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Please be seated. Um, I want to give you a bit of insight into certain things. A friend of mine was going through a very painful situation. I want to share something about the gathering of brethren before I get into mine. He was going through a very painful situation. At some point, he was locked up. You know, sometimes you don't know, you don't know, you don't know what empathy looks like until you have gone through the situation that men don't want to identify with you. He was locked up for about a year. And he, he came out. In the process of that isolation, he was introduced to new dimensions of God. You know, there is a way your life will be going and you feel you know God. There is an aspect about God you can't know until you know pain. Yes, there's an aspect of God you can't know until you know rejection. There is a reason why the Bible said he's nigh to the brokenhearted. I've gone through situations that I ask myself Is this necessary? But the version of me that will come out of that thing shows me that God is wise. So when he came out, he was sharing this with me, in that pain, one time, one day, he went to a restaurant to eat, and as he was eating A music team came into the city, so they just went with their band and everyone and went to eat in the same restaurant. They didn't know him. One of them spotted him, Benny Hinn, and just as led by the Spirit, just got up, went to where he was seated, held him by the shoulder. And she said, "It is well." That was all she said. The tears that has been locked up on his inside for months gushed out. If the Bible said since the creation of the world, the— his invisible attributes are clearly seen and understood by the things that are made. What that means is, if you are part of what God made, you're supposed to be a reflection of certain aspects of his attribute. Are you aware that someone can get healed of emotional pain just by holding hands with you, that you have become a carrier of God's healing attribute. People don't get close to you and they are wounded emotionally. So Do you now know what it means when we gather together like this and we join our hands together? There are people seated in church day in, day out who have pain they've never told anyone about, things that they will never say. They have vowed in their life they will die with it. And that thing is hindering certain manifestation of glory that somebody can just pass. And that's the demonstration of God as a lover. It takes a very deep fall to look at a believer lost. God is love. You leave this meeting tonight and embody— God wants to introduce himself. You don't know. And sometimes the best way God introduce himself and say, son, daughter, you just go. And that's God introducing himself because this person embodies an aspect that he doesn't have to waste time talking about when the demonstration is here. Let me get into some things. There is an aspect of God's glory that we may never see as a people till he makes us whole again. Let me tell you something, because this is a prophetic house. Don't, don't make the mistake to think that this is just a teaching house. The closest to prophetic ministry is teaching. There's a man I love and respect so much. He's gone to be with the Lord now. His name is Bob Jones. He was a prophet. One time he was in a meeting, and, um, you can go and research about Bob Jones, a renowned prophet. And in that meeting, the Lord, by his leading, start ministering to him to repeat the same word again and again. Mac and cheese, mac and cheese. That's macaroni and cheese. Mac and cheese. And as a prophet, he kept repeating mac until the pastor became so embarrassed and wrote a note to him to round up. And he want to move on, he said mac and cheese. Imagine I just start saying uga le, uga le. You say, what's wrong with this? But that's the prophetic. Most of the prophets who celebrate today in Bible days didn't make sense to their generation. One of the ways we lose out in our ministry is the attempt to make sense now. So it is difficult for God to use us for transgenerational operation because we are insisting on making sense. So they sent him out and he left. Later, an elderly woman in that place came to share testimony. Her son had been sick. They've tried all methods medically to heal, to get him fine. But he wasn't recovering. Different people had prayed for him and prophesied. God told her he will heal him in that meeting. Then she said, speak to me in a language that just you and I can understand. So when the man of God began to say mac and cheese, he was calling the best food of the boy that was sick. The woman was in the church, got the code, The pulpit did not. It was when the boy got healed as a confirmation that she came out and speak. If you are going to move with God, there are certain things that you've got to drop because it won't make sense. God is not busy attempting to make sense to anybody. He's busy with his plan. He's not There is the grace for peace setting. It is not the anointing that seeks to make sense. Prophetic navigations doesn't make sense. It can tell you to go to a jungle, and yet in no time it becomes a city. What sense does that make? There are people here who have been fighting with what God has been saying because they need God to make more sense. And he sent me to tell you, I'm not about to make more sense. What I have said is still what I'm saying. Let me show you a text. Lift your hands and say, thank you, Jesus. I teach simply, but because of the burden I came with, at some point the power of God is going to break loose over this place. Is that okay? Is anyone who came very hungry? Are you aware that one meeting can determine a man's life forever? Hold on, this is not some church cliché. Are you aware that one meeting is enough for God to do very— are you aware? All right, stay with me. The Lord placed a burden in my heart. The book of Genesis chapter number 3. And as I show you the verse, close your Bible and close your notes, drop your pen. I need to do that shortly because oftentimes we rarely go back to those things.

So catch this, listen, catch this.

Um, it is a very, very big surprise in heaven that a believer is small. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. It takes more effort to be small under God. You will have to work hard to ignore everything God is doing to make room for your greatness. Greatness is so available in God that you'll have to be extra not to have it. And now I want to show you. You look at Genesis, Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, you see God's pattern. Genesis 1, you see his thinking, you see management, you see sustainability, you see protocol. Science is not ahead of God. Science is discovering what he had done, and the very foundation of science itself is established on the fact that God is faithful. What we call scientific laws are not human development. They are things we observed. You talk about Newton's law of motion: all object remains in the state of inertia— have you heard that before? Or rest unless compelled to change by an external force. Did Newton create it? He saw it. Talk about the law of gravity: whatever goes up comes down. Who created gravity? So we build inventions around his faithfulness.

Amen.

Let me come again. The reason we can innovate is because there is something we met on ground we are building around that we know doesn't change. What that means is that everything God made from the beginning, he has never been in a bad mood to change it. And the reason why many Christians can build is because their structures changes with their mood. And if we fail to learn these things from God, we can't build anything sustainable. He is faithful whether you are righteous or unrighteous. He's faithful. The Bible didn't say, for God so love Nigerians, or love Kenyans, or love good people. He love the world. You know what that means? There are people who are not good. You will have to like. It's the reason why our light only shines here. The Bible didn't say only church people displays the image of the invisible God. There are people who have never called Jesus, but for some reason, in an aspect of yieldedness, God finds it easier to demonstrate an aspect respect of himself through them. That even when it's taking him time to get a believer to be diligent and move into this and be flexible, they say no, no, it's not, it's not looking spiritual. And God can now get an unbeliever to get that thing done. It's the reason why he uses Cyrus, because many times we are too holy and too grounded to move as he moves. It is not every dimension of God that is able to express through the church.

