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Prayer and fasting. The ministry of prayer and fasting is directly connected to spiritual power. Prayer with fasting. Luke chapter 1 for the sake of time we'll read 1, 2, and 14. Luke chapter 4, 1-13 or 1-14.
The Bible says, "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from the Jordan and was led by the same spirit he was full of into the wilderness." You would think the coming of the Holy Spirit will be the end of it. He was full of the Holy Spirit and by the leadership of the Holy Spirit, he was led. Verse two, the Bible says, "And being 40 days tempted of the devil, in those days he did eat nothing, and when they were ended, afterwards he was hungered."
Fasting, praying are irrefutable biblical keys as far as access to power is concerned. Now I tell you, fasting is not everything. Prayer is not everything. They have their roles, the major roles they have to play. But when it has to do with the ministry of power, forget it. If you do not submit yourself to the ministry of prayer and fasting, praying one day will not bring you power. Praying 6 months will not bring you power. The power that comes through prayer requires consistency, until you become a slave to that dimension. Then you are endued with power.
Please hear me believers. This is how we started. I know you have heard me say I'm a product of many anointings. Don't think I was just lying down and various hands were laid on me. No sir, you can meet the most anointed man in the world and receive nothing when your capacity has not been enlarged. Was Jesus not around Judas? Was Jesus not around thus? Why didn't they receive power? Prayer and fasting.
A generation that understands how to pray with understanding is a generation that will access power. Show me a man of God that commands spiritual power with no honor to the ministry of prayer and fasting. I show you a dimension of an operation of a spirit, not the spirit of God. If it's the spirit of God, it will respond to the ministry of prayer and fasting. Prayer and fasting. Whatever attacks your prayer life has attacked your potential to encounter the power dimension of the spirit of God.
He spake a parable to the end that men ought always to pray and not to faint. There are men of God who do not submit themselves to intense moments and seasons of prayer and wonder why certain spiritual possibilities don't happen and just generalize it and think everybody who walks in power is just faking it. No, there is an investment of prayer sacrifice with fasting.
Let me tell you, food is good, but food can be dangerous if you don't have an appetite. You don't have the power to tame it. Are we together? Yes, sir. I know there are all kinds of arguments in the body of Christ about fasting, that's not my assignment tonight. But I am telling you, if it is authentic spiritual power, power as of old, you are looking for the ministry of prayer with fasting.
There are people if by 7:00 a.m. in the morning you don't eat it will be as if you are having headache. It's a spirit. I assure you even medically is not even absolutely correct. The day you don't want to fast you can stay even by 4 p.m. and forget. But the day you say I will fast 7:30. And some of you will use tomtom or zobo to break that fast. Is that normal? Is that what will satisfy your hunger? It's a spirit.
Let me tell you the truth. There is no gift of fasting. Fasting, all kinds of fasting take discipline. Let no one make you feel that there's an extra grace. There is no record of any unusual grace for fasting in the Bible. Fasting affects your spirit, soul, and body. You will feel tired. You will feel the weight of hunger. But it takes you placing value. Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross and despised the shame. For someone God is speaking to you. Gluttony is what is eating your potential for genuine spiritual power.
Talk to spirits. They talk back to you. They keep quiet. Even we are spirits. We are not eating. You who wants to cast, you don't just tell somebody come. You don't just speak and you see people are just shouting. It takes more than laying on of hands. My brother, there is a testament praying fasting. Many of us if we check your prayer account, you don't have up to 1,000 naira. How much? And yet you want to buy houses in the spirit. You want to buy estates. You are joking with 1,000. Even in a credit system, the bank will not give you money with that kind of bad account. You need to up your game. Wake up in the night. Wake up in the night. Wake up in the night. Shake slumber out of your body. Wake up in the night, pray. Pray with seriousness. Don't pray while browsing, you are playing. Don't pray while running around answering a call and coming back. If it is time to pray, shut down everything. Nothing else matters. Nothing else counts.
I'm in the res of my shak. Lord, I pray concerning this assignment that you have for me. Who but you can empower a man to take the nations? Lord, there are sick bodies that need to be healed. There are lives and destinies. Only God knows how many dead bodies have been allocated for your anointing to raise back. Only God knows how many wheelchairs at the mercy of your spiritual development. Lord, for my sake, for for the sake of your name, move, move in and through my life.
And one night you will go to pray like every other night, except that while you are praying, something happens to you that did not happen before. And you will know something has come upon you. The next time you stand before people, God's people, he will honor you. You run away from him in the secret and want to play church and think he will just honor you in the presence of people. You are playing games. You see, we keep making a fool of ourselves because we think that God plays all kinds of games and gimmicks. You think you just stand before people talking and you see people shouting up and down? You try it. You must pray. You must pray.
There are times you need to settle down. Pray. Carry your vision. What God has given you. Place it on the ground and pray. Lord, you told me my assignment is to raise my five children. They will not fail. Father, you sent me as an apostle, as a prophet, as an evangelist for your glory. As I travel from nation to nation, Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, let the two lift gates of the cities be open for the gospel. Let there be healings. Lord, you have made me a worshipper.
