The Pattern for Growth and Stature Morning Session with Apostle

Yeah, you know I said this. I said during preparation for these meetings that while I was praying, God told me that. Well, but it's important that. I sent out my apostles in twos. Paul, Paul. I didn't just call Paul. I said Paul and Bannabas. He said, So what you should do is to pray in the spirit and Pierre. They annoying things together per session. So he asked me to Pierre, that's why you say that every time apostles the Berger is speaking, I put apostle Sellman also, and you can see why. Now, okay, all right, while I was praying, go miss tonight, Go told me, and I told I'd already told Nathaniel Bassie he was closing tomorrow. While I was praying, I called him and he said he actually told me. He said he's on a retreat, but he would show up for the eighth. So I when I was in prayer, God said he should be in that meeting on the seventh with a parcel Salman and Pausa Grace Luberga. So I told him, I said, I've never asked for favor like this, and he said he'll be here tonight. So We're going to have a very strong meeting, all right, this evening. All right. He doesn't need any introduction. But I I I listened to him yesterday, and I don't know what happened yesterday, but I something struck me, strangling the spirit realm about him, because there are things that may be meditating on the world of God, you see, and you just say, look, let's go on with our lives, all right. But when he started speaking yesterday and he went into some areas, and the way he used the words that he used in describing even position in the spirit, and the language that he used as I God hand this's on this man, all right. God, God's hand is on him, not just to preach, but to help to navigate a generation into something. All right. I saw it very and I know what I'm talking about, all right. And because he imagines in this country and imagines globally, has not followed the predictable pattern of ministry in this country. I know what I'm saying. And so even some principled people practice and think that this is the only way you can succeed, his ministry has defied that. So you have to read the Bible properly again, to see what is going on? Are you follow I'm here and understand. What God is taking. That's why I sufface and welcome a person to ussel in. Hallelujah. Amen, please be seited, God bless you, Good morning, everybody, fast, Thank you again, Thank you sincerely, and my love and blessings to Apostle Grace. My first time seeing him. I've heard about him once twice, but incredible, man. I listened to him one time. I think it was on TVN. Yes and phenomenal Man of God. God bless you, bless you, Yes, yes you. Ah. It's the part of the song I love nine. It's the King Yorks. He's the power works. It's the glove we Forever Yoks. He's the King. Yoks, He's the paws. Any lujah. The prophet said, I will reveal speaking by the spirit. Is said, I will. Reveal my sayings or upon the heart. So when we sing like this, it's not about music, it's a spiritual pattern. Allelujah. Yes. When it was signed for the prophet to prophessially, he. Said, bring me a mistral because the prophetic is atmosphere dependent. Allelujah. And while they began to play the mistrail the hand of the Lord came upon him, and they said, you shall not see wind, you shall not see rain. Yet Yet. It is your responsibility to not only prepare teachings as a man of God, but to study the atmosphere that released the annointing upon those teachings. There are times you can come and the Spirit can move. You to beg in a session of prayer, either because of your own personal positioning or the alignment of the audience that will. Be receiving from you. Must be sensitive preparing as someone is only a minute fraction as far as the ministry of the world is concerned. Allelujah, further help us this morning. Yet again you have brought words with power to your servants even this morning. Speak to us in Jesus' mighty Nay. I pray Allelujah. I really want to charge particularly the membership of this church, and I hope and pray that you would grow to appreciate the kind and the level of spiritual investment that is happening through these conferences. Year after year. I submit to you that it takes a lot of discernment, influence, resources, and capacity to be able to pull together ministers of the Gospel that have been marvelously helped of God and by God, especially at the beginning of the year. And I think it's worthy of commendation and salutation, especially to your pastor. Thank you, sir, Thank you, allelujah. So for this session, I didn't know that Pastor was going to speak about tonight. I sensed in my spirit while I was praying this morning that there will be a mightier pouring this night the Mighty. There will be activations of graces, and it's like positionings. There are realms and dimensions. People would be strategically positioned in the spirit, allelujah. And so don't be casual. Coming early is wonderful, but you most come prepared, allelujah. Thank you Jesus. Teaching very briefly this morning, and then will pray in addition to that which you have received on the pattern for growth and stature, the pattern for growth and stature. Again, I pray that we pay attention and listen very carefully. It takes attentiveness to the spirit. The Bible says they told him look on us, and he looked at them, expecting to receive, expecting to receive. God is a god of patterns. Please look up. God is a God of patterns, and usually continuity in the spirit and in the kingdom is based on the capture of the patterns that are responsible for certain occurrences. You read from the Book of Genesis chapter one that everything God created, he didn't have to create it the second time again. I will together now that every time. He would create something, he would within that creation a pattern for the continuity of that process. So if you wanted to see a reputation of certain things, all you needed to do was to capture the pattern in architecture. If I want to reproduce this structure right now, say in London, or in in Abuja, or in in you know, UK or anyway, I don't need to come and carry the building. In fact, I do not even need to be here physically. Is that true? What I need is the pattern. The pattern can, with. Exactitude and precision, grant me the understanding, architecturally speaking, to reproduce this structure to an extent that if you were blindfolded and carry away to the other structure and they. Open you up, you would not even know you are transated. That is how powerful and predictable patterns are. Leviticals Chapter nine. And verse six. The glory, the manifestation of the glory of God upon the life of an individual, is dependent on our ability to work in keeping with divine patterns. Here's what he told Moses nine six leviticals. This is the thing. Says which the Lord commanded that ye should do, and the glory. Of the Lord shall appear unto you. That means the glory would not just come because you desire to come. It responds to certain things that you need to do. Allelujah. So there are patterns that are allotted for certain spiritual occurrences. For instance, you can verify if a believer has been saved by asking him what pattern he followed. Is that true? Because according to Romance Chapter ten, from verse