FESTIVAL OF LIFE || DAY 4 - MORNING || 14TH JUNE 2024

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Um, let's start the reading from, um, verse 38. I, I'd like it to be projected in Amplified, then I would like verse 40 to be projected in Message when we get there. All right. Is this Amplified? And Esau said to his father, as thou— whenever you see thou, you know it's King James— have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. Then Esau, no longer able to restrain himself, raised his voice and wept loudly. Yeah. Then Isaac his father answered, and prophesied and said to him, your dwelling shall be away from the fertility of the earth and away from the dew of heaven above, but you shall live by your sword and serve your brother. And however, it shall come to pass when you break loose from your anger and hatred that you will tear his yoke off your neck and you'll be free from him. Now hold on a minute, I want to show you something. You will tear his yoke off your what? Neck. Now give me this in Message translation quickly. Verse 40: Who is there? And he said to him, all right, you will live far from earth's bounty and remote from heaven. Ah, Jesus, you live remote. That is a way from heaven's dew. That won't be your portion. Ah, look at it. He said you will live by your sword, hand to mouth. You will serve your brother, but what— when you can't take it anymore. You know your problem, you can still take it. The moment your eyes get open and say those who are doing great things in life were not born with two heads. And this excuse about your background, that is when it ceases to make sense anymore. When you can't take it any— say you break his yoke, meaning that anger has a role to play in the journey of emergence.

That's it.

The problem I found— I mean, I've seen it—

the problem with many believers is that they are too contented.

Anger is going to make you dream more.

It's going to make you ask questions. It's going to make you seek for better ways for things to be done. You can't be complacent. You are going to want to evolve into a new version. It's gonna push you, take sleep from your eyes. Anger is gonna make you ask questions. How can I be better? What can I do? How can I learn? Anger is gonna make you leave your comfort zone, get mentors. I'm tired.

Somebody has to break through in this family now. Ah, anger is going to make you do the right thing. You start making decisions you've not been making, quality decisions, informed decisions. You born midnight can do. You will search. You see, let me tell you, as much as people get blessed from my teachings. And I, I mean, I'm excited about what God is doing through the teachings, but me myself, I'm angry. I sit down with my tape and I say, okay, here it could have been better said. Here, why didn't I remember this scripture? Here, why didn't I remember this? Once you stop having that kind of character you become still. And I've told people, there is nothing— familiarity is not a problem, it is a symptom. Familiarity is one of the quick pointer that you are stagnant in grace. You only get familiar with what is not moving. You only get familiar what is not evolving.

If you will keep evolving, shifting, moving, Nobody can get familiar with you.

Before you catch up with this version, another version has emerged. You are wondering, ah, but just yesterday—

wait, wait—

before you catch up again, another version has emerged, because the fellow is discontented with himself. My wife was telling you about me asking her doctrinal questions, and I wasn't joking when I said the only reason I'm going to excuse you Because you are not the one who wrote the song. Ah, when I sit on your matter about doctrine, you are now looking. When God is preparing for a generation that is asking questions, ah, this thing must push you. Are you following what I'm saying? Lift up your right hand, everyone, wherever you are seated. Say it loud and clear. I refuse to be normal. I can't— say it again— I can't take this anymore. Is there anyone like that? Is there anyone? Is there anyone? Is there anyone? Is there anyone?

Huh?

Is there anyone? How angry are you?

Huh?

How? One of my friends, I don't want to mention his name, he's a stubborn boy. He said his father beat him to a point, beat him, beat him, beat him. He was there shouting and crying. When he got to a point, the father now told him, "Toma nomode o man saloni." When they beat you, you should run at some point. There's a point the man has to give him OT. Even me, I'm not expecting you to stay long. Run!

Are you not tired?

Get angry, get angry, be mad at your current level. You are grateful, but you are, you are, you are saying, no, it can be better till I have all that is apportioned to me.

It can be more.

Can I give you a minute, uh, to boil out? Vent, vent. I want to get— look, look at, look at the way you are praying. This is not the way it works.

Vent.

Take a minute out and vent.

Oh yes.

Lord, I know it can be more.

Much more can happen through my life. Much more, much more. I am positioned for much more, much more, much more, much more.

Much more, much more, much more, much more.

When the river flow begins to bring that thing back to life, express your anger.

I am positioned for much more.

Right now.

When the river flows, it begins to bring every dead thing to life. It's the life-giving river. All of it's flowing right here, right now. When the river flows, it begins to bring—

it begins to bring Everything to love.

Oh, let it flow. It's the life-giving river.

Yes.

Oh, let it flow right here, right now. Let it flow, let it flow. Let it flow, let it flow. Let it flow, let it flow.

Oh, let it flow right here, right Amen.

Amen. Sit down for a moment. I wanted to say it loud and clear: in my lifetime, the devil will not intimidate the church. You are not saying it well. You know, I played football for a while, and it took God to deliver me from football. Even as Campus Fellowship president, I was playing football. So there's a way they will dribble you on the pitch that they will now ask that, is it the person that bought boot for you? Many Christians use the media as though the world bought data for you. Trent, stand, be audacious about the principles of the church. And by the way, while I was ministering, Papa came in. Let me welcome my spiritual father and mother. Amen. You're welcome, sir. You're welcome, ma. Amen. Please be seated. Tell your neighbor, be audacious, be audacious, be audacious. Please sit. He said, when you can't take it anymore— and I know that point. You get to that point and say, no, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't be normal again. I'm tired, I'm tired of being normal. I'm tired. Just when you get to that point, you will break the yoke, meaning that one of the necessary ingredients yokes are waiting for to break is anger. I scrutinize everything I do. I go back, I sit with it.

It can be more. Somebody reach out to me, he say, hey, are you aware you are the most followed Nigerian pastor?

I said, forget about that nonsense. This nation is going— we are over 200 million. How many have we touched? When you are not angry, you get satisfied on time. Wait till we start holding a Bible study and we have 50 million people in Nigeria alone connect. Let's start from that. Maybe we'll start thinking we are doing something. You have to set your face like a flint. If not, God himself won't trust you with his work. You can be, you can be very righteous doing everything right. But God can't put much in your hands because he will not anchor his work on timid men. Gideon was sifting wheat, right, to hide from the Amalekites. He called him a mighty man of valor. The man who destroyed them was sifting wheat to hide. How will a man of war turn to a wheat sifter? Now, one of the instructions for this season: get comfortable with being uncomfortable. If you are going to climb, don't get used to convenience. You know, I read something in Hebrews 11, said the men, those all of fame of faith, he said they walk in desert in sheepskin.

That doesn't mean that they were literally poor, but they had a sense of lack.

You need that consciousness. Not lack in terms of material things, that there is something more I can get. I can be more anointed.

Yes.

I can be more grounded in the word. I can learn to pray more. I can learn to fast more. I can— there can be expression to every grace upon my life. Next year we are going to get into movie productions. Oh yes. And Papa has brought the word of prophecy several times. We are going to get there and we are going to take— see, let me tell you, this is not the kind of one— let me, because I might take— because, aha, so you not just go and think that we are acting somebody's backyard and say we're in America. Are you aware—

wait—

that there is There seems to be a subtle requirement from Netflix now that movies should just contain some unnecessary nudity. And are you aware that the, the, the kind of nudity on screen has changed now? Now it is complete.

Huh?

Those are the kings we have to dethrone. I want to say some things, but we will not give ourselves out to them. They won't see us coming, and we just break into it. Get used to being uncomfortable. I wrote here, one thing that is common to every great man that altered the flow in their generation is discontentment. You meet people who are very great, you sit around them, you see that they want more. Then you meet those who are small, you see that they are satisfied.

They are blowing their own trumpet.

Discontentment. Now God told me to tell you that we are in the season to review your visions again. Review your visions again. You know, visions get clear. With exposure and time. Some of you are running with wrong visions. Be humble enough to ask God afresh. Anything can be changed. The name of the organization can change. You can call it Joseph of Ibadan International Corporation. Now it occurs to you, I am not of Ibadan alone, I am global. Change it. And some things you have named, you named them before you got light. Now that you have light, review it. You see, anything is reviewable, anything. There's something we do, we call it review of ideals. There are things that were important to us last year that should not be important now because we have grown.

Review it.

Sphere of Light logo, we're already working on changing logo. We're done. It can be changed. See, see, people already get used to this. They will learn to get used to that one too. If Coke should change their bottle, if you like Coke, you will still drink in the new bottle.

Any—

your own is to make sure the content is intact. Nobody really sends you like that. Nobody sent you, you're on your own. Nobody sent you. Review those visions. And in this season also, God is changing names. He's turning Jacobs to Israels. Many people have gotten wrong nomenclature. Wrong names. I told you I was in Kano, and a while back, few years ago, and I was going to cross a major road, and I was hearing a girl shout at the back, shouting, shouting. I didn't turn back. I thought she was calling somebody else till she ran and touched me. She was shouting, mathematics, mathematics, mathematics. What's my business with that?

Then she came and touched me.

I checked back, hey, Chiamaka, my secondary school classmate. I'm not mathematics again, yet in law. If you had said Apostle, I will turn back. See, don't let people call you by the name of your past, and those who insist on calling you that are not worthy of your present moment. Check them out. Don't be emotional about how people define you. Don't let them. There are people who are hell-bent on seeing you in the light of your smallness. You too be hell-bent in showing them the exit door. Very important. Now I told you this, that God wants to give us so much, but these 3 things are the limiting factor. Number 1, the size of your vision. 'Enlarge your tent.' It will only give you as far as your eyes can see. What is the size of the vision? Number 2, the level of audacity you are functioning in. It won't give you what you don't have courage to take. Influence comes with persecution. Take it and be audacious to take it. Having more resources has its own challenges too.

So it's been broke.

I told you one time I was on flight with a minister and we're having good conversation until we entered the turbulent region. She grabbed my hand. I said, Madam, relax, relax. I can't be here and anything will happen. Say amen.

Amen.

She was a Muslim woman and I remembered if I had gone on the road This too would have taken about some 14 hours. I said, I prefer flight plus the turbulence than being delayed. Once you have to fly, deal with turbulence. Be audacious enough to take it. Deal with the turbulence. Deal with the turbulence. Tell your neighbor, deal with the turbulence. Number 3, one of the reasons why God can't pour so much on the church your level of consecration. You see, there are people who are asking for much more who only want to spend it on their lust. Our idea of much more is kingdom expansion. Let me tell you, one of the cries I have cried to God is, bless me indeed, all right, that in my lifetime will embarrass poverty and what it has done to people. I didn't hear amen to that. Next year, Festival of Life, every steward, best steward in every branch, all right, we're gonna not just be giving awards but thousands of dollars. There are some kind of money when you receive, you can resign. Some of you would have been better facing what God has given you full-time, but there's no money, so you have to be teaching and getting 40,000. It will show you the secret of wealth. Sit down. I don't care about any devil that is offended when the church mentions wealth. We'll walk in it and God punish the devil. It will show you the secret of wealth, supernatural, and you, you will, you will be wise enough to advance advance the kingdom with it. Now let me ask you a question, all right, before I bring Streams of Life up. They can go up now. Let me ask you a question. Um, how many bags of salt can you eat with? Huh? How many bags of rice can you eat? Talk to me.

Huh?

How many chicken can you finish? What is required for you to be comfortable is not much. So if your idea of resources is not beyond you, you are not a kingdom man. How many cars do you want to drive? How many cars you want to drive? One car per day, then drop it. There are people who are crying, there are people who are in pain, there are people who don't have faith to receive what some of God's children want to receive. He wants to use those. He wants to make you his kingdom treasurer. He wants to make you a financier of the kingdom. I've said it, after this conference our church takes a break from this place for 2 months. We pull down this facility and put something bigger and better. Hold on a minute.

