Transcription
We give you glory. We give you glory. Every opportunity to praise is golden. I will not take it for granted. I was not forced to come here. I walked by myself. I can breathe freely. I am not on life support. I wore my clothes myself. They're not forcing me to feed. Can you give him praise? We don't need to be cajol tonight. I am excited for life. Thank you, Jesus. I numbered my family. We are complete. We give you praise. We give you glory. Many people have this money you are looking for and they want to trade it for health. Oh, we give you glory. Thank you, Jesus.
Cuz there are new every morning. When I think about it, new great is the faithfulness. Great is it's the first Sunday in 2026. Oh Lord, great is thy faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness. Sing they are new. Every morning they are new. Always new. Great is thy faithfulness. Yes. Hey I don't great stay there tonight. Oh, sing they are new. They are new new every morning. Great is thy great is thy faithfulness. Whoa. Great is the faithfulness. Oh God, the steadfast love, the steadfast love of the Lord. It never cease. His mercies mercies never comes to an a day always knew great is a faithfulness great so great it is I can't describe it I and measure it. Greatest star I pray. Oh, I just can't leave the song. Hey, sing dear every morning. He doesn't look at my wrongs or my errors at all. Hey, great. Great is thy faithfulness. Woah. Woah. Praise the faithfulness. Faithfulness. Cuz you've been faithful, God, from the aes. That is why your name that is why it is the very reason is forever is hey and you've been faithful in this new year you've been I'm alive I am saved from the ages from the previous. Yes, you are from the
Woohoo. That is why. Lord, oh God is forever. King, can you preach tonight? A thousand tongs are not enough. Come on, even at home, join us. Oh yes. What can you use to repay him? What kind of food do you want to give this guy? Sh. from the top for 2026. It's a done deal. It's is more you can get in his name.
What I give you? Which one I go? 8,000 tongs is not enough. Sha sha say oh baba baba baba shaba. Ah my and show and show you say put you alone be right about to be Great mighty God. Oh, listen. to me. Hey, do a test. It's okay. Equ my provider my way the messiah one more time listen You say raise it. Raise it. Jesus Jesus. Hey.
Yes. When a mighty God Equigay equal. One more time. We lift you. We praise you. We love you. The king, we give you praise. We give you glory. Dance. Hey, has it been good to you? Even in this new year, people have been seeing testimonies. Listen, TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR, COME AND JOIN ME, SING HALLELUJAH. Jehovah Jerry has sto well you're testifying today. COME AND JOIN me sing hallelujah. Hey Jehovah Gyle. Everybody join me and sing hallelujah. Touch your neighbor. Join me. me.
In this new year, I made it. HEY, you should be dancing right now. You should be dancing right now. Do it. Yes. Do it. Yes. Hallelujah. WOW. TONIGHT. Hey my melody. Oh my Jesus. Jesus. Yeah. My daddy. Tell me Jesus. Yeah. Sweet Jesus. You love him so much. Hey, one more time. My darling Jesus, I sing. Darling Jesus, darling Jesus. You love me so the Lord of host everybody. The king OF AWESOME.
HEY, CAN YOU CLAP YOUR HANDS TO GOD? HEY we organ can you clap? Apple. Amen. Amen. For we can see everything. Everything. Everything. We can see everything. Turn your eyes, everything. Everything. And we can see everything. Everything. Everything. You are the mighty God, the great I am. No one in your class at all. Halleluah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You are you are you are the mighty great hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You are the mighty. You are the mighty one. The great I am, the great I am. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Mighty God. No one compares to you. Hallelujah. You fight all my battles. Hallelu Hallelujah. You are the mighty God. You are the mighty God in every situation. Yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Halleluah. We give you all the glory. We worship you and we worship you our God. You are worthy to be praised. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let your hallelujah be unique this evening because this is the very first Sunday in the year 206. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Let's be seated. Amen. What a blessing. What a blessing. Thank you, Jesus. Somebody say, "Thank you, Jesus." Has God been good to us? Has he been faithful? Say, "Thank you, Jesus." Say, "I am grateful, Jesus." For all that you have done. I am grateful. Hallelujah.
All right, so this evening we are going to be taking testimony. We're going to give privilege for some of us to give our testimony. And I know that God indeed has been good to us. We have been hearing testimonies of people. So now we want to hear it from the altar. Remember there there were 10 lepers who uh God are they 10 lepers? Yes. Who Jesus healed. And after Jesus healed them, they all left. It was only one person that came back to say ah Jesus I recognize that you were the one who healed me and I came to say thank you. I have come to say thank you. So I want us I want that one person who is not going to be ungrateful because Jesus act he say were there not 10 people were there not 10 people that we are healed how come it is only you that came back to say thank you. So I want us to uh those of us that have testimony I want you wherever you are seated just lift your hands we're just going to give us one one minute just go straight to what God have done. Praise the Lord. All right let's put our hands together. Are we not grateful? Are we not happy that we are seen testify and so when I say testimony time you say recreated life experience. Can we do that? Testimony time. recreated life experience. Amen. So, we're going to get recreated life experience from our beautiful uh men and women. Let's put our Let's raise our hands again. We can come to this side so that we just do it quickly. Hallelujah. Let's put our hands together. Let's put our hands together. What a blessing. What a blessing. If God have been good to you, do not hide it. Do not hide it. All right, sir. You can come forward, sir. What a blessing. Wow. What a blessing. What a blessing. Praise the Lord. Happy new year once again to everybody. Wow. I'm happy to express my mind this this evening sharing my testimony in the presence of God. I am just using this medium to tell God thank you for saving my life into 2026. And I know I am seeing more years to come in Jesus name. What a blessing. What a blessing. All right, let's come for Praise the Lord. Praise Master Jesus. I'm here to testify for the goodness of God, concerning my life, concerning my family, concerning my son, which I have been looking on to God for his mercy, for his blessing, concerning him. Two weeks ago, I test our pastor that the boy is not around and he told me that the finger of God will locate him. In fact, I give God the glory. On Monday, a God just called me that they met the boy in so place. Immediately I went there, I saw him on my way coming back from that place. He has an accident on the road and this bus hit the boy immediately on the road. I was shouting. I say God look at God. Immediate people run me. They assist the boy. They carry him. They treated him. I give glory to almighty God. The devil want to take the boy away from me. But the God of this do not allow that. I thank God I give all the glory to God. All what I carried enter 2025 was none of them means I give glory to God. Let the people shout hallelujah. PRAISE THE LORD. HALLELUJAH. What a blessing. What a blessing. What a blessing. What a blessing. I want to sing one song before I will say my testimony. A very big God do. He's always by my side. A very big God. By my side. By my side. I say a fairy big god do is always by my side. A very big God do by my side. By my side. What a blessing. What a blessing. I I thank God in this mountain that when I enter this place I carry my I carry heavy load come here. But I thank God. God of this mountain have helped me and remove it away. I did not see any more before. I don't used to see people giving me something, dashing me something. I will be walking like elephant. During this year, December time, NOBODY WILL GIVE ME SIR. THANK WE, WE appre we appreciate your work. But this time around, some people will be dashing me one p of r this this like that. When I counted everything, it's up to have bag of rice. I give glory of this mountain. I thank God that people THERE ARE PEOPLE SEE ME giving me something this time. I thank God. Daddy, I appreciate your calling. And mommy, I appreciate your calling. What a blessing. What a blessing. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Let's just appreciate God for those testimony. Let's say, father, thank you for those testimony. The testimony is going to multiply. When we give thanks, it multiply. It grows to you to your family. It extend to every one of us. Thank you father. Thank you father for all the testifiers. We give you all the glory. Blessed be your name. In Jesus most faithful name we are praying.