eight down to ten and then extends to fifteen, the Bible says, the pattern for the administration of the life of God into the spirit of a believer is that you must believe with your heart the Lord Jesus am I right on that, and then that with your mouth confession is made even onto salvation. That is the pattern that with the heart man believes onto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made onto salvation. When it has to do with the healing of bodies and. All of that. The pattern is that number one, there has to be the hearing of faith. Is that true? Yes, the hearing of faith in partnership with the anointing is what would produce that outcome. So all of the. Outcomes that we desire in our lives, we are are helped by God to achieve those desires by the revelation of the patterns that control those results. Church growth has a pattern. Financial prosperity has a spiritual pattern. Are we together? So your maturity the spirit is not just measured by your longevity in church, but your ability to have, through the ministry of the spirit and a teaching priest, access the various patterns that control the outcomes of your life. You gain mastery in spiritual things. To the degree to which you have peaced together these patterns. Now you can become a blessing because with a doctor's level of precision, when you see someone, you know what pattern they are missing immediately, without ambiguity, you can tell them this is what you are missing. When Satan came to attack Peter, Jesus knew what to do. He rebuked him, and he said Peter, Satan had desired. To shift you like wit, But the the pattern. For your deliverance is I have prayed for you. So every time believers are afflicted, the pattern that is responsible connected to that deliverance is prayer. James five point thirteen. Is anyone afflicted, he says, let him pray. Are we learning now, Yeah, So it's important for us to understand spiritual patterns. And this morning, very briefly, we want to consider the pattern. What spiritual pattern is responsible for growth and stature in the spirit? What do I need to engage to evolve into superior spiritual dimensions? Because it looks like many believers struggle with the subject of growth and maturity and stature in the spirit. And sadly many have been around, you know. The House of God for many years. But you cannot be on the biblical indes that measure maturity. You cannot say they have attained onto maturity. And Galatians forces an air for as long as that air is a child, he says, he differed not from a servant or a slave. Are we blessed? There is a pathway that if and when you follow, the result is that you must be matured. You will be a person of stature in the spirit, and like we. Always discourse, there are certain dimensions of your spiritual inheritance. You cannot be given until your maturity matches the level to which you are able to manage that gift. The same way a responsible parent would not give a child of ten years old or five years old khakis, not because you do not love the child. His level of maturity cannot support that blessing. So we are unable to work in certain levels of authority in the spirits. Experientially we keep reading in the Bible that we should work in those levels, but experientially speaking, we're unable to because it takes tatcho to receive certain mantles, it takes tatcho to work in certain levels of the anointing. If you're with me, please say amen allelujah. Let's go to ask chapter six, and from verse one to four. The early Church is a template for us to be able to follow the Bible says. And in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians. Against the Hebrews. Why because their windows were neglected in the daily ministrations. We're reading to four verse two. Then the twelve called the multitudes of the disciples onto them and said, it is not reason that we should leave the world of God and self tables. What level of focus and discipline and diligence this already I can stop in verse two, and that can be a message for men of God. Be careful with growth. Growth is able to distract you from what brought the growth in the first place. Legitimately, so it is not only seen that distracts men. Results can distract. Here is multiplication happening. And they're telling them, listen, you need to pause what you are. Doing and manage a situation here. But they said, listen, listen, listen, we are not going to be distracted. We will set up a system to protect our focus. That's three. Give us verst three. We're still here. It says, wherefore, brethren, look ye among you, seven men of honest reports, full of the Holy ghosts and wisdom. Can we imagine the requirement in the Bible for being in the welfare department? Now in the world, do you make this kind. Of laborious requirement to serve tables? You need a discernment, wisdom, full. Of honest report. Of course, honest reports. You are serving people. I understand honest reports, but full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom whom we may appoint over this business. But we this is the pattern. It was given to us by Jesus himself. If we're desirous of growth and contivity, it says, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the world. Pay attention. Now here the apostles reveal a very powerful secret that was behind the level of growth and maturity. Did you know that all through their time with Jesus was all that happened prayer and the ministry of the world. Prayer and the ministry of the world. Prayer and the ministry of the world. It transited these gentlemen from Timid confused some visionless men into mighty apostles of the Lamb. He called them to be with him, and while they were with him, he introduced a spiritual pattern. Now the apostles had kept this pattern, the ministry of the Word and prayer. Are we learning already? But then I hope that God. Will help me to be able to bridge a very serious God pastor. I believe that it's. Widening in the body of Christ and creating lobsidedness and imbalance. Knowing then that the ministry of the Word and of prayer are the principal patterns that have been given to the believer for growth, it seemed like something happened through history that diverged people to to choose the ministry of the word or prayer. Are we together now? So the dichotomy has been created between the prayer ministry and then the word ministry. So we have classically speaking and now I'm speaking from a standpoint of love and this to the Body of Christ. We have people who would want to brand themselves as prayer people, and that is wonderful and profitable. Then we have those who would want to brand themselves as word people. And this has created a lot of confusion because. Both sides have results. Now, if one side is completely failing, it becomes obvious that you are missing something. It is difficult to correct a person that has results. You see, failure provokes change. It breaks your pride and humbles you. You come to a point where you acknowledge that truly I need help, But how do you help a person who has results? You find that in. At chapter eighteen, from verse twenty four, the Bible speaks about a very intelligent man called Apollos of Alexandria. Please give it to words. The Bible says, this man was an eloquent man. Look at the credentials of this