from service. I'm talking about faithfulness. Faithfulness is another key element in building value. What does it mean to be faithful? Faithfulness is... the way I can help you to make it very, very simple is ability to stand for the interest of the other with hundred percent truthfulness even when the person is not there. I take it again. Ability to stand for the interest of another with hundred percent truthfulness even when the person is not there. I give you a good example. It's just like a situation when somebody says, maybe you are selling something, you have an article of trade that you are selling. And the person said, "Please I want... sell one to me." And then when you want to sell, even though you are sending it to the person, you look into what you want to sell. Some are already getting bad. Some will spoil very soon. You know the ones that are not too good. The person don't really know it, he doesn't know, you are the one who knows it. And even though the person is not there, you go to the place and you take the one that you know, "No, this is the best in this thing," and you send to the person that you... the person pick, you say, "Ah, okay, this one is good." You say, "Ah, it's a very good one." I mean, I'm talking about faithfulness. Faithfulness is something today that is dying among people. People are not faithful. People are not faithful. They don't they don't... people do more of eye service. It is when there is no way you can, you know any way you can escape that you are truthful. It is when the person is there and the person say, "No, don't give me this one, ah, look even me I know... Give me this particular one." That's when the person can be sure that he will get a good one from your sales. Until the person is there or the person sends somebody who knows it to come and help the person pick it. That's when you can be truthful. That is we do eye service. Eye service. When the person is not there, the person does not even know, the person is not aware, but you are true to the person hundred percent. It is not when there is nothing to do like the case like the case... who is this person? Somebody just came to my mind now in the Bible. Achan. You know Achan. When Achan went to steal all the Babylonian goods and everything and went to hide it in his house. Joshua did not know. It was now when thirty-six people died. He still did not see anything. They began to use the Spirit of God to seek the cause of the problem until they began to pick tribe by tribe. They pick the tribe of Judah. Family by family they pick his own tribe. Family by family they pick his own tribe then eventually household by household they pick him. He now said, "Ah, let me tell you the truth." Is that when to tell truth? That's not faithfulness. He said, "Let me tell you the truth." Which truth do you now want to tell them? You have not been true to them. If you had been faithful to them, thirty-six people would not have died. If you had been truthful, nobody was there, everybody was fighting war, ba, ba, everybody was fighting, killing, burning everything. Why you were busy fighting, you were also busy taking something for yourself that God say they should not take. And you didn't tell anybody. You are looking at your own riches. You are not checking the interest of everybody. You are not checking the interest of your leader. You are not thinking of the other Israelites. You are not thinking about them. You are only thinking about yourself. Even though you are also fighting along, but you are possessed with your own self. That is the spirit of unfaithfulness. That is what have possessed so many young men and women today. They are not faithful. They are not faithful. While they are doing something with you, another thing is also there that you don't know. That one they will hide it from you. That one you will not know that this one is going on. But you know what people don't realize? Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that is what he will reap. Later when they now find that people are not also faithful to them, they begin to shout. "Ah, human beings are wicked! Hey! Do you know that..." You don't remember when you too were sowing seed. Seed time and harvest time, they will not cease. They will not cease. I want to beg you young man, young woman listening to me, wherever you are please I beg you. If you are sowing the seed of faithfulness, you will reap it also. You will reap it. You see God cannot be mocked. Whatsoever man sow he will reap. If you have been like that and you are sowing it and you are trusting God, yes, there are a lot of unfaithful people everywhere. But God will give you a faithful friend. God will give you a faithful husband. God will give you a faithful wife. God will give you a faithful colleague. God will give you a faithful neighbor. If you are... just keep sowing the seed. Just sow the seed. Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. Whatsoever man sow he will reap. Don't say people are evil, they cannot be good people. You just keep sowing the seed. You will see how God will work around your life. I pray for you wherever you are, God will raise faithful people around you. God will raise for you in friends, in colleagues, in partners, business partner, academic partners, career partners, in a wife, in a husband, in children, faithful people in the name of Jesus. There are still faithful people. There are faithful people. But it begins with your sowing the seed. It does not begin with looking for them. No, it begins with you sowing the seed. I want to beg you, sow the seed of faithfulness. And you will see how valuable relationship you can build over time in life. You will see how men will give their life for you because you give you give your life for men. You will see how people will stand and say, "No, we don't... let's see how we can help him out. Let's see how we can help her out." You will see how your husband will stand by you. You will see how your wife will stand. People say, "Ah, men are bad oh. You see men, ah, every man, ah, don't trust men. Ah, these brothers of these days, hmm." Hey, sister shine your eye well. Sisters, there are good brothers. There are still faithful brothers. There are faithful brothers. And brothers let me tell you, sisters of nowadays, what they are looking for is money. Once you don't have money, they will not follow you. This and that. Be very careful. After all this they are speaking in tongues, you better be careful. They are serpent in disguise. Brothers, there are still sisters. There are faithful people. They may be scarce, but there are. But my challenge to you is what seed are you sowing? To your employer in the office, are you faithful? Are you faithful to Nigeria as a nation? Are you faithful... I'm thinking about Nigeria because I am in Nigeria. If you are in the US, talk about the US. If you are in the... just like that, you you multiply for yourself. Are you faithful to the government? Are you faithful to your neighbor? Are you faithful to your customers? You are a businesswoman. You are a young man now you have started something, God has helped you to start something. You are having a skill. People are calling for your service. Are you faithful to them? And then you are praying God that God will give you something faithful later when you are not faithful. Ah, no. No, it will not happen that way. I want to beg you wherever you are, start today. If you have not been faithful to people, please have a change of mind. Have a change of heart. Because if you don't... if you are not truthful, you are not faithful, if you are not using this key now, it will become it will become the foundation for your weeping tomorrow. You will not weep in the name of Jesus. We will not weep in the name of Jesus. Our young man will not weep. But I'm only saying this so that you can you can understand the secret, the keys. There are keys in life. Make use of these keys. Don't throw these keys away. Life is not magic. There are principles to life. There are principles about life. Young man, young woman, there are principles. You don't throw away the principle then you are expecting a magic. Everything I tell people is not about prayer. "I will pray for a good wife, I will pray for this." Also look at your actions. Look at your characters. Look at your behavior. Look at your attitude. I'm not saying prayer is not important. I'm a man of prayer. I pray without ceasing. But I'm only saying that please, you may climb the mountain and do all of that, but when you are not faithful to people, you you just discover that you don't find faithful people. You will pray and pray and pray and pray but you are not getting it and you are wondering. That person saying, "Hey, maybe I'm under a curse. This my life self, I've never find somebody that will be true to me." Check. Check. Please check. The Lord will help you as a young woman. The Lord will help you as a young man. The Lord will bring you to your own people and you will see it in the life of Joseph. You know the story, how faithful he was to Potiphar. Potiphar was not counting anything again. Potiphar don't know how many coming, how many going out. He doesn't know anything about what is in and what is out. Yet the Bible says... look I want you to know that Joseph did not know that these things will be written down oh. He wasn't acting a drama oh. You know in drama you already know what will happen. You know they are filming the thing. They want to teach faithfulness. So they begin to film it. You know you are under camera so you act it perfectly so that by the time you want to you know, you know, you know that's during the shooting. By the time they now bring God together and they want to come and you know play it to the world, it can be so perfect. Joseph was not acting a script. Joseph was just living his life. He did not even know that it will be recorded. He didn't know how many... the master didn't know how many was coming, how many was going out. And yet he was making sure, a hundred came in, okay a hundred went out. Okay, fifty-five went out. It remained forty-five. Joseph, how many is remaining? Forty-five sir. Okay. The master didn't know the number again. Only him knew. And yet he didn't say, "Oh forty." And then took five into his own pocket. No. He was true to that man. He was faithful, completely true to the man. The man did not know. The man did not make him accountable. Yet he was making himself accountable to the man. He was making himself accountable. You see people today, "Ah, this one government did not know, let me steal out of government money. Let me do this." You don't understand. It's a law of life. Everywhere you sow unfaithfulness, it's coming back to you. It's coming back to you. He was true all through. He came to the point of the wife. Familiar