2 Levels Of Encounter

Hallelujah. Lift your hands unless bless the name of the Lord. Shabako saprand stabraska devi cosata. Who is this king of glory, the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle a lift your hands and worship him? Who is this king a glory, the toss strong and the Lord a bite battle friend? Amen? A man a man Amen, Amen, A man a man a man Amen, A man a man. Amen. You're declaring over your life and over your destiny. Amen a man a man Amen. Every word spoken by the Lord, his words are yay and amen. Promises yay and amen. Someone declared as an act of faith A man a man a man shot back scanda brandag a leg of wh I Father, give me an encounter tonight. Please lift your voice and pray. Cry from the depth of your heart. Laparoska suppris the gebel like a to shafrasca. Debas gave us an encounter, an encounter by your spirit. Someone declared, change my life, change my life. Let me go from strength to strength because I've appeared before the Lord, even in Zion. Someone praying debar ratoska pray theebel like a shafrasca devil la. My situation will never be the same. My spiritual experience will never be the same. Wisdom is coming on to me tonight. Understanding is coming on to me tonight. My heart is open and large, ready to receive. Are you declaring, Marble, says letter Redeemed of the Lord says so he la kura safrascava lactae lacats. Take a minute or two to pray, Take a minute or two to pray, make faith declarations by the spirit tonight. It's an extraordinary service for me receiving wisdom impartation of all kinds of graces. Shaddy pakarus can severa retus caleradaparetus yata. That affliction over my life gives way one son for all. The Bible declares that now the Lord is that spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. There is liberty. There is liberty, There is liberty. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Fix your eyes on Jesus as you pray. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Shasta, shake away onbelief in the name of Jesus Christ, shake away onbelieve. Tonight is my night for in Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed. For. In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed. Father, We thank you because it is unto you that our gathering is tonight. And we pray and thank you and trust you that our lives will never be the same, for your word declares that they go from strength to strength. As many as appear before the Lord, even in Zion, we have come. Grant us wisdom. Let tonight be a knight of impartations. Let tonight be a knight of healings. Let tonight be a knight of deliverances. And I'm praying in the name of Jesus that no burden here represented will remain at the end of the service. For in Jesus' mighty and matchless name we have prayed. Amen and amen. Say hello to someone by your left hand right and please be seated. God bless you. Allelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. As I was on my way coming here, I saw something that I just thought to attend to. I saw a woman with a child, and that child has been sick. I don't know what that situation is, that that vision came to me twice, and I just thought, before we go to the world, let me just speak over. I saw a woman with a child. I don't know, it was not given to me to know exactly what the situation is, but I know that the child is sick. In the name of Jesus Christ, this is the place of his power, This is the place of his grace, This is a place where his spirit has unrestrained access. And or that woman, wherever you are and your child, whether you're here on site, across the globe, wherever Zariah, and any other of our expressions across the globe, I just wanted to lay your hands on that child. Whether it's a baby, whether it's an infant, doesn't matter. Just lay your hands. Father, you reveal to redeem. And in the name of Jesus Christ, I declare by the power of the Holy Spirit, that every affliction, every yoke, every infirmity upon that child, in the name that is above all names. Let yar be healing now, Let year be perfection now, Let year be weakening now. And I use this child as a point of contact to speak already to anyone here in the name of Jesus. You came here with any infirmity. Every service is a miracle service. In the name that is above all names, I'm praying right now, lay your hands wherever it is that you're trusting God for a miracle, whether it's your head, whether it's a blood condition. Whilst you're seated, you can stand in for someone. Make sure you are believing, whether you are outside inside, wherever following online in the name of Jesus Father is stretch my hands even by the authority of your name, ministring to every sick body. In the name that is above all names. I declare that the spirit that is back of this infirmity is hereby cost this moment in the name of Jesus Christ. And I declare onto you, let there be healing. Now. I bring you the healing power of Jesus. I bring you the bomb that is in Gilead. Be healed right now. From the crown of your head, even to the souls of your feet, and for someone. I professie to you that sickness is not onto death, in the name of Jesus, That sickness is not onto death, in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father, we receive healing in Jesus' mighty name. We have prayed in the same vein. I want us to just whilst we're seated, to lift our hands to heaven and thank the Lord for his manifold wonders, even in our midst Go ahead and tell him thank you. We lay to heart to be grateful for extra ordinary miracles, extra ordinary manifestations of your spirit. We lay to heart to say thank you. Is someone saying thank you, Thank you for my life. I wanted to contemplate on the goodness of God in your life for one moment, look at your former self and your now self even been transformed, and tell him, thank you. It is unto you. Thank you by your wisdom, Thank you by your power. Thank you. Thank Him for this great vision. Thank him for all that He is doing in and through our lives. Across the globe, is someone saying thank you. We lay to hurt as a people to be grateful. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. When you are thoughtful, you will be grateful. Lord. Thank you for your manifold blessings upon my life. Thank you. Thank Him for your family, children, spouse. Thank Him for the works of your hands. Thank Him for preserving you Shali caparusiata. Take this as part of the service. Let gratitude come from your heart onto the King of kings, onto the lift of men, onto the deliverer, onto the healer, onto the promoter, Onto the one who empowers men, Onto the one who opens doors, Onto the one who adverts evil upon men, Onto the one who preserves men even in famine. Go ahead and pray, he says, I slept and I wait for the Lord sustained me. Father, will bless you. We bless you, we bless you. We lay to her to say thank you. Thank you for callinonia global, Thank you for all connected to this spiritual family across the globe. Thank you for your manifold works. All that man would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works, even onto the children of men. Thank you to Jesus, be all the praise. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. Never become too familiar with the doings and the dealings of God in your life. Sometimes we take for granted the hand of God upon our lives. Allelujah. The Bible says, let it not be that when you have built houses, you have had this and that that you will say, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this, it says. But thou shall remember the Lord your God, because it is easy to forget. Allelujah. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, he says, And all that is within me, bless his name, it says. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not his benefits. Allelujah. And so, as a family of faith, we choose to say thank you to Jesus, the one who is responsible for any and everything that men celebrate in our lives, one more time, say thank you Jesus. A man, the believer in Christ, is destined to be a sign and a wonder upon the earth. I will emphasize this for your hearing, for your knowledge that every believer listen. In the dealings of God with men, there is such a thing as the election of grace, whereby his predeterminate counsel, he has chosen preordained certain people to occupy certain spaces in life and destiny and in prophecy. However, in God's dealing with men, the grace of God is rich onto all. The Bible says the same Lord is rich onto all. In other words, every believer in Christ is destined to be a sign and a wonder that your life and your Christian experience should cause men to celebrate the hand of God, should cause men to know Jesus, should cause men to desire Him. Like Paul calls us living epistles, that when men look at your life, I would always say that your life becomes a continuation of their Bible study, that they use your life and the excellency of the dealings of God in your life to learn God the more Allelujah, and the House of God is that authorized platform where believers are mentored. Please listen, believer, us are groomed to become matured number one in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and then in the knowledge of the Kingdom. That means every time we gather for service, we must have it as at the back of our minds, as responsible believers, that we have come for the purpose of growth, for the purpose of match surety, for the purpose of empowerment, and then all other expressions of the Spirit that can happen when He is allowed to find expression in the midst of his people, the healings, the deliverances, the breakthroughs. But in order of priority, every time you come to the House of God. It is a time for learning, for growth, to access more superior dimensions of wisdom, to understand scripture and to draw from scripture the life that is contained therein. And if you believe that will be your testimony tonight, shout a loud amen. Maybe I should add this also that the value of the anointing, the value of the anointing in the life of the believer, the excellency the value of the anointing in the life of the believer, is truly revealed when that believer is transformed. Are we together? That means, when a believer contends for power for anointing without transformation, the bankruptcy of transformation can downplay the extent or the power of the degree of impact that the annointing upon him should produce. The annointing coming upon a believer partners with his transformation for maximum results. Let me take it again that the announting of the spirit that comes upon a believer works in partnership with your transformation in order to yield. That means it is possible that you can have a heavy announting upon your life, be it a healing anointing, a prophetic grace, and it can yield thirtyfold, it can yield sixtyfold, It can even yield one hundredfold, depending on your degree of transformation. In fact, two. People who can have the same level of anointing the same level of anointing, but their results will differ because for one person, in addition to that anointing or in preparation for that anointing, he or she contended for transformation, whilst the other person may have been careless and you just received the anointing without transformation. Allelujah, are we learning now? So transformation is very important, very very important. When the power of God flows from and through a transformed vessel, then you are able to see the full extent of what his power can do. So Jesus focus more on the transformation of the believers. The empowerment came, you see, the empowerment is sudden, but transformation is not sudden. Are we together? In one moment, you can receive an importation and that's it. But transformation is a process because you have to partner with the world of God for your mindset and your orientation. Now to transcend certain rems to certain higher realms, it says, come up hither and I will show you. You will not see it from that plane. Come up hither, and I will show you the things that will happen thereafter. Allelujah. Is someone learning, and when it has to do with the business of transformation, please listen. Nobody graduates from the school of growth and transformation. Nobody graduates from the school of growth and transformation. There are certain aspects of the kingdom life where you can call men masters, but when it has to do with transformation, there is always a more superior version of you calling you. Are we together? Now? It was there were three categories of people in the Bible that Apostle John wrote to. He wrote to children, he wrote to young men, and he wrote to fathers. I write to you children, I write to you young men. I write to you fathers. So he acknowledged that within the larger scope of the body of Christ, there are these three categories of people. Children. Children are those who it's not just talking of physical people. There is the biological expression also children as children as you know, young men as young men as you know, and then fathers or elders as elders using the index of age. But then spiritually speaking, there are children, infants, those who just got saved and are now beginning their journey to growth and maturity. Then there are young men, those who now they have explored the kingdom to an extent, and they're enjoying the benefits and the blessings that have come. They have energy, they have zeal. And there are fathers, those who have worked with God for a while. They have a track record, He says, I write to you. That means there is something children can learn. There is something young men can learn. There is still a message even for fathers. When it has to do with the business of transformation. It is everyone's business. Are we together? So there is no arrival mentality in church? There is no tell them in church. When he speaks, it is with one voice. He's speaking, but the message is diverging to three categories of people. There is something a father will hear through this salmon that a child will not hear. Do you know you can listen to a salmon that was preach while you were there, But because you were occupying one of these three states, there are things you will not hear. Is that true? When you grow some more and listen to the same message, you will now hear what befits your level in the spirit. So it's possible that while everybody shouting Amen, there are people who even know they are crying, they really do not understand a bulk of what is being explained because of a certain spiritual state. The Bible calls them children. Then there are young men. Most times they don't take the problem with young men is that they don't have the patience to be thorough. Young Men have a lot of energy, and at the instance of a new information they want to practicalize it. There is such an itch for performance. