Latest / Apostle Lazarus Femi / Kill The Lion On Time
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Apostle Fermi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
- 0:06Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
- 0:10Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
- 0:13Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
- 0:16Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
- 0:19Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ. Then I will cause
- 0:23Speaker 1: your voice to be heard and all who pay attention
- 0:27Speaker 1: to my word on your lips will not lack light
- 0:31Speaker 1: and direction. He is a man sent from God, sent
- 0:35Speaker 1: to raise God's end time always. With Apostle Fermi Lazarus,
- 0:40Speaker 1: every minute counts as you listen attentively.
- 0:46Speaker 2: We bless your holy name. Can we lift our hands
- 0:50Speaker 2: to heaven? This moment. Come on.
- 0:55Speaker 3: Do so with the whole of your heart.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Blessing. Blessing. Lavish gratitude. Yeah.
- 1:08Speaker 4: Be truly grateful.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Be truly grateful. Thank you, Father. Oh, we bless you, Lord.
- 1:24Speaker 2: We bless you, Holy Name. We honor you, Lord. There
- 1:35Speaker 2: is none like you.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Can we truly mean it?
- 1:38Speaker 2: Giving thanks is not a way to wild time.
- 1:42Speaker 3: No. It must be genuine and true. Do so, everyone.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Do so, everyone. We bless you, Father. We bless you.
- 1:53Speaker 2: We bless you. We give you praise. We give you praise.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Thank you, Father. Oh, we bless you.
- 2:10Speaker 3: We bless you, Lord.
- 2:10Speaker 2: You are holy.
- 2:16Speaker 4: And forever you are God. We bless you, Lord, you
- 2:31Speaker 4: are holy.
- 2:32Speaker 2: And forever you are God. We bless you, Lord, you
- 2:39Speaker 2: are holy. And forever you are God. One more time.
- 2:42Speaker 2: We bless you, Lord, you are holy. Lift your hands
- 3:09Speaker 2: where you are.
- 3:12Speaker 3: And just give God praise.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Bless him. Thank you, Father. We bless you, Lord. We
- 3:24Speaker 2: honor you. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Amen. Amen.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Please be seated for a while. Sit down for a while.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Amen.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Now let me quickly say this.
- 3:43Speaker 2: When God plants you in a family, One of the
- 3:46Speaker 2: most important things to do is to discern the prophetic
- 3:52Speaker 2: moment of the family. Exactly. It's to discern it. The
- 3:58Speaker 2: prophetic seasons of that family. One of the things that
- 4:04Speaker 2: does is that it helps you to do the right
- 4:07Speaker 2: things at the right time.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Exactly. What did I say? It helps you to do
- 4:12Speaker 3: the right... Because, listen, shifting.
- 4:15Speaker 2: It's likely not about the ability to say amen, but
- 4:20Speaker 2: about the ability to be rightly positioned.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying here?
- 4:26Speaker 2: Isaac said to Esau, go and get me a venison
- 4:29Speaker 2: that my soul may bless you then die. But Rebekah
- 4:32Speaker 2: was positioned where she could hear it. Jacob was positioned
- 4:36Speaker 2: where he could hear the mother. Jacob was not positioned
- 4:39Speaker 2: where he could hear the father, but he was positioned
- 4:42Speaker 2: where he could hear the one who can hear the father.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here? All right?
- 4:47Speaker 2: So it's a long chain of right positioning. You'll be
- 4:51Speaker 2: rightly positioned. You see, you didn't say that amen well.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? The importance of
- 5:00Speaker 2: you being here at the point that we're just commencing
- 5:02Speaker 2: here is that you have the opportunity to have shifted
- 5:06Speaker 2: within the next couple of weeks. Do you understand what
- 5:10Speaker 2: I'm saying here?
- 5:12Speaker 3: All right?
- 5:12Speaker 2: Because I tell you stuff. Are you following what I'm
- 5:16Speaker 2: saying here? I like the fact that when I say
- 5:20Speaker 2: it under God, you see it come to pass. I
- 5:22Speaker 2: love what it does to your faith. So I tell
- 5:24Speaker 2: you other ones. Is that clear now? I told you
- 5:28Speaker 2: we resume building with immediate effect. You are the one asking,
- 5:32Speaker 2: how will these things be? Just watch.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Okay?
- 5:36Speaker 2: You are the face where what you need built is
- 5:37Speaker 2: your faith. So just watch. Are you following what I'm
- 5:41Speaker 2: saying here? I'm saying again, you'll be rightly positioned. That
- 5:46Speaker 2: amen didn't sound like it. You'll be rightly positioned. Now,
- 5:52Speaker 2: when you guys were ministering the choir administration, I just
- 5:54Speaker 2: sensed the need in my heart to bless you.
- 5:57Speaker 3: Alright?
- 5:57Speaker 2: Because, now listen, we're in a world that is largely intellectual.
- 6:03Speaker 2: And the belief system of the world is that prosperity
- 6:05Speaker 2: is by the ability to do things by yourself. Those
- 6:08Speaker 2: who are smart and intelligent. But the Bible says that
- 6:11Speaker 2: they that do know their God, they shall be strong
- 6:14Speaker 2: and they shall do exploits.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here? God is still
- 6:18Speaker 3: the lifter of men.
- 6:19Speaker 2: Alright? And I just sense the need for that to
- 6:23Speaker 2: be demonstrated this morning.
- 6:24Speaker 3: Today's date is what? Alright.
- 6:27Speaker 2: 20th of August, 2023. That's the day pronouncement came. Okay?
- 6:34Speaker 3: Now, and I'm saying this for the record. Because this
- 6:37Speaker 3: word will not fall.
- 6:37Speaker 2: To the ground. Are you following what I'm saying here? Now,
- 6:41Speaker 2: it is coming from the depth of my heart. Stretch
- 6:42Speaker 2: your hands towards this individual. This word won't drop. they
- 6:47Speaker 2: will come to pass. Okay? I see God shifting you materially.
- 6:53Speaker 2: And that's a very important one. Alright? So that the
- 6:56Speaker 2: giftings and the grace of God upon your life will
- 6:59Speaker 2: not have the corresponding finance to push it.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 7:05Speaker 2: And one of the blessings coming upon you today is
- 7:07Speaker 2: that God is going to bring you into circles you've
- 7:09Speaker 2: always wanted to be in. Not as a way of validation,
- 7:13Speaker 2: but to show you that He's lifting you. And when
- 7:16Speaker 2: you get into those places, many of them will say,
- 7:17Speaker 2: we have been waiting for you. Okay? And as answered,
- 7:21Speaker 2: laid upon you today, I command a new season of
- 7:24Speaker 2: supernatural shift. It is brand new experience from today. I
- 7:29Speaker 2: alter the natural frequency of your life. And I bring
- 7:33Speaker 2: you into a new supernatural flow.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Of the Spirit.
- 7:37Speaker 2: And I command and I speak to the foundations of
- 7:40Speaker 2: your life. Shift. Shift. Again, I speak to the foundations
- 7:44Speaker 2: of your existence. Shift by the finger of God. Now
- 7:49Speaker 2: let the grace of God that punctures the glory in
- 7:51Speaker 2: any atmosphere sit upon you now. Okay?
- 7:55Speaker 3: Stand behind them.
- 7:56Speaker 2: That as I speak, there is a grace that it
- 7:58Speaker 2: doesn't matter how dead an atmosphere is. When you open
- 8:00Speaker 2: your vocal cord to sing, God's glory sits there. From
- 8:04Speaker 2: the crown of your head to the sole of your feet,
- 8:06Speaker 2: I command that grace sit now. Touch them in the
- 8:10Speaker 2: name of Jesus. Supernaturally, as you speak, you spit fire
- 8:14Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus. You spit fire. It is
- 8:17Speaker 2: a brand new season of new exploit in the name
- 8:21Speaker 2: of Jesus by the fingers of the Lord. It is
- 8:24Speaker 2: sealed and nothing can stop it in Jesus' name. Now,
- 8:29Speaker 2: I'd like for you all to be very, very sensitive.
- 8:31Speaker 2: This is a very prophetic season.
- 8:34Speaker 3: Okay?
- 8:35Speaker 2: We don't have to carry these things everywhere else except here.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying here? He must be
- 8:40Speaker 2: rightly positioned.
- 8:42Speaker 3: He must be what?
- 8:43Speaker 2: Rightly positioned. Now, there is something called hunger. It is
- 8:47Speaker 2: not a system of physical request. It is of the heart. Okay?
- 8:51Speaker 2: If that heart yams, it can re-channel the order of
- 8:55Speaker 2: his service in your direction. Are you following what I'm
- 8:58Speaker 2: saying here? And hunger is a blessing. Are you following
- 9:01Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? Stretch your hands towards this individual. Something,
- 9:05Speaker 2: I see like an electric wave. Yeah, that's the wave
- 9:07Speaker 2: of the spirit. And sit upon your life and find expression.
- 9:12Speaker 2: It's a new season. God asked me to speak that word.
- 9:15Speaker 2: It won't fall to the ground.
- 9:16Speaker 3: Okay.
- 9:17Speaker 2: He's bringing you into a realm where you will not
- 9:19Speaker 2: lack the finance to push the giftings and the grace
- 9:23Speaker 2: upon your life. Take it now. By the hand of
- 9:26Speaker 2: the Lord. In the name of Jesus. It's a new season.
- 9:29Speaker 2: This word won't fall to the ground. In Jesus name.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Let's give the Lord a big hand. Amen. Amen.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Now listen. Okay. Please be seated. Be seated.
- 9:48Speaker 2: God said I will do a new thing to Springfort.
- 9:51Speaker 3: Amen.
- 9:52Speaker 2: He said he's going to do a new thing. Do
- 9:55Speaker 2: you believe that? I said do you believe that? He's
- 9:59Speaker 2: going to do a new thing. Okay? So get set
- 10:03Speaker 2: for it. Let me say this to you. I didn't
- 10:09Speaker 2: come as a man who is testing the mic. I
- 10:12Speaker 2: know specifically what God has sent us to do in
- 10:15Speaker 2: this city.
- 10:17Speaker 3: Alright?
- 10:17Speaker 2: The times and seasons are coded to us. And what
- 10:21Speaker 2: God will have me do. That one you press into
- 10:23Speaker 2: a true prayer. Long prayer. You don't come into a
- 10:27Speaker 2: place with 100% knowledge of God's will. You have to
- 10:30Speaker 2: keep pursuing him to know the will. Are you following
- 10:33Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? Now listen and listen very well.
