THE DOOR IS CLOSING: 3 Signs You’ve Been Ignoring the Holy Spirit | Apostle Joshua Selman

Midnight represents a time of weariness, a time of discouragement, a time where people are packing their things together. The Bible says at midnight there was a cry, behold the bridegroom cometh. It says, "Go ye out and meet him." Verse 7, "Then all those virgins arose and trim their lamp." All of them they trimmed their lamp. Verse 8. And the foolish said unto the wise, now this is where the subject of foolishness or wisdom comes into play. The foolish said to the wise, give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. We have lamps,

but we do not carry extra oil. And now that we need to go and meet the bridegroom, we're about to step into darkness because there's no oil to power the lamp. It says, "Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out." Verse 9, "But the wise answered and said,"Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you." It says, "But go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves." Verse 10, do you know that even though they they heeded to the advice of the wise, the Bible says, "While they were

away to buy," that means they had the resources to buy it. They went to buy it. The bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in to be with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. Verse 11, afterwards came also the other virgin, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. Verse 12, watch therefore, I mean, yeah, verse 12, it says, but he answered and said, verily, verily unto you, I know you not. verse 13. That will be our final verse. It says, "Watch therefore, for you neither know the day or the hour where the

son of man cometh." Praise the name of the Lord. Now, of course, you know that from a contextual standpoint, this all adds up, revealing the coming of Jesus, redemption realities, and his imminent return. But I'm I'm taking it from a prophetic angle to teach something about wisdom tonight. So the story of the 10 virgins, the Bible now says that they all had lambs, but that in carrying those lambs, others factored in that there could be delay, there could be taring and they went and got oil. Take note. If you recall in discussing oil in the

dwelling of the wise, I told you it was more of the relationship and the process leading to the oil than the oil itself. Are we together? Praise the name of the Lord. And then the foolish ones had the lamp, but they did not know how to get the oil. The emphasis for those ones was them that sell. There were those who they didn't pay attention to know those who sold else they had the money to buy and if they had met those who sold early they would have told them I think you will need to

carry extra oil is someone learning now I'm about to tie out some lessons here this is very powerful now I want to contrast it with another story very quickly 2 Kings chapter 4 Kings chapter four. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Let's begin from verse one. Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the son of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord. and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be born men. Verse

two, and Elisha said unto her, what shall I do for thee? It says, tell me, what do you have in your what do you have in your >> It didn't say what do you have in your life? Please pay attention. There is treasure to be desired and oil where in the dwelling of the wise. So the prophet looks at the woman and says, "What do you have? I'm interested in what is in your house. You said your husband was a prophet. There is a there is something not adding up there. You said your husband is

a prophet and that he knew about me and you are in debt. Please, I want to know what is in your house." In other words, I want to know whether wisdom was in that house. There has to be an explanation as to why the man was a prophet. But eventually they died in death. And the only way to know is to investigate what was in your house. Tell me what is there. And the woman said, "There's nothing. If you are looking for treasure, I've sold everything." The foolish man spended it all. He said, "But there

is something left." The prophet said, "No, no, keep keep that scripture. Keep that scripture. We're building something now." SHE SAID, "THY HANDMMAID HAD NOT ANYTHING in the house." And the prophet said, "No, something is wrong." She said, "Except," he said, "I'm listening. What do you have a pot of oil?" He said, "That's it." Truly, your husband was a prophet. I don't know what happened to him later on, but the fact that there is oil there, it then means something can be done. Is someone learning now? There is treasure to be desired and oil in the

dwelling of the wise. So here is a prophet wanting to help a woman and he's saying I need to know what kind of house you came from. Your husband was a prophet. He depleted you spend everything all that's a talk of foolishness but I want to help you. What do you have in your house? She said honestly I don't have anything. In other words, there is no treasure there that I can sell for whatever it is. It's all gone. It says, "But I have a little pot of oil." Verse three, he said, "Go. I know

what your problem is now. For the 10 virgins, their problem was oil." Are we together now? They had the lamp. They had the vessels but they did not know how to access the oil. For this woman, oil was not her problem. Listen carefully. Are we together? Oil was not her problem. There was already oil there. Don't mind the quantity. There was oil. Her problem was vessels. There was no vessels. And the prophet said, "I will solve your problem. Go and borrow vessels from all your neighbors. The same way they told the people, "Go and get

oil from them that sell." It says, "Go and borrow vessel from your neighbors, even empty vessels, and in borrowing, borrow not a few." Verse four, "When you come in, shut the door upon you and your sons, and then pick from that oil, and then begin to pour it inside the vessels." Look at this mystery. Something about the oil can do something to the vessels and it can save you from all of these troubles you are going through. Verse 5, the Bible says, pay attention. We'll soon tie certain things up now. It says, "She went from

him and shut the door upon her and her sons who brought the vessels to her and she poured out." Verse six. And it came to pass when the vessels were full, that she said unto her sons, "Bring me yet a vessel." And he said unto her, "There is not a vessel anymore." And the oil stayed. Look at me. The moment they poured the oil in the vessel, it was no longer oil. It became a treasure to be desired. And he said, "Now carry that treasure. Go and sell it." Listen, it was oil because he was

in a small vessel. But now he said, "Transfer that oil. Put it in vessels. Give it to us." Let's finish it. My God, I'm praying that God will open someone's eyes to see. Verse seven. Verse seven. She came and told the man of God and he said, "Go and sell the oil and pay your debt." Are we together now? She could not sell the one in the jar. If it was all about selling oil, why didn't he say, "Go and sell it to somebody. Let the person know what to do WITH IT. JUST CARRY THAT

