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And let God hear you… father, as your servant releases the word, I ask for my full recovery, my total recovery. Help me recover all in the name of Jesus. Let me recover everything in the name of Jesus. Someone is praying right now. Let God hear your voice. You are praying right now, asking God for that total recovery. He loses, he let it go free but he made him Lord of his house and ruler of all his substance. Father by the service today, I'm becoming the ruler of substance, Lord of the house in the name of Jesus.In the name of Jesus. Visit me today on this special day. On this apostolic duty, visit me personally Give me personal recovery in the might name of Jesus. Thank you, faithful God, precious mighty God, In Jesus Precious name that we have payed. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. The empowerment for your family will now be a life time, in the precious name of Jesus.
INTRODUCTION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD.
People of God, what a joy in Atlanta Georgia. This morning, we are privilege to have God’s servant, our father, the national NY pastor. Give Jesus all, put your hands together for Jesus as we receive God’s servant, Pastor Isaac Folaji, Make that clap loud for Jesus and give me a shout of victory.
Hallelujah. I thought I am among winners here this morning. You know, the winning Camp is a shouting Camp. I thought I'm hearing a shout of praise. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you for your presence that is awesome here. We thank you for the testimony share. We thank you for the miracles you have been doing in the midst of your people. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Father, the choir has sung it powerfully, through your work today, rebuild lives. Let great destiny arise. Let whatever your people have lost, let there be instant recovery. Let the testimonies of recovery begin within this service. Let every day of this week be days of supernatural recovery. Let the balance of the fortune package be delivered to each one. And we vow to give you all the glory in the name of Jesus.
Please, get sit there and give Jesus a big shout of praise. Hallelujah. What a joy, what a privilege to be here, Winner Chapel International Atlanta Georgia. And I'm persuaded that the totality of the apostolic graces that sent me here this morning will answer for somebody. I didn't come on my own; I came because I'm sent. Our father, the Apostle over the commission, Bishop David Oyedepo, he’ll have wanted to be here physically, but it's practically impossible for him to be in two locations at the same time. And that's why he has sent me. If you want to clap, you better clap for Jesus.
So, I would like you to see with the eyes of the spirit this morning because he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. The power of the sent, is the power of the sender. The scripture says a natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit. The things which are not seen are the things that battles the things that we see. So, it's time to see into the realm of the spirit. All you see is what you get. What you cannot see, you can never get. So, I'd like you to see the totality of the prophetic graces backing this liberation commission here this morning. He said, “By a prophet, the Lord brought them out and by a prophet, they were preserved.” Somebody's destiny shall be preserved. Every mark of Egypt around every life here shall be terminated. Whatever was a concern that followed anyone to this service at your departure here, it shall be turned into a testimony. Whatever you have left at home as a concern, on your return today, a miracle is waiting for you. Whatever you have left in your place of work on Friday as a concern, on your tomorrow, a testimony is waiting for you.
The question is, why will he want come or why did he send me? Two things, very quickly before we get into the word. He has sent me to proclaim the arrival of harvest for every laborer’s. Because for you who are serving God, God doesn't say thank you to people. What he does, is to reward. And his messenger are his agents of rewards. So, for everyone who have been serving God in this church, investing your time, your energy, your resources, you are involved in soul winning, you are involved in prayers, you are involved in serving God in one way or the other, good news, from this service, your harvest begins to drop. I'm aware quite a number of people have been seeing some harvest. But I want to say to you, whatever you have been seeing, they’re mercy drops. The real harvest is starting now. Between now and Shiloh 2024, you will shed multiple tears of joy. The things that others are struggling for, heaven who will be adding them to you. You will see honor. Through your family members, God will bring other to life. You'll never see shame. All of us who have been laboring, beginning with our leaders in this church, the pastorage laboring, the statutory body members, services workers, from this day, your profiting shall appear for all to see. You won't need to tell people that you're serving God; your testimonies will be self-announcing. You serve him in the secret, your reward shall be in the open. Each, thou will shout a stronger amen. He said, “You shall serve; I'll bless.” So, everyone serving God in this church, curses are broken today. Marital spells are shattered today. The curse of untimely death is over today. The curse of poverty is over today. The curse of living from hand to mouth is over today. The curse of failure is over today. The curse of disappointment is finally over today.
