What happens before any man rises | Apostle Michael Orokpo

0:07 Suddenly everybody's gossiping you. Suddenly everybody's is is bitter against you. Suddenly your name is all over the place. Don't fight. Withdraw and find out what is going on. What is going on? Perhaps the Joseph mant is about to rest on you. Because when certain mantels come, they attract warfare. So most of your warfares are a summon to the secret place to ask God questions so that he can give you the compass of your destiny. But if you don't know how seasons work when they fight you, you will say these people don't know who they are joking with. I will give it back to them bumper to bumper. And what you don't know is that you are aborting a season. Our battle is not with men, it's with spirits. Men are only puppets that spirits use. And so if the spirit is using people to envy you,

0:53 don't be distracted. If he's using spirits to lie at night to lie against you, don't be distracted. Find out what season have I entered. Is it the Davididic season? Is it the Joseph season? Is it the Moses season? Is it the Elijah season? Is it the John the Baptist season? Because every season has a signature in the spirit. And most of your seasons will come with battles. There are certain seasons that come to you suddenly all your finances shut down. You are looking around no money is coming from anywhere and you are wondering what is going on. They are drawing your attention to something. You are too carried away by pleasure. And so what God is doing is that he's turning your attention to something eternal. And so when you try all you know to do and nothing is working, withdraw and ask questions. This is why the prayer of inquiry is too important in the college

1:39 of lifting. Father, what are you saying? And God will tell you, you need to pray for two years because there is a man to come in on your life. You need stamina to host it. Did you not read about John? He said he was in the wilderness. Luke 1:80 until the day of a showing forth unto Israel. I'm telling you how men rise. And I'm not talking about spiring up like a star. I'm talking about rising that even if hell rises up against you, they can't stop you. If a man rises genuinely, battles makes his glory sharper. Nothing can pull him down. He becomes the representation of the signature of God. The reason you find some people spir up and spir down is because they didn't pass through this protocol.

2:26 They just came alive by coincidence, came alive by chance. When a man rises genuinely, if you fight him, you are wasting your time. Try to shut him down, you are wasting your destiny. Many people fail in destiny because they wasted their life. So what you need to do is to be sensitive. He said the sons of Isaka, they had understanding of times and seasons and knew what Israel ought to do. In Ezekiel 37:1-9, he said, "The hand of the Lord was upon me and he carried me to the valley of dry bones and he said indeed the bones were dry and he said the Lord spoke to him, mutter man, can this bone live?" He said, "Only thou knowest." He said, "Prophesy." And he

3:11 began to prophesy. bones joined to bone. Flesh came upon bones. The wind came filled them and an exceeding great army rose up. See, nothing lifts men faster than prophecy. If you want to rise, if there's no prophet over your life or become the prophet over your life, wake up in the morning, carry scriptures, shoot them into your future. I am the head, not the tail. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. Everything I do prospers. do it for two months, you will be shocked how your life will move forward because your life is waiting for words. He say carry with you words. The problem with many people is that they are waiting for a prophet to call them out in a stadium and say look at this man this is the

3:57 next apostle to the generation when I was growing. There was a time I became offended. I will go for meeting the person sitting by my left. They will call him and give him word of knowledge. I will lift my hand. I will tiptoe so that they will see me. Sometimes I will come to the front when they say in Jesus name I will say amen so that the man of God will see me. I didn't know that it was not in physical eyes. [Music] They gave all my friends prophecies. All of them will go for meeting. Sometimes they will call and say, "Ah, there's an apostolic horn." And the person will lift his hand. After that meeting, the person will start walking like a man of God. And those of us who never receive wars, we will be hoping that one day God will remember us. We will go for another

4:43 meeting. They will call the other one and say, "I see that you have prophetic dreams. Watch out. In a couple of months, your horn will be exalted." I will look around and say, "Uh-uh. Are these prophets fake or is something covering my own destiny?" All my life, it's only once a prophet called me and gave me a word. And what he told me, he said, "You are not a pastor." My heart started beating. You are not a pastor. So he said, "Listen to me." He said, "You are an apostle. You are a prophet. You an evangelist." That was the first day I had I had some so me too. I started going home like an apostle. But see the point I'm making. When that

5:30 man gave me prophecy, I was already manifesting. Do you know why? Because God blessed me. I met a man called Pastor Chris Ailov. I saw a man that nobody prophesied to. I saw a man that nobody laid hands on. I saw a man that was rejected and despised. But there was something he knew. Every time we met him, he will say, "Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world." He will say, "Whoever is born of God overcometh the world. This is the victory that overcomes the world." He kept prophesying to himself and so I learned it. Meanwhile, we carry verses of scripture and I'll be declaring. Ask my friends, they will tell you when we finish from prayer meeting, everybody is going home and prophesying. I will tell them we will shake this world. We will shake this world. Sometimes they will