SMALL VESSEL. Go and sell it." Say, "No, no, no, no, no. If you sell that little one there, I told you it's not just the oil." He's speaking more of the relationship and the process that leads to increase that leads to the arrival of the oil. Are we together? This is very powerful. Now, it had become to her a treasure to be desired. All the people who later bought it were in that town and they had the money to bail her out. But there was no treasure to be desired. There was nothing in the house

that could be desired. Where did the people suddenly come from? Because there was now treasure to be desired in the dwelling of the wise. Are we together now? For the 10 virgins, they had lambs. Notice they had the lambs and the lamb had an infinite capacity to burn provided there's oil. The difference between what they were carrying as 10 virgins and what that other woman were carrying, those ones were ordinary vessels. But for this virgin, it was a lamp. The lamp never had a problem in the story. Provided there was oil, it will burn. Are

we together now? The challenge was that they did not carry oil in their vessels. And so when the lamp depleted, depleted, depleted, it was of no value to them again. And he told the people for them the virgins don't go and borrow more vessels. It is not vessel. The lamp you have can burn and burn provided there's oil. Go to them that sell. Let them teach you how to get oil. Bring it back quickly. But unfortunately, as they went there and bought and returned, the door was shut. But for the woman who was in trouble,

he told her, "Go and borrow vessels. The oil in your house can give you treasures to be desired. And with that treasure, things can change in your life. that with the presence of that oil producing treasure in your house. Please listen. Those who ignored you can now come to buy. He says, "Go to them that sell, you will sell so much you will pay off your debt and leave off the rest." I'm about to bring out a very powerful message. There are not many people who have worse conditions like that woman. Number one, the Bible

says she lost her husband. Do you know what that means? Most likely her husband was the one who gave her prophetic direction. She was clueless about life. The man was a prophet and yet he died. Number two, the Bible said she had two sons. The only sons that could help her, the creditors. I am suspecting the people who bought that oil were these same people. I'm suspecting because the creditors obviously were wealthy people and because she could not pay the debt they were about to take the children even though the Bible does not say it

BUT IT SAYS GO AND SELL it who do you think will be the first THE WOMAN WILL CALL DON'T HARASS MY children again I now have treasure to be desired are you interested I'm sure they would laugh at her mock at her and say come to my house my house has changed it's now the dwelling of the wise there's not only oil but there's treasure to desired. The Bible says when they came in, are we together? They were able to sell it and then she lived off the remaining for the rest of her life. For

the rest of her life. You see, the mysteries of the kingdom, I'll teach you something. The mysteries of the kingdom have to be unraveled, unraveled by the spirit of revelation. If not, you will look at it as stories and never understand what the Bible is saying. Many of you have read these stories and you are just happy. But I'm opening you up to the mysteries. This is what it means to have the spirit of revelation. You can draw out a mystery from a story. Sometimes an unconnected story and then you with it you will form

a weapon of victory that puts you in a vantage position of dominion. Are we together? Now almost everyone here who is a believer has read these stories. The story of the wife of the sons of the prophet and then of the virgins. And then we just read it and say, "Wow, good Bible story." But but the things that are written at four time, the Bible says, they are written for our learning so that we may find hope. Are we together now? Praise the name of the Lord. This is very powerful. They that be wise. So

the wife of the sons of the prophet had oil but did not have any vessel. What did she do? She was mandated by the prophet to go and borrow vessels. I want to ask you a question. If you are in the position of this woman and I come as a prophet and I say go and borrow vessels, how do you borrow vessels? Number one, I hope you know that this woman was most likely afraid because there were creditors that were already coming and yet he said go and borrow vessels. question. I thought it was because

she was in debt that she was even in trouble. Now the prophet is saying go and borrow from who? If this woman knocked your door and said please borrow me vessel. Do you have a guarantee that she will return it? Are we together now? GO AND BORROW VESSEL. AND HE WARNED HER. HE SAID DON'T BORROW A FEW. BORROW A LOT OF VESSELS AND THEN YOU WILL DO SOMETHING WITH that oil. And the union between that oil and that vessel will form a treasure to be desired. And with it you will come out of poverty, of

pain, of lack. And you will be able to live in peace, you and your children. If you're following so far, shout a loud believing amen. >> Now ladies and gentlemen, please look at me. Most people do not know that your excelling, your being anointed, your being valuable, your being enlightened begins first and foremost. I want us to reverse the story of this wife of the sons of the prophet. I hope you know and I and this I believe that even when her husband was alive that oil was there. That oil was there with capacity most