I say, ah, where is the money going to come from?

That's not kingdom mind. We are well able to do it. I didn't hear amen to that. I didn't hear a bigger amen to that. Say loud and clear, we are well able. In my lifetime, in my lifetime, I will embarrass the devil with abundance. You join the world, you are arguing about tithe, about offering. We are not saying it is a law. But if God has blessed you, it will not make you die to honor him with a portion. It's not an argument. You see, the mentality of lack is the mentality of 'it will soon finish.' The mentality of abundance is the mentality of 'it can finish.' Can I hear amen to that? There are people here who walk in unbelievable level of abundance. And God will be able to trust you with it. I didn't hear amen to that. Now we have a word hanging. By next year Festival of Life, we are going to be chartering planes, chartering planes to Festival. One person can say, everybody coming from Abuja— okay, next year is in Abuja— anybody coming from Port Harcourt I have paid, um, airpiece, buehn, 7-something, um, that as many as can enter, just get in. Uh, you don't need coaster buses. All bills on me. God punish the devil. You know the reason why you are not excited? Because something within you believe that can't be me. No, if you see your future being described, you'll be excited. And you know, you know the amazing thing? You know the amazing thing? The one who is going to do that is me. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Church is going to build cities.

Yes, sir.

Narratives are changing. Yes, Lift your hands, put it on your head. I, I become more audacious to dream. I stretch my hands towards these people and I ask the grace to break into that new space in your thinking, in your thought, in your heart, in your spirit, that people here will conceive new ideas. New visions. Let that grace come. You break into a new dimension altogether. Let the presence of God back you up. Again, I decree grace. God is doing new things amongst us, and no devil will stop it, in Jesus' mighty name. Give the Lord a big hand. Please be seated. As we invite Streams of Life, after which I'll be here to bring Papa up to the stage. God bless you.

Hallelujah!

Do you know how to rejoice in the house? Come on, this morning I want to see someone rejoice. That's how we respond to prophetic seasons. Can you rejoice?

Rejoice! Rejoice! Hallelujah!

Talk to your neighbor and say, we are at war. You know, Psalms 2 began to say, why do the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? He said the kings of this earth gathered themselves against the Lord and against His Christ, saying, "Let us break their bands and throw them down." And I love what the Bible says. The Bible says, "He that sits in heaven shall what?" Can someone laugh this morning? It's a prophetic morning. Can you laugh?

Can you laugh?

Can you laugh? When you break into a new season, you laugh. This song, the response of this song is simple.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Because what we are doing this morning is a prophetic shofar. Into the new season. We are laughing our way against every raging of the devil, against every intimidation of hell. Come on, somebody! Woo!

Ella Mama Shakete la! Streams of Life, are you ready? Hey!

Somebody put your hands together like this.

Come on!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Listen now. Say, I will see The reward of my enemies, the one who troubles the land and sea, has been placed right under my feet. Oh, and He who sits in heaven shall laugh at them, the one who troubles the land and sea. The only thing I will do is laugh, 'cause the people are raging. The people are raging. Hey! The kings of the earth against the Lord. The people are raging. Hey!

The kings of the earth is my king.

Hey, the king of the earth again, the Lord. Hey, the only thing we will do is laugh. You can laugh at the enemy because his plans are defeated. Hey, hey. Come on, say, sing, sing, sing.

I will see, I will see the reward of my enemies.

The one who dropped has been placed right under my feet. Yeah, and he who sits in heaven shall laugh at them.

The one who—

it's a prophetic moment, don't sit down on your seat. We decree, cause the people are raging. The king of the earth against the Lord. He'll rage for nothing. The king of the earth against my King. Hey, the king of the earth against the Lord. The only thing that we will do is laugh. You can laugh in the Holy Ghost and you In the Holy Ghost, laugh in the Holy Ghost. We said, when you laugh, I laugh. We look the devil in his face and we spoil his plan. He that sits in heaven shall laugh. I sit in heaven, so I laugh. Come on, church, can you take one minute and laugh at the devil this morning? Because this plant, the Bible says, "Wines of the hidden rage and the people's imagination." Hey, yes Lord, we have the victory!

And I love this part so much.

Listen up, this is what it says: because you laugh with me, I will I will laugh with you! The Lord is speaking to us because You laugh with me God I will laugh with you say because You laugh— Because You laugh with me I will laugh with you because You laugh— Is everybody got joy? One more time because You laugh— Are you ready to laugh? Everybody say hahaha! Dance in the Holy Ghost! Jump in the Holy Ghost! Scream in the Holy Ghost! The devil is defeated under our feet this morning, for he that is in Christ has overcome the world. He that is in Christ has overcome the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith, even our faith! Hey!

Let's go, break it up.

I will see the reward of my enemies. The one that troubles the land and seas, he has been placed right on the—

is that your confession this morning?

The only thing I will do is laugh. It doesn't matter how they rage, we have the victory in Christ Jesus. Come on! The only thing that we will do is—

Hey!

Somebody jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump! Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice! Hey! We sing, ha ha ha! When you laugh, I laugh. We will laugh at the enemy. We confront him at this gate in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. One more time. Some of you are just looking, looking, looking, looking. If you know what Christ has done, I want you to jump on your feet and rejoice. Because when the heathen rage, he that sits in heaven shall laugh. Because he who sits in heaven laughs at them. He shall have them in utter derision. He shall cannot scatter your plans. The gates of hell cannot prevail because we will laugh at the enemy. Hahaha!

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

Can somebody laugh? Is that the way you laugh? Your laughter is funny. Your laughter is funny. He will sit in the heavens. Shallaf, shallaf. Glory to God. So let me say this, this is when my own festival of life is starting. Yes, I've waited. Moment has never brought us, met us the same way. Now, one of the most is given to me to be connected to this igu. Um, unfortunately, one of the least things we believe— people believe in, in our generation, is accountability and fatherhood. And that pattern must change. I'm privileged to to be fathered. And this morning I have my spiritual father and mother here. Um, they are the best gift you can ask for. Ever present, ever available, amazing examples. They stretch you in every sense of the word, in doctrine, in diligence, in prayer, a worthy example you can look up to. I've never been anywhere that anybody has anything to say about him and mention his name to matter of dishonor or disrepute. He's an example of honor in every sense of it. So when people look at me and say, you are doing amazing things, I learned amazing things from him. And I've been so, so fortunate and blessed. Papa Mama, we welcome you again. We are privileged, we are blessed, and we are honored. With a strong light shout and standing ovation, help me welcome my spiritual father to the altar, Pastor Bimbo Ademashun. Is that the best way you can shout?

Hallelujah!

Let's give the Lord Jesus a big hand of praise. Let's celebrate the Lord. Let's celebrate him. Celebrate him. Celebrate him. You can do better. Celebrate Jesus this morning. Shall we lift our two hands unto Jesus? Thank you, Jesus. Oh, just lift up your two hands. Let's bless him, let's give him praise, let's give him glory, let's magnify him. The Lord our God is great in the midst of his people. Thank you, Jesus. He has not left us without a witness. Let's thank him for God's precious servant and God's handmaiden. Thank him for the hand of God upon their lives.

Lives.

Thank him for the hand of God upon the Spirit of Life Church. Thank him for Festival of Life 2024. It has— he said, this is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. Lift your hands, let's give him praise, let's magnify the King of Glory, the one that brought the move of grace even all again. Thank you.

Jesus.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah! Once again, let's celebrate the Lord Jesus. Celebrate Jesus! Celebrate him! Celebrate him! The scripture says by spirit he has gathered them. Our garden is not unto man, our garden is unto the Lord. Amama! I want to show us a scripture in Acts chapter 13, verse 21 and 22. Acts chapter 13, 1 Samuel 16:21-22. The scripture talks about the children of Israel. They desired a king, and then God gave them King Saul. Out of their inordinate desire and affection, the Lord gave them King Saul. And then the scripture tells us, after what they desired, a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin. Chairman, by the space of 40 years. So Saul ran a government of glamour without glory for 40 years. Within the space of 40 years, the Ark of Testimony was missing the nation of Israel. So it was 40 years of total darkness, 40 years of gross darkness and gloominess. Then there came a time whereby the man that God himself had prepared came into the saddle. Then verse 22, the scripture says, and when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David. There is a difference. He gave them Saul, but he raised David unto them. One was given, it was an emergency intervention, but one was a product of divine process and procedure. By the grace of God, we have a man who has been raised by God, the Apostle himself, Apostle Femi Lazarus, and we are so privileged of God to have him in this generation. I want to say this authoritatively, and I'm saying this without being apologetic, that, uh, the things that the Lord is doing by his hands, you know, cannot be done at the pace of God without having an art texture and the art posture designed by God. So he's a man that has been raised and trained by God. And let me say this, when you see a man who is raised by God himself, God is always jealous over him. And so no evil can touch you, sir. No plague can come near your dwelling. We celebrate you, sir. Thank you for the amazing work you are doing. Thank you for submitting yourself to the training of God, to, to tutelage to divine process, to be used of God, to have the burdens of God upon your heart, and then for you to be passionate about the things that touch the heart of God. I will say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Let's celebrate the Apostle. Please celebrate the man of God. Celebrate the Apostle. Say, the Apostle, we love you, sir. We honor you, sir. And we celebrate you, sir. And I want us to celebrate our beautiful and anointed Pastor Mimi. This morning. Please celebrate her. Thank you, Mama, for the great work. Thank you for the flavor that you had to this world, to this ministry. Obviously, it is very clear and evident that you were prepared by God to stand beside him. And so God, you know, operates with unmistakable accuracy. And I believe the two of you— I love you. Thank you for all you do. Thank you for loving the people. Thank you for shepherding the people. Thank you for not being myopic and parochial. Thank you for not having a vision that is pigmented, but having a global vision, being kingdom-minded. And I want to say this, so you have not started yet. You know, one of the words the Lord gave me for this year of Festival of Light, Festival of Life 2024, he said, you have been at the Riaza stage and you are ready to take the world. Everything that has been done so far, you know, in, in a movie production and in a drama ministry, sometimes you see people having rehearsals. Even the music ministry having rehearsals, and then the main show is going to happen at a particular time. So everything that has happened from the cradle, from the beginning, even up to now, is rehearsal. Can someone say rehearsal? Say louder, say rehearsal! You are set to take the world. Let's celebrate this anointed duo, this anointed couple, Apostle Femi Lazarus and Pastor Miracle Femi Lazarus. I celebrate every one of you. Celebrate yourself. I celebrate all the pastors in this ministry, all the stewards, all the sons and daughters, and everyone, every partner, and everyone who is a part of this living body and pushing this work to the next level. I want to celebrate the ministers of God in the house this morning. We have in the house Prophet E. Cotton. Thank you, sir. We celebrate you. Please celebrate them as I mention their names. We have Pastor Gold. The Lord bless you, sir. Thank you for being part of this. Made in Pastor Cephas. Thank you, sir. And then Pastor Femi Lazarus. We celebrate you, ma. Please celebrate her. And please let me celebrate my anointed and beautiful wife. We came together. Pastor Adiola. Hallelujah!

Amen.

