Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / RESTORE MY SOUL [A CRY FOR PERSONAL REVIVAL]
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 0:14Speaker 2: God bless you in Jesus' name. I'm happy to be
- 0:21Speaker 2: in Enugu again. This is happy new year for me
- 0:26Speaker 2: in Enugu.
- 0:27Speaker 3: God bless you in Jesus' name. Thank you so much,
- 0:31Speaker 3: Pastor Edwin. It's an honor to be here again. And
- 0:35Speaker 3: to bring God's word to his people. And I like
- 0:39Speaker 3: us while standing to not just honor the man of God,
- 0:44Speaker 3: the angel over this house. But I really want us
- 0:47Speaker 3: to take a moment and honor our father, Bishop Onubogu.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Let's give him a big God bless you.
- 0:55Speaker 3: I was very humbled when I heard that he flew
- 1:01Speaker 3: in all the way from London, arrived yesterday. And then
- 1:04Speaker 3: was at the airport. In fact, I was trying to
- 1:06Speaker 3: tell the people where I come from. A man at
- 1:09Speaker 3: this age should not be found in the airport receiving
- 1:12Speaker 3: a small boy like this. But he has so decided
- 1:16Speaker 3: to do so. And I truly honor you, sir.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Thank you sincerely.
- 1:23Speaker 3: I honor every man and every woman of God in
- 1:25Speaker 3: this place. You would notice that I do this all
- 1:28Speaker 3: the time before I teach. I do it because I
- 1:31Speaker 3: believe it. Number two, I do it so that those
- 1:33Speaker 3: who are watching will learn. There is nobility in showing honor.
- 1:37Speaker 3: When you honor people, it shows that you recognize that
- 1:41Speaker 3: we're only but products of God's grace.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I truly believe with.
- 1:46Speaker 3: All my heart that this conference was designed by God
- 1:49Speaker 3: for someone here tonight. I was very touched and humbled
- 1:53Speaker 3: when I saw several people, all of the overflows outside here.
- 1:57Speaker 3: I think there's one outside of the fence. Hungry and
- 2:00Speaker 3: desperate people. I want to assure you that you came
- 2:03Speaker 3: to meet beyond a man. There are things that men
- 2:08Speaker 3: cannot do. But there is the God of heaven. The
- 2:11Speaker 3: one who satisfies the hungry. Who brings water even to
- 2:15Speaker 3: the thirsty.
- 2:16Speaker 4: Alleluia.
- 2:17Speaker 3: And I'm also honored to find, you know, your noble
- 2:20Speaker 3: people within the land coming also, politicians coming to participate.
- 2:26Speaker 3: It's a very great thing because we lead out of
- 2:29Speaker 3: our convictions. Whatever you believe is what you translate to
- 2:33Speaker 3: policies is what governs your actions.
- 2:36Speaker 1: And so I really want to say thank you. And
- 2:39Speaker 1: I trust that tonight will really be a time that
- 2:43Speaker 1: God will.
- 2:44Speaker 3: Just decommission deep into our spirits and walk the things
- 2:49Speaker 3: that produce victory and restoration.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Let me encourage you to not be distracted.
- 2:54Speaker 3: There are people who labor so much to come for meetings,
- 2:57Speaker 3: but once they arrive, they hand over their concentration to
- 3:01Speaker 3: the devil and they literally waste their time. They don't
- 3:03Speaker 3: get anything. They don't gain anything. They laugh. They snap pictures.
- 3:09Speaker 3: They share the grace and go back. Let your heart
- 3:12Speaker 3: and your spirit be in this place. In the name
- 3:14Speaker 3: of Jesus. Father, give me an encounter tonight. Can you
- 3:19Speaker 3: cry to the God of heaven by your spirit? Those
- 3:26Speaker 3: who are following online, I'd like you to connect. The
- 3:30Speaker 3: word of God is about to come for our profiting.
- 3:34Speaker 3: A man of God is praying. Someone desperate for God
- 3:38Speaker 3: is praying. Someone hungry for restoration is praying. Indeed, God
- 3:45Speaker 3: has anointed voices to speak restoration. They are taken for
- 3:49Speaker 3: a prayer and non-saying restore. Now God has anointed us
- 3:55Speaker 3: to bring words of restoration. My heart is opened. My
- 4:01Speaker 3: spirit is alive. I am sensitive to your speaking. So God,
- 4:06Speaker 3: speak to me. Speak to my destiny. Someone is praying.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Take a minute and speak. Speak to me, oh God.
- 4:18Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Praise the name of the Lord. In Luke chapter 15,
- 4:32Speaker 1: I believe.
- 4:42Speaker 3: Jesus gave among the many parables that he gave. He
- 4:46Speaker 3: gave one that is called the parable of the lost coin.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 4:53Speaker 3: And in that parable he said a woman had ten
- 4:56Speaker 3: coins representing treasures. And then that for whatever reason one
- 5:02Speaker 3: of the coin was missing. And so she needed to
- 5:07Speaker 3: find that one coin because she was given ten But
- 5:11Speaker 3: for some reason, one was missing. And the Bible says
- 5:14Speaker 3: the first thing that she did was to light a candle.
- 5:19Speaker 3: It is vain to search in darkness.
- 5:22Speaker 1: You will not find it. One thing she knew.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Was that that coin was in that room. But where
- 5:27Speaker 3: exactly it was, she could not find.
- 5:30Speaker 1: And so she lit a candle.
- 5:32Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 5:34Speaker 3: And the Bible says the spirit of man It's the
- 5:37Speaker 3: candle of the Lord. And when he lights that fire
- 5:40Speaker 3: upon your candle, the Bible says, she began to search.
- 5:45Speaker 3: It takes zeal and passion, hunger and determination to search.
- 5:50Speaker 3: And as she began to get a broom and sweep,
- 5:54Speaker 3: we don't know how long it took her, but eventually
- 5:57Speaker 3: she swept a corner and there came the treasure. And
- 6:01Speaker 3: she called everybody to come and rejoice with her.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I'm praying for you.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Some of you have lost many things. Some of you
- 6:07Speaker 3: lost levels of honor in the spirit. Some of you
- 6:11Speaker 3: have lost strategic relationships. Some of you are about losing
- 6:15Speaker 3: your bishopric due to carelessness, insensitivity. Some of you have
- 6:20Speaker 3: lost direction in life and ministry. It's my prayer for
- 6:24Speaker 3: you that as this fire lands upon your spirit, that
- 6:31Speaker 3: in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God,
- 6:34Speaker 3: You will find that which was missing.
- 6:37Speaker 1: No matter how long it's been missing.
- 6:40Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ. You will find that
- 6:43Speaker 3: which was missing. No matter how long it was missing.
- 6:48Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ. Let's take two minutes
- 6:51Speaker 3: and pray in the spirit. Desperately.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Passionately. Seriously. Go ahead and pray. We are praying in
- 7:02Speaker 1: the spirit.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Passionately for the next two minutes. With someone to 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 1: Amos chapter 9.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Verse 13 and 14.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Please help us media.
- 7:56Speaker 3: Amos chapter 9, 13 and 14. I believe this is
- 8:00Speaker 3: a prophetic word for someone. It says, Behold the days come,
- 8:04Speaker 3: saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
- 8:09Speaker 3: and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed. And
- 8:12Speaker 3: the mountains shall drop sweet wine and the hills shall melt.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Verse 14. It says, and I.
- 8:19Speaker 3: Will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel.
- 8:23Speaker 3: And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them.
- 8:28Speaker 3: They shall plant vineyards and shall drink the wine thereof.
- 8:32Speaker 1: They shall also make gardens and eat the fruit thereof.
- 8:36Speaker 3: I'm praying for you that everything that has left your life,
- 8:40Speaker 3: By whatever means in the name of Jesus Christ. The
- 8:43Speaker 3: son of the living God. As you hear the word tonight.
- 8:46Speaker 3: Let there be restoration. As you hear the word tonight.
- 8:52Speaker 3: Let there be restoration. In the name of Jesus. In
- 8:59Speaker 3: the name of Jesus.
- 9:02Speaker 1: When Samuel met Saul.
- 9:06Speaker 3: Samuel never asked the donkey that was missing to go back.
- 9:11Speaker 3: At the instance of that encounter, the Bible tells us
- 9:15Speaker 3: that the donkey began to.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Find his way home. Remember, it was the same.
- 9:19Speaker 3: Donkey that led them on that journey three days until
- 9:22Speaker 3: they decided to stop wasting their time and to go
- 9:25Speaker 3: and meet a seer who had the counsel of God.
- 9:28Speaker 1: And as soon as Saul.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Met with Samuel, Samuel was not even talking to him
- 9:34Speaker 3: about what was missing again. He began to deal with
- 9:36Speaker 3: nobler things, the matter of his ordination and his election.
- 9:41Speaker 3: And he said, but so that you will know that
- 9:43Speaker 3: you really encountered a man of God. That which you
- 9:46Speaker 3: are looking for. That it has gone back. For someone,
- 9:50Speaker 3: while you are in church, something else is looking for you.
- 9:56Speaker 3: And that something else for someone can be a desire
- 9:58Speaker 3: and desire. a longing in your heart. And for some,
- 10:02Speaker 3: that may be the desire that has attempted distracting you
- 10:05Speaker 3: from God.
- 10:06Speaker 1: But while you are in the house of God, what you.
- 10:08Speaker 3: Have been looking for, may it find you.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I prophesy to you, may it find you. In the
- 10:17Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Prosper us by your word tonight and be glorified for
- 10:23Speaker 3: in Jesus' name we pray.
- 10:26Speaker 4: Amen.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Please be seated. Please be seated.
- 10:30Speaker 3: The Lord stead it in my heart to start with us.
- 10:36Speaker 1: In a very interesting way tonight.
- 10:38Speaker 3: The subject of restoration is one that I have studied
- 10:42Speaker 3: myself by reason of this walk.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Have had occasion to talk to people.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Who have lost things, have lost loved ones, have lost opportunities,
- 10:57Speaker 3: have lost relationships, people who had backslidden and were trusting
- 11:01Speaker 3: God for a restoration of fire and grace. And so
- 11:05Speaker 3: the subject of restoration is one that generally speaking, everyone
- 11:09Speaker 3: who has particularly served in the ministry should have been
- 11:13Speaker 3: accustomed to because Losses are almost a human phenomenon. People
- 11:20Speaker 3: lose time, they lose things, they lose joy. Are we
- 11:24Speaker 3: together now? And so, I want you to listen to
- 11:30Speaker 3: the things that I'm going to be sharing with you
- 11:32Speaker 3: because the secret of excelling in this kingdom is that
- 11:36Speaker 3: you receive light. Ezekiel chapter 2, 1 and 2, he said,
- 11:40Speaker 3: Son of man, stand up upon your feet.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And he did not have the strength to.
- 11:45Speaker 3: And verse 2 says, the spirit entered me when he
- 11:48Speaker 3: speak unto me and set me upon my feet.
- 11:52Speaker 1: The spirit entered me.
- 11:54Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 11:56Speaker 1: God is a restorer.
- 11:59Speaker 3: Now, the Bible identifies God with several names. And like
- 12:03Speaker 3: you may have learned, the names of God are a
- 12:06Speaker 3: capture of the various dimensions that are contained within his person.
- 12:12Speaker 1: So the experience was this way in the Old Testament.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Every time they saw a marvelous dimension of God, they would.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Name him after that dimension.
- 12:21Speaker 3: So that if you wanted to see a replica of
- 12:23Speaker 3: that dimension, you would invoke that name.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 12:27Speaker 3: So whether you call him Jireh or Rapha or Sikenu
- 12:30Speaker 3: or Shalom, it's still the same God, but various expressions.
- 12:35Speaker 3: All those names came because men saw God. spectacular manifestations
- 12:41Speaker 3: of God in their lives, and they.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Trapped those experiences in names.
- 12:46Speaker 3: And every time you call God that name, what you
- 12:49Speaker 3: are doing is invoking the power that reproduces that experience.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Are we learning now?
- 12:55Speaker 3: So when you call him Jireh, he doesn't heal your body.
- 12:59Speaker 3: That dimension is not for healing. That dimension deals with insufficiency.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Are we together now?
- 13:06Speaker 3: When you call him Rafa, you don't prosper financially and
- 13:10Speaker 3: other dimensions. Rafa deals with health and cure. He says,
- 13:14Speaker 3: and I will restore health and cure.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 13:20Speaker 3: So it's important to know that God operates dimensionally. He
- 13:24Speaker 3: is God Almighty, but in dealing with men, he operates dimensionally.
- 13:29Speaker 3: And studying the system's That govern his various dimensions will
- 13:34Speaker 3: be your advantage in this kingdom. That means it is
- 13:38Speaker 3: possible for you to know God and to know how
- 13:41Speaker 3: he moves.
- 13:42Speaker 1: As far as a certain area is concerned.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Say your health and never know how God or the
- 13:47Speaker 3: kingdom operates in another area. Say leadership, say your finances.
- 13:52Speaker 3: You can excel in that area where you have found
- 13:54Speaker 3: light and so fail woefully in another area. Your knowledge
- 13:59Speaker 3: of God in one area does not automatically cover for
- 14:02Speaker 3: the deficiency in another area.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Are we together? Yes.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Job said, I have heard of thee with the hearing
- 14:09Speaker 3: of the ear. He says, but now my eyes see thee.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Another dimension of reality. There were things I heard about you.