likely. Even though the Bible does not record it. I can suggest safely that that man probably died of depression, died of trouble, died of all kinds of embarrassment. You are a prophet and yet you are not able to pay your bills. And the oil all the while like you've heard me say that oil kept shouting there. I have the power to set you free. I have the power to create treasure in your house. But they did not pay attention to the oil till he died. The woman was in trouble. It was the prophet who helped

her see that in your very house there there is something you can engage with that can bring you out. Are we together? Now let me tell you this ladies and gentlemen. Every time you want to grow in wisdom and every time you want to live a life of dominion, a life of grace, a life of power, please listen. The foundation of that journey is your relationship with the Holy Spirit. Everybody, please listen. Please, please listen. Please listen. Your relationship with the Holy Spirit is what will give relevance even to your Bible study is what will

give relevance to everything at work in your life. The anointing that eventually comes to your life, your level of spiritual illumination that will make the nations desire you. Now, here's how most people do it. They want to be great. They want to be anointed. They want to be valuable. They want to be treasures. They want the nations to place a demand on them. But the way that they go about it is in pursuit for vain connections, in pursuit for things. They just feel by the arm of the flesh, by the strength of man, they'll be

able to achieve the things. So, can you lift me? Can you endorse me? Can you open up doors for me? But they do not know that that's not how it happens in the kingdom. The first thing that happens is to deal with that oil issue. That's what the prophet told the woman. Forget about your situation. You have power to change everything. But start with your relationship. The awareness that that supposedly small oil in your house, if you can engage with it, if you can connect with that oil, that can become the basis. the basis she

needed to place value on the oil. It was not just that the oil multiplied. It was that she agreed with the prophet and place value on that oil. That oil there right there, ladies and gentlemen, is not the anointing. That that oil right there is a is a typology OF A FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE Holy Spirit. If you do not have a functional relationship with the Holy Spirit, you can never access the wisdom that is from above. There are certain possibilities that will be foreign to your life until you place value on the Holy Spirit.

You don't have a job. I agree you nobody knows you. You don't have fame. There's no treasure TO BE DESIRED. BUT IT STARTS with you placing value on your relationship with the Holy Spirit. As you begin to relate with the Holy Spirit, I tell you what begins to happen to you. Sometimes you may not even need to go and start borrowing vessels. It is you the vessel who starts expanding. Are we together now? YOU BEGIN TO EXPAND to a capacity where you be the treasure now becomes inside you. It is not always that YOU HAVE

TO GO OUT and borrow external vessels. Sometimes you need to be that VESSEL YOURSELF THAT EXPANDS IN THE PLACE of fellowship with the Holy Spirit until that oil begins to be poured out into you, emptied out into you. The mystery is that the Bible never tells us that tiny jar of oil was spent. It was filling others and yet it was not spent. That's no ordinary oil. your relationship with the Holy Spirit. There are people who desire power, but what they do is to go straight to look for someone who has the healing anointing and

say, "Impart the anointing on me. I don't care about any relationship. I just want to read a book on prosperity. I just want to do whatever so that I'll be great." I'm telling you, it's a big mistake most people are making. The journey to greatness, the journey to wisdom begins when you acknowledge the value of the Holy Spirit in your life, the value of fellowship, the value of staying WITH HIM, THE VALUE of engaging in prayer. People may not like you when you start, but you just keep up with him. The Holy Spirit is the

one WHO MAKES TREASURES OUT OF MEN. THERE IS no other way to be valuable. YOU CAN BE EDUCATED ALL YOU WANT. I TELL YOU in the world of men full of sentiments, nobody will desire you. He's the one who brings BEAUTY AND BRINGS GLORY to an ordinary life. As you stay with him, as you walk with him, uh no wonder the lady Esther, I'm not sure she was born ugly. But when it was time for her to get to the king, SHE HEY GUYS SAID, "LISTEN, I want to give you something. Take to your chamber.

There's a little oil I'm going to give to you. You just keep rubbing that oil every day. Interact with that oil. That's all you need to go and stand before the king. He doesn't really need your English. HE DOESN'T REALLY NEED WHATEVER SENTIMENTS. IF YOU CAN INTERACT with that oil, you will be queen. They that be wise, they shall shine like the firmament of the heavens. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me. Most of the people you celebrate today, they did not start with knowledge. They started with fellowship. It was fellowship that pushed them to knowledge.

