Gbile Akanni emphasizes the transformative power of Christ living within believers, commissioning them to live as ambassadors of God's kingdom through the Millet leadership training program.
In this sermon, Gbile Akanni presents the Millet Commissioning 2023, highlighting the transformative journey of believers through the Millet leadership refresher training. He underscores the call for believers to live as new creations with Christ dwelling in them, empowered to serve as ambassadors of God's kingdom. The sermon also details the global reach and purpose of Millet, encouraging commissioned believers to manifest the glory of God in every sphere of life. Gbile Akanni inspires listeners to embrace their God-given identity and mission with faithfulness and zeal.
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Telephone numbers 0703 03636 59 0703 76811 98 Email address lsmediaatlivingseed.org or visit our website at www.livingseed.org Let us sit back and listen as the servant of God brings forth the Word of Life. We bless the name of the Lord for this privilege again to see him take us through this millet commissioning. It is always our greatest pleasure for every year to see God shoot into the nations the arrows in the quiver under this program for two years.
We just pray very briefly to thank God who has done us this favor again this year. Father, we are very grateful. We thank you that we are seeing your faithfulness again with us.
Seeing your commitment, O God, to help us accomplish what you would do in the nations. With the millet, as we sit back, O God, to again receive and send forth these brethren. We know that they are arrows of deliverance and that you will cause your hand to rest very strongly upon their lives.
Send them forth very purposefully to accomplish a level of expansion of the kingdom of God on earth. Blessed be your name, Father. We thank you.
For in Jesus' name we are prayed. Amen. We thank God that Moses has already begun to tell us what millet is.
That is the minister's leadership refresher training that God has put together to take in and incubate his verses for two years. Millet had a beginning many, many years ago. Formerly, we can put the beginning of millet in 1992, even though the spirit of millet had been there all this while.
But as God began to bring forth his works among the nation, millet came about at about that time. That's why the set that has the highest number is set at 29 in Boko. Millet had known increase under the grace of God, under the hand of God.
Starting from that year in English, millet began to expand into other places, other campuses. And as we stand today, we have millet in many languages and in many nations. Maybe just to mention those centers very briefly without making any comment on them.
We have millet in Boko, and the set that is graduating in Boko is set 29. And we have millet training also in English in Ilorin, Nigeria. Boko is in Nigeria, Ilorin is in Nigeria.
And Ilorin came second in having a millet center and millet campus. We have the graduating set 22 in Ilorin. Perhaps just to take it at a breath, the set 29 in Boko, we are graduating 203 students today by the grace of God.
The number that got registered in this set at the beginning was 264. In Ilorin set 22, we are graduating 114 students. The number registered two years back, their first contact was 119.
Thank God that today also we have millet in Canada. And they said one of millet in Canada is being commissioned today. There are 10 participants, and 13 of them got registered about two years back.
The set in South Africa that we are commissioning today is set five, and there are 49 students that we are commissioning. The number registered 72, COVID and the restriction of movement across nations is largely responsible for the wide parity in number for those registered and those graduating. Ghana set two are graduating this year.
There are 41 in number, and it was 64 that got registered. We thank God also for this millet in Liberia now. And it is the first set in Liberia that is being commissioned today.
There are 75 who are coming under commissioning, but the number that was registered is 102. These ones that are mentioned, their language of training is English, but now we have millet also in some other languages like Hausa language in Nigeria. It's having a set six to be commissioned.
92 of them are being commissioned today by the grace of God. The number registered was 148. There is also millet training in team language, a language in Nigeria.
And they also, it is set six of that training that is being set forth today. There are 52 now, 81 of them got registered. Another language, millet is Yoruba language, a language also in Nigeria.
And 142 of them are being registered. Being commissioned, sorry. And 176 had been registered about five years back.
About two years back, please. There is also Igbo millet, another language in Nigeria. It is set five of that millet that we are commissioning today.
177 in number, 93 was registered. And then millet in French language. We have two centers there.
Cotonou is set two in Cotonou. We have 77 that are being commissioned today. A number that was registered was 128.
Also in Abidjan, it's a training in French. We call that Frazet. It's set five that is passing out in Abidjan.
The number that we are commissioning is 95. And the number that registered at the beginning was 146. So the total number of millet across all the campuses and languages that we are sending for today is 1,020.
For which we praise the Lord. We are graduating them in different centers, in different centers. We may not be able to call all the centers together.
