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All right. So, since you got it, I had to contact my ancient books. I was in my study trying to excavate. I was dredging. Dredging truth from ancient scholars. Ancient scholars, when I say ancient scholars, I'm talking about men like Andrew Murray, you know, very intelligent. Men like John Wesley, very very scholarly theologians, you know. Uh unfortunately for me, I I can't read anything that is shallow. Shallow things detest me. I'm on the deep side. I tried to change it, but it didn't work. So, I stick with men that have content and substance. So, I I went to consult them. Because consecration was one of the very deep gospels, deep messages that was heralded testimony. So, I went to consult them. So, this is This is what I got from them, the ancient men. Okay? So, that I don't make everything Bible study. Let me also make some aspects of it research so that you will see what ancient believers believed. Cuz our generation is is swaying off the track completely. So, I just want to bring confront you with what our ancestors believed on this subject. Okay? Now, I have nine points here. But, that's the one I will give you today. But, that's not all cuz I want to bring all everything they said on this subject. I have to bring it. So, that you can understand the way these people walk with God. Are you still with me? Yes. Okay. So, number one. The person saying this is E.M. Bounds. E.M. Bounds. E.M. Bounds is my mentor on the subject of prayer. I found no no other man, even in the 16th century, in the 15th century. And um Okay, so, let me not boast. Let me not boast. Let me shut down that. All right. I did a 20-year theological exposition. I tried to find out um who were the people that took over from the Apostle Paul. Apostle Paul, what did they preach? So, um me and some theologians, we did the work. It's to find out the truth that has been in the body of Christ for the last 1,000 years. So, that I will not be in error. It didn't start with us now. I don't want to be creative. I want to be within the middle, the heart of the apostolic testimony. So, we had to go 1,000 years back and began to I can tell you some errors, the year they started preaching it. If you are up for that, I can bring 17 errors to us. There's no need for this. Let's stay here. Let's stay here for now, for now. So, I did that work. I did it for 20-something years. So, that I will have authority to stand against error when it's rising. Because it doesn't change. It just various It's the same thing it has been before. So, people go to a The same spirit will bring that same ideology. And that's how it they keep recycling it. And if there's no apostolic person that is an authority in the gate of doctrine, the church will become a charade. Okay? All right. So, this is E.M. Bounds. Prayer and consecration are closely related. Prayer leads up to consecration. Prayer and consecration are closely related. Are you there? Number two, he says, "Prayer leads up to consecration. And prayer governs consecration." What does this this man mean? Prayer leads up to consecration. And prayer governs consecration. What this man means is that consecration is a journey that is attained if you sustain a prayer life. Because it is not enough for you to know that Jesus paid for you. Your bright prize was paid in measures of his blood. And what it will require for you to reciprocate the love of Jesus that was manifested on the cross is consecration. It's not enough for you to know that. The reason why we consecrate is because Jesus paid. And according to property rights, we belong to Jesus. We are his property. But, even though we are his property, he will not come to take us by force because he's a gentleman. He will allow you He will keep you for 1,000 years until you become reasonable and you see that because of the payment, he is entitled to you and you are willing without any reservation to commit yourself to him. It's not enough for you to know that. The means Are you there? Yes. This is what our fathers said. The means by which you consecrate yourself to God is called prayer. Now, listen. Listen. Listen. The picture that E.M. Bounds is trying to paint is that if you are consistent, deliberate in prayer, intentional in prayer, so what you are doing from your own realm in the natural, you are counting the number of hours that you are praying, okay? Which is not bad. But, from God's realm, God is measuring how much of yourself you are giving in the prayer. And it's going to take you quite a long time for you to achieve consecration. Yes, you know that he has paid for you. And the way you are going to reciprocate is that you are going to give yourself. But, the act because this is what what I'm reading to you from their studies is the act of consecration. And I am the one that gave I read a lot, but I extracted what concerns our topic. Are you there? And I'm on E.M. Bounds for now. E.M. Bounds, the king of prayer. The king is the king. He wrote the most potent and the most technical books on the subject of prayer. Find it. He explained it and he brought the experiential dimensions. He brought the practice and the procedure. Books and books like that do not exist. Even AI cannot generate that that book. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. You see, AI does not have experience. AI is flat. It's two-dimensional. It's knowledge that is accumulated with time. The third dimension of knowledge is the one that comes from people that have experience. So, length and breadth is a piece of paper. But, when you add depth, it becomes reality. So, AI has no depth. You can get your brain stuffed with information. It is only the spirit of the Lord that can give understanding. If there's no depth, you can you may not even apply it. There is a spirit in man. And it's the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding. Uh Augustine, it's not about length and breadth. In order for you to be life applicable, there must be depth. So, what I'm reading to you is from the depth. I read then I extracted every part of the article that has to do with depth. I peeled it. Not the knowledge one. You already know the knowledge one. So, so what I did here is to pick the depth out. So, that with the depth, you will understand practice and procedure. I I I hope you know that practice is superior to learning. A medical student is in school for um 6 years. They are learning new things and all of that. That knowledge that know In fact, don't even submit to a new doctor. Don't submit because the person The true knowledge is in experience. It's in depth. The one you got by information is exposure. It has exposed you to the realm. But, it's the practice and the years that you have up your sleeves that makes you entrenched a professional, makes you a savior in the hospital and not a challenge. They finished operating my dad and I was hearing the doctor speak. They said this operation was not necessary. Also, you understand what I'm talking All right. So, I got this from the depth. So, that anyone that is willing to practice it will know the dynamics. Is that clear? All right. So, and for today we are focusing on one person. This is his work, E.M. Bounds. Maybe next week, if I'm led to continue the research, then I can bring two other apostolic people. Right? When apostolic people speak, people like Watchman Nee, their writing has depth. It has experience. But why You know, AI existed before it came out. AI books were just knowledge and research. It is flat because Jesus said that flesh and blood did not reveal this to you. It means that flesh and blood