Knowledge pushed them to faith. Faith pushed them to glory. You see that now? But what most people are doing is that they are disregarding their relationship with the Holy Spirit AND ALL THEY FOCUS ON is just getting intellectual knowledge because they believe once I am sound. I hope you know you can be intelligent and yet not be a solution. It's one thing to be intelligent but the world gravitates towards solution providers not just intelligent people. You can be intelligent ALL YOU WANT. IF you cannot solve my problem, you are useless to me. I salute you

for your mind. But I will gravitate and pay the person who is a solution provider. Many people are bragging with intellect. I'm and I'm not against there's a place for intelligence. But there are many intelligent people who cannot solve the problems in our world. What do you have in your house? When God wants to help you, let me tell you what he does. He takes you to the dwelling of the wise. The moment you get to the dwelling of the wise, there are two things you must look for. Oil and treasure. And if you don't

find treasure, find oil. The capacity to build a relationship. Please listen to me. That means if you want to make a man wise, send him where he can meet the Holy Ghost. Send that man where he can start a relationship to the Holy Ghost. Send him to a man of God. Send him to a place. It's called the dwelling of the wise. The person may not have gifts, may not have talents, may not even be wise, BUT YOU SEND THAT PERSON WHERE HE CAN FIND the Holy Ghost. He has begun his journey to wisdom and

greatness. When you find the Holy Spirit and begin to engage with your relationship, your relationship growing functionally in prayer, let me tell you this ladies and gentlemen. I hope you know the Holy Spirit is a real spirit. If you have not built intimacy with the Holy Spirit, you will never believe the things people are saying. The Holy Spirit is not a demon. The Holy Spirit is a real spirit. He's the spirit of God. You know what happens when the Holy Spirit begins to walk with a man. My goodness, his assignment, all that goes into he's

turning you into a treasure unknown to you. the revelation. He opens up the scripture and line after line, precept after precept, he recommends you to a message, a place, a conference, a meeting, ALL OF THAT, HE'S BUILDING YOU. VERY SOON, the nations will begin to desire you and say, "Where? Where have you been? We need you. We need you. THERE IS TREASURE AND OIL TO BE DESIRED IN THE DWELLING of the wise." Now, let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen. Please hear me. Please hear me. Please hear me. Every time there is access to

oil but you are still struggling, it is a capacity problem. You need to build capacity. I'm I'm going to bring a very strong balance right now. But every time there are plenty vessels but there's no impact, you need to go and check that there's an oil problem. You see these two problems, these are the major problems with believers in the body of Christ. There are believers in the body of Christ, their issue is not an information problem. They have abundance of information, but their spirit man has not been quickened. They do not understand the dynamics

of intimacy of fellowship or prayer. They will speak intelligently, intellectually, but you will see a gap between what they know and their experience. You can't deny that what they know is right, but they cannot give life to what they know because oil is missing. Are we together now? But there are many people who have the oil but they have not maximized their interaction with the Holy Ghost. They pray, they fast, but they have not contended for superior knowledge. Their relationship with the Holy Ghost was tampered with with the bias of religion. And sometimes in giving

themselves to prayer, fasting and the word, it did not lead them to the word. One of the ways you know I taught you when teaching you on discerning of spirits, the Holy Spirit will always lead you to the word. Don't tell me you have been in a relationship with the Holy Spirit for long and yet the more you grow in your relationship you disregard the word of God. It's a familiar spirit. If it is the Holy Spirit, he will always lead you to the light of scripture. Are we together? Now, it is possible to read

the Bible religiously and at the end of it have a LOT OF HEAD KNOWLEDGE AND NOT BE ABLE TO PROVE it with your life. You can be a vessel but an empty one. Are we together now? It is not the empty vessel that the people came to buy from. They came to buy from vessels that were full. Even if the vessel is available, it needs to be full before it becomes a treasure to be desired. Hallelujah. I look at my life today and I don't trace my journey to knowledge first. I trace my journey to

a relationship. Once upon a time, my life was like this woman. There was probably nothing within my house. But the first thing was that little jar of oil start from there. That relationship with the Holy Spirit, your prayer. Every time you're respecting his ministry and he begins to quicken you, he begins to help you. He begins to lead you to the word. When he leads you to the word, he stops you from seeing how much of a treasure you are becoming. So it does not distract you. But my goodness, something is happening. the spirit of

God in partnership with the word of God. He's turning you into a vessel of glory. He's transitting you from a vessel of wood, clay to a vessel of silver and gold. A time will come, listen to me, where you step out and you will see that you yourself is not just that there is a treasure to be desired. You have now become the treasure to be desired. It is true. It is true. You have become the treasure to be desired because you are full of the Holy Ghost. You are full of the wisdom that comes

from him. You are full of the power that comes from him. You are full of the grace that comes from him. Are we together now? And because of that, the nations will begin to look for you. I can tell you this, it will solve more than economic problems. He says, live with the rest. What does that mean? live with this formula that every time you see depletion remember the oil the vessels and make sure while you are doing that business your door is shut the prophet is saying I've given you the formula there's no reason

to be weak again there's no reason to be beggy again the moment you find out you are in debt your relevance is going your life is depleted you are not rising nobody is placing a demand it didn't say go out and start shouting it said enter your house. If it is true that you are in the dwelling OF THE WISE, CHECK WELL. You will find out that there IS CAPACITY TO START A relationship with the Holy Ghost. You may not be called pastor. You may not be called businessman. You may not be maybe educated or

