Transcript: Sustaining The Fire Part 2
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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. We should start from Leviticus chapter six where we started from last week because this is a continuation of last week's teaching. I would advise you and and admonish you to get the teaching from last week if you did not already get that. It is called sustaining fire part one. This is gonna be the part two. I'm gonna do a quick recap for the sake of those who are not there. We started from Leviticus chapter six from the store. And today, we'll try to make it a teaching as much as possible so that you can be instructed. That was the intention last week for the holy spirit did what he wanted to do.
That is amazing. So I said that the aim of this teaching is to help you maximize your spiritual experiences and impartations. After meetings like this, for instance, prophetic meetings where you have definite encounters, that's the one many of you have been having. Or when you pray and then a fire is ignited in your spirit, there are things to do after that ignition is happening in your spirit to trap the experience and produce with that experience. If you remember what we were discussing. Glory to God. And we said that what happened with many believers is that they come for certain meetings and they are fired up. Right? Diagnition happens in them, but then after some days, after some weeks, after some months, the fire begins to fizzle out, and they go crashing back into their previous mode. And I told you that the Christian life is not meant to be a sinusoidal wave like alternating current.
The Christian life is not high today, low tomorrow, and the cycle repeats itself. The Christian life is a life of ever increasing faith, a life of ever increasing fire. Do you remember that? Yes, sir. Yes. And what happens to many believer, unfortunately, is that that fire starts. That fire is ignited, but they don't know how to sustain the fire. They don't know how to keep the fire burning. They don't understand the principle of consistency. And so after some time, what happens is that the fire begins to wane in its intensity until it eventually dies out.
In the book of Leviticus, God gives an instruction to the priest that is as applicable to us today as it was to them. Chapter six and verse 12, the bible says, and the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering in order on it. And he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. Can you see this? The priest shall burn wood on it every morning. In other words, the fact that there is fire on the altar does not mean the fire will by itself be sustained. There's a responsibility of the priest in burning wood every morning. In laying the burnt offering and hold on it, he shall burn the fat of the peace offerings.
So if the fire is kept burning, there is what the priest must do to keep that fire burning. In verse 13, it goes on to say, a fire shall always be burning on the altar. It shall never go out. That is the instruction God gave to the priest that the fire must always be burning, that the fire must never go out. Can you say with me? He said my fire will not go out. My fire go out. And I showed you in Romans chapter 12 verse 11, how that the bible says, not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit. That's the same thing the Bible is saying. As he said in Leviticus, not lacking in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
It begins to explain to you what it means by being fervent in spirit. It means you should not lag in diligence. You should always serve the Lord. And if at any point you lack diligence, if at any point you begin to lag in service to the Lord, you begin to lag in rejoicing in hope, verse 12, in patience in tribulation, in continuing steadfastly in prayer, then it means that you are no longer fervent in spirit. A simple definition of keeping the fire burning is being fervent in spirit. And I told you, if you remember, that the spiritual fire is caught primarily through encounters. Remember that? And I told you that this fire is the glow of the holy ghost in a man. The passion that the holy ghost ignites in a man. It is what enables you to pursue after Jesus with strength that is not your own.
Even though there is your own effort involved in it, your pursuit is not directly by yourself, and it's not mechanized. The fire is like grease to machine parts. Yeah. It makes prayer. Even though you are still learning it, it makes it fun even when you are learning. It makes the study of the word of God even though you are still learning. It makes it fun even when you are learning. That the bible is not a boring experience you just do for routine sake. The fire of God is what keeps you ignited. It takes you to the altar every morning, to church excited, to doing spiritual things excitedly, not as a burden, not as though somebody has placed a heavy weight on you you must fulfill.
There are people that come into church is such a heavy burden on them. You can tell that the fire is going out. When the fire of God is lit in your spirit, you have a passion for the things of God and to even do the things of God. And I told you that you have a passion also for destiny, for destiny fulfillment, for kingdom pursuit. And all that fire is ignited in your spirit is by encounters. And there are three layers of these encounters. The first of which is encounters by the word. Jeremiah 20 and verse nine, the bible says, his word, NIV, his word is in my heart like a fire. His word is in my heart like a fire. A fire shot up in my bones.
The prophet said, I'm weary of holding it in. Indeed, I cannot. I try. I try to, but I can't keep it to myself. The thing is burning. It's burning. This is an encounter by the word. That the word is shut up in your heart like fire. It's locked inside your bones, and it begins to burn deep. It lights up something deep on your inside.
I explained this last week Tuesday. You should listen to it. If you have not listened to it, go and get that teaching. You really, really, really need it. That sometimes you are listening to a sermon, reading scriptures, or just reflecting, and a line eats you from scriptures. A line eats you from the word. It shakes you to the core of your being. That's not just understanding. That is an ignition, an encounter. A young man hears a teaching on purpose for instance, and he suddenly realized he has been wasting time, wasting his life, and he commits himself to radical change at that point.
Not because he saw anything, but because the word entered into him. That is an encounter. That is fire through the word. Now you can listen to something like this for instance, and it ignites in you a passion. It reawakens in you something. You are listening to a sermon on the love of God, and you can feel the fire of the holy ghost burning in your spirit. And you can tell that God is calling to to himself, calling to grow the dimensions of his love, of his power, of his glory. And right there, you start making commitment in your spirit to commit yourself to more of God. That's an encounter, and that encounter came through his word. In the book of first Samuel, the bible says, and God revealed himself again to Samuel in Shiloh by his word.
That there is a means by which God reveals himself to people, and it is not true visionary encounters, not true not dreams and visions alone, but there is an encounter that will come by the word of God, by listening to the word of God. Messages you'll keep on listening to can bring you encounters when you come for meetings like this and the word of God is being shared. You see, look at the experience that the prophet Jeremiah was describing. He said as I was hearing that word, it entered into my heart like fire. It was shot up in my bones. That's why you see the power of God coming so strong upon people when the word of God... Listen. When the word of God is being shared, it is because... Glory to God. It's the word of God.
It causes that that that effect like fire burning a man's heart. That the bible says the prophet said even him was trying to lock it in his bones. He was trying to contain it to ensure it doesn't come out. But the thing, it it was so strong, it spilled out of it. An encounter by the word. They are sitting down right there and the word of God so strikes you. You know the right thing to do, the right steps to take. You know what to do about your business, about your academics. You know where I've been missing it in life and destiny. God begins to show you by his word.
It might even be through a story. I be showing an example, say a story of Joseph or of of anyone in scriptures, but you are listening to it, and God is painting a picture of your own life to you, showing you your own path in scriptures. The bible says these things were written for our learning. That we, through the comfort of scriptures... Listen. It means that whenever you read scriptures, these are not just stories. These are prophetic inscriptions. Listen. The bible calls... The first person in scripture that the bible calls a prophet was Abraham.
When Abraham lied to that king and told that king that Sarah was his sister, when in fact he was his wife. God would come to the king and tell the king by himself that that that that Abraham was his prophet. He says my prophet will pray for you. Give the man his wife back. He is a prophet. God was the first person that mentioned that office prophet. And the first person that he mentioned it for was Abraham. And when you study the life of Abraham, you'd never find a place in scripture where Abraham prophesied. Where Abraham said, thus saith the Lord. Yet he was the first person that the Bible calls a prophet.
