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12 midnight is an important and powerful gate of time for those who pray. 12 midnight is a gateway to so many things. While 6:00 a.m. and 12 noon are important, particularly 12 for the gate of the day, but the gate of the night is opened at 12.
Um, the agents of darkness start the operations at 12:00 and go on till 4:00 a.m. actually actively till 3 and by 4 they get home. If they have dogs at 4:00 a.m. you start hearing their dogs back because these animals have a way of noticing movements in the physical and in the spirit. And Jesus said, "If the husband man knows when the thief comes, he'll be awake." And it's at that time that you catch them. Many times during night vigils they have been caught by the power of God and they fall on top of the roof of the church and stay there till daybreak and the community gets the opportunity to see who the bad people are you know and so it's a good thing to come out at this time to prayer pastor pastor Amy must be very sensitive in the spirit to get things done at striking moments. When some of those who serve the um Satan as witches and wizards want to launch their books, they do it at 12 midnight. And they knew why? Because they think at that time the portals to the thrones of darkness are open to them. But for us, our God is the ruler of the day and night. And so we rule both in the day and we rule also in the night. And so we are in charge. Praise the name of the Lord. >> Hallelujah. >>
I'm asked to speak on possessing the gates of influence. Possessing the gates of influence. When Jesus was laying foundation for the church in Matthew 16:18-19, he said, "And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hells shall not prevail against it." And then he added in verse 19, "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Jesus wanted to establish the fact that he will build his church and it will be a church that will be relevant at the gates. And he said the representatives of the enemy whom he refers as the gates of heads shall not prevail against his own representative. That's you and I at the gates. And he said in addition to making us more powerful than the enemies at the gates, he will give us master keys. We can lock the enemy out and we can open the gates whenever we want. And he said our actions will be connected to heaven and whatever we agree on earth heaven will echo. Amen.
In Isaiah 28 5 and 6 God said in that day the Lord of hosts will be for a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people. uh which day I will explain tonight. For a spirit of justice to him who sees in judgment, that's another bit. And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gates. Those who have the strength, the stamina, the courage, the ability, the anointing to turn back the battle at the gates. David said in Psalm 127:E5, "Happy is the man who has his queer full of them. They shall not be ashamed but shall speak with their enemies in the gates." You can discover that in the Bible it uses at the gates in the gates and they have different meanings but I don't know whether we will be able to handle that tonight.
Isaiah 45 verses 1 to3. Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and lose the armor of kings to open before him double doors. Talks about gates so that the gates will not be shut. I will go before you and make the crooked places straight. I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places >> that you may know that I the Lord who call you by your name am not just the God of Israel but your God as well.
The word gate has a few meanings in the Bible. The first one is an opening to a compound like this. There's an entrance and you can control it by putting a metal bar or a wooden bar with a lock and somebody handles the key. the person gives you access into the compound or denies you access. So it's an opening in a fence um that is controlled with a defensive structure which serves as a point of entrance or exit. It's called gate.
Number two meaning is a place or position of authority, control, power and dominion as in Genesis 24:16 or 22:15-17. Now in Genesis 22:15 to 17, Abraham offered his son Isaac to the Lord on the altar of sacrifice. God was so overwhelmed because man is naturally selfish. He wants the best for himself. This man has waited for this child for 25 years and he's born. And as he was growing up, God demanded for him to be used as a sacrifice. And God was watching to see what Abraham would do. Abraham willingly took the boy without telling the mother nor the boy what he was going to do to Mount Mor and tied him and put him on the altar to slay him. What he did is exactly what God did for you and me in Christ Jesus. And when God saw Abraham doing that, that's like, "Excuse me, can a man have my heart and behave like me?" So he turned around and said to Abraham, "Sorry, I didn't mean that you kill your son. I just wanted to test you. You passed the test." Of course, you know, he provided the lamb and then they released Isaac. And he said to him in blessing anything blessing I will bless you. And it is in that line he said your children shall possess the gates of their enemies. And what that means is that your children should will have dominion. They have control. Yes. They will have power and authority over their enemies. Israel has 6 million people, 1 million strangers, you know, residents who are not Jews. So 7 million, but that country controls the whole of Middle East. There's no country in the Middle East that can challenge them. And that country also in a way controls the world. Most of the hotels in America and malls are owned by the Jews. The cars you see that are made in Germany. Their brain box and the things that make them run are made from Israel. when you hear people getting um different awards for excellence in academics in science and discoveries about 87 to 90% of them are Jews and um there's hardly any country in the world that is not afraid of the Jews they can make noise, call them G7 or anything, their strength is control, but the covenant that God made with Abraham in blessing I will bless you and your children or your son or your descendants shall have control of the gates of their enemies. the political gates, the economic gates, the science gates, the social gates, gates of influence. Before some of you read the book that talks about the seven mountains of influence. Of course, there are more than 30 mountains of influence. Well, maybe you get started with seven. God had been talking about gates of influence. The gates that matter. That's a third meaning of gate. We will come back to that second one.