Let me just notify us that by the grace of God, there are 33 centers scattered across in Nigeria, in South Africa, in Liberia, in Ghana, in Canada, in U.S., in U.K., in Sierra Leone, and Malawi. Even in Uganda, in Kampala, there is a center for commissioning there. We just want us to note that millet has one focus.
Millet has one central focus and objective. Summarize very briefly, this training is set to labor so that the life of Christ becomes the life of every child of God actually. But especially those that God sent to our hands to cause him to incubate, to train, to come under his hand and under his discipleship.
Summarized very briefly, the objective of millet is Christ born in you, Christ formed in you, Christ at work in you, Christ reigning in you, and Christ in you, the hope of a glory. Let me say to this that we labor, teaching, and training everyone God lends to us in every wisdom. By the grace of God, we present everyone matured in Jesus Christ.
We are trusting God that these ones that are being set forth today will manifest Christ among the nations, among the body of Christ, and represent him very fittingly. Millet is about 2-3 years back. Millet is now solely online and also on-site and online.
As we have mentioned, all the centers, the campuses, the students gather there, but then some training programs are done on-site while instructions also come generally to all the campuses and all the participants online. God brought this about because of what he knows that millet will do in the nations. So we want to praise the Lord.
The forms for application are online. They are online. The website is there on the screen, https://milletadmissions.livingseed.net. That's the website.
So if perhaps you want to apply or if you would love to recommend it to any person, the applications are on that online. We want to trust the Lord that as we go through this commissioning today, we will feel his presence. Indeed, these students, as we have prayed over the years, over their lives, that we go forth representing Christ and being an expansion to the kingdom of God.
Thank you very much and God bless you. Let us bow our heads to speak to the Lord in prayer. Our Father, we come to you with expectant hearts, including the vessel you will use only as a channel.
It is your own flow that becomes your work. We ask that this flow of yours will experience it again in this brief moment of this commissioning church. Take all the glory, therefore, and be exalted forevermore.
For in Jesus' name we have prayed. Amen. I'd like for us to read for our church from 2 Corinthians 5. I would like to begin with verse 11.
I'll just be taking some of the verses so as not to take all the time reading. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 11 says, Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord will persuade men. But we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Verse 13 now, For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. For the love of Christ constrains us, because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead. And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Wherefore we do not know anyone after the flesh from now forward. Yes, even though we may have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him in this manner no more. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature.
Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he made him to be seen for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
May the Lord bless his word to our hearts, in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen. The training we have received, and which by God's grace we will continue to receive in Millett, the minister's leadership refresher training, is the training of the new creation man.
It is the training of the life of man that God intended man to carry from creation, which Jesus is now re-creating in those who make themselves available. And as the principal has itemized very elaborately, Millett is a training that brings us to a point of experience of that life of Christ dwelling in us. Millett shows us how to cooperate with the life of Christ to work in us both to will and to do of the Father's good pleasure.
Millett shows us how by the life of Christ we can live pleasing God and serve God acceptably. This training is for a purpose. It's for our lives to serve as God's ambassadors wherever he may position us in life.
You may have gone through the Millett training as a pulpit minister. That is, you were perhaps already a pastor or a missionary or serving as an evangelist or a teacher of the word of God at some level or the other. Or you may have been trained in Millett by God as a servant of God on the platform of some professional career.
You may be in the medical practice, in the legal practice, in the construction industry, in politics, in the civil service. You may be part of the people in finance and economics and perhaps in the education sector and so many more we could list without forgetting those that are in agri- and agro-allied endeavors. Whatever be the position where God has located you and has given you the training in Millett, he's expecting that with this equipping of Christ in you who is the hope of glory, God expects to begin to see the evidence of that glory now.
God expects to begin to see the manifestation of the life of the Father working in and through you to bring glory to the Almighty. God is expecting that as you step out of here after the commissioning that the knowledge of the glory of God will seem to follow you everywhere you go, follow you in everything you do as to cover the earth wherever you may be found as the waters cover the seas. God is expecting that by each of our lives he will live practically in the midst of this physical world and by us he will be the sword of the earth, he will be the light of the world.