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, you have ability, you have energy. And then I write to you fathers, because you have experience. A father can listen to a particular message and bring out volumes from that message, develop that message. A child and listen to that message and be hearing something else completely. But in any case, and by all means, make sure you hear what God has for you in the name of Jesus Christ, Allelujah. The quality of your Christian experience will depend on the kind and the degree of encounter that you have with God. We've been examining a series of teachings that are programming us to become victorious believe us in Christ. And last week we looked at the mentality of a victor. And all of these teachings are a serious line upon line, building upon one another to the intents that we become believers with understanding, with power and stature. Allelujah. So, the quality of your Christian experience, the quality of your faith work, depends on the kind of encounters that you have. Please listen very carefully, this is very important. The Bible is full of men and women who had various encounters with God, alongside the corresponding empowerments that came from those encounters. Abraham had an encounter with the God of the Bible. It produced faith, faith so much so he was willing to give up Isaac. Gideon had an encounter away together. Jacob had an encounter. You read all through scripture, you will find men and women who had encounters with God and the encounters translated into extra ordinary Christian living. Solomon had an encounter with the God of the Bible, and it translated to an impartation of an understanding heart. He had it through a dream, but the results was seen physically. Ali for someone here, it might be that the reason why you have platued at the spiritual stage. The spiritual level. Beat as a man of God, be as a businessman, be as a career person. Is because your life is bankrupt of genuine encounters. There are certain heights in the spirit that only encounters can sponsor. Encounters are ladders. They help us to accend dimensions and realms in the spirit. Are we together now? There are certain mantles and certain graces that depend on certain encounters for you to receive. So it is important for you to know that you must place value on spiritual encounters. If you truly hunger after God, if you hunger after the things of God, if you desire that your life becomes a tool his workmanship, like the Bible says, you must crave and cry for encounters. What is an encounter? Right? Please? An encounter is simply an experience, an experience that you have with God. And encounter is an experience that. You have with God that reveals God to you in a in a in a more I'm looking for the best way to express it, and encounter reveals God to the believer in a more structural way, in a more personal way, a deeper experience. Simply put that encounters experiences that crystallize the reality of God in all of his dimensions. To the believers. This is very important an experience with God. I think I've said it Coinonia that the God you experience is the God you reveal to your world. The God you experience is the God you reveal to your world. If your Christian experience captures the similitude of a weak God, it is that weakness you will reveal to your world. Are we together now, Yes. The dimension of God that you encounter is the dimension that you reveal to your world. When you encounter the One who is mighty, that might will be imparted upon you, and you will reveal that might to your world. That means if the believers experience is bankrupt of the supernatural, if the believer's experience is bankrupt of an ever increasing testimony of the hand of God, it only goes to show that there is a serious bankruptcy of encounters. Allelujah, It is down nearly eleven and verse thirty two. Be it says, but the people that do know dear God, they shall be strong, and they shall do exploits. The people that do know their God, they shall be strong, and they shall do exploits. The people that do know their God, they shall be strong and they shall do exploit. Allelujah. I wrote something down here that I want you to put down. According to Exodus, chapter six, from verse one to three, God reveals himself to men dimensionally. God reveals himself to men dimensionally. That means, no matter how much you love God, no matter how much you seek God, you cannot know all of God in a moment. So if I ask you, do you know God, you will say yes. What you are really saying is I know the dimension of God that has been revealed to me. So far. God reveals himself right please to men dimensionally, and the dimension of God you encounter becomes the direction of your exploits. The dimension of God you encounter becomes the direction of your exploits. If you encounter a healing God, your exploits will not be in the area of prosperity. Your exploit is limited to the dimension of God that you encounter. If you encounter a prosperous God, it will not translate to healing and science and wonders. If you encounter a messiful God, it will not translate into wisdom in your life. That means the dimension of God you encounter becomes the direction of your exploits. Please listen very carefully. It is a reason why, in spite of our knowledge of God, there might still be areas in our lives where it looks like we have we do not even know God. Look at what Paul said at the Senate of his Apostolic ministry. He said that I may know him. Question what do we have till today? Even as Machot believers, we continue to explore the palling epistles. I hope you know what you call the polling epistles was a man's contemplation. He's understanding by the Holy Ghost. Yet Paul, who wrote to thirds of the New Testament, here's what he had to say about his life, that I may know him, there were still other dimensions he did not know, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, he says, being made conformable even onto his death. This were other dimensions that Paul was said. Listen, even me, I am yet to explore this. We live in a world where we pride ourselves that we know God, as though we have exhausted everything to know. In God, you can know a healing God, but there are very very elementary aspects of healing that you may know. And you see that there are the healing ministry in his strength. Does not speak in your life because there are still virgin dimensions of healing in God that you can learn. Even the talk about prosperity increase the anointing. Let me tell you the truth. It is true that we have pressed into certain dimensions of God. But I submit to you, based on the curriculum that God has a march for our generation. As far as lending him is concerned, we are still a long way to go, a long way to go, and there are certain levels of revival that depend on our exhausting these curriculums in a hurry so that we are able to use that truth and that body of knowledge that the Bible calls marvelous light, marvelous light, marvelous light, marvelous light, Allelujah. The patriarchs knew something about God that we do not yet know. That is why we are yet to see their results. What did Joshua know that made him to speak to the song to stand still? Can you replicate it today? If your ansize know it is you know most times when we study the Bible dimensions that look too difficult, we just trivialize it and say it's unnecessary. It's like someone who says driving is unnecessary because you tried learning and you found out you were so hard as hard as driving can be to you. There are people who do Formula one. They run as if they want to die, am I right, and they still win. There are people who literally play around with cars, and you think a guy is a toy the playing around because they have mastered the mechanics of driving. Whereas there are those who there are even among those who drive, there are those who cannot drive. In trock. Am I right on that there are many, many, many Nigerians that fail driving tests when they go abroad, am I right. Respectfully speaking, they may have been driving for a long time, making mistakes and surviving it by themselves, and they believe. Some of them even have their drivers professionally in Nigeria, but as soon as they go abroad, they fail the test many times and then they have to learn again. Then they start learning that, wow, there are still some things I need to learn. There are many programs here that even if you are professional in Africa and Nigeria. When you go overseas, you are still made to have refresher courses? Am I right? Because they presume that there are certain things you do not know. That is an attitude that the believer must have. As far as I encounters a concern that there is still something about God, I do not know. Apostle, I'm calling to the prophetic. What makes you believe that you are a profit? Will? I profits? Right to somebody and it was correct? Is that all you know about the prophetic? Get back to the place of encounters. There is still a lot you need to know, Apostle. What do you know about the Apostolic ministry? Well, I mean I'm functioning in the Apostolic ministry with respect to what what is the standard? What is the reference? What is the marking script? Tonight's teaching is to provoke and to challenge us to desire and press for encounters. In addition to all the things that God has been teaching us, I want to teach you something about encounters tonight that will change your life and to put you in a position where your Christian experience begins to produce extra ordinary results because hear me, Without encounters, your life will become and remain ordinary. It takes encounters, genuine encounters with God to rise to access power with men, power with God. Are you ready for tonight teaching? I have taught us that an experience with God in the Kingdom is the basis for your confidence. The believers confidence is not based on nothing. The believers confidence, please write in the Kingdom is based on your encounter with God. An experience with God is the basis for your confidence in the future in the Kingdom. Your life and your future will depend on the confidence that is derived from your encounters. Write that down, please, Your life and even your future will depend on the confidence that comes from your encounters. There are men you see who it looks like they do not fear, and you are wondering, is it that you are not afraid of life? Their life with a level of confidence that is almost disturbing. Let me tell you that confidence was not intrinsic within them. It was outsourced and derived from the excellency of your encounters. How dare you stand before God Liad, except that you have met the God of the Bible? How dare you stand before Pharaoh and challenging that you are advocating an exodus of about two point five million people. Can I tell you many of us are not aware of the kinds of giants who will meet on our mountains. There is no mountain in destiny that is empty. If you meet an empty mountain, wake up, because you are dreaming. Every mountain already has giants. Did you hear what I said? There is no mountain that has children. Every mountain has giants. They sent the twelve Spies, and they went and returned. They said, truly we saw everything. We took off the fruits. The land is flowing with milk and honey. God, we met strange people there, the Anarkins. These guys were giants, and they said we were like them, We were like grasshoppers. Only two men in that generation entered, collap and Joshua. You need an experience with God, Man of God. You want to do ministry. You do not know the kinds of challenges that are standing in front of you, waiting, programmed by the enemy and sincerely just the reality of life. You need an encounter with God, who embolding you to give you the audacity it takes to do the things that you have to do. This is true for ministry. This is true for businesses settle it once, and for all ladies and gentlemen. When God gives you a promised land, hear me, it is not without giants. There are giants on every man's promised land. Of dispossessing those giants is predicated upon the confidence that your encounters produce. There are people who are bold like lions. I'm not talking about empty bold face that ends people in shame and misery and embarrassment. I'm talking about it says the right shouts are as bold as a lion. There is something about God that when you see, when you hear, when you know nothing in life, moves you again a way together. Now, according to scripture and for our teaching tonight, I want to teach you two levels of encounters. Please write, there are two levels of encounters that you must press for. You must press for beginning from today, tonight and for the rest of your life. There are two levels of encounters that the Bible provides for the believer to contend for, to press for. If we must access power, if we must access wisdom and grace, if we must access the fortification it takes to last to have longevity of impact, we need these two kinds of encounters. Number one. The first dimension of encounters that we need is encounters by the world. Please write encounters by the world. You can put in bracket Light from Scripture. This is the first kind of encounter that everyone who will do exploits for God must have consistently. So the encounter that comes by the word is not a one of experience. I will tell you the difference between the two encounters after I explain. Them to you. This is the chiefest of all encounters that believe us must desire. This kind of encounter can be a daily. Encounter, depending on your press and your passion. Encounters by the word Light from Scripture, first some Well, chapter three and verse twenty one. First some Well, Chapter three and verse twenty one. And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh. For the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord. The Lord revealed himself, revealed himself, revealed himself, but he used the word to reveal himself. Do not forget the object of the revelation was the Lord, but he used the medium of the Word to reveal himself. God can reveal himself through the Word, and himself means his wisdom himself means his power, himself means his favor. Are we together himself means your prophetic blueprints in Him. Everything that contained in God can be reviewed to the believer. Fear an encounter by the word. Light from scripture. I hope you know that Scripture on his own does not give you revelation. Do you believe that. You can open the Bible, ladies and gentlemen, and read it like a Christian book or like some novel, and not get anything. From it until light? There is lights that is hidden in the verses of scripture, There is lights that is kidding in the parables of scripture. There is light that is hidden in the prophecies of scripture. Until that light leaps out of scripture, you have not had an encounter. What you call Bible study is your exploring scripture until an encounter is established. Jesus spoke, and he said a lot of codet statements. And the people who sat at his crusades, some of them left angry. He was too hard for them. Many times you see the disciples who come and say, please explain this thing to us. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, the word of God was so designed, or scripture was so designed, that hidden in these stories you read is a mystery. Some of these mysteries are about you that you cannot see. Is it not in your Bible? When Isaiah said the spirit of the Lord is upon me, he himself did not understand the extent of what he was talking about. He just wrote. Holy men wrote as they were inspired of the holy gooes? Are you learning now? When Jesus came, the Bible says in Luke chapter four, he found the place you don't find till you such. He found the place. That means Jesus, at age twelve, he was telling the scribes, what do you know about the Messiah who should come? He was finding a place Jesus himself needed an encounter with to find the place where it was written. He opened the book and found the Bible did not say he opened the book and went there. He found by suching the place where it was written concerning him leave verse seventeen. That means, there is a place in this Bible where it was written concerning you. It's not your name that was written there, but the code of your destiny is hiding there. Listen, please believe what I'm telling you there will come. You will open the Bible, and you will know that what was written, nobody has fulfilled it. Yet I know you will not believe it because you are not in the Bible days. But it is not everything written here that has been fulfilled. There are things the prophets wrote that is about you, about your destiny. You will not find Nigeria as Nigeria here. You will not find coin Onia as coin Onia here. But it is here that is the mysterious thing about the script. And counters open your portion to you like so that you will see. Listen. Hegar was crying with her son, haven't been banished by by what's her name now? Abraham's wife Sarah. The Bible says she was in the desert. There was water in the desert, an oasis there, but she could not see until she cried onto the lord. And the Bible says the Lord heard the voice of the young lad and when he spoke to her and told her to go back and sub me to her mistress, the Bible says, her eyes were open and she saw an oasis. You do not know the treasures that I hidn't hear. Let me tell you when the day that light from scripture comes to you. Ah, you can you can have out of a sentence only two words will come out, and that's when you will know that it is the entire verse is for you. But two words will come out that are not even connected to the verse. Listen, let me teach you something tonight. There is the doctrinal composition of scripture, and there is the prophetic composition of scripture. This is where theologians miss it, respectfully speaking, are we together? The Bible from a historic standpoint is a book of archeology, a book of literature, a book of history. Are we together? A documentation of events past like many other books, only that this is religious and spiritual in context. But then to the believer in Christ, there is the doctrinal composition of scripture. That means content within scripture is a methodical arrangement of doctrine. Comes from the Latin word doctriner, a body. Of truth that empowers a disciple to look like his master. Do you understand that now? But there is the prophetic composition of scripture. This is where you can read a scripture like Jesus wept now contextually he was speaking about Lazarros, but he can come as a revelation to you that has nothing to do with lazaros light from scripture. Let me show you an example. Give us Galations, chapter two, from verse one and two, Gallations to one and two pauly speaking. Now watch this. Then, fourteen years after, I went up. Again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took titles with me. Also verse two, it says I went up by revelation and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the gentiles, but privately to them which are of reputation. Now hold on from a doctrinal standpoint, this is the Apostle giving his journey. Are we together? But I want you to read the first six words of verse two. Ready one to read one more time, one more time. You can be in a place of Bible study, and only those six words come out. I went up by revelation. That means men rise. It takes beyond desire. We'll go up. We rise dimensions in the spirit. The Holy Gooes will connect it to you with the scripture that says come up hither, and I will show you, and you will see a meaning from that scripture that only you will understand. It is not a doctrine. But it is a ladder for you to climb and excel on the strength of that light. A dimension of exploits is open up to you. And when you tell people the scripture a basis, they will read it and sometimes be angry. They will say, you are lying. I've read what you read, but they did not see what you have seen light from scripture. Listen, I know what I'm saying. Oh, there are no masters, but there are people who have been engrace in areas when it has to do with encounters. Believe me, I know what I'm saying. So you will see someone teaching and you will bring a scripture that does not make sense. But wait to see the result that comes out of that revelation. Just because you have knowledge does not mean you have light. No light is a revelation that comes from knowledge. Efficients one. Let me show you our Bible students praying the spirit while we turn their efficients one from verse seventeen, Shabala sabra katulski at the balandakata. Amen, do you know for someone tonight the kind of passion God is putting in your heart? You will go back and you will open your Bible. It will no longer be trying to finish verses or trying to finish there is You will start searching for it. There is something for me, There is a word for me. There are many of you who in the place of prayer certain words will come. It's not all the scripture that will come, just one word. You can be praying in the spirit and the only word you will hear is rest. You will think you understand what was said. These are spirit communications. You are having an encounter by the world. So you go and find where rest was written, and you will think that rest just means a state of not doing anything. No, that rest to you may be the end of all struggles. That rest to you may be the end of all afflictions. Give it to us one seventeen. Let's read together. Read it slowly, and try as much as you can by the spirit to use your mind as you read. Ready that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give on to you the spirit of wisdom and revene relation in the knowledge of Him. Keep that scripture there you went to school wisdom and revelation in the knowledge. So where is it found that means from that knowledge you still open it up. There is wisdom from the knowledge. There is revelation from the knowledge. You can carry the knowledge is the same thing as carrying a phone, a pack of phone. You know, you bought a gadget and then it's wrapped and you carry it. That's how knowledge is. Within that path is the phone. Within that path is the charger. Within that path is the manual. You can carry the phone, and when they say show me your phone, you can lift that which you got. You are right, but you are wrong. You are right in that it is true there is a. Phone inside, but you are wrong because you are not going to put the pack on your ears to walk. So you can be carrying a pack of phone forever, saying listen, all those who are phones, stand up, and you will stand up. But for years all you are holding is a pack. So Paul said, beyond the knowledge that you have, there is wisdom in it. There is revelation in it. And he's saying, pray Ali ca chaprone, dear, pray revelation in the knowledge of him. So the first thing you need is that knowledge. But when it comes you don't stop there where is the wisdom. For instance, you will read a scripture and a story. The knowledge is that story. But where is the wisdom? Where is the revelation? The power is in the wisdom. The power is in the revelation. Allelujah. Verse eighteen. It says, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, look. At the things you will know from that knowledge. Number one, When the eyes of your understanding are enlightened from that knowledge, you will know the hope of your calling is hidden in that story. You will know the riches of the glory, of the inheritance of the saints. They are all hidden there. But if you just read it as a story, you would just read it as Pauline epistle, full stop knowledge without wisdom, without revelation, someone learning light from scripture. I've shared with you the story, but for the sake of those who have not heard, my eyes will be open to this encounter dimension in a vision. So I am having this vision, and I'm seeing a giant like a gate, very big, ancient gate. And then that gate had smaller doors, like smaller boxes like how a post office. You know, the old context of our post office boxes. And there were scriptures that were written on every one of the boxes. And it was opening and closing, opening and closing several of them. And every time the box opened, lights will come from it. And I did not understand what that vision meant until the spirit of God told me that every one of those scriptures written, that is knowledge, but the lights the grace to defend it. The revelation that comes with power is the light that comes out of it. So you can be quoting scripture. Remember my story about the man carrying a phone for ten years. You can be carrying a phone in its pack and never enjoy the blessings there. Why because it must be unboxed, Am I right? And when it is unboxed, you must know how to combine it to work. The phone may most likely be dead or not charged enough. You must know how to use the charger, to plot the charger, and then use the manual to operate the gadget. You can be holding a phone that is of a lesser quality, or someone can be holding a phone that is of a lesser quality than yours, but that other person can navigate and manipulate that phone in a way that you will stand. You almost want to throw your phone, and it is higher in quality. The difference is that from that pack they have opened and they have learned what to use inside. The greatest healing evangelists in the world and the list all use the same scripture. The greatest healing evangelists and the list all believe that is the same Holy Spirit walking. So what is the difference. What is the difference between, say, for instance, a great healing evangelist who said ren had bunk this way men who read the same scripture. There is hardly any scripture shared by those men that it was your first time seeing. And some of us, for instance, can be masters in the area of revelation. And you stand before these men and they will read a simple scripture. You will have them finish the scripture. Yet you cannot command the results that they from the scripture. The difference is an encounter. Light came from me to them. It's it kilt Chapter two and verse one and two. Let's read together, Please give it worse. And he said onto me, son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak onto you. Let's read verse two together. Ready one to read. And the spirit entered into me. When he spake onto me and set me upon my feet. And I heard him that speake onto me. The spirit entered when you speak, did the Bible not say the entrance of thy word, not the reading of it? The entrance, so the word can be personified, It can entire man. The entrance of your word give it light. The reading of it prepares you to receive light. It does not give light. No mm hmm. Is someone learning. There have been scriptures that I read for all my life, and I read it and read it and read it. I could not see certain things there, aside from maybe just the doctrinal content, the theological presentation, or the contextual presentation of that scripture from a doctrinal standpoint. When you read the Bible, you read contextually and you draw the lesson as revealed in the scripture. When you study systematic theology, they teach you to use scripture to compare scripture, because in the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter, it's established away together. Now you allow the Bible to interpret itself. But when you get to the prophetic dimension, it would be all wise to believe that all that is contained is scriptures, just the doctrinal composition. The Bible is a spiritual book as much as it is a historic material, as much as it is a theory, logical manual, Am I together? Are we together? The prophetic dimension of scripture cannot be gotten your transformation, and having a theological basis gives you an edge. Please listen carefully. The theological basis contextual understanding of scripture from a doctrinal standpoint, It prepares your mind to even be able to derive the prophetic meaning. But let me tell you the truth. There is scripture speaking to believers, but there is life from scripture speaking to you. That will not apply to any other person encounters is someone learning. So for instance, God savant Bishop Devidrodico would tell you that he was studying in scripture and in the polling Epistles, he says that he that comment from above or the epistles generally he that comment from above is above all you've read that scripture. But it came as lights to him, and he said it is far above the gospel, really far above mentality, you would hear him say. And he's been able to prove it with his life. Now you can copy it and say far above mentality. But to you it is just somebody's testimony. It has become the same thing as what you are reading here. So you must stay until life comes for you away together. You would hear him say, for instance, that he studied on you know, and found the keys, you know, after reading the books of the copelands on prosperity, and he found the key and spain and say, yeah, I can never before you turn around like that and you find out that absolutely nothing happens because you are just reading a man's story. Until you get to the scripture and life opens. The scripture God will show you will be fa He may not even be a finance scripture at all. For instance, for you, the key to your prosperity can come in John three sixteen. That is a classic salvation scripture. But God can turn it around and bring forth light for God soul of the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have ever lasting life. There are so many things you can bring out there, love, the world, giving, believing life. All of them can be put and rearranged again the way that only your eyes can see. And from that scripture a conglomerate can come up. And when people ask you and say what empower your results, you will tell them and encounter with John three sixteen. And the evangelists who say I was preaching. Before you were born. I have exhausted that scripture. It is called light from scripture. Say light, please shout to say light, baraclest light from scripture. Light from light from scripture, Light from scripture. Do you know the Holy Spirit is so? The Word of God is so? Is so, is so rich full of light? That do you know? For somebody, the secret to your longevity can just come by reading genealogies. Not even I shall not die. The Holy Goost can just take you to begin to read Adam, I mean Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. And that's it. And to everybody that is just genealogy that was documented. But for you, light will come from it. Are we together? Yes? For someone, God can just use the books of the Bible to teach you influence. Why were there two women whose names were captured as books of the Bible. Mary was not there, the mother of Jesus, Sarah was not there, the matriarch of the Covenant. And yet there were two ordinary wa. That can be a revelation for you that no matter your lowly estate, you can rise to a point where you edge yourself. Are you seeing light from scripture? Someone can just read the Book of Esther and the Book of ruth Every one of these two women, the number one day started from their lowly estate. For Ruthie was even a complicated issue, her marriage, her husband died, children died. You would think there was such a generational cause on her, and yet she accessed light until the Bible is now named after her. So you can rise up from that light. I'm saying the name of Jesus, I will edge my relevance for the kingdom in the suns of time, and all of a sudden, from that scripture, a foundation will come up. From that scripture, a prophetic prayer, intercessory ministry will come up. From that standpoint, the healing ministry will come up. And when people ask you, you will say, I don't know why my father named me Esther. But one day I was reading the Book of Esther and I stopped seeing the queen. I saw myself. Please help them. The assignment of revelation is to change the historic scenery and put you there. All of a sudden you will see that where the disciples were, they suddenly vanish in your mind, and you are the one there working with Jesus and the Lord walking with them. You are no longer looking at Galilee. You're no longer looking at Nazareth. You're looking at Abuja and Nigeria and America, the Lord walking with them. Now to someone who is not you, it does not make sense, but light has come to you. Do you believe what I'm teaching you? This is how people use scripture to change their world. Just quoting and reciting will leave you and end doing disappointment. Believe me, it is now me. The way that you access light from scripture is to start by business. Student of scripture? Are we together? Even if you do not understand doctrine, start by starting it, even if it's just as a historic material. That initiation is a draw on to me, and I would draw on to you. Take the step like the prodigals on, and you have initiated the process that brings light from scripture. There are many scriptures. You check my Bible, and there are all kinds of blue viral. This one, start this one, I will You would see me with arrows as if I'm trying to build a house connected to one scripture and write one more scripture Verse five and I stared so that I don't forget these are all products of scriptural connections. I shared with you my encounter and Arenald Bronquet crusade. We're getting to the second dimension. But that while that encounter was happening, I was caught up in the spirit seeing a bird, the Holy Spirit. Now just sorry. Two scriptures just came to me immediately, Genesis chapter one, one and two. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. So there is creation, it says. And the earth was without form, it was void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Here was the scripture for me. And the Spirit of God. Moved, moved, moved, moved, moved. Not the Spirit of God was around. The Spirit of God moved a loud access upon the face of the water. That means, every time there is trouble, before you speak, verified that the Holy Goost is their first speaking without God. How to patiently wait for the Holy Ghost to move before he spoke. And it came by revelation that the union of the movement of the spirit and the spoken word is what here's the miraculous today. This that you see is a product of that revelation. So when I say, in the name of Jesus, let us be open. And you'll see testimonies with all humility. It is not just because a man is powerful. There is an intelligent encounter construct in my spirit that sponsors that speaking a wait together. The man Papa Kenneth Copeland, he is so studied the Blessing that in his simplicity of expression, it became such a revelation in his heart. He would hardly make a statement without saying that. You check his Bible and you will see, I mean, all kinds of attachments across that Bible. He is so meditated on the blessing it entered his spirit. He will share many scriptures to you that you will see us basic, sometimes a gnawingly basic, but the results that that show. I have listened to many, many of Reinhabonke's teachings. I have listened to many, many of Billy Graham's teachings. I'm a student of history, I'm a student of revival. I remember one time studying TL. Osborne's materials, and I was just trying to find out, my goodness, do you know history and technology did not do justice to capture the manifestation of the spirit in the life of these people. We just have a few documents. But my goodness, if God opened your eyes, or history allows your technology allows you to see the extent of the impact of these people. Today we have social media. Everything can be captured, so they can see the extent of the workings of God in your life. But those Petracks did not have that village. When you read the Bible and read what happened with Jesus and what happened with the apostles, you will think all that the Bible documents is all that happened. That's not all John. Chapter twenty Undresse thirty one. Is then in your Bible it says many miracles give us thirty thirty, not toty one thirty John twenty thirty, many other signs. Truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples read on which I am not written in this book. Only God knows what else happened that we're not written in this book. We know what are turning to why because it was written we know Lazaros. We only know three dead people who came back to life in the ministry of Jesus, But only God knows how many more we know the centurion's daughter, we know the widow at Naane's son, and we know Lazaros. But only God knows how how. Many more. Encounter by the word. Can you lay your hands on your head in one minute and cry, from the depth of your heart, lights me, Lord, lights me, Lord, lights me, Lord like a candle, lights me, Lord, lights my life. Lights me, Lord like a candle, lights me. Lord, lights me, Lord, Lord likes me, Lord, Man of God, pray the eyes of your understanding mean enlightened. Lining Lord, Lord, Lord, Allelujah. Listen, there are people here who are running businesses. Now you can read all of your educational materials respectfully speaking and commendably so from Yale, and have a Stanford Business school, all of the business schools. But you will search and search and then you will find them. Suggest strategy so far, But one day you will open this mysterious book and while you are seuching the Holy cost intercept your such and you will see something you never saw, an Isaac sod in that land, and receive that same year you have heard it. It's been Christian seminars, but it will come as light for you. And when I talk about Isaac sowing, it will have nothing to do with money. An isaac sod in that land and receive that same year. What will come out of this sture for you is that same year, the same year, the same year, the year a man souls, he can reap that same year. God can give you this as a revelation for speed that can come for you, as a revelation for speed that there is no delay in your life. The year you saw is the year you reap. The year you saw is the year you reap. The year you saw is the yeah you reap that can turn your life and turn your organization forever. Can I tell you the truth? Please, as you are listening to me, let you be a cry in your heart. Baptize me with the spirit of revelation. Baptize me with the spirit of revelation. The assignment of revelation is to open your eyes to see what God is saying. To open your eyes. You are a man of God. You cannot do n time ministry without revelation. Now you must be sound, knowing scripture, study to show yourself approved, understand the doctrinal structure of scripture. But by all means you must access a prophetic dimension of scripture. Just camping around. The doctrinal orientation may not suffice. There is still a layer of scripture, the prophetic dimension of scripture. Hellas shut up, kat the legator ah. Let someone receive a baptism, the baptism of the Spirit of revelation. You are a teacher of the world. I impact that grace upon you. May the eyes of your understanding be open in the name of Jesus Christ. May the eyes of your understanding be opened, be enlightened, be enlightened, be enlightened in the name of Jesus Christ. H I tell you, fire is falling on someone. You are receiving the baptism of the Spirit of revelation. The eyes that see beyond the letters, the eyes that see beyond the letters, the eyes that see beyond the versis, the eyes that see beyond the versist. Receive it. I imparted upon you in the name of Jesus Christ. The ba Lacus sabra catad baratus and cabrasca de gallo shantrasca deva latus abrah kata baradus, cato brande de verretus, schan de cavrasco sa branda dash sobro tooco parados praying one minute. Shelleparuskati Branda gebel that cosiata Allelujah in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, please sit down. Fire is falling in this place to night. Many of you you have come to a reven the spirit where God is pulling you, pulling you and telling you enough of this nominal Christianity. Watch this, let me show you something. Let me show you something. Give us John Chapter five, thirty eight or thirty nine. Thank you Jesus the Lord just put this in my spirit. Now watch this, it says, and ye have not his word abiding in you, for whom he had sent him he received not Watch this now thirty nine it says, such the scripture for in then ye think you have eternal life. Now watch this. No matter what revelation you bring out of scripture, I need to balance this. No matter what revelation you bring out of scripture. Here is the litmust test It says, they are they which testify of me. If your revelation and your encounter listen to me. If your revelation and your encounter with scripture is bringing you into another experience that is not forming Jesus in your life, the devil, and a familiar spirit has taken advantage of that scripture. I need to say this because I hope you know the Holy Spirit is not the only spirit, and every spirit has an advantage over the physical realm, even if it's demonic spirits. Are we together? So that please, whether you are an Asha or not, just help those under you're annointing. There's fire boning in this place God is bringing. Every time God brings these things, it is. To confirm his world. So whilst whilst don't be distracted, this is what He has made out of our lives. This is coinonia. Listen, allelujah. The scriptures are there that testify of me. Because there are many people who, in their passion praying and fasting, they began to study scripture, and familiar spirits came and started manipulating the pages of scripture, opening them to dimensions and using scripture to teach them, witchcraft, using scripture to teach them, necro mencin using scripture to teach them, interactions with strange spirits that are not of God. They have come up with several practices, respectfully speaking, even begun ministry with several practices just because there is a scripture, for it in the Bible does not limit is testifying of Jesus. The lid must test is. Not just a scripture compliancy of what you were saying, that at the end of your revelation, we must see Jesus revealed in all his dimensions. In cononia, we say Jesus revealed Jesus glorify. That means if you claim you have had a healing scripture by revelation, now we have no right. We were not there when God was opening the prophetic dimension. This is why the study of scripture first layer a historic study, second layer a doctrinal study, third layer a prophetic study. If you just jump to the prophetic whereas you are not a student of scripture, you will most likely encounter familiar spirits. The accuracy of that prophetic navigation is balanced by your doctrinal understanding. Is someone learning now so you understand the entire frame of the doctrine of scripture. It is going to be difficult for. Any spirit to manipulate and give it a prophetic meaning that is not of Christ, because doctrine will make you reject that revelation. Are we together and. Chapter two hundred forty two and they continue steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine. Doctrine doctrine. Most believers, and respectfully speaking, if you are calling to the Apostolic and prophetic ministry, can I tell you stop chasing science and wonders and go and set to to become a student of doctrine. Once you do not understand scripture from a contextual perspective, you have to be fast because you are going to be facing influences. It is based on your doctrinal balance that discernment works. Dessignment is directly derived from the health of your doctrinal understanding. If you do not understand doctrine, there is no Even if you understand scripture and you do not understand doctrine, you will be misled. Because the Bible is a prophetic book, you can make it speak any language you want. I have taught you here in the Bible. Satan spoke in the Bible. Men spoke from their backsleading state in the Bible. There were men who spoke before and after your encounters. And it's not the same thing they said in the Bible. God spoke in the Bible. Demons disguise themselves as angels of lights, so because you found. It in the Bible does not mean ities of God. Listen to me. Every scripture in the Bible is only called the word of God if it reveals Christ. Listen and learn free. Scripture in the Bible only becomes the world of God when it passed since the lidmost test of the revelation of Christ, Christ as wisdom, Christ as power, Christ as favor. There are many people who are sounding scripture, but their practices are antichrist. The reason is because they focus on the prophetic dimension of scripture and ign doctrine, and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scripture which is able to make you wise onto salvation. Am I right on? That We must become students of doctrine, where truths of the Scripture are methodically are ranged. For instance, when you want to learn doctrine according to Hebrews chapter six, you will see that the believers journey. Watch this. The believers journey is made up of six foundational doctrines that if you do not know those doctrines to now begin to explore deep part things in the Kingdom, will only live you in confusion. The Bible arranges six doctrinal foundations that. Are pillers for the believer. Are we Together? The foundation of repentance from dead, walks faith towards God, Verse two, the doctrine of baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, eternal judgment. These are doctrinal pillers. Now look up, please the Gospel, the believer's journey. As far as exploring God, you know that the Old Testament came in types and shadows. It was adombrations, various adombrations and revelations of Jesus Christ. And when Jesus now showed up as captured. In the first synoptic accounts Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There were all eyewitness accounts according various perspectives. Matthew, for instance, there was a way and approach that he gave the revelation of Jesus. Are We Together? Mark, You noticed that Marc focused on the acts of Jesus. There was no there were not too much historic documentation. Mark. Chapter one goes straights into You will not even know Jesus was born. If you depend on Marke alone, it just goes straight into the manifestations. Are We Together? This is the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus does not talk about his life, just add it. And then Look was the one who took out time to give us a detailed historic view. When you study the account of Look, it archives the humanity of Jesus meticulously. So and then John talks about his divinity. It starts immediately. John one one in the beginning, what's the world, and the word was with God. You don't find that kind of account in Matthew, you don't find it in Math. It was John that spoke about the ministry of the Holy Spirit the most John was the synoptic account that captured the ministry of the Holy Spirit from chapter fifteen, Chapter sixteen. Are we together now? Yes? So, when you study the gospels, they give you the foundation, the birth, the earthwork of Jesus down to his death, is burial, his resurrection. But the Gospel will never give you the revelation of what the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus meant. None of the disciples understudy it tells you the story. When you want to understand the revelation of Jesus. It's not the Gospel you study. You study the epistles, not even. The Book of Acts. The study the theological framework for the believer's stability starts from the Book of Romance. When you study it down, are we together? The Book of Acts and the Book of Revelation are two peculiar books. They will not give you doctrinal accuracy. No, because the Book of Revelation was a man's revelation of Jesus Christ. And he says, right, and this were written to the seven churches. In Asia minor. Away together, now all the twenty two chapters. There same thing with the Book of Ads. But when you now begin, Paul's theological exegesis starts from Romance one, his mentorship, his real apostolic ministry. Now Jesus said, it is expedient that I go, that the comfort will come away together, he says, when he the spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. That means what he was telling them was not yet all