How Good Opportunities Become the Thing That Stops Your Real Breakthrough

of things. When good things block God things. This is for people with real pleasure. They have real responsibilities. Real consequences. You've kept on being busy. You are busy but not productive. You are disciplined but not a disciple. This is a message that you are tired but yet you've been moving in the wrong side of life. You have done a lot of good things. Yes. But not godly things. This is not weakness. This is misalignment. You are doing many things right. Yes. But every time you do something right you're doing it in the wrong time. under the wrong load of things you should be doing. Do you know you can almost call it chronos fatigue. Chronos is time where kairos is an appointed time. There's a difference between a chronos time so you get chronos fatigue. There's so many busy days whatever you do you keep on being busy. but yet there's a lot of mess in your life. Now that is why I have missed I have put my message what do you call I have entitled sorry my message what I have said when you're looking at it when good things block God things when good things block God things now I want to make an example to you in life sometimes you claim a ladder meaning to say you are busy but when you get to the end of the ladder or the top of the ladder realizing it was it was standing on the wrong building does that mean you have not done anything it meant it meant that you were busy and when I say busy I mean quite busy you were fairly busy but yet you were busy on the wrong things can you can you see what I'm saying yes sometimes we we we are so busy but yet busy with the wrong things this is the things that I call you can what can I say what's that lady's name that was while Jesus was there Mary you were Mary busy and when somebody is Mary busy they are their intentions are good the things you intended to do intentions is good you are busy with good things but not with God things the Bible says in Jeremiah wait let me go let me go to Jeremiah you know when I when I look at at Jeremiah Jeremiah 1 Jeremiah 1 verse 5 says the following he says that before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee hear what he says before I formed thee I knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nation just just take that for now I'm coming there many children of God are so busy to prove their fate they are so busy to do the things that they think God wants them to do but yet it does not move the needle stop I took take it does not move the needle do you know when you're talking about the needle it's something that makes the car go up and up so whatever you are doing you are doing it thinking that whatever you do God will move faster what what you want him to do God will move faster so as you are busy like for argument sake if I pray more God will quickly make me a millionaire God will quickly make me a millionaire if I pray more I will be more anointed this is what what happens a lot of times in our Christianity places let me make an example you want it you wanna criticize somebody who get a lot of money but yet anytime when you have money you squander it so what you do the first thing you do whenever you get the money yes you give your tides wow wonderful but the next thing after the tide what happens is the first thing you do is taking no I've worked very hard let me take out the people for something to eat let's go eat out but yet when you're looking at that does that add on to become a millionaire because anything that you do with your money when you want to become a millionaire money must be used to make more money so you keep on hustling yes you know the hustle where where we say hey I got my side hustle I got my second hustle my third hustle and I keep on hustling you have a lot of work like job titles job what you are a cleaner during the day at night time you are a waiter just so that you can supplement your income yet a cleaner and a waiter does not get enough money to pay your bills then why work more when the outcome is less it's that is what I'm talking about keep on praying God give me more money just so that I can pay off my a house let's call it rent but yet you have two jobs and both of them will not be able to give you even the rent money you climb the ladder but on the wrong wall I hope you understand what I'm trying to say because if you don't follow me you will not follow what I'm about to say next I'm putting a I'm putting a foundation Matthew 11 the Bible says come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your soul for my yoke is easy and my burden is light Matthew 11 28 to 30 now the Bible used the word rest it's a Greek word that is anabousas anabousas rest but this is not the rest that you think it is this does not mean sleep I will give you rest it does not mean sleep this word specifically it means to relieve you from pressure so whatever job you does or do English does it in the past tense I am a scholar I am a scholar I am a scholar I am a scholar so whatever job you do has a lot of pressure but yet the outcome of it is not the one that you want the pressure is there yes but it's not the one that you want that is why God is saying I will give you rest the rest is a relief from pressure a release from strain a release from strain imagine you are you have you have worked for months and months you are tired all the time even if you are not working for three months yet you are still tired that's not the kind of thing that God wants for us I have been complaining to my wife these days I am tired I have that deep tired I don't know how what how can I say it's a tired that doesn't want to go so don't think as I am speaking to you I am not speaking to myself as well this is not a message that I am saying to you it's