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Somebody tell him how much you love him. Tell him how much you love him.
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We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. For one minute, lift those hands up. One minute.
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Please and draw me close to You. Never let me go. I lay it all down again. I love to hear you say that I'm your friend. You are my desire. You are my desire. Oh, no one else will do. No one else will do. No one else will take your place. No one else will take. To feel the warmth of Your embrace. To feel the warmth of Your embrace. Help me find my way. The world to bring me back to You. And know You're all I want. You are all I ever needed. You are all I want. Help me know. Let me know. Let me know. Let me know. Help me know. You are here. Oh, oh, You are. You are all I ever need. That help me know. Help me know. Me. Whatever you are. What is the battle in your family? What is the challenge this morning? Tell Jesus the problem. Tell him your heart's desire. Tell him what you are going through. Tell him I can hear your voice. Let Jesus. Let Jesus. Are you? You go ahead. Let Jesus hear you.
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Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus' faithful name. Take your seat wherever you are. Give Jesus a very big hand. Hallelujah. I'm so excited to be here this morning. Praise God. I said I'm so excited. I'm so happy. Are you happy? You know, no matter where you minister, there's no place like home. I'm telling you. I'm I'm I'm telling you, there's no place you you can't be as free as relaxed. Amen. I just noticed it. There's there's nowhere like home. You can see miracles outside. You can see manifestation, but you see family at home. Praise God. And like I told you the other time, it's not a right to pastor you, it's a privilege. So I count it as a privilege and I'm happy and I'm excited to be your pastor.
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Hallelujah. So when when I remember there is someone like you who needs a future, I have to study my Bible. I remember there's somebody like you. I have to pray. Someone said to me, he said he was with me in a program and he saw the move of God and he asked me. He noticed that period I was not eating and he said, "Sir, with all you've seen, what are you still fasting for?" And I said to him, "Whatever is obtained through fasting is maintained with fasting." I say, "I'm not just praying now for the sick to be healed. I'm praying because there are people who are coming, they believe in the grace on my life. I'm praying for them to get there safely. Until they get to their destiny, I will not stop."
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Fasting. Amen. Praise the Lord. Break your Bible to Luke chapter 19.
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Luke 19. We're going to read nine verses because of emphasis. We would like to make us understand what it's all about. So we read nine verses from verse one. I'll read verse one, you read verse two, I'll read verse three, just like that. And the final verse, we read it together. Together. Are you ready? Are you ready?
1, 2, go.
And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And he started to see Jesus who he was and could not for the press because he was little of stature. And when Jesus came to to the place, he looked up and saw him and said unto him, "Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must abide at thy house."
What verse are we now?
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying that he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
Let's read the last verse together.
And Jesus said unto him, "This day is salvation come to this house, for as much as he also is a son of Abraham."
Father, thank you for your word today. Bless lives. Do for us what we can't do for ourselves. May the heavens open unto somebody. Touch the lips of clay to communicate the word of God. In Jesus' name. Could you help me preach? Those seven people tell them, "Hunger for a visitation."
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Say that to somebody again. "Hunger for a visitation." Hear me. The place we went from began by saying, "And Jesus was passing." That alone is a message. And Jesus was what? Was passing. May I say something right now? This is a prophetic word for someone today that while you are busy thinking of how to come out of trouble, the Master is on the way coming. I said the Master is on the way coming. He will not leave you in that condition. He will not leave you in that your pain. He won't leave you in that your poverty. He won't leave you in that your struggle. I said the Master is passing your way and he's passing to locate you. Do you know when Jesus passes by, things pass away? When Jesus passes by, trouble passes away. When Jesus passes by, you pass over. May I say this prophetically? This month of May is not permitted to end until you have a testimony. This month of May is not permitted to end until you have a miracle. This month of May is not permitted to end until your doors open. Somebody shout fire!
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Hey! Tell someone, "He's passing." I didn't hear you. Say it again.
