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Welcome to an Encounter with the Spirit Word and Prayer through the prolific apostolic and teaching ministry of Apostle Femi Lazarus, Lead Pastor, Sphere of Light Church Global. It is his vision to raise God's end-time armies.

God has not called you to prove you are the best. He has not. As a leader, you are a broker of gift and talent.

So brace up for an experience.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let, let me sensitize you about something. Um, in Abuja here, you are used to receiving me as a teacher but not yet as a prophet. So sometimes there are restrictions because I have words from the Lord. Is that okay now?

Yes.

The Lord said to tell you, I'm giving you new grounds.

Ah!

Woo!

Said new grounds. Okay, right. Yeah, hold that word. Okay, come. God is giving you new ground. That's, that's the word of the Lord in your hands. It's giving you new grounds. Yes, he said, I will hold you by the hand and I will shift you into your high places. He's giving you new grounds. He said, I've gone ahead of you as a mighty terrible one. I will help you, says the Lord. I will carry you on my wings and you will not all, says the Lord. Do not be afraid. Do not turn to the right nor to the left, but set your gaze on me, says the Lord. He said, I cause the path that looks unclear to be clear as you move each step and follow my command and my will. I cause the path that is blocked to open right before you, says the Lord. New grounds. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. There's somebody here You said a few days ago in your heart that, oh, in this season of our lives, we are having powerful people come to our house. The Lord said to tell you, don't be afraid. Fill that space with my worship. He said, I will come in and exalt myself and be glorified in the midst of you, says the Lord. Fill that place with worship. Do not be afraid.

Says the Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Let's lift our hands and give him praise. Give him praise. Give him praise. Yes, the Lord said to remind that person. He said, this is the twist I told you about, that at some point you will have to follow me by faith, and you will have to move from certainty into uncertainty.

It is—

he said it is high. I am still the one leading you. I will hold your hands. Follow me as I move. He said, we spoke about this, that a time will come that the journey will be unclear. He said, I am still there. I am still there. He said, I am not speaking because of what I said before. Run with the word, says the Lord. Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Come on, give Jesus praise. We bless you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Thank you, Father. Is there someone here saying thank you, Lord?

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. In the book of Jeremiah chapter number 1, Jeremiah chapter number 1. Let me show you something very profound. Jeremiah 1. Now the Lord asked Jeremiah a question. Jeremiah chapter number 1, verse 11. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying Jeremiah, what do you see? What's your name? Come on, echo your name. What's your name? You know, from, um, secondary school, I knew that there was something about my name. So when they asked me, what's your name, I call it in full. My name is Femi Lazarus. What is your name? You are not just a person, you're a personality. Again, what is your name?

My name is—

said the word of the Lord came to Femi Lazarus saying, Femi, what do you see? Can you give me this in Amplified Translation?

Amen.

This is a specific word for somebody this season. I didn't hear amen to that.

What do you see?

And I said, I see the branch or the shoot of an almond tree, the emblem. Emblem is sign of aliveness, of activity blossoming in late winter. I'm seeing things springing forth. How many of you know that feeling? Things have not really changed physically, but you just know I'm perceiving it. How many of you have felt that before? You just know that I'm in a kairos moment. Kairos means appointed time. Just know that I can't tell, um, my finance is not testifying yet, my condition of living is not testifying yet, But I just know it like I know my name. Maybe that man at the Pool of Bethesda would have woken up that morning feeling, I just feel there's something different about today, because the journey of 38 years in a spot was about to end.

Yes, sir.

What do you see? That's the question. Anytime God asks you, what do you see, he's not asking because he can't see, because what you see determines your experience.

Do you understand that?

And look at what God said to him in verse 12. Quickly. And the Lord said to him, you have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over my words to perform it. Can I give you 30 seconds? What do you see? Come on, what do you see?

What are you seeing?

What are you seeing in this season? Okay, you, you are not here first service.

Ah, we agreed we should not keep quiet.

Ah, you can't, you can't keep quiet.

Call it forth. What do you see? What are you seeing?

It is not yet clear until you say it.

Call it forth.

I speak spirit, I don't speak English, I speak I speak life. Wow.

I speak spirit. I don't speak—

the word that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.

