EXODUS 2

Welcome to an encounter with the spirit, word, and prayer through the prolific apostolic and teaching ministry of Apostle Femi Lazarus, lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church Global. It is his vision to raise God's end-time armies.

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We bless you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Blessed be your holy name. In Jesus' mighty name we are praying. Hallelujah! Let's give Jesus a thunderous clap. Amen. God bless you. You may please be seated. Thank you. Thank you, Streams of Life.

That was full of life.

Amen.

Thank you, Lord. I am particularly excited, um, about this meeting, um, because the The Lord said it will be a meeting of distribution of inheritances. Amen. Are you excited about that? A meeting of what? Distribution of what? Inheritances. Amen. All right, you will be— you will know what to do going forward. Are you with me? I said, you know what to do going forward. Amen. And I'm so excited, Pastor Mimi, we are together here.

Amen.

I want to celebrate, um, the resident pastor, particularly of Sphere of Light Church Ibadan. Amen. And the dear wife and the assistant resident pastor, let me give them a big hand.

Amen.

And all our pastors here, let's give them a big, big hand. Amen. All right, who is ready for Jesus? So on 31st— and by the way, if you have only had the message on 31st that night, then you have not heard it. Okay, you have not heard it. So I, I began the teaching, and it was the continuation of the crossover night from 2022 into 2023. So we have to continue in 2023 into 2024. Amen. But today I want to show you something really particular, still in that same light, and that's the reason why I'm coming up quite early so I can have time to get you established.

Amen. Hmm.

Now look at it. Let's turn our Bibles, please. Let me start systematically. The Book of Exodus, chapter number 1. Exodus chapter number 1. I start the reading from verse 5. Please, I beg you with everything you have that you will listen in a different way tonight. Is that okay? Pay keen attention. Exodus 1 from verse 5. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls. For Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty, and the land was filled with them. And there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more— that is, in population— and mightier than we. That is, in terms of strength, their might, their abilities. Now look at what he said in verse 10. Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it come to pass when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies and fight against us. So get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Rameses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. Now, two forms of growth was observed initially. The first was their population. Is that okay? The second, their might. What's the second? Their might. What's the first? Their population, their numbers. Is that okay now? Now Pharaoh said it is important we deal wisely with these guys, all right? And the Bible said they set taskmasters, that is, people who make them serve with rigor. Are you with me? And the taskmasters began to afflict them. And make them build cities for Pharaoh. By the time the affliction began to speak, there was now one dimension of growth that was accorded to them— population but no strength. What that means is that the goal of adversity is to take away might. The goal of adversity, of affliction, is to take away might. That people may increase, but they are not mighty. They have population, but they can't get things done. They have crowd, but the combined effort of the crowd comes to nothing. And sometimes this looks like the tale of Africa, like The devil seemed to have seen an imagined continent that seemed to have what it takes to beat all other nations, and for years they were subjugated, they were imprisoned even in their own country. Some kings were banished, some were sent out, some were killed. And it seems after that moment, it seems the only form of growth that was accorded to the continent is population. You hear things like Nigeria is there as the largest race of the blacks. Where went the might? And that's one thing affliction does. Affliction insists that the only part that may be useful is the womb. Amen. There is no productivity. God gave instruction about two dimensions of growth from the beginning. Be fruitful. And what? Multiply. And many people seem not to understand. Probably some feel God was repeating what he has said. Ah, be fruitful means become mighty. Multiply means then get that might. There are many things to pay attention to in this scripture. One of the most significant thing to pay attention to was the moment Pharaoh started that curriculum. It seemed like Egypt discovered them before they discovered themselves. They were a threat But as far as they were concerned, they were just people looking for food. And the affliction they faced was to the degree that they were a threat. And sometimes you have people say things like, why me? What have I done to deserve all this? What have you not done? If you have an idea of what you were designed to do, the last question you will ever ask is why me? Affliction flocks away self-perception, so much so people can no longer see themselves except in the light of their troubles. Or like we call him, Blind Bartimaeus, the madman of Gadara. But is that the destiny?

No.

And Blind Bartimaeus, is that a destiny?

No.

From today, you will no longer be called by your affliction. That amen didn't seem to be well enough. From today, you will no longer be called by your affliction. Let's, let's, let's pay attention. Are you aware that it was a family that went to Egypt, but God was seeing a nation? Let me give you— let me explain what that means. So I am giving you the expounded version now. Is that okay?

Uh-huh.

So you have to go and combine this with the crossover message. Is that okay now? Because this is it. This is it.

Aha!

By the time we are done tonight, you will know that what this is it. Look at what happened. You know, it was food that brought them to Egypt. There was no food, and Jacob sent sons to go and buy food. In Egypt. Egypt had food because Joseph was in Egypt, meaning that what makes the nation strategic was still something flowing from Abraham, but I was no longer with the children of Abraham. If Joseph was amongst his brethren, where would there be food? With his brethren. Sometimes it is not a nation that is strategic, it is the people. If you take that same person with that same grace and put them in a desert, there will still be what? Are you following what I'm saying here? There was nothing special about it. There was something special on Joseph. And sometimes out of envy, you can sell your Joseph, and you will have to go and beg for food where your Joseph now is. And that was their condition. If you put this in respect to nations, Nigeria is not where she is because this is Nigeria. Those nations are what they are because they have taken our Josephs. It is not the snow that makes a powerful nation, it is the man carrying that grace. Because one of the cry God has asked me to erase in this season is to labor in the land. I know that doesn't sound popular, but bread is coming to Nigeria. Is that okay? I said bread is coming to Nigeria. You will not have to knock the gate of Egypt. Bread is coming to Nigeria. Wine is coming to Nigeria.

This nation is flowing with milk and honey.

Amen.

It was a family that came to Egypt in search for food that their own family members had given them, and when they got the food, they began to multiply and they were becoming mighty.

Okay.

So the problem started. What they did not realize was that they were no longer just a family, they had become a nation. Listen to what I'm saying. Sometimes you have shifted, but there is still problem. But because of the depth of the problem, you do not know that you are not the same person again. I'm saying a man can shift even in his worst mis— and the mystery is no longer his definition.

He has changed. They came as a family, but now they are a nation. The conflicts Pharaoh had with them was such as he will have with a nation, not with a family. Oh, I do not have food, I don't even have money in my ount.

The problem started with you as an individual, but while you are in it, you do not know that you have shifted. And when you look at yourself, you cannot but see the problem. But when the enemy looks at you, they see your real state, and that's why you cry. Why is the affliction getting so much? Why are they after me? Because you are— you don't know who you are. Once you collect identity from a man, you have collected too much. Once you can get a man to a point where he can no longer see himself, once you can get an individual to a point where he can no longer see his might, once you can get a person to the point where they can no longer see their potentials, you have almost finished the person. And the instrument that the enemy used to achieve this is affliction. Have you seen people lose their job and in matter of time they try to commit suicide because the affliction gets so much they can no longer see themselves in that situation. They allow those things become their essence. You are more than that job, and your life is far deeper than the mediocrity of those around you.

They call you names based on their own limited perspective.

Have they seen the future? Oh, the brother that used to sing is more than that. That brother on black shoes always is more than that. And you see, the future is in such a way that it sits down without announcement, that a man may be in his last phase of trouble and nothing looks like that is the last phase.

A man may be in the last phase of his tribulation, tomorrow He will never sleep a poor man again, but today he's still the poorest amongst the poor.

