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  BUILT UP IN CHRIST FOR ABIDING, ABOUNDING & ABUNDANT FRUITFUNESS
  by Gbile Akanni
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Summary: Gbile Akanni teaches that believers must be deliberately and
deeply built up in Christ to bear abiding, abounding, and abundant
fruitfulness, enabling them to withstand worldly philosophies and
effectively carry God's revival.

Duration: 1:42:33 Topics: "Spiritual Growth", "Revival"
Scripture References: Colossians 2:6-7, Colossians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 3:9-10, Psalm 2, Deuteronomy 22:9-10

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In this powerful teaching, Gbile Akanni emphasizes the critical need for
believers to be deeply rooted and deliberately built up in Christ to
bear lasting fruit. Drawing from Colossians and Corinthians, he
highlights the dangers of shallow faith and scattered teachings, urging
Christians to pursue consistent spiritual growth. Akanni connects this
foundation to the sustaining of revival and the ability to confront
worldly challenges with Christ's truth. This sermon is a call to
intentional discipleship and enduring fruitfulness in the Christian
walk.

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back and listen as the servant of God brings forth the Word of Life. We
thank you that it is clear to us that you indeed intend to bring us to
Revival.

It is clear to us that you are committed to your Word. You are committed
to your covenant with your son Jesus Christ. It is clear to us that you
are spoken and you will not take your Word back.

It is clear that we shall have Revival. But we also thank you that the
root to it, you have also deliberately, by your mercy, decided to show
us again today that for every good thing you want to do on the face of
the earth, it must always be in answer to the prayer of men on the
earth. If we are not available to host what you want to do in our
generation, then you will have to wait for another man.

Lord, we ask you, don't wait again. Please find us as usable vessels.
Find us, O God, as men and women who can be heard from on earth, even as
we pray to you.

Lord, we thank you for the mobilization you have raised for us to pray
today. We recognize that that is not just for this meeting alone. That
is a mobilization that we must stress always.

We must devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word.
Thank you for this time. Thank you also, Lord, for allowing us to go on
this morning to take further instructions and to talk further into the
issues that you are raising with us.

That if this Revival will last, if this Revival will not perish, if it
will not become shallow as it goes away from us, then we must dig our
roots. Then we must be built up in Christ Jesus. And so, Lord, this
morning we are praying that as we go ahead with these issues, let your
Word come to us.

Let your Spirit breathe upon us afresh. And let it mix with faith in our
hearts. Let it mobilize each one of us and everyone that hears this
message.

Set them on fire. Set them ablaze. Set them hungry for you.

Set them, O God, thirsty for you. Thank you for this time. In Jesus
Christ's name, we have prayed.

Amen. Amen. I want to thank God that he has been here with us.

And I thank God for the counsel of the Holy Spirit that has come. I know
the Lord has actually come again. If it were left for me, I would have
said, let's leave the issue papers and go ahead praying.

But the Lord brought me a good concept to say, no, we must go on. If we
don't prepare to make sure that this river grows in depth, and that
people that can carry it, they are also growing deeper with God, it
means we are planning to perish it. So two concurrent things must be
going on.

And that's why we have to go on. He said we shall devote ourselves to
prayer and to the ministry of the Lord. So these two have to go
together.

We must pray. And we must grow in the Word of God. And so this morning,
I would like to go ahead again to press on with where we stopped
yesterday as we were looking at the issue paper.

Roots downwards, fruits upwards. Being rooted and built up in Christ
Jesus for an abiding, abounding, and abundant fruitfulness. Being rooted
and built up in Christ for an abiding, abounding, and abundant
fruitfulness.

The way to make this riverbed an enlasting and an enduring experience is
for us to give attention to our roots. For us to give our serious
attention and priority to our being built up in Christ Jesus. We know
that we have only one message for this revival.

Christ and Him crucified. Christ and Him glorified. We want to note that
there will be no other way for this river to flow into the nation as the
Lord began to seal us against this monumental opera except the force
that is driving it is Christ Himself.

And all of us that will be part of that move of God, we must be built up
in Christ. We must be deliberately established in Christ Jesus. I saw
that the rage of Satan, as we learn in Psalm 2, said, why do you need
the rage? Why do you need the rage? Why are they gathering themselves
together and taking counsel against the Lord and against His King? Why?
It's because even though it is this water that will bring healing to
nations, yet, yet, the rulers of the nations have become a stooge in the
hand of the enemy and they are ganging themselves against Him.

And so for us to have a move that will uproot and confront that gang up
of the kingdom of darkness against our Lord, those of us that must do
that for God, we cannot be reached. We cannot be those that are shaking
with wind. We cannot raise believers that are not deeply rooted and
strongly built.

That's why this instruction is very critical. That's why we have to go
into it and I pray that each one of you, you will not only pay attention
now, you will pray and say, okay, so this is where we are going. This is
the point that God is looking for.

Slugs cannot do this job. Those that can easily be swept away with
philosophies, with ideas, cannot be able to carry this. Those that can
be easily bought, you know, with mammon, those that can easily be
carried away with their appetite, they will only become a waste of this
reservoir.

That's why, brothers and sisters, all the years we have spent in raising
disciples is for this purpose. And yet it is clear to us that even from
now on, we must still dig our wells. We must dig our deep roots.

We must raise disciples, we must raise and train more hands. But these
hands must be Lord's. So I will send out of Zion the Lord of your
strength, not the leaves, not leaves of disgrace.

So, brothers and sisters, it is as urgent that we must be raising men
that are built up in Christ Jesus. So, follow me this morning again. We
are looking at built up in Christ.

Built up in Christ Jesus for abiding, for abounding and abundant
fruitfulness. Our three texts which we are walking through, which I
still trust Lord we can walk through this morning, is Colossians chapter
2. Colossians and chapter 2. We are reading verse 6 and verse 7. I will
read it from King James first and then I will ask them to help us flash
the amplified version of it so that we can take issues of our training
there. As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so was he
in him, rooted and built up in him, established and established in the
faith, as you have been taught aboundingly with thanksgiving.

Beware! Let any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after
the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not after
Christ. Beware! Let any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not
after Christ. Now let's quickly look at it from the amplified version.

The amplified version we are going to just read for now, verse 30. We
take verse 30 at this point alone and later on we will come down to look
at verse 8. Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in
him, fixed and founded in him, being continually built up in him,
becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just
as you were taught and abounding and overflowing in it with
thanksgiving. Permit me to go over that one more time.

Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and
founded in him, being continually built up in him, becoming increasingly
more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught and
abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. Flash verse 8. Let's
flash verse 8 as well. See to it that no one carries you up as spoil or
makes you yourself captive by so-called philosophy and intellectuality
and very deceit, I do fancy, and plain nonsense.

following human tradition, men's ideas of the material rather than the
spiritual, just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental
teachings of the universe and disregarding the teachings of Christ
himself. Now brothers and sisters, these are the issues that we are
going to give a serious consideration to this morning as we are trusting
God to help us. And this consideration that I'm dealing with, I want you
to know that as we give it attention, as we come to this season, this
level up, in our pursuit of the life of Christ and our pursuit of the
revival that God is releasing to the nations, for it to give us an
abiding and abounding and abundant fruitfulness is this issue of being
built up in him.

Let me set this clear before I go with you. When we were praying and
Sister Sade was talking about the increasing depth of this river, the
increasing depth of this river, and she said many many revivals before,
first they did not move outside the temple, so everything finished. Now,
one of the troubles is that when you want to move this river outside the
temple, you move it into an environment of hostility.

You move it into an environment of his enemy. You move it into a place
where it must contain, it must contain with the forces of the world
system. So if the people that are supposed to be the bearers of this
river, if they are not deeply rooted in Christ, if they are not built up
in the principles of Christ, it easily gets dissipated.

So many many things that God started, but because we did not give
attention to this matter, it has only left our land with erosion. It has
only ended what God wanted to do as a mere caricature of it. And so God
has been speaking.

This meeting we are doing now, God has been speaking for many years. The
reason why God said we must give us access to listening disciples deeply
meant, some years ago we were in South Africa and God began to speak to
us about digging deep wells. That if we only go about making shallow
trenches, even just two inches or two feet, once the dryness increases,
everything at two feet level will have dried up and there was nothing
anymore.

And God took time to talk to us about digging deep for the community
revival. And so that we have come to this point in God's determinate
concept and I'm so grateful to God that God himself is committed to what
we are doing now. It is God that has brought us to this, but God himself
is demanding that for us not to perish this moon, for it not to
dissipate into nothingness, for it not to become an empty slogan, we
need to give attention unto ourselves being built up in Christ Jesus.

So that when we go into the sea, rather than the sea swallowing us up,
we are able to bring healing to the world system. When we go to a
different profession, we are able to bring all the issues in the world
into the perspective of Christ and give them solutions to what they have
been looking for. When we flow into research, when we flow into
academics, we must raise men that are well built up in Christ Jesus that
they can take on all the issues, all the questions, all the challenges
that the world system is struggling with and resolve it, create a
resolution of it along the lines of Christ's worldview.

But we can't have all such men if they are shallow, if they are not
built up in Christ. So this body that we are sharing this morning is
such a heavy matter and it's urgent, and we need to apply ourselves to
it if what we are trusting God to do will be an enduring revival. Now
let me begin by speaking some of the words that are very critical there.

Rooted and built up in Him. But because we are there with the word of
roots and we are there to be rooted throughout yesterday so I'm not
going back to that now. I'm dealing with now the word built up in Him.

Built up in Him. The phrase built up, if you look at it very well,
indicates deliberateness. It indicates cumulativeness.

It indicates progressiveness. It indicates purposefulness as against
spuriousness, as against chance. To be built up in Him requires
deliberateness.

It requires cumulativeness and continuity. It requires progressiveness.
It requires purposefulness.

Yes, it will not happen by chance. You won't be built up by chance. You
could have many, many single building blocks scattered all over the
place, but it never will become a building until they are deliberately
built together.

There may be many things that you have bought that look like spiritual
building blocks in your walk with God, but they are scattered and
unconnected. They are not joined together. You have so much knowledge,
but it is uncoordinated knowledge.

You may have even read many books, but all those books, they have only
read unconnected issues that is not built up onto anything in your life.
That is not how to grow in your walk with God. So, brothers, please
listen now.

It's not about, oh, I know this, I know that, I know that, I know that.
That's not how to be built up. To be built up requires a deliberate line
upon line, line upon line, one on top of another until your life in
Christ Jesus is being built, is being brought to shape, and is being
made fortified for you to be able to carry what God is about bringing
onto our lives in Jesus' name.

Now, in 1 Corinthians 3, verse 9 to 10, we are God's fellow walkers. You
are God's field. You are God's building.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master
builder, I have laid the foundation and another builds on it. But let
each one take it how it builds on it. So, again, we note here that to be
built up in Christ Jesus has a process which I will be looking at now.

God is desiring to build your life. You are God's building, according to
that 1 Corinthians that was just referred to. Let me ask you to look at
this again.

1 Corinthians 3, verse 9 and verse 10. If you have not opened your
Bible, let's do it. It said, For we are laborers together with God.

You are God's off-boundary. You are God's building. You are God's
building.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master
builder, I have laid the foundation and another builds thereon. But let
every man take it how he is building thereupon. So, what it means is
that to be built up in Christ Jesus there is need for foundation and we
will be talking about that now.

There will be need for carefulness in building it. There will be need
for how it is to be built up. One stone must be put on top of another
and one experience on top of another experience.

That is how to be built up. There must be one instruction on top of
another instruction. Precept upon precept.

Line upon line. It must not be an unfocused, uncoordinated, scattered,
unrelated and unconnected instruction. If your life is to be built up in
Christ Jesus.

For me, we need to take note of that again. Many of you are in different
things. You go for this meeting.

You go for that fellowship. You go to this man. You listen to that man.

You listen to that man. The trouble is that what builds a man's life up
must not be an unfocused, an uncoordinated, scattered, scattered,
unrelated and unconnected instructions. The problem with many is that
they are not consistent.

You listen to this preacher who is talking to you about how to be a
Eulonia. So you quickly collect that and put it somewhere. Then you go
to another man of God who says he is in the business of deliverance and
that God has anointed him to break every yoke.

Then you quickly go there and he says to you, this weekend we are in the
deliverance ministry of Reverend Dr. Buldozer and we shall be dealing
with pulling down generational costs. And what did you do? You quickly
collect whatever he offers and put it somewhere. Now there is no
connection between that and the other one.

You run to collect the other time. So you see, here you are now. Put
here, put there, put here, put there.

Being tossed, tore and pulled by every wind of doctrine. That itself is
contrary to what Jesus Christ wants you to become. If you are going to
carry this move of God, if God is going to use you, you can't be such a
tattered fellow.

Your life cannot be so left and right by all kinds of things. And then
sometime, you may think and say, yes, I've heard so much about the
anointing. And you hear another preacher talking about the anointing for
Joseph's generation.