a message that starts with me first so you have been climbing the walls with the ladder but the long wrong wall you have been climbing I just want you to understand that your your problem why is it that your your your your load feels heavy why why is it that your yoke feels heavy because the word yoke in in the Bible it's a Greek word for zygos zygos a yoke was custom fitted like you know when you when you're looking at the what is the the the the the the ox ox ox ox no beef that's the you go go ish yeah yeah so when you're looking at the cow what would happen old days nah I'm sure these days they still do it but in the old days the yoke was made specifically for that ox cow that it was made now so what will happen is that it will even be made to balance so that the weight must go on both sides be the same so when when when when they put on the yoke and it it bruises the the the the the the shoulders shoulders shoulders shoulders shoulders shoulders shoulders of the ox that was the wrong yoke so when it starts bruising putting away you should understand that what I'm doing here is wrong I'm putting the the wrong yoke on me that's why your load feels heavy or heavier than normal so don't get me wrong what Jesus said here he doesn't remove work from you he doesn't because that's what people think that whatever I do I don't have to put in the work for it he still says you will work but he will the yokes that is misaligned or that is not specifically fitted for you that's the one he says he will remove that yoke but he will still say to you work if if something you do goes it's not in alignment with your values just know it's the wrong yoke let me make an example if you are a believer of the Muslim people do you know if their job says to them that between 12 and 2 on a Friday they must work they don't they refuse it's a work day it's not a it's not a Saturday or a Sunday where most people don't work it's a normal week day between 12 and 2 they won't why is it that us as Christians take the yoke of working on Sundays because of we're looking for the money you want to be in church your heart is in church but the yoke that you've put on upon yourself I should be working on church God has not put that yoke on you you have put that yoke on yourself you have put that yoke on yourself now one thing that you should understand that you are not a blank canvas that is blank when you were born you were not a blank canvas you you you are a marble what is a marble yeah but you know what I'm talking about the top of the most people use in kitchens that kind of the marble not Ali not you know what I'm talking about that round thing we should like you are not that marble you are marbled you are already designed from within your mother's womb now there's a guy I'm trying to get the guy's name name what's that guy's name is it Michael Angelo I think okay while I'm talking let me let me quickly check there's a guy I'm thinking of now what he did there he was doing a he was doing a statue let me let me I think I think it's Michael Angelo now this guy yeah Michael Angelo now Michael Angelo specifically did the David it's a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble now when you're looking at that what Michael Angelo said this is what he said he said before he started doing this David statue he said I had the David statue in my mind and what was not the David statue I took it off now before I before I formed you in the womb I knew you before you were born I set you apart I appointed you as a prophet to the nation God has already before you were born he set you apart he have already made you a marble the thing that is not a marble is what's happening at the moment he's taking out from you I hope it makes sense so it means that some of the things that you do in life sometimes you think it's wrong because of certain things get spoken in your head I can make another example quickly let me make an example now you've been put from young days don't run you will fall don't run you will fall don't run you will fall it's been imprinted in your mind but yet you feel like running you keep on feeling like running and you ended up being Carl Lewis do you remember Carl Lewis or what's that guy's name is it yes he's the right guy I'm talking about when they told you not to run but in your inner being you know I'm supposed to run but your mother and father kept on saying to you don't run you will fall yet you stop running yet you stop falling Frederick Carlton Lewis born 1961 is an American track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals nine Olympic gold medals imagine if he would have listened to his mother and father telling him not to run we wouldn't have even known him today and this is what I'm saying to you before you were born God already set you apart for you to know what you've been set apart from is to listen to your inner being where God is saying the Bible says that greater is he that is within me that is in the world so stop listening to what your mother and father is telling you if you know your destiny is different you know the Hebrew word for new is yada it means an intimate purposeful knowing so God knew purposefully he knew you no no no let me go one further God did not do the same thing like I did now I was going on Google quickly hitting Carl Lewis who is Carl Lewis I typed quickly God did not research you on Google God knew you he ordered you he made you he formed you he wrote what life would be like so where is it that you need to go and get your wall that you must stand against and when I talking about the hole that you must stand against the thing that you should do that is a godly thing and not a good thing what is your role one thing I can tell you now even when you read a lot of self-help books like myself you will