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2020 WATCHMAN MINSTERS CONFERENCE (Transcribed Message)

 

Ministering: Pastor A. C. Ohanebo

 

OPENING INTRODUCTION

Before we go to the message titled, “for this purpose have I raised thee up”, I want to take a little time to make some remarks. These remarks have to do with people that are on the mission field in various countries. Some people have legitimately migrated to other countries, I don’t have a problem with that at all so long as the migration is legitimate. Some went for further studies and after their studies, they remained there and got work. Some got there as a result of some arrangements with those countries and legitimate migration. I need to talk about the mindset people must-have for the Lord to walk with them. That mindset is required even in our various locality, if God is going to walk with us. 

 

WHAT MINDSET IS IT? 

The work we are doing for God must not be secondary, (i.e.  what you do as pass time, something that does not have any much meaning). All the people that are handling the work that way, God knows those them and those things that they are doing will not yield any dividend. If they do, the dividend will be very infinitesimal, very minimal because their mind is not focused and it is not their preoccupation. 

 

Please, ladies and gentlemen, it is not what we say that God takes, it is what we do; what He sees in your mind, is how he follows you. I read you a portion of scriptures to show that what I am saying is true: 

 

1Samuel 2:27-29 (KJV). 

“And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?” 

 

These young men ministering with their father (Eli), hijacked everything and their preoccupation was not God first, it was their personal interest, what pertained to them, what pertained to their belly, what pertained to the gratification of their mind that was first and then God was secondary. Then, God kicked and vowed, reversed what he had said, showing you that God can be influenced, (i.e. can be made to change his mind either for good or for evil). And then, the prophet that was speaking ended it with verse 30. 

1 Samuel 2:30 (KJV) “Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed”. 

 

If your preoccupation or interest where you are, and where you traveled to, is the money you are making, the houses you are building in the nations you came from, and the things you are doing, the cars you are riding, the type of houses you are building, which seems to be over and above the business of God, Listen to me, no show. 

It is worse when somebody steps out from his/her country and goes to the lands where it would appear that the people have cut their ears, or their ears are blocked to the worship of God, where certain things of God don’t make much meaning to the masses milling around. And then you go to such a land, and put up that you want to walk with God, how would he walk with you? This thing is not so. even for him to walk with you in your locality, you must go to fulfill the prerequisite, no more no less. 

I was telling someone about some people who left where they were and migrated to another place because the economy of that place has nosedived. And I was asking him, if these people had any regard for God’s business, they wouldn’t migrate readily, they wouldn’t leave the place. 

For instance, you are staying in Owerri (a place in Nigeria) as an evangelist, based on your claim on God’s calling. But God knows that your preoccupation is not for His work, rather you are just doing it for the sake of doing it. And suddenly, things became tough in Owerri, and you have a senior pastor whom you are working with and that person is consumed with this end-time business and then because things became difficult at Owerri, or became patchy and then you decided to migrate to Lagos and you didn’t think about the work of God, back where you were stationed. You migrate to Lagos and identified yourself in Lagos as pastor, or as an evangelist… you are joking, now you left that person there to die. That’s the way the LORD thinks. 

 

You need to listen to those that have the mind of Christ so that they can tell you how to go. Now the person that you left there doesn’t have any support again, he’d be toiling alone, while you’ve gone to Lagos to look for money. And then you go there and say that God will be with you, I tell you, he will not. Because for you, God’s work back from where you relocated is not the real thing. But if you had this work as real something, if it meant something to you, you’d even use that situation to improve your relationship with God, change your economic status, and say; “Lord I will not leave this place, you are the owner of the ends of the earth, if I leave this place, there will be lack here, this thing that I am doing here nobody will be doing it… And then there will be a lack. So I want you to change the situation because I want to stay here to help with the work”. 

 

This is my remark, and I plead not to be misunderstood, because these are the days of offenses and I let me make a little remark about offenses.

