Transcript: Triumphing In Evil Days - Changing Negative Seasons

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The word of God meant broken heart, meets needs, and makes greatness out of ordinary men. Join us as God's servant, apostle Emmanuel Boluwatipe, as he takes us on a journey. This is the experience, empowering you for greatness. Amen. I want all eyes to be closed in just one minute. While we just focus all our attention on Jesus. Just envision Jesus in the hands of your mind, in the eyes of your spirit. It is a holy exercise. Usually, your mind will be distracted. Usually, your mind will paint all kinds of pictures.

Usually, there will be noise in your mind. But rise above the noise. Rise above the noise. Rise above the noise. Rise above the noise. And just focus on Jesus. Jesus alone. Jesus alone. Jesus alone. Jesus alone.

Jesus alone. Envision Jesus. Envision Jesus. Envision Jesus. You can see him in his glory. You can see him seated on the throne. You can see yourself just bowing down before his presence. You can see yourself envision before his his majesty. See yourself envy... Enthroned.

See him enthroned. Bowing down before his majesty. Casting crown before him. Envision Jesus. Whatever the issue might be, whatever you came here with, just let it go for one minute. Even the expectations you came with, let it go for one minute. And just focus on Jesus. Let's just give Jesus worship. I know we came with expectations. I know we came with things we're expecting that Jesus would do in this meeting.

But I want us to just neglect everything in one minute and focus on Jesus himself. Focus on Jesus for him alone. Focus on Jesus for Jesus. If you are grateful for anything in your life, can you say thank you? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Father, we thank you. Father, we love you. We love you.

Thank you. Father, we thank you. We exalt your name. We bless your name because you are a wonderful God. We thank you because you are an amazing father. We thank you because there's no other God like you. We thank you because you are mighty and worthy to be praised. Let your name be glorified in Jesus name. As we proceed in this progression, in this procession, we ask for your glory. We ask for your power.

We ask for your might. In the name of Jesus. Let life be blessed in this meeting. And the expectations we met in this meeting. In the name of Jesus. Have your seat. God bless you. Thank you, Jesus. The life will change in this meeting. Something intercepted my study yesterday to today, I've been meditating and God has been speaking to me.

And I'll be addressing us along the lines of what the holy spirit and I have been brewing. I will title it triumphing in evil days. Or you can put an hyphen, changing negative seasons. I want you to pay attention to what I'm saying. I just feel strongly that the holy spirit will have me come and talk about this today. Triumphing in evil days. I feel changing negative seasons. For some of us, what we are about to listen to will be a weapon that will be handed into your house now. For some of us, it will be a weapon that is given to you now to fight. Because this is a award in time and in season for you.

Some of us are going through circumstances and situations that makes us wonder, can God not even do something? Can God not do something? Some of us are still pretty much relaxed now, but it will be a weapon added to your house now. Is that okay, brothers and sisters? Yes. Don't look at me. It is careless to just come to meetings like this without your writing materials. These are not just information. These are truths that will save your life in days to come. Is that okay?

These are truths that will save your life in this to come. Ephesians six from verse 10. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that he may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the ruler of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. Can you see that now? The bible says that an an evil day will come. It says, wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet short with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

Above all, taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fearing acts of the wicked and take the ailment of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. Verse 18 then says, praying always. So prayer is not part of the armor. You take the armor and then enter into it with prayers. Prayers is a lifestyle. It says praying always with all prayers and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Peter was speaking in first Peter, and he was quoting Psalms 34 and verse 12. He says, what man is he that desireth life and loveth many days? So we see it says that in Ephesians, we see it speaks of an evil day, singular. But in Psalms 34, it says, what man is he that desire life that loveth many days?

What is the characteristic of the many days he lost? That he may see good. In quoting this in first Peter three ten, Peter says, for he that will love life and see good days. So you see plural there. So we say good days. Is that not so? And the days, they are in plural. This tells us that as believers, we will experience many good days. But the bible also talks about an evil day, which is a singular. Stay with me.

That means that our lives are such that we have good days, and there are times when an evil day will want to rise up. It is wisdom to know this as believers that your life will not always go smooth because you have the life of God in you. Paul tells us that there are things that the believers must know if the believer will withstand the evil day. It is important that a believer therefore knows how to triumph the method and the system of triumphing in the evil days, and that is what we want to look at today. The bible tells us that we should take on the old armor of God that we may be able to withstand the evil days. And we may be able to do what now? The evil day. The realm of the spirit I want you to know controls the physical realm, and the seasons of our lives are regulated and are changed by spiritual forces. I've taught you in this place the three basic principles of life. Never forget these things.

Number one, life is spiritual. Number two, the spiritual gave birth to the physical. Number three, the spiritual controls the physical. These are the three basic principles of life. Are you following me now? The spiritual regulates the affairs of the physical. The physical realm is like a puppet manipulated and regulated by those who understand the principles and the laws that govern the spiritual. This is consistent throughout scriptures. Consistent throughout scriptures. Everything on the physical earth is manipulated by the by the spiritual realm.

Job, the bible says, no one's done the ordinances of heaven. Can you control the dominion thereof? Can you maintain the dominion thereof? Can you sustain the dominion thereof? Do you know the ordinances of heaven? Give me NIV. NIV says, do you know the laws of the heavens? The laws of the heaven, can you set upon God's dominion over the earth? That there are certain laws you would know, certain ordinances you will know, that on the strength of those ordinances, these ordinances are of the heavens. You see that now?

The heavens is spiritual. Is that much so? It says on the strength of laws that are spiritual, you can set God's dominion on the physical realm. On the physical realm. The bible then begins to say, the bible was questioning Job earlier. Who is he that darkness counsel? Like a man without understanding, and God started asking Job many questions. Amidst the question God asked Job, God asked him, can you say to the lightning, come here, and they will answer. Here we are. That scripture puzzled me for a long time.

God was asking a man, can you say to the works of my creation? Can you say to the lightning, come here, and the lightning will answer you. Here we are. God was asking him questions, and God asked him, where were you? Where were you when I made the seas and the head? When I shut the seas with gates. These were things that were not recorded in Genesis. Was it in Genesis that the seas was shut with gates? But God was asking a man, now where were you when I shut up the seas? Help him.

Where were you when I shut up the seas with gates? Do you know what this tells me? This tells me that for every time you see tsunamis happen, somebody open the doors. Because when God made them, God felt he shut them with doors. Those who understand spiritual laws, those who understand... You might call it different things. You might say, oh, it is because there is, you know, the platonic... What is the god now? Planes are shifting. Is that not so?

The foundations of the earth are shifting. And because the foundations of the earth are shifting, it is causing earthquake. It is causing all kind of things. The bible explains the reason for earthquake in Psalms 82. And verse six. It starts from verse one. Yeah. But from from verse six, he said I have said you are Gods, and all of you are children of the most high. He then says they know not. Neither do they understand.

What don't they know? They don't know that they are Gods. They don't know that they are children of the most high god. And because of that, the foundations of the earth are out of course. It means whenever you see the foundation of the earth out of course, it is because a god over our territory was displaced. Stay with me. I'm just trying to show you that the spiritual realm controls and regulates the physical realm. Everything you see everything you see, accident don't just happen. There are no such things as coincidences. Nothing like that.

Nothing like that. Nobody is just favored. Why will somebody call you and say, let me give you a job? It it doesn't just happen. It doesn't just happen. There are no coincidences. I sat down. I went to go and visit someone, and I sat down. While I was sitting down, the apprentice of the person who I went to visit kept on looking at me. At some point, it became so awkward.