- 14:15Speaker 3: I have experienced some results myself, but now I have
- 14:18Speaker 3: seen you clearer. I have come into a greater comprehension
- 14:22Speaker 3: of light. And so we're going to be dealing with
- 14:24Speaker 3: restoration all through my session across various levels.
- 14:28Speaker 1: You know that the Bible is.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Full of people who lost many, many things. People lost
- 14:35Speaker 3: joy in the Bible. People lost peace in the Bible.
- 14:38Speaker 3: In fact, the psalmist said it this way. He says,
- 14:41Speaker 3: restore unto me, not time, not things, the joy of
- 14:45Speaker 3: my salvation.
- 14:46Speaker 4: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 14:49Speaker 3: People lost their peace. People still lose their peace. People
- 14:53Speaker 3: lost their health like you'll be learning. An example was
- 14:56Speaker 3: a man called Hezekiah. The Bible archives several people who
- 15:01Speaker 3: went through all kinds of bodily ailments. Some recovered. Some died.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 15:07Speaker 3: And then the Bible talks about people who lost money.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Nations lost whatever it is. Kings lost their throne. People
- 15:16Speaker 3: lost their estate. Even Those who were once with God
- 15:21Speaker 3: are spirit beings in the angelic order. The Bible says
- 15:24Speaker 3: they lost their original estate. And so losses are things
- 15:28Speaker 3: that are scattered all around our world. And sadly it's
- 15:31Speaker 3: even experienced even in the realm of the spirit. You
- 15:34Speaker 3: will think if you were not on earth, losses would
- 15:36Speaker 3: not come to you. But the Bible had recorded losses
- 15:39Speaker 3: even in the realm of the spirit. The angels that
- 15:42Speaker 3: fell experienced those losses right from the realm of the spirit.
- 15:46Speaker 3: And so it's important to understand that. The subject of restoration.
- 15:50Speaker 3: Now we can lose time. We can lose things. The
- 15:53Speaker 3: most expensive thing to lose.
- 15:55Speaker 1: As far as the earth is concerned. Is time.
- 15:58Speaker 3: When you lose things. If you have time. You can
- 16:03Speaker 3: receive things back. But when you lose time. It is
- 16:06Speaker 3: a great loss. I'm praying for you. That everything you
- 16:09Speaker 3: have lost. As our faces are so. And the various
- 16:12Speaker 3: things we've lost in our life. But whether you've lost time.
- 16:16Speaker 3: or things, or relationships. I'm praying that whilst you hear
- 16:19Speaker 3: the word, there will be restoration tonight.
- 16:22Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. Now, there is a law
- 16:30Speaker 1: in the spirit. My teaching begins now.
- 16:32Speaker 3: There is a law in the spirit that governs the
- 16:37Speaker 3: overall efficiency of believers.
- 16:41Speaker 1: I want you to please listen.
- 16:42Speaker 3: When you find a believer excelling in his spirit adventure,
- 16:47Speaker 3: there is a law that governs the centrality.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Of of a believer's excellence.
- 16:54Speaker 3: And most people have not learned that principle. And so
- 16:58Speaker 3: they chase excellence across different areas of their lives while
- 17:03Speaker 3: violating that law. And they find out that after investing time,
- 17:08Speaker 3: energy to build, whether it's relationships, whether it's finances, whether
- 17:12Speaker 3: it's a career, eventually everything falls back like a pack
- 17:16Speaker 3: of cards because they keep violating a law that many
- 17:20Speaker 3: of them do not understand. I'm praying that God will
- 17:22Speaker 3: open your eyes now to see. In the name of
- 17:25Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Psalm 23, please. From verse 1 and 2.
- 17:32Speaker 3: The first thing that God wants to restore tonight is
- 17:35Speaker 3: your soul. The Lord is my shepherd, he says. I
- 17:40Speaker 3: shall not want. Let's read verse 2 together.
- 17:43Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
- 17:53Speaker 3: He restored my soul. Verse 3. He restored my soul.
- 18:00Speaker 3: This is the first thing that he restores. He restored
- 18:05Speaker 3: my soul. Many believers do not know that there is
- 18:09Speaker 3: a law in the spirit. That your life will be
- 18:12Speaker 3: an overall reflection of the quality of your spiritual life.
- 18:18Speaker 3: The quality of your soulical health. The Bible says it
- 18:23Speaker 3: in 3 John. John has only one chapter, the third.
- 18:27Speaker 3: 3 John 1 now and verse 2. It says, Beloved,
- 18:31Speaker 3: I wish above all things. Are we still together? That
- 18:35Speaker 3: ye prosper and be in health.
- 18:39Speaker 1: 3 John. I wish above all things. Above what? I
- 18:43Speaker 1: wish above your prospering financially.
- 18:46Speaker 3: I wish above your getting a job. I wish above
- 18:50Speaker 3: your getting children. I wish above your excelling in business.
- 18:54Speaker 3: I wish above your getting a visa.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Are we together now? I wish above your having, you know,
- 19:01Speaker 1: being a house owner.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Those things are wonderful. So, the first thing here is
- 19:06Speaker 3: that the wish... This wish is not the only one
- 19:10Speaker 3: he has. He had many wishes and many desires for
- 19:13Speaker 3: the people. The spirit of God speaking to his servant.
- 19:16Speaker 3: I wish many things for you. But there is one
- 19:19Speaker 3: that surpasses every other desire.
- 19:22Speaker 1: He says that ye may prosper. Say I will prosper.
- 19:28Speaker 1: One more time. Say I will prosper.
- 19:30Speaker 3: He says, I wish above all things that he may
- 19:33Speaker 3: prosper and be in health. But he now benchmarks everything
- 19:38Speaker 3: based on a reference.
- 19:40Speaker 1: He says, even as thy soul prospered.
- 19:45Speaker 3: That means before God marks you to be successful in
- 19:49Speaker 3: the spirit. it doesn't matter what you achieve and it
- 19:52Speaker 3: doesn't matter what you have. The realm of the spirit
- 19:55Speaker 3: will have to vet the state of your soul, the
- 19:58Speaker 3: health of your spiritual life.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 20:01Speaker 3: In order to verify if your success is true and lasting.
- 20:06Speaker 3: That means when you find an individual excelling in any
- 20:10Speaker 3: area of his life, if it is at the expense
- 20:13Speaker 3: of his soul, then it is not true success in
- 20:17Speaker 3: the spirit.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Are we together now? Are we learning?
- 20:21Speaker 3: This is very powerful. The business of the soul, let
- 20:25Speaker 3: me tell you this. is the greatest pursuit and the
- 20:30Speaker 3: greatest need of every man. Most people will not know
- 20:33Speaker 3: that what they really need is the health of their soul.
- 20:37Speaker 3: If I told you now that the greatest problem you
- 20:39Speaker 3: have is a spiritual problem, a problem of your spiritual
- 20:43Speaker 3: life and the health of your soul, you will most
- 20:44Speaker 3: likely say.
- 20:45Speaker 1: No, what I need is money. What I need is
- 20:48Speaker 1: a house.
- 20:48Speaker 3: What I need is something tangible that I can interact with.
- 20:52Speaker 1: But that there is a law in the spirit.
- 20:54Speaker 3: I hope you know that I'm talking about those who
- 20:56Speaker 3: are in the kingdom.
- 20:58Speaker 1: If you are outside of the kingdom, your soul, in fact, your.
- 21:02Speaker 3: Soul is the collateral that you have to give in
- 21:05Speaker 3: exchange for any other thing you get. You are going
- 21:08Speaker 3: to be learning that the commodity, a time comes in
- 21:12Speaker 3: the spirit where everything you have to purchase to your
- 21:17Speaker 3: life will either be as given by God or as
- 21:22Speaker 3: traded with your soul. Because your soul is currency in
- 21:27Speaker 3: the spirit. You can give it up for other lesser things.
- 21:32Speaker 3: We are going to be considering a few scriptures and
- 21:35Speaker 3: one of it is the one that says, what shall
- 21:38Speaker 3: it profit a man? He's speaking profit. It's a business language.
- 21:42Speaker 3: What shall it profit a man if you gain the
- 21:45Speaker 3: whole world and you use your soul as the money
- 21:49Speaker 3: that bought that? You can literally go to the market
- 21:52Speaker 3: of life and destiny. And exchange your soul for money,
- 21:57Speaker 3: exchange your soul for fame. You don't have to be
- 22:00Speaker 3: demonic and you don't have to be occultic.
- 22:02Speaker 1: Many people are doing it.
- 22:03Speaker 3: The idea of selling your soul, most times when we
- 22:07Speaker 3: hear it, we think it is something that you have
- 22:09Speaker 3: to be occultic to say, okay, take my life and
- 22:12Speaker 3: give me money.
- 22:13Speaker 1: No, many people are already doing it.
- 22:16Speaker 3: One of the ways you will know true success is
- 22:19Speaker 3: to find out what happens to your spiritual state as
- 22:22Speaker 3: you rise. If you find out, you can know who
- 22:25Speaker 3: is behind your success by looking at the consequence of
- 22:29Speaker 3: that rising on your spiritual life. The moment you find
- 22:32Speaker 3: out that for every increase, every open door, every advancement,
- 22:37Speaker 3: your spiritual life is suffering, you are transacting with Babylon,
- 22:42Speaker 3: this demonic, satanic system. You may not know Satan took
- 22:46Speaker 3: Jesus up the mountain and he said, bow to me.
- 22:50Speaker 1: That is how you sell your soul.
- 22:52Speaker 3: You don't sell your soul by giving it. You sell
- 22:54Speaker 3: your soul by bowing to something. Is someone learning now?
- 22:59Speaker 3: Whatever you bow to, a transaction happens in the spirit.
- 23:03Speaker 3: Satan came and met Jesus and said, look, all of
- 23:05Speaker 3: the glories of this world, I have it but I
- 23:07Speaker 3: don't need it.
- 23:08Speaker 1: What I need is your loyalty, your allegiance. You came
- 23:11Speaker 1: as God incarnate. Bow to me. And I can give
- 23:15Speaker 1: you everything.
- 23:15Speaker 3: He was willing to relinquish part of what Jesus was
- 23:19Speaker 3: coming to die to receive. Why follow the route of
- 23:22Speaker 3: the cross when you can just trade your soul and
- 23:25Speaker 3: you have it? And there are many people today who
- 23:30Speaker 3: do not understand this system in the spirit. What shall
- 23:35Speaker 3: it profit a man? What shall it profit a man
- 23:38Speaker 3: of God? What shall it profit a worshiper? What shall
- 23:42Speaker 3: it profit a businessman? What shall it profit a student,
- 23:45Speaker 3: a career.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Person if you gain?
- 23:49Speaker 3: That kind of business man, you will not even know
- 23:52Speaker 3: what you are losing because you will be focused on
- 23:54Speaker 3: what you are gaining. But he said, while you are gaining,
- 23:57Speaker 3: you are losing something else. But your attention is in
- 24:00Speaker 3: what you are gaining. You can gain fame. You can
- 24:03Speaker 3: gain increase. You can even gain speed. And mistaking that.
- 24:07Speaker 1: Gain for true profit.
- 24:10Speaker 3: Only that when you check your soul, you will find
- 24:12Speaker 3: out that it died because you grew. It died because
- 24:16Speaker 3: increase came. It died because a door opened. At that point,
- 24:20Speaker 3: you know that Satan scammed you. He came and sold
- 24:23Speaker 3: you something else. distracted you and you thought you were
- 24:27Speaker 3: gaining whereas you were dying.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
- 24:32Speaker 3: This is a law that I have found out in
- 24:33Speaker 3: my life because you see, like Reverend shared before I came.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Up, every human being wants to make progress.
- 24:42Speaker 3: I think I've said it here in this church that
- 24:44Speaker 3: psychologists teach that one of the keys for measuring happiness
- 24:48Speaker 3: is progress or a sense of it. to the degree
- 24:51Speaker 3: to which you perceive you are making progress, that is
- 24:53Speaker 3: the degree to.
- 24:54Speaker 1: Which you will be happy.
- 24:55Speaker 3: If you believe or perceive that there's some level of
- 24:59Speaker 3: stuntedness in your life or in.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Ministry, if you are responsible, it should be a source
- 25:04Speaker 1: of concern. Am I right on that?
- 25:06Speaker 4: Yes.
- 25:07Speaker 3: There's no woman who gives birth to a baby and
- 25:10Speaker 3: expects that baby to start running, walking, talking in one day.
- 25:14Speaker 3: But after a year, Maybe one year and a half,
- 25:17Speaker 3: two years, if the baby cannot talk, the baby cannot walk,
- 25:21Speaker 3: the baby cannot do whatever, immediately it becomes a medical condition.
- 25:26Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 25:27Speaker 3: Because instinctively she knows that that baby has now assumed
- 25:31Speaker 3: a state where he or she should begin to at
- 25:34Speaker 3: least motion the things that make for growth. So when
- 25:39Speaker 3: people become stagnated and stunted, whether as a man of God,
- 25:43Speaker 3: as a businessman, as a career person, generally it becomes
- 25:46Speaker 3: a source of concern. Now let me tell you this.
- 25:49Speaker 3: Satan does not attack you every day. Know this. There
- 25:53Speaker 3: are days that even if you call Satan to attack you,
- 25:55Speaker 3: he will say I'm not on duty.
- 25:57Speaker 1: He's not a fool.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Satan knows that there is something about the desperation of men.
- 26:03Speaker 3: The desperation of men is his marketing strategy for this exchange.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Listen carefully.
