DAY 5 || 30 DAYS FASTING AND PRAYER || MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2025

Anchor to the rock, my hope and firm foundation. My hope and firm foundation. He's never let me down, never let me down. I'll put my faith in Jesus, faith in Jesus. My anchor to the rock, my anchor to the rock. My hope and firm foundation, foundation. He's never let me down, never let me down. I put my faith in Jesus, my anchor to the ground. He's my hope and my foundation. He never let me down. I put my faith in Jesus, my anchor to the ground. He's my hope and my foundation. He never let me down. Never let me down. I'll still bless you. Yeah. In the middle of my trials, I'll still bless you. It doesn't matter what it looks like right now. Oh Lord, I'll still bless you. I'll still bless you. Yeah. You've been faithful. You've been faithful! I'll bless you Lord— —you're so good to me oh Lord... I will still bless You— Oh yeah, hey I'll still bless Yo' Hey I'll still bless Ya'. I'll still bless you! I'll still bless you Lord! Oh, oh, I'll still bless you Lord! I'll still bless you! Oh, I'll still bless you Lord! Yeah, yeah, I'll still bless you! It doesn't matter what may come my way! Still blessed! It doesn't matter how the road may seem! Your faithfulness stands sure! Oh Lord! I'll still bless you! Your faithfulness stands sure! Oh God! I'll still bless you! Yeah, I'll still bless your name! Still bless you! Yeah, I'll still bless you! Blessing— oh, I'll still bless you! Great is your faithfulness to me! Great is your faithfulness! Oh yeah! Great is your faithfulness! Ohh— From the rising sun to the setting say I will praise from the rising sun to the setting say I will praise your name oh, from the rising sun to the setting say How great your name. From the rising sun to the setting same. How great is your faithfulness. Great is your faithfulness. Come on, honor and give the church this evening. Great is your faithfulness. Great is your faithfulness. From the rising sun.

Come on, lift up your voice.

He's been faithful from the rising sun to the setting sun. Oh, from the rising sun, from the rising sun. <LYRICS>You are good, you are kind, you are more than this. I'm short of words trying to describe. Elohim, Elyon, HaNesheliyim. Your greatness is all I see. There is nothing you cannot do.</LYRICS> There's no mountain you have not moved. If you have said it, then you will do it. You have a track record of keeping your word, and you're not about to stop doing it now. Oh, Lord, why, why, yo? Why, yo? Oh, Lord, why, why, yo? Why, yo? Oh, Lord, why, why, yo?

Amen, amen, amen, amen. Hallelujah! All right, wherever you are this evening, I want us to give God praise and let's thank him. Let's thank him. Let's thank him. Let's thank him. There is none like our God. There is none beside him. Go ahead and give the Lord praise. Go ahead and give him thanks. Let's magnify him. Let's give him praise, for his good and his mercy endures forever. Just go ahead and give him praise. Thank him. Thank you. The Bible says the lifting up of our hands it is like the evening sacrifice. Go ahead, lift up your hands and say, Father, thank you. Except you are driving, say thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I give you praise. I give you praise and I thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank him for the privilege to fast. Thank him for the privilege to be alive doing this spiritual exercise at such a time as this. Go ahead and give him praise. Wave your hands to Jesus. Wave your hands to him. Wave your hands to him. Glory, glory, glory to Jesus. Amen. You, you, you see that most times when people are fasting, they refrain from doing, you know, some spiritual activities. For instance, it is difficult for some persons to even rejoice when they are fasting because they believe if they rejoice like this, they will lose 30% of energy again. But the Bible says the joy of the Lord is what? Our strength. So I want you to go ahead and rejoice wherever you are. Go ahead and rejoice wherever you are. Your energy will not go down. You will not be tired. Go ahead and rejoice once again. Hallelujah! Glory! Somebody say, Pastor is asking us to rejoice, I am tired. You are not tired in the name of Jesus. The Bible says let the weak say what? I am strong. Say I am strong in the name of Jesus. Say I am strong in the name of Jesus. Say, I'm not weak. Say, I'm not weak. I think you should do this confession after me. Say, I'm not weak. Say, I am strong. Say, I'm full of strength. Say, I'm full of energy. I'm full of strength. It is the strength of the Lord in the name of Jesus. Amen. Thank you, Father. You know, uh, I want to take out this time to appreciate, you know, my father in the Lord, my prophet, God's servant, Apostle Femi Lazarus. Thank you for the privilege to minister to God's people, and I trust that even every one of us connected tonight will be blessed in the name of Jesus. All right, uh, you please have to, you know, bear with me. I remember many years ago when I was a lot younger, when I was a lot younger, they will always, you know, take us to church, always bring us to the place where we would stay, and they will ask us to fast, you know, to fast. And then of course, you know, as a little guy then, a young chap, I would always, you know, come around and say, okay, I'm fasting, I'm fasting. Even when your friends— my friends, whenever they were around, I would not talk to them. Why? I am fasting, don't talk to me, because the more I talk, the more I dissipate my