KANO APOSTOLIC MEETING || DAY THREE || EVENING SESSION || 21ST NOVEMBER 2025

Emmanuel. We want to see you, we want to see you, we want to hear from you. Emmanuel, Emmanuel. Oh, we want to see you. Is that somebody that's crying tonight? We want to hear from you, Emmanuel. Emmanuel, we want to see you, we want to hear from you. It's our loud cry tonight. Emmanuel. Oh, we want to see you. We want to hear from you. I want you to pass on a license. Give my Noel. Give my Noel. Say, I want to see you. I want to hear from you. Give my Noel. Give my Noel. I wanna see you. I wanna hear from you. Holy Emmanuel. Emmanuel. Lord, I wanna see you. I wanna see you. I wanna see you. Holy Emmanuel. One more time. Emanuela, Emanuela, I want to see you, I want to hear from you, Emanuela. Imanuel, I wanna see you. I wanna hear from you. Imanuel, Imanuel, I wanna see you. I wanna see you. I wanna I hear from you. Emmanuel, Emmanuel. I want to see, I want to see, I want to hear from you. So let your living water Flow out of me. Let your Holy Spirit overshadow me. As it was in the beginning, so let it be now. Because I am the city, the city of God. Let's do it again. Let your living water flow out of me.

Flow out of me.

Let your Holy Spirit overshadow me. As it was in the beginning, so let it be now. Cuz I am the spirit, the city of Are you ready? Oh! Say Eden is no more of pain. I am the city of God. I bring heaven everywhere I go. Eden is no more of pain. I'm the city of God. I bring heaven— I bring I am bring heaven, because there's a fire inside of me. I need the boot to cover the wall. I am the city of God. I am the city of God. I bring heaven. I bring heaven. You're the river that never runs dry. You're the river that never runs dry. Jesus, you're the river, you never run dry. Jesus, you are the river, you never run dry. Jesus! You're like river that never runs dry— Jesus! You're like river you never run dry—you have no limit; Yes! Like river who never ran through my life—I'm not going to die today... Yeah? He's just running forever because he knows I love him so much. Hallelujah! Amen! Praise God for his goodness toward us all this morning. We thank your Lord Christ our Savior tonight on behalf of everyone watching online or here at church. Father, we pray right now over every person listening to me live streaming from home around the world—that they will receive healing power by faith according to what has been said about them. That their bodies be renewed spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally—and may it bring great joy into each one heart when people see how beautiful these things look upon thee. And let there come an utterance out of everybody's mouth saying "Praise thy name." Thank you very much indeed. May His grace abound abundantly within you while ye rejoice always in Him. In other words, if somebody says something negative towards someone else, don't say anything bad against yourself either.

Don't ever speak badly about anyone but praise Your Holy Name instead. So many times folks go up before others talking down on themselves, telling ourselves off, blaming everything wrong happening to us on ourselves rather than giving glory unto Thee.

But why would anybody do such a thing?! Why does any Christian want to talk poorly about himself or herself? No way! Glory to Thy mighty Spirit! Come forth, O River of Life! Oh yeah! Let There Be Light Again! You like a river you never run dry! Yahweh! Yeah! You're like a river you never run dry! Jesus, you were the river who never runs dry! Hallelujah! Just know you were the river that never ran dry! Hey!

This song says that you were the river—

Yahweh, Yahweh. Let the Lord hear you tonight. Say, for the other. Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh. For the other. For the other. Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, for the accurate, for the— all over this room. Yahweh, Yahweh, for the accurate, for the accurate, for the accurate, Yahweh, Yahweh. Yahweh! Holy— holy— for thee I'm grateful; oh dear Lord God Almighty... Oh yeah, way away from me now? For Thee I am blessed; only of Thy grace have come to pass. Yahuwah our Way! Yeah-oh-way-yah-wey! What He has erected on high above my head will not fall down before Him who liveth forevermore. All that he hath raised up shall stand fast unto all time. Hallelujah! Yahweh Our Way! Yahweh Our Way! Yahweh O Father Everlasting! You're worthy everywhere you go! Yahweh Your Name be praised! Glory Be To His Mighty Hand! Yahweh! Oh dear God— oh dear God— let's do one more time. Yahweh! Yahweh! For thee I dareth— for thee I dareth— yahweh! Yahweh! O diya agbereka. O diya agbereka. O diya agbereka. Because you are the Spirit of the Yet to Come within me. You are the Spirit of the Yet to Come within me. You are the life of Christ within me. You are the life of Christ within me. Father of spirits. The Holy One. Holy One of Israel.

Cause you're the Spirit of Yeshua within me!

You're the Spirit of Yeshua within me! Oh, you're the power of God within me! Power of— Father of spirit!

The only one! Only one of Israel!

Let the Spirit of Yeshua come within me! Spirit of Yeshua come within me! Whoa, you have the power of life within me. You're the power of life. You're the power of Father of Spirit. Holy, holy one. Holy one of Israel. Now that you are here, hey, every spirit bow. He's the Father of Spirit. Father of Spirit. The Holy One. Holy One. I believe that you are. Yeah, everybody say, every spirit bound, every spirit bound, oh, through the Father of spirit, Father of spirit, the Holy One, Spirit of the yet to come within me, you're the Spirit of the yet to come within me, hey, you're the power of Christ within me, you're the power of life within me, through the Father The Father of Spirit, the Holy One of Israel. Listen, anytime I call on your name, I am never put to shame. Say, yes, anytime I call on your name, I am never put to shame. Yes, anytime I call on your name, I am never put to shame. Say, yes, every time I call on your name, no I am never put to shame. Every time I call on your name, I am never put to shame. Every time I call on your name, Lord, I am never put to shame. Every time I call on your name, I am never put to shame. Are you ready? So we say, oh Lord, oh God, I praise you. Yes, oh Lord. Every time I call on your name, I am never put to shame! Yes! Every time I call on your name, I'm never put to shame! Say it every time— my God or Your Name Lord, I am never put to shame! Yeah, yeah! My Call On Your Name Lord, I've Never Put To Shame! Shh... yeaahhh! My glory, you lift mine. Are you ready tonight? Fall down, oh God, oh God, oh Lord. I'm a shield of glory. Oh my glory, my glory, my glory. Every lifter up of mine. Fall down, oh God, oh God, oh Lord. I'm a shield of glory. You are my glory, my glory, my glory. Every lifter up of mine. Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh Lord, at a seal for me, my glory, my glory, my glory, and a lifter up of my head. At the top of your voice, pour down, oh Lord, at a seal for me, my glory, my glory, my glory. Let's do one more time. Pour down, oh God, pour down, oh Lord, at a seal Come on, are you ready this evening? Hey, Femi Lazarus, put your hands together, come on! My glory. We're going to do it one more time, loud and clear tonight. Father, Father, yeah, you are my glory. Come on, are you ready? All over the room. Give me oil! Give me oil tonight! Hey, give me oil in my life! May my life never be dimmed! You know how to pray tonight?

Ohh—

it's been mighty loud tonight! Hey, give me oil in my life! May my light never be dimmed! In that house right tonight! Wooohoo! Give me oil in my lamp! Minister to me! Minister to me! Holy God! Holy Lord! Holy God! Yeah! Minister to me! I shall not want! You will provide for me! Oh my goodness! Ahh! Minister to me! It begins to bring every dead thing to life. It's a life-giving river. Oh, as the river flows, come on, it begins to bring— come on, even dry bones will rise again. Yes, you are confessing with your mouth. As the river flows, as the river flows, it's an avalanche tonight.

It begins to bring everything to life.

Yes, shaka bora! Sing out of my belly! Shout glory! Shout glory! Rivers of living waters, yeah, yeah, yeah. Out of my belly! Shout glory! Shout glory! It's the rivers, rivers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Sing out of my belly! Shout loud! It's the revival! Hey, I want to give you a few seconds. Can you take a posture? Hey, there's a revival in this room tonight. Come on, let's shout one more time. Say, what I want is the Holy Ghost. Hey, you are going to add a clap to it that sound like thunder tonight. Come on. Come on, I can't hear you. Come on, are you ready? All over the room, say, Femi. Holy Ghost, the light within my— yes, come on! Holy Ghost, the fire in my bones! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! You are the power at work in me. Holy! Holy! Holy! Ooh! Ahh! You and I— one more time!

Hey-ahhh! Yeah!

Come on, you are not there yet tonight. Holy, holy, holy, holy. One more time, one more time. We still One more time. Femi Lazarus. Yeah, are you ready? Say Blessed are thou, Son of David. Blessed are thou, Root of Jesse, the one who sits on the throne. Blessed are thou Son of David. Come on, are you sure you're ready for tonight? Blessed are thou, Lord of Jesus. You are eminently glorious, immaculate. I can go on and My words are not enough. My words are not enough. My vocabulary will fail me. My vocabulary will fail me. For my words are not enough. My vocabulary will fail me. For my words are not enough, my vocabulary is too fail, but permit me to cry. Jesus, lay down our crowns before you. We lay down ourselves before you. We lay down flesh before you. We lay down self before you. We lay down our crown before you. We lay down We are not what to say. We have no words to say. Iba, iba, iba, iba, iba, iba. Eba, eba, for Joshua! I wanna hear that, the church, this evening. Come on! Eba, eba, eba, eba! Eba, eba, eba, eba, eba, eba, eba, eba, eba.

Somebody lift your hands like a funnel and begin to chant his praise from the front to the back, left to the right. Lift those hands to Jesus and just begin to wave it. Appreciate Jesus. Open your mouth and begin to talk to him. Open your mouth and just talk to Jesus. This is not a time to look around. The last day is everybody's day. Come on, lift your voice, lift your voice, lift your voice, lift your voice. This is not the time to look around. In the name of Jesus, squeeze the hands of your neighbor by your left and right. In the next 60 seconds, you are going to oikodomio yourself. The Bible says he that speaketh in tongues What he does is he builds himself. Are you ready? Now hold your neighbor, make sure you hold somebody. Lift your voice and kabash in the Holy Ghost. 60 seconds. Sister, I can't hear you, I can't hear you. Build up something, build up possibilities, build up possibilities. Come on, pastors, you're not exempted. Lift your voice. Build, edify, edify, edify, edify, edify, edify. All over this place, all over this place, lift your voice. 40 more seconds. Stop looking around. Build, build, build, build, build. Tonight is my night. Tonight is my night. Tonight is my night. Tonight is my night. I have believed as here tonight is my night. Agree with the Spirit of God. Lift your voice. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Can you listen to me tonight? There are two things God can do in the life of a man that will shut down battles forever. One of it is results. Result that shuts down attacks. There is a kind of result that comes into your life, your enemies come into partnership. Psalm 86: 17. Show me a token for good. Something can happen tonight that will make your detractors agree that you have a God. You didn't hear what I just said tonight. Show me a testimony. Give me a result that they which hurt me— whether you like it or not, there are people who hate you for nothing. You cannot be too holy to avoid those who hate you. You are going to lift your hands again like someone who is expecting oil, like a Femi Lazarus. Father, give me results that stops warfare. Oh, I don't like the way you are praying, as if you came here to do show. Lift your voice. Give me results. Give me results. Lift your voice one more time. Father, I receive on this mountain, results, results, results.

Bible.

Please pray, Pastor Fred, please pray. Stop looking around, please pray. Resolve, resolve, Jesus, resolve. Result! Result! I begin to command results! I begin to command results! In Jesus' mighty name we pray. When you come to the end of a meeting such as What's this? Drop title. Drop what? Find Jesus. Find Jesus. Find Jesus. Title without result is speed. Psalm 90:14, and thou will satisfy me early. What is the use of building a house at 80? What is the use of doing your album at 69? There is a mystery that shuts down delay and stagnation. It's called the spirit of speed. Speed, speed, speed! When the oil came, there was speed. When the fire came, there was speed. Somebody is tired of stagnation here tonight. Lift your hands one more time. Lift your hands one more time. Shout speed! Lift your voice and begin to command it now. I don't like it that way.