When you speak some truth and people configure something out of it, they can become offended. The work of God in your various location requires total commitment. It is should not be set as secondary. 

All the ladies married to pastors, see it that you have come to a place that has a particular kind of status before God. This is a ministry that has a colossus of a project and would require minds that are connected. 

I heard of any person who refuses to relocated when other people moved away and left the place, and people were saying; “if you want to die there you can die” and tried convincing him to come to Nigeria and build a company… but he said, “I am not coming, I cannot leave this work of God alone”. Now that is a man a God. That is what I am saying. 

The question is, what is the mindset? All these things are written for our learning that we may change. God’s demands do not change, he will not reduce his standards for anything. Don’t do this work as a substandard or a pass time. God is watching. Build your merit. You are wanting God to make you “un-dieable” do something, build it. 

 

Now if the Lord says, quit where you are earning $10,000 a week, will you quit? Look, people have not known where we are in this end-time. I have said many times that I am the judge of many missionaries, especially in my denomination. 

When anybody dies, there is somebody by your side that passed through your conditions but didn’t succumb and then you came around and succumb. When you go over to Heaven, the picture of that person will be shown, and it will be exactly your circumstance and then you will not have any excuse again. So always bear in mind that, for you to be a part of God’s business, you must place it to be the first thing. These are my remarks, so let nobody be misunderstood. I will do everything possible to make sure people drop offenses and return to their bishoprics.

 

I want to read one of the lines of the LEAP declarations (Prophetic statements given on the 17th of July 2019) as a preamble to what we have. It says, “Every line of the Holy Bible will be proven true to the letters and be proven to be working wonders”. That is one aspect of the declarations from the almighty God through His spirit and He is working to bring it to pass. 

My preoccupation over this period after the LEAP declarations is as follows; “that every item of the LEAP declaration is pursued both with my lieutenants and the people who align with me so that those declarations will become realities”. I am praying and looking forward to a time when individuals will prove every line of the scriptures to be true and working wonders. 

Very many times, our problem in the church is our attitude especially from those who claimed to have the truth. Ironically, people that do not have the truth, are now people that hold tenaciously, religiously to the errors that have been sold to them. 

 

THE MESSAGEP ROPER: 

“FOR THIS PURPOSE, HAVE I RAISED YOU UP”. 

We are reading from Rom 9:6-17 (KJV), “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.” Return to Ex 9:13-17 (KJV) “And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?”

For this purpose, I raised thee up, what does that mean? 

For the purpose of having my name exalted, showing that I am the All in all, I am in charge, I am the Lord of all, I allowed you to manifest what you are manifesting. I allowed your arrogance and even increased it when I saw your arrogance. For this purpose, I allowed you to say what you said and then I complicated your matters in order that I may show my powers to the people of the world. So that, from generation to generation people of the world would rise up and hear what God did against the pharaoh of Egypt, the king of Egypt at that time. Do not ever think that this thing was not a historical fact. If you want to know with some simple argument if this thing is a historical fact, go to the Egyptians (visit Egypt). Pharaoh is a house hold name that is the title of the ancient rulers of Egypt. The Egyptian national football team is called the pharaohs of Egypt, telling you that it is a historical fact. Now, God allowed pharaoh all that stubbornness in order to manifest His power.

I give you another example, He allowed Satan to do mesmerisation that he did on Job. In fact, He lured Satan into that mesmerisation with a purpose behind it. He invited him. 

Job 1:6-12 KJV “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.” 

Satan did not know the ultimate. Satan and Demons can read the human mind but not the mind of God. The only thing about God they would understand is what God has revealed. He didn’t know what God was going to do with Job. If he had known it, he would not have made the argument, he would say no. God allowed him to mesmerise Job. But that man that was mesmerised, that cursed his day. Listen, Job committed suicide. He had cursed the day of his birth, wishing he was stillbirth or that he had died in the womb.  