man. He was mighty. In scripture, the Bible says he came to episodes while reading to twenty eight the next verse, he was instructed in the way of the Lord. So he submitted himself to mentorship. The Bible says he was fervent in spirit, and he speakes and taughts diligently the things of the Lord. What more would you require from a man? But he knew only. Knowing only you can have all of this, And yet know only paventing spirit mentored build knowing only twenty six. The Bibble says, he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. One day, two strange people were in his conference. I'm telling you I learned this eli ministry. You must be aware that you are not impressing everybody that are while you are ministering the world. There are people standing from an elevated altitude in the spirit. Just because they are listening to you does not mean they're helpless. There are people who this is what happened in this case. Please give us that scripture. This guy was ministring, shouting, preaching with fire like I'm doing now, and there were two strange people in that conference. They start quietly listening to the only that he knew, a queller and pre seila. The Bible says when they heard him, they commended him. I like them. They didn't discourage him. But then they took him onto them and read with me expounded onto him the way of God more perfectly. More perfectly the danger of knowing only. This is the reason why we must brace ourselves with humility. I have profound regard and respect, especially for great people whose hearts are open to learn. I am very vocal when I find things I do not know. I'm very I don't tolerate ignorance in my life. My heart is ever open to learn because God gave me this revelation and it brought me deliverance. Sometimes you can be so vibrant, but knowing only, could this have been a message for someone? Thank God for what you have seen? What could it be that you know only? So? Let this year be the year that God will bring prophetic midwives. Listen to what I'm telling you like a Quella and Priscilla, who would help you and expound to you the way of the Lord more perfectly. Let's go back to our discussion. So I was talking about the dichotomy. There has been supposedly one group that places an emphasis on prayer and all the supporting spiritual exercises that come with prayer, like fasting and some other things, but may seem to subliminally or even vocally downplay the ministry of the world. Then, respectfully speaking, on the other hand, we have people who exalt the Word. They demonstrate clearly the supremacy of the world, and may seem to not pay attention to the ministry of prayer and all the supporting spiritual exercises that are company prayer. Allelujah. And you see, all these sites have their consequences. The key is to study Jesus. I told us yesterday that there are four biblical channels for knowing God. Let me recap Number one. I said, Scripture, the Holy Scripture is one of the biblical. Pathways by which we know God. Is that true. Number two is the names of God. The names of God are a capture of the various dimensions of Him that were revealed to men. Every time God revealed new. Dimensions of himself, he will be captured in a name, so that when you want to see that dimension, you study the revelation behind that name. The third way we know God is through the revelation of Jesus. The Bible calls him the express image of the invisible God. And then number four, like Job told us his experience, I have heard with the hearing of the ear, but now my eye see ed thee. So let's trudy Jesus for a few. Minutes, and let's see how Jesus brings with precision the balance between the ministry of prayer and of the world. Is someone learning in the Book of Luke. Chapter two, I begin my reading from forty one look to forty one, so long reading, Please be patient. This is teenager Jesus, now in the flesh. The Bible says. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover Ahah. When he was twelve years old, the Bible says they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast next verse, and when they had fulfilled the days, they returned. The child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem and Joseph and his mother knew not of it, but they, supposing him to have been in the company, they went to this's journey, and when they sought among him among the acquaintances, they did not find him forty five, the Bible says. When they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem seeking him. There's the reason why I started from there, the Bible says. And it came to pass after three days they found him where in the temple everybody said the word, So we see from the life of Jesus his passion to stay, to learn, to grow. Did you know that many of the things he was learning, His coming was even to abolish. Some of them. And yet even as the Word in carnage submitted himself to that learning. Please give us that scripture, let's finish up. They found him sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions next verse. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed. And his mother said, unto him, son, why hast doubt us dwelt with dealt with us? Behold, thy father has sought the sorrowing right, and he said onto them, how is it that he sought me with ye? Not that I must be about my father's business. Two more verses, and they understood, not the sayings which you speak. The Bible says. And he went down to them to Nazareth. And now verse fifty two the verse that we know, and Jesus increased usually this is where we read, but we do not know how he increased. I took that, Johnny, to show you that he did not increase us. Because he was the son of God. He submitted himself to learning and to doctrine. So we see his respectful prayer to the extent that it was even affecting his relationship with his parents in the flesh. He was that determined, and he called that his father's business. Mark chapter one. We read from verse twenty one to twenty eight Marc. Chapter one. Watch this now, this is Jesus. And they went to Kapanum and straightway on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue verse. Next verse, and they were astonished. That is doctrine. Everybody said, doctrine. One more time, Please say doctrine. For he taught them as one that had authority and not as the scribes, and there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, saying, let us alone, what have we to do with the Jesus. So you see that Jesus grew in the world had doctrine with proof. Because exusia, the word that is translated authority, is derived from the strength of your understanding of word. There are forwards that I used to express power and authority. Two of them are largely known in the body of Christ, dunamis and Exusia. Exusia is a product of your the depth of your comprehending the ways and the principles of God. It translates to authority. It legitimizes your ability to now stand in the office of the Christ and to administer authority. Are we together? I hope you know that authority is what gives legitimate ground for the use of power. You can have power, but authority is what makes the administration. Of power legitimate. Allelujah. You can have a gone that is power, but one person can shoot it and will clap for him. That is authority. Another person