So I just want us to rise upon our feet. Amen. Let's rise upon our feet and let's just go ahead and tell God that this evening I've come to receive something special from you. I have come to receive from you. I have come to receive from you. You said that this year is our year of open door. I have come to receive a word from you. A word that will bring that open door to come to pass. A word that bring that breakthrough to come to pass. A word that bring that healing to come to pass. A word that bring that divine connection to click. A word that will set me free. A word that will heal me. A word that will deliver me. A word that will bring my testimony. A word that will bring all my prayer requests to an answer. Oh Lord, I have come to receive from you. Heavenly Father, open up your heavens in the name of Jesus. Let your let your reign of mercy, reign of favor, let open doors, let there be open doors for me in the name of Jesus. You said that this year is a year of new possibilities. Even as I come to receive from you, let there be new possibilities in my life. Let there be new possibilities. Everywhere I look, everywhere I turn to, let there be new possibilities in the name of Jesus. Let me experience possibilities in the name of Jesus. Oh father, we give you all the glory. Thank you Lord of hosts. Blessed be your name, father. In Jesus most faithful name we have prayed.
Amen. Heavenly Father, we thank you. Thank you for testimonies in our midst. Thank you for favor that you shall upon your daughter. And we thank you because we know that from now hence forth favor will continue to follow her in the name of Jesus. And it will extend to every one of us in the name of Jesus. Throughout this year it will be favor upon favor upon favor upon favor. It will be grace in the name of Jesus. It will be victory in the name of Jesus. The devil is not going to snatch anything that you have given to us throughout this year, but instead you will multiply all the goodness, your mercies in our lives in the name of Jesus. As we have come to hear your word, we ask that you speak through your son in the name of Jesus. Speak through your son in the name of Jesus. Let your word meet every situation of our life in the name of Jesus. Let there be testimonies after now. Let there be healing. Let there be deliverance in our means. Let there be freedom in our means. Let there be salvation in our means. Thank you precious Holy Spirit. We give you all the glory. Thank you Aba Father. In Jesus most faithful name we have prayed.
Amen. Amen. What a blessing. Hallelujah. How many of us are excited to be in 2026? Is that how excited you are? Come and express your gratitude to God. Hallelujah. We welcome you to 2026, our year of new possibilities. Hallelujah. And I welcome you also specially to the first Sunday in the year 2026. It shall indeed be a year of new possibilities for every one of us in Jesus name. Amen. This is the recreated life network and our vision in RN is to recreate ordinary lives into pillars of influence for global impact. And our mission is to raise a spiritually rooted and economically equipped generation by providing disciplehip, empowerment programs and practical opportunities that help people grow, transform and step into their god orgiving influence. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Please let's be reminded that on Wednesdays we have our midweek experience by 5:00 p.m. It's just a 1 hour 30 minutes experience. So please we are invited. You can join us in person or you can join us online and every Sunday like this we gather by 5:00 p.m. in the recreated live experience as well. We are both in persons here and of course we stream through all our social media network, our Facebook, our YouTube. So for those that cannot come in person, you can join us online. And for this, let's welcome our live viewers. Can we make some noise for them? Our Hallelujah. You are welcome to to today's service and welcome you specially as well to the first Sunday of the year 2026 in the name of Jesus. Our empowerment program will kick off this um ne by next week. Hallelujah. So it's starting this week sorry. So if you are interested in learning digital skill please endeavor to be a part of it. We are starting it on Tuesday and it's going to be a social media automation class. So I'm encouraging most of our young ones to come and partake of this training. So I attend this training starting by Tuesday 6 at the time is that as you partake of that training you is your journey into becoming financially dependent in the name of Jesus.
And we're also starting our 14 days prayer and fasting and is how many of us are excited? Hallelujah. Some people are not excited. You don't want to fast you want to eat. Is is we are in the early days of the new year. So it is necessary and very essential that we engage spiritually and that is why we are not just interested in your financial growth. We also uh so much so much interested in your spiritual growth. Hallelujah. So that is why we are engaging in this 14 days prayer and fasting. It will be starting tomorrow and we'll be having a prayer session here by 5 to 6 p.m. So if you are if it's possible for you to be around, you can join us physically and if you cannot join physically please join online. It will be streaming live on our YouTube channel and our Facebook channel. Hallelujah. So please, it is not just to fast. If you fast without prayers is hunger strike. So it is necessary that you study the word of God and you pray. So please join us by 5 to 6 p.m. just 1 hour as we'll be praying daily for this 14 days and the Lord will give you the strength and grace to do it in Jesus name.
