According to Your Ability: Too Great a Gift (Part 2)

In Part 2 of this teaching, Pastor Derrick continues to unfold the powerful truth behind what it means to be entrusted by God. This message goes deeper into the responsibility, weight, and privilege of what Heaven has placed in our hands. Hear this teaching and be blessed.

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Thank you for tuning into Push Fusion Podcast. We have committed to serve you with the word of review to be a force. This is Sam Your Host, and this is an excerpt from a recent word ministered by Pastor Derek.

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You're searching for something else. Can I take you back to that parable which I left half? Matthew chapter 25. What is it about? The talents. How many of you remember? And I think I went through it, but I didn't exhaust it completely. But I want to exhaust it completely today. Are we okay? Okay.

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Matthew chapter 25, verse 14. For the kingdom of God is like a man traveling to a far country who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. Uh-huh. And to one he gave five talents, to another, two talents.

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Are you all guys listening? Can we read together? Can we stand for the word? Always honor the word, okay? These are not stories, this is the power of God. And if you understand it, I'm telling you, you will go instantly, you will begin to understand why things are not functioning. Instantly. Let's read together. And to one?

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And to one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability. And immediately he went on a journey. Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents.

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Okay.

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And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in the ground and hid his Lord's money. After a long time, the Lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, Lord, you delivered me to five talents. Look, I have gained five more talents besides them. And his Lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord. He also, who had received two talents, came and said, Lord, you delivered me to two talents, like I have gained two more talents besides them. His Lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord. Then he who had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you to be a hired man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. And I was afraid and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours. But the Lord answered and said to him, You wicked and lazy servant.

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Those are harsh words, huh? Harsh words for what? Not multiplying. Okay.

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You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.

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Remember that word coming. At my coming. There's a king coming. Amen.

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28. Therefore take the talent from him and give it to him who has ten talents.

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Okay.

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For to everyone who has more will be given, and he will have abundance. But from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away, and cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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So this this amen, you may be seated. So this parable is like a huge. Are you listening? But it costed heaven and earth. Heaven and hell for this servant. It looked like what? So it has to be not about, oh, Samuel has a uh has a talent of guitar. He didn't play enough. It's not that. You're talking heaven and hell here. It cannot be, oh Michael can play the drums. He didn't play enough for me. Send him to hell. No. Are you getting it? It's not that. It's something much deeper to this parable because we know Jesus is what? A righteous judge. That means he's not going to send somebody to hell for not playing more drums. He's not going to send somebody to hell for having a great talent at birth. What are we talking? A grace given to you when something was revealed to you, not at birth. I'm not talking about your birth talent here. I'm talking about a grace that came on your life when you saw Jesus. Ah. I hope you're locating that. It's not what your papa says, you know what your cousin saw when you were small. They said, Oh, this guy, no, he's he has a talent of this, or he has a talent. No, God knows all those talents, but there's a grace that came. Grace means you don't have something, and something is given. Grace means you cannot function in it. That's why God gives you the grace so you trust him more. Because more grace comes on it. The talent you got, you can do without God. But the grace on your life requires God. So how many of you are functioning in a grace that you receive from God when He revealed Himself to you? Not your talent. Oh, I'm very you're I hope you're understanding it. There's a difference here. That is what if you tap into, you make profit. So that should have taken away comparison for your life. Remember? All your comparison. That means if your brother, your father, your mother made comparisons with you, just forgive them. Because now you realize God gave according to your ability. If he gave somebody five and he gave you one, can you imagine God? He's not crushing you. Look at it differently. You're like God, you blessed him with so much. That boy is getting crushed. But when God looked at you, gave you one only. Because he said, I don't want to crush you. We'll start with one with you, and we'll bring you up to five. Look at God. How many of you know you would die under the weight? If God put, gave, looked at your ability and gave you ten. What would you do? But God looked at your ability and said, I'll start with one. And God is not looking whether you outdo the guy in five, or because you got one, you're trying to be five. He's not worried about that. He's going to come and ask you, I gave you what. That means if you look at the text, this man came, gave, and immediately left. That means what? God has enough trust that what he entrusted you with is enough that you can make things out of it. And I'm here to tell you this is not the gift you got when you were born. This is the revealing of Jesus Christ. A king comes and reveals himself to you and gives you something. It's not what you are good at, it's what you need to lean on God for. That's why it's called grace. That means you can't earn it. Do you know how good people are at their own skills? But do you know that God you won't need God for that? That's why you see all the guys who are very good at what they did, most of them are dead. Michael Jackson, dead. He was so good at it. Whitney Houston, dead, the best singer, the best. These guys grew up in church. Do you know they were church guys? They grew, they were in the choir. Michael Jackson was in a choir. And look how he died. You couldn't even see his face. Celebrate someone when you see they do things beyond their ability. Because now you know the grace of God is evident. Go into a lion's den and see all the PhDs are taking notes to say you are going to fail, and at the end of it, they say, We have never learned something out of the books more than what we've learned in this one 15-minute class. That's the grace of God. That's the grace of God. That means imagine what you are holding back and what you can become. But you have settled for job. You have settled for? Why? There's no risk. I'm telling you, your gift that you've got can work anywhere. The grace of God is the power of God unto salvation. The grace of God. We are too happy to lean on our what we know, our strengths, what we can use, what people know us for. 2026 go into the deep. Trust God, and I tell you, those who trust in Him will never be put to shame. There's a verse in your Bible. You'll never be put. You know why the church has never done great exploits? Because we are okay, we get a breakthrough and that becomes our land. This becomes my happy zone. Now we never want to move ahead. Why? Because if we move ahead, we don't know what will happen. Hey, we don't know what there was a grace that God gave you when he met you.