Be violent, be violent! Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! Do justice, do justice!

Oh, my sister, you better pray, you better pray! Young man, pray! You may say, you may need a lifetime if you don't have this mystery supply. Lift your voice, lift your voice, lift your voice! In Jesus' mighty name we pray. There's no time. I heard from a very reliable source, as I went into the compound for my dad's burial, somebody pointed a point at the gate where they buried— they call it the Alunsi of the family— that on the gate, that's, that's the god at the a gate. So if you are coming with your own jazz, as soon as you get there, that's why we neutralize it. Some of you are anointed but cannot make progress. You have been— there is a software occupying the space of God in your life. But you're going to pray a very powerful prayer. Don't assume everything is coincidence. Some people are— some things are remotely controlled. You're going to lift your voice. Visit my foundation. Visit my foundation. Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end. Is there an angry person here tonight? Lift it up, lift it up, lift it up. Come on, we have youth in the house. See the way they're praying. See the way they are praying over there. It is pride to assume everything is okay. See the way they are praying. You don't understand. Come on, lift your voice, lift your voice, my sister. Kabash, kabash, kabash! I like that, I like that. Second, visit my foundation on this altar tonight. Can of pray, can of pray. Don't allow pride to cut you off. Lift your voice, lift your Lift your voice! My sister, pray! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

Lift your voice!

Lift your voice. Somebody lift Rekete bosa.

In Jesus' mighty name we are still praying. I sense so strongly that tonight is a night of harvest. The Bible says if the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth. And you see, tonight is a night where the rain is going to be falling. That The clouds are full. Can you not see them already? But you see, when rain is falling, it matters what you have to receive of the abundance. Hey, if your container is small, what you have is a small harvest. So tonight I want us to pray for hunger. Enlarge your capacity. Hold hands with someone and you are going to pray, pressing in the spirit, and enlarge your capacity. Kano, are you hungry? Go ahead tonight, pray in the Holy Ghost all over this place. I'm not going back the same way, never going back to the way the things used to be. Something must shift tonight. Every mantle that will fall tonight, I am taking a fundamental portion in the name of Jesus. For in Jesus' mighty name we ask to pray. In Jesus' mighty name we ask to pray. You see, men are product of meetings. There is none that God has raised that cannot trace that beginning of that beginning to an encounter. And it is meeting like this. I sense tonight is a night for someone. Hey, it's like you don't understand what we're about to do tonight. You see, You can have treasure and not know that you have treasure. Hey, you can live in a place where God has deposited treasures, spiritual treasures, and you will live like one that does not even have access to it. Pharaoh was going to ask Jacob, he said, how old are you? Because your age is not looking like the things you should be experiencing at this age. You should not be moving from one place to another because of famine. And he said unto him that all the days of my sojourning have been difficult. Why? Because he was not hungry. Remember the case of Jacob and Esau. It was his mother that, that was even pushing him to go and get the blessing. The blessing came but did not meet hunger on ground. Hey, is someone hungry here tonight? Can no Are you hungry? You're not shouting like one that is hungry. God has brought fathers in the land, people that have spent years trapping weight, trapping mantles and encounters in the spirit. And tonight is a night where we bring Femi Lazarus in, we honor them for them to pour out. Hey, is someone getting what I'm saying? I want you to lift your voice like it's no man's business and cry, Father, tonight Tonight, let something transgenerational come upon my life. Now lift your voice and pray. Let something transgenerational, something I will make reference to from years to come, that on this day 2025, there was a shift, a shift I will never recover from. Oh, come on, lift your voice and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. My hunger is empty. I am not a waster. I am not a waster. Oh yes, I see what you are doing. My vessel, my vessel is prepared. Come on, lift your voice and pray. Mantles have been given to the church. Mandates have been given to the church.

Mantles have been given to the church once again for the kings to be born. Oh! For the kings to arise.

Hey, hallelujah! Hey, I am dropping mine tonight. Let that which is my portion come upon me tonight. Mighty prophets will arise, apostles will arise. Hallelujah! We're gonna be praying lastly. You see, the Bible says the expectation of the righteous will not be cut off. It says, for I know the thought that I have towards you, to give you an expected end. It is an end that is expected first. So when there is no expectation, nothing can even drop. And I sense that this is a moment for someone to realign to the point of knowing why you are even here today. And bring an expectation to the Lord tonight. Is there something you want to receive? Is there something you want to receive tonight? I want you to lift your voice and talk to the Lord. You are a pastor here, an evangelist, a prophet. I am telling you, God has deposited richly in this city resources spiritually that tonight you can either take or miss. And sometimes you miss it, it takes another circle again. Hey, lift your voice! Are you really hungry? Are you really hungry? Lift your voice and cry, Father, this is what I want tonight. Do not pass me by. Mande kapa, reteke tekepa. Pass me not in your mercy.

Thank you, Lord. Lift your hands where you stand and just give Jesus worship. Give him praise from the depth of your heart. Let everything within you magnify him. Come on, give him praise. Give Jesus worship. Thank him. You the You deserve the lifting up of our hands, Lord. We thank you, Lord. You are the covenant-keeping God, the God who answers prayers, the one who keeps mercy for generations. Is the Lord God merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundance in goodness and truth.

Give him praise.

Something is about to happen tonight that you have not experienced before, so I'd like for you to be grateful in advance. Be grateful in advance. Be grateful in advance. I said be grateful in advance. Amen. Let me show you a secret, but while we are at that, I like for you to please specially help me honor— we already have them on ground— Daddy and Mommy. Is that the best you can clap?

Daddy and Mommy.

Thank you. Please, please be seated, sir. Thank you. Amen. I want to show you something, and there are two critical things I want to do here, but I want to show you something in advance. Turn your Bibles to the book of Joel, chapter number 1. Joel chapter Number 1, I want you to see something. Um, thank you, Holy Spirit. If you're there, say amen. I don't know why the media likes to use dark screen. I reject the spirit of gloominess. Say amen on my behalf. Amen. Oh yes, whoever is there, God gives you joy, will make you happy. He'll give you a babe before this year ends. But the way these people just get provoked like that— you wipe away your tears in Jesus' name. Let's clap for them, please. Amen. I want to show you a secret, and the reason is because we must be prepared for the encounters we're about to have tonight. Because the way tonight has been planned, the world will come. We want every other thing to get out of the way so we can give room for our daddies. Is that okay? How many of you are ready? Are you ready for that? Yeah, you will soon understand. You know, many of you have graces here that you keep overlooking and talking about what God is doing in Lagos, in Abuja, in Port Harcourt, wherever. You're about to find out what you have. And I, you see, If you are— I came here to collect everything that belongs to you. See, I'm not joking. What did I say? Kano? Say your own now. Did I tell you?

You are too many.

Don't point at me. What did I do? I said I came to collect what belongs to you. Talk to your neighbor. I just tell your neighbor also. The sons of, um, okay, I'll show you that text later, that's 2 Kings 2. But look at this in Joel chapter number 1. We start reading from— let's start reading from verse 8. It's a typology of what's going on in Nigeria now. It's painful, it's heartbreaking, but we are not without hope. Amen. He said, lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Yes, the next verse said, the meat offering and the drink offering is cut out— cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn. Are we seeing happening now? It's happening. We are all mourning. The field is wasted, the land mourneth, the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, and the oil languisheth. Verse 11: Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen! Howl, O ye vinedressers! For the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. Verse 12: The vine is dried up, the fig tree languisheth, the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, and even all the trees of the field are withered. Why? Because joy is withered from the sons of men. Any time, any season, that the people of God, out of despair or whatever reason, stopped raising a joyful sound, the situation goes from bad to worse. It is true that it is with joy that we draw from the wells of salvation. So I want you to rejoice tonight.

Is that the way you rejoice tonight?

Amen. Now many Christians don't know what it means to rejoice. You know what they do? Oh, then you go back to him. What are you doing? Laugh, dance. Jump, shout, scream, laugh. That's how you rejoice.

The sound of a king is amongst us.

Oh, praise God! Oh, praise God! A few years ago, I was so tired of the result I was seeing, so I decided to do what we call shutdown. Shutdown prayers are prayers you, you lock everything, social media, everything. You're We're not coming back to you. Get answers. Shut down. And I began to inquire from the Lord, what's the secret of church growth? I thought God was going to begin to tell me, do outreach like this, do this one like that. He said, number one, joy. Joy. Are you saying we are not increasing? Because we are not rejoicing. He said yes, and he showed me a scripture. I'm going to show you the scripture now. Jeremiah 30:19. Jeremiah 30:19.

Can we read this together?

1, 2, 3, go. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry, and I will multiply them. They shall will not be few, and I will also glorify them.

Amen.

That's the secret. That's the secret. So joy matters to God. Anywhere there's a joyful God is interested. We try to make ourselves look so much like the situation is so big by casting joy out of your heart. You don't get things done that way. Even when you are trusting God here for the fruit of the womb, you still rejoice with joy unspeakable. You rejoice. Let me ask you a question, my friend in Blue, blue shirt right there. Yes, come, my friend. What's your name? Now let's assume I don't know where you live. You live Sabongari or outside Sabongari? Where is that? New Road. So let's assume I say, David, my friend, I want to bless you tonight. So I send you a transfer, an alert. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now hold on a minute. Wait, wait, wait.

I want you to learn something.

I want you guys to learn something. Hold on. Learn this. I called you out, listen, to make an example. Now wait, wait. And not even their rejoicing will make me do it, but yours will make me do it.

Hold on, wait, wait. Come, come, come.

So the moment it became clear I'm going to do it was the moment you rejoiced. So I wasn't going to do anything, I just wanted to give example. Now imagine God is just joking with you that, asu mae, make you a billionaire now. What do you do? Amen. So my friend, hold on a minute. So let's assume I decide I'm going to give you half a million tonight.

Oh, interesting.

He has something to say. What's that? I have two book materials I needed to produce, and we are trusting God for the money to produce them.

Yeah, wow.

So you passed For Daddy Wale, okay, I make it a million. Come, wait. Honestly, I didn't know it will mean something to you, so I'm touched. God bless Bless you. So now hold on, at what point do you rejoice when something's going to be given to you? Is it at the point you touch the money with your hands, or at the point— so listen, the assurance is as powerful as the one talking. We don't rejoice— listen, we don't rejoice when we see it. That's idol worshiping.

We rejoice when he says it.

Are you married? You're not married? When are you getting married? Is it soon? Is it soon? How soon? So I buy a cow when you're getting married too. Hold on, it means something to you. Wow. Wait, can I be honest with you? Can I be honest? Hold on. Now my people are shocked that every time I do this, I'm always surprised that it means something to the person. You know why? Because there are people you do things for and you're wondering, does it mean something to you? So I'm, I'm happy that it means something to you. I'm happy. So yeah, and look at it, you were just there and for some reasons God decided to point you out. So when the time comes, reach out to our pastor in Kano. I've given my promise already, but Wait, the one I promised, they do that one tonight. All right, so that's the— but, um, I'm happy that you are happy. So that's, that's my satisfaction. So I wanted to give the example what is past. The moment God speaks, the proof of faith is that you rejoice at his word. So rejoice tonight. Come on, rejoice!

Amen.

I want you to try it. Those of us who are pastors, when you get back to your church, gather the people and let them just begin to raise a joyful sound. I tell you, out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry. He said, I will multiply you, you will not be few. I will glorify you, you will not be small. Wow, wow! Oh, glory to God! Thank you, Lord Jesus! Is there anyone trusting God for the fruit of the womb here? Rejoice at the reception now.

Thank you, thank you, Lord Jesus.

