Leave comfort and find God | Apostle Michael Orokpo

What it would take a seeking heart. In Jeremiah 29:11, or verse 13 now, it said, "If you seek me, you will find me if you seek me with the whole of your heart." Something must happen to your heart for you to become a wonder to your generation. And when that thing happens, the sign is that you become a seeker. You don't rest.

The psalmist said, "As the deer panted after the waters, so my soul longeth after thee in a dry and in a thirsty land where no water is." A deer can stake its life to have a taste of water. Most of the waters they drink for are littered with crocodiles. They know for every sup they can die, but they cannot quench the taste until they service it in the brooks. And so a deer will walk into those rivers and drink that water. I'd rather drink it and die because I can't bear the taste. The taste is worse than death. That's what happens to a seeker. If he can't touch God, nothing makes sense to him.

And when God finds such men, God begins to heap dimensions on them because those ones qualify to represent him to their generation. Because when you leave here, you will not have any other opportunity of investing into eternity. And so God wrote the stories of the men that walked on earth to show you what makes men relevant. To show you what makes men eternally valued in the realms of God.

And so if we are seeking revival, our cry is for an awakening. That something will happen on our inside that will take rest from us until we become everything God has designed us to be because we have hated mediocrity as far as spiritual things are concerned. Before I journey into some of the keys for awakening, let me show you three or four men that walked on earth and then you will see how they lived their lives. The things they did in God. And then you can use that and do a personal evaluation of yourself. So that you will ask yourself some questions. If this is a man that God approved of and God used him as an example for a generation, can I stand where he's standing? If you cannot, then you have the opportunity of fine-tuning your living.

I will begin from the Old Testament. And the reason I do this most of the times is because these men didn't have the Holy Ghost. So the advantage we have, they never had it. But they did things in God that we can only imagine. In fact, the reason we believe them is because we don't want to doubt the Bible. The things they did with God without the Holy Ghost living on the inside. Some of us consider it to be history. In fact, we don't want to meditate on them because we can't imagine they are true. They didn't have eternal life, just as you and I have now. But if you check the height they entered with God, you will wonder whether the Holy Ghost and eternal life that is currently in you is a heap of sand, because you have not tapped into that economy at all. If men without the Holy Ghost and eternal life will live like this.

Take Moses for example. Moses rose up after having an encounter with God in Exodus chapter 3. The Bible said he went to Horeb, the backside of the mountains of Horeb. And there he saw a bush burning that was not consumed and he had a dialogue with God. And when he left there, Moses took his staff. And Moses was heading towards the strongest kingdom and civilization of his world. And he was not going there to look for visa. He was going there to address the king. And he was going there to change the law of the land. With a staff. And the only place he could enter, except for God, would have been foolishness, was Pharaoh's court. And when he came, he didn't even have the diplomacy of saluting Pharaoh. He said, "Let my people go." Are you all right? The economy of Egypt is built on the burdens that these people bring to the table. The reason we sleep and wake up, the reason our cattle are fed, the reason things are working is because these men have slaved for us for more than 300 years. And then you come here to say, "Let my people go." Are you okay?

If you stood before the parliament of Scotland and they say, "Preach for 10 minutes." What will you say? I know why you are in church, you can come and say, "If you don't repent, you will die." Can you say that in the parliament? When all the senators are looking at you like this. You, even the message God gave you, you will edit it. Because you know there are certain words that if you utter, you are in trouble. You will edit. You will edit. You will edit. You will say, "The Holy Ghost, I know you are saying this, but we have to apply wisdom." You will edit it. You will edit it. And you will make sure you read it carefully. And when you are reading it, you are reading it with respect and grace. But here was a man who stood up raw and rugged. And he entered Pharaoh's court and said, "The God of the Hebrew has sent me." And he said, "Let my people go that they may serve me." He knew that that statement can come with the price of death, but he didn't stop. These are the men that walked this earth. And it is this same God that you and I are worshipping and representing. Now, if Moses was able to represent this God before Pharaoh, not afraid of death, what we are doing now, is it representation of God or is it religion?

