WK 2 - DAY || WISDOM AND POWER CONFERENCER

one of the aspects of the prophetic office. They are scribes. The, the grace is there. Some of them, God will attach them to ministries to translate the messages into what a generation must read. The man may not have the time and the energy to do that. They will read that because of the oil of an interpreter. They will be able to sit down and put the exact words in the mind of God. As long as there are prophets here You will not go home the same. That doesn't mean we are not touching other offices. There are prophetic worshipers. When Jehoshaphat, another king, came to Elisha, he said, if not for Jehoshaphat, I will not regard all of you. He said, but bring me a minstrel. And the Bible said, as the minstrel sang, the hand of God— minstrels know how to host the hand, not just knowing how to host a preacher. The hand responds. You may not necessarily have a defined music ministry. You may not even sing according to key. But if that thing is there, I summon all prophetic office holders.

As long as that oppression is here, whether as a worshipper, as a teacher, as an apostle, as a pastor, or as a seer, right now let the fountains of the deep break open. Silence everywhere.

Every prophetic mandate here, I quicken you now at the count of 3.

1, 1, 2, 3, touch them!

Let there be an outbreak! Let there be an outbreak!

That thing on the inside will not rest until the river flow.

From out of your belly shall flow rivers.

Amen.

There's a checker, and the shaking you have seen on the inside, it is the mantle that is responding. Hmm, there's a checker.

You have a role to play.

You have an assignment. It can't wait. You have a role to play. You have a part in the end time move of the Spirit. No devil can thwart what God has started. You have a definite role to play.

Ali Ali yo, oh, Ali Ali yo, Ali yo, Ali yo, Ali Ali yo, oh. Mantles have been given to the church.

Church once again.

Revival is happening in the church once again for the church to become, for the mantles to return, for the old to return, a tabernacle of the ages. Ali, ali, yo, ali, yo, ali, yo, ali, ali, yo.

Oh, amen.

Sit down for a while, please. Sit down for a while, please. Sit down for a while. It is wisdom and power.

Sit down for a while.

Now, like I was saying, for— please listen— for reasons best known to God in his infinite wisdom, he seemed to have decided that we are the church that will be assembled at the end of all ages. And, and, and that says a lot. When I think about this, the question is, why trust me this much? I mean, the people you put at the end of everything must be those that will insist even with their life that the harvest doesn't perish. I look at my generation, I had to ask one of the fathers in the body of Christ, I said, sir, it looks like the blood that saved you guys was diluted before it got to us. Because I look at the passion, I look at the zeal, I look at the way they give attention to prayer, I look at the way they give attention to fasting, and I'm asking, what, what died in my own generation? And yet, in the wisdom that God has, he still decided that we are the last generation that will usher in the coming of the King. In case you don't know, it is no longer news that Jesus is coming soon.

And I—

it doesn't make sense. I always use this illustration. Um, can I have two ladies and, um, two guys please? Two ladies please. Can you help me shift this pulpit a bit backward? Thank you. Let me have the first lady here please. Let me shift it quickly. Um, woman of God, please come face him.

Stand here.

Yes. No, face him. Okay, then you come stand behind her. Okay, okay, then, um, okay, where's the next guy?

Come.

So I, I saw something like this in one of the— no, face him, just face him— in one of the Olymp— not Olympics, one of these mixed, um, race relay race where you have male and female. And I saw Nigeria competing, other nations also came. So usually, um, it matters who starts, you see, and it also matters who ends it. You see that Nigeria came last in the race. You know why? Because they started with men and they wrapped it up with ladies. When it got to the second to the last, the, the, the guy was far ahead of the girls, but because it was a lady that received it last, all other guys that took it last overtook her.

Why?

We are not saying women are weak, but we are saying in terms of physical strength, the Bible referred to a woman as weaker vessel. So that means that the simple wisdom of a race like this is that you put the most skillful player at the last.

True.

But it looks as though we look at other generations, and God still insisted that you are the last one that will receive the baton. God is not as foolish as Nigeria. So if God is making something like this, it means there's something he knows we doesn't Is that okay now? It means there's a body of wisdom in this arrangement. Why will you put— permit me please to put the weakest, us, when we have had generation of men like Smith Wigglesworth, we have had generation like Ayo Babalola, we have had generation like Archbishop Benson Idahosa, we have seen the days of E.A. Adeboye.

Who are we?

It is because In the physical, when we run, ah, we hand baton. Nobody is a legal runner until a baton is extended to you. So this person run, is that okay? Now this one receives the baton, this one receives the baton, then the last one receives the baton. So you wonder, why we? Have you ever— are you honest enough to ask that question? When you read Joel 2, and Bible says that an army will come, There has never been any like them before, neither shall there be any more after them.

The garden, the land before them is as the Garden of Eden, and behind them a great wilderness. So they shall run, nothing will escape them. They will run like horses and like horsemen, they will run, leap upon walls.

How do you look at all these traits and say it belongs to this generation?

What nonsense!

It is because what you see is this one run and is out of the race. Please sit down. This one also run and is out of the race. This one also run and is out of the race. But actually what happens in the kingdom is when the time comes to— for this one to run, everyone that has run before, all the graces all the mantles. Everything is vested. We have come in the submission of ancient mantles. Our generation is not spectacular because we are strong. It is spectacular because of the power that backs us up.

We have received so much, we cannot fail. We must not fail. Many laid their lives down and died and shed their blood and bled for us to hold these things.

We are surrounded with so a great cloud of witnesses, and we, we look, we look at the hostility against the church.