Job 3:1-14 (KJV), “After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.  As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?” For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest”

If you say to your husband, “if not for what they would say in church, I will put poison in your food and you will die”, and you say it with all your heart, you have killed the man. And if a man tells the wife that, “if not for what people will say, I will take knife and cut off your head, and bury you without coffin” you have murdered the woman in your mind, you need to go for repentance, that is how God counts. When Zacchaeus said, Lord, visit my house? O my God, I had been a task collector, a defrauder, I am very sorry for all the defrauding, forgive my sin. All the defrauding, I will calculate and payback four fold. Although he hadn’t physically done so, he’d done it already in his mind. Jesus reply was, “salvation is come today”. God judges from the mind. If you say, “if not for what they’d say, I will lure this woman and go to bed with her” you have already done it. So, Job committed suicide but God excused him because the pain was too much. But Satan did not know what God was going to do and he tortured the man Job to the point he bemoaned his birth. At the end of the day, the Lord brought out the reason he allowed the pain. For this purpose, I allowed Satan to mesmerise you that at the end of the day you’d be the man that people would be talking about who has no equal.

Let us what happened in John 9:1-7 (KJV), 

“And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.”

God allowed this man to be born blind knowing that a time was going to come when He will send His son, the Word of God personified, so that, when He would have cured the man, glory would be brought to God. He allowed the situation in order that it might eventually redound glory unto Him. If you understand what I am saying, good for you. 

 

Now, God allowed the things that happened to me to happen in order that through me, His name may be glorified, His power may be known, God may become awesome. You see this person? I have been telling you, no mother no father, is it a joke? That you came into the world and you didn’t have a father, and your father was a great man, a respected man and you came into the world and you didn’t see him. Then, you wanted education, you didn’t want any other thing, no other thing appealed to me in this life. I wanted education to the highest order but I didn’t have a father to send me to primary school. Though I had a mother but when I needed that mother badly, that mother died, (on March 12, 1960) when I was in standard six and my world collapsed. 

 

My God! And I was asking, why was I born? I will ask the question from time to time, what sin did I commit in my mother’s womb that I should be in this situation? I was roaming about looking for boy-boy (servant or housemaid) work to do. Before long terrible things came upon me and I began to struggle. I was like a kind of Job. I was saying what kind of life is this. In fact, what made me not to think of suicide was the little catechism that we knew in the Roman Catholic institution, the little knowledge, that if you killed yourself you will go to hell fire. And then from one problem to another through series of sufferings of hardship until God gave a little reprieve and somebody paid my school fees whom I didn’t know, and on and on. Now with all that right now, that individual that went through that hell fire, that individual is now a celebrated man, he Is now a person that is showing the people the way to Christ and everybody wants to hear that man and every person wants to belong to this man and to be attached to him. If I did not pass through all that fire, would I have gotten this ministry? 

 

He saw ahead, for this purpose, for my name to be glorified, for you to carry this world wide revival ministry I allowed the devil to begin from your childhood to pummel you. When I think about it, I know it is real. Many times I would say Lord you restrained me, because he really restrained me. I wanted all my life to be a military officer and no other thing appealed to me, eyeing the Nigerian military school from 1968 when I would have come out from standard six. But as my height was not improving, it was restraining. My father was 5feet 11” or 6ft. then I was asking, what kind of thing is this? What happened to me? God was restraining me. Because if I had gone, I would have died long time ago. Now he was passing through those things in order to package you to something and he allowed you hellfire. Some people are being allowed some hellfire, the situation is just too much. Your children are so stubborn, they don’t want to hear and then you are wanting to have high blood pressure. Please, don’t have high blood pressure because you cannot change anybody, you will just kill yourself. If you so do, you have committed suicide. Leave the matter alone and then just bear it because through it, God is wanting to do something. 

