PROPHETIC PRAYER CONTACT || 23RD JANUARY 2024

Femi Lazarus leads a prophetic worship service warning against counterfeit prophets and false teachings in Nigerian churches. The message emphasizes spiritual alignment, accountability to spiritual fathers, and staying rooted in local church community rather than online worship. Speakers cite 2 Chronicles 20 and Isaiah 32 to illustrate divine protection and call for repentance, fasting, and first-fruit giving.
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Femi Lazarus, begin to pray in the spirit all over this place. Drop the guitars on the monitors, drop the guitar on the monitors. Just come on, now that you can see him, now that you have your eyes on Jesus, keep that connection. Come on.
Come on, don't stop, don't stop.
Don't stop, don't stop.
Heaven open, heaven open, heaven open, heaven open.
Reduce the bass on the monitors. Reduce the bass on the monitors.
Holy man, this guy.
Sing it like you love him.
I never see your time go. This guy, God. Sing it out.
This guy, gosh.
This guy, God, I never see your time go. This guy, God. Blessed, blessed be your holy name.
I want you to keep singing it. Come on, keep singing it.
Say, He is my Lord. I never, never, I never see your time go. I never, never, He is my Blessed, blessed be your holy name.
Now let your words catch up with your heart right now. Lift your hands. Let your words catch up with your heart. Let that connection— yeah, we're going deeper.
Come on.
Now let the waves of the Lord carry you. One more time.
Blessed be your holy name.
Now all eyes closed. Keep your eyes on him and just, just love him. Just worship in that silence a little bit.
Keep your eyes on him. Woo!
Yeah, it's rising from deep within your heart.
Can you feel his love crashing over?
Can you feel the embrace of Jesus all over you? Can you feel, can you hear his voice he's calling you!
Calling you! Uh— callin' ya! Lift your hands and love the Lord!
He's loving you right now!
Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now! Whoa! Lips yours.
Blessed be your holy name.
Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be your holy name.
Sometimes we move from song to song and the Lord is not done with you yet. Come on, travel with the sound right now. All over this room.
Blessed, blessed be your holy name. Yeah, that's right. Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be your holy name.
Just whisper it.
Blessed be your holy name. Don't look to the left, don't look to the right. Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be Holy, blessed be your holy name. Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be your holy name. Now lift your hands, lift your hands. Lift your hands! Yeah! Blessed be the Lord! Blessed be the Lord! Blessed be the Lord! Blessed be the Lord! Blessed be the Lord! He's about to raise you up, raise you up, raise you up, raise raise you up to another level, another level, another level. Keep your eyes on Jesus, on Jesus, on Jesus.
He's about to raise you up.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and enter his courts with praise. Raise your voice!
I expect you to keep your eyes on the King. The audience of one who stands before you right now, who is in front of you, what will you do?
All we want is fire.— for you to be glorified, for you to be lifted. All I want is for you to be glorified.
Jesus, that's all we are here—
all we want It's fine, you'll be glorified, you'll be lifted up. All he wants is for you to be loved.
