The Danger of Overnight Success and the Power of Long Obedience

comes to anything that happened in our lives it is it's a number of things that happened prior to that that made it to happen today you know like so when I when I talk about that when what I'm saying why I'm I'm mentioning that is that when you when you take your your life for argument's sake nobody gets to a place where their hair are all grown up and be Rastafarian it's a it's a long taking process before the hair grow to that so if you want the Rastafarian type of hair hairstyle you need to make sure that anytime whenever you are growing the hair you don't take scissor and cut because Rastafarian type of hair doesn't want scissor it want you know like uh you have to flatten it the whole time so you you as it grows now my my message today I want to um entitle my message the danger of overnight success so it's dangerous to have overnight success yeah no let me give the whole title that the title is the danger of overnight success and the power of long obedience then it goes to a subtitle which I said why heaven grow roots before it raises it raises branches so when I when I talk about overnight success it's not a quick uh get quick rich get rich quick scheme it's not a get rich quick scheme it will never be a get rich quick scheme so we live in a we we literally live in a generation where where where where everybody wants something instant instant instant coffee re-coffee jacobs kronan i do you know i live in a time where coffee wasn't easy like just putting we had to first start with cutting hoot then make fire to get the water then only you put kettle you know so it was such a process that it takes us three o'clock in the morning to wake up and start boiling water for us to bath bishop you were also in those area area today good kettle is boiled 10 some kettles are even like two minutes they are done now i'm not saying that we should not have overnight success that is not what i'm saying but what i'm saying is success is a lot of things you have done before to get to that that is what i'm saying so that is why i don't understand why people say ah you know this one just overnight suddenly he's a millionaire it's not it took took a person a long time to become an overnight millionaire so heaven has also done the same and that is why today i want you to to to take your mind and we build up to to this um i wanna i wanna show you uh yeah this is what i wrote you don't get dirty overnight and you don't get clean overnight so bishop you that works inside the what is that thing called the engine car picture yourself not washing for three weeks but still keep on working you'll be a boil of grease a bowl of grease not grease even oil because you don't work much with grease it's more oil than grease so picture that it's not somebody doesn't just decide tonight they have been got uh you know the uh uh what is back here in english miss god like when somebody come to the lord it's sudden movement and they come to the lord but to lose going back to the the world it's not an overnight thing it's a gradual deterioration of fate and they move back therefore if you're looking at it judas over betrayal wasn't an overnight betrayal it was a thing through thing to betray so you can't cheat growth you can only delay maturity somebody by the name of rick warren say these words you can't cheat growth you can only delay maturity so it will grow regardless but whether you mature or not it's where the difference comes in we used to say my stepdad will never grow old because he couldn't mature do you know why he couldn't mature bishop daman he he he have kids but the moment he get money he squandered within we get paid on the 30th 31st day it's nothing then somebody else must come and look after him that is why we always say to him you're not never going to mature because when you have money you give to this one you give to that one you give to this one you give to that one the next day you stand in the bottle store asking somebody for turan to buy bottle a bottle of beer it's not right so therefore i'm saying to you you can't do that you can't cheat growth growth growth is a gradual thing it's a gradual thing now my teaching i'm going to give to you today has few points point number one god built in season not in speed in season not in speed now ecclesiastes 3 verse 1 and i'm going to go fast through this now to everything there's a season and a time to every purpose under the under heaven growth is not a proof of god's blessing rooting rooting is when you are rooted into some place if you are rooted in church that will prove the branches that you give out outside that's where the people see the blessing people don't understand that thing you know like it's like they think life just happened to you no life never happened to you god bless you and the blessing starts proving itself in the right season that he appointed it to happen you can't it's it's it's it's it's a tough one my rooting is is god's uh no growth is not the proof of god's blessing it doesn't show you but rooting is so what i mean is like when you you talk about there's a scripture the cornerstone that was rejected is the actually stone that you were not supposed to be rejecting that is what i mean the root is the thing that maybe maybe let me dry it like this some men of god have studied a word of the word of god like literally from genesis to exodus to write through to revelation they have studied it so by the time you ask them to come preach it will not be a preaching that comes up out of them not knowing it will come from the base of the scripture but