I felt so uncomfortable. I had to just tell them I would be leaving now. As I was leaving, the apprentice ran and followed me and said I bought this laptop yesterday. But as I was sitting down there, my heart was burning. I could not rest. God, that should come and give you. I was wondering, what is this? What... I don't need... I have two of them.

I... What what do I need one for? I collected it from her. I said I blessed it in the name of Jesus, and I returned it to her. I said, don't worry. You are blessed. Just take it with you. I don't I don't. God God has blessed you already. She was crying, no.

I must... I said, no. No. No. I insist. I've already blessed you. You can go. I would go back home and I would begin to wonder, what causes this kind of things to happen? Not once, not twice, not three times, not four times. There are some I'm not even permitted to share.

I'm not even permitted to share. Knowest thou the ordinances of the spirit, the ordinances that regulate the spiritual realm, can you sustain the dominion thereof? Can you set the rule of God upon the head on account of what you have known? Job 29 says, I remember when the secret of the Lord was upon my tabernacle. When I was a youth, when I was young, and the secret of the Lord was upon my tabernacle. 29 and verse four. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of the Lord was upon my tabernacle, mass fire. Look at this. What was the result? The Bible says when the almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me.

So he was talking about a time. Is that not so? When he still had everything before he lost it all, and was telling us in this day, in this time, the secrets of the Lord was upon his tabernacle. Verse six verse six says, when I washed my steps with butter and the rock poured me out rivers of oil. Verse seven. When I went out... When I went out through the gates of the city, when I prepared my seat in the street, next verse, verse eight. The bible says the young men saw me and eat themselves. And the aged arose and stood up. This is honor.

Is that not so? The aged ones arose upon seeing me, and they stood up. Even those who are older than me were compelled to honor me. Goodness. Next verse. Watch this. Verse nine says, the princes refrained from talking. Help her. The princes refrained from talking. Laid their hands in their mouth.

All be called Elba as I was passing by. Laid their hands in their mouth. Watch this. The next verse. The nobles held their peace. Their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. What was responsible for all of this? When the secrets of the Lord. It it is it is it is important we sit down to ask the question. What did this man Job know?

Because whatever he knew, the devil could not touch him. God. The devil went to heaven, and then have you... God asked, have you considered my servant Job? Have you considered my servant Job? I went to him. What did I find when I went there? I found a fortification around him. I couldn't touch him. Was it the only one on earth?

What did he know? What did he know? That he took the permission of God for the devil to be able to touch him. The spiritual controls the physical. Preach this gospel to your brother. Tell your brother, your neighbor, the spiritual controls the physical. The seasons of your life changes. Because spiritual forces have turned things in your favor. It means spiritual forces bring good days. Spiritual forces bring evil days.

There are forces that change this seasons. In Revelations chapter seven and verse one, the bible talks about the angels holding the winds. This means that the angels determine seasons upon the surface of the earth. Seasons change for believers because there are movements in the realm of the spirit. Things don't just change. When... Listen. The the way you would know what kind of season is upon you is by the possibilities you find in your life. It it is easy to tell what is upon you. It is by the possibilities you find in your life.

Economic seasons, political seasons, they are controlled by spiritual forces. Seasons determine what activities can prosper within a period. Stay with me. Whether we can plant, whether we will harvest, it is all determined by the season we are currently under. There are many things that are possibilities within a season. There are many things that we don't even think about when the season comes. It is within a season that you plant. Is that much so? Nobody just wakes up in the morning to go and plant. You first watch.

What does the season allow for planting? Are you following what I'm talking about now? Seasons can either enhance or block things for people. There are people that the reason why things have not happened in their lives is because of the season they are under. So many believers are frustrated in Nigeria. All through Nigeria, you would find many believers frustrated, many believers angry, many believers wearied, many believers exhausted. It looks as though there is just no more strength to continue. The situation of things around their life, even the situation of things in the country in itself is enough to make you sit down and wonder on what is going on exactly. The question is, is there a way we can change negative seasons? Is there a way to triumph in these evil days?

Is there a way to know that what is currently happening to me and around me can change? Can you pray one minute, the Lord open my eyes? Open my eyes. Open my eyes. Open my eyes. Sit down. Listen. In the time of Joseph, there was an economic season that was coming. Another economic season was spiritual in nature. Joseph said, I saw years of grain, and a wind came and blew them off.

It means it was spiritual forces that brought about the famine. Are you following what I'm talking about now? The famine did not just come. When Joseph was in... The stream for pharaoh, he didn't tell pharaoh, I saw thin cows and then fat cows. And the thin cows disappeared, and the fat cows disappeared. That was not what he said. He said, I saw thin cows, and I saw fat cows. The thin cows ate the fat cows and swallowed them. The skinny cows ate devoured the fat ones and swallowed them.

It means it was a war that happened in the realm of the spirit that generated or registered on the surface of the earth as famine. You saw famine on the surface of the earth, but what was happening is that thin cows and fat cows were fighting. Stay with me. It could have just said I saw thin cows, then they disappeared. I saw fat cows, and then they appeared. It was detailed enough to show you there was warfare. Are you following what I'm talking about now? It was a warfare that registered upon the face of the earth as famine, as harvest. In Daniel 11 verse one, the angel said to Daniel, it was Michael that was saying to Daniel, if you start from verse chapter chapter 10, the last verse of of chapter 10. The first, please.

It says, and I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Micah, your prince. In the next verse, it then continues. It says, and I, in the first year of Darius the many, even I stood to confirm and to strengthen him. And when no other person was with Darius, the angel said I was with Darius, and I confirmed Darius and strengthened him. That means that you will only prosper in politics to the extent to which there is an angel strengthening you. Stay with me. There are spiritual forces that determines political possibilities. There are spiritual forces that determines economic possibilities. There are families that are struggling in poverty because spiritual forces have held them in poverty. There are families that you just see people getting sick anyhow, getting sick anyhow in quick succession, in quick succession.

Because there are spiritual forces. There are people that you hear, that brother was on bike yesterday, and then he almost had an accident. It was narrowly that he escaped it. The bike already fell down. As you are hearing that one, they are telling you also, his sister is also struggling from cancer. Then you are hearing, even his... Even even their father has diabetes, has has high blood pressure, has all kind of things in the same family. Because there is a season of death and darkness. A season of death and darkness. Spiritual forces have come to that family to say this season is a season of death.

This season is a season of darkness. And as such, the results that follow... Listen. You can always tell what season you are under by the results that follow. There's no confusion about it. I can tell that a system of abundance has opened up to me because in my business overflow. Look at that. In my business overflow, in my finances overflow. I can tell. I can tell.

Listen. As a man of God, when you hear the stories that people go through, there are times currently currently... Yeah. Some people that are very dear to my heart that, you know, the lady kept on sending me messages. She's currently with the grandmother in the hospital, and they are there trusting God for a miracle, Trusting that the hand of God will touch that woman. Trusting God that something will happen. She was... She kept on updating me about a very serious case. The time came, she sent me a picture of what was going on. I could not even.

I was... I couldn't look at what she was showing me. I saw the pain, a famine he was going through. Everybody is disturbed. Is this the best of God? That is only one scenario. Is this the best of God? If believer are not taught to understand that these seasons will come, you can't debate them. How you will become victorious is what is what you must learn. Is what you must learn.

How you become what now? Victorious is what you must learn. I know someone who was introduced into pure auto business. The guy went and started the pure auto business and got, you know, got a loan of about 500,000 or so to start the business. Started the business in less than six months, was owing over 3,000,000. In less than six months of starting a business, he was owing over 6,000,000... 3,000,000. Sorry. 3,000,000. He would leave the business and say, no.

