Gbile Akanni emphasizes the faithfulness of God in fulfilling His promises and calls believers to understand their critical role in the present phase of God's eternal purpose.
In this teaching sermon, Gbile Akanni leads believers to recognize and celebrate the faithfulness of God in fulfilling His promises. He calls the church to understand the critical spiritual moment they are in and challenges them to embrace their role in God's eternal purpose. Through scripture, prayer, and testimony, Akanni encourages an expanded vision and active participation in God's unfolding plan globally.
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Praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. We're going to rise to make a declaration in the place, the presence of God, with a song, with our declaration, as we rise up together.
I'd like you to rise. I will declare Psalm, I mean Isaiah 25, Isaiah chapter 25, Psalm 25. Oh Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things.
Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. Can you read verse two? For thou hast made of a city and hill, of a different city and ruin, a palace of strangers. Amen.
Therefore, shall the strong people glorify thee. The city of the terrible nations shall fear you. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place.
Even the heat with the shadow of a cloud, the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low, and he will destroy in this mountain, the face of the covering cast over all the people and the veil that is spread over all nations. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. Amen.
And it shall be said in that day, Lord, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the Lord.
We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. In this mountain, shall the hand of the Lord rest, and marks shall be trodden down under him, even a straw is trodden down for the downhill.
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swameth spreadeth forth his hands to swim. And he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. Verse 12, together, shout hallelujah.
So we're going to sing number one, verse one, first as our declaration tonight, because God has brought us to a place of divine enlightenment. God has brought his cancers of old. They have come to pass, and our eyes have seen what our God can do.
So we're going to take that song together, and all of us will declare it as a praise to the Lord. Oh Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise your name, for thou hast done wonderful things, thy cancers of old, their faithfulness. Oh my God, oh God, and the drummers here today, can they help me? Put your hands together, I will exalt thee, oh Lord, I will praise your name, hallelujah, for thou hast done wonderful things, oh yeah, thy cancers of old, hallelujah, thy faithfulness.
Put your hands together, oh God, oh Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise your name, for thou hast done wonderful things, oh yes Lord, I will praise your name, hallelujah, for thou, oh yes, has done wonderful, your hands, your hands, people of all that are here, God needed to hear that hand, clap it unto the Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah, oh Lord, oh Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise your name, thy cancers of old, thy faithfulness, oh Lord, oh Lord, thou art my God, hallelujah, I will exalt thee, I will praise your name, oh my Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, hallelujah, oh yeah, hallelujah, I will exalt thee, hallelujah, hallelujah, I will praise your name, Lord, for thou has done wonderful things, hallelujah, oh hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, unto Jesus, I will praise your name, we thank you Lord, has done wonderful things, thy cancers of old, thy faithfulness, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, O Lord, Thou art my God. I will exalt You, Lord. I will praise Your name.
The worst is set off, but soon them beginning to come to reality. We praise Your name, Lord. We adore You this day, Lord.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. O Lord. O Lord, Thou art my God.
I will exalt You. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
Yes, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Can you lift up your hands? Forever, O Lord. Thy word is set to, is set to, in heaven forever.
Forever, O Lord. Thy word is set to, hallelujah, in heaven. Forever, Lord.
Forever. Forever, O Lord. Thy word is set to, is set to, in heaven forever.
Forever, forever. Hallelujah. Forever, O Lord.
Thy word is set to, is set to, in heaven it is set to. Forever, Lord. Forever.
Forever, O Lord. Thy word is set to, in heaven it is set to. Forever, Lord.
Forever. Forever, O Lord. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Forever, Lord.
Forever. Forever, O Lord. Thy word is set to, is set to, in heaven it is set to.
You are faithful, God. You are faithful. You are faithful.
Can you tell God you are faithful? Lord, you are faithful. Father, we stand here to declare the faithfulness of the Lord. Thy word has never failed.
You are faithful, Lord. You are faithful, Lord. Hallelujah.
You are faithful, Father. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Thank you, Father. We worship you tonight. We exalt you because you are faithful.
Every word you are speaking, we are seeing you bringing it to pass. You have brought us to a place and you are seeing what I said to you before. I have brought it to pass.
Lord, we thank you. Jesus, this night we have come to say thank you. As we begin this vision retreat, we begin by celebrating your faithfulness.
We begin by celebrating the fact that your word is forever set to in heaven. Every word you are speaking, you watch over your word. Thank you.
I will lean on you. I will lean on you. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you for tonight.
Thank you for the privilege of being alive now. Thank you for our eyes have seen the glory of the Lord in the land of the living. Lord, we thank you.
What looked impossible many years ago, you spoke it and you are bringing us into it. We stand here, Lord, in awe of you. We confess that you are faithful.
I will lean on you, Lord. You have promised. You have never failed.
Your faithfulness is forevermore. Your faithfulness is forevermore. You have promised.
You have never failed. My Father, I must lean on you. I will lean on you.
My God, you have promised. You have never failed. Your faithfulness is forevermore.
Your faithfulness is forevermore. You have promised. You have never failed.
Our Father, I must lean on you. I will lean on you. You have promised.
You have never failed. Your faithfulness is forevermore. Your faithfulness is forevermore.
You have promised. You have never failed. My Father, I must lean on you.
I will lean on you. My God, you have promised. You have never failed.
Your faithfulness is forevermore. Your faithfulness is forevermore. You have promised.
You have never failed. My Father, I must lean on you. I will lean on you.
Our Father, you have promised. You will never fail. Your faithfulness, hallelujah, is forevermore.
Your faithfulness, hallelujah, is forevermore. Your faithfulness, hallelujah, is forevermore. Amen.
As we read Isaiah 25, to declare the beginning of this Christians retreat, we are actually beginning to enter into this retreat because God is faithful. What he said before, he has brought us into it and we have reasons to give him all the praise. Hallelujah.
I'd like to tell you that some years ago, some years ago, we were having two-horse revival in Edoma land and we were gathered at, I think, TSS or Tupo, and we were asking God for several things. I was speaking to God about how he is going to hand over the entire land to us. How God is going to give us every segment of the land.
And this morning, or this afternoon, as we had a meeting and I saw that fulfillment come to pass in our midst, in our hands, and I said, Lord, thank you. It's difficult to explain how faithful God is. How faithful our God is.
Right in our very eyes, we are seeing what he says. Thank you, Lord. I know that where God has brought us, and those of you that have been brought at a time like this, and you're wondering, did God say that before? He said it.
We are not gambling. We have followed him. We have followed what he said.
He has brought us where we are because he is faithful to his word. Word for word, he has brought his promises to pass in our midst. But because we are here, because of the critical place in which we have now arrived in the eternal purpose of God, it is now very crucial that we will keep deliberately to understand what he will have us do at this critical time.
And so this particular Visions Retreat is going to be very, very intensive. I'm hoping God will permit us to get as much as we can and make reference onto several things that he has said to us before, which was meant to guide instructions that we were given while we were expecting manuals that God gave us at the time when we were praying for what was yet to come. It took time to instruct us so much, but everything then was looking as if it was theoretical, because what God was talking about was yet to come to our hands.
But now, we have come to a place where those things that were prophecies have become realities. Praise the Lord. They have become things that we now just have to nurture and cause it to develop.
So permit me to welcome all of you that are here. In time for us, I will just be welcoming those of you that are here in Boko, but we have moved beyond that now. Let's welcome all those that have gathered in Makodi, all those that have gathered in Anambra states, all those that have gathered themselves together in different parts of Nigeria, in the north, in the south, in the east, in the south-south, everywhere where our brethren say we are going through the Visions Retreat.
And so, we used to speak about what God was going to do in Boko, but now we can no longer speak like that. We are going to be speaking about what God is going to do globally. Those that have gathered in Malawi, those that have also gathered even in the U.S., those that have gathered themselves together or they are just sitting all over Belize and several parts of Europe, all those that have keyed this meeting to their own calendar in Canada and in other parts of the world.
I'd like to welcome all of you in the name of Jesus Christ. And we welcome you with a sense of divine destiny that has come upon us. We welcome you to participate in something that is beyond us.
When we kept talking about it, it was difficult for our little mind to capture. But all the same, God kept speaking about it. All the same, God kept speaking very, very critically about it.
And so, this night, as I welcome all of you, I just want to say, wherever you are, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, wherever you are, God has brought us to this point. In which, what he says before, he has brought us to it. When he began to speak, I said, this thing, we will not be able to number it.
And we should not even try. It was looking, how will it be? When he said, no particular building that we can build will be sufficient to contain what he wants to do in our midst and by our hands. When he said, whatever you build will be completely insufficient for what I want to do.
And today we recognize that we couldn't have built anything, and we couldn't have even attempted to gather all that God is doing. There are people that are sitting in localities that we don't even know the name. But this is God.
And we just want to say to God, we are overwhelmed. And with complete sense of indebtedness, with our hearts, to say, blessed be the name of the Lord, who has brought his word to us, and who has brought his word to pass. And was risen in our midst to perform the covenant that he had made with our Lord, and which he has involved us in by his own mercy.
We are going to pray one prayer before we go ahead. And all of us, from everywhere where we are, everywhere where we are, I'd like you just to pray one prayer. It's just one small prayer.
We have prayed it over the years. But we need to pray it again. The body of the Lord is that I may not slack anymore, nor withhold myself from holy use.
Enlarge my heart, enlarge my heart, O Lord. O Lord, that I, O Lord, help me to understand, to understand what the true body of the Lord is. O God, O God, that I may not slack anymore, let me not slack anymore, nor withhold myself from holy use.
This is the time to sow my life. Perfect my sight, O Lord. Perfect my sight, O Lord.
O Lord, help me to see, as you see, right value for eternal things. Lord, my eyes to say, that I see not men as trees. O Lord, O my duty rankle.
