Transcribed – DR2025-Message 2: Setting the Stage – Pst. Gideon Udeh (Feel free to use the translator tools)
It’s a great privilege to stand before the great people of the Lord and to stand in for the man of God to welcome you to 2025 December retreat of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renown Movement, which is entitled, Entering and Passing Through the Pool. The man of God and some Watchman ministers will be ministering to us, bringing the mind of God and bringing the truth that we need to hear at such a time we find ourselves. Therefore, I urge every one of us to stand up and join us as we take the hymn from our hymn book, 202, There Shall Be Showers of Blessing.
And we sing it with great expectation that God will open the windows of heaven and release his blessings upon our lives. There shall be seasons refreshing sent from the Saviour above. Show us, show us your blessing.
Show us your blessings we need. Blessed are those around us of holy. Let’s honor, show us we need.
There shall be showers of blessing precious reviving our day. Over the hills and the valleys, sand of our bond are so brave. Show us, show us your blessing.
Show us your blessing we need. Blessed are those around us of holy. Let’s honor, show us we need.
There shall be showers of blessing. Send them upon us, O Lord. Grant to us now our refreshing.
Come and abhor not thy weight. Show us, show us your blessing. Show us your blessings we need.
Blessed are those around us of holy. Let’s honor, show us we need. There shall be showers of blessing.
All that today they might hold. Now us to God we’re confessing. Now us on Jesus we prove.
Show us, show us your blessing. Show us your blessings we need. Blessed are those around us of holy.
Let’s honor, show us we need. There shall be showers of blessing. If we must trust and obey.
There shall be seasons refreshing. If we let no love be swayed. Show us, show us your blessing.
Show us your blessing we need. Blessed are those around us of holy. Let’s honor, show us we need.
Show us, show us your blessing. Show us your blessing we need. Blessed are those around us of holy.
Let’s honor, show us we need. Before we proceed, I would like us to join me so that we can sing a chorus rather to appreciate the mercy of God that we have enjoyed the mercy of God that made it possible for you and I to be in this 2025 December retreat. There are people that were here at December retreat of 2024 but as we talk now they have gone into eternity.
So our being alive to witness 2025 December retreat is a testimony as well as a privilege and another opportunity for us to retrospect and introspect, look deeply and see things that we should address. Before it is our turn to return to be with our creator or as we wait for the coming of the Lord. Oh God of much might, Deliver us from the fire, From the tempest of the night.
Oh God of much might, Deliver us from the fire, From the tempest of the night. Glory to your name, Glory to your name. Oh God of much might, Deliver us from the fire, From the tempest of the night.
Oh God of much might, Deliver us from the fire, From the tempest of the night. Glory to your name, Glory to your name. Oh God of much might, Deliver us from the fire, From the tempest of the night.
Among water and the still, In distress and times of need, We shall know in love that’s lost, All found in the Lord God’s hand. Let’s read from verse 1. In those days came John the Baptist, Preaching in the wilderness of Judea, And saying, Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, Saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make his path straight.
Now, at the time that John the Baptist was crying, There has existed 400 years of darkness. The last prophet who spoke for God was Malachi. That can be found in Malachi chapter 4, 1 to 6. And between Malachi and Matthew, Existed about 400 years of darkness.
400 years of disconnect from God. 400 years of not hearing the voice of true God. 400 years of God’s people following the trending things around them.
400 years of God’s people following popular religions, And activities of people around them. And so in the midst of this, A voice came speaking something different from what the people had been hearing. A voice came condemning and criticizing, And showing that those things that the people were doing were not of God.
John the Baptist did not have it easy at the hands of the people promoting their easy religion. Today, we need more than the people in John’s day. And women and men in John’s day to cry again.
We need to cry and watch men and people. If any person is a true watchman, He needs to cry. He needs to cry to the people that are living in this generation.
A generation is a generation that so much talk about God. A generation that has not allowed Jesus Christ to have his way in their lives. A generation that talks about God that has not changed their lives.
A generation that talks about Christ. A generation that is so charismatic. A generation that if somebody is not careful, As you listen to the trending charismatic ministers, And ministers around, Except you are careful, You will not discover that there is death in the pot.
And so every true watchman, We need to rise and cry like John cried in his day. In Proverbs chapter 30, I want to prove that we are living in a generation. A generation that men talk about God, They don’t know.