We noted as we read in this 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 first of all that knowing the terror of God in the Millett training we persuade men not to waste the opportunity of being created and sent to this world to be representatives of God. We persuade men therefore first to get rid of the rubber that is the life we were born with and receive the life of Christ be reborn in the image of God. But when this happens to you would you like to note that where we read the Bible said we have come to this conclusion that if one died for all and all of those for whom he died are claiming a part in his death, are claiming a share in his death, are claiming that they are part of the people for whom he died then it must dawn on them that it means they are accepting death upon their lives.
If one died for all then all died as we will be entering into the commissioning to release you from Millett we desire that you will never forget that it is no longer you who lives. You died when you correctly encountered the cross of Christ, when you correctly experienced the provision of death that Jesus arranged for you on the cross to deliver you from your old life and from your old origin and from your old roots. And to give you a different beginning with a different identity, with a different focus, with a different mission for living, with a different pursuit in life.
You must never forget that it's no longer you that may have your own personal ambitions in this life, that may have a right to have projects that belong to you personally that you are pursuing. You die, dead men do not pursue any projects in the midst of the living. You die and your life has been kept with Christ in God the Father reserved for release in the day of his return.
It is Christ that lives in you now. Now this is the reason why the verse 15 we read said the reason he died for all is so that those who still have some remainder of physical life to live here on earth They no longer have any moral justification to live it unto themselves, to live it for themselves, to live it in pursuit of their own desires and interests and conveniences and comforts. They should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Very obviously and justifiably so because it is by his death, his burial and resurrection that he has redeemed your life and mine and has purchased you and I unto himself to be his own possession, his own people. And by that your old life ended. It is Christ that is here.
Why would Christ come and be living for another purpose than the purpose for which he came to the earth? So I would like you to know that as the Father sent Jesus, Jesus said in the same way for the same purpose in pursuit of the same objective, so send I you. So I am sending you out of the military to go and be correct, to live for the purpose for which you were even created in the first place to exist, to live for his pleasure. But whoever takes this opportunity for granted, the Bible said, for this purpose we persuade men, knowing the terror of God.
Let me very gently remind you that the investments that God has made in your life, he will require an account from you of them all. God not only taught you the principles of the life he is expecting you to live in order to serve his purpose effectively, fruitfully upon the earth, as Jesus did, having taken the life of Christ. God also showed our own lives unto you as an example of people who have followed in these principles and who are living them practically.
It is on account of this that the military itself, God decided to set it out to be a two-year relationship of discipleship with every student that comes in. Of course, the moments of training that are teachings, that are in contacts, have been arranged as a sandwich program so as to give you opportunity, number one, to be returning back to put into practice, to prove the principles that you will have received at each contact, and secondly, in order for you also to have opportunity to begin to earn credits to your own account in heaven as you are having the opportunity of learning how to correctly live for the Lord. But in the course of the time, you had all opportunity to relate with us, to observe us around our lives, to ask whatever questions practically you may have as you are observing our lives and as you are comparing the way we live with the teachings that you receive.
And so over these two years, you have not only learned theoretically, you have learned practically. It has been a two-year period of apprenticeship of the life of Christ in the illustrative example of our lives that are still yet growing to be like Jesus, and yet earnestly also laboring and progressing thereby to become more and more like him. Just that as you follow us, you will also be following Jesus into your own inheritance.
Having received this much investment, God is saying you must never step out of there with a sense of being lost. You must not be negligent of the investment God has made upon your lives. Note, therefore, that for our brethren who wrote in the 2nd Corinthians we are reading, the verse 13, they came to the point of persuasion that they could say for us, even if we are beside ourselves, it is to God.
I want you to make up your mind that for you to live now is Christ, and to die is gain. That whatever anybody thinks of the commitment you are making to only allow Christ to be the life that is living in and through you, that that's the person's own business. For you, even if he thinks you to be fanatical or considers you to be beside yourself or to be mad, as we could put it raw, it is for them to know you became who you were in order to live a life acceptable to God, in order to serve God in the manner that pleases him.
But if they see in your life something that is interesting, if they consider that this life makes sense, you look sober, and well, then they can learn from it. That's for their own benefit now. But as far as you are concerned, don't permit the opinions of people or whatever impression you may be making on anyone to constitute any distraction to your life.
Why? Because if any man, any woman be in Christ, he is not like the others. His own case is peculiar now. His own case stands out as unique.
He or she is a peculiar person, a new creation, a different species of human being. Why would you be hoping to look familiar to the old species? The Bible said, Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
And all the things that we can see in our lives now, God is the author and the finisher of them. God is the one that sponsors them. God is the one who provides the grace and every other provision necessary.
