I know that if Jesus tarries, in less than two months we'll cross the 12-year threshold and this work will begin in a whole new way. I know it. I know it.
Me, I'm already on retreat. I'm already on retreat. Yesterday's ministration will have been the last external for the year, but my brother and friend, the Prophet Abraham, will have me do one last conference with him soon.
But I'm already on retreat, and if my wife, I know she did, paid attention to my utterances when I came, she understood that my lines were already colored in retreat mode. We bless the Lord for the year 2024 for his faithfulness concerning the things he said at the beginning and the things that he continued to say. And so tonight, where's Jerry?
So I'll switch. Tonight, I'm not trying to just prophesy into the year because that's not the assignment. I don't want to use the word prophesy. I'm actually not trying to be creative about the year.
I just believe that it has pleased Jesus to give me the privilege to view that year through a vista. A vista is like a window. And what I am bringing to us is privilege. information. It's quite detailed.
So I'm going to be doing a lot of reading. But the Lord will have me begin with a few verses of scripture so that you are established in the foundations of what I want to do. Meanwhile, if you are free, I think you should listen to the messages from the conference.
The conference will finish this evening. I have to return home because of this meeting. I'm based on my... the timing of my ticket I would not have arrived you know because it was supposed to be early morning then they moved it to 12.30 so I had to reach out to Pastor Timothy yesterday to say we need to get our ticket so got into Lagos at about 10 and then began to journey down ok let me begin this way by saying to us that God is aware of the concept of seasons.
I'm going to be very petty. God is aware of the concept of seasons. And his awareness was introduced to us very, very early in scriptures.
So that by first mention, the very first chapter of the Bible introduced to us the concept of seasons. And I want us to look at that verse of scripture. That's in Genesis chapter 1, the 14th verse. Genesis chapter 1, the 14th verse.
And God said so. In the communication of the concept of seasons, one of the first things we find out before we fully read the verse is that God in bringing forth the concept of seasons did not outsource it to an angel. He did not outsource it to Adam and by that I mean that he did not wait until Adam was created and then as an afterthought he now said to Adam, there's seasons over. Before we existed seasons existed before us it was something that adam had to come into and that's very very instructive that seasons were already operational before adam showed up at least using creation days as regular days by a few days So that if the sons of Adam seek to maximize seasons, they must be humble to become students of the same. Because they came before you came.
The concept of seasons was not one created in fellowship with God. There are things that find expression currently in the earth because God chose to partner with a man in accepting them or questioning them. I am saying tonight that seasons are not one of those things. We met them.
It was... A concept that featured among the structures through which God expects that our lives will be maximized. So if you live oblivious of your seasons, you cannot experience the fullness of your existence within the economy of God. Now, beyond being oblivious of your seasons, I may also want to say that you can be conscious of your seasons, but unconscious of these seasons. Because seasons also operate in concentric fashion So that your personal season is the one in the middle Are you with me?
But your personal season is a slave of a life larger season. Are you with me? So that God looks upon a city, Ubumasur for example, and says, I want to prosper Ubumasur in this season.
The reason why there may be an emphasis onto prosperity for you that creates a personal season is because you are part of a territory that is in a season. Jesus, I don't want anybody to miss anything. Are you with me?
So there are things that the Holy Spirit begins to say to you and how we know the seasons wherein we are is by what I have always explained to be a spiritual emphasis. It is the communication of God's concept for that time frame. So that the reason why you may be subjected to certain spiritual emphasis is that you are part of a group.
That is under that kind of spiritual emphasis. It means if you relate wrong, you will miss your seasons. Are you with me? Because your relationships, your associations have a way of aligning you with frequencies of communication.
And you know this thing that we call the word of the Lord or the emphasis of the Lord, it's not just the word of the Lord, it's the emphasis of the Lord. spirit is timeless what I mean by that is that if you meet someone who last heard God in 1981 how many were born that time I was not even born now I'm an 82 So I'm sure that purity, she was not even a concept in anybody's mind. You know, I be now.
So what I'm trying to say is that if you meet someone who last heard God in 1981, and whose hearing was genuine, that person will be able to bring perspective of, or in the shape of a dossier to the Lord to you. But there is a possibility that even though God said that thing, God has journeyed beyond that thing. It's still the word of the Lord.
But if you follow that word, there is a possibility if that word was not... giving eternal expressions, you will be out of sync with God. And so there are things that we want to press into because God has moved beyond that thing.
The graces that make it easy to access reality will be missing. So I know God speaks to you, but when Jesus in Matthew chapter 4 verse 4 in his temptations was attempting to school the enemy as to the grounds for his alignment, He said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded. And that's present continuous. It means his word also has, and it's good to see you Ebenezer.
His word also has a time quotient. So there are things that God said that God has journeyed beyond. But there are also things that God said that are still relevant.
And so a man must labor in discernment and that's in partnership with the Holy Spirit to know what is still relevant. because for example all those sacrifices in the old testament were accurate sacrifices based on the communications of god but there were a number of those sacrifices that the cross totally fulfilled a number Not all the rules, let me put it this way, all the rules of the Old Testament were God-given. But some of those rules have been done away with.
However, if you steal now, you'll still be guilty. Because most of the rules that were done away with were the ones that had to do, you know, with priestly expressions. Those civil laws that God gave to create societal balance. are still in force and you find out that if your nation is an accurate one even this are nigeria that is an accurate nation the backbone of any good constitution are the ten laws of moses that's the backbone there is no constitution so far i know there will be in the future that legalizes stealing.
But you will live long enough. If Jesus tarries and you grow old, you will find out that there are certain kind of martial laws where the weak will be pitched against the strong. And it will be a survival of the fittest because of the limitedness of resources so that wrestling what belongs to the poor out of their hands will be legit.
You don't believe me? I've seen in visions. But let me condescend to the level of the average person who is unbelieving. I have also seen in movies.
And most of the things we see in those movies advertise that the hearts of men have fully conceptualized that kind of existence. Carefully acted out. Images have been cast in stone somewhere.
And when that situation comes, the spirit that inspired the movie will inspire it. And it will be captured in the legal framework of nations. A time will come when to survive, thou can kill, will be the new law.
Softly it has been introduced. Under the cover of the abortion laws, that if you feel this child will inconvenience your future, kill the child, it's been strapped into what we call partial birth abortion. It means we don't even want the lady to have issues when the pregnancy is four weeks.
Let's allow the baby to almost be fully grown. So we deliver the baby partially and then we now kill the baby. And now drag out the dead baby.
And it's legalized in certain nations. So thou shalt not kill has been infringed upon. You know even in driving they say thou shalt kill.
If you carry more people in the car than the person that is crossing to save the people, yes, you are expected to smash whoever to save those people. And the case will not be a murder case. It will be manslaughter.
May you not be unfortunate. I don't know if that usage is right, but in films, the oribruku is always written fortunate. Abiy? Unfortunate. So, you will not be unfortunate.
Alright. But, what I'm trying to make you understand... is that the concept of seasons is known to God.
It's not an earthly contraption. So give me my scripture. And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night. So the first advertisement of the import of these lights in the farmament. of the heaven is division and that's not where i'm going so maybe pastor will preach that next day the light write it down before you travel out because as god lives you will live next year jesus will make it happen so you prepare the study and then culture start culturizing yourself Start entering the resolve that no matter what the culture is, you will preach the gospel.
You pray for him. Because if I hear anything, if I can pray you forward, it means I can rewind you. May God give you understanding.
Okay. So to divide the day from the night, and I want you to pay keen attention, and let them be for signs. Let this light be for signs, like markers, and for seasons, and days, and years. Most of what we see here, or virtually all of what we see here, operates within the physical sphere, or the natural sphere.
So that the lights in the firmament are what mark the divine. So when the light of the sun sets, what happens? A new time frame is born, the night, when it comes up at dawn.
So you don't have control over the setting of the sun or the rising of the sun. You just need to align activity with what has been divided. In the same way. If you go to US now, and you want to stroll out in the morning, and you wear singlet and boxers, there are many terrible things that will befall you.
One of them is that you may pass out. Because of near sub-zero temperatures. I'm sure if you go to places like Moscow now, it will be freezing cold. I hear Canada is very, very cold. So, what you do is that you will...