can reveal things. That's research. It doesn't have the ability to give life because it did not pass through the experience of a soul. No soul was in it. I saw one app that the the there was a section in the app that said AI priest. That's a preacher without a soul. That's what happens when you read a book that is not did not pass through the furnace of experience or you listen to a pastor that doesn't have experience. There'll be no depth. The things you will hear might be good to your brain. But when the real devil appears you'll be powerless before him. Is that clear? All right. So, he says prayer and consecration are closely related. So, it meaning that the avenue through which you will consecrate yourself now that you know that we are supposed to consecrate ourselves as our reasonable service. The avenue is prayer. But in order for you to know he did not prescribe how much prayer can achieve consecration. Are you saying that? Because it varies for each person. But prayer is the means by which we achieve consecration is also the means by which consecration is governed. This is his definition of consecration, E.M. Bounds. He said consecration is a direct fruit of much praying. Because prayer is one thing prominent in a consecrated life. When you see a man that is consecrated he has a lifestyle. And I'm going to show you the indices of the lifestyle of a consecrated man. So, prayer is the means by which he consecrates himself. And the major a very heavy molecule in the consecrated life is prayer. Are you there? Okay. Let's go. Let's go on. You will see the progression. Number two. He says consecration is the life of personal holiness. Let's explain that. Meanwhile, is there any question on the first statement? How that prayer is a means through which you consecrate yourself? Is there any question on that? Prayer is also the means by which when you are consecrated that your consecration will will install you permanently in the life of prayer. Prayer is not consecration. But prayer cannot be separated from consecration. Prayer is the means by which you are consecrated. It's also the life of a consecrated individual. You see, can you see it's so difficult to to separate them even though they are not one and the same. Do you get that? Now, he said something here that I would like us to look at. And when I tell you that we went 1,000 years in doctrine don't think I'm joking. That is a work I have done quietly. I did it for 15 years. That's my quiet work. Going into the past to see what was taught so that we don't get to be teaching something today that is alien to the ancestors because create Christianity was more accurate with the first apostles. Do you get it? So, we had to see the transition. Then what happened during the dark ages? How much of restoration took place through Martin Luther's work? And from that time till now, what is the progression? When we say this is the day of the apostolic faith it has a meaning. It's because God has been restoring some things and this is a new season. Do you get it? All right. Um Um So, he says number two that consecration is the life of personal holiness. What do we mean by this? What is holiness? One. It means that I'm separated unto God. This is a technical meaning. I want to tell us the meaning of this one of this meaning. I'm separated unto God. Are you there? That doesn't mean I don't go to work. That doesn't mean I don't go to Target, to Walmart. That doesn't mean I don't visit people. But this is what it means. I can only do what God wants me to do. Can you see that life? As I go to the office they may want me to do something to the accounts in order to manipulate a few things. It's unfortunate. I cannot do that because I am separated unto God. I can only be a party to that which God approves. Are you there? If God does not approve it I'm not part of it. And I hope you know if you live that way you might lose a few jobs. You might lose a few jobs. You might lose favor. You might lose promotion. Because everyone that wants to live godly in this present world will suffer persecution. Are you there? So, I am separated unto God. Only God can operate me. So, the things that God cannot do, God will not approve, I cannot be doing because I am separated unto God. Personal holiness, two. God saturates me with himself. It is because of this saturation Are you there? So this saturation that God does this is what changes my desires. Are you there? Maybe before someone gave his life to Christ, he had 14 girlfriends. They were spread across the US. One in Arizona. Right there. The other one in San Francisco. El Paso. He was busy. May the Lord give you understanding. Now, he comes to the Lord. So, he has an appetite for women. But you see, because he separated himself to the Lord. And I'm not saying he would he may not struggle initially. The the fact You are not with me. You see, that struggle the struggle he's struggling is a proof that he's born again. He fell one or two times and all of that, but he did not stay there because something inside did not allow him stay there. That's a proof that he's born again. Now, the reason why he will find victory is because he comes to a point in his separation when God now saturates him with himself. He will now discover that the things that held him bound before he naturally has victory. He would think that he's he's the one that has become more holy. He won't know that it is God that is saturating him with himself. So, when God begins to This is the organic aspect of holiness. When God begins to saturate him with himself, his desires will begin to change. Somebody that knows him when he used to make flights, he would make flight to California. LA Hollywood Huh? So, the people that know him in that ring, when they see him as a creature that is saturated by God, his desires have changed. Are you following? They his perspective has changed. His appetite has changed. You see him running to back for Bible study, running for prayer meeting 10 hours. The people that knew him before say You see, because he is saturated with God, God is the one that is responsible for the new desires that drives him. Although he doesn't know that very heavy supernatural things are taking place in his life. But he noticed that he has desire to go for 10 hours. He wants to be in Bible study. He almost hit someone because he was trying to make sure he arrives early. That's someone that will be in in in Arizona in the heat of the summer when when plastic melts, he's there. Yeah, amen. His desires have changed. The reason why your desires change is because you're saturate. So, he's saturating your vessel. That is the proof that he accepted your your consecration. Then he begins to saturate you. Your appetite changes. And then in 1 year in 2 years, you yourself know you have changed. You know, it's easy for people to know when they change becomes so much that you you know. How many of you after you started eating 7 hours prayer and 10 hours prayer, you know that you changed? You see, it's the saturation. This it's loud. It's becoming intense. Your desires have changed. You know what happened to you? You have been made That's what we call You have been made a virgin again. That's what we call the second hand virgin. This is a virgin that has come by reason of Holy Spirit transformation. And when we are giving you out to a guy to marry you, Huh? We know that that past doesn't exist again. And even the man will testify. He'll come and say, "Ah, you gave me something. You gave me something." May the Lord give you understanding. So, so Do you now realize the man said that consecration is