And so what did you do now? You quickly go there. Because there are
catchy words, there are outstanding words, that is always, you know,
thinking you. And the Bible talks about what will happen in the end
time.

That a lot of people who have itchy ears, they will look for teachers.
They will heap up teachers unto themselves who tell them what they are
looking for. Now, if we do not deliberately talk about how to be built
up in Christ Jesus, we will continue to have the challenges that we
have.

We will continue to find that there are very many Christians whom we
thought are Christians, who can easily embrace very strange
philosophies, who are easily told so and so. The other day somebody just
sent me a text and it was so painful. Someone whom we thought had been,
you know, a Christian and all of that, suddenly he said he's going to go
back to Islam.

And what is the reason? No roots. No roots. It is taught so and so by
every wind.

And this wind of doctrine, they come even from the people that claim to
be preachers. So this matter, as we begin to respond to God about the
matter of this level that God is bringing us to, it has become very,
very critical. And I pray that God will intervene and help us in the
name of Jesus Christ.

Now, I want you to read Deuteronomy chapter 22, verse 9 and 10, just to
make a quick input into what God began to say to his people even in the
Old Testament, so as to establish that when you desire to be built up in
Christ, you need to be focused and you need to be settled. In
Deuteronomy 22, verse 9, you shall not sow your vineyards with different
kinds or diverse kinds of seeds. Let the yield of the seed which you
have sown and the fruit of your vineyards be defined.

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. Permit me to repeat
that verse again. You shall not sow your vineyards with diverse seeds.

Let the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your
vineyards be defined. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey
together. It will not give you what you are looking for.

Some of you think that variety, like supermarkets, is the way to build
your Christian life. Some of you think that it is here, there, here,
there, up and down without any connectivity. It's what makes you
versatile.

Scattered knowledge does not make you a versatile Christian. It only
makes you a confused and a scattered romantic because you will never be
able to bring impact on any area of life. But you know when I read that
passage, ordinarily you would think that God is just talking about
agriculture.

Even though it is good, you can apply it to ordinary agriculture. But I
want to tell you that God is speaking beyond making a farm here. I
perceive that God is focusing on the culturing of your heart.

The instrument with which you plow your heart must be consistent. It
must be symmetrical and compatible. Whenever builders are working, you
will notice that they normally connect the next brick with the previous
ones.

Sometimes, a brick may be longer than the space available. So they will
sit down and cut it and chop off the excesses until it fits. They use
their plumb at each point to ensure the same level and the straight line
are symmetric.

You cannot be built up in Christ if there is no plumb line. Your life
will not be straight. It will not be congruent with Christ's life.

If there is no standard plumb with which your life is being built. And
this is very important because we are speaking to the body of Christ. We
are speaking to several of you from different nations.

And I want you to know that what God wants to do now is not just
localize to one place. It is Christ and Christ formed in you that God is
producing all over the world. And that is why the issue we are raising
here, whether you are white, whether you are black, whether you are from
Asia or whether you are from Africa, you must submit yourself to this.

This is the plumb line. Christ himself is the plumb line. Every building
must conform to him.

Every growth must conform to him. Every teaching must be congruent with
him. It must be according to Christ.

Anything after that cannot fit and you cannot get into where God is
taking us at this point. I want to now say that builders, whether
critical or spiritual, cannot work without the plumb and reference
points to set their bearings. Congruence is critical in every building.

If I'm going to be built up in Christ, every principle that I expose my
life to must be built on top of one another. It must be congruent, it
must be symmetrical. It must have internals for strong connectivity and
must provide support so that the whole structure of my life is solid,
compact and it can stand the stress of its weight and of the external
forces that must contain with it.

Above all, it must be according to the design of the architect, Jesus
himself. I hope you are following what I'm saying. That to be built up
in Christ is not anyhow.

You cannot be anyhow Christian. And I want you to know that this is not
being legalistic. Christ's life is not anyhow you like it.

Christ's life is not anyhow you see it. Christ's life is not anyhow you
feel about it. All those people that have brought that kind of thing as
it is liberty, they have only confused you.

They have only tried to bring you into a situation where you cannot
become anything useful in the hand of God for a long time. So if it is
the life of Christ you want to live, God says this is my beloved son in
whom I work in his two words, he and me. Even when Moses was told to
build the temple, do you remember that several days God said to him,
make sure that you build everything according to what? According to the
pattern that has been shown you.

You can't build anything for God outside the pattern that he has shown
you. You have built the ark according to the pattern that God showed
you. But I thank God that the pattern that God has given us is not a
drawing.

It's a pattern. And that pattern is Christ Jesus. So everything that is
not fitting into Christ's life cannot be allowed in the building of your
own life if you want to be built up in Christ Jesus.

Anything that is not congruent with Christ's life, anything that is
protruding to show up that cannot be buried in Christ Jesus cannot be
allowed. And so if this water, this river will not be polluted, then the
matter of being built in Christ is something we cannot take lightly or
take for granted. I want to ask you to note something.

If any preacher must attract me as a person, the question I ask myself
is this. Does what he offers, what he offers me, does it fit into what
God is building in my life? If I spend three hours listening to this
man, how does what he's saying fit into my building? If it does not fit,
it means I do not need it. Maybe some other people may need it, but not
myself.

It is also not every author that I normally would read. I only read
authors that are building me up in God's direction and in congruence to
what God is building in my life and into my life. So, all the issues
that have become post-doctrine in our land, is it not because there are
many of you that normally go out into the bush to go and cut some wild
gourds and come and add it in the pot that God is fitting for you.

Not knowing that it is dead. Like in the days of Elijah, when that young
man went out to cut the wild gourds, it looked like the original because
it is wild. And he sliced it, sliced it, and I realized that when people
are bringing gringos in, they normally slice it.

They slice it small, small, small, so that you will not know. But when
they mix it, then it becomes dead in the pot. I hope some of you have
not gone eating wild gourds and that it has introduced death into the
pot.

May God deliver us in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, I want us to now
pick one more major issue that I want to look at, Ephesians chapter 2.
Ephesians 2 from verse 20 to 22. I will read this first from the in
Genesis and then we will look at it from the Amplified.

Ephesians 2 from verse 18. Now therefore you are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of
God. And you are being built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets.

Jesus Christ himself, the chief cornerstone, in whom all the buildings
fitly framed together, grows unto an holy temple in the Lord, in whom
you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
There are a few words that we are going to be analyzing in that passage
because we are looking at how would God be building our lives. You are
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ
Jesus himself, the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is
joined, bound, welded together harmoniously, and it continues to rise,
to grow, to increase, into a holy temple in the Lord, a sanctuary
dedicated and consecrated, and sacred to the presence of the Lord.

