THE devil FORESAW WHAT I WAS GOING TO BECOME AND TRIED ME WITH CONVULSIONS AS A GROWING CHILD
THE ENDTIME ARMY IS AN ARMY OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T CRY IN FRONT OF BATTLE
MEN OF WAR ARE PREPARED IN THE MIDST OF WAR
THE CONFLICTS OF YESTERDAY POSITION YOU FOR THE TRIUMPH OF TOMORROW
THE REASON WHY YOU WERE ALLOWED TO FACE THE LION IS BECAUSE YOU WERE MEANT TO BE PREPARED TO TACKLE THE GOLIATH
WHAT WILL COLLAPSE YOU WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO CONFRONT YOU. IF IT IS CONFRONTING YOU, IT MEANS THAT YOU CAN COLLAPSE IT
MEN OF WAR ARE RAISED UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF TRIUMPHANT WARRIORS
I SEE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES EVANGELISTS AND HAVE NEVER ORGANIZED A CRUSADE. THEY ARE WAITING FOR PEOPLE TO INVITE THEM.
I HAVE HUNG AROUND WARRIORS AND I AM A WARRIOR.
I HAVE A FATHER IN THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS ‘DAVID THE WARRIOR’. HE HAS ADDRESSED GUNMEN WITH HIS HAND IN HIS POCKET.
IN THE MILITARY, THEY DON’T BREAK THEIR RANKS. WHATEVER IS YOUR LINE IN THIS ENDTIME ARMY FACE IT.
FOR ME, INVITATIONS TO PREACH NOW IS ALMOST LIKE A DISTRACTION. I GO BECAUSE I FEEL LED TO GO AND TO ASSIST IN ONE WORK OR THE OTHER.
IF YOU ARE AN EVANGELIST, BE BRUTALLY EVANGELISTIC.
THE PROGRAM THAT IS ON MY NECK IS TOO MUCH TO OCCUPY ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. MY OWN LIFE SCHEDULE.
DON’T DO ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE PURPOSE OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE
MANY PEOPLE BREAK THEIR RANKS AND BEGIN TO DO WHAT THEY HAVE NO ANOINTING FOR, THEY DO WHAT GRACE CAN’T COVER SO THEY STEP INTO DISGRACE.
BILLY GRAHAM WAS PURELY A SALVATION EVANGELIST, HE DIDN’T LOOK INTO THE MIRACLES, SIGNS AND WONDERS SIDE, HE DIDN’T HAVE A BURDEN FOR IT.
HIS CRUSADES JAMMED STADIUMS. HE WENT TO SEOUL, KOREA AND IT WAS FILLED TO CAPACITY.
HIS PARTNERS PROVIDED THE LAND AND THE MONEY TO BUILD BILLY GRAHAM UNIVERSITY LIKE ORAL ROBERTS. HE REFUSED, THAT WAS NOT PART OF HIS ASSIGNMENT.
WILLIAM BRANHAM HAD VERY HIGH PROPHETIC ACCURACY. IF THERE IS SOMETHING LIKE 200 PER CENT, THAT WAS HIS LEVEL OF PROPHETIC ACCURACY.
HIS MAJOR CHALLENGE BEGAN WHEN HE STARTED STRUGGLING TO TEACH, HE BEGAN TO BRING OUT REVELATIONS THAT WERE VERY DANGEROUS.
ONE GOVERNOR TOLD ME THAT HE REGRETS GOING INTO POLITICS. HE WAS A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN WITH HIS MILLIONS CLEANLY DOING WELL. HE STEPPED INTO POLITICS AND IT MESSED HIM UP
– Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche on “THE FORCES OF REVIVAL (6) – MEN OF WAR FOCUSED AND UNITED” || 2023 IMFFC – Day 4, Morning Session || Glory Dome, Abuja.
