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- 0:07Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God bless you in Jesus' name. I'm happy
- 0:20Speaker 1: to be in Enugu again. This is happy new year
- 0:26Speaker 1: for me in Enugu. God bless you in Jesus' name.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Pastor Edwin. It's an honor to
- 0:33Speaker 1: be here again. And to bring God's word to his people.
- 0:38Speaker 2: And I like us while standing to not just honor
- 0:43Speaker 2: the man of God. The angel over this house. But
- 0:46Speaker 2: I really want us to take a moment and honor
- 0:49Speaker 2: our father. Bishop Onubogu. Let's give him a big God
- 0:54Speaker 2: bless you. I was very humbled when I heard that
- 1:01Speaker 2: he flew in all the way from London. Arrived yesterday.
- 1:04Speaker 2: And then was at the airport. In fact, I was
- 1:06Speaker 2: trying to tell the people where I come from. A
- 1:09Speaker 2: man at this age should not be found in the
- 1:12Speaker 2: airport receiving a small boy like this.
- 1:14Speaker 3: But he has so decided to do so. And I
- 1:17Speaker 3: truly honor you, son. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you sincerely.
- 1:23Speaker 2: I honor every man and every woman of God in
- 1:25Speaker 2: this place. You would notice that I do this all
- 1:28Speaker 2: the time before I teach. I do it because I
- 1:31Speaker 2: believe it. Number two, I do it so that those
- 1:33Speaker 2: who are watching will learn. There is nobility in showing honor.
- 1:37Speaker 2: When you honor people, it shows that you recognize that
- 1:41Speaker 2: we're only but products of God's grace.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Hallelujah. I truly believe with.
- 1:46Speaker 2: All my heart that this conference was designed by God
- 1:49Speaker 2: for someone here tonight. I was very touched and humbled
- 1:53Speaker 2: when I saw several people, all of the overflows outside here.
- 1:57Speaker 2: I think there's one outside of the fence. hungry and
- 2:00Speaker 2: desperate people. I want to assure you that you came
- 2:03Speaker 2: to meet beyond a man. There are things that men
- 2:08Speaker 2: cannot do, but there is the God of heaven, the
- 2:11Speaker 2: one who satisfies the hungry, who brings water even to
- 2:15Speaker 2: the thirsty.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 2:17Speaker 2: And I'm also honored to find, you know, your noble
- 2:20Speaker 2: people within the land coming also, politicians coming to participate
- 2:25Speaker 2: in It's a very great thing because we lead out
- 2:29Speaker 2: of our convictions. Whatever you believe is what you translate
- 2:33Speaker 2: to policies is what governs your actions. And so I
- 2:37Speaker 2: really want to say thank you. And I trust that
- 2:39Speaker 2: tonight will really be a time that God will just
- 2:45Speaker 2: dig deep into our spirits and walk the things that
- 2:49Speaker 2: produce victory and restoration.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Let me encourage you to not be distracted.
- 2:54Speaker 2: There are people who labor so much to come for meetings,
- 2:57Speaker 2: but once they arrive, they hand over their concentration to
- 3:01Speaker 2: the devil and they literally waste their time.
- 3:03Speaker 3: They don't get anything. They don't gain anything. They laugh.
- 3:07Speaker 2: They snap pictures. They share the grace and go back.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Let your heart and your spirit be in this place.
- 3:14Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. Father, give me an encounter tonight.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Can you cry to the God of heaven? By your spirit.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Those who are following online. I'd like you to connect.
- 3:30Speaker 2: The word of God is about to come for our profiting.
- 3:34Speaker 2: A man of God is praying. Someone desperate for God
- 3:38Speaker 2: is praying. Someone hungry for restoration is praying. Indeed God
- 3:45Speaker 2: has anointed voices to speak restoration. They are taken for
- 3:49Speaker 2: a prey and non-sain restored. Now God has anointed us
- 3:55Speaker 2: to bring words of restoration. My heart is opened. My
- 4:01Speaker 2: spirit is alive. I am sensitive to your speaking. So God,
- 4:06Speaker 2: speak to me.
- 4:07Speaker 3: Speak to my destiny. Someone is praying. Take a minute
- 4:16Speaker 3: and speak. Speak to me, oh God. Hallelujah. Praise the
- 4:38Speaker 3: name of the Lord.
- 4:40Speaker 2: In Luke chapter 15, I believe Jesus gave among the
- 4:44Speaker 2: many parables that he gave, he gave one that is called.
- 4:48Speaker 3: The parable of the lost coin. Hallelujah.
- 4:53Speaker 2: And in that parable, he said a woman had 10
- 4:56Speaker 2: coins representing treasures.
- 4:59Speaker 3: And then, that for whatever reason, one of the coin
- 5:03Speaker 3: was missing.
- 5:05Speaker 2: And so she needed to find that one coin because
- 5:09Speaker 2: she was given 10, but for some reason, one was missing.
- 5:13Speaker 2: And the Bible says the first thing that she did
- 5:16Speaker 2: was to light a candle. It is vain to search
- 5:21Speaker 2: in darkness. You will not find it. One thing she
- 5:24Speaker 2: knew was that that coin was in that room. But
- 5:27Speaker 2: where exactly it was, she could not find. And so
- 5:30Speaker 2: she lit a candle.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 5:34Speaker 2: And the Bible says the spirit of man is a
- 5:37Speaker 2: candle of the Lord. And when he lights that fire
- 5:40Speaker 2: upon your candle, the Bible says she began to search.
- 5:45Speaker 2: It takes zeal and passion, hunger and determination to search.
- 5:50Speaker 2: And as she began to get a broom and sweep,
- 5:54Speaker 2: we don't know how long it took her, but eventually
- 5:57Speaker 2: she swept a corner and there came the treasure. And
- 6:01Speaker 2: she called everybody to come and rejoice with her. I'm
- 6:03Speaker 2: praying for you. Some of you have lost many things.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Some of you lost levels of honor in the spirit.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Some of you have lost strategic relationships. Some of you
- 6:14Speaker 2: are about losing your bishopric due to carelessness, insensitivity. Some
- 6:19Speaker 2: of you have lost direction in life and ministry. It's
- 6:23Speaker 2: my prayer for you that as this fire lands upon
- 6:29Speaker 2: your spirit, that in the name of Jesus, the son
- 6:33Speaker 2: of the living God, you will find that which was
- 6:36Speaker 2: missing no matter how long it's been missing.
- 6:40Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
- 6:42Speaker 2: You will find that which was missing. No matter how
- 6:46Speaker 2: long it was missing. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Let's take two minutes and pray in the spirit. Desperately.
- 6:54Speaker 3: Passionately. Seriously. Go ahead and pray. We are praying in
- 7:02Speaker 3: the spirit.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Passionately for the next two minutes.
- 7:14Speaker 1: The summons you pray.
- 7:43Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ. Let me give you
- 7:47Speaker 3: one scripture. We'll pray it and then we'll be seated.
- 7:49Speaker 2: Amos chapter 9. Verse 13 and 14. Please help us media.
- 7:56Speaker 2: Amos chapter 9, 13 and 14. I believe this is
- 8:00Speaker 2: a prophetic word for someone. It says, Behold the days come,
- 8:04Speaker 2: saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
- 8:09Speaker 2: and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed. And
- 8:12Speaker 2: the mountains shall drop sweet wine and the hills shall melt.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Verse 14.
- 8:18Speaker 2: It says, and I will bring again the captivity of
- 8:21Speaker 2: my people of Israel. And they shall build the waste
- 8:25Speaker 2: cities and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and shall
- 8:30Speaker 2: drink the wine thereof. They shall also make gardens and
- 8:35Speaker 2: eat the fruit thereof. I'm praying for you that everything
- 8:38Speaker 2: that has left your life, by whatever means in the
- 8:41Speaker 2: name of Jesus Christ the son of the living God
- 8:45Speaker 2: as you hear the word tonight let there be restoration
- 8:50Speaker 2: as you hear the word tonight let there be restoration.
- 8:56Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus
- 9:02Speaker 4: when Samuel met Saul Samuel never asked the donkey that
- 9:08Speaker 4: was missing to go back.
- 9:11Speaker 2: At the instance of that encounter, the Bible tells us
- 9:15Speaker 2: that the donkey began to.
- 9:16Speaker 3: Find his way home. Remember, it was the same.
- 9:19Speaker 2: Donkey that led them on that journey three days until
- 9:22Speaker 2: they decided to stop wasting their time and to go
- 9:25Speaker 2: and meet a seer who had the counsel of God.
- 9:28Speaker 3: And as soon as.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Saul met with Samuel, Samuel was not even talking to
- 9:33Speaker 2: him about what was missing again. He began to deal
- 9:36Speaker 2: with nobler things, the matter of his ordination and his election.
- 9:41Speaker 2: And he said, but so that you will know that
- 9:43Speaker 2: you really encountered a man of God. That which you
- 9:46Speaker 2: are looking for. That it has gone back. For someone,
- 9:50Speaker 2: while you are in church, something else is looking for you.
- 9:56Speaker 2: And that something else for someone can be a desire
- 9:59Speaker 2: and a longing in your heart. And for some, that
- 10:02Speaker 2: may be the desire that has attempted distracting you from God.
- 10:06Speaker 2: But while you are in the house of God, what
- 10:08Speaker 2: you have been looking for, may it find you.
- 10:11Speaker 3: I prophesy to you, may it find you. In the
- 10:17Speaker 3: name of Jesus Christ.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Crosspowers by your word tonight and be glorified for in
- 10:23Speaker 2: Jesus name we pray amen please be seated.
- 10:27Speaker 3: Please be seated.
- 10:30Speaker 2: The Lord steadied in my heart to start with us
- 10:36Speaker 2: uh in a very interesting way tonight the subject of
- 10:39Speaker 2: restoration is one that I have studied myself I by
- 10:44Speaker 2: reason of this walk have had occasion to talk to
- 10:50Speaker 2: people who have lost things, have lost loved ones, have
- 10:55Speaker 2: lost opportunities, have lost relationships, people who had backslidden and
- 11:01Speaker 2: were trusting God for a restoration of fire and grace.
- 11:05Speaker 2: And so the subject of restoration is one that generally speaking,
- 11:09Speaker 2: everyone who has particularly served in the ministry should have
- 11:13Speaker 2: been accustomed to because Losses are almost a human phenomenon.
- 11:20Speaker 2: People lose time, they lose things, they lose joy. Are
- 11:24Speaker 2: we together now? And so, I want you to listen
- 11:30Speaker 2: to the things that I'm going to be sharing with
- 11:32Speaker 2: you because the secret of excelling in this kingdom is
- 11:36Speaker 2: that you receive light. Ezekiel chapter 2, 1 and 2,
- 11:39Speaker 2: he said, Son of man, stand up upon your feet.
- 11:43Speaker 3: And he did not have the strength to.
- 11:45Speaker 2: And verse 2 says, the spirit entered me when he
- 11:48Speaker 2: speak unto me and set me upon my feet. The
- 11:52Speaker 2: spirit entered me.
- 11:54Speaker 3: Hallelujah. God is a restorer.
- 11:59Speaker 2: Now, the Bible identifies God with several names. And like
- 12:03Speaker 2: you may have learned, the names of God are a
- 12:06Speaker 2: capture of the various dimensions that are contained within his person.
- 12:12Speaker 3: So the experience was this way in the Old Testament.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Every time they saw a marvelous dimension of God, they
- 12:18Speaker 2: would name him after that dimension. So that if you
- 12:21Speaker 2: wanted to see a replica of that dimension, you would
- 12:24Speaker 2: invoke that name.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 12:27Speaker 2: So whether you call him Jireh or Rapha or Sikenu
- 12:30Speaker 2: or Shalom, it's still the same God but various expressions.
- 12:35Speaker 2: All those names came because men saw spectacular manifestations of
- 12:41Speaker 2: God in their lives And they.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Trapped those experiences in names.
- 12:46Speaker 2: And every time you call God that name, what you
- 12:49Speaker 2: are doing is invoking the power that reproduces that experience.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Are we learning now?
- 12:55Speaker 2: So when you call him Jireh, he doesn't heal your body.
- 12:59Speaker 2: That dimension is not for healing. That dimension deals with insufficiency.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Are we together now? When you call him Rapha, you
- 13:08Speaker 2: don't prosper financially and other dimensions. Rapha deals with health
- 13:13Speaker 2: and cure. He says, and I will restore health and cure.
- 13:18Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 13:20Speaker 2: So it's important to know that God operates dimensionally. He
- 13:24Speaker 2: is God Almighty, but in dealing with men, he operates dimensionally.
- 13:29Speaker 2: And studying the systems that govern his various dimensions will
- 13:34Speaker 2: be your advantage in this kingdom. That means it is
- 13:38Speaker 2: possible for you to know God and to know how
- 13:41Speaker 2: he moves as far as a certain area is concerned.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Say your health.
- 13:45Speaker 2: And never know how God or the kingdom operates in
- 13:49Speaker 2: another area, say leadership, say your finances, you can excel
- 13:53Speaker 2: in that area where you have found light and so
- 13:55Speaker 2: fail woefully in another area. Your knowledge of God in
- 13:59Speaker 2: one area does not automatically cover.
