There is A rehoboth for you

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Thank you for how you have gathered us together at your feet from different parts of the different nations. Thank you, God, for your declaration unto us that you are bringing us to revel. Our Father and our God, we ask that everything that contends and contests with your purpose in our lives, they will come to an end at this revel bus in the name of Jesus Christ.

And Lord and our God, wherever your children are, Lord, open the windows of heaven and declare unto us individually a revel bus. Thank you, Father. And Lord, as you have prevailed for us, you will yet prevail, that your Word will come out unhindered and your purpose for each one of us will be fulfilled.

In Jesus Christ's name we are prayed. Amen. Amen.

Thank you very much. Our theme for this year's leadership retreat, which you are already fully aware of, is revel bus. Abiding, abounding, and abundant fruitfulness.

And we are following up on what God began to do with us last year. Last year, the Lord renewed his commission upon our lives, and we noted that the theme of that email last year was not just a topic or a teaching. It was a commission and a direction for what we must rise up to do in all the places the Lord is sending our lives.

We cannot withdraw again or go back to what we used to be or do. There is already a movement, and it is the Lord that has moved us into this new dimension. A journey has started and it is an unstoppable move of God.

We must not stop, if because of narrowness of heart or any form of unbelief. We must become unstoppable in our faith and in our zeal and in our pursuit. We must gather every empty vessel into which this oil shall be poured, and we must borrow not a few into which the Lord is bringing us this particular year.

Lack of space must not stop this outflow of the oil, and lack of perspective must not make you yourself to come short. God has led us with sufficient consignment of all that we need for this assignment that he has brought us into. As soon as there is a need, according to God's word, my God shall supply all your needs, according to his speeches in glory by Christ Jesus.

We must dig our wells again and again until the enemy cannot stop us any longer. Despite the challenges of this present time and numerous difficulties erected in our path, the Lord has brought us to our reservoir. God has brought us to the season to be fruitful and to multiply.

The Lord has made room for us and it is time to be fruitful in the land. Wherever you are, I want you to know it is time for God to make you fruitful and those fruits that God will be bringing to your life shall be abiding. They will not be ones that come to disappear.

They will be abounding. That means by the grace of God, they will be abundant. Though thick darkness has covered the earth and it seems all things are sinking, the Lord has commanded us to rise and to shine for our light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon us.

Our reservoir is here and we must admire the day the Lord has opened and broken forth upon us. Now there is a progressiveness in what God has called us into. Isaac's life is an illustration and I will be drawing a chart out of that at the beginning of our discussion of where we have now reached in this move of God.

God is making a room for each one of us and for us as his people. He is making a room for his church globally and we must work great and go forward. We must grow up and on in every dimension till we have become numerous enough to take the possession of the land.

The man worked great and went forward and grew until he became very great and he removed from this and dig another well for that destroyed not. And he called the name of his reservoir and he said, for now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land. As we wait on the Lord for this gathering, it is a clarion call and a blowing of the trumpet unto the greater place of open heavens, open doors and open windows and broad places for us to be fruitful, to increase and to multiply, to expand and possess the gates.

It's a call to dig wells. It's a call to grow our roots. It is a call to break forth on every side and become unstoppable in bringing to pass the unstoppable move of God.

In preparation for our king's attending, we have come to our reservoir and the Lord himself has made room for us to be fruitful in the land and I, the Lord, that is promised, I will hasten it in its time. This is God's time word unto us. Now brothers and sisters, this is the body for this year's MLR.

There is a reservoir for you as a person. The season for you to be fruitful in the land of your personal life has come. It's a season when all your blood wells shall be opened.

All that you struggled and contended for in time past will become a field of the past in the name of Jesus Christ. You are coming to a place of rest where you can fulfill the destiny for which you were born. Bible studies, professional workshops and other issues for us to make the most of this season in God's visitation upon our lives will be outlined and are being outlined for this meeting.

We want you to settle down and set your heart on moving into this room God has made for us to be fruitful in the land of the living. Fruitfulness on all sides is our expectation. God is waiting to appear to you again during this meeting.

It is taking place in the various sites where you are and this is so that you will find your own space to retreat into God's presence in a place that is near to you. Plan to be in the camp so you can maximize the time and the fellowship with other brethren. The Lord Almighty that has brought us here is faithful and is going to perform that which he has spoken concerning our lives in the name of Jesus Christ.

I would like you to please turn your Bibles very quickly to the book of Genesis chapter 26. That's where our theme text has been taken but I want to just do a general overview of that passage without doing anything of a serious study but trusting that the Holy Ghost who has brought us together will perfect all that he has decided to do in each of our lives in the name of Jesus Christ. Now in Genesis 26 from verse 1 the Bible introduced a matter and that matter is very important for me to quickly speak about it before we go ahead.

And there was a family in the land besides the first family that was in the days of Abraham and Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerab. And the Lord appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt dwell in the land which I shall tell you of. So join in this land and I will be with you and I will bless you for unto you and unto your seed I will give all these countries and I will perform the oath which I swear unto Abraham your father and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and I will give unto your seed all these countries and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my church, my commandments, my status and my laws. And in verse 6 the Bible said and Isaac dwelt in Gerab. Now I want you to go to verse 12.