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I may appear lonely, but I'm not alone. Sit down. As he was passing, there was a man. A certain man. When the Bible says "certain," it means he's a man that made up his mind. He was certain. He was decisive. He was he was expectant. He had opened up his spirit. And the Bible says, "A certain man named Zacchaeus." Bring it down a little bit. Bring down the echo. A certain man named. Who? Now hear this. He was a rich man. The Bible says, but he was chief among publicans. Publicans in the Bible speaks of sinners. Publicans in the Bible speaks of unbelievers. He was a rich man. He had much money and he had much iniquity. And the next thing the Bible say, he was of little stature. So a rich man with iniquity is a short man. The more sin you commit, the more you reduce in size. He had people. He had money, but he lacked stature. Today we live in a world that when people make more money, they go into more sin. There are some of you looking at me now, eyeball to eyeball. You never knew what it is to drink alcohol, but when you got a financial breakthrough, you learned how to drink. There are some of you looking at me right now, you never missed a weekly service, but as soon as you got admission into school, sometime when you come back from school, you say you are tired. And God says, "No problem, continue." Now you you believed me before you got admission. Now you have gotten admission, you have abandoned me. Let me see. You are going to get a job. Use the certificate. No problem. There are many people today who are jobless. Satan has turned their certificates to a tissue paper. Why? Because they disappointed God in the higher institution. So they are now of small stature. Am I talking to somebody right now? How many sisters in this church? In this church, I know many, many. I know many. Before admission, they will almost sleep here. "Father, if you can do it." Last time I saw them, their dressing has changed. They now wear something and they expose their tummy. You see their navels. They now wear, you know, um, what's this? Tiny hand, tiny hand kind of thing. I said, "Is this not the person that was crying to God?" And God said, "No problem, go to school." People go to school for certificates. Let me see how you're going to use it. You have abandoned me. Now, the problem with people is we don't understand that the same God that brings up can bring low. He took Joseph from the prison to the palace, but he took Nebuchadnezzar from the palace to the [Applause] forest. Thank God I went to school. I passed through polytechnic. I passed through university. So I've tested. The only one I didn't test is College of Education. So I passed through the two and I know which is [Music] nobody has time. People create time. I know certain brother. I think Pastor's son. Pastor's son is one of them. Sometime I sit with suits. He's coming to money prayer. From money prayer to school. Sometime from school, he comes. And I look and I observe. And there are many who feel they cannot pray. God say, "Go to the school. Wait for the certificate." It is hard, but it's the truth. You you can't play God. God is a covenant God. If you, if I, "Lord, if you give me admission, I will serve you." He now gave you. You no longer serve him. He said, "No, I will not be the one to lose." God is a very smart man. God is smarter than evil men. God say, "I'll be the one to lose." Oh, you you used me. You played me. I said, "No problem. Go to the school until you come back and do what you have said." Until you come back and complete. It's an [Music] agreement. It's a contract. I will not enter a contract to my loss. I will enter a contract to my benefit. So God enters a contract to his benefit. God is a god of profit. So what happens? As you do your part, God say, "Do my own part." You don't do my part. I will frustrate your part. That's what God is saying. Am I talking to somebody? He had so much money. So anybody, matter your influence, your affluence, your wealth, there are things that money cannot do for you. And I've said this countless number of times. Money is just currency. Money has no blood. Money is a printed paper. Money is a legal tender. Money is what is printed for currency usage. Money is what is acceptable. Money is what's acceptable in the country. Money is a medium of transaction. Money can buy you a car, but money can't give you safe journey. Money can buy you a bed, but can't give you sleep. It can give you food, but can't give you appetite. It can give you a woman, but can't give you a wife. It can give you a doctor, but can't give you health. There are things money can't buy. It can give you clothes, but can't give you beauty. Am I talking to somebody? Many are pursuing money. So many people are looking for money. You don't need to look for money. You need to look for God. When you find God, money begins to follow you. Am I talking to somebody now? Shut fire! I knew in my life that I would not be poor. It was something that entered me very strong. I started talking like that. Why? I read the scripture. "The earth is the Lord's." When I read it, it entered my spirit. "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." Psalm 50. "A cattle on a thousand hills belong to God. The cattle in the bush belongs to God." And God does not eat cattle. So who is it for? "The elephant in the bush belongs to God." And God does not eat elephant. So who is it for? The Bible says, "All things are mine." Success is mine. Wealth is mine. Good health is mine. Millions are mine. Promotion is mine. Increase is mine. Shout fire! So lay that foundation that money may make people know you, but money doesn't make God know you. No matter how much you think you have, what you need is recognition with God. Money only brings advertisement. It does not bring recognition. He said he was a rich man, but a small man. You are here this morning and you don't know Jesus, but you have a fleet of cars. You are like Zacchaeus, very [Applause] short. You are a beautiful lady and you don't have the Holy Ghost. You are like Zacchaeus, small. You're a young man, you have intellect, academically you are sound, and you don't have purity. You are like Zacchaeus, too small to be recognized. I mean, when people are clapping for you, God is saying, "Who are they clapping for?" God is looking for you because you are so minute. You are not up to an atom. You know, atom? You are not up to a cell that cannot be seen with the physical eyes. Even even as small as a hair is, you are not up to a hundred pieces when the hair is divided. You are so minute. So minute. There are people today who have no money in their pocket, but spiritually they are colossal. They are massive. They are voluminous. They are big in size, but they are struggling. They are struggling, but God sees them as giants. They have no money to feed, but God sees them. Mercy. They cannot pay their house rent, but God sees them. Mercy. Is that such a one? Shout fire! So Zacchaeus said, Zacchaeus said to himself, "I I know I have money, but I'm empty. I'm empty." Have you have you gotten to a point in life where there were things you wanted to buy? You got the money, you bought them, but somehow you felt there was this fulfillment that wasn't there? Ask people who live in sin. They have money to buy everything, but there is something that he had this emptiness and this hunger welling up inside him. He got hungry. He said, "No, there is something I must put in place so that I must get an encounter with the Master." He he he provoked heaven. Zacchaeus did what was not common for a man of his size. And the Bible say Zacchaeus didn't ask the Lord. It was the Lord that placed a demand on Zacchaeus. He said, "Today I am going to your house." People invite him to their house, and it takes time before he comes. Lazarus was invited. They invited him to Lazarus's house because he was at the point of death. He stayed two more days before he went there. But here was a man. He saw. He said, "You don't need to invite me. I am coming by myself." How can people be looking for him and he refuse to come? And now here was a man who did not place an invitation. He invited himself. There is a dimension you get to in God that even when you don't look for favor, favor will invite itself. Even when you don't look for healing, healing will invite itself. Why? You are not looking for health. Health will invite itself. You are saying, "I am tired of children." Children begin to pursue you. May I say something to you now? That at the end of this service, success shall pursue and overtake you.