Praise God! Hallelujah! What a great joy to be here with you this morning. I give God praise. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Who is excited? Who is excited? Who is excited to be here? Who is excited? I'm always excited. I woke up with a definite word from the Lord. When God spoke to me this morning, ah, I knew God, God has his people in mind all the time. Can we give God praise for his word that is not scarce amongst us? Let's thank him for his help. Let's thank him for his intervention all the time. Let's thank God for helping us. Let's thank him for his grace that is rich and his mercy that is rich towards us. Come on, go ahead and bless his holy name. Because he deserves all praise and he deserves all honor and he deserves all adoration. So go ahead, let's give him that praise, let's give him that honor, let's give him that adoration, because there's absolutely none like him. Come on, go ahead and bless his holy name. We bless you, Lord Jesus. Rende coste, plante, crédite, panarande, kebos, te finis. Oh yes. Rente kostoplante ke fi isto plahai. Men de kostoplante ke rosh te fende ke bai. Rende kupaya, fande ke bele tisto fedi. Oh, we bless you, Jesus. We bless your holy name. We thank you, Father. We give you all the praise. We give you all the glory. We give you all the honor. We give you all adoration. There's absolutely none like you, Lord. There's none to be compared with you. You are the Lord of Hosts yourself, and we thank you, and we give you all honor, we give you all praise, we give you all adoration. Oh, thank you, Father. We bless you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. We bless you. Can we give glory and praise to this great God, the Monarch of Heaven? Yes, the Monarch of Heaven, the Judge of the Universe. The Lord of Hosts is his name. Eloi, the Lord who sees me. Let's give him praise. Let's give him praise. Let's give him praise. Jehovah Sabaoth, the Lord of Angels Army. Oh, we thank you. You speak a thing and it becomes a law. You speak your word, it doesn't fall to the ground. Who is to be compared to you? Who is like you, Lord? You are glorious in holiness. You are fearful in praise. You do wonders. You perform miracles. Holy, holy are you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name we're praying. There's a woman, there's a woman sitting down right now and saying, Lord, I just trust you for the fruit of the womb. The Lord said, I have answered your prayer and I've heard your cry. By this time next year you will come with your own child, says the Lord. You are a woman, a woman, a young woman, that's, that's your only prayer in this season. Now God has given me a word for us this morning. It is a word of realignment. Then I believe that God is bringing this realignment so that he can be able to help you now get into something. There's something God wants to do. But he needs to put this realignment. Is that clear now? Very important. Now look at it, the book of 2 Chronicles chapter number 20. 2 Chronicles chapter number 20. 2 Chronicles chapter number 20. 2 Chronicles 20. Please turn your Bibles there. 2 Chronicles 20:20. I want you to project this. 2 Chronicles 20, verse 20. Now this morning is a very, very serious one, and I want you to please listen. I'm leaving milk now, we are going into strong meat. Is that okay? Now we are going into what? Strong meat.
Aha.
I know yesterday many of you left here inspired. Today you are going to live here to obey God. We're going into strong meat. So they rose up early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, hear me, O Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, believe in the Lord your God. So shall you be established. Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. Believe in the Lord your God, so shall he be established, and believe in his prophet, so shall he prosper. One of the things that Jesus warned about as touching the last days is that many shall be offended. Why? Because of the first thing he said: there shall be false prophets. So when there are false prophets and false teachers and false pastors and false apostles and false evangelists, many becomes— they become offended. They become offended at the operation, at the office. There are many who are in churches but have said to themselves, I only have business with the world. Anything beyond that, count me out. And they cannot enter into what God has for them because they have set their heart— the devil has allowed an offense of disappointment somewhere to make them think in certain ways, and they miss God gallantly. It is the plague of this generation.
They've said to themselves, I only have business with the world.
Anything beyond the word, count me out.
And God does not just shift men through the word, though it may come as a spoken word, but he shifts men through obedience to his instructions.
Then you hear things like, know God for yourself. While it is important that you know God, there is the place of his prophet. And to everything that there is fake, all right, there are originals. People have asked me, why are there no fake of other religions? Why don't we have fake this, fake that? I asked them a question: if a poison gets expired, does it become more poisonous or less poisonous? Talk to me now. If a poison gets expired, does it become more poisonous or less poisonous? What about a sniper? Somebody wants to drink sniper. And is checking expiry date, the person is not ready to die. What is fake cannot be counterfeited. Only original can be counterfeited. The reason why there are fake this and fake that in Christendom is because there are originals. And what the devil wants to do is to bring you to the point where you can no longer follow God because of your experience with the fake. And sometimes many prophetic instructions that God gave to people in their spiritual family where they are planted will never do it with the excuse that they have seen fake everywhere. It is time for us to wake up. When you believe in the Lord your God, the Bible says that you'll be established. But when you believe in his prophet, the Bible said you what? Prosper. So there are still genuine prophets that God set over his children. In every spiritual family God has planted you, stay rooted, stay there, believe what God is doing in the house.
Stay committed, stay committed, stay grounded, stay rooted, go deep.
Don't cherry-pick instruction from family that is not yours.
Let your root go deep there.
Once God said this is the fellow to follow, go deep, sir, and humble yourself enough to follow. Humble yourself enough. Believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established. Believe in his prophet, so shall you prosper. I remember one time we were going to pray. We went somewhere to preach. Anyways, these are not people I was directly leading, but there were those who followed me there, or they were the ones available. And this is a matter of about, um, um, 13 years ago. It's not the recent now. And I finished ministering that night. We have had thousands of people give their life to Christ. And witches and wizards were under the power of the Holy Ghost being delivered. It was a serious work. And as we get back to the lodge, the Lord said to me, tell everyone to wait outside with you and pray. He said to me specifically, the devil is waiting for somebody in the room. I said, guys, the Lord said the devil is waiting for somebody in the room. So let's pray.