can shoot it and end up in jail. Are we together? Now? It's not enough to have power. You must have authority, and that comes by growth, It comes through your comprehending the world. Let's finish that scripture please. Verse twenty five now very quickly, and Jesus rebuked him, saying, ho, your peace, come out of him. Next verse and. When the on clean Spirit had turned him and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. What was the result, the Bible says. They were all. Amazed in that. They question among themselves, saying, what thing is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority, they acknowledge the authority that came from the word commanded he even the on clean Spirit, and they do obey him. And immediately, on account of the world, his fame spread abroad to all the regions. Please jump to verse thirty two. For sake of time, I want you to follow patiently. I'm trying to establish Jesus as the pattern that brings the balance of prayer and the ministry of the world. Now we have seen the ministry of the world in his life and the corresponding results that followed. The Bible says verse starty two. And at evening, when the sun did set, they brought onto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. Uh huh, And all the city was gathered together at the door. He healed many who were sick. Of divers diseases, casting out many devils, and he suffered not them to speak. Verse thirty five. The Bible says, and in the morning, with such phenomenal results, and in the morning, many of us would not go back to the ministry of prayer again. I took time to detail these results, from the dexterity of his communication of doctrine to the results the miracles, manifestation of authority. Healing, signs, and wonders. Now, the Bible says that while he was earing the morning, rising up a while before day, please help me, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and their prayed, and their prayed, and their prayed. So he was not just sound in doctrine. We see his commitment and his discipline to the ministry of prayer. Is someone learning. Matthew Chapter four probably gives the most, in my opinion, the most intelligent theological defense that attempts to bridge the gap between the dichotomy that has been created between the ministry of prayer and the ministry of the world. I repeat that for many people, because of the results that come from the ministry of the world, we may not seem to immediately see the necessity for a rich and a robust prayer life, not as a system of managing emergencies, but as a lifestyle. And then for people who are inclined to prayer, because of the spiritual blessings that come from the place of prayer, they might not need to endure sound doctrine to now learn, because you see, it takes time to be matured by the world. You can pray in one hour, you can't grow in the world in one hour. It will take time. The Bible talks about men enduring sound doctrine. Are we together, So let's look at Matthew chapter four. Please again, I request that you pay attention, Just lend me your attention and less patiently understand something as we pray Matthew four, verse one. This is what we call the temptation of Jesus. Follow closely. Then Jesus was led up of the spirit into the wilderness. So we see the ministry of the spirit at work in the light of these Jesus. We're not in doubt as to his submission to the ministry of the spirit. The next verse, please, verse. Two, the Bible says, when he had fasted, of course that when we prayer forty days and forty nights afterwards. He was hungry. So we see that he went to the wilderness by the leadership of the spirit. We see that he got to the wilderness. He prayed and fasted forty days. You know the level of spirit trust tamin I takes to stretch like that. We're not talking of fasting and breaking in the night forty days forty nights. As much as we know. We did not see any food or anything. They're given to him. Now when that was done verse three, when the temptar came, My God, may God open your eyes to see something here. Now, when the temptar came, the tempterer met the man who who had the word and prayer. The temper met the man who had the word and prayer. The temper met the man who had the word and prayer. Watch this, and he said to him, if thou be the son of God, command these s tones that they be made bread. Look at the reply of Jesus. Everybody, please read with me. But he answered and said it is stop. Did he say I prayed? Did he say I fasted? What was his answer? But what was he doing in the wilderness prayer and fasting? You thought that when he met the devil, he would say, are you in fact? Shouldn't you be afraid. That the prayer and fasting of Jesus brought set and closer to him? You would think that. After praying and fasting for forty days led by the spirit, should sat and be able to stand such a man. I leave it to you to use your mind. The make believe that just because you are praying and fasting habitterarily, Satan will run away. It's just a consolation. Believe me, and I know what I'm saying. This is Jesus, except you don't believe the Bible. Jesus, the word incarnate, immersed himself in the world. Now praying, not before the prayer, not jury he was. Don't praying fourteen days. With fasting, and Satan shows up, not shaking nor falling, no year, and he says you are hungry. Don't deny it. You are hungry. He's talking to Jesus, and he's saying, use the power you have gotten from your prayer and fasting turns to to bread. And Jesus looked at him and said, it is written, please look up. If Jesus had prayer and did not have the world, he will fall over that temptation. The same way someone who did not pray on fast for forty days he's not knowing scripture, would have aborted the potentency of his fasting and prayer. If you were to. Raise Jesus, who had spend time praying and fasting, and someone who did not even pray, both of them would have fallen over the same temptation. His basis for security was, it is written, Please give us that scripture first temptation. It is written, man shall not leave by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded from the mouth of God. Now look at satan. This is satan. Is every other thing but foolish. Don't add foolishness to your description of satan. You'll be wrong. Allelujah. The devil took him to a holy city and set at him on a pinna of the temple and said to him, if thou be the son of God, now wats this The minutes so of prayer is about to come in. Now Satan said, oh, I see that you are grounded in the world. So let's go to it is written now, for it is did Sat and also say it is written. So if all that Jesus had was it is written without discernment, he would fall like a pack of card the moment he demonstrated supremacy to the word. Satan also switched. That means I will not make my temptation so obvious. I will use things that are scriptural. So I took you to a holy temple. Since I spoke about canal things your belly. Now I see you are spiritual. Let's talk about spiritual things. I also know it is written. This is where the discernment and the stamina that comes from. Prayer now helps you to survive. Is someone learning now, please give it to us it is written. He shall keep his angels. Look at the accuracy of quoting the scripture. He shall keep his