KANO APOSTOLIC MEETING || DAY 3 - MORNING || FRIDAY 22ND NOV. 2024

The video records the third day morning session of the Kano Apostolic Meeting, featuring dynamic worship, a series of sermons, and numerous testimonies. Apostle Lawal Suleiman and Pastor Promise Akiola lead the service, invoking worship and exhorting the congregation to recognize their identity as the light of Kano. They unpack biblical passages (Ephesians 1:15‑18, Matthew 4 & 5, Leviticus 6, Revelation 8, Philemon 1:6, Romans 12) to illustrate themes of spiritual awareness, the necessity of building a perpetual altar of prayer and sacrifice, and the outworking of Christ’s inheritance in believers. The speakers stress that true supernatural impact requires awareness of one's divine title, sustained prayer, and the supply of the Holy Spirit, linking these to tangible miracles—healing of cancer, HIV, and other ailments—shared through testimonies of Apostle Lazarus and others. The session includes calls for communal celebration, recognition of ministry leaders, and a vision of an emerging “army” of believers in Kano who will manifest God’s power beyond church walls. The tone oscillates between exuberant worship, instructional preaching, and passionate exhortation, aiming to mobilize the audience toward a lasting, city‑wide spiritual impact.
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Just lift up your voice in worship this morning. Lift up your voice in worship and begin to bless the name of the Lord. We worship you, Jesus.
We worship you, Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Oh Lord, we call out to you. Jesus. Oh Lord, we call out to you. Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. All over this room this morning. Oh, Jesus. One more time, one more time. Oh la la la la la la. Come on, all over this room, raise your worship to Jesus this morning. Raise your worship, raise your worship, raise your worship. We worship you, we worship you, we worship you. You are higher than the highest, greater than the greatest. Odo bo gakuwe, odo bo gakuwe. You are higher than the highest, you're greater than the greatest. Odo bo gakuwe. You are higher than the highest. Oh Jesus, you are my— you are higher, you're higher, you're higher, you're greater than the greatest. Jump the church! Raise your worship! Hey! Dependable, dependable God. It doesn't matter what comes my way, you are still God. Oh, intentional God. Intentional God. Everything, everything is working out for me. Oh, you are, you are dependable. You are good. It doesn't matter what comes my way. You are still God. Intentional love. Intentional love. Oh, everything, everything is working out for me. Hey, say you are good.
You are good.
You are good. You are good. Jesus. Jesus, you are good. You are good. You are good. You are good. You are good. Jesus, Jesus, you are good.
We bless you, Jesus.
Can you lift your hands to him in adoration? And give him praise from the depth of your heart. Let everything within you bless the name of the Lord. Give him praise because he deserves it. Oh, we bless you, Yahweh. Yahweh, where would I be if not for you?
That's why I worship you, I worship, I worship you.
We bless you, Father, and we give you praise, Lord, in In Jesus' mighty name we have worshiped. Come on, shout and give Jesus a big, big, big praise. All right, before you sit down, I want you to shake someone to your right and to your left and say, wow, good to see you. Compliment the person. You look amazing, you look good, you look great.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord. Amen. Good morning, good morning. All right, to bring us the first word this morning is the resident pastor of Light Nation Church, Kano. He is a man of prayer and he's a very, very focused pastor. I respect him and I love him, and I want us to receive from him with all joy and gladness as we receive Pastor Promise Akiola.
Now make those hands louder, better!
Can somebody say thank you, Jesus? Can we do it one more time? Thank you, Jesus. It is such a privilege this morning to be standing here, and, um, I— hallelujah! Thank you, I love you too. And I want to celebrate my father for this huge privilege that I have received, and I do not take it for granted in any way, sir. Thank Thank you so much. And indeed, we are the crown of your labor. Thank you so much, sir. God bless you in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you for this morning, and we thank you for the day one, the day two of Kano Apostolic Meeting. And we know that even this morning, you will cause our eyes to be open. In the name of Jesus Christ, you will flood our hearts with light and you will wash us by your word. In the name of Jesus Christ, that at the big— at the end of this apostolic meeting, men will emerge and giants will arise even from among us. In Jesus' Mighty name we have prayed. Please, you may be seated. Thank you so, so, so much. Hallelujah. All right, so this morning I will be taking you through some scriptures, and we trust God to cause the eyes of our understanding to be enlightened written. Let us look at Ephesians chapter 1, and I'm going to be taking my reading from verse 15, and we read together down to 18. Is that okay? All right, it says, in womb— from verse 15, it says, wherefore I also So after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his glory and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. I can— can somebody say, I receive the spirit of wisdom. I receive the spirit of revelation and the eyes of my understanding is enlightened this morning. Quickly, let us make a cross-reference to Matthew chapter 4. Do not forget the scripture Ephesians chapter 1:15-18. All right, Matthew chapter 4. Are you with me? All right, now Lucas verse 15, it says the land of Zebulun Zebulun and the land of Naphtalim. First, let me create a context, all right, before I go ahead with the reading. Now, the introduction here reviews the beginning of Jesus's Galilean ministry, all right, in accordance to the prophecy that has gone ahead, all right. So let's look at it now. It says that the land of Zebulun Zion, and the land of Naphtalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people which sat in darkness saw great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. Now look at this. If you look at verse 15, and you look at the beginning of verse 16, it says the people. So the scripture wants to reveal the state of a certain confluence of people, but before bringing us into the light of their state, their state of being, it first brought us into the perspective of where they are coming from. So he says the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. So it began to describe their local government, their town, their, their city. Is that okay? Then it says that the people— so which means that these specific people who belong and are domiciled in this particular city, this is their it. So we can now look at what the scripture explained their state to be. Are you with me this morning? All right, so now look at it. Verse 16, it says, the people which sat— which means the people in the land of Zebulun, the people in the land of Naphtali, who are by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. These people are sitting in darkness, and these people who are sitting in darkness have seen great light. And to them, these same people who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. And it looks to me as though this is a description of a particular which we are in. If we look around the territory where we are currently domiciled— I'm talking about Kano State— it appears as though there are a people who are sitting in darkness. They've been covered by religion, They've been covered by pride. They've been covered by different nature of sins, and all there is about these people is darkness. But it would have been a dilemma if this was where the story ended. So the scripture says that this these people, God has remembered them. And in remembering them, he navigated light, he channeled light towards their direction. And so light shone upon the land. Light is shining upon Kano. Can I hear a big amen? I said light is shining upon Kano State.
It.
And you are the one that the Lord will use, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Now let me follow up by taking you into another scripture.