story. The wife wanted something from Joseph. "Ah, kesh... my master's wife? Eh, look at this woman oh. God help me oh. Which kind of woman is this? Ah, you are somebody's wife. Ah, how will I be sleeping with somebody's wife? God help me oh. Which kind of woman is this?" And he was doing everything to be faithful to his master. Ah no. Until one day, the woman did everything, did everything, did everything, did everything. I don't know what the woman... the Bible says he pester him. I don't know how the woman was pestering him. But you can just imagine a lot of thing that that woman would have done. I don't know whether the woman exposed herself, I don't know what the woman... but the woman the Bible says he did that every day. And nothing, nothing. I Yoruba people will say, "Nothing in the boy wants to do it." Ah, and the woman said, "Okay, if you don't do it by fire, you will do it by fire by force." And even by fire by force, the boy ran away. And when he when he when he heard the boy, we now knew the reason. He said, "Ha, my master did not keep back anything from me except you. Ha, you are my master's wife. I cannot touch you. I will not be true to my master. Even though he's not here, even though it will be secret, I must be hundred percent faithful. Ah, I can't do it, madam." And the master said, "No, you must do it, you must do it." "No," and then he ran away. I'm trying to make you see what faithfulness is. Even when there is opportunity to do otherwise, you say no. "Ah, this is my friend. Ah, this my fellow Christian brother. Ah, this is my pastor. Ah, this is my this is my disciple. Oh, this is my discipler. Oh, this is my colleague. Ah, this is my ah, we are both in business. Ah, this is a fellow Nigerian." Ah, I mean just multiply it like that. "Ah, this is my wife. Ah, this is my husband. I can't do this. Ah, no. I will not be true to this person." Which kind of heart do you have? Young woman, young man, which kind of heart do you have? And lastly the third key. And the story I will quickly bring I will quickly bring to your mind and then we read something in in Isaiah chapter 58. The third key. And please before I mention the third key, I want you to note that these things that we are mentioning, they are also the fruit of the spirit. These keys. Faithfulness is a fruit of the spirit. Do you get it? Being serviceable is a fruit of the spirit. It's just about love. It's just about love. It's a fruit of the spirit. And there is something that ties around this being serviceable, which is the third one. It's around it but it's not exactly it. Goodness. That's the third key. Goodness. Goodness. Actually, in being serviceable we are good. You see goodness as a fruit of the spirit. But you see goodness is something a little away from being serviceable. It's a little away from it. It's a little different from it. But it's around it. It's around it. Goodness is talking about being able to distribute, being ready to communicate of what you have. Service is more of being able to communicate who you are. One is dealing with who, one is dealing with what you have. Goodness. You know what just came to my mind as we are rounding up this morning? I see that there are no questions so I'm still going on. You know he says, "Anywhere He went, He was doing good. That mighty Jesus, He lives forever. Anywhere people saw Him..." You get the point. Everywhere He went. Bible say how God anointed Jesus with the Holy Ghost and with power. He went about doing good. Akirishore, ashorekiri. He went about doing good, healing others who were oppressed of the devil. Goodness. And you know the example I'm bringing that came to my mind is Dorcas. You know Dorcas? That's the story in Acts. When the woman died, the widows, they came. They were showing it to Peter. "Look at what she did for us! Look at what she did for us! Look at what she did for us! Look at what she did for us!" And they were weeping. Ah, Peter said, "This woman will not die. This woman must come back." You see goodness relate more to the vulnerables. The person in need. The poor, the needy, the orphans. Somebody you are better than, that you can flow to. Somebody you have more than. You know, it's like somebody... I know a brother. He wanted to patronize... he normally use POS. So he now realized that there was a widow not far from him who started that POS thing. So instead of going to town to do it, he started using that widow. And he was deliberate about it. I'm talking about a true life story. He was deliberate about it. Normally on there is a percentage for charging. So maybe for example now on five thousand, they take two hundred. But you see, the brother has been very, very good to that widow at different times. So when he got to the widow and deliberately wanted to use the widow's service, the widow felt constrained. So instead of taking two hundred, he said the brother should be paying one fifty. He wanted to remove part of the money. But you know, the reason why the brother wanted to be patronizing her was so that he wants to use it to help her. This woman had started something. So he now told the widow that, "If you reduce my money, I will not be coming here again oh. I don't want you... ah, you will not allow me to be able to come free now. I want to be coming freely now. Ah, if I notice that you're always removing money, you will not allow me to come freely oh. I want to come too like other