WORD IMMERSION || DAY 11 || 19TH FEBRUARY

Say thank you, Jesus. I want us to be intentional about our Thanksgiving this evening. Say thank you, Jesus, for another day in World Dimashion. Thank you, Jesus, for that which you've been doing since World Dimashion started. Thank you, Jesus. Jesus, we give you glory, we give you praise. Thank you, Jesus, for light and understanding that we've received. For another layer that we're about to receive tonight. Thank you, Jesus. For the assurance of your word that is coming to us tonight. For the deep revelation of your words tonight. In 2 minutes, I want you to well up your hunger for tonight and communicate your expectation to God. Say, tonight I draw Tonight I have the capacity to receive the word. My spirit, soul, and body is ready to receive the word. The word will fall on the fertile ground of my heart. That's which I received tonight. I make use of it. In one minute, I want us to pray for God's servant, that in the name of Jesus, God's word tonight is sharp. The word of the Lord is sharp. And that your own word will come tonight. Your own word for deliverance will come tonight. Your whole word for transformation will come tonight. I want us to go ahead and say thank you, Jesus, for answered prayers. I want you to rejoice as though you've received that which you've come to receive tonight. I want us to say thank you, Jesus, for it is with joy we draw from the of salvation. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. For in Jesus' mighty name we've prayed.

Amen. Praise God. Come on, wherever you are, can you just lift up your voice and begin to bless the name of the Lord? Thank you, Jesus, for your mercies. Thank you, Jesus, for your grace. Come on, can you open your mouth and say thank you, Jesus? Thank you Jesus for your love! Thank you Jesus for your loving mercies! Thank you for your kindness! Thank you! Thank you Jesus! Wherever you are all over this room can you lift up your voice and appreciate the name of Jesus? Thank you Jesus!

We bless Your Name God!

Thank You Jesus! Thank You Jesus!

Thank You Jesus!

Thank You Jesus!

Thank You Jesus!

Jesus, we've come to give you all the praise. We've come to give you all the glory. We've come to give you all the honor. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, Santele Maradaba Sotai.

You are glorious. So glorious in your ways. You are glorious, so glorious in your ways. You are glorious, Lord, so glorious in your Yes, you are glorious. So glorious. You are, you are glorious. Yes, you are glorious. Yes, you are glorious. You are glorious. You are glorious. Yes, you are glorious. Yes, you are glorious. I am a minister.

We seek the Lord.

You are glorious.

You are glorious.

Yes, you You are glorious. Yes, you are glorious. Yahweh. Yahweh. You are glorious. You are glorious.

Yes, you are glorious.

Yes, you are glorious.

You are, you are glorious. Oh, glory.

Yes, you are Glorious Father, glorious Father, glorious Father. Oh, we see you are, you are glorious, glorious. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Glorious Father, glorious Father, glorious Father. Oh, glory Glorious Father, glorious Father, we adore you, we adore you, you are the glorious Father. You are the mighty God. The great I am. Hallelujah, hallelujah, you are the mighty God. Yes, you are the great I am. Hallelujah, hallelujah, you are the mighty God. You are the mighty one.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Jesus, you are the mighty one. You are the mighty one. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus, you are the You are the mighty God. You are the great I Am.

Hallelujah!

You are the mighty God. You are the mighty God. Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! So wherever you are in this room, we want you to lift In the name of Jesus.

We lift your name.

Jesus, we lift your name. Amen. Hallelujah!

Let's give Jesus a big, big, big hand. All right, I think I should celebrate the media for my mic. Thank you.

All right.

Amen. Father, we receive insight tonight and revelation knowledge to break into the reality of your word for us. In the name of Jesus, we bless your holy name. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Let's give Jesus a big, big, big hand. All right, please sit for a moment. Are you ready for the word today?

Are you sure?

Can we go a step higher from yesterday? Thank you, Lord Jesus. So I showed you some things in Genesis chapter number 22. So let me go back to the foundation. Deuteronomy chapter number 8, verse 18. Deuteronomy chapter number 8, verse 18. For thou shall remember— and I like for the media to be fast with scriptures on the on the screen. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get what? Wealth. That he may establish his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day. So we dated back to check where God made the oath. And we saw that in Genesis chapter number 22 from verse 16. In Genesis 22:16. All right, but to understand verse 16 well, we read from verse 11. Genesis 22, we start reading from verse 11. And the angel of the Lord called unto him— that's all right— out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, here am I.

Yes.

And he said, lay not thine hand on the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thy only son, Femi Lazarus. The programming of the natural human nature is to make you perceive anything from the standpoint of what is finishing. The society programs you to think like that. It's lack consciousness. Because the next thing after that is you get into what is called self-pity. He waited several years, over 25 years, and Isaac came And God said, go and sacrifice Isaac, your only son you love. And when he raised the knife to slash his throat, then God sent his angel to seduce the base a bit, said, now I know that you shout about loving God is not when he knows. Are you ready to walk the walk? Thank you.

What can you do?

When God was going to to check what can beat with this position in the heart of men, he didn't use the devil, he used mammon.

Wow.

Say, can you serve God and mammon? Not God and the devil. Mammon can take a seat that the devil has not even taken. What the devil does is to program you for mammon.

Wow.

That's what he does. To program you for it. The devil understands his limit. He knows you will not really love him like that because of what you have heard about him, but he knows what you love. His duty is to make that thing become your God. Are you awake?

Yes, sir.

He's not striving to become your God directly. He wants to become your God by making mammon your God. So now I know that you fear me. All right, look at verse 13 now. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram caught in the ticket.