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Yeah. Prophet, that scripture that you were referring to is Romans 10, 11. For the scripture says, whoever believes on him will not be put to shame. Wow.

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Can you find the other one? Is the power of God unto salvation? I don't know whether it's the grace of God, but I is this exciting you? So this man, this guy, Jesus, the king comes, gives him a talent, and leaves. Are you very clear? This is not your talent. Which you're all your cousins and brothers and what you're doing today. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Zabron Derene. I'm telling you, what God gives you makes profit for you. Amen. Amen. And I'm telling you that that what you follow will be the blessing of the Lord that make it rich and add no sorrow. You know why? You got it by depending on God, not on your own strength. I've seen that. As long as I depended on my own strength, I got little here, little there, little. When I went into the deep and I said, Lord, what you are taking me in. And I stood before people I never knew. And I opened my mouth and I found another thing took over my tongue. And the wise became foolish. And the foolish became wise. Then I knew there is something more that there is out there that is not in Chat GPT, that is not on your stocks, it is in you.

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Amen.

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God didn't invest in all the stock markets, He invested in you. You are his reward. Amen. You are his work. You, you, you, you're trying to learn a course, you're trying to learn, do all that, but there's something in you that God has given you that if you tap into, you will see the grace of God. And you know what's the grace of God? When it manifests, you know it's not you. Yeah. And that's why you have a testimony that this is not me. And you know it. You know, there are many guys who give testimonies and they know it is them only. I've heard so many girls, you know, I get very angry when girls give testimonies. Not now, when I was small. Because the boys, you know, the boys, boys are boys. A girl in the building will come, you know, and I'm telling her, you know, exams are there. She's saying, even I have exams. I says, but I have not studied at all. She's saying, even I have not studied. Even I'm not, and I'm feeling so happy. Thank God. We'll have two failures. Thinking, wow. Thank God. At least when I said I've not studied, somebody else is saying. That's it. I said, very good. Exam is over, results come. She gets first class. I said, what happened about that? You had not studied. I not studied. I was getting distinction otherwise. I said, Oh, how much did you get? I said, let it be.

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Let it be. So let it be. So then I realized when a girl says she's not studied, brother, run and study. She has definitely studied. When a boy says he's not studied, he's telling the truth.

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Did you get that scripture? Uh you were referring to Romans 1:16. For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation.

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The gospel, the good news is what? The power. What unto salvation. For everyone. Do you know the good news is that Jesus gave you a grace?

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Yeah. Yeah.

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I can see from your claps how much you value it. Do you know? If I came and gave you gold, I would see how much you would clap. But a grace is given to you, and people are not so impressed with the grace. Yet, do you know the grace makes more than gold? Your faith, the Bible says, is even more than pure gold. That's why one don't go there, but one Peter tells you your faith needs to be genuine. The trials are coming to make your faith genuine. Do you know there's faith and then there's genuine faith? There are many people who have, but genuine faith comes when there's a trial. Then you see genuine faith really coming up. Do you come to church when everything is backfiring? Do you come still to church and not come to church just because you're coming? Come to church and celebrate God like as though there's nothing because you know this cannot happen. This cannot be the story of my life. Because I caught a God's hand and He delivered me out of darkness into light, never to put me back, but to lead me on. So the grace, everybody tell tell yourself, there is a grace on my life. And this God comes, remember, He visits, right? And we saw in Peter, whenever G God Jesus reveals himself, there's a grace. So he gave one five, he gave one four, he gave one one, and he went off. Meaning he didn't wait. Have you realized? Have you not noticed till now? When God gave you that grace, he never helped you anymore after that. Because the grace of in your life is enough to bring you out of lions' dens. While you cry out to God, help me, God will come and rebuke you. I rebuke you. All of them are in the boat, and they're asking Jesus, help us, save us. And what Jesus says, Oh my god, I forgot I was sleeping. Thank you for waking. No, he says, No, he doesn't say, Oh, you have little faith. That's another one. Come on. What is he saying? You wicked and adulterous generation. How long shall I put up with you? Jesus is saying when they wake him up from his sleep, he's like, How? Why do you fear? Oh ye of little faith. Oh ye of little faith. He literally, what does he say if I'm getting it right?

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So that what you're referring to is uh Matthew chapter, Mark chapter 4, verse 37. So uh I'll read from 39. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. But he said to them, Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith? Why are you why are you so fearful? And why is it that you have no faith?

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You read it in some other places also where he talks. But he's rebuking them for their unbelief and for their lack of faith. So when you cry out to God, do you think God is excited about the cry? Or is he saying, I've given you something that you can outdo the competition in your life? You can outdo whatever is there. I've given you a grace that you can outdo it. Look at what happens. I want you to see something that even I didn't see, and probably you didn't see it also. You all know that five made what? Two made what? And one made zero.