- 26:10Speaker 3: For as long as you are a young person having
- 26:12Speaker 3: someone to sponsor you, taking care of you, it may
- 26:15Speaker 3: be difficult to succumb to certain temptations because there are
- 26:18Speaker 3: harvests overseas you did not sow. So when Satan comes,
- 26:22Speaker 3: it's easy to drive away that temptation. But the day
- 26:25Speaker 3: you are now on your own and there's house rent.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Hello?
- 26:30Speaker 3: And the price of oil is whatever it is now.
- 26:33Speaker 3: In the midst of that desperation, Satan comes. The Bible
- 26:38Speaker 3: calls him a thief and only a foolish thief steals
- 26:41Speaker 3: all the time. Thieves don't steal all the time. There
- 26:45Speaker 3: is timing and intelligence and preparation.
- 26:48Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 26:48Speaker 3: They steal when you are not around or while you
- 26:51Speaker 3: are asleep. He said while men slept. Now, many of you,
- 26:55Speaker 3: I'm saying this because this transaction that has destroyed you
- 26:59Speaker 3: now started at the.
- 27:00Speaker 1: Point of your pain and your desperation.
- 27:03Speaker 3: Every time believers are in want, every time believers are
- 27:08Speaker 3: crying for more, be careful.
- 27:10Speaker 1: It's not only God's attention you are calling.
- 27:12Speaker 3: You are also calling the attention of the realm of
- 27:14Speaker 3: the spirit because they know that desperation makes men vulnerable.
- 27:19Speaker 3: You are desperate for marriage. You are desperate for a child.
- 27:23Speaker 3: You are desperate for a job. You are desperate for anointing.
- 27:27Speaker 3: You are desperate for increase. If someone comes to meet
- 27:32Speaker 3: a young boy and says, come, I want to take
- 27:35Speaker 3: you somewhere and conjure some demonic things and give you power,
- 27:39Speaker 3: that temptation will not work because the boy is not desperate.
- 27:42Speaker 3: It is dangerous to try to give people things when
- 27:45Speaker 3: they are not hungry enough. So there is a hunger
- 27:48Speaker 3: level that Satan waits for until he perceives that hunger,
- 27:51Speaker 3: he will not come to attack you.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Are we together now?
- 27:54Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 27:55Speaker 3: The day he sees that the financial issue is becoming
- 27:59Speaker 3: a family problem, that's when he comes with his options.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Because chances are excellent that you will now listen to it.
- 28:06Speaker 1: What shall it profit a man if he gains the
- 28:10Speaker 1: whole world?
- 28:11Speaker 3: Have you seen someone trying to look for water when
- 28:13Speaker 3: he's thirsty? I mean, if you bring me a drum
- 28:17Speaker 3: of water now, I'm not that thirsty.
- 28:19Speaker 1: At best, I will just take one bottle and that's fine.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 28:23Speaker 3: But when I am really thirsty like unto death, if
- 28:27Speaker 3: you bring water, sometimes you can tell me this bottle
- 28:31Speaker 3: is 100,000. Because of my desperation, I become vulnerable to you.
- 28:35Speaker 3: I don't want to die and even though I know
- 28:36Speaker 3: you are cheating me, it's not 100,000. But I prefer
- 28:40Speaker 3: my pain solved. This is how Satan traps many people.
- 28:43Speaker 3: He knows that there's something that befalls all men. It's
- 28:47Speaker 3: called exhaustion.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Please listen.
- 28:49Speaker 4: Listen. Listen.
- 28:52Speaker 3: I want to show you a transaction that has been
- 28:54Speaker 3: happening to your spirit man that you are not even
- 28:56Speaker 3: aware of. Because some of us, you have to kill
- 28:59Speaker 3: that business with the spirit now. Destroy that business with
- 29:03Speaker 3: Satan now. Else you will find out that everything you
- 29:07Speaker 3: are trying to build now will eventually.
- 29:09Speaker 1: Fall because you have violated a law.
- 29:13Speaker 3: I wish above all things that ye prosper and to
- 29:18Speaker 3: be in health.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Even as thy soul prospereth. There are men of God
- 29:22Speaker 1: for instance. Who want power. Justifiably so. Want increase.
- 29:27Speaker 3: Want open doors. Many of you have come to receive impartations.
- 29:31Speaker 3: And you will receive. Many of you have come to
- 29:33Speaker 3: receive healings. You have come to receive breakthroughs.
- 29:37Speaker 1: And all kinds of things. And I tell you in
- 29:39Speaker 1: the name of Jesus.
- 29:40Speaker 3: Christ every desire you came here with God will honor
- 29:43Speaker 3: you and even surpass your expectation are we together but
- 29:48Speaker 3: there is a spiritual Lord that we must trust God
- 29:51Speaker 3: for grace to open our eyes to see that the
- 29:55Speaker 3: health of your spirit the health of your soul is
- 29:59Speaker 3: the power point that controls everything around your life and destiny.
- 30:04Speaker 1: And it does not matter how healthy you think you are.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Financially healthy, if it is at the expense of your
- 30:10Speaker 3: spiritual life, you are holding shadows. Eventually you will lose it.
- 30:14Speaker 3: You have influence, you have positions, you have titles, you
- 30:18Speaker 3: have whatever kind of accomplishment. Listen, in my little work,
- 30:22Speaker 3: I have seen people who you would.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Maybe.
- 30:25Speaker 3: Purports that you wanted your life to be like them.
- 30:28Speaker 3: Their life looked complete. It looked excellent. It looked filled
- 30:33Speaker 3: with all.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Kinds of things.
- 30:35Speaker 3: But there was one thing that was missing. While they
- 30:38Speaker 3: were in pursuit of these things. Satan came. Cashed in
- 30:41Speaker 3: on their desperation. And he received their soul.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Their allegiance. Their worship. Their time.
- 30:49Speaker 3: And asked them to do every other thing. I can
- 30:51Speaker 3: tell you. If you can surrender your soul to Satan,
- 30:54Speaker 3: he will not attack any part of your life again.
- 30:56Speaker 3: He doesn't need any other thing from you again. The
- 30:58Speaker 3: reason why he touches your finances is not because of finance.
- 31:02Speaker 1: He's touching something else through your finance.
- 31:04Speaker 3: The reason why he touches your health is not because
- 31:07Speaker 3: of your health. Satan does not need money. He does
- 31:09Speaker 3: not need increase. He does not need a child. Why
- 31:12Speaker 3: should he lock the womb of a woman? What does
- 31:14Speaker 3: it do to him? Does he need the children? No.
- 31:18Speaker 3: What Satan wants... Is to allow time or pain. Push
- 31:23Speaker 3: you to that point of desperation.
- 31:25Speaker 1: When you become desperate. He comes as a negotiator. Give
- 31:29Speaker 1: me your soul. And I can give you any other thing.
- 31:32Speaker 3: And you may not. He won't come and say give
- 31:35Speaker 3: me directly. Let me tell you how he comes. By
- 31:38Speaker 3: your exhaustion in prayer. I'm tired of this prayer. I
- 31:42Speaker 3: can't go and pray again. Something is happening. A bargain
- 31:45Speaker 3: is happening in the spirit without you knowing.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 31:48Speaker 3: You wake up in the morning and to open the scripture.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Honestly, look, I'm overwhelmed by my problems. Something is happening.
- 31:56Speaker 1: It is gradual.
- 31:58Speaker 3: Then, a call comes from someone. And he says, look,
- 32:02Speaker 3: it's just that I don't want to tell you, but
- 32:04Speaker 3: there's somebody.
- 32:07Speaker 3: Two years ago, you'd have said, God forbid, don't talk
- 32:10Speaker 3: to me about anything. But two years later, in the
- 32:12Speaker 3: face of desperation, you say, ah boy, it's true. I'm
- 32:17Speaker 3: 49 years old now. I don't have my own child.
- 32:19Speaker 3: You say, there's somebody.
- 32:20Speaker 1: It's not like he's bad. Exactly. Exactly. He doesn't really
- 32:24Speaker 1: do anything bad.
- 32:25Speaker 3: But it's just that me too, I don't understand him.
- 32:27Speaker 3: But I'm not sure I've seen anything that is directly evil.
- 32:31Speaker 3: And the Spirit of God is telling you. But you see,
- 32:34Speaker 3: your desperation has caused Satan to so close the door
- 32:37Speaker 3: of your sensitivity. You cannot even know that this is,
- 32:41Speaker 3: you are entering into a faller's snare. And then you
- 32:44Speaker 3: do not know. At that point, compromise starts gradually.
- 32:49Speaker 1: Gradually. Until you find.
- 32:51Speaker 3: Yourself in the heart of the things that have violated
- 32:54Speaker 3: your convictions. You have sold your soul. Your prayer life dies.
- 33:01Speaker 3: Your word life dies. And then in exchange, you will
- 33:05Speaker 3: see that a semblance of increase comes.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Satan is not stupid.
- 33:10Speaker 3: If he makes everything fail in your life, it will
- 33:12Speaker 3: lead to conviction, repentance, brokenness and a retreat. So he
- 33:16Speaker 3: will not crumble every aspect of your life like that.
- 33:19Speaker 3: He will allow you to be enjoying breakthrough. All of
- 33:22Speaker 3: a sudden a job came. You even danced around it.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Not knowing that that job was an arrow.
- 33:27Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said?
- 33:30Speaker 3: When the Bible talks about arrows that fly. He's not
- 33:32Speaker 3: talking about a sharp object though. There are many things
- 33:36Speaker 3: we call breakthroughs that are arrows. It was targeted at
- 33:39Speaker 3: your spiritual life. The job came. But from the day
- 33:43Speaker 3: the job came, you can't remember praying again. From the
- 33:46Speaker 3: day the job came, the moment the Holy Spirit wants
- 33:49Speaker 3: your time, they say, look, we demand this and that.
- 33:51Speaker 3: Are you ready for increase or not? And you remember,
- 33:54Speaker 3: more money. God, I will attend to you later on.
- 33:59Speaker 3: There are many people who have violated this law of
- 34:04Speaker 3: preserving the health of their soul.
- 34:06Speaker 1: And this includes preachers.
- 34:09Speaker 3: There are times that when the devil wants to destroy
- 34:12Speaker 3: a man of God, he does not bring luck. He
- 34:14Speaker 3: brings abundance and ministerial open doors. Not orchestrated by God.
- 34:19Speaker 3: Doors will open in a very strange way. Doors will
- 34:24Speaker 3: open that don't depend on your prayer life. Doors will
- 34:27Speaker 3: open that don't depend on your fasting. Doors will open
- 34:30Speaker 3: that don't depend on your engaging the word. Whether you
- 34:33Speaker 3: obey God's word or not, those doors are opening.
- 34:36Speaker 1: It's an attack.
- 34:37Speaker 3: When you find out that certain results are coming without your.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Engaging the word of God consistently, it is an attack
- 34:44Speaker 1: by Satan.
- 34:45Speaker 3: Because he knows that it will keep you complacent. And
- 34:49Speaker 3: that's how he destroys you.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 34:53Speaker 3: Whether I pray or not, seems like the favor is coming.
- 34:56Speaker 3: Whether I pray or not, why do I need to pray?
- 34:59Speaker 3: It looks like I can share the word every time.
- 35:02Speaker 3: And at that point, you will not see the value
- 35:04Speaker 3: of prayer again. You will not see the value of
- 35:06Speaker 3: fasting again. Who is learning tonight? You will not see
- 35:09Speaker 3: the value of walking with God because after all, you
- 35:12Speaker 3: are surrounded by such abundance.
- 35:14Speaker 1: Just when the Holy Spirit begins to.
- 35:16Speaker 3: Prick your heart to say, can't we get back to
- 35:18Speaker 3: the secret place? And a lot of 10 million just
- 35:21Speaker 3: enters your account. And you say, but I'm doing well.
- 35:23Speaker 1: I'm doing well.
- 35:26Speaker 3: I always found out why a rich man would be
- 35:29Speaker 3: called a fool. Because foolishness and wealth don't go together.
- 35:33Speaker 3: But there was such a man in the Bible called
- 35:35Speaker 3: a rich fool. Do you know what was foolish?
- 35:39Speaker 1: Now I know.
- 35:40Speaker 3: He did business with somebody to get that wealth. And
- 35:44Speaker 3: that business ate up his soul. He said, my soul,
- 35:48Speaker 3: find rest. Not knowing that he had everything in that
- 35:51Speaker 3: room minus his soul. Jesus called him a fool because
- 35:57Speaker 3: when he checked his entire life, he found money, but
- 36:01Speaker 3: his soul had gone. His allegiance and his worship, he
- 36:04Speaker 3: transferred it from worship to God Almighty, worship to things.
- 36:09Speaker 3: This is a very simple principle you have to learn tonight,
- 36:12Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. At the back of many people's tragedy,
- 36:17Speaker 3: you know this thing they call rise and fall?
- 36:20Speaker 1: It's not totally demonic.
- 36:22Speaker 3: It is the natural consequence of violating this law and
- 36:27Speaker 3: pursuing a lot of things. So you hold on to
- 36:30Speaker 3: what looks like result. But because your soul is dead,
- 36:33Speaker 3: it is not powered by your passion for God.
- 36:36Speaker 1: It is not powered by your zeal for God.
- 36:38Speaker 3: You'll become a celebrity and one day you'll find out
- 36:42Speaker 3: that you are like a fan with no power. It's
- 36:44Speaker 3: just rotating itself to a stop. And it will stop
- 36:48Speaker 3: just when the audience is ready to clap for you.
- 36:51Speaker 1: And you'll find out that your life has gone back
- 36:52Speaker 1: to square one.