God said to tell you there will be sudden breakthroughs, there will be sudden breakthrough, sudden announcement, sudden announcement. Sit down, I'm building something. The man that was born blind, that sat to beg every day, Jesus molded clay, spat on the floor, molded his eyes, asked him to wash in Siloam. When people saw him, the Bible said they began to reason among themselves. Is this not he that was born blind, that sat here to ask for alms? They began to ask him, is this you or is this not you?

He said, I am he. He said, how come you now see? He said, Jesus of Nazareth molded clay and then molded on my eyes, asked me to wash, and now I can see.

And the Bible said they began to argue. They call his parents, are you sure this is your son that was born blind? They said, yes, he is.

How come he now sees?

He's of age, ask him, he can speak for himself. There are things that happens, people start asking, is this that guy? You know, we're in a very myopic world that you barely can see people beyond their situation. But who is it that says it when God has not spoken? Somebody is seated somewhere here, nameless, faceless, unknown. However, 2023 was the last complete year in obscurity. There will be announcement. They will. All I've come to make you do tonight is to make you see. The moment we get a point where you can see, I will leave you. But tonight you will see. How do you describe sight to a man who has never seen? Are you aware that up until now Israel had never been a nation? It has always been a family, from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob. It was on Jacob that they went to Egypt, so they knew nothing about being a nation. God is saying you are what you know nothing about.

They have never been there. They've seen other nations, but as far as things were concerned, they were families.

They've always been Abraham to Isaac to Jacob. Jacob and his children, in fact 70 of them, came there. How do you enter into what you don't even know exists?

How—

hold on a minute. How can God prepare for you in one year something you don't know what it means to experience before? Some of you have probably never walked in wealth, and he calls you by what you have never walked in. How do you respond to that unless you see? How can you become a nation as a family unless your eyes is open? You are not about to become, you are already. What you are about to do is to see it. The moment you see it, you walk in the fullness of what you are. God is not about to make you a nation, he has made you a nation. But you are a nation that is not aware. You are a nation that still sees herself as a family. And what is the problem? Affliction. If you call me a nation, how come I'm going through what I'm going through? How come I barely have transport to go to church? How come I have to beg people every time? How come I still have to look up to somebody for rent? How come I still have to trust somebody for shoes? How come I start to trust somebody for some money? If you say this is who I am, how come this is still my experience? Because you have not seen yet. The posture a nation has is different from the posture a family has. You are a nation still carrying yourself as a family.

Why?

You have not seen. Let me show you a scripture. Are you following me? We're still building, okay? Anybody who knows the way I teach knows that we are still building. Let me show you a scripture. Look at the book of Psalms, chapter number 82. Psalms, chapter number 82. If you're there, say amen. Let's start the reading from verse 5. Psalms 82 from verse 5. They know not, neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, ye are gods. And all of you are children of the Most High. Now, because they do not know, look at the next verse, but they shall die like men. How are gods dying like men? How are gods inflicted with the predicament of normal men? Because they know not. Ignorance is the seal on afflictions.

Ignorance.

Ignorance, it seals afflictions, it makes it— He calls you a nation. Amen.

Look up.

Stop writing for a while. Let me help you see two things. Let's put side by side a nation and a family. So let me have Pastor Abraham, let me have Pastor Joseph. Now this is a family and this is a nation. In families There is father, there is mother. If the father dies, you have the mother and the children. In a nation, you have a ruler, either a president or a king, depending on the state you operate. If the president dies, you appoint another. Joseph died. But there was no another Joseph. There was no structure. When you have a nation, when a king dies, you appoint another because the king represents the sovereignty of the nation. Okay, are you getting the gist? In a family, they eat together, live together, everybody strive. That's as far as it gets. In a nation, you have military structure, so they have might that was not channeled into structures. So when Pharaoh said Femi Lazarus, let's deal with these guys. There were over 2 million people, but there was no structure. 2 million people without soldiers, without their own defense structure, no parliament structure, nothing. Nobody speaks for them. Your simplicity will get you into trouble. It's time to build structures. When you shift and you are not aware, the Bible says you are worse than a beast that perish. You have lived all your life as an individual. It's time to live as a system. If I can't get you to understand this, you don't even have an idea of what this year holds. When you get so used to smallness, it becomes difficult to see yourself outside of it. Egypt was seeing a nation, one that was mightier than them. But what was the opportunity? They were a structureless nation. As far as they were concerned, we are just simple people. They wake up every day greeting the Egyptians, hello, good morning.

We are not a threat, just simple guys, just simple guys.

As far as we are eating, we are good. We're just simple guys, we are not—

we don't look for trouble. No, no, no, this is it.

But Pharaoh was seeing might, but those who have the might have no structure. What's your structure like? Do you have structure to accommodate what is coming? Abundance becomes a curse when it visits a person who is not ready for it. You have been asking for the rain, but you are prepared with a cup.

What is the capacity of a cup in the presence of the flood coming?

There is a flood coming, and for many of you, one bank account is useless. Can you see it? Can you see who you are? Can you look inward and listen? If you are a family who doesn't know what it means to be a nation, it's time to start learning how nations function. Meaning that part of the requirement for this year is more knowledge. More knowledge.

Go for it. You are entering into a field that you know nothing about before. You have only heard of it, celebrated those who are in it, but you have not experienced it.

It's time to learn about it. You have shifted. You are only not aware. The way you carry yourself on the street looks like, "I'm not a threat, I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not a threat," with palm slippers. The way you do your things, the way you reason, it's clearly obvious that you are a man who comes to honor but understands not. Your problem is you wait for physical manifestation before you adjust, but the design is it is your— it is your adjustment that brings the manifestation. Adjust first. I've not come to teach this teaching. I want your eyes to be open, and that's the most difficult thing. However, God is here. So I want you to get up on your feet, everybody, for a minute. Stand as men of war. Look at yourself again. Say, I am no longer the same. Someone has not seen it.

Femi Lazarus.

I know you heard things from your stepmother. I know you heard things from those who didn't discern you. I know you heard things from your roommate. I know you heard things from those around. Listen, this is where it all ends. The last phase of your ordinariness is over. Stand again as one whose eyes is opened. I am no longer the same. Walk around. Say it again. I'm no longer the same. It is no longer business as usual. It is no longer business as usual. No longer. Amen. Now go back to your seat. Everyone still stand. Say, I know who I am. I am a nation. We are Sphere of Light Nation.

Amen.

Now, now, let me teach you some things. Sit down for a moment. You've not seen what I need you to see.

All right, we're getting somewhere.

There's this song we'll be singing during the prayers at night. I want those who know the song only. Favour is coming, it's coming like a flood. The rain of favor is the rain of favor. Smiles Laugh and sin and rejoice. Sphere of light has broken through.

Sphere of light has broken through. The rain is falling, it's the rain of faith. Smiles and laughter, we are turning the consciousness in. Shouting and rejoicing, spare of light has broken. The rain is falling, it's the rain of favor. Rain is falling on Father Lazarus, shouting and rejoicing. Spa of light has broken through. The rain is falling. It's the rain of Femi Lazarus.

Rain is falling. The rain is falling. Amen. Sit down for a moment. Just stand with me. You don't get reservoirs during the rain, you get beef during Because the oil will only flow until the containers are over. It will keep flowing if you can get containers from all the earth. It will not stop. But the moment the containers end, it will finish. Jesus never told them the amount of drum to fetch water in at the wedding of Canaan. They got what they got based on their mind. If they could get all the drums in Israel, it would be wine. Who told you to stop? The most difficult thing is to introduce a man to what he has never been before.