Listen, hold on one minute. Let me talk to you, my dear worship people. Pray, oh, don't just have good voices for songs. YOU SEE, LET ME TELL YOU WHY MANY, MANY, MANY PEOPLE WHO SING DON'T BLESS PEOPLE. They don't pray. They only train THEIR VOICE. VOICE TRAINING WITHOUT A TRACK RECORD OF SOLID PRAYER, THE DEFICIENCY WILL SHOW ON STAGE. NO MATTER HOW YOU TWIST your voice, you are leading praise and worship. You don't just re-hear your voice and take lemon and honey and come and sing. You are dealing with spirits. You are dealing with destinies. Take out time AND PRAY FROM THAT place of prayer. The difference will be very clear that you are carrying something on your head. Please my dear people pray. Worship team pray. God is raising you. It is not only your songs. IT IS PRAYER THAT PUT something on THAT SONG MORE THAN MELODIES.
And you stand to lead worship and as you just raise one song the glory that emanates from your prayer altar through your VOICE JUST SWEEPS ACROSS the place and you are seen sick body is GETTING HEALED. YOU ARE NOT EVEN AWARE JUST ONE SONG AND THEY SAY WHAT KIND OF A WORSHIPPER ARE YOU? It's beyond songs. Beyond songs. It is in the place of prayer you will receive many songs. There are songs you don't have the brain to compose. They will come by the spirit, sha. Sometimes you will fall asleep while praying and then you will hear the angels are singing Hosanna in the highest. The angels are singing. >> You will not hear any angel with spiritual or seriousness. No prayer and fasting. Please pray.
I will not give you rules, but let me challenge you. If you are a serious Christian, this is my personal opinion. At least there should be a day once a week for you to fast. If that is too much, then forget about revival. Believe me, this is not a doctrine I'm giving you. There's no place like that in scripture. But I'm telling you any if you are called into ministry, let me challenge you and admonish you by the mercies of God. Except you want to make mockery of yourself and make mockery of the name of the Lord through your life. There is a level of stamina. You have to trust God for grace to tame food. It is good to eat. I'm not one of these people that advocate people have died through carelessness and died the death of fools. That's not what I'm teaching you. You want to lay hands on the sick and see miracles. You want to speak the word of God and let it come with power. Man of God, pray.
There are some of us who are young. We are just starting and already we are careless. One month, no prayer, no fasting. And I hope you know that fasting is not just a time where you abstain from food and sleep. You are not fasting. Albeit that is important for your health. But that is not fasting. When there is no prayer, word study and worship, you did not fast. Let me repeat. When there is no prayer, word study and worship, you did not fast. No matter even if you do 48 hours, 72 hours that was spent sleeping, if there is no prayer, word study and worship, you did not fast. So just because you slept by 9 and woke up by 4:00 and slept back again and woke up quarter to 5 and already started arranging your food waiting for six on the dot. Of course God will honor you. He's merciful. But I am telling you that's not fasting. And we will never settle for less. We know there's more that's found in you. And we will never for you. >> Please give us verse 14. Luke 4:14. Let's hurry up.
Luke 4:14, "And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit." In verse one, he was driven by the spirit, full of the spirit, but the Bible does not mention power. Verse 14, having prayed and fasted even though with the spirit, he returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee. And the Bible says there went out a fame of him throughout all the region roundabout. I believe in the ministry of fasting and prayer. Please submit yourself.
Fasting is not for men of God. Fasting is not for those in trouble. Fasting is not for those that the doctor say they have diabetes or they have, you know, something that is wrong with them medically. Fasting is for all men. I truly believe that. Prayer with fasting. Prayer with fasting. Prayer with fasting. Hallelujah.
If you are pregnant and you have children, don't worry. We'll fast for you. Our fasting will cover you. And even children too can fast. Let me tell you, don't over-pamper your children until spirits enter them. Children can fast. You can they can fast and end by 12. It does not kill them. Don't say my child is too small. Let him grow. By the time he grows, he already has. Do you think that it was a legion that entered the madman in gathering one day? They kept coming and calling themselves and said this man is unavailable to until they became a legion.
Encounter with the spirit of power. Number two, the second platform. I hope you got my arrangement that I'm giving you three biblical platforms for accessing power with God. Number one is through encounters. Encounter with the spirit of power. And that there are two conditions. You want to encounter the spirit of God with his power. Your heart condition and then the ministry of prayer and fasting.
Number two, the second platform for accessing power is power that is accessed through the understanding of scripture. There is a dimension of power that is accessed through the understanding of scripture. You can also put in bracket comprehending the mysteries of the kingdom. The second level of spiritual power is accessed through understanding of scripture. Understanding the mysteries of the kingdom. The principles of the kingdom have within them a measure and a dimension of God's power already pre-programmed. Please listen. You can access a dimension of spiritual power based on light illumination that comes from scripture.
Acts chapter 20 and verse 32 it says, "And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance." It takes power for you to walk in that inheritance. And that because you have embraced the word of God, it is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.
2 Peter chapter 3 and verse 18. 2 Peter 3:18 it says, "But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen." Grow in grace and in the knowledge. The original rendition there is not just grow in grace and in the knowledge. It is grow in grace through the knowledge. Grow in grace and your growth in grace comes through knowledge. The higher your level of light, the higher the spiritual power that you command. Are we together now? Yes.
