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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. Thank you, Jesus. Today, we are gonna be looking at something I have titled the house of prayer. I understand that we we are gonna spend some time praying today. I understand that if I'm not careful, this kind of meetings can... Then of the day, we're not able to teach. And so we're gonna build gradually to a point where we know that we have satisfied the teaching ministry. Glory to God. Amen.

So that we teach. I believe that you will gain a lot of understanding today. I believe that your prayer life is gonna take it. A turnaround and a change. At some point in this meeting, the spirit of prayer will walk in. And at that point, you realize that it will be... It will begin to sit upon people. And if that becomes your experience, especially for those who are hungry, if that becomes your experience, you will find that your prayer adventure from today will be powered by a a spirit that is not you. Yes. Someone met me some years ago.

A person came for one of our prayer convocations, which you will soon be subject to. The prayer convocation was twelve hours long. But when you come, you realize that it's it's more like twelve minutes, really. The young man has been struggling to pray twenty minutes, thirty minutes inconsistently. But when the spirit of prayer sat upon him, he realized that that adventure can be carried out with a strength that is not yours. Realize that the spirit of God can help. The bible says that there's what is called the spirit of grace and supplication. Yes. And the spirit of grace and supplication can assist your prayer adventure. In such moment, you will not be conscious that time has gone because something other than you is powering you.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. It's an it's an enablement of the spirit that can come upon someone even today. And it is impossible for me to talk about prayer or talk about anything really, and the holy spirit does not manifest as that which I'm speaking about. It's a covenant that God had with me. That is how the meeting, the experience was formed. It's not the name of a meeting. It's actually an experience. It what... It it is a description of an event.

It was God telling me that as we begin to speak about anything, people will begin to come into the experience of that thing. That's how the experience was formed. Are you with me? Yes. Yes. And so the same thing will happen now. There will be encounters with the spirit of prayer and a able man to pray. If you're here, I'm not really gonna be praying for people. We don't we don't we don't have time for that. If you're in the DBA and you cannot pray in tongues, you will soon be able to pray in tongues.

That will be administered to you. But even as you are here, as the spirit of prayer starts jumping up on people, all you have to do is be hungry. You realize that there will be a quickening in your spirit, and your mouth will begin to voice out an utterance that is different from your native language. Yes. Yes. So throw away all restrictions. Let your heart be here. Let your spirit be here. Pay the price and the sacrifice to ensure that your spirit man is largely engaged in what we are gonna be doing right now. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. Yes. I want you to understand that what is happening here is a revival. I'm... I I strongly believe that there is a move of God that has started in Ibadan through the Disciples Christian Network. It's a privilege to say this. It's really a privilege to say this. I'm humbled even as I say this because it's not about a man. It has never been about a man. For those of us who have been with us longer, you know it's not about a man.

This is not a celebration of a celebrity man of God who just comes and... No. That's not it. The idea is that men are equipped. The idea is that men are trained. The idea is that one year from now, thirty two years from now, thirty years from now, you're not even able to tell apart who is the apostle and who is a member. Because in terms of exploits, in terms of results, you can't... You will need a keys to separate them. There's been such a merger. There's been such a there's been such a becoming, such oneness in the spirit.

A cripple can be brought in, a member will stop them out there and say, where are you going? Saying to the meeting, is this your expectation? Or I've been taught this one. You can trust God for something else. Stand up. Don't don't waste your time praying. You can trust God for something else. Invest that time in praying for a grace that comes upon you. Not God, heal me. I can heal you.

Stand up. Yeah. It reminds me of a young man on the mountain, and then he was praying and trusting God for something very critical in his life. And there was a brother investing so much hours in prayers shouting, God, I just need a 100,000 naira. And he kept on shouting and this guy was distracting the moment of encounter this man was having. Walked up to him and said, young man, take 100,000. Get out of this mountain. Let those who want to pray, pray. What are you doing in this list? Glory to God.

Glory. Yes. That's what you are being made into. That's what you're becoming. So I would always say that this is not church as usual. Oh, no. It is not. It is not. It is not. It's not coincidence if you have found yourself here.

It's not coincidence. You might never know why God tells you to jump on a train until five years after to ten years after. You will now see the wisdom of that decision you made. There are those who have been with us since we were under the tree. Even now, it's not clear yet. I just want it to be clear. When we all stand wearing our crowns, I've seen the visions of the future. I was praying some weeks ago, and I saw... I think I was sharing this with my workers. And I saw a large congregation of people, millions of them, all dressed in gold and purple.

Gold and purple. Precious jewelries, crowns upon their head looking like royalty, and all they were doing was dancing, praising God, rejoicing, celebrating my God. It was such a beautiful sight to behold. And I woke up from the vision, and I asked, what is this? The holy spirit told me this is you. This is where I'm taking you to. It's not one man dressed in royalty. It's everybody. Everybody. Kings in different spheres of influence.

God raising men into positions of influence. Yes. And this is that building process. This is that training process. Are you with me? Yes. I don't want you to take for granted what is happening here. In first Samuel chapter 22 and verse two, look at what the bible says. This is not even my teaching, but stay with me. The bible says, and everyone who was in distress...

Look at how the bible describes them. Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. Three days, they were in distress. They were in debt. They were discontented, dissatisfied. These were the rejects of society. These people were in debt. These people were owing... They were... Have you seen someone in debt before?

Have you been in debt before? These people are people... They are avoiding people. They can't pass the main road for the fear that the person they are holding would would cite them. And if he cites them, oh, these are the people that everybody has warned about. Don't associate. Mark and avoid. You see that brother? Mark and avoid. And they all came and gathered and met with David.

The bible says, he became captain over them, and there were about 400 men with him. They came and met him in the Cave Of Hadulam, and David started transferring knowledge, feeding them with knowledge and understanding. That is what happens in the Cave Of Hadulah. But not just with knowledge and understanding, they go through spiritual training, discipleship, all the works. In second Samuel 23 and verse eight, look at how the bible then described them. This was after some times. People that were in debt, people that were distressed, people that were in discontent. Look at how the bible describes them. These are the names of what? The mighty men whom David had.

They were no longer people in distress. Something had happened to them in the Cave Of Hadulam. They had become mighty men. It means if after ten years of church, in fact, one year of church, in fact, three years of church. There is no transformation to a mighty man or a mighty woman. Something is wrong either with you or with the church. Something is wrong. Did you see the kinds of men that Jesus took as disciples? My god. These are not people you want as a student.

These people were dull, slow to hear. They were not the most intelligent people you would find. At a particular time, Jesus told them, do not forget... Do not eat of the living of the Pharisees. And then you told them that thinking you will understand how that he speaks in parables now. And they will be able to understand what he has said. Probably because the Pharisees were there and was speaking in coded language. And he told them, do not eat of the living of the Pharisees. Then one of them told the other and said, do you did you carry bread? Say, I didn't carry bread.

Oh, you for... You forgot the bread? Say, I didn't carry bread. Jesus, the master is hungry. Master is hungry. He said, should not eat because we do not carry our own bread. Now he said, should not eat. What will we do? Peter, you carry bread. Say, I don't carry bread.

Okay. The bible says Jesus discerning their thoughts. Now told them, oh, of little faith, why do you reason amongst yourself? Because you have brought no bread. Were you not there when I multiplied bread? What is bread to me? What is bread to me? And you would see these happenings over and over again where God... Where Jesus... And you wonder, my God.

Jesus was very patient. But guess what? When he was done with them three and a half years, the funny thing is Jesus never put them in doubt. He says, follow me and I will make you. It means if you ever follow a man, it is to the end that you are made. You can't follow someone blindly. There's got to be... You have to know what you are being made into. Jesus told them, follow me. I will make you fishers of men.

So it means they are following Jesus was not blind. They knew what they were becoming or they knew what they should become. It means you must have a mental picture of what you should become. You must know this is what is happening to me even as I follow, even as I come, even as I listen, even as I pay attention. I become fishers of men. And was it true? Was it true? In the day of Pentecost, Peter would stand and would speak. This was an illiterate. Someone who never saw the four walls of university.

Have you read Peter's sermon? You need to go and read it. It it was so articulate. The fluency in speaking, you'll be amazed that this came from a fisherman who never saw the four walls of university. This guy was quoting Joel, quoting Isaiah, relating Joel and Isaiah with what is happening right now. Why do you call us drunkards? Have you forgotten what was written in your help? I I will... In the last days, I will pop my spirit upon all flesh, and all men will see visions. And he came and he was speaking the one whom you killed.

The bible says they heard him. Their heart was caught. My god. Their heart was caught within them as they heard him speak. There was a reaction. What he was saying were not mere words. This guy was a fisherman. At what point did a fisherman become someone who would now speak? And as he's speaking, people's hearts are are tearing. People's hearts are cutting.

Have you forgotten that this was the same thing that was spoken about Jesus? When he met the disciples on their way to Emmaus, they told themselves, did our heart not burn whilst he spoke to us? It means whatever Jesus had that make people's heart born while Jesus is speaking, Peter now has. 3,000 people. You would think after the guy has spoken and their heart were tearing, they will become hungry and walk away. They say, what shall we do to be saved? Ah. And the moment Peter led them to Christ, he was strolling one day to the synagogue to go and worship himself, and he was with John. And he saw a man lame for thirty eight years by the beautiful gate. And looked at the man.

