Gbile Akanni exhorts believers to embrace the expansive and limitless scope of God's work, urging them to reject mediocrity and fully steward the divine opportunities God has granted.
In 'The Scope Of Our Rehoboth,' Gbile Akanni challenges believers to recognize the vastness of God's plan and their role within it. Drawing from the story of Elisha and Elijah, he encourages a mindset of faith that refuses to be limited by local or current realities. This teaching sermon calls for spiritual responsibility, humility, and a renewed expectation for God's abundant provision and anointing.
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And just say, Lord, I want to renew this covenant with you. Not I, but Christ. Be seen, be known, be heard.
We have come to Rehoboth, and you are giving us room to be fruitful in the land. And we've heard you speak about the unlimitedness of what you want to do in our day. We have heard you, O God, and we have seen it beginning already.
We have seen it breaking forth already. You spoke to us, said a little one will become like a thousand. A small one will become a nation.
I, the Lord, I will hasten it, I will perform it in its time. Lord, we have seen you doing it now. It's difficult for our mouth to explain it.
An unstoppable move of your Spirit has begun. We see you moving into denominations, into cathedrals. We see you taking your Word, O God, into lands and nations where we thought we could never be.
We see you, O God, drawing men and instructing them to give attention to your Word now. Our Father, we are asking one more time. We will not touch the glory.
Can you tell God, I will not touch your glory. I will not share your glory. I will not take your glory.
Lord, I am satisfied just to be a vessel, an unprofitable servant. I want to remain. Lord, by the working of your Spirit, I will not touch your glory.
Please pray. Please ask God to help us about that. Christ, only Christ, no idol ever falling.
Christ, only Christ, no needless busting around. We are not going to be making any sound that points to our self-life. Christ, only Christ, no self-important bearing.
Christ, only Christ, no trace of I. Must be found. Lord, we want to hold you by your Word to help us. In the name of Jesus, thou who helps a man not to fail, you will help us in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thou, O Lord, who never will allow your name to be dragged into the mud. We put our hands in your hand again this night. Let it not be on the account of any of us that your glory will be withdrawn in the name of Jesus Christ.
We want to ask that as we go on in this meeting, give us a proper scope. Give us a proper understanding. Give us a proper sense of responsibility.
Lord, may we not disappoint your purpose at a time like this. In the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, we are not being presumptuous.
What you said you will do, you said. What I said to you before have taken place. Now I speak of what I'm going to do.
New things I'm calling forth. Lord, we beg you that for each one of us, this rebirth must never, never finish in our eyes in the name of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, please arise on our behalf.
Thank you. In Jesus' name, we have prayed. Amen.
I would like all of us, there are three passages that we have read over and over and over again in the course of our growth, in the course of our understanding of what God wanted to do, which he had been speaking to us. I feel again tonight to bring you back to that passage. Now, but this evening, in order to put context to what is the scope, what is the global scope of what God has brought us into, I would like us to take some few scriptures together again.
We have read them. But as I kept praying, the Lord said, go back on them and highlight them again so that these brothers, these sisters, these bearers of this fire, these vessels that God has assembled to himself from nation to nation may have an understanding of what God is doing. And because it has gone beyond Boko, it has gone all over the country of Nigeria, it has gone beyond us, it is now in several nations of the earth, and even places that we never thought would be yielding to what we are saying, they are sitting in this meeting already.
And we are not just talking about those who just carried their handset, and either in their car or just following Facebook and all of that, we are not talking of that. That one is a crowd of its own and we have no way of measuring them. We are talking about people that have gathered like this and they are doing visions retreats in Takum, in Jalingo, in Yola, in Yobe, in Gombe, everywhere, where people are sitting and they are studying together with us.
Some, they are interpreting it in the local languages of their own. It was important for us again to bring this matter out, trusting that the Holy Spirit will give you a sense of responsibility. And the first thing that was coming for me to share with you was the story that we have read over and over again in the book of 2 Kings.
Please, follow me to 2 Kings. Now, somehow, God had used that instruction to guide our hearts and to insist on what we did over the years. There were several times I kept praying, Lord, do we need to do this again? And this person will come back.
But today, it is not the story that I really want to speak about. There is just one matter that God is raising in my spirit, which He has raised over time. But I feel that we need to be men and women who understand the responsibility of our rebels.
There is a reason why God is opening doors to you. There is a reason why God is giving us the open door that we are having, the invitation to ministries that we are having, the call of God on our lives that has come, the good open heavens that is coming to our lives. There is a reason for it.
But there is a responsibility to take. And I feel that we need to take that responsibility according to knowledge. Now, please go with me to that 2 Kings.
2 Kings chapter 13. 2 Kings chapter 13. Now, I don't intend to go back onto the man, Elisha, because I was going to believe that he did his best.
And he was concerned about not perishing the move of God in his own day. It looks to me as if Elisha was a man of capacity. He was a man of a large heart.
He was a man who can anticipate something bigger. Why did I say that? As at the time that we are speaking, Elijah, hallelujah, if you remember, even up to the time that Jesus had come, everybody that wants to speak about a powerful prophet, whom do they refer to? It's Elijah. In fact, in the whole understanding of the scribes, they were looking forward that Elijah, the way he disappeared, that he was going to come again.
Do you know that? Do you know that even when Jesus Christ came, and he was describing the ministry of John the Baptist, because everybody believed that the highest prophet that has ever ministered was Elijah. And so they felt that there is an unfinished work that Elijah is going to come back to do. So they were always looking for him.
So Jesus Christ had to say, look, of all that have been born of a woman, there was none. There was none. But John the Baptist was greater than them all.
You remember that even on the month of Transfiguration, who are the two that came, that appeared? Elijah and Moses. So Moses represented the law. Elijah represented what? The prophet or prophecy.
But now we have a man who was brought up by Elijah. And while everybody believed that Elijah was the highest, was the climax, this young man under Elijah, when Elijah was about to go and said, ask me anything you want, because the Lord is going to take me from you today. You remember, how Elijah asked and said, I want that the double portion of your spirit will follow me.