Now you see, I believe so much in flowing with the Spirit. This morning I heard the Lord very clearly, there's going to be a prophetic teaching, and so that is going to be like a spiritual foundation for what God has said to do in the evening. This teaching is very important, and what the Spirit of the Lord showed me is the teaching is going to be a synopsis of the bodies that God has put in the heart of God's servant. You know, I was following the, the meeting yesterday, and while the Apostle was ministering, I told my wife, I said, he's actually preaching from my notes because God doesn't make mistake. And I believe so much that there is a word coming for this house which will serve as a spiritual catalyst to the next level. And when God is moving this ministry to the next level, you will not be missing, in Jesus' name. I celebrate two of our pastors that we came together. Pastor Shola Shogunle, thank you, sir. Pastor Tobi Oba, blessed be the name of the Lord. Let's have a, let's have a word of prayer. Father, we thank you for the privilege to stand in your presence and to lay at your feet at this Festival of Life 2024. Thank you for that which you are doing in our hearts. We know and we believe that that which you are doing in the realm of eternity is revealed in time by your Spirit, and we align with that which you are doing in the realm of the spirit. We partner with the Holy Spirit to bath the spiritual realities on the landscape of time in the name of Jesus. That like the rain of heaven, your word will come today, line upon line, preset upon preset, to instruct and to guide us and to take us to the next level. Thank you, Father. Blessed be the name of the Lord. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Once again, let's celebrate the Lord Jesus. Celebrate him as you take your seat in God's wonderful presence. Hallelujah! I said hallelujah! Glory to God! All right, just like I said this morning, the Spirit of the Lord has laid on my heart to share with us on what is captioned How to See Like God. How to see see like God under the broad theme of as far as your eyes can see. Can somebody say, how to see like God? Say louder, say, how to see like God. Hallelujah! How to see like God. The anchor scripture is going to be from 1 Samuel chapter number 16. And please, I want us to follow this teaching. I trust the Spirit of Grace and the Spirit of Revelation that we're going to have enough time to teach this morning, and then systematically by the Spirit of God, because I believe these are fundamental principles that will serve as the, the basis, the foundation for the next phase of the ministry— how to see like God. And so the anchor scripture It's 1 Samuel chapter number 16. 1 Samuel chapter 16, and then I read from verse 4. And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, come in peaceably. And he said, peaceably I come to sacrifice unto the Lord. Sanctify yourselves. Yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called to them the sacrifice. And verse 6 says, and it came to pass, when they were coming, he looked on Eliab and said, surely the Lord's anointed is before him. And then verse 7, can we echo verse 7 together? 1, 2, 3, go. And the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused them. For the Lord seeth not as man seeth. Now that's where I'm going. For the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart. So I'm emphasizing the phrase God does not see the way man seeth. Now you see, uh, the theme of Festival of Life 2024 is As Far As Your Eyes Can See, and I'm teaching this morning on the topic How to See Like God. So in this scripture, the Lord said, for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. Now, so that establishes a fact that The revelation of God and the perception of man are constantly on a collision course. So sometimes the way God sees is actually different and totally different from the way man sees. And then man has made several attempts over the years and over the ages to see like God, but the attempts have been futile without the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Now, except a man is assisted by the spirit of revelation, a light, the light of God's glory, then he cannot see like God. Now see, if you can see like God, then you can act like God. If you can see like God, you can talk like God. If you can see like God, then you can demonstrate like God. You can walk like God. So there is a way God sees. The Lord seeth not as man seeth. So we are dealing with a reality whereby there is God and that there is man. So God looks at the situation and then he sees it from his own perspective, and a man looks at the same situation and the way he sees it diametrically opposes the way God sees it. Now you cannot see things the way God doesn't see them, and you expect to have God's results on them. No, it's not possible. Until you see the situation the way God sees the situation, you are not going to have the manifestation of God on the same situation. Now, do you remember in Ezekiel 37 from verse 1, you know, the prophet Ezekiel said the hand of the Lord came upon him and took him to the valley, and then he said, and then he saw the very many dry bones in the open valley, and the Lord said, 'Can these bones live?' The Lord asked him an obvious question. And he said, 'Lord, thou knowest.' And the Lord spoke to him and said, 'Prophesy to these bones and speak to them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. I will cause breath to enter into you.' I remember the sequence of the prophetic declarations. And I began to speak the word of God. And verse 10 tells us that I prophesied as I was commanded. And the moment I prophesied, he said, the bones came together, bone to his bone, and there arose an exceeding great army. So God looked at the dry bones, naturally speaking, but God saw beyond that. God saw beyond the dry bones into an exceeding great army. And for us to be able to come on the same frequency of, you know, an alignment of action, of results, of manifestation with God, there has to be synergy of vision. We have to see like God. So the scripture says, man seeth not the way God sees, and God seeth not the way man seeth. And I remember in Job 33:14, the scripture tells us that God speaketh once, yea twice, and man perceiveth it not. So God speaks, yea twice, and he said man perceives it not. God is speaking, but man is not hearing it. And he said, in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep fell upon men, he opened up their ears in order to seal the instruction. Another scripture, Isaiah 55:8-9. Now I'm giving us— I'll be quoting a lot of scriptures to substantiate the point because by instruction I perceive that I should do a prophetic teaching as a foundation for what God is going to do. Because as you move into the next phase in the ministry, it's not just gonna be a corporate manifestation. The individual understanding and part of the entire gig sorg of what God is going to do in this ministry matters. And that is why everyone must be equipped with understanding. Can somebody say amen to that? Can somebody say amen to that? Isaiah 55 and verse 8 and 9. Now they say, for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways not my ways, says the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. So it means that most times man does not actually see the way God sees. And because man does not see the way God sees, he cannot replicate the plan. In the heart of God. He cannot act like God. The revelation of God and the perception of man are constantly on a collision course. Now I want to say this: without revelation, you will fight what will profit you. Because when God is speaking to you and give— see, now I also discovered something from scriptures, remember, that God doesn't make small promises. What did I say? It doesn't make small places. Now God will just look at a man. For instance, look at Abraham, and he said, I have made you a father of many nations. And when God begins to speak in this manner, you begin to wonder what has God actually said. Now look at it in the book of Exodus chapter 7 and verse 1. The Lord said to Moses, he said, see, this day I have made you a god unto Pharaoh. I made You did not bargain for it. So what sometimes people call pride is faith. So when you are working by faith and you are affirming what God is telling you, and then you are working by it, people say you are arrogant. But God doesn't see it that way, because God does not see the way man sees. See, sometimes what we call humility, God says it is ignorance. Because we don't see like God. Humility to God is to align with his word. Now look at it in the book of Isaiah 66:2. Say, all those things have I made and all those things have been, but to this man will I look, right? To him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word. So when you see, because we are talking about the eyes of God, 2 Chronicles 16:9 says, the eyes of the Lord run to and fro in all the earth to do what? To show himself strong in the behalf of those whose hearts are perfect towards him. For your heart to be perfect towards God, that means your heart agrees with the burdens in the heart of God. Your heart aligns with the thoughts and the heart of God. This is very, very important. And he said to show himself strong. So God is dealing with the earth. He said God does not see the way man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Now can I say this? If the scripture tells us therefore that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro in all the earth, that means there is no machine, scanning machine in the natural realm, the intent and the motives in the heart of men. Revelation chapter 2 and then verse 23. Revelation chapter 2 and verse 23, the Lord Jesus said, I will kill our children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and the heart. That searched the reins and the heart. So God's eyes is God's scanning machine. It scans your heart. We are not talking about ECG here. I mean, what they do in the hospital, you know, to check the state of your heart. We are talking about the real intent of your heart. So he said, look not on the outward appearance, but look at the heart, for God sees not the way man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse 10. Jeremiah 17 and verse 10. The scripture tells us, say, I the Lord searcheth the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his doings. Can somebody say amen? Can somebody say amen? So revelation guarantees participation. You cannot participate in the things you do not see. Now Deuteronomy 29:29 says, the secret things belong to the Lord our God, and the things which are revealed, they belong to us and to our children. The secret thing does not belong to you if it remains secret. It, then it does not belong to you. But when it becomes a revelation, then it becomes your possession. Mark chapter 4, verse 11, Jesus said, it is given to you to know the secrets are done in parables. Now Hebrews chapter 4, I, I trusted the Lord will teach, and so I'm going somewhere. Now the scripture tells us, neither is there any creature that is not manifest hideth in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. So God has eyes. What we are doing, as far as your eyes can see. Now see Hebrews 11:13, the Bible says, these all died in faith, not having received the promises. He said, but having seen them from afar— so that means distance is not a barrier in the spirit realm. Because Isaiah 46:10 says, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, say what? My counsel shall stand and I will do my pleasure. Now let me quickly show you, because you see There will be many surprises when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ. You know, many people that we, we labeled and tagged as arrogant, who are simply bold and audacious to step into the will of God for their lives and doing great and marvelous things for the Lord, and then we discover that that day God is going to give them a commendation. I will give them a reward because we saw everything they did on the earth as just a mere braggadocio. 'But God says that they were bold enough to stand on my word, to step out in faith, and to do everything that I called them to do.' Now, the reason for this, you know, uh, contradiction is because God does not dwell in time. He dwells in eternity. God dwells in eternity, but he controls time. Can somebody say amen? Isaiah 57 and verse 15. Isaiah 57 and verse 15. He said, thus saith the Lord, the high and the lofty one, the high and the lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, that inhabiteth eternity. When some people hear the word eternity, what comes to their mind is the endless duration of time. No. Eternity is not just the endless duration of time. Eternity is God's mode of existence. So in other words, that is where God lives. He lives in eternity. So when God speaks, he speaks from his realm, from the realm of eternity. He doesn't dwell in time. Now remember when they were arguing with the Lord Jesus They said, are you greater than our father Abraham? How old are you? And Jesus told them, he said, before your father Abraham was, I am now. It's not grammatically correct, but it's prophetically correct. It's not grammatically correct, but it's eternally correct. John chapter 8 and verse 56, look at it. John, he said, your father Abraham rejoice. I'll be dealing with this in the evening. Because while preparing for this meeting, the Lord showed me just in a quick flash, in a vision. So I don't want to go into all of that now. Just in a flash, what God was dealing with Abraham. And now we're going to look at it. He said, your father Abraham— thank you, sir— your father Abraham rejoiced to see. Can somebody say see? Say louder. Say see. Abraham saw something. He rejoiced to see. My day. He saw it and he was glad. So joy is an expression of revelation. Now Jeremiah 15:16 says, thy walls were found, right? And I did eat them, and the word was unto me, that joy and the rejoicing of your heart. You know, the apostle was teaching us— was it yesterday? Okay, I was watching the Ambiance Television, and glory— please celebrate, celebrate the Ambiance TV. Glory to God. I was watching that in the hotel room, and then I remember one of the past teachings, and he was teaching that if what makes you happy is just a material possession, an item— you got a car and then your mood changes— that is synthetic, it's not authentic. But the moment you have a word of God on something, the word of God ministers joy, it doesn't minister sorrow. Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me joy and rejoicing of my heart. You found it.. Can somebody say, I find it. Say it again. Say, I find it. Glory to God. Now look at it. John chapter 8, verse 58. Now look at it. John chapter 8 and verse 58. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. Now that, by every rule of grammar, is not correct. The correct expression would have been, before Abraham was, I was. But before Abraham was, I am. So God does not live in the past, he lives in the now, in the eternal now. The eternal now. That's why it's called the I am that I am. Which name shall I call, I will tell the children of Israel when I see them? That who sent you? The I AM sent you. The I AM sent you. Little wonder the scripture tells us, Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6, for without faith it is what? Impossible to believe, to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, not he was. Not he will be, he is. And he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I said blessed be the name of the Lord. I'm gonna go into that because that is the prophetic focal point for the next phase. The Lord showed me very clearly. And then just from the life of Abraham, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. Which day? What did Abraham see? What day is he talking about? All the people captured in that day, we're gonna look at it, you know, uh, in the evening. So we're looking at God's habitation. Now, God does not dwell in time, he controls time. Daniel chapter 2, Daniel chapter 2, and then verse 21, the scripture says he changes the times and the seasons. He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings. He changes the times and the seasons. Psalm 31:15, David said, my times are in your hands, O God. Can somebody say, my times are in your hand? Say it again. One more time. One more time. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Oh my, I'm trusting God that there's gonna be a Gosha that is gonna break out in the spirit realm upon the spirit of everyone here in this world this morning. And it will come to a point when you get this teaching as a prophetic teaching and then you align with it, and then you know that your preoccupation, what is driving you, is the way God sees you. Now, what do we say? What we said, the glory of God. The glory of God is God's thought of you. So when God looks at you and says, wow, that thought of all— that thought, you know, that God has of you is what is called the glory. Now look at Matthew chapter 6 and verse 29. The Lord Jesus said, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Solomon in all his glory. Now, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 45. There is one glory of the sun, am I correct? Another glory of the moon, another glory of the star. Then it says, star differeth from another star in glory. Do you know that when you look at the sun, The kind of admiration you have, the thought that you have, wow! The outshining of the brilliance is the glory of that sun, right? When you look at the moon, the same reaction, the same thinking is the glory of the moon, the same the stars. So when God looked at you right from the foundation of the earth, which he called you and chose you in him before you were born. The amagam, the amagam, the complete total, you know, uh, submission of all his thoughts for your life is his glory upon your life. And when you partner with the Spirit, what happens is that you work in alignment with that which he thinks of you. There are people today, when God looks at them, he sees them as apostles. I'm just, I'm just saying that. Oh, let me just give an— let me give you an example. Jeremiah. God says, you are a prophet. That's what I think of you. That's what I see. That's what I see. And then, but naturally speaking, he's just a shepherd boy somewhere. Doing stuffs. There are people today that what they are manifesting on the earth is completely different from what God has in mind. And in this Festival of Life, there will be a divine intervention for alignment. I said there will be an alignment. Like Amos said, I was not a prophet, Neither was I a prophet's son. I was just a gatherer of the sycamore tree. But the hand of the Lord came upon me and he said, go to the house of Israel, to the house of Israel. I press that. That God reordered and re-engineered and redirected his step. That's what we are talking about. That is how to see like God. At a point, Joshua had fought many battles, He won battles, he possessed some territories. And Joshua chapter 13 from verse 1, and he was well stricken in years, and the Lord said, behold, there are more lands to possess. May the Lord help us, and may the Lord give us understanding. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And so God controls time. He doesn't dwell in time. Now we see that again in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 14. Now he was the one who set, you know, the light and the firmament of the heavens for times and then for seasons. Now he did that. Now we see Exodus 3:1, to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. And verse 11 says, God has made everything beautiful in his time. I would just quote some of the scriptures. I'm still getting into the main point of my teaching. Now Exodus 3:13-14, that was the scripture I quoted earlier, and say, tell the children of Israel, I am 'God sent you.' Now, do you know what we call a word of knowledge? That is a gift of the Spirit. The word of knowledge makes you see. The word of wisdom makes you foresee. What did I say? The word of knowledge makes you see the present, sometimes the past. But the word of wisdom makes you foresee. So wisdom is connected to the future. It is hidden from the highest of the natural creation. It is only accessed by the Spirit of God. And when you are connected to the Spirit of God, you can access the wisdom of God. Let me give you this for instance. About 20 years ago, that was year 2004, the Lord spoke to me me very clearly, and it spoke very clearly to me about the face of my ministry. And 20 years ago, I never told anybody about it. Glory to God. And just last year, we were having an anniversary, and my father in the Lord called me, and he said he was praying for me, and the Lord said this, and the Lord said this. What the Lord said to me about 20 years ago was what it was re-echoing. There was a time the Lord Jesus told me in a vision, in your life of ministry, pray. There are certain things you feel they are meant for the future, but they are meant for today. There are certain things that are meant for today, but they are meant for the future. All you need do is to stand in my presence and you're sensitive to my voice and move at the speed of light as I shine that light upon your heart. Sometimes we work by feelings. Feelings. It's not yet time. You are not seeing like God. God said the time is now. 2 Corinthians 6:2. Now there is somebody here, this is a prophetic word, listen to this. He said, I have had in the time accepted and in the day of salvation, avai sokodi. He said, now is accepted time. And now is the day of salvation, says the Spirit of God. Now, can someone say now? Say after me, say now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. That's a Kairos season, that's taking advantage of opportunity, that is doing things at the right time. Even when the physical conditions do not, you know, look like it, but spiritually God has soften the hardness of the land and the ground for you, and you step out by faith. And if you don't step out now, the journey of 5 years can become 50 years. That will not be your testimony. Now is the accepted time, and now is the day of salvation. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I have in my relationship with God— sometimes you're praying on something Lord Jesus, Ige si brage, stendu brage neste. And you begin to stand on the word, and you are confessing the scripture. You're praying in line with God's word. And sometimes it could actually be a prayer of consecration, to know the direction that you should actually take and toe by the Spirit. And as you begin to pray, begin to pray, or you are praying a prayer of petition, asking God for something, by the time God is going to speak to you, God speaks in such a way that you feel He's not aware of what you are going through.