So, I'm sent to bless, to bring everyone to the realm of harvest. Number two, I’ve been sent to usher this church to the next levels. Thank God for the great things happen in this church till this, but from now, multiplied order of grace, multiplied order of testimonies. Can I have the oil there? Okay. Oil is here, please. Now in the name of Jesus, because God showed his servant a vision from heaven that a great house landed from heaven on the Earth and it broke into splinter houses. And God said to his servant, the same fire in the main house, the same fire will be burning in the splinter houses. So, therefore, by this anointing on this altar today, as a sent partaker with the undertake, every fire, every grace, that answers to the altar of Faith Tabernacle, begin to answer here today. It's written, it said “Out Zion shall go forth the Lord.” From today, every word of the Lord from this altar becomes a law. Every unwanted things in the lives of men and women that is commanded to go at any service at all, from today, they shall go with speed. By this anointing on this altar, whatever is good that is commanded to answer in the lives of men, women, boys, and girls, in any service from this altar, they will answer with speed. The same power, the same forces drawing multitudes to Faith Tabernacle from every nook and cranny of Lagos and Ota and environs, the same power is hereby released here today. In the short while from now, we shall be having three overflowing services here. As I drop this oil on this altar, the sugar in the realm of the spirit that magnetizes and attracts ants is hereby deposited here. Men like ants, mysteriously, they'll be finding their way here.
Some years back, I was pastoring a church in Water Resources Warri Nigeria. And one Sunday, we were supposed to have outreach on the Saturday; rain fell, we couldn’t do the outreach 2015. And on Sunday, the church jumped from 12,000 to 19,000, 7,000 people were added in one Sunday. Say in one Sunday. Where they came from, nobody new. And the church never went down and the church grew to 25,000. The same forces that brought multitude to that church, the same I release here today. Somebody came to that church that time, he said he was a Muslim; his name is Aliyu, the man is in Saskatoon Canada right now. He even shared the testimony in Shiloh about 4-years ago. God appeared to him in the night and showed him the picture of two churches. What are name of the churches? Living Faith Church and Winners Chapel. So, he got up at night and told the wife, well excuse me, it appears that God says I must go to church; he has never go to church before in his life. And asked the wife to get what they Okada.
There's no Okada in America. You are missing many things in America. Help me tell Onimo what Okada is, in case of those who knows Okada-it’s a motorcycle you hire to move around. It’s a motorcycle and all of that. Please, help me tell those who don’t know Okada. Help me tell that what is Okada. So, and took a bike and said, excuse me, carry me, I'm looking for these two churches. And the bike man took him to one place. He said, “This is not the place I'm looking for.” And as they were appearing to our church in that Water Resources and saw at the entrance of the gate, he saw Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel. He said, “This is where I saw.” And as he entered the church and sat down and the message time came, as I stood up to the altar. He said, “That's the man I saw.” And from that time, he's life change. Me that is standing here, nobody brought me to Winners Chapel 1991. And there are quite a number who are here, do I have witnesses here? Nobody invited me to witness, let me see your hand. Nobody brought you. Can you see them?
Mysteriously from today, in every service, God will be bringing people to this church. In a short while from now, three over flowing services. In a short while from now, you are acquiring your own property. 1996 December, because it became 28-years, August into 28-years in fulltime ministry. 1996 December, I started pastoring with one person. Before they were to start church, open prayer. Nobody came, me and my assistant we were all there. I did open prayer, did praise and worship. We took offering. I was preaching to one person. I said say amen. He will shout amen. That's how I started pastoring. In the course of that service, somebody was going to another church, God told him to join and we became three. Now by December, that was October, by December of 96, I told the people I want to buy a property and I want to buy the property in the city center. As at that time, what was in our church account was about #10,000. That's less than $10 today. How can you buy a property with $10? That was speaking by the spirit of God. The same day, tell your neighbor the same day. One of the members began to go to the town. He said, “Excuse me, we're looking for land. Our pastor said, we should go and look for land that we want to buy.” The woman said, “You mean this new church that came want to buy land?” She said, “I want to see the pastor.” And they brought the woman to my house in the evening. I had left the house and they met my assistant in the house because I was a bachelor that time. And said, “Well, tell the pastor when he comes.” So, this woman that followed, this woman has never come to our church before. This woman has never heard me before. And this woman says, excuse me, anywhere and any amount they find the land that she will pay for it. Long story short, that's a place called Obiaruku in a place called Delta state Nigeria. That's how, long story short, this woman alone paid for the land. What came from this one woman in the building of that church was more than 50%. After buying land, we build.