Amen. I noticed one of the reasons why any church where they don't rejoice, the prophetic gets polluted is because the prophetic needs so much joy to flow freely. And that's why anywhere they don't honor their prophets, they don't receive words. Let's please help me celebrate Daddy as he coming. Amen. There's something about the atmosphere where the one who is receiving knows the weight of the one he's receiving from. There is something about that. Sometimes I meet people and I— just pray for me. What? Just pray for you? And you see nonchalant attitude. So it doesn't matter how heavy you are in the spirit, you are not provoked for something to be released. The disciples of Jesus shot down blind Bartimaeus, but Bible said he shouted the more. Jesus, thou Son of David! Whoever called him that? You know what they were calling him in his own town? The carpenter's son.

So nothing could drop.

The moment he heard that— once mercy connected to David, God can never turn back his eyes from that. He turned back. How can you see more than those who have eyes? Listen, one of the things I'm going to prove to you tonight is that everything it takes to put Kano in world map is in Kano. Talk about the graces on the patriarchs, is here. Talk about apostolic generation on fire, it's here. But may you see it, because even us that are coming are product of disgraces. Don't you get it? But may your eyes see. I said may your eyes see. You know, we are entering a phase that we are coming for this meeting that— listen, thank God for my friends, and that's why this meeting is my friends and brothers. And if you look at it now, from next year now we start having Pastor Olumese also with us. So yes, and before you know it. The land is good. All the graces here, we just come and enjoy fellowship together, and then we can now take what is happening here and take to Jigawa and take to Borno and take to Maiduguri and take everywhere else. So you have no idea how excited we are that the brotherhood is getting in large now. Oh, praise God! Will you rejoice one more time tonight? We— like I said, um, the way The way tonight has been structured, we want Apostle Michael will start ministering next after Minister Moses Akoh so that we can get out of the way. Then we now remain the children and their fathers. Ah, aha. So that we can honor truly those who have labored Bought truly. And we're going to be doing this every blessed year that will come to come. We're going to be going into the creeks, the mission fields, fathers who have been laboring in those areas, even everywhere. Yes. Do you know of stories of men like Paul Gindiri? Yes, yes. Baba Pandan. These are stories not as archives. You've got to understand the waters the Father drink. Find it and you'll be whole. There are graces here. Oh, praise God! Lift your hands as Minister Moses Akor comes up to raise a sound. I don't want you to get it twisted. Don't get carried away. Open your spirit, open your heart to receive of God's word, to receive of impartations, to receive of the blessings, to catch something your life will not recover from. Now listen, I told those who are with me in the hotel, I said there is something about tonight and my destiny. Now no, listen, no, hold on. Now I'm not— it's not— listen, it's not a general statement. There's just something that is missing in my life. I know what I'm saying. That is here for me tonight. So of all— thank God for all the sessions, thank God for everything that's happened, but my destiny clings to what God has said to do. And if I were you, I will lift my hands, ask God to fill me with hunger, open my eyes, help me to receive like never before. Lift your hands where you are and just worship.

Jesus, we honor you. Jesus, we give you glory. Father, we worship you. Just lift your hands and honor the name of the Lord.

Exalt his name.

Jesus, we worship you.

Can we just exalt his name? He's beautiful. He's beautiful. Exalt his name. Exalt his name.

Praise God, praise God. Praise God! Praise— praise God! Amen! Praise your presence on this day of our Praise lives!

Hallelujah! Thank you for being here today to worship him together. We love that we can gather like family at home or wherever it God, may be around us right now because he loves his people so much more than I do even though my house looks very empty without all those beautiful faces smiling back up there from them too.

But amen. Let's sing one last praise song before Pastor Paul comes out again just saying thank you once again.

Come on God, everyone, let me hear some hallelu-jay-hey-yays.

Oh Lord Jesus Christ... Ooh yeah?

That was good.

So what happened after they left praise Jerusalem?

They went down south into Samaria.

And then when they got through Samaritan village, whoa, look how far northward these guys have gone already. Look over toward Judea. It says go west towards Galilee.

Go east across Jordan River Valley. You know why? Because if somebody asks about Israel, tell 'em don't worry about it yet.

The time will come soon enough but not until later tonight.

Okay? All righty. Well done everybody. Hey hey hey yay yea!

Yes sir! Yeah boy!

Glory to Yahweh! Hehe.

Shoutin' glory to Him! God. Can we all sing it together? Sing, praise. Sing it to him. Praise. Praise God, eh, Femi Lazarus. Praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God. One more time, lift your hands. Oh, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God. Come on, praise God, praise God. Amen, amen. Praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, amen. One more time, praise God. Praise him, praise him, praise God, praise God, oh, praise God.

Oh, praise God!

Amen! One more time, lift your hand!

Oh, alleluia! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! One more time!

Amen. We bless you, Lord. You are holy and forever you are God. We bless you, Lord. You are holy and forever you are God. We bless We bless you, Jesus.

You are holy.

Oh, hallelujah. You are holy. Hallelujah! You are— Hallelujah! Lift your hands! We bless you, Lord! We bless you, Lord! You are holy! Oh, we bless you, Jesus!

We bless you! Lift your hands!

Hallelujah! All— hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Yeah! Alleluia! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Jesus!

Listen, hey!

I'll be dancing. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! You are— come on, dance! Hallelujah! I'll be dancing. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Come on, dance to the Lord. Dancing! I'll be dancing. Jesus! Oh, I'll be dancing. Hallelujah! Dance!

Hallelujah! Lift your hands! Hallelujah! Open! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hey! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Come on!

Yahweh! Yahweh! If not for you? That's why I sing Yahweh, Yahweh! I worship You, I worship You!

Say Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh!

Where would I be if not for You? That's why I— I worship, I worship.

Lift your hands. Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh.

I worship, I worship.

Hey, I worship, I worship.

I worship you! I worship—

we're worshipping him! We're worshipping him! We're worshipping him! Worshiping God! Oh yeah, worshippin' Him! Worshipped Him! We'll worship You! Whoa... whoo-ooohh? ...worshiped it!

I will say I was there when He rose up from death! I know that's right! Amen?! Yeah! Hallelujah to Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

Let me hear your voice today if you love this Lord like he loves us! Come on now! If you want more power over darkness then come out loud and shout hallelujah for our King! It doesn't matter what time it is or place you might be at but let Your presence fill every room because His glory has already filled all places! So lift those hands high above your head and begin saying "Hallelujah!" Say hey man! Hey girl! What do ya think about my hairdo!?

Oooo ohhh ooooo ah ha!

That looks good don't it? Yes sir! Woo-hoo! Ha ha! Ahhaaa! Uhuuuh! Whew whewwwwww!!! I worship you.

Oh. I worship you. And I do too, Femi Lazarus.

Lift your hands!

Ate kete? Amo wa nadiya na mboa. Usedo ni namavaa. Akelo walaana nuu leere. Nadiye. Nadiye. Nadiye. Nadiye. Nadiye. Nadiyo wa. Nadiyo wa. Nadiyo wa. Nadiyo wa. Na duwale la. Na duwale la. Ma buwayo. Yeah!

Yeah, oh Yahweh, oh Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh. Sing it out. Worship him.

Jesus, lift your hands.

Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh, Yahweh.

Oh yeah, one more time, lift your voice. Oh Yahweh. About who I be. That's why I sing that way. I worship you. Oh, there is nothing, there is no one like you. Aweema. There is nothing, there is no one like you.

We are bound to go deeper.

There is— I see the heavens Open. There is nothing. Jesus. Jesus. There is nothing like you, Jesus, in heaven and on earth. Lift your hands. There is nothing.

There is nothing. No one. No one.

There is no one like you. I saw heaven open.

Lift your hands, say there is no one like you.

There is nothing Are you ready?

Yeah! There is no one like you, He-oh, He-oh!

No one like you, He-oh, He-oh! There's no one like you, He-oh, He-oh! Enough! Open up your mouth, open up your mouth!

No one, no one Hi, somebody dance with the angels.

I take no time. Is it time? No one like you, no one like you. Oh, no one like, no one like, no one like Come on, open your mouth.

One more time, all over this room.

There is no one like you. There is nothing. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord. For Jesus conquered Satan. Hallelujah. Just the voice the same. For Jesus, can you open your eyes and see Satan falling? Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

Hallelujah, Jesus!

Hallelujah! Are you ready to take it to another level? Raise it up! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

God Jesus! Rejoice! Hallelujah! Alleluia!

For Jesus Christ our Savior— lift your hands! We honor you God! Aleluia! Aleluia! Aleluia! Aleluia! He will not suffer my foot to be moved. I carry your presence everywhere. Hey, lift your hands! He will not, he will not stop us.

He is Lift your hands! One more time!

Lift your hands to heaven and just magnify his name tonight. Come on, do so from the depth of your heart. Just keep blessing him. What an atmosphere! Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your glory.

Thank you for your glory.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for such atmosphere of possibilities. Thank you for doing yet again what only you can do. Thank you, Jesus. For your presence, Lord. We bless your holy name, Jesus. Oh, we bless you, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. What did I teach you about rejoicing just now? Can we rejoice?

Amen.

Amen, amen.

You know, hold on a minute. While I was here the other time, our Daddy Bishop Arafolu walked in. Please, he's a Father, indeed. I know you rejoice when we welcome Daddy Olumese then, but rejoice again now. And before we get into the session we have for them, the servant of God is in the house tonight. Amen. I've said this time and again. Okay, now hold on, wait. Let me tell you this: when it comes to the anointing, there's no familiarity. I shared it. People saw an outbreak in our ministry, but it was his message I was listening to, and he mentioned the word anakazu. That was the subject. I said, whatever this anakazu is, Lord, I enter into it. Got into dangerous fasting and prayer, all right? And before you know it, everything— but that's not just the thing, because you may know about a man's anakazu anointing and not know the heart. When we got to Abuja, all right, he gave us the— you see, there's that screen you see in that first screen. He gave it to us. They go and be using. Made it very easy for us to be able to settle into town. Is my friend and brother But he is more than that. He's a dangerous apostle. Yeah, because I, as I knelt down to pray this afternoon about tonight's session, one of the things I discern about him is that different garments have been pulled on him by the fathers. So he's a man with many layers. And every generation should be blessed to have such a man with a heart of honor and willingness to receive. Join me receive Apostle Michael Oroko.

Come on, Kanu!

Make it louder for Jesus! Somebody shout glory!

Femi Lazarus.

Hallelujah!

Praise the Lord!

What a joy to be here tonight. I'm encouraged seeing your spirits. You are not broken, you are not afraid, you are burning with fire. The enemy cannot break your spirit.

Come on, give the Lord a big shout!

It's such a blessing to see that the more they think they want to invoke terror, the more you become wild and bold. It's a blessing. Hallelujah! I want to honor all the fathers that are here. Thank you so much, our daddies, for your encouragement. We are so blessed. Can we celebrate my friend and brother, Apostle Femi Lazarus? What a vessel, what a voice, what a man! This is a man fashioned by the spirit of love and commitment to Jesus and to the body of Christ. I know him and I see love flow out of him for God's people. There are few people that love God genuinely and do what they do not just because they are ministers, but they do what they do because they are sold out both to Christ and to the body, and it's always a blessing to stand with him. Can we please celebrate God's servant one more time? And see several of my brothers here. Apostle Lawal Suleiman, Pastor Smith, so good to see you. Moses Akon. Can we celebrate all the ministers that are here? I see the PFM Youth President What a blessing! Hallelujah! Can we lift our hands one more time and just honor the Lord this evening? Thank you, Holy Spirit. We have come to draw, we have come to receive. Lord, we ask that you strengthen us in our spirit. We ask that you open our understanding to access deeper things in your realm. We ask that you empower us by your spirit to bring great greater witness in this dark season. We ask that your name alone be glorified. Thank you, Abba Father, because the little one among us is becoming a thousand, and a strong one is becoming a great— a small one is becoming a great nation. Take all the glory, take all the praise, in Jesus' matchless name. Amen. Take your seats in God's presence. Tonight I believe God will do A very quick walk, and I just came to encourage someone. I'm so happy Apostle is a prophet, and I'm so happy that he scheduled this meeting at this time, as though he knows the persecution that the church will suffer at this time. And so it's a blessing to be here in the north under the umbrella of his ministry. Ministry to speak to the body of Christ in this region. Glory to God! I just came to encourage you. In fact, when I was flying into this region, my heart was heavy because of some of the things I've seen in recent times. And I'm so blessed to see that you guys are on fire and your spirit is not broken. This evening, I just want to encourage someone, and I believe that divine intervention will soon visit our, our nation.