And the fact that you have never been there does not limit the capacity of God.

You are starting now, still start big. I feel one of the biggest mistakes we have made in the past is starting small. We don't despise the day of little beginning, but little beginning is not compulsory.

If you obey the law, be fruitful and multiply.

It's not compulsory. I said it's not compulsory. It is not compulsory. If it happens, you don't despise it, but it's not compulsory. If you are fruitful, then multiply the fruitfulness. There is no small beginning. The issue is that you gave yourself the orientation that if I'm starting, it has to be small. And you have according to what you have concluded in your heart. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Sit down for a moment. Tell your neighbor, say, that's true. Small beginning is not compulsory. Because you started small, but if it is spreading, you don't spread small. It is the orientation of the beatdown that you had starting small that is making it difficult for you to enter your inheritances. When life beat you, you almost can't see what God has for you.

Small beginning is not necessary. Who gave us that orientation?

This is the big year.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Sphere of light has broken through. The rain is falling.

It's the rain of Femi Lazarus.

Dancing and rejoicing.

Shouting and rejoicing, spare of light has broken through, spare of light has broken through.

The rain is falling, the rain is falling, it's the rain of favor, it's the rain of favor.

Amen.

Please be seated. Say it again: my garment is changed. My garment is changed. You know, the Joseph that they followed there was in prison, and I, I shared with you prayer meeting last year. The person he solved a problem for was the one who saw the problem at higher level and said, I remember now my sin, that Joseph, one of the Hebrews, two of us had a dream and he told us the meaning. He said, I believe you can interpret your dream. Some of you have already sown the seed to bring the harvest. It's not about another seed. You just have to recognize that once the harvest come, this is the harvest. And make sure you approach it as one who is not going back to being small. You must know how to enter your harvest and know there will no longer be famine. That's what many don't understand. Once you are too polite, you go back to being small. Embrace the sophistication. Small-minded people will call you proud, but that's how to be a nation. The Bible said they sent and they brought Joseph out hastily. Joseph said, while I was in the prison, I was also learning something. My body might be in prison, my mind was not. So he said, hold on, let me shave. So he shaved his beard, said, can I get another clothes? And he appeared before Pharaoh for the first time, but not in a small way. His mindset. If he had appeared in prison uniform— you know, there's a way you appear before great people, and even when you are a blessing, they know you can't come to their class because you dress like your predicament. Femi wasn't stupid. Before you can put a man in a position, definitely he was looking like it, he was talking like it, he was dressed like it. You are the one trying to convince all of us that it's just now I'm just getting bigo, baby. You don't owe everyone the story of your past. When God increase you, stay in the increase, period. You know, all the excuse you have last year that we just started, this year has collected that excuse. There's a way you can use starting soon as yardstick for the reason why you are small. Joseph stood there, was dressed like one who is qualified for that position. He said, let's get a man who is wise, who is discreet. Let's put him in charge over this. Pharaoh, look, who is it that has this qualification but you? Put him on the horse. You are in charge. The only way I'll be higher than you is in throne. Go ahead now. It's time to change your dressing. By that, I'm not talking about just new clothes. Your mind. God has done everything to make you see it. It looks like he can't collect your village from you. That was the Joseph they followed to Egypt. Now imagine if Joseph had duplicated this same mindset. How did the colonial masters came to Africa? They came to a country that has more people, more surface, more, more many things, their homeland, came with few men and still overpowered them. Because what subjugate people is not gun, is minds. If a man has the defense structure but the mind is small, you will get him down. You are down not because you are small. You are down because your mind— your mind— there seems to be nothing to make you see it. Can you see it? That your life will no longer be business as usual? You have to start learning new things. Because you are going to start standing in front of people you have never stood before, and you can't do it as an amateur. That is, first time does not mean it has to be crude.

Prepare! It must not meet you unaware.

Prepare!

And there's someone here that this word is for. Prepare!

There is a shift, and you are about to start standing before the quality of people you have never stood before. Prepare. And when you stand there, it will not be on the bill of favor. It will be because you are needed. Nobody's favor can bring you to their level. If I, if I, if I have ₦10 million in my account Except God says, if I favor you, I give you a million. What if I have 10 million and I have this problem that needs to be solved with 20 million naira and you are the one with the solution? I have to give you that and get more. It's time to understand the principle of value. Stop staying idle and expecting favor. It's time to bring something to the table. You matter in this matter. Your sun is shining already, and you have to see it. You have to see it. So Pharaoh saw, he saw their issues, he saw their limitations, he saw their problems, he saw them. He saw what they were not getting. Ah, let me show you a scripture. Let's read the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapter number— chapter number 1. Let's look at what this lack of awareness can do. All right, let's start the reading from verse 20. Let me show you specifically. Deuteronomy 1, are you there?

Huh?

Are you sure? Let me show you something. If this looks like you, then you have to pray. Now look at it. Let's start reading from verse 21. Let's read this together. Are you with me? 1, 2, 3, go! Behold, The Lord thy God has set the land before you. Go up and possess it, as the Lord, the God, the God of thy fathers had said unto thee. Fear not. Neither— what was the instruction? The land is before you. Go and do what? That was the instruction.

He didn't say go and fight.

Sometimes the victory is You only fight so it can be in record. Ah, can I help them now? When the foundation is uprooted, you know, you just have to fight, but already it is settled. As far as God was concerned, Goliath was a dead meat, but At least throw a stone. At least throw a stone. He's done.

Or who is the person that has the audacity to do that? God was dead. God was gone. David saw it.

You uncircumcised Philistine, you don't have our covenant.

If you don't have our covenant, you don't have our stature.

And somehow he just seemed to conclude, ah, a stone is enough for your kind. And when he took the stone, God followed it, and that was more than enough. It was not about sword, it was about spear. Who is the person that can recognize that God has collected the land to just go and possess it. And then just do one or two things so it can be in record they did something.

Just send the application, just make the phone call, just reach out to the—

but God has gone ahead.

Create the social media platform, just make the announcement, but God has gone ahead.

But are you audacious enough to do that? Cuz it's something you have never done before, but God has gone ahead. Look at this, go back to that same book of Deuteronomy chapter number 1. Let's continue from there. All right, look at it. And ye came near, every one of you, and said, we will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land and bring us word again by what way we must go up and in what city we shall come. Yes. And the saying pleased me well, and I took men, 12 men of you, one of a tribe, and they turned and went up into the mountain and came unto the valley of Eshkol and searched it out. Yes. And they took up the fruit of the land in their hands, and they brought it down to us and brought us word again. And said— what did they say? It is a good land which the Lord our God does give us. We recognize the land is good. What you are saying God wants to give me, I know it is powerful, I know it is good, it's a good land. Notwithstanding, ye would not go up, but ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye murmured in your tent and said, because the Lord hated us, He had brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorite. This is PTSD, huh? Post-traumatic stress disorder. You know, there, there is a way everybody begins to remind you of those who have afflicted you. They've not healed from the trauma. The Amorites are Amorites, not Egyptians, but they were seen Egyptians. Look at it. So you have brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. That was their challenge.

Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, the people is greater and taller than we.