- 36:54Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
- 36:57Speaker 3: I wish above all things. These are lessons that God
- 37:00Speaker 3: taught me in my life. When you want to grow
- 37:05Speaker 3: by God, let me tell you how he starts. It
- 37:08Speaker 3: doesn't matter whether God is calling you to be a
- 37:10Speaker 3: kingdom financier, a prophetess, an apostle, a businessman. Once you
- 37:15Speaker 3: come to the school of the spirit, everybody starts with
- 37:18Speaker 3: the same course. It is as you grow that you
- 37:22Speaker 3: are now diverged to your various departments in the spirit.
- 37:25Speaker 3: The person who is going to become a prayer warrior.
- 37:28Speaker 3: The person who is going to become a kingdom billionaire.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Are we learning? The person who will be a healing evangelist.
- 37:34Speaker 3: The person who is going to be a professor doing
- 37:37Speaker 3: great things for God. The person who is going to
- 37:39Speaker 3: be a captain of industry. Once you come to the
- 37:41Speaker 3: school of the Spirit, all of you start from the
- 37:44Speaker 3: same training. It is as you grow, the Holy Spirit
- 37:48Speaker 3: begins to divert you to various trainings as far as
- 37:53Speaker 3: His call and election and ordination for you is concerned.
- 37:57Speaker 1: But let me tell you how Satan deceives people. The
- 38:00Speaker 1: moment you want.
- 38:01Speaker 3: To do business with Satan, he focuses on your desperation
- 38:05Speaker 3: and your lust, not your passion. He wants to distract
- 38:10Speaker 3: your passion for God. So the first thing he does
- 38:13Speaker 3: is to examine your vulnerabilities. Weapons are fashioned. What does
- 38:18Speaker 3: this person like? At this point, this lady is desperate
- 38:21Speaker 3: for marriage. At this point, this lady is desperate for
- 38:24Speaker 3: a child. At this point, this lady is desperate for increase.
- 38:28Speaker 3: At this point, this young man is desperate for the prophetic.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Since he had a dream that he was a prophet,
- 38:33Speaker 3: all he wants is that mantle. Satan's attack will be
- 38:37Speaker 3: fashioned around your desires.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Satan will never waste his time.
- 38:42Speaker 3: Creating a desire around something that does not connect to
- 38:45Speaker 3: you or an attack that does not connect to your
- 38:48Speaker 3: lust are we learning now if i am not hungry
- 38:52Speaker 3: if you want to tempt me with food you are
- 38:53Speaker 3: wasting my time i'm wasting your own time too are
- 38:57Speaker 3: we together imagine that you bring baby food what children
- 39:01Speaker 3: eat maybe milk or something and you say apostle i
- 39:04Speaker 3: want to.
- 39:04Speaker 1: Tempt you with this I will look at you in pity.
- 39:06Speaker 1: I know something is wrong with you.
- 39:08Speaker 3: Because that temptation cannot work. Because temptation requires something from you.
- 39:14Speaker 1: To connect with. Are we learning now?
- 39:17Speaker 3: Many of us right now, you came for this conference.
- 39:20Speaker 1: And the truth is that, although you have the call
- 39:22Speaker 1: of God upon your life, you.
- 39:24Speaker 3: Are beginning to transact 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? Because you are having a semblance of increase.
- 39:38Speaker 3: But when we look at your life from a spirit standpoint,
- 39:41Speaker 3: your spirit man is dying. From the day doors began
- 39:45Speaker 3: to open as a man of God. You cannot remember
- 39:47Speaker 3: having a personal retreat for God again. But your name
- 39:50Speaker 3: is spreading far. I tell you it is not breakthrough.
- 39:53Speaker 1: It is an attack.
- 39:54Speaker 3: That thing you call open door is an arrow. It
- 39:57Speaker 3: is designed to destroy your life. Because a time. Do
- 40:00Speaker 3: you know even the early church faced this temptation. The
- 40:03Speaker 3: Bible says when increase was coming.
- 40:05Speaker 1: Quarrel.
- 40:06Speaker 3: It was Satan that planted that seed among the people.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Certain women began to quarrel. Acts chapter 6. Look, they
- 40:15Speaker 3: are victimizing us. The devil wanted to penetrate the apostolic community.
- 40:20Speaker 1: He said, how do I come now?
- 40:21Speaker 3: These guys are zealous, serving the Lord.
- 40:24Speaker 1: How do we deal with this?
- 40:25Speaker 3: And he said, you know what? Let's use welfare. Let's
- 40:28Speaker 3: begin to plant bitterness. Let's begin to plant anger. Let's
- 40:32Speaker 3: begin to plant jealousy. Is someone learning now?
- 40:35Speaker 1: And he planted that seed. And the quarrel began to grow.
- 40:39Speaker 3: And when the apostles came, The goal was not to
- 40:42Speaker 3: feed the people evenly.
- 40:44Speaker 1: The goal was to take the.
- 40:45Speaker 3: Apostolic community away from the things that keep their spirit robust.
- 40:50Speaker 3: The goal of that attack was not to bring order necessarily.
- 40:54Speaker 3: Satan is not interested in who eats or who does
- 40:56Speaker 3: not eat. But the apostles detected it and said, Aha!
- 41:00Speaker 3: we now see that something, the consequences of increase, now
- 41:04Speaker 3: wants to tell on our spiritual life. He said, appoint
- 41:07Speaker 3: others in this business. But as for us, we have
- 41:11Speaker 3: found what keeps us relevant. We have found what.
- 41:14Speaker 1: Keeps us in fire.
- 41:16Speaker 3: He says, we will give ourselves continually, Acts 6 and
- 41:20Speaker 3: verse 4, to prayer and to the ministry of the word.
- 41:23Speaker 3: Satan lost that temptation. Let me tell you what would
- 41:27Speaker 3: have happened to many of us. You get to a
- 41:29Speaker 3: point where you say, no, no, no, no, no. I've
- 41:31Speaker 3: labored too much. I can't build this ministry and watch
- 41:34Speaker 3: it crumble.
- 41:34Speaker 1: You know what?
- 41:35Speaker 3: Let me take a retreat from my time of prayer
- 41:37Speaker 3: and the rest. Let's deal with administrative issues. When Satan
- 41:41Speaker 3: finds you in that state, he starts multiplying the problem
- 41:44Speaker 3: in your church. And before you know it, you have
- 41:47Speaker 3: become a businessman, an administrator, every other thing at the
- 41:51Speaker 3: expense of your prayer life. at the expense of the world,
- 41:54Speaker 3: at the expense of your growth. Because you are still
- 41:57Speaker 3: in church.
- 41:58Speaker 1: Does not mean you are with God.
- 42:00Speaker 3: You will not know that you have left the place
- 42:02Speaker 3: of your consecration, the place of power, and the place
- 42:05Speaker 3: of grace.
- 42:06Speaker 1: Most people do not know why they lose things eventually.
- 42:10Speaker 3: I am telling you that the attacks that come to
- 42:13Speaker 3: you usually, they happen as an end point. After Satan
- 42:17Speaker 3: has distracted you away, it doesn't matter what you are celebrating.
- 42:21Speaker 3: In shadows, it will take time and drop. That's why
- 42:24Speaker 3: you find out a man can be in ministry for
- 42:27Speaker 3: a very long time, supposedly doing well. but at the
- 42:31Speaker 3: expense of his spiritual life. Satan does not mind your
- 42:34Speaker 3: 15 years success. It does not intimidate him because in
- 42:37Speaker 3: one year, after he has laid hold on that which
- 42:40Speaker 3: keeps you relevant, you can crumble in one year. That
- 42:44Speaker 3: what you built in 15 years can crumble in one year.
- 42:48Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 42:58Speaker 3: What shall it profit a man If he should gain
- 43:02Speaker 3: the whole world.
- 43:03Speaker 1: When I started my walk with God. I had needs.
- 43:07Speaker 3: I had financial needs. I had a lot of other needs.
- 43:10Speaker 3: But the way God trained us. Was he took our
- 43:14Speaker 3: eyes away from everything. Including ministry. Including ministry. The focus
- 43:20Speaker 3: was on him. The focus was not on power. The
- 43:25Speaker 3: focus was not on anointing. The focus was not on healing.
- 43:29Speaker 3: The focus was not on greatness. The focus was not
- 43:32Speaker 3: on fame.
- 43:32Speaker 1: Look at me.
- 43:33Speaker 3: The focus was not on becoming a great man. The
- 43:37Speaker 3: focus was not on breakthrough and revelation.
- 43:40Speaker 1: When God calls you, let me tell you what he does.
- 43:43Speaker 3: He takes your mind away from every other thing until
- 43:47Speaker 3: your gaze, your eyes is fixed on him.
- 43:50Speaker 1: That's when your progress begins in the spirit.
- 43:53Speaker 3: When he was going to call Moses, look at me.
- 43:56Speaker 3: How did he start the journey with Moses? The first
- 43:58Speaker 3: thing he did was he simulated a burning bush. He
- 44:02Speaker 3: never spoke to Moses about Egypt and all of these
- 44:04Speaker 3: things until he got his attention. Only God knows how
- 44:08Speaker 3: long it took Moses. Moses said, I will turn aside.
- 44:12Speaker 3: Something else had my gaze. But I will turn aside
- 44:15Speaker 3: and see this great sight. And when he saw it,
- 44:18Speaker 3: he said, that's it. Remove your shoes. Where you stand
- 44:21Speaker 3: is holy ground. And he began this thing until Moses
- 44:24Speaker 3: became a sign and a wonder. I know that many
- 44:27Speaker 3: of us came to receive restoration and breakthrough.
- 44:30Speaker 1: But let me tell you this.
- 44:32Speaker 3: The first restoration you need tonight is not financial restoration.
- 44:37Speaker 1: In as much as that is important.
- 44:39Speaker 3: The first restoration you need tonight is not health restoration.
- 44:43Speaker 3: The first restoration you need tonight is not relationships. We
- 44:46Speaker 3: are going deep down to show you what went wrong.
- 44:50Speaker 3: It's like diagnosing a vehicle that has refused to own.
- 44:53Speaker 3: It used to be a beautiful vehicle carrying many people.
- 44:56Speaker 3: And for a reason you cannot understand, it just stopped.
- 44:59Speaker 3: The tires still look fine. The paint still looks fine.
- 45:03Speaker 3: The steering still looks fine. The stereo is still bringing music.
- 45:07Speaker 3: But the car is not moving.
- 45:09Speaker 1: I will tell you what is wrong. Even as thy soul.
- 45:14Speaker 3: Satan has taken advantage of your vulnerability and your desperation
- 45:19Speaker 3: and taken away passion. Do you know the average young
- 45:22Speaker 3: person in church, the moment you bring teachings on presence.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Power, surrender, immediately they shut down.
- 45:31Speaker 4: It's an attack.
- 45:32Speaker 3: They do not even know that it's an attack. Once
- 45:34Speaker 3: you bring a problem, most people will prefer impartation a
- 45:39Speaker 3: thousand times to the teachings that build them to become powerful.
- 45:43Speaker 3: It's the reason why people fall down under the influence
- 45:46Speaker 3: of oil and hands and rise up and you cannot
- 45:49Speaker 3: tell what changed. Because for someone, while he's seeing a
- 45:54Speaker 3: man of God, he's thinking, if I receive this anointing now,
- 45:58Speaker 3: all these guys that think I'm nothing, they will see
- 46:00Speaker 3: what will happen.
- 46:02Speaker 1: That kind of thinking.
- 46:04Speaker 3: Is already revealing something to you that something is wrong.
- 46:07Speaker 3: God cannot endorse that kind of thing.
- 46:11Speaker 1: Are we together?
- 46:13Speaker 3: I look at my life today by the message of
- 46:15Speaker 3: God and sometimes when I'm alone, tears just run down
- 46:18Speaker 3: my eyes.
- 46:19Speaker 1: And I say, my God.
- 46:21Speaker 3: I thank God for this one training to focus on
- 46:25Speaker 3: the health of your soul. For some of you, you
- 46:28Speaker 3: began this walk with God 10 years ago. If you
- 46:31Speaker 3: had followed this pattern. You would have been mighty by now.
- 46:34Speaker 3: But you became distracted in the training. Because you thought
- 46:37Speaker 3: the training was for men of God. And since you
- 46:40Speaker 3: are not a man of God. You said my own
- 46:42Speaker 3: is I'm a businessman. All this thing about prayer. The
- 46:45Speaker 3: word church. My own is God told me I will
- 46:48Speaker 3: handle money.
- 46:49Speaker 1: At the end of it.
- 46:50Speaker 3: You who is the kingdom financier. You still not have
- 46:52Speaker 3: the money. And the one you left at the altar praying.
- 46:55Speaker 3: Now has the resources. And is still looking at you
- 46:58Speaker 3: and say you are still here. Because in this kingdom.
- 47:01Speaker 3: everything multiplies as the health of your soul your spirit
- 47:06Speaker 3: man tells if it is God that increases you even
- 47:10Speaker 3: if God is calling you to be a kingdom financier
- 47:13Speaker 3: that training bar will have nothing to do with money
- 47:17Speaker 3: until you die to self and get to a point
- 47:20Speaker 3: where he can trust you with everything.
- 47:24Speaker 1: Are we together.
- 47:26Speaker 3: Many believers in church really do not understand the ways
- 47:30Speaker 3: of the spirit. And so most times, with all due respect,
- 47:34Speaker 3: we think that the way God lives is that you
- 47:36Speaker 3: just come with hunger. Full of our lusts and our desires.
