21 Days of Prayer and Fasting Day 3
- Enough of buying and selling in your life!
- Power pass power. Our triumph is tied to power: no power, no triumph!
- God told me, ‘focus on spiritual establishment of members this year. There is no point posing to be there when you are not there. If you are genuine in your decision, your decoration begins now.
Most of the time, we are in need because we don’t know what we need. No one can rule in the midst of his enemies without being empowered.
I’ll like you to spend the first 7 minutes of this message, to demonstrate a thirst for next level empowerment: Jesus empower me to next levels by the Holy Ghost.
This is what happens, when we are empowered, we gain command over more things. As you get more empowered, you gain command over much more things. The more you are empowered, the more things you gain command over. The end time Church is ordained to rule in the midst of her enemies through the mystery of empowerment.
You have been around the ankle level, may be your sole is just touching the water. At baptism, you are just welcomed to the school of power. You have not even registered.
Prayers:
- Enough of all manipulations of hell in my life.
- Enough of buying and selling in my life.
- Empower me into next levels. Jesus empower me. This 3rd day, raise me to another level of empowerment tonight. Raise me into a new realm of empowerment
Pray in the spirit, pray in your understanding.
Go to Jesus, the Sender of the Holy Ghost and pay the price of a genuine thirst. Pay the price for a longing and a panting for Next Level empowerment (Matthew 25:9).
- Enough of buying and selling in your business, in your home, spiritual life: Enough!
- Everything buying and selling in your temple must clear out this time.
- Lord, empower me to next level and by so doing re-position me for command over all issues of concerns around my life
- Lord empower me tonight to another level (Acts 10:38).
It’s done. Your level has changed again in the name of Jesus Christ.
I mentioned a statement briefly, “we are mostly in need because we don’t what we need.” Jesus returned empowered by the Spirit and His Mission exploded (Luke 4:14).
Nothing of value is ever free. Power is one of the greatest asset in the Kingdom. Our enemies will only surrender to the level of our empowerment (Psalm 66:3)
- Submission is not to grammar.
- You don’t submit to being pious.
- Enemies submit only to power.
That mad man of Gadarene stood on the way and as Jesus returned transfigured from the altar of prayer, “Heyyy, have you come to destroy us before the time” and people were amazed at the mighty power of God (Luke 9:43).
Enemies don’t submit or surrender to tears, cries and weeping; they submit to empowerment. No one can see the power of God for free, No.
Psalm 63:1-2
That’s the price we pay for empowerment: a thirst of the soul and a longing of the flesh…
No one sees empowerment without engaging those 2 factors. Not even Christ that was born of the Holy Ghost: the potentials were inside but it takes empowerment for them to manifest.
Someone here in our Church in those early days in Lagos had goods in his store that would not sell. He came to me at a Midweek service like this; I put my two hands on his two palms and I said, “don’t greet anybody, just go to the shop and lay your hands on it.”
Following morning, a trailer reversed, “how much do you have?” They bought off everything that he had: building materials and gave him a line of supply at that Estate construction.
What if he had that by himself? He won’t be looking at the …all through the year.
Power!
Power pass power. I’m not saying you don’t have power but you need to change level. You’ve been around that level for too long.
You are praying for headache: you are shaking and you are sweating
Somebody else says, ‘Go!’ and it goes because of the level at which he operates.
- Every manipulation of hell around your life must end this time.
- They were buying and selling in the temple. We are the temples of the Holy Ghost. There were forces buying and selling .; they are smiling all over. They take something from you, they give you something else. You are free from back ache, they bring stomach ache…
Everything doing trade by barter in your life, family, over your children, in the name of the Lord Jesus, the power of God clears them off finally.
Please know that we are in the fasting days in the Body of Christ (Matthew 9:14-15, Mark 2:19-20, Luke 5:34-35). To show how important fasting is to the end time Church and it has been watered down over the years until they don’t even think it is necessary…
Men and brethren, we are in the fasting days of the Church and you’ll be out of the race neatly if you are not in it. You will be stripped of power and you’ll just be reduced to a victim of life.
Every major item in God’s prophetic agenda for the end time Church requires prayer and fasting for delivery, that includes fulfillment of prophecy.
Prophetic Agenda of the Church
- The last days are the days of His power but power is facilitated by prayers and fasting (Psalm 110:1-3).
The Church is stepping into realms of empowerment, the kind that the world never knew. The Church will begin to rule in the midst of her enemies.
Watch and put this down: Issues will rise that will totally disarm the pride of the world and they will start racing to the Church that they used to resist, “show us the way.” I tell you by the Word of the Lord.
They begged Joseph to rule over them. They begged Daniel to rule over them.