strength. So I remember one of those days, I was there in church, and then a friend came and they suggested that we could drink one kind of water. You know, it's the kind of water that you sieve from pap, all right? If you are from Nigeria, they call it omiogi. Let me give it a more spiritual name— the remnant of the pap, all right? The water that you sieve from pap. So we always take that water and then we're going to sip it and then drink it. And after you are done drinking, you would have drunk the water so much that your stomach, you are filled already for the day. You see, that water is equivalent to you taking banga and then 3 swallow, big ones. Then after drinking that water, we'll now return back to church and then, you know, we, you know, the fermented water will just hang around and then act as if, you know, we're fasting. They will tap us then and say, sorry, yeah, which we will say, we are sorry, we are sorry, we're fasting. Fasting. They will be begging us. I said, don't worry, 3 days will soon be over. I did not know that the fasting we were running from then was waiting for us in front, and here we are today. So if you have been doing all forms and any kind of these things, I, I speak to you in the name of Jesus that you repent. Repent now in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, let's go ahead and let's just give God praise and thank him, for we are not like that. We're not drinking the fermented water. You are not taking your midu. No, no, no, you are not like that. You are not like that. Go ahead and give God praise and let's thank him for strength. Let's thank him for strength. Can you go ahead? If you are lying down, please rise to your feet so we can pray together. Go ahead and then just pray. Oh, because the Lord is our strength. Nothing is as wasteful as you fasting but you're not praying. Lengro dogo zopatea. Can we mount up? Let's mount up, let's mount up, let's build up in the spirit. The Bible says praying always with all prayers and supplication in the spirit. So let's pray, let's pray. Zotea, kabone kevradeas, legovoro magadias, le eva zuda valati ke zupe, legabano zopate yaga, meno froto kote zapatunes, vevio taladas, reado zapatono. The Bible says those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. We mount up with wings as eagles. Building up yourself on your most holy faith by praying in the Holy Ghost. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Pray in the Holy Ghost. I want us to join. I want us to join. Recoverate, you are going to pray louder and faster. Louder and faster. Louder and faster. The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous makes a tremendous power. Available. Make a tremendous power available. Somebody is praying and crying, Lord, restore my fire. Leviatala. Ratosso pate, gratos, zokrata, kratakio, kumana kapaye, felu benteke, paulekepa, lekito beni ke vate kovae, kereverzuke peleke tehae. In Jesus' mighty name, we are still praying. In Jesus' mighty name, we are still praying. You know, while we were just praying now, the Holy Ghost painted a picture in my spirit, and it's the picture of Jonah when he was sent to Nineveh. And this is to show you the power that is in fasting, the power that is in fasting. You see, if Jonah rather now could have spoken to the land Nineveh and the king would decide that, you know, let us fast, we are calling a fast, the kind of fasting they did It was so, so powerful that Jonah fasted— sorry, the, the king fasted, all the animals in the land fasted alongside, and God turned the wrath that he was going to do and perform towards Nineveh. If fasting and genuine brokenness can move the hand of God, can turn his wrath around for good, fasting can solve most of the things that you are praying for. Do you get what I'm trying to say? If God was angry at a nation, a land, a people, and the people there would embark on fasting, and on the basis of this fast, God will say, now I have seen their heart. Why? Because the Bible says the sacrifices of the Lord are not hard. A broken heart and a contrite spirit, he will not despise. Psalms 51.. If fasting could have turned the heart of God with respect to what he was going to do to the land of Nineveh, if you fast, you can break the band of wickedness. You can destroy everything the devil is doing and that he wants to do if you fast. You see that? Now let me show you another one. You remember the guys, the vagabonds, who gathered themselves together and they said they were never going to eat eat nor break this fast until they've seen the end of Paul. It means even those who want to destroy their lives, they go on fasting. How much more believers? The guys, they said they will not eat or drink until they've seen the end of Paul. If people who want to do wickedness can fast and say they will not eat until the end, until they see the result of this wickedness, Believers, we must know the power in fasting. We must know the power in fasting. Let me show you, there's the kind of fast that God calls for. Let me show you Isaiah chapter 58, and maybe because we are used to the, you know, KJV version, I'm going to try and read for us using the TPT version. Isaiah chapter 58, follow me clearly. So I will read from verse 3. From verse 3. It says, they say, why is it that when we fasted you did not see it? We starved ourselves and you didn't seem to notice. Because of the day you fasted, you were seeking only your own desires. So these, these people were asking. So God was saying, because of the day you fasted, you were seeking