Then Isaac sowed in that land and he received in the same year an undread fort and the Lord blessed him. And the man was great and went forth and grew until he became very great for he had possession of flocks and possession of heaves and great store of servants and the Philistines envied him. For all the wealth which his father's servants hid in the days of Abraham his father the Philistines had stolen them and filled them with earth.

And Abimelech said unto Isaac go from us for you are much mightier than we. And Isaac departed thence and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerab and dwelt there. And Isaac gave again the wells of water which they had given in the days of Abraham his father.

For the Philistines had stolen them after the days of Abraham and they called their names after the names by which his father had called them. And Isaac's servants did in the valley and they found there a well of swinging water. And the headman of Gerab did strive with Isaac's men saying the water is ours and they called the name of the well Eset because they strove with him.

And they dug another well and strove for that also and they called the name of it Sidna. And they removed from them and dug another well for that they strove not. And they called the name of it Rehoboth and he said for now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And he went up from thence to Beersheba. And the Lord appeared unto him the same night and said I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not for I am with you and I will bless you and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

And he builded another there and he called the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well. And Abimelech went to him from Gera and Arpuzaz one of his friends and he called the chief captain of his army.

And Isaac said to them where from did you come to me saying you hate me and you have sent me away from you. And they said we saw certainly that the Lord was with you. And we said let there be now an oath between us.

Even between us and you and let us make a covenant with you. I think we would like to stop our reading at this point. I said what we want to do briefly as we draw this chart is again just to begin the thing that the Holy Spirit is beginning to prepare us for as he is taking us to our Rehoboth.

Now I want you to listen carefully to the way the Holy Spirit has outlined this particular passage. The first thing I want to note is that there is a Rehoboth ahead of you. There is a place that God is taking our lives.

There is a place of a rooming space. God's intention for your life is to take you to that place where you can be fruitful, where you can multiply, where all the narrowness, all the difficulty, all the struggles, all the contesting that has come on your way, where God will make it to become a thing of the past. There is a Rehoboth for every one of you in this meeting.

There is a divine provision where you will begin to see the fulfillment of the promise and the purpose of God for your life as an individual. There is a Rehoboth for you. But you see there are a few issues that I need to quickly highlight.

A man that is going into Rehoboth, there are several issues that come on his path. And these are the issues that sometimes the devil wants to use to keep you perpetually in the land of dryness, that you will not get to where God is leading your life into. And as we enter into this meeting, we are going to battle with those things.

We are going to take strong decisions and say, Oh God, anything short of Rehoboth, take it away from my life. Any distraction that will not let me get to my Rehoboth, Father, I want you to take it away from me in the name of Jesus Christ. Now the first thing I saw, and it's very important for me to share it with you, is that here is a man that has a destiny to fulfill.

Here is an Isaac that when Abraham was dying, the Bible says Abraham shared his gifts to all other boys, all other sons, all other children. He gave them gifts and sent them away so that Isaac, who is the son of the promise and who is the heir that God has spoken about, may have unlimited, uncontested, unhindered space to fulfill the purpose of God. If you go to that chapter 25 before Abraham died, he had already resettled every one of them.

He gave Ishmael what belonged to him, he gave the sons of Keturah what belongs to them, and the Bible says, but for Isaac, he gave him the covenant, he gave him the promise, he gave him what God has spoken concerning him. He blessed Isaac because Isaac was going to fulfill a destiny. There are some of you that God has allowed to come into this meeting.

There is a destiny hanging on your life. Even though you may look ordinary, God is not looking at you as an ordinary person. There is something that you will fulfill before you will leave this place for heaven.

There is something that heaven is going to launch you into. And there is a level board for you to enter into it. But you see, the challenge that you will face is that when so ever God has set you apart for a purpose, when so ever God wants to do something in your life, the enemy will try, he will try to come ahead to see if he can cripple you, to see if he can derail you, to see if he can take you out of course, to see if he can contaminate your life, and these are the issues that I think we must pray about.

You as an individual, as I highlight some of these issues, you are going to stay to God. Whatever it is that is being put on my path, either to derail me, or to distract me, or to slow me down, or to engage me in a useless battle, Lord you must help me to move on. And I'm trusting that you will do that for us as we go on in the name of Jesus Christ.

The Bible says there was a famine. There was a famine in the land. And the Bible was clear to say this famine was besides, that is it was apart from the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.

You remember that in the days of Abraham, and that was in chapter 12 of Genesis, as soon as he got to the land of promise, as soon as he got to what God promised him, as soon as he entered the place, the Bible says there was famine. And because there was famine, the immediate thing that came to Abraham, was to abandon his altar where God appeared to him. Was to move out of the place where God said this is the place I'm talking to you about.

And where is the direction? All road goes to Egypt. It looks to me as if Egypt was always on hand. As a place of backsliding.

As a place of deviation. As a place, as a valley into which men that were meant to be great ought to go. Even though I don't think that Egypt as a nation was meant to do that.

But I found that consistently, anytime a man is about to move out of the course that God had set for him, Egypt appears to be a place to go. So the Bible says, Abraham went down to Egypt. And you know what happened when he went down to Egypt.

As he was entering to Egypt, he began to tell lies. Because he knew that the people of that land, they are very very godless. Every woman they see, whether married or not, they are going to catch her.

And so he began to tell Sarah, he said, look I know you're a beautiful lady. And Egyptians, they don't respect marriage. If they see you with me and you tell them that I am your husband, they will kill me and take you.