It's doctrine. Hey, I speak spirit.

I speak spirit. I don't speak English.

I speak life.

I speak I speak life. I speak life.

Amen.

I see life everywhere I turn. I see the angels of the Lord encamped around me as the mountains are encamped around Jerusalem. I am not alone. I am not defenseless. I am heavily defended. I am heavily protected. This is my reality.

Amen.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Amen.

All right, please be seated. To that person who said, for how long more will I have to cry before you hear me? God said I have seen your tears, but I'm waiting for your words. I have seen your tears, but I'm waiting for your words. What do you want me to do for you? Is it not strange that Jesus will meet a guy that was born blind and will ask him, what do you want me to do for you. You think the condition is obvious. It is not until you speak it.

And Lord, you should know my condition.

He said, until you say it. He said, Lord, that I may see. And that's it. Thank you, Lord. You see, we have to move from being fantastic student of the word to waging war with the word. Hm, somebody say waging war with the word. Waging war with the word. Because the moment God tells you something, the devil is going to come after you with affliction. See, the seed that fell on the rock, the Bible said, this be like them that heareth forth the word, but the sun of affliction rose and it scorched it. Maybe somebody has been trusting God for the fruit of the womb and you've been having some symptoms like, oh, am I pregnant? Am I not pregnant? What's happening? And just the moment you receive the clear word, menstrual flow starts. You're like, are we going another cycle again?

Hold it.

That is when you switch to warfare. I hold it.

Femi Lazarus.

If he has said it, it is true. And the devil does that so that he will want— he wants to give you a sense of caution not to speak boldly. That you can't just be talking authoritatively like that, because you know things are going to happen now that it's going to be negative.

Speak.

This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

Amen.

Thank you, Jesus. Is there someone here that can scream it? I speak life!

Life—life-life-life-life!

I've been seeing different news flying about, don't drive in Abuja around this time. No problem, that's the fact, but I operate from the realm of truth. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so is the Lord encamped around me. I speak life. Life! Imagine sitting down and just write on a sheet of paper, my marriage, I speak life. Don't complain about the situation, just see, we practice warfare. You look at it, my finance, I speak life. Say, I don't know how to pray for more than 30 minutes. My prayer life, I speak.

Don't complain when you're not releasing life. You have it.

Do you understand? I speak life. I remember when I was going to Benin over the weekend, I took an airline that I don't like. I don't like— I won't mention their name. I don't like those guys. There's something— I don't like them. But you know, there's a way small planes respond to turbulence. I was sitting beside a sister. I said, I'm here, come on, relax. You know, one time we were flying, I can't remember where we were going, and then there was actually serious turbulence. And actually, I was afraid. So I just saw my people just sat down. So I asked them after the flight that, "Oh guys, how was the turbulence?" They say, "Nothing, you are here. So we know that God still needs you." So I said, "Look at these guys." You know, I was on campus. At one point, I had not paid my school fees and I was not supposed to sit for an exam. So I stood outside and I was wondering what was going to happen. Then a guy ran towards me and just held my hands, just held my hands, closed his eyes and said, thank you, Jesus. Then I held him. Yo, guy, what happened? So he said, I have not paid my school fees. He said he has not paid his school fees. He said, but he told himself that if I can meet Pastor on campus, if I can hold his hand and pray for me, he said, I will sit down in that exam, nobody will ask me. Me, me that was holding, I was outside.

Check o, another 5-10 minutes, I went to check the lecture hall. He was seated in front laughing. Nobody asked him.

I said, me carrying this grace, I'm outside. Okay, I shall now go inside. That was how I heard.

May you not lack awareness.

Amen. Okay, please sit down. So today I'm still introducing this subject. On Tuesday, I'm going to show you that we too, we have our own arrows. Ah, we do. The devil doesn't have original.

Everything he has is the imitation of the correct. He counterfeits what is ours.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Say it again: I speak life. So can I tell you a very sincere truth about this church? This is a church that is very procedural. We are systemic. We have very strong managerial approach to ministry, but we do not have any program plan for burial. Maybe you have your, um, procedural program. We don't have. We have for every other event. Because I read about a man of God that pastored and taught people so well Nobody died for decades. I knew it is possible. That's why we are laboring on the word, that a time is coming.

