SPECIAL APOSTOLIC MEETING || LUBBOCK TX || 13TH APRIL 2025
Pastor Femi Lazarus teaches that Satan's strategy is to divide believers, working through institutions like media and education. He traces four historic spiritual battles from Revelation to the present and calls the congregation to reject any doctrine that normalizes sin.
Chapters
Jesus reigns! Jesus reigns! Jesus reigns! Jesus reigns! Jesus reigns! We bless you, Lord. You are holy, you are holy, and forever you will go And forever you are God. We bless you, Lord. You are holy. Oh, you are holy. And for the last time, oh, and forever you are God.
We bless you, Lord.
You are holy.
Oh, and forever you are God. Thank you, Lord, for what you will do tonight. We declare this service open in the name of God the Father, in the name of God the Son, in the name of God the Holy Spirit. And the living soul say a louder amen.
Amen.
Hallelujah!
Praise God!
Hallelujah! If the Lord is so good to you, shout hallelujah! He's the reason the reason why we are here today, is the reason why we are alive today. Can we just lift up our voice to Jesus this evening and say, Jesus, you are great. Jesus, you are good.
Jesus, you are kind.
Jesus, you are loving. Jesus, there is none like you. Jesus, I love you. I love you with the whole of me. I love you, Jesus. Anama son telebaruzala te telemani akaya. You are the reason why I lift my hands. Why I lift my voice, why I sing to you. You are the reason I'm alive today. I am here to say It's all because of you. You are the reason, you are the reason why I lift my hands, why I lift my voice. I lift my voice to you.
Why I sing to you.
Oh!
You are the reason why my life I am here to say it all because of you. You are the reason, you are the reason why I live.
Come on, lift those hands to Jesus. Why I lift my voice, raise your voice to him.
Why I live.
You are the reason I'm alive.
I am here to say it's all because of you.
You are the reason.
You are the reason. You are the reason. You are the reason. You are the reason. Oh!
You are the reason— you are the reason—
you are the reason— oh yes! Oh!
You are the reason—
you are the raisin! You are the reason.
You are the reason. You are the reason why I lift my head, why I lift my voice, why I sing to you. You are the reason I'm alive today. I am here to say it's all because of you.
You are the reason. You are the reason. You are the reason.
You are the Come on, lift those voices to Jesus. If you want to do it, you can do it. Lift those voices to Jesus this evening. He has given us dominion. He has given us power. Oh, you are the reason, you are the reason. Oh, I love you forever. I love you forever. I love you forever. I want you to mean the words of the song.
Say, I love you, I love you forever, forever. I love you, I love you forever, forever. I love you, I love you forever.
I praise you, Father.
Hey, Father. I praise you, Father. I praise you forever. I'll serve you, Lord. I praise you forever. Forever and ever. I make sacrifice forever. I love you, Lord. Forever!
I love you!
Forever!
Oh Jesus!
Forever!
Yeah!
I'll serve you forever!
Ever!
I'll serve you ever—ever-ever-forever!
Forever. Glory to God.
Glory to God.
Glory to God.
Forever.
And glory to Jesus.
Glory to Glory to Jesus! Forever! Glory to Jesus! Glory to Jesus!
Glory to Jesus! Forever!
Forever. We love you forever.
We love you forever. We love you forever, Lord.
We love you forever.
We love you forever. We love you forever. Your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name Stands above them all. All thrones and dominion, all power.
Your name stands above them all. Your name, your name, your name.
Oh, holy, holy, holy forever.
Your name, your name is the highest. Your name, the greatest. Your name Stands above them all. All power, all truth, all dominion, all power. Your name stands above them all.
The Bible says that we've been given a name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus Christ every knee, they must do what? They must bow. Sickness, it must bow. Depression, it must bow. The Lord is here to do great and wonderful things in our midst this evening. He's here to set you free. He's here to break every shackles. Oh, we worship you, Jesus. He's the greatest. Your name stands above them all, and the angels cry Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy forever. Your name is the highest, your name is the greatest, your name stands— above them all. All truth and dominion, all power, your name stands above them all.
Praise the Lord!
If you're happy to be here today, praise the Lord!
Are you ready to dance? Are you ready to praise God?
You are not the same.
You've been faithful, Lord, you've been faithful, Lord, from the ages past. That is why your name is forevermore.
You are not the same.
Just like a winner, man.
That thing you've been expecting, God, you need to dance it now.
Hallelujah! Let us shout hallelujah! Let us shout hallelujah to the Lord because he's worthy to be praised.
King of glory, everlasting God, he's worthy to be praised.
King of glory, everlasting God, let us shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
beside you. That place you've always imagined yourself to be, that next level, you are going to walk there. You're going to imagine you're walking there. You're going to know the person beside you.
Have you found someone to hold? Have you found someone to hold? You are going to walk to your next level, okay? Jesus. Oh my Jesus!
Wherever you—
I want to start praying to Jesus this afternoon. Raise your your prayer of thanksgiving unto God this afternoon, wherever you are. Father, we bless you this afternoon. We give you all the praise. We give you all the honor. Wherever you are, raise your voice of thanksgiving. Raise your voice of gratitude unto heaven. Raise your voice of gratitude unto heaven. Lord, we bless you. We give you all the praise. We give you all the honor, for there is none like thee. There is none to be compared like unto thee. You are the Ancient of Days. You are the I AM that I AM, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Lord, we give you all the praise. We give you all the honor. Raise your voice to appreciate God this afternoon. Raise your voice to exalt his holy name, for he has made it possible for us to be in his presence once again this afternoon. It's not by our power, it's not by our might, it's by his mercy. It's by his mercy that you are standing. Raise your voice and Exalt this God, raise your voice and glorify his name, bless his holy name. Father, we bless you, oh God. Lord, we give you all the praise, we give you all the honor because you are God, there is none like unto thee. We pray in Jesus' name, we pray in Jesus' name. In the book of Isaiah chapter 43, verse 19, Isaiah chapter 43, verse 19, the Bible said For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun. Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. The Lord is about to do something new in our life this afternoon. I want you to raise your voice and say, God, do something new in my life. Do something new in my life. Make that your prayer this afternoon. Make that your prayer this afternoon. Lord, we have come here, oh God, for something. We have come here for an encounter. We have come here for an experience. We have come here to meet you, Lord. May we not go as we have come. May we not go as we have come, Lord. We want to experience you. We know you are already doing something, but we want to experience it, oh God. We will not live here without testimony. We will not live here as we have come. We will not live here without experiencing Jesus. Let the word that will flow from this altar, let it be a life-transforming message in our lives. Let it be an encounter upon us. Raise your voice and pray to Jesus this afternoon. Raise your voice and pray. Raise your voice and pray. If you are here and you are, and you are just silent, oh, I want to encourage you, start speaking to Jesus. Start speaking to Jesus. The moment he is here. The time that the people of God, we are going to experience him, we are going to encounter him. Raise your voice because as men that are here, as men that are here, we have come with different expectations. Whatever your expectation is, I want you to cry unto heaven that you will not miss it, that you will not miss it for any reason. This is a moment of encounter. This is a moment to experience Jesus. This is a moment to encounter Jesus. This is the moment to have experience with him. Raise your voice and pray to Jesus. Raise your voice and pray to Jesus. Lord, we have come to experience you. We have come to encounter you. We will not leave here as we have come. We will not leave here as we have come. We will not leave here as we entered into this venue. Lord, may our experience, oh God, be a life-transforming one. May it be the one that will come, oh God, And we will say, yes, we have met with Jesus. Yes, we have met with you, Lord. We want to experience you, oh God, like never before. We want to encounter you like never before. Lord, we bless you, oh God. We bless you, oh God, for we pray in Jesus' name.
Thank you, Jesus.