In him, in Christ Jesus, and in fellowship with one another, you
yourself are also being built up into this structure with the right to
form a fixed and bold, a dwelling place of God by and through the Holy
Spirit. And in 1 Peter 2 verse 5 and verse 30, you see, you also, as
living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood
to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ. Go to
verse 7. Therefore, to you who believe, to you who believe, he is
precious, but to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders
rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

Now, as we read 1 Corinthians 33 verse 10 earlier, when our brother
said, according to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise
master builder, I have laid the foundation and another built on it, but
let each man, each person, take in how he builds on that foundation. And
finally, the book of Jude chapter 1 verse 20 says, But you, beloved,
building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit. So, what are we saying now? It is a building.

It is a building. Please take note. Christian life is a building.

Becoming a vessel in the hand of God, there must be a building. Becoming
a carrier of the presence of God, either for you as an individual, it
has to be a building, and for us to be a team of people that can convey
God's presence into this generation, we have to be built together into
it. And a building does not happen sporadically.

A building cannot start until you have a proper building plan and the
architectural design for it. Nothing about the building is an
afterthought. Each building is purpose-built to fit into the overall
purpose of God for your life.

A building may involve several builders, and I want you to note that
there may be several hands that God will use to build into your life,
while God uses you also to build into other lives. And it may involve
several people, several builders, at various points and at various
stages of that building, but each one of them has to build their portion
according to the design and the requirements of the architect and the
civil engineers. No one can introduce his own or her own idea, mystery,
All the materials that will be used are also specified in terms of
qualities and quantities, sizes and dimensions.

The concrete must be mixed according to specifications. Pillars and
columns, beams and roof members are all to be congruent with the overall
design concept for the building. Every house is built by someone, but
thank God the Bible says, he who builds all things is God.

We meet that in Hebrews chapter 3. Of necessity, someone must build your
life. You cannot tackle to build yourself by yourself. This is a very
critical aspect of what I need to talk about now.

And because this is very crucial, in building and in being built up in
Christ Jesus and for Christ's purpose, who builds you and who builds
into your life is very, very important. Please bear with me as you see
me emphasizing some few issues today. It's because if we don't speak
into this, and we don't become deliberate about this, what God is
speaking to us, the great promise that God has made and he's been
holding out to us, we might end up making a caricature of it because
we're lazy men who are not being built in Christ Jesus.

So for our lives, we're being built to become conformed to the image of
Jesus Christ. God has raised Jesus as the pattern son and he has lifted
him up for us all to see and to grow into as the prototype and as the
example. It is his stature and it is his standard height of personality
that God is building your life into.

It is for this that God has engaged all the builders, all the mini
cities in the body of Christ. This is the only matter that God has
engaged us with. In Ephesians chapter 4, please come with me to
Ephesians chapter 4, Ephesians chapter 4, and verse 11, verse 11, 12,
13.

Yes, Ephesians 4. I'll read first from my thinking. And we get some
apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and
teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of
the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto
the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Verse 14.

That we enforced the no more children torso and throat and carried about
with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness
whereby they lie in wait toward the sea. But speaking the truth in love,
we may do what? We may grow up into Him in all things, which is the
head, even Christ's seed. Now, because I'm going to be coming back on
this edition, I would like to move on quickly so that we will deal with
the very several important sections and parts of the building that must
not be compromised.

If your own life will be built up in Christ and you will be strong to
bear fruit for His glory, it will be crucial that we discuss this at
this point. Let me take the first point, the foundation. The foundation
and the chief cornerstone.

We have read Ephesians 2.20 You are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus instead the chief cornerstone.
And chapter 3 of 1 Corinthians says, For no other foundation can any one
lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. And as we read
further, it says this is the tomb.

Christ is that stone which was rejected by builders, but which has
become the chief cornerstone. Nor is there any salvation in any other,
for there is no other name other even given among men by which we must
be saved. Now finally, if the foundations, the Bible says the
foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? That's Psalm 11.

Now, let's quickly talk about what is about foundation. But while I'm
describing all the issues around foundation, I want you to note that, if
we are planning, just like I said yesterday, the root of all that you
can become is your root. And the root development, the root system you
develop in your life, is what determines your heart.

Foundation, again, is of that same dimension of understanding that we
need to capture. Foundation is foundational to every building. It is the
substructure that bears the stress and the strain of the
superstructures.

It is what determines what must be unloaded. You can tie it up on the
building, and what the building can eventually bear is the foundation.
If you lay foundation for a bungalow, you cannot change your mind
tomorrow to now make it a three-story building, except you are going to
have the kind of disaster that we are having in different parts of our
country.

Now, every feature, please take note now, every feature of your future,
of the future that you are looking for, must have its component in the
foundation. If you are anticipating anything in the future of that
building, then the component of it must be located, must be located in
the foundation. The foundation is akin to the root of the tree which we
discussed earlier.

Whatever falls is located in the foundation of a building, is a
foundational fall, and it will spread all over the building. It cannot
be isolated for treatment. The whole building will have to be brought
down to attend to the crack in the foundation.

So the foundation you lay for your life is what determines how tall, how
versatile, how wise you can become in serving God. Your future is
actually already regulated, regimented, restricted and reduced to the
strength, the size and the depth of your foundation. So we cannot be
hoping that we are going to look for people that will move this revival
and it will enter the sea, and it will hit the sea and the sea will not
swallow it.

If we are not laying foundation for some kind of purpose, and sometimes
we are rushing some people to go into politics, to go and do work, when
there is no foundation laid in their life, the foundation that they
carry cannot withstand it. When somebody flips a few millions before
their eyes, they will close their Bible and say, let's just discuss
about that later. What is the reason the foundation they have can
survive as a Sunday school teacher inside the church? That foundation
cannot survive in the House of Senates because what it carries cannot
stand in the midst of its enemies.

It can't stand in the midst of wolves. It can be talking cha-cha-cha-
cha-cha-cha in the midst of Sunday school students. It will look like a
champion.

Taken to where it needed a stronger foundation, it will collapse like
banana. And they have brought disgrace to the name of Jesus Christ
because we are asking them to carry a load for which they have no
foundation. Brothers and sisters, the foundation you lay for your life
now is what will actually regulate, it regiment, it restrict, it reduce
the extent to which you can go in life.

Any feature of your future that did not feature in your foundation will
be vague. It will be angling and dangling. It will be baseless and
dangerous to the entire structure.