Are you seeing that their might was killed? How do you describe greatness by height? What makes you feel people are greater than you because of their skin color? Something died in the days of your affliction. Something died and it's time to revive it.

People are greater than we. The cities are greater. Walled up to heaven.

Was the city walled up to heaven?

You know, when your mind is afflicted, you even do—

you do image laundering for your enemies.

Hey, have you seen them? Powerful people.

You launder their image for them. You do adverts and publicity for your enemies. Just because you can't see yourself. They said the cities are walled to heaven, but the one who sent them is he who sit in the heavens.

Femi Lazarus, we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

Yes.

Then said I unto you, dread not, neither be afraid of them. The Lord your God, which goeth before you, he shall fight for you.

What does it mean to fight for a person?

Be still and know that he is the Lord. Let him do the fighting. You just be audacious.

He shall fight for you according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes. So your eyes was open in Egypt, but your mind was closed. God was saying, I am still that same God. In Egypt, I parted the Red Sea. Even the parting of the Red Sea could not make them see themselves. What more shall be done for you? The sea parted when Moses stretched his rod. The east wind blew and parted the sea, and yet you couldn't see. You were the only set of people that food was raining from heaven for.

You had the pillar of fire at night and the pillar of cloud during the day. God had to set up a place called the Tent of Meeting where he will descend face to face with Moses and speak as a man speak to his friend. It was not sufficient to open your heart. Fire came down on Mount Sinai and God spoke with Moses in the midst of it. Exodus 19. It was not enough to open your heart. In Exodus 24, God called Moses, called Aaron, called Nadab and Abihu, and the 70 elders of Israel. And the Bible said that day they ate with God and they saw him, and he did not kill them. And that was still not enough to open their eyes. Paul put to the Corinthians, said a veil was upon their heart. If you can take that veil from anyone, you have helped the person. You remember those guys that was talking with Jesus when he— after his resurrection, and they were talking to Jesus about Jesus, and Jesus began to show them scripture that ought not the Christ first to have suffered, then died before he enter into his glory? And the Bible said he expounded scriptures to them, and as they approached the gate of Jerusalem, their eyes was opened. And when he saw their eyes was opened, he He left. Then said, did not our heart burn while he yet spake? Your heart can burn and your eyes is still not open.

Somebody can do mm in a meeting and yet the fellow can still see.

The proof of sight is that you take steps. Every man who used to be blind who can now see will live where they used to be. Let me show you an example of blind eyes that was open in the Bible. Say, my eyes of understanding are enlightened. Say it again, my eyes of understanding enlightened. There was a word of prophecy that went ahead, that by this time tomorrow a measure of wheat will be sold for a shekel. And the Bible said the man on whom— whose hand the king leaned asked that even if the windows of heaven be opened, might these things be?

Ah.

Elisha look at him. You will see it. You know, sometimes you know too much about the problem that you are not ready to know about the solution. Are you following what I'm saying? Say, you will see, but you not eat of it. Listen, what did the prophecy say? By this time tomorrow. Listen to what I'm saying. While the prophecy was being given, the lepers were not there. They were not even given the privilege to be among those that will hear such prophecy. Have you seen somebody being imparted in a meeting and you were not even seated in anywhere strategic for you to be the one the man of God will call out and even pray for, but yet you are the one to fulfill the prophecy? It is not about where you are seated in church. It is about how quickly your heart can open.

They were not there. They were lepers. And as far as they were lepers, they were good for nothing. They were kept behind the city walls. They were kept behind the city walls. They were the ones who asked a question. Every shift begins with a question.

Why sit We here till we die. Why am I here? I know nobody has prophesied to me, but why am I here? Why am I here? And the Bible— they began to reason with themselves. If we sit down here, hunger will kill us. If we get up and go to the camp of the Assyrians, they may kill us.

If they kill us, we still die. And then they may spare us and give us food, then we shall leave. At least one of these two options give us a chance of living.

Let's go there. But because a word has gone ahead, the Bible said, as they began to move, the Lord caused the Assyrians to hear the noise of chariots. Lord has gone ahead. Make a move. Despite the fact he has gone ahead, he won't make the move for you. When you move, doors will open. And as they move, there's the—

how I mean, lepers, their legs have been chopped off. That's the weakest point of their body, their legs, their hands. It's a withering. In the days of fulfillment of prophecy, even weaknesses become strength.

And the Assyrians fled, and they got to the camp and they saw no one.

Why did it happen?

Because they were the only ones who dared to move. We can lay hands on you and speak words, but somebody in the auditorium the hands was not laid on but heard the word may do it better. It is mostly never really about the hand, it is about the man upon whom the hand is coming.

Somebody might just hear something.

I was speaking to one of my friends, and I'm not going to go fully into details, and he mentioned that, um, a father in the body of Christ sent for him, and then this, this, and then the father that, that. And then I said, what did he say? And then he mentioned the, the words, the prayer the father prayed for him, and then the prophecies the father gave him. I told him, I was not in that meeting, but you were there. He says, so I said, hold on. So I went upstairs, took an envelope of seed for him, and I said, you were there. He says, you received the word. He says, take the same words he spoke, release it. And I knelt down. I don't have to be there. If I can hear it, I will run with it. It is not until hands come. When the Lord says, I have, I have gone ahead of you as a mighty terrible one, can you move?

Is it enough to get you to change your posture? Must the heaven fall before you move? Must there be earthquake before things have shifted? You have forgotten.

You see, the, the problem is you got into anxiety because you stopped remembering all the Lord, all the things the Lord has done.. And now when you sit down, you can only remember what didn't work. What did you do?

And you say, we can't go there, we can't go there, those guys are taller, they are bigger.

They have not recovered.

Give me back that scripture.

They have not recovered. And God who sits in the heavens was wondering, this was not Israel that I used to know.

Israel that I used to know, Abraham being a businessman, went to slaughter kings. Israel that I used to know— Jacob wrestled with an angel. Israel that I used to know is a combatant nation. How will a man fight with an angel and say, I will not let you go unless you bless me?

Omolagbe aluma yole. It is the sons of the great. That used to be lazy, and we're having that same nation. How many times did God have to talk to Abraham before he would believe God? As far as your eyes can see. And Abraham believed God, and God counted it for righteousness. How many times must he speak before you see it? Well, look at it. He said, for— no, go back to that scripture. Deuteronomy 1, verse 25. Now, if I'm correct, quickly. Okay, go to verse 28. Whither shall we go? Our brethren have discouraged my heart, saying, the people is greater, taller than we, the cities are great, walled up to heaven. The sons of the Anakim said, you are sons of Abraham. Do you know who you are?

Look at it. 29.

Then I said unto you, dread not. That I be afraid of them. Quickly walk with me.

The Lord your God, which goeth before you, he shall fight for you according to all he did for you in Egypt. Before your eyes. And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son— you are not an orphan— in all the way that ye went until ye came into this place, he carried you, he has not dropped you.

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God, who went the way before you. To search you out a place to pitch your tent, in fire by night to show you by what way you should go, in a cloud by day. And the Lord heard the voice of your word, and he was hurt and swore, saying, surely, ah, there shall not one of these men out of this evil generation see that good land?

None of them, which I swear to give. It was Abraham that God swore to.

He said this generation, they will not see it.

Do you know God can move on because you refuse to see? You are the one who have time.

He's not limited by time. His agenda will still continue.

Look at it.