Their sandals grew with them, their clothes grew with them, and both their sandals and their clothes did not wear out. They now discovered again, Psalm 105:37. Wait a minute. I've been moving for 10 years. I've not had headache. What's happening? When I was in Egypt, I used to be sick every 3 months. Why am I so strong? The Bible said there was no feeble among their tribe. So, so long as they were moving, there was strength, there was stamina. So they didn't need a healing service. The only time sickness is permitted to attack them is when they rebel against God. They now discovered something that was more potent than antibiotics. They discovered something that was more potent than all of the drugs that we depend on here. That if you remain under God's presence and in God's will, you will be kept strong and healthy. So if you want to remain cured, stay in God's presence. If you rebel, sickness will come upon you. Because as they were moving, the Bible said day and night, Exodus 13:21 and 22, it said the glory of God was upon them, as a pillar of cloud in the day and as a pillar of fire at night. So every day they were walking under a canopy. And so even though the desert could be hot in the afternoon, they wouldn't feel it because there was a cloud on top of them. And when it gets night that it becomes very, very cold, you discover that the fire was warming them. So the pillar was acting both as direction and also as a covering. And so they lived for 40 years in the wilderness experiencing one wonder to another wonder. In fact, when they eventually rebelled against God and serpents came to attack them in Numbers 21:9, the Bible said Moses was not looking for herbs. If this happened that is biting you, he now built a brazen serpent and kept it. He said, "If you are bitten, look at it." So you will suffer biting until you repent, but you will not die. When you are bitten, look at the serpent. Now, how does looking at the serpent remove poison? That was when we discovered that although Moses was in the Old Testament, but Moses had had an encounter with the Christ. Because it was later that Jesus himself was teaching us that as the brazen serpent was lifted, he said, "So shall the Son of Man be lifted up." So, what Moses was giving to them in the wilderness was an encounter with the cross.

Now, this was Moses who lived many hundred years before Christ came. But there was a technology he found that he knew what to do for the people in the wilderness to see the cross. And so the same way we believe in the cross and we are saved, that's how they were looking at that cross and they were enjoying salvation. But you see, the kind of atmosphere Moses had was insult. Was threat. But under that intense atmosphere, he looked up to heaven again. What do we do? And God said, "Talk to the rock." The first question you ask yourself is, "When did rocks start hearing?" This is how they were living with God on everyday basis. Their life was a wonder. Talk to which rock? When did stones start hearing? I didn't read it anywhere. He said, "Talk to the rock." And the man showed up, spoke to the rock, and suddenly water came out. A second time they needed water. God said, "Talk to the rock." They were angry, they were provoking him. He was angry, struck the rock. Now he understands that anything he does the rock will respond. And he struck the rock and water came out. The water became bitter. And then he asked God, "These people are..." God said, "Okay, don't worry. Go and cut a wood, throw it into the water and it will become sweet." So, if a man was walking with God and by the second it was a dialogue. So, you have four best friends that you call and talk to. Moses' best friend was God.

We came here to represent God so that we can invest into eternity. What you will spend in eternity is not the finished works of Christ. The finished works of Christ is a ticket to God's realm. But it is your works of grace that will become what you will spend in eternity. And that's why you must press until grace crystallizes out of your vessel. But you see, the first way to access those corridors is by attending to the burdens of God. You may not be feeling anything in your heart. The ones you have seen, avail yourself. Begin to do something. There is a need in the house of God, you have little, give something. There's a depletion in a unit. Don't come and sit down and say it was a glorious service. Every glorious service you see, people labored behind the scene. My brother has been standing here since I started talking. You think he doesn't enjoy sitting? If he doesn't stand here, this means it will not be amplified. There are people standing in that glass room, maintaining volume, managing the quality of sound so that we can hear. I'm not saying everybody will go and stand, but there are different places, vacuums, where we can fit in. And as we identify those vacuums and begin to fit in, now those vacuums will now become the pores, the holes, the pathways through which grace will flow out, because the grace will be locked until you give it ventilation. And so, when a man begins to attend to burdens, those burdens become cracks. It is through those cracks that anointing flows. It is through those cracks that grace flows. But when you don't have body, there will be no crack on your soul through which the ventilations of eternity can find expression. And so, the first way to live a supernatural life is to attend to the burdens of God.

If you are a Christian without power, your Christianity is questionable. In Mark 16:20, it said, "They went out and the Lord was working with them, granting that signs and wonders be done by their hand." All of them manifested signs and wonders. All of them. I told you yesterday how that Philip, who was an usher, went to Samaria. He didn't say, "Oh, I'm sorry. Let me call my prophet." Because in our generation, if somebody is sick, you start hearing phone calls around 2:00 a.m. Apostle, Apostle, this person has headache. This person just died. They don't do that in the apostolic community. If you go to a place, you are the Jesus that they are seeing. And so, when Philip went to Samaria, he didn't say, "Wait, let me write a letter to Jerusalem." They brought the lame. They started walking. They demonized. Demons were cast out. And only Philip handled the city. Because he knows what Christianity is. If we don't come to that point where we tell ourselves, "I will not call myself a Christian until I can demonstrate power," we will walk this life as spiritual mediocrity. And it's in eternity that we will know that we wasted our time.