A generation that people worship as some unknown God. A generation that talks so much about God, But they are not allowed God to cleanse them. If actually the trending gospels, The things that people are preaching that feed everywhere, And you see people trooping into places, If what they are ministering is as recommended, As commanded, Our streets would have been freed from criminals.
All the fraudsters that feed everywhere, Would have no more be there, Because you find all these men and women, These young boys and young girls, They belong to one assembly or the other. In Proverbs chapter 30, And let us read verse 11. There is a generation that curses their father, And does not bless their mother.
There is a generation that appears in their own eyes, And yet is not washed from their filthiness. That’s a generation we are. A generation that people commit sin, And they are no longer pricked in their mind.
A generation that sinners are made to believe, That they are heavenly candidates. A generation that people go to church, And their lives start manifesting, After they have joined one Pentecostal church or the other, Will be worse than what they were. I heard the story of a young lady, That was going to one of the Orthodox churches, Until a Pentecostal person ministered unto her.
And she decided to go to church with this Pentecostal person. And when she attended the church, Somebody was assigned to follow her up. Somebody was assigned to follow her up.
And this lady was a virgin, Was keeping herself before she joined this church. Could you believe that the person who defiled this lady, Pregnanted this lady, Was the person that was given to follow this lady up. When this lady was an Orthodox, When this lady was not born again, In quote, as they are talking about, The lady was preserving herself.
Now it was when she now entered the born again, In quote, that was where she was defiled. And defiled by somebody that was supposed to defile her. That’s where we are.
And when you hear them talk, And listen to them talk, You will think that they know what they are talking about. That is the generation. And therefore, we have to, as true watchmen, Anybody that calls himself a true watchman, His voice must rise.
His cry must be like the cry of John the Baptist. And so, we are in a generation that speaks about God, Which they have not allowed to have access to their heart, But on their lips. In Isaiah chapter 29, It tells us that these people, Let’s see what it says about a particular set of people, They talk much about God, But their hearts are after their unrighteous and ungodly activities.
Isaiah chapter 29 and verse 13, We are for the Lord said, For as much as these people draw near me with their mouth, And with their lips do honor me, But have removed their heart far from me, And their fear toward me is taught by the precepts of men. That is where we are. The Bible calls them these people.
It says they draw near. So we are in a generation of people that draw near, Only with their lips. We have found ourselves among the church, Among the church that has turned to become an entertainment place.
Right now, you can hardly see club houses. Clubs and dancing halls are gradually disappearing. And then places of worship where you can get what you are getting in those club houses are rising up.
Therefore, every true worship man cannot keep quiet. If you are keeping quiet, Then it means that something is wrong with you. In Ezekiel chapter 33 and verse 30.
So we are in this retreat, So that God can work in us. God can rebuild our lives, So that we can now go out to do what we are called for. Ezekiel 33 verse 30 and 31.
Also thou son of man, The children of your people still are talking against thee, By the walls and in the doors of the houses, And speak one to another, Every one to his brother, Saying, come I pray you, I hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord, And they come unto thee as thy people cometh, And they sit before thee as my people, And they hear thy words, But they will not do them, For with their mouth they show much love, But their heart goeth after their coerciousness. That is the set of people that are filled the assemblies today. And so our generation is a generation that physicians are sick.
Can you look at the many of the apostles, Many of the prophets, Many of the people here and there. Yesterday I was listening to what one of our senior pastors was playing in his phone, And they were talking about, somebody was talking about, Somebody that has sold everything in heaven. He has sold the soup, he has sold the sand, He has sold everything and all that.
That is the mess that the church has found itself. And we are the true washed men. This is not the time to keep quiet.
And so a generation we have found ourselves, It is a generation that physicians are sick. A generation that those who are supposed to be washed men of God in their places, Are no longer washing. A generation that both the wise and the foolish have fallen asleep deeply, Are required to be woken up.
That is the generation we have found ourselves. The wise virgin and the foolish virgin, Everybody has gone asleep. And what is being sold is terrible.
We are in a generation that celebrates God, Who is unknown unto them like the men in Acts of Apostles chapter 17, 20-33. We are in a generation that have learned the Christian language, But have refused to allow what they have learned to influence their life. We live in a generation that does not know God.
A generation that his washed men are described as sleeping. In chapter 56 of Isaiah, And verse 10, His washed men are blind. Generation of blind leaders.