In Isaiah 51, the bible then says, look unto Abraham. Look unto you, Sarah, your father, for I blessed him, for I increased him. In other words, if the bible says to look unto Abraham as the pattern for prosperity, the pattern for blessing and for increase. It means that his prophecy was not his words. His prophecy was his life. Now as you begin to study his life, there was a picture God was painting about his life that applies to your own. That when you study the work of faith, regardless of your race, and it is so prophetic that regardless of your race, your gender, where you are from, your activity, everybody will find themselves in Abraham. That man is truly a prophet. He he is the pattern of the work of faith. You learn faith by studying him.
It's the pattern of the work of faith. So you learn faith by studying Abraham. And as you study him, you begin to see your own prophetic journey inside his own life. How that God called him and told him, get out of your father's house. And in that statement, your own life can come. And it can mean different things to different people. You'll be shocked. It was... Man of God. He wrote a powerful book on the holy spirit, not Benin, by the way.
I can't remember his name. He was the one who shared his story and said he was reading scriptures. He was a 19 year old young man, and he was in his father's house, and he was praying to God for direction. And as he was praying to God for direction, he opened scriptures, and God told him from scriptures, get out of your father's house, out of your kindred, out of your. And the word hit him so strong. He packed his bag and told his father, daddy, it's time to go. God has spoken to me. That is because the man to whom story was written was a prophet. So his life, except from his life, relates to your life in many ways. But if you're gonna study with the spirit of prophecy into scriptures, you begin to see parts and portions of his life that directly relates to yours.
It was Abraham that was told for instance. I will bless those who bless you. I will multiply those. I will multiply your seed. Is that not so? I will curse those who curse you. All of these things are words spoken to a man, but that that does... That does not belong to his... To the man. For instance, when God told Abraham that in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed, Paul now begins to tell us that when God says in you, he wasn't talking about in Abraham or even in Isaac.
But in Christ that would come through the seed present in Abraham, how prophetic can that be? That in Christ... What is the reason for this? Because Abraham would father the Jews. And it means that if the inhabitant of the earth will be blessed solely in Abraham as to mean the father of the Jews, then it would mean that Gentiles would not inherit our vision. So God routed it such that in you was to mean Christ and anyone who would partake of the Christ, Gentile or Jew regardless. I don't even understand what I'm saying. Am I deep? And if that man's life is so prophetic, that every believer can study his life and see pictures there. What am I saying?
It's not only the one that is so prophetic. Every believer in scripture is like that. That even when you think, oh, I've lost my mother. I've lost my father. There's a comfort in scripture called Esther, that a man can be... A woman rather can be an orphan raised in unpleasant circumstances, raised by a gay man. And yet somehow, by orchestration of the spirit, arise to be a queen. It shows you that your background does not mean your back should be on the ground truly. And that that that... It does not matter where you came out from.
It doesn't matter circumstances. This is how scriptures speak to you. And you traveled all the way from Enugu, traveled all the way from Ebonyi, and you find yourself in Ibadan, a place you have never been to in the name of admission. And God begins to tell you that there was a there was a way he routed a man's journey, but God routed his journey into Egypt. And the excuse was through slavery. He was sold by his brother into slavery in Egypt. Was that where he wanted to be? He wanted to be with his family, but circumstances made it so that that would not be possible. Next thing he knew, he was already in Egypt serving her as a slave. And from a slave onto a prime minister in a strange land, and God will speak to you that I've brought you to a strange land to rule.
This is... Oh my god. This is how scriptures speak to you. And you might go out of the country, and you might find this even there. Encounters by the word. This is what happens when we are teaching here. That the fire of God can strike somebody so strongly. You will now be wondering, what happened? Because that person just saw light whereas you heard English. The bible says the entrance of your word gives light.
The first thing that the entrance of the word of God gives is not understanding. It is light. It is after you have received light that understanding comes. The bible says then understanding to the simple. So what happens in a meeting like this is a a deposit of light. Light is being distributed. Beams of light are entering into people in different capacities, in different intensities. And it was so strong in Jeremiah that he tried to contain it. He could not contain it. I'll show you why very soon.
That the integrity of the fire differs. Let not me go ahead of myself. I'll come back to the scripture. The second avenue of encounter is encounters by the spirit. These are deeply spiritual moments that come with divine impartation. And they often happen during meetings like this or even when you are alone praying and just seeking God by yourself. Joel chapter two and verse 28, the Bible says your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. The young men will see visions. God still speaks even today.
God still speaks clearly. God still speaks powerfully. Sometimes it's in a vivid dream, a sudden inner impression, or a strong unshakable conviction in your heart. These are not ordinary moments. They are divine sparks designed to ignite something eternal in your spirit. You are in a season of confusion, for instance, unsure of your direction. Then one night, you dream. You are standing on the mountain preaching to nations, and you wake up with a burden for souls you cannot shake. One one night, just yesterday, you were someone who didn't know where they were going, but now there is a burden for souls wondering why am I seeing myself speaking to people? Why am I seeing myself in in a ditch with thousands of people, and I'm the light source that they are following?
Why am I seeing myself swearing like an eagle with wings, swearing all of a sudden? These are encounters, encounters of the spirit. Yes, sir. That's God. That's encounters by the spirit. You may be praying, you may be worshiping, or even just sitting quietly in a meeting like this, and God begins to speak to your heart. Something is being stirred in your heart. A a desire is born in you. A calling is quickened in your heart. That is impartation.
It's a fire. Because you see, when we come to meetings like this, I'm not just I'm not just speaking to your ears. I'm speaking to your spirit man. So there are reactions that will be happening to you that your that your physical body might not be able to understand because it does not need your permission. So a lady might just be there, and the lady just saying what I'm saying, just sitting quietly. And all of a sudden, the power of God comes strong upon that lady, on that man of God, on anybody. Listen. And and and and you're wondering why that is happening. Hear me. It is because in as much as...
Help him. In as much as what I'm saying, what I'm sharing are words. Help us. As much as what I'm sharing are words. And you are just listening to me with your body. I'm speaking to something else inside of you. And my words don't need permission to enter that thing. It is called your spirit man. So you might just be there, and there's a giant inside of you that is sleeping. And all of a sudden, the giant hears a voice, awake them thou sleepest.
Listen. You you you would see yourself overwhelmed by by a force you cannot explain because there is another being in you powerful than your body. It is called your spirit man. And that spirit man can be receiving inspiration from heaven. That spirit man can be receiving impartation from heaven. You must pay attention because this is how the fire is ignited. This is how the fire is ignited. I was following a meeting online. Following a meeting online, I could not... I was not privileged to attend the meeting.
I really wanted to because a man of god whom I so love came to Ibadan, but I had to be in another meeting. So the moment I got there, I just started following online before it was my time. And at the point where I started following, the man of God was ministering to the sick. And the man of God said, if you are here and you are seeking your body, lift your hands. And they lifted their hands. He said, Kai. Kai. Kai. The number is too small for the anointing that is here. My god.
Hey. You can't... That's no something. I can't explain what entered me. I don't know if it was the audacity. I don't know if it was the boldness and the confidence. I I have no idea what it was. But right there where I was listening, I went out under the anointing. Oh, it was so strong I could not be contained. How can a man say the anointing that is present is too is too much for the amount of sick people that is...
Do you know the crowd that was there? The crowd was not a small crowd. Kai. Kai. That man was speaking to something on my inside, and and that thing was hearing. He was hearing. There are times that your spirit man is caged by your soul because your soul has not yet come into the awareness of the possibilities in the spirit. So your your your soul still believes that... Your soul still doubts. Your soul still has unbeliefs.