One of the things that—

I'm careful what I want to say. One of the things that living a life of sacrifice does is that it brings you to the point of humility, and I'll tell you why. It will occur to you that it doesn't matter how smart you are, there are things you can't get, they are given. It doesn't matter how bright your eyes are, there are things you can't see, they are shown. The ram has been there. If they could sit with their physical realize the boy that they were about to slash his throat would have said, 'Azeeram.' At the end of the day, nobody died for giving God anything. It's just a test of love. So he took the ram and the ticket. And but let me also give you this as a word of encouragement: there's no such thing as being in a fix that anybody can look at you and conclude about your life. There's always a ram and the ticket. There's always— there is always. And Abraham called him of the place Jehovah Jireh. As it is said to this day, in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. And the angel called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and said, by myself have I sworn, says the Lord, because thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless you. Now this is one blessing, not a promised one. This one: in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and your seed shall possess the gates of who?

Their enemies.

And I told you yesterday that the gate is the place of authority. No nation hands over their gate free of church, you fight for gates. The same blessing of Abraham, you see it, but I don't know if you pay attention to it. In Matthew 16 from verse 18, when Jesus was asking his disciples, say, who do men say that I am? Some said you're Elijah, some said you are Moses. Some said you're one of the prophets. Who do you say that I am? Say you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Say flesh and blood, they reveal this. Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The legislative creative wing of hell will march and advance. The church of the last days must learn the strategy of the battle of gates. Is this in your Bible? I said, is that in your Bible? Look at it. Let's— let me show you. Are you learning something? Put on the lights, I want to see your faces. Look at the way the Amplified Translation puts it. He said, and I tell you— Amplified, Matthew Matthew 16:18, that you are Peter— that's the Greek petros, a large piece of rock— and upon this rock, Petra, all right, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades, the powers of infernal region, shall not overpower it or be strong to its death treatment, or to hold out against it. If the media has the Passion Translation, you can show that. Look at the way Message Translation puts it. It said, um, you are Peter, a rock. This is the rock which I put— will put together, all right? My church, a church so expansive with the energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out. Have you heard words like gatekeepers before?

Yes, sir.

What do you think that means? That if you're going to step into a field. They said there are gatekeepers. There are people who are in that field as the whales. For those of you who are in Forex, or you understand all that, or business, or I use what entrepreneurs— you know what the word whales means, that they are the one who determines the market forces. There's something people like Donald Trump will tweet and the market reality will change. One tweet, someone is crying somewhere, someone else is rejoicing somewhere. Those are giants. You getting tired?

No, sir.

Stay with me, oh, stay with me.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Of course, tonight ought to be my last night here, unless by this time tomorrow you watch on screen. You don't want that. Abuja people wish you are quiet right now. I want to show you something. Look at the way the Passion Translation puts it. Say, I give I give you the name Peter, a stone, and this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on which I will build my church, my legislative assembly, and the power of death will not be able to overtake it. Now, what did I tell you takes place at the gate? It's the place of authority. Is the place where the elders sit to make decisions, is the place where judgments are being concluded. That's the gate. That's the place of power. Look at what Jesus said: I will build my ecclesia, and the gate of hell will not be able to prevail against it. I will build build my ecclesia, church. Your problem is that you are looking at that statement as church as in gathering. No, it is church, ecclesia, as in house of synod. In other words, I wish we were teaching mathematics now, it's easier to explain with it. I will build my gates and the other gate will not prevail against my gate. Ecclesia, house of Senate, those who make decisions at the gate. So it is gate against gate. That's the Abrahamic blessing, that your seed In Christ shall your seed be called, will possess the gates of their enemies. And yesterday we read the book of Numbers chapter number 13. That's a very, very serious scripture when the Israelites had spent how many years to get to the promise. Look at Numbers chapter number 13. Let's look at the last— the last 4 verses.

Wow, wow.

But the men that went up with him said, we be We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger. For the sake of time, I wish the media can help me get which verse in Exodus 19 when God was describing by what might he brought them out of Egypt. He said, how I bear you out of Egypt on the wings of an eagle. Exodus 19, I bear you on the wings of an eagle. In Psalms 114, the Bible says that— is that it? Psalms 114, when Israel departed from Egypt and the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Israel was his sanctuary and Judah his dominion. The sea saw it and fled. Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams. This is the assemblage of the forces of the same people that are now saying we are not able to do this, say we are small. The same people that the sea saw and fled. It is not miracles that mature you.

Miracles to a man whose eyes of understanding is not open, it does not mature anybody. If your spiritual sight are not open, no amount of miracle can grow you. You will see God do things, tomorrow you still doubt him. The Bible said there was a veil in their eyes. What happened to Moses when he climbed up and saw glory of God and they could not look at him and they had to veil the face? So it was a prototype of the nature of their hearts, that your heart was so veiled you can't see God. I'm saying that miracle is not a sign that now you have understanding.

As a matter of fact, miracle is a Plan B. If you know God's word, you will never need a miracle. You don't Everyone know which of them is Plan B, healing or health? Well, healing is a miracle. If you have health, you will never need healing. Which of them is a miracle, abundance or supernatural repayment of debt? Well, if you have abundance, you will not have debt in the first place. Stockless of repayment. Miracle is the initiative God made available because his children don't know— they don't know his word. You shouldn't be the man at the pool of Bethesda. But the world will always have such a— are you here? Yes, sir. You know, sometimes if you don't search scriptures about some statement I say directly, it might offend your heart, but I'm teaching you scriptures. All that God did, they didn't understand. They said, we are not able to go up, we are like grasshoppers in our own sight. So were we in their sight. And the Bible said they began to cry. And I told you yesterday, they, they said, let's get captains. Among ourselves. They said, let's return back to Egypt. You know what that means? Egypt, we have come back to willfully surrender ourselves.

