WORD IMMERSION || DAY 3 || 6TH FEBRUARY 2025

Can you build yourself in the most holy faith tonight? Can you speak in the Holy Ghost? Lord, we are ready. Lift up your Holy Ghost language. Holy Spirit, you are welcome. Fill this temple with your presence. Holy Spirit, you are welcome. Oh. Fill this temple with your presence. We wait on you, Lord. We wait on you. We wait on you, Lord. We wait on you. We wait on you, Lord. We wait on you. We wait on you, Lord. We wait on you. Is that your prayer tonight? I can feel the presence of the Holy Ghost in our midst tonight. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, you are welcome. Feel the stamp hole, feel the stamp hole with your presence. Hey, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, You are welcome. Feel the sample. Feel the sample. We wait, we wait on you, Lord. We wait on you, we wait on you, we wait on you, oh Lord. We wait on you, we wait on you. Abba! We wait on you, we wait on you, oh Lord, we wait on you. Hey, we wa— we wai— we wait on you, Lord, we wait on you. Sweet Spirit of the Living God, we wait on— we wait on you at this hard time. We wait on you, oh Lord. Lord, we wait on you. Oh, we wait on you, Lord, we wait on you. Your presence, hey, is heaven to me. There's nothing like your presence, Lord. Woo! Your presence is heaven. And who is like you, Lord, in all the earth? Much less love and beauty and less love. Hey, hey, nothing in this world can satisfy me. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus, Jesus, you're the cup that will run dry. Hey, and who is like you, Lord, in all the earth? You are matchless love and beauty endless. Lord, nothing in this world can satisfy me. Jesus, you're the comfortable —your presence! Your heaven to me! To me there's nothing like your presence Lord, your presence is Heaven, it's Heaven to me! It's Heaven to me! There's nothing like your Presence, your Presence, your Presence! Your presence, your presence is heaven to me. It's heaven to me. Your presence is heaven. And I've started to pant for the water Oh my soul, longed after thee. You alone, you're my heart's desire, and alone to worship you. Church, can we sing that together? As the deep, as the deep met the waters. You're my heart desire and I long. Hey, lift your voice and say, say, you are love. You are love. Make my spirit breathe. You are Lord of my heart desire, and I long to worship you. You will be there. Lord, we're here. Hey! We honour Your presence. Eka da da da da da da. Where two or three are gathered, Lord, You said You will be there. And Lord, we're here. We honour Your presence. I'll take it one more time. Hey! Shaddaa. Where two or three are gathered, Lord, you said you will be there. Lord, we're here. Hey, we honor your presence. Where two or three are gathered, Lord, you said you will be there. Lord, we're here. Hey, we honor Your presence. Shall we say? Yana! He's here! Ahh! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! He said— ah! Yana! Yana! Yana! Yana! See His glory feels like living up to Him! Something's falling, something's changing! See His glory feels like heaven on earth! Something's falling, something's changing! See His glory feels like— Yeah, something's falling, something's changing! Changing! Feels like Heaven on Earth! Heaven on Earth! Something's Something's changing. See his glory. Feels like heaven on earth. There is lightning and thunder, miracles and wonders, signs and many wonders. Heaven on earth. Say, lightning and thunder, miracles and wonders, signs and many wonders. Heaven on earth. You say, there is lightning and thunder, miracles and wonders. Sung of many wonders, heaven on earth. There is lightning and thunder, miracles and wonders. Sung of many wonders, heaven on earth. There is, there is, ah, lightning and thunder, yes, miracles and wonders. Sung of many wonders, heaven on earth. Something's moving, something's Something's changing! See His glory! Feels like heaven on earth now! Something's moving! Something's changing! See His glory! Feels like Heaven— something's smaller! Something's changed to His glory! Glory feels like Heavens more than before. Something's small but something's changed. Changed his glory! It feels like Heaven all around us right here. Heaven on earth. Heaven. Heaven. Heaven on earth. Heaven.