uneducated unfortunately. BUT HE SAYS START WITH THE HOLY GHOST. IF YOU CAN START FROM THERE, HE WILL expand you. He will expand you. You as a vessel, he will expand you. And what begins to happen is that that oil that comes FROM HIM, THE PLETHORA OF GRACES, THE GRACES of favor, the graces of, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT IS, IT BEGINS TO BE POURED INTO YOU. I'm telling you, soon you will find OUT THAT YOU ARE, YOU DON'T JUST HAVE VESSELS TO BE DESIRED. You are that vessel yourself. You are that vessel. And like the virgins,

you become that lamp that burns. And you find out that you have mastered how to pour oil consistently. Consistently. The Bible says the fire upon the altar, it shall never go down. But the way you keep it burning is by adding wood and adding oil every day. If you don't, THE FIRE DOES NOT KEEP ITSELF. The fire is sustained by a technology. Are we together? The ability to put wood together and to keep adding oil. That is what will make the fire to keep burning. And for AS LONG AS THE FIRE KEEPS BURNING, EVERYONE will

come to find out what it is. Hear me ladies and gentlemen. The wise in the kingdom are tested by these two parameters. the treasure to be desired. If you truly are following the way of wisdom, no matter how weak, inferior from a village you are, eventually there will be a treasure in your life that the nations will look for. It is impossible to dwell with the wise and after a while the nations will not find something in your life to be needed. It's not true. It's not true. Apostle, I'm not a beautiful lady. I'm not

a handsome gentleman. Well, I don't know what to tell you, but I can tell you there is treasure to be found in the dwelling of the wise. And that treasure is a reaction. It is the oil that gives value. It produces that treasure because everyone is looking for it. Everyone wants to partake of the blessings that come with that oil. Can I tell you even those who do not respect the Holy Spirit are looking for what only the Holy Ghost can give and because they cannot find him they find the carriers. I show you the

key and the cure to complex to inferiority. Stay with him. Start with him. Don't tell me about your background. Start with him. You are not the first to start from the lowest point. IF EVERYONE IS IGNORING YOU, DON'T GO AROUND CRYING AND SAY, "NOBODY likes me. Nobody likes an empty vessel." And nobody likes to be in the dwelling where there is NO TREASURE. THE KEY IS DESIRE. THE TREASURE TO BE DESIRED. Found in the dwelling of the wise. I say this with all due respect as a man of God. Your dwelling cannot be called the

dwelling of the wise until these two things are found. Oil and treasure. In this case, the treasure being the word of God, the treasure being the power, life applicable teachings. When you go to a company of friends, how do you know they are wise? Look for their spiritual understanding and their relationship with the Holy Ghost. IF YOU FIND OUT THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONAL relationship with the Holy SPIRIT AND THEIR SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING is not word compliant, you are not in the dwelling of the wise. You may be in the dwelling of the rich.

You may be in the dwelling of the educated. But you are not in the dwelling of the wise. What therefore is called wisdom in the Bible among other parameters is the presence of the oil and the presence of treasures. You may not have money but talk to me. Let me hear your level of spiritual understanding. I know whether you will be desired tomorrow or not. Ladies and gentlemen, please hear me. Please hear me. Do you know why the world is looking for others and paying any price to look for others in the kingdom while ignoring

others? It is not tribal sentiments. No, it is that others have discovered. I can tell you something the Holy Spirit told me while preparing this. He said in every lamp there is already a measure of oil. Every lamp the moment you are born again there is a measure of anointing already in you. That anointing is supposed to be cultivated. It drives you into hunger with the Holy Spirit. That oil that is inexhaustible. When you stay there and begin to interact with the Holy Spirit from fellowship it moves to revelation from the word. From revelation it

moves to faith and conviction. You see right there you begin to see the fruits of wisdom, exploits, mighty works, GREATNESS. YOU BECOME NOT JUST THAT YOU HAVE THE TREASURE to be desired and nations will look for you and you will be able it will solve financial problems. It will solve complex problems. ALL KINDS OF problems will be solved when you have treasure to be desired and oil. This is a way of wisdom. This is a way of wisdom. I've studied the subject of low self-esteem. There are many people today who want to become like others.