Generation where men who call themselves men of God, You cannot find any God in them. And God is calling on every washed man. Our heart cry in the present is to call people back to return to God.
And then bring the truth of the living God. And show the people that God has not changed. In Isaiah 56 verse 10, His washed men are blind.
They are all ignorant. They are all dumb dogs that cannot bark. Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
They are greedy dogs. We can never have enough. And they are shepherds that cannot understand.
They all look to their own way. Everyone for his gain from his potter. Come ye said there.
I will fetch wine. And we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day.
And much more abundant. A generation where the ministers, Now minister with drugs. Before the minister they must take drugs.
This is where we have found ourselves. A generation that when you look at somebody who calls himself a minister. You will be wondering.
This person who is a minister. This person cannot be a worker. Even in your church.
And we know it. And then we are keeping quiet. And we find that with their sweet tongue.
And their charisma. And their oratory. We find them pulling young men and young women.
And we are keeping quiet. We are not raising alarm. We are not crying out that the people may hear.
In the days of John the Baptist. That was what was happening. The multitudes were following easy religion.
The multitudes were following religion that offers them chance to do what they like. But John the Baptist will not join this crowd. And so he went on crying.
We are to cry. If you are a true watchman. About the coming sword.
The sword of the Lord is still coming. When you look at our logo. You will find that there is a hand pointing to the coming sword.
That sword represents God’s judgment. That is coming. We are to declare what we see.
Without fear. We are to declare what we see. The judgment is still coming.
Yes. Jesus Christ is still coming. The soul that sinned.
It shall still die. God has not reduced the standard of going to heaven. And we know that many of our children.
Many of the children. Many of the young boys and young girls. Including old people.
Drifting into these places. And we are keeping quiet. We need to be reminded.
Brothers and sisters. That we cannot hide our sins from God. And that God is still ahead of sin.
Every true watchman should cry against sin. And show that God is not a respecter of any person or any position or any age. Anybody that is living in sin.
It doesn’t matter what that sin is. It doesn’t matter how little it is. God will bring all this to book.
Therefore, in this meeting, God wants to put things clear to us. He wants to wash us. He wants to cleanse us.
So that we can be qualified to speak to others. So, true watchmen must know that the unclean things are still not acceptable unto God. God has not started to accept any uncleanness.
In Ezekiel chapter 22. Let’s go to see. In the days of Ezekiel, God would not accept uncleanness found among his people.
Neither will he accept it in our day. And every true watchman should speak about it. It doesn’t matter who the uncleanness is found in his life.
Chapter 22 of Ezekiel. And verse 24. Son of man, say unto her.
You are the land that is not cleansed. Nor rained upon in the day of indignation. There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof.
Like a roiling lion ravening their prey. They have devoured souls. They have taken their treasures and precious things.
They have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law. And have profaned my holy things.
They have put no difference between the holy and profaned. Neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean. And have hid their eyes from my sabbaths.
And I am profaned among them. In the days of Ezekiel, the priests, the prophets, the leaders have violated their law. They were unable to make the difference between the holy and the unholy.
That is the state of today’s church. That is the state of today’s Pentecostal. That is the state of what is happening.
And God Almighty is in search of his true watchmen. Who will rise and cry against what is happening. And they should be ready to be persecuted.
They should be ready to be misunderstood. We need to cry again that God does not shift his standard. In order to accommodate every dick and Harry.
He doesn’t. We need to know it again as watchmen. And then and cry it out.
And tell whosoever that cares to listen. That the standard of God does not shift, does not change. From generation to generation it remains the same.
In Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. And let us read from verse 13. Enter ye in at the straight gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way.
That leadeth to destruction. And many there be which go in their wrath. Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way.
Which leadeth unto life. And few there be that find the way. The way is still narrow.
It is still few that finds it. And therefore if you are among those in the watchman. That are propagating or agitating.
That some things should be removed. So as to accommodate certain set of people. Here it Jesus Christ never removed anything.
In John chapter 6 he preached. And as he preached the world was so hard. And some of his disciples couldn’t continue.
He gathered the crowd. But at a point it was only 12 that was with him. 12 men that were with him.
And then and 12 of them. And he asked will you also go away. Peter said to whom shall we go.
You have a world of eternal life. Your world is world of eternal life. We go nowhere.
Then he said okay. That’s okay. But one of you is a devil.