Amen. All right, sorry. Hallelujah! Lift your hands and give Jesus praise tonight. Bless him from the depth of your heart. Let everything within you magnify him in a moment. Give him praise. Give him honor. Give him glory. Give him adoration. He deserves the lifting up of our hands, and let's bless him for it. Blessed be your holy name. Jesus. He's worthy to be praised. He's worthy to be magnified. He's worthy to be exalted. Let's bless him. Blessed be your holy name. In Jesus' mighty In Jesus' name we are praying. Let's give Jesus a big, big, big hand. Amen. This evening we are privileged and blessed to have Pastor Bashola with us all the way from Lagos. One of the things that strikes me so hard about his ministry, amongst many things he's doing, there's a free school, completely free, completely free school. He's doing so much amazing work. We also have Prophet Joshua Ben with us tonight. Thank you, sir. And we also have Pastor Jonathan Saka with us. I honor you, sir. Amen. And you want to do well to celebrate yourselves. Amen. You may please be seated. If the media can push me a bit more, just a bit more. Let me also give this counsel particularly for our people watching online, and which I want to really commend. We are having quite an amazing and good number of people connected and following from day one. And, you know, to be having this daily is a lot. I want to really, really commend our online audience. Let's give them a big hand. Every member of Light Nation connected from different places. So, so beautiful to see you do that. Then we had about 3,000 or so yesterday connect, and that's so beautiful. And that's just on YouTube alone, not on Ambience TV. So let's give them a big hand. And particularly PPC family. Are you part of that family? Now give yourselves a big, big hand. So I continue today. The link for Light Nation app is online. And maybe at some part— okay, for those of you who are here, you're here. So because there are some part of these teachings that I will not put online, that you need to be on the Light Nation app to be able to see it, or have ambient TV to be able to watch it, because that one you can't screenshot. So, right, so Amen. So I'm just going to continue. And while I was preparing towards this evening, the Lord corrected me about a statement that we always make, or that we say all the time, that man is God's method for achieving his purpose on earth. And God said to me, said, that's not true. Said, a spiritual man is my method, not just man, a spiritual man. Is that okay now? Yes, because it takes a spiritual man to align with God's will, God's purpose, God's method. So, um, yesterday I rounded up by showing you that God's design for you is rest. Is that okay now? So I'm going to continue from there, and then I'm going to show you how to get into that rest. Is that okay now? I'll show you the element of a spiritual man. All right, because part of the reality of that rest is the blessing. If you listen to my teaching well, you will never struggle like your mates struggle. Because you— a spiritual man has it figured out. Sometimes you quote the Bible halfway, that eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, that has entered our imagination what God has reserved for those who love him. But that's not what the Bible says. Say, but these things has been freely revealed to us. So it didn't stop there. So you are not in the realm of eyes have not of sin. Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom. Is that okay now? So settle down and let's feast tonight. Are you ready? The book of Isaiah chapter number 55, and which is, um, the scripture I've been showing you. All right, hello to Port Harcourt people, good to see you guys online. Isaiah chapter number 55, then we're going to read from verse 6. Isaiah 55 from verse 6 says, seek the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is what? Near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Now God went on to say, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heaven, or heavens, are higher than the hearts, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. That's a very, very serious one. Look at the progression in verse 8, because sometimes it is important not just to read but to understand that the sequence is the key to unlocking that Femi Lazarus. Look at what it says in verse 8: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither your ways my ways. So it is thoughts before ways. That's the sequence. If you think his thoughts, you walk his ways. That's a good place to start from. Yes, sir. And that's why the battleground of a man's life is the soul, the mind. That's where the devil wants to colonize. That's where the devil wants to inflict, um, contrary belief system. That's what— that's where the devil wants to really get you. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So is You see, in fact, Proverbs went on to say something really prophetic about the mind. He said, 'Guard your heart with all diligence because from out of it flows the issues of life.' Okay, you didn't understand that scripture. Out of that mind, out of that heart flows issues of life. Let me explain the way your mind these, so you can understand the reason why the devil fights you so hard in that region. Imagine a candlestick. Before it becomes a stick, it was first wax. The wax is poured into a cast to form. Yes, sir. When you receive things from the Spirit Spirit is like wax. Your mind is the cast. If the supply is heavy but the mind is small, the result will be small. It can be pure— not even can, it is pure from where it is coming from— but it can be polluted in your mind. You can receive pure streams, but that mind that is uncontrolled will mess it up. So it is not true that because it is the word of God you are speaking, it is pure. The word in itself is pure, but your mind can rubbish the whole thing. Is that okay now? Yes, sir. So if we think his thoughts, we will walk in his ways. If we think his thoughts, we walk in his ways. Now, I showed you yesterday the book of Romans. Romans chapter number 8. We'll start the reading from verse 5. Romans chapter number 8, from verse 5. For they that are after the flesh— and this is where you have to pay very important attention here, because if you understand this, you will have speed feed without trying to run. Look at that scripture. They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit. There's a scripture I need to show you with this. Galatians chapter number 5. Galatians chapter number 5. Now you want to see something really important. Let's start reading from verse 16. Um, Galatians 5:16. We're going to read King James, then we're going to read Message, then we wrap up with Amplified. Let's read together. 1, 2, 3, go! These I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the to what? The lusts of the flesh. Let's read this in Message, if the media will help me quickly. Message translation: My counsel is this: live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsion of what? Selfishness. The same way artificial intelligence system is not intelligent on its own because it feeds on your intelligence. It is the intelligence you provide on the internet space that it has the capacity to grab in a very fast pace. Is that okay now? The same way you can feed your flesh with intelligence with which it should destroy you. The devil doesn't know how to attack you. He doesn't— oh no, he doesn't know. See, in thinking about who the devil is, one of the things you must quickly settle in your your mind is that the devil doesn't know it all. As a matter of fact, in 1 Corinthians chapter number 2, the Bible says that if the prince of this world had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. So even in Job 1, when the devil was trying to say, I'm going to touch Job, he knew where to touch because Job fed him with his fears. You can show the devil that food can make you fall, immorality can. It is what you show him that he uses. And that's why the moment you have something and that thing takes the seat of God in your life, he knows that if you touch that thing, you'll be down.

Wow.

Don't feed the compulsion of the flesh. Look at the Amplified rendition of that scripture. You want to show me quickly? When I say walk and live habitually in the Holy Spirit, responsive and controlled and guided by the Spirit, then you will certainly not gratify that craving sins and the desire of the flesh— human nature without God. So the flesh there is not pack of meat, is the nature of man that is alienated from God, is the nature of the fallen Adam. Now what you need to understand about new birth and salvation is that our salvation is an exchanged life, meaning that you are no longer under the grip of the flesh. But it is possible that even after salvation, there is no difference between the unsaved you and the saved you in terms of your cravings. That's why you don't stop at salvation. You now go further to present your bodies a living sacrifice. All right, which is holy and acceptable unto you. Bible went on to say that's a reasonable sacrifice. I've told you why it is reasonable. If I— when I went to marry my wife, I was traveling back and forth. I took my family members. She who should prostrate, we prostrated. So she bring 'Bring yam,' we brought yam. 'Bring goat,' we brought goat. 'Bring cow,' we brought cow. We're not doing it for the Lord. I stood there, my friend stood, family members say prostrate, fall down, I fell. Having done all that, it is only reasonable to present your body. It's only reasonable. To do all that and say, 'No, don't touch me,' for where? It's reasonable. You have been bought with a price. It is unreasonable to make your body your own. You can't use your body for what you want. It's not yours. You've been bought with a price. Are you here? You've been bought, bought with a price. All right, so now look at verse 17 of that Galatians chapter number 5. Verse 17 of that Galatians 5, look at it. Let's read it in Amplified Translation so you can understand the breakdown. For the desires of the flesh are opposed opposed. The desires of the flesh are opposed to the desires— I'm sorry, to the Holy Spirit. And the desires of the Spirit are opposed to the flesh, the godless human nature. For these things are antagonistic to each other, continually withstanding and in conflict with each other, so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do. Hold on. The nature, the godless human nature, which legally you are not under but experientially might control you.

Yes, sir.