Pharaoh died because of you 40 years ago. All the might of Egypt, the economy collapsed. If you turn back, what will Egypt do?

Waste you.

Why?

Because what Egypt does is— this is the thing— Egypt will give you daily bread and work that brings daily bread, not establishment. Egypt puts you in a system of from hand to mouth. It's a system. What Egypt did was that it beat might out of the Egypt dealt with them till they could not see anything important about themselves anymore. It's the way systems break people. Systems break people. You see people who have promising future, they said good things about themselves until they are introduced to systems that use affliction to beat out the might till they can't see themselves anymore. They begin to doubt their very essence. They can't believe they can become those things anymore. More. Systems breaks people. It happens and it is still happening. If you expose yourself to Nigeria, it will break you. You will not find yourself anymore. You will believe that you have to join the queue of survivors in life. You will think you are supposed to do what everyone is doing, and when you are not doing it, you look like a fool. The system will label you a fool for doing what is right, because what is wrong is what they are thinking what is right. It takes audacity to be different. Egypt, Egypt will remove strength from you. You will not be useful for yourself and God. And despite the fact that Egypt has done so much to you, you are still seeing miracles, but you are still not strong to stand alone. The curriculum of Egypt is the curriculum of affliction. It afflicts you and takes away might.

That's why I took pain and we authored that book, A Crowd That Wants Small Things.

Because when you expose yourself to this reality, you won't find you anymore.

You'll be amazed how your colorful dreams will fizzle out by yourself. You start telling yourself, actually, it is not possible. Maybe I was, I was dreaming too, I was aiming too high. By yourself, you will swallow it again and take anything life gives you. It's a system, it's a curriculum, and many a times we're exposed to that system. Why did they spend 40 years in the first place? Let me show you. Turn your Bibles to the book of Exodus. Let me show you. Exodus chapter number 13. All right, we read verse 17. If you're there, say amen.

Amen.

Now I really want you guys to be very much alert. I must commend that one of the things I love about teaching here is that you are responsive to the word, and that, that helps you get more. So you have to pay attention. Look at this, Exodus chapter number 13, verse 17. And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and they return to Egypt. God said 40 years ago. 40 years after, it was still correct. How much more will it happen? Will it have happened?

40 years ago God said that. 40 years after, that thing that God saw, that spinelessness, was still there.

Having spent 40 years, you've lost sons, you've lost daughters, people have died on the way, people you came out together, many of them them perish.

You've seen many things happen. You saw Moses came down from the rock. You've seen water came out.

You saw things, but yet they were still in their minds. 40 years after, they said, let's return. So God looked at them. So it means there's a way God will look at you and say, he doesn't have fighting spirit. He could have been this in 2 years, but he won't fight. He won't fight. He can't fight for it. So can we trust him with this? He might have the skill, but he doesn't have the fighting spirit. There is no land that is empty.

He has the skill, he has the— but he won't fight. If they talk him now, some just Gather and do some propaganda against him, say he will stop, he will abolish the vision. God doesn't want Mary that Jesus will die in their wombs. He want people that with propaganda and insult who have developed thick skin that will carry to term. The question is that what God wants to trust you with, can you carry it to term? Are you following what I'm saying here? Sit down for a moment. They will see what they were wrong. Having suffered what you suffered in Egypt for 430 years, this still be predictable that you can return?

Yes.

Let me tell you something, I've told you this several times. So, okay, thank God I saw something on online that portrays that. There's these guys that had this organization, they had this initiative. What they do is to go from prison to prison and look at people who are there unjustly and bring them out. He went to bail one elderly man and brought him out.

He thought the man would be happy.

The man faced him, why did you bail me?

Why did you bail me? Now I don't have anywhere to sleep.

You see what I'm saying? It is a way you are conditioned affliction that problem becomes your reality and lack of it becomes what you are not familiar with.

By yourself, if something happens that is not the chaos you are used to, you, you will like that problem.

There's a level affliction we get to that will become your norm.

Why did man say that? The man—

because the life the man knows, everything is in the prison.

Now you are brought— listen to what I'm saying— to be outside that prison is more tasking actually, because now you pay rent, but Egypt was giving you free house. But don't forget that the Bible said that they were building treasured city for Pharaoh. When you are living that curriculum, you build cities, you would not live in. You have the skill to—

listen, you have the—

what you are trained for is on skilled labor.

That's why no matter you work for some of these your big companies and they will never show you recipes. You mix what somebody has written out. That's as far as your kind can know. Ah, let me ask you a question. Can you fight?

Yes, sir.

Don't say yes. No, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down. Do, do you know what the fight looks like. Your life is built in such a way that you find validation in doing what everybody is doing. You don't have the spine to be the odd one out. Is that not the reason why you are so concerned about who is impressed by what you're doing? What if they are not impressed? Can God trust you with the ability to lead something that they will later learn that you were correct? And those that will later learn it will first fight you for the first part of your life, and you are not to fight back. You are just to keep on doing what you're doing.

The kind of fight we are talking about is not the kind of Peter removing saw to cut someone's ears. It's the fight to stay Femi Lazarus.

Can you fight? Can you build anything from the scratch and see it grow? Do you have the discipline to build anything beyond found the zone that your emotions was aligning with it, that even in the days you are not feeling like, you are still building. Many Christians are not builders. When they feel, they don't have discipline, no structure. Recently I don't know if he's here. I called one of us here. We're planning to disrupt the movie production arena in 2025. Started assembling cast and thinking about our production. So I remember seeing seen a snippet online of a Christian movie, and I said, can you get me the link to this lady's social media page, the lead actress here? So he said, I will get it for you, sir. And then he sent me the link, and I screamed. I said, I knew it, I knew it. Christians, that's That's what they do. They snap picture, put online, half head is cut out. They will not— they are not deliberate about building their social trail and portfolio.