truth. The old truth was what Paul began to teach in Efficiens. After one he says, now this Jesus, you know who died. He was exalted. Now we have been raised with him. It was appalling epistle that helped the believer to know the implication of the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus and the implication to the believer. It was Paul who brought us into the knowledge of the gifts of the Spirit. We never knew that the Holy Spirit even had gifts. It was Paul that brought it and arranged it. It was Paul that opened us up to the fruit of the Spirit. It was Paul that opened us up from a theological standpoint to the subject of warfare. Efficient chapter six, you see are we together? When you read from verse ten, he says, Finally, brethren, when he was don't teaching the church and ephisos, he says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his MND. Then he now. Opens us up to a mystery. He says, put on the whole armor of God, that he may be able to stand against the wilds of the devil. Jesus did not open us to this, but he told us that the Holy Spirit is going to come. It's the Greek expression a lost Paracletus, the Paracletus, the one who is of the same kind. He will come to become an extension of his ministry. I'm telling you all of this to teach you that you need a doctrinal framework to be able to now start pressing for the prophetic dimension of the world. So there is a historic dimension of the world to give you a general appreciation of scripture events as they happen leading to Jesus Christ, the Early Church. Are we together now? I broke to you that the theology has a number of dimensions that we study. There is theology itself from the word, theos, the study of divinity. There is there is demonology, There is Christology, there is so teriology. Are we together now? All of this together? There is ecclesiology, the study of the church. There is skaptology, the study of the end times. All this together so you can study the Bible from an educational standpoint, and that is profitable. The next layer is now studying the Bible to understand doctrine, the believer's structure for growth and maturity. So as a mature believer, your maturity is not just in ley hands on people and they fall down your doctrinal understanding. You must be able to arrange the Bible in a way that makes doctrinal sense. From creation to the fall of man. Are we together now? Yes, down to Abraham, Moses and everything that happened the prophets major and minor? Are we together? Yes? Then you get to the point from Malachi Theologically, about a period of four hundred years, there was no manifestation of God whatsoever as revealed to men except the Gospel. The Gospel comes with John crying like a madman in the wilderness repent, and it begins the story that leads to Jesus, and then Jesus calling together his disciples who would be mentored to become apostles. The dispensation of the Holy Gooes began officially in that chapter two till then till now it is still his dispensation. Now when you study this, then you're connected to acts, connected to revelation. You have a doctrinal understanding of scripture. Now you are ready for the prophetic dimension where God can bring out meanings that are outside of the doctrinal context to benefit you, and you will not be in error because doctrine protects you. Is someone learning now this is the danger of just studying one verse random versus today word do I study? I feel like Psalm seventy. One, verse one, and you look at it and you want to press You will get a meaning from it that will make you become like a hab a list. Are we together? You now see something ah, the urim and the tuning Aha. So where is the version of that in your own life? Now you won't get two things that look like you know, and respectfully speaking, is because most people are not doctrinally sound. That is why the prophetic dimension of scripture leads to error. If you're with me, say amen, now, this is not a call for you to be pointing fingers at people and criticizing people. Whenever you see people manifest extra biblical practices, you owe them your intercession to pray for them. Where God can grant you access because authority has jurisdiction. Are we together? Where it is within your jurisdiction to help them, you can correct them, teaching them the truth in love. The Bible talks of truth in love. When truth is not in love, it does not reveal Jesus number two, Did I welcome you to coin onia? This is coin onia, but dealing with encounter someone is learning. Of course, I don't know. The Bible, but God knows. I see. Be careful listen to me. I'm about to help you. Now. God knows I see, and I know that what I see comes to pass. The second dimension of encounters are called visionary encounters or experiences. Please write, So I told you that there are two kinds of encounters that the Bible tells us that believers can have. One is an encounter by the word light from scripture number two visionary encounters or experiences. You may want to put in bracket word based visionary encounters, and I'll explain to you why I spoke about it being word based visionary encounters generally or experiences. Look chapter twenty four. Let's begin our reading from verse eighteen. Look twenty four eighteen. Please write and let me have your attention. This is a very sensitive one that is going to be liberal for someone now. Visionary encounters. Now, this is the story of two men who were walking the street of Emaus. Let's read together. Well, I would just read, but where I want when I wanted to join, I'll plead that you join. And one of them, whose name was Cleopas Answering, said, unto him, had thou only a stranger in Jerusalem? And hast thou not known the things that have come to pass there in these days? Nineteen? And he said onto them, what things Jesus now appeared to two men, are we together? Who were walking the streets of emaos. They saw him as a stranger, and so they were discussing the happenings what had transpired three days before, and he just assumed, He just, you know, gave an impression like he did not know. And he was listening to them. So they were narrating to Jesus, now what happened to him? Are we together? And they said onto him concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty indeed and word before God and all the people, My goodness, I can stop here, and that sentence. We can do one week talking about that statement. Look at your testimony of Jesus a mighty prophet indeed, and a mighty prophet in world. So a true prophet must be sound. Indeed and world. Are you seeing that now? If you are a mighty prophet indeed alone, you're in trouble. You must be a prophet mighty indeed and mighty in world, first before God, then before all the people twenty and how the chief priest and the rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him. These guys must be great intelligent people. They know how to get information. I don't know if they were journalists. Look at how precise they were, and how the chief priest and the rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him twenty one let's hurry up. But we trusted that it had been we should have redeemed Israel. They were expressing their disappointment. And besides all this today's the third day since these things were done. Twenty two Yays and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early about the sepulcher, and when they found not his body, be patient, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, a vision of angels. What did the angels say that he was alive? What are your angels saying? The one you saw? What did they say? Many people will tell you I saw angels. We see what angels say? Here. Every time angels appear, they testify that he's alive. Whether they appear in a healing ministry, whether they appear in a prophetic ministry. Their assignment is to work in partnership with the Holy Spirit and validate that he is alive. If your own angelic encounter does not lead to the revelation of the fact that Jesus is alive. Go back and verify, are we learning twenty four. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulcher and found it even so as the women had said. But they said their son, they said to him, but him they saw not twenty five. And he said, unto them, all fools, Jesus is replying now and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets had spoken, ought not trust to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory twenty seven. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he. Had expounded onto. Them in all the scriptures, the things consigning himself. He used scriptures to talk about himself twenty nine, the Bible says. And they drew nigh. Onto the village. Whither they went, and he made us, though he would have gone further, testing their passion, and they constrained him, listen, you will learn a lot right now. And they constrained him, saying, abide with us, for it is towards evening and the days first spent. And he went into tarre with them, reading to thirty two and it came to pass. While he sat at meat with them, he took bread and blessed it, and break and gave it to them. Let me not create controversy on that statement. I hope you know the one who is breaking this bread is the one who is now resurrected. And it came to pass. As he sat at meat with them, he took bread, blessed it, break and gave to them thirty one, the Bible says. And their eyes were opened, so they were seeing what they were blind, and they knew him, not they saw him. When your eyes are opening, the spirit is beyond seeing him. You now know him. The purpose of the opening of the eyes of their understanding is to know him, not just to see him. They were already seeing him, but they saw a stranger. But when he opened their eyes, the Bible says, they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight. Look at this verse, study Tude. The last verse. He says, and they said to one another, did not our heart burn within us? While he talked to us by the way, And while he opened to us the scripture, write this down, place, write this down. There are three things that we learn from this visionary encounter that becomes the leadmost test please our their encounter's visionary and counters are broken into many first as I'm not doing that tonight, Hopefully we'll have another series maybe on dreams visions, and then we'll teach that. But you know, there is what you call a dream. A dream is often called in the Bible the vision of a night. Are we together? Then there are visions? Then there are trances. The Bible shows us these three. Right, Are we together? Trances? Visions, dreams? It shall come to pass in the last days. I shall pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. Are we together? So we know that there are trances, there are visions, and there are dreams. But there are three things that you can use to test any visionary encounter. Visionary encounters are simply supernatural encounters where you are transported to a rem beyond the physical rem and you are shown different levels of spiritual realities. Now have a teaching on the spirit realm, will soon have it before the year realpshop So I don't want to go ahead of myself, but let me just give you just a background to understand this. You see, the spirit. Realm is an environment just like the natural realm. I wit together now. The spirit realm is a lot more superior to the natural realm. If you have the privilege to be caught up in the spirit and you look at Earth, it just looks like a vapole. That's what the Bible says. This world, as thick as this building is, from the realm of the Spirit, all you will see is just like a vapor. Are we together now, yes? The frailty of this realm with respect to the realm of the Spirit. And then there are many differences between the natural realm and the spirit realm. For instance, in the realm of the Spirit, I do not have to talk to you to communicate my thoughts to you. There is transference of thoughts. Are we together now, Yes? But in this physical realm, except God shows you, you cannot know what is in my hearty life. Verbalize it. Number two. In the physical realm, there is time and distance. In the realm of the Spirit, that reality does not exist. It can be compressed in a moment. You can be somewhere. If I need to walk from here to the back of that auditorium, I will need to work physically, taking progressive steps. In the realm of the Spirit, I am there immediately now. In the physical realm, the only way I know is by learning or by experimentation. But in the realm of the Spirit, I can have the impulse of becoming that thing that I want to know about and suddenly transfer the knowledge from me to me. These are differences between the realm of the Spirit and the physical realm. However, the realm of the Spirit does not just mean God's domain. It is a realm that is accessible to all spirits, demon spirits, miliar spirits, the Holy Spirit. So just because you were caught up with the in the realm of the spirit, visionary encounters mandate that is spirit must be and the agency that transports you there, whether it is a demon spirit through divination, are we together or the Holy Spirit now having a godly encounter? And the advantage of the realm of the Spirit is that in the realm of the Spirit there is the possibility of going into yesterday and tomorrow. In the physical realm, you cannot go into yesterday. In fact, what you call tomorrow is only today. What you really have is today. Am I right? Today? Was yesterday's tomorrow. Today was yesterday's future. Yesterday when you mentioned future, today was part of it. So what you really call the future from biblical intelligence, it's just a mirage. The only thing you really have is today. The only way you can enter your future is when the future becomes you today. You get what I'm explaining now, Yes, but in the realm of the spirit, you can be caught up into yesterday, you can be caught up into tomorrow. Literally, these are some of the differences. Now, three things, let's look at it very quickly. Three things happened to the men in emals. That becomes a lesson for us to judge spiritual experiences, whether they be dreams, whether they be trialces, whether they be visions. Number one I wrote here still on that point too, that the first thing that happened to the people is that they encounter that they had with Jesus. It focused on Jesus and it brought them growth and understanding verse twenty seven. The first thing that we need to learn is that their encounter was centered on Jesus and it brought them growth, It brought them understanding. Look twenty four. Now verse twenty seven. The Bible says, I'm beginning at Moses and all the prophets. He being Jesus now expounded onto him all things in the scripture concerning himself. That means, no matter what your visionary encounter is, you don't have to see Jesus. No matter what it is, at the end of it, it should reveal Jesus. It should translate to your spiritual growth and bring understanding to you. Is someone learning. So number one, the encounter focused on Jesus and brought them growth and understanding. Number Two, the encounter did not violate scripture Verse twenty five that although it was Jesus himself they met Hallelujah. The encounter did not violate scripture. He said, unto them all fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Twenty six. Now he says, ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory. Now in twenty seven you will understand. He says, I'm beginning from Moses and all the prophets he expounded to them in all scripture. That means even Jesus appearing to them did not like let scripture. There are many encounters that make. Believers to ignore scripture, and they say, from me, I know what I saw. I do not need scripture. That