So in order to protect me, what I want you to do is tell them you are not my wife, you are my sister. And you can imagine how he went down. And as he went down to Egypt, there in Egypt, see the kind of challenge he had.

He found himself beginning to enter into difficulty. And he found himself beginning to struggle. And we are watching what is it that God wanted to accomplish in his life.

If not that God intervened. The people wanted to take his wife, actually they took his wife already. If not that God went and intervened, the whole purpose of God for Abraham, for his family, and all the promises that God made would have been scattered.

And you can imagine if God would not come in. There are some of you that what God wanted to do in your life, Satan saw it ahead and is trying to interfere with it. He wants to interfere with it by interrupting your marriage.

There are some of you hearing me, the devil is putting pressure on your life to interfere with your marriage. To scatter your marriage or to contaminate your marriage. Or to sponsor someone else into your marriage, into your matrimony.

So that the level up that God is planning for you may never become a reality. And you listen to me and you see that ah, I'm under pressure. Do you know that when Abraham went down to Egypt, even though God brought him out, God did not allow them to take his wife.

God intervened at the right time, but when he was leaving, there was a small girl that he came out with. An Egyptian girl called Hagar. Maybe when Hagar was being posted into his life, nobody knew what that means.

But ten years down the line, when he had settled into the will of God, and God was bringing great promises to him in chapter 15. And said, I am your greatest gift in the world. And God was promising that the land where you see yourself, I will give it to your kids, your children's kids and all of that.

The same promise you are seeing here in chapter 26. God brought it to him in chapter 15. Unfortunately, by chapter 16, Hagar, the small girl from Egypt, had become an alternative.

Brethren, I just want to say to you that everything that you pick down from Egypt is likely to become an alternative to your destiny. An alternative to the fulfillment of the purpose of God for your life. Unfortunately, Abraham fell for it and Ishmael was born.

And I don't have space to be talking about what Ishmael became. Ishmael started to persecute Isaac right from youth. Okay, today, Ishmael is still persecuting, you know, Isaac.

The son of the born woman is still persecuting, you know, the heir of promise. As we are talking now, in the whole world, you know that the son of the born woman, they are still struggling against the purpose of God for the people of God, for the church. But because I am not dealing with that, I just wanted to know that there is a family.

And that family came again. And for Isaac, who again was carrying the completeness of the divine assignment that God had planned for Abraham, which Isaac is walking into, there was a family. And this family, what was he planning again? Planning to derail the man of God.

Planning to push him into something else. Now, you can read the whole of that chapter because we don't have time for that. But it is very interesting for you to know that as he was again facing the road to Egypt, he was also going down to Egypt.

And I don't know whether he would have survived. I don't know whether he would have had opportunity of coming back. I don't know.

You remember that when it was time again for Jacob, there was another family. In the days of Jacob, and the only place they can go again was Egypt. They went to Egypt and didn't come back for 430 years.

That is what I see and is not coincidence. I found that, look at a man like Elimelech. Elimelech was the husband of Naomi.

Naomi, you remember Naomi in the book of Ruth. Again, there was planning. And what was that family doing? Also to take him away from the lineage of the Savior.

He also went to the country of Mars and there he perished, he perished his sons. All those that would have been the heir of the promise, the lineage of the Savior, were all to be perished there. If not for God, that would not leave himself without a witness, that brought a Ruth out of that place, who took a decision that your God would be my God.

Elimelech would have perished the lineage of the Savior. Now what am I trying to say to you? Is there a famine? Is there a difficulty? Is there a temporary hunger? Is there something that is pressing upon you? And you are almost shifting, you are almost going down outside the will of God for your life. I perceive that you are in this meeting this year because Heaven has planned what He wants to do for your life.

God has determined where He is taking you. And this meeting is a very important divine intervention. To some of you here, it may be an interruption.

God is going to interrupt some of your steps you want to take that is not correct. God is going to interrupt some of the things that you have set out and you thought you are doing well, because that is not leading you to your level boss. God is going to lead you to the dungeon.

He is leading you into a valley. Now God intervenes. Look at the Bible.

And the Lord appeared unto him. That's true. He was already on his way.

He was on his way. He was going down. He was going to eat it.

He had already started his journey. He had already gone to Gera. And Gera is like a midway unto Egypt.

And the Lord appeared to him that same night. And God said, Go not down into Egypt. Go in the land which I shall tell you of.

Sojourn in this land and I will be with you. And I will bless you. For unto you and unto your seed I will give all these countries.

And I will perform the oath which I swear unto Abraham, my servant, who is your father. Now, brothers and sisters. I don't understand what exactly the ATV had in mind for seeing all those that are meant to be important in the purpose of God.

But besides that I don't understand, I actually have understood. I understand that the enemy who is your adversary. Your enemy who does not want you to become what God wants you to be.

Is already looking for how to derail you. How to make you a shadow of what you were born and born again to be. And so this meeting, please hear me.

The Lord is going to appear to you. The Lord is going to intervene in your case. And if it's an interruption, let it be a divine interruption.

Some of you must be interrupted so that you don't go down to where you are going. Some of you must be interrupted by all means so that the ATV does not get what it wants to get. Some of you young ladies who are listening to me.

The man you have also married, you are doing that out of frustration. And it's a man from Egypt. It's a man from down that valley.