That's what they do. I know them, they are jokers. I said I know it. Go and check Nollywood now and check them. They understand the power. But we know grace will cover, abi. That's what we do. Hey, grace! Oh, grace! Oh, grace! Hey, the grace of God! Even it doesn't matter how I am, grace will just find me. You lie. That's what we do. We lie to ourselves. I may not be the qualified one, but grace, singular. Good, you talk about that. I saw it. I said, see, see, see, see, see, Christians. We want— okay, we want to do something now. There's an economic side to it. There must be a social capital you bring to the table. Where's the weight?

Nothing. Every time you come, you say, this year I'm going to do this, you start by yourself, you fizzle out every time.

You don't see— God knows we we can't put so much in this one's hand, does not have the spine to keep doing something till it breaks forth. I ask myself, why do Christians build and everything they build is halfway? And it's just one. Everything they are building, this one halfway, that one halfway, this one, okay, I'm going to begin to do this, this year I'll be a writer, I'll be writing. Post twice, gone. Those who are in the world are not joking.

Sit down.

Let me give you some wisdom about the things you trivialize.

I was, I was speaking with some of my friends. One of my friends was trying to apply for his green card in America. Then he said, I remember years back, all right, Yes, back. He said, you gave us an award. I said yes. He said, was it published in newspaper? I said no.

He by himself paid the newspaper to republish the award I gave about 8 years ago because there is a society that demands for track record.

Let me tell you something. Something happened that involved me and Nigeria about something or no, this disease. I was on my own. They called me. All right, I'm just going to leave it there. They said, go and publish out every time newspaper carried you or something. Imagine that I have a lamp that is under a bushel. Let me tell you something, be careful who you listen listening to.

All this Netflix, it's just bad, bad things they are posting there.

You, you, yeah, yeah, ordinary Instagram.

Oh, manage it.

You can't do that one.

You say Netflix, you think it's dummies that build that. You are the one that will take picture in front of Dosby and post.

You are the one that post like that and post nonsense.

You are the one that wear put clothes and post. We take over the world, you, you take over your village.

Jesus.

Since AI came out, now a lot of you now luckily have picture that you can put online. Somebody else's clothes that they put there. We are looking at you and we are wondering, is this person dumb? Are you not fine enough to trust yourself? You, we take over the world.

Which world? How many Christians can you put anything major in their hand that require critical analysis and thinking? Give us the product now.

Lie.

We frustrate grace. That's what we do in church. I wish many of us will prepare ourselves for what we pray for. There's so much prayer but little preparation. How many Christians can you employ in your organization and go to sleep?

They will not do what they should do.

It's fire, you be—

ah, oh God, pray.

All right, pray. But if that's what all that Daniel was doing in Babylon, they will sack him. You see what I'm saying?

Yes, sir.

God knows. You see, sometimes we, we think That, you know, some people, what they are doing is the devil that is giving them power. It's the devil.

You know, when you—

all these people that rap now, it just be flying around the world. They say, okay, you rap. There are people that— can you hear me?

I will speak.

They will take what they are doing to the devil. They will say, bad market, bad market. If I— the devil will say, I don't like the kind of shame. I go and learn more. Have you seen where money ritual put anybody on Forbes list? I love Baloye now.

It's what we do.

We've been programmed to be beneficiaries, not builders. You alone last year, you build fashion brand, it didn't work. You sell wig, it didn't work. You alone, you say you get into nails, it didn't work. What worked? Kaja Maduwe. This year you have started again. Can you build something till it gets to a level that this is this thing flying. We don't have the discipline.

God saw.

When you're going to build anything, the beginning phase is going to be tough. Promised Land is a land flowing with milk and honey, but you fight to get in. You fight. Now, let me tell the teacher, I don't Don't like what's on the screen. Just— I'm enough, they can see me. Keep my screen for what it is. You know, if you have fighting spirit, you'll be mocked by those who have been conquered.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

When you are fighting spirit, you'll be mocked by those who have been conquered. Those that the system has broken and bent will mock you because fighting means that you can sustain injuries. You can sustain injury, you can bleed out. I saw a documentary. A leopard was out at night and you saw this head of buffaloes gathering, and the leopard was walking towards them. As many as they were, you know what they were doing? They were shifting back. All the leopard just did was to go for the youngest, and they were there staring. I guarantee you that when you have fighting spirit, be ready to fight alone because nobody will come to your rescue. Don't be disappointed. There are people whose mind has been bent and broken by the system.

They won't come.

If I teach you something very important now that is for the church and a blog carries it and begin to drag me, what will the church do? Hey, Apostle Lazarus again, he don't go talk another one. Why no just we talk simple things? Play safe now. Why are you always doing this? Be like us. Be defeated in your mind. Anyone who says I can't go and kill myself should not be made a chief in his father's house. There are things God should not trust you with if you are not ready for the fight. 40 years wasn't necessary. So one thing cost it. God saw they can't fight through. He saw it, they can't fight through. Let me beg you, what is a blessing is not multiplication, it is fruitfulness and multiplication. And I'll tell you I tell you why. What God said was, be fruitful and multiply. I am not permitted to live somewhere until what I've come to do has worked and I can replicate it in other places. Those who carry the blessing don't live anywhere because what they came for is not working. You can live for that reason, not on the account that the ground is hard. Are you listening?

Yes, sir.

Are you sure?

Yes, sir.

How many of you bought the book A Crowd That Wants Nothing and sat with it?

Are you sure?

Will you read books?

God saw.