Something needs to happen to your heart to make you hate natural life. Because your default mode is not to live like a natural man. You know what Paul said? He said, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." He said, "Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." That means Christians are not natural men. We are spiritual men. We represent God in a generation. But when you find a man who lives by circumstances, luck, and chance, it means although he's born again, but he's still operating in the fallen realm. And so, for such people, something must happen to their heart to cause them to begin to seek dimensions of God. You will tell yourself, "Father, there is such a thing called the commonwealth of Israel. That means what you have is for everyone. I refuse to be without an inheritance. What is the dimension of the spirit you have allocated to me? Lord, I press for it." And when these things begin to happen, you will now begin to seek Him through the gateways of the spirit realm. And one of those gateways is prayer. Another is fasting. Another is waiting upon the Lord.

See, the reason Christians are barren is because they are not seekers. Moses was interacting with this God by the second. As he went to Pharaoh's court, God spoke to him. As he came out, God spoke to him. As he was moving, God told him, "Don't take left, take right. If you take left, you will meet warfare. They will come back." And he faced the sea, and God, "What do we do here now?" And he said, "Go forward. Stretch your rod." And when Moses stretched his rod, a sea parted and they crossed. Meanwhile, even to marry now, you have not heard God. There's no confusion, no. You have your time. But you have not been able to hear God. Whereas, somebody is being chased by an army and he walked to a sea and he was hearing God like a man talking to his friend. He parted the sea and they crossed. They came into the wilderness again. There was no water. And the people were troubling him. "You brought us out of Egypt. At least we had water to eat. We had food to eat." And they wanted to stone him. Under that intense pressure. I know here before we hear God, we need an atmosphere. They now came to him again and said, "We want food." Moses looked at them, "Are you mad? Where will you get food in the wilderness? Did you farm here? And even if we choose to farm, it will take 9 months before it germinates, before harvest. So, what do you mean?" Meanwhile, there was no meat anywhere. And they wouldn't let Moses rest. "When we were in Egypt, we were eating onions. We were eating garlic. You have brought us here to kill us." The guy was pained. In that pain, he turned to God. And God said, "Don't worry. Tell them to prepare themselves. By this time tomorrow, they will have food to eat until they are..." They can't keep it anymore. And when they slept and woke up, in all their fields, bread, baked bread, was falling on the ground. Pack as much as you want and eat. And they were packing bread and eating. When they wanted to store it, Moses said, "Don't. Don't save any amount of that bread because you want to doubt God. You will not work, but every day you have more than enough." Some people thought, "No, we won't believe this thing you are saying. Let's keep it in case it doesn't happen tomorrow." The guy had assurance in God. So much assurance. You don't need a savings account. That's what Moses told them. "Tomorrow's bread will come." And the people who went and stored the bread, the next day the bread decayed. And as they came into the field, they saw the bread again. They didn't know what it was. They now call it, "What is this?" But they were eating, "What is this?" It was later they discovered it was angels' bread. So, Moses caught something in God that Moses could take from the bank of heaven. What was taught for angels, he brought it for men to eat angels' bread. That was how Moses represented God.

When they ate manna, a point came they said, "We are tired of this manna. Is there no other thing? We need variety." Moses said, "Kai, now you have tempted God. This is evil. THIS IS WICKEDNESS." While he was yet lamenting, God said, "Don't worry. This time it was not the one that was seeking God." He said, "Don't worry. They said they want to eat meat. They will eat meat." And as Moses came and told them, "By this time tomorrow, before you know what was happening, God commanded the wind and he brought birds, quails, came and settled in their field. And when the whole field was covered, birds were resting on top of birds and on two beds formed a heap of beds. And they were eating that meat every day for 40 years. They were eating that manna every day for 40 years. And you think that meanwhile, our own Christianity here, because there's no food, you'll go and steal. Because there's no food, somebody goes online, becomes Yahoo Yahoo. And when you catch a Yahoo Yahoo boy, his name is Peter. You know what I'm saying? Do you know Peter? Do you know Peter? Peter is rock. It is upon Peter that spiritual things are built. You are Peter. Peter owns scam. And when you check, he was born in church. He has been in church. He has been to church for 20 years. Because while he was working there, he never met the God that they told him about. All he had were ideologies. There was no encounter with God. They ate bread. They ate meat in the wilderness. Until their If went abroad, all the nations became afraid because they heard what God was doing. Meanwhile, you need to bear in mind that these people are slaves. None of them had formal education. But God was doing wonders with people that should be misfits in society. It is those burdens that will make you seek God. That was why when Moses left Egypt, he was not crying, "I have lost my prince prince throne." No. He was seeking God. And I am sure Jethro told him because Jethro is one of the sons of Keturah. Because he came from the Midianites. And the Midianites are the sons of Keturah. So, they know the ways of God. Because the Bible said in Genesis chapter 18 verse 19 that, "I know Abraham my son, my servant, he will train his household in the ways of God." Abraham knew God so much that he took 318 servants and went to war and all of them worked wonders. So, they knew the ways of God. And so, I know that Jethro understood something about priesthood. It was Jethro that told Moses that look at that mountain, it's the mountain of God. That was where God appeared to your fathers. And if you seek God, you will find him there. And so, many times when Moses goes to grace, Moses will go to Horeb just in case God will appear. And on one of those occasions, the Bible said he saw a bush burning that was not consumed. And he said, "I will turn and see this great sight." The moment he turned, he heard God speak, "Take off thy sandals. Where you are standing is a holy ground." A man who has caught burden will graduate to become a seeker. And when you become a seeker, God opens virgin dimensions to you.