Somebody will come and say, want to pray for the sick?

Not here. Rather pray for us to go and pray for the sick. But the sick, they've all been healed. Now they are living in health.

The word is that powerful.

And I want to show a generation that we can hold on to the word. Hallelujah! Praise God! Now look at it, Ephesians chapter number 6. Ephesians chapter number 6, we'll start the reading from verse 10. Ephesians 6:10, if you're there, say amen. All right, look at it. Can you give from King James, please?

Finally.

Oh yeah.

My brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. You see, this strength in the Lord is a serious thing.

It is they that do know their God that are strong.

Is that okay? Here in Abuja, everything works by connection. Even to buy suya, you must know somebody. No, I learned that one in the other area. If you don't value my relationship, come to this city, you go learn. Somebody will tell you, oh, this is what you want to buy, ah, you have to go to area. Thank you. Sure, even to buy momo, you need connection. But as powerful as connection is, it is still they that do know their court. That you drop a proposal somewhere, you don't know anybody, the person will see God telling him in his dream, you better go and grant it.

That guy that took Abraham's wife, eh, you are going to obstruct a lineage that God is setting.

He said, you are a dead man. You see, you are— this one is magun.

This one, before, you know, you don't know what that is. It's thunderbolt.

You start sounding like chicken, or you somersault 3 times. That's all though. You go and finish the rest in heaven.

You see, you know what you have done. This is this man's wife.

Hey, wrong!

The guy came to you, said, what have you done? But you said he's your sister. I said, they don't know their God. He's strong. Oluweja, the one who fight on our behalf. Anybody can think they can rubbish you and make you feel, but when God speaks, when he thunders from above—

have you seen where they kidnap people and they say drop this one, drop this one, get up, get up, get up, where are the things you give and go, go, go, go.

Because somebody is speaking. Say, I know God.

I know God.

Thank God for your connections, but it's better you know God. Okay, so be strong in the Lord. Be strong. That's where it matters. Know how to bring things and people up in prayer. Know how to do it. I I have many stories around this area, many. People who think that they have rubbish you, they have done this, God by himself will go and defend you and tell the person, let's leave that. All right, he said, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.

Therefore take on the whole armor. These are, these are warfare strategies that are arrayed against us. Many of you can't see them, but they are there. You think you are living your innocent life, but they are saying it's not so. It's not so. It's not that simple. Take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having your waist— having girded your waist with the truth. Don't let your trouser follow. Let truth hold you. You must know more truth than fact. Lester Sumrall shared a story. You know, he met Smith Wigglesworth as a young man, and it was when the war started that separated them. And when he was going to the house of Smith Wigglesworth, um, he was holding a newspaper. I know Smith was very tall, and when he opened the door and looked at the young man, and then slammed the paper off his hand, said, you don't bring a lie into my house. Particularly in these last days, media will be a powerful tool to spread fear, fear in the heart of people. Don't eat this, don't eat that, don't eat this, don't eat that. If you take this oil, it's going to bring cholesterol, your cholesterol level increase. If you eat this one, you don't, don't take seed oil. Okay, you say I don't take seed oil. What you go chop? Sometimes a gym instructor, they say that, Apostle, you can't drink this. One time I just see that, say, no be me, Jesus. Say you can't drink malt, you have to be taking, um, what are those things? Celery. Beetroot, all these sad, sad things. And there's this other one again. Bring all those things. I will take wine. I'm just starting life. I mean, I mean, it's good to live healthy, okay, but not panicking. Mm, not panicking. Ah, this one is going to affect conception.

Speak life! Don't kill yourself. Know the truth. Is that okay? All those things minus the truth, your condition won't change you.

You don't know. Know the truth. Speak life. Having your ways greeted with the truth and put on the breastplate of righteousness, knowing that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It's battle strategy, because the devil will try to tell you every time that you deserve certain sentences because you are not righteous. But you have to know how to tell him back that this righteousness is not by works, it is the gift given to me by Christ. It is his righteousness. That is not a— that is not an excuse for us to live funny lives. But that means that, see, you don't work for this. And because I am putting on his righteousness, I have legal access to what is really mine in him. I am not an alien. I am God's child. I am not an adopted child. A price was— I was born again. You were born before to the family of Mr. Okonkwo. But now you are born again to the family of Christ. Is that okay? Yes, sir. Whenever our daughter wants to enter our room, she doesn't knock, and she enters our room like somebody going to refugee camp. Just say, hey, Daddy, hug you, then straight to chin chin, the small chops, anything. Sit down, eat, and then go back. Once you sit, stress her small, if you have room for you.

