Believe God For The Greater Task

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Telephone numbers 0703 03636 59 0703 76811 98 Email address lsmediaatlivingseed.org or visit our website at www.livingseed.org Let us sit back and listen as the servant of God brings forth the Word of Life. I would like you to turn to our theme text, Isaiah 49. Isaiah 49 is our theme text, but Isaiah 49 is a twin text with Isaiah 42.

Isaiah 49 is a twin text with Isaiah 42. Several things in Isaiah 42 seem to be repeated in Isaiah 49. And several things in Isaiah 49 seem to be explained further in Isaiah 42.

So this morning, as a general introduction to our theme, we are going to look at both Isaiah 49 and Isaiah 42. And we will draw a few issues in order to set the ground for our study in the course of this meeting. And one of the things that I would like to quickly say is that I perceive that this meeting is at the threshold of a greater outburst.

Where we are sitting now is at the threshold of a greater outburst. And the meaning of that is that God is going to be meticulous to give us instruction on how to move and what to do. As I look at the way God has led us, you will soon discover that there is so much that we need to sit down and study.

So much. When you look at our Bible study, you will know that the Bible study is a volume. And I kept saying, Lord, why are you coming with this kind of much, much instruction? He said, because the time to break forth onto greater things have come.

And so we must get our bearing. So I want to beg you, the Bible study this year, as we always emphasize, is not something you can ignore. The Bible study is a very strong component of this meeting.

The things that we cannot say on the pulpit, because there will be no time for that, we have put it together in the Bible study. So it will be very important that you deliberately participate in the study. We are creating classes in such a way that we will be able to comfortably participate in what God is saying.

I was wondering why God wanted us to do that, because I thought that some years ago, we did a Bible study like that. And God said, yes, you did a Bible study like that. When you are simply learning general principles.

But now this Bible study is not just for general principles. It is a matching order. Is an instruction because of where you are moving into.

So again, I'm begging you that you pay attention to it. I may not even be able to do so much preaching. Because God has also instructed that we should put together a very systematic instruction.

Which were packaged into the issue paper. And that paper will also be distributed to you later today or sometime when we want to begin to work with it. And you will soon see also that that itself is an elaborate instruction.

We are under a very strong obligation to do this. Because we are at a threshold of an outburst. It was several years ago, God began to say.

Things we need to do, he said, learn it now. So that the rain will not stop you. I remember that.

You know, I'm sorry. But me, I normally keep record. And I always check what appears like coincidences.

But I realize that they are not. I remember that between the year 1996, 97. God, when he was speaking about this walk that he was there to do.

And by the time God was speaking to us that time, 96. Between 93, 94, 95. He was talking to us about beauty according to pattern.

Those of you that used to come. You will notice that God was dealing with. Beauty according to pattern.

Spiritual authority in ministry. Provision for ministry. If any of you can remember.

There are many that have not come that time. But there are few that were here then. You will remember that 93.

God said we should deal with beauty according to pattern. We spend time learning. How should the work of God be built? What pattern does God want us to operate? In pursuing revival.

And we have to sit down to learn that pattern meticulously. That is what formed what we have been doing. That is what informed the way we operate.

When you come and say these people are not even asking for money. We are building according to the pattern that we saw in Christ Jesus. We needed that time we were wondering.

How are we going to get people to do the work of God? He said that's not your business. There's a pattern that God uses to call into his work. It was looking impossible.

But we have followed that pattern. We have seen it work. We have seen the pattern that God showed us.

It has worked. But you see we spent 93 looking at building according to pattern. 1994 God began to talk to us about authority.

Spiritual authority in ministry. If any of you will remember. It was in that year God began to talk to us.

That you can never have spiritual authority of God. When you have never been in obedience under authority. So we spent a long time learning obedience.

Learning to submit. Learning because we feel God is saying. What I want to give you to do in the nations.

You cannot carry it. Until I have proven you to be a man under authority. Sorry that I have to take you through this memory lane.

Because I want you to know where we now are. In the purpose of God. Even though MLR has been running.

But there is not one MLR that is a routine. And particularly this year's meeting. Is different from every other meeting we have ever had.

There are many peculiar things about it. That you will soon begin to see as we go ahead. I remember that by the time we were finishing in 1994.

And we were under our actual tent. Do you remember actual tent? When we put grass on top of wood. That was the hall of meeting.

19 Gado Hospital Road. Even all of us thought that we have done a great work. For me that time.

I was so excited. That I saw actual. On a 100 by 200 feet plot.

It was so wonderful. It was so tall in my eyes. I didn't see what God was talking about.

And I remember I would go to the other street. Just to look at the actual tent. And I say oh God.

Oh God. And the people that taught us that we should use actual. They told me that for the next 30 years.

It will stand there. Imagine me planning to tie my life down. To actual tent.

For 30 years. Please can't. Between 1984.

When we leave the 30 years. So which means. We will still have been there.

Partly with the grass. But you know what got it. 1995.

God now began to speak to us about. Provision. For his ministry.

Provision for his call. I cannot remember. I cannot forget.

What happened. While we stood. Inside that actual tent.

In front of the present office. That's our pulpit. And I thought I was talking to a crowd.

I was talking to a crowd. Hallelujah. And the Lord said.

For what. Do you make requests. That meeting changed us.

That meeting. Finished every narrowness in my heart. I remember as we were standing in that meeting.

You literally said. And this is the end. This is the last time.