And the reason they want to become like others is because they like the results that they see sincerely so in the life of others. And they hope that by becoming like others they it will be a cure to that state of rejection, poverty, whatever it is. In every house that God built, there is oil there. It is only that we have not been trained. I have come as Elisha to tell you go back and check your house. Stop admiring the house of someone else in your own house too. As old as that house is, as

empty as that house is, there is treasure. But the treasure does not come as something to sell immediately. That treasure comes as that oil. Start from there. Your fellowship with the Holy Spirit, your walk with God. You begin to learn the ways of God. You know what happens? He begins to increase your capacity akin to borrowing vessels. The materials you are going to be learning may not come from you but they are useful to you. God will lead you to people and lead you to things. You begin to acquire strategic knowledge and expansion begins to

happen in your life. Can I tell you ladies and gentlemen, the moment you have treasure or you become the treasure, I promise you by the integrity of God's word, you have found the cure to loneliness. You have found the cure to complex. No matter how you hide, the nations will fish you out. They don't fish you just because of who you are alone, but they will also look for you because of something that is in you. Do you know this? The treasure is not really really the vessel. It is the oil. Here's how the Bible

puts it. But there is this treasure. But there is this treasure in vessels. How did the treasure get there? By invitation. But we have this treasure. The treasure is in earthn vessels. When he told the woman, "Borrow vessels. Borrow not a few." He began to pour the oil. They call the whole vessel and everything treasure. But the real treasure is the oil being poured in an ordinary vessel. It changed the worth of the vessel and changed the worth of the possessor of the vessel. The treasure is not your background. The treasure is not your looks.

Unfortunately, the treasure is not even your ability to speak or not. The real treasure is the gift of God growing in you through relationship. The capacity, the knowledge bank that is being increased and the exploits that come from that dimension of knowledge. And don't think I am limiting this just to to you know spirit talk and ministry and all of that. When the Holy Spirit gains room in your life, he will turn you into a technological wonder. He will turn you into an economic wonder. So I'm not just limiting this to ministry. So you don't

think, okay, so what do I do now that I'm not in ministry? The Holy Spirit is not for ministers. He turns every man, any man whatsoever, into a treasure. They that be wise are those who will pursue the oil and the treasure. Every time you enter the dwelling of a wise man, take your eyes away from the gifts. When you see a man God has helped, don't look at the car. Don't look at the house. Don't look at the titles. Don't sit down and be taking selfie around the house. You are not being wise. quickly

find where the oil is and find where the treasure is. When you sit down with wise men, don't just ask them for money. Ask them for the oil. Teach me about your relationship with the Holy Ghost and give me access to knowledge, the body of knowledge that has made you who you are. You see that we make these mistakes in our world. When we see great people, especially great in the kingdom, we care less about the things that really make them great. We are happy about all the results that follow, maybe material things, money, fame,

and very quickly WE WANT TO PARTNER WITH THE FAME INSTEAD of learning how to replicate it in our lives. Oh, can I take a quick selfie with you? Taking a selfie with a wise man does not make you wise. No, no, no. Rather, you are implicating yourself. Because when you show a photo with a wise man and you behave foolish, people will say, "Where is this one coming from?" Every time I have the opportunity to meet with wise men. I care less about every any material blessing or whatever it is. I'm looking for the treasure.

I want to see the man's relationship. What are your secrets with the Holy Ghost? What are your prayer secrets? What are your intimacy secrets with the Holy Ghost? That's what keeps that oil. That's what multiplies it in that vessel called you. Show me the level of spiritual understanding you have. And give me access to the body of light God has shown you. That's how to make men wise. I tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, and I say this with all humility. I have given people money in my life. I have given people physical gifts in

my life. I've helped people in my life. But that in itself has not made them wise. The greatest way to make men wise is not to give them gifts. Is to bring them to the dwelling of the wise. Bring them there. You cannot keep a man in the dwelling of fools and try to make him wise there. No. There is a way fools behave. You have to quarantine that person out from the dwelling of fools to the dwelling of wise men. Are you seeing why God will bless some of you who have brought people to

church today and brought people to church any other day because you are taking them out from a place where it it looks like they are only multiplying hopelessness making decisions that keep depleting them. You have brought them to the dwelling of the wise. Now it is my assignment to show them like the prophet showed the woman that there is something in your house. There is a possibility to begin to interact with that oil, that relationship with the Holy Ghost. You can start with your prayer life. You can start with fasting. You can start with your

intimacy. IT MAY NOT SHOW YOU ARE A BUSINESSMAN. DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT the Holy Ghost. I just want to talk about money. No, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO. YOU ARE making a mistake. There is what the Holy Ghost can show you. He can give you the treasures in darkness, the hidden riches of I mean he will show you things beyond your wildest imagination. Don't limit the Holy Spirit to the pullpit. He's the one who makes treasures out of ordinary men. Then he will place something upon your life. Place something upon your destiny. It

becomes impossible to be ignored. At that point you are not only carrying treasures, you become the treasure yourself. Gentiles now come to you. There are kings now come to the brightness of your rising. And how many of you know that when kings come, they don't come empty. They will come bearing gifts. They will bring more gifts than you ever desired in your life. I'm telling you, don't let the devil fool you and say people are going ahead, they getting richer. you are not getting anything with God with the Holy Ghost that means you don't know

the Holy Spirit. Anytime you credit weakness to the Holy Spirit is because you don't know him or you are not engaging the Holy Spirit can be in your life like the oil was in the woman's life. His presence there is not what makes the difference. It is your honor to his presence and your engaging with him by faith. APOSTLE I'M BORN AGAIN. I'M FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. LET ME SEE WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING WITH YOUR TONGUES. LET me see what you have been doing with your time OF PRAYER. DON'T JUST TELL ME YOU