And if you will not take time, you will perish all that God wanted to do with your lives. As soon as you get anything, you only begin to bite your fingers in a few years to come. And God is interrupting it here.

Don't be afraid to say, ah, oh God. If you have come again to arrest me, some of you are not even in the center. But you are just listening to the word of God and you are hearing me this moment.

God has appeared to you to interrupt you and to intervene in your case. I thank God that the Bible says when the Lord appeared to Isaac, something happened. God spoke to him.

I will make your seed to multiply at the start of heaven. And I will give unto your seed all these countries. And your seeds shall all nations of the earth be blessed.

And because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my church, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. And the Bible said, and Isaac dwelt in Gerar. Isaac suspended the journey.

Isaac gave up the tree to Egypt. Someone hearing me today, you will give up your tree down to the land of Assyria. You will give up that tree unto the place of compromise.

You will give up that tree unto the place of confusion. The Holy Spirit is interrupting you this moment. And I want you to know that it is only for your good.

It is because even though you have seen famine, you have seen difficulty, there is a Lehobot ahead of you. And that Lehobot is not far from here. That Lehobot is something that God wants to launch you into in the course of these days and in the course of this meeting.

Isaac dwelt in Gerar. Isaac suspended his journey to Egypt. As I move out of that, I am praying that none of you who is hearing me tonight, or whether it is in the morning in your own place, whatever it is, God will help you.

I want you to stop that tree. Stop the tree down to the valley of confusion. Stop the tree down, down to the valley of compromise.

Stop the tree down to that Egypt. Stop the tree. You may be asking, if I stop, what will I do? I am in difficulty.

There is famine. There is problem. What will I do? Let me show you what Isaac did.

Isaac agreed to obey God. Isaac dwelt in Gerar. And of course, can you imagine the same sequence of issues? The sequence of issues, they also came quickly to negotiate for his wife.

Again, you know that the promise of God was upon him and upon Rebekah. The promise and the blessing that God placed on Rebekah in chapter 24, it is subsisting. And see what the devil wanted to do quickly.

They quickly came to negotiate for his wife. And before you know it, he also seemed to want to follow in the way of his father Abraham. He also told his wife and said, look, if they came and they asked of you, I will tell them that you are my sister.

So in fear to say she is my wife, let say he, the man of the place, should kill me for Rebekah. Because she was fair to look upon. And it came to pass.

When he had been there for a long time. You know, they had not yet taken his wife. But they were watching.

And the way he and his wife could play together. They could romance themselves. They said, what you say is your sister.

Why are you doing like this? And then God did not allow him to go down. Now I just want you to see that if you take a step in obedience today. If you will stop your trip down to the valley of sin.

If you take a decision right away and say, God, I am hearing you. My life must not be wasted. My destiny must not be scattered.

What you have planned for me to become. The inheritance you want to walk me into. The things that the Lord has planned for my life.

Eyes have not seen. Ears have not heard. It has not entered the heart of any man.

What God has kept in store for those that love him. There is something in store for you, my brother. There is something in store for you, my dear sister.

There is something in store for you, my dear pastor. There is something in store for you. Young man, there is something in store for you.

And there is a reward. Where you will be fruitful. Where you will multiply.

Where you will fulfill that purpose. Every intervening challenge must not derail you. It must not stress to you.

It must not confuse you. And you must not compromise. God will help you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Now, what did he do? We are told that Isaac then sowed in that land. Where people thought there was nothing. Since it was the land that God told him to stay.

Since it was where God said, stay here. Be in the center of my will. Be where I have ordained you to be.

Finally, I will hand you on your behalf. What is looking temporarily difficult today. God is going to finish it for you.

But you must dwell in this gay land. You must dwell in this land where I have ordained for you to be. Now, what did he do? He sowed in that land.

He invested his heart. He invested his life. He invested his time.

Because you see, when I am reading that verse. The verse says, Isaac sowed in that land. And I was wondering, what did he sow? The Bible did not specify in that particular verse that he sowed guinea corn or he sowed rice.

No. The Bible says, Isaac sowed in that land. All of you that are listening to me.

Will you sow your life? Will you sow, you know, into the things of the spirit? So that what God is promising you can become your personal experience in the name of Jesus Christ. I would like to take 3 minutes or 4 minutes to look at that very particularly because it is important. Isaac sowed in that land.

And he received in the same year an hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him. What did he sow? Since the Word of God did not say he sowed guinea corn or he sowed rice or he sowed this.

That makes me to want to find out. What do we sow? What do we sow when we have decided to be in the purpose of God for our lives? What do we sow when we have decided to be in the will of God for our lives? Now I want you to look at Galatians chapter 6. Galatians chapter 6 and verse 7. Be not deceived. God is not mocked.

Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. And God cannot be mocked.

God is not mocked. What you sow is what you are going to reap. So look at what the Bible now goes on to say.

For he that sows to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption. But he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Can I ask you? So it is possible for you to sow to your flesh.

It is possible for you to sow unto the natural instinct of Mr. Flesh. The activities of the flesh. You may be investing time into it.

You may be investing your heart. You may be investing your thoughts. You may see yourself spending time over and over and over again on things of the flesh.

Things of sin. Things of compromise. But look at the Bible.

It says if you sow, he that sows to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption. What are you sowing your life into now? What are you sowing your heart into now? What are you sowing your time and your intellect, what are you sowing into? There are young people hearing me. See how much of your life you are sowing into pornography.

