INTERNATIONAL MINISTERS CONFERENCE || DAY TWO EVENING SESSION

Hello, Light of the World family! Welcome to day 2 of the International Ministers Conference. We are looking forward to the evening session. I am so excited and delighted to be here today. My name is Blessing Betka and I bring you greetings from Apostle Femi Lazarus and Pastor Miracle Femi Lazarus. I want to know where you're connecting from, so I am going to be going through the comment section and I want you to just leave it in the comment section where you are connecting from.

All right, earlier today I met some amazing ministers that came from Ibadan because people actually travel. Yeah, all the way to be live with us here in Abuja. So let us know, you is watching us online right now, which location, which city, which country, which— where are you streaming from?

And if you are in Abuja and you are watching me and you are not going to be here live, you are missing out on a lot of things. You know, having online experience is great, right? But it's not compared to you being here. There is an atmosphere that— except you are able to create that atmosphere in your home, but it is just better that you're here. All right, some people are, are commenting I can see Neoyotech from Ikeja, Lagos. You are welcome. I can see Hodrick Empire, United Kingdom. I can see Team Josh, United Kingdom also. All right, you are welcome. Okay, Team Josh is from France.

Oh wow, all the way from France. All right, so this shows that we have a lot of them coming in from every corner. Now if you've been following us all through the series of the IMC, I believe that you had a lot of insight, a lot of highlights for you, a lot of 'this was your moment.' So let us know from you watching right now, what was your own moment?

Are we going through your comment section for that?

Exactly. But meanwhile, while they're answering that, tell us, Blessing, I'm so happy you're sitting right here with us, and this is so such an honor to have you here. Thank you. I know you've been having an amazing experience all through the IMC, so let us know, how has it been for you? Tell us, take us back. All the things that you got that I'm, I'm gonna be typing as you're even speaking because I know I will still learn from you.

Thank you so much. All right, so I've been learning a lot of things, a lot, a whole lot of things. And one thing I'm— that I've just had in my head, I've been meditating a lot on is the fact that, you know, this is International Ministers Conference and a lot of people would be like, this is International Ministers Conference, how does it pertain to me? Yes, yes, a lot of people might just be like, should I really watch this? Should I be here? It is for ministers. And I like the fact that during Um, yesterday's, um, session, Apostle Muyiwa Areyo was really emphasizing on the difference between ministry and the church. And from that explanation, I could get that you essentially do not need to hold the mic and own a church for you to be a minister of the gospel. As a believer, um, the Lord, the Lord Jesus, he left us with a commandment. He said, go into the world and preach the gospel. Going to— and that mandate is for everyone. And so ministry can be even in your place of work. You are a banker, anywhere you find yourself, you will have a ministry. And that your ministry is the ministry of reconciliation, which is to reveal Christ. I think Pastor Grace today— oh, she was—

wherever you find yourself, any sector, bank, um, a company, whatever, you're a doctor, how many souls are you winning through that?

End goal of everything is Exactly. This is very profound because a lot of people actually think that I'm not a minister, that to be a minister, you know, some people even tell you that, oh, prayer is for you guys.

I'm like, what?

As a believer, you are— you have the mandates to go and reveal Christ everywhere that you find yourself, in the streets, in the marketplace, in your business. You are to reveal Christ. And you just bring me back to— there is a particular person in the Bible that I really love. That's the man Stephen. He was in the welfare department. He was not even— he was not part of the apostles. He was not a pastor. He was not like he was holding the microphone. It was not like he was holding the microphone, right? But the Bible says he was filled with the Holy Ghost and with power. I can just imagine him, like, having a mental picture. I can imagine him, people coming to collect food and they are falling under the power. So you necessarily do not have— so I like that from yesterday's teaching to today's teaching, it has been showing us that You are a minister. You are a minister. So I'm going to be going through the comment section. What are you guys learning?

All right, so, and you know that one of the things that I've said is also a blessing highlight for me is it makes us come with this consciousness that as we are born, your purpose is also attached.

All right, all right, all right, all right. There are so many things to learn. Apart from the fact that you are a minister, one very key thing that Apostle Muyiwa Ariyo has been talking about also is the fact that we are all building something. We are all building something. This is very, very profound. The fact that we are all building something— whatever you are doing in your business now, you are building something. Whatever you are doing in, in your working place right now, you are building something, and everything you are doing right now counts. And I like that he left us with a question yesterday: what are you building? Really, really very powerful. What are you building? And so I like the fact that from yesterday to today we have learned. And I know that you listening to me now, you know that you are a minister of the gospel wherever you find yourself.

And I love our online family members because They've been saying that one of the audio, like, they want to really like catch up with all the things. But so sorry, that has been fixed already. And I see that we are from Lagos, Edo, Jalingo. And this shows that you are here not to miss out on anything happening. That's why we're even here right now. We're having a chat, myself and Blessing, on how our own experience was. And we also want you not to miss out in sharing, right? So tell us your moment. Tell us what was it for you. Tell us even your expectation, you know, tell us what are you expecting to, to get from today's service. All right, um, now let's get to the teaching from Pastor Grace to Apostle Muyiwa. I want you to share more on Apostle Muyiwa.

Okay, yeah, all right, so, um, I talk about one very key thing that he talked about yesterday, which is about the fact that we are the minister of the— a minister of the gospel. So everyone watching, I know by now you know that this conference is for you, just in case you have it in mind that Who is this conference for? This conference is definitely for you. So there's one thing I also noticed from yesterday's teaching. You know, Apostle Femi Lazarus also taught yesterday, and Pastor— Apostle Muyiwa Areyo. And I noticed that there was just a sync, there was a flow. It feels like they were talking about the same thing. In fact, it's not like they, they had an agreement before.

Exactly.

And there is one thing that they kept bringing us back to, which is the foundation, which is Christ. They kept bringing us back to the fact that Christ, Christ is the foundation. It is not our works, it is Christ. That, you know, Apostle was really talking yesterday about, um, you know, the grace of God, about how a lot of people think, oh, it's by fasting more, it's by praying more. But Apostle was just bringing us to the fact that Christ— even when, um, Apostle Muyiwa Areyo was talking, he was talking to, um, yesterday, he was talking about the fact that you can talk on parenting, but every Everything must be linked back to the person of Christ. You can talk about marriage, but everything must be linked back to the person of Christ. You don't preach your ideology. And I think this is very key in our generation right now, because truly there are a lot— if you go online, there is a lot of preaching, there is a lot of teaching, everybody is saying something. I mean, everybody. There is a lot of content out there. And how do we filter the content as Christian and as believers? And the way we do that is the fact that We don't preach ideology. We go back to scriptures. Because if you want to mix yourself or preach your ideology, everybody have different ideology. And this is what can even bring us to the point of unity, that we are one. We are preaching one thing, which is the scripture. That is the guiding line for believers. You know, I think Apostle also talk about a lot of people will be like, oh, for me, I believe this. No, not what you believe. What exactly does the scripture says? What, what is the— how is this in the mind of Christ? So I really love that.

Um, and then Apostle Femi Lazarus also mentioned that the vision you have about Christ determines how you do your ministry. I know that there are so many denominations existing with two— with different interpretations of how they are trying to teach the gospel, but it looks like a lot of times what, what, what they have written about is what's making them interpret it that way. So it's always good that you have— you understand Jesus Christ very well. So, so you can now take it to run your ministry. And I minister something here during my, my interview seat earlier today. He said he has come to understand that all denominations, their focus should be one thing: to make sure that your members understand the core reason, the core vision we are all contributing to, which is to win souls, kingdom. So if everybody in their different corner is making their members, their, their people to understand that we— as soon as you give your life to Christ, your primary assignment now is to also feed into the major result of winning souls and bringing— increasing the kingdom. If everybody is doing it that way across different denominations, at the end of the day, if they are now going to evaluate holistic results of Christians, it will be like a massive bomb because everybody has really done their part, you know. So that part, my pastor really like made it seem— okay, this is why some ministers are missing it. I won't even call it— this is a workshop. You feel like every minister should be in this IMC because here their eyes are open to deeper things, deeper things.

You've been—

it's one thing to be called, yeah, it's another thing to really understand the one that called you and what you're to do.

Exactly. And you know, I like this, I like the fact that you brought up this point. You know, Apostle Muyiwa Ariyo also has been talking from yesterday's session and today's session, he has been talking about building. You understand? Your ministry, you build it. And there is something he said, and Apostle Femi Lazarus also said the same thing yesterday. It is really in line, and I wrote it down. I'm just going to be reading it exactly, all right, the way it's written down. I don't want to miss out on anything. Yeah, Apostle said something yesterday. I've also said that every form of deception look real, and it is not the realness you check for but the source.

Say that again.

Every form of deception looks real, and it is not the realness you check for but it is source. And also, exactly, Apostle Muyiwa was talking about buildings, that unfortunately you can build a foolish building. You are building— it's not like from the foundation, it's, you know, you know, when it's foolish now, it's not even built. No, this one we actually built.

Looks so nice.

It is when the challenges come, when the wind comes, when challenges come, that's what now reveals what you've been building. And that's why when he left us with that question, what are you building? Because what you are doing now, you are building, you are contributing to In fact, whatever you're sowing now, you will reap it. It's like you're contributing to your future, whatever you're building now.

So this means that's what makes us stand the test of time as we move on through life. What will shake you and make you still standing is the foundation of how well you've built. Let me take some comments. I see Comfort Corner saying, I learned from AFL yesterday when he said we should be united, stop judging people because we all have our shortcomings. Yeah, in addition to that while you're saying stop judging people because of our shortcomings, know that we all have a common goal to win souls for Christ, right? And then I saw— read about Kaburu. I saw Kaburu Mitchell.

Yes, Kaburu Mitchell said, I was so blessed with Pastor Grace preaching this morning. I literally now, now see God on everyone I pass on the way. My mind was so, so flooded with longing for souls.

Like, when she's— thank you so much for pointing out that, Kaburu. When she said that, right, she was like, if even if anybody tries to hurt her, she's looking at you and she's seeing God. So she cannot be angry with God, she cannot just hold grudges against you. So she just has to forgive you and love you like God because she's seen God in you. So that was very deep, that if people have this kind of understanding, I bet you even humans, we will not even be fighting ourselves. Do you understand?

I, funny enough, Apostle also talked about something similar to this yesterday. The story he gave yesterday on Jim Femi Lazarus and, um, Jimmy Swaggart. I went back home and I actually watched the full documentary, and I was like— and it's related to what he said about stop judging people.

I really—

I literally had to go home yesterday and just pray, pray for myself, because sometimes you can see, you know, when you see somebody that is not working in line with scriptures or have shortcoming, we must learn that point of giving them grace and knowing that people are growing and they are different stage in their work with God. And it's so beautiful. And if you can see souls in people. It will help you know that people don't know. If people know, they will do better.

All right, so now let me give some of the things I learned from Pastor Grace, because somebody has brought Pastor Grace to the picture. I know that her session was super. I mean, you know, when a mother— I feel like when a mother is talking, she's talking from a place of— yeah, a place of, see, I nurtured you, this is what you should know, this is what you should run, this is what I've lived, this is what I've experienced, this This is the way, follow this way. So she was mentioning that we are all ambassadors for Christ. Just imagine you're an ambassador for a company. You know that how you carry yourself, what you do, how you present yourself is because you are representing a brand. So your style, your coverage is— so if we can do that for human companies, like the things that we created, how much more knowing that you are an ambassador for Christ? So therefore Everything Christ has laid down as principle, you should by default express them. Carry yourself like Christ, act like Christ.

I don't know if you're getting it. I get it. You are, you are representative of Christ. We are ambassadors of Christ.

Exactly.

We are Christ-like. Being called Christian means Christ-like.

Exactly.

When you tag yourself as Christian, in everything Christ should be seen.

Yeah.

And this is even bringing us back to the fact that you are a minister. Don't be a Christian that at your place of work people don't want to listen to your pastor, or people don't want to come to your church. Absolutely. You are a minister everywhere you are. You are to represent Christ. Absolutely. Everything you do is to represent your God. Yeah, everything. People are looking at you. Funny enough, very— one thing I'm always very cautious of, in fact, of recent I've been really trying to work in it, that I'm cautious everywhere I go. I just believe people are watching me.

Absolutely.

People can look at you and say, oh, I want to know the God you serve because of your character. So you must represent Christ.

It's not only when you come to church.

In that that light we are to shine is not in church. Apostle was teaching us on Sunday, the light you are to shine as a believer is not in church, it's actually out there. So it's not only when you are coming to church, you know, there are some people that say Monday to Saturday I am for the world, and then on Sunday I just—

Father, we thank you—

and then you just change and become— suddenly you are a believer. No, we don't want to see that just in church alone. Yeah, even out there, that's the place that you're supposed to shine it.

All right, so let me join Satina to say glory, hallelujah!

And the rest of everyone watching, Nicole Emma Enam said, Pastor Grace actually revived my soul-winning life, and I celebrate the grace upon her life. Yes, even listening to her today again, I felt more refired.

Like, there's a way when you listen to her soul-winning, somebody added fuel to you.

It's just like you, you would, you would get that passion again back anytime you listen to her on soul-winning. I love, I really love that.

Yeah. So for me, what I'm going home with is the day you give your life to Christ as a Christian, you are also an ambassador for Christ, bringing God's kingdom into reality, into results. So you have a role to play while you're trying to survive, eh. You also need to know that in that place of survival, in that place of survival, right, you can use that to express God. You can use that to express that this is Christ. And look at Jesus Christ's journey from birth when he started going through the process. Everything he was doing was having the same end goal to redeem, to revive, you understand? So if from his bed and he started manifesting, I mean, we should emulate that. From your bed, you should, you should, you should find your purpose. She said find your purpose, understand your own purpose, and then live your purpose. That was very, that was very profound for me.

Your purpose, understand it. Don't just find it that Funny enough, this is important. Yeah, a lot of people, when you tell them what's your purpose, they know their purpose.

Yeah.

And what is the difference between them knowing their purpose and living in their purpose? It is that gap of understanding.

Exactly.

I mean, important.

And that is why we refer to everyone watching as light of the world. I mean, I love what Rachel is saying, we are light of the world. It's because you carry a light that shall shine. You are a kingdom-minded culture shapers, a global what? Leader. You are an ambassador of Christ. That through anywhere you— I don't know why I keep saying this, I feel like I'm saying it too much.

We are actually even going echoing it, echoing it. There's something— yeah, we're actually going back to something that, that is emphasizing on the fact that you are a minister.

Yeah. And she said for every location you find yourself, you are there to represent the kingdom. So, so don't say, oh, today I'm in this state, I'm in this city, I'm in this country. By the time I'm done here and I go back to my country I will do this, I will do that. They say any location you find yourself, you have to represent God. Then she even said before she got to America, she had not stepped her foot there, but her money has gone to win souls for her.

Exactly.

Wow.

Somebody here said, um, I'm sorry if I did not pronounce your name well. Yeah, said, I learned from Apostle of Citizen Church— Citizen of Light Church. No one is called to be the pastor of the body of Christ by— of a local assembly, but of a local assembly. I think that's what he meant. Yeah, very profound. Yes, he explained it yesterday. It starts— is, you know, he gave the illustration and it's really profound. He gave the illustration of, um, how the family is the unit of the society. You know, it starts from family first. That's the same way when it comes to the body of Christ, it's still streamlined down back to your local church. That's so, so profound. Somebody said, I learned a lot, I learned a lot yesterday.

That no one is called to be the pastor of the body of Christ by a local assembly. You people are really showing us that. You're like, okay, now let's switch the card. Now what are you expecting from this evening experience? Because IMC day 2, it can only get better. It's going to be, it's going to be better. What are you expecting from today? Bless you. What are you also expecting from this evening session?