Something happened in the book of Esther chapter 6 from verse 1. The Bible said that night, King— the king had trouble sleeping, so he ordered an attendant to bring the book of the history of his reign so it could be read to him. In those records, he discovered an account of how Mordecai had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the door to the king's private quarters. They had plotted to assassinate King Xerxes. What reward or recognition did we ever give Mordecai for this? the king asked. His attendants replied, nothing has been done for him. I want to raise your voice and pray that my book of remembrance shall be open tonight. Make that your prayer, that my book of remembrance shall be open tonight, that the Lord shall remember me tonight. Mordecai has been going about after what he has done, but a day came the king couldn't sleep because of Mordecai. Because of one man, because of one man, the king couldn't sleep. I want you to pray that tonight let your book of remembrance be opened. Let your book of remembrance be open. By the reason of today's meeting, there will be testimonies. By the reason of today's meeting, that's that appointment you have been waiting for. I tell you, somebody will start having sleepless night because of you, because of this gathering. Someone will start having sleepless night because of this garden. Because of you, someone will start having sleepless nights because, ah, he will say, I can't, I can't let this person go, I must bless him, I can't let her go, I must bless him. Is it financial world that have been worrying you? The Lord is going to raise a person tonight, tonight, because you are here, because you are here, God is going to raise men that will stand for you, men that will come to favor you. Father, we bless you, oh God. We pray that our book of remembrance shall be open tonight. We pray that our book of remembrance shall be open tonight. Lord King of Glory, everyone that you have designated to favor us in our career, in our life, in our Christian work, Lord, wherever they are located, may you remember, may they remember me tonight because we are here. Lord, open our book of remembrance that I may be remembered. Open our book of remembrance, oh God, that we will not leave here as we have come. For we pray in Jesus' name. Isaiah 43:13. Bible said, from eternity to eternity, I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done. I want to raise a prayer this afternoon and say, God, let no power of darkness undo what you are about to do in my life tonight. What will be done in my life by the reason of today's meeting, by the reason of this program, let nothing, let nothing destroy it. I want to raise your voice and say that prayer. I want to raise your voice and say that prayer because some Some come and as they receive, as they are going, it's as if the devil snatches away from them. I want to cover what God is going to do in your life in this, in this program, what he has already begun doing, what he will do, what he's about to do, that nothing, no power of darkness will snatch it away from your hand. No power of darkness will undo it. Because the Bible said, he said, this is the word of the Lord, he said, no one can undo what I have done. No one will undo what God is doing in your life. The transformation that will take place in your life, no power of darkness will draw you back. The fire you will receive from this event, no power of darkness will want to quench it. No power of darkness will snatch your gift away from you. No forces of darkness will be able to speak against the word of God that will be spoken upon your life in this event. Raise your voice and say that prayer, because some people come to an event like this and they go back even more or worse than they even arrived. Raise your voice and say that prayer. Why? It's not because that they did not receive, it's because that what they received, the devil snatched it away and even afflicted them more. Cover your wrist, cover everything you are receiving tonight with the blood of Jesus. Cover everything that the Lord will do upon your life tonight with the blood of his son Jesus, because we have come here to receive. And I promise you, you will receive, you will receive. And what you are going to receive will be permanent. What you are going to receive tonight will be permanent. What you're going to receive from God tonight, it will be permanent. The Lord is going to transform lives. Lives has already begun to be transformed. Yeah, there are transformation processes going on, going on already. There are healings going on already. There are testimonies already going on. There are victories already won, and those victories will be permanent. No power of darkness will undo what God is doing in your life. No forces of the evil one will be able to undo what God is doing upon your life. The Lord is doing something marvelous. The Lord is already doing something marvelous in our midst. I want to cover everything the Lord want to do tonight with the blood of your son Jesus. We pray in Jesus' name. The Lord is going to use his vessel, and I want us to pray for him. I want us to pray for, for Apostle, that the Lord will energize him, that the Lord will quicken his mortal bodies, because the spirit is willing. I wanted to pray that the Lord will cover him with the blood of his son. Just open your mouth and raise him up unto God to prayer. Pray for Apostle tonight, that he will be a great vessel in the hand of God, that the Lord will quicken him, the Lord will use him to his own glory, the Lord will use him to bring glory to himself. Lord, we pray for your son. Lord, we pray for your son. We pray that you quicken him, oh God. Let it be a vessel unto honor tonight. Lord, we cover him with the blood of your son Jesus Christ. We cover him, oh God. Lord, protect him, oh God. Lord, be with him, oh God. Lord take control oh God! Lord take charge because you are God! Take control everything tonight— Lord takes charge of every night let your name be glorified! Let your name be glorified! Let your name be glorified! We bless You; we bless You... Because You Are God Be Thou Exalted! Thank You Father because You Are God! For we pray in Jesus' name. For we pray in Jesus' name. Lastly, before I leave, I want you to pray for yourself. You know, when we gather like this, the devil will cause a distraction that even when the message is going on, it's as if that you are receiving, but you come out, it's as if you didn't receive anything. Oh, someone is not understanding me. The message will be going on and you are saying, yes sir, preach on, yes, I hear you. But when you leave, it's as if that, ah, the message made sense at that time, but what happened? I want you to pray that the word you will receive will be— you will be the doer of the word and not just hearer. Open your mouth and say that prayer. Open your mouth and say that prayer. That you will not just hear, but you will receive. You will not just listen, you will be the doer of the word. Rostra hindalah, lebreke te shataya, rostra hebreke tostro hindale, lestra ha.
You have to pray louder than that. You have to pray louder than that. Some of you are not praying, you're not praying, you're not praying. Open up your mouth. This is still a prayer retreat. Remember, we are not here to see a man but to encounter God. Mato shadaba bababa. Don't be distracted. Don't look around. Everybody is here for themselves. Open up your mouths and pray. Open up your mouths and pray. Open up your mouths and pray. Don't get tired, don't get tired. Build up yourself in your most holy faith. Hallelujah! Ephesians chapter 1, verse 17 to 18 says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Tonight I want us to pray that the eyes of our understanding is enlightened, that the Lord pour upon us the spirit of wisdom and revelation. As the word comes, it will come, you will receive light. It will not just sound like gibberish, it will not sound abstract to you. You will understand, you will be able to connect the dots. That even after you go home, the Holy Spirit will continue to pour out his Spirit of wisdom and revelation, you will continue to understand what has been taught even 2, 3 days ago. I want you to open your mouth and declare, Father— I can't hear you say Father. I can't hear you say Father. Enlighten the eyes of my understanding. Enlighten the eyes of my understanding. Begin to pray tonight. Mako shata pa lede debo sha. Father, enlighten the eyes of our understanding. Understanding in the name of Jesus. Pour upon us the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Pour upon us the spirit of wisdom and revelation. That as your word comes, we understand it all in the name of Jesus. It will not sound stranger. In the name of Jesus, we'll be able to connect the dots. In the name of Jesus. Father, enlighten the eyes of my understanding. In the name of Jesus, pour out upon me, oh Jesus, the spirit of wisdom and revelation. In the name of Jesus, I begin to hear what is not even being said. In the name of Jesus. Declare that my eyes are open, my ears are open, my heart is open to receive. In the name of Jesus, I lay aside every prenomination. In the name of Jesus, I lay aside everything that I may have known before. In the name of Jesus, and I receive your water fresh. I receive your water fresh. I receive your water fresh. I receive your water fresh. In the name of Jesus Christ, I will not assume that I know. I will not assume that I know. I will not assume that this is simple. I will not assume that, oh, I've heard it before. I receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Rabakosha namandelegedebosha. Reke teke tekelegedebosha. In the name of Jesus. Finally, Matthew 13:23, he said, but he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit and bringeth forth some an hundredfold, some 60, some 30. I want you to declare, just lift up your hands everyone. Just say, Father, send me my word. Send me my word. Send me my word and cause me to understand it. Oh, send me my word and cause me to understand it. Send me my word in this season and cause me to understand it. Open your mouth and pray. Raka sote lege debo sha. Reke teke lege debo sha. Rababababa kate lege debo sha. Iraba kosana mandelege debo sha. Oh God, send me my word and cause me to understand it. Cause me to follow it in the name of Jesus.
All over this room, just raise your hands and say, Lord, I am ready. I am ready for your word. I am ready. I am ready. Say, Lord, I am ready. I am ready. Ready for what you want to I'm ready to be molded into who you want me to be. Ready, Jesus. Oh, I am ready. I am ready. Ah, shantaka demon, sit down. Is your heart ready? Is your heart a fertile ground? Is it ready? You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown, within And here I find you in the mystery of oceans deep. My faith will stand, ah, and I will call I will call upon your name. Is that your heart cry? Oh, and keep my eyes upon the waves when oceans ride. My soul will rest in your embrace, for I am I am yours and you are mine. One more time. You call me out upon the water. The great unknown, the great unknown, where feet may fail, where feet may fail. Oh, and there I find you, and there I find you in the midst of ocean steers. Ocean steers. My faith will stand, my faith And I will call upon your name, oh, and keep my eyes upon the waves. When oceans rise, my soul will rest In your embrace, for I am yours and yours.
Oh!
He leads me when my shore is too sweet outworn. Hey, let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call. Take me deeper, Jesus. Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander. My faith My faith will be made stronger in the presence of my Savior. Spirit lead me, oh, lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the water wherever you will call me. Call me. Deeper, Jesus. Deeper than my feet could ever wander, and my faith will be made stronger in the presence of my Savior. So daily I shall leave, orks and As I breathe, let my own life be expression of your grace. Is this your heart cry? Can you just say it to God? Let my own life be expression of your grace. Oh, come on! My whole life, my whole life, be an expression of your power. Hey, is that your heart cry? Come on! Hey, daily as I live, daily as I live. Hey, often as I breathe, often as I breathe. Let my whole life, my whole life, be an expression of your— hey, come on! Steal with pride Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Yes, you cry out to Father— hallelujah be your name! I love you! I love you. Come on, sing. Yes, you're great, ever father. I love your name, Jesus. I love you. I love you. I love you.
I love you. I love your name. Your name. I love you. Yes, you're great, ever father.
There is power in the name of Jesus. Healing in the name of Jesus. Signs and wonders in the name of Jesus. Adara. Hey, Adara. Come on, sing it.
There is power in the name of Jesus.
Healing in the name of Jesus. Signs and wonders. Hey, there is power, power in the name of healing, in the name of Jesus, in the name of signs and wonders, in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus. Healing in the name of Jesus. Signs and wonders in the name of Jesus. Is that an exploration in this place?
Achara! Achara!
Let all the other names fade away— Let all the other names fade away.
Can you declare that?
Every name that doesn't match the name of our God, let it fade, let it fade. No name can match our God's name. Let all the other names fade away. Yes. Let them fade away. Let all the other names fade away. Till there's only you. Till there's only you. Let all the other names fade away. Jesus, take your place. Jesus, take your place. Oh, Jesus, take your place. Jesus, take your place.
And all the other names fade and fade away.
And all the other names fade away.
And all the other names fade away till there's only you. And all the other names fade away.
We bless your holy name. Thank you, Lord. Blessed be your holy name. We give you all the praise. We give you all the glory. There's none like you, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Who is excited to be here? Thank you, Lord. Please, you may be seated for a minute. I want to again especially appreciate my chief host, or should I say, our host, um, Uncle and Adora here in Lobok. Help me honor them. So I heard that many people didn't believe I will come.
I will come again.
I will come again.
Amen.
So it means if I'm here now, you have no reason to doubt that, right? Okay, who is ready for the word? Okay, they give me 15 minutes this evening. That's for benediction. Amen. Let me see if we can get into some elite conversations this evening.
Will it be possible?
All right, let's— oh, thank you for that. That's such a relief. Thank you. So yesterday I read the scripture, the book of Revelation chapter number 12, which is a very important scripture. I have a whole series done on how to interpret the Book of Revelation, so I should have a book on that this year. And, um, there's one of my books that will be out another, um, 2 months. It's already in print now. The title of the book is "Our Last Fight." So, he released 11 books last year. One I've been recommending is "Seeing Beyond"— Huh? Is it "Seeing Beyond" or "Through"? "Beyond the Smokescreen." These are elite materials. And I also wrote a book, um, anyways, many of you love to read, A Crowd That Wants Small Things. That's a compilation of what can transform Africa, so it's quite a big book. Um, you want to get into elite conversations to be really relevant in what God is doing now. You can listen to my teachings, Reversing the Mistakes of Joseph. Powerful. So I'm going to try. And by the way, let me honor Mommy. Good to see you again, Ma.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ma. So I will try. Can we have elite conversations? Yes, sir. So it means what we dealt with yesterday is a joke compared to what we are set for. So this is the way I teach. I can come prepared with fried rice, jollof rice— Nigerian jollof, please. Emphasis on that. I've lived in Ghana, so apologies to the Ghanaians. I'm not beefing you, is that okay? But there's something about Nigeria. But if while serving the rice I discern that it's constipating you, then I switch to cornflakes. While I'm teaching, I'm observing. The reason is because when Jesus was interpreting the seed that fell on the wayside, he said, this be like them that heareth forth the word but understandeth it not, then cometh the devil. So it means once there is understanding gap, we are predisposed to wrong voices. Okay, that's why a sound teacher must sacrifice depth for clarity. My intention is not to be deep but to be clear, so stay with me. Revelations chapter number 12.— we start the reading from verse 1. I read that yesterday. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. And she being with a child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon having 7 heads and 10 tongues and 7 crowns upon his head. Hope you know that America is captured in Revelation 12.