is already an error. Even Jesus, when he appeared, he made reference to scripture. Are we together? Yes, the encounter did not violate scriptures number three. The third test is that the encounter, which is very important, the encounter affected their hearts and affect their passion. The encounter affected their hearts and affected their passion verse twenty nine to thirty two, twenty nine to thirty two. But they constrained him, saying, look at this. These guys were on their way going to Emmaus, but they met this stranger, and when he began to expand scripture, they pleaded with him. Don't leave us, They said, abide with us. And encounter that does not lead you to cry and say, Lord, abide with me. The hymn writer said it so beautifully. He says, abide with me. First falls the even tide, it says, the darkness deepens, Lord with me, abide. It says, when all the help pers fall and comfort flee. It says, help of the helpless, all abide with me. Abide with me. Allelujah. For it was towards evening, and the day was first spent, and he went into tarry with them Verse thirty Look at this and it came to pass. As he sat at meet with them, they constrained him. They brought him closer to them. They sat down. They were no longer walking in the hurry they had. He had comed with them. The Bible says, he blessed it, and breaking question, was it his house? Was it not their house? He came as a visitor. Look at the kind of honor, and they get He came as a visitor, But now he was one picking the bread, blessing it and giving them. They had now honored him beyond their feelings. He had become the lord of their home verse starty one. The Bible says their eyes were opened, and when the assignment of that encounter was fulfilled, he vanished, does your encounter lead you to be caught to the heart? Verse thirty two. I like what they said, did our hearts not burn within us? When I heard that encounter and saw the nations? Did my hearts not burn within me? Many people who have encounters? Now, I say this respectfully speaking, I am amazed and surprised at many people who will say they see angels all the time, And I'm not being sarcastic. They see Jesus all the time, and we check. There is no boning of the heart, there is no passion towards the things of God. No, we have a right to vex that encounter from the lens of scripture. I have had the honor of seeing Jesus. It took me more than one. Year for me to recover. I was not myself again. Nothing else in this life made sense again because of that encounter. So when people say they saw him even in heaven, they don't see Jesus that frequently. Want to read your Bible heaven. We need to be careful. And I'm saying this from a standpoint of love. I will not I love the Body of Christ. I'm not one of the people that pride in the downfall of people are wiser and we're more mature than that. And I'm praying that the Body of Christ progressively comes to a place of maturity. So when God shows greater light, it is for the advantage of the body not to be able to compare and contrast. No, that is childishness. The purpose of growth and revelation is to defy the whole body? Are we together? Generally speaking? When the love component is absent, whether in your correcting the body, in your communicating exegesis of scripture, you have defaulted. Because even faith works by love, truth works by love, Knowledge works by love. Knowledge is not the zenate of transformation. The zenate of transformation is love. This may be a lesson for somebody to learn because there are so many preachers with a lot of zeal saying a lot of things and hoping they are pointing and correcting the body. Never forget the love component. Never forget the love component. If you end up tearing people down and try whether you are right or not, it's not the issue. The love component is what makes you believable. The love component is the difference between you. If you now try to demonstrate superiority of understanding, it is not the vastness of knowledge that demonstrates that. It is the presence of love. Someone learning very very important, so their hearts burn within them. Can I tell you when you have a genuine. World based god kind encounter, you will never be the same. Many of you here have had visions, many of you here have had revelations, and because of our obsession for exploring the spirit realm, we no longer care the effect of our visions. There are people whose spiritual life started going down the day their eyes open and they started accessing all kinds of things, familiar spirits, extra biblic activities, and they come back and prack. Have you seen people who will be walking close to with streaming the night and they'll say a voice told them go there. You've seen people behave like that. You see them. Walking alone or misbehaving or doing something. They can even carry knife and want to kill themselves. They will say a voice said it. All experiences must submit to the world. I repeat all experiences, even if it is Jesus. Jesus himself submitted himself to the world. Here to the men at emmaus all experiences, no matter how spectacular, no matter how divine. When you say you went to heaven, submit your encounter of heaven to scripture, so that you will verify where you went to. Are we together? Yes? When you say you were caught up and you went somewhere, you may be since here. If you've never had experiences in the spirit. The realm of the spirit is so fast. Listen, I can if you have never for instance, and respectfully, so if you've never been to Europe or France or US, somebody can stand down, photoshop something behind and just stand and say he was in front of some tower somewhere. If you have not been there, you don't have the system to verify whether this is just this is just at playing games with your mind, or he actually was there. So when people speak with audacity about the realm of the Spirit outside of scripture, there is trouble. No matter how mysterious my visions are. If you are doctrinally sound, you can bring my vision and pieces it and check it against scripture, and you will have a right to correct me in love and say I respect the ten days you did in the spirit, But that place you went is not Heaven based on the truth that is written here. Because people are being transported all over the place in the realm of the Spirit, go into all kinds of place, and they're coming back with that conviction. Now again, I remind you the purpose of teaching is for growth and maturity. Some of you are seated here right now, and you know where you went to before you came for cononia. Very fine, It is not that Listen if your heart is not leading you to God. Oh of course you. Hands were laid on me and I started having out of body experiences. Okay, what did you see? People come back and they see all kinds of things, and Jesus is absent and outside of that experience. Or they can have this simlitude of Jesus. But the content of that communication is not consistent with scripture, because Satan can appear as an angel of light. If Satan appears to you, he's not going to come as somebody with a horn, as cartoons put. It is matter than that they will come in and call you my dear sir. They were robot and regularia and you kneel down and says squeak, lord be. Because most people do not have doctrinal accuracy. I've met spirits, so I've met demons and alike the way people think I've met ugly demons. Have met demons that look like men strangers. It is at the impulse of revelation and the exercise of authority that your true form is revealed. Yes, that you can meet it smart demons looking like business people, but they're not humans. I mean what I'm saying, if I'm joking. I will tell you I'm joking. If you're with me, say amen, yes sir. And now we need to be careful so that we do not get ourselves emotionally pressured. There are believers today who have not had any aside from dreams, they've not had any out of body experiences. And respectfully speaking, there are circles across the body of Christ that makes it look like once you are not having out of body experience, you are a child in the spirit. No, sir, let's get back to doctrine. You see it. Knowing Scripture delivers us from a lot of spiritual our childishness. When you are ignorant of the world, you will market a lot of you know it shouldn't be. There is nowhere in scripture we're out of body encounters is the biblical index for growth. There are four index biblical indices that make for growth. I have taught you Number one is your love life. Number two is your degree of conformity to the image and the character of the christ inexperience. Number three is the outworking of the power of God in and through your life. Are we together? And then of course your level of transformation. So I need to tell you this, believers be at rest. There is so much pressure to experience realities that are purported, especially by the apostolic and the prophetic miness. So we have many people who get angry. That's why people tell lies. Someone will just come and say I'm seeing just so that they can't respect because it was a man of God. We are five and fourth say they are seeing all the time, and then me the fifth one, who is also praying, I'm not seeing anything. Chances are excellent you will not invite me for a program. So the only way I have to join is to tell you I'm seeing something. No, No, ladies and gentlemen, if you never see anything in your life, you can have encounters with the integrity of scripture, and out of that encounter you will work one does manifestations of the spirit. A generation whose focus completely goes to out of body experiences is a generation that will almost be lost Already. Doctrine gives balance to everything. The Word of God brings gives balance to everything. There are many many appearances of Jesus to men. Supposedly, when you verted from the lens of scripture and doctrine, you will find out that it was the devil disguise in itself? Are we together? When the Angel appeared to Mary, what was the content of the discussion. It was still a revelation of Jesus. These men were talking about angels, same thing every time. Angels do not have the personal ministry of your own. Their ministry is derived from the ministry of the saints. Are we together now the excelling strength serving the purposes of God? So that you need to know what to cast. If you get up in the morning and you have dreams and visions a person I was sitting and the next thing I saw something. Quickly, let your mind go to scripture. Use the lens of scripture, and begin to judge all you saw and heard. I have taught you it is written, is greater than I went. Written, is greater than I saw. It is written, is greater than I heard. You can use it is written to change what you saw. You can use it is written to change what you heard. Apostle, I saw that my ministry has gone down. You are right based on that vision. Perhaps it's a revelation of tragedy. Satan is programming. Now use it is written. Your victory in Christ has written and revealed to you by the spirit to now change that narrative. When Prophet Isaiah met Hezekiah and said, put your house in order, you will not leave, he said, all right, God bless you, Prophet, I respect you. You go, just leave me alone with God. Hebrews Chapter one. God, who in sundry times and diverse manner speak to us in time passed through the prophets, have in this last days Verse two spoken to us through his son, whom he had appointed to the heir of how many things, all things? All things. Let's even really to verse three, by whom also. Leave us to let me finish verse two, by whom also he had made the worlds. Let's read verse street together. If you are a believer already one to read Who've been the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, And upholding all things by the word of His power. All things means all experiences to upholding all things by the word of His power. So all my experiences don't matter what they are. I gather them together and bring them through the filter of scripture, and I begin to edit the ones that are not worth compliant and trade them with joy. Do you know, for many of you who have followed Papa Hagen of Blessed memory. If you follow Papa Higgin's ministry, especially when he begins to move by the spirit ministry, it is amazing how humble that man is and how disciplined he is to make sure his visions and his experiences are word compliance. You will see him prophesying and you will stop in the middle of his prophecy and said no, no, no, I reject that that is not consistent with scripture. Then you will continue prophesying. That means he's not a shamed to say, Look, I am human and I am involving in accuracy. And if for any reason I capture what is inconsistent with the Word of God, I will councel it in your presence before I continue. Allelujah. It's where men void of ego, void of pride, they were determined to see the purity of the counsel. Of God as revealed in Scripture. That it comes to men, listen to me, I respectfully tell you the church in Africa, the Church in Nigeria, we're doing well and God is granting us grace. I think the area where we need to come into compliance is a restoration of doctrine and a restoration of the supremacy of the world of God are both all prophetic, apostolic, evangelical, pastoral experiences. Until we get to a point where we become students of doctrine and we get to a point where we respect the supremacy of the world above gifts are both experiences. There's going to be a serious problem. I have had many visions. There are many visions that led to the burthen of Coinonia. But the basis upon which we do what we do, it is written not where I went to. When I speak about my visionary encounters that led to ministry, there are only supporting structures. It is not because of those visions I'm doing what I'm doing. Now are we together? It is because I found in scripture the place written concerning me and the role that coin Onia has to play. It says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the. Fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Let it abide with you all. He was speaking to the whole church, not individuals. So we must we must be restored to doctrinal accuracy. And now, with all due respect, this is where we need to applaud and respect what we call, with all due respect, what we call the autodog circles. You know, Penecostas and Charismatics were quick to talk about say, oh, there's no manifestation of the spirit, but you doctrinal accuracy, at least at the level that they can't. You find that there is there is structure and understanding of doctrine. But Penecostas, how do you say, I'm not serious when somebody is falling down? It doesn't matter by what influence. I can say a lot of nonsense, and once I wrap it up with in Jesus Name and somebody is shouting, it seems to justify. So you find out that there is a lot of charismatism without methodical growth and maturity. After three four five years in Corinonia, for instance, believers still stunted, the works of the flesh still alive. No transformation, no conformity, no love, no doctrinal accuracy. It ought not to be so. Someone learning, However, visionary experiences are powerful and wonderful. They do something to your spirit. Man, do not reject them. They are also a kind of experience, and God desires to bring to his people as a man of God upon the strength of visionary experiences. Once your life is worth based, you do not fear supernatural experiences. You see me work in the spirit as I minister to people, maybe during the miracle services. These things come because of the advantage. Once you have the foundation of the world, you do not need to fear visionary experiences because the word of God remains the confirmer. There are many things I see beyond the things I