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But here's the joke. In the parable, Jesus never asked him to multiply anything. Did you find it? Did he say multiply it? I'm coming back. Then why are we all fighting? He never said it anywhere. He gave it and left.

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So I know what you're thinking. It's true that he came to settle accounts, but he never told them to do anything with it. Right? It's not there. You will not find it where Jesus said, I'm coming back, make sure you said that. Yet they went and they did something with it. Here's a secret for you. Whenever you're entrusted with something, God expects stewardship of it. Whenever you're entrusted with something, God expects you steward it. If God gave you a wife, he expects you to steward a marriage. If God gave you a child, he expects you to steward that child. If God gave you a church, he expects you to be there, not online, in person. Otherwise, you'll get heaven online. You'll be sitting in another zone, another realm with a screen, and you'll say, watch it from there. Since whenever we had church, you like online. Now when you see all the brothers with Abraham type. Because you like so view heaven also online. Steward, say steward. That means everything. So imagine if God came and gave you something, why do you think heaven and hell became the question at the end? Because this whole gift of God is about stewardship. Because God never came and told them you need to multiply anything. But how do you know the rule of the kingdom? The rule of the kingdom is if I give you something, if I put something in your hand. If I give you a responsibility, if I give you some accountability, you're supposed to steward it. I want you to see the five made five more. The two made two more. But the one, let's read about that one. I want you to see what that one guy did. This one guy is giving giving me nightless. I mean, every time I go back to see what was wrong with this one guy.

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Verse 24. Then he who had received one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown. Lord, I knew you.

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Somebody say, Lord, I knew you. Lord, I knew you. That means, number one, he had an identity problem. He had a lack of knowledge of the king. That means he had received some information from some person out there which was completely opposite to what the king was. He said, Lord, I knew you.

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To be a hard man.

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To be a hard man. Can you believe he had nothing? A king comes and entrusts you with a talent, and at that time a talent was big money. We're talking about money. Talent was big. You had nothing. Somebody gives it to you. And you think that person only is bad. What if he didn't give it to you? You would have still thought he's bad, right? That you gave two, but you didn't give me. But God gave you something. And yet you're not able to utilize that. So now you form an impression about God. What is the impression? You are a hard man. Hard task. And look at what the task is. What is it? Reaping where you've not sown and gave me. Let's just stay on that. Reaping where you have not sown. Now you ask me, when Jesus came, when the king came and gave, who sowed first?

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The king. Yeah.

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Who sowed first? And what is he saying? You reap where you have not?

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Sown. And gathering where you've not scattered that seed.

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So was he right in saying that?

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No.

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So now let's bring it to you and me. God is going to ask us the same thing. God is saying, when I wanted sons, I told you this church is all about raising. Sons. God is saying, when I wanted sons, I took my son and sowed him first. So God sowed his son. So when he sowed his son, what is he going to do? He's going to now reap sons. Because he sowed what? So he's expecting to reap what? Servants? Because he didn't sow a servant. He sowed a son. And so he's expecting that all the children of God become as what? Sons of God. Understanding his mind. Understanding his heart. Understanding his love for each one of us. Are you with me? So this servant had what? An identity? Can it be said about us the same thing that we look at God, we praise him, but deep down we consider that this God also is a hard taskmaster. That he is asking, but I don't know whether I'll get. That he is. There's so much I need to do on my own. There's so much I need to do for God. Do for God, do for God. And if I do all this, then maybe God is happy. But I'm here to tell you it's exactly the opposite. There is something that God gave you. Not that you gave God, God has given it to you. And that grace is on your life. And that grace can make profit for you. If you will stand and start functioning in that grace. Look at those guys who made five and made another five. What did they do? They traded. So my question is, we are bad traders with what God has given us. So my question to you is, what if I I would love if some people would tell us, tell me what's the grace on your life. What have you been hiding under the bushel? What have you put underneath and you refuse to take a step on? Because it's going to cost. Because it involves faith. It involves faith. That's why when the king came back, he was so happy with the four, and he was so happy with the two. He said the same thing for both. He never said anything different. Why? According to the ability. So something has been given to you according to your ability. God is not asking you to be Benian. God is not asking you to be Prophet Shaiju. Yes, we'll all become. But right now, you may be at level one. And God is looking to see if you have stewarded what He gave you. Because level two is coming. So what is that one thing that God has given you? It could be even in this house. What is that one thing God gave you to steward? And He's looking to see that grace, has it been stewarded? I would really be able to help you if I asked you a question, but I don't want to put you in a wrong spot. Because you should know the grace on your life. How many can you be honest with me? Do you know the grace that when God touched? Let me ask Mama only. Do you know the grace when God touched your life? What that grace was? Was it? To raise more sons. So she knows there's a grace to raise, to identify. And is she doing that? So she's trusting God on that grace and pushing it. Right? Can I who wants to be the next uh volunteer? I wanna ask. Be the volunteer. Alone scared to be the volunteer also. Okay, Sam, yeah. Put mic.

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What I've uh the grace to open doors, grace to tap into places and new lands and make way for my father.

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Wow, wonderful. And has he done that? Yes, he's done that wherever he is gone, doors have opened. Grace, you can see that grace. Don't stop it.

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Yes.

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Because it works.

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Yes.

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The fear is what will I say? What will I do? Yet we have seen when we tapped into that grace.