Matthew chapter 5, verse 14. Matthew chapter 5, verse 14. Thank you. It says that ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an you cannot be hidden or cannot be hid. Now this is what I want to review to you. If you go back to this scripture of Matthew chapter 4, you will see that first, before the situation of a people was described, where they are coming from was brought forward first so that you can know where they are proceeding from. Then the state of their being, their challenge was explained literally before we now saw what happened. And I believe you understand that because this is a prophecy coming to pass. Like I said, it was the beginning of Jesus's Galilean ministry, and so this light being spoken about that shone upon these people is Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. So now look at Matthew chapter 5, is now revealing an identity of another set of people. It says that ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. As I see my Father do, that I do also. And so if we are a replica or better said, if we are co-heirs with Christ, if Christ is light, then I am light. So that means that if this is our state as a people, if this is who we are, then we have the due and sheer responsibility to shine upon a city called Kano. And if you look at the book of Matthew, when Apostle Paul was bringing the word of encouragement to Timothy, he made him understand that let no one say that you are young, let no one despise your youth. The season we have is the season to arise and shine because light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon us. Can I hear a big amen? So it is very important for us to first and foremost establish this understanding, because Apostle said something that you cannot walk in the supernatural unless there is first awareness of who you are.
So the first step step into entering the supernatural is awareness.
Awareness. Awareness. I know who I am. I know the assignment God has sent me. I know what my identity is. In one of Apostle's teachings, he was given a description. Then he brought up one of our pastors, and then he began to say that if the description that, uh, or if the way you perceive yourself is based on the title that has been placed on you, it even means that you don't know who you are. Because once the title is taken away, then you'll be left with nothing. So the title is what gives the platform or the allowance for you to express that which is within you and that which you have been called to be. If you are with me, say amen. So it is first necessary for us to establish this identity of who we are, so that once we understand this that has been said, that awareness will enter into us, and then we now have the leverage to function from a platform, to function from a pedestal. Hallelujah! Now let me show you something quickly. How do you sustain a long-lasting impact in your generation and in the territory that God has called you to? How do you sustain a long-lasting impact in your generation and the territory that God has called you 2. Leviticus chapter 6, verse 8 and 13. So I'm going to rush this, all right? There's, there's something I want to open our eyes to, and once we can catch that, fire will break out of here. Hallelujah! Leviticus chapter 6 from verse 8 to 13. Now let's look at it. It says that, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying— this is an instruction Command Aaron and his sons. And I don't have the time to show us, you know, the Levitical order and some other things, but what I want to reveal to us here first is that Aaron and his sons are priests. There is a special assignment that God has given them to do, and this is the job description. This morning you will get the job description of your in the name of Jesus. Command Aaron and his sons, saying, this is the law of the burnt offering. It is the burnt offering because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. Let's proceed. And the priest shall put on his linen garment and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar. Underline burnt offering on the altar. And he shall put them beside the altar. Let's proceed. And he shall put off his garments and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
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All right, to verse 13. And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it, it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and it shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. Last verse. The fire fire shall ever be burning upon the altar. It shall never go out.
So this is what I want to show you from this scripture.
Then I make a cross-reference. Now you will see that there is a particular tribe, or better said, a, a category of people who have been separated unto God. For them, God is their portion. Others can be given a land, they can be given whatsoever ever, but their own portion is the Lord. So their duty is to serve on the altar. Are you getting what I'm saying this morning? So their duty is to serve on the altar. And so the description of how to go about this spiritual business was described plainly here, given to Moses to be passed across to Aaron and his sons. The priest. And we are going to remember that in one of the ministrations yesterday, the Lord said unto us through prophetic word that he is raising new breed of armies in this city, and we are the ones. I said, we are the ones. Do you see yourself in this life? I said we are the ones. We will burn until we overturn the altar of darkness that has befallen a city. We will rise, shine so bright. We will rise, and upon our altar there shall be literal fire that will superimpose the altar of darkness. And so let me show you some Another thing, then I begin to wrap up here. Do not forget, there is a set of people in Leviticus chapter 6 whose job description was to perpetually stand by the altar with sacrifice on it, lighting it up with a fire. And you know, one of the ways, um, when it comes to prayer— I hope that you know that when you are praying, it is not your English that is ascending to heavens. Are you with me? It is not your English that is ascending to heaven. What is ascending to heaven is the incense of your prayer. And so as the fire is burning here, as the fire is burning on the altar, what begins to rise from the sacrifice is the incense, the smoke. And that is, as it goes to heaven, it is being received somewhere. So I want to show you. Look at Revelation chapter 8, verse 1 to 5. Quickly, please. Revelation chapter 8, verse 1 to 5. He says, and when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. Let's jump quickly. And another angel came— so there are other angels, but this particular angel came and stood at the hall altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. So you will see that God is so intentional, and you will see that this is so descriptive, that there is a particular angel that has been given the due assignment to stand by the altar. Now look at the— on the— and in heaven there is already an established altar where the incense that is rising from your own altar on the earth shall rise, and then in heaven upon that altar the incense will be received. That he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon golden altar which was before the throne. So for you to remain relevant and to sustain a long-lasting impact in a city, you have to build an altar. We have to build an altar. And what we do on altar is to lay ourselves as the sacrifice under the New Testament or the New Covenant. It is to do what? To lay ourselves as sacrifice. In the Old Testament, you can bring bulls, you can bring whatsoever as instructed. But in under the New Covenant, Romans chapter 12, verse 1, The Message translation, it says, take your everyday life— you're sleeping, you're eating, you're going to work, you're going to office— everyday life, and then place it on the altar. Place it on the altar. We need this knowledge, and the reason why we need this knowledge is because if we desire to shine as light and we do not understand what to sustain it, it is going to blow up. The fire will blow up, but it will blow off very soon. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! So this morning I want us to rise as we pray. And you cry to God, I am ready to be the living sacrifice upon which the fire will keep burning. I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am ready. I avail myself for your use, oh God. Set your light upon my life. Set your light, set your light upon my life. We give you all the glory. Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Hallelujah. Thank you so much, Daddy, for this opportunity.
