PLAY THIS MIDNIGHT BATTLE PRAYER EVERY NIGHT AS YOU SLEEP | APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN

Engage in strategic prayer. Listen, there are seasons of attack in a believer's life, or a season of pruning, and making their seasons of deep spiritual emphasis. There are seasons of prayer and intercession.

That's not the time to pray morning and evening; that's the time to pray anyhow and any time because you are in a season. Your anchor will be your prayer. Hallelujah! Day and night you are praying, "Lord, I don't know what is happening to my life, but I'm praying." You have your prayer time in the morning, you have your prayer time in the evening, but every time is prayer time.

Every time is prayer time. An evil report: your wife just lost a child. Jakarta Brandeis, what are you doing? I am praying. Why? I'm in a season. Is any man afflicted? James chapter 5 and verse 13 says, "Let him pray." Let him pray, not let him discuss, not let him grumble around, not let him call God names and say, "I will backslide." Let him pray.

Psalm 34, please, from verse four to seven, and then the last part, and we will pray. Psalm 34, hashtag: "I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears." Next verse, while reading to four to seven: "They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed."

Verse six: "The poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles." Last verse: "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them." Prayer is a powerful weapon in all seasons, but especially this season.

"Lord, what is happening around my life? My wife just got attacked, my son just got attacked, my job just got attacked. I am not understanding what is happening." I set myself like Daniel unto prayer. God grants you grace; you can add with fasting.

This spiritual laziness of eating anyhow, any time. Many believers now fast as a ceremony. Three days fasting, you carry it on your head as if you see this is 12 years fasting. If you love food more than your destiny, life will cheat you again and again. Food is okay, but please let me tell you, mighty ones, you must learn to show food that your spirit man has grown above it.

There are many of you here; you cannot remember. I may be wrong; I'm not saying you should do it, please. I'm not saying you should do it, but as far as I'm concerned, there are spiritual levels that if you get to, a week should never pass that you did not fast. You are joking. You are joking. Not with what you are doing to hell; you are joking. Seven days? Ah, no!

My, to the King, listen, let me tell you this. I will continue to teach you this secret: real victory in prayer is gotten while men sleep. Real victory is not gotten shouting around, just making noise. Real men of power contact power when men sleep. May God give you the grace to rise above sleep.

I'm praying from the... May God give you the grace to not allow sleep to cheat you. That God can wake you up in the night. No light, off the light; you are praying. Don't allow distractions; you are praying. The next thing you see, one of your trousers, and it's enough to destroy. Off the light; you can use your phone light. You are in the night alone, and watch what happens.

Nobody sees what you are doing, but there is a register. Every day you are signing. It is the day you get to the stage to preach; that's when God will not disappoint you. You don't come on stage and talk nonsense: "Lion of the tribe of Judah, Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, Rose of this and that." God is not a scammer; he's not a magician.

No track record in the secret place, you will flatter yourself to nothing in the open. Please learn to pray in the night. Learn to pray in the night. Learn to pray in the night. Receive grace to dedicate night times and pray. God didn't give you a house just to keep things done everywhere to a prayer altar.

Turn your toilet to a prayer altar. Turn your living room to a prayer altar. When everyone has gone off the television, don't pray watching a film, even if it's a Christian movie. You are not praying; shut it down. "Lord, this is me and you here."

I don't know what is happening to my life. Jacques, a time will come; your tongues begin to change. What you are saying will never be what you started with. You have entered a level in the spirit. Tongues are languages, and there are levels of power contact. Clonings that cannot be uttered.

You get to a point in the spirit where you begin to pray. There are times that only one word, one phrase will come out of your mouth for minutes. Praise while receiving power. Prayer is not something you do in a group so that people will see you and think you're a prayer warrior. Don't joke with your destiny like that.

Don't joke with your destiny like that. The Bible says to enter and shut the door behind you. Shut the door behind you and pray to your Father who is in secret. You don't need to have a prayer point; you don't need to have a prayer point. Just stay there and begin to pray.

And while you are praying, your flesh is weak, but your spirit is willing. Listen, can I tell you this? There is a level of fire you bring on any attack in your life; it must give way. It must give way. Fire is an emblem of the spirit. It is one of the emblems of revival. It is one of the emblems that show that the spirit is in a place.

Fire does not only refine; fire is for judgment. There are times you need to stay like a priest upon the watch. My brother, my sister, if you pray from your heart, some things will shift. You will wake up in the morning knowing you shifted this through prayer.

There are attacks that only prayer can challenge. "Pray for me, pray for me" is wonderful, but you must become the priest of your destiny. Can someone just blast in tongues for just one or two minutes?

Salah makata, shanakandas. Unto him that answers prayer shall all flesh come. Lord, I'm in a season of my life; I cannot afford to be lazy. I'm in a season of my life; I cannot allow my prayer life to go down. It's too risky. Not for this season, not for this season. This is the wrongest time to be prayerless.

This is the longest time to be prayerless. Oh, take away slumber from my eyes. Take away slumber, oh God. There are stores to settle in the realm of the spirit. There are things to shift in the realm of the spirit. There are things lying in the realm of the spirit. I need to legislate spiritual realities.

While men slept, while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares. Pray, pray outside, pray.

Woe to them, what is in Zion? Woe to them who are easy, who sit upon the white horse. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We're praying Psalm 125. Prayer gives you stamina to pass through seasons. Jesus prayed; otherwise, he would have given up.

He said, "Peter, Satan desires to sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith fail not. And when you are converted, use the same strategy to strengthen." Strengthen. Prayer, I say, strengthens. "They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abideth forever."

Next verse: "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even forever." Next verse: "For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put his hands in iniquity."

Next verse: "Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts." While reading till the last verse: "As for such as turn aside in their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity, but peace upon Joshua Salman."

Prayer gives you stability. In the next two or three minutes, you are going to pray and say, "Lord, let this prayer stabilize me. I shouldn't be shaking over everything. I should be able to laugh at certain storms and say, 'Jesus is Lord.'" Lift your voice and pray. Stability, power, stamina.

The Lord is my light and my salvation. The Lord is the strength of my life. Stability of God, stability, oh God. The Bible says if you turn aside in the day of battle, your strength is small. Your strength is small.

Give me capacity, endurance, stamina. The grace to pass through for the sake of my family. The grace to pass through for the sake of my generation. The grace to pass through for the sake of my loved ones.

Be strong, be strong, be strong, be strong in the Lord. Don't be weak; be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Be strong in the Lord, calling on her. Be strong in the Lord. Be strong in the Lord.

Don't entertain weakness; be strong in the Lord. You are not the weak ones; you are strong. Hallelujah! By the spirit that raised Christ from the dead, we crush the works of darkness.

Now pay attention; I'm praying for you. I declare and declare that if this is as a result of territorial covenants, activities of ancestry that authorize darkness to launch attacks over lives, over churches, over ministries, over individuals, mysterious diseases that you had no part in, I pray by the God of heaven tonight, let there be liberty for you.

Let there be liberty for you. Let there be liberty for you. I challenge suicidal spirits over this territory of Zaria, the spirits that cause young people to kill themselves and waste their lives. In the name that is above all names, we command that spirit to be banished from this territory.

The spirit of discouragement, the spirit of exhaustion, in the name of Jesus, we declare now and forever. Many of us believe life is intellectual, so we think that the moment you are educated, as far as we know education to be, the enlightenment, secular enlightenment, we believe we are ready for living.

Other people think life is just biological, so the older you grow, you think your growth is qualifying you for living. Are we together? Other people think life is sociological, so the more you know people, you believe you have what it takes to live.

But I'm telling you this: life is spiritual. Find out how many people's destinies have gone in shambles because they are not having this spiritual intelligence that life is spiritual. Everything, brothers and sisters, about life is spiritual.

You go back to the book of the beginnings, Genesis, and everything is spiritual. Everything is spiritual. In the beginning, the Bible says God created. Now, that is... I tell you, we can dwell weeks just talking about Genesis 1, verse 1.

In the beginning, what beginning? God created the heavens and the earth. So where was he? Because he created the heavens; he created the earth, meaning he was not in any of those places. Where was he? The Bible calls him dwelling in a place of unapproachable light, governing the affairs of men from that standpoint.

God created, not invented. The earth was not invented; the heavens were not invented; they were created. Created with the intelligence of a superior being.

So it's foolish to walk upon the earth wondering if there is a synergy to the happenings of things. Life is spiritual. The earth upon which you walk is spiritual. You, as an entity, are spiritual.

Unfortunately, only witches and wizards know this. Are we together now? Only the people who destroy the destinies of men in villages know this. The average believer is generally aware of the spirituality of life but has not come into an understanding that one of the keys to spiritual intelligence is to come to terms with the fact that life and everything about it is spiritual.

Life and everything about it, no matter how trivial, no matter how scientific, is spiritual. Hallelujah! When you understand the spirituality of life, then all of a sudden you will start seeing a line connecting dots as to the happenings of people's lives.

Listen, a man does not just get up and become poor like that. A family does not just get up and not make progress just like that. A man does not just beat his wife just like that. A wife does not just beat her husband just like that. The source of that strength requires investigation.

Are we together now? A small child does not become so audacious that he looks at his father and says, "I can kill you." No, no, no, no. The source of that audacity has to be investigated. Life is spiritual.

A church does not just grow; members don't just carry their Bibles from different points and start saying, "Let's go to the same place," without knowing themselves. There's no wire connecting them. You don't just open a shop and everybody from everywhere decides that they want to come to you. No, sir.

No, sir. Life is spiritual. You see men moving all around, and you do not know what moves them. Spirituality of life. Someone decides to help you, but you show up, and something about your life you are not aware of makes the person drive you away.

Someone promises to marry you, even goes to see your parents, and all of a sudden, introduction has been done. He just comes up and says, "I had a strange dream; I can't understand." That's not the first time of having a dream, but because of that dream, you lose out on an opportunity.

Brothers and sisters, if you understand that life is spiritual, you are already, without even understanding the little gritties, ahead of many people in life. I will never treat my life from a scientific perspective. No, I will never treat ministry from a scientific perspective.

In the realm of the spirit, one plus one is not two. You have to define what one is; you have to define what two is; you have to define what other factors are in the equation. We run our lives scientifically; we run our lives intellectually, sociologically, and we become victims.

The book of Job is full of mysteries that open up the reality of the spirituality of life. When you look at the book of Psalms, David opened us to the spirituality of life. When you read Psalm 91, he starts by saying, "He that dwells in the secret place."

Question: where is that location today? Because David said a man can dwell here. Have you found it? Where is it? Like an address, David is giving us an address where people can find safety, and he never said the police station.

"He that dwells somewhere." There is a place a man can stand that you become immune. "He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High." Then the second shocking thing is, "shall abide not under the light, under the shadow."

What is that? Abide under a shadow? That means your shadow has a spiritual implication. This thing you look at, listen, listen, listen. I'm not talking of all these movies around you and let you fall down. I'm talking of something deeper.

You know physics just tells us when light is cast on an object, it creates a shadow. That's as far as you know. But the Bible says men can dwell under a man's shadow.

Do you love Jesus? We love the Bible, right? So, I mean, you are not the way you are looking at me as if I'm teaching here. It's right in the Bible. "Shall abide under." He gives the shadow of God a three-dimensional explanation.

You can come on. Then he says, "I will say of the Lord, he is this and that and that and that." Please give it to us, Psalm 91. Let's look at it. Yes, that's the song, your influence all over me.

But too, and I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God; in him I will trust." So let's see why verse one and two is the verse three. He says, "Surely he shall deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence."

Look at all these descriptions; they are descriptions of strange things. You don't see them with your optical eyes, but their effects are as physical as anything. Verse four: "He shall cover thee with what?"

Stop! Hold on! Describe a man for me with a three-dimensional shadow and has feathers somewhere in his body. Which part of him has feathers? Because he was not just speaking a parable. He says, "He shall cover thee with his feathers."

Then, "Under his wings shall thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield." That means in the realm of the spirit, truth is not an information; truth is a physical reality. It's a shield; you can hold it like I'm holding a tie.

Truth is an object relatable. Are you getting something now? You will be so blessed if you pay attention to what I'm telling you. This is not even... I just want us to look at it, just play around it.

It says, "Because of all these provisions, this is the only condition where thou shalt not be afraid." Because there is something called terror by night. Everybody say, "Terror by night."

No matter how peaceful an environment is, the Bible says once it is night, there is a mystery of darkness and terror. Listen, the Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers.

Then he says rulers of darkness; they cannot rule in light. The moment... It's not talking of spiritual darkness. The moment there is physical darkness, it is a sign they are authorized to come out like animals that can only come out in the night.

So the Bible calls it terror by night. Yet night time, people like... That's why people die in the night. They drink in the night. When you see a man drinking by seven in the morning, he sees a stupid man already. Something is wrong with his life.

But that's an acute complication. No, many things happen to people in the night. The destinies of men are exchanged by night. There are men that sit down and discuss; they have played the destinies of men like a chess.

Terror by night, not just terrorism as we know. Are you aware that there is such provision? Spiritual intelligence: number one, life is spiritual. Thou shalt not be afraid of the arrows that fly by day.

Have you ever seen them? Have you ever seen an arrow flying somewhere? But he said there are arrows that fly by day. Only God knows how many people he cheats today because he flies every day.

You get up and leave your house, and something happens. Please pay attention to what I'm telling you. Life is spiritual. Job chapter one: a meeting was being held in the heavenlies. Satan now comes, and a conversation is engaged.

"Have you considered my servant Job?" While they are discussing that, Job is on earth minding his business, and all of a sudden, things begin to nosedive in Job's life. It's amazing how many people try to ignore the spirituality of life and expect to rise in life.

It's impossible. It's impossible. And more so, this is Africa. You know we just pretend. I'm not talking of witchcraft; the portals of Africa are open to spirituality.

