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I have just 24 minutes back. I just... I will introduce. Ah, today is what? Day 2nd. Okay, so we still have next week. Okay, so I will just start and then we'll finish.
Satan fights from foundations. I said this during the teaching on spiritual warfare: the foundation of anything is critical. Now, one of the foundations that Satan fights is your definitions. Your definitions, that is the way you see things. Once he has dealt with you at the definition stage, at the foundation stage, you can use both words interchangeably. He has already finished you from the beginning. It means every time you're interacting with, with a subject, with a matter, because your definition is wrong, your interaction is already wrong. That's what happens when he comes at your father in the early stage of your life. So he can affect your picture, your definition of men. When somebody says, "Men are scum," it means every single man you interact with, you interact with as you're interacting with what? Scum. Is it clear? Yeah. So he fights your definition so that he can, you know, he can eventually affect your interactions with that concept, with that subject.
Proof that you have succeeded in most lives listening to me right now is that when you hear the word death, are you excited or are you sad, scared? Right? So if somebody says, "You will die," are you excited? You're not excited. But today, the next time you hear that, you will start thinking differently. That's what made the early saints different from us. In all the forms of death that I will explain, they had proper understanding, and that's why they lived the way they lived. Are we ready? Yes.
Understanding death. Death is not always cessation of life. That's the only definition we are conscious of, or are we? Death can mean separation, like it is in Colossians 1:20-22. Media, let's run fast. Colossians 1:20-22 together, everybody on the screen. One, two, go. "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." Please give us another translation. All right, so that it's very clear. NKJV should help us. All right, next verse. So he sees that, number one, listen. Give us 20 again. Number one, he says that "by him to reconcile all things to himself; whether things on earth, or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross." Next verse. 21, everybody. One, two, go.
Now, what does this mean? It means what happened when the serpent deceived the woman and then the man went? Because you know, man was not deceived, right? You know that, right? Scripture says that also that Adam was not deceived. It was a choice that he made. And we even have, you know, revelation teachers that will say that he saw that Christ will come, so he chose by love to also die alongside with his wife and so on and so forth. That's not our business this morning. So what we're saying basically is that after man fell, the disciples said that you will not surely die. Remember God said you would die, right? In the day that you eat it. So now they ate it. Did they physically die? Did they physically die? So what happened there was now a what? A separation. So death is not always a cessation of breath from your nose tree. Are you following what I'm saying? Yeah. Death can be separation. So it's possible for a marriage to what? To die. So a relationship can die. Is it clear?
Next verse. Let's finish it quickly. Can we read that, you know, in a flowing way from 21? Now from 21. One, two, go. "And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight." Shall we celebrate what Jesus did on the cross?
Death can also mean, number two, the end of an operation or activity. 1 Corinthians 15:21-27. 1 Corinthians 15:21-27, everybody. One, two, go. "For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead." So we see that after Adam sinned, disobeyed, death came. It means a class of experiences came. That's what he's trying to say. By man, death came. And you will see as we go. 22, quickly. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive." This is not just men. This is all things. And that's why places where you have revival breakout, many times even the crops respond to the life. You hear? I just said it's a place. I try to remember who remembers or wrong. Um, Longo, something. There's a location like that where revival took place. And when that seeing their harvest of watermelon, their harvest of it was unbelievable, the size and the frequency. See, if you can check it for me so we can all go and watch it after this service. I'm careful not to quote this one, but back then, many years ago, to 2015, and I was reading one of these extra-biblical books, which I'm not encouraging you to be a fan of. All right, curiosity. I read the book of Jasher, I think it was chapter two. And I saw, cuz there in those books, of course, that book is mentioned in the Bible, you know that, right? Yeah. So that's what gave me the "Amon Am Longo." You should all watch what I just said. All right.