Wow, what do we say to that this morning? Wow, wow. I was saying to myself while he was teaching that you guys in Kano, you are enjoying Join. You are in. That man is something else. Fantastic homilies, very, very accurate. Let's give him a big hand. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Sit down for a moment. I just want to share a story with you. I remember one— what year was that? I think this should be either 2020, either 2019 or 2020. Myself, Apostle Lazarus Lazarus, and Lawrence, we went to see a friend. That's Pastor Femi. When we got to his house, he called. He said he wants us to pray for grandma in the house who was sick. And, um, he didn't tell us the kind of sickness. He didn't tell us the nature of the sickness. Just said he wants us to agree with her in prayer. All right, we closed our eyes to agree with the woman in prayer. The moment The moment we did, Apostle Lazarus just objected and said, hold on. He said, I'm seeing a cloud of darkness around your abdominal region. Then the woman said it's true that she actually had cancer. It was of, um, which of the— again, I can't remember again, but it was something around the abdominal region. I have seen people walk in grace for healings and all that, but this man is exceptional. He is not a kind of teacher that will excite— is, is, is an amazing teacher. However, ever. If you are looking for balance and a man who will teach the word of God in a way that even if you are born today you will understand it, this man is one. All right, the reason why I'm saying this is because as he will mount this stage, I need you to recognize the grace graces, many great— he's an apostle, not just a teacher, that is upon his life. I told him, I don't know how we're going to do this evening, it's going to be very serious, so you have to come very early. If you were here last year, you know how it was, so you have to be here very, very early. That's why I said come with the sick, bring those on wheelchair, bring anything, all right? There are graces in the house too that God will use to do that. But before I bring bring him up. I want to recognize again Pastor Steve and his dear wife, and, uh, state president, um, that is the youth wing of the, um, sorry, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria for Kano State. The youth president is here. Good to see you, sir. After Apostle Lawal, before Pastor Isaac, I want him to bring give us a word of greeting. We couldn't do that yesterday, so we're going to do that this morning.
Amen.
Um, before, I would also— I don't know, we're going to do it, but I want the wife of Minister Moses Akot to— she's going to bring us greetings too this morning. Yes, it is. You bring us greetings. This woman is dangerous. I told right? If I ever do long throat, it's for fried rice. So she blessed me with a serious one. All right, let's be on our feet this morning with so much honor and a heart of revelation. Let's receive my brother and my good friend, Apostle Lawal Suleiman.
Now don't stop clapping. Because there is more this morning. Hallelujah! Please help me celebrate our dear host. Hallelujah! Apostle Femi Lazarus, my dear friend and brother, please celebrate. You can do better, actually. Soma, I feel like you can actually do better than you're doing right now. Amen and amen. And also my dear, dear, dear, dear brother Pastor Steve and his wonderful wife. Mama, you don't taste small. Hallelujah. Amen. Minister Moses Ako. Hi, how many of you love Minister Moses Ako? Ever fresh, ever fresh. And his wonderful wife, please celebrate her. And the PFN chairman, the youth wing, right? We celebrate you, sir. Hallelujah. And all the ministers of the gospel in the house, we salute you, we celebrate you. God bless you. I may not be able to mention your name, but we honor the grace of God on your life. Thank you for being here with us this morning. Lift your hands and give Jesus praise. I feel the power of God this morning. Please don't look around. Lift your hands, give him praise. Come on, lift your hands to him all over this building. We give you praise, Jesus. We hallowed your name. You You are awesome in this place. We lift up our praise to you. Hallowed be your name, Jesus. It is unto you we are all gathered. Bread of life, bread of life, bread of life, bread of life. Satisfy the longing of our heart and of our soul. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We give you praise. Oh, hallelujah. As the deep has for water, so my soul longs for you forever and ever.
Yes, this heart beats for you.
As the deep pants for water, so my soul longs for you forever and ever.
Yes, this heart beats for you. As deep as the water, my soul longs for you. My soul longs for you. Forever and ever, this heart beats for you. For you, never, never. Yes, this heart beats for you till the end. Holy, till the end, it's only you. Till we meet, it's only you. Till we meet, it's only you. Only you, only you. Only you! Only you I love— only you until the end it's only you till we meet it's only you only you only you only you I love Till the end, only you. Till the end, only you. Till we meet, only you. Till we meet, only you. Only you. Only you.
My daddy, my daddy, daddy, my daddy, your baby singing.
Baby singing. I will be singing and dancing and shouting for the rest of eternity. My daddy, my daddy, daddy, my daddy, your baby is singing. Your baby is singing. I will be singing Dancing and shouting for the rest of eternity. Till the end, only you. Till the end, only you. Till we meet, only you. Till we meet, only you. Only you, only you, only you, only you, only you, I love. Only you, I love. La la! Till the end only you— till we meet solely through Jesus.
Thank You Lord Jesus Christ!
Hallelujah Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus I pray that every person who has come to this service today will be blessed by your presence tonight because God's grace comes upon us when he visits our midst so may his blessing rest on each one here right now for their lives' sake amen. Amen? May it not stop there but let me tell you something about prayer life; if you have no We faith at all then why thank should you even bother praying or fasting?
If you don't believe anything can happen just like Job said you "I am cursed." But what happened was job for prayed more than ever before until finally Jehovah answered the him after 37 days first without food.
What did He do?
word that you have brought to us. Thank you for these cities experiencing light. There is a deluge of light that has come to this city in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You may be seated. Hallelujah! Amen and amen. Come on, I said amen. Greet someone to your left and to your right. Come on, celebrate someone to your left and to your right.
Hallelujah!
I also want to celebrate all the ministers that have ministered so far. Please celebrate Pastor Steve. I was following online. My goodness! Apostle Edu, amen! You're not celebrating, you're not celebrating. Pastor Isaac, hallelujah! Amen and amen!
Amen.