No. No. No. I need something. I just need I just need to come out of this. Some people will then introduce him to another whatever it is. And say, come and do this one. He put his money there and lost everything. He refused to give up. Went and borrowed other amount of money, Made the increase.

Profit came. Made over 5,000,000 naira profit or so. He was so happy. He felt I've gotten it. He went ahead and put all the 5,000,000 naira back into it and lost everything. And lost everything. Policemen were running after him, all kinds of things. This young man is a music minister who loves God sincerely and genuinely. He came to my house some time ago, and we're discussing. Some years back, and we're discussing.

And I saw the pain. I said, goodness. He looked at me and said, Emmanuel, I'm not even sure if I'm called anymore. You see, believers will get to this point if our foundation is not properly strengthened. If our foundation is not properly what now? Strengthened, we will find ourselves in this point, and we will forget God. There are people who started with God... Who started with us some five years back, and afflictions have taken them away. Some of them not only rejected God, became converted to other religions. I've seen people become atheist when affliction came.

Is there not a way? Are you with me brothers and sisters? What are the things that we can do to triumph in these evil days? What are the things we can do? What are the things believers must know that must be weapons in your arsenal? Listen, there are times many of us go and pray, and even in our dreams, you can tell dark days are coming. Only foolish believers will open their eyes and let them come. Listen. Do you know that it is possible to live a victorious life? Do you know?

Do you know that that can become your experience? Do you know that you can leave the surface of this earth as though the devil does not exist? Yes. It's not because dark days will not come. No. No. There are people that will experience times of spiritual drought. Spiritual drought. It will look as though God is not speaking. It will continue for weeks.

It will continue for months. Time of spiritual drought. You will carry your bible and you wonder what is this? What is going on? Fellowship in an intimacy was not this difficult. What is this? I sit down with my bible and as I open, I come... It's not as though I don't love... I love God sincerely, genuinely. But I cannot explain what is going on.

I just find myself dozing off. I just find myself sleeping off. Sometimes I read only to fulfill all righteousness. There's no revelation. Everything is just dry. I go and pray, and it's as though I'm talking to myself, as though I'm doing dust, seasons of spiritual drought. You would come before the presence of God, everyone of us, and you would hope that, oh, maybe by the corporate anointing, I will arise, and then it will still be as dry as anything. Every other person is having an encounter, you will stand there wondering what is going on. What is this nonsense? If you are not taught, are you following I'm talking about now?

If you are not taught how to sustain yourself. You will realize that it will not be long before you forget Christ. I've seen people that things were working for them before. The father had a good job with the government. Contracts, every new contract comes to him. The family were doing well, helping people, helping people, sponsoring people to school. And then all of a sudden, a change in governance, a change in administration, the flow is cut. Finances stop entering the family, and you would expect that, okay, we have helped people up and there. Let us please... Let's call them.

Mister so and so, I remember helping you to get a job there. That place you are in, I was the one that placed you there. Do you remember? My family now needs support. Can you please be of assistance? And the man will cut your number and block your number. Block your number. And it will happen all around. The whole family is saying, but what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?

And usually, believers are not taught to understand. There are things you can know. There are things you can know that can shift seasons to your favor. Listen. That you experienced a breakthrough in an area does not mean the season has changed. This misunderstanding make people relent in their pursuit because an open door came. That you experienced a breakthrough in an area does not mean the season changed. They got manna in the wilderness, but did not change the fact that they were still in the wilderness. You can still plant a crop in dry season, and maybe one or two will grow. Yes.

When we call it dry season, it does not mean anything you plant will not grow. Ask not what happens. It speaks of the consistency, the bountifulness of the harvest. It means if the breakthrough is not a consistent thing, the sin is still there. Do you know that there are people who have been under the same season for ten years? Ten years. Ten years. I've seen people backlog upon backlog. Backlog upon backlog. Disappointment upon disappointment.

People will promise you and tell you, they will read their test and say, don't worry. I've got you covered. You will come to remind them, sir, I I don't want to remind. Why you... I say, no worry. I'm the one that said it's come on. And when they are meant to fulfill what they... Here comes one excuse, here comes something they can't... Just so I'm so sorry. You won't even understand.

I I I I I know I promised you. Do you know that there are people that the seasons upon their life affect their destiny helpers? Such that when people come around their that atmosphere, people who are meant to help them, people who are meant to favor them, they come under the influence of that atmosphere, and things run dry for their helpers. Yes. It is true that the woman promised you scholarship. But just because you came around her her atmosphere, around her office for the first time in her life, she experienced a loss of 10,000,000. You call her and you say, mommy, that that call last year, said, my sister, I I don't even understand. Things are very tough right now. And even the woman does not understand what is going on. Their ship, and the man was sleeping, was not even praying, wasn't doing anything.

Just stumbled into their ship and was sleeping. And because a man carrying an atmosphere entered into that ship, everybody started looking their properties. It tells me there are those who will come across them and you will start losing things. Money, health, And was... I was reading a book by Andrew Womack, and he was sharing that book how that he went to visit the man of God. And when he got there, they've been trying to sell their house to move out to another country, and they wanted to use the money they use and the the profit in selling their house to move because their husband had gotten a job in another country. They wanted to relocate. They were trusting God that they would be able to sell the house. The house had been on market for over six months and nobody would buy. A family came.

The man of God prayed for them in the church. A family came the following day, checked around the property, and said we are buying this next week and went. Next week came, they called the family, called the family, called the family. Nothing again. They called the man of God. The man of God entered the house, wanted to pray about the house, and the holy spirit spoke to him. He held the hand of the couples, and he told them, pray for those that will buy this house. He said, pray that what? Don't just pray that the house will be sold. Pray for those that will buy it.

He said, alright. He said, alright, sir. And the man left. They foolishly obeyed the instruction and started praying. Help come for those for the birth of this house. Finances come for the birth of this house. Money come for the birth of this house. The following week, the Israel family that came would come again and say, you would not believe we wanted to buy this house. But the same week we came, our business crashed. Just recently, one of our contractors called us devil can also block those that can help you.

Not only you. Have you not seen people that will promise people help? They all could truly love you and promise you help. And says on the twentieth, don't worry. I'll send to you. On the nineteenth, the the the sons fall sick. On the nineteenth, the son will fall sick, and they will run the son to the hospital. All the money was meant to send to you, he will spend everything on the son. Will call him and say, uncle, he's closing tomorrow. My son is in the hospital.

My son is in the hospital. I... I'm I'm so sorry right now, but I can't I can't... And you will sit down wondering what kind of life is this. Without understanding the mystery of atmospheres, climates, and seasons. Do you know that that is the same way a blessed man might not even know that he is blessed, and he will come to a workplace or or a business or whatever. And the business starts to flourish, and the business starts to prosper. He would not even know he's the one responsible for it. Because if he knew, you know what he would have done? He would have gone to start his own business.

It is called the error of Jacob. Jacob too did not know. In the day Jacob find God's wisdom and challenged Laban, in that day, they started prospering. Imagine if it began seven years ago. All the time they had been working as a slave, he had the blessing upon him. That blessing was making another man prosper and could not make him prosper. And could not make him prosper. I wanna show you how those seasons change. There are two things I wanna show you, and I hope that we'll finish today. We have to finish today.

There's a series that we must start next week, Sunday. Listen. I will show you the first. What is responsible for this changing of seasons, number one. Number two, when seasons change, what are the things that begin to happen? How do you maximize the changing of seasons? Or how do I explain this now? Let me say how those seasons change, then what do you do to enforce? Let's continue. Glory to God.