He said, save—

go back to that verse 35 again. Sure, there shall none of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I swear to give unto your fathers. Yes, save Caleb the son of Jephneh, he shall see it. And To him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, to his children, because he had wholly followed the Lord. And the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, thou shalt not also go in thither. Huh, why is it this bad? Somebody asked me a question. I've not answered the question because I shared the story, a very painful story, and it happens all the time. You have friends that you used to know in secondary school, and somehow you lost communication, and you have grown to become what you have become, and you keep looking forward to the day you see them. And when you finally meet and sit down at the table, you discover that the friendship worked then because you were both small. Now somebody has grown, the other person is still there. Two can't walk together because they can't agree. And God is looking, what is this thing that can, that can make a man almost useless for God? Don't underrate affliction. When a man comes out of it, he needs to be rehabilitated with the word. Many of you believe it's a new year, but I bet you still don't know what God intends to do. You can only see slightly better, but God is saying, what I want to do is not slightly better, it's a new paradigm.

And the man that will sit will be a man whose heart has been helped. What were they crying for in Egypt, in, in the wilderness?

We want cucumbers, garlics. We miss garlics, we miss cucumbers, we miss leeks in Egypt. You know, you can miss smallness. You can miss the day you can walk on the street with bare feet. Say, I just miss those things. You are not ready for greatness. When God shifts you, you shift. We know we have casted out the enemy, but his works is still there.

I know you have broken that relationship, but the things they said is still ringing. You are still no longer under your stepfather or your stepmother, but the word they said still has an hold.

I don't know, you are in your 40s or your 30s, but you still believe the one who said to you, you are naked. That was, that was the most devastating thing to God when he called Adam and Eve, say, where are you? Say, we hide ourselves because we are naked.

Ha!

Who told you? Every posture you have Everything you believe, everything you do, you do because that is what you have heard. You know, sometimes— so I think somebody saw me and was saying that, um, people have called me different names in recent times. I say, is he a psychologist? Is he this and that? When people don't have definition to your essence They define you based on their limitations, but you are more. Let me ask you a question. You know where you are coming from quite well. The only thing you don't know yet is where you are going. And for you to get there, we must uproot where you are coming from so you can be ready. For where you are going. Listen to what I'm saying. The wisdom for where you are coming from that make you survive there is the same thing that will kill you where you are going.

You didn't hear that?

Let me give you an illustration. Some things worked, but they are like scaffoldings. They should be pulled down now because they will no longer be relevant. What was wisdom yesterday may be the foolishness of today. They worked because they were for when you were small. It's time to open your eyes and see. Don't hug the past.

Move on.

That thing worked yesterday, but it is the destroyer of tomorrow. I'm saying this because God has sent me for the distribution of inheritances, and if I can't get you to see it, you can't enter. It is as far as your eyes can see.

Why can't God just give him anything? If you get what you have not seen, you will waste it. It is as far as your eyes can see.

As far as your eyes can see. When God says that as far as your eyes can see, I will give you. What do you do? Go and deal with your sight. Don't just get up, okay, okay, I see this, ask for anything you want.

Oh Lord, this year I receive a car.

A car can come today. Is that the best for the year?

This year, this year my rent is paid.

You are still talking like a slave.

Okay, this year, this year I have all that pertains to life and godliness.

It is a King James Version of being a slave. Because when you are in slavery, you have no specific request since all are not granted. And sometimes you touch it up with scriptures.

I walk in dominion.

In what area? When you pray, what is specific in the prayer that shows that this is a man who is seeing something?

It's 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 their miseries. 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 will limit meet 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. The gospel of Jesus is spreading. Thank you for being a part of it.

Let me tell you something. I was speaking with a father in the body of Christ. I mean, a father, the bishop. Let me just put it like that. And he shared a story with me. He called me to come and see him in Abuja, so I went to see him. And he shared something with me. He said when he clocked 59, he went to meet Daddy Geo, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, his spiritual father, to pray for him. He said Baba looked at him and said, ah, when you clock 60, 'Come, then I will pray for you and then pray for you.' Of course, that statement means that you can't die between now and 60. So he went. When he clocked 60, 'Hey Daddy, I'm back. I'm 60 now.' And Baba looked at him and said, 'Okay, kneel down.' And he stood in front of him. He said, 'I'm going to pray for you now.' because you are about to start ministry. Ah, at 60, a man who has— then has done over about 40 years in ministry. And he said he laid hands on him, and when he laid hands on him, he passed out. For the first time, he said he began to see nations. Multitude, more than what can be described. He started seeing more like a drone was hovering over nations, multitude.

And he began to cry, at 60, I want, Lord, give me, give me, give me.

He would not know he was about to round up at 60 unless that he saw that. What will keep you alive at certain level is what you can see. If not, at 50 you're already doing grandpa because your mind can make you age ahead of your time. So some men are clocking 60 and their language is, we are just starting. And somebody is 30 and he's saying, look at my record. The difference his sight. I watched Bishop Oyedepo celebrate a bishop who clocked 60 few, maybe 2 years ago, and he did a video for the bishop. So I saw the video and he said, Moses began at 80, so you are yet to start. It is as far as your eyes can see. One thing is going to happen tonight. Somebody will see what they have not seen before. I think I have people here who are not even ready to see. Somebody will see the quality and the kind of what they have not seen before. And what that sight does is that it gives you a new posture, a new seriousness. It's a new demand.

I'm telling you, somebody who feel have accomplished some things, you will discover you are poor compared to what you should have.

God is saying what you have is a whisper. I have wind. Let me ask you a question. When it comes to specific specifics, this is 2024. Specifically, what do you see? Specifically?

I see glory.

You are still talking like a slave. Let me tell you something. Look up. How then can a man who have not seen See, show you one secret. Jude verse 20: But you, beloved, build up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Listen, can you give us Jude verse 20, the Amplified rendition? You need to understand what that scripture is saying. Is there somebody here who is ready to see?

Yes!

Is there somebody here who is tired of what you are seeing?

You are ready to see? Look at it.

But you, beloved, build up yourselves up, founded on your most holy faith. Make progress. Rise like an edifice. I am—

I am—

What you see depends on your vantage point. When you stand on something higher, you see higher. You see further.

Listen.

Anybody who is standing here can only see this auditorium. When you are on a chopper or on a plane, everything you see—

listen to what I'm saying, listen— seeing well reduces the image and the size of what people call big. It depends on where you are standing. What somebody is saying, oh, look what we have, this is so big, so this, so that. Somebody who is climbing up When you are flying on the plane, you can't even see what an acre looks like. Look, tiny. Things look so big because you have not risen higher and higher.

This meeting is not a protocol meeting, it's an appointment with destiny.

Listen to what I'm saying. I want to give you the next 5 minutes. I want to hear the blast of the trumpet. Listen, listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. This praying in tongues is in two dimensions. The first is that you break through the layer of darkness. Listen to me, there is a way you pray to break through the veil that has been there since you were born. You are about to see as one who have never seen. I insist, you have never seen before. It means you are going to pray in a way you have never prayed before. Listen to me, listen to me. You will pray through the layers of that darkness. The second part is that you will mount up and begin to call the things you are seeing. Take positions, get out of your chairs, pray through louder, the highest you have done. Give the sax some volume. Break through the kingdom of darkness.

Break through, break through, break through.

Let the veils, let the veils Let the bells! It's time to see! It's time to see! It's time to see! It's time to see!