a direct fruit? No, no, no, consecration is a life of personal holiness in which a believer is separated onto God and can no longer participate in anything that God has not inspired. Are you there? So, his taste buds taste buds taste buds are changed. There's this guy. There's this guy. He's one of us, but he's in another nation. He's not in the US. He had all the brands of cigarettes in Africa. Cuz I don't know the brands here. He he he he has sample of all of them. So, if he smells Rothmans I say, "This is This is This Rothmans. This Rothmans. THIS ROTHMANS." IF HE smells Benson & Hedges, he say, "Oh, yeah, this is this is This Benson & Hedges. It's Benson." So, he he has been In fact, one time he was preaching to somebody, but he had sticks of cigarette IN IN HIS AND THAT WAS HOW GOD BEGAN TO SATURATE HIM. And saturate him. He was able to go beyond Rothmans and Benson & Hedges and saturate him. And a time now came he had to counsel I think it was Yeah, counsel with somebody in a shop somewhere. And somebody was with cigarette. He almost threw up. Because Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Spirit, when the Holy Spirit is done with dealing with that appetite, the things you used to enjoy before So, that life is what E.M. Bounds calls the consecrated life. It means that we cannot separate the life of personal holiness from the consecrated life. So, if you If you are consecrated, your life will be going in the direction of holiness. Are you there? He say he can no longer participate in anything that God has not inspired. Consecrated believers always sense the need to confirm if God is in a thing before getting involved. So, someone comes and say he's a billionaire, he's been he has five companies and money is just flowing and he's saying that this is the lady that I want to get married. And then the lady say, "You hold on. We've seen your type before. But let's go and find out from the Lord if because some of you will be happier if you with less money. Or you don't know. You get into that arrangement, you become a piece of furniture. At first for the first 2 years, you'll be going around like a model. They obey. Then that's all you will have. So, you see the person now goes to check and then God now says, "You know what? You cannot fulfill my purpose in that arrangement." And you'll find the person saying no to something that looks flashy. And the rest of the people says you are mad. Consecration will make people say you are mad. Because you have a different perspective. Don't be afraid of being called mad. Because what what it means is that you are no longer like your age, your eon, your generation. You are different. And you The reason for your difference is because you are separated onto God. Every man separated onto God is called different. If in a day where pastors are merchants, pastors are unjust, pastors are not in the service of Jesus, you look like them. It means you lost your consecration. Because in that day you are supposed to look different if it is true that you are separated onto God. Sometimes the accurate might be the few. So, if you are not secure enough in Jesus to be different, it means you have not embraced the life of consecration. These are the words of the elders. They are not my words. Number three, It says consecration is a foundation upon which true kingdom service is based. Let me explain. Consecration is a foundation upon which true kingdom service is based. I was telling my friends when we were in Boston. We were taking a walk in the morning and we were talking. So, they were asking me questions about consecration. I say, "All right, this is the practicalities of consecration. Maybe you can afford 2 hours of prayer per day. 2 hours of prayer per day. So, I suggest that if you are not in ministry, the minimum you can do, 2 hours. And if you are in ministry, a leader, you lead a group, the minimum you should do is 3 hours. The 3 hours doesn't need to be 3 hours at once. You can take 1 hour in the morning. You can take 1 hour in the afternoon. You can take 1 hour in the night. You know why? Because you are overseeing people, so that your spirit will be open if there's an emergency. Are you there? The Holy Spirit can easily give you a sign. If you're overseeing people, your own discipline is different from the discipline of the normal people. Okay? Is that clear? But if if you have not started overseeing people, 2 hours of prayer for your own self per day uh keeps you fit enough to receive transmissions. Now, if you pray for 2 hours before you walk into your day, for instance, you will find out that the ability that God will have around you to turn your face and to attract you from a distraction, so that he can speak to you, will be the energy of the 2 hours investment. Are you there? If you are in ministry and you want to run ministry, you want to do Bible study, you want to teach people, you want to hold a service, the allowance that God has to manifest himself through the window of your ministration is based on the moment that I give you. I give him 2 hours. That forms the scope of spiritual energy that can be manifested in his type of ministry. Ministry is supposed to be predicated based on what you give him. And if you are giving him nothing, you claim is ministry is rubbish. You get that? Now, the time comes when like me, I'm full-time. I'm full-time. When I was still working, I was working harder than almost all of you here. Because we didn't have public holidays, we didn't have Sundays, Saturdays. We were just working. And may God help you if they move you offshore. They don't even know Christmas. You will you will spend Christmas on the water. So, I've seen all of that before. And our work was intellectual, it was physical. Because you will need to climb tanks. And then fasting. They they say how do we get to your your leg will start will start shaking. So, you go fasting. That's the only way you can get up. And when you go up there, huh? And the wind starts blowing, hold something up there. If not, you will find yourself in a place that you did not intend. So, I have I've worked like that before. And I was able to maintain my investment. So, now I'm full-time. If there was never a time where you did not have time, but you made time to consecrate because it is important. If you are full-time, you waste all the time. You will create time when there's no time. That's the only way you can you can use time if you are full-time. So, now I no longer count how many hours I pray. Night and day. I slept 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning. You At least you can testify. We were talking around 2:00. So, I eventually felt peace at 5:00. And I'm not counting those hours in today's prayer. The prayers I prayed before I came here. So, that's the life I'm living now. Till Jesus comes back, all I'm taking. I don't count that. If we after this prayer now, this Bible study, we say, "Okay, let us worship. Let us find the Lord." Ah, it will be easy to hear you. Because I made an investment. And ministry is based on that investment. If there's no investment that you are making deliberately to give yourself in prayer, give yourself in prayer, there'll be nothing for you to stand on to do ministry. Because in ministry, you are dispensing what you have with him. That's what you are dispensing to the public. So, if there's no consecration, there's no ministry. So, the the the father said, "Consecration is the foundation upon which true kingdom service is based." Number four. Consecration is vo- voluntary. Voluntary dedication of oneself to God. An offering definitely made and made