- 14:02Speaker 3: For the deficiency in another area. Are we together? Yes.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Job said, I have heard of thee with the hearing
- 14:09Speaker 3: of the ear.
- 14:09Speaker 2: He says, but now my eyes see in thee another
- 14:12Speaker 2: dimension of reality. There were things I heard about you
- 14:15Speaker 2: I've experienced some results myself, but now I have seen
- 14:18Speaker 2: you clearer. I have come into a greater comprehension of light.
- 14:23Speaker 2: And so we're going to be dealing with restoration all
- 14:25Speaker 2: through my session across various levels. You know that the
- 14:30Speaker 2: Bible is full of people who lost many, many things.
- 14:34Speaker 2: People lost joy in the Bible. People lost peace in
- 14:38Speaker 2: the Bible. In fact, the psalmist said it this way.
- 14:40Speaker 2: He says, restore unto me. Not time, not things, the
- 14:45Speaker 2: joy of my salvation.
- 14:47Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 14:49Speaker 2: People lost their peace. People still lose their peace. People
- 14:53Speaker 2: lost their health like you'll be learning. An example was
- 14:56Speaker 2: a man called Hezekiah. The Bible archives several people who
- 15:01Speaker 2: went through all kinds of bodily ailments. Some recovered, some died.
- 15:05Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 15:07Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 15:08Speaker 2: And then the Bible talks about people who lost money,
- 15:11Speaker 2: nations lost whatever it is, kings lost their throne, people
- 15:16Speaker 2: lost their estate. Even those who were once with God
- 15:21Speaker 2: as spirit beings in the angelic order, the Bible says
- 15:24Speaker 2: they lost their original estate. And so losses are things
- 15:28Speaker 2: that are scattered all around our world and sadly it's
- 15:31Speaker 2: even experienced even in the realm of the spirit. You
- 15:34Speaker 2: will think if you were not on earth, losses would
- 15:36Speaker 2: not come to you. But the Bible had recorded losses
- 15:39Speaker 2: even in the realm of the spirit. The angels that
- 15:42Speaker 2: fell experienced those losses right.
- 15:44Speaker 3: From the realm of the spirit.
- 15:46Speaker 2: So it's important to understand the subject of restoration.
- 15:50Speaker 3: Now we can lose time. We can lose things.
- 15:53Speaker 2: The most expensive thing to lose as far as the
- 15:56Speaker 2: earth is concerned is time. When you lose things, if
- 16:01Speaker 2: you have time, you can receive things back. But when
- 16:04Speaker 2: you lose time, It is a great loss. I'm praying
- 16:08Speaker 2: for you. That everything you have lost. As our faces
- 16:11Speaker 2: are so. And the various things we've lost in our lives.
- 16:14Speaker 2: But whether you've lost time.
- 16:16Speaker 3: Or things. Or relationships.
- 16:18Speaker 2: I'm praying that whilst you hear the word. There will
- 16:20Speaker 2: be restoration tonight. In the name of Jesus.
- 16:27Speaker 3: Now.
- 16:29Speaker 2: There is a law in the spirit. My teaching begins now.
- 16:32Speaker 2: There is a law in the spirit. That governs the
- 16:37Speaker 2: overall efficiency of believers.
- 16:41Speaker 3: I want you to please listen.
- 16:42Speaker 2: When you find a believer excelling in his spirit adventure.
- 16:47Speaker 2: There is a law that governs the centrality. of a
- 16:52Speaker 2: believer's excellence. And most people have not learned that principle.
- 16:58Speaker 2: And so they chase excellence across different areas of their
- 17:02Speaker 2: lives while violating that law. And they find out that
- 17:06Speaker 2: after investing time, energy to build, whether it's relationships, whether
- 17:11Speaker 2: it's finances, whether it's a career, eventually everything falls back
- 17:16Speaker 2: like a pack of cards because they keep violating a
- 17:19Speaker 2: law that many of them do not understand. I'm praying
- 17:22Speaker 2: that God will open your eyes now to see in
- 17:24Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ. Psalm 23, please, from verse
- 17:29Speaker 2: 1 and 2. The first thing that God wants to
- 17:34Speaker 2: restore tonight is your soul. The Lord is my shepherd,
- 17:39Speaker 2: he says. I shall not want. Let's read verse 2 together.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
- 17:53Speaker 2: He restored my soul. Verse 3. He restored my soul.
- 18:00Speaker 2: This is the first thing that he restores. He restored
- 18:05Speaker 2: my soul. Many believers do not know that there is
- 18:09Speaker 2: a law in the spirit. That your life will be
- 18:12Speaker 2: an overall reflection of the quality of your spiritual life.
- 18:18Speaker 2: The quality of your soulical health. The Bible says it
- 18:23Speaker 2: in 3 John. John has only one chapter, the 3
- 18:27Speaker 2: John 1 now and verse 2.
- 18:30Speaker 3: It says, Beloved, I wish above all things. Are we
- 18:33Speaker 3: still together? That ye prosper and be in health. 3 John.
- 18:40Speaker 3: I wish above all things. Above what?
- 18:43Speaker 2: I wish above your prospering financially. I wish above your
- 18:48Speaker 2: getting a job. I wish above your getting children. I
- 18:51Speaker 2: wish above your excelling in business. I wish above your
- 18:55Speaker 2: getting a visa.
- 18:57Speaker 3: Are we together now? I wish above.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Your having, you know, being a house owner. Those things
- 19:03Speaker 2: are wonderful. So, the first thing here is that the wish,
- 19:08Speaker 2: this wish... He's not the only one he has. He
- 19:11Speaker 2: had many wishes and many desires for the people. The
- 19:14Speaker 2: Spirit of God speaking to his servant. I wish many
- 19:17Speaker 2: things for you. But there is one that surpasses every
- 19:21Speaker 2: other desire.
- 19:22Speaker 3: He says that ye may prosper. Say I will prosper.
- 19:28Speaker 3: One more time.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Say I will prosper. He says I wish above all
- 19:32Speaker 2: things that ye may prosper and be in health. But
- 19:36Speaker 2: he now benchmarks everything based on a reference. He says,
- 19:40Speaker 2: even as thy soul prospered. That means before God marks
- 19:47Speaker 2: you to be successful in the spirit. it doesn't matter
- 19:51Speaker 2: what you achieve and it doesn't matter what you have.
- 19:54Speaker 2: The realm of the spirit will have to vet the
- 19:56Speaker 2: state of your soul, the health of your spiritual life.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 20:01Speaker 2: In order to verify if your success is true and lasting.
- 20:06Speaker 2: That means when you find an individual excelling in any
- 20:10Speaker 2: area of his life, if it is at the expense
- 20:13Speaker 2: of his soul, then it is not true success in
- 20:17Speaker 2: the spirit.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Are we together now? Are we learning?
- 20:21Speaker 2: This is very powerful. The business of the soul, let
- 20:25Speaker 2: me tell you this. Is the greatest pursuit... And the
- 20:30Speaker 2: greatest need of every man... Most people will not know...
- 20:33Speaker 2: That what they really need... Is the health of their soul.
- 20:37Speaker 3: If I told you now.
- 20:38Speaker 2: That the greatest problem you have... Is a spiritual problem...
- 20:41Speaker 2: a problem of your spiritual life and the health of
- 20:43Speaker 2: your soul, you will most likely say.
- 20:45Speaker 3: No, what I need is money. What I need is
- 20:48Speaker 3: a house.
- 20:48Speaker 2: What I need is something tangible that I can interact with.
- 20:52Speaker 2: But that there is a law in the spirit. I
- 20:54Speaker 2: hope you know that I'm talking about those who are
- 20:57Speaker 2: in the kingdom.
- 20:58Speaker 3: If you are outside of the kingdom.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Your soul, in fact, your soul is the collateral that
- 21:04Speaker 2: you have to give in exchange for any other thing
- 21:07Speaker 2: you get. You are going to be learning that the commodity,
- 21:11Speaker 2: a time comes in the spirit where everything you have
- 21:14Speaker 2: to purchase to your life will either be as given
- 21:20Speaker 2: by God or as traded with your soul. Because your
- 21:25Speaker 2: soul is currency in the spirit. You can give it
- 21:29Speaker 2: up for other lesser things. We are going to be
- 21:33Speaker 2: considering a few scriptures. And one of it is the
- 21:36Speaker 2: one that says, what shall it profit a man? He's
- 21:39Speaker 2: speaking profit. It's a business language. What shall it profit
- 21:43Speaker 2: a man if you gain the whole world and you
- 21:46Speaker 2: use your soul as the money that bought that? You
- 21:50Speaker 2: can literally go to the market of life and destiny.
- 21:54Speaker 2: and exchange your soul for money, exchange your soul for fame.
- 21:59Speaker 2: You don't have to be demonic and you don't have
- 22:01Speaker 2: to be occultic. Many people are doing it. The idea
- 22:04Speaker 2: of selling your soul, most times when we hear it,
- 22:07Speaker 2: we think it is something that you have to be
- 22:09Speaker 2: occultic to say, okay, take my life and give me money. No,
- 22:13Speaker 2: many people are already doing it. One of the ways
- 22:17Speaker 2: you will know true success is to find out what happens.
- 22:20Speaker 3: To your spiritual state as you rise.
- 22:23Speaker 2: If you find out, you can know who is behind
- 22:26Speaker 2: your success by looking at the consequence of that rising
- 22:29Speaker 2: on your spiritual life. The moment you find out that
- 22:33Speaker 2: for every increase, every open door, every advancement, your spiritual
- 22:38Speaker 2: life is suffering. You are transacting with Babylon. This demonic,
- 22:43Speaker 2: satanic system. You may not know. Satan took Jesus up
- 22:47Speaker 2: the mountain and he said, bow to me. That is
- 22:50Speaker 2: how you sell your soul. You don't sell your soul
- 22:53Speaker 2: by giving it. You sell your soul by bowing to something.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Is someone learning now? Whatever you bow to, a transaction
- 23:01Speaker 2: happens in the spirit. Satan came and met Jesus and said, look,
- 23:05Speaker 2: all of the glories of this world, I have it
- 23:07Speaker 2: but I don't need it.
- 23:08Speaker 3: What I need is your loyalty, your allegiance. You came
- 23:11Speaker 3: as God incarnate. Bow to me. And I can give
- 23:15Speaker 3: you everything.
- 23:15Speaker 2: He was willing to relinquish part of what Jesus was
- 23:19Speaker 2: coming to die to receive. Why follow the route of
- 23:22Speaker 2: the cross when you can just trade your soul and
- 23:25Speaker 2: you have it? And there are many people today who
- 23:30Speaker 2: do not understand this system in the spirit. What shall
- 23:35Speaker 2: it profit a man? What shall it profit a man
- 23:38Speaker 2: of God? What shall it profit a worshiper? What shall
- 23:42Speaker 2: it profit a businessman? What shall it profit a student,
- 23:45Speaker 2: a career person.
- 23:47Speaker 3: If you gain?
- 23:49Speaker 2: That kind of business, man, you will not even know
- 23:52Speaker 2: what you are losing because you will be focused on
- 23:54Speaker 2: what you are gaining. But he's saying while you are gaining,
- 23:57Speaker 2: you are losing something else. But your attention is.
- 24:00Speaker 3: In what you are gaining.
- 24:01Speaker 2: You can gain fame. You can gain increase. You can
- 24:04Speaker 2: even gain speed. And mistaking that gain for true profit.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Only that when you check your soul, you will find
- 24:12Speaker 2: out that it died because you grew. It died because
- 24:16Speaker 2: increase came. It died because a door opened. At that point,
- 24:20Speaker 2: you know that Satan scammed you. He came and sold
- 24:23Speaker 2: you something new. distracted you and you thought you were gaining,
- 24:28Speaker 2: whereas you were dying.
- 24:29Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 24:32Speaker 2: This is a law that I have found out in
- 24:33Speaker 2: my life because you see, like Reverend shared before.
- 24:38Speaker 3: I came up, every human being wants to make progress.
- 24:42Speaker 2: I think I've said it here in this church that
- 24:44Speaker 2: psychologists teach that one of the keys for measuring happiness
- 24:48Speaker 2: is progress or a sense of it. To the degree
- 24:51Speaker 2: to which you perceive you are making progress, that is
- 24:53Speaker 2: the degree to which you will be happy. If you
- 24:56Speaker 2: believe or perceive that there's some level of stuntedness in
- 25:00Speaker 2: your life or in ministry, if you are responsible, it
- 25:03Speaker 2: should be a source of concern.
- 25:05Speaker 3: Am I right on that?
- 25:06Speaker 2: Yes. There's no woman who gives birth to a baby
- 25:10Speaker 2: and expects that baby to start running, walking, talking in
- 25:13Speaker 2: one day. But after a year, maybe one year and
- 25:17Speaker 2: a half, two years, if the baby cannot talk, the
- 25:20Speaker 2: baby cannot walk, the baby cannot do whatever, immediately.