angels charge over you. You see, let me tell you the truth can also destroy. Just because it is the truth does not mean it to bless you. The truth must be rightly divided and accurately communicated. This statement, you see, watch this now was not a lie. Satan was quoting verbatim. But the basis of that quotation was the Bible called the entire process temptation, and yet scripture was part of the tools that were used for that temptation. So when Satan. Tries lost, or he tries stealing, and he said, no, I am a child of God, he tries church, he tries a lot of other things to this is where the stamina that comes from the place of prayer and the ability to discern and perceive. If you are using physical results to gage whether a thing is of God or the devil, you will. Fall like a pack of card. There are many good things that were designed to kill you. Sometimes Satan can use even compassion to destroy you. If someone learning he used Peter's compassion did what was Peter's offense that Jesus rebuked Satan from him trying to refute him from going to the cross. That was compassion, And he said, Kendrick behind me Satan, And Peter said. What did I do? He said, Peter, Satan has desired. It's not only evil. Remember it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were all part of one tree. Good and evil come from one tree. The other tree is life, not good not evil, So be careful with good things. We are connected to the same tree. What Jesus came to give us is not good. He came to give us liars. We look to the our way, yeah away, our whole peace, Yeah way, yeah way. We look to be our way yeah way. Forever Aahwayre's someone learning in this service. So here we see Jesus teaching us the various. Rules that the ministry of prayer and the ministry of the world play as far as defending you and securing the manifestation of the life of God. That is in you. To the one who has downplayed the relevance of the ministry of prayer, you are making a wrong step, and eventually the tempter has a way of navigating through your weakness until he brings you down to one who has the emphasized the supremacy of the world of God. I'll be wrapping up by showing you the assignment of prayer and the assignment of the Word of God in the life of a believer. Most people do not know what prayer was meant for and what the ministry of the World of God. What does it achieve? Seeing that it is a pattern for growth and stature. When I submit myself to the ministry of prayer, what happens to me? What are the dimensions of the relevance of prayer in my life? Why should I submit to prayer and then submit to the world. I'm hoping that by this teaching God will bring it a serious delivers for a person a ministry to say, listen, we need to be able to capture the whole counsel of God, not to ignore the ministry of prayer, not to ignore the ministry of the world. Allelujah, this is very powerful. Salla, So Brandy Gabelacatos. So the second temptation he took him, and Jesus said, it is written again the third Temptation. The Bible says he took him into an exceeding high mountain, and that he showed him the glories the kingdoms of the world. This is another discussion for another day. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you know by now you are an intelligent church that is full of the world. You know that it's not just an elevated altitude. There no where he took him to. This location is a spiritual location. Where do you stand upon that you see the the glories of the world. It's not a mountain. He took him into and showed him. He says, all have been given to me. Jesus did not say it's a lie because Adam gave him. He said, bow down to me. When the Bible tells you what charlie profit a man when he gains the whole world. That mountain is the place of that business. You don't sell products there. It's a transaction between your soul and the world. And many people have been taken to that mountain till today. There is a threshold level of success. You cannot attain until you pledge your allegiance clearly. To one of these governments. It's like a spiritual meter. The devil is watching you when you strike that cord. Here they come. There has to be a system of negotiating your soul. Yes, sir, when you read Revelations nineteen, I wish we had time that harlot that rides upon the horse the blood of the Matthias. Are we together now? When you read the many things that she sells, you will see there that she sells the souls of men. That's where she got the souls of men. Those who came to exchange your souls. That's why the apostle said, I desire. I wish above all things that you prosper, but that while you prosper. And ensure that your soul also prospers. So I can vet the business of your prosperity by checking the condition of your soul while you rise. If you are losing. Your touch with God as your wealth is increasing, your fraternity is with Barbylon. We don't clap for people for being prosperous in the kingdom until we ascertain the state of your soul. If we find out that the higher your glory increases, whether financially speaking, your life is going down, you need to go for a retreat and vet who is sponsoring those possibilities, because Satan will never allow you to rise as your soul prospers. It is the reason why the principles of prosperity for a believer is very different from a nonbeliever and does not make sense because until we explain the side effecting of prospering the world's way, there is no of your side effect except we check from the realm of the spirit. Are we together? So what is the assignment of prayer? Let me wrap up what is the assignment of prayer. I want to make a statement that I hope will not be misunderstood. Prayer is not the only key in the kingdom. There are keys of the kingdom. There is one key to the kingdom, Jesus, and then when you come into the kingdom there are many keys off the kingdom. Prayer is a founder, national fund, the mental key. But it is an error to believe that prayer is the only key in the kingdom. Prayer must be involved in every process of. The kingdom, but it is not the only key. Are we clear on that? It is true? If you come into a house, you come through the main door, which is Jesus. There are rooms in that house. Is that true? If you have the key to the restroom alone, you'll be in trouble when you are hungry, because you have the key to you are in the house. We are not doubting it. But now you are hungry and the only key. You have is to the restroom. Or if you have the key to the kitchen alone, if you need to use the restroom, the key to the kitchen, as portent as it is, may not help you. So he gave us the keys. The keys are we learning now. One of the fundamental major keys of the kingdom is the ministry of prayer. I needed to say that I'm a man of prayer, so you know that I'm I'm not down playing it at all, but it is important to bring us. It is such revelations that have made us down play other keys. It is important no matter how small and how large a key. A key is a key. You can stand in front of a small door because a little key was missing. Are we together a key that you can put in your pocket? For instance? You can have a roboss prayer life. You can have a roboss what's study life and not understand the power of relationships that a lord can cripple and literally a