Blood and smoke. You look on social media, you are seeing a smoke rise. Hey, what are they roasting there?

They have gathered him to insult him. Yes, it is smoke.

You look at there, what they persecuted— I'm seeing bloodshed. What they persecuted another pastor. It is part of the signs. But in the midst of it, we love not our lives unto death. You know why?

You know why? The prophecy that has gone ahead of us. We must never enter into self-preservation. A generation depends on our audacity to stand. Regardless of the insult, I can finish preaching and they say that Femi Lazarus boy is a stupid boy, it's a smoke.

While they are roasting him and all that, that smoke is also what is calling the rest. Come and see your ordination here. This is the kind of what I've called you to do. Let me tell you something in case you don't know. You are not alone. You have come in the summation of all the ancient mantles. That have gone ahead of you. You are not alone. The power behind you is more than the force that controls the world.

Don't get distracted.

Many of you listen to what I'm saying. What is going to happen tonight is that you have seen yourself run that race alone as an isolated runner, but you will come face to face with the mantles of your calling.

Mantles never leave the earth.

They hang around waiting for the rightful owner.

That yearning, that hunger, that inquiring, it is the mantle responsible for the ordination you carry.

You will collide with it tonight. In our own days, it will not be said that the fire reduced. No, we have been called to earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto us. Lift your hands. Say, Lord, I won't fail you.

Empower me not to.

Empower me not to. Fill me with your fire.

Empower me, Lord.

Set me on fire, Lord.

Teach me the pathways of the Spirit. Anoint me with your oil.

Fill me till I want no more. Set me on fire, Lord. Teach me the pathways of the Spirit.

Anoint me with your oil. Fill me till I want no more.

Lion roar, eagles fly, it's in you.

You were meant to fly. Lion roar! Eagles fly.

Oh, 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, oh, it's in you, you were meant to Shake off the dust that has gathered on you for so long. Step out of the darkness of shame you have wrapped yourself in. 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 clarion call. Can you feel the shaking? The shaking in your belly as your Father calls out to you now? Can you feel the breaking of the dam as the river from your belly flows? They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up, spread those wings and fly. It's in you, you were meant to fly. Lion roar, eagles fly, eagles fly. It's in you, you were meant to fly. Shake off the dust that has gathered on you for so long. Step out of the darkness of shame you have wrapped yourself in. 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 clarion call. Can you feel the stirring, the stirring 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? They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They will mount up Spread those wings and fly. Amen. Sit down for a while.

Sit down for a while.

It's in you, you were meant to fly.

Sit down for a while.

Lion roar, eagles fly. It's in you, you were meant to fly. Lion roar, eagles fly. Oh, it's in you, you were meant to fly. For the Spirit and the Bride says come. For the Spirit and the Bride says come.

Sai la manghelete kebabambe, sai le nemong kepa.

I am fire, I am life, I am glory of the supernatural. I am fire, I am love, I am glorious supernova. I am fire, I am love.

Sit down for a while. So the question is, what is the Lord doing with us? Is this stick Every time my heart is burning, I sit down, I ask myself, what more can we do to reach this generation? We have sung, we have piped, but they have refused to dance. What, what more? What, what can we do? Let me tell you something. One of the reasons why we have casualty, it is because the church has chosen either power or wisdom. Either of them alone is a disaster. The end-time church must stand on those two legs. It is in the— listen what I'm saying— in spirit and in what? Power. Let me show you a scripture. Malachi chapter number 4 from verse 5. Malachi 4. If you are there, say amen. Now look at the scripture, says, behold, I will send you who?

Elijah the prophet before the coming, abi, of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. I teach eschatology, and each time I talk about the great and dreadful day, talks about the end times. Is that okay now? Before the finality of all events, there is one more thing we must see. That is the emergence of the mantle of Elijah. Pay attention here. The Bible refers to Elijah as the prophet, but we see as we check scriptures which I'm going to show you that the mantle of Elijah is not just a prophetic mantle. No, the mantle of Elijah is a combination of two mantles. It is the prophetic and the apostolic. Is that okay now? And I'll tell you why. So the Bible says that before we see the finality of all events, we are going to see this old mantle released again. You know why? Elijah also emerged at the time It was darkest in his days. We, we didn't seem to know much about his background and preparation. In these days and time also, background regardless. And there came Elijah the Tishbite. My background, my parents are not together, forget about that nonsense. You'll see men, no paparazzi, just an announcement. Let me say this to you: nobody is ever announced in the physical scene until they have broken through in the spirit.

So you are going to begin to see sudden strange voices that seems to bring meaning to the activity of God. Different dimension by different graces. We are in the season of many new voices. Yes, because Nigerian church is currently going through transition. America seems to be wrapping up their transition. In South Korea, the transition, once it ended, the revival stopped. In South Korea, there was no transference, there was a rounding up because there was a disconnect between fathers and children. And this is what the mantle is for. In order for us not to have that, I will send again Elijah the what? Prophet. What will he do before the dreadful day? Verse 6, now quickly, quickly. He will do the same thing that needs to be done, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children. Please pay attention, it is not the heart of children to fathers first if those who carry it are angry with those who receive it. You know, there is subtle pride in the body of Christ. There is. Say, what do they have, really? There are statements that even demons will not dare say, but they take ignorant believers. You'll see a 26-year-old go on Twitter and call E.A. Adeboye stupid, and you look and you shake your head. If you belong to that generation that do that nonsense, stop it now before you mortgage your future. Let me tell you something.