Your soul is still is still unsure. Should I go? Should I not go? Should I move? Should I not move? But in meetings like this, when this encounter happens, it does not need the permission of your soul. It keeps it. Enter straight into your spirit. That was what happened that day. Oh my god.
You know what is called the gift of faith? It also works. It keeps the soul. It's just it's just the spirit man working. Where where all the uncertainties of the soul are temporarily just removed. It's called the gift of... That that thing happens when encounters. I I started seeing myself. I started seeing myself. I started seeing myself.
Oh, listen. Listen. The next meeting I was in, I came there and said, you are sick, raise up your hand. People raised their hand. I said, the anointing that is here is too much for the amount of sick people. There would have been somebody there listening that there and be saying, ah ah ah. That's exactly what I was doing too when the power came. The man said the man said, pick out your phones and call anybody who you know that is sick at home. And I started seeing miracles. I just called my father.
He could not walk. Palm is walking. I just called my mother. He could not... I said, is it is it is it like that? How you know it's an encounter is that the audacity comes with it. I went there and I said, call... Pick your phones now and call anyone who is sick at home. I don't care whether my prayer altar has reached that level. It's not...
It's... I have had an encounter. This I was telling you was many years ago. This is the only we began this thing. We just began. We were testing the waters. But an encounter and a oh. It comes with an impartation, an empowerment, an empowerment. There is that energy comes with... Listen.
Listen. As I was there, I told them. Some of my guys here were there. I told them, call anyone who is sick at home. Father, the the same prayer for the sick I used to pray, the same. If you're sick under the sound of my voice, be healed. That was it. Mentioning things by the spirit. You know, the encounter was so strong that there were cases that the man of God was mentioning in that in that message that they're writing down that I also mentioned. The man said, there is someone.
You are itching your... There there is a a kind of itch, an infection of the skin that you always have. I said the same thing. And it was in the spirit. I just knew. If you have been healed, come out. The first thing I saw was a young boy running to me. The ushers could not hold him. The protocol could not hold him. Nobody...
It just ran, jumped on me on on the pulpit. What happened? What happened? Cry a man crying profusely. What happened? And he said, I think it was his sister or something. It is what? His auntie. Parala, it was pride. It wasn't man.
It was paralysis. The man that was another person in the same meeting. The hand was paralyzed, and he called the father, called everybody at home. Nobody was there. Called the grandmother. The grandmother was the only one that was with her. Told the grandmother, put the phone in her in her ears. Hear me? Hear me? This thing this thing was not about whether we have fasted for twenty five days, whether we have done this, whether we have done that.
It it was that there was something that walked into this. That's why I said encounters is what causes that ignition in your spirit. Encounters that a man can be talking now and you just know I can't be poor again. It's not it's not sense knowledge. It's not it's not knowledge by by by mental calculations. It's encounters. Encounters. Because your spirit man is the one involved in that transmission. Your soul is skipped for a moment, and the word pierces straight into your spirit man. Straight into your spirit man.
That you who came from a small background, you whose father was probably a plumber or probably a carpenter, and and you barely even see 25,000 naira in a month to call your own. Suddenly, come for a meeting like this, and there's an awareness in your insight that I will end up great. I will bring my family out of poverty. I will bring... Listen. You you you leave a meeting like this, and then that strong conviction, That's an encounter. Your soul has been skipped for a moment. Your spirit man is involved in in a transmission. That's an encounter. How can how can how can you be calling yourself rich?
How can you be calling yourself great? Don't you know where you came from? Ah. It's my soul that knows. My spirit doesn't know. As far as my spirit is concerned, he that is from above is above all. Yeah. Do you know you can hear that scripture quoted severally? But a time will come when it becomes an encounter. And we say, he that is from above is above all.
All of a sudden, start to see yourself. That's true. The bible says that whoever is born of God overcomes the world. I am born of God. I am from above. I I overcome all. So if I overcome all, why are these things limiting me? Why are these things challenging me? Why is that cause a big problem? Why is that client a big problem?
Why is this business hard for me to close? Why is that contract taking so much time? Either from above is above all. Encounters by the spirit. Do you know that if I had not sustained the fire that came with that encounter, he would have died. That thing did not need anything from me to have been ignited. It was ignited because I heard a man speaking and the spirit of God entered into me. Ignited a fire within me that made me know my possibilities. I suddenly realized that this was possible, and I stepped out to do it. That is the ignition.
That is the fire starting. But sustaining that fire is a different ball game altogether. That's why there are people who have experiences that only last once. They come out for meetings like this, and they have terrible experiences, maybe a dimension of favor that they have never seen before in their lives all through a week. Someone favoring them, someone calling them, requesting for their account number, somebody doing this business sales multiplying, just different things happening. Just different things happening. The bible says in Acts chapter two and verse 22, the bible says that God attested of Jesus. The bible says, Jesus Christ was a man that was attested by God by miracles, signs, and wonders. There are times when God just begins to attest, where God begins to bear witness. It's the word bear witness, where God bears witness of a man, and how he does it is by miracles, and wonders.
Miracles, signs, and wonders. It has nothing to do really with how much... And how anointed a man is. No. It's just God. The word of God, an encounter by the word, an encounter by the spirit. Do you understand this? You may be praying, you may be worshiping like I said, as it was with Solomon. It is spiritual practices that stretches us into encounters by the spirit. Practices like prayer, like giving, Solomon was all worship or just being present in an atmosphere of the glory.
Just being present where God is. It is this kind of things that stretches men into encounters by the spirit. Solomon was offering sacrifices and it provoked heaven's response. That night, God appeared to him in the dream and said, what do you want? Solomon did not plan the dream, but his spiritual discipline triggered divine attention. And that dream, God offered him wisdom. God offered him riches. God offered him honor. He woke up looking like the same man, but everything had changed. And like that brother who falls under the power of God, then stands up and does himself like nothing has happened.
But in the realm of the spirit, everything has shifted. Time will catch up with what has happened in the moment. Doesn't mean he's clothing my chain, doesn't mean anything about it. He might just be the same man that you know. But in the realm of the spirit, everything has shifted. When he speaks now, the ranking has changed. What did not give way to him before we start giving way to him? What did not respond to him before we start responding to him? Because clowns have been hadded. Stars have been hadded.
Like the rankings of a general. Like the rankings of a general. Ebenezer, you are the breaker. Ebenezer, you are you are the breaker. Ebenezer, you are the breaker. Ebenezer, you are you are the breaker. Ebenezer, you are the breaker. Ebenezer, you are the Ebenezer, Listen to me. Do not trivialize divine encounters. Whether it's a dream, whether it's a vision, whether it's a moment of worship where God breaks your heart open and you just start crying or laughing in the spirit or dancing in the spirit.
These things are divine encounters. Do not take them for granted. I'm still gonna speak about this person. Don't trivialize divine encounters. Solomon's wisdom was not ordinary. He was wrapped in honor. That's why kings and nations accepted his council. Without honor, people would have said, who do you think you are? But because of what was imparted to him in that spiritual encounter, his words carried weight. When he spoke, people listened.
Don't trivialize encounters. Every genuine encounter is a seed of divine possibility. The power of God coming upon you again and again isn't for decoration. It's for activation. These spiritual experiences are God's way of planting dimensions on your inside. Don't joke with them. Guard them diligently. Steward them. Let them burn on your inside. Let them ignite within you a fire of possibilities.