ARE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. Have you utilized his ministry, his person, HIS OFFICE? HAVE YOU ALLOWED him to open up the word of God to you? This is a very powerful secret. It will take you a while for this thing to enter your spirit. But when it does, you will rejoice. You will rejoice. You're my glory, the lifter up of my head. You're my glory. You're the lifter up of my head. You're my glory. The lifter up of my head. You know, listen, I look at my life today and and honestly, without sounding proud,

I look at some of the things that God has done and is doing through my life. And sometimes I find myself looking at myself in the mirror and I just say, "What if I disrespected the Holy Spirit? What if I ignored the Holy Spirit? What if I believed in a lie that he could not make greatness out of a man? What would have become of my life? Only God knows where on earth I would have been right now. Frustrated, maybe struggling, maybe maybe some of you people that would have been helping me now. You would

have just said, "Look at a young man wasting his destiny." I'm speaking to someone, some lady, some guy. You may never know how far the Holy Ghost can take you. Ladies and gentlemen, the same way you look at an aircraft, you don't know how far that aircraft can go until you enter it. You respect that aircraft, it will pick you and you will fly above the storms, 40,000 ft above sea level. It will fly as if seas don't exist, as if mountains don't exist. It will take you sometimes to virgin places and land you with

honor. And you will find yourself in a realm THAT YOU NEVER HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU HAVE GOTTEN THERE? You are my glory. You're the lifter up of my head. You're my glory. You're the lifter up of my head. You're my glory. You're the lifter up of my head. Listen, what are the treasures that he brings to your life? Many. HE DOES NOT JUST BRING THE ANOINTING. HE BRINGS you access to mysteries. It was him who taught me the law of honor. It was him who taught me the law of relationships. He taught me

the power of diligence. What? Look what those laws have done in my life today. If I did not know them, who would have taught me? The Holy Ghost DOES NOT JUST BRING THE ANOINTING. DON'T JUST THINK ANOINTING. He brings you knowledge. He quickens the word of God. HE TELLS YOU, "MY DEAR SON, THE EARTH WORKS BY LAWS. IT IS NOT a mistake. THE MYSTERIES YOU KNOW DETERMINE the platforms you stand on. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? What do you not know?" When the Holy Ghost begins the journey of turning men to treasure, please hear me ladies

and gentlemen. The anointing is not the only thing he brings in your life. He brings you access to light. Light by the word of God. He begins to show you how life works. I'll tell you this. I'm not somebody who cries easily. I've tried and tried you. You've heard me. I've confessed it before you. I try and try to cry and the thing doesn't work. People tell me so and so so person has died and the person talking on the phone is crying and sometime I'm really touched but the tears will not come out. But

one day occasionally it happens when I am overwhelmed by the goodness of God. I can just stand alone and tears begin to come out of my eyes. Something happened in my life sometime early this year and I stood at the mirror alone and I could not even talk. One of the few times in recent times that I wept like a baby. This is aside from God's presence in worship. Like I was alive standing not worshiping but I was overwhelmed by something God did in my life. And I began literally like you know how a child

cries when they flog him. I began to cry. I said God look what you've done in and through my life. Look what you've done. I found my way out. Not because I'm a preacher. I found my way out. You taught me to respect the oil you kept in my house. And you said if I respect that oil, the nations will desire. You will become a treasure to be desired. And thank you for granting me the grace to respect that oil, to respect that relationship. Coonia you see today is the fruit of that oil. The things

that you celebrate in the life of this man today is the fruit of that oil. But ladies and gentlemen, the idea is not to admire a man standing before you. The idea is to let you know that it can be replicated in your own life. Whether as a man of God, whether as a businessman, the Holy Spirit, if his person and ministry is engaged properly, he does not produce fanatics. He produces wise men. Wise men, he does not produce fanatics. There are a lot of fanatics in the body of Christ. They cannot defend the health

of their relationship with superior wisdom, but they can show you religious fanatism. The proof that you have a healthy relationship with the Holy Spirit is not blind zeal that becomes an interruption to people. That's fanatism. IT'S A BYPRODUCT OF religion and ignorance. But he produces men who are wise, men who are passionate, wisdom that cannot be contested with, cannot be denied. They may not like you, but they cannot deny the gift that flows from you. Hallelujah. As for me, I found my way. I know the lion. I know the lamb. I have matched the lion.