There are things you need to know about the kingdom. The way the kingdom was built, advancement and power is light dependent to the degree to which you access the scriptures. That means if someone comes and he's saying listen there is darkness in this and that area of my life I need help. You must have the level of spiritual understanding to be able to guide them to access the power of God that comes through knowledge. FIGHT IGNORANCE. FIGHT IGNORANCE. Fight ignorance.
Believers obtain grace to study and that from a child thou has known the holy scripture which is able to make you wise unto salvation. You must obtain grace to have high-level spiritual illumination. This is the reason why coming to the house of God is very important because the house of God affords you very cheaply the privilege of being methodically mentored guided in partnership with the Holy Spirit. When he the spirit of truth is come before the Holy Spirit came as the spirit of power in Acts chapter 2 Jesus told us that he will come and guide us. You're not going to walk in spiritual power in ignorance. It will be a risk for you to be a powerful but ignorant believer. Power comes with light. Light. Power comes with illumination. And Jesus himself, the powerful, knew what he would do. Is God speaking to someone?
Power. For instance, there are certain possibilities in the kingdom that if you just have wisdom that comes through the word, you will know what to do. Let me show you a scripture. I found this scripture and it really blessed me. Proverbs 3:35. While I was preparing this note, I just stumbled across this scripture and it ministered so deeply to me and I added it among the scriptures. It says, "The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools." The wise, you will always see the glory of God around the life and the corridors of wisdom, the wisdom that comes through the word. It's impossible for your life to not capture and manifest the glory of God if you submit to the wisdom of the word. Financial glory, glory in terms of influence, whatever it is the power of God revealed through your life by reason of accessing wisdom.
For instance, if doors have been closed against you and you are trusting God for open doors. It's not just the issue of demons and casting out demons. Maybe you do not have the wisdom to understand the gift and the ministry of men. Hallelujah. Oh Lord, send somebody to my life to help me. And God says that dimension of power is released through understanding. The favor of God can come and wait at the corridor of your destiny for many years. But because you have not gone to understand the dynamics, honor, value. See, your destiny helper can come sent by God to beautify and glorify your life. But you use your mouth, you use carelessness, you use dishonor and lack of discernment to recycle seasons of pain. You can pray and fast but because you do not understand the principles of scripture. Hallelujah.
This is very important. You must learn the ways of God. There are many of you who don't read books. You don't study any material. You don't learn. The Bible says buy the truth and sell it not. It takes hunger and diligence. Please go online and listen to my message. Buy the truth. I preached it in Takari in Ghana. Buy the truth. It's a very I listed there in that teaching five currencies that we use to buy the truth. Hunger, meekness, honor. These are currencies that we use to buy the truth. You must passionately learn. Learn the things that you do not know. Knowledge is available. Knowledge is more available today than it was any time in history. It takes humility and a recognition that if I do not know and I remain in darkness, anything you want to learn today, it is available. You want to make yourself more valuable even physically, it is available. Your destiny helper comes to your house and you don't know how to cook and you say God will favor me. You did not bless the person. Are you not in trouble? Can't you go and meet somebody to learn how to cook as a way of preparing to honor your destiny helper? A man old enough to be your father comes to your house and after 2 hours you give him a cup of cold water and he says, "God forbid." Hallelujah. You do not understand the principles of relationship and courtesy to greet. Those little little things can rob you of the power of God. You may not see the power that is invested through knowledge. Believers please hear me. You must understand the word dimension of the power of God. Go for the word. I immerse myself in knowledge. The knowledge of scripture and then wisdom from men and women with proven track records. It's not only God I want to know. I want to know the men I am sent to. I want to understand how men think. I want to understand the principles of influence. I want to understand leadership. I want to understand how to impact people. It's not an impartation. It comes by knowledge. Go and buy books. Go online. Settle down. Give yourself revelation projects and settle down and learn. If you're with me, say amen. >> Amen. >> Please obtain grace to learn. Obtain grace to learn. Don't be lazy. Reject laziness. It is of the devil. It is a robber and a destroyer of beauty and color from a destiny. A lazy generation that just believes in impartation alone will only be making a mockery of themselves. Let me tell you sincerely, it is often said on easy lies the head that wears the crown. If you are a man of God, the only thing you learn is not it's not only prayer and fasting and Bible study you learn. You must learn administration. You must learn finances. You must learn leadership. You must learn people skills. Are we together? There are all kinds of veterans of leadership within this ministry. Go and subscribe for their programs and learn and build capacity. Sometimes we suffer the pain of a generation that does not want diligence, but we want results. Oh God, it doesn't matter how you do. Let me just see the results. I know you are merciful. The mercy of God is not a license for foolishness. Let me tell you the truth. A diligent hand shall be made fat. There are many lazy preachers. I'm sorry to say. There are many lazy business people. You want to have influence over people. It is not only anointing. You will need an empty and a dull head. Nobody will come and submit to any leadership that does not have capacity. People are intelligent people. Don't forget that some of the people you will find around you are also leaders in their corporations, conglomerates. They have children. Some of them are employers of people to the thousands. They will not come and sit down under a leader that does not know what he's saying. There has to be a high level of advanced developed intelligence. Your mind must be alive, not your spirit alone. And it takes diligence. Receive grace to be diligent. >> Shout a loud amen. Receive grace to be diligent.