Rabaka tabakai, rabaka pakatai, rebeko papapa, rebeka balabokotai. What do you see?

What do you see? What do you see? What do you see? He is not showing you the improved version of the past. He's showing you a new thing, a new thing, a new thing, a new thing.

Now begin to speak.

Call for the things that be not.

As though they were.

Call for the things that be not.

Aso de we!

Seke telebokai! Be audacious to call them!

Be bold enough!

In Jesus' mighty name we are praying.

An army is mounting, an army is mounting, an army is mounting. An army is mounting, an army is mounting.

They are taking their rightful position. An army is mounting, an army is mounting, mounting, mounting, mounting, mounting.

In Jesus' Mighty name we are praying. I am saying God is not trying to give you an improved version of 2023. It is a new thing. Give me that scripture. Behold, I will do a new thing. It is something that eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, that has even entered your consciousness. It can only take mountain up to see. Without his assistance, you can't see well enough. Look at it. Behold, I am doing a new thing, and now it shall spring forth. Shall you not know it? I will make a way in wilderness. Rivers in desert. The beasts of the field shall honor me, the dragons, the holes, because I've given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people. Let me show you another scripture. Deuteronomy chapter number 3, um, Am I correct? Deuteronomy chapter number 3. Is it 3:8 or 8:8? Let me just check out. Are you with me? Deuteronomy chapter number 8. Oh, thank you, Lord. I want the media to get that book of Amos that says that I will do things one upon the heels of another. Deuteronomy 8 from verse 7, look at what it says. 8:7: For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. A man who has only known scarcity It's difficult to conceive this, but you are assisted tonight. Now I want to say this for the record, and I want you to mark this word because by crossover you either remind me or I remind you. While I was praying, God said to me, he said, what you have in Sphere of Light Church, Ibadan, By the time this year is over, to be the least— to be the least in Abuja without billboard, or— I'm sorry to say, we have overtaken by calling the things that be not. As though they were. We were 40 when we moved to a hall that can take 1,000. That's not boldface, that's sight. You have seen something. When you begin to see well, the decisions you'll be making is what shows. It is the decisions, because to others, this person is either a fool or arrogant or wasteful. But to him, I have heard the sound of abundance of rain. You know, you know what I noticed? Every time in church where we stop arranging the chairs, where people will stop coming.

Yes, sir.

I noticed that. I said, hey, so the angels of God won't quicken more than the harvest you are ready for. Make room, make room, make room for the harvest that is coming. Make room, make room, make room for the harvest that is coming. Make room. You're about to start pastoring a demography you have not pastored before, so you have to learn.

Listen, the wilderness is easier than the promised land. In the wilderness, you get food for free. In promised land, you must go out to get yours and process it.

When your life change, it requires more work. That's why people prefer being small. God began to give me instructions that will change my mind because he couldn't bring me too many things because my mind wasn't healthy. See, from now on, stop booking economy. Femi Lazarus, fly business. Okay, there's a need for the mind to shift. Stop speaking, sitting in the room just where everybody is seated. Go to the lounge. There's a need for the— the fact that you go to the airport and sit amongst the crowd is testifying of the fact that that's as far as you see yourself. You don't feel any importance. I was seated at the lunch today, myself and Pastor Oke. One of the top politicians from one of the states, I don't want to mention the state, came to meet me and said, "Apostle Lazarus." I said, "Yes." "So I still listen to your message overnight. Thank you for being a blessing." Imagine. They are looking for you, but you are still wearing prison uniform.

When—

listen to what I'm saying— when you are great but you are not aware, people will call it luck. They'll say he got lucky, he got lucky. Oh, Jenny, he got lucky. You, you, you, you need to pray enough. Is that okay? It's a prayer meeting. Is that okay? Now, are you tired of praying? Are you sure? Let me say this to you. The reason why you still want to continue like this is because the problem has not gotten to boiling point. You are not angry enough.

You are okay, okay.

You are not even living up to 1% of your potential, but it's okay. Kasha mache de de. Let's do small small. But Isaac told Esau, the day you become discontented, you will break his yoke. If that day is today, you will break yokes. If today is that day that you say, ah, I no longer see as a slave, I see well. Don't forget The land God is bringing you to is a land you have never been before. You can't use boldface, you must see something. Can I give you another couple of minutes? Listen to what I'm saying.

Listen to what I'm saying. When you pray in the spirit, the Bible says that your mind is on foot. Mean that any picture you see can only be a divine surprise. When you begin to see it, call it forth. That is when we switch— listen to what I'm saying— that is when we switch from tongues to known language. It is still praying in the spirit. Are you following what I'm saying? Find locations where you will not see anyone that reminds you of the past. And dig it with anger. When you see it, call it. You have 5 minutes. When you see it, call it. Eka taba la katej. Look at the way some of you are praying. I'm not sure you are ready. Pray too, like your life depends on it. Men are mounting with wings.

You have 2 more minutes.

In Jesus' mighty name, we are praying. What do you see? What do you see?

Now listen, listen.

I told you that tonight is a night of distribution.

Of what?

Inheritances.

Now give me the book of Amos chapter number 9 from verse 13, Message translation. Yes, this is it, this is it. Yes indeed, it won't be long now. God's decree: things are going to happen so fast your head will swim.

One thing fast on the heels of another. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once, and everywhere you look, blessings, blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills.

Let me tell you, one of the manifestations manifestations that happen when you see it. Number 1, you know God, that it is settled. Anywhere they see it, joy breaks out. God is not about to prepare it, he has prepared it. Everything will happen so fast. I'm telling you, watch out. Listen to what I'm saying. Listen, let me, let me tell you something. I won't mention names, but I was watching a major program at the end of the year at the camp meeting, and I was saying, my God. And God said to me, he said, son, everything you see here, I can give you one year. Everything you see here, I can give you one year.

Everything.

We are entering into that phase where one year will look like another person's 20 years. The moment you see it, don't stop saying it, because the enemy can make you doubt what you have seen.

When you keep repeating it, you are saying it so you too can hear.

And in the face of contrary opinion, you refuse to give up what you have seen. Can I pretend not to have seen what I have seen? Can I ask you a question again? What do you see?

You are not specific. What do you see?

That is the only conversation you are permitted to have this year.

When you hang around those saints, you know that friendship ends. You are only you are permitted to call for those things that be not as though they were. It is not your business to know the how. See it and call it. Let me explain something. It is not my business to know how the mobile phone functions.

It is my business to use it. Let the tech guys know how it functions. Let them know the panels and the diode and the transistors and resistors. It's not my business. You don't have to know how God works it. Believe it and enjoy it. You have left the last phase of your ordinariness.

You are—

yes, I feel those who are rejoicing understand better.

You have left the last phase of your ordinariness.

Amen, amen. In the physical Seeing is believing. Where we operate, believing is seeing. Amen. Now let me ask you a question. If I call you now and I say to you, Pastor Joseph, give me your account number, and I make a transfer of ₦5 million, okay? And you are here and you get the alert of the 5 million. Do you wait till you go to the ATM to be happy?

Amen.

Amen.

Listen, the point of sight is the point where we change our posture.

The—

listen, the moment that light breaks, you know God can't show me what don't exist. If he has shown this, this is it.

Hallelujah!

Amen!

It is as far as your eyes can see, as far as your eyes can see. As far as your eyes can see. As far as your eyes can see. As far as your eyes can see.