In Matthew chapter 7 from verse 7, he said, "Ask, you will receive. Seek, you will find. Knock, the door will be open." That is the life of a seeker. When he asks and answers are not coming, he will press further and probe. When it doesn't happen, he will knock until the door opens. But by all means, he will not go back until he sees something. He will not go back until he hears something. And so, a generation that wants to work wonders must have the stamina and the capacity to turn away from the distraction of the world and seek Him that dwells in the midst of the course of fire.

And so, when you come into God's presence, if you are somebody who wants to make progress in the spirit, what you do is to observe and find out the things that are lacking. You can come to church and begin with not physical things that are lacking. Maybe you discover the ushering department, they are lacking in number. You make yourself available. That is response to burdens. Maybe you come, you see that something is going wrong with a unit or so, you make yourself available. By the time you begin to fill up the things that are lacking, you will discover that God will begin to put burdens in your heart. It is from the place of burdens that spiritual stamina and spiritual ascension is achieved. And so, Moses was like every other prince in Egypt. One day, the Bible said he was strolling and he entered the camp of the Israelites and he saw the way they were tortured. When he saw the way they were tortured, he caught a burden. And he said, "When Moses was come of age, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than the pleasures of Egypt that was for a season." See, every time you start responding to a burden, you will give up a pleasure.

HOW CAN SOMEBODY BE BLIND and still see? Unless as you are operating from a superior dimension. And that's what Elijah caught in the Old Testament. "Before God whom I stand." And he said, "There shall be no rain." If he stopped there, it would have been better. Just in case the cloud becomes humid. Let's not say your words are falling to the ground. He said, "No dew except by my word." What do you mean? So, this guy knows how to lock heaven. That's what he's telling you. So, there are men that have grown in God that they can determine whether your agricultural produce will prosper. The government can plan, but they can't change the season. They have that level of power. Now, these are men that they didn't do all of these things to show they do all of these things to show you what it means to represent God and to walk with God. So that when you come later and say you are working with God, there will be parameters by which you'll be tested. That's why when Jesus sent out his believers, he didn't say, "Go and preach deep messages." He said, "These signs shall follow." Because the people who came before you, they were known by signs. They were known by wonders before God.

Who am I standing? We are too used to introducing ourselves as Christian and we take so much pride. You can fight to write Christianity on a document, but the question is, if they ask for a Christian, can you stand? I know you wrote Christianity on your document, but when they need a Christian to show up, can they depend on you as a Christian? So, Christianity is not about a title. It's actually about a reality, a manifestation, a dimension of heaven. "There shall be no rain or dew except by my word." By your word? Are you God? I'm not God, but I'm representing God. And the king thought it was a joke because we didn't see any reaction from the king. He would look at his ministers and say, "Where is this madman from?" Don't worry, you will know him later. Elijah didn't say anything, he left. Many years later, we discovered that the king was traveling from city to city, not for kingship talk. He was looking for Elijah. Because these things, messengers are no longer enough. King himself. A man came to my palace the other day and said something. Do you know his name? People now said, "Okay, there's somebody like that. There's one man that looks mad, but everything he says happens. His name is Elijah." So, the king started moving from city to city looking for Elijah. Now, our own generation, bishops go to see kings so that they can come out with envelopes. But in the days of Elijah, it's kings that look for bishops. Where is Elijah? Where is Elijah? Until Obadiah stumbled on him and said, "The king is seeking you. Please, I need you to see the king." He said, "I'm not going to see the king. Tell the king I'm here, let him come." And the king will have no choice because if you don't see him, the heaven will be locked.