- 47:41Speaker 3: And we just say, God, I am your son. You
- 47:43Speaker 3: died for me. Here is the scripture. Because I can
- 47:46Speaker 3: paint a scripture on you to blackmail you.
- 47:49Speaker 1: Oh yeah, give me the breakthrough. I need a wife.
- 47:52Speaker 1: I need a husband. I need children.
- 47:55Speaker 3: And your word says, the cattle on a thousand hills
- 47:57Speaker 3: belongs to you.
- 47:58Speaker 1: I place a demand. Unfortunately, it does not happen that way.
- 48:03Speaker 3: Everything in this kingdom revolves around the will of God.
- 48:10Speaker 3: The moment your desire, your template, your outlook in life
- 48:15Speaker 3: becomes in defiance to the will of God. It doesn't
- 48:18Speaker 3: matter how accurate your scripture recitation is.
- 48:22Speaker 1: You will never secure the help of God. Hallelujah. I
- 48:28Speaker 1: have seen people pray. I have seen people fast.
- 48:31Speaker 3: But I have examined the content of their prayer and
- 48:35Speaker 3: fasting and word study.
- 48:37Speaker 1: And it tells why they don't get answers from it.
- 48:39Speaker 3: Because they are using spirituality to feed lust.
- 48:43Speaker 1: And God says no.
- 48:44Speaker 3: Even if it is scripture you are quoting. I have
- 48:47Speaker 3: to examine your heart. Is it going to be at
- 48:50Speaker 3: the expense of the health of your soul?
- 48:53Speaker 1: Listen.
- 48:54Speaker 3: You have heard me say this my dear people. And
- 48:56Speaker 3: let me repeat it here in your presence.
- 48:59Speaker 1: There is nothing in my life today by the message
- 49:02Speaker 1: of God. That I cannot give God.
- 49:03Speaker 4: Nothing.
- 49:04Speaker 1: Nothing. Nothing.
- 49:09Speaker 3: When I started with God and God started lifting me,
- 49:12Speaker 3: I prayed to him.
- 49:12Speaker 1: I said, Lord, this is a personal prayer from me
- 49:16Speaker 1: to you. May I never know the full answer.
- 49:20Speaker 3: Extent of my impact I don't want to know it
- 49:23Speaker 3: because it can be distracting if I have that knowledge
- 49:26Speaker 3: Satan can come to me and say I.
- 49:29Speaker 1: Hope you know you are a very great man do
- 49:31Speaker 1: you know how great you are.
- 49:33Speaker 3: I hope you know that the temptation of great men
- 49:35Speaker 3: is to fall down When Jesus met, Satan met Jesus,
- 49:39Speaker 3: he said, he took him to a holy mountain and.
- 49:41Speaker 1: Said, fall down, angels will hold you.
- 49:48Speaker 3: I have seen the help of God in my life.
- 49:51Speaker 3: I have seen the mercy of God in my life.
- 49:54Speaker 3: Let me tell you how I found it. I didn't
- 49:56Speaker 3: find it by looking for it. I found it by
- 49:59Speaker 3: looking away from all those things and staying with him.
- 50:06Speaker 1: Staying with him. Staying with him.
- 50:10Speaker 3: Making your spirit man so large and robust. And before
- 50:15Speaker 3: you know it, you become a magnet in the spirit.
- 50:18Speaker 3: You will begin to draw the things that even, listen, listen, listen.
- 50:23Speaker 3: Let's assume that this man of God is a businessman.
- 50:28Speaker 3: Do you know most times, if say for instance, just
- 50:31Speaker 3: in this example, I tell him, sir, can I design
- 50:34Speaker 3: a spiritual growth template for you?
- 50:36Speaker 1: The man will say, no, I'm not a man of God.
- 50:38Speaker 1: I'm a businessman.
- 50:40Speaker 3: Bring things that deal with common sense.
- 50:43Speaker 1: Give me five years with this man.
- 50:45Speaker 3: Eventually, I'm not a businessman, but I can follow a
- 50:49Speaker 3: template that even him as.
- 50:51Speaker 1: A businessman, he will still be behind. And he's saying,
- 50:53Speaker 1: you are not a businessman, but what are you doing
- 50:55Speaker 1: in the circle of wealthy people? The health of your spirit, man.
- 50:58Speaker 3: I'm showing you a key tonight that if you find,
- 51:01Speaker 3: some of you need to go back home and shelf
- 51:04Speaker 3: a lot of useless activities. They are not adding to
- 51:07Speaker 3: your growth. They will not add to your growth, I
- 51:10Speaker 3: assure you. They will waste your time, waste your energy,
- 51:14Speaker 3: waste everything about your life.
- 51:16Speaker 1: And at the end of it, you'll find out that
- 51:18Speaker 1: it looks like.
- 51:18Speaker 3: You've been making progress. But the progress is unto futility.
- 51:22Speaker 3: But there is one thing you can find. Mary found this.
- 51:27Speaker 3: It's a matter, matter. You are worried and you are
- 51:30Speaker 3: obsessed about many things. But one thing is needful. Someone
- 51:33Speaker 3: say one thing. Shout it, say one thing. Ah, there
- 51:38Speaker 3: is one thing that if you find in life. You
- 51:41Speaker 3: would have found the key to wealth. You would have
- 51:44Speaker 3: found the key to increase. There are things that when
- 51:48Speaker 3: you find in life, my brothers and my sisters, the
- 51:50Speaker 3: people you now admire today will look for you and
- 51:54Speaker 3: call it an honor to stand before you. If I
- 51:59Speaker 3: ask us to write our prayer request now, what area
- 52:02Speaker 3: are you trusting God for restoration? Someone will say, Apostle,
- 52:06Speaker 3: as I stand right now, I've lost one billion. I've
- 52:09Speaker 3: lost 500 million. And you ask the person, what am
- 52:11Speaker 3: I going to do about it? He'll say, now I'm
- 52:13Speaker 3: looking for a loan or I'm looking for someone to
- 52:15Speaker 3: help my business. But if I tell you, give me
- 52:17Speaker 3: a chance to recommend a part for you out of
- 52:20Speaker 3: that problem.
- 52:21Speaker 1: He'll say, Apostle, you're not a businessman.
- 52:23Speaker 3: Do your preaching. Jesus will give you money. And I
- 52:30Speaker 3: asked the person, so how are you going to come
- 52:31Speaker 3: out of this challenge? I have called senators, so, so, so,
- 52:34Speaker 3: and so. And then he promised to connect me to
- 52:38Speaker 3: one foundation abroad.
- 52:39Speaker 1: I'm already calculating everything.
- 52:41Speaker 3: I hope that, give or take, at least 200 million
- 52:44Speaker 3: will come in. And then, when that 2 million comes,
- 52:47Speaker 3: I'll do business and at least in 2 years. Oh dear, listen,
- 52:50Speaker 3: let me tell you. The man talking to you is
- 52:52Speaker 3: not stupid. Someone else can go before God and say, Father,
- 52:56Speaker 3: if you do not open my eyes, I cannot see you.
- 53:00Speaker 3: If you do not help me, there is no human
- 53:03Speaker 3: way I can come out of this. And the Lord says,
- 53:06Speaker 3: you know what? Leave the issue of business. Leave the
- 53:09Speaker 3: issue of profit.
- 53:11Speaker 1: Focus on me.
- 53:12Speaker 3: Satan desires to sift you. And you can throw business
- 53:16Speaker 3: and everything and stay. And say, I have lost everything
- 53:19Speaker 3: in my life. I will not lose my soul. Lord,
- 53:22Speaker 3: let's start again. My brother, you can be in that
- 53:24Speaker 3: place and one idea in his presence. One connection in
- 53:29Speaker 3: his presence. The spirit of God. Is it not in
- 53:31Speaker 3: your Bible that the steps of a good man are
- 53:33Speaker 3: ordered by the Lord?
- 53:34Speaker 1: You can get.
- 53:35Speaker 3: Up from your frailty and step into a conference like this.
- 53:40Speaker 3: And God will orchestrate that. You sit down near a helper.
- 53:43Speaker 3: And the person says, young man, what do you do?
- 53:45Speaker 3: And says, I'm just a graduate. He says, the spirit
- 53:49Speaker 3: of God said I should hold your hand until you
- 53:51Speaker 3: are established. Now, when you come back and meet the
- 53:55Speaker 3: person who left God to look for success.
- 53:58Speaker 1: The person will say, no, you are just lucky.
- 54:00Speaker 3: I'm sure you succeeded just because you are in ministry.
- 54:04Speaker 1: It's a lie. It is the profit of his presence.
- 54:10Speaker 3: I used to think this template only works for men
- 54:14Speaker 3: of God. The template of making sure that you are
- 54:18Speaker 3: surrendered and staying in his presence. And quite honestly, I
- 54:22Speaker 3: used to be concerned because I said, if you stay
- 54:25Speaker 3: in his presence praying, building capacity, won't you lose in time?
- 54:30Speaker 3: There are many important things to do. I found out
- 54:33Speaker 3: that nobody.
- 54:34Speaker 1: Loses with God.
- 54:35Speaker 3: When your spirit man becomes robust and enlarged, you will
- 54:39Speaker 3: lay up gold as dust. I tell you, if you
- 54:42Speaker 3: came for this conference trusting God to receive restoration and
- 54:46Speaker 3: to be free, I am telling.
- 54:48Speaker 1: You the way out. Take a minute. Away from business.
- 54:54Speaker 1: Take a minute. Away from marriage. Take a minute.
- 54:59Speaker 3: Away from children. Away from breakthrough. Can you take a
- 55:02Speaker 3: minute and stay tonight. And say God is between me
- 55:05Speaker 3: and you. This is not the issue of healing again.
- 55:08Speaker 3: I know that they diagnose me of cancer.
- 55:10Speaker 1: But cancer. It will be a later discussion. For when
- 55:18Speaker 1: you find him.
- 55:20Speaker 3: When you touch him, when you encounter the God of
- 55:24Speaker 3: the Bible, not the one you hear people saying they met.
- 55:28Speaker 3: When you encounter the God of Israel, when he places
- 55:32Speaker 3: something upon your life, you will go out and in
- 55:36Speaker 3: a moment, I'm telling you, it will not take that long.
- 55:41Speaker 3: God will raise men. God will raise systems. He will
- 55:44Speaker 3: give you wisdom. We're starting tonight because tonight.
- 55:47Speaker 1: Is a cry for a restoration of our soul.
- 55:51Speaker 3: And when you pray that prayer, some of you whilst
- 55:54Speaker 3: in the place of prayer, there are other prayers you
- 55:56Speaker 3: don't need to pray again. You will go back home
- 55:59Speaker 3: and on reaching home, someone will call you and say,
- 56:01Speaker 3: you know what? I've been trying to reach you. The
- 56:03Speaker 3: job is now waiting for you. And that's when you
- 56:06Speaker 3: find out that it's not that God could not give
- 56:08Speaker 3: you the job. He has seen that Satan wants to
- 56:11Speaker 3: use that job as a transaction to steal away your passion,
- 56:15Speaker 3: to steal away your hunger, to steal away your fire.
- 56:19Speaker 3: And let me tell you this. If you hear me
- 56:21Speaker 3: saying this thing and you feel in.
- 56:23Speaker 1: Your heart I'm wasting your time, it's an attack on
- 56:26Speaker 1: your destiny. It's an attack.
- 56:34Speaker 3: There are things only God can do in the life
- 56:36Speaker 3: of a man. I have studied success from a business standpoint.
- 56:41Speaker 3: I have studied success from an entrepreneurial standpoint by the
- 56:44Speaker 3: message of God. I have studied success from a leadership standpoint.
- 56:49Speaker 3: I have studied success from a spiritual standpoint. I have
- 56:52Speaker 3: come to a conclusion that it doesn't matter what route
- 56:55Speaker 3: you take. If your soul, the health of your spirit man,
- 57:00Speaker 3: if that is not sorted, you will prosper. You will
- 57:03Speaker 3: make money.
- 57:04Speaker 1: Doors will open.
- 57:05Speaker 3: But there is calamity eventually waiting for you. It doesn't
- 57:10Speaker 3: matter even if it's after 20 years. You can do
- 57:14Speaker 3: ministry without his presence and excel. And one day, overnight,
- 57:19Speaker 3: something happens to you.
- 57:22Speaker 1: Satan is not foolish. He does not attack in one day.
- 57:26Speaker 1: He gives you room.
- 57:28Speaker 3: So that you can continue without God's presence. So that
- 57:31Speaker 3: you can continue without your fire.
- 57:34Speaker 1: Listen to me. I came here by the spirit tonight.
- 57:37Speaker 1: To challenge you. Using my life. And to honor your
- 57:44Speaker 1: sacrifice of coming to this place. For some of you.
- 57:46Speaker 3: What God is calling you to do now. He says
- 57:50Speaker 3: son I've always cried for your attention. You've gotten so busy,
- 57:55Speaker 3: busy trying to make life work. Busy trying to build
- 57:59Speaker 3: a house. Not knowing that except the Lord builds a house,
- 58:03Speaker 3: they labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord
- 58:07Speaker 3: watches over a city, the watchman watches but in vain.
- 58:10Speaker 3: There are people by the message of God that I've
- 58:13Speaker 3: met in my life today.
- 58:14Speaker 1: And it's almost like a dream.
- 58:16Speaker 3: I would never have imagined that at this point in
- 58:18Speaker 3: my life, by what connection would I have gotten.
- 58:21Speaker 1: To that level? But God for you. When he finds
- 58:25Speaker 1: your heart. Who is God speaking to?
