How to restore anything that has been lost in your life | Apostle Michael Orokpo

So when we are talking restoration, we don't just need restoration for men. We need restoration for generations. Look at this generation, full of knowledge, no power because of arrogance. We know all the mysteries in the world, no power because there is a force that puffs the mind, and everybody thinks they've arrived. Whereas, what our fathers did 30 years ago, we've not scratched it, but we think we have arrived because there is a territorial influence and there's a transgenerational influence. So we need restoration not just for individuals, but for generations. And our generation is in urgent need of restoration. This is why I want to teach you tonight on the forces that provoke restoration.

See, the intervention of God, the help of God, rather, has three operations. There is restoration, there is intervention, and there is preservation. Every time God helps a man, one of these three must happen. Restoration is to give you back what you have lost. Intervention is to stop you from losing something while you are yet going through it. Why preservation is to prevent you from entering it in the first place.

So there are those that the devil has already bastardized. So when God shows up, the years that are eating up, God will have to restore because those ones don't even have anything again. Everything is already lost. But in in the in the omni-benevolence of God, He has a technology of returning to you what you have lost, although you no longer qualify to have it. That's how God works. It's a system of His mercy.

There are many people who have a calling, but they have lost every grace on their lives. They have lost every door, they have lost every opportunity because they bastardized it. God allowed them to pastor a church for 2 years, they have slept with 20 people. So it's a risk to have them now. They have repented, genuine, they are on fire, but nobody is giving them church again because they have lost it. They have destroyed too many destinies and they've brought reproach to the name of Jesus. But there is something in the mercy of God that although according to the system of justice, they no longer qualify to answer the call, but the mercy of God will say, "No, give them another chance." How will God do it? It's a system called restoration. And so now that they are converted, God can create another opportunity.

There are many people who God gave them many business opportunities, they blew all of them up. All the money they had, they blew up. Today they are in Bahamas, tomorrow they are in Beirut, next tomorrow they are in beds, they are looking for different kinds of women for pleasure, and they wasted and run-down companies that God gave them. 15 years after, mighty, mighty life, they are now beggars. And you look at such people, you are wondering, they have all the business intelligence, but they've blown all their opportunities. How else can God help such people except as there is a technology in His mercy that will bring to them what they have lost? That technology is what we call restoration.

Do you know there are many people now who because of careless life have terminal diseases, from HIVs to all kinds of terminal diseases? Because they never heard the voice of reason. Campus from 100 level, they've slept with 20 people. Now they have found purpose, now they want to do something that affects their generation. They know, but there's no life anymore. They already have three months to live, years to live. I have found purpose, but I have destroyed my body. What will happen to such a person? There is a system of mercy, God's restoration. So what God will do is, if He needs a new kidney, it will be imported from Heaven. If He needs a new blood, the whole blood can be revamped for that type of intervention. Whether it is healing or open door, whatever it's called, restoration, because he has lost everything. But God can bring him back as if nothing ever happened.

The mysteries of God that makes the programs of God unknowable until He reveals it to you. This is an advantage to us. So when we talk darkness, don't get confused. You might read your Bible, you go to First Samuel, you go to First Kings, and you start hearing that God dwells in darkness, and you are wondering, does God have business with the devil? That order of darkness speaks of the mysteries of God. But the darkness I'm talking about here tonight is the devil and his government. You need to understand that there are forces you will require to counter his operation so that everything stolen from you can be restored. Because these beings are organized, make no mistake about it. Many Christians undermine the devil and his operation, that's why they have problems. Paul said, "Don't be ignorant of the devices of the enemy." This is not an attempt to exalt him, but this is to fortify you with knowledge so that you have an advantage. If you undermine him, you'll be shocked what is capable of in your life. Darkness is well-structured. This is why the believer must be fortified with spiritual weapons to overcome darkness. Are you following this?

When you are dealing with darkness, there are two principal things you will find. Number one is that darkness is separated into ranks. Not every demonic being or not every demonic operation is at the same energy level. There are darknesses that operate only at the frequency and the jurisdiction of individuals. They don't have the clearance to operate beyond individuals. The Bible speaking in Matthew 12:43 and 44, he said, "When an evil spirit is gone out of a man, it goes about in dry places looking for where it will inhabit." It says, "If he doesn't find any." He didn't say he goes and enters a territory. He doesn't have that jurisdiction. There are spirits that control territories, but there are spirits that their jurisdiction is only in men. So if they can't find men, they are stranded. All they will be left with is dry places of torment. So what they would do is that they will have to return to that man because of necessity, they must be in a location. And so as they return to that man, he said, "If that man is clean but not filled." He said, "That spirit will bring seven other wicked demons." What do you mean by clean? He has encountered Jesus, he has received Christ, he is born again, but he has not been fortified with knowledge. You know what Jesus said? He said, "That spirit will come with seven more wicked demons, and what he will do to that man will be worse than the state he was before he ever met Jesus." How can a man encounter Jesus, demons are cast out of him, he receives life, and you say his state becomes worse? Because darkness has the power to jeopardize your existence. Ah, it's a body. Let me list it so that somebody will go and study. You do your own study. I've talked three.