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Hey! We shouting. We we are screaming. We are excited. I was start hitting you now. I know everywhere is going to be quiet. Very. Everywhere is going to be very quiet now. What did he do? You study your Bible. The Bible say he ran. Before initially, the Bible say he had friends. But to encounter the Lord, he dropped his friends. True. He was the chief among publicans. Zacchaeus was the kind of person among his friends. His mouth was the sharpest among the friends. He was the smartest. He was the counselor of evil. He he advises them on how to do wrong. But the Bible say to encounter the Master for a visitation, he left them. He ran. He said, "Jesus is coming." He said, "My friends, for now, you wait. I ran." If you are hungry for a visitation, the first thing you must understand is salvation is personal. Salvation is what? Never you look for God in the crowd, or else we miss the cloud. Salvation is what? Personal. We live in a generation. If you look at people in church, you abide. Philippians chapter 2 and verse 12 says, "Walk out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Your personal salvation, not a general one. Salvation is [Music] personal. If you look at the lifestyle and the characters of fellow Christians, Christians backbiting, Christians cheating. Christians. I was telling them in the East. Some of our camera crew were there. I said, "Do you know why I don't like coming here?" They looked at me. I see on the day of judgment, your own judgment is going to be so much because you can do anything for money. Anything for money. All kinds of lies for money. If you look at certain people who say they are Reverend, you will go to hell. If you look at certain people who say they they are heads of department, they are leaders of a house fellowship, you will miss God. That is why the word of God remains the standard for judgment. You miss God. I've sat in a place where a pastor was saying some things that I knew were not true. I was looking at him. We are brought together, and he was he came to greet the people before I preached. And they introduced him as a pastor of 3,000 people. I I preached in his church, not up to 400. I say, "Ah, I said maybe it's a new one that I don't know." And they mentioned the place, and I've been there. I say, "Huh." He has he has he has TV ministry all over the country. I know him. He's on radio. Ah, why? Because people want cheap greatness. You must understand that Jesus is not always with a crowd. The road to success is a lonely road. Matthew 7:14 says, "The gate to the kingdom." He said, "Narrow is the way and straight is the gate. Straight is the gate is the way and narrow is the gate that leads to eternal life." What is straight? The spelling "straight" there is not the. It's not the literal straight. The spelling there, "straight," is s-t-r-a-i-t. That's the spelling for that in that in that in that portion of Matthew 7:14. And the English word for that "straight" means hard, crooked, crooked. I don't know what preachers tell you, but I want to tell you something. To be a true Christian is not [Music] easy. Drop all this faith confession you hear on television. To be a genuine Christian, you what do you what what are you talking about? Somebody slap you. God say, "Don't slap back." Somebody gossip you and God say, "Don't reply." You think it's easy for your human nature to be calm? You think it's easy that you labor with a young man, after five years he dumps you to marry somebody else? You have all the alternative to shoot him and blow off his brain, and God tells you, "Don't do anything." You think it's easy? Okay, now it's easy. You are the pastor to Jesus. The the the special advice to Moses. So it's easy for you. But I'm talking literally. It's not easy. A young lady. A young lady. There's a young man. He was in school. He went to a university. He read engineering. The girl struggled. She dropped out of school to make sure he stands. Now the boy holds a construction company and he got married to somebody else. It's somebody who came for an interview. Was the person now got married to? And this sister has brothers who are killers. Heavy duty. Who can kill the boy, kill his family, kill everybody in the house in one minute. They are that. And she kept begging. Said, "Leave it for God." Said, "He now." God is not around. "Want to help him." The young lady was on her knees. And I said to her, "For this that you have done, heaven is going to show up." It's not to be a Christian. When people say things about you that are not true, you are quiet. There are many people today, women in their marriages, their husbands call them witch. And these are women who are pure, following God. You think it's easy? That there are some things you are in an exam hall. Some things you you read, but you forgot. And something spy. And you remember it's against the covenant to spy. And you refuse to spy. It's not [Music] easy. I mean, the examination leaked genuinely. They saw the question paper three days before the exam. And your friends brought it to you. See, I'm not interested. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Oh, you need to you need to be watching heaven on on DStv every day to. You need to keep watching heaven in the CD to have that kind of that kind of focus that you refuse to spy. I was in school. I know many of our Christian brothers. After they spy, they start speaking in tongues. After collecting Chuli, they collect, you know. Oh boy. It takes it takes an attitude of purity to see money on the ground and walk away. Eh. What I'm saying now, what I'm saying now is practical Christianity. You see money on the ground. You have not paid your rent. You have not paid your fees. You you have no food. You now look at the money. And once you are broke, when you see money, you don't need to count it. You know the amount. Once you are broke, you don't need to count. Once you can, you just access it. You know the amount. And you are passing. You not seeing the money. You say you are going to heaven. Just pass. You need to really be born again. I'm