One of them was so excited. Oh, we have won the victory tonight! See what God has done! Hey, hallelujah! He was singing about it carnally.
So he opened the door to enter into his room that night. The rest of us were looking at him like this. God said the devil is waiting for somebody. He said, why can't God do the one Even Jesus, there was time to take this boy around, Savior of the world. They escaped with him. The guy opened the door, a king scorpion dropped on his hand and stung him on his vein.
King scorpion. They had to tie him. He was weeping and screaming, weeping and screaming, I'm dying. They had to tie him.
When you believe in the Lord your God you shall prosper. When you believe in his prophet, you shall do what? Now, never let your heart get to a point where it is now set in disobedience your spiritual family because of experience around disappointment.
No.
When people get into a relationship and it doesn't go well and there's breakup, do they go and marry donkey? Talk to me now. Do they go and marry donkey and say, human being, they are true, they are betrayers, they betray my heart, they betray me so much, now I shall now marry this donkey. This donkey, your name shall be Mrs. Koyi Koyi.
The donkey, I'll marry you now. Oh goat, you are my husband. Have you seen anyone who received heartbreak and went to marry a snake?
It is only in Christianity who say I'm disappointed, I'm no longer doing church. Go back to church now. Go back to obeying instructions now. In fact, there are those who have got to the point where they say, I don't give any offering, I don't give tithes, let me check what this church is about. Who do you deceive? The devil wants to make sure that the pathway into your destiny is counterfeited. That's what he wants to make sure. He wants to make sure he pollutes your heart. As against that pathway so that you will not be able to do anything in that regard. I want us to pray a very simple prayer this morning, and I'm going to show you another scripture. I receive the spirit of obedience to walk and believe, all right, God, in the life of the prophet you have planted in my life.
A prophet—
listen, a prophet does not have to be called Professor and so and so.
That the words coming out each day, they are sent words specifically for you. Anywhere God has planted you, that there are sent word that you sit down, you know, this is a word sent to me. For somebody this morning, what you are hearing now is a sent word. It has gotten so bad that someone said to themselves, even if I'm getting—
as long as I like this person, I don't care what anybody has to say. I don't do church to that level. Nobody can tell me what not to do. Well, nobody chooses for you, but you can escape many problems just by being accountable. Accountability must not die in the Nigerian church because you want to be woke.
Accountability must not die. There must be somebody that God has given charge over your life. There must be. You can't live as a feebed.
Nobody does it and survive. Accountable—
there must be a place of accountability.
Anybody who follows our ministry knows I follow the apostolic pattern. Every year you see Bishop Oyedepo go on his knees and his father lays hands on him. You see Dr. Paul Enetcheh, these are— you see the father lays hands on him. You see Dr. David Umeje, the father lays hands on him. Under whose hands are you growing? Under whose hands are you growing?
You just junk up messages, messages, and you are combining okra plus yam and you add a salad and you wonder why there is spiritual constipation.
Can't do well.
Under whose hands are you growing? What is the systematic pattern of God grooming you? What is happening? We must go back to the ancient pattern. We will not forsake the pattern we formed. This generation cannot roam free as a bird.
It's time to embrace your God-given prophet in your life and stay there.
You can't roam free as a bird.
You have set yourself to attend different churches in a way that when you are missing, nobody knows. There is no account for your soul. You can't continue this year. It is very easy to say amen to prayers, but this is where it gets tough. Give me this spirit of obedience! Reconnect me back to my source— every instruction I've refuted. Father, help my heart get aligned back now.' Pray that prayer like your life depends on it. Prayer up here like your life depends on it. Pray that prayer like your life depends on it. Pay that prayer like your life depends on it.
Pray that prayer like your life depends on it.
Play that prayer like your life depends on it.
Pray that prayer like your life depends on it, because it does.