- 10:37Speaker 2: I am too aware. I am too aware. That those
- 10:44Speaker 2: who are pastored here. Will become a reference point. Now
- 10:47Speaker 2: you can't take that from me.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Okay? I am too aware.
- 10:55Speaker 2: That both spiritually and in all areas, there's going to
- 11:01Speaker 2: be another layer. There's a season a man gets to
- 11:06Speaker 2: that the life of the man picks meaning.
- 11:08Speaker 3: Okay?
- 11:09Speaker 2: And that doesn't happen just by a timeline. It also
- 11:12Speaker 2: happens by an atmosphere. There are places you must be
- 11:15Speaker 2: that your life must pick meaning. Are you following what
- 11:17Speaker 2: I'm saying here? sought into the company of prophets that
- 11:20Speaker 2: were prophesying and he also prophesied and there was a
- 11:23Speaker 2: proverb to that that is sought also amongst the prophets
- 11:26Speaker 2: that's an atmosphere are you following what I'm saying here
- 11:29Speaker 2: there's an atmosphere here and there's something God is doing
- 11:32Speaker 2: I am too aware.
- 11:35Speaker 3: You can't take that from me okay.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I was speaking to one of my sons yesterday and
- 11:44Speaker 2: I said it's like people are carried away okay Because
- 11:48Speaker 2: the vision for this city, between now and next year,
- 11:50Speaker 2: is four branches.
- 11:52Speaker 3: So it's not, that's the vision.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Okay?
- 11:57Speaker 3: And God is going to use you mightily. So, yeah.
- 12:00Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 12:02Speaker 2: But I sense to tell you that you are in
- 12:04Speaker 2: that phase where your life enters meaning. It is well defined.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Lift your hands
- 12:13Speaker 2: and give God praise. Lift your hands and give Him praise.
- 12:18Speaker 2: So take it, take it, take what belongs to you
- 12:21Speaker 2: before the entire city start running down.
- 12:22Speaker 3: Take it now. Is that clear? Is that clear?
- 12:26Speaker 2: Because that the city will run down is a settled man.
- 12:29Speaker 2: It's nothing you can do to stop that.
- 12:32Speaker 3: You can't help it. Except we didn't start. Do you
- 12:37Speaker 3: understand what I'm saying here?
- 12:39Speaker 2: Okay.
- 12:40Speaker 3: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Okay.
- 12:44Speaker 3: So there's somebody here. God is changing the order.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Yeah, so you were going in a direction and then
- 12:49Speaker 2: he's been whispering it and saying it's the opposite. Yeah,
- 12:54Speaker 2: I don't know who you are, but pay attention to that.
- 12:57Speaker 2: And one of the ways you would, because it's dangerous
- 12:58Speaker 2: to receive a word that is not yours. One of
- 13:01Speaker 2: the ways you know that a word is yours, okay,
- 13:04Speaker 2: is that it will always be a confirmation. The Holy
- 13:07Speaker 2: Ghost will be the first speaker. It will come secondly
- 13:10Speaker 2: through word of knowledge or word of wisdom. Are you
- 13:12Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? Good. Good. So pay attention
- 13:15Speaker 2: to the one the Holy Ghost said and confirm it
- 13:17Speaker 2: in your spirit.
- 13:19Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Now I believe that what I want to teach you
- 13:22Speaker 2: briefly this morning is one of the most important teachings
- 13:25Speaker 2: I've ever made. Something very, very important. Every of my
- 13:32Speaker 2: teaching is very important. And like I told someone that.
- 13:39Speaker 3: I'm not trying what works. I know specifically my assignment.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Okay? Okay? So I pay attention to the preparatory operation
- 13:49Speaker 2: of every message. Because I know a generation is feeding
- 13:53Speaker 2: from them. Are you following what.
- 13:56Speaker 3: I'm saying here?
- 13:57Speaker 2: 1 Samuel 17 verse 34. There's something you have to
- 14:01Speaker 2: do in life and you have to do it early.
- 14:04Speaker 2: And I'm about to teach you that this morning. 1
- 14:07Speaker 2: Samuel 17. If you can project scriptures that appreciate it.
- 14:10Speaker 3: 1734.
- 14:13Speaker 2: And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
- 14:18Speaker 2: and there came a lion and a bear, and took
- 14:21Speaker 2: a lamb out of the flock.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Now, please listen attentively.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Most times when you see shepherds who keep sheep, they
- 14:31Speaker 2: are nomadic in nature.
- 14:32Speaker 3: You know what that means?
- 14:33Speaker 2: So as much as they do that, lead their animals,
- 14:36Speaker 2: their cattle to different territories to feed.
- 14:40Speaker 3: They have specific places that they lead them to.
- 14:44Speaker 2: And sometimes, one of the things that happens is that
- 14:48Speaker 2: there are also wild animals that terrifies the atmosphere.
- 14:53Speaker 3: Or that terrorize the environment. So, it didn't seem to.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Me that the lion and the bear were new guys
- 15:00Speaker 2: around that field. Are you following what I'm saying here? Now,
- 15:03Speaker 2: as at this time, when David was speaking, he was 17.
- 15:06Speaker 2: In 1 Samuel 16, when he was anointed, he was 12. Okay? So,
- 15:11Speaker 2: we believe, theologically speaking, that the whole event began to
- 15:15Speaker 2: unravel between 12 and 17. But remember, when Samuel came
- 15:20Speaker 2: to his house at 12, David was in the field keeping.
- 15:24Speaker 2: He had early commencement. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 15:27Speaker 2: He had early commencement, but he said a lion came
- 15:29Speaker 2: and a bear. So I want to assume that these
- 15:34Speaker 2: wild creatures were already used to killing from the sheep.
- 15:38Speaker 3: Maybe not from Jesse. Maybe from other guys. Okay? They've
- 15:44Speaker 3: been used to coming, they.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Steal after a lion is a lion, and then all
- 15:48Speaker 2: the farmers run and steal and go. But this day,
- 15:51Speaker 2: they met a wrong person. They met a strange guy.
- 15:54Speaker 2: The one who will say, I'd rather die. Are you
- 15:57Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? If you are keeping sheep,
- 15:59Speaker 2: a lion comes to the sheep. Are you following what
- 16:02Speaker 2: I'm saying here? And the lion goes after your sheep
- 16:04Speaker 2: and didn't touch you. You will share testimony in church.
- 16:08Speaker 2: That you won't believe I will skip. Do you understand
- 16:10Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? But that's not the mindset of David.
- 16:14Speaker 2: The mindset of David is, my testimony is not complete
- 16:16Speaker 2: because I'm preserved. All that God has placed under me
- 16:19Speaker 2: must be preserved. That's a dangerous one. Okay? So this
- 16:25Speaker 2: day the lion came and he was surprised to be
- 16:27Speaker 2: met by a teenager who wouldn't let go. He said,
- 16:30Speaker 2: I went after it and took it. And when the
- 16:34Speaker 2: lion rose against me, I caught it by the beard
- 16:36Speaker 2: and smote it.
- 16:37Speaker 3: So it was like he went and said, give me
- 16:38Speaker 3: my thing.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Nonsense. Nonsense.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Then the lion charged at him and said me.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Me.
- 16:45Speaker 3: You are finished.
- 16:46Speaker 2: He said I caught.
- 16:48Speaker 3: How do you catch a lion by the beard?
- 16:53Speaker 2: Okay. So I caught it by the beard and I
- 16:55Speaker 2: killed it. The same thing a bear. Sometimes lions can
- 17:00Speaker 2: weigh up to 250 kg. Okay. If you lift 250
- 17:05Speaker 2: kg they will have to help your spine. Do you
- 17:09Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying here? You may not go back
- 17:11Speaker 2: home the same way So if something like that should
- 17:14Speaker 2: fall on you, that's something. Are you following what I'm
- 17:19Speaker 2: saying here? And sometimes they can be nine feet tall
- 17:21Speaker 2: and long. They are majestic in nature. Please follow what
- 17:25Speaker 2: I'm saying here. There are lions and bears that others
- 17:29Speaker 2: have allowed to exist. Your generation must stop it. That's
- 17:34Speaker 2: where I'm going this morning. Are you following what I'm
- 17:37Speaker 2: saying here? There are lions and bears that others have
- 17:39Speaker 2: allowed to exist. Your generation must what? Stop it. So,
- 17:43Speaker 2: what I want to teach you this morning is kill
- 17:45Speaker 2: that lion on time. Kill the lion on time. 1
- 17:50Speaker 2: Peter chapter number 5 verse 8. 1 Peter chapter number
- 17:54Speaker 2: 5 verse 8.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Alright?
- 17:56Speaker 2: Give us that scripture and I'd like you to listen attentively.
- 17:59Speaker 2: 1 Peter 5 verse 8.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Now look at it. It said, be sober, be vigilant.
- 18:04Speaker 3: Because what? Your adversary, the devil... Now, please listen. Listen.
- 18:16Speaker 2: That sheep, let me dwell a bit about church, okay?
- 18:19Speaker 2: That sheep that David helped, the sheep life was preserved
- 18:23Speaker 2: because of the shepherd, not the strength of the sheep.
- 18:26Speaker 2: Listen to what I'm saying here. Now, the devil understands this.
- 18:29Speaker 2: What I want to say is a very important statement
- 18:31Speaker 2: that will help you. Okay?
- 18:33Speaker 3: Okay?
- 18:34Speaker 2: The devil understands that there are battles you can never
- 18:37Speaker 2: win yourself. Not because Jesus didn't die for you too.
- 18:40Speaker 2: But because it takes some level of spiritual stamina to
- 18:43Speaker 2: overcome certain obstacles. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 18:46Speaker 2: But he also knows that the fact that you can't
- 18:48Speaker 2: win it yourself is also a sign. That you are
- 18:51Speaker 2: not spiritually intelligent enough to discern those that God has
- 18:54Speaker 2: placed ahead of you. That can help you conquer those
- 18:56Speaker 2: things by sometimes a declaration. So listen to what I'm
- 19:00Speaker 2: saying here. Sometimes the things that cause offense in church...
- 19:03Speaker 2: Is the devil arrogating a sheep against the shepherd so
- 19:06Speaker 2: the lion can take the life of the sheep? Are
- 19:09Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying here? Now, while I was
- 19:11Speaker 2: coming this morning, I just saw an article and I began.
- 19:13Speaker 3: To read the article. And it was a very serious article.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Okay? A man was on his deathbed in the hospital.
- 19:22Speaker 2: I don't know if this is true, but I mean,
- 19:23Speaker 2: it looks like the fellow who wrote it is true
- 19:25Speaker 2: because of what she wrote at the end. The husband
- 19:31Speaker 2: and the wife had disagreement and they've been divorced. They
- 19:34Speaker 2: separated for some couple of years. I think about five years.