We'll get there.
So still speaking about the dragon in verse 4, says, and he still drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to deliver her child as it was born. She— and she brought forth a man-child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up unto God and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed her Therefore, 1,203 score days, 1,260 days. Divide that by 365, that's 3.5. Verse 7, and the reason why I did the mathematics now is because, um, the Antichrist has two parts of his reign, right? We'll get there. Verse 7: And there was what? War in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels. So yesterday I told you that what broke out in heaven was not riot. It was not an argument, it was a war. So it means interpreting in human calendar, it took time and God allowed it so. God can permit war to take place in heaven and is not moved. Don't be quick to cry when you go through issues. There are many things he can allow if his greater glory will be manifested. The reason why you are quick to conclude is because you are in time. The God you are dealing with is not in time.
Are you there?
So sometimes the gap between allocation and appropriation can look like forever. Allocation is when it is authorized, appropriation is when it's now disbursed. Stay with me. So two things I want you to notice here is that one, the Bible said Michael— so yesterday I told you about the war in heaven, but Michael and his angel fought against the dragon. So it means God didn't move. Michael was enough. And then the Bible now said the dragon fought and his angels. Now, the devil didn't make angels. How did the Angels of God become angels of the devil. It is the one whose orientation you run with, on whose side you fight. And yesterday I did a lot of breakdown as touching the agitation of the devil. Am I correct? What he wanted. Am I correct? How that God gave what he wanted to man without prayer point. Am I correct? And how that the devil went for it. Well, let's Pause. And let's isolate this creature called the dragon a bit, okay? The devil is not some funny-looking monster who wants to scare you at night. As a matter of fact, in the realm of darkness, when you are dealing with the real elite forces, they don't— they are not happy when you are scared. If anything ever scares you, "Woo!" That's a junior devil. I have a friend. He knows the friend. So one night, we were just bored. We said, "Let's prank somebody." pick phone. He gave me the number of one of his people working in his office. So I called the person and he was sounding at the background, "Ooh." You see, American base will think that's violin sound. So he began to— I began to say some things like, finally today we got you and we're pranking you. What we didn't know was that it was not the guy who picked the call, it was his dad. And someone already prophesied to them that they wanted to kill the son.
So I was just hearing, "Blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. Are you here?" Then he ended the call.
Then we didn't see the guy for one week. By the time he came back, he was lean.
He was so dry.
"Bro, what happened?" He went on 7 days dry.
So now the problem was, now how do we tell him that the fasting was just a way to diet?
Anyways, the day Yemi King told him, he pursued him. So the devil really doesn't like when his victim is scared. Is that not strange? So it's not some guy who is putting up black and red and wants to stand and say, I am the devil. As a matter of fact, Probably if the devil walks in here, all he's going to say is hi. They're going to be like, ah, are you not the legend? Say, yo man, you're my guy. Because the issue you have is that your orientation about this creature is what movies projected. You must understand that the devil belongs to the elite of the elite in the squad of the angels, the 1% of the 1%. They are not funny, they are mighty. As a matter of fact, until Jesus came, until man came, the devil in his creation was the highest demonstration of God's wisdom. He said you were perfect in wisdom since the day that you were created till iniquity was found in you. He was called the Morning Star, so what that means is beauty.
It is his wisdom that was perverted, not his looks.
When you meet people who are truly great They are secure. One time I was making fun about some people who say they are celebrity and they're always carrying cup and doing like this. They say, hey, how you doing? Won't even talk. That's a wimp. He's afraid that if he respond, he will lose his tease. You get what I'm saying? So he feels that the way to look big is to make people feel small. No, people who are smart don't do that. When you are polite and you are humble, it doesn't take anything from you. Greatness is first within, not without. A great man is not validated by things. Are you here? So it doesn't matter, because if you think the day you buy certain kind of car is the day you will be important and be celebrated. That car becomes the basis for which you draw honor, and if you don't have it, you feel naked. The glory on your life is God, not things. You are important just the way you are. Are you here? Are you married? Yes, sir. This is your wife. The way you are looking at her— are you married? This is your wife too. Male and female created he them. Of course, if I ask you what you love about your wife, you give me King James answer. You love the inner beauty. Am I correct? You love the character. Am I correct? You love the way she thinks, but somehow she's beautiful. So meaning that, am I correct? Man to man. Meaning that you also check for that. Very important. Okay, if the inner beauty is there and that one is not there, you will have issues. Of course. Femi Lazarus. It means that part of the basis for which she was desired was the fact that, added to all the internal things, God placed something external. The devil is a perfect demonstration of beauty, so by nature he attracts. This is it. But the balance is that beauty is beyond that which the eye sees, okay? It's also internal, because anything can go wrong with the external body. And that's why in marriage, as you become one, you fall in love with each other beyond what you see, because you will see things that are not pleasant. Are you here? Are there married people here? Shout amen! Shout amen!
You see that?
Apu, you are the Apu of my what? Eyes. Ah, people used to say that. I'm trying to give you an illustration. Femi Lazarus. Let me explain something. Years back, I went for a meeting. I think I was still on campus. Yeah. And while we were going for that meeting, we're coordinating church bus. So I saw a wonderful damsel. They're looking at me. The sister was fine, so I said, my God, somebody like this is here. Fortunately for me, in the course of the meeting, the person singing kept saying, I can see everything. So it was a strategic song because as they say, turn around, I talk and look at her again.
Okay, why?
Anyways, what ended that case is a story for another year. But why is that? Beauty attracts. Stay with me. Another very important thing I want you to note about this amazing guy, a fallen general, an elite among the elites. And because you have to understand that, um, raising men takes time, raising people takes time. Giving people access takes time. So if people betray you, betrayal is painful to the degree of the proximity of the one who betrayed. Let me give you two for those of you who are building systems. There's a book I'm going to release is this year. Management book from Genesis. It's a big compilation. Going to run a whole management course. The Book of Genesis. God is so smart. Anyways, it's the height of wisdom. The first angel that fell was in the Sina carcass. More angels still fell. Heaven didn't shake. There was no war. And it was only once that somebody Diana's cacos fell. Think about it. There can be war anywhere. Protect the core. So it means that people should not just have access to it on the basis of emotions. It must be on the basis of trust. So pay attention. Very important thing about this general called Lucifer Olofa. He's an elite, okay? But he is not omnipresent. What that means is he can only be at a place at a time, okay? The same way you are. The difference between you and him is that you have a body, he is a spirit. And if you can only be at a place at a time, how do you conquer the world by being at a place at a time? By what mechanism? Because if you read Isaiah chapter number 14, if I'm correct, what we read yesterday— in fact, before we read our thou falling down Lucifer and all that, first they were describing when he will fall, that they will narrowly look upon him and say, are you the one that disturbed the whole world? Listen, so By the way, the devil fell as the Morning Star, Lucifer, but there were more also ranking angels that fell. And for some of them, God saw that they will be too much for us to deal with. So according to Jude, where he say he locked them in Euphrates for a while. So after rapture, when the church is out and the presence of the Holy Ghost is out, that bottomless pit will be unleashed. Then those strange creatures will now come out and roam the earth. People who will be in that time will know what pain looks like. Understand that the book called earth is about to be closed. So serve God with your might now and win as many souls as possible, because they that be wise amongst us will shine as the stars. One of the reasons why I am not moved when people who don't know God try to criticize me is that the day will come we will shine in their presence. And that's the day I keep seeing, and I consider it a very huge privilege to be criticized, to be persecuted. I wasn't around when the disciples were dragged on the floor, but I'm around when I can be dragged on the media. Fantastic. It's because you are consumed with this earth, that's why you think it ends here. Pay attention. So the devil is not omnipotent.
Present.
He can be at a place at a time. Abba, how did he conquer this much? When you come to America, you have your own unique problems. If you go to Zimbabwe, unique problem.
If you go to South Africa, unique problem.
Go to Italy, unique problem. I was in Italy and they drove me to a street and I saw people, young men, from beginning till the end of the street, drug addicts. Some of them came through the sea and the desert, then the sea to cross. Why? Greener pastures. It is where the sole of your feet steps that should be green. Greener pasture is not a place, it's on the person. Out of your belly, rivers of living water flows. The same way they build civilization around body of water, civilization should be built around what is flowing from you.
My God, my God!
If you know what I'm saying, you will never— see, because we're afraid— you will never beg for a job. Rather, you create it. Anywhere there's solution, solutions, jobs are created.
Sela. Are you here?
Yes, sir. So the general Lucifer, as mighty as he is, can only be at a place at a time. So for For instance, I am here in person in Lubok, but people are reading my books around the world now, and I'm not there, but my work is there. Last year, December, they released the statistics. I said, we're the most listened to on Spotify. I listed the number of the countries. Most of those countries, I've not been there, but my work is there. And because my work is there, it will influence those who are there. This is my first time coming to Lubok. Is anybody here who have heard my message before online or something? So you kind of have an idea. Am I correct? Even though I've not been here in person, but my work is here. The being you are dealing with doesn't take a nap. Hey! So he has all it takes for his work to be around. And those who work will be producing result like he's there. I'm not saying we should learn from the devil, but I'm just saying that that guy is smart. Okay, so anyone who is not omnipresent but needs to cover the world will understand the advantage advantage of structures. For instance, when God made the heavens and the earth, the Bible used a word that should not apply to a spirit. He said God rested. Rest ought to be associated, I should say, to the one who can be tired. If he who sits in the heavens, there is no tiredness, he doesn't get weary, you shouldn't say he rested. But actually he rested. Because the rest is what you have when principles are at work. How do I help you? Let me have this bottle of water here. Is it locked? Come, my friend. Can you bend down? Catch this. What are you doing? Face me.