As we continue, you know what I'm saying? Luke twelve fifty four. What are the things that we can do to triumph in evil days? What are the things we can do to triumph in evil days? Luke twelve fifty four. Please pay attention. And he said also to the people, when you see a cloud rise out of the west, straight away you say, there cometh a shower and so it is. Now this is very instructional. It says when you see the cloud moving, you know that the is changing. Is that not so?

When you see the cloud moving, whatever therefore causes the cloud to move must be started. Do you understand what I'm saying? Jesus is telling them when you see the cloud moving, you'll know immediately that the season is changing. I am now telling you that we must sit down and study whatever is responsible for the moving of the cloud. Does the cloud just move? I'm not talking about physically now. I I hope you understand what I'm saying. Yes. Does the cloud just move, or are there factors responsible for the moving of the cloud? Number one is the moving of the cloud.

Number two, verse... The next verse, it says, when you see the south wind blow, so we see the blowing of the wind. You immediately know by a reason of the fact that the wind is blowing that seasons are changing. Are you with me brothers and sisters? These are remarkable events because they are indicative of spiritual realities. The time in the old testament when the cloud was moving was when Elijah was to change the seasons. There had been drought for three and a half years. There had been famine caused by the drought for three and a half years, and there needed to be a change of season. There needed to be a transition. What does Elijah do?

He would go up the mountain and he would begin to pray. As he began to pray, he would send the servant and say, go and check. Is there any change? And the servant would say, there is no change. He would continue the second time, the third time, the fourth time, until the seventh time. The seventh time will come, and the servant will come back and say, I've gone to check, and I can see a cloud like the appearance of the hand of a man coming out of the waters. And immediately, by reason of the movement of the cloud, Elijah knew the season of the rain has come. He told them go and meet the king and announce to Hayab By the three years, the three and a half years of drought has come to an end, it tells me that the first way to turn seasons to your advantage is through prayer. Stay with me. The first way that you triumph in negative seasons is through what now?

Prayers. That is why when negative seasons come, the first thing that comes under attack is your prayer life. When these seasons come, the first thing that comes under attack is your prayer life. It doesn't matter. It might be a political drought. It might be an economic drought. When this seasons come, along with it will come an attack to your prayer life. When you find yourself in situations like this, embattled with darkness, it is time to pray. The prayers you pray now is not dependent on your emotion. Are you following what I'm talking about now?

This is warfare. This is time to pray. This is time to pray. There are people that will intentionally tell themselves, 12AM to 4AM, I am... I must pray. These seasons must pass. And every night you are awake, by 12AM, raising an altar. Raising an altar. As you begin to pray, what happens is that you start you start you start destroying both the altar that is sponsoring that negative atmosphere, that negative season. And you are erecting your own altar.

I spoke in the king's bidding. Go and get America and listen to it. I taught you about linkages. I taught you in that teaching how that there are linkages in the realm of the spirit. When Jacob got to Bethel, Jacob got to Bethel and he slept. And what he saw when he slept was a link that existed between the heavens and the earth. Is that not so? That link began to traffic realities in the heavens. Angels ascending and descending because there was a link. What caused that link to be there?

His father, his grandfather came there and erected an altar years before he was born. Are you following me now? Upon the strength of the altar that his grandfather erected, that altar made that place a portal in the realm of the spirit. It created a linkage between the heavens and the earth such that in that location, whatever heaven wants to release can find expression because a linkage has been planted. Are you following what I'm talking about now? Because a man raised an altar. Stay with me. Do you know that the same way you have that altar linking from heaven to earth or from earth to heaven as it were? That is the same way you have altars linking from earth to hell. There are altars that links...

That has that has created linkages from earth to hell. Such that as long as those altars remain, demons are being trafficked from hell to earth, from earth to hell. Do you know that this altar exist in families? Get the meeting and listen to it. When you want to destroy those kind of things, the first thing you take extremely seriously is prayer. Consistent prayer. Everyday prayer. Intentional prayer. You read an altar of prayer intentionally to God. There are many of you, you have not seriously prayed.

There are people that go through all these all these things, and they become they become they become comfortable. They just give in to it. They start looking for men of God to call. They say, am I calling this person? Who will help me right now? Looking for men of God going from mountain to mountain. Whereas, your first strategy, you have missed it. That you lock yourself up for three days, and you say what manner of life is this? What manner of life is this? What is going on with this family?

I will not leave this room until I have an answer. I will not leave this room until an answer comes. And as you pray, as you pray, as you pray. First Chronicles four and verse nine, the story of a man, very popular man in scriptures called Jabez. The bible says, and Jabez was more honorable than his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bore him with sorrow. His name created an identity that attracted every of his possibilities into his life. His name was literally called Sorrow, and as such, everything that happened to that man was Sorrow. Are you following what I'm talking about now? Everything that happened to him was sorrow. Look at this.

The next verse says, and Jabez called on the God of Israel. He didn't call on a prophet. That was not the first thing he did. The first thing he did was not to call on a prophet. How to change the movement of the cloud? How to change your seasons? The first thing you must know, brothers and sisters, is through prayer. The moment your prayer life begins to die, you are elongating in your life seasons of darkness. That is the reason for the seeming irreparable damage in some people's lives. Perhaps, if only you have taken your prayer life seriously, your financing would not have gotten down the drain this bad.

Are you following what I'm saying now? Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. When your prayer life starts dying, just know that you are elongating seasons of darkness, seasons of death, seasons of drought. Esther, go to the palace. An impending doom was coming. Do you know that the doom had not come? That's why he said when you start having dreams and you start realizing that seasons of darkness are coming and it comes, you are not so wise. Mordecai called Esther and said, are you planning to what is happening?

Impending doom is coming. If this man prospers in his plan, the first thing Esther did was not to go before the king. She would have died a useless death. She said, let us go on a fast. Three days, myself, the queen, and the entirety of the host of Israel. Let us call upon the Lord our God, and let us watch in Lord hands us. For every time men call upon God, the Bible says, oh God that answer it Israel. Listen, when God appeared to Moses in Exodus chapter three, what God told Moses was I have heard the cry. That was what God told Moses. I have heard the cry of my children in Egypt.

That season of oppression, that season of captivity would never change if the children of Israel had become comfortable in captivity. They were crying and lamenting to God in prayers. Many a times when we talk about how they were delivered, we only we only focus on the fact that a prophet came. It is true that a prophet came, but prayers arose a prophet. Have you forgotten that they were meant to be there before hundred years? Four hundred years became four hundred and thirty. Imagine if they've been waiting for a prophet. They would have died and hit it a whole generation. Four hundred years became four hundred and thirty because the answer was sleeping. Do you realize this?

Their answer was sleeping, and God too was looking. The day they are crying reached heaven, it means until then they had not cried. The day their cry reached unto heaven. God came down and awoke a sleeping man. Arise. It will take a burning bush. Let it take a burning bush. There are people that... There are... The the prophet sent to your life is somewhere sleeping.

Somewhere sleeping. And you are sleeping along with him. Him sleeping does not affect his life. Moses was not in Egypt. He was enjoying himself in Jethro's house. A foolish man will see calamity impending, and your life begins... You you begin to live a foolish life. Do you know that in even such moment that willingness steps in? You start becoming weary. Your prayer life dies down.

You can't even spend five minutes praying, and the devil is mocking you. Yet you will go to touch. You will go to every man God looking for answer. Looking for breakthrough, looking for solution, you will even package seed. There is no cry entering heaven. There is no cry entering heaven. When the mother named him sorrow, did he not have siblings? The bible says he was the most honorable of all his siblings. Why did his siblings not pray for him that God will change his name? You keep looking to other people.