The third thing God showed me while He was ministering is the protocol of the transfiguration of man. He said it begins from mortification, where the flesh, the power of the flesh is mortified, so you live above sin. Then it goes into quickening, where your body begins to function actually as the temple of the Holy Ghost because God can move through this body, this your body, the way the anointing moves and you feel it. A time will come when it will become like your natural operations, and you can activate it by faith anytime, any day. That is the conduit through which the life within you can flow. When you master how to make the body the temple of the Holy Ghost, you have mortified the flesh. You know Romans 8:13 speaks about mortifying the flesh. Romans 8:11 talks about the quickening of the body. So the flesh is mortified, the mortal body is quickened. When the mortal body is quickened, then you go into transformation, where the mind is renewed, and then you proceed into transfiguration. In transfiguration, the glory begins to show up on your body, the way Moses came down from Sinai and his face began to shine. And after glorification, then you enter into the fullness of immortality, where you are not just living forever, but you live without corruption. That's the realm Jesus operated in, and it's a dimension for man.

You see why we don't need to waste our time in church doing things that are secular? There are things that our generation needs to touch. The fathers have tried, but the mileage we need to cover is still much. Imagine if a man understands the technology of transfiguration. How can cancer live here? You can change the molecular structure. That means you can enter your room, you know what to do in prayer, and the cancer cells can change. It's a technology. You can alter molecular structures, and places where cancer has afflicted will change, not because you receive healing, but because you know a technology in the corridor of the transfiguration of man. Why do you think people like Jesus were never sick? You can't touch. Every cell is transfigured. That's the goal of His prototype. He said, "As He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, His raiment, even the cloth He wore began to shine because the weight and the fence of the glory was so much that the material, the fabric too, began to be transfigured." And we are here fighting one another when there is so much to learn in the spirit. The church has been on Earth for more than 2,000 years, we are still infants. The things of the spirit, we have not learned it. And there are men who cannot host these dimensions. All we have is organized service. It's a body. It's a body.

There is a journey in the spirit. Make up your mind to serve God and to seek Him. The Bible said, "They that journey to the deep, they are the ones that see the wonders of God." There are wonders made available for humanity, but where are those who can journey the journeys of the spirit that you can walk with Elohim in the secret parts of the spirit? That's where David found Him. He found Him so deep that he said, "Even in the presence of my enemies, my cup runs over." If I stand here, you may think I'm here, I'm in the spirit. That's what Elijah found. He said, "A standing in the presence of God while he was in the palace." That means when men walk, they carry dimensions with them. They carry heaven with them. They carry the places that they have visited in Christ. It follows them as a covering. When he said, "The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run in and are safe." That's the realms of Christ that men carry with them. See the weight that one man brought into a service, he changed my message all of a sudden because that realm is a government. It will change everything that is lower than it in ranking in the spirit. So you can't be talking restoration when there are realms of transfiguration, when there are realms of glorification. So he brought us to a higher plane by singing a song. He didn't teach, he just worshiped. But that worship, because of his intimacy with God, it became a gangway to Zion. And as you follow him, you will discover that you have ascended to the high quarters of the spirit where immortals convert. Your service moves from a beauty, it becomes an enclave of spirit. Be this church, brothers and sisters, and this is the new era. That is why it has become a church without war. The glory is not the size of the auditorium, it's the height where we converge. Which is, don't have beauty, but they meet in deep places in the spirit. And for you to even attend your meeting, you must understand the technology of removing this garment. This is what Paul spoke about. He said, "I groan in the spirit that I might be clothed with the heavenly tabernacle." So Paul knew there was a technology through priesthood to remove the garment. And we, the celestial dimension, why you are yet on Earth, not when the rapture takes place. Who taught him those realms? This is why a generation must cry because we have heritages in the spirit that we have not scratched. There are dimensions in Christ that we have not touched. Our arrogance has kept us in time, and we think we have arrived.

So when a spirit that is immortal whispers to you, you'll discover that your age is a waste because you have not touched the things that are immortal. It's a dimension in God. But that's not all. There is intervention. There are some people who are about to fall. Everything has been put in motion, and God steps in. I told a story some years ago, a brother lost his fire. After a while, started watching pornography. After a while, started chatting women on Facebook. And he encountered and made some friends, and they had arranged a meeting, and everything. He was alone, and the lady came to visit. They had talked, and they were ready to get into intimacy. Suddenly, God moved a friend from another state to come to his state. Even the friend didn't know why he came. And that very hour, where iniquity had been planned out, lo and behold, there was a knock on the door. "I've kept looking for your house since yesterday. I just found your house now." And the guy entered. Whether this brother will be happy to see his friend that he has not seen for long, or to be angry because he has messed him up, he didn't know. And the brother sat down, he's going nowhere. He brought guests from primary school, guests from secondary school, guests, and they kept chatting until the energy for immorality died. After a while, the brother now entered stories of revival, and they started talking about Francis Hunter, they started talking about Smith Wigglesworth, they started talking about John Knox. Suddenly, this guy whose core had died, his fire had died, the embers began to rise again. The embers began to rise again. After a while, the brother broke down and began to cry. Even the host that came broke down and began to cry. You know what? Both of them had callings, and the devil wanted to cement their grave so that they will never fulfill that calling. But God sent intervention, and a brother drove him from another country, from another state, just to see them. When he saw them, he left. His assignment was over. He called intervention. It is God's system of helping His people.