The third meaning of gate is a court of justice. Deuteronomy 21:18-19. Um we have a supreme court of justice located in Abuja. It's a gate and many today is being manipulated otherwise it is a gate through which justice is released to the innocent. In the Bible in Exodus 32:26 Moses judged Aaron. Moses and Aaron judged Israel at the gates. In Ruth 4:1, legal matters between Ruth and Boaz were handled at the gates. In Deuteronomy 22:23, immoral behaviors were judged at the gates. And so the court of justice is referred to as a gate in the Bible.
Number four, a gate is a gathering place. It could be a political, judicial, military, police, immigration, spiritual media gathering place where elders meet to discuss issues and take decisions. The women will be very familiar with the virtuous woman. And the Bible says, "The husband of the virtuous woman shall be known at the gates." Yeah. The husband, the virtuous woman shall be known at the gates. When the Lord restored Job, the Bible said he also restored him at the gates, when he stood to speak, said the young men held their lips with their hands, and there he defended the widows, the orphans, and the elders stood. He was a noble man and he was restored at the gate of influence.
And um the other meaning of gate number five is the place of entrance to a nation, to a continent, to a city. Lagos is a gateway city to Nigeria. Um is a major hub, the the biggest hub for all the airlines in Nigeria. And if you want to come into Nigeria, though there are other rough areas through which you can come in from outside the country then the smoothest and the easiest gateway into Nigeria is Lagos. Um recently Abuja has been added but it cannot be compared with the number of flights that fly into Lagos every night and every day. So it's a gateway. Recently I visited Lafia and the PFN came to the gates of Lafia and received me at the gate. They told me so many things and we settled them at the gates before we got into Lafia. The point of entrance to a city, the point of entrance to a country, the point of entrance to a continent. O AU African Organization of African Union is a gate where heads of states of African nations meet to discourse what they allow and what they don't allow within the African continent. I I'll be coding certain things because of not causing offense to anybody. But it is very disturbing that this blessing of Abraham um is not effectively handled by us in the church. The ancients. Thank you. God will recover. The ancients were very familiar with the issue of the gates. May the Lord bless your wife. I think they called them better halfh. The ancients were very sensitive about kids. God was blessing Abraham. He said in blessing that at the ultimate place the children will rule at the gates. Shortly after that, the family of Rebecca when giving her out a marriage to Isaac uh that you will find in the same Genesis, I think two chapters after the first one. Um Genesis 24:E16, they said, "Our sister, may the Lord bless you and make you a mother of multitudes. May your children possess the gates in plural, talking about gates of influence of their enemies." That was the ultimate blessing the ancients will give. And Jesus trying to lay foundation for his church said I will build my church. It will be so strongly built that the gates of hell shall [snorts] not have a place in their presence. When you go to our seminaries and Bible colleges, you look through our curriculum probably will not find anything on gates. And yet it is a very major thing for God. That is the only major way he could bless Abraham. That is the only major way the family of Rebecca could bless his wife given to her. That is where Jesus began but to lay foundation for his ministry. But you don't find it in our curriculum. And because of that we overlooked the issue of gates of influence. all the subject of gates and we we left that vacant and open when he restored Job as a symbol of righteousness. He restored him at the gates.