Now this morning, I don't want to give a title to what I want to share, but I beg you to listen. We're praying under your breath. Lord, we ask for light, because you see, your Christian experience is light dependent. The Bible said he created two lights, one to govern the day, the daylight. There is no night night in it. And when he's talking about this light, it doesn't cast shadows. It's an everlasting day, no night in it. So the lesser light to govern the night. Say, this morning I receive light, I receive comprehension, insight into mysteries and secrets, in the name of Jesus. My first scripture is Philemon chapter One, you know, um, I don't know if some of you grew up in church like me, and one of the things we always hear in church, and we still hear in modern times, is there is a move of God coming. Is that true? And I asked myself, since when I was small in church I was young, now I'm old. Do you understand? This move of God that they say is coming, if it is trekking, at least by now. Do you understand? You don't understand what I'm saying. And the reason a generation will rise up and say there's a move coming, and the next generation will rise up and say there's a move coming, is that there is a generation that has refused to now be the move of God. And the— where we keep saying there's a move coming, we're pushing it to the future, to an unending future. And you see, the move of God can be sovereign, but God doesn't always want sovereign moves of God. Moves of God can be deliberate. We can see it in Scripture. So mightily grew the word of God and revealed. We can see templates in scripture that men can deliberately become moves of God. And what we normally see within the four walls of the church, if it does not find its way into the streets, we don't have a move of God yet. Yeah, 85% of the miracles Jesus did was outside the temple. That is a message to us. And you know, one of the reasons— it's not wrong though— one of the reasons I don't teach on atmosphere for miracles is because of how it limits the mind. Because Jesus didn't need keyboard on the streets. Now imagine Jesus saying, Peter, play C-sharp for me, and Peter will say Oga, we forgot the keyboard in the last meeting. Can't you see a blind man here? Take bike, go and bring the— you know, in John chapter 5, there was a pool of water that at particular seasons the water is stirred, right? But here comes Jesus in the front of a 38-year-old long infirmity. And he was saying, would you be healed now? Now, this water is only stirred once in a season. Here is the water that is perpetually stirred. Do you understand? Jesus is an ever-stirred water. This is where Jesus wants us to be, because it looks as though there is an invisible box outside the church where when we— when we're coming to church, we wear on God consciousness. Then when we're leaving the church, we pull it off, fold it, put into that locker, then enter into life. Do you understand? We face reality. But you see, mature Christianity is the sustained God consciousness. If we cannot incorporate God consciousness into the secular. We are religious people. If there is still a divide between what we call secular and skirt, and God wants to break into both worlds. Are you hearing what I'm saying? That is why we only find word of knowledge within church service. We don't find it in the banking hall. We should have believers that are able to download things out of heaven and implement it into the banking it's faith. This is what supernatural is. Ephesians 4, the equipping of the saints is the believer, for the work of the ministry is the nurse, the baba, the engineer. I feel I'm not in the right place. Amen. So I want to show us two laws this morning that are very important, then we'll pray. The first one is in that Philemon 1:6. He says, okay, that the communication— let me say something first before I do this. If I will define Christianity for us in a way we can understand, it is the outworking. Somebody say the outworking of that which has been worked into us. Let's say it again. Again. Christianity is the outworking of that which has been worked into us. Now you remember that our scripture that you should walk out— do you hear that word? Walk out your salvation with what? Fear and trembling. The next verse, it is God which is at work in— there is already an inworking, which is the basis for the outworking. God will not require the outworking of what he has not worked into you. God will not require from you. And this is the great difference between the Old Testament and the New— the Spirit resting upon for a time and a season, and the indwelling of the Spirit, the fullness. When we got born again, we did not receive the Spirit by installment. Meaning there is nobody that has more Holy Spirit than you. When a 7-year-old girl gets born again, she doesn't receive primary school Holy Ghost, she receives the fullness of the Spirit. But how effective you'll be in your Christian life is learning the outworking, learning the outworking. And this is what has separated the experience of different Christians. It is not that God has given to your brother something he has not given to you. He has learned the outworking, and if you learn it, you produce the same result. Is somebody still with me? Philemon 1:6, he says, that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ. Paul is showing us a law here. All right, let's— Paul is saying that the communication, or we can use that word, the outworking of your faith, the manifestation of your faith, can become more effective spiritual, meaning you can have much more than you have right now, meaning you can walk in much more than you have. And you know the beautiful thing about Christianity? God had never put a cap on how much we can have. Never put a cap. God had never put a limit on how much we can experience. As a matter of fact, we are the ones that determines how far we'll go in Christ. He says the communication of faith can become more effectual. There is a reason why you are functioning at a particular level, and scripture is showing us here you can be deliberate at increasing how well you function, that the communication of your faith might become— it can become more effectual. You can have greater level of results. You know, when I got born again, right, I was doing— I was comparing and contrasting what the Bible said was available for us and what we have currently. And there are two things you can do. You can either give an excuse why by creating theology that pampers powerlessness, saying things like, you know, um, the days of miracles are gone. It was because they didn't have the canonized scripture, that's why God worked the way he worked. But now we have the Bible, we don't need miracles. You can either believe in that theology, or you— you see, we don't, we don't We don't water down the testimony of scripture, the standard of scripture, to fit our level. We are supposed to rise up to catch up with the standard of scripture. We are never supposed to bring down the standard. So I was looking and I kept asking questions. What is the difference? Because see, your Christian experience involves you bridging gap between where you are and what the Bible says is available. Bridging that gap. And you know, that gap can be very wide or it can be very narrow if you decide to take responsibility. That the communication of your faith might become effectual, he says, by, by the acknowledging of every good thing in you in Christ. So I need, I need two persons quickly. I want to do an example quickly. This will help. If you forget anything, you will not forget the illustration. Okay, I have two persons. Oh, they are also wearing— this one is wearing white, so he will help. Now look at what Paul is saying here. He says, for your faith to be more effectual, for you to be able to communicate more effectual what God God had worked into you. He's showing you a law here. He says that you have to begin to acknowledge that every good thing— let's say this is Christ, let's say this is the believer. Did you get that picture now? He says that everything that is in Christ is in the believer in equal proportion. What that means— please pay attention to me— there is nothing currently according to scripture that is in Christ that is not in the believer. Everything that God had put in Christ— and when I'm talking about Christ, I'm talking about the prototype— because when Jesus came him, the Bible will call him the only begotten of the Father. You know your John 3:16, right? His only begotten Son. But in John 12, Jesus said, except a corn of wheat falls down and die, it abideth. The reason he was the only begotten Son was because he was not planted yet. But the moment he was planted God's intention was to reap bountiful harvest of the same quality. Because watch this, if, if this is possible— pay attention— if this were possible, just help me with your imagination. If you take a corn, one seed of corn, and you plant it to the ground and it germinates and brings forth fruit, right? And you harvest it and in a particular way, I don't know how, you are able to still get back the seed and throw it into the harvest of the corn. You peel them, I put— if you mix them together, you will not be able to tell which one produced what. That was what God intended. So Jesus, before