KNOWING GOD EXPERIENTIALLY | Apostle Joshua Selman Sermon

lord for your glory for your glory i offer my life i offer my gifts i offer all that i am mean it from your heart you're talking to the king of kings [Music] my life my heart my all it all belongs to you [Music] it oh belongs to your hands everything we have and one more everything it all belongs it all belongs to you go ahead and pray and say lord take the remaining part of me that i have not offered to you yet pray it from your heart take the remaining part of me take the remaining part of me that wrestles for submission to the authority of your spirit lord is it my gift take it many from your heart tonight is it my intellect is it my life is it my will is it my emotions lord take that part that is yet to cover under alignment to your sovereign authority let me be totally mastered the spirit let me become a replica of the christ life from your heart going on here from your heart his presence is in this place hallelujah hallelujah holy spirit indeed you are the spirit of truth we have come to love you we have come to believe in you jesus told us you will guide us into all truth [Music] jesus told us you would instruct us in the path of life [Music] and we count you faithful it's on account of our confidence and your ability to help us that we are gathered tonight not unto a man not onto a sect not unto a doctrine but we trust your ability you are recommended by the christ himself to help us so holy spirit the great rabbi tonight caused the living bread to be open in our midst and let there be understanding quicken us by the grace of the spirit quicken us in the name that is above all names shake away religion from our lives shake away all the things that have the capacity to constrain us for lord we realize that you are building an army [Music] and we realize that not long from now the shofar will blow and lord we align ourselves as generals in the making subjecting ourselves to the dealings of the spirit beyond church beyond religion contending for the faith that was once delivered rising against the nominal concept of christianity receiving a redefinition of what your life and power what the ability of the holy ghost in us is capable of doing lord you are raising a generation of revivalists you are raising men and women who will love you unto death men and women who love you beyond the things we can get [Music] we thank you because our labor in the spirit will be rewarded in the open so we thank you thank you for your spirit lord for the presence of the holy angels the saints in heaven were gathered around your throne [Music] hallelujah his presence is in this place [Music] to bless us to help us to take us to a plane in the spirit and to prepare us this is what god is doing in the midst of his people come on just sing in the spirit let a melody just come out from your spirit not pray sing in the spirit i will sing lord we are certain that our prophecy will appear on to earth hallelujah listen [Music] it's important to subject yourself listen to me it's important to subject yourself in this season to the dealings of the spirit hallelujah for there is an operation of the spirit in the body of christ [Music] revelation 5. [Music] listen to me if at this point in your life you have not expressed dissatisfaction for religion and church [Music] then there is a need to do an extra work in your life to catch up hallelujah because the bible says the 20 and four elders listen to me that when they worshiped they said holy holy holy is the lord god who was who is and who is to come these are dimensions of his operations that were revealed to the people hallelujah and so we see a dimension of god who was it's not a waste but is to tell you that god is progressive so he will not end in the dimension who was and then they see who is hallelujah that which the spirit is doing at the moment and then by prophetic insight we have a revelation of that dimension that is to come and so it's important that as we stand and begin to relate with the things of the spirit in this day and age that we are able to understand the emphasis of the spirit for every time the bible says for the sons of isaka they had a comprehension of the times hallelujah and the bible says among the organization of god's creation he made stars and part of the ministry of some of those stars is to be able to signify to the inhabitants of the earth when seasons change to the end that we can align with the operation of the spirit for even the past glory of god contains a nature of glory the past revelation but that it is not sufficient to take us to the next dimensions that the nations would require [Music] and so it's important and it becomes a responsibility upon us as citizens of the kingdom to walk in peace with the holy ghost so that we are able to understand his operation for it is an error to assume that god is doing the same thing at every season [Music] hallelujah in the revelation i shared with us a few weeks ago hallelujah that there was a feast and there were rulers there those who were honored jesus was in their midst but they did not recognize him the wedding in canada the first miracle of jesus a prophetic message to what the holy ghost is going to be doing and the bible says the old wine finished but the festivity was still on the rulers did not know because they had been used to deceiving the people and they had lost touch with the source of the wine are you following me now and the bible says the festivity was still on and there was a constraint happening but the people could not understand because there was no insight and the bible says only the servants followed mary the mother of jesus and they said jesus there is trouble the revelation of john which is sent to his servants oh this is the mystery that in this generation only servants will ride on horses the princes will receive an embarrassment because they will walk our foot hallelujah so the bible says the servants came to jesus they said although there are many crowds we are not confused about who holds authority and we call ourselves servants and we come and he said feel sick spots [Music] and when they filled it with water hallelujah he said take it to the rulers and when he took it to the rulers they tasted when they thought the dispensation and the feast was over little did they know it was about to begin because a new kind of wine the bible says the rulers did not know where that wine came from only the servants hallelujah and so there is a transition and god is revealing things to his servants he said the lord will not do anything but he will reveal his counsel to his servants praise the lord then it's our responsibility to begin to search and walk in peace with the spirit so that we can understand the things that the spirit is doing at every given time there are certain revelations that we understand that have been sealed the bible says in revelations 5 that there was a call in heaven and that call was that who is worthy so there are certain revelations that is not given freely is a contention is gotten by qualification he said who is worthy to that one he will be able to open the book and unlock the scroll he said no man was worthy to open the book and the elder began to cry john why because in that revelation contains certain mysteries that should be opened and the bible makes us to understand that the elder the angel tapped him and said with not for the lion of the tribe of judah the root of david is worthy to open the book hallelujah it's important to be in peace with what the spirit of god is doing and this is our desire in this place the bible says in the days of somewhere when the word of the lord was cast he didn't say man stop going to the temple but he said the word of god [Music] praise the lord so tonight let it be that you didn't just come to do church as usual let it be that you came because you understand [Music] that receiving from god will position you to understand what he's doing in the spirit and by alignment you become a benefactor when you become usable it's not enough to be available you must be usable hallelujah and only the holy spirit is able to help us into this truth and so lord we thank you because you will bless us tonight lord do not leave us behind let us follow up in pace with the things the spirit is doing in the name of the lord jesus god bless you be seated good to have everyone around [Music] was subjecting ourselves to the dealings of the spirit again and again every week every week week after week month after month was subjecting ourselves as students in the school of the spirit allowing him to teach us and to bring us into comprehension of kingdom realities hallelujah because a time will come when the dividends of this sacrifice will appear unto all and we want to position ourselves we are not careful to admit that not everybody is open to the things of the spirit especially in this day and age where there are all kinds of christian distractions hallelujah the church of christ has become a place where ethics of religion are taken as usual but the presence of christ and his body ought to be a place of freshness where we can communicate to the world what the spirit of god is doing at every given time hallelujah tonight i want to share something that i believe will be a great journey a great blessing to our journey in the spirit how many of you are blessed last week was a wonderful time of prayer [Music] hallelujah if the things of the spirit are still a burden to you then there is need to retreat in the presence of god hallelujah there are lots of believers who have a problem with the things of god and i hope we do not have those kinds of people here let me tell you something [Music] whenever you come for koinonia make sure that you're not just coming to fulfill a ritual are you listening to me please ensure that you're not just coming to watch other people or to see what are the other things you must come with a predetermination and say lord what do you have for me that can help me in this journey we are in a journey [Music] i'm so happy every friday when i have the opportunity to share god's word because i understand that there is at least somebody who is interested in the things of the spirit [Music] and if god can find such a man he can produce a wonder out of him praise the lord press peter too say after me god is preparing an army say it like you believe it god is preparing an army [Music] ask your neighbor are you part of this army tell your neighbour don't tell lies [Music] unto him who sits on the throne to jesus the lamb who was late glory and power forever [Music] [Applause] forever [Music] first peter 2 verse 9 first peter 2 verse 9 [Music] but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood [Music] never said you are members of living faith of christ's embassy or deeper life or redeemed those are structures you get my point but i'm saying beyond the structures you must look it says are a chosen generation [Music] a royal priesthood an holy nation a people of his own that you should show forth the praises of him was called you out of darkness into his marvelous light so the bible tells us clearly here that we have been called out of darkness and given an assignment hallelujah and that assignment is to show forth the praises of him that has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light [Music] hallelujah and tonight we're going to be examining how far we've gone in this journey and obtained grace to press ahead [Music] hallelujah the children of issachar the bible says had an understanding of the times and as a result they knew what to do they knew how to align themselves with the things that the spirit was attempting to bring and not everyone is able to align himself to the things that the holy ghost is doing you know why because alignment means that you have to die to yourself hallelujah alignment means that you are bending to assume a posture that may not be convenient and so it takes a revelation bigger than yourself and your personal comforts to say lord regardless of how this will affect me i am prepared to come into alignment with your divine will to the end that your plans and purposes be achieved at every given time that as you search for men and women that you will use to do exploits that you can find a vessel in me the bible says but in a great house there are not only vessels of wood or gold and silver but of wood and of clay it says some are unto dishonor and some are unto honor