Today we have left the gate of politics open for the enemy to grab any how he likes. We have left the gate of the economy. It's open. Once in a while you find a righteous step in there to head the banking industry. We have left very important gates of influence like that to the enemy. Africa has 54 nations and then it has five others that are not purely independent nations. And so it has about 61 nations. And out of these 54 nations, you can hardly find two that has presidents that are born again Christians. In a continent that has 54 independent countries, how many of them are headed by a born-again Christian? Somebody some time ago described Africa as a dark continent inhabited by whatever he liked. Uh should we be dark in color and dark in our mindset? Are we really dark in the spirit? Does that translate to foolishness and ignorance? I don't think so. I'm not speaking to make you too excited. That we are dark in completion is the way God chose to make us. And I argue everywhere I go in the world that we are dark because God took his time to create me and you and I allowed us to be well done. Yes, sir. >> And the others he put out of the oven in a hurry. So, and sincerely speaking, there's no other color you can take their blood and it will fit in any other creature that's human except from the black race. We were created well. The first civilization was Egypt. Not the one now occupied by Arabs, but the black Egypt. Iron. I found it in the University of Baltimore. Was first discovered among the blacks in Africa. Recently the UN has discovered that as well. Every country I have gone in the Caribbean, in the South America, almost all the heads of their head of the hospitals are blacks and call the university any name you like. You will find deans, heads of department that are blacks. So in their intellect they are not dummies. But come to church people why did you allow the wicked run your gates of influence? People were told us maybe it was the mistake of the missionaries who came initially and told us that you should reject the world. Take that whole world but give me Jesus and then you live in the space. Take that whole world and give me Jesus. Then we will live in the backyard. Take that whole I don't know what that mean you know. So we believed them. They showed us how to read and write and they told us that's all you need to learn and you have nothing to do with the gates of influence. That's all we never fought to lead. As I was growing up, I was told that for you to do business, you will s your hands. So don't do business at all so you remain holy. So we had some of the teachings that paralyze the church rank contrary to what God did and said. But I'm grateful for opportunities like this that bring us back to the place of gates of influence.
There are many things about gates. I will quickly run through them. Of course, you know the seven mountains. They are part of the gates. But I want to say that the gate starts with you. You are a whole world on your own and your whole body is full of gates. There is the eye gates. Without the eyes you can't see anything and the brain will have nothing to interpret. Without the eyes you are limited and you have to learn to manage your eyes well. Many people have allowed their eyes to make them have automobile fatile accidents. They were admiring a lady lossfully lost control of their cars. Had a head-on collision with another car. So the eyes are good but if you don't know how to manage that gate it can ruin you.
Your head is a gateway to your body. Particularly those of us who are ministers I watched pastor Davids this night pour oil on heads lay hand on heads. Okay. Your head is a gateway. That oil went in. That hand of impartation walked just as you saw it. When somebody lays hand on him, he transfers the grace he has or he shares the grace that he has, the gifts he has as well as every negative thing in his life. Somebody during the time Abuisha Bessosa was alive came from Ghana to his school, a clean young man. On the day of his graduation, some of the people who laid hands on his head were people who were battling with immorality. From that night, he battled with it until he his life was ruined. In Bamea in Cameroon, I finished speaking in a conference. Three pastors met me and knelt down and said I should lay hands on them to wipe out the ordination they received from their church and lay hands again so that they can get correct impartation. I said to you what do you mean? They said all the negative traits of the man who ordained them just came on three of them and multiplied by three. And they were struggling with those vices. So and they can't break off. So they want me to in the name of Jesus knock them off one by one and then lay hands on them properly so they can start ministry. I never had anything like that before but it's true. Your head is a strong gate. And so if you're a minister and you go to a place and they are laying hands, if you're not sure of the person laying hands, excuse yourself and get away. It's a safer thing. Okay?