Father, we worship you. What a week it has been. I believe that I can say welcome to this commissioning service. You know how they commission officers, personal parade. Church Gist. Welcome to this commissioning service because this morning, we shall be commissioned. “FORCES OF REVIVAL (6) – MEN OF WAR FOCUSED AND UNITED”. Joel 2:7-8. Our objectives this morning is
1. Understanding the making of men of war
2. Understanding the keys to focus
3. Understanding the way of unity.
The Bible is making it clear to us that the endtime army is an army of men and if you understand the military, when the officers stand at the parade ground and there are women soldiers and men soldiers, they don’t say, “ladies and gentlemen”, no, what is it? Everybody is a man, “gentlemen”. Church Gist. In the military, everybody is a man. Now, they admit women in the Nigerian Defense Academy, their training is not less. They said, “if you said you’re a woman, why are you here?” The best graduating student sometime ago was a woman, very rugged. One of such women was on the Airport Road here, asked a taxi driver to drop, the taxi driver just kept on going until a holdup held the taxi driver. Church Gist. She ran on foot and pulled the man out, gave him a dirty slap, the man collapsed. So, when we are talking of men of war, we are also talking of very rugged women.
Beloved brothers and sisters, this endtime army is an army of people who don’t cry in front of battle. It’s an army of people who don’t quiver at the sound of weapons. Church Gist. It’s an army of people who don’t shake at the sight of the enemy. It’s an army of people who are men of war indeed. It’s an army of people like the men of David who the faces of lions. It’s an army of people who can contend with lion-like people. Church Gist. It’s an army of people who have massive endurance, an army of people who are resilient, weariless and tireless.
What is the making of these men of war?
1. Men of war are prepared in the midst of war. War is learnt in war. You may know the theory of war before the war but you know the art of war inside war. Psalm 144:1. Psalm 18:34. Church Gist. This is the meaning; people of war are prepared by war for war. The conflicts of yesterday position you for the triumph of tomorrow. The reason why you were allowed to face the lion is because you were meant to be prepared to tackle the Goliath. Church Gist. Somebody’s question is answered now, “Lord, why has my life been filled with a lot of conflicts, battles and crises? Why is the devil looking for my trouble all the time? From childhood I grew up with war and battles” because the Lord prepared you to tackle generational battles that are ahead of you.
Not long ago, I saw my childhood picture that got lost sometime ago and I was so pained because I loved that picture so much, my wife loved that picture so much and suddenly we found it. Church Gist. That picture, I had my hands in my pocket, I was around the age maybe 4 or 5 and I looked at that picture and I almost did like, “ehya, sorry. Where you are at this age 4 or 5, nobody knew what you would ever become”. Mother didn’t know, father didn’t know, nobody knew but wait a minute, the devil had an idea, he had a clue, so he baptized the guy with febrile convulsions. Church Gist. At that age, you can see how there was no smile on the face, there were so much pain, conflict, pressure and convulsions. Mother will be called from the market to return back home because the child is fitting again. Because that devil had a clue of what that baby will become someday. War is learnt inside war. It is pressure that hardens charcoal and turns it into diamond. Church Gist. I don’t know who I am here speaking to today but I am here to explain the reason why you have had some conflicts, confrontations and pressures in your life.
– I announce to you today, I prophesy to you today, you’re about to collapse the demon of your family and your generation! You’re about to collapse the agenda of wickedness in this endtime!
So, the two things that you’re to note on this point is
a. The conflict of today prepares you for the battle and of course, the triumph of tomorrow
b. To avoid the lion today is to end as a victim of the Goliath tomorrow.
Beloved, I beg you, don’t dodge the fight, conflict and confrontations, you’re more than equal to the task. Church Gist. You’re wired to tackle it. What will collapse you will never be allowed to confront you. If it is confronting you, it means that you can collapse, conquer and level it! 1 Corinthians 10:13.
– I don’t know who is here today that is in all manner of battles, conflicts and confrontations, I announce today, that conflict, battle and confrontation is over!
2. Men of war are trained by experienced men of war. Apart from learning war in war, people who are experienced in war raise others for war. Church Gist. Men of war are raised under the tutelage of triumphant warriors. You may look defeated today, you may look discouraged and confronted today, all you need to do is to hang a little around a man of war, a warrior, a lion-like man. You may look as if you’re a prisoner of war today, you may look as if you’re a victim of diverse afflictions today, all that you need to do is to hang around a trained and experienced warrior. Church Gist. A warrior who is a winner of war, just hang around them a little and in a short time to come, you will be shocked at yourself.