some of the the the preachers they will preach out of experience now experience takes you quickly to certain areas of life but it takes long i'll i'll i'll get to you now do you know why experience takes longer because when you become experienced in something it takes time but when you take a book and read you can take somebody's experience and apply it that is why it's very important to take a book and read because the more you read the more your your your roots is deeper penetrated and people can only see the branches but they don't know the roots i like to brag bishop can i brag bishop can i thank you i like to brag the fact that when i gave my heart to the lord was in 2000 10th of february and ever since i've been studying the word of god now my question to you is do you think studying the word of god and many things that comes with it after 25 it's 25 years yeah 25 years and few months do you really think that whatever i'm speaking is because of i'm speaking i've studied i've rooted into it so my season of of showing it is the reason why i can stand here now you so god builds in season not in speed but it's all that you need to do is take this guy and make it a bishop i've not read bible no i've said ecclesiastes 3 verse 1 sorry you know i don't like this thing of of me talking talking talking without biblical substanence if i can call it that way yes i've read to everything there's a season now if you go that's point number one there the hebrew word the word season it's zeman mean an appointed time that requires preparation an appointed time it requires preparation pre-preparation so you have to prepare pre-prepare yourself you can't have a season of harvest if you have not prepared the ground that is growth for you that is how things become now the the sad part of it is that people don't know how to use growth in the right manner i'll i'll i'll explain somebody learn how to become a a a a satanist so they use that in the opposite direction instead of instead of growing people they're killing people instead of helping others they break others down they're using their season to start cursing instead of blessing i i'm worried bishop do you think that somebody can keep on praying somebody's downfall to god not and you don't anything that won't happen to you let me stop it let me stop it i'm just saying it's just that's point number one now if god planted you and and you keep uprooting yourself looking for fast uh faster soil like you know like taking yourself from here the soil was fertile you move yourself to there where the soil is not fertile because you want fast growth you'll have the green leaves yes you'll have them because where the soil fertile or not you'll show green leaves but can you show fruit that's where the difference comes in that's where the difference comes in because it's only by the fruit that a tree can be acknowledged that is why jesus said you will never have fruit anymore by the time jesus came to that tree and ask him for fruit because jesus knew it was the season of fruit time die but why don't you have fruit because you uproot yourself to look like a tree look green but no fruit point two little compromises are seeds of great falls great falls little compromises if joseph would compromise to slept with potipha's wife if he just compromises that once song of solomon says this the following and i need you to write down because i'm just going to speed up up song of solomon 2 verse 15 says catch us the foxes the little foxes that spoiled the vines catch us the little foxes so judas didn't betray jesus in one moment it was something that he overtaught himself the money is not coming in nicely i need i need 30 30 seconds silver silver 30 whatever money 30 rand let's call it 30 rand i need 30 rand how am i going to get it maka plan this jesus is very expensive it's the only way i can become rich quick so it's either jesus or i keep on stealing tax tax tax stealing is too long it takes longer so the growth i need is rich quick scheme so he nursed quiet disappointments solve small offenses and secrets greed until the opportunity met his weakness opportunity did you hear what i say opportunity met his weakness opportunity doesn't mean that he didn't had a lot of opportunities opportunity came to his weakness and stepped in so the thing i can say according to song solomon it says catch us the foxes the little foxes that spoils now the word spoils in in the greek is a chalau it means to loosen or to make slack do you know what it means slack if you slack with your school work it's a trouble so to lose slack a little sleep little longer okay i've not used the bible one i've used the one that i want to see it bishop you know why i say i didn't use the bible one a little sleep you oversleep yeah now when you look look at that one it says spoil to loosen so sin starts by loosening conviction not breaking it it's it's like it starts small small if only i can take one rent it's fine nobody will see it if only i can take two rent nobody will see it so it loosen the longer fingers quicker no it doesn't lose it quicker it lose it over time so you compromise on taking the pen from work because the kids need a pen at home by the time you realize you take the whole computer home i'm just saying now even unguarded thoughts is a crack in the foundation if you don't guard your thoughts that's where the crack comes in your foundation and your foundation starts uprooting wrong things that breaks it i get so excited the devil doesn't want you to to to he is not like like like it's new wiki not new wiki what is that red riding hood the invadiation blast