death, was called the only begotten Son. After resurrection, he was now called the first begotten from the dead. Now let me— did you notice that when Jesus is called the firstborn, the Bible didn't call us secondborns? In Hebrews 12, he calls it the festak assembly of God's firstborn upon whose names? Okay, you didn't get that, so let me forget about it. Now, this is the reason why we are not co-heirs with Christ. We are joint heirs with Christ. What that means is that he doesn't have a greater— you know, in, in the Old Testament, there is something called the concept of the double portion. Now, the double portion portion is the inheritance reserved for the firstborn. So the firstborn has his portion and an equal extra portion with every other person. That is the principle of the double portion. But you see, in Christ, the Bible says that we are joint heirs, meaning he doesn't have a greater access to the inheritance than us. We have equal access and right to the inheritance. That's what the Bible says, that we are joined as— hope you know what a joint signatory account is, right? You will need the signature of both parties to make a withdrawal. Are you following me now? Come on, are you following me? So watch this. When the Bible calls Jesus the first begotten from the dead Sorry, when the Bible calls Jesus the first begotten from the dead, he is trying to show us— you know, the Bible calls him the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creation. What the Bible is showing us is a prototype. Somebody say prototype. Let me give you an example of what that looks like. Now imagine that, um, maybe I own a company and I want a particular gadget that can perform setting tax, right? So I go to probably iPhone store and I tell them this is the specification I want. So they model it for me according to what I want. Now they give me a prototype. Are you following me? Then I test run it. When I'm satisfied, then I now make the order. Give me 500,000 of this type. Now hope know the other 500,000 will be the exact same type performing the same function. That is what it means that Jesus is a prototype. Now, so watch this. When Jesus came, right, please pay attention. John calls him the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world. So he was a Lamb of God. When he died and went to hell When he rose, we know that he ascended into heaven as the Lord's High Priest carrying his blood. Because on his way up, when Mary— do you remember he said, don't touch me because I've not ascended yet? And that's the way of the high priest when they are entering into the way, the truth, and the life, which is the temple. You are not permitted to touch them. Are you following me? That sacrifice that day is abolished. So he presented his blood as the token of our redemption. Please pay attention. Then he returned to the earth as the new creation man. God was sampling the new creation man. And watch this, for 3 and a half years of ministry that Jesus did, we have the record. Therefore, how many days that he was on earth? 40 days and 40 nights. John said, other signs did Jesus in the presence of the apostle, the which I suppose if they were written, the world will not contain the books. Now, how is it that you have the record of a man for 3 and a half years but you can't keep for 40 days. And when, when we are— when we were recreated, we were not recreated after the order of the man— he walked upon the sea, raised the dead— that's not the one. We were recreated after the image of the one that the Bible said the disciples, they, they locked the rooms and they hid themselves for the fear of the Jews, and Jesus walked in the midst of them and said, all hail! And they say it's a ghost. He said, okay, bring bread and fish. And when he ate, he didn't fall. He had a stomach. Are you hearing what I'm saying? He had a stomach. He stayed in the stomach. That's the Jesus we were recreated after. That is the one that the Bible say, as he is, not as he was, as he is now in his glorified state, so are we now in this world. That's what the Bible says. So everything— I'm not talking about the man of Galilee, I'm talking about the resurrected Christ— everything that is in the resurrected Christ currently is in the believer in equal proportion. The Bible says for you to acknowledge it, because oftentimes what we do is is that we put him on a pedestal that we can never access, we can never get to, and that's not his intention. Now watch this, let me show you something. When the disciples of Jesus were on the sea and there was a storm, do you remember? And Jesus was walking to them, and Peter— hear the words of Peter— he said, if it be you, Bid me to come. What Peter was saying is that I— the only way, because there's something called the sailor's mythology that you can see ghosts on high sea. That's why some sailors are drunk. That's why most sailors are drunkards. Hope you've heard of the sailor's mythology. You can see ghosts on high sea, you can see mermaids, you can start hearing singing. Some of you have not heard of sailor's Theology. So when they saw him on high sea, what Peter was saying, the only way we can know if this is Jesus, he will tell me to come. Because they know that everything Jesus did was not to show them how powerful he was, it was calling them into it. So he said, if that being didn't say come, they'll say it's not Jesus. The only way they were going to know it was Jesus. Did you notice the bread and fish did not multiply in the hands of Jesus when he gave thanks? It multiplied in the hands of the apostle. That was school. That was school of the spirit. So he knew that Jesus was calling him to come into that. And did you notice Jesus didn't say, Peter, come. Jesus said, come, and everybody could have hung on.
Come, everybody would have.
And you know, people keep talking about the fact that Peter sank and Jesus lift him up. Did you notice Jesus didn't back him? They walked back to the— Jesus didn't carry him. They walked back together to the boat. So the journey continued. So say everything Come on, say with me: everything that is in Christ is in me. Paul calls it a law. He said the day you start acknowledging, oh, that he as he is— now watch this, I want to say something here. Do you know what it is for Jesus to leave the earth believing that we will conquer the world. Do you know what it means? Now please pay attention. If you're a businessman, you understand what I'm saying, because some businessmen are afraid to travel. Some ministers are afraid to travel because people make a mess. Jesus left us because he trusts the investment. He knew what he put inside. He trusted this one. He knew they would turn this world right side up. He knew it. See, listen, listen, listen. For there to be a greater outworking, there has to be the law of acknowledging. And the word acknowledging is the Greek word epignosis. See, see yourself in Christ in the pages. Now this is why we are called— it's not a cliché when we're called the body of Christ. It literally means we give body to Christ. Now Jesus does not have a hand with which he can put his hand on blind eyes and they will open. He does— it's my hand now he uses. You didn't hear what I said. There's no hands that Jesus will put in the deaf ear to unstop it. It has become my hands he will use. My hands are like jump cables. You know what jump cables are? How that when I plug my battery to another man, it jump starts his car. My hands are like jump cables. Do you know what Jesus said? Listen, Jesus said something. If they will lay their hands on the sick, if he should touch touched someone, there will be a movement. Whether he feels it or not, there's a movement. But you know, he can start feeling the, the movement when the consciousness increase. Because Jesus said, I felt virtue. Means if the believer will touch— now let me ask a question here now. How many of you desire to walk in healing miracles? Let me see your hands. Virtually every body. Now drop the hands. How many of you had laid hands on somebody in the past one week? Did you see how many hands? Now how do you want to do it? Somebody saying, Lord, use me to raise the dead. When last did you lay hands on a dead body? When last? I'd like to tell you some extreme things that you may not believe, but let me leave it. I was in— I was in Osogbo. With my brother Lawrence, and I asked people that had never laid hands on the sick, they raised their hands. And after teaching like this, I paired a lady with a guy that was blind in one eye. This was the first time she would lay hands, and the eye opened. And she was looking at her hand like this. I said, pick milk. Yes, it's in you. You know that Pick-Me-Up ad? She was looking at her hand. I say it's in you. The fullness of the Spirit, as against the Spirit resting upon for a function, for a time, and lifting. You know, we still use that language in the New Testament that the healing anointing has lifted. What are you talking about, sir? It's an abiding Spirit. He never leaves. That is why if you have that mindset, you only function within church walls when there is ambiance. But if you know that the spirit is abiding anywhere— you know, sometimes when I'm going out with my wife and she just sees somebody with, with walking stick, she holds my hand. It's not because it's intimate moment