Through.

Because as far as God is concerned, that situation has no power to stop you. I mean, the children of Israel stood before the Red Sea and he said, go forward.

Ow! Go!

I mean, God, didn't you see that there is— he said, go forward. See, this— you must understand the way God operates. You must understand the way God sees things, and this is the bedrock of faith. The voice of God is the stronghold of faith. When that word comes to you, see, God speaks from the realm of eternity. God doesn't speak based on the fact that— okay, what? He doesn't speak based on research. He speaks based on foreknowledge. He declares The end from the beginning. Isaiah chapter 46 and verse 10. And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel. Look at it, somebody. Meaning that in all the whole of eternity, when God looks at you, the only thing he's thinking of you is his counsel. My counsel shall stand. God is not preoccupied with your complaints and your grumblings. He said, when I look at you, what I say is my counsel. All things work together for good to them that love God, right? And to them who are the called according to his purpose. I'm just there. You see, there is a sense of satisfaction that comes with knowing the will of God, doing the will of God, and being at the center of God's will. You cannot buy it with money. Even if all the situations and circumstances where some people say you are struggling They called it struggling, but God said you are only passing through a phase of your life. It's important you see it that way. Sometimes the contrary and negative opposite interpretation of God's dealings in your life engenders offense. When you misinterpret God's dealings in your life, you become offended. I said, Lord, what is going on? Why me, oh God? Elijah said, I'm the only prophet left in Israel. I'm not better than my fathers. I've been jealous of you, Lord. And then now Jezebel has sent a letter that is going to decapitate me. It's going to take off my head from my shoulders. And then the Lord said, see, don't talk about that, because I have 7,000 people who have not bowed their knees to Baal. Glory to God! I said glory to God! Blessed be the name of the Lord! So like I said, God's thought of you is God's glory on you. Can you echo that after me? Say, God's thought of me is God's glory on me. Say it again. Say, God's thought of me is God's glory on me. Blessed be the name of the Lord! When God speaks, he speaks from his position. He doesn't speak from your condition, from His own position, what He is capable of doing, and then He just speaks. When you are thinking that this situation may swallow you and kill you, and you feel that you may not even live up to the next 7 days, God is still speaking to you about what you're going to be doing for Him in the next 50 years. That is God. And then you need to see like him. I can tell you this, a lot of believers— and I will be showing us some key truths in the evening if the Spirit of the Lord permits me to teach in the evening— believers in Christ whose minds have been blinded by tradition, by bigotry, they just believe something and then it's actually not in line with God's word. And that is why you see, I love the kind of approach that the Apostle is adopting in ministry. Listen to this. This is a word church. What did I say? Word church. Apostolic in terms of the rich deposit, treasures of the word. People are trained and equipped So this, the word, and the word is devoid of sentiment, of prejudice. It declares it the way it is. And see, let me say this to you. I believe that sometimes the kind of pastor that God gives you is a revelation of what God is thinking about you. Jeremiah 3:15, I will give you pastors after my heart. So it's about the heart. He said, I will give you what? Pastors after my heart. It didn't say who shall feed you with rice and doodoo. No, it says who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. Blessed be the name of the Lord. All right, Jeremiah 29:11. I know the thought I think towards you, says the Lord. He said, they are thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Now look at it. What he's saying is that the end you don't expect, you will not have it. It didn't say to give you the end. No, God himself has declared the end from the beginning. Isaiah 46:10. But now that end must be expected. By the laws and the principles of spiritual operation, your expectation becomes your manifestation. Romans 8:19, the earnest expectation of the creature waited for what? The manifestation of the sons of God. So expected end— what are you expecting? Which end are you expecting? Your body language shows it. Your words shows it. Your style shows it. You can't be saying you want to take nations for God and then you are rolling on the bed for 14 hours. You are not investing in yourself. You have not seen it. When you see it, it changes everything about you. This is very, very important. See, what we see is very important. What you see can either inspire fear or inspire faith. The servant of Elijah said, "Sir, the soldiers, the Syrian soldiers, they have surrounded us." Now we are doomed. And then the Lord— the servant told the Lord, he said, God Omari, open his eyes. Lift up your two hands today. Today God will open your eyes. God will open your eyes. God will open your eyes. God will open your eyes. The Lord will open your eyes. Re sunte kala, perero makataia. On the road of Emmaus, the Bible says he opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. Listen, your understanding is open right now to understand yourself, to understand your destiny, to understand the dealings of God in your life. To understand your future. That's a prophetic word. Your understanding is open now in the name of Jesus Christ, to understand the next phase, to navigate the next phase in the name of Jesus Christ. And you will know what to do to get there. I think you will know what to do to get there in the name of Jesus. Please take your seat, take your seat. I will flow with the Spirit. Oh Lord, glory to God. I said glory to God. Holy sinde brakeshi ve zube. Aka Steven, you just see like God Let me tell you this. Sometimes an irony in pastoring is that the pastor sees the future in the member, but the member doesn't see it. So now when the pastor is trying to teach and trying to train and to bring the member into it, depending on his level of understanding, he may see the man as a Shylock. Because he has not seen it. John 1:42, the day Jesus met Simon Peter, he said, you are Simon, a rod. This is all what your background, life, family trajectory, ancestry, everything, experience has made out of your life. But that's not the real you. You shall be called Cephas, a rock, a stone like the rock of Gibraltar. Before he entered into it, it took some time. John chapter— after all the investment, the laying on of hands, the impartations, the resurrection. John 21:3, the same man who should be the rock immovable, stable, who has a destiny to strengthen the brethren, He said, I go a fishing, and he said, we go with you. You will not mislead your generation. Can you say louder, amen? Listen to this. The prophetic mantle is on me. The prophetic mantle is on me. God has placed it upon my life. Those who know, know. To the glory of God. To the glory of God. To the glory of God. To the glory of God. I don't speak anyhow. Wave your hand, somebody. And when Jesus met— oh my, what you are doing, there is a demography, a category of people do this, they are called children. He didn't call him Peter, he said Simon. And go and read the synoptic gospels. I know in those places where he called him Simon, one way or the other he had reverted into the flesh and reverted into what was contrary to his destiny. He said, Simon. Luke 22:31-32, Simon, Simon, Simon, Simon, Satan hath desired to have I've prayed for you. But you fail not. You will not fail. I said you will not fail. And when thou hast repented, he says, strengthen thy brethren. Glory to God. And on this occasion he said, children, because there will be no more children, right, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. They were tossed here. We go with the All the trainings, all the— they went to the greatest Bible school and called by the Master of the universe himself. They didn't still see it, but eventually they saw it. And the same man stepped into his destiny. In Acts chapter 4 and verse 20, he told the Sanhedrin, we cannot Not we will not. We have lost the ability to compromise. We cannot but speak of the things that we have seen and heard. He saw it. Please take your seat. Please take your seat.

He saw it.

You will see it.