Even after he has lost all the number. He did not say okay. Unless I lose this one.
Let me keep quiet. He still also spoke hard. That one of you is a devil.
That tells us that the God we serve. He does not compromise his standard. And therefore it should be a lesson to all of us.
Those who that by their lifestyle. By their way. By their appearance.
By their language. And things they say who are not comfortable. They are not comfortable with the truth that we are disseminating.
They are not comfortable with what is coming from the puppet of the watchman. Well I want to appeal to all such men. That we should be comfortable with them.
Because it is in our own interest that this truth is being revealed. And so it follows that we. We are to strive to enter.
Strive to enter. For many we like to enter. But they will not be able.
According to Luke chapter 13, 24 to 29. Many we strive to enter. But they will not be able.
And so it follows that we should stand up. Every true watchman should be like Paul. There was a time that Paul noticed that Peter misbehaved.
Peter didn’t get things the way he should get it. He spoke to Peter. In Galatians chapter 2 from verse 11.
He said unto Peter. If you being a Gentile. You go this way.
You show this bad example. How then do you expect the rest to do? And so he find out that watchmen are people that. True watchmen are people that will stand against sin.
Against unrighteousness. Against whatsoever that is not in order. That is not in tune with what is written.
That is not aligning with what is written in the word of God. Jesus rebuked Peter. When Peter said I go out fishing.
And misled several others. About eight others. He misled eight of them.
Abandoning the work of God. Jesus did not spare him. At another time Peter.
Peter. Has spoken good about Christ. But this time Jesus was talking about how he was going to die.
And Peter took him up and started rebuking him. And Jesus said you are a devil. Get thee behind me.
He find that though Peter has contributed so much. To the work of God. But Jesus will not keep quiet.
When he saw that misbehavior. That is the ministry of the watchman. And that is why we need to sit at the feet of the servant of God.
At the feet of Jesus. And at the feet of the man of God. So that the truth of God that cleanses will be given to us to cleanse us.
So that it will not be that we are trying to remove the speck in our brother’s eyes. When we have a lock in our own eyes. So that it will not be the physician heal yourself.
So we are in this meeting. This retreat so that God can heal us. Spiritually.
Recover us. Cleanse us. Purge us.
So that we can be his watchman indeed. Who by our ways we represent him. And by our lives as well.
And so the question that all of us who claim to be watchmen. To ask ourselves is that are we still feeding the sheep. Because in John chapter 21.
Jesus said unto Peter. After he had given him a sharp rebuke. Feed my lamb.
Feed my sheep. And so. And the question we also need to ask ourselves is.
What is your day to day activity like today? What is taking the best of your time as watchman? If you discover that you are no more committed to the calling of the watchman. That is the core calling of the watchman. And it is to speak the word of God.
It is to drive men to Christ. It is to pull men to Christ. If you discover that that is no longer where your heart is.
Then there is problem. The heart cry of every true watchman. Who is still aligning totally with the calling of God.
On our lives is. Let us return to God. And he will return to us.
Every true watchman. Who understood. And who understands.
What true watchman is. What a watchman work is. Why God gave us the name watchman.
Is. Let us return to God. And he will return to us.
And he will heal us. Look at the watchman of today. The watchman of that.
You call for evangelism. You can’t find anybody. You call for publicity.
You can’t find anybody. You come to Bible study. You can’t find anybody.
Even this beginning of retreat. You can only find people on 25th. But 26th you may not find anybody.
It is only on Sundays we find people in our churches now. Showing that something has gone wrong. And so God will have us to return.
So that he can cleanse us. Now what is the urgent need of God’s watchman? Our urgent need is. Entering and passing through the pool.
Allowing Jesus to watch us again. Every one of us. Whether you see yourself as a true watchman.
Or you are just a friend of the watchman. Or whatever kind of watchman you are. Our needs.
All of us. We need that we should enter and pass through the pool. So we can be washed.
So we can be cleansed. So we can be purified again. For the master’s use.
In this end time. In John chapter 13. Let’s read verse 6. Then cometh he to Simon Peter.
And Peter said unto him. Lord, dost thou watch my feet? Jesus answered and said unto him. What I do thou knowest not now.
But thou shalt know hereafter. Peter said unto him. Thou shalt never watch my feet.
Jesus answered him. If I watch thee not. Thou hast no part with me.