- 25:24Speaker 3: It becomes a medical condition. Are we together?
- 25:27Speaker 2: Because instinctively she knows that that baby.
- 25:30Speaker 3: Has now assumed a state where he.
- 25:32Speaker 2: Or she should begin to at least motion The things
- 25:36Speaker 2: that make for growth.
- 25:38Speaker 3: So when people become stagnated and stunted. Whether as a
- 25:42Speaker 3: man of God. As a businessman. As a career person.
- 25:45Speaker 2: Generally it becomes a source of concern. Now let me
- 25:47Speaker 2: tell you this. Satan does not attack you every day.
- 25:51Speaker 3: Know this. There are days that even if you call
- 25:54Speaker 3: Satan to attack you. He will say I'm not on duty.
- 25:57Speaker 3: He's not a fool.
- 25:58Speaker 2: Satan knows that there is something about the desperation of men.
- 26:03Speaker 2: The desperation of men. It's his marketing strategy for this exchange.
- 26:08Speaker 3: Listen carefully.
- 26:10Speaker 2: For as long as you are a young person having
- 26:12Speaker 2: someone to sponsor you, taking care of you, it may
- 26:15Speaker 2: be difficult to succumb to certain temptations because there are
- 26:18Speaker 2: harvests over seeds you did not sow. So when Satan comes,
- 26:22Speaker 2: it's easy to drive away that temptation. But the day
- 26:25Speaker 2: you are now on your own and there's house rent.
- 26:28Speaker 3: Hello? Hello?
- 26:30Speaker 2: And the price of foil is whatever it is now.
- 26:33Speaker 2: In the midst of that desperation, Satan comes. The Bible
- 26:38Speaker 2: calls him a thief. And only a foolish thief steals
- 26:41Speaker 2: all the time. Thieves don't steal all the time. There
- 26:45Speaker 2: is timing and intelligence and preparation. Are we together? They
- 26:49Speaker 2: steal when you are not around or while you are asleep.
- 26:51Speaker 2: He said while men slept. Now many of you, I'm
- 26:55Speaker 2: saying this because this transaction that has destroyed you now
- 26:59Speaker 2: Started at the point of your pain and your desperation.
- 27:03Speaker 2: Every time believers are in want. Every time believers are
- 27:08Speaker 2: crying for more.
- 27:09Speaker 3: Be careful.
- 27:10Speaker 2: It's not only God's attention you are calling. You are
- 27:12Speaker 2: also calling the attention of the realm of the spirit.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Because they know that desperation makes men vulnerable. You are
- 27:19Speaker 2: desperate for marriage. You are desperate for a child. You
- 27:23Speaker 2: are desperate for a job. You are desperate for anointing.
- 27:27Speaker 2: You are desperate for increase. If someone comes to meet
- 27:32Speaker 2: a young boy and says, come, I want to take
- 27:35Speaker 2: you somewhere and conjure some demonic things and give you power,
- 27:39Speaker 2: that temptation will not work because the boy is not desperate.
- 27:42Speaker 2: It is dangerous to try to give people things when
- 27:45Speaker 2: they are not hungry enough. So there is a hunger
- 27:48Speaker 2: level that Satan waits for until he perceives that hunger,
- 27:51Speaker 2: he will not come to attack you.
- 27:53Speaker 3: Are we together now?
- 27:55Speaker 2: The day he sees that the financial issue is becoming
- 27:59Speaker 2: a family problem, that's when he comes with his options.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Because chances are excellent that you will now listen to it.
- 28:06Speaker 3: What shall it profit a man if he gains the
- 28:10Speaker 3: whole world?
- 28:11Speaker 2: Have you seen someone trying to look for water when
- 28:13Speaker 2: he's thirsty? I mean, if you bring me a drum
- 28:17Speaker 2: of water, now I'm not that thirsty. At best, I
- 28:20Speaker 2: would just take one bottle and that's fine.
- 28:22Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 28:23Speaker 2: But when I am really thirsty like unto death, if
- 28:27Speaker 2: you bring water, sometimes you can tell me this bottle
- 28:30Speaker 2: is 100,000. Because of my desperation, I become vulnerable to you.
- 28:35Speaker 2: I don't want to die. And even though I know
- 28:36Speaker 2: you are cheating me, it's not 100,000, but I prefer
- 28:40Speaker 2: my pain solved. This is how Satan trapped many people.
- 28:43Speaker 2: He knows that there's something that befalls all men. It's
- 28:47Speaker 2: called exhaustion.
- 28:48Speaker 3: Please listen. Listen.
- 28:52Speaker 2: I want to show you a transaction that has been
- 28:54Speaker 2: happening to your spirit man that you are not even
- 28:56Speaker 2: aware of. Because some of us, you have to kill
- 28:59Speaker 2: that business with the spirit now. Destroy that business with
- 29:03Speaker 2: Satan now.
- 29:04Speaker 3: Else you will find out that.
- 29:06Speaker 2: Everything you are trying to build now will eventually fall
- 29:10Speaker 2: because you have violated a law. I wish above all
- 29:15Speaker 2: things that ye prosper. And to be in health. Even
- 29:20Speaker 2: as thy soul prospereth. There are men of God for instance.
- 29:23Speaker 2: Who want power.
- 29:24Speaker 3: Justifiably so. Want increase. Want open doors.
- 29:28Speaker 2: Many of you have come to receive impartations.
- 29:31Speaker 3: And you will receive.
- 29:32Speaker 2: Many of you have come to receive healings. You have
- 29:35Speaker 2: come to receive breakthroughs. And all kinds of things. And
- 29:38Speaker 2: I tell you in the name of Jesus. Christ, every
- 29:41Speaker 2: desire you came here with, God will honor you and even.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Surpass your expectation. Are we together?
- 29:48Speaker 2: But there is a spiritual Lord that we must trust
- 29:51Speaker 2: God for grace to open our eyes to see that
- 29:54Speaker 2: the health of your spirit, the health of your soul
- 29:59Speaker 2: is the power point that controls everything around your life
- 30:03Speaker 2: and destiny. And it does not matter how healthy you
- 30:06Speaker 2: think you are. Financially healthy, if it is at the
- 30:10Speaker 2: expense of your spiritual life, you are holding shadows. Eventually
- 30:13Speaker 2: you will lose it. You have influence, you have positions,
- 30:16Speaker 2: you have titles, you have whatever kind of accomplishment. Listen,
- 30:21Speaker 2: in my little work, I have seen people who you would,
- 30:25Speaker 2: Maybe purports that you wanted your life to be like them.
- 30:28Speaker 2: Their life looked complete. It looked excellent. It looked filled with.
- 30:34Speaker 3: All kinds of things.
- 30:35Speaker 2: But there was one thing that was missing. While they
- 30:38Speaker 2: were in pursuit of these things, Satan came, cast in
- 30:41Speaker 2: on their desperation. and he received their soul, their allegiance,
- 30:46Speaker 2: their worship, their time, and asked them to do every
- 30:50Speaker 2: other thing. I can tell you, if you can surrender
- 30:53Speaker 2: your soul to Satan, he will not attack any part
- 30:55Speaker 2: of your life again. He doesn't need any other thing
- 30:57Speaker 2: from you again. The reason why he touches your finances
- 31:00Speaker 2: is not because of finance. He's touching something else through
- 31:03Speaker 2: your finance. The reason why he touches your health is
- 31:06Speaker 2: not because of your health. Satan does not need money.
- 31:09Speaker 2: He does not need increase. He does not need a child.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Why should he lock.
- 31:13Speaker 3: The womb of a woman? What does it do to him?
- 31:15Speaker 3: Does he need the children? No.
- 31:18Speaker 2: What Satan wants is to allow time or pain push
- 31:23Speaker 2: you to that point of desperation. When you become desperate,
- 31:26Speaker 2: he comes as a negotiator. Give me your soul and
- 31:30Speaker 2: I can give you any other thing. And you may not,
- 31:33Speaker 2: he won't come and say, give me directly. Let me
- 31:36Speaker 2: tell you how he comes. By your exhaustion in prayer.
- 31:40Speaker 2: I'm tired of this prayer. I can't go and pray again.
- 31:43Speaker 2: Something is happening. A bargain is happening in the spirit
- 31:46Speaker 2: without you knowing.
- 31:47Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 31:48Speaker 2: You wake up in the morning and to open the scripture, honestly, look,
- 31:52Speaker 2: I'm overwhelmed by my problems.
- 31:53Speaker 3: Something is happening. It is gradual. It is gradual.
- 31:58Speaker 2: Then a call comes from someone and he says, look,
- 32:02Speaker 2: it's just that I don't want to tell you, but
- 32:04Speaker 2: there's somebody. Two years ago, you'd have said, God forbid,
- 32:09Speaker 2: don't talk to me about anything. But two years later,
- 32:12Speaker 2: in the face of desperation, he said, ah boy, it's true.
- 32:17Speaker 3: I'm 49 years old now. I don't have my own child.
- 32:19Speaker 3: He said, there's somebody. It's not like he's bad. Exactly. Exactly.
- 32:23Speaker 2: He doesn't really do anything bad. But it's just that
- 32:26Speaker 2: me too, I don't understand him. But I'm not sure
- 32:28Speaker 2: I've seen anything that is directly evil. And the Spirit
- 32:31Speaker 2: of God is telling you. But you see, your desperation
- 32:35Speaker 2: has caused Satan to so close the door of your sensitivity.
- 32:39Speaker 2: You cannot even know that this is, you are entering
- 32:42Speaker 2: into a faller's snare. And then you do not know.
- 32:46Speaker 2: At that point, compromise starts gradually.
- 32:49Speaker 3: Gradually. Until you find.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Yourself in the heart of the things that have violated
- 32:55Speaker 2: your convictions. You have sold your soul. Your prayer life dies.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Your word life dies. And then in exchange, you will
- 33:05Speaker 2: see that a semblance of increase comes.
- 33:08Speaker 3: Satan is not stupid. If he makes everything fail in.
- 33:11Speaker 2: Your life, it will lead to conviction, repentance, brokenness and
- 33:15Speaker 2: a retreat. So he will not crumble every aspect of
- 33:18Speaker 2: your life like that. He will allow you to be
- 33:20Speaker 2: enjoying breakthrough. All of a sudden, a job came. You
- 33:23Speaker 2: even danced around it, not knowing that that job was
- 33:26Speaker 2: an arrow.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Did you hear what I said?
- 33:30Speaker 2: When the Bible talks about arrows that fly, he's not
- 33:32Speaker 2: talking about a sharp object to hold. There are many
- 33:36Speaker 2: things we call breakthroughs that are arrows. It was targeted
- 33:39Speaker 2: at your spiritual life. The job came, but from the
- 33:42Speaker 2: day the job came, you can't remember praying again. From
- 33:46Speaker 2: the day the job came, the moment the Holy Spirit
- 33:49Speaker 2: wants your time, they say, look, we demand this and that.
- 33:51Speaker 2: Are you ready for increase or not? And you remember,
- 33:54Speaker 2: more money. God, I will attend to you later on.
- 33:59Speaker 2: There are many people who have violated this law. Of
- 34:04Speaker 2: preserving the health of their soul.
- 34:06Speaker 3: And this includes preachers.
- 34:09Speaker 2: There are times that when the devil wants to destroy
- 34:12Speaker 2: a man of God. He does not bring luck. He
- 34:14Speaker 2: brings abundance and ministerial open doors. Not orchestrated by God.
- 34:19Speaker 2: Doors will open in a very strange way. Doors will
- 34:24Speaker 2: open that don't depend on your prayer life. Doors will
- 34:27Speaker 2: open that don't depend on your fasting. Doors will open
- 34:30Speaker 2: that don't depend on your engaging the word. Whether you
- 34:33Speaker 2: obey God's word or not, those doors are opening.
- 34:36Speaker 3: It's an attack.
- 34:37Speaker 2: When you find out that certain results are coming without
- 34:40Speaker 2: your engaging the word of God consistently, it is an
- 34:44Speaker 2: attack by Satan because he knows that it will keep
- 34:48Speaker 2: you complacent and that's how he destroys you.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 34:53Speaker 2: Whether I pray or not seems like the favor is coming.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Whether I pray or not, why do I need to pray?
- 34:59Speaker 2: It looks like I can share the word every time.
- 35:02Speaker 2: And at that point, you will not see the value
- 35:04Speaker 2: of prayer again. You will not see the value of
- 35:06Speaker 2: fasting again. Who is learning tonight? You will not see
- 35:09Speaker 2: the value of walking with God because after all, you
- 35:12Speaker 2: are surrounded by such abundance.
- 35:14Speaker 3: Just when the.
- 35:15Speaker 2: Holy Spirit begins to prick your heart to say, can't
- 35:17Speaker 2: we get back to the secret place? And a lot
- 35:20Speaker 2: of 10 million just enters your account. And you say,
- 35:22Speaker 2: but I'm doing well.
- 35:23Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
- 35:26Speaker 2: I always found out why a rich man would be
- 35:29Speaker 2: called a fool because foolishness and wealth don't go together.