The man was begging and said, listen, brother. Silver and gold, I have not, but such as I have, my God. At what point did Peter knew that he had something? It means you can know in your growth process that I have something. You can go home and meet your mother while she's complaining and say, mommy, it's not like yesterday where you complain and complain and I'm unable to do anything. I have something. Let's pray. Enough with the complaints. Enough. Before when you met me and you begin to tell me your problems, all I had to say was sorry.

All I had to offer was compassion, empathy, and I would pat your back and weep with you. But now I have something. I have something. I have something. I have something. What is happening is that you are being brought to that place where you know such as I have, I can give. Do you know what you have for a generation? Do you know what has been deposited into you? Such as I have, I can give. That is the purpose of the discipleship model.

That is the purpose of the training. That is actually the purpose of the house of God. That's the purpose of the church, to engineer men to become warriors in the spirit. And so when a church exists for twenty years and the members are still largely dependent on the pastor is an anomaly. Your anger problem has not been checked. Your pride problem has not been checked. You are still an arrogant father. When you married in 1995, you are celebrating twenty five years of marriage and the same you of 1995 is the same you now. You still beat, you still insult each other, you still shout at each other, and you wonder, but you have been Christians this long. What has happened to your flesh?

What has happened to emotions? What has happened to your soul? Many of you can understand what I'm saying. And now you raise up children like that, and you have transferred the same hunger to them. The mandate is that as men sit under the ministry of the word and prayer, something happens. Something happens. As men sit under the ministry of the word and prayer, something happens. And that is how men are discipled. It is through the ministry of prayer and the word. In Acts six and verse four, it says, look for men amongst yourselves, but we will continually give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the world.

This is how men are raised. Did you hear what what Paul... What Jesus told Peter? Jesus told Peter, lovest thou me above these things. Remember what Jesus promised Peter? I'll make you what? Fishers of men. When Jesus was asking that question, what was the context of the conversation? Jesus came and met them fishing and said, let's eat all eat together. And Jesus now took the fish and cut it and brought bread and they were roasting the fish.

And as they were roasting the fish, Jesus now looked at Peter. Do you remember that this was once your means of income? Do you remember that you once had an attachment to this? And Peter, your attachment is still very strong because the moment you thought I was dead, you went back proficient. Lovest thou me above these things. Lovest thou me above these things? And Peter said, you know I love you. He said, I'm not convinced. If you do, then feed my sheep. In other words, let your attention leave the fishes and come to the men I told you I will feed.

Bring your attention away from the fishes and truly become a... I have trained you for this moment. If you love me truly, then the investment I've made into you, now is the time that it speaks. If you love me, feed my sheep. And Jesus and Peter said, yes, sir. Said, ah, Peter, you have not gotten it yet. Lovest down me above these things. He said, highlight. I love you. Say, if you love me, feed my sheep.

Turn to my sheep. Say, yes, sir. Peter, you have not gotten it yet. Lovest thou me above these things. Peter was humbled. He came to a point. He says, master, only thou knowest. Now that you have kept on asking me, I don't even know if I love you again. But you know. And again, Jesus told him, feed my sheep.

You know why? Jesus was saying the same way I fed you, and I've made you into this kind of men. Go and make orders like that. And when you read the act of apostles, you now realize that men who were never discipled by Jesus did even greater exploits than Peter. Peter got the message, feed my sheep. Men like Philip never met Jesus, but they met Peter. They were trained by Peter. So when there was... Philip was a brother in the church, but the moment persecution struck, the guy escaped and found himself in Samaria. The moment he found himself in Samaria, all the teachings that had been put into him sprung up immediately.

He found the first blind man. He said eyes open. The eyes open. He found the second lame man. Legs work. The legs started working. He found deaf ears. Deaf ears open. People started gathering and saying, what is this? What is this?

What kind of man is this? Where did you come from? Where did you come from? Because up until that time, they thought that Simon, the sorcerer, was the great power of God. But Simon, the sorcerer, even though they perceived him to be the great power of God, he don't have this. The people gravitated to to Philip. He was just a brother in Christ. How about Steven? Steven was called to come and serve stable. You know what you do when you...

What... Have you ever been to a restaurant and you were served? Wonder you quoted your food by yourself. I want to sit down. They brought a menu to you. You chose what you wanted, and then they came to bring the food to you. That type. The work of those bringing the food, that was what Peter was doing. Philip... No.

Steven. Sorry. That was what Steven was doing. Hear me? Look at look at look at the description of people they wanted to come and serve tables. Said men full of the holy ghost. What do they need the holy ghost for? Are are they speaking in tongues on the foot? What do you need the holy ghost for? Ah, is to show you the quality of men they raised.

And even for the service of tables, we can we can unpick certain men who were full of the holy ghost. Oh. While even in serving tables, a man will come with crutches and say, was saved yesterday. Can I have my food? He said, bring your crutches. Walk. Now come and get your food. The bible says, Stephen, full of faith and power, did great one. This guy was having tables. We don't even know his office.

We don't know whether an apostle or evangelist. All we knew is that he's Steven. It's not in titles. We can just know you as Michael. Okay. What what are you saying, bro? If you are too concerned about title, you have no power. Yes. You have no power. See, I'm I'm a prophet.

Show us. Don't tell us. Show us. Maybe you barked your hair. I went to class one day, and the lecturer is a Muslim and he came and saw you. You're now you're now graced with beard joy. He now said, are you going to the mosque today? Said, sir, I'm a Christian and now angry that you were mistaken for a Muslim. He said, these signs will follow. It's not it's not bad hair they will use and tell.

If you are hungry, it's because signs are not following you. That... That's why they could mistake you. Don't get hungry. Don't hang. Signs are not following you. In my name, they will cast out devils. These signs will not follow will not follow apostles or prophets or teachers. They will follow believers, those that believe. The next time they tell you that there's a wish in your village, do you know what to do?

There are many people who have never visited the village because there's a principality there. They say if you come, In my house, the principalities are afraid of me. Today is not for stories. Today is not for stories. My father told me a story of when I was not yet born. It was... My father used to be a Muslim. My mother was a Christian. And she wasn't an ordinary Christian. She was she was trained.

She was trained in the way of prayer. My mother did not need a church to pray. She was prayer as many of you would become today. So when my father's family heard that a Muslim was marrying a Christian, they they rose up in hunger. These were people that were given to demonic altars. These were people that were unashamed of their cultic practices. One of the entities from the village came to my father's house. Having heard that the woman that my father intended to marry is pregnant. The entity came, a self proclaimed principality. And when the entity arrived, my mother came and was serving tables.

And the entity looked at her in anger and said, you think you will give birth to that child? You think you will stay in this house as far as I'm alive? My mother my father was the one telling me... My father was still a Muslim. This was how my father became a Christian. He was telling me his conversion story. He said, right there, my mother looked at the entity and said, who is he that will speak a word and it will come to pass when the Lord has not said it? I opened my Instagram one day, and they brought a video. I wanted to post my video but they interrupted my posting with something I never asked for. But you know there are ways.

They try and suggest if you'll be interested. They brought the video and the guy in the video was asking the lady, so what do you bring to the table? Lady now looked at her mammary glands. I said, are you blind? Lady turned her backside and said, you blind? It's not obvious what I bring to the table. What my mother brought was the ability to turn the hands of time. And what you bring is... There are people that insist that no demonic hand, no witchcraft hand will touch this family. We lay hold on this family.

That's what they bring to the table. And so when they when they sense a demonic bewitchment, an arrow fired from the village, they can wake up by 2AM and begin to groan in the spirit. Such men have been taught. Yes, sir. Such men have been cooked. Such men once visited the Cave Of Hadulah. Such men are not found in the street. What you find right now are infants. That is why they are... The the rate of divorces in homes is very high.

There are no women who can pray. I know men who can pray. There are no women who can man the gates of... Do you know my father became a believer? I started going to church up until today. My father is a pastor. What you married is not a wife, it's a principality. Some of my siblings are not as serious with God as I am. But wherever they find themselves, the way the doors will just open. In two years of getting a job, one was promoted three times.

Was given official everything, official cow, official house, official tablet, official phone. What do you want? What do you want? That's what the man... That's what the owner of the company asked. What do you want? So do you need anything? Because a woman in the night will carry pictures to the mountain and say,. I learned prayer from the woman. I was writing in excess two.

Sorry, please. How do you prepare for? How did you prepare for? You know how I prepared for wife? My mother took me to the mountain, and I fasted for nine days straight. I was in hesses two, calculate my age. Nine days... I spent nine days on the mountain. And she will leave me there and go to school and come back by 7PM, and we'll pray together till 6AM. She will go to school, come back by 7PM.

Pray together till... And I was preparing for Wahek. I left the mountain. I I wanted to be a comedian still. It didn't... The mountain experience did not change what I wanted. But guess what? When I met God, it was not up to two weeks I started working in the prophetic. You did not get that. You didn't get that.

You didn't get that. I will look at you and tell you everything about your life. Yet I have not prayed twelve hours. I've not even prayed three hours. I've not even prayed one hour. Have you been cooked? Or are you an infant? You think you're a child? When I was in 200 level, my mother called me. Then I had gained small stature.

And we went home. You know why we came home? Because an entity arrived at our house from the village. The day the entity arrived, two house land... Three landed on the roof. You know, up until that time, I've not seen house before unless Nigel White. You know how? That bed has big eyes in the front. Probably the only one that has eyes in the front. Other brands have eyes.