6:15 follow me to the road. We will stand on the road and I'll be telling them how we will go from nation to nation. How will we go from city to city? I will preach the gospel with signs and with wonders. There was no prophet prophesying. And so we took responsibility to prophesy over our destiny. If you keep your mouth shut, your destiny will be short. This is where we build confidence from. And if you don't know this one, you can't know the others because the many things that will come against you. Sometimes you need to read the story of great men. Why do you think the story of great men are inspiring? If they tell you about any great man and say he was born, he went to school and he was favored and he became rich, you will throw it away. That's not a great man.

7:01 That's a lucky man. When they tell you about a great man, they will tell you the challenges that ordinary man could not conquer that he overcame. Those are the part of their stories that becomes a message for a generation. They will tell you how many times the devil fought him. They will tell you how many times men fought him. They will tell you how many times he came to the end of the road, but he never give gave up. And so even when there was no road, God created a new one because of him. It's called ordination. [Music] The power of ordination. That's the gift God gave to every man that before you came something was written concerning you. Don't think we forgot about you. Don't think you are stranded. The devil may make you feel you are stranded. But remember, it was not the devil that sent you here. I sent you here. And I know the thoughts I think towards you. They

7:48 are thoughts of good and not of evil. I have a hope. I have a future. I have an end for you. [Music] If you latch on to ordination, give it time. You must rise. Nothing can stop you because something was written. When God wants to lift a man, he occasions a season. When that season comes, the line suddenly begins to fall for you in pleasant places. The way season works is that you don't even need to do anything. All you need to do is to be aligned and the lines are just falling in pleasant places. Look at Isaiah 7:14. A prophet rose up and say, "A virgin shall give birth." He didn't call anybody's name. A

8:36 virgin shall give birth. He just spoke something and created a futuristic season. A virgin shall give birth. She shall bear a son. His name shall be called Emmanuel. And people were walking through time until that season came. The moment that season came, an angel was sent from heaven. And the angel traced a young virgin and said, "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. blessed her thou among women. It's not because she was doing anything special. She was just aligned. And because she was aligned and her name was mentioned in the high heavens, she suddenly became a wonder. See what Mary said about herself in Luke 1:48.

9:22 [Music] I'm showing you how men are lifted. And there is something I will teach you here to help you not to miss your season. He said, "For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaidaden, for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed." She never had the title of an apostle. She just aligned to a prophetic season and immediately something changed forever that made her to become a blessing for all generation. How you know the problem with many Christians? They miss their seasons. They lose the cycles of their destiny. And so a door opens, they don't enter. Another door opens, they don't enter. If

10:07 you miss your seasons to a very large extent, you will never rise. When you have encounters, don't talk about them, go and war with them, pray with them, fast with them. Until those encounters become prophecies, it will open you to a great destiny. But people who don't know how men rise, when they have encounters, they trivialize it. Did you not read about Mary? The moment Gabriel spoke to her and told her, "Your cousin Elizabeth is with child." The next day she gathered her bags. She was heading to meet Elizabeth because she knew if she sat where she was sitting, that encounter can be aborted. And so immediately she went to Elizabeth. The moment Elizabeth saw her, she was filled with the Holy Ghost. The baby in her womb leaped for joy and she began to prophesy. Why has the mother of my Lord

10:52 come to see me? When she finished prophesying, the spirit entered Mary. Mary too for the first time began to prophesy. What would have happened if she remained where she had that encounter? Probably nothing would have happened. Too many of us are sitting on supernatural encounters. That's why we have not risen. Dangerous encounters. Some of you hearing me here, you have seen the Lord Jesus Christ face to face, but you are still where you are sitting because you did nothing about it. Meanwhile, the encounter that begs an apostle is an encounter with Jesus. Anybody who tells you he's an apostle, he has seen Jesus. You will not find any apostle who has never encountered Jesus. Even Paul said, "Have I not seen the Lord?" Ask anybody who says he's an apostle. He can tell

11:39 you where he met Jesus. And there are many people with apostolic mantles, but they have not gone anywhere. You know what they are doing with it? They are priding with their friends. Jesus came to me. I saw in J. I saw a Gabriel and they are irrelevant in their destiny because they didn't follow the demands of the encounters they had. When you want to rise in your season, you must do something about your encounters. And finally, warfares. Most great seasons come with battles. Go and ask Moses. He will tell you the moment his season manifested, Pharaoh became his enemy. In fact, he ran for his life. It's not every warfare you bind demons for. when certain warfare begin to come to you, go back to your closet and ask the Holy Ghost questions. Lord, what are you saying? Because sometimes we are too