So, what are the challenges that we have to quickly deal with in the
matter of how do we build by laying a strong foundation? The first
challenge is that foundation with time becomes invisible. What does that
imply? If a foundation with time becomes invisible, it means then that
its faults, its cracks, is very difficult to discover. Unless you are
willing to dig around it and evacuate more soil, foundations not faults
are generally imperceptible and it has assumed a very dangerous
dimension.

If the foundation to your faith, if your foundation, now that some of
you are just giving your life to Christ, if we don't lay a clear and a
correct foundation and you are growing with a foundational crack, it
becomes a foundational problem for the rest of your years. Sometimes,
some of us, the foundational doctrine that they put in our lives already
made you to believe that you can never be victorious over things. So,
you see somebody who is growing up with a faulty understanding that all
of us, we can only keep singing, it's only when we get to heaven that we
will be alright.

You say, where did you find that in the Bible? We say, well, that's what
our pastor used to tell us. Foundational faults, they produce
foundational problems. And because sometimes it's so difficult to
discover, you won't know that that is the matter.

Some of you, the foundation doctrine you have for your marriage, is what
is making your marriage not to work. Some of you, as you are growing up,
they taught you that women, they are not to be trusted. So, no matter
what you are talking, somebody tells you, is he not a woman? Is your
wife not a woman? You can't trust a woman, no.

So, you find yourself, you are a husband, you are in church, but there
are things in you that your wife does not know because your foundation,
your foundational doctrine says a woman should not be trusted. And no
matter what people are building on top of your life, they are building
on that wrong foundation. That's what you are up to now.

Your wife does not know what you are ending. There are issues that you
say, no, no, no, no, we don't trust women with this kind of knowledge.
And when you want to speak, you say, madam, please excuse us, we are
saying something serious.

Now, how would you become a kind of person in the hand of God? How would
your home become a platform for revival? When the foundation you laid
even for your marriage is already faulty, this is why we have to look at
it. We have to be checking, what foundation have you laid for your
Christian life? What foundation have you laid for your marriage? What
foundation have you laid for ministry? What foundation have you laid? It
has become invisible now, we can't see it. And so, we find a lot of
issues that a believer is struggling with because he has a foundational
fault.

Foundation with time becomes inaccessible. You cannot access it freely,
as it is already the foundation on which the whole building is standing
and bearing their weight. To touch it is to impair all the loads that it
carries.

It must be properly laid once and for all. Otherwise, any damage on the
spells could lose her love. So, if a building builds up in Christ Jesus,
we are not meticulous in making sure that that foundation is properly
laid in Christ Jesus.

Laid according to the principle of Christ. Laid according to the
standard that Christ himself has laid for us. These were just funny
people, charlatans who just tell you anything.

The trouble is that you are planning for a colossal loss. Things will
collapse and it will be difficult to deal with it. Foundation with time
becomes irreparable.

Since you cannot have access to it freely, and the fault is foundational
to every other problem you will have, and it is difficult to sustain
life without further drawing from it, the only thing possible could have
been a difficult and very costly process, which they call underpinning,
for which a physical building may be possible with a lot of stress and
destruction, but impossible when it is with a life. Architects and
engineers would try underpinning with a physical building. But how can
we sustain your life in order to repair your foundation, except to start
afresh? That's the only way.

It's to begin again and start life all over again. But it is practically
impossible for you to have, for us to do that, for your only one life to
live. And time does not wind back for anyone.

If you are 50 years now, you cannot, we cannot wind you back to 30
years. We can only take you where we have met you. And if we have to now
go and dig out all the foundation that you mislaid, how does it happen,
how do we get at it? So my dear brothers and sisters, the critical need
to be laid on a foundation that is Christ himself, chief cornerstone, is
critical at this time.

Foundation once engaged is irretrievable. Once you engage a foundation,
it is irretrievable. You can't retrieve it back.

Even if you want to, you can't do so without loosening the ground on
which it was laid. You can't retrieve it without loosening the whole
building and structure on it. All the furnishings, all the furniture,
all the finishing you have put are wasted once the foundation is to be
retrieved.

So you can only, you can only increase the feet to dig out foundations
which renders even the soil again useless because if the soil is not
solid, where do you lay your foundation? So this is a critical matter
that requires that when you want to be built up in Christ Jesus, let me
ask you, what's your foundation? On what foundation are you building
your life now? Is Christ the chief cornerstone? Is Christ there? Are you
building on Christ and him alone? We said foundation grows to become
permanent and irreplaceable. I know God will give you understanding
about that. It has become your recurring challenge with recurring
problems because it's the foundation.

It's difficult to replace it. If it is possible for you to recover years
with this and cast on your destiny, we'll say okay. But these are the
troubles that a life cannot be reversed.

Foundation with time must be buried to avoid erosion. Just as I said
yesterday, your roots have to be covered. Foundation also has to be
buried.

But the trouble now is that if we now have to bury a faulty foundation,
how do we undo it when it has become something that nobody can see as to
be able to help you? So the first matter to attend to very deliberately
is the foundation for your life in Christ. And it's actually the
foundation for all you hope to become in life and in eternity. No amount
of time can be too much to invest in laying a solid foundation for the
future that you hope for.

The foundation for your matrimony is this foundation. It bears the
foundation for your victory and for your ministry. This foundation must
be Christ and him crucified as the chief cornerstone.

It must be at the base of all your convictions and of your faith. It
must be the author. It must be the founder.

It must be the maker and the finisher of your faith. Every feature of
your future must be founded upon Christ and his principles. You must
base all your building blocks on him as the foundation.

It is the upholding and continuous principle that holds all the scheme
of creation together. And if separated from him, you are heading for a
total collapse. No other foundation can anyone lay apart from this,
which has been laid which is Christ.

So, when the Bible says we must be built up in him, the foundation of
the apostles and the prophets become the next layer. They have worked
with the Lord. They have proved the principles he has asked and God has
inspired them to lay a solid foundation for the church and for any of
his members.

So, whatever we build, and we did not see Christ Jesus and the disciples
of the apostles and prophets practice, it should not be part of your
foundation. So, the first thing I would be demanding from you as you
listen is to check, is there anything you are practicing that Christ
never did? Is there anything you are practicing that you cannot trace to
any of the apostles of Christ practicing it in the scripture as it is
written down for us? No matter who the preacher that you are calling is
doing it, I want to counsel you in the name of Jesus, go and uphold it.
And lay that foundation before it is too late.