And there's a system of preservation. Before he comes, God changes your path. That's the one I prefer. There's no life is not enough to make too many mistakes. I don't want to learn by experience. I want to learn from others. I want to learn from the world. I want to learn from the Holy Ghost. So before I enter, a force will push you away, not because you are strong, but because there is a system of preservation. So before you make the mistake, something will happen that will put you in the right path. It says, "If you are going in the wrong direction, you will hear a voice behind you telling you to turn, this is the way to go." So that you don't make mistakes. And so we will study restoration, we will study intervention, and we will study preservation. We have looked at the protocol of restoration. Now let me show you the forces that sponsor restoration. I'm showing you this so that you'll be encouraged. No matter where you are, God can still do something glorious through your life. No matter, no matter how far you have gone from God, there is still hope for you. You know what the Bible said? He said, "There's a hope for a tree that is cut off. It said, at the scent of water, it will sprout again." Even a tree that is cut off has hope. So I'm telling you now, whether bodily you have been damaged, opportunity-wise you have shut every door, there is something called restoration, and there are forces that sponsor it. If you know these forces and you lay hold on them, your life will bounce back. Even you, it will surprise you. How come I am where I am? See, most people who are making impact, they are not there because they qualify. I'm one of those people. We don't qualify. Restoration found us. God found us, brought us back, and began to use us to help others. Some of you is favor, some of you is wisdom, some of you is intelligence, some of you is strategy, some of you is open door. Don't keep quiet. What's the code of your anointing? I know my own. I live a fasted life. I pray like I breathe. Every day, worship is flowing in my chambers. I can't sing well, but I know there are people who sing well. If you open my phone, there are songs that belong to Prosper, there are songs that belong to D, there are songs that belong to Ope, there are songs that belong to Victor, there are songs that belong to Nat. As it's playing, as it's playing, sometimes my soul will pierce into the heavens, and the oil will start moving. I'll be on the bed, my stomach will be vibrating, it will be vibrating, it will be vibrating. And when I go out, the healing anointing will start flowing. How did it happen? There is a code, there is a key, there's an access. See, stay your oil, stay it, stay it. You know the problem with the foolish virgins? They didn't stay the oil, so they didn't have enough. Carry enough oil. It will deliver you from all the afflictions of life. It will open doors to bring restoration to you. Until I prophesy over you, everything required to stay your anointing, receive the anointing to access them. Now I decree over you, everything to stay your anointing, receive the grace to stay.

Now the Holy Ghost for a minute. You are not disadvantaged. You are not deficient. In Acts 10:38, the Bible said, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power." In Acts 1:2, concerning you and I and the apostles, it said, "Not many days from now, you too shall be anointed with the Holy Ghost and power." The same function that God put on Jesus is what He puts on you. Can I shock you? The Bible said in John 3:34 that God gave Jesus the Spirit without measure. In John 1:16, concerning you, it says, "Of His fullness, until the time that His word has come, your word has not come." That's why you have not seen restoration. But if you understand how this thing works, waiting will become part of your life. This is why the early church, they had such a thing, they called quiet time. They knew the technology. So every time of the day, they take 30 minutes, they take 1 hour, not prayer, to stay still before God. He said to Moses, "Be still, and you will see the salvation of God." So they stay still. You are a businessman, wait. All the strategies are not in the principles of economics. You are a pastor, wait. Your next level is tied to that whisper.