You see what happened? In fact, all their police cells, they are all the prisons empty. Not a single prisoner because of revival. It does not make sense. Their streets are called "Holiness," "Righteousness." Child, may Nigeria experience true revival. All those things people thinking this is revival. The more we are praying, the more we are calling fire, the more we're stealing. Is somebody getting what I'm saying? The more we are fighting, the more we are disunited. So anyways, so I read this particular chapter and this verse, and it was said there that the more man sinned, the more corrupt the ground became until what used to happen every month. And it makes sense because you see that the scripture says that he shall bear fruits every month, right? Yeah. You see that in scriptures, they said what used to happen every day became every week, until it became every month, until it became every year. So trees were not bringing forth fruit yearly before. Is somebody getting what I'm saying? But as the corruption increased, it became as bad as it is. The Earth is still decaying. So that's why what? That's why I'm calling death. Death is a ministration. A civilization. Is how do I explain? Are you following what I'm saying? Yeah. It's a class of experience. The speed at which your body is even healing is its response to death. Is somebody following what I'm saying? Yeah. That's why when the power of God comes upon you, what the doctor said, we take you. You see what just happened, right? And that's what life does. It speeds up the reaction of healing processes. They act these things in movies. When you see Wolverine, you are seeing life. Yes, sir. Somebody following what I'm saying? It's a speed at which you recover, even from illness. Is a response of an operation of life. Glory to Jesus.
Are we done with that scripture? Next verse. "But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming; then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power." Then verse 25 says, "He must reign until He has put all enemies under His feet." So he's talking about a present tense experience which is still going on right now. Next verse. "The last enemy that will be destroyed is what? Is death." So death is not yet destroyed. That's why you are still seeing the operations of death on the earth. Are you following what I'm saying? Yeah. We can dominate and subdue it. And it's affecting our lives. What I'm telling you can be stretched to whatever limit in your mind. You can know God to the point that if they cut you, nothing will happen. Is somebody hear what I say? Yeah. It's a sub of death. Pastor Tom of, um, um, Christ Embassy, said in 1990s, one of those days, Pastor Chris called him and then cut his hand and gummed it together. Said that day he thought, "This man is a witch." Ah, I'm following a grandmaster with a ranking of 999. That's separation of life. Is somebody following what I'm saying? Yeah. And that life is inside your spirit right now. Yeah. Right now. Right now. Did you hear what I just said? Yes, sir. Yeah. It might not appear to be so now, but that's why we're in school, right? Yes, sir. And the school of the spirit. It's our destination. Are you guys hearing what I'm saying? Yes, sir.
I was speaking with someone yesterday, and the conversations entered into, you know, some of our past experiences. And I began to realize the things that we were doing before that had to, of course, meddle down so that we can, we can, we can, eh, can carry people along. Thank you. Cuz I still remember a day we were on retreat. And then one of our late sisters had an encounter and saw a day we will be on retreat, and we have to set a rule on how people practice bilocation and going through walls. I remember this conversation. I can't have that conversation right now. And we all shouting, "Glory!" This was 2016. He said she saw a guy practicing moving through walls. And as he entered into the female's rooms, they all, we have to put it. She saw it. And in the dream, they were saying, "We have to put a rule on this thing. We have to put a rule on this thing." So it means everybody has been practicing, but the guy went to break it into the wrong room. So was apologizing, "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry." And had an encounter where we had about five people, and we had a wall. And there was a teacher who said, "3, 2, 1, run!" And it was like a school of the spirits and supernatural. And all of them ran. Three people passed through the wall. Two fell on the floor. I'm happy I can say this in his service. I can continue. Yes, sir. Are you sure? And then two people didn't pass. And then he said, "It's okay, it's okay. Don't worry. Come back, come back, come back. Now close your eyes. Don't look at the wall. Look at the location and run again." And two of them ran and passed through the wall. This lady shared it with me. I was looking at her because I've been holding these things from 2013. Is what will happen in the body of Christ in the future? Are you hear what I'm saying? All the ones you are seeing calling signs and wonders, you are joking. Days are coming when angels will be materialized. The glory that's coming in these last days. H. All men will see Him. And feel the church is coming. Are you hear what I'm saying? It's not this one. No. Ah, don't let us boo you. This is not glory. Oh, what is coming? Glory to Jesus. All that is sponsored by an economy called life. Some, everybody say life. Yeah. Life. Life. It's life that will ensure that you can be in one place at a time. It's a class of civilization. It's death that traps you in a location. It's death that traps you in delay. Are you following what I'm saying? It's death that makes you to process something in two weeks that you can process in two minutes. The speed of your mind, the speed. Are you following what I'm saying? So you see, when the power of God comes upon you, you can be super intelligent. Are you following what I'm saying? So death is the reason for man's limitation. Is the reason for all this chaos, even in weather, the Earth's reaction, and so on and so forth. And life is the answer. Is that clear?