It doesn't matter through which force. I'm just saying the portals of Africa as a continent are richly open. Have you not heard of men walking back home, and they hand slapped them?

Have you heard of those kinds of things? A real three-dimensional hand, but they didn't see it. You don't have to see it to feel it. Are we together?

And the person goes back, and all of a sudden, one of us showed me a picture of his dad yesterday. Half of the leg had been eaten. You can literally see the bones like that, half of it.

Do you know what happened? He was sleeping. A mystery happened. He woke up, and all of a sudden, that leg physically... There are many things you call sicknesses; you don't even know where it came from.

"I'm sick." You go to the hospital; they tell you there is nothing wrong with you. They check everything. You know the doctor even says, "Stop coming here; you are wasting our time."

But you know you are not feeling fine. Are we together? Mysteries that cannot be explained. Life is spiritual.

I learned this very early: the spirituality of life, the spirituality of ministry, the spirituality of living. When you know this, your pursuit for God does not become... You know, every time you see somebody unusually zealous, they just say, "Kai, this guy, I'm sure you are going to be a pastor," or "This lady, I'm sure God is already grooming you."

He has isolated you, and he's grooming you to be a pastor's wife. No, the key to survival is to become spiritually minded. Please hear what I'm saying.

Some of our parents right now ignore this, and they are paying for it daily. There are mysteries in people's families they do not understand. Life is everything spiritual.

When Jesus came, his breath was spiritual. Everything about it. Now look at this, for God's sake. A woman is minding her business, probably imagining what dress will I wear for my wedding.

All of a sudden, a stranger just appears. "Hail Mary!" He didn't even say, "What is your name, man?" "Hail Mary!" In other words, we have been watching you; your name is Mary.

We know you don't have to tell anyone your name. In the realm of the spirit, no, sir. No, sir. If God ever asks you, "What is your name?" it's for a reason.

I mean, it doesn't make sense for him to ask you, "What is your name?" He wants to change it. Then that's when he was... Yeah, in scripture, Saul, Paul, and all of that.

But that they are asking you because they want you to supply an information? No, no, no. Are we together? Do you know, let me teach you something.

You can never see a spirit being and be the same, whether a demon, whether an angel. You may never know what happens to you. Brothers and sisters, listen.

If this is a shrine and you just run by mistake, I say, "Oh, the wrong place," as you never will live the same. No, it's impossible. Impossible.

You thought you ran too fast to be seen. The realm of the spirit is not like that. Please understand what I'm saying. If you know this, that you are coming for colonial, you may be sitting outside, you will never feel bad again because you realize that, wow, this thing is that it's just because we are... Because of the physical comfort of maybe being inside and all of that, but it makes no difference.

That's why you can be saying God is touching somebody, and someone in the second overflow is flying here. You die; you are close. You are now looking at God. You mean you jumped me?

Listen, the Holy Spirit does not move with time and distance. These two factors don't exist. No, no, no, no, no. Like you say, "I have to touch you before touching you." That's physics.

In the realm of the spirit, you don't do that. Are we together? Are you understanding this? So you can never see a spirit being.

Anybody that tells you he has been having encounters with spirits, I think you should respect that person, whether in a negative way or positive way. If the person is lying, if the person is telling the truth, no, you are meeting a dangerous person for good or for bad.

Most of the world leaders interact with spirits. Please look at me; let me preach to you. Forget the fact that you see everybody wearing suits and going for forums. They have been advised, counseled, rebuked, directed by strange spirits.

There are documentaries upon documentaries on my system that prove to you that no man... Let me teach you something, brothers and sisters. You want to be famous? A day will come; a spirit must show up in your life to say, "All right, now that you have gotten to this level, we have to negotiate."

For it to go further, I give you a guarantee: 100%. If Jesus does not appear to you, an angel sent from God does not appear to you, a demon will.

Somebody is seen; it's like a ram. You keep rising; nobody disturbs you. But you get to a point; they say, "Okay, everybody that rises from here right now." The realm of the spirit cannot be strange to such a person.

That's why you enter a business meeting; somebody looks at you; you look at him; two of you know yourselves. Everybody knows what he has touched or otherwise. There is a level you cannot be neutral.

Believe what I'm telling you. When you see people doing some things they are doing, they have seen something. When a woman looks at you and says, "I will kill you," mark my words, you better take it seriously.

Either pray or stand on the confidence of what you now know. But you say, "I have this word." You just... You would really die because you see, let me tell you, there are too many laws that can remove your spirit from your body.

Many, many laws. Not just death; there are many spiritual laws that can separate a man's body from his spirit. Any of them can be manipulated to kill you.

You see that sickness and accident are physical expressions of the commonest laws that are used to separate people's bodies from their spirits. Like you skin a cow.

Have you gone to the abattoir? You see them; they have a skill; they skin a cow. There is a mystery that can remove your spirit from your body, and many people move carelessly, and then it happens.

It may happen through a car; it may happen through different things, but it is still a manifestation of this. You cannot sit on certain positions being neutral. It's impossible.

I remember one of our friends years ago; he got a job, and I remember him saying they were paying them. They were struggling; they were paying them fifty thousand, and they were paying the profits one point two.

Now, if they don't call it salary, they call it honorary, but it's still a release of something from the giver to the person who needs it. They pay you fifty thousand for laborious study of five, six years under the most stringent conditions possible, and somebody just throws and comes in, and they give the person one point two.

You know why? Because that person has an advantage; he can do something. Life is spiritual. Life is spiritual. Life is spiritual.

I don't have to see you to talk to you. Life is spiritual. Life is spiritual. People's lives are being manipulated without their will. Life is spiritual.

Many of us were born in pure Christian families; we never had any touch with idolatry, so you don't understand the spirituality of life. But for a few people who feared off here and there, did one or two things, life is spiritual.

Grandparents just come out and sit on the ground, and after a few minutes, they stand up and say, "It's all right; it will be well with you." Go, and you're saying, "What did they see?"

Life is spiritual. In the Bible, before they fought wars, they were going to ask the kings and prophets, "Please, will we win?" And then they will say, "There's trouble."

And then they will say, "How can we change it?" Now, this is the part of spirituality that shocks me: the ability to change things. Change things by the spirit.

Like a cleaner, I look and I find out that this is supposed to happen. Then you clean it as if there's nothing there. "Oh, you were supposed to die tomorrow."

Then somebody just cleans it. What advantage do you have? Do you understand that your life is spiritual? When you sit down in that class, do you know that it's not just one person sitting down? Life is spiritual.

Now, it's not to just make us irresponsible and just see demons in everything. When I talk of the spirituality of life, I'm not just talking about demons; I'm talking about the presence of spirits to guarantee anything happening to you.

The concept of being an atheist is another class of deception. Life is very spiritual. You see a lot of people come to dig a well. After they dig a well, the water comes out, they'll tell you, "Go and look for chicken."

Has that happened to you? Go and look for chicken. They slaughter the chicken and make incantations in the well, and the water will never stop coming. Think about that.

Do you know the water on earth is older than everybody on earth? Now, I hope you know that the water on earth is older than everybody on earth. You are not drinking a person; you are not drinking a substance; you are drinking history.

This was only bottled; only God knows who laid hands on this water. Could it be part of Noah's flood? You just know you are just swallowing it, and then your body just reacts.

You take something, and all of a sudden, your body reacts. I'm comfortable. Hi, come on, you're listening.

Listen, listen, let me teach you these things. If you do not understand it, don't be great. Just get a war room apartment, get married, have two or three children, be a kingdom financier, and wait for the day you'll be with the Lord.

But that you want to rise in this world we're living in? No. We're traveling to Benin Republic. I think I told when we got somewhere, a man, one lengthy guy, very lengthy guy, just looking like all these smokers.

He looked at me and he called my name, "Joshua." You've seen them now. You see them in markets; they look at you, and in five minutes, they start giving word of knowledge.

You've not seen those kinds of people? They look at you and say, "Madam, why is Joshua stubborn like this?" Now, he said, "Don't disturb me." But because they mentioned Joshua, life is spiritual.

Lo, I come in the volume of the book, as it is written. It is written. I just appeared, but something has been written, a script, a script about your life written.

When you understand the spirituality of life, then you also know that you have an advantage by the spirit to manipulate things to be consistent with the word of God in your life.

This is the rebel. This is where I'm taking you to. When I understand that life is spiritual, I don't monitor physical results because I know that there is a loop through the spirit where things can be corrected.

Are you seeing that now? At that point, I stopped worrying. Shabbat, Allah, because I know there is an advantage. The advantage is my access, my access to spirituality.

I can be assisted by a spirit being, in this case, the Holy Spirit. Listen, one of my best scriptures in the Bible is, "Then the secret was revealed unto Daniel."

A beast of a man just came and said, "If you don't tell me my dream and the solution, I will kill you." And he said, "King, don't be hasty; don't worry. Let's just go and sleep."

While other people were sleeping, he knew that something happened to men at night. The night is also a time for revelation.

Listen, you try praying in the night and try praying in the day. If you pray seriously, come and tell me the difference. Come and tell me the difference.

This one is like my office; I can tell you everything you want to know about it. The nighttime, I have soaked out the mysteries of the night in a very strange way.

The Magi came out, and they saw a star, and they started smiling. They said, "A king is born, not a child; a king is born." And they started going.

When they met Herod, they said, "We came from the east based on our study. We have books here prophesying and a physical star." Because in Genesis chapter one, he said he made the stars to signify times and seasons.

Times, seasons. Hallelujah! So they looked at it, and then it led them to the place. And when they got there, they saw a baby.

But because they knew that it was not a baby, they started worshipping him. If you are worshipping a Jimmy's child, wouldn't somebody know that? They'll say they want to kill your child to me.

But now, two, three, or where the Bible doesn't say three men, but we know much. I came from the east, and they are worshipping someone because they are seeing more than that.

And all of a sudden, an angel appears and says, "Run away with this child; they want to kill him. Run quickly." Do you know why? Because Jesus could die.

The reality is that the angel would not waste his time and say, "Run away with that child" if he could not die. He could die. If they disobeyed that angel, they would have killed him.

The only thing is the body would not decay, but he would die. Yeah, he would die. Are we together?

When Jesus fasted 40 days and 40 nights, Satan was waiting. Very strange. Immediately he finished, he just showed up.

Now watch this: if the devil is near you, wouldn't you drive him? But here he is working with Jesus. Satan working with Jesus, please come.

You are not the devil in Jesus' name; say amen. But watch this: I'm minding my business, and somebody appears, and I look, and I say, "Satan, you again?"

Think about that. This is what happened in your Bible. And he said, "Ah, Jesus, you are hungry. Turn this stone into bread."

And I said, "It is written." And he didn't disappear; he didn't go. He continued with another temptation. He said, "Jesus, follow me; let me show you something."

And Jesus followed him. Your Bible, they went up the mountain. Look at all the glories of the earth. Hold on! Where is that mountain where a man can stand and see the glories of the world at once?

Is it Mount Everest? It's a mystery. These guys just came out of the physical realm into the realm of the spirit and said, "Stan, I show you all the kings I have empowered."

Is it like a window? Like you just step out into a door and show Jesus all the glories? He said, "If you bow to me, I will give you."

If you bow to me, that is the mystery of the wealth of sinners. If you bow to me, I will give you. So when you say you want to be blessed and not bow, he says, "No, you can't eat your cake and have it."

Your allegiance, and then I give you every other thing, and you say, "No, I will have it." Are you seeing so? You just get up and say, "Why are Christians not getting jobs?"

Now you understand. He took him and showed him the system. "Bow to me." So you want a job, but you don't want to bow to him.

You must find out what provision has been made because Jesus conquered him. Then he now took him up a cliff, and he said, "Jump down."

He said, "He shall put his angels in charge over you." Look at Satan quoting scriptures. The guy you call Satan, by the way, let's not... It's not that we're talking about Satan.

Do you really know who he is? Look up, please. Are you getting blessed? Am I boring you tonight? Who exactly is Satan? A guy with a horn, as Nigerian females depicted?

No, that's just to help you understand. Who exactly is Satan? Because according to scripture, we see that Satan is a person. He can be... Satan is not omniscient, not all-knowing.

The ignorance of Satan is clear from Genesis to Revelation. There are many things he did not know. Are we together? Number two, Satan is not only present; many times, he's at a spot.

He can be everywhere; he's focusing on the issues that are most important. Question three: is Satan down, up, or where? Where does he live now today?

Because when we say down, now Satan, up, up Jesus, none of them is living up or down. That's not the address of any of them. It's not the address of any of them.

You go up; I guarantee you're not going to see anything there. You see that? Because I hope you know that this our realm is suspended in space.

Space that even scientists don't know. There is no reference to measure where we are at now, and it was concealed by the wisdom of God. You can't tell whether we're in the mid... Where exactly are we?

You call this solid; you are standing here now, but you are floating and moving around. Think about it. Yet the Bible says it has foundations.

The earth, your earth, Jesus himself, or God speaking now told Job that the earth has foundations. Who is Satan? Why does he make you afraid?

Please look at me; let somebody be delivered now. Who is that guy that threatens the whole world? Where is he now? If you call him, will he come?

Are we together now? Do you know there was a time in the civilization of God's kingdom where Satan was not there? He was not even created.

I hope you know Satan has a creation date. He was not born. So he was created. Are we together now? Let me shock you.

Number two, I hope you know Satan is not the most dangerous of spirits, evil spirits. No, of course, the Bible never teaches that Satan is the most dangerous of the spirit.

No, there are spirits currently now that were bound in everlasting chains. Now, as I speak, they could not be released because even the elect, if they are released, they may not stand them.

Now, as I speak, there are spirits bound, but Satan is going to and fro. He is not part of them. I want you to understand this.