Bend down.
He bend like this. Okay, squat. Okay, then catch this. Now hold on a minute. All I have to do— if you don't catch it, your wife will send that to Nigeria. I won't tell you when I will drop it. All I have to do for him, for this water to get to him is to release it. I don't have any business doing any work beyond releasing it. Why? I submitted the water to a principle and a law already at work, which is the law of gravity. If you submit what you do under functional laws, it is the duty of the law to bring the result. You will rest. The reason why you don't have rest is because there are no principles at work. So God rested, it means he will not have to come back to create new goods. The principles for goods to multiply has been there— reproduction. You will not come back to create new mosquitoes. The principle is there. You will not come back to be making babies. The principle for which they must be born is there. It means, as far as the natural order of creation is concerned, he has embedded in it the ability for it to self-produce and self-function. Having done that, he can rest. He's been resting since then till now. And let me tell you this, everything till the end of humanity has been foretold. So there's nothing new that can shock him. Sit down, let me give you an explanation because I need to explain and explain. And I've not started my teaching, just so you know. And once I explain, you get to the point, then I quickly give you what I want to give you. What's the time now? Huh? 7:11 here. 7:11.
PM.
What will happen by 7:30? You can only guess. You don't know it because while you are in time, all you can know is now and before. So it's knowledge. To know what will be for later is wisdom. So word of knowledge reveals now and before. Word of wisdom reveals later. You have knowledge, that's all the books you have can give you. God is the only wise God, is the one who gives wisdom. Now, there are few times in your life that even you don't operate in time. Oh yes, there are a few times that even you, if you want to know what it means not to be in time, I can show you. And even now you can try it, that you will be outside time. One of the realities of time is suspense. You know, we are great, or should I reduce it? I said one of the realities of time is what? What does that mean? It means you are captured in a thought process that doesn't know what is coming next. So let me give you an instance. If I see a movie, or I am releasing a movie, and The movie's name is Houston Like Lagos. Okay, Houston Like Lagos. Nice name. The movie only exists because the script was concluded. So it can't be a movie if the scriptwriter didn't finish the script.
Do you understand that?
So it means by the time you are seeing the movie, you are the only one who is seeing it, but you are in time as far as that is Understand? The author is not in time, so he doesn't share in your suspense. Yes, sir. Because he concluded it before you began it. God is not just the author of your faith, he's also the finisher of your faith. So your life is only in commencement because there's an end. Jeremiah 29:11 says, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord. They are thoughts of peace, not to give you an expected— there you go, I'm saying. So it means that there is a point— go his way south— there's a point God is waiting that if you function according to the script, this is where you should come to. So your duty is don't just live life because the suspense of life will take you out of the will of God. First, find your script. If we are acting a movie and you are watching us and I'm gonna shoot him I know you guys can relate with that. He wrong, he knocked the wrong door. I'm going to shoot you.
Hey, and people are watching and say, hey, hey, hope you will not kill him.
Don't kill him, don't kill him. The one who authored the script will know, and the one who is acting will know according to the script, I didn't die. So that informs the boldness with which he's playing his character. Even if he looks timid, it's only part of the action, but he knows according to the script, I did not die. The scripture is the script for God's creatures. Wow. So Jesus said, 'Lo, I come in volume of books, as it is written of me, to do your will, O.' So when they wanted to stone him, according to the script, the Messiah didn't die by stoning. He vanished in their midst. Even in your humility, only take what is in the script. So if death seems to be staring at you in the face, maybe through a sickness, if you have found it in the script— according to the script, I didn't die of cancer. According to the script, I didn't die young. With long life he satisfied me. So when the fear of not repeating patterns and marrying wrong person comes, according to the script, I did not marry wrong. When you stay with the script, your life goes in the direction of the script. But if you are clueless about the script, you play wrong character. And that's why I tell everyone around me, in insist on the script.
Are you here?
Say it loud and clear: according to the script, I finished well.
I finished well. Amen.
Please sit down. You know the way I live my life? My life is quite funny. Oh yes, I live my life with a very weird consciousness. I'm the conscious Consciousness is that if Jesus tarries to come long after I am gone, a generation will be reading about me and be saying, what kind of man was that? So when I make a decision, I am aware it is a blueprint that will be traced by a generation because I know the script written. Because, and let me tell you something, the worst mistakes of your life will happen when you strike bargains without knowing yourself. Hey, let me just share something. Recently I was somewhere, and while I I was going there. I mean, this is a place, and I mean, presidents of nations, I'm telling you. So the real boss there heard I was coming. He said they should go and get security, get accommodation, get everything for him, make sure he's fine. So I got there. I was just smiling. But I was there few years back and I was denied access. In fact, I couldn't even enter the door. They knew I was not supposed to be there by the way I was dressing. And indeed, the trousers I wore that day was borrowed. So I didn't I didn't get offended. Whoever drove me from that meeting must be prophetic. I only came years too early, but I was supposed to be there. Joseph, don't touch Potiphar's wife because you don't know you'll be the prime minister. If you don't know what God is making out of you, you will settle for— are you here? I need time with you today because this my— this is my last night with you. Can I come back to Lubok?
Yes.
All right, all right. It does not yet appear what we shall become. So even you don't know you yet. Sometimes you can cry that somebody broke your heart, but you are actually ought to throw a party. When Saul leaves, David is being anointed. Is that okay now? Yes, sir. Usually when I speak like this, I'm careful with the yes, sir, because particularly if somebody just broke up with a person and they are both in the meeting, I say, yo, guy, you got that?
You're Saul. David is coming.
I didn't say Jack. If you know who you are, you'll be wiser. You will not make haste. That many of you, the president of the world, will still need you. Do you understand what I'm saying? You are important. It has not just been revealed yet. There's a version of you coming. Men are in sizes and life is in phases. So all you know about you is the face you have met. There's more. And this is not a sweet message, it's a call to responsibility, because once you know that, you will be careful what you do. One time somebody was trying to drag me online. You know, we experienced that a few times. Yeah, they— So when the person was saying what he was saying, somebody now responded. And the fellow that responded now is a Muslim and an Afar. He said, insult any pastor, I'll be quiet. He said, but this guy, as my friend from campus days, he could have done many things we knew he had the capacity to do, but he stood his ground. So I trust him. If you know where God is taking you to, be careful. It's a call to duty, call to responsibility, because you'll be more than this. I'm trying to expose some things to you. Bargains, see. Joseph was in prison. Those other guys were there. He interpreted the dream. He said, don't forget me. And the guy forgot him. But do you know that the guy remembering him is not messy? Because what's the highest he will be? He will instead escape back and probably go to trace the father as a fugitive, or he gets a part-time job around the palace. But they had to leave him where he can't run because there's a problem coming that must meet him where he is. And the day there was a problem. The guy said, I remember my sin now. That's one of the Hebrews in the prison. When they called Joseph out that the king needed him, check what he did. Joseph didn't go to the king in prison uniform. He shaved himself and changed his clothes. What was he saying? I know I am not coming back here. That's a man who has been spending time meditating in the prison. Don't just be where you are, move out in your mind. The only part of you in time is your body. If your life is small, it's your fault. It's the way you used your mind.
Let me leave you there.
Sela. So the devil is a strategic being. Is that okay? Who is trapped in time but who knows script. I'll show you why. Maybe another thing that is quite worrisome about him is that he was quite close to the seat of power, so he has some secret. So in the entire Bible, the devil himself has only gone out to fight 4 times. When they say somebody— why do you want to say it's the devil? I'm showing you that the devil is not quick. You are not so important for the devil himself to come after you. Can I say it again? In fact, the chances are too high that the devil doesn't even know your name. Why? You are not doing anything that commands his attention. If you are an elite, only the elite commands your attention. If you like, do Photoshop, put your picture beside Donald Trump. He doesn't know you. He doesn't know you. Bishop, is this one Sudan or America? I say America. Ah, really? So why are you doing what you are doing? Is it the devil? It's not really the devil, it is his structure. That you yielded to. Let me give you one thing I was not supposed to give you, all right? I was not supposed to teach you this, but I will teach you this briefly. In the structure of the devil in attacking the activity of God, the most reliable one for him are believers.
What?
If the devil wants to disrupt what God is doing, the most reliable entity through which he can disrupt it are Christians. Let me explain. Let me have 5 brothers, please, quickly. Yeah, come, come, come.
I love that.
Okay, please join us. Oh yes, so stay with me. You know, the Bible says the thief cometh not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. Okay, so let me break that down. To steal is to collect. Okay, but the devil doesn't steal by collecting, he steals by giving. If the devil wants to take from you, he gives you what will make you drop what you have. If he wants to take the hair of a Samson, he gives him Delilah. If he wants to take the bishopric of Judas, he gives him 30 pieces of silver. If he wants to take anything from you, he gives you. So what to watch out for is not what he's struggling for, but what he is giving you. That's on the giving. On the stealing, then took To kill means to cease from existence. So when the devil wants to kill, he doesn't want to take away breath. In fact, the devil knows that the best way to kill a person is to take away their essence and leave them. The closest way to describe his ministry as a killer is to look at what beans weevil does to beans. They take away the part of it that can reproduce or that can germinate. In it and leave the bins empty. What does it mean to destroy? It is in chemistry. I can use that as an example illustration. So in chemistry, there are— there's something called physical change and chemical change. You know that physical change are reversible, chemical changes are not reversible. So for instance, the closest way to describe is if I freeze this water, it moves from liquid to solid, or I put it under certain temperature, it goes back to liquid. Physical change. If I burn this paper, it goes to ashes. There's nothing you can do to bring back this paper again. So the devil does not just want to kill or steal, he wants you to bring— he wants to bring you to a state where there's nothing that can be done to help you again. And the way the devil does destruction is to leave you— yeah, we are soldiers of Christ, we are soldiers of Christ, yes— but brings you to a state— no, not you, you come, you come stand here— where while you are soldiers of Christ and you are doing it in Jesus' name. Now you are fighting soldiers of Christ in Jesus' name. You will speak in tongues while doing it. You are passionate while doing it. Everything is intact while doing it. He will use you to abort what God wants to to do on the earth because you only have zeal that is not tempered by a life of prayer. If you have stopped praying, you may not know that you have left the side of God even when you are doing what you are doing in Jesus' name. So the devil recruits Christians existence.