So let me show you two scriptures to nip that in the board so you can understand your own, um, duty in respect to that. James chapter number 1, let's read verse 21. Um, James 1, verse 21. Look at this, give me in King James please. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your soul. At new birth, you are a saved person because it's an exchanged life. Now the— let me have 3 guys. Yes, form a cycle, form a cycle, expand, make it 4. John, let me have another 4 guys. Yeah. Quickly, trying to— Pastor is coming out like this. 4, thank you. Make a circle, expand. Is there a small statured guy? Somebody with small statured? Are you? You come now. Yeah, it's for a day like this. Is there small statured guy or small statured Lady, come.

Anybody?

You lie. Now look at this. This is man. And some of you have been asking, what about those who are not born again and are born in Arab nation? Listen to this illustration. This is man. This here is the nature of sin. Romans 1, Romans 2, Romans 3, all the mention of sin there is a noun, not a verb. Talks about the nature of sin. A sinner is in sin not because— you can't tell a goat not to bleat, you can't tell a dog not to bark. The dog barks because it is a dog. So there is the nature of sin that no matter what you do right, this is what you are under without Christ. Be moral, don't touch women, don't lie, don't do this. You have the nature of sin. It is not your morality that takes you out of the nature of sin. From the moment sin entered the world, anyone born through man has the nature. What Christ did was that at new birth, this cluster of nature was not upgraded. It died. Now you have a new nature. It is the nature of right righteousness. This is the part we get scared to teach. You don't have this nature because you did anything right. It's a gift. You must understand that you were made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. But there are different people who have this nature, and sometimes even nature. There are unfinished business because there are things you learned when you were under that nature. So, but now that you have this nature doesn't mean before God you have a right stand, but that doesn't mean you are not misbehaving. So there's a package to take care of your soul, which is where misbehavior resides, even under this nature. Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your soul. Look at the way Romans put it. Paul puts it to the Romans. Romans chapter number 12. Let's start reading from verse 1 and 2 quickly. Romans 12, verse 1 and 2. All right. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. Yes, quickly. Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of of your mind. That's why you wonder, it is possible to speak in tongues and yet battle with addictions. Where is the seat of that godless seed? The soul. We address that through the word. See, listen, when you sit under the word, deliverance is taking place. You are changing. You are not becoming more born again. You can't be more born again, but you are becoming renewed. Because even though you have this nature, if that soul is not taken care of, if they put you side by side with one who has the nature nature of sin, there might be no difference in terms of your character. And what that does is that it will hinder your progress in your destiny in Christ. Do you understand that? Simply, so I have the nature of Christ. I have the nature of Christ.

I have the nature of Christ.

I have the nature of Christ. But I must grow. But I must grow through the word. Through the word. As newborn Babes, we receive the sincere milk of the word that we may grow thereby. I showed— I read a testimony in PPC that blessed my heart. The man was testifying and say, since I began to pray, I no longer beat my wife. You may not take that as a big deal until you are the one that were beaten. That's a big testimony. So the person knew. So what was empowering that was the fact that there was no continuous incense burnt before God, no growth. If we are not feasting on the word to renew us from inside out, we are capable of deadly things. We are capable of it. It is by grace that we have been saved through faith. Not of works, lest any man should boast. We are here because grace found us. Are you following what I'm saying here? We are capable of the worst evil. Never you look at yourself and feel you can't be addicted on crack. Oh yes, you can be hooked. All you needed to do was to have tasted it once. Say it again: thank you for grace. Thank you for grace. Let's give them a big hand as the seed. I'm about taking you on a journey, and I'm just trying to build, um, even as we go on that journey. So stay with me, okay? Now look at this. The nature of the flesh is opposed to the nature of the spirit. So if you feed the flesh more, it is going to be empowered to withstand the operation of God's Spirit in your life. Because you have empowered the flesh, at the point you should enter into several things that God has ordained for you, the flesh that you have empowered now has the capacity over your will will to pull you back. And that's why many believers are struggling. Look at what Paul said in 1 Corinthians chapter number 2, and you see the danger of empowering the flesh. 