I said you will see it. When you see it, you will not be looking for men's validation. So somebody tells you, oh, you are very beautiful, you know, you don't want to faint. They are only affirming because you yourself, you know, you know. Praise God. Glory to God. People need to be equipped with this understanding. Great people need to be equipped with this understanding. Your Apostle has been taking you on apostolic tour in teachings, in series over time, preparing you for a season. You are going into different spheres of life. There are people rely on voodoo, on clairvoyant abilities, mediumistic powers and expressions, and you need to be taught and trained in engaging with the things of the spirit without being ashamed of it. Can you say it?

Amen.

Hallelujah. You know, it's like— I'm gonna say that in the evening. I said that's the next phase. I've been declaring that the Lord showed me. It's like, just saw you just like Abraham. In a vision.

Amen.

And then he said, lift up your eyes, look, count, count, count, count, count, count, count. I said, okay. I began to follow in the Spirit. I think I have the liberty of the Spirit to declare it. He said, mantel on me now. And I said, if you are able to number them, So shall thy seed be. Genesis, look at it. Genesis, let's just follow this. Genesis, I believe in the prophetic. Chapter 15 from verse 5 to 6. I saw it very clearly. I saw it very clearly. Look at it. And the Lord said to Abraham, and he brought him forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven and tell the stars That was what he was teaching yesterday. I said, we're on the same page. I saw it.

Tell—

speak to them. Tell the stars, look at it, if thou be able to number them. God knew it was an impossible task. You cannot number them. God told me, sir, this ministry is moving into a new season, and it is called a season of wonders without number. You didn't get it? Eko ska nate kotoku taya shata maraka taya sete lerato seya. Wonders. Job 9:10, please project. Wonders without number. Wonders without number. Wonders without number. Wonders without number. Wonders without number. Eranosia, kere te, kere te, kere te, kere te, kere te. Wonders without number. Wonders without number. Listen, the Lord said you will count and count and you will not finish counting, says the Spirit of Grace. Let that mantle for the next phase rest on you now. Let it rest on you now. Let it rest on you now. Now, in the name of Jesus, please take your seats. Femi Lazarus, let's read this together.

1, 2, 3, go!

We do great things past finding out.

Yay!

Wonders without number. You cannot finish counting it. God said, I'm taking this ministry from a tabernacle of witness to a tabernacle of glory, and my glory will be hovering over the house, generating uncountable testimonies. You can't count them. Mark it, you can't count them. When you are talking about souls, how many? You can't count them. You can't count them. You are talking about the impact, you can't count them. You can't count them. You have been prepared for it and the mantle has been released for it. Wonders without number. Let's go back to that scripture. If thou Abu, Genesis chapter 15, to number them, so shall thy seed be. Listen to this, you will lose count of all the blessings of God in your life. You see, you are— you don't believe what I'm saying? Mark it, it is the word of the Lord. I had it very very clearly. You cannot come— and I'm going to show you in the evening how that applies to you as a member of this ministry. And that's why this teaching is very important. The purpose of all the teachings you have received for the past 2 years is bringing you into a season. So I want to give a prophetic instruction. I like you, if you're a member of this house, all the teachings of your Apostle, the teachings, the Bible studies, the Sunday services, special program that border on cross-cultural impact, the mandate of the ministry that cut across every sphere. Sit down with them. Those teachings are your preparation for the next level individually. Gather. Wonders without number. Blessed be the name of the Lord. We say, come in there. Thank you, Jesus. Now look at, uh, thank you, Jesus. Romans chapter number 4. Romans chapter number 4. I read from verse 12. Romans chapter number 4. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Ele maschino braxi. And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only me, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had yet not been uncircumcised. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if the which of the law be as faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect, because the law worketh wrath, and where No law is there is no transgression. Verse 16: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all. Let's read verse 17 together. I want us to headquake together. 1, 2, 3, go! And it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, there, even God, right? Quickeneth the dead and calleth the things which be not as though they were. Now look at it. So God has something in mind from eternity past, but currently they be not. It's not happening. Practically speaking, I'm a father of many nations, but they be not currently, physically speaking.

I'm speaking.

Now, how do I relate with it? There are 6 kinds of confession. I will not teach on that. People make in this, you know, fashion. Number 1, calling the things which be not as though they were not. In other words, they never existed anywhere. Forget it. It's just a pigment, a figment of imagination. Forget it. Number 2, calling the things which be not as though they are not. In other words, one is influenced by present reality on ground, material reality, and then it's not going to be. Number 3, calling the things which be not as though they will not be, they will never happen. Number 4, calling the things which be not as though they will be. That is in the future. I believe in the resurrection. You are going to raise him up. Number 5, calling the things which be not as though they are. So I have them, I believe. And finally, number 6, calling the things which be not as though they Why? So meaning that what we call prophecy, God sees as history in his own mind. It has happened in his mind. Revelation 13:8, it talks about the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the earth. When did that happen? In the mind of God. Now let me say this to to you. You existed in the mind of God before you started existing on the earth. That's a correct biblical perspective. Now, because we have that in Jeremiah— now look at Jeremiah chapter 1, verse 4 and 5. The word of the Lord came to me, said, before I formed you in the womb, I knew, I knew, I knew you. At that time, there was no material formation. Of the human body. I knew it was in my thoughts. I knew you, and before you came out of the mother's womb, I ordained you to be a prophet unto the nations. So that is all I see about you. You know, when Adam, you know, fell and he said, Lord, the first thing God said, where are you? I said, Lord, I'm naked. He said, who told you that you are naked? Because as far as I'm concerned, I didn't make you that. I didn't give you that piece of information. Don't get the interpretation of your vision from the devil or from situations and circumstances. Get it from the Lord. Now let me show you this. This is where the identity crisis comes in now, and this is, this is, you know, the crux of my message before I begin to hit the home stretch. There are people in scriptures that when God looks at them, this is what I think about you. But as far as they are concerned, they are looking at themselves in another way. They don't see it. And that's why you have to say— look at number 1, Abraham. Genesis chapter 15. We're just gonna read a few scriptures from verse 1. Genesis chapter 15 from verse 1. Can somebody say amen? Can somebody say amen? After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abraham. God said, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. Now, if God should tell somebody, I am your shield, that means there is no arrow of the devil that can hit you. I am your exceeding great reward. That means there is nothing you can have on earth that can be compared to me.

Me.

Everything you ever need is in me, and that should suffice. That's what God told him. But Abraham said, and Abraham said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me? Man, after I told you I am your shield, I'm your reward, you are still asking me what will I give you? Now look at it, saying I go childless. And the steward of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. You know the rest of the story. God spoke to him on the level of the word directly. He didn't catch it.

What?

How can I help the see? Let me say this. I will tell us this in the evening. You cannot force God to the level of your comprehension. You will always come to the level of his revelation. You can't force God to think like you 'God, understand me.' No, he will not think like you. God will still insist on what he has intended. You can't force him. 'Hey God, you are trying, please understand now.' And then you are not going to force him. Jesus was not apologetic. Please, let's sit down. Let's sit down. Jesus, please sit down. Please sit down. Jesus was not apologetic. You know, the way some of us, you have preached about the life of Jesus, we just preach him as somebody about him as somebody, yeah, he was gentle, as somebody who didn't raise his fingers, who was just mute all through his ministry. As a matter of fact, if you know, if you had the things that Jesus was saying, naturally you say this man is proud. Somebody say, I am the light of the world. I am the way, the truth, the life. I am the resurrection and the life. The two cornerstones before your father they venerated Abraham. There are two people in the nation of Israel that they don't joke with— Abraham and David. You'll be on the holy pilgrimage, you see St. David this, St. David that, St. David this, St. David that. They believe so much in them. But are you greater than Abraham? Ah, before your father Abraham was I am. And they took up stones and they wanted to stone him to death. But despite that, he did not bend or align to let me just be humble, let them not misunderstand me again. Jesus stood on it. He told Pilate, you said so, to this end was I born, for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Say that. Those who will transform the landscape of time, they insist on the thoughts of God towards them. This is what God is thinking about me. This is what God is thinking about me. Glory to God. I said glory to God. Please let's sit down. I don't want to give us some— number 2, look at Moses. God said, see, it doesn't make— see, it is we— I don't know, sometimes we have to be very, very systematic, objective, holistic, and analyzed based on biblical principles and revelation. God told Moses, see, you didn't work for this, you didn't ask me for I myself, I made you a god unto Pharaoh. So as far as— so if Moses said, I am a god unto Pharaoh, was he wrong? Would he have been wrong? Who made him a god? But some people would like to bully you into you not affirming who you are. I say, before God told him that I made you a god to Pharaoh, Everything still boils down to the eyes. See, let's read it. Exodus 7 and verse 1. Exodus chapter 7 and then verse 1. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I said blessed be the name of the Lord. 1, 2, 3, go! And the Lord said unto Moses, see. Can somebody say see? Say it again, say see! Tell your neighbor, say see! Tell somebody beside you, say see! I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. I made you so. I made you so. So you have to see it. You have to see it. So if Moses had gone around and said, I'm a god to Pharaoh, not by the works of righteousness, but by his grace, but by the working of divinity, He was not arrogant and proud. He doesn't make small promises in Scripture. Number 3, look at, you know, if you read about Moses, let me just give it because of time. And then he said, I've come to here to deliver the children of Israel. I've heard about their afflictions and you go deliver them. Exodus 3:10-11. In other words, Moses was a deliverer. But he was like acting as a freedom fighter. This is very, very important. See, let me say this to you. God says, I've made you a prophet, and he said, I just want to be an activist. You're not an activist, you're a prophet. I want to be a social activist. You're a prophet. You're an apostle. Blessed be God. Ah, this is a popular story. Numbers 13:30-33. The 10 spies. The 10 spies. Numbers 13 from verse 30 to 33. Caleb stood before the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it.

And the men—

but the men that went up with him said, we be not able to go against the people. People, for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, the land through which we have gone to spy it is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof. Now the question is, how many inhabitants had the land eaten that they were aware of? Anyone who is going to fulfill destiny doesn't work by assumption. Don't assume. It's an assumption. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants. And we were in our— notice they didn't say we were Lord in your sight. That was not who they are in God's sight. But in their own sight, they said we were as grasshoppers. So we were in their sight. The same set of people, the terror of Israel, are coming on the surrounding nations. They were afraid of them. The irony of life is what you are afraid of is already afraid of you. And you have to confront it head-on. God never said, I give you a grasshopper, no, I make you a grasshopper, no. When God see—

when—

how many of you know that when God told them about the land of Canaan, God was aware of the giant. When God spoke with respect to the giant, he was speaking from the triumphant Victorious position. You go drive them out. So in God's own estimation, you have the capacity. Drive them out. I didn't say they will eat you up. They will not eat you up. So that was the testimony. Number 4, Gideon. Judges chapter 6, verse 12 to 16. Judges chapter number 6, verse 4 verse 14 to 16. I mean, verse 12 to 16, beg your pardon. Now look at it. And the angels appeared to him and said, the Lord be with you, thou mighty man of valor. So that was what God saw. And Gideon said, oh my Lord, oh Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befalling us? Where be all the miracles which our fathers told us, saying? Now God did not make reference to the past to declare Gideon's future. God said, irrespective of whatever you have gone through, I'm saying you're a mighty man of valor. Yes, I know that in your family there's been an ancestral flaw. It is a fact, but this is who you are. Don't see yourself through the mirror of your ancestral trajectory. See yourself through the mirror of your prophetic destiny. That's what he's saying. But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of Midian. Now look at it. And the Lord looked at me and said, go in this time right now. See Gideon did not bring God to the level of his thinking. Yes, I understand. And let's begin. God still insisted that you have a might. Go! He still insisted on it. When you are saying, I can't do it, I can't do it, do it! You have the capacity. Say it the way he says. God still insisted. Blessed be God. And I looked on him, going, this is a man, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Again he said, And he said, look at it, oh my Lord, wherewith shall I serve you? Behold, my family is poor in manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. Finances. And then he brought all of that, and the Lord said, I will be with you, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. See the way God was saying it?