No, my wife will say, when you come into our room, you knock.

I say, you don't knock. Your father's house, don't knock. Don't ever knock yet. Put the balance. Go get where go, say, boy, stay outside. What's your problem? Okay, but we enter with this boldness. Hebrews 11:6— is it 16 now? 16. No, Hebrews 4:16. Let us now therefore come out. You want to pray, you are not sure, is God part of those hating on me? I don't know what God is thinking about me now. My thoughts towards you are thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you an— you need these truths to fight well. Because you—

the devil is already against you, you can't be thinking God is also against you.

No, you can't. You need this truth.

Hallelujah!

Verse 15: And having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you'll be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one, all the arrows launched at your heart. Launch to make you intimidated, to make you scared. I gave an illustration of the, of the sower, different seeds. And the Bible said the field described different conditions of the heart, different kind of heart. The seed that fell on the wayside, he said, this be like them that heareth forth the word but understandeth it not. Then cometh the devil to take that which was sown. So I know that when people are taught and there's no clarity, they are made vulnerable to lying spirit. Somebody will complete the lecture and it won't be God. So we, we—

that's why we try to teach in the simplest way possible.

Do you understand what I'm saying? So I have received the word. How many of you received word from the Lord when you were starting this year? How many of you received word from the Lord? I've received the word from the Lord. The word is in my spirit. I have it there. The moment the devil knows that there's a word in your spirit, he will bring contrary voices to kill that word. All the devil is after from the beginning till date is the seed. Is the seed.

Genesis 3: I will put enmity between you and the serpent, between your seed and And the serpent, he said the seed of the serpent shall bruise the heel of your seed, and your seed shall bruise the head of the serpent.

Whenever there is a word, the serpent's head can be bruised. What happened to Peter? Jesus was walking on water. Listen to that message. I've taught the message, walk on water. And Peter said to Jesus, if it be thou, bid me to come. And Jesus said, Come. That was enough word for the miracle to happen. And as Peter stepped, he found out that what makes miracle miracle is that you have a word to walk on. And the moment he began to walk, the Bible said there was contrary wind.

He said, ah, this is not my zone.

This— and as he was thinking, he started sinking.

You won't sink.

You know, God gave me an illustration, and he said— he gave me— he said, sometimes greatness is like a child has been riding bike in the compound, then step to the neighborhood, and all of a sudden you put the same child with a bike on the express and say, ride. Say, ah, I can die here. You can't. People have been riding there before you started, and long after you are gone, there will still be people there. When God gives you heli, take it heavy. Don't let anybody shut you down. Is that clear?

So the devil is always after the word, looking at you, the things you have heard, the things you now believe.

Maybe the day you went for a meeting and, you know, you just received certain rhema about your home, that these are the things I'm going to start doing well now. I'm going to know how to take care of my wife. I'm going to know how to take care of my husband. You are carrying that seed. You now get home with that excitement. You say, hello babe, how you doing? Hey, who is your babe? Better say what you want now. Heartbreak. Before you know it, that conviction you came with is threatened, and it can be aborted like that. Say maybe it's not the truth. So you must understand, the devil is interested in the words you have in your spirit. He wants to cut you down.

He wants to sniff it.

He wants to sniff life out of it. He wants to make it impossible for you to believe anything the Bible is saying. And this, this is a generation that is so intelligent. We have many things at our disposal, facts from different media outlets. We have many things at our disposal, but you must hold on to the word of God much more. Are you with me?

He said, above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts, all the arrows launched at your heart, coming from different places. At the place of work, when listening to the news, even when seeing a movie.

Sometimes doing fasting— have you noticed that doing fasting is when Instagram algorithm is bringing different food? Oh, you've not observed? I observed. Personally, one time like that, in the midst of— just brought one oha with roundabout and shaki. It was so colorful. I said, I rebuke you, Satan. So I took it away, brought another one, catfish pepper soup. All these arrows. So I would decide to fast, that's the day your family members start frying plantain.