customers and you are doing so that the business can grow." Widow said, "Ah no, I want you to come oh." "So okay don't be removing my money." He was deliberate about the goodness. He could have said, "Ah, thank God already, that one have done. It's also true." He could have negotiated. But he wanted to do... you see it's not as if he has so much, this person I'm talking to you about. But he's also somebody that he could help at his level. It's about reaching out. It's about a heart that reached out. That is why you notice this in in James. He said pure religion, [James 1:27] pure religion that is undefiled. He's visiting the widows and the orphans in their need and keeping yourself spotless from the world. Please I want to beg you. Let us learn to remember the poor. You see the poor, they are in different shades. The poor, they are in different shades. Except you beg God to help you. The poor comes in different shades, in different ways. That is what goodness is addressing. The needy. Ability to reach out out of what you have. Building valued relationship. The poor come in different shade. Like I was talking to somebody and I said and I told the husband... I said, "Wow, it's a pity that you are not visiting the poor in their vulnerability. And so your marriage is not working." He said, "Sir, what did you mean?" I said, "Look, one major thing why you are treating your wife like this is because you feel that you are the husband. And that is why you keep dictating without considering her emotions." I said because you feel she's vulnerable, she can't do anything. But remember, those who don't remember the poor, they are not practicing true religion. Charity begins at home. He was quiet. He couldn't respond back. I said you're not considering this woman's emotion, you're not considering her feelings. You changed this woman's location, she changed her name to your name, she changed where she was to come and be with you. And now you just feel that you are around, you are around, she cannot take it anywhere, she can't go anywhere. I said but you are not looking at the fact that she changed everything. Why don't you leave her in her location where she was before? Why did you change everything about her? And now you brought her into this prison you call marriage and you are not available to be a friend. The brother just he just said, "Ah, brother Wole, that was that I explained. He said, 'Ah, brother Wole, I will change.'" I said, "Brother learn to remember the poor." You see the poor come in different shade. They come in different ways. Ask God to help your heart. Goodness. Let us be good. Let us be good. Don't be self-oriented and self-centered. I want to read this scripture as we close today. Let's see Isaiah chapter 58. That's the scripture we close with. Isaiah 58. Isaiah chapter 58. Let's go there quickly. I want to read between verse 1 and verse 11. We'll have seen what we want there. It's a very short chapter. I read from verse 1. He says cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, tell my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sin. Yet... maybe I should read it simpler translation. Let me be reading NLT, NLT is more readable, we quickly get what the scripture is saying. Verse 2: [Isaiah 58:2-10] "Yet they act so pious. They come to the temple every day and seem delighted to hear my law. You would almost think this was a righteous nation that would never abandon its God. They love to make a show of coming to Me and asking Me to take action on their behalf. 'We have fasted before You,' they say. 'Why aren't You impressed? We have done much penance and You didn't even notice it!' I will tell you why! It is because you are living for yourselves even when you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers. Verse 4: 'What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with Me. You humble yourselves by going through the motion of penance, bow your head like a blade of grass in the wind. You dress in sackcloth, you cover yourself with ashes. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think this will please the Lord? No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly in prison and to stop oppressing those who work for you. Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.'" Yes, treat people fairly. What is employer doing today? What is government doing today? If you happen to become a proprietor, you happen to become a businessman, you happen to become an entrepreneur, what are you doing to those who are under you? It goes on. It goes on. Verse 7: "I want you to share your food with the hungry and to welcome poor wanderers into your homes. Give clothes to those who need them. You do not hide yourself from your relatives who need your help. Then your light shall break forth like the morning. Your healing..." You see it even affects your health. "Your healing will spring forth speedily. I will prosper and be in health, even as my soul prosper. Be careful with what you are doing to people. You may never be in health because you are not good. He says then your light, your own light, your own light will break forth like the morning. May our light break forth like morning. A light that nobody can resist. Who can quench the light of the morning? 