your own personal desire. And this will lead us to somewhere. He said, because of the day you fasted, you were seeking only your own desires, and you continue to exploit your workers. There is somebody connected, you know. While I began the prayers, God spoke to my spirit. So as we continue, when we get back to prayers, you should please pray. This fellow, I saw something that looks like God was saying that now that you have even chosen to fast, how I wish that you pray alongside this fast and let's break this thing completely. So when it is time for prayers, please pray well. Let's go back. I'm still in Isaiah chapter 58 and verse 3. He said, because of the day you fasted, you were seeking only your own desires and you continue to exploit your workers. During your fast you quarrel and fight with others and strike them with an angry fist. God is giving the people and showing them that these are the things you do during your fast that makes your fast unacceptable. It says when you fast like that, your voice will not be heard on high. Do you think I am impressed with that kind of fast? Is it a day to starve your bodies, make others think you are humble, and lie down in sackclothes and ashes? Do you call that a fast? Do you think I, Yahweh, will be pleased with that? God was challenging the people and saying, if you do this kind and you call it fasting, it doesn't move me. And then if you are going to sum this up, He was talking about personal gains, personal gains. They were fasting, but while they were fasting and everything they were doing, sacrifice was out of it. Consecration and genuinity towards God was out of it. They were doing everything for their own personal gains, you see. And in the course of this, their fasting, the Bible records that they were still wicked towards others. They were not doing good works. And you know, these, these are the things that you see, you know, the, the early moves that we have experienced. These are the practices they observe, such that every time they fast, you see them practice, you know, services, good works. That's why when they fast, they want to go out to do good. They want to relieve people of their pains. They want to do some of those charitable works. All right. Why? Because these ones were fasting and they were doing everything just for their own personal gains. Isaiah 58. So this now shows us that there is the kind of fasting that does not count before the Lord. That is the kind, the kind that you do, and while you are doing it, everything you're doing still negates the principle and the tenets of scriptures. God is against such. You are fasting you are still backbiting. The energy with which you backbite, it is as strong as the energy when you eat 3 bowls of pounded yam. God is saying, I don't count that, it doesn't count. You are fasting, but at your place of work, some of the things you are still doing, ah, no, no, no, they look at you, there's, there's a deviation. God is saying that kind of fasting fast does not count. It doesn't count. So let's see the kind that counts before the Lord. It says, this is the kind of fast that I desire: remove the heavy chains of oppression. And I'm going to show you something at the end. He said, remove the heavy chains of oppression, stop exploiting your workers, set free the crushed and mistreated, break off every yoke of bondage. You see that? When you do all of this, you break off every yoke of bondage. Share your food with the hungry, provide for the homeless, bring them into your home, cloth the naked, don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood. Then if you do all of these things, that is, as you fast and you are doing these good works alongside, that is your character and posture, it is matching up with your spiritual consecration. That is, this fasting we are doing together, as you are doing it, you are also, you know, expressing good works to other persons. You are doing what is right. You are treating others well. You are tending well. You know, some persons are very rude when they are fasting, very rude, very rude. They work in organizations. When they are fasting, their boss will know because they will be less productive when they are fasting. And when the man tries to talk, they will guilt-trip him and talk as if he's a bad person. After all, he has employed you to do the job. Drink a lot of water while you work, you will do it well. So the Bible is saying while we fast, there is the posture of heart, there is the lifestyle that must be in line alongside this. So this is the kind of fast that God calls for. He says, when you do all of this, then he says, then my favor will bathe you in sunlight. Somebody put your hand on your head. Let the Lord's favor bathe you in sunlight. He says, if you turn your back on your own flesh and blood, that is when you do these good works, your character alongside your fasting is good. He says, then my favor will bathe you in sunlight. Until you are like the dawn bursting through a dark night. Jesus, he says, and then suddenly your healing will manifest. You see that now? It is, it is, it is— there is something to do that brings back this thing that God does. That's why the Bible says, to the one that is merciful, you will receive mercy of the Lord. And our father in the Lord has declared that God has asked us to cling to the altar of mercy as we pray. So it is one thing to fast and be praying outside of the will of God. It is another thing to, to fast and then pray with respect to what God has revealed for that season. So