It is of God and it is also unto the Lord that we live our lives. Note, therefore, that the Bible said, immediately he brings us to himself. After he reconciles us to himself, as he has done in Millat.
Many of us, our testimony was, it is as God revealed Christ to us in a manner we've never encountered him before. In fact, several of you even saw Jesus in visions. You saw what Jesus did for you in a light that you have never, never experienced in the past.
Why did he do this? To reconcile us to himself by Christ Jesus. But he did this in order to commit to us the ministry of reconciliation. He did this in order to commit to us the word of reconciliation.
So, you have received the charge first from heaven in Christ. When in Millat, he brought you into proper, very confident, and shall I say, assured reconciliation with God. He has given to you the ministry of reconciliation.
Don't be waiting for somebody else to send you before you know you are already sent. Why? Because the Bible says further in this verse, verse 19, that to wit that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and has committed to you and I the word of reconciliation. Now then, we, you have joined our appointment.
We are ambassadors for Christ. Brother, sister, here is the charge. From now on forward, you have received a very high and lofty appointment.
You are an ambassador of the most high God. The ambassador of the king of kings, the prince of peace, the Lord Jesus. You have become the ambassador of the kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom by which all other kingdoms are born and die. The kingdom that is everlasting. The kingdom of eternal life.
The kingdom that is of the most high. You are an ambassador of the kingdom. You represent God.
As you step out, please know that you are carrying the image of the kingdom of heaven. You are the ambassador. You are the ambassador in that family.
You are the ambassador in that office. You are the ambassador in that church, in that mission agency. You are the ambassador of God.
Now, many other people may be ambassadors, but that's between them and their employer. That's between them and the home government that sent them. You have a personal duty to watch that you remain loyal to your home government.
You remain loyal to the government of your own origin that sent you. You are the ambassador of our kingdom above. You are not only citizen of heaven, but you are here on earth as the ambassador of heaven.
May you never forget that what heaven requires of you is to keep living the heavenly life and to keep representing heaven with every decision you are taking. It's as you do this that you will be reconciling people back to God. And the Lord himself will be working with you, will never leave you nor forsake you, and will be confirming his word, confirming the evidence of your life that you are manifesting deliberately with signs following.
You won't need to arrange to do anything wonderful, but living a loyal life, a life that is genuinely connected to heaven and allowing the Father to be the one working in you to will and to do of his good pleasure, it will be him flowing to achieve what is wonderful, extraordinary, supernatural, and glorious for his own holy name. When it's God that works, it's always a wonder because he is himself called wonderful. Whenever God works, even if he uses an ant or an ass, it's a glorious thing because he's the all-glorious one.
Let God be the life, the life of Christ at work in you and let every motive of whatever is happening through your life be the motive of God. We will pray at this point and get yourself ready as we'll be praying with you and trusting God to send you forth in this power, in his power, and bearing the aura of his own presence everywhere you go. Let us pray.
Father, we are grateful to you for gathering us together again to not only witness what you have done in the lives of these 1,020 lives that you are sending forth in this one year that you have poured into in various campuses of Millet. We want to give you thanks because you labored, you brought the increase working through our lives in the planting, the watering and all. We want to ask therefore that as we present the fruit of your labor unto you, when Jesus has said, as the Father sent me, so send I you, he breathed also on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit.
You will send your Spirit upon them. You will breathe upon them now. You will cause that in the same power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus came and did wondrously, each one of them will go forth doing wondrously by your Spirit as well.
Receive all the glory forevermore. Thank you because you, the Lord of the harvest, you have not only recruited, you have also trained and you have empowered. And now you are going to shoot forth your own leprosy into your harvest and the harvest will be abundant.
This is another aspect, O Lord, of this year after that we will see heaven opened. Be exalted forevermore for in Jesus' name we have prayed. Amen.
Praise the Lord. I will request as we bring in the church for all the Mille students who are in the different commissioning centers. I'm told that we have about 33 centers where you are sitting to be commissioned today.
I request all of you, wherever you are, to please stand on your feet. All the Millette graduates that we're about to commission, can you please rise on your feet? In all the 33 centers that we are going to pray with you over, I would like you to please rise so that we can take a charge. Father, we thank you for the privilege of this commissioning and the opportunity for us to send forth these brothers and sisters in your name and to release onto them that which you have placed in our hands with which they will go forth to war a good warfare.