I have checked—

permit me, I've ministered across this nation. I have found out there are lands that you find scarcity of voices, not scarcity of ministry, but no voice is going beyond the territory. Check. Every time that happens, there is dishonor. I'm sorry, I believe one of the things God have given to me is the grace to preserve the harvest. I, I, I I doubt if there's any time I'm flying either to South-South or Southeast that somebody did not fight on plane. You see, as I was coming down today, I just saw a young boy was telling an elderly man, get out of my front! What do you mean? Who do you think you are? I sat down with a senator on flight. We're having real conversation. What the young boy did not know was that the man he was shouting at was the former Chief of Defense Staff. Soldiers were plenty waiting. I saw him carry his bag as he saw them, he moved fast. I said, are you seeing how dishonor of a moment? It may be coming from places where nobody has ever risen in their family. One little patience can make the man say, what's your name? And that's the breakthrough.

But you see, this thing that makes people feel, no, forget about it, who do they think they are?

It will cost you your essence. God will have to start from your own children like you didn't exist. And the man, being so mature, just looked at him and didn't say anything. But look at the way those soldiers were coming.

Are you aware they could wrap him up? Just pick him.

That's just— I mean, does he have to say more than that?

Pick him.

They will find out why later. Those carrying this thing and about to exit the scene, it is important their heart is open to the fact that a generation, though our mistake, though despite the fact that we are not perfect, but a generation recognize our labor and they are longing for the mantle. Let me tell you something, every generation that highlights the mistake of the fathers repeat it. The fact that you know it doesn't mean you are sophisticated not to do it. It is in humbling yourself that this thing jumps. David might have been anointed king 17 years ago, but he must never kill Saul. Are you seeing that? Let me tell you something. If we can kill the wave of arrogance and dishonor in South-South and Southeast, you will kill the wave of false prophets and false altars. That's the blueprint. If you can kill the wave— you know, I'm sorry, permit me, is that okay? I'm not being nepotic, but an average Igbo man believes, who are you? Who you be? And you look at it, I'm sorry, take statistics, you find many patterns of early death 30s. You look at billboard around 36, 35, 34. A man that dishonors his father and his mother, his light will be what? Put out. So when the Bible says honor your father and your mother, I say so that your day may be long. Listen what I'm saying. Your day may be long. Listen what I'm saying. It is not that your life may be long. They are not the same thing. Ah no, your life can be long but your day is short. Your day describes the season that the sun rise over you. Your day describes the season that your influence rise. Your day describes the season that your destiny begins to speak. So the Bible says when you walk in honor, that season will be long. Let me tell you something, a man's day— are you following what I'm saying— can start from 20 and extend to 90. Are you following what I'm saying now? It's still throughout, longer day than night. Your night can start at 25. Are you following what I'm saying here? The, the real authentic apostolic and prophetic wisdom— what is the apostolic movement? It is the movement of wisdom. What is the prophetic power? It is the fusion This is what will usher in the coming of Jesus.

On the day of Pentecost, the apostolic began it.

For Jesus to come, it will wrap it up. Are you following what I'm saying? The authentic move will not be going out to discredit the fathers. It will understand, appreciate, learn from their mistakes, and be positioned for what God is doing next. Let me tell you something. I was speaking to one of the fathers. I don't want to call his name. He's a bishop. Everybody here knows him. He called me to Abuja. He said, come and see me. He came to Abuja. He said, Femi, come and see me. You know, when they call you, you cancel meetings. There's no— I have to preach.

Yes, sir.

So I went there. So he told me, he said years ago when he clocked 59, he went to meet his spiritual father, Pastor Femi Lazarus, to pray for him on his 59th birthday. Baba said to him, ah, love Bishop, uh, how old are you now? Say 59. Ah, my boy is growing. Say, when you clock 60, come back. That's when I'll pray for you. You know, this generation have been offended. I mean, I traveled all the way, came to camp, you said I should go back. You will not even lay hands. A prophet has spoken. Me, I recognize that the implication of when you clock 60, come back, is that nothing can kill you between now and then. That is the implication. A word has gone forth. This is what I'm saying. The prophetic is not just revelatory, it is creative. So when Elijah said that by this time tomorrow, even if tomorrow ought not to be, somebody has created it. Are you following what I'm saying here? So the man clocked 60 the following year and drove back and said, Baba, now I'm 60. Oh, he looked at him and said, my son, my son. He said, no, I will pray for you. Say, uh, Now you're about to start ministry at 60. I don't want to call his name so bloggers don't put my face now and say, 'Huh?' Because they are watching me as I speak. Are you feeling what I'm saying? At 60, he said, Baba said, 'Kneel down.' He said as the hand came upon his head, he passed out for the first time in his life. He said he began to see the kind of multitude he has never seen before. Do you know what happened? I know what happened. What happened was that a new layer of ministry was opened, that if that layer was not opened, if what he has seen before is what he said is the peak, countdown has started to the grave. Are you following what I'm saying? If what he has seen before say, ah, we have built university, we have done this, If that is what he says is the peak, countdown to the Grievers. They initiated a new order. He said when he woke up, he saw that he had been on the ground for an hour, and Baba was there in his old age crying in tongues over his head. Many of those when he saw them have not been close enough to know they have just one life and one passion. Are you following what I'm saying here? He said years ago— let me share this story because he has shared it publicly. He said years ago, Archbishop Benson Idahosa called. Should I share this? Let me share it. So he went to Benin. You know the way Bishop call you? Come and see me. Ah, Daddy, I'm busy now. You see me? So he said he got to Benin and he met Bishop David Oyedepo on his knees, and Archbishop was rebuking him. You don't do that. And Bishop just said, I'm sorry, sir, I'm sorry, sir. He said he wanted to run away. Who am I? Archbishop, Bishop Oyedepo on the knee rebuking him. Archbishop said, if you leave that door, stand there. And in his presence was rebuking Bishop Oyedepo. And when they were done, Bishop left to go and eat at the dining. They both laughed, and Archbishop called him. And Archbishop said to him, you see David, he's going far, follow him. That was what he said. He said, you see David, he's going far, follow him. The man said to me, he said, Femi, Archbishop saw me when I was a nobody and lift us up. The way Archbishop called us then is the way God has said, as you lift up your hands, go on your knees. What you see here is a grace from fathers that has been bettered. Listen, what— hear what I'm saying. True honor. Last year, November, we honored Bishop Francis Waleoke in our church. Our ministers conference. We have a culture of honoring a father every year. I sat down with him on the chair and I watched him shedding tears, and he held my hands and he said, Femi, you honored me. When you provoke that thing from that depth, no devil can bring you down. Are you following what I'm saying? There's a man among the last— all those old CAC prophets, they call him Prophet Emo Alawere. The man, his hand is always like this when he wants to prophesy. You think he's receiving a call. Everything he tells you, accurate. I went to see him. For the first time in his house. When you get to where this thing is, you know now. Those who have it, have it. Forget about this nonsense. Are you feeling what I'm saying? I entered his palace. You would think you entered heaven, not for beauty but for glory. I saw the man seated in small stature, but you know the protocol around him is dangerous. As I entered the inner palace to see him, He called me by my name. He said, I know you. He said, you're about to get married. I said, yes, sir. This and this and this, watch out for this, this and this and this is what they are planning. Word for word, we honored him. We did not even know he was on his way out. God just placed the burden on him. He called me, video call, about shedding tears. He said, you will buy epomili, that is, you honored me. Are you following what I'm saying? These people, when he was— let me say this on camera. Let me tell you, you don't, you don't snatch baton, it is handed. Are you following what I'm saying? Let me tell you, you don't snatch.