Everywhere you are, everywhere, those of you with us in Bauchi, in Tafaba, Lewa, I want us to ask God. Enlarge my heart, O Lord. Ask God to enlarge your heart.
Help me rightly perceive, help me to understand, help me to understand what the true body of the Lord is. What the true body of the Lord is, that I, those that are with us from Uganda, that something, your eyes will just open to see divine possibilities. Perfect my sight, O Lord.
O Lord, all over Ghana, all over Liberia, all over Sierra Leone, all over Burkina Faso, O Lord, O Lord, O Lord, that I, let me not see men as trees. O God, O my duty rankle. Let's do the prayer one more time.
Enlarge my heart, my heart. Lord, don't let my heart be too narrow. Don't let my inner man be too small for what you are doing now.
Just enlarge my capacity. Help me to understand what the true body of the Lord is. Father, we want you to do that for us.
We want you, Lord, to enlarge our heart. We want you, Lord, to allow our eyes to see divine possibilities. We want you, God, to assist us, not to be narrow.
We want you, God, to do something in us, something in our hearts that will not cut short what you have come to do in our generation. Lord, I beg you that this must remain a movement and never become a monument. Lord, I beg you that this stream will ever flow, flow into lands and nations where we will not even be able to go by ourselves.
That this stream will get there and it will never become a little dam in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, as it flows and it grows, enlarges and deepens until it overwhelms the earth. Lord, in 1993, you spoke to us and we were at Piania Sea.
How can you say that? For here we are at this moment. Here we are, oh God. Here we are in our very eyes.
Your word has come to be. Lord, we bow before you. Thank you.
Are you seeing what we are seeing now? It's nothing compared to what we are yet to see. Please enlarge our hearts. I just beg you tonight, Lord, that you will envision us.
Envision us. Envision us. Thank you.
In Jesus Christ's name, we are prayed. Amen. Amen.
Thank you. I'd like us to begin tonight by understanding one more time, what is it that God is bringing you into? What is it that God is doing in our day? What is it that God is working out in our midst? And because the more I prayed about this time, this particular time, the more I hear God say, the things that I've told you before, be aware of them. The instructions I've given ahead, the time for their fulfillment have now arrived.
And so, I will do something quickly tonight. I know I cannot succeed as much as I should. It is to recover.
I wish I could have told the media to bring five minutes, ten minutes, seven minutes of what God said in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017, and just allow you to hear snippets of what God said that time. That was looking impossible that we have walked into presently. We will still do it if the Lord permits.
But tonight, I would like us to deal with, so where are we? You know, when we were about to finish the MLR, if you remember the final charge of the MLR, there is the word, now. Do you remember the word, now? Say, and now. And I thought that for a man not to misbehave and mishandle the move of God, he must be aware of the present, the present space in which we have now arrived.
And we cannot be able to understand and have a proper envisioning for what we must do from now on if we don't, first of all, even if it is by a recap, understand the now. And brothers and sisters, you are not here as an onlooker. You are here as a stakeholder that God kept you alive.
And you are now at this point in the will of God for us. It's because continuously I'm just persuaded that you have a very critical stake to hold in what God is doing. So I want you to please listen to God, not as someone who is a far off, not as someone who says, let's hear them.
Listen to God as someone whom God kept alive for a time like this. You are alive because you have to be alive. There are sisters, brothers, that we cry and pray together.
I will tell you one of them. And some of you that have been with us, you will know her. But because this meeting has now gone all over the place, I will not be telling too many local stories.
But I have to tell a local story because this day begins locally. You see, every mighty river begins somewhere, somewhere. In those days when we had meetings, we've been doing visions retreats.
This is not a recent arrangement at all. We always gather to envision ourselves as if to peep into the future that God is setting before us. And how many of us gather? Sometimes we are just about five.
Sometimes we are six. Sometimes we are ten. Sometimes when we are looking for where we can do it, we may just go to one of our parlors, our sitting room, and we are having a visions retreat.
And you can imagine how we are going to be praying and praying inside a sitting room. And we are speaking that this vision is going to take over the whole world. So what kind of thing is that? And I remember we spoke, and you will not forget, we were in one of our brothers' house.
Because I was, again, you know, when I do meetings in local like this, to envision our brethren, to envision what we are doing, I go to Otukwu to envision a domus. So we are meeting in one brother's house. You remember, it's going to glory now.
You can imagine how big a sitting room is of a three-bedroom government quarters. So all of us that were crowded in that room, we were about eleven. And I stood up, and the Lord was giving me a vision of what this work is going to become.
And we read numbers. Numbers chapter twenty-two. Where the king of Moab, King Balak, called his people, and he said, there's a problem.
Allah was saying, what is the problem? He said, there's a people that they are coming. They are coming from Egypt. Everywhere they went, they leaked.
Let's read it. You know why? You know when God is speaking to us, the way he speaks to us, he uses scriptures to bring us visions. When we say we are coming for a visions retreat, right from the beginning, our envisioning is not that someone does it.
I saw a vision. I see a dog. Just moving, moving, moving, moving.
No. No. That has never been our visions retreat at all.
The envisioning that God has always given us, he has always located it in the Word of God. And it will bring us scripture, and I see we are just reading scripture, and then it will begin to envision where he is going with us. So we were reading that passage.
I want you all to quickly read it, because I'm just passing through it. Numbers twenty-two. Now as we were reading, I remember I read it from the Old King James Version that time, and let me read it.
And the children of Israel was one set forward and pitched in the plains of Moab on this high Jordan by Jericho. And Balak, the son of Zippo, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was so afraid of the people, because there were many.
And Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now, shall this company do what? Lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak, the son of Zippo, was king of the Moabites at that time.
That was why he sent messengers to Balak to come and see whether he can cause the people to see his message. He sent messengers thereof to Balaam, the son of Baal, to Pether, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there say people come out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over it against me.
How many were the children of Israel that they saw, that they covered? Where? Now, we were in that small room when the Spirit of God said, Look, this thing, even though it's planted in a small room, it is going to cover the whole face of the earth. And that it is going to lick up everything that is contrary to the will of God. It's going to be like a hoax that licks, you know, it will take up everything, everywhere is clean.
So, as I was explaining the vision of what God said he would do, which we don't know how it was going to be, how can you five people sit down and be talking of that? One of the brothers, who was in the meeting and did not understand, he did not know I was talking of a vision that will happen, which we don't know how many years it will take. He was so afraid, so he stood up and went to his pastor, you know, to go down. And to that I said, Brother Billy said, Look, what they are doing will take over all our churches.
It will collect all our members. As you see them now, they are planning to take over everything we have. He said, They will lick us dry.
So the pastor said, Is that what they are planning? So they began to fight. I didn't know why they were fighting. He said, If you think you are going to take over our churches, we will tell you that you cannot do that.
I said, I'm not going to take over your church, we know you are planning it. Hallelujah. So we began to believe God.
So the meeting that we started inside the room, even at that time, it broke. It broke until we could not sit even in a local church. We had to do things.
And so those people, sometimes they will come. You know, I used to invite them. But then when the meeting started, they would just come to see how many of their members had been captured.
Sometimes they would try to make sure that they clash a meeting with the meeting. If you don't come, we will take attendance. If we don't see you, we are finished.
But still, it couldn't work. But they were thinking that we were just going to take over their small things. No.
God is talking of something beyond. God is talking of something beyond. We stood up after prayers and said, Lord, in our lifetime, a time is coming when the culture of Iduma will become the culture of Jesus.
Do you know it's going to happen now? It's already happening. Just this morning. That's God.
That's God. And it's a small thing yet. Small thing.
Because this thing, where it is going, you don't know how to stop it. But why are we bringing this? And I want to give you some few critical, critical, important marks for tonight. We won't speak too much in details tonight.
It's just to say, Lord, now, what is the now of this move of God? What is the now for my own life? What is the now for the ministry to which you have called me? What is the now for my service? What is the now for my involvement? What is the now? What is the now? Because you've got to walk in the now. You must not walk in the yesterday. Otherwise, the cloud will leave you behind.
You must not cling to that which heaven has already declared as past, if you are going to be relevant in what God is talking about. And for each one of you, there is a now for you. And that's what now means now.
What you did not do before is not the issue for us now. The now of this move is what we are sitting back here to understand and to work with. And three or four passages are here for me just to set that and then set you to pray.
So that when we come tomorrow and we now begin to speak about maximizing where we now are, making the most of where we now are, getting the fullness of where we now are. But let's quickly set to the now of it so that we can go. I have noted several nows and they are very, very interesting to me as I keep walking with God and as I keep studying the Word of God that is coming to us.
Now, some of you who have been with us, you will know that Genesis, Genesis particularly chapter 13 had been a very serious turning point in our walk with God. I want to draw that because of the relevance, because of what it did to us when it came and where it landed us when it came. Not because we are going back, but because we want to take note that when that now came to us that time, something happened, something took place such that God is talking about another now.
It is clear that something is again going to happen. Hallelujah! Now, in Genesis chapter 13, you will see that the Genesis 13 was a chapter in the life of Abraham which would have been repeated in the life of Isaac if God did not intervene as we studied during the MLA. What was that chapter? There was famine in the land.
There was a difficulty in the land. There was drought in the land of promise. Please, all of you be hearing.
During the MLA, God was using brother Dennis in one of those times to explain the pathway onto Rehoboth. And he began to note that famine is something that whether you like it or not, it comes. It comes to test your commitment.
It comes to test your obedience. It comes to test your tenacity to hold the will of God for your life. It comes to prove how serious you will be in holding a divine treasure.