So we want also want to encourage you to intentionally invite someone whenever you are coming for our experience. Hallelujah. The way you are being blessed, the way your life is being transformed so that others too their life will be transformed like yours in the name of Jesus. We encourage you to become one of our officials. There are several offices, several units and departments that we really need you to come and join. So if God is laying it in your heart or there is a place you know that you can really function please kindly see me after the service for further arrangement as God will be helping us in Jesus name. We are starting our membership school level one genesis class. It has been announced before. So I expect that most of us especially the workers we are beginning our officials are preparing for for it. So from next week Sunday, we are starting it next week Sunday, January 11th. It starts by 2:00 p.m. So this Genesis class is what make you a verified member of the ARN. So if you are indeed a member of RLN, we expect you to be in this class so that you be taught things that will make you to get into spiritual maturity. And I pray that every one of us that attend we become matured spiritually in the mighty name of Jesus. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. We want to welcome some very special special persons in our midst. Everyone present here are special but there are some VVIPs that we must not continue this service without mentioning them. Hallelujah. Will Jesus join our hearts. Can we clap our hands together? If you know today is your first time just wave those hands. Wave those hands. Say hi to us. Say hi to us. Hallelujah. Please let officials get to them and give them some card. You are welcome in Jesus name. God bless you. Let we are happy to have you in our midst and you are very special to us. Praise the Lord. Please a card will be given to you. Kindly help us fill it and return it back to the official and we'll welcome you specially at the end of the service. Hallelujah. Come on, jam our hands together again once more for our first timers.
Amen. Please there is a a very special announcement that this announcement is not supposed to be made but because of the situation uh that occurred today we have to make this announcement. Please uh someone came earlier and dropped their headphone somewhere and he could not find it. We are not saying it is stolen but we are saying if per venture you picked it maybe you helped us moved it from where it was placed please kindly help us return it there Because Open our feet and begin to express gratitude to God and with the heart of expectation can we begin to tell God that father as your son come forth the word is coming forth that lord speak to me through him today speak to me through him express yourself before God
thank you Jesus Thank you Lord. Father we give you praise. We give you glory. We thank you Lord. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Blessed be your name, oh God. In Jesus name we pray.
Amen. Please let's have our seats for a few minutes. Amen. Amen. What a blessing. What a blessing. And happy new year to heaven. Hallelujah. I'm so happy to see everyone today. God kept us throughout the previous year 2025 and we are alive today because God kept us. God preserved us. We are so grateful. I was thinking and hoping that today we are going to be having uh a thanksgiving service but it is in my own personal tradition to always thank God in a with full expression. Full expression. So one of the limitations we have is that we don't have equipment. Not because we can't buy them but there's no place to put them. So if we buy drums, we have keyboard, we have guitar, we have talking drum, we have trumpet, there will be no place for you to sit down. So, but by God's grace, it is in our hearts that the next thing we want to do now is to move our recreated life experience out of this place to a much more bigger space. Amen. We are trusting God that between now and March, we should be in very bigger space to worship God. Amen. So during that period we'll be having monthly thanksgiving services where we will express gratitude unto God. Where we will praise God undignified. Hallelujah. Amen. What a blessing. What a blessing.
Now there's something else to tell you. While I was praying, God ministered something to me. He said, "All I want you to do is teach my people the word." And then he said, "For every experience I have assigned an angel that fellowship with you during the experience and the assignment of that angel is while you are teaching the word of God will be healing. You'll be set free. He will be invoking deliverances. He will be attending to people's needs. So each time you come here, just come with an open heart to receive from God to hear God's word that will transform your life, change your life, and then leave the rest to God. of God will always be here to do the things that no man no pastor can do. So it doesn't matter what you have come to the presence of God with God without even mentioning it through the man of God. God will take care of it. Amen. This year is going to be a very glorious year. Amen. going to be one years you will never forget in your life. How do I know this? God said year 2026 is not just a year. It is a door. And door means assess. And what does that mean? It means that many of you will be accessing things that you have never imagined before. You will be going to places that you don't think you can ever be. Amen. You'll be meeting you can't imagine you meeting. Whether you believe it or not, this is what God is going to do for you this year. Amen. Amen. People in the class of governors, presidents, CEOs, people whom matter, people men of means because it is the year of access. Amen. In the name of Jesus. Amen. This house is the house of testimony. There is a testimony I received last week from one of our leaders, from one of us. And the testimony was that the previous week when I was praying for those who were sick, people who had pain or something in their body and I that part of their body where they have that pain and this person said for several months I have not been able to see my menstrual cycle. a young lady and she said I cannot tell anybody because if I tell people they will use it to mock me they will say probably I have gotten pregnant so I couldn't tell anybody I couldn't tell my parents I couldn't tell friends but for several months I could not see my menstrual flow it's an abnormal situation but after that meeting That same night a menstrual cycle started. So God is in this place. GOD is here. And one more time I am praying for anyone who came here with any situation that situation is dissolved now. You came with sickness your body you are getting healed right now. Amen. Amen. You came with any burden on your shoulder, that burden is being lifted right now. You came with secret tears that someone knows about, God is wiping away that tears right now. And you are coming back with your own testimony. Amen. Amen. Amen.