Look at how much of your life you are sowing into pursuing girls. Look at how much money you are sowing into gambling. Look at what you are sowing.

Look at what you are spending your affection upon. You are sowing. Some of you don't know that you are sowing your life.

Look at you are now 15, you are now 25, you are now 30 years. Can you look back how much of your 30 years have you sowed to the flesh? You started drinking when you were 15. Now you are 35, you have not stopped drinking.

You have sowed 20, 30 years of your life onto drunkenness. You have sowed several years of your life onto pursuing immorality. You have sowed several years of your life onto pursuing money.

And you have not started to ask, is this what to sow my life into? Is this what to invest my heart into? Is this what I want to live? The Bible says, for he that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. For he that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. Now, if you will sow to the spirit, definitely God is going to cause you to reap life.

Not life that is temporary. Life everlasting. And when we talk of life everlasting, I'm not just even talking about life in heaven.

That's one you will reap. But even in this present life, Jesus said, I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly. So, you see the question is that as you begin to sow your life and you sow it into the spirit, what happens to Isaac will happen to you.

The Bible says, Isaac sowed in that land. Which land? The land of disobedience. The land of the will of God.

God said, dwell in this land. So, if God has told you to dwell in a place, the next thing for you is to make sure you are there. The next thing is to make sure that you sow there.

Invest in it. If God has shown you that he needs to use you for something glorious, what you need to do is invest your time, invest your heart, invest your affection, invest your spirit, invest everything you have into it. Why would you not invest yourself? Some of you, you claim to be a Christian.

But you are in between. You are neither hot nor cold. Where are you investing? Where are you investing your life? Where are you investing your resources? Where are you investing your heart? Where are you investing what God has put in you? Where are you investing your talent? If it is that you want to serve God, or you want to attend to the purpose of God for your life, why would you invest in it? Why would you be hot at it? Why would you be in between your opinion? Why would you be standing here, standing there? You are neither here, you are neither there.

I did sow in that land. And I received it the same year, and on that day. And I just want to say to you, that God is going to bless you.

God is going to increase your life. God is going to give you things that you could not get by yourself. God is going to bring it to you, at this critical point of your life.

Now, the Bible says, And the man was great, he went forward, and grew, until he became very great. For he had possession of flocks, possession of heirs, and great store of taverns, and afflicted and eating. I'm not going to spend time on that now.

Because as we go ahead, as we are going to be looking at advising, abounding, and abundant truthfulness, we will be talking about what will become the result of your life, if you will invest in the Spirit. If you will invest in the Word of God. If you invest in obedience, what God is saying to you as an individual here.

But let me note something further quickly, before I begin to draw this message to a place where we can pray together. Now, the Bible says, As he went on, he was waxing great, he was growing, he didn't stop growing, which I will be dealing with as God leads us furthermore. The Bible says, The philistines, they didn't like him.

They envied him. Your progress is always the envy of the kingdom of darkness. Every time you make progress in the purpose of God, there's someone who envies you.

There's someone who is your adversary. There's someone that does not like your progress. And that person is the enemy.

Your adversary. The Bible says, Satan, your adversary, is looking for whom to devour. So, as we saw the philistines, everywhere that Abraham dug, when Abraham died, which Isaac was supposed to inherit, they went and blocked it.

They went and put sand into it. And what were they doing like that? They want to make sure that his source of supply is blocked. They want to make sure that the source of his refreshment is blocked.

They don't want him to progress, yes, and that is very important for me to share with you. Satan is not happy with your progress. But you are going to progress despite the envy of the devil.

You are going to be an overcomer, regardless of what Satan is saying about you. You know that they envied him but they couldn't stop him. They tried to close his well, but they couldn't close the divine channel that God has opened to his life.

They tried to block the wells, but they couldn't block his connection with God. So, even though they fought and fought against him, he was moving forward. I want to tell you brothers and sisters wherever you are, once you have decided to pitch your tent in the will of God, once you have decided to invest your heart in the purpose of God, once you have decided to obey God and stay in the will of God for your life, it doesn't matter what the philistines are doing, it doesn't matter what the kingdom of darkness is doing, it doesn't matter what is going on in the world system, you will overcome.

You will be victorious. The reason is because, greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. When a man chooses to walk with God, the only thing they try is to see whether they can block his progress, they can block his well, they can close his source, but you see, no matter how they did, the man went forward.

The man was great until he became very great. In fact they came to him and said, go away from us, you are too mighty for us. You are mightier than us, that will be your testimony my dear brothers.

The devil will conclude about you in the few days to come, saying you are mightier than us. All the effort we made, all the conspiracy we called, all the plans we made to block your wells, to frustrate you, to stop you from moving, we have not succeeded. Something is pushing you forward that we could not stop.

And that force, greater than all other forces, mightier than all other mights, more powerful than all powers, that is the man of Calvary who chooses to dwell in you. And my brother, my dear sister, two things I need to conclude with before we pray. What was that? Even though the enemy, they were blocking wells, did you notice that Isaac did not stop digging? Isaac was digging.

And as he was digging, water that was blocked was springing back again, springing water was coming out. Of course the people came again and said, the water it has, the water it has. Isaac was so gracious to let them have the waters.

People can only struggle with you for what has become visible. And yet what God is planning for you is invisible to them. Where God is taking you is invisible to your enemy.