- 35:33Speaker 2: But there was such a man in the Bible called
- 35:35Speaker 2: the rich fool. Do you know what was foolish?
- 35:39Speaker 3: Now I know.
- 35:40Speaker 2: He did business with somebody to get that wealth. And
- 35:44Speaker 2: that business ate up his soul. He said, my soul,
- 35:48Speaker 2: find rest. Not knowing that he had everything in that
- 35:51Speaker 2: room minus his soul. Jesus called him a fool because
- 35:57Speaker 2: when he checked his entire life, he found money, but
- 36:01Speaker 2: his soul had gone. His allegiance and his worship, he
- 36:04Speaker 2: transferred it from worship to God Almighty, worship to things.
- 36:09Speaker 2: This is a very simple principle you have to learn tonight,
- 36:12Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen.
- 36:14Speaker 3: At the back of.
- 36:15Speaker 2: Many people's tragedy, you know this thing they call rise
- 36:18Speaker 2: and fall? It's not totally demonic. It is the natural
- 36:23Speaker 2: consequence of violating this law and pursuing a lot of things.
- 36:29Speaker 2: So you hold on to what looks like result. But
- 36:32Speaker 2: because your soul is dead, it is not powered by
- 36:34Speaker 2: your passion for God.
- 36:36Speaker 3: It is not powered by your zeal for God.
- 36:38Speaker 2: You'll become a celebrity and one day you'll find out
- 36:42Speaker 2: that you are like a fan with no power. It's
- 36:44Speaker 2: just rotating itself to a stop. And it will stop
- 36:48Speaker 2: just when the audience is ready to clap for you.
- 36:51Speaker 2: And you'll find out that your life has gone back
- 36:53Speaker 2: to square one.
- 36:53Speaker 3: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 36:57Speaker 2: I wish above all things. These are lessons that God
- 37:00Speaker 2: taught me in my life. When you want to grow
- 37:05Speaker 2: by God, let me tell you how he starts. It
- 37:08Speaker 2: doesn't matter whether God is calling you to be a
- 37:10Speaker 2: kingdom financier, a prophetess, an apostle, a businessman. Once you
- 37:15Speaker 2: come to the school of the spirit, everybody starts with
- 37:18Speaker 2: the same course. It is as you grow that you
- 37:22Speaker 2: are now diverged to your various departments in the spirit.
- 37:25Speaker 2: The person who is going to become a prayer warrior,
- 37:28Speaker 2: the person who is going to become a kingdom billionaire,
- 37:31Speaker 2: are we learning? The person who will be a healing evangelist,
- 37:34Speaker 2: the person who is going to be a professor doing
- 37:37Speaker 2: great things for God, the person who is going to
- 37:39Speaker 2: be a captain of industry, once you come to the
- 37:41Speaker 2: school of the Spirit, all of you start from the
- 37:44Speaker 2: same training. It is as you grow, the Holy Spirit
- 37:48Speaker 2: begins to divert you to various trainings as far as
- 37:53Speaker 2: His call and election and ordination for you is concerned.
- 37:57Speaker 3: But let me tell you how Satan deceives people.
- 38:00Speaker 2: The moment you want to do business with Satan, he
- 38:03Speaker 2: focuses on your desperation and your lust, not your passion.
- 38:08Speaker 3: He wants to distract your passion for God.
- 38:11Speaker 2: So the first thing he does is to examine your vulnerabilities.
- 38:16Speaker 2: Weapons of fashion. What does this person like? At this point,
- 38:20Speaker 2: this lady is desperate for marriage. At this point, this
- 38:23Speaker 2: lady is desperate for a child. At this point, this
- 38:26Speaker 2: lady is desperate for increase. At this point, this young
- 38:29Speaker 2: man is desperate for the prophetic. Since he had a
- 38:32Speaker 2: dream that he was a prophet, all he wants is
- 38:34Speaker 2: that mantle. Satan's attack will be fashioned around your desires.
- 38:39Speaker 3: Satan will never waste his time.
- 38:42Speaker 2: Creating a desire around something that does not connect to
- 38:45Speaker 2: you or an attack that does not connect to your
- 38:48Speaker 2: lust are we learning now if i am not hungry
- 38:52Speaker 2: if you want to tempt me with food you are
- 38:53Speaker 2: wasting my time i'm wasting your own time too are
- 38:57Speaker 2: we together imagine that you bring baby food what children
- 39:01Speaker 2: eat maybe milk or something and you say apostle i
- 39:04Speaker 2: want to.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Tempt you with this I will look at you in pity.
- 39:06Speaker 3: I know something is wrong with you.
- 39:08Speaker 2: Because that temptation cannot work. Because temptation requires something.
- 39:13Speaker 3: From you to connect with. Are we learning now? Many
- 39:17Speaker 3: of us right now, you came for this conference.
- 39:20Speaker 2: And the truth is that although you have the call
- 39:22Speaker 2: of God upon your life, you are beginning to transact
- 39:27Speaker 2: with this system, this godless system.
- 39:30Speaker 3: And transact with the devil even without knowing. How do
- 39:33Speaker 3: I know that?
- 39:34Speaker 2: Because you are having a semblance of increase. But when
- 39:39Speaker 2: we look at your life from a spirit standpoint, your
- 39:41Speaker 2: spirit man is dying. From the day doors began to
- 39:45Speaker 2: open as a man of God, you cannot remember having
- 39:48Speaker 2: a personal retreat.
- 39:49Speaker 3: For God again. But your name is spreading far. I
- 39:52Speaker 3: tell you it is not breakthrough. It is an attack.
- 39:54Speaker 2: That thing you call open door is an arrow. It
- 39:57Speaker 2: is designed to destroy your life. Do you know even
- 40:01Speaker 2: the early church faced this temptation? The Bible says when
- 40:04Speaker 2: increase was coming.
- 40:05Speaker 3: Quarrel.
- 40:06Speaker 2: It was Satan that planted that seed among the people.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Certain women began to quarrel.
- 40:12Speaker 3: Acts chapter 6. Look, they are victimizing us.
- 40:17Speaker 2: The devil wanted to penetrate the apostolic community. He said,
- 40:20Speaker 2: how do I come now? These guys are zealous, serving
- 40:23Speaker 2: the Lord. How do we deal with this?
- 40:25Speaker 3: And he said, you know what?
- 40:26Speaker 2: Let's use welfare. Let's begin to plant bitterness. Let's begin
- 40:30Speaker 2: to plant anger. Let's begin to plant jealousy.
- 40:34Speaker 3: Is someone learning now?
- 40:35Speaker 2: And he planted that seed.
- 40:37Speaker 3: And the quarrel began to grow.
- 40:39Speaker 2: And when the apostles came, The goal was not to
- 40:42Speaker 2: feed the people evenly. The goal was to take the
- 40:45Speaker 2: apostolic community away from the things that keep their spirit robust.
- 40:50Speaker 2: The goal of that attack was not to bring order necessarily.
- 40:54Speaker 2: Satan is not interested in who eats or who does
- 40:56Speaker 2: not eat. But the apostles detected it and said, Aha,
- 41:00Speaker 2: we now see that something, the consequences of increase, now
- 41:04Speaker 2: wants to tell on our spiritual life. He said, appoint
- 41:07Speaker 2: others in this business. But as for us, we have
- 41:11Speaker 2: found what keeps us relevant. We have found what.
- 41:14Speaker 3: Keeps us in fire.
- 41:16Speaker 2: He says, we will give ourselves continually. Acts 6 and
- 41:20Speaker 2: verse 4 says, to prayer and to the ministry of
- 41:22Speaker 2: the world satan lost that temptation.
- 41:26Speaker 3: Let me tell you what would.
- 41:27Speaker 2: Have happened to many of us you get to a
- 41:29Speaker 2: point where you say no no no no i've labored
- 41:32Speaker 2: too much i can't build this ministry and watch it
- 41:34Speaker 2: crumble you know what let me take a retreat from
- 41:36Speaker 2: my time of prayer and the rest let's deal with
- 41:38Speaker 2: administrative issues when satan finds you in that state he
- 41:42Speaker 2: starts multiplying the problem in your church and before you
- 41:46Speaker 2: know it you have become a businessman an administrator every
- 41:50Speaker 2: other thing at the expense of your prayer, at the
- 41:53Speaker 2: expense of the word, at the expense of your growth.
- 41:56Speaker 3: Because you are still in church does not mean you
- 41:58Speaker 3: are with God.
- 42:00Speaker 2: You will not know that you have left the place
- 42:02Speaker 2: of your consecration, the place of power and the place
- 42:05Speaker 2: of grace. Most people do not know why they lose
- 42:08Speaker 2: things eventually. I am telling you that the attacks that
- 42:12Speaker 2: come to you usually, They happen as an end point.
- 42:16Speaker 2: After Satan has distracted you away, it doesn't matter what
- 42:20Speaker 2: you are celebrating.
- 42:21Speaker 3: It shadows. It will take time and drop.
- 42:24Speaker 2: That's why you find out a man can be ministry
- 42:27Speaker 2: for a very long time. supposedly doing well, but at
- 42:31Speaker 2: the expense of his spiritual life.
- 42:33Speaker 3: Satan does not mind your 15-year success.
- 42:35Speaker 2: It does not intimidate him because in one year, after
- 42:39Speaker 2: he has laid hold on that which keeps you relevant, you.
- 42:42Speaker 3: Can crumble in one year.
- 42:44Speaker 2: That what you built in 15 years can crumble in
- 42:47Speaker 2: one year.
- 42:48Speaker 3: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 42:58Speaker 2: What shall it profit a man if he should gain
- 43:02Speaker 2: the whole world? When I started my walk with God,
- 43:06Speaker 2: I had needs. I had financial needs. I had a
- 43:09Speaker 2: lot of other needs. But the way God trained us
- 43:12Speaker 2: was he took our eyes away from everything, including ministry.
- 43:18Speaker 2: Including ministry. The focus was on him. The focus was
- 43:23Speaker 2: not on power. The focus was not on anointing. The
- 43:27Speaker 2: focus was not on healing. The focus was not on greatness.
- 43:31Speaker 2: The focus was not on fame.
- 43:32Speaker 3: Look at me.
- 43:33Speaker 2: The focus was not on becoming a great man. The
- 43:37Speaker 2: focus was not on breakthrough and revelation.
- 43:40Speaker 3: When God calls you, let me tell you what he does.
- 43:43Speaker 2: He takes your mind away from every other thing until.
- 43:47Speaker 3: Your gaze, your eyes is fixed on him. That's when
- 43:50Speaker 3: your progress begins in the spirit.
- 43:53Speaker 2: When he was going to call moses look at me
- 43:56Speaker 2: how did he start the journey with moses the first
- 43:58Speaker 2: thing he did was he simulated a burning bush he
- 44:02Speaker 2: never spoke to moses about egypt and all of these
- 44:04Speaker 2: things until he got his attention only god knows how
- 44:08Speaker 2: long he took moses moses said i will turn aside
- 44:12Speaker 2: Something else had my gaze.
- 44:14Speaker 3: But I will turn aside.
- 44:15Speaker 2: And see this great sight. And when he saw, he said,
- 44:18Speaker 2: that's it. Remove your shoes. Where you stand is holy ground.
- 44:22Speaker 2: And he began this thing until Moses became a sign
- 44:25Speaker 2: and a wonder. I know that many of us came
- 44:28Speaker 2: to receive restoration and breakthrough.
- 44:30Speaker 3: But let me tell you this.
- 44:32Speaker 2: The first restoration you need tonight is not financial restoration.
- 44:37Speaker 3: In as much as that is important.
- 44:39Speaker 2: The first restoration you need tonight is It's not health.
- 44:43Speaker 2: The first restoration you need tonight is not relationships. We
- 44:46Speaker 2: are going deep down to show you what went wrong.
- 44:50Speaker 2: It's like diagnosing a vehicle that has refused to own.
- 44:53Speaker 2: It used to be a beautiful vehicle carrying many people.
- 44:56Speaker 2: And for a reason you cannot understand, it just stopped.
- 44:59Speaker 2: The tires still look fine. The paint still looks fine.
- 45:03Speaker 2: The steering still looks fine. The stereo is still bringing music.
- 45:07Speaker 2: But the car is not moving. I will tell you
- 45:09Speaker 2: what is wrong.
- 45:12Speaker 3: Even as thy soul prospers.
- 45:14Speaker 2: Satan has taken advantage of your vulnerability and your desperation.
- 45:19Speaker 2: And taken away passion. Do you know the average young
- 45:22Speaker 2: person in church. The moment you bring teachings on presence. power, surrender,
- 45:29Speaker 2: immediately they shut down.
- 45:30Speaker 3: It's an attack. They do not even know that it's
- 45:33Speaker 3: an attack.