Hey, yeah, we are hungry, Janet.

Forget about it. Have you seen people who are passionate around schools but they are not students?

Aha.

You hang around it for 4 years, no degree.

Oh, calm down and go mind them. All these things, nonsense. Don't mind them.

All these mumu fathers, you make all the noise. It is clear that light of heaven has not shone upon your life. Is what you have when there is division between two generations. That is what you have. That is what you have. So the mantle of this age is the mantle of Elijah, the mantle of the prophetic and what? Apostolic. The prophetic and what? That doesn't mean everyone would necessarily be called apostles.

No, no, no.

Or everyone be called— are they going to be pastors? Of course is. But you are going to see it is the move to forcefully advance territories. Lift your right hand where you are seated. Say, Father, I refuse to be missing. Ah, ah, ah, I, I wish you would say that loud enough. I refuse to be missing in your end time movement. Jesus, thou Son of David, here I am. Use me too. Pray that prayer for a minute. Sainamaad.

Ola ka inema.

I refuse to drop out. I refuse to drop out. In Jesus' mighty name we are praying. Now look at what God is doing. Um, I don't know if the media has more than one translation, but can you please give me— thank you. Ephesians chapter number 3, verse 10. Ephesians 3:10. To the intent that now unto principalities and powers in the heavenly places might be made known by the church the manifold wisdom of God. Now this may not seem to carry, um, full— can you give me Amplified? Then we read Message quickly.

Do you have?

Thank you.

Can we read this together? 1, 2, 3, go. The purpose is that through the church— hold on a minute.

Through—

through what? The church. Talk to me now. What? The church. Pay attention. Through the church, the complicated— somebody say complicated— many-sided. Now, the wisdom of God is not one-sided, it is many-sided. Many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite varieties. Look at it. An innumerable aspect might now be made known to angelic rulers. Are you following what I'm saying? Let me tell you what that wisdom is. Do you want to know what that wisdom is? I will show you two illustrations. I won't go deeper for the sake of time. Can I have, um, four guys please come stand here, face me. Stand here quickly, quickly. Four guys, face me. No, face, face me, me, me.

Uh-huh.

Space up. So this guy says that you need to know the kind of life I've lived. I'm an Indian hemp smoker, this, this, this, this. I don't know how I'm going to start from this, this, this, this. One of the side of the wisdom of God is that I brought him out of Indian hemp. This is your pastor. This one said that I don't know what is wrong with me, I, I used— I came from a very bad background, this, this, this. I don't know who is gonna— all the pastor, I don't understand. God said, ah, no, no, no, my wisdom is many-sided. This is also one of my sons I brought out your kind of foundation. Hey, here he is. Listen to what I'm saying. The reason why there are many graces in the last days is because the devil is also doing many things. To all the dimension the devil think he has destroyed men, God has a counter response, and the counter response is man. Are you following what I'm saying here? Muslims could hear my teachings and relate. I, I won't tell you publicly the the number of people who have become Christians by seeing short videos. People will encounter it. Let me tell you, our ministry is not good media, it's prayer. That's the fact.

Prayer.

God said there is no tongue or tribe where your voice will not be heard. It's not eloquence. These things are given. Are you following what I'm saying here? The church is the display of the complicated wisdom of God. You are a display of an aspect of God's wisdom. I am a display of an aspect of God's wisdom. Pastor is a display of an aspect of God's wisdom. The wisdom I carry becomes foolishness if I see him and say he's not wise. It doesn't matter how wise you are, you are just carrying an aspect. We see through a dark glass darkly, we know in part.