say. Some of them are unnecessary. The wisdom of Scripture, for instance, says, do not reduce an elder in public. So if God shows me something about someone and that person is considered an elder, I will not announce it and speak here because it will bring more disaster to God's people than need to profit them. That's the advantage of scripture. Are we together now? If I call out a man and his wife, for instance, by prophecy and through the gifts of world of knowledge and all of this, and if I say that there is an issue that can cause problem in their home, and then it can spoil their name and their image, the wisdom of Scripture mandates that we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. I'd rather wrap it up and tell them come and see me in the office or see me somewhere, not just to announce their issue and cost trouble. They may be saved, but you have created more damage, especially in this social media world. So the wisdom of scripture helps you to. Dispense visions with balance. Are you getting the point now? If you see everything, if you say everything you see, you have not grown in the spirit. No, the real spirituality is not in the scene. Is the discipline to see out what comes from your mouth to ensure that it ministers grace to the hearers. The Bible says someone learning. Let's wrap up quickly. Let me give you three results you get from pressing for encounters. There are three results that you get from pressing for encounters when a man decides to press for encounters. And I want you to be very sensitive a sense that while I'm mentioning this, there will be importations. There are people who have come here with their hearts open. Some of your ministry you may be in, you may be outside, maybe in Zaria, following across the globe. Please, I like you to be sensitive for this next few minutes that we have, because I believe that there is a hearing of faith. As you are hearing there are activations happening within your spirit man to empower you to be a believer that returns with results. You believe that say amen. Result number one. The first result that you experience when you begin to press for encounters by the word and then visionary encounters is an impartition of the spirit of faith and impartition of the spirit of faith. Please write and impartition of the spirit of faith. What does that mean? The confidence to live out your destiny, the confidence to live out the purposes of God in your life, the confidence to their life without fear is a product of genuine encounters. Just write for reference. We may not read it, but write for reference. Daniel Chapter three, from fifteen down to thirty. It documents a story of three Hebrew boys, Shadrack, Meshack, and abet Nego. You know the story and the burning furness experience. This gentleman had such an encounter that built confidence within them, even though they were in a strange land. And they told the king. They said, oh King, we will not bow. We will not bow. We love you, we respect you. We've been taught to respect authority, but we will not bow to you. Our God, they said, is able to deliver us, and he will. But they said, even if he does not deliver us, just know it for a certainty that will not bow to you. Now the king is angry, and he. Says, really, this is what you are telling me. My people, come and make the fire seven times hotter, the Bible says Neboca Nezza was angry. They made the fire seven times hotter, to the point that those who threw them in were burned to death by that fire. And as soon as they. Arrived there confidence, the Bible says, they became four. Immediately the Lord denied them that call upon him. Four of them. Their conviction had produced results, and that they said, were they're not three men who were thrown in. Two miracles happened there or three. Number one, the Bible says, these were men that the fire had no power over. There was no smell of smoke or burning, just like the burning bush. Number two. The second thing that happened was their chains, and everything was loose. Immediately they were walking freely in the furnace. And number three, they saw one who looked like the son of God, the buck Naza said. He answered and said the form of the fourth is like the Son of God encounters encounters. Let me show you one last scripture at chapter four, from verse twenty nineteen thirty one. And now, oh Lord, remember this. When they healed the man that get beautiful, and they threatened them to not preaching that name again, the Bible says. They returned to their company, and they began to pray. This was the content of the prayer. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant onto thy servants that with all boldness, they may speak your word thirty by stretching for your hand to heal, and that science and wonders may be done by the name of your Holy child. Next verse, please, the Bible says. And when they had prayed hallelujah, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were filled with the Holy Ghost. And they spake the word of God with boldness. They did business with boldness, they did ministry with boldness. They confronted ancestral powers and all kinds of yours with boldness. It takes more than reading a book to be bold. Courage and boldness is not about shouting. It's about being firming your conviction even in the midst of negating circumstances and oppositions. I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded. He said that he is able to commit to keep that which is committed to him Against that day, these guys had encounters with God, and even at the point of my tiredom, they would not deny Jesus. Bible history tells us how many of them were killed inverted putting a transverse session, and all of them died with joy, many of them smiling. The hymn writers, the hymns that we sing today. Many of those hymn writers died on account of their faith. If they were giving a chance, it's in your Bible, they said. They were others who refused to receive their debt back to life, just to prove their conviction about God. The Bible joined all of them and call them people of faith. In fact, it calls them elders. Hear me, ladies and gentlemen. The days that are before us will demand people not just of godliness, not just of character, but people of courage. What happens to you when you are threatened, when your life is threatened on account of the Gospel. What happens to you when you are threatened to say you must give bribe in the office, otherwise they are going to fire you. Do you have an encounter that tells you I'd rather lose my job like the three Hebrew boys. I hope you know at the back end of every miracle it's on bending trust. Number two, What is the second result that comes with pressing for encounters? Supernatural empowerment to demonstrate the might and the power of God to your world. Supernatural empowerment to demonstrate the might and the power of God to your world. I like this supernatural empowerment to demonstrate the might and the power of God to your world. I believe in the supernatural John four forty eight. Jesus was speaking, and he said, except ye see signs and wonders, He said, ye will not believe a popular scripture here Romans fifteen and verse nineteen, Romans fifteen and verse nineteen fifteen nineteen. Through mighty signs and wonders. And by the power of the Spirit of God, he says, so that from Jerusalem and round about onto Elarcom, I have fully preached the Gospel. The gospel is not fully preached until the power dimension is captured in the Gospel. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, he says, for it is the power of God. Onto salvation, he says. The Kingdom of God is not in meat and drinks in righteousness, Peace and join the Holy Ghost. The Kingdom of God, he says, again, is not in world, but in power. The demonstration of power encounters bring to the life of the believer supernatural empowerment to demonstrate the might and the power of God to our world. In Acts Chapter one and verse eight, heaven encountered Jesus for a period of three and a half years. He left them with a promise. He says, ye shall receive power after that the Holy gost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses onto me, both in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria to the Autumno's part of the earth. Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen, w need power. Settle it once and for all. Power is not for preachers. Power is not for apostles and prophets. Power is for believers. He said. Tarry ye in Jerusalem until you be endued with power. I have taught you here. It takes power to excel in business. It takes power to be wealthy and remain wealthy for the kingdom. It says, there is. Something called the power to prosper. It takes power to stand upon the truth of God's world wording of all the yokes of darkness that daily continue to skin themselves to bring you down. I hope you know that there are forces mandated by Hell at every given point in your life and your Christian experience. You are a project in the kingdom of darkness. Let me repeat it. If you do not hear, let me tell you the truth. The Bible says, the whole world liath in wickedness for as long as you are alive, and you are found with your life to serve the purposes of the kingdom. They are a demon and spirits assigned to you. Their assignment is to bring you down and to make sure that the counsel of the Lord does not stand in your life. In your ministry. You will be joking to believe that there are no spirits assigned against Kolnonia or against Joshua Salman. But tends be to God, which causes us all ways to tryal Mama, you need power so that the devil does not make a ship wreck out of your children. Man of God. You need power. Without power, listen to me, things will go down in your life and you will be surprised. Business Man, you need power. You can buy and sell and make financial decisions. But hear me, there are spirits. The king of Tire will manipulate the economy to make you lose so that you cannot supponsor the church. It takes power. Can I tell you the way demons played our world today? It used to be people did not pray respectfully speaking. It was not a prayer point for a woman to get pregnant and give back to a child. But now people get married and the next project is prayer for the next one ones. Because you are not going to show you just watch and see. No, it takes power. It takes power that I say, woman will lay your hands and say I will not only give bet. My womb will not produce an ambrobba. My womb will not produce a devil. It will not produce a demon king. So come out of my loy someone learning supernatural empowerment. You need power to live in today's world, and counters bring power. One day you get up, you just touch a part of your body and you see some swelling coming. You will think he's just a little boy. Then it begins to grow. Then it begins to grow. In two weeks it has grown to be twice the size of your tie. And they tell you you have ten more days to live. In the name of Jesus, I declare over anyone here, if there is any stranger rooming around your body and around your life, everything that has not been planted by My Father, by the power of the Holy Gooes, I take it out of your body. Now I take it out of your business, Now out of your ministry. Now listen. The Bible says, wild men slept. Farmers came to sew. They sold weak, they sought good business. They came and they sold a great evangelical ministry. But wild men slept. Hali carus kati barakusiata, well men slept. You are not the only one holding seeds. There are spirits holding seeds to common plant seeds of discord in your church, your organization. If you keep quiet and you are bankrupt of power, you will keep watching your life go down. Allelujah. You see business partners who have been in business and alliance for many years. Just when good things are about to happen. Here comes this wicked soer call the devil. He will so see push this one out, and that's the end of the business. Lipsy, let me tell you the truth. I know what I'm saying. No, without power, you will not survive the days that are before us. Favor wants to come to you. The devil. Womanipulated man to say, you see that lady, please do not bless her. I don't I have a problem with her mother? What is the lady's business with your trouble with the mother? Every wrong years that listen, everyone who wants to speak wrongly to your destiny, help us so that they will not help you. I call upon my God to silence them now. Alleluya, alleluyah. The wife of Herold, when they. Were preparing to crucify Jesus, the wife of Herold went to sleep and she had a dream. She got up and called her husband. She says, saying, take your hands away from this man I have seen in a dream that is innocent, even though in this case Jesus allowed himself because it was. The hidden wisdom of God. So that you will be crucified, and in his death you will bring many sons to glory. But the woman, because of her heart, she called her husband and said, don't fight this man. Who fights this man, the power of God can rest upon you and grant to wisdom. Power does not just mean science and wanders alone. Power translates to wisdom. Sometimes you want to speak, and the restraining power keep quiet. That's silence is what can make you a CEO. Because they're waiting for who does not have the emotional intelligence to speak, And you want to speak, but the Holy Goos restrains you and you keep quiet, And they say, the one who is silent, please assume the office tomorrow. Do you not know it takes power to keep quiet? In this noisy world? There are people who pay people millions of nira to walk close to them if they understand their ability to keep quiet. We're rapping up, or listen to me because something is about to land upon your life. You didn't come here tonight to waste your time. Are we together now? Yes? The Bible says when a man faints in life, what God gives him is not encouragement. He giveth power to the faith. That means, if you are fainting, what you lack is power. Is that true? That if you turn aside in the day of battle, how many of you have seen listen to the military with all due respect when Annie runs away in there is a name they called it, and there there are punishments that are met because they're violated. They ought to be. Able to defend the nation. That sometimes, even at the face of death, these people stand and valiantly fight. The believer was never designed to run away, it say, haven't done all to stand? Stand? It takes power to stand, even if you have to stand alone. You're in a family of thirty people. Every body is a nonbeliever. And prophecy has come. That is a new season. But who is that one man? If the men are not serious? God, who raise one woman like the borer? And now you are going to stand? You will stand the standing of men and the standing of women at the same time. Haven't done all to stand? It takes power to stand and speak and declare, and pray and fast and push until prophecy comes to pass. Many of you have come here for service tonight genuinely lacking power. You are exhausted in your spirit. Work is half of the year already, and some of you you've gassed out in business in life. Welcome to the house where you are revealed. When there was no more oil, the lamp stopped burning. The lamp did not spoil, It only stopped because there was no oil. So some of you, your lamp is still there. Your ideas are still there, your ministry is still there, your business is still there. The only problem is that the oil has finished. I come, by the grace of God as a privileged damn that sell. Let her be oil in your lamb. Let's hear be oil in your lamb. Let her be oil in your lamb, Fresh oil upon your head, Fresh oil upon your lamp. Let it burn like never before. There's a song that says, give me oil