he said if a man will punch himself that man will become a vessel unto honor fit for the master's use say after me once again god is raising an army and say i am part of that army i am part of that army led by the spirit hallelujah joel chapter 2 we'll just establish a few things and then we'll pray [Music] that god arrives two of us won blow the trumpet in zion sound the alarm on my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble for the day of the lord cometh for it is near at hand a day of darkness and of gloominess a day of clouds and of thick darkness like the morning spread upon the mountains a great people this is the description of god's army please listen a great people are strong there has not ever been like them before you cannot trace them to any history neither shall any more be after it even to the years of many generations they are characterized by a fire that devoureth before them they are men of fire confirming that which the bible says he make it his angels wings and his ministers flames and behind them a flame burning and the land is like the garden of eden before them and behind them a desolate wilderness yeah nothing shall escape them they are total people the appearance of them is like the appearance of horses and like the horsemen so shall they run like the noise of chariots on the mountain tops they shall leap like the noise of the flame of fire that devoured the stubble like a like a strong people set in a battle array before their face the people shall be much pain all faces shall gather blackness the bible says they shall run like mighty men look at this description they shall climb the wall like men of war they shall match everyone on his ways and they shall not break their ranks no competition no dabbling into unnecessary things everyone maintaining focus that's what watch money calls the limitation of the body the capacity to allow every member to function within the jurisdiction of their grace the bible says they will not break ranks neither shall one trust another they shall walk everyone in his part and when they fall upon the sword can you imagine they shall not be wounded what an army they shall run toward and fro in the city they shall run upon the world and they shall climb upon the houses they shall enter in at the windows like a thief the earth shall quick before them the heavens shall tremble the sun and the moon shall be dark and the star shall withdraw her shining the bible says the sun will no more give you sunlight by day the moon will no more give you light it says jehovah the christ himself he will be your everlasting light that means they will function from a different source of illumination not that which has been known are you listening to me because he made many lights but at the imagines of the two great lights there was no longer those kinds of lights it's not like they were not truth but they were no longer needed in light of the higher lights [Music] let's finish up the lord shall utter his voice before his army that means the lord himself is a commander for his camp is very great for he is strong who executed his word for the day of the lord is great and very terrible who can abide look our place there is there is a campaign of the spirit the holy ghost is running to and fro across the length and breadth of this nation the nation of africa and across the world searching for men and women who will avail themselves to be used hallelujah every time before a kairos moment in the earth god begins to prepare a people and the first thing he does is to begin to beckon on them so that they willingly offer themselves and say we are available are you listening to me we are available and then he separates those people and begins to subject them to the trainings that will equip them for his agenda now the very difficult thing is this separation is a very difficult thing because it entails you breaking away from status quo breaking away from what has been received as a norm and so your mind will fight it everything around you will fight it and the pressure that standing alone will bring to you will ask you whether it is worthy to stand [Music] that's why the bible says haven't done all to stand stand hallelujah and all over the body of christ there has been a sudden awakening [Music] pastors apostles preachers evangelists as many who are careful enough to listen to the promptings and the dealings of the spirit they are beginning to blow this alarm in zion and to sound it upon his holy mountain that there are a people that god is preparing he's raising his training is building and that the fashion of this training is not one that will be traced to the dealings of god in the past here and there we could take extraps from the dealings of god with abraham jacob isaac but that there is a unique operation of the spirit that is bringing on this caliber of people that will necessitate staying with the holy ghost part time you will not miss the holy ghost and go back to history and expect to catch up because the dealings are foreign to the things that he has done before and so god will entail that these people will subject themselves to the total leadership of the holy ghost hallelujah this is why coming under the lordship of the spirit is only the beginning of the journey not the end coming under the lordship means that you are bringing yourself under subjection to say lord you are looking for an army and you are training and preparing men and i may not have all that it takes right now but i have a willing heart i watched catherine coolman yesterday and i cried [Music] i wept like a baby when i watched this dear woman of god standing in power an epitome of yieldedness to the holy ghost [Music] hallelujah and while she stood on the stage ministering the word of god you could see the oneness the similitude you could see how how intertwined how mingled this woman had been with the holy ghost that her utterances were so piercing not because of the volume of her voice but the depth and the realm from which he was fetching these things from [Music] a woman [Music] and she made an interesting statement she said catherine kuhlman died a long time ago she said i remember the date and the time i died she entered the realm in the spirit called galatians 2 20. [Music] i have been crucified with christ nevertheless i leave yet not i but christ that lives in me he has now become my new life and my movement is according to the impulse of the spirit and that is going to be the characteristic of the spiritual man speaking to nicodemus jesus said the wind blew it where it listeneth you will not be able to predict this generation of people because they have subjected themselves under the total influence of the spirit that's why we get the word baptism from the greek word baptism it means to be totally immersed in a floyd such that you do not see the person again you only see the object that immersed him so we come under the influence of the holy spirit now a lot of believers have trivialized the ministry of the holy spirit but without the holy spirit there is no hope the holy spirit is the guarantee listen to me he is the guarantee that we can become that army to the expectation of god because he's the one who guides us and builds us brothers and sisters hear me this has been our journey all through calinonia [Music] it is not a move to make a name it's an attempt to cooperate with the spirit and partner with him in bringing a convergence of as many who are interested in becoming part of this move of god who will indicate willingness to subject themselves to the dealings of the spirit over time we don't tell you lies here we don't help you with with all kinds of nonsense the word of god comes in truth and power and i've said it again it will cost you to align with the spirit the bible says there is no man that worried who will entangle himself with the activities of civilians and so when you come there will be a demand upon you to lay aside your ambition and pick up that of the king but then as surely as the lord leaves there will be a reward for that sacrifice it says meditate on these things give yourself holy to them that your profiting will appear unto all so i'm aware that there are different kinds of people on different kinds of soils and so i want us to start tonight by reminding ourselves that every time we appear before god in zion we came for business hallelujah we didn't just come to enjoy the atmosphere or two while away two or three hours no we came based on the revelation listen i must get you to understand this if you do not you will not be able to benefit maximally are you following me now you must come with a predetermination that i am coming to continue the training it is not an endless training there is a day the sound of the trumpet will blow and at such times you will appreciate the meticulous dealings of the spirit touching issues after issues aspects after aspect flocking out a lot of things pruning different things the bible says narrow is the part that leads to life why because when you are entering that part jesus gave us a similitude of that revelation using the eye of the needle it will it will and tell you divorcing yourself with a lot of things and going alone so the part is narrow in other words the things that come past have been predetermined you will not come with excess luggages and mindsets but why it is the way that leads to destruction and jesus said because the rich people have a lot of things he said they may not be able to pass are you following me and so you come with your ambitions and different things and then some of us may come just to use jesus christ as an errand boy as usual because that's the move that has been taught in the body of christ and so we have a need driven congregation who only come to god as a means to an end and that end is to satisfy their belly and to bring themselves in a position where they are comforted rule us in the feast while the lord of the harvest is in the congregation he's not honored and he's not esteemed but the bible tells us in heaven that there will be a supper and in that supper the one who should be the head will actually be the head are you following me tonight and so the first challenge that the holy ghost places before us tonight is to ask you how serious are you how much are you convicted what is your passion about the things of god and about this army that god is mobilizing what is your concept of christianity and church and religion why do you pursue god he said why do you call me lord and then i notice that there is only a receiving from you there is no doing you call me lord because you came and understood by knowledge that there is a dimension of me that is able to supply your needs you call me love because you understand that there is a dimension that is able to protect you and give you a wife and give you a husband but this kind of army are not the ones who are going to take up to a covenant they are going to say lord blessing or no blessing they are the type who has sent to the vineyard without negotiation they did not negotiate when he called the people in the morning they said we will only walk if you will pay us a dinner he said you mean if i don't pay you you won't work he said no pay no walk and he said all right you have tied a covenant with me go later he found some people sitting and he said do you love me enough to walk in my vineyard they said yes no arrangement and they entered the vineyard at the end of the day even those who came willingly but at the 11th hour got the same reward with those who gave god conditions and they were angry and he said am i not the lord of the harvest what did i do that was wrong that christianity that gives god conditions before your allegiance must be destroyed is witchcraft coming from the pit of hell are you listening to me job said though he slay me yet will i praise him [Music] men and women who love god with their life with their soul with their all your passion is not motivated by any loss that you have hidden waiting to be manifested and you say lord i love you and i believe your word but i am more passionate than any other thing i'm not just pursuing you listen it's time the church body begins to define what is motivating the apostle to god are you listening to me because that is what will determine how far we will continue in this journey if you are pursuing god for money or fame or husband or wife that means the day you get married you have no need to pursue again are you