Some people will enter into depression. We lose their spiritual life for three months, and they will think somehow God will pity them. God is not emotional in training and in dealing with men. He is compassionate. He's compassionate. He's merciful. But when it comes to training men, equipping men, and when it even comes to answering men, it's not emotional. Oh, God. I'm telling you believers, if you don't understand the systems of God, you will you will if God were an emotional God, then God holds all of us an apology. Because if God were moved by emotions, then explain to me why you have children dying every day of hunger.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Children dying every day of hunger. Do you know that malnutrition and poverty kills people more than COVID nineteen never did? There are people in the slums of the earth. They are not looking to God, wondering where is God. You feel God because you are suffering. When the devil wants to destroy you, the next thing he does is to isolate you from people that can help you. He ensures in such seasons you fight alone. You see yourself isolating yourself from those that can help you. The next thing it does is to introduce distraction, to distract you from the apparent problem.

Some people just want to live in limbo. They want to they want to they want to they want to be deceived to think there's no problem. So they can live in a fantasy realm for three years, for five years. The next thing it does is to introduce sin. Sin. And when all these things start, when all these things get there, what happens is that it creates a bridge between you and God. You you can no longer call upon God. This Tuesday, we'll complete our teaching on practical faith. Next week, Tuesday, we will study the practicality of prayer. I will teach you.

Listen to me. In that teaching, listen to me. Do you know that... Let's say you have a close friend, and you've not spoken to your close friend in, say, two months, and you get to... It's in Abuja, you are in Ibadan. You you you travel to Abuja to go and do a business deal, and you are stranded. And you remember, I have a friend in Abuja even though I've not spoken for two months. What do you do? Give him a call and tell him that I'm in Abuja right now. Is that much so?

I'm not used too much. Let me use two weeks. Two months is. I'm in a butcher right now. And I come and stay over at your place, and the guy says, no problem. Is that not so? Now imagine with me for a minute that this same friend of yours, He called you to ask for your help or something like that, and you disappointed him. The following day, he called you again to tell you, okay, there's a meeting that is going on, and he wants a referee. And your signature would get him the job. And he'd not...

You just forgot. And then this happened three times. When you get to Abuja and you are stranded, Will you remember you have a friend there? Will you remember you have a friend there? Will you be able to call the friend? Will you be able to call the friend? Why do... Why will you not be able to call the friend? Now it's not as though the friend says you have wronged him. It's not as though your friend told you anything or even...

No. It might have even moved on. It might have even gotten an alternative. But because you knew that you did not keep up to the end of your bargain, you might later call him. But it would be after hours of dragging whether or not. Do you understand what I'm talking about now? Have you been in that situation before? Listen. That is exactly why it becomes harder and harder for you to pray the moment you start greeting God intentionally. It is because of a faulting the soul of man called the conscience.

And the devil knows how to play on this conscience. That is why it is part of the responsibility of the blood of Jesus to deliver you from an evil conscience. Because the devil can play on your conscience. You start doing yourself bad thing. Are you following what I'm talking about now? When you allow grief to step between you and the holy spirit, distractions, sin, all these things, you know what I'm doing is wrong. I'm living wrong. I'm living wrong. I should not be doing this, and you continue in it. You will prolong seasons of darkness upon your life.

Are you following what I'm talking about now? You will prolong it. Sit down. You'll prolong it. I've seen people that Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. There are seasons in the lives of certain people. Are you following me now? Now when they enter into such seasons, their ability to make intelligent decisions ceases. Everything they begin to do is foolish.

Even when they think they are making the smartest of divisions, they will realize at the end of it that what is this. It will look as though it's a good decision. Listen. Nobody intentionally makes a bad decision. And at the point everybody was making it, it was a good decision. Every bad decision was once a good one. Are you following what I'm talking about now? You will think because this young man has seen that he made a mistake, the next one, he won't do it. All to see that he has done the same thing again. And you begin to wonder what is this?

What is this? Why am I... Is it that a anti thing? I know what I should do. Seasons and climates that regulates... You... Listen. These things are not... You can end seasons of sorrow over your life through prayers. I've seen families come together, hold their hands and say we are tired of this nonsense.

We are tired. We will keep on holding vigils in this house from 12AM to 3AM until this thing stops. I will not stop. I will not stop. And prophet him, whoever wakes up, first comes, rings the bell. Sit down. The whole family praying. Father, mother, children. Everybody, what is this nonsense? What is this nonsense?

If it's only the man, you can say maybe it's a mistake. The man, the woman, the children. No. It can't be a mistake. It can't be a mistake. Can't be a mistake. We've been married for five years, and there's been no child. Can you... Let's hold our hands and pray. Let's hold our hands and pray.

The bible says, Anna went to Shiloh. And what was she doing there? She was praying. Eli, you don't just notice her because she came there looking for Eli. She didn't come to the temple looking for Eli. She came looking for God. It was I am God. And God said, no. No. No.

No. No. This woman. And God opened the eyes of the prophet to see her because she was talking to God. We missed the link. Ignore God and look for men as though the men in themselves are powerful. As though the men in themselves are are powerful. Why won't you sit down on your house and pray? Why won't you close your eyes and pray? Why would you like...

Why will you not be consistent in prayers? You can go three days, three weeks, five months without saying prayers, and you are comfortable. Your spirit man is dying, becoming weak, becoming ah. Are you following what I'm talking about now? Yes. Listen, these things I'm teaching you will save your life. I'm telling you. It will save your life. You you you have a client that that calls you on Akwa Ibom and said, I saw your goods on Facebook. I want to buy.

And then you send 30,000 naira worth of goods to Akwa Ibom as it... As the goods are going, you hear that the vehicle had an accident, all your goods crashed. What is this? What is going on? But the client has paid my money. This is a loss already because I'm on send the goods to him. I will then use my own money to buy another good. Is that not so? And send there. The following week, I would buy new products and bring it to my house and then go for prayers or go to church or go for worship prayer and whatever it is.

A sensible man knows immediately. It's time to pray. It's time to pray. It's time to pray. It's It's time time to to pray. Pray. When your mother calls you and tells you, you have a problem. Help me call apostle. Mommy, have you prayed? Have you prayed?

The first thing is not to call... Have you prayed? I'm like, mommy, I'm coming home. I will travel home to come and see you. Let all of us gather and form an altar to God. God. Who is that devil? Who is that darkness? The church that existed for twenty years and is not growing. Go and watch carefully.

One of the things you will find is that the prayer altar is dead. The prayer altar is dead. Pray altar is dead. Heard a story of brother Edepo. They find a thought and for many years, the thought would not grow. For many years, the thought would not grow. For many years, He called the entire church. Let us pray for three days. He told his pastors, if after three days, we don't see what they're looking for, we'll continue. The entire church will gather and they will be praying.

We'll gather and they will be praying. On the third day, he would go outside and he would see a dark cloud over the church. A dark cloud over the church. What is the cloud doing? Remember I told you that the season you are under will never forget your possibilities. Is that much so? He looked at the passerby, and he saw that the passerby were looking inside their church, what they were seeing were white garment people. Everybody that was passing by was look... Was seeing them as aquatic men. Not white garment in the sense of white garment.

You know what talking about now? There's nothing wrong with white help them. There's nothing wrong with white garment church. I'm talking about in the authentic sense. Are you following what I'm talking about now? That was what they were seeing. How can everybody be passing by? And that is what they'll be seeing. Everybody, it tells me that I can start a business, own a shop, and wonder why I have schools and people will not come. Listen.

Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. I'm the full time minister. Listen. Told me to learn a skill some years back, and I learned the skill. And I learned it so well, and I became so good. And I prepared a CV, prepared a resume, prepared a cover letter, followed every instruction I saw online. I applied for over 500 jobs.

Yes. That would... That is because that's like the minimum. That's like... So that I would not... Just to be safe. The least would have been 500. 500. Listen. Listen.

Listen. Listen. I will check my emails, and I would find, unfortunately, unfortunately, that that is already the conclusion. Unfortunately. When I realized that this cannot continue, I went and erected an altar. I realized that I've never prayed on this. I pray for my ministry. I pray for everything God has given to me. I've never really... It was a night.

A night. I prayed. The following morning, she was telling me how that she was also praying the same night. Following day, I would make a sarcastic comment. Loan on a group, an international group. And the sarcastic comment would make a CEO of a company in Asia. Check my profile and find out the skills I have. And would message me and say, you have these skills? I will say yes. Let me see your CV, and I will send my CV.

It would cling the link to my portfolio, and I will realize that I've not paid for hosting for about two, three months. The portfolio had expired. I said, oh, would I tell this man now? Holy spirit, tell him what happened. I said, I've not paid for my hosting, so the portfolio has expired. He said, no problem. No problem. But let me see what you have done. Sent him plenty of the things I've done. Is that alright?

You speak to the board in the morning. And in less than a day, a job came from Asia paying in dollars. In less than a day, I realized have not taken this thing to prayer. I have not taken this thing to prayers. I have not taken this to prayers. If only men will pray. If only men will pray. Only men will pray. Do you know how many persons would have been lifted? Even only men will pray.

Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. We'll pray, but sit down. Listen. The moving of the cloud. Is that not so? Yes, sir. The next thing we see is the blowing of the wind. Please watch the arrangement.

It matters. The moving of the cloud. And then what now? The blowing of the wind. What are the factors that are responsible for the blowing of the wind? God asked Elijah, son of man, can these dry bones live? Ezekiel 37 and verse nine. The bible says, then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind. Prophesy unto the wind. Son of man, say to the wind, thus saith the Lord.

Come from the far wind to breath and breathe upon this flame that that which was dead may live. The power of prophecy. The second way to change negative seasons to your advantage is prophecies. The blowing of the wind. Prophecy. Say unto the wind. These bones have been dead for many years. I dried up to the bones. It didn't say prophesy to the bones. The result should come to the bones, but speak to the wings.

The problem is not the bones. The problem is the season they are under. Change the season and watch what I, Kai listen. When the seasons change, everything under it changes. When the seasons change, the possibilities under change. When the when the seasons change, that which is dead come alive. He told him, soul of man, Son of man, prophesy. A word of prophecy can cause seasons of death to change. The season of captivity, the season of oppression. In Osia chapter four and verse 13.

Twelve thirteen, the Bible says by a prophet. The Lord brought Israel out of captivity, out of oppression by a prophet. They went from oppression. They went from captivity into deliverance and preservation. How did it occur? By a prophet. Men can be preserved by the prophetic. A prophetic advantage can change your life. Receive ye a prophet in the name of a prophet, and you will receive a prophet reward. That prophet stepped into the house of that woman.

Upon the woman honoring him, The prophet said, what do you want? What do you have in this house? What do you lack in this house? And the woman said, but I I am blessed. Kehazi immediately noticed a barrenness in an area And told the prophet, this woman does not have a child. And by the word of the prophet, by the word of the prophet, the mistake we make is that we turn it upside down and we look for the word of the prophet without looking first for God. Without looking first for God. Prophecy. Let me give you the next one very fast. Ecclesiastes 11.

That is level one. The third principle that changes negative seasons. Listen, let me teach you this. Get my teaching prospering by the prophet. Hallelujah. Epidates eleven one, cast thy bread upon the waters. For thou shall find it after many days. Next verse. Give a portion to seven and also to eight. For thou knowest not what...

Everybody, what is that? Evil shall be upon the air. Verse three then says, because you are given a portion to seven and even unto eight, what will happen? It says if the clouds be full of rain, they shall empty themselves upon the earth. Watch this. The third way, are you following brothers and sisters? To change negative seasons to your advantage is what is called the law of sacrifice. Stay with me. The law of what? Prophetically means completion.

Means what now? Completion. Eight prophetically. You can go and study this if if you want to. Eight prophetically means new beginning. What did I call it now? The bible says give a portion to seven and then a portion to eight. In other words, you can bring into completion seasons of your life by giving a portion to seven and then create new beginnings. God. Verse one is where the secret is.

It says cast thy bread upon the waters. It didn't say cast thy seed. Your bread is the one you eat. Your seed is the one you plant. It says let it cost you. Cast what you are meant to eat upon the waters. This is what is called sacrifice. That you take something that will cost you and say, God, I want to bring to a completion this negative season. I want to fast track this thing. It meant...

It was meant to last for seven years. I can make it end today. I take what cost me, and I said, God, I am tunneling my pain, my sorrow, this season of lack and poverty into this sacrifice, and I'm giving a poison to hate. Genesis eight and verse 20. God had just destroyed the entire world with a flood, and the bible says, Noah took a sacrifice. He put an altar and then took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered them. He took the clean ones. The clean ones. Verse 21. The bible then says, and the Lord smelled a sweet savour.

And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again cast the ground anymore for man's sake. In other words, up until that moment, this season was available. Are you following what I'm talking about now? The bible says for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Listen. Because of this sacrifice, God is saying, I know that the imagination of man's heart is evil. I know. I bore witness to this, but I swear by my name that I would never again cost the ground for man's sake. It means no matter how evil the man's heart is, I still will not cross the ground again because a man offered the sacrifice. Look at this.

Neither will I again smite anymore, everything living as I have done. Next verse, the bible says seed time. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease as long as the earth remains. Look at the covenant that God establishes with a man that still last till today because a man offered a sacrifice. These are principle that if you know. I know I've been saving this thing for many years now. It's meant to use... It's meant to it's meant to be used to plan my marriage. But I can't marry with this atmosphere. I can't bring an innocent woman into this misery.

I can't. I can't do that. God, I know that this is my life savings. This is flesh and this is blood. This is painful, but I would give this away like my alabaster box to end a season upon my life. Give a portion to seven. Listen. Give a portion to seven. And then to eight. Give a portion to seven.

Bring to an end a season. Is that not so? Bring to completion a season. Give a portion to eight. Start a new beginning. This was what Abraham did. When Abraham saw those men coming, he gave a portion to seven. He killed the fattest of calf. Is that not so? On the the main death of the calf, on the strength of the calf, the man said, according to the time of life, he gave a portion to seven and brought to an end that season of barrenness over his life.

But that did not make him become father of many nations. He still have to give a portion to it. Take now thy son, thy only son, whom thou lovest. I understand that you ended the season of barrenness, and now you have a son, but you are not meant to have to only a son. You are meant to have a nation. Now take that son. And when he brought the son, God said, goodness, look at this. Look at this. This is a language that the mortals speak. I swear by my name.

In blessing, I will bless you. In multiplying, I will multiply you. Cook this. Look at God swelling and blessing a man. A new beginning. A new beginning. A new beginning. Are you following brothers and sisters now? Yes. A sacrifice.

Do you know that? I've taught you this before. It... For it to be called sacrifice, it must cost You use sacrifice to end negative seasons and to open new ones. It must cost you. The Bible says that this woman brought, listen to me, a alabaster box. And the Bible tells us what it is worth. It was worth a year's wage. Question, if she saved a year's salary, why didn't you just save it and come and give it? Do you understand what I'm saying now?