You will stay under this actual tent. For what I want to do. Cannot be contained.

In a 100 feet. By 200 feet plot. Hallelujah.

I tell you history. Because I want you to know that God is going somewhere. I tell you history.

Because I want you to know that God. Is following a matter. And so when I suddenly hear God say.

I am calling you. I'm giving you a greater task. Me in my heart.

I could look back. I can see where we have come. I can see what I will have called progress.

I can see what people will have said. This is an achievement. But I hear God say.

All of that. Is nothing. Compared with where.

I am calling you. But if you don't know where you are coming from. Sometimes you don't know where you are going.

So permit me this morning. While I will begin to introduce these passages. To tell you.

That God has been on a journey. And has been on a journey with your life as well. God has brought you into this because.

There is a stake for you. In what is ahead. What is about to happen.

Praise the Lord. By the time we finish. MLR of 1995.

As I stood. In front of the. The actual.

The Holy Spirit reminded me and said. This is the end. See all these things.

Cannot carry what I want to do. You can't carry it. I am moving you forward.

Hallelujah. By the time we finish that December. I spoke to the brothers.

Brother Daniel. By the time we finish. We cannot do the MLR in this place next year.

They say yes. It has finished. All of them just told me.

I see the Holy Spirit. It has finished. We are moving.

That's how. We went and located. That land.

After Bushi. What we call the G.R.A. 10th today. Hallelujah.

When we go to that place. Come and see all of us. We were digging.

We are clearing the road. We are planting poles. We are making the terraces.

Our blessed brother. The architect. Simon Gussa.

He stood up and drew the whole thing. And we were just feeling. That we have entered the end of the world.

Our mind is just feeling excited. That we are now in the greatest. Of what to do.

And then we started. We built that thing. With poles.

We don't have faith to believe God for higher. I was too big in our mind. So we are looking for wooden poles.

We did all of that. And then we got our carpenter. And when he did everything.

Did everything. It was interesting. I remember two people.

That came to that site. I cannot forget what they said. Two persons.

One has gone to be with the Lord. Is a pastor in town. Who walked into the G.R.A. 10th.

And he saw. The wooden structure. We have not covered it.

Just saw the wooden skeleton. And you know what the man did? He laid down like this. Inside that tent.

It was not yet floored. It was ordinary sand. He said now I know.

That you have called brother Billy. Now I know that this work. That you have given him.

He is the work from God. Then he stood up. He said brother Billy.

I will never attack you again. My eyes have seen. That this thing it is God.

That has called you. You wouldn't know why he spoke like that. He was speaking from.

A situation we have just gone through. A kind of misunderstanding. A kind of persecution.

That was in the land. When I have been given an ultimatum. That in one year.

I will die. I think it was just the enemy. That wanted to stop something.

That will have benefited. All the brethren. He just want to give us problems.

But this pastor. Who was supposed to be. In the center.

Of that problem. He stood up and said brother. I cannot attack you again.

I have seen that this work will be great. But what did he see? He saw. The wood.

Are you hearing me? He saw the wood. But you know I respect him a lot. Men of faith.

When they see something. Even though they can't understand the extent. He said now I know.

And he shook my hand. He said count on me. I will be praying for you.

If other pastors speak against you. I will never try it again. My eyes have seen that.

There is the hand of God. On you and on this work. Brother go on.

Even if we people don't understand it. Just go on. I wish.

Pastor Ayuba is alive today. I don't know what he will do. Such a blessed man of God.

I wish he was here. But he had to go to heaven. And he has gone.

Hallelujah. Are you getting what I'm saying? Another senior man in the land came. He is an elder.

And when he saw the wood. And he used to call me young man. Then he looked at me and said.

Young man. I can see that. The hand of God is on you.

I want to tell you. Go on. We have been praying for revival in this land.

It looks as if you have already caught it. And I want to tell you that. Even though these men.

They have come quite aged. I have never ignored the prayers. Whenever I traveled here and there.

Up and down. And I have a little time to visit him. He said brother Billy.

We are praying for you. I and my wife. We have decided to be praying for you.

Because we can see that there is something. We don't know how to explain it. But there is something.

Praise the Lord. They were speaking. When they saw ordinary wood.

On a plot. That is just. About 200 by 200.

Because when we moved from the office. And we moved to the. The JRE tent.

We were so excited. And we thought we would be there forever. We thought there is nothing greater than that.

Like some of you are sitting here. And thinking. There is nothing greater than.

Stop it. Did you hear me? Did you hear what I am telling you? Stop it. This thing that you are seeing here.

Is a small thing. Something that will happen. That will make this thing.

A play. A child's play. Is about to come.

You will remember that I said to you. Those who were there. When we were in 16 car roads.

And we were talking about what God said. He was going to do. I still remember how.

Our elder brother. On Courtney. In 1991.

We were having. A small meeting. In JSS hall.

You can imagine how JSS hall. How big it was. It was big in our eyes that time.

And we were praying. And the word of God came. We were studying.

When God said to Abraham. Lift up your eyes. Look from where you are standing.

If anybody can number the dust. Of the earth. So will anybody be able to number.

Your children. God spoke so much that day. When I asked Babakume to pray.

Babakume stood up. And he prayed a prophetic prayer. I've never forgotten it.

He said father. We don't want the goods. Give us the souls.

Give us man. When he cried to God like that. Something hit my spirit.

And I see God say. It is done. It is done.