listening to me and so our desire for for god must come from an eternal plane that nothing in time will be able to quench that hunger this becomes the platform on which authentic christianity will spring from to say lord i love you and i'm committed whatever your agenda is i am interested i get troubled in my spirit seeing how many believers openly do not care about the agenda of god [Music] the average church in nigeria is only interested in fulfilling programs and holding conferences and conventions and we name all kinds of things and we are happy we are meticulous in planning the ego of the the man of god or the organizer is at stake and every kind of artistry and accuracy comes into it but the one whose agenda we should pursue is left and the rulers are contending to be lords in the feast [Music] are you listening to me and so spiritual growth is not just an act of knowing scripture is first coming to a point where you realize that you have no life of your own listen to me that's not the end that's the beginning this is the reason why a spiritual man is he watch so much in the presence of god because of all of these sacrifices that you have to subject yourself to thank you jesus and tonight [Music] what is your motivation why are you pursuing god why are you running after the things of god is it with a passion that will expire when certain things come into your life oh it's a genuine passion you say lord i thank you because you give me a wife and a husband and a can all of this but i need you to know that i mean business with you are you just pursuing god because you are a student and then you need him so that you can use him as a ladder towards academic success and the day you cry and you graduate you just wave him and say lord there are many others who didn't backslide like me so you can concentrate on them [Music] love has done me more than these this was a question that he asked peter because you know listen let me tell you something peter is an interesting figure when jesus was going to clean the feet of the disciples peter said ah i respect you so much i mean come on how can you clean my feet jesus said you do not even know what i'm doing and peter said now just buff me now i understand and it was the one who ran away and betrayed jesus to the point that he called a little dear woman because he was trying to defend himself hallelujah and when the hidden agenda that was in their heart see eventually over time the agenda in their heart for pursuing jesus began to unravel when the mother of james and john came to meet jesus on behalf of our two sons meaning they were already nursing it that jesus will conquer caesar and now become the king of the roman empire and then at that point the disciples become members of the cabinet so while they were pursuing him they were already setting their campaign strategies on crown and they used their mother and the mother will say you know i'm a woman what will you do to my children because i got this stop at the speed with which they left fishing i started following jesus they didn't think about it jesus was a celebrity come and they said of course i've always wanted and then later on when they found out that this journey was getting too long they started asking questions first among themselves this is why you see a preacher 10 years diligence in god and then after a while he just says lord at least heaven knows i've tried because the motif that was behind the establishment of that ministry is beginning to be revealed hallelujah are you following me tonight the light of god is such in our hearts to help us this is how we grow in the spirit and then at a particular time they wanted to motivate themselves in the absence of jesus because they did not understand what governmental authority is they did not understand that you only receive results when you are sent jesus went with peter james and john and the remaining disciples gathered themselves around and they could not stand the ego and the embarrassment that the crowd around them they said look why wait for jesus can't we take initiatives on our own and they brought somebody who was epileptic and they did not understand the order and the trainings in the spirit and how things are done they began to assume the position so that in the absence of jesus they might receive a temporary glory and console their loss before his arrival and they were disappointed because they saw jesus do it with ease and they thought it would happen that same way here and there in the bible you will see men who pursue jesus christ for different reasons people who wanted to buy anointing so the the issue of buying an anointing did not start from our generation when they saw that by the laying on of hands men were receiving the holy ghost how much let me give you and the church of christ has turned into a place of gullible men and women of god selling what they perceive to be the anointing and we have a church that will not grow because the price for growth is unbearable and so we rather prefer to it to to mediate and use the prophetic and the apostolic and whatever i can stand to give us a momentary suko [Music] so if i need to find out whether is the will of god for the job or not i know that if i'm to follow the regular part of the spirit i may need to wait upon the lord and praying i'm fasting for three days and i say why waste my time when there is a donkey called a prophet and an apostle that we can ride gloriously on and so we have a result-oriented church man of god tell me what will become of my life and we do not know him and we are not even interested in the agenda of god and let me tell you friends if god does not raise carpenters to judge the manifestation of these horns that rise up against judah i tell you there will be casualty in our generation a time will come when the new age will wipe christianity if we do not stand and this is why god is creating platforms like this across the nations the remnants who will stand and say no this is not the pattern of the spirit are you listening to me it cannot be church as usual the average christian is taught know nothing about jesus do you know i asked somebody one day i said who is jesus born again spirit filled i said who is jesus and he was shocked to find out that he did not even know what to tell me about jesus he just said he's the savior of the world let me ask you who is jesus no no no don't give me a a guess walk or what you got from your bible who is jesus do you know him if you don't stop telling lies on stage that he's your friend because the way we talk about him is as though we drank tea with him but then you ask him who is jesus who is the holy ghost amazing that the church does not even know the holy ghost scholars know more about the holy ghost and the church they have researched as critics and come up with facts that the church is not even aware we are not interested the message about jesus and the holy ghost and the kingdom and the life of god the priority and the agenda of the father that should be the pythons of the operation of every church is absent and we have replaced it with all kinds of activities making money promoting people and you see people trying to be serious in church and all they are looking for is the name deacon or pastor and that becomes our ultimate satisfaction [Music] there needs to be a redefinition of what has been motivating us in our pursuit for god no wonder at every challenge many believers stand and give up but the bible says if your strength fails you in the day of battle that means you did not gather strength [Music] hallelujah if i were the pastor of many churches after this service they'll have a board meeting about me i say we don't like this kind of thing you don't come and spoil our minds read about jesus christ elijah was called the troublemaker in israel [Music] and right now you have believers who come into a building and say why didn't they put ac i'm sweating and i'm getting inconvenienced but students can stand to collect scholarship in front of guidance and counselling in the hot sun five thousand ten thousand fifteen thousand you are determined to get it no matter what happens you stand on that line you maintain your position they want to push you say i'm not going anywhere they say you're a lady say i know i will show you i'm a lady of jesus we we so we have that spirit of determination [Music] but when it comes to the things of the spirit you hold a service after one hour 30 minutes everybody's looking at their watch and it's not like they have something to do afterwards because immediately after the meeting you see them greeting one another for hours so why they hurry [Music] what is motivating us what drives our pursuit for god are we passionate when jesus came he said listen this is my myth in other words i derive satisfaction in this to do the will of the father he said i must walk to him the works of him that sent me while it is dead he placed urgency on his assignment for the ninth comment when no man can walk again is there an urgency in your spirit to pursue god hallelujah and then the second group of people in church that we have are those who have pressed unto god to a measure and then got to that measure and based on what we want to call movements holiness movement word of faith movement charismatic movement the moment you content to the point that you enter the the revelations of a movement you are satisfied and there is no pressure upon our spirits to contend for greater height not realizing that there are certain scrolls that have been closed that if we will continue to be open unto us and we will open up new revelations about god and be a blessing to the body so i ask you a question tonight under god are you really interested in the agenda of the father what are you really define what motivates you heaven wife money cgpa a job [Music] at what point will you rest and say kai i've tried in this christian journey you must define it right now i will go i will go wherever you lead me i will go i will go [Music] i will go wherever you lead me i will go [Music] can that be the anthem of your life that when people ask you and say what is your plan and goal in life you will first tell them that all that i'm about to tell you is a derivative of what god has committed on to me i did not sit down and cook up any ambition for myself because i am bound by an oath to my savior that i will stand and live for him i have brought myself willingly under the government and the sovereign rule of the king and i will not compromise before i continue we're going to pray for five minutes and that prayer listen to me please don't bow your head we are not bowing heads here we're going to pray audibly hallelujah and the prayer is going to say lord [Music] i lay down my idols and thrones i have made and all that has taken my heart you hear us preach this again and again lord i will bow to you to know we're going to repent before we continue in this service the first repentance is to say lord i'm ashamed to find out that there has been a hidden loss that has been motivating my pursuit for you but tonight i repent are you listening to me you're going to pray because you know i'm not lying i pray this to god every time i say lord if there is any other reason aside from my love for you why i pursue you judge it prune it and bring me to a point [Music] where i become a dead man without you is that your prayer we're going to pray lift up your voice and pray say lord i lay down idols i cannot deny that i have needs but lord i have led these needs to motivate my love for you come on pray take apart [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign lord hidden in me is the ability to want faith i cannot deny it and while it is not bad i have allowed me to motivate my foster lord i have been crying for spiritual gifts because i don't want to have suffered inferiority complex and so i'm looking for what will ease it away and unfortunately i allowed you to sleep and become my motivation for you lift [Music] pray say lord i came here with a need but lord in the light of your word if i will be honest with myself i'm just pushing you the hunger increased simply because i needed a solution not because i loved you not because i was passionate about your agenda attack make sure you are praying make sure you are praying make sure you are praying i have made you too small in my eyes i still pray for the lord forgive me and i have believed in a light that you are unable to help me but tonight