Simon Peter said unto him. Lord, not my feet only. But also my hands and my head.
Jesus said unto him. He that is washed. Neither not safe to watch his feet.
But is clean every which. And you are clean. But not all.
Jesus said you are clean. But not all. You find that Peter would not want to allow Jesus to wash him.
But after Jesus had explained to him. Peter this is what you need. Peter you need this washing.
He submitted for the washing. Therefore. Your need and my need.
Is that. As the word of God comes in this meeting. Submit to whatever.
The Lord is asking you. If there is a time of. A call to the altar.
And you discover that. The word of God has faulted you. In any area.
Don’t allow shame. To make you. To have eternal disgrace.
Because. If nobody may know about what is going on. But heaven knows about it.
You cannot hide it from God. I cannot hide it from God. So it is better that.
You and I submit. For the cleansing. Unless you are cleansed.
May I inform you that. The issue of cleansing. Is not.
A one time affair. The issue of cleansing. Is a continuous affair.
As long as. We are still carrying. This flesh and blood.
We need. Daily cleansing. We need.
Submitting ourselves to Jesus. For cleansing. Therefore.
Don’t miss this opportunity. To be cleansed again. In 1 Corinthians 6. 1 Corinthians 6. And let us.
Read. Verse 9. Knowing. That the unrighteous.
Shall not. The unrighteous. Shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Be not deceived. Neither fornicators. Nor idolaters.
Nor adulterers. Nor effeminate. Nor abusers of themselves with mankind.
Nor thieves. Nor covetous. Nor drunkards.
Nor revilers. Nor extortioners. Shall inherit the kingdom of God.
The least of. Whatsoever any man. Finds himself or herself into.
And that person. Will not enter into the kingdom of God. Is properly listed here.
And. Unfortunately. In our midst today.
Fornication. And adultery. Has become something.
Trending. It is like. The enemy fired some influence.
Upon people in church. That fornication is now. Order of the dead.
Among young ones. And even old ones. Married men.
Including men. That are ministering on the pulpits. Fathers.
Disgracing their children. And children. Disgracing their fathers.
Now listen. And look up. I was talking to the pastors.
That are working with me there. A few days ago. And I was telling them.
That there are fathers. That disgrace their children. When a father got involved.
In immorality. In adultery and fornication. And sinful things.
That father. Had disgraced the children. And I was telling them.
How will it be. With what face will I face my children. To say that.
I got involved. In adultery. I got involved in this.
I got involved in that. God forbid. There are things that.
Mentioning it alone. Some of us will die. Before the next day.
But there are people that. They are caught in things like that. And you see them show.
Sinful goodness. Am I the only one. They even make reference.
To some other persons. That’s where we are. But here we are.
God wants you to know. That those. Abusers of.
Themselves with mankind. And fornicators. And deceivers.
And adulterers. They are in the list. Still in the list.
Of people that have no place. In the kingdom of God. And thieves.
And thieves. And covetous. And drunkards.
Extortioners. None. Whether the extortion is.
Extorting. From people in the name of God. In the name of God.
People can extort. People in the name of God. And it happens everywhere.
Then Paul said unto the Corinthians. And such were some of you. But you are what? Washed.
You pass through the pool. And you are washed. You are washed by the blood of Jesus.
You are washed by the word of God. You are washed. Because you sat down and listened.
But you are sanctified. But you are justified. In the name of the Lord Jesus.
And by the spirit of our God. So they were washed. And listen to me.
On 15th. Of this month. The Lord made it clear to me.
That some. Washed men people. Have lost their sight.
They have lost their spiritual perception. They have lost their spiritual understanding. They don’t understand.
The time in which we live again. And that is why. They are living the way they are living.
That is why they are talking. The way they are talking. That is why they are doing.
What they are doing. That is why they are dressing. The way they are dressing.
That is why they are pursuing. What they are pursuing. That is why the things of this life have become first in their lives.
Why the things of eternity have become secondary. That’s why they can give attention to their flesh and things, mundane things, give their priority and make the things of this life the priority of their lives and then and the things of heaven with little consideration. That is because they have lost their sight.
If they are seeing, they wouldn’t be like that. Nobody that is still seeing, nobody that has a spiritual perception that will do like that. So they no longer see.
In Ezekiel 33 verse 1 to 83 says that when you see the sword coming, a man is taken from among those people and he sees the sword coming. If you don’t tell the people that the sword is coming, it will take them but I will require it from your blood. A man who sees sword coming cannot sit comfortably.