1 Corinthians chapter number 2. If you're there, say amen. Now let's start the reading from, um, verse. Let's start reading from verse, um, let's start from verse 4 so you can have context to it. He said, but my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom. I've told you this. Hey bro, there's man's wisdom. When you go on social media, you hear their wisdom. It sounds smart. One time I saw a young man put online and say things like— I don't want to get into all those things. And because it is man's wisdom, it is corrupted, because that's the wisdom of a fallen man. The bedrock of that wisdom is self-preservation. I would have loved to use a baby. Let me give you an instance. If a child is given birth to at the hospital and the child is not crying, doctors beat the child, trying to get the child to respond to stimuli. Sometimes jack the child, sudden movement, and then the child gets back. Because the greatest drive in every human, even from that stage, is survival. Survival. You want to survive, and that's where the flesh hides. Because you want to survive, it is easy for the flesh to oppose the wisdom of God, because the wisdom of God doesn't lead to survival, it leads you towards death. It is they that do love their lives that lose it. They that will lose it that gain it. How will God tell you to go sacrifice Isaac when actually you need a child? Doesn't make sense. So the flesh tells you run. Are you feeling what I'm saying here? Yes, sir. Self-preservation, that's where the flesh at now. So there's man's wisdom, and that wisdom cannot fathom what God is doing. Can't understand it. I showed you yesterday, it is not on the same frequency. The distance between a spiritual man and a carnal man is not in kilometers, it is in realms. My daughter, my first daughter, I— since the moment she was around One, I used to hold her hands and I'll be talking to her, and myself and her know that she can't comprehend what I was saying. So the only way for her to respond, because she can't comprehend what I was saying, is to throw tantrums. Just— and then once you just leave my sight, because in our minds it's like, how do you know I don't understand this? I don't even know what she's thinking, and yet you are trying to to tell me. You throw tantrums because you don't understand what God is saying. He can speak at a level that is higher than your level of comprehension because you have remained a babe. That something is said for 10 years doesn't mean you are hearing. It is until understanding opens before you see it. You don't hear it until you see it. You know, I'm teaching and it blesses you. That's what it does at first hearing. Before it will change you, must have gone to at least 5 hearings. Naaman was to dip himself in Jordan how many times? 7 times. We are— we do this with the washing of the word. You don't dip once. That's why you go back, feast on the things you have heard, you are hearing again, and you're like, was I not in church? Now you are still at the level of hearing. Change doesn't begin until you get to the level of doing. I want to show you something now. Are you still here? There are some part of this teaching tonight that will be. And I'm excited because a veil will fall off, and usually when that veil falls off, there is joy unspeakable, full of glory. Are you here? Now look at this. So Paul speaking here, he said that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Albeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, The word perfect, there is the word mature. Can you give me another translation? Now that's 1 Corinthians 2, verse 6, and you have to move fast. Look at this: yet I do proclaim a message of wisdom to those who are spiritually mature. I showed you yesterday in Hebrews 5 that strong meat belongs to them who by reason of use, have their senses exercised to discern between good and evil, right? By reason of practice, use, use, use again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. Again, as you learn to say, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, then you find out humility is not an impartation, it's a product of use. Are not— okay, there are two words that are used for virtue, or spiritual virtue, in terms of character. They are not impartation. Listen, look up. There are two elements of a spiritual man: the fruit and the gift. By watching someone operating at the frequency of a gift that you desire, it can rub off. You don't find fruit on tender plant. It takes growth. That's why we don't rate men by gift, but by fruit. Only fruit shows where they have stayed and how long they have stayed. The anointing is not a sign you are mature. The anointing is a sign that there was a time you were in the presence. Let me get a cup and water. Yes, thank you. Then let me get a tray or something. Please open this. This, this is a very good picture of the way— thank you, give Pastor, thank you. The anointing is— now this is you as a vessel. This is where it is coming from. This is you. It is possible for what is— what you carry to only pass to you. It is still pouring, but you are not under. You are anointed but not fresh. What you have here is a sign that there was a time you were directly under. It's not a sign you are still there. Separate gift from freshness. Let me tell you something, because at some point I'm going to take my time to teach about prayer. One of the, one of the most dangerous things about the anointing I'm afraid of is that you can get to a point where you're already used to dispensing. Whether it is corrupt or good, you have to give. Okay, think about that. That's the point of the overflow. That's the point where men fall. You don't see scandals when people are pursuing