That's it.

That's how it operates.

That's how it operates.

Amen.

For some people Today is the real New Year because your year begins when you see.

Yes, sir.

Are you following what I'm saying here? Your year begins just when you see. I see it, I know it, I believe it, I walk in it.

It is my inheritance, it is my reality.

Femi Lazarus!

Now listen, the Lord has asked me to impart to you the grace for big things. Pastors, the grace for big things. Business owners, the grace for big things. I saw one of my mentees today uploaded on his WhatsApp saying, this year we're going to get $10 million. I said, change it. Say change it, it's too small. You can get that in, in 3 months, just, just one contract. So he changed it and he put $100 million. I saw it, I see, felt is small. It is difficult to conceive the kind that you have not conceived before, but you will conceive it and bear it.

Amen.

It is difficult to see that— listen, I was talking with our head of administration and we're just analyzing. So I, I just— you may not understand, I'm not ready to share some testimonies yet. So I said, are you saying that the face of being small shot it on here? I was asking her, please, is that it? We are, we are out of the woods.

We are out, we are out.

We're having a project, project of 180 1 million, which God says expand. And just one person just came up, said, the new auditorium you are putting up in Abuja, how many thousand seats? I said, 2,500 seats. That's like times 2 of this. He said, okay, um, please send the picture of the kind of chair you want there. So I spoke with the admin, I said, let's check. Say, we send the picture of the kind of chair. At the end of the day, all the chairs will be close to 30 million. We're talking during the— on Sunday, she asked me, I said, when do you want us to bring it? I said, let me get back to you. Just like that, people are calling from different— I'm telling you, Before you know what is happening, it's not a year yet. It is not the money you take to a city, it's the grace you carry.

The grace.

Listen, some people came to church, strong social media influencers. They said they were checking who is handling this guy's PR, and then the guys came, saw our camera, was disappointed. Say, is this where this thing is coming out from?

That's it.

It's the Holy Ghost. Say, you mean no strategies? No strategies, though. When the door is open, it is opened. No strategies. No strategies. No noise. You know, for me to be asking, I said, so you mean Sphere of Light Church is out of? Say, that's it. Atiku Onue. There's somebody here that will ask that same question this year, that so the years of suffering is over. And they will look at, say, that it is over.

Over.

He say, just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that. Thank you, Lord.

Yes, yes, yes.

Do big things, okay? Come, let somebody else come on the keyboard. Come, do big things. It's a big year for you. Come, it's a big year for you. Now, every now and then you see me hold the person, say watch out. Now listen, as far as this guy is concerned, he's done. Are you following what I'm saying here? This year, you know, there's a realm called all men seek thee. You just begin to do the right things, right things, right things, right things, right right things. And he has entered. That's it, that's it, that's it, that's it. Help him now. And that grace sit upon your life forever. You are brought out of the affliction of your father. Step now, in the name of Jesus. It's done, it's done. I was speaking with my spiritual daughter that just became the special advisor to the governor, and she said to me, all these words didn't fall to the ground. She sent me a video of herself today snapping and taking pictures and posing with the governor and laughing. Ozi tor nonye. Some people began to write some things in the blog about her and say something. She sent it to me. I told her, I said, it will not go beyond the roof of where they are typing it. It won't see the light of the day. The force carrying— it didn't die a natural death. The force carrying you is more than the adversaries against you. I have come to distribute for someone. Lift your hands where you stand. Uh, while I pray, the atmosphere is very tense already. The presence of the Lord is going to move in a very, very serious way. Just allow yourself to receive. Because this is where the reproach ends. This is where everything change. Lift your hands, everyone receiving. There are people here that are anointed this year to stand with kings and before kings. As I speak, there will be confirmations with power. There will be the wisdom, the light, the empowerment that brings men out of hiding into that place. By the release of this word, let it rest on those individuals.

Say that amen like fire.

Just help those under the anointing.

I see—

listen, this is a very strange one.

I see somebody like this person is being collected, like a delivery session, being collected from a womb. And I asked, what is the meaning of this? God said I am bringing you out of the fault of your bloodline, and you have been betted into a new possibility.

The grace to conceive ideas to the size of what God is ready to do, such that will break you out of where you have been hiding.

By the release of the anointing tonight, that grace comes upon you never to go back to smallness. In the name of Jesus!

Can't you see it?

It's a new anointing. It's a new anointing. It's a new anointing. It is a new anointing. It is a new anointing.

It is for the time to favor Zion has come. The set time has come. The set time has come. I don't know who But I see God wiping away the tears of a family. I see God wiping away the tears of a family. And that which has made you cry over the years, that which has made you be in pain, in struggle, which have made you weep—

you have asked, how shall these things be?

Be.

There's someone here specifically, when will I have my own child? I hear the cry of children, I hear the cry of children. Can you see them? And God is saying, don't you know that Isaacs are born when natural laws cease?

Don't mourn the natural laws that ceased, rejoice for your Isaac is here. Rejoice for your Isaac is here!

Rejoice for your Isaac is here! Rejoice for your Isaac is here!

Someone said specifically, is this how my life will end without my miracle? And I hear the Lord say, no, I am just getting started. I am just getting started. Look up, everybody. Be on your feet. Look at your hands. Say, these hands. Say it again. They are for signs and wonders. This year I hold big things. This year I do big things. Listen to what I'm saying. Because of what God is coming— what God is bringing to your life, some things will no longer be a function of contribution.

What?

500 people are gathering to contribute? Let's, let's try, let's try, let's try, let's try. One person will say, leave it to me. You will know what it means for the heavens to be opened. So I stand in my place as a prophet over this house. From this moment, your own heavens is open And because your heaven is open, rain will now begin to fall for you in its season.

Because your heaven is open, the land will no longer yield tons and tons.

Because your When your heaven is opened, there will be visibility. When Jacob finished fighting the angel, the Bible said, 'And the sun arose over him.' The sun is rising over somebody here. God is raising sons and daughters of consolation for himself. Again, I prophesy as I have been commanded. Your heavens are now opened. Now let the pastor and his wife come. You will begin to do the things you couldn't do before. Now the grace to walk in the reality and in the fullness of this. Touch, touch, receive it now. You walk in the fullness of this in the name of Jesus. Now to my second to the last assignment, uh, please get what I want to say in context. God wants me to pray for business owners, particularly those that this year your aspiration, and you are doing it already at a level, please hear what I'm saying in context. So he wants me to pray for you. For the grace of 100 times more. Are you with me? Specifically business owners. Now, if you are among these people, just lift up your right hand.

Let me see you. Okay.

Ah, please come out.

Be fast.

Disallow them. Ah, we have quite a number. All right, lift your hands please. There is a level of finance that cannot be gotten by smartness. You must break something open in the spirit realm, particularly those who need to break through for the first time from your lineage. My friend, God is anointing your hands.

His hands.

God is anointing your hands. He's anointing your hands. He's anointing your hands. He's anointing. Help him, help him, just help him. Listen, such as you have never touched before, such as you have never seen before, such as you have never held before, such as you have never entered before. This year 2024, you enter the face of 100 times more.

Femi Lazarus!

Now, I see many of you being invited to come and speak in seminars and speak in conferences, because people are about to start asking, how? How did it happen?

Grace.

Now give me that scripture, Deuteronomy chapter number 8. It is love by God that gives you power to get wealth. Deuteronomy chapter number 8, quickly give me that scripture. Please pray in the Holy Ghost while they do that. Amen.