 

If you don’t get hold of the things written, the principles like occultic people get hold of the things that Satan gives them, you wouldn’t blame me. Get hold of the principles given to you. You lost your wife? Are you the only person that has lost wife in the church?  I lost two. You lost child? I lost two. You lost your health? I lost mine. But do you know that those things are the things that make people. Now, when you lose your health, you pray more than the person that is healthy. A person that is healthy is eating food and will did not recognise, no problem but you that is in trouble will know. Sometimes you fast and you are developing your spiritual muscle. 

 

When I was growing up in Christianity, I didn’t accept smooth Christianity, I called for troubles in my prayers. because in the midst of trouble you know God and in its absence you don’t know God. In the midst of troubles, you pray and sweat and fast. Through that, you are developing your spiritual muscles. So then, he allowed the fire not to burn you down to ashes. No, it didn’t burn Job, and if it didn’t burn job should it burn you? For this purpose I raised these matters. Now, don’t be a late comer into knowledge because you would have suffered. So, I am telling you now that for every matter that you are having, for this purpose he allowed it that his name may be glorified. You can make fortune out of that problem. You can make spiritual fortune, physical fortune, health fortune out of them, if you know the rule of the game. This game that we are into, there are rules and I am showing you the rules. For this purpose, He allowed pharaoh to harden his heart and He helped him to harden his heart so that He can manifest His power and the people will know that he is God. 

 

Now, he allowed your husband to be boxing you, he allowed your wife to be insulting you and he allowed some sickness to come upon you, you can’t understand but I am living right why is it like that? Don’t kill yourself. Don’t get frustrated, don’t get offended, rather take hold of the truth. Some take hold of the truth after we have spoken for only a period of time, it doesn’t work that way. The people that are on the other side that are serving Satan they take hold of what they are told day in day out throughout their life time. They fear, they don’t complain, they don’t say it is too early to wake up at 1:00am, if they must wake up by that time to go to a cross road to do something, they must do it. And the thing is working. But you have the greatest book that has the greatest principles, that yields greater dividend than anything can yield and then you put it in the bag, you are too busy, giving lots of excuses. 

 

Excuse making does not yield anything. Excuse making is sin, God says so. When I was hardly lifting up my legs because of heart enlargement, hardly lifting my legs to go through the staircase, I came to the workers meeting, I gave Pastor Boniface Obi to teach the workers’ meeting that day. He read from the book of Luke 14:16-20 

Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 

Behind him as I was sitting, as he was preaching, God said, “you are an excuse maker”.  Because, I was always complaining that my legs could not carry me. Don’t make unnecessary excuses. Wake up when you should wake up because if you do, God will turn that trouble around. Does he have power to metamorphose? Have you known about the mother and father of metamorphosis? That metamorphosis that happened on the throne, that is the mother (and father) of metamorphosis. Jesus the word of God personified in the twinkle of an eye disappeared and transformed into a foetus in the womb. God became a man. And when he was going through the heavens on the chariots of the wind, and as he was going to the third heavens another metamorphosis occurred and he became the deity that he was before, because you cannot carry this flesh and blood to enter heaven. The Lord is wanting to make men and women that would prove in their personal circumstances and in the circumstances around them (Academically, Maritally, Healthwise no circumstance is an exception) that for the purpose of God’s glory was they born. He said, “I allowed the thing to germinate that through it I might show my power”. If you don’t believe, you are an unbeliever in church. 

Romans 8:28 reads, “All things (good or bad, fair or foul)’ work together for good to them that love God. To them who are the called according to God’s purpose”. Are you a minister? Is your ministry called according to God’s purpose? If you are a minister, are you called according to God’s purpose? He said all things, ‘all things’ means All things. If you get into any situation, he says all things. You must have understanding. 