It comes to prove what quality of man are you if God were going to entrust to you something that is valuable. So, famine comes to prove a man out whether he can exchange his birthright for immediate pleasure, for immediate relief, for immediate solution to a looming problem. Famine is allowed in the life of any man that God wants to use for something serious.
For him to sink a never-drying well. You don't dig an enduring well when it is raining. Am I right? Nobody will go and dig a well when the rain is on its peak, say in August, September.
In Tiefland, where do we sink wells? It's in March. We dig wells in March at the height of the dry point, such that you can go down, down, down, down. You are still digging 50 feet, 60 feet, 80 feet, and you have not touched water.
But when you touch water at that time, it means that it will survive all year round. So, famine was necessary to try out what is in you. Famine is a necessary instrument to reveal how enduring you will be when God releases the anointing.
Brothers and sisters, when God began to allow us to go through the famine, famine, but it's not only famine of food, even though famine of food has made people to migrate. Oh my God, did you hear me? There are people that I sat with here, and I begged them. I said, don't leave, don't leave this land.
God will visit us. They said, no. I don't want my life to waste away here.
I'm going. I said, but the ministry that God gave you, he's about to break for it. They said, no.
But I believe people don't support people's ministry here. You see, I have an anointing that if I went and preached in Lagos, I preached somewhere, see how people would be running, and they would be giving me offerings. I would preach that same message.
I'm sweating. They don't recognize anointing here. That's what some of my brothers, ministers, that we used to go about preaching, that's what they told me when they were relocated.
Famine chased many people out of the center of the will of God for their lives. Did God plan for them to die in famine? No. He only wants to sink an enduring well into their life, into their spirit, such that they can endure any situation.
But they could not. They could not. You know, there was a time when even children's schools, schools that children would go, there was a famine.
When you'd be looking for where to put your child to get good education, and there was none. And it was looking reasonable, as if in order not to jeopardize the future of your children, move out of this place. You are the one God called.
God has not called these children. Don't waste their lives. Amen.
When myself and my wife wept one night, and we were going to drop our first daughter, going to school. We were going to drop her in that school. And we look at ourselves, knowing the kind of school that my wife went.
And she was just an A student, all around. Well exposed. Laboratories.
Technical laboratories. Their school had bakery. Their school had a stadium.
The day I went to their secondary school with stadium, then I knew I came from a bamboo school. My God, I said, so this is where you went? He said, yes. And you would have thought that if she went to such a school, her daughter should go to something better.
Oh my God, we went and dropped our child. And as I was looking at these children, they were looking at me. I was looking at them.
And the only thing I can say, yes, this is the call of God on my life. This is the call of God. Whatever you become, it's okay.
God will help us. It was so terrible. One day we carried our boy, and we went to Otobe to drop that boy in that Otobe.
Otobe was one primary school that the federal government said they are going to use to start a federal college. No window nets. Naughty.
When we got there, nothing. No building. Nothing.
I looked at the door. I looked at my father. I looked at myself.
I said, God, would this boy be coming to me? We did not become a dropout. And if he does, will they not blame me tomorrow? That this call of God that you said you have received, that located you in a bush, can't you be received? Even if you don't want it, at least for this one. But we couldn't do otherwise.
We told God that even farming, farming of facilities, you know, we are used to suffering. But some say, even if you suffer, your child should not suffer. After all, God has not called him.
What was God doing? God was testing. Will I be qualified to hold an enduring inheritance? Will there be a soft alternative that I will see and I will quickly grab and let go? That which is eternal. Of course, we prayed.
We returned home. There was one brother, Matthew. Remember, there was one brother, Matthew, a teacher, whom I called.
I said, this boy. Matthew said, sir, if you can trust him to my hand, I will care for you. I watched him.
So we left. We came back. But you see, the matter was so heavy in my heart that I said, no, we have to change this boy.
We have to change this boy. I remember we took him from motor businesses. We tried to go to McCordy.
I met one of our old friends, a very senior principal. It's a school that they are just revamping. What used to be SDS.
When everything has happened, we released him. Somehow, somehow, it didn't work out. My boy said, leave me there.
Leave me there. God will help me. I said, eh? God will help you.
We tried to go to first, I mean, Baptist Church, I mean, Baptist, the high school jobs. He said, they don't take people midstream. The young man said, sir, let me continue.
He had continued there. He was excessed to when he wrote his bio and made all these papers. Some of you, you don't want to stay where God asked you to stay.
And your explanation is because my children will suffer. Some of you, you have refused to remain where God wanted you to be because you are looking for soft landing. It's okay, but no, no, no, this children, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Why did God allow farming? Even farming of facilities, farming of provisions, and then farming of friendships. Farming of friendships. Some of you, you have never suffered a farming of friendships, so you don't know what it means.
You don't know when you have no friends. When you thought that this person you are speaking to is your friend, and you open your heart, eh? And tomorrow, the thing you said to him in confidence because you thought he's a friend, he carries it out. To do what? To stab you.
And he would open his eyes and say, but I didn't just say it. And you say, but that's not the context in which we were talking. He said, but you said it.
So you come to a situation where you don't know who to talk to. You come into a prayer meeting, you cannot cry out and say, oh God, because you are conscious that someone is there who will carry your prayer and misinterpret it. Farming of friendships.
Especially when you are coming from a place where you have precious friends, where you have relationships, where you have people that cherish you all the time. Why would God allow a man to go through farming? It is not to kill him. It is not to destroy him.
It is not to dislodge him. It is to create in him capacity and confidence for the future that God is talking about. And any time you survive farming, in whichever direction, there is going to be an outbreak.
Always. Always. And I tell you that we are here today and that God is doing what he says he will do and we are beginning to see it and we are touching it and it is becoming a reality and you are saying, ah, ah.
You know why we cannot but say thank you to God. Because God. So when brother Abraham went down to Egypt because of that farming, but God took him back.
God relocated him back. He came back to the land of promise. And the first thing that I saw, which I normally would tell you brothers, the reason why I encourage you to build your altars, the reason why I want you to always take notes of the dealing of God on your life.
Put it down in writing. Put it where you will not lose it. It is because we cannot know when a strange wind, a strange farming might shift you and you drift.
Go to that man who drifted from his place of calling and does not have any fine posts to return to. If there is nothing God can refer to and say, remember. Remember what you told me before.
Remember what I told you before. If there is no points, no reference points for remembrance, no my posts that you can recall. To such a point that if you don't know where you are going again, you should be able to know where you are coming from.
This is why we always beg that those of you that are planning to last in the purpose of God, those of you that God is going to use for something beyond you, keep a record, build an altar with your experiences. If possible, write it down. Make a mark of it.
You might need it. Do you know what happened when Abraham returned from Egypt? He took the miracle of God to get him out of Egypt. We are talking about that and we are not talking about that now.
That is not the issue. I am dealing with now, where we are now. But when he came back, something happened.
The Bible said he returned unto the place of his first altar. He went and repaired the old first altar and called on the name of the Lord who appeared unto him. He retraced where he missed it.
He came back to where he left it. And now we need to pray all the time. Lord, take me back.
I think it was Andrew Crowder that sang that song. Take me back. Very important.
That you missed it is not a big issue, but that you don't know where to return to is a bigger problem. When the prodigal song missed it, and it was going, going, going, going, you remember, the Bible said when he came to himself, did you know what happened to him? He remembered. He remembered where he was coming from.
He remembered what used to happen in his father's house. He said, ah, ah, even in my father's house, ordinary servants, they have enough bread to eat and to spare, and I'm here, dying, uselessly, in hunger, struggling with what ordinary people eat and they will not even allow me to eat it. I'm going back home.
He had a place to return. Don't live a life that has no reference point. Mark every step of your journey.
First, it will help you to develop the geography of your journey. It will help you to trace your path in life. It will help you to trace your walk with the Savior.
And if it is not for that, it will provide a point of remembrance to which God may drive you to return to take your bearing. Thank God. That man had a place to return to.
So when he came back and repaired his altar and began to call on the name of the Lord that appeared to him, and the Bible said, When Abraham went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all he had, and lot with him unto the south. Abraham was very rich in cattle, in silver, in gold. He went on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, unto the place where he had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ahab, unto the place of the altar which he had made there when? At the first, and there Abraham called on the name of the Lord.
And lot also which went with him, with Abraham had flocks, herds, and all of that. And the land was not able to do what? To be at them, that they might dwell in together. For their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
And there was a strife between the headman of Abraham's cattle and the headman of Lord's cattle, and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelt then in the land. You know this chapter, because it's a very critical chapter in our work. We have studied it over and over and over and over.
And I want to tell you that, by degrees of thought, we are no more in that chapter. We are no more in that chapter where you are fighting and struggling and looking for where to dwell. Why the Canaanites and the Perizzites are still in the land, and you and brothers, you are fighting, you are struggling for something small.
Let me tell you now, when your vision is small, when you have no perspective of where you are going, you will find yourself struggling with dwarves. You will find yourself fighting over small plots. All of you hear me very well.
I'm talking to you because where we are now, you will no longer be fighting for a small space. Stop fighting for small space. And I want to say that to all of you now.
What God has done now, He has brought us to Rehoboth. God has done what? Made room for us. Room.
Room. What did I say God has done for us? He has made room. Everybody say room.
God has made room for us. When we are coming this evening, the brothers that fight in the car with me, they don't know. They don't know what happens to me sometimes when I'm just driving.
Because I'm a man of history. History. There's history in my head.
Because I've been coming on a long journey. And I know the battles. And I see them.
Can I tell you one of them? Eh? There was a time. Once upon a time. Yes.
Say time, time. There was a time when all that this house had was a 5,500 plot. Which we were renting.
And it looked so big. And then you see the trouble. When we finish, our office opens from 8 to 5. Are you understanding? As soon as I close from the office, halos, very, very loose girls, they go and sit in front of my office.