Because an average believer is seated in Christ far above principalities, so he needs the one who is also seated with them in Christ to fight them.
When Ahab and Jehoshaphat were going to go to war, And they said, we need to consult a prophet. All prophets came.
I said, go.
I said, there's a guy. The king said, he doesn't prophesy anything good about me. Say, let's call him. His name was Micaiah. When the guy came, he said, go. No, there's go and there's go.
The king said, ah, John will speak by the word of the Lord.
He said, I saw Israel scattered on the mountain as a sheep without shepherd. If you go for this journey, this is this. The senior among those prophets left the rest of the prophets, came to Micaiah and slapped him and said, when did God leave me to speak with you? When God begins to lift you, insecure prophets will fight you, but they are still prophets. I'm still yet to start my sermon. When the young prophet went to do the work of the Lord, how did the devil kill him? Through an older prophet. Not a soothsayer, but a prophet. The most difficult person to detect is the one who is also seated in Christ but doing the works of the devil. Because a house divided against itself will not what?
Stand.
So the number one battle cry of the enemy is divide the house. So because now you have an enemy to advance against and also believers to contend with, who wins such war? So it means the end-time church has something much more complex to deal with. The battle is not at the gate is in our parlor now. Ah, I was reading when they gathered around Stephen to stone him, and he recounted the move of God from Genesis down to where he was standing. But when he was talking about Moses, he said when Moses came to Egypt and tried to rescue them, he said Moses talked thought that they would know that God will at this time rescue them through him, but they didn't know. It was not the devil who spoke now. It was one man who spoke to Moses and said, you want to kill me like you killed Egyptian? Moses fled for 40 years. They are Salvation waited for 40 years. Men can abort the plan of God. But the man who spoke wasn't an Israelite, wasn't an Egyptian, was an Israelite. He brings contrary voices from the same house because that is the most effective. So I like you to know that potentially you are the most reliable weapon in the hands of the devil unless you subject yourself to constant fellowship with God and prayer. So by the time you are switching sides, you will know. And the easiest thing to do in ministry is to switch sides. You will not even know. You are still saying in Jesus, you have switched. And right there and then, you are fulfilling the purposes of the devil with joy and gladness, till you see him on the last day, now say, 'I never knew thee.' So, see, showing you something is a being with complex structures. Who are those in front? Huh? Christians. Pastors, apostles, evangelists, teachers, deacons, deaconesses, archbishops. Sometimes you would think the church is already having victory till a fellow bishop or archbishop or apostle or prophet will say there's nothing wrong with male and male sleeping with each other, God accept that. Now, because it is not coming from outside the church, it carries more weight. The devil wants your sword to fight on his side. And where's your sword? Lift your hands and say it loud and clear: my sword will not fight on the side of the enemy.
Come on, say it one more time. My sword will not fight on the side of the enemy. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning back. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus. I decided Follow Jesus. No turning back. No turning back. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Please, we can sit for a while.
Thank you.
Are you still here? You can copy and paste these principles in every regard. It is much more potent to use one of the disciples of Jesus to betray him so that before Jesus dies on the cross, he will have been dead due to betrayal. What's the idea of using one close to his heart to betray him? Offense. When the devil wants you offended, he needs somebody in your cabinet.
Are you here?
Peter— Judas betrayed him. Peter denied him in one night. In the same night, the man of the people became a man who was acquainted with sorrow, left alone. Where were those who received healing yesterday? They couldn't risk their life. If you were in his shoes, all you'd be thinking, so this is life. No matter what you do, when the days are dark, the sons of men turn their back on you. If you now have the power he has, what will you say? Because he's God, all of you, brood of vipers, cease to exist. He could say that, but the Bible said he humbled himself Praise God! To die the death on the cross. Are you here? Yes, sir. So let me show you all the outings of the devil listed in the Bible so you can have an idea. And by the way, okay, um, the first outing was where we read yesterday, Revelation 12, that there was war in heaven. That's the first fight of the devil, first time he was coming out to fight. Because that was an outright war. The second outing was in Genesis chapter number 3. That was the second time the devil himself was personally going out to get something done. For instance, there are things— so as I'm teaching now today, our School of Ministry is going on. And as I came out in the afternoon or morning, I just checked. I saw, oh, class is even going on. Now I am the principal of the School of Ministry, but because of very strong structure, everything Everything can function without me having to say a word because the leaders knows what to do and there is administrative structure and everything is intact. The devil is smarter. Many things can be done on his behalf without him necessarily getting involved, but if he now gets involved, it must be critical. So the first time he fought against God in attempt to dethrone him. The second time was him himself coming for Adam. So if the devil was coming for Adam, it means it is so important he could not delegate it to a principality. It is so important he could not delegate it to a throne. It is so important he could not delegate it to a chief spirit. Because of the importance of this, he needed to get it done, and he did. As a matter of fact, he did in a conversation, and he left. The next time this elite soldier will ever in person come out to face a person again will be till the second Adam comes. And for 30 years in the life of Jesus, it looked like the devil personally did not exist. But shortly after, God said, this is my beloved son. He came and it didn't look like he came to fight, because if you were in the garden that day that the snake came, or the serpent, the devil himself came, it will look like a major conversation. I am telling you that the most important battles does not require guns. Because the idea is not for you to be scared.
If he came to the Garden of Eden and said, woo, he will say, I rebuke you, I rebuke you, I rebuke you. That's still a joke. Hey, you can be romancing what you should rebuke. My God. It's not rebuke. I rebuke you, Satan, get out of my room.
The day you locked yourself up and you were seeing what you should not see, did you rebuke any demon? That's more dangerous than the dream you had, cuz that one take your life a day at a time so that you will not become what you should become. Are you here? If you see this the spirit behind that pleasure, you will scream. And that spirit is hugging you behind your head, pecking your neck and saying, that's my boy, that's my boy. And you are doing it. The idea again is not for you to be afraid, because when a child is scared, he runs to the father. He doesn't want you to run to Daddy. He wants you to embrace the enemy. So he came, and there he was standing on the mount. Look at the conversation. If you, if you think about it, the temptation does not even look intelligent, like, ah, if I was the devil, I'll do more. It is too much that reveals you. Devil is smarter than that. If you are the Son of God, turn the stones to bread. But what occasioned that statement? He was hungry. The devil will speak through your needs. What was the temptation there? If you are the Son of God, prove. Because God just said, this is mine, and now you are saying if. If you have to prove it It is because you are not sure. For instance, if you come to me and say, Apostle Lazarus, prove if you are— if you are truly a man, come. I will be a fool to go. I'll be a fool to go because being a man does not require proving. It's obvious. So what's he saying? Prove your sonship by responding to me.
Why food?
How did he test Adam for food? If it worked before, we should try it again. What was he The second test took him to the pinnacle of the temple and said— now he didn't just say a statement, he now said, 'If you are the Son of God, jump. After all, it is written.' So if you— because when he told him the first one, Jesus quoted scripture. He quoted Deuteronomy chapter number 8, that man shall not live by bread alone.
Okay, if you go inside the Bible, I know I will journey with you there. It is also written in that Bible that he will give his angels charge over your feet to keep your feet from stumbling.
Where did he quote? Psalms 91. But that was not the complete scripture. Because I have set the Lord continually before me, therefore will he give his angels charge over my feet to keep my feet from stumbling. So what's the prefix or the premise on which— before which he now set his angels? The Lord before me. If you are the Son of God, jump means with the weight of God's investment on your life, misbehave. God will not waste your kind. But the base of the mountain is full of the carcass of mighty men who jumped only to find out that they were not in the will of God, and they obeyed gravity and scattered. You are not so important that if you fail, the world will miss you.
Don't jump.
See, there's nothing good about being a former champion. What's the third temptation? I have an entire series on that. No, there's a series on that. He showed him the glory of this world in a flash and said, all this glory and the beauty I will give you if you will worship me. Now that sounds insane, that, ah, devil, how dare you tell Jesus to bow? The devil can tell you anything once he's shown you things that will arouse your appetite. There are things I do apart from ministry. I consult for organizations, but there are not things I intend to front, and sometimes I front negotiations. And I found out that one of the ways to strike an important deal is to make sure the conversation is in a hurry, that they don't have time to think. So keep talking about what they stand the chance to gain, and if possible, keep mentioning the figures, because you are creating an imagination with that They settle for gratification only to forget that they mortgaged something. When they find out, a signature has been dropped. I've helped organizations recover millions of dollars worth of shares in one conversation. Just talk, let them sit. So the devil exercise communication. But it was Jesus the devil told to bow, not you. Your bowing may not mean much to the devil. If you do it, it's just an exercise. Did I tell you yesterday that there are Christians that even if they become agent of the devil now, they can't do much? They are not that important. Even as an agent of the devil, they can't destroy because they don't— they are not smart already. So even the devil can't do much with them. You just be around and go to hell. I'm, I'm, I'm just— I, I know it sounds funny, but it's the truth. Is the truth. There are— see If you like, say, God, I'm hungry, I ate you, I kill you. That doesn't mean the devil say welcome, because he might have sized you and there's nothing much he can do with you. Your orientation is small, your mindset is like that of a child. You can't think about covering systems. You are not systemic, you are not deep, you can't— you are not that smart. You— hey! So even the devil doesn't just be around. If you go to the devil now, say, here I am, use me, use me. That— I'm showing you that even the devil has criteria.
He has basic requirements you must meet. And the fact that you are—
doesn't mean you have met the what? Requirement. So he only told Jesus, you bow. He didn't tell Judas to bow. There's nothing much he's going to do with it. Look at it now. What did Judas get for giving Jesus? 30 pieces of silver. That's— are you what I'm saying? That is his— and by the way, in that civilization, that's the amount to sell slaves for. He sold the King of Kings. And what did he do to buy— what did he do with the money? Real estate. No, real estate. What kind of real estate? The lowest level of real estate, land banking. He bought a field that will now be referred to as Akel Dama, a field of blood. Let no man dwell in it. So now you're saying the devil knows your price, and many of you are serving him and he's not paying you anything in return. There's no bargain. Somebody said some people sing and they give their soul to the devil so the devil can now— Is it everybody that the devil promote their songs? The one that you sang with some very strange instrument and say let angels carry it, even the devil yet— If I bless this one, I will lose my reputation. The devil is worried that if I say this song should win Grammy, it will expose the fact that I am behind it. So go and get a better producer and go and tune your voice, or leave music. Find something else. Maybe I can come around.