The third avenue of encounter is truly anointed. The third avenue of encounter is truly anointed. God sends men and women who carry divine treasures in heaven vessels. These anointed ones are not ordinary. They are gifts from God to you. Your man of God is not just a preacher. He is God's strategy for your advancement. The new living translation, Ephesians chapter four verse seven, the Bible says, however, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. He has given each one of us. Are you a part of each one of us?
Are you a part of each one of us? So do you have this special gift? The Bible says he has given each one of us according to the generosity of Christ. In other words, in all... Oh my God. You can know how much God is generous towards you by the kind of gifts he has given you. Because the Bible says, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. And then in verse 11, he now begins to mention to us what these gifts are. He said now, these are the gifts Christ gave to the church. The apostles.
In other words, the apostle is a gift God gave to you. The prophet is a gift God gave to you. The evangelist, the the pastors, and the teachers, these are gifts God gave to you. It means that your man of God is God's special gift to you. That means inside your man of God, inside your pastor, inside your spiritual father is everything that your destiny needs to shift. Everything your life needs to grow. Everything your life needs to prosper. You may not fully understand it, but grace flow through this alignment. Look at Joseph's interaction with a Samaritan woman. Jesus knew that it was a gift.
He was talking to that woman by the way, and he hacked the woman for water. And the woman was there debating with Jesus and saying all kind of things. And in verse 10, chapter four, NLT, Jesus told her, he says, if only you knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to. It means who you are speaking to is the gift God has for you, but you don't know. Jesus said, if only you knew and give me engagement. If only you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink. You would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. The reason why you did not... The reason why you kept on hugging was because your eyes were blinded. And the moment his eyes opened, she said, my goodness.
She ran into the city and told everybody, come and see a man. I hope you know you didn't tell me come and see God. Our interest was come and see a man. Because my eyes have been open to see the gift of God. There is this gift God has packaged in earthen vessels, and he has given to men. He gave men as gifts to men. Oh, I have gifts. I have gifts, I honor and cherish my gifts. I honor and cherish my gifts. I receive prophetic word again and again.
I cherish the fact that I know that they are praying for me, speaking words over me. I know that I'm defended in multiple places. I know that my altar is not the only defense I have. Ah, I know. I know. I know. You try me, there are voices speaking over me. Higher in ranking, higher in grace, higher in dimensions. Higher in their pressing God. And God has sent them to me as a gift, as a covering, as a shield.
In Isaiah two verse one, the Bible says a man shall be a covering from the wind. A man. A man shall be a covering from the tempest. A covering from the wind. Verse two. NKJV, a man will be a covering from the wind. Listen carefully. There is grace upon the anointed. As I speak to you, these words are not just inspiring you. They are moving real things in the spirit.
That I stand there and I declare that help is laid upon you. I... Listen. Listen. I may not personally give you money. I may never give you money. I may not personally solve your problems, but there is grace that can send help from unexpected places. Listen. When you meet a man of God, when you meet God's gifts to you and you share your concerns, your hope is not that they give you money. Your hope is not in their material things or possession.
That is of no blessing to you. If that widow came to Elisha expecting Elisha to just give her money, she would have been in debt again. The money will finish. Okay. Let's assume that the debt is paid, and the prophet gives her money as they go and pay your debt. What will they hit that day? There is something more the prophet offers. There is power in his words. What... Woman, what do you have in your house?
Gather many vessels. Gather not a few. And she went and gathered vessels and go and pour the oil, the prophet says. The oil would not respond just because your woman poured it. It will respond because the prophet said go and pour it. Everything is ordinary until the prophet speaks. Son of man, can these dry bones live again? Son of man, can these dry bones live again? They may look dead until a man speaks. Situations might look impossible until a man speaks.
A young lady smothered me and told me how that they are very young, their last born of about nine year old just walked out of the house and would not come back again for over four hours. There was trouble at home. Everybody was crying. Everybody was in disarray. And then he messaged me and told me, apostle, is what is happening right now. Of course, rebuked her. Why would you be careless? And she told me, sir, my parents are very... Said, go and tell them to relax and be calm. The child will return.
That's no advice. It's not word of comfort. That is speaking into nature, speaking into the realm of the spirit to return whatever voice called the boy. No voice is called children. Less than an hour later, you sir, we have found him. Somebody saw him and returned him to a police station. That is not ordinary. The bible says that the... A man shall be a covering. So every prophetic word that the man of God says to you, that the anointed says to you is an encounter.
I came to the man of God and and and I I was just sharing with him how that I am in... I'm I'm I'm at the place in the ministry right now where things are just very confusing, where things are just very busy and that and that and that, and I'm at a I'm at a lust for even what to do. I don't even know where to go or how to press or what to do next. And the man says, don't worry. There will be clarity. Don't worry. There will be this. Listen. These these are not words of counsel from a friend or from an elderly person. These these are these are life giving spirit.
These words are meant to be received with fire. You are meant to receive it as though God has spoken to me. That is an encounter. That's an encounter. That's an encounter. So many testimonies coming to my spirit right now. So many. One of my young men, Mefei, came to me and was sharing with me how that... I didn't even know I said that. Funny enough.
The last the last kingdom world summit last year during the manifest conference, I called him up by prophecy, and I told him you will meet one man that will change everything for you financially. I didn't... I was not even... I had even forgotten that I said that. He came to me and said, let... I forgot it, but I think it was about two months or so after. Did a job for someone, just a normal regular job. The person saw it, liked it, and said, you know what? I want to keep you. The guy told me, he said the least I have made in a month is about $750,000 naira.
In in the month of March, I make 1.2. In the month of this, I make one point that. The least I make in a month is about $750,000 naira. This guy is a student in University of Ibano doing graphics design. What people do for 2,000 naira? Not when the prophet speaks. The issue many a times, I'll I'll I'll get there. I'll get there. Let me go ahead of myself. Encounter with the anointed bring impartation.
When hands are laid on you, when prophetic words are spoken over your life, when you are under sound teaching and apostolic teaching, something is being deposited on your inside. You are being loaded in the spirit. You are not just a regular person anymore. You are carrying mantles. You are walking around wrapped in fire, branded with purpose. Fire comes through impartation when you align with the anointed. These moments are not to be taken lightly. They are spiritual transactions. So honor the grace of God that God has put over your life. Honor the gift God has put over your life.
Value your man of God. Don't become familiar. That relationship can be the bridge between your current season and your next level. Don't become familiar. Refuse familiarity. Don't get to a point where it look as though I've seen this man over and over again. Oh, it comes to prophesied speed. I've received it many times already. You don't know when you receive your own. There's a reason why the bible called this thing the sent word.
He sent his word. It's called the sent word. I'm reminded of Benihin's keyboardist. That woman, I've been playing for him for... I think he said about twenty three years or about thirty... I forgot it. Either twenty three years or thirty two years. Lots of years. And the man... The lady had terminal cancer.
In Benin's meeting, had Benin. Was thousands of people in every conference. And the lady placed the cable that is committed to the call. He was ministering one day after many years of doctor's report, chemotherapy, different kind of things being done. Benin called her out and said, come. Come. Come. I see you're healing now. Laid hands on her, breathed on her, pow, and that was the end of it. There was no trace that the lady ever had cancer.
What happens? What what happened in over twenty something years? You never know when your word will come, and it doesn't actually mean that that was when our word came. Yeah. But on that day, for whatever reason, her heart was in the right place. For for whatever reason, she was postured well. The bible says there were many widows in Zarephath, but unto none of them was Elias sent, save the widow of Zarephat. That when you meet a man of God, the man of God is sent to you. Unto none was Elias sent. It means no meeting with the anointed is a a a coincidence.