Sideways. This one has big ones. I've seen them on Najo White. My mother described and said, I went to... They've been praying... The house remained. And my mother is extremely sensitive. They showed the other people at home. They did not take it seriously. They said it's just birth.

But the woman has been cooked. She could tell these are not just births. It's not a coincidence that it's the day an entity arrived that just births came. So he called me. When I saw, I I was excited. He said, ah, my God. I told my mother, I said, if they don't go before 12AM, just come outside and hold water so that the house will not burn. I went back to school. I had barely reached the... I did not utter a prayer.

I barely reached the junction before the guy that was staying with us came to come and call me. One of the bed dropped down dead. He says, it's not just bed. It's not just bed. I know you watch it in Hollywood movies. This and they tell you some things are not real. If you come to my house, you will know some things are real. I was in the room and all the windows were locked. All the windows because I like to stay and pray in solitude. And I started hearing a disturbance like somebody was swimming.

And I said, what is that? I called the people. I thought somebody entered my door, my room. I was cleaning, but nobody entered. I entered. I checked the toilet. The toilet is inside my room. Opened it. And found a bed inside the sink. I checked where could it have come from.

All the windows were locked. All the windows. Inside the sink and the bed was just... Somebody will say, it's just it's just bed. And I'm not a spooky individual. As a matter of fact, I'm not one of those that believe that every cockroach you find is a witch. I'm not I'm not one of those. But we're not foolish to deny experiences are not normal. Ah, you're not getting what I'm saying. I had a dream when I was in university that my roommate...

I've never shared this experience. Now my roommate and Harrow was and Harrow was fired to his leg and his leg was chopped off. I had a dream like that and I woke up and the guy was not a serious believer. I don't know how to tell him that, guy, they chop your Lego. And I knew that my... I was extremely prophetic. I just prayed about it. The guy was preparing for school. I was also preparing for school. I wanted to wear his shoe, and the holy spirit told me, tell him not to wear the shoe.

I just told him, don't wear that shoe. And he thought I was joking because I'm actually very playful. And he thought I was joking, slapped the shoe off his leg. The moment I slapped the shoe off his leg, a snake came out of the shoe. A snake came out of the shoe. That's that's just snake. So we are not spooky. You see that now. We are not fools. What do you mean we are afraid of whatever?

But we're not naive to deny the existence of the supernatural. We will get power over them. What denying the existence? He that is in you is greater than he that is in the world. He does not say there's no one in the world. But we have an awakening, a knowledge on our inside that he that is in us is greater. You see, so what you are being made into is a strong man, a mighty man. I was in the back. And I wanted to withdraw. And a young man came out of the bank wearing a staff ID card.

That was on suit. And I looked at him, I said, yeah, you're looking very nice. Young man, polished guy wearing shoes. And he was just behind me. No. He was he was actually in front of me. I wanted to meet with someone so I gave him the privilege to just overtake me. So whilst he was there, he was trying to bring out his ATM and then he dipped his hand into his inner pocket to bring out the ATM and stuff in his inner pocket just fell down. And that was where my attention... Because it wasn't...

The sound on the floor was not sounding like how ATM should sound. So I was interrupted. I looked and I saw cowries. I saw snail shell. I saw beads tied with red cloth. And the guy, pick, pick, pick. And quickly, see, hey, bunker. There's a believer in that room who defy money in devotion. He wants to contend for promotion with that guy. Can you ask your neighbor, have you been to the cave?

There are business issues that every business on the goals that logic will bring you out of. That's common sense. Change change your strategies, do it this way, do it that way. There are some you know that this is a wind and you will need to have been to the cave to have been able to discern the movement of the devil. That this is not this is not economy. This is a wind, a demonic wind. It's not change your strategy or revamp your model. It is all of us. Let's hold our hands and pray. That's what the cave does to you.

Tell your neighbor, welcome to the cave. Let's see if you can find a good place to start. Isaiah chapter 55. There is a way I pray when my spirit cries a man. Amen. Amen. Is a way I pray when my spirit opens up. Amen. Isaiah 55 and verse six to verse seven. Over seven alone.

Let's do verse seven alone. Even them, I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices. 56 and the seven. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. When God says my house, it is important to note what it means by that. And so I want you to pay attention to his choice of words. He says, my house.

In the old testament, the place where God chooses to dwell and to manifest his presence was in the tabernacle that he told Moses to make. You remember that? That was rebuilt by Solomon following the same pattern that Moses used, the outer court, the inner court, and the holy of holies. So God could have said, my temple or my tabernacle shall be called a house of prayer. But it doesn't say that. It says, my house. There was a name given to his house. It was the temple or the tabernacle, but he says, my house. So God is basically saying, anywhere I find dwelling, anywhere I reside, either there is a building erected there or not. But once I find dwelling in a place, that place becomes a house of prayer.

Are you with me? That place becomes what now? A house of prayer. What that place will be known by the moment I choose to find expression in a place. Mnemonica that would be given to that from that time is prayer. It will be known by prayer. It becomes a place where prayer is offered nonstop. So he says my house shall be called a house of prayer. Now I want you to know that the first mention of the house of God in scriptures does not even have any physical building. In Genesis 28 from verse 11, read eleven sixteen and seventeen.

So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night speaking about Jacob because the sun had set, and he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he laid down in that place to sleep. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, surely, the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. Can you see? The Lord is in this place. Can you see that? In verse 17, it then says, how awesome is this place? This is none other than the house of God. So we see what made that place the house of God. What made it so? Because the Lord was there.

Was there a physical building there? Was there a physical structure there? The only thing that was there were stones, pillars. But for some reason, God has chosen to find expression in that place. And because God's presence chose to manifest in that region, it became the house of God. So you see, the second... The first mention of the house of God. Now what does God say his house shall be called? It means an education must have been supplied to this young man. That because God has chosen to dwell in that place, that place, despite having no physical structure to accommodate his presence, has now become the house of God.

It has pleased God to make that place his dwelling. When you follow the story, right, from Abraham, you will find that Abraham was the first person to discover that region. And Abraham was actually also the first person to give that place the name Bethel because he discerned that God was there. And what did Abraham do in response to that? He made an altar. Made an altar is the equivalent of praying in the Old Testament. He made an altar. Why did he make an altar? Because my house shall be called a house of prayer. If I ever dwell in a place, then prayer becomes the engine that powers the operation of that place.

So when God told Moses to build a temple and God's presence descended in that temple, that place became God's habitation. Hence, continuous consistent prayers are to be offered in that temple. The priest had intermittent times that they offered sacrifices and prayed in the temple. Why? Because my house shall be called a house of prayer. The moment Jacob realized that God was there and he said, this is none other than the house of God. What did he then do? What was his response? Verse 18, the Bible says, then Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put as it... At his head, set it up as a pillar, set oil on top of it, and he called the name of the place Bethel.

Verse 20, then Jacob started praying saying, if God be with me and keep me in this way that I am going and give me bread to eat, Why was he praying? My house shall be called a house of prayer. It means if I've discerned that God is here, the next thing I begin to do is to pray. Because the engine that powers the operation of anywhere God chooses to find expression is prayer. It is God himself that speaks. My house shall be called a house of prayer. When Jesus came, he saw that the pattern that was established by God has been compromised. It has been corrupted. Instead of praying, people now gathered by the house of God for transactional purposes, looking to make profit from the house of God. Instead of praying, Jesus became angry with them because they were now starting to sell and to make profit instead of praying.

They had made it a house of merchandise, but what it was designed to be is a house of prayer. What... Why was Jesus angry? Because that model, that pattern was to be a pattern or a shadow of something that is to come. And God was also angry every time a man deviated from the accurate pattern or shadow of something he was painting in the New Testament. Do you remember this? That was like God was angry with Moses when Moses struck the rod twice instead of speaking to the rod because that was to be a shadow of the Christ. It was to be a shadow of what would happen. God was using their life to paint the picture of the New Testament, and it mattered, therefore, that the picture was an accurate picture. And so when Jesus got to the temple, Jesus realized that the picture God was painting, these people are defiling it.

Do you understand this now? It wasn't just a careless anger because many people have used this to justify their anger problem. In Matthew 21 and verse 12, when Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who brought... Who bought and sold in the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold those. Verse 13, and he said to them, it is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer. But instead of making it what it has been called, you have made it a house, a den of thieves. What they were doing was perviting what would become the model. You're not getting what I'm saying. God promised David that his seed will build him a temple. And David thought that that would be Solomon.

So David synthesized Solomon Solomon as to how the building of the temple would be. Solomon built the temple quite alright, but built a thousand other temples for Baal and for other idols, one for each of his concubines, one for each of his wives. So the model could not have been Solomon. When God said your seed, what he meant was Christ because Christ would be the seed of David. Are you with me? And the temple that he spoke of would not be temples made with human hands. However, that temple was to be a model, a pattern, a shadow of what is to come. Hence, the anger of Jesus when these people started perverting what is meant to be the shadow. Stay with me. In first Corinthians three verse 16, the mandate is not revealed to us.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God? Now why are you the temple of God? Because the spirit of God dwells in you. Can you see that now? Are you seeing... It is the same model. Why was that place that Jacob saw the house of God? Because God was there. Why are you the temple of God? Because the spirit of God now dwells in you.