Early in the morning, the people who don't like to cook, that's the day.

Now say it's true. Maybe this thing should have just been 12. Let me just do the 12 then, and instead of the usual 30 days, 21 days, then I'll take my own to be 40 days. 12, 12, 12, 40. Now lie.

Our story in the city of Abuja is similar to the story of Jacob who said, by my rod I have passed through Jordan, but now the Lord has made me two bands. You will remember how that recently God sent us to Abuja in what I will call the most humble movement. We came practically trusting God for what to do next and how he's going to help us with the words of prophecies he has given to us about the city and the armies arising. And guess what? God is doing just that. Recently we have been seeing the move of God in the most unbelievable way possible, with his word reaching the unreached, converting sinners to saints, bringing people who have lost hope in church. And now this has necessitated the need for expansion so that we do not fall out of what God is doing. Where we are currently is stringent for us, with rules that that will limit what God is doing amongst us. The gospel is free, but the propagation requires a lot of funding. We want our friends, partners, and everyone connected to our ministry to join us as we undertake this project together. We have the urgent need to expand, and we believe that this is the Kairos moment for us to do that. We are importing our own tent all the way from China and getting everything needed to fill that space and have a conducive place where we can have our apostolic work beyond what we are having now at the moment. The structure you are seeing on your screen is exactly what we are working at, at the moment. Believe you me when we say that people who are blessed can be blessed much more when we have our own place. We want you to join us as we undertake this project. We need your support. We're counting on you and your generosity. We are working towards a project of ₦180 million in this season. You have the account details on the screen. Use the account details as God has laid in your heart. God bless you so much. We love you from all of us at Sphere of Light Church. Thank you. For always.

Time army, and this is the mandate that he has given to us. Truly, the harvest is plenteous, but we need you on board as a laborer. This is a call to partner with what God is doing in this great house. To become a monthly partner with us at Sphere of Light Church and Femi Lazarus Apostolic Ministries Ecumenical, kindly reach us via the number +234 903 095 9735. To give an offering or to sow a seed, kindly make use of these account details being displayed blade. The gospel of Jesus is spreading. Thank you for being a part of it.

You will not be strong even with speaking if you have not mastered prayer. Yes, anybody who work in strength master prayer.

Things are going bad in your home, do you know the way of prayer?

Any other thing later.

Do you know how to pray? Can you pray? Can you fight on your knees? That's where we receive the words from. That's where we receive insight and clarity. Can you pray? Will you pray?

If you are ready to hold your hands and say let's pray together, can you? And are you ready to? When we enter the place of prayer like cats, we come out like lions. We enter with doubt, come out with resoluteness, with faith, with audacity.

Amen.

This ministry is even more of a prayer ministry than a teaching ministry until you get inside the back end. Let's charge. Say loud and clear, this year I will pray. I look at the way you are saying— say, this year I will pray.

This year I will pray.

Correct. Many of you will pray in ways you don't know you can pray.

Yes.

I had a prayer with some people. The guy said, I've never prayed for 30 minutes in my life, so I'm the one doing 8 hours every day. Yes, yes, yes!

Say it again: this year I will pray!

You know, yesterday I came back from a trip. I suppose you've been trending on Twitter. Shh. When we see some accusation around, rising up, ah, you know, they, they not go day social media, they type, I like, no, it won't pass the roof. Anyways, nobody was accusing me. Don't mind them, they arguing about, you know, now you were there, there. One of my spiritual daughters became special advisor to the governor, one of the states I won't mention. And then some blogs started posting, she's dating the governor, she's this, this.

He sent me, he said, look at what these guys are saying.

I said, go and relax, it won't pass the roof. Relax, relax. One night we pray, we rejoice over it. That's it. Nip it in the bud. You people start saying, they look foolish to themselves that why am I even saying this, and it dies there. Amen. I said amen. God is giving you new platforms this year. The problem is when somebody has seen a little and they are satisfied and they're not wanting more from God. So I said God is giving you new platforms this year.

I want to show you a story, is that okay?