Pray that prayer like your life depends on it, because it does. Pray it like your life depends on it. Pray it like your life depends on it. Pray that prayer like your life depends on it. In Jesus' mighty name we're praying. Now listen to me. God warned me years back, and he told me, pride doesn't go before a fall, pride goes before all falls. Pride doesn't go before a fall. Anywhere there's a fall, there's pride. One of the, one of the problem people have with fathers is that fathers give speed limit, they give break. I remember several times I've wanted to do many things in a rush, and I know I have to be accountable. Whether you believe it or not, there are no decisions I make in ministry today without submitting them. I will call. This is what we're about to see.
This is what we're about to do. This is all. And every time the pattern is the same.
Have you checked? Have you confirmed?
Have you checked this? Sometimes I will go back and check, and I'll see that I should— I would have— I would have chopped stone.
And I said, the, the righteous man will hear correction and escape from danger. And I have escaped many things that plagued my generation. By listening.
One time our ministry was just starting and I thought I heard God saying I should go to another country for a work that is not strong where I am. Now you see people make decisions, you, you know this decision is out of alignment.
They are merely trying to get ahead of their colleagues because there is no voice of fatherhood. There's nobody saying don't do this now, you can do this later. But don't do it now.
Don't go this direction.
No, there are, there are homes where the woman has nobody she can report the man to. In the days they were single, they were both enjoying the freedom and lack of accountability. That same freedom has become the rope with which devil is gripping the family now. There can't be lasting peace, no matter the movie you watch, until you go back and find a way of accountability.
Nobody is designed to be led by the wisdom on their own head.
There must be somebody who sees what you don't see, who hears what you don't hear, who know what you don't know to lead you.
Even Jesus learnt obedience through the thing which he suffered. There must be. This generation cannot roam like a bird.
When I say this is tough this morning, it is. There must be.
Don't join.
Today I'm teaching about the spirit of Jezebel in church, the attempt of a force to control the narrative in the church, the spirit of Jezebel and the escape of Elijah. You see, many people are now afraid to say many things in church because they'll be dragged. January is ending, they will start calling all pastors fools and thieves because they are saying people should give first fruit. In our church, we give first fruit. And people say, now maybe Apostle be afraid to say publicly. Afraid of who? Afraid of what? The people will stop listening to his messages? Let them stop. When God commands a generation to hear, they must listen. See, we, we must wake up back to righteousness. Wake up back to obedience.
Let me show you a scripture.
You don't know, maybe you've never seen the scripture, but let me show you a scripture.
Are you ready to see the scripture?
Isaiah chapter number 32, verse 2. Isaiah chapter number 32. All right, Isaiah 32. Let me be sure it is. Yeah, I think it is. Isaiah 32, verse 2.
Now let me show you.
Look at it from verse 1. Isaiah 32, from verse 1. Isaiah 32 from verse 1. Somebody said, I want to be accountable to somebody, they end up manipulating this, this. You know, I like to answer those questions carefully because sometimes when instructions are tough, we call it manipulation. When you follow, it is not a journey of agreement. Agreement is you were going here and they said go and you went. Obedience is you were going here and the voice said go there and you went. We must be careful how we affect the heart of a generation. Isaiah 32:1, say a king—
sorry, a reign of righteousness. Behold, a king will reign in righteousness and princes will rule with justice. A man shall be— a man will be as a hiding place from the wind. And a cover from tempest, as rivers of water in dry place, and a shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
So God is saying, I will raise coverings, I will raise coverings, men who are genuine spiritual coverings, genuine spiritual coverings. Genuine spiritual coverings. Genuine spiritual coverings. Obadiah 1. Obadiah chapter number 1, verse 21. Obadiah 1, verse 21. Then Savior shall come to Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. So God is placing some capacities in men.
You see, while I've experienced this I've experienced this.
You, when you experience bad relationship, you still go for another one when you heal. If you go to a church, say your heart was hot, heal and go to church again.
Don't do online, don't do online. Heal and go to church.
God said it's time for the solitary to be set back in families. Father, show me my own spiritual lineage. And if you are, if you are, if you are injured from any injury Help me heal. Now listen to this, listen to this. I speak from about 15 years of experience, and I tell you something, that many of the things people say they need to be healed from in church were things that were actually done right for their destiny, but they were not patient to see God. But God help me, you are the one that set the solitary in families. Help my feet to be established in my spiritual lineage. Now, these are not prayers of give me gold, give me car, but these are prayers that will aid longevity. So pray that prayer loud and clear now. Pray that prayer loud and clear now.