Those of you sitting here. You are an answer to prayer. People prayed you here.

You were not here. When that prayer was prayed. Hallelujah.

And. Everybody that was in that meeting that time. Are you hearing me? They were Boko bound.

Everybody that was in that meeting. They were from Nka. Boko.

Yandev. That's our jurisdiction. And there God is saying.

Lift up your eyes. If anybody can number. No, no, no, no, no.

Is God talking to us? He said yes. I'm talking to you. So we just stood up and said.

Lord we believe. And we will not take the goods. Don't give us the goods.

I remember when that meeting finished. We have not finished that meeting. It was January.

The Holy Spirit said. It is time now. To move out of 16 in Karo.

And I called. One of our sisters. I said.

Look we are moving out of this place now. We need to get another place. That's how God moved us out.

So me. I am familiar with when God says. I will do a greater.

I'm familiar with it. Because I have seen God. When I thought I'm settled.

And sometimes can I tell you what happens. When God cannot get us. To hear him.

As to move with him. Because what we have seen. You know the Yoruba path says.

What you have seen. A bird in hand. Is better.

Than the 12. Or the 20. Or the 100.

In the bush. So the one. That is the natural way we live.

We always hold. That little thing we are doing. And I remember that in 1996.

God said. I want to do something. Or you must enter into a covenant with me.

And I remember all the people that came for him. For MLA that year. We stood for more than five hours.

We stood on our feet. Entering into a covenant with God. What was our covenant? That we will not touch the glory.

Our covenant was Lord. We will not touch your glory. Not I but Christ.

No matter what you do. No matter how this thing will expand. No matter how many nations it will go.

We will not touch the glory. It was a covenant. Sometimes I play it back.

Sometimes I gather the brothers and sisters that have come. And say listen. There is a covenant over this world.

It is not for us to make a name for ourselves. Those who want to make a name for themselves. Or want to do personal work.

They must go away from this work. Those who are interested. In becoming prominent and preeminent.

They cannot be part of this. The covenant is that. It will belong to God.

And we will reduce every day. And Christ will increase. It is a covenant.

Even now that God is saying. I will give you a greater task. I still remember.

I say God. Is this still based on that covenant? As long as you don't betray my trust. Nobody can stop where we are going.

Excuse me. Nobody can stop where this thing is going. And as God has brought you onto this train.

We are going on a long journey. May you live long to see it. In the name of Jesus Christ.

And we thought. That at the JRA tent. That was going to be.

Our destination. So we started. Everything was moving fine.

People would gather. Oh there was a market. Whenever the meeting was holding.

All the Okada boys. Are just enjoying themselves. Because they had good business.

All the people that want to cook. They just enjoy themselves. Suddenly there was a market.

You know what they call that market? Akane market. When I heard. That they are beginning to put Akane.

To a market. I knew that that market. Is going to scatter very soon.

Because our covenant. Does not allow anybody's name. To be placed on this walk.

The covenant God made with us. Is that it will be him. None of us.

When it was now. Time. We noted that.

There's no more space. There's nowhere people can park. People will come.

All the people's farm. You know. And my neighbors.

They know that we will be in trouble. In December. So they go and make heaps.

Deliberately. They have not made heaps. They will not make heaps.

In November. Knowing that. When my visitors.

And crowd comes. See there's nowhere they will sit down. There's nowhere they will scatter the heaps.

Then they will come and say. We have 20 lines of heaps. Which you people scattered.

We need money. We keep paying for heaps. All the time.

We thought they would sell the land to us. They said. This is our father's grave.

We cannot sell our father's grave. We prayed. We begged God.

God. How do we do? The others were saying. I've told you.

You cannot contain what I want to do. In a narrow place. It was not that we wanted to move.

It's because we had no alternative. One year like this. Oh my God.

People came. We sat there. We sat here.

Everybody. Heaps were scattered. Another one was scattered there.

Before I knew it. The community said. Yes.

You scattered our heaps. The number of yam seedling that we planted. We need money for it.

We need one for this. We need one for this. We did.

When I went back to pray. God said. You better love people.

I'm using them. To force you. Out of your narrowness.

I said. This is their land. They will not sell it.

Because even if they sell it. Even if you harness. All their.

All their compounds. And you pour into peace house. It will be nothing.

Compared to what I want to do with you. Even if you get the primary school. Bushi.

And government agree. To give you the primary school. Completely.

It will not contain. What I want to do with you. Move.

Lift up your eyes. That's why we came. To this village.

Are you understanding? I need to give you. An understanding. So that you know where we are.

And you know that God. Is not joking with your life. God.

Is saying. I have a greater task. For you.

My prayer is that God will enlarge your heart for it. God will open your eyes to see it. God will help you to believe him for it.

In the name of Jesus Christ. By 97. 98.

The Holy Spirit came down. And you may not know. It was a powerful meeting.

In that tent. When the Spirit of God began to talk about. Hearts.

Stop. Pain. That stops the move of God.

I cannot forget. How on that pulpit. I laid down to repent.

God began to say. I wanted to move. For you have narrowed me.

Why did you think. Holiness. Is equal to holiness.

What do you think that to be holy. Means to be hollow. To be small.

To be narrow. What do you think growth. Is not compatible.

With holiness. What do you think. You cannot grow.

And not maintain. The standard of the word of God. Why did you.

Why did you. Narrow me. I wept.

On that pulpit. I cried. Those of you that were there.