And that's my case study for today. 1 Samuel chapter number 18. I speak spirit, I don't speak English, I speak life. So, 1 Kings 18. Sorry. I speak spirit, I don't speak English, I speak life. Let's take it 3 more times. Go.

I speak spirit, I don't speak English, I I speak life! I speak— I speak spirit! I speak spirit! I don't speak English! I don't speak English! I speak life! I speak life! Two more times. I speak spirit! I speak spirit! I don't speak King James! I speak life. I speak life. For the last time, loud and clear. I speak spirit. Yeah. I don't speak English. I speak life. I speak life.

Thank you, Lord. Amen. Relax. No weapon formed against you will prosper. Relax. That's a specific word for somebody. You know what I mean. Relax. God said, I will find you with mercy. Find you with mercy. So let me share a story with you here. Elijah went to appear before the king and was consumed with God's jealousy, seeing that they had left God. Now they were worshiping strange idol. Elijah said, no, this is not acceptable. Say, gather all the prophets of Baal, eh, and then I will be here. Let's prepare a sacrifice. Let the God that answers by fire Hear the Lord. And the prophets of Baal did it, gathered themselves, they were cutting themselves and were doing all those things, and they were calling Baal from morning till evening. And Elijah was laughing. Maybe Baal is asleep.

Do you know that kind of audacity?

Maybe Baal has gone to the market.

Say, call him, call him, call him! Maybe he's sleeping, maybe we'll hear.

When they could not get fire, he said to people, he said, cut these sacrifices upon the altar, then pour water. That's a faith that has risen beyond— mean that even if it is raining now, the rain can't stop the fire, it will rather become fuel. Pour water. And he called on the Lord. And the Lord answered by fire and consumed them. See, now that this is the original, all of you fake, you know what he did? He killed them. He said none of you will escape. That's the level of audacity, clearing an entire village of city of idol worshiping. And when you look at him, you say this is a powerful man.

Kai, the day fire fell on Mount Carmel. What? Never to be forgotten.

But there was a woman that was not moved. The system you are up against is not easily threatened. When Moses dropped his rod and became snake, Pharaoh laughed. Guys, drop yours too, became snake. But you must have more. Jezebel wasn't moved. When she came and they said, what happened? Said, what? 1 Samuel 18, okay, verse 19 now. Yeah, 19 now. 1 Samuel— 1 Kings 19, look at it. And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, so let the gods do to me and more also if I do not make your life as one of them by tomorrow about this time.

Ah, ah, Jay-Z, this guy just called down fire.

Say, I don't care, I don't care. By tomorrow, I will not have to call fire to cut your head. I will cut off your head. Elijah was the man you don't send messengers to, he will roast them. She said, go and tell him. The system we are up against, they see, they don't take us serious. That's why somebody can break into a church and steal all the offering at the offering box. Like, who is your God? They don't take us serious. We need some dimension of judgment in these last days. Do you understand? Somebody come, they collect.

You need that. You understand what I'm saying?

Go and investigate what I want to tell you. This is what I'm telling you. Go and check it out. There's a man of God in Nigeria that no news media insult. You can never find any news media insulting him. His name is Umar Opai.

Ah, the man feared me.

He said his daughter was going to get married. He called the son-in-law. Ah, Lord, say this guy, you better be sure. He called the guy, he said, you are marrying my daughter? I say yes. He said, I will give you a house, I will give you guys cars, your wedding gift. Anything you need from me, ask me. I will be there for you as a father. He said, but if you lay your hands on my daughter, I will tell God to show you what hell looks like.

Ah, bless you.

Sometimes when you hear stories, they, they look They look like a lie, but those who have been there will tell you it is as he's saying it. He told an herbalist that challenged him, he said, when you hear me sing, start running.

Which one is? And during the crusade, as he started singing, that's how the guy started running.

The shrine started burning and burned for 7 days. No fire, nobody put fire.

Judgment. The Nigerian church needs that dimension now. Judgment. All right, but the system of Jezebel doesn't send. I want you to know that anybody who hear that a man caught fire We know that the fire does not have specific location, can come on your head. Jezebel said, tell him by this time tomorrow— I, Jezebel, I don't need more people.

I will cut off your head.

Let God see that I die if I don't cut your head. What did Elijah do?