You see, you disarm darkness when you have light. You disarm darkness when you have light. All through scripture, we see that demons can be told what to do, and they can be told where to go, and under certain conditions, they must obey.

Are we together now? So how does Satan carry out the advancement of all of these things? How does he do that? You see somebody who minds his business, and you begin to pray for him.

He's manifesting; the power of God is upon him, and he's vomiting something physical, vomiting razor, vomiting this and that. Now, that's an ugly thing, frankly speaking, but I mean, it's a shock.

I've counseled so many people. I remember one gentleman who said that their father took all of them for protection. After making incisions on them, God is my witness, they gave all of them two rays of blade, physical sharp rays of blade.

The man said, "Just close your eyes and eat it." Guys, are you joking? This is razor. And they said they threw it in their mouth, and they were shocked.

They didn't wound them; they didn't do anything; it disappeared. Nobody swallowed their own. Now, when a result disappears in your mouth, you have to find out where it went to.

Say after me, "Life is spiritual." There are people who end their salaries; their physical money disappears. I'm not saying sickness took it.

You kept 29; you come and find 15 naira, yet you are alone in the room. There are individuals that have strange visitations by men, women, strange beings in the night.

A spirit comes and then comes to sleep with you or do certain things, and you get up with all kinds of things. You have a dream that there was an incision; you wake up physically with a mark, with blood.

Was that just a story? A spirit having an affair between a dream? Because spirits are neither male nor female. You understand?

So there is no reason why you should be having that. Let me explain to you the mysteries behind people's lives that they don't know. Pay attention to what I'm saying.

We live in a world that you must have spiritual intelligence. There are four things I'm talking about. Maybe I'll just take this one today because I can dwell here and explain to you the mystery behind the happenings of people just like that.

Life is spiritual. All of a sudden, in three weeks, promise men start coming to your life to favor you. Where were they? What happened before that they didn't come?

Somebody spoke to you; he didn't give you money; he just spoke to you. You didn't see anything leaving him; it's not even that his saliva touched you.

He just said something to you, and you left believing you carried something, and you come out, and people start treating you in a certain way. Say after me, "Life is spiritual."

You had the testimony of that dear lady about the favor. How many of you have been crying, and your helpers are next door, but they cannot speak to you?

But all of a sudden, something happens, and you begin to see people arise for you. Life is spiritual. Every one of you seated here, as many as you are, look at people standing outside.

And I say this with all humility: human beings are not idiots. Nobody comes to stand outside in the cold and just watching because he's trying to... What is so special about the man of God?

Everyone say, "Life is spiritual." It's not just poster; it's not just balloons. There are mysteries.

You know, sometimes I watch people when I come for conan, and I see people sit down. I know that the spirit realm brought them. Even them, they are surprised.

"What am I doing here?" Yet you are still coming. Spiritual. Are we together?

When a lady gets married, and all of a sudden, her womb closes, watch this. What is Satan looking for? Why is her womb closing?

She goes to the hospital; the doctor said, "You are fine; we've checked you; you are okay." "Oh God, we checked you; you are okay." But then the child does not come at all.

Two years, three years, five years, the child does not come. And then all of a sudden, they begin to have problems, husband and wife, and then everything scatters.

Are we together? And then watch this: that same woman will live in defiance and go and have an affair with another man and get pregnant instantly.

Instantly! That means it was never about anything wrong with her. There are people who have seen people who are praying for people with HIV.

It's not that they lived a challenged life. No, no. I remember a testimony; I don't know if he was here. That was shed. Someone went to bed in the night.

All of a sudden, a stranger appeared, held a syringe, and told the person, "This thing inside it is HIV." Injected the person. He woke up physically with HIV.

Is there any amount of entry to viral drug that would heal that person? If the sickness came from the realm of the spirit, medicine can only manage it.

The real cure will come from the realm of the spirit. Are we together? Families in disarray because they do not understand that life is spiritual.

There are people who will be driving, driving, going to their place of work at top speed. The cow just locked, locked in one position.

I've spoken with many people who had accidents. You ask them what happened; they tell you, "I tried to turn the steering. I'm not a challenge driver. I did my best. I was watching myself dying."

You know, I've seen the spirit of death; I know it. It knows me. I've seen the spirit of death. So I know what I'm telling you.

It comes to hospitals in the night, patients in wards, and all of a sudden hovers round. And all of a sudden, people just leave, and in the morning, you come and find out, "So-so person is dead."

There are times it will come over territories, like a city like Zaria, like this. It will just come, is invoked by powers. They do incantations and invoke it.

It can loom around the territory for three weeks, and there are ghastly motor accidents, headache killing men. A pastor just standing on stage preaching, and you collapse and die.

And then after a while, when the invocation has fulfilled its reason for coming, it quietly leaves. You see it happen.

"Break forth, thou fountains after deep." And with us, you, you, Abraham. Abraham is returning from war, and all of a sudden, a strange man appears.

The Bible says no father, no mother. What kind of a man is that? Melchizedek just shows up and says, "Abraham, you don't know me, but I am a king, a king of war."

I've never heard about you; you are a king. Listen, listen. The earth is not the only place that has kings.

Melchizedek said, "I am a king of Salem, an ancient city of peace." Then he looks at Abraham and said, "I'm on assignment."

Abraham gives him a tithe of all, and he says, "Abraham, I want to activate something in your life. Blessed be Abraham, possessor of the heavens and the earth."

Listen, you will never see Melchizedek in the Bible again. The next time Melchizedek shows up is in Jesus.

Hold on! The Bible now calls him a priest after the order of Melchizedek. Read your Bible and see the strangers that met with men that we never saw again.

Never saw again. Never saw again. There are men who started churches. When the churches started growing, one time, all of a sudden, spirits just appear to them.

And the power that controls this territory, we can negotiate. All this Bishop Wale Oke said how that the Kaduna church was not growing.

Still anointed, still with power, the Kaduna church was not growing. And all of a sudden, he said one time they were fasting and praying.

He said, "Life is spiritual." And all of a sudden, he came out, and the Holy Ghost asked him to come out.

He said, "Look," and he looked, and he saw it back there, backfield covering the people. He said, "This is the field that misinterprets what I am doing."

Misinterpreted, and he commanded it, and it leaves. He just left like that, and all of a sudden, members started coming.

What is the relationship between members and this? Have you not heard of people who want to name kings, and they bury their children?

Correct, they bury people alive, and you just get up and come to fight them; you die for nothing. I was in Mina last week, and one of us, the media person, met me.

And then, you know, talking about the security situation around, and he said something. He said a particular village, when there was war about to happen in a particular village, that the people there said, "No problem."

That the people just carried their champs and came and lined it in front of the village. Mysterious substances started killing the armies.

One of them, something at his hand. You don't know what it is. Those people, they have it. When the going gets tough, they bring it out.

Are you aware that life is spiritual? Are you aware that your life is spiritual? When you know this, it should not make you afraid; it should give you the key to changing anything.

When you know that life is spiritual, you will value prayer because you will know that when you pray, among many other things, you are changing things; you are shifting things in the realm of the spirit.

My life today is a product of this singular revelation: life is spiritual. You never see me sit down, and I'm just discussing physical things with people.

I may keep quiet and not, but I am reading between the lines, and when I get it, I say, "Oh, that's it; we know what the problem is."

Listen, Kanonya, let me tell you the relevance of this understanding. You never will try to fight physical people again.

If your roommate is fighting you all the time, know that life is spiritual. Fighting your roommate is when you finish praying.

You find out that they are behaving haywire. Don't you know that there is a spirit that was watching while you were praying? And now you are coming, all of a sudden, they will pour water on your bed.

Because anger is a gateway in the realm of the spirit, so the devil will try to rob you from joy. Joy, with joy shall you draw.

That's why you finish praying, and your father insults you. That's why as you are leaving from Calia, you receive hostilities from people.

When you know that life is spiritual, you will stop being angry, and you stop wasting your time. Let me tell you how many of us have aborted prophecy.

You don't know that life is spiritual. The moment a miracle is about to come, that's when you hear stories that five people said about you.

Satan is moving through men, moving through men. The moment there is a breakthrough, did you hear this about past subjects?

And then you are bitter, and then you are angry, and the demons say, "Praise God! This is exactly what we are looking for."

And all of a sudden, the prophecy is aborted like a woman pregnant. But there are those who understand this, and the moment they are looking at you, they say, "No, no, I know it's not you; you are just a victim of the realm of the spirit."

So I ignore them, and I keep dancing my way to joy. Listen, when Jesus was going to enter a city, do you know how he said we should enter?

He sat down on the horse and said, "People, praise and sing." If Jesus entered that city silently, something dangerous would have happened.

He listened. Do you know joy and laughter are weapons in the spirit? Look at me; look at me.

Let me share something with you, Sam. If you are talking to all of us now and we start laughing and scoring you, what happens to you?

Talk to me. Do you know if I am angry, I promise my joy is to see him angry? When he's angry, then what I have done to make him angry is working.

But when you see somebody that you are praying that something bad happens to him always happy and joyful, it will disarm you.

The Bible says, "Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?" Listen, the kings of the earth, they set themselves right against God and his anointed.

Then he says, "He that sits on the throne..." Hold on! If they say he will fight first, the first thing that happens: laughter is an expression of joy.

Hold on! Hold on! That's why when people are under the anointing, sometimes you see them laughing hysterically.

Now, you are not spiritual, so you just think, "Which kind of men of God are this?" That's serious breakthrough happening to them in the realm of the spirit.

There are people under the anointing; you see them start dancing. I'm not talking of they can't even control themselves dancing, and you may not understand.

When they were going to take the act back, there was a formula. It was always with singing and dancing.

I was sharing with you, Jimmy. I would just share to help you. I think it was yesterday we were talking. I got up in the morning about to pray, and the Lord said, "No, you are not going to pray; you are going to dance before me."

Two hours stretch, non-stop. That's all I did. All I did. I was so tired, and I said, "Wait, wait, wait, style down." By which I mean, "What is all this?"

But I knew I'm smart enough to know life is spiritual. Listen, that two hours may be equivalent to 15 years breakthrough.

Two hours! You ready? You ain't changing God. Oh, life is spiritual! Joshua chapter one, two, three.

And all of a sudden, it says, "Walk around; don't talk; just walk around." What is the stupidity of walking around? Life is spiritual.

You call it madness. A man is walking around once, and then he says on the seventh day... Hold on! Listen, the Bible says the defense of Jericho, five chariots could stand on it.

So even if you turn it, it will still become another fence. Are we together? There are people who are too big for breakthrough.

There are two that they are too carnal and scientific for the stupidity that spirituality requires. Life is spiritual.

They moved around the seventh time. The moment they got there, he said, "Now, don't fight; shout!" Shout!

And the Bible says when they shouted... Listen, hold on! Hold on! Hear me! Sometimes you hear people say, "Give God a shout," or sometimes you sin about two minutes, and I tell you a way to shout the name Jesus.

You may think they are just formulas. Stupidly, you see this is... They want your mind. If you allow people who are depraved and don't know God, they will rubbish your breakthrough.

They will say, "What are you doing? What are you saying?" Same thing with praying in tongues. You are praying in tongues, and someone sees you and says, "You too, you are in this thing. You are doing this thing too."

You too, you are joining them at your age; you went to school. Listen, listen, I tell you, I have mustang how to destroy Jericho in my life.

I know the principles. Life is spiritual. When I found this key, I stopped wasting my time.

Brothers and sisters, let me tell you how to come out of any trouble in your life. Should I tell you? Listen, after you finish praying, listen, I want you to laugh and dance.

Dance is a strange mystery of deliverance. Strange mystery. Believe what I'm telling you.

Dance is a strange mystery of deliverance. Doctor Kenneth Copeland asked Bishop Oyedepo and said, "You claim we taught you faith, but how comes you are able to pack over 50 thousand people, four services?"

And where they could say, "I dance every one of those people to church." See, listen, there is a time to pray, but there is a time to engage other things.

And you get what I'm saying? The Bible calls it the sacrifice of praise. It didn't say the music of praise; it's a sacrifice.

It will cost you, but it will tear your heavens open. Listen, you have not seen breakthrough till you know how to rejoice before God.

There's nothing I know that paralyzes Satan like an expression of praise. Joy is one of the seven mysteries God revealed to me.

Seven mysteries. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Let me show you how men have commanded victory in their lives.

When you don't know the key and you don't know that life is spiritual, you will waste your time. Cheap victories, you will never get it.

I remember a woman who shared a testimony. She was burying, and then she started bleeding. She took him, and then she started bleeding.

And she went to a man of God who happened to be a doctor. True story. And the man said, "Madame, thought right now, honestly, this thing, of course, you know what that means, it's over. Just trust God for grace."

And the woman said, "No, I know what my Bible says." I might say, "Well, you know I'm a pastor, but I'm also a medical practitioner."

When he finished everything, the woman said she did. You know what they said? Dancing with you. Not you put the jill and put songs.

What she said, she danced her way, and that child returned from wherever he was. Listen, if you don't believe what I'm telling you, honestly, you can go home.

Cononia has finished for you this night so that you don't waste your time. You are too big to engage these mysteries.

Some things will never happen in your life. Never happen. Hallelujah! There are mysteries.

When the devil wants to get your life, he will use men. Listen, every time you start seeing strange attacks, it's a sign that something is about to drop.

Be careful; be sensitive. Bitterness will start coming. Are we together now? Betrayal will come, all kinds of things.

They are demon spirits desperate trying to use men to look for access to sabotage. And that's why I use joy, joy, joy, joy.

Rejoicing, dancing, all these things distract you till the miracle comes. Find a man who has refused to get angry; I'll show you a winner.

I'll show you a winner. Some of you, all these, "I'm like that," you will never rise beyond certain levels.

In our family, we are like that. If I'm hungry, should I not say it? Apostle, I'm a human being.

You will sit there as a human being and die like men. Mysteries! This life is spiritual.