Are you following what I'm saying now? There is an aspect of the wisdom that contradicts your theology. That's why God could not use you for it. You will see a Peter, God will say this is a shit letdown from heaven. Beasts that you don't eat. He said, now kill and eat. He said, how shall I eat a thing that is not clean? 3 times, then the thing left. Let me tell you something, your prejudice can stop your ministry. It can, it can. And until Paul came and said, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, I know, you know, the people that God brought out of a mess, they respond on time compared to those who feel they were born holy. I knew what God took me from. Those who feel they were born— no, no, I can't, I can't go there. God said, I have called you. The kind of ministry I've given to you as a lady is to go and help girls who are broken, rape victims, prostitutes, bring them out of the gutter and bring them.

This, this— what people say, what people say, you are not the one that will do it. While you are still arguing what people say, God will have raised another one who will not ask what people will say. There's no time. So he's busy calling in laborers. Don't argue, respond. This is not the kind of generation a young girl say I can't marry a pastor.

Wrong generation.

God can call anybody, even you. The girl who said I can't marry a pastor, God say you, you are the one that will be the pastor. So you look at all of us, I mean, I thank God for a conference like this. You look at Apostle Jonathan, Apostle Selman, um, Apostle Harunme, um, Edu, Pastor Podiu, all. Hey, put everything together. Different aspect of God's wisdom, different men respond to them based on the one they can resonate. Everyone is as important as the other. The arrogance of the apostolic movement is the thought and the thinking that it stands alone. Now, lie. The apostolic movement will not thrive without the prophetic. In fact, the prophetic is what bettered the apostolic. Certain prophets and teachers gathered, Acts 13, and they ministered unto the Lord and fasted, and the Holy Ghost said, separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Are you following what I'm saying here? That you will never come to the point where you now— God forbid that day comes— and now look down on people and say, look at what they are doing. The fact that a person is not known doesn't mean you are more effective. See, when we get to heaven, there will be surprises. You will know that influence and impact are two different things. No, they are not the same thing. They are not the same thing. Please be seated. Let's give this man a big hand. Mean you are no longer called. The failure is an announcement that what you intended to use is not the tool to be used. What you wanted to use is the force of your personal testimony. God is saying, tell the story of grace that saved you. Hm. Don't back down from the calling. You are here. That girl is here. Don't back down from the calling. It is possible that God has called you to marriage ministry. And yet you have married the kind of husband who is a beast, and you look at your life and say, how can I, who is called to marriage ministry, how can I call other women to order when myself and my husband are not together? My husband are not together. How can I? God is saying, when it gets to that point— hey, should I say this now? It is not your story but his story. This is what I'm saying. When, when wounds truly heal, they become contact point of healing. When wounds truly heal, they become contact point of what?

Healing.

That through your pain, your broken bones, life is now flowing, that is also energizing others. That look at this woman, she got pregnant out of wedlock, gave birth to a child, did an abort, and God is using her like this. Oh my God, I won't fail too. That you have a child out of wedlock doesn't mean your calling has ended.

Get back to the race! You pick yourself back.

When you fail to forgive yourself, your issue is not righteousness, it's pride. You feel too big to have fallen. Who are you not to fall? A righteous fall once and rise 7 times.

Get yourself back.

You are part of the complicated display of God's wisdom. Are you following what I'm saying here? It is not over till you breathe the last breath. As long as you are here, there's something you are here for. Say, I have failed, I failed, my life is miserable, everyone around knows my story. That same story is the contact point.

Look at it. The woman was by the well was the woman that they knew, 7 husbands.

And Jesus said, you've been married to 7 different men. Ah, they've told my story to him. They've told my story to him. Said the one you are now with is not your husband. Ah, this, this, this. He said, come and see the man who told me everything about my life. She became the loudest voice. After all, they know of her reproach. They will listen because they want to know what has happened again. As the man died again, only to hear that the resurrection and the life has encountered her. Sometimes he wants you to have those scars and those injuries so that your life can become the ministering point and contact point. Let me tell you something, when you survive it, you become the captain of those who are going through it. Are you following me now?

When you survive it, there is a generation going there and asking, who are we to look like? Who has survived this journey? Who went through this and came out? And God said, I have a son who went through this, did not throw in the towel, had reasons to commit suicide, did not.

Hear me, you know, it is very possible to think that excellence in ministry is that everything is fine. Let me give you an illustration. Somebody can come for a meeting like this, and a young minister is seated there and said to God, look at us, we When are we going to get to this point where the light is not even blinking, everything is sounding well, this, this, this? And while the guy is thinking that, the generator goes off. The pastor is angry. Hey, technical team, what's going on? Hear me, oh, hear me. That thing that you call discomfort you just went through is God passing a bona fide message to somebody. That can you see that you are not alone. Don't be too quick to cry about the fact that things didn't go well. Your life might be the greatest message at the time things went down, that God is saying, look at him. You see, when it comes to the complicated wisdom, you see, things don't— they don't look like what they appear like. You know where I didn't want to go to is actually wonders in heaven. That's one of the first signs apart from the move of the Spirit. He said, I will show wonders. Where the reflection of the wonders is the smoke, fire.

Aha!