Are you aware?

Don't forget this, and don't tell anybody I told you. Are you aware that God is not a Christian?

All right. Easy.

One time, I— our NGO, we had this award program that we're going to honor faithful people who have been leading different NGOs. And then this guy was among those who wanted to honor. We checked through their work. Their track record, their profile, and he was among those we're going to honor. And I watched that meeting. The moment I set my eyes on him, I went somewhere, I locked myself up and started crying. He's not a pastor, he's not a preacher. I'm not sure he can preach a sermon, but I've never seen a man in my life that broken. His brokenness made me look arrogant. I, I looked at him, I didn't see him. I saw a man who is finished in his own mind. Do you know how to recognize greatness when you see one? Greatness that is not riding an expensive car. There are aspects of God that is just only able to manifest through willing people. That's it. If you know the effort it's been taking God to get many of you to be flexible enough for what he wants to do, if you know the effort— he said, kill and eat. Said, Lord, I cannot eat anything unclean. How do you say Lord and say I cannot? He said, Peter, rise, kill and eat. We have made the word of God of no effect through traditions. The same God whose word you are obeying is the one we're saying, this is what I'm saying. Listen, it is one thing to hear what God said, it is another thing to hear what he is saying. If you were wrong with what he said, you will kill Isaac. If you hear what he's saying, you will use the ram. Many of us have killed our Isaac because he said, so we run and then block our ears. But you will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way.

You know why?

He is still speaking. I am saying this because I sense that there are people that all God needs them to do is make the move. Just, just, just, just make the move. And 40 days fasting and prayer is not as powerful as one move aligned under God. Oh yes, because oftentimes we pray and pray away what God is saying. Look at this. So I told you The Book of Genesis, go back and see, it's a book to observe. You look at the values of God, you look at his method, you look at his approach.

He's so organized.

The principle of church growth is in Genesis. God made man. Hold on. There's a principle in management. If you get management right, the more your work, the easier it becomes. That's one of the signs that you— that's some of the things that those who do multiple things don't tell you. You get to a point that what is running everything for you is structure. If you have to be babysitting at certain level, you didn't build well. If God who made the heavens and the earth, the Bible said he rested, why don't you have rest? Have you seen stubborn people, people who are very wicked, who kill another person? God, with their presence and their wickedness, he rested. People who strap bomb around themselves and enter a large gathering and explode themselves. With all those things, he rested. Have you ever seen God on up and down? What will I do now? What's happening now in Nigeria? Is that the rest? And the Bible never attributed the rest to him. Till he made man. The moment he made everything and made man, the maintenance protocol for this is on ground. So when things go bad, it is not where is God, it is where are you. Listen, and I'm, I'm, I'm begging you, we are having a time now to that more people are becoming atheists. They are angry and offended at the church. They are asking questions, this and all that. Why do we have so many people praying? In Kenya, 85% Christians, and look at it. Why do we have 85% Christians and all that? The nation is still like this and all that. Hey, I showed you the text. The things that are seen reveals an aspect of it. Hey, you are the one who has failed to mirror. From the beginning, he's been, he is. Till tomorrow, he is. Study it. Sometimes people make mistake even about church growth. Ah, they want people that they have not built structures to accommodate. It doesn't work. Domain first before the habitat. God didn't make man and say, ah, he will need oxygen, let me find oxygen. He has never had to come back from heaven to say, let's add more oxygen. He built a system for everything to keep recycling itself. That's where we talk about sustainability. Look at the intelligence of that God. He didn't build plastics. He gave you trees. Inside the trees you get rubber. He didn't build furnitures. He gave you trees. It's your business to use the wisdom in him to create. He didn't give you phones. He gave you different components scattered across different minerals. And trusted that a time will come that in partnership with him— this is what you need to understand— whether you are— listen to this— in partnership with him, whether they are Christians or unbelievers, as long as they have what it takes to tap into that, man will enter. The mistake you have is that you think wisdom is only exclusive for believers. You miss it. That's why some of those who invent things around the world don't even call Jesus, but yet it is his wisdom. If only God's children will explore half. If you know what God has freely made available for you How did we get to the point that a believer can now sit down and say, I don't have food to eat? From the beginning, it wasn't so. It was after the fall that man will have to go through tons and tons to eat. You know what that means? He will find food, but he will have scars for it. He will bleed for it. I can go on and on and tell you what that means. All right, you look at Genesis 1, is the book of creation. You know that there are hidden codes there. Um, in the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth. Verse 2, the earth was zafar man void, and then darkness was upon the face of the deep. In verse 3, God said, let there be light, and there was light. Pastor talk about that yesterday. You know that light is not sun. Ah, all right, is a maintenance protocol. And he went on, called the trees, called all this and called all that. In Genesis 1:26, you will not understand verse 26 until you read verse 25. So read verse 25 now. Genesis 1:25, quickly. Um, okay. And God made the beasts of the earth according to his kind. If you read King James, not NKJV, he used the word after its kind. The cattle after its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good for things to be made after their kind. One of the very important question is that what is the prototype? What is the kind? We're going to get there. And in verse 26, now go to verse 26 quickly. And God said, let us make our own kind. It was the fall that made him to be referred to as mankind. From the beginning, he was God kind. And the reason why— listen to this— you will not understand the importance of this guy until you now read Genesis 1:2. In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void. I'm running a series on this now. Shapeless, formless. He made two things. One went bad. The Bible didn't talk about the first one because God is there. His maintenance protocol himself, his host of angels, they are there so nothing can go wrong. In recreating this place, he need a system of his kind there so that the same way nothing went wrong with heaven, nothing should go wrong with the earth because my kind is there. If something goes wrong with this place, you have left your duty. Man is God's insurance system. To make sure that the earth is fine. Listen to this, right? It takes a lot of falling, both spiritually and mentally, for your jurisdiction to become your job. That the best a believer can think of now is food, rent, clothes. And we have to wait for people outside to develop things, then we use. What's that? If you know the wisdom that is available to you in God, you are not the light of the church, you are the light of the world. That's the reason why they are hating our God. They can't see him. We are the ones who reflect his image. We are not reflecting well. Now you look at that, we make man. That's God's insurance policy. If Nigeria will not go bad, it must be because God has men. If Kenya will not go bad, it is because God has men. If Africa will not go bad, it is because God has men. Not because God will have to come down from heaven. The response of God to problem is a man.