There are gates. He's promised you, yes, he's going to do this to you, yes, but you will have to fight. And the reason why God will not tell you about the giant Giant is that they don't matter. That's the reason why it doesn't bother talking about them. They don't matter.

You—

I am the one that matter.

If you have followed me, when you see them, they should not matter. Are you following me? Yes, sir.

There are giants. There are gatekeepers in every field. Shortly after Donald Trump won the election, Mark Zuckerberg came out and more like he was saying, I have confession, though. Is all these people, they are the ones that are saying that, um, all this COVID we should fact-check. They're the one that says this, they're the one that say this. So I have confession, though. It's not really me, it's not really that.

Who asked you?

Why?

Because there are documents that are about to be declassified.

Yes, sir.

I say, okay, we found out USAID funds was used and sent to major media tycoons to channel the information that goes out. Are you aware that many people died from being placed on ventilators than those who died from COVID It will not make news.

Why?

It is important for a system that everyone who mans the media in terms of what people must see and hear must belong to their clique.

If you follow news, you don't become more informed, you become programmed.

You become programmed.

You are being—

see, you listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.

You are like—

see, let me tell you something. Shout on Twitter from now to tomorrow. They know that we are not that smart. All they have to do— I can show you platforms— is to get quality information, well placed, push it out by yourself. You say, yeah, let me tell you how you know.

Anyone you see the mainstream media fighting, that's the correct person.

Sit down.

I want to show you some things because I need to bring examples home. So you see things like, so we found out that, hey, USA has USAID funds is funding Boko Haram. Hey, USAID fund is funding Taliban. Hey, USAID fund is funding ISIS. Over $10 million being moved to Afghanistan per day. Then you saw an interview online, a couple describing, you know, we the people, we just lost our jobs because Donald Trump stopped the USAID fund.

Propaganda.

Do you know how it works? Have you studied it?

Do you know when it is at work?

One time someone posted something online and said things like, Apostle Femi Lazarus said you should not marry be a girl that speak in tongue? No, a girl that doesn't have money even if she speaks in tongues? I said, me. So I said, hey, reach out to this guy. So, hello, how you doing? He said, I'm so sorry I posted that, it was greed. I said, I'm glad you know it's greed, but we still pick you. Then their leader say, I'm the leader of of the Christian Association of Nigeria. You can't talk to one of us like that. I say I dare to.

See, don't post his content again. Do you know who I am? I'm a builder. Sit down, sit down. I'm teaching you how to fight. Sit down.

You don't threaten my kind. I will raise 10, give me a week. People became puppets to systems.

Ministers begging bloggers, pastors, and they take over. They believe they are the ones that distribute influence and whose voice is heard. Can you fight systems? Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Now we don't call, we pull down your platform in less than 5 minutes from our room. Is because we're in a society of desperate people who don't know how. Ah, what do you want? What's your price? There are certain things that God can put in your hands if you don't have spines, if you are jelly-like. I'm saying something now that in 10 years' time, in 15 years' time, people will wake up and say, this is where we should go. But there must be a man who has been doing it long before you wake up, and that your sleeping didn't stop. You are not raised to do what everyone is doing. You are raised to do what is right. Do you understand? Why is it that the same guys wants to buy all the social media platforms? Same guys wants Wants to own Facebook, same guys wants to own, ah, Instagram, same guy WhatsApp, same guy Threads. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are like the front face of communication platforms. When you use WhatsApp, they tell you end-to-end encryption. What is it? The information on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, even the ones you have deleted, where do they go to? What kind of database is storing all that? Who is funding it? Those who want the world to believe one agenda, it is important for them that their man is at the gate so that whatever they want the people to hear, they hear. Look at what the Bible says in Revelation chapter number 13: He that he leadeth into captivity, into captivity will go. Look at it. Revelation chapter number 13. Revelation 13, verse 16. We'll start from verse 16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand and on their foreheads, that no man might buy or sell.

It's control.

That's the system of the Antichrist, to be in charge, then determines what goes out, determines what is heard, determines what is seen. If you post anything online now about HIV, automatically the system generate an information, additional, put under it, clickable for anyone. Whatever you have written doesn't matter. They are telling you this is what is the truth. Whether you do that on WhatsApp or you do that on Facebook or you do that, it generates and just shows you this is the correct thing about what you just talked about. Now you're not paying attention to that. Why are they doing that? A narrative.

Why?

Who is in church, those who want to make sure that their narrative is all that is heard.

But we don't pay attention to the what is contained in the narrative. Then they give you Mita, then you ask Mita questions about Jesus, it's vague.

Yes, sir.

You ask Mita question about Muhammad, it's clear.

Yes, sir.

Who is in charge? Who is at the back end?

It's not a question for us because we are users. We've been programmed to benefit. In Egypt, you eat cucumbers, you don't plant. Even though they miss the cucumbers, they were not those who were planting.

They said, we did eat in Egypt freely.

Will you say you eat freely if you're a farmer?

Freely.

And when you—

so recently we developed Light Nation application. We've done some upgrade throughout December, Christmas, New Year. We had our team working back to back. They put it on Play Store. Play Store said never put this on our platform again. Say, you know, Apostle, is it— could it be because of the kind of things you're teaching? Who cares? If you write any book that is a book that talks about sexually explicit content, you put on Amazon one hand. Write a book about Jesus, you struggle. They speak English, send you mails of on males. The system is not built for this. You mention Jesus on CNN, they bleep you, and you just still think that you are to sit down. God is waiting for sons. Are frontliners putting out Christian content will show you the backend. Some of us have over 100,000 people following us per week. We have the backend. Over 100,000 per week. Guess what? Over 100,000 deducted from our followers per week.

Wow.