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What am I trying to tell you? There's something in you that nations are looking at and God has given it to you. Yet we are ready to kill ourselves and do something that our fathers, fathers, fathers had done and never ever came out of it. Yet there's a grace on your life. Tell your neighbor there's a grace. There's a grace. You better figure out because this king, when he met you, he gave gifts. He gave so I'm asking God, when I was born, was I not gifted? Yes? Then why you have to come and give another one? Because when you were born, you got gifts from your natural DNA. But when you met the king, he gave you a gift that you need to depend on him. And that gift nobody likes to move on. We like the physical one. But do you know God never rewarded the physical one? He rewarded the one who worked on the gift he gave. The spiritual one. That's why you require the king and the king leaves immediately. The king doesn't sit to teach you. He's like the gift I gave you will teach you everything. There's something in you that knows everything. There's something in you that you don't even know. You're doing life, but in life it's absorbing everything. It's absorbing everything. You're doing it and you don't know it, but yet it's picking up from everyone, it's hearing conversations, it's picking up information, and one day when you decide to step on it, boom, it'll come like a fire out of you. I'm just triggering you because you have 2026. If you sit in the same boat, you land on the same shore. But if you listen, number five and number two, God blessed them because they trusted in what He gave, not in what they had. Because they were I'm sure they were all born with some great gift. Imagine one guy was must have been a carpenter, one must have been a steel guy, yet God came and gave them talent. I don't know anything about finance. And yet they had to leave what they had and go and make it ten. And yet, the king knew when I leave what I gave has enough grace for them to multiply it. But here's the thing: read what the five guys did.

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So he who had verse 20, so he who had received five talents came and brought it. No, no, no, before that. When he gave it and he immediately left, what's that verse? So, and was uh okay, and and verse 15, and to one he had he gave five talents, to another he gave two, and to another one one, to each according to his own ability, and left on a journey. Immediately left on a journey. Next verse. Then he who had received the five talents went. Everybody say, Went. Went went went.

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You have to go. Yeah, you can't sit with it, you gotta go. There's something in you drawing you to go. You know you have to go, it's pulling you in the night. I was telling mama, two nights back to back, back to back, and I'm not I have not seen anything. I'm just taking care of mama, I'm not dying. Back to back. I have seen mighty revivals. Amen. Wow. Dreams. I'm weeping in them. And do you know these revivals? How they are? I don't know how the room got filled. I don't know how the stadium got filled. It got filled. I don't know how it happened. It started with two people. I was talking to two people, and two people gathered four people, and four people gathered ten people, and before you know the whole hall was full. Don't ever think revival will start with a big, it may just start with one woman who is sent into the village. Don't ever see this is the problem. We always think we need a mic and a pulpit and one nice thing, and then we'll do something for God. One person. God's looking at the ability, according to your ability, I blessed you. And that uh what he blessed you is enough to take care of your full kunli. Sorry for the word. It's enough. This is how God works. When he blessed us, he didn't bless us saying, I'll come again and bless you. One is enough. After that, you know what God does, he just keeps multiplying and giving you more responsibility. He says, Now ten more cities are yours. Why? Because you diligently stewarded the grace he gave you. You're in that season. Don't run away from it, don't shy away from yes, it will put you in an awkward situation. Yes, you will get laughed. Yes, you'll be made fun of. But you won't die. That I can assure you. It's called grace. Saving grace. You know how many times I've seen it work. If anybody else, and this is the thing, if anybody else tries your grace, they may not survive. Because you have a grace to come play with lions and come out. This is what Pharaoh never understood. Israelites had the grace to cross the Red Sea. When he tried, he drowned. He also said, if they can cross, I can cross. They are slaves, I'm a king. He realized the waves don't listen to him, they listen to slaves. Because the slaves had the grace. When they try to go the same route as you, horse and chariot boat will be underneath. You will pass through. Trust the grace of God on your life. You're looking at me like I never could believe that what I never understood was the very thing that God would use to bless me. Yet everything I understood I thought God will use that. And yet what I understood he never used. Yet what I needed to depend on him, he used. Because the king came and just gave it to them. So they were doing something and then they had something else. But what they say, they went. What is it? It went. Somebody say, I need to go. At least take one step into that. You will fall. It may not make the devil. Will make. Do you know the devil how hard he'll fight you to keep you? Because he knows there's a grace. So the first step you take, you see the boom, boom, boom will start happening in your house. And you should be smart enough that if all this is happening, I have come in the right direction. But most of us, when it happens, we take two steps back and start with the same old thing again. You should realize if you're being hit in the area of of healing, every time you try to go out in healing, you get sickness, or somebody else dies, or the neighbor or your family, hey, you're the next healer. Amen. Amen. He's so scared you'll get it. So the minute you try to get into there was a gift given to you. I'm telling you, I think I heard our senior prophet, Prophet Makandee, saying, God is, I'm more gifted than God. And I was like, Why? Why do you say this? Why? I said, It makes it already so hard with one father. Then he reports to you. And then you I just stood it off. I said, I'm not going to you and I understood. Because when God gave gifts, he bankrupted himself. He gave gifts to men. That's why right now you are more gifted. Can you imagine this God? He's so good. He's not threatened at all. Yet we make omni. Lakshmandre, you can't cross this, you can't do that. And he's not threatened at all. He's like, if my son grows, I'm so blessed. And if he expands, I'm even more blessed. As long as he's giving me glory, he'll stay wonderful. God is not upset with any fan following as long as he knows you are the one kneeling before him. He's not insecure at all. He's so secure he can give and just leave and come after a long time. So I'm asking you. I'm asking you, do you think really, when I meet a postman, when I meet a maid, I ask them, do you think this is what God called you to do? Is this what God made you to do? Sit in four walls. No, there's a higher grace on your life. Receive it, receive it. There's a higher, my child, there's a higher grace. Don't be condemned. If you're sitting in four walls, thank God. Do you know why God gave you a job? So that you can figure out the grace on your life. Otherwise, you wouldn't have that. So don't curse God for Pharaoh. Say, thank you, you gave Pharaoh, at least I got a job. But my chains are coming off. And I'm telling you, you look at these guys, they went and traded. I wish it was a long parable. I would have loved to see what Jesus said. Jesus would have said, These guys, I never taught them how to trade. Because one was a farmer. Asha's looking, where is it written? It's in my Bible. So confused.