- 19:39Speaker 2: And finally, the woman received a call. Your husband is
- 19:41Speaker 2: in the hospital. And she got there. They began to
- 19:44Speaker 2: apologize to each other. Sorry for the wrong, the things
- 19:47Speaker 2: we have done. We can start afresh. she was crying
- 19:50Speaker 2: the guy was crying said let me go home and
- 19:53Speaker 2: cook for you she was excited I've not been able
- 19:55Speaker 2: to cook for him in five years I can do
- 19:56Speaker 2: that now she went home to cook she was still
- 20:00Speaker 2: making the food they called her the guy is dead
- 20:03Speaker 2: okay she went back to the hospital she was I
- 20:05Speaker 2: mean just when you think you have him back they
- 20:08Speaker 2: said the guy is dead So now the responsibility to
- 20:11Speaker 2: move the body from the mortuary and all that for
- 20:13Speaker 2: burial was on her. So she received the key of
- 20:17Speaker 2: the house, the key of the car, that she had
- 20:19Speaker 2: not entered in five years. She went to the house
- 20:21Speaker 2: and found that the family had been sending concussion, that
- 20:25Speaker 2: he was drinking, that damaged the kidney, which was what
- 20:29Speaker 2: killed him. Now the woman was crying because her presence
- 20:34Speaker 2: in his life, she was scrutinizing everything he drank. Okay? So,
- 20:43Speaker 2: sometimes the devil intentionally wants to do something. He wants
- 20:46Speaker 2: to create a spacing between you and the brilliant men.
- 20:52Speaker 2: If you don't accept that, one of the things you
- 20:54Speaker 2: have just signed up for is that you have signed
- 20:56Speaker 2: up for a system to show you your level of strength.
- 21:01Speaker 3: Pride is real. Arrogance is true. Okay? Once it is
- 21:06Speaker 3: settled in your heart, the one who sees all sees it.
- 21:08Speaker 2: He's going to always humble the proud.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Okay?
- 21:11Speaker 2: Okay? So what he's going to do is that once
- 21:13Speaker 2: he sees it, that you believe it's me, forget it,
- 21:16Speaker 2: it's okay. You have qualified for an exam you should
- 21:19Speaker 2: not have written. And the end of that exam is
- 21:21Speaker 2: like Nebuchadnezzar, when it occurs to you that this is
- 21:25Speaker 2: my limitation. And that's why many young ministers die young,
- 21:29Speaker 2: because they rate themselves based on the size and the
- 21:32Speaker 2: color of ministry. Are you following what I'm teaching you
- 21:36Speaker 2: this morning? This is very important. Pay attention to that.
- 21:40Speaker 2: So the sheep, the testimony of the sheep is the
- 21:43Speaker 2: blessing of a shepherd. That's the testimony of a sheep.
- 21:47Speaker 2: To be blessed with a shepherd. The one who will
- 21:50Speaker 2: not let go. Are you following.
- 21:52Speaker 3: What I'm saying here?
- 21:53Speaker 2: If you have shepherds that can wait on God on
- 21:55Speaker 2: your behalf in the place of prayer and fasting, then
- 21:57Speaker 2: you are blessed. And I appeal to any man of
- 22:01Speaker 2: God that finds this message to listen to. It is
- 22:04Speaker 2: not a good track record if you have the record
- 22:06Speaker 2: of sheep dying under your watch. You are not God.
- 22:09Speaker 3: You are not God.
- 22:09Speaker 2: But you must do your part in prayer. Is that
- 22:12Speaker 2: okay now? Do you understand what I'm saying? Now, let
- 22:15Speaker 2: me go to where I'm going very importantly. Say it again,
- 22:19Speaker 2: your adversary. Can you give me this scripture in amplified translation?
- 22:24Speaker 2: The word adversary, there is a very detailed word. Your adversary,
- 22:28Speaker 2: the devil.
- 22:29Speaker 3: The devil is not your friend. He's a fool.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about.
- 22:37Speaker 2: This is a serious one. Be well balanced, temperate, and
- 22:43Speaker 2: sober of mind. Vigilant and cautious at all times. That is,
- 22:48Speaker 2: you don't really have the time to throw away caution.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? One time I
- 22:56Speaker 2: enrolled in a boxing school and the way I dropped
- 22:58Speaker 2: out of the boxing school was that Some of us
- 23:01Speaker 2: felt that we have learned certain things at some point.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Then they brought one of our seniors to come and spar.
- 23:08Speaker 2: There's something called sparring. And the person they brought to
- 23:12Speaker 2: spar with me was a girl. I was excited, but
- 23:16Speaker 2: you don't touch a woman. But at the same time,
- 23:19Speaker 2: I felt this one is in trouble. Even if I
- 23:22Speaker 2: will not damage you, but I will try to do
- 23:24Speaker 2: something that you won't go well. So I just concluded
- 23:28Speaker 2: that this is a girl. The mistake I made was
- 23:31Speaker 2: I didn't ask, what kind of girl? Do you understand
- 23:35Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? The girl stood, was just looking.
- 23:37Speaker 2: I was doing jumbo, jumbo. When she faced me for
- 23:41Speaker 2: like two minutes, they had to deliver me from her.
- 23:46Speaker 2: The experience I had that day, I said, I'm done.
- 23:49Speaker 2: If this is boxing, if a girl will do this
- 23:52Speaker 2: to me, a guy, I will be finished. That's how
- 23:56Speaker 2: I dropped out. Okay? Okay? So listen, when you are
- 24:00Speaker 2: in a fight, you don't have time to throw away caution.
- 24:06Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if you are in a
- 24:07Speaker 2: boxing ring, your hands must never go down. Because the
- 24:13Speaker 2: most important part your opponent's target is your head. Any
- 24:19Speaker 2: other punches at any other part of the body is
- 24:21Speaker 2: to the degree that the head will be exposed. If
- 24:24Speaker 2: you are going to secure a knockout, you want to
- 24:27Speaker 2: knock out the head somebody say the head come on
- 24:31Speaker 2: say it again say the head okay so the devil
- 24:33Speaker 2: wants to knock you out of a fight he wants
- 24:37Speaker 2: to knock you out and when you knock a man
- 24:40Speaker 2: out you knock him out of consciousness do you understand
- 24:44Speaker 2: what i'm saying here so be guarding always you have
- 24:51Speaker 2: no time to lower the guard there's an adversary the
- 24:55Speaker 2: same way boxers are in boxing ring you are in
- 24:59Speaker 2: a ring with an enemy that wants to give you
- 25:01Speaker 2: a knockout punch. In fact, he does not just want to,
- 25:04Speaker 2: he wants to knock you out in a way that
- 25:06Speaker 2: you will never fight again. Are you following what I'm
- 25:10Speaker 2: saying here? And that's why if you study sometimes and
- 25:13Speaker 2: thank God for the provision of mercy. Because what the
- 25:17Speaker 2: devil does to life many times is powerful enough to ensure.
- 25:21Speaker 2: You look at the damage he wants to inflict when
- 25:23Speaker 2: you make the tiniest mistake. He wants to make sure
- 25:25Speaker 2: that even when you repent, the sky is so big
- 25:27Speaker 2: you will never be able to come back. Are you
- 25:31Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? There's a very important thing
- 25:34Speaker 2: you must learn this morning. Say it loud and clear.
- 25:37Speaker 2: I am aware that the devil wants to knock me out.
- 25:42Speaker 3: Say it again now.
- 25:44Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. So what that means is that those temptations
- 25:48Speaker 2: are not just sweet feelings. They're a knockout attempt. Temptations
- 25:53Speaker 2: are not just, oh, he's trying. They are attempts on
- 25:56Speaker 2: your life to knock you out. You must call it
- 25:59Speaker 2: what it is. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 26:03Speaker 2: You must call it what it is. Now, we read
- 26:05Speaker 2: this story in Genesis 34 from verse 1. That one day, Diana,
- 26:09Speaker 2: the daughter of Leah that she brought to Jacob, went
- 26:11Speaker 2: out to see Wu, the daughters of the land, and Shechem.
- 26:15Speaker 3: The son of Haman, the Yivite saw her. He took her.
- 26:18Speaker 3: He lay with her and he did what? Defiled her. Okay?
- 26:21Speaker 2: It was just once he went out. But it was
- 26:24Speaker 2: enough for her to be knocked out. You can't lose God.
- 26:30Speaker 2: And there are on many fronts. Sometimes around your blessing.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Here?
- 26:38Speaker 2: A servant girl told a master called Naaman that there's
- 26:42Speaker 2: a voice in Israel.
- 26:43Speaker 3: It can cure your leprosy. Alright, leprosy is highly contagious.
- 26:49Speaker 2: The reason they separate lepers behind the city wall is
- 26:51Speaker 2: that you don't even want to breathe their head, they breathe.
- 26:53Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 26:55Speaker 2: It is highly contagious and it has marks that are distinct.
- 26:58Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? So, the man
- 27:02Speaker 2: was a captain but also a leper. A captain who
- 27:05Speaker 2: can't live with a fellow soldier. That's a very serious one.
- 27:09Speaker 2: The little servant girl must have been condemned to him
- 27:12Speaker 2: because she's a servant. And she said, there's a man
- 27:16Speaker 2: in Israel. The man would not even come out. And
- 27:20Speaker 2: prophets can sense despise. And sometimes prophet acts to show
- 27:24Speaker 2: that this is God. Just get out. But the other
- 27:28Speaker 2: guy who was serving there, lowered his guard and he said,
- 27:31Speaker 2: my master said I should collect everything. And he inherited
- 27:33Speaker 2: leprosy for life. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 27:37Speaker 2: There's no scriptural record that mercy caught up someday, but
- 27:39Speaker 2: it must have through the blood of Jesus. Even though
- 27:42Speaker 2: we can almost say that any leper you see, trace
- 27:44Speaker 2: them to that family. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 27:48Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, you don't have room to lower your guard.
- 27:52Speaker 2: There's an adversary that wants to knock you out. The
- 27:56Speaker 2: devil hates seeing you in the race. And he wants
- 28:00Speaker 2: you out. Now, see, listen, you don't understand what I'm saying.
- 28:04Speaker 2: I said the devil hates seeing you in the race.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Let me tell you why I'm saying that. I think
- 28:09Speaker 2: I was teaching the men at men's corner, and we
- 28:12Speaker 2: have started. So I told you guys, the men, while
- 28:15Speaker 2: I was teaching them, That one of the wrong statements
- 28:18Speaker 2: to say is the question, why me as a man?