12:26 distracted. So the only way God will allow us to focus on our destiny is when he allows warfare. And there are two things about a season that every spiritual man must be conscious of. Number one, I divided it into three burdens. Every time a new season is coming your way, you will discover that your appetites will begin to change. Find out from any spiritual man. He will tell you. That's why you have to be spiritually sensitive. So that when your appetites begin to change, you will know. There are certain seasons that are coming your way. Suddenly hunger for prayer will increase. You will know this is not normal. Sometimes desire for fasting will begin to increase. Sometimes desire to give will begin to

13:11 increase. Sometimes desire to serve will begin to give to increase. You just come to a place you are not comfortable sitting down. You just want to serve. You just want to do something. They say no don't worry. You say no I want to serve. Because those burdens are required for you to be able to bet that season. In Exodus 2 from 11 the Bible say when Moses was come of age something began to happen to him. Moses started developing a new appetite. up until that time he was enjoying the pleasures of Egypt. But when that season came, Moses suddenly went out and went to see the camp of the Israelites. And he said, "And it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown that he went out onto his brethren, and looked on their

13:57 burdens, and he spied on an Egyptians, an Egyptian, smitting a Hebrew, one of his brethren." And he said when he looked here and there and nobody was seeing he held the Egyptian and slew him. The next day he came again. He left the music in the palace. He left the buffet in the palace. He left the luxury. A new appetite had been born and he started servicing that appetite. When he looked at the two Hebrew boys fighting the next day he said you are brethren. So the burden that Moses found was desire for his brethren and that desire became stronger than the pleasure of Egypt. Imagine if he didn't respond to that prompting and he remained in Egypt, he would never have become a prophet. And Moses was not just a

14:42 prophet. In Exodus 7:1, God said, "I have made you a god unto Pharaoh." At best, he would have been one of the princes of Egypt, but now he had risen to a rank. He had become an immortal. So much so that when Jesus was on earth on the mount of transfiguration in John Matthew 17:2 and 3, it was Moses and Elijah they sent from heaven to come and give him messages. Which priest of Egypt would outlive that error? Not one. But a man understood how seasons are captured through burdens. Many Christians are bought the hunger, the appetite and the burden of seasons. That's why they don't go anywhere. Everybody who came here, there was a destiny written. Everybody who came here, there was an ordination marked

15:28 out. Did you not read hear the testimony of the sister the other time when I taught on ordination she said she was to be operated and the devil came to her and told her you will die and suddenly she remembered my voice and she said no ordination is on my life. Something was written about me. I will not die. That was out here that you are finished. Tell him no something was written and finishing is not part of it. When next the devil tells you you will not see tomorrow. Tell him no. Something is written. I am not here because I'm smart. I am not here because I'm wise. I am here because I am sent. I'm on an errand and the one who sent me has prepared a strong system to keep me. The one who sent me is aware where I should go and it cannot be taken unawares.

16:14 Listen, nothing can kill you if you know you are sent. Nothing can kill you if you know there's an ordination on your life. But the problem with Christians is that we are walking on earth as if all there is about our life is luck and chance. Lock and chance is not a factor of destiny. Lock and chance is not a force of destiny. One of the major things God considers to lift up a man is what he has written concerning that man. If God has re written that you will be a leader, everything you are going through is part of the process. If God has written that you'll be an apostle, everything you are going through is part of the process. And so instead of breaking down, instead of giving up, tell yourself this is my path. I know I will come out of this. I know tomorrow is better. I know I'm going somewhere. This is the story of Joseph. Did you not read about Joseph? The moment he saw

17:00 that stars were bowing to him, the moon was bowing to him. His warfare began. His brothers hated him. His father rebuked him and they threw him into a pit. It was part of the process. They took him out and sold him. It was part of the process. He went to Portifer's warehouse. Portifer's wife accused him. It was part of the process. There were He was thrown into prison. He was part of the process. You will never hear Joseph say, "God, why are you behaving with me like this? Oh, my life is finished." He never spoke like that. He knew he was going somewhere. And you know, because you don't have enough money to sponsor your destiny. Sometimes God will allow men help you. Some of those men will come with good intentions. Some will come with bad intention. All of that is part of your transport fair.