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They went and traded.

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Why? Because the grace was given when the gift was given. There's something on your life that you need to get out and stand. Don't worry. Don't worry. The grace that you got is more than enough. It's God's grace. The gospel is the power of God unto. Do you know the good news is that you got a grace? It's good news. And it's God's power, it's not yours. We saw how many, how many things did we do? Six schools. You know why I like freedom hangout? You really don't know what's gonna happen. You're just hanging out with freedom. We did six schools. It was so crazy. You just come and lie down, just fall down and go to sleep. Next morning, I used to ask Sam, which school? Where are we going? I'm not asking him, What do I have to say? And I'm like, don't worry, the mic will come. Say what you want. And everybody was literally it's like just bad. And how that song happened was a miracle. Like we are running after the school, just run. It's we can see the sun going down, and we are running, just standing over there taking guitars, and and a song comes out. It's God's grace on you. God's grace accelerates things. That means if somebody takes one year to do it, you will take exactly one day to do it. One day. One day. Say everybody one day. Grace, this is God's grace. It doesn't take time. What took a lot is done short. God's grace. Say they went and traded. Say they never knew how to trade. But there's a grace that came when the gift was given. And now they went. Do you know why God? Let's look what Jesus says to them. What does he say when they came back?

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So uh so here. Sorry, dad. Are you enjoying this? All from One parable. Verse 19. And after a long time the Lord of those servants came and settled the accounts with them. So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Look, I have gained five more talents besides them. And his Lord said to them, said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant. Good and faithful servant.

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I want to talk about good and faithful. Because the other guy got an exactly opposite word.

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Wicked and lazy.

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Wicked and lazy. Lazy. Good and faithful. Good and faithful. That means there has to be a certain level of faithfulness in stewardship. There has to be a certain level. Faithfulness. Certain level of don't look, don't be worried. They're children having fun. One takes something, the other one runs crawling. Listen to this, don't miss this. That means there's a certain level of you needing to be faithful in the things God has planted in your life. When God had to say something on this guy who made five, what did he look and tell him? Did he tell him it's my grace? It is his grace. But what did he say?

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Well done.