Whatever we did not see in Christ, it may be what human excitement has
brought, it may be psychological motivation and new ideas that people
are using to build your life, it can only become an inherent weakness in
your being. So, what do I now need to deal with? Buildings and builders.
Builders and building materials.

In being built up in Christ, I said earlier that God raises builders and
laborers whom He has appointed to build you up for His divine purpose
for your life. And you can see it all through the Word of God. Every
house is built by someone, but He who builds all things is Christ.

So, we cannot run away from the fact that our lives will be built by
people, there will be pastors, there will be teachers, there will be
evangelists, there will be all these ministry gifts that God Himself is
the one who gave them for the building up of the body of Christ. Every
house is built by someone. No house can build itself by itself.

Bricks do not build themselves into a building. Someone must lay the
bricks, someone must apply the mortar, and someone must keep the plumb
to maintain the levels according to the master plan. But the way a
builder builds will affect and will reflect on what is being built, and
the materials he uses will affect the strength of that building.

This is a very crucial matter for prayerful concentration. Who is
building your life? Who is building your life? And who is building on
your life? This is taking us back to discipleship. If the man who is
building your life himself is not in touch with the Lord, and is not
congruent with His life, he may only be building according to his own
taste, and according to the ambition and imagination of his own heart.

He may be building you for his own ambition as if you belong to him. I
want to ask you now. You see, whenever I read the scripture and said
that whatever a man builds shall be tested by fire, and if he burns, he
will be saved as though he passes through fire.

My own question is, for what of what he has built? And if what he has
built is my life, and my life has been destroyed, when the effects of
fire came on it, what becomes of my own destiny? That is why I want to
counsel you. You can't just live your life in the hand of any kind of
person who is using any kind of useless material to pour into your life.
It is your life that is being built.

Stop listening to people that come with cheap ideas. Things that only
tickle your emotions and doesn't deal with the depth of your inner life.
You need to be careful about that.

Even though each builder will give account of what he builds and how he
built it, but it is your own life that is involved. So your life, you
cannot be complacent about who builds you. You can't be complacent about
where you are taking your building from.

You must go up in congruence with the life of Christ and his pattern.
You must be like the deviant Christians who search the scriptures
diligently to see if those things Paul taught were correct. We are
coming to that point now where we need to be deliberate that whosoever
turns up to speak and is not speaking according to these principles,
Paul said, let him be accursed.

What we call becomes so serious that if anybody comes to you and does
not come with good talking, let that man be accursed. Even if I myself
should return or an angel comes to tell you something else, let me be
accursed. Just to show you that the question of being built up in Christ
Jesus transcends and goes beyond personality.

It goes beyond personality codes. What we are pointing you to now goes
beyond our own. That's the way my denomination do it.

No, it's your life that is being built. We are talking about your
eternal destiny and there is need for you to be like deviant Christians.
Check it out.

If the materials used to build your life is the clay, the air, the
stubble, the wood, rather than the gold, the precious stones, the silver
and the enduring elements for life formation, you may appear to be going
fast only because cheap materials were used. And you may not be one who
bears an enduring experience of God and you cannot be used for an
enduring walk in God's kingdom. You may also not have such a weight to
bear an enduring anointing.

Can I put to you, this issue, even if I can't finish what I'm listening
here, I want to leave it with you that your life, if it is not being
built up in Christ Jesus, then you are not being well. Then you are not
preparing to endure with this level that God is bringing us into. Now,
let's quickly look at issues about the process of building and that I
will spend a bit of time in it and I go back again to Ephesians 2, 20,
21, 22 that we read before.

In you, the whole structure is joined, bound, welded together
harmoniously and it continues to rise, it continues to grow, it
continues to increase into a holy temple in the Lord. It's a sanctuary
dedicated, consecrated and sacred to the presence of the Lord. In him,
and in fellowship with one another, you yourself are also being built up
into this structure with the rest of us to form a fixed abode, a
dwelling place of God by the Holy Spirit.

Now, let's now look at what are the issues. The first word that you see
again and again as we have been talking about being built is the word in
him. In him, even though time is very short for me, but these are issues
I want you to look at now.

In him, the context, the habitat, the building site for our lives to be
correctly built must be in him. Are you with me? The context, the
habitat, the building site for our lives to be correctly built must be
in Christ. All the materials for our lives to be built are sold and
supplied in him.

Nothing outside Christ is useful in building your life. There are many
philosophies, many theories and ideas that men seek to use to build
their lives, but not from Christ's side and from Christ's principles. It
may be high-standing and may look elaborate, but it is all based on
human tradition.

Such cannot build you up in your most holy faith. It cannot make you a
pillar in the house of God. Indeed, it will defraud you.

And this is what we read in chapter eight. It says, See to it that no
one carries you up as oil or makes you yourself captive by the so-called
philosophy and intellectualism. Very distinct.

I do fancy plain nonsense. Following human tradition meant ideas of the
material rather than the spiritual world. Crude notions.

Crude notions. Just crude notions. Following the rudimentary and
elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding the teachings of
Christ.

They may sound very high, very impressive, but it is empty and vague. It
can only make you a man of the earth and not a man come from God. It is
hollow philosophy and empty psychology that men of the world have
propounded over the years that has left the world system reckless.

It is only in Him, in Christ Jesus, we must be built. It is in Him that
every material comes from, and in Him is every binding force to be
generated. Anything outside Christ will only introduce weakness and
inferiority or an inferior component into your life.

Now, if I move into that, I want to say that to be built up in Christ,
just like I said yesterday that you can grow your root in Christ, there
is no space. There is nothing that will stop your root from reaching the
depth. Also, to be built up in Christ, there is enough space, enough
room on all sides.

And everything that we need to be complete in Christ is actually in
Christ Jesus. Sometimes some of us think that, well, there are other
things we need to know that is not in Christ. And imagine some of you
are feeling that way, like all these things that we are talking about,
is it only in Christ? Let me go and read the Karma.

Let me go and read this one. Let me go and read the traditional
religion. Let me go and read all of that.

And that's how you stop your mind with empty ideas. And you stop at
Christ. I have so many people today, who are even theologians.

They don't know enough of Christ. But they know so much about other
philosophies, other social theories, other religions, and that's what
they stop themselves with. So they come to the cookie only talking
general things that has no reality of Christ.

We cannot use such techniques to spearhead the coming revival. Your life
has to be built up in Christ. It is in Christ that all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

It is in Christ Jesus the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily. And
every completion is in Christ Jesus. It is the Father that in Him should
all fullness, all fullness dwell.