Very important.

Jeremiah, I have said this. God said, you are a prophet.

Ah!

I'm a youth. God said, no, you're a prophet. I cannot say you are a prophet. And again, God did not emphasize on see. Can somebody say see? Jeremiah chapter 1 and verse 10. Look at it. See, see, see it. Look at it. Let's read. 1, 2, 3, go.

See.

Let's read that first word. 1, see. 2, 3, see. I have made this, I've said it this day over nations and over kingdoms to root out, to pull down, to destroy, to throw down, to build a new plan. You have to see. The same thing he told Moses, see. And the Lord now gave him another vision. Look at it, verse 11 and 12. Blessed be God. Verse 11 and 12. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Marovadiwad, the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, what's here now? And I said, I see a rod of a almond tree. In other words, this fruitfulness now Fruitfulness is a proof of divine calling. If you are called of Him, then you are fruitful. Look at it, verse 12. The Lord said, Thou hast well seen, for I will esteem my word to perform it. Now the performance of the word therefore is not predicated exclusively on God's ability, but what we see in God's ability. The ability of God was there, before that came, but until he saw it, and then God said, I will not perform until you see it. Number 6, John the Baptist. John the Baptist, and please just take this, I'm not just saying this on face value, just take this figuratively. He was a prophet, and then according to the prophecy, God saw him as a prophet doing ministry from the wilderness and reaching out and to prepare the way of the Lord, but eventually became a marriage counselor. When he became a marriage counselor, he lost his head. Praise the Lord. It happened. Glory to God. The prophet said, go and prepare the way of the Lord. Announce Christ. Announce him. Say he is coming. I mean, I'm the voice. I prepare the way. Reveal him. And just do that. Stay on it. Head. And he went to meet Herod and then attacked him and challenged him, why did he take, you know, uh, his brother's wife. And then, and Herod said, go and take his head. Praise the Lord. He dabbled into what, you know, God didn't send him to do. And that's why I said we just take that not just on face value but in principle. Glory to God. Can someone say in principle? Say loud, say in principle. Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3. John 1:19-23, Matthew 14:1-4. Number 7, Simon Peter. I've said that, so let me not teach on that. I've said that. You are cephas. He didn't see it on time. He said, let's go out fishing, but he came in on it. Number 8, the Lord Jesus Christ. He saw it and he aligned with it. He saw it and he aligned with it. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to bring deliverance to the captives, and recover the sight of the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. He stayed on it. He stayed on it. He stayed on it. I began to say it, began to declare it. Finally, as I close, 7 ways to see like God. I'll be very fast. Number 1. Number 1, this is important. God sees by His Word. The Scripture is not blind. The Scripture foresees. Galatians 3:8, the scripture foreseen that God would justify the heathen through faith, he preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Because the word of God is light, so God's word is one with God's thoughts. God's word is a reflection of his thoughts. Now we have a preponderance of scripture to buttress that. The word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105. The entrance of the word giveth light and understanding to the simple. Verse 130. I and my Father are one. John 10:30. 1 John 5:7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. He says by his word. So whatever whatever God's word says is what God sees. What did I say? Whatever God's word says is what God sees in this situation. Whatever God's word says is what God sees. So that's what God is saying. What does my word say on this? Number 2, God sees by his Spirit. The scripture says the Holy Spirit is called the eyes of the Lord. The 7 eyes of the Lord that run to and fro in all the earth. We see this in Revelation chapter 5 and verse 6. Verse 5 and 6, the Lion of the tribe of Judah having 7 horns and 7 eyes which are the 7 spirits of God. It says by the Spirit. Whatever the Holy Spirit says to you is what God is saying. I made a decision in life and ministry that the Holy Spirit is always right. What did I say? The Holy Spirit is always right. If the Holy Spirit says, for instance, you want to get a landed property and then let's say it's just water, you know, locked, and then you just have to do some things. And then naturally I say, I wouldn't want to waste money here, we don't want to pump money here. And I just pray about it and Holy Ghost say, stay there, I have put treasure here for you and you're going to expand from here. I said, waterlogged, waterlogged. Water locked, water locked. The Holy Ghost is right.

Stay there.

That's what God says. Stay there. Now, when there was famine in the whole land, God told Isaac, he said, go not down to Egypt. Genesis 26. Stay where I shall tell thee of. So what God was saying was not Egypt, the world civilization then. Stay in Gerar. And when he got there, he received an idea. He put the seed in the ground, and the Bible says he received in the same year an hundredfold. Whatever the Spirit of God says is what God is saying. So when God looks at what you are doing, was it my Spirit who instructed you to do it? That's the most important thing. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I said, blessed be the name of the Lord. We scriptures here. I mean 2 Corinthians 16:9, Revelation 5:5-6, Zechariah 4:10, and 1 Corinthians 2:9-11. Number 3: God sees through his eternal plan. God sees through his eternal plan. I said that earlier. He declared the end from the beginning and from ancient times. My counsel shall stand. So what God is saying is the plan. Can somebody say the plan? How many of you know that when Adam fell, the plan of God for mankind did not change? When generations— see, generations can fail God, but God's plan remains the same. That means no man is actually indispensable There are some relationships that we have to guard jealously in our lives. And you see, those relationships are what the devil will be firing missiles at. What is God saying? Separate me, Barnabas and Saul, for the work I've called them. That's what the Spirit was the one who said it. And when the Spirit said it, John Mark was not there. Silas was not there. And the time came, you know,— based on irreconcilable difference, they could not resolve it. What is God saying? Do you know some people as we speak now, they are in a particular place and God can't see them there? God only sees you at your divinely appointed duty post, not at your self-appointed territory. He sees you there. Hashiken awa hashite.

Femi Lazarus.

He told Elijah, arise, go to Zarephath of Sidon. I have commanded a widow to feed. The widow didn't know that she was under any command. There are people today on the earth who are under divine command to bless you, to do something for you. But you see, if you don't connect with them by following the voice of the Spirit, they will not release the treasures in their hand unto you. It's very important. Blessed be God. I said, blessed be God. There are people today, what they are doing online, God doesn't see it. I didn't send you that. God said, go and teach. You are going there to argue. Praise God. Praise God. They are going there to argue. I said, so today And then you pick your messages from trending issues, from people different, and then you lose balance. You lose your bearing. Let me say this to you. A voice came from heaven, "This is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. Hear ye him." One. Can somebody say one? At River Jordan. Matthew 3:16-17. Then on the Mount of Transfiguration, there was a rider added to it. Matthew 17:5, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him." Then number 3, when he rose from the dead, the voice said— I'll be showing us that. They say, "To whom of the angels did he say at any time, 'You are my beloved Son, this day have I begotten you?'" And when he bring out the big prophets, because Hebrews 1:5-6, from the word, he said, let all the angels worship him. He has full control over all the forces of creation. He stayed where he belonged. Glory to God. I said glory to God. Let me say this, this ministry, I'm saying it though, the world has not seen anything yet. You see, I'm just— I just thank God every day for the Apostle and Mama Pastor Mimi, for the kind of heart that God has given them. I told them recently, if you have like— and I'm saying this on camera— if you have like 20 of you, the body of God, with the kind of heart, I believe a lot of things will change. I believe God is raising this ministry as a pattern, as a model. A lot of things have been misrepresented. And God is trying to fine-tune certain things, and now it's not just been theoretical. He now found the man in there. We are celebrating the grace of God on his life, and he said, go represent that. And the Bible says, look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah. There are people that God has put, has placed a calling to be generational examples. Lamp posts. They are not just pastors of churches. Their light is spreading into different— their nooks and crannies of different territories and enclaves of different churches, opening the eyes of the people. And by their light, we are getting insight, clearer insight into the burden and the plan of God for the generation. And we need to receive them like that. If they call it, you are on course. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I said, blessed be the name of the Lord. Hey, hey, by the grace of God, if God looks from the pinions above and He looks at me, where should I be now? I should be at Festival of Life now, and I'm doing what God wants me to do now. And I'm at the center of God's will for my life now. I know this is what I should be doing now. Jesus read out His mandate and He said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Now please follow. You know, is upon me to go to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And He closed the book. And the guy just saw Him. This is the Messiah! Messiah, please come! Check through scripture. Everyone who came within the borderline and the purview of that mandate, he attended to them. And this guy just showed up one day, said, Sir, Luke chapter 12, I think from verse 16, he said, Sir, he said, let's read from verse 16 or so, praise the Lord. And he said, Sir, divide the inheritance between myself and my brother, praise the Lord. I said praise the Lord. Okay, from verse 13, Luke chapter 12. And one of the company said to him, Master, speak to my brother that he may divide the inheritance. Now if you read the mandate, did you see he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, and to divide inheritance among warring family members? Did he say that? It was not part of it. And Jesus said, who made me a judge or a divider over you? As far as God was concerned, he was not an arbitrator. A lot— the courts are there, go attend to it. Many people want to do many things and they are developing sicknesses beyond their age. They are trying up on the inside. Point. You want to do many things to prove a point, and God doesn't see you there. God doesn't see you there. God doesn't see you there. Blessed be the name of the Lord. The mandate he gave me is very clear: feeding the nations with the bread of life, building the body of Christ. So go and teach. There is a purpose of which I took you through the process, and at critical seasons in my life, he placed the calling upon 2006 February. He said, I have placed a calling of a father over you. I have taken you through the— I am not apologetic about it. Whatever God says, I affirm it. That's what God sees. Some of us, we are saying what God is not saying. So you are saying it because I am not saying that. You are saying so find out. And how do you find out? What is the Spirit of the Lord telling you? That's how to go through it. Number 4 now. God sees through the eyes of faith. He said, through faith the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things that are seen are not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3. Hebrews 11:6, without faith it's impossible to please Him. Ezekiel 37:1-10, through faith can this bones live? God sees through the eyes of faith. Let me say this, faith is the eyes of the Spirit.

Spirit.

Hope is the highest of the mind. Hebrews 6 and verse 19. Hope is the anchor of our soul. Number 5: God sees the end from the beginning. You know, if you just follow this principle, some of us, we enter into certain things, we only consider today, we don't consider the future, and it is called spiritual short-sightedness. That is having the present, having the knowledge of the present but not knowing what the future holds. Some people have lost destiny helpers, critical relationships. Some people have lost the people that God sent to them because when they came, they just came as raw material. They didn't see anything. They didn't see the future. They despised them. It's very important. See the end from the beginning. So when you are making your plans, You are thinking about the future. When you are building, you are thinking of the future. If you think of the future, there is no volume of investment that will not be worth it today because you know that it is for the future. We are building for the future. We are building for the future. That is, if Jesus tarries, this should still be standing in the next 200 years, 500 years, rather in the next 500 years. That's Hebrews— I mean, Isaiah 46:10. Number 6, God sees the heart of men. I've said this much more beyond their words. He says, God seeth not the way man seeth. He said, man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Glory to God. For Saul, he was a Gai of a great stature. David, he was a shepherd. For somebody to have jealousy for one of the sheep, and he went and he wrestled with the lion and the bear. God saw the heart. If you have a heart to protect the sheep, I can commit my inheritance to your trust. Finally, as we close, God sees— and this is very strong— the whole picture. Can somebody say the whole picture? Somebody wants to marry a sister, he say she cannot cook. That's the only thing he sees. He's not seeing the other part. There are people like that. It's called myopia. God sees the whole picture. The heart is not in a perpendicular mode, in a spherical, circular mode. God sits on the circle of the earth. You look at the whole picture. So before God speaks to you, he takes into account the whole picture. Can somebody say the whole picture?