Say, even this music, you can't go far.
There's a minimum requirement. Are you there? Yes, sir. So that you hate Jesus doesn't mean you can successfully be an agent of the devil. On both sides, life is difficult for a lazy person. On both sides. What's the first time the devil was coming out himself? Try to dethrone God. Second time, Adam. Third time, Jesus. Jesus. But the ministry of Jesus, he didn't just come once. He hung around almost throughout himself. He came first as a system when he was born, then came as a person when he was grown, then came back as a system when he was to die. Now you need that blueprint. As a system, in what sense? He influenced Herod to kill the males born around that time. Is that in your Bible? That's a system speaking. When Elijah was around, Jezebel was a person. So shall I cut off your head. When John the Baptist came, Jezebel was now a system. What the person couldn't do to Elijah, the system did to John. Systems are more dangerous. Systems are more what? Dangerous. Then he came as a person to him when he was tempting him, then he came back as a system. Now the first system he came as was the police political system. It didn't work. The system he used effectively was the church system. It worked. Who were those who said, 'Crucify Jesus and give us Barabbas'? It was those in the temple.
Are you there?
There is a fourth outing, and that's the part that concerns you and I. You want to see it? The fourth outing of the devil himself will be against the post-resurrection church. That's the church that is born as a result of the resurrection of Jesus. And this is so important. Now, when the devil came to fight God, he was defeated. When he came as a system against Jesus' birth, he was defeated. When he came as a person against Jesus, um, on the mount, he was defeated. When he came as a system through the church, he succeeded in using them to kill Jesus, but he was defeated when Jesus descended to the lowest part of hell. The Bible says that he threw away principalities and powers and made public display of them, triumphing over them in victory. So he did that. In Revelation 1, he said, I am the one that was dead. Behold, I'm Alpha and Omega, the one that was dead and now alive forevermore, and I have the key of hell and of death. Now, in coming against the post-resurrection church, pay attention, as against Adam, it must be a person. Because you are dealing with a person. When he came on the mount, man to man, because a person.
Now he's coming against the church in millions.
One person can't get it done anymore, so he has to go back to what worked— systems. So let me show you a scripture. 2 Corinthians. We're going to read this scripture in Message translation. God bless you, media. Please let me give them a big hand. 2 Corinthians 10, we start the reading from verse 3. Message translation. The world is unprincipled. It is dog eat dog out there. Okay, hold on. Let's read first in King James so they can know where we are reading. Go to King James.
Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.
Yes.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God. So they're pulling down what? Strongholds. Uh-huh. Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Now go back to verse 3. We now read this same scripture in Message.
Look at it. The world is unprincipled.
It is dog eat dog out there. The world doesn't fight fair, but we don't live or fight our battles that way. And because this is church, so I can leave that first statement that the world is unprincipled. But if you want to be stakeholders in what God is doing on the face of the earth now, you need to know about it. Everything you see on the surface face. It's not all there is. So in the military, for instance, you can be recruited to go kill a soldier, in quote, who has gone rogue, and you are doing it for the good cause, only to find out that your entire military base is the devil.
And the soldier who has gone rogue is the one with the good heart.
And if you will have a good heart, that person you are fighting is what you are coming to become like. I put it in one word: sometimes your heroes are villains with good stories, and your villains are heroes who can tell their stories. Say la. You see now, the world is unprincipled. Don't deceive yourself. You're working for the BHO. On the surface, you can be doing what is nice.
Say la.
But we don't live or fight our battles that way.
Never have and never will. Hope you know that if you begin to climb the heights of the heights of organizations, it is not for those with soft minds. Look at you, you are still in the realm of employment.
Hey, we don't live or fight our battles.
What? That way, say okay, yes, never have and never will. The tools of our trade are not for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that massively corrupt culture. So it means the end-time church has a culture to confront. In other words, what you have to deal with, people are emotional about retaining it. A man can live in America America, for instance, an Ekiti man— Ekiti is a place in Nigeria, okay, my friend— an Ekiti man from Nigeria can live in America for 25 years and still believe that if you pound yam with blender or whatever thing, it's not sweet.
But if the yam will His length of days in America doesn't change the culture. Yes, yes, that's the part.
Are you hearing them now? Yes.
So where I came from, when you want to greet elderly people, you bend. If it's your dad, you prostrate. I don't know how you guys do it here.
Hi, Dad!
Hi, Dad! But if I, peradventure, live here and my son wakes up in the morning and say, hi Dad, or hi Pops. I will give him a close invitation, then press a brief conk on his head, because although you live in America, you are not of America. So if we are to destroy that massively corrupt culture, it means the people that will do it must be those who, although you are in the world, but you are not of the world.
Because when you are dealing with culture, it is only culture that can dissolve culture.
When Nigeria was colonized by Great Britain, I know history books have been edited with lies, but they gave many of our leaders many things in exchange for access. Some were given things as minute as umbrellas, as mirrors, and many things in exchange for people to be taken to slave trade. Stay with me. The king then, because that was before Queen Elizabeth came, did not have to step into Nigeria for Nigeria to be colonized. The king's emissary needed to do that, and the presence of the person in Nigeria is the presence of the king. Is that simple enough? Yes, sir. What is the proof that Great Britain came to Nigeria? It is in the English I'm speaking. What is the proof that Great Britain came to Nigeria? It is the fact that you now see suit as official. In our culture, what will be official will be flowing gown. So it means they came and presented to you a culture that made yours feel inferior. It is in the perception of yours as inferior that made you cling to that, and it dissolved and neutralized yours. If you consider the culture of the world superior to the culture of the scripture, you cannot defeat it. The day it occurs to you that being in Christ, you are not missing anything out there— out there, can I say it again? You are not missing anything in the world. There's nothing in clubs. The same people There are people who come to church and are sleeping doing videos on their feet in clubs. Tskunkulu tskunkulu tskunkulu tskunkulu. And they will dance throughout the night, but once they say let's open to the Book of, they sleep. Because they didn't know that that sleep is a warfare.
Are you here?
If you are struggling to sleep or be awake, you are fighting a battle. There are forces making sure that you will not hear what is said, because it is what actually bears life. Stay with me.
So we are to use our powerful God's tool to destroy that entire massively corrupt culture.
There's a culture the world has embraced that God looked at and judged as corrupt.
We use our powerful God tools for smashing corrupt philosophies.
When you watch CNN, you see philosophies. When you watch Fox News, you see philosophies. When you watch so-and-so, you see philosophies. Recently, then they stopped funding of certain things. USAID said it should find out this is where funding terrorism. But people now sat there in front of the camera and say we used to have jobs because of this. Philosophies are conveyed in stories. It means those who will have a rule over the mind of people will be those who know how to tell stories. That's where the media comes in, to make sure that although you want information But we control what you see. If you pay your attention to an average news media now, you are being engineered to be a kind of person. Is there anyone here who is a medical doctor? Okay, you're a medical doctor. How did you become a doctor?
Huh?
No, how did you become a doctor? You went to medical school. What did they do in medical school? They spoke consistently different things. You read in textbooks, did practicals, but somebody was talking, and at the end he made you a doctor. Come on, what you hear is making you. There are things you have become without certification, but the world was schooling you the same way. The world— when you expose your children to cartoon, they are going to a school. What have you learned? You've learned many things that you didn't read from your Bible. There was a time— in fact, now, if you pass on a street and they are playing some songs, you may know the verses from beginning to the end. Meanwhile, they are not on your phone. But as you go on certain videos on TikTok, on Facebook, on Instagram, as people add those songs to their videos, they were teaching you those songs as against your interest. Let me tell you something. Sometimes I see people try to stylishly say that believers should not use the media. I am here to tell you, use it, because it is the places where our voices are being heard that people will know that Jesus exists. There is a way silence looks like wisdom, but we are losing a war.
Femi Lazarus. Are you here? Yes, sir.
Your artificial intelligence system, how does it work? It gathers the information provided at speed beyond human imagination, and when certain things are demanded in respect to that, can bring them articulately with speed beyond human imagination. Nation. It is not intelligent, it is only a gatherer of intelligence. So if you don't put Jesus there, you will say they have rigged it against us. Meanwhile, it is only gathering from what we provided.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Huh?
You know, we are quick to demonize everything. It's a falling The devil that the last day church is fighting is in culture, is in philosophies that is raised against the truth of God's word. It is in songs. That culture, I can tell them to project the lyrics of certain songs by— let me look for some songs. You know what I mean? What's this guy, this black guy that say he was a Christian one time, then went back again? Kanye West. Look from some songs, some lyrics. Somebody should help me with some of those. I used to be a DJ, but I'm not anymore. There's another boy called Nas or something like that.
These are very—
huh? See, listen, I know in here you are born again, you know what I'm saying? Give me some songs. I've looked for them online. You listen, you'll be amazed how education is blended and is lost in melodies. And because those words are the spirit behind those songs, even if you don't pay attention to them, they still influence your soul. That's why I am advocating that believers should— we can chant, we can sing in tongues, but let's sing in understanding so that we can communicate doctrine in melodies. If you don't know the understanding of scriptures, it's easy to just say, "Lakwaa, yab yab." It will sound deep, like you're singing in tongues. But can you tell us in melodies, in lyrics, and then communicate it all deeply? Because it's a form of education. What was the song by Nathanael Bassey we raised yesterday? Yeah.
You immaculately—
yeah, I can go on and on, on and on.
Come and help me now. You want me to sing rubbish? They will share it online even you don't know it.
Come and help me.
Yeah, oh yes.
You are infinitely glory Yours immaculately beautiful.
I can go on and on and on and on, but my words are not enough. My vocabulary is not filled.
Me, let me, me to Now, can you— you heard the lyrics of that sound? Talk to me now. That's the lyrics of the sound. Have you gotten a funny lyrics for me?
You have one now.