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Because grace without faith doesn't save. You have to put faith in God's grace to be saved. And faith is where faithfulness comes from. Good and faithful servant. Did you get it? Yes. You may be right now doing a very small job. Are you faithful? So what makes servants? Is the question. What makes servants? Do you think God doesn't see faithful people? Do you think God does not see what you do? Do you think your man of God has to see it? You're fully blind if you think man has to see it. God is watching your faithfulness at give a classic example. Okay, let me not give you a classic example. Something as small as something could be given to you. But you are so faithful that you cancel everything because of that small thing given to you to fulfill on a Sunday. You don't bother assigning it. You think God doesn't see that? Do you think God doesn't see that? God is looking as a small thing. You can easily say somebody else do it. No, but you are like, nobody will do it as long as I'm there. It's mine. And God looks at that and says, faith. That means there was a grace given to you. You didn't, you were not necessarily ready for that, but as given. But now you've proved yourself faithful. That means it doesn't only doesn't only mean that God's grace can do it. There has to be some faith in you, in that grace. So there's a grace on your life, but you have to have faith on that grace to go and trade. Because when you go out in faith and trade on the grace that God has given you, that's the time you come with five more. Look, master. Remember this. He never told them to multiply it. But yet they understood something. This is called identity. When you are established an identity, you begin to know things you don't need to be taught. These two, when they got something, just by getting it, because the identity of the king was perfect, they understood what was not said. Yet the servant who didn't do anything, who had a skewed vision of God, his identity was blood. Can you imagine what he came out with? He came out with you are a hard taskmaster. You reap where you don't sow, and you gather where you have not reaped. So I hid your talent, I hid your talent in the ground. Child of God, I'm here to tell you today, February, second month is getting over. It's time you pull that grace out of the ground. Don't hide it. That's the grace Satan wants you to run away from because he knows everything else is self-effort. But there's one thing on your life which you are running away from. I'm saying it again, which you are running away from. There's a grace on it. And I can tell you it will work every time. Am I telling you to leave your job? No. I am telling you there is something that you know and only you know that you are running away from. There's a grace on that. Try it and see. Trade it and see. You'll come back with a testimony. Is it making sense? Can you imagine? All of us are crying to God to give us something. And God is looking and saying, I gave you something. How many of you have cried to God? And look here, look here. How many of you have cried to God and said, God, give me something? Yet I'm here to tell you God gave you something when he met you. And yet you're asking him, give me something. And God is saying, remember, go back. Because the devil is a liar. He'll make sure that you're trying to copy somebody else. He'll make sure. He'll make sure that your gift is like chana, like dirt. What? Nothing it will do. Look at that one. You got to become like that. Yet the grace of God on your life is so unique that no one else has it. And guess what? He's made a whole bunch. I wish everybody hears this sermon. He's made at least billions of Christians leave, forget theirs, and they're stuck on Instagram seeing somebody else's grace. I cancel it in the name of Jesus. Don't you dare go on Instagram and start looking at somebody else's grace. There's a grace on your life. Make it work. Even if it is one-to-one, I don't know. I can tell you one thing that that what vision I saw was just two. But two went and got ten, ten, got twenty, twenty, got forty, forty, got six, and the room was full. That was day one. Day two, I couldn't see the end. And I don't know how I was there. And I looked at it and I said, God, what is this? I woke up in tears. And mom told me, and again, it's not that I'm sitting watching anything. And I'm asking, God, what is this? What are you trying to tell me? What are you trying to tell me? He told me, just say it. So for whoever it is, you're thinking it's too small. God is saying, What I've given you is more than enough. My grace is sufficient for you. I want to close only on this one thing. Think about that one guy who misunderstood the king. So, what does that tell you? When you identity follows identity, once you are established in the identity of who God is, from that place the blessings start. Once you know the identity of your God, that he's a good father, that he's a wonderful, he has nothing to do with the death of anyone in your family. He's not the one sitting up there and saying, Oh, I want this child, she'll be the next cherubim. No, he's not interested. He's got enough. He's not the one who made sure anyone, any bad thing happened to you. If it's bad, it's from the He's not the one who made brother and sister fight, mother and father fight. He's not the reason for divisions in your family, he's not the one for your bad past, he's not the one that you were abused as a child, he's not the one that you went through a bad, traumatic childhood. He's not the one. That's life. But he's the one when he met you, he said, I'll give you something. I give you a grace that whatever pulled you down, this will make up for everything. And that grace is with you. It's not with God, it's with you. You better put faith in that grace. The minute you put faith in that grace, child of God, salvation, the hand of salvation shall come. That means you will be saved. Salvation means saved from debt, saved from sickness, saved from disease, saved from salvation is complete security. So don't go around begging God to give you something. Go and find out what was given to you. Lest when the day comes, you come back and say, God, where is it? I didn't do or I buried it. I kept asking God, why would you send the guy to hell for not multiplying a talent? And God said it had nothing to do with talent. With a talent, it had nothing to do with her, it had everything to do about his belief in me. And that sent him to hell. When you don't believe God is on for you, you will become a lazy person. When you don't believe God has blessed you and died and removed you out of garbage and bought you into a kingdom of light, you'll go to your past. When you don't believe God has healed you and raised you up, you'll go around begging for a miracle. When you don't believe, are you able to see it? It's about faith. Full, good and wicked and telling you every time I looked at this and I said, God, I'm learning so much from it. 2026, I'm excited to move on the grace on my life. Are you excited? Try it out, brother. You'll come back here with a testimony. You'll say, I shivered, my legs were shaking, but I stood there and grace came forth. Shouts of grace, Zeruba Bell. Shouts. There'll be shouts of grace. Shouts of grace. You will find out that what you have is exactly what the devil never wanted you to use. That's why he kept you confused till today. How many of you you know if I had to ask you, and I just don't want to put you on a spot, others you'll think I'm putting you on a spot. But do you know most of us are suffering from a cancer of looking in our neighbor's vineyard? And you doubt the grace of God on your life, and that's why you're always comparing yourself with someone, but God gave it to you according to your ability. What a good God! That means he looked at you and he said, I'll not crush you. But how you look at it, you never gave me what he has. He has such a golden voice, he has such great talent, he plays so many instruments. Look at it from God. No, you don't know what Michael Jackson went through. He must have been saying, Why did I ever have this gift? I have to change ten faces and I'm still not happy with the one I have. Yet there's a gift on your life that you are paying no attention to. And yet you want to become like everybody. How many videos you have watched, motivational ones? How many videos you watched of how to become successful? How many videos you watch of how to become XYZ and never studied yourself? There is a gift on your life. Can you shout it loud? Shout it so your head can hear it. Shout, there's a grace on my life. No, no, shout it so your whole body reverberates. And my job is to go out and trade it. That means what? That means there's someone out there who's willing to pay for what you have. That's called trade. You can't trade if no if there's no value. What does trade you into selling, right? What does trade, what's the function? That means something of value. You have to bring something of value for another person to say, I want it. So what do you think these guys, what God gave them was of value, and Satan made yours look devalued. So here you are standing right behind, refusing to go in the front because you say, I don't have a degree, I don't have a certificate, I don't have this, I don't have that, I'm a failure, and you're not moving. And God is saying, What I gave you was not a degree, I gave you a grace that none of your competitors have. They have degrees and Fahrenheit, you got grace. I know it's a very simple word. May you be blessed. I'm waiting to try out mine. I hope you. I hope you move out. I know this God is too smart. He's too smart. He never banks on mama papa's gifts. He says, they gave you all those gifts. But I'll come when I meet you. The visitation of Jesus Christ, the revelation. The day you meet Jesus, a gift of Jesus enters you. That's why Jesus has given away all the gifts. That's why if you need healing, do you know you have to go and find a man who heals? It's not with God, it's with a healer on earth. Because Jesus is bankrupt. He's given away all. If you want to find a good musician, he's giving it to somebody. Find out the grace that you received at the revelation of Jesus Christ. I know you've hidden it. You know what is hidden it in the ground mean in today's world? Means you left it and started chasing other gifts. Why? Because you think those work. Those are the ones that bought you on the stage, but yet you you think you have the grace. That's why when you see people doing stuff because they are looking at somebody else, and it may work, it may work, but trust me, it'll come with and blood. But there's a grace that when you move into, you will come back and say, Brother, I promise you it was not me. Your testimony, everyone will also say, Amen. Why? Because they know you are a dubba, you can never do this, and they'll say, We testify. This is not possible with him. That should be the testimony of your life. And people look and say, No, it's not we know him, we know him and his father. It's not possible. This is a grace that he's operating in. That's how God will make you profitable servants. Because the grace, remember the grace that he gave, they traded. That means there's someone out there that is still without value because you hold it.