- 28:22Speaker 2: When bad things happen, when the devil comes after your life,
- 28:24Speaker 2: you don't ask, why me? Why me is another expo,
- 28:27Speaker 2: I'm sorry, to him that you don't even.
- 28:29Speaker 3: Know who you are.
- 28:31Speaker 2: If the devil is attacking you and you ask the question,
- 28:33Speaker 2: why me? You have given him more information that you
- 28:35Speaker 2: are ignorant. If you are the devil and you know
- 28:39Speaker 2: what your future is, will you not attack you?
- 28:43Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 28:44Speaker 2: And the reason why many of you don't understand it
- 28:46Speaker 2: is because, listen to what I'm saying here, you do
- 28:50Speaker 2: not know the size and the magnitude of what God
- 28:53Speaker 2: wants to do with your life. These things don't come
- 28:55Speaker 2: as full pictures. They are gradually revealed as you obey
- 28:59Speaker 2: and follow. Are you following what I'm saying here? So
- 29:02Speaker 2: the devil is coming after you with a very strong magnitude.
- 29:05Speaker 3: You are just asking why me?
- 29:07Speaker 2: Instead of you letting it, you should have made it
- 29:09Speaker 2: clear in your heart that for the devil to come
- 29:11Speaker 2: like this, then there's something about me I may not
- 29:13Speaker 2: know yet. Exactly now. For the devil to be coming,
- 29:20Speaker 2: the way is coming. The temptations you have escaped, the cry,
- 29:23Speaker 2: the tears. What is he after? Because he's definitely after
- 29:27Speaker 2: your pleasure. There's something he's coming for. When lions pursue,
- 29:34Speaker 2: they pursue for a catch. Are you following what I'm
- 29:38Speaker 2: saying here? Lions don't just run.
- 29:41Speaker 4: Alright?
- 29:42Speaker 2: The Bible says that they turn not aside from any
- 29:44Speaker 2: other creature. Are you following what I'm saying here? So,
- 29:49Speaker 2: put your hands on your chest. There's something the devil
- 29:51Speaker 2: has seen in me. And he's after it. And I
- 29:56Speaker 2: will know it also.
- 29:58Speaker 3: Okay?
- 29:59Speaker 2: So, if you listen, let me share this story with you.
- 30:02Speaker 2: One time I went to a place in Lagos called Obalen,
- 30:05Speaker 2: the years back. So, I was on a boat.
- 30:10Speaker 3: I saw some four boys were trying to rob a girl.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Okay? I had to shout, thief, thief. But I didn't
- 30:15Speaker 2: know they don't talk like that in Lagos. I'm more
- 30:18Speaker 2: kind of certain you want to rob someone who can't
- 30:19Speaker 2: help the person too. So, they marked me. One did
- 30:24Speaker 2: like this. They marked me. So, which was close to
- 30:28Speaker 2: the bus stop. So as I, the bus dropped us.
- 30:31Speaker 2: I was back in a school bag. So the boy
- 30:33Speaker 2: began to follow me. So I knew that this boy
- 30:39Speaker 2: was after me.
- 30:40Speaker 3: Okay.
- 30:41Speaker 2: And the training I received in Kano, this non-ministry training now,
- 30:45Speaker 2: I received one training that there's something about this hand
- 30:49Speaker 2: I don't miss.
- 30:50Speaker 3: Just give me a stone.
- 30:52Speaker 2: I don't miss. So I said, this one is not
- 30:54Speaker 2: the one who do totally ghost fire. I picked a stone.
- 30:58Speaker 2: I showed him. I was great. He kept following me.
- 31:03Speaker 2: I picked another stone. I showed him. They will carry
- 31:07Speaker 2: you from here. And I won't miss. If you have
- 31:13Speaker 2: seen me try one or two, you know I won't miss.
- 31:17Speaker 3: He kept following. So I was moving my back. My back.
- 31:23Speaker 2: Okay? Now, I could have that and he went back.
- 31:28Speaker 2: He turned back because this one said he's crazy. When
- 31:33Speaker 2: you discover that a thief is coming but this kind
- 31:37Speaker 2: of thief is a thief that has been disarmed on
- 31:39Speaker 2: the cross. All you have to do is to be vigilant. Listen,
- 31:46Speaker 2: this one is not the one that will rob you
- 31:48Speaker 2: if you are vigilant. So he said be sober and
- 31:51Speaker 2: be what? This one can't rob if you are vigilant.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying here? Is that a
- 31:59Speaker 2: very clear example? The devil can only rob while men slept.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Not when they are vigilant. So the word be vigilant
- 32:09Speaker 2: is a very very strong word. This kind of thief
- 32:12Speaker 2: does not have gun. One time like that we were
- 32:15Speaker 2: on campus.
- 32:17Speaker 3: I had left.
- 32:19Speaker 2: The boys came to gather money in my hostel and
- 32:22Speaker 2: they said you have to leave.
- 32:24Speaker 3: That um.
- 32:27Speaker 2: That I understand we are friends, but the girls they
- 32:29Speaker 2: want to bring to the hostel are saying they can't
- 32:31Speaker 2: come because pastor is there. They say, pastor, you are
- 32:34Speaker 2: spoiling our business. So, they contributed money and said, we
- 32:40Speaker 2: are going to get another house for you. Well, let's
- 32:42Speaker 2: keep this friendship from afar. So, I said, keep your money,
- 32:46Speaker 2: but I'm going to go. So, after I left, thieves
- 32:48Speaker 2: came to the hostel. And they opened every door and
- 32:52Speaker 2: collected their phone. But there was a young man He's
- 32:56Speaker 2: being stubborn and we have warned him. That this stubbornness
- 32:59Speaker 2: may kill you. But he doesn't listen.
- 33:02Speaker 3: Okay.
- 33:03Speaker 2: So when the thief were knocking his own door. He
- 33:06Speaker 2: told them categorically. He said you can kill me. But
- 33:10Speaker 2: the first one amongst you that enter this room will
- 33:12Speaker 2: be dead. Are you following what I'm saying? The guys
- 33:16Speaker 2: thought it was a joke. So they entered. They pushed
- 33:21Speaker 2: the door open and entered. He was behind the other side.
- 33:26Speaker 3: You know those.
- 33:26Speaker 2: Stunning sticks that are around? Alright? He planked the boy.
- 33:33Speaker 2: The rest entered. They overpowered him. They beat him. He
- 33:38Speaker 2: held them. That the only way out is for me
- 33:41Speaker 2: to die. Are you following what I'm saying here? That's stubborn.
- 33:46Speaker 2: Don't try that at home. He said that's the only
- 33:50Speaker 2: way out. You must kill me. But that you will
- 33:53Speaker 2: pick anything from here. So the thief moved from trying
- 33:56Speaker 2: to thief now to the need for escape for their lives.
- 34:00Speaker 2: And as he was doing that, those local vigilantes were
- 34:03Speaker 2: already blowing whistle and they were coming. It was when
- 34:06Speaker 2: they came that the arrest discovered that what the thieves
- 34:10Speaker 2: were holding was not a gun, it was a plank.
- 34:12Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Meaning that if
- 34:16Speaker 2: everyone had come and taken their stand, they would have
- 34:19Speaker 2: disarmed these thieves. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 34:23Speaker 2: At first, the guy looked like he was stupid. Well,
- 34:25Speaker 2: it was stupidity because of the day they would be
- 34:28Speaker 2: holding something more. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 34:31Speaker 2: But at that point, the rest were the ones that
- 34:33Speaker 2: were stupid. Because they did not understand that these are
- 34:36Speaker 2: thieves that will sit down and eat bread and soup.
- 34:38Speaker 3: Is that one a thief?
- 34:41Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is that the devil's best time
- 34:43Speaker 2: to steal is when you are asleep. What that means
- 34:49Speaker 2: is that your vigilance counts for something. Do you understand
- 34:53Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? Alright? That I have discerned that
- 34:55Speaker 2: the devil is after this and I try to put
- 34:57Speaker 2: a watch in prayer. He's not going to be able
- 34:59Speaker 2: to do it. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 35:04Speaker 2: He's not going to be able to do it. Now,
- 35:06Speaker 2: one time came.
- 35:09Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, Genesis 49.
- 35:12Speaker 2: Alright? Jacob, don't worry, let me just quote. Jacob gathered
- 35:15Speaker 2: his sons. He said, gather your seven sons of Jacob
- 35:17Speaker 2: that I may tell you what will befall you in
- 35:19Speaker 2: the last days. Okay? The first person he mentioned was Reuben.
- 35:24Speaker 2: And he said, Reuben, you are my firstborn. Give me
- 35:26Speaker 2: that scripture. My might, the beginning, that's the first fruit
- 35:30Speaker 2: of my manly strength and vigor.
- 35:33Speaker 3: Now give it in King James.
- 35:35Speaker 2: Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning
- 35:37Speaker 2: of my strength. The excellency of dignity and the excellency
- 35:41Speaker 2: of power. But what did he say next? Unstable as water.
- 35:47Speaker 2: So the instability was the entrance. But you will not excel.
- 35:52Speaker 2: thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to thy
- 35:55Speaker 2: father's bed. So the day the temptation came to enter
- 35:58Speaker 2: into his father's bed, the temptation was not just for
- 36:01Speaker 2: him to sin against God, it is to collect his bedright.
- 36:07Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is that what the devil is
- 36:09Speaker 2: after is always beyond the immediate. The problem you have
- 36:13Speaker 2: is that the devil you know was a picture in
- 36:15Speaker 2: Hollywood painted. The devil you know is the one on costumes. Black.
- 36:24Speaker 3: Okay? The one who does.
- 36:29Speaker 2: One time, I told you we pranked a friend. I
- 36:32Speaker 2: used to do some very funny things, but I've repented.
- 36:35Speaker 2: We called him and pranked him around 11.50 something p.m.
- 36:41Speaker 3: And it was my friend. I think I was the
- 36:44Speaker 3: one doing....
- 36:48Speaker 2: And that my friend was saying, If you don't know
- 36:58Speaker 2: what that means, thank God for your life. You don't
- 37:00Speaker 2: need many desertifications. But what we didn't realize was that
- 37:04Speaker 2: it was the father who peaked. And they gone somewhere
- 37:08Speaker 2: to pray and they told them they wanted to kill
- 37:10Speaker 2: the boy. Are you following what I'm saying here? Once
- 37:16Speaker 2: the call dropped, he didn't show up at work and
- 37:18Speaker 2: all that. We didn't know they had entered into marathon fasting.