Condition your outlook to a season that is set. And I'm going this way because people understand these things in the natural. But when we begin to speak of a spiritual season, the average person sees no need to recondition. He wants to continue living his life, to be exposed to the perils that the elements of the new season bring. Today is your birthday.
And the only thing you do is to celebrate with friends. And I know you guys do a lot of photo shoots. I see your pictures. And I like it, but what bothers me is if your life is reconditioned to the elements that make for the occurrences in the new season. Can you see what is available?
You are not essentially creating that new year. Yes, by prophetic powers there are things we can say. But you see, the true ones amongst us, and maybe I should say this to you.
People wake up in the morning and still in this church with everything I've said. They still send me a message. Today is my birthday. Speak a word of blessing.
The reason why I don't respond. Is that I don't think I should pray for you. Like your friend prays for you.
And if I don't have time. To look into that year. I'll be prophesying. And many of it.
things will not come to pass because I'm supposed to be able to read this season before I speak into it so I tell people more because I'm busy about my life and this work busy yourself a few months before your new year and find out what God has said and when you bring it as the priest of the house I will do an amen I shouldn't be spending my time looking for what your next one year will look like. No. You are not children again.
You have grown. I'll be patient. You can do that for yourself. Yes. If you pray long enough and your heart is in it, He will speak to you.
Three things. Seize the moment. And I did a word study, because I'm almost done with my introduction, I did a word study.
The word season here in Hebrew is the word moadi, or moadi. It speaks of appointed times. So when the lights appear, God uses those lights in the natural, or the lights in the natural set appointed times.
They create meetings. The second word there is days. And the word days here is yome. It means a space of time defined by an associated set of events.
So there are many events. So yes, scripture says in his days. It's not a 24 hour day. It means in a time frame where you have different things. So a woman.
conceives. Her stomach begins to grow. There are most times complexion changes. There are even little little growths that can grow. Some people have morning sickness.
Some people don't have. Some people have allergies. Some people don't have. All of those things gathered together are to give definition to a day. It is called in the day of your pregnancy.
And the length of that day. By plus or minus two weeks. It's supposed to be nine months. I'll be a doctor. So it's a set of different events.
But all of them are connected. That's how you come into a day. Now the last one is years.
And what he has here is the word shoner. It means a complete cycle of time. A full revolution of time. So our labor is around the word mu'ad.
Appointed times. Can we journey a little bit further? You are not in church again?
Alright. Seasons. Maybe I should bring a lesson from what I earlier said.
If the natural seasons, this Mu'ade here, these appointed times in the natural are created by lights in the farmament. Understand that there is a wisdom we are supposed to embody. What is visible, according to Paul's writings in Romans chapter 1, is to give us a peep into the things invisible.
What it means is that if lights are responsible for marking out seasons and days and years, in the natural, there is also in the spiritual an economy of lights. Alight in this sense will be revelation. Every time God reveals intent, every time the desire of God slips out of his heart into a man's heart, the end is that a time appointed is created. Without light, nothing changes time-wise. And so if you are trusting God for a new day, trusting God for a new year, trusting God for a new season, the assignment is to wait on a revealed light from God.
And we've learned that waiting is not inactivity. It's a posture of reception. It's all there are utterances in unto reception. I wait on you.
Speak to me. Show me. Those are the words that advertise a waiting season.
I'm here Lord. Visit me. Encounter me.
Set up a meeting. Give me grace to find out when that meeting is so that I can keep the appointment. Those are the cries because you know that we The calendar will turn. And if you go to a good church.
By the time it's. Five minutes to. Even if they were inside drama. The pastor will come up.
And try to arrest the new season. Within the context of five minutes prayer. You see, there are these guys that used to drink around the church. They are not even interested in the play. But five minutes to the end, everybody comes in.
Because they think that God can be mocked. And then everybody comes to the sheet. The pastor says, you leave the sheet.
And everybody... As once... I've gone to watch night services.
If there's one... I'll still come. But I've gone to a few. So we keep going.
I'm using this Yoruba word because I don't know the English word. It's like you're very tenacious about that thing. Everybody's praying, everybody's praying. And now we used to have one uncle in our church who will now be telling us that you pray well, two minutes to go and you'll see noise. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, Jesus, Jesus.
I remember his name, but he might be watching, so let me leave him out. One minute my body screams, and sometimes we don't even say in Jesus'name we have prayed. The end of the prayer is Happy New Year. One of the signs that people did not change, that the wasters are still wasters, is the next thing you hear.
What do you hear next? Bow, bow, bow, bow! Hungry people wasting money. It meant that the prayers moved nothing. Some people who came from the bare pallor, they gravitated back to the bare pallor.
Some ladies who came from home, they go to sleepover somewhere and they open the new year in immorality. What changed? The reason why change is impossible, even if a timepiece indicates the entrance into a new earth season, is because there was no revelation.
Pursue light. That's the tool by which we transit, pursue light. If you have not found it, when you go to the bank, please write 2025. But in your prayers, ask God for a transition.
Some people move in February. Some people have moved since November. When you wake up, It's supposed to be synonymous with when your light comes.
Arise, shine, the light has come. It means that if your light has not come, what do you do? You stay in bed. Stay in bed.
You do it naturally and that's how it is too spiritually. You wake up in the middle of the night. Ah! It's still dark. What do you go back to do?
You sleep. As long as it is still dark, don't join the bandwagon effect. Because every... On the way to Damascus, how many men moved? The Bible did not give us a number.
But it was a joining party, right? It was only one man that saw light. you'll be because i've wondered why scriptures did not see it necessary to tell us the names of the other guys maybe orion me was one of them or pastor jolla was also joining with paul their names became unnecessary in that narrative because it was the only person who came into newness was the one upon whom the light shined shine on me Shine on me, your grace, it shines on me.
Oh, shine on me, shine on me, it's your grace. Oh, shines on me Shines on me Oh, you're great She shines on me Shines on me Shines on me It's your grace Thank you choir You must cry out shine on me Shine on me Jesus said he that followeth me shall not work in darkness but he shall have the light of life that's how we were designed to journey blessed are they that know the joyful sound for they shall work in the light of your countenance it is to advertise that If you're company with the Lord, stay with me, if you're company with the Lord, one of the administrations of his face and his face to the Hebrew is his presence, is that it lights. They shall work, they shall live their lives within the context of the light that comes from his face. Yeah One more time In the spirit cry. Give our Lord to rest.
Yahweh. A very old to rest. Yahweh. These are the cries. Thank you.
That must describe your prayer time. The difference will be clear between those who stumble on in darkness and those who have encountered light. Still.
So, I just said that to make you understand that what is in the natural is a revelation of the shape of things. The same protocol is in the spirit. As a matter of fact, our earth... is a consequence dimension. The realm of the spirit is the causal dimension.
It means whatever happens there impacts... on what is here. The protocols you see here are derivatives of what exists in the spirit.
And the light of the sun is not in any way in the class of the light in that dimension. Because the lower things spiritual come, the more diminish their reality. That's why principality is superior to a witch. When Paul was naming the medieval name witchcraft, witchcraft is potent but it's not high.
So if you understand where you sit and you live by the consecrations of where you sit, witches will fly but they will be outside your dimension. I was speaking to my big mama yesterday. I won't tell you the whole story, but there was a lesson. Because one of the things I said as a warning for the...
And I want to warn us, please, heed these warnings. When I got to the airport two days ago, people came to do selfies, people came to shake hands, and everybody, even company owners, the comment on everybody's lips was, thank you for the warning for December. It means people pick the warning and some people use it to make company decisions. Sometimes the children of the house become so familiar with the instructions of the house that they can't. I'm sure somebody here has borrowed this note.
Should I ask the question? And you must not lie. Say you will not lie.
Ouyana, say you will not lie. Should I ask or I should just move on? Move on, Abby.
Let's not demonize anybody. I saw some people borrow money yesterday. Without plans, they took some loan from...
What are those loan apps? Okay, those palm payers too, they have loan facility. Okay, me I thought you just transferred to them. Okay, they can borrow money too. But they don't haunt you like Lapo.
Okay, they haunt people too. Who do they call? The person or his family members?
Okay, the first call you as it happened to you before because you know you know the protocol The easiest way not to borrow from a loan app is to do what? Is to, and I told you, delete it. Don't create a side door.