bought everything as though you were not a Christian. The Bible is a holistic capture of all the ways of God. Are we together now? Line upon line, precept upon prison. Did you ever wonder what Jesus was teaching them that, even after he resurrected he said, get back, let's continue the lecture for forty days. What else was itching them? If he was the ministry of the world, you had taught them. If he was prayer, you are taught them. So what else was it teaching them. Until the church embraces the entire council of God, we will not attain onto a state of maturity. So you see various versions of lop sidedness in the body of Christ, which are a testament to the fact that we have ignored I not certain dimensions. Maybe sincerely, this is why God put conferences like. This to be able to bring to speed and bring. Us to a point of balance, so that you see when you read revelations. He said, come and I will show you the Lamb's wife. He said, he showed me a city that was equally length, equaling depth, equal. In HEIGHTE no imbalance, that is the Lamb's wife. Are we together? So when it comes to the ministry of prayer, you are robots on fire when it comes to the ministry of the world and all the other dimensions of the kingdom. This is why he gave on to some apostles and prophets. Is that true evangelist teach us and all of that for the maturing of the saints, that the saints, now being matured, will do the work of the ministry. Let's finish up. What is the assignment of prayer? I will not be teaching, but I'll just list it just for us to know. In addition to all we have heard from the great and amazing men and the women of God that God has brought, including that which we heard from God's. Servant this morning, what is the assignment of prayer and the life of the believer. I have studied my Bible, and I'm still a student learning, but I have found four principal assignments that the ministry of prayer accomplishes in the life of the believer. Number one, the first assignment of prayer that the Bible. Reveals is for transformation. Luke, chapter nine and verse twenty nine. The Bible speaking about Jesus again our pattern man, he said, and as he prayed, the version of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. The principal assignment of prayer. Is not even for petitions. It is a tool that was given to help you evolve to superior spiritual dimensions. Show me a believer that just came. Into Christ, and let that person submit himself through methodical mentorship to the ministry of prayer. I'll show you a fading version of that man, and like. The eagle, a new version. A weak you can become a strong you when you pray, A timid you can become a powerful you when you pray. Are we together now and undiscerning canal? You can become such an individual with high level spirituality when you pray. In Lookschapter eighteen and verse one, Jesus take a parable. The Bible says to the end that men, not some men, men find that you are a man. He says that you ought to pray and not to faint. First the Salonians five seventeen. He says, to pray without ceasing. It means to be consistent in your prayer life. Are we together? So? The first assignment of prayer is for growth and transformation Number two. The second assignment of prayer, as revealed from scripture, is for obtaining requests and for making petitions. The second assignment of prayer to the believer in Christ, as revealed from scripture, is for obtaining requests and making petitions. Mark eleven twenty four. It says, and what thinksoever ye desire? Mark? Did I get that right? Yes? When ye pray, not if ye pray, It says, believe that ye receive them, and thou and ye shall have them. Jesus was speaking and said, he that told you have not asked me anything. He says that you may receive because the law is said Matthew. Chapter seven, from verse seven, it says, as can you shall receive? See can you shall find not? It says, and the doors shall be open onto you. I like verse eight. It says for everyone. There are some things that are for some in the Bible. But when it has to do with the ability to receive through prayer, everyone that has skeret received, he says you have not because he has not. Someone say, prayer, are we learning? So? Number one for your transformation? Number two for obtaining requests. Number three. The third assignment of prayer, as revealed from scripture, is for warfare and intercession. Warfare and intercession, there is a warfare dimension to the believer's life. Pauline giving us his exegesis in the Book of Efficiens the entire six chapters broken into three theologically speaking, that teaches the believer to understand number one, his positional advantage in Christ Number two the work of the believer in terms of character, or number three the ability to stand against the wilds of the enemy. Are we learning now this is very very important warfare. Jesus did not leave us in the dark as to the fact that the whole world lies in wickedness. Paul was teaching us, and he said, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, it says, but against principalities powers. Is that true rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness that reside in the heavenly. Jesus himself is called the head of all. Principalities and powers. He didn't deny their existence. In teaching is parable. He said, while men slept, the enemy came. So you are not the only farmer you saw, and another farmer and common saw something you did not. Soe it's bekeel Chapter twenty two. When you read, I think verse thirty. Now he said, and I sought for a man. I hope I got that scripture right. I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and standing the God before me, for the land, that I should not destroy it. What I found, no prayer becomes an instrument, a potent instrument for intercession. You see, A genuine apostolic and prophetic intercessory ministry is founded upon two things. Number one, your love for God and people. Number two, the principle of shared dominion. If you do not love God and people, you cannot truly engage the dimension of warfare and intercession. And then the principle of shared dominion. The Bible says, the heaven of heavens is the Lord's, but the heath has he given on to the sons of men. That means nothing happens on earth without the participation of a man. Let them have dominion. He said, Allelujah, I hope that I will still out five minutes from my time this night, and would trust God to pray and speak over Nigeria in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Hoping and wishing and praying and saying things would changes a joke. And don't let. Anybody laugh at prayer going on, because it matters. Like I said, it is. Not the only keybod, it is a potent key. If we don't pray, we're going to be in trouble. In fact, the cure for temptation, the Bible says, watch and pray. That means your mind and your spirit, what dear means, don't throw your mind away. You will need discernment there is an intellectual component to your safety. But in addition it's a pray. So that's number three. Have we been blessed today? The fourth assignment of prayer, as revealed from scripture, is for spiritual legislation, the ability to create possibilities in your life. I like you to please pay attention if it is true that God is creator. The