Now in this church, men will rise. There's a family that will rise in this church and say, excuse me, I'm buying a $20 million facility for this church. I said, they'll rise today. The forces of heaven, the raises men, I release them into this church. He said, “God raiseth up the poor out of the dung hill. You don’t have dung hill in America. You know, some places when you go to villages in some places where we came from, we don't have WC for toilet. You go to the open field and you go and discharge there or where you called drop garbage, that is where you call dung hill. You understand what they call dung hill now? He said, “He raiseth up the poor.” Out of where? That means rejected, forsaken, abandoned people. He said, “And he positioned them among who?” Among princess. The lifting force of heaven that has lifted men in this commission, I released them afresh into this church.
God told the servant, said, “Get back home and make my people rich.” The poor are welcome in this church, but you can't come to this church and remain poor. There a grace upon this commission; that grace I release afresh today. At any point in time, when anybody call people or come here, poverty will be destroyed, prosperity will be released. And everyone here, I know there are billionaires in this church, but no matter what you have as at today, I decree supernatural multiplication. Your prosperity will multiply. Your comfort will multiply. Your luxury will multiply. It doesn't matter what is happening on planet earth, you, and your family, you shall be smiling all the way. Receive it in the name of Jesus. Please get seated. Remember the choir sang, God's word is so powerful, God and his word, they are one. Receiving the word is receiving God. He said, “In the beginning was the word and the word were God.” So, we have not come to meet a man today. We have come to meet with God. Say, I have come to meet with God. And word time is God's time. Word time is the visitation time. So, therefore, the few minutes we have as to receive this wall, the impossible will happen for you.
Say for with men, certain things are not possible, but not with God. For with God, how many things? Mark 10:27. If you look at Mark 10 25, he now said, “It's easier for a camel to pass the eyes of a needle.” That's a literally impossible thing. How can a camel…? Many of you, you have not seen a camel before. At least, you have seen it inside television. I mean if you have not seen before. Do have camel in America? How many of you have seen camel physically before; let me see you. You see, many have not seen it before. They see it on tv. He said, “A camel can pass through the eyes of a needle.” Naturally, that is impossible. Am I communicating? He said,” But with God in the kingdom…” This type of thing, they are the regular occurrences. Christianity is not a call for natural living. Said, “With God, a camel will cheaply, and effortlessly pass through the eyes of a needle.” Don't ask me how, but I can help you. It's either God will compress the camel to a thread. After it has come out, it will not become what? Or God will expand the eyes of the needle after the camel has gone through. But for somebody here, your camel will pass through the eyes of the needle this week. Whatever has been said to be impossible in your career, concerning your health, the God of this commission, the God of Bishop David Oyedepo will make it possible for you.
Somebody said the protocol breaking God. Somebody said it earlier today. That's the natural lifestyle of the believer. Welcome to that realm. This visitation usher this church into that realm irreversibly in the name of Jesus Christ. The prophetic focus for the month is what? Are you still there at all? What is the prophetic focus for the month? Why are you giving them expo now? Why are you giving them expo? Godliness is what? Are the only spiritual virtues that command profit on earth and in the other world and is the foundation of everything that works in the kingdom. Said, “The foundation of God standeth…” “Let every man that nameth the name of Christ does what? Depart from what? That is the foundation. So, we'll be looking at pathways to sanctification. And this is pathways part 3. Say pathways. To what? Pathways to sanctification, pathways to godliness, pathways to living a right life, pathway to living a holy life, pathway to living a sin free life. Say thou leadeth me in the path of what? So, there are paths to follow. Not one among us will miss out from those paths.
BENEFIT OF SANCTIFICATION
Quickly this morning, what do I stand to benefit from being godly. Let's know the value first, so we can know how to pay the price. If you know the value of the thing, then it's easier to pay the price. What are the benefits of sanctification? Because sanctification is the will of God. When we walk in sanctification, every good thing of life begins to answer to us. Say, “Thou leadest me in the path of righteousness’” And as a result, he said, “Surely goodness and what? Shall do what? From today, it shall be your experience. Every day, you see goodness. Every day, you will see mercy. So, but they're all product of following the path of righteousness. Goodness and mercy, the best things in this world. The answer for those who work in the path of righteousness Quickly, let's go to a few of them before the anointing.
Number one is, it secures access to revelation that triggers supernatural breakthroughs. When you are holy, when you are sin free, you gain access to revelation. Say revelation. Every time we come to church or every time, you're reading your Bible, there's a letter of the word and there is spirit of the word. There's information and there's a revelation. Every time we come to church, a lot of people hear only the words of the preacher. They are not hearing the voice behind the words of the preacher. The words of any preacher cannot change any man. It’s the voice of God behind the words of the preacher that changes life. And without holiness, without stratification, we can't access that spirit. We can't access the voice, we can't access the power in the word of God. God's word is powerful. God's word is full of power. So, if people are not seeing the transforming or the powerful impact of God's word in their life, one of the areas to check is the area of sanctification.