You know what the eagle does to the eaglet by a training process? The little eaglet is right inside the nest 10,000 feet above sea level and the eagle brings its food every morning and every evening. She will take it in her mouth and push it in the mouth of the eaglet. This continues until one day, the mother eagle comes and begins to remove and tear apart the nest and this baby is wondering: ‘What is happening to mother today’? And she tears apart the nest, finishes the nest and pushes out the eaglet. And the eaglet is wondering: ‘What is happening to my mother today and the eagle says: ‘I want to teach you war. Church Gist. I want to teach you the mastery of the wind, I want to teach you how to master the storm. I want to teach you how to soar about the storms of life’. And this little eagle is diving down like he is about to hit the ground, then the mother would come under it and pick it, take it up 10,000 feet, leave it from there, it will come down again. Like he is about to crush on a log he would carry it up and after a while in the course of diving down it spreads out its wings and realizes not crashing anymore. Wait a minute! I also have what mother has and that is how the baby eagle arranges her life and takes off onto the cloud, never again to be afraid of the storm. From that moment forward, the storm that makes other birds to take cover, that is the storm that this eaglet uses to take over. Others take cover, it takes over.
-There is a particular person here, in a short time from now, the devil will be shocked that you are the same person. Church Gist. The level of confidence that shall exude from you, the devil would be shocked that you are the same person.
1 Samuel 22:2. People that had no liver, people that had no guts, people were pursuing them, they were fugitives, vagabonds and they gathered around David. That is what we call here: People that were beaten, battered, shattered, scattered, nothing to write home about, they didn’t even have enough boldness to face a fly but they gathered around a warrior, a lion killer, a giant killer, that implicated them. 2 Samuel 23:8. And by the time David was through with them, this is now their title: The Mighty men! Not distressed again, not discontented again, not frustrated again, not on the run again. One man! Church Gist. The man was formerly in debt, the man was formerly in distress, formerly discontented, witches were molesting him, ancestral spirit were tormenting him, the spirit of his father’s house were running after him but not after he stood around a giant, not after he hung around a warrior, not after he hung around a fighter, not after he hung around a lion killer. He lifted up his hand and wasted 800 at once. Not go come! If you read the story of those guys, you will see one who in the time of snow, he fought with a lion in snow time, killed it. Another one, he said he fought a lion like man of Moab, he plucked the spear from the man and slew him with his own spear. There was another guy who killed until the sword became one with his hand, the sword cleaved to his hand. His hand became sword, his hand and the sword became one.
-I don’t know who came today like this, maybe you came pursued by the devil, the gods of your father’s house are afflicted and chastised back to hell. Church Gist. In this Commissioning Service, a mantle is coming upon your life that will make you to finish the devil.
I have hung around warriors and if I say I wasn’t a warrior myself in terms of the number of devils that reported to hell before their time, the number of demons that were sacked, that were terminated from the lives of people, sent back to hell. Those that lost their wings, those that lost parts and reported to hell I will be lying. Plenty! I saw myself in the dream where people came to fight me and then I collected their weapons and wasted all of them on the spot. I’ve seen that in the realm of the Spirit and I’ve seen wastage and I would be lying if I said I did not know. Church Gist. I have a Father in the Lord, whose name is David himself, David the warrior, he has addressed gunmen with his hand in his pocket, you are calling yourself armed robber. During one of those early crises in Kaduna, religious riot! Terrible riot! He drove his Mercedes in those days, Ahmadu Bello straight to the market. It was a market day on that day and parked it in front of the market and sat on the bonnet. People said: ‘They are wasting people’, he said: ‘Here am I’! That is the company you belong to. Elephant’s child cannot suffer convulsion, the child of a lion is not permitted to die of hunger. Are you hearing what I’m saying here?