Hallelujah!

Praise the Lord! And so I'll be teaching this evening very briefly on a subject I have titled 'He That Is Born of God,' because we have come to a season in our lives where we have to operate as men of the spirit. We have come to a time time where we have to operate as sons of God amongst a crooked and a wicked generation. If we don't activate our spiritual elements and propensities in the spirit in this season, the enemy will overwhelm us. So this is a time where every believer must rise up beyond just being a member of a church to becoming truly a spiritual man. And I believe the foundation of spiritual life is the birth, the rebirth that happens as we encounter Jesus Christ. And so this evening I want to teach us and talk briefly along the lines of our rebirth in the spirit— who we are, how we live, and what we do, especially in times of persecution. Glory to God. In 1 John chapter 5, if you read from verse 1 to verse 4, Paul was speaking to the church— John was speaking to the church, and he began to bring us this emphasis as a cardinal component of our reality in the spirit. And he said, what? Whosoever is born— whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And he said, everyone that loveth him that begat him also loveth him that is begotten of him. Verse 2, he say, by this we know that we love the children of God, he say, when we love God and keep his commandments. Verse 3, he said, for this is the love of God, that we keep his commandment, and that his commandments are not grievous. Verse 4, he say, for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the the world. He said, this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. This is my emphasis. He said, whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.

And he said, this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

When we are born of God, there is a spiritual component that is activated on our inside.

Number one, that component gives us the capacity to live above the world system, the wickedness, the treachery, the manipulation, the iniquity, everything that characterizes the world system. The Bible says if we are born of God, it said something is quickened on our our inside that gives us the capacity to live above the world system. And so we are living in a wicked world, but we are not helpless, we are not vulnerable, we are not at the mercy of the enemy. God knows that a time will come when the world will become too hostile, but he has gone ahead to tell us that embedded in our spirit are dimensions that gives us the capacity to live above the world system. Whatever is obtained in the world does not have the capacity to destroy us. There is something in us that is superior to everything that can be invented either from the world or from the pit of hell. So we are not victims walking on the earth. We are the light of this world. We are the salt of the earth, and nothing the devil thinks can stop it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so very quickly, let me explain to us what it means to be born of God so that everyone who aligns and who identifies as a believer at this time will understand what makes him one. Because this is not just a religious ritual where you become part of a church and you are assumed to be part of the fold. There is a definite spiritual requirement for everyone who says is part of us to be truly identified as part of us and to truly be able to capture and to express what makes us who we are. Because we are not just ordinary, there are supernatural things in our inside. And if we really are what we are, those supernatural things will manifest from us. And thank God the Bible is true and God is not a liar. So if God says it is so, even if our experiences seems to be in the contrary, it does not change the truth of what God says. We would rather rise up into the reality of what God says we are. And God says if we are born of him, he said, we have overcome the world. I prophesy to someone, nothing happening in this world will take you down. Not sin, not manipulation, not wickedness. Anything that is of this world loses the power to take you down. You will live above the world and your life will demonstrate the faithful the fullness of God. Because you are like the wind, you are like the wind. The Bible said they do not list how you come or how you go. When they are ahead, you'll be behind. When they are behind, you'll be ahead. There is nothing they will do that will hedge you in. Somehow, somehow you will be above them. Somehow, somehow their strategies will fail when it comes to you because God has you out, that you are above the world. In the name of Jesus, rise up above the world system. Whoever is born of God overcomes the world. The rise of the overcomers is now a generation that the enemy will fail in every attempt to annihilate. Beyele is about to arise. A point will come when they hear about us, terror will hit them because they will know that everything fashioned against us will lose the power to hurt us and every evil planned against us will backfire on them because that time, that season, that generation is here and I believe so strongly that you are the first fruit of that generation. Please sit down. What does it mean to be born of God? Number one, to be born of God is to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. If you cannot believe believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Messenger of God that brings God's dimensions to humanity, and if you do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, you cannot be born of God. You need to understand why this revelation is coined in this manner. In 1 John 5:1, where we just read, he said, whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, he is born of God. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, he said, that one is born of God. If you study Matthew chapter 16, when Jesus was asking Peter and the disciples, who do men say I, the Son of Man, I am. Peter answered, he said, you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Immediately Jesus said, flesh and blood has not beget this revelation. He said, my Father has given birth to this revelation. So what Jesus was saying is that the moment you come into the circumference of the revelation, that Jesus is the Christ and that is the Son of God, you have left the womb of flesh. You have been born of the womb of the Spirit. And you ask yourself, why is it so? Why is it important? Because as the Christ, you are affirming that the dimensions of the Spirit has come to the earth. You are affirming that the dimensions of heaven has come to the earth. Because who is the Christ? The Christ is the Mashiach. The Mashiach is the messenger of God that brings the dimensions of the heavens into the earth realm. So anybody who says Jesus is the Christ is affirming that it is possible for heaven to be on the earth. He is affirming that it is possible for spirit to superimpose into flesh. He is affirming that it's possible for that which is spiritual to be hosted in the flesh. So that revelation is you agreeing that spiritual dimensions can be hosted in bodily dimensions. Anybody who does not believe that spiritual dimensions can be hosted in bodily dimensions cannot be born of God, because to be born of God means you are an offspring of God. It means you are not just flesh of flesh. It means now divinity manifests through humanity. It means now God can be lived out of a man. But for you to ever believe that is possible, you have to first of all agree that spirit can come to flesh, that heaven can come to earth. And the summation of that revelation is that when you see Jesus, you call him the Christ. This is the one who brought heaven to earth. This is the one who brought spirit amongst men. And if it is possible with him, then it can be possible with me. The second thing that makes that revelation cogent in this matter is that you call him the Son of God. Because if you don't see him as the Son of God, how can you be the Son of God? You have to see him as being the offspring of the Father to be able to see yourself possibly to be the offspring of the Father. So as the Christ, you are agreeing with God that that which is spirit can be hosted in the body. As the Son of God, you are agreeing with God that human vessels can be offsprings of spirits. That possibility exists. Now, there are religions of the world today who ask questions like, God does not have a wife, how can he have a son? So they don't believe that it is possible that spiritual things can be hosted in bodily form. They don't believe that a spirit can give birth to a bodily offspring. That's why no matter what they do, they cannot be children of God. At best, they'll be religious people. But for us, we have migrated from religion. We have come to accept that heaven can be trapped on earth. We have come to accept that a spirit can give birth to a bodily figure. We have come to accept that God does not need a wife to have a child. Take for instance, an amoeba does not need to marry to give birth. So how can you limit God to marriage to have a child? Amoeba, that is at the lowest level of organisms, does not need a wife. Is it the Almighty that will be limited to a wife to have a child? So if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, then you too can be the Son of God. If you believe that spirit can be hosted in flesh in Christ, then you too, although you are human, you can host spirit. The moment that understanding hits you, the Bible said the womb of the spirit opens and you become an offspring of God. So a man who is born of God is actually a carrier of heaven on earth. This is why those who are born of God overcome the world. It means they are living in an economy that is superior to the earth realm. A man who is born again, who is born of God, who is a child of God, is actually a vessel that carries divinity around. That means anywhere you get to, it's not just a man that came, God came, because you are now a carrier of God. You are a container that host God. This revelation is important because we are in a season where men are vulnerable. This is why you cannot just be a man. When we look at you, your dimensions must exceed what we see. There must be a divine dimension on your inside. Every one of us must become a mobile carrier of divinity. This is what God has made us, and this is why of many revelations in scripture, one that stands out is that you are born of God, is that you are a child of God, is that you are not just a child of a man, you are a child of God. And you are a child of God because you believe that God has brought his dimension to men. You are a child of God because you believe that men can host God, and that all of that model was first of all perfected in Christ, and everyone who believes it in Christ becomes a replica of that model. That's why the Bible said, him that he foreknew, the same he predestinated to be called and to be conformed to the image of the Son. So the moment you see the Son in that likeness, you too are fashioned into that likeness. So to be born of God is to believe that Jesus is the Christ and that is the Son of the Living God. So he becomes the first amongst many brethren. Number 2, what does it mean to be born of God? It means to be born of the Spirit. Because if you just believe, it may just be a theoretical reality. God is not just dealing with a fact in the spirit, because if there is no spiritual element to it, it may just be that God declared you to be his son. But you see, what we are dealing with here is beyond God just making a declaration. Now, if God declared you to be his son, that would have been legitimate enough because he has the authority to so do. But God is not just declaring us to be his sons. No, after this legal reality was captured, God now went further to make it experiential. So when a man believes that Jesus is the Son of God and that he is is the Christ. What God does is that in addition to the proclamation that on the strength of this belief you are now the Son of God, God now sends his Spirit into you because there is an experiential and organic aspect that God truly is now on your inside. So the second thing that makes for those who are born of God is that the Spirit of God enters into them crying, Abba, Father. So in Romans John 8:15, the Bible said the Spirit of God entered every one of us that believe that Jesus is Christ, every one of us that called Jesus the Son of God. He said the Holy Ghost was deposited on our inside. So the Holy Ghost is actually the witness and the proof that we are children of God, because from our inside the Holy Ghost cries, Abba, Father, that we are no strangers. We were not just adopted into the family of God, that in reality, that which is of God, that which made God God, has been deposited on our inside. So when you tear us open, you will not just find lungs, liver, blood. When you tear us open and you get deep enough to access our spirit, you are going to find God hiding there. Because the Bible said, him that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. So when when we say we are born of God, it's not just a theoretical jargon, it is an experiential reality. Because right now, God lives on our inside. God dwells on our inside. God inhabits on our inside. We have become the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is why wherever we go, we cannot be intimidated, because when we show up, we are like God's embassy. We bring God to the scene. We bring his dimension to the scene. That is who we are. And until we are awakened to this reality, the world will keep subduing us. The reason why the world will lose its ability to subdue us is that now we know who we are.

We know that we carry God.