we have and we puff and we blow your house it's not like that he doesn't worry about the blowing you use the termites gradually gradually gradually gradually no he doesn't play red riding hood and the wolf wolf that comes i will show you no he used termites that eats it over time you can't realize why is the the house coming closer to your head it's like as if you are growing and here you think i become tall hey one of these days in the meantime the foundation of your house has been has been coming down down down down down down that is what the devil wants so little compromises are seeds of great falls number three preparation is heaven's proof of trust so to be prepared is how heaven can trust you bishop do you do do you see why i i i was always asking whatever we do in church let's do it right from the beginning don't go and invite a lot of people and the major things is not done correctly because preparation is heaven's proof of trust according to look 46 i mean look 2 verse 46 sorry look 2 verse 46 after three days they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers listening to them and asking them questions this is the jesus we're talking about here now for those you don't know i'm talking about jesus we're found after three days we're found after three days sitting listening asking he didn't just let's get to where all were amazed no all who heard him were amazed because he was putting the foundation putting the foundation correctly that is jesus for you so jesus didn't didn't just preach at 12 he learned he took some time to go and sit down he the greek the greek word for learn is mantano which means to again to gain knowledge through disciplined repetition to gain knowledge to discipline repetition so you can't have revelation without repetition preparation isn't delay it's divine trust i believe god is saying that you are worth shaping you are worth shaping that is what he says to you because whatever you are going through is the trust that he has imparted into you now point number four i said preparation is heaven's proof of trust point number four build deep before you build high build deep before you build high i think no let me this i'm not sure if this revelation i mean this translation i don't think this translation says it the way i want it to be said but let me in any way go there look um look six let's go to look six 48 looks 6 48 look 6 48 says he is like a man which built a house and dig deep and he laid the foundation on a rock and when the the flood arose the stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it for it was founded upon a rock imagine that's a yes six look six verse 48 look six verse 48 says he's like a man which built a house and dig deep can you see he says after digging deep he's like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on a rock where the flood came the torrent struck and the house but could not shake it notice the sequence first he dug deep so it's first to dug deep then to lay foundation and after foundation the storm came so that is why when you build build deep before you build higher let the foundation be strengthened make the foundation strong if you go to the skyscrapers bishop the higher the skyscraper the bigger the big the deeper they dug if a skyscraper is high is high and you're looking at it it's not built on the surface it wasn't built on the surface it was they went down to up it so built deep and the nicest part is when you're looking at the skyscraper the way it looks the display that it gives it's it's something that you can't just stand at the bottom of it and you can see the top huh you you you you you literally stand like this you can't see the top you can't you have to go back and view it from afar to see the top that is why that is why it's important to understand that when you when you want to see somebody's growth when they are close by bishop you won't see it bishop do you know we had a conversation last night that conversation strike this point it says familiarity don't be too familiar familiar with with with somebody because when you are too close to somebody you can't see the height of them it's not last night man the day before friday night i'm saying not saturday friday night when you are too close to somebody you tend to there's a word what i'm looking for some people won't won't know you because they are too familiar with you they won't know how strong or the strength that you have therefore they won't know but let me leave it at that so if you build public ministry on private shallowness you are private it's shallow and one wind of change will expose the whole thing if you build something on shallow ground not a vinky like just a blow of a wolf gone now when you go to the greek word for foundation it means temelios meaning the thing that holds everything together that's foundation where are your foundation where is it built where is it laid because that is what keeps it together so when storm comes you don't just lose your position you reveal your construction because storms when you lose let's say when the storms comes you don't lose your position like where you stand it reveals your construction because the more the wind comes it will blow the sand that is close by it will blow it and then they will see how your foundation has been laid must I bring it home let me bring it home you come here big bishop like me who you talking to who you talking to the moment the guy hit you hit back you say hey I will take my salvation bike and throw it there I will show you I'm just asking your foundation has it been laid with patience because quick words you lose it