So this month to start the year, we are looking at the theme foundation. Building a life that cannot collapse. Foundation. The foundation of a thing of a building is very important. In fact, in a building, the most important aspect is not the interior decoration. It is not the painting. It is not how tall the building is. It is not the beauty of the the beauty of the building. It is the foundation. And that's why we are looking at how to build a life that cannot collapse. So today we'll be looking at build to last. Build to last. And we'll be reading Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. That's our anchor scripture for today's meeting. Matthew chapter 7 from verse 25. Let me start from verse 24. The Bible says, "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house. Yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the wind blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash. Listen to me. Nothing collapsed suddenly. Nothing collapse suddenly. There will always be a sign before the day it collapsed. NO BUILDING collapse instantly. Collapse is always a function of weakness or something that is missing over time. For example, when we started a business and then the business crashed in 2021 around March, I saw the signs in January. Something was already showing me signs that there could be a problem. However, we don't have a solution. All our efforts to see that the system does not crash did not work and then suddenly there was a crash. However, it did not crash that day. It has been giving us signs from the beginning in Luke 6:48 and 49. similar to the same scripture we read earlier. But the difference here is that the Bible says HE DUG DEEP and laid the foundation on the rock. HE DUG deep and then he laid the foundation on the rock. That was the reason the the storm couldn't collapse the building because he dug the foundation deep. THE OTHER MAN THAT HIS BUILDING crashed was because the foundation was not deep. So storms don't actually cause a crash. Storms only reveals the situation of the foundation. When you see storms coming, have you seen sometimes when rain is about to fall and then we begin TO SEE WIND, HEAVY wind blowing and then suddenly we start seeing some trees falling down. ALSO, YOU SEE SOME TREES that refuse to fall. But what you will see is that they will bend over after the wind. What happens? They rise again. So the reason the storm COULDN'T DESTROY THOSE trees was because of their foundation. THAT IS WHY STORM itself don't cause collapse. It is the foundation that determines whether a building will collapse or not. So our life is also in that regard. We collapse because of the structure of our foundation and we also stand because of the structure of our foundation. And that's why every visible fall began from an invisible neglect. Every visible fall you see in your own life or in the life of people is as a result of something invisible that was neglected. It could be neglect of prayer. It could be neglect of discipline. It could be neglect of truth. It could be neglect of boundaries. SO THE NEGLECT the negligence of a man can determine the fall he experience in life. When someone refuses to heal, what happens, there is trauma. Now the trauma grows over time to form depression. THE DEPRESSION GROWS OVER TIME TO CAUSE PROBABLY LET'S SAY EYEBROW pressure and then after eyebrow pressure what happen? Stroke. So can you see when you see a man and they say the man is being attacked by stroke THE ATTACK DID NOT JUST HAPPEN THE DAY THEY SAW the stroke. IT WAS A FUNCTION OF SOMETHING that was ignored over time and from the medical history they said it is when the blood pressure is high that it triggered stroke. So when THEY NEGLECT TAKING CARE of the blood pressure then there is stroke attack. So it is negligence that causes collapse in the life of a man. SO WHY do we SEE SOME PEOPLE START STRONG and they don't last? This is the beginning of the year. We see PEOPLE BEING SERIOUS, BEING DETERMINED, having new year resolutions. THEY WANT TO DO BIG THINGS IN the year. THEY WANT TO DO GREAT THINGS IN THE YEAR. AND THEN THEY START STRONG. For example, we said we are going to start fasting. Some people will begin the fast but along the way something will happen. They will stop. So they want to participate in everything. THEY ARE SERIOUS. SO WHY DO PEOPLE START STRONG but along the line they don't last? It is because they prioritize excitement over establishment. In Luke chapter 8 verse 13, the Bible talk about some people who receive the word with joy. They receive the word with joy. But because they don't have roots, the word was taken away from them. Joy is very dangerous without root. And when I mean root, I am talking about death. Yes, YOU ARE HERE RIGHT NOW. YOU MAY BE EXCITED ABOUT THE WORD YOU ARE HEARING. OH, I have not heard this before. I have not heard it being taught like this before. OH, SEE THE WAY THIS MAN of God is opening the scripture and explaining the scripture to us. YOU ARE EXCITED. BUT THE TRUTH is if you don't have roots, that word you have heard will be stolen away from you and it will not produce results in your life. This is why foundation is very important. Why do some people look good online but their life offline is worse? THE REASON IS BECAUSE APPEARANCE CAN BE EDITED but foundations cannot be edited. YOU CAN'T PHOTOSHOP character but you can create images. Very important. The Bible says man look unto what they can see appearance but God looks inward and it is the inward the invisible that matters the INVISIBLE THAT WHICH YOU can't see and that is what God considers not the physical appearance not the outward appearance our foundation is very important and critical. SO A GOOD START IS not enough. We must build so that we can last. To build so we can last. AND WHY DOES GOD CARES about foundation? Why is foundation important to God? And it must be important to us. The Bible says if the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Righteousness cannot function without foundation. So there is little to what you can accomplish IN YOUR LIFE EVEN as a righteous man. When I mean righteous man, it means as a born again person who have a right standing with God. There is little you can do without a strong foundation. Very important. AND THAT IS WHY SOMETIMES GOD ALWAYS slows some people down. You know why? So that he can protect them from collapsing quickly. So he can protect them from collapsing. It slows them down. Let me tell you something. Not everything answers to prayer. Many things answer to principles. There are THINGS YOU PRAY ABOUT, YOU PRAY ABOUT, YOU PRAY ABOUT. GOD HAS ANSWERED the prayer, but it is in a credit account. It has not been released. WHY? BECAUSE GOD KNOWS if he release the answer to that prayer, you can't last. So what God is saying is I want you to build up best, build capacity, be strong enough to be able to carry the answer to the prayer you have been praying. This year God will answer your many prayers because you are going to build a solid foundation. Look at THE LIFE OF JOSEPH IN GENESIS CHAPTER 7. He had a dream early. He had favor early. HE HAD A CALLING EARLY IN LIFE. BUT GOD DELAYED the manifestation so that he can build character. He can build integrity and build wisdom. At the age of 17, this guy knows where he was going to in life. Such a lucky man. HIS FATHER LOVED HIM SO MUCH THAT FAVOR SO MUCH THAT THE FATHER HAD TO SEW HIM A CLOTH of many colors. HE WAS LOVED. HE ENJOYED FAVOR. HE HAD A DREAM OF GREATNESS. HE KNOWS HIS CALLING. HE KNOWS WHERE HE WAS GOING. BUT GOD said you need extra 13 years before the manifestation of this greatness. Why? Because you must build character. Because you must build integrity. You must build wisdom. Joseph was a talkative before. He doesn't know what to say. He doesn't know when to say something. But God to teach him wisdom. And that was why where did he learn character? He learned character in the prison. He learned integrity through temptation. He learned wisdom through obscurity. There are many of us here we are carrying glorious destiny but all the opportunities for the manifestation are still closed and then you are praying YOU ARE TRAVELING SAYING LET DOORS open I