It is because we have become blind to the spiritual realities. That because we have become blind to the coming of the Lord Jesus, that’s why we’re making trouble. That’s why we’re fighting.
That’s why we’re quarreling. That is why Bible study, weekly activities, evangelism and things that pertain to our soul, we are no longer giving attention. That’s why you find that that you may come on 25th but then we will not see you the rest of the day, the rest of the program.
That’s why you may come in the morning and we’ll see you again in the afternoon time because you have gone to a business or because the things of this life has taken over. A writer says that there’s a sickness. They call that sickness Morbus Sonditis or Morbus Sabbaticus and that sickness is a sickness that comes on people on Sunday.
That sickness prevents people going to church but it will not prevent them read the newspaper. It will not prevent them look at their television to watch football. It will not affect their appetite.
The only thing that that sickness will affect them is going to the house of God. But for every other time they do it well and they call it Morbus Sabbaticus. You need to check yourself when it comes to the house of God, when it comes to the things of God, when it comes to the matter that have to do with the spiritual life, spiritual things.
How are you? And so it follows that the Lord made me to know that many of us, some of us have lost the spiritual sensibility and spiritual hearing that becomes spiritually deaf. He said they no longer hear well. If they are still hearing well, they would have heard the cry of the damned.
Did you hear that? Are the damned still crying? The damned are still what? Crying. But we are not hearing the cry of the damned and that is because we have become deaf. But look at Joel chapter 3. Joel chapter 3. We will soon rise up to pray.
Joel chapter 3. Let us read verse 14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. There are so many people in the valley of decision and there are so many people that are crying.
The damned, every day they are dying. And any man who dies without Jesus, your brother, your father, your child, or whosoever that died without being truly in Christ, he goes to hell. And the watchmen are supposed to hear the cry of this damned.
And because we’re no longer hearing the cry of the damned, that is why we are what we are today. That’s why we are behaving the way we’re behaving today. And so we need to be told again by those who still know that Jesus is coming, that he is still coming.
In 2nd Peter chapter 3, if you read from 11 to 14, you will see that he is coming. The delay of his coming has not initiated it. He is still coming.
Romans chapter 13, 11 to 14 tells us that the night is far gone, the day is at hand. We need to be woken up to all the eschatological signs of our time as predicted by Jesus and by the apostles. Are there predictions by Christ concerning this time? Yes.
Are there happening that have already happened? Go and read Matthew chapter 24, you will see those predictions. Go and read 2nd Peter chapter 3, 1 to 7, and then on 1st Peter chapter 4, 1 to 3, you will see the predictions. All the eschatological signs of our time, they have all fulfilled.
And we are waiting for the coming of Jesus, for the trumpet to sound. And the trumpet will sound. We were told last December that we’re waiting for the trumpet to sound.
However, if the trumpet did not sound, if there is no rapture, there can be departure. And there are people that have departed. I have one of my own elder brother that departed, the same father, the same mother.
He departed. And then another cousin departed. He’s yet to be buried.
So we find that while we’re waiting for rapture, there will also be departure. And if any person departs without preparation, he’s departing into eternal suffering. And there are our brothers and there are our sisters.
We need to hear it again. Peradventure, that will waken us up. Peradventure, that will make us to come to reality with the time we are in.
We need spiritual alignment and realignment with the original and core call of God upon us as watchmen. Our urgent need, urgent need of every one of us is to align and with the original and core call of God upon us as watchmen. And those that were once there but they are no more there, to realign with this core call, we need to be called to order by the Lord himself.
We need to return to the word and prayer. We need to return to the work we are called to do. As of Apostle chapter 13, the Holy Spirit says, set me apart, Paul and Barnabas, for a work, a work they are called to do.
Now listen to me, Paul and Barnabas, the story of Paul and Barnabas is not just a night tares, story of between tortoise and the lion, no. There was a when I first visited Cyprus, we went to the site where they buried Barnabas to prove that it is a historical fact. Now the Holy Spirit said in that Acts of Apostle 13 verse 1, now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Neger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manian which had been which had been brought up with Herod, the Tetrarch, and Saul.