without reservation. Consecration is a voluntary dedication of oneself to God, an offering definitely made and made without any reservation whatsoever. It is an adventure in prayer in which we are never to be contented. So, he's calling consecration here an adventure in prayer because as you are praying, what God is seeing is how much of yourself are you giving. It's because prayer is the mechanism through which you give yourself. The proof that he's receiving what he's giving what you are giving through prayer is that he begins to saturate what you have given. Are you there? He begins to saturate what you are giving. And when you see that there's nothing that is not saturated, nothing else that is not saturated, we can say that you are a consecrated man. It is an adventure in prayer in which we are never to be contented until we are fully and entirely the Lord's by our own consent. It is an adventure in prayer in which we are never to be contented until we are fully and entirely the Lord's by our own consent. I found some scholars while I was looking for knowledge, Bible knowledge, to connect the generations of truth together. So, I found some scholars that they they did it from Apostle Paul and began to bring the truth out, began to bring the things that were taught, the things that happened while persecution came, how it affected the church, it affected the teachings. So, all we had to do was to do it to add what was happening for the last 35 years to that. All right? Then, if you see through that lens, you will see how much the devil has done to take truth away from the pulpit. Are you there? Number five. Consecration is not so much the setting of oneself apart from sinful things, but rather the separation from legitimate things if they come in conflict with God's plans and purposes. I know you didn't hear that. I'll try again. He said, "Consecration is not so much the setting of oneself apart from sinful things, but rather the separation from legitimate things if they come in conflict with God's plans and purposes. Legitimate things. But these legitimate things can come in conflict with God. And consecration will require that you set that legitimate thing aside. Are you there? For instance, Paul was speaking Paul says, "If you're eating a certain food which has been offered to idols, if that you're eating will affect somebody's faith because the person is a babe, the person doesn't understand that we don't recognize idols." Okay? So, if your eating of that food will affect the person's faith, it it will mean to that person that you have started fellowshipping with idols by eating that food, even though that is not so. Because Jesus died for this person, I'm willing to pay the price of not eating that food so that I don't shipwreck that person's faith. So, consecration will require that we carry out these kinds of sacrifices in favor of God's purposes, in favor of God's will. So, you will hear Paul says, "All things are lawful, but not all things are necessary." You get that? Yes, sir. Okay. So, there were places I went to. I went to preach in one nation and they were far poorer than we were. Our own nation is poor, but I I saw a nation that was poorer than we were, which is very difficult, but I found one. So, we were like 2,000 in the meeting and I don't want to mention the name of their money because I know you have not heard it before. My offering was $200. When they collected the offering of 2,000 people and converted it to dollars, my $200 was more than the offering of 2,000 people. Think about it. They gave a lady 80,000 of that their money and somebody stole it. And then, she wanted to hang herself. They now arrested her. They delivered her from hanging herself and brought her to to me in church. I said, "Calculate that money in dollars. How much was it?" I don't want to mention the money. You I think it was $250 for which she wanted to hang hang herself. I gave her the $250. I said, "Don't hang yourself." Huh? So, when that it means I bought her life. So, she was not asking me, "What do I want to do with her life?" I said, "I want Jesus." I I connected her to Jesus. THESE ARE THESE ARE THINGS I ENCOUNTERED ON THE MISSION FIELD. Meanwhile, the name of that place Malawi. Kwacha kwacha, the Malawian kwacha. Go and find out. Are you there? Number what? Number six. Consecration. Okay, this is a complex one. I will need a the board to explain this. Um the explanation is in Leviticus chapter 20 verse 7 and 8. So, he says, "Consecration is not all that there is in holiness." So, according to E.M. Bounds, consecration is half half of holiness. Is what? Half. Of holiness. Um Nicole, the orator of the house, take your Bible and read Leviticus chapter 20 verse 7 and 8. You're going to see the two sides of holiness and number one is consecration. And Leviticus 20 verses 7 and 8. Yes? Sanctify yourselves This is God speaking to his people. Therefore, and be ye holy. Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy. For I am the Lord your God. For I am the your God. And ye shall keep my statutes You shall keep my statutes. and do them. Now, wait wait. Wait. Start again. Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy. Be ye holy. For I am For I am the Lord the Lord your your God. God. Okay? Go on. And ye shall keep my statutes You shall keep my statutes. and do them. And do them. For I am Mhm. the Lord which sanctifies you. So, so God is saying, "I'm sanctifying you." He says, "I'm sanctifying you" here. Then, he says, "Sanctify yourselves" here. Can you see the way God is speaking? "Sanctify yourselves because I will sanctify you." So, there are two aspects of holiness. The giving of yourself, which is consecration through prayer, is one. And then, as you are giving yourselves, God is saturating what you give with himself. That's how holiness is achieved. You cannot make yourself holy. You can only give yourself. And then, God now sanctifies you by saturating you with himself. The proof of such saturation is in your taste buds, your appetites, your desires, your You are a new man. So, when when you see the scripture that says, "If any man be in Christ is a new creation." Uh what what I would like you to understand about that scripture is that your newness is a process. It's not instant. And I told you that I'm going to teach on that scripture and remove all the misconceptions that is tied to that scripture so that you can see. I will support it with so many other scriptures and then you will see through the lens of that scripture accurately. The newness we're talking about is a process. It's not it's not it's not quick fix. It's not it's not a miracle. It's a process. It's just like in marriage, it says "The two shall become one." That becoming one doesn't take place at the altar. Mhm? Shall become one. Do you get it? Okay, this the idea of marriage. The idea of marriage is that we are members of the body of Christ. That means we are uniquely one in Christ. It is because we are already uniquely one in the spirit in Christ Jesus that we have this destiny that the two shall become what? One. Because we are already one in Christ and our own special particular experience of marital relationship will now bring us to a point where we are one in spirit, one in soul, and one in mind. Better? So, that if I give a judgment on a matter and walk away and my wife comes and you confront her with the same situation, she is likely to give the same judgment when we achieve that oneness. So, there will be so much harmony because, you know, partnership has succeeded. But if the person is not born again, you'll be you'll be expecting too