We know that when we show up, God shows up. We are not just praying some religious prayer, crying for God to help us. We are now the carriers of God. We are the extension of heaven on earth. We are the extension of divinity to of humankind. When we step out, God steps out. There is a vital connection between us and God. This is why the Bible calls us the children of God. We believe that Jesus is the Christ. We believe that he's the Son of God. On the strength of that belief, we affirm that spiritual things can be hosted in bodily form. And it was done in Christ, so it can be done in us. On the strength of that belief, the Holy Ghost was put on our inside as an affirmation that our belief is not theology, that is a spiritual reality. And so we became children of God. Now that we are children of God, the second thing is how do we live as those who are born of God? Because there are those who don't understand, they are are the biggest victims. But there are those who understand, but they don't live according to that truth. It's not— it's bad for you not to understand, but even when you understand, it's not enough. Having understood, there is now a code of life. There's a way goats live, there's a way snakes live, there's a way cockroaches live. Have you seen cockroaches before? They only come to dark places. They are nocturnal. That means they understand that their reality, the power, the glory, the essence of their reality is, is animated when they are in the dark. So when the cockroach lives in the dark, you will hardly outsmart it. Have you found snakes? Snakes hide in rough areas, tight corners, and bushy environments because they understand that based on their nature, based on who they are, their environment is disadvantage. So there is a way snakes live. Snakes don't live like cockroaches, and cockroaches don't live like eagles. Even if they choose to, they can't. They would rather make themselves to be disadvantaged. So if you will live as one born of God and manifest the glory and the power of God, there is a prescribed code for your existence. And so quickly, I want to show you how those who are born of God live. Listen, a time has come when our existence has to become a wonder. I'm telling you, if it doesn't become a wonder, we will be victims, casualties of war. And political help alone can't suffice. Go and read about the early church. I know God can use anything and anybody to deliver his people, but his people first of all must live as his people. Otherwise, before help comes, they may die. There is a way to live, and many of us must live like that. Do you know why most— some of us have become victims? Because very few are living like that. And so because we don't have a quorum of many who live like that, the witness is not complete. And so they isolate the few who are living like that and victimize them. But the time has come where beyond the pulpit, every church member is a son of God. He manifests as a child of God so that you don't know— you know, when they came to arrest Jesus, they needed a sign because everybody was like Christ. You couldn't enter the camp and say, this is he. Anyone you saw was like him. They were all living in that order. They were all living in dimension. So it was difficult for anyone to be vulnerable. That time has come again, that all of us will function as people born of God, as children of the Most High God. How do such people live? I give you 7 ways. Number 1, they live above sin. I'm sorry, showing you the things that if we don't do as a people, some of us will become victims. You know, there are inheritances that are only activated when it becomes the reality of the body. There are dimensions that you only see when certain inherit— when certain operation become the reality of the body. If the body does not embrace it there are things that cannot happen. For instance, no matter how powerful you are as an individual today, there is still a level of warfare you'll be a victim in, because there are certain protections that come to the church when we are united. And so when you see individuals isolated and killed, it's not because they are weak, it's because the church has not entered certain dimensions. There is a dimension of unity that if the church enters, there is a protective layer that come upon the church, because Jesus said a house divided against itself can't stand, no matter the warriors that are in that house. So there is a protective layer that the church will only enjoy when the church becomes united. In the same way, there are dimensions we will enjoy when we call sin sin. This generation where we are cutting and managing and permitting sin and accommodating Accepting sin, we will make ourselves vulnerable. Do you know in certain quarters of the body of Christ today, they say it doesn't matter what you do with your body, that is your spirit that is saved? And a large number of Christians today have— are living in sin and they have a justification for it. They say righteousness is your nature, it has nothing to do with what you do. My God. And so sin has become part of our reality. Doctrines have been created to accommodate sin. So when you see certain things happen to the body of Christ, before you say, God, where are you? Ask God, what are the Christians doing and who are they? Until we come into our full reality, there are certain dimensions that will be withheld. And one of the dimensions that we will see is the dimension of overcoming the world. But for us to see that dimension, we must know that we are born of God. And if truly we are born of God, We must live above sin. At least let us call sin sin and condemn it. It is taking too much from us when we accommodate sin. When we create doctrines to accommodate sin, we will become casualties of war. This is why those who are born of God are being treated like animals, because there is this sin in the camp. Go read about the two children of Israel. Israel defeated Jericho, and suddenly a tiny nation called Ai wanted to destroy them because one man brought sin into the camp. People who are born of God will become victims unless all of us agree that sin is sin. The Bible said in 1 John 3:9, whosoever is born of God does not commit sin. He said, for The seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he's born of God. Now, this is the spiritual aspect. Your soul, your spirit is sealed by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:13 confirms this, that when you were born of God, the Holy Spirit sealed your spirit from corruption. But it doesn't stop there. You now go to verse 10, you know, say, little children, don't let anybody deceive you. Him that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous. So it begins first of all with the spirit that the Holy Ghost has circumcised, has preserved and protected. But God expects it to become your lifestyle. So those who are born again must make up their mind and live righteous. We must know that we are expected to live above sin. In 1 John 5:18, he said, we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself. He keepeth himself. He said that the wicked one touch him not. So if we don't stop sin, we will not be able to keep ourselves from the wicked one touching us. The wicked one will be able to touch us when we accommodate sin. It's He said he that is born of God does not sin. He keepeth himself, and then the wicked one does not touch him. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying those who have been attacked are sinners. I am saying that we have given accommodation to sin still in the body, and so there are things that we are vulnerable to. A time has come when people of righteousness must cry against sin. If we will cry against sin, you will see the level of supernatural dimensions that will be manifested among us. People will bilocate naturally when they are caught. They will bilocate. You will see strange things. See, if you read the Bible, you see terrible things in righteousness. Do you know that the constellations fight to defend the body? When Deborah went to war, the Bible said the stars fought from their courses. That means even the constellation can fight with us. Do you know that angels have thrown stones to fight for the church in the Bible? Anything can become a weapon. But why is the wicked man able to touch us? A generation must rise and say no to sin. This must become the day of the Puritans. This generation, one thing we must advocate for is that the rise of the Puritans must begin now. Not that we have Christians who are in corridors of power and they are accommodating iniquity and betraying the body. We have pastors who are accommodating iniquity and betraying betraying the body. We have businessmen who are accommodating iniquity and betraying the body, and nobody can stand and say, restore. This is why you discover that it looks as if we who should be a wonder, we are wondering why we are where we are. A generation must rise. Number 2, how do those who are born of God live? They don't just live above sin, they make practice of righteousness. They practice it. They practice. Righteousness is taught and righteousness is practiced. We practice righteousness. That's how we live. We make it a practice. In 1 John 2:29, the Bible said, if you know that he is righteous, he say, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born of him. We do it. We do righteousness. We teach righteousness, we practice righteousness. These are some of the insurance systems that God has given us as the body of Christ. He said they which receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, he said they reign in life. But you see, that gift must be practiced. If we don't practice righteousness, you will be amazed. See, there is too much iniquity in the camp. People are questioning God everywhere. Is God real? God, where are you? God is able to defend his name. An intervention will soon come. But listen, we must do homekeeping. We must redress the camp. We must redress the camp for the visitation that we are praying for. We must redress the camp for the visitation that we expect. I love the Christianity in the North, and I wish every part of Nigeria will have this quality of Christianity. You know, somehow persecution makes you guys stay on your toe and you pursue God genuinely. I wish every other part of this country would practice what you practice. You will be shocked the way the body of Christ will be so impregnable to all of the opposition. Sons of Satan. But it's so unfortunate, it's so unfortunate. Why we cry? We must do homekeeping. Number 3, we must love, and love genuinely. This is a generation where competition has taken over. If you see the hatred that we have for one another— see, as you are seated here, somebody is hoping for you to die. And if you don't die, if you make a mistake, maybe you are misjudged. They didn't get your intention, but they perceive it as a mistake. Nobody will call you. You know where all of them will start from? Is to destroy your image in a public space where you can't recover, even if Mercy says no. We love it when We fall, we love it when we are destroyed. And you are wondering why can't certain powers come to the church? Who will host it? Is it the man that is hoping for everybody who is not in agreement with him to be destroyed that God will give that power? Imagine if we have an Elijah today who can stand publicly and say before God, who might stand, there shall be no rain. Imagine Even if we had such powers today, do you know what that power will be meant for? One-third of the church will die of curses because if you dare that man, he will never forgive you. This is why we are where we are. There's no love. Those who are born of God, we live in love. See, you can err. My job is to reach out to you so that you don't end up in the pit. And even when you don't get me, I pray for you. What do I gain if one soldier is destroyed? Oh my God, when I see the way we love tearing ourselves apart and I ask questions— these people you are talking about, have you called them? Have you called somebody who know them? Have you taken this matter to the altar? I'm not saying we should accommodate error. That's why I began by saying let's call sin sin. But listen, when somebody falls, how dare you talk to that person or about that person when you have not knelt down for that person? So when you say things are happening, before we begin to challenge God, let's check ourselves. People enjoy to hear stories of failure much more than the gospel. So ministers gather and they discuss for 3 hours about somebody who is failing and why he will continue to fail, and they laugh and they are excited about it. Meanwhile, this should be gatekeepers, men that carry authority, that when two of them speak, a whole region should be protected. But you wonder why we are where we are. There is no love in the camp. The Bible said in 1 John 4:7, beloved, let us love one another. He said, for love is of God and Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. One of the signs that we are born of God is that we love. One of the signs that we know God is that we love. See, I see a lot of prayer. Oh, this is a generation where prayer has become drama. It's like the rise of the Pharisees have returned to this generation. Prayer is even more, more about drama now than prayer itself. But ask yourself, What are the prayers producing? Because the prayers will be powerless if the heart is wrong. If we can't love ourselves, what prayer are we praying? This is why you see things happen and it looks like— see, people are watching in this country, people are praying, people are fasting, but until these things are put in place, we will exert a lot of spiritual energy and have little or no return. Love must be emphasized again. Can you love somebody out of hell? Can you love somebody out of failure? Can you love somebody out of error? Can you love somebody until he stands and he's restored? Or you will be part of those who stone people to death. Those who are born of God, who carry heaven on earth, their code of life is love. Their code of life is righteousness. And number 3, these people, they live an obedient life to the Holy Spirit. The time has come for every one of us to know the Holy Spirit personally as a guide. He said, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, he said, they are. Romans 8:14, they are the sons of God, as many as are led. As many as are led. See, the time has come where you take steps because you're led, you move because you're led. This is not a season where emotions dictate for you. See, it has become so sensitive that even going to the market sometimes you have to be led. Before making friends, you have to be led. Before you see somebody and bring him to your house and call him your brother, you have to be led. I've seen wickedness on earth in recent times. I didn't believe humanity had that propensity. I watched a video 3 days ago and I said, thank God I'm not God. God. Oh my Jesus, I saw one person killed 9 people in less than 5 minutes. One person carried something like an iron and was hitting people on the head. In less than 5 minutes, one person killed 9 people. Can even a lion can achieve that feat? A lion that eats to eat kill to eat. This one's kill and throw away. You are living in that kind of world. You will meet a stranger on the road and tomorrow he's your friend. You are living in that kind of world. You want to enter business with somebody and you don't hear the Holy Spirit. You are living in this kind of evil generation and you are wandering about without being led. He said the step of the righteous, they are ordered by the Lord. Listen, build your sensitivity. Those who are born of God, they are led of the Spirit. That generation of traveling and calling one intercessor, pray for me, is over. Before you step out, check. I'm telling you, check, check, check. Even if it's a 30-minute journey, check. Check. There are wicked men setting ambushes everywhere. Check before you bring somebody to your house. Check. In 3 months, your husband might become a fornicator because you brought a Jezebel to your house. Before you bring somebody to your house, leave your children. Check before you allow your driver carry your children to school without anybody the following. Check. A driver in Makodi took 4 children of one family that he was going to school. Guess what happened? He sold them for peanuts. When they discovered after a few days, they were butchered. You can't live off guard now, not in this generation. Check. Those who are men of God, they are led of the Spirit. Don't let emotion move you. See, there are times when God leads you, even those who are your friends will be affected. I was supposed to go for a meeting recently, prepared to go, and God said don't move. I called the brother and said, sorry, this is what God said, I shouldn't come, I can't come. He was offended, I didn't go. You will die. People will say, oh, this great voice, we have lost him. 2 weeks, everybody forgets. Your destiny will be handed over to another person. I didn't go. This is not wickedness. This is called security strategy. Preservation. There are times when God sends you there to fight. There are other times God withdraws you from there. He's the one who controls the algorithm. Those who are born of God, they are led of God. Build your sensitivity. If worship builds your discernment, worship. If prayer builds your discernment, pray. If meditation builds your discernment, meditate. Because there are those who didn't live to regret. You must be led. You must be led. You must be led. Number 4, those who are born of God, they walk in the light. That means scripture is their philosophy. 1 John 1:7, Ephesians 5:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:5. They are people of light. In 1 Thessalonians 5:5, he say you are the children of the light. We were born of light and we are children of the light. Ephesians 5:8, the Bible said you were sometimes darkness, he said, but now you are the light of the world. Walk as children of light. See, there are many philosophies online, there are many ideologies on the internet. Don't be Don't be persuaded by them. Anything you want to do, check scriptures. Let there be a basis in the Bible. This is how you live as an overcomer. It's not a cliché, it has protocols. It's a reality, but it has protocols. See, there are many people today who take decisions, there is no scriptural basis for the decision. They had somebody share a story, they had another person say something, and they just run with it as if their lives are worthless. As I am like this, any step I take, there are 2, 3, 4, 5 scriptures that I am convinced on their interpretation that determines it. Every one of us can become invincible, but we must apply the protocol: reject sin, practice righteousness, walk in love, be led by the spirit and live by the light of the scripture. We are not vulnerable, sir. We are not victims. We are just violating codes of conduct. There are codes. There are codes. Let it not look as if our God has neglected us. These people know we have a God. They know. When they took the Ark of the Covenant and placed in the temple of Dagon, when gods fought, they knew which one was true God. They know. But we have not proven that we are actually the children of this God. See, when— see, these things I'm telling you, I'm learning them. And God put it in my heart to tell you, see, some of us will rise. It will not just be we have messages to preach in church. You will enter certain places because you came there. Weapons will fail, strategies will fail. You think these people run empty? They have sorcerers that tell them when to strike. They don't just have guns. They have sorcerers. When they go out, they consult with the moon, they consult with the stars. That's what is going on. A time will come when two of us will enter a territory. When they come out, they'll discover their strategy is wrong. They will run into their death. And when it happens repeatedly, the terror will turn back. What they want to project will fire on them. I'm telling you, they will— they will cock their weapons, the weapons will not work. You don't know, some of you will stand, they will shoot, it won't enter. I'm telling you, they will know that it's a battle of gods. Things will begin to go wrong with them. Suddenly their funding will be cut off. Suddenly their manipulation will fail. You know, when these things happen, they hide behind poly— hide behind government. All the stories they tell, they will be exposed. It will become clear, and then suddenly help will come from everywhere. They won't be able to understand. It will be like they are attacked on every side. But there's a protocol. There's a protocol. This is how God has fought for his people from time immemorial. We walk in the light because we are the children of the light. We are the children of the light. And finally, those who are born of God, they guard themselves from the evil one. They guard themselves first by living holy, secondly by living with wisdom. The Bible said said we should be as wise as serpents and we should be as humble as doves. Our zeal is coordinated, our actions are programmed. You must be systematic and methodic. Don't expose yourself. We must be guarded by codes of wisdom because we have the mind of Christ, and so we judge all things. We to judge all things. You must have strategic approach to life, from networks of friends to all that lifestyle. Some people don't have wisdom. Their whole life is on the internet. There are people today that you can tell the color of the wall of their bedroom on the internet. You can draw their whole house online because everything is in the public. All their movements are predictable. This is not the time to live like that. Everything they have is in public glare. No, sir, you don't live like that. Strategic living. Everything you push out there should have a purpose. You want to achieve something. If I have to do a podcast, there is an intention behind it. If I have to show you where I'm going to, there's an intention behind it. If I have to show what I have. There is an intention behind it. It's a time of strategic living. This is when you have to deploy the mind of Christ. Don't be foolish. I have codes that regulate me. For example, as I am now, you can't just invite me and say my birthday is tomorrow.