Proverb 1:23. He said, “Turn you at me reprove. will pour out my spirit onto you and I will make known my words.” You can hear the grammar, but have you contacted the spirit. The Bible says, “A natural man cannot, say cannot, cannot receive the things of God. Part of the things of God include the word of God. Just as a man cannot become pregnant, a natural man cannot access revelation. You can read Bible, you can read English, you can read Greek, you can read Latin’ different translations. You know the history that Joseph is the father of Jesus. They were born in Galilee. They were born in local government of Georgia, Atlanta. You know all the geography, that's not. That one cannot change anybody's life. What changes life is the spirit components of the word. And without the fear of God, we cannot access the spirit. Many lives are not changing even though they are coming to church because there's no access. So, sin blocks that access.
Arise and shine because of what? Your light has come. And the light only comes when we are sanctified. I love that thing with that brother son of Abraham. He said, “I came to church for thanksgiving and I heard the voice put your key in the mantle.” If he didn’t hear that voice, he may have been dead. Satan wanted to kill the entire family, but Satan came too late. Stretch your hands here everybody. Evil will never catch up with you. 10-minutes before evil strike, you have left that place. 10-minutes after your departure, evil can now happen. Evil will not catch up with your family members. I said for your sake, your family members are exempted. Say, “I heard a voice.” You can be in church and not hear the voice. You can be in church and not be in his presence. But without… that's why it's important to do away with sin. Life can depend on it. Can you imagine, husband, wife, and children? Satan is a bastard. But he heard the voice. Somebody will hear the voice of God today.
Every time we come to church, the voice of God is always sounding from the altar. Many have attended Shiloh now. There's nothing they can remember about Shiloh. But when you have an encounter, you hear a voice, you see a light, you can't forget it. So, what makes coming to church profitable is purity, righteousness, sanctification, consecration, the fear of God. The letter kills; only the spirit gives life. Somebody here is receiving life. Say, I'm receiving life. I will make known my words. He said, “No, man can know the things of God except the spirit of God.” A man may speak English, but God is not an English man. Praise the Lord. That's why illiterate, they can contact the spirit of God, but it takes righteousness.
Number two, very quickly. The benefits of righteousness, it secures answers for our prayers. Somebody's prayer here will never enter voice mail again. Our prayers will be answered with speed from now. So, sin blocks God from hearing us. Psalm 59:2, said, “The ear of the Lord is not deaf said, but sin have created a barrier, a gap between us and God. So, let's do away with sin.
Number three, it secure access to fresh oil that destroys yolks and causes men to flourish like a palm tree. So, we miss out on the anointing, the power of God. He says, “It's not by power, it's not by might, but by what? By my spirit. The anointing, the power of God is the force of the spirit. In basic science, we are told that every object remains at a permanent state of rest until a force is applied. Am I correct? So, nothing changes for the better without that force. No life can be better without that force. And righteousness qualifies us for fresh o oil. Say fresh oil. Fresh oil that makes us to flourish like the palm tree. You'll never suffer dryness again. I said you'll never experience dry season again. Every season shall be fruitful for somebody here, even for the young ones, you shall be fruitful, you shall be successful. They're going to have many millionaires among our youth, that before they are 25, there are millionaires in dollars. Oh, if agree, shout a stronger amen. Because God has designed every season for fruitfulness, for flourishing, but it takes the anointing. It takes the anointing. Praise the Lord.
Luke 5: 37:39. Fresh oil, we have to renew our wine. It said new wine into new wine skin. We position ourselves, we clean up to qualify for fresh oil. We have starting dimension of oil right now. You don't service your car because the oil has finished. Am I correct? You service, you change the engine oil of your car because it's getting what? It's losing viscosity, it's getting black. I'm not talking about those of you're using Tesla now. You service car here in America or you don't service your cars? Eh, you service. So, you don't carry your car for service because your oil all finish. If you wait for the engine to finish, it'll knock. But you want the performance better. You go and change. You drain the oil, the black oil, you put in fresh, then the performance of the engine will the better. So, our life gets better when we have fresh oil. Say, I need fresh oil. It takes fresh oil to have fresh impact, fresh testimonies. Somebody here, your testimonies will not be stale. No matter the testimony you have been sharing before, God will give you knew testimonies. I said this week, God will give you knew testimonies. I said God will give you knew testimonies.