You remember that I stood up. I said Lord. We take responsibility.

Certainly I saw that all the false doctrines. That. Has been spreading.

Is because we. Allowed it. I said Lord.

This was 98. That day God said. Don't ask for a goat.

Was any of you in that meeting. When we say I will not ask for what. A kid.

I'm not asking for a small goat. That was the first meeting. Praise the Lord.

Where one brother. Said as the word of God was coming. To him.

He only said. Why have you been asking for a small goat. Ask me for something large.

Ask me for nations. Ask me for lands. And for him.

His business. Was a. It was a legal practitioner. Thank God.

Is a son today. He said. After that meeting.

He went back. He said God. I can no longer be narrow.

And I remember that. In the course of the year. He called me.

He said. After December. 98.

My life has changed. I can no longer think small. God has blown me out of my narrowness.

And I want to. Bring to you sir. One of the things that God.

Has a. Has done. I've never seen this before. You know.

For the first time. I saw him bringing. An offering.

Of one million. To the working class. According I say.

Where did you get it? Because even my head. I don't expect. I expect that if you get 50,000.

It's okay. He said you don't know what happened. You blew me.

Out of my narrowness. I can see God. I remember.

By the end of 98. We prayed. And we began to ask God.

Some of you don't understand. God said ask me for nations. Did you hear me? Ask me for what? Nations.

I remember in that meeting. At the end of December. We said God.

Don't give us anything. Give us nations. Launch us into nations.

Give us Americans. Give us Britons. Give us Francophone.

Give us this. We began to beg God for nations. Can I find out.

All the people that came from other nations. Apart from Nigeria. Will you please stand up.

This morning. To give testimony. To God.

Stand up. If you have come from any other place. Outside Nigeria.

And wave your hand. And say yes we are here. We are here.

Did you see the American. Is carrying his own flag there. Hallelujah.

How could anybody think. That Pakistan. Will come to Boko.

Where are the Pakistani here now. Shout Hallelujah. Aha.

How will you think. That someone. Who is a Fulani.

From Conakry. Or from Niger. Will be here.

Can I hear you shout Hallelujah. Yes. Yes.

Please sit down respectfully please. Thank you. God bless you.

God bless you. I was introducing people the other day. And somebody said.

Boy you forgot my nation. I said from where. I said I am from Mexico.

We just ask God. Give us nations. And we see God.

Only is one. From that particular year. Once that meeting finish.

Faith rose in my heart I said. We are going to invite people. So we called the meeting.

Foreign participant. How many of them. Was our first.

Foreign participant meeting. It was six. Six people.

So I got our hospitality team. What did they do. We got a. A guest challenge.

We invited a guest house. At BCC. That time.

Thank God for brother Moses. Dr. These are the brothers. If your guests come.

We give you a guest house. And all of them could sleep. In two guest houses.

And all my hospitality can cook. And all of them will sit. On one table.

When God said. What that task for you. Me.

I have an understanding. That it means that something more. Is about to break forth.

And I'm praying that you will be part of it. I'm praying that the Holy Ghost. Will help you to be part of it.

In the name of Jesus Christ. Today. If I ask the hospitality people.

To explain to us. What it takes. You know when we were small.

When they were six. They were eight. I used to do something.

I called my wife. My wife please. Get some of the sisters.

Who are fashion designers. To look at them. Look at their height.

And then make a Nigerian costume. For them. So because.

They are not a big number. So everybody will get. On the final day.

When we are going to do international. Meeting. All of them will wear their costume.

And then we'll be taking photographs. And I do that again. Talk to me.

Can I do that again? When God. Begins to walk. You can't imagine.

Where it goes. You can't imagine. What God is about to do.

I decided to begin this morning. To take your memory lane. Because I want some of you.

For your heart to enlarge. I wanted to have a perspective. Of what God is about to do.

I wanted to know. That even though you see something now. That looks bogus in your eyes.

Heaven is saying. There's something greater than this. You will see greater things than this.

You. Are you hearing me? You. You say I. I will see greater things.

In my lifetime. Than all of this. And I will be part of it.

In the name of Jesus. So when it became clear to us. That God is speaking about.

Something more than what we have done. The year 1999. Was a very peculiar year for us.

When God began to speak. Very deep things. So that year we knew.

That discipleship work. That we have done. That we are just having two classes in Boko.

God is saying. Allow it to scatter. And to spread.

All over Nigeria. Ah, how are we going to do it? We took time. To learn.

How we did not become a denomination. How we did not. Spoil the purpose of God.

How we did not. How we did not. We prayed and prayed and prayed.

God gave us assurance. So by the middle of 1999. And into 2000.

The Lord. Began to move us. There are different tribes.

So you will see now the Egon people. Yesterday when they were saying. Those who were interpreting this language.

I thought they would just bring two people. To interpret in two languages. How many languages were you dealing with yesterday? Eh? Over.

20. It was this morning you are calling them. People are coming and saying.

So this God. What he says he will do. How can you doubt him? How can you doubt God? How can you doubt God? How can you doubt the power of God? How can you doubt the promise that God has given you? How will you not believe God? When God says something greater is coming.

I want you to know that God is greater than that greater. That's why you can believe him for it. How many of you want to join me this morning to believe God? Say Lord I believe.

I will see the glory of the Lord. In the land of the living. So I want to say to you that.

This meeting. Is another junction. Is another threshold.