One of the purposes of revival is to awaken men to the ordination so that when they live through time, they will live fulfilling scrolls and scripts that were written concerning them before the foundations of the world. May you not leave here not having found or touched what was written concerning you. You must tell yourself, "I know God didn't create me to depend on everybody all the time. There is something of God that I carry and you will not rest until it begins to manifest." Paul said, "Henceforth, know we no man after the flesh." So, when we come to church, we must find the dimension different people represent. We must know that there is somebody here that when she's singing, demons are cast out. There's an usher there that if he blesses you, in 2 weeks, a door will open for you. There's somebody there that when somebody is deaf and he prays, the deaf ear opens. There's another brother there that when he talks, people weep and repent. There must be a dimension attributed to you. That is when true Christianity begins from. We didn't come to fill the pew. We are not members of a church. We are citizens of a kingdom. And every one of us must carry a dimension that gives relevance to our participation. If you don't have that body, you will be shocked when you get to eternity because when you get to eternity and men are called, they will be called after their works. Salvation takes all of us there, but our ranking there is tied to our works. And our works are by the dimensions of God that we caught while we walk through time. If you ex-ray yourself this morning and you don't have any dimension, then it will be an error for you to sleep like everybody. When others who have caught something are manifesting, you go back to the presence of God and ask questions.

Moses found it. Even Samuel, when he came to Shiloh, he saw the corruption, the perversion, and the evil that they were doing. He had a burden. The Bible said, when they went to sleep after all the evil, Samuel remained in the temple. Not because he didn't have a house, but he saw that the altars of God were desecrated. They were violating the ordinances of God, and they were sleeping with the women. The young boy, he didn't have power to do anything, but he was grieved in his heart. And so, when they left, the Bible said in 1 Samuel 3 from verse 1, he said, "In those days, the voice of God was scarce. There were no open vision." And he said, "When the evening lamp went off, that was when Samuel went to the altar." That's where he slept. Maybe he was asking God, "Have mercy on your people. Don't leave Israel like this." While he was yet there, suddenly he heard a voice, "Samuel." He thought it was Eli. BECAUSE, LIKE I TOLD YOU, THESE MEN ARE NOT HYPER SPIRITUAL MEN. They only had burdens. Oh, this thing happening, how long will it continue? Samuel did not as much as know the voice of God, but he was the answer of Israel. AND WHILE HE WAS THERE, he heard, "Samuel." He went to Eli, "Master, I am here." He said, "I didn't call you." HE WENT BACK TO THE altar again. And while he was there, he heard, "Samuel." HE STILL WENT BACK TO ELI. HOW CAN GOD CALL YOU THREE TIMES AND YOU DIDN'T DECIDE? BECAUSE THE GUY was not spiritual, but he had a burden. And that burden was enough for God to encounter him. You know, you may think you will become spiritual like Enoch before God can use you. No. It takes walking with God to become that spiritual. What you need is just to have a burden. And your burden may be very simple. You may just have a simple burden for children. And that burden will make you pray every week just for 30 minutes. But when God checks, you'll be shocked that in the whole of Aberdeen, they may God may not have three people who have burdens for children. That's when you will know how depleted the ranks of the spirit are. The spirit realm is highly depleted. FORGET THE religion of men. When you enter the spirit, you will know that men are few. Sometimes in a whole generation, God finds one man. That's how depleted the realm is. Everybody is going about his business. The Bible say, "All we like sheep have gone astray." You will see people in church, you think they are interested in God. Only few, only few are. Only few. Most of the people came to use God like a knitting machine. And the moment God meets their need, they are gone. Only few wait behind to say, "Father, what do you want? What is the burden of your heart? What do you seek? What do you desire? It is for that alone that I will live." But those men are few.