Number four, it's engender divine health and wholeness. We put our health at risk when we subscribe to sin. We're familiar with that in John 5:14, God said. Jesus see that man. He said, “Go and sin no more. Lest the worst thing should come to you.” That means that particular sickness was a product of sin. Not all sicknesses came from sin, but there are some that are product of sin and there is some sin that also open the door for the devil to come on afflict. The grace to be free from that, we will receive it today. Say, I receive that grace today. I'm not hearing somebody right now.
Number five, promotion- supernatural promotion, supernatural lifting. After the order of Joseph, Joseph was promoted from a prisoner to a prime minister. We heard it in the welcome chap by our pastor. Overnight, prisoner became a prime minister. In fact, it became, he said, “The Lord of his substance.” You call it in America, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Am I correct? He was more in charge of the financial resources of the nation. He became also homeland secretary. Are you getting me now? He said the Lord of his house where he became, we call it the Minister of Interior, the Lord of his house. He also became the Senate president, teacher of senator, the leader of the Senate. When the senate gather, he was the president of senate. One man, by reason of fear of God. Genesis 42:18. I fear God. Say, I fear God. I fear God. The same grace that answer for Joseph will answer for each one of us. No one here will no setback. No one here will experience stagnation.
Number six benefit of sanctification is it secure durable riches. Say, durable riches. You're familiar with the story of Solomon. God’s favor answer for Solomon. Solomon became wealthy. He loved the Lord. He became wealthy but when Solomon began to love strange women. I King 11: 1, “His love for God was now turned to the love of strange women. He began to build shrines for another God.” God turned his back and Solomon ended his journey as a liability. He lost his wealth. The Bible talks about durable riches. Say, durable riches. Proverb 8:18. Durable, that means riches that endure. Say riches that endure. Riches and honor are with me. Durable riches, not that riches today. disappear tomorrow. He said, “Wealth gotten by vanity shall do what? Shall diminish, shall diminish.” I was in Harrisburg about 2-weeks ago or so, and one of the young people that that drove me told me a story. In his own country where he came from in Africa, he had some people who are friends. As young people, suddenly they became wealthy; buying houses, buying cars overnight. They said, “My friend, let us take you to the secret now.” They were ritual killers. That mean they kill people, make you to make charms and get money. That was 2000. He said by 2003, all of them dead. “The blessing of the Lord maketh rich. But the blessing from Satan will bring riches.
In some part of the world, I don't know here. In some, where we came from. There are people who are billionaires before. But you can’t trace that children today. Then whatever is from the Lord endures forever. Please don't look for quick money from Satan. Don't look for any blessing. Don't look for children from Satan. Don't get husband or wife from Satan. It'll be short lived. It'll be short with lived. With God, it may be slow sometimes, but it is sure. Don't make others to be sorrowful defrauding people online, living fine. People don't know what you are doing. You will not come to church; you have fine suit. But meanwhile, when you get back home, you go online, hack people's accounts. You steal all their life savings. They're weeping and are in sorrow, very soon that money will disappear. It'll disappear. It doesn't last. So, let's stay away from it. He said, “Well, he said he that get it riches and not by right. He will leave them in the midst of his days. And at the end of it all, he shall be a fool.” He who laughs last laughs what? May you receive that grace today. Say, I receive that grace today.
PATHWAYS TO SANCTIFICATION
What are the pathways to sanctification? Let’s move fast. What are the pathways? How do I overcome sin? Because sin is war. We have seen the benefits. There's no method you can use to get revelation without righteousness. You can pray, you can fast. You read bible and all manner. You can get light without one. Until God test you positive for holiness or you are striving for it. Then you get light. There are some of us, before I open Bible, sometimes revelation will start coming. I wake up. I will open the bible, revelations. Say Revelation. There are people who carry Bible like this; they won’t carry it. They don't understand it. And they are reading it as if they are reading Greek. It doesn't make meaning. So, what are the parts? That's why Satan will want people to become victim of sin, so it can disconnect us from all these blessings we have outlined. So, it's a fight. So, Satan is determined; you to be equally determined. Say, I must be equally determined. So, Satan, you can't stop me. I must make heaven. And I must live heaven on Earth. Because we have to understand as Christians, we are not just to give our life to Christ and suffer and go to heaven. No, we'll get to heaven; we enjoy there. But before we get to heaven, we also enjoy here. We enjoy some bit of heaven here. And in heaven, there's no sin.