Either they are plaiting their hair with their legs cut out, making eyes to boys. And look at our signboard on top of the roof. Peace House.
Oh God. It used to pain me. When I'm coming from town and I see them, I would just deliberately drag down my small bit to that time.
With full light. I just go. Then I would do full light to expose the foolishness they are doing.
I have nothing to do in the office, so I just want to prove that I'm in charge. So, I just go in. I say, what are you doing here? What are you doing here? I would try to open my office.
Very annoying. As if I should just sit there and start beating them, dragging them out. I say, Tom, if I start dragging these people out, they will say Bragbili is fighting with girls.
Once upon a time, we wanted to expand. No space. We traveled to go and see whether we can buy it.
Say, if we buy it, at least if we have bought it and we are not borrowing it, nobody can do this kind of thing. We got there. The Baba said, did you not say you are doing mission? He said, yes.
Mission. Is your work not a mission? He said, yes. He said, that place is not for mission.
That place is not for mission. If you told me you want to do a hairdressing saloon, you are doing business, then I can give you. But for mission, there is no mission in that place.
Do you remember, sir? We all came back from Jatoka, deflated. When that battle was serious and we knew we can't do anything, we had a meeting. And in that meeting, it is this chapter.
This chapter. This chapter. That's why this chapter never leaves.
Because it is a very important chapter. But because you have come now, when God has brought us to Rehoboth, you don't have to go and be fighting those old battles. You can have a vision now.
God has made room. Even you can multiply. Because God has cleared the heavenly space.
All of you hearing me now, there is a heavenly space that has been cleared. God has cleared a space. All you need now is to go and sow in the land.
There's a room. All of you, you have room now. I'm telling you, you have more room now than I had then.
It was in that when the Lord said to us, stop struggling. Lift up your eyes. You will go away from here.
Lift up your eyes. Lift up your eyes. God moved our heart out of that place.
Because God is saying, you don't have to be struggling with hallows. You know Eusebio said, God, people are coming from Anambra, they say, go to peace house. When they get to peace house, instead of meeting the man of peace, they meet hallows.
How would I explain now that someone said, I went to your office and the people I met, it was like, fight. Go and tell their parents, nobody should come here again. Nobody should come here again.
For what? Even when you call their parents and say, excuse me, this thing that these kids are doing here is not good now. They say, well, where do you want them to sit? I have never seen people that you go and report their children to their parents, and instead of their parents to do their eyes like this to their children, they would rather face you and say, uh-huh, uh-huh, did they spoil anything? Uh-huh. When you are going, pack your things inside.
Leave the space for them. Where do you want them to stay? Don't make life difficult for yourself here. But I rented the place, we paid for it, and so what? It is only when I came here, I realized that you bought land.
You have oranges on your land. Somebody comes and says, this orange, we planted it. Even though you have bought the land, it's our orange.
And they will come in to pluck it right in your eyes, and if you talk, they will shout, oh, and you will be made the offender over your own compound once upon a time. There were battles when there was famine of relationships, famine of friendships, famine of acceptance. All of those famines, the first alternative is move away.
Move away. Go away from them. Go somewhere else as if to push you away from the land of your calling and the land of your inheritance.
But all of that was happening not because God was asleep, not because God had no power, it was because he had not yet made room for us. Praise the Lord. And that thing moved us.
It moved us by the grace of God. It moved us to what we thought was a very thick space, where we thought nobody would quarrel us here again. Everything would be alright.
And we came here also. And we did everything to do this. You just need to look behind you.
Whenever there's a meeting, MLR is coming. My God, MLR has always been in December. Eh? December.
Whenever people know that our December meeting is going to hold, they, everywhere here, they will be digging up heaps. They'll be making fresh heaps. They have not planted before.
They are just making heaps. And everywhere there, all the places where you are puking your Kana, there are heaps. Let's see how they will do their meeting and not destroy my heaps.
Can you tell Brethren not to destroy heaps when people are flowing out, everybody is looking for where to sit down and do something. So heaps are destroyed. Then when we finished, the man said, we had 100 heaps.
You destroyed 70 of them. Money. Oh God.
We bought some land here more than twice. We paid. Someone says, mm-hmm.
Now my father, you paid. You have not paid me. If I see anything there, blood will flow here.
Blood will flow here. Then you'll be saying, what is the meaning of this now? What is the meaning of this? Yes. They were all important because of where God is going.
But this evening as I was coming here, and we were negotiating, and I was talking to the brothers and the sisters, I said, do you see this? Is this us? Thank God. They did not know that I was coming from history. They did not know how many places we traveled, we went, this one, to beg, please let's get this one.
Who will give you another one? Never. Let's get this one. That's our father's burial ground.
Let's get this one. No way. We need something.
He said, no way. Why was God doing that? So that we will not settle. So that we will not think we have reached our burial ground.
God allows famine for a man who has a journey to go. A man that ought to travel far in life. When he begins to be too comfortable, too early in life, and God does not want him to develop pot belly over nothing, what does God do now? He must raise battles to uproot it.
He must raise issues that will make you unable to settle so that you can get to where you are going. Hallelujah. And when God allows battles, famine, famine of recognition, no matter what you did, nobody recognized it.
The good thing you thought you had done that somebody would have come to say thank you. Listen, so what? What is it? You want to say, oh God, I am not even appreciated. Why would God allow you to be appreciated by people whose appreciation means nothing? What do you need human appreciation for? When the appreciation actually does not appreciate you.
Did you hear what I said? It doesn't increase you. It only stagnates you and makes you a local champion. When God is moving you into what he wants you to become, it was important.
I was wondering, and as God will have it, because there was nothing. We can't stretch our leg there. We can't take three feet.
We can't stretch there. We can't do anything here. And we are forced.
So I was not coming back this evening, but Dennis, can you imagine, if we had brought all the things we were talking about, from the toilet, that toilet, to this place, what would that mean? Nothing. What does that mean? We, myopic men, we thought it was weak. When God booted us out, when you have to go to a place that God ordained for your life, every intermediary or intermediate settling is a danger.
And if God needs to help you, he must create storms. Storms, famine, fights, battles, strife, struggles, to push you out. It will look as if it's a loss.
Eventually, it's a gain. Will it be a gain? Will it be a gain? It is. Why am I bringing this to you? Now! God has made room for each one of your lives.
And if there's any lesson to learn from what I'm saying tonight, anywhere you get to and somebody's struggling with you over a small plot of land, can I advise you what to do? Leave it with the word you have dug there. You're not hearing me. You say, but I dug a well there.
I've already put a well there. Stand up. Stand up.
Release the land. Release the well. Lift up your hands.
Lift up your eyes. Where we have come now, if your rehoboth will not be a waste, you must lift up your eyes. The room God is making for you, if you begin to step in, nobody can struggle with it.
As long as you are aware men are struggling with you, you've not got where you are going. Am I communicating with you? So, may I begin to say to you that in order to maximize this rehoboth, struggle with no man. There's a room for you.
Stop looking back. Stop looking at old wells. So, say, let me go back.
That fellowship we started. That fellowship we started. You want to go for back 10 years? What will you do if you go back 10 years? Repairing what? Go away from there.
Including the wells you dug, leave it there. There's something ahead of you. Something more glorious.
Something beyond. Something eyes have not seen. Something ears have not heard.
Something that has not entered the heart of any man. That God has for you. And I want to charge you tonight.
What is it now? It is that we have come to the point where God is saying, lift up your eyes. So when God said, lift up your eyes, leave that place. Go to where I'm sending you.
And we have been there. And it will look as if when people struggle with you, are you the only way? And take away even the well you dug. They will be believing.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
We will prove to him that he met us here. They will raise their hand like that. Temporarily it will look as if they are champions.
Have you? And then you will be feeling miserable. Yeah, this is what Jesus means. This is what Jesus means.
Why we pass down? Why do you weep for narrowness? Why are you weeping for what is not necessary? What will you do with that which human beings can contend with? When heaven is setting a room, space, space, space for you to be what God honestly wants you to become. In this realm of us, I want your mentality to change. Hallelujah.
And every one of you, you need to let the Holy Ghost take away from you anything that causes strife. I want to tell you now, people only strive for what they think and what they see that you are holding. They can only strive for what is visible.
Nobody struggles for the invisible. And we know that that which is visible is temporary. But that which is invisible, that which cannot be seen is eternal.
May God help us in the name of Jesus. This night before, I will leave you to pray with me. Because the now is what I'm just tracing.
And I won't go to F.U.C. because that's the point. So when lots, and you know I don't, I have no business with lots. Or any of you, you want, you have a lot with lots, talk to me please.
Please, in case there's any lot around you, are you hearing me? Let him have his lot. What did I say you should let him have? Let him have his lot so that you can have a lot for God. There's a lot ahead of you.
There's a lot, a lot, when we use the word a lot, I hope you know the meaning of that. Unlimited, unlimited, uncountable, a lot. Look at, look at a lot that God has opened to me.
Look at a lot that God is speaking about us. Look at a lot, a lot that, that is difficult to describe. There's a lot, and there's a lot ahead of you.
Those who want to fight for their lot, please allow Mr. Lot to do what? To go with his lot. What do I call it? His lot, not a lot. What is he struggling for? It's not a lot.
Brothers, it's not a lot. It's just a small thing, and let him have it. And we know that his lot will soon be lost.
For he who saves his life shall do what? Shall lose it. Why fight with what will soon be lost? Why risk your life on that which will soon be lost? So, God must have done something to Abraham and said, there's no need for this quarrel. He said, we are brethren.
If you go to the east, let me go to the west. There's a lot that is yet to be conquered. The lot that they are fighting over here, which lot is its place? Just a very small space that the two of them cannot even occupy.
