The life of man is like a mirror. It never gives you back more than what you put before it. If you frown at it, it frowns back at you; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. The real tragedy in life is not when the life terminates but when it fails to fulfill God’s purpose for it. It is a tragedy for somebody to have a talent and fail to use it until he dies. Life is also a one- way street. We cannot come back once we go through it. The tragedy of life is that a lot of people get wise when it is too late. The life you and I are living now is just like a loan from heaven. We are given the loan to trade here on earth. So, we are doing spiritual business for the Almighty with our lives.
Unfortunately, by the nature of human beings, many live their lives at the best only when they are shaken and troubled. Many would not live well until they discover who they are. That is why life itself is a mystery and a mission. There is nothing more tragic than for a person to forfeit the reason why God has brought him here.
So, God has brought you here for a specific purpose. Each person is born to be remarkable. There are no two persons in the world that are exactly the same. It has been found that even identical twins are different. Your genetic make-up is for you alone. Your fingerprint is for you alone. Likewise, your life here is unique because God has a hand in it before the foundation of the world. This is why it is not good to come to the world and just mess around.
You must know what you are doing. The worst tragedy of life is what dies inside a man whilst he is still living. If one’s life does not make an impact on others, it is a useless life. So, every man or woman reading this message is an unexplored goldmine. For God to send you here, He has planted something in you to make you great. The greatest discovery you can therefore make in life is to discover your God’s-given deposits or treasures.
It is a day of tragedy if you allow the enemy to kill the treasures God has planted in you. I remember that diamond mine of Goldcanda. The man was living there and was the owner of the whole land. One day, a wise old priest came to visit him and asked him, “Do you have diamond?” The man said, “No, I have never seen one before.” The old priest said to him, “If you have a little bit of diamond you will be so rich and you will have no problem.” The man said, “Where can I find it?” The priest answered, “You should start looking for it where you find the river passing through two mountains. Check in the white sand very well you will find diamond there.” The man could no longer sleep. “I must be rich. I must find diamonds. I must become the richest man in the world.” Because of this urge within him, he sold off his property and began to travel from place to place, looking for the river with white sand. He searched and searched until one day he got fed up and jumped into a river and committed suicide.
One month after he died, the fellow who bought his compound was just there and all of a sudden found something, a shiny thing, which he took, put it on the table, and sat down and was looking at because he did not know what it was. The same wise old priest came again, and immediately he entered he saw this shining material on the table and said, “Mr. Man, what is this?” He said, “I found it outside, in my garden.” The old wise man said, “But this is diamond.” The person who had this place sold it out to look for diamond and that is why he died. This is diamond.” They did a test and the substance was confirmed to be diamond. By the time they started digging round that compound, it was discovered that the place had the largest deposit of diamond in the whole world.
Here was a man who was living right on top of diamond but who sold off the land and died a terrible death, whereas what he was looking for and killed himself for was in the land. Close your eyes and pray like this: “Any power of profitless venture, die, in the name of Jesus.”
Perhaps you learnt carpentry, or bricklaying; or you had been in business and later you became a civil servant, and later you turned to another occupation, but in all you did not make any progress. Then something is wrong. This is why I would like you to repeat the first prayer point and also pray the following:
- Every desert power attacking my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Oh net of my destiny, catch fish in the ocean of life, in the name of Jesus.
Unto everyman a measure of divine treasure has been granted. The Bible calls it hidden treasure. And just like precious metals in the physical world, spiritual treasures lie hidden from human beings. You do not get gold or oil on the surface of the earth. You go deep down to get them. It is in that going deep down that there is a problem. Many people in our today’s world are surface people. They never really go down in their lives, see what has been deposited there and bring them out for the glory of God and for their own benefit. Incidentally, the children of darkness can see these things, and when they look at some believers, they shake their heads in pity. One day, at Oyingbo market in Lagos, a woman wanted to buy meat but had no money. She then asked for bones and started haggling over the bones. One of those demonic people selling demonic herbs, who was watching her, shook his head and said, “If this woman is what she is supposed to be, she is not even supposed to come to the market to buy anything. They ought to bring the thing to her at home. But look at her now, she is bargaining for bones.” Close your eyes again and say this with holy anger:
- Every demoting power in my family line, die, in the name of Jesus.