You are looking for rent, and the rent has refused to come. Do you know there are times in your life there is nothing about you that can bring that miracle?

You are not expecting money from anybody; there is no hope of anything coming. Those are the times you engage this.

You don't go around just saying, "Sir, the other day I spoke to you. I'm seeing here. Is it that you are not seeing me?"

No! Let God talk to them. You talk to God. You engage the mysteries, and while you are dancing like a mad person, do you know there are people between now and Friday you will see the strange testimonies that will come in your life if you understand that life is spiritual.

This is the foolishness some of us have adopted. Oh, who have been stupid enough to do it, and God has proven himself in a very dangerous way.

When we were going for crusade, remember when our car stopped? Let me give you a real testimony. The car refused to move. They kicked it; it did not move.

Remember we prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed. They kicked it; all of a sudden, we were tired; everybody was discouraged.

Steve Strings just took the guitar and started playing. That was how we started singing. There are witnesses. We kicked that guy; it started till we got to the crusade ground.

When you understand that life is spiritual, you will know that it's not about your roommate. This is the only way to love people.

So there's somebody now that you are bitter against, but you are turning your attention to the wrong person, and you are giving access to spirits.

The devil expects you to see promise, promise, come pass this way, and you just pass like that, pull in your mouth, and the devil said, "Is exactly what I mean. I like this kind of people. They are like robots. Anything we want, they do."

But the moment you are passing and he is pulling space, and "How are you?" Does it? You disarm. It's a little act, but you disarm principalities and powers because life is spiritual.

Life is spiritual. Your breakthrough is spiritual. Your husband is spiritual. Your wife is spiritual. Your baby is spiritual. Everything, your exams, spiritual.

Listen, listen, listen. I'm not saying you should not read. Listen, but let me tell you the truth. Hear me, hear me.

Listen, let me tell you something. No matter who you are, a day will come you will sit down, look at that paper, and you will know only God can help me.

Yeah, it's a key. Let me tell you what students do after exams, and then that's why many people feel they come out, and then they go to somebody.

There's usually somebody saying, "What do you write here?" Don't do that thing. When you come out, walk away.

Don't I put five? You say you put eleven. They say, "How did you become eleven? You didn't even put six." You have failed; the answer is five.

Now let me tell you what that... I'm not saying you should criticize people. Are you getting my point?

When that happens to your spirit, all of a sudden, you go back and say, "My God, this is it. It's over for me. My whole life has finished."

You are helping the demons prophesy to yourself. You are helping to speak, whereas somebody else will know that honestly, it's not that I'm saying you should be lazy.

But brothers and sisters, of what use is the spirit if there's no advantage? There is an advantage.

We are not idiots. Believe me, you dance an angel to your faculty. You dance an angel to your department. You dance and enter to open your file.

Come on now! Dance your way to the admission list! Again, what I'm saying, please believe what I'm saying.

This is only one over four. I came tonight to open your eyes. Stop interpreting the happenings in your life.

They threw you out of the job; don't sit down and say, "Cat, but these people, even my uncle, my uncle, you saw me."

It's not about your uncle; there's something you can do about it. Stop calling home to listen to bad news.

After you listen, close it and say, "Lord, I still see what you are doing. I still see what you are doing."

Are we together? You hear a word, and they say, "By the grace of God, your husband is coming." All of a sudden, things begin to happen around you.

Somebody just comes and says, "You said, why are you putting this marriage on your head?" And all of a sudden, you feel ashamed; you feel embarrassed.

When a prophecy is coming, you can't even lift your hands to receive it because you're saying, "They see me; they think I'm desperate for marriage."

They rob you of your joy; they rob you of your peace. You never get your miracle. Once you sit down, then the devil uses anger.

You now see that you are talking about other people's relationship and marriage, tearing people down and sowing a seed that will have a boomerang effect on you because life is spiritual.

Hear what Proverbs says: it says, "Be careful as you speak, for the birds will carry your words." Have you seen those birds before?

The birds will carry your words. My life is spiritual. My life is spiritual. I cannot stop anybody from carrying charm, but I can stop it from touching me.

I know what to do. I know what to do. I can't stop the spirit of death from standing on the road to Kai, but there is something.

There is something that even if he's the devil that drives, he will drive me safely. These are not empty talks. This is what dominion is all about.

I'm training you; I'm giving you spiritual intelligence. From now, when you walk out of this place, for some of you right now, there is a text message, a heavy insult waiting for you to read.

Now hold on! You now know that you don't just turn and call people devils, but you just enter, and your roommates who right now, as you are here, they are talking about you.

And the Lord tells you, "Should I tell you how to win? Buy five for life. Go and drop it and say, 'People, this is for you.'"

And you are saying, "I am God to be that much of an idiot." No! Somebody that did this is this lady that stopped me from marrying.

She said something bad to one good military man who would have married me, and God says, "Buy malt, a cattle of mud, and one greater."

Or God would say, "Wash their plates." I know they dated your bed. She just changes, sings praises, and washes your plates.

Listen, when you disown powers, you will see God rise in a fearful way. Are we together? Bitterness, anger, envy are more wicked than anything you can think about.

They destroy you; they are like a cancer that sabotages you. Many of our parents, you know why they may never prosper? They are angry at everybody.

There are people now, if they see me coming, I see people frown. "Oh, is he the guy? That's him. How are they getting money?"

Look at this, these young boys. And so the angel, the grace for the blessing is authorized to leave your life because anything you don't honor cannot be your inheritance.

Are we together now? What are they? Be careful of all these young guys standing. How can people be standing outside?

Are you worshiping a man? Are you foolish? Don't castigate anybody, but just know that those are joy robbers.

The moment they start speaking, know that your blessing has left heaven, and it's about to come and land in your life. Are we together?

Life is spiritual. Let me just narrow it down so that we can pray. The mystery of praise in a dance.

In a dance, you hear me talking about this dancing thing. I'm not a dancer. You don't have to be a dancer, but if you want to move forward, you dance anyhow to your breakthrough.

Anyhow! You are too big to dance your way to breakthrough. I tell you, you are too big to have an open heavens.

It will never, never open. Ask David. David, the king, the custodian of mysteries. When he was dancing and rejoicing, his arrogant wife came and said, "What is this?"

I'm not saying you should dance in a nude and an ungodly way. I don't know David's dance, but I know the dancer is not David's dance.

Let me balance it quickly. I was not there with David, but I know the dance that is not David's dance.

There are many dances around that it's not David's dance. Are we together? David's dance comes from a genuine heart, not a heart of seduction and stupidity.

David's dance is a genuine heart that is focused on God, directed to him. So let's... We're talking about David's dance here.

David was dancing, and the wife who was too big now came and said, "What is this thing you are doing? You are a king."

And then you say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." You don't know I was in the wilderness. Do you know what happened from there?

The wilderness that brought me here, and I'm dancing, and you don't know that I got you by dancing. Of course, it's a mystery.

I've been practicing. You are Saul's daughter; you don't even know how you just came like that. You came as an inheritance.

The Bible may not record it, but I believe he finished his dance and carried his sling and went to Goliath and said, "Have you done your own dance, Goliath?"

Because if you have not done it, you are about to go down. Hallelujah! I believe in the mystery of praise.

Please hear me, the mystery of praise. Psalms 149, give it to us. One of the mysteries we'll touch this night because this is a year of triumph, and I will be wicked if I don't share with you the secrets I operate in my own life.

Psalms 149, please. Praise ye the Lord! Sing unto the Lord a new song. Listen, and praise him in the congregation of saints.

Verse 2: "Let Israel rejoice in him that hath made him. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King."

Three: "Let them praise his name in a dance. Let them sing praises to him with timbrel and harp."

While reading down: "For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; he will do what? Beautify those who are humble enough."

He will beautify them with salvation. Next verse: "Let the saints do what? Be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud on their beds."

Listen, hold on! Just stay there. Let me explain this to you. It says while you are allowing them, and all of a sudden, do you know it's when people lie down that the devil brings thoughts?

I hope you know the bill is still there. And all of a sudden, "Oh Lord, you are good, shabbat. I know you are faithful. I know you are faithful."

Let the evil on their bed. Verse six: "Now here is the warfare dimension of praise."

He said, "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand." Next verse: "To execute what? Sentence upon the heathen and punishment upon the people."

Not by chasing them. That while you are praising and dancing, it is vengeance you are speaking in the camp of the enemy.

To bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron. There is something called the written judgment to execute upon them.

What? Hold on! How do you execute it? Your own is to mind your business, knowing that life is spiritual.

I know they said you are not from so-so tribe. They walk together and suck you. Don't go telling people to hate these people.

Go to your secret place and start praising and see what happens in that office. Are we together?

It says, "This honor have how many?" The honor of expressing breakthrough. There are some things that God gave apostles, prophets, teachers, but he said, "This one, this honor of experiencing breakthrough have all the saints."

Praising the Lord. Cheap victories! Cheap victories! By understanding life is spiritual, and you carry all...

Let me tell you another mystery. Carry all your challenges, write it on a paper, and dance before it.

Put it on the ground and celebrate God before it like a madman. Don't worry; just be that stupid and see what happens.

A child is not coming. I know that for sure. I'm getting zero in this and that, and begin to celebrate him.

Celebrate him! People look at you and say, "What are you doing?" I'm praising him. Why? What did he do?

No testimony! You are starting to do all these church things that people do like fools. You're married; you go unlock.

You and your wife tell yourself, "We're dancing our next level." When Jesus was entering the city, what did he do?

Sat down on a donkey and had people praising and rejoicing. It was that atmosphere he said, "Some hundred, please."

Some hundred! Someone's life is about to change. It says, "Make a joyful noise."

Hold on! Are you seeing another mystery? Joyful what? Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Listen, he didn't say make noise. Making noise is not good, even for your health.

Is it a joyful noise? Hold on! Do you know what the joyful noise is? The revelation behind it?

I'm not just shouting as an idiot; I'm showing you mysteries now. Praising a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

Verse two: "Serve him with gladness." Look at how many times God talks about this. What is the protocol for accessing his presence?

Come before his presence with not with money. Hold on! Oh God, I taught the other time, "What? Don't give me any dream again. If I keep seeing money in my dream and yes, nobody sends me any a lot, are you not the God of heaven?

I've been serving in Cononia." Let me tell you what you are doing. You are just moving backward.

Believe me, believe me, you are moving backward because a broken spirit dries the bones. Verse three: "Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us and not we ourselves."

So have this revelation. He said, "We are the sheep of his pastures." He will not deny you anything.

There's too much gloominess and mourning. That's why I listen to the news just for the purpose of leadership.

But ask anybody who knows me; I have no time listening to all these analysis and all this junk. This and that is happening.

This and that dollar is one million to this. I don't know what happened, but all I know is that for with joy shall you draw from the wealth of salvation.

Praise the Lord! If God calls this year a year of triumph, you must stop acting like man.

Man, they can predict your life. They know when money is missing from your life; your face will show it.

Anybody in this room that took what doesn't belong to him, except I'm not a member of Cononia.

You think you are being spiritual, but that's not how to disempower us. Strange principles that will lift.

I'm telling you this principle of praise with a dance and a shout of praise is, I permit me to use the word, a wicked principle.

You want to see speed in your life? Do this and see what happens. Make up your mind. Complaining, the Bible says, "Do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may be called blameless children of God."

Right? The world is full of angry people. Do you know the classic sign that someone needs deliverance is anger?

Anger, offense. Everything offends you. Right now, after calling onion, they say, "Turn and hug somebody."

You just turn and found out that they left you alone. That alone is enough to bring anger. "Are you not my partner? Why are you turning to the other person?"

You are trying to say, "I'm not good enough." You are giving the devil... Hold on! Don't laugh. You are giving the devil access.

I choose to be a happy person. You come; I'm a joyous, joyous, joyous.

He said, "Rejoice in the Lord, and again I say, again I repeat it." Hear me! Many people will laugh at what you are doing, but they will not deny the result.

The result will be strange. I guarantee you. I don't share my testimonies again so that it will not be as if I'm coming to Cononia, and all I'm saying.

But there are things I will share with you; you will not be able to sleep. That were gotten on the platform of engaging these mysteries.

Let me tell you another strange thing: the spirit of prophecy. The spirit of prophecy walks with three things. One, a joyful noise.

Listen, you can never walk in the prophetic without joy. The spirit, the true spirit of prophecy walks with joy.

But I see angry people who say they are prophets. It's a joke. The spirit of prophecy, let me tell you, most people who do different religions, do you know how they invoke the anointing upon mediums?

They play instruments; they do music. You've seen masquerades; they are moving, playing with fire. Somebody jumping on somebody, and then they reach a crescendo.

When a spirit lands on the head of whoever is the medium, and all of a sudden, he starts prophesying. Are we together?

The prophet said, "Bring me a mystery." And I began to play the mystery and say, "The hand of the Lord came upon him," and then he began to prophesy.

You shall not see wind; you shall not see rain, but the valley now, that strange breakthrough, no rain, no wind, but the valley filled with water.

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Now, are you ready? Now take care, so open your mouth and begin to prophesy. Open your mouth and begin to prophesy. Open your mouth and begin to prophesy. Open your mouth and begin to prophesy.

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Open your mouth and begin to prophesy. I call it the next level of my testing. I call it the gifts of man, the gift of man. Strange helpers, I call you allies for me. Strange anointing, so for good prayer, strength, favor, strength, faithful, I call you for it.

I speak to my destiny, speak to my life. Speak to my destiny, breakthrough to my life. Breakthrough to my destiny. Don't be silent, every silence, speak! Speak, your speaking spirit, speak! Speak!

Every Jericho standing before me, you crumple! Every Jericho standing before me, every Jericho standing before me, every Jericho standing before me, I cross you by the God of heaven. I call for strange breakthroughs, strange breakthroughs, strange revelations, strange encounters of the spiritual, strange encounters.