Your ears are gates. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of the Lord. The positive things, encouraging, inspiring things. The same way fears comes by hearing. Hearing negative things, hearing from the devil through this gates. And those you give access to this gate control your life.
Your hands are gates. The ancients will speak into they will split spit into your hand. said things on the much they know. And for us when Pastor Davis this night laid hands on those he was transferring gifts, wisdom, courage, boldness and and they and they were being transferred through this gates. Paul said to Timothy, "Stir up the gifts that were transferred into you by the laying of the hands of the prisbetry." Gifts were imparted, loaded into you by the laying of hands. The Bible says Joshua was strong because Moses laid hands on him. So the palm is a powerful gate.
Then the mouth is a gate of course you know that through which you eat the food through which you say things and a lot can happen. You can kill through this mount this gate or you can make people stay alive through this gate. We raise the dead. would heal the sick through the words. The currency with which markets and business are done in the realm of the spirit are words spoken through this gate and um your sex organs are gates actually is one of the most powerful gates through which they all call to do their initiation. Terrible things I can't say tonight are done through sex organs. People lose their lives. They exchange destinies. Take stars from people, endanger them, enslave them through that.
Then there's a gate at the back of your body. Uh you know the name you call the one here. Uh you're looking at me. There's a gate here. What do you call it? Like this. You don't want to say anything. Okay. If that gate is closed for two weeks, what do you think will happen? You can't fat. You can't do the normal thing. Eh, will you still be eating? That's a gate. The soul of your feet is a gate. That's why in the mystic places, the spirites, white garment churches, they ask you to remove your shoes. They have access to you through the sole of your feet. It's a gate. Once you walk in and it is bare, it is open, they can come into you at will. So your body is a gate.
Your family is a gate. You're a gatekeeper. And you possess a gate of influence. Father, mother, you are the one that controls the home. Nobody can enter into your home without you, mama. Nobody can go into your kitchen. You are the gateway to that kitchen. And the inside your home there are other gateways. The television what your children watch they have shaped their mind. The society is in that television. So that television is the gateway of the world into your mind. You can flip to any country through the television. And many of our children have been initiated into the occult into witchcraft through either the internet or television. You you just say what they ask you to say and you initiated. >> [snorts] >>
Some of you who are a bit older may have read that book delivered from the power of darkness by Emmanuel any um there was a time it rained in Nigeria because deliverance wasn't very common thing but it came out and it was everywhere. Now that book was written by my staff. The address there was my address. The Emmanuel was the prince of darkness whom we delivered. So we put because the things were so sensitive we have to put his name there. Now a girl came to my office from India. She has lived in the sea for 8 years and she came to kill me because we took a prince from the waters. Why did I go there? Praise the name of the Lord. Okay, I'm just trying to mention gates and um eye gates, mouth gates, ear gates, head gates, hand gate, sole of your feet, your private parts are gateways and if you make mistakes there, they can be forever. Your umbilical cord is a gateway. Um many times I've seen occasions where we prayed for people everywhere and the Holy Spirit will say touch the umbilical cord and once we do that the person goes up and the demon leaves. The umbilical cord is the only way the baby in the womb received nourishment in the body of the woman is the connection between the baby and the and the mother. Okay? And so it's a gateway to the baby. And when the when the baby is born, the umbilical cord is still there. Still a gateway.
One day I was preaching in Congo on deliverance and um I mentioned the umbl in the course of prayer. I mentioned the umblical cord and commanded the powers that were holding anybody in in captivity through the cord to leave them. Now my interpreter passed out. Just went boa and passed out. Died. I said, "God, I'm sorry. I don't know what I mentioned, but he's my interpreter. I cannot speak French. You have to bring him back to finish the interpretation. They came around, tried to resuscitate him. I was watching and he wasn't coming around. I took a cup of water and blessed it. And then asked them his name, they told me. I called his name a few times, poured that water upon him and said to him, "Come back now." He opened his eyes. I said, "Get up." He got up. I said, "I continue your interpretation." When we were done and I said, "What did I do wrong? Why did we lose you?" He said, "The uncle took the umbilical cord of five of them of the same parents. Their mother is dead, their father is dead, and the uncle has the umbilical cords." He put them in a bottle and cocked them there and said they will only progress in life the day he decides to uncock the bottle and release them. So when I mentioned that he had a sound that looked like the bottle exploded and then he lost consciousness. He just passed out. I said, "But do you believe what your uncle said?" He said yes. That is a master's degree holder. The wife is a graduate, but they live in a hole like a rat. The same thing with the other four siblings. I said, "Well, you've been liberated."