- 45:34Speaker 2: Once you bring a problem, most people will prefer impartation
- 45:38Speaker 2: a thousand times to the teachings that build them to
- 45:42Speaker 2: become powerful. It's the reason why people fall down under
- 45:46Speaker 2: the influence of oil and hands and rise up and
- 45:48Speaker 2: you cannot tell what changed. Because for someone, while he's
- 45:54Speaker 2: seeing a man of God, he's thinking, if I receive
- 45:57Speaker 2: this anointing now, all these guys that think I'm nothing,
- 46:00Speaker 2: they will see what will happen. That kind of thinking
- 46:04Speaker 2: is already revealing something to you that something is wrong.
- 46:07Speaker 3: God cannot endorse that kind of thing. Are we together?
- 46:13Speaker 2: I look at my life today by the message of
- 46:15Speaker 2: God and sometimes when I'm alone, tears just run down
- 46:18Speaker 2: my eyes.
- 46:19Speaker 3: And I say, my God, I thank God for this
- 46:22Speaker 3: one training to focus on the health of your soul.
- 46:27Speaker 2: For some of you, you began this walk with God
- 46:29Speaker 2: 10 years ago. If you had followed this pattern, you
- 46:32Speaker 2: would have been mighty by now. But you became distracted
- 46:35Speaker 2: in the training because you thought the training was for
- 46:38Speaker 2: men of God. And since you are not a man
- 46:41Speaker 2: of God, you said, my own is I'm a businessman.
- 46:44Speaker 2: All this thing about prayer, the word church, my own
- 46:47Speaker 2: is God told me I will handle money. At the
- 46:49Speaker 2: end of it, you who is the kingdom financier, you
- 46:51Speaker 2: still not have the money.
- 46:53Speaker 3: And the one you left at the altar praying now
- 46:55Speaker 3: has the resources.
- 46:57Speaker 2: And he's still looking at you and say you are
- 46:58Speaker 2: still here. Because in this kingdom, everything multiplies.
- 47:03Speaker 3: As the health of your soul, your spirit man tells.
- 47:07Speaker 2: If it is God that increases you, Even if God
- 47:11Speaker 2: is calling you to be a kingdom financier, that training
- 47:14Speaker 2: bar will have nothing to do with money until you
- 47:17Speaker 2: die to self and get to a point where he
- 47:20Speaker 2: can trust you with everything.
- 47:24Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 47:26Speaker 2: Many believers in church really do not understand the ways
- 47:30Speaker 2: of the spirit and so most times with all due
- 47:33Speaker 2: respect we think that the way god lived is that
- 47:36Speaker 2: you just come with hunger full of our lusts and
- 47:39Speaker 2: our desires and we just say god i am your
- 47:42Speaker 2: son you died for me here is the scripture because
- 47:46Speaker 2: i can paint a scripture on you to blackmail you
- 47:49Speaker 2: oh yeah give me the breakthrough I need a wife.
- 47:52Speaker 3: I need a husband. I need children.
- 47:55Speaker 2: And your word says, the cattle on a thousand hills
- 47:57Speaker 2: belongs to you.
- 47:58Speaker 3: I place a demand. Unfortunately, it does not happen that way.
- 48:03Speaker 2: Everything in this kingdom revolves around the will of God.
- 48:10Speaker 2: The moment your desire, your template, your outlook in life
- 48:15Speaker 2: becomes in defiance to the will of God. It doesn't
- 48:19Speaker 2: matter how accurate your scripture recitation is.
- 48:22Speaker 3: You will never secure the help of God. Hallelujah. I
- 48:28Speaker 3: have seen people pray. I have seen people fast.
- 48:31Speaker 2: But I have examined the content of their prayer and
- 48:35Speaker 2: fasting and word studies.
- 48:37Speaker 3: And it tells why they don't get answers from it.
- 48:40Speaker 3: Because they are using spirituality to feed lust. And God
- 48:43Speaker 3: says no.
- 48:44Speaker 2: Even if it is scripture you are quoting. I have
- 48:47Speaker 2: to examine your heart. Is it going to be at
- 48:50Speaker 2: the expense of the health of your soul?
- 48:53Speaker 3: Listen.
- 48:54Speaker 2: You have heard me say this my dear people. And
- 48:56Speaker 2: let me repeat it here in your presence. There is
- 48:59Speaker 2: nothing in my life today by the message of God.
- 49:02Speaker 2: That I cannot give God.
- 49:04Speaker 3: Nothing. Nothing.
- 49:09Speaker 2: When I started with God and God started lifting me,
- 49:12Speaker 2: I prayed to him. I said, Lord, this is a
- 49:15Speaker 2: personal prayer from.
- 49:16Speaker 3: Me to you. May I never know the full answer.
- 49:20Speaker 3: extent of my impact.
- 49:22Speaker 2: I don't want to know it because it can be distracting.
- 49:25Speaker 2: If I have that knowledge, Satan can come to me
- 49:28Speaker 2: and say, I hope you know you are a very
- 49:30Speaker 2: great man. Do you know how great you are? I
- 49:33Speaker 2: hope you know that the temptation of great men is
- 49:35Speaker 2: to fall down. When Jesus met, Satan met Jesus, he said,
- 49:39Speaker 2: he took him to a holy mountain and said, fall down,
- 49:42Speaker 2: angels will hold you. I have seen the help of
- 49:50Speaker 2: God in my life. I have seen the mercy of
- 49:53Speaker 2: God in my life. Let me tell you how I
- 49:55Speaker 2: found it. I didn't find it by looking for it.
- 49:58Speaker 3: I found it by looking away from all those things
- 50:02Speaker 3: and staying with him. Staying with him. Staying with him.
- 50:10Speaker 2: Making your spirit man so large and robust. And before
- 50:15Speaker 2: you know it, you become a magnet in the spirit.
- 50:18Speaker 2: You will begin to draw the things that even, listen, listen, listen.
- 50:23Speaker 2: Let's assume that this man of God is a businessman.
- 50:28Speaker 2: Do you know most times, if say for instance, just
- 50:31Speaker 2: in this example, I tell him, sir, can I design
- 50:34Speaker 2: a spiritual growth template for you? The man will say, no,
- 50:37Speaker 2: I'm not a man of God. I'm a businessman. Bring
- 50:41Speaker 2: things that deal with common sense. Give me five years
- 50:44Speaker 2: with this man. Eventually, I'm not a businessman, but I
- 50:48Speaker 2: can follow a template that even him as a businessman,
- 50:51Speaker 2: he will still be behind. And he's saying, you are
- 50:53Speaker 2: not a businessman, but what are you doing in the
- 50:55Speaker 2: circle of wealthy people?
- 50:56Speaker 3: The health of your spirit, man.
- 50:58Speaker 2: I'm showing you a key tonight that if you find,
- 51:01Speaker 2: some of you need to go back home and shelf
- 51:04Speaker 2: a lot of useless activities. They are not adding to
- 51:07Speaker 2: your growth. They will not add to your growth, I
- 51:10Speaker 2: assure you. They will waste your time, waste your energy,
- 51:14Speaker 2: waste everything about your life. And at the end of it,
- 51:17Speaker 2: you'll find out that it looks like you've been making progress.
- 51:20Speaker 2: But the progress is on to futility. But there is
- 51:23Speaker 2: one thing you can find. Mary found this. It's a matter, matter.
- 51:28Speaker 2: You are worried and you are obsessed about many things,
- 51:31Speaker 2: but one thing is needful.
- 51:33Speaker 3: Someone say one thing. Shout it, say one thing.
- 51:38Speaker 2: Ah, there is one thing that if you find in life,
- 51:41Speaker 2: you would have found the key to wealth.
- 51:44Speaker 3: You would have found the key to increase.
- 51:46Speaker 2: There are things that when you find in life, my
- 51:49Speaker 2: brothers and my sisters, the people you now admire today
- 51:53Speaker 2: will look for you and call it an honor to
- 51:55Speaker 2: stand before you. If I ask us to write our
- 52:00Speaker 2: prayer request now, What area are you trusting.
- 52:03Speaker 3: God for restoration?
- 52:04Speaker 2: Someone will say, Apostle, as I stand right now, I
- 52:07Speaker 2: have lost one billion. I have lost 500 million. And
- 52:10Speaker 2: you ask the person, what am I going to do
- 52:12Speaker 2: about it? He says, now I'm looking for a loan.
- 52:14Speaker 2: Or I'm looking for someone to help my business. But
- 52:16Speaker 2: if I tell you, give me a chance to recommend
- 52:19Speaker 2: a part for you out of that problem.
- 52:21Speaker 3: He says, Apostle, you are not a businessman.
- 52:23Speaker 2: Do your preaching. Chase those that give you money. And
- 52:30Speaker 2: I asked the person, so how are you going to
- 52:31Speaker 2: come out of this challenge? I have called senators, so, so, so,
- 52:34Speaker 2: and so. And then he promised to connect me to.
- 52:38Speaker 3: One foundation abroad. I'm already calculating everything.
- 52:41Speaker 2: I hope that, give or take, at least 200 million
- 52:44Speaker 2: will come in. And then, when that 2 million comes,
- 52:47Speaker 2: I'll do business and at least in two years, oh dear, listen,
- 52:50Speaker 2: let me tell you, the man talking to you is
- 52:52Speaker 2: not stupid. Someone else can go before God and say, Father,
- 52:56Speaker 2: if you do not open my eyes, I cannot see you.
- 53:00Speaker 2: If you do not help me, there is no human
- 53:03Speaker 2: way I can come out of this. And the Lord says,
- 53:06Speaker 2: you know what? Leave the issue of business. Leave the
- 53:09Speaker 2: issue of profit. Focus on me. Satan desires to sift you.
- 53:14Speaker 2: And you can throw business and everything and stay. And say,
- 53:18Speaker 2: I have lost everything in my life. I will not
- 53:20Speaker 2: lose my soul. Lord, let's start again. My brother, you
- 53:23Speaker 2: can be in that place and one idea in his presence.
- 53:28Speaker 2: One connection in his presence. The spirit of God. Is
- 53:31Speaker 2: it not in your Bible that the steps of a
- 53:33Speaker 2: good man are ordered by the Lord? You can get
- 53:35Speaker 2: up from your frailty and step into a conference like this.
- 53:40Speaker 2: And God will orchestrate that. You sit down near a helper.
- 53:43Speaker 2: And the person says, young man, what do you do?
- 53:45Speaker 2: And says, I'm just a graduate. He says, the spirit
- 53:49Speaker 2: of God said I should hold your hand until you
- 53:51Speaker 2: are established. Now, when you come back and meet the
- 53:55Speaker 2: person who left God to look for success, the person
- 53:58Speaker 2: will say, no, you are just lucky. I'm sure you
- 54:02Speaker 2: succeeded just because you are in ministry.
- 54:04Speaker 3: It's a lie.
- 54:05Speaker 2: It is the profit of his presence. I used to think,
- 54:12Speaker 2: This template only works for men of God. The template
- 54:16Speaker 2: of making sure that you are surrendered and staying in
- 54:20Speaker 2: his presence. And quite honestly, I used to be concerned
- 54:23Speaker 2: because I said, if you stay in his presence praying,
- 54:27Speaker 2: building capacity, won't you lose in time? There are many
- 54:30Speaker 2: important things to do. I found out that nobody.
- 54:34Speaker 3: Loses with God.
- 54:35Speaker 2: When your spirit man becomes robust and enlarged, you will
- 54:39Speaker 2: lay up gold as dust.
- 54:41Speaker 3: I tell you, if you came.
- 54:42Speaker 2: For this conference trusting God to receive restoration and to
- 54:46Speaker 2: be free, I am telling you the way out.
- 54:49Speaker 3: Take a minute away from business. Take a minute. Away
- 54:56Speaker 3: from marriage. Take a minute.
- 54:59Speaker 2: Away from children. Away from breakthrough. Can you take a
- 55:02Speaker 2: minute and stay tonight. And say God is between me
- 55:05Speaker 2: and you. This is not the issue of healing again.
- 55:08Speaker 2: I know that they diagnose me of cancer.
- 55:10Speaker 3: But cancer. It will be a later discussion. For when
- 55:18Speaker 3: you find him. When you touch him.
- 55:22Speaker 2: When you encounter the God of the Bible. Not the
- 55:26Speaker 2: one you hear people saying they met. When you encounter
- 55:29Speaker 2: the God of Israel. When he places something upon your life.
- 55:34Speaker 3: You will go out and in a moment. I'm telling you.
- 55:39Speaker 2: It will not take that long. God will raise men.
- 55:42Speaker 2: God will raise systems. He will give you wisdom. We're
- 55:45Speaker 2: starting tonight because tonight is a cry for a restoration
- 55:50Speaker 2: of our soul. And when you pray that prayer, some
- 55:53Speaker 2: of you whilst in the place of prayer, there are
- 55:55Speaker 2: other prayers you will not need to pray again. You
- 55:58Speaker 2: will go back home and on reaching home, someone will
- 56:00Speaker 2: call you and say, you know what? I've been trying
- 56:03Speaker 2: to reach you. The job is now waiting for you.
- 56:05Speaker 2: And that's when you'll find out that it's not that
- 56:07Speaker 2: God could not give you the job. He has seen
- 56:10Speaker 2: that Satan wants to use that job As a transaction.