It means God has chosen not to find expression anymore in physical temples or in man made temples. He has chosen to now make man his temple. So man right now is the perfect picture of the house of God. Man right now is the perfect picture of God's temple. The implication of this as you are now the house of God is that you shall be called a house of prayer. Because what Jesus says of his house is my house shall be called a house of prayer. The engine that powers wherever I choose to dwell is prayer. And if I choose to dwell in your temple, in your vessel, it means your vessel must now be known by another name. Prayer. You will no longer be called Toby.

You will no longer be called Shola. You will now be called prayer. It means prayer is not something you do. It's something you are. My house shall be a house of prayer. Let me show you why his house must be a house of prayer. The reason is because there are many things that God wants to do on earth. God has an agenda. God has a program, and God cannot violate the law that he made by circumventing man and then walking on earth to bring to fulfillment his program because God is a spirit. The earth is material.

Man has a corporal body. God would therefore need to depend on the body of man, same as every other spirit, to get anything done on earth. Are you with me? So God has things he wants to do. God has a program for the earth. Remember my will. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It shall come to pass in the last days. The glory of God shall cover the earth as the waters covers the sea. This is the program of God.

God has something he wants to do on the earth that he created, but God incapacitated himself. God made himself limited when he gave man dominion over the earth and removed himself from the equation of dominion. In Genesis one twenty six, the bible says, let them have dominion. The bible does not say let us have dominion. In other words, with respect to the equation of dominion, God gave man authority over the earth, but man fell. Man did what? Fail. Man fell. Man lost the authority. Man transferred the dominion God gave man to the devil.

And so when God wants to do anything on earth, God would need a man to grant him access and to grant him permission to do what he wants to do on the earth realm. So will a spirit. So will demons. So will the devil. That's why everybody, every spirit is in search of a man. Every spirit is in search of a man. And God says, if per adventure, I choose a place as my habitation, then to ensure that that place I've chosen as my habitation is not to be just a shrine. Are you with me? Decorated and said... And saying, oh, we...

They can discern that God is here. Let's now build something around it to capture God's presence and come and be bowing down every day. God says, no. That's not the purpose for which I made that place my habitation. It's not so shrines can be made. The reason is because I want men to discern that I've chosen this area as my habitation and begin to offer prayers. Because when they begin to offer prayers, what they do when they offer prayers is that they grant me access. They grant me permission to be able to do what I intend to do on the earth. Prayer is man's permission for heavenly intervention. That is why in Genesis chapter 28, when that young man said, this is none other than the house of God.

It does not stop there. He now gives the house of God another definition. He says, this is the gate of heaven. It shows you that wherever God chooses to find expression becomes the gate of heaven. It means if anything will leave heaven and find expression on the earth realm, it will pass through the house of God because the house of God is the gate of heaven. How that gate opens is through prayer. That is why he says my house shall be called a house of prayer. Why? Because the gate of heaven is in the house of God. It means that if God has chosen to find expression in a man and has chosen to make men his dwelling, it means that men have become the gate of heaven.

And so whatever God wants to do on the earth realm will be dependent on how much a man can pray. It means... When a man begins to make prayer, when a man begins to pray, what he's doing is he's opening the gates. He's giving heaven unrestrained access to find expression through his vessel. Hi. Can you ask your neighbor, how opened are you? How opened. Are you a closed gate A closed gate. Or an open gate? An gate.

Because I tell you that if God wants to find expression in a family, it will come through a gate. The hand of God for deliverance might want to be stretched forth to change the tides of things in the family, but the gates are closed because my house shall be called a house of prayer. So God wants to wrought intervention in the family, but there's no one who has taken a posture to make God's house a house of prayer. And as long as heaven cannot find expression through a vessel who has chosen to become a house of prayer, the devil will find all restrained access. The devil will do. He will. Will. He will. On. I come all the time.

But the Bible not say whilst men slept, the devil's strength is in looking for sleeping men. It means if the devil wants to attack a family, a territory, a region, a nation, the first thing he does is not to attack because the devil is a very smart man. He will not attack whilst the men that can resist in our life. The first thing he will do is to convince the men to slumber. The moment the men begin to sleep, then the devil can now forward an attack. What was the means that the Midianites used to dominate the children of Israel? The devil was first able to convince the mighty men they were not mighty. That's why when the deliverance of Israel from the Midianite was to happen, God did not throw thunder from heaven. God appeared to a man and said, thou mighty man. In other words, whilst Israel was in captivity, the deliverance of Israel was sleeping.

The deliverance of Israel was sleeping. I've not read the bible. Do you realize that it was not enough for God to say that the seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent? All through the old testament, several people had to say the same thing. Yes, sir. They're not seeing that. Yes. They're not seeing that. They're not seeing that. Yes, sir.

All the prophets were saying, in fact, I very at least the savior will be conceived by a virgin. In case you are doubting, the guy who spelled it out clear because it not happen on earth if a gate does not open. What what God was doing was using the prophets to stand as the gates of heaven to ensure that the savior, the Messiah, can find expression. That was why Anna, the prophetess, had to be in the temple. The moment Jesus was handed over to her, she says, now my eyes have seen the salvation of Israel because for eighty four years, what that woman was doing was interceding for the salvation of Israel. God arrested her heart, arrested her marriage even and said, go and spend your life in the temple. And all she was praying for was that there will be a salvation in Israel. Salvation in Israel. Salvation in Israel. And God had to come through a vessel.

I'm telling you that if you are a believer, then the Holy Ghost is on your inside. If the Holy Ghost is on your inside, then your name is prayer. Prayer, therefore, is not what you do. It's what you are. It's what give heaven access to your family, to your territory, to your. Listen. Everything you called a move came because a man opened the gates. Every revival you read of, every every every awakening you read of, all of them came because some men gathered and opened the gates. They insisted that enough is enough. Evil will no longer reign in this territory, and they began to pray.

Have you heard about the Welsh revivalist? That man gave himself to prayer. I've heard about the Asuda Street revival. That man gave himself to prayer. How many of you have prayed for many years before receiving the holy ghost? Some of you, the day you were saved, the holy ghost jumped on you. Some of you came to spiritual gatherings and the holy ghost rested upon you. John G. Lake said he prayed for several years. I've forgotten how many years he said.

What was he praying for? I want to speak in tongues. Is it normal? Who prays for that long for speaking in tongues? What God was doing was using what he wanted as an excuse to keep him in prayers. I'm not getting you're not getting what I'm saying. That's why your experience cannot be your doctrine because your family problem can drive you to prayers and God will intentional intentionally no answer because the moment he answer, you will leave. So God will now ensure that he now shows you visions of that family problem being solved, and then you are encouraged. But you hear another news today, you stay more in prayers. What God is doing is to use that issue as an excuse to keep you in prayers.

Because the more you pray, the more the gate is opening. And God is saying it's not open enough. It's not open enough. It's not open enough. What we wanna do is more than a family problem. There is a generation on your inside. A nation is inside you. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me.

We will pray. We will pray. I told you if you're not careful, if you're not careful, we'll not be able to satisfy the demands of the teaching ministry. But the teacher man is not done, So sit down. Hey. I know it's rubbling on your inside, so keep it. So that when it's time to explode, you can explode all at once. You see that now. The holy ghost was gonna be released from heaven. The same principle will be applied.

Because if anything will leave heaven and find expression in the head realm, a gate must be opened. Have you read Psalms 24? This is the generation of them that seek you, oh Jacob. Actually, what he's saying is this is the generation of Jacob that seek you. Are you with me? That seek your face. NKJ will put it well. The generation of those who seek you, it means when it comes to seeking God, there is a... An entity that has become a system who will observe that gives us a portrait of how God must be sought. So the bible says this is Jacob.

And now you use Jacob to capture a generation that seeks God. It means if you're seeking God is not after the semblance of Jacob, you are joking. Why? Because the word was sent to Jacob. But in as much as the word was sent to Jacob, it was inside Jacob, but it was meant to light on Israel. It means if Israel does not come out of Jacob, the word would not find expression. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So Jacob had to seek God. And the first time an encounter came, Jacob missed it because he said God was here, and I did not know it.

It shows you a pattern that God can be in a vessel the man will not know. I will show you what that means. God can be strong on your inside, and you will not know. As a phenomenon like that where the holy ghost is is rumbling, and a man will not know. There's another phenomenon where the holy ghost is on your inside, but he is sleeping. We'll talk about those two phenomena because both of them are related to prayer. Have you not read that Jesus Christ was in a boat? Uh-huh. And people were about to die, and their cries for death did not wake him up. The bible calls him the express image of God.

You are not seeing that. Do you know what it means to be in a boat and there is rumblings in the seas? It means water is splashing into the boat. Where was the man sleeping? What kind of sleep is that? People are shouting, bring the anchor. Bring the keys. The man was sleeping. The waves were splashing on the boat. The boat was moving like this like this.

The man was sleeping. What kept him still whilst the boat was moving like this? You you don't... It was not running up and that... You... Will that not have woken anymore? Yeah. They did everything they could do in their strength and shouted and screamed, and Jesus did not wake up until they came to wake him. We'll get there. Let me go ahead of myself.

This is the generation of them that seek you, oh, Jacob. Let me tell you something. I've got shown you a vision of your future. If you don't begin to pray, it will die on your inside. Look at the next verse. Lift up your heads, oh, ye gates. What is the context of this conversation? The generation of them that seek you. What does it continue to say? Lift up your heads, oh ye gates.