As they ministered to their Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul, for what? Their work, their work we are unto, I have called them. They were doing some work, they were among some people, but the Holy Spirit said, no, this is not what I called you to do, there is a work I called them. There is a work that God called watchman, and our work is stated in the five objectives of the Lord and the threefold end time project.
We are to return to it, and that should be the core. If they are not the core pursuit of the watchman, we are out of alignment, and you know that that can hinder us, and you know that that can be a problem, and you know that that that that can even attract the wrath of God. Let all of us, all of us, especially those of us that are in the leadership, we should examine ourselves, because if God called you to do a thing, and you leave what he called you to do into another thing, he can bring, he can allow some opposition.
You agree with me? He can allow stiff opposition, he can allow trouble, and to see whether that trouble will make your eyes open, so that you can return to what he called, we can return to what he called us to do. And therefore, let all of us check it. How far is our soul-winning drive? How far is our evangelistic drive? We are hunters of soul.
We are men that were looking for soul. We are, we once have among us people that vow, Lord any day I did not win soul, any day I did not go out to tell somebody about, about Jesus, no food. All those vows are forgotten vows.
You may forget, I may forget, but God does not forget. Once you make that covenant, it remains a covenant. And no age, no age cannot vitiate it.
And so, it follows that the Holy Spirit says, set me apart, set me apart, Barnabas and Saul, for their walk were unto according, according for a walk. So we must return to the walk that God has called us. And then watch men, we are like Israelites.
Israelites were peculiar people. Israelites were called to be different. They are not called to be like other nations.
And you know that what brought Israel into trouble was that at a point, they said, make us king, that we rule us like other nations. They wanted to be like other nations, when God has said that they are peculiar. Watchmen, Catholic, charismatic renewal movement, we have been told that we are unique, we are special, we are peculiar.
But then I want to ask, where is this peculiarity? Is it not in me? Is the peculiarity talking about spirits? Our uniqueness, is it not talking about you and me? I’m asking, it is about you being unique and me being unique, and every other person being unique. Where is our uniqueness? Where is our prayer life? These days, what we are known for was vibrant prayer. But now, let us pray.
Before, three watchmen people where you meet them praying, you will be hearing their voice from far. But now, where they filled up, you can hardly hear the voice. And that is a serious problem because that is, we have fought the devil.
We have taken the battle to the gates of the enemy. We have aroused him, we have fought him. After fighting him, after going to fire him, when the battle has not ended, when the war has not declared ended, and then you go back, no wonder the arrows, no wonder every different type of sicknesses is firing us, because we have left the watchtower, we have left the battlefront.
Our need is to return to the battlefront. That’s why the Lord was asking in the days of Isaiah, what about the night? Somebody called me from one of the dioceses. I said that the Lord was asking him, what about the night? Watchman, what about the night? What about the night? What about the night? What about the night of praying? What about the night of standing before God? We are not to be like other around us.
In Esther chapter 3 verse 8, the people were described as different, their law different, their ways different. In chapter 1 of Daniel and chapter 3, the people described who persecutors of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, so they are right. These Israelites, their ways are different from their ways.
They are not keeping their law. And so it follows that if we are not, if we are afraid to be different and begin to dance to the tune of the people around us, we will be like salt that has lost its savor. And once a salt loses its savor, it is no longer good for use.
Now I ask us, are we still watchmen? Have we become like the people that God delivered us from? Have we started to allow the things that they allowed, the place God delivered us from, was overtaken and flooded with error? You know how the error, we know, those of us that are here, we know how the error in the place where God delivered us, how gradually started. Now, have we started allowing gradual depreciation? In this meeting, we are trusting God to get us recovered. He will recover me.
He will recover you in Jesus’ name. We need our ears and our eyes to be open, to be open again, to hear and to understand again. And finally, before we pray, we need restoration of our deep awareness.
That is what is needed. Restoration of deep awareness and connection with God again. He said, Israel was holiness unto me.
Galatians chapter 3, Paul lamented, he said, who has bewitched you? Who has bewitched you? He was telling the Galatian people. You started, you started in the spirit, now you are perpetrated in the flesh. What does it mean to bewitch? To bewitch is that somebody has been overpowered.
Somebody has been influenced. Somebody has been charmed. Somebody is now acting differently from the way he’s supposed to act.
Are we still watchmen? Do we still have that understanding that we are not like other people, that we are unique? We are sent to deliver the people and our mission has not been accomplished. In the days of Nehemiah, he had a mission. He, with the people that were sent to rebuild the broken wall, they never relaxed.