if he says cling to the altar, it means we have been helped by the Lord not to go in the direction where we want to be praying what is outside of his will. Now we know God has spoken that we should cling to that altar of mercy, and now we'll be clinging to the altar of mercy. But do you permit me, let me show you some more. Can I show you? Let me show you some of the results you will get when you do the kind of fast that God requires. We are still in Isaiah 58, so I'm going to read Verse 8 again. Then my favor will bathe you in sunlight until you are like the dawn bursting through a dark night. And then suddenly your healing will manifest. Suddenly somebody's healing will manifest in the name of Jesus. You will see your righteousness march out before you, and the glory of Yahweh will protect you from all harm. Let the Lord's glory protect you from all harm. Then Yahweh will answer you you when you pray. When you cry out for help, he will say, I am here. As you cry out for help during this fasting and prayer, the Lord answers you. He says, if you banish every form of oppression, the scornful accusations and vicious slander, and if you offer yourself in compassion for the hungry and relieve those in misery, then your dawning light will rise in darkness. And your gloom will turn into noonday splendor. Yahweh will always guide you where you go to and what you do. He will fill you with refreshment even when you are in a dry, difficult place. He will continually restore strength to you so you will flourish like a well-watered garden. So it is possible to do the right kind of and God is saying one of the results you get is that you flourish like a well-watered garden. This is the similitude of saying you are like a tree planted by the rivers of water, well-watered garden. Amen. And like an ever-flowing, trustworthy spring of blessing. May the Lord make you a blessing. Your people will rebuild long-deserted rills. You're— and anew on foundations laid long before you. You will be known as repairers of the cities and restorers of communities. Are you seeing that now? Verse 13: If you stop pursuing your own— what?— desires on my holy day and refrain from disregarding the Sabbath. You see that now? There is the kind of fast that we do that pulls the hand of God. It will call the hand of God and God will say no, no, no. Guys, you remember when Esther fasted and he spoke and said, you go tell them out there to fast. He said, myself and my maidens, we will fast alongside. When we fast, it is one of the ways— even though this fasting, it is not to change God, it is to change us. And when it changes us, we move the hand of God. One. Can you go ahead again and say, Lord, as I fast this season, I cling to the altar of mercy. I cling to the altar of mercy, not my personal gains. God knows what you want more than you do. Hey, kalobo shande, Jesus! As I fast this season. I will not waste this fasting period. I cling to the altar of mercy. I will only ask what exactly you are doing. I will long for the things you are giving me. I will see the things you are giving me. I will pray in the direction of your will, not for my own personal gains. Not for my personal gains. Not for selfish reasons. Not for personal things, but Lord, I will pray exactly what is in your will. I will pray exactly what is in your will, in the name of Jesus. I want us to release ourselves now and say, Lord, I release myself. I release myself to fast what your will is, to fast according to your will, to pray according to your will. Not my personal gainsays. In the name of Jesus, in Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. So now that I've been able to lay that foundation, I will now be able to take us into the second phase of this prayer. Are we still together? Thank you, Jesus. We are still going to pray. Thank you, Jesus. You see, while I prepared for this session, the night crossing into this morning, the Lord showed me a vision. I saw a vision of us who are currently fasting and praying, and I saw us having musical equipment with us. Musical equipment. And you know, when I woke up, I had to go search the house. For my own musical equipment that I had, but I've not used in a long while now. All right, I saw us having something more like this tambourine, you see, something like this tambourine. I saw us having it. And then what that means is that as we fast this season, God will have us also— I believe in our private, you know, places— that we should give thanks to him, we should rejoice with him. I saw that. I see that God is going to be calling families to come together, not only to pray together for what they need, but to come together and rejoice, come together and give God praise, come together and thank him, come together and sing. So don't get so accustomed to what you need during this period of fasting. Please choose some specific seasons and times where you are going to thank the Lord, where you are going to thank him, where you are going to sing to him, where you are going to give him praise. And as you do this, you know, to every prophetic instruction there are always prophetic answers. God is going to give an answer to it. You see that now? So let's, let's not just fast, but let us also take time to rejoice and sing to the Lord. Amen and amen. Now let us pray. Our theme or prayer that God has given us for this season is that we should cling to the altar of mercy. So let me show you a scripture. Luke chapter 18, it's the story we all know. Luke chapter 18 from verse 35. It's the story of a man, a