first revelation of God from scripture was not a healer, was as creator. Genesis one, Verse one, the Bible says, now. On the earth was dark and void is the Hebrew word to whoa goho, confusion and chaos. And then verse three he says, and Elohim, the talking spirit. Said light be are we together now? And there was and what he saw was good. So we were created in the image and the likeness of God. And we must also function as talking. Spirits, the ability to legislate, to create our possibilities. The Bible says in Proverbs, I believe is a job twenty two twenty eight said declaredy that that might test be justified. Where the word of a king is that shall also declear thing, Yes, and it shall be established. Uto you can I tell you never downplay the place of confession. But the challenge, and I said this. Respectfully to the Body of Christ, is that confession without the whovering. Of the spirit is empty words. This is the technology. The Bible reveals. God never spoke. Until he ascertained that the movement of the spirit. Had set the atmosphere. It was the spirit that took Ezekiel. When you read Ezekiel thirty seven in the Value of the driver Bones. Please pay attention. The spirit of God took him there. I profer sight as I was commanded. The atmosphere had been created, and there was a sound. Most times we just make empty confessions. That's why it does not work. You must ascertain the hovering of the spirit is the union of the hoovering of the spirit and the spoken word that commands creation. I would learn that practically in a rein Hard Bunker crusade many years ago. I was in that crusade. You may have heard my story. Thousands of people and I was standing watching that great man of God. I was also a man of God. But I had to throw all of that because you don't receive from colleagues. You must submit yourself. That spiritual potential difference must. Be there. And he appreciate very same poor message, almost annoyingly simple. And while he was done, he was taking a glass of water so that he would now minister the baptism and healing. And the Lord opened my eyes. That was my first visionary encounter of the person of. The Holy Spirit. I saw a gigantic bird, without exaggeration, it would be as big, probably as this auditorium, just hovering round with some silvery things tied with the wings. He was just sorry, I thought, everyone was what is this. By the time I returned from that vision, so I had back to the stage, I was already facing you know, facing the people. Well, I didn't even know. And that was where the Holy Spirit took me to Genesis one two and set. The union of the hovering of the spirit. And the spoken word is what bird's creation? Not just confession. You now understand why the sun is to say bring me or the prophet to say bring me a mistral. You even see this pattern. I wish we had time, you would have seen what happened after Saul, the son of Kish met with prophets somewhere away Bible students of the One of the signs that he was given was that as you return. Number one, restoration had happened. What was missing had now been found. Number two, honor and favor. You will meet three men holding two loaf of bread that will salute you and gift to you, and he says received. Then number two you will come to the garrison of the. Phinishtines, and you will see some prophets, and they will be holding instruments of music. What we're they doing with it? Working on the street? It is a law, It's a spiritual law. There is no man I know that works in superior dimensions of the miraculous that does not have an inclination to the. Atmosphere of worship. Let's wrangle what. Then, is the assignment of prayer the assignment of the world. Like prayer, I are found from scripture for principal assignments of the world in the life of the believer. Do not forget what we're discussing this morning, the patterns that make for growth and for stature. And we identify two principal patterns according to Acts six four, the ministry of prayer the ministry of the world. And my assignment was to. Help to bridge that gap, that age long divide that has been in the body of Christ. Whether you are given the liberty to choose prayer or the word. We are never giving any liberty or such according to Scripture. So we use Jesus because if we use a prophet or any other person, Jesus is our pattern man. At least God credited him and said, I am well pleased. So if you study Jesus is perfect theology. Number one, the first assignment of the Word of God is to build the character of Christ in the believer. My apologists, I have to rush. The first assignment of the Word of God is to build the character of Christ in the believer. This is what you call transformation. This information is the name given to the process that makes you become like Christ in experience. It says, my little children, of whom I travail until Christ beformed in you. That formation of Christ is what we call character. Character is not just about resolutions. It is something that comes from within you. You will make resolutions and break them until something dies within you. And the assignment of the Word of God is to grant you that. Capacity to evolve. Hallelujah. Number two, the second assignment of the Word of God is for the renewal of your mind, the renewal of your. Mind, the Bible says. In Philippians chapter two and verse five, it says, to permit this mind to be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Jesus did not just excel because he was the son of God. There was a mental construct. He had allowed the world of God to build, a kind of thinking, an approach to life that gave the Holy Spirit room to do mighty things through him. And he says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. In Roman chapter twelve, when you read from verse one and two, he such, I besiege the brethren by the messes of God, that ye offer your bodies onto God living sacrifice. Holy unacceptably calls it your reasonable act of worship. Verse two says, and do not be conformed to this world. The word world here is the Greek word aon. It means the thinking pattern that comes with the age. It says, what be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind? Are we together? Number three? What is the third assignment of the word. The Word of God is the principal channel for accessing wisdom and understanding the wisdom that comes from above. In Second Timote, chapter three, verse Should that. Be fifteen or so? It says all scripture, No, fifteen, Let's try fifteen. Did I get that right? Yes? And that from a child thou. Hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make the wise. You are made wise. Yes, there is the spirit of wisdom and all of that, But there is the stability. Let me tell you the truth. Honestly, the Word of God contains the wisest perspective. On all matters. If you submit yourself when you find people demonstrate certain levels of God like wisdom beyond that which is affordable as far as our civilization is concerned. It was outsourced from above through the world. The world can make men wise, It can culture your approach to life. It can bring dexterity and order to your life away together wisdom and understanding. And finally, the assignment of the Word, as reviewed from scripture, is that it empowers us to walk in authority. It