much for you to think that you'll become one. All you need to do in that situation, meanwhile, I don't even know how you got there, but all you need to do May the Lord give you understanding. I don't know how you got there, but if you're already there, the Bible doesn't approve for you to run away. Yes, the unbeliever can run away if he wants, but you you cannot run away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You You didn't hear me. You didn't hear me. Okay, that's why I don't like talking about sensitive issues. Let me Let me leave it. The unbeliever can run away. I can show you You've not read 1 Corinthians chapter 7? It says, "If the unbelieving partner wants to depart, let him depart." I don't like teaching this scripture because No, I don't like teaching that scripture. Do He didn't talk He didn't say anything about the believer, but he said if the unbeliever wants to leave, let him leave. In that case, that scripture captures it very clearly that if he leaves, that is abandonment, because he cannot fellowship with you that is a believer, that marriage has ended. That is in the eyes of God. Yes. Yes, it has ended in the eyes of God. So, there are two two three grounds of that arrangement and I don't want to teach you so that you will not come and say, yes, this ground you have you showed us this. So based on this based on this So we will we will need to be careful with believers because they don't forget. So our ancestors, they never taught those matters, they never because they know what will happen. So if you have a situation, we'll look at your case, we'll counsel you, do all we can. We'll know how it works out. Okay? So probably up here. We're here to help, but the first reaction will not be leave your house, to pack your things, go to the court for No, no, no, no, no, that's not the first That is not it. There are so many options that can take place. And you can even save that situation. And the person that is an unbeliever can still be saved. Yes, there is a formula. There's a formula. Especially if he doesn't go, but if he goes you are no longer in bondage to that covenant. That's what the Bible says, but I don't want to open it so that you don't come and quote it and say you Are you there? So holiness has two sides. So this side is sanctify yourselves, that's consecration. Then the Lord will sanctify you, that is saturation. It is these two things that make for the sanctified life. Someone that is given himself to the Lord every day through prayer. Are you there? And then the Lord is possessing him and saturating him. He's possessing him. That cycle is a cycle of the sanctified life. If that man stands close to the enemy, the enemy will scream. Because he's not of this world. Satan has no plans to meet such people on on earth. He's not of this world. He's saturated with God. The things that will happen if God were present will happen in his presence. Because through the process of giving himself and God's sanctifying him, him and him and God are becoming one. This is the greatest gospel. And it is when people are sanctified like this. Yeah, you have a question? Okay. Please equip him with a microphone. Yeah, so know this that you are at liberty to if you want to ask, just I will not run away from your hands, okay? So this formula You don't need to sound us to that. Okay. Yes. So as far as the consecrated life is concerned does this mean that our personality will change? And what are some things that we can do to manage our emotions? Come in. Did you get all these ones? Okay. We must be talking what we are talking within a context. You have a spirit. That true? You have a soul which consists of your mind. It consists of your will and what? Emotions. Then you have what? A body. That true? Your body has what we call appetites. That true? These appetites A is the need to rest. Rest is an appetite. B, thirst is an appetite. C, hunger is an appetite. D the need to see is an appetite. Need to see. That's how people got into pornography cuz they want to see something. D sex is an appetite. Yeah, I believe I got all of them here. What? Sleep, that's rest. So when you are tired, your body begins to communicate. That true? It doesn't say, I'm tired. No, but begins to communicate. So and then you you read you read the language. And that language what it communicates in rest is different from thirst, thirst is different from hunger. You get that? Good. Okay. I'm thirsty trying to answer you. Your your your question is bigger than what you you are even asking. This body here sin which is a nature the satanic the nature of Satan is what we call sin. Sin wants to govern all of these appetites that are in your body. And then provide a legitimate ground for you to honor these appetites above the instructions of the Holy Ghost. Just like Satan came to Jesus on the appetite of hunger and say, if you are the son of God turn these stones into bread so that you can satisfy your what? Okay, this is my class. You are not interested in in the word. Can you say that? So the devil wants to use these appetites as a means of dethroning the Holy Spirit and refusing him a place of authority in your life. When he's calling you to pray in the night, the devil sin will activate rest and this rest will be so compelling. So that you now convince yourself that I need rest now, I need rest. I need You know the Holy Ghost is calling you to stand before him, but sin was able to convince you to disobey the Holy Ghost using what? Rest as an excuse. So that day your yielding to rest, to sleep, that day sleep that day was sin because in accepting to sleep you rebelled against the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Are you still following me? So I want you to see this problem. We have a problem. This one is happening in your body, the appetites. And the the the devil wants to hold you captive from that standpoint. That's not all. We now have your mind. The old mind that you had when you were in downtown. That old mind does not leave. That old mind is still there. The old emotion that you had Are you following? That you love, you love too much. You love on the train, you are loving. On the airplane, you are loving. In in economy cabin, you are you are loving. You are loving. Hi. Jesus. May Lord help us. Now, this is it. When the saturation begins and God begins to saturate you, the object the purpose of saturating you is to make you holy. Hm? The first thing he will begin to do is that he will begin to work on your mind. He will begin to renew. That's saturation. It will begin to do what? Renew your mind. The saturation will begin to stabilize your emotion. The saturation will begin to encourage you to surrender. Surrender your will to his own will. Are you following? These things will not happen. Hm. You don't know how stubborn we are. You believe that that your small brain is so intelligent. So wise. Then God will allow you use your brain, you use it, then you will now fail. Then you will now know that you cannot depend on the brain even though the brain is still there. You will still want to seek God. And then God now shows the way before you begin to apply the brain. It means your mind you having spiritual experiences that has informed the fact that God is beyond your brain and you will need to still seek his face before you chart your course. Are you following? Now, in the emotion area you go and love a you love a rolling stone. And you love the person with all your heart because you believe that if you love enough things will work. Then this this rolling stone that you have invested so much love on will just walk away. Then you