So don't settle down fighting about what has become visible. Don't let them put up a useless fight for you because you are going fast. Where God is taking you is not in their vicinity.

God is going to make you very mighty and mightier than them. So don't agree to settle down the fighting over little, little pebbles. There is a place you are going, and that's where I'm trusting God that he will follow me to go into.

You are going to refuse to settle down with those who are going nowhere. Stop struggling with dwarfs. They will make you a dwarf.

Stop competing yourselves with those who are going nowhere. Their journey has ended. They have gone to their burial ground.

They have reached their own climax. And their climax is just your own stepping stone. So you must go ahead.

I saw that no matter the struggles, no matter the fight, Isaac was a man who was bent in dwelling where God has told him to be. He was a man investing in the will of God. Investing in the purpose of God.

When I saw him digging all the wells at Abraham's dock, he was simply recovering the things that the enemy took away. But as such, I can see him. When he got water, the strokes, he said, Oh yeah, take it, don't worry.

He got another one, they came and said, Yes, he gave them. While they were struggling with water that they are drinking, he went further to dig another well. And now he came to a place where nobody can strive with him.

He came to a place where they can only look at him up there. They can only beg to come and negotiate for a relationship. They couldn't stop him again.

May God bring you to that unstoppable place. A place where you will become unstoppable yourself. A place where they will say, Well, there's nothing we can do to this man.

He has got to a rebel boss. Now, they came to a rebel boss. They came to a place.

And the Bible said, And he removed from them and dug another well. And for that they strove not. And he called the name of the place, rebel boss.

And he said, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. And he went up from there to Beersheba. You see, you are going to see that a man that is going to fulfill the purpose of God is always moving.

He's always progressing. He's always pressing on. When he came to rebel boss, and they did not struggle with him.

Yes, God has made room for us. We shall be fruitful in the land. We shall multiply in the land.

But that's only the beginning for him. That was the beginning of where he's going. This meeting is going to be the beginning of where God is taking you.

This meeting is looking big, but in my mind, it's the beginning. Rehoboth is only the beginning of your fruitfulness. Rehoboth is only the beginning of you advancing into the purpose of God.

So the Bible says, he went to Beersheba. And I want to end at that verse 24. And the Lord appeared unto him the same night.

One thing that is very interesting for me about the life of Isaac is that he's a man unto whom God can appear. And that's where we want to stop. If God does not appear to a man, what can he become? If God does not appear to your life, where are you going? Do you know that the life of Saul, the son of Ashes, he was going down, down, down, down, down, down.

For less than a month, and God had a great plan for his life. See where it started. See what he was going about doing.

See how he was destroying what could have been his life cause. But what happened? On the road to Damascus, the Lord appeared unto him. God is going to appear to you.

God is going to step into your case. And so when the Lord appeared unto this brother that night, what did God say to him? I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not for I am with you.

And I will bless you. Multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake. And he builded an altar there unto the Lord.

This is the second time in one chapter that God was appearing to him. He appeared to him first for him not to go down to Egypt. Then he appeared to him the next time to confirm to him that where you are, you have come to a rebel God.

You have come to a place of enlightenment. You have come to a place of unlimited fruitfulness. I will be with you.

Don't be afraid. As I stop here and I want you to consider the words that God has sent to us as we pray together. Now, the Lord Jesus is standing in this meeting.

The Lord Jesus who himself is the power of God. Who himself is the promise that God has offered to us. He is standing here and appearing to you.

And he is saying don't go down to Egypt. That trip you are taking, you are going to stop it. That step unto deviation, the Holy Spirit is saying come out of that.

Some of you were invited to this meeting and you wonder why? Why did they invite me? Why are they urging me to come? It's because there is something about you that your eyes have not seen. There is a place God is taking you that you have not come to. And you have been shifting here and there, investing your life in things that does not matter.

That's why God brought you here. This meeting will be an interruption to you and yet you will be a divine intervention. God is standing and saying don't go down that way.

Don't go down to that country of sin. It is enough. The things you have done that have scattered your life for 30 years is enough.

You have invented so much of your years in things that don't really matter and I want to ask you, what did you come out of it with? Nothing. God is saying, but there is a rebel God for you. There is a place where I want to carry you.

There is a place where you will be fruitful and where you will multiply. And he is asking you to step into that place. One thing that Isaac did that made this story the kind that we can study is that he obeyed.

He obeyed. Every time God wants to bless you, it begins with your obedience. So if you have heard his voice, I think not your heart.

Maybe the mother of Jesus told those servants, whatever he tells you to do, do it. Obedience is the first key onto becoming anything great in the hand of God. Obedience is type of obedience.

Just to obey. Just to obey. All you need to do is just to obey.

As I stop here, I feel the Holy Spirit is coming from row to row, from person to person. It's going from center to center. And it's very interesting to me that I'm hearing God saying what he is doing, he is doing it globally.

What God is demanding of you is what he has demanded of others. If you take a stand for God where you are, God will appear and bless you there. Whether you are in the village or you are in the city.

Whichever way God has allowed you to be in this particular Rehoboth, a Rehoboth is being set for your life. For your first step is the step of obedience. Go not down to that Egypt.

Stop investing your life to the flesh. Show to yourself righteousness. Then you will reap life.