in coinonia but now oh lord i see my wrongs heal my heart and show yourself strong and in my heart come on magnify him above your knees is exhausted and there is nothing you can't do so i pledge i will seek [Music] i pledge i will seek for the last time sing it from your heart i pledge i will seek just your passion for god will tell in your desire for evangelism your passion for god will tell in how much you give to the house of god your desire will tell how much you pray for the house of god your desire will tell and how much you love the word of god how much you love his spirit while still praying five minutes say lord touch my heart i'm not pretending tonight i cannot lie there are eyeballs in my heart i'm a christian i'm born again i'm filled with the holy ghost but lord if you do not give me certain things after some time i may begin to reconsider my passion help me tonight i came to calinonia for my passion to be with you help me i want to grow help me [Music] i will leave my hands and i will sing i will sing holy [Music] to my lord and savior my god and king i will sing hopefully [Music] i will sing holy i will praise the lamb of god who sees upon the throne i will worship him and give a praise to him alone he is to come [Applause] [Music] [Music] say lord i'm sorry i've taken your pursuit and replace it with many things say lord i didn't even know when certain desires overtook a genuine passion i was so distracted by the burdens upon me that i did not realize that i had missed out on a genuine passion genuine passion not tied to marriage not tied to money not tied to fame not tied to ministry not tied to anointing i have been crucified with christ i have been crucified with christ nevertheless i live yet not i but christ christ christ in me christ above me christ before me cries by my side my motivation the beginning the end hallelujah listen to me listen god is re-examining the foundations from which our pursuit for christ is hinged on because the bible says if the foundation it says if the foundation be destroyed [Music] are you listening to me was the praying i've not finished the teaching but i just sense in my spirit to sing one more song it's all about you it's all about you if you don't believe it don't sing it yet keep quiet keep quiet when you get the revelation you can join but for us many minutes it's all about you it's all about you it's all about you jesus it's all about you it's all about for the last time now it's all about you lord [Music] you will realize what listen listen from this light of god you will realize why you are not proud of standing for jesus in the presence of your friends is because you are not yet convinced that's why you cannot share jesus with others you are afraid of the embarrassment you are conscious of your beauty that's an idol you are conscious of it lest it will kill an opportunity to be in a relationship you cannot share christ with your business partner with your lecturer [Music] we have replaced him with different things in our hearts so every time satan comes he comes projecting your lust first and foremost so that you cannot resist [Music] that's why you are here please be seated and let's continue [Music] hallelujah [Music] the bible makes us to understand that before the day of the lord listen to me the spirit of elijah malachi 4 before the spirit before the day of the lord the spirit of elijah will be sent forth to prepare the way and so before jesus came the spirit of elijah was sent forth and he began to prepare the way how was he prepared away calling the people to realize how bad they had fallen not because he could redeem them baptism at that time was not a sign of new birth it was an indication that they would be interested in what jesus was coming to offer so as many who were convicted by his teaching prepared their hearts so that when the messiah showed up they would not resist him [Music] for john himself did not have any power to save any man but he said i am the voice of one crying in the wilderness he was an echo [Music] and right now that same spirit of elijah has been released upon the body of christ to expose the works of iniquity and to bring the sons of god into righteousness [Music] and this is what is happening across every church and every denomination that truly names the name of christ is a manifestation of this prophetic spirit that is able to receive of the things of god and communicated fearlessly this is how your christianity will last so that 30 years from now you will raise your children in the fear of the lord they will know no other doctrine and no other gospel by default they will they will be built knowing that they love god and they have a passion for him and him alone hallelujah romans chapter 8 [Music] when the holy ghost brings you to this position the next thing that happens is he begins to subject you through different dealings and trainings please listen this is important this is the principle the way god prepares his army and the way hallelujah now please look up one is not a tragedy but if we don't do anything about it it will become an old wine hallelujah there was a time in the body of christ when our pursuit was for remember praise god please listen to me remember and the quality of your ministry was proportional to the depth of rhema insight into scripture hallelujah how you could compare scripture with scripture how you could quote whole chapters hallelujah nothing wrong in that we gave awards to people for quoting chapters and chapters of scripture but i needed to know that in the progression of the dealings of god listen the holy ghost begins by exposing you to the knowledge of god are you listening to me he brings you to that point where you begin to know about god through the scripture you begin to browse through scripture and see the character of god and see his life and his nature and his principles but can i tell you something and this is where a lot of the church body need to upgrade their life and anytime i say these people get offended i don't castigate ministers but i am the voice that must echo the things that i hear in the spirit are you listening to me i don't have a problem with any church in fact there is no channel i don't watch but listen to me let me tell you something when you say i'm born again i'm a new creation in christ hallelujah that settles it i need you to know listen to me that is not the fault of those who have brought this revelation and it's not a lie but that is not all there is are you listening to me is not a lie because scripture cannot be broken however if that is the only perspective that is seen in the body then there is no completion are you following me now and so there was a an error and a dispensation where our fathers contended and pressed in the spirit and they came into that dimension where they began to understand that wow from scripture i'm free from condemnation are you listening to me i'm free but the bible says knowledge shall increase meaning it was not supposed to stop with that discovery are you listening to me that is a sign of a healthy christian that there is progression into the depths of the spirit the bible says we see in part and according to that part we prophesy so when god enlarges that which you see you begin to prophesy but many people have come around certain revelations and will fight anything that looks above it calling it errol are you listening to me [Music] there are many people who have been taught in church that there's nothing like demons nothing like satan the only demon you have is in your mind but that's not true well for those who clear up under cnn but for those who my father's mother was a traditionalist are you listening to me so i'm not trying to guess that satan exists it's one thing to believe he exists is another thing to believe he has power over you that is where he's faulty are you listening to me but for you to just kick away and say forget it there's no demon anywhere ah be careful because many of the people who are speaking will later on find out the reason why they are stunted in their life and will not make advancement a number of them have discovered it but their arrogance will not allow them to admit that they have seen a greater light and so they would rather prefer to come in what they believe to be the final revelation of the dimension of god that is given to man when you read a lot of kenneth hagin's books there are many things written in that book that you might not totally agree with right now he's not correct that was because during canada against time the level and the operation of the spirit and the truth that were opened there was what he received and documented so you cannot criticize him but at the same time in as much as we call him a general we cannot stop at that level are you listening to me so i cannot build a camp around kenneth hagin and say all that he thought the thing that was moving the church was physical manifestation gold dust silver dust everybody will bring every kind of thing your watch the silver on your watch will scratch on you and say see go dust and it was not wrong listen to me but the holy ghost was studying the way we were responding to it the moment it would become an idol he sees that experience so that we will continue with the next healings of the spirit but when you encamp around gold dust and you find your ministry around goldust and oil and so on and so forth then there will be trouble because you will resist those who are progressing in the spirit and you will try to create many teachings to prove that they are in error not knowing that you are the one who is stunted and even when the holy ghost is ministering to you a time will come the light will be too bright you cannot explain and so you will begin to get angry because the people are not stupid the bible says it will happen to us as it happened in nafta and zebulun instead of people in nafta and cebu there was a prophecy it says those were in darkness they have seen a great light not a light a great light [Music] so it will happen a great light one characteristic of a healthy church is the ability to transit with the spirit but when the man of god takes the place of god and makes himself the final authority in the church he is unable to adjust because his ego will not be able to accommodate the explanations he has to give for his transition in the spirit transition in the spirit is not it's not a thing of embarrassment hallelujah there are ministers who stop their members from reading some books because of insecurity they want to keep the members around what they believe is the full and universal counsel of god and i hear a lot of ministers teach with such arrogance and they do not know that there are other dimensions that are being opened up there are many who did not stop in yesterday's wine they kept contending and god is opening greater doors and those doors just like in 2005 when the revival came to the campus about the ministry of the holy spirit and what we know today to be new creation realities it happened in 2005. and that was the time when we were coming into this knowledge we didn't even know these things we were coming into this knowledge the revelation of kenyon's teachings the revelation of pastor chris's teachings i mean i was so blessed i'll never forget how many times we'll lock ourselves boy we're stepping into things in the anointing those times if someone fell on the floor you would run and catch the person and take him to zigbee because you are not sure what happened but right now even in your prayer group three people even unbelievers now have acclimatized to the fact that there is a manifestation of the spirit and people can fall but we cannot stop there [Music] and so what is there what else is there to look because the mistake that many of us are making in our churches and the rest is we are encamping around an experience and will not move as see a man of god is not the one who is supposed to look at the people he's supposed to set his eyes on the cloud the moment the cloud begins to motion movement he alerts the people and said the cloud is moving begin to follow on [Music] are you listening to me [Music] because at that time were taught that if there is no instant manifestation in your life something was wrong with your feet and so while the holy ghost was trying to deal with us and taking us through processes that would bring us into maturity those teachings where we're wrestling his ministry in our lives but as an act