You are not hearing me. Stop fighting for something useless. The two of them cannot stay there because it's too small for them.
And they are talking about keeping. When God was offering to Abraham, said, if anybody can number, I'll be together. God will help him.
God will envision him. The first purpose of this vision retreat is for God to envision you. And I want all of you hearing me from all over.
Those of you in the UK, I must never hear you struggling with anybody's lot. Yes, a lot! A lot that maybe because you are focusing on something, on some person, you are not seeing. Some say, if we don't have this man, if we don't have this man, where are we going to have this? Where are they taking this? Taking what? Taking what? What is it that anybody are taking? And unfortunately, said, Lord, don't say anything.
Even though you are my junior boy, just take first anything you want to take. Take your lot. Take your lot.
And the young man, God said, he lifted up his hands. I thought that when somebody lifted up his hands, he should see a mountain. No, he lifted up his hands and he saw the plains.
So which means that lifting of eyes is not like this. It's a lifting up of an arrogant heart. It's an eye, a raised eye.
He already saw well-watered gardens. He saw farmlands. He saw everything that looks already prepared.
There are some people that like only concatenated things. They don't know how to go out and hunt. They don't know how to win souls.
It's only when souls are combated, after we have labored on them, that it becomes useful. Hey, it's my own. It's my member.
It's my member. My member. There was a time when it was that fight.
Fight. Some are still fighting that fight. And I keep wondering, what is it? What is it all about? What is it all about? In those days, we'd go to schools.
We'd do everything. We'd win souls. We'd raise them up.
But because we would never be lured to form a church, a Sunday Sunday church, we would not do that. I would take them. I remember, I took one.
One of those compass that was a terrible Indian smoker. And God healed him and delivered him. Brought him to my house.
We were paying school fees. And he was growing well. And his life was changing.
And because he has a yoke, he was ferocious. And I took him and I said, yes. I want you to know how to pray.
And this is my brother, my friend. Even when I go to his house, we can pray for four hours nonstop. He says, I'm bringing this person.
I want him to be a disciple in prayer. When he has finished praying, he will come home. Come back.
Once they saw that I was useful, the first person they preached to him again, his brother, don't go to him again. Don't go near. Because, you know, God wants to use you mightily, mightily.
Look at my poet, the one that I washed blood from his eyes. They come with a raised shoulder. I called him by his name.
But now they have made him a pastor. I want to remind him, I said, you are still my boy. Okay.
He was banned from coming to me. There was a fight. There was a time when there was a fight.
The fight could be so serious. He said, what is it all about? I said, yeah, don't come again. Just stay there.
Some would be weeping while they are going. Some would be crying. I said, sir, you are the one, you are my father in the Lord.
I said, no problem, no problem. I'm still your father. Go there.
Don't come here again. I will be praying for you. It's not a loss.
And that is not a lot. Are you understanding? It's not a lot. And it will go like that.
After several years. When this brother will go up and down here and there. People will say, are you from Boko? And you don't know Brad Bile? I know him.
You know him? And you are not close to him? So one day he ran from where he was. He said, your signature is reaching me everywhere. People are asking me, why am I not close to you? And I was not bold to tell them that you are my father in the Lord.
Because I have abandoned you. I want to go and bring my wife. You have to come back.
I said, please go and take permission from them. That you like to see me. He said, forget about that, sir.
They confused me. I said, were you confused? He said, where am I? I'm confused. I'm confused.
I want to come back home. It's not a lot. It's not a lot.
What people collect from you when they are siding with you. What that is. It's not a lot.
It's just their lot. It's not a lot. Don't struggle for what is not a lot.
Are we together? That was the time. That was the fight. That was the time it was.
Oh my God. It's so painful to me. Some will not return when they are damaged.
Remember that my boy that was drunk and was going to urinate in my bedroom. And the Word of God arrested him. And he repented.
And I said, alright. Come and stay. And he began to live with me.
And God began to use him. I was fallen into the hands of our brothers. He said, where are you coming from? Because you know why? Can I tell you why? They thought that the message will preach.
This message has been preaching. It has been preaching for a long time. This old man.
Mr. Flesh. I know that you can go nowhere as long as Mr. Flesh is alive. Flesh will finish you.
If God will not deliver you from Mr. Flesh and bring you to the new life, Christ-like you, you are not going far. As you are struggling to do something, your leg will be scratching it. So they always believe that preaching this thing that I preached for these years is retardation.
That nobody should follow this kind of thing and hope to grow. That I'm going to make them poor. That I'm a poverty prophet.
That was my second name now. These are prophets of poverty. And that when you come here, you will just be nothing.
Nothing will come out of your life. Don't go there. That was the thing.
Farming of understanding. But, that was not important. Where you are going is more important.
Can I tell you, Lehomos is more important than Essex. It's more important than Cisner. Praise the Lord.
And so what was the matter? The man lifted up his eyes, he collected his lot. And the Bible noted that he did not know that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were exceedingly wicked before the Lord. And that God was going to destroy them.
He did not know. He didn't see red letter X. He didn't see. But once, Lot left.
God said, lift up now. All of you read now. You will see the now.
The first now that I'm raising there. Can you see the first now? All of you please. Please, check.
Check. And the Lord said, I'm in Genesis 13 verse 14. I want all of you to go there.
You will see it there now. And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, did you see the word of God? What did he say? Lift up now thy eyes and look from the place where thou art standing. Look northward.
Look southward. Look eastward. Look westward.
Let me ask you, what is that? What is that? That is room. That is what? Room. Room.
But did you see that? That now is important. Say the Lord said to Abraham, after Lot had left him, after Lot had departed, after Lot had collected his lot, and it looks as if he has got it, after they have taken the wells, after they have struggled for the water and they have collected it, after they have taken the land, the Lord said, lift up now your eyes. So, what is that now? The present time.
When God has allowed you to let go all that struggles with you. All that was your ethic and your sitna. All that will appear as if you lost it.
All that somebody came and sat and collected and he was still bragging, God said lift up now your eyes. And for you to see the room, all of you please read and describe the room for me. Let's read it and describe the room.
Let's read it. And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, lift up now thy eyes and look. Now all of you look.
He said look. You know, I used to be taught with biblical prepositions. He said look at the place where you are.
What would have been that? What is the meaning of that? Eh? Look at. You would have been considering the immediate thing that you are seeing here. Look at.
Look at this. Look at this. Look at that well that I dug with my money for God's sake.
And they are fetching water there. Father. Father.
Even though I don't want to curse them. But let that water be bitter in their mouth. How can anybody be drinking a well that I dug and they are claiming that it is now their land.
Father. Father. Father.
Father. I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what to say.
Something will chase them out of that place. In the name of Jesus. That's a prayer of a narrow person.
So let me ask you. Even if God turns the water to bitter in their mouth. How does that change the fact that they have collected it from me? Did you see that you are not doing well? You are not doing well.
When God has a loss for you. Why do you struggle with God's loss? That was something lost. You don't even need to waste one prayer.
I don't want you to waste your prayer. Pray something that is of no use. Prayer is a precious thing.
Whenever you have opportunity to pray. You are praying to bring something eternal down. Don't waste your prayer.
Did you hear me? It is a waste of prayer. O God, Abba, Abba. Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya.
All those people that say we are not making fire. What is the meaning of that? And what is the meaning of that? So if fire fell on them. What does that do to me? Talk to me now.
What does that do to me? Nothing. Wasted prayer. Wasted fasting.
Visionless prayer. What does that do? Let me ask you. My progress is not at the expense of your progress.
If I'm only seeing myself as a big man because I cut you short, am I a big man? What am I? A tyrant. A useless tyrant. Who has capacity to go far, but decided to crush a small boy.
Are you understanding? If somebody came to steal from me, he saw one bag of beans. Out of many bags, and a pig who had to go and eat, and he's a thief, he stole one bag of beans. And I took him to court.
And in court, there's a case between Dule Akani and a thief. One bag of beans. And you know, Sister Lydia will have to tell you how long it will take for that case to be settled.
And they will be mentioning your name every week. And they say the case is adjourned. The lawyer was not around.
And then you go again. Next time you go again. And then you have to be keeping a diary.
A useless thing. So even if you win the case, after five years, what do you do with the bag of beans? Useless. Useless.
I want to tell you now. Now in your level box, you fight with no one. With not a single prayer on anything that does not advance where you are going.
There's a lot ahead of you. Northward, southward, westward, eastward, allward. If you don't have eyes to see the room that God has made for you, you might return fighting for one small thing.
Stop that. You got it? Stop that. It's nothing.
Nothing. Can anybody steal water from the ocean? Eh? Why not? It's the ocean. You can't finish.
The more you fetch it, the more the ocean says, well done. When you are tired, do you know that you will grow to a point where by the grace of God, what people cut from you will only fill up. It will only become a reason for God to fill you again.
You have no problem. Do you want us to go to that way? God will help us. So he did not say, lift up your eyes and look at the place.
He didn't say look at the place. He didn't say look on the place. If you look on the place, that means that's your home.
That means this is what you are looking on. These are the things you are looking on. These are the people you are looking on.
Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
Look from. So when he used the word look from the place where you are standing. What's the meaning of that now? Take away your eyes from here.
Look from there. As if this place is already finished as far as I'm concerned. We are going somewhere.
I'm going higher. Yes, I am. I'm going higher someday.
Hallelujah. Oh, I'm going higher. Yes, I am.
Going with Jesus to stay. I'm going above the shadow. Into the presence of God.
Hallelujah. Into the presence of Jesus. Hallelujah.
I'm going higher right now. Look from. So you see, when we came to Rehoboth.
He said, now the Lord has made room for us. We shall be fruitful in the land. Then the Bible says, and he moved from there.
And he went to Bathsheba. It's because there's room. You have come to a place where nobody can struggle with you.
