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Completion, Not Competition: The Kingdom Way! ... English & French

• Rev. Charles G. Robinette • Season 6 • Episode 3

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Start the year with a posture that changes everything: honor over envy, unity over rivalry, maturity over the urge to be first. We begin with worship, celebrate the release of Smooth Sailing—a transparent, scripture-rich guide to marriages and relationships—and then share a prophetic word for 2026 focused on restoration. Not reinvention, but a return to God’s order where torn places are mended, alignment is restored, and people can carry His presence without tearing under the weight.

We unpack how carnality hides in plain sight: not in a lack of charisma, but in how we treat each other. Honor becomes the antidote to envy. Strife opens the door to confusion. Division thrives on secret loyalties and sides. Through the patterns of David honoring Saul and Abraham choosing peace with Lot, we map a better way: completion, not competition. If grace is received, there’s no room to boast or belittle—only room to celebrate what God does through others without shrinking ourselves.

Here’s the challenge and the promise: unity hosts outpouring. Harvest, miracles, signs, and wonders flow where honor guards the house. Stop chasing revival while tolerating rivalry; chase unity and watch God open doors no one can shut. We offer practical steps to end cycles of gossip, suspicion, and scorekeeping, and we pray together for the restoration of honor, peace, and respect across families, ministries, and teams.

Listen, share with a friend who needs fresh vision for marriage or ministry, and tell us the one relationship where you’ll choose unity this week. If this serves you, subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word so more hearts can move from competition to completion.

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Isatoramosi ki andalaboshatala bassio no. In the name of the Lord, in the name of the Lord. Hi and the la basata siki on the lobos sha ta bassi. Hi andora ma si andalabakataya siatal bashata. I exalt you, Lord, hallelujah. Siki on no lobo shata. Hallelujah, Marikan. Isata la boshondo. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Isata la basha no ramasiki on the lobo shata. I worship you, Lord. Hallelujah. In the name of the Lord. In the name of the Lord. In the name of the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, mighty God. Hallelujah, mighty God. Hallelujah. Well, praise the Lord, everybody, and welcome to our first Apostolic Mentoring Session of 2026. We greet you in the mighty name of Jesus from Columbus, Ohio. What an exciting year of apostolic mentoring we had in 2025. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers speaking into our life every week. Sunday we had a great outpouring of the Holy Ghost. People were baptized in Jesus' name. Great multiplication. Great acceleration. Just get ready. We're going to see billions added to the church in these last days. But I do want to remind everybody. If you did not yet watch the last apostolic mentoring episode of 2025, you need to watch that episode. And you need to go listen to the word from the Lord. And it's it's already on YouTube. You can go back on Facebook to see it. And uh we sure love this great lady. I don't know who we is. That must have been me and God. Really love this lady. But I've asked her to come on. She's gonna talk about something really special for a few moments, and then the Lord has given me a prophetic word for you today. Go ahead, Sister Robinet.

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Well, I'm so thankful that we made it through last year. It was a great year, as Brother Robinet has said. And throughout last year, um we had the opportunity, he and I, to write our first book together. And um we are we we say that um in the book we it took us 31 years to write this book. We we make it sound very easy telling you um that this book only took one year, but really in true life and real life it's taken us 31 years to uh write this book. And so there is one one thing about telling stories about marriage, and there's another about writing them in a book. Being vulnerable and transparent on paper for the whole world to read. And so he was more quick to uh write things on paper than I was, so I will say the delay in printing this book was was my fault. But we really do feel like the Lord anointed us and inspired us to write this book um for for everyone to read. And so we are so thankful and happy to announce that here is our first book together that we wrote. It's called Smooth Sailing.

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Umce.

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And um there is amazing stories in there. There's glimpses, glimpses of our stories. There is a glimpse of um his version of our love story, and then my version. And it is filled with um anointed devotions.

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Remply devotion want.

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With scriptures to guide you through smooth sailing in your marriage. But not only in your marriage, but in your relationship with your your families, with your co-workers, with your with the church members and with your children. We talk about how to navigate uh conflict with grace and godly wisdom. This is not something that we just uh come across in our marriages, but we come against this in our walk everywhere that we go in life. We talk about parenting with purpose and with peace. Um, in there in this book there are practical tools reflecting questions and prophetic declarations that will help you in your marriage and in your life. And so we just encourage all of you to go on Amazon, Brother Robinet, we'll put in the chat and as well as on Facebook how to um get this book. Please uh get it, read it, apply it to your life.

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Uh, I will say do not rush your way through this book.

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Read each chapter. If it takes you one week to read a chapter and apply the principles that we mention in this book, I guarantee 100% it will change your life.

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Lise the livre doucement, applique the principle serve.

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You will laugh and you will cry as you read this book. We are very vulnerable and transparent in our teachings and in our stories that we tell. And so we just encourage you to enjoy it, read it, share it with your with your with other people that you know. And I will just read the last little quote that we wrote in our book. It says your marriage was never designed to drift. It was created to move with divine purpose. Lift your anchor, catch the wind, and sail forever.