Say it again.

Say the whole picture known unto God. Acts chapter 15, verse 18. Are all his works, are all his works from the beginning of the world. Are all his works. So take into consideration the whole picture. Don't make a decision on a one-sided reality. Look at the full picture. You look at this person, this person doesn't smile at me, and then you make a decision based on that. You know, ministry is such that sometimes, and then maybe it's just human, people may not actually, you know, remember the good things that you have done for them. But don't be like that. Make your decisions based on the whole picture. I'm going into ministry, I'm not just putting something, I'm putting the whole picture into consideration. I'm doing this, the whole picture into consideration. That's the way God sees it. So that is why nothing can catch God unawares. You cannot surprise God by the outcome of your life because he declares the end from the beginning. Do you know why he put the whole picture in mind? Why didn't he create man on the first day? And God said, I will be showing us this, the force of light and sound, because Because when we talk about as far as you see, it's not just having eyes. Your eyes can be very sharp and strong. If you open, ha, in darkness, you will not see anything. Now if your eyes, the light can be there, light can be everywhere. If your eyes is not in good, you will not see anything as well. So God says, let there be light. He created them, he put the whole picture into consideration. He now brought man into it, anticipated. He knew that such a thing will happen. He already made provision ahead of time, the whole picture. A lot of people make decisions today, they don't consider the whole picture, and that is the disservice. That's like an abatros. It's like an abatros upon their lives, ministry-wise, business-wise. Look at the whole picture. Don't just make a decision based on the discomfortability you are feeling at the moment. There is something far bigger than this, and it is worth it anyway. The people who left Jesus, for instance, they did not consider the whole picture. Peter said, "To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." My prayer for you today is that your eyes will be wide open. You will make decisions, sound decisions, based on the whole picture of your life and destiny. When Lot made that decision, he did not consider the whole picture. Part of the picture is this land, what is going to happen in the next 10 years, 15 years. He was short-sighted. The land designated for judgment, he just went to it. The man Abraham did not strive. He considered the whole picture. And God said, all the land that you see, everything I will give it to you. And he just aligned with it. Can somebody say, I will consider the whole picture? Say it loud. Say, I will consider the whole picture. So beloved, you cannot force God to think like you. You cannot bring God to your level of perception. You can only come to his level of revelation. When you see like God, You will act like God. And seeing like God is what guarantees true rest. I believe somebody is blessed this morning. Please rise to your feet. Blessed be the name of the Lord. One simple prayer: Lord, I want to see like you. Help me, Lord. Enga shinde bradasha. I want to see like like you, Lord. Just tell it to God. I want to see like you, Lord. Tell it to God.

Pray.

I want to see like you. My eyes are opened in the name of Jesus. Breno, my head is here. Help me, Jesus. Help me, Jesus. Pray, pray, pray. Like I said, it's a teaching. Pray in the spirit. Help me, Jesus. My eyes are open. Show me what I need to see that I'm not seeing at the moment. Can you pray that prayer? Show me, Lord, what I need to see and I'm not seeing at the moment. In the name of Jesus, help me, Lord. Help me, Lord. Krené zomena kabruno skin de bagé die. Remango sintendembo ngande sote. Shenramanda gezuzi ne mangradombra de gezeya. My understanding is opened. I understand the present. I understand the future. I understand my destiny. I understand your call upon my life. I understand myself. I understand my relationships. I understand everything. I understand, Lord. This is a prophetic word for somebody. Don't make decisions based on how you feel now. Take the whole picture. Consider the whole picture. Take it into consideration. See like God. Libala sibala de asuvere abagede. Ibra no zinemaga. Makata Bariso, siete pradia, librasus ketea, shangrenosi, mekle nomate, limpre mandene, libramasusefrena panda mayeka nabohungedia, liramon de prenea. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. Yes, I Lift your hands, everyone. Lift your hands and just tell it to God. Just tell it to God. I want to see. This moment is important.

Pray in the spirit.

Let my eyes be open.

Shake Lift your hands everyone! Tell it to God— I put my heart, I put my heart up for you. Up, up, up, also see how highly Thank you. Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Now the Lord said to me— I heard the Lord very clearly. I heard the word 'Efa.' Be open. Lift up your two hands. I decree Efa.

Say louder, amen. Efa.

Efe ta!

Efe ta!

Be opened in the name of Jesus! Secondly, the Lord said we should pray against vain visions and flattering divinations. For some individuals, listen, it's an attack of the devil. No, somebody will do you good, somebody who is destined to help you, the devil will just bring a strange vision. You just see something that is not real. It's an attack of the devil. It's a misinterpretation. Ezekiel chapter 12, verse 24. Let me give a scriptural background to it and then we read. You are going to pray, you're going to pray, you look at it and there is just war and turbulence and trouble in your mind. The acid test, the parameters to measure, you know, the accuracy of the dealings of God in your heart, they are not there. Something is missing, something is off. That's an attack of the devil. Let's read. 1, 2, 3, go! There shall be no more vain vision, no flattering divination within the house of Israel. You are going to pray now. Every attack of vain vision, of flattering divination to misrepresent what God is doing in my life. I shatter you today. I shatter you today. Be shattered. Pray in the spirit. Be shattered. Be shattered. I will pour my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions. I I see true visions. I see things the way God sees them, in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Now lift up your two hands, let your amen be resounding. As a bird wandereth from a nest, so is a man that wanders from his place. You will not wander from your place. Say louder! You will not wander from your place. You will not wander from your place. For they that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the court of our God. I decree today you are planted. You will take root downward. And you will bear fruits upward. You will see things the way God sees them. You begin to see like God. I decree under this prophetic atmosphere, Ifa ta, Ifa ta, Ifa ta. It is done. Thank you, Father. Blessed be the name of the Lord. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Thank you, Apostle. Thank you, Ma. Please help me celebrate them again.

Thank you.

Celebrate them. Celebrate them well. Thank you for the privilege. So this evening we have impartation. Please welcome Apostle. Please celebrate him. Celebrate him.

Woo! Is that the best you can do?

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jesus. Father, we are grateful and we thank you, Lord, for using your servant for us in an amazing way. We're grateful. We receive these words with joy and gladness and meekness, and we execute everything you will have us do, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Please be seated for a moment. Um, I was not supposed to come up. I needed to quickly I did do this first to say thank you to Papa in person. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you, sir. We, we are so grateful. Let's, let's make those hands resounding. Several things have been coming again and again throughout this conference. Number one is focus. Number two is to see the size, the magnitude of what God intends to do. How many of you are seeing through that? Now, these words have been coming again and again. I have been, you know, thinking in my heart the International Ministers Conference, um, by— I think we move to September for this year. Am I correct? September. All right, um, whether we have it in Abuja or Ibadan. When Papa was ministering, I just sensed strongly in my spirit it, that we'll still have it here.

All right.

And I, um, I, I sense strongly that it has a lot to do, all right, um, with, um, let me just say it, with the purchase. All right. I think the asking price, because we did all this for this place, is a billion naira. Um, I sense very, very strongly that it has a lot to do with that. All right, so I, I see it as an establishment meeting. I, I know for most of us in Abuja, it's a lot of sacrifice coming down here. Most of, most people are working with different multinationals and have to, you know, take break to be here. Um, and which is also going to be um, because we would have pulled this place down. So we are coming here by September to have the meeting into a new facility here by September. Um, but Festival of Life 2025, all right, will be holding in Abuja. We want I want to thank Ibadan for hosting us. You have tried. When you come to Abuja, we are going to show you a new level. Abuja, am I correct? All right, so let's just— I mean, boy, Ibadan, as you have really tried, let's give them a big, big, big hand. All right, so we— and I just also sensed strongly All right, by the grace of God, I think Ministers Conference Pastor Podjo Emade is here by September. Um, by evening, I will show you the team for International Ministers Conference 2024. So we project the team. All right, so I mean, um, and when God said we're going to charter plane next time I come, it doesn't have to be next year. Yeah, it doesn't have to be next year. Maybe I just decide how many people are coming. I just say 100 people, your flight on me. All right, because yes, you, you keep watching me when I say it and you keep watching me when I share the testimony. Somebody say, even if I have the money, I will not do it because you don't have enough. All right, amen. Papa, Mama, thank you so much. Well I mean, when people ask me, who is your spiritual father? I say Pastor Imbanmashan. They say, I don't know him. Don't worry, just hear him once. Just hear him once. Let me share this. When I went to meet him, I went to meet him not for spiritual fathering but for mentorship. In my mind, I just felt I needed much. I just felt I needed much more big names. But big name is not big grace, all right? I remember I was— I already talked to him for mentorship, and I sat down in Bible study that day, and when I heard him, I said, this cannot be my mentor. I said, sir, permit me to go and pray more. I'm a man of conviction. I've never— let me say this. Before I met Papa, I only had one mentor all my life. I was with him till the final moment. I've never had reasons to jump from leaders to leaders. God is either sending me somewhere or he's not. I remember my mentor was very sick, he had cancer. I had to be with him at the point, change his diapers, and he held my hands with tears and he said, you are not irritated. I said, I'm not irritated, I'm not. When you were teaching me the word, I wasn't irritated. How can I now be? We need to go back and learn the culture of commitment. I will just leave that there. All right, I sat down. I think I did 3 more weeks, sat down listening praying to be sure, because once it is God, I'm there till Jesus comes. And I, I heard God. God said, your inheritance is here. All right, and it's been from glory to glory, and I'm telling you, from glory to glory. Last year you were here, you've seen what we did with the word. Watch us again, we're running with these words. We want to say we are grateful, sir. We are so, so privileged and blessed to have you and Mama as our spiritual parents. It's a privilege we are proud of in any nation, anywhere in the world. If they ask us questions, our response is, come and see. That's our only response. Amen. Evening, final, final session for Festival of Life 2024. All right, we told all the branch resident pastors— I just want to clear myself— to give us a gospel singer in the body of Christ that they want to be with them on Sunday. So if you don't see anybody in your church, it's because your pastor did not follow it up. We in Abuja followed our— I think Port Harcourt said they wanted to invite Prince Emmanuel. So, Port Harcourt, na dey shadow na go see o, because that's not Lagos. Keja, who did you say you are bringing? Eh, talk well abi. I didn't hear you. Great man. They didn't hear power because I'm not sure they followed everything up. They are big, they are big people. Lekki said, eh, so Mr. Lazarus, they didn't say anything. So I just wanted to clear myself. But either ways, I don't know if you have discovered that in Sphere of Light Church we actually have graces. Let me tell you. We can do well without bringing any music minister. This house is complete. Celebrate these people, they are complete. Any version you want to bring, I look at them in amazement. Is it the instrumentalist you want to talk about? The best of the best. Now let me say this, now go and fact-check what I want to tell you. The best of the best in this nation, they are here.

Go on, go on.

Now this is not me eulogizing them. I've told AGL I will call him out. Let me call him out. What this guy is sitting on here cannot be done as a person again. We need at least 1,000 AGL in the body of Christ now. So I've told him to go and start start a school where he will communicate his spirit and train people. At least once that school starts, in every branch of Sphere of Light Church, we'll get at least 10, 10 people regardless of the price. Now let me say this: that is here doesn't mean we'll get familiar with that grace. These guys are extraordinary. I've told Basemattix, I told MK Stix, they should enter the leadership dimension of their calling. They need to model something to the body of Christ and teach people. So this is an official call out to them. If you don't see their institution, it's time we troll them on Twitter. All right, we just start seeing AJL, Basematic, MK trending. Jayontin is not here, he has busy— we spoke yesterday. We just start trending them. Them. These are the best of the best we can find. All right, I will not— maybe one of these I'll tell you the reason why I'm having to invite people now and when I plan to stop. There's just one reason why I'm doing that, but I'll tell you much later. Let's welcome the resident pastor of Sphere of Light Church Abuja. Abuja people are very proud people, so Let's welcome him.