When he saw that, he arose.

This thing is too scriptural. Give me Amplified. In fact, give me Message. You need to give me Message translation. Let's, let's see what, what he did. Can you? And when Elijah saw how things were, he ran for his dear life to Beersheba, far in the south of Judah.

He left his young servant there, because when Jezebel speaks, Jezebel speaks intimidation.

And Jezebel doesn't care about your anointing.

Speaks intimidation, speaks to your core. When you stand before that system and they talk to you for 5, you will doubt your essence. You will doubt that you are who God says you are.

You must know more. You must know more. There was another guy that God had to erase to kill this woman.

When Jehu was going to meet Jezebel, all Jezebel did was to paint her face and looked at him.

Jehu said, I have been— what's the word now? They were eunuchs. The part that will respond to beauty is off. That is the way you can deal with Jezebel. There is hallowed bread if the men have kept themselves from women. Once the system has polluted you, it will bring you down.

Elijah ran, and look at what he began to say. Verse 4 now, quickly.

Then went out to the desert another day's journey. He came to a lone broom bush and collapsed in his shade, wanting in the worst way to be done with it all. Just to die. He wanted to die.

Enough of this. God, take my life. I'm ready to join my ancestors in the grave.

Elijah, you mean a man can call down fire, the next moment he's running? Yes, it's an arrow against his heart, an arrow of fear. And intimidation.

It's that deep.

Exhausted, he fell asunder the broombrush, and Saul and his guests shook him up and said, get up and eat. Your problem is not suicide. You are not being suicidal. You are hungry. That's why I say, in everything in this life, eat first.

You are hungry.

Because whenever Jezebel speaks, Jezebel speaks to confirm something you already believe. The reason why Elijah said, I'm ready to die— we have seen the secret— I've been tired, it's been piling up, been exhausted for a long time. What is it? Let me die now. What are the things you have been believing but you are not talking about? The devil will make sure he injures you in that same area so you can say, finally, I submit, I'm done. These people that just go and commit suicide, sometimes just a small word, say, I'm done now, there's no more hope, there's no— I can't see anything. Say that I'm not done. Say God is not done with me.

Say it again, God is not done with me. Say it again. God is not done with me. God is not done with me.

Who was the guy that came in the spirit of Elijah? John the Baptist. The one that Jesus said, of all that was born of woman, there's none as great as John the Baptist. Say, but the least in the kingdom is greater than he, because everyone prophesied the Messiah. He said, behold the Messiah. John was that guy. People were running to the wilderness to hear the word. And when Herodias, another type of Jezebel, locked him up, his conviction died. The one who said, behold, Lamb of God that takes away the sin of—

he said, go and ask him, is he the Messiah? When this system eats your soul, it eats your convictions. It fights it to the root. The calling you know you had, hunger can make you doubt it. So go and ask him, is he the Messiah? Oshu yet?

Jesus said, go and tell him the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the dead are coming back to life. Jesus said that blessed is he that is not offended in me. That system breeds offense.

And make you resent what you once believed. You must hold the profession of your faith. The devil plans a situation that will make you doubt everything you ever heard. He wants you to doubt everything about Christianity. Maybe the death of a loved one.

You sit down and look at it. If this can happen, if this can happen, who am I? I call that kind of case environmental attack. When the devil is not attacking one person directly, but he's attacking one person, and through that one person, everyone who looks at that one person becomes attacked. If this can happen to this man despite his prayer, who am I? Who am I? Who am I? And they are taking it. No man's experience can validate or invalidate the word.

I know him that I believed.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Never you believe because of anybody's experience. Know God for who he is.

Anything can happen to anybody, it doesn't change who God is. It doesn't.

Ah, look at all these men of God. If this man of God can lose his son, who am I? You are God's child.

And don't claim a battle that is not yours. Intercede and move on.

Say, ah, God, anything you want to take from me, I freely give. Did God say he's taking anything from you? Did God tell you it's a dealing for you to lose any of your family member? Did God say that? Say it loud and clear: this is the victory that overcomes the world, even my faith Please be seated.