I am expecting to receive a lot. I'm expecting to be just equipped because one thing I believe, I cannot come to the presence of the Lord and I remain the The Bible says as we behold him in the mirror, we are changed. As we continue to behold Christ, we are changed. So I'm expecting to be changed. I'm expecting for, um, to encounter God in the teaching. I'm expecting to see more of Christ. I'm expecting to, um, you know, just be equipped all around. My heart is really open because I know that this is gonna push me to the next season. Yeah, push me to the next phase. You know, Apostle said something yesterday when he started teaching. He said what he's going to be teaching in IMC is something that Every year you must listen to it. This is so key. I feel so blessed being in this house. I feel so blessed that I can hear the things I'm hearing now.

Like, and it's so hard. Like, when Apostle said that, it's striking to me. Apostle Femi Lazarus— I know we call it Apostle's Apostle— but Apostle Femi Lazarus, he said, you cannot build a vision alone.

Powerful.

So in as much as we have the same goal to achieve, which is the kingdom, Everybody is involved.

We are needed.

That is why he's even taking his time. The teaching that we get from Apostle, it's like nobody is flogging you. Wake up, this is what you have to do, this is what you have to do. And the interview session with Apostle Muyiwa earlier today, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, that was like a very—

that was like a reality.

My God, a reality food, I'm telling you.

And he keeps teaching.

And you know that on church growth, my goodness, my God, you know that we're gonna have the same interview this evening, but this time Pastor Iran is going to be on the seat with Apostle.

You don't want to miss out, you really don't want to miss out. There is— yes, Apostle Iran is coming. You don't want to miss out on tonight. This evening is loaded, I tell you. You have seen one phase of what God is doing, you will see even another. And I just want to encourage you, continue to stay tuned with your heart open to receive, because you will definitely be equipped.

And you guys know what happened during Apostle interview. You was— he would, he would dig out things from you that you would not know when you're dropping a lot of insight. So for me, I'm looking forward to that interview because I know that when he asked Apostle Irian a question I will get— you know, you're being fed from all angles. I will get— I love interview session. I learned a lot from, from it as well. All right, so it's about time. It's about time for us to go into worship session, you know. But before then, let us pick up one thing from the comments. I love— see, Anna Paulina, I don't know where you're watching from, but I love you already. In fact, we love you because you're already giving us your expectation for tonight. The rest of us watching that you are here, what are you expecting as well? Because I've told you mine for interview. You have said yours.

Me, every part of this side. So every part, for watching, to Apostle session. Oh my God, I just want to enjoy myself.

I expect to learn more and be a doer of the word. Yes, and not a hearer alone. Beautiful, very profound. Like you're already planning to learn and apply. Yes, so that's like your to-do list already. Like, as I hear, I'm making up my to-do list, I'm taking the action. And the more you do that, the more you get results.

Wow.

I know that our worship moment in Light Nation is when they give you an opportunity for you to worship God for quality one hour.

It's one— it's one of a kind.

The Streams of Life, they are another level of ministers. What's your experience like during worship session?

You know, sometimes I saw my husband— when I'm coming to church, I just need to carry my tissue because it's it's, it's, it brings me to the presence of God, and I'm looking forward to it. I'm really, really looking forward to it.

I get an encounter through worship. There was a Sunday that they were just worshiping, and all I did was just— I was, I was in church, but I was in a different realm entirely, you know. I was just connected to God. I feel like I was talking to God one by one, on one. So now it's about time for that experience in worship. We're going in there for another quality one hour. You can't afford to miss it. Share this link with your loved ones, your family, those— a minister you know, a minister you know, all the pastors you know in your life, all the vessels, the singing ministers and everything. Tell them that they should join us live because we are going into worship, guys. You're going into— you're going into worship, guys, and I believe that you have an encounter this evening.

I pray for you that you have an encounter. Just leave your heart open. You are really definitely going to encounter Christ.

See you again in post-service, like after we're back, and another thing loading. Bye guys!

Bye guys!

Thank you! You are Alpha and Omega. We worship you, our Lord. You are worthy. To be praised. You are Alpha and Omega. You We worship you, our Lord. You are worthy to be praised. We give you our— our— Glory. We worship you, Lord. You are worthy to be praised. Ah. We give you all the glory, God. We worship you, Father. You are worthy. You're worthy of it all. You're worthy of it all. For, for you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. With a heart of gratitude tonight, somebody lift your voice to him. You're worthy of it all. You're worthy of it all. For from you are all things, and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. I'mma try Lift it up! You're worthy of it all. Oh, you're worthy of it all. For from you, for from you, and to you You're a good God. You're a good God. You fight my battle and I hold my peace. I don't have to worry I don't have to cry no more. You are the mighty man in battle. You are Jehovah. You are the mighty man of war. You are Jehovah. You are Jehovah. You're Jehovah. You're the mighty man. Mighty man in battle. You're Jehovah, you are the mighty man of war. You are Jehovah, no one be like you. You are Jehovah, Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Jireh. You are the mighty, mighty, mighty. You are Jehovah, you are the mighty man of war. Mighty man. You are Jehovah! Lift your voice! You are Jehovah! No one is like you in all the earth. You are Jehovah! You are the mighty man in battle. You are God. You are the mighty man. You are the mighty man. You are Jehovah! I worship you. Beat on my heart, beat on my heart. I worship, I worship you. Beat on my heart, beat on my heart. I worship. I worship, I worship with all my heart, with all my heart. We worship, we worship, we worship with all my heart, with everything within me. I bless your name. Oh, I worship. The fragrance of my worship rose up to the Father. And the response: The fragrance of my worship rose up to the Father. When the response to my worship— one more time— the fragrance of my worship Called up to the Father. Called up to the Father. When the whispers do whisper, first he was praying. First he was praying. Yeah. Anytime to fire, I worship his fire. I worship his fire. This is how I win my battle. This is how I win my battle. First he was praying. First he was praying. Anytime to fire. Anytime to fire. I worship forever. This is how I win my battle. Somebody win your battle with your worship tonight. Come on! One more time, somebody dance in the Holy Ghost. Hey! And I will magnify the Lord. I will magnify the Lord. Who is worthy to be praised? Who is worthy to be praised? I will magnify the Lord. Magnified. Who is worthy to be praised? So shall I, so shall I be saved. The Lord reigneth, the Lord reigneth. Blessed be, blessed be the Lord, may the rock of my salvation be enthroned. The Lord reigneth. Blessed be the Rock, let the Rock of my salvation be exalted. One more time! And I will magnify the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. I will glorify the Lord, He is worthy to be praised. So shall I, so shall I be saved. The Lord reigneth, the Savior reigneth. The Rock of my salvation, he is holy. He reigns forever. Lift your voice all about this room. The Lord reigns! Let's lift it up! Let's lift it up! And the rock of my salvation, he is who? The Lord reigns! The Lord reigns! Let's lift it up! Let's lift it The Rock of my salvation. Show me, say that every tongue in heaven and earth shall declare your glory. Every knee shall bow at your throne in worship and glory. Exalted, oh God, and your kingdom shall Say every tongue in heaven and earth, every tongue in heaven and earth, shout the glory of God. Glory of God. Every knee shall bow before you. In worship. Worship. You are exalted, O Lord, and you're King above all kings. Shout out to the Son. Say every tongue in heaven and earth, And your kingdom shall not pass away. You reign forever. And your kingdom shall not pass away. And your kingdom shall not pass away. And your kingdom, and your kingdom, and your kingdom shall Oh, Esele! Oh, Esele! Heaven speaks of your glory and the earth of your beauty. Hallelujah! My dancing will be enough. Hallelujah! Yes, my clapping will be enough. Heaven speaks of your glory and the earth of your beauty. Hallelujah! Your love is new every morning and your gentleness is ever so Hallelujah!

Hallelu—

hallelu—

hallo?

Halloo?! Hallaloooyaaaaaayyaaa... Allahu Akbar! My daddy, my daddy, your baby is singing. I will be singing and dancing and shouting for the rest of time. My daddy, my daddy, my daddy, my daddy, your baby is singing. I will be singing and dancing. I will be singing and dancing. Somebody Dance to the Holy Ghost! Come on! Your beloved is dancing, your beloved is singing, your beloved is dancing— my Daddy, my Daddy, my Daddy! Jehovah Jahovah! Jehovah Jahova! Jehovah Jahova! Hallelujah! So we jump in the Holy Ghost— Jump, jump, jump, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, huh?

Huh?

Hey! So we clap into holy ghost— Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. Hallelujah! So we clap in the Holy Ghost! So we clap in the Holy Ghost! A calliope! A calliope! So we dance to Holy Ghost— Hallelujah! All right? Okay, so let's see what I'm going to do next because this one was really hard for me too when it came out of my head. And then you know how people say they're not good at music or whatever like that, but sometimes God just gives them something amazing on their own accord without even having told him about anything he needs to learn from anyone else. But if there were any musicians here today who can sing along while watching us play these songs, please feel free to join up with our choir tonight. We'd love your voice over top of ours. It'll be great! Amen, amen, hallelujah, all praise Jesus Christ Our Lord! Thank You Father Almighty, thank You Son of Man, bless Your name forevermore, blessed by His presence now through time eternal. Let everyone stand back down again real quick.

This song says 'I will lift My hands.' That means raise those arms high above your heads.

Raise them way higher than usual. Lift Those Hands Up High Above Me, come On Down Here Below Us. Come Get Some More Singing Power into Him Today. Now before we start singing "Come Back Home," uh, everybody get ready. Everybody open wide your mouth. Open wider still.

Oh yeah!

Yeah!

Somebody dancing in the holy ghost!

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Yes sir! The Spirit has been released upon every single person sitting around this room. Glory to Yahweh-Jehovah-Holy One! Alrighty guys... Hallelujah! Hallelujah! So we dance to the Holy— hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

So we dance to the holy God, be the holy God. Hallelujah! Amen! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Come on, son!

It's the shout of victory!

Shout of victory! Alleluia! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Let the sound of rejoicing fill this house. He has made a way where there was no way. You know it, lift it up! Hallelujah! It's the sound of branches! It's the sound of branches! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!— my beloved, the most beautiful. Amongst thousands, ten thousands, my beloved is the most beautiful.

10,000.

Just lift it up to him. My beloved, my beloved, the most beautiful, the most beautiful amongst thousands. Let the Lord hear you tonight. 10 thousands.

Lift up your voice.

My beloved, my beloved, the most beautiful amongst thousands, 10,000. Somebody call him that name. Oh, Yeshua, Yeshua. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus. Call Him Yeshua HaMashiach. Yeshua. Lift your voice, say, "Yeshua!" Aye! Aye! Begin to pray in the spirit.

Let me go talk to God. Let me go talk to God. Open your mouth, begin to pray in the spirit. Repandenos. We are set to receive another dose of word tonight. We are going to be talking to, talking to God. Say, Father, open my heart to receive the engrafted word that will change my life my life forever, that will transform my destiny. The book of Acts of the Apostles, chapter number 16, verse 14, he said, and the heart of Lydia was open to receive that was said by Paul. Let's talk to God. We are here to receive the word that will transform our life and transform a generation. Reduce kalibarandowski. Father, open our eyes tonight, oh God. Open our eyes tonight, oh God, to receive your word. Talk to God, somebody. Is someone praying? Say, Daddy, open my Tonight, so many words have come forth. It is one thing for the word to be released, it's another thing for you to receive it. There is always a catch-up moment in every message. You don't need the full message, there is a particular moment that your word comes. Say, Father, open my heart tonight to receive that Crafted word. Jesus, let her heart be open tonight. Let her heart be open tonight. Let her heart be open tonight. Let the fallow ground of her heart be broken tonight. He said, break off the fallow ground. Rahiloni, ake pateketan. Repenti, akatas, kas kush katande. Is a heart that is prepared that can receive the seed that will produce in tenfold, in thirtyfold, in hundredfold. All you need is the right soil. Father, we thank you. In Jesus' precious name we have prayed. You see, a lot has been said since we started this wonderful International Ministers Conference. So many wisdom keys have been released. We are going to cry to God because we still have tonight's section, tomorrow, and on Sunday. Say, Father, any wisdom key that is still missing for my life to move to the next level, release it tonight for me. Is someone ready to pray? Just one, five said. He said, if any lack wisdom, let him ask of— ask of what? We are Bible students. Let him ask of the Lord. Open your mouth and begin to talk to God. Say, Father, any wisdom key that is still missing for me to make progress, for my ministry to change, for my life to change, release it tonight, Lord. Release it through your servant that be using tonight. Is someone praying? When you have the key to a door, you don't struggle opening that door. It's only when the keys are missing you begin to sweat, you begin to panic. Talk to God, somebody. Say, Father, any wisdom key that is still missing in my life, we thank you for the one you have released us for. All we are asking tonight. Any wisdom key that is still missing, oh God, let it be released tonight. Open your mouth and pray. Open your mouth and pray. Talk to God, somebody. that is still missing, that is yet to drop, let it drop for me tonight. Let's begin to appreciate you. Say, Father, we thank you, we give you glory, Lord. In Jesus' precious name we have prayed. If he's wanting to to hear. It is another to go to work with that which you have heard. Praise the Lord, somebody! We are not going to be the hearer alone, but the doer of his word. Lastly, tonight we shall be praying. Say, Father, any wisdom— sorry, say, Father, grant me the wisdom required to run with all that I have received thus far. If you have received anything, can I— can This morning, just wait for me. If you have received anything since the inception, talk to God. Say, Father, grant me the wisdom required to run with all that I have received thus far in this conference. Habakkuk 2:2, he said, write the vision, make it plain, he said, that ye may run that readeth it. You have heard the word, what are you doing about it? Open your mouth, begin to Talk to God. Say, Father, grant me the wisdom required to run with all that I have received. Open your mouth and pray. Father, we don't want to be just the hearer, but the doer of your word. Grant us the wisdom tonight to run with all that we have received and that which we are going to to receive tonight. Talk to God, somebody. Grant to us tonight the wisdom to run with the vision, the wisdom to run with that which we have received, the wisdom to carry on that which we have received tonight. Your coming here will not be in vain. You are not here to mark register. You are not here to mark attendance that you came. Why don't you right of God tonight, that you be a doer of that which he has sent you to do by the equipping of the wisdom that is coming forth from this conference. Is someone talking to God? The wisdom to run, to run with the word. The wisdom to run, to run with the keys that we have received. The wisdom of God, we ask. Let's begin to appreciate him. Let's give him glory. Let's give him honor. Say, Father, we thank you. We Thank you, Jesus, for we know you have heard us tonight. Thank you, Mighty Father. Push your prayer through in thanksgiving. Don't mutter words, be intentional in your thanksgiving tonight. Say, Daddy, we thank you. Thank you, Lord Jesus. To you alone be all the praise. In Jesus' precious name we have prayed. Amen.

Hallelujah! Praise God! All right, we can have our seat for a moment. Um, we'll be going into the first interview session this evening, um, and we're going to be doing that, and Apostle will be the one answering the question this time around.

Hallelujah!

Praise God! Please join me as I welcome Apostle to the podium. Please celebrate Apostle. Do it better, do it better, do it better! Keep clapping, keep clapping! Celebrate Apostle, please!

Hallelujah!

Thank you so much, sir. Please, we can have our seat. Thank you, sir. Um, first of all, I want to say this, that, um, this session is supposed to be for Apostle, and now he's supposed to be teaching, but because of his love towards us, he has decided to dedicate it for us to to ask questions. And we want to say thank you so much for your concern, for your labor over us, for your genuine labor. Thank you so much, sir. And we know that clarity will come. The last time we did this, we received insight. Thank you so much, sir. Um, I also want to say this, that all the questions here have been compiled from the associate pastors sons and daughters in ministry. So I'm here privileged representing them to read out these questions. Thank you so much, sir. Please celebrate Afus. All right, um, the first question I want to read here is one that we categorize them under vision casting and discipleship. All right, the first question here is under vision Vision casting and discipleship. And we are asking, how do you cast a vision in such a way that members don't just hear it but truly own it, run with it, and willingly make sacrifice for it?