Pray that prayer loud and clear now.
Pray it, lift your voice.
Help me, Lord, to be firmly established and rooted in my spiritual lineage.
In the place where you have placed me.
Anywhere God has placed your word, lie down there.
He has placed your word there.
Please help me, Lord, to be firmly established and to be rooted. Give me the art of understanding. Give me the lens of discernment. Give me the spirit of obedience that I may see, that I may discern and I may know, in the name of Jesus. Oh yes, help me now, help me now, help me, Lord, help me, help me, help me. Pray that prayer like your life depends on it. Pray that prayer like your life depends on it. Pray that prayer like your life depends on it.
Oh, help me. Shinterogo, shinterogo, shinte. Renderu go sente, ru go shente, ru go shente. Please pray it. Pray this prayer with everything that makes you you. Help me, help me, help me. Then if you have got to a point where there is now fear, fear about church, don't, don't just go about saying, oh, this pastor—
somebody broke your heart long ago, but you still dated another person. Don't, don't— when it comes to church, don't be unforgiving. Not your forgiving. You must ask God to help you heal. The reason why there's problem there is because the devil knows God is there. You must get back in the line. You can't drop church because you are angry. No, you, you may leave a church, but don't leave church. Don't wander away from the path of understanding. Don't say this church thing, now I'm done. No, don't. You can't go anywhere. God has a lot for you there.
Don't let discouragement shut you down.
Help my feet to be better established. Help my feet to be better established. Help my feet to be better established and do what is right. And do what is right. Help me heal and do what is right.
In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Now, many of you will agree with me, you were raised in the home, however brief it is, either direct parent or indirect, but there must be a setting. And one of the things you can agree with me is that it is not always the most perfect of places. And so is spiritual family. Somebody said one time, he said, I want to join a perfect church. So the pastor said, I want to join a perfect church. The pastor said there is no perfect church. But when you see one, don't join. Say, why? He said, even if the church was perfect, you are not. From the moment you join, you become— the church becomes imperfect. There will be tribulations, there will be challenges, there will be issues, there will be things that you don't understand sometimes, there will be things that sometimes you don't— you don't— you are not having more of it. But a man who is strong is known in the days of adversity. He that faints in the days of adversity, the Bible says, his strength is little. Are you feeling what I'm saying? You say, ah, this man started preaching last year. No, January 5th makes it 15 years of unbreaking, unbroken commitment to the gospel. 15 years. I know it's a brief time, and in these 15 years I have seen all kind. And I know, and I tell myself, more will come, but I will not drop this gospel that God has given for nobody, either out of discouragement or out of— I know what names have I not been called.
What names?
Some of you get blessed by teaching, but the teaching also attacks some things, and those that it attack in their life fight it. This is a generation that when it blesses, it agrees with them. They praise it.
But when it doesn't agree with them, they say, hey, don't mind him, blah blah blah blah. We have not been called to excite them.
No, we have been called to declare the counsel of God in truth and love and establish his will. Praise God. I see somebody becoming strong. I said I see somebody becoming strong. I said somebody becoming strong. Bishop shared this story one time. And he said, he told his pastors, no, he called one of his pastors in either Liberia, is it? I can't remember that, Liberia. And he said to him, whatsoever it is you are doing in your house now, leave that place and run. Leave your house now and run.
Leave your house now.
And the man left without picking anything with his family. 5 minutes later, rebel group stormed the house and they were looking for the Nigerian pastor. See, they wanted to kill him. But a righteous man will hear and escape from many troubles. So yeah, never, never let's get to a point in the church where because of many things we despise prophecy. Prophetic ministry.
We must— the prophetic— listen what I'm saying.
I'm not talking about a person, but the prophetic ministry in Nigeria is under attack. And sometimes the fact that there are many counterfeit has made people just doubt everything.
Now people don't mind hearing the word.
The moment they hear, 'Thus says the Lord,' they are shut out. No, God still speaks. God still has prophet. God still has sons, and they are genuine. God— you can't choose the way God should speak to you. No, that's pride. You can't choose the way God should lead you. No, that's arrogance.
You can't choose the method he should use to save you.