Delete it. Sometimes to make, when you have deleted it, sometimes to make you trust him. You will now make sure you don't have data to download the app. You will now lift up your eyes onto the hills and he will come and save you.
One of the reasons why you must stop getting used to borrowing from Pampay is that Pampay can never give enough for destiny. Why become estranged to God? Because you are settled for an idol. I know Pampay may not like me, but I will not have reason to use the app.
I will not and it's not because I have money. He said trusting God is a choice. I will trust in you. When we were doing this building a banker spoke to me and said there's what they call church loan. I've seen people take it before.
They give you money, you build, you buy equipment, but they collect it at the end of Sunday service. Now, will I not become a manipulator? Because there's an amount that we collect and we are under pressure to generate it.
My uncle, Uncle Jonathan told me, Tolu, don't do it! There's no points to prove. He started it, we finish it.
But we finish it when he provides to finish it. No pressure. Are you with me? So we are still in December. Even if we break camp, please stay in the instruction.
Where's that brother who was testifying about introduction? Where are you? Has he gone home? Okay, you're up there.
What's your name? Joel, Joel, Joel. Okay. There's Pampi on your phone, have you?
If you had borrowed that money from Pampi and Jesus provided, do you know that you would not have returned it? You would have converted it to do another thing. Now, Jesus will now have no reason to give the money back to you because he gave you.
Just trust him. Mark my words, a day will come if you keep following him. When any desire he puts in your heart, somebody will meet it.
It's not pastoral. It's not pastoral. It is not pastoral.
Everyone who follows into that region on the path of life will experience it. How many of you believe me? Ah, it's good though.
When we're building, this number of people do not believe me. Seasons. Knowing now that they are spiritual, they are natural, and that they are governed by light, seasons need to be studied a little bit deeper.
And that's what we want to do before we look at the things that the Lord said to me. Just readings. Seasons can be characterized using different metric systems. They come in different shapes. There can be long seasons.
There can also be short seasons. By implication that will mean. That even if you have a generalized perspective. As to the shape of a season year long. Within that long season.
There will be other seasons. Are you with me? If you live in a big house, for example, a full house, like Pastor Oriomina, it's a big house.
The door to your room is not a door into the house. I know Pastor, the last house is like that too, at least I've been to his house. When you enter the first door, you're already in the house.
But to come into certain reality, your main door does not open into your toilet. So if I came to your house and I wanted to ease myself, I will first need to access the door. And then within the door, there are many other doors. The instruction here is that the fact that, or the reality of perceiving the general shape of a season is not designed to keep you away from the day-to-day lights of God. The psalmist said, thy word.
is a lamp unto my feet and lamp to feet advertises light for every step taken but it is also a light unto my path are you with me so the light unto the path advertises revelation that defines a long time frame. But in journeying through that extended time frame, there is the need to know that every step needs to be guided so that you can sustain maximizing what is in the long time frame. You have entered the house.
If there's no light in the house, or there's a light in the sitting room, and you don't know where the switch to the toilet is, you will become a casualty trying to ease yourself. I mean that you will go in to ease yourself, you will come back uneasy. Because you are trying to journey by general light, not knowing that you also need day-to-day light.
Because sometimes there are seasons that are only 24 hours long. There are seasons that are only 5 minutes long. Are you with me?
You walk into a place, you meet someone and God brought you there. For a meeting. I mean. Something spiritual. That five minutes was supposed to deliver.
Destiny at a level. If you don't know what to do in five minutes. You don't know what to say in five minutes. I have that all the time on my phone.
Many times when people send me messages. I don't reply because. I get busy away from it. And my rule for WhatsApp is. Anything that I don't see.
At first glance. I really will read. And based on the size of my phone, I don't think I can see new messages. I don't think I can see more than maybe 15 marks. I'm not even sure it's up to that.
So if your message goes to 17, it means I won't see it. And it will keep going down. And when I switch on WhatsApp and I see 900 and something messages, I don't have the time. So I encourage people, after five, six hours, if I don't respond, put a finger to it so that you will qualify for the first 15 again.
But there are some people who pick their WhatsApp and then they see my icon online. They say, hi. I say, hello. They say, hello, sir.
So, at that point I become agitated. So, I can put a hand like this. Or I can put a finger to my hello, which is saying, I greeted you before.
This guy has a problem. So how are you doing, sir? How is ministry?
How is mama and my siblings? No, no, that's how it comes. Okay.
How is Brother Nations and Sister Joanne? Because you want to say how, I will wait till you have concluded everything. And then I will give you one word, fine. The brevity of my response is supposed to make you sense urgency. If I feel you have a need, I will now threaten you, bro.
Please, if you have something to say, say it. I don't live on WhatsApp. Some of them will now say, okay, sir.
So, I move on. After two weeks, the guy may now, he may have sent something that I will see in two weeks. Something was spoiling.
And when I asked him after two weeks, so how far? That thing, I said, sir, it has spoiled. You had an opportunity and you were still going to waste that opportunity by being petty.
It's worse, Pastor Diola, when the person now tells you, I'm happy that you replied me. And so, okay, sir, I don't even know what to say. Many times, if you are here and you sent me that thing, you found out that your messages can't reach me again. What I did was to block you. It means you don't value time.
You are likely going to, in the future, disturb my prayer time. I'll be in prayers and I'll be tempted to come and check you. It means you don't value time.
So seasons come in lengths and my cry to you is that you journey with the Holy Spirit because he alone has the capacity to reveal to you. Tomorrow will not always be useful to get this thing done because once the season closes the labors will be in futility except mercy re-unlocks it. It's not everything that you can procrastinate. Some things are just for now. If you miss the now, then you wait for long.
But eventually another gate opens. There are many reasons why seasons come in time frames, but I have one here. It's that the lengths of these seasons are premised on how long we need to be there. It means God has designed you need to stay long there, or how long we linger.
So you may be washing clothes and you are boiling rice. It's possible that you make rice boil over a long period of time. What do you do?
You apply very low heat. Are you with me? So you are the one manipulating the time frame. But may you not buy rice that is cost.
Because sometimes the rice will refuse to boil. That's the rice now manipulating itself. So a man who is subjected to a spiritual season may be long in that season.
Because it pleases God that he is long in that season. long stay aids that season in performing its full errand on that person and sometimes it's because the man decides to say yes to the season but he misaligns himself from the time frames of God 10 steps to exit the season he does step one every two years it means he will spend 20 years in that season so you need to check what is God telling you is next so that you can advance in this season if you You ignore him. And one of the rules I'm giving for next year.
Please if you will obey God. If. If.
If you will obey God. The benefit of obeying God is in the promptness of obedience. Are you with me?
Decide you will not obey him. It's better not to obey him. Than to delay obedience. Omakana namambi. They give birth to lookalike offsprings.
If it is not prompt, you will be judged not just of disobedience, but of dishonor. How I love thy law. I esteem it more than my necessary food.
I share with my wife one of the lessons God has taught me in the last two weeks is prompt obedience and God bullied me bullied me bullied me until I told him late I think was on my flight to Abuja I said you have me where you want me if you breathe it I will start on that's my new result I don't want to be in this place you know part of the story I gave somebody an instruction, the person didn't carry out the instruction rightly, and then I now incurred losses, you know the story now. Now, when I, in my heart, was talking to someone, I said, ah, and this guy did not listen to me. God said to me, but you also...
did not listen to me. So what he was telling me was that there are things natural that I will use to teach you and he will go to no, no, he will leave no stone unturned to get this man accurately in obedience. So every time I think about that thing, I check if I have also obeyed him because he said to me, if disobedience in the natural and incurs that kind of loss.
How much more if I talk to you? It means the consequences of delayed obedience will be grave. So I said to him, like one speaking to a confessor, you know, legend of the seeker, just command me.
I will run. I don't want to enter that class again. I don't want plans and projections disrupted because God is trying to teach prompt obedience. And I'm sharing this publicly. I know pastors don't like to do it.
It may even look unethical, but I'm on the same journey with you. And there are times where I feel we can get it done. Let's wait for a while. But God is saying it angers him.
It dishonors him that he speaks and you give it time before you fulfill it. If you've been like that this year, don't be like that next year. In my outlook for the church next year, God said I was going to only publicly declare eight things. And what I saw was the signatures of the severity of God.