-I prophesy upon you today, something is coming upon your life that will turn you from distress, from defeat, from frustration and depression into victory and conquest.
Without any doubt, the devil will regret for everything he passed you through. The devil will regret for every confrontation of your life and Ministry. God will give you enough money to punish poverty, the poverty that wanted to render you useless. To chastise poverty, scarcity and empty-handedness. So these were men of war but one thing about these men of war was that they were focused. Joel 2:7-8. They are a focused army! Like Dr. Mrs. Enenche said already. Have you ever seen the military march before? And they are going, marching with audacity. The same leg going forward! Now, in their training camp, whether it is Nigeria Defence Academy or the Military Camp, every movement whether you are going from what you will call the equivalent of their own hostel to the dining hall, the Mess or anywhere you are going to. Everyone is moving, the leg is the same, it’s not just marching! That is, if two people are walking and moving together, if they are running, it’s the same together, no circumstance will make the leg different. It is not on the field of marching, this is normal life. Am I communicating? If they are walking and most times they are running, the leg is the same, the hand is the same, everything is the same. Who born you that on a parade ground you missed it. What you would suffer, next time you will offer correctly. If it is Independence, they rehearse for between three to six months ahead for what they are already used to so that when everybody’s leg is coming down, nobody’s leg is meant to come down half a second slower than the rest. Everyone bangs the leg on the ground the same time! That is military operation. They don’t break their ranks, the ground fight is fighting, the infantry is fighting raw man to man fight with the gun, the artillery is fighting with the bombs and the grenades, the armoured personnel carriers are fighting with their tanks with mortars to level things. The ones fighting from the air, the air force are just rendering places useless. No one breaks their ranks. The man of the infantry won’t do the work of the man of the artillery neither will the other one do the work of the armour, neither will he do the work of those fighting from up or the work of the paratroopers. Church Gist. That is the military setting that Jehovah envisages for the Endtime army. That is, whatever is your line, face it! Whatever is your line in this army, face it! If you are an Evangelist, be brutally evangelistic. I see people call themselves evangelists that have never organised a crusade, they are waiting for people to invite them. Who invited Peter to come and preach? For me, invitation now is almost like a distraction. I go because I feel led to go and assist in one work or the other – just make a contribution. The program that is on my neck is too much to occupy me for the rest of my life, my own life schedule! If I go and preach in two three places a month and come and I don’t go anywhere for the whole year without Church paying me salary, my income is the same. There is no difference because of honourarium. Ask Dr. Mrs. Enenche she will tell you, no slight difference that because I went somewhere and preach that they gave me honourarium it increases my… No!!! No increase!
I went somewhere to preach in a country, they gave me honourarium in foreign currency when I returned back, a man had been pursuing me with an offering that he said God laid in his heart to give me not a member of our Church and he has been pursuing me for six months with that offering, he didn’t know what to do but he must give it. When he came, I just returned from that country when he gave me the offering it was exactly the same amount in the same currency. That means I didn’t need to go there to get such a thing. Are you hearing what I’m saying here today?
-I want you to get ready because God is about to do something in your life. Lift your right hand and say: In the name of Jesus, I will face my front, I will face my assignment.
What are the keys to focus?
1. The understanding of life’s purpose.
What is your purpose? What has God called you to do? What are you to do with your destiny? The understanding of life’s purpose. It was William Branham who prayed for a woman and she would get healed and keep coming back all the time. One day he told the woman you know what? I have done my work. What you need now is the ministry of Kenneth Hagin. Go and sit under him, let him teach you the faith that will cause you to maintain your healing. My duty is to pray for your healing but there is a man who will teach you to remain healed. He stayed in his rank. His major challenge began when he began to move out of his rank, he started struggling to teach. Earlier on that was what he did, he told them to go to Kenneth Hagin. Church Gist. I am in the prophetic ministry and so on. When he started struggling to teach, he began to bring out revelations that were very dangerous. Very dangerous! That man had 200 per cent prophetic accuracy. If there is anything like 200 per cent. He has never said this is your name and it wasn’t your name or this is where you live and it wasn’t where you live or this is what your problem is and it wasn’t your problem. He will just say “You have peptic ulcer. The doctor diagnosed you in October 15th so and so date. Check yourself now you are healed.” He won’t even pray for you. He remained in that realm, it was a blast. He moved out of that realm, it was a mess. Kenneth Hagin and other people wanted to call him to order that the doctrines he was teaching were not scriptural, no way.