They removed the addresses only when they were batten. They put it on and they had a time to deliver. 52 days to deliver the walk and we have time to deliver.
Soon and very soon, Jesus is coming. How far have we gone in the walk? Where is the walk in our heart? Where is the walk? Where is the soul winning? This time around, organize a program, print a handbill, 40,000, give out to people and then I know single person will attend. That’s what we’re experiencing.
Maybe in other places, they’re having revival. I have cried like children in the market. I have been drunk, I have done everything, but no response.
So we are crying that God will come to our rescue. Even the ministrations of the man of God, that we talk about our not attending meetings, after he administer, you will think that the next one, everybody will respond. So even the voice of the man of God, even the voice of the man of God, that everyone should be running.
The moment he said that this is what God says and then everybody should be running. This is where we have found ourselves and we need God to deliver us. Actually, he will deliver us.
We are trusting that this meeting will be a turning point, that when next will come, we will not be talking about cleansing. We’re talking about moving forward. We’re talking about ascending higher ground.
We’re talking about other things. Praise God. And so it follows, we need restoration of the spirit of grace and intercession.
The spirit of grace and intercession. We need restoration of our deep hunger for God, deep hunger for God. We need restoration of our love for God, which is expressed through loving his word, and loving his presence, and loving his house.
David said, I was glad when they said, let us go to the house of God. Who is still glad when they talk about going to the house of God? We must learn again to sit at Jesus’ feet, to be fed, or to feed on his word. We must seek for genuine sanctification, genuine cleansing, genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit, genuine speaking in tongue.
Today, when you listen to some people speaking in tongue, you will know that this one, this one is not even among us. Some of us, after they have listened to their online mentor, there are many people that are watchmen, but watchmen come to another place. Watchmen come.
I don’t want to mention any place. And you can find them here and there, including children of ministers of the watchman. And if a child thinks that the soup his father, his mother cooked is not sweet, then you can imagine what others will say about it.
So then, brothers and sisters, the great people of God, we can receive whatever we have lost at this time, as we consider the things that are at stake, as we pray. Like David, we need restoration. We need a clean heart.
We need a right spirit. We need to be poured by God. Therefore, in this program, the Lord will have you to submit yourself so that you can be passed through the pool.
Enter the pool as the word is coming. Enter the pool and pass through the pool. By the time you come out from the pool, you’ll be cleansed.
Your eyes will be opened, your ears will be opened, and you’ll be restored. Let’s rise on our feet as we pray. Rise on our feet as we pray.
As we pray, rise on our feet. We need restoration of our focus on the core issues. Before we pray, as we are praying, we want you to listen as the music ministry brings to us the song from number 54.
Just as God who reigns on high spake to many in days gone by, so the Lord is calling men to death. And my brother, this is true. Whatever he says to you, there is but one thing to do.
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Just obey, just obey If you read the Savior’s sign You must do as he commands For there is no other possible way Never put the message right Never struggle to reason why Then the Savior speaks to you Just obey, just obey Just obey, just obey There is no way, there is no way God’s Word is the only way When his message comes to you There is nothing to do Just obey, just obey Just obey, just obey He formations where you stand In the land beyond the sky Out of time with you has passed away For the way you may not see Christ is God and full of me Faith and duty both we bring Just obey, just obey Just obey, just obey There is no way, there is no way God’s Word is the only way When his message comes to you There is nothing to do There is no way, there is no way God’s Word is the only way When his message comes to you There is nothing to do Just obey, just obey Just obey, just obey You can talk to the Lord now The songwriter made it very clear His message has come to you The only option you have Is to tell the Lord I will obey Lift up your voice and begin to pray Pray in the places Tell the Lord I will obey I will sit at the feet of Jesus I will listen to your word I will be cleansed I will submit I’m not going to continue hiding Because I don’t know Whether I will be alive by this time next year Thank you Father I want the ministers of God in the location Take it up and pray Until you are satisfied Let my soul look up With the strength of soul And my will be not denied Draw me nearer, Lord Nearer blessed Lord To the cross where Thou art lying Draw me nearer, nearer Nearer blessed Lord To Thy gracious clean side Draw me nearer, nearer Nearer blessed Lord To the cross where Thou art lying Draw me nearer, nearer Nearer blessed Lord To Thy gracious clean side
