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God s Counsel will stand
Gbile Akanni
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Gbile Akanni

God s Counsel will stand

Gbile Akanni · 2:25:02

Gbile Akanni teaches that God's counsel is unchangeable and unstoppable, assuring believers that His promises will be fulfilled despite opposition.
In this prophetic sermon, Gbile Akanni explores the unshakable nature of God's counsel as revealed through the book of Isaiah. He encourages believers to trust in God's mighty hand that upholds and advances His purposes despite opposition. Drawing from powerful scriptural truths, Akanni inspires listeners to become unstoppable by aligning their lives with God's eternal plans. This message offers hope and assurance for those seeking clarity and strength in their spiritual journey.

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Telephone numbers 0703 03636 59 0703 76811 98 Email address lsmedia at livingseed.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. Our Father, we thank you for this opportunity of coming before you. We thank you for bringing us into this new year 2019 under the mighty hand that you have stretched already.

Thank you God that all that opposes your hand shall fall like nothing in the name of Jesus Christ. Our Father, this night we thank you for bringing us into this vision's retreat on a joyous note, on a victorious note. Thank you Father because he who sent us is the Lord and all power belongs to him.

And so Father in your name we shall go and we shall see great things turn around to the fulfillment of your Word and of your promises to each of our lives in the course of the year. In the name of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit we ask that as we begin this vision tonight, please write the vision upon our soul.

Make it plain upon the tables of our hearts. Such that from here we shall run as we read it. We shall fly as we hear you speak again and again.

And we shall launch forth in the power of the Spirit. Thank you Lord. And so tonight we ask that as you begin to speak with us and give us understanding of what you are about to do and what you are requesting and requiring us to do.

We ask for the Spirit of understanding. We ask for clarity of vision. We ask oh God for revelation of your Word and of your heart to us.

We ask for the voice of the Holy Ghost that will be speaking in a resounding manner in each of our hearts. Thank you Father. Thank you for hearing our prayers.

Thank you for you will do much more than we can ever ask or imagine. Thank you Lord. In Jesus Christ name we have prayed.

Amen. Amen. I would like to remind you as we begin for this visions retreat this time.

I was watching or checking the photographs of our earlier visions retreat of many years ago. And I remember that sometime our Boko Visions retreat we held it in a parlor. We sat in a parlor and that was the visions retreat.

And when we grew we used another brother's garage for the visions retreat. And when we finished we had a love feast. And I was just looking back I said oh look at God.

Look at where he has brought us and where we are presently with him. And my heart rejoiced that our God is not stagnant, is not static. Our God is faithful.

What he says he will do he has been doing. And what he says now that he wants to do we have no reason to doubt him. We know that what he says he will bring to pass.

So I want to read some of the scriptures that have been continuously reoccurring to many of our hearts for several years now. And particularly in the course of last year and this new year that we have entered. I'd love just to read those scriptures that I've recorded and record again and again and again.

Just to set our hearts in the right place for what the Lord is about to begin to speak to us about. When I read those few scriptures it is not that I would like to do any serious studies about them. I just wish to read it and give you a sense of it.

And then we can go ahead to respond to so what will God have us do in the light of what he has said. Praise the Lord. We have been confronted many many times with several scriptures from the book of Isaiah.

That leads to several other passages. And I keep wondering why these passages are very very focused upon us. And upon the things that God will have us do in this particular day of his power in our own generation.

But I realize that the prophecies of Isaiah they have double application. Because since Isaiah encountered the Lord in chapter 6. And the Lord touched his lips. And the iniquity of his life was purged.

And God made an announcement. Who shall I send? And who shall go for us? And Isaiah said here am I send me. And immediately after he responded to God like that.

The things that God said to him was very baffling. I said yes I will send you. But the things that you are going to be speaking about.

Many will hear it but they will not understand. Because it is not meant for their time. So I realize that much of what God began to speak through Isaiah.

Severally. Beginning from the birth of the Messiah. Up to the death and the resurrection of the Messiah.

Which you will find very elaborately. Spoken clearly in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah had an insight.

Onto our savior as a sovereign servant. But he also had a clear picture. Of our savior our redeemer.

As the reigning king. So at various points in his prophetic word. I noted that Isaiah.

Will speak both the valleys. And the mountains of prophecies. He will speak about what looks like.

A downturn. As if to point out what are the things that God must do to the savior. Before we can get into redemption.

But much more. I noticed that Isaiah went ahead. Speaking about what God is going to do.

After the sacrificial death of the Messiah. The Lord Jesus Christ. I hear God all the time making announcements.

In the course of this prophecy of Isaiah. Because more and more as we kept praying. God continued to point.

Severally to us. About what he wanted to do. Through this prophetic word.

We have followed several of the things that God has said. And for several years some of us. We have seen God.

Meticulously honoring that word in our own lives. And so when it has reoccurred again. And the spirit of God is speaking through different.

People among us. And giving them these passages. I felt it was okay for me to start this visions retreat this night.

By first of all. Helping you to note what God has said. And putting this vision retreat in the context.

Of what God had been declaring. Permit me to remind you that what God has been declaring. Is a continuum.

That is a continuous matter. Even though we have a sense of thinking. What God said two years ago.

What God said three years ago. I see what God said ten years ago. He is no more saying no.

What happens is that each time God has spoken. Every word that he speaks. They continue to operate.

They continue to manifest. And they continue to enlarge. They continue to grow deeper.

And wider. Both in scope and in its application. So if you see God.

Taking you back to those same scriptures. It's not a repetition at all. It is not so.

Is it this one alone? No. Each time God is speaking. He speaks with a wider scope.

With a deeper depth. And with a higher horizon. So each time we come into those same scriptures.

I want you to continuously enlarge your heart. Because God is actually speaking. And moving us.

And moving his work forward. In our time. Praise the Lord.

I want to read to you. Few passages from that Isaiah. You remember that we have read in Isaiah.

I think chapter 25. When God began to say. On this mountain.

He is going to declare a feast. Of five things. Do you remember that passage? Now let me tell you.

That has not finished. The feast has not stopped. And the feast will not stop.

Praise the Lord. When Ahasuerus declared a feast. In those days.

They said. The feast continued for about 180 days. That means about six continuous months.

Can you imagine somebody doing a ceremony. And for six months. They never stopped cooking.

They never stopped drinking. They never stopped dancing. They never stopped eating.

They never stopped displaying their clothes. And all the things they had. And everybody that came there.

You made your specification. It was not that. Today we cook Jollof rice.

And that is what everybody should eat. Somebody may just walk in there. And say.

You mean you have Jollof rice. But I just want Pan de Diem now. They say okay.

We will quickly get it for you. And he is sitting down there. In another ten minutes.

His own Pan de Diem has arrived. Another uncle has said. No, no, no.

What I actually want to eat today. I don't know whether you have it in your store at all. He said just mention it.

Name it. There is nothing you want to eat under heaven. That is not in our store.

That was an earthly king. Demonstrating his glory. You remember the only quarrel.

The only quarrel between him and Vashti. Was that he wanted Vashti to come and display. All the new clothes.

All the beauty. And I don't know what went wrong with Vashti. She thought that she also has.

A different party. That she is running. So she can't go.

And that was the end. It cost her her space. And that is how Esther came in.

I don't know whether you know. That when Esther came in. Queen Esther.

They repeated the feast. What they call the feast of Esther. Just to display.

So when God said. On this mountain. I will declare a feast.

Of our things. Is God able to do that? He is. And so I wanted to know that.

That feast that God started. To declare. Has not finished.

Praise the Lord. In Isaiah chapter 41. We will read.

Those passages. Without speaking too much about them. Because they are.

Constant. Recalling. Instructions.

That God had given. And at every level. They are applicable to our lives.

And applicable to what God is doing. In our midst. Hallelujah.

I read Isaiah 41. And I want you to go with me. I will read from verse 10.

If I can. And I will read it. Up to verse 20.

Fear thou not. For I am with you. Be not dismayed.

For I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes.