There was a brother living in Aba (a city in Nigeria), he had only one child, and at a point in time they kidnapped this child and took him to a place called Obi-Igbo around Port Harcourt (a nearby city from Aba) area. The matter was reported. I became offended and gathered the people to prayer, after which I called for the brother, I told him that, “If the people call you, tell them that your pastor Alloysius Chukwuemeka Ohanebo told them to return the child or they would go naked in the streets”. 

The question here is; Who are those that still believe the truth? People that would believe the prophet are not there anymore. Of old people believed the prophet. Elisha believed Elijah, Gehazi did not believe Elisha, he was having another mind. One of the prophets went with the trainee prophets and they said be content we are training, if you go with us no problem. If any problem we would push it to you and you know what to do. He went with them, as they were felling the timber, the axe head fell into the water, Alas master, the axe head is not ours they said, the master said where fell it? He cut a piece of branch and threw it into the waters and the thing turned to be a magnet, and magnetised the axe head. I am looking for a time when there will be sincere Christian, sincere Christians are different from those that are not. 

Now, back to the earlier story, this brother (who the child was kidnapped) believed me line, hook and sinker. When they called him, he answered them saying, “my pastor said I should tell you that if you people do not return the child, you all would go naked in the streets”. 

You know that is madness. How did it happen? Where they kept the boy, somebody noticed that something amiss was happening and called the police. That was how they arrested the people and then rescued the child, took the people to a police station and showed them on the television? Have they not gone naked on the street? What am I saying? If that kidnapping did not happen, how would he have experience the power of the Lord?, if God did not allow it. God’s people are different people. 

 

I am not one of the men of this generation, I am a different man. I have a different destination. I am not like them. What kills them will not kill me. Something is beating the music that I am dancing. This is truth. Believe the truth. The principle that is in the bible is for your good. Read it everyday. Don’t tell stories. Don’t make excuses. Excuses don’t yield anything. So long as you are living, read the bible. So long as you are breathing pray even if it is for fifteen minutes.

Personally, I know of a particular pastor who was seriously sick, he was actually suffering from the same severe sickness that killed his uncle who really loved him. This pastor explained that when he was a young man the uncle will come and tap his shoulder and call him by name wanting to transfer somethings to him. Until, he became born again. Now the thing that killed his uncle came upon him and he was worst, to an extent that he was not talking. This sickness lasted for weeks and became so terrible that he even couldn’t talk nor pray, yet, he did not complain, rather he decided to write his prayers to God. When the information reached me, I visited him in his house together with another pastor and we did pray for him. After the prayer, the Spirit of the Lord asked him to take a spoon and pushed it down his throat, which broke the boil the illness has cause to grow inside his throat. Such an instruction was risking because it is stated that if such growth enters one’s stomach, that person will be dead. But his case was different, he vomited everything and got freed. 

 

Now if that sickness did not come upon him, how would he know the power of God? So, what is the inference? If you cannot talk to God in prayer, write it. God reads all languages. The people that have smooth and sweet lives, can only know God to an extent. Musicians who are singing, “every day you enjoy Jesus”, as though there is no Satan, are lairs. 

Peter and his colleagues got what I call afaniko (a type of fire or trails) and from the ‘afaniko’ they knew the Lord and at a point he wrote and said “I am not telling you cunningly devised fables, old women stories. I am talking to you, eye witness account. We were with him on the mount when there came such an excellent voice, this is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased. And this voice we heard”. 

 