Avoid premature manifestation. If you are not ready, sit down. When you are ready, the door will open. If the door is closed, is God's mercy keeping you so that you don't rubbish the opportunity he's given you? Sit down. Sit down and learn. Make up your mind that when God brings you to your season of appearance, you will not bring shame and reproach to yourself and to the name of Christ. Hallelujah.
The understanding of scripture empowers men to release that dimension of God's power. The Bible says there is he that scattereth and yet increaseth. There is he that withholdeth more than his meat and tendeth to poverty to penury. That means if you are a greedy person who is always withholding, forget about increase. Whether it is in the secular or in the kingdom. You see, giving is one of the major active ingredients as far as kingdom wealth and prosperity is concerned. God will not trust you. I hope you know that wealth in the kingdom is not an achievement. No, maybe in the world it will be, but in the kingdom wealth is a trust from God. A man can receive nothing except it is given to him from above. And there are conditions that must be met.
God loves everybody. But according to Matthew chapter 25, I think from verse 16 or so, the parable of the talents, the Bible tells us very clearly that he gave unto one five talents. He gave unto one one talent, two talents. He gave unto one one talent according to their several abilities, not according to his love for them. He loved all of them, but he gave them according to their capacities. And at the end of the story, we see that he was just and fair to have done that. In the kingdom, God will not cast his spell before swine. You want God to commit to you the grace for nations and territories. It has to rise and match your level of spiritual and intellectual acumen.
In Philippians 1 and verse 7, popular scripture Philippians chapter 1 and verse 7, the last sentence there says ye all are partakers of my grace. Paul did not say ye all are partakers of the grace or his grace. He knows that it all belongs to him but with respect to what he was teaching. He said, "It is grace given to me, but you can be partakers of it." Ye all are partakers of my grace. There is power that is accessed through genuine connection, covenant alignment with men and women that have been so trusted by this grace from God. It is true. There are dimensions in the spirit that God will mandate that you receive and function in by reason of your connection with certain men and women that have become carriers of grace. In as much as the same Lord is rich unto all and ultimately the spirit of God is a giver of all. But God has so distributed this or he has so designed this system in his kingdom. There are levels of spiritual power you can never access in isolation to certain graces that God has put within your life within a territory and largely speaking within the body of Christ. Grace.
Every time I have the privilege of going to minister in a nation or in a church, especially if I'm preaching for any of the fathers, I don't just prepare the sermon. Among the many things I prepare, I also prepare my heart and I try to study by the spirit and through experience and through scripture the various graces that are at work in the life of those individuals. So that on one hand as I go to bless them by the privilege God has given me on another hand my heart is open to receive what grace do they carry? What standing do they have with God? Let me submit to you my dear people. Please listen to me. There are men who have a standing with God. There are men who God has covenanted and sworn by his name over their lives. They have a standing with God. There are men who have become the friend of God. Truly, there are men on earth who are friends of God. They are not just children of God. That is wonderful. But by reason of relationship and intimacy, they have come to a point where God can call them friends. Shall I hide these from my friend Abraham, seeing that he shall be a mighty man? One of the proof of friendship is that you are not afraid of opening anything including secrets. When someone is your friend, you can open even things that are not privy to everybody and say this is it. You are my friend. Hallelujah.
There are deep things that even though everything is with respect to scripture, you have to get to a stage and a level with God where God will show you certain things that make for national impact, territorial impact across regions and continents. You can be a friend of God and that comes through living a life that desires to please him completely. You can be the friend of God. There are people who have a stand with God. That means you can tap into their walk with God and experience certain possibilities that your personal spiritual level has not yet gotten you to the level that you should have. Do you understand what I just said? That means based on your personal spiritual level, some of these results and possibilities should not be happening in your life. But you can tap into their grace, their covenant, and their walk with God. And you will find yourself manifesting possibilities that are far higher than your personal level of spiritual growth even before you enter it. It's true. It's true. I have seen people carry graces. I have seen people manifest possibilities that when you vet them scripturally, their level of intelligence and spiritual acumen has not gotten them to the point where they should be commanding that level of result. But they have been able to align through understanding, humility, meekness, genuine covenant connection.
I'll give you an instance. Elisha. There is no record of Elisha being personally and meticulously trained by Elijah. We know that the sons of the prophet were the ones who were being trained by Elijah. Elisha poured water in the hands of Elijah. That means when he was going for his lecture, he would serve him and wait and allow him teach the sons of the prophet. So based on his level of renewal, based on his level of um uh what do we call it now? Maybe his his his level of spiritual transition, he could not have even received that anointing not to talk about a double portion. I'm sure that's why the sons of the prophets were very casual because they knew that this guy was only wasting his time. But he stood there with hunger and he says, "All right, you desire this. You have used honor. You have used submission. You have used genuine connection if you can see me as I'm taken." And that mantle came upon him. And the sons of the prophet testified. They said, "The spirit of Elijah rest upon Elijah."