That'll be you assuming too much. We must humble ourselves and heal and pick ourselves up from the dust of the past and deal again. Praise God. Are you following what I'm saying? We must go back to the ancient pattern. We must go back to the apostolic template. This generation must not be roaming free like a bird. There must be somebody who can tell you, sit down. Somebody who can tell you, please come. Somebody who can tell you, this is not right. Somebody who can say, you did not sow lentil. This was not the way we taught you. There must be a voice of accountability.
There must be. And when God gives you one, never let your pride rise against them.
Don't let's be that generation that killed their prophet and insult their teachers.
No.
Are you following what I'm saying here? Very important. Now this year, pray for the spirit of discernment. I refuse to be confused as touching this subject matter. I refuse to be confused.
Leave.
I want to hear your voice loud and clear from where you are praying now.
I refuse to be confused.
Open my eyes wide, let me see it.
Open my eyes wide.
God still speaks. God has men. Please pray, please pray, please pray, please pray. Lift your voice loud and clear and pray. Rendere ogo shente, ogo shente. Rendere ogo shente, ogo shente. Rendere ogo shente, ogo shente. Please pray. In Jesus' mighty name we are praying. Now let me give you a balance. There are people who are in places that are outrightly demonic. A young girl is under a man you call father that is touching you indiscriminately—
run and report him. And now even boys can be under a man and he's touching them— run. Some of you are in places where there are dark demonic operations manipulating lives and confusing people.
Run!
Because when we speak like this, we must not endorse counterfeit. But that there is counterfeit doesn't mean there's no original. Praise God! One of the signs that you are in the right spiritual family is that they are not struggling to believe your Father knows you by name and knows you prophetically. You are in a family where every time they talk, they shut down your purpose. You have not found the right place.
They shut down the uniqueness of God's operation upon your life. That's the prejudice of that lineage.
No, pray again. Pray again. Are you following what I'm saying here? Very important. But you must understand that in following, you will not always agree. Somebody say, oh, I need teaching about this area, Apostle, how can you help me? Go on our Telegram, go on Spotify. Go on Apple Music. I don't know all this, but you have many of those platforms. And go and search for my teachings on spiritual fathering. There are many things I've taught carefully and meticulously for the body of Christ, knowing fully well that a day like this will come and they will be needed. Meticulously taught with scriptures, highly doctrinal, no excess. Find it there. Praise God. Hallelujah. I said praise God. Are you still with me this morning? All right, so like I said, this morning is a serious one because God has sent me with a note of what? Warning. A note of warning. A note of warning. A note of warning. A note of warning. Go back to the instructions of your lineage. Please go back. Please go back. God sometimes I just say, okay, this year this is the person you should follow. Follow the teachings, follow this, this, follow well, and don't pick convenient instructions. Follow well, follow well, follow well. The Bible said God set the solitary in families, but the rebellious will dwell where? Dry land. You pray against any form of dryness. Please, now I want to be on your feet to pray this prayer. Every form of dryness I reject them now. Set me in my own place in the name of Jesus. I refuse to dwell in dry land. You look at the experience of people, you know that it looks like the heavens are shut.
I refuse to dwell in dry land. I will not operate under closed heavens. No way. I will not operate under closed heavens.