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Have your words of grace. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Fire is burning in this place.

Listen, I want us to spare two minutes and rescue our families. Let them tap into this mystery. Begin to prophesy to the gates and say, "I have placed on behalf of my family. I command that devil, you must go! I waste the warfare through my place. I wish the warfare. I command it, let my family members go!"

I command it personally for spiritual lukewarmness, weak spirits, powers.

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By the mystery of praise, by the mystery of praise.

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Hallelujah!

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For the things you have done and the battles you have won.

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Only you are worthy of my praise, only you.

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I put pressure on your helpers, wherever they are. Anyone who has the word of prophecy to be your helper, I put pressure on their spirits this night and I command them to show up for you. I command them to show up for you. I command them to show up for you. I command them to show up for you. I command them to show up for you.

Listen, hold on. I want you to understand this thing I've been teaching called the gift of men. You've heard me say this thing for long. I can kneel down and beg you. If you ignore what I'm saying, you will never rise. It's not whether you may rise or not. No helper comes by themselves; they are invoked through mysteries.

No helper, their people are too busy to come just to help you. But after what you have done tonight, oh no, no! Come on, listen, listen. Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this.

Listen, I say it with every sense of humility. Over 80 percent of the people that sow into this ministry, I don't know them. Some of them are not even calling on your people. I don't know where they are, any part of the world. Are you hearing what I'm saying now? You don't need to know nobody; you just need to know these mysteries.

Know them, the mysteries. Know the people. Are we together now? My only prayer for you this night, and I'm going to keep praying it until I see that result in your life, is that strangers shall come and feed your flock.

Strangers!

Listen, hold on. Many of you have not entered that realm. You have only entered the realm of those who know you. And so, for their love, they help you. You have not entered the realm of the ministry of strangers.

Listen, when the prophet met with Saul, he said, "Saul, as you are going, you will meet three men." They are holding bread. They will salute you and they will give it to you.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I'm praying.

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Men you don't know, women you don't know, people who don't know you from Adam, they will arise and favor you strangely. They will arise and favor you strangely. I command them to arise and pray for you strangely.

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Anyone here or any family that has been in the same position for a long time, no matter how you have prayed, you have fasted, nobody moves in your family. It's like the devil has kept them in one place.

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No job, no joy, no breakthrough. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, the same way he said, "I set before you an open door," he said, "no man can shut." I command the door to your next level open now!

I command the door to your next level open now! Next level of ministry, next level of business exploits, next level of strategic relationships, receive it in the name of Jesus!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! There are people who must show up in your life. What you need from them is not money; you need their credibility and endorsement.

Listen, some of us, our helpers want to come, but our helpers are afraid of us because they have never tested whether we have integrity or not. So they need somebody who has the influence and the charisma, who has vetted you to come for you.

Joseph of Arimathea had to tell Herod, he said, "Give Jesus to me." You think if the disciples went, they would not lock them up?

I will keep drumming this; this is a revelation God gave me for you. You need the ministry of men. All this, "I can do it alone," you need help.

Oh, let me tell you, you need help. There are families you need a helper. Everybody that has entered your family caused trouble and destroyed you because something called them. Your ignorance called them. Darkness called them. Disobedience called them.

Who told you strangers cannot enter and help families? Are we together now? Whoever needs to speak for you where your voice cannot yet go, in the name of Jesus, this night, not tomorrow, this night, listen!

I decree and declare, may your discussion come to the ears of your helpers. I command men to talk about you to your helpers. I decree it, I decree it, I declare it, I decree it, I declare it.

Listen, hold on. Mordecai was not there when they were talking about him. Mordecai was seated somewhere. Are we together? But when that anointing landed, the king could not sleep.

He said, "One, bring me the chronicles. Bring me the books, read them for me." A king could not sleep, and while they were reading it, he heard that Mordecai did something.

And he said, "Hold on, hold on! This guy did something and nobody helped him." The voice that will command restoration for you, hear me! The voice that must say, "No, this was injustice, let's go back and correct it," I call for that voice now!

I call for that voice now! I call for that voice now!

We're rounding up tonight's service. It's a powerful service. Pay attention, just receive these prayers and pray for you and see what happens.

You will now see the difference between you and ordinary men. When you see the results you command, then you will know that there are mysteries in this world. Life is spiritual!

Hallelujah!

Listen, Paul said, "I desire to come to you once and again." He said, "But Satan..." When the Lord opened my eyes year before last, I was... I've not shared this with anybody. I saw several people, white men, individuals, several people.

And then in that vision, I had them talking about me, and all of them were in a place like a circle. You know how you use chalk to draw a circle? And the Lord told me, "All these are people who have been destined to sow into my life, to bless me, and to announce what God is doing."

Come on now! Man, I prayed! Man, I prayed! I prayed! I prayed with my spirit. Let me tell you, when that thing happened, I stepped into a strange level of favor.

The ministry of men, there are men blocking you. There are men blocking your testimony. The moment God wants your helper, an enemy comes before them and says, "Don't help him!"

A Jimmy, something happens. "Don't help that girl; she used to be a prostitute last year." But you have repented now!

Every enemy standing and speaking to your helper, I pray this now: say, "Get taken!" Anyone speaking to your helper so that they don't arise to help you, I curse them by the God of heaven!

I curse them by the God of heaven! I trust them by the gods!

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Hear me! I don't care who they are, for as long as their job is to stand and change the minds of your helpers.

Someone wants to marry you. Before he speaks to you, a wicked person arises and says, "Don't go to that girl!"

I pray, shatter! I post their operations tonight! I trust their operations tonight!

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Hallelujah! I pray for you the grace to remain ever joyful, the grace to be free from worry.

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If there's anyone here and you don't sleep, simply because the moment you want to sleep, there is a wicked spirit that will bring issues. "You have not paid this, you have not done this, your child's cookies have not been paid."

I command that this night will be the best sleep you have had in a long time!

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Hallelujah! I want you to wave your hands to Jesus and give him all the praise. Yes, Lord, we give you praise!

He said, "Let my prayers rise to you and the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice."

Lord, I wave my hand! We wave our hands to you, acknowledging! Acknowledging!

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Hallelujah! I want to give you an assignment. Please listen!

From today till next Friday, just do this. It's a simple instruction. From today till next Friday, find any time of the day and dedicate just 10 minutes.

Hear me! Sing and dance! Dance before the Lord! Just do it! I know it's seven days; it's not easy. You can do it as a family. You don't have to disturb neighbors. You can just stroll around to one forest somewhere, just stand behind one tree and dance.

And watch the God of vengeance! I've been saying this thing that God... Let me tell you something. Hear me! Believe me! I speak to you as a servant of God.

We declare this week a week of strange vengeance! Strange, strange vengeance! You may not believe it! Where records will be revisited and God will say, "No, no! This family since 1998, I destined them to be free! Who kept them? Who kept them?"

Lord, I pray that you honor this word that has your people obey these instructions from this night, Friday till next week Friday. Let there be strange...

Please do me a favor. I know some of you don't like sharing testimonies, but I would like to share the testimonies. Please do that, even if it's just because of me.

On Friday, once you reach us, much to the media, we want to hear the strange testimonies. I know that you have testimonies for other things, but just for this night service, you will be surprised.

You will come back with strange testimonies! Hear me! I pity any man this week that stands in your way as you dance!

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Except God is not the God of heaven, it has been declared that this week is a week of strange results, vengeance!

See, that's how to force your destiny to open! You play games with your destiny, you will die like a chicken!

That's how to deal! That's how to be recession-proof! When you force the gate on Friday, you will be surprised to see what will happen to people!

Some of you from this night now, as you are going, you will read text messages, a lot of favors, different kinds of things!

Hallelujah! The body of Christ is full of a lot of ignorance when it comes to the issue of prayer, when it comes to the issue of warfare, when it comes to the issue of the interaction between the realm of the spirit and the earth realm.

There is gross ignorance in the body of Christ as to the mysteries that are responsible for these operations. That's what I've been seeking to do, to teach us and help us understand how men can contact the realm of the spirit.

Because man, by design, is the only entity that on legal grounds has the authorization to make contact with the realm of the spirit and make contact with the physical realm at will.

Every other entity needs a system of authorization. An altar is a system of authorization.

I want to share a few things with you about altars. An altar is a system of authorization. An altar is not just a monument; it is a system of authorization.

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An altar is a platform, write it down, where the realm of the spirit makes contact with the physical realm on legal grounds.

An altar is a platform where the realm of the spirit makes contact with the physical realm on legal grounds.

I'm taking out time for us to write this because I want us to understand it. A spirit or an entity cannot enter another entity, another territory without the configuration to suit that territory.

For instance, a spirit should not be in the earth without a body. That's against the law of territory. If you must function in the earth realm as a territory, you must have a body.

Are we together now? So every spirit, including God, is at the mercy of a body or an altar to find expression in a territory.

The first death recorded in the Bible happened on account of altars.

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Two men, brothers, went to offer sacrifices, and all of them created platforms. That was way before the Old Testament. Adam had access to mysteries, and he taught his children how to invoke the presence of God.

And it's not the way it is today. There and then, you would know whether what you did worked or not.

And the Bible says Abel did something, and Cain did something too. And all of a sudden, the sacrifice of Abel ascended to the heavens.

Are we together now? And then for Cain, nothing happened. And then Cain killed his brother, and blood spilled upon the earth.

And he thought it was over, but the Bible told us that discussion continued in the realm of the spirit. Something about that activity called the presence of God.

And God said, "Okay, there is a discussion going on in heaven, but this discussion is between me and blood."

So what is going on? He said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Ah, don't tell lies! There is a witness standing in heaven here that blood, a symbol of an altar, has granted me authorization to probe you.

And because of that, I'm going to cause you judgment. Still, judgment happened even after Abel died.

Listen very carefully to what I'm teaching you: supernatural system of authorization, an altar.

Let me give you one more definition. It's where covenants are activated and maintained. An altar is the platform where covenants are both activated and maintained.

A covenant cannot work without an altar. It is an altar that gives life to a covenant.

It's impossible for altars to work, covenants to work without an altar. An altar is like the battery that powers this gadget.

For instance, the potentials of this gadget are only seen when you slot in the battery. That's what an altar is; it gives life to a covenant.

Now write this down, please. Altars can be physical monuments. Altars can be institutions, and altars can be people.

Altars can be physical monuments like we had in the Old Testament; they would erect stones.

Altars can be institutions like the Jerusalem temple that was built by Solomon. He said, "Oh God, if anybody faces this temple and prays, praise happens to that person's prayer."

Not because of the rightness of the prayer, but a covenant that was enacted there, and an altar was raised to that effect.

The reason why salvation, the covenant of salvation, can work is because there is an altar that was erected, not just in the earth, in heaven.

The book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus, a high priest, carried his blood to the most holy place in heaven and put it upon an altar that is still speaking today.

That is the basis upon which whoever calls upon the name of the Lord, whether you are sleeping, whether you are awake, it kicks that reality. You will be saved because there is an altar that eternally secures that.

There are many platforms that God has created to allow spirit entities to find expression in the earth realm, to come and assist men, to come and empower men.

But if we do not understand those platforms, then we will not be able to take advantage of it. And one of them is what I'm talking about tonight: an altar of prayer as a system of authorization.

An altar of prayer as a mystery that on legal grounds authorizes the realm of the spirit to influence the activities of men here in the earth realm.

Please write this down: the most accurate measure of the health of your spiritual life is your prayer life.

The most accurate measure of the health of your spiritual life is your prayer life, not Bible study, no sir.

The most accurate measure of how healthy your spiritual life is, is your prayer life. No matter what else is working in your life, if your prayer life is dead, then you are not spiritual.

Are we together? Anyone can preach, anyone can teach, but not everyone can pray.

Never forget this! It's very easy to preach, very easy to teach, but it's a sacrifice to pray.

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Any and everyone can preach, any and everyone can teach, but not everyone can pray because prayer is a sacrifice; it's a mystery.

Let me tell you something: God is so meticulous about the revelation of altars that he rules the world sitting on an altar.

The very throne room is like a shrine surrounded with mysteries. The epicenter of the throne room is the very throne that he sits upon.

That throne you see is an altar. It's what makes him the ancient of days. He sits upon that altar and manipulates things according to his predeterminate.

He doesn't have to walk around heaven to find out who is rebellious. There is a system that has been designed to ensure order: an altar.

Anyone who will work in true dominion must function from the standpoint of an altar.

Everyone who seeks to walk in true dominion must function from the standpoint of an altar.

Tonight, we're particularly looking at the altar of prayer.

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The ministry of prayer is one that is largely hated by many, either because of the spiritual energy that it involves or because of the sacrifice and the discipline that is involved in the ministry of prayer.

But scattered around scripture, all through the Bible, are scriptures that encourage believers to pray and make them understand that their lives and their victories depend on it.

In Luke chapter 18, verse 1, the Bible says, "He spoke this parable to the end." That means the goal of this parable was to teach many a lesson, and the lesson is that men ought always to pray and not to faint.

Always! Always! Not a circumstantial activity. Men ought always to pray and not to faint.

In Matthew chapter 21, when you read from verse 13, the Bible says Jesus entered the temple and he saw people buying and selling and doing all kinds of things in the temple, and he was angry.

And in verse 13, chapter 21, he scattered everywhere and said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer."

My house shall be called a house of prayer!

It's impossible to be a man of prayer and ignore the word, but it's possible to be a man of the word and ignore prayer.

When the devil wants to deceive you, he makes you look like you have an option to choose between prayer and the word.

And then he indoctrinates you and takes advantage of your passion for knowledge and keeps you to be cold and dry and lukewarm.

And all of a sudden, you begin to search scriptures like a philosopher, and there is no power, no grace, no efficiency.