If you've been following the prophetic watches around the world for the last maybe five, six years, 2025 is a cardinal year. And for the body of Christ has been prophesied as a year where we either shift or be shifted. That God will wait on us to move, but if we do not align, we will be aligned.
Do you know the difference between being humbled and being humble? It's not past tense, oh. Hi, Pastor Dola. You know, humbled is past tense. When a man is humbled, and when a man is humble, there are two different things.
The only common thing is that humility will be achieved nonetheless. Yes, now, the end product is the same, but the testimonies, the narratives that produce that same result are different. If men humble you, it's still good. If God humbles you, you will be humble.
So the admonition of scripture is to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. When you see the hand coming, and we've shared that the mighty hand is not the hand that blesses, it's the hand that deals with men, that conforms men. Once you see the hand appear, the post choice, I submit. If not, the hand will bring you to submission.
When you see Jonah asking, Did you arrive in Nineveh? But he had extra experiences. And you know God is magnanimous.
Even one of his experiences, Jesus used it to depict his resurrection. So I give you the sign of Jonah, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish, to make you know. Oh, that whale, they say it's a whale.
I don't think the Bible said whale. It was just a big fish. That fish was programmed. It was an eternal council that produced the fish because the activity of the fish aligned with the salvific enterprise of God.
Because a man was not aligned. Because the life of Jonah will have advertised without the fish in Nineveh, the magnanimity of God to save souls, that you can be on the brink of destruction and I will come for you. Remember that's of no shadow he won't light up. But they needed to act to the plot, that what will produce that advertised benevolence of God will be staying in the belly of the earth. And a prophet was gifted that experience because he did not yield.
So they forced him into yielding. Could it be that your seasons have been elongated because you linger? You are wondering, Lord, why have you kept me here for long?
Could it be that it's not God's will? But he's not willing to make you exit the process until you are perfected. But he has resorted to joining within your time frame. But you want it to last for five years.
Okay, let's do five years. Let's do five years. Every now and again it comes to advertise to you. We can make it faster. He said, no, no.
I want to go at my pace. And he said, okay, let's go at your pace. The proof that is allowing you to go at your pace means that he has intentions for you to graduate out of that class. And he won't be afraid to see you stay in that same class for three, four years. He will prompt you.
If you say no, he will wait until you are ready. May you be readied in this season. Okay. You didn't hear my prayer. I didn't say may you be ready.
I said may you be ready. It means may the mighty hand of God ready you. So that we can be ready. Let the pleasures of heaven force you into conformity so that your journey can be perfected in the name of Jesus. Alright, now seasons in characterizing them also advertise a God who is eternal.
Who also for the purposes of partnering with men has chosen to condescend to us. He has a purpose that is eternal but is not afraid to put that eternal purpose into a new context which is the earthly time frame. Not every year is a new year in God. But a year can actually be the beginning of a new season in God. So for me, this theme, for example, and I'm not going to speak about HWCN today, I'm going to do it because there's a lot to say about us on Tuesday.
The theme conquering for the king, for example, started us out in, I think, in the month of November. Which does not coincide with the beginning of. So you find out that even the first in scriptures, God chose a month. Even the first day of the Jewish calendar, it was by the lips of God to say, okay, I will function by this calendar on this first day of this, on this particular day. This is what you shall do.
And it will be the first day of the first month of your new year. So where there are contentions that no, no, no, you can't fix the counsel of God within a year, it's wrong. It advertises a God who is eternal but condescends into time and then uses a spiritual structure called seasons to forge a common ground so that men can partner with him.
Let me show you something quickly and then one more verse and then we're on. Okay, I'm where I'm going now. Acts chapter 17 verse 24 to 27. Let's read quickly. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven, so he sees eternal nature, and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
Neither is worship with men's hands. As though he needed anything, saying he giveth to all life and breath and all things. Now, pay my attention from the 26th verse. made of one blood. So I know there are genotypes, there are blood groups, but by source all of us are one blood.
He had made of one blood all nations of men. What purpose? For to dwell on the face of the earth.
So our dwelling on the face of the earth has a qualifier and it is that we are produced of one blood. Okay? That same God had determined the times.
before appointed or to say that he had determined appointed times the word appointed times are just so to means what seasons So he had determined the seasons And the bounds of their habitation The word bounds there is the English word Boundaries Of their habitation So in Nigeria we have a lot of tribes And these days they use the word nations So they can say the urban nations nation has a special allocation the Ibo nation has a special allocation the Hausa or the Fulani nation and there are many tribes in our nation all of them have special locations Paul is saying that it is God who determines the boundaries of habitation I know you are not happy that we are connected to the north and the east but you see and people say it's Lord Lugard's wife they say it's Lord Lugard they say it's one Mark 1st whatever you feel Based on the realities embedded in each of the tribes, it has pleased God to keep us together. Don't be myopic. I was sharing with them, the last time I went to my brother, Reverend Tony Ritchie, I said, imagine that we're in another nation. It meant that to come to this meeting, they would have needed to stamp my visa on arrival. And I know that if we split, it would be different to cross.
I'm sorry, it will be difficult to cross. It's like I'm going from Sudan to South Sudan. It will be difficult. The pain of conflict will make it difficult for you to cross. You will now find out that without the northern journey of ministry, without the eastern journey of ministry, we cannot be perfected in the southwest.
Okay, why does God or why did God determine the seasons of men and the boundaries of their habitation? We see it in the 27th verse. The Bible says that they should seek the Lord.
So, a determined season is supposed to produce, as one of its by-products, an invitation that makes you seek the Lord. If happily... That's what power of venture. They might feel after him. They might touch him.
And find him. Though he be not far from every one of us. So one of the ways a God who is close. Provokes journeys towards him.
Is that he appoints seasons. He determines seasons. And the boundaries of human habitation.
We will unlock that verse properly next day. And then, Minister Dami, those are our recordings, please. God bless you. Alright.
Let's look at another scripture. 2 Peter 3, 8-9. Because the Lord was saying to me... That I should bring to us one of the reasons why it is possible that the elements with which God, by elements I mean occurrences, events.
Possessions sometimes or experiences with which God defines a season may not come to pass in the stipulated earth season. And so a lot of people are seemingly not interested in knowing about a new season because the last one did not deliver. So. Look at this. But beloved, be not ignorant of one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Next verse. The Lord is not slack. Concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, he means as a measuring tool that is not relevant to God, that you can use to judge non-fulfillment. The journey to Canaan was a 40-day journey, and I've told you that when God gives you a time frame for fulfillment, He does not measure with your calendar, nor does He measure with us.
He measures by activity. So, teach us to number our days. And the numbering of days is distinctively differentiated from the counting of days. One of the things or the areas in which a calendar, the clock, His competence is that the clock counts time and the calendar counts days.
What the psalmist was asking for was not to count, it was to number. So Dio, when you went to the barber last time, did you shave your hair? because i said did you bob the hair in bobbing the hair what you generally do is to reduce the the height well is the height is actually the length of the strand are you with me i've been now but when you shape the process is not shortening it's elimination oh I'm not trying to teach like Jesus you know Jesus uses objects the process is elimination whatever hair stood outside your hairline was eliminated so let's assume that when you went to the barber you had five thousand strands of air start good enough okay half thousand is good so when they shortened the length of the strand that's bringing your head down you had five thousand strands shortened when they now began to shape to achieve this fine shape they eliminated 200 so if it was counting You basically say, how much did I start with? 5,000. How much is remaining?
They removed 200. How much do you still have? But that's counting. Numbering means what particular strands were removed.
Strand 50. Strand 20. That when they were shaping this side, they took out 12. 4,002, 4,010, are you with me? When God says, he says the hair of your head is not bad. God is trying to advertise how detailed it is.
That when you say... this your hair last he knows the the particular number of the one that dropped he doesn't just count as a group each of those hair strands has a specific identity that is advertised by a particular number and he knows that it was 4002 that dropped so he invests in the growth of 4002 When it does that, you will have need to reshape your hair. Are you with me?
Because if it's no longer concerned about 4002, it means our brothers who buy plots on their ears, may God give you understanding, is that God lost interest. He lost interest in that particular hair. So the hair was not given recovery powers. Funny as that is, that's how detailed the fellowship of God with your hair is. Now, the last time you barbed your hair, you didn't say, it's my hair, let me pack it.