And one more. The number of others. But I will just do one more. That is okay. Let me give you another scripture for this one. 1 John 3:14. 1 John 3:14, everybody. One, two, go. "We know that we have what? We have what?" Did it say? "We have risen back to life. We have what? Passed from what? Death to what? Life because we love the brethren." He who does not love his brother does what? So death, let me add death, number three, is a location. Is a location. A manner of life. Death is a country. That's what I'm trying to say. It's the same thing. And tradition. Yeah. That's how you know people's tribes. The tribe of life and the tribe of death. Is the way they talk and the way they live their lives. You know the nation they came from. Is somebody following what I'm saying?
Finally, death is a transition from one version to another. Is a what? 2 Corinthians 4:16. Everybody. One, two, go. "So in this instance, it means as the outward man is perishing, the inward man is what? Is being renewed day by day." When Paul is saying, "I die daily," he's also saying, "I live daily." So as you shut down propensities of the flesh, as far as death is concerned, you start unlocking new propensities of life as far as the spirit is concerned. Did somebody hear what I just said? Yeah. From glory to glory. From glory to glory. It keeps getting better and better. Your senses keep getting sharper and sharper. Death is the reason why you're using three months to know who your husband is. Is death. These are abnormal things. My sheep hear my voice. The Holy Spirit is talking to you. Don't look at me anyhow. Look at Him. Death is the reason. Is the reason. Is the reason. The more life a person has, the higher class of experience. That is the reason for rejection. All experiences in the God-life are sponsored by life. Life. Life. Life. On the last one I just mentioned now, let me touch it a little bit. When you want to update your OS, trying to remember if Android is like that, but laptops are like that. But you want to update your OS, you must first uninstall the previous OS. You know what OS is? Operating system. You first uninstall what? The old operating system before you can install what? It means of necessity, something must die for something to live. Anytime you see death, don't always think cessation of life, physical life. Think transition from old to new. In fact, that's how they saw physical death in the New Testament, right? Yeah. He said, "Why are you crying that somebody died?" The moment he left the body, he picked up another one. His transition from old body that can be coughing and sneezing, child, to new body that is moving at the speed of thought. I remember that encounter. 2014, August. Two interesting things happened. The first one was seeing my friend by the name Dar, not my wife, my friend by the name Dar. And I was showing him how to keep things in the air. So I picked up something like this and I said, "That, it's very simple." Cuz I was keep, I was levitating something. And they said, "Ah, Baba, how they do this thing?" I said, "No, it's simple now. It's simple. Find the balance and leave it there." Your spirit man will shock you. I woke up. I said, "Which balance?" I knew something that in the natural, I had not caught up with. Is somebody hear what I'm saying? And I'm still not caught up with. Sometimes the transition can take 20 years, 30 years. God will show you a token of a class of life you will live and invite you. Are you interested? As you yield, as you pay the price. One day I will come to church. I say, "Today we are learning levitation." What? That's real school of ministry. Say, "What do you want to use it for?" Don't worry. Let the end times fully arrive. You will now know that if men have not learned to survive without food, and they say you can't buy or sell again, we have another life that can power this one. I can't believe I'm saying all these things today, but it is well. Hope nobody's confused. So I said, "Find the balance," and I left it. And I woke up. I didn't know what balance was talking about. Death is ignorance. Understanding is life. In another encounter, I knew how to move by the speed of thought. So I will think of the location and go there. In the encounter, it was not difficult. I understood how to do it. So to power that class of life God has called you to live. What I'm saying, some of you have seen your dreams and visions. Raise your hand if I'm talking to you. Don't feel weird. That's why God brought you to this church. You are not weird. You are normal. And by the grace of God, we will see some of these things, trickles of it, this year. Did you hear what I just said? I sense a call again to the deep, and we will respond. Where things will be normal again. You didn't hear what I just said? Yeah. They'll be normal again. Those things are not lost, though. They are waiting for you at an energy level. Should get amen. Let me find somewhere for us to end. We will continue next week.