telling you. Because there are some people that may not pick it in a hurry. They will pick it gravitationally. We start. Am I talking to somebody? They will go around it like this. Like they will go around like Mount Zion that can't be moved. As mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people. He that dwelleth [Applause] the it. Am I am I talking to someone? It takes it takes a massive, a massive heart of purity to get to that. If you have not, if you have not gotten there yet, you have not started. You have not started. So that's the kind of Christianity I'm talking about. Where even if your blood is being drained, you refuse to do anything that is outside the world. Salvation is personal. That your friend did it doesn't mean it's correct. If you can't beat them, leave them. If you can't beat them, you are not following men. So nobody should use your handset to flash the [Music] boyfriend. Did you hear what I said? Nobody should say, "Can I use your phone?" Say to call who? She said, "No, this phone. There is no network for those kind of people. My battery will just go down if you dial that number now because this phone has a covenant with righteousness." I'm not doing it. So you can't use my phone to do it. Can I can I get back fair? "I want to go and sleep in that man's house." Say, "Ma, it's not good though." Take that. That is not good. You have not only helped her, you have escorted her. [Music] There. You're a woman. You don't drink beer, but you have a beer parlor. Your own hell fire, they are still preparing it. They have not [Music] finished. They are drinking alcohol. You have a beer parlor. They are still heating your hell fire. Just the way those mighty men heated the fire from Nebuchadnezzar. You are selling Indian hemp for people to buy, destroying lives. Selling palm wine, small stout. And people take that. And you say, "No, me, I don't drink." Sell cigarettes in your shop because that's what will move the shop forward. Check all those who added that to what they sell. Ask them what they do with money. They devour people. So when they gather the money, a devourer comes too. Am I talking to somebody? You can't be born again and be walking a brewery where they make alcohol. You can't. Every is quiet, and I like it. You can't be a Christian and be so many scar for people. You can't. Somebody make a mess and say, "So so for me." You now when you sew, you now tear it by the side. Tell her, say, "Come, I don't know how to sew that type." But there is a type. If I sew it for you, when people see you, they will see the glory of God. But I cannot sew that type. But because that's what is in vogue, you have decided to become a rogue, to follow what is in vogue and shatter destiny. And people come to church to look at how. It is a pity that we that the world is supposed to look at and know how to dress. We now look at the world to know how to dress. People don't look at pastor's wives to know how to dress. They look at magazines. I won't call names. Some ladies purposely buy magazines, consciously, deliberately, effortfully buy magazines to check the latest cloth in vogue. And people come to church naked. And my heart is boiling that I even see married women now. Women having a husband over them, dressing like semi-prostitutes, naked. [Applause] [Music] clothes. After five children, what are you [Applause] advertising? If you're not ashamed, I'm ashamed on your behalf. And you're a man, you allow your wife to walk out of the house with that kind of cloth. Say, "I like my wife classy. I like her flashy. I attract him." [Applause] [Music] Okay. To stand out, don't make man your standard. There are things even if I see 1 million people do it, I won't do it because I was. You were not there when I gave my life to Christ. You are not there when I talk to God in the night. You are not there when I make up my mind to fast. You are not there when God is rebuking or scolding me. So I'm not going to follow God based on your standard. I'm not going to lie because you are lying. Just because we're in a department doesn't mean that since people are sleeping with themselves, I will join them. Since we're in the department, people are playing games to get money, I should also play games. I won't join them. God is looking for those that will make up their mind. My salvation is that's what provokes a visitation. That's what provokes. Lift your right hand up. Say, "Father, help me to run the race without looking to the right or looking to the left." Say, "Father, help me to run the race without giving heed to attention distractions." The second thing the Bible says about Zacchaeus, he sought to see Jesus. Who he was. The second thing, if you have a hunger for a visitation, the second sign is that your desire is on fire. Your your desire is what? On fire. Your desire is on fire. You are hungry for God. How can a woman believing God for the fruit of the womb? They are still advising you to come to church on time. It is an error. Your desire should be on fire. Now look at me. Look at me. How many of you now? You know these days when you tell people, "Receive the fire," they will stretch your hand. Amen. You're not catching fire. You're catching air. No. Don't fast. You are catching air. So many believers are catching air in the church. It is your turn to shine. Amen. I claim it. You're catching air. I grew up with a desire that was on fire. We had Christian brothers. We were in competition to fast. 1998, I had a vigil for one year. 365 nights. Desire was on fire. The year 2000, I fasted 365 days. January 1st to December 31st. I was only eating late in the night. Desire is on fire. I started last two years studying 32 chapters of the Bible daily. Desire on fire. I have a covenant that I sleep with my Bible. It's my covenant. Anywhere I am in the world, I sleep with my Bible. When I wake up, the first thing I see is my Bible. Desire that is on fire. But we live in a generation now where people want free things. Free prophecy. That's why they follow man of God. Man of God, oh, man of God, pray for me. Oh, my God. You don't want to learn on me. My