of god's grace we're able to switch and to align and to realize that in hebrews 11 there were women who raised their dead back and women those times we could not explain what happens if a family dies hallelujah we don't know what message to tell them because we have been taught you are supposed to stand and live forever and any debt is a sign of weakness and satan and so on and so forth but that was good to a measure but it is not applicable today there must need to be a truth and so we read from scripture by the holy ghost how that some people died are you listening to me without receiving the promise and he said other people raised their debt back to life he joined all the experiences and called it faith so we began to question the things that we have been believing not to scan the people but to say look where they put food stuff is supposed to be a comma [Music] there are many of you there are experiences god has given you you have not found the confirmation yet i hope we have time wherever we can stop today and every time you go to your pastor they tell you lord this kind of thing we don't like it you see that it is a new operation it's the manifestation of the new wine it must be descending an atmosphere where people have ears and they can tell you although this is strange we confirmed by the spirit that this is an operation of the lord fire on many of you have stunted your spiritual growth because of different messages you have heard for instance i know people who say just pray for five minutes and pray for ten minutes you are a king speak it once brother let me tell you the truth if that is how you want to raise your christianity there will be a bitter casualty that will teach you a lesson that may take decades for you to recover from because the bible gives us the character of a man of prayer he said elijah was a man of like passion he said he prayed endlessly [Music] are you listening to me so there is nothing wrong in receiving the teachings that you have but i'm only saying we salute the generals i respect every man of god i mention them by name they have been impacts to our lives until today we still listen to them forever they remain general they have entered the hallmark of grace however there is a fresh mandate upon our generation are you listening to me and according to the measure of grace that is coming upon us we cannot use the new discoveries we are having to mock them for that will be immaturity but at the same time we will not refuse to progress because we want to pay our homage and allegiance to their doctrines are you growing tonight because if i don't balance this many of you now stand and watch some of our fathers and hear their revelation like i see a lot of people do and they just laugh they say i've left israel when you find yourself doing that you are a child it's not demon possession there's remedies just to grow up are you listening to me i have tips and tapes i follow the men of god adam because listen although eli's eye was deemed it was eli who told samwell that it was the voice of god eli was a type of our fathers although their eyes are getting dim not because they are backsliding but they are dispensation and the blueprint of their prophetic agenda is coming to an end so there is a mantle transferring the spirit although they made to some of you not look relevant we approach them with discretion one leg we are approaching the spirit and saying holy ghost we are trusting you and then we are receiving direction you see the balance so you don't begin to use your revelation and say ah this ministry they just teach on this and that and that no we appreciate them and we salute them forever they are called generals compared to them we are only but toddlers rising up in the spirit however he told jeremiah do not be afraid of the people and say i am young for i will put my words in your mouth he said go and speak so there is an emergence of people [Applause] who will be persecuted because of our age and because we are not conforming to the mold of religion how be it there is a new wine and the one whose centers will stand to defend us this is why you will see a lot of young people doing supernatural things for god but then if we are careful and we are trained enough we will realize that in the midst of all of these things we ought to give god glory [Music] hallelujah so tell your neighbor change your full stop [Music] to a comma say it one more time change your full stop to a comma do not reject the operations of the spirit open up yourself please don't be caught up in that in my church my pastor this is what we believe god is leading you to a book in the bookstore it may be by an author you don't like there's nobody i don't watch let your mind grow while nobody if i cannot learn anything at least i can lend diligence in ministry so you must maintain a posture are you listening to me so the dealings of the spirit when the holy ghost begins to walk and shed off a lot of religion from our lives follow me to romans please let's see how far we can get and then we pray blessed be the name of the lord can we pray in tongues for two minutes just seated go ahead and pray don't get used to it the bible says these signs will follow them that means when the authentic church arises by grace this will be part of the signs like i said there are many of you who probably may be here and have a problem with what we are doing don't reject it just open up your heart and seek understanding we are loving enough to explain [Music] lord let me grow lord let me grow lord let me grow in the name of jesus i refuse to lag behind god take a break hallelujah the first thing that happens to you hallelujah the work of a believer is that by acknowledging that jesus is savior over your life and his lordship the bible makes us to understand that the spirit of god comes to live in you hallelujah the bible says he that is joined to christ is what one spirit so there is a oneness that happens from the realm of your spirit what is the result faith is imparted in you and suddenly you begin to gain meaning over spiritual things the things you would have rejected because the spirit of god lives in you he begins to direct you now watch this [Music] you will read in your bible as you progress in this journey now you are born again and then you begin to read in your bible let the week say i am strong let the poor say i am rich wonderful then you find another one you have been anointed to heal the sick to cast out devils wonderful you keep noting the scripture hallelujah by the time you have 30 or 40 beautiful scriptures now you will you rise up based on the confidence of those scriptures god do not fail hallelujah then your first attempt on a man on a wheelchair he doesn't stand and then a question begins to prove in your heart what happened hallelujah and then you saw that you are the head and not the tail then your results came out and you saw it carry over and he said well uh god is just something is that you just leave the question mark there and then some of us go to our men of god and say please what minute these things i'm not getting it the things i see in scripture on the manifestation in my life is creating a contrast and most of us man of god all we tell god's innocent people because that is the limitation of the perspective that we see you don't have faith it's not enough stir up your faith if he's faith he should work now the people say how do i stay and they get books and they keep reading they read different kinds of books volumes of books to the point that they can recite the books and then they don't see a noticeable improvement in their life and they come back and then we are unable to give them answers listen to me the journey of a believer the moment you give your heart to the lord listen you begin to progress from knowing god to entering into an experiential work with him are you listening to me and the experience of god with a man cannot be taught it is unique it is a unique feeling are you listening to me now through those experience your convictions about the things you see in the world begin to crystallize and gain substance [Music] are you listening to me the first area of argument is your mind the bible says in romans chapter eight verse five let's look at it quickly romans eight from verse 5 for they that are after the flesh do what they do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit is effort to be carnally minded that means to be ruled by your senses to be ruled by your emotions to be ruled by the things you see the things you share and all of these things the bible says to be ruled by them any other thing other than christ is death in other words it is an effort in futility hallelujah and so your mind begins to wrestle the things of god because when god steps into your life listen he's not seeking a space he's seeking the whole he's not taking a part of you and say okay other things the moment he stands there he begins to wrestle and push every other thing hallelujah and that's where the willing submission of a believer begins listen to me you can choose where to stop in your spiritual journey by saying lord i've tried and have come thus far this one will not go god will begin to touch them are you ready to listen to me [Music] so you love god so much and then one day god will say empty your account you say about god i bind i reject that demon he has taught something he's bringing your finances into obedience with christ then he touches your your uncle who sent you money all the time say lord my faith is working now he doesn't send you money and what happens my faith is still working after two months you really find out that the one you've been trusting was not god hallelujah and then he keeps touching those things until he comes to a point where he is exalted king i like a song that says he's exalted the king is exalted on high you know that song he's exalted the king is exalted on [Music] so the holy ghost begins to wrestle your flesh what happens you are born again and although you are shouting buddhists of women you have not you have not surrendered that part so there is half babylon half you have you are filled with the holy ghost and you are preaching hallelujah but then you sit down and start remembering those days when you're in the you're in the world and every lady that passes around the very guy standing saying you are covering my view please there is a contention this is what the bible is telling us are you following me now galatians chapter 5 from verse 16 he now begins to tell us he said now i say then walk in the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh he said for the flesh lusted after the spirit and the spirit after the flesh and both of them are consistently under contention and then although you are born again you find out that you are still involved in masturbation and certain things you may not tell people but this has contentions you are praying about it i'm showing you the progression then you begin to see every kind of thing when you are praying before god and you are praying in tongues you begin to see god brings out the state of your heart envy lost jealousy you say lord me me i'm a new creation i'm born again but then you are seeing your old man ken is alive and strong wrestling with abel and because ken is the elder brother of abel that flesh is a dead dominance in your mind now abel wants to come and take his place and so there is a contention are you listening to me the old man does not want to give way the old man does not want to give way [Music] and then satan gives you an alternative he said look there is something called the grace of god and god's mercy why don't you wrap yourself around that revelation and let everything go and so you are laughing you are saying hallelujah all things are working well but you sleep in the night and people come and press you and sleep with you you get up in the morning and it's not a problem you will never tell anybody you're just smiling but these are questions you are asking and say what is wrong with my new creation status and god is saying no it's a journey your mind is giving room for satan to find expression in your life and you are unable to lay down everything are you listening to me you love god it does not mean you are a devil don't let anybody condemn you but you must not condone your state you must do something about it hallelujah you never believed you could steal one day in the heat of hunger you just saw a hundred nana wanting