WEBVTT 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:12.040 Do you know that you are a work of art? 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:14.800 Man is the greatest product of God. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:20.080 I mean, a man designed to think, talk and act with God. 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:22.560 Are you living in tune with God? 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:25.840 What is your status before God today? 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:33.080 Without the indwelling grace of the Holy Spirit, man is but a shadow of the one God created! 00:00:33.080 --> 00:00:39.840 The man God created was not a mere carnal one governed by his senses 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:45.240 but a communicator between the visible and invisible worlds. 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.800 God and man used to talk together as friends. 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:57.760 But one day man broke the relationship by disobedience and went away from God. 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:03.240 He then went further away until finally he left home. 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.600 He left his native land, Eden, where he lived with God. 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:12.400 He emigrated from God’s presence. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.560 Since then, God has been eager to be talking again with His old friend 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:25.040 but man, in leaving the presence of his Creator, had lost his mother tongue. 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:29.160 I mean, he lost his original language with God 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:34.720 and became unable to communicate with his Creator in spirit and in truth. 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:42.800 The natural man cannot hear or talk to God; this is the challenge we are facing today. 00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:49.880 Although God speaks again and again, so many do not pay attention to what He says (Job 33:14). 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:52.920 The silence is hard on God. 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:58.440 As eager as the father of the prodigal son was to see his son come back home, 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:04.360 God is eager to be on intimate terms again with man, His old friend. 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:08.680 That is why He had to choose a language that man would understand. 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:18.200 So He sent His Son, Jesus Christ on earth to bring man, His old friend, back to Himself. 00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:22.120 God honoured the human language by calling Jesus the Word. 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.880 The Word became flesh and entered the world. 00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:33.120 Jesus is God spelling Himself out in a language that man can understand, 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.640 a language of spirit and life (John 6:63). 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:46.160 For how long will we continue to think, talk and live in the natural when Jesus is waiting for you at the point of His Spirit? 00:02:52.320 --> 00:03:01.280 From our many years of learning under and walking with God’s General, Prophet TB Joshua, until he was called Home to Heaven, 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:07.000 a passion has kindled in our hearts to impart the treasure God has given us, 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.600 the living Word in the power of the Holy Spirit! 00:03:10.600 --> 00:03:14.800 The letter of the Word cannot move, cannot operate without the life of God (John 6:63). 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:24.280 Every Word of God is Spirit and life and it is the very life of God in that Word that injects power, energy to the Word. 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:30.640 This is the Word that heals, saves, delivers and enables the believer to live a victorious life in Christ. 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:38.560 Just like Simon Peter in John 6:68, we have discovered that there is no alternative to Jesus 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.400 because only He has the Words of eternal life. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:51.240 After our mentor was called Home on 5 June 2021, like the disciples of old, when Jesus ascended to Heaven, 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.040 we have been waiting in faith. 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:23.440 I found myself in a glass compartment inside a cave without exit. 00:04:23.440 --> 00:04:28.680 Suddenly a mighty rock came from Heaven 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.160 and hit the rocky mountain. 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.320 It pierced the cave. 00:04:33.320 --> 00:04:38.040 The mountain shook but I remained steady inside the glass compartment. 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:48.560 The rock drilled through the rocky mountain. 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:52.160 I watched. 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.920 Then I came out and walked. 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.640 I stopped and gasped as I saw 00:04:58.640 --> 00:05:06.080 the rock had drilled a perfect beautiful tunnel made of gold! 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:12.200 I said to myself, there must be water at the end of this tunnel. 00:05:12.200 --> 00:05:14.360 I started walking. 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.360 Suddenly a voice came from above: 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:25.520 “Stay where you are. Don’t enter! The water is coming to you.” 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:29.760 I stopped and stayed where I was. 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:36.920 As I stood still, suddenly I saw the water flowing from the end of the tunnel towards me. 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.280 The water was clear, sparkling with life. 00:05:40.280 --> 00:05:43.360 It flowed closer 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.240 until it reached my toes 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.000 and washed my feet as a wave at the seashore. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.080 and washed my feet as a wave at the seashore. 00:05:53.280 --> 00:06:01.960 While I was pondering on the vision, my heart prompted me to the Book of Daniel 2:44. 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:44.720 What is the purpose of the rock? 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:10.760 The purpose of the rock is to remove the barrier between our heart and God. 00:07:10.760 --> 00:07:16.880 When a man yields his heart to the Holy Spirit, the veil is taken away. 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:25.120 The Word of God is the seed of divine life that comes into our heart and causes faith to grow. 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:31.120 The vision is for an appointed time (Habakkuk 2:3). 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:44.480 The vision is to link man back to God through His Word, by His Spirit, to edify the Body of Christ 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.840 and to cooperate with a network of churches all around the world. 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:54.720 The vision is in line with the calling and gift of God in our lives. 00:07:54.720 --> 00:08:03.840 The rock that fell from Heaven is the Word of the Kingdom as Jesus said in Matthew 13:19. 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:10.480 Our vision is to help get the Word into people’s hearts - because it is only there that it works effectively. 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.360 During the last two decades under the mentorship of Prophet TB Joshua, 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:40.280 our interaction with thousands of believers and church leaders worldwide 00:08:40.280 --> 00:08:48.480 and the recurring questions raised by so many during lectures have drawn our focus to the practical side of Christianity, 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.840 I mean, our daily walk with the Holy Spirit: 00:08:52.840 --> 00:09:01.200 how to develop spiritual awareness, how to hear from God, how to build one´s faith in the face of life’s uncertainties. 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:06.160 These core issues and others will be addressed under the guidance of the Holy Spirit 00:09:06.160 --> 00:09:11.720 through in-depth teaching sessions with time for interactive questions and answers. 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:16.760 Our vision also embraces local churches. 00:09:16.760 --> 00:09:28.720 We want to cooperate with a network of ministries to impart our knowledge, experience, and spiritual gifts as the Spirit leads. 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:35.080 Until today’s church realises that the spirit of man is the fountain of faith, 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.000 that is when the Holy Spirit will be involved in our affairs. 00:09:45.560 --> 00:09:48.200 As our mentor, Prophet TB Joshua taught us, 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:55.320 “In the University of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion, 00:09:55.320 --> 00:10:00.840 you must take every course for each course serves a purpose.” 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:02.720 So, what do you need? 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.320 An open heart. 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:13.760 What are the materials required to take every course - to not give up, look for alternatives or despair at life’s often cruel blows? 00:10:13.760 --> 00:10:23.720 Humility, faith, endurance, perseverance, forgiveness and love without expectation. 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:25.360 Who marks our work? 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.440 The Holy Spirit.