where she's like, behave yourself, behave yourself, behave yourself, because I will. I remember one time we're with Pastor Lawrence and And okay, after church, we went to a store to buy something, and I saw a woman with a collar. And before Pastor Lawrence would say, what, I've gone. The woman said she was just coming from UCH. She has a dislocation in her spine. And I say, Mama, without touching you, because you know why, outside, do you understand? I say, Mama, I don't need to touch touch you, but right now— and with tears in her eyes, all the pains were gone. This is— listen, I call this sanitation, kingdom sanitation, taking the power of God. Because there's somebody listening to me right now, so I hear me, there is a new fire coming upon your soul. Outside the church walls, in informal places, you will see the sick healed. I remember one of those days, a young man that told He had HIV and we met on the road. Then I look, where can we do this now? Because if I touch him on the streets, they can carry me that I killed somebody. So I looked and there was a barbing salon and I said, let's enter. And I just touched him like this. Today he's married with kids. It's— listen, listen, listen, I'm saying that for you to change your orientation about things only happening within church building. We have to take the power of God out. Say, I acknowledge everything that is in Christ is in me in equal proportion. You have to believe it, you have to see it. That's what the Bible says. You carry him in all of his fullness. As he is, so am I in this world. Oh, we don't have much time. Thank you very much. We need to go to the second— oh, we need to go to the second law. Philippians chapter 1. Now I want to show you something here. I want to tell you something. I remember some years back, it was Pastor Pastor Steve that invited me to Kano. And I don't know if Pastor Steve can remember the lady that had issues with her kidneys many years ago, that she left one school for another because of her kidney— she had kidney issues. And she even brought— I still have the pictures. So that lady— please pay attention to me— that lady had issues with her kidneys. And in that meeting, I didn't even give the word of knowledge. The power of God came upon her. You remember, right? And the lady was healed. We were crying like babies. Please pay attention to me. But I came to that meeting with a heavy heart. I was called that my father has issues with his kidneys and he's in the hospital. And as the lady was testifying, she was rolling Crying on the floor, she brought the report. I was saying, Jesus, my father, you are the same message. My father is in the hospital. I went to Lagos to see my father. It was really very bad. I laid hands and everything, the man died. But I found out something instead of offense, that what happened with that lady was sovereign. It was not a realm I hold. And you see, God doesn't just do sovereign things with us. It is an invitation for what is sovereign to become more deliberate. So I knew it was my responsibility to cross the line between sovereign manifestation of God and functionality as his son. I knew. And that's what I want to show you here. So far, still counting. They brought a woman to my office from Jos, carried out to my office with stage 4 cancer of the breast. I mean, it was a hole. The breast has been eaten. It was a hole. I couldn't even look at the pictures. She said she will bleed. Do I know that small pain rubber that she will bleed and fully. And I'm wondering in my mind, how are you still alive? But the spirit will still sustain that body, just like a madman can eat garbage and not fall sick because he's still tormenting that body. I looked at her and all the demons— when I laid hands on her, all the demons came crying out. Then I knew I've crossed the line. They brought another one. And I'm still counting because it was a case of cancer. And I realized in the body of Christ now, when someone is diagnosed with cancer, it's a death sentence. It's as though we don't have answer for cancer. Then I started to press. I was saying, God, my father is there lying down, touch him. And God was— you see, what I was expecting God to do something sovereignly, he was trying to bring me into the function of it. Just like many people are here wondering, why hasn't God healed my mother? God, won't you just heal her? And he doesn't have any hands anymore. It's your hands. As I say this, Philippians chapter 1. Verse 19. Can you see it? He says, for I know— this is a certain statement— for I know that this shall turn to my salvation. Paul was in a terrible dilemma, and he said he's very sure that this— he's in can turn to his salvation. Then look at what he says. He says, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Somebody say, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit. Now watch this. Paul is showing us something here. That the supply of the Spirit in a man's life is in direct proportion to his prayers. Ezekiel 47 gives us a picture of what the supply of the Spirit is like, how that the supply of the Spirit can be at ankle level, yet is a supply of the Spirit. There are things ankle level water can take care of. There are things ankle level water— but there are things ankle water level cannot take care of. And the supply of the Spirit, he said it can rise to the knee, it can rise to the waist, and it can become an overwhelming water. Paul shows us— this is a graph— that the supply of the Spirit Spirit is in direct proportion to prayer. Let me show you what the supply of the Spirit is. Galatians. I believe somebody is getting what I'm saying. Galatians 3, verse 5. If you see, if you understand, you see, um, can I say something? There is an extreme in the body of Christ, two extremes that needs a balance. The first extreme are those that have understood the message of the finished work of Christ. So on the strength of that, they are like, why are we killing ourselves? Why are we praying like this? Christ has done it. What are we trying to do? Why are we fasting like this? He said it is finished. Ogadeni, it is finished. So they believe on that strength we are not supposed to do anything. Do you know what will be the end of such person? You will have Christianese, but there will not be power. They focus more on what is called the legal side of redemption, and the legal side of redemption covers all that God did for us in Christ without our involvement, and we don't need to even do anything about it. But there is a vital side of redemption. There's the experience. How much you can pray, how much the weight is on their performance. And you know what that would do? Listen to me, you'll be very limited. And all kinds of miracles. I remember a man that they blocked, he was disoriented. He wheezes and pulls on his body. He doesn't recognize his wife. He doesn't talk. And when we lay hands on him, he began to speak. All kinds of miracles. In short, they told me there's a mad boy at the other side, and before I got there, the boy was sane. And so some young men, they just cornered me and they say, 'Sir, please, what is the secret to this miraculous?' I say, 'It's simple. Jesus died and rose.' They say, 'Sir, we know, but—' I say, 'There's no but.' Say, 'Sir, do you fast and pray?' I say, Yes, but you see, these things are not happening on the basis of fasting and prayer, even though we fast and pray. It's happening because Jesus made it possible through his death, burial, and resurrection. Listen, listen, most ministers are— they depend on God more when they feel ill-prepared, when they feel they had not— so they are 'Oh God, help me, help me.' But when they have prayed, they call— they are looking at all of you like this: you will lick ground today. Spiritual maturity is after I've charged, I still call depending on the blood. So I told them, bro, I fast and I pray. Oh, you don't want to know. Oh, you don't want to know. But I don't base the manifestations on my fasting and prayer is on the finished work of Christ, though. Do you hear? Are you hearing what I'm saying? Well, because you will hear somebody told you, see, um, after 40 days of fasting, we started to see deaf ears open. Oh God, there's somebody that has not done that, that is opening deaf ears. Do you And so you have done the 40 days that the man said. You have not seen the, the person that was partial deaf. When you lay hands on him, became stone deaf. So the supplier— okay, I said I want to show you something. Galatians chapter 3, verse 5. He says— now watch this, look at this. He says, he therefore that that ministereth— the same word for supply, right?