It's plus and minus. You never get to see it. Come out with comedy. You fly. Come up with gospel content, they shut you down.

Why?

Someone is in charge of what flies.

It's a gatekeeper.

But our own gate seems empty. Recently, people started crying about certain things. Now, why is it that some Nigerian-produced movies on Netflix have unnecessary sex scenes?

It's a requirement.

If you can take it a step further and show a gay character— look at The Woman Queen or The Woman King. You see the gay character in the palace, that's a man behaving like a woman. You'll be amazed, what's this? Now in entertainment industry, there are now gay sects that if you will not be slept with by men, you will not get movie roles. They sent me some sad news. I know Margaret sent to me also this morning, and I told the media if they can project it, that that Amazon have purchased The Chosen.

Why?

That's like the only platform now that is demonstrating scriptures to the details, the life and the story of Jesus. Why are they interested in buying it? Then why are we selling? Of all platforms. There's a musical coming up also where a woman, Cynthia— what's her name now— is to take to play Jesus something. Can you give us that?

Why?

First, they've released one, um, is it, um, Corpus Christi, something like that, where the character of Jesus was depicted as a gay. This is at the Olympics. If you look at this, you see this image painted. Okay, these are the Olympics also. I'm going to talk about the next one where the— this is the painting by Leonardo da Vinci where Jesus was. All right, this is one of his paintings. I follow Leonardo well. All right, of course I'll get that in context, his drawing. All right, where drag queens— these are males right there with breasts— drag queens, transgender And a woman with the star at the back of his head— and sorry, the sun at the back of his head—

used to mock and mimic Jesus.

Why?

If Olympics is just a sport, why go this extent to push just a sport? But you know why they will do it again the next time?

Because there's nothing you can do about it.

Yes!

What do the crowd do? They shout and protest. Protest is the language of those who have no power.

Yes, sir!

Imagine that we have gatekeepers who are running the top 10 companies that partner with Olympics, and they can say, on the base of this, I withdraw my partnership. On the base of that, I withdraw my partnership. They will not try it again.

I wish they can show you the pictures of Commonwealth. This is the Commonwealth.

This is what the image of Baal looks like— a bull.

Tell me if these things are not deliberate. Tell me if these are not deliberate.

This is the nations of the world, flag of nations surrounding the pictures of indicating a system of— Tell me if it's just about black and white people.

There are deliberate people behind the scene that everything you see on media, they engineer it.

They are preparing your mind for an agenda. But what do we do? We don't even understand what that means. Because we are beneficiaries, not stakeholders. And they are pushing it and pushing it and pushing because they know there's nothing you do about it.

Check. Now that Amazon has acquired The Chosen, they begin to alter stories. Well, those who don't read their Bible know Why were they interested? Was it Disney that went to buy Cocomelon?

Why buy Cocomelon? Because you saw our children are exposed to and they love it. And the next thing they did was that they began to bring a couple in Cocomelon where they both are males for children. I thought you said they were born gay. Should they not find out themselves?

Why engineer them a system them.

Or what do we do? Oh, sometimes we don't even know.

There's one of the foremost cartoon, I can't remember now, maybe Moana or something like that, Frozen or something, that they were supposed to come out with part 2. And the leading character, although cartoon was supposed to be a lesbian. Who determines who receives Grammy? Who determines who receive Oscars awards? There's one man between 1998 and now. He has single-handedly written over 80% of the American songs that Grammy, one man, in case you don't know, one man. And guess what? He's a devil worshipper, but we don't know. Sometimes you watch the stage performance of Rima— this is rituals, casting spells. On those who have gathered. Strange spirit colonizes their soul. One of those guys said it boldly, I will drag you all to hell with me. Also have this one now that, that is in trouble. Diddy, not talking portable. Diddy said boldly, we are coming for your children.

Yes, sir.

What programs do we have for the children? We are not fighters because we told all our tech guys We told all our creative minds, we told all those that should be our representatives in politics, in the market front, that they are to drop all those things and become pastors. That's all we told them. Many of them got confused. Sometimes you can match the both Sometimes you are not even called into ministry at all. That Daniel is so anointed doesn't mean he's a prophet. He's a strategist. He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bound, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell save he that has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. Economic control. I remember when COVID came. The people, they've gotten them, they're in their pouch. They understand the engineering of people. Show fear, they will kill themselves. How many people died having taken the vaccine? Why were they not passing those statistics like they were passing the statistics of COVID Have you seen the confessions of doctors? When Dr. Stella came came out and said this is not as deep, saying we are treating people with hydroxychloroquine and they are recovering. Have you found out that the research in Wuhan that brought COVID was sponsored by USAID?

Look at you.

It was not a Chinese thing, it was an American. We have been cramped. Another one is coming. Are you following what I'm saying here? It's systems.

What do we do?

Systems.

This is the reason why God has given you power to get wealth, that, all right, the covenant which he swore to the fathers might be fulfilled. What's the covenant? In blessing, in blessing I'll bless you, in multiplying I'll multiply it, all right? And then your seed should possess those gates. So it is those gates you are contending with to get. So in Matthew chapter number 4, when the devil came to meet Jesus and say, hey, all the riches of this world, the glory, I will— bow before me, I will give you. So it is important that major things are in the hands of wrong people so they can become bargaining tools. Say, okay, I'm a Christian, um, I want to get into skit making and content creator. Okay, so you have to talk to these top guys.

What are the top guys? The gatekeepers.

Say, okay, a man is telling you, turn around, turn around. Say, okay, turn around, turn around, turn around. Okay, right. Say, you know, as it works now, before you can become— before we can post you, I will pass through you. Say, so-and-so have done it, so-and-so have done it, so-and-so have done it. And you see what happens.

They do it and then they blow.