One day I was preaching in a church outside Nigeria and we were at the altar with the pastor. As we were praying, I mentioned the umbilical cord. The wife screamed, went on the ground and began to roll to the third road. Is this buildings they build and the door opens on the third road? The husband was vibrating in his spirit. And when I opened my eyes and saw the wife rolling out to I said, "Oh boy, come on, stop praying. See your wife go alone. The man took off to recover his wife. So the umblical cord is a gateway to our bodies. I would recommend you look at for the book elders at the gates or battles at the gates and then study them.
The gates of influence are gates that help you to exercise dominion that God gave you. is to control, have authority to fulfill the mandate of Jesus that the church shall prevail at the gates of influence and they include the political gates. For those of you who are here, please don't be afraid to contest to be the governor of Lagos State. Pastor Bimbo will be happy to be the mother, spiritual mother of a governor of this pastor. >> Yes sir. Not the wicked. I want to say to you, they control so much power that they can revoke the CFO of where you live and construct a road there and just give it a name to to move you away. And they they have immunity from the military time that whatever they do to you, you can't take them to court when they come out of that office. and and you left that in the hand of the wicked. The budget and the amount of money they receive, their ESTA code and their security, you know, vote alone is enough to run 10 times the budget of the church. And they use it to do stupid things, fund cult meetings and then own hotels in every capital city in state capital in Nigeria and all put them in banks overseas and they will die one day. In Switzerland, Nigerian money there is what they used to run their country because of the selfishness of our politicians who took the money down there, coded them, died. Their wife didn't know the code, their children didn't know the code, and the money is gone. But you allow them, you gave them the chance. I I want you to know that because of the length of time that the enemy has held on to this, if you now go and say, "I'm the legitimate child of God. Who should own this thing?" They will put up a fight. It's like you've lost it. You've lost it. But you have to say no. You have to have courage, boldness, like what God told Joshua. You have to have courage. You have to have boldness to fight. And you have to contend and contest it anywhere they take it to. Even if they said go to court, you go to court. You fight for it. The enemy has stolen what belongs to you, taken your expensive car or something and run away. You don't let him just run away. If you let him, he will take it. But if you go after him, you can recover it. A brother and his wife were coming back from work and they snatched the car off his wife. There's a radio. They work for oil companies. So every car has a radio. There's a radio in his car. He began to speak like he is radioing the police of the oil companies. He said a car number this of this color of this type has been snatched from my wife and they are heading towards Roma junction. Stop them and kill all of them. So the robbers heard that several times when they made traffic they opened the door and left the car there and ran away. And he was driving behind the car and was making this announcement. He got his car back. So if the enemy has snatched your vote, snatched your mandate and run off and you didn't pursue him and you are not shouting, you are not screaming, you are not making demands for him to be stopped, he will go away with what belongs to you. But if you go after him, you will take it back. And I want to say to you church, take away uh take back the political place of influence. A lot a lot is determined there. The amount of money involved in the contracts that are giving, give it to church folks and let them pay bring their offering to God. Let them pay their tithe to God. We need it for ministry. Let them not be giving it to Satan and use it to fight the church. When you allow them steal your vote, they come and make policies that are anti-church. And today globally whether it is in the United Nations or in other block organizations like that their first enemy now is the church. Why? The people whom you allowed to occupy those positions are antichrist fellows. So we have great war in our hands. We have to go back and snatch back the political place of influence.