All right, um, please let's celebrate him. I'm used to asking people questions, but now I have to answer. How do you cast the vision in such a way that members run with it?

Yes, own it, run with it, and make sacrifices?

Teachings.

You see, it is not enough to— whatever you want to be the culture of the house, there has to be a body of teaching around it. It is teaching that infuses the DNA of what you want to see and imprint it upon the house. So you teach it, demonstrate it, and intercede.

Wow!

You teach it, you demonstrate it, and you intercede. That is behind the pulpit.

Yes.

Thank you so much. Can we give Apostle a round of applause? Thank you so much, sir. All right, the second one says— this one is under leadership and people building— as someone who has trained people for years, how do you retrain someone who has been wrongly trained elsewhere and struggle to embrace the culture of a new church? That is, this person have been wrongly trained elsewhere, now is now part of us. How do we train such a person to embrace the culture of the house?

Um, first thing first, you, you can barely help a man that is not receptive. You can barely do anything about the life of a man that is not receptive. First, you love. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Um, teachings will have to be done from an explanatory perspective, not a vindictive perspective, and help the person see the new light. The reason why the fellow is struggling to embrace the culture, because culture talks about the way of life. It is a body of knowledge that introduces people to the culture. If the knowledge is not there, the culture will be difficult.

Yes, sir.

So, um, the fellow needs to understand that we love you, we appreciate you. This is not just how we do things here, this is why things are done like this. In the place of that If the fellow is receptive, the fellow can be helped.

Thank you so much, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. All right, this is the third one. It says, what is your model for associate pastoring? How can they spread values, impact beyond the immediate local assembly? How can an associate pastor spread value, value and impact beyond the immediate local assembly?

Okay, so can you hear me at the back?

Can you hear me over there?

You can't hear me?

Can you hear me?

Okay.

Femi Lazarus, first thing first, I believe in authenticity. I believe in seeing people manifest their authentic self. I believe in training. I don't believe in cloning. So if people will manifest a level of value beyond just the reach of the local assembly, two things. Number one, it needs to be established in their hearts what is primary. Number two, they need to find their authentic self. I believe people need to find their authentic self and point to reach the people beyond the microphone. So, and that's what— not just I— what I teach, what I encourage you all to do. So, um, and the reason why that is important is that the quality of the pew is determined by the quality of the pulpit. The quality of the pulpit is done by the quality of the minister. So people must find points to manage manifest aspect of their lives that is not for the church now, or that is beyond the reach of the church, and have expression whether in the marketplace or in leadership, but having established what is primary.

Wow!

Please give Apostle a round of applause. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, sir, I go into the next one now. Um, this is under starting and sustaining ministry. We are asking, when God calls someone into full-time work, especially when it begins as a believer training or discipleship ministry and not a full church, why those Why does it often seem like every other side work begin to struggle, and how can one sustain themselves in the early phase of ministry? So I believe what the person is trying to ask is that the person is transitioning from a ministry into a church, then what the person is doing, maybe a side business or career, the moment that phase come for him to transition into ministry, into church fully rather. The other things he's doing, the business, started, he started struggling, struggling with it. There's a person now asking how can he sustain himself at the early stage of the church ministry.

Ministry is work. It is demanding. It takes large aspect of your life. It is like a woman a woman, um, a mother who has just given birth, there are sacrifices you have to make. At some point you have to choose between the side hustle or the ministry. Um, you may not— you, you may not get the balance from the point of starting. You pick what is important. Then balance it later.

Pick what is important, then balance it later. Thank you so much. I want to also ask this: how can the person deal with that initial fear that is there for that first season, struggling? How can this come? How can this come?

I want to say this, that it is important we interpret seasons correctly so that the realities of the face of commencement will not look like suffering. There are sacrifices that comes with going into God's work depending on how you came.

Wow, depending on how you came.

Ah, all right.

Please, can we celebrate Great Apostle. Hallelujah. Now this is under finance and sustainability. Um, how can a pastor build real financial capacity to sustain both ministry work and his family without being distracted from the vision, especially since favor and sowing and reaping alone is not God's financial strategy. Can I go again, sir?

I get you. Let me tell you a story. There was a time in this church that my wife and I had to empty our account to buy the keyboard. Our first daughter was barely 4 months old and there was There was no diapers for her. So my wife and I were in a conversation and I told her, there's a way our mothers used to do it then, fold napkins, we stuff it up, she won't die. While we're having that conversation, someone Femi Lazarus' mom sent me ₦3,000. It was sufficient to buy the diapers for that moment. We never lacked. Afterwards, how we kept on, everything came back. There are sacrifices, but whatever God sends, he backs. God's work done in God's way doesn't lack God's provision. However, There are times in ministries, sacrificial times, where the conviction of the minister is tested and that of his household.

Wow.

And in that season, what did the Bible said in Deuteronomy 8:3? He said, you shall remember the way which the Lord your God led you 40 years in the wilderness to test you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart. Whether you deny him or not. He said afterwards he caused you to hunger, then fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers know anything about, that I might make you know that man does not live by bread alone. The first thing a minister needs is not finance, is faith. Okay, you cannot master finance until you master faith. Faith for provision is the faithfulness of God to come through. If you fail to build your faith in that capacity, you cannot claim to trust God for bigger things. The days of scarcity brings your heart to the place of trust where you know it will surely come true.

Wow, this guy, we celebrate Apostle. Um, but I also want to ask this in line to this: how can the person now come out? Because in the initial phase that the person is learning faith, why the person is learning the faith, um, it might not be easy. So because I also know, because you've taught us, that even while you are learning faith and that stagnation linger for a for a long time because you've interpreted the season correctly, that this is not really stagnation, this is a process. Now, while the person is in the process, what are the things the person needs to do to forcefully come out, even while learning faith? Because once the person is learning— Sir, I want to talk, sir. The person is in ministry Oh, he's been learning faith and been— things have been showing up for years, let's say 5 years, 8 years, 10 years. But he knows that I need to break into abundance, not lack. Now God is supplying daily needs, but he knows that the resources he needs to do what he wants to do for God and for his own family, he need to break into an abundance. So how can the person— so that will not misinterpret the season and be there for a long time. So how can the person break into that abundance?

So I want us to get this right. If a child is in primary 2, every curriculum Every word, everything done for that child is as far as that class is concerned. Abundance and what we call breakthrough is in levels. There is such a thing as called fullness of time, when the obedience of a man is complete.

Wow.

Now we must understand this, you You cannot have faith for what God is not yet trusting you with.

You can't have faith for it.

So there are certain things that having passed this test and that test, now God is saying— because I want us to understand this, there are things that are product of knowledge, there are things that are product of trust— that now in the mind of God, having satisfied these this and that, I can now entrust you with this. It doesn't matter how much doctrine you learn, you cannot induce the delivery that the time has not come.

Kai, you cannot. Please celebrate Apostle. There are things that are product of knowledge and there are things that are product of trust by God. The next one that looked like it is under finance and sustainability. He said, when pastoring a financially demanding work— that is maybe church or ministry— how does a pastor balance giving sacrificially, saving wisely, and still meeting— and still meeting ministry obligations, especially when resources are often insufficient?

When pastoring a financially demanding work. Every work is financially demanding.

Yes, sir.

I want to say this clearly: if the one who is called to lead the work is not making sacrifices for the work, no one will follow.

Wow.

There are seasons in the work that the focus of the minister is is not savings. It is sacrifice.

It's not saving, it's sacrifice.

Do you have enough to even save? It's sacrifice.

Why?

You, you cannot expect me to believe in the work more than you do. And the proof that you do is, is it is demonstrated in your sacrifice. Both the commitment to work and the commitment to give. The first thing we get in the ministry is not comfort. You sacrifice.

The first thing we get in ministry is not comfort. We sacrifice. Can I also ask this in this line, that, um, how can the minister know the point where he need to start saving.

I say, like, you have Femi Lazarus, you know now, you have more than enough, won't you know? I just want to say this, that ministers should learn to separate church money from personal money. They don't mix. But demonstrate leadership through personal sacrifice.

Thank you so much, sir. Please celebrate Apostle one more time. All right, I want to ask this also. Um, for a full-time pastor whose ministry heavily involves his spouse, at what point should the wife be released to pursue her personal vision or career whilst effectively supporting the ministry? This question, as an associate or a set man, That's what—

whether an associate or a set man, sir, in a church with structure, it shouldn't be an associate. If no, you should be involved in the work. I want to explain what I mean, even though it's not a question I'm convenient answering, but God, I'll try. There's faith, there's wisdom. God will not reward what he didn't call. The one God called, do it. If God has not said the wife is entering at that level of full-time, the home will be blessed with hunger. Now we don't do— we don't, we don't follow God emotionally.

We yield.

If—

and even this thing we call full-time, I'm sometimes skeptical if the one who is doing full-time doesn't have work work hours, doesn't win souls, will tie towel, sleep in the house, watch movies. That's full-time playing. And if these things are not defined and the wife is now joining at that point, they'll struggle. And God is not obligated to do anything because he didn't send I send you.

Thank you so much, sir. I also want to ask one more question on— is under this I just answered. Um, what about a spouse, or an associate pastor and his spouse, where two of them are called, that they know that they are— they have the calling of God upon their life, and they've seen that with the grace of God upon their life, they can function individually like they are— they've seen themselves as a gift.

You know, I'm answering in respect to the fact that you keep saying associate pastor.

Okay, sir.

Which—

what that means is that they are both serving under a ministry.

Yes, sir.

So he said both of them are called to ministry. Yes, it's God that called them.

Now they should to be like to serve under the ministry as an associate pastor.

Two of them, if there's a calling, it needs to be recognized. It should be recognized. And if there is vacancy, you know, let's, let's get this right. And I'm, I'm answering this question so that people don't sentence themselves on a journey of uncertainty. Um, the scope of work needs to be understood. Job description needs to be understood. The demands of work needs to be understood. It is important that these things are spelled out in black and white. What it means to be an associate pastor is, apart from the fact that you have a calling, you are now employed under a church. Is the wife employed under a church, under that church?

No, sir.

The fellow is not employed under the church. Is, is it God that is telling the wife to make sacrifice, just wake up every day and do all those things?

I don't know.

It's not specified.

So we, we actually don't know.

That's hypothetical.

Thank you, sir.

Because of our time, I also want to ask this question. Um, it's one of our associate pastors that sent it also, said, what best structure, strategy, or plan is best for missions and soul winning, especially in a place such as Northern Nigeria?

Nigeria.

How best can a church achieve more in respect to soul winning within such context?

I just say this: when it comes to taking territories, knowledge is important. In missions, people are trained to understand the nature of their terrain, the culture of the terrain, the language of the terrain, and the hostility of the terrain. So every environment we find ourselves, whether north, south, west, or east, there are ministries that are landmark ministries that have gone ahead and have broken the fallowed ground. One can take cues from what they've done differently and use that as added strategies. There's the place of divine instruction, but more importantly, the knowledge of the environment, the do's and don'ts of the the environment, the limitations and the scope of the work must be understood.

Can we celebrate Apostle? Thank you so much, sir. And this is also under Vision and Growth and Barriers. So, Femi Lazarus, what systems and structure are needed to grow a church from hundreds to thousands without losing the pastoral touch?

What systems and structures are needed to grow a church from hundreds to thousands? I will just answer one word. The difference between the pastor of hundreds and the pastor of thousands is not necessarily anointing. It is how they think. Wow.

Just their mentality.

Well, many things can be a victim of that mentality. How you think impact on what you prioritize. For instance, a pastor can be so anointed, but his mentality can dwarf the work. He's praying hard, he's doing all those things, but doesn't believe in children ministry. Parents come with their children, there is no place for them, they leave. Doesn't believe in youth and teenagers, doesn't believe many things are important. See, what you focus on determines what follows you. So, but largely mentality.

Yeah, thank you so much, sir. Yeah, there's another one like it, so I want to ask so that you can finish in that line. He said, what do I do when my church has plateaued numerically? That is, this person has been experiencing increase maybe to from 50 to 100 to 500, then it play 2 there for a long time. What can I do?

There's brick wall at every point of growth. From 10, the average church size is 70, can almost play 2 around that size. You get to 100, it's like you're struggling to go beyond 100. 95, 96, it don't want to touch that 100. Then you break it. You break the growth barrier. So it's called breaking growth barriers. All right, you get to 500, you get to 200 or 250, you get to 1,000 to break growth barriers. It depends on the nature of the work. It depends on the nature of the environment. I will not want to give one straitjacketed rule, um, you know, but I will say this: A church that will grow must go. A church that will grow must go, must go into all the world, preach the gospel. And maybe I will just say this, because, um, we must interpret the dynamics of church growth in the context of generational gap. What worked in the '80s and '90s may not work now to yield the result that is needed. So one might be hooked on the wisdom of a generation that is the foolishness of another. So must get the context.

Please, can we celebrate Apostle? Right, thank you so much, sir. This is the Last one under decision-making and wisdom in ministry, say, how do you make decision, major decisions for the church and for pastors, and what process or principles guide those decisions? Yeah, like, yes, like, how do you make your decisions regarding maybe a pastor, a person, or the church concerning certain things? And what are the process and principle that guide those decisions?

You've answered it now. Principles guide decisions.

What are the principles?

I should tell the principles that guide my decisions in respect to Light Nation. I can't.

And church, general church.

Love, love work. But true, everything we do should be influenced because we love God and we love his people. I was just joking. At some point as a leader, you have to make decisions for people, or you about people. You have to make decisions that is not just best for the work but also best for them. You have to make sure that it's not just best for them but also best for the work. There are two-way things. You don't sacrifice a person for the work. You don't sacrifice the work for anybody. Balance it.

How do we balance it, sir? At the point where— yes, at point where both is conflicting, like you know that if you make the decision, this person is going to go forever, or at some point where you make the decision to preserve this person, the ministry might suffer for it to be one.

I told you the principle is when you are infected, we treat you. When you become the infection, we quarantine you.

Please celebrate Apostle. Thank you so much, sir. We really celebrate you, sir. Yes, please, you can go, sir. Thank you so much, sir. Please, can we celebrate Apostle Anono? Apostle, thank you so much, sir. All right, please, can you help me? Please, we can have our seat. Thank you so much.

Hallelujah!

Please let's rise to our feet as we worship again this evening. The Book of Psalms says the word of the Lord, you know, bringeth light. The entrance of God's word bringeth light and understanding. I want you to worship like one who has received or who is receiving light in this conference. So wherever you are, raise your voice, raise your hands, and worship Jesus. I want you doing like someone who is receiving wisdom, someone who is receiving wisdom in this meeting.

Come on. Shakina, Shakina, Shakina, Shakina, we are ready for your glory. Shakina, Shakina. Shakina, Shakina, we are ready for your power. Shakina, Shakina, Shakina, Shakina, I am ready. Shakina, Shakina, I am radiant, oh, in your glory.

Come on, raise your voice this up.

Down my old way to carry your new one. Come on, do it together. Say, when there is no one, there is no fire, there is no freedom. The king of mercy Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Can we put our hands together for Jesus and just give him praise? Hallelujah!

Amen!

