In this live worship session, the speaker (Femi Lazarus) repeatedly references 1 Corinthians 2:7, Romans 1 and Romans 8 to argue that true divine wisdom is hidden and can only be accessed through earnest prayer and a priestly lifestyle, not through material success, gimmicks, or social‑media relevance. He critiques ritualists, hip‑hop artists, and those who chase wealth or fame, emphasizing that such pursuits corrupt God’s wisdom. The sermon stresses that music ministry must be rooted in prayer, calling it the "most predominant activity," and warns that the devil opposes blessed music ministers. He shares personal anecdotes about leaving football and past ministry experiences, urging listeners to avoid gimmicks, stay in prayer, and adopt a spiritually‑minded mindset to experience peace and avoid cultural pressure for relevance.
Chapters
All right, let's read that 1 Corinthians chapter number 2, verse 7 again, loud and clear. 1, 2, 3, go! I love God's Word Translation. Can they give us— and we have our churches connected and seated. Are we back online now? Huh? All right, please don't deny them. Are they giving us God's Word now? Look at it. We speak about the mystery of God's wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God planned for our glory. This is the package planned that if we're going to experience glory, we must access that wisdom. There's no package outside of it. Anything that sounds like it but is not it is going to take you out of that glory. Have you seen people that have money but are still— they are still poor? Have you met a ritualist before? I don't know if that was a— have you met a ritualist? Someone that did ritual to get money? You've met? Yes, you should meet. They stink. Yes, the money is loathsome, it's corrupted, it's contemptible because the wisdom of God didn't produce this. Have you met a 419 before? He uses the car. If you have not met those people I've mentioned, look at your hip-hop artists. They are never satisfied. Tomorrow they will wear a trouser that look like it's about to sweep the entire Lagos. Then they wear one shoe that is not convenient for them, or wear singlets, or not even wear shirts. No courage to face life without being high, always drinking things that will pickle their livers. Brag about Ferrari, brag about Lamborghini, because those are the proof of success to them. Amongst you, it will not be so.
Amen.
It's not the prayer I'm teaching. Yes, sir. You look at them. I don't want to go further in that. Many of you don't even know I mentor some of them. And some of them, they know the truth and they just do what they do for the gallery. And when the young people mature, they know where they reach out to. So you too, as a new Christian, you want to be validated by things. It's a journey of no return. The reason you are trying to manufacture human wisdom for yourself is because you don't have rest. You are restless. You have not encountered the fact that if you follow God's wisdom, you will not be small. That's the— that's where your struggle is. The reason you are trying to— Lot is trying to have his own lot is because Lot doesn't trust the blessing on Abraham. The moment it occurs to you that God blesses— because when I say what I said now, and I'm speaking to those of you that are my own, I don't throw words around. When I started, say, what is he saying?
Are they—
are they saying— listen to what I'm saying. Look at you. There's nobody who served as unto God who end up small. God will never owe you. People can treat you bad, but God is a righteous judge.
Nobody.
Myself and my wife were with Moses Ako in his house before he released one of those songs. And it's there predominantly. The most important activity in preparation for the sounds and all that is prayer. Favour, it surrounds me like a shield. It is following me from now, right? Lawrence Oyo, the most predominant activity is prayer. Judah, Judah, Judah, the most predominant activity is prayer. That's why when you come around these men, those who are there, music is the least of them. Priesthood is the most important. That's the reason why God will always— they are the ones God will be trusting with the sound. It is trust. Take your eyes off men. If not, you will not rise. You will be in argument about 150K and 200K till you reach 60 years. You will regret your life. And we need to be brutal with this truth. Not everybody who is singing has music ministry. Some of you only have the gift. I can do many things, that doesn't mean it's my calling. I not deceive myself. God was telling me, leave football, I no hear. Me, Campus Fellowship president. One time I wanted to brag. We've played a tournament and there was clean sheet. Was this semi-final? I told my people after fellowship, oh yeah, come, let's go, we have match today. How many goals did I concede that day? I can't remember, maybe 4. Somebody even played from midfield. That was when I knew that I'm done. It's time to hang boot. If not, this, this shame will catch me here. Sometimes problem is a sign that your expiry date around that thing has come. And that's even mercy. No matter how much you enjoy my teaching, I will not be in this city forever. So carry what you carry now, run with it. Many of you will listen. You become the voices that will shake this nation, and your confession will be, the day he said it, it was not easy, but I listened. I see many gimmicks online. Don't be by gimmicks. Gimmicks will give you views, but the sound is from priesthood. Is Debbie here? The most predominant word I tell her Prayer. You want to release new sound?