I will help you. Yes. I will uphold you.

With the right hand. Of my righteousness. Hallelujah.

Why are we. Coming back here? Because as we are about. Entering the new year.

God said. He is offering us. His mighty hand.

That the new face. The new dimension. Of what God is about.

To do with our lives. We will not be able to do it. Unless.

A mighty hand is there. To push us forward. Hallelujah.

That it is that God. Is launching us to now. Because of the time for it.

That has come. It will require. A mighty hand.

To get us. Into it. And he said.

Put your hand in my hand. This year. My good hand.

Shall rest upon you. My mighty hand. Will pull you through.

And I hear him say. I will uphold you. By my right hand.

Of righteousness. And so. I just wanted to bear.

That in mind. That he who is. Going with us.

He who is. Moving us into the next. Phase of his eternal plans.

His mighty hand. Is already stretched. Stretched.

On our behalf. Stretched and placed actually. Upon our heads.

So that the kind of things. That must be accomplished. In this time of his visitation.

His own hand. His own mighty hand. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. We bring you to pass. In the name of Jesus Christ.

I will uphold you. With the. Right hand.

Of my righteousness. Behold. All they that shall be.

Incensed against you. Shall be ashamed. They will be confounded.

They shall be. As nothing. And they that strive with you.

Shall perish. Now. If.

You are with us. Maybe twenty. Twenty five years ago.

And we read. The scripture. If you are not a man.

Who could believe. Your heart will wonder. Whether.

This is actually. Going to come to pass. When left and right.

Back and front. There were. Critical oppositions.

Serious. Attacks. And it looked as if.

We can go nowhere. But you see. God kept whispering this to us.

Then. And we are standing here today. And we are looking back.

And we are saying. Where are they? There are no more. Praise the lord.

But you see. Because. God is speaking this again.

God is speaking this. Not as a repetition. But as a fresh word.

Of what he is about to do. With our lives. Again.

I am hearing God saying. Bear that what he sends against you. Shall be ashamed.

They will become confounded. They themselves. Will be baffled.

And say see. We can't stop this thing. We can't.

We can't. Hinder this thing. We cannot contain it.

It is unstoppable. I don't know whether you remember. That five years ago.

God kept telling us. That this thing is unstoppable. How many of you remember? That God particularly.

Kept saying. This move. Is unstoppable.

Men may gather against it. But they can't stop it. Demons may gather.

The hidden may rage. They may call emergency meeting. And say.

How can we stop this? And I hear God say. Yes in gathering they will gather. But it's not by me.

And whosoever gather against you. Shall scatter. No weapon.

Fashioned against you. Shall prosper. This is not because of anything.

This is because. It is an inheritance. It is an inheritance.

He said from me. Comes. The righteousness.

Why God. Continue to speak like this. I wish that each one of you.

You keep knowing in your heart. That where God is bringing us. And where he is taking us.

Is unstoppable. Even you yourself. Putting your hand in the hand of God.

You become unstoppable. Concerning the things. That God had determined.

To bring out. And to bring about. In our day.

In our time. And by his mercy. Through our lives.

Nothing. Will stop it. I want you to know.

So quietly in your heart. That that which God. Has begun to do with you.

Is unstoppable. He who has begun it. He cannot stop half way.

He can never have an abandoned project. What he says he will do. He will do it.

Oh my God. I was excited. When I hear God.

Repeating his word to me again. Let me quickly. Jump from here because.

I will come back and finish reading this. But let me read one more to you. So that you can put that in context.

In Isaiah 46. Please go quickly to Isaiah 46. Don't close Isaiah 41.

Because we are coming on it. But in Isaiah 46. And verse 9. Is anybody there who can read for me.

With a loud voice. I am God. And there is no other.

I am God and there is none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning. And from ancient times.

Things that are not yet done. I declare. The end from the beginning.

And from the ancient times. Things that are not yet occurred. Yes.

Saying my counsel shall stand. My counsel. Will do what? Oh my God.

What God has said. Heaven and earth may pass away. Not a dot.

Not a small dot. Because of what God has said. Will go unfulfilled.

Every word that God has spoken about. He has put his name on the line. So my brothers.

As we get on. Discussing and discovering. What heaven is demanding.

And asking us to step on to do now. Please let it be. In the context of your understanding.

That what God has begun to do. No one. Can stop it.

Even me. That I have put my hand in God's hand. If I be moved by God.

If it be God. Working in me. To work out his purposes.

I have become unstoppable. What is making me unstoppable? The unstoppable God. Is at work in me.

Both to will. And to do. Of his good pleasure.

Can I tell you something? I will become all. That heaven has spoken concerning me. And that does not depend on.

Whether the devil likes it or not. And it does not depend on. Whether the community agrees or not.

It does not depend on. Whether anybody is willing to support it or not. What God.

Has determined to do. Even with my life. And with your own life.

If your hand be put in his hand. If it be him at work in you. You also.

You have become unstoppable. Unstoppable. Now.

You have not finished reading. You have just read. Up to verse 10.

You have not finished verse 10. My cancer shall stand. That is where I hear you.

And I will do all my pleasure. And I will do. I will do.

All. My pleasure. Yes.

The man that will execute my cancer. If he is not in Boko. If he is not in Nigeria.

If he is not in Africa. Are you hearing me? I can call him from anywhere. To come and cause my cancer.

Rather than my cancer to fail. Supposing. Supposing you look left and right.

And say but. There is nothing with which God can help me here. And supposing actually.

Your eyes can see. Everywhere that there is nothing. Which I am not sure.

Because sometimes. You think there is nothing. Because you don't know God.

God who calls into existence. Those things that be not. As though they were.

God who does not need something. To do something. Are you hearing me? God who takes nothing.

To shame the mighty. God. Who will use the weak things.

Of the world. To disgrace. Those who think that they are.

Caterpillars. Calling. To pray.

A bed of prayer. A ravenous bed. All the way from the east.

The man that executed. My cancer. Hallelujah.

From a far country. Yes sister you have not finished. Indeed I have spoken it.

I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass. Look when God said.

I have spoken it. Do you know the meaning of that? What is the meaning of that? It is finished. It is gone.

The word has left my mouth. I don't swallow my words. It can't come back to me void.

It has to accomplish. All. That I have sent it to do.

So you see. As I look through the book of Isaiah. And the prophecies of Isaiah.

I just find that it is cumulative. It is supportive. Every word.

Is supported by the other word. Every promise. Is anchored on the other one.

And I say oh God. You have been speaking continuously. Into our lives.

And you are saying. My cancer. Shall stand.

Can I ask anyone. To try to read that same passage. From new English translation.

NET. Or NEB. Whatever you have.

Is anybody having new English. Translation. And you want to read.

You have easy to read. Remember what I have accomplished. In antiquity.

In antiquity. That is in the old times. Remember what I have accomplished.

How many of you can remember. What God has even accomplished. Even with us.

Ordinarily here in Boko. How many of you can remember. What God has done.

Can I see your hand up. Can you recall that. God did this one.

God did this one. God did that one. God did that one.

Remember all of that. Truly I am God. I have no peer.

I have no peer. I am God. Wait.

Did you understand that God said he has no peer. What is the meaning of a peer. He has no classmate.

He has no age mate. He has no. He has no peer.

He is not under any peer pressure. Our God. Our God.

No rival. No competitor. No classmate.

No age mate with him. There is no one that knew when he was growing up. He is God.

There is none like him. I have no peer. There is none like me.

Yes. I am God. There is none like me.

Who announces the end from the beginning. Yes. And reveals beforehand.

What has not yet occurred. Aha. Who says my plan will be realized.

My plan will be realized. Did I hear you say amen. Amen.

But let me tell you. Even if you didn't say amen. It doesn't change anything.

It is not your amen that will make God to do something. He said my cancer shall start. My plan shall be realized.

Despite whatever anybody is saying. My plan is coming to pass. It shall be realized.

That's God talking. I will accomplish what I desire. I will accomplish what I desire.