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Level ancre atrape le vent and navigate pour to journey.

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And so we just encourage you to go and order smooth sailing, making love last forever. We love you all. Thank you for your support and this um great endeavor that we have embarked on. Thank you so much.

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Praise the Lord. Thank you, Sister Robinet. We're so excited about this book. We're excited about how it's going to bless your families and marriages and relationships. But I uh wanted to jump into this new year with divine direction. And you know every year the Lord gives me uh a new word. And I was really struggling with what this word was going to be this year. But at on Christmas Eve, when the Lord gave me that dream, he began to give me clarity about my word and apostolic mentoring's word for 2026. So I want to open this glimpse into God's direction for apostolic mentoring by reading a scripture today. It says, For ye are yet carnal, for whereas there is among you envying, strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men. Because you cannot improve on the kingdom, the kingdom is perfect, the kingdom of God when the structure is in place, cannot fail. So we don't need an improvement on the kingdom in the global church. Here's what the word restore means. It means to turn back, to bring back to an original place, to reverse direction, to make whole, to complete, to compléter, to restore to proper order, to mend what is torn, restore means to equip or to repair, to make sure that that what God has is able to carry his power, his purpose, his presence. God is going to restore apostolic power, but you have to understand this. None of these things that God is seeking to restore, they cannot coexist where there is envying, strife, and division. The way we relate one to another, and how we walk together. In 1 Corinthians. When he started writing this chapter 3, he was speaking to a spirit-filled church. They were gifted. They were active. They were operating powerfully. Yet Paul said you are still carnal. And here's why. Because carnality is not measured by how much you worship. You can be a worship and still be carnal. Carnality is revealed in how you treat one another. That's why Paul said this. Are you not carnal and walk as men? He was trying to convey to them. You are still living by natural instincts instead of spiritual instincts. You're still self-promoting. You still are depending upon human reasoning. Carnality is not the absence of the spirit. The opposite of envy is honor. What God does through you does not threaten me. The doors that God sets before you do not limit the doors that God will set before me. Because people with an envy issue cannot rejoice. Well, it can't be real. They must be counting wrong. We find a way to marginalize, discredit, or dismiss what God is doing through others. When they hear about a big victory, they say, Well, you just wait, the shoe is gonna drop, and we're gonna find out there was something wrong. They can't celebrate, they can't rejoice, they can't honor, if something good happens, they gotta say something bad, if God uses somebody, they've gotta discredit their ministry, friends. We have got to let God restore honor amongst us. You will not limit your opportunities in the kingdom. You are under the spirit of deception. The spirit of deception says dishonor your brother.

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You've heard me say this before.

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But my family lives by a code. My daughters know the code. It's a simple code. But I tell my family all the time. Love God. Aime Dieu. And love, honor, and respect everyone always. There is no limitation in kingdom opportunities when you love God and love people. You undercut yourself in the kingdom when you hate kingdom people. When you criticize people on social media. And get aligned with the kingdom.

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Aimez Dieu.

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Love your brother and sister.

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Aimez votre frère, votre soeur.

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Honor your brother and sister.

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Honorez votre frère et votre sœur.

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I find it interesting that David honored Saul even when Saul was wrong.

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You know why David did that?

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Because he understood. God is responsible for anointing. God is responsible for correction. God is the builder of the church. That is a spirit of deception. God does not need you to protect what he builds. Your job is to preach the gospel to win souls. There is only one accuser of the brethren. Your job is to be an example. To be a believer in a dark world. But I do not have to criticize, dismiss, and dishonor the body of Christ. This means rivalry. Whatever happened to just, oh, wouldn't it be awesome if the kingdom wins? This is what Paul was talking about. You must win at the expense of God's kingdom. You must be right at the expense of God's kingdom. You need to be seen at the expense of God's kingdom. You need to be first. That's why James said this. He said where there is envy and in strife, there is confusion in every evil work.

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Strife opens the door to confusion.

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Confusion dismantles authority. I don't have to be first. I don't have to be the one in the lights. Abraham who could have asserted his authority. Looked at Lot and said, I don't want to fight with you, brother. He said, If there's going to be conflict, it's not coming from me. But my pastor said this. He said just because everybody needs a little trouble. Just because we need a little rejection. Wouldn't that be amazing if we as the body of Christ were to make up our minds here at the beginning of the year? I will not be the source of somebody's strife. You do not have to be the source of trouble. Apostolic people must choose unity over strife. You don't have to let down any standard. And say, let there be no strife between us. And it will be yours. If you go to the north, I'll go to the south. If you go to the east, I'll go to the west. But our people will not have war. I'm not asking you to compromise. I'm asking you to be spiritually mature. To take on the nature of Abraham. And tell that that situation that you've been dealing with. I am not your enemy. And you are not my enemy. In 2026, there will be no strife between us. But that requires maturity in his people. You don't have to be right in this situation. You just have to be mature. Not with God's people. If you want an enemy, go find somebody else. And this word means standing apart. Being an island to yourself. It also means forming or facilitating sides.