- The enemy will not measure my length on the ground, in the name of Jesus.
- The enemy will not convert my meat to bone, in the name of Jesus.
To every man and woman, a measure of divine internal treasure is planted. But if you are not careful your internal treasure can lie dormant from the cradle to the grave. That is why the cemetery is a bad place; it is a place that swallows many visions and many dreams. It is a place where many people’s dreams have become nightmares.
The internal treasure could be stolen. In 1994, a man wanted to be rich at all cost. A witch doctor told him that for him to make that kind of money, he needed to sleep with three virgin girls and bring their blood to him. So, the man went to girls’ hostel in one of our universities with his big Mercedes Benz car to look for three girls. He found seven that were ready to collect money and do whatever he wanted. I do not know what must have happened to the lives of those girls. They probably have got their university degree, but they must have sold the treasures planted in them.
A treasure could be sold, stolen, or transferred to another person. It could be barred, it could be caged and it could be killed. God showed Joseph his treasure at a young age. His treasure was that he was going to be a leader. When his brothers sold him off the treasure that was already awake in him followed him to the prison. Immediately he got to the prison, they made him the head there because of that anointing. When they took him from the prison to the house of Potiphar, he also became a leader there. And from there they took him to the king’s palace where he also became a leader. Everywhere he went that anointing to be a leader was on him. But it could have been stolen if he co-operated with Potiphar’s wife. It would have been taken away and today, we would not be reading about him in the Bible.
Many of us need to cry bitterly to the Lord. The reason some people are below the ladder now may be some careless sex they had when they were small boys or girls. Sometime ago, we prayed for some girls from a university in this country and they told us that they wanted to confess their sins. I said, “What are they?” They said they would bring something the following day. That day, they came with a small pot in which there was some liquid. I asked what the substance was. They said it was the sperm they collected from boys in the campus. “Man of God, to be quite honest with you,” they added, “these boys are finished.” I said, “You mean there can be no repair?” They said, “If there is to be any repair, it will be made by a strong man of God. The treasures of these boys have been taken away. That of Joseph would have been stolen the way that of Samson was easily taken stolen.
Look at Luke 1:14. As the Lord told the father of John the Baptist that he was going to have him, He also told him the treasure of the baby. Luke 1:14- 15: “And thou shalt have joy and gladness (that is, that John the Baptist would bring joy and gladness) and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink." Meaning that if he drank wine or strong drink he would not be great before the Lord. The Lord quickly added this so that John would be great. You reading this message, are you still drinking beer or other alcoholic drinks? If so, you are demoting yourself and your virtue may be flowing away. Verse 15 continues: “And he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.” Meaning that a person may also be filled with the evil spirit from his mother’s womb. Verse 16: “And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.” Meaning that he would have the power to convict and convert. Verse 17: “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias (meaning that he would be a terror to the kingdom of darkness) to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” The seven treasures listed here were planted in the life of John the Baptist.
Many people have 7, 10, 20 or 50 treasures planted in them but they are operating only on one and are complaining that things are not moving. You need to deal with yourself the way that tax collector dealt with himself. The Bible says that he slapped himself on the chest and cried to the Lord. You need to talk to yourself, you need to address your destiny and say to it: “My destiny, do not sleep.” You must wake up those things that have been buried in you by the Lord that you are not using. You must challenge them to come up. One of the greatest things you can do for yourself is to pray to find out those hidden treasures. Perhaps, if you pray and find them out, some of your running about will be stopped because you will discover that some of the things you are running about for are right there within you. This is why you must pray the life waking up prayer points at the end of this message.