Every great ministry starts from the altar of prayer. Any ministry that does not start as a prayer ministry will not last. It's impossible!

The ministry of Jesus started as a prayer ministry. The moment he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he was driven of the Spirit 40 days and 40 nights, traveling in prayer.

And the Bible says he returned in the power of the Spirit. All of a sudden, his fame began to spread.

Devils will fly around and say, "No, no, no! You have come to destroy us before our time!"

The ministry of prayer, in James chapter 5, verse 16, please give it to us. James chapter 5, verse 16.

I want you to understand this tonight; it's an admonishment, and then we're going to pray.

James 5:16, he says, "Confess your faults to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed."

Then he says, "The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much."

It says, "A valid much." Amplified says it is dynamic in its working; it can produce results.

And we're going to examine these results, that the prayer of a believer is not just an empty talk.

It's not just an exercise in futility; it's not just a religious system to feel spiritual.

That every time men pray, there is an effect.

Now, theologically speaking, the classic scripture that is used to represent the activity of altars is Genesis chapter 28.

We are not turning there for time's sake, but many of us know it. I'm just giving you a little theological background.

Abraham had passed across a region, and the Bible says that he set up an altar there.

And many years later, Jacob, his son, are we together now? I'm sorry, in the flesh now, a generation now was passing that place, and the nighttime came.

And he felt, "Look, let me just lie down and sleep."

And the Bible says he put stones together and laid down to sleep. He didn't pray for an encounter; he didn't beg for an encounter.

The moment he slept, the Bible says his eyes were opened, and he saw strange activities happening, the angels ascending and descending.

It was like a portal, a ladder, and at the top of it was God himself.

And he was surprised when he woke up. He said, "Wow! This is a portal! This is the gate of heaven!"

I saw something that happened, a portal, an altar. The Lord was in this place, and I knew not.

Now watch this: it's because Jacob slept there and recorded his experience that we know that that place had an effect.

Do you know that whether or not Jacob slept there, you can be passing peacefully, and for whatever reason, cross across that place, and something happens to you?

All of a sudden, you find out that the sickness just disappeared. You didn't pray. Now you are wondering what happened.

You don't know it was Jacob's experience that helped us to understand that there was such a thing.

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The same way Elijah, when he was about to leave, he knew that there was an exact portal that can take man physically.

He went beyond the Jordan and he said, "Elisha, ask!" I'm about to leave.

And right before his eyes, he saw chariots.

When Jesus was about to levitate to go to heaven, he knew exactly where to stand.

When they watched him, he began to rise.

There are physical portals in the earth that open up to the realm of the spirit, not visions, physical places.

A man can stand here today and have encounters, whether you are the prophetic or not.

Which is understand this: many people understand this.

I wish I had time to teach on altars because I would teach you that one of the natural ways of establishing an altar is consistency of a practice within a region.

It opens up an altar. Consistency of practice within a region that that atmosphere is spiritually acclimatized.

The moment you practice something consistently, you attract the spirit dimension of that thing to come and find out what is going on.

So if I keep killing people in a particular region, I don't need to invite any spirit. I create a portal.

The moment a spirit comes in partnership with me, that becomes an altar.

That's why in many regions, many campuses, they have different regions. Some have prayer mountains.

Somehow, we used to have years ago in the campus, there's somewhere they call long tennis court.

That was a physical solid portal. That's where you see people carry their rechargeable and their socks for mosquitoes and go there and lie down and say, "Oh God, if you don't help me, I'm dead!"

And by the next morning, there is a miracle.

You find people just minding their business, standing and start shaking because activities over many years, there were people making use of that ground, and it became sanctified.

Angelic activities became so much there. It was like how you do home sale because there are visitations and many members are within a region.

You dedicate a place and say, "Look, all of you within this region, you can freely find expression here."

Consistency can open up a portal.

Are you learning something tonight?

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That's how many of our parents made our homes certain portals.

Every time they continue doing certain things, and they did not know when they invited the spirit dimensions.

You see, let me tell you, consistency attracts the realm of the spirit.

Consistent, ask those who practice other religions.

You know how they invoke spirits, enchantments, the same word repeated over a long period of time.

How do they celebrate traditional festivals in many villages?

The people keep dancing, doing the same thing for hours, and then it becomes like they are supercharged.

At a point, the spirit component of that activity has come.

I'd like you to say, "Lord, open my eyes."

Say it! "Open my eyes! Open my eyes!"

There is a law in the dealings of God with men, and he says, "Whatever you yield yourself to, you will become a slave of that thing."

Have you? Are we together?

If I practice obedience consistently, I have yielded my members to obedience; I become a slave to obedience.

Are we together now?

You see, watch this. If I steal this handkerchief, watch this.

If I steal this handkerchief out of my volition, it's not enough to bring the spirit of theft in my life.

No! If I do it again and I do it again, that I don't know I'm invoking a mystery by my consistency.

A time will come, the spirit that operates on men will say, "I'm being invited within a territory."

It will look for the territory where the physical dimension of what is bringing it is.

The same way if I begin to pray, I may not feel comfortable, but as I'm praying, I'm invoking a dimension of the operation of the spirit of prayer.

Supplication, a day will come in that place, that dimension will be revealed in me supernaturally.

Are you learning something?

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Because you see, not all altars were consciously built, but they are still altars.

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So it is when I say all tasks that are destroying you, it doesn't mean you have to go to your village and relay your uncle and say, "If you don't tell us what you have done, who will beat you?"

No, he may be innocent.

This is where the prophetic ministry must be guided because every time we talk of altars, they think it must be traceable to a real experience.

No! The mysteries that you do consistently are building altars, and they eventually become invitations for spirits, whether the spirit of God or any kind of demon spirit.

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Have you had an experience? I'm not saying you should do it, but you've seen it in ministries where somebody can come, no church service, just enter the church and come and lie down on the altar and roll, maybe for a child, and go back and have triplets.

Now, question: was anybody preaching?

But because the power and the presence of God has found expression upon that ground for a long time, you have invited, you have invoked dimension.

Whether service is at work or not, that portal remains open.

All that it takes is your faith. Once your faith meanders that atmosphere, it happens to you.

Samuel was an altar. He didn't have an altar; he was an altar.

You never came here, Samuel, and went back to say, "No, a young man came around Samuel and stood naked, prophesying morning till night."

That's an altar!

When Saul went and met Samuel, they were looking for the donkey. As soon as they saw Samuel, they knew their lives were going to be altered.

I told you, altars are not just physical monuments.

You can be an altar, and that's one of the things that prayer does.

You don't build a monument; your life becomes an activation of seven.

Listen, the beauty of prayer is not just for you to continue talking for the rest of your life, but that you get to a state of consistency where even in your silence, listen, you have become an altar.

Spiritual activities can be happening around you so that as a living altar, I activate possibilities just by walking.

You come around me and something happens to you.

I didn't directly pray for you; you didn't even know you had that problem, but an atmosphere that I was carrying implicated you.

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Why is prayer important? Why do we have to build an altar of prayer?

Three reasons very quickly.

Number one: prayer is God's authorized system of communion and fellowship with him.

Write it down! Prayer is God's authorized system of communion and fellowship with him.

The Bible is very clear that the communion of the spirit, the fellowship of the spirit, what we call koinonia, must be at work in the life of anyone to do business with God.

And that system of koinonia is through prayer.

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Prayer is one of God's authorized systems, not the only authorized system, but one of the major authorized systems for communion and fellowship.

Luke chapter 6, let's take a few scriptures very quickly.

Luke chapter 6 and verse 12, please give it to us.

Luke chapter 6 and verse 12.

Look up, everyone, please. It says, "And it came to pass in those days," speaking about Jesus now, "that he went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God."

Communion! Jesus was not just praying prayer requests like we do during miracle service.

Remember, he was God; he still is God. But he went to spend time all night communing.

Communion!

Give us Matthew 26, verse 36, and down to 39.

It's actually 24, but we'll stop at 39 quickly.

Matthew 26, verse 36.

Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane and said unto the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray yonder."

And let's watch what the Bible calls prayer.

And he took from him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

38. Then he said unto them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death. Carry here and watch with me."

Please continue quickly.

And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me."

When you read down to verse 44, he prayed the same thing three times.

Prayer is God's authorized system of communion, not just a platform for petitions.

Prayer is how power is transferred to men. It's an authorized system of communion.

It's your spiritual system of intimacy and intercourse.

In the place of prayer, that's where the exchange happens between divinity.

Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit but never manifested the power of the Holy Ghost after prayer.

The Bible says he returned not full of the Spirit but in the power of the Spirit.

In Luke 17, don't turn there, John 17, sorry, Jesus himself began to [Music] communicate with the Father as usual.

And he says, "Father, the hour has come."

Watch communion to prayer. "The hour has come; glorify thy Son that thy Son will bring glory to you."

And then he began to converse.

Look at all the platforms. Till today, listen, till today, how Jesus advocates for believers in heaven is still through prayer.

The Bible says he's seated at the right hand of the Father, and he makes intercession for the saints.

Why will you intercede when you're already seated by the right hand?

It's a system! It's not about proximity; it's a system of communion and communication.

If you are not a man of prayer, you are not a woman of prayer, you can be sure that the reality of communion and fellowship with the Holy Ghost, that reality...

You see, let me tell you something. If you are not open to prayer, you will never understand what we are saying.

You would think he's just... I'm not just talking of corporate prayer. Corporate prayer is great, but you must have the secret place.

That's where he comes to meet with you. That's when he tells you things he cannot tell any other person.

The reason why you don't hear God is because you are not used to his voice in the secret place.

He has not trained you to hear him, so you hear everything and you call it him.

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I was counseling a couple some, I think it was last week, and the mother was outside, and the father came in with the daughters.

Maybe they are even here listening to me, and they held a little baby.

As soon as the baby shouted from outside, the mother identified the voice and came to check what was happening with the baby.

And I said, "Koinonia!" That's intimacy!

Because there is a union that baby is sucking from the same mother.

Their interaction, the mother did not train herself to hear the voice; she was implicated by that koinonia.

So anyway, there were many people, families with their children, but when she had her own, he said, "My sheep hear my voice."

"My sheep hear my voice," meaning if you cannot ask, hear his voice, find out whether you are his sheep or not.

Don't assume you are his sheep. Assumption is costly in the school of intimacy.

You must verify that there is contact between you and God.

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There are pastors that don't pray, so they get angry. They think the manifestation of the power of God is magic.

There are dimensions impartation will not give you. You must dig your well by yourself.

You must create an altar, a system. You must gain mastery in the realm of the spirit.

You must be used to the spiritual communication that has been...

It is like a telematics system of God reaching you.

God must know how to reach you on serious information.

God must know how to reach you on trivial information.

He must train your organs of interaction with the realm of the spirit.

That place of training is the secret place.

I will never trade anything for my time with him. That's where men are built.

That's where there is an exchange.

See, let me tell you, holding a mic and teaching is not difficult.

Holding a mic and preaching is not difficult.

But communicating life, that one is a derivative of your altar.

That's why we sleep in church.

That's why our churches are full of dry bones, from the preacher to those listening, all dry bones.

People stand and talk; they say something that should bless you, and you wonder why it doesn't bless you.

Because there's no altar!

They are standing unassisted by the realm of the spirit.

Only the people who destroy the destinies of men in villages know this.

The average believer is generally aware of the spirituality of life but has not come into an understanding that one of the keys to spiritual intelligence is to come to terms with the fact that life and everything about it is spiritual.

Life and everything about it, no matter how trivial, no matter how scientific, is spiritual.

Hallelujah!

When you understand the spirituality of life, then all of a sudden, you will start seeing a line connecting dots as to the happenings of people's lives.

Listen, a man does not just get up and become poor like that.

A family does not just get up and not make progress just like that.

A man does not just beat his wife just like that.

A wife does not just beat her husband just like that.

The source of that strength requires investigation.

Are we together now?

A small child does not become so audacious that he looks at his father and says, "I can kill you!"

No, no, no, no! The source of that audacity has to be investigated.

Life is spiritual!

A church does not just grow. Members don't just carry their Bibles from different points and start saying, "Let's go to the same place," without knowing themselves.

There's no way you're connecting them.

You don't just open a shop and everybody from everywhere decides that they want to come to you.

No, sir! No, sir!

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Life is spiritual!

You see men moving all around, and you do not know what moves them.

Spirituality of life!

Someone decides to help you, but you show up, and something about your life you are not aware of makes the person to drive you away.

Someone promises to marry you, even goes to see your parents, and all of a sudden, introduction has been done.

He just comes up and says, "I had a strange dream; I can't understand."

That's not the first time of having a dream, but because of that dream, you lose out on an opportunity.

Brothers and sisters, if you understand that life is spiritual, you are already, without even understanding the nitty-gritties, you are already ahead of many people in life.

I will never treat my life from a scientific perspective.

No! I will never treat ministry from a scientific perspective.

In the realm of the spirit, one plus one is not two.

You have to define what one is.

You have to define what two is.

You have to define what other factors are in the equation.

We run our life scientifically; we run our lives intellectually, sociologically, and we become victims.

The book of Job is full of mysteries that open up the reality of the spirituality of life.

When you look at the book of Psalms, David opened us to the spirituality of life.

When you read Psalm 91, he starts by saying, "He that dwells in the secret place."

Question: where is that location today?

Because David said a man can dwell here.

Have you found it? Where is it? Like an address, David is giving us an address where people can find safety.

And he never said a police station.

"He that dwells somewhere, there is a place a man can stand that you become immune."

She that dwells in the secret place of the Most High, then the second shocking thing is, "Shall abide not under the light, under the shadow."

What is that? Abide under a shadow?

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That means your shadow has a spiritual implication.

This thing you look at, listen, listen, listen!

I'm not talking of all these movies around you and let you fall down.

That's... I'm talking of something deeper.

You know physics just tells us when light is casted on an object, it creates a shadow.