How beautiful it is to serve this kind of God. To be a servant of the God who will always accomplish his desire. Sometimes because you don't understand God.

If something according to God's plan is to happen at 6pm are you getting me? By quarter to six you may not even see any sign. You know why? It is human being that warms up. They are warming up so that when it will be 6 o'clock they will be able to meet up.

Not our father. He doesn't warm up to do anything. In fact it could be as if he was sleeping.

When it is five minutes to six those who don't know God they say this is not going to happen again. Because if it is going to happen by five minutes to six we shall have seen the signs of it that everything is beginning to gather together and all of that. When it is time.

Hallelujah! When the time comes the set time and he works with set times. God works with what? Set times. When the set time comes he will just appear.

Just like that. And people say, where has he been? We have never thought this will happen. We did not even see the sign of it.

When the time, the set time comes. Look at how many years God spoke that a virgin will bring forth a son. Can you imagine that? And prophecies upon prophecies upon prophecies upon prophecies including men like Isaiah.

When the widow goes there, you better go and sleep. It is not my time. When it is time it will come to pass.

Ah! When it was time. Can you hear me? When the time came the bible said and when it is time, God sent his son. Suddenly without any plan without any prior arrangement.

Are you hearing me? Without any organization he just dispatched that angel. And the angel was given an address and the virgin girl that had been set aside even unknown to herself. Unknown to herself.

When she was born nobody told her that that would happen to her. Otherwise maybe she would not have been planning to get married. Are you getting me? God.

So one day like this just one day like this this lady was just doing her normal routine. When an angel just came from nowhere and said hey Mary congratulations. What kind of greeting is this? What kind of greeting is this? Why are you greeting me like this? Thou art blessed said among all women.

Excuse me what are you talking about? Said because the Lord has favored you. Because you are going to conceive. You are going to bring forth a child.

And that child shall be called the only son of God. The lady said excuse me I have never heard that before. I have never seen it happen before.

I have never known a man. How am I going to be pregnant and have a baby? Don't worry it's going to happen now. The Holy Ghost will overshadow you.

And an angel said so that you may know even your cousin whom you know to have been bearing for donkey years. The day star has visited her also. In fact she is already pregnant now.

She has a six month old baby inside her stomach. Go and check her. Just like that that's the God we talk about.

Even if it does not look likely that the promises of God concerning your life will come to pass, when the time comes what will happen? It will just come. Praise the Lord. And that kind of God can you imagine that God spoke He spoke many years ago to Abraham about what is going to happen to his descendants when he had not yet got a baby.

Are you hearing me? God was saying to him all your children they will be like like the sea, like the sand of the seashore and for you to know your descendants will go down to a particular nation. They will serve that nation. And the reason is because the set time for me to bring them to this land has not come because the iniquity of the Moabites is not yet full.

You are not hearing me at all. Did you think the Moabites were already born by that time? You didn't hear me. Do you know that while God was talking to brother Abraham and was talking about the iniquity of Moab the Moabites were still in the loins of Lot.

They have not even been born yet. Because the prophecy was in chapter 15 it was in chapter 19 several years after that Lot was sleeping with his own daughters and one of the sons that was born was Moab and yet God spoke about the Moabites as if they were already there. Oh Hallelujah! The things that God declares He declares it from eternity past.

He sees what has never occurred as though they have already happened. The kind of thing that God said to some of us several years ago and we were wondering whether that can happen at all. Only as we are working into it only as we are working into it and we are seeing it and say ah God God is that what I told you now? I told you that I will do it.

And it doesn't concern you I will do it. I know how I will do it. Will you please give God a special praise for being the God that we serve.

Being the God that we follow. Being the God who called us. Being the God whose hand is behind us.

Being the God who has spoken concerning our lives. The God that nothing can stop Him. Nothing can hinder Him.

Nothing can weigh Him. He is the Lord. Hallelujah! My excitement became so serious when I heard him saying and I put my hand upon you for this matter.

Sister you have not finished. Read it again. Verse 9 and 10.

Yes. Remember what I have accomplished in Antiquity. No no go now.

My plan will be realized. I will accomplish what I desire. I thought that was where you came from.

Go ahead now to verse 11. Who summons an eagle from the east from a distant land. One who carries out my plan.

I have decreed it. I will bring it to pass. I have formulated a plan.

I have formulated a plan. I will carry it out. Listen.

It's okay. It's okay. I'm not one of those stubborn people.

That's why I don't want you to go there. I've left the class of the stubborn people. I am one of those people who believe.

Who takes God by His word. I am one of those people who by the grace of God I will be obedient to what God says. I'm not going to join those stubborn people who keep saying can God do it? Can God do it? Can God do it? Me, I'm not in their class.

And I hope you are not in that class. I trust God that something has happened in your heart. You'll be excited to follow God.

You'll be excited to obey Him. And you'll be excited to serve Him. Because we are not serving a useless non-entity.

We are not talking about God who is uncertain. We are not talking of that one who opens his mouth and says something and you know it will not come to pass. We are serving the living God.

Who said my counsel shall stand. Brothers and sisters, even if there was nothing again anywhere, it does not stop God to cause His counsel concerning our lives to come to pass. Did you hear me say His counsel will come to pass? Concerning you it will come to pass.

Concerning us as a people it shall come to pass. Concerning us as a nation His counsel will come to pass. So when He says anything no matter how bogus, no matter how unlikely, no matter when you look left and right of you, there doesn't seem to be a sign for it.

Never you bother what the Lord says. It shall surely come to pass. I said God was speaking about the Moabites as if they were already in the corner.

When I began to search I realized that they have not even been born. And yet God saw and everything God said. Say when it was time He called for a family.

Brothers, so that what God said shall come to pass. At the time He said it will come to pass. What did He do? He called for a family.

A family that affected everywhere. And this family was organized by who? By God. So that His word shall come to pass.

Me, as you see me standing before you now, I wanted to know everything God has said concerning me is unstoppable. And whatever God must do to bring His word to pass. Can you imagine that God just wanted His promise to Jacob to come to pass.

He called for a family. This family affected everywhere. And the children of Israel were wondering what they will eat.

Before that time. Are you hearing me? God! The Bible says, He sent a man ahead of them. You know the wisdom of God is just overwhelming.

He sent a man ahead of them. I quickly went and said, how did God send a man? And I was seeing the kind of strange circumstance that God Himself orchestrated to send a man. Because God was looking at time.

He was looking at time. And He was saying, yes. The time for me to do what I said is about to happen.

I must send this young man. How did He send him? Can you see the brothers? They decided to do what? To sell Joseph as a slave. They collected money.

They ate it. They came and told their father that his son is dead. Meanwhile, it was God sending a man.

I tell you, whether evil or good, when it is time for God to do His work, He can use any of them. Are you hearing me? Any of them. My cancer shall stand.

Suddenly, Joseph found himself in Egypt. They sold him to another man called Potiphar. That one was a chief protocol in the court of Pharaoh.

And while Joseph was settling down in that house, because you know whatever he did prospered, he brought all the blessing of God onto that man's business. And so the man already made him permanent manager of his own estate. And I don't know how God is in Joseph.

You are not here to manage a private man's estate. You are going to manage the economy of Egypt. And you are not managing it just for them.

It is to preserve a life. Something that we are talking about. There is something we are about to do.

We sent you here. You remember Mrs. Potiphar? All of that. She was wicked.

She was a liar. She was a dangerous woman. But as far as I am concerned, heaven was the one working his own eternal cancer out.

Everything must work together for good to those of us who love God, whom God has called according to his will. Tell yourself good or bad, I am unstoppable. If you can talk to the devil straight ahead, call him and say, Satan, let me inform you.

Do your worst. Your worst will only facilitate me to where I am going. Yes! Yes! Suddenly! Katakata started.

This woman told a terrible lie. Jesus said, no, I can't lie with you, mama. There is a destiny before me.

I don't intend to bury it in an old woman's pot. You see, Madam Pot, you know, she's Mrs. Potiphar, so he called him Madam Pot. And Jesus said, Mama Pot, it's not in your pot I will bury my destiny.