Another example, when Jesus sent the disciples two by two and sent them 7 by 7, I hope you know the Holy Ghost had not come upon them yet. They were not saved. None of them was born again because Jesus had not been glorified. There was nowhere they would have been saved because Jesus had to die and to resurrect by the glory of the father for anyone to be saved. So they just went with his word under his covering. And as they went to preach, the Bible says they returned rejoicing. They marveled because they didn't feel anything. There was nothing around their life that should produce that result. They said even the demons were subject to us by thy name. And he said do not rejoice because of the issue of demons. Rejoice rather that your names will be written in the in in heaven. That should be the basis of your joy. It is possible to come under a ministry like this and while you are still learning the principles of prosperity, while you are still learning the principles of dominion, you can genuinely come under this grace and start seeing certain results happen in your life even before you get to that realm. There are people who have entered that realm already. You will see that if you ask them and say defend these workings of the spirit, they will tell you sincerely, I am still growing. However, because of their covenant connection with understanding, you have heard me tell you, my precious people, fans, there is no inheritance for fans. I am a fan of this. Imm There is no inheritance for well-wishers. It is people who connect with understanding. Hallelujah.
You look for instance at a ministry respectfully speaking like redeemed, our father in the Lord Baba Deboy, and you see the spread of redeem globally. Let me submit to you, you will be joking to believe that that spread is just an independent reflection of every of the branch or every of the pastor's personal walk with God. It will be a joke. There are certain things you see that is a product of a corporate grace moving people together. Are we together? You can step into certain graces and begin to prosper. Even while you are learning, people will see you and they will mistake you. They will even say, "Listen, come and teach us about wealth and prosperity." And you say, "Listen, I will only embarrass myself. I'm still learning. It's just the grace of God that is at work in me." Some of these graces are activated through the power of prophetic speakings like when they speak over you like you are about to receive this night. See as you receive it with understanding the realm of the spirit responds to the fact that you received it. Listen when he said by this time tomorrow he did not have to wait for everybody in Samaria one by one to believe. People just sat down and by the next day they were eating well under the corporate grace of a prophet. Hallelujah.
One of those profound revelations is our salvation. Imagine if everybody had to die on the cross. Jesus said, "All right, I've done it for you. You saw exactly how I did it. Everybody get a carpenter. Be on your way to any mountain around your area and die." There would probably be less than 100 people who will be saved by now because nobody will want to die. Yet he did the dying and then he got up as a conqueror and came to you. You do not qualify. It should never be for you. You are saved by grace and that works even not of yours. It is of God and no one there's no boast in there and he gave you his life and you simply received it by faith and it was credited to you in the realm of the spirit that when he died you died too. It's not just that he died and you received his life is that both of you too died. Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, it's not just that he died and gave me life. I also died with him. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ that liveth in me. And the life that I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God." You look past my sin, my guilt, my shame, and poured your love. You look beyond me all. You look beyond it all. And you look past my sin, my guilt, my shame, and poured your love. You look beyond me. You look beyond me. I'm the one, but you have shown mercy. You have shown me mercy. You have shown me. >> Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. Please hear me.
Do you know the advantage of being planted in the house of God where the power and the grace of God is at work? It is a system of advantage provided for you. So that while you grow, God knows that it takes time to grow. Let me tell you the truth. It takes time to be born again. It takes time to learn. It takes time to be filled with the Holy Spirit. It takes time to begin to learn the ways of God. While that is happening, if the realm of the spirit and if God depended on your personal spiritual life, you may die before you come to know your rights in Christ and walk in authority. So in the entering, he places systems of advantage. One of it is the power of prophetic covering that you can come under the covering and the grace. The blood that was put on the lintel, they didn't put the blood on everybody's head. Even if you were somebody in unbelief, once you were in a house where there was blood upon the lintel, the angel of death will pass. It was not about everybody's the the personal faith of the individual. As for me and my house, there are times that your grace can cover the house. There are many of you, I submit to you, there are many blessings you have received today that may not necessarily be a reflection of your prayer life, your spiritual life, but certain intercessions have happened for you and you come into that inheritance because you see when the realm of the spirit is distributing the advantage, it distributes to everyone who is part of that fold. This is true.
Remember the example I gave you some time ago that when you stand to take a shower, do you have to lift your leg to touch the shower? The leg does not have to be worried. All you need to do is just stand in front of the shower. For a while, it will look like it's only the head that is enjoying the water. But every part of that body will receive sufficient water as far as your bathing is concerned. That's how it is. It may start from the head. If the leg decides to go and wait at the door, then that leg will not experience that process of bathing. It is dangerous especially in this end time to alienate yourself from the grace and that that corporate covering is a risk. And I hope you know that proximity is not the same as connection. No, you can be close to an anointing. You can be within a house like this and yes, not have anything happen to you. Look at Elisha. He was very wise. He said, "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" As one who had already carried the double portion, he recognized God and he recognized Elijah. And the Red Sea parted, the Jordan parted. Hallelujah. You are reaping where you bestow no labor. Others have labored but with understanding you can step into the harvest.