Amen.

Somebody is here with massive debt. All eyes closed. Massive debt. In fact, what you are going through now is the definition of what it means to be in trouble. All eyes closed. Please, if you are that person, please just— if you will not be shy, can you please signify by just raising your hand? I mean, listen to what I'm saying. This debt I'm seeing is in millions, millions. Like, all right, put those hands down. I bring you the word of the Lord. You may not hear the sound of the rain, but the ditch will be filled with water. That depth that looked like a mountain, you will look for it and not see it. Now look at this: But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth.

Now people, people think that when you are praying for people about the area of their finance, you are being carnal.

And that's one way the devil has cheated the body of Christ, that we no longer have strategic positioning because of poverty.

But God is anointing you as part of the end time army he's raising. Now hear this, I command upon your life the grace of unbelievable dimension of wealth. As you begin to do the things you are doing, it will come out. This year you will no longer be in hiding. Now listen, in Luke 4:18, Jesus speak to a reed in the temple according to his custom, meaning that when this grace comes, you don't have to change anything.

It is just a change of season.

I announce over your life the commencement of a new phase.

Listen, go and write this down.

This same year you will ask people and say, so that's it, so I'm out, so that's it. I command this blessing upon you.

These words will not fall to the ground. Somebody just said, Apostle, please pray for me for sponsors, sponsors, sponsors. God heard you. God heard you. They won't stop coming.

Their right eyes will see what you do. Their right ears will hear them. The right hand will hold you up in the name of Jesus. It is done in Jesus' name.

Now rejoice, go back to your seat.

Something has broken open.

Rejoice, rejoice!

Many of you are knowing by the Spirit what to do differently. Mark it. And follow through. Now to the last phase of my assignment. Because of time, I have to combine two things in one.

I want all the resident pastors to please step out. The ministers, pastors, please come out with them. And I want sons and daughters who are ministers, pastors of different churches, please come. Now listen, the only category of people that I will allow to join this category is someone who is a pastor, a leader of a ministry that you saw— listen to what I'm saying— you saw a vision specifically where you saw me praying for you. Listen to what I'm saying specifically. Don't just come out, join them. Now everyone go on your knees. You are entering that season where everything change. It is the commencement of a new phase.

It is.

Before I even start laying hands on you, I'm seeing a new oil. I'm seeing what looks like a new oil, specific being poured. And there's somebody here who is in fasting. More like God showed you this moment will come. Don't worry, just indicate. Let me see you. All right.

Thank you, Lord.

It is as far as your eyes can see. And the question is being asked tonight: what do you want? Father, I ask, please I want the ushers to help me hold them because it's very strong. Protect the woman for me.

It's going to be as far as your eyes can see.

Stand behind them. Let that hand rest. Let the hand rest. It's the commencement of the apostolic face. Shaka fahai dekren dekere istofa. The apostolic face, mantle of the apostles. Let that hand rest. You will carry it. It breaks open. You will carry it. You are 10 times more. Break open. Let that hand rest. It is the commence— please help me hold them, it's very heavy— what is coming. Let the hand of the Lord that puts men in their place sit upon your life. You see it, and that phase begins now. Let the hand of the Lord sit upon your life. Let it sit upon your life. Let it sit upon your life. Father Abraham, Father Abraham, I hear the Lord say specifically the grace to take cities, it sit upon your life. As I lay hands on you, I see specifically the impartation of the spirit of wisdom on somebody. Today destiny is born. Destiny is born today. Destiny is born. Where is Akorwe Grace? Come. Let me have those I have not prayed for in front. Those I prayed for, just allow them to stay behind. Bring those I have not prayed for in front. Those I prayed for, please pray because something has rested It's not until I shout, oh, the very heavy has rested. God is placing a garment of honor on you, the grace to command the obedience of faith. Apostolic spirit, touch him and let it sit. Davidic anointing to convert small men into mighty men. This is what the Lord is doing. The anointing is not in noise, it is in weight. It is in that which can get something done. Please hold them very well. Let the hand of God rest upon you. I hear the word sons of oil, sons of oil, sons of oil, sons of oil, sons of oil, sons of oil. Out of your belly flows rivers. You can't tame it.

Can't tame it.

Let it break open. Wisdom like a cloak.

Wisdom.

Please hold it. What do you want? Grace, I see a new anointing coming upon you in this season. It's a new anointing of the Spirit.

Break out!

2024 for you is the year of the journey begins.

Take note.

The prophetic mantle upon your life. Spend time in praying and fasting. The well is getting deeper. This seems like a moment in destiny you have been waiting for. The hour is now. The hour is now. The hour is now.

Shake it, Femi.

Seek your miracle.

Shake it.

Your hand is becoming strong in this season, my friend. Shai gafandi reketi.

Rest.

Bring them, those of them I'm here to pray for.

Come, Jesus.

Lift your hands. That's one that receive. Lift your hands.

Touch him.

It's a new face opening up for you. Help him.

Help.

Hold him. Hold him.

Hold him.

It's a new face. For some of you, all you need is just that contact and something is broken open. That's all you need. That's all you need. That's all you need.

That's all you need.

That's all you need. Go back to your journals. There's something God told you about this year. Go back to it. Shéké frenderogo shente ogo shente. Rende kero ko shente. Kande kero ste frenderogo shente. Sente ogo. Uh, there's something quite unusual. There's somebody amongst you, just for identification, just so you know, it's just for identification, specifically amongst you. Who came with an envelope of ₦10,000 specifically? Where is that person? There's someone specifically.

Am I making it?

I'm not.

Amongst you in front specifically. I don't need your money, but there's something God is doing. Where is that person? Okay, you're the one. Because part of what God is doing in this season is releasing the doors of finance, and it's opened. Nothing will stop it.

Thank you, Lord.

All right, Father, such as you have placed upon my life, give I unto this one.

Once I pray for you, you can go back to your seat. There's something happening right now, and you should pay attention. There's something happening. Touch!

God!

Thank you, Femi Lazarus. Thank you, Femi Lazarus.

Can you see it? This is how all things change forever, and it begins here and now. Where's Marvelous? She's not around. Okay, don't Worry.

Pam, come.

It's a new season. Stand where you are. Stand over there.

Stand behind her.

Lift your hands. Yes, it's like a flood, what is coming in this season. Touch her now. Power in the name of Jesus. Nothing will stop it in the name of Jesus. So I decree, you came here a person, you are leaving as a nation. I say it again, you came here a person, you are leaving a nation. You come into the realm of supernatural awareness to be aware of what God is doing. I'm not just placing hands on your shoulder, there's an anointing coming to carry more load.

Just help him.

When I looked around, I, I saw you stand and I saw this here is a A very big year indeed, so don't hold back. Lift your hands. Let the anointing for this phase sit upon your life. It will no longer be business as usual. I decree the kind of things you've not been able to do, it begins this year. Everybody will look at you and marvel. It is a new normal. Now listen to this. It doesn't matter the complex arrangement of forces against your destiny. I have come with the rod of a higher priesthood, and I've come to decree and declare it is time to let Israel go. When next I see you, your testimonies will be unbelievable. When you share it, people will struggle to believe it is true. From today, go and do what you couldn't do before. Indeed, for you, this is the big year. It is done. It is done. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. God bless you.

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 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 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 massive 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 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 Sphered Light Church. Thank you for always—

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