Thank you, Lord God. Um, quickly, in the next 15 minutes, I want to bring up Pastor Shagun Odeme. I had to plead with him to drop something. Yeah, I mean, I know him, very solid. And you know, he's been part of this meeting since inception till now, and he doesn't miss any. And we don't take that for granted. And you know, he flew in all the way from Ibadan to be with us for this conference, and that's massive.

That's massive.

With so much honor, love, and excitement. Let's receive Pastor Shagun Adeyemi. Hallelujah.

Um, I want to Thank Apostle and of course Pastor Femi Lazarus for this privilege. Thank you so, so much, sir. Can we please pray? Father Lord, we want to thank you for this moment, and I pray that in the next few minutes your will will be communicated, that I will speak your words and not mine. Thank you, Father, for your intention, for now is known. We give you the glory for this We give you the praise. We say be thou exalted, Lord, in the name of Jesus. In Jesus' name we have prayed. Please, can we help me celebrate God's man, Apostle Femi Lazarus? Come on, let's do it like we mean it! Glory to God! Thank you so much, sir, for this privilege, even though, um, you know, I don't like being set up like this. Hallelujah! Thank you, sir. Please, um, can we just sit? You know, as Apostle mentioned to me that I was going to, um, come up— by the way, that was just a few minutes ago.

Hallelujah!

Glory to I just began to ask myself that what is the one thing that the Lord will have me say, you know, at this point? And at that moment, I started to look back at my journey in ministry. I wasn't always in ministry, you know. I practiced law for a while, then, you know, we ran a fashion house. And then the Lord began to speak to us to leave all of those things, you know, and then come into full-time ministry, you know. And I just sense that maybe there's somebody here who is also on that path, you know, and where the Lord is calling you out of what you used to know, is calling you out of the familiar. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? And now you need to work in path where you have not followed before now. So I started to ask myself, what is the one thing that has truly helped me on this journey so far? You see, the truth is that church is shut down every day. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

Aha!

I'm sure we all seated here know at least somebody that the Lord called, and we believe that the Lord called them to to do the work, but now they are no longer— do you understand what I'm trying to say? So I asked myself, what is the one thing that has been the edge on this journey? And see, I came with the answer, and the answer is simple: it is a life of prayer. Everybody say with me, say, a life of prayer. Oh, come on, say it louder, say, life of prayer. Can I show you just a scripture? All right, um, my time is running. James James chapter 5, verse 18, and I want us to see it in the TPT translation. James chapter 5, let's start from verse 16 in the TPT translation. Do we have that? All right, look at it everybody. He says, confess and acknowledge how you have offended one another, and then pray for one another. Another to be instantly healed. Now look at this, and this is beautiful. It says, for tremendous power is released through what, everybody? The passionate, heartfelt prayer of a goodly believer. Now look at verse 17. He says Elijah was a man with human failings, meaning that, see, this guy is is not perfect. Are you seeing what I'm trying to say? He has his down day. He sleeps off sometimes too when he's praying. He gets angry like the rest of us. He's a man with human failties, just like all of us. Just like all of us. Oh, look at— oh, you know, when you say this guy is a nice person, in fact I love him so much, but now it means that that conversation is about to change. Hallelujah! Are you seeing this? He says, but even though, all right, there were things that could have pulled him down, he says, but, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there will be no rain for 3 3 and a half years. Now look at verse 18. Then he prayed again, and the skies opened up over the land so that the rain came again and produced the harvest. Hallelujah! Let me say this to you, and you know, in recent time I've been feeling passion and compassion, particularly for, you know, people who the Lord is calling, you know, maybe out of the soft life you used to have. And you know, it is easier when children are not involved. Hallelujah!

Aha!

It becomes dangerous when you need to probably believe God sometimes for what your child will eat next. All right, now what is that one thing that will help you? Listen to me, it is a life of prayer. And I just want to speak freely from my heart this evening. See, there is a difference between a man of God praying and a man of God leading leading prayers. What many pastors think prayer is, is that you are leading prayers. Now, I remember one time when we used to pray in church for 6 hours every day, and then, you know, I will lead those prayers. Now, because I was in the prayers for almost 6 hours, I felt like I was praying, until the Lord began to say, you are not praying. And then And I knew it was time for, you know, personal prayers. Nothing has delivered us more in ministry like prayer. You know, there was a time when we were using, um, a bar for church. That was our venue. And you know, the nature of bars is that when you have Wednesday service, as we start to sing, you know, and just thank God during service on Wednesdays, the people who came to drink beer, they start to dance and vibe to our praise and worship session. By the way, that was the first time Apostle came to our, you know, church. He came to that bar, you know, himself. And Pastor Mimi, can we please celebrate them? Yeah, you know, and I will never forget the words he spoke. That day. Powerful word, you know. And now I've learned to be content in every season. We're serving God, holding services, because the venue said we couldn't afford that bar. The owner gave us for free, so it was a mercy provision, and I was thankful. So one day the man came and said, you know what, because as we, you know, we're growing at that What happened was that the patronage started to drop. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? So the man later came and said, I need to use my place, so please you guys have to go. Now I think he gave us about 7 days notice. Now the 7 days failed, we didn't have any place, so we continued praying and praying. Now in that day, the Lord led us to have a 21-day video. Now it is not the normal conventional video because I I remember that everybody that had that vigil with me fell sick. Everybody, including my wife, you know. Now the vigil will start by 10 PM. By 6 AM in the morning, my wife will now come and meet me and say, you know, these guys have to go to work, so you need to, you know, release them. Now we're praying that way because there was no other visible way of escape. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? The only way— it is either something happens, okay, or church is going to close down. And we continue that way for 21 days. Now at the end of the 21 days, I got a text message. I would never forget it. The text message said, Pastor— now you know if you use a bar, meaning that they have chairs, you know, it's a hotel too on the side, so you don't need gen, you don't have anything. The only thing we owned as a church that season was just the two chairs chairs where my wife, you know, and I, you know, used to sit. Nothing else. No, I mean, nothing. At the end of 21 days, we got the text message. He says, Pastor, we have a clear marching order from heaven to give unto you the following things. And the list started. Number 1, chairs. Number 2, televisions. Number 3, ACs. Number Number 4, generator. Because if you give us AC, you better give us a generator to power it, you know. I mean, and the list went on and on. That was how God delivered us. You see, we have not been in ministry for a long time, that's the truth, but I've had different answers to prayers that have saved us years. Oh yeah, different answer to prayers that saved us. Now I remember very, um, recently. We were trusting God. After that, we moved to a better place, all right, in the plaza. And we're trusting God to pay the rent of that place. I think it was about ₦800,000 that year. We had— you know, when you have tried to encourage people, try to tell them so and all of those things— we had done everything possible. There was no way we're going to pay that event. And you know, after a Sunday service, somebody walked up to me and said, Pastor— and because see, as of now we had moved our prayers from 6 hours to about 17 hours daily. Now look at this, the Lord said something to me at the wake of our ministry. He said, when you are driving a car, he said, on the inside of the car, when the AC is on, okay, the music is on, everybody's vibing, you happy, you are comfortable. He said, but if you touch the engine that is producing the coolness and the comfort you are feeling on the inside, he said, the engine is hot. So he said to me, he said, on the outside, he said, look as, you know, comfortable as possible, look as good as possible. He said, but see, the engine that produces all the coolness you feel on the inside is prayer. Oh, say with me, say the engine is prayer. Can we be louder? Say the is prayer. I just want to say that there is a life of prayer that sustains everything. So towards, you know, as the service was ending that day, the story I was saying, the person just walked up to me and said, Pastor, the Lord said to me to move the church to a bigger space. And I thought it was just something small because we were looking for just ₦800,000. Give us the rent, let us survive. He said, no, no, no, what the Lord is laying on my heart is bigger. I said, how big? He said, Pastor, open budget. Oh, listen, that was the first time I was hearing that word in my life. Now I'm telling you, open what? Everybody, now by the time we had spent in hundreds of millions within few months, I understood clearly what open budget meant. Listen to me, Pastor, I just want to say to you that it does It doesn't matter the phase that work is at now. If you will pray— and you see, there's a way we can get trapped in the activities of ministry and all of those things, seeing people, counseling, which is actually good. But see, if you will pray— and particularly, you see, the Yoruba always say something that omotio ba niya, so meaning that if you you know that there's nobody to help you, you better pray. And listen to me, the prayer is not one hour. I try not to give time to prayer, but there is a prayer life of a pastor, particularly a set person. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? And we saw Jesus Christ when he was on the earth. He exemplified that culture of prayer. Mark 1:35 told us how Jesus will wake up early hours before day, and he would depart into a solitary place, and there he prayed. If Jesus prayed, you will have to. Hallelujah! Conclusively, this, um, evening, just let me add this, and this is so, so profound. I've learned in my journey in prayer that there's a difference between praying in the spirit. And when a spirit of prayer tabernacles with you— do you understand what I'm trying to say? Now, now, when a spirit of prayer tabernacles with you, you will have a good problem of prayer. These are seasons when you want to stop praying, but something within you is still praying and you cannot stop. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? At that point, you lose time. You are not checking how many hours have I gone anymore because you have been assisted to pray. And see, I believe in my heart, as I sat there, I just began to brood in my spirit that, Father, what do you have for us?

And I believe in my heart that that dimension is available here this evening.

Hey, some things are taught, but some things are caught. Apostle Ayo Babalola did not have any advantage, but Hey, the man can pray. He has been dead for years now. The ministry he started is still vibrant, strong. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? And I, I sense that, see, there's that open heaven here because of all the deposit. Yeah, I, I mean, Apostle has taught. Apostle Femi Lazarus was with us, Ella taught again. The clouds are full. And remember, scripture says if the clouds be full, will they not burst themselves upon the earth? And see, this is how we'll step into it. You will stand, you will pray out loud and clear. See, see, see, see, see, when a plane is about to take off, there is a deployment of its greatest energy that it becomes impossible for it to remain on the ground. Are you getting what I'm trying to say?

Aha.

So You know, so, so there's a way that we can ascend fast by you deliberately pressing into the realm of the spirit. You know, I'm happy that this is a minister's conference. I'm waiting for people who can pray. If you will pray now, You will just find out. I mean, just last week a pastor was with me. We had a conversation for about 20 minutes. He said, Pastor, I've been praying 6 hours every day.

This is a pastor who admitted that he has not prayed in a while. Now pray now. It is available.

Press in.

Come on, shout, cry. Change these things. I'm telling you, let your heart desire it. Come on, come on, come on, come on. It doesn't matter what the disadvantages are. It doesn't matter who doesn't like you. It doesn't matter what you don't have. It doesn't matter what you don't know. May Yah change these things.

We bless your holy name. Blessed are thou, Son of David. Blessed are thou. Roots of Jesus. Blessed are thou, Son of David. Blessed are thou, Roots of Jesus. You are heavenly, heavenly glory. Immaculate, beautiful. I can go on and on. My words are not enough.

My vocab Oh, we bless your holy name.

Blessed be your holy name in Jesus' Mighty name we are praying. I just knew that God will have him speak to us. I just knew. And that session might be all that God has been trying to get someone's attention to. Is that Pastor Oge? Good to see you. That session might be all that God has been trying to get someone's attention to. There are times— and please, I want us to listen, just reduce it a bit— you look around, you look at what needs to be done. If you eat everybody on the floor, nothing. If there's a man to pray Listen, though, we have had— I think I was saying this, was it on Tuesday?

I can't remember—

times people come here to say they want to come and check the quality of camera and they go with disappointment, but prayer Pray. There are angels at work waiting to receive petitions. It will amaze you, the supply of power. So that we don't replace power with psychology. Listen to what I'm saying, because we can go back and forth. There are— listen to what I'm saying. The most functional aspect, what you need to drive this thing is power. You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has what? Come. It's power that even when you speak simply, it bears witness.

He said, it is what?

Not like fire that burns in my bones. Are you following what I'm saying? Lift your hand, say, Lord, I receive that fire. Say it again loud and clear. Lord, I receive that fire. Say it. I receive prayer fire in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Oh, let's thank God for his servant tonight. Let's thank God for his servant. And we are so So honored to have Minister Moses Akon and his dear wife with us tonight already. Thank you. And Pastor Bamshak, good to see you, sir. Okay, I'll just have to do this. Help me celebrate Pastor Oge of Cycle Church. He's a solid Solid, solid man. Please be seated. God bless you. So I've been trying to do everything I could not to preach. I just wanted to draw as much as I can in this conference.

Amen.

But I have to still do what I have to do. Turn your Bibles quickly. Um, so I'm just going to bring a very short word session before we go into the second word session for the night. Matthew chapter number 16. We've all touched from that text, and that's where I started from yesterday. Matthew 16, we start the reading from— let's start the reading from verse 13. Matthew 16:13. When Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea Philippi. He asked his disciples, saying, whom do ye— who do men, sorry, say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they said, some say thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophet. And I told you yesterday that the way you discern Christ will reflect in the way you do ministry. He said unto them, but whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the believe in God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not—

what?—

revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say unto thee, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock— we've touched this again and again— which is the foundation of the revelation of who Jesus is. I will build my what? My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I told you that if he mentioned the gates of hell at that instance, it is because the church that is building is an advancing church. He didn't say hell will not prevail against the gate of the church. He said the gates of hell will not prevail against the church because it is the church that advances to the gate. We are possessors of the gates of our enemies. So the Church of God, um, Paul, while writing to Timothy, he said if I tarry long, that you should remember you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the Church of the Living God, the ground and the pillar of truth. So the Church of God is not just another entity or another organization. The church is the family of God on earth. Now we can However, you know, I have different definitions to the word church. The collection of all who have been bought by the blood from the resurrection till rapture— church. The bride of Christ— church. The family of God on earth— church. The redeemed of the Lord—

the church.

Ecclesia, or what we call House of Synod, the church. But one thing you cannot take away from the church, it is a purposeful family.

The church—

listen to what I'm saying— the church is the only institution, permit me to use that word, on earth that is saddled with the responsibility possibility of reconciling men back to God. And the most important decision a man can make in his lifetime is to be reconciled to God. The decision of salvation is not— is not something we take lightly. Anyone who refuses Christ is on his way to hell, and there is no other institution that will reconcile men back to God but the church. Hence the reason why all the attacks of the enemy will be to the end that that church staggers. And that's why don't just be part of the church, pray for your pastors. You know, I told you yesterday that the climate of the body of Christ for now is not favorable to a wounded soldier.

Why?

Because we have the replacement mentality. Once somebody is bleeding, replace him. But that's not the idea of God for the church. So we also read other scriptures, and I, I I want us to pay very important attention. I told you yesterday that it is the church that Jesus builds that the gate of hell has no power over. It is his church. It has always been, it will always be. Long after you are gone, it is still his church. And you know what that means? It means the building plan is in his hands. You build as directed. I showed you yesterday in 1 Corinthians Ephesians 3 from verse 10. Paul speaking, very interesting scripture. Look at it. He said, according to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise master builder— that's Paul speaking now— I have laid the foundation, and another, and another. This is the portrait of a church that will advance. I know my part, but there is another whose part is needed. I have a role to play, no doubt about it, but my role cannot be all that God is doing. The style, my method, my message is not all that God wants people to here. There is more that God is still saying. What God is doing in our ministry is not all that God will do on earth. You see, the moment we get to the point where we fall for the temptation of believing that we are the height and the depth of the move of God, we fall for the snare of pride. You are sound, but there is more to God that your head can contain. There's no doubt about that. You are sound. One of the major snares we must be careful of as ministers is the snare of superiority complex, and it comes when people are heady. You can know doctrine, it is in your head, but it's not showing in your works. It is God who gives grace to the humble, he resists the proud. You can know things, your head is full, but God can't trust you with certain things. It is not just about knowledge. There are entrustments in the kingdom that God— God looks at a man and say, I can trust him with influence, I can trust him with my children. We must resist the temptation to get everyone to preach our own message. There's more to God. Amen. There's a text I'd love you to see. Um, stay with me. Amen. Let's read the book of Ephesians chapter number 3, verse 10. We read it from, um, let's read Amplified Amplified. Let's read Passion Translation, TPT, then we come to Amplified. He said the purpose of this was to unveil before every throne and rank of angelic orders in the heavenly realm God's full and diverse wisdom revealed through the church. Meaning that, listen, there are aspects of God that the best way God can express it is through the church, the clusters of different— what God is doing in Asaba, what God is doing in Lagos, what God is doing in Benin, what God is doing— different dimensions of God's glory displayed through the church. Multifaceted wisdom. We're going to see that in Amplified. Look at it, the next verse now. So now through the church, verse 11, quickly. Um, okay, the perfectly wise plan was destined from eternal ages and fulfilled completely in our Lord Jesus Christ, so that now, yes, we have boldness through him and free access as kings before the Father because our complete confidence, right, because of our what? Complete confidence in Christ's faithfulness. Now let's read verse 10 Amplified.