Let me show you what wonder in heaven looks like. A guy stood in righteousness and there was a council meeting in heaven.. And God was asking the devil, have you considered my servant Job? For he's a man that fears the Lord and eschews evil. The devil said, why will he not fear you? You have made a hedge around him. You have given him wealth and influence and affluence. Why would he not serve you? And God said, go and touch everything but his life. Don't touch. Job did not enter into trouble. We understand he had fears. But really, this kind is because he was a giant. You call him— are you with me? So you look at Job the following week of this disaster, the same man that was the wealthiest man in the East now sitting in the midst of ashes. No more child, children, no wife, boils all over his body, no farm, no house, sleeping outside. You say this This man is miserable. That is blood and fire. But what is going on in heaven? Angels are marveled. Why will he not deny God? We honor and revere him because we have seen him.

He has not.

What is keeping them in the midst of trouble?

How come this guy is running ministry 10 years?

2 people and he's still doing it. They call him a failure, but he's a wonder in heaven.

How come this guy's things are going—

he has no reason to be a Christian anymore, but yet in the dying in his flesh, still carries the Bible, though broken, but yet not scattered.

You call the man a reproach and all that, but in heaven he's a what? Wonder.

It is part of the signs of the last days. You don't just conclude about men based on size of congregation. I know you don't conclude about men because it looks like there's disaster.

While T.D.

Jakes said he pastored about 10 people for 10 years— T.D.

Jakes, T.D.

Jakes— was the grace not there? It was there. Because somebody else who will feel after 2 years he has failed would have to come and read the story of the one who did it for 10 years. When God is preparing your life as a story that will preserve a generation, don't be in a hurry to jump out. Let me tell you this, is that okay now? The story of my speed will inspire you, but the testimony of my process will help you to be preserved. We need the balance of the boat. One is power, the other is what?

Wisdom.

It is part of the signs. You are not failing, you're only a wonder. What did I say? You are not failing, you're only a— you know, I'm currently teaching a topic, Isaac and Ishmael, how to bear two extremes. I'm teaching on Sunday on what happens when you bet Ishmael first. It is very possible that while Isaac is coming, you have already betted Ishmael. What then do you do? The way to deal with the influence of Ishmael is not even to destroy Ishmael, is to sacrifice Isaac. The Ishmael that God wants to counter, I say, allow him. That Isaac that you feel is the best, bring it. Oh God, I have a child out of wedlock, my life is miserable. God said, now that you feel you are holier than the rest, that's your holiness, put it on my altar. Let my grace carry you. Let me tell you something. If Christianity must be strong and if what we carry must be seen by the next generation, we must carry these two things. The devil will make mess of a generation who does not understand process.

I see—

listen to what I'm saying. Let me tell you, particularly in these last days, don't try to look down on any man.

Don't.

I shared this story with you. God sent us— we just finished our facility in Ibadan. It looks like I've come to a place of rest. Everywhere I've been, my office, everywhere air-conditioned. God said, get out now. He said, that's your Mercedes, go and sell it, put the money in the church. That Highlander, go and sell it, put the money in church. I went from pastoring one of the fastest growing church in the city to taking bike to the same church. And the devil will be telling me on bike, this is— listen to what I'm saying. This is not 20 years ago, this is last year. The devil be telling me on bike, you see your life, nobody rise from your family. You see that no matter how high you go, you are coming back. You are about to leave this city now, hear me, oh, you see where you have come back to now. That is your life, oh, this, this, that, that. And God reminded me, the life of a man does not consist of the abundance of the things he possess. We are more than the physical things we hold. We got to Abuja. I already kept money. God has said come to do ministry. I kept money aside. Okay, we're going to use one for rent. God said go and drop it. I went with my team. We couldn't afford any house till police came to arrest us. Now where are you guys coming from? We are pastors. And while I was there saying, God, how will you call a man and put him in the midst of this. God told me, he said, look from the window. He said, what do you see? He said, I'm going to give you a city in this city. I'm not asking for a city, give me a room first. Are you following what I'm saying? Many people did not know I was pastoring a church of about 20 people last year. We're still 20-something when I told my wife I perceive that we should go to a venue that can take 1,000 plus. Who carries 20 people to a venue of 1,000 plus? Hear me, in less than 3 weeks the venue became filled. We started 2 services, became too filled, we had to leave. Hear me. Are you following what I'm saying? If God will preserve a generation through your life, you will have stories. While you are going through it, the devil will give you all the announcement that you have failed, but you must know how to stand your ground. This is the complicated wisdom of God. It is, it is, it is not on the surface. Are you following what I'm saying? A girl can meet a guy who is operating in that complicated wisdom and say, I can't marry a poppa. You are, you are rejecting a guy who is at the last phase of his poverty to marry the one who is at the last phase of his prosperity. Why we look not at the things that do appear? Why we look not at the things that do appear? Say loud and clear, complicated wisdom of God. God is about to use your life to shock the world in an unbelievable way. Many of you are coming from places where they don't expect you to rise. If they were to give vote, you are the last they will vote for. Some of you are coming from a place where if they decide who will be the one that will be a pastor, say, 'Eke ne what?' Sir, I see God raising unlikely voices. Unlikely voices. Wealth is coming, sir. I see powers that be. You will raise them and they will come. Raise them and they will come. Some prophecies are not given publicly. The devil doesn't know all things. Prophecy is a coded wisdom. It can be in English. Are you with me? So the Bible said if the prince of this world had known, they would not have crucified. Did the devil not read in English that he had come to die? Though prophecies are spoken in English, they are too high for the devil. This is the reason why I don't call people out in my meetings that God is going to use you this, this, this. Sometimes I've just announced the man for an exam he's not prepared for. So what I do is that God might show me somebody. I call about 8 out and lay hands on all of them, but that thing is customized for that person. Don't wait for any drama. Follow the move of the Spirit. It is not by drama. Is that okay now? It is not by what God said. I found for myself a king among the sons of Jesse. And when Eliab stood, Samuel said, surely The Lord's anointed is here. And God said, don't look at his height, don't look at his stature, for I have refused him. And you look at the complicated wisdom. It was the boy that the father forgot to call among his sons. If you want to know the one God's hand is on in a family, check the one they are fighting the most. The devil doesn't know all things, but he can guess. He can guess that it looks as though there is something about this one. There's the way this life is going, there's a pattern. He can guess, and because he's an ancient champion, he mostly always gets right. The reason for the battle is because he has seen that there's something there. You won't fail, um, Maybe you don't like the prayer. Now let me give you a word of comfort. The same hand that is taking you up is able to sustain you.