- 37:21Speaker 2: But it was just a joke. Attack is the best
- 37:24Speaker 2: form of defense. Okay? The problem is that the devil
- 37:28Speaker 2: they know is the one Nolly Wood painted. You don't
- 37:32Speaker 2: know the devil on suit and high heels. The system
- 37:38Speaker 2: of the devil is more sophisticated than your country. And
- 37:42Speaker 2: its structure is better than many of your bank's. He's
- 37:47Speaker 2: maintained this structure for years, thousands of years. Never for
- 37:52Speaker 2: once have you heard that the rebellion he caused in heaven,
- 37:56Speaker 2: there was one against him in the pit of hell.
- 38:00Speaker 2: We are not questioning if the devil is a better
- 38:02Speaker 2: manager than God. But there's something he knows that he
- 38:06Speaker 2: can put different vicious and terrible demons together. And they
- 38:11Speaker 2: will do his bidding without rebelling against him. You can't
- 38:13Speaker 2: manage good people. He can manage the most. Do you
- 38:16Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying?
- 38:19Speaker 2: Am I going too deep? You don't know the devil
- 38:24Speaker 2: who is systemic. You don't know the devil who is skillful.
- 38:29Speaker 2: You don't know the devil who is intelligent and smart.
- 38:34Speaker 2: You don't know the devil who operates with a sense
- 38:36Speaker 2: of timing. You don't know the devil who is very
- 38:39Speaker 2: handsome and beautiful. Do you understand what I'm saying? You
- 38:43Speaker 2: don't know the devil that is attractive. Some people have
- 38:50Speaker 2: said they have an encounter with the devil. If I
- 38:51Speaker 2: see him, that's not an encounter. It's massacre.
- 38:56Speaker 3: Okay?
- 38:58Speaker 2: And that's not a joke. Because he's been disarmed. I'm
- 39:04Speaker 2: not sure I've seen where they have beaten a thief before.
- 39:08Speaker 3: Have you seen one?
- 39:10Speaker 2: In fact, if they catch one with the kind of
- 39:12Speaker 2: anger That is in Nigeria now. People put their frustration.
- 39:18Speaker 2: And once they catch you as a thief. And they
- 39:21Speaker 2: start beating you. You have no justification. And you can't
- 39:25Speaker 2: tell where these laughs will be coming from. Because this
- 39:27Speaker 2: thief is only powerful when there's a gun. The same
- 39:32Speaker 2: thief will be begging when there's no gun. And the
- 39:36Speaker 2: Bible said Jesus spoiled principalities and what? Powers.
- 39:39Speaker 3: He made public display of them. Said we have the victory.
- 39:44Speaker 3: Come on, say it again. We have the victory. Say
- 39:47Speaker 3: it again. We have the victory. Yeah.
- 39:49Speaker 2: Now, what I'm trying to trace and show you is
- 39:52Speaker 2: that what the devil is doing is specific.
- 39:55Speaker 3: You must understand.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Listen, I showed you that in boxing, okay, once a
- 40:02Speaker 2: fight is going on, both the hooks, the jabs, and
- 40:05Speaker 2: all that, they are to the end that the head
- 40:08Speaker 2: is exposed. You might have several temptations, but the devil
- 40:12Speaker 2: is after one thing. And sometimes he wants to use
- 40:17Speaker 2: many things to get that one thing. If I can't
- 40:21Speaker 2: get that one thing through lust, I will get it
- 40:22Speaker 2: through what? Hatred. Through offense.
- 40:25Speaker 3: Through bitterness.
- 40:27Speaker 2: One thing.
- 40:29Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying? Let me ask you.
- 40:31Speaker 2: What is the most important thing that the devil is after? So,
- 40:36Speaker 2: it was when Reuben came. Please give me that scripture.
- 40:40Speaker 2: And Reuben stood in front of the father that he
- 40:44Speaker 2: discovered that the urge to sleep with his father's wife
- 40:50Speaker 2: That urge was not an innocent urge. That urge was
- 40:54Speaker 2: to the end that the birthright would not go to Reuben.
- 40:56Speaker 2: This day every father will go back to their children
- 41:01Speaker 2: and say this is our own blessing. It was Joseph
- 41:05Speaker 2: amongst them that was not a tribe. He became two tribes.
- 41:11Speaker 3: Okay?
- 41:13Speaker 2: So Judah will go back and say this is our
- 41:16Speaker 2: own reality. Nephtali will go back. Reuben will go back home.
- 41:21Speaker 2: But the day the father spoke that word was not
- 41:23Speaker 2: the day the devil stole it. That was the day
- 41:26Speaker 2: it became obvious what the devil stole it. When this
- 41:29Speaker 2: conversation was going on, Joseph was here. I asked you,
- 41:34Speaker 2: this is how I would have been finished the morsel
- 41:37Speaker 2: if I had gotten in with Potiphar's wife.
- 41:41Speaker 3: And this is what I'm saying here.
- 41:42Speaker 2: And I can show you through timeline of scriptures that
- 41:46Speaker 2: the temptation you are experiencing As we study the patterns
- 41:51Speaker 2: in scripture, it is very certain that you are not
- 41:54Speaker 2: the only one experiencing it at the time you are
- 41:55Speaker 2: experiencing it. So when Reuben was nursing the urge for
- 42:00Speaker 2: his father's wife, Potiphar's wife was nursing the urge for
- 42:03Speaker 2: Reuben and for Joseph. Different individuals, the same appetite. And
- 42:11Speaker 2: what the devil wants to steal is the same thing. Okay?
- 42:15Speaker 2: There is something God has designed your life for. And
- 42:18Speaker 2: for anyone to enter into it, there's an exam you
- 42:20Speaker 2: must write. You may be in London, another one is
- 42:24Speaker 2: in Kano. The examiner will come and set the questions
- 42:28Speaker 2: around the same time. Because there's something called rising with
- 42:31Speaker 2: your own generation. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 42:36Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying here? Let me show
- 42:38Speaker 2: you a scripture. 2 Timothy chapter number 2 from verse 20.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Let's start from verse 19 so you can have understanding.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Nevertheless... The foundations. Yeah, quickly.
- 42:46Speaker 2: 2 Timothy 2 verse 19. Let's start from there. Follow
- 42:50Speaker 2: what I'm teaching now. Nevertheless, the foundation of God's standards show,
- 42:53Speaker 2: having this seal, the Lord dwelleth in them that are his.
- 42:55Speaker 2: And let everyone that nameth the name of who? God.
- 42:58Speaker 3: Depart from iniquity. All right? Now verse 20.
- 43:02Speaker 2: Quickly. But in a great house there are not only
- 43:05Speaker 2: vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood
- 43:08Speaker 2: and earth, some to honor and some to dishonor. Yes. Yes.
- 43:12Speaker 2: If a man therefore purge himself from this, he shall
- 43:14Speaker 2: be a vessel to honor. Meaning that to translate or
- 43:17Speaker 2: transit from one level to another, there are certain purgings
- 43:20Speaker 2: you must experience. Okay? When you pass that test, you
- 43:25Speaker 2: now become profitable. In the same generation, many guys will
- 43:30Speaker 2: rise around the same time.
- 43:31Speaker 3: Say we are musicians.
- 43:33Speaker 2: Oh, this one. They are all singing worship. And you
- 43:36Speaker 2: can tell when men are at general level. This is
- 43:38Speaker 2: the general level. There is a level of honor and
- 43:41Speaker 2: recognition that does not come to a general level. Okay?
- 43:45Speaker 2: You will have to press in the place of prayer
- 43:47Speaker 2: and staying with God to have compelling power to now
- 43:50Speaker 2: command the attention of a generation.
- 43:53Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 43:54Speaker 2: Now at that general level, everybody is aspiring to be
- 43:56Speaker 2: this but they will all individually in the corner of
- 43:59Speaker 2: their rooms must pass some exam. That it is those
- 44:03Speaker 2: who purge themselves from this that will now stand out.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Listen to what I'm saying here. This one is not
- 44:08Speaker 2: the case of before you were formed your mother's womb
- 44:10Speaker 2: I knew you. This one is the case of I
- 44:12Speaker 2: have found a man. Do you understand what I'm saying?
- 44:17Speaker 2: I have known you before you were formed. That's general level.
- 44:20Speaker 2: The man that God knew must now pass certain exam
- 44:23Speaker 2: And in doing so, the devil is going to come
- 44:25Speaker 2: like a wounded lion. What I'm saying is defeat him early.
- 44:30Speaker 2: You must disarm the devil of your father's house because
- 44:32Speaker 2: that's your devil. Do you understand what I'm saying here?
- 44:37Speaker 2: You must mark, trace it. What is that thing that
- 44:40Speaker 2: makes valiant men become ordinary here? Listen to what I'm saying.
- 44:45Speaker 2: You can grow up eating it and still be defeated
- 44:47Speaker 2: by it. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because sometimes
- 44:52Speaker 2: the energy you spend hating them for what they did,
- 44:54Speaker 2: you should have spent that energy loving God and praying
- 44:59Speaker 2: against those nonsense.
- 45:02Speaker 3: Okay?
- 45:04Speaker 2: So, there are certain things you must do. I'm trying
- 45:09Speaker 2: to make you understand that no temptation is innocent. While
- 45:15Speaker 2: those things look like basic things and they gratify you,
- 45:18Speaker 2: there is actually something you should have been meant for
- 45:20Speaker 2: that you can no longer do. You may no longer
- 45:22Speaker 2: be able to do it. Listen to what I'm saying.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Because you are a creature set in time. And it
- 45:27Speaker 2: doesn't matter how you later align. Sometimes the time is gone.
- 45:32Speaker 2: So let me explain what I'm saying. Lions have a weakness.
- 45:43Speaker 2: They are very fast. but they can't run for long.
- 45:50Speaker 3: Okay?
- 45:51Speaker 2: Once a lion runs the span of one kilometer, they
- 45:55Speaker 2: are tired. So when a lion, listen to what I'm
- 45:58Speaker 2: showing you. When a lion sets his face or his
- 46:02Speaker 2: eyes on a prey, the lion will pursue. But it
- 46:08Speaker 2: is important that the one the lion is pursuing must
- 46:11Speaker 2: know That if I can have the strength to run
- 46:15Speaker 2: certain distance, he.
- 46:16Speaker 3: Will be tired. Let me explain.
- 46:19Speaker 2: In the book of Luke chapter number 4, we read
- 46:21Speaker 2: that Jesus was led to the wilderness by the Holy Ghost.