The first way God provokes restoration is by the Rema word. How much Rema word do you have? Hope you know when you have a Rema word, you can run with it for a lifetime. One of the Rema words God gave me many years ago is, "Because I live, you will see tomorrow." That's why some of us don't pray for death anymore, for life to be saved from death. I don't know how to pray those prayers. God told me, "Because I live, you will see tomorrow." I have caught it. I am living it. Because this is not Bible I'm quoting, this is a word sent to me. Because I live. The other day, we were in Zambia, and we were just talking the things of God amongst ourselves. I entered the room just to do something and come out. Pastor Goin and the rest were outside. As I was coming at the door, I heard, "No disease." Wow. No disease. That means the era to rule over sickness has come. It's a word. It has come to you. You can quote 10,000 Bible verses that you have memorized, that is good, but the real power is in the one sent to you. Because every time you speak it, the integrity of God is brought to bear. It's the one who said it, and because He said it, He will watch it to accomplish it. He will watch it. This is how the children of Israel won their battles. You told our fathers, see, they knew it so much that even the one He told their fathers, they inherited. He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from all their destructions. When God wants to bring restoration to your life, He sends His word. You know the whole universe was created by the word of God. The Bible said He sustains all things by the word of His power. So there's nothing in creation that can defy the word of God. So no matter the condition you are in, every time God wants to help you or change your story, He sends the word. Because intrinsic in the word is the power to combat darkness. He said, "In the beginning was the Word, John 1:1-4, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was with God in the beginning. All things were made by Him. Without Him was not anything made that was made." He's first of all showing you the authority of the word. This is why the word has power to create change. All things were made by Him. Without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life. He's also showing you again that everything animated is animated by the Word. The life that sustains creation came from the Word, and the life particularly for men now is the light of men. So men can only have an advantage when the word comes to them. The light that your destiny requires is not this bulb, it's the light that comes from the word of God. And this is why many never enjoy the fullness of God. He said, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." So when a man does not have the scent word, he will be confused. When a man does not have the scent word, he cannot make advantage in life. But whatever circumstance you are in, the moment the word comes, the power to create changes in the world. You don't need to do anything. Your job is to receive it and believe it. You will be shocked that that word you receive will go to work. Because the word is the one that combats darkness. He said, "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not." Look at the story of Joseph. He was in prison. Every help he knew how to take advantage of, he had applied. No one walked. And in Psalm 105:17, the Bible said, "Until the time that His word came, the restoration of a man is tied to the time that His word came." And he said, "And the word of the Lord tried him." It said, "The king sent for to lose him, even the ruler of the people. He gave, he made him Lord of his substance and ruler of his household, to bind his princes at his pleasure, to teach his senators wisdom." What does a prisoner have to do with living and ruling among kings? Word has come.

Touching the anointing, there are two things every believer carries. An anointing. So there's an anointing on your life. If you want restoration, you must stir that anointing. So the anointing upon you, you activate it by stirring it. That's why you pray, that's why you worship. When the anointing becomes activated, there's something the anointing does. But you see, many people carrying anointings. You know the anointing is like oil, it's congealed. So they have an anointing that emits favor, favor that can cause kings to seek them. But the anointing is congealed, so they cannot receive restoration because the oil is not flowing. You know what Esther said? There was an anointing on her life called favor, but she knew that anointing doesn't just flow. In Esther 4:16, he said, "Let us fast for 3 days. When we are done fasting, I will go to the king, although it's unlawful to go see the king at this time. But when this oil is stirred, and it is possible, and after 3 days fasting, she went into the court of the king." And the moment the king saw her, he saw the oil before he saw her. He said, "He found favor in her." And the king called her and said, "What do you want? Tell me, I will do it." Before she answered, the king said, "Even if it's half of my kingdom." So you know that guy is not just talking, that guy is under his spell. There's a power commanding what he's saying because no king can ask you what do you want before you have answered. He now went further to say, "Even if it's so." So the guy was willing to share his throne because he perceived favor on the lady's life. Now, what will happen if that lady is carrying that perfume every day because she's stirring it? What will happen if Esther began to live a fasted life? That means if she goes to the market, everybody will have their goals and say, "Take half." Everything she touches, she will possess because the oil was there. The problem was that she stirred it when she had need. But when you become mature, you don't wait for a problem to stir the anointing. When you wake up in the morning, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me lie down beside the pastor. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restored my soul. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me." You are stirred. That's how Jesus lived. In Mark 1:35, the Bible said, "Early in the morning, in great while, he said, Jesus went to a solitary place and prayed." So Jesus does not enter the market from His bedroom, He enters from the mountain. So anything that confronts Him, He's already stirred. He's already stirred. So a day came, they now discovered that this man has overflowing oil. So people started scrambling to touch Him, started scrambling. And in Luke 6:19, the Bible said, "Everyone that touched Him, virtue left Him and healed them all." See, don't allow your anointing be on your head, allow it to flow. Cause it to flow. It's the flowing anointing that produces results. But for the anointing to flow, it must be stirred. For some of you, it's worship. For some of us, it's fasting and prayer. For some of you, it's giving. Find the code of your anointing and keep engaging it. It will sponsor what you cannot have. When the Bible says, "Gentiles will come to your light," it's talking about the oil you carry. Kings will come to the brightness of your rising. Why are we celebrating Prosper today? It's not because he's the most handsome man in Nigeria, but there's an oil that makes him stand out. So even if you don't love him, you will wake up in your house and start singing, "Out of my belly shall flow rivers." He has made himself a household name. And somebody can hear that song and say, "Kai, take 100,000." Another person hears that song and says, "Kai, take 50,000." He didn't ask them for money, but the oil is a spare. The oil can manipulate, the oil can condition, the oil can compare. Because encapsulated in the anointing is a power called a covenant. You told our fathers that this and this and this will not happen. We are holding you to it. And God shows up. And you are wondering, why are these people always succeeding? They have words. The Bible says, "Carry with you words. Carry them. That's your asset. Your asset is not the money in the bank. Your asset is not the car. It's the words that are in your spirit. Carry with you words. Carry with you." So that when circumstances rise up their ugly head, you will shoot those words like arrows. You will fling them like bullets. And the moment you say them, they don't see the word, they see God. He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from all their destructions.