The point is, for this purpose I allowed you that I may show my power, so then, whatsoever, either whether your child is sick, or even your child died, don’t throw away your bible. Did your husband died; see yourself that you are not the only person that has suffered loss of husband, rather in that circumstance as a widow, go to the God of the widows. Child of God, if your husband died and went to heaven and the Lord says ok no marriage for you, I will use you to do fantastic things in the world. Why do you want your husband back? Even if you have the opportunity to tell your husband to come back, you won’t. Don’t allow your present situation weary you, Don’t remain in mourning, and lamenting “ I don’t have man again, I am finished while Every woman enjoys thier man.” Stop the lamenting! Are there not people that can be another thing altogether? Choose to be a life-lines for other people, be a celebrated women. Those castrated  people that were serving in the king’s places were happy that they were in kings’ palaces and that they were castrated by the king (2 Kings 20:18 , Isaiah 39:7, Matthew 19:12). Do you think all the Eunuch were born eunuchs? Jesus Christ said there are categories of Eunuchs that were born that way and that there were Eunuch that were made eunuchs by men. Kings like Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus castrated the men that were working in their palaces so that they would not go into their wives nor mess up with their concubines. Yet the Eunuchs were very happy to serve in the kings palace. Now I ask you, your husband died, and the Lord says, I allowed you that fire that I may bring you to a glorious woman and then you are looking for husband. 

Don’t miss your mark. Don’t forget this. From time to time go back to it. Don’t make excuses. day in, day out, read it, rehearse it. Talk to yourself, think right, talk right. As you are thinking right, think on the things that are written in the scriptures. There is no impossibility with somebody that is thinking right and talking right. When you think wrongly you will be polluted and when your mind is polluted you will have spiritual cancer and then it will fill all your heart and you will not like to hear the voice of God’s Servants like myself and the bible will be detested. If you think right and talk right and follow the rules of God, they must work for you. Because the rules of the devils also work for those that believe him. Satan and his angels have rules which they give to their people and so do our Lord also gave us rules. 

There were days my blood pressure would refuse to be normalized. I was thinking that I was going to collapse whenever I want to mount the pulpit, and yet I will hear a voice, go and preach. I would be thinking that if I begin preaching with a high blood pressure, I may collapse, Yet, the voice will keep telling me to go ahead… why I am saying is? He will not allow the troubles to kill you, nor to discourage you. 

We are in a business that is hallowed in the heavens and the angels are wishing to be transformed into men and become like us (Christians). What is your daily routine, what do you do every day? What you do daily determines who you are and what will happen in your ministry. God cannot see someone who is tenaciously following him bumper-to-bumper and leave the person and follow people that are committing sin. In fact, if I discover that this is not true, I will challenge Him, I will be among the next people that will rebel. But know that there is no such possibility with God. Our God is righteous.  

Now do you know more than Jesus? If you read through the book of John 15, Jesus in exclamation described God to be a righteous father. The LORD is righteous. Believe what Jesus said. He is allowing the things he is allowing… you fail examination and so what? You fail a professional examination several times, and so what? you don’t have job and so what? You don’t know what he wants to make out of it and you continue to grumble. You lost money and so what? I’ve lost 4.5million, I did not crucify the brother, I did not call police. The favour I got from the scenario were too great. What I am trying to say is, you lose something, Jesus Christ said those things you lose he will make you to regain them. Yet some people behave as unbelievers. Honestly speaking, some unbelievers grab these things and they are running with it and they are intoxicated. So, get yourself intoxicated with the principles. He has not allowed the happenings around you for nothing, he has allowed them so that he might get you to somewhere. Stop thinking negatively, proclaiming yourself to be a Job. Who told you? If the Lord gives you 70% of Job troubles, you will run crazy. So, don’t begin to say you are Job lest he gives you only 70% of Job trials. One sister visited me some time ago, when Theresa (my wife) died and said, “Brother, you are now a Job” I said “STOP! I am not a Job, I didn’t lose seven children, STOP! You want to put upon me what I am not”. Don’t put on yourself what you are not, because you are calling for trouble. If you say, I’m a Job, the devil will bring upon you jobish circumstance. Change your language, See the principle, whatsoever he has passed us through, he wants to get glory through it. Work towards that.