Do you know that when we meet some persons, because they regard what you are doing is so serious, they will say, if only God can just give me 10% of your anointing, I will be alright. Have you heard people asking such a thing before? So we say, the way the anointing of God is on this man of God, if I can just be allowed just to shake hands with him, and when you just shake hands with him like this, what do they do? They carry that hand. Then they will put it in their pocket.
And they will not shake anybody again for some hours. They say, what I have collected, I don't want. Why do they do like that? Because they have a very, very small heart, as regards what God is about to do.
That's where I'm begging God to help us tonight. The reason is because, a move of God, has capacity, to overrun the whole earth, and God will not even feel it. But, it can only be, according to, what men on earth, are willing to let God do.
This is where, we have to speak to ourselves very clearly. So when Elisha, were going to request, say, I want double portion of your spirit, and you will remember, that Elisha said, you have asked, what? A hard thing, which even me cannot give you. You are asking something beyond me.
Where will I get double portion of my spirit to give you? If to say, I should give you, 20% of my spirit, what will I do now? I can do that. Even when, Moses, complained that, he cannot do the work of God alone, God said, give me 70 men. What will I do? I will take, off, a little of your spirit, and I will do what? I will give them.
So all those 70, did they get anything more than Moses? No. And actually, they were not an increase to Moses. They were only distributed out of him.
They just got some, and there was nothing. None of them asked for anything serious. So this man said, I want double portion of your spirit.
It must be something inside of him. There must be an enlargement, that is telling him that, whatever Elijah was, I want double of it. Wherever Elijah went, I want to go twice of it.
Whatever grace Elijah exercised, it can be much more. And Elijah said, well, if it is God, there is no limit with God, you can have it. But if it is me, I can give you what I don't have.
So he told him, he said, if you see me when I'm taking off, then you get it. If not, I'm sorry. Did he get it? Which means, God is able, please hear me now, God is what? Is able, abundantly able, to give to you, far, far beyond, what some of us have collected.
Is God able to do that? Whatever is making you to think, that we, that are standing before you here, we are already at the climax. And that is the highest high, that you could ever hope to go. May God perish that thing in your spirit, this evening, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Why did I want God to perish it? It is because, as you see me here, we are only at the beginning. I am not yet at the climax. Even though this beginning is looking so wonderful in your eyes.
It's looking so great in your eyes. But I kept hearing God saying, everything that you have done, will become so small, compare with what I wanted to do. And have I not seen that, over the years? Have I not seen that there was a point, when we thought, when we thought, 19 Gardo Hospital Road, was a big place.
When our actual tent was looking wonderful. When it was looking like the biggest hall you could get. And when we would just stand and be looking at that thing.
And all these, my brothers, Brother Moses and all of them, they were all liberating. Because we felt something is breaking forth. And then the first meeting, the thing was filled.
The second meeting, we don't know what to do. And as we are praying, the Lord said, you see, you are the one, who thought what I want to do can be kept, in this place. And he booted us out.
And we came here. And it was looking big. Of course, as at that time, was this not the biggest hall in Goko Town? I'm asking you, was it not the biggest hall? It was.
All the places that you put as the press now, it was part of this thing. And yet, there's no space. And in our mind, those who do not know where we are going, those who cannot see what God is talking about, in their mind, they are shouting.
The whole town has gone after them. That's why they are shouting. They were wanting to fight.
Saying, he's taking this, he's taking that. I remember, just because, we were doing a meeting at Gerge Hospital Road. And vehicles were parked.
We crossed the other side. Vehicles were parked. Machine hire boys were finding great business.
Because they were just running. And I remember somebody was passing on the road. And he was saying, what are they doing here now? They have closed the road.
I never imagined that we can close the road. Are you understanding? So that looked as a big thing. Ah! Our ministry has closed the road.
So I'm asking you now, what is that road, that we are saying was closed? And God kept saying, don't limit this. And we stood in this place, this same place, in 1998. And God brought us to that passage.
You have asked a hard thing. And God said, don't ask me for a small good. We were there.
And God said, all that you have not seen, is because you have not asked. What you don't have, is because you did not ask me for it. So, why is this night instruction very important? Why we have to go back? It is because, unless God gives you an understanding, a largeness of heart, to discover divine possibility, that is far, far beyond where we are now.
You may accept mediocrity. Hallelujah! You may accept what I call, the best around mentality. Excuse me, please.
What is the best around mentality? Who can quickly tell me the meaning of that? The best around mentality. Brad Dennis, please give Brad Dennis that mic. Because you need to understand.
Call it, the local champion mentality. Alright? The local champion mentality. God must deliver you from it.
It will be a serious prayer because, what God wants to do now, that local champion mentality, that best around mentality, heaven must take it away. So that we do not waste our Rehuboth. Very important.
Very important. You know there are champions in your local clubs. When you take them now to the state competition, your own champion who is your best, is coming 25th position.
Will anybody mention the name of your school? But that's your own champion. We are not working on the best around, so that our environment does not limit what God wants to do. The fact that, even in our locality, there are certain things they've never seen.
That does not mark the climax of where we are going. Hallelujah. So, when Elijah said, ask anything and the young man said, double portion.
Even double portion as at that time, was something nobody could contemplate. What can be more, what can be more than, a man who locked up heavens, for three and a half years, and there was no rain. What anointing can be more than that? What anointing can be more than someone, who was feeding, and got fed in by the ravens.
What anointing can be much more, than a man, who stood up there, and said, according to my word, there will be no rain. And heaven, was shut up because of his own statement. And kings, and the policemen, they went everywhere, and they could do nothing.
And the day that he needed to come and open the heavens, he walked in again. Ah! And Obadiah saw him and said, ah! He said, Obadiah, come, come, come. Go and tell your master that I've come, and I'm going to show myself to him.
Obadiah said, excuse me sir, have I offended you? You want to put me in trouble because, where have they not looked for you all over the country? The price tag on your head is still there. And if I go now, and I said, I have seen Elijah, and before I will come, the spirit of the Lord, will do what? Will take you somewhere. So you see, Elijah had a reputation, that even the common unbeliever in town, they knew that the spirit of the Lord used to move with him.