- 58:27Speaker 3: When God can find your heart. There are many things
- 58:30Speaker 3: that happen in the secret place. That becomes your security.
- 58:34Speaker 1: Number one.
- 58:35Speaker 3: Is a circumcision that happens within your heart. Because you see,
- 58:39Speaker 3: the tendencies of men is such that until God.
- 58:43Speaker 1: Vets you, even you can deceive yourself.
- 58:46Speaker 3: The Bible says the heart of man is desperately wicked.
- 58:49Speaker 3: Oh God, bless me, and I will bring the money
- 58:51Speaker 3: to church.
- 58:52Speaker 1: It's a lie.
- 58:53Speaker 3: You are sincere, but you are still lying. You don't
- 58:55Speaker 3: even know the state of your heart. The Bible says
- 58:58Speaker 3: that the heart of man is deceptive above all things.
- 59:04Speaker 3: You know what it means to have plenty. And it
- 59:07Speaker 3: does not affect your passion for God.
- 59:09Speaker 1: You know what it means.
- 59:10Speaker 3: Means to be lifted and still be humble and remain
- 59:13Speaker 3: on your knees?
- 59:13Speaker 1: It is not human. It is not natural.
- 59:16Speaker 3: It is a circumcision that happens when you stay with him.
- 59:19Speaker 3: When God demands that you stay, he's not delaying your growth.
- 59:24Speaker 3: When God demands that you stay, he's not wasting your time.
- 59:27Speaker 1: My dear sister, hear me. I'm speaking to you by
- 59:29Speaker 1: the spirit.
- 59:30Speaker 3: Don't let naysayers make you feel that the time invested
- 59:34Speaker 3: in God's house, the time invested in building your health,
- 59:39Speaker 3: capaciting the spirit.
- 59:43Speaker 1: When you plant.
- 59:45Speaker 3: Sometimes the plants does not just sprout and start bearing
- 59:49Speaker 3: fruit there are trees like the baobab tree and other
- 59:53Speaker 3: trees that would take a long time it will look
- 59:55Speaker 3: like progress is not happening one way you know you
- 59:58Speaker 3: are walking with god is that there will always be
- 1:00:01Speaker 3: silent years in your life yes that only god can
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: tell what is happening to you you yourself cannot.
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: Tell whether you are making progress or not because all.
- 1:00:10Speaker 3: The parameters to measure success will be missing And God
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: will keep it intentionally. He will teach you to be
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: used to him without things. And be comfortable before he
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: brings things. Did you hear what I said? He will
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: teach you to be used to his presence. That if
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: I have his presence, without money I am still successful.
- 1:00:30Speaker 3: If I have his presence, without a name I am
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: still successful. When his presence becomes your all, everything added
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: to it does not distract you again. The psalmist said,
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: among the many things I desire to restore, restore my soul.
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: Restore my soul.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: For someone, restore my soul means restore my prayer life.
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: Apostle, I did not start this way. I used to
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: be on fire. That fire upon my altar. For some
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: of you it was so whilst you were on campus.
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: Before you became a businessman. While you were a faithful
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: member of a fellowship.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: It was prayer every time. And by that momentum you.
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: Were gaining ascendance in the spirit. You began in the spirit.
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: Who distracted you? What distracted you now? For some family
- 1:01:22Speaker 3: life became the temptation and the bait Satan used to
- 1:01:25Speaker 3: distract you. Others ministry. Others money. Others the desire to
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: make it. God is the one who designed this system.
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: He is not evil to leave your needs unattended to.
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: But there is a protocol. Tonight I came to show
- 1:01:40Speaker 3: you a law that you have been violating that is
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: responsible for most of the losses in our lives. When
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: Satan comes to you and he looks at the direction
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: of your attention, that's what you attack. When he looks
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: at the direction of your attention and he finds it
- 1:01:57Speaker 3: at fame or money, he will attack that area. But
- 1:02:01Speaker 3: when he finds your eyes fixed on Jesus, that while
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: your account is multiplying, your eyes are still on Jesus
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: because you.
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: Have been trained in the secret place.
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: That every time you look away from him, The waters
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: will sink you, Peter.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: That was the lesson. Walking on water was not just
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: about a miracle.
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: He was teaching you how to be undistracted by the
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: things around you to focus on Jesus. When Peter looked
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: away from Jesus and began to look at other things
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: like ministry, like growth, like whatever.
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: It is, he sank. Let me tell you this.
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: When I was to start ministry, The difficulty was how
- 1:02:42Speaker 3: to be able to raise finances for ministry. Because I
- 1:02:45Speaker 3: made up my mind that I was going to serve
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: God void of compromise. That I would never manipulate anybody
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: for myself or to fund the work. And based on
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: the visions that God was showing me, I knew that
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: this work would require enormous, enormous resources.
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: How was God going to help me through this? By
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: his mercy. I remember times when I would come to
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: God and say, Lord, what.
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: Is the key to this? And he would teach me,
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: stay in my presence. There is a curriculum for your growth.
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: There is a curriculum for your excelling. There are people
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: already positioned. There is wisdom to navigate you to the
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: place of grace and power, but stay. I thank God
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: by his mercy that I stayed. The foolishness of waiting
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: upon the Lord.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: It will look.
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: Like you are not making progress. Let me say this
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: to you. And I submit with all humility. I'm about
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: to pray for you now. There are many people Lord.
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: There were many people those days. they were in a
- 1:03:47Speaker 3: hurry to make it. Now, I don't say this, you know,
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: being sarcastic. I mean, if you saw them, you would
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: think if they did not do ministry in one year,
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: they would die. It was like, I want to do ministry.
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: I want to shine. I want to heal the sick.
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: I want to do whatever. And sometimes, humanly, you'll be
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: tempted to say, I hope this is not the way.
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: And I'm missing out. And they will tell you, stay.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: For someone.
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: All through January, it looked like you did not make
- 1:04:16Speaker 3: progress in any aspect of your life. Except that your
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: prayer life was healthy. Except that your word life was healthy.
- 1:04:23Speaker 3: Please do not feel foolish. You are sowing in the spirit.
- 1:04:26Speaker 3: You are making an investment. In one year, God can
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: bring the job and the husband.
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: And give you triplets. You would turn back and say,
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: so what was the anxiety about? What was it about?
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: Hmm.
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: Many years later, by the mercy of God, when God
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: began to do the things that he's now doing through
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: our lives, I look back with pain in my heart
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: at some of these wonderful people yesteryears. I look at
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: their hurry. They wanted to make money fast. They wanted
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: fame fast. They wanted increase fast. And you are now wondering,
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: so with all that journey, where is it? Because let
- 1:05:12Speaker 3: me tell you this, It is vain to wake up
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: in the morning. And to sleep late at night. Only
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: to eat.
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: The bread of sorrow.
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: I have learnt in my life. If this God does
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: not stand behind you to help you. You will waste
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: your time. And weary your days. It will look like
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: you are making progress. Only that you will turn back
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: and find out that 15 years was wasted. You will
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: go round. Only to find out that you are back
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: to the place you started. This is my call tonight.
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: We are going to cry the cry of restoration. Lord,
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: I'm trusting you for houses. I'm trusting you for a car.
- 1:05:50Speaker 3: I'm trusting you for increase. But for tonight, restore my soul.
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: Restore my soul.
- 1:05:57Speaker 3: This transaction I've been doing with Satan unknowingly. That my
- 1:06:02Speaker 3: increase has been at the expense of my prayer life.
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: My fame.
- 1:06:07Speaker 3: Has been at the expense of my consecration. My rising
- 1:06:11Speaker 3: has been at the expense. Do not allow your growth
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: become a cost to you. The key is to give
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: God your heart. When your heart belongs to him. When
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: Satan comes around you. It doesn't matter what he baits
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: you with. Whether increase or challenges. It has no effect
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: on your heart. Do you know why? Because you are
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: totally surrendered. Now let me say this before we pray.
- 1:06:36Speaker 3: When you come to Jesus, really, you don't give him
- 1:06:39Speaker 3: your heart. You receive his life. That's what happens. Giving
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: him your heart is not a language of born again.
- 1:06:46Speaker 3: It's a language of surrender so that you'll be used
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: by him. When you now hand over your all, he said,
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: my son, give me your heart and let your eyes
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: incline onto my ways. Tonight I came to propose a formula.
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: A formula that turned this small boy you see By
- 1:07:06Speaker 3: his mercy to what God is doing tonight. I don't
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: claim I know everything. I don't claim I know everyone.
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: But there's one thing. That the people that do know
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: their God. The people that do know their God. It
- 1:07:22Speaker 3: doesn't matter where they start from. It doesn't matter who
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: has risen or not risen.
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: In their family.
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: Allow God to birth that circumcision. To make out that
- 1:07:33Speaker 3: circumcision within your heart tonight. You are a man of God,
- 1:07:36Speaker 3: I do not doubt. Truly, the hand of God is
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: upon you. But this appetite of wanting invitation. Let me
- 1:07:43Speaker 3: go for ministry. I am a great man. Put my
- 1:07:46Speaker 3: face on the poster. You are transacting with Babylon not knowing.
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: Just because it's a spiritual adventure does not mean you
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: are free. Take away all those things and stay. Neither
- 1:07:55Speaker 3: do men light a lamp. If you are truly lit,
- 1:07:58Speaker 3: it is impossible to be kept in hiding. It doesn't
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: matter who victimizes you. When you stay and that circumcision happens,
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: the gift you receive from his presence is fire that
- 1:08:10Speaker 3: cannot be quenched. And when you carry that fire, whether
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: as a businessman, you carry that fire, it doesn't matter
- 1:08:18Speaker 3: as whatever, you will excel, you will reign. That's when
- 1:08:21Speaker 3: you will see that there is a compensation system.
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: I must say this.
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: While you are walking with God, you will lose many things.
- 1:08:32Speaker 3: I have to tell you the truth. There are many
- 1:08:34Speaker 3: losses that are not demonic. They are consequences of sacrifice.
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: Did you hear what I said? Please, Enugu, listen to me.
- 1:08:41Speaker 3: Listen to this man of God. While you walk with God,
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: you don't start by gaining.
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: When you walk with God, you start by losing.
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: Except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: talk to me and.
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: When you walk with God, there is a price. you
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: will lose.
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: Friends people will misperceive you That is the prize. You
- 1:09:06Speaker 3: will start by losing a lot. To a point you
- 1:09:09Speaker 3: will be stripped off. Everything that makes you confident in yourself.
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: So that your confidence becomes him. When he strips you
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: that much. It is also a measure of the weight
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: of glory. Now let me tell you this.
- 1:09:23Speaker 3: There is a compensation system.
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: At the end of the journey. Don't feel cheated. No
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: matter what you lose in the journey. If it is
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: God who is helping you. I assure you. If it
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: is money you lost.
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: If it's friends you lost, if it's your reputation you lost,
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: don't worry about that. By the time the maker makes you,
- 1:09:42Speaker 3: in one day, Job lost everything. The one thing he
- 1:09:49Speaker 3: had was his honor and reverence for God. And even
- 1:09:52Speaker 3: his wife said, Mr. Man, you've lost all. Cause God
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: and die. Job said, why do you speak like this
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: one of these foolish women? He says, all the days
- 1:10:01Speaker 3: of my appointed time. I don't know if I would
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: have had the kind of stamina to wait like Job.
- 1:10:06Speaker 3: Not when after losing my children, my estate and then
- 1:10:10Speaker 3: my health.
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: Maybe I would have caused God one day to say, God,
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: you know what?
- 1:10:14Speaker 3: I don't trust you. Kill me if you want to.
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: But not Job. He said, I know my redeemer lives.
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: To the point that three men came together and the
- 1:10:23Speaker 3: Bible said they sat down for one week.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: They were looking at Job.
- 1:10:27Speaker 3: Do you know what it means to sit near a
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: sick person for one week and you can't talk to
- 1:10:31Speaker 3: the person? How did you reduce like this? What kind
- 1:10:36Speaker 3: of attack came on your ministry? What kind of attack
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: came on your family? And Elihu said, it's not always
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: about what the person did wrong. There are mysteries in
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: the spirit. There are times we lose to gain. You
- 1:10:51Speaker 3: shed off certain weights. I'm saying this to someone because
- 1:10:54Speaker 3: you lost a job. You lost friends. Someone said if
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: you will compromise, you will get an oil and gas
- 1:11:00Speaker 3: company work.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: And you refused.
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: You thought by the next day a breakthrough will come.
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: And sometimes preachers, we need to be careful as we
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: teach people. There is a process before emergence happens. Just
- 1:11:11Speaker 3: because you say no to Satan does not mean God's
- 1:11:14Speaker 3: answer will come immediately. There are times no answer will
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: come for two years, five years. You will feel foolish
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: for saying no to the devil.
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: But wait. Still wait.
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: You made up your mind that you will stay. And
- 1:11:28Speaker 3: everybody who started with you has gone ahead of you.
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: They call you one day and say, please, we are
- 1:11:33Speaker 3: concerned about your destiny.
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: Tell them I came to church tonight and I had
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: one word.
- 1:11:39Speaker 4: Wait. Wait.
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: I will wait, oh. I will wait. Thank God for
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: your ministry. Go ahead.
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: I wish you well, but I will wait. The ordination
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: upon my life and the weight of glory that I
- 1:11:52Speaker 3: carry requires a building.
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: I will wait. Provided it is waiting upon the Lord.
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: I will wait.