Hallelujah! Can we celebrate Apostle? Thank you so much, sir. I want us to rise on our feet this morning as we celebrate Papa. What do we say to Papa this morning? Papa, we love you and there is nothing you can do about it. Come on, celebrate him as they take their leave. Thank you so much, sir. Keep celebrating, keep celebrating, keep celebrating. Don't stop Don't stop, don't stop clapping, don't stop clapping, don't stop clapping.

Hallelujah!

Praise the Lord! How many of you have been blessed this morning? Ask your neighbor, have you been blessed? What's the person saying? What's the person saying? I want us to scream together, wonders without number! One, two, go!

Come on, say it again. Wonders without number. Hallelujah.

Anyway, please have your seat briefly. All right, so tonight we are going to be starting by 4 o'clock PM prompt, this evening session. Now let me say this to you, listen to me. Um, Festival of Life is the apex conference of Sphere of Light Church. And this night is the apex of the Apex Meeting. I get what I'm saying? Are you following me? It means don't just come casual, come ready, come hungry. In fact, if it will take you staying back to pray, stay back to pray. This is not a conference that you are living not knowing what next to The words that are coming out of this conference must not fall to the ground. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! I know it like I know my name, it's going to be a prophetic night and there's going to be a lot of words, outbursts, impartations of the Spirit. You don't want to be left out of that impartation tonight. So get yourself ready. And let me give you this wisdom. It is important that you don't attend conferences like this and not find a way of committing, um, financially. I get what I'm saying. This is not what Apostle will be able to say, but I can say this. Are we together? Praise the Lord. Yes, find a way to sow a seed. I'm, I'm, I think there's going to be an avenue for that to be possible tonight, where you commit to the grace, the graces that have been a blessing to put this together. Can we give the Lord a big hand once again? Now also, Apostle's book, The Final Move of God, is out there at the stand. You can get that with those that stand from this morning or in the evening. Um, so you can get to be blessed by the rich and prophetic content of that book. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. All right, so for those that are going to be going by flight, um, it was brought to our notice that there's going to be, um, Overland is traveling from Ibadan to Abuja tomorrow, right? So if you, you don't have to go to Lagos to go book your flights. Those going to Abuja and, um, Abuja, right? Yes. All right, so you can book your flights. Can we rise on our feet this moment? Um, there's ample time for us to prepare for the evening sessions. Please don't come casual. You might want to dislodge yourself from your friend from henceforth. This is not just the place where you come and you're excited. Go back with something rich. Are we together? Yes, go back with something rich. I want us to lift our hands and just thank God for an amazing time this morning. An amazing time this morning. Can we say, Father, we thank you for this conference. Thank you for those words, that these words will not just be a word for the house, but I will see the fruit. I will see the fruits in my life going forward. I know what next to do in the name of Jesus. Father, we give you praise and we give you glory. We bless your name. We give you praise, for in Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Hallelujah. All right, it's time for us to take our affirmation as a family. Are we ready? All right, I want to join us with somebody. Um, smile at the person, look at the person eyeball to eyeball and smile at the person. All the partners, as we take our affirmations together.

Media, are we ready?

All right, one to go.

We are sphere of light, an atmosphere of God's influence. We love effortlessly, we sacrifice selflessly, and pray earnestly. We are a people of great faith, strong vision, and excellent spirit. We are the epicenter of God's praise upon the earth. We have a lifestyle that is consistent with the authority of scriptures. We believe when the Lord said to us that we are a city in every city. This is the house of pruning forging and making of giants. The shout of a king!

And what do we do? Come on, give the Lord a shout of praise!

Hallelujah! God bless you. See you by 4 PM.

Welcome to Ambience TV. I'm your host, Isaac Ugbede, and, um, well As you can see, we are going, you know, stronger and stronger and stronger in the Festival of Life Conference, and God has been, you know, pouring down on us, and several graces, you know, have been released in the house. You know, we just wrapped up the morning session of day 4. It's officially in the books. Do well to continue following, do well to continue watching, and I guarantee your life life will be irreversibly blessed. I'm here today with an amazing guest in the house who I'm going to be speaking with, you know, to give us some of his experiences throughout this conference. So sir, can you tell us your name and which Sphere of Light branch you represent?

Good morning everyone, my name is Akimba Mbeniza and I represent Abuja Center.

Amazing, wonderful, wonderful. So how How have you been, you know, experiencing this conference?

It has been amazing and awesome, you know. Like, my expectation was mind-blowing, and God Almighty has been awesome in this meeting.

Amazing.

So my experience here has been mind-blowing, like I said earlier, and the expectation I had was beyond what I'm actually receiving now.

Amazing, that's wonderful, that's wonderful. You know, um, in the morning session that we just concluded, um, we were privileged to have the ministry of our spiritual grandfather, Pastor Bimbo Animoshon. And you know, he shared from Numbers 13, you know, talking about, um, the 12 spies who were sent out to spy out the land. 10 of them came back and said, um, the land was flowing with milk and honey, but that there were giants in the land, and they said that they were like grasshoppers in their eyes. And God called that an evil report, though they said what they were seeing with their eyes, you know. But God called it an evil report because they were not seeing with the eyes of faith. They were not seeing what he was seeing. So I wanted to ask you, how detrimental is it for us to depend on our physical sight instead of seeing the way God sees.

Thank you for that. Seeing with our physical sight is limiting.

Wow.

To start with, it's very, very limiting. You don't see beyond the small screen, right? You, you, you get limited by just seeing with your physical eyes. But when you see from the spiritual point of view, just like in the book of 1 Samuel chapter 16, when God actually— when God sends Prophet Samuel to go to the house of Jesse to appoint a king.

Yeah.

When he got there, he saw Eliab with his physical stature and some good-looking man, and he wanted to anoint him, right, from his own physical point of view.

Yeah.

But God rejected him, said, no, that is not who I wanted. Down to the seventh child, to the sixth child, then he asked, okay, do you have any other person in the house?

Yeah.

And before they sent for David, and God said that is the person that he wanted, right? That is from seeing from the spiritual point of view, not from physical. Can I use my— using myself as an example?

Sure.

There are things that I, I personally feel like, okay, in a relationship, okay, I like this person and she's beautiful, she has a physical aspect of what I truly wanted, but from spiritual point of view, maybe she does not suit what God wants for me, right? So it is very, very important for us to see from spiritual— is from our spiritual point and not mere looking or our physical eyes, with our physical, physical eyes.

Awesome, amazing, amazing, truly. You know, it takes me back to, you know, Hebrews 11:6, where, you know, the Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God. So if you bring a report that is not of faith, if you bring a report that is not the way God sees it, it doesn't actually please God. That is truly, truly remarkable. I wanted to ask you this follow-up question. You know, Apostle, you know, today brought another perspective to this. He dealt very well with fear, that fear, you know, stops a lot of people from, from actualizing their vision, you know. And he shared with us from Romans chapter 8, from verse 14, you know, where he said, you know, they that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. But then to verse 15, He said God has not given us the spirit of bondage again to fear, but he has given us the spirit of sonship whereby we can, you know, cry, 'Abba, Father.' So I wanted to ask you, um, in your life, are there, you know, things that fear has restricted you from? And right now, what would you say you have the courage to go strongly Fear has stolen a lot from me.

Fear is a thief. Yeah, you know, I tell people that once you entertain the spirit of fear, you are doomed, right? And, uh, you know, when you exhibit the spirit of courage— courage in its own time, it's actually doing things beyond anxiety beyond your feelings of fear, right? So, um, when we speak about fear, fear has a way of grounding you. Like, okay, I sing and I write. So there was a time that I wanted to launch an album, and I had this mentality and orientation of what people think, what people say about me. And that is me entertaining the spirit of fear, which which at that time stole a lot of— a lot from me, right? Because I was like, okay, what if I do it this way, I might get these results. If I do it that way, I might get these results. And I, I was entertaining fear, right? I was not bold, I wasn't audacious to go out, to be courageous, to do the things God actually wanted for my life, right? So when you don't have that courage or self-discipline to to, to, to launch out, fear will ground you down, right? And it will limit you for life, right?

Amazing, amazing, super amazing. So there you have it, folks. We have been receiving, you know, much, much, much, much more, um, from, you know, the Festival of Life Conference. And there's gonna be another session in the evening by 4 PM. Do well to follow through. Do well do well to stay, you know, connected. And trust me, you would not only just learn, you would, you know, the word of God won't just only reach you, you'll be imparted also. Do well to stay tuned. We'll see you after this break. Welcome back to Ambience TV. I'm still your host Isaac Ubede, and we're live in SLC Ibadan for the Festival of Life Conference 2024, As Far As Your Eyes Can See. And I have with me an amazing guest in the studio that I'm going to be asking some questions to tell us, you know, how far, you know, the conference has been for her. So can you tell us your name and what Sphere of Light branch you represent?

Thank you so much. My name is— I'm from Sphere of Light Church.

Amazing, amazing. How's the conference been for you so far since, you know, day one till now?

Oh my Oh my God, it's been an amazing experience so far, how far you can see. And I have amazing experience from the different word sessions, from Apostle to Pastor Mimi and our different resident pastors. Yes. And to the administration of our guest minister, it's been an amazing experience.

Wow.

And I'm happy I'm here.

That's truly remarkable. Um, I wanted to ask you, okay, what stood out for you most in this conference that you can share with us?

Okay, I still want to talk along the line of the theme, as far as you can see.

Yes, go ahead.

Apostle said something the first day, that the most disadvantaged way to see is seeing through your physical eyes.

Yes.

And we all know that physically, the eye, the sight is very important. Yes. And now they are telling us that that's the most disadvantaged way to see.

Yeah, yeah.

That means there is more to—

there's a higher level you can see.

We are seeing through the lens of Christ. Eyes through the word of God. That means you can see far, you can see and get more results, accurate results.

Wow, amazing! That's truly remarkable, truly, truly remarkable. You see, I, I, I, you know, I'm of the opinion that what we see with our physical eyes is like a mirage, and then if we are able to see the way God sees, if we are able to focus on Christ and allow him paint, paint the pictures, you know, that we should see for our lives, we will be better off.

Definitely.

That's amazing. So I wanted to ask you a follow-up question too. You know, today Apostle admonished us, you know, to enlarge our vision, to be courageous. So I wanted to ask you, during the course of this conference, you know, have you gotten any light and illumination as to what God has called you to do? Have you been able to see beyond the way you saw them before? Has God been able to paint any new picture for you throughout this conference?

Yes, definitely. You know, Apostle was talking about awareness. Yes. You know, there are most things I know about myself. Okay, I can do this. Probably I've been limiting myself. Probably, okay, I feel like, can I do this? I was having self-doubt, right? But now I know I have that awareness in me. There is this consciousness that even if I'm not working in that height already, in that realm already, I can do it, right? So that alone is giving me that energy that I can do it even without starting already. I have this ability that I can. So by the time I'm going with that boldness and audacity to whatever I want to do, I know I will achieve greater results, right?

That's truly, truly, truly remarkable, folks. We have one session to go, um, this evening by 4 PM. Do well more to follow through. We were imparted greatly today. I mean, the rain of God's presence was so tangible in the house, you know, this morning. It only goes to show how much more is left for us this evening. So do well to follow through. We are still live here in Sphere of Light Church, Ibadan, Festival of Life Conference 2024, As Far As Your Guys, can see— see you later.