Policemen came back, after searching, searching, they said, excuse me, nobody can arrest this man because, the spirit of the Lord used to move him. In fact, when they give us a link that he's somewhere here, by the time we are getting there, we just see that the spirit has taken him. He's no more there.
He said, so if I go now, and I say I saw Elijah, and that he's going to, he wants to appear to the king. And they say, okay, go and bring him. And the spirit takes him away.
What will I do, sir? He said, don't worry, I'm going to show myself. So he went and met the king. He said, Elijah is here.
He said, Elijah is here? Elijah is here? Elijah is here? He said, yes. All right. Hey, and he wants to see me? Yes.
Cancel all protocols. I want to see him. So as Elijah was walking in.
Now I'm looking at such a height of anointing. That would have been a climax. And Elijah walked in.
And the king said, are you here, thou troubler of Israel? You know what he's saying? For three and a half years, none of us could sleep because of what you said. Because of what you said, all farmers are weeping. Because of what you said, there's no food.
The troubler of Israel, are you here? And then look at that man of God. Boo! He said, I? You call me troubler of Israel? You, your mother, and your father's house, you are the troubler of the people. And tomorrow, I want you now to call a meeting.
Call the whole Israel. I want to talk to them. So who's in charge? Eh? He took over.
He said, call them, call them, send for them. I'm meeting with them. And make sure that all the prophets of Baal and all those prophets of the groups, they are all in attendance.
And we will gather on Mount Carmel. The king said, yes sir. And everything was done.
So if you are under such a man of God, will you not be satisfied even if you just got 20% of that anointing? Eh? Will you not go in about and say, you know, do you know Elijah? You know Prophet Elijah? He said, yes. You know I was the man that used to carry his bag. You like to do that when you are myopic.
When you have no sense of understanding of divine possibility. When you think God only does something that finishes. When in your heart you are thinking that, eh, by the way, they are doing something.
And let him not die, oh, let him not die, oh. Because if he die, now everything will die. When you have that kind of narrow mentality, you cannot understand what to do with Rehoboth.
And it is important. And the reason why I need to do this tonight is because the dimension in which God wants to move. The only person that can reduce it are those of us that God is entrusting with what he wanted to do.
So we have to pray. This thing must not become small because we make it small. Did you hear me? What did I say? It must not become small because I have made it small.
And I am speaking to several of you here tonight. I am trusting God that something will explode in your heart. And some of you are too quiet for too long.
Because you thought holiness is equal to holiness. Because you think that narrowness is a manifestation of humility. Because you think that enlargement or divine largeness is devilish.
So you imagine that to be small is to give glory to God. No. And I want to pray with you tonight.
That something will happen in your spirit. Because Rehoboth is here. And God has made room for us.
And we shall be fruitful in the land. We will come to conclude at that point before we pray. Now, so when that man opened his mouth and said double portion.
To the point that Elijah, who could ask anything from God and he would get it. Said what you have asked is a hard thing. And I remember that in 1998 we stood there and we said ask God for a hard thing.
Some of you were there. And thank God the hard thing that some of you asked for, God did it. What you ask, it looked hard to you at that time.
Because that is how much we understood. And I thank God that God has come again. May God help you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Now, but what I'm talking about is not now about Elijah. And I'm not talking about Elijah. Because the ministry of Elijah manifested more than double of what Elijah did.
Both in scope, in intensity, in impact, in authority, in every dimension. But, when it was time for him to go, this story I want to read with you came up. And this story, I would have not been bothered about it.
But the Spirit has not allowed me not to be bothered about it. And what I'm bothered about is the only little thing I want to share tonight. And I'll go away from there.
Go to verse 14. Now Elijah was falling sick of his sickness. Whereof he died.
And Joash, the king of Israel, came down unto him and wept over his face. And said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof. I don't have time to be explaining what that meant.
But those of you that read your Bible, you know that that was exactly what Elijah said. When he was grabbing the mantle of Elijah. So, number one, I have a sense of feeling that this Joash, he may have read the methodology.
He may have read the language. And he thought, let me just use the same language to collect the anointing. Excuse me, what we are talking about here is not language.
It's not language. And it's not semantics. What God is saying to you now is not a slogan.
And I want you to move away from slogan tonight. I want you to pray unto something God's thought in your spirit. I want you to go beyond the mere routine of mere repetition.
I want you to, I want God, yes, I better begin to beg God. I want God to do something in you. Let the Lord enlarge something inside of you today.
I'm from today. In the name of Jesus Christ. Are you hearing me my brother? I want you to know that there is nothing you ask.
That God will say is too big. You cannot carry a tanker, a water tanker, to the ocean. And then the ocean is saying, uh-uh, you want to fetch me finish? Does ocean say like that? Abba, the tanker we collect and the ocean will never feel that you have fetched anything.
That's the God that we are talking about. That is the Father that has come to us. That is Him who has opened a way for us to our lives and to our land.
But there's something that you must catch on this before we get into prayer. Now, what was that? Once the man said it, Elisha was not bothered about whether he said it correctly or not. That's not the issue now.
And Elisha said to him, take the bow and arrows. And he took unto him the bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, put your hand upon the bow.
And the man put his hand upon it. And Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. I'm just looking at a great man of God who did not want the move to die with him.
I'm just looking at a man of God who knew no matter the double portion on Elisha that he had operated in, there is still something much more for the younger generation to collect. I'm looking at a man of God who never thought he was going to be the final last in the purpose of God. Are you hearing what I'm talking about? I'm looking at a man of God that will not hide any counsel of God from any life.
I'm looking at a man of God who had been disappointed several days by Gehazi. Do you remember Gehazi? And you see the cry of his heart when Gehazi went for the leper's clothes. Do you remember what he said? The man of God said, ah, Gehazi, is it time? Is it time to collect olive yards, to collect clothes? Eh? Is it time to be collecting the droppings of lepers? Is it time? Is it time to look for change of limits? Is it time to be talking about shoes? You know, why was he talking to Gehazi like that? It is because, I want to tell you, even when the anointing began to flow, even if you are just around Elisha, and you have not even got the anointing, you can get clothes, you can get dropouts, you can get good things.
