YOUR VALUE WON’T BE RECOGNIZED WITHOUT THE HELP OF GOD - Apostle Joshua Selman

I'm teaching tonight on the topic ebena when God helps men please listen very carefully because this is beyond a teaching it's an impartation I'm trusting that there is a Grace that will come from this altar tonight that will cause people to truly be an expression of God's goodness as we wrap up this year ebena when God helps men second Chronicles CH 26 we'll read verse 5 then we'll jump to 15 we'll consider a few more scriptures and then I'll begin to summarize my thoughts and he sought God in the days of Zechariah who had understanding

in the visions of God and the Bible says as long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper I've told you that God has the power to cause men to prosper it is very scriptural to believe that the prosperity of the believer in Christ are we together is directly connected to the help and the wisdom of God verse 15 and he made in Jerusalem engines invented by Corning men to be on the towers and upon the bullworks and to shoot arrows and great stones with the Bible says and his name listen spread far

abroad for he was marvelously helped until he was strong may that be your testimony in the name of Jesus Christ I say it again may that be your testimony let's go to 1st Samuel chter 7 and verse one the context from whence we brought this word now I'm going to jump a lot of words these words are really very difficult you see how they are look at the first word there my goodness I mean they would have just abbreviated them but Bible for you thank God we're not in their culture so so the men of

that place you see right there Hallelujah the Bible says they fetched up the Ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of abinadab in the hill and Sanctified elazar his son to keep the Ark of the Lord we're reading to verse 14 it's a long read please be patient and it came to pass while the Ark abod in see same place again once I jump it just know um if you studied English help me pronounce it when I get there that the time was long for it was 20 years and all the house

of Israel lamented after the Lord verse three Samuel spake to the house of Israel saying if ye do return to the Lord with all your heart and put away strange Gods the gods of ashero from among you and you prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him only he says he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines I'm giving you a context now and the children of Israel did put away barely and ashero and serve the Lord only verse 5 and Samuel said gather all Israel to misp and I will pray

the Lord I will pray for you unto the Lord verse 6 and they gathered together in mispair and Drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said we have sinned against the Lord and Samuel judged the children of Israel in mispair verse 7 and when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to mispair the lord of the Philistines went up against Israel and when the children of Israel heard it they were afraid of the Philistines 8 and the children of Israel said unto Samuel cease

not to cry unto the Lord Our God for us that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines and Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it for a burnt offering holy unto the Lord and Samuel Cried unto the Lord for Israel and the Lord heard him may the Lord hear you and Samuel was offering as Samuel was offering unto the Lord the burnt offering the Philistines Drew n to battle against Israel but the Lord thundered with a great Thunder on that day upon the Philistines and discomfited them and they were smitten

before Israel four more verses and the men of Israel went out of misp and pursued the Philistines and smoted them until they came under Betha verse 12 and Samuel took a stone and set it between misp and Shen and he called the name of it ebener saying hitherto the Lord ha helped us verse 13 so the Philistines were subdued and they came no more into the coast of Israel and the Hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel the final verse and the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel

were restored to Israel from ekron to GTH and the coast thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines and there was peace between Israel and the amorites amen and amen amen so tonight I want to show you a very deep mystery in the Kingdom the word ebener as you know comes from the Hebrew expression the stone of help uh teachings along the lines of help are not new in this house but it's important to establish this as the Lord has placed it in my heart and so you see that according to that

scripture it was a stone that was set up as a memorial by prophet Samuel to commemorate the help that the nation of Israel received from the Lord and he called it ebena a stone of help and so we're dealing essentially tonight using that caption want to explore uh what it takes to be marvelously helped of God and what happens when God decides to help God decides to assist a man let me do a very simple definition of help I like to do definitions because it's important that we of common understanding so that we are not

vacillating Concepts while I discuss what does it mean to help write down please to give Assistance or support in its simplest form that's what it means to help to give ass Assistance or support another definition help means to make it easier or possible for someone to achieve a goal listen to make it easier or possible for someone to achieve a goal by offering one services or resources to make it easier or possible for someone to achieve a goal by offering one services or resources so every time you make the journey easier or possible like you

have been taught for someone usually by offering your services or offering your resources you have helped such a person very quickly what is the goal and the intent behind help now that you understand that help means to give assistance support it means to make anything at all easier or possible by offering one's Services by offering one's re resources what is the goal behind help the goal is to make any task or any desire possible achievable and as easy as possible listen carefully the goal behind showing help or receiving help is to make a task or

a desire possible the achievement of it now achievable and as easy as possible so when you cry for help it is a cry to make a task a goal or a desire possible to make it achievable and to make it as easy as possible Hallelujah this is very Elementary but very powerful most people cry on to God for help but they have no idea nor definition of what they are trying to request for and in the Kingdom prayer is governed by intelligence of understanding if you do not even know what you're asking for faith is

dependent on intelligence it connects to an idea that is not abstract it has to be defined the clearer your goals the clearer your ideas and your requests are we together the more your faith connects to the power of God to receive and make it manifest in your life and once there's vagueness in understanding you will be saying a lot of church words a lot of Bible words but because you are bankrupt of what they mean nor what you really expect from God you may not be able to release your faith to receive and that's why