And as if that was not enough, at another time 850 prophets both of Baal and of grove were manipulating the king and Elijah showed up again. I said, "You people, you don't want to rest. Since you don't want to rest, I will give you an option because I want to bring something else. If you will serve Baal, serve Baal. If you serve God, serve God because we this is not talk. This is manifestation." And he told them, "Since you people are so eloquent, let us go to the mountain tomorrow where everybody will see. Everybody should call upon his God if you have a God that is alive. He said, 'The God that answers by fire, that will be the God.'" And this context Elijah put is not that when it's over, you will come and say, "I'm sorry. It's a mistake." No. If your God does not answer, you will die. So, Elijah believed his God to a point where he could stake his life. And when they went to that mountain, he gave them the first choice. So, that it doesn't happen with him and they say, "No, it's forest. It's park in this weather." No. Do first. And the people labored from morning to evening. Elijah was even making fun of them. First Kings 18:20-40. "Where is your God? Did he travel?" No. I think what we should be doing at that time is praying. "Father, please don't disappoint me today. Lead Lord, anywhere you are, please you must answer today. Father, have mercy." The guy was too confident. It's like going for a miracle service and just in a having fun because you know God must answer. So, when you pray, it's not out of fear, it's out of intimacy. And the guy showed up. He mocked them. He said, "These people were wailing." Because it's not a joke. They know that if their God does not answer, they will all die. So, they were wailing. At some point, they were cutting themselves and blood was coming out. And Elijah was there laughing. When they couldn't do it, this man knows something about heaven. Because in the spirit, there is a time when earth and heaven becomes one. They know it from Eden. The Bible said, "In the cool of the day, the voice of God came walking in the garden." They know that there is the clock of heaven and the clock of earth, there is a point of resonance. That moment is called the cool of the day. The word is ruach yam. And everybody who is spiritual knows those timings because even your spirit will align at that time. For those of you here who are spiritual, you know when you align with that clock. There are some of you when if it's evening, your spirit begins to hear songs. Songs. Because when that thing happens, your spirit will resonate. For some of you, it's the early hours of the morning. That's when you align with the heavenly clock. Elijah knew it because he was connected to heaven. And the Bible said, "When it was time for the evening sacrifice." So, they thought Elijah was mocking them. He wasn't. He was actually following a pattern. He was using spiritual intelligence to guide the moment to the hour of the spirit. And when it was the evening sacrifice, he put 12 stones representing the 12 tribes of Israel. When he knew that he had gotten the alignment correctly, he went back to form. He said, "Pour water there." We know that fire water resists fire. So, pour water. And the people, because they know that they were about to die, they brought drums of water and poured until it overflowed. When the time was right, he stood up like a patriarch. And he began to invoke on the jealousy of God. To prove himself so that these people will know that he's God. He wasn't even praying, "Lord, if you can't answer." That's not the prayer. "Show yourself strong." And when he was talking, the Bible said fire descended and licked the whole altar. Immediately they slaughtered all the prophets of Baal, all of them. They went because the contest was a life and death contest. That's how they prove God in the era. You know our generation, you can come and lie and when they catch you, say, "I'm sorry. Please forgive me." In those days, they slaughter you. He said, "If a prophet speaks and it does not come to pass, he has not spoken by the law." You know what they do? They stone him to death. So, they knew what it meant to represent God. And because they knew this, if they show up, God shows up. Many wonders they did to show you. So that when you come and you say you are following God, you cannot follow God without signs.

I wish I had time to tell you about my journey. You will now know why although a man is young, but he can talk to elders. Because when you touch a realm in God, that realm is older than your generation. And so a David of 14 years can be the salvation of Israel. Although there are many warriors who fought from the days of their youth. Because what he touched is where the covenants are kept. When he confronted Goliath, he didn't come with armor. Everybody was operating by skill and armor. In fact, Saul gave him his armor. He said, "No, these are not the weapons I fight with. I have different weapons." And when he showed up, he came by the powers of the covenant. You know what that means? It means David left his generation and went to the era of Abraham. He left somewhere and went to Genesis chapter 12. He began to live from when Abraham encountered God because he was living from the realms of the covenant. And so David was as old as the covenant of Israel. How can Goliath fight him? And so, when David was speaking, he was speaking as an ancient. And that was why David knew a secret that nobody knew in his generation. When they were fighting, they were fighting with bows and arrows. Those were the things they learned from Egypt and Babylon. But when David showed up, he picked five stones. And it represents grace. So, there was something in the spirit that he knew that nobody knew in his era. Is it not David that was praying and said, "Take not thy spirit from within me?" So, David knows things that are old and he knows things that are in the future. So, when David is standing, it's many dispensations you are fighting with. Goliath thought he was a giant. He didn't know that David represented dispensations. He came with both the Old and the New Testament. And so, when he spoke, eras were fighting with Goliath. Anything he does, he will kill him. He just decided to use stone. If David blew air, Goliath would fall. Because when David was talking, he was talking from an era older than Goliath. And he was also talking from the future. So, by all means, Goliath was disadvantaged.

The men of wonders, they are burden bearers. They are seekers. And seeking for them is not talking. They start their seeking by prayer. I'm telling you why we are powerless, although highly religious. But you see, religion does not equate spirituality. A man who is truly spiritual, you will know him by the depth of his seeking. And when you check all of these patriarchs that I have mentioned, you will see how long they sought God and remained there. Moses took 40 years of seeking. He never changed his mind. I was studying the book of Ezekiel, and I was marveled. This guy encountered God and God told him, "Lie on your right side for 390 days." And the man laid on his right side for 390 days because he was interceding for Israel. He was seeking something in God that was not common. And God said, "When you finish, turn to your left side and lie for 40 days." So, one man laid down for 430 days so that the purposes of God can find expression. And when he finished, he became a wonder. It was from that moment that you will hear Ezekiel will tell you, "And the spirit of God took me by the lock of my hair." So, Ezekiel immediately entered a realm of spiritual translocation because of what happened. He will be lying down and his spirit will leave him and be strolling in town. So, you can meet Ezekiel in town and assume you have met him, he's at home. The one you met is his spirit. Ezekiel began to operate as a double. It was on one occasion like that he said, "The spirit of God carried me to a valley of dry bones." And he said, "The bones were really dry." Ezekiel 37. And he said, "The Lord asked me, 'Mortal man, can these bones live?'" He has started entering adventures in God. See, wonders are sought and those who seek them will find them. "Can these bones live?" He said, "Only thou knowest." And he said, "Command the bones." How can you be talking to dry bones? And the bones became an army because a man of wonder had emerged. He said, "Widows, ordinary women received their dead back to life."