God. You see out when they have, because that's where you relax. Prayer is not what you learn to receive. Prayer is what you learn to survive with. You get to a point, you— it occurs to you that the practice I've learned about prayer, if I'm going to survive, this is the only way I will survive. I must continue praying daily. This parable Jesus told them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint. Say, I'm anointed. Say it again. But are you fresh? That's a very important question. An anointed man can fight the move of God because he's not up to date. But when there's freshness, you are consistently in the spirit. His presence for more. So you're updated. You know what God is doing now. You can use what God said to fight what he's saying, even in your own life. What did I say? You can use what God said even in your own life. So you must know when God has moved, and the only way to know is to be in His what? Presence. So how do you become fresh? Intimacy. Intimacy. You see, you will joke with spiritual dullness— permit me to use that word— until, like disciples of Jesus, there are cases you confront and you find out that this one needs to meet something on ground. Okay, let's leave that. So he said that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Albeit we speak wisdom among them that are spiritually mature, yet not the wisdom of this world. Are you seeing that? There is the wisdom of this world, it's everywhere on blogs, on media. When the wise men of this world gather, they find fights the wise men of the spirit, because according to them, the wise men of the spirit are stupid. And you will function by the wisdom of this world if you want validation. For most part of your work, if you're going to do something really powerful with God, most part of it will be a journey of loneliness. At the point that you become scared is the point where your trusted spiritual people will not validate you because they are not seeing what God is saying to you, and God will not consult them because they are not God. That's the point you will know. This is what I'm saying: people can fight what they will later learn. There's a custom and a mistake we make in the body of Christ. If it is not us, it is not correct. It is correct not because it is correct, it is correct because it is us. Once that is established in your life and ministry, God will humble you. God humbles men. But I see, I say these things in codes. When you hear it like 5 times, it will open. So he said, my God, do you read the Bible? You read the Bible, you will not be bored because it is open to you. Look at verse 5, said that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men. See, let me tell you, and thank God for this because these are avenues to reteach and to unteach, all right? There are times I found myself say statements and I go back home only to say this statement depends on who heard it. This is not a statement for mature Christians, it's for babes. For instance, you hear statement like giving doesn't bring you to a financial level. Well, it depends on who you are talking to. Except a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone. Yes, sir. It positions you for a measure of increase. Increase that your sense can give. Look at Deuteronomy 8:18. Deuteronomy 8:18. Can they show us quickly? Read this loud and clear. 1, 2, 3, go. For thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth power to get wealth, that he establisheth the kingdom of the righteous. Christians, God in heaven gives power to get wealth. Yes, sir. I want the media to help me get out that scripture in the book of Isaiah. It doesn't even just give power to get wealth, it gives you the treasures of darkness. Yes, sir. So I was talking with a friend of mine, and because he's a wordy Martian, so I feel I can take some steps to share some things. So I was talking with him, that was December last year, and I said to him, I said, I have favor. On my life. I said, but I've heard your stories. There's a dimension of that favor that you have that I need. I said, that dimension— because his stories doesn't make sense. So I told him that. So I said, what I'm doing is that I've been following every of your meeting. So even when we have service and I'm done preaching, I go to their service because I need to hear to find the secret. So I found the secret, and as I was going home yesterday, it operated. I saw his own dimension of favor is favor that comes by divine leading. There's a favor of what comes to you, there's a favor of divine timing. So I was going, going God said, do this, do that. So I reached out to the person. God just said, celebrate the person. So I reached out. This is— so we've been trying to get you since last year, person told me. So I've told my— we've been trying to get you since last year. I'm like, the last time I was in London, God told me to reach you, but I did not. I felt— so it doesn't look like I'm pushing. So he said, please, let's talk further, we need to do this together. I said, this thing is working. Just few days ago, God said, hey, reach out to one of the fathers in the body of Christ, a bishop. I don't call names. Say reach out to him and celebrate him. So I reach out to him, hey Daddy, we see what you're doing. This is— hey, he said, son, call me by so-and-so time. This is— we have stuff to do together. You will hear a voice behind you. I like that dimension of people saying this favor, but I think I kind of prefer the leading.