I'm not coming.

Don't attend mine. Oh, you don't get what we are saying here. People say they are doing birthdays in their palace and all strangers are invited, and some people are recording the house. Say it's birthday. The people I go for their birthday, they come for mine. They are a handful because I'm not I'm not out here to celebrate. I'm a man on a mission. There are people that sometimes in a day they spend 20,000 making calls, telling people everything they didn't ask them for. And you're wondering what's going on in this world of Strategy. We have people's dress code is a message. Handshake is a message. How people look at you is a message. This world, you are going to live and be taken unaware? No, sir. You must function with wisdom. If you don't have it, pray for it. Study to learn it. Follow those who have it and copy from them. There is a code. With which those who are born of God function. I know when I was coming for this meeting, all you were expecting is revival fire, prayer, prayer. Okaasa, you have been praying, learn wisdom. Do you know there are people today, if they are in trouble and they scroll through that their phone book, that they end, they make 20, 30 calls every day, they don't have one person to call to help them. Whether spiritual trouble, financial trouble, they don't have anybody on that phone book that they won't rest and they are making calls. Some people, that their page that they sit on from morning to night uploading pictures of their new dress, eyelashes, shoe, watch— if they have a problem and they post it on that page, nobody will help. In a world like this. This is a world where if you say SOS, 20 people shouldn't sleep because of how you live your life. Even if it's midnight, there are people who should be willing to stand up and go out of their way until you receive intervention. This is the time we are living in. This should be a Season where if you have lack, it shouldn't take you 30 minutes for help to come because of investment. Relationship is investment unless you are pouring yourself on the gospel. Friendship is no longer I like you. I like you has killed some people. Should I stop here? We are born of God. We must understand how gods live so that we can release the powers of divinity. We have a code, we have a way of life. Now, when these people are persecuted, what do they do? This is where I round up. When they are persecuted, number one, they rejoice. You know why? Because they tell the enemy You can't terrorize us. This battle is a battle of propaganda. You know what the enemy wants to do? He wants to show you terror so that before he comes, you are broken, so that when you hear his name, you tremble, and then that will help him save his arsenal and defeat you even without fighting further. This is why, for those of us who have born of God, we tell the enemy you can't break our spirits. So in the face of persecution, we don't hide, we rejoice. That's why I was so blessed when I walked in here in Kano and you people are shouting with joy. See, the enemy are pained. They are pained And they are offended that you are in Kano and you are not hiding. See, if I didn't come here, I wouldn't know. In my head, I was thinking the streets are empty. In my head, I was thinking people are in hiding. I thought some of you will come here in hijab, even afraid of dressing well. But when I I came and I saw people. Come on, come on, come on, come on!

You can't break our spirit.

See what the Bible said in Acts 5:41, when they beat the disciples of Jesus, the Bible said they departed from the presence of the council rejoicing. You don't rejoice when you are beaten unless you are making a statement. You are making a statement that you can't be broken. Those who you killed, they are all— they are called martyrs. We trust God for intervention until tomorrow, we do. But in case anyone falls, we know he fell sending us a message that don't back down. Don't back down, don't back down, don't back down. That's the message they sent to us. And that's why those of us who are living, we live today with the consciousness of martyrdom. Paul said, I die daily. You can't kill a dead man. You tell the enemy, you can't break my spirit. If you like, put all the videos on the internet. If you like, show all the guns, show all the rifles, show all the The Church of Jesus is marching on. You think we will leave the North? No, sir, we are not leaving the North. Till tomorrow, missionaries are still coming to the North because the Church is marching on. We are not backing down. We will remain here. That's the spirit. Oh my God! Take dressing from Israel. When they attack them, they stand their ground. They tell the enemy, you can't break us. I listen to the Prime Minister, he was talking at the United Nations. You know what he said? He said, we are the eternal people. He said, many kingdoms have fought us, they have perished, we have remained. We will not finish, we will not break, we will not back down. Our spirits are on fire. We continue to Come on, he said rejoice in the face of persecution. Don't find yourself terrorized, afraid, wanting to run. Listen, listen, if I'm caught today, I may cry, I may be afraid, but you see, it doesn't stop the church from moving on. It doesn't stop. The people who fell, even their fall was a testimony. If we cry and we back down to terror, we disappointed them. Their death would have been in vain. We will stand until intervention comes. Until intervention comes, we will stand. Don't let anything break your spirit. Paul said, for me to die is gain, for me to live is Christ. So everyone is an advantage. Refuse to be broken. I'm so happy that those of you in the north, you are even more on fire than most of us in the middle, in the west, and in the east. You don't know what pains these people. They are pained that you people We are not running away. You know what they expect? They expect that there will be gross migration. Let it be on the news that 2,000 people, 20,000 people have carried their bags, they are running away from Kano. When they see you remain, when they see you preaching, when they see you conducting programs, they are wondering, are these people crazy? We are crazy for Christ. We are mad for our God. God. We are mad for our God. That's why we came to encourage you. 4 years ago, I went to preach in Meduguri. They were shocked. They say, you came? We didn't expect you to come. I said, why won't I come? If you are living here for Christ, is it me that is visiting that won't come? God forbid. We will go everywhere that is terror, that there is terror, because we tell the enemy, you can't break our spirit. I've been to Pakistan to preach. 2 weeks ago I was in Saudi Arabia. We will keep going. I came to encourage you, don't back down. When anyone falls, celebrate him, and let's give them names. They are warriors of Christ, they are gallant warriors. Let's celebrate who fell. Don't project it in fear. Oh, another one has been killed. And no, no, no, that's not the statement. Another warrior has witnessed for Christ. Another one has stood for Christ. It's a proof that we believe in truth. We don't kill people to believe in what we believe, but we don't back down when we are killed. We believe what we believe beyond Yes, the Bible say rejoice when men persecute you for the sake of Christ. Rejoice. That's what you do. That's the first thing you do in crisis. That's the first thing you do in persecution. And I'm so excited that you are doing it so well. You are doing it so well. You are doing it so well. I almost I was advised, my brother, to postpone this meeting. But when I discovered himself was born and brought up in Kano, and he has been part of the persecution all his life, and he has fought for this persecution, fought against it all his life, I knew a warrior was marching. And so we came to stand with you in the name of Jesus. Your testimony will cripple the enemy. The terror they intend to send to you, you are Sending it back with your actions. Can you imagine the number of people that came out for this meeting? How did you dare come out? Why were you not afraid? It means there's a spirit at work in you. No, no, no, this is not normal. There's a spirit at work in you, and in the name of Jesus, very soon they will see the the vengeance of that spirit. Number 2, please sit down for a moment. When you are persecuted— now don't get me wrong, I will show you about intervention and judgment, but there are protocols. The first thing is to rejoice. The second thing is to endure. Even when you are almost breaking, tell yourself, I won't break. Tell yourself, I won't back down. I won't let the enemy see my, my tears. They are not worth my tears. I won't gratify their wickedness by crying. I will stand my ground. This is where endurance coming. See the way the pastor— the Bible puts it in 2 James 4:12, he say, 'Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution.' But in 1 Peter 2:20, he say, 'If when you do well you suffer,' he say, 'take it patiently and accept it.' When you are suffering for Christ, when you are suffering for truth, Peter said, 'Stand your ground.' They need to let— they need to know that your resolve is stronger than their evil. They need to know it. Let it be a message. Let it be a message. Because the whole concept of terrorism is to, through wickedness and propaganda, create fear so that power is willingly handed to the wicked. But when you stand your ground, a point point will come they will know you are not a priest. They will become afraid what it is that powers you. And this is my prayer for the church in the north, that men that will rejoice in persecution until their enemies are intimidated, knowing fully well that they cannot be broken. Men that will stand their ground and not back down. Number 3, when you are persecuted, persecuted, don't keep quiet. Continue preaching. Continue, continue in declaring Christ as Lord. That's what they hate. They hate the fact that you are propagating Christ as Lord. The real battle is the battle of beliefs and convictions. They want to stop you. When they persecuted the early They say, never preach in that name again. Why are they persecuting you? It's because you're a Christian. It's because you represent Christ. And so when they want to shut you up, don't keep quiet. See, this is a season where everybody should become a preacher. Preach on your platform, preach everywhere you go, stand for Jesus. This is what torments the enemy, and this is scriptural. In Acts 4:18-20, when they caught them and were trying to intimidate them, you know what they said? They said, we cannot but speak what we have seen and heard. We cannot but speak. That's what the apostles told the Sanhedrin. If it is to stop this thing we are saying, we will never stop it. We cannot but preach what we have seen and heard. I have seen the love of God. I have touched the mercy of God. I cannot but preach it. In the early church, they threw them into arenas. Wild beasts tore them apart. They continued preaching. I read the story of a woman called Perpetua and her slave girl Felicity. She was pregnant. They kept her until she gave birth. The next day after childbirth, a woman that just gave birth, took them to the arena and brought the lion out to tear them. And they gave them option whether they would deny Jesus and keep quiet or continue in the face of death. They said they will never change their minds. They arrested Polycarp, the disciple of John the Beloved, at 82. He said, how can I deny? All my life I've known him. What will I do if I deny him? What is life? He tormented the tormentors that even when they invoked terror, they didn't keep quiet. They couldn't kill their conviction. He destroyed the tormentor because they kept preaching even unto the dead. One prayer I pray to the Lord— I've not been there, so I don't know what I'll do— but one prayer I pray to the Lord is if I will end up as a martyr, even at last moment, give me strength to stand for you. This is how the church came here. The church didn't fly on beds of roses. We came through diverse persecutions, but the church kept marching on. Preach it, declare Christ, speak the values of the kingdom. Don't cower. Terror wants you to shut up, but refuse to be quiet. Speak the truth and continue to speak it. Number 4, commit your prayers to God who vindicates and who judges, because we will not endure forever. A time comes when we cry to our God. The Bible say, oh Lord, to whom belongeth judgment? Judgment, vengeance. He says, show thyself. We have come to that point where we are crying, oh Lord, to whom belongeth vengeance, show thyself. We have been bold, we have preached, we have endured, but this is the time for intervention. All kinds of intervention possible, we are open to receiving them. Intervention must come now. In Psalm 31:5, the Bible told us what Jesus said, and he reiterated it on the cross: Into thy hands I commend my spirit. So we commit ourselves to God, not just to protect, but to rot vengeance upon the wicked. Because Romans 12:19, God God said, 'Vengeance is mine.' The time has come where the wicked must pay for their wickedness. The time has come where the murderer must taste of the cup of murder, the blood of murder. The time has come where the thief must pay sevenfold. This is why this is no longer the time to be quiet. We cry and we speak to truth to power, because there must be a change. This is the hour. If the church is timid at this time, the church will be marginalized. And God is raising voices, people who know how to cry to the heavens, both as congregations as individuals, for God to stretch forth his hand of judgment, because wickedness cannot continue forever. So if you are here now and you are saying, oh, let's, let's, let's forgive them, we forgive them, but they must stop. We don't hold it against them, but they must stop. So let's read Psalm 109 so that I will stop my preaching here and we'll give room to prayer. Can we have Psalm 109 from verse 1 to 11? This is not me talking. I forgive them. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise. I will read it and we will read it because you are the ones in the north. You are the first witness. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise. I will read to verse 11, then all of us will read it. And when we are reading it, we are prophesying it. He said, for the mouth of the wicked and for the mouth of the deceitful are open against me. They have spoken against me with lying tongue. He said, they compass me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause. Verse 5, he said, for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer. What is the prayer? Verse 6, he said, they have rewarded me— let's read verse 5. He said, they have rewarded me evil for good. You have preached love, you have preached mercy, you have shown generosity and charity. For your good they have rewarded you for evil, and hatred for your love. Verse 6, he says, set down— prayer has started. You know, the first time we were reporting, now this is prayer. It says, set down a wicked man over him. Let Satan stand at his right hand. The same Satan they are serving, Satan will be commanded to stand at their right hand. He said, when he shall be judged, let him be condemned. And he said, let his prayer become a sin. Even if they repent, even if they change their minds, the evil they have perpetrated, let it turn their prayers to an abomination. He said, let his days be few. Let some of them wake up and let the sun smite them. Let them wake up and let the air they breathe become poison. Let confusion hit their camp, let them shoot themselves. When they use their weapon, let it misfire and kill them. He said let his days be few and let another man take his office. Prayer has not finished. Let his children be fatherless, let his wives be a widow. Prayer has not finished. He said let his children be continually vagabond and beg. He said, let them seek their bread out of the desolate places. Prayer has not finished. He said, let the extortioner catch all that he has saved. Their money will disappear. Their wealth will be transferred to the righteous. He said, let strangers spoil his labor. Prayer has not finished. Next verse, he said, let there be none to extend mercy unto them. Even Even those who want to show them mercy, let it become judgment. Let nobody show them mercy. He said, neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. That means in all their generations they will be helpless, they will suffer reproach. He said, let his prosperity be cut off and let the generation following their name be blotted out. May their memory Memories not be remembered. May their lineage be abrogated. May they be deleted from the memory of man in the name of Jesus Christ. Are you ready to pray? It's time to release judgment. Are you ready? See, I don't put my trust in men. I'm not the type that is trusting men. God can use men. God can use Animals, but I go straight to God because I know men can become politicians, they can politicize things, they can cause confusion. If any man wants to come, let him come, but we will trust in the name of the Lord our God. He can move angels, he can move men, he can move nations, he can move animals, he can provoke natural disaster. Where they live, they can be swallowed up. The earth can open his mouth and swallow them. He can use anything because he's the one that judgment belongs to. He said, oh God, to whom belongeth vengeance, he said, show thyself, show thyself. Now project that scripture from verse 1. Let's read it together. I want you to declare it, declare it with vengeance, because this is the hour of judgment. 1, 2, 3, let's begin. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise, for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are open against me. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compass me about also with wars of hatred and fought against me without a cause. For my Lord, they are my adversaries, but I give gave myself unto prayer, and they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love. Verse 6: Set thou a wicked man over them. Let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned. Let his prayer become a sin. Let his days be few. Let take his office. Let his children be fatherless. Let his wife be a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg. Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioners catch all that he had, and let strangers spoil his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any favor to his fatherless children. Let his prosperity be cut off in a generation following. Let their names be blotted out. Lift your voice and cry.