And so Lord, this moment we ask that the spirit of the Lord will come down and that you confirm your word upon their lives with signs and wonders following. Thank you for the word of exhortation you have already given them and that they are already your ambassadors because your life has come to inhabit them. We ask now Lord Jesus, as this time has come for us as your servants to send them forth by the laying on of hands, we ask that your mighty presence will overwhelm every center where they are standing in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank you because you will help us as we do this together. In Jesus Christ's name we have prayed. Amen.
Amen. Thank you very much. Thank you.
I'd like to start by following up with the exhortation that God had brought to you through our brother and the fact that the Bible says we thus judge that if one man died for all, then we are all dead. And in that he died, he died that those who now live will no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and for their sake rose again. And that forms the first charge we lay upon you here tonight.
That we thus agree and all of you as you went through me late in whichever and in whichever center you are seated in where God was moving. We all came to recognize that when Jesus Christ went to the cross and died, you died. We saw him vividly, we spoke about it, it became your own experience.
Now in that he died, he died that those who now live will no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose again for them. And so I dare charge you that as you step out of me late in this manner, you are living not only for yourself anymore, you are living him who for your sake died and rose again. The anthem that God repeatedly, repeatedly brought to us all through the period of your me late experience was second, I mean was Galatians chapter two and verse 20.
I'd like to read it again to you because we wanted to go forth and that must be your watchword as we go from here. I am crucified with Christ. Can I request that wherever you are standing, as I read this, when I say I am, I'd like you to put your name there.
I believe that that has happened to you, that's why we're able to commission you. If you went through me late and your old nature never came to the cross to be crucified, then we wonder whether the me late has actually achieved much in your life at all. But if today you are able to also testify along with men of old and along with ourselves, will you like now to, as you are standing to declare what God has done vividly and personally in your life in the words of Galatians chapter two and verse 20.
I, can you put your name there now? I, Billy Akanee, am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I, Billy Akanee live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
I want to go over that charge again. Can you repeat it while you are standing? I, Billy Akanee, am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me, Billy Akanee, and the life which I now live in the flesh.
I, Billy Akanee, live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Dear brothers and sisters, as you rise from here, you have only one life to carry, and that life is Christ's life. You have only one life to express.
It is Christ in you. Everywhere you go, any office you find yourself in, one of the things we spoke to you over and over and over again, we say, carry Christ there. Carry Christ there, for it is no longer you that live, but Christ that lives in you.
Now, I want to go ahead and yet more, one more, raise the next charge that I want you to bear in your heart as you go from here. Now, what is that charge? I want you to turn your Bibles, and if they flash it up or wherever, you will be picking it up as we take the charge. As we take the charge.
I'd like you to turn to the book of Timothy, Timothy, Timothy, and that second Timothy, which I'd like to raise a charge to you over as we release you in the name of the Lord in this place. Second Timothy, second Timothy, chapter one, verse six. Wherefore, I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. In the course of your millets, severally, the Lord opened our eyes to note that the one who lives in you now greater is he than he that lives in the world. The Lord opened our eyes to see the power, the privilege, the position, the allocation, and all the things that God had made available in Christ Jesus as soon as he stepped into your life to use your physical body in order to manifest his glory and power among men.
I herefore charge you that you will stir up that gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of fear. The spirit that you are going out from millet with is not that of fear, is not that of timidity, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.
Be not therefore thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. We send you forth not to be ashamed of the message that has affected you, Christ and him crucified, Christ living in you, Christ walking in you, Christ manifesting himself and his glory in your life. I therefore charge you as you go, be thou not therefore ashamed.
We know you are coming from different places, and you are located in different parts of the world, and there are several places where they ridicule the message of the cross. But I charge you as you go from here, be thou not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner, but be thou partaker, be a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. Who saved us? Who has saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus even before the world began.
Hold fast, hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. While brother Dennis brought you the exhortation, he reminded you that God did not just allow us to do a millet, where for three months maybe we just put all theoretical studies together. God instructed that it must be a two-year fellowship that will culminate in a discipleship experience and exposure.
And in the course of these two years, the Lord allowed us to allow you to touch our lives in various ways. We touch from the practicality of our lives and so we ask you as you go from here, hold fast, hold fast the form of the sound words which you have heard of me and of several of the servants of God that God used to instruct you in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing, that good thing which was committed unto you, and you remember that several, during the millet, some of the opening charges you received, we said, stival and good we don't have.