God, because of laziness, lethargy, lackadaisical attitude. Nobody has a desire. Nobody is hungry for God anymore. People want free miracle. Miracle may be free, but it's not [Applause] cheap. He said, "Buy the truth and sell it not." So it may be free, but you buy it. There's a man. His father was an Epha priest. There's a church today where they wear white garments. I won't call the name. They wear white garment church. Cherub and Seraphim. Cherub and Seraphim. That church started as a power church. Let me tell you, that church didn't start as a spiritual church. It started as a power church. Genuine anointing. The founder of that church is is dead long ago. His father was an Epha priest. If you know Epha, you know what Epha is. So God, the father was so demonic. Nothing convinces him. He can command things to appear, and they will appear. So God wanted to shock the man. And God gave him a child. The day the man, the child was born, that was the day he walked. You didn't hear what I said? The day he was born was the day he stood up and started walking. God first used that one to scatter the father's mind. The man was confused. This man I'm talking about walked with God. He never married. He never had a child. He was living on the mountain. Anytime he wants to preach, he will come down, preach, go back to the mountain. He buried over 200 people alive. There were native doctors who came to his crusade. He commanded fire to come. The fire came down physically, burnt them. He commanded the ground to open. The ground opened. They entered. He commanded the ground to close. I talk of hunger, and you are here doing [Applause] makeup. Yeah, yeah. Carry makeup kit about like handcuffs. Like handcuffs. You carry makeup kit in your bag. You praise God for five minutes. Bring your mirror. Glory be to the Lord. Oh, I be. Give me your powder. Everybody shout Hallelujah. Don't you don't don't find out. Okay. Hallelujah. And somebody is living perpetually in the mountain. The man went on his knees and prayed for 72 hours without raising his head. Three days stretch. Morning till night. Morning till night. He was on his knees without raising his head. [Applause] Hey! You see, do you know how many of you? With all the things you have heard about me, I've never come to the altar to talk against any pastor. You noticed it. Can let me tell you why. I've not started. So I'm I'm wondering what they are talking. I'm believing God for a dimension where I'll be walking on air. That's the dimension. Not this one. This one, I'm not. So when you are saying, "The man, are you sure that this thing is on God?" I'm looking at you confused. That you have not even seen what we call dimension. This I'm talking about men who are ready to pay the price. A man like Apostle Babalola. He was praying on the mountain, and a mighty python came, and the python wanted to crawl him. While he was praying, he shouted, "Fire!" As the python was on his body, the python drowned and turned to a wood. He shook the python. It fell down and continued praying. These are men of mercy, fire, hunger, and [Applause] desire. Hunger. No genuine man of fire eats [Applause] breakfast. You don't eat breakfast until you are breaking a fast. No man of desire. The Bible says, "Woe unto them when the king is a child, and when thy princes eat in the morning." Great men don't eat in the [Music] morning. 7 a.m. Say, "No, I want to take coffee." Coffee. Check check countries where in Paris. I was showing Mama something when we went to Paris last week. In Paris, they have three. Paris is just a state in France. They have 3,000 restaurants and food joints. 24 hours of the day, they in the bar. 24 hours of the day, they are taking coffee. They're taking food. And I said, "Where would this country progress?" Anything they enjoy in that land now is something that they met that their fathers labored for. Am I talking to somebody? All of them like excitement. By 1:00 a.m., the land is busy. Everybody's going to clubs and parties. Why? Because they have no no no desire, no hunger. If you have a desire, you will not sleep while others are sleeping. When they are eating, you say, "No, I'll stay off food." Now, I can't leave my family like this. I can't go to this club. I want to be different from my family. I can't eat three three square meals of the day. I can't sleep till 5:00 a.m. I need to affect my generation. Am I talking to somebody? [Music] Now, my first daughter came to my room one time. She came some minutes after 11:00 at night. She went, said, "Daddy, I'm going to sleep." I laid hands on her, and she went to sleep. I don't know what happened, but it's not normal. I saw her some minutes to 5:00 in the morning. She climbed up, came to the room, and I was. She met me in the same position, and she was looking at me. I'm sure in her mind, she must have been asking herself, "This man, is he is he is he normal?" I saw she was yawning, and she asked me one question. Said, "Daddy, did you sleep?" And I looked at her. I said, "Yes." He said, "You did not sleep." I said, "I slept." He said, "You didn't sleep." And she turned and walked away. She got close to the mother's door, turned again, and looked at me and walked away. Your child is already learning a heart of sacrifice. That when she must grow up to become somebody. Many mothers, their children learn sleeping from them. Sleeping. I mean, chain sleeping. The kind of sleep you sleep till 8:00 a.m. You take breakfast and sleep. See Esther. Now see Esther. Others are seeing Angel Gabriel. You are seeing Esther. Praise. Why people are waiting for lecture for a lecturer to teach them before they know. Some mothers are finishing the textbook before the exam day. Praise. Hunger. Desire that is on fire. In this generation, we don't hear people talk of paying the price. If you read books now, seven quick keys to success. Everything is now fast. Seven quick keys to miracle. I said this to you, the anointing that will last, you must pay the price for it. If a man of God lays on you, say, "Receive the anointing," and you receive it, to develop it, you must pay a price. I made up my mind