now the deeper you build into the word of God the harder it is for Satan to blow you like the wolf blown rat riding hood point five God trust steadiness like you must be stable steady he doesn't go with God trust steadiness not speed not speed it doesn't matter how how long you take but as long as you keep on being steady let me let me let me take this to the scripture Galatians 6 verse 9 Galatians 6 verse 9 says the following he says let us not grow weary in well doing bishop I have a hundred thousand rent I want to show off so I built what is the NGO or NPO or whatever because just I want to show off in the meantime I can't keep on doing it because I only have hundred thousand my question is when you when you take the hundred thousand and start by only giving one family one bread once a week over the period of let's call it let me do maths if I have hundred thousand if I have hundred thousand and bread is about twenty rand now so it's five thousand loaves that you can buy over a longer period to feed one family just let it sink now you brag I have a million rand I can buy NPO or NGO a place the next day you don't have money to sustain that instead of steady steadily giving that one loaf of bread and keep on giving it to them so that they can grow as well instead of you just doing it once when you go doing things steadily let us not grow weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not in due season we shall reap if we faint not so the phrase due season in Greek is a is a Cairo idio meaning a moment custom built for you so if you are quite quiet early you walk away from the season haven't designed with your name on it no if you quit early sorry let me see the notes I I'm getting confused with this one if you quit early so meaning to say that if you take the hundred thousand rent once off and tomorrow you are what is that you know you know sometimes ego is a hectic problem because you have hundred thousand today now you've given it to a family already tomorrow another family ask you hundred thousand you are too the ego is too bruised to say I'm sorry I don't have instead of steadily giving it to I'm making money I'm making the thing with money but I'm not talking about money I wish I can you can hear what I'm saying inside inside deep deep there's a guy named Joko Willink Joko is J-O-C-K-O Joko Willink he says discipline equals freedom so it's rather best to be disciplined and over some period gain the freedom unlike doing one thing once and then doing it after three months again the man who keeps sowing even when he sees nothing is more powerful than the one who runs when he feels everything keep on sowing because in due time you will reap the rewards of it number six grow roots grow in hiddenness Matthew 6 verse 6 it says but when you pray go into your room and shut the door and pray for your father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly so roots grow in hiddenness like you're hiding the roots roots that grows on top becomes part of the tree it's like they call it the tree have you seen roots that is on top of the it's almost like it's a part of a trunk the trunk of the thing so the tree you see but the root is something else when it's underground it's totally different now before fruit there's a formation if you if you're looking at things you don't see the roots then suddenly when you take a bamboo tree for five years you don't see anything and within that five years in mere days a whole tree stands tall tall now if you if you want impact in your life like you want to impact somebody's life you need to do things at home like study like if you want impact don't make noise people will say hey can't you hear it's wrong it's wrong no you're making a noise go hidden okay okay wait oh you see so when you do it in quietness you can make mistakes so the roots that is in the bottom can make mistakes because they don't make noise roots that is hidden give more fruits when it's publicly shown because it's been fed correct bishop sometimes it's for us to go and pray under the blankets not go outside and say I pray for you do you know when I say I pray for you did I pray verbally I didn't come to you and say this is my prayer I don't do the prayer inside inside where you hear I pray for you in the room where no one hears so that it can shows outside so that it can shows outside if we stand together we can make a change that can only work to us if we are one and how can the world see Christ if there's no unity this is I pray Lord make us one make us one make us one you you see it it's something that comes in the room where I've studied how to play that's hidden but when you come in front you see so the Greek word is is cryptos it's hidden concealed for protection hey bishop listen to this one it's hidden or concealed for protection so roots that is underground are there for protection they are protected by God so that when you pray and you say to God listen my enemies is surrounding me I don't know what to do he says shh Exodus 14 verse 14 you shall be shh Exodus 14 verse 14 shh you you but God did you see how they humiliate me in front of people God says shh I hide you I hide you you are the roots that as I'm hiding you I'm giving you the fruits so that you can grow in concealed I'm protecting you I'm protecting you from the wind and the weather that is to come roots if you fight your hidden season you will also forfeit your harvest season don't be too quick or too hastened to go out there if you are a preacher and you want to go outside and preach don't just go there because you you think you know I've been hiding 25 years bishop I'm out