carry destiny I CARRY GREATNESS I HAVE DREAMS BUT God is saying no I will continue to shut the doors that will bring these dreams into manifestation until you build firsts. Until you build a foundation. SO MANY BUILDINGS DON'T FALL during construction. They fall years later. When you see you hear the story of people who are crumbling and crashing now, it was because they failed to build years ago. to build years ago. What What does it mean to build to last? To be built to last, what does it mean? It means you are stable under pressure. It means you don't collapse under temptation. under pressure, not collapsing in temptation, not quitting when it gets hard and then growing and yet not losing yourself. There are people when they taste small prosperity, they lose themselves and they are lost forever. irredeemable just more breakthrough. You see some people they are faithful sincerely faithful IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. YOU SEE THEM IN CHURCH EVERY DAY FAITHFUL SERVING GOD but small breakthrough take them out of the church and they are lost forever. So the problem was not the prosperity. The problem was because as they grew they lost themselves because they had no foundation. Pay attention to this. This is going to help you and speed up your breakthrough. So the major foundation that holds up our life is our spiritual foundation. So we are talking about how to build to last. The major foundation that holds our life is our spiritual foundation. And what is a spiritual foundation? A spiritual foundation is talking about a relationship with God, not religion. And I'm going to give you the difference between the two today. A relationship with God, a spiritual foundation is not I go church, I attend church service, I am a worker in the church. That's not a spiritual foundation. I am in the choir. That's not a spiritual foundation. A spiritual foundation means I am rooted in God. You see, religion can give you activities but relationship will give you a life. That's the difference. Religion gives you activities. Relationship gives you life. Religion can makes you look spiritual. But it is relationship that is actually spiritual. And many people are religiously spiritual but they are empty. Very empty. Colossians chapter 2 verse 6 and 7 the Bible says so then just as you receive Christ Jesus as Lord continue to live your life in him rooted and built up in him strengthening in the faith as you were taught and overflowing with thanksfulness. What does relationship means? Relationship means a it means union with God. Union with Christ. John chapter 15 verse 4-5 he says abide in me and I in you. He says whoever abides in me and I in him he says the same bears much fruit and apart from me you can do nothing. So the foundation we are talking about is not an effort. It is union. Union with Christ. Union with Christ. Many people collapse because they are producing fruit from effort instead of producing fruit from presence. It's not the same. There's a difference between struggling to produce results and the result I'm talking about is the result that God requires from us to produce the fruit of righteousness. There are people who are struggling to do it. Whereas when you are in a relationship with God, such food meant to be produced by the presence of God, not by efforts. That's what religion does. Religion is an attempt that makes a man to be looking for God by his own efforts. looking for God through the wrong means. That's why religion is always built on emotions, events, and appearance. It's not the size of your Bible that determines whether you are spiritual or not. Not the size of your Bible, not how long your gown looks. You see the moment you you find yourself in a situation whereby sometimes you don't feel you don't feel the presence of God that's religion because God is supposed to abide with you. Oh, I don't feel the that religion emotions. I ATTEND PROGRAMS, EVENTS. THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE describe as spirituality. However, when it COMES TO RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP is built on love and obedience. Love and obedience. Daily communion with God and inner transformation. Law of an obedience, daily communion and inner transformation. So there are four practical pillars of a spiritual foundation and that's what we want to look at. how we can now practically build a foundation that will not collapse. Four practical pillars of a spiritual foundation. Number one is prayer. The first one is prayer. What is prayer? Many people think prayer is what I do whenever I want to ask God for something. That's not prayer. That is not prayer. Let me repeat that. That is not prayer. Prayer is not what you do when you want to ask God for something. Prayer is what you should do to create an environment of God's presence in your life. What you do to create an environment of God's presence in your life. That's why the Bible says in the book of Luke 1:18 that we ought to pray always and not faint. Praying always and not faint. Do you know that even Jesus could not do without prayer? Mark chapter 35 uh chapter 5 the Bible says every day he wakes up very early to go and pray. So Jesus saw prayer as oxygen something he needed to be able to survive in life. Prayer is not what you do when storms comes when problem comes. As a matter of fact, the reason why you have not been able to survive those challenges when they come is because it it was when they came you started praying. When problem meet you praying the problem will bow not you. Prayer can be very difficult when you just want to start living a prayer life. But I can tell you that that is the only thing you can do to carry the presence of God wherever you go. To carry the presence of God wherever you need prayer. This is why you need the help of the Holy Spirit so that you can always continually be a prayerful person because the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 that the spirit helps our infirmity because we do not know what we ought to pray for but the spirit helps us to pray. This is why you need the Holy Spirit in your life. the baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT, THE HEALING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH THE EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN tongues so that you can be in a situation WHEREBY EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PRAY FOR, YOU ARE PRAYING. When you KNOW HOW TO PRAY, YOU ARE PRAYING. YOU DON'T HAVE A PRAYER REQUEST. YOU ARE PRAYING. We need the presence of God. And the only way to invoke his presence is prayer. So prayer is a is a pillar or a spiritual foundation. This year you have to cultivate the prayer lifestyle. a prayer life. You have to come up with a prayer life. Now, let me tell you something. Jesus said, "Pray so you don't fall into what?" into temptation. Do you know that one of the ways you can overcome temptation is through a prayer life? A very good prayer life. Because when the temptation comes, he finds you praying. When the devil tempted Jesus, what did he find him doing? Fasting and praying. AND THAT WAS WHY HE WAS ABLE TO OVERCOME the devil. Sometimes this topic are not interesting topic because it has nothing to do with breakthrough and prosperity. But this is the foundation that we need to build a life that cannot collapse prayer. So before this service is over, if you are not baptized in the Holy Spirit, you need to hunger for it and get that baptism so the spirit can always help you to pray. The Bible says building up yourself in your most holy faith. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Number two is the word. Number one is prayer. The number two is the word. The word is the blueprint for a stable life. Because the Bible says in Psalm 119 verse 105, it says, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." The lamp to my feet and a light to my path. If your life has have no uh a SCRIPTURAL BLUEPRINT, YOUR LIFE can't be stable. You see, the word of God cannot give you everything, cannot show you everything, but will always show you what to do. In the midst of darkness, what will give you direction is the word of God. And that's why this year you must dedicate a What the All that proceed from the mouth of God. We need food for the body, but we need the word for the inner man, for the spirits. Now, let me show you something that happens. You see your spirit man is always hungry and the food you can feed it is the word of God. Anytime the inner man and the spirit is starving and it cannot feed on the world, he begins to look for alternatives. And that is why you see men feeding their spirit man with lusts, addiction and validation. This is where you find people indulging themselves in fornication, adultery, drugs, and destructive habits. It is because their inner man is actually hungry looking for food and the food to feed it is the word. And because you are not feeding the word, you feed it with an alternative. Is somebody following me tonight? So if you feed your spirit with the word, all other alternatives will not be needed. So if you are struggling here, listen to me. If you are struggling here with anything destructive, you are struggling with stealing, you see things that don't belong to you, you like to take it. Let me tell it is your spirit man that is looking for food. Struggling with lust. It is your spirit man that is looking for food. YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH DRUGS. You want to take alcohol. YOU WANT TO TAKE IN THEIR HELP. YOU WANT TO ABUSE DRUGS. IT IS YOUR SPIRIT MAN THAT IS LOOKING FOR FOOD BECAUSE THAT BECOMES AN ALTERNATIVE. But the moment that spirit man is eating the right food which is the word of God, he will not need those things. So, I've just given you the easiest freedom from dead walk. Feed on the word. Feed the word this year. Dedicate time to eating the scriptures. Start from the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke. Start start feeding on them. GO INTO Psalms and Proverbs. Speed on the word of God. READ THE STORIES OF JOSEPH. READ THE STORIES OF DANIEL. READ THE STORIES OF ABRAHAM. Get direction for life in them and your life will become solid. David was speaking 119. He says through your word I am now wiser than my teachers. Oh, they say you are foolish. They say you are dull. They say you are not sharp. Feed on the word of God and you will be imparted with the spirit of wisdom. The word. And then number three, obedience. Number one is what? Number two. Number three obedience. Hearing is not enough. Doing is what is required to build that foundation. Many of you will hear me now and go home. But what determines whether your life will be built and will not collapse is doing what you have had. Is somebody following me? Everyone hearing now the difference will be if you become the doer of what you are hearing. So if you go oh I was blessed recreated life experience what a blessing what a blessing and then you do nothing with what you have had your life can change but if your life is going to change you have to become a doer of that which you are hearing right now from the Bible passage we read from the Bible says the person who hear the words, the words of mine, and he does it. He says he's like a wise man that built his house on a rock. When storm came, he didn't collapse. But the foolish one, the same word, but he did nothing about it. And it's like the foolish man that built his house on his sand. So after this service, you have to choose who you want to become. A wise man or a foolish man. But I encourage you become a wise man. Because this year is going to be very short. At the same time, it's going to be very long. It's going to be long because there will be pressure. There will be challenges. And those challenges are floated in opportunities. THOSE PRESSURE INSIDE them are the breakthroughs you need. You must understand that. So the year IS GOING TO BE VERY LONG. IT WILL COME with its own challenges and difficulties. If you will still be standing by the end of the year with bags of testimonies and new songs in your
mouth, you have to become a doer of God's word. Obedience is very important. Then number four, consistency. And what does that mean in a simple way? Repeat the first three. Yeah, that is consistency. Repeat the first three. Pray the word. Obedience. Do it over and over and over. Repeat it. Pray every day.
And David gave us a a prototype of how to pray. He said three times in a day I pray but seven times in a day I praise. In fact, while I was meditating about this, I said, how many times do the Muslims pray in a day? Five times. And for each five times, how many minutes do they spend? Let's say, let's, let's just summarize it about 20 minutes. I'm not sure because I've entered. I pray for, I just followed one of my Muslim friends. I said, let me go and see. I've tried a lot of things in my life. I said, let me go and see what they are doing inside. So I followed him. We did that blue shot. As he was washing his hand, I was washing my hand. As he was washing his leg, I was washing my leg. So nobody knew. And I entered. Once they bow, I bow. So I'm not sure we spend up to 10 minutes. And then what are we even praying about? I'm not hearing anything. We are just murmuring something in our mouth. Then we look left, we look right. But do you know why I am challenged with this? In fact, you are not an ideal Muslim. You are not a faithful Muslim if you don't pray five times a day. And when it is time for them to fast, they do it faithfully religiously. But we believers, we are the one who is careless with our life. Why won't the devil be coming around us and be building his tent? Was it the day Daniel got into the lion's den that he started building? No, he has built before he was thrown to the lion's den. That was why there was nothing the lion could hit. We pray when we have a problem. When the storm starts coming, we start praying. The Bible spoke about Daniel. The Bible says he prays three times every day. So we create a life community. Why don't we just copy the same style of the Muslim five times in a day? 10 minutes. Five times in a day, 10 minutes. Just program it that way. 10 minutes every day, you will have prayed for 50 minutes, almost an hour. So you can schedule it. 6 a.m. 10 minutes. 9 a.m. 10 minutes. 12 a.m. 12 noon, 10 minutes. That's the third one. 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. 10 minutes. That even if you are in your working place, enter the toilet. If you spend a minute, they will think you are pooing. And do you know that was what I was doing when I was working in a company in UAE? I could not have time because of the time was so choking that I don't have time to pray. By the time I get home in the night, I will be tired. I needed to break the prayer. So during when it is time to pray, I will just enter the restroom. When I've stayed a longer time, I will press the water so that they can hear. But I'm out of prayer. The Bible, you see, you are laughing with these things. The Bible says the children of this world, they are wiser than the children of light. They are wiser.
Beloved, I challenge you, build a consistent prayer life. Life will become solid, unshakable, and the word of God. Do you know you can finish the entire book of Proverbs in one month? One chapter per day for 31 days. Proverbs has 31 chapters. One chapter per day, you will finish that book. See, if you read the book of Proverbs 12 times in a year, your life will change. If it does not change, come and meet me and say, "Pastor, you are a liar." It was the book of Proverbs I was reading in 2010 where I saw that I needed wisdom. And for two years, my wife is my witness. For two years, I don't have any other points. My holy prayer was, "God, give me wisdom." For 24 months, when we are in church and they are leading prayer on the altar, I don't join them. I will be praying my own. God, I still need this. I need this wisdom. That was why I executed with first class. I said, I am not surprised because it was an evidence that God answered that prayer. For 2 years, my only prayer was, "God, give me wisdom." Two years. If you are, if you are in a church and they say, "Yeah, ask God for one thing." I don't ask that thing because I saw in the book of Proverbs the importance of wisdom. Doing the word, not just hearing, doing the word. Let's bow our heads to.