blind man, who received his sight. And I'll be showing you some of the things that mercy will do. Luke chapter 18, we read from verse 35. Can we read now? It says, then it happened as he was coming near Jericho that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. And hearing a multitude passing by, he asked what it meant. So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. And he cried out, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me! And those who went before warned him that he should be quiet, but he cried out the more, Son of David, have mercy on me. So, so let me show you something. The first thing you want to see here is that when he asked what happened, the, the revelation and the description they gave him was that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. Thank you, Jesus. So I see somebody, you, you have an issue with your eye, all right? The issue with this eye is that in fact it is this exact side. The issue with your eye is that it is always watery. Water is always coming out, coming out, coming out, coming out. And then what's this thing called? The debts you take away every morning when you wake up, that debt you take away. You see, you have that debt coming out usually even when you are not sleeping. Water is coming out and that death is coming out. The hand of the Lord is powerful to heal you this day. So I command that that foul spirit of infirmity lose its grip over you in the name of Jesus. You are healed now and forever in the name of Jesus. So the revelation they gave this guy was that Jesus of Nazareth was the one passing But this guy, even though he heard it was Jesus of Nazareth that was passing, he said from within and said, Jesus, thou Son of David. I thought he was going to call Jesus of Nazareth. Please help me. Based on the revelation and the— what's it called now— the description they gave him, the revelation he had was different from the description he gave. They told him it was Jesus of Nazareth. He said, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And they told him, keep quiet. The more they told this guy to keep quiet, the more he went further. And then in verse 40, so Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he had come near, he asked him, saying, What do you want me to do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. Then Jesus said to him, receive your sight. Your faith has made you well. I'm going to show you something here. You see, how is it that Jesus is currently before a man who is blind, and Jesus is asking the person, say, Hey, what do you want me to do for you? It means that, that somebody is blind does not mean that he really wants healing. Have you met with beggars before and you try to help them? They will let you know that, hey, oga, just give me money. There's been a time like that. We went out on evangelism. I went at Bodija Market. I, I stood at that market I saw, I saw a guy who was mad in the midst of the whole thing. After praying, I went to meet him in the midst of the entire people there, laid hands on the madman. Be healed in the name of Jesus! Be healed in the name of Jesus! After I was done saying, as I was saying, he was saying amen, he was saying amen, he was saying amen. After I was done saying all the amen, I said, okay, so get up now so that you can He said no, he doesn't want to leave this place, that I should just give him money. You see how that a man can be in a position that is not so good, but even in your attempt to help him, he doesn't want to be helped. He doesn't need it. And that's why even on occasions where you pray like this, some of the things you are praying for, God is looking at you and saying that, hey, even you, you don't know. That's why in the Romans chapter 8 and verse 26, it says, likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity, for we know not what we should pray for as we hope, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession with groanings that cannot be uttered. It means as you fast this season, generating spiritual energy, spend more time praying what God has said, which is clinging to the altar of mercy, and much more praying the Holy Ghost more. Because the Holy Ghost will help you pray out the will of God. You see that now? But what I want to show you here is that what the man cried for was that let me receive my sight, that I will see. So if he prayed and he said, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me, the essence of the revelation of mercy in this context it is to the end that sight will be open. Do you get that? Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. The essence of the revelation of Jesus being the son of David, it is to the end that this mercy will open his sight. So there is the aspect of mercy that brings about sight. There is the aspect of mercy that we pray for so that our eyes of the spirit can be enlightened. And that's why I'm taking us to today, that we are going to pray this same prayer with this same revelation. Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. We are praying this prayer on the basis of the revelation of mercy that we have, but it is to the end that now it is not our physical sight It is our spiritual sight that will be open. So you are going to lift up your hands and your voice and say, Father Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me, that my sight will be unlocked. That is, that my spiritual sight will be unlocked, that you will see spiritually henceforth, that you will not only see in the physical but now you will see in the spirit. And when I mean seeing the spirit, it is not just vision. It is that you will see exactly what God is saying. Part-time, you will know what God is doing. Part-time, you will see where he is. Part-time, you will do what he wants you to do. Part-time, the essence of this for today is that mercy will open our sight. Can we lift up our voice everywhere we are? I say, Father, I ask for mercy that on those sides Mercy that unveils sight. Mercy that unveils sight. Mercy that causes the eye of our understanding to be enlightened. In the name of Jesus, can you go ahead and pray? By your mercy, let my sight be open. Let me see spiritually. By your mercy, let the eyes of understanding be enlightened. By your mercy, by the oppression of mercy, that I receive my sight spiritually. By the oppression of mercy, I see what you are doing part-time. By the oppression of mercy, that all things are working around in the name of Jesus for my good. I see correctly, I see correctly, I see correctly. In Jesus' mighty name we are praying. Let me— oh, thank you, Holy Spirit. You see, There is such a thing as God granting sight for direction. You remember when Jesus was betted— when, when, when they gave birth to Jesus, the angel of the Lord had to come to the parents at least 4 times to tell them to take the child away from here, take him here, take him away from here, take him here, take him away from here, take him to this place, take him away from here. That is what we call prophetic navigation, that by mercy your eyes can be open. God can speak to you and instruct you, this is the way you should go. Prophetic direction. You are seeing it clearly, this is where I should go. Because until there is sight, you can't, you can't move. And even if you move, there's every possibility that you move in the wrong direction. But there is the mercy of the Lord that can bring about sight. Until there is sight to see them spiritually. Abraham will kill Isaac even though there is the ram caught in the thicket. And because you cannot see the ram caught in the thicket by your physical eye, God will need to open that eye to see it. A lot of things that you will still need to sacrifice for, God has put it around you. It is around you. You are still spending many years to want to get it, but God has put it around When God opens your eye, you will see your ram caught in the ticket. Until there is the mercy that unveils and causes us to see, uh, Hagar can be in the wilderness, she will not see the well of water to drink from. And if she will not see the well of water to drink from, both her and the daughter and the child— sorry, the son— they will both die. That is until God opens your eye to see. Even you and the vision you are carrying, it is at the risk of dying. So we are crying for mercy like this man cried for his physical eye. We are crying for mercy for spiritual eye. When God opens our eye to see— see, let me tell you, let me tell you, when the eyes of your understanding is enlightened, when God opens your eye to see, there are 4 things you will see. 4 things that you will see. 4 things. But first, can we pray? I will show you the 4 things you will see. Let's pray first and say, Lord, I want to see spiritually, not just vision. That is, I want to see where I am in your agenda. I want to see where I should be. I want to see what I should do. I want to see correctly. Open my eyes. There are some of you that God used to lead you, like I shared concerning the experience of Jesus. God used to lead you before. For every new phase you entered, God always opened your eyes to know about it. But for some time now, you've not been having those experiences. The Lord will restore those manifestations in the name of Jesus. So as we pray there will be the restoration of those manifestations in the name of Jesus. And I have to share that because it is something I experienced. For every new phase of changing location, God will tell me and give me a glimpse. I said, when I was going to meet our Father in the Lord, I saw it first. I said, this is the next thing. And when I got there, is a servant of God, a prophet of the Lord. Our Father in the Lord saw me and said, okay, relocate and get here. To where exactly I saw. God is restoring those experiences in the name of Jesus. Let us pray first and say, Lord, I see you spiritually. I see spiritually. I see spiritually. I see spiritually. Because when you see spiritually, it informs what you do. It informs how you do it. Lord, I see spiritually. Can we, can we press on this? Can I give us some time? Can we press on this for some time? The Bible says he will wash our heart with eyesoap. I see. Bana sobelekida. I see where I am in your agenda. I see what I need to do. I see what has been wrong all the while. I see what has been wrong all the while, and I see what I need to do correctly. I see what I need to do correctly. By your mercy, Jesus, thou Son of David, help me to see. Help me to see. Help me to see. That I will see spiritually, that I will see what you're doing, that I will see what I've been missing all along. I will see what has been missing. I will see the equation that has been missing. I will see, I will see it. And as I see it, I will do the right thing, the right thing that will lead to the right result, that I will not labor like the fool any longer, but now I labor as one that sees. I live as one that sees. My action will be the action of one who sees, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in Jesus' mighty name. We are still