Many destinies and virtues are at the various levels of slumber and some virtues have fallen into coma. They need an iron hand to shake them loose and bring them up. That iron hand is the prayer at the end of this message, which should not be said casually, because it will not help only you but will also help those around you.
One day, a farmer went to the market and bought a rattrap. When he returned home and was bringing it out, Mr. Rat saw it from an opening in a wall. He became very sad because he knew that, soon, he could not run about freely as he would want to do. He went to Mr. Chicken who was also in the yard and said to him: “Mr. Chicken, do you know that they have bought a rat trap?” The chicken said, “Well, that is your business,” and the rat went away dejected. He ran to Mr. Pig, who also lived in the garden, and said to him: “Mr. Pig, do you know that they have a bought rat trap?” The pig said, “No problem, I will be praying for you,” and Mr. Pig also took the matter casually. Mr. Rat was still not happy. He ran to Mr. Cow, who was also in the garden, and said to him: “Mr. Cow, do you know that they have bought a rat trap?” The cow said, “Yes, you should grow up like me, so that the trap will not be able to catch you.” Mr. Rat retired to his hole and cried. The farmer set the trap at night and there was a noise when the trap caught something. The farmer’s wife went out to see what the trap had caught, but because the place was dark she did not know that the trap had caught a snake. As she put her hand down the snake, which was at the point of death and very angry, struck her and she fainted immediately and was rushed to the hospital. She began to run fever and in those days the treatment for fever was chicken soup. So, immediately they took her back to the house they quickly killed Mr. Chicken to prepare soup for her. So, Mr. Chicken that did not give a damn when the rattrap was bought was the first casualty. The woman did not get well on time and people began to come to their house to greet her and because of the large number of visitors they slaughtered Mr. Pig to prepare snacks to entertain the visitors. Again, Mr. Pig, who took the issue of the rattrap casually, became a casualty. To take the prayer points at the end of this message casually is to become a casualty. Meanwhile, close your eyes and pray like this: “Authority of ease to possess my possession, come upon my life, in the name of Jesus.”
I thank God for your life and for your job as a teacher, or that you are doing this or that, but do you know that that teaching ability, etc, can be just one over 50 of what God has deposited in you? Thank God you can sing, but do you know that that can just be 25 per cent of what God has deposited in you? You need to pray to wake up your inner treasure.
SIGNS TO KNOW YOUR INTERNAL TREASURES
There are some signs and mark by which you may know your internal treasures:
1. Those things you are happy doing: Your treasure may be tied to that one thing you feel very happy doing. Many people may wake up Monday mornings and go to work they hate to do.
2. Those things in your life that can help others.
3. Those things in your life that are in high demand.
4. Those things that you can accomplish with minimal assistance. When I was a small boy, I had a friend called Ahmed. Anytime anything electrical went wrong, Ahmed could repair it, yet he had not even concluded his primary school education nor did he know the definition of physics, chemistry or biology. Unfortunately, his mother was one of those who took their children from one prophet to another, and one prophet told Ahmed: “Behold, thus saith the Spirit of the living God: you are an accountant.” Ahmed is in prison now for stealing as an accountant.
5. Those good desires that will not release you.
6. Those things that motivate you to be productive.
7. Those things in you which ignite in you the zeal to perform them.
8. Those difficult things that you do effortlessly.
9. Those things that you do which get positive response from others.
10. Those things that you do which cause doors to be opened to you with ease.
11. Those things that you do which give you a sense of personal satisfaction.
Unfortunately, many people are in a profession not because they like to be there but because their parents say they must be there. For example, they said you must be a doctor and you became one. They brought the first patient and he died. They brought the second patient and he died, and also the third patient. Everybody in the street gathered and told other patients: “If you do not want to die, do not go to that hospital. People who walked in there with their legs were carried out dead.” I have a doctor friend like that. He is now into poultry business and has abandoned medical practice.