Death is painful. In a generation that hates pain, hates death, death is painful. And so a generation that hates pain, which is our generation, is a generation that hates death. However, death is necessary. Have you written that? That's why Jesus said, "Unless a corn of wheat falls and dies, it abides alone. But if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit." For all to enjoy. Everyone you see blessing lives all over the world, as you are celebrating them, celebrate them with the consciousness of the deaths they died for this life to be produced. Did you hear what I just said? Yeah. I don't want to go beyond this point, so I'm just going to drive this point home. The first time I spent 12 hours praying in the spirit. At the end of the 12 hours, I had a kind of encounter that's different from what we are used to as encounters. Like something done, you know, done. A DA in his encounter, you know that, right? Even deeper encounter than just seeing something you can see in the spirit. And not it didn't done. That they'll be what? Finished seeing the dream and came out still depressed. Another person understood, "I am the child of a great God. I can't have a small destiny. I'm great." Not even that I will be, I am great. That person senses the one that had what you call dream vision encounter. Are you following what I'm saying? Where were we? I just said something now. So I had an understanding that came from the stretch because the stretch was, was not funny. I've shared it. I remember I heard my story about the stretch. If you haven't, raise your hand. I like trying this thing out. Can you believe that 80% of our church has no head? And somebody will say, "We should not be repeating these things." Raise your hand. You never heard my story about my first 12 hours. Look around. Everybody that has heard, look around. Raise your hand. I want them to see something. How many percent of the church is this? I like learning this lesson at fresh. When you are thinking, "Ah, they've heard it." Don't do that. Oh, that's why we will keep sharing the same story forever. 1982. And they are hearing it for the first time. So let me share it too. If everybody has heard and my church people have not heard, I please hear it too. I went to this ministry. H. Okay. I went to this ministry after God stirred us up to pray. And I couldn't make myself pray. But I knew I should pray. Have you been there before? You know you should pray, but you cannot carry yourself to prayer. So give yourself to someone that will make you to what? Life is not complicated. I know I can't do it to myself. So I handed myself over to somebody that will do it to me. So we went there. And the man of God did not lead us in plenty prayer. I was used to long explanation of prayer, no teaching on prayer, no impartation for prayer, nothing. Not even long worship to prepare us for the what? Prayer. We sang like one song or two songs. Everybody's, I can see, remember everybody's hands up. As they finish, I was just looking, looking at the back of the hall. And the pastor came up and said, "The prayer is about to start. Jeremiah 3:3. Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." That's a prayer point. So we're going to call God, and He will show us things we don't know. Amen. Amen. Now, this prayer is going to start now. Let's finish leading the prayer point. So we're about to start praying now. This prayer is going to start now, and the prayer will not stop until the sun is up. And heard. I was saying this when it was 11:00 p.m. in the night. So I did the calculation. As he was talking, "sun in the night." Sun does not come in the night. Now, that means this prayer will end tomorrow. I was still planning all these things in my mind. When they ask us to start the prayer, when does the song come up? People of God, 7:00 a.m. 7:00. When it gets hot. When did he say it? So I knew this prayer will not end till tomorrow afternoon. And the prayer started. The prayer started. People of God, it's only one tongue. I had Shilia. So I did Shilia for about 30 minutes. Shilia. After about an hour of Shilia, I knew Shilia was so new. We got to get another language today. Cuz I spoke it fast, spoke it slow, lick my lip. Shilia, Shilia, ah, Shilia. Two hours. Of course, my tongue had finished. And I was now watching other people praying. Tongue. Have you been there before? You are not sleeping, no. And you are not praying. You are now watching. Who sent me? Message by 3:00 a.m. in the night, I started seeing strange things happening. The first one was somebody in my group who was frustrated from prayer. They shouted the pastor's name and said, "Pastor T." The second person, around maybe 4:00, 5:00 a.m., was just pacing. No light. Black on the field. Blackness. Just just walking. As I was also walking and laughing at people. At one moment, he just stopped. I was just looking. I said, "Jesus, why?" That means he has reached his elastic limit. And now he really wants to know, "Why are we praying? You say you are a good God. Why am I here going through this before you answer me?" Who understands what I'm talking about? I have felt it with fasting. I was upstairs. I did a video selfie to see my face, frustrated. And I said, "But why? Why can't you just answer me? Why am I hungry?" Who? That's what I'm talking about. After going through all that, by 11:00 a.m., I had an open vision about the city of Zion. For the first time in my life, I had an open vision. And that vision came to pass within a month. And what understanding came to me was that everyone who has gone through this kind of process deserves my honor. Every father in the faith, every man of God that went through this kind of price because they want to be anointed to bless lives. That person has died. So if you're here and you say, "Pray 20 minutes, I can't pray." I'm not, I'm not here to whine and encourage you. What you need is death. You are not useful to Jesus until you die. He doesn't have your money because you're alive. It doesn't have your time because you are what? Alive. Is the reason they're begging you to preach? It's because you are very alive. Anyone you see paying a price didn't need to pay that price. They could have sat down like you, trusting God for God to send others. Are you following what I'm saying? The reason they are making such impact is because they have what? They have died. They have died. They have died. They have died. And the more we die, the more we will live. This city can quicken if we all die. Are you getting what I'm say? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The person who testified and said, "Lawrence is having regrets." I'm telling you because I know what I'm saying. If I enter you, 100 level now, give me three months. The entire university has shut down. Fully shut down. And three months is a lot. From room to room, casting out devils. Why are you waiting for demons to come to you? Let's check and see if it's true. Knock on each door. I want to cast out devils. I want to cast out devils. Are the signs very quickly? Do you experience this? Experience this? Experience this? I do. I do. Come. P. P. That one that the whole host can come to that room. S. You have already finished one host. Next. Next. Onto the next one. Week, you shut down the campus. You organize a meeting. Gather everybody together. No bbard. It's going to run for 21 days. Every night. Miracles. Miracles. Salvations. Holy Ghost baptisms. Are you following what I'm saying? But you are trying to print flyers. What advertises more than miracles? And how will miracles happen if you don't step out? But how will you step out if you don't die? Right now, your concern is your image because you're alive. What if it doesn't happen? What if it happens? What if it happens? See how much praise and glory will come to Jesus if three people die. Is somebody following what I'm saying? Yeah. The gospel rested on the shoulders of dead men. Men that can pay any price. It's not longer price if you are dead, right? Yeah. You are feeling it because you're alive. So hold your neighbor on your left and right. And we're saying, "Everything that must die for Jesus to be glorified, it must die now." Hold that neighbor. You're praying for that person. Declare, "Father." Come on. Come on. Louder. Pray for that person. Say, "Father, Father, in the life of my brother or sister, of my sister, everything that must die, everything that must die for Jesus to be glorified, for Jesus to let it die. It now. Now. Now. Now." Lift your voice praying in the spirit.
[Music] Everywhere. Come on. Come on. On. On. He far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. Oh, I love that old cross, where the fairest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain. So I cherish the old rugged cross. Media, quickly, till my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown.
The will of God will only prosper when you die. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Pray for that person. That is the difference between your current version and the next version. This old man must be put to death with his tendencies, and a new man must overwhelm this one. Come on. Come on. Can you see it? Everything God showed you in that dream will happen when you die. It will not be long. We put to death right now. Every work of the flesh. Come on. One more minute.
Jesus will not wait for me in vain.
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In Jesus name, we have prayed. Sorry to drag this a little bit further. "Who will go for us?" was a question that was asked. If Jesus did not respond, we will not be here today. If He was willing to pay that ultimate price of death for you, then this church must be willing to pay the ultimate price of death for Him. Did you hear what I just said? Yeah. And the death will happen every single day by your choices. When they tell you that, "If I don't sleep with you, I can't promote you." You are not even going back home to say, "Lord, what will I do?" Because you're dead. There's only one option for the dead. I'm talking to a lady right now, and I hope she's listening. Compromise. Church is not even an option for the dead. Too many prophecies are hanging, personal ones, territorial ones, that will never come to pass until you what? Until we die. These things are not far-fetched. We can shake this city this year. One requirement: death. So we're praying that prayer again because he will start. He will start. There's anything that makes Jesus smile is when we died. Him my leave. We need to get out of the way this year. Let Him do what He wants to do. I'll be ready. You will lift your voice. It's a cry for mercy that this death process will be completed this February. It won't go beyond this month. I sense the hand of God on the month of March. I'm telling you, these words have never spoken a thing that will not come to pass. I am telling you, I'm sensing by the spirit. Somebody here, it's like your life will start in the month of March. This month, God wants to take you inside. He wants to put a death to everything that is standing in His way. She understands what I'm saying now. This guy is getting me now. Father, please have mercy. This is not that year that we waste time till December and been prophesying about 2026. No, no, no, no. It needs to happen now. What God said I should do, I will not delay. I will not delay because I'm dead. I'm dead to my desires, and now I'm alive to God. Yes. Yes. Yes. Lift your voice and pray. Oh.