There are several explanations people have given to this scripture, but I believe prophetically speaking that the gates spoken of there are the generation of them that seek him because his house shall be called a house of prayer, and this is none other than the house of God, the gate of heaven. So if men begin to seek him, those men become gates. And now, God is now saying, lift up your heads all the gates and be lifted up your everlasting doors that the king of glory shall come. The kids started to ask who is the king of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty. Is there a family who is asking, who is this king of glory? Instead of opening up. The Lord strong and mighty wants to find expression, but the gates are still asking who is that. Have you read the book of Acts chapter two from verse three to verse four when the holy ghost came like a rushing mighty wind? Let's start from verse one.

Look at what the bible says. When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Next verse. Watch this. And suddenly, they came from heaven. What were they doing from the time that Jesus left them up until this time? Act one shows us that they were in one accord praying, fasting, and waiting on God. And God had to wait... Are you with me? God had to wait until all of them that were gathered there had successfully opened the gates.

And this thing they were doing was gonna be something that will affect all of humanity. Because when once the holy ghost came here, it wasn't gonna go back. You didn't get what I just said. The coming of the holy ghost here is the reason why you can't receive the holy ghost now. These people are to tarry for this reason. They are... Just tarry it in Jerusalem until that will be endured. They are the only ones who have to tarry Because up until that moment, the holy ghost has not been dispensed from the heavens. The moment these people tarry, there is no man who wants to receive the holy ghost now that needs to tarry. Because the holy ghost is no longer in heaven.

Apart from these men who tarried, no other man in the New Testament tarried. Even Cornelius, who was a Greek man, who was a Gentile. The bible says, whilst Peter spoke these words, the holy ghost came upon them. They were just hearing about the gospel for the first time, and the holy ghost overshadowed them. So if the reason why somebody told you you cannot receive the holy ghost is because they're not tarried. They lied to you. Are you with me? The Lord has decreed a thing who can but prophesy. Because when the Lord has decreed the thing, you must prophesy as God has decreed. It is part of the opening of the gates.

Do you know that Abraham started having an encounter with God, and God was telling Abraham all the visions and all of that thing? And God even showed Abraham a powerful vision, told Abraham to sacrifice turtle doves, all of that. And in the cool of the evening, God came and walked in between. Abraham did not. And after all all that experience, Abraham asked God, how about my child? How about my child? You promised me but I've not sinned. Now is my heir will be... And God said no. And God told him again that he would have a son.

And God reinforced his belief and reinforced his faith that he would have a son in an encounter that he had with God. He came out of that encounter with a reinforced conviction that Ismael is not my son. I will have a son. Is that not so? But in the next verse, immediately after that verse, the bible says certain men appeared unto Abraham, three of them. And Abraham, the son that these people were of God, and he cooked for them, slaughtered a cow. And when they were done eating the cow that Abraham had slaughtered, they now told Abraham the same thing that God had told him in an encounter. So God spoke in an encounter, and God became a man to speak again. Because in as much as Abraham has seen it in an encounter, a man still had to say it. This is none other than the house of God.

This is the gate of heaven. The bible says in Hebrews chapter seven that when Abraham melt Melchizedek and gave Melchizedek a tenth of the offerings, a tenth of the of the gift that he had received or plundered rather from that warfare that he went to, the bible says, and Melchizedek blessed him that had the blessing. How do you bless a man that had the blessing? Because the first blessing he had was pronounced by God. The second one has to be pronounced by a man. This is none other than the house of God. This is the gates of heaven. So that is why the Bible now says, ask ye the Lord for the rain in the time of the latter rain. Because it is the time of the rain does not mean the rain will start to come. If God has told you that I'm opening up a season to you, what you begin to do is recognize you are the gate, and so the gate must be opened.

So if this is my season of a lifting, I must therefore begin to contend. And the more time I spend in prayers, what is happening is that my gates are opening, and I'm giving God the expression, the ability. The reason why many of you have seen promises that have not come to pass is because the gates are closed. The reason why many of you have seen promises that are coming to pass little by little is because the gates is open little. That's the way I can open that gate and I open it. The diameter of opening is still is still... You see, the angle of inclination is still very small. It's open 10 degrees and it open 20 degrees. It's open 30 degrees. How opened we are determines how how most God can do.

It means if I stand before a crusade people in a crusade ground and out of 100 limelight, three are healed. I don't blame it on the people. Man of God, check how open you are. Could it be that that was how much God could do? Don't say you did not have it. Oh, could it be that more opening was needed. And as we're gonna spend time in prayers, do you know that especially if you're a man of God, even if you're not a man of God, it applies to you. But as we're gonna spend time in prayers, you realize that you will know when you have opened more doors. You will know. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. You will know. You will know because the things that are accompanying you increase. The signs the signs that are accompanying even your ministration, your stickings, your... You know that. No. This is not how it used to be. Come on. This is how it used to be. Something has something has broken.

There's a breakthrough somewhere. The moment that happens, you will not need to struggle for that dimension again. You have entered it. Every time you stand, that door is opened. God will find expression. I know you had visions and you saw yourself healing lame legs and raising dead and doing strange things. And you wanna go and jump out. And the moment you jump out, you realize that you were disappointed. Tell yourself open more gates. This understanding is what keeps us in prayers especially praying for long.

That's why I can stay and just be praying. And I'm not seeing any sign. There's nothing moving in me. I'm not I'm not even energized to pray. I can't even feel what I'm doing, but I know a door is opening. A a gate is opening. Am I compelled in prayers? Not more possibilities. Accompanying my voice and my commands. Amen.

Amen. Amen. Amen. The teacher man has not completed this ministry. Have your seat. Have your seat. When a believer begins to pray, there are a few things that happens to you as you prosecute prayer, especially when you begin to pray in tongues. In fact, when you pray in tongues, there are a few things that happens as you begin to prosecute prayer. I wanna show you three out of them. The first one we see in the book of Luke chapter nine and verse 28 to verse 29.

Stay with me. I wanna give you understanding that the next time you go to pray, you know exactly what is happening. It is not it is not something we do to fulfill all righteousness. Some people pray to just maintain a form of spirituality because someone told them to pray, and they feel if I don't pray, I'm not a believer. And they have no idea what is happening even as they pray. There's no understanding sponsoring that adventure, and as such, that adventure becomes a frustrating one. If you have understanding, you will realize that what sponsors your prayer is more than your emotions. It now becomes the understanding you have. How many of you have been in a a situation where you have an exam? Are people outside?

Like, how many people outside? Are there still chairs? I wanna just be. You can arrange chairs here. Can we bring... You can bring chairs here. You can bring chairs here, and people can sit down here if they don't mind. Glory to God. Are you with me? And arrange chairs like this.

Just put here like that. Hallowed be your name. Hallelujah. Now it came to pass about eight days after these sayings that he took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray. So why why did it take Peter, James, and John? So what would you expect Peter, James, and John to be doing? Let's go and read. As he prayed, the Bible says, the appearance of his face was altered. That's the first thing that happens as men begin to pray. It's called transformation.

Transformation. The appearance of his face was altered. The Bible says his robe became white and glistening. KJV says the appearance of his countenance was altered. If you are being raised to be agent of transformation, you must realize that it is a transformed man that can transform his world. It takes a changed man to effect a change. If you're gonna bring lasting impact in your sphere of influence, then something must happen to you on the inside. All of the things that happens when we pray is that we are changed. It means prayer gives God the opportunity to work in you and to work on you. God is more interested in making you than in giving you.

God doesn't just want to make things happen for you. He wants to make you the man that can make things happen. In prayers to encounter God. And when you encounter God, you are changed. Anything that was not planted by God in your life cannot survive exposure to God. It is in prayers that God used to remove things in your life. This is the purpose of the purifying fire. You can pray and your heart will yield for God from a place where you are not even passionate for God. The outcome of the prayer that transforms is usually beyond you in as much as it is in you. Do you what I just said?

Yes, The outcome is beyond you in as much as the change is happening in you. That was the prayer that Jacob was praying. The bible said an angel appeared to him when he was alone. This kind of prayer, you need you need time alone. And he began he began to pray. When the angel appeared unto him, he said, I will not let you go until you bless me. And we saw the persistent nature, the intentional nature, the stubborn nature of this kind of prayer. And the Bible says, whilst the man was praying, the angel dislocated his heat boom and told him today you have had power with God and you have prevailed. Your name shall not be called Jacob. Your name shall now be called Israel.

The word was sent to Jacob, but it lighted upon Israel. There had to be a process of transformation for Jacob to become Israel. The change happened in him. It was his name that was changed, but it was beyond him because Israel was more than a man. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Do you know that one get my message? The staff of Jacob. Jacob had carried that staff for a long time and had never needed it. That staff was a signet of authority passed down from generations.

And when he left his father's house, that was the only thing he carried, Jacob and his staff. He had never needed that staff because he thought it was only a rod, my father's favorite rod. But the moment his hip bone was dislocated, do you know what that means? Up until that time, Jacob had always found his way with his strength, deceiving people, lying to people. He was called supplanter. That is the meaning of his name. So how he made his living was by treating people, riding people, supplanting, using his brain here and there. He had never had a need to depend on God. He felt that he could do everything just by calculating things here and there, playing smart games, give me all this, give me all that transaction, all of that. But the moment this guy began to pray, the first thing that the angel needed to do was to dislocate his hip bone.

The moment the hip bone was dislocated, for the first time, he had to rest on the staff. The Bible says when he was blessing his sons, he blessed his sons leaning on the staff. What that... Have you read the scripture? The bible says thy rod and thy staff. It means for the first time, Jacob now had a dependence on the rod. What God did was to bring him out of a place where his brain was prosecuting his life and to bring him to a place of ultimate dependence. I know you think you are smart. You think you can plan a lot. You can all sit down.