How about God have sons there?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

How about God have sons there? But they don't know how to build from the scratch and keep building. They don't know how the Memshak anointing for spreading works.

They don't know how the Anakazu, the compelling force of God's power, works. They won't engage it.

Are there people here who are called in the creative space, in the market space here?

Are they even here? Market world entrepreneurs?

Can I give you the next 5 minutes to contend in prayer?

Somebody sit on the keyboard for me. I wish I should give you that time to contend in prayers.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen. See, this prayer I pray, you— it has not gotten to boiling point.

It.

Let me tell you something.

When it gets to that, you are seeing that God can raise me as a major bridge here. There's a way you— are you feeling what I'm saying? You are praying prayers of contention. Lift your voice loud and clear and pray.

And his glory appears like a light from the sun.

Edge to edge, he shines all the way to the sun.

In the end, his breath sinks in glory. Bibi, the glory and his glory appeared like a light from the sun.

Eshu e, it shined all the way to the sky.

Thank you, Lord.

In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed.

All right, are we here?

Yes, sir.

Sit for a moment. We bless you, Lord Jesus. Look at it in— I'm sorry, 1 Samuel chapter number 17. 1 Samuel chapter number 17. I start the reading from verse 1. Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle and were gathered together at Socot, which belonged to Judah, and pitched between Socot and Azekah in Ephes Dammim. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley of of Elah and set the battle in array against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the other— on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, and there was a valley between them. If the Bible says it will come to pass on the last days that the mount of the house of the Lord shall be exalted above all the hills, because they too have their own mountains And the Philistines— okay, look at it. And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was 6 cubits. How many cubits? 6 cubits. 6 cubits will be about 9.6, 9.7 feet. I am 6 feet. To think about 3 more feet and a half, 9.75 feet. That's the height of Goliath. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of brass, and he had greaves of brass upon his legs. And the Bible began to describe— look at what he said in verse 8: And he stood and cried unto the army of Israel and said unto them, why are ye come out to set your battle in Am I not the Philistines and you servant of Saul? Not servant of the living God. Choose you a man for you and let him come down to me. Give us a man. That's the cry always. We don't have to Try it in a barbaric manner. Let's go the old-fashioned way. You give us your man and I will come. Look at it in verse 11. When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistines, they were dismayed and what? Greatly afraid. Let's jump a bit. That same Exodus— I'm sorry, 1 Samuel chapter number 17. Someone stepped into the camp. Let's jump to verse 20. And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with the keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the trench as the host behold, David was going forth to the fight and shouted for battle. Goliath was still talking. For Israel— sorry, for Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army. And David left his carriage in the hand of a keeper of the carriage and ran into the army and came and saluted his brethren. And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistines of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to his words. And David heard them. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were so afraid. And the men of Israel said, have you seen this man? They will try to educate you about what they fear, but don't listen. Have you seen this man that is come up Surely to defy Israel he is come up. And it shall be that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel. And David spoke by the men, saying, what shall be done to the man that killeth? Tell me the bounty. Look at this.

For who is this uncircumcised Philistine?

He saw if he's not circumcised. He's not the seed of Abraham. If he's not a seed of Abraham, he's not a gate possessor. If he has the gate now, not forever. Let's jump a bit. And Eliab, his elder brother, eldest brother, heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David and said, why comest thou hither? And whom hast thou left these few sheep with in the wilderness? I know your pride. And the naughtiness of your heart, for you have come that you might see the war. They talk you down, and many times you encamp yourself around those who don't understand the vision. And David said, what have I now done? Is there not a cause? And they turned from him. You must learn to leave naysayers.

It can't be done. Nobody has really you see, try this and turn from them.

And the words in verse 31: And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul, and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail thee, thy servant will go and fight these Philistines. You see, when you are bold, it is either stupidity or you know something. In this case, it's not stupidity. He knows something.

How will you be telling the king, don't be afraid, me, I will go?

But listen, this is where you miss. David could speak because he had a track record in the palace. Some conversations are not for starters. You will miss opportunity to fight Goliath if you did not embrace the opportunity to play for Saul.

Sometimes it may not be where you want to be, but it will put you where you should go. Let no man's heart fail him. Don't be afraid, though.

Look at, look at what Saul said, and that's what Nigeria is still saying. That's what the church in Nigeria is still saying. Look at verse 33. And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against the Philistines to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. He began at your age, don't begin at his age. Young people, young people, young people. No, no, um, what can they do? They can take announcements and offering. Sit down. Sit down, sit down. I sat down to study some great organizations that perished and what really happened to them. And I think I've taught you about one of them, Mr. Biggs. One of the things that happened to the organization was that they were trying to service a generation that was not represented in their board. Young people are not needed for numbers, they are needed for fight. They were trying to reach out to young people, but those in the boat are elder people, older people, so they did not understand the language of the people that they want to speak. The church in Nigeria must understand transition so that Joshua is not a novice when Moses is gone. And let me tell you something, nobody will make room for yourself. You are the one that will make room.

Nobody.

If you are waiting for anybody to sit you down and say, as I'm going now, take this mantle, you deceive yourself.

No, see, nobody is giving any. Go and start.

Maybe you've been fantasizing.

You will, you will go, that somebody is going to need you now.

And say, now I impart double portion of my mantle.

You oga, the people on the scene now, they will walk till your last day because they are sold out. You better Bastard!

Okay, sit down. And David said to him in verse 34, there's something you should know about me that I've not told you, sir. When your servant was keeping his father's sheep, a lion came and a bear. What Samson did, I've done. All right, a lion came and a bear, he said, took my sheep. I took the sheep out of the—

alive.

So when that animal now ride against him, say, I caught it by the beards and smote it.