Unto none was Elias sent. The same way the bible says he sent his word. That's how men are sent. And by the day you meet a man that has your word, may you not miss it. May the devil not by offense, not by anger, not by sentiment, not by the dictates of others. What other people are saying, allow you miss it. That's what... Listen. That's what the devil does to make people miss their encounters. It it it plants discord and plants strife and allows a rumor to start being spread over a man of God that is your answer, that has been sent to you.
That's the person that somebody is speaking about, saying so and so and so and bow, saying that and that about, and you are listening to it, you are only hurting your destiny. Don't listen to such nonsense. Listen to me. Close your ears. Let me tell this generation something that is missing. Close your ears to the errors of the anointed. Let me say it again. Close your ears to the errors of the anointed. Let me say it again. Close your ears to the errors of the anointing.
Don't hear somebody saying, you know that man of God, he said poor people will not make heaven. Why will a man of God speak like that? It's only materialistic. All God that is speaking is poor. The man that is speaking is evidently graced by God. We resolved nobody in the ancestor of the person castigating has ever done and probably will ever do. And you give your ears to such nonsense, and you are perverting your soul to someone that can be your answer. The bible says, it was David who said it. When Saul died, what David said was tell it not in Gath. Proclaim it not in Hashkellon, how that the mighty has fallen.
That even when the mighty falls legitimately, it's not it's not it's not pretend, though. It's not rumor. Legitimately, tell it not in that. Let it not be heard from your mouth. Publish it not in the street of Akelo, how that the mighty has fallen. Don't hear nonsense. Don't join that parade on social media castigating people. Listen, we are not a generation that dishonor fathers. We are not. We are not.
It's okay if unbelievers are doing this, but not Christians, not believers. We shouldn't be doing that. The hearts of many parents, many of our parents were blocked and clogged to their answers. Many people did not receive their answers in form of men because of a particular bias they had against the personality of the man or even the ministry of the man. Some felt, oh, why is a man of God doing Jericho and they missed their healing? Why will a man of God be doing Jericho? They are the persons who speaking as prostate cancer. He's more interested in the journey called the anointed than the grace God has given to him. This is scripture. These have the values.
These are ancient landmarks that the bible says not to move. I have a teaching, a very fearing teaching coming one of these Sundays called preservers of ancient ordinances. Listen. Listen. Because these ordinances are about to be moved. In fact, they're already being moved. We have a generation that is forgetting very quick what used to be our values. And the bible says that there rose a generation in the day of Joshua who did not know the God of their fathers. If the ancient landmarks are moved and the hotness are not preserved, a generation will arise who will question our God. They will see honor and call it human worship.
When did honor become human worship? In the name of wokeness, in the name of different things, cancel culture, and all these other evil terminologies. So you want to cancel someone who is older than your father. Bishop released a report and said, for the hack that they are building, over 32 transformers will be used to power it. I'm sure you don't know if you don't know what that means. The transformer that is stolen in your street three years ago, nobody has put it back. The man said, over 32 transformers will be used to power it. They are constructing a power plant that will be bigger than what they currently have that powers the entire faith tabernacle, that powers the entire headquarters in Orta, including the university. Do you know that since 1999, there has never been a power outage in that place? This is someone that Nigeria should learn from.
Government should come and sit down and say, sir, teach us. How do you power a city and the city does not lose... Leave man of God out of it oh. Where is the wisdom that God gave to you to build Eden in a part of Nigeria where others are suffering? But guess what? Every now and then on media, possess so and so and so. And people should humble themselves so that their generation will not suffer. We now join media to come and say, it's a strategy of the devil to make you hate your answers, to make you speak foul of your answers. Have you been to a nation camp? That is what a man built.
How do men... You imagine in yourself that you have a great destiny, and you you dare criticize that man. You open your mouth and you say, oh, oh, it is not your business. That's why I said, close your ears. Don't hear it. Let any fools say what they wanna say, not believers. Not believers. How does a man gather 13,000,000 people? Do you know what 1,000,000 is? Have you even seen 100,000 before gathering one place?
13,000,000 people. I was told in 1998, when Lekki ninety eight happened, there was conflict in who had the real report because BBC said it was over 8,000,000 people that came for the conference in 1998. Redeem said it was about 6,000,000 people in 1998. Some of you were not even born. Most of you. And God has God has made it such that these men have not died. They are still alive. You can honor your way into the grace. Honor your way into the mantle. Honor your way into that possibility.
But you give yes to the media. Give yes to different stupid foolish apologetics whose mission is to discredit the church, and you think they're the voice of the youth. They are not. They are the voice of demons. It is your personal responsibility to make sure that the fire on your altar never goes out. And I've told you that the encounter that you have is what ignites that fire. But after that fire is ignited, you then have a responsibility to ensure that the fire never goes out, to keep that fire alive. And there are things you must intentionally do and things you must consciously avoid. When you are carrying fire, you can't live carelessly. You must live with awareness.
Your lifestyle matters. After every encounter, hear me, your next steps matter. Whether that encounter dies, whether the fire that is ignited in you dies or is alive is dependent on what you do after. There are postures that sustains the fire of God, and there are choices that can kill the fire of God. There are steps you take that extinguishes the fire. There are steps you take that amplifies the intensity of the fire. Carrying spiritual fire comes with two major responsibilities. Number one, to keep the fire from going out. That's the first responsibility you have when the fire of God is ignited. The first is to keep that fire from going out.
The second is to grow the fire until it burns brighter and stronger. Because the fire is not static. It increases in intensity. And the stronger the fire gets, the harder it is for the enemy or for life to put it out. Think about it this way. You wouldn't light a candle. Right? And stand in front of a fan, would you? Why? Why?
Because the wind will extinguish it. Is that not so? But let that same fire grow into a wildfire. And the same wind that once threatened it will now spread it. It is your responsibility therefore to guard your growth and to ensure that it is not extinguished. Because the same thing... Listen. Let me tell something. For some of you, the same thing you struggle with now that are your struggles, that attempt to dwindle your fire will become the same thing that will amplify your fire later. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Sir. Yes, sir. That when they bring you cases like that, it will just be finding the flame more. What was once a threat, what you once have to avoid. The bible says, all my one is for you, friend, for you to be glorified. Amen. All my one is for you, Think about it this way. The bible speaks of the parable. It says, the word of God is like a seed. Is that not so?
The kingdom is like a seed. And when that seed is sown, there are times when it falls on places where birds of the air become the threat to that seed. And birds of the air comes to come and pick it up. Is that not so? But you allow that seed to be guarded. You allow that seed to be protected. You allow that seed to grow, and that seed will grow and become a mighty tree. That the same birds that once threatened that seed will now come and nest on the same tree. That many years ago, they... This was a threat.
Now it has become an adaptation for the same thing that it was once Lord said that you tell someone that that rent you are struggling to pay. That's just that's just the birds trying to feed on the seed. If we don't allow your faith to be removed, if you allow that faith to grow, a day will come, you will you will buy houses for many. That school feast challenge now. I thought your biggest problem now is how will my school fees be paid? How will my school fee... That alone is why you don't want to... Some people cannot pray again because there's a beauty schedule around them. Some people go... Some people want to miss church now because they found out that UI was not as they thought.