see they always have this thing of talking about you already are who you are it's just a discovery of who you are that you are running through the thing is a lot of outside communication confuses you with who you are from young I already knew I would be motivating people but my stuttering has made me to think otherwise I started too much that the way I started I thought to myself how will I be able to speak to somebody the way I'm stuttering now I knew I would be a speaker I knew I didn't know I would be a pastor or a spiritual teacher or whatever I just knew I would be somebody that will motivate people in whichever way I did not know so God has already made you he's already formed you he doesn't he doesn't you can almost say everything is already there the only thing is you just need to reveal and start removing what is not from him if I be a runner do you know how I will be running running to me I will every day perfect my running if I'm a preacher read a lot of Bible read a lot of Bible because one thing I can guarantee you now if you are a preacher and you don't do Bible you are leaning against the wrong hole your ladder is that you are climbing is climbing on the wrong hole you are doing a lot of good things but not God things a lot of good things but not God things now the Bible gives two two type of time times now when you're looking at a clock it's called the chronos time this is the chronos time now it's measured sequential like in sequence of one to twelve if you are in the new time you call it zero to twenty four that's a sequential time but when God talk about a different time now there's a kairos time now a kairos time is an appointed time now what I've been speaking to you about was just a foundation to get to this point so what I've spoken to you now I've spoken for a foundation to what I'm about to go to now let let me let me read first chronicles to you first chronicles 12 first first chronicles 12 first chronicles 12 verse 32 1st chronicles 12 verse 32 says the following and of the children of issachar which were men that had understand that had understanding of the times to know what israel ought to do the heads of them were 200 and all their brethren were at their commandment huh did you hear what he says that understanding of that had understanding of times according to 1st chronicles 12 verse 32 had understanding of times this is what we call a strategic window and while i'm saying strategic window this is where windows of opportunities lies now when you're looking at the kairos moment this is where windows of opportunities comes can i can i explain to you something the understanding here is a hebrew word for understand is bina now bina it's b b i n a b i n a h bina am i saying it correctly i think okay doesn't matter bina what this means it's a discernment that leads to an action a discernment that leads to an action this is where this is where the right action comes in place let me make an example sometimes we dust things without knowing it will help us in the future and when you do go through it opportunities what is it called opportunities finds the prepared make sense what i'm trying to say when there's an opportunity if only it will happen when you prepared i have a constant preparation of something yet i did not know i was prepared when my mother took me for what is tider there's a service that we do in the church you get ordained or something you know the anglican church when you are a child you can't you can't be an altar boy if you didn't go through that class i can't in english i don't know the word but in africans we call it katkasanta class now the katkasanta class is to prepare you for certain things so when my mother took me to that or or i decided let me just do this lo and behold i did not know that that would be my preparation for this moment so when you're talking about the kairos moment the kairos moment is where esther said for a time like this huh for a time like this if there's a time like this cho cho cho there's a lot of times that this kairos moment when you have an idea of what it is anything else is noise david i mean michael angelo that did the statue of david already said this i only had an idea of david in my mind and anything else that wasn't david i chopped it off so that marble when he had the marble thing done whatever was not david he chopped it off so the noise in our brains when we know what our kairos moment is supposed to look like anything else is noise but do you know the problem we have the problem we have is we are working on chronos time chronos time will always tells you it is eight o'clock time to start working it is five o'clock time to china if you are a salesperson you will understand that time has never told anybody they can make seven sales in eight hours one day you will make nothing the next day you will make three certain days you will even make fourteen sales but does it mean that the fourteen sales you have worked longer it does not mean that it means you have sharpened your axe before you cut the tree because sales is all about a certain type of technique somebody once says if you ask me to cut off a tree in a certain time period I can't remember the the saying exactly don't don't I'm just saying I somebody I don't know and I I'm not saying the word as it is but what I'm trying to say is somebody once said if you ask me to cut a tree in six hours I will spend the first first four hours to to sharpen my axe chronos is the person that immediately think I must cut I must cut this in six hours so let me start by starting to cut he will be using a blunt axe using more force using more strength cutting a tree that is not going anywhere because your axe is useless now your chronos makes you to take the ladder and put it on the wrong wall just to find