that I will not stop fasting. I will not stop praying until I see a change, total change around my life. I will keep going for vigil. I'll keep going for all night. I will keep going on fasting, dry fasting, to see that there's a change. I will keep paying the price. I will keep sowing sacrificial seed. I must change my family story. Those coming behind me, they must know somebody lived in this world. I will not leave my generation the way I met it. I will affect my world. Anywhere you send me, Lord, I will go. Anything you tell me, I will do. I will obey you, Lord. I will break off from my friends all because of the covenant. I will break off from relatives all because of the covenant. "Though my mother, my father forsake me, you will be there to pick me up." "The Lord is my light and my song. Whom shall I fear?" "The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?" "When the wicked, even my enemies, came up to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell." "Though an host come against me, in this will I be confident." "My heart shall not fear." "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold his face." "In the day of trouble, he will hide me in his pavilion." Am I talking to somebody? I made up my mind. I will not rest until I change my family. I will not rest until my younger ones rise. I will not rest until I can balance my family line. If you're the one, shout fire! Zacchaeus just desired. Psalm chapter 63 and verse 1 and 2. "O Lord, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is." Verse 2: "To see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." To see thy power. Get ready. Oh, we are about to witness some dimension of power that will shock our generation. Are you f- what I'm talking about? When God called me, said, "Produce people of fire." I didn't understand. And he said, "What I mean is that produce people that will be human beings, but yet they are spirits. They are spirits and yet they are human beings. People can't understand them." Am I talking to somebody right now? The Bible says in Philip, look at the man, the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8. And said, "Understandest thou what thou readest?" The man said, "I can't understand until somebody teach me." And Philip sat with him. And Philip taught him. He said, "Look, water. Let me baptize you." And Philip baptized him. When he was still baptizing him, Philip came down. The man was looking at Philip. And Philip said, "I have another assignment right before the man's presence." Philip closed his eyes and disappeared. That was a supernatural dimension. It was through Philip. The native doctors learned how to vanish. Mama was giving me a testimony. I got some clothes. I said, "Take. Give to some people." I just gave to some people. And there was a man who was mental. Every it was a case in the whole village. And somehow Mama heard about it and said, "He should send the clothes to that man." As soon as he wore it, normal. On the spot, normal. Totally normal. Senses returned. Why hunger? [Applause] Hunger. Hunger. A young lady came into a service. By prophecy, it was located that there was hair in her womb. Human hair. That is why she can't give birth to a child. Lay hands on her. And I said to her, "Go and use the restroom. The toilet." She went there, and she was excreting hair. Began to come out physically. Hair was coming out. We are talking about dimension. The same energy that is pursuing prayer can't pursue gossip. The journalist said to me, "You don't reply." I said, "Because I don't have time." You are thinking of dimensions. Jesus said to the disciples in the garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane means oil pressed. When you press oil, meaning for oil to flow, oil must be pressed. And he said to the disciples something that shocked me. He said, "Why are you sleeping? Can't you pray for at least 1 hour?" So the least a Christian should pray is 1 hour. The least. The smallest Christian. I mean, one hour prayer is for children's department. That's what that place means. 30 minutes. You are sleeping, but you are watching TV, watching match. Some people are watching football. They can't sit down. Have you not seen them? Oh, oh, oh. I saw two pastors who were almost fighting. One was Arsenal, one was Man United. Come and see. Come and see. Set. Man of God, draw Bible. Draw Bible. Arsenal must carry. Man of God, man of God, draw Bible. Mind you, for life. Man of God, forget. Oh, man of God. I was not. Say it's okay. Say, "No, I was to leave us." This man does not know that this club is ordained by God. The say, "Don't understand." Red for life. Red for life. Red is the blood of Jesus. God. And they cannot [Applause] [Music] pray. I can see myself sit down comfortably for for 1 hour watching TV. Mama is here. 1 hour. 1 hour. And now sit down. And now sit down. Me. And now watching comfortably. After 20 minutes, tap me. I'm in another kingdom. He say, "This what happened just now?" Yes, yes. It happened. Comfortably watching people. When they should be watching me. There is a level you get to, you don't have television. You become television yourself. Am I talking to somebody right now? But you must pay a [Music] price. A man was watching football, and his wife came to us for feeding money. Ignored that. As soon as the wife left, they scored. Not him. The other team. He turned to his wife. She was going out a story building, and they pushed her. And the woman took off, landed. The man went back, continued watching match. People gathered. He was watching match. They say, "Your wife is wounded." He said, "Carry her to the chemist. Carry her to the chemist. Carry to the chemist. If they score, if they score again." That is not passion. That is [Music] satanic. You know, those that watch football, they call them fans. But if you serve God too much, they call you fanatic. But they that watch sport, they say they are fans. But you are a fanatic. It's better to be a fanatic than be a fan. It's better to carry prayer on your head. People will travel to Greece to watch sports. And people can't pay transport to