I've been hiding 25 years I'm out there's so many I need to go through but our time number seven prepare like no wind can shake you prepare like no wind can shake you proverbs 24 27 prepare your work outside that's proverbs 24 27 prepare your work outside get everything ready for yourself in the field and after that build your house so preparation before construction a guy doesn't build a house without first putting the plants together because he will build the sewage where the fireplace is supposed to be planted now when you build and sewage is made is not made out of iron pipes the sewage comes from plastic pipe now you build the fire on top of that plastic pipe it will keep on leaking and you don't know what's the smell in your house the plan should be that whenever you prepare the house you build the sewage far from the fireplace it's just so spiritually it means to anchor your prayer life your word life not just your normally your prayer life your word life that is your discipline and your hard boundaries before success will arrive so you need to anchor your prayer life you need to make sure it's steady you need to make sure that whenever you get into a successful life you won't get you know like you don't you don't get big head what you call that thing man you you you you you you you are you are built in humility you say you you will be even say humble yourself by the by the side of the Lord where you know like you humble yourself because of you are prepared imagine you have not done the basics success strikes it won't last bishop it won't last because you have not prepared to be able to to deal with million rand you only used to 100 rand you make a million rand quickly 100 rand learn how to use a million rand while you have 100 rand make that 100 rand as if it is a million rand because when success strikes your million rand will quickly be gone prepare like no wind can shake you that's number seven number eight and this is the part that you should understand you can't do anything about it because the Bible says it no let me leave it to the Bible but I'm just saying the devil can't uproot what God has deepened what did I say the devil can't uproot what God has deepened you see so if you go to Colossians 2 verse 6 and 7 as you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him rooted and built up in him established in faith did you hear as you have therefore received Christ Jesus Lord so walk here in him rooted and built in him established in faith can you see so the Greek for root there it means to take root so that deeply that removal destroys the soil itself so if you are removed from there the soil will also be destroyed so when roots in Christ not in applause not in people's approval but also not in moments of hype no demon can reach that deep if a demon goes and you are in Christ you are off limit you are off limit that's it so that was the last point now in closing heaven measures success not by how fast you rise but by how long you last heaven measures success not by how fast you rise but by how long you last how long can you last God is not rushing you he's not rushing you or he's not rushing your breakthrough even he's literally securing your becoming how you how you would become so that by the time you get there you can't be having a hundred rand mindset with a million rand in your account the million rand you will make it a hundred rand instead instead of you being a millionaire with a hundred rand because the hundred rand you will quickly make it a million rand you see where the difference is God is preparing you to be a millionaire there even if you only have hundred rand because you will be able to use that hundred rand to make it a million bishop I can guarantee you now let's go up west africa where poverty is hard no west africa is still too nice let's bring it down a bit not african west we bring it down a bit where people don't even know the value of a dollar do you know what they will do they will build crops the moment it it grows they are so hungry that they can't wait for the crops to ripen they finish it hunger you give that person a dollar the person won't know what to do because the only thing they know is how to get food you give them a million rand they only buy food they don't buy seed so you can't have a mindset of he give he give seed to the sower and bread to the eater so god can't give you million rand if you are used to 100 rand let's stop it there i'm leaving you with this now azaya 37 31 once more a remnant of judah will take root below and bear fruit above the deeper the root the higher the fruit the deeper the root the higher the fruit so don't ask god for a problem or platform i mean not a problem don't ask god for a platform ask him for pillars don't pray for exposure pray for endurance don't chase moments build moments and when the winds of change blow you still be standing because you didn't build overnight you build with eternity in mind i praise you i exalt you i lift your name up high for the god because you are the king of kings the lord of lord the lily of the valley sweet rose of sharon you are high and lifted up this morning for the god and therefore i say thank you for your worth of growth because we are not in a hurry to grow but in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior amen now may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the sweet fellowship of the holy spirit rest and abide with us all until jesus comes surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever in Jesus mighty name amen lord lord one who is as as as as as uh as as as as as as sa sales women возв one