I took the time to Define help we're exploring what happens when God helps a man a few things I want you to understand tonight number one every man succeeds in life and Destiny to the degree to which they find help please write that every man every woman every Pastor every Church every organization succeeds in life and Destiny to the degree to which they find help let me repeat it one more time I hope you're writing every man succeeds in life and Destiny to the degree to which they find help Listen by the meres of God

I have studied success from a kingdom standpoint and fairly I'm able to piece together for you the variables that I understand understand from scripture and from Wise people if you ask me today to explain for you the variables that must be in place to command Kingdom success there are are variables of godliness character variables of value and intelligence but chiefest among them that I know uh by scripture through my life and by the experience of others is the help of God we are as successful in life and Destiny as the help that is offered us

it's a very important thing for you to understand there are many people for instance I have seen many gifted people I have seen many anointed people even in Ministry and sometimes you see how limited they are remember the testimony of the gentleman gentleman was sharing a testimony here and he did say how that you know there was nobody to help and support and assist him but when help came a miracle also came many of you right now to the degree to which you are bankrupt of help that is the degree to which it looks like

your gifts have not been recognized sitting right now within your spirit within your minds is capacity to be Global by every definition what you lack is not value what you lack is help I have heard people sing while they are packaging you know you can meet a Trader and while the trader is trying to maybe you are buying rice or buying something from an open market you see them raise a worship song and you almost want to say what in the world are you doing here you should be somewhere in the studio and the person

will tell you Madame or sir um condition we say you know I don't want to say that I'm not sure if that is right I think Kish Bend because it is dry it's not because of condition H Allelujah sometimes we need to reason out these wise sayings that have come um unreasonably do I still have your attention very important so that to the degree to which you are assisted I have seen people with average understanding not to insult just to compare average understanding average qualifications but they found themselves in the midst of marvelous help first

of God and then of men and some of those people became elevated to a position that a position of greatness advancement and notoriety versus other exceptional people who may because they did not have Financial helpers as a case study they remain limited barely went through school barely got a job and then you find out that there is nothing the person they are celebrating there's nothing that person has in terms of intellectual capacity that those gentlemen who are disadvantaged do not have Hallelujah I seldom doubt when um whether social media or mainstream media celebrate what they

call the best the greatest the most exceptional usually those concepts are relative because you have to dig down to find people who are more competent by every standard but the limitation the difference between a champion in many regards and someone who has capacity but is not exalted is that they lack help and by this definition already I'm praying for you that even before the year ends in the name of Jesus the help requirement for prophecy to manifest in your life whilst you are hearing me speak may it gravitate towards you tonight is a night to

shout amen with all your heart Hallelujah please be seated God bless you so number one that every man succeeds in life succeeds in Ministry succeeds in family succeeds in Destiny not just because they have capacity as important as that is not just because they are spiritual as important as that is not just because they are valuable as important as that is not just because they have character and are disciplined but many the in many instances the difference between grace and grass glory and shame increase and decrease or decline for many people is just the introduction

of strategic help you believe that the second thing to learn tonight as we discuss this subject is that God helps men very simple but Prof found statement say that after me God helps men God helps yes sir he does God helps men God can and he desires to help men the Bible is full of men and women who enjoy the help of God God helps men Psalm 121:1 God helps men that's the second point I want you to note very simple but carries with it such profound uh Power when you understand the light that is

hidden there here God helps men I will lift up my eyes onto the heels he says from whence cometh my help verse two it says my help someone say my help my help comes from the Lord comes from the Lord say it as a prayer and a prophecy say my help comes from the Lord comes from the Lord let your situation hear you one last time say my help my help comes from the Lord the Lord my help in Ministry comes from the Lord my help in D comes from the Lord the Bible says some