It will only take you thus far. You you will go some extent. You will go for... In fact, some doors will open. My prayer is that may you not lose your hip bone before you realize the folly of your ways. Because for some people, the hip bone represent all they've gathered in their brain, all they've gathered with their intelligence. Do not realize that they can gather, but their intelligence cannot keep. Something had to change in Jacob. Something not to change in Jacob. So I said the outcome of the prayer of transformation is really beyond you in as much as it is in you.

It is so that your life can carry something that is fitting for your generation. There are some of you. It is the problem in your family that will bring you in the place of prayers. But when God in that place of prayer is done with you, what it does is that it makes you into someone that can solve the problem that brought you. He then sends you back to solve it. So all the worst, you were praying and shouting. I don't like the finances of my family. I don't like the... This is my family. I don't like...

My father is always begging. My mother is always begging. The first time there was prophetic service, that was the seed you brought. Your expectation was these things, the finances of my family, I don't like it. The finances of my family, I don't like it. And because of the expectation, God creates a breakthrough somewhere because he knows that it's not yet done with you. The breakthrough would not become the permanent solution or the permanent answer. It will only come to take or to alleviate the pain for a season. And what God is trying to do is to bring your... Is to always give you an excuse that bringing you to the place of prayer.

And whilst you begin to pray whilst you begin to pray, then ideas will start dropping into your mind. You that used to think that I'm not... I don't really think... You... You've never even thought you've never even thought of starting a business, getting a job, learning a skill. As you are praying, you go out and have the power, and you wake up and realize that there is just this desire in you to learn the skill, to learn the skill. You go on the computer. You are... You you you... You're searching.

You're searching. You're searching. Desire wants to die, you go to prayer again, it comes up. It comes up. Now you pay for a cost by learning the skill. You are reading. You are watching. You are hearing somebody talk about how to make money, how to set that skill for value. You go for a conference or seminar. You're taking courses, improving yourself, getting better, investing more time in prayers, investing more time in prayers, investing more time in prayers.

As you do now, you have learned the skill. And you think, ah, me, I didn't even think I would learn this thing. But now look at where I am. Now it comes to the point where I need to begin to search for jobs, but then I'm talking myself down. They ask me how much do you want? I say I want 20,000 naira. For something that should be worth 100,000 or 200,000 because the heart of a lion is not in your... Is not in you. So what happens is that you go back to prayer and a transformation happens again. That weak you, that timid you, that 1,000,000 naira is too big a price to call.

How much do you want? You are afraid. You see, if I call 1,000,000, they can leave. They can go and find somebody else. You can tell that some that is because a transformation has not happened to you in prayers. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Do you realize that it is men that God sends as answers to the prayer of other men? Some of you are the answer to the cry of your generation. I thought a sermon some years ago, answers to ancient cries. There are many of you that are answered in such manner, but not this version of you.

This version of you is too crude, too lazy, too timid, too shy, too afraid, too fearful, not bold enough. This version of you is not capable of carrying the weight of your glory. So in as much as it is in your future, it's not for you. This version of you must die. It must change. There must be a transformation like a butterfly in a cocoon. There must be there must be a metamorphosis that must happen. First, try a lover, but the glory is not for the lover. And so you spend time in prayers until the wings start to shoot out. The lover cannot swell, but your destiny is to swell.

And whilst you're a lover, it means you are under the... You you are under threat because everything that lives on the ground, you are a prey too. Can pray on you. So the lovers prayer point is survival. Let me not die today. Let them not kill you. Let me not die today. I'm going out again. Hope the snake is not there. Hope the serpent is not there.

Hope the lizard is not there. I've gotten a leaf. I've gotten a food. Now let me crawl back very slow. Let me crawl back very slow. You see, the solution to his problem is growth. There is a transformation that must happen. A time will come that the larva will now become a butterfly. When the snake come, it just flies. The Bible says, those that wait upon the Lord, They shall renew.

There is something that will be gonna happen on their inside. They can come as weak men, but when they wait upon the Lord and they begin to pray, from inside of them, a strength is renewed. Hear me? The Bible says not only will they renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles. World. World the world. Is world. You shall mount up. Hear me? Listen.

This is the prayer that transforms. You go in as a sheep. You come out a roaring lion. Listen, everything changes including your body language. Listen, there is a body language that commands attention. Listen. Some of you, you're a cameraman. Somebody brings to go and walk with them. You are praying for favor, praying for increase, but they give you camera. You are walking like a chicken that that that about to die.

Where are going? Snap picture. Corporate. Listen. Something must happen to your body language. Listen. You meet someone on the road. They say, ah, who are you? Say, I'm Emmanuel. Confident, bold, not afraid of anything.

Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. There are some of you here, you say I'm shy. You know, I'm just a shy type. You are only a low type. You have not prayed. That is not who you are. Something can burst out of you. The Bible says, the righteous is as bold as a lullaby.

Hear me? Hear me? It means his boldness is not yet a reality you have not prayed. Hear me? Your destiny is to stand before multitude, before crowd. This version of you that is always crying. They say come and speak to crowd, you are crying. Come and sing worship song, you are crying. I can't stand before I have stage flight. What in the world is stage flight?

Hear me. Go and market your business. Ah ah. What if what if my classmates now see me in Borija Market? What will I now say? If my classmates see me in Borija Market, marketing my business, Selling puff puff. How will I be selling puff puff? Go and pray. Something needs to break out of. Listen.

Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Hear me. What chases you to prayers is not as important as what changes in you in prayers. You didn't get what I said? It can be family problems that took you to prayers. But when you get there, God will do something that will make you change your world because you're an agent of change. Listen to me. If all I can do is get a man to pray, give him five years.

Give him five years. Hear me? We don't have... We're not we're not what we... My family doesn't know what you would call rich, ex... Wealthy or the likes. Just somewhere there in the middle. But if you come to my house, you will never know. If you see my mom or my or my dad, you will never know. You know why?

Because as he prayed, the first thing that changed was his way his face appeared. It means prayer can give you the visage of a colossus. It can give you the countenance of the mighty. You are looking like this. There's a man of God who I used to watch those days. When he wants to counter devil, he just stand. You see his face, you know the anointing is dripping. Listen. What has happened is that his visage has changed. Hear me.

Hear me. Hear me. How many of you have you if your visa does not change, you will go and collect contracts. They will say, he's a small boy. They will say, ah, how can we give this small boy? How old are you? Say, I'm I'm I'm 26. But you look like a small boy. Your... The the fashion of your countenance has not changed.

Your visage has not been altered. Listen. Listen. You can look like me, and everybody will know you carry something. They can't say you're a small boy. What kind of small boy raises the dead? What kind of small boy speaks and the heart of men begin to burn? You hear me? Find value in your prayers. That moment you go and pray in chapel or at the back of your hostel and or at the back of your house, on your toilet, and you are praying.

One of the things that is changing is that that that that that lava is becoming a butterfly. You go to your class, you say, me, I don't want you to see me oh. I don't want that to see me oh. You have a vision in your spirit to contest for a a provision of leadership. But you are afraid. What if they don't pick me? What if I'm not selected? What if it does not come to me? What if, what if, man of God, you need to pray. Hear me?

Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Calm down. Just calm down. But I still have the first thing that prayer does. Just come. The bible says the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. The bible says these two are contrary one to another. So that you'd not do the things that you wish.

Many a times, if you don't pray, you will find out your desire for the flesh is heightened. When your prayer life comes under attack, flesh starts to rise. Yes. The moment to start dwindling in prayers, you'll know that the the desire of the flesh is heightened. Now you feel like watching nonsense. You feel like what you call... Calling somebody. You feel like because I didn't pray. Now go and check. You didn't pray yesterday.

Didn't pray two days ago. It does not take time for the flesh to awaken. What keeps the flesh in a state of constant submission is prayers. So you are having challenges with several several things that you don't wanna deal with again. Spend time praying. You stumble. Listen. You know the mistake. As you spend time praying, maybe two weeks after you now stumble, you know what you now do? You now live prayers again.

Where are you now going to? What is the solution outside of God? If you don't run to God, who will you run to? Don't you realize that it is when you have stumble, you should pray? You know why? You know why? Because the bible says that the man that knows God does not sin. A believer does not sin. A believer cannot sin. However, if any man sineth, we have an advocate with the father who makes propitiation for our sins.

It means there is a confidence I have to approach God even when I stumble because I know there is one in heaven who is standing before God advocating for my sake. You didn't get what I just said. The man who have stumbled is the one that should pray. Rise up and pray. As you continue in that venture, you will rise above the flesh. You will rise to a place where the flesh cannot dwell. Listen, many of you are beginning to pray. You realize that the flesh was not jumping out. The flesh was not jumping out. It is like fire being applied to the wood, and the snake in the wood that have been comfortable in the coldness is becoming uncomfortable with the increase in temperature so it lashes out.

Because the snake has latched out does not mean you stop the fire. That is the time to keep the fire burning to ensure... Listen. The snake coming out is to make you afraid. So that when you are afraid, you leave the wood, leave the fire, leave everything and go. If the fire goes back down, the snake will crawl back in. But the... Listen. If the snake makes you aware that I am here, what do you do? Fire.