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It means secret loyalties.

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And then they said to me, Brother Robinet, please give the other team a win. Immediately I felt pushback in the spirit. Sometimes it looks spiritual. Look at Torah's rebellion. But it was a spirit of deception. It was resistance to God's order. That's why we've got to be so committed to divine order and divine structure in these last days. Unity came before there was outpouring. It was unity that hosted the Holy Ghost. He said, These things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes, that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that not no one of you be puffed up for one another against another. This is revelation. That Greek word means to be inflated. This is not confidence. This is carnality disguised as calling. That's why he said, What hast thou that thou did not receive? He said you didn't get any gifting by yourself.

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You didn't earn it. You didn't create it.

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You didn't deserve it. He said, if you have the right understanding of grace, you eliminate all competition. He said, What do you have that you got on your own? If God gave it to you, it was for the purpose of completion, not competition. Here's the kingdom truth. Only completion. That means that if I do the call of God upon my life. And you've heard this before. But this is why Brother Technomerion in Ethiopia used to always say this. He said, We never prayed for revival. He said, Everybody's praying for revival. But Ethiopia didn't pray for revival. They prayed for unity. Because revival flows organically out of unity. Harvest, miracles, signs, and wonders always flows organically out of unity.

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You're praying for gifting.

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But you hate your brother. You can't do anything in the kingdom. You're praying for apostolic offices. But you don't love, honor, and respect fellow ministries.

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You're praying for good things. But you're acting like an idiot.

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You treat people bad. You gossip, you slander, you criticize. Your prayers never leave your room because your behavior is going before you. Get rid of the carnal culture. That envy, that strife, that division. It's not your prayers that are the problem. It is your behavior. You talk a big game. But you ain't scoring any points. Because you can't get over yourself. Rebuke the spirit of envy.

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Réprimandez l'esprit d'envie.

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Rebuke the spirit of strife. Rebuke the spirit of divisions. Love God. Aimer Dieu. Love, honor, and respect everyone always.

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Aimer, respecter, honorer tout le monde à tout moment.

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You don't have to chase revival. If you're guarding unity.

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You don't have to chase gifting.

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If you're chasing honor. You don't have to worry about am I gonna see revival in my city? If you will have revival in your attitude. What God wants to do is fix you. The church is fine. Get your hands off the church. If you're gonna dissect something, dissect yourself. Dissequez-vous vous-même. Is there envy in you? Is there strife in you? Is there division in you? Stop chasing revival and chase unity. Restore is not just about restoring offices. God said, I want to restore spiritual maturity in my people. If we're gonna reach and disciple billions in these last days, we must restore honor. He anoints the body. We must walk as sons and daughters of the king. God said to tell you This is the year that he will uproot envy. This is the year that God is going to tear out strife. Let there be no competition in the kingdom. Let honor be restored. We complete each other, not compete. We must walk as spiritual. We must move as one. Fix it today. Humble yourself today. Love God today. Love, honor, and respect your brother and sister today. God has great things in store for his church. We cannot drag our feet any further. Fix the conflict. Surrender yourself to God. Honor your brother and sister.

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Honore votre frère and votre soeur.

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And God will set before us open doors that no man can shut. Friends, I feel the power of the Holy Ghost here today. Would you lift your voices together and let's pray in the Holy Ghost? Let's pray for restoration in the Holy Ghost. Go ahead, lift your voices together. Restoration of peace with joy Restoration of honor Restoration of Respect Restoration of Peace and loose unity amongst the party talabas. There'll be no strife amongst us. There'll be no unity amongst us. There be no divisions amongst us. Restore the church god! Restore the body god! Let there be no strife amongst us! Let there be no envy amongst us! Divisions amongst us! Shataramasata!

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Hallelujah!

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Pray that you strengthen us. And to hear the call of God for his church in these last days. Let there be no strife amongst us. Let there be no envy amongst us. Let there be no divisions amongst us. God restore the body.

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God restore the corps.

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Because billions are waiting upon us to get it right. And I don't know about you, but I want to get it right, friends. I want to walk uprightly before the Lord. Love, honor, respect, everyone always.

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Aimer, honorer, respecter too much.

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I want to thank you for being on Apostolic Mentoring every week. Please do what you always do and share and like this episode. Don't forget about Sister Robinette and I've new marriage book. Go on to Amazon and get your copy today. Buy copies for your church. Buy copies for the marriage, a ministry in your church. Buy copies for the young the young people. And we said to each other, we wish we had known some of these things before we said I do. It's called Smooth Sailing. There's a link in the chat already. And later today, Sister Robinette and I'll put out a social media post as well. God bless you all. God bless you and all of the guys.

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