That's as far as you know.

But the Bible says men can dwell under a man's shadow.

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Do you love Jesus? We love the Bible, right?

So, I mean, you are not the way you're looking at me as if I'm teaching here is right in the Bible.

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

He gives the shadow of God a three-dimensional explanation.

You can come under it.

Then he says, "I will say of the Lord, he is this and that and that and that."

Please give it to us, Psalm 91.

Let's look at it.

Yes, that's the song, "Your influence is all over me."

But too, and I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God; in him I will trust."

So let's see why verse one and two is there.

Verse three, he says, "Surely he shall deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence."

Look at all these descriptions.

They are descriptions of strange things you don't see with your optical eyes, but their effects are as physical as anything.

Verse four, "He shall cover me with what?"

Stop! Hold on! Describe a man for me with a three-dimensional shadow and has feathers somewhere in his body.

Which part of him has feathers?

Because he was not just speaking a parable.

He says, "He shall cover thee with his feathers."

Then, "And under his wings shall thou trust."

His truth shall be thy shield.

That means in the realm of the spirit, truth is not an information.

Truth is a physical reality.

It's a shield! You can hold it like I'm holding a tie.

Truth is an object relatable.

Are you getting something now?

You will be so blessed if you pay attention to what I'm telling you.

Five! This is not even... I just want us to look at it, just play around it.

It says, "Because of all these provisions, this is the only condition where thou shalt not be afraid."

Because there is something called terror by night.

Everybody say, "Terror by night!"

No matter how peaceful an environment is, the Bible says once it is night, there is a mystery of darkness and terror.

Listen! The Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers.

Listen! Then he says rulers of darkness.

They cannot rule in light.

The moment it's not talking of spiritual darkness, the moment there is physical darkness, it's a sign they are authorized to come out like animals that can only come out in the night.

So the Bible calls it terror by night.

Yet it's nighttime! People like... That's why people die in the night.

Day that drink, drink in the night.

When you see a man drinking by seven in the morning, he sees a stupid man.

Already something is wrong with his life.

But that's an acute complication.

No! Many things happen to people in the night.

The destinies of men are exchanged by night.

There are men that sit down and discuss.

They've played the destinies of men like a chess.

Terror by night!

Not just terrorism as we know.

Are you aware that there is such provision?

Spiritual intelligence!

Number one: life is spiritual!

Thou shalt not be afraid of the arrows that fly by day.

Have you ever seen them?

Have you ever seen an arrow leaving somewhere?

But he said there are arrows that fly by day.

Only God knows how many people it hits today because it flies every day.

You get up and leave your house, and something happens.

Please pay attention to what I'm telling you.

Life is spiritual!

Job chapter one, a meeting was being held in the heavenlies.

Satan now comes, and a conversation is engaged.

"Have you considered my servant Job?"

While they are discussing that, Job is on it, minding his business.

And all of a sudden, things begin to nosedive in Job's life.

It's amazing how many people try to ignore the spirituality of life and expect to rise in life.

It's impossible!

It's impossible!

And more so, this is Africa!

You know, we just pretend as I'm not talking of witchcraft.

The portals of Africa are open to spirituality.

It doesn't matter through which force.

I'm just saying the portals of Africa, as a continent, is richly open.

Have you not heard of men walking back home and hands slapped them?

Have you heard of those kinds of things?

A real three-dimensional hand, but they didn't see it.

You don't have to see to feel it.

Are we together?

And the person goes back, and all of a sudden, one of us showed me a picture of his dad yesterday.

Half of the leg had been eaten.

You can literally see the bones like that, half of it.

Do you know what happened?

He was sleeping.

A mystery happened.

He woke up, and all of a sudden, that leg physically...

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There are many things you call sicknesses; you don't even know where it came from.

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I'm sick! You go to the hospital; they tell you there is nothing wrong with you.

They check everything.

You know the doctor even says, "Stop coming here; you are wasting our time."

But you know you are not feeling fine!

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Are we together?

Mysteries that cannot be explained!

Life is spiritual!

Learn this very early!

Life, the spirituality of life, the spirituality of ministry, the spirituality of living.

When you know this, your pursuit for God does not become...

You know, every time you see somebody unusually zealous, they just say, "Kai, this guy, I'm sure you are going to be a pastor!"

Or this lady, "I'm sure God is already grooming you; he has isolated you and is grooming you to be a pastor's wife."

No! The key to survival is to become spiritually minded!

Please hear what I'm saying!

Some of our parents right now ignore this, and they are paying for it daily.

There are mysteries in people's families they do not understand.

Life is spiritual!

There are people who will be driving, driving, going to their place of work at top speed.

The cow will just lock in one position.

I spoke with many people who had accidents.

You ask them what happened; they tell you, "I tried to turn the steering. I'm not a challenge driver. I did my best. I was watching myself dying."

You know, I've seen the spirit of death.

I know it!

I've seen the spirit of death!

So I know what I'm telling you!

It comes to hospitals in the night, patients in wards, and all of a sudden hovers around.

And all of a sudden, people just leave.

And in the morning, you come and find out, "So-so person is dead."

There are times it will come over territories, like a city like Zaria, like this.

It will just come.

It's invoked by powers.

They do incantations and invoke it.

It can loom around the territory for three weeks, and there are ghastly motor accidents, headaches, killing men.

A pastor just standing on stage preaching, and you collapse and die.

And then after a while, when the invocation has fulfilled its reason for coming, it quietly leaves.

You see it happen!

Break forth, thou fountains of the deep!

And with God, you are mighty on yours!

Abraham is returning from war, and all of a sudden, a strange man appears.

The Bible says no father, no mother.

What kind of a man is that?

Melchizedek just shows up and says, "Abraham, you don't know me, but I am a king, a king of Salem, an ancient city of peace."

Then he looks at Abraham and says, "I'm on assignment."

Abraham gives him a tithe of all, and he says, "Abraham, I want to activate something in your life."

"Blessed be Abraham, possessor of the heavens and the earth!"

Listen! You'll never see Melchizedek in the Bible again.

The next time Melchizedek shows up is in Jesus.

Hold on! The Bible now calls him a priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Read your Bible and see the strangers that met with men that we never saw again.

Never saw again!

There are men who started churches.

When the churches started growing, one time, all of a sudden, spirits just appeared to them.

"I'm the power that controls this territory. We can negotiate."

All this Bishop Wale Shed said how that the Kaduna church was not growing.

Still anointed, still with power, the Kaduna church was not growing.

And all of a sudden, he said one time they were fasting and praying.

See, life is spiritual!

And all of a sudden, he came out, and the Holy Ghost asked him to come up.

He said, "Look!"

And he looked, and he saw a black veil, a black field covering the people.

He said, "This is the field that misinterprets what I am doing."

Misinterprets it!

And he commanded it, and it leaves.

He just left like that, and all of a sudden, members started coming.

What is the relationship between members and this?

Have you not heard of people who want to name kings, and they bury their children?

Correct! They bury people alive!

And you just get up and come to fight them, you die for nothing!

I was in Mina last week, and one of us, the media person, met me.

And then, you know, talking about the security situation around, and he said something.

He said a particular village, when there was war about to happen in a particular village, that the people there said, "No problem!"

That the people just carried their charms and came and lined it in front of the village.

Mysterious substances started killing the armies!

One of them, something at his hand!

You don't know what it is!

Those people, they have it!

When the going gets tough, they bring it out!

Are you aware that life is spiritual?

Are you aware that your life is spiritual?

When you know this, it should not make you afraid; it should give you the key to changing anything!

When you know that life is spiritual, you will value prayer because you know that when you pray, among many other things, you are changing things!

You are shifting things in the realm of the spirit!

My life today is a product of this singular revelation: life is spiritual!

You never see me sit down, and I'm just discussing physical things with people.

I may keep quiet and not, but I am reading between the lines.

And when I get it, I say, "Oh, that's it!"

We know what the problem is!

Listen, calendar, let me tell you the relevance of this understanding.

You never... Listen! The kings of the earth, they set themselves right against God and his anointed.

Then he says, "He that sits on the throne..."

Hold on! If they say he will fight, first, the first thing that happens is laughter!

Laughter is an expression of joy!

Hold on! Hold on!

That's why when people are under the anointing, sometimes you see them laughing hysterically.

Now, you are not spiritual, so you just think, "Which kind of men of God are this?"

That's serious breakthrough happening to them in the realm of the spirit!

There are people under the anointing; you see them start dancing.

I'm not talking of they can't even control themselves dancing.

And you may not understand when they were going to take the ark back, there was a formula.

It was always with singing and dancing.

I was sharing with you, Jimmy, I would just share to help you.

I think it was yesterday we were talking.

I got up in the morning about to pray, and the Lord said, "No, you are not going to pray; you are going to dance before me."

Two hours stretched non-stop! That's all I did!

All I did!

I was so tired, and I said, "Wait, wait, wait! Style down language! I mean, what is all this?"

But I knew! I'm smart enough to know life is spiritual!

Listen! That two hours may be equivalent to 15 years of breakthrough!

Two hours!

You ain't changing!

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God!

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Is life spiritual?

Joshua chapter one, two, three, and all of a sudden it says, "Walk around! Don't talk! Just walk around!"

What is the stupidity of walking around?

Life is spiritual!

You call it madness!

A man is walking around once, and then he says on the seventh day, hold on!

Listen! The Bible says the defense of Jericho, five chariots could stand on it.

So even if you turn it, it will still become another offense.

Are we together?

There are people who are too big for breakthrough.

They are too carnal and scientific for the stupidity that spirituality requires.

Life is spiritual!

They moved around the seventh time.

The moment they got there, he said, "Now, don't fight! Shout!"

Shout!

And the Bible says when they shouted...

Listen!

Listen!

Hold on!

Hear me!

Sometimes, sometimes you hear people say, "Give God a shout!"

Or sometimes you sin about two minutes, and I tell you a way to shout the name Jesus.

You may think they are just formulas.

Stupidly!

You see, this is that once your mind...

If you allow people who are depraved and don't know God, they will rubbish your breakthrough.

They will say, "What are you doing? What are you saying?"

Same thing with praying in tongues.

You are praying in tongues, and someone sees you and says, "You too, you are in this thing! You are doing this thing too! You too, you are joining them at your age! You went to school!"

Listen!

Listen!

I tell you, I have mustered how to destroy Jericho in my life!

I know the principles!

Life is spiritual!

When I found this key, I stopped wasting my time!

Brothers and sisters, let me tell you how to come out of any trouble in your life.

Should I tell you?

Listen!

After you finish praying, listen!

I want you to laugh and dance!

Dance is a strange mystery of deliverance!

Strange mystery!

Believe what I'm telling you!

Dance is a strange mystery of deliverance!

Dr. Kenneth Copeland asked Bishop Oyedepo and said, "You claim we taught you faith, but how comes you are able to pack over 50,000 people for services?"

And where they could say, "I danced every one of those people to church!"

See, listen!

There is a time to pray, but there is a time to engage other things!

And you get what I'm saying?

The Bible calls it the sacrifice of praise.

It didn't say the music of praise; it's a sacrifice!

It will cost you, but it will tear your heavens open!

Listen!

You have not seen breakthrough till you know how to rejoice before God!

There's nothing I know that paralyzes Satan like an expression of praise and joy!

It's one of the seven mysteries God revealed to me!

Seven mysteries!

Are you hearing what I'm saying?

Let me show you how men have commanded victory in their lives!

When you don't know the key and you don't know that life is spiritual, you will waste your time!

Cheap victories, you will never get it!

I remember a woman who shared a testimony.

She was burying, and then she started bleeding.

When she took him, and then she started bleeding, and she went to a man of God who happened to be a doctor.

True story!

And the man said, "Ah, madam, honestly, this thing, of course, you know what that means, it's over. Just trust God for grace."

And the woman said, "No! I know what my Bible says!"

I might say, "Well, you know I'm a pastor, but I'm also a medical practitioner."

When he finished everything, the woman said she did...

You know what they said?

"Dancing with you!"

Not you put vigil and put songs!

And what she said, she danced her way, and that child returned from wherever he was!

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Listen!

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, honestly, you can go home.

Koinonia has finished for you this night!

So that you don't waste your time!

You are too big to engage these mysteries!

Some things will never happen in your life!

Never happen!

Hallelujah!

There are mysteries!

When the devil wants to get your life, he will use men!

Listen!

Every time you start seeing strange attacks, it's a sign that something is about to drop!

Be careful!

Be sensitive!

Bitterness will start coming!

Are we together now?

Betrayal will come!

All kinds of things!

They are demon spirits desperate trying to use men to look for access to sabotage!

And that's why I use joy!

Joy! Joy! Joy!

Rejoicing! Dancing!

All these things distract you till the miracle comes!

Find a man who has refused to get angry; I'll show you a winner!

I'll show you a winner!

A winner!

Some of you, all these, "I'm like that," you will never rise beyond certain levels!

In our family, we are like that!

If I'm hungry, should I not say it?

Apostle, I'm a human being!

You will sit there as a human being and die like men!

Mysteries!

This life is spiritual!

You are looking for rent, and the rent has refused to come!

Do you know there are times in your life there is nothing about you that can bring that miracle?

You are not expecting money from anybody!

There is no hope of anything coming!

Those are the times you engage this!

You don't go around just saying, "Sir, the other day I spoke to you, I'm seeing here, is it that you are not seeing me?"

No!

Let God talk to them!

You talk to God!

You engage the mysteries!

And while you are dancing like a mad person, do you know there are people between now and Friday you will see the strange testimonies that will come in your life if you understand that life is spiritual!

This is the foolishness some of us have adopted!

Oh, we have been stupid enough to do it, and God has proven himself in a very dangerous way!

When we were going for crusade, remember when our car stopped?

Let me give you a real testimony!

The car refused to move!

They kicked it; it did not move!