Even the ones that fell on your hands, you didn't take it home. You took a brush and brushed it away and you forgot about it. But God knows the number.
The psalmist says, don't teach me how to count. He knows that there will be a dating system. He was prophetic.
What you should teach me is how to number my days. Which day is that day? I'm speaking to a lady now. I will meet the man that I will live the rest of my life with.
Tell me that day. If you teach me to know that day, every man that meets me that day will be attended to with greater courtesy because it means it will be one of them. Because if you don't know the day, if the man comes on a day when you are, what's that word?
When you have a mood swing. And the guy is taking these steps on you. And you are just tall, you don't have eyes.
And the guy says sorry. You now look at him and say sorry, sorry. Does he cure your blindness? You know that you are married. The young man will need Jesus to convince him.
I don't know, she was just like that that day. But if you know the day, you will comport yourself. If you knew the day and the company... which you will get a job.
Do you know that you will not apply for every job opening? You'll be willing to wait. So the question is, have you learned how to number your days?
Give me back my scripture in 2 Peter. Have you learned how to number your days? These are things that we must press into in our retreat.
The tool by which we number days is called discernment. It is by discernment that two Mondays are separated. From themselves. It is by discernment that.
Two Sunday services become differentiated. It is by discernment. That in the pool of young ladies around you. You like everybody. You will know who is your friend.
You will know who is your sister. You will know who is your project. You will know whose project you are.
You will know who is your wife. And everybody will be related with. Based on the merit of how God. Revealed them to you. that in the midst of many voices on youtube it is by discernment that you will be able to discern between him that is toxic and the one that was sent to you to teach you because scripture says that your teachers will not be far from you in another portion it says i will give you pastors after my heart.
You cannot pick out who is a pastor after his heart outside the reality of discernment. And it is something that the Holy Spirit merchandises, not just by existence, but by activity. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yet the deep things of God. Give me discernment.
At least, bright, at least you should have seen 20 January 1st. Have you? By your age now. Have you seen 20 4th of January? Good.
Now, what makes this one different? Whether as a baby or as an adult, you have shouted Happy New Year, because babies too used to say Happy New Year. What we make, what we dish out in a few days produced that has never produced before. You have been around for Christmas many times. You have eaten jollof fries for Christmas.
What we make this Christmas different? Why do you want to approach it as a same Christmas? Can you not press to say, so what I do personally for every Christmas is as if the same story they tell us at Christmas, but I tell Jesus, show me something different this year. It's only on the ground of difference that this next Christmas will be worth it. Why go in circles?
Let this one be that Christmas when the cycle of existence will break and I can now journey up northward. When we were small, we used to wear glasses, plastic glasses. They didn't even buy for us.
My parents had no time for those things. We didn't even have money for it. People would come with toiletries, torches.
We didn't even have money for it. But I know that most Christmas, we'll have enough. nice leather shoe that you were short at very nice leather shoe maybe clacks or Brooks no we didn't grow up with many things we only had quality things you can use it for two years and where your now Nice chino trousers.
I still have those pictures. And a nice short sleeve shirt. Most times it was a blue shirt. Brown chino trousers.
And a brown black lace shoe. That's how we go to church for Christmas. Unintimidated. We see people with goggles.
You know those goggles? We know. We reached watches. We painted faces.
We were playing on Christmas day. But the lessons were ingrained. The lessons were ingrained. And that's how I want to raise my children. Quality stuff, not flamboyant.
But heart and body lessons. Because that's what makes it one Christmas different from the other one. God, the Lord is not slack.
The tools by which you measure delays are not known in God. Israel achieved 40 days in 40 years, but the word of God was still fulfilled. It means you can do 5 days in 50 years, if you are willing to go that far.
One of the reasons why times are elongated is because God is long-suffering. He can endure man, not willing. That any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So sometimes misalignment, which is what will remedy repentance, is what creates a long period. If you are aligned, you will still see fulfillment.
There are 2010 promises that can be fulfilled in 2025. There are 2024 promises that can be fulfilled in 2025. Because when you are realigned, your journey will continue. And Jesus, we are asking that all that... that you know how to do to bring us back into alignment with you, you will do in your mighty name.
Don't keep us out for too long. So let's run in now to my reading. So I'll sustain that discussion on Tuesday when I bring to us briefly the word for HWC.
So my 2025 through this privilege vista delivered communication to me on five parts. The first thing the Lord spoke to me about was on transiting realities. That's things that are in 2024 that will overlap into the new season. Or things that are in 2024 and disciplines that we need to... to undertake so that those events can bring us into the new seasons of transiting or transit realities two is hwcn and that will be tuesday three is the church of jesus and my focus for the church of jesus in the community was majorly the Church of Jesus in Nigeria, though some of the things that he said to me would also find replicated application on a global scale.
Then he said a few things. quite a number of things about Nigeria but for safety's sake only a few things are supposed to be said even these things said but I had to seek a lot of class so to be able to say them and then she now give a few instructions around the economy all right are we good to go okay so I'm just gonna read transiting realities the year 2024 is shaped to end with a stillness, and that's where we're in now, with a stillness, a quietness that is sponsored by a divine covert operation. God is doing something behind the scene.
That's why there is a stillness. I don't want to be explaining it. Let me just read that.
It's just tempting. Okay. What is this operation? Is that heaven has stepped into an operation similar to the Gideon selection. And the Gideon selection is that a renumbering is being carried out to separate out an imagined remnant company from the mist of yesterday's remnants.
So I explain what that means. So you know Gideon had the whole army. And then some of these guys are afraid. So some people left.
Those that remained are the remnants. And you thought all of them were willing. God now came back to say, there are too many.
And now he wants to separate those that he will use out of those who remained. So there is a new imagined remnant company that God is separating out of yesterday's. remnants.
And the Lord said to me that this will go on into the first quarter of the year. So if you are interested, if you go to Judges chapter 7 from verse 4 to 7, you will see what played out there. studying, may God give you understanding. But there are a few qualifiers that will gift you the privilege all by mercy to be a part of this new remnants that I imagine. So one is mercy.
Because at our best, we're not qualified. Two, I spoke to us about it, is mercy. The practice of prompt obedience. There will be a separation between those who stay long out of instructions and those who rush at it. Three, is the practice of prompt repentance.
Don't stay long in error. Immediately he brings it to you. Please adjust. Four, alignment of work and labors. Work has to do with your way of life.
Find out the path upon which God is traveling and bring your life into that path. Not just your life, bring your labors. Anything God has committed into your hands must be brought into that path where your journey is true. Five.
Sympathy for God's desire to see his will fulfilled. Sympathy. How does a man sympathize with God's desire to see his will fulfilled?
It's that you align your will with his will. Because God has determined that in the earth to them his will will not be done without a man. So how is Sympathize with that desire in God is that we align with him.
So alignment of wills. That's four, right? Okay, that's five.
Six is that those who will qualify will be men with an aptitude, that's with the strong ability to waste and not to self-preserve. To waste. Now when it has to do with what God wants me to do, I'll be willing to perish doing it than to stay out of it because I want to secure myself. They are not new commandments.
It's just a new compilation. Okay, good. So that's the first transiting reality.
A year shift in stillness, a quietness that is sponsored by divine combat operation and the Outlook from scriptures is Judges 7, 4 to 7. The separation of a new imagined remnant out of yesterday's remnants. 2024 and 2025 prophetically are also known as the twin years of war. The twin years of war.
So another journey in end time conflicts. is what we will enter into in 2025. Signs to the church that the redemption of the saints is now. Concerning Africa, the Lord said to me, and will be on the lookout, that bad national and political policies will spark off war-like, war-like unrest in two African countries.
But the admonition is to pray. But this is what I think you should take. These wars globally are going to be built on two grounds. There will be two foundation stones for global conflicts.
One will be pride. The other one will be fear. Racism is built on these two stones. Pride, some people feel superior. And so they fight to dominate.
Fear. Some people feel inferior. And so they try to break the bounds. But what we will see on the global landscape will also advertise to us a possible ground of a pseudo-racist expression within the body of Christ.
And that is what interests me. So the Lord said this to me. These events... on the global landscape will be mimicked greatly by the church.