No. No, no, I will not operate under closed heavens. I will not operate under closed heavens. I refuse to dwell in dry land. I refuse, I refuse, I refuse, I refuse, I refuse to dwell under closed heavens. Oh yes. I refuse to dwell under closed heavens! I refuse to dwell on that close heaven! I refuse to dwell on those clothes of us— Rende ke boroko shente rugoshinte rende rugo shente rugoshinti. I refused to dwell under closed heavens! I refused to dwell on their closets! I refused to dwell under closer ones! I refused to dwell on our cousins! In Jesus' mighty name we pray! In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Let me say this to you: do not be afraid. I know if I allow people share stories, many of you have so much to share. Do not be afraid. El Roi— there is the Lord that sees. To every wickedness of the heart of men, there is a Lord that pays people in full. You. Just make sure nobody ever gets to the point where, having cheated you and having been out of your life, they are still cheating you. There is the Lord that sees. Let the tears and the wheat grow together. The harvest will come. The tears will be separated from the wheat. I have heard of heartbreaking stories where God's children, out of trust were defiled. Their lives was messed up. Some were manipulated and money siphoned from their pocket. There is the Lord that sees. To every wickedness, every evil around the altar, there is the Lord that sees. You pray to God to heal your heart and to help you. Don't, don't, don't, don't let anybody get— become so powerful and they let you— they will make you walk in Myself and my wife went for a meeting and somebody saw her and gave a word of prophecy. Not just prophecy, but it was clear that's not God. And what the person did was insulting. After the meeting, we entered the vehicle and I told my wife, we will never discuss this matter, not once in our life. Let it go. If we discuss it, we'll be offended. We will not be able to get blessed by this person. That this person has done this doesn't mean Femi Lazarus is not a blessing to the body of Christ. Let it go. There is the Lord that sees. People can give their all and commit in the church and they are grounded for it. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord That's it. You dust yourself. Heal, heal. That the devil shows up to a man does not mean God does not have something there for you. And if you are privileged for God to have set you in your own spiritual family, embrace it. It is not the same everywhere. It is not the same everywhere. It is not the same everywhere. Embrace it, cherish it, and pray for your pastor. Cherish it. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord. He sees all. He sees us. You about call him Adake Dajo, the one who judges with silence. It's quiet, but he will judge matters. I know many things happening in the body of Christ. People are bleeding, and that's why you must pray for those of us, um, who go in this direction that many people want to go. Because of the attacks that follows. Because many don't understand what follows many of these teachings— planned, organized attacks, attacks that belongs to an institution. Your name is given to different people as a list to bring down, but there is a Lord that sees. I don't want to give too much information. Praise God. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord that sees. There is the Lord that sees. So everyone who have labored in places and you were paid evil for good, God will reward you himself. I didn't hear amen loud and clear. God will reward himself. God will reward himself.
God will reward himself.
I've met people in the past few months who have not gone to church for 10 years, for 9 years, will hear a message from us and go back to church. And it is our own brothers in the body of Christ who are dragging us. Muslims are giving their life to Christ on daily basis through these teachings. So I ask, why can't this person see what God is doing here? There is the Lord that sees. And we have not stopped teaching that messages because we have been misunderstood or been insulted. There are two sides to every coin. The wisdom that blesses one is— offends the other because they are not living right. And many of them try to drag your name in the mud. And bring to you. And like I always say, we have not been sent to excite a generation. Our reward is not with them, is the one who is with the one who sent us from the very beginning. There is the Lord that sees. Praise God. Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Praise God. This is the morning God is giving you a warm embrace. First the rebuke, and now the embrace. That be strong, stand your ground. Never— see, let me tell you this: if you take serious the praises of men, you cannot avoid the effect of their criticism. If you take serious the praises of men, you cannot avoid the effect of their criticism. Take the both as one, ignore them while you set your face like a flint. To do what God has sent you to do. This generation will manipulate and confuse you because they have a posture that shows you the message they like and the one they don't like. And if care is not taken, you will lose your original message because you want to excite. There is the Lord that says, pick yourself up again, get back to church. You stop singing, go back to singing. You stop playing instrument, go back to playing instrument. You stop being in welfare department. Go back there. You can give your all again. You can heal. Maybe now is the time that you are close to your major breakthrough. Go back. Let God heal your heart. There is the Lord that sees. Hallelujah! Praise God! Hallelujah! Praise God! If there's anyone here bleeding, I ask for healing on your behalf. Let the hand of God establish and heal you in the name of Jesus. Let the hand of God establish and heal you in the name of Jesus. Now you must understand that also in this that I'm saying, there are people that they are the ones that actually wronged the place that God has placed them, sometimes out of ignorance, out of insensitivity, out of stubbornness, out of the assumption that they are wise, and many things. I've been a pastor for a while. When people talk, I listen from experience. Praise God. You must— don't just, don't just pick a part of message that makes you look like the victim. What am I not doing right? Also, what do I have to do? Well, what can I do better? How can I understand where God has put me? What am I not getting right? What is wrong with my heart? What is wrong with my mind?
Where did it go wrong?