There is no height you anticipate for your growth that cannot be
accommodated in Christ Jesus. His love is white that you cannot cross
it. It is so deep that you cannot get to the very bottom of it.

And it is so high that you cannot reach its roof. In Him we live. In Him
we walk.

In Him we have our all being. Everything you will ever need is in Him.
And all that will ever be necessary for your growth from now till
eternity are all embedded in Christ Jesus.

This is very crucial for you to settle down to be built up in Him. Take
a study of all that God has made available for us in Him. And you will
be amazed with the all.

Everything that is used in almost all the references. Just search. Just
take your Bible and say in Him.

Then you will see all that the Word of God says about in Him. Now, in
Him the whole structure is joined, bounded, welded together
harmoniously. It is in Christ Jesus that our lives are bounded together.

It is not here and there. Little here and little there. In Christ there
is a wholesomeness.

The whole structure is joined, bound, and welded together harmoniously
to make His compact and unbroken entity. When your life is being built
in Christ Jesus, you will find wholeness. You will find completeness.

You will find compactness at every level and in everything. There are no
loose ends and scattered joints here and there. Everything is made to
fit together harmoniously and symmetrically.

It is forming into a global shape in Christ's life being formed in you.
It is also in Christ Jesus that this building continues to rise, to
grow, to increase into a usable vessel. Though an earthen jar of clay
should bear the treasure of His life within us, we actually have this
treasure in that earthen vessel so that the excellency of the power
emanating and the aroma that is oozing out of our life is not of us but
of Him who works in us both to live and to do of it.

Now let me note again that it is in Christ Jesus and in fellowship with
other believers that you yourself are to be built up. The beauty and
glory of this is that you are not only being built up in Christ as a
single individual. You are also being built into the body of Christ
horizontally.

Now you see, when we are not understanding the process of this building,
you are likely to think you are a super Christian who can move alone.
And that is one of the reasons why this individualistic ministry,
something-something ministry, somebody-somebody's ministry, seems to be
attractive because Mr. Flesh, that ought to have been dead and buried in
this building, was allowed because individualism was overemphasized. You
must be connected with other believers in fellowship who share the same
life with you in Him and you are not being built into a compact
structure to form a figure boat, a dwelling place or a lodge to operate
from.

It is in this context that you can exercise a ministry. I am again ready
to share with you that ministry for this end time, ministry for this
survivor must be exercised in the context of oneness in the body of
Christ. We are not building you to be one superstar somewhere.

That's not the plan of God for His church. We are not building you to be
the only man of God in town. God's intention is to build a team, to
build His body so that where I cannot operate, this brother has been
built along with me, that sister has been built along with me so we
provide an holistic ministry that is coming through the joint supply of
every member.

Brethren, if this survivor God is talking to us about will last, we must
again deliberately build into one another. As we are being built up in
Christ Jesus, we are being built up into the body of Christ. That's why
in all your discipleship, take note, even though we are talking about
taking note of your personal discipleship because you need to have your
roots, you need to have your focus, yet this discipleship does not build
you into an island.

This discipleship experience does not isolate you and does not make you
belong to one individual disciple who says that's my boy, that's my
disciple. No! He makes a contribution to build your life and build you
into the body of Christ. If the man is beginning to possess you that you
could not fellowship and flow with the rest of the brethren
horizontally, he is building you and he will soon build you out of the
womb of God.

He will soon build you out of focus and you will be out of symmetry with
what God needs to do. This building has to be congruent with the body of
Christ. Now the next thing I need to talk about that building is that
you yourself as you are growing up, the Holy Ghost that has come out to
fill your life is also building you up in your most holy faith.

Now these are very critical issues of being built. Finally, before I
will be able to stop, this build up, if you look at verse 7 of
Colossians 2, being continually built up in him, becoming increasingly
more confirmed and established in the faith. Just as he said the root of
a tree continually grows down, so must you be continually built up in
Christ Jesus.

So this being built up does not stop. The reason is because the
structure we are going is the standard height of Christ's personality,
his wisdom, his communion, his intimacy with the Father, his way of
handling the things of God, his way of handling the Word of God, his way
of handling ministry. No matter how much we have grown, there is a room,
a room on top that you are yet to come into.

And what I'm hearing Jesus say all the time to me, say come up here,
come up here, come up here, Billy come up here. And I realize that
actually when I look at the headroom, the tree where he is and where I
am, I'm still looking like a dwarf. When I look at the volume of what I
have not yet known of Jesus, I'm asking myself what have I known
actually? When I see the infiniteness of his glory and power into which
I must be transformed from one degree of glory to another, I could not
sit down and say I'm already built up.

But the truth of the matter is that this building must continue as long
as you're alive. So being built up in Christ is the determinant matrix
for a progressive and a fruitful walk with God. It takes some years to
build a prayer line.

A prayer line that is trustworthy has to be built. There is no miracle
that will make the word of God to open to you overnight. A progressive
revelation to the word of God has to be built.

Your personal orders have to be built. To be able to take a scripture
and teach God's people from the same scripture for days, rightly
dividing the word of truth does not happen overnight. It is a building.

It is within the section to say if I lay my hands on you now and I pray
for you, the spirit of revelation will just fall on you like that. That
is not true. If I want to help you at all, it is to take you in and show
you the process and launch you into it and you also continue to grow in
it.

Christian life is a building. Christian spirituality is a building. A
consecrated prayer line is a building.

Understanding God's word and being able to rightly divide it, I say it's
a building. So, what do I say to you? Set you down and be built. The
Bible says every house is built by someone but God is the one who builds
all things.

God raises builders to build people up. He will raise builders to build
you up in the name of Jesus Christ. There may be building blocks that
should be laid in your life, one block on top of another.

The builder God raises for you may give you one lesson to go through
here. I say when you finish, come let me review it. That is the essence
of relating with someone who is deliberate, who wants to progress with
you in life.

That's why your discipleship under someone who is concerned for your
growth is very important. Life is a building. You have to be built.

Correct fellowship and relationship with people have to be built. Trucks
have to be built. And the process of building is a painstaking process
that will always bring themselves supervisors for those who are saying,
here are my laws, dear me.

Yes, God has declared irrevocable unto you and has given us room to be
fruitful in the land. You know that no seed will reproduce itself unless
it falls down and dies. Shooting down its roots and growing up unto
maturity.

This is the crucial process you cannot ignore even in this season of our
vegetation. Now that God has made room for us, I want to say it is a
room to grow your roots. It's a room to get picked up in Him.

It's a room that will make you fruitful. It's a room to shoot for large
branches. It's a room for us to bear fruits upwards.