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: Let the circumcision happen. And God looks at you and says,
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: I want to trust you with nations. But because of
- 1:12:04Speaker 3: the background you came from. Maybe you came from a
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: polygamous background. The tendency for pride. The tendency for wickedness
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: is there. So that it does not destroy you in
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: the future. Allow me to circumcise you. And I tell
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: you while that is happening, it will be painful. Waiting
- 1:12:22Speaker 3: is the hardest thing I.
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: Know for a believer. Because you wait in the silence
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: of God.
- 1:12:28Speaker 3: As a man of God, someone will come for counseling
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: over something that you are going through. You will solve
- 1:12:34Speaker 3: their problem by prophecy. And then you still remain in
- 1:12:36Speaker 3: that situation. And you are saying, somebody came to you
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: and said, look, I'm trusting God for finances.
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: You say, let's pray.
- 1:12:43Speaker 3: And as you spoke, the person sent you a text
- 1:12:46Speaker 3: one hour and said, you are really anointed. And you,
- 1:12:48Speaker 3: your rent has not been paid. The person said, no,
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: you are really, I'll come with my friend again. So you,
- 1:12:55Speaker 3: after praying for 10 people or a barren woman praying
- 1:13:00Speaker 3: and a woman comes with three plates and said, I've
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: never experienced graces like this.
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: And you say, God, what of me? Here is my
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: message for you tonight.
- 1:13:07Speaker 4: Wait.
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: Wait.
- 1:13:10Speaker 4: Wait. Wait.
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: Some of you, I'm wrapping up now.
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: You are about the finish line.
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: Wait. Because you see, if you are to run a.
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: Marathon and you are the last round and you are tired,
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: they would not say because you went seven rounds.
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: For eight, you've done well.
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: You still lost. You and the person who was not
- 1:13:34Speaker 3: in the field will receive the same lot.
- 1:13:36Speaker 4: Shame.
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: I made up my mind that if it is God,
- 1:13:45Speaker 3: I'd rather be a fool in the presence of man,
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: but I will stay with him. I have seen the
- 1:13:50Speaker 3: value of his presence. I look at my life today,
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: and I don't say this to be arrogant. I hope
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: you don't misunderstand me for arrogance. Honestly, I have seen
- 1:14:00Speaker 3: the mercy of God. Sometimes when I'm alone, I've tried
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: to cry in the midst of people. My tears will
- 1:14:05Speaker 3: not just come out. So, I don't know why. I'm
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: not a very emotional person. But when I try to cry,
- 1:14:11Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'll come now.
- 1:14:12Speaker 1: The tears will not come.
- 1:14:13Speaker 3: But when I'm alone, because I consider the things he's
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: done in my life. I remember that small boy. And
- 1:14:21Speaker 3: I stand and I say, Lord, look what you've done
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: in my life. And he says, teach people what I
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: did in your life. Don't just enjoy it.
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: Teach people. That the secret is when you forget about
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: all and stay with him. Master, we have left all, Lord.
- 1:14:38Speaker 3: We left all. We left all. We left all. We
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: left all. We left invitations. We left opportunities. If you
- 1:14:48Speaker 3: ever think you stay with God and become a failure,
- 1:14:52Speaker 3: the formula that was given to you was wrong. But
- 1:14:55Speaker 3: if it is God's formula, as your soul prospers, every
- 1:15:00Speaker 3: other thing will eventually catch up.
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: And sometimes it will catch up so fast.
- 1:15:08Speaker 3: When God began to show us mercy as a ministry,
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: when God began to show me mercy as a person,
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: at a point I was going to say, Lord, what
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: is this? It's like this train is running too fast.
- 1:15:19Speaker 3: But that's what happens when you build capacity in the spirit.
- 1:15:24Speaker 3: In one day, question, how long did it take Job
- 1:15:28Speaker 3: to be restored? Have you read your Bible? Job 42
- 1:15:31Speaker 3: and verse 10. Read 10 and 11. That's how long
- 1:15:35Speaker 3: it took Job to be restored.
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: All while he was going through that season. Ladies and gentlemen.
- 1:15:41Speaker 3: All the people who had capacity to help him were there.
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: But mysteriously they were far from him.
- 1:15:46Speaker 3: Oh, but there is an east wind that can blow
- 1:15:49Speaker 3: helpers from everywhere. And in one day, back to back,
- 1:15:53Speaker 3: somebody comes to you and says, gentlemen, you are in
- 1:15:56Speaker 3: this choir. God said I should give you a house.
- 1:15:59Speaker 3: You will first look at it and say, no, it
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: is a joke.
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: Let me tell you this.
- 1:16:05Speaker 3: I share these stories to inspire you. For many years,
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: I stayed in one room.
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: As a man of God.
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: I would travel and preach, be kept in very nice places.
- 1:16:21Speaker 3: I didn't stay because of luck. I was paying for people,
- 1:16:25Speaker 3: two bedrooms, three bedrooms, keeping people, paying school fees.
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: And God would tell me to stay in one room.
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: I said, what is all this one again? If I've
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: sinned against you, I'm sorry. What did I do wrong
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: like that?
- 1:16:37Speaker 4: Stay.
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: I remember people would bring vehicles and give me. You
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: see that? Bring vehicles and give me.
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: And the Holy Spirit said, no, I can supply. Pray
- 1:16:50Speaker 3: on the vehicle and take it back. I remember a
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: time when a group of women, I was in my
- 1:16:55Speaker 3: room praying. I heard, you know how women sing choruses
- 1:16:57Speaker 3: and they are coming to your house. You know that's
- 1:16:59Speaker 3: a serious issue. Once you see them together singing choruses
- 1:17:03Speaker 3: and they just ask concerned mothers. They wanted to know
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: if there was something wrong with me that I was
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: not sharing. When they left, I said, God, is something
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: wrong with me? Do you know what it means to
- 1:17:19Speaker 3: be paying rent for other people and you are staying
- 1:17:21Speaker 3: in one room? And I used to counsel in that
- 1:17:24Speaker 3: one room. I did not hide it. You enter the
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: room and you think it's an office. Only that it's
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: an office with a bed. Well prepared bed. Office with DSTV.
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: And free to air. What kind of one room is
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: like that? People will bring cars. I remember I used
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: to climb bike to go for miracle service. Now everybody's
- 1:17:47Speaker 3: life may not follow that template. I'm only giving you
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: an example to show you what it means to stay
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: until you are made.
- 1:17:53Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
- 1:17:59Speaker 3: Imagine a crowd of people like this and you hear
- 1:18:01Speaker 3: a bike outside and that's me with my Bible. And
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: the people are looking with shock and disbelief. He said
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: that these guys are wicked. They cannot buy car for
- 1:18:11Speaker 3: this man of God. So people offered. There were people
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: who decided to, oh yeah, let's do it. I remember
- 1:18:18Speaker 3: it was a miracle service. The head of protocol is here.
- 1:18:22Speaker 3: When a woman from Lagos sent a Sienna and sent
- 1:18:27Speaker 3: that Sienna and they dropped it and they called me
- 1:18:30Speaker 3: that a woman had brought a car for me. I said, God,
- 1:18:32Speaker 3: who is this car for? And God said, no, this
- 1:18:35Speaker 3: one is for you. I didn't look at that car.
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: I passed, I went for for the miracle service. It
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: was when I returned back in the night that I
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: now looked at it.
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: That's when I knew what had happened to me. The
- 1:18:48Speaker 3: string that connects the heart with things was no longer
- 1:18:51Speaker 3: there this was the circumcision that God was doing that
- 1:18:56Speaker 3: there is an invisible string in the heart of men
- 1:19:01Speaker 3: that those are the strings that make you look like
- 1:19:03Speaker 3: a puppet in the midst of things money moves you
- 1:19:06Speaker 3: here titles move you here fame moves you here God
- 1:19:11Speaker 3: now brought that circumcision to my heart. And I'm honored today.
- 1:19:16Speaker 3: The rest is history. To God be the glory. I
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: cannot tell you the things that God has done in
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: my life today. God carried the lifetime of many people
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: and gave me one lifetime.
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: Many people.
- 1:19:30Speaker 3: Today we are able to do the things that we
- 1:19:32Speaker 3: do for the kingdom across the nations. Our first crusade,
- 1:19:36Speaker 3: we were not a little more than your choir. After
- 1:19:39Speaker 3: fasting for two weeks.
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: I'm praying. The car spoiled on the way.
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: We didn't have money to call mechanic. It was praying
- 1:19:48Speaker 3: in tongues that got that car back. I tell the
- 1:19:50Speaker 3: truth and I lie not. The ladies, everybody was in
- 1:19:56Speaker 3: every department that time. Just find a department that is
- 1:19:59Speaker 3: empty and join. The ladies would climb trees to plug
- 1:20:02Speaker 3: some wood. So that they could cook. And they were
- 1:20:04Speaker 3: still in the worship team. They would quickly cook and
- 1:20:08Speaker 3: rush and go and dress. But today to God be
- 1:20:11Speaker 3: the glory.
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: Listen.
- 1:20:17Speaker 3: So that we do not waste prophetic words. And so
- 1:20:20Speaker 3: that you do not shout amen for nothing. What many
- 1:20:24Speaker 3: of you need right now is that circumcision tonight. And
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: for the next five minutes, we are going to be
- 1:20:30Speaker 3: crying before the Lord. Leave the issue of car.
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: Listen to me.
- 1:20:35Speaker 3: I'm telling you how to get the car. Businessman, I
- 1:20:38Speaker 3: know you are owing. If you run away from God,
- 1:20:42Speaker 3: you are still in trouble.
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: Are we together? My sister, I know you want marriage,
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: you want children.
- 1:20:49Speaker 3: God wants you to settle more than you can.
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: But you stay.
- 1:20:53Speaker 3: The next five minutes, we're going to pray and cry
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: like the 24 elders.
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: Lord, that circumcision, restore my soul. Restore my soul. Restore
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: my soul. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: Everything that has given.
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: Me cheap to Satan.
- 1:21:12Speaker 3: Everything that has given my destiny, my ministry cheap.
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: Someone go ahead and pray. For some of you, you
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: need to start with repentance. For some of you, you
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: need to cry and say, Lord, walk upon me. Take
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: a minute and pray. Participate in the prayer. This is
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: between you and your maker.
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: The Bible says, Seeing then that we are surrounded by
- 1:21:34Speaker 3: so great a cloud.
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: Of witnesses, let us lay.
- 1:21:36Speaker 3: Aside every weight and the sin that doth easily beset
- 1:21:40Speaker 3: us and to run with perseverance the race that is
- 1:21:43Speaker 3: set before us, looking unto Jesus, who is the author
- 1:21:47Speaker 3: and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy
- 1:21:51Speaker 3: that was set before him endured the cross and despised
- 1:21:55Speaker 3: the shame Someone is crying to God. Someone who came
- 1:21:59Speaker 3: to church with genuine hunger. Restore my fire. Restore my
- 1:22:06Speaker 3: prayer life. Restore my appetite. Restore my passion.
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: Go ahead and pray.
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: I know you are a man of God, but take
- 1:22:18Speaker 3: away that ministerial regalia for one minute and cry before
- 1:22:22Speaker 3: your maker. I know you are a champion in the spirit.
- 1:22:26Speaker 3: Take away that regalia for one minute. I know you
- 1:22:29Speaker 3: are a daughter of Abraham. There is an ordination in
- 1:22:32Speaker 3: your life. I do not doubt it. But someone cry, restore.
- 1:22:36Speaker 3: not restore my money leave money for tomorrow not restore
- 1:22:41Speaker 3: my car leave the issue of car for tomorrow not
- 1:22:44Speaker 3: restore my reputation leave reputation for tomorrow restore my relationship
- 1:22:51Speaker 3: restore the rate the state of my heart restore my
- 1:22:55Speaker 3: passion restore my fire.
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: Take a minute to pray.
- 1:23:06Speaker 3: Holy, blessed is he who comes.
- 1:23:13Speaker 4: In the name of our God.
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: Holy, holy, blessed is he who.
- 1:23:27Speaker 4: Comes in the name of our God. Hosanna.
- 1:23:36Speaker 3: Now listen ladies and gentlemen.
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: Hear me.
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: Until you encounter that refiner's fire, I sense a very
- 1:24:16Speaker 3: strong anointing in this place. This anointing is not for impartation.
- 1:24:21Speaker 3: This anointing is to restore.
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: Your fire and your hunger.
- 1:24:27Speaker 3: Let me tell you the truth. Some of you, you
- 1:24:29Speaker 3: are the one delaying your manifestation. It is not in
- 1:24:33Speaker 3: God's hand. It is at the mercy of your zeal
- 1:24:36Speaker 3: and your passion. The day you take God seriously. And
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: accelerate the death process through your hunger and passion. You
- 1:24:46Speaker 3: also accelerate the manifestation. Death walks in us. That life
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: will walk in you.
- 1:24:55Speaker 4: Listen.
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: Listen. A man of God once asked me a question.
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: And he said.
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: What really is the secret of results in ministry? He
- 1:25:08Speaker 3: was trying to really investigate honestly. He said, apostle, what
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: will you say is the real secret of having results
- 1:25:16Speaker 3: in ministry? Is it eloquence in speech? Is it soundness
- 1:25:21Speaker 3: in communication doctrine?
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: Is it depth of the word? Is it prayer? Is
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: it excellence?
- 1:25:27Speaker 3: Is it administration? Is it relationships? All of these are
- 1:25:31Speaker 3: the various elements that make for excelling. But if you
- 1:25:35Speaker 3: were to tell me one key, what will it be?