They shall not break their ranks. Understand your purpose and stay there. Billy Graham has his anthem song. If he sings that song even if you are a devil, you will come out for the altar call. He was purely an evangelist, he didn’t look into the miracle, signs and wonders side, he didn’t have a burden for it. Stadiums jammed. Seoul, Korea filled to capacity. The whole nation. He began to evangelise on radio and the whole nation was preached to at once. Wembley Stadium in the U.K. in 1968 was filled to overflowing. One day they came to tell him excitedly that when worship was on, blind eyes just saw. He said that is strange, that doesn’t normally happen here. He brushed it aside and faced his front. In other words, don’t pull me into what is not my realm. He was the one who dedicated and commissioned Oral Roberts University. Church Gist. His partner said we have land, over a hundred and twenty acres, they have raised millions of dollars. Can you just sign and let a university be built in your name just like Oral Roberts, let us call it Billy Graham University. He said really? Land is available, money is available. That didn’t appear to be part of my calling. When God was giving me my assignment I don’t think he mentioned that one. I haven’t heard of that yet. Even though visions grow, he hadn’t heard of that yet. He maintained his tracks. Many people break their ranks and begin to do what they have no anointing for, what grace can’t cover so they step into disgrace. Don’t do anything outside the purpose of your life. Habakkuk 2:2-3.
2. The fullness of light.
Matthew 6:22. The eye is single, the body is full of light. It happens the other way too. When the body is full of light, it is equivalent to the singleness of the eye. Church Gist. Just flood your eyes with the light of the Word of God as it pertains to life’s purpose. Don’t flood your eyes with the word of men, flood it with the Word of God and your light will be full of light.
3. The rejection of distraction.
On your journey in life even as a businessman people may want to drag you into businesses that are not yours. People may want to drag you into endeavours that are not yours. You have so much money and they want you to be a politician. One governor told me that if he had known, he wouldn’t have branched into politics at all. He was a successful businessman with his millions cleanly doing well with establishments and industries here and there. Church Gist. He said he stepped into this thing and it messed him up. If you go to America today, you will never dare politics for life. They are in farming, banking, everything. They are the ones controlling the politicians. They fund campaigns and do this and that. They will never branch anything like that but in Nigeria to have money means to go into politics.
Elisha would have been distracted if he heard the voice of the sons of the prophet. 1 Kings 2:5. Let me tell you a very funny story. When the ministry started and we were doing all the things we knew to do. Rugged street evangelism we were doing, brutal preaching of the Word, altar calls and so on. One very concerned person who had known us even before we became pastors said Pastor, I need to advise you. Do you know what? When people come, see vision for them. That is what the people in Abuja like. Just see vision for them. Give them prophecy. He mentioned places where people would be lining up to come in for prophecy one by one. That is what is rampant here. If I wasn’t flowing in the gift of prophesying or seeing, if it wasn’t there what are you telling me to do? Go and look for it by any means or begin to lie. Begin to do these days where they will fill forms at the entrance and they will fill the form and the man will see the forms before the person arrives and puts them away. Have I seen you before? You say no. I am about to tell you things that will shock you. You are from Asaba isn’t it? No. 15 Onitsha Road. Begin to manipulate people or come on the anointing. Like we heard yesterday that if the anointing doesn’t come on you, you come on it. That word that person spoke went through one ear and came out from the other ear. It didn’t shake me because I know whom I have believed. This old rugged cross works. So I just maintained brutal focus. Do you know what happened? After a while the person and the people who did all of that, all of them dried up, closed down, evaporated and ended. Gimmicks do not last. If there are any gimmicks in the area where you are, it is just a short while. It will expire and fade away. So we maintained the raw preaching, the raw teaching, the raw healing, the raw ministration as they call it in Bible days ‘wholesale’ ministration instead of retail. That is one on one, it continued like that and miracles were multiplied. Church Gist. If I use thirty minutes to face one person and I say your name is this, your mother is this and I use thirty minutes to minister and different people have different encounters. Why don’t we spend our life on what is profitable for humanity and eternity? At a point in his life, William Branham began to go about with F.F. Bosworth, the one who wrote Christ the Healer. Bosworth will teach intensively. Branham said he got tired of spending 8 hours in service and he only ministered to 30 people, he got tired. He wrote that if he had the chance to do it all over, he would spend more time with the people generally than the 8 hours of talking to 50 people one by one.