Fruits that abide. Fruitfulness is only a result of these parameters of
this week. Fruits abiding, abounding and abundant fruits will attend to
your life if you will pay attention to these issues of deepening your
roots in Him and being built up in Him.

As I stop at this, I want you to join me to pray. I've taken quite a
little time out of our space. But permit me to ask you to take note that
two issues that God is saying we must not ignore as we're waiting to
engage level up.

We must pray. We must ask God to bring Him to us. To fulfill what He
said.

He's the one that wants to walk. He said, and I'm asking you to ask me
for it. And I felt overwhelmed this morning that that is what we must
do.

But while I was about to rush into that and say, no, that's where we're
going to stop. The Holy Spirit again brought me and said, yes, my faith
is going on. Where are the containers that will bear the rain? Where are
the containers? When the woman was asked to go and borrow vessels, it
was to borrow not a few, but if she just gathered a little number of
those tubes, that would be the end of the outpouring.

That's why we need people who are deeply rooted, who are growing in
dimensions, who have been built up in Christ so that they can carry the
capacity to bear this oil everywhere. Will you, as a matter of urgency,
will you, as a matter of deliberate urgency, say, Lord, let hope be
there. My life has to be built for it.

I know that there are some of you in your centers that did something
that is very interesting, and I will use that to end. Some of you
suddenly discovered that you need to have an MLR center. And you
discovered that all these places you had before was not sufficient.

And the places you saw you were going to use is not available. What did
you begin to do? Now, I saw you building. I saw several of you rushing
to lay foundation and to get things up and to set up your tents and all
of that because you were anticipating an outburst.

If you do that for a physical meeting of three days, why would you not
do that for an enduring move of God that will reach nations, that will
shake your land, that will shake your people, that will shake your
environment, that will bring the glory of God down. If you have been
involved in discipleship, don't you see now that this has become more
urgent. It has now become urgent to raise people.

You know, as I'm just standing here, my heart is just overwhelmed. Can
you imagine that as we are sitting here, Bible study is going on
everywhere. There are several brothers and sisters that are standing up
now to teach the Bible studies.

And they are facing different, different congregations. And I'm saying,
Lord, have they been built for this? Are they going to give the people
the young what they carry? If we don't build this mess for God, are we
not planning to perish this world? So wherever you are, it becomes
urgent. But I thank God that God himself is willing to help us.

He's willing to accelerate our growth. He said, I tell you, Lord, I will
hasten it in a time. One of the things God is going to hasten is our
growth.

He will hasten our being built up. It will take you 10 years to lay this
foundation. God wants to change that now.

Hunger will come on your heart. Hunger will come on your heart. I was
there with my wife the other day.

I said, God, give me seeds. Improve seeds that produces better yields.
You know, sometimes you get seed that just produces tiny tiny things and
you waste all your life.

But God promises that he's giving us seed that will produce us all. Even
this message that we are hearing, God is going to multiply it to you.
God is going to give you an answer.

Something of it beyond what I could explain. You can see that time is
not for us and yet I'm trusting God that something will happen to me. So
I want to pray with you this morning.

And I want you to stand with me in prayer. I just pray for you that God
will make it a compelling issue for you. That your being built up will
become a priority.

Your being rooted will become your priority. And that God himself, God
himself, God himself who said all our children shall be righteous, he
will make this possible in your lives in the name of Jesus. Will you
please rise and let's pray together.

Please rise up wherever you are. Let's pray together. I just want to
call on God.

Whatever else you want to decide, whatever things you want to do, this
prayer will overlay it. God is going to do it. Father in heaven, we
stand together wherever your children are.

In different parts, in different places, in different time zones,
wherever they are. Because they have identified with this move. Because
their hearts have been drawn.

Because they want to be part of your level. Lord visit us now. Visit us
with an hunger for you.

An hunger that will cause our roots to shoot down to the everlasting bed
of the river of life. That will cause, you said, this river on both
sides, there will be all manner of trees that grow, who are producing
their fruit every month. Lord, that will be a miracle.

It will be a miracle Lord. What you did in the house of apostles, that
one message of 30,000 and they start at the apostles doctrine to such a
point that they multiply so quickly. Let it be done again.

Lord we beg you, let it be done again. Let the understanding of my
brothers and sisters, those in the village, those in the language
groups, those in any situation, let something happen to them now. Let
there be a growth, a building up in Christ Jesus.

Let them experience something from your hand which is beyond human
explanation. Lord, give us an increase, increase of disciples, increase
of Christ in our hearts, increase of his word in our spirit, increase of
his life. Let it happen Lord, in the name of Jesus.

Every retarded growth, every submitted growth, we rebuke it in the name
of Jesus. Everything that makes growth sluggish, let it be uprooted now,
in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, as your children will go from here
into Bible studies, open their understanding, open their hearts.

Lord, all our discipleship classes all over the world, let it have this
dimension. Let things begin to happen deeply. Once we spend years to
explain, Lord, take it from us and begin to cause your children to see
beyond the ordinary.

Do it for us Lord. Thank you for hearing our prayer. Thank you because
beyond what we can think or imagine, you will do it for us.

The spirit of prayer you are releasing this morning, it will become a
permanent matter. We will pray. We will pray.

We will devote ourselves to praying. We will ask you for this matter.
Our nations are in danger.

If they don't kill the son, but you have brought us to this. Lord, we
are praying, Lord God, that we will not see the destruction of this land
before we see revival. Let there be revival.

Let it reach the nations. Let it reach our people. Lord, confirm those
that are leaders and governments and cause them to come on their knees.

Thank you Father. And God, this thing is going to happen faster than we
thought. So Lord, we are pleading that our growth must not be slow.

Please Lord, grant that as a result of this meeting that disciples will
multiply. Disciples indeed will multiply. Hunger for God that will make
them to start preachers and quickly quickly begin to apply to their
lives.

Let this happen. Thank you. Unto you is able to do much more than we can
imagine or think.

Do I commit your children, I commit this move to your hand, that it will
not go the way of the earth. It will grow in depth. As it grows wider,
it will grow deeper.

As it grows wider, it will grow purer. Purity will attend to this. Every
false doctrine will abhor it in the name of Jesus.

Every wind of doctrine, every manoeuvre of human beings, every
philosophy that is contrary to your world will make it impossible to
thrive in this move in the name of Jesus. Nobody will corner this unto
something that is esoteric. Lord, I ask this day that you will be
jealous over your move.

Be jealous from nation to nation. Thank you for hearing. In Jesus
Christ's name, we have prayed.

Amen.

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