will now discover you were the only one LOVING AND AND THEN IT IS THEN YOU WILL NOW BE willing to allow God govern your emotions. And then for the strong-willed type you will now hit somebody and the person will now die. So you will now pray and say God if you can raise this woman and then she will sneeze and wake up. You will now know that that you need to surrender it. All of these things are happening to you because God is saturating you. As he's saturating you he's trying to defeat your stronghold and it will happen through actions, activities, situations and circumstances that are beyond your control but he is the one that is at work. It might look serious, terrible. You're on the bed, your blood pressure has gone up. He allowed it so that he can defeat your emotion. There's a stronghold there. You have to defeat it so that the demons that come to provoke that emotion when it is stabilized they can no longer relate with that realm. ARE YOU THERE? SO THE NAME OF THAT PROCESS on your mind is called renewal. That's what it is. The name here is called surrender. The name here is called stabilization. And then in this chamber he he drives up the authority that these chambers have. So that none of these can influence you. When the Holy Spirit say stand before me you are resting. You are tired but you are obedient enough in heart to take the first step, to speak the first tongue and to wait for him to strengthen you with might by spirit in your inner man. You will now discover that that rest, that feeling of rest was a lie, was a shadow. It doesn't have true foundations. So if you rebel against it it will fizzle out. And that's how you feel lost is on you. Lost. You are looking it doesn't have any foundations. If you decide to ignore it it will fizzle out. It has no foundation. Because God has already crucified the flesh. So the flesh no longer has foundations. You can ignore it, nothing will happen because it's not real. It's a shadow. When it begins to saturate you more then you begin to discover that there's life beyond appetite. Are you there? He begins to saturate you more. The things that used to control you you can't conquer sleep. Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. Just ask him to help you. A day will come sleep will be nothing because you are saturated. This thing will not it's not a miracle. It will it will be gradual as if as if you are growing. And a day will come they offer you free sex. You you you you say you didn't you didn't you said no. You know why? Because you are saturated. Nobody can make you like that only God. And the process of him making you like that begins with you giving over yourself through the instrumentality of prayer. That's the vision that God has for every one of us. So the man that has attained the sanctified life is somebody that Satan needs to weep about because Satan cannot manipulate him. One more question and then I'll I'll shut down. Any day I'm teaching Bible study and there is confusion I will I'll give I won't escape I won't run away. Yeah. Yes, please. Yes, so earlier you gave a prescription about 2 hours of prayer for the regular person and then like 3 hours if that like you're in a position of leadership. a lot of prayers trans which is based on my personal experience. Yes. If your problem is Yeah, wait. Don't worry. If your problem is here, this one. And you want to stop this. This appetite has been controlling you. You find yourself a counter. Are you are you with me? I'm talking to real people, please. Oh my God. You are I know some of you have attained a high level of of sanctification. It's not everybody. So let's also you know. So someone is stuck here and there's a problem. You know what you do? You you know that's why when Jesus was to face Satan, face that temptation, you know what he did? He fasted. What is fasting? It's starving the flesh. So that he
can stop this. When your flesh, you feed every appetite that you carry.
If you see someone that talks too much, it talks in the night, TALKS IN THE MORNING, INSULTS EVERYBODY. ALL the neighbors he has a a name for them. This Mickey Mouse, this is this everybody has a name for everyone. >> [laughter] >>
When you find somebody like that, put the person on 3 days dry fasting. They they flesh WILL BE SO WEAK THAT IT it can't it can't respond. Do you understand what I'm talking about? WEAKENING IT.
HAVE YOU SEEN SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN FASTING FOR 21 days that is looking for a woman? No, no. This one will dry up. The ability here will dry up. Give this person 6 to 6 fasting for 21 days. This stronghold will break. This one will break. Starve it. And even his lust too will not have any outcome. Are you there?
This one you want to see something. You're you you're on Facebook, you're looking for, what's up, you're looking for something. [cough] To this is 14 days. This your eyes then you will have your eyes back. If you want to look this way, you will be able to look this way. If you want to look this way, but there are sometimes you are looking here, but you are looking here. If if you are in that situation, it means that there is corruption, corruption. [laughter] Give 14 days of fasting will will give you your eyes back. So this one is 21 days. This one is 14 days. This one is 3 days. >> [music] >>
This is 6 days. This is 14 nights. That thing you must sleep. [clears throat] You must know just 14 nights. Stay awake from stay awake from 12 to 3. Do it this Friday. Do it next Friday because you will be free on Friday. Huh? Do it for 14 times. You you will revive.
A sanctified man doesn't have any appetite that Satan can exploit. Satan is worried about him. That he cannot sell his products to him. He has different desires. He he he he lusts for different things because HIS LUST IS GOD. WHEN SATAN BRINGS HIS PRODUCTS, HE doesn't find compatibility with him because he's sanctified. He's living for something else. He's no longer part of the age. He's not an actor in the world system. His existence is only to extend the influence of Christ, and that's why we don't take into account where you are coming from, your past experience. I know the power of transformation that is in the Holy Ghost. I know that power. Yes, so go on with your question.
So then my question was like, with that 2-hour prescription, is that including the time to study scripture or is it the 2-hour >> Just prayer. Just prayer. Just prayer. That is you okay, you know, you inhale and you exhale. Is that food? Those are two different things. Prayer is your inhalation and Oh, negative thoughts, that's good.
If you have negative thoughts, then you have a small problem because your words have more authority than your thoughts. If a demon has found a stronghold and is thinking through your thoughts, you know what? As long as the demon is thinking, you will be talking. Sister, what's your name? Yeah. Famatta. Stand up. Follow my instructions. Every instruction I give you, follow it. Count from 1 to 10 in your mind now. What's your name? >> [clears throat] >> Where did you stop? She stopped at nine because if she wants to speak, she'll stop thinking. Two of them cannot go together. So, talk and and stop thinking. >> [laughter] [applause] >>
So, when the demon comes and say, "You your purpose is that you will be Oh, begin to quote scriptures. I am born again not of corruptible things but of incorruptible. The word of God. Preach to the demon. When you start preaching to the demon, the demon will go. Do you think Satan doesn't want to hack into our mind, too? He found an an an an obstacle. The sanctified man is bulletproof. Yeah?