— that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you. Do you see an equation there also? That means the level of the workings of the Spirit, the workings of miracles, is in direct proportion to prayer. And somebody is saying, Confessor, you say finish work, but you're saying prayer. Is I'm saying you hold it too, because it is we will give ourselves continually to the ministry of the word and to prayer. It's two pills that go together, do you understand? No, doctor's prescription. If this thing must work effectively, you have to swallow two. Is somebody still with me? Are you sure you are with me? So I realize that there can be an increased measure in my life, and part-time I am the one determining how much measure I can have. It's prayer. I wanted to show you, um, okay, let me show you because our, um, Kano pastor touched something. Leviticus 9:6, let me show you something. Moses is trying to show us something here. What this— please look at this. He says, and Moses said, this— now, did you notice the word 'is' is in italics? That means it was not in the original manuscript. That's to show you how definite this statement is. Now, he said, and Moses said, this is the thing, not things. That means in Moses's interaction with God, from sovereign manifestation, he had found formula, he had found keys, he had found how to move from sovereignty to deliberate manifestation. So what I'm saying, if there are things in your life that cannot be consistently replicated, they are still in the realm of sovereign manifestation, and God doesn't want you to stay there because there'll be a time there will not be a sovereign manifestation that you need needed the most. Women receive their dead back to life. Now he says, which the Lord commanded that ye shall do, and the glory of the Lord shall appear. So Moses now knows, because before it is— he will just see a cloud appear, then God will call him. He said, now I know how you can do do it. How you can make glory to appear? Is this possible for it to appear? Now look at the next verse. Look at the next verse. Look at the next verse. He says, and Moses said unto Aaron, go unto the altar and offer thy sin offering and thy burnt offering and make atonement. Primarily he's connecting it to altar. That means Moses had now found how you can shift from sovereign manifestation to deliberate function— functionality as his son. That glory that used to appear more sovereignly can now be manifest. You can make it happen, and this is prayer. So Paul shows us an equation. You need to see this equation, that prayer is in direct proportion to the supply of the Spirit in your life. That means the measure of the supply of the Spirit you have currently is not the one that Jesus gave you, is the one you have decided to fetch. And there is more. Is somebody here what I'm saying? The gifts of the Spirit function at a particular level. You can become more accurate in the manifestations of the gift of the Spirit. Somebody said, I don't— you know, all these things that people are saying that I don't see visions. Visions? You will not be trying to see visions when you start praying. No, it's not you trying to— you will break into visions. It will become a plain field before your eyes. You can choose to increase the supply of the spirit. Are you seeing See what he said in Galatians: He that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you. He that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you. He that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh— when you see a man standing and functioning in certain things, you are seeing the supply of the Spirit talking, and God wants you to handle what has been sovereign in your life. Somebody said, I don't know, sometimes I see it happen, other times I don't see it. That's why when people come and meet me and they say, sir, what does it mean when you feel fire in your hands? I say it's just the presence of God. Before you tell you, okay, maybe it's the healing anointing, because don't depend, because you cannot— there are times you don't— there are times where there is need, you will not feel any fire. And if you are, if you are waiting on, on that feeling, you never start, you never rise up. Say, I can increase the supply of the Spirit. My brothers and sisters, prayer. And, um, if you look at, um, the story of Elijah in James chapter 5, especially from the Amplified Translation, when he was talking about about heartfelt prayer. The Amplified told us the heartfelt continued. That means prayer to be effective must have these two characteristics. It has to be heartfelt. What I mean is that you have to be, you have to be involved in the prayer. Many people's times of prayer, they are just, it's just passing of time. You are, you are praying and surfing the internet, you are not praying, sir. When I'm praying in moments like that, I am on my bed with my— I usually like— if you usually— if you come to my house, the lights are always off. In short, if I have a way to block the lights coming from the AC, I will do that. The lights are always off and I'm praying because it has to be— did you notice the position that the prophet put himself in is that birthing position of a Jewish woman. He knew that for the cloud to appear in the sky, it must first be formed in him. So there was a time of cloud forming, because the Bible say when the clouds be full, it will empty itself. You just wait for it to be full. And it was in that birthing place that the cloud— and when he just saw that sign, it was enough. And hope you No, every of the time that the servant went to check was a watch, and a watch is usually an hour. How many hours was that? 7 hours of praying. And notice what he said, he had told the king to go ahead. Then when— that means, and you know the kings, they usually use chariots in those days. So the king was 7 hours ahead plus 7 horsepower Lamborghini. Then the Bible said the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah and he outran the chariots of Ahab into Jezreel. That's the strength on which people that pray like this walk on this earth. Many people will be doing— you know, in this life it looks as though many people that we can see doing things are the one making progress, but there are people that are waiting that one step that they take will cover many miles. It's prayer. Then he said heartfelt, continued. Listen, protracted praying is part of the core discipline of Christianity. Did you notice when, when Peter was in prison, when the church started to pray, there was no No schedule for how long that prayer was going to be until Peter showed up. That's how they prayed in Bible days. Do you know the prayer only stopped when Peter showed up? Did you know that the prayer stopped when Peter— as a young man and a young woman, I beg you in the name of Jesus Christ, there is something in Christianity called protracted prayers. There is something called extended times of prayer. There is something for a man to carry weight in the spirit, he has to give himself to what is called protracted praying. So after you have known this, that everything that is in Christ is in the believer in equal proportion, part of the way you drill this consciousness is praying. Oh, that's why you extended times of prayer. Advice, you know, this thing that you send Pastor— I don't know whether I used to receive it, so I don't know what's happening to my prayer life. Have friends that you make fire together. They, they may not be physically in your region, online. You just notice, I say, bro, can we make fire this night? And as, as you are stoking the fire together, putting wood together, together, you notice that your prayer is— stop it. Because somebody has been saying, I don't know what is happening to my prayer life, and one month has passed. I don't know what is happening to my prayer life, two months have passed. I don't know what is happening to my prayer life, three months have passed. And you know, there are many things that follow it. You understand what I'm saying? There are many things that follow it, and all of those things are traceable to the fact that you don't know what is happening to your prayer life. Instead of that friend that you come. Did you see what is— do you hear the latest gist? That Pastor— he said don't have gossip friends. So have friends that you make fire together, schedule times of fire together. That's the friends that you guys will hold hands and march through destiny. Can you rise on your feet for a minute? So I told you again, I can never forget, I was standing in that hospital looking at my father on the sickbed in Lagos, and I'll say, Lord, but you healed that lady, look at my father here. And instead of being offended, I knew that what God did with me was sovereign. It can become deliberate. I can hold— God wants you to become custodians of realms so that when he's making reference to realms of God, there is a man that is a symbol of that realm on the earth. There's a man that is a symbol. And some of you, the water level you are functioning in can rise. See, you can— I've seen cancer cells destroyed. I realize there is nothing called terminal. The second woman they brought to my house, stage 4 breast breast cancer. It has eaten off the breast. We were praying in the house. So after prayer, I looked into her eyes. I say, my sister, Jesus can still remember this on his body. I said, listen, Jesus rose upright, but the scars of redemption still remained in his body. And he has a glorified body, but the scars still remain. I say, himself took your infirmities. And as I laid hands on her, I just thought hand. The demons were screaming and they were coming out, and she left my house. Today she's cancer-free. And I told her, not only that, a new breast tissue will grow in this place. We, we have a creative God. So there is something called corrective miracle, but yet there is something called creative miracle. Kai. I feel the power of God this morning. Lift your hands and pray in the Holy Ghost.