What about money? The Bible said money answers all things. Well, that's what it says about discovered that God's presence answers all things. But money is very important. The economic gate or the gate of economy is a very important gate. I had a conference recently, the greatest conference I've ever had and I discovered that apart from God's presence, money was very helpful. I walked into um pastor say and Bimbo's office and I loved it. Why is it good money? Assuming they were poor people, the office will look wretched and if you walk there, if you walk in there, you can assess who they are just in there. Uh they That gate of influence has a way to speak in your absence about your personality and your worth. And so don't let the enemy steal it and run away. Don't compromise. Don't manipulate. Don't tell lies. You can be a righteous man and still rule at the gates of economic influence. Abraham was a righteous man. Abraham was a righteous man and he was wealthy. He said to the king of Sodom and Gomorrah, "Please take everything I have helped you. Take all your gifts so that tomorrow you won't say you made Abraham rich." His son Isaac, the Bible said he prospered and prospered and prospered until the whole city became afraid of him. He was a prophetic son. Listen to God living uprightly. But God made him rich. We need that back. I was talking to I went to visit a spiritual son yesterday to tell him that we'll be flying out to Botswana this in next few days and South Africa and then to bless them for the new year and he has fleets of hotels. I told my wife how did this start? An uncle who worked in a bank gave him a loan and he used it well. is a godly man today. He has so many hotels, has so much money, you know, in his hand and he has built so many churches from the buying the land and finishing the buildings for different denominations. You won't be at the mercy of the wicked when you want to get projects executed because the righteous are at the gate of influence of finances. But if the righteous are not there then you will be at the mercy of the wicked. That's why we need to possess that gate of influence.
Another gate of influence is education. Unknown to you, some wicked people took over that gate and changed all the permanent secretaries and then began to rewrite the syllabus. And in the syllabus they said Muhammad was the last prophet that came and Jesus was one of the old prophets that are irrelevant. In a syllabute of books your children study at school, people wrote it and made it compulsive and they stopped the teaching of history to students in Nigeria. Yes. Because they were in charge of the ministry of education. Why did they do that? So that we will not have history. They will now write what our children will read as our history. Now when you listen to news and story, you are listening to the news and the story of the person talking, not the correct thing. It depends on who is giving you the news or information. When the wicked gets the gate of education, they take away what is important and they sell the poison they want you or your children to buy and you pay fees to go and buy them. So be careful. Um the schools you send your children to um they may be adults, they may be young people. Uh one day I went to Japan to rescue an a scripture union lecturer who was sent abroad on scholarship to do PhD. When he went there only God knows what they taught him and he now began to believe that everything is God. So the brethren in Nigeria brought the issue and we prayed and prayed and prayed. Nothing happened. I entered the plane while going to Korea and stopped in Japan. I said, "Bro, I'm told that you are lost and I came to look for you." He said, "What do I mean?" I told him clearly that whatever devil entered your head and made you begin to say everything is God, including yourself, has deceived you. He argued a little bit but I tried to make it very clear to him, spent time with him, prayed with him and the Lord helped us. We recovered him. So where you send people to go to school matters. It's a very powerful place of influence. You know they do. You know that when you were younger and your children went to school, they believed their teachers more than their parents. Oh, they do. I am a village man. I used to call taught to toys. And so one day I was doing something and I I told my children um you see I saw a tortoise somewhere. They laughed at me. He laughed at me. I said, "What's wrong?" He said, "Daddy, it is not tto. It is tort." I said, "Who told you that?" He said, "My teacher in school." So, so, so you believe your teacher? They said, "Yes, of course." I never was conscious of that until that day. So I became careful where you I send my children to study and I followed them very closely to know what they teach them because you can lose them or have them. Now when my children got to the secondary school level um the housemates people around me said dad this is the school where everybody's going and they got my wife and the okay when when you get my wife you've gotten me got to 100%. So I said okay let them go there and that is the school where all the rich people children go. Now that's a strong gate of influence, a place they brainwash them and they tell them that all the public universities in Nigeria are nonsense. They don't they're not good. You you you enter there, you don't know when you graduate. By the time they graduated, I had a set of trip plates and they told me that actually the private universities are not good enough but they can manage them. All their friends are going abroad. I said okay. What of the only university of Nigeria and soccer? My daughter started crying. God forbid we should never try it. She got admission to read medicine. She refused, was crying, entered her room. My wife came and said, "Please not allow your daughter to go to a private school, university. Men and brethren, products of University of Nigeria and Suka any day you see them are unique. But the children have been brainwashed in the private secondary school where they wait that every public university in Nigeria is useless. So you have to find a way if your own children have not reached there yet. The place of education is a very strong place of influence.