Amplified Translation.

Are you ready? Let's read this together. 1, 2, 3, go! So now, through the church, the multifaceted wisdom of God in all its countless aspects— now look at this, let me pause you for a moment. This is the reason why one of the worst things you can do do to yourself is to allow a definition that pegs you too early. Your purpose becomes clearer with time and exposure.

Take it easy.

All you know about yourself now might not be all that God wants to manifest. There's multifaceted. With time, as you mature, it brings out new faces, brings out new colors. Us, brings out new dimensions. And that's why anyone who is wise never— you, you don't use— there are words you don't use. I, I can, I can never— I can, I can, I can never be an apostle. The devil makes sure you have prejudice in the area of your callings you have not discovered. And that's why I told you, if you are going to finish well, don't be a man of your word. Be a man of his word. When he speaks, swallow your word. He's still integrity. Is that okay? Once he speaks what— through the church, the multifaceted wisdom of God. This is the Bible. There's no inspiration you want to have that will cancel this, that will cancel what the Bible has said. In all its countless aspects. It means even by the time the rapture takes place, there is still more we can still exploit. Jesus didn't come. Might now be made known, revealing the mystery to the angelic rulers and authorities in what?

Where?

The heavenly places. God is bigger than your assembly.

Is.

And you know, and I'm going to say this, I want to say this as a note of warning. Sometimes I've seen ministers short-circuit the things that God could have done in their ministries. You say, I'm a word person, we don't do all those power. What do you mean? His word ought to be powerful. I'm a word person, I'm not a spirit person. The word church, the prayer church. You see how the devil help us arrange ourselves and give us this dichotomy so that we can be robbed of our inheritance. We become so rich in one aspect and denied of the other. How do you cherry-pick things that God has freely made available to you? And that's why everything made available in Christ, as far as the fulfillment of your calling is concerned, you must embrace and be trained to walk in it. You are a teacher of the word, but you must walk in power. There are situations you find— Peter met that guy, Acts 3, at the gate called Beautiful. He's been there all these days, meaning that he's been at the temple days now. But what happened in Acts 2, they've just been filled with the Holy Ghost. That thing was— it was looking for what to touch with it. If you are saturated, you will not deny power. Now, the reason why we say this is this, I'm not— you see, I'm not a power person, is because we are not filled. Because I see that happening all the time. You need power. You need what? I was sharing a story in PPC recently. I was ministering in Ekiti. It was supposed to be 3 evenings, but they had to turn it to vigil. The first day of the meeting, we had less than 15 people. I'm talking about 16 years ago. Before that meeting, we prayed 72 hours nonstop, and it was open door. Once you are tired, leave. Nobody will hold you. We all gather, this is where we are going. Once you know you can't take it anymore, then you can go. So 3 of us finished. When you pray such length of prayer, you are looking for what you will do with that intoxication.

Sanctification.

You pray first before you know you are not a being of power. It will amaze you. All this struggle, you know, is because we are not filled. And that's why I'm advocating for it. If you are in ministry, don't be more skillful than you are powerful.

Carry power.

Day 1, we had less than 15 people. The event that took place, by day 2, the venue couldn't contain us again. By day 3, they've converted it to a vigil. The city gathered. A woman sent for her daughter who was in Lagos that had a big growth in the throat. I was leading simple prayer, I heard the sound.

What happened?

The, the, the big growth had busted open, and that's how that growth left. Nobody touched it, nobody punctured it. Where is, um, David? Is not here. It was at his meeting. Ikotun in Lagos. The woman came diabetic, obese, high blood pressure. She got up, she had shrunk, she lost 14 kg seated under the word. Before you say there's— there are some things God can't do, I say you pray first. I trained our pastors, when you are leading prayer, you don't tell people you are not praying. You are not praying. If you came with the anointing for prayer, it will drop. Say it, I receive power.

I receive power.

Say it again, I choose to walk in power.

I choose to walk in power.

Be sound in doctrine, but be full of power also. I know the ethics of ministry, know what to do, but pray yourself into what?

Power.

There are many things God wants to do. Don't, don't limit him, and don't limit yourself. Don't, don't limit yourself from walking in the fullness of the anointing that you can walk. When Peter came, he's been soaked, saturated. He said, silver and gold we don't have, it's not a salmon you need now. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk. The guy got up, was limping. He picked him by the hand. That's the spirit of faith. And that's why we have to pay attention to what Pastor Femi Lazarus said yesterday. There are times that maybe as a person scene of prayer, something bad happened to someone around you and the devil shoots an arrow to your heart, so much so you no longer trust God as the one who has the ability to heal and save. And when you now see event that requires power, you start playing safe. They say pray for the sick, you say I will just send the word. You will not mature in the anointing you are not deploying.

Deploy!

Pray yourself to stupor. Do you You understand what I'm saying here? This person can at least pray first. Say pray first. And it is important at such a time as this, strategy can never replace the things of the spirit. You see people, you don't know what is fantastic about them, but there is something God is honoring there. Check the altar. Let me show you a text. Are you still with me? Now, before I show you, go back to that Ephesians 3:10 Amplified. Let's read together again. 1, 2, 3, go! Through the church— yeah, louder! God wants to use the church as the display center of his wisdom, and that can happen if we deny him the access to do with us what he wants to do in any aspect. I sense very strongly that there are ministers here, you have decided to brand yourself in an aspect and you are denying the power of God. Loosen up and let him fill you with what?

Power.

So that His wisdom is demonstrated through your life, through your activities, through your ministry, through people that he raised with your hands. His wisdom is demonstrated, different aspect of his power. Look up. To tell you something.

Someone—

there's something in the Bible referred to as a believers meeting. It's a meeting, it's an Holy Ghost meeting. People gather together ministering to the Lord, speaking in tongues, singing, dancing, rejoicing, giving him psalms, spiritual songs, prophecy. And the Bible said a sinner walks into that place. He's, he's a sinner, nobody knows his life. He gets to the place where there's an atmosphere of the saturation of the Spirit, and instantly he's convicted.

Why?

Because of the atmosphere. There's so much glory of God that is hosted. You see, before you run— there are some very faulty things you can run with— oh, the glory of God doesn't dwell in places, he dwells in people. You lie. Why is it that Jacob now picked a stone, placed his head on it. He saw a ladder let down from heaven. He said, God was here, I didn't know. You can so saturate an environment with prayer and power, people step in. There's a conviction in their heart. There's something here beyond words.

God wants to show us who Please, there are questions now for the church.

Why?

Because unbelievers are asking us questions we can answer.

Have you heard questions like, in the days of Jesus, many of the people that were healed were notable people? Now I know we are not out to prove point, but the earnest expectation is waiting for the manifestation of sons. Put your right hand on your chest. Say, I will not deny the move of God. Say it again, I will not deny the move of God. Now, before I move to the next thing, how did I start walking in power? Have I shared this story with you before? A brother came to minister And a young man like myself, even though he was a bit older, and I noticed he was different. If when he held the mic, he first spoke in tongues and all those things, as he began to speak, the fire of God was everywhere. I went back to my closet. Lord, me too. There are things that you see, they are like burning bush to lure you. Somebody can sit in this place now and see what the rest are not seeing, and in the quietness of your heart just say, Lord, Lord, as I go back to my base, as I go back to my campus, meetu. No one will call on him and they will deny them access. If you will ask ask for it, you will get it. People look at me and say, man, he has the spirit of wisdom. I remember now that the GO came to minister on OU campus. He had finished ministering, people were leaving the crusade ground. God said to me, son, when I take my— when the time comes and I take my friend, adeboye omo, will I have a friend like him amongst you? I knew he was inviting me to go wait on him. I don't know what has happened, but I perceive very, very strongly now that there is an extension of the hand of God saying, let me bring you into power. Are you following what I'm saying here? Listen, sit down. And the reason why I'm saying that, I'm going to show you. I just sense so strongly in my spirit. And the way this thing happens is that once your spirit man is open to it and you have sincerity of heart, that Lord, I, I see— let's be honest with ourselves— I don't want to tell story where I should reveal you. I've had to sit down, ask, Lord, I, I don't want to lie. I don't want to brag about a God I don't know. I, I don't, I don't want to look like it. You either give me this thing or let me just stay in circular work. But if this is what we are been called to do. Jesus warned them for a reason. He said, don't go without power. He said, wait till you have been what?

Endued.

So I'm saying everything changes when that thing— are you following what I'm saying here? Everything changes. One of the reasons why people struggle is because, listen, we have lost the way of power. You don't— once, once you get the access And power doesn't respond to drama on the altar. You come with it. It's not when you are holding the mic you are now searching for God. God, where are you? Will you show up today? Because listen, by time you are done, there must be equilibrium between the pulpit and the pew. Lift your hands. Where you sit and say, Lord, I must not continue like this.

Give me power.

There's so much required to represent you even in this age as it gets darker, as we are entering the night face of this planet. The Bible says darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the people. I can't fake it. I don't want to look like it. There's so much you're doing in these days and time, and I tap into it. I receive. I receive power. I receive power.

Femi Lazarus.

While we're in the age and the era that God is pouring different graces, commissioning men, releasing them to do, compiling anointings and pouring on willing vessels, it is because the time is short. I don't want to act like it. I don't want to look like it. Give me power. Teach us to wait until your glory comes. Lord, teach me to wait until your glory comes. Teach me to wait until your glory comes. Teach us to wait until your glory comes. Teach me to wait way until your glory comes. Teach us to wait until your glory comes. What you need as far as that work is concerned is the breath of his power. In the days of his power, the people shall be willing. In the days of his power, the people shall be willing. You need power to execute your ministry. You need power to represent him. You need power to bring his move to the earth.

Receive it now.

Let your heart receive it. Lord, I receive it.

Femi Lazarus.

Appetite is a sign of good spiritual health. You must have appetite for the move of God. I'm not going to trade this season There is a way. In Jesus' name we are praying. Listen, oh, in the place of correct hunger, God looks at you. And say, from— that's how it happens. From today, I have given to you the power. Power is in dimensions. To unlock this reality, I give to you power to have citywide meetings. Just help them. I give to you power to walk in this and to walk in that. Power is in dimension.

Dimensions.

It is what you see that you walk in. So I want your heart— reach out to him. He's in the business of distributing anointings now as we approach the end of all things. The enemy knows his time is short. God is equipping sons, pouring Grace is on them, empowering, equipping ministers, equipping ministries. Don't joke with it. That's we which you have been waiting for, it is power that unlocks it. Real power. To walk in new dimension. Extension of your anointing to execute the works you place in my hands. Give me power. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Anything God repeatedly— or is consistent constantly showing you is because he wants to draw you into it. Sometimes he brings people into things by enticing them with it. He showed Moses the burning bush because there was something more he needed to see. And he's been showing you. I sense so strongly that there is distribution of power right now. May come like a wind. For some of you, is the breaking out of what he has deposited that you have refused to pay attention to, and he's saying pay attention to the gift of prophecy that is locked up on your inside. Pay attention to the working of miracles. Pay attention. Don't, don't box God to a corner. Unleash, release yourself. Allow him do with you what is— what seems right to him. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We bless your holy name. Just one word from him is all it takes. One word. From this moment, son, I give you the ability to walk in this. As you have asked in my ears, so I've have I done unto you? Pam, that's it. Everyone God has ordained to receive new dimensions of his power for your work in this meeting, receive it now. Work in it. There's a young man here for Campus Invasion. There's just something about about what God is doing next in your ministry and Campus Evasion. Father, particularly that guy, touch him with your fire in the name of Jesus. You start walking in apostolic authority.

Oh yes, it's done.

Thank you, Lord Jesus. In Jesus' mighty name, we praying. Let's give Jesus a big hand. By the grace of God, Apostle Emmanuel Iren is in the house. I think we have a short worship session, then I will come. I don't— I didn't want to preach, I was waiting for you. But he's here. Let's celebrate him. We have a very short worship session, then I will come up to bring him up. Let's receive Mary.

Hallelujah!

Even the blind and the deaf can see and hear that the power of God is in this room.

Oh Jesus, thank you Jesus.

I am radiant with your power. Oh, flow Flow glory over me, over me. Carry me, carry me. Oh, flow glory, flow glory over me, over me. Carry me, carry me. Glory, glory over me. Carry me, carry me. Apostle. Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Yeah, would you carry us? Would you carry us? Would you carry us? Would you carry us? Cuz we ready, cuz we ready. We are thirsty, we want more, we want more, we Come on! Open your heart, you'll see the power God.

Come on, you want to raise that sound loud and clear.

Oh God, in the midst of his people, he's mighty to save, heal, and deliver again. Open your eyes to see the power of God. Oh God, in the midst of his people, he's mighty to save, heal, and deliver again. Open your eyes to see the power of God. He's mighty to save, heal and deliver. Open your eyes. The power of God is— come on, I want to hear the church! Hey, I'm for fire! Yes, you want to roar like thunder? Ola na, ola na! E abaraje su!

We bless your holy name, Jesus. Thank you, Father. Blessed be your holy name. In Jesus' mighty name we have worshiped. Amen. Let's sit for a moment. All right, um, but is Apostle William is one of the most consistent ministers we have brought for the International Ministers Conference. Please help me honor him. I know the media has a presentation, so I'm just going to say a few things. Um, I've always told him it is not just his result, it is his heart.

His heart.

People can see what is happening publicly, but I wish many more people will know that quality of heart that is there for the body of Christ and for people.

Strange.

And he walks with unusual dimension of wisdom. He speaks clearly. It may not sound deep, but the wisdom is evident. So want to thank you. And you see wisdom in what wisdom builds, um, for what he represents to the body of Christ. He's not just my brother, he's my friend, and he's my leader.

Yes.