Always.

When there was a cry in Egypt, God said to Moses, I heard the cry of my people by the reason of their taskmasters. Now go to Pharaoh and tell him, let my people go. But you know the reason why you can't go? Because you need someone to validate your going. If you know the number of things you have killed on your inside because nobody clapped. If you know the number of things that have died because someone looked at you the moment you stood up to talk. Somehow in Africa we have the culture of permission, and the culture of permission has killed the move of the Spirit more times than ever. If you know the innovations, the inventions, the strategies, the method, things God wants to release on the face of the earth through you. We're going to pray. Oh yes, and things are going to shift from here. I didn't hear a big amen to that. Now look at— there's a very funny, um, okay, let me touch this a bit. If you read that same Genesis 1:26, so God said, let us make man in our own image, our own kind. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and everything that creepeth upon the earth. In verse 27, so God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. So it means a woman is not an afterthought. From the beginning, she was in the plan. The same time he made man was the same time he made her. The difference was when— who he put on the earth first. He placed the man on the earth as foundation for leadership and responsibility, not superiority. I have the privilege of pastoring people I understand in my stewardship that I'm not better than you. I'm just privileged to serve. That's partnership. So you know what that means? It means in the society you can't be thinking that because you're a woman you'll be small. Okay, let's take the second assumption that you have. So God put Adam in the garden. He was struggling. It's not good for him to be alone. Because that thing there, that thing there can make you think that all the essence of a woman is companionship. It is not good for man to be alone. Then God said, I will make an help. Hey, it is— I will make a companion.

Help.

That's not our skill because you've got to understand the language. Now, if I'm trying— um, please, God, please come, please help me honor them. They came all the way from America to join. Um, okay, let's have this here. Let's see. Um, Benny, you come also. Look at this now. Benny is trying to— come, come quickly. I asked Benny, carry this thing, and he's struggling. So hold on, please. Benny is struggling to— now struggle to lift it. I know you can lift it, but just struggle. Benny is struggling so much to lift this, and I said, I'm going to send you someone to help you. What does that mean? Listen, it means the person I'm sending is either going to be as strong as you are or stronger. Um, listen, if I bring a 2-year-old child and I say, come help Benny, what can that child do? That's not sufficient help. I have a word for an average lady seated here. You are more powerful. You are more powerful than you think if you know what is on your life. You know, some of the mistakes we we make around this part of the world is that we think that the destiny of a woman only begins to speak after marriage. If you don't have the capacity to help before marriage, how can you help in it? You know, one time there was a sister that I liked. This people should see. So I wanted to talk to her. Thank you. Oh, you are such a gentleman. He gave someone tissue the other time also to wipe his face. I said, this man, are you married? You are still single? As caring as you are? Now listen, I went to tell the sister. I said, you have been chasing a thousand, me too have been chasing a thousand, let's come together and chase 10,000. She looked at me and said, 'Ah, your mouth is too sweet, but no.' I'm trying to bring you to understand the idea of what God made you. Ah, if you know who you are You know, identity crisis is what makes you struggle so hard to be like people who should learn from you. You're struggling so hard. One, one day I want to be like that celebrity. Do you know who you are? Do you have an idea? There's a move of God coming on the face of the earth. It is God manifesting himself through Christians who don't lack awareness. It's going to happen everywhere. Look at the amazing ministration of the choir. I would like to go and Download that. Oh yes, oh yes. So I'm just telling you people in advance so you not put copyright on the things I'm going to do. Even when it comes to the world of creativity, the world will have to come learn from us because we are the one that have access to the source. Sometimes you hear people's music is trending, they say the devil like Stop, stop, stop being like that. When God bless people, you say they've done ritual. Do they do ritual here? Hey, there's no ritual here. I'm shocked. People don't do money ritual in Kenya. Oh, this is Africa. Okay, ah, no, no, no, no. Look at it. So you see people who are blessed, you say, ah, they've done something. You know what that means? You are saying, because I didn't do anything, I'm okay to be small. You know, pride doesn't just come in being big. There is the pride that comes in smallness, where you are proud about being small. And say, "It is because we are righteous, we are holy, we are doing it right, that's why our church is not growing, that's why things are the way they are. So we that we have not compromised, our message is pure." You lie!

Many times we are fighting what we want that is not yet in our life. It is not only good when it is in your life. It is good when God is moving everywhere else. We lie!

And when you see God move, rejoice. He's in the neighborhood.

That's what it means.

Pay attention. So God did everything. What was God doing? He's building a structure for maintenance. In verse 29, look at verse 28. When he made man, the first thing he He did. He blessed them. What else did God make and bless?

Man.

You were blessed before a curse came. That's, that's the foundation of existence. Do you know what the blessing is? If you read Psalms 1, popular scripture scripture, you know, blessed is the man from verse 1 that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly and all that. You know that scripture, Psalms 1:1. But have you tried read it in Classical Amplified before? Look at that same scripture amplified. Look at it.

Blessed.

Hold on.

Happy.

You know, listen, sometimes as Christians we say happiness is not for believers, we have joy. Hey, hey, if I give you 30 million shillings now, will you not be happy?

Hey, fortunate.

One of the attributes of being fortunate is the ability to be at the right place at the right time. Prosperous. Hey, beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. Prosperity is the ability for things never to die in your hands. That's what it means. That is, if they give you 2, it becomes 10. If they give you 10, it becomes 1,000. That's what it means. Envyable. I see Christians fighting. Somebody's envying me. It's an attribute of the blessing. Nobody envies the person who is not doing well. Are you happy? Are you happy? Are you happy? You can't be blessed and not be happy. God wants you to be happy. One time I went to preach somewhere in Canada, so they said to me that we have booked a spa session for you. I said, I'm a man of war, I don't go to spa, I don't do all those things. Spa? No, no, no, I don't do all No, I said no, no, no, no, no. I said no, cancel it, cancel it. I don't do— they said, Apostle, we have booked this thing for you and you have to go. You've been stressing yourself.