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They are waiting for you. They are waiting literally for you.

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And you refuse to go. Because trading happens when there's something valuable. But there was something that God gave you that somebody else, another nation is waiting for your light. Please think hard today. Go home, sit before the Lord, cry, tell him, Lord, I don't want to be that person where you may have not physically dug a hole and hidden there. But do you know your lack of moving into that calling, my God? I'm getting scared of what I'm going to say. Your lack of moving into that calling is burying the talent. It's basically saying, God, I don't believe that you will work if I move on this gift. I don't believe you'll come through for me if I move out into the deep with this gift. I don't believe it will work. That's what high digging means. It means you're a hard taskmaster. You work for Benny and Prophet Saiju, but not for me. There's something wrong with the way you're seeing this God. He is the same yesterday, today, forever. That means if God gave you something, first fix your identity. Stop comparing yourself to anybody. Because I'm telling you, only when you stop comparing yourself with anybody will you move on a talent. Because till then you'll be thinking, what is the most lucrative thing that I need to do? So digging something and putting it in the ground doesn't mean you physically do it, but by denying or not functioning in it, or not stewarding it, or not being faithful in it, is as good as digging it and putting it in the ground. And saying, you know what? Nobody wants this, what I have. I'm speaking very prophetically. Nobody wants this, what I this is very common. You heard that word? It's very common. This is very common what I have. Is it? Do you think God gave you something that is so common and yet He'll come to ask you, What did you do with it? No. What God gave you is capable of trading. That means you must know that whatever God gave you, there's someone on the other side who knows its value. Your mother may not recognize it, your father may not recognize it, your friends may think the people around you may say nothing. Hey, but you steward what God gave you. And I'm telling you, when you steward it and you harness it and you walk in faith, that's when value will start coming. Value doesn't come by you just putting your hand in your pocket and saying, This is the gift I have. No, work on that gift. Cut it, chisel it, market it, brand it, design it, make it sharp, make sure you're the best at it, and then go out and see value will be found in it. Are you a last one? What did this guy say about God? There are three words he used about hard.

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Reaping very good.

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No, no, no, let's get it out. I knew to you to be a hard man. Say hard man.

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Hard man. Reaping where you've not sown. Okay? And gathering where you've not scattered. Next. And I was afraid.

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Ah, fear. So he had fear. He believed he had a he was a hard man. And he believed that this man reaped where he never sowed and gathered where he never reaped. Do you know? These were all his fears. And look at it, he put it on God. This is exactly what happens to us. Your fears you transfer back on God's character and then make him look like your fears. Wow. These were his fears. He had the fear that he could do nothing. He had the fear that God was hard. He had the fear that God would come and ask him for an account. And he took these fears and made it God's character. What does that tell you? That whatever your vision of God is, it's your understanding. This is the only thing that defines God. So be careful when you take your interpretation of who you think God is and put it on Him. That's why God came and said, This is not me. God said, Before you made anything for me, I sowed in your life. Because He's telling God, you sow where you don't gather. And God was saying, Brother, I'm asking for a son and I sowed my son. Is it too much to ask? That's why now you know why he was thrown out. Because at the end of the day, you cannot say, I am saved by grace through faith, when your vision and character of God only is fully in the wrong. Because you're only saved by grace through faith. That means grace is God, but faith is what you put in his grace, and that's how you get saved. So this guy put zero faith in what God did. And that's why God now said, This is not about talents, brother, it's about your entire life. Your entire life can be summed up with what I did for you. And you showed no faith towards what I did. Do you believe in the grace on your life?

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Yes.