Aha. So, so there are many things I want to do I just said that, what will the PFN youth president say? So I say, okay, I will not do this thing again because I'm a man under authority. So, and, um, I have never heard anyone mention so much plans like that for the next generation and the body of Christ. Like he does. Serious plans, serious desires, and he's putting in the work. I want us to honor this grace. And I, I want to say this, I, I will not get into it. There would have been many troubles I could have gotten into if God had not raised him. So he always watch my back. Me thank him. So, and I said this, um, we don't bring people emotionally, um, yeah, and, um, we recognize what God is doing in and through his ministry to the body of Christ that we can't do without in this season. Amen. So I'll let the media Bring a brief media introduction, and the next voice you will hear is the voice of Pastor—

5 branches across— Apostle Emmanuel Iren is the lead pastor and founder of Celebration Church International. Christian International , a thriving ministry with 35 branches across Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and North America. His vision is to raise a global army of cultural influencers through the teachings of the gospel and strategic cultural transformation. In over 10 years of ministry, he has trained and mentored 80 pastors who has successfully replicated his methods of growth across three continents. His church has grown rapidly, with over 18,000 members expected by 2025. Beyond his role as a pastor, Apostle Ered is a bestselling author, songwriter, and executive producer. He is the founder of Manifest Bible Course and Triumph 30-Day Devotional, interdenominational platforms designed to promote prayer, Bible study, and spiritual growth. Apostle Iren is also an accomplished musician, having released several albums, including Apostolos: Sounds of Transition, which hit number 3 on Apple Music in 2024. He executive produced the hit movie What About Us, which which became one of the top 15 highest-grossing films in Nollywood. Apostle Iren's teachings, music, and media initiatives continue to shape culture and raise an army of believers who are equipped to spread the gospel in their sphere of influence. Apostle Emmanuel Iren is married to Pastor Laju Iren, his partner in life and ministry. Together, they are raising fortunes and leading a ministry that is actively transforming lives and cultures around the world. Ladies and gentlemen, ministering today at the International Ministers Conference 2025, let us receive Apostle Emmanuel Irenne.

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! If that was for Jesus, make it louder. Just give him praise.

Hallelujah!

Um, Apostle, publicly and privately, I love your family so much. You are um, yes, biological and spiritual family. And you mean so much to me, it means so much to the body of Christ. You are a breath of fresh air. And yes, and I'm so glad I'm privileged to have you in my corner, um, in this very strategic time in the body of Christ. Thank you, sir, and thank you for all you do. Hallelujah! And to every man, woman of God here present, all the resident pastors of like the great Light Nation Church around the world, this is my first time in the Abuja branch. Yes, I mean, we used to see it online. Oh, na church fine.

Wow, hallelujah!

Tonight will be for the books, that strategic, memorable Kairos season, one that will be a reference point in the next 10, 20, 30 years. Listen to me, graces will be released tonight in a dimension that will shift you to to a new level. The same way it was prophesied about Saul that he would become a new man, that he became a parable amongst the Israelites. Is Saul also amongst the prophets a parable of sudden transformation by the advent of the Spirit? Let this night be such a night for you. And very quickly, before we move on, I want us to read a text that you know very well in Acts chapter 13. Acts 13, verse 1. A very simple text. The Bible says, now in the church that was at Antioch, there were certain prophets and teachers. So it was a ministers' conference, a leaders' training like this. And he told you the list of of the people that were in that place. Just like tonight we have Apostle Femi Lazarus and his amazing wife, we have Moses Acho and we have great ministers here present. I'm reading this to show you the potentialities when God's people gather together, so that you don't get used to religious gatherings and calisthenics. You are not here to play church. Something strategic can happen. The Bible says in verse 2, as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, separate unto me Paul and Barnabas. Listen to me, everything that happened in Paul's life could be traced to that meeting. That was the meeting where his commissioning and his ordination came. Separate unto me Paul and Barnabas for the work where Aaron to have called him. May this meeting be that meeting for you. And so before we do anything else, I want to give you just few minutes to pray. Lord, there are graces in this house. So let me tell you something before you pray. Listen to me, understand this, that one of the ways God changes lives is just to bring you into a company where the graces that you need to step into her presence That's what God told Saul. You will find prophets, and with them you will prophesy. Listen to me, the things that you have never done on your own, as long as the graces are available tonight, this is your prophetic invitation. Are you listening to me? Hey, listen, he found himself in the company of prophets and prophesied. That is how you will talk about this meeting. I don't know what happened, but from that night, from that night, from that night, I just discovered that when I held the microphone, something had changed. It's just as if my voice had been amplified from the realm of the heavens. From that night, as we minister to the Lord tonight, Lord, launch me into a new prophetic dimension. Let new New graces be released and activated for the good of the body, for the good of the body. Release graces, graces, graces, graces, graces. You ought to be more determined than you are. Pray violently. Pray like you believe in prayer. Pray like you believe in the ministry of the spirit.

Kai.

Hey, thank you, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Listen to me. The Bible said he gave some apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of ministry. Listen to me. It means that every true ministry gift has the capacity to bring you into his experience. Perfecting the saints for the work of the ministry. Listen to me. He says, till we all come. It means that every ministry grace has the ability to bring you to his platform so that you stand where he stands in the spirit. Till we all come. You've seen it in somebody here. You will see it in your life. Till we all come, till we all come, till we all come, till we all come. I'm saying this prophetically. We've been waiting for you, we've been waiting for you, we've been waiting for you, and you are showing up tonight. I said you are showing up tonight. I said we— you are showing up tonight by the power of the Holy Ghost. Until we all come, until we all come, until we all come. Kai! Because we behold until we are formed. We behold until we are—

hey!

We behold until we are formed, until we are formed, until we—

we behold We behold. Oh, we, we can bow, we can bow until we, we can bow, we can bow until we, we We behold, we behold, we behold, we behold. Hey, we behold, we behold. Yes, until we have, until we, we We can't—

we can't—

we can't— we can't— we can't—

we behold until we are— we behold until we Listen to me, listen to me. It is not hero worship. I know people take this to the extreme, but one way for your life to change in the spirit is just to see someone whose today looks like your tomorrow. In the spirit, exposure changes everything. The day you see someone walk on water, you will never be the same again. You know it's can be done. I'm asking you, can it be done in your life? Can a nation be born in one day? How long will it take God to make good his promise, to bring you into the fulfillment of that prophetic word that you have received? This is that meeting, you know. There's a man of God in this country, a man of God in this country. 2020, he had no ministry.

What am I saying?

2020, 2022, he had no ministry, and he was in a meeting like this, and I I just felt a stare. The word of knowledge singled him out. I said a few things, and next thing I know, 8 branches around the world. So, so I won't lie to you, I had to call him aside. I said, they will arrest you. Tell me what you are doing. How is it that you own 2 buildings? You had no church 2022. What is going on? He said, I, I vow with the name of Jesus and everything sacred, it was from that night. I said, you mean it? He said, yes. He told me about a dream he had. In the dream, he was in the village and I came and carried him to the city. Are you listening to me? Carried him to the city.

Boom!

Everything exploded. I'm telling you, listen, this, this meeting is prophetic. Everything is prophetic, including what this Apostle is wearing. Because for those of us who followed, you know, and I've been following all that God is doing, remember this cloth, scent of water, remember? As soon as I stepped in, that's what came to mind. So at the time where God was amplifying the voice of this ministry, this was what your Apostle was wearing. And I believe that tonight is a sign for you. Tell the person by your side, till we all come, till we all come, till we all— let me tell you something, any Any man of God that is not eager for other people to be established in the will of God is not of God. Any man of God who is ashamed or is intimidated by your rising, by your shining, that's not of God. The true vision of the apostolic is till we all come, till we all come, till we all come, till we— Jesus was like that. Everything he did, he's telling them you can do it too. Oh, you think is phenomenal. I spoke to a tree. You will speak to mountains. And that's the heart, especially of the set man in this house. Till we all come. I congratulate you. Welcome to your new level. I said welcome to your new level. Listen to me. The person that came in here is not the person that is stepping out. Something is about to change in your life. Did you hear what I said? Something is about to change.

Kai!

By the power of the Holy Ghost.

Hallelujah!

Thank you, Father. We give you the praise and the the glory. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Move like never before. Single your children out. Give them prophetic specific templates for the next decades. Let testimonies overflow. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Amen. Please be seated.

Hallelujah!

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. There's a pastor here. You and your wife are in a a big fight right now, and it looks like you're always fighting, always fighting, always fighting. And each of you is pointing hands at each other, fingers at each other. Oh, it's because of you, it's because of you. Let me tell you who it is because of— it's the devil. Don't you see? It's the devil.

From.

He's trying to distract the great work that God has given to you. The Bible says we're not ignorant of his devices. Open your eyes. Let this word of knowledge open your eyes. Both of you have been look— blaming everyone else but Satan. Tonight, when you get to Hold your hands and say, Satan no more. Come on, are you listening to me? All right, the title of my charge is— are you ready for it? The Rise of New Voices. Aha, aha, aha. The Rise of new voices. I know a God who knows how to take people from the dunghill and set their feet on a rock to stay. I know a God who can amplify voices. I know a God who sends people on an errand and goes with them. I know a God— one with him is majority, and when He says go, that is capital. Come on, are you listening to me? It doesn't matter your background, who you are, what you have. Even if you're a shepherd boy, if God says go to Pharaoh, you can. Are you listening to me? The rise of new voices, um, and this sermon will echo more in the spirit of some people than others. To echo more in the spirit of some people than others.

The rise—

can you just say it together? Say, the rise of new voices. If you are sensitive, you see, you know, I've been saying this for the past few months, a transition is upon the body of Christ. A transition. Take your place. Oh, are you listening to me? The rise of new voices. I want to read from John chapter 1 from verse 19 to 23. We are going to read in a manner that is called responsive reading. So I read the the first verse, you read the second verse. I'll read verse 19, you read verse 20, and then we just read the last verse together. The Bible says, now this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent the priests and the Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who are you? Everybody read verse 20 together, one to go.

I confess I am not of this world.

21. And they asked him, 'What then? Are you Elijah?' And he said, 'I'm not. Are you the prophet?' And he answered, 'No.' Verse 22.

Verse 23.

Let's read together loud as you can. One, two, go. He said, 'I am the the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said. Hallelujah! Sir, God can raise a voice in the wilderness. Did you hear what I said? Let me face here, it's like some people there were not sensitive. I said God can raise a voice in the wilderness. That's my word, and if you get it, we are done. That's my word. He can raise a voice from obscurity. It doesn't take him time. Are you listening to me? And so you see, at the time of John the Baptist, the temple was is at Jerusalem. Um, and for the sake of this lecture, let us see the prophetic metaphor of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will represent the typical trendy ministry today, the ministry that everyone wants to attend. And here are some things to know about the temple in those days. Number 1, it was at the highest and most visible point of the city. You know, in Psalm chapter 48, verse 1, you probably know it because it's also the lyrics of a popular song in the church. David said, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness, beautiful in elevation. Beautiful in elevation. The joy of the the whole earth. Meaning the spiritual geography of Mount Zion is that it is at a vantage point from whence everyone can see. It is the joy of the whole earth. And don't forget that the temple in Jerusalem was supposed to be built according to the pattern showed Moses of heaven. And that's why the major— the architecture was such that it was at a high hill. Come on, are you getting what I'm saying now? A vantage point such that you could— it was the highest and most visible point of the entire city. Quite a sight to behold. And I know what it's like to have churches, you know, with addresses that are easy to remember. You know, let me tell you, my first— the first venue I I used the address. Angiama Drive, Toluani bus stop, off Ijekun Road, off Ikotun. Oh my God, you know, I'll never forget the first time my parents-in-law came to that branch. Their car was stuck in the mud. The entire community had to help them push the car and this was at the time where they were still deciding, should we let this boy marry this girl? You know, it was— listen, the entire community had to come out to solve that problem. And in those days, some of the churches that I really used to admire, yeah, like Christ Embassy, Number 54. Lagos, you know, our church then, you will need guidance. We say call this number. They have to— they will describe it for— or you go lost. You go lost. Many times people came to the church after the program had ended. Many times. Many times. So what is it like to be a John the Baptist at a time where people have fancy venues and you are in the wilderness? That's what I'm talking about. Do you stand a chance? Answer prophetically.

Yes, sir.

Not just that, 3 pilgrimage John journeys brought people to Jerusalem every year. 3 pilgrimage journeys: Passover, Feast of Tabernacles, and Pentecost. So people would travel from far and near to come to Jerusalem. You know what it's like to have a ministry and you say, uh, I see my son from Germany here, wave at us, you know, come and give us a word. But you know, you on your birthday, when you post your picture, you will now— you, you have two handles. So you post with your ministry handle, Our Father, Father in Israel, then you reply by yourself, thank you team, thank you family. You reply by yourself, I'm touched. You know, I'll never forget someone's birthday was coming and he sent me a link. He said, my team is planning a surprise party. Surprise your team. And you're the one telling me that I should please do a congratulatory video. I said, I said, no problem, it's okay, it's okay. And it was beautiful. The temple was Beautiful, laced with gold. Josephus, a historian, talked about it. He said when the sun arose, the building looked like fire because of the reflection of the sun. Gold-plated, Feast of Tabernacles, all those, the lampstands, the aesthetics, beautiful. And there was a porch where rabbis could teach, and you are in the wilderness, no sun. I mean, there's sun, no shed, no gold, no temple, no venue, and you say God called you.

Yes.

Are you listening to me?

Yes, sir.

You know something happened. Um, my wife and I— I mean, just then she was just Sister Laju, but, um, she had just agreed to date me then. My final year, we're about to graduate, and we're walking in one of the corridors on campus, and one lecturer called her into the office, says, sorry, you stand outside. Told me, you stand outside, come in. And spent almost 1 hour convincing her not to marry me. You're one of my best students, so you want to drop all of this and marry this boy? I mean, it was a long time ago, not like I'm petty, not like I even mentioned his name, Professor Ekanyawu.

All right, was—

it's like my tongue just slipped. Now use 1 hour to convince this woman not to marry me. When she came out, I said, what was he saying?

She said, don't worry.

What was he saying? Don't worry.

What?

My God, imagine Imagine what I look like for someone to advise. Do you want to finish your life? What are you doing? But you are intelligent, you have a great future ahead of you. Why do you want to marry this boy?

Emu.

I know what it's like. I know some of these things is hard hard for you to imagine because when you see people emerge in purpose, you think they've always been there. You think they've always been there. First few months of ministry, then borrowed my uncle's car, you know, every Sunday the car— that car had a spiritual problem. Monday to Saturday it will work fine, Sunday it will spoil. Without fail. Then you will see us, all our pastors will come down with fine suits pushing the car, and we'll be warming it like this. So you know how, how it works now. You roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it, then you quickly jump and press it. My God, my God, my God. Many times those days when we're going out for ministry like this, we will stay, we'll pray in the spirit for hours, then all of us will enter bike. You see, enter your bike like it. We just park. All of us will calm down, full of the spirit but full of dust. See, if you, if you don't know what I'm saying, don't worry. Have you been on a bike so long the dust on your face will was like foundation. It was hard.

It can crack.

Oh my God. If you know Lagos well, I've entered bike from Aja to Ota before. Yes. Oh my God. Not just that, I was carrying books on my lap. Books, devotional materials. See, there are some people, if you jealous what God is doing in their life, angel will slap you. You don't know, you don't know the price they've paid. I said, so it was funny because now you are speeding, so the dust And then because of the wind entering your eye, you are teary. So the tear is creating a pathway in the foundation like this.