Yes, sir.

Are you following what I'm saying? I prefer that I'll be praying here and God will say, travel to number so-and-so streets, Isaac Jones, Ikeja. Turn so-and-so place, you meet by this time, so, so and so man, there is a warehouse there, tell him the Lord wants to use this place. I kind of like that, because if care is not taken, robust fruit will be cut down, because now we're having more goat than sheep. If you don't train people, they will dictate the taste bud of the church. One time somebody attended our church in Ibadan, then snapped the picture. To let you know that the devil is a very stupid devil. In front of my image, my face stood there, so the picture, and said, now I attend Light Nation. I was calling out Pastor here, Adeboye, online. I was insulting him that this is my pastor now, a me. We have to counter-call him out. I'm not a pastor of a rebel. They will change the taste board of the church. There must be training. I'm going somewhere. Look at it again, Romans 8:5. To God, Oga, Oga, Oga. God gives power to get wealth. That's right. Yes sir! See? You can wake up one day and never sleep poor again— not because you worked. Listen though, don't let anybody fool you. God raises the poor out of the dung hill, raises the needy and make them to sit among princes. God God is the lifter up of the head of men. So why we teach you to be excellent? Put it side by side, it is bread and butter. Excellence plus favor. God raises Are you following what I'm saying here? Because if you don't even believe God does, will you expect him to? It is the expectation of the righteous that will not be cut short. If your expectation is zero, it will not be cut short. Every day I expect God to bless me. Listen, I can check my account balance 10 times. Expectation. Those who work with the church account are here. I ask you for the account balance every time. Expectation. I expect it. I expect favor. Yeah, you see, you see, let me tell you something. See, see, see, that's not spirituality of everything to check. Well, you check your WhatsApp update. Because we need to silence the Pharisees while we talk. You check your WhatsApp update more than 10 times. I said I check my account balance more than 10 times. You say I'm not spiritual. Let me tell you something. If you do not know that there are forces of darkness that wants to make sure that money is not in the right hands, you will keep losing what is yours because you don't mind. One of the reasons for spiritual financial limitation of many believers is that they really don't mind. They care about fire, but they don't care about the spread. If the devil can't stop you, it will contain you. Be deep but don't spread because you don't mind. I mind. Let me tell you something. I can't remember what year I was in a meeting and I told God— no, I had the privilege to be with a father in the body of Christ. So I said, I want the door of nations to open. So he said, 'Kneel down, son.' So he prayed for me. I was recounting with my wife yesterday, I have never been denied visa once in my life, not of any country. There is the grace part, there is the effort part. From this moment, you switch to grace.

Amen.

I don't like to talk about personal stuff, but I can tell you God is real. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you expect financial miracle Miracles. When we get to the part of this series that I'm going to teach you the spiritual aspect of finance, that one will take it off the media. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Because we are in a generation that is easily triggered. It is not them, it is not the people, it is the prince of this world reacting. Jesus. It's not them. If not, why will you be angry that I say God can bless me? That's not you. You are not that deep. My God, are you following what I'm saying here? Okay, give me that Isaiah 45. You showed it the other time. Thank you for showing us that scripture. Isaiah 45. I have it, the power of the Holy Ghost. The power of the Holy Ghost, the power of the Holy Ghost. Take it two more times. I have it. The power of the Holy Ghost, the power of the Holy Ghost, the power of— Can I take it one more time, loud and Power of the Holy Ghost. The power of the— amen. Thank you. Now look at this, read this together. I want to go. And I will give thee of the treasures of and the hidden riches of secret place, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord which called thee by name, I'm the God of Israel. So let me tell you what the treasure of darkness is. Let me have two guys come. Where's the light shining From here, and because it's everywhere, so you may not be able to see what I'm showing. Can they spotlight for me? Both of you stand together and stand well in front. Spotlight, thank you. So there can be shadow behind them. Never forget what I want to show you. Can I have a bag? Thank you. Put it behind them. There's treasure here, but now the enemy is casting shadows on it so that those that it belongs to will not see it. To give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches in secret place. Is the way it works is that your eyes of understanding is enlightened. It is the Rami in the ticket kind of