empowers us to walk in authority. It empowers us to walk in authority. Everyone, especially in the New Testament and afterwards, who worked in authority. There were men and women of the world when the Holygos came on the day of Pentecost, they thought that they were drunk with new wine, and Peter said no. He stilled them and said, this is that. And he began his exegesis right from Prophet Joel to the Psamis, and he said, this same Jesus, whom you have crucified today, he has been exalted as both Lord and Christ. The Bible says, when they heard it, they were caught to the heart, and they said, men and brethren, what do we do? And he said, repent for the remission of your sins, and you shall also receive this promise, he says, for this promise is onto you. You want your children, your children's children, even to as many as afar of those that the Lord will call. It is impossible to work in authority outside of the world. My charge therefore is that we will attain grace from this teaching and all of the teachings before now and after now, and submit ourselves to learn. Respectfully speaking, especially. If the call of God is on your life. Whether you have begone ministry or not, you never outgrow learning the world of God. Your authority is a measure of the world of God. That is resident within you. It is written you may have heard me say, it's greater than I saw. It is written. It is greater than I heard. No matter what you see and hear, it is written, is above it. You can use. It is written to rewrite any narrative. So if I wake up and have a negative dream, what I can use It is written to veto the outcome. Your life is at a risk. If all you have is I saw, your life is at a risk. And you see prayer helps you to see. Prayer helps you to hear. But I hope you bring that prayer under the dominion of the world, because I tell you it is written, is greater than I saw. It is written, is greater than I heard. I saw I heard can carry several margins of error based on your level of transformation. When you grow later you find out what you start. But this that is written remains even in the realm of the spirit. Colossians one, verse sixteen, Let me wrap up exhausts the word of God and shows the level the extent of the dominion of the world of God. It says, for by Him, where all things created that are in heaven and that are in the earth, visible and invisible. The scapt of the impact of the world of God is being beyond the visible realm. It says, whether they be thrones, dominions, principalities, or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. My charge is that we obtain grace from God and breach the age long gap. Never watch people praying and say, these. Guys are just prayer prayer people, They are just fanatics. Be careful because there may be something you are missing. There are many things you will never understand about the realm of the spirit until you submit yourself to extend dead periods of prayer. Take note of my choice of words, extend dead periods of prayer. I submit to you by the integrity of God's world. There are certain realms who may never understand the dynamics of your operation. There are certain levels of the presence that Shakaina, the manifested presence of God, that may never find expression in your life until you submit yourself to prayer with fasting. If I had the time, I would have told you what. The fire of prayer does, because the Bible says when they caught the fell, would remember in the Book of Art there was a viper hiding there. The viper hit because the wood was so cold. The moment it. Was lit with fire, the viper that was hiding came out. It is impossible for anything to hide when you are on fire. In fact, Jesus was speaking about the deliverance. He said, when a spirit leaves a man, it goes to a desert region, and without anybody casting it from the desert, it would run back to the man because a desert. Is a hot place. It was just a prophetic message. He meets you called, even though swept and empty, it will gather orders and bring there. No matter how mad a man is, he does not enter fire by mistake. And listen. Jesus, speaking about prayer, said, my house, not just the temple. He's talking of. You shall be called number one. Hold on, hold on. He leaves you with two options. You are either called a house of prayer or a den of roberts. Because the thief is there ready to steal. So you are either a house of prayer, or your coldness makes you a den of roberts. He will steal your joy, still your health, steal any other thing. You are either a house of prayer or a den of roberts. I choose to be a house of prayer. But then. I trust God for grace, and we thank God for the remarkable apostolic works that great men like persupport you are doing across with walk Beck to be able to breede the gross ignorance that is in the body of Christ. I apologize. Please lend me one minute. Let me press on this. This is very important. I submit to you that there is a lot of random, uncoordinated knowledge within the Body of Christ. Knowledge must be sequentially arranged. You see, knowledge is like a building the Bible cause of spiritual houses. Do you build a foundation and put a zinc on it just because it is required. In the building. There is timing and there is sequence. It is lying uponline. So most believers free lance their knowledge. They add anything upon anything, and it does not equal to the glory of God. It is time for us to reset. Literally, some of us may need to go back to the drawing board and begin to examine the pillars. The Bible says in Hebrews chapter six, six foundational doctrines that make up the believers foundation. Six of them are we together. Now from there, it says, let's move on to perfection. There are other aspects. What first things First, it's a waste learning of prosperity where you are not saved. You've not learned about character. You are learning about money. You want to die to kill you. You must understand death to the flesh. Then that will profit you. Are we together now? You are praying for increase. And you have not built capacity in the spirit. The challenges that come with that increase, you will not be able to endure. So I'm hoping and trusting and I pray that God will help all of us, including myself, men and women of God across Nigeria Africa in this prophetic wave of revival, that we must return to the place of doctrine. We must obtain grace to leave this celebrity Christianity and get serious. With building God's people according to. Jeremiah three point fifteen, that we become pastors according to God's heart, who will feed God's people with knowledge. And with understanding. Let me rest my case. Please rise upon your faith. Ah ah. Ah, just one prayer point, Father, I obtain grace to submit myself to prayer and the ministry of the world. Please left your voice and pray. Let it be from the depth of your heart. Where I have the emphasized or over emphasized. I obtain grace to balance my coordinates. To make sure that I am robust and sound in the ministry of prayer, with fasting intimacy with the Spirit, and then the ministry of the world. I submit myself to learn doctrine. I submit myself to be methodically mentored. I obtain grace from You that I would be like the Lamb's wife, equal in length, equal In breadth, with no exaggerations.