Oh, don't you—

don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. And when you're in that position, you have a choice: give up or you stay with God. What are you going to do? What about the visions God gave you? You know, in school then, we are many who were prophesying, God has said we take nation, do this. Some day bank now, UBA. Because it's not easy. I'm telling you the truth, telling you the truth. That's how Demas was, promising Paul, I will go with you. After a while, Paul had to write, said, Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world. You have a choice. You give up or you stay with God. You insist on the prophetic words that God has given you. Come on, are you listening to me? And right there in the wilderness, something began to change. Are you listening to me? I said something began to change. The Bible tells us in Luke chapter 3 that people started coming, coming to the wilderness, coming to the the wilderness. Tax collectors came, soldiers came. Now they are asking him, what do we do? Come on, are there no preachers in Jerusalem? Why are you coming here to ask? You go through all the inconvenience. Now listen to me, Jerusalem's Temple was at a vantage point. It was almost at the center of Israel, so it was almost the same distance from the north, south, east, and west. But you leave that to to the wilderness. You have no keyboard, but you have a voice. No drum set, but you are a voice. No venue, but you are a voice. It got to a point they had to send a delegation to ask him, who are you? Who are you? The last time we saw this dimension, it was Elijah. Are you Elijah? He said no. Are you the Christ? He said no, I am the voice. I am the voice. I'm asking you prophetically, have those days gone? Can God still raise a voice from the wilderness? The voice of one crying in the wilderness. And God just begins to amplify, amplify, amplify, amplify what he's doing in your life, and people begin to pay attention. They cannot but pay attention because the anointing is a leveler. Oh my God, you didn't hear what I said. I said the anointing is a leveler. Oh, there are problems a good venue can't hands of— it's like you don't understand what I'm saying. The anointing is a leveler, and if you stay with God and continue to build, a time will come not too long from now, people will now begin to wonder, where have you been? Where have you been? Where has this man been? Where have you been? Where have you been? I like to do things well. I like to tell people, as much as you can, do things well, get a good venue, do all these things. But understand this, it takes more than that. Whatever you don't have in your ministry, have a voice. Let God give you a voice. That one cannot be faked. You know something happened at the time where God began to announce me a little bit. From school days, there was a boy possessed with a demon, and some people gathered to try to cast the demon out, and the demon spoke and said, "On this ground, only Oyedeku Ani Manirin can cast me out." Now, I was somewhere doing my own schoolwork, and the Lord was announcing me somewhere. Come on, are you listening to me? I know you have flyer for your program, but it's a different thing when the spirit realm— listen, at the baptism of Jesus, a voice came from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son, hear him, hear him. Now all of this was happening, I didn't I didn't know. I was there minding my business. Those things happen in many, many, many dramatic ways. Many dramatic ways. You know, somebody was telling me, he said, do you know why I started following you? I said, tell me. He said, in a dream I saw Femi Lazarus. Food like a buffet, and the fathers of faith in the body of Christ were standing in front of each pot, and ministers were coming, and they will put a spoon, you know, put, um, a portion for them, put a portion for them. And I saw Pastor Adeboye, I saw Bishop Oyedepo, I saw all these people, and I saw you standing with them, feeding them. And as soon as you poured in my plate, I woke up. Listen to me. The reason I'm telling you this, part of the reason I'm telling you this is sometimes you look at some people that God is raising and you have the temptation to downplay what is happening in their lives. Oh, it's because they have this, they have this advantage, or they did this, or they went to this school, Oh, they did that. But in the realm of the spirit, it is until God amplifies your voice that the world will pay attention. And the reason why this has to be taught is because some young ministers are now so distracted trying to do everything in the flesh, sending DMs to men of God, and you are angry that they are not paying pay attention to you. There are some people, the way things are going, I will block them because any post they are doing on Instagram, they invite me to collaborate. Something that does not concern me, they are inviting me to collaborate.

Why?

Why?

Why?

Meanwhile, if you stay with God, God can announce you. Listen, oh my God, don't forget, how did John the Baptist find the Messiah? God told him, the person on whom you see the Spirit descend, that's the Messiah. Listen, God could have just told him, oh, he's your relative now, he's your family friend. Mary's son. You could have said that, but he wanted John the Baptist to discover him in the spirit. Are you getting what I'm saying? Some of you are lobbying too much, doing politics, doing all kinds of funny games. It won't work, oh, it won't work. Trying to pay money for what the anointing should bring. Trying to buy loyalty, using money to try and acquire sons. It won't last. It won't last. You know, the church, we have embarrassed ourselves too much. When I was in my MBA class, because I do I still have an MBA in strategic management. One of the courses in my MBA class was church franchising. I'm talking about the fact that many churches now operate as a franchise. You send people who are not sons— they are not sons, they are not sons— you just embellish them wear suit for them, put and go there and preach. Now the whole ministry has no identity. Everybody is saying different things. You look at some so-called sons talking, you know, by when you hear them, you know who their real spiritual father is. You are just deceiving yourself. You're just deceiving yourself. Franchising. Because you have to understand, don't skip your process and try to embellish with branding.

It will show.

It will show. Stay in the wilderness. Now, something very interesting to know about John the Baptist. Hey, are you ready for this one? John the Baptist was not in the wilderness because he was broke. He was in the wilderness as a place of consecration. Don't forget that his father was a high priest. And so under the Levitical system, he didn't even have to work. Just as a Levite born to that lineage, there was an allocation given to him. So the reason he's eating locust and honey is not because he's broke, but because that was the consecration. Sometimes when you're growing in ministry, ministry, and there is an easy way out, and God says do this. Others are doing it, but God has said you cannot do this. You don't understand what God is doing with you. There's an easy way out. Listen to me. Oh, can I say this? Do you know you can come to a season in your ministry where God says don't invite any guest artists? Don't turn the whole thing to a jamboree. Listen, if you feel you led to, do so. Can I beg you, never invite anybody because you want to draw a crowd. Never. These are things that, see, are weakening your faith, oh. And the reason why we have many people who don't even know how to honor people when they invite them is because they don't really like you. They just want to use it to to draw a crowd. You come for the program, they know they didn't plan for you at all. It is, it is when you are done, they now start thinking, okay, how will you go back home? How will they— they don't like you, they don't rate you that much. A time will come to become apparent to you. You will cancel 90% of those invites. Sit with your work.

With your work.

Programs won't grow your— if, if there's nothing there, they will come for the program and go back. But God can raise a voice in the wilderness. All that you have called the disadvantage might be the crucible where God is building your muscle for something sustainable. Come on, are you listening to me? Yes, sir. And it is possible for your voice to become so relevant that everybody knows that this is what God is saying. I mean, I want to show you a text. I hope I can remember it. I think it's Mark chapter 1, verse 15. Oh my God, come on, are you still in this place? Pray in the spirit. Pray in the spirit. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Look at the way you are praying. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name. Open your Bibles, Mark chapter 1, verse 5. For some of you, this is going to register in your spirit. I hope it does for you. Talking about John, John the Baptist, the Bible says, then all the land all the land of Judah and those from Jerusalem, where the temple is, all the land of Judah and those from Jerusalem went out to him and they were baptized by him by the Jordan River, confessing their sins. Are you listening to me? Now guess what? See what the next verse says, verse 6. Now John was clothed how? Camel's hair and with a leather belt. Thank God for branding, but please have anointing. So it was nothing about his brand, as important as that is. The people came for substance, not to have a good time, not for a good feel. They came for substance. Look at, look Look, look, look, look, is this good looking? Camel's hair, leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. But when your voice registers in the realm of the spirit, nobody cares. Are you getting what I'm saying? A solution is a solution.

Nobody cares, oh!

I'm telling you, listen, I can tell you strategic times in my own personal life where I could tell my voice being amplified. Strategic times, special seasons. I knew my level was changing, my level was changing. I can tell you at least 5 strategic times, specific moments where God did something, something in secret that registered in the public. Have you forgotten what Jesus said? Go into the closet, pray in secret. God who sees the secret will reward you openly. That's what I'm talking about. That's what the wilderness is. Nobody is seeing your consecration, but they won't deny the results. Are you listening to me at all. I want to read some scriptures, and I just want to show you a pattern of people in the Bible whose voices God amplified. And I want to show you how consistent the pattern and disease. Thank you, Jesus. Come on, I said thank you, Jesus. Come on, I said thank you, Jesus. All right, look at Joshua chapter 3, verse 7. The Lord showed me this one when I was in year 2 in the university. Siga. Are you ready? And the Lord said to Joshua, this day— it means what I'm talking about can happen in a day. Did you hear what I just said? I said what I'm talking about can happen in a day. This day I will begin to exalt— KJV says magnify you— in the sight of Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, I am with you. Are you listening to this? See what God is saying. There is a way the people see Moses. They witness Moses part the Red Sea. Feed them for years in the wilderness. There's a way they see Moses. And God says, in the sight of the same people, I will begin today to magnify you, and so that people will know, as I was with Moses, I will be with you. Are you listening to me? So is it Is it possible that on a night like this the Lord tells you, from tonight I will begin to magnify you in the eyes of Nigeria, of Africa? I will begin to magnify you in their eyes so that they will know that as I was with Adeboye— are you Are you listening to me? See, this is, this is something the Lord told me. He said, beginning from now, and it happens in a day, in an instance, is something you receive in the spirit. God says, I will begin to orchestrate it. I know when God orchestrates things to announce his servants. There are things that I know God set up just so that it will be obvious that his grace is on my life. God said, I will orchestrate it. Are you listening to me? I will magnify you in the eyes of the Israelites from this day, so that they will know that as I was with Oyedepo, as I was with Pastor Chris, as I was— I will be with you, says the Lord. It's something God can do. I'm amplifying you in their eyes. Think about how does God do this? Only God can do this. Some of you are trying with branding what only God can do. He said, today I will begin to exalt you. The same people who looked at you narrowly, look down on you, wonder, can anything good come out of Nazareth? Come on, are you listening to me? God and do it in their eyes. He says, I will magnify you, exalt you. It was on a night like this he told Abraham, he said, I will make your name great. I will make your name great. Listen to me, I said, it's something that God does. God does it deliberately. You want Listen, listen, you see, when you see a man of God who has been toiling and nobody was paying attention to him, suddenly boom, everything changes. And now all men seek you, and people are wondering, where have you been? And understand this, what I'm saying is not even just for church planters. Abraham was a businessman, and God said, I will make your name great. Listen to me. Femi Lazarus. See, I know at least 4 people that became stinkingly wealthy by a prophetic word I gave them.

4 people.

I'm— see, I know people abuse this. I know there are people who come to church and all they want to do is pray. They don't want to walk. But if anyone tells you that prayer is a waste of time, they're lying. Are you listening to me? The person God was talking to in Genesis 12 did not plant a church. He was a businessman. God said, I will make your name great. Are you listening to me? Is it something God can do? Is this something you're open to or not? I will make your name great. I will make your name great. I will make your name great. I will make your name great. I will make your name great. I will make your name great. I hope you know what happened in the life of Jesus too. Look at Luke chapter 4, verse 14. Luke chapter 4, verse 14. Luke chapter 4, verse 14 and 15. The Bible says, then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and the news of him did what? Went throughout the surrounding regions. This is the secret of virality beyond sponsored posts. The announcement of the Spirit and the News of him went throughout the regions. Are you listening to me? The advertisement of the Spirit. Jesus's ministry was so supernatural that angels were telling people, telling people by themselves. Shepherds were doing their business in the night and angels appeared in the sky. Are those days gone? See, if I tell you the way some people join our church, you'll be amazed. You will be amazed the dreams people have. Strange encounters, strange encounters, strange encounters. I don't really like to talk about stuff like this, but my family and I were supposed to travel to London and somehow we didn't book our flight tickets on time because we're busy. And by the time I was looking at the bill, I was like, hey Lord, egba mi, you know, should we still go? But by the time we were putting our details and all of that, somebody in one of the international airlines messaged us, oh, you want to travel? Um, we're going to cover everything, and tens of millions. So I was so grateful, but I was curious, okay, how did this happen? And she said one of our excerpts, she was scrolling on Instagram and a short excerpt, she was watching it and she got filled with the Spirit. Something hit her and she started speaking in tongues. So she's wondering, what kind of ministry is this? 30, 90 seconds excerpts. So she researched more about the church, joined one of the branches. Femi Lazarus, I'm your member. I didn't know. I didn't know. And said, anytime at all you want to travel, just tell me, it's on me. Listen to me, o. The Holy Spirit will announce his hand on your life through dreams, visions, and specifically orchestrated encounters. See, just in case you don't know, when God anoints somebody, he likes to tell people. I said, when God anoints somebody, he likes to tell people. You know what Jesus said? He said, no one lights a candle and puts it under a bushel. It means when God God has increased your capacity, he begins to look for a platform. The world has to see this. The world has to see this. The world has to see this. The world has to see this. No one lights a candle and puts under a bushel. Come on, are you listening to me? No one lights a candle to be put under a under a bushel. The glory of the Lord reveals who I am. No one lights a candle to be put under a bushel. The glory of the Lord reveals who I am. Just the keyboard.

Ah, hallelujah!

The glory of the Lord reveals who I am.

Hallelujah!

The glory of the Lord— let me tell you, when I wrote the song, I was, I was on a fast in Abuja here, studying my Bible. All of a sudden I lifted my head and I saw two angels. I now call the two flames. They follow me everywhere I go. And two flames, and then they changed back to angels and changed back to flames and changed back to angels. And the Lord said, I am expanding the reach of your ministry and you will need more angelic reinforcements because there will be more people coming to the ministry than you have time to lay hands on. And so as you are ministering, he said, they will go into the crowd and they will travel around the world giving people encounters. And so I knew that our ministry was stepping into a new phase of visibility. And so I sang, no one lights a candle to be put under a bushel. The glory of the Lord reveals I want you to sing it prophetically. Say, no one like Sir can do to be put under a bushel. Come on, say the chorus is an exclamation. Say, ah, exclaim it. Welcome to your season of announcements.

Hey, ah, hallelujah!

The glory of the Lord reveals.

Hey, hey, hallelujah! Glory!

One more time, sing!

Ah, ah, ah!

Listen to me. The Bible tells us in Samaria, before Philip came. Somebody with occultic power, a magician. The Bible says that because of his magic, a whole city gave heed to him. A whole city gave heed to him because they saw him as one who has the power of God. A whole city. Let me tell you something, there is a grace that can captivate a whole city. There is a grace, there is a grace. There is a grace to take cities. Philip had it in a superior dimension. When he came, the Bible says there was great joy in the city. Come on, are you getting what I'm saying? Great joy in the city by the amplifying force of the spirits. You are stepping into that encounter. You are stepping into stepping into that encounter. Oh, I said you are stepping into that encounter. Oh, you know, I was in a service like this and I heard a voice loud in front of me as if someone was standing, but I couldn't see anyone. I want to show you what the voice said. Psalm chapter 3, verse 3. Psalm chapter 3, verse 3. I want you to read it loud as you can. Want to go? I heard a voice say, I am your glory and the lifter of your head. Are you listening to me? The lifter, the lifter, the lifter. Because promotion comes comes not from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south, but from God. I know a God who can lift you from the dunghill and set your feet on the rock to stay. The lifter of my head, the lifter of my head, the lifter of my head, the lifter of my head. Some trust in horses, some in chariots, but I remember the In the name of the Lord. For thou, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory and the lifter of my head, my promoter, my sponsor, my sender. I worship you, my sender. I worship you, sir. I worship you, sir. Thank you for the angels that you've given to me. Hey, God also working with Emmanuel. Emmanuel Eret, confirming his word with signs following. How God anointed Emmanuel Eret with Holy Ghost and with power, who goes about doing good and healing all that are oppressed of the devil. I want to give you few seconds.

Worship him.

Call him sponsor, sponsor, sponsor. The wind beneath my wings. You are the one who gave me wings to fly when no one gave me a chance, when everyone was asking, who gives me the audacity? Where comes this wisdom? You kept pushing me, sponsoring me, aiding me. It's in your name that I have the audacity. It's in your name. It's in your name. It's in your name. It's in your name.

You're my glory. It's in your name.

