Don't settle too soon, God is not done || Apostle Joshua Selman

The first key according to scripture

that provokes dissatisfaction

and sponsors continuity even onto a

point of completion regardless your

current result. When you hold on to this

key, it sustains the power to

consistently provoke dissatisfaction

and to drive your life to sponsor

continuity until you finish strong.

Number one is called vision.

vision.

The first factor according to scripture

that provokes dissatisfaction

and drives men all kinds of men to never

stop to never be satisfied until they

finish until they attain onto God's

expectation is called vision. What is

vision? A picture of your prophetic

destiny.

A picture of your prophetic destiny.

What is vision?

A picture of God's standard, God's

expectation for you.

I'm giving you a slightly different

definition other than that which you

would hear in a mainstream leadership

discussion. In as much as this applies

to leadership, my focus here is on

destiny actualization, particularly your

spiritual growth and advancement vision.

A picture of your prophetic future. A

picture of the benchmark.

You see that? One thing I know about

vision is that it helps you to benchmark

your progress.

It helps you to benchmark your progress.

If you do not have a god orained

reference for your life, any standard

you attain greater than where you were

will be enough for you. Did you get what

I just said? If you do not have a

standard high enough, challenging

enough, even if you take one step

ministerally, one step financially, one

step career-wise, one step in

leadership, once you are better than

yesterday, you will arrive and settle.

And I submit to you that there has been

a territorial programming on many of us

by reason of the various cultures that

we come from. There are cultures that by

default if you are born into those

cultures you stand a risk of being

complacent in life. Not because you are

evil, not because those you came from

are evil. It is a culture that does not

celebrate any press for continuity.

Anything better than where you are is

enough.

And some of us we have embraced some of

these things to our detriment. Once you

are better than yesterday or better than

someone else and I hope you know

according to scripture we're not called

to a life of competition. Competition

has become the unbecoming of many. I

will always give an example in this

house. Let me repeat it one last time

that if you have a student who scores

30% another scores 20%, another 10%

another five and another zero. Who got

the highest score? 30%. But who passed

the exam? None.

If you are to award them based on that

that that standard, you will give the

award to the guy who got 30%. But based

on the rating that shows true success,

all of them failed. The guy who did not

write the exam, the guy who got 0, 1,

10, 30, all failed.

There are many of us who have been

receiving awards for years only to find

out that your score in destiny has been

less than 10. is only that those around

you have so failed you look like a

celebrity.

Are we together now? It is often said

that in a world of blind people, the one

who can see a little is usually

enthroned as king. Doesn't matter what

else he's not seeing until he later

becomes a slave to another king who sees

well.

Are we together?

Many many people today celebrate

mediocrity because they look around and

they find people who are not even

prepared to start the race and because

they are privileged either by mercy, by

mistakes, by law of time and chance to

take a step or a few steps ahead of

their yesterday, ahead of those who were

in their yesterday. They settle and

sometimes they use those little strides.

They build monuments around it and tell

all kinds of disturbing stories around

it. I used to be great. I used to do all

of that. I'm praying for you again in

the name of Jesus Christ. Whatever makes

you to just compare yourself with those

around you and keep giving yourself fake

awards, awards that the realm of the

spirit is not recognizing, awards that

life and destiny is not recognizing. I

pray for you that spirit of mediocrity

may leave your life forever

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in the name of Jesus Christ. Vision.

Vision is very powerful.

Habacook chapter 2 from verse 2 and

three. Are we learning tonight? It says

write the vision. Write the vision.

Listen carefully. Then it says make it

plain. I like what he says that he may

run that reads it. Not he may run that

writes it. The one who writes it may not

run but the one who reads it. Who keeps

revisiting that vision what God told

you. There is energy that comes when you

open the book again and look at what he

told you. What he told you in 2008. What

he told you in 2009. The book may be old

but the vision is still fresh. If you

can open that old book, that old iPad,

see what he told you. You were more

discerning than you are now for some of

you when he told you. You can trust what

he told you because the things that

burden his voice were not yet in your

life. You can trust the purity of what

you had that time.

Are we together now? Most likely that

time you were still poor. Most likely

that time you were not married yet. Most

likely that time you still had needs.