And I was telling my children the other day, I said, let the testimony of this revival not be that we have more cars. Let it not be, ah, since God began to move, I have plenty of clothes. There will be clothes.
There will be cars. There will be provisions. All of those things are coming.
But they are not the matter. Let nobody come to measure the prosperity of this house by the houses. That is not the issue.
I know for those who don't understand, they say, thank God this ministry has become big. And they would like to say, can you want to take a tour? And then you say, come and see. Come and see this one.
They say, eh? So you have this also? Ah, so this has happened too. Oh, so this has happened. And all of that may become so much important to someone who does not know where we are going.
And you begin to settle for such ordinary things. But you see, these things that you are talking about, they are not the promise. This is not what God was holding out to us that he wants us to collect.
Oh my God. But all this, they will normally follow. And I'm praying that you will not be quickly settled with those kind of things.
Oh, I didn't hear your amen. I want you to know, in your very eyes, all those things will be coming to you. But that's not what we came out to do.
That's not the issue. And they will not be the issue. In the name of Jesus Christ.
The Bible was showing me about this man of God. Say, Gehazi, ah! I gave you a rod to go and wake up a dead person. Nothing happened.
And that did not, you didn't cry. You didn't cry. Me, I followed the lighter.
He was a man that kings respected. But I never asked for his clothes. I pleaded for his double portion of his spirit.
You, you are not crying for anything that I carry. Only what lepers brought that I rejected, that you are running after. Ah! And you went and you are talking to a leper.
With a beggarly spirit. And saying, you know, And when you left, some visitors came. And there was no food in the store.
So my master said, I should quickly run after you. Look at that beggarly, beggarly spirit. Telling lies.
Exaggerating, exaggerating your need. When some of you want to exaggerate, what is not a sin? Well, we thank God. You know, in peace house, in peace house, they don't pay your salary.
They are just there. They are just there. And then one non-believer is saying, that's what they are doing to you.
God punished them. When you are supposed to become something, somebody says, God should punish us. And you say, Amen.
Don't you know that you are entering into a problem? Gehazi was there to overemphasize what was not needed. Only to collect the sympathy offering of a leper. What do you want to do with it? Don't you want to follow people like us? Wouldn't you cry to God and say, God, what this brother Gbile got? That we make him to even reject land.
And reject cars. Abba. Tewase was my witness.
When one day, a governor from another state came. And because we said, we are going to lodge you. We are feeding you.
And we don't need anything from you. He had passed out money out. And some people warned him.
Are you going to a peace house? Don't disgrace yourself. They won't take anything from you. Just sit down there.
And this man came and said, Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. They have warned me before.
I said, you are not properly warned. We don't take such things now. Go back.
The things that you have heard, go and do it in your state. We have come to that place. There is no problem.
What is it that we came to collect? Don't use this reho board to collect goats. And chicken. It will be a waste of reho boards.
What God elects you to collect, that will affect your generation. That will cause the purpose of God to prosper by your hand everywhere you are going, is waiting for you. Don't be distracted.
Don't preoccupy yourself with the peripheral issues. So when this man quickly came and said, the chariot of Israel and all of that, I said, okay. He decided, okay.
Since I know I am about going, I know I am about to die. If you are here to collect, it's okay. Put your hand on the bow and take the arrows.
And the man of God put his hand on the man's hand. That's what I call hands-on discipleship. Hands-on training.
You are being told how to shoot. Now, what I'm dealing with is now in verse 17. And he said to the man, open the window, it's locked.
And he opened it. Then Elisha said, shoot! And he shot. And he said, now look at where I'm stopping.
The arrow of the Lord's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Africa. Did thou have consumed them? And he said, take the arrows. And he took them.
And he said unto the king of Israel, strike or smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice. And he stayed.
And the man of God was wrought with him. And he said, thou shouldest have smitten five or six times. Then as thou smitten Syria, till thou has consumed it.
Whereas now, thou shalt smite Syria but thrice. That's where I want us to stop. That's where the story is hooking my spirit.
All of you, are you listening? Are we together? May God help us in the name of Jesus. What was the matter here? That this arrow, all of you please. This arrow, this arrow that you are taking is not a personal arrow.
It's the arrow of God's deliverance. Please get this. It is the arrow of God's deliverance.
It is the arrow of deliverance from Syria. And the man of God defined for him. What is the definition? He gave him the scope.
He said the arrow of the Lord's deliverance. The arrow of deliverance from Syria. For thou shalt smite the Syrians in Africa.
Till thou has consumed them. Did you see the word till? Did you see till? That is the word. That is the scope.
If he did not put the word until you have consumed them. Then would have said well he didn't tell him. He didn't give him the scope.
He didn't give him understanding. But there was an understanding. Let's look at it again.
The arrow of the Lord's deliverance. As if God is handing over to you. The arrow of the deliverance of God.
And the arrow of his deliverance. The deliverance of Israel from Syria. Please, please.
Are you with me now? If it was a personal arrow to fight a personal battle. You can use it. You can use it in your father's backyard.
And when you have cleared whatever is troubling your father's backyard. You can be a local champion. I say thank God.
The arrow that I collected. I dealt with everything. So the 50 by 100 of my father's plot I collected it.
But this arrow is the arrow of God's deliverance. This arrow is the arrow of deliverance of God's people from Syria. Until you have consumed them.
Are you hearing me? This arrow that God is giving to us now. It is not. It is not this house arrow.
I don't know whether you are hearing me at all. If it is this house arrow. You use it to build this house.
And begin to make a tour of your peace house. But this is not. This is the arrow of God's deliverance.
This is the arrow of the deliverance of God's people from the hand of their enemy. And it is not to be operated for a little time. How long are we going to shoot this arrow? Until you have consumed them.
Until you have made its enemies its foes too. Until everywhere. Every space.
From Africa. From Africa. You know the way they were describing they say from Africa.
Until where please? Until you have consumed them. This is that arrow. So if that man understood.
He was being given. The arrow. That will be in his hand.
He will be shooting it. He will be smiting. Until everything Syria.
Has been what? Consumed. And I am begging God. Will it be clear as we were praying yesterday.
Will it be clear to you. That what God wants to do now. Is not one small ministry.