in my lamp. Let it keep me burning. Give me oil in ministry. Let me keep moving. Give me oil upon my gift, Give me oil upon my business. Give me oil upon my family. I am a mother of five children. Give me oil the glass who keep pushing, give me oil. Let me keep praying, Give me oil. Let me keep fasting, Give me oil. Let me keep studying. Conveliant or not takes more than desire. Encounters provided platform for empowerment. Listen, I'm wrapping up. Solomon was a man who was now appointed as a young man to be king over God's people. He was bankrupt of wisdom and understanding. But the Bible tells us that after he burned several offerings in the night, he had a dream, the vision of a night, and he had an encounter with the God of the Bible. And he said, Solomon, you have called my attention to your sacrifice. What should I do for you? And he said, I am a young man, and you have given me this responsibility over your people. I am ignorant, I am limited in knowledge. He said, granted on to your host, your servant and understanding heart. And God was so pleased, the Bible says, and he said, because you have not answered material things, not the life of your enemies, he says, I will grant them to you and understanding hearts. But alongside I will give you riches, wealth, and honor like never before, grant you the capacity to disjudgment. Solomon wakes up from that sleep, and you will think it was sleep like never before. That means when men sleep, you're sleepy supposed to be a platform for importation, not fear. You don't lie down and wake up more tired than you were before. You lay down because all kinds of wicked spirits were looking for you. No, if a man can receive an importation in sleep, if Jesus himself slept, that means sleep can refresh. He given his beloved sleep that I should sleep and wake up more anointed than I was when I slept, because in that sleep it will be encounters of the spirit, revelations and mysteries known onto me. That when I wake up, I have the plan for the next ten years, for the ministry, for the company. Can I tell you the truth? I don't know if this experience has happened to you. There are times you step into the presence of God to pray, and when the blueprint of your destiny is about to be revealed, you fall asleep immediately. This is not sleep of carelessness. This is Adam's kind of sleep, so that something will come out of you. That's why religion is dangerous. You go to a place of prayer and sleep against There is sleep of laziness. It's called slumberd There is sleep where God is putting you down because something, a vision needs to come out of you. Yes, sir, for reasons you cannot explain. You lie down in a moment you are gone and you wake up. Then the secret was we dealed onto Daniel. Daniel said, O, King, you are about to kill all of us. No, allow me go and sleep. Something happens when men sleep, and the Bible says. When he went, he said, just allow me give me one night to sleep. By tomorrow I wake up with your answer. And when Daniel went, he said, oh God, you who gave sleep. I say, mystery for importation. Let me lie down. Is sleep is not only for your physical health, It affects your spirit. Man, Are we together? I lay me down when I slept, He said, I wait, not because it was morning. He said, the Lord sustained me. That means he came to me in my sleep and did something to me, reprogrammed me like surgery while I went to bed. Are we together now? When you're about to perform a surgically major surgery on a patient, what do they do to the patients? They give them anastasia and then sometimes they sleep, or at least they're not. They're not as active as they should you within that place, and then they number everything they should number around them, and they begin to work. The patient wakes up sometimes and they're done, things have been removed, things have been put in. I don't know. It's like I'm proferssigned to someone that tonight, like never before, that this week is about to start. Your sleep will be all way prophetic, all way, prophetic, all way prophetic. I say to you from the depth of my heart, all the way prophetic direction, supernatural direction. In the name of Jesus. Impartations after spirit upon you that as soon as your eyes closed, they are opening. The spirit and God begins to tell you this is how business will be in the next ten years. This is how minutes will be in the next five years. Receive it in the name of Jesus. We're about to pray. Our time is gone. Let me give you the last What is the last result and the final result when a man contends for encounters number three, your exploits, write this and will pray your exploits will cause men to glorify Jesus and believe in him your exploits. This is a very important part of our press for encounters. Your exploits in every area of life. The manifestations of the glory and the power of God in your life will cause men to glorify Jesus and to believe in him John Chapter twenty, chapter twenty thirty and thirty one, and will rapple John twenty two, thirty and thirty one, and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. Let's read that to one together, ready one to read. But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing he might have life through his name. Daniel six twenty five to twenty seven. What is the third result of encounters? Praise comes from your life. Praise comes from your destiny, Dan King Darius. This was Darius with Daniel in the lions den after Daniel came out unhurt because the Angel of the Lord came to protect him. Darios was so impacted by that encounter. He wrote to all people watch this nations languages, that dwell in all the earth. Peace be multiplied onto you. I make a decree. Darius is saying that in every dominion of my kingdom, men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the Living God and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and His dominion shall be even onto the end Verse twenty seven. He delivereth and rescue eth. How did he know that to a man's exploits? And he work at signs and wonders in heaven and in the earth, who had delivered Daniel from the power of the lions? And praying for someone here? What God will begin to do in your life from this night and not through this week, People who have not given your life to Christ for years, your family members that have fouled not to serve your God. By reason of what My God will begin to do in your life, you will draw many to Jesus. You would draw many to Jesus. Many will sing new songs because of your testimony in the name of Jesus Christ. Keep standing about to pray. Men can press for encounters experiences of the God kind by the word and through supernatural visionary encounters, leading to the abundance of the importation of the spirit of faith, supernatural empowerment for exploits in our world today, and finally granting your life access to reveal the glory of God. That men can come to the saving knowledge of Jesus through the excellency, the one that work in power the defaulteness of the life of God through you. Are you ready to pray? I like you to pray these three things in your life. Number one, you are praying from the depth of your heart, a baptism of the spirit of faith. Number two, supernatural empowerment for kingdom exploits Number three, Lord, through my life, be glorified. Someone, open your mouth and pray. Pray for the next one minutes. Pray for the next one minutes. You have heard the word of the Lord. You're in ministry, pray, business man, pray, politician, pray, Father, pray, mother, pray, man and woman. Pray in the name of Jesus, the Son. Of the Living God. From my life, be glorified. I like glorify through Koinonia, Global be glorified that we remain an ever increasing testament of Your power, your wisdom, and your grace. Allelujah. Many of you have come tonight and you have been part of this spiritual family because of the wonder working power of God and. The testimonies that you have heard. The Lord has used. This testimony is to herald his name across the nations, bringing many to Jesus. Can I tell you the truth. Publicity is easy. In the presence of results, you will have to talk too much and myned toulate and beg and cry weather in business or ministry, in the absence of genuine result results have a voice. You can increase the volume. It can speak so loud that the nation's here from any point. There is no hospital that is too far for sick people. No, when patients complain about the hospital, it is either ill equipped or they're not seek enough. No hospital is too far for a genuine patient. Get state of the art equipment and put there, even if it is in a village that aircraft cannot go. People would rather go that far than to have their patients die. When you become like that hospital, gentiles will come to your life and your kings, to the brightness of your horizon. Away together, let me make the other call. Jesus is the subject of our discussion. His glory and his grace is the reason why we teach and do what we do at the end of our lives. It's not all about miracles and science and wonders, but pointing men to Jesus and. Revealing him to our lives. The two men at em house. Their point of deliverance and their point of lifting came when they acknowledged and they honor Jesus. I'm going to make another call right now, two in one. There is somebody for sure. You are in displace, and you are saying I came to trust to night, Apostle, and while I heard you speak, the Holy Spirit is backoning on me to make my ways right. It is such a beautiful thing to win that war and with humility of arts, surrender to the lordship of Jesus. And then I'm also praying for those who are saying, Apostle, I have made this commitment and this decision before, but right now, like never before, I really want to re dedicate my life to Jesus. I'm going to make a call one to five all the overflows outside our Zaria family, global family, wherever you are, those who are within these premises, les, you make your way to the front. As I count one to five, boldly without fear. You are coming to the throne of grace. I begin my accounting now. One come, come, God, bless you, God, bless you. Are you celebrating them as they come to Jesus. Don't we are few? You're surround that time, man who have crossed bad before, And this is the song will be seen in for whoever. Leave the law, come to Jesus. Wolease O leave the Lord. Are you still thinking about it? Or you are running to Jesus? Come two more counts, and I begin to pray, shame the devil over your life to night. Come, young and old, rich, four, white, black, everything in between. Come, Come to Jesus a person. You don't know how my life has been. You are still welcome. The Holy Spirit is a master of breathing over darkness and chaos. He's able to bring light. Come. Come. Who knows whether it's a preacher that is on his way coming. Maybe you're a potential man of God. Maybe it is Estown our way coming, the borer on our way coming in lie down on his way coming. Come. Alle lujah, Thank you so much for making this noble decision. You do not you cannot. You know, I cannot begin to explain the joy in my heart every time I called it. Now, you see, most people do this just out of religion, just to show like you're serious with God. But believe me, when you have a revelation of that which Christ has done and you know the power it takes to save people. The life of God. Everything changes. These guys, you see a translation is happening this moment, from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's their son. It's a spiritual reality. And I thank you all for your courage, young and old. Thank you so much for defying any sense of embarrassment to come to Jesus. The Bible says, as many who will come to him, he will in no wise cast away. Let me request that you lift your hands please, as a sign of surrender, high above your head. This is to Jesus, not to Joshua. Salman, not to Collinonia, not to social media. This is to Jesus, the lover of your soul, and those in Zaria making that decision. Those across the globe, all the viewing centers, and all every expression, every home, wherever it is. I want you to make this decision. Lift your right hand, then your home, your office. You're watching by way of rebroadcast. It is never too late to make it right with Jesus. Say after me, Lord Jesus, one more time, Say Lord Jesus, tonight I believe in you that you are the son of God, I believe that you died for my sin. I believe that you rose again for my justification. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my savior, my Lord, and my King. I declare that the power say it of sin, satan, hell, and the grave is broken over my life. From tonight and forever, I am a child of God. Amen. Let me pray for your Father. Thank you for these precious ones have come declaring their need for you. And thank you because You're declared in your world that as many who will come to you, you will in no wise cast away. But your authority of Scripture, I declare their sins forgiving. And I call you this day and this moment bona fide, recipients of the life of God. I call you the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and power to work in victory. From tonight you go from glory to glory and grace to grace. I plant a new and a fresh love for Jesus in your heart, and I pray in Jesus name that you continue to learn and grow until you become mighty men and women of God. To the glory of Jesus Christ. I bless you and I decree and declare that there is no going back. You go for whatever and backward never. In Jesus' mtchless name, we pray, Amen and Amen, thank you. Please. May I request for those of you in front our counselors are waving the placard, I want you to please move in concert the counselors who have a word with you, just for a minute or two and you'll be back to your safe coin. Onias. This is the best you can do. Let's celebrate Jesus for Salvation. Celebrate Jesus for Salvation. Hallelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. Now. I just felt stared in my heart to do this. Before we wrap up, I want to say a very big thank you to all of you, particularly for those who are worshiping for the first time and for those who have traveled from outside of Abuja. We're amazed and humbled. Week in week out, people make sacrifices you cannot imagine traveling from the furthest of places. There are people who are part of this spiritual family from legos, from across the globe, and they're not just fallowing online day. Literally. I hear every week how they do it I do not know. We do not take your love and your sacrifice for granted, and that is why we make sure that every service is an experience that reveals Jesus, empowers you and repositions you for a life of vigay. And I declare that this week you will see the wonder working power of Jesus, and for all of us together, I declare that you are blessed. You go from glory to glory, you walk in victory. You are a mighty, mighty tool for the revelation of Jesus Christ. And I declare the name of Jesus that every challenge that you came here with by the power that raised Christ from the dead, I declare that the resurrected King is resurrecting you. In the name of Jesus. You are blessed, you are honored, you are favored, you are lifted, you are empowered by the spirit. And according to this teaching, I declare that this week is a week of encounters, Lord based encounters, visionary encounters in the mighty name of Jesus. With pray, thank you very much. Once again we'll share the grace, and then please greet someone by your left and right on your way out. Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweets of the Holy Spirit, Rest and abide with us noun forevermore Amen. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen. God bless you and see you on Sunday.