No, no, no, no, no, no. Speak in the through the mic. You might be answering somebody's question, asking somebody's question. Ah, oh my God. Okay. Okay. So, [clears throat] where let's find out where the camera is first. >> [laughter] >>
Okay. So, what do I do? I will go to our WhatsApp. Huh? Then I would I would type IT THERE. ALL OF THE THINGS I'LL TYPE IT THERE. OKAY, I've heard you. I've heard it. It's all right. Do you know we are in church and That's a problem. Okay. So, Hallelujah.
People that have a sex stronghold is 21 days. 6:00 to 6:00 fast. 6:00 to 6:00 fasting 21 days with 2 hours of prayer. It will knock it down. Doesn't matter how terrible that past is. You would have used it. And then what you are going to experience subsequently is that the devil will come with the spirit of lust. Whenever you notice that you're in that lust is on you, it means 6 days of fasting. So, but 21 days you can uproot the stronghold of of sex. 21 days. You need to see something. This is 14. Pornography. 14 days. Masturbation. 14 days. It's in in in in this group. Hunger is 3 days. It's the It's the least. >> [music] >>
You can see that hunger is powerless. That hunger is a feeling. Are you there? Thirst is six. Rest is 14 nights. Praying for 3 hours, 12:00 to 3:00. Do it. It It must not be subsequent nights. You can do it every Friday for 14 Fridays. That person is free. So, the person can wake up even without an alarm. That is the spiritual alarm. You can wake up by 3:00. How many of you know the spiritual alarm? You wake up when you want to wake up. Yes, that means you are becoming a champion. You have exercised your spirit. Your spirit is beginning to regulate your sleep, regulate your appetite, regulate your desires. That's the shape of a spiritual man. Yes, last question and then we close and pray together. Hallelujah.
What about pride and anger? Pride. Pride takes time. Pride and anger, the things that are rooted in the soul, they take time. What you need to do is you need to swim against the tide. This is the formula. Swim against what? The tide. >> [clears throat] >> Swim against the tide.
So, if you notice that there's pride in your life, tell the pastor to put you in a group where someone that is younger than you is the head. Yes. No, it's deliberate. You must You must be intentional. Oh, and serve that person as if the person is an elder. As you are doing that, you are wearing it. Move change from your unit. Let them put you where you are older than the person, more educated than the person, more exposed, more intelligent, then you begin to serve the person. Yeah. Begin to serve the person. Begin to serve the person.
So, when we talk, we finish the service, we discuss with people outside. I take I take those these questions. When you go to sleep, then I begin to I'm serving that person. >> [music] >> So, there's no way I can come and despise somebody because I I serve them. It was because of the person I did not sleep. The person was sleeping. >> [music] >> I'm serving. When you serve people that you are bigger than you are better than from your own and by your own estimation, you will see you are eroding it. You are eroding it. Stay there. Don't Don't release yourself. Stay there. A time will come when people will notice something has happened to you. Walk against it.
In a marriage relationship, you know how to get angry quickly, get angry. First of all, you will now learn how to say sorry. You don't mean it, but just be saying it. You are not following. I've seen your hand. Put it down. Just say it. >> [clears throat] >> Just say it. And keep saying it. A time will come you will begin to feel it. Yes, it will be real at some [clears throat] point. When that real one starts flowing, it is the spirit of Christ that is enabling you to do that one. It will be difficult for you to go back to who you used to be. If that river has started flowing, you wake up and said, "Okay, today I want to do something for my wife so that she will know that I went out of my way to do it. It's intentional. A time will come when you something will be moving you to do it. >> [music] >>
You must take the initiative and be consistent. The Holy Ghost will see, "Oh, okay. Let me help you." And that doesn't matter your father never had a good relationship with your mother. It doesn't matter. Put that one aside. You have the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is more ancient than everybody. Yeah.
I have a weakness. The weakness is I cannot wear rings every day. I will not even remember. Where Where is it? Okay. So, but see, but So, I don't remember. But, my wife has seen me over the years that >> [music] >> and it's not on a ring. I've walked in it. >> [music] >> And it's not as if I'm It's not anything. It's just the grace of God. And there are still areas of my life that I'm still trusting God to improve. So, I'm not perfect in the sense of machine perfection. No. No. Where I am today is better than where I was. In fact, where I am now, you can't even see my error, but me I can see it. The fact that you cannot see it doesn't mean they are not there. So, I'm still taking it to God. I got it. And as long as you are of this flesh, you sin it to begin with. Exactly.
Please note holiness is not machine perfection. That's not what you are trying to achieve. It's not machine perfection perfection. It's a product of being saturated by God. >> [music] >> Hm? The fact that you are saturated by God doesn't mean that you will not make mi- mistakes. You come to church and you are asking us to open to Leviticus chapter 2. Meanwhile, in your mind, you mean Exodus chapter 2. You will still make those mistakes. You will never outgrow those ones those type of mistakes. That is not holiness. That is the To come to a place where you always know is is not holiness. That's not what it is. It is not machine perfection.
So, even in your relationship to with your wife, you will find out as your wife, you find out as [clears throat] as cool and calculated as you are, you still find reasons to tell her sorry. You will never outgrow that. You'll still be making mistakes. You'll never outgrow that. God doesn't won't give any [music] of us that. You get it? So that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is being saturated by God. He governs your affect. He fills your thoughts.