There were obvious needs that made your

retreat pure. It was true. The deception

of fame have not distracted your

hearing. Write the vision. It says he

will run that reads it. Many of us are

priding in the fact that we've written

but we've not read it. It is impossible

to keep reading and then remain

complacent.

I still visit my old notes today and

sometimes I am flattered by the level of

discernment and accuracy receiving some

of the things that God said. I wonder

how I got to receive those things. I

know because now knowing what I know, I

I know the kind of alignment that would

have brought those prophetic words. I

now know that it was truly mercy.

Are we together?

Let me tell you this. There are many of

you if you took what God told you that

you wrote, if you read it and revisited

it, your life would have been greatly

enhanced till now. What most of you do

is you write it and then give others to

read it. But you don't read it yourself.

You would tell people the stories. I

know what God told me. I am a kingdom

financier. I know what God told me that

there is an apostle within this frail

vessel. There is a prophet within this

frail vessel. Are we together? The

reason why you have not sustained the

grace to submit to the disciplines that

make for that prophecy to manifest is

because you stop reading it. Some of you

don't even know where the notebooks are.

I learned from Dr. Miles Monroe before

he went to be with the Lord. He said his

office would seldom have awards. He's

received all kinds of awards in his

lifetime, but he said that he doesn't

put too much of those awards. And I

learned that from him quite honestly. Uh

I have received a number of awards in my

life quite and I'm I'm very grateful. I

don't know where some of them are. Some

of them are still wrapped. I've not even

opened them. A few of them are in my

office just because of space. But I make

sure that I'm not tempted to stand there

and look. I pass as I go to sit

because when you stand here, you can

become like Lot's wife.

Lot's wife is a lesson to anyone who

looks back. The Bible says, "Remember

Lot's wife."

Your Sodom and Gomorrah can be anywhere.

And right in your office, right in the

place of grace and opportunity, you can

turn to a pillar of salt.

Are we together?

Vision.

Anybody who is visionary, let me tell

you the truth, has to pray that God

should help them sleep. Not because they

have a health problem, because there is

something that drives you. You know,

sometimes I am amazed. I check the time

and maybe it's 9:00 in the morning and

next time I'm checking it's like 4:00 or

5 and I'm like my God, what happened?

And you are literally begging God, can

you add two more hours before it's 12

midnight? Some of you are tired by 9:00.

You mean this long day, what am I going

to do with all the time? It is lack of

vision. It's not an attack.

When you are a visionary person, let me

tell you, God will have to preach to you

and say, "My son, take rest now. I

rested." Are we together? And sometimes

you wake up and check the time and you

almost want to ask God for so for for

for um apologies to say, "I'm sorry."

It's as if you sin against your destiny.

How did this time just pass like that?

Because there is always work to do in

the life of a visionary person. You

never find idleness. Always something to

do. There's prayer to pray. You have

your prayer targets. You have your word

study targets. Are we together? You have

your personal development targets, your

spiritual growth targets. There are

things you have. You may be alone, but

you are busy. Let me tell you visionary

people. When you tell people you are

busy, they think you are lying. Because

our idea of busy is I'm in the midst of

people. You can be all alone yet so

occupied that you have to beg for more

time. Visionary people.

Many of us here do not have vision. Is

the reason why life is not worth living.

No meaning, no drive, no nothing. You

get up in the morning if you are

fortunate to have a destiny waster call

you or unfortunate for you. Are you

free? What do you want to do today? It's

okay. Can I come around

sometimes? Oh, there's this movie that

just came out. Are you aware there's

another one? I have all of them. I

bought it. Don't worry about buying it.

Let's just watch.

And time and your days continue to go.

And then once you finish, you move to um

Twitter, Facebook, balance it up with

all the rest. And then as you finish,

you can gossip and then your whole day

finishes.

You see that? And then you get up and

wonder why others are making progress.

Great news, good news is always around

your camp. And for you, you are stunted.

Every distraction around your life in

the name of Jesus, every enemy fighting

your vision, I decree and declare, may

it give way now.

