Believers’ Convention 2025 – Day 7 Morning Session – Rev. Ken Igbinedion

Date: Saturday, 23rd August, 2025

Transcript Summary

1. The things being done here are not just about teaching and preaching but about life. God will use different things to put the soul to shape in order to give life.

2. God is not about definitions but about meaning; He does not give definitions, rather He gives meaning to life. This is why He can use one scripture to teach different levels of life: Christ, Everlasting Life, and Eternal Life. People are bound when they try to stay with a definition and are no longer making movement.

3. Many times, we try to limit God because we are not ready for the sovereign power of God. God is sovereign, such that certain things will happen in our lives that cannot be changed. As much as there is power in faith and confessions, there is also the place of sovereignty of our God. 

4. All that God has been doing and will do requires men to believe Him. To believe is to accept something as true. When we came to Jesus, we were not required to understand God first but to believe. Believing is different from knowing. Everybody starts from believing and ends up in knowing. 

5. God wants people to come and believe. A hindrance has been created over the past years because we try to understand before we believe, but it is meant to be believing first. Believing is a faster technology of God through which He drives His thoughts and what He wants to achieve. 

6. Many people do not speak in tongues because they want to understand what they are speaking first, but that is not the order. Apostle Paul said when he prays in tongues, his spirit prays but his mind is unfruitful (1 Cor. 14:14). Believing is first in the things of the Spirit.

7. The reason for the journey as believers is to expire gods, lust and your desires. They do not go in one day because they did not come in one day. 

8. Sitting on the throne does not translate into handling the microphone or preaching or teaching. God has planned and packaged ways by which our idols, lusts, affiliations and everything we have with the devil will be disconnected here and we must believe that this is possible.

9. God told the Israelites where He was taking them to but He never mentioned what He was taking them through. God will tell you where He is taking you to but He will never mention what He is taking you through. Man will backslide or find it very difficult if they know ahead what God will put them through. 

10. The road to the throne is not easy for flesh; it is the road that can disintegrate and annihilate flesh.

11. The road to the throne is not easy for flesh, it is the road that can disintegrate and annihilate flesh. For many of us, God cannot remove some of the things troubling us because we are sustained by them.

12. God knew He could not remove Egypt from the Israelites overnight, the journey would have stopped. This is why God chose to lead them. The reason for leading is to expire the works of Satan. Leading on marriage or any natural endeavour is an ancillary to the main purpose of leading.

13. God needs to dethrone some things from our heart because if they are not dethroned, we will not arrive at His will.

14. Your spouse is your ministry and first assignment; God will hold you accountable for them. Every man marries a woman but it takes process and time for the wife in her to show. Likewise, it takes process and time for the lord in a man to show. Most of the time, the vision we see when we want to marry is the future of our spouse, not the present. It will take process and time to bring it to pass. 

15. Process is very important and God does not want us to jump the process. Someone who just joined the body or church of Christ  should go through the process.

16. The wrong kingdom in us must be removed and it cannot be removed until we have come into Christ. Coming into church does not mean coming into Christ. 

17. We have come in the way and in that way, there are different junctions that have the names of Jesus. The throne is the end of the way and we must walk to come into Christ, and further walk to come into the Son of God.  

18. Jesus is the same person who has gone through different cadres of life and ministry to create a pattern for us so we can locate the way as comers. Israel had a problem because they did not have anyone who had gone through the way before. But for us, we have a high priest, one who has gone ahead. All we need is to take up our cross and follow Him (Matt. 16:24).

19. Laying down our lives in love is a death that the throne permits. Taking away the things we love from us is a death. An example of what we love is pride.

20. We cannot surrender our pride by ourselves, it is only through Christ’s teaching that our will be collected from us. If Christ has not yet collected things from you, then you have not learnt Christ (Eph 4:20-21). The essence of the removal of these things is to save the soul.

21. We should be careful about what we love because it is by what we love that God will bring about our tests. God will not share His love; He needs our heart. 

22. God wants us to desire Him. We desire ourselves and our things even when we learn Jesus the Christ after learning Jesus of Nazareth. We want God to meet our needs at these points and we have not sinned by desiring such but, as we move higher and we come into hearing the voice of the Son as He speaks, obedience is required (Heb. 3:15). Obedience is not just following the letters of the Bible but things that are quickened or unearthed from scriptures.

23. Nobody begins this journey loving God because you cannot love the invisible, and this is why The Holy Ghost is given to us. We journey to the point where we have to desire Him. Jesus would be speaking about the Father to us through teachings and preachings of the word of God. As they come to us, then would we be required to meditate on them and love Him.

24. The Holy Ghost and Christ can withdraw when we do not desire Them and only use them to meet our needs. We hurt the Lord when we do not let Him have His way unhindered. Obedience is better than sacrifice.

            Blessings!