He said, “There was war in heaven.” There was what? So, to live a holy life, we must be willing to fight. Say, I’m willing to fight. That's why our teachings in the course of the week is very important because some of us we don't attend mid-week service. Ask your neighbor, do you attend mid-week service? Okay, ask your neighbor what the message for was last Wednesday. Many of us don't attend. Many of us are Sunday- Sunday daraprim. Do you what they called Sunday-Sunday Daraprim? How many know the drug? A Sunday-Sunday drug. Ask your neighbor, are you a Sunday-Sunday worshiper? Okay. Tell your neighbor, you must repent this week. Every Wednesday, I must see you this Wednesday. If I don't see this Wednesday, and I see you next Sunday, do like this. Say, Lord, I've mercy.
Quickly, number one, how do I work in the path of sanctification? Engage the name of Jesus in battle against sin. Engage the name of Jesus in battle against sin. Proverb 18:10, “The name of the Lord is a what? Who runs into it? The righteous. So, there is safety because thought will come. Most things begin from thought. So, when an evil thought is coming, in the name of Jesus, not here, not in my mind, get out of here, speak out using the name. Don't respond to an evil thought with another thought. Respond to an evil thought with words in the name of Jesus. I heard about the story of man of God was driving and Satan suggested to him, excuse me, you will soon have an accident and the man parked his car, and went to the other side. He was the only in the car and opened the door. He said “Satan, get out of my car, my friend. Which accident? I'm not having accident here. He practicalize the thing. So, don't use thought to… he said, “Casting down imaginations and every thought, bringing them into subjection using the name.”
Something tells, you change that figure in the office now, nobody will know. Change it from $1000, change it to $100 and pocket the $900. Speak in the name of Jesus, I will not change it by the blood of Jesus. That's how to win. Because if we allowed that thought to stay very soon, you'll find your finger changing the figure. Praise the Lord. Say, Lord have mercy. So, let's use the name because behind some satanic attacks, behind many sins are demonic spirit. He said, “At the name of Jesus every knee should do what? So, let's use the name. We use it for business breakthrough. Let's use it for sanctification also. And sanctification is the platform, is the foundation. Am I communicating right now? Something is telling you, go to a place where you're not supposed to go or watch a particular website you're not supposed to watch. Say, in the name of Jesus, I refuse to watch. That’s how to win. Am I communicating?
Number two path of righteousness. Flee from all traps of evil. Flee from what? There are some things you don't wait for. Say, flee from all appearances, I Thessalonians 5:.22. Flee, say, I will flee. When fire is burning, don't wait to find out the course. You are sleeping at night. Yes, you hear fire alarm. You won’t say, excuse me, let me look for my certificate, let me look for my iPhone- 16. Do you do that? What will you do? With your pajamas, you just jump. Even, many people come out without anything because you’ll run for your life first. Because any delay, both the phone, the certificate and the person are gone. So, sin is like fire, flee. The Bible says, “ho can take fire in his bosom and not be burnt?” So, toying with seen is playing with fire. Flee, say, I will flee. I’m not hearing somebody right now. Flee,
Number three, right? How to work in sanctification. Keep a godly company. Keep a what? Keep a godly company. Mind your company, mind your friends. Everybody can’t be your friends. Psalm 1: 1-3. He said, “Blesseth is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. Nor standeth in the way of sinners. Nor sit among the scornful.” Now I was checking something tin he past week. They said a lot of people spend more than 60% of their time online now. They were comparing between 2024 and 1930. In 1930, there is nothing called online. Am I correct? Now, that was 0%,1930, but now, 60%; YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, TikTok, you know them now. Instagram, Snapchat. What again now? You know all of them. Now, who are you following online? He said, “He that walk with the wise shall be what?” But a companion of fools shall be what? Shall be destroyed.
Proverb 13:20. No one here shall be destroyed. I Corinthians 15:33. He said, “Be not be deceived. Evil communications. Even if you are good, so long as you are walking and relating with them, either online or physically. Because other people are not all relating with some people physically, but they're leading with them online. So, they they're corrupting them online. Young people are being corrupted online. The things that 10-year-olds know today, before 40-year-old don't know them. And many parents just give iPad, you give them to your children, busy and working and they are checking sites that is corrupting your mind. No one here shall be a victim. So, the question is, who are you following online? There are people that they have Instagram They're not even following their church online. They have role models. They have people that are not born again. They subscribe to them. Everything those people post, they're seeing it. The one church is posting, they’re not seeing it. It's time to reorganize, it's time to reposition. It's time to reassess our priorities.