Amen. It is not one small organization. God is releasing an arrow for this end time.
God is giving to us a room. To do something in our generation. Until its enemies are made its foes too.
And I know. God will do it. God will enlarge your heart.
God will cause your spirit to see it. God. Who is not intending.
That this will end again. God is not intending that this move. This revival.
Will stop. Until. Righteousness.
Has been established on the face of the earth. Now let me pause. Let me pause.
Because I will come back on this. But let me show you the until. The until.
The until. That characterized this work. Before I will ask you to go and read.
What were noted as the peculiar features. Now. I want you to look.
At several promises God gave us that came with the until. Isaiah 32. Please go quickly with me to Isaiah 32.
Would you like to read from verse 15? I was wishing I could read your chapter but. Time will not allow me to do that. As I have so much.
We need to share before we pray together. But look at verse 15. I'll read up to verse 20.
What did it start with? Until. The spirit be poured. Upon us.
From on high. And the wilderness. Be what? A fruitful field.
And the fruitful field. Be canted. For a forest.
Then judgment. Shall dwell in the wilderness. And righteousness.
Remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness. Shall be peace.
And the effect of righteousness. Quietness. And assurance forever.
And my people. Shall do what? Shall dwell in a peaceable habitation. And in sure dwellings.
And in quiet resting places. When it shall hail. Coming down on the forest.
And the city shall be low in a low place. Blessed are ye that sow. That plant.
That invest. Beside all waters. That send forth there.
The feet of the ox. And the ass. We are not just asking for a little shower.
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high. And the wilderness. Be what? A fruitful field.
Dry places. We become a fruitful field. And until the fruitful field.
Is canted for what? For a forest. The extent to which God wants to work. Which we are beginning to see in his threshold now.
In the heart of God. This move of God is going to overthrow wickedness. Now I'm talking about it now because.
I don't want you to be narrow. As regards what God is going to do with this arrow. I don't want you to be narrow minded as regards where.
God is going to shoot this arrow to. I don't want you to allow. Our small environment.
To make you so environmental. That you cannot see. The scope that God is setting.
For your level box. So that even when you begin to pray. When you begin to plead with God.
You'll be praying with a dimension. You'll be asking God. With a dimension of heart.
You will not. Waste your opportunity. I know what I'm talking about.
I told you yesterday about wasted prayers. Do you remember? And I said don't do that again. What to collect.
With this level box. Don't go and ask for biscuits. I want God to deliver you.
From the mentality of what to eat. God is bringing us to a level box. It is the arrow.
Of God's deliverance. For nations. It is the arrow of God's deliverance.
For his people. Until. You have consumed them.
Until. The desert has become a fruitful forest. Until the fruitful field has become a forest.
Until righteousness begins to dwell in the land. Are you believing God for that? Or do you think it is impossible for God. To give us.
The youth of this land. I'm asking a question. Are you thinking.
That God is not able to hand over to us. All. All the traditional councils.
And I'm not just talking of Thieve Land. I'm not just talking of all the Benway. And we have just started to see it.
But I'm talking of traditional councils. Of all different dominions. All over Nigeria.
And jumping into other nations. Are you thinking it is impossible? Are you thinking that God is unable. For this arrow.
Until all those who sit in authority. Begin to bow. To the Lordship of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Is it impossible? But what was now a problem for me. Was that God is going to be giving you audience. Audience with the king of kings.
All of you are you hearing me? God will be giving you audience with himself. And you will be hearing in your heart. And God will say for what do you make requests? When we prayed here yesterday.
And we said Lord. We listened to all the spirit of prayer. And the spirit of supplication.
Because God said. I will cause the children of Israel. To ask me to do it for them.
So when God begins to open the door. Of prayer to you. And he gives you audience.
Audience with God. Audience in the only's of only's. And they ask you.
For what do you make requests? May you not. Waste your rebels. May you not.
Engage this open heaven. To do something insignificant. And I'm charging all of you that are in this class now.
Including all our leaders. Can you pray and say Lord. You are giving us open door.
You are giving us open heavens. God is opening door. If you call a crusade everybody wants to come.
But because you are narrow minded. You did not think your crusade. Should go first.
And say we are in this land. And we need to talk to the. Fathers of this land.
And so you said I need to see the district head. The clan head. All the heads.
All of those ones we need to have a meeting. And you go boldly and said. God has sent me to this land.
And we felt that we need to begin with you. So I'm coming to greet you in the palace. And to pray for you.
And I want you to please gather all your. Chiefs. Because there is something God wants to give to this land.
Will they gather? I'm asking a question. Will they? And if you bless them will God answer? If any of them was sick and say. Before we get into the market square.
You are supposed to be the first partaker. Of what we have brought. Is there anybody sick in the palace? And then you see Baba say.
There is this boy. Even me myself. It's okay let's pray.
Do you know God is going to honor your prayer? We have not done that before. But Rehoboth has come. You ever thought that this anointing is to gather boys? But this anointing that has come.
God has made room for us. And we shall be fruitful in the land. In the name of Jesus.
Now but where is the problem here? The Bible said. And the young man. The young man.
You know I've left the word until. Because I wish you now would take your scriptures. And begin to look at all the until.
That is in the promises God has made to us. Then you will see that you can't stop short. Of the scope that God is setting.
Now where the problem is. That we are needing to call on God and pray about. What is it? And the Bible said.
And the man of God was wrought with him. And he said. Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times.
Then as thou smittest seriously. And he said thou hast consumed it. Whereas now.
Thou shalt smite Syria thrice. And Syria will take over. So let me ask you.
That Syria. Was not completely consumed. Out of the territory that God wanted.
The children of Israel to occupy. Who's fault was it? Talk to me. It was that Jewish.
And what is my cry? And I want to tell you something quick. I don't want to spend time on it. But just to give you an understanding.
And for you to please join me to pray. God has given us. Open doors.
That has been unusual. God has opened. Unusual doors.
Unto us. Permit me to give you one or two or three of that. It's an unusual door.
When God said. I want you to bring together. All the apes clergy.
Of all the. Mainline denominations. God was saying that to me here.