to take it the holy ghost told you is your roommate's home you can't say you didn't hear him and he said lord the flesh contending with the spirit and he said does it really matter lord if i ask her she will give me so what's the difference god is saying ask them because there is a protocol in the spirit and you just whistle and squeeze out and carry the hundred naira you buy bonds and you eat and god keeps quiet it does not mean he's endorsing you he's only encouraging you because the time will come his light will shine in that area of your life while men slept the enemy planted tears among the wheat and the people who were with the husbandman said should we begin to walk and say no in the process of pruning it you will remove some things so let them grow there is a level you get to then god will say all right about this issue of masturbation it's been two years and uh although you have been healing the sick life can we deal with it now say oh i'm a new creation what kind of embarrassment is this oh lord don't bring up this issue and satan begins to give you an excuse we have a church that is so dignified and we cannot open up ourselves before god because we think it's an act of weakness can i tell you something friends if you must grow and be truth if if you grow up be mature and stand in truth then you must open up your heart and let the holy spirit examine your mind and prune out everything that does not conform to christ [Music] hallelujah while that is happening you will seem to be standing in one place in your journey other people have started ministry since they are going they are already on air you are there cleaning out a lot of things are you listening to me because god is saying the kind of army i need to present and your colleague who you started laboring in the spirit together has seven branches now [Music] and the guy looks at you and say are you there's an urgency in the spirit let's run the harvest is white i say are you prepared guys are you joking meanwhile his choir ladies cannot rest again because the realm of the spirit does not know whether you are apostle or prophet and so in the middle of the teachings what happens cain you look at a beautiful lady patience how and then you are preaching and then ken says decide again and you look and you say i have a prophetic word for you now it's not your fault you love the lord but you did not stay sufficient for the holy ghost to begin to take over your mind [Music] so although you are prophesying suddenly you are a prophet and you notice that sam is the general manager of a bank and by prophetic insight you are giving access to his account number say sam stand up while you say stand up the message that is coming from god is that you walk steadfastly but you are command where god stops and king rides out with the prophets he said more so god is telling you to drop an amount and because of the accuracy of your delivery you are consoled and you think it is god are you listening to me and so based on it you open a ministry but then you find out that there are many things although before people you are great in the spirit you weigh very small because you have refused to stay in the spirit and then your members begin to contend for truth and they come to a point where they begin to discern that something is wrong although these guys anointed and have the gift of the spirit we do not see the character that represents the posture of a mature man in the spirit [Music] then you begin to come up with all kinds of rules [Music] be quiet and don't challenge authority whatever we give you god will not talk to you people except he comes to us have you had teachings like that that's lack of fire in progress brothers [Music] because the bible is very explicitly clear [Music] this is what you get in koinonia we want us to be strong listen i trust the lord that the least person among us will be as strong as david we won't lie to you that's why we hold miracle services is that correct and you come we don't bug you with all these things we just pray but when it comes to building watch me there was a day now i'm careful to say this some years ago [Music] the lord told me that i should not open my bible for one week and i did not understand could that be the spirit of the lord or not but i eventually found out that i was god and god gave me the reason he said son every meeting that happens you are going like many of you are here with your notebooks it takes something in your head to be the head you know how bishop writes powerful statements say something in your head to be the head now he's writing you are chatting he's speaking from a depth of revelation you just want remember i said boy if i preach on this in my thoughts they fellowship they will know that i'm not an ordinary person now you are getting these things he is speaking from the powers of the spirit but it came to you just as knowledge remember you listen to me and now you are writing it and god told me said son you have gotten many things that can move you forward but you are not moving forward you are junking your head with knowledge close your bible and let's begin to bring you into the experience of these revelations that you had so i didn't say you see it's my unique dealing that's why i can't write a book about it are you listening to me and god began to open me up i remember that's when god began to teach me on character look let me tell you i was walking in the anointing of the spirit in a way you cannot imagine praise god and the holy spirit asked me this is the experiential dealing now i'm teaching you how the holy ghost trains you he begins to subject you through personalized experience that only you can tell the only thing is when you share the experience with another person you will find out that although the the patterns of dealings are different according to what he wants you to become but you see that there is a similarity of objectives what he's trying to achieve praise god and the holy ghost made me to draw a diagram of the fruit of the spirit versus their manifestation in my life personalized dealings he is training me he's now giving life to the head knowledge i've heard of scripture i knew it so well but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace i knew this in right from sunday school but now there was it was now time for the reality and let me tell you something for the first time in my life my ego was pumped to my knees i was shocked to find out that less than 10 percent of the fruit of the spirit was alive and walking although i was anointed although we are praying for people although we had gone for crusades i said ah lord you have to help me thank god it's only me and you that i seen this thing let's flog it out right now are you listening to me do not be embarrassed when god calls you to your knees as a general it's not a symbol of shame he's pruning you to lift you so don't be embarrassed to find out that there is an issue you need to flog out in your life don't let religion lie to you and say it's all over work out that superior that salvation with fear reverence for god and with trembling because it has consequences if you leave it hallelujah and when i began to do that i saw improvement in my life and people were happy when i went for administration they say we have a very humble servant of god and i could imagine the holy spirit is saying now you are you not enjoying the blessings i thought that was over later on again he said there's part two of that character dealing and he gave me another deal and i found out i failed flawlessly although you people can see me and say wow great man of god he's only me and god that knows the dealings and the levels are you listening to me many preachers will not tell you this because they stand as omniscient omnipotent and only whatever and let me tell you if they don't take steps they will be embarrassed because the realm of the spirit has no apology for what your members call you you begin to contend for the experience listen and in that contention you begin to know the holy ghost are you listening to me you begin to know the holy ghost there are certain promptings of the spirit that come upon me to know the kinds of anointings that i need place i cannot teach you i can only explain is my personalized dealing in the place of prayer there is a way and a manner that the holy ghost moves upon me that i know that i've eaten something in the spirit and i know that this prayer has been answered are you listening to me there is a way i can sense danger if somebody wants to call me maybe to pray for the sick sometimes few minutes before that time i suddenly sense the anointing of the spirit and i sense the presence of healing angels how did i learn that the experiential dealings of the spirit this is how a believer grows one day you are praying qatar bhagavad-gita suddenly your tongues begin to change that's your first time of encountering it and then you're saying what is happening suddenly i found out that i cannot even talk again i'm voicing but i'm not speaking these are questions the holy ghost is lowering you deeper with these experiences people may reject it but you know suddenly you you are praying and you begin to sense the presence of people you know that you are not alone in that room and now your spirit is being trained is a customized dealing this is not the type there are many of you while i'm speaking right now the first time i was speaking you were caught up in the spirit you didn't even know that it was a spiritual experience suddenly you found out that we were sharing the grace and you just smiled you went back home quietly and then you ended that dealing instead of you to begin to contend with the spirit every time you prayed you would lie down and see something that will happen exactly the next day you trivialized it but after seeing it two or three times the holy ghost is saying this is part of the tools you will need as my army and so begin to take note of it i sleep with notebooks i sleep with my bible my notebooks and my pen because at every time you see so you begin to walk with the spirit and you come to a point where you can look at someone and be able to help the person out of the abundance of your experiences are you listening to me the atmosphere of your spirit is alive now your mind begins to submit gradually but surely to the lordship of the spirit you begin to imbibe his word his word now the the holy spirit begins to orchestrate occasions that will make the world believing and active in your life so it's no longer just a logos yeah it has become true are you listening to me and then one time you will have cause and your father or your mother will not send you money and the holy ghost will say i want to show you a dimension of me that is accessible i want to train you and build you and then he says now depend on me get up and go to your friend's room as you are stepping into your friend's room you see him with an envelope of five thousand he says the lord was leading me and you say so that dealing i thought was my mind was the holy ghost you are growing there is a progression are you listening to me there is a progression suddenly you sit down and you sense guys something is wrong and you just tell your colleague let's pray let's pray five minutes later they called and they said someone had a ghastly motor accident and he would have died and god said not that impression i will make reference to it again your customized dealings with the spirit this is how a christian becomes a mature person because over time you begin to gather these things and the holy ghost begins to shed light and it begins to teach you so prayer becomes exciting not because you want to go and do religion you anticipate a new experience and so you are praying and wondering what next to the holy ghost do suddenly you are praying on your own the next thing you wake up and find out that you were on the floor when you fell you did not know you thought you were too praying but suddenly you found out that you had been in a vision for a long time and he said lord what what is going on in my life the dealings are you learning something please and you begin to pray then you begin to build there are times that you are sleeping and god gives you a dream and you get up and there is no direct application of that dream in your life the dream was an explosion of your mind and your spirit to acclimatize with the dealings of god so that scripture will now begin to make sense based