Of something we have not seen before. Something that eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. It has not entered the heart of any man.

What God has kept in store. For those who love him. And so I want to beg you as I begin.

To try to study. And try to seek an understanding of how to go from here. I want to plead with you.

Please pay attention. What I ask you to do. Pay attention.

Because the thing for which God is speaking. There shall be a performance of it. The thing that God is declaring in our ears.

They shall come to pass. The thing that God will be speaking. No matter how bogus.

No matter how elaborate it appears. No matter how impossible it sounds in your ears. And that this that God is doing.

Is not our work. It is him. It is because it is time for God to visit the land and the nations.

I want you to believe him. So for the five minutes. That I would like to pray with you on that.

I just want you to stand up. Wherever you are. And say Lord.

What you are declaring in my ears. What I'm hearing you say. The greater task you are talking about for my life.

Father. I believe you. If narrowness did not allow you to believe before.

Help God. Help my unbelief. Make me part of what you want to do.

Make me part of your story. Make me part of where you are going. Would you like to pray that prayer? Pray it.

Pray it quickly. Pray it quickly. Lord.

Lord. What you are declaring in my ears. What you are saying while I'm standing here.

Lord, I choose to believe you. I choose. We have been praying.

Lord, open my eyes. I want to see Jesus. I want to understand the greater task.

I want to walk into it. Please stretch forth your hand. And say Lord draw me into it.

Look at our traditional fathers. It has not been like this. More than 15 came from Akwaebo.

Our father came all the way from the west. And several traditional rulers are here. And when our primal ruler will come.

We have not seen it like that before. Heaven is saying something. When traditional rulers begin to carry Bible.

When they begin to go on crusades. This morning O God. This morning O God.

Help me to believe. Lord help us to believe. Help us to believe.

Help us never to stop you. Help us never to hinder you. Help us Lord to believe.

Brother pray. Help me to believe. Help my heart to believe.

Help my spirit let me believe. Let me take what you are saying seriously. Lord help me this morning.

O God help me this morning. Help my heart to believe you. To believe what you are saying.

To believe what you are doing. To be part of it O God. Help me to believe.

Deliver me from unbelief. Help me to believe. There is a greater task.

There is a greater assignment. There is a greater manifestation. Beyond what we have heard.

Beyond what we have seen. Lord help me to believe you. Lord help me to believe you.

Help me to believe you. Father help me to believe you. Let the Holy Ghost speak into your spirit.

You see it doesn't matter where you are. Are you in the university? And God say I have a greater task for you. Believe God.

Are you a pastor? And God say there is a greater task. Are you from your nation? And God is saying what I am laying in your heart. It will come to pass.

Tell God Lord I believe you. I believe you. Help me to believe you.

Help me O God to believe you. Thank you. In Jesus name we have prayed.

Amen. Now please be seated. I only have few more minutes.

To now introduce what God has said. And I said there are two twin passages. That is speaking almost in the same manner.

And so we are going to read it. Once I read it. I will not bother to do any serious study on it.

I will start in the night. Hallelujah. Because I want us to go for Bible study.

If I start like this we won't go for Bible study. And I want us to do our Bible study. So I will just read.

And pass two comments. And then you go with me. Isaiah 42.

And Isaiah 49. I will start first to read Isaiah 42. And then I will take you to Isaiah 49.

And I want all of you. Because as you are hearing the word of God read. It will resonate in your spirit.

It will speak beyond what any man can say to you. And if you see the word of God jumping to you. Take it.

Believe it. One thing I am going to do before we leave. I will pray for you.

That the thing that God has spoken concerning you. Because you believe. Blessed is she who believes.

There shall be a performance. Of the things that the Lord has said to her. Or to him.

In the name of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 42. Verse 5. I will read up to verse 9. But if you have space.

You can read. All the chapter. But verse 5 to verse 9. Is what I want to read.

Then I will charge you. To read verse 10 to verse 17. By yourself.

God says God. The Lord. He that created the heavens.

And stretched them out. He that spread forth the earth. And that which comes out of it.

He that gives breath unto the people upon it. And spirit to them that walk therein. Verse 5. Did you see the credential of God? Who is speaking? Did you see the credential? Of the almighty God who is speaking? Did you see that credential? Can I read it again? God says the Lord.

God says God the Lord. He that created the heavens. And He that stretched them out.

He that spread forth the earth. And that which comes out of it. He that gives breath unto the people upon it.

And spirit to them that walk therein. That's the God who is speaking. The heavens He made them.

He stretched it out like a curtain. He spread forth the earth. And that which comes out of it.

He that gives breath unto the people upon it. And spirit to them that walk therein. So what did He say? Have called you.

In righteousness. I the Lord. I have called you.

In righteousness. And I will hold your hand. I hope the Holy Ghost is speaking to your heart.

Is He speaking to your heart? Is some of you hearing God speaking to you personally now? I the Lord. I have called you. In righteousness.

And I will hold your hand. And I will keep you. And I will give you for a covenant of the people.

For a light of the nations. I the Lord. I'm the one.

I called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you.

And I will give you for a covenant of the people. For a light of the Gentiles. To open the blind eyes.

To bring out the prisoners from the prison. And them that sit in darkness. Out of the prison house.

I am the Lord. That is my name. And my glory.

Will I not give to another. Neither my praise. To grateful images.

Verse 9. Behold. Behold. Behold.

The former things. Have come of us. Behold.