No. That's how they put that brother into prison. And for years, for years, what was God looking at? Was looking at time.

Set time. Set time. Even when Joseph had interpreted dreams of those guys and it came to pass just like that.

God said yes. It remains two years here. So the man that could have remembered to go and tell King for them to deliver or talk to Potiphar and say I met your boy and that boy was very good.

I don't know what he did that you cast him into prison. If you don't need him again, just release him for me so that I can be my private prophet, interpreter of dreams. But he forgot.

Who caused him to forget? God. Because it was in time. Did anybody forget you? Is that why you are crying? If they remember you, they only remember to put you in a very little corner.

When it is not time, may all those who think they can do something for you, what will they do for you? They just put you in their pockets. May they forget. May they forget.

The only person that must never forget and who can never forget is God. He said, I will never forget you. He said, can a woman forget her suckling child? He said, I the Lord, I have carved you on the palm of my right hand.

How can I forget you? He never forgets. And I'm so happy that God never forgets. Never forgets.

Every word he speaks, he never forgets. Sometimes, I forget, even me. I forget.

Sometimes, I forget the prayer I prayed. Sometimes, I forget what I told God before. Sometimes, I have forgotten what I cried and cried and cried.

I said, oh God, oh God, oh God. When it is time, many times I've seen God come back and say, open your notes to January 1996. What did you tell me to do? I said, ah, I have come to do it.

I said, God, so you never forget. He said, no, no, no, no. I never lose memory.

God never does what? Never lose memory. His eyes is ranging to and through the earth. And he particularly notices you because of what he wants to do with your life.

He never forgets. When the time comes, hallelujah, the Bible says in Psalm 105, he said, when his time came, heaven began to move. Suddenly, Pharaoh could not sleep.

He had a terrible dream that he did not know how to interpret. And the dream occurred twice. He gathered all his interpreters of dreams, all astrologers, everybody in the land.

All of them said, sir, number one, you have even forgotten your dream. How do you expect any one of us to know and to remind you of your dream? Nobody can do it except the man with the spirit of the gods. When everybody had come to the end of themselves, this man that had forgotten something for two years, he said, ah, I have misbehaved.

The king said, misbehaved for what? What is it? He said, ah, I have been wicked. Wicked for what? He said, there was a young man I met in the prison. He said, I dreamt a dream, sir.

You remember the other man, my colleague, that you put together in the prison when we annoyed you? Yes, yes, two years ago, yes, yes. You remember that you cut off the other man's head and you restored me to my position? He said, yes, yes. So what's the connection between that and what we are talking about now? The man said, sir, unknown to you, exactly the way you acted in that case, there was a young man I met in the prison who told me that that's what you would do because I had a dream.

My friend also had a dream in one night. The two of us told him our dream. He gave interpretation to this one.

The boy was not afraid. He said in three days time, Pharaoh will send and cut off your head, he told my friend. And he turned to me and said, in three days time, the king is going to send for you and restore you to your position.

And just like that, three days exactly, sir, a decree came from your palace. My friend was beheaded. And that same day, you asked them to restore me to this position.

I promised that boy that I was going to speak to his master, but I forgot. I knew this boy would tell you what you are talking about, sir. The king said, we can't sit here again, we can't sit here again.

Go bring him now! Whosoever imprisons him, I overrule. When God is about to do his work, what looks unlikely, unexpected, can I now tell you? Do you know that Joseph was just lying down in the prison, the day broke like the normal day. There was no sign, no inkling that that day was going to be a turnaround.

He was just there. Only for the prison warder to come like this, because there is now palace officials who have come. We are told that there is a man here under your custody called Joseph.

Joseph Jacob. He said, yes, yes, sir. He said there is a decree from the palace that he should be released now in one minute.

Ah! That's how everybody was running up and down, running up and down. They went and woke up, they said, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, the king said you must be released now, now, now. He said, which king? He said, no discussion please.

Move. You know his beard had overgrown. They shaved him that day.

They were looking for a dress that he can use to appear before the king. So they quickly looked for a dress to remove his prison garment. Just like that.

Everything was changed. Then they drove him. They drove him.

So they got him right to where many, many big men, senators have been wanting to even catch a glimpse of the king. They couldn't get him. Joseph got in there.

And Pharaoh looked at him and said, are you the one? He said, by the grace of God, I am. I've told her you are interpreter of dreams. She said, no, only God gives the answer.

So the man said, I had a dream. And my dream it looks like double dream but I don't know what it means. And then said, and Joseph said, the God of heaven will give an answer to the king.

Then he opened his mouth and said, you saw this, you saw this, you saw this, say yes! You saw this one, say yes! The one you saw is that God is going to cause some seven years of abundance that will fill this land. But another year of famine, seven years coming, that will leak up everything, nobody will even think they ever ate at all. It's going to happen.

That you saw it two times means out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, every truth is established. This matter is established. The king said, so what shall we do now? Where can we find? What can we do? Then he opened his mouth again and said, this is what you will do.

He stood there and began to bring the council of the almighty God. And before you know it, all of Egypt, they forgot his credential. They forgot that he was a slave.

Nobody remembered again that he is not an Egyptian. The king said, for as much as this kind of spirit is in you, you are going to be in charge. All my senators, they must obey you now.

Everything in Egypt is now under your hand. Only in the throne will I be bigger than you. Apart from that, nobody can lift a finger except at your command.

Right immediately, he commanded the chief protocol. You know the chief protocol? Potiphar. Say, Potiphar.

Yes, sir. Now, get this man dressed. My second chariot, the second presidential jet, drive him around the whole town.

Begin to announce in front of him 21 guns salute. That this man that God has put in charge is now the prime minister of Egypt. I'm only higher than him on the throne.

He's second in command from now on, all of you. All senators oblige. How did you think Potiphar behaved that day? Potiphar said, Adai, no.

The king said, what are you talking about? Do, do, move, move, move. When he ran around the whole city and they put Joseph and he was doing like this to Joseph and Joseph remembered and said, is that not my old master? I'm sure he must have run home. They say, Madame Pot, can you see what has happened? That boy that you told a lie against, his God has moved him.

He has become the second in command. He's in charge of everything now. Even me, I can't get anything unless he signs it.

But nobody felt that that morning by 6am, nobody knew. By 9am, nobody felt that anything is going to change in the prison. But when the time came, when the set time comes, God, may the Lord give you understanding.

So permit me to now return to those passages I said I need just to read. Because tonight I just felt I need to first bring you to understand. He who is speaking to us.

He who is commanding us. He who is declaring what is about to happen in our age and our generation. So that your obedience to what God is saying to us might be complete and proper.

So that when we begin to run with what God told us to do this year, you will know that we are not running in vain. You will know that we are running with a certainty because what God says will come to pass. It will be.

So in Isaiah chapter 41, please follow me now. We are back in Isaiah 41. I'll just read all this to you and hoping that the Holy Spirit will give you insight so that when I ask you to stand up in prayer, you'll be ready to say, now Lord, I've heard you.

Whatever you ask me to do, be it unto me according to thy word. Verse 14, you know I stopped in verse 13, now I want to read from verse... Fear not, thou warm Jacob, and you men of Israel, I will help you, says the Lord, and your Redeemer, the only one of Israel. Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth.

No matter how many years I have come into this passage, and I'm telling you, this verse was a very principle verse that set my life on. Forty years ago, God was telling me this. When there was nothing, when I was spineless, when I was a worm, just a worm, a worm that has no name, no connection, nothing.

When he said that, in my limited understanding that time, I believed. I believed. I kept believing.

I said, oh God, you'll make me a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth. You'll make me a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth. You know, I believed.

And the few disciples I had then, few of them, I bombarded them with it. I told them, I said, God is going to make us a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth. Many of them were looking at me like this.

They were wondering. But somehow, somehow I know that God is going to do it. But, for me to come again now, and I'm hearing God saying, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth.