Hey.

So I said, let's go. I went through the entire process.

Hey, hey.

There's also one hot pool. They said just relax inside, and then, hey, I was happy. The next time I was there, I said, please book that place. There are times that you think that you are depressed. You need good food.

Good food.

See, I know what I'm saying. If you have not eaten good food for a while, you'll just be getting angry and offended.

You I don't know why.

Oh yes, Elijah said, I'm not better than my forefathers, I want to die. Chop, Femi Lazarus, eat! Eat o gale! It means that believers are supposed to be the happiest people on the face of the earth. I was sharing with them at Pastor's church this morning. Years ago, I went to go and pray. I, I stopped eating. I told my wife, I'm going to do the Daniel fast. I will not stop till God answers me. God, what is the secret for church growth? What's the— give me a unique secret. You know what he said? He said joy. Gave me 3 principles. Said, number 1, let there be joy unspeakable, full of glory. I said, joy? He said, I show you in the Bible. I said, show me. He gave me the scripture, Jeremiah 30:19. Jeremiah 30:19. Don't forget this text. Look at it. We're going to read it together. Are you ready? Jeremiah— media, please, let's be fast. Jeremiah 30:19. 30:19. 30. And then go to King James now. Hey, thank you, Lord. There is a place that I want to be, is the presence of my Father, all the hosts of heaven, God, just to worship you. Now look at this: and out of them shall proceed what? Thanksgiving and the voice of them that make— did you hear the sound of Merryman when they were singing? People dancing here. He said what? I will multiply them, they shall not be few.

I will also glorify them, they shall not be small. Once there is that shout of a king in the house, they can't stop increasing. That's what it means. Listen, listen, listen.

I know you thought that sharing flyers on the street is what multiplies us. There is the partnership of angels. I know it because we've shared flyer till my men were even arrested for sharing flyer. There was a time our church grew by more than 500% in 2 weeks. No banner, no flyer, Just principle. You know what I know about principle? If you do what you should do, the result is constant. I can also show you. I show them also. You can read Joel 1. He said everything is withered. He said the apple tree, the— everything is died in the garden. He said because joy is withered from the sons of men. If you're a very sorrowful person, you will lack inspiration.

You can't.

Where will you have it? It is with joy we draw. Go set structures around you to keep seeing what brings you joy. Every time you are the one that will read bad news where they have killed somebody, they shot somebody, that, hey, say, hey, see this life, ah, this world. That's why you are not powerful enough to change anything. And that's what the media sells— bad news. Say it: I have joy.

I have joy.

Let me give you a test. Rejoice this evening.

Amen.

It has to get to a point where people will start asking, why are you guys always shouting in your church? The shouting side is the winning side. You know, in Ezekiel 37, when God took him to the valley of dry bones— hope you know that's the valley of silence— the moment God began to move, the first thing he said, there was a noise. There can't be a move of the spirit and there's no noise.

Apostle Femi Lazarus, we'll be right back with the concluding part of this message, so stay tuned. And as you ponder on these words that you are listening to, remember, this moment is not a pause but an invitation. Every revelation you are hearing It's meant to shape your conviction, refine your perspective, and draw you deeper into the life God is calling you to live. So let your heart stay open and let your spirit stay attentive. There is more to receive, and the next part of this message carries even greater light. Welcome back.

Hallelujah!

Sit for a moment. I'm still going somewhere. Because you can make the mistake of thinking that the more anointed you are, the more funny you must look, the more strange you must appear. Don't wear your size, wear oversized, and let your thigh be bigger than your stomach. Hey, when you find people who are dangerously anointed, you You find simplicity, you find joy. It's a very— you see that thing they were doing here? If you are too holy for that, you don't know God. One time David was dancing and Micah said, hey, Maybe it was Valentine's Day, who knows. Why will you be dancing and exposing like one of the common men in Israel? You know what David said? He said, I'm dancing before the God who preferred me as a king over your father. And the Bible said her womb was shut. You know what that means? That kind of person should not multiply. That's what it means. If there's anyone trusting God for the fruit of the womb, let the barren break into singing. You get to a point— I'm angry. I feel like making some transfers this morning. Can I transfer to somebody? Maybe like 50 million shillings? You like that? Okay, okay, hold on. I don't want to— hey, but look at it. Don't worry. Maybe God will talk to me more, but for now I've not heard. I miss his call. But let's give an illustration. I pick you now. I don't think 50 million shillings is something for someone like you. Is it something that will make you happy? And I pick my phone and make a transfer, 50 million shillings. What happens to you? I still smile. I still smile.

What are you talking?

I take this one massage. Look at that. From the moment the alert enters, what happens? Even the alert is different. You see what I'm showing you? You don't wait to touch the money. The alert is enough. The moment he drops it in your spirit, leave prayer and switch to dancing.

That's how we get it done. Do you understand? Do you understand the code?

Listen, because Many times we feel it is pray until there is physical manifestation.

Hmm, pray until joy breaks open, because the way we know the King has answered is that there is joy you can't explain in your heart once it happens. Do you understand?