trust in horses and some trust in chariots it says but we will trust in the name of our god do you know you can align two people literally like stand two people on stage here and you can with with intelligence you don't even have to be born again you can point someone who is currently enjoying the help and the mercy of God when God helps you the difference becomes clear unmistakable even unbelievers will know that this one there are some possibilities that are beyond your effort by yourself the help of God God helps men he

helped the nation of Israel God helps men he helped Abraham God helps men he helped Gideon and you know against the midianites God helps men God helped Joseph are we together God helped Samson the Bible is full of men and women who obtain help from God God helped Esther God helped Ruth even Naomi that the latter part of their life were better than the former there have been many many people in scripture many people through history marvelously helped by God may you be the next in the name of Jesus Christ and by this I'm speaking

to a man of God you have done all you know to do walking in Integrity but the missing ingredient honestly the reason why Ministry is still the way it is right now is because help has not come I pray for you may a Bena arise and show you help I pray for a family with very responsible children no compromise loving the Lord but they keep begging they keep crying it looks like help cannot arise from anywhere and your spirituality is becoming a mockery in the name of Jesus the help that is needed to to command

favor to command increase in your life that before the year is ended may God make it manifest in [Music] [Applause] you every man SU seeds in life please sit down and Destiny to the degree to which they are helped there are businesses with very simple Elementary basic ideas ideas that should not command the kind of global attention and notoriety but simply because those ideas fell into the ears of men with capacity and influence are we together they drove those ideas to fruition sometimes when we celebrate the tech Giants sometimes when we celebrate the social media

Giants sometimes when when we celebrate Giants across various Endeavors you know even they themselves know that they are not the best they are just the ones who were helped there's some young man I think I was um what what city did we travel to and we we're about returning from one of the sessions at a conference that should be somewhere in the East and I saw people gathered I was inside the car and I saw people gathered and they were looking at some gentleman he had designed a G wagon truly a mini gagon everything outsourced

locally designed the jwag gon and I think he was doing a display of it and people were around just watching and I nodded my head I said look at this now the same kind of brain that somebody had but whil you call another person um the founder of mercedesbenz while you call another person Ford you call all these people that gentleman has no name not because he has no idea but the help again I'm praying for you oh whatever you have worked on that is ready for the world to see only limited by help May

the god of my Covenant send help speedily send help speedily send help speedily please be seated I once met a woman many years ago I think I went to preach for uh Pastor Kingsley conko and his wife introduced me to a lady who you know came and were just discussing at the green room and she told me how that it was bean cake what you call mooy in Nigeria that's what took her to the White [Music] House not the ability to speak not not in not necessarily brilliant and smart woman but when she sat down

and narrated her story it didn't add up I said no in when you see equations don't add up don't AR you help when God steps in it doesn't matter whether the equation is balanced or not he will push it and force it to work I pray for someone you've done your best oh I told you to receive tonight in the name of Jesus may God who is the helper of men help you may God who is the helper of men help you please be seated God helps men if you are in doubt ask coinonia God

helps men if you are in doubt ask Joshua Selman God helps men in the name of Jesus God helps men if you have not accessed your own help is because you have not come to terms with the fact that there is an ability to Outsource help and Grace beyond your efforts do not forget these foundational things you're learning number one every man succeeds in life and Destiny to the degree to which they find help number two God helps men Luke chapter 1 53 and 54 Luke chapter 1 the Bible says he had filled the Hungry

with good things and the rich had he sent empty away 54 H he had helped his servant Israel in remembrance of his Mercy let me read that well he has helped his servant Joshua Selman in remembrance of his Mercy he has helped his servant if you are ever in doubt whether God help help Men read your Bible and if you are tired of reading your Bible read my life if you are tired of reading my life read coinonia if you are tired of reading coinonia read your neighbor story and you will see that God helps

men in the name of Jesus Christ God helps men why do we need help this is very powerful I want to give you three very powerful reasons why all men need help most of us know that God helps but until I bring you to a point where you see the necessity of receiving help from God you may not release your faith even though you'll be shouting amen but in truth you will not open up your heart to receive why do we need help in life and Destiny number one all men I wrote here even at

their best are limited the first reason why we need help all men I don't care who you are all men at even at their best are limited all men this is a reality that has come upon all men it doesn't matter how privileged it doesn't matter how intelligent it doesn't matter how gifted by default all men even at their best are limited Limited in knowledge Limited in managing their emotions Limited in strength and capacity to push through unassisted Psalm 103 we read 14-6 Psalm 103:14 to16 all men are limited the Bible says for he knoweth