He agreed with me. Did you know what you are asking me to do sir? To bring archbishops, bishops. Those people with their collars and with cap on their head.
Lord. They will ask me. Where is your collar? And you know I argued that with God.
I said God. Why don't you want me to also go and connect that thing? So that when they say reference something I will be able to say yes. God said no.
You don't need that. That's not what we bring them. When it is time I will bring them.
That was why I rested my case. Now God said it is time to bring them. And I remember I argued.
I said God. So you know what we did? That particular year. I think it's 2001.
And just reluctantly to try to quench my conscience. And to prove to God that I told you they would not come. So I just did one small.
Small workshop. For clergy. We in time invite some of the clergy.
Some from Otupu and all of that. And where was their own venue? It was this. My small guest house here.
The parlor. Eight of them came. So when all of us are doing big workshops.
I was going to meet with them. There are only eight sitting in that small parlor. And I was saying God.
And then the people. One of them said. We know God has told you to call us.
I have not said it. God has told you to call us. Don't be afraid of us.
Call us. We need to hear this thing that you are saying. As if the way.
They were interpreting the dreams. In the camp of the Midianites. For Gideon to hear.
Are you understanding? That was what happened to me in that small room. I keep a lot of records of history in my head. Because I know where those things began.
I said so. They said call us. So I went back.
I told the brethren. I said this thing. So I just wrote a letter.
We started sending it to this bishop. That bishop. This president of convention.
And God gave me what to do. He said when they come you respect them. They will come in their regalias.
And you give them their honor. Good food. You will lodge them properly.
I called our brethren. It may be costly. But God said we should do it.
That he is going to hand over the entire denominational churches. Into our hands. To my surprise.
That first meeting we did it at Taka grave. That was where the meeting held. I thought they were not coming.
We dressed the place. And they were coming. Purple, white, with long crosses.
And they were coming. We had never done such meetings before. One of the men that we asked to come.
When he came and saw. He called me and said where did you get this from? We spent so much money. In Abuja.
To invite. They can come. So we just said we are busy.
How could you bring them to this bush? And they came. The man looked at me and said this is nothing. Unusual doors.
And these unusual doors. Is not for us. Is for what God wants to do.
In the nations. And from that. When the messages were preached.
I told the media, please. This is not to be sold. I see somebody overheard me.
We use authority to command you. These messages should be. We need it.
All our colleagues need it. So tell your people to bring it here. We are buying it before we leave here now.
And you know they speak with authority. I can only say yes sir. And God has honored this world like that.
Unusual doors. That door God has kept it. He has not closed it.
It is now operating in different nations. The last clergy retreat that we did in October. Several nations.
And the report was that. They never expected. That this kind of thing would happen.
Whole denominations. We are not talking about denominations of one. Of two churches.
We are talking about people that are. Over thousands of congregations. And they are saying this.
We need it. Now this arrow is not for us. It is not to promote this house.
It is for the body of Christ. Until. Syria is consumed.
Hallelujah. Until. His enemies had been made his foes too.
Until. The desert had become a fruitful field. And a fruitful field had become a forest.
And righteousness dwells in the forest. This is the arrow of God's deliverance. But when that man struck three times and stopped.
Heaven also stopped. You know I was thinking that. Elijah would have said.
Continue now. Continue now. But Elijah was so angry with him.
He said you see. Why did you stop? It means you will strike Syria three times. And after that Syria will take over again.
You have wasted the arrow. That is my cry tonight. An arrow of deliverance has been released again.
To the body of Christ. And this is that arrow. Unusual doors.
Unusual doors to theologians. It is not our door. It is God's.
Unusual doors let me tell you. Unusual doors. To the ministry of education.
You see there are things that God is leading us to do. That people are wondering. How are you getting it? That state governments.
Not just Benuel. Akwa Ibom State. Cross River State.
They are saying we want to enter into collaboration with Peace House. To train our teachers. Whether they are Christians or Muslims or anything.
Because it is an official training. All of them are there. I wish I had time to call some of the teachers who went to Akwa Ibom.
And because there is no hall where you can gather all the teachers. So they did it at their sanatorium levels. And we are dealing with thousands of teachers.
And God told us. You will do it free of charge. You will feed all those teachers that are participating.
At least one meal a day. Ah. And you are going to give them resource materials.
And you are bringing resource persons. That are of quality. And tell them it has no cost to them.
And one time. A brother went somewhere. And somebody with a principle was not interested.
But when he came. And got what we were teaching. Got the word of God.
Then he stood up and said. If this is what all the churches are teaching. Nigeria will have changed.
I'm coming now. I'm coming back. Unusual doors.
Because what we are talking about. You thought that there's nothing. You don't have anything to do with secular education.
But now they are bringing their teachers. And they are saying. Can you train us? And it's not just one small local government.
We are talking of whole states. These were things that we were thinking. It would take many years.
Before what we are talking about. Anybody would give attention to it. But God has given us unusual doors.
Unusual doors to the universities. Unusual doors to palaces. Unusual doors.
Unusual. I say it's unusual. But what is the purpose of these unusual doors? Until the enemy.
Until Syria has been consumed. Not until you have got some few members. Not until you have started some few classes.
Until everywhere. Schools. Universities.
Government houses. Economic organizations. Until they have been brought on their knees.
And do you know that we will live to see it? We read of revivers. Where judiciaries were closed down. Because hearts of men have been melted.
Those that have cases in court. They have gone to withdraw it. People are going about to recites.
I was the one who stole your father's land. And I cannot sleep again. Come and collect it.
All those things happen because the arrow of deliverance has been shot. And God has come again. We are in a new season now.
But I have an obligation. That we must not make it small. We must not think little about it.
We must not waste it. It must not be wasted in our hands in the name of Jesus. During the last MLR we deliberately took time to study 2 Kings chapter 4. Do you remember? Perpetuating the move of God.
All of you that attended MLR. You remember that we spent time looking at that woman. There was one pot of oil that is able to fill the whole land.
But what does she need? She must need vessels. Go borrow vessels. Borrow not a few.
And as long as there are empty vessels the oil cannot stop. The oil did not stay. It kept flowing.