'Oh, I'm afraid these people know... the witches in my village, they may come and kill me if they know...' Look, it is because your light has not break forth like the morning. Who can stop the light of the morning? Let the whole world gather together, can they stop the light of the morning?" You see we fear so many thing because our lives are not correct. May our light break forth as the morning. He says your healing is affected, your healing will spring forth speedily and your righteousness will go forth before you. The glory, the glory, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Look at it now verse 9: "Then you will shall call and the Lord will answer you. You shall cry and He will say, 'Here I am,' if you take away... if you stop oppressing the helpless and stop making false accusation and spreading vicious rumor." You now when we backbite, when we tear people down. "Don't mind those, don't mind those! Don't mind sister Mercy. She's a very, very useless sister! You know what she did to me yesterday? She did this..." Instead of you to go and meet sister Mercy, "Sister Mercy I didn't like this thing that you did to me. The thing pained me oh." And you finish it there. You will not go and meet her. You start spreading. "Ah, brother Sukomi, do you know what sister Mercy did? That sister is a very useless sister. Do you know..." Look, those things they affect our lives. Let us learn to be good. "Then when you call the Lord will answer you. He will say, 'Here I am!' He will quickly reply when you stop oppressing the helpless and stop making false accusation and spreading vicious rumor. What you don't know about people you spread it. What you are not sure, you say it. And then you want you say you are fasting." Verse 10: "If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in darkness. No matter how dark the economy can be, the glory of God can shine upon you. No matter how dark people can be, you can still find faithful husband, you can still find faithful wife, you can still find faithful friend, you can still find faithful colleague, you can still find faithful neighbor. No matter how dark, He says your own light will break forth in darkness. May that be our portion in the name of Jesus." Don't be talking so much about darkness. Shine your light. Then your light shall break forth, shall dawn in the darkness and your darkness shall be as the noonday. Ah! I pray for somebody, may your darkness be as noonday. May every darkness around your life turn to noonday. But bro and sister, surround your life with goodness. Learn to be good. Learn to be... Wherever you are let us pray. I want you to talk to the Lord. It's a two section thing. The first part: God values relationship. Do you have a nature like God? Number two: Do you think like Christ? The delight of Christ is in the son of men. That's the background to the discussion. You must value relationship and you must think like Christ. Value humans above things. Then that will now help you to use these three keys: The key of faithfulness, the key of service, and the key of goodness. Wherever you are talk to the Lord this morning. And I keep begging you, please don't come alone. Invite friends. Don't come to hear this thing alone, single. A lot of people are dying because of this truth that they don't know. Some of them are your neighbors, some are your friends. Please share the link with them. Encourage them to come and listen to truth. It's the truth that sets free. The truth sets free. Talk to the Lord where you are. Talk to the Lord. Talk to the Lord. Ask the Lord to help you. The nature of God, the mind of Christ. That's the section A. The three keys. The three keys. Where you have been using them, ask God to multiply you. The ones that you don't have, ask to your life. Talk to the Lord. "God please help me. God please help me. God please help me. God please help me." Oh! I want to be like Jesus in all my heart. Lord our God, as we close this morning with our singles, Lord our young men and our young women, Lord as we close with them this morning Lord I just pray. This simple prayer. Lord I beg You for everyone listening to me, add on Mixlr or Telegram, O God Almighty, and those under my voice. Lord I pray, God, everywhere somebody is listening to me this morning, beyond my voice, cause them to hear Your own voice. Cause them to hear Your own voice. Lord, re-echo this truth in their heart until this truth find expression in their lives in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank You, Eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let's share the grace together. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore. Amen. We'll see ourselves again next month in Jesus' name. Have a blessed day ahead. [Speaker 1] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in enriching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission aid. Our regular activities are: Discipleship class, every Monday 5:00 p.m.; Adolescent and Singles Club, every first Saturday of every month at 10:00 a.m.; Marriage Forum, second Saturday of every month at 10:00 a.m.; Family Life Seminars, regular school out-reaches and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location: Life Camp by the first bridge, Ilere community, opposite The Rejoice filling station, along Ijaiye road, Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles: familytent@yahoo.co.uk, familytentministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentministry.org. Our phone numbers are 080-338-61136, 070-336-13854. God bless you all. [Music and Singing]