Why go and buy an alabaster box? You don't just give and say this is my... No. No. No. No. No. It must cost you. Money may not cost you, but the alabaster box will cost you. Do you know what that Alabaster box was meant for?

You don't know Jewish history. I'm not there yet today. One study what she was meant to use that lambastas box for. Because what meant the word to her was not the box in itself. It was what the box was meant to be used for. Go and study. Go and study. Go and study. You will find she was preparing for marriage. That's what the box was for.

According to Jewish culture, I don't have time for this. Go and study. What that lady was sacrificing was not just a box. God will look at and say up until now you have been forgotten. You have been forgotten. But starting from today, anywhere this gospel is told, goodness. Anywhere this gospel is told, mentioned. Sit down. Let me share with you what what does God begin to give to you in this evil day to give you victory? What does God hand to you?

As you begin to apply these three principles, what does God now do? Are you following what I'm talking about now? In this evil day that brings you to victory. Number one, God gives you strength to withstand the evil days. God does what now? God gives you what? The bible says, and God visited Sarah according to what he has said. But a divine visitation can happen to anybody. Is that not so? The book of Hebrews then tells us what kind of visitation Sarah had.

Hebrews 11 verse 11. The bible says through faith also, Sarah herself received what? Received what? To conceive a seed. What God gave to her was strength. It was strength that Sarah received to overcome the evil day of barrenness. To overcome that evil day of barrenness, what God supplied was strength. Had the baby been supplied without strength being supplied, the baby would have killed her a bit. Do you know how old this woman was? To pass through that evil day, what God supplied was not first a baby, it was strength.

There are times I should begin to pray. What God supplies is strength. There are people that have risen up against you in your office, risen up against you in your community, and you wonder how will these things pass. Sometime what God gives you is the heart of a lion. That's why Paul prayed that prayer in Ephesians chapter three and verse 15. He says that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man. God gives men strength. Jesus was in Gethsemane. Do you remember? He was in Gethsemane, and it was a season it was a season when this evil was upon him.

Remember it was time for him to die. Times were changing, and times of death was was was looming. He could sense that his time had come. He could sense his time had come. And he was praying. And the bible begins to reveal to us how heavy his heart was when he was praying. He started praying. And the bible says, there came an angel to strengthen him while he prayed. What did God give to him at the end of that prayer? It was courage and strength.

While he was praying, he came back after an hour to come and check on his disciples and he said, will you not watch with me? For even an hour? Will you not watch with me? Will you not pray with me? He went back again groaning. What was he praying? Let this pass over me. Let this cup pass over me. Let this cup pass over me. After an hour, I would come back again.

I would find the disciples sleeping. Would you not pray? Would you not watch with me for even an hour? And the third time, listen. Strength had come. When strength came, what did he say? Not my will, but thy will be done. When he came out the third time, he did not need to come and beg his disciples to pray for him. If you like, pray for life, don't pray. Strength has come.

Look at the strength and the courage that he had. Look at the fortitude he had to face death without being afraid. How do you face death like that? How many men do you know that they're about to die? And then that is how they face death. They came to come and carry you to go and kill you. Your disciples are fighting for you, cutting people's ears. And you take the ear and glue it back. Holy ghost glue. And so let us go and die.

It was prayer that built strength inside him. Are you following what I'm talking about now? That is strength from within. Peter too was there. Jesus looked at Peter. Peter said, young man, evil days are coming. Satan desires to sift you as wheat. But I've prayed for you not that the sifting will pass away, but that your faith would not fail. That is strength from within. And he says on account of the strength that you have, strengthen thy brethren.

Most of the time, when evil days come, we go to God and we say, oh Lord, take it away. Take it away. And God says, no. What I will give you is strength. What I will give you is a supply of strength, the act of a lion. This is the meaning of you will walk through the fire, and you will not be touched by it. God, turn it around. Turn it around. And God says, I'm giving you strength. But pass through.

You may have been pastoring a church for ten years or owning a billions for many years, and it's not growing. And you are almost getting to the point where you want to give up. Galatians six and verse nine is an encouragement to many people. The bible says, and let us not be weary in doing... In well doing. For in due season, we shall reap if we faint not. In other words, the moment your heart begins to faint, you will not reap. That's the meaning. The moment your heart begins to do what now? Faint, you will not reap.

He said don't be weary in doing what you have been doing. It looks as though there's no reward now. It looks as though you are the only one doing it now. Don't be weary because if you faint not, you will reap. How do you ensure you don't faint? The bible says in Luke 18 verse one, men ought always to pray and not to faint. It means the opposite of a prayer prayer... A prayerful man is not a prayerless man, is a fainting man. Fainting comes when prayer stops. One of the things that happen when you begin to pray is that God gives strength.

God supplies strength. I've seen women, women who were barren for four, five years, sometimes even ten years. And the the family of the father of the husband would call kinds of names. They would call out a banje, call her a witch, call her all kind of things and encourage the husband to come and marry somebody else. There are times the mother-in-law would even visit them in the house. And while the mother-in-law is in the house cooking, the wife would want to come and assist. Or if the wife is doing the cooking, the mother-in-law would come down and say, oh, so you can cook. We thought our son married a man after all. All because the woman has not given birth in six years, in five years. And after ten years, you will see this same woman give birth to triplets.

And the question you will be forced to ask is how did you pass through this? Because several people have gone through this same thing yet through the divorce. Your husbands spited you. The the the the family spited you, and you still maintain your peace. How? Sometimes you might not even know how you did it. It is when you look back, you would say, ah ah, I'm strong, oh, it was because God strengthened you. All the prayer will not waste. But then you go to the mountain and say, God, as you were praying, what was happening was that a supply of strength was being given. A supply of joy was being given.

You were passing through it without even knowing years were passing. There are times the troubles can be so much that the more we pray, the darker it becomes. It looks as to everywhere. It's literally black, but God supplies strength. It is not a time to give up. It's a time to keep on praying. Strength is being released. Keep on praying. Strength is being released. There are times it is people that will tell you, young woman, you are very strong.

Oh, what? You mean you pass through this? You mean you pass through this? You will now sit down and look at your life and say, my goodness. It is true. You do not even realize what you were passing through. You were only walking through it because strength was supplied. What was... What meant the whole world to other people? What some people have passed through and they've given up in three years, in three months, in three weeks, you have passed through the same thing and you're still alive.

Still flourishing. And while you are saying God, turn it around. God turned it around. What God was doing was supplying strength. The Bible says through faith, Satan received strength. Are you following what I'm talking about now? Yes. God ministers strength to your spirit. God ministers strength. Listen, if you get to a point where the matters of life makes you want to give up, you have stopped praying.

Nobody whose prayer life is burning gives up no matter what. Let fire be on them like this. They can't give up. That's the last thing they will think of. That's the last thing they will think of. Prayerful men don't think suicide. Not possible. Far from it. Yeah. Oh, no.

No. My life is now empty. My life can never be empty. It doesn't matter what is around me. Doesn't matter. There are times I look at my life. My life is a living testimony of what I'm telling you. A living testimony. I will always say, there are stories we cannot share now. Oh god.

There are stories we can't share now. I will sit down and say, Emmanuel, you mean you did not stop this thing. You mean you didn't stop this thing? You mean I survived all of this? From the betrayals, it is strength. Because we were praying and they did not live. Are you for what I'm talking about now? But God supplied strength to go through them. Are you following brothers and sisters? God did what now?