Aye!

In the name of Jesus. Not one hair of your head will fall to the ground.

The hand of God is upon you for preservation, and your gates are continually open for blessings. All the days of your life you will flourish, for yours shall be as the cedar. In the name of Jesus Christ.

As I round up, if you are here tonight tonight and you have not surrendered to Jesus, please lift your right hand.

It will be a big risk for you to live amongst us and around us now and not completely surrender. If you are doing that, lift your right hand, put your left hand on your chest, pray this prayer with me quickly. Dear Heavenly Father, I believe with all my heart that Jesus is your son. I confess with my mouth that this This same Jesus who died, was buried, and rose on the third day is my Lord and my Savior. I receive eternal life into my spirit. I am born again. Thank you, Father, for receiving me. In Jesus' name I have declared. May the Lord keep you from falling, and may the Lord cause his face to shine upon you. In Jesus' mighty name. Please be encouraged. We see your plight. The best we can do is to pray for you. Myself and my brother Apostle, we talk about these things from time to time. Apostle believes so much in the body of Christ and in the potential that God has for his his children, and he is utterly against the attack and the wickedness on Christians, and he has declared and advocated against it. But again, he also advocates that the heritage of the church and of the nation Nigeria should also not be lost in the course of fighting for deliverance. It's important to understand the balance that while we are fighting for our preservation.

We don't want to lose our heritage.

And so please don't be confused by people who are vasilius and emotional, who just react unnecessarily without hearing the whole story. We stand against the persecution of Christians in the North. We stand against every wickedness done to the children of God, and we also advocate for deliverance for God, for God's people, and for the nation. That's why we are here putting this conference together. It took a lot of courage and a lot of resources to be here now. So what we do is not just talking on the internet. These are people who have boots on ground. So it's not about political correctness. We are people who love the church and we stand with the church in the north. And he has come here today to demonstrate that love, that loyalty to the church. This has been his position from time immemorial. He was raised from the north. He has lived in the north. He has lived through the persecution. And so his intention must not be misconstrued in any context. This is a man that loves the church and loves his nation, and he has always advocated against the wickedness on the church and on the nation of Nigeria. But we also believe that we have enormous resources that should not be lost in the process. So while we trust God for help and we are open for help from any quarter We are also wise enough to advocate that there's preservation of the heritage that God has given us as a people. If that is misconstrued, then it's unfortunate, but the intention, noble intention of every genuine person must not be misunderstood, and then people are used as scapegoats when all of us should be fighting against the corporate attack on the body of Christ. We are together with you in the North and will continue to pray with you and stand with you. God bless you. Wow!

Wow!

What do we say to Jesus tonight? Thank you, Jesus! Who would have believed that at such a time as this we'll still have gallant Christians gathering, praying, learning God even at this season? Let's give Jesus praise for this time. Let's thank God for his dear servant, Apostle Michael Oropo. Wow, thank you, Apostle. If anyone had told me that a time will ever come in my life it will look like I'm in support of the things going on in the North. I will say wake, sleep and wake again. But we are here, we're here. It doesn't matter the confusion the enemy brings, we pin. We're here, we're here.

Thank you.

Please sit for a moment. Now I believe, and this session we're about to enter into is too serious, that there is a spiritual side to what is going on. I'm going to show you a text of the Bible, and I want us to pay Very important attention. Malachi chapter number 4. As we get into this session, and we are going to make all efforts to do this across— we do this in the West when we have our International Ministers Conference, but we have started this here this year as promised last year. Well, look at this scripture. Malachi chapter number 4, verse 5. Malachi 4, verse 5 says, behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Verse 6 now, and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. What that simply means is even those— when those who have the spiritual weight, stamina, and authority to speak are on ground and being disregarded, it will look like God is not on ground. There is There's something God has started that cannot be sustained until the Father say, we bless you. And in the spirit of that, I have, you know, done that before, but I have two of my very dear leaders in the house this evening. Um, this morning I introduced Daddy Olupade, was my Sunday school teacher. I mean, please help me honor him. That is a blessing. Amen. There's another man here, he's a very mysterious man. I was shocked to see him, and, um, he's loved me since time immemorial. Acted drama. Many of you don't know I started as a drama minister in this land. We've acted dramas together across Churches. He's been with me through thick and thin. We call him Bro JJ, but now it's Daddy JJ. Good to see you, sir.

Wow, wow, amen.

Awesome. So tonight we begin the honor service and we We are starting with two of our fathers here in the city of Kano, and we're going to take it one after the other. I'm going to ask the protocol to come help me. Get out of the way now. We have some bit of something prepared about their lives so you can understand the reason why we have to honor them. And the first person we're going to be honoring, we get them play the video. I allow the PFN youth president, some of my brothers, and also pastors who are in this city will join me upstage as we present the first presentation. There are two fold of presentation. One you can see, the other one leave it, okay? So, um, we do that first for our Daddy Bishop Raf Oluwo. Then I will now come back. Okay, Daddy, please stay seated. And then we now go to the second phase. So we present the award, we hand over the mic, whatever God has laid in their heart, one after the other. Daddy Raf will go first, then we come back for the honor for Daddy Oluwase. All right, so I get out of the way now and, um, we'll be back. God bless you.