Number two, how do you activate? Do you know why I'm sharing this? So that you will know that what you are looking for is not in God's hands, it's in your hands. Because when we are not mature Christians, we sit down in idleness saying, "If it will happen, it will happen. If God wills." Are you saying all the people dying is God willing? Are you saying all the people suffering, that's the will of God? No. God is not that wicked. When He gave us Christ, He gave us all things. We now need to mature in spiritual understanding to access all the things that are given to us that are in heavenly places. This is one of the technology. Wait. Say, "They that wait upon the Lord, they mount up with wings like eagles. When they run, they are not weary. When they walk, they don't faint." See, don't allow your life to be down to nothingness because you are so busy. Cut down that thing taking your time and learn to wait on God. Your future depends on it. You have run around Abuja, run around Nigeria for 15 years. What has changed? One word from God can change your story. One. Sometimes you don't need many. He said to Abraham, "Get out of your country, get out of your kindred, get out of your father's house, to the land that I will show you. In blessing, I will bless you." Immediately his destiny was sealed forever. You can't call Abraham. He doesn't need your help. Kings came to him and said, "We want to bless you. Take all the spoils." He said, "I won't take a latchet from you unless you say you made Abraham." You can't talk like that, sir. Oh, unless you have a word. If you have not caught a word, if they want to help you, collect it. Use pride, you will regret for 10 years. See the problem with Christians. A man who has caught words is talking. They are mimicking him, and their experiences are worlds apart. I was listening to Bishop many years ago. He said he went to preach in America. Somebody came to him and said, "What are the needs of your ministry? We want to help." He said, "Our ministry has no needs." I looked at him. My God. An American billionaire comes to you and says, "What can we do?" You can't talk like that, sir. He's not arrogant. Though he has heard something. He has heard something, and he knows the jealousy of God is with him. If you tell me that for now, say, "Is it God? Is He leading you? Are you sure you heard God?" All right. Um, come do a few things. Give the Lord a big shout. I'm showing you what makes men invincible. I shared with you here how that I was caught up in a vision, and I saw war taking place. I saw some creatures like crocodiles standing. They were fighting, and the power took me into the battle arena. Suddenly, while I entered, I discovered there was a weapon in my hand, and I started fighting. One of the elders that was fighting came to me and said, "You, come carry all the people that we are rescuing and take them to safety." So I started carrying them. When they were going to safety, they were dropping dollars, they were dropping diamonds, they were dropping gold. They said, "Please take, keep it, keep it. We dash you." Okay. I was gathering, I was gathering. That's why if you look tomorrow, I will honor the fathers. I saw my own in the spirit. It's not doctrine. Because in honoring them, I found rest. See, don't follow people doing what they do. Make sure you catch your reality in the spirit. The word is catalytic. When you catch it, you'll become invincible. You'll become invincible. And I can tell you, there are many fathers in this country that have shifted me. I don't do human worship, but I have revelation. Your word, your word, your word. Insist on your word. Somebody will leave this service every Saturday. Pray for 10 hours. When you pray, wait. Keep quiet. Let your notebook be by the side. Pray 3 hours. Read. Be there. Play a music song. Let your spirit be ascending. Just be waiting. There will be a time and a place where a whisper will come, and you may just hear, "I've made you the joy of many generations." Jump up and begin to celebrate. From that day, if you like, change your name to Joy of Many Generations. You are correct. That's how we rule in this realm. He sent His word and is sending words to all of us every day. The problem is that some are catching, others are not catching. If you don't catch, be ready to be a slave of others. Ezekiel 37:1-14. I'm showing you the excellency of spiritual things so you don't take them for granted. See, I was shaped, my life was shaped by prophecies. Some that they even said that I didn't remember when they happened. The Holy Ghost will remind me that this experience we are having today was created when this prophecy was given. Because prophecies can create possibilities in your future. They don't only give you direction. Prophecies don't only give direction, they create possibilities. Sometimes what was not in your future, when a prophecy comes, it creates it. What business does Mary have giving birth to the Messiah? But there was a prophecy, "A virgin shall give birth." A possibility opened in her generation. And because that possibility opened, any virgin can become the mother of Jesus, not because she did anything. Prophecy made it happen. Go and read your Bible. Mary didn't do anything that other virgins didn't do. There were many virgins in Israel, but she was picked because that's the excellency of prophecy. It can change your future. But you see, when Christians don't know this, when God is speaking, they take it for granted. You know what the Bible said? He said, "Despise not prophesying. Despise not." First Thessalonians 5:20. "Despise not prophesying." Do it at your peril. God has already moved in Christ. All of us are mightily helped of God. Your word is already in the spirit. You are the one who has not caught it. So that time is speaking about is not dependent on God, it's dependent on you. You can receive your word today if you know how. And there are two major ways of receiving the word. Number one is by waiting. He said, "I will stand upon my watch, Habakkuk 2:1, and I will see what He will say to me." And he said, "He said, the moment you wait, you will hear." There are reasons many Christians are not receiving words is because they are not waiting. We are a hasty generation. Everything is on fast pace, so we think we will apply the same to God. It doesn't work that way. He's a King. So when you are done praying, wait. When you are done studying, wait. When you are done fasting, wait. When you are done worshiping, wait. Your prayer is you talking to God. Wait until God talks to you. That's when prayer is completed. The worship is you exalting God. Wait until God speaks. That's when the worship is completed. The problem with us is that we go to God and we talk to God and go. When you talk to God, it's good. It shows Him how much you love Him. It shows Him how much you honor Him. But if God does not talk to you, you remain in your circumstance. That's why people are praying and they are wondering, nothing is happening. They are not hearing from God. That's why people are fasting, they are wondering, nothing is happening. They are not hearing. The key to hear is to wait. Prayer will open your spirit to receive. It makes you become like an antenna. But you will not use or utilize prayer if after you pray, you don't wait. You know why? When you go to God, your spirit is noisy. Sometimes it will take 5 hours of prayer to quieten your spirit and to activate your receptacle. It is when you are quiet that you should wait. But that's when we run away. The brother, the sister worships God until he weeps and cries. Now his spirit is ready to receive. He cleans his eyes and he walks away. And the angels are wondering, "The King has not spoken. Where are you going?" The King has not spoken. Until He speaks, the exercise does not end. Your answer is not in your talking, it's in His talking. That's why when you are done talking, wait for Him to talk. But many cannot wait. "I will stand upon my watch to see what He will tell me." And he said, "Write the vision." That's why the Bible said in Isaiah 40:31, it said, "They that wait upon the Lord," not they that pray, not they that worship. You will worship to be able to wait. You will pray to be able to wait. You will fast to be able to wait. Because waiting is to be silent in your spirit, having everything in you focused on God to receive. You know what a waiter does now? A waiter doesn't talk. He stands and watches the customer for any sign. If the customer does like this, the waiter shows up. So your duty is to become silent, completely focused on God, so that even if God whispers, that's what David said, "Once has the Lord spoken? Twice have I heard." That's a waiter. He knows what to do to receive the word. But we don't receive words. So we have records that we are prayer champions. We have records that we are worshippers. But our life is not changing. Because your life will not change because you pray. Your life will change because He speaks. Because when He speaks, He can open seasons. When He speaks, He can open dimensions. When He speaks, He can change your story. And so the first thing that provokes restoration is the Rema word. The Rema word is not your Bible. Your Bible is Logos. The Rema word is the specific word that the Spirit of God whispers into your spirit. You may route it through meditation, you may route it through prayer, but you must hear the whisper. Sometimes you will study this Bible for 5 hours for one month, and then as you are there waiting, one of the verses you have read, out of the many books, will stand up. "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me lie down in green pastures. He restoreth my soul." That is your word. Although you have read the whole of Psalms, you have read the whole of Proverbs, you have read the whole of Isaiah, now that you are done reading, you are waiting for Him to talk, and He will whisper from what you have read. That is when what you have read will become powerful. Please, as much as is within your power, consult God before you take actions. Most of the things we lose, we lose because we never consulted God. No matter how lucrative, no matter how promising that thing is, don't take a step until you've heard from God. Because in addition to sending men, God can speak to you too. So be careful not to take steps except there is the confirmation of the Holy Ghost. God is the only one that can give you abundance even in the desert. Isaiah 48:21 says, "They tested not while He led them. He caused the rock to bring out water for them. He cleft the rock also, and the waters gushed out." When God is the one leading, anything is possible. Allow God lead you. You know what Jesus said? One of the principal ministries of the Holy Ghost is to bring us leading and leadership. He said, "I have many things to tell you, John 16:13. You cannot receive it. Howbeit, when the Holy Ghost is come, He will guide you onto all truth." So there is a place where God sends His word to you, but there is a superior existence where God leads you. You follow Him as He leads you. In fact, the whole idea behind the ministry of the voice of God is so that He can lead you. "My sheep hear My voice, and they obey. They follow." They follow. Don't take decisions without consulting with God. You receive God's word when you wait, but you'll follow God if it has to do with following God. You're following Him by entreating Him, by consulting Him, by checking with Him, by insisting that He leads you. So anything you want to do, give it time and pray. "Father, what will You have me do?" When God sees that you are consistent in demanding His interest and His position, and you are doing it genuinely, eventually He'll begin to bring direction. But many times, even when we ask, we are asking for the formality. "Lord, what do you want?" Okay. The next thing, you're on a call. "I want to buy the land." Uh-uh. Well, you're not the one who just asked God. What are you thinking? He has not answered. It's not 24 hours. Here you are buying land. He just looks at you and shakes His head. I know men. But if you say, "Lord, what do you want? I'm waiting until You speak." And you'll stay there. Not too long, He will start talking because He knows you will not move until He speaks. So while you wait to hear God, you inquire to be led of God, you persist to be led of God, you consult to be led of God. And many Christians, they don't. They follow what they learned from Harvard, they follow what they learned from the university. Meanwhile, it's too treacherous for what you learned from campus to lead you. He said, "It is not given to man that willeth to water his stuff." You need divine direction. A whole cycle. Hope you know that a man can travel for 10 hours. Those who have accidents, it doesn't last for more than 3 seconds. That means for the whole of that journey, that 3 seconds is where they needed help. That's how seasons work. You may have a long span of time, but there is a small cycle within that time that defines everything about your life. If God wants to help you, He will make you not to lose it. Do you know why the man was sick and was there for 38 years? He couldn't discern seasons. They say at a certain time, the angel of the Lord went down and troubled the waters. Whoever enters first is cleansed. So a sickness that can be cleansed in a moment kept somebody for 38 years. That's how powerful seasons are. So when God wants to restore you, one of the things He does is that He opens up your discernment to know your seasons and your time.