Please hear me. This is why you see if you are genuinely part of this ministry my heart bleeds if there are certain graces that you don't carry in your life. The believe me this is not pride. There are some graces and some dimensions of God's power that should never be a struggle for your spiritual life. While you grow to step into that realm in experience, there is already a portal that has been open through sacrifice. And if you have the understanding, you can step on it. Do you believe what I'm saying? You're part of this vision and men do not arise to help you. You don't experience the favor of God. The presence of God is a struggle. No, something is wrong. We don't claim to have everything but there are some things he has given. And for someone God brought you here to tell you you are your family members, you are struggling. This is unnecessary. It's unnecessary. You cannot come to an oasis where there's water and then you are struggling and begging and crying for water. It ought not to be so. They came to the one who supplies bread. He multiplied bread and gave everybody. They ate and ate and didn't know what to do. There were five loaves and two fish. I mean um uh 12 baskets left. There are certain graces that should be at work in your life in this house. You see everybody rejecting you, nobody opening up doors for you. You cry and there's nobody helping you. You are rejecting the investment of the spirit. You are also rejecting the possibilities that reside within this place. Is someone learning? We also give that which we have received. Not every grace you see here just came as a result of personal encounters out of the abundance of that which we have received from the fathers that is speaking. It must speak in your life too. >> In the name of Jesus Christ. >> You're a man of God connected to this vision. It's not about size or whatever but you should not be small. He said I will glorify them. They will not be small. I will multiply them. They will not be few. It is a grace. Have you accessed the hear ye him anointing? Have you accessed the grace for favor? What is it about the house rents that God cannot arise and wipe your tears? Yes, you are learning, but can you not come under that grace? It's more than money. How about the manifestation of the presence of God? How about your prayer life? Apostle, I'm struggling with prayer. I don't know that grace is not there. Then there is something you are not maximizing. There is a grace in abundance that if you can open up your heart and you receive with power and receive with grace. Please hear me. We are in the days of his power where the nations need to see Jesus revealed through the display of the multifaceted dimensions of God's power. God is counting on you, ladies and gentlemen. God is counting on me. It thank God for all the people we keep talking about in history, but they have gone. They have joined the cloud of witnesses right now. God is counting on us. And in the name of Jesus, we will not fail God. In the name of Jesus, you will not fail your family. In the name of Jesus, you will not fail this nation. The days of his power where we will start hearing that someone came out of here and while he was on his way going somewhere, something just happened to someone and they said the baby is dead. And you stand and say in the name of Jesus as a child of God who has been taught I decree and declare that baby come back to life now and the baby jacks back to life and everybody within that territory the parents the families are we together that you go home and there's one church just close to your house and they say dear brother um can you just come and share and just tell us something about the love of Jesus and you don't sit down and say Well, I'm not really ministry, you know. We are not this thing about revelation. It's not all of us that have it. No, it's an indictment on the spiritual investment upon your person that you enter that church knowing that God does not call the qualified, but he qualifies the called. You stand being that you have been instant in season and out of season. Knowing that you are not alone and the Lord walking with them, confirming the words with signs and wonders. The opening of your mouth becomes deliverance for people and the grace of God sweeps over that assembly. Souls saved, LIVES HEALED AND CHANGED AND TRANSFORMED. There are some of you here there are businesses that will call you and say come and be part of us. Not by adding any value. Become like the ark of God in the business in the name of Jesus Christ. That people will call you and say listen this is we are a group of business people. We have discerned that you carry an unusual grace for favor and we want that grace to be at work in us. Come and be part of this business. What is my role in this business? Nothing. Just pray and speak for our welfare. That the list becomes as David. Please let me tell you this before we round up. Everything that has made you feel you are not up to. Everything that has made you feel it is not for people like you, I want you to reject it tonight in the name of Jesus. It is true that there is room for growth and there are levels in the spirit but can I assure you cast not away your confidence my dear people it has a great recompense of reward. Therefore I cast every spirit that has kept you to make you feel that you are not capable. Maybe some of you in ministry I cannot speak well maybe I cannot sing well. Every spirit that has brought you down, demeaning and downplaying the investment of God in your life, you are afraid of laying hands on the sick because you are afraid of embarrassment. I C THAT spirit right now in Jesus name. Hear me. Some of you this spirit may have come as a result of mindsets you have received from people and from situations that have downplayed and demeaned you. They make it look like it's not for people like you. You are very weak people. You are very this and that. You don't have to argue with anyone. But I want you to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has set you free. And do not allow anyone or anything rest in the love of God. I may not look like what you want but he loves me and that is the most important thing. If God has loved you and has approved you then that is it. Don't get into this especially this our world today of bending into all kinds of things and become a victim of people's emotion. Rest in the confidence that you are loved. You are chosen. Hallelujah. I believe in Jesus. But let me tell you sincerely, I believe in myself, too. Ah, I believe in myself. In the name of Jesus. I'll be lying if I tell you I don't. Mm- I believe in Jesus. But this man standing before you, I believe in myself. My only limit in life is the voice of God and the law of process. I don't see limitations in front of me. Truly this is my mindset. If God sends me to any nation as I go to that nation I don't go there wondering what kind of demons are in that place. Will the people listen? No. There is a level of confidence not pride that you need to have to know that you can be trusted. God can trust you. Man of God, as we're wrapping up, the Lord is speaking to you. God believes in you. Even Satan is afraid of you, but you have refused to believe in yourself. Crying for the approval of men as the basis of your confidence, that is a big mistake you are making with your life. You need to believe in Jesus and you need to believe in yourself. Believe in yourself. Believe that you are loved. Believe that you are part of the fold of God. Please hear me. Believe that God loves you. And believe that he has a great plan for you. That when God is talking about the mighty army, don't exclude yourself. Don't use any kind of sentiment, age, background, whatever it is, physical mundane parameters. Uh-uh. There is none of us that is ever qualified enough based on the credentials of the flesh to be used by God. But since he has drawn us by his mercy, we come running with joy and gratitude and confidence. He can send us to any nation and we will go. He can tell us to take the globe and we will go. There is no fear. If you are afraid, there are many things you will not do in your life. You will be whipping up and attracting sympathy from people. There are some of you is fear that has stopped you from building that house till today. You have the land, you have everything to start fear. What will people say? God must grant someone grace for somebody you should leave this meeting now and by tomorrow if somebody tells you I'm sick tell him in the name of Jesus can I pray for you I have been trained I lay my hands upon you and I declare in the name of Jesus who is the son of the living God be healed apostle what happens is the person is not healed you collect money no you get into trouble where you collected if you if you collect Are we together? Someone comes and tells you, "Do you know every door is closed? How can I reach apostle?" And you tell him, "Well, you may not be able to reach apostle, but do you believe that I will stand and agree with you?" And while you are saying that, the spirit of grace is ready for you to speak. And you say in the name of Jesus I decree and declare.