That's why there are things they call altar call for. In the course of the prayer, you just know there is a release even if it has not happened. When they call the second altar call, it is no longer for your kind because for you the King has responded. If my daughter is asking for something and I say, consider it done, she's saying, Daddy, please. You have moved from faith to faithlessness. You think faith is the ability to persist and just keep saying, mm-mm. It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of— you have not seen it, but you have it. Sit for a moment, let me share something with you because, um, one of the very strong manifestation of God in our ministry is healing. And I want to show you one of the stories behind that. There was a time I was so sick, I was on oxygen, and I was passed to about 5 different hospitals. It was that bad. And the doctor said, you know, for the rest of your life you have to be on this, you have to be on that. One day in the hospital, early in the morning, I started weeping. Jesus, I can't cope with this anymore. 'Where are you?' That was the first time I was saying, 'Where are you?' And guess what he said? He said, 'I've always been here. How can I be sick and you, my healing, you're here?' Be careful with the story I'm sharing with you so you don't make irrational moves, because there are people who refuse medical treatment, not because they have a word from God, but because they hate the procedure. They will die. That word was enough because faith comes through hearing. A word is the raw material for faith. Where you don't have word, you don't have faith. You must understand that. I got up and I told the doctors, 'I'm out.' They said, 'You are discharging yourself against medical advice.' I said, 'Yes, not against God's advice, so I'm out.' There were certain drugs that if I don't use, I'll be in trouble. I put them on the floor and match them. So I knew if you don't show up, I'm dead. From that day till now, I've never entered the hospital for headache. Listen, don't go home and throw your drugs, your You understand what I'm saying? When you don't have a word— I know what I'm saying. There are people we advise, take this medication. They say no. Did God say anything?

Nah, actually no.

They died. You must understand, God is not anti-treatment, but he's also a healer. There are places where medical knowledge stops, he comes in. Um, one of my spiritual daughters developed something close to her spine. She just said, Apostle, there's something as I'm touching my back, there's something. Say it's not going anywhere. I said, go get it checked up. It looked like it was forming a hole. So they checked it and she came back with the most painful result, was that they said what they see there inside, there's a tumor and it's malignant, it's cancerous. Now both of us had a mutual mentor who had something like that. It was just before they misdiagnosed him and he died. Ah, ah, ah. So she said to me, Apostle, this is trouble. I said, what did they give you to use and what are we supposed to do? She mentioned. I prayed for her, advised her to go. Later she came back and said, ah, you can pray for me. I've seen you pray for people and they got healed. Pray for me too. So I said, you know what, let's walk our faith for the next 7 days, this thing will be healed. I said, rule number 1: faith is not compatible with playing safe. It is either God all the way or not God at all. Are you aware? So I said, 7 days we confess the word. Day 1, we're praying. So you are not just sitting and waiting, engaging the word. Lord, your word say— with prayer, confession, listening to messages. Day 2, she said by herself— I'm sure she should be online watching now— Day 6, she touched her back and everything was still fresh. And then she said she wept that, God, will you allow the word of your servant fall to the ground? She slept, woke up the following day, she was doing her house chores, she swept, washed her restroom, Then at some point in the afternoon, she now remembered, hey, I've not been able to do all this work for a while. This one that have been— do you know? And then she touched her back to feel it. The hole had covered. She went to the mirror, check herself, fresh skin, everything gone. Everything I'm telling you now, because of my field, we insist that there are medical reports for healings. So if I tell you God healed cancer, I will show you the medical report before and after, at the shortest possible time, to let you know that it is God. If there's anyone who came here with any kind of growth that is abnormal, whether fibroid, whether breast lump, I don't care whether it is a lump in the eye, I don't care where it is, it dematerializes. You'll never see it again. You will never see it again. I don't know whether this is someone that I have a leading to decree over prostate enlargement. Prostate enlargement. This person has been struggling to urinate. I decree by the power in the name of Jesus, healing comes now. Healing comes now. There's something called PID, pelvic inflammatory disease. I rebuke it. I rebuke it.

Get out. Get out.

Anywhere God moves, an aspect of him drops. He's the God who healed an entire nation in one night. Let me tell you something about the miraculous. The length of the problem has nothing to do whether you'll be fine or not. They said, Jesus, if you had been here, you would have healed him. He said, but now he's been dead for 4 days. Whether sick or dead, what difference does he make? It's the same power. So whether it's an issue of blood of one day or 12 years— same power! Same thing! It is meeting up with you where you are. It is catching up with you where you are. Now let me quickly take you to where I'm going. Ah ah ah thank You Lord! Lift your hand. Say, I am God's maintenance protocol. Say, I am God's strategy. Now look up. Are you aware that, um, is there a fashion designer here now as we speak? A fashion designer? You make clothes? A lady? Okay, come. Now, if a fashion designer walks in here, it is very easy for her to notice there's a problem in styles. It's not my business. One of the major problems I had when I just got married to my wife until much recently was that when she make nails, I don't used to know. She say, make new nail every time. She's watching. So you didn't notice I've just made a new nails? Hey, one time She came into the house, she just made her nails. My daughter saw her and said, ah, Mommy, I love your nails. I say, shut up, you come and tell me, tell me that, give me the gist, don't just go and say Mommy. So I say, it's nice, he beat me to it, I was going to come tell you that. What I'm trying to show you is that if you notice a problem, it's because you are wired for the solution.

Thank you.

When I get to a place, the first thing I observe— leadership, structure, management, training— I pay attention to all. That's the first thing that nothing concerns me with. What somebody—

if you—

if I leave here, say, what person where? I don't know. But once you are equipped in that area, you'll notice it. Don't complain about what you are designed to solve. The reason you can see it is because that's your ministry. One of the things that point you to your assignment on earth is your anger. If you see what you have been designed to solve, it will make you angry. So if you look at Kenya, for instance, and there are things that gives you concern. It is the anointing on your inside. What the anointing does— listen, the anointing that teaches is not just first and foremost to teach people, it teaches you first. It opens your own eyes uniquely. That thing giving you sleepless nights, that thing that is making you feel, oh, I wish I have money to solve this— that's it. Stop asking What have you designed me to do? That thing was designed to point you there. Let me ask you a question. If a chicken lays an egg and the chicken is sitting on the egg, what is the chicken doing? It is incubating the egg, creating an atmosphere of warmth. True? So that A chick can break out of the egg. How many of you learned that in school? You learned that in school, at least through formal education. But who taught the chicken to sit on the egg? Who taught the chicken? It's a law on the inside. There is something on your inside that nobody needs to teach you. It's If you have a baby, a new baby, and you want to drop the baby, it grabs you. Who taught the baby?

It's a law.