Number five is the system of faith. You cannot change anything in your life except as faith is born in your spirit. Every time faith comes alive, possibilities abound. That's why all the work of the patriarchs of old was summarized into one word: faith. Through faith, the elders obtained a good report. Faith is what defines the quality of your life. And if you will have restoration and restoration again and again, faith must be activated in your heart. Genesis 18:1, when God wanted to change Abraham's story, He didn't sit in heaven and say, "Let Abraham have a child." There are certain things that God routes through men. That's why you must be careful. See, some of you, who God sent to your life is your houseboy. It will take humility and discernment to receive the ministry of sent men. Some people are living around their help, but they've never discerned them. You know what Hebrews 13:22 said? He said, "Be careful to receive men." He said, "Some have rejected angels, entertained angels, not knowing." Even God, when He wanted to save the world, He came in the likeness of a man. Until today, most Jewish people have not discerned Jesus. They have not accepted Jesus. Meanwhile, that's the captain of their salvation. And that's what's affecting many people now. People who carry your tomorrow are walking with you every day, but you are too high-minded to receive from them. You are too undiscerning to receive from them. You must allow yourself, humility, and discernment so that you receive. The Bible said, "By a prophet, He led them out of captivity." And he said, "By a prophet, they were preserved." Hosea 12:13. "By a prophet, He brought Israel out of captivity." When God wants to intervene in the affairs of men, most times He sends men. Man is God's medium. In Exodus chapter 3:7, it says, "I have heard, I have seen the affliction of my people, and I have heard their cries by reason of their taskmasters." Why didn't He go there? He was looking for one man to send. Imagine if that man comes to your life and you despise him. It took 430 years to find that man. Some of the men that some of us have despised, it took God 10 years to route their path into our lives, and we despised them. Only God knows how many years it will take Him to find another to send. You need a lot of humility and discernment. Receive from men. Men carry seasons, men carry dimensions, men carry graces. And I'm not just talking about pastors, I'm talking about anybody anywhere. Did you read what the Bible said? He said, "Your sons and daughters will come from afar." He said, "Strangers..."