And the prayer is very simple. Lord, every shallow place in my life that needs depth, strengthen it. Remember we said every visible fall is as a result of invisible negligence. Every shallow, shallow place or shallow area of my life. Shallow area of my life. Strengthen it. My life must be built so that it doesn't collapse in 2026. I will not collapse. Fear, I will not collapse. We will stand strong spiritually, physically, mentally. I will not collapse. I will not collapse.
While we are praying, if you are here and you want me to pray with you, you are saying, "Pastor, my ways are not right with God." And we are just in a new year. I want to quickly realign myself, my ways with God. I want my ways to be right with God. While others are praying, please don't joke with that prayer. Don't joke with that prayer. Your life must not collapse this year. Yes, we are happy that we cross into a new year with so many marks, so many scars, so many ruptures, so many collapses here and there. It must not repeat itself. So many errors, so many. It must not repeat itself this year. It must not repeat itself. It must not repeat itself. Some of us cross into this year by mercy. If not for the mercy of God, we would have been grounded. Not because we don't need mercy again, but because we should not repeat those same errors that only mercy could rescue us from. Let's use the mercy of God for something else. Not to be cleaning up our messes because we refuse to build a life. Just because we refuse to build a life. Please pray. Even as we are praying quietly, pray fervently. As you are praying quietly, pray fervently. This year, I will not repeat the previous errors. I will not. The mistakes I made in previous years as a result of not building a life that cannot collapse. I will not repeat it. You are building me. I am rooted. I am built up. Built to last.
So if you are here, you are in that category. You want to say, "God, I want to surrender my all to you. I need you more than anything." At the beginning of this year, I would like you to put your right hand on your heart. This is the first step you need. Be sincere about it. Be serious about it. Be intentional about it. There is always a season in the life of a man when everything has to change. Yes, you may have made mistakes, but there is a point where you will stand and not make that mistake again. There is a point you will stand and not make that mistake again. And let today be that day you are taking a stand. Put your right hand on your heart and you will pray this prayer with me. Say, "Lord Jesus, I come to you today. I come to you broken, helpless in my sins. I ask that you forgive me of all my wrongdoings. Let your blood cleanse all my messes. Give me a brand new beginning today. Make me a child of God. I confess you as my Lord and Savior."
If you said that prayer with your hands still on your chest, can you rise on your feet? You said that prayer with your hands still on your chest. Rise on your feet. Yes. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. You have made the best decision in your life. Others are praying. They are also praying a prayer of alignment. I want to pray for you. Lord, I am asking that these your children who are upstanding, who made a bold decision. They are standing up is a bold decision that they want to take a stand in their life and they need your help. I ask that you give them a brand new start. Give them a brand new beginning. You said anyone who is not ashamed of me here on earth, you said I will not be ashamed to speak about him, Father in heaven. Anyone who acknowledges me here on earth, I will also speak of him to my Father. Lord, these ones tonight, acknowledge them. Speak to them about the Father. Give them a new heart. This year, you will establish them. This year, you will give them a brand new beginning. Thank you, heavenly Father. In Jesus name, we pray.
So if you, if you stood up, they will give you a small leaflet. Kindly fill it and then submit it back to our officials. In Jesus name, we pray. What a blessing. Amen. Are you blessed tonight? Are you blessed tonight? So, next week Sunday, I'm going to do something unusual. I'm going to be calling people on random and say, "Which book of the Bible did you read during the week?" I have to be a good pastor. A good pastor, a good pastor is a shepherd who takes care and follows up his sheep and makes sure they are doing what they should be doing. Amen. So this year I wanted to do something but I didn't, I didn't prepare. I didn't tidy it up. I wanted to do a roster of a one-year Bible where all of us will be reading together. But maybe we are going to start it from February. We'll do a one-year Bible. So there will be one, there will be particular chapters we are going to read per day. So it will be a Bible challenge. And in one of our meetings like this, I'm going to be calling everybody. What did you read? What did you understand? If you can't say one thing, that means you didn't read. And if you are not part of us, you are against us. Amen. What a blessing.
But on a more serious note, get serious and start digging a foundation. Start digging. If you have been digging before and you stopped, start again. Start again. Perfection cannot be attained all at once. You rise, you fall, start again and continue. Amen. We want to do something unusual today that we have never done before. We want to start taking offering. Amen.
I was somewhere two weeks ago and I was in the midst of pastors and two other pastors came in to join that conversation. I know one, I didn't know the other one. And the one I didn't know, he didn't know anything about me. And he started talking about a pastor that was running a ministry. And the pastor wasn't collecting offering. The pastor was doing everything. And he was saying that this pastor does not want his members to be blessed. Even though he has the money to do everything, he should still allow the people so that they can also become a partaker of whatever blessing God is blessing. And immediately I said, this person is talking to me. Why? Because a week before, I was just in my office and God was saying to me, "So you don't want to allow the people to be blessed? You don't want to collect offering from them?" Then he asked me a question, said, "Can you actually do this job by yourself?" So I was saying, "Okay, okay, God, don't worry, very soon I will start collecting." So God used that prophet to come and say it again. And disobedience against God is very critical. Now, one thing my own understanding about giving is this. Give as you desire to, because God loves a cheerful giver. Here, we won't be debating percentage or arguing about percentage, nothing like that, because our anchor foundation for giving is we love God, and that's why we are doing it. As a matter of fact, I usually tell people, it is the rich that gives. So if I give, it is because I have a mentality that I am rich. It is the one who is not rich that is always receiving. And they said the hands of the giver is always on top. The hands of the receiver is always beneath. They taught us this many years ago. Thank God for my mother. While we were in primary school, she started teaching us giving. So when people are debating about 10%, 10%, oh, should we give, should we not give? Some were giving God 30%, 40%, 50%, even 90%. So here, there will be no debate about how much to give, how many percentage to give. Just give because you love God. Just give because you love God. So while, uh, we'll be having our worship session, offering basket will be passed around. Give unto God. You can request for an envelope if you don't want them to see what you are giving. So let's give the envelope to everyone, and then we worship God for 5 minutes. We give as we desire, and then God blesses us. I pray over it. God blesses us. What a blessing. Okay.