Beloved brothers don’t let anybody drag you… Write this down: What is not your intention must not compel your attention. Church Gist. If it is not within your vision, it must not command your attention. Don’t allow it to command your attention. We are a focused army.
3. The avoidance or refusal of comparison.
2 Corinthians 10:12. Don’t compare yourself with anybody. Nobody has your combination of gifts, nobody has your calling, your gifts, your mantle, the grace that God has for you. Church Gist. If anybody is doing their own well celebrate them but just face your life.
The day I saw that all the earth sought Solomon to hear his wisdom, not to watch the miracles. That day my mind changed. All the earth sought Solomon to hear the wisdom that God put in his mouth. 1 Kings 10:24. As they came, they came with resources. That is Solomon did not have a miracle ministry yet gathered the whole world. John the Baptist’s own was not even wisdom, it was anger plus anointing and yet cities gathered. If you have miracles, explode them. Let it flow. If you have miracles with the Word, don’t let one take the place of another. If anything must take first place, it must be the Word that will be dominant. Church Gist. If it is the Word that you have more than physical manifestations, be intense with the Word. Be intense in the Word. If the world can seek Solomon because of what he was saying, the world can seek you if you talk about what God gave you to talk about.
If you do the business God placed you to do, you don’t need to envy another person. One of the men who frequently gives us his aircraft is into agriculture. He is a billionaire there. His business is number one in that line. He said people have asked him why he is not in Oil and Gas, Nigeria has Oil and Gas. Most billionaires are in Oil and Gas. He said that is not my line. He has not branched Oil and gas, nor has he branched government contracts. He doesn’t have time to beg anybody or to bribe anybody. He is not ready for compromise. He has not done a contract in the country since 1989. He told us that during one of the Presidents of this country’s time, they gave him a job worth over twenty billion. Some people then met with him and said You don’t need to do the work, just sign and we will say that you have done it and give us this amount and we will give you this amount. Church Gist. He took off, he said not me. It was the president himself at that time who called him to find out why he didn’t do the work they gave him. He said I am not able to do it. The man put him under pressure until he told the truth. They said I should sign and they will give me the money without doing the work and I am not ready for such. Everybody at that time felt it. From that moment, the president sent for the people to account for what happened. Everybody became like water. From that day he washed his hands off anything concerning the government. He can be worth billions without doing anything with the government or Oil and Gas. It is possible to be an upright billionaire. Job was like that. Just understand your line. Understand your own field, understand your realm and face it. Understand your line. He entered into banking and finance after a while. Refuse comparison.
The Way of Unity.
The Bible said “They shall not break their ranks neither shall one thrust another.” What we have learned from the beginning: What is Revival, Why is Revival Necessary, Forces of Revival, A People Of Strength, As The Appearance of Strength and then They Shall Run. Church Gist. All of these, Focused and then United to me appears like qualification for enlistment. If you want to be in this army you must be a man of strength, you must be on the run, you must be a man who is focused and then you must be a man who is united with the brethren. This seems to me like qualification for commissioning.