So let me ask you. Who limited the quantity of oil that was produced? It was the woman. It was what she gathered that became the limit of what God was doing.
This is where need for prayer. This is why I just feel that today I must share this with you. So that the spirit of God can break your boundary.
That God will make your heart boundless. That God will give you an insatiable hunger for what God has proposed to do in our day. Until and I'm just begging God that it will not stop because of my own narrow heart.
Some of you are now sitting in different nations and what I'm talking to God about is that until your entire nation is drowned under this anointing it will not stop. Vessels will never finish. We are not at the climax of it.
Where did I say we are? We are at the threshold of it. Everything that we have done so far they will become completely small. Totally insignificant when you compare it with what God is going to do in the coming days.
You will bear me witness. Already so much even what we are seeing now already confirms that it's already a big work. That's you.
That's you. Me. What did I say it is? It is still at the beginning.
And some of you are saying, is Black Billet so ambitious? God knows I have no ambition for anything. But this is a responsibility. This arrow is not our own.
So we can't use it to kill our rats. This arrow is not about me. It's not about you.
It's not even about your highest dream. What God wants to do but you see it is because He wants to do it in us and through us. That's why we are crying.
God, please, please can you get me Amplified Bible to read the Amplified of Ephesians chapter 3 that we prayed about before but I perceive we must pray it again. Who is having Amplified version to help me read? The Ephesians chapter 3 verse 16 17, 18, 19 and 20 May He grant you out of the rich treasures of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the Holy Spirit Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down abide, make His permanent home in your hearts May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love that you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the sense God's devoted people the experience of that love what is the breadth and length and height and depth of it that you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of Christ which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience that you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God May have the richest measure of the divine presence and become a body fully filled and flooded with God Himself Now, wait, verse 20 you are now going to read that verse 20 carefully because I need the brethren to understand what we are begging God to do now Now to Him who by a consequence of the action of His power that is at work within us now, this is where my prayer if this power if it can work outside of us are you hearing me? if this thing that God wants to do He wants to do it outside of us and we will be passive onlookers and we will just be seeing the power of God moving everywhere it will not have been a problem but you see God is saying this power that God wants to operate where is it going to work? it will be working within us in you brother, go at it again Now, to Him who by a consequence of the action of His power that is at work within us is able to carry out His purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask God is able, listen to do far over and above all that you dare ask there is nothing you ask that will be too big or too elaborate and God will say reduce there will be nothing that you could ever ask say God don't worry now, I can read for you now to Him who by a consequence of the action of His power that is at work within us is able to carry out His purpose and is able to do super abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or think is able to do infinitely beyond our highest prayers our highest desires our highest thoughts, hopes or dreams whatever you have asked is too small compared with what God is able to do are we together whatever you are asking your highest dream to you is high to God you say is that all you are asking is that what you want and how much will that push this arrow of deliverance why are you so so satisfied why are you thinking that it's alright why do you count 2 million when you could have 20 million and if what God is doing now listen is because of His enemy that He must consume and He has to do it in me and through me how can I become a narrow valve for Josh I tell you he punished his generation did you hear me what did he do to his generation he punished them when God gave him room to finish Syria he stopped twice and he sat down and those now have mobilized and they are taking over and they are oppressing the people up to today Josh with his narrowness did not allow God to do it we will pray if only your eyes are open to know that this arrow this unusual room that God has made for me and you thank God for the brothers in Liberia and I know they are there but God told us that you are going to resettle abandoned cities we are going to rebuild entire nation of Liberia and why are you thinking it's incredible listen those of you from there did you know that the current president of that nation was a footballer and people are wondering how can this this playboy who is president today what does that show me that if we labor now to raise young people with the issues and the virtues of the kingdom who makes it incredible for us to place a disciple in the government house who says it is impossible that the palaces will be occupied by the disciples and their wives until Syria is finally consumed what is making it incredible that whole universities can be heard to ransom because of this arrow of God's deliverance God has made a room for us God is saying now it's your turn ask me anything I will do it and as we listen to that message that God gave us two years behind and he's saying there's no limit there is no height that his hand will not pull down for us anything that is needed once we have agreed not to touch his glory and in a short while we already saw things happening beyond us and I dare not begin to even tell you what God has done physical things supplies that God has brought in different directions when we used to gather here it looked a big thing but you see every local government people are gathering now and one of the brothers says killing cows is no more a big story that we also are killing cows now in our small, small meetings he said they went for a place and they just said let's test them for the first time here and he was saying maybe we could just get some ice fish and all of that but some said no we saw them killing cows in Boko if it's the same God that was giving them cows in Boko why not us here let us go for the cow and in their own small somebody just walked down and brought money and said God said you should bring this for the cow and they jubilated the same God that worked in Boko has come here now that's God I want to beg you this arrow let's quickly define it whose arrow is it? it's God's arrow what is it meant for? it's the deliverance of his people for a little while until his enemies consume so what it means to me as I want to finally announce is that this arrow it will not be withdrawn it will not drop on the ground generations will carry it we are the beginning of it now we pray that God will help us to live long to guide it to see it grow but we will not be the climax of it did you hear what I said? the children that will rise out of this world they will be greater than us where we cannot go they will go and bypass it but carrying the same arrow pursuing the enemy of Christ until they are finally consumed all the nations of the earth whatever their color and their language this arrow will not drop until from Africa Syria had been consumed until the enemy of Christ had been made his full stool and can I now say until it's occupied until I come how many of you believe that what heaven is beginning with us now is going to be on unto the final trumpet some of you say a lazy amen God had been speaking about this he had been guiding us, he had been teaching he had been explaining he had been breaking the barriers he had taught us what evil the denominationalism had brought to his work and he had said this arrow is going to merge the denominations and all those artificial boundaries will collapse and the body of Christ everywhere will be so united to bear the glory of God this arrow is a stream and as it's going it's broadening it's getting deeper and we pray that in December it