Prayers. Oh, I said I will not do this again, but devil will not get me. Father, I know I said this, I'm I'm sorry. Have mercy on me. I know I'm still a child. I know I'm still a son. I'm still growing. I'm still changing. I know God is helping me. I know God is helping me.

Listen. Transformation. Hear me? Transformation. The bible says, but we all beholding as the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image. In other words, the glass there speaks of the word of God. That has because we need to behold the word of God, we are transformed to the same image as God. But in the book of Ephesians one seventeen, the bible now says, but you that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ... Verse from verse 16. Watch this.

Verse 15. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in Jesus and love unto all the saints, next verse, cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you where? In my prayers. What is now the prayers? That the God of the... Of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. It means that the revelation to behold as Nicholas comes in prayers. That's why scripture is still dry to you. Pray. In Acts six four, we will give ourselves continually unto prayer first and the ministry of the word.

Every time I carry scripture, like, I sleep off. Go and pray. Go and pray. Spend time praying. Soak your spirit in prayers. Let your spirit mount up and see how the eyes of understanding will be enlightened. See how the spirit of revelation will come. In Acts chapter one, Jesus began a lecture, and that lecture was given after he had resurrected and had ascended. He had completed the work of redemption and the rights of redemption in heaven and has satisfied the claims of justice as revealed in Hebrews chapter nine. He appeared before the throne of God and sanctified the elements of the altars.

And after he was done with all of this, you'd expect that he now begins to enjoy his holiday. But no, he takes a leave of absence. And he comes to his disciples, and he spends forty days with them. And what is teaching them in this forty days? The bible says it's matters pertaining to the kingdom of God. At his custom was, he would always allow like a good teacher, his disciples to ask him questions when he's done teaching. When he was done with the lecture, they went on a break. And these people knew that when they come from the brain, from the break, Jesus will ask them any questions. So they all gathered together, and they decided they only had one question. All of them, after forty days of lecture, decided they only had one question.

And when they came back from the break, they shot recess. They now came to Jesus. The bible says, and they asked of him. It was a collective question. Will you at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? Hey. So you have been preaching about the kingdom. You have been speaking about the kingdom. Now is this the time where you are restoring the kingdom back to Israel? The context of this question was because Israel was in captivity.

They were being colonized by the Roman government. Are you aware of this? So they wanted in Israel to gain independence. So they thought that Jesus came as a political leader to cause a revolt. And so when he started teaching them about the kingdom, all they had was, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So when will Israel gain independence? And Jesus did not say you have asked a foolish question.

Jesus said, it it is not for you to know the times and the seasons that the father has put in his own power. He didn't tell them it's not happened. He told them it is not for them to know the Kronos and the Kairos. He just leave that to the father. However, you shall receive power. After that, the holy ghost has come upon you and the power you have you have received will now make you witnesses onto me in Jerusalem, in Judea. In other words, you will receive power, and that power will make you witnesses. Go about the business of witnessing. As you are witnessing, then the time and the season for Israel's independence will come. It will come based on the fact that you have started your witnessing.

If it comes and the business of witnessing is not done, you will miss the season. So leave the time. Focus on what you should be doing. What you should be doing is to serve as a witness. This scripture is the prophetic scripture to every believer who has received the holy ghost. This scripture defines our mission on earth, our mandate on earth. The moment we gave our lives to Christ, we became witnesses. Get my vision on the witness. Well, stay with me. This statement directly affects the life of every believer today.

As long as you have received the life of God, the statement defines your mandate as a believer. You are a witness. And the means to witness accurately was also given. It was given. It's called power. So when the holy spirit comes upon you, you receive what? Power. Power. Now the word used for power there is the word dunamis. Dunamis has two meanings in the Greek language, and it is from these two meanings I would derive the next two things that prayer does in the believer.

The first meaning of the word dunamis is the word potential energy. What what? So what Jesus is saying is, I'm going to give you potential energy. Now if you have studied basic physics, you know that energy stored in the potential state cannot be used until the energy is converted. Are you with me? So when the holy ghost comes upon you, you receive dunamis, potential energy. In its potential state, it is not useful. You're gonna need to convert it to its kinetic state. In that state, so many uses will now come out of it. This shows you that it is possible to receive the holy ghost and you become weak and powerless.

It is possible for you to have received the holy ghost and you are confused. It is possible for you to receive the holy ghost and to... You are you are helpless and hopeless. And the reason is because Jesus, as I've showed you, can sleep in your boat. The holy ghost can sleep in your life. If you don't find any need for him and you're not in the business of putting him to work, he's going to find convenience in sleeping in your heart and your life will be as though he was never present. Do you realize that God created the earth in such a way that he never provided finished product? Do you realize that? That was the pattern God used in creation. Instead, what he did was that he endowed man with potential, leaving it to human creativity to utilize and to develop this potential.

Gold, for instance, is a piece of rock with potential. Did you get that? It has the potential to become several things. Many of you think that the only thing that gold can be used for is jewelries and all that, But God is also used in electronics, in switches, in relay connectors because it has a very good conductivity and is less corrosive. Are you with me? Gold... As a matter of fact, medical studies is starting to discover that gold nanoparticles can be used in drug delivery. In aerospace engineering, scientists use gold to cut the helmet or the covering of the astronaut because gold has little effect on radiation. So many uses in a piece of rock, And God never created the jewelries. God never created the gold nanoparticles.

As a matter of fact, gold is not used even in cooking. Are you with me? In decorative properties. And the creator never took these things out of the gold. He left the potential, and all of that possibility was resident in Iraq. That is how God created humanity and the holy ghost that came in you. When you were baptized with the Holy Ghost also came as a potential as the mean of dunamis. I think what accurately captures this picture of potential energy is crude oil. Crude oil is potential energy. It has a lot of value, but it is not useful in its potential state.

You can't carry crude oil and go and pour your generator and carry crude oil and pour your gas. You can't carry crude oil and pour in an airplane. Are you with me? You would need to process it or to subject it to refinement in order for you to harness all its viable products. That's exactly how the holy ghost is. The power you received when the Holy Ghost came upon you is potential. The process that does the conversion of the potential energy. Are you with me? Into fine fractions of possibilities in measures of grace and mercy is called prayer. So the second thing that prayer does in you is conversion.

Stay with me. Stay with me. What did I call it? Conversation. Is what? It takes what is potential and begins to convert it into fine particles that are now viable and useful to you in time. The spiritual capital that you received in the person of the Holy Spirit is supposed to be subject to a conversion process. It is a process that transforms the potential into functional possibilities that is capable of affecting time and space. The reason why you cannot walk in the fullness of the possibilities you have received is because there is a breakdown in the conversion process. So you cannot convert the potential energy of the spiritual capital you have received into value.

So what happens as you begin to pray in tongues is that the refinery of conversion is working. A conversion process is taking place. Now if you decide to pray in tongues for thirty minutes every day, God will... What God will do is that he will manufacture grace out of that refinery that is commensurate to thirty minutes of investment. So you will live on that possibility. Your life today reflects the effort you have put into cultivating the spiritual capacity that you received when the Holy Ghost came on you. The Holy Spirit empowers you, but it is through speaking in tongues that you convert that power and come to the experience of the full possibilities of what you have received. So in Luke chapter four and verse one and two, the bible says, and Jesus being full of the holy ghost. Now this was immediately how far he was baptized by John. He was immersed in water, and he was full.

The holy ghost came upon him as of a dove. You remember that now? Now then immediately this happened, the bible says Jesus was full of the holy ghost, and he was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Now my concern here is not the interaction that happened between himself and the devil. But the moment Jesus gained victory after forty days and forty nights of conversion, what did I say? Conversion. What was happening in the wilderness was conversion. So how did he go there? He went there full of the holy ghost. How did he come out?

In verse 14, can we read together? Everybody, one, go. Boss. What had happened is conversion. It it took forty days. What he was doing, he he switched on the refinery, and the crude oil was put there. And it started the East. As he was doing that, the conversion process was happening. Are you with me? And one of the products that came when Jesus finished converting was power.

Power is not the only product that can come. James chapter five and verse 16. Power is only one of the products. The bible says amplified version. We read a big part of it. I want you to see something. One, two, three, go. Does what? Do you know what dynamic means? It means when you begin to make conversions, power is one of the product but it's dynamic.

Are you with me? It means as you begin to pray, one of the product that can come is also wisdom. The bible says if any man lacks wisdom, let him pray. But the bible don't say Christ has been made wisdom unto you. It means he's inside you, but a conversion healed. A conversion must begin to happen. It's it's like it's like it's like when you put crude oil inside the machine, inside the refinery, you realize that at around 80 degrees Celsius, gaseous substances start to erupt from hydrocarbons breaking down into butane and methane and all these things. And the moment they start to erupt, a pipe is connected that captures the gases. This pipe is then used to store the gases into a tank, a pressure tank. The pressure of the tank is measured.

Now the gas has several qualities. The variables can be altered depending on the function of the gas that you are after. That's where your LPG comes from, the one you use in your kitchen. Are you with me? And where... What makes us get gases is when we burn crude oil, 80 degrees Celsius. It means there's a way you can prosecute prayer. What determines what comes out is the lighter substances. If you were taught, they will tell you the lighter substances will come first. Then as you increase the temperature, the heavier substances...