on the things you have visualized in your dreams so you find yourself walking on water and in that dream a lot of people say mummy water calm down don't just call everything satan you find yourself walking with jesus on water in a dream he is giving you the feeling so that when you come back and open that scripture light that never entered you will now enter you there are times in the dream you see yourself laying hands on the seat and you have the feeling of victory the manifestation of faith and every time god will preserve that memory in your mind so that the next time you see somebody in a wheelchair you have that same feeling and it will end it will help the anointing to flow in your life and suddenly for the first time it will be like a dream [Music] are you following me tonight the dealings of the spirit bringing the knowledge of god into the experience of god for you then you begin to speak you are understanding the operations of the spirit [Music] now when you stand to preach listen you will not just talk as if you are talking your convictions are getting stronger listen when you experience god that's the only condition that you can die for him it's not by confession are you listening to me stand up sweetheart my dear look at me if i call you a man what will you do about it there are too many experience in your life that have crystallized in your spirit soul and body that you are a lady is that correct [Music] for instance men don't wear weapons except there's something wrong with them except there is a drastic shortage of the dealings of the spirit in their lives please sit down now this is a lady if you give back to a baby listen do you know if you separate a baby from any other person and you keep telling that baby you are a boy you are a boy although she's a lady she will grow up knowing and thinking and acting like a man because the first experience she receives is on account of what you are speaking to her are you listening to me that's why god designed the trainings of ladies and men to be such that no man can deceive another [Music] when a guy becomes a teenager suddenly his voice is getting husky final betrayal nothing can deceive him that is a lady and then he sees mustache on his face but all these things begin to tell him look mr man you are not a lady and then what are they doing there are memories in his mind and then he comes to a point where he's convinced and he can die believing that he's a man such that when americans are saying right now uh there are factors we need to look at to ascertain whether a man is a man or a woman you say you are on your own i know and i am persuaded that i am a man this is how it must be but when you do not walk with the spirit and this is the ministry of the fivefold to bring us to a point where we create the roadmap listen what we do is we plant and we water what is your dealings with god that brings increase in your life are you listening to me our job is to open up a portal and lead you and say go and then you begin to experience certain dimensions of god you have been reading every time the bible talks about tithing and then you'll be saying wow if they ask you in sunday school you answer discipleship you answer crs you answer and you do very well and then one day god begins to tell you all right you've been reading this thing when will you put it to work experience knowledge translating into experience now you come out here and stand and you drop the tide and listen to me god will often times cause the result to happen instantly so that you can see the difference you are just dropping it and the next time it may not happen like that all the time this is what happens to new converts every prayer is answered before they pray to be answered and they're like man this christianity that means most christians are lazy then one day you pray and it's not answered that fast and god was all right uh i was just helping you to be encouraged so that should in case you don't get an answer prayer you know you once had one and you can follow me then he begins to teach you you want to have you seen many believers who say i just got saved i got filled with the holy spirit i started praying for the sick immediately and truly they were healed ask them after five years whether they continued it was a motivation god is smart he knows how to encourage you it was a bonus to encourage you that look you are seeing believers praying and fasting you didn't pray you deep fast rhema just came and he said if this is how it is then i can be a preacher and then one day you have starved of revelation the bible becomes a blank page from genesis to revelation and then he begins to teach you the principle of receiving from the spirit then you begin to honor the people you have once criticized and say oh i respect your fasting you are not wasting your time [Music] a body that becomes mature not just in knowledge but in experience that's why i like our mothers they have gone through childbirth they have escaped accidents so whenever they are talking about the faithfulness of god no matter whether they are not concerned whether i can plays well or not you just raise a song even if it's all calm or in faithful they just close their eyes because it's a reflection of their experience they have come to know god when they were giving back to that child they almost died and they called on his name and he brought salvation so whenever they read and they said the lord is my strength and my life they have an experience that can relate to that knowledge and for them is not waste [Music] are you listening to me a woman who has five children and four died in an accident [Music] and then see this is one of the reasons why when you hear a man who has experienced god when he speaks you will cry because he's speaking from the depth of his experience i remember listening to reverend dr umalpai lost his children after a crusade after a crusade his children drowned and died he had to start a new family again so when he reads the book of job and job said do he slay me he will say yes because there is an experience he has gotten that dimension of god and nobody will take it away have you gotten the experience for the revelations you are shouting about for that may be the meeting link hallelujah thank you jesus and you come to a point where you experience certain things don't waste your experiences let the holy ghost use them as a trading ground to make you mature that's why the bible says count it all joy when you face diverse temptations knowing that the trying of your faith will produce patience and let patience have its full cost there is an end it will make you become something when you come to calinonia there are different kinds of worshipers those who have experienced what the worship people are singing are you following me now that's why when who raised worship some come if some if someone comes to stand here and sing and say um lord i give you my heart if there is no experience to validate that revelation you will know because there is an absence of truth have your way in me lord even if he's kneeling down you just know that there is a separation between this man and the spirit of this song an experience has not brought it into light hallelujah but if you waited ten years before getting admission and he said lord i love you and he says lord i give you my heart you cannot explain it may not even be his voice his experience is doing something to your spirit deep is calling on too deep have your way in me that's why you can compose other versions and not care about what you are thinking because those fashions relate to his experience when that's why you see whenever we say sing in the spirit or express yourself to the lord some people just stand it's not your fault you've never had to look for school fees by yourself you've never had to trust god for his faithfulness you've never had to you are too innocent there is no experience so the bible is just like a book and you just know the memory verses but somebody who's whose name came out in that list has an experience about the faithfulness of god somebody whose mother was almost dying of childbirth and they had to come together praying day and night knows that there are demons in the village and that prayer can conquer satan so while you are talking english on stage that revelation the memory of the times you have to spend to travel that memory is too deep for your deceits to just take him out that becomes a platform for a healthy prayer life so right now your prayer life is not founded upon intimidation from your colleagues there is an experience that has provoked you to the place of prayer and you know you must remain there as a matter of life and death hallelujah and then the bible have you ever had certain experiences and then some songs you used to listen to that don't make sense later make sense and then you just feel like listening to don when you have criticized his keyboard suddenly makes sense to you he never sleeps and that and you begin to cry it's an experience that is making you grow because out of that experience the word of god will now come alive are you getting blessed please so it's not enough to write god is telling you to write all those things in your notebook because the day the experiences of your life will bring you into the knowledge of that aspect of god you appreciate what you have written that's why when you hear some people talking you see you see pastor standing up they are touched by the statement and the members are saying what nonsense is this the day you start running your own church after three years you will stand up for every man that says what they said that you were just watching because four four weeks after you begin to pass through the four weeks is full of crisis that you have to settle and you say lord did you call me so next time you are seeing somebody say god is faithful and the man of god is related to his pain his pain has become a message that helps him to understand what the holy spirit can do in a man's life [Music] this is how believers become matured and if this is not thought in the body of christ we are going to have a crippled people are you listening to me so you get up based on these experiences [Music] my wallet has been missing for a long time if it was before i called it for called it for it didn't come i said lord look i have i have better things to pray about i have a family of believers we need to train but remember one time i gave you story that an angel came and brought it i prayed i said where is that angel [Music] hallelujah the rigor of going to atm activities right now and all the things there but when your heart is with god anything that lifts you cannot it only creates more space for him to feel so you see a believer walk and you are wondering how do people live like this they just sat your father and he comes back dancing and you are like daddy are you choking my school fees he says don't worry i don't know what will happen but i remember in 1975 a similar thing happened and there was a song that i sang many of you don't have experiences that you can fetch this is why testimony is important when you give testimony you give people a tool that they can use to fight satan tomorrow and then you become a mature christian hallelujah kenneth hagin went through all kinds of sicknesses that wanted to kill him so when he stands ministering to people god brings that memory and out of that memory comes compassion and from that compassion the anointing will flow you have not had any experience that's why you say these miracles have been said why are people always falling the day you have their kind of disease you will value our ministry hallelujah why must you professor you are wasting our time jerry the day your father looks at you and saying now you have become an adult fend for yourself you will know whether you are believed god or not and then you you will begin to sing songs including jesus loves me this i know for the bible tells me so now it will not be special number an experience has compelled you to appreciate that revelation of the world to the point that whenever you read john 3 16 you can start crying on stage people are saying john 3 16 is not about the verse it has made you to know the holy spirit in a certain way that you wouldn't know him this is how the ancients were dealt with by god certain experiences open certain dimensions of god and so they knew that god was certain things and they died believing it what