I said, God, you mean there's still something new that you are going to make me different from what you have already made me? He said, yes. So as you see me now, I'm expecting something that I have never seen with my life before. I'm expecting something that, that, that, you know, people believe that I was sharp.

But I'm hearing God say, no, no, no, no. I will make you sharp. People have said, ah, that brother, hey, that brother, that brother, thank you for all that you have said.

But he with whom I am working, I'm hearing him say, behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth. Thou shalt thresh the mountains. Look, I'm looking forward to mountains that God is going to cause me to thresh.

I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to those hills that we will beat and they will run away like ordinary chaff. My heart is just enlarging and say, God, so all that we have done before that people thought was something, you are saying there's something new.

Something beyond. That's why the next verses I'm going to be reading to you are very crucial. And I pray that God will enlarge your heart.

I pray that God will enlarge your expectation. I pray that where you are now will appear completely small in your eyes. Compare with what God is about to make of your life.

I pray that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit that enlarges a man, may he come upon you in the name of Jesus Christ. You know, because more and more as I look, you know, I cannot look back and I found that every time God wants to take us to a new face, he comes to speak. Every time.

Every time God wants to break us forth into something beyond, he comes, he starts speaking. He starts announcing it. He starts making it almost a compelling matter in our spirits.

Each time. I was telling some of the brothers who have come to stay with me for a while. I was driving them out.

And then we came to Sistine Carrold. Sistine Carrold. How many of you know Sistine Carrold? You won't know now.

There was that Sistine Carrold. That small house. Room and parlor.

That was our office. That was Peace House. And we were there.

When we say we want to have a meeting, inside that parlor, 10 of us were already too much. But you know a man that has no understanding of where God is going like me, we wanted to buy Sistine Carrold. Because to me, that is the end of the world.

Hey! 50 by 100. Already with a house. Ah! Wonderful.

Lord, we must get it. In the name of Jesus, we are going to get it. We claim it.

We fasted. It was serious. Brothers, you don't understand.

We were fasting. Because to me, if we don't get that place, where are we going to get again? A room, parlor with another room and a small kitchen which we converted to another office. My wife was sitting in the kitchen with the chimney with Brother Emmanuel.

That's wonderful. And then behind it, there's this land that is going to now be, you know, when you take about 20 feet out of 100, you think now you have got something like 80. That's wonderful.

That's where our hall of meeting is going to be. No parking slot. I never thought that people will have cars.

I thought they will only be trekking to this peace house. I was thinking that everybody will only come to that, that God will help them wear a bike, they have a motorcycle, and then the world line it up like that. That was my thinking.

So we left here. Brother Sandogo, Brother Moses Ainde, eh? Myself, Brother Emmanuel, Brother Emmanuel, I think Brother Dennis, I don't know. We left and we are going all the way to Chatuaka to go and meet Baba that owns the land.

And our friend, who is the son of the owner, Brother Batu was there with us. He had said, if only my father just agrees, it's yours. And we did not have any reason why Baba should refuse.

God almighty. When God refuse you, when men refuse you, are you hearing me? Because God has a bigger plan. Stop calling it the landlord, oh.

That landlord that is coming to trouble you every time, saying, hey, move, oh, park, park, park. If you don't park, I will park your load out. Kneel down and say, Father, thank you for this landlord.

May he never stop because God wants to move you to a bigger place. One of you is sitting here hearing me here. God is going to move you to a bigger place.

That's why the place is becoming too narrow. So we got there. We settled down.

We spoke. There was no reason why Baba should refuse. So Baba looked at us.

He said, what did I hear you say you want to use that place for? Did you say you are doing mission work there? We say yes. He said, then I will not sell it to you. If you say you want to do business, I would have sold it to you.

But that you want to do mission, that's not a place for mission. I will not sell it to you. It's not for mission.

Your mission cannot grow in that place. Ah! We thought it was a joke. He refused.

We talked round. We talked left. We talked up.

He said, are you not saying mission? No. That's how Baba turned his head against us and said no. So we drove back.

No. I was still wondering, Lord, why now? Look at a place standing on its own. Ah! Ah! God.

So we came back. Since our rent is there, we just paid more rent. We said, okay.

Maybe Baba will think again. He never changed his mind. Thank God he didn't change his mind.

Maybe Baba saw something beyond us. We were there. We do Bible study.

I was checking the photograph this afternoon. I was shooting to Andy Yerke. You see? But one day, we were in a meeting.

Vision retreat like this. January. We were just reading scripture like I'm reading to you.

And the Holy Spirit came and said, lift up your eyes from where you are standing. If anybody can number the dust of the earth, so will anybody be able to number the people that this work is going to affect. Then God began to say, look, they are going to come from all nations everywhere.

Nowhere in this kind of place can contain what I'm bringing to you. Lift up your eyes! The meeting was running like this. We started on a Wednesday.

When God began to speak, by Thursday, something was breaking in my own heart. And you know we were in GSS, where we were doing the meeting. And GSS is the next fence to my 16 car road.

When we finished like this, I would just go and look at 16 car road. And something said, you can't return back there. No, no, no.

God has finished that place for you now. I called the brothers. I said, brethren, we can't return back there.

Let's start looking for where we are going. That's how we started. It was that same weekend we have not finished.

Friday of that meeting somebody walked up to me and said, there is a place. That place is this place. I said, there is a place? He said, yes.

There is a land. They want to dispose it. It was 9,000.

Some of you are thinking that 9,000 is so small. No. It took great faith for us to believe God for that.

We said, yes, go and get it. But this is bush that time. Bush.

Nothing was here. Glory has not come here. Everywhere was bush.

We said, just go and get that first. But then when we finished getting it, we said, but we cannot even stay in this land again. We need to move.

Just to obey God. Just to obey God. We said, move.

We relocated our discipleship meetings to brother Denny's house. Just in obedience because we can no longer wait. I'm trusting God that after this vision retreat, you will no longer stay where you are.

You will no longer be able to stay because something will enlarge you. You will look back at where you are sitting and you say, is that where I've been all along? Am I sleeping? The only spirit will move you out. Why am I telling you that? It's because I'm hearing God saying, I'm doing a new thing now.

It will happen. It will happen. And you will be part of it in the name of Jesus Christ.

While we were searching, praying, the Lord brought us to God hospital road, that office. And you know that was a big place coming from the narrow end where we are. Coming to that place? Oh yes Lord, we have now come to Rehoboth.

This is where we are going to be. Hallelujah. Then I look at the peace house.

You know that compound? It's 200 by 100. And we have already the house that we got there was about 40 feet. So we have about 160 feet.

I said, oh that's good. That's good. Let's just make our hall here.

And they told me, please stand up and touch this pole. Touch one of those poles. These poles, look at these poles.

These poles, they were the poles we were using to make our cathedral. Some of you can remember the cathedral. They told me that when you get a church, are you getting me? For 30 years it will never leak.

It will stand. So in my mind, 19 Gadu hospital road will contain what God wants us to do for 30 years. Can you see a man that doesn't understand anything? He will be in one space for 30 years managing grass.

But God is good. He gave us the grass. When we finished making the grass tent, it was one in town.

People were passing What are they doing here? Even me myself, I will go to the other street because you can't stand on the road and see the head of the thing. So I'll go to the next street. I'll go and stand and look at it and say, ah! Good! People don't know why I am just looking like that and say, ah! Wonderful! I know God.

God must have been laughing at me. He doesn't know where I'm taking him. He doesn't know what I'm going to do.

30 years! Actually, we've been standing for God. And we've just been doing our meeting under the arch. And already, you know, the front of the office was already the pulpit.

What is our generator house now? It was the toilet. Everything is looking nice in my ears. Until 2,000 people came for the meeting.

2,000 were using two toilets. After one day, the smell was going to chase all of us out. But you know, we were excited.

Excited. But when it now rained, my beautiful arch was leaking. I was under it.

I said, God, so this thing is leaking. Somebody said, well, you know, the arch is very heavy and the height was not enough. But this is the highest pole we could ever get in wood.