church to see God. I'm talking of hunger. Why do you tell people, "Come to weekly service"? Because there is no hunger. There is no desire. Lift your right hand to heaven. Say, "Lord, renew my hunger for you." I can't hear you at all. The third thing the Bible says he did, he climbed what? A tree. He climbed. To climb requires effort. What is a tree? In Isaiah 61:3, the Bible said, "We have become the tree, Trees of Righteousness, the plantings of God." So a tree in the Bible speaks of righteousness. In other words, he made efforts to be holy. He applied the principle of righteousness. Righteousness is right living, right standing with God. There is a there is a revelation of your future that you see. And because of that revelation you have seen, you make up your mind that there are things your friends are involved in that you can never get yourself involved in. Because there is something you have seen about your future. There is something you have seen about where you are going. I shared the story one time, many of you were not in church, by a pastor who was engaged to a young lady to get married to her. And they were moving along. Somehow, a lady works in a bank, came to him for prayer. The lady said, "I like you to pray in our bank now. They are giving people opportunity to travel abroad. And if you are married, you go with any partner. So I like you to pray so that God will make my own trip successful." The pastor said, "I don't understand. If somebody is married to you now, the person will go to America." Say, "Free?" Say, "Yeah, just bring the passport. They'll put it on. Finish." Say [Music] yes. [Music] Sister, God cannot lie. I have this confirmation in my spirit. But I'll pray with you now. I want to go and pray. Because as I was just praying, I saw two of us we were passing through a road. People were saying all kinds of things, but God told us, "Move on." I saw two chairs. I was sitting on one chair, and I turned. I said, "Lord, who will sit by the other chair?" I just saw you coming. You sat on the chair. Go and pray. Go and pray. Pray. God will speak to you." Any lady who is desperate, and a man tells her, "Go and pray," she will only see what the man is saying because she's desperate. And the sister saw. Came back. "Man of God, it's true. Two of us." The pastor was interested in America. They got married. The other sister came. Said, "Look at what I'm hearing. I'm hearing that you want to get married to somebody." The Holy Ghost told me, "How can the same God who spoke to you about a lady is now un-speaking? Is now saying you can no longer go ahead?" Bro, there is something you are looking for. If you have been used to breaking the heart of people, I want to pray a prayer for you. If you have been used to breaking the hearts of people, you break the heart of sisters, you break the heart of brothers. I want to pray a prayer for you. This year, God will bring somebody that will break your own. In Jesus' [Applause] name. [Applause] What you saw because you have one small, one small to you call a car. You have used that car to deceive everybody. And you have one one one heater inside you call it condition. Deceived everybody. "I no longer marry you again." Some brothers have up to 10 rings. 10 engagement rings have bought. They keep giving. And and and they give you as a sister. Once the ring enters your hand, you believe it is over. Say, "Will you marry me?" Say, "Yes." Say, "Put it." Oh, my God, it's beautiful. [Applause] Okay. You're getting married to somebody in 2012, and he gives you a ring. 2019. Tell him to keep it. In 2011, engage me. When I'm close to marrying you, don't keep me in bondage. Oh, sister, you don't understand that. Don't don't.
Keep, tell him when you plan the plan. Put the ring. So as soon as the ring enters, I will not. Do you know what it is for a young lady? The family, they already seeing the ring in her hand, they would, they reduce the money they give her because they believe she has somebody taking care of her. They reduce the attention, and the young man is somewhere with another agenda. Mumu, and you are showing people a ring that you should go and keep in your box. You are showing people. There's something I want to show you. Show? Should I show you? Should I show you?
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And this sister, this sister began to cry. She was talking to God. This pastor and this other lady got married some few weeks to when they were to travel. The bank got distressed, so they, they, they sacked almost everybody. Journey canceled. She came, man, they told the brother, I said, we don't know what we would do. She was already pregnant. Said they have canceled the journey. The pastor said, eh, no more America. He said, no, I will travel again. Say yes, that was why I married you. The other sister is married and she's with her husband in Spain now. Every disappointment is not a blessing. Every disappointment is an opportunity for a better appointment. May I say this to you? No, no matter who has broken your heart, no matter who has messed you up, there is a God that will pay you yours. There is a God that will pay you. No matter what has been done to you, no matter who is toiling with your life, I see God paying you. I see God sending your helper. I see God opening another door, another door of power, another door of success. You don't serve a dead God. You serve a mighty God. He's the same yesterday, he's the same today, he's the same forever. When God says yes, no man can say no. When God lifts you up, no man can bring you down. God is on your side. Power is on your side. Favor is on your side. Glory is on your side. Shut fire, shut fire, shut fire, shut fire. Hey, listen, your heart is too precious to be broken by a human being. Your heart is too precious. When people think they're trying to make you cry, what God is doing, God wants to frustrate them by making them come to their end, so that when God opens a door for you, they will not share in the glory. Am I talking to somebody? Whoever has vowed to make you see tears in the presence of your enemy, you will celebrate.