I am wrong. Eagle fly. It is in you. You want to fly.
Some of you have seen yourself in dreams. You have seen of emptying hospital beds in dreams. Jesus is not advertising to you what he cannot give you. You can walk in it.
You can, you can, you can.
I see visions of people in the streets of Kano pulling out people from wheelchairs, collecting crutches from people, opening blind eyes, unstopping deaf ears. And see the field is ripe for harvest.
Hallelujah!
I want you to listen to this. You know, you know, the high priest, they went to secure a letter so that the tomb of Jesus would be sealed because they said this man said after 3 days he will rise and we know is so that his disciples come steal his body away. So they sealed the tomb and they kept soldiers. But when resurrection happened, the soldiers witnessed it, so they went to tell the high priest. And the high priest now said, okay, um, gave them money to sponsor a tale that the disciples stole his body at night. The Bible said it is commonly believed until today. That means it went beyond what was sponsored by money to spirit taking the vibes. But watch this, there were certain persons that Jesus appeared to. Now he appeared to the disciples, and according to 1 Corinthians 15, he appeared to over 500 persons at once. That means the persons that had firsthand experience of the resurrection were those that saw him. What about those that that didn't see him, that heard that tale. That means to prove that Jesus rose from the dead, we'll have to go beyond telling them, I saw him, I saw his hand, I touched his hand. That's, that's your word against the tale. There has to be another means of proving that he rose. And the Bible said, with great grace gave the apostle witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And that means it is only through power we can prove that. You see, when the power equation comes up, there is no question again. It answers every question at every level. This is why we need it, especially in this city. You know, our pastor, our dear pastor in this city, told us that we have to shine as light, and this is one of the ways, sir. There is no any other way. I've seen, you see, what substitute the major formula Jesus gave us to a well-cooked argument. You know, when the disciples of John came to Jesus and said, are you the Christ or should we wait for another? According to Saint Luke's account, Jesus did not answer them, but the Bible said in that self-same hour he opened blind eyes, he unstopped deaf ears, and he caused the cripples to walk. Then he said, go tell John what you have seen, because the gospel is twofold. The gospel must be seen and heard. The former treatise have I written to you, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus both began to do and to teach. Rabbi, we know you're a teacher come from God, for no man can do— do you see that? Come on, do you see that? Go tell John. Jesus did not say Open to Isaiah 11. You know, when he was talking about the root— it's me, oh, ask my mother, it's me, seriously, I'm the Christ. It was through demonstrations. If Jesus did it like that, if the apostles did it like that, we have no any other formula than the demonstrations of power. Lift your hands and cry. One minute, one minute, one minute. Cry, cry. We have no any other formula. This is how the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. We need to see an army. We need to see an army. Before them is like the Garden of Eden, behind them is a desolate city. All of them walk in their paths, none shall break their ranks. Out of this city, Kano, an army is emerging. After this weekend, we will hear tremendous testimonies littered around the city. Come on, cry one more minute. Cry. Come on, cry. Come on, raise that cry. Come on, raise that cry.
I'm in the army rising. Break every chain, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.
We bless you, Lord, in Jesus' Mighty name we are praying. I didn't hear that amen loud enough. Now, um, sit down just a moment. I'd like to request for our— let me have Pastor Jacob please come. Pastor Abraham, please come. All right, I want to show you what he just said, because what— I don't know if you know, you have to listen to what he just said now again and again. I told you before he came the manner of man that he is, and there are testimonies that if he should share here, you know, and I was talking, taking the supernatural to the street. How can you claim you don't have what you have not tried. I want to show you the way this thing work. Um, let get me a bottle of water. I want to show you. All right, the fervent and effectual prayer. Get me the bucket of the righteous mix. So open this for me, drop it inside, mix. Power available. So here is an environment. Can I have two more pastors? I want to show you different kind of ministers and the reason why this is the difference. Don't— one of the most nauseating statement is that I have prayed and done all I should do but nothing changed. It's a lie. Look at this. Can you please come? On your knees. This is Minister He, all right? There's availability, it is there, it's in you, and yet you want to touch the world with this, but this is what you've been doing, so it's coming in trickles. But it's not like it is not in you. But when you see a man, this same anything but knows how to juice it through prayer. This is the secret. It is the same Christ in you that is in everyone else. The same Christ was in William Bram, was in Riyad Bonke. The same Christ, the same Christ, the same Holy Ghost, not different.
Juice it out. When we stay in the places What is happening?
They were going to start a project in Port Harcourt. How much? ₦800 million? I said, go and ask the admin that work with me what I was doing. He came back, he said, she said that we don't know what he's doing, but we know he's doing something. We only see the result of what he's doing.
Prayer.
Let me tell you what I'm doing now.
There's a boy on the internet, Twitter, when he insult fathers, insult Salt Pastors. One day I was praying and I saw him standing side by side with me, and I saw Apo su su su, that is, God is bringing him in the fold and it's going to be a major face in the move of God. Ah, God said, this is your new project. You will pray him in. I told, you know, wake up at night, sleep that. I told him, I said, give me 7 men that can pray, 7 men that can pray. Give us 3 weeks on this boy. We will not see the light of the sun. What we flog him back, we flog him back. If there's
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