- 56:13Speaker 2: To steal away your passion. To steal away your hunger.
- 56:17Speaker 2: To steal away your fire. And let me tell you this.
- 56:20Speaker 2: If you hear me saying this thing. And you feel
- 56:23Speaker 2: in your heart I'm wasting your time. It's an attack
- 56:26Speaker 2: on your destiny.
- 56:26Speaker 3: It's an attack.
- 56:34Speaker 2: There are things only God can do in the life
- 56:36Speaker 2: of a man. I have studied success from a business standpoint.
- 56:41Speaker 2: I have studied success from an entrepreneurial standpoint by the
- 56:44Speaker 2: message of God. I have studied success from a leadership standpoint.
- 56:49Speaker 2: I have studied success from a spiritual standpoint. I have
- 56:52Speaker 2: come to a conclusion that it doesn't matter what route
- 56:55Speaker 2: you take. If your soul, the health of your spirit man,
- 57:00Speaker 2: if that is not sorted, you will prosper. You will
- 57:03Speaker 2: make money. Doors will open. But there is calamity eventually
- 57:09Speaker 2: waiting for you. It doesn't matter even if it's after
- 57:11Speaker 2: 20 years. You can do ministry without his presence and excel.
- 57:16Speaker 3: And one day, overnight, something happens to you. Satan is
- 57:23Speaker 3: not foolish. He does not attack in one day.
- 57:26Speaker 2: He gives you room. So that you can continue without
- 57:30Speaker 2: God's presence. So that you can continue without your fire.
- 57:34Speaker 3: Listen to me. I came here by the spirit tonight
- 57:37Speaker 3: to challenge you.
- 57:41Speaker 2: Using my life and to honor your sacrifice of coming
- 57:45Speaker 2: to this place. For some of you, what God is
- 57:47Speaker 2: calling you to do now. He says, son, I've always
- 57:51Speaker 2: cried for your attention. You've gotten so busy, busy trying
- 57:56Speaker 2: to make life work. Busy trying to build a house.
- 58:00Speaker 2: Not knowing that except the Lord builds a house. They
- 58:03Speaker 2: labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord watches
- 58:07Speaker 2: over a city. The watchman watches but in vain. There
- 58:11Speaker 2: are people by the message of God that I've met
- 58:13Speaker 2: in my life today. And it's almost like a dream.
- 58:16Speaker 2: I would never have imagined that at this point in
- 58:18Speaker 2: my life. By what connection.
- 58:20Speaker 3: Would I have gotten to that level?
- 58:22Speaker 2: But God for you, when he finds your heart, who
- 58:25Speaker 2: is God speaking to? When God can find your heart,
- 58:29Speaker 2: there are many things that happen in the secret place.
- 58:33Speaker 3: That becomes your security, number one.
- 58:35Speaker 2: Is a circumcision that happens within your heart. Because you see,
- 58:39Speaker 2: the tendencies of men is such that until God.
- 58:43Speaker 3: Vets you, even you can deceive yourself.
- 58:46Speaker 2: The Bible says the heart of man is desperately wicked.
- 58:49Speaker 2: Oh God, bless me, and I will bring the money
- 58:51Speaker 2: to church.
- 58:52Speaker 3: It's a lie.
- 58:53Speaker 2: You are sincere, but you are still lying. You don't
- 58:55Speaker 2: even know the state of your heart. The Bible says
- 58:58Speaker 2: that the heart of man is deceptive above all things.
- 59:04Speaker 2: You know what it means to have plenty and it
- 59:07Speaker 2: does not affect your passion for God? You know what
- 59:09Speaker 2: it means to be lifted and still be humble and
- 59:12Speaker 2: remain on your knees? It is not human. It is
- 59:15Speaker 2: not natural. It is a circumcision that happens when you
- 59:18Speaker 2: stay with Him. When God demands that you stay, He's
- 59:22Speaker 2: not delaying your growth. When God demands that you stay,
- 59:26Speaker 2: He's not wasting your time. My dear sister, hear me.
- 59:28Speaker 2: I'm speaking to you by the Spirit. Don't let naysayers
- 59:32Speaker 2: make you feel that the time invested in God's house,
- 59:35Speaker 2: the time invested in building your health, capaciting the Spirit.
- 59:43Speaker 3: When you plant....
- 59:45Speaker 2: Sometimes a plant does not just sprout and start bearing fruit.
- 59:50Speaker 2: There are trees like the baobab tree and other trees
- 59:53Speaker 2: that would take a long time.
- 59:55Speaker 3: It would look like progress is not happening.
- 59:57Speaker 2: One way you know you are walking with God is
- 59:59Speaker 2: that there will always be silent years in your life.
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: Years that only God can tell what is happening to you.
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: You yourself cannot tell whether you are making progress or not.
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: Because all the parameters to measure success will be missing.
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: And God will keep it intentionally. He will teach you
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: to be used to him without things. And be comfortable
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: before he brings things. Did you hear what I said?
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: He will teach you to be used to his presence.
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: That if I have his presence, without money I am
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: still successful. If I have his presence, without a name
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: I am still successful. When his presence becomes your all.
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: everything added to it does not distract.
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: You again.
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: The psalmist said among the many things i desire to
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: restore restore my soul restore my soul for someone restore
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: my soul means restore my prayer life apostle i did
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: not start this way i used to be on fire
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: that fire upon my altar For some of you, it
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: was so whilst you were on campus. Before you became
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: a businessman, while you were a faithful member of a fellowship,
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: it was prayer every time. And by that momentum, you
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: were gaining ascendance in the spirit. You began in the spirit.
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: Who distracted you? What distracted you now? For some, family
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: life became the temptation and the bait Satan used to
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: distract you.
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: Others, ministry. Others, money. Others, the desire to make it.
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: God is the one.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: Who designed this system. He is not evil to leave
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: your needs unattended to. But there is a protocol. Tonight
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: I came to show you a law that you have
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: been violating that is responsible for most of the losses
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: in our lives. When Satan comes to you and he
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: looks at the direction of your attention, that's what you attack.
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: when he looks at the direction of your attention and
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: he finds it at fame or money, he.
- 1:01:59Speaker 3: Will attack that area.
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: But when he finds your eyes fixed on Jesus, that
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: while your account is multiplying, your eyes are still on
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: Jesus because.
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: You have been trained in the secret place.
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: That every time you look away from him, The waters
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: will sink you, Peter. That was the lesson. Walking on
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: water was not just about a miracle. He was teaching
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: you how to be undistracted by.
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: The things around you to focus on Jesus.
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: When Peter looked away from Jesus and began to look
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: at other things like ministry, like growth, like whatever it is,
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: he sank.
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: Let me tell you this.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: When I was to start ministry, The difficulty was how
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: to be able to raise finances for ministry. Because I
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: made up my mind that I was going to serve
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: God void of compromise. That I would never manipulate anybody
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: for myself or to fund the work. And based on
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: the visions that God was showing me, I knew that
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: this work would require enormous, enormous resources. How was God
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: going to help me through this?
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: By his mercy.
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: I remember times when I would come to God and say, Lord,
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: what is the key to this?
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: And he would teach me, stay in my presence. There
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: is a curriculum for your growth. There is a curriculum
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: for your excelling. There are people already positioned.
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: There is wisdom to navigate you to the place of
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: grace and power, but stay. I thank God by his
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: mercy that I stayed. The foolishness of waiting upon the Lord.
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: It will look like you are not making progress. Let
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: me say this to you. And I submit with all humility.
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: I'm about to pray for you now. There are many
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: people Lord. There were many people those days. They were
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: in a hurry to make it. Now I don't say
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: this you know being sarcastic. I mean if you saw
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: them you would think if they did not do ministry in.
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: One year they would die.
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: It was like I want to do ministry. I want
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: to shine. I want to heal the sick. I want
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: to do whatever. And sometimes, humanly, you'll be tempted to say,
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: I hope this is not the way.
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: And I'm missing out. And he will tell you, stay.
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: For someone... All.
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: Through January, it looked like you did not make progress
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: in any aspect of your life. Except that your prayer
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: life was healthy. Except that your word life was healthy.
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: Please do not feel foolish. You are sowing in the spirit.
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: You are making an investment. In one year, God can
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: bring the job and the husband and give you triplets.
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: You would turn back and say, so what was the
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: anxiety about?
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: What was it about?
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: Hmm.
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: Many years later, by the mercy of God, when God
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: began to do the things that he's now doing through
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: our lives, I look back with pain in.
- 1:04:55Speaker 3: My heart at some of these wonderful people yesterday.
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: I look at their hurry. They wanted to make money fast.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: They wanted fame fast. They wanted increase fast. And you
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: are now wondering, so with all that journey, where is it?
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: Because let me tell you this, It is vain to
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: wake up in the morning.
- 1:05:16Speaker 3: And to sleep late at night... Only to eat.
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: The bread of sorrow... I have learnt in my life...
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: If this God does not stand behind you.
- 1:05:25Speaker 3: To help you... You will waste your time... And.
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: Weary your days... It will look like you are making progress...
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: Only that you will turn back and find out... That
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: 15 years was wasted.
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: You will go round... Only to find out that you
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: are back to the place you started.
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: This is my call tonight... We are going to cry
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: the cry of restoration. Lord, I'm trusting you for houses.
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: I'm trusting you for a car. I'm trusting you for increase.
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: But for tonight, restore my soul.
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: Restore my soul.
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: This transaction I have been doing with Satan unknowingly. That
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: my increase has been at the expense of my prayer life.
- 1:06:06Speaker 3: My fame. Has been at the expense of my consecration.
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: My rising has been at the expense.
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: Do not allow your growth.
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: Become a cost to you. The key is to give
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: God your heart. When your heart belongs to him. When
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: Satan comes around you. It doesn't matter what he baits
- 1:06:25Speaker 2: you with.
- 1:06:26Speaker 3: Whether increase or challenges. It has no effect on your heart.
- 1:06:31Speaker 3: Do you know why? Because you are totally surrendered. Now
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: let me say this before we pray.
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: When you come to Jesus, really, you don't give him
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: your heart. You receive his life. That's what happens. Giving
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: him your heart is not a language of born again.
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: It's a language of surrender so that you'll be used
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: by him. When you now hand over your all, he said,
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: my son, give me your heart and let your eyes
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: incline onto my ways. Tonight I came to propose a formula.
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: A formula that turned This small boy you see by
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: his message what God is doing tonight. I don't claim
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: I know everything. I don't claim I know everyone. But
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: there's one thing that the people that do know their God.
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: The people that do know their God. It doesn't matter
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: where they start from. It doesn't matter who has risen
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: or not risen in their family. Allow God to birth
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: that circumcision. to melt out that circumcision within your heart tonight.
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: You are a man of God, I do not doubt. Truly,
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: the hand of God is upon you. But this appetite
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: of wanting invitation, let me go for ministry. I am
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: a great man. Put my face on the poster. You
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: are transacting with Babylon not knowing. Just because it's a
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: spiritual adventure does not mean you are free. Take away
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: all those things and stay. Neither do men light a lamp.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: If you are truly lit, it is impossible to be
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: kept in hiding. It doesn't matter who victimizes you. When
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: you stay and that circumcision happens, the gift you receive
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: from his presence is fire that cannot be quenched. And
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: when you carry that fire, whether as a businessman, you
- 1:08:16Speaker 2: carry that fire, it doesn't matter as whatever, you will excel,
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: you will reign. That's when you will see that there
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: is a compensation system.
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: I must say this.
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: While you are walking with God, you will lose many things.
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: I have to tell you the truth. There are many
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: losses that are not demonic. They are consequences of sacrifice.
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: Did you hear what I said? Please, Enugu, listen to me.
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: Listen to this man of God. While you walk with God,
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: you don't start by gaining.
- 1:08:47Speaker 3: When you walk with God, you start by losing.
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: Except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: talk to me, and.
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: When you walk with God, there is a price. you
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: will lose friends.
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: People will misperceive you that is the price you will
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: start by losing a lot to a point you will
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: be stripped of everything that makes you confident in yourself
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: so that your confidence becomes him when he strips you
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: that much It is also a measure of the weight
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: of glory. Now let me tell you this. There is
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: a compensation system at the end of the journey.
- 1:09:27Speaker 3: Don't feel cheated.
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: No matter what you lose in the journey, if it
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: is God who is helping you, I assure you, if
- 1:09:33Speaker 2: it's money you lost, if it's friends you lost, if
- 1:09:36Speaker 2: it's your reputation you lost, don't worry about that. By
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: the time the maker makes you, in one day, Job
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: lost everything.
- 1:09:48Speaker 3: The one thing he had was his honor and reverence
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: for God. And even his wife said, Mr. Man, you've
- 1:09:54Speaker 3: lost all. Cause God and die.
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: Job said, why do you speak like this one of
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: these foolish women?
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: He says, all the days of my appointed time.
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: I don't know if I would have had the kind
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: of stamina to wait like Job. Not when after losing
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: my children, my estate, and then my health.