The design is for our good ultimately. It is that a church becomes purer or a church that is purer and more Christ-like can emerge. We must however watch out lest the good that God has in mind be hijacked by the spirit of racism.
Where that which postures are superior and that which comes from the fear of inferiority, we make many... ministries. Sorry.
Okay. Where that which postures. are superior and that which comes from the fear Of a slide. Into irrelevance.
Begins to make ministries. Strive together. Do you understand what I'm saying? So a ministry comes and says. We are the ones.
We are the territorial church. We are the ones doing this thing. I'm just using that example.
And then another church now feels. Ah. The way these guys are going.
Very soon now. We are going to become irrelevant. They can now cook up things.
That will produce contentions. We have seen sparks of it, even this year. That is possibly the only reason why somebody thinks you are wrong.
It's because he's intimidated by what you are doing. And he thinks if you keep doing what you are doing, after a while nobody will follow him. So he creates a platform to speak against you so that he would weaken your light.
We'll see that on the global scale, but the church must be aware that we don't slip into being at each other's throats because some people feel superior and the other ones have fear that they would slide into oblivion. All right. So, there's so much to say, but those are the two things you need to watch out for as transiting realities.
So, HWCN will speak on Tuesday. The church, I have eight things to read. Help me Jesus, keep me safe after this thing. The Lord said to say that the sword shall not depart. The sword shall not depart.
For I will judge your clans, fathers and sons. Houses shall come into contention. For many of your clans have shown wickedness in the bid to cover abominations and cultic practices.
But now by rifts and acts of rebellion, what may... have built in darkness will be exposed what it means is that we are coming into a year of exposures and some iconic men are going to be known for whom they are how God will make it happen is that he will bring a sword upon the house fathers we expose sons sons we expose fathers because so much has been covered of abominations Two. The Lord says, like it, there will be exposures in unprecedented fashion. For I will uncover the wicked, and who does he call the wicked?
Those who have masked contrary existence. They are not godly, but they have put a mask of godliness. For a prophetic junction has been reached in the journey of my people. And I by judgment will purge the church in the midst of thee, O great nation, that's Nigeria. Thy fathers, even complicit sons, will be a church.
exposed that my house may recover its sanctity. And when I asked him patterns, he said to me, he said, the purging weep will return. You know the purging weep? You remember?
It means the first thing that will happen is that Jesus will come back to his temple. And when he comes, he will come with a threefold court. And he will scatter the tables of money changers and beat merchants out of holy places.
So number one is judgment. Number two is judgment. Number three, the season ahead is not the season of the rebellious. For I will bring judgment in the shape of fast diminishing potency. And a distaste for ministries that have not passed the test of yielding to my instructions.
If God finds out that a ministry is rebellious. God is saying the first thing he will do is that he will reduce the potency of that ministry. And then he will give people a distaste for that ministry.
I have a scripture for it. psalm 68 verse 6 you can put it up why we go to number four help me help me help me god's I take the solitary in families. He bringeth out those which are bound with chains. The end is what I need.
But the rebellious will dwell where? In a dry place, a place void of reality. For prophesy not in the coming year congregational abundance. Prophesy not in the coming year congregational abundance.
For him that is of the mixed lot shall not thrive under my watch. I will separate him who honours me. and fears my name from the profane. For as of Goshen and Egypt shall be the experience of ease even within my church.
I think that's extraordinary. So if you need scriptures for it, Exodus 8, 20 to 23, you can write it down. Exodus 9, 24 to 26, Isaiah 3, 10 to 11. Let's look at the Isaiah. So the four things about the church lead up to our judgmental. Isaiah 3, 10 to 11, help me.
Say to the righteous, not everybody, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Verse 11. Woe unto the wicked. It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands, that's his works, shall be given him. So even if men are associated with a house of thriving, God is saying he will bless individuals and not essentially congregations. Being wicked and associating with a good house will not advance in the season to come.
Because it's the season of judgment. Where are we? Five. In the seasons of global economic dryness, shall my covenant of supplies be unlocked in the times appointed? So, your labor is to find the times appointed.
I have four time frames for next year. I'll share them in the column. In the seasons of global economic dryness, and that's what is coming. Actually, I did a study around economic dryness of famine and prophecy and literal economic outlook and I found out that what many prophets have said in trying to give perspective to what will begin to hit by 2026 is what they call the great famine. So 2025 is a transition year to bring into the great famine, not famine.
It's a famine. Can I perform a yoga? So if you think you want to move in your team or. You have to make money. I'm no prophet of doom.
You know, this year we said there will be no ease. And some people said, no, no, no. You see, there are things determined. And you cannot use prophetic capacity to push it. If you do, you will become false.
Darkness shall cover the earth and take darkness upon the peoples, but upon you, not upon the peoples, not upon the world. That's why God is giving us a path that isolates into Goshen. But it will not be because your name is on the church register.
It will be because you have decided to sow in righteousness. And how do you reap? The Bible says sow for yourself a righteousness you will now reap in mercy.
It's because your righteousness will still not be good enough but because you sowed in righteousness mercy will I'm going to harvest for you. Meanwhile, stay because I have a word for the farmers. I'll be faster now.
Psalm 105, verse 41. That's the verse of scripture God gave me. Psalm 105 verse 41. The Bible says he opened the rock and waters gushed out. The rock is not supposed to be a gate into refreshing. But even in hardness, God will open the rock and the waters will gush out and the Bible says they ran. In the dry places like a river, its abundance in dryness, a covenant of supplies will be unlocked.
So that's the first good one. That's one over five. Okay. Well, all of them are good anyway. But it's the first pleasurable one.
Six. Another pleasurable one. The Church of Christ in Nigeria will witness the rise to prominence of a new company of ministers. For I, the Lord, will make it happen.
It will be a day of glaring expressions, that's very visible expressions of the duality of ministries. I will do a teaching on this very early in the year, and my text is Isaiah. is ezekiel chapter 44. let's do 9 to 14 and then 15 to 24. i need to read to you to see what the two different kinds of ministers will be help me quickly help me quickly help me quickly ah okay philip did not hand over to anybody is he the one that is doing it Okay, the person handed over to you is still an apprentice.
Okay. Thus saith the Lord God, No stranger uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh. Shall enter into my sanctuary. Of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
So there are strangers among the children of Israel. Let's run. Help me, help me now. And the Levites.
That have gone away from me. When Israel went astray. Why you see Israel is the church. So in the day of the strain of the church. Some Levites.
Priests of God. Also strayed. Which went astray.
astray from after me, after their idols, they shall even bear their iniquity. Next. Yet, they shall be ministers.
So God will not take that first set of ministers out of ministry in his sanctuary. Having church where? Let's read together. At the gates of their house and ministering to their house, they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people and the people. They shall stand before who?
The people. To minister unto who? Them. Next verse.
Because they ministered unto them before their idols. And caused the house of Israel, that's the body of Christ, to fall into iniquity. Therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Let's move. we're going to 14 and they shall not come near unto me so this will still be ministers but there will be ministers of the people and unto the people they shall not come near unto me to do the office of a priest unto me it means if you are fortunate to be pastored by that man the things of god will not be known by that person you Nor come near to any of my holy things, so they will be ministers of profanity in the most holy place. But they shall bear their shame and the abominations which they have committed. Verse 14. But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all the service thereof and for all that shall be done therein.
This is ministry measured into time. but it won't take colors away next verse um for time's sake yes let's go okay let's go but the priests the levites and it calls them the sons of zadok that kept charge of my son When the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to who? To me. And they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God. next one they shall enter into my sanctuary and they shall come near to my table to minister unto me and shall keep not the charge of the house but my heart my charge And it shall come to pass that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them, whilst they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.
We're going far. And they shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins, and they shall not guard themselves with anything that causes them to sin. to sweat.
The ease of ministry. And when they go forth into the outer court or the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered and laid them in the holy chambers and shall put on other garments and shall not sanctify the garments with the people. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long.
They shall only pull their ears. Even outlook will be altered. Neither shall any priest drink wine. The ones outside can, they can be rioters. These ones will live by a different set of rules.
When they enter into the inner court, 22, neither shall they take for their wives a widow. That's someone that has belonged to another man. nor her that is put away. But they shall take maidens and that has to do with the purity of interaction of the seed of the house of Israel or a widow that had a priest before. Interactions will be purely after the order of consecration.