You have an unction of the Holy One, you know all things. There are certain things you don't come and meet me and say, Apostle, what's my purpose? What's your anger? What's the law written on your heart? I'm showing you this because The way God designs for things to go well is you. So this you can't complain, why is my family so painful? I wish my parents didn't give birth to me. I wish I was born in a rich family. I wish my parents didn't separate. I wish they didn't go. I wish, I wish I was not raised by a stepmother. Hey, listen, oftentimes you are the answer of God to that family. The way God designed to end that pattern of affliction was you. Don't cry. Wipe your tears. Put yourself together. From the moment you were born, God has answered. And let me tell you this, There are parents who didn't have problems until a particular child was born. That child is not a problem. When Moses was born, they killed all the males. When Jesus was born, did it not happen? When Jesus was born, did it not happen? The same thing happened. You have to know what you are carrying that the devil is fighting. Sometimes the only way for the devil to get that child is to fight the entire family. But this is the mistake, mistake he made is, is burying you. He didn't know you are a seed that will spring up and produce a forest. Now what he intend to destroy you, you are now coming out with an anointing to now help as many as It's possible. There is nothing that can be done against us. But first, if you, if you keep crying, you will not see all these things. Stop asking, where is God? There's something he's doing.

Ah, yeah, yeah.

And that's why you don't laugh at people or mock them for fighting battles you know nothing about. You know, it's very easy to stand and say, why are they not doing like this? Till they give you. If all of us seated here as soldiers and I take Pastor T and give him a machine gun— you all have AK-47 and pistols— and I give him a machine gun and he's shooting, do you not think the devil will leave everyone else and face him? Sometimes you You know the weight of a man by the size of his battles. The kind— sometimes you know the way God trusts a man by looking at the kind of things. There are things I've counseled people about that I know I can't survive. I don't have what it takes. I look at them and say, hi, I will try as much as I can as a priest, but you are fighting a battle I don't think I can win. And the proof that I don't have what it takes is that I'm not the one fighting it. There is a God who will not allow you suffer more than what he knows you can. So being a pastor doesn't mean I'm equipped to fight every battle. There are things some of you have gone through, if I face it, I will run. Listen to what I'm saying. I don't know who that person is. That area that the devil is fighting, there's something there. See, that thing, that area that he wants to bring you to your knees, there's something there. Don't try Stand and fight. If you look at Job, you say he's a useless man, but that's the man God was bragging about. At a man's lowest point can be the point where heaven is giving a standing ovation. And say, that's my son. Don't cry, fight. Don't ask why me, why not you? If you are the devil, won't you attack you? The question why me suggests already that you don't even know who you are. I, I now understand the reason why the devil must fight my kind. I began to fight battles of life very early. In retrospect, if I was the devil, I would attack— I would have attacked me more. Do you understand that you are a kind of answer to a kind of question? I'm showing you the Bible. Many of you are seated here that you are the only hope of light that God has for that family, and that light is not going to enter into darkness. I said that light is not going to enter into darkness.

That light will not be swallowed. That light will not be swallowed. It will not be sun that said suddenly you will finish.

Ah, ah, you will finish. One time, there's something we call youth service in Nigeria. When you finish your university, you serve. I was posted— please sit down for a moment— I was posted to a school clinic. I was working in the clinic. And, um, the sick pay of the student. But because I love to teach, every once in a while I go to assist some people to teach biology, chemistry, and all that in the school. And there was a time the principal came to my duty post and didn't find me there, and they said, we are going to write to the government that he never served. And they wrote a letter and gave someone to go submit the letter, and the person refused to go. Took the letter, went to her house, and waited. I said, that was supposed to be my last day in office, then I will leave peacefully. I said, I say, what? I said, Jesus Christ, the enemies of my father's house have caught up with me again. Then God said, The power that is bringing you out of this city is more than the power trying to keep you here.

That's it.

So I understood there is an enemy who wants me to waste more time. And what is God saying? I have gone ahead of you. Listen to what I'm saying. It's a very hard thing. If you are a Mary, you have a pregnancy you can't explain. Don't look for your age mate, look for an Elizabeth who understands how to carry what can't be explained. There are places you take it to, it dies. Not everyone can handle your scar. I don't know why I'm saying this. In the process of fighting, you will have injuries. Some of them you will not be proud of. In fact, there will be times that even you will fail. Don't drop your baton and leave the race. Your mistake is that you think God wants to use the best version of you. He is designed for all of you. Rejected, divorced, broken, you lost a child, widow, widower. I don't care. It is sons of men that ask questions. With God, are you available? Listen, I'm saying this because there are some of you here who can't proceed into certain ministries you have because an aspect of your life didn't work. Go back to your calling now. Get back to it. Stop that nonsense. Anyone who doesn't have the capacity to call you does not have what it takes to stop you. Your problem is that you think the message is communicated through your perfection. Even your scar that you survived is a message. There was a time in my life that it was in the market, they laid clothes on the ground that they were dropping money on for me.

Scoofies.

I know what that pain looks like. That's why I give.

I can—

I'm touched with it. It is not every preacher that has your message, and I think that's why this place resonates so much with me. When I came, I said this is the Tabernacle of David. Everything here is ministering healing.

I don't know why.

The widow, everything. You may not discern that, but I'm I'm telling you, know where you are.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, I don't know if it happens here, but we are just used to burying wounded soldiers as if God doesn't heal. God doesn't bury his wounded soldiers, he heals them and put them back in their place. Some of you have left certain part of your calling because something didn't work.

Go back.

Who asked you to stop? Who stopped you? There are powerful intercessors here who stopped praying because something didn't work. Are you aware that your ministry is not fulfilled through what is working. Wait, God forgave you, you refuse to forgive yourself. Who are you? That's pride.

You are arrogant.

You know why? Because you feel feel a whole me. That's why you— that's why you fail in the first place.

Who are you?

When God forgives you, forgive yourself.

Move on.

There is now therefore no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. Forget the rhetorics. I want to show you a text of the Bible. Would you like to see it? Let me show you the text. You read this text for us in Message translation. Translation. Psalms chapter number 51, verse 16, Message. I was going somewhere else before, but I sensed the Holy Spirit has diverted me. I don't know, it could be for just one person. Psalms 51, uh, Huh? Verse 16.

Uh-huh.