But as something that God has put in our lives, something that we have discovered, something that has worked in our lives, something that has worked for us, something that has produced measurable, palpable results in our lives, in our families, in our homes. That good thing that God has placed in our hearts, we freely, without charge, we freely, without any form of payment, we freely release unto you. Now as you are going, I charge you, that good thing which was committed unto you, keep by the Holy Ghost which dwells in us.
That thing that God has committed to you, hold it fast, keep it as you are going. It is not just for the time in millet that we were expecting you to hold this all the rest of your life, all through your life and ministry, whatever God will lead you to do, hold fast that good thing. We truly believe that it's a treasure.
And we believe that it's a divine investment. We are very sure that it will see you through life. We are sure that it will place you in places of honor, of glory, of power, of effectiveness, wherever Jesus will have you standing.
We believe that it was sufficient. That's why we didn't add anything. No gimmicks.
We simply gave it to you as the Lord delivered it to us. And so as you go, I charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus, hold fast the form of some word which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed unto you, keep it by the Holy Ghost which dwells in us.
May the Lord make you faithful in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, I'd like you to move on because this charge, as I bring it to you step by step, it will be the matter of prayer as asked to be soon laid upon you. Now, thou therefore my son, chapter 2 verse 1, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
As we are sending you forth, we are sending you forth with the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the Jesus that comes now to live in you is full of grace and full of truth. And if you allow that light to be manifested, you will see grace.
We have lived in the grace that Jesus Christ supplied. We have ministered in the grace that Jesus Christ supplied. We have moved in the grace that God has made available to us in Christ Jesus.
We have not struggled with human sweat. We have only drawn from him for out of his fullness we have received grace upon grace. Now, we are not sending you out of this mille to go and struggle.
We are not sending you out of this mille to go and look for any other source for your sustenance. We are sending you forth that the same grace that we are seeing, the same grace in which we have walked, the same grace in which we have operated, the same grace that you saw in different of our lives that has affected you in the way it has affected you. That same grace is what we commend to you.
And so we charge you, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same, so we charge you. This must not die with you.
This must not end with you. You have become an ambassador of the truth. And you have become the ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I dare say you have become also our own ambassador. We are praying that everywhere you go, your life will give a clear testimony of our contact with you. Your life will give a clear testimony to your children, to your family, to your church members, to the people you work with.
What manner of entry we had into you when God brought you through to millet. And we are praying that we don't need any other poster, I told you over and over again, that we do not look for any commendation from men. We are trusting that you will become our living posters, our living hand bills, that by your life, what Jesus Christ did in your life, which he had done in our own lives, we speak expressly.
So as you go from here, we ask that the same thing that we have passed on to you, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. You will not be buried. You have been sent for to be fruitful and to multiply.
The Lord Jesus himself, who is the one with the true vine, will flow through you and bring forth fruit worthy, worthy, not only of repentance, but worthy of his life at work in you. This the Lord will do in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, I want you to know that, yes, you are living a very perilous time.
You are going to be confronted with all kinds of alternative philosophies. You are going to hear all kinds of things that men will be propounding left and right as a sign of the end time in which we live. But thou has fully known our doctrine.
You have known our manner of life. You have known our purpose. You have known our faith.
You are aware of our long suffering. And by the grace of God, you know our charity and patience. And you are not unaware that we have been persecuted for the truth for which we stand.
We have experienced afflictions which came to us at various points and in different ways, some of which we shared with you, how the Lord saw us through and how the Lord continued to guide us as we stand on the narrow path. Now, I charge you that you will continue in the things which you have learned and you have been assured of, never you forgetting of whom thou hast learned them. In the course of your time, we took time to explain to you the need for discipleship, discipleship of your life.
And you will notice that in the course of these two years, we urge you to look for hands under whom God could cause you to go. And several of you, you have related with disciples of your own choice as the Lord guided you. No one was imposed upon you as a disciple.
And so as you are going again, that relationship is a relationship to develop and to keep. We pray that the Lord will guide you and that as you keep building your roots into Christ, you continue to multiply. But not only did we introduce you to be disciples, we also charge you to go and make disciples.
So as you are going, as the Lord has appeared to you and taught you and affected you, go and affect others. May the Lord multiply you and multiply in you in the name of Jesus Christ. And finally, I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the living and the dead at his appearing and in his kingdom, preach the word.