- 46:23Speaker 2: And there he fasted 40 days and 40 nights and
- 46:26Speaker 2: he was tempted of the devil. The implication of that
- 46:29Speaker 2: word theologically is that he was tempted every day. But
- 46:33Speaker 2: the devil himself now came. When he finished the fasting
- 46:38Speaker 2: and he was hungry. So it means that the devil
- 46:40Speaker 2: looks for the occasion of a need.
- 46:42Speaker 3: What did I say? What did I say?
- 46:46Speaker 2: It looks for the occasion of... So when Jesus became hungry,
- 46:50Speaker 2: then the devil came himself. And listen, the span of
- 46:54Speaker 2: the devil with Jesus was that he tempted him three times.
- 46:58Speaker 2: If you are the son of God. But you see,
- 47:00Speaker 2: what you don't know about those temptations is that they
- 47:02Speaker 2: are more intelligent than they sound. Look up.
- 47:08Speaker 3: Um.
- 47:11Speaker 2: Many fully intelligent people don't look like it.
- 47:16Speaker 3: Okay? Have you been to a system.
- 47:19Speaker 2: That, you know, if you are a teacher, for instance,
- 47:23Speaker 2: and you are teaching in a class, and you just
- 47:25Speaker 2: want to assume who will be the smartest student here.
- 47:28Speaker 3: You want to look at the best dress and all that. True?
- 47:31Speaker 2: But there can be a very funny looking guy there.
- 47:34Speaker 2: And that guy carries something in that skull that the
- 47:36Speaker 2: rest will have to pursue.
- 47:38Speaker 3: True or not true?
- 47:39Speaker 2: That's the way it is. Sometimes you underrate the intelligence
- 47:42Speaker 2: of the devil. The temptation was not in turning stone
- 47:46Speaker 2: to bread. The temptation is to prove. The temptation is
- 47:50Speaker 2: to call his attention away from what he has into what.
- 47:53Speaker 3: He doesn't have. And that's where many people fail.
- 47:57Speaker 2: You fail at the point where you lose focus from
- 47:59Speaker 2: the things that God has freely given to you to
- 48:02Speaker 2: the little ones you don't have. You can't have everything, sir.
- 48:07Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? It doesn't matter
- 48:10Speaker 2: how much you pray. There are certain things that will
- 48:12Speaker 2: be withheld from you so you can be humble and
- 48:14Speaker 2: keep pursuing God. Are you listening to me? Are you
- 48:20Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? The temptations, because for the, listen,
- 48:25Speaker 2: for Jesus, the devil does not need him to fall
- 48:29Speaker 2: all the time. He needs him to fall once. Adam
- 48:33Speaker 2: didn't eat the fruits 20 times. It was okay that
- 48:35Speaker 2: you disobeyed God once. If you are the second Adam
- 48:38Speaker 2: that should be a life-giving spirit, a prisoner cannot set
- 48:41Speaker 2: another prisoner free. Once you fall into sin, once you
- 48:44Speaker 2: are a sinner, man is eternally doomed. But by the
- 48:48Speaker 2: time the devil was done tempting Jesus, the Bible said
- 48:50Speaker 2: he left him for a season. He left him for
- 48:55Speaker 2: a while.
- 48:56Speaker 3: That pressure that.
- 48:57Speaker 2: Is so strong on you to misbehave, make this mistake,
- 49:00Speaker 2: it is not forever. Do you understand what I'm saying?
- 49:04Speaker 2: If you can understand that sin has gestation period. And
- 49:09Speaker 2: having done all, you stood your ground. Even sometimes you
- 49:13Speaker 2: will cry and your emotions are betraying you. Stand! It
- 49:19Speaker 2: is for a season. it will lift then you are
- 49:22Speaker 2: promoted let me tell you something i have gotten to
- 49:29Speaker 2: certain points in my life and i begin to see
- 49:32Speaker 2: the devil come against my life in certain ways okay
- 49:36Speaker 2: and i will get up in the place of prayer
- 49:38Speaker 2: devil let's make this clear The only way what you
- 49:42Speaker 2: are saying will work is that you would rather kill me.
- 49:46Speaker 2: I'm ready to die. Until you start treating certain things
- 49:51Speaker 2: that way, you'll be in trouble. Don't pity your flesh.
- 49:58Speaker 2: Don't pamper it. See, devil, I'm going to appear before
- 50:03Speaker 2: God as a bride without spot and blemish. Are you
- 50:08Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? And I'm going to have
- 50:10Speaker 2: to say that all that you have given to me,
- 50:12Speaker 2: I have kept. Except for the sons of Paddy. If
- 50:14Speaker 2: you can say that, what am I not to have? Okay?
- 50:18Speaker 2: But you will not. I would rather die. Because there
- 50:23Speaker 2: are certain things. Listen to what I want to say now.
- 50:27Speaker 2: You must mark certain things in your life that the
- 50:29Speaker 2: devil does not need to fall into it twice.
- 50:32Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm.
- 50:35Speaker 2: Saying? Listen, for any other sin, you can fall into
- 50:37Speaker 2: it and rise again. This one. Because it is a
- 50:40Speaker 2: pattern already established before you were born. Once you get
- 50:43Speaker 2: into it, you join a tide of a river stronger
- 50:46Speaker 2: than your consecration.
- 50:50Speaker 5: So it is better that you don't even begin. Do
- 50:53Speaker 5: you understand what I'm saying? You must rise and fight.
- 51:02Speaker 5: So you don't say we are part of that move.
- 51:03Speaker 5: But how come you were stopped? You must get up.
- 51:08Speaker 5: It is a fight for your life. This is the
- 51:13Speaker 5: kind that you lock yourself up.
- 51:17Speaker 2: And say, God, do something about my life. I will
- 51:21Speaker 2: not be a tool of reproach. I know everything is
- 51:24Speaker 2: failing me now. I have cried and cried. Listen, Paul
- 51:28Speaker 2: said he cried and said the affliction was not taken off.
- 51:30Speaker 2: And God said, my grace is sufficient for you. My
- 51:33Speaker 2: strength is made perfect in what?
- 51:35Speaker 3: Weakness.
- 51:36Speaker 2: What I'm trying to tell you is that there are
- 51:37Speaker 2: times it will look like it is not the same you. Okay?
- 51:43Speaker 2: You are wondering, what has changed? That thing is a
- 51:47Speaker 2: cloud of darkness. It has only come for a season.
- 51:50Speaker 2: And it will come with so much pressure, like it
- 51:53Speaker 2: is going to be here forever.
- 51:54Speaker 3: Don't fall.
- 51:54Speaker 2: Don't fall. Don't fall. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 52:04Speaker 2: Descend it. Don't give the devilish. If you shake him,
- 52:08Speaker 2: he will hug you. Once you give, he's going to
- 52:12Speaker 2: try to make your life miserable. I declare that you
- 52:15Speaker 2: won't fail God. I'm not saying that. You won't fail God.
- 52:22Speaker 2: I say again, you won't fail God. In the name
- 52:25Speaker 2: of Jesus. And sometimes in every family, listen. In every
- 52:30Speaker 2: family where you find out that certain children rise, some
- 52:34Speaker 2: of them were able to rise and get into the
- 52:36Speaker 2: things that others didn't get to. The things that stopped others,
- 52:39Speaker 2: it visited them also. But God empowered them to say no.
- 52:43Speaker 2: And they aligned to the empowerment. Do you understand what
- 52:45Speaker 2: I'm saying here? The reason why some will not rise,
- 52:47Speaker 2: that same reason will visit you. No, you understand what
- 52:51Speaker 2: I'm saying? That's not what I'm saying. It will come. Okay?
- 52:54Speaker 2: That is, what is the mistake that is cutting across
- 52:58Speaker 2: everyone striving for the mantle you are striving for? Okay?
- 53:04Speaker 2: What is that thing that is going to cut across
- 53:06Speaker 2: everyone that is striving for the same thing you are
- 53:08Speaker 2: striving for? Every one of them must... Because one person
- 53:12Speaker 2: will receive the crown now. All the women at the race,
- 53:15Speaker 2: but one received the crown. You see, you must have
- 53:17Speaker 2: the mindset of an athlete. And understand that this thing
- 53:23Speaker 2: I'm feeling, it is not just a feeling. This is
- 53:26Speaker 2: the lion. He's after something. Do you understand what I'm
- 53:30Speaker 2: saying here? And in that season, it's going to bring
- 53:34Speaker 2: all the pressure. So, you see, what he wants to
- 53:38Speaker 2: do is that he wants to fill up your time. So,
- 53:41Speaker 2: when he fills up your time. See, the life of
- 53:43Speaker 2: a man sometimes is also in the abundance of what
- 53:46Speaker 2: he does with his time.
- 53:47Speaker 3: You can't really separate the future from your routine. Okay,
- 53:52Speaker 3: grace speaks.
- 53:53Speaker 2: But that grace empowers you to have a kind of
- 53:55Speaker 2: a routine. So the devil is interested because he knows
- 53:59Speaker 2: that what builds a house is coaches of block, layer
- 54:01Speaker 2: upon layer. He wants to stop a building process and
- 54:05Speaker 2: he wants to start building his own. Are you following
- 54:08Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? Alright, because people get to say,
- 54:11Speaker 2: and I said this to you last week, that when
- 54:12Speaker 2: you seek God's help, he will prepare you. When you
- 54:15Speaker 2: seek him late, he will repair you. Because damage will
- 54:17Speaker 2: become a necessity. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 54:22Speaker 2: I don't know if you have discerned. Now listen, sit down.
- 54:26Speaker 2: Let me ask you. I want you to pray, okay?
- 54:29Speaker 2: That's why I'm teaching what I'm teaching. There are many things, mistakes.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Let me give you an instance. If you come from
- 54:37Speaker 2: a place where certain thing is the pattern. It means
- 54:42Speaker 2: this one is on ground. It's a food you must
- 54:46Speaker 2: not eat. Should you decide to taste it, there's a cooler.
- 54:50Speaker 2: you will eat it and leave for your children. But
- 54:54Speaker 2: there are other things that are also mistakes or sin,
- 54:56Speaker 2: but they are not pattern. You will discover that the
- 55:01Speaker 2: effort of the devil to bring you to that one
- 55:03Speaker 2: that is a pattern will be stronger. Okay? See, that's
- 55:08Speaker 2: a level. So this one is even that you are careful.
- 55:11Speaker 2: You are a careful Christian. So he's trying to bring
- 55:14Speaker 2: you to this one that.
- 55:14Speaker 3: Is a pattern. That one is strong.