Look at me, I said even when I reach the age of 80years I am going to be like a man in his 40s. Is it everybody that would say that? Can some people of my peer group say this? Some cannot say that. Something is making me to say it. After the fire comes the favour, After the trauma comes the triumph, after the grief comes the glory. God is just. Like I used to tell the Lord, “Don’t allow anything makes You to deny me what I am saying. That is my prayer and what makes it possible is His nature of justice. Justice demands that if one does good, he/she will be paid with good. If someone is allowed grief, you allow him glory. That’s what justice demands and You are justice. So, You owe me what I’m saying. I merit it. You are bound by your nature to do me what I am saying”. At the age of 90 I am 45 simple. Some people will be wondering, come on, this person is he a human being? What kind of thing is this? And yet they see it working. When you know the truth, then you can say what I am saying.

I want to groom people by the spirit of God, whether they be youths, adults or business men in the midst where they are, they are different people celebrated. Even when somebody will say to them “I will eliminate you”, or say “shut up your mouth”, yet this people will not be eliminable. That is the kind of congregation I want to raise, don’t tell me that I am over ambitious. Because the Christians I am raising are children of God, set on the height of knowledge, insight, privilege, love for God, of service for God… Think big, think the scriptures, think what is written in it, think it as you are travelling and let that book overwhelm your heart and confess what is in that book. 

Let’s consider Romans 8:18 (KJV) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. That recording is for now and the next life. That the present sufferings cannot compare to The glory that we will enjoy in this life and in the next,  provided that we look away from the present sufferings and not allow it to destroy your mind and then you focus on what god wants to bring out from it. 

The ball is in your court. God cannot play his own and yours. God is a being. You ask, I give you. You don’t ask, I don’t owe you any responsibility. If I tell my wife’s sister (Chinyere), to come and do this thing for me and in return I will do something for you. If you didn’t do that thing will I do mine own? And you cannot hold me and say Daddy but you didn’t do me the thing that you said you will do. Did you do the one I told you to do? 

Who told you  that in this world God has forgotten his people, that all of us should go to hell. If you were God will you allow that? Now we cry and he doesn’t answer. It is the people that are not taking heed, eating what he wants them to eat. He told Joshua eat this book. Eat it until it will saturate your heart, it will change your thinking and confession from  those around you. This is for real, I am not being fanciful. That is what I am pursuing. I tell the Lord regularly that I am different person in this world. 

I have told you, inferiority killed me in this life. What brought the inferiority complex. Because the I sees as my peers went to secondary schools and I couldn’t come into their midst as a member of Uli (A place in Imo State Nigeria) students’ union, I had lost four years while they were in senior secondary school. And I died of inferiority complex. But now I have superiority complex. None of them can stand me. I didn’t know that the inferiority complex is going to yield superiority complex even though I don’t manifest it but I am just telling. I didn’t know it was  because I was not born again. I didn’t know what God designed for me. So let’s not allow anything consume us but  rather, let that thing cause something to come out from us. 

There was this problem that has lasted long. 2001 I was in Aberdeen and the Lord said everything about you is improved by 2000% I came rejoicing, I went and drew a square of 1 inch and multiplied it by 2000% and It became 13ft 3” and I was rejoicing. But then in 2002, the devil turned it upside down and everything about me became 2000% worse. That was what happened. But then in the recent past I went to that exercise book. I said the time for the thing to now be the way said it is, is now. And then I went and drew a square again, 25mm i.e. 1 inch and multiplied by 2000% and I said now is my time for everything about me to improve 2000%. This is the time of God’s genuine Christians. The time for the incredible. What is the big deal? God gave Hannah children, God gave Sarah a child at the age of 90. So has that same God died that He cannot regenerate the system of an elderly woman and the woman will begin to menstruate again? Look I don’t do small things even from the time of unbelief, now that I entered into the real thing, I want to hold God by the jugular. Telling Him, Lord! this is what you said, I want those things that happened of old to happen now. 

The people that are into magic they are doing some ungodly things. But the sufferings (the little ‘afaniko’) of this present time cannot be quantified to the glory that will be manifested right in this world and in the next. Halleluyah.