Not 6 now, verse 16. Look at this, just read this. Going through the motions doesn't please you. A flawless performance is nothing to you. Listen, there are reasons why those who feel they are better, God can't do much with them because they don't have what it takes to exemplify God's love is acceptance. If Jesus fed 5,000 and there was basket left and he said gather the fragment, does not— does that not tell you something about God? If he can gather fragment of bread and fish, do you think he will leave you to waste? He didn't let bread waste and fish. Is it you that will waste. Look at the next verse, verse 17, quickly. I learned God worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice.

Wow. Femi Lazarus.

We are trying to set up a trust fund all over the country, Nigeria, for girls who have teenage pregnancy, so they can subscribe to that and then they can have money for antenatal and even for delivery.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

Does that mean God can't use them? Who is it that says a thing when God has not spoken? Where is this thing coming from? That thing that can condemn people that should be helped is not God. If we know who God is, you will love lavishly. All this version of Christianity that we are becoming bitter, everybody is insulting, abusing— that's not God. God picks up, he heals, he strengthens. And sometimes when he's done raising, you know, say, 'Thank you for healing me.' but this thing you want to use me for, I can't do it. He said, go, I have not changed my mind. You are still the one I'm going to use. What I said then is what I'm still saying.

Go.

Say, God, but I'm broken. He said, that is why you need grace the most. Listen to what I'm saying. I am saying this again. That thing you drop, go and pick it.

Thank you. Thank you.

God called you as a woman. He said, I want you to go and heal homes. You now say my marriage didn't work. What does that have to do with your calling?

Cool.

Your problem is that you want to be the object of the testimony. Testimony. Now that that didn't work, Christ becomes the object. Christ. Because if care is not taken, all our messages will be from privileges. I have listened to many messages and I look at it as in, these people don't know what they are You hear things like, before you marry a girl, check the mother. Ah, from a white— a black pot, you bring out white ugali. From black pot, from black pot, people are not their backgrounds. People can have parents that failed. That doesn't mean they are doomed to fail. If everything is going well for you, be humble. And if you have dropped the race because things are not fine, go back. I am calling every wounded soldiers to go back to the barracks. The battle line is not complete till you take your place. And as long as we keep having people who are going back, we are all vulnerable and exposed because that thing he wants to do, he has not changed. His mind. Man is God's management protocol. He is God's answer. He is God's response. He is God's strategy. That's who you are. If you read, which is where I'm going, but I'm not going to go deeper into that because of time. If you read that Genesis 3:22, where man fell Please sit for a moment. God, he used a very strange word. I look at that word, I say, what is this? How do you use that word for a fallen man? Genesis 3:22, look at it. That's a very strange word to use for a man who fell. Go to King James. Okay, we come back to Mercy, but go to King James. How do you look at Adam and Eve who failed, then said, behold, he's now like one of us in the fallen state. He said, look at it, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever. I think Message breaks down down because you will not understand that word 'to know good and evil.' He's talking about something there. Look at Message. He said the man has become like one of us, capable, capable of knowing everything ranging from good to evil. I think Amplified also breaks it down in an amazing way. It's not just good and evil, there's something missing there. He said, behold, the man has become like one of us, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, to know how to distinguish between evil and the blessing. Look at it, um, between good and evil— sorry, blessing and calamity. What that means is that now he has the capacity to manifest evil. Or good. He has what it takes to manifest the blessing or calamity. He said, but don't let him touch the Tree of Life in this fallen state. The danger of that is that whatever one he chooses will be permanent. But let's, let's, let's look at that. Have you seen people that there are few people who make decisions that affect the whole human race, and sometimes those decisions are not good. Sometimes some people get angry and talk about the big pharmaceutical companies.

They are doing—

it is the capacity of man. It can manifest extreme good or extreme evil. You know the problem with we that believe we are good people? You have made that small place your jurisdiction. All your thinking, all your thinking does not benefit you, Mairis. You will live You eat, you marry, you give birth, you grow old, stay in your retirement homes, and die. We are not— we are not thinking the capacity to influence and affect human race. We are not thinking it.

Man has the capacity.

We are not thinking We, we have reduced it to the ability to scabash in church. What do you bring out of it? Yes, sir. And I want to tell you this: whatever you are not conceiving, you can't help. God is not going to use you by surprise, that what he's doing with you, say, ah, it shocked me. It will be the manifestation of the burden you have been nursing.

The place where your jurisdiction is mapped is on your inside.

God taught me a principle: the people you are not speaking to can't hear you.

It's a principle.

If you are not speaking to Africa, Africa can't hear you. When I came here, one of the things I noticed here is that you are not speaking to Rohag. When he wanted to bring me up, he said, speak to Kenya. Now that's not a statement, it's a consciousness that whatever goes on here, Kenya is listening. When we stay in Nigeria and watch Rema Fest, It's not Kenya meeting again. It's now for all of us. We are watching from all over the world, and the media people will put something there, indicate where are you watching from— Kenya, any other place, Europe and all that. What's that? You are mapping with consciousness. That living for yourself is anti-covenant. You know, Abraham thought— he and Sarah, they thought that their problem was childlessness. Okay, we agree. But wait, Do you know the person who was more desperate about their child?

God.

And I'll tell you why. Because God was separating a man from him to trace the lineage for the Christ.

That the Christ must come is a settled matter.

So it matters more to God that Sarah gets a child than it matters to Abraham.

But you cannot get Isaac as long as all you want is a child. You must first father nations on your knees through intercession to be qualified to give birth to this one. This one is not for those who want a child because it's not a child but a nation.

And that's why when God came, God will have to bring Isaac from him and say, sacrifice it. The child died, but the nation emerged. The love you have for him, you will not let this one enter Pastor mentioned something similar, and these are our own burdens. What's her name now? Um, Anna kept going to Shiloh every year as long as her prayer was to show her other— the other wife. Oh Lord, show them, let them know you can answer prayer. Pepe them with my answers. God is not on the journey with you to pepe anybody.

He has his own agenda and that's all he's concerned about.

The moment our prayers switch from give me to there's a need in your house, Ofeni Lazarus are misbehaving, give me one that can stay as a consolation in your house.