- 1:25:40Speaker 1: I told him, guess. And he said, prayer. I said, no,
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: you failed. He said, what? I said, no, you failed.
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: He said, what then? Excellence? I said, no, you failed.
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: The greatest key to excelling in ministry is not outside you.
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: It's within you.
- 1:25:55Speaker 3: The state of your heart with God. The state of
- 1:26:00Speaker 3: your heart with God. Is greater than your prayer life.
- 1:26:05Speaker 3: The state of your heart with God. Is greater than
- 1:26:09Speaker 3: Bible recitations. Can I tell you.
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: You 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.
- 1:26:19Speaker 4: One minute.
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: One minute.
- 1:26:23Speaker 3: I've stretched 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 3: Everything that will make me to dethrone you in my heart.
- 1:26:37Speaker 3: Everything that will make me exalt things above you. Touch
- 1:26:42Speaker 3: my heart of it right now. Open your mouth and pray.
- 1:26:45Speaker 3: Whether it's titles. Whether it's positions. Whether it's money. Whether
- 1:26:50Speaker 3: it's increase. I show you a formula. That controls excellence
- 1:26:55Speaker 3: in the spirit. The business of working with God. Is
- 1:26:59Speaker 3: predicated on death. Allowing for that circumcision. Within you to
- 1:27:04Speaker 3: be complete.
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: Restore my soul. Restore my hunger. Restore my prayer life.
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: Restore my zeal.
- 1:27:21Speaker 3: In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name
- 1:27:25Speaker 3: we pray. I pray about many things in my life.
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: But there are a few things I found out. That
- 1:27:32Speaker 3: it was no longer necessary to pray over them. While
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: my hunger was directed to his majesty. It also doubled
- 1:27:41Speaker 3: as a magnet. Attracting many things to my life. It
- 1:27:46Speaker 3: is true when the Bible says. If you seek first
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: his kingdom. And his righteousness truly. All other things. All
- 1:27:54Speaker 3: other things. All other things. I want to make an
- 1:27:59Speaker 3: altar call. Please no movement. There are two altar calls
- 1:28:04Speaker 3: in one I want to make tonight. The first cry
- 1:28:07Speaker 3: is his spiritual restoration tonight. There's someone who came here
- 1:28:12Speaker 3: and whilst you heard me speak. You had the overflow outside.
- 1:28:15Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit in the silence, everybody having all kinds
- 1:28:19Speaker 3: of reactions to this teaching. But for you, the Holy
- 1:28:21Speaker 3: Spirit was pointing to you and said, this is it.
- 1:28:25Speaker 3: This is what I've been showing you through dreams. This
- 1:28:27Speaker 3: is what I've been showing you through prophecy. This is
- 1:28:30Speaker 3: what I've been showing you through the teachings you have
- 1:28:32Speaker 3: been hearing.
- 1:28:33Speaker 1: That it is upon the strength of that death, that circumcision,
- 1:28:37Speaker 1: that pruning, that surrender.
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: That real restoration, increase and advancement happens to you in
- 1:28:44Speaker 3: the spirit. In a way that profits you both here
- 1:28:47Speaker 3: and in eternity. I want to call two people in one. One,
- 1:28:52Speaker 3: those who are saying, Apostle, if you will give me
- 1:28:54Speaker 3: this noble opportunity within the next minute or so that
- 1:28:57Speaker 3: we have I truly want to make it right with Jesus.
- 1:29:01Speaker 3: I've heard people talk about this Jesus thing, but I've
- 1:29:03Speaker 3: never really taken it seriously. But on hearing you teach,
- 1:29:06Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost began to speak to me. Number two,
- 1:29:10Speaker 3: those who are saying, Apostle, I remember making this decision,
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: but honestly, as it is right now, my life is
- 1:29:17Speaker 3: in a spiritual ICU.
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: I need help fast.
- 1:29:21Speaker 3: God bless you, my dear sister. I see someone coming
- 1:29:23Speaker 3: before the Lord with her baby. Now, if you come,
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: don't kneel because the space here is limited. Once the
- 1:29:28Speaker 3: front is filled, some of you are already coming before
- 1:29:31Speaker 3: my counting. Once the front is filled, then that will
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: be it. You will stand where you are. You want
- 1:29:37Speaker 3: to make it right with Jesus. I want to help
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: her please.
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: She's holding a baby so she doesn't fall with her baby.
- 1:29:43Speaker 1: You want to be.
- 1:29:44Speaker 3: Born again, genuinely afresh.
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: No games, no church, whatever it is. Let's celebrate them
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: as they come. Come. I count one to five.
- 1:29:59Speaker 3: Two, those who are outside, you can walk to the
- 1:30:04Speaker 3: front of your screens. You may not have the liberty
- 1:30:07Speaker 3: to all come in, but all of the overflows, you
- 1:30:09Speaker 3: can walk to the front of your LED and just
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: stand there by faith.
- 1:30:18Speaker 2: My life is not my own.
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: To you I belong.
- 1:30:26Speaker 3: I give myself, give myself to you.
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: My life is not my own.
- 1:30:39Speaker 4: To you I belong.
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: I give myself, I give myself to you.
- 1:30:49Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Don't miss any of the sessions.
- 1:30:53Speaker 3: When we settle this, we can now deal with the
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: dynamics of the various areas where you are trusting God
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: for restoration. It now makes sense to receive the healing,
- 1:31:01Speaker 3: the miracles, the signs, the wonders, the prophecies and the
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: impartations if and when you.
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: Have gotten this law well.
- 1:31:08Speaker 3: For someone, you need to go back home and listen
- 1:31:10Speaker 3: to this message again this night because I tell you sincerely,
- 1:31:14Speaker 3: you have done every other thing right but because you
- 1:31:17Speaker 3: missed this one thing.
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: That's why you've struggled in business. struggled in destiny if
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: you can.
- 1:31:23Speaker 3: Get this right many things even before december you'll be
- 1:31:28Speaker 3: surprised you will now see that life is not that
- 1:31:30Speaker 3: hard it is as hard as the absence of divine
- 1:31:34Speaker 3: assistance in your life thank you all of you for
- 1:31:37Speaker 3: coming i believe that many of you are making this
- 1:31:40Speaker 3: decision for the first time and yet there are a
- 1:31:42Speaker 3: number of others there's such a great harvest tonight i
- 1:31:45Speaker 3: know that many others are coming because they desire a rededication.
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: Now there are two things I'm going to ask you
- 1:31:53Speaker 1: to do. One, I'm going to lead you to the
- 1:31:55Speaker 1: salvation prayer and once we're done, I'm going to lead you.
- 1:31:59Speaker 1: There are counselors. I know there are a number of you.
- 1:32:01Speaker 3: I'm sure that the counselors have been prepared. They would
- 1:32:06Speaker 3: have some time with you, have a word with you
- 1:32:08Speaker 3: and then you're back to your seat. Please lift your
- 1:32:10Speaker 3: right hand as a sign of surrender to this Jesus.
- 1:32:14Speaker 3: Not Joshua Selman, not Reverend Edwidge, Not any of the
- 1:32:18Speaker 3: ministers here. It is on to your king.
- 1:32:20Speaker 1: Your maker.
- 1:32:21Speaker 3: Say after me Lord Jesus. Mean it from your heart.
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: Say Lord Jesus. Tonight I return. Tonight restore me.
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: I believe. That you are the son of the living God.
- 1:32:38Speaker 1: I believe. That you died for my sin. I believe.
- 1:32:43Speaker 1: That you rose again for my justification. I believe.
- 1:32:46Speaker 3: Right now, I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior,
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: my Lord, and my King. I declare that the power
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over
- 1:33:06Speaker 3: my life. I'm a child of God. I go for
- 1:33:10Speaker 3: whatever and back whatever.
- 1:33:14Speaker 4: In Jesus' name.
- 1:33:15Speaker 3: There are two of you, the power of God is
- 1:33:17Speaker 3: coming on you. The rest, I'm going to ask you
- 1:33:20Speaker 3: to leave, but I just, while you were praying that prayer,
- 1:33:22Speaker 3: I just saw light. Two people, the power of God.
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: And the reason why that impartation is coming is because
- 1:33:29Speaker 3: there are demonic things around your life. Let me just
- 1:33:32Speaker 3: speak that word. I'm not ministering, doing anything tonight. This
- 1:33:36Speaker 3: is the assignment God gave me. God, the threshing floor,
- 1:33:39Speaker 3: doing the work of circumcision. But for those two people,
- 1:33:42Speaker 3: in the name of Jesus, wherever you are, I stretch
- 1:33:44Speaker 3: my hands now And I declare let that fire.
- 1:33:47Speaker 1: Let it rest on you. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:33:52Speaker 4: Help the woman.
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: Let it rest on you.
- 1:33:54Speaker 3: And I cause that spirit of infirmity. Leaves your life forever.
- 1:34:00Speaker 3: In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I decree and
- 1:34:03Speaker 3: declare that the rain of darkness goes. Never, never, never
- 1:34:08Speaker 3: to prevail over your life again. I set you free.
- 1:34:12Speaker 3: Every chain holding you. I decree and declare, be loose
- 1:34:16Speaker 3: from it right now. You will experience liberty. Liberty that
- 1:34:20Speaker 3: comes by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus.
- 1:34:24Speaker 3: And I decree and declare unto you, in the name
- 1:34:27Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ, what he says to one, he says
- 1:34:30Speaker 3: to all. Even before the other services will be ministering,
- 1:34:34Speaker 3: I decree and declare that everything you came with that
- 1:34:37Speaker 3: has held you down, bound you, kept you captive, you
- 1:34:41Speaker 3: are released from it right now in Jesus' name. By
- 1:34:44Speaker 3: the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus mighty name
- 1:34:48Speaker 3: we pray.
- 1:34:49Speaker 1: Amen and amen.
- 1:34:52Speaker 4: Okay.
- 1:34:52Speaker 3: Now for those of you. Does that concern the people here?
- 1:34:55Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:34:56Speaker 3: All of you who are here. Please look to the screen.
- 1:34:58Speaker 3: Whether inside or outside. You would see a number. 08026337373
- 1:35:01Speaker 3: You are required to text new life. Text new life
- 1:35:04Speaker 3: to that number.
- 1:35:05Speaker 4: Um.
- 1:35:13Speaker 3: And then there are counselors who have been trained to have,
- 1:35:16Speaker 3: they would get to reach you and then to follow
- 1:35:19Speaker 3: you up in an organized manner. There are so many
- 1:35:22Speaker 3: people and I'm sure this is the wisest approach. So
- 1:35:25Speaker 3: make sure you take advantage of it. I will speak
- 1:35:27Speaker 3: over your life now and then you return back to
- 1:35:29Speaker 3: your seat. Father, thank you for these precious ones. They
- 1:35:32Speaker 3: have come declaring your lordship over their lives. I decree
- 1:35:35Speaker 3: and declare in truth that this relationship, this restoration, begins
- 1:35:40Speaker 3: for you and it remains so all the days of
- 1:35:42Speaker 3: your life no going up and coming down the Lord
- 1:35:46Speaker 3: preserve you in Jesus name please return back to your
- 1:35:49Speaker 3: seat and for everyone else who has come let me
- 1:35:51Speaker 3: speak over your life in the name that is above
- 1:35:54Speaker 3: all names you came for this conference and as you
- 1:35:57Speaker 3: submit yourself to this law this law of total surrender
- 1:36:04Speaker 3: this law of voiding yourself of any tendency of transacting
- 1:36:09Speaker 3: with satan To earn success, to earn a great life.
- 1:36:14Speaker 3: I pray for you in the name of Jesus Christ.
- 1:36:17Speaker 3: That by the power that raised Christ from the dead.
- 1:36:20Speaker 3: Everything that he has used to lay claim.
- 1:36:23Speaker 1: On your destiny. I declare that you are released right now.
- 1:36:28Speaker 1: Shout a loud amen. You are released right now.
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: As you go home, may your testimony arrive your home
- 1:36:36Speaker 3: before you. I say to a believer as you go home.
- 1:36:41Speaker 3: That before you get to your house. Let signs and
- 1:36:44Speaker 3: wonders be waiting for you in honor to this word.
- 1:36:48Speaker 3: Many of the things you have been praying for. Now
- 1:36:52Speaker 3: that you have gotten the order right. May they come
- 1:36:55Speaker 3: to you as speedy answers. Speedy answers.
- 1:37:01Speaker 4: Speedy answers.
- 1:37:03Speaker 1: In Jesus mighty name we pray. Do me this one
- 1:37:07Speaker 1: favor before I return back.
- 1:37:09Speaker 3: Please, I'd like you to covenant with yourself that tomorrow
- 1:37:13Speaker 3: and the evening and all through these sessions.
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: That you are going to do the work of an evangelist.
- 1:37:19Speaker 3: I know that there's a crowd of people all across
- 1:37:21Speaker 3: but there is still need for people. Some of you
- 1:37:24Speaker 3: whilst hearing me teach, you knew by the spirit that
- 1:37:27Speaker 3: there are people who need to hear this message because
- 1:37:29Speaker 3: this is the answer to the prayers that they have
- 1:37:32Speaker 3: been praying. Do well to number one, Give these teachings
- 1:37:35Speaker 3: to them for their edification. Number two, don't come tomorrow
- 1:37:39Speaker 3: morning alone. The evening, don't come alone. Come with your
- 1:37:42Speaker 3: heart prepared to receive and the Lord will do you
- 1:37:45Speaker 3: good in Jesus' name.
- 1:37:46Speaker 1: Amen. And God bless you.