In Acts chapter 10, there's a man called Cornelius. He was not even qualified to be born again. But the Bible said, "Prayers and incense, good alms, kept rising from his altar every day." Alms giving and prayer until a point came, heaven couldn't hold back and an angel was sent to him. When the angel came, because the angel couldn't win him to the kingdom, he said, "Go and invite Peter. Let him come and tell you the word of this life." So, a man through prayer can force his way into dimensions. Some of you, what will happen to you is that when you leave this meeting, you will start a fast. You will just notice that it will look like a sin to eat. When I started servicing bodies and praying, there was a period of my life where for 5 years, I was fasting. Morning to evening. Morning to evening. Some days I will go 2 days, 3 days. I was fasting. If there were days I didn't eat, they were few. Not because I had discipline or desire to fast, but I sat on a burden until the burden turned me to a seeker. And it became difficult, so difficult. And there were many things I found in God in those seasons. Some of you will leave here. And see, I share this thing. There are many people who heard me. I just came from Glasgow. The woman heard the message and she went on fasting for 120 days. The husband had to stop her. And what? The moment the husband stopped her, the spirit fell on him. And he went for 90 days. As we are talking, he's still fasting. Because this thing is a spirit. And when this spirit galvanizes you, what will come out of you will not be what you read in the university. It will be what was given to you from heaven. Because every one of us standing here, there is something given to you from heaven. Men can't take it. And when that thing manifests, your generation must celebrate you. AND OVER AND ABOVE your generation, that thing will also give you a place in eternity. That when you return to eternity, you will sit on a throne because you found that thing that was given to you from heaven. And so, when you see all of the things I shared with you about Moses, about Elijah, about all of these men, it was from the place of prayer. You will hear that they cried to God. And God will speak. They cried to God and God will speak.

But you see, what the devil knows and what the devil does is that he has betrayed you in the spirit. He knows that your dimension is big. These beings can read your star. When Jesus was 8 days old, they already saw that he was a king bigger than Herod. And wise men traveled from the east. They said, "We saw the star of this king. We have come to honor him." He had not been introduced anywhere. He was still an infant. How do you know he's a king? And you didn't just know he's a king. You know he's a king of kings. So, you quickly came with gifts. Does it not shock you that the first people who recognized Jesus were not prophets? They were astrologers. Men of darkness. And they brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh. All of those things represent different things in Christ. How did they know? You are the one who thinks you are strolling, nobody knows you. You are more popular in the spirit than you are in the natural. The problem is that maybe you are popular in the demonic realm. And they have seen you. They know that this voice, if she finds herself, she can bring down the foundation of Portland. So, what we will do is that we will make sure she never discovers herself. And so, if they need to frustrate you with sickness, if they need to frustrate you with joblessness, or if they need to frustrate you with abundance, they can do it. So, both blessings and curses can become a body. Because when the devil knows that you have enough faith for sickness not to attack you, he will give you money. Because it's not everybody the devil attacks with sickness. There are some people who have faith against sickness. So, he knows he will waste his time. So, what he will do is that he will give them a big job that brings big money. So, you will find them working from Sunday to Sunday. Because every hour they earn 1,000 pounds. So, they count hour in terms of pounds. And because of that, staying with God for 2 hours will be a waste of money. So, what they will do is that they will carry seed and give a prophet and say, "Man of God, I honor your grace." And man of God, too, because in this money he will say, "The Lord bless you." "The Lord keep you." "You will not go down." You better go down because your future is dying. Because they are setting heights that is not God. Any height you get to that stops you from seeking God is not God. You say, "I wish above all things that thou mightest prosper and be held even as your soul." God will not want you to prosper more than you know him. And so there are many people that the devil attacks with sickness. There are others he attacks with wealth. And that wealth will make them never to know God. But you see, whether wealth or hardship, Paul said, "I have learned how to abound and to abase." So there's nothing that can take me from God. So if you are in abundance, you will turn that abundance to Eden. Right there where you are, there will be priesthood because you know that connecting to God is what will make you an answer to your generation. You came here to reveal God. And there's nothing wrong in speaking good English. There's nothing wrong in having a British accent. But in addition to that accent, make sure there's power. Cuz the reason we came is for power. But you see, we deliberately systematize powerlessness because we don't want to press for power. So we make powerlessness a norm so that those who cannot enter power, if they fit into that norm, it's okay. When I read the Bible, these are the things I'm searching. I want to check why a man can become so mighty with God. That God wants to write message to men. And the best way God will communicate it is to use the life of that.

man. And so everybody you see captured in scripture, it was the Holy Ghost that give those utterances. But the Holy Ghost used the life of other men as an example for people. In fact, Romans 15:4, the Bible said, "The things that were written aforetime it said they were written for our learning. That we through patience and comfort of the scripture might have the things."