Sin is deceptive. There are people who are victims of pornography today, they didn't plan to. But there is a particular site they check, as they're checking something, something pop-up. Instead of them to close their eyes, they say let me see. And from seeing one, it becomes two. From there, they're arrested. You can't be a friend of smokers and not smell smoke. Am I communicating? If somebody is smoking and you stay in that room for 1-hour, by the time you come out, you are not smoking, but you'll do what? You'll smell it. You'll smell it. So, we have to be intentional. We have to be deliberate about our associations. That's the way to walk in righteousness. May we receive grace today. I said, may we receive grace today. No one here shall be a victim of sin. Now today is our covenant day of recovery, whatever anyone has lost here, you will recover. By the anointing today, you'll not just recover, you'll recover beyond what you lost.
I Samuel 10: 1-3, we know the story. Saul encountered Samuel. He said, “As you depart from me today, by the anointing coming upon somebody here today, he said, the missing axes of your father, which you are looking for have been what? I don't know what you're looking for. I don't know what you have lost. Either by reason or sin or by reason of carelessness or in days of ignorance. Whatever you have lost that is needed today, by the anointing today, it shall be recovered. I said this week, it shall be recovered. Now, look at it. Now, Saul don’t just find the missing axes, he found the throne. He found what? Between throne and missing axes, which one is bigger? By the anointing today, you'll find something bigger and better than whatever you have lost. Oh, I thought I will hear a stronger amen. That's what the anointing today will do for us. If you're there, say stronger. Amen.
PURPOSE OF RECOVERY
Quickly, why are we talking about recovery? Why are we talking about recovery? What are the things that belong to us that we need to recover? Number one, all things that make for life and godliness. II Peter 1:3 The things that make life comfortable. If you are not comfortable in life, that means somebody has stolen it. There's a thief on planet earth. Said, “The thief cometh not but to steal, to kill or to destroy.” He said, God has given to us not that he's planning to give. He has given. So, if you can sit around you, the things that make life groovy. I tell people, I said my comfort and luxury will be multiplying. It doesn't matter what is happening in the world. That's what God has given to me. And I'll not take anything less. He said God has given to me, given to every one of us, the things that make for life, abundant life, eternal life, sickness free life, prosperous life, a better life, enviable life. All things that make for life and godliness. So, if you check around you, you are not seeing it, that means there will be recovery today.
Number two, our seven redemptive inheritances. Revelation 5:12, power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, blessing. If you can't see any of those things around you, that means you need recovery. That means somebody somewhere has stolen it. His name is called the devil. He's a thief. He keeps stealing people's power, people's glory, people's riches, people's joy, people's peace. He keeps stealing body parts. Whatever the enemy has told today as I'm speaking this word, I decree supernatural recovery. Why? The words that I speak, they’re spirit and they’re life and the spirit search all things. Searches how many things? Whatever been forcibly taken away from you and kept under the ocean, as I am speaking right now, this word will go and search them out. You know, I tell people God’s word travels at the speed of light. Speed of what? You see, light travels at 300,000 kilometers per second. That means between Atlanta here and Abuja Nigeria, light will travel 18 times to and fro within a second. Go and check it. You use miles here, me, I came from where we use kilometers. If go and Google it, 300,000 kilometers per what? And the distance between here and Abuja, it's about 8,000 kilometers. So, to and fro, how many times?
So, when you speak the word, the spirit, it moves very fast. That’s why somebody can speak word here; it has the same impact in Australia. So, as I speak right now, wherever what belongs to you has been kept, I command instant recovery. Every force sitting on what belongs to you, this word will be unseating them. If you agree, shout a strong amen. You know, there was thing happen, a man was… he said they got to an axe head, he said and the axe head fell into the water and they called the man of God. And the man of God put wood, say wood, on top of the water. And what happened? The axe head did what? Swarm, the wood magnetized the axe head. That is supernatural. Stretch your hands here. Whatever is lost, as I stretched hands here right now, the wood of the spirit magnetizes what is lost? You'll never be stranded. Receive your recovery right now. It is done.
HOW TO SECURE RESTORATION
Quickly as I close, how do I secure my restoration? Number one, be born again. Be what? Be born again. Then you are qualified for restoration. Roman 6:23, “All men have sin and have come short of the glory of God.” So, when we give our life to Christ, whatever we’ve come short of is thereby restored back to us. As many as were, I said, Roman 6:23, “Praise the Lord. Be born again.
Number two, recognize that your recovery is the will of God. Your recovery and my recovery are what? It is the will of God. Jeremiah 30:17. He say, “I will restore. Say, God do it today. “I will restore health onto you.” Somebody's health will be restored today. Somebody's joy will restore today. Somebody lost opportunities to restore today.
Number three, get your faith on the line for your recovery. Get your what? Believe that as you’re receiving this word, things are happening. Believe that as you’re anointed today, the spirit of God will recover your lost things because that spirit, we search it out, will search into the waters, will search the mountains, will start the valleys, will search bank accounts, and bring to you what is lost. If you're done shout a stronger amen. That is Mark 9:23.