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Do you believe in the grace on your life, not on your man of God? Not pray for me. My father said, if you say pray for me, he will attack you. He said those three words have to be banned. No pray for me. No, pray for me. How can we pray for you when you are supposed to pray for nations? How can we pray for you when you are the only one blessed in the room? How can we pray for you when you are the living stone, a royal priesthood, a chosen generation called out of darkness into his marvelous light? No, you're too blessed. We can't pray for you. You have to pray for others. I want you to go home with only one message. I think God is only speaking one message today. Do you believe the grace on your life? Are you ready to believe the devil who has made you look at everything else and made you forgot, made you forget the grace that God gave you? And so look around us, we all become duplicates. Have you seen duplicates? Duplicates are what we each one do what another one has done. Yet the grace on your life is original. The grace on your life is do you know how happy you should be? If there's anyone happy in your organization, it's you. You should walk into the room like Mamma Mia. There's a grace on my life that I don't care how beautiful, how great you sing, how what you have. What I have, God never gave her. And what God gave her, he never gave her. And what God gave him, he never gave him. And what God gave me, he never gave you. And what God gave him, he never gave me. And yet the gifts of God had made the church insecure. You see another brother in his gift, and you want it, and you are striving for it, and you forget the gift on your own life. May you never devalue what God has blessed you with. Oh, somebody, you need to shout it out. Please do not. This church needs to flourish with every grace that God has given each one of you. There's a grace that I cannot do, there's a grace that mama cannot do. There's a grace only on your life. Which, if you work in this church, will be ignited. Don't wait. The pastor doesn't carry all the gifts. We just got one gift. There are so many gifts in this room. Because look at this, God never comes back and just takes an account. He takes an account and increases scope. That means whatever you worked in and were faithful in, God is going to assign more. Why do you think God does that? Because God is counting that there are many people who will bury theirs. He's counting on this group who will not bury it. There are many people, do you know there are many people who have left the assignments? When you go, they should say, This man fulfilled the assignment of God on his life. Not fulfilled whoever you want to say. Fulfilled your life, your calling. That's it. God is not going to ask you about his ability, her ability. He's just going to ask you about what did I give you? What did you do with it? Close your eyes. What a faithful God we have. Thank you, Lord. Hey, this should set you free. Are you free? This should set you free. You should be like, can you just uh tell your neighbor, give me some space. I'm gonna take off. Just tell them, give me some space, say God lost. I'm gonna take off. Ay, ay, ay, aye. There is no there is no fear in the house of God. You are so secure because God has blessed you with unique grace. No one else has it. Your husband doesn't have it, your wife doesn't. Oh, it's only with you. Mama doesn't have. I'm telling you, the the the gifts that came, the the talents that your father and mother have and went on to you. We are not talking about that, we're talking about the grace at the revelation of Jesus Christ. All those let it be. God is gonna come you. You said, Yeah, I gave you something, son. And you're like, no, no, no, I didn't. It's like, no, no, I gave you something. I know when I met you, I gave it to you. You knew it, I knew it, and I left. But from that day till now, the devil confused you. He made you run in circles, he made you forget. He he he disappointed you, he discouraged you. You made so many things, but you feel there's no nobody wanted it, what you made? Could it be that you have to refine it to make value? Could it be that it's just in the initial product, but you still have to refine it? Your creativity has to come out into that, and trust me, it's all in the grace.

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How does a how does something have value? I realized it. You make the value.

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You your wife doesn't become valuable. I have to make her valuable in my eyes. That's when she carries value. Otherwise, she can be the most valuable and yet you'll treat her like a nothing. I have I create value. It's not in somebody else. The value, I can create it, I can create value for the things God gave me. You know how? By being faithful to stewarding it. Stewardship creates value. Grace does not look whether you're ready or no. What is grace? If grace was to see if you were ready, God knows you're going to fail. That's why he gave you grace. Grace is only given to failures. Ask a failure. He'll tell you. When he failed, his teacher gave him grace marks. Grace was ever given to somebody who passed? No. That is a merit card they give you. Merit is for hard work, grace is for failures. The girl says, I've studied, the boy says, I've not studied. What are we doing in the same class? Grace. Sister, something you never thought about. While I fooled, hey, there was a grace on my life to catch up with you. What a good God. What a good God. Take 30 seconds, look in his eyes and tell him something. Look in his eyes, look in his heart and tell him from today I never compare myself. There's a unique grace on my life. Just talk to him. Just between you and God, just look in his eyes and just talk to him. Just look in his eyes. If you're online, I hope you heard this word. I want you to move out in the grace that God has put on your life. Don't sit and just sitting and not doing, it's like burying it under the ground. There's a grace on your life. Just look at God and tell him, Daddy, you can be rest assured that I will be found faithful, stewarding that gift. Whatever it is, I don't know. And guess what? I'm gonna steward it no matter who thinks it's good or no. I want you to know, even if people don't come and trade for your gift, don't come and trade for what you carry. You still refine it, you create value. You create value, you market it, you customize it, you create the people who are going because it's going to create value. There is someone there. It's just that you're in the wrong market. You have to find that market, you have to fine-tune what God has given you. Don't sit in a in a place and sell sell sell fish to people who are vegetarian. Hey, go to the non-vegetarian, they'll buy it. The same way you have to take what you got to somebody. Don't sit and tell people about the gospel when they're already saved. You need to go to somebody who's not saved, because it is the power of God to save. Are you excited? You're entering a new day from next week onwards. Take that step. Yeah, don't run away from it. Your gift on your life is too great. Let me remove gift because when I say gift, you get confused with what your talent is. The grace on your life is too big.

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