Thank you, Father. In Jesus' mighty name we've prayed. Listen to me, you know, one of our branches in Lagos, the management of the hall called us and said, sorry, this will be your last Sunday here. We said, why? Did we offend you? They said, no, honestly, I know another church paid more money. So they knew we were there, they paid more money to kick us out and stay. This was just few years ago. Sometimes when you look at us, you don't know where we're coming from. You think we don't understand that we just emerged. It happened to us too. They paid more money and kicked kicked us out. We started looking for venues. Now listen to me, just few years after— I'm not trying to be petty, I'm telling you what. See, when God anoints a man, he wants to tell people, especially people who do things like that. He wants to prove to them, you were wrong, my hand is on this one. Listen, just so that you know, it is statistically impossible what I'm about to say, except by the finger of God. Now this ministry, they went in there, they struggled, they left. And I'm not trying to tease them. And then the man decided to relocate with his family. Of all the countries in the world, USA. Of all the states in USA, Texas. Now Texas is so big, Texas has different time zones. That's how big Texas is. And of all the places in Texas, somewhere in Dallas Now our Dallas church grew. There was no more space. We needed a bigger venue. And so one venue called and said, I heard you are looking for a venue. We have space. We didn't know there was a church there. We have space, come. And they were taking our pastor around. This is where the church will be. Now they took him to one place. They said, this will be your office. And there was a man there, and the man was like, why are you embarrassing me like this? Can't you see I'm here. It was the same man, the same man, the same man. When I heard about it, I said, forget that venue, we are not interested. The white man said— I said, we are not working with him again, they are out of here. That is the venue we are using today. What I just said is statistically impossible. Statistically impossible. See, you've been scheming too much. Scheming too much. But I have a sponsor. I don't know where your assurance comes from because God told me some trust in horses Some trust in chariots, some trust in branding, but we will remember, we will remember, we will remember, we remember the lifter of my head, the lifter of my head, promoter, sponsor. Kai, sponsor, worship him. I give you a few minutes to just worship him. Worship him.

Worship him.

Worship him.

Thou, Lord, are the shield for me. You're my God, the lifter of my head, of my head.

For Thou, Lord, are the shield for me.

You're You are the shield for me. You're my glory over my head.

Kai, worship him. I give you a few more minutes. I give you a few more minutes. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name, I feel led to give you a few minutes to repent if you got carried away and you started scheming. The things some ministers do, you'll be, you, you'll be amazed. Some buy fake followers, use bots to promote their views. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? What do you you think you are doing. In any way, Lord, I got carried away and I was trying to use carnal wisdom to force what I thought was your prophetic destiny, I repent. I give you a few minutes. I give you a few minutes. Repent. This is serious.

Repent.

In any way I began to pursue Ishmael instead of Isaac! I repent! I repent! I repent! I repent!

I repent!

I repents— I repent. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. Now the Lord asked me to say this, so I'm going to say this. In my undergraduate days, I was still a student, 2010. I'm not that old. I was beside my bunk and I heard the Lord clearly, in 15 years I will make you one of the leading apostolic voices in this nation. That was 2010. And I won't lie to you, of course, because God was speaking, it was an atmosphere of faith. I knew it was going to happen, but somewhere in my mind I was like How?

How? How?

And the Lord has asked me to tell someone here, in 15 years, in 15 years, in 15 years, not one word he has spoken to you will be left unfulfilled. Hey, I don't think you heard what I just said. I said the same person who told me said I should tell you. The same person who told me, said I should tell you in 15 years. You know, I was at a birthday party for a man of God, and the Lord said, tell him the city I promised him will still happen, you know. So when I told him, he said, I have never shared it publicly. I saw a dream and the Lord showed me a city. I have only shared this with my inner circle. And he said, wow, this is amazing. What a confirmation. I know a God who keeps his word, though, and he will keep his word in your life. The final text we're going to read is a text you know very well, very simple. Acts chapter 19, verse 20. Acts 19:20. Acts 19:20. Acts 19:20. Acts 19:20. We're going to have a final session tomorrow morning. I encourage you, try not to miss it. Try not to miss it. Thank you, Jesus. Have you received something? Are you sure?

Oh my God.

Acts chapter 19, verse 20. Everybody read it loud as you can. One, two, go! Hallelujah! So the word grew mightily and prevailed. Now let me say this prophetically about the body of Christ. Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted out. Listen, there's some rubbish you are seeing that will not survive in our generation. I assure you, I assure you, I assure you, I assure you, it will not survive. So now it's not just growth, it is prevailing growth. It means as this truth is gaining popularity. Some things will win. That's what he's telling you. It prevailed. Conquering word coming to displace some falsehood. It will happen. Watch and see. Advise you to make sure you're on the right side of prophecy. Are you listening to me? Thank you, Father. We have just 2 minutes more. I want to give you a prophetic moment. I told you Acts 13, there are some things God will tell you specifically. So I want to give you some— just focus on the Lord and let him give you instructions. Some of you, it will be consecrations, things that you ought to do to sustain and to birth what he's set to do in your life. Take this moment seriously. Some of you will begin to receive songs. I'm seeing— oh my God, songs, songs, songs from heaven, songs. Songs that will announce your ministry.

Songs.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Can I pray for you. Can I pray for you? Now, our ministry in Abuja, I think, is 6 and a half years thereabouts. This ministry in Abuja is about 3 years, 2, 2 and a half. And I told you, the work of the apostolic, amongst other things, is to bring you to stand where they stand. And these two ministries are a token of faith to you, a demonstration of what God can do in lifting men. Lifting men. The fact that this is my first time in Abuja Huh? God gave this ministry a voice here, and the same God is about to give you a voice. So I give you a few seconds. Open up your hearts. God, if you did it for this man, it was not Femi Lazarus, it was your anointing that did it. The Lord told me, he said the grace on your life life is a prototype grace. Anyone who sees it, honors it, celebrates it, will step into it. I give you a few seconds. It doesn't really matter what your own context is. You are a businessman, you are in politics. I know a lifter. Don't forget, David did not plant a church. But God said, I am the lifter of your head. Thank you for lifting. Thank you for lifting my head. Thank you for lifting. Thank you for lifting. Thank you for lifting. All right, now in the name above every name, Lord, I join my faith with the set man of this house. You said you gave some apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists, and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry. Now in the name of Jesus, by the grace replete in this house. We bring you into the fulfillment of prophecy. We bring you into places of visibility. We bring you into platforms of announcements. Receive it in the name of Jesus. You may not have money in your bank account now, but there is a currency, a currency that can be spent in any country of this world. By the anointing of the Spirit, I announce that the needs of that vision are sponsored. I said the needs of that vision are sponsored. The angels of God are ushering that vision to promotion. Step out of obscurity. Step out of obscurity in the name of Jesus. I pray for wisdom and and clarity. The things to do, the places to go, the positioning for all that God is set to do. Receive it in the name of Jesus. And in the name of Jesus, I speak to what you Represents the voice of your ministry. Let your volume be amplified. Where your voice has been whispering, let it begin to cry. And let the miracle begin now. I said, let the miracle miracle begin now. Let the miracle begin now. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed.

Amen.

God bless you. God bless you. It's done. I give you 10 seconds. Celebrate the Lord like it's done. Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate!

I believe we should rejoice more than that.

Come on, rejoice!

Glory! Glory! Glory! We need trouble!

Thank you, Lord Jesus. We rejoice with joy unspeakable, full of glory. The glory of the Lord is in the house, and his hand is upon the house. He has not called the seed of Jacob to seek him in vain. Is there not a reason why tonight of all nights, why are you right where you are hearing what you're hearing? There's a reason. Of all messages that could be taught, of all things that could have been said, why this is because the time has come. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Can we thank God for his servant?

Thank God for his servant.

20 Maybe 2022, I don't know, when he came to Light Nation, Ibadan, and gave a word. Because I've been in this season, so when he came to tonight, I didn't receive him as an apostle, I received him as a prophet. Another season is here. Now, if there's anything I know how to do is to seize moment, so I'm not joking with the— thank you, sir. Thank you, thank you. Recently I told my wife that I'm kind of getting tired of traveling all the time. Not like I travel as much as before again, because my children are at the point where when I travel now they are concerned. So sometimes Sometimes we need to not just thank God for his servant, but for the family, the wife and children. We're always on the move. And, um, can we just thank God for Pastor Laju and his children and their children, for sustaining and upholding them?

Look up.

What we do is military. Is military. You go about blessing lives and trusting God to watch over your family and take care of them. So we recognize the sacrifice.

Thank you.

Let's celebrate God for Apostle. Um, with so much honor, please can we allow them go to the office. Please don't stop clapping. Pastor Oge, please, please don't stop clapping, don't stop clapping. Those hands will not wither in the name of Jesus. Please, thank you. Just for the next few minutes, please be seated. Just very few minutes. I want to say this, um, categorically. I don't know what it is. I've not been able to place my hands on it, but I must confess, Streams of Life, something has changed about you. I can tell something has really changed about you. I have a gift for for you, but the challenge is that you, you— I don't know if you know how to receive. Do you know how to receive? Okay, in the name of Jesus, God gives you a voice. There's the grace called mimshak. It is the anointing that spread. Can I have you come? Let's have them come. Stretch your hands towards them.

Name, Shaq.

Ask the anointing to spread by the power and the authority in the name of Jesus. Hear this first: whatever power can address in your lives, power address it now. After this very simple a simple declaration. You may not even know what's wrong because it's going to be all over you for a while. Let the Mimshak anointing rest upon you and touch your lives and amplify your voice. Receive it now. Receive new songs. Receive new anointing. Receive new doors. It is done in Jesus' mighty name. Let's give Jesus a big hand. It's a whole lot different when your pastor prays for you like this from the depth of his heart. Thank you, thank you. And I want to especially honor all our branches connected from Akure to Abeokuta. Leki, Ikeja, Kano, London, Port Harcourt, Ile-Ife, Ilorin. I've mentioned Ilorin. Ghana, are they connected? Ghana. Where else? Oh, forgive me, Ibadan.

Amen.

I want to say this tentatively. There's a very, very big chance.

I'm—

I just want to press the button. I've not done it. That I— because if luck for us. God so good. Bishop is still on ground on Sunday. So if I'm— and I, I, I don't know if he's listening now, but if I'm able to press the button that he will be— he will minister on Sunday morning, I just want to sit down and enjoy. Aha, when your father is around, just enjoy. If he's going to minister on Sunday morning. Then there's a very big chance that we have him in the morning tomorrow with Apostle Emmanuel Iren, and then we might not have Saturday evening. I say might not. We just have Sunday morning to wrap up everything. Is that okay? Because it's, it's taking a whole lot of— you guys are around till Sunday, you are not going anywhere. They see you all the time. We don't see you all the time, so, uh-huh, please help me honor them. And again, especially I want to thank God for all heads of ministries. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hallelujah! Have you been blessed in this meeting? Let me beg you In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, when you hear a teaching like this, go home and pray.

There are—

once you know your time has come, because I give you a formula, I will not, I will not explain it. All right, if you want bench to be filled, do publicity. If you want sons, travel. Because I see God is giving some of you the grace to bet strong men, people who can single-handedly remove shame and reproach. But you must know how to go and do what?

Travel.

And there are some kind of travel that you don't do anything less than 90 days. Are you following what I'm saying? The Lord bless and strengthen you in Jesus' name. I know it's been back to back to back. We are not tired now. So tomorrow morning— but I wanted to, um, bring out the books tonight. Abuja people said, Apo, say wait PT Sunday now. PTA, you heard that? They said I should say no more. Let's clap for them. I don't know who is wrapping up with so much joy and gladness. Let's receive Pastor Abraham. So tomorrow morning, 8 AM prompt. Is that okay? So that hopefully— I don't know yet— then we might not have evening. We're supposed to have Reverend Dr. Umar Okpai in the evening, but wait, we are now having that as a separate meeting just with him and for him, and then where we are going to honor him. And I won't say more than that. God bless you.

Wow, can we just be upstanding in one minute and begin to pray for our spiritual father, decree words of prayer, and also pray in extension for Apostle Emmanuel Iren that has blessed us also tonight, and say, Lord, will grant them strength, more of the Lord's wisdom upon their lives in the name of Jesus. Please be intentional with that prayer Pray for strength, pray for the wisdom of God. Lord, we ask for more of your wisdom and strength over their lives in the name of Jesus. That Lord will strengthen them as they go from nations to nations. The Lord God will strengthen them and their strength will not fail in the name of Jesus. In Jesus' name we have prayed, amen. Please let's celebrate Jesus and be seated.

Safely.

What an amazing day too. So let's quickly package our offerings, um, tonight. Let's package our offerings and also package our seed. So those who will be making a transfer, the account details will be projected on the screen. So if you want to make a transfer, you can do well to make a transfer. Father, we thank you for this. Our seeds are blessed in the name of Jesus, and as we use it to advance the kingdom of God, our lives will advance in the name of Jesus. So the Streams of Life, the musicians will give us a song while we give. Lord, thank you for every of our seeds are blessed in the name of Jesus. So please, a brief announcement. Uh, our father said that already on Sunday we are going to be having the book launch here in service. I'm sure we all love Apostle, and please do well to come prepared on Sunday for the book launch. And those buses will also be available tomorrow morning by 7 AM at the pickup locations for those coming with buses. So don't forget, then tomorrow our father said, um, there's a probability there might not be evening session, but just come prepared Tomorrow morning, um, we continue 8 AM. And I want to beg you tonight to do well to invite somebody tomorrow. Do well to invite somebody tonight. Tell a colleague, tell a friend that something massive is happening here tomorrow morning. So come early tomorrow morning, Saturday, so there might not be work for some persons. And so let's gather the whole city here tomorrow morning by 8 Amen. Have we been blessed at all tonight? So let's be upstanding as we bless ourselves. Let's be upstanding, let's be upstanding, and surely God's goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, for we are the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit rest and abide with us now and forevermore.

Amen.

So see you tomorrow morning by 8 AM.

Wonderful time in God's presence.

Wow.

Anyway, like, it feels like a repetition if you keep telling people that it's a wonderful time in God's presence, but it's like, what else are we going to say? Every single time, every minister of God that stepped on the altar, you know, the spoke to us. It was a life-transforming experience for us, from Pastor Grace in the morning, um, Apostle Muyiwa, and even Apostle speaking to us this evening, Apostle Femi Lazarus, um, Apostle Emmanuel Iren speaking to us this evening. Oh my God, we feel— don't let me say we, let me speak for myself— I feel so loaded, and I know that, oh, my life has been transformed everything that I've heard. You know, I, I have jottings, I have list of things to do, I have to-do list, I have things to put in place from today's sermon. You know, I just want to tell you a little bit of what I learned, you know, just, just a little bit from my own notes. This evening when Apostle spoke about something, he was making an analogy about John the Baptist. You know, he told us about how he was of the tribe of Levites, so the fact that he was eating locust bean and Honey, it's not because he was poor, it was— it wasn't because there's nothing for him to eat, but it's consecration. So there are some things that God will ask you to do for the sake of where he's taking you to, for the sake of the things that he has committed into your hand. So it is left to you to be faithful to that. And one thing I've always said is that in this house, God is so good to us. God has been taking us on a journey even as far back as FOL, telling us that, um, there you have your home part to pay in fulfilling the promise of God. And we can see that continuing in what we learned today. Please, I want you to take note of everything that they taught us, everything the ministers of God taught us, all the light that was shed into our hearts, everything that the Holy Spirit bring into your mind. Don't let it stop here. Don't just listen. Don't let it stop in your mind. Don't let it stop in your notes. Take steps right now. If you wait for the perfect time, you're to miss out. So right now, take step right now tonight. Start making plan. What can I do tonight to get the future that I want? What can I do tonight to become what God has for me? So that is what I have for you. Of course, we are still continuing tomorrow in the morning. It promises to be an amazing time. We are still going to have Apostle Emmanuel here with us tomorrow, and also we are going to have Apostle Femi Lazarus with us tomorrow. So trust me, you don't want to miss it. From tomorrow morning, just stay tuned to that dial. And if you are in Abuja, make your way down to the Abuja center. If you are not in Abuja, the viewing center will be online, so you can just check anywhere if it's near you, and you can just go there and watch. God has a word for you. Thank you so much. It's been an amazing time with you. Have a wonderful night. Bye-bye.