As you go from here, preach the word. Be instant in seizing, even out of seizing, whether it's convenient or not. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Time will come and it has come, when many will not endure sound doctrine. But after their own loss, shall they even to themselves, teachers, have been itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned to fables.
But watch thou in all things. Endure afflictions and do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of the call of God on your life.
While you are here with us, we continue to demonstrate to you that living by faith is the life that God has called every child of God to live in. And pattern of ministries that should bring you victory and bring you fruitfulness, the Lord allowed us to share with you. So, I hereby stand as God's servant to release you into his able hand, the Lord who is able to keep, the Lord who is able to sustain, the Lord who is able to perfect, the Lord who is able to establish you and present you faultless before the throne.
Unto him do we commit you, that in keeping the Lord will keep you, in watching the Lord will watch over you, the Lord will perfect all that concerns you. And as we release you, we pour you now into the harvest that God has been talking about, that through you also the matter of revival in the nations, the matter of bringing in the harvest, the Lord will use you deliberately to affect others. One vision God gave us before we came in to start Millet, is that God wants Millet to re-crop the nations and to raise a new generation of men and women that carry Christ into everywhere they go.
And so though we call it minister's leadership retreat, you remember, I mean a training, you remember that we began to understand that your life, your Christ life in you is first and foremost your vocation. And every other thing you have to do is only a platform of expression. So as you go, the Lord will create platform for you, the Lord will open doors of ministry to you, either in your profession or on the pulpit or anywhere God has decided to walk through you.
May his glory break forth upon your lives from this time forward. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord Jesus Christ take all the glory over your life.
And may he be glorified about you and in you and through you. And when he shall come, when he shall appear, may none of you, may none of you that God has kept in company with us over these years, may none of you be found missing and wanting. May your space in the heavenly kingdom never be vacant.
This we ask the Lord to do for you. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Now I'm going to ask those of our leaders that are here with me, Brother Dennis, our principal, Brother Tewase, our registrar, Brother Kure, Sister Shade, please come along with me here. And then I will now request all of you that are standing, please find a good space and kneel down because we are going to be stretching forth hands upon you now. And all our brothers, our resource persons, that we have prepared in all the video centres to lay hands on behalf of us all.
Please, you will come forward now and as we begin to pray, you will please lay your hands. It's alright. We are going to be calling on the name of the Lord on behalf of our brothers and sisters as they are on their knees.
Like I said, if you cannot kneel down, let them give you a seat where you can sit down. All that we are looking for now is that hands will be laid upon you. As you are coming forward and kneeling down, the Lord bless you.
The Lord bless you. The hand of God will come upon you. And the Holy Spirit will do for you what no man can do.
And you are going forth as his ambassador. We are sending you forth to go and be fruitful, to multiply. And through your life, there shall be revival.
Through your life, many more, thousands will be brought to the knowledge of Jesus who died and rose again. While you get on your knees, we are ready to pray now. And all the brothers and sisters, all our resource persons in different parts, please come around them and lay your hands and begin to prophesy on their behalf.
Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray.
Let's pray. There's no distance in the spirit. As we call for the power of God, it shall follow you.
It shall come upon you. You are going to go from here with a newness, with an experience of the glory and power of God. And you are never going to remain the same again.
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I will they will have a chance. Amen. In time they stand up to teach or preach, you will take over from them.
Amen. It will be Jesus at work in them. Lord, while they were here with us, they saw the way we live by faith.
They saw your faith in others. This evening, Lord, we release unto them the spirit of faith. Amen.
We release unto them capacity to believe the word of God. Amen. Capacity to walk in faith.
Amen. And to see the Lord at work. Amen.
In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Lord, while they were here with us, they saw, they saw the kind of teamness, team spirit with which you related with us.
They saw that nobody was struggling with another. Whichever class they went, they saw the unity of the word of God. Now, Lord, we release to them the breastplate you placed on our heart.
The breastplate that gave us a heart for the body of Christ. We release it to them now. That from now on they will love the church.
Yes. They will love the body of Christ. They will labor for the building up of the body of Christ.
Amen. They saw that all through regardless of their denominations, regardless of their social standing, regardless of their education, we ate together, we slept together, we walked together, we labored together, we sat down together, and there is no difference between us. And by the two years they knew that the body of Christ is real.