So while the service was going on, a testimony came in from online. Amen. And the person says, "My name is Mr. Abaji Kaw. I want to say thank you to God for restoring my bones after six surgeries, 15 good years. God recreated my bones." What a testimony. Can we put hands together for Jesus for that wonderful testimony? Okay, some people asking for account details. Um, the account is not ready. Where's our accountant? Okay, she's inside. Our accountant has not finished tidying up our account, but I think she's resuming office next week. So by God's grace, by next week, our account will be ready by God's grace. So let's have the worship song. Let's worship God. We give, we pray, and then we take, we go home. Even as you're seated, just begin to thank God for the word of God. His word is light indeed. Thank him. Thank him for his kindness. Thank him because his word is life indeed inside of you, and multiplication has started. Can I hear believers begin to thank God? Thank you, Jesus, for your word. Thank you. Thank you. Because now I am more prayerful. I am giving to the study of the word. Now I am consistent. Now I am obedient. Thank you, Jesus. Father, in heaven, I will love you. We lift your name in all the earth. May your kingdom be established in our praises. As your people, we declare your mighty ones. Blessed be the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come. Blessed be the Lord Almighty, who reigns forever. Blessed be the Lord. Blessed be. You're the reason, Lord Almighty. We worship you, oh God, who was and is to come. Blessed be the Lord. We all my wra Let's sing the verse again. Father in heaven, I will love you. I fell in love with this song long time ago. We lift your name in all the earth. May your kingdom, may your kingdom be established in our praises, even on your word. As your people, we declare your mighty works. Blessed be the Lord God. You can sing it louder. Was near. Was and is and to come. Blessed be. Blessed be. Whoa. Almighty. Oh God. Reigns will reign and so will lift up holy hands in one. You know the song singingless. We just come to bless your name for your word. Blessed. Blessed be the name. Blessed. Oh, blessed be the name of the ising. Can adore. So we lift up. So we can. You can just dramatize. Lift your hands in water. Singing blessed be, blessed. Wo blessed be the name. W blessed. Thank you Jesus. What a blessing.
Now, with this testimony coming from online, I also want to encourage everyone. If you have testimonies, just find a way to communicate it to us so that we can share your testimony and let you know that yes, indeed, God is doing amazing things in our midst. This is not a small testimony. I want to say thank you to God for restoring my bones. After six surgeries and 15 good years, God recreated my bones. God will recreate lives. What a blessing. So, just to emphasize on our announcements, important announcement is that we are starting our digital skill acquisition this week. This week on Tuesday, 6th, by 10:00 a.m. Our facilitator will be here for those who are interested in learning digital skill. Social media automation is very good, particularly for young ones. I want to see my young people in recreated life begin to have financial stability. So I would like to see, importantly, the young ones, please. From Tuesday 6th till 9th, the person that is coming is not, is not even residing in Lagos. So he's coming all the way from Abuja to come. So let it not be that he will come and you will not be here. So make sure you find your way here on Tuesday morning from 10:00 a.m. Amen.
Then also remember that from Sunday, we are starting Recreated Life Academy. This is our discipleship training to equip you in the knowledge of God so that you can grow deeper in your knowledge of God. Knowing God more, being faithful, becoming a steward, becoming a kingdom stakeholder for God. So on Sunday by 2:00 p.m. we will be having the first level Genesis class by 2:00 p.m. So before Recreated Life, we start in the evening by 5:00 p.m. By 2:00 p.m. we'll be starting the Recreated Life Academy, 2 p.m. So it is important for anyone who wants to be a part of this community. Anyone who goes through level one and level two will be seen as a Recreated Life member because you are going to get a certificate afterwards. Once you finish level one, you get a certificate. You finish level two. In fact, it is when you finish level one, you can proceed to level two. So it's like a university. You finish 100 level, you move to 200 level. Amen. So, and for those who just gave their life to Christ, that school is very important for you because now that you have rededicated your life to Christ, you've given your heart to him, you now need to understand how to walk with him. You need to begin to learn how to understand God, how to hear from God, how to walk with God, how to know God, and so on. So I encourage you to come and be a part of the academy. Genesis level one is starting. Genesis class level one is starting on Sunday, 2 p.m. and it's for 4 weeks. It's for four weeks. God bless you in Jesus name.
Let's rise to our feet. And I'm praying that God will bless you. You are not saying a very good amen. This week you will go out and come back with baskets full of testimonies. This week will be a very pleasant week for you. You will flourish. You will excel. You will prosper. Helpers of destinies will locate you. God will make all things easy for you this week. Those who are resuming their office this week, you will excel. Those who are still on holiday, help is coming your way. The Lord will watch over you. The Lord will keep you. The Lord will preserve you. You are coming back with testimonies in the name of Jesus. May the Lord bless and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you. May the peace of God remain with you in Jesus mighty name we pray. God bless you. See you on not on Wednesday, tomorrow. Fasting starts tomorrow. In Recreated Life, we are having a 42 days fast, but we are dividing it into three. 14 days in January, 14 days in May, and 14 days in August. So every 5:00 p.m. we will be meeting to pray. This is one of the ways to build a life that cannot collapse. So we'll be praying every day from tomorrow till upper Sunday in the next 14 days, 5:00 p.m. I want to see you. Make sure you are fasting. I can call you and ask, "What did you eat for breakfast?" The moment you say, "Rice," ah, I will just bust you. So you didn't fast. Fasting does not kill. If you have never fasted before, try this one. It doesn't kill. Your stomach will only hurt a little. You can drink water. When your stomach is hurting, you just drink water and calm it down. When you are hungry, go and pray. When you pray, you feel filled. I'm telling you the truth. When you feel hungry, just go and pray. That prayer becomes food that will nourish your spirit. God bless you in Jesus name.