out when you are above you have put the wrong wall your ladder to the wrong wall Kairos is what Issaka had an understanding of they had strategy do you know when you strategize certain things you spend less time on the effort for a salesperson to sell more strategy is of the highest importance you have a same strategy is no man you you see it says and of the children of Issaka which were men that had not they were still trained they had the past tense had understanding of the times what is our understanding of the Kairos moment do you know that each and every one of our of us as Christians we are all working towards making sure that one day you will make heaven if you're not hurry for you you are not busy with the God things you are busy with the good things God things will allow you to go into heaven and will be tell God will tell you oh good and faithful servant that is the Kairos moment that we all are waiting for but our Kairos moment while we are on earth at this moment it's how we should prepare for certain things it's like let me let me make an example my wife had an incident at work while she was busy taking off something from a top shelf there was a plate of this chevron we call it chevron against the trucks it's that light thing that has yellow and black if you know that what I'm talking about it shows direction or it shows that you must not bump this truck at night that chevron will show this it reflects that's what I wanted to say or what I was trying to get to so it reflects so that board is a sharp board small sharp board and what happened is when she took it off it fell and it cut this part of her hand and when it cut this part of her hand we rushed her to hospital when she went to the hospital the nurse that was doing the cleaning did not just do a cleaning she specifically prepared the wound for them to take x-rays that will help the surgeon to know exactly what was happening so she had a cron nose busy with but her mind was set on the kairos moment you see how your world should be making any action that you have or must do must have a kairos moment in mind because when the surgeon came the surgeon could only say tendon one two and three has been cut off we must join it together because of the preparation of the first person the surgeon could do a perfect job now this is where we come this is where I wanna have a catcher wake up the surgeon is about to fix the tendon but the pre work was not done with the mind of the surgeon your work that you are doing today has not been good enough for God to say to you a moment like this so your kairos moment cannot come yet for an appointed time yet for an appointed time it can't come yet for an appointed time because the preparation for the appointed time is not yet there what is the things that you are busy with good things well done but was godly things i can guarantee you today that most of us are working on a chronos time not even bothered about the kairos that is ahead of us god want to bless you hey he want to make you a doctor hey but have you studied i'm asking i've only asked are you prepared mentally to be a doctor because doctors deal with this kind of bloody things and the moment you see we're coming with a cup with communion you faint because you think it's blood if you are not yet prepared your kairos moment can't come because you have not yet prepared you have not yet prepared i so much i so much sometimes wanna get into a what we call it i so much sometimes wanna get into a a harder way of saying things but then i'm thinking if i say too hard it it it's going to make pain but sometimes the pain is the one when it when it it it heal it's more stronger let let me read esther 4 verse 14 a well known scripture as the father verse 14 says for if thou all together holdest thy peace at this time then shall there enlarge then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place but that thou father's house shall be destroyed and who know is whether thou art come in the kingdom for such a time as this verse the four verse 14 maybe I didn't read it nicely let me let me do it again for if thou all together holdest thy peace at this time then it goes on it says then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed and who knew it whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this for such a time as this we are all preparing for such a time as this but my concern is one thing my concern is one thing when you go to Isaiah 60 verse 22 the Bible says this please I want to hear what your spirit don't listen with your ears because if you listen with your ears you will not hear what I'm saying Isaiah 16 verse I mean 6 0 60 verse 22 Isaiah 60 verse 22 says the least of you will become a thousand the smallest mighty nation I am the Lord in its time I will do this swiftly did you hear this to the least of you will become a thousand the smallest a mighty nation I am the Lord and in its time I will do it swiftly can you hear that now let me explain what it says some certain things how can this one be influential already you already have 30k followers this 100k followers but he doesn't even wear the nice clothes then you think it's an overnight success see them in three years time if they are still there then we can talk if God has not done it according to Psalm 75 he is the one that lifted he is the one that put it down no let me say this promotion comes from the Lord promotion comes from the Lord sometimes we think that when somebody has been put up there suddenly they are being put there by the Lord I guess I'm too fast slow down slow down slow down let me slow it down the date is today is what is the date today again the 8th of February today is the date of 8th of February tomorrow is the 9th of February at 6 o'clock the morning somebody will tell me