You must understand, sometimes in a local church A pastor knows those whose ways are wrong, and your pastor can warn you, avoid this person for now, avoid this person for now. It is not insecurity, it is his work as the shepherd over your soul. Avoid this clique for now, avoid this company for now, because the company of fools shall be destroyed. There is the dynamics to the local church. Go and listen to my message, How to Keep Your Estate. Write it down. Go and get that message today, how to keep your estate. Number 2, dealing with church oath. I taught messages on this. Judas was among them. Angels had not kept their estate and they fell down, were locked down in River Euphrates. So you can keep your estate. I've taught series on this, how to keep your estate, dealing with church oath.
When you sit with this, you may cry, but then you'll be helped.
You'll be helped again. Praise God. I believe somebody has been blessed this morning. Praise God. I'm praying for you, everyone that joins me in prayer every day. I'm praying for you, I'm praying for you, and that's why God is giving me words for you. I can tell you this last word: be strong and be courageous. Be strong, be courageous.
Be strong.
And be courageous. You are a strong person.
You have a calling.
Why did you leave church?
You have a calling. Now you have left that calling and you are doing crypto, you are doing forex. What happened to the calling God gave you?
Go back to it. Go back to it.
Go back to it.
Go back to it. Go back to it.
Go back to it.
And God will heal you. He will redeem you. He will heal your water, your bread, in the name of Jesus. Praise God. I'm going to take extra time today to pray for your heart again. You can be sure that you have somebody praying for you. You can be sure. You can be sure. If I won't do it, I won't tell you. You can be sure you have somebody praying for you. You can be sure. You can be sure. And I hear the Lord saying, be strong. And be encouraged. Praise God, praise God. I believe you have been blessed this morning. I believe you have been blessed this morning. I believe you have been blessed this morning. I believe you have been blessed this morning. Praise God. Fasting continues. Please project the Bible reading. Fasting continues and we are not stopping. Those who are on the dry fasting gang, don't forget that the last phase of it is this weekend. To get ready. Get ready. Nobody has ever died for fasting correctly or for praying well. No, we will do these things and we'll do it well. Now the Bible reading is on the screen, note it and please follow through. We're going to create system of accountability so we can get everyone to go back to the basics of the study of the word and prayer. Amen. Now January, we have two kinds of operations. We fast, then we give first fruit. It's our custom as a ministry. We have done this since inception. Praise God. Now I want to say this: if you are here under the sound of my voice, I want to call two kinds of altar calls this morning. And for some reasons you have left church, please place your right hand on your chest. I want to pray for you. You are also here and for some reasons you are afraid of being a Christian. Or giving your life to Christ, place your hand on your chest. I want to pray for you. Those who want to give their life to Christ, say these words after me. Lord Jesus, I believe that you came to this world to die for my sins. I believe that you died for my sins. I also believe that you arose on the third day for my justification. Today I accept the life that you have provided for me, and I accept this gift of eternal life in Jesus' name. Amen. If you have made that declaration, know that you have been accepted. All that comes to me, will I know why, is cast away. And I can tell you for free, there's joy in heaven right now, so much joy.
So much joy!
Praise God!
So much joy!
Send us a message with the number that is always on the screen so we can be able to follow you up and then be able to get you discipled. And God will strengthen you in the name of Jesus. Today's Bible study, I'm teaching on the spirit of Jezebel. Oh God, it's going to be a teaching like no other. Don't—
if you are in Abuja, don't do online because do on site.
There's something about atmospheres. There's something about atmospheres. And I'm going to be ministering in Ile-Ife this weekend for my spiritual father, Thursday and Friday. Then Friday morning I'll be ministering in Sphere of Light Church, Ife. Sphere of Light Church. I was supposed to be having a special Holy Ghost meeting in UI But the organizers, they know themselves. Some have not ministered in UI yet. We're going to be having a special Holy Ghost meeting on the way you can call shortly. The date will be announced. I'm coming to different region this season, so get prepared. Praying for you, God will strengthen you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Um, if you are— God has sent you to partner with this ministry, please do so. There's a property we need to conclude on today, strategic beside the road. We need to get out of where we are now for a major serious work, and we appreciate partnership.
We do.
You can use the same Facebook account but just indicate what it is for. I bless you that as you go today, you find healing and help. You enjoy the goodness of God. The instructions God gave sometimes through his servant that you have dropped because you're offended As you pick those instructions, you find life again. And you pick, you find God. I bless you, and I say be blessed in the name of Jesus. It is well with you in Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
God bless you. Have a beautiful day ahead. See you by Bible study tonight. Bye-bye.
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