Now they are handling many courses, and they don't know how to juggle everything. They say, you know what? I would rather sacrifice Tuesday, believers equip. You know, all you have to do is just protect that fire. It's a face. It's only a face. Just just protect that fire. Don't allow your busy schedule blow it out. Just protect that fire. Ensure that that fire rise in intensity.
Ensure that that fire rise in in in in brightness. Ensure it becomes stronger. That same thing that wanted to blow it out. That same thing. Listen, what once threatened you will begin to benefit from you. Hear me? If if you are able to guard what God is doing inside of you long enough for you to grow. For some of you, it's parental challenges. They are telling you don't go there. That church, that your prayer, that your fasting, and and that challenge wants to blow out the flame, wants to blow out the fire.
But the time will come in. A time will come when you're... That same father will now say, son, can you pray for us? Son, son, can can you speak words over us? There are people that lecturer came to class and made a mockery of you and said and said and said, you, you, look at the way you are going now. What did you got in my in my in my score... In my test? He said, I had 55. And your mate are getting 70. Shame on you.
All that prayer you are praying. Look at where it has gotten you. Calm down. Just guard guard the fire. Guard the fire. Just ensure that no discouragement blow it away. Ensure. Because listen, the devil will try to send wings of discouragement, wings of frustration, wings of... And it is only a candle can blow off. That's why you must guard it.
You must protect it. You must ensure that nothing shakes it. I know I don't have money now, but nothing will happen to that fire. Nothing will happen to it. Am I still wearing one trotter now, but nothing will happen to that fire? Nothing will happen to it. I might still be gathering two members now, but nothing will happen to that fire. A man of God sent me a message and said, sir, every time people come to my church and I see six people, seven people, I get so discouraged. That's the wind of discouragement. That's the wind of discouragement.
It is because the fire is still a candle. That wind can blow it off. It can blow it off that you won't even know you were once a man of God. You will go so deep into the world, you will almost become an atheist because the fires of... The wind of discouragement blew. Your responsibility is to ensure that the fire stays there. It means you as a believer must guard it. You as a believer must understand that several things will attempt to put up my flame. The devil is not happy that you ignited. The devil knows the threat.
The threat when that fire becomes big, he knows the threat. Listen. Hear me? If I let the matches now and I just throw it at you, what will you do? You just use your hand and. But the devil knows the potential. That that match can become fire on your wood. If you remember Leviticus, God told the priest hard wood every time. In other words, it can start as a match. Hard wood.
Then hard a bigger wood. A time comes becomes a forest. Adapt... The devil knows that when the forest starts burning, hey, to stop it is not easy. So it tries every attempt. It throws attacks at you that some of you have no business experiencing at your age. And the only assignment of that attack is to blow off the flame just to ensure that you become discouraged. And you say, why why is self? Why? Why is self?
Am I the only one? Is it only me? And by the time this is someone that heaven is monitoring the potential, Now this thing. If you know what this thing can become. What holds some people down is thoughts of discouragement, thoughts of their past, thoughts of the... Of condemnation. Sir, do you know what I've done before in my past? I used to be a bad boy. I used to be a bad girl. I used to do that.
And anytime you wanna do something great now, you remember, and the devil come and tell you, are you the one God will use? Are you the one God will use? It is the wind of condemnation. The wind of condemnation. Guard that fire. Guard that fire. Ensure that nothing puts it out. Because eventually, that same thing you were afraid of, you would deliver many from. Hear me? Hear me?
In the passion translation, Romans twelve eleven, the bible says be enthusiastic to serve the Lord. Be enthusiastic to serve the Lord. Keeping your passion toward him, boiling hot. He says radiate with the glow of the holy spirit. Let him fill you with excitement even as you serve him. It is your job to stay boiling hot, not lukewarm. Don't let culture. Don't let comfort. Don't let compromise cool you down. Second Timothy one verse six, amplified version.
It says, fan into flame the gracious gift of God. Fan into flame the gracious gift of God. Turn into flame the gracious gift of God. It says, that inner fire. You see that? This special endowment, fan it into flame. In TPT, it says, I'm writing to you to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindle the fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands on you. That means when hands were laid on you, something was deposited. When prophetic words were spoken, something entered you. When you received the holy ghost, a fire was lit in your spirit.
Now it's up to you to keep that fire burning. Now do you do so? How do you do so? I'll give you three, four things very fast. Number one, how do you keep that fire burning? Ignite the memory. What did I say? Ignite... Write it down. Ignite the memory.
Whenever you're coming for believers equipped, come with a note, a reasonable note. Add cover. Not for lucky at twenty. Add cover. Pay the price for your destiny. Go and get one if you don't have one. Believers equip the experience. Get a note. Ignite what now? The memory.
Build altars of remembrance. One of your greatest responsibilities after an encounter with God is to preserve the memory. You must build a memorial. Over and over, God instructed his people to create physical or symbolic memorials as reminders of his mighty acts towards them. So generation would not forget. In Joshua chapter four, if you remember, they wanted to pass Cross Jordan, and everybody was confused as to how that crossing will happen. And God had to instruct them that the priest should put their legs in Jordan. And the priest put their legs inside, and Jordan dried up instantly. And in their excitement, they wanted to start crossing. And God told them, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Not so fast. Take stones from Jordan. From that river, that sea that just dried up now, take stones from there. Carry with you. Verse six, it says that that this may be a sign amongst you. When your children ask in time to come, saying, what do these stones mean to you? Why are you carry? Why are you carrying these stones everywhere? Everywhere. Mommy, why are you carrying these stones?
Daddy, why are you carrying these stones? There's this scripture you never you never forget. Almost every time you quote it, why? Why these stones? Verse seven, it says this stone shall be a memorial to the children of Israel forever. These stones shall be a memorial to the children of Israel forever. God knows how easy it is for us to forget. Even the most powerful spiritual moments can be forgotten than it comes. And if you don't intentionally trap an experience, it will fade. That is why you need visible, written, and spoken ways to preserve what God has done and what God is doing.
Memorials are spiritual disciplines that help you never forget his voice. That help you to preserve the fire from an encounter. That help you to build confidence for your future battles. After every move of God, don't just move on. Write. Record. Realize. The Psalmist said in Psalm one three verse two, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Forget not all his benefits. You can forget spiritual experiences.
You can forget how God came through for you, how he spoke, how he healed you, how he warned you, how he called you, how he led you, how he directed you, how he protected you. That is why we encourage people to share the testimonies, to journal the encounters, to revisit them often. It's not formality. It is preservation. It helps you know that this thing happened. Listen, if you are here and you are not in the habit of sharing testimonies, you are wrong. You are denying yourself. You are killing the fire of the holy ghost. You are becoming an ungrateful idiot. For whatever reason it may be, it might be I'm shy.
I'm too I'm too this or I'm too that. And you and you deny yourself and people of God the experience for benefit of what God has done in your life. You are a fool. I'm sorry to say. I say because I love you. Because you have no idea what you are kicking yourself off. I don't have time for that today. Do you know I personally write down every encounter I have? I write it down in details what I felt, what led to it, the time it came, the season of my life I was in, the instruction that came, the word of God that came to me, what did I see, what was the scripture, I... What was the emotion I felt?
So that so that the next time I go back to eat and read it, that encounter comes alive again. I... I'm I'm I'm reliving the experience of that same thing. I try to capture as many details. Was it in the night? Was it a dream? All this is I will bring my book. As far back as twenty, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteens, I have them jonut down. When I go on my retreat, I go and open those books. I laid them in front of my altar like this, plenty of them.