Huh?

You won't fail. Unto him that is able to keep us from falling and present us spotless before our Father. The same hand that is able to keep you from falling that hand will sustain you. Let me say this to you: never live in fear that, oh God, maybe one day I'm going to disappoint God, one day I'm going to abuse this grace, one day my life will be about—

hey, you cannot fail!

The greatest power in the universe is behind you. You won't fail. Now listen to this, I want to tie up my my message. You know, the Bible says that before the coming— you saw that scripture, Malachi 4 from verse 5 and 6, you saw that scripture— he said he will send who? Elijah. Do you know the reason why he will send Elijah? Because the last days is also the days of Jezebels, and the only mantle that can successfully confront Jezebelic mantle is the Elijah Mantle. You know, how many of you watch football?

Huh? Uh-huh.

I have stopped watching ball. They wanted to kill me with hypertension, so I stopped. I was getting lean, so I stopped. I just watch highlights. I mistakenly supported Chelsea. Forgive me, forgive me. After one of the matches, I wept like a baby. So I asked myself, is this what I will do with my life? Are you following what I'm saying? Just the same way you know that many— you want to know the best husband? Arsenal fans. They have long suffering. They can, they can endure tribulation. What they have is not problem. Forgive me, let's leave that side. I want to make an illustration. I need your attention. You know the way we have in football, we have first leg and second leg. We've had the first leg of Elijah and Jezebel. Jezebel won when she intimidated Elijah. Elijah said said, what am I better than my forefathers? Let me die. So God said, don't die, I would rather take you. But the problem with the Elijah mantle is that it is— it is the load. That's the problem of apostolic movement. It's a problem. I'm the only one, I'm the only one, I'm the only one. God said, what you carry before you go, Go and anoint Elijah, a prophet. Go and anoint Azrael, then go and anoint Jehu, so that the enemy will be distracted in three dimensions. But you are carrying the tree, they will come for you. Then the prophecy now went concerning John the Baptist, that he will come in the spirit and in the what?

Power.

The word spirit means style.

Of who?

Elijah. The moment John the Baptist showed up, who showed up? Herodias. What did Jezebel say she will cut off in Elijah? The head. What did Herodias cut off in John the Baptist?

The head.

Hey, Elijahs are back. Jezebel is also around. Hear me, Jezebel is interested in where the oil sits.

Hm.

The second time it cut off the head of John the Baptist. You may want to put any theology to it, I don't care, but the fact remains that the head was what? Cut off. We are back now and we are dealing with the force of intimidation. Genuine hatred against pastors, genuine hatred against men of the calling. Femi Lazarus, wickedness, evil thoughts, waiting for us to fall, waiting for the next bad news, waiting for the next scandal. It is the Jezebelic spirit. The spirit of Elijah is the spirit of audacity. Let me tell you something. Hmm, one of the letters sent to the churches— please let me find it out, I think Revelation 3— he said, I have something against because you have allowed Jezebel that calls herself the prophetess to speak amongst you and thereby defile my servant. Can I talk to the apostolic generation? We have a duty, and the duty is to be in their faces with the truth. You have not been called unto cowardice and timidity. You have been called to boldness. With audacity, you will speak.

They will drag you and call—

you see, you go on Twitter, you see them drag me, drag all up. When they drag us, you are seeing blood and smoke. It is an invitation. That is your ordination also. Is that okay now? When they are done dragging us, we will respond with so much love, but we continue saying the same thing we are saying.

Call us foolish idiots. We will maintain that thing with all boldness and audacity.

This is our ordination in the last days. You know, Yoruba have an adage that the one who says I cannot come and go and die should not be made a chief in his father's house. You must be ready for the smoke. Acceptance is not a sign that your ministry is correct. Is that okay now? The moment you begin to touch the devil where it hurts, he will react.

They will come at you.

How many people are ready for the intimidation that comes from hell and you are ready to stand your ground? Is there anyone here who say we will not bow, we will not bend, we will not yield, we will not stop saying it, we will not stop speaking, we will not stop acting? They want us gradually to start believing. To start reducing our emphasis on certain things, we will not stop. We will stand. That you can say this part of the truth but don't say this part of the truth, we will continue saying it. A man of God said he drank tea. God drank tea with him.

Eh, how will God drink—

Shh, Naija tea. You see a subtle attempt to shut down the supernatural, don't be quick to speak. Watch, watch how the elders respond to it. Don't be quick to speak. You read in the Bible that Elijah ate angel's food. Manna fell for 40 years. Certain manifestations of the Spirit have been shut down because of intimidation. It is the Jezebelic spirit. The end-time church must rise in audacity and boldness.

Don't just be loud there, be loud out there. Use the media as the tool God has given you. Spread the good news. Let them know where you stand. Let them know where you belong.