Pray.
I can pull out— you see, we can have meetings, I'll keep pulling out strange, strange worshippers across different branches of Light Nation. They are there. Some of them will come, see them small stature, till they open the vocal cord, you'll be amazed at the sound that will come. I don't lack men is a covenant, not gimmicks. Tell your neighbor, stay in the place of prayer, bro. No argue. Pray yourself to stupor. Then the wisdom that comes from there is from above. The Bible says that that wisdom is pure.
Payo!
If not, you will be making noise till your own noise is disturbing you. So you talk and you yourself will tell yourself you are shouting. Have you heard sounds that the moment you hear that sound you can't leave? I had to call Lawrence. Guy, what do you put for this song? Which one is this guy? The power on the sound to make it travel. Is from where it is coming from. Say it again. Prayer. Prayer. That's one of the ways to access the hidden wisdom. Prayers. Oh yes. Prayers. You learn to pray. See, listen, listen. If what I'm doing is not a lifestyle, you don't have wisdom. That thing you want to say is smelling. Shut it. Pray first. Before I respond to any matter, it can be rolling in my spirit for 5 days, checking with God. Am I correct? Is it right? Is this this? Is it this?
Pray.
If the burden still remains, then God want me to address it. Sade, Kraham, the coast. You are a music minister, you are not doing this. One thing very certain, offense, offense. The devil hates music ministers because you are standing in his office. You remind him of where he fell from. So you will not last, you cannot last. You are in church. A church that is blessing you, pray for yourself, then pray for that church. If not, you will not be blessed again because your friends will corrupt it. Yes, that's the way you survive, because the devil hates the fact that you are blessed. Pray. Let me— let me— let us pray in the spirit. For I, I, I'm careful because we are still going where the explosion will— or can they stay on the keyboard for me here? Just, just, just rumble in tongues. He surrounds me like a shield. It is following me from now until the day I see my king. Power, power, it is flowing from within. It is moving me from now until the day I see my king. Come on, raise it loud and clear.
Power is erupting from within. It is moving me from now until the day I see my King. Femi Lazarus. He surrounds me like a shield. He will cover me from now Pray in the Holy Ghost.
Pray in the Holy Ghost. Mighty name we're praying. Sit down for a moment. There's the wisdom that God has ordained for your what? Glory. You see, everywhere— look up, everybody. Don't joke now. Everywhere. Look around everywhere. There's pressure, pressure, particularly on social media. It is so bad that people are doing get ready with me and showing nasty things. You see a girl on pants for views. It's because she doesn't know who she is. Some even go as far as showing where they are defecating. That person doesn't know what God has planned for their future, that this today, your thinking becomes vain. Your thinking becomes vain. Look at what the Bible says in Romans chapter number 1. Let me show you Romans chapter number 1. Are you there? Let me read from verse 21. Because that when they knew God— Romans 1:21— they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Look at it. Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies with themselves. Once you get into the cycle of that pressure, you will not have a rest again. That Romans 8:6, listen, read it again. Romans 8:6, read that scripture. For to be carnally minded is death, to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Once your life is powered by divine instruction, pressure will die. Why? Because you go where you are told to go and you do what you are told to do. It's pressure. And one of the very serious level of pressure out there It's pressure for relevance. Relevance.