do you believe about god how have your experiences helped you to come into the knowledge the experiential knowledge of god some of the dealings of god in our lives is what has given us audacity to be able to stand and declare certain things and you watch and say how old are these people that they speak with such audacity it's not about the age it's the depth of the experiences am i ministering to someone tonight we are going to pray when that happens listen to me you come to a point where you do not trust any other thing again aside from god at that point he becomes king of kings and lord of lords then you will now appreciate my song king of my life you are my all don't sing it and i live for you hello i wrote that song on valentine's day [Music] and i lay my life for you listen my heart is yours is it making sense to you now my mind is yours my will is yours you're the king of my life [Music] so when the worship team raised you say ah this song is not sweet you you enter an experience that will make that bitter water become sweet and then every day you hear it you say ah you may not know the song you just say my heart and you keep saying my heart and you are crying and it's ministering to you and you are shedding tears and you are you are shedding tears when the victory comes you take note of that song have you seen your parents noted certain songs it doesn't make sense to you why they like it they signed sunday the day you will be delivered you almost died your father was almost dying of hypertension around the labor room and that song minister to him and every time you sing it he remembers you and the destiny of god in your life many of you look at my knee and say my name is not abba why would they name me joy and then they will tell you the experience that led to that name that they waited 10 years with no child and then you came and they rejoiced and then they called you joy say it doesn't matter then three years you didn't get admission the day you get you say my name is joy the revelation has brought you to a position where you begin to appreciate certain things [Music] believe us we need to grow this is where god is taking us when that happens the consummation of all things is that your body begins to experience that superior [Music] and then you can allow your body to be a channel through which the life and the power of god can flow to others your vocal cords become instruments through which you will communicate his life and power to others at that point you become useful but can i tell you something this is the journey stop looking for power and manifestation what you should be searching for right now is god say lord give me an experience an experience beyond christianity and experience an experience lord i desire an experience with you i've had knowledge i've had so many things so when you hear michael smith say it's all about you you'll be wondering yourself all about him but lord i've given you all and the bible says i've been brought to the price i pray that the lord will lead you into the pathway that will cause this world to come alive in you at that point nobody will tell you to do evangelism again [Music] it will not be guess walk listen [Music] when god opens up the operations of the spirit in your life he brings you to a point where your mind and your intellect betrays you again and again and there is only one option left god and your love for him like a think woman you say lord i'm available and you mean it from the depths of your heart and when he begins to use you you will there's there will never be room for pride because the memories of the dealings will remain in your heart hallelujah we're going to pray rise up on your feet the experiential dealings of the spirit membrane that god will give you experiences listen i like that song keep playing because we are going to sing it but before we sing it i know we are out of time but just listen to me you are going to pray and in that prayer you are going to cry unto god and say lord there are many things i know but they have not become life in my life can you give me an experiential revelation of god [Music] can you use the things around me to bring me to a point where i begin to appreciate you strengthen my conviction about the things i believe lift up your voice and begin to pray strengthen my conviction oh god let my faith not fail me strengthen my convictions that when i say god is faithful i mean it that when i say god is holy i mean it that when i say i'm righteous i mean it come on pray request in the place of prayer [Music] as i study the word i'm tired of reading letters let the word become flesh strengthen my christian experience make my life a qualitative one go ahead and pray say lord i subject my mind to the power of your spirit i subject my mind to the power of your spirit breathe upon me holy ghost breathe upon my mind affect my life breathe upon me wreck it my thinking faculty invade my mindset change me [Music] help me not to trust in any other thing help me not to trust in any other thing the songwriter says my faith is built on nothing less than jesus blood and righteousness he said on christ [Music] strengthen my christian experience but when i say i love you let it come from the depths of my heart strengthen my christian experience that when you send me i will be faithful pray say lord i want to grow beyond religion [Music] holy ghost begin to take me through your experiential dealing that is unique to me your experiential feeling that is unique to me let it make me strong let it make me know you [Music] pray brothers and sisters the knowledge of god through your experiences become your message to the world the knowledge of god through your experiences will become your salmon you will shout it at the mountaintop you will shout it nobody will stop you because it's not just a salmon it's your experience it's your story of how god took you through the dealings on the anointing the feelings on character the dealings on on marriage the dealings on habits is a he that bears fruit my father will prove go ahead and pray say lord i want to be a strong christian give me reason to pursue you in truth give me reason to pursue strengthen my convictions before you send me your god for what will i tell the nations in the face of challenges strengthen my conviction let me be thoroughly taught in the school of the spirit pray mata barakata yay [Music] holy ghost let my experiences make you become a friend indeed that's taken closer [Music] so worship him seek for an experience of your songs seek for an experience [Music] ministers seek for an experience what message did god give you is there an experience that puts fire in it in your spirits that's why paul said no man trouble me there is a mark in my body that makes me know that i am of christ he didn't just call me there is a mark while he was dealing with me while he was building me it left an imprint in my spirit that forever i know i'm called [Music] my parakata and then you will preach you will never lack a message every time you sit down with people there is always something to say they may call you a talkative but there are too many experiences you have come to know the holy ghost as a guide as an instructor as a teacher as a shepherd indeed for you the lord is your shepherd you have come to know him as provider he has become el shaddai the name of the lord has become a strong tower where you run to it and you are safe [Applause] come on just one minute pray particular poser prestige [Music] where there is nothing there is no one so your christianity is not by force you are not doing god a favor say lord the knock of rhema i need experiences that will crystallize my dealings i want to be conflicted i want to have power power power with god i want my words to be full of light and audacity bring me to the place of healing give me a message of god out of my experiences with the holy ghost teach me how to prophesy teach me how to preach take me through your bible school take me through your bible college train me your god drain me your god train me oh god teach me character teach me discipline teach me how to pray teach me how to make decisions make me a leader holy ghost i've neglected you but i open up my heart the holy ghost holy ghost i need you more than ever before now i see that you are the secret of life you are not just a pentecostal phenomenon and then you can say i will pray in tongues no one will kill my prayer life i will pray in the spirit i will sing in the spirit i need an experience create a prayer altar for yourself create a place of bible study for yourself for yourself not your group not your department not your church no god for yourself let your experiences give you a message about god [Music] all i need is you lord all i need is you from my heart all i need is you must not be a musician to sing you just need to have an experience where is the god that brought you out of fire where is the god that gave you a mission have you forgotten his faithfulness he seeks intimacy and coilonia is the platform that affords you the opportunity to know god for yourself give him a name let your experiences lead you to a point where you call god a name that you do not no one else knows giving a secret name that is a product of your dealings with him will you get from your experience with god what day will you teach the nations that god has become [Music] all through this week listen to me many of you are thinking ministry fellowship church carry your bible your daughter let's restore the days in zarya well in the night someone will carry a recharge card i mean a rechargeable lantern with tapes and find a corner and stay awake and say lord there is something you must show me i'm not i'm not looking for it to become a pastor i need it for life there be a restoration of true hunger many of you have left your prayer lives because you started getting some things you were asking god to give you remember your hunger for god remember your passion remember what drove you to the place of the anointing remember your cry and your vows and your ordinances to your king do not forget it's too early to forget how that you said oh lord no matter what you make me you have my heart remember your vow remember your christ and your vigils unto god and he said lord if you will make me the head get back to the place of prayer prayer for the purpose of knowing god not just to meet a need get back to the place of bible study where you can take one week and you are digging through scriptures and saying lord i must plug out some things in my life you are struggling with habits you write them on a piece of paper and have one week fasting and prayer and say lord this thing must leave where you say lord you have told men that they are anointed but i don't see any anointing in my life occasions have presented themselves for me to dispense the anointing but i've been i've not been able to do it i pray for people they are not here with the holy ghost i need to have an experiential revelation of getting filled with the holy ghost and it causes you to have a retreat the word retreat has become a foreign word among believers right now only the word prosperity marriage money titles ministry we must restore through passion and godliness i will search for you and i will find you i will find you with all my heart oh i will touch lord ministry will not take me i would such i would touch i will search then i will not take your place in my life i will search i will search diligently like the ancients my god i will search i will ask you questions in fastings and crying i will not give up until i get an answer for the rest i must tell my generation there is a question [Music] hallelujah we're out of time i hope that i've been able to put a hunger in your heart some of you need to go back to your homes this night and just sit and don't talk to anybody no visitations get books get tips lock yourself you mustn't fast fully you can get fruits you can get liquids or you can even eat just concentrate and say lord i want to grow i will stop lying to myself i want to grow we thank you for tonight the dealings the progressions how the holy ghost brings men to maturity praise the lord sorry we've taken time we'll be out in a few minutes if you're worshiping with us for the first time we love you what a night i'd like you to please you

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Length: 146min 35sec (8795 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021