Who catches a lion by He was a teenager.

Are you following what I'm saying?

Yes, sir.

He said, thy servant slew both the lion and bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them. David said, moreover, the Lord that delivered me— you see, the only person who can dispute him is the one who has also killed a lion and bear.

As far as the camp was concerned, nobody had his track record. He might not have uniform, he has a track record.

Are you following what I'm saying here?

It's not by uniform. You can rank of a captain and at heart you are just a lieutenant, or you are, you are a recruit. No, be buy uniform.

If Saul— you two, do you have his track record? He said, see, go. Let God who rescue you then rescue you.

He entrusted the whole nation to— of course, who was anointed the previous day for the whole nation?

Him. Now that's the king there.

The crown may not be there, but the anointing is there. Listen to what I'm saying. The anointing will come before before the crown. It will bring responsibility. When you survive it, the crown will follow. But you must have the consciousness. Are you following? Listen, no, what I'm teaching is from body. No, I've cried. I didn't come all the way to— I'm telling you because something is at stake. Something is at stake.

Sit down for a moment. Saul gave him his armor and say, where? Ah, you can't put new wine in old wineskin. To break when he carried it. If your armor was the secret, you should have been the one to do job. It's not the secret. People will give you things out of goodwill. If it's not going to work, it's not going to work. Turn it down. Are you following what I'm saying? Look at this. And David said, I'm not going to go with this, I have not proved them. In verse 40, he took his staff in his hand and chose him 5 smooth stones. You see, this stone matters I have proven this one. 5 smooth stones out of the brook and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even a scrip, and a sling was in his hand.

And he drew near.

David, you are looking at the short guy there and he's moving towards Goliath. You, and the Philistines came down. All right, came on and drew near to—

when you close, close to God, Goliath will near you too.

Yes, you think you will run?

Drew near to David, and the man that bear his shield went before him.

And when David looked about, and when the Philistine look around, wonder— that's the meaning of, oh, where is he? He saw David and disdained him, for he was but a youth and a ruddy and of a fair countenance. And the Philistine said to David, am I a dog that you come to me with staves? Look at it. You see, he said, but he did not still underrate David.

The next thing was that he began to curse David by his gods. He brought out what he knew— incantation. It is a spiritual warfare. Listen to what I'm saying. That they have been there for long doesn't mean they will not do what they should do to take you out. Are you following what I'm saying there? He began to curse David by his gods.

And the Philistine said to David, come to me, come to me, sumo me, and I will give your flesh to the fowl of the air and to the beasts of the field. When they talk, um, what's the next verse? Then said David to the Philistines— the reason why you are afraid, because you heard something. Speak back.

Thou comest to me with the sword and with a spear and with a shield, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts. The God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled.

Listen, it didn't stop there. It described what will happen. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will smite you and take your head from you, and I will give your carcass, all right, to the host of the Philistines. This day unto the fowls of the air, all right, and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all the assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword or spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into my hands. And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David—

see that he didn't talk back. Dunetou.

That's where he lost. Dunetou met David.

David—

that David hastened and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine. King David, more. Imagine that the Israelites were like David when they left Egypt. My God, there are times that a man is greater than a nation. And David put his hand in his bag and took thence a stone and slung it and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead, and he fell upon his face into the earth. And David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone and smote the Philistine and slew him. But there was no no sword in the hand of David. And David ran and took—

stood upon the Philistine and took his own sword.

It was not guesswork. God has achieved something in his heart that he could not be afraid of anything. From today, you lack the ability to be afraid. Fear of starting new things, fear of commencement, fear of confrontation.

From today, you will look for fear in your heart and not find.

Amen.

You become as bold as a lion. That the young people in Nigeria and in Africa will begin to see with the sight of an eagle and look at Goliath in the face and say, you will fall.

You are as bold as a lion. You are strengthened to take on fierce battles and you will not fall.

Amen.

In Jesus' mighty name.

Amen.

All right, I stop here today, and tomorrow, tomorrow I will take it up very seriously from here.

Are you ready?

Yes, sir.

God bless you.

Hallelujah!

Light Nation, what do you say to Apostle? Both online and on site, what do you say to Apostle? In one minute, can we pray for Apostle? Let's declare words. Lift your voice, both online and on site. Let us pray. Let's pray. Let's pray for Apostle, that the Lord will keep him for us, that the Lord will preserve him for us. Orana sifi nakida sobra handes. You have few seconds. Say, Lord, keep him, preserve him in the name of Jesus, that he will not go down. In the name of Jesus, that he will increase in wisdom. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. All right, people, can we celebrate Apostle one more time? Hallelujah! Can we quickly have our seats while I make the following announcement? For those who are giving their tithe, can you rise to your feet?

Let me pray with you.

You are giving your tithe. Father, I pray that the heavens of your people remain open. Strengthen them, oh God. Show them mercy. Give them grace. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Can we have the instrumentals while we give our offering. For those who want to make transfer, you can see it on your screen.

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

Quickly, let me say this. For those online and on site, Apostle's book is always available. Make sure you make order anywhere you are, in any nation you are. It can be sent to you. You will get your own copy. And for those of us who are present here, the copies of Apostle's book are outside. Please make sure you get yours. Word Emotion continues to Tomorrow we meet 5:30. Now you can't afford to hear this alone. Make sure you hold a friend or the family member so that we can be partakers of what we are hearing in this house. I pray that the Lord will strengthen us in the name of Jesus. Can we rise to our feet? Can we say the grace in unison? May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ The love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.

Amen.

Surely God's goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, for we are the house of the Lord forever and ever.

Amen.

To our online audience, we love you, and everyone, see you tomorrow, 5:30. God bless you.