by the power that raised Christ from the dead, and a miracle happens to that person. The next time they see you, say, "Pastor, he said, no, no, no, I'm a banker." I said, "That's none of my business. It is the dimension of you that ministered to me that I will call." The Bible said, "They will call you ministers of our God." There are many of you. God is about to give you a new name, by reason of the mighty things that He's doing in and through your life. A new name, a new name.
Some of you will sing and worship and sing to the nations, and just one song that God gives you will go across the globe, blessing and healing and lifting people. Hallelujah. That, that reminds me. Come, David Dami, when is your, your worship program? I just, I just remembered. I just remembered. We pray for you. This is a son in the house, and make sure you support him and pray for him. When is it? 19th. Let's pray for him. It's not about concert, it's not a time of jamboree. This is a worship time. You can go and stand there. You can go and and be part of it. Get more information from him.
Father, in Jesus name, we pray for Dave that he will sing the praises of Jesus to the nations. We pray for this worship experience coming. Lord, anoint him like never before. Anoint the worship team like never before. Anoint all the organizers like never before. Let no flesh be glorified in Your presence. Lord, I pray that as he lifts up Your name, You will respond to his needs. You will increase him. I use him as a point of contact to pray for the entire worship team. Lord, it's a new season for them. Oh, You will take these precious people to the nations. They will sing Your praises across the length and the breadth of the nations, bringing revival, bringing hope, healing, and life to many. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen and amen. God bless you. I just thought to do this. Hallelujah. So encourage him. Some of you, after service, the Lord may lay it in your heart just to drop a seed and bless him. Why not encourage him? Encourage him. We believe in our people and we'll invest in our people as God grants grace. Hallelujah.
And don't come and say we should pray for you when you are not prepared. Let me just say it now, because believers are masters of, of, of, do your homework and come. We will bless. We can bless you for grace to do your homework. That one, I will do it even now. But once you do your homework and come, believe me, we will not waste the influence God has given. And when God lifts you, make sure you don't forget Him. Please don't bring shame to the Lord. Too many people have done it already. Let there be people who will stand. Even with a crown on your head, you can still let the nations know that He is King. I think it's good for the night. We can wrap up now.
Stand on your feet, please. I want to pray one serious prayer over our lives. And I want everybody to receive. We need to be endued with power. Ladies and gentlemen, you are believers in Christ. And I want you to know that by reason of your being grafted into Christ, there are levels of power and grace your life should command. Power comes in levels. Graces come in levels. What you can receive. I want to pray and speak over your life, and I want you to truly receive from the depth of your heart. You will be surprised to see the kind of results you begin to command. You believe that?
In the name of Jesus, I pray for you. Every season of spiritual dryness, with no power, no manifestation of the word of God, you have come to Bethel, the house of God. I decree and declare, a higher dimension of spiritual power may, may it rest upon you now. The grace for signs and wonders like never before. I release it upon you. Receive it now. I release it upon you. RECEIVE IT NOW. Supernatural signs and wonders through your hands in the name of Jesus Christ. The grace for intimacy, the grace to spend time in His presence until you draw forth into your life the riches of heaven. I impart that grace upon you. I impart that grace upon you. Let me impart the grace for prayer. There is the spirit of prayer and supplication. The grace to travail until you touch dimensions of spiritual reality. Receive that grace right now in the name of Jesus. Every spiritual slumber, every spiritual lukewarmness, I declare, be free from it right now. The capacity to understand scripture. High-level spiritual illumination. I declare, may your eyes be open. May your hearts be open. May your mind be open in the name of Jesus Christ. The fortitude to comprehend spiritual reality. I decree and declare, may that grace rest upon you.
Hear me, for the things you need right now that your spiritual level has not yet, um, based on your spiritual level, you may not seem to purchase those spiritual realities. I stand by the power of this apostolic and prophetic mantle. I still shift you to step into that level. I shift you to step into that level. Levels of favor, levels of honor, levels of influence, levels of speed. Let me pray over your finances. Please receive it. In the name of Jesus Christ.