- 55:17Speaker 2: If he's now trying to start a new pattern with you,
- 55:20Speaker 2: it's a sign you've lived decades of decadence. Do you
- 55:23Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? That is, you came to a
- 55:25Speaker 2: place where they've broken through, but through your life, you
- 55:27Speaker 2: were able to successfully start something. And now your children
- 55:33Speaker 2: will now have to start praying. Do you understand what
- 55:37Speaker 2: I'm saying? I don't want to join a wrong pattern
- 55:39Speaker 2: and I don't want to start one. Because every victory
- 55:46Speaker 2: the devil secures, he wants to make it repetitive. Every
- 55:50Speaker 2: pattern is an indication that he won in an area yesterday.
- 55:54Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying there?
- 55:56Speaker 2: The question is, I don't know if some of you
- 55:58Speaker 2: don't believe you should pray on Sunday morning, but the
- 56:00Speaker 2: devil also operates on Sunday morning, newsflash.
- 56:03Speaker 3: So if I ask you to pray, will you pray?
- 56:06Speaker 2: Okay? These are the prayers I pray inside the bush.
- 56:12Speaker 2: Somewhere I was showing my wife thick forest. I said,
- 56:14Speaker 2: the place we used to pray there, 9 to 5 p.m.,
- 56:17Speaker 2: it's like this. You don't know anything is there, but
- 56:20Speaker 2: once you enter, the inside is plain. So there are
- 56:23Speaker 2: prayers you pray in the wilderness so you can survive
- 56:25Speaker 2: the promised land.
- 56:28Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 56:30Speaker 2: Pray now so that that thing won't climb up with you.
- 56:34Speaker 2: And they will now see. There are mistakes that when
- 56:35Speaker 2: you make, they will say they are all the same. Meanwhile,
- 56:38Speaker 2: that's your first time. Some will even say it's always
- 56:43Speaker 2: been like that. He's always been like that. He's always
- 56:48Speaker 2: been like that. The devil wants to bring you into disrepute.
- 56:52Speaker 2: Can you get up for the next few minutes and
- 56:57Speaker 2: shut the mouth of the lion? Now bring the word.
- 57:00Speaker 2: Will you pray that prayer? Bring the word of the
- 57:02Speaker 2: Lord against him and shut the mouth of the lion.
- 57:06Speaker 3: Will you do so?
- 57:14Speaker 2: Shut the mouth of the lion. Don't give the devil
- 57:19Speaker 2: a space. No, no, no. Don't make room for him.
- 57:23Speaker 2: Don't make room for him. Don't make room for him.
- 57:27Speaker 2: Give no occasion to the devil. Give no occasion to
- 57:33Speaker 2: the devil. Give no occasion to the devil. He's roaming
- 57:38Speaker 2: about like a wounded lion looking for a womb. So
- 57:42Speaker 2: there is no specific target. But anyone who is careless.
- 57:57Speaker 2: Let me give you one more minute. To pray that prayer.
- 58:02Speaker 2: Like your life depends on it. Pray it. Oh Lord
- 58:08Speaker 2: help my vessels. Help my body. I bring it under.
- 58:14Speaker 2: I put it under subjection. Under the power of the
- 58:19Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. That he empowers and strengthens me. By his
- 58:24Speaker 2: spirit in my inner man. To overcome the challenges and
- 58:28Speaker 2: the temptations. That is peculiar to my lineage. Trying to
- 58:34Speaker 2: make me another wasted soldier. I refuse to be a
- 58:38Speaker 2: wasted soldier. I refuse to be an ex-anointed.
- 58:43Speaker 3: An ex-champion.
- 58:45Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. We must insist on victory.
- 58:50Speaker 2: On all sides. Not partial victory. Total victory. You must
- 58:55Speaker 2: insist on victory. On all sides. You must insist on victory.
- 59:00Speaker 2: I refuse to yield my members. In Jesus' mighty name
- 59:04Speaker 2: we are praying. In Jesus' name we are praying. Sit
- 59:07Speaker 2: down for a moment. Let me show you a scripture.
- 59:09Speaker 2: Romans chapter number 8. Alright.
- 59:12Speaker 3: Is it Romans 8 verse 14 now?
- 59:14Speaker 2: Romans 8 verse 14.
- 59:16Speaker 3: Alright. Look at that scripture. Very important scripture.
- 59:19Speaker 2: Alright. Okay. Sorry. Romans 6 verse 16.
- 59:25Speaker 3: Romans 6 verse 16.
- 59:26Speaker 2: Sorry. Sorry.
- 59:28Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. Pray in the Holy Ghost. You must
- 59:30Speaker 3: get used to it.
- 59:32Speaker 2: Okay? Now, look at it. He said, know ye not
- 59:36Speaker 2: that to whom you yield yourselves servants to what? Obey.
- 59:40Speaker 2: A servant ye ha. To whom ye obey. Whether of
- 59:44Speaker 2: sin unto death, of obedience unto righteousness. Now, let me
- 59:47Speaker 2: say this to you that you may not hear a
- 59:49Speaker 2: preacher say. In my journey of ministry, I have encountered
- 59:56Speaker 2: certain poor people. At some point in my life. That
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: it occurred to me. In the place of prayer. That
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: all it takes to say yes.
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: To this pool.
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: Is to have a track record of failing at it before.
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying.
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: Let me explain. So I had to do some research. Alright.
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: On cancer. And one of the things you find out.
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: Is that.
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: Most cancers. are from pre-existing cancers maybe they were treated
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: okay but they found out that there are also some
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: new some carcinogenic cells somewhere else or they protruded they're
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: already spreading are you following what i'm saying here now
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: listen sometimes you have cut off certain things but you
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: didn't cut off the head If you're under the sound
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: of my voice, you have, by mistake, all right, maybe
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: on campus, you are a leader. You've had the track
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: record of making out with somebody under you. You have
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: dealt with it. You have repented.
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: News flash. It's not gone.
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: God has forgiven you. You are a strong person now.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: But the devil has secured victory there before he will
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: come again. Do you understand what I'm saying here? Any
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: area the devil has secured victory before, he marks it
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: as his territory. He's going to come back to check.
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: Will I still find an entrance? So what he does
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: is that if he finds an entrance once, twice, three times,
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: then he's going to make it as his door. That is,
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: so people get to a point where it doesn't matter
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: the prophetic season they want to enter. The devil knows
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: the entrance to their life. He knows that they cannot
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: say no to this temptation. Are you following what I'm saying?
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: It is one level that he's looking for a location.
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: It is on that level that he has found his door.
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: That he can come in and go out anytime. When
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: you are praying, the prayer gets hot. Go. After the prayer,
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: come back.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: Say, do this. Oh, yes, Lord.
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: He has secured victory over their will. Because you people
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: are not looking at me like this thing concerns you,
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: but no problem. Okay, but can I ask you to
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: pray that God will help your will and your emotions?
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: These are areas that devil wants to come in and
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: penetrate our lives. Will you pray it and don't pray
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: it like, okay? You have not finished this race until
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: you are finished. So don't pray these prayers like one
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: who has finished. Help my will and emotions. Help my
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: will and emotions. Help me secure victory. Help my will
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: and emotions. Help my will and emotions. I refuse to
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: joke with them. To make them become a powerful tool
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: in the arsenal of the devil. I yield. I yield.
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: My will and emotions. In Jesus name we pray. Now
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: sit down for a while. Alright. What I'm teaching you
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: here is a warfare topic. Are you following what I'm
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: saying here? So the devil is going to try to
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: get you all over the place. He will search and
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: check for areas that he has previous track record of victory. Okay?
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is that if those temptations have
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: not come back, at some point they will come back.
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: Have you seen... Okay, something happens sometimes in the MMA
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: world that's mixed martial arts. Maybe somebody has dominated a...
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: What's it called now? A weight level.
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: For a while. He has beaten everyone in that weight level. Okay.
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: One of the things they do for their promotion. Is
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: to go and check his fight history. Who is that
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: one fighter. That has beaten this person before. They give
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: that person a contract. Come and do it again. And
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: they go about advertising it.
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: So so and so.
- 1:04:33Speaker 4: Alright.
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: He's the only one who has ever won this guy.
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: They did for that my boy. Israel Adesanya. Brought one
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: guy that has knocked him out cold. When they brought
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: the guy, the guy still did it again. It was
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: the second time the boy found a way out. And
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: that one was by chance. Why are you saying, he
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: has done it before, he will do it again. It's
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: not just God who is trying to do it again.
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: The devil too is trying to do it again. Okay,
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: so as you begin to shift towards the ladder of greatness,
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: then it's going to be bringing them after the order
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: of their importance and the likelihood for them to walk. Okay.
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? It is a fierce
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: battle that is not fair. It is not fair.
- 1:05:16Speaker 3: Sorry, it is not fair. But it is fierce. Okay?
- 1:05:21Speaker 2: So if you are even still falling to these small,
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: small things, you may not even have to get to
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: that level. We will just peg you at that point.
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Are you following
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? You must not drink of the
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: waters that contaminated your fathers. You must find pure streams
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: and drink. don't dig wells that will injure your children.
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: The devil is roaring about like a wounded lamb, looking
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: for womb. So many are even falling for the womb.
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: This one, he has not come for them. He's just checking,
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: who is the careless person around this territory? And here
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: they are saying, I am. Their life, everything indicates carelessness.
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: Everything communicates it.
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: And I will tell you certain things for free. I
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: was able to learn certain lessons early. You don't do
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: certain things. You don't communicate in certain ways. You don't
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: create certain closeness with the opposite sex that you are
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: not married to. The devil is going to come to check,
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: do you really believe in what you heard then? So
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: if you are privileged to be in a place where
- 1:06:30Speaker 2: the word is being taught, you better hear it. Just
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: like a student in class, you are listening, but you
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: will write the exam. I'm not sure this message is
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: for you.
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: Okay? Am I speaking to the right people? You will
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: write the exam.
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: No, you will write the exam. And like every exam,
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: they are not funny. I've written exams before that I
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: was crying. Okay? People believe that once Lazarus comes in,
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: he will trash the whole stuff.
- 1:07:06Speaker 3: But Lazarus himself has been crying.
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: Okay? Have you tried to, I don't know what you studied,
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: but have you tried to cram some names?
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: And when you put it there, you say, drop me.
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: Not today. You understand what I'm saying?
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: There are lecture notes, all right, courses you can't study
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: without cramming.
- 1:07:28Speaker 3: So you close the note and say, this, this, this, this,
- 1:07:30Speaker 3: forget it. You say, let me relax. Say, forget it.
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: Okay? Okay? But the exam is coming, whether you have
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: learnt it or not. And have you seen students who
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: don't prepare until exam time? They may pass, but you
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: don't find any one of them to be excellent.