And they shall teach my people. And I love this. So this is what doctrine will look like for that new set of ministers.
They shall teach my people the difference. Their teachings will cause discernment between the holy and profane. And cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Verse 24. And in controversy. It means when there are issues. They shall stand in judgment. judgment. They will be highly discerning.
Masters with settling disputes. And they shall judge it according to my judgments. Their discernment will be as supplied by God.
And they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies. And they shall hallow my servants. I want everyone who knows that he's a minister to study these two strengths of ministry.
Because next year, when you find out that you'll become a minister of the people, one way is to excite men and no longer pleasure God. God is saying, if you have found your way in that place, whoever you pleasure is who you will keep serving. If God says that you should serve men and not serve him, where will your reward come from? The last time I checked, men cannot reward in the class of God.
Who you serve is who instructs you. So they will look into the congregation and look for something that the congregation will make their ears tingle. Instead of waiting on God, it will be glaring. I think the last thing for church, my time is up, maybe I should continue on Tuesday, so that you can go home. Please, I want you to go back and listen.
I want you to go back and listen. Seven, in this new season, I will heighten prophetic recruitments. It means the gates into the prophetic office will be opened anew.
For I will bring forth men who will speak my words. So I said to the Lord, people have been speaking your words. What will be the badge of these new recruits? He said, I will give to them tuning capacity.
If you hear them speak, you will know the frequency of God. It means that all transits will leave a residue, a residue that, oh Jesus, when they begin to speak, all of this sounds like I don't know if it's my heart that is speaking to me or it's the voice of God. They will sort confusion by speaking once. If you hear them once, you will be imparted with tools that condition you to the frequency of God. That's their sign.
The reason is because God said that he will heal his church next year. And if you study scriptures, that should be Matthew 13, 15, you'll find out that when God wants to refrain from healing, he makes ears hear, but they become void of understanding. whose heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should become...
converted. The word there is that they should repent, that I should heal them. So it's a year of healing for the body of Christ.
Many of our scars will be taken away. Many of the things that bloggers saw and made us look like our God was dead will be purged away next year. The wounds will be closed. And one of the tools will be an imagined prophetic company.
When they speak, people will be able to differentiate after they have spoken the voice of a charlatan from the voice of a man of God. Eight, so that I can go home today. Eight, God says now.
and i understand the arrangement that the word now means after after after after after so the year starts in judgment and you see that as we journeyed further in the year god now because judgment had happened now began to put things in place are you with me new ministry new prophetic order he says now i give pastors Pastors after my heart to the next generation. And when he spoke this thing, what I saw was a crowd of young people. God is concerned about the plight of the next generation of the church. And if you have been given, like me, an assignment to raise the next generation, whether they are in their 20s, those are the millennials, right?
Or the Gen Zs, or the, I think the new guys. and the alphas, right? Whatever they are, I want you to press into this fresh release of pastoral graces.
God said, I give pastors. Pastors after my heart to the next generation. For the next generation shall know them.
It means there's going to be an administration of the tools that make for recognition. But well the generation will know you For they shall know them And because they know them They shall give their ear to them I will judge the ministry of the higher hireling no way hireling is the hireling has no interest for that generation or for god the hireling is in the work because of what it will be paid i will judge the ministry of the hireling and will replace them that be of that strange company for through them speaking of the pastors my ways and person oh sorry the hirelings now it says for through the highlands my ways and my person have been wrongly presented to a generation but I will redeem the next generation and will be revealed in truth to them and they shall know my demands and walk after my commands Jeremiah 3 14 to 17 so when we come on Tuesday I will speak of a television I will speak of Nigeria and I will speak Okay, Anangia. In three minutes, I'll do the economy. Turn, all backsliding children, children, children.
Say to the Lord, for I am married unto you, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family. It means I will choose amongst you, and I will bring you to Zion. Next verse. Upon your arrival in Zion, what I will do is that I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. What verse is that?
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days saith the Lord, they shall say no more the ark of the covenant of the Lord. It means the token. of God will not just be the ark. Neither shall it come to mind, neither shall they remember it, neither shall they visit it, neither shall that be done anymore.
Verse 17, At that time they shall call the whole city, Jerusalem, the... throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered into it to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem neither shall they work anymore after the imagination of their evil heart so there is a pastoral strain that God will release and that pastoral strain will rescue this generation that has been marked X homosexuality will not win yes you By this pastoral stuff that God is releasing, the things that we thought we'd waste the next generation of the church will not prevail. May he find you faithful. Okay, economy quickly. 2025 is not a year of economic respite.
The pains will bite harder and much more on the nation of Nigeria. For those leadership will press into policies and from the beginning of the year there will be new policies. The realms, and I speak prophetically now, will not yield ease unto the nation of Nigeria until...
the seasons of the prize have been fully accomplished. Say la. Because we are on, if you mute realities on Tuesday, I will explain what I call the seasons of the prize being accomplished.
Our suffering is the reality of a sellout. But I'll share it on Tuesday. It's only for AWCL.
Two, there will be four spiritual wealth windows. When I said this time, this thing last year, I'm sure some of you doubted me, but me, I saw these things happen, and those who believed and pressed into it, it happened. The first wealth window will open between the middle of February, middle of January, and... the end of February and that's good news because it means the year begins with a world we do don't waste what you have during the seasons so I likely bring somebody on a Tuesday meeting to teach how to maximize this world windows The second world window the Lord impressed on my heart was the month of May or will be the month of May. The third one is wider.
It's August to September, two months. And then the last one is November, December. There will be a rush. May the wisdom of Joseph rest in your bosom.
Three now, economy. And this is the last thing I'm saying tonight. Agriculture will blaze a new path.
and will provoke greater partnership in the community of nations. Listen, the Egypt nations and the Canaan nations will begin to relate. with greater intensity as the world approaches the years of the great famine. So 2025 is the last year of preparation.
From 2026 we'll slip into the years of the great famine. But there are two kinds of nations. I want to prophesy.
That what God has begun, and Mr. Tau was not in church tonight, but I know that by privilege this agricultural thing took him to, I think it was Ethiopia. I want to prophesy that the hand of the Lord will rest on our farmers in greater dimension. And in case you have a calling to farming, but you're on the pulpit, please go back to farming. In case you were called to farming and you are in a classroom teaching, please go back to farming.
Some people will suffer because you stayed in the class. Some people will suffer because you stayed on the pulpit. The realities of the farm and the realities of the pulpit will not be interchangeable.
If we lack farmers, we will still be praying and we will be hungry. Are you with me? God is not anti-farming because famine is coming.
Our nation, because of banditry, has been taken out of the Egypt set of nations. And what we call the Egypt set of nations are nations that have employed the wisdom of Joseph to establish not only robust farming expressions, but have large stores of food. With this new year, one of the things that God will do by that prayer that I prayed, whether physically or online, so you must be open to conferences because there will be help to move. You must be open to conferences because there will be all kinds of sponsorship.
You must be open even online to learn our best practices from other nations because we have one year to become an Egyptian nation. Those who yield and are in that line will come into stupendous wealth because food has no substitute. It means the more scarce it is, the more expensive it will be and people will pay any price to buy food.
They may have one cloth, but they can't eat once. Are you with me? I'm screaming there's a call to agriculture. It might be small. I told my wife when we're driving to the abbey.
I said we have to sit down once we come back from our retreat to say what are we going to do? I don't mind farming myself. When I grew up, the food we ate in our house, my dad as a medical doctor in this Bowen Hospital, Baptist Hospital that time, where that staff school is in Bowen, that was our farm. I think that last house at the back of the school is where physiotherapy students stay also.
That was our house. Trees planted, so our maize, our cassava, as a doctor, we will harvest the cassava, we peel sometimes, we cry sometimes, and then we take it to somewhere around the Diabebe where they jack it, and then they fry it as garifo, so we pay, but it's minimal, because we supply raw material. Are you with me? You know now it's an academic institution, then it was a mission hospital, say la. So the doctors received stipends.
So we had to look for a means to survive. So part of the Kasaba is Gary, part of the Kasaba is Fufu. The other part is Lafu.