miracle. The enemy doesn't have any treasure. They belong to God's children, but they only cast shadows on it so that those who are living in their own shadows can have it. You have so many things you want to do for the kingdom. Somebody is paying $10,000 $1,000 for a club one weekend. The devil wants those whose head is not correct to hold the money so that the world can be sinking. And he likes the fact that you speak so much in tongues, you don't mind. Clap for yourself. Amen. Let's give them a big hand. There are many things I'm teaching that I know I have to demonstrate. That's the only way you understand my teaching, through my life. So I'm more keen on demonstrating that God can bless than struggling to get you to understand. So as you look at me, you fear God. You will not like that. Me too, sir. Are you still here? Now I'm tying this somewhere. He said that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Albeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the prince— princes of this world that comes to naught. And sometimes, because King James is— the words used there are very polite words, you may not really get it. That comes to nothing. That's what it means. It means if you go by the wisdom of this world, you will not have anything at the end of the day. It's zero. It means you will not amount to anything. Now look at verse 7. Said, but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world began. Listen to what I'm saying. This is the Bible. God already predetermined before the world began. All right, which God— before the world began, unto our glory. And if there's anything that will be glorious in your life. It will be to the degree that you found the wisdom that is hidden. That is what God ordained for our glory. It is that wisdom that the nature of flesh make sure you don't enter. The reason why the flesh lost against the spirit, or is at war is the spirit is because the flesh cannot have it. I want to show you something. Go back to that Romans 8:5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. Verse 6 now: For to be carnally minded is death, and to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Peg this scripture. Galatians chapter number 5, verse 16. Then we'll read 1 Corinthians 2, verse 14. Galatians 5, verse 16. Now quickly, can it be fast now? Galatians 5, verse 16. Am I calling wrong scripture? No, I'm not. All right. I say then, walk in the Spirit. You will not fulfill what? The desires, the dictates of the what? Flesh. For the flesh is at war against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, and these two are contrary one to another. Put that side by side with 1 Corinthians 2:14. 1 Corinthians 2:14, read this. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of of God, for they are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. He can't even get it. Once you are empowering the flesh— how do you empower the flesh? Through the gates. The eye gates, the ear gates. What you see, what you hear is informing you. You are becoming self-aware. You are getting to self-preservation. Sensation. You— the more the world speak, the less you trust God. That it is me for myself, it doesn't look like God can figure out what is best for me. Listen, the danger of listening to the world is that you can't trust God. The moment Adam gave his ears, or Eve gave her ears to the devil, the first thing the devil did was to convince them against God. He outrightly said God was line. You will struggle to believe what God is saying about your life when you start listening to the voice of pressure. All of a sudden, you just quietly believe that God is not coming through anymore, even though you are not saying it. And because it's not coming through, heaven helps those who help themselves. That's where that comes from. Then you say, let me help myself. Then you miss God. And the way this sequence work is that the moment you help yourself, God shows up, meaning that the pressure to help yourself is always around the time God is about to come. Yes, sir. Whenever pressure is intensified, you are closer. Yes, sir. It means your salvation is nearer than when you first you first believed. If you don't know that you are close to your breakthrough, pressure is the pointer. Hey, are you still with me? Yes, sir. So this wisdom of God was ordained for our glory. And if we look at the principles of this wisdom, they don't make sense. Um, I, I, so I plan to speak a bit, and, um, because let me help those in music ministry. I just give you— no, sit down please. Let's give you a form of wisdom, because I think on Tuesday while I was speaking, I said— I spoke about a trend of people thinking that spiritual sounds is a product of social media gymnastics. Now lie, they lie. Some of the most powerful songs you sing today, you don't even know those who sang it. The music is as powerful as the altar. Forget about anything, it is as powerful as the— what? See, nobody might know you yet. You might be releasing those sounds, nobody knows you, nobody. They might not even be hearing it, but if the altar is fresh, people look for where the fire is burning. People look for where the fire is burning. People look for where the fire is burning.