There are three fears you must conquer in life to be great.
Number one is the fear of the past.
The fear of the past, our past haunts us.
You were an armed robber so what?? The Bible says, therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creatureβ¦
Religion can haunt your past.
We were all kinds of things in the past, all kinds.
Some of you know what I am talking about.
You know what you were in the past and every time God wants to lift you, the voice of your past holds you back. it is a fear you must conquer today!
Second fear, is the fear that comes with ignorance.
You are never confident until you are competent.
Are you listening to me? Incompetence brings fear.
You are always afraid when you do not know and the antidote to that is not prayer and fasting but Knowledge. Get knowledge, get understanding!
The last one which is the biggest one, is the fear of the opinion of others about you.
Listen to me, no matter how nice you try to become, men will have their interpretations about you.
The most important thing is what God is saying about.
Are you listening to me?
You must have this, otherwise one day somebody will look at your child and say can you imagine he is a man of God,
How can a child be wearing red sauce?
And you will go back and cry and say I thought I like red sauce.
All kinds of challenges but you must learn.
Say often, I conquer the fear that comes with opinions of people about me, I know who I am.
Say it by the spirit, I know who I am, I know who God has made me.
Do you know why people are afraid of what people will say?
Because you think it is their right comment that brought you the honor and so you are afraid that if they begin to talk negatively your honor will go away.
The Bible says, no man taketh his honor to himself it is God that take a man from dough hill and put him in high places.
Are you listening to me? this is why pride is very dangerous because if you fall, whatever brought you up is what will sustain you.
Are you listening to me?
Pride is a dangerous thing because when you become boastful and arrogant you will be under pressure.
That’s why many people surround themselves with sycophant who cannot tell them the truth,
Because they have to maintain an atmosphere that makes them feel that the honor is still there
And the moment somebody begins to say, look there is need for change, what happens? the honor begins to threaten them and then they begin to respond.
Are you listening to me?
Honor comes from the Lord.
Anna speaking, it is God that killeth, it is God that maketh alive.
Have you seen people who have fasted and prayed more than you and they have not stepped into one tenth of the honor upon your life??
I have seen people that are more diligent in the things of the Spirit but the position that I occupied today is nothing but an election.
So, realize that every time you see honor in your life it came by grace.
It will be sustained by grace.
When you have this, you will have an open heart to receive criticism from others, and not get angry.
Many ministers are afraid whenever people begin to tell you may be there is an area of your life to adjust or do this,
They get afraid because they want to surround themselves by only the people who are sycophant and liars.
Can I tell you something? the moment you become prosperous or you begin to have results, whether in life or ministry, let me shock you, the people who were there when you were nothing, listen to them when you rise. Because they have nothing to gain.
Are you listening to me?
Those who do not know when you were nothing, they will only speak the things you want to hear.
Are you learning something this night?
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