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Please be seated. When you find a man

with no time for marking time, when you

find a man with no desire to camp and

build a monument around his success and

his strikes of today, there is something

greater than today driving him. Are we

together? We read that earlier. I like

Paul. He says in Philippians chapter 3,

we read that earlier, verse 13. It says

this, "Not that I have I have

apprehended." 3:13. Can you give us

Philippians 3 and verse 13? I count not

myself to have apprehended. I hope you

know the guy speaking. Wrote twothirds

of the New Testament. Excellent apostle

by every definition. Met the God of the

Bible. A man who was not part of the

apostolic community, but came from

behind. Talk about speed. that Peter

said, "Ah, this guy, I'm the chiefest of

the apostle, but this man, his writings

are hard.

18 years in the wilderness of Arabia,

came back with fire.

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I count not myself to have apprehended,

but this one thing I do, forgetting

those things which are behind, and

reaching forth for the things that are

before." Now, the emphasis is verse 14.

It says, "I press towards the mark."

Shout it. Say, "The mark." The mark. One

more time. Say the mark. One more time.

Say the mark. The mark. Look at me. How

many of you know that the way most

coaches train athletes, especially those

who run, the way they train them is that

if you are going to be a national, you

know, person running for your nation for

say a 100 m dash, they don't train you

with 100 m. No, they will train you with

about 150 m. And the psychology is to

program your mind to build energy,

momentum and expectation. Are we

together? Like a thermostat. That means

every time you cross 100, your mind

still assumes that you still have 50.

That's how they train champions. If you

train a champion to run a 100 m race and

you train him 100 m, he will most likely

take last.

Others who stretch the bar do 200 m. The

guy is running 200 m. But the real

preparation is for 100 m and he will run

and finish. He wants to stop but his

mind is saying you are failing because

the bar has been stretched. Some of you

your bar is too small. Too small.

Destiny is demanding 100 m. Your

training is 5 m and you keep celebrating

yourself only to stand at the field and

see that you're not able to cross five.

Vision is powerful. What does vision do?

It gives you focus. What does vision do?

It gives you legitimacy to say no.

When you are a visionary person, you

have a legitimate ground to say no to

many things. You must learn to say no

even to good things. Let me tell you,

when the devil brings evil and you say

no, he will bring good. The most

important thing is your destruction.

Whether through good or evil, you must

learn to say no. When you are visionary,

you can tell even nice friends who are I

I'm happy for this but I'm sorry I may

not have the time for this. We'll

reconsider another opportunity.

Vision.

Hallelujah. Vision gives you the

discipline to supervise yourself. The

discipline to supervise yourself.

1 Corinthians chapter 9 and verse 24.

Paul was admonishing us and says that

know ye not that they which run in a

race. He says they run all but only one

receiveth the prize. Leaves you with a

charge. He says so run that ye may

obtain. Run in such a way that at the

end of your days your life would not

have been wasted. Your energy would not

have been wasted. Ministerially,

financially, family-wise, maritalally in

every career-wise. It says running in a

way that you will win.

Hallelujah.

Vision is the first key. I can tell you

by the mercies of God, every ministry,

every business, every individual, I

remember those days when we started, we

were not so many, but every time we had

the opportunity to gather, I would say

the future of this ministry was in that

word. ENI then I would say that word I

international. The mandate was to the

globe. Even when we had not gone

anywhere, the mandate was to the globe.

Are we together?

The zuka bags and the Elon Musks and all

the people today that were celebrating

go and hear how they started. Some of

them started in garages. Some of them

started in rooms. Are we together now?

And do you know for some of them they

still maintain such a lifestyle. Do you

know why? Because they simulating an

atmosphere that forces them to continue.

I used to wonder why rich people

deliberately make their life very

modest. Is because they have found out

that success beyond a level becomes

cancerous. Let me repeat that. Success

beyond a level becomes cancerous. It

becomes a burden. First success becomes

an instrument of healing. It heals you

from the perception of being a failure.

Then it finally proves the point to all

and sundry that you cannot be a failure

again. Then it starts killing you.

Most people do not know that you need to

be trained to be successful. Then you

need to be trained to manage success. I

can tell you managing success is harder

than becoming successful.

Are we together? It's just that many

people never really truly become

successful. And so because they are

obsessed with using success as a tool to

heal themselves from the perception of

being considered as failures,

they will no matter what the body needs,

they will receive it with joy.

It's like someone um let me just give a

a humorous example. It's like someone

who is having his first opportunity to

fly overseas. Say for instance, are we

together? And let's say he's transiting

from one nation to the other. Do you

know that even if you are going to spend

two days on that journey because it is

your first journey, you are happy to sit

down there in an airport over a transit

flight for one whole day and you are

still not angry. At least you left your

country.