I need people who give their life to Christ recently, please. Just recently, last week or something. Is that okay? You have one now. Thank you. So they will put one on the screen. I want you to see how cultures are being built with movies, with sounds. An average Every movie you see on Netflix now have two men kissing. Why? The often— the more you see it, the more at home you are with it. Cultures are built gradually until they are heavily financed. Oh yeah, you might think you've peeped the scene. You haven't. The real ones, far too many. Yeah, continue. The watered-down one, the one you know, was made up centuries ago. They made it sound all whack and corny. Yes, it's awful, blasted, boring, twisted fictions, sick addiction. Well, gather around Children, zip it, listen. Ah, is this all? Ah, these guys are born again.
You have another one? There's a—
there's one, huh? There's one from a singer in Nigeria. It begins like an Arabian sound. Oh, I know what I'm saying. Come, let me tell you so I don't— for the sake of defamation. Yeah, come, my friend. Okay, can we get much higher? So high. Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, much higher, so high.
Yes, I'm tired of the oh, so let's continue. Can we get higher, so high? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I fantasize about this back in Chicago. Mercy, mercy me. I don't know what that is.
Yeah, continue.
How you say broke in Spanish?
Me no hablo. I think you guys just don't like me.
I want to give you a real one. Okay, you have another one here.
Yeah.
Thank you. Look at these lyrics. I got a song filled with shit for strong-willed. When the world gives you a raw deal, sets you off till you scream, piss you off, screw you. When it talks to you like you don't belong or tells you that you're in the wrong field. When something is mitochondrial, cause it's etched on the you. Yeah, mitochondrial is actually a word. Knock knock knock, let the devil in. Manevolent as I've ever been. Head is spinning, the medicine is screaming, let us in. Um, little like salad bowl, Edgar Allan Poe, something like that. Yeah, bed reading should have been dead a long time ago. Liquid Tylenol, gelatines. Think my skeleton's melting, wicked. I get all high when I think I've smelled the scent of elephant manure. L, look at it. So you wonder why young people listen to this and the next thing they want to do is become belong to a gang. The reason why they will begin to carry gun. Okay, this is it, and start shooting without thinking because music can pump them high. A culture is being built. So it means that if the end-time church will stand a chance, you must understand systems. It means that those who bring sounds from the church must have Spirit-inspired melodies that can do the warfare of countering cultures in the heart of the people.
Not songs with the intention to blue, but songs with the intention to lure you into the presence. It might have good melodies, but the intention is to recreate a culture in who?
You.
The end-time church has been summoned to where the devil is waiting, in the place of well-orchestrated stories that can arouse emotions. And it's built in your mind, and you become so emotional about the story that you just— you, you don't know when you start changing your thinking. And the devil is at it daily. The moment you open your eyes, there are structures on ground to keep you with your phone till life gradually sleeps beside you and you are not even a part of it.
Let me show you a scripture. Ephesians chapter number 3, verse 10. So this is the intention of God. Please give us that scripture in King James. Ephesians 3:8— um, 3:10. Please give us that scripture in King James so you can see. Now look at this. This is God's purpose. This is what God is intending to do.
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of who? God. That scripture looks normal because you can read this and pass by.
Look at that scripture in Amplified Translation quickly. Ephesians 3:10 Amplified.
The purpose is that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be known to angelic rulers and authorities, principalities and powers in what the heavenly sphere— that is, God now intends to use a people the way Michael stood and fought against the dragon and his angel till there was no space for him in heaven. The way Jesus stood and triumphed over the devil in victory, the church collectively will now stand and become the manifestation of God's wisdom, even to—
even the complicated wisdom that will be displayed before angelic rulers. What does that mean? It means the same way we are not dealing with the devil as a person, but has shared himself into systems. When he comes for the church, he will not only meet us on pulpit. The one who is in the bank that is working there is weaponized. The one who is in the hospital working there is weaponized. The one who is in the school working there is weaponized. The one who is in entertainment is weaponized. The one who is doing all those things, they are weaponized. Upon eyes to know what they are out for, and they cannot be distracted by money. Why do we have whims? We have boasted about our strength as church in the congregation of civilians, not soldiers. We have fed people with maintenance ration, so we are many but yet ineffective. That God can't have you in a territory and you rest, hey, hey, because even you, when you ought to be teachers, still need to be fed with milk. God can't have you in a territory And it is sure that if somebody is crying for God in that territory, when they see you, you will be revealed to them. Because you have been engaged and preoccupied with your own desire out of life, forgetting that one day soon it will pass. The nature of a territory is not determined by God's intention alone. Alone. It is determined by the quality of the men in the territory. If Lobok is cold, it is because you refuse to be on fire. If a man who is on fire stays there for 3 months, everywhere will be engulfed. So if you are there for a year, 2 years, and 3 years, and the place is as cold as it is, it means you have become like a dog that cannot bark. You have become like a lion that cannot roar. You have become like a soldier that can't wield the sword.
While you are there, the intentions of God are failing.
It is not enough to say, here I am, use me. You put your life on the altar as a living sacrifice, that you make up your mind I will not approach the generation I've been sent to empty, not with stories but with proofs. If one man in this place begin to search for God, even when people don't know, and we lock himself in free moments and we cry and say, Lord, reveal yourself, I want to know you more, soon where the sparks of fire and the fragrance in that place. It will begin to spread.
What you are seeing here today didn't begin on the altar. It began in locking myself in an Anglican church to pray. It didn't make sense because it looked like the whole world was moving on and leaving me behind.
Because once you begin to seek God, there is a first battle you fight, and that's the battle of doubt. It is fierce. The The devil will convince you that you are going on a path where men fail. He will sell the narrative to you that those who follow God don't end up having the life they should have.
He will tell you that you are smart if you say no to him.
He will tell you, why don't you live your life small, small? Particularly when he has succeeded in selling narrative to you that pastors are scamps. So when people bring the word of life that should bless your soul. You are cutting it out. People have failed you in every sector, but you still believe in them. Why is it church you now doubt? It is not you.
It is a conclave of darkness against your soul. The system is built to make you hate God, and you will have justifiable reasons.
It is church or church. Have you not been grieved before in your family? Did you dump the family? Is a system. I have come to call you that the time has come for us to beat our pruning forks into spears, that each and every one of you will refuse to be a civilian with no economic importance. If one person amongst us today Tonight we lay down and cry genuinely.
Here I am, use me. Heaven hears now.
Yes, I don't want to live and at the end of the day my life is summed up in what I accumulated, what I bought, the designers I wore. I was sharing a story with them. In Houston. I saw a video online. A mother monkey was crossing the road with the baby monkey, and a car clipped them. But somehow it was only the mother monkey that died because she protected the baby monkey. And I watched as they were collecting collecting the baby monkey from the dead mother monkey, and they put the baby monkey in the bush to now find their way through life.
I can't serve God the way I want to because I have children.
If you die, those children will find their way through life because God is their father.
If something happens to you today, the reason why you say you can't serve God will move on and life will continue. Remember your Creator now that you can still draw breath with your nostrils.
The night comes when no man can walk. The day you stand face to face with him, you cannot add to your works again. Okay, so you will cry, I am tired of the life without fire.
How can I not be profitable to advance your agenda? What is my economic importance in the kingdom now? In all the things you are doing on the face of the earth, I don't want to be a spectator. Use me.
See, let me tell you something. If you call him, he will give you the fire. Hm? If you will cry out of genuine concern for him to anoint you, he will. Let me tell you something. Do you know that something can drop on your life in this meeting that you will never be ordinary again? I'm telling you, one meeting is enough to change the coordinate of your life forever. One. That's In that meeting, he saw the genuineness and tore away pattern from your heart and poured the oil. Anoint my head with fresh oil.
I don't—
see, if you can lay on the floor, lay on the floor. If you can kneel, kneel.
If you can— whatever posture Okay.
The life that I live is not my own.
I've been offered to a deity and now I am a sacrifice. The life that I live is not my own. I've been offered to a deity, and now I am a sacrifice. The life that I live is not my own. I've been offered to a deity, and now I am a sacrifice. The life that I lead is not my own. Cry, cry, cry to God. Shake off the dust that has gathered on you for so long. Step out of the darkness of shame. You have robbed yourself There is hope for a tree that is cut down, because at the scent of water it shall spring back to life again. Igu, you are a soldier in the army of God, and the host awaits your response to the cry of God. Can you feel the shaking, the shaking in your belly as your Father calls out to you? Can you feel the breaking of the dam as the river from your belly flows?
You renew their strength, will mount up with wings and fly.
Eagles fly. It's in you. You were meant to fly, lion roar, eagles fly. It's in you, you were meant to fly, lion roar, eagles fly.
It's in you.
You were meant to fly. Lion roar. Eagles fly away. It's in you. You were meant to fly. Jesus, shake up the dust that is gathered on you for so long. Step out of the darkness of shame you have locked yourself in. There is hope for a tree that is cut down. He said, at the sound of water, it shall spring back to life again. Even your results are in the army of God, and the host awaits your response to the clarion call. There is an array of an army that is not complete until you are enlisted, until you allow yourself to be drafted by God into his event and activity on the face of the earth. What he's asking tonight is, will you lay your life down on the altar and let me make of you what I please?
We bless your holy name.
In Jesus' mighty name we're praying.
Please be on your feet.
Everybody, we bless you, Lord Jesus. There's a prayer that I want to pray for all of you, and the prayer is specific, it is particular, okay? And I say this with all Humility. Um, at this phase of my life, um, there are things I can request of the Lord and I know that they are done, but I don't know if you are hungry. There is something called the fire that never goes out, that even if you want to turn your back on God, you can't deny that something touched me that has not stopped burning. And another duty of that fire that never goes out is that it keeps drawing you to the place of intimacy. Stretch your hands, everyone. And I beg you, I'm going to, you know, going to decree simply, the fire will fall. Um, I want the ushers to help me now because I'm going to lay hands on a few people. Father, fire is the signature of your presence. I want you to stamp that fire on people's hearts tonight.
The fire that doesn't stop burning, the one that they can't deny, walk away from, or close their eyes from. The fire that keeps leading people to the place of intimacy.
All over this place, from my right to the middle and to the left, let the fire fall.
I will count 1 to 7. Mark them, lock it in.
Pour it on their life.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Search them out. Let the fire that never goes out fall.