You know, somebody called me and said, Apostle, I want you to please pray. My elder brother just drove into his compound, and right there, before they would open the gate for him, he just died on the steering. I said, for how long? Said, for 3 days now he's in the mortuary. I said, all right, go there, video call me, let's agree together in prayer. She went there and video called me, and I was looking at the body lying down on the slab. We're praying and praying in tongues, then I noticed that in the course of the prayer, I started having a thought. That how can somebody just go and die? What's happening in this life? I stopped the prayer and faced myself. Oh, I rebuke the thought of death in the name of Jesus. I walk in victory. I have life abundant. Listen to what I'm saying. You can be launched at even when you are mediating a matter.

Once I saw that question, I knew warfare.

I switched. Lazarus, focus on yourself now, my brother. Focus on yourself. We pray till we pray off the gatherings and the draws in our— that is why we pray for long, sir, till that place is clear. When I eat that gosha from that place, I come out declaring pure streams. Pure streams, pure streams. Go and check. Many of those who counsel those who are depressed get into depression because 10 people want to talk to you about their life.

From that place of listening, if you know you are not strong to hear the full story, tell them, please, God will be with you, go and pray.

Because you can start thinking from there, why is this life wicked? And that's it, you are starting. Why is that wicked? Why do they treat us like this? Many of our kind, you see that you have entered, and before you know it, the suicidal nature of that person, you have carried it. And now it's you. There's a story, I think in Sudan, a popular picture of a woman that captured the vulture that was— I'm not doing that story— and a child.

The vulture was waiting for the child to die so the vulture could feast on the child. The woman that captured the picture killed herself later. She couldn't bear it. Know what you can bear.

When you get to the limit, switch and pray out arrows from your soul. Are you following what I'm saying here?

Intimidation is real.

One of the things I hope to show you is, because this teaching is a warfare teaching, ah, we are going somewhere. What I— where I'm going is to show how media has shut down strategy in the Nigerian church. I've seen it. All you have to do is to accuse a man, accuse and accuse and accuse and accuse. Anybody who is called to the prophetic now in Nigeria, I really salute them, because no office has been under attack more like the prophetic Say God has— can't say I'm a prophet because you're afraid that once people hear it now, they believe you are fake. And that arrow comes and shut down offices, shut down vessels, and we are not having the fullness of what we should have in Nigerian church because of media. We are raising a generation that will counter Oh God, counter-propaganda measures. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's a combatant church. Counter-propaganda. The Nigerian church has been taught for a long time, be quiet, this is the church, don't get involved any matter around the election, just pray. Anything you permit you have no right to complain about. I'm not saying we start— get me in context, is that okay? You know why we have to take this serious? There's another prophecy over this generation, Malachi chapter number 4, that before the coming of the great day of the Lord, said, I will send again Elijah. That dimension will come back. And if— and that's the apostolic dimension. It is the combination of apostolic and prophetic. If God is sending back that dimension, know the devil will send back Jezebel too. So this generation should know that we are up against the Jezebel dimension. Who is Jezebel? How does she operate? How can we identify her? How can we stop her in her tracks? Whoever did in the Bible that arrested the Jezebel system in the Bible— Elijah did not, John the Baptist did not. So this new generation is about to fight an enemy that is not used to defeat. We have work to do. And that's what we are doing on Tuesday. Let's learn the art of war against the Jezebel system. Have you been blessed this morning? Now I want you to pray a prayer. I perceive— listen to this— that there are people here that certain convictions have been shut down through intimidation and words of men. That is, there are things you started, you ought to be doing, but you were shut down and it died. Lift up your hands where you are seated. Say, Lord, I receive life in every aspect of my life to go back to my convictions that I once had. Please pray, please pray, please pray.

Some of you used to, you used to believe before that God will use you powerfully, but something changed.

Something changed. Something changed. Something changed. Something changed. Receive life. Receive life. In Jesus' name we pray. Everything dead and dying, I command in the name of Jesus Christ, receive life now in the name of Jesus. Every convictions you have abandoned because of intimidation, receive life! You will not be shut down.

You will not live your life in fear.

No, you will not be afraid.

God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love, of power, and of sound mind. You will not be afraid.

Your going out and coming in is blessed.

Again, I rebuke the voice of intimidation.

Begone now!

It is done in Jesus' mighty name. Let's give Jesus a big, big hand.

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