For instance, are we together? Yes.

But a time comes when as you travel

again and again that pressure the point

has been proven. You will now realize

that such a journey is really a burden.

And a time will come you would

deliberately reject such an offer

because you now value other things

greater than the need for validation

like your peace and your time. This is

how it is with destiny. There are people

who will not mind walking through fire

provided it will give people an

expression of them being successful. And

truly because of your press the point

will eventually be proven. But when it

is proven, you will now see the burden

that comes when success is not managed.

Who is learning tonight? The house of

God is where we learn wisdom.

So when God is telling you take it easy,

listen to him. He has never failed.

It's not that he failed and learned from

his failure. He has never failed. Are we

together? Vision. Vision is very

powerful. There is a benchmark. Listen,

there is an expectation. Man of God,

your expectation is not the program you

organized. Thank God for it. But if that

is the only thing you have been clapping

for till today, then you are not doing

well. You need to trust God for grace.

There is a bar. I look at Coonia every

time I stand before you. And let me tell

you what I see. I see what I'm doing

now, but there is a dissatisfaction in

my heart because I compare what I'm

seeing now to what was written in that

old notebook. And there is still a

serious gap. And so while I'm preaching

to you, I'm I'm I'm hurrying up to

finish with you so that I'll go back and

say, "Ah, God, let's cover this gap.

Let's cover this gap." Thank God for

what we are doing across the nations.

Thank God for the level of anointing.

Thank God for the level of wisdom, but

there is more. Someone shout, "There is

more." One more time, say, "There is

more." There is more. One of our lovely

ladies sang a beautiful song and said,

"There is more than this." Oh yes, there

is more. There is more. You must get

angry within your heart and tell

yourself there is more. There is more.

Thank God for the level of prosperity

you have gotten to from begging and

borrowing. At least now you can pay your

rent before you start wasting your time

and having an arrival mentality.

You see that now? For as long as you are

still thinking about money and worrying

about it and lying about it, you have

not you have not arrived. So don't pat

yourself at the back forever. You are

not the house owner.

Thank God for what he has done. But let

there be a hunger in you. The day you

now buy your house, thank God for it.

Until the day you can give, don't stop.

Who is learning? Thank God for the man

of God. You know, if I have any advice

for people especially, you know,

sometimes people meet me who God is

helping, giving visibility, and they

say, "Apostle, if you have any lesson,

what would you teach me?" I'll tell

them. Let me tell you this success. You

see, you must learn how to manage it. If

not, it will tear you like a wild

animal.

Because the higher you rise, the more

impactful your fall is. If you're on the

ground, you can fall and nobody knows.

But when you are up, as you fall, it is

even more painful. I remember a vision

that I had many years ago. In that

vision, I was in a program. I don't know

how many times I've shared this but I

was in a program and um I think it was

the stage a living faith stage like

cananan land I if I if I recall and then

I was to stand and preach but the way

the stage was you stand on the pull pit

not the ground so there is a skill if

you don't know how to stand you will

fall and I remember I stood there I was

shaking but I was learning how to stand

I was not really I didn't fall But I was

not stable at that time. When I woke up,

I remember I wrote it down. I said, "The

devil is a liar. I must know how to

stand on this thing."

Listen, I've taught you learn how to

force life to work.

Learn how to force life to work. I mean

what I'm saying. If you think life will

work on its own, you are wasting your

time. Right from the days of John until

now, businessman, if it's not working,

force it to work. more knowledge, more

grace, more prayer, more counsel. Force

it to work.

Hallelujah.

If you are somebody who gives excuses,

you will never be able to walk with me.

Never. I will be a burden to you.

No, you don't come before me and give

flames excuses. Tell me the problem and

start suggesting the solution before I

continue.

So my people know once you are telling

me a problem. Make sure at the back of

your mind you are already prepared to

suggest ah they stole this. Uhhuh. So

what are you doing now as a leader

who is learning?

Use this as a CEO. Train your people.

Don't always come and bring troubles to

the table. Don't promote anybody who is

not providing solutions.