And I start to read one by one. And I write there how God spoke to me when I was praying in chapel, the experiences I had, how that the trees were blowing all of a sudden in... On a hot afternoon, how the leaves became green. I wrote different. I will write it down. Capture the the entire thing. So that by the time I'm reading them again, I come into the same experience I had as fresh as it was when it came. The fire burns afresh. Revelations two and verse five. The Bible says, remember therefore from where you are falling.
Repent and do the first works. It says, remember therefore from whence you have fallen. It means you would not have fallen if you remembered. But now that you are falling, remember where you were and do the first works. Remember. Go back to that memory. Reignite the flame. Do you know generational faith is built on memorials? Even those who are not present at an event can draw strength from the memorials left behind. That's why bishop Ouedepo till today has memorials of every of his encounter.
Go and read his book, their anniversary book. You would find there where the encounter happened. The hotel he was in. The room he was in was snapped, Documented. Recorded. The primary school he was in. The secondary school he was in. The hostel room he was in. Everything snapped, documented. Memorial for generation.
If you go to prayer 50, bishop Dickio Lukoya still has till today till today, the first bus that himself and his wife ever drove. They were the drivers. This was over thirty, forty years ago. They were the drivers of that bus. They went to go and pick member from their houses, brought them to church, and returned the memory Sunday. It's still there, parked in Prayer Vitae, the first bus. When you see Prayer Vitae, you enter and you see a gigantic building, and you now come to that memorial spot and you see the first bus and you say, ah, you mean this that I'm seeing began from here. Suddenly, look at where where you are in your life and you are encouraged. That generations can catch a fire even to the next present. Because memorials were well kept.
God told them, pack the stones. That's why in Judges chapter six and verse 13, Gideon had said to them, where are all his miracles which our fathers told us about memorials? Gideon did not experience the Red Sea's parting, but the testimonies of others became the fuel for his own boldness. What would you tell children? Do you remember your encounters? Or would they doubt God even when you're alive? Are there stones? So that when they ask you, daddy, why do you have these stones with you? You will look at them and tell them, listen. There was a time that we were plenty.
Millions of us stood in front of Jordan, and there was Jericho at our back. We had no idea where to go. We thought we were about to die, and God just told us. Let the priest put their legs in the river, and the priest came and put their legs in the river. And all before our eyes, Goddamn dried up. Son, I have never seen such a thing before in my life. It was as though the water was boiling. It just sank down straight. And as you are talking, the sun is listening. The atmosphere that happened, what you felt, the holy ghost is coming again.
The guy is entering into the emotional encounter as though he was there. Pictures forming in his heart. He's missing the magnificence of God that God can come true for a man. My mother would call me again and again, and he would tell me, son, let me tell you what happened when I gave birth to you. That's memorials. That's memorials. My mother will tell me, let me tell you what happened when I gave birth to you. We were we were just in our living room where a strange man walked into our house. I have never seen him before. He came into our house, knocked the door, and said, are you the one pregnant in this house?
And I said, yes. He said, and he walked away. The son in your womb is a prophet speaking of me. And she will remind me again and again. Again and again. She will tell me, listen, I went... Do you know I went to Baba Lore? Before he died, many years ago, while I was carrying you in my womb. And let me tell you what he told me. He said so and so, these are memorials.
You hear this thing of the sun, and you know you are destined for greatness. Nothing nothing can convince you otherwise that even before you were born, your path had already been laid. You had no choice in the matter. You wanted to... I wanted to misbehave, and an invisible hand constrained me. Go and read David. David will always recount the stories of Israel's past victory even though he was not there. I remember the work of the Lord. Psalm 77 verse 11. Surely, will remember your wonders of old.
Psalm one one four verse three, the sea saw it and fled. Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams. This guy that was writing was not there. He was not there, but memorials were kept. Memorials were kept. Mountains skipped like rams. Jericho bowed down. The sea soiled and fled. So whenever the guy was going to battle, he had enough memorials.
He begins to think about how they faced the mountains, how they faced the sea. He says, you know what? As long as they have of covenant with us, then we are safe. As called Donnie before, he can do it again. Have you forgotten when David was to face Goliath? What he had was memorials. He told Saul, the bear came. And when the bear came, I slew the bear. When the lion came, I slew the lion. What big Goliath that I want to slay him.
There was enough memorials. He prepared him for the current battle. Even though he has never faced a Goliath, but they were experiencing hard. It was the first time in that circumstances. But there are encounters, experiences that he turned out. He did not forget them. If God has done this before, you have no idea where the faith will come from your inside. I remember when he told me, walk with me and I will make you great. I remember when he opened my eyes and showed me, Isaiah 42. I will make you as a covenant unto my people.
I remember when he told me, make a new sound unto the Lord. The Lord will arise like a mighty man. He told me, Emmanuel, every time you will make a sound, I will arise like a mighty man. It's an encounter. I keep on remembering these things. I know there is power in my sound. I have them written down. I remember in 2015... 2019, sorry, I was praying in my room. A face man face you.
And while I was there preparing for a meeting, I think it was the outpouring there or something, preparing for a meeting, my eyes would open, and I would see a tree, a large tree. And the tree had many doors inside, many doors inside, Many doors inside. And all of a sudden, I would see three doors break open. Pow. And as they open, light came out of the door. And I would ask, what is this? What is this? The holy God will tell me. I won't tell you what he told me. I have them written down.
I remember them. I was staying like Jegulin at the wall. I was on a retreat in the December 31. And while I was there, alone in the room, I was praying, and I saw an eagle on my wardrobe. The bed was on the floor. The wardrobe was in front of me. My eyes wide open. There was shiverings all over me. I saw an eagle, and my heart started burning like wildfire, burning with so much intensity. I was wondering what is this?
What is going on here? What does this dignify? What am I experiencing? What is this? And the holy spirit will tell me, I've given you sight for your generation. You will understand and explain. Listen. Listen. You would understand and explain the grace to make men see. While I was there shaking, while I was there crying and weeping, I would see in the realm of the spirit, a chariot arrive in front of me, massive huge chariot.
And in that chariot was standing, apostle Guillermo Maldonado was standing. I saw I saw saw thousand Francis on top, and I saw different fathers of faith, saw my new saw my new name by the spirit. Different fathers of faith, and they were all wearing white robes. And they stretched their hand to me and told me, son, come into the order of the apostles. I saw myself stand up and entered into this chariot. These things are written down. In case the time ever came where I begin to doubt, God, did you really send me? There are stones. There are memorials that cannot be shaken. How about those that came from scripture?
How about words that stood out to me from scripture? I knew where it was written about my life from scriptures. I've showed people here. Everything I'm doing today is written word for word in scriptures. I saw it. I wrote it down. I will confess it every day. That portion of scripture, I will pray it every day. Confess it every day. I wrote it on my walls, everywhere on my walls.
In every bible I read, that is the portion of scripture that has the most global. Different things I've gotten from it, different light, different things every time I read it. Memorials, stones, and I keep them documented so that the time does not come when I forget. I've not noticed that even in worship, we sing of past acts of God to stir up current faith. He split the seas so I can walk through it. Acts of God documented as memorials in songs. Mountains keep like ramps. Jericho bowing down. Spiritual things must be documented. I think we'll stop here.
After your son share with you, the time is gone. Spiritual things must be documented. Habakkuk chapter two and verse two, the Bible says, write the vision. Don't just hope you will remember. Write it down. Keep a journal. Record the dreams, the instructions, the visions, the confirmations, the words that struck your spirit. What God told you through your prophets, record them. Write it down. In details.