I match the lamb. I believe in the lion. I believe in the lamb. And I will follow the lion. I will follow the lamb. I will follow the lion. I will follow the lamb. Jesus told me he will leave me his spirit. And he said when he, the spirit of truth is come, coonia, listen to me. When the holy ghost comes into the life of a man, victory has come. When the holy ghost comes into the life of a man, increase has come. influence has come, but he comes as a small oil in a jar,

waiting for your honor, waiting for your respect. You can disregard him because you don't see his value. Listen to me. Some of you have exalted your certificates more than him. Some of you have exalted your intellect more than him. Some of you have exalted physical looks more than him. Some of you have exalted human connections more than him. Some of YOU HAVE EXALTED WHATEVER IT IS MORE than him. I'm preaching to you tonight. Anything can fail. But if you take advantage of that little cruise of oil, step by step, he will turn you into a

sign and a wonder. As a preacher, AS A WOMAN, AS A MAN, AS A CHILD, AS A FATHER, AS A CEO, he will turn you, I TELL YOU, INTO A SIGN and a wonder. is a fountain of wisdom. He does not just make men wise by imparting the grace for wisdom. No, there is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise. Who therefore is the wise based on Bible's definition? Number one, one who has chosen to be in the habitation of the wise. The man who chooses to transit from the habitation

of fools, the place of darkness to the place of the wise, is the one who truly desires to be wise. Number two, one who has found the oil, the oil that makes great, the oil that makes powerful, the oil that makes wise, the oil that makes knowledgeable. And then through hunger, you begin to expand those vessels as they are filled with oil, filled with knowledge, filled with bodies of truth, spiritual information. It's impossible for your world to ignore you. Impossible. Please hear me, my brothers and sisters. This is not Hold on, please. There's what we

call the election of grace where God by his predetermined council selects a few people and commits to them certain noble assignments but it is in everyone's corporate destiny in Christ to attain unto greatness. There are not enough planes in the sky. The sky is large enough. Large enough. They've not made the biggest plane on earth that occupies the sky such that you don't see the sky. No. How many of you know that anything that is in the sky and is visible to the eye can be seen by people from across various places? I'm here right

now. I can't see the car that is parked in say way or parked somewhere in Gi. I can't see it. Are we together? But distance beyond that in the sky, I can see whatever is there. The Bible says, "They that be wise, they shall be as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars, even forever more." It's impossible to ignore a man who has found the way of wisdom. The way of wisdom is the way of the oil, the way of intimacy. The way of wisdom is the way

of light. Access to treasures that make you become the treasure yourself. the treasures of wisdom, the treasures of knowledge, the treasures of revelation, the treasures of mysteries. One of these days I was writing all the mysteries of the kingdom I've learned. Every one of them I was just just decided to have my time writing them down. And at a point I was amazed at how many of these kingdom mysteries I had found like gems. You keep finding them one by one. For some of you, when you came here, you were full of ignorance, full of

fear. But right now with every message, it's like a gem comes from heaven and you are picking them. You know where you are storing them into yourself. You just give yourself some time. You will start glowing and everybody will know there is something within you. Man of God, I've known you for 10 years. But what is changing within this last one year? And you tell them, I have I came to the dwelling of the wise. I found their oil. I found their treasure. The treasure I found, the oil I found has now made me A

TREASURE TO THE NATIONS. For you, your case would not just be to carry the treasure and go and sell it. Yours it will be for you to become the treasure yourself. that the nations will come to pick you and as they GO AROUND WITH YOU, YOU YOU SPREAD THE fragrance of the glory of God from everywhere to everywhere bringing glory to the name of the Lord. Listen to me. I sense in my spirit that we are stepping into a season, please hear me, a season where ordinary individuals will begin to glow with the light and

the power of God. Coonia, hear me. I'm saying this first to our global family and then extending it to as many who have the ears to hear in the body of Christ. There is a season of glory that is coming. Romans 8:18. I reckon that the sufferings of this present time is not worthy to be compared WITH THE GLORY THAT SHALL BE REVEALED in us. This will be a people who are greatly wondered at. You will see levels of wisdom beyond imagination. I'm telling you, ordinary men will rise who will build conglomerates as young people

in their 20s and in their 30s. I don't mean being employed. I mean building companies by wisdom. Great men and women OF GOD RISING. THANK GOD FOR THE ONES THAT HAVE GONE AHEAD. BUT I ASSURE YOU, THE BEST IS STILL YET TO COME. The best is still yet to come. When during the days of Smith Wigglesworth, during the days of you know Emmy Simple Mcfessen who prophecy and the youn would have thought the best days were there. NO, BUT UNTIL THESE FATHERS emerged and thank God for the fathers and we honor them. But I still

say it again, the best is yet to come. My goodness, you are going to see men that will arise. You will see women that will arise. It's not just power. Believe me. Believe me. Believe me. You will see preachers that are not like human beings. You will be wondering where did this one come from? A a bank of spiritual intelligence. Young men, young women who will advise governments by dimensions of wisdom. When they tell you where they are coming from, you will say you mean you came FROM THAT BACKGROUND. HOW DID YOU EMERGE? AND you

will tell them I learned that there is oil. There is treasure to be found in the habitation of the wise. THE FIRST THING I DID was to get to the dwelling of the wise. BUT WHEN I GOT THERE, I SEARCHED FOR OIL. I SEARCHED FOR TREASURES. AND IT'S MADE ME A TREASURE IN MYSELF. HALLELUJAH.