Vision. Everybody say vision. One more

time. Say vision. I'd like you to be

angry in your spirit this night that in

the name of Jesus every distraction I

must have a theme for my life. Are we

together now? As a couple come together,

we are married. We have three children.

But what is the vision for this home? We

just married. Oh, and thank God that the

children are growing. Uh-huh. What

happens to them now? Listen, the Bible

says without vision the people perish.

As an organization, what is your vision?

So that by the time you hit a profit of

1 million, 1 billion, 1 trillion, you

don't clap for yourself and say we are

right. No. No. What is the vision? I

listened years ago to an interview by

Steve Jobs late now. It was a 1992

interview. Listen carefully. He was

doing a training, very rare video. He

was doing a training for his core

leaders at that time and he was sharing

with them the vision of the Apple

corporation. Do you know there was no

mention of profit? There was no mention

of computers in that in that discussion.

His passion was to simply make life

better for people based on what he was

teaching them. So the gadgets that later

evolved were simply offshoot of that

desire. Are you seeing that now?

That's why when one gadget fails or is

outdated, the vision is still the same.

They invent another gadget. The vehicle

is not the reason for the company. There

is a goal. All the Apple phones, the

gadgets, they are vehicles.

Have a vision for your life. Are we

together? You break that vision into

goals. Then break them into steps,

strategies, steps.

What is the vision for your life? What

is the vision for your ministry? Let me

tell you the truth and I submit to you.

You are being trained. Never follow a

man who cannot define the vision. Never

become part of an organization or part

of any move movement that does not have

a defined vision. Where are we going?

Are we together now? Vision.

He may t but let there be a vision. Let

there be a vision for your life. Okay.

We are going to Lagos. Lagos by road is

how many hours now?

12

is 12 hours. But 12 hours is not 24

hours. There are people going that way.

The driver who is driving that car knows

he will be 12 hours on the road. By 7

hours. He looks like he's going to the

ends of the earth. But he's still going

to get there. And suddenly, slowly but

surely, are we together? Sometimes they

may have to stop to rest. Sometimes

unfortunately they may say there's maybe

a security challenge and they may have

to highlight for a while. But it doesn't

deter the vision. Let me tell you this.

Every time you find yourself constantly

in need of motivation, especially

external motivation, your vision is not

strong and not clear enough. When your

vision is strong and clear enough, it

sustains such power. It drives you by

yourself.

Say, "In the name of Jesus, in the name

of Please shout it like you believe.

Say, in the name of Jesus." In the name

of Jesus. I decree and declare I declare

that I have a vision for my life. I have

a vision for my life. Vision helps you

to know what to be part of and what to

not be part of. There are many good

things you should not be part of because

they will be burdens to your life,

burdens to your destiny and they will be

counterproductive to your call, election

ordination.

Are we together? My life is full of all

kinds of proposals, people wanting me to

be this, be patron in this, be this. And

sometimes I politely greet them and I

just reject it. I tell them, "Oh, I'm

sorry. I may not have the liberty.

There's no reason accepting this

responsibility and not giving my best to

it.

It is wiser better to have a few things

on your table and then you commit to

pressing them till they finish. Are we

together? If you wake me up is coonia.

Call me any day is coonia. My mind is

what God is doing next through this

platform to bless people to impart that

fire of revival to reveal Jesus. Anybody

who has come for coonia at least one

service must have heard something along

the lines of Jesus revealed Jesus

glorified. When you say this is coonia

you are not saying this is Joshua

Selman. There is there are different

ways of capturing the vision so that it

is burnt in your heart. It's not

publicity it is training.

When you don't train believers they

become illrained and they become

ineffective. Do you know by the training

and I say this I know I'm speaking to

the globe but let me talk for a moment

to our family. Do you know there is an

orientation we've sustained in this

ministry whether or not you are here

doesn't matter which of our expressions

anywhere you find yourself. People

function as though they are at home

here. That means that sometimes we

travel to a place and if there was

someone serving in the protocol here

once he hears that I'm coming or there's

a coonia expression the person gets to

duty immediately is the orientation.

Your service is beyond location. It's

governed by vision. Everybody say

vision. Vision. One more time say

vision. Vision.

This is not your rest where you have

attained even though you received awards

there even though you were commended

there even though you've done well there

but the Lord sent me tonight to announce

to you man of God businessman captain of

industry regardless how good you have

done well done but this is not your