The former things. The things I told you before. The things that I prophesied to you when you were younger.

They have come to pass. Behold. The things I declared before.

Have I failed? Have I disappointed you? What is my answer to that? No Lord. You have not. You have not.

When God spoke about the former things. There was nothing. There was no sign.

To make anybody to be excited that it will come to pass. It looks like somebody is speaking to an empty ground. But the former things that I said.

Have come to pass. All of you that God has spoken something. And it has come to pass in your life.

Can I see your hand up? Can I see your hand? You can remember that something God said to you before. It has come to pass. Now God is saying.

And he is speaking to you. I did not think. That we gathered this MLL this year.

For God to speak to trees. I really know. That each one of you including our fathers.

Traditional rulers. The ruler that came all the way from Cameroon. The ruler that came all the way from Nigeria.

This is not by chance. It is because something is about to happen. That will blow the mind of everybody.

I am not taking your being here for granted sir. All my fathers that came from Akwaebon. It is not by chance.

So something serious is about to happen in Akwaebon State. Some of you. You will bear us record.

That God spoke to us. We even declared it here. That God is going to do a new thing in this land.

And that something is going to happen that will baffle everybody. Has that begun to come to pass? Now. Listen to God.

Behold. The former things are come to pass. And new things.

Do I declare. Before the spring forth. I tell you of them.

This meeting. Are you hearing me? Is for God to tell you. Of them.

Before they do what? The spring forth. After this meeting. What is going to happen? There will be a springing forth.

Brothers and sisters. A springing forth. Is about to come.

This meeting is so urgent. Because God said gather them. I must tell them.

What is about to happen. Before the spring forth. So that they won't be confused.

So that they will know how to behave themselves. So that they will know what to do. So that they will know how to move.

I perceive that this meeting will be full of instruction. I'm waiting on God myself. I am saying Lord.

I perceive that this is not just a meeting. Is a prophetic meeting. Is an instructional meeting.

Is a directive. And there are people here. That this meeting.

Is going to catapult you. Into the next things. The next dimension.

Of the purpose of God. In your lifetime. And your nation.

Your nations. Are. Your nations.

Will come under. Something that will spring forth. And they will be asking.

Where did it take place? Where did our king go? And he has come back with a different fire. And because God was preparing us for this. Some years ago God began to say.

Look what I'm going to do. Is going to go beyond poop. It's not going to just be inside church hall.

It's going to be happening. In community. Happening in palaces.

It will be happening in laboratories. It will be happening in boardrooms. It will be happening in businesses.

That's why we are doing professional workshops. Something is about to spring forth. May God help you to believe it.

May the Holy Ghost give you understanding of it. I'm tempted to go and read in that chapter but there's no time. But if you don't mind I will just ask you to read verse 10.

Let's read verse 10 together. All of us. Sing unto the Lord.

A new song. And his praise from the end of the earth. Ye that go down to the sea.

And all that therein is. The isles. And the inhabitants.

Let the wilderness. And the cities thereof lift up their voice. The villages.

That Cedar doth inhabit. Let the inhabitants of the rocks sing. Let them shout.

From the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord. And declare his praise.

In the highlands. I wondered why that section. Because of what God is declaring.

We must start singing a new song. We must start singing new songs. Because we are moving to a new thing.

We are moving to a new dimension. Even our songs will change. Even the way we do things.

Will take a different dimension. So it says sing. Sing to the Lord a new song.

Because he has come. He has come. A comforter has come.

You know I'm just reading this Bible. And. If I don't move.

We will read this Bible until. The hour has passed. Let's.

49. Chapter 49. Again I would love to start from verse 5. I would have been tempted to read.

From verse 1. But. As wonderful as it is. I think I want to contain myself.

To start from verse 5. You can read from verse 1. Because it will have prepared you. For what we are talking about. And now.

Says the Lord. The Lord that did what? That formed me. From the womb.

You are not a mistake. You were formed. For this assignment.

Baba. It was not chance. That you were born.

God formed you. From the womb. For this purpose.

And somehow in my understanding. I'm just beginning to look back again. So it is for this.

That you have preserved me. You have kept me. You have been watching over me.

You have been guiding me. So it is for this assignment. Look at what God said.

Now says the Lord. That formed me from the womb. To be his servant.

To bring Jacob again to. Do his tribe be not gathered yet? Shall I be glorious? In the eyes of the Lord. And my God shall be my strength.

And he said. It is a tight thing. That thou shouldest be my servant.

To raise up the tribes of Jacob. And to restore the preserve of Israel. It is a light thing.

Can you imagine? I'm hearing God saying. All that you have done. That has.

Drown. Has affected people. And all of that.

What did God say it is now? It is a light thing. You see the word light. The way it was.

Lingering in my. You know in my. In my Yoruba thinking.

You know I would have put it in my own language now. It is not. It is not.

What you have. What you have done. All the things I have called you to do.

It is a light thing. Imagine God saying. All of this.

It is light. It is light thing. We are saying hey.

How can you say this is a light thing. This is a gigantic thing. This is a big thing.

This is a wonderful thing. This is a great work. This that.

This that. But everyone said. My friend.

All of this. Is what? It is a light. Very light.

I will also. Give you. For a light.

To the Gentiles. That thou mayest be my salvation. Unto the end.

Of the earth. Since I am not yet. Ready.

To begin to. Analyze that scripture. Which we need to study itself.