They shall not break their ranks and they shall not trust one
1. They shall not work at cross purposes.
2. They shall not work against each other.
Your work does not need to happen at the expense of mine and what I am doing does not need to happen at the expense of yours. You don’t break a church to start another church. You don’t campaign to followers of a church to begin another church. You don’t exit church and exit with people, it is an abominable practice. If you leave you leave tidily. If you led them to Christ or you are the one who pastored them, you did that under the mantle or commission you were in. You leave them in that commission and exit to do something else with your life. Church Gist. It is contrary to Kingdom agenda, Kingdom and the purpose of Christ’s Body to break one to start another. Church breakers are like home breakers. If you have done such apologize to God. Every one of those faces around you that followed you from where you came should convict your conscience. They shall not work against each other. This work shouldn’t happen at the expense of the other.
We heard a most profound testimony from the other brother the other day; he came to me, God is leading him to start a ministry, I said, number one, ensure that you exit tidily. Church Gist. Number two, ensure that you’re in tune and at peace with the man you served and number three, don’t let the work you’re leaving suffer because you left. He followed all of it, the man released him after two years. He went to another location and placed him there and grew that work from a little one hundred and something to four hundred and something, the work exploded. The man came and said, “I don’t want to release but I will release you reluctantly”. “Yes Sir”. Church Gist. After they released him, he remained behind because there was nobody to take over that work and he didn’t want it to suffer by his exit. After 4 months when somebody who could take over that work came, he exited tidily.
Don’t let any devil put anything in your head, any boldness that makes you break what God is building is a demonic boldness. Church Gist. I have to preach this thing because there are not many places where they are talking about these kind of things anymore. Where everybody is doing everything they are doing, behaving like Gehazi. You know Gehazi? Gehazi is the one who is under his father but he’s the one that is mostly here and there among the members trying to do his own thing. Church Gist. Elisha was not aware that the woman didn’t have a child but Gehazi was aware, during the period where Gehazi will be organizing family prayer meetings and home deliverance. He will say, “my father in the Lord does not have chance for people but anytime you need me, I will visit you at home. Anytime you need me, you can call me, the man is too big for congregation”. So, when Elisha said, “do you have any problem?” and the woman said no, Gehazi said, “No. she doesn’t have a child and I know them, the husband is even very old”. He knows the details and Gehazi has always been like that. Church Gist.When Naaman the Syrian came, he pursued him. You know praying mantis, its hand cannot be unbent, it’s always bent.
3. They shall protect and defend the interest of one another. Church Gist. Pastor in Uyo is protecting the interest of another brother pastoring in Uyo, at the same time, Pastor in Port-Harcourt is defending the interest of another Pastor there at the same time.
4. They shall watch the backs of one another.
5. They shall not celebrate the failure of one another.
6. They shall not publicize the errors of one another. That is, they not thrust, injure or wound one another.
7. They are not interested in pulling down one another. I will give you three practical examples. Church Gist. One day a man came to tell me something about a big Pastor in one country, he thought he was telling me news, the same way that that young man came to talk to David that Saul has died. He said, “ah, see this man messed up. In fact the media in their country did this and that”, he was talking and talking. I said, “oh. If what you’re saying is true, that is a major loss in the Kingdom”. He said, “what did you say?” I said, “that will be a major loss to the Kingdom”. Church Gist. I don’t know whether he asked, “why did you say so sir?” I said, “because it cost God so much to prepare one genuine man”. It takes so much from God to make available to a generation one authentic man because fakes are plenty. And I began to pray. I said to him, “please, I beg you, what you just told me now, would you help me not to tell another person again?” He said, “I will not”. So, I started praying. That has happened another time where they mentioned something about an American Minister, they said some things. Church Gist. The person who told me said so and so is happening and this is what they’re saying. So, I called another person in Europe and I said, “is there any challenge with anybody like this?” He said he hasn’t heard anything. So, I called this person back and I said, “I just called somebody and he said that he hasn’t heard anything. You, don’t say it to nobody anymore”. Church Gist. What do you gain if somebody crashed? Does it make you rise? Is the crash of one person the rise of another?