I sincerely pray for you from the depth of my heart that by the power that raised Christ from the dead, I forbid your hands from being dry. I forbid your hands from being dry. Enjoy the gift of man. Enjoy the gift of man. Enjoy the gift of man. Favor from the north, FAVOR FROM THE SOUTH, FAVOR FROM the east, favor from the west. Step into prepared blessings. Hallelujah. Where you have been despised from tonight, I place a mantle of honor upon your head. Everything that has refused to grow in your life, I declare the grace that makes for multiplication and growth, whether it's your work, WHETHER IT'S YOUR BUSINESS, WHETHER IT'S YOUR MINISTRY, EXPERIENCE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH.
Finally, I pray for you in the name that is above all names. All the people who have been mandated to come and be blessed by your anointing, wherever they are, I decree and declare by divine coincidences, by the leadings of the Spirit, I send them to your life to be blessed. I send them to your church to be blessed. I send them to your organizations to be blessed in the name of Jesus. From today, I want you to carry this consciousness. I am a blessing. Say it, please. One more time. Say, "I am a blessing." For the last time, say, "I am a blessing." Reject anything that wants to make you look like you're a curse. Anybody who does not appreciate you for who you are, just leave them with their ignorance. But as far as you are concerned, I am a blessing. Say it in the morning, say it in the afternoon, say it in the evening. Whenever you go to work, you are not just an employee waiting for salary. I AM A BLESSING. THE POWER OF GOD IS AT WORK in me. I am a blessing. A blessing to your husband, a blessing to your wife, a blessing to your children, a blessing by reason of being a doctor, a blessing by reason of being a man of God. I am not a curse. I don't bring pain. I DON'T BRING REGRET. THERE IS NO REGRET AROUND ME. I AM A BLESSING. "In thee," says, "shall all the families of the earth be blessed." When you carry the mentality, you are a blessing. When people come to you in need, you don't just look at them and pity yourself. You are happy because if you cannot give them money, if you cannot give them counsel, don't forget you are anointed. Don't say, "I cannot do anything." They may ask you for money. They may be confused. But there is something you have. You can tell them, "Listen, I may not be able to give you any money here, but let me pray." That grace, let it work. Go. And they will think they just left until they return with fearful testimonies. Be a proof producer. Be a sign producer. Be a wonder producer in the name of Jesus Christ. Be a multiplier factor to the advancement of the kingdom. In Jesus name we pray.
The word peace is such a simple word, yet a powerful treasure. And in this Christmas and New Year season, there is a gift that God desperately wants you to protect. And that gift is your peace. Right? You see, the world can give you excitement, but only God can give you peace. The world can give you noise, but only God can give you rest. The world can give you celebration, but only God can give you calm. And this season, God is whispering to you, "Guard your heart. Protect your peace." Because peace is not the absence of problems. It is the presence of God in the midst of them. Right? So, some of you walked through storms this year. And the enemy expected you to break. But look at you. You're still standing. You're still praying, still believing, still pushing. That is not your strength. That is the peace of God carrying you. And hear me dearly beloved. Anytime God is building something in your life, the enemy tries to steal your peace. Why? Because when your peace is gone, your clarity goes with it. Your joy goes with it. Your spiritual sensitivity goes with it. Your emotional balance goes with it. But this season, God wants you anchored, stable, calm, grounded, and unshaken. So peace is a defense. Peace is a shield. Peace is a weapon. It's a weapon. So peace is what allows you to smile even when everything around you is loud. Peace is what allows you to rest even when others expect you to panic. Peace is what allows you to trust God even when you can't trace Him. And listen, not everybody deserves access to your peace. Not every conversation is worth your peace. Not every argument is worth your peace. Not every place, not every circle, not every expectation is worth your peace. So this season, choose peace intentionally. Choose what grows you. Choose what nourishes you. Choose what draws you closer to God. Choose what reminds you of your value. If it drains your spirit, step back. If it confuses your work, step aside. If it disrupts your focus, let it go. Because peace is too expensive to be wasted. Jesus called the Jesus is called the Prince of Peace for a reason. He came to give us a peace that doesn't shake when life shakes. A peace that doesn't collapse when plans collapse. A peace that sits confidently in the storm and says, "My God is still in control."
So, as you enter Christmas and prepare for the new year, I pray that you step into a new dimension of peace. Peace in your mind, no overthinking, no anxiety, no fear. Peace in your home, no tension, no chaos, no silent battles. Peace in your decisions, clarity, direction, and confidence. Peace in your relationships, healing, harmony, understanding. Peace in your spirit, deep-rooted, unexplainable peace. And may peace be your atmosphere. May peace be your language. May peace be your identity. May peace be your portion. This season, may God protect your heart from anything that threatens your, threatens your peace. And may you carry His calmness, His stillness, and His presence into the new year. I love you so much, dearly beloved. And I pray that the Prince of Peace fills your life with rest in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for staying up to the end of today's sermon. God bless you. Do not forget to share this video, this sermon, so others can be blessed. Also, do not forget to like, share your thoughts in the comment section, and also subscribe if you haven't already. And as you do that, the Lord Almighty will bless you in Jesus name. Merry Christmas to you and have a prosperous new year.