I just want you to read it. So can you read it from the good news version. Where we quoted it.

Anybody carrying good news. And you want to read it for us. 49.

The man that carries the mic. Can you not assist us. I know you are busy.

You want to catch your own. But let the sister have the mic. Yes.

The Lord said to me. The Lord said to me. I have a greater task for you.

I have. A greater task for you. My servant.

Not only will you restore. The greatness that people. The people of Israel who have.

Survived. But I will also make you a light. To the nations.

So that all the world. May be saved. This is what God says.

To me. To you. If I go and read it.

And I jump with you to verse 8. Just says the Lord. In an acceptable time. I have had you.

In the day of salvation. Have I helped you. And I will preserve you.

In the day of salvation. And give you for a covenant of the people. Was that looking like.

As that 42 that we read. All right. And I'll give you for a covenant.

Of the people. To establish the earth. To cause to inherit.

That you may say to the prisoner. Go forth. To them that are in darkness.

Show yourself. They shall feel in the ways. And their pastures.

Shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger. Nor thirst.

Neither shall they eat. Nor sun smite them. For he that has had mercy on them.

Shall lead them. Even by the springs of water. And he shall guide them.

I will make all my mountains. A way. And my highways.

Shall be. Sorted. These shall come from far.

I know these from the north. From the west. These from the land of Sinim.

When they use the word Sinim there. They're talking of China. And then what is the conclusion of that passage.

Sing. Oh heavens. Be joyful.

Oh earth. And break forth into singing. Oh mountains.

For the Lord. Has comforted his people. And will have mercy.

Upon. His. Afflicted.

You know I ask you. And then we came to that verse 10. We sing a new song.

Because God is our reason. I stop at this point. For this morning.

Just to say to you. This is the Lord. The Lord.

Who made the heavens and the earth. And you. From your mother's womb.

That's what God has said. I want to ask two questions. Before you will stand.

With me in prayer. And go to it. Does God have.

Capacity. And resources. To do what he says.

Can I find out. What God said in the former years. Was he unable to.

To do it. Did he do what he said he would do before. At least I'm a living witness.

And I know some of you are also a witness. And I know that God. Has done something in your own heart.

That you cannot forget. And this morning. I want to now.

Ask. If God says like this. What would be your response.

Even before we start. To understand. It is.

And how you would do it. What is your response. I will read.

A response. Of Mary. When they were telling her.

What looked bogus. What looked impossible. What has never happened in human history.

They were telling a girl. From a village. And I can see some sisters.

But I'm a small girl. From a village. What would I believe he's saying.

Can it ever happen. And was I not a boy from a village. Talk to me.

Did I not also come from one village. Eh. No time to tell you where I'm coming from.

What is your response. In Luke chapter one. When the angel.

Began to make an announcement. I want to read it quickly. And in the six months.

The angel Gabriel. Verse twenty six. Was sent from God.

Onto a city of Galilee. Named Nazareth. Not to the king of the town.

Not to the big men of the city. To whom. To whom.

To a virgin. Exposed to a man whose name was Joseph. Of the house of David.

And the virgin's name. Was Mary. And the angel came in unto her.

And said. Hail. Thou art highly favored.

The Lord is with you. Blessed are you. Among women.

And when she saw him. She was troubled at his saying. And cast in her mind.

What manner of salutation. It should be. Why is he greeting me like this? What kind of greeting is this? I can use I'm blessed.

Among all the women. Who am I? Eh? He said I'm highly favored. By what? By who? What kind of greeting is this? And the angel said to her.

Fear not. Mary. For thou hast found favor.

With God. What God is saying to you is because. You have found favor.

With God. And behold. Thou shalt conceive in your womb.

In that your small womb. And bring forth a son. And shall call his name.

Jesus. I know because of the way we have talked so much about. About everything.

You never remember that Mary was an ordinary girl. You never remember that Mary could be yourself. And you never could imagine that.

How could this thing be talking to a small girl? It should be talking to big men. Stop thinking like that. What God is saying to you this morning.

Don't push it to someone else. Don't think it is humility. Or you just say no, no, no.

They can't be talking about me. Me. Not me.

Not me. I cannot be part of that. Don't let me hear you say such foolish thing from your mouth.

God will help us in the name of Jesus. He shall be great. And he shall be called the son of the highest.

And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

It was then Mary. Said to the angel. How shall this be? See, I know not a man.

What are you talking about? She was not asking out of arrogance. She was not asking out of unbelief. She was simply asking out of curiosity.

Because we have never heard it before. A lady that has never known a man. How can he have a baby son? And you are calling big, big things about him.

And the angel answered and said to her. The only ghost shall come upon you. The power of the highest will overshadow you.

Therefore also, that only thing which shall be born of you shall be called the son of God. And look oh. You are not alone.

Your cousin Elizabeth. She has also conceived a son in her old age. Impossible things are beginning to happen oh.

Eh? Have you ever had an old mama? Who was now about 80 something years. She has conceived and she is expecting a baby. Eh? She was called parent.

But as I am talking to you now, she is six months pregnant. These are strange things that is happening oh. Because it is time for God to work.

Prophecy has to come to pass. And God has favored you to be part of it. It is prophecy.

It is the will of God that is about to happen. And God has positioned you to be part of it. For with God.

With God. Nothing shall be what? Impossible. And Mary said.

That is why I am stopping. Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to your word.