Don't be the one with shaking bum bum on TikTok.

You have oil on the head, manifest it.

Many of them will see us and say, is this the man that's shaking everywhere? Yes, and we are not going to stop. It was on a Sunday morning, I saw one of them was running video on my sake and saying Femi Lazarus is a fool.

He said—

I said, these guys don't even know what's going on. We have died We, we die to the parts that can feel. Do you know where God brought us? Which are ready to do? We are ready for handcuffs. The people we receive this battle from, they were slain, they were sawn asunder. They were dragged on the ground and they refused to yield. That was how we got this baton.

We have been encouraged to endlessly contend for the faith. That was what sounded to us.

It is a contention that with our last and dying blood, we hold the faith and say we will not buckle, we will not bend, we will not bow, we will not yield, we will not be afraid, we will not be intimidated.

We will speak it whether you love us or hate us.

It is not user-friendly gospel. It offends, it offends, it offends. Many of them believe that the problem of Nigeria is just about, um, this, this, um, the church. They are building churches not factories. Are you aware that the problem of humanity is deeper than science? It is the problem of sin. The church is the only institution checking what the devil is doing.

We cannot stop.

We have no replacement.

The—

we have no replacement. The moment the church is caught up, the Antichrist will show up. We are the only ones stopping him.

And one day, so with all their hatred that they hate All of us would have gone. With the sound of the archangel, we will be no more here.

The last among us will be taken. All church doors shut. They will call us and tag us on Twitter and tag us on Facebook.

We will be with him in the clouds. We will be with him in the clouds.

They will knock the door of churches that we have invited them to come. The doors will be shut.

Then the man of sin will be revealed. When that day comes, when it will be trending, rapture, rapture, may you not be here.

Because I'm certain I will not be here. May you not be here when that day will catch— rapture, rapture.

What will be in the clouds with our beloved? The marriage supper of the Lamb. Hear me, Matthew 25, we're given the parable as I round up Both the wise and the foolish virgins all slept, but there was a sound. Behold, the bridegroom cometh. That is the sound you are hearing now. That sound is what Joel said, blow ye the trumpet on the mountain and sound the alarm. You use alarm to revive you. The sound of revival is the alarm saying to the bridegroom, the bride is here. That's what you are hearing now. Wake up and trim your lamps. Hear this: those who didn't have oil were forgotten not because they didn't have oil, but because the bridegroom did not meet them. You know, you know the story. The one coming is the light. Your light means nothing before him. Approach him in faith. The one who refused to give forgot that the fundamental principle of the kingdom is that we increase by giving. Let me beg you. I've come to beseech you by the mercies of God. Believers, stand your ground so that your Christian will not go to museum to know what our days look like. Stand your ground. I have made a vow with God, not in my time will anything go down. What about your own time? I will contend for this with my last blood. You must stand. I'm going to pray for you. The hand of God is going to— many of you are timid. You can't understand why you are timid. You are naturally fearful. It doesn't matter. The spirit of fear will give way. Some of you, your hands are going to do mighty miracles.

On—

are you full? I'm saying Legs that are bent will be stretched out and healed. Blind eyes will open. You will speak and kings will marvel. Lift your hands where you are seated. I'm going to call for different dimensions as I close. First, I want to minister to those who are here who have the spirit of fear. Lift your hands and close your eyes. As one who is— see, this is the last moment I don't know how hungry you are. I don't know how desperate you are. I don't know if you are interested in this moment passing you by, but if there's still something within you saying, Lord, this is my moment, lift your hands. Even those in the overflow, lift your hands where you are seated. Please, ushers, I want you to help me stand and help them. I'm going to lay hands on these ones. Everyone here whose life has been crippled with the spirit of fear. I stretch my hands— please help me hold them— I stretch my hands across the auditorium.

I call on 5 individuals: receive the spirit of boldness now!

5 of them. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Locked in. Touch them now.

Touch, touch, touch, touch.

Bring them out for me.

From the crown of your head to the sole of your feet, boldness and audacity. You will no longer hide the light under a bushel. You will no longer keep it. You will no longer run from the enemy. You have been called for such a time as this, separated by the Lord, anointed by his spirit.

Bring them out for me.

The spirit of boldness and audacity. The spirit of boldness and audacity. The spirit of boldness and audacity.

Let the hand of God touch by spirit.

Let the hand of God touch.

Pick them out.

Boldness, boldness. There is a young guy there. There's an apostolic oil, and I'm seeing the spirit of power.

Power!

Touch!

Help him! Help him! Help them! Help them! Lion roar, take up. Eagles fly. It's in you, you were meant to fly. Lion roar, eagles fly.

Oh, it's in you, you were meant to fly. Fly on, roll, eagles fly home.

It's in you, you were meant to fly. Fly on, roll, eagles fly home.

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.

Oh, it's in you.

You were meant to fly. I am your battler, your weapon of war. I am your battler, your weapon of war.

I am your battler, your weapon of war.

River, river overflow. Holy Ghost river overflow.

River overflow.

Fire river overflow. Holy Ghost river overflow. River Now lift your hands, everyone.

Every dimension represented here— teachers, prophets, ministers, Writers, scribes, apostles, evangelists, we call on the summation of graces. As I count 1 to 5, find expression on rightful owners.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Touch, touch, touch them.

Help them, help them, help them, help them, help them, help them, help them.

Femi Lazarus.

Father, I ask that the impact of your finger will not leave this territory.

You carry this unction strong. Through your life, a movement is bettered. It is done in Jesus' name.

You look good. Ah, ah, ah.