12. Those things you do which make you to develop new ideas.
13. Those things you do that make you think creatively.
14. Those things that make your spiritual leaders happy.
15. Those things that you are willing to pursue at any cost.
You ask a person to learn carpentry or motor mechanic simply because he was failing his exams in the school. He learnt the trade but his brain remains the same. He is spoiling people’s cars, and is not happy doing the work. There are many people working in this country in frustration. Sometime ago, I passed by a school in Lagos, I saw one teacher, who ran mad with his students. He beat nonsense out of them and the whole class was crying. The teacher simply showed a mark of frustration.
16. Those things for which you will be willing to make a sacrifice.
17. The work you are doing for which you will feel confident to face God.
18. Those things you are doing about which God will say to you, ‘well done’.
19. Those things that the Lord has been bombarding your dreams with, which you always see yourself doing.
20. Those things that you do which multiply your value, bring honour to you, and make people to glorify your God.
Apart from praying to the Holy Spirit to reveal to you your hidden treasure, you can locate them through these signs.
Where I attended my junior school, there used to be a madman in the nearby market place and we called him “Lion of Judah.” If we were not small boys, we would have known from that name that he had a problem. Otherwise, how would a man call himself the Lion of Judah? However, any time we did not understand Mathematics we were taught in class, all we needed do was to go to Lion of Judah in the market place, and say, “Lion of Judah, we were taught mathematics today and we do not understand it.” His madness would stop temporarily and he would say, “Is it trigonometry, algebra or geometry?” When we told him, he would sit down and with his fingers in the sand explain it to us the way that would make our teacher look stupid. If you say, “Lion of Judah, they taught us history today and I do not understand it, he would say, which aspect of history? Is it European history, world history or African history? By the time you mention which one, he would give you a lecture, which would look as if your teacher never went to school. When he concluded teaching he would bring out his mouthorgan and play it and play it with the mouth, with his nostrils, and again with the mouth.
It was from the mouth of this madman that I first of all heard these two strange words: Jewinisation and Arabisation. He did not talk about Christianity or Islam. Instead of talking of Christianity he would say Jewinisation of Africa and instead of Islam he would say Arabisation of Africa. But after his lecture, if you gave ‘Lion of Judah’ a bowl of rice, he would first of all pour it on the sand, lick the soup at the bottom of the pot or plate and then pack the sand and rice back into his plate and begin to eat. I have no doubt in my mind that he was meant to be one of the greatest professors in this country but the enemy reduced him to nothing.
In case you are reading this message and you are not yet born again, you cannot wake up any treasure. You cannot wake up any treasure within you while you are still an enemy of God. If you now want to give your life to Jesus, say this prayer: “Father, in the name of Jesus, I come before you now. Lord Jesus, come into my life. I surrender to you as my Lord and personal saviour. Take control of my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
When something has been buried in a person’s life right from the womb and he wants to take it away, he has to be violent. Remember that when Jesus got to the grave of Lazarus, He turned to His Father with a gentle voice and said, “Father I thank You because You always hear my prayers.” But immediately He turned away from His Father to the grave, the gentleman in Him disappeared. He now roared, “Lazarus, come forth.” You should therefore shout the following prayer points loud and clear:
PRAYER POINTS
· Every power aborting the plan of God for my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
· Treasures of my life wake up by fire, in the name of Jesus.
· Household witchcraft will not waste my life, in the name of Jesus.
· I shall not live in shame; I shall not die in shame, in name of Jesus.
· I shall not destroy the pages of my life, in the name of Jesus.
· Every satanic finger pointed at my destiny, wither, in the name of Jesus.
Now pray in your mother tongue no matter how anglicized you are:
· My Pharaoh, I kill you today, in the name of Jesus.
· If I be a child of God, let fire fall, in the name of Jesus.
· Anything programmed into the heavenlies against my destiny, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
· My Father, convert all my fears to ashes, in the name of Jesus.