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: Maybe I would have caused God one day to say, God,
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: you know what? I don't trust you. Kill me if
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: you want to. But not Job. He said, I know
- 1:10:18Speaker 3: my redeemer liveth.
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: To the point that three men came together and the
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: Bible said they sat down for one week.
- 1:10:26Speaker 3: They were looking at Job.
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: Do you know what it means to sit near a
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: sick person for one week and you can't talk to
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: the person? How did you reduce like this? What kind
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: of attack came on your ministry? What kind of attack came.
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: On your family?
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: And Elihu said, no, no, no. It's not always about
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: what the person did wrong. There are mysteries in the spirit.
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: There are times we lose to gain. You shed off
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: certain weights. I'm saying this to someone because you lost
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: a job. You lost friends. Someone said if you would compromise,
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: you would get an oil and gas company work.
- 1:11:02Speaker 3: And you refused.
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: You thought by the next day a breakthrough would come.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: And sometimes preachers, we need to be careful as we
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: teach people. There is a process before emergence happens. Just
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: because you say no to Satan does not mean God's
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: answer will come immediately.
- 1:11:16Speaker 3: There are times no.
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: Answer will come for two years, five years. You will
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: feel foolish for saying no to the devil.
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: But wait. Still wait.
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: You made up your mind that you will stay. And
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: everybody who started with you has gone ahead of you.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: They call you one day and say, please, we are
- 1:11:33Speaker 2: concerned about your destiny. Tell them I came to church
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: tonight and I had one word.
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: Wait. Wait. I will wait, oh. I will wait. Thank
- 1:11:45Speaker 3: God for your ministry. Go ahead. I wish you well,
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: but I will wait.
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: The ordination upon my life and the weight of glory
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: that I carry requires a building.
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: I will wait. Provided it is waiting upon the Lord.
- 1:11:57Speaker 3: I will wait.
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: Let the circumcision happen. And God looks at you and says,
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: I want to trust you with nations.
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: But because of.
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: The background you came from. Maybe you came from a
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: polygamous background. The tendency for pride. The tendency for wickedness
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: is there so that it does not destroy you in
- 1:12:15Speaker 2: the future. Allow me to circumcise you. And I tell
- 1:12:18Speaker 2: you while that is happening, it will be painful. Waiting
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: is the hardest thing I know for a believer because
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: you wait in the silence of God. As a man
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: of God, someone will come for counseling over something that
- 1:12:32Speaker 2: you are going through. You will solve their problem by
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: prophecy and then you still remain in that situation.
- 1:12:38Speaker 3: And you are saying, uh-uh.
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: Somebody came to you and said, look, I'm trusting God
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: for finances.
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: You say, let's pray.
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: And as you spoke, the person sent you a text
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: one hour and said, you are really anointed. And you,
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: your rent has not been paid. The person said, no,
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: you are really, I'll come with my friend again. So you,
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: after praying for 10 people or a barren woman praying
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: and a woman comes with triplets and said, I've never
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: experienced graces like this.
- 1:13:04Speaker 3: And you say, God, what of me? Here is my
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: message for you tonight.
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: Wait.
- 1:13:08Speaker 3: Wait. Wait. Wait. Some of you, I'm wrapping up now.
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: You are about the finish line. Wait.
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: Because you see, if you are to run a marathon
- 1:13:25Speaker 2: and you are the last round and you are tired,
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: they would not say because you went seven rounds for eight,
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: you've done well. You still lost. You and the person
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: who was not in the field will receive the same lot.
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: Shame.
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: I made up my mind that if it is God,
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: I'd rather be a fool in the presence of man.
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: But I will stay with him. I have seen the
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: value of his presence. I look at my life today
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: and I don't say this foolishly. to be arrogant. I
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: hope you don't misunderstand me for arrogance. Honestly, I have
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: seen the mercy of God. Sometimes when I'm alone, I've
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: tried to cry in the midst of people, my tears
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: will not just come out.
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: So I don't know why.
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: I'm not a very emotional person, but when I try
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: to cry, oh yeah, come now, the tears will not come.
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: But when I'm alone, because I consider the things he's
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: done in my life, I remember that small boy. And
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: I stand and I say, Lord, look what you've done
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: in my life. And it says, teach people what I
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: did in your life. Don't just enjoy it. Teach people
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: that the secret is when you forget about all and
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: stay with him. Master, we have left all, Lord. We
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: left all. We left all. We left all. We left all.
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: We left invitations. We left opportunities. If you ever think
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: you stay with God, become a failure the formula that
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: was given to you was wrong but if it is
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: God's formula as your soul prospers every other thing will
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: eventually catch up and sometimes it will catch up so
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: fast when God began to show us mercy as a
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: ministry when God began to show me mercy as a
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: person at a point I was going to say Lord
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: what is this It's.
- 1:15:17Speaker 3: Like this train is running too fast. But that's what
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: happens when you build capacity in the spirit. In one day. Question.
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: How long did it take Job to be restored? Have
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: you read your Bible? Job 42 and verse 10. Read
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: 10 and 11. That's how long it took Job to
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: be restored.
- 1:15:37Speaker 3: All while he was going through that season. Ladies and gentlemen.
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: All the people who had capacity to help him were there.
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: But mysteriously they were far from him. Oh, but there
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: is an east wind that can blow helpers from everywhere.
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: And in one day, back to back, somebody comes to
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: you and says, gentlemen, you are in this choir. God
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: said I should give you a house. You will first
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: look at it and say, no, it is a joke.
- 1:16:03Speaker 2: Let me tell you this. I share these stories to
- 1:16:06Speaker 2: inspire you. For many years, I stayed in one room.
- 1:16:15Speaker 3: As a man of God.
- 1:16:16Speaker 2: I would travel and preach, be kept in very nice places.
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: I didn't stay because of luck. I was paying for people,
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: two bedrooms, three bedrooms, keeping people, paying school fees.
- 1:16:29Speaker 3: And God would tell me to stay in one room.
- 1:16:31Speaker 3: I said, what is all this one again? If I've
- 1:16:34Speaker 3: sinned against you, I'm sorry. What did I do wrong
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: like that? Stay. I remember people would bring vehicles and
- 1:16:42Speaker 3: give me. You see that? Bring vehicles and give me.
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: And the Holy Spirit said, no, I can supply.
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: Pray on the vehicle and take it back. I remember
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: a time when a group of women, I was in
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: my room praying. I heard, you know how women sing
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: choruses and they're coming to your house. You know that's
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: a serious issue. Once you see them together singing choruses
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: and they just as concerned mothers, they wanted to.
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: Know if there was something wrong with me that I
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: was not sharing. When they left, I said, God, is
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: something wrong with me?
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: Do you know what it means? To be paying rent
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: for other people and you are staying in one room?
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: And I used to counsel in that one room. I
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: did not hide it. You enter the room and you
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: think it's an office. Only that it's an office with
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: a bed. Well prepared bed. Office with DSTV.
- 1:17:36Speaker 3: And free to air. What kind of one room is that?
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: People will bring cars.
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: I remember I used to climb bike to go for
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: miracle service. Now everybody's life may not follow that template.
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: I'm only giving you an example to show you what
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: it means to stay until you are made. Hallelujah. Imagine
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: a crowd of people like this and you hear a
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: bike outside and that's me with my Bible. And the
- 1:18:05Speaker 2: people are looking with shock and disbelief. Isn't that these
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: guys are wicked?
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: They cannot buy a car for this man of God.
- 1:18:13Speaker 3: So people offered. There were people who.
- 1:18:15Speaker 2: Decided to, oh yeah, let's do it. I remember it
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: was a miracle service. The head of protocol is here.
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: When a woman from Lagos sent a Sienna and sent
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: that Sienna and they dropped it and they called me
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: that a woman had brought a car for me. I said, God,
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: who is this car for? And God said, no, this
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: one is for you. I didn't look at that car.
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: I passed, I went for the miracle service. It was
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: when I returned back in the night that I now
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: looked at it. That's when I knew what had happened
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: to me. The string that connects.
- 1:18:50Speaker 3: The heart with things was no longer there.
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: This was the circumcision that God was doing. That there
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: is an invisible string in the heart of man. That
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: those are the strings that make you look like a
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: puppet in the.
- 1:19:04Speaker 3: Midst of things. Money moves you here. Titles move you here.
- 1:19:08Speaker 3: Fame moves you here.
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: God now brought that circumcision to my heart. And I'm
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: honored today. The rest is history. To God be the glory.
- 1:19:19Speaker 2: I cannot tell you the things that God has done
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: in my life today. God carried the lifetime of many.
- 1:19:25Speaker 3: People and gave me one lifetime. Many people.
- 1:19:30Speaker 2: Today we are able to do the things that we
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: do for the kingdom across the nations. Our first crusade,
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: we were not a little more than your choir. After
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: fasting for two weeks.
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: I'm praying. The car spoiled on the way.
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: We didn't have money to call a mechanic. It was
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: praying in tongues that got that car back. I tell
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: the truth and I lie not. The ladies, everybody was
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: in every department at that time. Just find a department
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: that is empty and join. The ladies would climb trees
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: to pluck some wood. So that they could cook. And
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: they were still in the worship team. They would quickly
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: cook and rush and go and dress. But today to
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: God be the glory.
- 1:20:12Speaker 3: Listen. So that we do not waste prophetic words.
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: And so that you do not shout amen for nothing.
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: What many of you need right now is that circumcision tonight.
- 1:20:27Speaker 2: And for the next five minutes, we are going to
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: be crying before the Lord. Leave the issue of car.
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: Listen to me. I'm telling you how to get the car. Businessman,
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: I know you are owing. If you run away from God,
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: you are still in trouble.
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: Are we together?
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: My sister, I know you want marriage, you want children.
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: God wants you to settle more than you can.
- 1:20:51Speaker 3: But you stay.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: The next five minutes, we're going to pray and cry
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: like the 24 elders. Lord, that circumcision, restore my soul.
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: Restore my soul. Restore my soul. In the name of
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Everything that has given me.
- 1:21:10Speaker 3: Cheap to Satan.
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: Everything that has given my destiny. My ministry cheap. Someone
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: go ahead and pray. For some of you.
- 1:21:18Speaker 3: You need to start with repentance. For some of you.
- 1:21:21Speaker 3: You need to cry and say.
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: Lord walk upon me. Take a minute and pray. Participate
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: in the prayer. This is between you and your maker.
- 1:21:31Speaker 2: The Bible says, seeing then that we are surrounded by
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: so great a cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: every weight and the sin that God easily beset us.
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: And to run with perseverance the race that is set
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: before us. Looking unto Jesus who is the author and
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: the finisher of our faith. who for the joy that
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: was set before him endured the cross and despised the
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: shame someone is crying to God someone who came to
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: church with genuine hunger restore my fire restore my prayer
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: life restore my appetite restore my passion.
- 1:22:15Speaker 3: Go ahead and pray.
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: I know you are a man of God, but take
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: away that ministerial regalia for one minute and cry before
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: your maker. I know you are a champion in the spirit.
- 1:22:26Speaker 2: Take away that regalia for one minute. I know you
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: are a daughter of Abraham. There is an ordination in
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: your life. I do not doubt it. But someone cry, restore.
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: not restore my money leave money for tomorrow not restore my.
- 1:22:41Speaker 3: Car leave the issue of car.
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: For tomorrow not restore my reputation leave reputation for tomorrow
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: restore my relationship restore the rate the state of my
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: heart restore my passion restore my fire.
- 1:23:00Speaker 3: Take a minute to pray.
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: Holy blessed is he who comes in the name.
- 1:23:14Speaker 3: Of our god holy holy blessed is.
- 1:23:25Speaker 2: He who comes in the name of our god hosanna
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: listen ladies.
- 1:23:42Speaker 3: And gentlemen Hear me.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: Until you encounter that refiner's fire, I sense a very
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: strong anointing in this place. This anointing is not for impartation.
- 1:24:21Speaker 3: This anointing is to restore your fire and your hunger.
- 1:24:27Speaker 3: Let me tell you the truth.
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: Some of you, you are the one delaying your manifestation.
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: It is not in God's hand. It is at the
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: mercy of your zeal and your passion. The day you
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: take God seriously. And accelerate the death process through your
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: hunger and passion. You also accelerate the manifestation. Death walks
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: in us. That life will walk in you.
- 1:24:55Speaker 4: Listen.
- 1:24:56Speaker 3: Listen.
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: A man of God once asked me a question. And
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: he said, what really is the secret of resulting ministry?
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: He was trying to really investigate honestly. He said, apostle,
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: what will you say is the real secret of having
- 1:25:15Speaker 2: resulting ministry? Is it eloquence in speech? Is it soundness
- 1:25:21Speaker 2: in communication doctrine? Is it depth of the word?
- 1:25:25Speaker 3: Is it prayer? Is it excellence?
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: Is it administration? Is it relationships? All of these are
- 1:25:31Speaker 2: the various elements that make for excelling. But if you
- 1:25:35Speaker 2: were to tell me one key, what will it be?
- 1:25:40Speaker 3: I told him, guess. And he said, prayer. I said, no,
- 1:25:43Speaker 3: you failed. He said, what? I said, no, you failed.