Help him, help them.
Oh yes, let the fire 4. Let people receive new utterance. Let those who are called to prophetic offices, let them come under the umbrella of their calling. Let intercessors carry the mantle for prayer. Fire that never goes out. Let revivalists break out from this meeting. Those carrying the grace to set others on fire. Let apostles emerge from this communication. Let fire fall. Let fire fall. Let fire, let fire, let fire fall in families, in ministries. Some of you have the call of God upon your life that has been lying fallow for a while, but tonight you come under the umbrella of grace and the oil is ignited again. The fire falls.
That guy, the white guy, I want to pray for him. There's something about him. Bring him up.
Yes, no, the white man.
Come, my friend, come.
I want to pray for you.
Come.
Come, you see, God is going to use this guy to spark mighty revival, and it's going to go around the world carrying the fire of God's presence.
I see young people, young people in thousands can't be numbered, being baptized in the Holy Ghost.
I see them in camps, in meetings, praying, praying, praying. Extraordinary ability to make the heart of men born. Come under that grace today. You carry it strong everywhere that you go. Father, I ask that the words spoken over him today are sealed and his life will not go in contrary direction. I ask that now you begin to lead him even in the direction for the fulfillment of the prophecies that has gone ahead of him. Farawufo, where is the CAC Pastor?
The Lord told me to pray for you, that there's something you've been desiring. Laying on of hands is not something I do casually, but even as hands are laid on your head today, carry the oil that doesn't go stale. You become a man of fire. Touch, in the name of Jesus. You carry it everywhere that you go. Receive the grace to command the obedience of the faith. The spirit of wisdom, carry it strong. Amen. Thank you, Lord. The Lord said he wants to show some of you visibly what what the Shekinah glory looks like.
So, Father, even as I walk in their midst, let there be an outbreak of that— those you want to show, let the Shekinah glory, the tangibility of the presence, at the count of 3, show them what it looks like. 1, 2, 3. Let the Shekinah help them. You now, you have to— it's not Help them. You really have to. You really have to. You really have to. The weight of that glory— show them what it looks like.
Let them carry it from here everywhere that they go.
We bring you into the glory realm that you will begin to function in and with The presence.
Help them, help them, help them.
The glory of the Lord is upon you and his hand is strong upon you. You will know what his glory looks like and what his presence tastes like. Carry him strong.
In the name of Jesus. Ah, presence of the Lord.
Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord.
We bless your holy name.
We bless your holy name, Jesus. Blessed are thou, Son of David. Blessed are thou, Root of Jesse. Thee only do we praise, immaculate King of Kings. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Let the fire of the Holy Ghost not stop burning in this place. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Don't worry, allow those under the anointing. If you know you are here, you ought to be—
please stop in front. You can go back to give your life to Christ or rededicate your life to Christ. Come out quickly.
I will only call you once. You need to give your life to Christ. You need to rededicate your life to Christ.
Come out now, quickly, quickly, come.
Blessed are thou, Son of David. Blessed are thou, root of Jesus. You are infinitely great. I can go on and on and on and on.
Oh yes, my words are not enough.
My vocabulary is too few.
Me, don't make me into cry.
Eba, eba, eba, eba.
Ushers, you can go away. You can go away. Please allow me. Thank you. Please call my friends. Let them come, please.
Amen.
Listen to what I'm saying very well. The most important work in a man's life is this work. The day it occurs to you that this is everything your life is about, nothing else makes sense. And I'm glad it's a night like this, shows that God is up to something. Stretch out your hands and say these words after me: Lord Jesus, I believe that you came into this world to die for my sins. I believe that you died for my sins. I also believe that you rose on the third day for my justification. Today I confess you as my Lord and Savior, and I accept this gift of eternal life. In Jesus' mighty name, amen. Father, I ask that your children today— please stand behind them— are full of the Holy Spirit, that they become strong champions serving you all their days. They'll manifest your presence, speak with other tongues, and lead a generation to you. My sister, there's something on your life. Let the fire fall fall from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet. Touch now! Then they— hold up, please. Let the hand of the Lord rest upon you. Be full of the Holy Spirit. You carry his presence strong even to your own generation. Let the grace of the Lord rest upon you with fresh fire. Fresh fire. You will serve him all your days in In the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Is there a structure for documentation? Because who will need it in Nigeria? Who are they to follow quickly? All right, please follow, um, them. Just please, you can turn around, follow them quickly. I just need your names just to be able to follow you up. Is that okay? Thank you, Lord Jesus. God bless you. Let's give Jesus a big hand.
Amen.
Father, I stand in my place as an apostle and a prophet, and I speak concerning the land of Lobok. Let it be a land that will always be associated with revival.
Amen.
Let the heavens The heavens over this land open. Let strange species and breed of men rise. Let the fire fall. Let people catch vision of your calling. Thank you, blessed Father. We bless your holy name. In Jesus' mighty name. God bless you.
Wow, wow!
Media, can you pull down the video from YouTube?
We should leave it.
Okay, all right.
Man, that was something else. I don't know if what I'm I want to say, I want it to be on YouTube though. I have a confession. Now this confession is aware, my wife is aware. Um, so when I came to Lobok I don't like the tag of a pastor. So just like Jonah, deliberately, I just want to be a normal, regular human being like everybody else, honestly. And I still don't want to be a pastor. So the two of them, they know, they leave anything that will sound like, yeah, come on, nah. So the only thing I needed to hear, I heard it in a just— we had a very casual conversation, and while he was ministering See, this meeting will be wasted. This is just the foundation. We need to build on it. Honestly, I'm not still interested to be a pastor, truthfully, but men need to be raised. Trust me, I'm glad Mommy is here, and I'm glad Pastor B is Is Daphne around? Daphne is in children's church. Okay, we'll still call him because he will pray for children. We are going to be having— now this is tough. Most of us are PhD students, busy, busy. See, if anybody asks you to pray and you don't believe they If I ask you to pray, please believe, because I just want to be a— most of you know me, I just want to be a normal— in fact, this is the first time some of you have seen me like this. Trust, I, I know some people can't believe, you know, somebody said, ah, honestly. Once a month, we just gather like this. We can use Mommy's place, we can use anywhere, just pray and Bible study once a month.
I'm not sure that it is AFL first class.
Once a month. Then we'll see what God will do from there. Well, let's start. I don't know why Dey is laughing, but please, no, it's not a ministry, it's not a church. Hey, we just gather once a month. I don't know how we're going to do it, but we'll do it. And Apostle is coming back. Apostle is coming back. Now, if you know what it means to host Apostle, this is a real privilege. It's not even on the basis of access. I know, I know a lot of people that would invite him even on the basis of access, like my friend, and he won't go. He will never go to a place where God did not send him. That thing, that one, I knew, I know of him. And I was saying to volunteers recently, I said, if If anybody believe in you but your friends don't, then something is—
but if your friends believe in you because they see your fruit, is—
so we'll do that, we'll do that. So, um, can you call all the children so that Apostle can pray for all the children? So children in the children's church, and I want Apostle to also pray for people trusting praying God for the fruit of the womb. That's number 2. I want the Apostle to also pray for people who wants to get married.
Somebody is saying job.
On a normal day, I would have said Apostle should pray for people that are looking for a job. But if you listen to that message, anywhere they employ you, they are privileged to have you there.
I think that I know why you want us to leave this one.
So we pull down the one for yesterday. You will never find it on any, any platform. It's gone. But we'll leave this one, Abi. Okay, so you need to listen to the message again and again because trust me, you, you only heard 2% of what he has said. When you listen to that message, you'll be like, was I really there? So average frequency of listening to one message for me is 3 before I can now say yes, I was there. So I want all the children to come forward. They are already seeing their parents.
Today is the last day, so let's just—
I suppose you should not go back to Nigeria with all this grace, please.
Do we still have more children coming?
Yes, please.
Let's listen up. Daphne, do we still have more children? That's all, Abby. All right, we have active children in Lobok.
Amen, amen. Amen. Amen.
Thank you, Lord Jesus. As arrows are in the hands of a mighty man, so you become. Amen. All our children here and those watching online whose parents are connected online, you are engulfed and surrounded with God's presence.
Amen.
You will not bow to the systems of this world. You become strong weapons in God's hand.
All of you are freshly anointed.
The Lord will shield you through life. You will be known as children who arose to serve God. You will not compromise. You will not sell off. Be blessed in Jesus' mighty name.
And I pray for those trusting God for the foot of the womb, by this time next year you are carrying yours.
Amen. Those who are trusting God for twins, those who are trusting God for boys, those who are trusting God for girls, you have it now. Amen. Those who are ready to be settled, I decree your hands will not be wrongly joined in marriage. Amen.
You will not marry the man who will almost get there.
Amen.
You will not marry the enemy of God's plan for your life.
Amen.
The siege of delay is broken.
Amen.
Those who are trusting God for jobs that will make their mind be at rest, particularly the jobs that will allow them after time to do other things. Miraculously, they are provided.
From this minute, let there be strange release of favor.
It is done in Jesus' mighty name.
Amen. Wow! Wow, wow, wow.
All right, um, see, eh.
If you leave this meeting and you still want to live an ordinary life, then I pity you. You've been implicated already.
You've been implicated.
Ezekiel 2:2: As he spoke to me, the Spirit entered me. And Jesus said, that the words as I speak, they are spirit and life. So what will happen to some of us is you leave this meeting and you just want to do ordinary things, like you want to go through life as normal, but there will be a pull. You just see that a force is just dragging you back. Thank you, Apostle. Can we say thank you, Apostle?
Thank you, Apostle.
And always there's a principle in the kingdom because the enemy always come back to steal the word. One of the ways to safeguard the word when you receive it is thanksgiving. So we're going to just thank God in 30 seconds. Father, thank you for the what I have received today.
Out of all the places in America, Lobok, you're not here by accident or by incident.
God brought you here on the purpose. Thank you, Jesus. And when the enemy comes later to steal this word, the word we've received in these two days are protected in Jesus' mighty name. Don't forget, in love box work against my desire. Trust me, trust me. Against my— once a month Bible study and intense prayer, and let's see what God will do. So, um, some of the volunteers had registered, but you can shut down the Livestream, we've ended. Don't make it private, leave it, but shut it down. We are done. Just announcements. So some
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