If you cry, write it down. Your body should write it down. Your heartburn. Write it down. Write it down. I became crippled. I could not move. Go and watch how the prophet documented the encounters. It's like fire shot in my bones. I wanted to contain it.
I could not contain it. Look at that description so that by the time you are reading, you can imagine what he's saying. I as though you were there. Is our heart not gone while he's spoken to us? Isaiah 30 and verse eight. Now go, write it before them on a tablet. Note it on a scroll that it may be for time to come forever and ever. Spiritual things are slippery. That's what Hebrews says. Hebrews two one, the bible says we must give more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest it will drift away.
What you'd not write down will drift, and what you don't realize will vanish. Honor your experiences. Many fail to build memorials because they don't value what God has done. They try to explain away their encounters and their experiences. It... They said, somebody favored you when you needed money the most. Afterward was spoken over you, you were praying for it. And then when it happened, you will now say, you know, it wasn't really favor. It was just my auntie that helped me. Don't do that.
It was God who steered our heart. If you trivialize it, you will miss the pattern of how God is moving in your life. The Bible says the heart of a king is in the hands of the Lord. He can will it wherever it moves. It means if any man ever blesses me, God steered their heart. He's called the father of spirits. He's called the father of spirits. Just when I needed a laptop, and I've been praying for it, I was telling my spirit to message someone, and the person just told me, how much do you need? And sent me the money. And then when one will now share testimony, he said, well, I was the one that asked him now.
What is that? Why why are you trivializing these genuine encounters? As though it meant nothing. That is why it doesn't last in your life. The bible says in all your ways, all. All your ways, acknowledge him. In all your ways, acknowledge him. God was the one that blessed me. Do you know I will never forget an experience I had? When I emptied everything I had one time, and I've been doing that as a as a habit.
On this particular day, somebody came. It was many years ago. Somebody came and just told me. He says, I was about to boil this spaghetti, and God said I should give you. I wrote it down. I wrote it down. That was the first time that somebody... I said, God, you should give me spaghetti? He said, yes. I said, God told you to give me...
Do know what I was getting from it? That that that if God can whisper to someone's heart to bring me something as little, as as small, as what I needed at that moment because I was fasting. And somebody brought it to somebody's heart, and God did not say, well, it's too small for... You know, I I I don't concern myself with small things. When you have big matters, let me know. If God was concerned about something, a detail of my life as small as one spaghetti, then when I need 10,000,000, he will bring it. I wrote it down. I won't forget it. That's how I know I will never lack. That God...
The person told me that God said, that's what I wanted to hear. God told you to bring me spaghett. I expect favor every day. I expect favor every day. I expect favor every day. Expect favor every day. Somebody else will say, ah, thank you. Thank you. And that that that... They will never remember it again.
But the difference between some of us is that we place value on these things. We place eternal value on them. Go and get my message if you can find it. The the the the the leaven of the Pharisees. The leaven of the Pharisees. I talk more on this there. Deuteronomy eight verse two, the Bible says, you will remember the Lord your God. You shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way this forty years in the wilderness. It means that they can forget to. Don't say it's not a big deal.
Let me tell you something. Read it for me. Of course, how do we know that it was not God's will for them to spend forty years in the wilderness as revealed in scripture? As a matter of fact, they were meant to spend forty days. It was in... It was through their stubbornness and hard heartedness that forty days became forty years. And even in their stubbornness, God said, I didn't leave you after forty days. It was still the Lord your God that kept you in the wilderness all the forty years you were there. Even though you were there in your own stubbornness, I was still with you. Every experience with God is a seed.
And if you honor it, it will grow into greater encounters. Are you seeing that now? Despising the spiritual is dangerous. Say it again. Do you know that God rebuked Esau? Not just because he sold his birthright, but because of how likely he treated that birthright. In Hebrews, the bible speaks of how Esau sold his birthright. And the bible calls him a profane man. It was because it was a profane thing to do. But it wasn't just a profane thing to do because he sold that betrayed.
It was profane because of the value he attached to it. How he described it? Let me show you. Go to go to Genesis 25 verse 32. Oh, stay here first before you go there. Look at one, three, go. Let me show you why the bible calls him profane. Genesis twenty five thirty two, the Bible then says, one, two, three, go. That is this. That is the language of a careless generation.
Now prophecy we go chop. Church. Church. Church. Church. Look. Go find work. Now we describe spiritual things with so much profanity. Look at the value we attach on it. Now prophecy...
Now I'm eating prophecy. I have it written down. I eat it like food. I hear it again and again and again and again and again. Sowed the seed to my brother. Just carried a million to him. I think it was in January or so. When I got there, I saw the seed. I think what... I even transferred it.
And I went to him physically again. He went... Saw another seat. Look at me. He said, Emmanuel, in the month of February, a door will open, and I see that you will step into steady millions. I said, amen. Amen. I did chop her now. I did chop ham. I'm not using cutlery.
I'm eating it with my hands. Somebody, I saw the seed again. He told me, I'm seeing you entering tens of millions. It wasn't up to one month after. We were preparing for project of awakening, and somebody told me, he said, sir, I just felt led to sow my first 10,000,000. I said, ah, when did this man speak? Some of us are eating it because we know how to place value on it. But fools will say, what is this birthright to me? I am hungry. You are saying birthright.
I feel. I say I've not eaten, just to come and pray. Now pray, I go chop. Don't be person when you don't chop, they pray. You you heard that you heard those kind of things before. These are foolish things that deemphasizes the value on spiritual encounters. Deceived from making false statements. I don't allow people in my space who mock spiritual things. If someone starts attacking pastors, mocking giving, belittling prayer, mocking prophecy, I shut that conversation down there even if it's a family member. Why?
Because mockery breeds dishonor, and dishonor kills fire. Proverbs thirteen twenty says, he who walk with the wise shall be wise. A companion of fools will be destroyed. Protect your fire. Guard your convictions. Guard your convictions. When you dishonor what God is doing or allow others to dishonor it around you, the fire will go out. Guard your convictions. Don't listen to stupid people who come and speak against what you are convicted about. Guard your convictions.
I give for a living. I have no apology about it. I don't care what anybody believes. This has made men before me. I have seen it make me. I've seen it make men that I'm making. Your opinion matters nothing. Men that God is making even through me, I've seen this same principle make them. This same principle make them. I pray in tongues a lot, and I cherish what I do.
I don't think for one second that I'm wasting my time. I'm not saying nonsense. My... There is power in my tongues. When you see people who who have lost value for these things, it shows in how they speak about it. Said, tongues for me has become the making of my ministry. Tongues for me. I pity men who don't pray in tongues. This is my conviction. I fast and I pray.
This is my conviction. I believe in receiving from the prophets. I believe in the anointing. I believe in impartations. I receive graces. I believe hands can be laid. I believe words can be spoken. I believe graces can be transferred. I don't hear anyone who speaks against these things. I'm just chasing prophet.
All these men are gone. All these men are stealing your money. Sibex stole your own and and did not return it. A prophet stole my own and God returned it. Prefer that kind of stealing. They they they are they are brainwashing you. The bible says, be be washed in high soap. So if if they are brainwashing me, it's a good thing. I like the kind of brainwash that produces this kind of results. That I will be on my own and favor will find me and help will find me.
I like that kind of brainwash. That I can be this age and be doing great things. I like that kind of brainwash. Brainwash me some more, pastor. Rise up on your feet. And thank God for what you have received. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network.
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