Where are we going to get another one? As we were praying, God said, I just told you that where you are going, eyes have not seen it. Ears have not heard it. All this thing you are doing is not a dimension of what I want to do with your life.

Brothers and sisters, every time God spoke, I still remember how God came one day during one of the meetings and he spoke again. For what do you require? Suddenly, faith just jumped in our spirits and we just knew that Arch of Tent is finished for us. We are moving and we moved here.

And I'm remembering we were here trying to buy anything we could buy and the only thing we say, no! What I want to do, nothing like this can contain it. Nothing. All this is nothing.

Ah, we bought this one. We bought that one. We tried to buy this one.

We go to that side. It will not be enough. You remember the market that is there? That ever before you could come here, you have to, you are just passing through market.

I said, God, but the owners of the place, they have already allocated the place. They are collecting money for the market. I said, are you going to Akane market? So, ever before people will reach the word of God, the marketeers have already stopped them.

So, they are eating pandan before they will come here. I said, God, what is it now? I just want to thank God. I thank God for all those who refused us.

I thank God for those who will not give us this land. Someone said, over my dead body! Ah! I said, it's not like that. They said, no, no, no, no.

Don't think you will get it. I knelt down to pray. I said, God, God said, don't think you will get it.

Because that's nowhere to get. Even if you get that, what are you going to do with it? Let me ask you, if we got all this land, even if we go to the primary school, what are we going to do with that? Did you see how my eyes could not see ahead? But whenever God wants to move his servant, he speaks to them. And I'm hearing God speaking again this year.

Because we are at the brink of another break forth. A break forth that we make all that we have known, all that we have done, all that we have seen, as though they were nothing. That's where we are coming.

That's what the Holy Ghost is beginning to speak about. And the issue of how we are going to step into it, what we are going to do when he began to say, you also go! We will be speaking into the implication of that is because of where we have reached in the purpose of God. Amen.

You will find them and the wind shall carry them away. And the one wind shall scatter them and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord and shalt glory in the only one of his tribe. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none.

I the Lord I will hear them and I the God of history I will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water.

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shita tree, the mitu and the oil tree. I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine and the box tree together that they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord. So when God said this year what I'm moving you into, I offer you my hand.

Because it is my hand that is taking you to the next phase of what I have spoken to you. My heart has just been overwhelmed. That the hand of the Lord is stretched out to get me and you to the next dimension of his will for our lives.

And I just want to pray that each one of you sitting before me here, no matter where you are coming from, no matter what your experiences have been for several years, come under the hand of the Lord. Stretch your own hand and put it in his hand and let us go together into that which he has spoken. Now let me request someone now to read This time we are reading verse eight, verse nine, verse ten.

Maybe just eight and nine. It would have been great if we could read the whole of that verse, the whole of that Isaiah. But we don't have the time.

You can be reading for yourself. All of these are coming together into where God is speaking to our lives. Who is reading for me verse eight? Yes? I am the Lord.

That is my name. That is my name. And my glory I would not share.

I would not give to another. Nor my praise to carved images. Verse nine.

Behold the former things have come to pass. The former things I told you have come to pass. And new things I declare.

New things do I declare. Before the spring forth, I tell you of them. Now, the sister that read NET for us, can you read it again? New English translation.

Yes. I am the Lord. That's my name.

Excuse me. Listen. That's God saying.

That's my name. I am the Lord. What's the meaning of that? I am the Lord.

I am in charge. I am the Lord. I am the Lord.

And that is my name. I don't know, you know, I know you have been reading all of that. I know you sing it.

That is your name. You will never share your glory with any man. You will never share your glory with anybody.

You are the Lord. That is your name. Thank God that you know the song.

But I want you to hear God again. I am the Lord. What's the meaning of that, sir? What's the meaning of that, sir? I am sovereign.

And I am in charge. And I have all things under my hand. I am the Lord.

I am the Lord. The Lord of Lords. The Lord of the entire universe.

Is it this morning as I was having my quiet time and the Lord began to again introduce himself to me and said, do you know me? I am the Lord. All silver and all gold in all the earth is mine. It doesn't matter who is holding them.

All cartels on a thousand hills are mine. All souls, all souls, ah, I was overwhelmed when God was telling me, say, all souls are mine. All souls, all of them are mine.

And the earth is the Lord's. And the fullness thereof, and the world, and all they that dwell therein. All mineral resources, they are mine.

All resources in the heavenlies, or what you call in the clouds, they are mine. I am the Lord. And you know, when he finished, he said, so let me inform you.

Concerning the things I have called you to do, wherever, whoever is holding the resources, or whosoever is supposed to come and cause that thing to happen, they are all in my hand. And my hand is already on you for this matter. My strong hand is stretched out towards you.

My hands have brought favor to you. My mercy I will not take away from you. Whether to dance, or to jump, or to roll on the ground, I didn't know what to do.

I just kept, I just said, ah! So this is, this is, this is, this is where I'm entering now. When the things begin to unfold, God will help you to see it. But I want you to hear God declaring, I am the Lord, that's my name.

Brother, may the Holy Ghost cause you to hear this in your inner man. May the Holy Spirit amplify this within you. God said, look, I am the Lord.

That's my name. Uh-huh. That is my name.

I will not share my glory with anyone else. I will not. I will not share my glory with anyone else.

I tolerate no rival. Yes. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. The things I told you before now, what has happened? They have come to pass. Look at it.

Look at it. And you know for me, how could I not see it? How could I not see that the things that God said has come to pass? But because it will not, there'll be no time to tell you, oh, God said this to us in God said it to us in 1998. God announced new events.

Now I the Lord, what am I doing? I am announcing new things, new events. Before they begin to occur, I reveal them to you. Talk.

So what did he say they should do in that verse 10 quickly? Sing to the Lord a brand new song. Sing to the Lord a brand new song. Compose a new song.

To celebrate what God is beginning to announce now. You see God's announcement, are you hearing me? They're as good as done. Thank you Father.

May the Holy Spirit grant you understanding. I must have to stop at this. I must have to ask you to join me in prayer.

But from here, if you go to chapter 43, you hear God saying I'm doing a new thing. Did you see that God said that he's doing a new thing? Don't remember the former things. Neither consider the things of old.

Behold, I will do a new thing. Now shall it spring forth. You go to chapter 44, you go to chapter 46, you go to 48, you hear God say, what I'm telling you, you have not seen it before.

I am creating it now. Sing a brand new song to God because it will come to pass. So I stop here tonight and all I want to do is to ask you, if you can, and I know you should be able to, I want you to to celebrate God with me tonight.

Eh? I want you to, first of all, celebrate the fact that the God that we serve is the God that is able to call into existence what has never been as though they were there. And it is God whose hand is so long that he can drag anybody from the Far East to come and carry out his assignment when it has to be done. Eh? I wish you would stand up and sing a brand new song to God tonight and say God, and I thank you that I belong to you.

I thank you that I do not serve something, something else. That I serve the living God who declares what will be ever before they begin to happen. Who speak with such audacity.

He said, I have no pair, I have no equal. When I declare a thing, it's going to come to pass. My counsel will stand.

And I want to end for this night on that note. Lord, your counsel concerning me will stand. This is the grant on which we are going to begin to talk about so what is God saying we should go and do.

I wouldn't want to tell you about that great going if we would not have understood that Jesus said, all power in heaven and on earth is given to me, therefore go. And he said, and behold, I am with you always. I thought that the personality, the portrait of the Lord who is sending us to go is the first motivation and is the first mobilization for everything we are going to do this year.

I want to call on you this night as God is allowing you to be inside this meeting and you are hearing. And if you have heard and the Lord had caused your spirit to stay inside, I want you to know that he never opens his mouth to say something unless he has already calculated what it will cost him to bring it to pass. He already set the time for it to come to pass.

It's already the machineries that will cause it to happen is already set and he's just watching. And he said, if you can believe, you will see the glory of God. Let me ask, who is going to believe here tonight? Stand up.