Can I tell you the truth? If somebody is fake but the whole world considers that the person is genuine and the person has a bad news, will it affect the Church or not? Church Gist. Oh yeah! Heavily. I mean, because, as far as everybody is concerned, this is meant to be so and so person. Two days ago, somebody forwarded something to me about a statement someone made and he said this and that, so I called him back and said, “that is an unfortunate statement but please, have you forwarded it to any other person?” He said, “no, it’s only you that I can”. I said, “don’t, again and I will not forward it to anyone for life.
Life is all about a seed, if you want others to die, how can you live? If you want others to crash, how can you stand? If you want others to end before their time, how can you finish your own race? Church Gist. They shall not injure or thrust one another. It’s not that they are supporting the evils of one another. If for example, you saw your brother in an error, you try to approach him and he’s unapproachable and you know he has a father, you go to the father, “I am not here to report, I am only here for rescue. This is the situation with this our brother if something can be done”. Church Gist. That is tidy, that is clean and that is more helpful than; “Can you imagine, this person that is just moving about now, if I tell you some things..” then from there just to another person to another person to another person and he’s just watching him. You know there are people who are just watching for when some people would crash. Church Gist. Like Paul the Apostle, they watched until when they couldn’t see that, they changed their minds.
– The world would change their mind about you.
This is the kind of heart and the level of unity that God is seeking for His body to make the endtime work to explode.
-And it shall explode in your hands!
8. They shall function as the parts and members of one another
They shall not break their ranks. Church Gist. They shall not thrust one another means, they shall function as the parts and members of one another.
9. They will not be engaged in competition and contest with one another
We are not measuring ourselves by ourselves.
10. They shall continually draw strength, energy and inspiration from one another
They draw strength, they draw energy. You just saw the young man who showed us his clips from Russia the other day. Someone said: ‘I am highly encouraged’! Because the person feels an assignment in Europe even though a lady may be married, settled and so on and have been wondering and afraid. Europe! They are very atheistic, they don’t believe in God. Church Gist. They don’t go to Church, they don’t do this. Is anything possible for God there? And then he saw the clip where everybody apart from the Pastor is Caucasian and then said: ‘Really’? This is what it does. When we saw the clip of our brother, Pastor George the other day – You draw energy, you draw inspiration. We are connected to the same source, we are connected to the same fountain. And if it can happen there, it can happen where I am. It can happen with my life, it can happen with my assignment and with what I lay my hands on. This is what life is all about.
Declarations: I’m not competing with you, I will like to complement you where necessary.
Listen to this! There is this bird that migrates from the Northern Hemisphere from North America to South America during seasonal changes. When it is winter, they move and then to another Continent and when the weather changes here and becomes terrible here, they return back. I can’t remember the name of the bird now but this is the formation in which they fly. They have a V-shaped formation. The geese they do that, the swarms they do that, the ducks they do that these are migratory birds. Now there is a key bird in the middle. The flapping of this one’s wing is transmitted to the second one; there is an aerodynamic effect that makes every single one of them. The real anchor person is the front one, the energy of this front person propels everybody and the journey continues for maybe 5,000 miles but when the anchor person is tired, he shifts position. This goes for a while, when this person is tired, another person. At the end of the day everybody assisted everybody to arrive at the destination.
-Please let’s fly together!
Listen, when we fly! You got it! You can’t forget this! You know what is on my mind Reverend Ntia, what is on my mind once in a while is maybe come to a city, all the sons of the Prophets there pull together and we do one Crusade, everybody! Fill the largest ground in that place. Now, every Church submit counsellors, if we have 5,000 counsellors they are all submitted! The slip is distributed to the counsellors. The number of counsellors the Church brought and the number of souls that they got, goes with them to their Church! It was on my mind a few years ago for Uyo, did I mention it? Fly together! Yes, fly together! That is, your people! The people that you discipled, you go with them, the balance is left for you. If you didn’t pastor them well you are on your own. What are we looking for? Let souls get to Heaven! Let people be discipled! Let people make Heaven! Let’s depopulate hell and populate Heaven. I don’t care where the soul was discipled but as long as that soul ended in Heaven. I don’t care where the soul was discipled for as long as that at the end of the day that soul was discipled to Heaven. When the first one is done, you will know! Nation to nation, the same approach!
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