Remember we prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed!

They kicked it!

All of a sudden, we were tired!

Everybody was discouraged!

Steve Strings just took the guitar and started playing!

That was how we started singing!

They are witnesses!

We kicked that car; it started till we got to the crusade!

When you understand that life is spiritual, you will know that it's not about your roommate!

This is the only way to love people!

So there's somebody now that you are bitter against, but you are turning your attention to the wrong person!

And you are giving access to spirits!

The devil expects you to see promise, promise, come pass this way, and you just pass like that, pulling your mouth!

And the devil said, "This is exactly what I mean! I like this kind of people! They are like robots! Anything we want, they do!"

But the moment you are passing and he's pulling space, and "How are you?"

Does it?

You disarm!

It's a little act, but you discern principalities and powers because life is spiritual!

Life is spiritual!

Your breakthrough is spiritual!

Your husband is spiritual!

Your wife is spiritual!

Your baby is spiritual!

Everything!

Your exams!

Spiritual!

Listen!

Listen!

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I'm not saying you should not read!

Listen!

But I'm...

Listen!

Let me tell you the truth!

Hear me!

Hear me!

Listen!

Let me tell you something!

No matter who you are, a day will come you will sit down, look at that paper, and you will know only God can help me!

There is a key!

Let me tell you what students do after exams, and that's why many people feel!

They come out, and then they go to somebody saying, "What do you write here?"

Don't do that thing!

When you come out, walk away!

Don't!

I put five; you say you put eleven!

They say, "How did you become eleven?"

You didn't put six!

You have failed!

The answer is five!

Now let me tell you what that...

I'm not saying you should criticize people!

Are you getting my point?

When that happens to your spirit, all of a sudden, you go back and say, "My God, this is it! It's over for me! My whole life has finished!"

You are helping the demons prophesy to yourself!

You are helping to speak!

Whereas somebody else will know that honestly, it's not that I'm saying you should be lazy!

But brothers and sisters, of what use is the spirit if there's no advantage?

There is an advantage!

We are not idiots!

Believe me!

You dance an angel to your faculty!

You dance an angel to your department!

You dance and enter to open your file for now!

Dance your way to the admission list again!

What I'm saying, please believe what I'm saying!

This is only one over four!

I came!

Tonight, open your eyes. Stop interpreting the happenings in your life. They threw you out of the job. Don't sit there and say, "But these people, even my uncle..." You saw me. It's not about your uncle. There's something you can do about it. Stop calling home to listen to bad news. After you listen, close it and say, "Lord, I still see what you are doing. I still see what you are doing."

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Are we together? You hear a word, and they say, "By the grace of God, your husband is coming." All of a sudden, things begin to happen around you. Somebody just comes and says, "Why are you putting this marriage on your head?" And all of a sudden, you feel ashamed. You feel embarrassed. When a prophecy is coming, you can't even lift your hands to receive it because you're saying, "They see me. They think I'm desperate for marriage."

They rob you of your joy. They rob you of your peace. You'll never get your miracle once you sit down. Then the devil uses anger. You now see that you are talking about other people's relationships and marriages, tearing people down and sowing a seed that will have a boomerang effect on you because life is spiritual.

Hear what Proverbs says: "Be careful as you speak, for the best will carry your words." Have you seen those birds before? The birds will carry your words. My life is spiritual. My life is spiritual. I cannot stop anybody from carrying charm, but I can stop it from touching me. I know what to do. I know what to do. I can't stop the spirit of death from standing on the road, okay? But there is something—there is something that even if he's the devil that drives, he will drive me safely.

These are not empty talks. This is what dominion is all about. I'm training you. I'm giving you spiritual intelligence. From now, when you walk out of this place, for some of you right now, there is a text message, a heavy insult waiting for you to read. Now hold on. You now know that you don't just turn and call people devils.

But you just enter, and your roommates, who right now as you are here, they are talking about you. And the Lord tells you, "Should I tell you how to win? Buy five for life. Go and drop it and say, 'People, this is for you.'" And you are saying, "I am God to be that much of an idiot." No! Somebody that did this is this lady that stopped me from marrying. She said something bad to one good military man who would have married me.

And God says, "Buy malt, a cattle of mud." And one greater, or God will say, "Wash their plates." I know they debted you. Just change it. Sing praises and wash your plates.

Listen, when you disarm powers, you will see God rise in a fearful way. Are we together? Bitterness, anger, envy are more wicked than anything you can think about. They destroy you. They are like a cancer that sabotages you. Many of our parents, you know why they may never prosper? They are angry at everybody.

There are people now, if they see me coming, I see people frown. "Oh, is he the guy? That's him. How are they getting money? Look at this, these young boys." And so the angel, the grace for the blessing is authorized to leave your life because anything you don't honor cannot be your inheritance.

Are we together? Now, what are they? Be careful of all these young guys standing. How can people be standing outside? Are you worshiping a man? Are you foolish? Don't castigate anybody, but just know that those are joy robbers. The moment they start speaking, know that your blessing has left heaven and it's about to come and land in your life.

Are we together? Life is spiritual. Let me just narrow it down so that we can pray. The mystery of praise in a dance. In a dance, you hear me talking about this dancing thing. I'm not a dancer. You don't have to be a dancer, but if you want to move forward, you dance anyhow to your breakthrough.

Anyhow! You are too big to dance your way to breakthrough. I tell you, you are too big to have an open heavens. It will never, never open. Ask David, the king, the custodian of mysteries. When he was dancing and rejoicing, his arrogant wife came and said, "What is this?"

I'm not saying you should dance in a nude and ungodly way. I don't know David's dance, but I know the dance that is not David's dance. Let me balance it quickly. I was not there with David, but I know the dance that is not David's dance. There are many dances around that are not David's dance.

Are we together? David's dance comes from a genuine heart, not a heart of seduction and stupidity. David's dance is a genuine heart that is focused on God, directed to Him.

So, let's—we're talking about David's dance here. David was dancing, and the wife, who was too big, now came and said, "What is this thing you are doing? You are a king." And they would say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." You don't know I was in the wilderness. Do you know what happened from there? The wilderness that brought me here, and I'm dancing.

And you don't know that I got you by dancing. Of course, it's a mystery. I've been practicing. You are Saul's daughter. You don't even know how you just came like that. You came as an inheritance. The Bible may not record it, but I believe he finished his dance and carried his sling and went to Goliath and said, "Have you done your own dance, Goliath? Because if you have not done it, you are about to go down."

Hallelujah! I believe in the mystery of praise. Please hear me, the mystery of praise. Psalms 149, give it to us. One of the mysteries we'll touch this night because this is a year of triumph, and I will be wicked if I don't share with you the secrets and operate in my own life.

Psalms 149, please. Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song. Listen and praise Him in the congregation of saints.

Verse 2: Let Israel rejoice in him that hath made him. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Three: Let them praise His name. What? Let them praise His name in a dance. Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and harp.

While reading down, for the Lord taketh pleasure in His people. He will do what? Beautify those who are humble enough. He will beautify them with salvation.

Next verse: Let the saints do what? Be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud on their beds.

Listen, hold on. Just stay there. Let me explain this to you. It says while you are allowing them, and all of a sudden, do you know it's when people lie down that the devil brings thoughts?

"I hope you know the bill is still there." And all of a sudden, "Oh Lord, you are good. Shahbaz, I know you are faithful. I know you are faithful."

Let the evil on their bed. Number six, now here is the warfare dimension of praise. He said, "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hands."

Next verse: To execute what? Sentence upon the heathen and punishment upon the people. Not by chasing them. That while you are praising and dancing, it is vengeance you are speaking in the camp of the enemy to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron.

There is something called the written judgment to execute upon them. What? Hold on. How do you execute it? Your own is to mind your business, knowing that life is spiritual.

I know they said you are not from so-and-so tribe. They walk together and suck you. Don't go telling people to hate these people. Go to your secret place and start praising and see what happens in that office.

Are we together? It says this honor have how many? The honor of expressing breakthrough. There are some things that God gave apostles, prophets, teachers, but He said this one, this honor of experiencing breakthrough have all the saints.

Praising the Lord. Cheap victories. Cheap victories by understanding life is spiritual. And you carry all—let me tell you another mystery. Carry all your challenges, write it on a paper, and dance before it.

Put it on the ground and celebrate God before it like a madman. Don't worry. Just be that stupid and see what happens. A child is not coming. I know that for sure. I'm getting zero in this and that.

And begin to celebrate Him. Celebrate Him. People look at you and say, "What are you doing?" I'm praising Him. Why? What did He do? No testimony. You start doing all these church things that people do like fools.

You're married. You go and lock you and your wife and tell yourself, "We are dancing our next level." When Jesus was entering the city, what did He do? Sat down on a donkey and had people praising and rejoicing.

It was that atmosphere. It says, Psalm 100, please. Psalm 100. Someone's life is about to change. It says, "Make a joyful noise."

Hold on. Are you seeing another mystery? Joyful what? Hallelujah! [Applause]

Hallelujah! Listen, praise the Lord. Listen, listen. It didn't say make noise. Making noise is not good, even for your health. Is it a joyful noise?

Hold on. Do you know what a joyful noise is? The revelation behind it. I'm not just shouting as an idiot. I'm showing you mysteries now. Praising a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

Verse 2: Serve Him with gladness. Look at how many times God talks about this. What is the protocol for accessing His presence? Come before His presence with—not with mourning.

Hold on. Oh God, I taught you that time. What? Don't give me any dream again. If I keep seeing money in my dream and yes, nobody sends me any alert, are you not the God of heaven?

I've been serving in Koinonia. Let me tell you what you are doing. You are just moving backward. Believe me, believe me, you are moving backward because a broken spirit dries the bones.

Verse 3: Know that the Lord is God. It is He that made us and not we ourselves. So have this revelation. He said, "We are the sheep of His pasture." He will not deny you anything.

There's too much gloominess and mourning. That's why I listen to the news just for the purpose of leadership. But ask anybody who knows me, I have no time listening to all these analyses and all this junk.

This and that is happening. This and that dollar is one million to this. I don't know what happened, but all I know is that for with joy shall you draw from the wealth of salvation.

Praise the Lord! If God calls this year a year of triumph, you must stop acting like man. Man, they can predict your life. They know when money is missing from your life. Your face will show it.

Anybody in this room that took what doesn't belong to him, except I'm not a member of Koinonia. You think you are being spiritual, but that's not how to disempower us.

Strange principles that will lift. I'm telling you, this principle of praise with a dance and a shout of praise is, I permit me to use the word, a wicked principle.

You want to see speed in your life? Do this and see what happens. Make up your mind. Complaining. The Bible says do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may be called blameless children of God.

Right? The world is full of angry people. Do you know the classic sign that someone needs deliverance is anger? Anger, offense. Everything offends you.

Right now, after calling on you, they say, "Turner hugged somebody." You just turned and found out that they left you alone. That alone is enough to bring anger.

"Are you not my partner? Why are you turning to the other person?" You are trying to say, "I'm not good enough." You are giving the devil—hold on. Don't laugh. You are giving the devil access.

Choose to be a happy person. You come, "I'm a joyous, joyous, joyous." He said, "Rejoice in the Lord." And again, I say, "Rejoice."

Going on, you hear me? Many people will laugh at what you are doing, but they will not deny the result. The result will be strange. I guarantee you.

I don't share my testimonies again so that it will not be as if I'm coming to Koinonia and all I'm saying. But there are things I will share with you. You will not be able to sleep.

That were gotten on the platform of engaging these mysteries. Let me tell you another strange thing: the spirit of prophecy. The spirit of prophecy walks with three things. One, a joyful noise.

Listen, you can never, never walk in the prophetic without joy. The spirit—the true spirit of prophecy walks with joy. I see angry people who say they are prophets. It's a joke.

The spirit of prophecy—let me tell you, most people who do different religions, do you know how they invoke the anointing upon mediums? They play instruments. They do music.

You've seen masquerades. They are moving, playing with fire. Somebody jumping on somebody, and then they reach a crescendo when a spirit lands on the head of whoever is the medium.

And all of a sudden, he starts prophesying. Are we together? The prophet said, "Bring me a mystery." And I began to play the mystery. I said, "The hand of the Lord came upon him, and then he began to prophesy."

"You shall not see wind. You shall not see rain, but the valley..." Now that strange breakthrough—no rain, no wind, but the valley filled with water.

Are we together? I'm telling you, I believe with all my heart that I have fast-tracked somebody's life now with this revelation. Call your parents. All this complain, all this complain.

"My daughter, when will you marry?" Now you see that there are no men in Koinonia. Is it that you are sitting outside? Yeah, you don't—you are not serving in any department.

You think I don't know what people say all around? That's nonsense. You can be in the third overflow dancing your destiny, and somebody's seated here.

Huh? God will force him to go and do something outside and see his destiny there. So it's not about all these games that people play. No! The favor of God can come upon your life.

You step into the office. Your director did not intend talking to you, but you say, "Um, okay, she was not in that list. It's her name there. Please add it to people who should come and see me."

See, even me, Joshua Selman, there are people who have helped that I didn't plan to. I just saw the joy and the ecstasy.

Look at your frown and come and see might cause your problems. No! Come with joy. You are bubbling. I'm not saying fake it, but be happy. The joy of the Lord is their strength.

You are compelled to bless them. Watch the visitors that come to your house. Somebody just comes and knocks. "Are you around? Say, please, can I get cold water before I talk to you?"

You are in a hurry for them to leave because you see—let me tell you, depression has a presence. Depression has a presence. Someone can step into your life, kill your joy, close your heavens, and walk away.

We're going to sing before the Lord for two or three minutes and command some fearful results. Fearful results. Fearful results. Fearful results.

But before we get there, I want you to open your mouth and blast in tongues for the next six to seven minutes from the depth of your heart. Lift your voice and pray.

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