In the heart of Northern Nigeria, where faith is tested and courage refined. Stands a man whose story reads like prophecy in motion. This is the journey of Bishop Raphael Oluwo. A man forged by fire, guided by divine instruction, and planted by God in a land many feared, but he embraced. Born into a vast polygamous family—3 wives, many concubines, and deep spiritual battles—his mother had endured 4 miscarriages, and after a prophetic intervention, her pregnancy stretched to 22 months. He survived against every odd, a miracle child destined for a purpose. But miracles don't erase struggles. By 13, he was smoking, and by 16, fighting, feared as Femi Lazarus. Yet destiny was only shaping him for a greater calling. At 18, the rebel encountered God, and everything changed. In 1986, he answered the call into ministry., and by 1988, he was ordained an evangelist under the Christ Apostolic Church, serving faithfully while working with the FCDA in Abuja. But obedience demanded more. In 1992, he resigned to attend the theological seminary, where he trained and graduated in 1995. Stepping fully into ministry with a heart surrendered to God. Posted to Lagos, he served briefly until a divine whisper redirected his path. Return to the North. At the OCAC camp in Arakeji, the historic ground of Babalola's encounters, his prayers aligned with destiny, and on the Third day, he met Baba Laroto, the CAC Kano chairman, who led him to Kano to begin the English Assembly. The assignment had begun. Crisis soon erupted, and after a year and 6 months, he was ejected. But God sent confirmation through 3 prophets, one message repeated: Your assignment is in Kano. He waited, prayed, and listened. Then, on July 7th, 1997, a vision came: "The name of the Lord is a strong tower." Strong Tower Evangelical Ministry was birthed, officially launching on November 2nd, 1997. The growth was explosive. 40,000 members in 6 months. 2 services, twice recognized as the fastest growing church in Kano. Yet with growth came trials, riots, crisis, fear gripping the streets. Many pastors fled. At one point, only 5 members remained, but he stayed because when God plant a man, no No storm can uproot him. God established him not only as a pastor but as a leader in the land. He became a PFN member, then welfare officer, and in 2015 he became the PFN chairman of Kano State, serving two tenures, 8 years. He also led the CPFM PFN block for 7 years. For over 15 years, he coordinated Christian United for Israel in Kano and rose to become National Director of Education for the PFN. From miracle birth to rebellious youth to an unshakable bishop in one of Nigeria's most challenging regions, his life stands as proof that obedience can change the destiny of cities. Bishop Raphael Oluwole remains a father, a beacon of revival, and a strong tower in the north. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight at the Kano Apostolic Meeting 2025, we honor a father, a patriarch, and a living legend. Tonight we honor Bishop Ralph.

Amen, amen, amen. One of the things I want us to observe is that the stories here, stories of raw faith that has endured fire over the years. When God told us about this meeting, we started— this is the third edition now. He's the first father we went to meet, and he accepted us with everything. He's a father indeed. I used to sneak to attend their Bible study years ago, and I was studying the topics he taught, and they are still fresh in my heart. We have another package. Let Tokere join me upstairs. This is Daddy's daughter, one of our leaders in Light Nation. Thank you for gifting out to us. Amen. Do we have the other stuff? All right, so just hand that over to Tokia. I want to request the Kano State PFN Youth President, Apostle Mike Koroko, Apostle Lawal, Pastor Steven Smith, Pastor and his dear wife, please come join me off stage. Um, Pastor Please come. Let's, as we together— so we have a combination of the leaders in the land and leaders also outside the shores of Kano joining together to present this token of honor to Daddy Bishop Raf Olo. Let's keep putting those hands together and Guess what? This year made it 30 years. 30 years. 1995 came and look at it. God is so strategic. Put those hands together. Please, let's come together as we present this to Daddy together. Praise God!

You know, I've received many awards in life. I've been honored here and there, but in my spirit, I have never been this so honored. You know, let me start by thanking Apostle Mike Oroko. Please, please, please, please, the, the message tonight was not was not just a teaching. It came from several spiritual dimensions, correcting matters, fixing matters, raising spiritual ladders. And I can say this emphatically, that that was not the message probably you had fully wanted preaching. Kwaku sense in the spirit when that shift came, and God guided you into matters that are deeper than human comprehension. So many things have been corrected, righted, fixed, and I tell you the truth, I won't forget this message. It in a hurry. Thank you for coming to bless us in the city of Kano. Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much. My heart is overwhelmed. I'm even lacking words. Apostle, Apostle, what do I say about you? Humility is a very scarce commodity in this generation. And whenever you find— you find one who has it, not just having it, but having it enormously. Because you see, you can't fake humility. You can pretend to have it, but for a while, time will reveal it. Time is a prophet and it's a Reveler of Truth. Tonight, Apostle, from the bottom of my heart, this honor is not only for me but for all the fathers that have endured pain in this city. Let me say something to you. One of the riots, we— I came to church and it was supposed to be a us overnight. From the 1,000+ people, we were only 5 that gathered, and I'm one of the 5. I don't know if you understand that you, you are speaking to over 1,000 people and you now came for a major program and only 4 people are there. And the Holy Spirit still told me, follow the protocols of the service, don't remove any. So we still did praise and worship. The 5 people, we still clapped our hands. Nobody on the drums anymore. And today I feel that that labor and that waiting and that standing still has not been forgotten. Thank you for making us feel that we did not labor in vain, and thank you for making us test how heaven will look. Because today, sincerely, at a point, for me, the heaven open, and I'm beginning to see how God will celebrate some of us even when men don't know our pain, how God will celebrate us on that day. We are in a generation where people only read your calling by the size of your church, and when do What do you do when thousands of people are reduced to 5 and you have to start all over again? And you will go to 1,000, riot will start again, you reduce to 3 or 2, you start all over again. And yet people want to judge you only by the crowd they see around you. So many frustration, but we kept hearing God, stay. Somebody woke up to me yesterday, he said, sir, you are the reason why I'm you are still in Kano. And I broke into tears. He said, I will have gone and come and see the impact the young man is making from one school to the other. He said, because people like you are still in Kano, that's why we are still here. I was invited to preach somewhere in Port Harcourt, and I mean, the flight was rescheduled, so I came later than the time. And it's about 3 minutes for the message to start, and I have an entourage, and I left them and climbed the machine because the machine would be faster than the vehicle because of roadblocks and the rest. When I got to the front of the church, I came down from the machine with my Bible. But you see what the church has been trained to receive is Entourage, big cars, Rolls-Royce. That's what they've been trained to receive. So when I came down on the bike and I said, I'm the one, your pastor, he said, sir, please stand aside, please, please stand aside. The protocol kept me in the church until the pastor said, we are still waiting waiting for the man of God. And I raised my hand from the back, I'm here. And he shouted, Apostle, what are you doing there? And then they called me forward and I preached. After the message, the same usher was now running to hold my legs. Ah, I gave the leg what I said. Take the lesson you have learned today. Some anointing don't come in big bottles. Some graces don't come in entourage. Apostle, thank you on behalf of every father that is not even here, that you don't know their secret effort. Thank you, thank you, Apostle. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Do you You know what, if this had happened on the bigger platform like the great— all our greater fathers doing this, we will receive it, but it won't be more valuable like it's valued today. That where we even least expect the honor, if it's where it's coming from, you had God, that's why you are doing this. And you will not know how much this means means to us. The Lord will keep you. Do you know that prayers like this don't need amen to be answered?

Because it's coming from the womb of a father that you have honored.

Where we suffer, you will suffer. Paul said, we want to come to you severally, but the devil hindered us. As anointed hunted as he was. Why? Pronounce upon you today by the mandate of the heavens, you will not be hindered in your life. You will scale through mountains, hills, and valleys. You will fulfill destiny without struggle. And as you have honored us, the Lord God Almighty will honor you. And I pray for all of you who are here tonight. Listening to Apostle Arotunde tonight, our hearts are lifted. For those of you who live in Kano or any other part of the north and you are here, I pray for you. Even when men don't celebrate you, you will not lose focus on heaven. Oh my God, the heavens will be continually open upon you. With the message that came tonight, ride on the hills, move on the mountains. No power will stop you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And as long as Jehovah lives, all of God scattered around, I have said it, it will be from Kano to the rest of the world in the mighty name of Jesus. Pray for Apostle Oroko. The Lord's mighty hand will continually remain upon for your life. So many started, they fade away. It will never happen to you. You will be constant through all your lifetime, in the precious name of Jesus. Sometimes we pray for the men, we don't pray for their wives, and yet every man's—

every anointed man's pastor is the wife. Your wives are your pastors.

If they fail, you won't go far. I prophesy on them as well, wherever they may be. Let the Lord keep them strong. Ah, ah, they will be immovable in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Your ministries will fly high from this night that you have honored us. Mark my words, in the name of God Almighty, the whole of the heaven and the earth will give you entrance. You enter a new dimension, a shift into higher glory and into to higher revelation all the days of your life. Thank you, precious Father. To you be all the glory forever. As we have received our words here on earth, grant us grace so we can stand before you on that day and hear that voice, 'Welcome home.' We believe you have answered. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen.

Let's keep putting those hands together. Thank you. Please remain. I'll still trouble you up one more time. Amen. Please be seated for a moment. We're— so we move to the second phase. Yes, now just before the media goes up, all right, this is a, another very, very touching time, and I want you to please pay attention to the stories in between the stories. And the second phase is where we now get to honor our Daddy Olumese. I believe you should rejoice more than that. Talk about raw power, raw prophetic, such in the most strange dimension you can ever experience in my life. Kano is blessed. So we allow the media bring the brief documentary, and then I invite some of our leaders also as we do this together.

God bless you.

In 1972, a young boy stepped off a bus in Kano. No money, no family, no place to sleep. Just a calling, a whisper from God, and the courage to follow it. He slept for 8 months inside a primary school classroom. No mattress, no blanket, only faith and a quiet assurance that destiny had brought him up north. In those healing months, heaven was already writing a story. From that season of struggle, God opened a miraculous door. He found work at the Universal Group of Companies, starting as a casual laborer. Unseen, unknown, yet chosen. Grace lifted him, excellence distinguished him, and in a short time, that young laborer rose to become one of the company's managers. A breakthrough that broke the cycle of lack. But his heart beat for one thing: the gospel. Every break, every weekend, every his spare day. He traveled across Kano, Tikawa, Katsina, Gombe, Edo, Benue, and Abuja, and deep into West Africa—Togo, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire—preaching Christ, planting churches, healing the sick, and setting the captives free. Alongside his ministry work, he built a thriving poultry business, 25,000 birds strong until one morning, everything died. And in that silence, he heard the voice of God: "I did not send you to train birds for me. I asked you to train soldiers for my end-time army." That instruction changed everything. In 1990, inside his own living room, amazing Amazing Grace Bible Church was born. 26 people, simple faith, and a man fully yielded to God. He sought clarity and guidance from fathers of the faith: Archbishop Benson Idahosa, the late Bishop Godwin E. Lomobo, and Reverend Dr. Felix Omobudeye, his mentor and in-law. From From Kano's inner streets to forgotten villages, he planted churches, raised pastors, and built spiritual foundations across the north. Then came 1991, the Reinhard-Bonte Crisis, a violent outbreak where Christians were hunted across Kano. Dozens of terrified families hid inside his home. The mob surrounded the building, ready to burn it down. And then, heaven intervened. A mighty whirlwind descended. It struck the attackers, scattering them in fear, saving every single soul inside the house. A deliverance written by the hand of God. For more than 40 years, Reverend Edward Femi Lazarus Omese carried the gospel across Northern Nigeria. He trained village pastors, raised spiritual sons and daughters, confronted darkness with light. Even in the face of arrest, threats, and persecution, he stood as a general, a beacon of integrity, courage, and uncompromising holiness. He lived by a divine word Guard your heart against money. Guard your heart against women. Tested many times, he remained untainted, a man without scandal. His name may not shine on city billboards, but in the hinterlands, the villages, the dusty roads, his impact leaves a thousand transformed lives. For 43 years, he walked shoulder to shoulder with Rev. Mrs. Progress Olumese, a partner, a pillar, a co-laborer in the vineyard. Together, they built a dynasty of faith, a lineage that carries the fragrance of sacrifice, devotion, and grace. And in August 2024, after decades of After 50 years of unbroken service, he passed the baton to his son, Reverend Olumese Edward Olumese, now leading Amazing Grace Bible Churches and Alive Churches under North Light Ministries. The touch continues, the light endures. This is the story of a boy who arrived Kano with nothing and became a soldier of light generation. This is his legacy, his journey, his victory. Tonight at the Kano Apostolic Meeting 2025, let us rise in honor of the Reverend Edward Onumese.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! You know, there's going to be surprises in heaven. One of the parts of the story that broke me in tongues was when people came around the building to ambush it. Then a wild wind came. The same God is still alive. Oh, hallelujah! I want to request my brothers again to please join me upstage. This time around, Pastor Edward and his wife, you still come too, um, as you take