The end time Church will be begged by the world to take over.
- Somebody does not even believe it.
The end time Church will become the solution centre of the world.
Some nations are under permanent lock down, we are under permanent freedom and yet we are not dying.
“What are you doing?” Sit down my friend, we’ll take you through scriptures to see the secret of our empowerment.
God is out to humble the pride of the world and it will take the empowerment of the saints to take their positions.
Psalm 110:3
Fasting is no issue for us in this part of the world: it’s not because we are hungry. Nobody is hungry in this Church, we distribute food to people. We know the meaning of it (fasting). We are empowered to gain command over things destroying them through the mystery of fasting that engenders empowerment. No believer can be in that race without subscribing to the demand of prayers and fasting.
Power answers to prayer but growing in power answers to fasting (Luke 11:13).
It’s through fasting that we are empowered to the level that we break every yoke. You move from level to level until every yoke surrenders to you. No one here shall be left out.
Matthew 25:9
They don’t beg for it (power), you buy. You buy with a thirst of the soul and a longing of the flesh for forward movement in the school of power.
I saw the prophetic drama in Ezekiel 37 and it drove me to the mountain, “Lord, I want to know the secret of the power behind Ezekiel”
What kind of prayer is that and so I went after it. Reading Ezekiel from Chapter 1 with torch light in the night, sunlight in the day. I returned on the third day, hear what He said, “behold I have touched your tongue with the coal of fire. From henceforth, as you say it, you see it.”
That’s how to buy.
You don’t buy by lifting hands, sleepy eyes and not even know what you are praying for!
Mark 10:46-47
You cannot access power without a desperation for empowerment (Isaiah 41:17-18)
You don’t sit down with no results and be comfortable.
Some people are so patient that they become patients. They are just too patient. For 3 months, our Church was not growing, I said, “No, no, it can’t be like this!”
What am I full time Pastor for, I must be playing the fool.
“Oh God, why is this Church not growing?”
Isaiah 44:3
He pours His Spirit only upon the thirsty not the casual:
“Oh Lord God, change my level” – Papa said we should pray for change of level. I don’t know for what but change my level. Thank You, You have changed my level already. My level has changed Amen.
- Many shall be flooded with His power in the course of this fast.
Power is always accompanied with authority,
Talking about ex-politicians: when he was in power, he had authority. Now he is out of power, he has no authority.
He was Chairman of Local Government: when he comes to the Local Government, nobody stands up especially he was a very bad man.
Clerk: Yes, anything Sir? Can we help you?
Others will be hissing, “what is he looking for?”
That is when he is out of power. When he was in power, if he worse than that, “welcome sir, yes sir.”
- You won’t be out of power!
- I want you to get desperate about the need for empowerment into next levels. It will be an asset of a lifetime. Things that pick on others will find it impossible to pick on you. Things that torment others will clear off your territory. Things that besiege other families will be far from your own family.
Luke 10:17,19
Our triumph is tied to power: no power, no triumph
- The last days are days of vengeance and vengeance is facilitated by prayers and fasting.
Jehoshaphat – 2 Chronicles 20:12, 22, 24
- None of your adversaries will escape this time.
We invoke vengeance on the altar of prayer and fasting (Luke 4:18. Isaiah 61:2).
More often than not, until the wicked is judged, our rights are never released.
Until vengeance shows up, more often than not, the wicked never gives up.
We invoke vengeance on the altar of prayer and the end time is the day of vengeance of our God (Isaiah 61:3). The latter day was the beginning of vengeance and we are in the later end of the last days. So we are in the day of the vengeance of the Lord (Luke 4:18, Acts 5, 8, 13).
Isaiah 63:4
- This year is your year of God’s vengeance in the camp of your enemies. Before the 21 days of prayers and fasting are over, you will hear news that those resisting your advancement, the advancement of your family, your settlement in life will be hit by God’s judgement.
- The last days are the days of signs and wonders. Signs and wonders are provoked by prayers and fasting (Mark 2:12, Like 5:26).
Acts 5, 9; 2 Corinthians 6:5, 2 Corinthians 11:27
For our prayers to be answered, we must engage with a praying heart. We must engage our hearts in the prayers (Jeremiah 30:21).
“Oh Lord, empower me unto next levels.”
“Engrace me not to abuse it. Engrace me not to trade it off.”
“Empower me unto next levels, I don’t want to miss out of your grand end time prophetic agenda.”
Among the key things we all need in this prayer and fasting is empowerment into next levels that is accompanied with divine authority.
You say to this, ‘Go’: it goes. You say to that, ‘Come’: it comes. You are having it the way you want it at all times, even as occasion serves you at all times.
Altar Call: Proverbs 1:23
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