You lock me in the room for 3 days and come back, I will thank you. You know what he will he will do to me? He will fill my tone. So I need to get a pen. I need to get paper. And as he fills the thoughts, I begin to download it. Those 3 days will have will produce a book that people will study after I've died. Sometimes he fills your heart. I don't know whether you are you experience it. When we worship, he fills your heart. And you know you know you are talking [music] to him. It's what you bring that you will fill. If you bring your thoughts, he will fill it. Bring your heart, he'll fill it. If you open your heart, then he will open the scriptures. If the scriptures ever open, it's because your heart was open. >> [music] >>
Yes. So two, yeah, don't I've seen the two hands. Yes. No no no no no, take the mic so that if your voice will be on the If you're asking a question that's not relevant, the whole world [laughter] will know. It's not only me, you too. Yes. >> [snorts] >>
I want to ask about rebuilding. Rebuilding. Is it connected to my topic? If it's not, okay. Rebuilding your faith. Where did I say that? Now, okay. So this is what Jesus said about faith. The little one you have, if you start using it, it will grow. So have you been using it? Every day you are you are anxious. You are just shaking. Hey hey hey. Use the little faith you have. [clears throat] Trust him. Trust him to supply. Trust him to provide. And he won't come early. He will wait until you are almost arrested. He will wait until the police will Just before they arrive, you you answer. You know why? So that he he wants to develop trust in you that you can stay in the storm and say I know that MY REDEEMER LIVETH. >> [applause] >> USE THE LITTLE FAITH YOU HAVE.
THAT'S WHY I challenged the pastors when we came for the retreat. I talked about healing, talked about miracles. Then I I challenged them to go and practice it. Go all of them that they they should go and do healing and deliverance meetings and send us the link. Let us follow and see what's happening. Because I went somewhere, they are nothing was on one of our pastors. The person prayed for the sick, but didn't believe. But they will be healed. Then he gave me the the mic quickly. I said I said that. Wait. Wait. Let us trace the effect of that. And I was I was gauging it. There was a strong anointing on him, but he had no faith. >> [music] >>
Use the small one you have. The first time you want to pray for the sick in a public meeting, Satan will just come and say, "What if no one is healed?" I'm I'm telling you now because he doesn't have new tricks. That's the same thing he will tell you. Give him an answer. Tell him, "Let me pray first." Nobody is healed, then we'll now come to discuss how how to handle it. Please tell them never pray first. Pray first. Yes. Um Give Give her the Okay.
How do you deal with fear? Fear? Why are you taking me out of my my topic? You are diffusing the intensity, the concentration of this topic. >> [laughter] >> So please, where is fear here? >> [laughter] [clears throat] >>
Okay. So she So already put me on the spotlight. So let me ask. Even though it is not Don't ask any question that is not related to That's why I don't allow you ask questions sometimes because you take us out of We're not talking about fear. We're talking about consecration. How God saturates us. Prayer is a means by which you offer yourself. >> [music] >> And then the life of prayer is the outcome of the consecrated life. Is that clear? The life of prayer. You just You just see yourself [music] praying. So all those big men like Wigglesworth, I've read about them, they operated a life of prayer because through prayer they consecrated themselves. So that's the life I'm living now. That's the life. Say good life. Say good life.
I wake up from sleep sometimes, I know that today is Satan woke up before me. So that day I will not go out. That day if I drive If I'm to drive here to church, someone will drive [music] me. If I'm to go back, someone will drive. Because that day is not a good day. I follow him? The reason why I can know that is not because I'm spiritual, not because I'm better than you, is because I live the life [clears throat and music] of prayer. So the gates are open to me continually.
Now, the thing is this, faith is of the heart. Doubt is of the mind. Okay, let me let me show you the diagram. >> [music] >> So faith is of the heart. Doubt is of the mind. The is is of logic. Logic designed to contradict your faith. [music] Okay? Is that clear? Fear is a spirit. >> [music] >> It's a spirit that is like an arrow or a dart. This spirit is shot at You know the Bible calls it fiery darts. Right? It's an arrow. This arrow is shot at your heart. Because your capacity for faith is on the platform of your heart. In the spirit, you have attained to your greatest potential. In the flesh, you attain to your least potential. So fear is the antidote designed to dissolve your faith life. Whereas doubt is a logic which you can always overcome easily with another logic. Like Satan say, "This prayer you want to pray now, what if nobody is a logic. Is that clear? So fear is a spirit. Fear is an attack on your faith life. You know the cure to fear? Is [music] faith confessions. Faith confessions. So we're going to try some faith confessions in our in [music] our prayer, then you will see your faith will be built up. So fear is a dart. It's a dart >> [music] >> that is shot at your heart. So that your capacity for faith will either be blotted out or reduced considerably. Such that in the situation, in the circumstance, you will lack the ability to turn things around. Is that clear? >> [music] >>
You begin to tell Satan who you are according to the revelation of the word of God. >> [music] >> God's will for you is that you'll be the head and not the tail. His will for you is that you'll be above only and [music] not beneath. His will for you is that you'll be blessed in the city and outside of the city. His will for you is that you'll be blessed in your basket and in your storehouse. >> [music] >> His will for you is that none shall lack their young. None shall cast their young. >> [music] >> That is fruitfulness in your body. In case he's telling you that you will not be fruitful, you will not have a child. Begin to confess what the word of God says, which is contrary to what you're experiencing. As you begin to say those words, then the Holy Spirit begins to infuse your inner and secret parts. [music] He heals that place where the doubt pierced. >> [music] >>
If you're still with me, say amen. >> [music] >> So, you tell him that you will not die. You will live to testify of the works and the goodness of God in the land of the living. He can bring the spirit of fear. He'll show you that show you yourself in a coffin. Preach to him. I don't know who you put in the coffin, but for me, I will not die. >> [music] >> I will live to testify of the works and the goodness of God in the land of the living. Your exit from this realm will not be by bomb, it will not be by blight, it will not be by pestilence, it will not be by the arrow that that flyeth by noonday. Ooh! Preach to Satan. Don't keep quiet. If you keep [music] quiet, you'll die in silence. We speak. Champions speak. Victors speak. The way of faith is the way of speaking. If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, YOU WILL WHAT? SAY TO THIS Faith speaks. [music] Faith is audacious.
Well, you can rise up on your feet. I want to be saturated. I offer myself so that I can be saturated. So that I can carry his mind. I can carry his passion. I can carry his flame. I can carry his purity. I offer myself so that I will be saturated. I give myself so that he will saturate me.