Done.

Will linger long because the answer is still about you. You think, you think you are the one interested in getting married. What is your marriage tied to that is bigger than you? You think it's just, oh Lord, this Valentine nobody send me flowers again. Um, 'If only you can give me one nice guy, let him be tall, dark, and handsome.' What are you talking about? When you switch from 'me' to 'kingdom,' now you get God's attention.

That's how things happen. I don't want money because I want to eat. I want men to be blessed.

If you want daily bread, you get inspiration at the level of daily bread.

If you are thinking national thought, solving national problem, you get inspiration at that level.

Stop being about me. There are problems God wants to solve. He wants people that will go with him on the journey to show the world how much he's a provider, how much he's a healer. Let me tell you something I was telling Benny Lazarus. God's idea of wealth is humbling. In economics, you are taught the management of scarce resources. That's not the way God thinks, because with him it can't be scarce. So the whole concept of economics is flawed in the first place. But hey, look at it.

It—

can I, can I have a glass cup? Let me have a glass cup. Just bring one.

Thank you.

Bring it. If I put salt and fill this cup with it. It doesn't matter how rich you are, there's only a portion you can take. You cannot arrogantly say, I will use everything to make noodles. You kill yourself. The wealth of God hidden inside the salt humbles your appetite.

It—

whether you have money or you don't have, we can all use the same portion. I'm showing you God's concept of wealth. It doesn't matter how rich you are, there's only a portion of water you can drink. You take too much, you drown, you kill yourself. It doesn't matter how rich you are, none of us here is paying for oxygen. The most important things are made available lavishly. When we get to that point that we understand that things are only scarce because sons have not risen— I heard Pastor talk about making housing available for an average person. Now that's kingdom. That's not the level you are thinking about rent. Once it goes beyond you, your children, your household, what you will eat, what you will drink, you have God's attention. Man has capacity to manifest evil. He has capacity to manifest good. He has the capacity to manifest calamity. He has the capacity to manifest the blessing. We will no longer be able to say Kenya is poor, not because the president got better, but because God's sons arose to show the government of heaven. See, let me tell you this. I have, I have, I have organizations that is concerned about statecraft, narrative building, and all that. African pan-africanism— I understand all those concepts. We run organizations on that. But I don't think much is still going to happen. Let me tell you what I think. I think sons will arise to give a different definition to governance, that those who are your staff, they are experiencing a different economy. At certain level, you don't pay minimum wage. Because you don't have minimum inspiration. I told those who are working with me as we're entering the new year, I have an instruction from God concerning them. Go and make them rich. Go and make them rich. There are certain level, there is no salary. You look at someone and say, you know what, take $50,000. You start something with it, we'll come back and see. If that's the way you are thinking, even luck will see you and run. I am saying this because for some of us, this is the paradigm we need to shift into. Once you understand this, there are things about God you start seeing Femi Lazarus. People of God, I tell you this under God: money is not scarce. You may be the only one who doesn't have it. There are things God gives men, they will never beg again till they die. Do you understand that? Man has now become as one of us. What have you chosen? I show you two scriptures, I round up. Deuteronomy 30:19, to show you about choice. Deuteronomy 30:19. I call heaven and earth— that's the scripture. Project it so everybody can see. Can we, can we get up on our feet and read this together? I'm wrapping up now. Let's read together. 1, 2, 3, go! I call heaven and earth to record this day against you.

Life death.

What do you say you should choose?

Life.

Life.

Choose the blessing. I've seen people also till they die. Choose the blessing. Let me show you the last scripture. Deuteronomy chapter number 8, verse 18. 8, verse 18. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant. Now oftentimes we are focused on power to to get wealth, but that's the purpose. There is a covenant he had with Abraham as touching your seed possessing the gates of their enemies. That thing, um, I was having a conversation with some of my people in Canada. We were speaking about the Nigerian community in Canada and also America that as individuals we are very successful, we do well— best doctors, best engineers, best this, best that— but as a community, we are always nowhere to be found. You see, the Jews, they understand this. The Pakistanis, they understand it. The Indians, they understand it. Maybe now here in Kenya, the Soma, they understand it. Look at the body, different parts. That's God showing you how life— even church, we say body of Christ— is showing you all ministries will not speak alike. Different ministries are a kind of solution to people's kind of problems. We don't all have to be armed for it to be good. Ah, do you understand what I'm saying? I have given you dunamis. How is the blessing communicated? In words. A man was sharing a story, something that happened with Bishop Oyedepo. He did something. Bishop wanted to pray for him. He said, come, just pass through that door. And as he was passing, he called him back and said, that is how your mate will be looking at you ahead. What did Isaac give Jacob?

What?

What was Esau expecting?

What?

That a word can be sent in your direction and then that's it, your life no longer remains the same. Why is it that we receive so many words and still go back the same? Our consciousness. I speak the word of the Lord tonight. Everyone under my voice, the sound of my voice, enter into a a new shift of divine inspiration. Ah, you guys don't shout amen here in Kenya? Entered into the angelic dimension of the blessing. From this moment, there is a shift in perspective. The other time I was talking about people who got so discouraged and left some of the things they were doing because things didn't go well. Some of them— some of you feel that certain anointing is no longer there. Lift your hands, I want to show you something. Everything that you once had that you lost touch of because you think God is angry with you. The manifestation that backs up that calling, the same presence used to experience, the same weight of glory upon your life, that same thing you used to see. I stretch my hands all over this place.

Let the fire as a sign that the Lord has not left you Let soldiers take back their place.

Let mantles be restored. Let fresh fire, fresh oil everywhere.

Let people find their voices again. Let sight, fresh insight, onction everywhere.

Take back what is yours. Let intercessors find their place again.

Let apostolic voices find their place again. Let the fire fall.

Let prophetic voices find their place again.

Let the anointing for creativity, the Daniel kind of anointing, the Joseph kind of anointing, let it rise.

Let nation builders emerge from this place.

Let nation builders, let creative men, let them rise! Let solution providers!

The heavens are opened over you. You will enter into a new paradigm, a new weight of the anointing.

Let the floodgates of heaven open all over again!

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