will stand to build your walls. So we are not just talking pastors, we are telling you that one of God's methods of restoration is men. So when you deal with men, deal with men from the place of humility and the place of discernment because you don't know which one carries your tomorrow. Sometimes it's even the people walking under you that will shift you, just one suggestion. But you are Alpha and Omega, nobody can talk around you, and that's why you have remained on one valley all your life because you can't receive input from the blessings that God gave you.

What made David become like God? Men. It said daily God added men to his army until his host became like the host of God. Be careful when you deal with men. Men carry things. In 2 Chronicles 20, he said, "Believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established; believe also his prophets, so shall you prosper." So there are certain men ordained to change the stories of others, and there are certain other men that God just comes upon so that they can fulfill a purpose per time. Discern both of them is the power of prophecy, and as we study it, you will see that even dry bones can become an exceeding great army when prophecy goes forth.

Number three, power that sponsors restoration is the ministry of sent men. When God wants to change your life, many times he sends men in your direction. All men are not the same, please know this, and it will help you. Some men are systems of grace. If they make contact with your life, they upgrade your existence instantly. They carry it. Some men are systems of opportunity. When they come around your life, they may never give you money, but because they are with you, certain doors will open for you. So they came to open you to different possibilities. You must discern them because they may carry your tomorrow. I'm telling you, many people have not received restoration because they have despised the ministry of men. I understand the place of witchcraft and manipulation, that's not what I'm advocating for. If anybody wants to control you and bend your will, reject him. But also be humble enough to recognize men that come to change your story.

Number three, number four is the system of discernment of seasons. When God wants to change your life, what happens most times is that he activates your discernment. Not every season is the same. There is a time to plant, there's a time to harvest. Some seasons are long, some other seasons are so short. If you don't discern it, they will pass. A whole cycle is gone.

Number six, virtue and character. There are certain people that the only help they should have their poor character shut that door. God routes all of his wisdom to move a man from another country to enter the small office where you are working just to help you. But the day he came, that was the day you were talking rudely to somebody, and he shakes his head. He will not even remember you were there and walks away. What you didn't know is that that man that passed passed to change your life. Did you know what happened to Abraham in Genesis Chapter 18? God became man and was coming to give Abraham the child that he had trusted him for 25 years. But God was passing as if he was going. He took Abraham's compassion for strangers and Abraham's heart, the heart of accommodation, to insist that these men come and drink water. The sun is too harsh. It was that one act of virtue and character that number one, made Abraham to become a father. Number two, gave Abraham the rank to intercede for Sodom and Gomorrah. Just one act of virtue and character. Many people are where they are because of their poor character. If you will have restoration, something must happen to your character. I'm telling you, when God teaches us character and virtue, our destiny depends on it.