our frame someone say thank you Jesus thank you Jesus that is good news for you ladies and gentlemen that God knows your frame he knoweth our frame he remembered that we are dust verse 15 it says as for man his days are as grass as the flower of the field so he flourisheth final verse 16 it says for the the wind passed over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall not be known anymore God knows he knows what he created are we together in His image we are powerful in Christ we are

powerful but as humans unassisted by the spirit of God unassisted by the word of God unassisted by the grace of God every man by default is limited and let me tell you the truth this is both a sermon and an advice the earlier you you realize that you are limited outside of God you will jump many seasons of pain don't allow life teach you a lesson that you are limited by repeating your failure again and again the earlier you realize that you are limited meaning you can be exhausted you are limited meaning you do not

know all things we are limited in knowledge the Bible say we see in part you know the the the implication of that statement we make decisions in life based on our our perceptions and it the fact that you see imp part means one day you will make an honest mistake with your judgments it has nothing to do with whether you are good or bad it is just the reality of your Being Human and may God help you that you do not make an honest mistake when you are making a destiny defining judgment like assuming God

wants you to be in America assuming God wants you to be in Canada or assuming God wants you to remain in Nigeria are we together now he knows that we are limited the Bible says he knows our frame that we are dust who is learning tonight Jeremiah chap 10 and verse 23 Jeremiah 10:23 why do we need help the Bible says oh Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walth to direct his steps this is a very honest admission you know what this means it

means that man does not have the capacity to lead himself to a safe heaven if you are given the Liberty to lead yourself using the lens of intelligence the lens of instinct it will only take you to far the variables that are required you see life is like is it's like a journey and there's nobody even if the road is straight are we together the Contours are not straight sometimes it will be healing sometimes you have to go down and for those who drive and drive large cars there is a skill that is deployed based

on the Topography of the road only a foolish man will find a road that is very bumpy and then he will be speeding at 120 km you may kill yourself are we together there is a road there but it does not mean you will pass well there is still a skill to pass the road so don't tell me I have found the road do you know how to pass it such that you will not be hurt it is not in man to direct himself probably if it were up to me to direct where coona will

be by now using brain work will probably still be in zarya or maybe from Zaria would have just flown somewhere to America or flown some State and be roaming around and struggling as if God did not call us praying and fasting and asking questions whereas we had veered from the blueprint of the spirit I always recall the story that I say here about um I think that should be 2013 when I was happy and thinking and there were many sincere people who were encouraging me they say Apostle the ministry is doing well I think it's

time for you to Branch out now have other Expressions especially in in um Abuja there was a group of women who were praying and fasting that God will bring coinonia to Abuja I mean if you are surrounded with that kind of good news praise God and I thought to myself for a while I said this is a good thing I think I should um maybe consider it and then I remember the dream seeing an aircraft leave Zaria to Abuja and it was written on it here I just when it wanted to land it crashed I

said the devil is a liar I knew immediately I didn't need to pray and fast I knew the meaning of that that you are on your own fly yourself just because you in the Air does not mean you will land you will land and crash I'm praying for you where you are going before God and God is at the back and you are not allowing to walk in Pace with him may God reverse you to meet his pace and where God has gone ahead of you and you have not seen and you are still staying

there in the name of Jesus I push you to catch up with the movement of the spirit please be seated is someone learning praise the name of the Lord this is very powerful all men at their best are limited because you do not know there are many people people who have thrown and lost money in business not because they are bad they saw a property for instance and just assumed in their mind that real estate is very profitable and without proper counsel in fact sometimes even with proper counsel life just happened are we together now

yeah somebody announced his breakthrough before an AM robber not knowing was an AM robber was in a restaurant eating and he just shouted testifying and the man had and said you mean it when did this happen the money just landed yesterday how much 10 million man say [Music] congratulations that one is not necessarily carelessness because you are testifying it's not it's not you can't say it's carelessness the man was testifying the goodness of God it just so happened that the listener was an arm robber let me tell you the truth there are times that things

befall you in life that no matter the safety nets you put around you is just a human thing are we together someone can foil his car and carry a security man on a 6 sour journey and then be wed by armed robbers he made all his preparations good car healthy car working well even security age but they were just overpowered at such times you cannot say it's carelessness man even at his best is still limited the Samy said Hear My Cry Oh God attain unto my prayer says from the ends of the Earth will I

cry unto you that when my heart is overwhelmed there is such a possibility in the life of a man that you can put everything in place my heart overwhelmed I remember some years ago through story someone prepared prayed planned for I think a maybe US Visa if I recall the story and then the person slept off I think the interview was supposed to be in the morning the person just woke up spend most of the night praying prophesying in the name of Jesus this time around without waste of time in one 2 minutes my Visa