Stand up. Thank you, Jesus. I don't know what song you will have wanted to raise to God, whether in TV or in English anywhere.

Is there a song in your spirit that is bubbling and you want to just praise God with it and say, Lord, I have had you now. What you have said concerning me, I know it's going to be. What you are declaring, I know we are going to walk into it.

What you are speaking concerning us as a family, we are going to walk into it. What you are speaking to us as a people, we are going to see it. What you are speaking clearly as regards your hand, your good hand upon our lives is already as good as done.

Oh God. Begin by giving God any praise you like. Do you have a song you want to sing? Do you have a word you want to construct? You want to tell your heart, my heart, stand up and praise the Lord.

You want to speak to yourself and say, every prison door, open up. The Lord has come. Every narrowness, give way.

God has come. A new face has started. There's a new thing breaking forth in our land, in our lives.

Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Lord.

Lord, was it not in this altar? When you spoke, and I couldn't see how we can stay anymore. And that is it. That was it, oh God.

You came again and spoke the other year. We couldn't sit down again. Every time you speak, you enlarge our hearts to allow you to do what you are doing.

Thank you for enlarging my heart again tonight. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, thank you.

Oh, that's your name. That is your name, Lord. That is your name, oh God.

Give God any special song you have in your mouth. Or you want to just create a poem for my God? Go ahead. Or you want just to sing a psalm to him? Go ahead tonight.

Something enlarging will come upon your heart from this meeting. Lord, thank you. Thank you for the enlargement you're already bringing.

Because I hear you speaking very, very clearly to my own soul. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, God.

The hymn writer said, if I have a thousand tongues, it's not enough to praise you. But yet my feeble tongue, it's praise me for what I want to do. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Oh, Lord my God. How do we praise your name in all? Thou art God.

No one like you. No one like you. No one like you.

Can you rejoice that every word that God has spoken concerning you? He said, my counsel concerning you shall stand. Even if a bearder to come from the east to carry it out, I'm going to do it. Even if God had to call a census so that his word concerning that woman must come to pass, a census was called just for her.

A whole national census was arranged just for Mary to deliver in Bedleham. What kind of God is this? He got a family just so that his promise will never fail at the appropriate time. He can suspend a whole nation so that his purpose for my life will come to pass.

Hallelujah, Lord. Oh God. Oh God.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Ah.

Ah. Ah. Ah.

Ah. Nakababababa. Dekorobo Sambarabashiva.

So that his promise will never fail, immobilize kings, immobilize nations, just to make sure that what is said concerning a little girl never failed. How much, how much of this God have we known yet? Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus. Can you now go ahead and declare to him, Lord I believe you.

Can I hear you say to God, Lord, I believe you, I believe you. I rest my case now. I put my hand in your hand.

I put this, my hand in your hand. Since you never failed, I know I will not fail. Your hand on my life, because you are unstoppable, nothing will stop me, nothing will stop me.

Thank you Jesus. That which you are saying you are doing with my life, it shall be done. Thank you Lord Jesus.

Can you speak to every unbeliever around you and say, unbelieve, get out of this way. God has spoken. The Lord say, I have spoken it, I have spoken it.

I have spoken it. It has gone out of my mouth, it can't return void. Oh thank you Jesus.

Let me inform you, you are going to have good health this year, to do whatever God has decided to do with your life. Tell every sickness, sickness, I have an appointment with God this year. I have become unstoppable, because the mighty hand upon me cannot be stopped.

Father thank you tonight. I don't know how to praise you enough oh God. I wish I can just be dancing all around this altar to say thank you Jesus.

Thank you for what you have said, thank you for how you have said it. Thank you because it shall come to pass. I would live to see it again.

The predictive oracles that you spoke before have come to pass, all of them. You are declaring new events now, new things you are declaring. Oh thank you Jesus.

Blessed be your name Lord. In the name of Jesus Christ. My brother, look at mountains, look at mountains.

Look at obstacles, look at hurdles. Look at things that look impossible before you before now. Speak to them.

Speak to those mountains, I say oh mountain. Who are you, who are you oh mountain? Who are you oh mountain? Speak to that mountain. Whatever is imposing itself, I say blockade to your journey.

To what heaven has spoken concerning your life. Address that mountain, address it this night. Call it by its name, say oh you mountain.

Who are you oh mountain? You know Zechariah 4, 6 say who are you oh mountain? To stand before Zerubbabel. You will skid like ordinary calves. Zerubbabel is coming on top of you.

He will cry grace, more grace to it. For it's not by power, it's not by might. But by my spirit says the Lord.

In the name of Jesus. Listen. If it's not a mountain, is it a river? Is it the Red Sea? Or is it Jordan? That has overflowed his bank.

What is it that is saying you can't enter your inheritance? Speak to the river. Speak to that sea. Just speak to it this moment.

For Moses there was a rod in his hand. But for you the word of the Lord is in your mouth. God has spoken his word to your heart.

Speak to the river. Speak to that sea. Tell him you cannot stop me from moving forward.

You will break into two before my eyes. Where men say there is no way, there is already a way for me. To fulfill the promise and the purpose of God, they say we are ready.

My brother, they say we are ready. They say we are ready. For us to accomplish the council of the Lord in this land.

In this generation, they say we are ready. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord.

Thank you for hearing this hour. Thank you. Thank you Jesus.

Holy Spirit thank you. Would you like to look behind you? Look behind you. Look at all the man pursuers.

Those things that are chasing you up and down. Look behind you today. The Egyptians you see today, you will see them no more.

I want to look behind you all those things. That you have been running from. Heaven has decided to cripple them on your behalf.

So that the council of the Lord concerning you will stand. Declare that, declare that. That all the Egyptians, all the man slayers, all the pursuers.

Those that you see today. Because of the word of the Lord to your life. You will see them no more.

How they will perish is not your business. How they will disappear is not your business. Just know that the council of the Lord concerning your life shall stand.

That which you have said concerning us O God shall stand. That which you have declared concerning us shall stand. That which you have promised us shall stand.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus.

Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Father tonight in the name of Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Father thank you.

Thank you for who you are. Thank you Jesus. Thank you for being our Lord.

You are who you are. And you do what you say. Thank you for being our friend.

Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you for being sorry.

Hallelujah. You are who you are. And you do all that you say.

Thank you for being my friend. Hallelujah. Thank you.

I want to tell him that you are saying thank you to him. Hallelujah. You are who you are.

And you do what you say. What you say. Thank you.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Please do that song two more times.

Thank you Jesus. Wave your two hands to him and say thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord Jesus.

Thank you for being the Lord. Thank you that all cartouche, in all the thousand hills, they are yours. Thank you Lord.

Thank you that all silver, all gold, in all the earth is yours. Thank you that all currencies, all souls, all authority in heaven and on earth, they are yours. All resources of the earth is yours.

Everything you need, for your cancer to come to pass in my life, I know you do it. Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord. Do it again.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Lord. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being the Lord of my life.

You are. And you do what you say. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you. I want you to use your two hands to say, to say, Thank you Jesus. Thank you for being my Lord.

You are. And you do what you say. Oh, thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Do it one more time for me.

Thank you, thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus.

Thank you Jehovah God. Thank you for your word tonight. Thank you for your word.

Thank you for who you are. And you do what you say. Yes Lord.

Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Lord thank you.

Thank you. Thank you Lord. We wish we have a thousand tongues just to sing your praise.

We wish the bowels of our heart just break loose with singing and dancing for that which you have already said. We already see it coming to pass. The predictive oracles you spoke before they have come to pass.

I remember you spoke on this altar and I remember how it came to pass. I remember out of nothing you said this thing will be and it has been. But we hear you say new things I'm declaring now.

Lord thank you. We have no reason to doubt you. In fact we just believe you.

We just say thank you. Lord on behalf of every soul that is standing in this meeting I thank you. Every heart that is lifted to you and say Lord I believe you.

I thank you for them. I thank you for what we are going to see in our day. I thank you for what we are going to see in our generation.