Number seven, divine direction. Sometimes God whispers into your spirit, "Take left." That take left, what it will do for you, you'll be amazed. Sometimes God whispers into your spirit, "Give this person help." You don't know what it means. I'm telling you that some of the most remarkable transformations that people enjoyed were born out of simple, unspiritual, supernatural direction that the Holy Ghost gave them. A still small voice just gives you an instruction. The moment you obey, your life turns around forever. Are you seeing why Christians don't enjoy these things? We should enjoy these things on a daily basis because the forces that sponsor them are many. Why are we not enjoying them? We don't know them, and we don't take advantage of them. The leading of the Holy Spirit.

Number eight, priesthood. This is where prayer comes in. This is where worship comes in. This is where covenant lifestyle comes in. All of that embodies what priesthood is. If you will engender restoration, you need priesthood. In 1 Samuel 6:12 to 14, the Midianites had oppressed Israel until they took all their possessions. The Bible says Samuel showed up, he planted a stone, put oil on it, did sacrifice, and called it Ebenezer, and he said, "Until now, the Lord has helped us." Instantly, God showed up. Even the land that they stole from them, the Philistines, the Bible said they returned all of them until Gath and Ekron, everything they lost. Priesthood returned it back. It's a system of restoration. So when the devil attacks your prayer life, he's doing something much more than prayer. He's stealing your seasons, he's stealing your life, he's stealing your future, and he's denying you restoration.

Number nine is the anointing. Number ten is the fear of the Lord. If you will have restoration, these ten forces don't joke with them. Use them to your advantage. It will change your life forever. Now, let me explain three of them, and then we will shut down for tonight. The worship has already taken us to a height. I want you to sustain that. Go home with it and spend some time to pray. Something will shift in your life like never before.

Prophecy, the excellency of prophecy. Ezekiel 37:1 to 14. Sit down. The Bible said Ezekiel spoke. He said, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and he said the hand of the Lord took me by the lock of my head and carried me to a valley of dry bones." And God asked him, "Mortal man, can these bones live?" He didn't even have enough faith to say yes, they can. He said, "Lord, only thou knowest." What I'm seeing here, if I'm to answer, I will say the truth, and the truth is that these bones are dry. Which year will they come alive? What can become of them? We are not, you know, you know, at this level, we have gone beyond Lazarus. Lazarus was dead for four days, his brain had decayed. We are talking people that have not just decayed, but every flesh had left. It was dry bone that was left, and we are not talking one man, we are talking a multitude. This is the power of prophecy. If it's one man that came back to life, you can say, "Wow, that's powerful resurrection." We are not talking resurrection here. First of all, we are talking commanding the elements of nature to gather every piece of their cell. That means if the air carried their cell, their skin to Egypt, carried to Babylon, carried to Congo, the air will first of all go and look for all their cells, all their tissues, all their organs that scattered and bring them back. So air was sent on errand first. And when they bring them back, the air will build an intelligence to take every tissue to where it was taken from. Every bone that was detached will have to come back to look for its own bone. And then when bones connect, tissues will merge, skin will be formed. If even at that, there were a million dead people, but prophecy was still at work. He said, "Command the East Wind to come into them and to give them breath." And they say, "I spake as I was commanded, and suddenly a valley of dry bones became a garrison of a great army." I'm telling you, it doesn't matter what died in your life. When God sends the prophetic word, things can change again. And I make bold to tell someone here tonight, all the things dead in your life, they come back to life. Now, I make bold to tell someone tonight, everything you have lost is restored to you tonight. I make bold to tell someone tonight, as you walk out of this place, you step into the vision of your tomorrow in the name of Jesus.

Hear me. You have lost a vital relationship. I speak to you by the spirit of prophecy. Every relationship you need for your glorious life, step into it now. You have lost an organ, you have lost a tissue, you have lost something in your body. In the name of Jesus, the Lord, and by the power of prophecy, receive that organ now. Some of you have lost things, you have lost callings, you have lost businesses, you have lost things that God gave you. In the name of Jesus, according to the word of the Lord, tonight, restore, restore, restore.

Now, sit down for a moment. Some of you will step into dangerous realms of life. You will be amazed. See, there is the law of sowing and reaping. I'm not against it, but there's also a realm where you reap from where you did not sow. It's prophecy that makes it happen. You don't always need to work hard to succeed. As much as is within your power, be diligent, be hardworking. But in addition to your labor, I bless the works of your hands. In addition to your labor, I decree, reap from where you did not sow.

Is it this bastardized economy that you depend on hard work? People work, they refuse to pay them. There are many government workers now, they have not been paid for 11 months. Hard work will work when the system is working. You can't be talking hard work in a system that does not work. And so, everything you need, I create them by words, by the spirit of God, and by the word of the Lord, I create those things in your life now.