Come come come. You you are not you are not you are not seeing this thing. You are not seeing this thing. Listen. It means as we begin to prosecute prayer, what will start coming out of you is is smoke. That's the lighter substances. I heard this story of the man of God. A professor was looking for a child for twelve years and he couldn't find a child and a miracle happened. After the miracle happened, he went to the village to go and pick a maid. The maid that he picked of all the people to pick happened to be the one that was just anointed as the head of the coven.

She was a teenager, around 15 years old there about, 12 to 15 years old. And she was... She had just been coronated as the superintendent, the grandmaster of the coven, the demonic fraternity, and all the witches in that region will bow to her. She has been enacted into witchcraft by a predators, and they've taught her the craft. Now when they connect her, it was the first time she had access to raw power, demonic power. And it happened that it was weeks after or days after that this professor came and harvested her. I went back to the city. And when I got to the city, the girl had not yet been trained in how to dispense the power controllably. So one day, the professor annoyed her. And in hunger, she cast a spell and killed the professor.

She then went to the village, did her protection and projected her spirit to the village to consult with the elders in witchcraft, to tell them what had happened and report the issue to them. They told me, you have made a mistake. We don't kill like that so that people will not be able to trace the killing to us. Now to be obvious, that was when he was hungry with you that he died. But you should not have done that. Go and wake him back up. We need to cover... This thing needs to be done with wisdom. By the time she came back and awakened, the wife had called pastors to come and raise him. And the pastors were praying.

They were praying. They were praying. They were praying. As they were praying, what was coming out was smoke. It was gaseous substances. And because of the gaseous substances, the witch could not pass. It it affected our entry because the prayer hindered her. There there was energy in the room that hindered her from coming to come and wake the person he killed, but their prayer could not wake him. Their prayer hindered the person who could undo the spell, but their prayer could not wake the man. It was...

It it was capable of generating smoke. Ask your neighbor, are you light? Some of us want to be heavy. And when we realize the kind of results that come from our speakings, we can tell how much investment we have applied to conversion. We we know that there are result but it's still the lighter substances. At at about 130 degrees or so, then light kerosene, the one you use for a vision for a start coming out. At about one sixty, one eighty, the one you use for your household for coming out. The higher you go, then diesel comes out. Petrol comes out. Are you seeing that is...

It too may be heavier stuff can start coming out at the extreme temperatures. Oh, I know you have a call to a territory, but what is coming out of you? Can what can can can what is coming out of you service service even your family? You know what it means to stand over a territory? It means you are casting your spirit over it. It means you are vast in your spirit. That's why not every man of God can pass to a thousand people. Do you know what it means to cast your spirit over a thousand people? Let them give you microphone and go to Redemption Camp. Realize that only the first five rows will be hearing you.

From five rows upwards, they are pressing game, playing this, doing that because your spirit not reach there. You have not you have not gained this... I don't I don't know how to explain this thing in a way somebody will get it. What happens when we begin to pray is a conversion. A conversion is happening. A conversion is happening. If it is light, you will slay people under the power, but nothing will happen when they are slain. The simplest one is slaying people. The more intense one is what happens when they are slain. Anybody can go out without the power.

Let me throw my handkerchief. The thing is when they went, did an encounter happen? Were they healed? Was their life changed? Did any valuable tangible thing happen? What many believers are excited about is smoke. When I began to chant when I began to chant, smoke descended. And people people were crying. But what was happening? Did the smoker come down and left smoking?

Or or or or was your voice capable of of of smashing an encounter on his face? But whilst he's being stubborn, your your your voice is now heavy. It's... There's a point you speak to people, they argue with you. But when you spend time praying, there's a weight that comes on your voice. Listen. Paul says, Paul says, behold, I speak in tongues more than ye all. I speak in tongues more than ye all. That's the reason why I can ask you when I came to you, my speech and my preaching was not in enticing words of man's wisdom. That's decious substance.

There is a heavier side of it. It means it means I can come and deliver an intelligent lecture, but I can come and deliver spirit and power. Hear me? That's why I said, if I can get men to pray, just give them five years. Because as they are praying, as they are praying, they might not know. But a conversion is happening. A conversion is happening. Suddenly, wisdom that did not have before. Ideas did not have before. Solutions did not have before.

Listen, these are results of the refinery. They are results of the conversion process. That is happening as you pray. Hear me. Hear me. We are closed. We are closed. We don't have time again. Let's close. Hear me.

Hear me. You just carry this and go and pray in your house. You can't pray here. My time is gone. The third thing that prayer does. Are you getting understanding? Listen. So you know it's not whether I feel like it or I don't. Listen. You can go and pray and it's dry.

It does not stop the refinery. The conversion is not subject to your emotions. You may not feel it, but it is happening. Oh. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. The last thing that prayer does. How many of you use a phone, and the phone is called a smartphone?

Do you know what makes a phone called a smartphone? It means there are phones that are not smart. It means it means... I wanna show you the third thing prayer doors. I don't have time to open scriptures. So I will use this illustration. If his phone is not smart, what is it? I'm not gonna say anything. Now what exactly makes a phone smart? It is the operating system in that phone.

Stay with me. A phone that is not smart can walk, can horn. There are certain functions that the phone can even perform. Are you with me? It can call somebody. It can receive message. It can even you can even listen to music. It it can do several things. But a phone that is smart has an advantage because your operating system is a lot more powerful than what exists in a thirty three ten. Now when you buy the phone, the phone comes with an operating system.

Yes, sir. Along with the operating systems come certain factory function that the phone can perform just by honing it I'm putting the SIM inside. You can text, you can call, you can snap, you can... So many things that is possible just because you have bought a phone and you are starting to use the phone and it has an operating system. However, you realize that there are certain functionalities that you will now begin to need that did not come with the factory operating system. However, those functions exist as applications on the Play Store. So what you would need to do is now go to the Play Store and download the application to further increase the function of your phone. So my phone can already call. But when my friend travels to The US, I realize that it's not wise for me to start calling my friend. Now I need a WhatsApp on my phone.

It means to call my friend that will not hit my money or my airtime. But that functionality did not come in built in the phone. However, it is prepared. It came with the Play Store of the phone. So in the Android, there's a market system where where any function you desire to add to your phone that your phone did not originally come with, you can download. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me.

Hear me. You can download. So when you put WhatsApp, is it 10%, 20%, 40% downloading, 50%, 100% downloading. Install. And the moment it is installed into your phone, you no longer need the permission of WhatsApp to use post... WhatsApp. Yes, sir. You no longer need the permission of Google to use WhatsApp. You can now begin to use WhatsApp anyhow you want because it's now on your phone. But the time I was on Play Store and I saw a game and I saw Try Game.

I don't know if you have seen that before. And I clicked on it and for like thirty seconds to one minute, I could play the game without having installed the game on my phone. And that was just to make me taste what the application has. And even after testing it, I decide that I want this function on my phone. I then click download. And then it starts 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 100%. I now have that phone. Now I no longer need a permission of Play Store to play the game because I've increased the function of my operating system. What God did was to download the holy ghost from your inside. That holy ghost became the operating system.

However, your... The holy ghost came with certain functions. For instance, in John chapter three and verse three, the bible says, except a man be born again, he cannot perceive. So one of the functions that came with your breathing system is that your spiritual ears, your spiritual perception were opened. Are you with me? By default, the moment you download your breathing system into your spirit, you you you can perceive instantly. But there are added functionalities that does not come by default but exist in God. Grace has made it available. It is in the market system of grace. Are you with me?

How you make it accessible to you is in prayers. In other words, I can now decide that I have the holy ghost on my inside. I'm a pastor. But I want to increase... My my my vocal cord can communicate to people and they can understand scriptures. But I want to increase the functionality of my vocal cord to make it go beyond the communication of words for transference of spirits. Now I'm adding to the function. Jesus said the words I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. The spirit entered into me whilst he spoke unto me. So when I read scripture, I realized that this is a possibility.

But when I check my life, when I speak to people, they... The best they do is clap. The best they do is laugh. Some might even sleep. It means I've not downloaded that function. So prayer is the means by which we increase the functionalities of your spirit. Are you with me? So when I begin to spend time in prayers, I realize that the utterance of my lips is changing. My voice has more function. Are you with me?

When when when I... As a minstrel, if I start singing, what I'm doing is I'm I'm I'm I'm exercising my beautiful voice because I have a good voice, and I know a song, and I can, you know, apply melody and reading to make the song beautiful. People can clap for me. People can raise their hands. People can do all kind of things, but your voice can have hearted function. Yes, sir. I know you can play the instrument, but your instrument can have harder function. Because when David played the instrument, the Bible says demons hear what he was playing and they flee. The Bible says, a light that they gave me a minstrel. And as the minstrel playing, a light that did not say, oh, what a good voice.

He said the hand of God came upon him. That is hearted function. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes. Listen. In prayers, making available or increasing the functionality of the spirit, it can only do so to the degree to which grace has made that function available. Oh my god. That's why if the application is not on place, you can't download it. Oh my god.

It means you can invest time praying, but if it is not available to you, there was no amount of prayer you pray that will make it available. What you should find out is what has been made available with respect to my purpose, with respect to my assignment, with respect to my calling, with respect... Are you with me? It means if God has said that I'm gonna be a prophet, I should be able to see. I should be able to hear. I don't like the real that... Hey. Let's increase the function. What do we do? Begin to pray.

We begin to pray. We begin to pray. And as we pray, my God. That's why when a man prays, he never remains the same. You... That's why the bible says, my house shall be caught. It's an ending room. Several things are happening at the same time. Can you begin to pray? We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel.

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