You are going to where nobody struggles with you again. I don't need to tell you stories. I think I've told enough for tonight.
So that you can pray with me. Now, what is that now? The now, when you have dispensed with useless struggles, quarrels, fighting for something small. The now, when your eyes are beginning to see the bigger picture.
The bigger picture of what God is setting for you. Joseph. When his brothers sold him out.
It was bad enough. Was it not bad? Eh? When he landed in the house of Potiphar. And Potiphar suddenly.
Let him into everything. And he became the manager. Business manager of Potiphar's Enterprise.
Limited. Is that not a good place? Eh? To the extent that this boy that was a slave is now the commander. His chief became robust.
He became handsome. And he was moving everywhere. And because he was boxed.
There was no hope of retirement. Are we together? Because he was boxed. He was not employed.
He was a permanent slave. Which means the only thing that would take him out of the house of Potiphar was what? Death. But look at him, he was growing fast.
Was doing well. Doing well. Some of us, we are doing well.
But we are a slave. Eh? A slave that is doing well. Hm.
And in order to make him permanent. To make him a permanent household pet. Madam Pot was looking for him.
Do you know that if he began to service that madam, that would be the end. First, God would have forgotten him then. Am I right? His governor would go with a scuttle.
He would be itchy. He would become very fat. Are you understanding? And he would be servicing old madam.
Are you getting me? And, hm, hm. And he would never have a child. That woman was so jealous.
He would not allow him to get married. How can you get married when you're already married? You're already married to a married woman. Heh.
He's married to a married woman. And he would have just been, but food he would eat. And then I know what would have happened.
He would have become a very, very corrosive driver to his orga. Hm. And I know what will happen.
Whenever Potiphar says something in the bedroom and the wife does not like it. And she wanted to prove that those things were important. They're not the only man here.
She would walk out. Eh? Diggy like that. Say, Joe Jack! Just for her husband to boil.
He would come and give her, give him a piece. Say, sweetie. Fine boy.
Eh? She would come back into the bedroom. And say, eh? Old man, what are you talking about? Who are you that you are talking to people like this? You better respect yourself. Before your girl sends you to another area.
I'm just managing you here. All the time you are not around. Because somebody services me here.
And because now the bank account is in the hand of Joseph. It will swing to money. All the things that Joseph did not learn from his father's house.
She will teach him. Am I right? He will have bought one plot somewhere. To build his own.
God knew that. The danger that is coming to this man of God. We need something to uproot him.
Blackmail. Terrible, terrible life. Framed against him.
To the extent that. There was no way he could escape. Exhibit is in the hand of the woman.
He is standing there naked. Nobody is in the house to say that he cried. As soon as your girl came.
Nobody could hear on this thing. They just wanted to take him to the prison. Prison without trial.
How long will he be in jail? Forever. Forever. For it was God.
That needed to take him from the place. Of temporary convenience. So that he can arrive.
At where heaven. Planned for him. Look at the room.
That God gave Joseph. Excuse me. Do you know the room? He said.
The whole of this nation. Is in your hand. The only place where I will be higher than you.
Is in the matter of the kingdom. But I am number one. You are number two.
All senators must listen to you. All business must pass through you. Nobody can do anything in Egypt.
Unless you authorize it. The second presidential judge is your own. Fatifa.
Chief protocol. The man said. Yes sir.
Here is this man that we have decided. To honor. And he is in charge of everything in Egypt.
All of you must listen to him. Now I want you to address him. Put him in the second presidential judge.
Provide protocol services for him. And drive him around the whole town. And the whole city announce.
This is the man. This is the man. This is.
Fatifa. Very, very confused I think. But who is he to talk now? Do you know that when you are in uniform service.
When you are in uniform service. Are you hearing me? The uniform men they understand me very well. Even if it is your son.
That they made commander. It doesn't matter how old you are. What did you do? You salute him.
And if the young man knows what he is doing. He will not call you dad. Dad is not in the matter here.
Because that would be an insult. Of the office he represents. Sergeant.
Sergeant Sam. Fall in line. That is his father's house.
When they get home and there is no uniform. He say dad how are you? When you gave command. My body was telling me but I couldn't look back.
Say yes. Yes you better don't look back. That's all.
God has made a room for us. The room that God has made for us. Is beyond the contention of men.
I wanted to rise up for it. I wanted to rise up for it. Everywhere God has booted you out.
It is to take you to your room. Stop weeping for the lot that you lost. It is not a lot.
Tell somebody say what you lost is not a lot. It's not a lot. Stop crying.
Stand up. Stand up. Let's go.
Let's go. It's not a lot. Excuse me.
What did I say? It is not a lot. All the lands you lost. There's nothing there.
All those that struggle and took 100 by 200 blood from us. It's not a lot. Actually if they didn't steal from us.
We would have been tied up. Have you? You have been saying we have something there. We have something there.
Well it is something there. But that would have been so narrow. Oh God.
He took us. And he's taking us. I want you to know that God is taking us.
He has taken us away. Now you go to nations. You are going to nations.
And what God is giving them is overwhelming. What God is releasing to them in nations is overwhelming. And I told one of my brothers the other day in Liberia.
I said that land they are quarreling about. Leave it. Leave it.
There was one report to me that there are more hectares that heaven is released. Lift up your eyes. Look northward.
Look southward. Look eastward. Look westward.
Now. Can we now define it? That's the definition we are ending with tonight. And that will be where to pray.
That's where your prayer will start. And wherever you are, I want you to pray. Look at the Bible.
Look at how they put it. It says for all the land. Which land? I thought you were reading verse 15 for me.
All the land which thou seest, to you will I give it. And to thy seed. And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth.
So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also. Wait. Was God speaking to a man? Eh? What is his name? Abraham who? Abraham Terah.
So what of if that man was really Akanin? Eh? Eh? It doesn't matter. The same thing. Same thing.
When I started reading the Bible, and I started discovering that God spoke to man. Who also has soul name like me. It was as though, how would you be speaking to one man, Abraham Terah.
And you are saying if anybody can number the dust of the earth, so will they number his seed, the children. What do you mean? You talk to one man. Yes? God came and spoke to Peter.
He said, you are Peter. I'll give you the keys of the kingdom. Aha.
He spoke to a man like that? God spoke to David. So I'm entering the covenant with you? Aha. Aha.
So I found that all the stories in the Bible, they were stories about human beings. That God dealt with. Am I right? And I'm asking a question.
I'm asking a question. If God spoke to William like that, is it incredible? Eh? Abba. What are you thinking? Why is your mind so slow to say, well, we are reading the Bible.
We are talking about somebody. You are not talking about me. About who will God be talking? Or you think God has started talking to trees nowadays? Eh? Answer me now.
Or you think God is not just talking to birds? Is that what he's doing? Who is he talking to? The day that God first told us this, we were in Jesus. So I'm sure you remember this small hall. And we were not up to anything there.
When I go to that hall, and I say, ah, was this the hall where we thought we were doing MLR? Our first MLR was in that JSS hall. And we had no food. Ah, that's a big hall.
That's a big hall. I go to that hall now. Can we take 300? Abba.
Eh? Eh? Brothers. Sisters. All the land that your eye can see.
So that's why you are going to pray, Lord. God is saying now, I'm not setting a limit to you. What will be your limit? Your eyes.
What your eyes can see. That's what determines where you are going. And I don't want you to be sitting in this thing and say, ah, they are not talking to me.
They are talking to me. They are talking to me. They are talking to you.
If God is the one who sends you to do business for Him, what is your own business? The kind that you only push on wheelbarrow. And everything finishes. And you have been doing that for 10 years.
What do you mean by that? This is witch people. In your very eyes. Somebody is building a three-story building from the same business.
You are still pushing your wheelbarrow. What do you mean? And when they say, hey, it's Jesus. It's Jesus.
Ah. Why do you bring such insults to my master like that? Tonight. Lift up your eyes from the place where you are.
Look northward. Eastward. Southward.
Westward. How do you maximize relevance? When you now know that now the Lord has made room for us. The Lord has made room for us.
And I want you to lift up your eyes. Don't look at where you are now. Don't look on what you are doing presently as if that is your destiny.
Stop looking on that. Excuse me. Stop looking on those people.
They don't have your destiny in their pockets. Stop looking at those brothers. I see them talking, bragging as if they have the A to Z of your life in their pockets.
Look away from them. Tell yourself and say, my life is not in their pockets. I'm looking beyond here.
I'm going higher. Because Jesus has come to declare irrelevance. Are you a student? Top city.
And some of you may have a lecturer who is like a sadist. And he's telling you, where are you going? What are you hoping to do? We have been here. If I pass you, that's when you pass.
Let me tell you, when a man says like that, bypass him. What did I tell you to do? Bypass him. Bypass him.
And you know, it is possible to bypass him now. You know why? All that he's talking about, he downloaded it from the Internet. Go to the Internet.
You will see everything he's doing. Download it. Bypass him.
Bypass him. By the time he sets his exam, there's nothing he will set. Because he said he's not progressing.
He's not thinking. He's not doing anything else. He has become a sadist.
Who is sitting like this? You know anybody you see who is sitting like this? Is he making progress? He's not moving. You know why? He's afraid that if he stands up, somebody will take his seat. So he's got to adjust.
He's not going anywhere. I don't fear such men. They're going nowhere.
He's sitting in one space. He's afraid to stand up. Bypass him.
And he said, if you don't pass my course, tell him, excuse me sir, your course is only a course. It's not a course. It's not a course.
Once you begin to understand the purpose of God for your life now, you will soon see that a door is opening to you. And when that door opens, they're the ones that will be begging you. They will say, oh, do you know why they will be begging you? Because what you will be doing, the research you will be doing, they will want you to put their name there so that they can have relevance.