I thank you for what we are going to see with each of these brothers and sisters standing here. I thank you for the young ones that are standing amidst now what they are going to become. I thank you father.

I thank you for what you are going to cause our eyes to see even in this place. Even in Tivland. What we will see.

Lord we thank you. What you will cause us to see in the work to which you have called us. Lord thank you.

Thank you Lord. Thank you oh God. Thank you for lending us life to be alive now.

We speak to our bones, we speak to our bodies. Oh my soul stand up and praise the Lord. Oh my body rise up, rise up.

There is a journey ahead of you, a journey to see the glory of God. Every sickness in this hall, we have no business with you oh sickness. We are here to live and live for God.

And so we speak to every ailment, every disease, whatever they call your name. We see you today but we see you no more. The consuming fire will consume you in the name of Jesus.

The power of the most high shall come upon you. Even the spirit of the Lord will overshadow you. It will minister health, healing to your system.

It will enlarge your capacity. Your heart will be enlarged this year. Your capacity to believe God.

Grace to do what ordinarily you could never have done. Shall come upon your life in the name of Jesus Christ. The counsel of the Lord for you shall stand.

The counsel of the Lord for us as a people shall stand. Thank you Father. Perhaps you are a Thomas.

Who said I will not believe unless I see. Perhaps you are a martyr. Who said Lord, what you are saying I know it will happen when we get to heaven but not now.

Perhaps you are like that man that the king used to lie on in the book of second Kings who said the whole heavens were to become windows. How can these things be? Perhaps you are another Zechariah. Who you don't believe in say, don't tell me that.

And all of those ones, let me counsel you tonight. You don't have to go their way. You don't need an Elisha to now announce and say ok, it will happen, you will see it.

But you will not be part of it. No. Me, I say to you tonight, you will be part of it.

The Holy Spirit will overshadow your unbelief. Faith will rise in your heart from tonight. You will see it.

In the name of Jesus Christ. So as I pray finally, just tell God one matter. I am not rushing you anything, I am trusting God that you are coming back tomorrow.

I only want to ask you to say Lord, as you introduce yourself to me tonight, I want to put my hand in your hand. I want to drop my hand in your hand. I know you cannot fail.

And if my hand is in your hand, I will not fail. I put my hand in your hand tonight. Can you just tell God, Lord, all about me this year, I place it in your hand.

Maybe before now, you have been in between opinions, should I give my life to him? Should I give my life to him? Shouldn't I go and make other arrangements? I can't say you tonight. Look at the hand of God stretch out towards you. Put your hand in that hand.

Put your hand in his hand tonight. Have you been struggling with sin for years? The devil has battered you with all kinds of backsliding. But I want to tell you tonight, the counsel of God concerning your life shall stand.

I hear God simply saying, bring your hand into my hand. Bring your battered life, your battered hand and bring it into my hand. I know what I will do to help you.

Do it tonight as I pray. Let nothing stand between you and your saviour tonight. Let no unbelief, not even the accuser of the brethren, the devil.

Don't let him stop you. Put your hand in the hand of the master tonight. Say to him, you are my God.

I have made many mistakes in life, but I'm hearing you say, your counsel concerning my life will still stand. I put my hand in your hand. I put my scattered life in your hand.

I put my helplessness in your hand. Since you say you can bring something out of nothing, take my nothingness tonight, oh God. And turn my story around.

I just feel an urge to ask someone here tonight. Your life is battered and you are thinking, can I make it up? I've gone up and down. The counsel of the Lord over your life will stand.

I'm only hearing God saying, I offer my hand to you. Put your hand here, put your hand here. Put your hand, put your life in my hand.

I have taken men from nowhere and I've made them something. I have taken those who have become hopeless and helpless. I have put them together and they have become a glory in their generation.

I can do it for you. If you are here and the Spirit of God is just saying, tonight is that night when you should stop struggling. Just say, Lord, I put my hand, I put my life in your hand.

I have been in and out, up and down. I have run here, run there. But this night I'm hearing you declaring that you are the Lord.

You are the Lord. Your glory you will not share with anyone. Everywhere I turned, I have faced frustration.

Because you will not let anyone share your glory in my life. I have come finally to surrender to you. Where is that, where is that man? Where is that woman in this meeting? If you have not lifted up your right hand, lift it up now.

Lift it up and say, Lord, I am hearing you. I have not postponed it again. Today is the ninth.

Nine days have passed already of the year. It's not going to be a rumor about again. I put this life in your hand.

Where are you? Can you do it quickly? God bless you. Raise it well above your head and say, Lord, I put this life in your hand. Battered as it is, but I know you can turn it around.

Jesus. When Mary Magdalene came, all the confusion of her life, you resolved. The woman with issue of blood went everywhere for 12 years.

When she touched you, everything changed. Even Paul was a terrible man. He was an injurious person.

He was a murderer. He had killed people. Yet when you met him, and he said, Who are you, Lord? And he surrendered to you.

You turned him around. Even if you have aborted, God is saying, I know about it. But put your hand in my hand tonight.

And I will turn you around. Thank you. Did you raise those hands? Can you please come towards this altar? Let me call on God together with you.

This will be my final duty for tonight. Just step out. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Just thank you.

Thank you, my friend. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, friends. Thank you. Just bring it.

Buttered, it can put it together. Shattered, it can rearrange it. Confused, it can put it back.

It doesn't matter the depth you went. The blood of Jesus will prevail on that case. Thank you.

If you are coming, please do quick. Thank you. Don't say, but I'm old.

This might just be one step you will take. And God will rewrite your story. God bless you.

Just step out. Thank you. God bless you.

Thank you. Thank you. Someone still need to step out? Do it quickly before I pray.

And to say, my hand is in your hand tonight. My life, I place in your hand. I have struggled enough.

I want to see what you can do with this life as I lay it down. Sin has wrecked me, but you can turn me around. Thank you, dear sister.

All right, we are praying. Friends, if you need to join us, do quick as I pronounce the purpose of God for this life tonight. Thank you, my brother.

Please step out your hand towards the Lord. Lift it up. I know you have laid down, but lift those hands.

Thank you. Thank you, my brother. Thank you, sister.

Thank you. Thank you.

Sermon Outline

  1. I
    • Introduction and thanksgiving for God's faithfulness
    • Reflection on past vision retreats and God's progress
    • Setting the heart for the message from Isaiah
  2. II
    • The prophetic significance of Isaiah's message
    • Double application of Isaiah's prophecies to past and present
    • God's continuous unfolding plan through scripture
  3. III
    • God's declaration of an ongoing feast and blessing (Isaiah 25)
    • The mighty hand of God supporting and upholding His people (Isaiah 41)
    • The unstoppable nature of God's counsel and promises
  4. IV
    • The call to believers to put their hand in God's hand
    • Assurance that opposition will fail and God's plan will prevail
    • Encouragement to trust in God's unstoppable purpose

Key Quotes

“My counsel shall stand. My counsel will do what? Oh my God.” — Gbile Akanni
“Put your hand in my hand. This year, my good hand shall rest upon you. My mighty hand will pull you through.” — Gbile Akanni
“No weapon fashioned against you shall prosper. This is not because of anything. This is because it is an inheritance.” — Gbile Akanni

Application Points

  • Trust fully in God's plan and timing, knowing His counsel will stand.
  • Put your hand in God's hand by committing your life to His purposes.
  • Remain confident and steadfast even when facing opposition or challenges.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main message of this sermon?
The sermon emphasizes that God's counsel is unchangeable and that His promises will be fulfilled regardless of opposition.
Why does the speaker focus on the book of Isaiah?
Isaiah's prophecies have a double application and reveal God's plan for redemption and His sovereign control over history.
What does it mean to put your hand in God's hand?
It means to fully trust and cooperate with God, becoming unstoppable in fulfilling His purposes.
How does the sermon address opposition?
It assures believers that all opposition will be confounded and that no weapon formed against them shall prosper.
What practical encouragement does the sermon offer?
Believers are encouraged to trust God's timing and power, knowing that His plans will come to pass.

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