We need people in the media because what they sell out to us, that's what we believe. The print media, the social media, the all the medias now. Uh let everybody not want to work in oil company. The oil companies are folding up and they are selling them to Nigerians who are mismanaging them. But there are places of influence, strong influence, strong influence. I discovered that many Christians don't allow their children to who are graduates to join the police or the military. But we need to these are powerful places. Immigration and the enemy has occupied everything there. I'm supposed to travel with five people to Botswana and South Africa in the next few days. South African immigration refuse or embassy refuse to give visa to one person. No genuine excuse. So I'm now fighting using every relationship I have everywhere in the world. Maybe I don't know what to call the person. Somebody who works in the office there just decided that that person won't go and that's it. Some people I've talked to said that's what they do or you hire an agent pay the person one 1 million plus who will give them their court and then the door will open. So if we will have global impact and take the world, we must fight to have people um deliberately positioned in the places of influence and they will include home services, home offices, is the military, the immigration, the politics. Every university you pass jam, you do everything on merit. When you get their names are missing, they said they said one senator came and said, "Put three names. Put three names there and you have to take away three legitimate people who passed their jam and put three names from one senator. If we must heal Nigeria and correct it, we must all then go to the places of influence. Seek to be a vice chancellor. Contest to be a vice chancellor. If you are teaching, seek to be a head teacher or head mistress. The principal it's not a wrong thing. Seek deliberately seek there because it's a place of influence. Well, let me round up because Pastor F told me what time to stop and uh my wife must be looking at her what do she's my strongest critic if I don't do well. Pastor Bimbo, do you do that to your husband? So we need people at the media gates, at the social gates, social platforms, you know, and all that. We need people at the health service gates, um, health department. It's a very strong gates in UK. very strong gates in the US and we it is not strong here because no strong gatekeepers are here and that's why they fly people to India. I've been to India several times and I wonder why a Nigerian should go to India to seek for treatment. I really really wonder except that we don't have you at that gate. I was talking with a medical doctor who who who who met me in Leaky last Sunday. She came from he came from Canada. He said the only good thing in Canada is that they have the equipment and they asked him to go back and complete 6 months of experience in a serious hospital. And he came back to Nigeria and he went to the military hospital and people are dying before him for lack of simple things they need to help them stay alive. Did I say military hospital? Yes. You would think the military has the big budget and they should have all the things but the money does not get to the hospital to get them the basic things the doctors should use to keep Nigerians alive. He said we have buried many people who should be alive. In some of those countries like India if you steal what should you be in hospital they execute you so you don't I went to their private hospitals and I hated going to the hospital in India so it's either you wake up and go to these places of influence and take your place there or we keep dying and burying pre people prematurely.
The entertainment gate gates we can have beautiful entertainment, movies, cinemas that are healthy and educative. Somebody asked me in Cameroon, do you people have any movie that Satan and demons don't feature? Uh because our movie people promote they think it is culture. It's not our culture. They they promote satanism. One day I was in a radio outside Nigeria sharing with people how they can be delivered and somebody called in and said please have you finished delivering those people who do your movies in Nigeria before coming to us. shameful. So we need people in the entertainment area as well.