Show to yourself, the Bible said, break up your fallow ground. Show to yourself righteousness. And then you will reap a divine visitation.

God wants to bless you. That's what Hosea says. And as you bow your head to pray.

And wherever you are, I know the Lord is already here. I know the Holy Spirit is working. You are the one who knows what famine has attended to your life.

And which direction you find yourself going down that road. You are the one who knows the decision you just took last week. Or it was last month or one year ago that you took a decision and you are now diving down.

And look at the purpose of God hanging on your neck. And you are going to bury it in Egypt. This moment leads me to the word of God.

You may say, but I'm a pastor, I'm a pastor. But see the direction you are going now. See the direction of your life now.

You are going down. You are turning your back to the purpose of God. You are going down.

You say, but these things are difficult. And there's no money. That's why you are beginning to change the message.

You are beginning to change your direction. Stop! Go not down to that Egypt. Isaac obeyed.

What will you do? What will you do? What step will you take? Let's pray together. Let's pray together. Jesus said, I stand at the door and I knock.

If anybody hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in. If anyone hears the voice of the master and you say, wow, I will not go down to Egypt. Even though I have planned and planned, I'm not going down with him.

Even though I plan to say yes to that proposal, but I know that is a proposal from Egypt. I'm not going down to that place. I'm not going down to a place that will hinder me from fulfilling the purpose of God.

I will not go down to a place that gives me temporary relief but permanent bondage. I want to take a step in obedience to God. Will you pray? I want to pray with you.

I want to hold God's hand on your behalf. God has given us a definite promise of what he wants to do in the course of this MLR. And this moment is the beginning of it.

And the reason why God allows you to be here is because you are very, very crucial in what God wants to do. It was on the road to Damascus that God appeared to turn the story of Saul around. And you see what his life became for God.

Something is going to come out of your life. Isaac sold in that land and he got a hundred fold that same year. God is able to turn your story.

God is able to help your soul. So wherever you are, as we are praying right now, the Lord Jesus says, don't go down that way. Come unto me.

I will give you rest. Come unto me. All ye that labor in my ability, I will give you rest.

So wherever you are, wherever you are, can I request you to please all rise as we pray together. I would like to pray, but I would like you to also pray. Let us all stand before God in prayer.

God is speaking and says, don't go down to Egypt. There's a railroad for you. That railroad is just a little, a little from here.

But the step into it is your obedience. The step into it is your obedience. Stop that track where you are going.

Stop the trip you are taking down to that Egypt. I charge you this moment. Holy God is saying, do not go down.

Don't go down. Don't go down. Your destiny is not down there.

Your deliverance is not down there. What is there is a bait into bondage. A bait unto bondage.

Where are you my brother? Where are you my dear friends? Where are you? Where are you? As you are kneeling down or standing up in prayer. I want you to step up your step and say, God, I will not go down. I will not go down.

And if you are hearing the voice of the Lord right now as I pray, I want you to take a step of faith. I want you to take a step of obedience. Maybe sin has been the thing you have invested your heart in for years.

God wants to stop that. Maybe you have invested, you have sold your life unto immorality. You sold your life unto drugs so you have become drug addict.

That is not where your destiny is going to be. God is about to change you. God is going to give you a new beginning.

A robot is going to open heaven to you. Are you a family and you find that you used to be hot but you have become lukewarm? You are going down to Egypt. Stand up and stand up and come before God and say, Lord, I will no more go down to Egypt.

Now wherever you are, I want to call on the name of the Lord, but I need you to take a step of obedience, a step of faith. You want to say to God, I am no more going down to Egypt. I will no longer go down to compromise.

No matter the famine, no matter the difficulty, no matter the trial, no matter the trouble, I will not go down. And no matter the envy of the feminist things against my life, I will not settle down there to fight useless battles. I am going forward.

I am going higher. I am going to be greater. I am going to grow mightier.

Where are you? Where are you? Stand on your feet right away. Lift up your own right hand and say, Lord, it's me. It's me.

God spoke to Isaac and Isaac responded to God. I don't know what your name will be. Put your name in that scripture and step out before God right now.

Wherever you are, step towards the altar as I want to pray. In whichever place, even if you are just somewhere in your room, it is time now to take a step from where you are. Just take one step and kneel down before the Lord.

Take a step. Take a step anywhere you are. Everywhere you are hearing the word of God.

Take a step and come out. Come out and fall on your knees before God and say, Father, this is an interruption. This is an interruption of what I thought I wanted to be.

This is an interruption of what I decided to go and do. Lord, I believe you. I obey you.

I am coming to you. I am coming, Lord. I am coming, Lord.

Thank you. God bless you. As you are coming, please step out wherever you are and come towards the altar.

Just come before the Lord. As you are listening to the word of God, just walk out. Just walk out.

You are not just walking to a screen. You are walking to Him. He is standing in our midst.

He is taking for His hands and saying, Come to me. I will give you rest. Jesus is the one that stops men from going down.

And He has come to help you. Thank you. Thank you.

Wherever you are, please walk out. Just walk out. We don't have time anymore.

Just walk out. God bless you. God bless you.

God bless you, my brothers. God bless you, my dear sisters. Just keep walking out.

But as you are coming, lift up that right hand and say, Lord, I am coming. I am coming, Lord. Call me now today.

Wash me. Cleanse me. In that blood that flows from Calvary.