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: Check now.
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: They will never read. I had a boy, okay, who finished,
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: he studied economics, alright, and he finished with the first class.
- 1:08:08Speaker 3: Now, this boy add a structure.
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: One of the first things he did when he got
- 1:08:16Speaker 2: to campus was to establish good relationship with his lecturers.
- 1:08:22Speaker 2: And as he was doing it, he established with everyone.
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: So he doesn't really go for lectures, but he's always
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: in touch.
- 1:08:29Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: So when he wakes up in the morning, his routine,
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: first thing first, he will play Open Heavens, he will
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: read Open Heavens, There's one Yoruba song. He will play it.
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: He will dance to it like an old man. Then
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: he will get a paint, this small paint bucket. He
- 1:08:48Speaker 2: will make a bar.
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: And drop it there. He will make it and drop
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: it there. He won't cover it. That's his life. Okay?
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: Then he will finish his bath and sit down. Then
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: he will take a portion of their bath and eat.
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: Then he will begin to read. So what happens is
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: that his colleagues who had gone for lecture, every time
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: they had come, he had paid one to always print
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: what they had studied. So he sits with it and reads.
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: That was his lifestyle. And that's how he finished the
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: first class. Sometimes the lecturer will tell him, I'm watching
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: you close. Ah, he will go for another two weeks straight.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: After a while, he comes back. What I'm trying to
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: tell you is that you cannot separate your lack of
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: preparation for what you ultimately become. If you keep failing
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: to prepare, one day you will stay at it and
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: knowing it could have been yours, but it can't be.
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: There's something God is preparing your life for. And listen,
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: it is possible you are not falling to any temptation,
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: but you are still not being prepared.
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: It is the same thing.
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: If we look at your life, you are not fornicating.
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: You are not committing adultery. You are not lying. You
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: are not an angry person. You are not offended.
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: But you are still blank.
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: Distracted.
- 1:10:12Speaker 3: Not prepared.
- 1:10:12Speaker 2: Either way, you have achieved it.
- 1:10:14Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: Okay? Do you understand what I'm saying here? You don't
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: prepare in a battle. You prepare for it. So don't
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: live in such a way that as you start getting
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: close to that future, you know I was not ready
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: for this. That's a very bad reality. Nobody stays in
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: that space and is happy.
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: Anybody? Do you understand what I'm saying?
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: Now God has given you the platform and the stage,
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: but there's no word, no message, no preparation. The man
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: is blank, untaught, untrained. Can I give you one minute
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: again to ask? Holy Spirit, invade my time and help
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: me prepare. Help me, help me, help me. Help me.
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: Help me prepare. Invade it. I yield it to you
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: and I ask that you help me prepare Help me.
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: Sweet Holy Spirit, my life is yours. Help me prepare.
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: Help me. Help me prepare. I yield my whole to you.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: And I ask that you will help me prepare. Thank you, Lord.
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: In Jesus' name we're praying. So sit down, let me
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: round up now. Okay? There are certain things that you
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: must be used to winning them early.
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying? See, let me tell you.
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: Now I sit back. And I remember the days serving
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: as a youth pastor, the young people, everybody pursuing God.
- 1:12:29Speaker 2: And the devil began to toy with your emotions. How
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: that I would subject myself to days of fasting and cry.
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: Many things could have been done and you would get
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: away with it. But are you really getting away? Because
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: the devil is keeping it. Okay? And he's going to
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: come back. So remember the secret we kept together. Can
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: we do it again? Can we do it again? Kill
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: the lion. Kill the bear. Kill them. So there is
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: no pattern of massacre.
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: Kill them. And let me say this to you. If
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: God has blessed you with an atmosphere, okay? Because the
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: old thing, the Bible said, God said that solitary were
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: in families. But the rebellion dwell where? In dry land.
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: Most times, the most conducive place for you to be,
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: you'll be caught. You'll see. Once you begin to walk
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: in isolation, you are already done for. Isolation is the
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: most conducive platform for you to repeat wrong patterns. So
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: no matter your friends anywhere, don't, okay? Don't isolate yourself
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: from God's people. Never get to that point where you
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: say church is calm. A lot happens to us as
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: we appear before God. They go from strength to strength.
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: Everyone appears in Zion. Is that okay now? From strength
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: to strength. There's a layer we receive that we can't
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: do life without it. So church is not just a
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: place you come. Because you can sit and say, what
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: is the essence of church? The essence is that it
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: is a place of refuge. The name of the Lord
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: is a strong tower. The righteous run in. And they
- 1:14:20Speaker 2: are safe. That innocent belief that we can do it
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: from home, that thing is destructive. Many tried it, they
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: never came out. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: Is this simple the way I'm saying it? Okay?
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: Because there are.
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: Preachers I find my generation insult and say.
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: They don't know doctrine.
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: But if I study my life, these were the men
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: that God used as the boat to escape me from
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: the water that would have swallowed me.
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: I read the books of men like Kenneth Egan. I
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: discovered that his books was better for me than his messages. Okay? Okay? So,
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: but I listen to the message of men like Brogbile Akoni.
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: You may say that they are preaching law. But we
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: discover that it's like those hearing this law don't have scandal.
- 1:15:19Speaker 3: And they are careful.
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: So, I just have to check. I mean, just be honest.
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: Just now I've been seeing messages online. Sin will not
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: take anybody to hell. Why are you saying that? Sin
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: will never make God leave you.
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: Sin will never.
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: My God! My God! And it is very possible that
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: a few of you are gradually beginning to believe. And
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: you will discover that that belief is actually there because
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: there's something set aside for you. The devil wants you inside.
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: But he needs a body of... Because he knows you
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: like the world too, but you have a weakness. So
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: he needs to get you in doctrinally. That one is
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: the way to permanency. It's like you nailed the coffin.
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: Sin won't take anybody to hell.
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: My God.
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: What destroyed Samson? What finished Reuben? How did Saul enter
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: the house of David? What necessitated the coming of Jesus?
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: Why was Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed? Okay? Why was the
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: world flooded the first time? Why will this earth roll
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: away like mud?
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: Sin.
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: As Christ paid the price, yes, but you have to
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: enter into him. Are you following what I'm saying here? Listen,
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: if you already have a doctrinal persuasion that is about
- 1:16:42Speaker 2: to nail the coffin on you, change. And sometimes as
- 1:16:47Speaker 2: you enter certain seasons, change your teachers. Because sometimes not
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: all teachers can teach you for all seasons. Are you
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? Can we pray as I'm done?
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: It's a very simple prayer. My Father and my God,
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: help me. Help me to stand strong and to serve you.
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: And to finish well.
- 1:17:08Speaker 3: Please pray.
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: I can't do it by myself. I can't do it
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: on my own. So I call for your help. I
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: call for your help. There is no way I can
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: do this myself. There is no way I can do
- 1:17:23Speaker 2: it on my own. Okay.
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: So Lord Jesus help me. Help me.
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: Help me.
- 1:17:32Speaker 3: Help me. Help me.
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: In Jesus' name we're praying. Now let me say this
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: to you. By the grace of God, I've been doing
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: this thing for a while.
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: One of the things I found out is that every
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: time people arise with a strange voice to begin to
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: say strange things, It doesn't take time for us to
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: find out that there are things on ground. They are
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: using that doctrine to justify it. If only you'll be
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: patient in the body of Christ, you'll see many things.
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: Many lives will begin and fold up before your very eyes.
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: It's patience. And if a young person will jump after
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: every order of doctrine, I would say unstable as water.
- 1:18:23Speaker 3: Okay?
- 1:18:23Speaker 2: In fact, Ephesians 4 verse 14 says that we will
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: not tolerate babysitting. We said that no more infants is
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: amongst us. Not all of you babes in the world.
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: Small children who are easy marks for imposters. In fact,
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: King James says those who are carried away by every
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: slide of doctrine. You must be rooted in.
- 1:18:40Speaker 3: Doctrine, sir.
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: You are flexible, but there are some goalposts.
- 1:18:42Speaker 3: That won't shift.
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: God will always be angry against sin. Don't let anyone
- 1:18:48Speaker 2: kill you. Are you following what I'm saying here? And
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: beware of preachers who see every preacher as false. You
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: must know when a man is sound and when it
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: is arrogant talking. We brought someone to our meeting and
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: I said we won't beg him again. Because I noticed
- 1:19:08Speaker 2: a quiet undertone To despise other ministers. We don't do
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: that here. But we must warn you from those who
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: can't finish you before you start. Thank God for grace.
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: I mean, I teach grace now. But that's not, are
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying? But it is grace and truth, sir.
- 1:19:23Speaker 2: Not just grace. It's grace and truth. We must balance it.
- 1:19:30Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? This is a sound
- 1:19:31Speaker 2: of warning. To those that that doctrine is actually establishing
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: a pattern. And when the preachers are swept off like wind,
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: here's somebody's life that has been destroyed. 2016, 2017 in
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: this nation, many young people were destroyed. They were wiped off.
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: It was a wave. They began to insult. They said
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: they would end the ministry of the fast. Those who
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: were there before their parents were born, who have been
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: serving God in prayer and fasting, and you think suddenly
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: because you found a doctrine, God will do away with them.
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: Do you know what it means to have a track record?
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: And they were saying, there will be nothing now. One
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: was speaking about pastor here. They said, they call you
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: spiritual father of Nigeria. And you don't believe in eternal salvation.
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: You are a spiritual baby. And years back, he was
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: praying in redemption camp. Arrogance does not build this. God
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: gives grace to the humble. Are you following what I'm
- 1:20:32Speaker 2: saying here? Take this warning.
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: Take this warning.
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: Okay? Take this warning.
- 1:20:44Speaker 3: Take this warning.
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: We honored one of the fathers in the body of God.
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: He called me to his office.
- 1:20:51Speaker 3: He said, kneel down.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: He brought out his bottle of oil. He said, this
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: is the oil. He said, my father, Pastor, he gave
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: me this oil. I don't want to go into that.
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: He said, kneel down. He began to release words. He
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: came through honor. Sir, To get to territories and speak
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: the way we speak is not about what you know.
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: It's about what is working on you. I'm going to
- 1:21:20Speaker 2: have to balance that. Certain things are not knowledge.
- 1:21:24Speaker 3: They are covenant. Are you following what I'm saying here?
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: Very important.
- 1:21:32Speaker 3: I see a new season coming for you. And I
- 1:21:35Speaker 3: see a new wave of victory.
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: And I see God strengthening you In Jesus' mighty name.