Romans 15:4, the things that were written of all time is that they were written for our learning. They were written so God used other men as a syllabus of teaching us. Imagine if your own life were to be captured in scripture. What would they write? Imagine if God wants to extend the volumes of scripture and say let's use your life as a message for the next generation. What part of it would they write? That would become a syllabus for people to read and know God.

Because when Paul was talking in 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 13 he said until I come he said give attendance to reading to exhortation and to doctrine. He said give thyself wholly to these things in verse 15 and 16 that your profiting may be made manifest to all. So you are reading the story of another man and your life is making progress because trapped in his walk on earth are principles. Trapped in his walk on earth are graces. Trapped in his walk on earth are encounters. Trapped in his walk on earth are dimensions.

And so as you are just reading it you are not only learning that you are reading how somebody else walked with God it will open the gate of an encounter for you. That somebody can just be reading Moses and as he's reading the life of Moses heavens open and because he's reading about Moses he will have an encounter with heaven. That somebody can be reading about David and as he's just reading reading reading the encounters of David appears to him. So the life of this man is not only a textbook for teaching us the ways of God the life of this man is a portal to dimensions in God.

When Jeremiah turned to the Lord and God showed up he didn't tell him I'm giving you anything new. He said before you were formed in your mother's womb I knew you. I I you and I sanctified you to be a prophet. I don't know what God said about you. But I want you to know that he said, "Even the hair on your head is numbered." If he was careful enough to number your hair, is it your destiny that he didn't make provision for? I know the thoughts I think towards you. They are thoughts of good and not of evil to give you a hope and a future. Another translation said to give you an expected end. May you not leave this world until you meet that expectation.

Can I pray for you? I don't know what happened to your heart this morning. But some of these things I've shared with you were administrations of the spirit that came to me many years ago, and I told myself, "I refuse to be counted among ordinary men." These were the things that the Lord ministered to me, and I told myself, "If I will live an ordinary life, there's no point living another day. I'd rather die and go back to heaven than waste my time." Something of God must be known with me. And as I started pressing, different dimensions began to open.

There was a time in my life when I noticed that my tongue had been touched. And so when I talk, the heart of men as are pierced. People hear me. Some people hear me, and they shut down life completely. I They have to I meet them and advise them, "No, don't shut down. It's little by little. It's a marathon." Both young and old. A boy who was studying medicine heard me 4 years ago, and he gathered his things and left school. He said, "I'm wasting my life here. I want to burn for God." He left Ilorin and traveled to Benue. I told him, "No, go back. God needs your certificate. Finish school first. It's a lifetime journey."

Somebody heard me in Texas, and something hit him. As he was hearing the message, he was weeping. And when he left that message, he went on a fast. On the 44th day of the fast, he was traveling and he went to the airport. When they told him to pass through the scanning machine, he passed. They said, "Come back. Who are you?" Search him. They searched him. When they finished, they said, "Pass." When he passed, they said, "Come back. What are you carrying?" He said, "What am I carrying? You have removed every metal. What are you looking for?" The man was so startled. He now told him, "Come and stand." When he stood in the scanning machine, he said, "Look." And when the guy looked at the screen, he saw flames of fire. Something had entered him. He was burning. The machine could read it. Are you aware of that testimony? Who Who did he call? Before This was the man he called before they even got to me. They saw flames of fire burning on the screen. Because the man had exploded in God. Everywhere he enters, if he stands like this, people will fall down. And I'm not talking emotional falling. As they fall, they're having encounters. Something had erupted on his inside. That thing was there before he was born. But it would never have manifested except as he began to seek God.

If what God put in you manifest, the world will wonder at you. It said, "You were carefully and wonderfully made." If we don't see the wonder dimension of you, you didn't come. Can we pray for 1 minute? This is not a shouting prayer. This is a prayer deep from your heart. Oh God, do something to me. May I not remain natural. And you know the worst part? You can be natural and carry a huge title. I hate the natural life. Can you ask the Lord this morning, "Do something to me. Make me a seeker. Cause me to run after you."

The philosopher said, "Kiss me with the kisses of of thy mouth." He said, "Thy love is sweeter than wine." He said, "Because of the savoring nature of thy name." He said, "Thy name is poured forth like an ointment." He said, "So, the virgins love you."