praying, in Jesus' mighty name. We are still praying. You see, you know, I told you, when you pray this prayer to see, and God helps us to see Uh, I told you you are going to see 4 things. Number 1, when you begin to see correctly spiritually, you will see God in a different light. You will see God in a different light. You know, in the book of Isaiah, you read from chapter 1, Isaiah been prophesying to everybody, woe to you, woe to this one, woe to you, woe to this one. When he got to Isaiah chapter 6 and verse 5, In first, in Isaiah chapter 6 from verse 1, he said, in the year that Uzziah died, I, Isaiah, saw the Lord. He saw the Lord. There was a new revelation of the Lord that he saw, and that revelation of the Lord that he saw made him see himself. And he told himself, he said, woe unto me, for I am undone. In Yoruba, it means mi oji no. He said, woe unto me, for I am undone. When you— when the eyes— when your spiritual eyes are open, you will see God in a different light. You will see him in a different light. Number 2, you will see yourself. You see, you can be looking at the mirror, you are not seeing yourself. What you are seeing is your physical stature, your eye, your hair, your, your hands, your makeup. That's what you're seeing. When God opens your eyes to see who you are spiritually, you will know that you are like Gideon who is stretching with and hiding. You are what? You are like Gideon. You are stretching with and you are hiding. But when you see yourself spiritually, ah, you will know that, oh, so this is what I've been created for. I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel. You see yourself correctly. You see yourself correctly. You see, some of the actions and inactions are as a product of the absence of sight. There's a way you will act correctly when you see yourself spiritually. You know what you got. You see, you, you have been able— you have encountered yourself in the spirit. There's a way you treat yourself. There's a way you prepare. Because the version that you have seen— ah no, cannot be like this. So you see yourself like Gideon. You see yourself, you are a mighty man of valor. If you have been calling yourself weak, it is because you are actually a mighty man of valor. Most persons who are actually great in scripture, they have the tendency to always want to hide and always wanting to feel like they are not adequate. It. That's why when, when Naomi returned back to that land, she said to all, everyone, they said, she said they should call her Mara. But God had hidden something in her and said this name will be relevant for long. At times you are, you are, the devil is clogging your perception of yourself because he knows what you will become. That's why I, I make both to tell you that God has made you to be great, and you must see yourself in that light in the name of Jesus. So I mentioned that you are going to see 4 things. One, you will see God and perceive him differently. Number 2, you will see yourself differently. There's a new revelation, there's an awareness you now have because by mercy has opened your sight. Number 3, you will see the people around you well. You will perceive them well. You will not see men as trees. Amen. You, you won't see your wife as just one Sunday school teacher in your church because now there's good perception. You will not see your business associate or partner as your competitor. Because now you are seeing correctly, you will see others well. You will see well. You will see the right step to take. You will see the right action. The fourth level of sight, when you see— when God opens your spiritual eye, you will see your enemy. And you know how to avoid, how to run away from them. Can we pray that I will see? When you see yourself and you see those who are around you, you will know what you should do correctly. Say, Lord, help me, help me to see, help me to see. Just imagine the way your physical eye can see well, your spiritual eye can see well like that too. That when the next investment, you know it. What has been missing so long, you know it. The next action to take, you know it. Where you should be by now, you know it. Pray that I see, that I see, that I see, that you see your own ram caught in the ticket, that you see your own well that is in the wilderness, that I see. Help me. Help me to see correctly, that from now I see even my God correctly. When you see God correctly and your perception has been changed, then you will be able to know when it is God or it is not God. You know, there are circumstances that happens that make you, you know, think it is God, but it is not God. But now you are saying, help me, Lord, help me, help me. Everything that I have gone through There are some waiting that it was not God who orchestrated those waiting, but you have been on this waiting. Now when you see God pass, you see correctly, you will say, ah, so I've been wasting my time. So it is not God who has kept me here. Look at the lepers. They said, why sit we here till we die? They must have said, it is God who has kept us here. But when there is a prophetic action, when there's the sign, you can now move and say, ah, Why sit here till I die? Because you are seeing. Because when you see, it informs your action. It informs your action. Your action will catch up with what you have seen. And you pray and say, Lord, help me, help me. Like this blind man who cried for mercy to see, I cry for mercy, mercy to see. Not my physical eye this time, but my spiritual eye, but my spiritual eye. And