- 1:25:46Speaker 3: He said, what then? Excellence, I said, no, you fail.
- 1:25:50Speaker 3: The greatest key to excelling in ministry is not outside you.
- 1:25:53Speaker 3: It's within you. The state of your heart with God.
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: The state of your heart with God is greater than
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: your prayer life. The state of your heart with God
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: is greater than Bible recitations. Can I tell you, you
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: can get everything right.
- 1:26:15Speaker 3: And be surprised that it will not work. Because the
- 1:26:18Speaker 3: state of your heart is corrupt. One minute. I've stretched
- 1:26:24Speaker 3: you a bit. You're going to cry. And say, Father.
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: Everything that will make me leave you now or the future.
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: Everything that will make me to dethrone you in my heart.
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: Everything that will make me exalt things above you.
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: Touch my heart of it right now. Open your mouth
- 1:26:44Speaker 3: and pray.
- 1:26:45Speaker 2: Whether it's titles. Whether it's position. Whether it's money. Whether
- 1:26:50Speaker 2: it's increase. I show you a formula. That controls excellence
- 1:26:55Speaker 2: in the spirit. The business of working with God is
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: predicated on death. Allowing for that circumcision within you to
- 1:27:04Speaker 2: be complete.
- 1:27:06Speaker 3: Restore my soul. Restore my hunger. Restore my prayer life.
- 1:27:12Speaker 3: Restore my zeal.
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: we pray. I pray about many things in my life.
- 1:27:30Speaker 2: But there are a few things I found out. That
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: it was no longer necessary to pray over them. While
- 1:27:36Speaker 2: my hunger was directed to his majesty. It also doubled
- 1:27:41Speaker 2: as a magnet. Attracting many things to my life. It
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: is true when the Bible says. If you seek first
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: his kingdom. And his righteousness truly. All other things. All
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: other things. All other things. I want to make an
- 1:28:00Speaker 2: altar call. Please no movement. There are two altar calls
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: in one I want to make tonight. The first cry
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: is his spiritual restoration tonight. There's someone who came here
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: and whilst you heard me speak, you're in the overflow outside.
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit in the silence. Everybody having all kinds
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: of reactions to this teaching. But for you, the Holy
- 1:28:22Speaker 2: Spirit was pointing to you and said, this is it.
- 1:28:25Speaker 2: This is what I've been showing you through dreams. This
- 1:28:27Speaker 2: is what I've been showing you through prophecy. This is
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: what I've been showing you through the teachings you have
- 1:28:32Speaker 2: been hearing. That it is upon the strength of that death,
- 1:28:36Speaker 2: that circumcision, that pruning, that surrender.
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: That real restoration, increase and advancement happens to you in
- 1:28:44Speaker 3: the spirit.
- 1:28:45Speaker 2: In a way that profits you both here and in eternity.
- 1:28:49Speaker 3: I want to call two people in one.
- 1:28:51Speaker 2: One, those who are saying, Apostle, if you will give
- 1:28:54Speaker 2: me this noble opportunity within the next minute or so
- 1:28:57Speaker 2: that we have I truly want to make it right
- 1:29:00Speaker 2: with Jesus. I've heard people talk about this Jesus thing,
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: but I've never really taken it seriously. But on hearing
- 1:29:06Speaker 2: you teach, the Holy Ghost began to speak to me.
- 1:29:08Speaker 2: Number two, those who are saying, Apostle, I remember making
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: this decision, but honestly, as it is right now, my
- 1:29:16Speaker 2: life is in a spiritual ICU.
- 1:29:19Speaker 3: I need help fast.
- 1:29:21Speaker 2: God bless you, my dear sister. I see someone coming
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: before the Lord with her baby. Now, if you come,
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: don't kneel because the space here is limited. Once the
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: front is filled, some of you are already coming before
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: my counting. Once the front is filled, then that will
- 1:29:35Speaker 2: be it. You will stand where you are. You want
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: to make it right with Jesus. I want to help
- 1:29:40Speaker 2: her play.
- 1:29:40Speaker 3: She's holding a baby so she doesn't fall with her baby.
- 1:29:43Speaker 3: You want to be.
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: Born again, genuinely afresh. No games, no church, whatever it is.
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: Let's celebrate them as they come. Come.
- 1:29:52Speaker 3: I count one to five.
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: Those who are outside you can walk to the front
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: of your screens you may not have the liberty to
- 1:30:07Speaker 2: all come in but all of the overflows you can
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: walk to the front of your LED and just stand
- 1:30:14Speaker 2: there by faith.
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: My life is not my own to.
- 1:30:23Speaker 3: You I belong.
- 1:30:26Speaker 2: I give myself Give myself to.
- 1:30:34Speaker 3: You. My life is not my own. To you I belong.
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: I give myself. I give myself to you. Hallelujah. Don't
- 1:30:51Speaker 3: miss any of the sessions.
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: When we settle this, we can now deal with the
- 1:30:55Speaker 2: dynamics of the various.
- 1:30:56Speaker 3: Areas where you are trusting God for restoration.
- 1:30:59Speaker 2: It now makes sense to receive the healing, the miracles,
- 1:31:02Speaker 2: the signs, the wonders, the prophecies and the impartations if
- 1:31:06Speaker 2: and when you.
- 1:31:06Speaker 3: Have gotten this law well. For someone, you need to
- 1:31:09Speaker 3: go back home and listen.
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: To this message again this night because I tell you sincerely,
- 1:31:14Speaker 2: you have done every other thing right but because you
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: missed this one thing.
- 1:31:18Speaker 3: That's why you've struggled in business, struggled in destiny.
- 1:31:22Speaker 2: If you can get this right, many things, even before
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: December you'll be surprised. You will now see that life
- 1:31:30Speaker 2: is not that hard. It is as hard as the
- 1:31:33Speaker 2: absence of divine.
- 1:31:34Speaker 3: Assistance in your life. Thank you all of you for coming.
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: I believe that many of you are making this decision
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: for the first time and yet there are a number
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: of others.
- 1:31:43Speaker 3: There's such a great harvest tonight.
- 1:31:45Speaker 2: I know that many others are coming because they desire
- 1:31:50Speaker 2: a rededication now there are two things I'm going to
- 1:31:53Speaker 2: ask you to do one I'm going to lead you
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: to the salvation prayer and once we're done I'm going
- 1:31:59Speaker 2: to lead you there are counselors I know there are
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: a number of you I'm sure that the counselors have.
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: Been prepared they would.
- 1:32:06Speaker 2: Have some time with you have a word with you
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: and then you're back to your seat please lift your
- 1:32:10Speaker 2: right hand as a sign of surrender to this Jesus
- 1:32:14Speaker 2: not Joshua Selman not Reverend Edwin Not any of the
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: ministers here. It is on to your king, your maker.
- 1:32:21Speaker 2: Say after me, Lord Jesus. Mean it from your heart. Say,
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, tonight I return. Tonight, restore me. I believe
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: that you are the son of the living God. I
- 1:32:38Speaker 2: believe that you died for my sin. I believe that
- 1:32:44Speaker 2: you rose again for my justifications. Right now, I receive
- 1:32:48Speaker 2: Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord, and
- 1:32:55Speaker 2: my King. I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell,
- 1:33:04Speaker 2: and the grave is broken over my life. I'm a
- 1:33:08Speaker 2: child of God. I go for whatever and back whatever.
- 1:33:14Speaker 3: In Jesus' name.
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: There are two of you, the power of God is
- 1:33:17Speaker 2: coming on you. The rest, I'm going to ask you
- 1:33:20Speaker 2: to leave, but I just, whilst you were praying that prayer,
- 1:33:22Speaker 2: I just saw light, two people, the power of God.
- 1:33:26Speaker 2: And the reason why that impartation is coming is because
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: there are demonic things around your life. Let me just
- 1:33:32Speaker 2: speak that word. I'm not ministering, doing anything tonight. This
- 1:33:36Speaker 2: is the assignment God gave me. God, the threshing floor,
- 1:33:39Speaker 2: doing a walk of circumcision. But for those two people,
- 1:33:42Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus, wherever you are, I stretch
- 1:33:44Speaker 2: my hands now And I declare, let that fire, let
- 1:33:48Speaker 2: it rest on you. In the name of Jesus Christ,
- 1:33:52Speaker 2: help the woman, let it rest on you. And I
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: curse that spirit of infirmity, leaves your life forever. In
- 1:34:00Speaker 2: the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I decree and declare
- 1:34:03Speaker 2: that the reign of darkness goes never, never, never to
- 1:34:08Speaker 2: prevail over your life again. I set you free, every
- 1:34:12Speaker 2: chain holding you, I decree and declare, be loose from
- 1:34:16Speaker 2: it right now. You will experience liberty. Liberty that comes
- 1:34:20Speaker 2: by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 1:34:22Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus.
- 1:34:24Speaker 2: And I decree and declare unto you, in the name
- 1:34:27Speaker 2: of Jesus.
- 1:34:27Speaker 3: Christ, what he says to one, he says to all.
- 1:34:31Speaker 2: Even before the other services where I'll be ministering, I
- 1:34:34Speaker 2: decree and declare that everything you came with that has
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: held you down, bound you, kept you captive, you are
- 1:34:41Speaker 2: released from it right now in Jesus' name. by the
- 1:34:44Speaker 2: power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray.
- 1:34:49Speaker 2: Amen and amen. Okay, now for those of you, does
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: that concern the people here? Okay, all of you who
- 1:34:56Speaker 2: are here, please look to the screen, whether inside or outside,
- 1:35:00Speaker 2: you would see a number, 080-2633-7373. You are required to
- 1:35:02Speaker 2: text NEWLIFE, text NEWLIFE to that number. Um, And then
- 1:35:13Speaker 2: there are counselors who have been trained to have, they
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: would get to reach you and then to follow you
- 1:35:20Speaker 2: up in an organized manner. There are so many people
- 1:35:23Speaker 2: and I'm sure this is the wisest approach. So make
- 1:35:25Speaker 2: sure you take advantage of it. I will speak over
- 1:35:27Speaker 2: your life now and then you return back to your seat. Father,
- 1:35:30Speaker 2: thank you for these precious ones. They have come declaring
- 1:35:33Speaker 2: your lordship over their lives. I decree and declare in
- 1:35:36Speaker 2: truth that this relationship, this restoration process, begins for you
- 1:35:41Speaker 2: and it remains so all the days of your life.
- 1:35:43Speaker 2: No going up and coming down. The Lord preserve you
- 1:35:47Speaker 2: in Jesus name. Please return back to your seat and
- 1:35:50Speaker 2: for everyone else who has come, let me speak over
- 1:35:52Speaker 2: your life in the name that is above all names.
- 1:35:54Speaker 2: You came for this conference and as you submit yourself
- 1:35:58Speaker 2: to this law, this law of total surrender, this law
- 1:36:05Speaker 2: of voiding yourself of any tendency of transacting with satan
- 1:36:10Speaker 2: to earn success, to earn a great life. I pray
- 1:36:14Speaker 2: for you in the name of Jesus Christ that by
- 1:36:17Speaker 2: the power that raised Christ from the dead, everything that
- 1:36:21Speaker 2: he has used to lay claim on your destiny, I
- 1:36:25Speaker 2: declare that you are released right now.
- 1:36:28Speaker 3: Shout a loud amen. You are released right now.
- 1:36:32Speaker 2: As you go home, may your testimony arrive your home
- 1:36:36Speaker 2: before you. I say to a believer as you go home,
- 1:36:41Speaker 2: that before you get to your house, let signs and wonders.
- 1:36:45Speaker 3: Be waiting for you in honor to this word.
- 1:36:48Speaker 2: Many of the things you have been praying for, now
- 1:36:52Speaker 2: that you have gotten the order right.
- 1:36:54Speaker 3: May they come to you as speedy answers. Speedy answers.
- 1:37:01Speaker 3: Speedy answers. In Jesus' mighty name we pray.
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: Amen.
- 1:37:06Speaker 3: Do me this one favor before I return back.
- 1:37:09Speaker 2: Please, I'd like you to covenant with yourself that tomorrow
- 1:37:13Speaker 2: and the evening and all through these sessions.
- 1:37:16Speaker 3: That you are going to do the work of an evangelist.
- 1:37:19Speaker 2: I know that there's a crowd of people all across
- 1:37:21Speaker 2: but there is still need for people. Some of you
- 1:37:24Speaker 2: whilst hearing me teach, you knew by the spirit that
- 1:37:27Speaker 2: there are people who need to hear this message because
- 1:37:29Speaker 2: this is the answer to the prayers that they have
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: been praying. Do well to number one, Give these teachings
- 1:37:35Speaker 2: to them for their edification. Number two, don't come tomorrow
- 1:37:39Speaker 2: morning alone.
- 1:37:40Speaker 3: The evening, don't come alone.
- 1:37:42Speaker 2: Come with your heart prepared to receive and the Lord
- 1:37:44Speaker 2: will do you good in Jesus' name.
- 1:37:46Speaker 3: Amen. And God bless you.