Kasaba is blessed. Please sit with God and find out too. And I thank God because God is helping my brother.
Raw material sales will not be the way of wisdom. We must labor into it. how to preserve we must labor into how to process small scale that you agree engineering department has money bond equipments you know everybody designs every year and they abandon them maybe some of you need to come together and go and buy because it will be expensive when the famine comes how a mango is very expensive abroad So the next mango season, some of you should talk to logistic people who export mangoes. You can sell mangoes in USD.
You can sell mangoes in pounds. Are you with me? So you can, before you go, form a mango association.
And go and besiege the forests of Gambari. That's where most of the mangoes around here come from. Don't buy in Turkey.
Go to Gambari. As they are coming out in the morning, that's when to buy. As the women are climbing out of the bush, just stay on the road.
Boko Haram will not carry you. Go with a vehicle. Buy!
Move to Lagos immediately. Meanwhile we already have an eye in the airport because one of our daughters is in the airport and by message she's in the International Wing. Are you with me? Please, some of your courses this farm line will swallow it. Can you have me tell this boy to go to farm?
Have you farmed before? Small, you can hold. You can make ridges. Please go to farm.
If God shows you the kind of famine that is coming, you will weep. If God shows you the pain of scarcity... We come next to him, you will weep. We were at Maryland Junction.
And these small boys who used to beg, were knocking windows to beg. Then, these Yellow Fever guys, you know the Yellow Fever guys? You know the people that call Yellow Fever now? The guy now knocked on a window on the other side.
I was in the boat. So, my driver now wound down the glass to say, Oga, what is it? He said, Oga, it's a little thing. I said, it's a lock.
What he said was what the other boys too said. You know normally police will say, what you get? Why we didn't give him was that we were in shock for long so we have passed the place. It was the same line. So it was as though in his mind, if he could remove his uniform to beg, he would beg.
Begging has multiplied. Don't be extravagant this season. Don't live to prove a point to anybody. Wear what you have. And trust this, I'm telling you, it's better you farm for yourself or you farm as a group.
Don't even contract farming, do it yourself. Cut out the middleman and make all the profit. If you lack knowledge, source for it. We need to contract our same brethren, maybe they will get land there and be farming.
So that they start buying food to share. At least Gary can come from there. Am I done with my reading? I want us to go.
Sorry. This is just heavy in my heart. Okay. So the Egypt nations, that's those who have gone by the wisdom of Joseph to store, and the Canaanites, nations that's the dependent nations the egypt nations are the independent nations will come together in fellowships of greater intensity as the world approaches the years of the great family so much value is going to come on agricultural proceeds in the coming years so the church must master that sphere now i'm saying even churches if where it is possible to have a farm It might be commercialized as we journey.
After a while, it will become a ground where churches will feed from. Meanwhile, as the man of sin finds progressive revelation, the church must have built systems that immune her from governmental resources. So if God blesses us, we'll look for panels that can power this whole place.
So that we cut off buying fuel, right? And then we tell NEPA, so they should not come to deal. But when we achieve that, we'll tell them to come and cut their cable.
So that in case we preach Jesus and they are angry, there will be no cable to cut. And the only way we will not have power supply is if God withdraws the sun. Maybe I'll speak to JD.
I know you understand what I'm saying. The Gossian reality is not just by prophecy. There is a wisdom that creates Gossian. It's a self-sustaining civilization. Everything is there.
So that if you are locked in, that's one of the lessons we learned during the lockdown. We are not prepared. So a lot of people became incapacitated.
Now we must be wise. If we will sustain the testimony of Jesus, one of the gates of compromise will be that the church is still dependent on secular systems. So our blockchain technology guys must bring more creativity to the blockchain system. Create communities where we can move things away from public sight.
Are you with me? Pray! But you see, I'm saying these things so that when you go into prayer, you will ascend into dimensions where you can bring designs.
Nobody had ever built a boat that could survive a flood. God gave a template, spiritual, and it crystallized to survive a natural flood. flood the flood of noah was not spiritual please use your prayer times differently darkness is coming prayer is a creativity gate and the last time i checked god is In a different dimension from Satan. It means we can be light years ahead of developing technology. Our existence in trailing can be cut off if you know what to do with prayer time.
Are you with me? There are things I cannot do, but this is what I must do. Don't waste opportunity. Don't take courses just so that you can eat.
What if you get the money and there's nothing to buy? Can you eat dollar notes? Everybody wants to earn in dollars. Please earn in dollars, but create something that when the dollar becomes useless, you are still relevant. Because money will fail.
The Egypt nations will truly become Egypt nations and one of the characteristics will be is that money failed. People have money, they can't buy food. Was Jacob poor in the year of the famine? He had money in Canaan, so much money, I mean excess money. Let me use Dr. Paul Leneche's words, that he says excess money.
He had excess money, but there was no food to buy with in Canaan. So the Bible said that he heard that there was corn in Egypt and now gave his sons. So the sons had to migrate. What if there's no place to migrate to?
Be wise. A work of formula Greek is because famine is coming. Thank God for the doctors.
They will be hungry too. You can't be eating drugs and drinking water now. Or you can be thirsty to ingest NG oil. Or grease. Oh, my final warning for the economy.
Many young people, the Lord said to me, have had this same divinely inspired thoughts in them, promptings into agriculture. However, many have not sustained their gains because they do not understand that that sector is governed by a law that is stronger than the sowing of natural seeds. I'll explain it.
This is what the Lord showed me. He said, whatsoever a man sows, okay. So many have not only sown physical seed, but have utilized unjust scales and unjust measurements in financing. So they will not be able to sustain wealth because God is not mocked.
If God calls you into agriculture, and please, we will need to bring in a few financial experts. They will not be pastors. But if you want to do business, please tell us. I am not a taker pastor. And I can boldly say this in 12 years.
If I have stolen from you in this congregation, stand up. If I have used a prophecy or something to swindle you, you can stand. And I'll give you the microphone to say this is your crime.
If the whole church has given to me in 12 years, I have outgiven the church. Sometimes all that comes in one year, by mercy I give in 24 hours. My style of fathering is impoverishing.
And I say it with excitement. I'm not afraid to be poor so that you can be comfortable. So if we say if you want to do business, come, let us bring financial people so that Christian financial people, so that they will not just bring financial wisdom, but the ways of God.
Please don't think it's because we want to gain from you. If you become indebted, it's still me that... that we pay and it means you'll be suffering me if they come to arrest you i can't watch you locked up my biological father has sown that seed in me so i must pass it forward are you with me but why make me work this hard to offset debts If you have businesses, we can talk to people globally.
We have a strong network by mercy. This our boy wants to do business. Please speak to. There are even people abroad that I know that what they want to do is like... what JD is doing and I connect.
I don't hear from some of them again. But I see what they are building and I know the signature of my brother is resting on it. We have Christian businessmen. Look at what brother Abadiebo is doing there.
And outside the city we have many. Please. When God brings favor and you come into finance.
We'll just help you to give longevity to it. Too many Christians have held money in the last few years. Of preparation for the great famine years. And have wasted it because of no wisdom. plead with you.
Tell them about those family years. Because the people want to help you also need help. Are you with me? They will be favors by the anointing.
Oh. Your downloaded ideas, many of them will attract investments. Please, don't run away with the money. You go away from church.
Say, I don't want to be paying tithe. Like now, we are struggling to survive. Please, for your own good. Farmers, everyone should choose righteousness.
Don't make promises that you cannot fulfill. You employ laborers. God frowns at owing salaries. Are you with me? Any business you are doing that you owe your staff has no future.
God will kill it. God is against our many state governments in Nigeria. If you go like this, there's one state there. May God show them mercy.
Just keep going like this, you will. You know them. Keep going like this. If your parents are working there, you will need welfare.
Because they can keep workers out of salary for 22 months. They can do a 50 kilometer road and just do two kilometers and commission it. Now they are running around.
But they will not have rest. Or you think I'm cursing. Read your Bible.
There are curses we don't need to pronounce. It's there. God frowns.
If you don't have enough and you want God to bless you, please pay salary and stay hungry. God will bless you. But don't convert salary for personal gain and leave the workers hungry. The business will ultimately die. All right.
When he speaks to us, what we say is yes to him. So I want you to bow down your heads. Please take your time between now and Tuesday and listen again.