Number four, walk in the fear of God to secure your recovery. Walk in the fear of God. Isaiah 3:10. He say, “Say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him.” Verse 11. he said, “But to wicked, it shall be what? It shall not be well with him. So, when you are righteous, when you are working the fear of God, it shall be well with you. I say it shall be well with you. I say it shall be well with you.
Number what now? Engage the blood of Jesus to enforce your recovery. Engage what? Zachariah 9:11-13.
Number six, be committed to serving God. Be committed to what? God spoke something to me. this morning while I was sitting in the hotel, he said, “People want me to do things for them but they're not giving attention to me.” Give attention to God if you want God to give attention to you. The things you want to recover you cannot do by your effort. But the question is, what are you doing for God. To be coming to this church and not be serving is an error. Is a what? Please, don't just come to church on Sunday morning, hear the message and shout amen. After that, you go back and that’s how you come again and collect another amen. No. Tell your neighbor, no. Find a place of service. If your work is busy, your schedule is busy, you can be serving God in prayers. You can go up in prayers from your house. 30-minutes, 10-minutes, 15-minutes, don't come to any church service without praying for that service ahead of time.
Father, next Wednesday service, anyone call sick Father heal them. Father, next Sunday service as many are in this town, who are yet to meet you, Father, appear to them in vision, bring them to this church. What are you doing? You are serving. You're serving. So, you want God to recover things for you. What are you doing for God? The grace to serve, somebody receive here today. I said the grace will serve, receive here today.
And finally, engage the ministry of the Holy Ghost. Engage the ministry of the Holy Ghost to facilitate our recovery, to facilitate… Joel 2: 26,27. He said, “He will pour out his spirit and I will restore the years the locus has eaten.” The perm worms. So, whatever the enemy has eaten today, but the anointing, they will vomit them. Your riches shall be vomited. Your favor shall be vomited. Whosoever has swallowed it, they will vomit by force. Stand to your feet now.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION
Raise your voice and receive grace. Father, I receive grace to live a godly life. Father, I receive grace to work in purity. I receive grace to serve you in truth and in deed. I receive grace to serve you in season and out of season. I receive that grace today. I received that grace today. I received that grace today. I received that grace today. Thank you, mighty Father, blessed be your name. In Jesus my name.
Quickly, all heads bow right now. We have come to very crucial part of this service. Somebody's here, you have never given your heart to Christ. Number two, or you give your heart to Christ, but certain things happen. You turn your back. You are no longer in the faith. These two categories of people, I want to pray with you and you have to do it openly so that your recovery and your blessings will be open for all to see. You can't do it in secret. You need to be born again. Just say, Jesus forgive me my sins. Jesus, write my name in The Book of Life. We heard the hymn that was sang earlier on. If Jesus will come today, can you make it? Wherever you are, that is your choice. And you want me to pray for you. That's why I came. Start coming right now. You must be born again. And today is the day. Say, now is the accepted time. Today is your day of salvation. Jesus, forgive me my sins. Jesus, write my name in The Book of Life. Jesus, deliver me from my enemy that is strong to me. Jesus, bring about your recovery for me. Wherever you are, that is your choice, that is your prayer. I'm waiting for you. Start coming right now before the anointing. Start coming right now. Start coming right now. Start coming right now. Start coming.
ALTAR CALL
You see the church is happening for you. It doesn't matter how far you have gone. Make today your day of return. Make today your day of return. Make today your day of return back to Christ. They're coming from everywhere. Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming. You know those things that turns God off. You know those things that make God turn his back. Don’t struggle, come, and join sincere once. What God hate is hypocrisy. God doesn't condemn sincere people. But there are people who are looking at me now, you know you're supposed to be here. Your mind is here, but your body is there. Please come right now. Tomorrow may be too late. Those say I will do it another time. Today's the day. There are still about three more people. How many people? Three more people. Now start coming right now. I'm waiting for you. God is talking to you. Don't fight it. Don't struggle with it. Come right now. Come right now. I'm waiting for you. I'm waiting for you. Don't let God close the door. You know yourself. You have been coming to church, but you know you are not right with God. Make it today. I'm calling for you wherever you are. I want to pray right now; in case you're coming, come very quickly. Come very quickly. Come very quickly. As I'm praying right now, everybody in church bring out your bottle of oil, open it and begin to speak over it, that Father, let your power flow through this oil. Everybody in church you are praying while I'm praying with this one.