They will call you and say, yes, for that project. Ah, that's wonderful. That's wonderful.
But you have to put my name as one of the co-authors. But you are not a co-author yet. Anyway, because you are my teacher, I will just add your name.
When you add his name, he will be so indebted to you. Because he knows that he didn't even know what you teach. Can I have students that will bypass them? I'm not saying students say, yes sir, I've got it now.
I'm going beyond them. When you start going beyond your teachers, because the promise is that it makes me wiser than who? Than my teachers. When we have time, I'll be talking to you about that.
Because at Rehoboth, you are moving. You are moving. You move up.
You get your bear shiver. The place of divine appearance. Evil will appear to you.
So what is the dimension in which you can engage and maximize your Rehoboth? As far as your eyes can see. That's why we are praying. Let my eyes not be myopic.
God will give you eyes. You will see opportunities. You will see souls to be saved.
You will see places to step into. You will see grounds to cover. You will see empty room to fill.
You will see places that people thought nothing can come out from. And as you step there, heaven will bless you there. You will see abandoned cities, and you will resettle it.
People say, it is only when this man started coming here that things have changed. Yes. You have an anointing now to resettle abandoned cities.
To rebuild broken walls. To bring back what people thought was dead. To cause it to revive.
Because the spiritual reviver has come upon us. I'm telling you, you will see it now. Our brothers in Belize, they said, after MLL, the Anglican Communion of their country, they said to them, come and help us to start this discipleship in our generation.
So they are going to cathedral. The indigenous people. Why not? And I said, that's just the beginning.
You will see more than that. You are the one thinking small. If anybody is struggling with you, over 20 people, why will you die fighting for 20 when there are 2,000 waiting for you? What do I want you to do? Lift up your eyes.
Lift up your eyes! You must have gone here and there before you would discover that people are waiting for you. You will soon see people that say, thank you for coming. Will you come again? I will gather up my house.
And before you know it, another class is coming. Souls are being saved. Men are being healed.
Things are changing. And they are saying, ah, this boy that we rejected, see, he has become something there. May God answer your prayer.
Because I will never come back to this chapter. I want you to read it and finish it. Because the next chapter that we are going to come, we are going to now be defining the scope, the dimension of our Rehoboth.
Nobody must make this Rehoboth only to do something small. This room must not be made a small room. It will not have been called a room if it is not a room.
Are you understanding? You don't use that God has made room for us. When you say God has made room for us, the meaning of that is that God has created for us an unlimited expanse of space where we can search, we can look like this, we can draw our lines like this, everything, and we will still not have covered it. May God take you away from narrowness.
The end of that chapter, the Bible says, so Abraham, the Bible says, God said, arise, walk. Walk how? The length and the breadth. And my understanding is that stop walking as someone, I understand.
I used to trek a lot. And when we were going to school, because we trekked not less than five miles to reach school every morning. I was a day student throughout my life.
My first boarding house was the university. I didn't know what it means to be in a boarding house. But we would wake up and trek five miles.
And you are not going downhill. You are climbing. And if you are late, Papa is there with a rod.
There's one Baba they call Papa. He was employed, not for anything else, but for discipline. He was this disciplinary master.
He had a rod. If he gives you three for the whole week, you are wicked. We feared him.
So who are you to go late? Because Papa will be there. So we are climbing. We are moving.
We are running. So I learned how to stretch my leg, how to slide, don't slide, because you know where you are going. Walk with the sense of your long journey.
Is that all right? Walk in the lane. In the breath. You must be a man of dimension.
For Lehobo, God is looking for men of dimension. Men who are saying, Oh God, thank you for 200. What of the 2,000? Thank you Lord for these 2,000.
What of the 200,000? Thank you Lord for 200,000. What of the 20 million that are yet to hear? How can we sit down here? What of those 20 million that are yet to be told? What of those people, all of the Ukum area? Lord, what of all of them? How do we celebrate that we have one discipleship class in Zakigyan? Excuse me, is Zakigyan equal to Ukum? Brother Emmanuel. Eh? Zakigyan, is it Ukum? No! Zakigyan is just one town out of so many towns.
So you are going to bring a map. You are going to say, okay, we are not in Zakigyan. We have not got to say.
We have not got to this. We are yet to enter here. We need to get to Chito.
We need to get to that. Oh my God, we have not reached this. Ah! And you are telling yourself, as long as we do not have a disciple in that village, we cannot rest.
That's how you are going to move now. Are you going to move now? Can I ask you to stand up? And tell you to walk. Walk in the lengths, in the breadths, in the heights, in the depths of what your eyes can see.
But as we are rising, there was something that happened to Abraham. The Bible said, And he built an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. He knew that this matter is the Lord that has appeared to him.
He had no problem to quarrel with brother Lot. In fact, when Lot entered into his own Lord's problem. You remember that Lot entered into a lot of problems.
He was the one who went from his house to go and rescue Lot. He was saying, please take. So he said, no, no, no, I don't take anything from your lot.
So that you will not say you made Abraham rich. God has planned my prosperity. Your own will be a contamination.
Please, have it, have it, go with it. You are going to pray and say, Lord. All the families were arranged to move me to my relatives.
Now, you are making room for my life. Let's first agree with God and say, Lord, tonight. This life you have allowed me to touch.
It will not be lost from my hand. That's your first prayer. One of the things that I saw with Abraham is that everywhere he will build an altar.
He will connect back to God. He will connect back to the Holy Ghost. He will stand there and say, Lord.
You are the one who called me. You are the one I'm working with. I will not see men.
I will not see the Egyptian. I will not see all of that. It's you, Lord.
Can you pray and say, God, I've been brought me here. Let every other man fade out of my eyes. Let every other struggle fade out of my heart.
Let every other contention, let it finish with me. You have never disappointed me. I will hold your Lord.
I will hold your hand. I will walk with you. I will move with you.
All that happened to Isaac, one of the things that made Isaac's life a testimony is that the Lord appeared to him. He built an altar to the Lord. He obeyed the Lord.
He never gave in to anything else. Can I beg any one of you standing here today, you are now at a rebel boss. You have nothing to do struggling with the lot of human beings.
Can you pray and say, Lord, I'm connecting my life to you now. I'm putting my life in your hand tonight. I'm laying my hand in your hand.
And I say, wherever God has allowed you to sit down and follow this meeting, whether you are following it as a center, or you are listening to it in your room, or God has called you aside and said, this vision, I'm envisioning your life. Will you release every struggle tonight? What are you fighting with? Can you let it go? Don't let Satan preoccupy you with nothing, with useless things. I want you to take a decision tonight.
Anything that any man can struggle with you over, it is over. It's over. Let it go so that you can get to where you are going.
Lift up your eyes. See what the Lord is showing you tonight. See where God is calling you tonight.
Move away from the place where men are pushing in, pushing out, and you are doing it like this. Go, go out of that. Lift up your eyes.
Hear the voice of the Lord speaking to you tonight. I have brought you all through that. You cannot be a local champion in a dungeon.
You cannot be a king among dwarfs. Move, move. God wants to move you tonight.
God wants to send you far out of where you are. Wow, wow, wow. Oh, Rehoboth is here.
Rehoboth is here. Rehoboth is here. Hallelujah.
I want you to pray. Something must rise in your spirit from this night. Something must move inside of you tonight.
You are rising. I want you to tell yourself, it's not a lot, it's not a lot. That lot is not a lot.
There's nothing there. I let go that I can have Jesus. I let go that I can have the Lord of Lords.
I let go that the King of Kings could be my inheritance. I let go that I can let God. Lord, please.
Please, Lord. Please, Lord, move your children. Move them, move them.
Move them, oh God. Move them, oh God. Move them.
Mobilize us, arise and set us in motion. Oh, Lord, the man of war. Give us, oh Lord, thy notion.
Anoint us for thy work. Arise and set me in motion. Oh, Lord, the man of war.
We do that standard, only that standard. That's all we pray for tonight. Give me, oh Lord, thy notion.
Anoint me for thy work. Arise, arise and set me in motion. Oh, Lord, the man of war.
One more time. Give me your notion. Your notion.
Anoint me, anoint me for thy work. Arise and set me in motion. Set me in motion.
I can't be struggling with dwarves. I can't be fighting with lords. Oh, yes, Lord.
Oh, Lord, arise and set me in motion. Oh, Lord. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Declare it, declare it, because tonight you are moving. You are going to arise.
I say, if anybody took your will, leave it, leave it. Lift up your eyes. There's something, there's a lot that heaven is holding out for you.
Useless fight, enough. Unnecessary quarrel, enough. Unnecessary struggle with men, let it go.
Any bitterness, let it go. Thank God tonight I'm rising. I am rising, I'm moving.
I'm moving, I'm moving. Yes, yes, yes, ah, yes, ah. It is God.
He wants to move you out of that small space. You suddenly saw that where people used to embrace you, they started criticizing, they started pushing you around. They said, no, you are becoming too much.
And they wanted to move, just move, move. Lift up your eyes from the place. All of you, lift up your eyes from the place where you are.
Stop looking at where you are. Stop looking on what you are, what you are doing. At best, they are only your beginning.
Lord, tonight, tonight, tonight, Lord, I'm asking, set my brothers ablaze. Set them in motion. Take away love from their lives.
Take away all the sickness. All the ethics. All of those things, they are not important.
But Santa Yamakundo Robo-Syria, and you are listening to me, you are in South Africa. And you are struggling over a small space. I charge you tonight, stand up from that place.
Stand up from that place. Lift up your eyes northward. Lift up your eyes westward.
Look southward, you will see, you will see. You will see doors opening to you. This night, I charge you in the name of the Lord, rise, rise, rise.