will be stamped the person woke up only to find out was maybe around uh was it 10 or 11 now what do you say about that do you say the person should not sleep I'm sure he put an alarm it's just that sometimes your body is tired and your body does not care whether you have a visa interview when your heart is overwhelmed may God lead you to the rock that is higher than you I've told you that sometimes and I I've admitted to you sometimes when I'm praying you know I get so tired and

when I'm praying I even sleep off honestly most people will tell you they don't I do some not all the time but sometimes I sleep of and even to my shock and sometimes I'm holding my phone oh reading a scripture honestly I can't tell whether I dropped it whatever I'm just kneeling down and that's it and when I wake up you know of course I feel guilty but I say Lord you you know my frame that I am dust it's not it's not intentional I'm not lazy I'm not slack it's just that this thing this

is the place of surrender do to me what you [Music] want this is the place of encounter all right so let's Rush please sit down why do we need help number one all men even at their best are limited by every definition of limitation number two why do we need help listen to this and then you write I wrote here that human factors the second reason can negatively alter and affect the results of correctly engaging principles let me explain that and then you write human factors can negatively alter and affect the results that should come

from correctly engaging laws and principles that means laws and principles by default should always produce but sometimes because of human factors even when you engage The Laws of Success the law of advancement correctly human factors can veto the performance of those laws I give you an instance I'll repeat it listen the law of diligence the law of diligence is that when you are diligent and you are valuable you should not be ignored am I right on that that law is only true when there is no tribalism that law is only true if your father did

not fight anybody whose battle you are inheriting that law is only true if you are in a corporation of around a people who are God-fearing and sincere the moment you bring in factors like selfishness factors like greed factors like interest it makes even your obedience and adherence to principles to not believer The Profit that should come you understand what I'm saying now that all things work only under normal circumstances and humans do not make circumstances normal because they come in with prejudices they come in with biases they come in with all kinds of sentiments so

someone wants to lift you and another person comes to say because you are from the north because you are from the Middle Belt because you are euroba because you are evil or because you are not Nigerian or because you are Nigerian or because you are not African or because you are American it doesn't matter the excuse there are many people today who are competent deserving of reaping from the fruit of diligence and a profitable labor but human factors now you understand please write I said the second reason why we all need help is that human

factors can negatively alter and affect the results of correctly engaging principles I wish there was a better way to put it but it's the truth I hate to say this but there are sincere people today who are in prisons world over who should not be in prison the Bible tells us the man Joseph Joseph's life was a an experience if you did not read the story of Joseph to the end you would think that Integrity did not have profit are we together now because the Loyalty of that gentleman being sent by his father to bring

food and cater for the welfare of his brothers took him to the pit and then he his Integrity over Portia's wife landed him in prison if the story stopped there and you did not see the end you will have a basis for compromise and you say Integrity is not profitable because here is a man who feared God sincerely and yet landed in the prison how about Jesus when they looked at him what does what what does a good leader do to secure loyalty that Jesus did not do is it Integrity of heart he had it

is it compassion he had it good leadership he had it feeding them spiritually and physically he had it question who do you think shouted crucify him same people with the crumbs of the bread on their lips they still shouted crucify him forgetting that he was the one who fed them they said let his blood they were willing to curse their children let his blood be upon our children but crucify him they were willing to release a terrorist Barabas there are times that you do all you know to do and whilst engaging correct principles they should

deliver under normal circumstances principles of Integrity principles of um you know diligence principles of competence but sometimes many times in fact human factors can tamper with those principles and cause them to not deliver as as they should at such points you need help number three why do we need help is someone learning can I give you the third reason the reality of Satan and demonic forces the reality of Satan and demonic forces alongside their determination to fight our peace necessitates help the reality of Satan and demonic forces alongside their determination to fight our peace and

you may even add our advancement necessitate help again let me repeat the third reason why we need help in fact I'll stop at the third the reality of Satan and demonic forces alongside their determination to fight our peace fight our progress fight our advancement necessitate help First Peter chapter 5 and verse 8 the Bible says be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walth about seeking whom he may devour is someone learning now so number one that all men the first reason why we all need help you and I and

everyone who is following watching across the globe that all men even at our best are limited number two that human factors if and when in introduced to our lives can tamper the results that principles should deliver when correctly engaged so you can engage the principles that should produce certain results but because human factors come in and tamper with your progress you may not get the results that you ought to get and then number three the reality of Satan and demonic forces alongside their determination to fight our peace our progress our advancement necessitates help