did you see there's a tender on this platform it needs BBBBBB certificate it needs your financial thing it needs the whatever whatever I don't know what tenders need but all the documents they need they say to you but it's closing 8 o'clock this morning at 6 o'clock in the morning you don't have a place to go and make copies of your ID you don't have place to make copies of your let's say your company name or whatever that thing is on CIBC you don't have it it's a chaos moment but yet you're not yet prepared but all the time you were talking about I want to be a tender preneer what what is that name tender preneer or whatever that fancy name they call it this this is not intrapreneur it's tender preneer you always wanted to become a tender preneer but did you prepare the tender preneer did you make sure that your text compliance has been done your chronos time has been filled with the kairos moment while you were busy with chronos because chronos time will tell you six o'clock in the morning while kairos time will tell you this is the appointed time right now right now this is the appointed time and sometimes the question is how you are asking how am I going to get this right the way you get it right is when you are looking at michael angel what he did he he take the chisel with almost surgical handling almost surgical handling knowing that one wrong move can change the whole thing that I have in mind make sense what I'm trying to say when you when you know you want to become a entrepreneur every year when it's time for you to do your annual returns on CIPC your tax returns on SARS your what what what what you do it accordingly you use surgical chisel actions to cut that's how you do it if it does not belong to the statue it must fall that's surgical sometimes you ask yourself but how am I going to comply let me do the compliance check foundation first put the foundation first that's why I'm saying are your small things clean you know like your your governance your taxes your is your ethics one of the things that I forgot to mention is your ethics in line because bribery and corruption too high bribery and corruption will tell you I can give you two million rent all all you have to do is do one two three four ethics will kill us are you accountable do you do you have somebody that check in with you so now and then if they are messy these things you're not waiting on God those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength you're waiting on the Lord trying to renew your strength but you are hanging on the wrong ladder why wait upon the Lord why if you are waiting in the wrong waiting room you know that the Luke 16 Luke 16 says it so nicely Luke 16 says it so nicely whoever 16 verse 10 sorry Luke 16 verse 10 sorry whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much did you hear that part he says if I give you a 500 rand and you make sure that you are doing it accordingly I can trust you I know you do the things accordingly number one I'm not saying it's always right but I'm just saying number one I've done my I've done my my my tides it's sorted it's a tick off then number two I have given to the poor it's a tick off number three I've given to the widow it's a tick off so the things that he requested you to do you have done it now when when he look at every time whenever somebody walk past you hungry and every time when somebody asks you fish you can see the hunger you don't see you see hunger you know there's a difference between and hunger fish have you seen it it's like a huge difference the person I don't know if it's just me that have the spirit of discernment or is it how I can see it but even even somebody who doesn't even have the spirit of discernment can see for those who doesn't know what is is the thing they smoke when somebody asks you please I'm hungry but they don't say I'm hungry they actually say I want more drugs that's what they call it drugs that's where the difference comes in that's where the difference comes in so you can be trusted now the word trusted is pistos pistos it means weight bearing reliability so I can put weight bearing reliability on you if small systems collapse you large assignments will crush you even now I actually should have I actually should have give you what they call it I actually should have given you a phases of doing this the how which is the phase one the compliance which is the phase two so no no no no wrong rewind rewind let's rewind number one foundation the number one foundation is the compliance that is how you know you are on your way to your kairos moment foundation is to comply and check number two is to put yourself in alignment you remember I was talking about the yoke and how it's balanced previously number two is to make sure that the calibration of the yoke or the things that you do is in line are you doing 100 things at 10% you know like you have 100 things that you do but all of them you only do 10% or do you have one thing that you know that's how to calibrate yourself you know grace gives clarity while you take counterfeits it gives you residue you know counterfeits when they when they try to break into the the money truck the moment they break in there splashes on that and it counterfeits the money because you can't use it anymore and the one thing I can tell you when sometimes something is tiring you it might be the one that is not moving you to the kairos moment because God doesn't give you a yoke you can't take sometimes you get you have to to ask the question you know how you will get to the counter question I mean to the to the kairos moment you have to ask the question is this opportunity a blessing or a bribe to delay obedience did you hear is this opportunity a blessing or is it a bribe sometimes Satan gives you good things he will