As you are coming, As you are coming, don't let anything stop you. Feeling things are unhappy that you are taking a step. The devil will say, Hey, so you will leave this place that we thought we were going to bury you.

Stand up and just come. Just come. A story is going to emanate out of your life from this meeting.

God bless you. God bless you. I still see so many coming.

Please come out. Wherever you are, please step out. Step out.

Step out. Step out. If you can kneel down before the altar, please do it right now.

And if you are unable to kneel down, you want to stand up there, just stand or lift up your hands to heaven right now. I will be praying for you. The Lord is there.

The Spirit of God is going to break every yoke. Every attraction to Egypt is going to fade out from now. Every attraction to the kingdom of darkness, to the value of sin, to the value of compromise, is going to break now.

Just step out here. By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the yoke is being broken. It's being broken.

Are you in Botswana? Are you in Namibia? Are you in Cape Town? Where are you? Blantyre? Where are you? Mozambique? Or are you in the Francophone nation in Cameroon? Are you in charge? The Spirit of God is saying, Step out there. Step out. Step out.

Are you from Uganda? The Holy Ghost is calling you. Are you from South Sudan? The Spirit is saying, This woman is the woman you have ordained to change that direction you are going. Come out.

Come out and I'll pray with you. Let's pray together. As I lift up my hands unto God on your behalf, can you place your own hand on your chest as a sign to say, Lord, I have come.

And I want you just to pray with me. Just say, Lord Jesus, I have come. I have heard your voice again.

You have addressed me as an individual. You have addressed my case. Even the issues that I thought nobody knew, you knew about it.

You came now to stop me in my tracks. The track was taking me down to the dungeon. It was taking me down to hell.

It was taking me down more to confusion. But you are stepping into my case now. I thought I would not be addicted.

But I've become an addict. Addict to drugs. Addict to sex.

Addict to all kinds of things. But I am coming to you. To say I should no longer go down.

And that if I infect myself in your hands, something good will come out of my life. Let it be so. Lord Jesus, please step into my heart.

And take your space in my heart. Forgive me all the wrong things I've done before. Let the blood that speaks better things than that of baby, let it bring cleansing and sprinkling upon my life.

Thank you for hearing this prayer. In Jesus' name, we are praying. Now, with your hand on your heart, I pray for you.

Father in heaven, thank you for what you are doing in this day. Thank you despite all the attacks we had in taking up this mission. You have prevailed.

The Lion of Judah has triumphed. You have given us victory. And Lord, thank you for all your people that are responding to you.

Some are responding in their very local language. Some are taking a step out of that Egypt where they found themselves. Lord, I ask that by the release of the power of the Holy Spirit, break the yoke over their lives now.

Break every yoke of sin. Break the yoke of darkness. Every addiction, let it be broken.

In the name of Jesus. Every wrong decision that is going to twist their lives, twist their destiny, and dump them in the trash can. This moment, we turn it around in the name of Jesus.

All those who are already entangled, we release you. By the anointing of the Holy Ghost, we release you. Come out of that place in the name of Jesus.

Every spirit that stood against the purpose of God for your life, we rebuke them now. Satan, you have lost the battle. You lost the battle.

See what you are planning to do for Isaac. Isaac will have perished in Egypt. But God intervened.

And God has intervened in the lives of my friends here today. You cannot do anything about that. They are going to be fruitful.

They are going to multiply. They are going to fulfill their destiny. Their level up shall become their experience from today.

In the name of Jesus Christ. Now Lord, I ask, would you please inscribe their name on the palm of your hands. The Bible tells you about the book of life that you write your people in.

Please put their names in the book of life of the Lamb. Let today all gods mark a turn around in their lives. And every host of darkness, as the Philistines gathered and blowed waves and everything, and Isaac only went forward.

This man will go forward. These women will go forward. They will never be stagnant.

Whatever way the devil blocks, it shall be opened. In the name of Jesus Christ. And so I pray that the hand of God will rest upon you.

And for all of us, O God, who have gathered for this revival, we hear you say to us, no matter the envy of the Philistines, we are overcomers. We are moving forward. We are going from grace to grace.

From one glory to another glory. Until we come to that place where we have become very great. So we leave you for every life now.

Every brother, every sister, every person who has come for MLM this year, the Lord will advance you. I declare to you, your Rehoboth is here. Your Rehoboth is here.

All those that struggle with your progress, their hands are broken already. All those that have blocked your ways, they can't block this anymore. All those that fought with you at Essex, at Sitna, it is finished.

You are going to go to that land of enlightenment. A white space for you to be fruitful. So shall you be.

Is anyone in this meeting, sickness has crippled you for years? I send the word of the Lord to you. Be released in the name of Jesus. Those of you that are crippled by one sickness or the other, we release you by the hand of God right now.

Some of you have not been able to sleep for years. One demon is running after you up and down. I speak a word unto you.

Be released in the name of Jesus. Go into your Rehoboth. At Rehoboth, the stroke knocks.

They no longer struggle with them. All those who struggle with you is finished. You are going to live and live the purpose of God for your life in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, for hearing us. All businesses that have been blocked, set up, clogged and blocked your businesses, we open it up again so that you can fulfill your destiny. So will it be.

Thank you. And as this meeting goes on, Lord God, we are trusting that you will unfold to us all that you want to do with our lives. Blessed be your name.

In Jesus Christ's name we have prayed. Amen.