peradventure there's anyone here who is still praying for the physical eye to be opened, eh, you can pray both together. Help me to see, help me, help me to see, help me to see that as I see spiritually now, I know exactly what God is doing in my life for this season, so I am not rushing. I know exactly what he's doing spiritually and now I'm not rushing. I know exactly what he's doing spiritually, and now I can do the right thing that I should do. I know exactly where I should be. I know what I should be doing. I know what is God. I know what is not God. Help me, help me, help me. I see, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see that you see the missing puzzle so far. You will see the missing puzzles over. You will see it. You will see it. Because as we fast like this, God gives instructions. God gives instructions. God will tell you, son, now that you have prayed for sight, this is what you should have done 2 years ago. Now take the action. Go about it this way. Do it this way. Daughter, you should have accepted this invitation when it came. Way, but you missed that season. Now this is the process of restoration. Do it this way. It will be giving direct instruction. You'll be given direct instructions. It will say, go about it this way, do it this way, do it this way, do it this way. I see, I see, Lord. I see you. I see, Lord. I see, Lord. I see, I see, I see, Lord. I see, I see, I see, Lord, I see that I see God in a new light now. Now I know that God is not the one behind this problem, it is the devil. The Bible said while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tears among wheat. He said you can discern and say the enemy has done this, it is not God who has kept me there. I see. Then you see yourself, right perception of yourself, because now you are like Jeremiah. Now you can see that you are a prophet ordained for nations. You can see it, you can see it, you can see it, you can see it, you can see it. Like a prophet ordained for nations, now you can see it. Not anymore will you wallow in mediocrity because you can see it. You can see the people around you, the help that God has given you. For every Moses, you can see your Aaron. For every Jesus, you can see your John the Baptist. You see, for every Barak, you can see Deborah. You see, you see correctly those who are around you. You see who those that God has positioned to help you. You are no longer seeing men as trees. You see You see, and then on the fourth level, you see where the devil has been fighting you. You see it in the name of Jesus. Thank you, blessed Father. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Now I stand under this privileged office and I pray in agreement with the authority and the graces at work in this ministry. And I ask that by the grace of God, through his mercy, every sight under the sound of my voice is restored. That henceforth we all begin to see clearly, and as we see clearly, we know what to do. And now, as we know what to do, we take the both steps. And as we take these both steps, we get tremendous results in the name of Jesus. Thank you, blessed Father. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. People of God, let me, let me tell you, while you fast this season, please wait for instructions. God will be instructing you. God will be instructing you. Wait for instructions. Instructions. Wait for instructions, and whatever it tells you to do, do it. That's the first key to miracle. And the Lord bless us in the name of Jesus. Uh, let me share, you know, a few announcements that we have with us. Uh, by the special grace of God, fasting and prayer continues. If you are doing 10 days, be faithful with 10 days, only water. Water. Don't scatter it. Don't do one day on, one day off. And don't drink fermented water in the name of Jesus. You are only permitted to break after your 10 days. Hallelujah! All right, and if you are doing 15 days, it is fruit. Don't stuff yourself with parfait. Don't eat 5 cucumber, please. By the grace of God, PPC continues tomorrow. 6 AM, God's servants will be ministering to us. We'll be blessed one more time. And by the grace of God, instead of 5 o'clock broadcast that we're having today, tomorrow we'll be having 5:30 PM Bible study in church. So please connect to service tomorrow as we'll be having our Bible study. And then for tomorrow, we'll be meeting at night, 9 o'clock to 10. But for today, we are still meeting at, you know, 8 o'clock PM today, and we'll be praying to 11 for those of us who are, you know, currently on the private platform. And the Lagos Apostolic Visit will be happening on Wednesday. Wednesday, by the grace of God, our father in the Lord is in Lagos, and he'll be ministering to everyone who is in Lagos. Please do well to be there. Do everything to be there and don't miss it. It. And then finally, while we are fasting, it is a good time for us to get Apostle's books. Get these books and read them so that we don't just fast but we pray and we read. The Lord bless us in the name of Jesus. I want to take out this time to celebrate my captain, my archer. That's our Father in the Lord, my Father in the Lord, Apostle Femi Lazarus and Pastor Miracle Femi Lazarus, for the privilege to minister to God's people. Thank you you so much, Apostle. I love you so much, and I will never take this for granted. Thank you so much, sir. And to every one of us, we are blessed in Jesus' name. So those who are breaking by 6, it's a good time to go and break, but take it easy on yourself. God bless you. Bye, in Jesus' name.