And once she said that. What happened? The angel has got an answer to take to heaven. I can imagine that God is sending his word to you and you need a response.

Don't let your angel return back and say I told her. I told him. I was hugging.

He said it can never be. I persuaded her. That with God all things are possible.

He said for this one it is not possible. I tried to convince her that it is the only ghost that will come upon her. That will overshadow her.

She said. I don't believe. So I came back to tell you that she has not accepted what you wanted to do through her.

I don't pray that any angel will return to heaven. To carry such a bad report on your behalf. What was the report the angel took back? The angel said.

She said. Be it unto me. According to thy word.

Oh Lord. I am here in your hand. Wish somebody.

In this meeting. Will simply say. If that's what you have said Lord.

Here am I. Be it unto me. According to thy word. Would you like to do that? And to conclude in verse 45.

When Mary got to the house of Elizabeth. And the baby inside started to connect. And the woman began to speak.

One of the things she said. She said. I am blessed is she.

Verse 45. Those what? That believe. That believe.

For there shall be. What? A performance. Those things which were told her.

From God. She said. She.

What's your response? What's your response? What is your response? Can you stand and tell God simply. I have heard. What you began to declare in my ears.

And it has entered my spirit. It has penetrated my heart. Somehow.

I am sensing that. You are focusing this matter on me. Even though it's looking too big.

Based on my own little experience. And my own little exposure. Even though it's appearing as if how can it be.

But I have heard you say with God. All things are possible. And that it is your Holy Ghost.

That will do it in me. Dear Rabbi. Do with me.

As you have said it. Be it unto me. According to thy word.

Is anybody standing up to give God that response? Do it. Personally. Do it.

Definitely. Do it. Clearly.

Do it. Deliberately. I want you to do it.

I am not going to put my own word in your mouth. Because I am saying my own. I am already telling God.

That what you have said. Let it be to me. According to your word.

I have seen you for this number of years. And you have not failed me before. This one that you are saying now.

I believe you. Let it be to me. As you have said it.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you.

And the angel departed from her. With her consent. Can I hear you say to God.

I give you my consent. Go ahead and do what you say you will do with my life. Be it unto me.

According to your word. This meeting. Is a meeting.

Is an encounter with God. Let it be to me. As you have said it.

I have been coming for many meetings. But this one. Is not an ordinary meeting.

I am meeting with what will change my destiny. Be it unto me. Oh God.

According to your word. No more argument. Let it be to me.

As you have said. You have my consent. Father you have my consent.

I give you my consent. Today. You have my consent.

How you are going to carry it. How you are going to do it. How you are going to cause it to happen.

You have my consent. Father you have my consent. You have my consent.

And the angel departed. And went to heaven. And said Lord.

I met her. The messenger of God will return to heaven. I said Lord.

I went to her and I delivered the message to her. And this is her consent. This is his consent.

Be it unto me. According to your word. Thank you.

Thank you this morning. Thank you. Does God have your consent? Does he have your consent? Wave your consent to heaven this morning.

And say Lord you have my consent. You have my consent. What you say you will do with me.

Go ahead and do it. What you say you will do with my life. Go ahead oh God and do it.

Be it unto me according to your word Lord. You have my consent. Thank you.

Thank you Jesus. Father. Father you have my consent.

Now I know. That this is the beginning of a springing forth. This is a beginning of another springing forth.

Thank you Father. Father. Take all the glory this morning.

In Jesus Christ name. We are prayed. Amen.

Father. All the hands that I wave to you. We are waving this hand.

As our consent. We are saying Father. You have our consent.

Be it unto us. According to your word. Lord.

Lord. When Mrs. When Mrs. Give you a consent. You start.

Or as the husband could not give you immediate consent. You made him dumb. So that he could not speak against what you are doing.

He was dumb. He was only saying it. He saw the wife pregnant.

He couldn't talk. He saw the baby growing. He couldn't talk.

He saw the woman getting fatter. With the pregnancy. He couldn't say anything.

Because. He had not given God's consent. I knew that he must have prayed and prayed and said God have mercy on me.

I believe you. I believe you. I am sorry for not agreeing.

I agree with you. So on the day when the baby was born. And they were to name that baby.

And they said boy he has to say something. That day. His tongue loose.

He began to prophesy about what that baby would be. And he spoke about the bigger. Biggest son of God.

Lord I'm trusting you. Even those who because of unbelief did not give you their consent. Before.

And they have experienced stagnation. Loose them now in the name of Jesus. Loose their tongue now in the name of Jesus.

Release them now in the name of Jesus. Those who stood afar off. And said let's watch.

Let us just watch. I don't believe that thing. But it is happening.

The pregnancy is growing. Until the baby is born. Father.

Loose their tongue in the name of Jesus. If they have been far off before. Now they can no longer be.

And they are saying father you have my consent. Father please release them in the name of Jesus Christ. But for the likes of Mary.

The likes of Elizabeth. As young as they are. And they say yes Lord.

As you have said it let it be so. May your favour fall on us now. May your glory rest upon their lives now.

May your work progress in our lives. On our hands in the name of Jesus Christ. May nations of the earth.

Begin to be blessed. Because of this matter in the name of Jesus. Put a new song in our mouth.

That from now. We will start singing the song of faith. We start singing the song of anticipation.

We start declaring the new thing that God has said. We start celebrating it. Because we know it will happen.

Thank you father. Thank you for hearing us. In Jesus Christ name we have prayed.

Amen. Amen.