So today we release to them now the spirit of the body of Christ. Amen. That spirit that is the oneness of the Holy Ghost.
Yes. Let it come upon them now. Yes.
That as they are going on now, all those things that divide the body of Christ will no longer work in their lives. From now on, every activity that divides the church will no longer be through their hands. But by their ministry the body of Christ will come together.
Amen. The glory of God will come down. Amen.
And Lord there will be testimony. Yes. Lord.
Thank you Father. Blessed be you. And so with hands laid on them, we impart into them right now.
Yes Lord. Every grace. Yes Father.
Every spiritual gift. Yes Lord. That is requisite for them to succeed.
Amen. For them to become a channel of your blessing. Yes Lord.
In whichever place you are sending them. Yes Lord. Some of them you are sending them to nations.
Yes Lord. Some of them they are taking position in churches as pastors, as leaders. Some of them they are they are in the academics.
Some of them you are sending them to business. Others have come to us from the political arena. We relieve them again.
Yes Lord. That by the anointing of the Holy Ghost they will go. Yes.
They will prevail. Amen. Because it is you at work in us.
Yes Lord. That triumph. You will triumph in them.
Amen. And each one of them they will become a testimony. Yes Lord.
And indeed a testimony of the faithfulness of the Lord. Amen. Thank you Father.
And so we send you forth in the name of the Lord. Yes Lord. Go and be fruitful.
Yes Lord. Go and multiply. Yes Lord.
It shall be well with you. Amen. Your families they will experience the fullness of Christ.
Amen. The churches that you represent they will see the glory of God. Amen.
And the lands that you come from the nations that you represent the Lord through you will bring answers to the cry of those nations. Amen. This we ask the Lord to do.
Yes. Even by the laying of our hands. Amen.
And as we your servant of God are stood together here. Yes Lord. So we release these people.
Yes. They will go in your name. Yes Father.
They will succeed in your name. Amen. And when the trumpet will sound in heaven oh God none of them will be found missing.
No. They will have their space. Amen.
To the praise and glory of your name. Yes Lord. This we do ask.
Yes Father. Because you said whatever you ask in my name I will do it. We ask this in your name.
Yes Father. Even the name of the Lord Jesus. Yes Father.
That from now on we will see this one as your ambassador doing exploits causing the word of God to multiply from lands to lands, from nation to nation, from glory to glory. Amen. This the Lord will do.
Yes Father. In the name of God the Father. Amen.
And of the Son. Amen. And of the Holy Spirit.
Amen. Amen. And let the people say amen.
Amen. The people of God say amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Please rise up.
Rise up wherever you are and jam your hands together to give God all the glory. Hallelujah. All the glory.
All glory must be to the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Hallelujah.
Thank you. Bread and handshake on our behalf. Everywhere please help us to give them a handshake on our behalf.
Give them a handshake on their behalf. When you are shaking. Give them a handshake on their behalf.
Anywhere is love. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. The Lord bless you. Amen.
Thank you very much.
Sermon Outline
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I. Introduction to Millet
- History and expansion of Millet since 1992
- Millet's global reach and multilingual training centers
- Purpose of Millet as leadership and discipleship training
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II. The Life of Christ in the Believer
- Christ formed and reigning in the believer
- The believer as a new creation with a new identity
- Living no longer for self but for Christ
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III. The Ministry of Reconciliation and Ambassadorship
- Believers as ambassadors for Christ
- The call to persuade others with the terror of the Lord
- Accountability for the investment God has made in believers
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IV. Practical Discipleship and Commissioning
- Two-year discipleship and apprenticeship model
- Living out the principles learned in daily life
- Commissioning to expand God's kingdom in diverse spheres
Key Quotes
“Millet is Christ born in you, Christ formed in you, Christ at work in you, Christ reigning in you, and Christ in you, the hope of a glory.” — Gbile Akanni
“It is no longer you who lives, but Christ who lives in you now.” — Gbile Akanni
“As the Father sent Jesus, Jesus said in the same way for the same purpose in pursuit of the same objective, so send I you.” — Gbile Akanni
Application Points
- Recognize that your identity is now in Christ and live accordingly, no longer pursuing personal ambitions but God's purpose.
- Embrace your role as an ambassador for Christ by representing Him faithfully in your workplace and community.
- Commit to ongoing discipleship and practical application of biblical principles to grow in Christlikeness.