Supply strength to go through them. The second thing God does is to supply wisdom. Sit down. Supply what now? Wisdom. There are times where you want to replicate the testimonies of other people. You hear something happen to someone and you just want it to happen to you like that. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. Are saw a moving cloud, and knew that that season has ended. And just like that, a season of bountifulness came. Is that not so? Elijah did the same thing and said by this time tomorrow, one bag of green will be super 1 shekel of silver. Is that not so? Just like that, it happened.

But that was not the way it happened for Joseph. Joseph did not say, ah, tantamite is coming. Let us both prayer meeting and let us pray. What God supplied was wisdom. What God supplied was wisdom. Famine is coming. If it would survive famine, then let us build large silos. Let us store grains there. Every product we are having now, a percentage of it should go into the servants. Wisdom.

And when the season of farming came, they did not even feel that farming came. As prosperous as ever, yet there was famine in all the whole land. Nobody even was praying, God, take the famine away. They were prospering inside it. Wisdom. There are those who have missed the wisdom of God because they were looking for an urgent miracle. God was speaking. God was giving you wisdom. God was giving you wisdom, and you missed the wisdom because that was not what you are expecting. We're expecting...

Let it change right now. Let it change right now. A man of God was looking for a venue, and he looked for the venue, looked for the venue, looked for the venue, and he would not find. He came to a man of God, another man of God's meeting. The of God looked at him and said, God is solving your problem by his wisdom. And he received it, went out under the power, and he said, I received wisdom. Received wisdom. When people go out under the power, they are not going for blame. Something is ladding upon them. He went back to state.

When he got there, he would be walking sometime prayer walking, and he would see a large venue. He would ask them, so is this venue being used? And they would say, yes. I want to rent. Can I just look at it? They took him around the venue, and as they took him there, he was noting everything wrong with the venue. Things that were not where it should be. And he went out. Ask the ask the man, how often do you get visitors in this venue? They told him maybe once in four months.

Noted everything and left, and he went and drafted the proposal, collected number of the man that built the venue, and sent him the proposal. These were the things I noticed in your venue. If I become your manager, everything will be solved. You will have client at least once a month. The man looked at him and said, my goodness. This is awesome. Give me an MOU. Write an MOU. The guy wrote the MOU became the managing director of the event center. That was how he struck.

Wisdom. Wisdom. Many people have missed the wisdom of God. The wisdom of God. While you are looking for the answer to change right now, God is supplying wisdom. And you meet that. Listen. May you not miss the wisdom. Do you know? Listen.

Elisha. Elisha met a woman, and and the woman told Elisha there's been there's famine in the land. To worsen the whole matter, my husband was in debt before he died. He was also a prophet, and now his his debt... The debt collectors are coming to me to come and take my child away from me. Can you help me, prophet? And the prophet took, what do you have in your house? He said, I have oil. Gather many vessels. Gather not a few.

And then they all started multiplying. Is that not so? One of the partners of this same prophet ministry would come to the prophet, and the and the prophet would look at this... The the Shunammite woman. The prophet would look at it. The same prophet, the same famine would look at him and say, hey. God has commanded that there'll be famine in this land for seven years. Take your family and run away. That was the solution to famine. Take your family and the same Elijah.

Could he not have said, what do you have in your hands? Bread multiplied. And then what everybody is suffering? And family, wisdom was what was supplied. By the same prophet, wisdom was what was supplied. And that woman averted seasons of famine. How? By by by by yielding to the instruction that came through wisdom. May you not miss your instruction of wisdom. There's a wisdom of God for every season in your life.

When the evil day comes, God's answer can be the wisdom from heaven. For others, it is strength. For others, it is wisdom. In that situation, there's a wisdom of God to come out of it. What many of you will live here with is wisdom. You want to leave that office where they are troubling you so much, and God says it's not your time to leave. And you want that, they are troubling me much here. What is going on? And God supplies wisdom. What you are missing is wisdom.

And in the same office, when I trouble you, when wisdom comes and you begin to implement that wisdom, in that same office, everybody start favoring you. Why? Wisdom came. I declare over your life, by the wisdom of God, seasons of darkness are coming to an end. In the name of Jesus. Sit down. The last thing that God does to bring you out of these seasons is what is called a turnaround miracle. That is when God permeates the evil season completely. That's what God did to Rachel. In Genesis 30 and verse 22, the bible says, and God remembered Rachel, and God acting to her and opened her womb just like that.

There are just like that miracles. The book of remembrance. The Bible says God remembered Rachel. God acting to her and opened the womb. There are people that demonic forces have released seasons of evil upon their lives. But I prophesy that the season is terminated in the name of Jesus. Listen. There are people that look for help, and they find that there is no help that comes. They look for help, and there's nobody willing to help them, and they help other people. And you wonder why.

Listen. I command over your life a turn around miracle in the name of Jesus. When the season over Job's life changed, everything was happening in quick succession. It was immediately. Everything was up. It was not small small. It wasn't small small. Everything. Bible says God restored in double fold. I declare by your life.

For every negative season that has taken away from you, restoration in double fold. In the name of Jesus. Listen. There are people that the kind of mess they are inside is a turnaround miracle. If a turnaround miracle does not happen, and that season is not terminated immediately, they can die before tomorrow. What God does is bring instant help. It's not a matter of wisdom. It's not a matter of strength. This is a matter of immediate seizure of that season. There are times when God gives all the three.

Have you learned something in this meeting? Rise up all your feet. Listen. The first is that you will pray to God. We have those five million... Five more minutes. You will pray to God. Are you ready to pray to God? Sir. And then I will pray for you.

Remember, son of man, prophesy. Son of man, prophesy. I believe strongly that there are people here that seasons of their life are about to come to an end. There are those God who give instructions. Young man, you want to end this season of pain, then empty yourself. Give a portion to it. Give a portion to sell. Empty yourself. Take something that will cost you dearly and put it before the altar. And as you begin to do it, you will realize that strength is released.

You will realize that wisdom is released. You will realize that there will be a turnaround miracle. Can I pray for you brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. We'll pray first. The prayer point is simple. The prayer point is what now? Simple. Are you ready to pray? Are you ready to pray?

You will shout it with me every negative season. Every negative season. Ovying around my life. Can I pray for you now? Can I pray for you now? Father, in the name of Jesus. Listen. Listen. It doesn't take God eternity to do that which is eternal. The life can change right now.

I believe so much in the power of prophecy. Believe with all your heart what I'm about to say. Listen. Before you believe a man check his track record. Yes. Yes. Yes. I stretch my hands towards you. And I release right now. In the name of Jesus, I force into your life seasons of expansion.

I force into your life seasons of expansion. Seasons of breakthrough. Seasons of favor. I declare by your life Every season of death. Every season of death. Every season that has sponsored casted of deaths in your life. Be terminated now. In the name of Jesus. Every climate, every atmosphere, I stretch my hands and I pray. Anything that belongs to you, that is hanging in the head, that is hanging in the hands of people, that is hanging in the hands of people, anything that is I'm not singing, I'm prophesying over the line.

There's a lady that will shout loud under the anointing now. I see the spirit of fear leaving her. Bring her for me. She will scream loud now under the anointing. When you find her, just bring her for me. It's the spirit of fear that has kept her down. It's the spirit of fear that is living right now. Bring that for me. I need to put my hand on her. Thank you, Jesus.

It is over. Thank you, Jesus. Is over. Put my hands. It is over. In the name of Jesus. Listen. Thank you, Jesus. And follow us on Facebook at Disciple CN. Connect with us on Instagram at DCN underscore Global.

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