BISHOP WALE OKE ON NARRATES ‘HOW HE GREW SPIRITUALLY AS A YOUNG CHRISTIAN’
Bishop Wale Oke at Holy Ghost Convention 2021: Abundant Rain, Day 3 Evening Session.
I got born again in a church where they don’t close the service, after the man of God is done preaching they give an altar call for those who want to be born again and then he leads every other person to start praying. Church Gist. You pray until you are tired and fulfilled then you can go home.
I didn’t know that God was cooking me, I will stay pray for an hour and when I thought I have done a big job I will open my eyes and see some people praying. I went on and went on.
There was a particular night it was a Wednesday, the message was very powerful. It was a message about spiritual warfare. Church Gist. That was the first time I heard a clear word on spiritual warfare. It was in 1975.
Then the man of God gave an altar call and ministered to people and as usual we started praying. Something came on me that night, I kept praying and praying and it was like my heart was going to jump out of my breast. I was praying and this time, by the time I opened my eyes everybody had gone.
The pastor came to me and said “Brother do you want to continue praying? I would wait for you.” That was my pastor, he wasn’t going to go home until the last person had finished praying. Church Gist. I said “I am, okay Sir”. He asked me where I was going and I told him which part of the city and he said he would take me there. He just bought a brand new car and he took me home with it and that day changed my life.
He asked me my name and I told him. Then I was in my final year in the teacher’s college. He asked me what is my ambition, and I said “I am saved and I am going to heaven ”. He said “sure! I am saved too. Look at me I am the most ambitious person in the whole world. I want to see the world filled with the gospel from coast to coast”. He said “Brother don’t stop go forward”. That is what gave birth to my book “Go Forward”.
I wish we could get six hours and I just leave you, if you want to sleep with your problem on you, Sleep. Church Gist. If you want to kneel and pray, you can kneel and pray. What ever posture you want to take to pray to God, just talk to him. On a covenant intimate contact with God. I won’t disturb you because I want to pray too.
Since Holy Ghost Convention started there have been a restlessness in my spirit. There is a high place God wants to take us. Philosophy can’t do it, good teaching can’t do it. Church Gist. You can hear good teachings like these again and again but until you stay in the presence of God and pray through, then mysterious things will begin to happen. God will begin to arrange coincidences. God will send destiny helpers, things you can’t explain.
So I will leave you for the next thirty minutes if you want to weep, weep. Let’s go to the presence of God and seek His face. Pray whatever is in your heart.
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