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Whoever has vowed to make you see tears in their presence, you will celebrate. Listen, put your hand down. Hear this. I was called to pray for a man in the hospital. He was vomiting blood. The doctor says his intestines were squeezed. He said the bones had a problem. The kidney was almost picking up. All kinds of medical conditions that the liver and the kidney had a cancer. And while they were doing this, he was in the hospital for two months. So I was called to pray for him. While he was in the hospital, his younger brothers gathered and started sharing his property. They said, you, you are going to take the land. They were saying all kinds of things because they said it's not coming back. They had gathered. A man was not dead. They had met the lawyer. Say, come and read the will. Now, read his will. The man was in hospital. A glance on him. While I was praying, the Holy Ghost said to me, tell him that he will not go anywhere until 17 days. I said, don't move out now till 17 days. Don't allow people know that you are alive. Keep that to yourself. I spoke to the wife. I spoke to the first son. The first son was very, very, very M. It was M. You know, very poor. Rustic. Very poor. When I see boys like that, it gets me irritated. Your father's wealth is being taken from you, and you are there. Uncle, it's not good, though. Very poor. So I told him, he said, sir, I don't know. I have no power of my own. I have no power of my own. And I told the man when they, that they had messed up the wife. That is when the man walked in. They saw him. They were shouting, confused. The man came with policemen. They had beaten his wife, embarrassed his children, locked the gate of the house. Only them have access to it. Even his clothes, he couldn't get them to, to, they couldn't bring them into in the hospital. But the man made up his mind that these people, they must face the music. Carried policemen, got all of them arrested. And I said to myself, we are, we are living in a terrible generation. A man is not dead, his property is being shared. A man is not dead, they already telling the wife, you are the cause of the death, a death that you have not confirmed. So that's the kind of world we live in. God knows, and that is why God prepared himself that when the enemy, Isaiah 59:19, shall come like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard. No matter what is fighting you, I release a standard in the name of Jesus. No matter what's oppressing you, what is contending with your life, with your family, I release a standard in the name of Jesus. Are you ready to pray? Are you ready to pray? One prayer. Are you ready? Are you ready? When the enemy comes like a flood, your enemies, they have their strategy, they have their plans. The prayer I pray is, oh Lord, let your energy fall on the strategy of my enemies, of my foes. There are two kinds of opposition. There is enemy and there is foe. He said, even my enemies and my my foes came up to eat my flesh. Foes, foes are those all they want is your death. All they want to hear is that you are no more alive. My enemies and my foes, let your energy fall upon the strategy of my enemies. Let your prosperity collide on my poverty. Let your energy lift your right hand of fire. Say, my father, my father, I begin to pray. Let your energy fall upon the strategies of my enemies. Open your mouth and fire prayer. Shout in Jesus name.
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When, when the enemy shall come like a flood, Satan is never calm in attack. He comes for trouble. He said, but the spirit of the Lord. Come, my sister. Come, stand, stand. I'm seeing robbery. I'm robbers broke, broke. They broke into your husband's village, sir. Your husband's house in the village? Yes, sir. Uku? Yes, sir. And they carried the properties? Yes, sir. Go outside. When did that happen? Friday. This Friday. Go outside. The, they, it's in the place. I'm seeing. Look at it. Madame, is, look at it. It's your husband's house at Uku. Your late husband. And they carried, they carried everything. Mach, St. Everything. My property. They carried all the property. They destroyed the house. They destroyed the house. They carried everything away. I'm in the street. I don't have a house. You, in the street? You don't have anything. I don't have a house. I don't have anything. It happened last week. There is a God that answers by fire.
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That's what I'm hearing. I don't know. It's by that name. Enu, please balance this microphone for me. A n a CH. That's what I'm hearing. Who is by that name? I'm, he is, he, you come here. Let's celebrate the Holy Ghost with the clap over.
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Come. They afflicted you with his sickness, with an attack. And presently now, your brother is missing. You have a brother for a long time, they have not seen him. Yes, sir. How long? For three years now. Three years? Yes, sir. I don't know. I'm hearing. Is, is his name Isuna?
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Isuna. There's a woman here. You are a widow, but they are forcing you to marry your husband's brother. It's a serious thing. In fact, the man is troubling you that if you want him to release some things, you should start having something to do with him. You are a widow. Wherever you are, come out. I want, I want to lay hands on you. Your husband's things are being held by his brother. Your husband's things. My brother on green, can I speak to you? Come.
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Here. I don't know what your prayer may be, but I made up my mind. Whoever doesn't want to see my good, I will prosper while they're having the obituary.
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Amen. You didn't, you didn't hear what I said. I made up my mind. Where there are certain people. Do you know, do you know why Paul was busy going about? Some people vowed that they will not eat or drink until they kill him.
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My sister, there. Can you come? You stand there. I'm seeing your family. No, that sister there. You, young girl with blue stripes. I'm seeing your family. There's no prosperity in the whole family. I'm talking to you. Come here. That here. That
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Lady. The major thing God wants to end in your family is poverty and lack. It's very strong. And God wants to use you to do that. Are you following me? God wants to use you. You have gone through so many abandonments. You know what it means to be abandoned. Now you are alone. You are doing everything alone. You are thinking of yourself alone. There's nobody who is rendering assistance. But there is a God that is the helper. I want us to pray. Judgmental prayer. Please, if you know, know that you are not ready to hear a news, don't pray.