And finally, we need people to help us understand the power of the family. Early this month, I spoke on the role of fathers as a heads of the families and the influence they have. Jesus said when you pray pray our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name because that's a father we have on earth who is with you if you listen to your father as the head coach and your mother as the technical advisor you will produce a winning team but if you as a child come with your own agenda and expect the coach to obey you that's what the children do now They come and tell their parents what they want to eat, where they want to go to school, where what they want to wear, the hair they want to type of hair they want to carry. You see that's wrong. Leadership does not come from under. It comes from the head. And the father is the head. Genesis 18:19, God said, "I know Abraham. I know him very well that he will command his family after him to do righteousness, justice, and to walk in my ways. I know he will command his family. What if he knows Abraham as a man being commanded by all his children? It doesn't work like that. And so because the family is now disintegrating, the society is disintegrating. Everybody's going different directions. You cannot stay and say this is where this family is going. The redemptive gift of families is scattering. You cannot say this family is known for this because the influences of peer pressures and the people they interact with have affected them so badly that they can no longer coherently align with the purposes of God for them. So families are disintegrating and it's one of the strongest places of influence. If you're a man and you're listening to me, understand that you are a coach. And um every coach is known and respected by the performance of your team. If you have coached a team and they keep losing, you may be fired. And if you are the father of a home and your wife and children are not doing well, your house is in disarray, you need to go back to God and ask him to put you back together.
The last two powerful women in Europe. Theresa May who was the last female prime minister in UK at the age of eight told the father I would like to be the first woman prime minister in Britain. The father said to her, "For real?" She said, "Yes." The father said, "Then it is possible if you will listen to me as your coach and be patient." Number one, you have to have a relationship with God that is strong. Number two, you have to live by obedience. Number three, you have to be patient to follow the process. and God will make you the first female prime minister in UK. Are you ready? The girl said, "Yes." This girl did all of this, but Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister in Britain. She got mad, went back to the dad. He was still alive then. Dad, God has failed me. And the father said, "What is it?" He said, "Mr. is now prime minister and I was praying that I will be the first female prime minister and the father said do you know whether my guitar was praying the same prayer you were praying she's older than you so it's turn by turn so he came to her turn God answered her prayer when it comes your turn to go to answer your prayer it's just that there was somebody that's older than you who had gone ahead of Eventually she became the prime minister when Israel when Britain needed to exit European Union and it was an essential thing to deliver that country otherwise it could have fallen in total disarray. The rest is for another day. But it it was her father at the age of eight that began to coach her and she became the prime minister of one of the most powerful nations in Europe, Britain. What of um the last chancellor of um of Germany? She's the Yes. Angela, she is the longest serving head of state of Germany. She could still have been there now if not that Obama deceived her. At age of 16, she met her father. I would like to be the first women chancellor lady chancellor of Germany. The father said, the first one, the father was a pastor. This lady to the father was a pastor. He said, "Well, God must be there. If God is on your side, you win. Two, you must follow the process. Join the junior party. And then try to learn about those who have gone ahead of you, their mistakes and their strengths. seek a way to have a good command of the language of the Germans. If you're going to be the number one citizen, you must be able to show you qualify for it. There'll be no shortcut. This girl listened to the father. And then she emerged after the convention of her party as the chancellor of Germany. ruled for four years. The father was there crying for joy. Contested again. Rule for another four years. The father was there crying for joy. Contested again for 3 years. That time the father passed on. It's like I've done my job, girl. It can go on. She contested again, ruled for four years, and nobody could beat her. her ways at were too too too clean. She was to contest for the fifth one when they began to pull her compromises through Obama. Obama came and deceived the European Union and she was the strongest voice and no opposition use it against her. She just stepped aside with that honor. But the church lost. But during the time she was there, she helped the church. She will make church leaders in Germany go to Israel on tour and government will pay. And three times in the year, there will be a session of the Congress and the church. And the church will tell them the mind of God and where they're not doing things right. Those ones ended after she left. Fathers, are you preparing your daughters to be heads of state, to be strong influences at the gates, or are you preparing them to be cooks in the kitchen of one man who will kick them out after 3 years? Young people, listen to your fathers and your mothers. They've been around for many years. They made mistakes. They have seen many who have made mistakes and they don't want their own child to make mistake. Listen to them. Then you will avoid the avoidable mistakes and then you can comfortably occupy a strong place of influence. And we want to stop here.