tell you start the church it's a good thing let's start the church but if God has not told you to start it it's going to be hard it's going to be hard so there's another thing that I can tell you now when you when you become when you want to become high or when you want to become to that kairos moment you have to have some people with you who are your hundred not cheerleaders not people that will cheer you on the ones that will or you can say not spectators man you know like people that look the one that cheer you on you can do it you can do it you can do it who is your hundred that will also roll up their sleeves people who understand seasons who is that hundred not those ones that when they keep on speaking they making you to be busy very busy did you hear very busy remember is Mary the one that while others were sitting Martha busy the one that was sitting with Jesus and the other one was working is Martha was working Martha busy why can't I yes imagine Martha busy with the wrong things don't be Martha busy another question I need to ask you what is the one good thing currently suffocating your God thing yes I'm doing the right things I'm doing the good things yes but is it a God thing don't negotiate with it remove it today take it away remove it David David David only appears when excess stone is gone remember what I said to you Michelangelo said anything that is not David I cut off so excess thing should be gone let's let's do the now clover have a product clover have a product that is called the now I don't know if they still have it or maybe it's I'm too old the now was acquired by clover by the known in South Africa in 2010 the dairy fruit mixed brand was subsequently rebranded with clover dew around 2017 to offer a more natural lower sugar version while older references still clover the now the product involved with clover dew line so clover the now was a mixture of yogurt and juice the now and that's old time you can hear they talking about 2010 when it was made you were just born you were not yet born 2010 you were not yet born but what I'm trying to say is that the now is very important the now you need to have something that let's call it plenty if the plan is to become a doctor the first step is to put yourself up for making sure that your is it metric results for bachelor I think bachelor is that thing it's called bachelor the one that is bachelor to have a bachelor degree you must pass with a bachelor something something so first get that bachelor then you know you can be entered into studies like that I wanted to do a study on something and I went to go and look at my metric results they said honey your metric results need to have that bachelor thing so plan start with your metric results first knowing that that will be an entry point into studies of a doctor so this is how you need to plan if you want to become a prophet it's not good to have a sniper prophetic but all the sniper prophetic you don't even know the Bible I'm just saying if you were a professional I would have said order your motive at the point of care are you practicing for income or for the appointed place in you before birth because most of the professionals they just look at the income they don't look at the impact they don't look at the impact any transaction they do is a transactional thing it has nothing to do with any improvement in anybody's life you need to start know when you are a business owner open your compliance files today like make sure that every compliant everything is compliant fix that one document you keep postponing you cannot carry a car on a chronos mess if you are a visionary somebody who envision things say no to the next three good ideas protect clarity until the true assignment stands alone noise is not momentum noise is not a momentum I'm asking one question oh no no no let me say this not asking stop climbing ladders God never leaned against that wall your life is not built by addition it's revealed by removal the lots of things that you are doing the unnecessary things that you are doing stop doing them and do godly things it's good when you want to start something that has good things that has to do with good things but is it godly the least of you will become thousand the smallest mighty nation i am the lord and in its time i will do it do this swiftly so if you align yourself when the kairos moment comes god will do it swiftly the time is not the calendar it has nothing to do with your calendar the time is the moment and obedience remove the last layer of self effort so stand still and await and see if i move is this taking me into the right direction don't move if you know it's not yet into the right direction our year of action is that god want to have some action he want to do some things but when you lean on the wrong wall with the ladder you are at the wrong place when the time is right before the world began you were on his mind and every tear you cry is precious in his eyes but before the i'm telling you today you are precious god has knew you or he knew you way before you were in your mother's suit he knew you but i want to make sure that any step you take it's useless if it's the wrong step this is a year of action but wrong action take you to the wrong step chronos time is taking you to the wrong place kairos time is awaiting on you do the right thing heavenly father i come to you in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior and i'm asking you in the mighty name of jesus that please help us to know when the kairos time is close by to move into the right direction in the mighty name of jesus christ the lord and savior let this be a time where any chronos time that we use will be perfected to perfect us in the kairos time in jesus mighty name we pray amen and amen now may the grace of