Mashinta Yamakundo Robo-Syria. Rehoboth is here. Rehoboth has come for you, my friend.
God himself is the one standing up for you. Pushing you into the next space. The next space for your life.
Hallelujah, Father. Thank you. Now, Lord, that oh God who answers prayer, thank you for what you are doing.
In Jesus Christ's name, we have prayed. Right, and I would like to conclude in prayer. For do you know, as long as you allow the devil to set a useless fire for you, you see yourself quenching a fire that is not needed.
Sometimes it will set for you a useless non-entity that you are playing around with. I was wondering, if Joseph had agreed to be playing with Potiphar, look at a whole destiny that would be lost. Look at a whole nation that would have perished.
Look at posterity that God was tying around his neck that would have been wasted. Could it be because you can't see what God wants you to become? That's what you are playing about with sin. Could it be because you are so myopic that you thought that you would just end your life around the pot of a useless something? Now, the first thing I want to charge tonight as I pray, and I'm praying generally, don't forget that whether you are here or you are in Ghana, anywhere, the Lord wants me to tell you, that thing that is tying you down around the pot of sin, that thing that is making you go round and round and round, whether it is internet, movies, pornography, whatever it is, they are only there to ruin a destiny that they can sense.
They don't want you to see where God is taking you. This night, I charge you in the name of Jesus, stand up from there. Stand up.
The prodigal son says, what am I doing here? And I'm asking you, what are you doing there? What are you doing there among those that are going nowhere? What is a king doing among those that have been cut into pieces? What is a man who is going to carry a great anointing for God? What are you doing among those that have been perforated in light? What pepper soup are you drinking that will soon set your teeth on edge? While I close my eyes in prayer, anyone that is sitting in any condition and it has compromised the journey God has for your life, there's power at Rehoboth to raise you up. He says, I do not always fall until you fall again. All I need to say to you tonight, rise up and come.
When the prodigal son rose, nobody could hold him back. No power can hold you back. It's Rehoboth.
Whether you are here or you are anywhere, take a step. Just walk to the altar before the Lord. Whatever your altar is there, whether here, just walk out.
Thank you, my sister. Just walk out. Just walk out.
You are saying tonight, I can't continue like that. My destiny cannot be tied down. The Holy Spirit is calling you to say, walk out.
Walk out of that. Walk out of that trap. Walk out of that confusion.
Walk out of that sea. Wherever you are, please step out. Step out here quickly.
Quickly. God bless you, my friend. If you are coming, you have to come quick.
I didn't ask you to raise your hand. I just want you to walk out. Because what you need to do is to walk out.
Thank you. Thank you. What you need to do, sister, is to walk out.
Let me tell you, that ball is not your destiny. It is not your destiny. Don't let them tell you that if I were not there, nobody is there.
It's a lie. Walk out. Walk out.
Walk out. Brother, step out. And say, today my life can no longer be tied.
Jesus has come. A Rehoboth has come for me. You just find a place to kneel down.
Please walk out. If you are coming, just walk out. Thank you.
God bless you. Young lady, young man, just walk out. Or maybe an old person you have.
You've been tied down for years. And today we say, well, you have been here for too long. Anywhere to go, there's somewhere to go.
Now is Rehoboth. Thank you. Walk out quickly.
Thank you, my brothers. Thank you, dear sister. Are you outside and you need to come down quickly? Let's do it.
And I say, even if where you are, all that appears as you are watching the Word of God, I say, will I go out? Go out. Take a step. Stand out there.
Break the yoke. There's a chain that says, no, no. The chain of procrastination.
I will do it tomorrow. I will think about it. There's nothing to think about.
All you need to do is to rise and step out. God bless you. Thank you.
Thank you. God bless you. I intend to end now.
But if you must come, then you have to run. Thank you. Thank you.
If you have to come, you must run now. Thank you, my dear. You have to run.
You have to run. This meeting is a critical meeting. Very critical.
Where are you? Is there still someone else? Is there still a young man, a young lady? You're just saying, your life must not be tied down. Thank you, friend. Just come.
Thank you, my friend. Please do it quick. Quick.
Quick. Thank you. And I'm so happy that several of you call me God.
It's laying hands on you now that you are still young. I see God is saying, let this one not, not be delayed in the country of Confucius. Thank you.
Thank you. All right. Thank you.
I still see a light that is saying, shall I not go? Go now. Now. Not tomorrow.
Tomorrow, this kind of call may not be the one that we will call you. Thank you. Lift up your hands as we kneel down before God.
Just lift up your hands. I'll be praying for you now. If you are coming, rush and join the prayer.
Thank you, my friend. Rush and join the prayer. Rush and join the prayer.
Holy Spirit is doing something now. Thank you, Jesus. Young man, run.
Run. You are too, you are getting too late now. Thank you, my friend.
Thank you. God bless you, friend. Thank you.
And you can't imagine what heaven is going to do with your life from tonight. So Lord, thank you. Everywhere your people are listening and responding.
Every battle that was organized to tie them down, we rise out of that battle tonight. And by the raising of the anointing of the Holy Ghost, we break that yoke tonight. Jesus, you step forth your hand, you say, come to me.
All ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Now, Lord, they have come. They have come to you.
They have come to you who is announcing their deliverance, announcing their rehabilitation, announcing a new room for their lives. Lord, I'm asking, as they step out to you, step into their lives. Lord Jesus, step into their lives.
Conclude their struggle from this night in the name of Jesus. Relationship that was not ordained by God, that they entered out of carelessness, and their lives are being destroyed and dismantled. Tonight, we break that relationship.
We bring them forth into their rehabilitation in the name of Jesus Christ. And tonight, oh God, you say, those who come to you, you will know why it's cast out. Now, Jesus, take over.
Let the blood of Jesus speak for them. Let the name of the Lord our God become their strong tower. And let your death on the cross terminate the old nature, such that they will start living a new life now.
As you call them out this night, they are never going back there again. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are rewriting their story. You are changing their story from this night.
Thank you. Now, oh God, there are several others. Yes, battles with Mr. Locke, and it has preoccupied their hearts for a long time, the wasted prayers.
But tonight, they are saying, enough is enough. I am rising out of all struggle. I'm going to my room.
Father, as they rise, mobilize them. Set them, that from this meeting, oh God, the room that you have made for us, we are occupying it. We are walking into the land of it.
We are walking to the breadth of it. We are walking to the height of it. We are going to get to the very depth of what you have set out for our lives.
Thank you. Now, unto you, God, who will keep these ones, who will make their lives a testimony, who will give them a very sharp transformation, unto you do I commit them, that from now, you say, a new heart will I give you, a new spirit will I put within you, I'll take away from you the heart of stone. Do it now.
Just do it now. That from now, they will be translated into the kingdom of your dear son. Darkness will finish in their lives.
Addiction will be cut off from tonight. And demonic oppression, I rebuke it in the name of Jesus. Every force that was incensed against your life, by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, will break that yoke.
This night will be a fresh journey for your life. Thank you, Father, for hearing. Thank you for doing what these men have been struggling to do for years, and they could not achieve.
From tonight, your life will never remain the same again. In the name of Jesus. Thank you for hearing this cry.
Thank you for doing what you are doing in their lives. And thank you for the word of life that you have given to them. And the beat of cancer that they will receive now, you will establish them.
In Jesus Christ's name, we are prayed. Please rise. I want you to rise up.
Thank you. Please rise. Look at my hand here.
And look at that, Babasana. Let's go quickly to them for a few minutes. They will put a few things in your hand, and I will be celebrating you.
Yes. Heaven will celebrate your life. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. And so, Father, for everyone that has come, and you are declaring, Rehoboth, I also announce it to you.
It's your Rehoboth. It's your room to grow. Your room to manifest.
Your room to break forth. Narrowness is uprooted from your life now. Strife will no longer be your story.
What the canker worms and farmer worms ate, God is restoring to you in double fold. The lot that the lot took, I say to you, is not a lot. It's not a lot.
And it will never be a lot. For you, it's just a small thing. So clear space for the bigger thing.
So whatever you lost, you'll recover it in hundred fold. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord will set you in motion from tonight. He will release you with a fresh velocity.
And you are going to move into the fullness of His divine calling. Your destiny is being reset from tonight. So will it be.
You shall be well with your soul. In the name of Jesus. And from nation to nation, Lord, we will fill the rooms.
We'll hear great news of what you are doing. Lands that you are opening up. Harvest that you are growing in.
So will it be. Among the students, among the youth, among women, among even pastors, traditional denominations, this room, oh God, for us to be fruitful. We shall be fruitful.
I declare to you, you shall be fruitful. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Who is concluding for us tonight? Or can I share the greetings?
Sermon Outline
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- Praise and declaration of God's faithfulness
- Reading and reflection on Isaiah 25
- Celebration of God's fulfilled promises
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- Testimony of past prayers and God's fulfillment
- Recognition of current spiritual position
- Call to deliberate understanding of God's purpose
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- Global vision and participation in God's work
- Prayer for enlarged hearts and divine perception
- Encouragement to embrace the present moment
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- Reflection on past prophetic words
- Understanding the critical 'now' in God's plan
- Charge to be active stakeholders in God's purpose
Key Quotes
“God has brought us to a place of divine enlightenment. God has brought his counsels of old. They have come to pass, and our eyes have seen what our God can do.” — Gbile Akanni
“I will lean on you, Lord. You have promised. You have never failed. Your faithfulness is forevermore.” — Gbile Akanni
“Lord, I beg you that this must remain a movement and never become a monument.” — Gbile Akanni
Application Points
- Trust in God's faithfulness by recalling His past promises and their fulfillment.
- Seek God to enlarge your heart and perception to understand His current purpose.
- Actively engage in the present spiritual season as a vital stakeholder in God's plan.