will grow purer and that everywhere it goes it will bring healing to the nations and God told us that it is not ending here it's not going to end with us thank God it started here from under the sanctuary but the destination of it is the ocean, the entire earth and some say, but brother why are you saying like that is it incredible for what God will use to overrun the earth to begin here all the things that have affected the whole world did it not begin somewhere why do you then think that this land is not qualified to be a source of what God wants to do in the nations perish that thought from your heart and join me tonight say Lord, thank you for this arrow it will not drop and I will not drop out of it I thought that's a prayer I wanted to pray I won't drop out of it this thing will carry me going a time is coming when I will not even be able to know the number of souls and men and women that are drinking from this and since it is not about us not about our name it's not about our organization it's about Him and His glory so why not so as you join me tonight to pray will you rise and take charge of this arrow of God's deliverance and look at all the scope that God is setting for it, even in your nation in your locality, in your local government in your state in your profession and say to God this arrow it's not going to drop from my hand until the will of God has been accomplished on the face of the earth may the Lord bless you may the spirit of God come upon you in a new way may the Lord enlarge your heart may your eyes of understanding be opened may you receive reinforcement in your inner man may you have capacity to grasp with all the other saints what is the length what is the breadth, what is the height what is the depth of what God is declaring in our midst when I look at several moves that God has brought over time and I saw how God guided them and for some that derailed and some that came to an abrupt end and I said Lord did you intend it to stop? He said no fire never says it is enough but when there is nothing more for the fire to feed upon, definitely it will stop it is not fire that says it is enough it is that there are no more men there are no more fuel for it and I want to pray tonight Lord enlarge my heart oh God help me to understand what the true body of the Lord is that I may not be slacked anymore nor withdraw myself from the reason why I was born and born again did you conquer a village out of many villages everyone is saying but where are the nine where are the others as you will be joining me in prayer just for us to say oh God we will not be wasters of this arrow we will not be the narrowing valve that will stop this and make it small I don't want to go to the other extreme and say Lord and if any of us is going to be a cog in it let there be a force that will either push us forward or force such a person and let them go to heaven quickly rather than affect what God wants to do but I think God is speaking good things about us say it is your father's pleasure to give you the kingdom if you will rise with me in prayer our brother will come and lead us to do that prayer I know God is, there is a labor in the spirit tonight it is the labor that this that has come to us this that heaven is releasing it must not be cut short it must not be applied onto killing rats and rabbits it must not celebrate ordinary goods it must not start pushing peripheral things until Syria is consumed until its enemy has been made its foes to until desert has become a fruitful field and until the fruitful field has been made a forest until righteousness dwells in the forest until peace and the work of righteousness dominate the land until we are there it is a pleasure that those people who sow into the waters just step forth your hand and say Lord it won't drop in my hand it won't drop in my hand it will not become small in my eyes every form of expansion that you have made for it everything that you are saying concerning me inside this enlarge my heart for it enlarge my heart for it oh God brother it is not incredible that you are the one God as located in this now take away from me oh God the local champion mentality open my eyes to see what heaven had made available please join us to ask God that that which was there in our very eyes when Anna saw it when Simeon saw it they all said this great thing that the Lord has done for us God has visited these people they spoke about it beyond their little Jerusalem please beg God tonight that spirit of prayer the audience God is giving you it will not be used only to ask for something small I know several sisters are standing here brothers are standing here and I know God is speaking something to your spirit something is about to blow some people have been asking is that what you are doing the answer to those questions are here enlarge my heart to Lord that I may rightly perceive help me to understand what the true burden of the Lord is that I may not slack anymore nor withhold myself from holy use enlarge my heart can you tell God enlarge my heart enlarge my heart oh God who is saying to God I think I'm beginning to understand but you need to enlarge my heart you will need to turn me to another person entirely it's not as if I haven't heard anything of this sort before but my heart was not large enough to run with it today oh God the utter call I'm asking is change the capacity of my heart cause oh God that the capacity of what I can receive will not be a narrow expectation I want you to change even the capacity of my prayers to change the capacity of what I'm able to expect from heaven what I'm able to step out and believe God for change my capacity can you just quickly run to the altar because we want to pray if it is the request of each and everyone at least you will take a step to show that you are saying Lord count me count me as one of those who is saying I cannot remain like this and I didn't hear all of this just to be entertained just to feel good about it I want my life to be positioned for it to be prepared for it to be correctly enlarged in capacity to contain it to play it to run with it oh I'm not happy to remain as narrow as I used to be change my heart enlarge this heart as we have sung over and over this time make it make it a reality make it the definition of me enlarge my heart in prayer enlarge my heart in my outreach in my confrontation of life for Jesus I am too fearful too full of doubt I am too full of hesitation I am limiting you very often please say I'm not satisfied with my capacity enlarge it oh Lord stretch my capacity you are stepping out to talk all that you are taking a step to say Lord I give you opportunity to change my dimensions Lord grant us capacity to bring forth this baby thank you for you will do this for you don't bring to the bed and shut the womb you can't be wicked to bring to the bed and shut the womb this you will do to the praise of your glory oh Lord this you will do thank you Father to you be glory forever and ever thank you Father thank you Lord
Sermon Outline
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I. Understanding Rehoboth
- God's provision of room to be fruitful
- The significance of open doors and divine opportunity
- The global expansion of the ministry
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II. The Example of Elisha and Elijah
- Elisha's request for a double portion of Elijah's spirit
- The meaning of spiritual capacity and largeness of heart
- Elijah's ministry as a benchmark for greater works
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III. Rejecting Mediocrity and the 'Best Around' Mentality
- The danger of limiting God's work by local standards
- The call to embrace divine possibility beyond current achievements
- The importance of asking God for more
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IV. Taking Responsibility for God's Move
- The need for spiritual responsibility in stewardship
- Avoiding self-glory and focusing on Christ alone
- Praying for the Holy Spirit's guidance and empowerment
Key Quotes
“An unstoppable move of your Spirit has begun.” — Gbile Akanni
“God is able, abundantly able, to give to you, far, far beyond, what some of us have collected.” — Gbile Akanni
“All that you have not seen, is because you have not asked. What you don't have, is because you did not ask me for it.” — Gbile Akanni
Application Points
- Pray daily for a renewed and enlarged heart to embrace God's greater plans.
- Reject limiting mindsets that settle for mediocrity in your spiritual walk.
- Focus on serving Christ humbly without seeking personal glory.