17:45 The ones that took you to the prison. Hear this. If they don't send you to prison, you will never meet the butler. Because where you are supposed to meet the butler is in the prison. And if you don't go to prison, nobody will invite you to the palace. So everything happening to you whether good or bad is part of your transport fair to destiny. It's in the pit that Judah comes and say, "No, we can't treat our brother like this. Let's sell him." It's in selling him that he meets Portifer. is in meeting Portifer that he missed Portifer's wife. It's because of Portifer's wife that he went to prison. It's because of prison that he met the butler. And it's because of the bottler that he met Pharaoh. And the Bible said until the time that his word came, he said the word of the Lord tried him. The king sent for to lose him. Even the ruler of the people. He made him lord of his house and ruler of his substance to

18:32 bind his princes at his pleasure to teach his senators wisdom. Where will he get the wisdom from to teach his senators if he has not gone through those physicitudes of life? When a Christian gives up, it means he doesn't understand ordination. When a Christian is frustrated, it means he doesn't understand ordination. Habac chapter 3 verse 17. You see, although the fig tree might not blow, some labor of the olive might fail. Are you seeing that? Neither shall there be fruit in the vine. The labor of the olive might fail. He said the field shall not yield no meat. And he said, "The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no head in the stores." But this is what a man of ordination says. He say, "Yet I will

19:18 rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation because these things may take me unaware." He didn't take my God unaware. When he sent me to the earth, he knew there were serpents and scorpions. When he sent me to the earth, he knew there were enemies. When he sent me to the earth, he knew demons were here. He knew principalities were here. He knew haters were here but he sent me all the same because I know the thoughts that I think towards you. Every ordination comes with a consecration. When you see the life of Joseph, the reason he passed through zigzag kind of pathways yet he arrived was because his consecration was intact. Genesis 39:9. How can I do this evil and sin against

20:05 God? The day you violate consecration, that day you change your path of destiny. Because every suggestion of compromise is to reroute you from the path of ordination. Hope you know if Joseph slept with Portifer's wife, he would have become the chief house boy and that would have become the zenate of his life. There would never have been anything like throne or palace because he would have rerouted himself and there's nothing God would have done. God rather would have raised another one in hisstead. Any man who wants to rise must take consecration as a life and death matter. It's rather you die keeping your consecration than to compromise to receive momentary breakthroughs. Those breakthroughs are deceptions. They are a mirage that takes you away from destiny.

20:52 If where you want to go to is the top, the technology is to face down. As you face down in humility, the God that lifts men will by his mighty hand lift you up. And when he does, nobody can bring you down. Nobody under heaven. Humility is a key to rising. Our generation is too proud and arrogant. And you see there are two dimensions of pride. There is the arrogant pride and there's the subtle pride. The people who are softly proud are the worst type of proud people. You see them, they say it's well, don't worry. Okay, sir. Yes, sir. You don't know what's in their heart. The day they offended, they will shock you. What will come out of their mouth will let you

21:37 know that that thing they were doing was a shadow of religion. In fact, when you find somebody who is so eager about showing that he's humble, leave him alone. [Music] That is pride in disguise. He wants everybody to know that he's humble. He's overly see leave him alone. It's a technology of pride. The way you check is let him do something don't appreciate him and you'll be shocked how offended he will be or wait let somebody offend him and see how difficult it will be for him to forgive. People who are subtly proud you may never dictate it. There are few ways of dictating them. Number one when you don't appreciate them they highly

22:22 offended. Number two when they are offended they hardly forgive. When you find a man who cannot forgive, the foundation is pride. And then the third way you dictate them is that it's difficult for them to walk with others. They think they know too much. They are the one telling you it's okay. It's okay. But they can't even allow their leader dictate what happens. And God does not read your action. He reads your heart first. He say men look on the outward. He say but God looks at the heart. If you want God to lift you, you must humble your heart in humility. In Daniel chapter 1:8 they gave them an option and the Bible said Daniel and his friends refused to be defied by the portion of the king's meat because what they give to the king is first of all offered to idols and they would not

23:09 change their allegiance. They will not change their worship because they knew it was the hand of God that will leave them. Hope you know these men were circumcised. They were unox so they were made slaves perpetually but they knew something about consecration that if we don't define ourselves although men can bring us to the lowest level of life God can rise us and in the same scripture Daniel 1 from verse 17 to 20 story is about to change and he said the king called for all of the people that were in training and he said of everything the king communed with them he said Daniel and his friends were 10 times better than their peers Immediately they stood out. If they had failed the test of concentration, their destiny would have wasted. If you want

23:54 to rise, listen, don't allow hardship cause you to compromise. Hardship is part of ordination. While you are going through that hardship, keep your consecration. Not too long the hand of God will appear because God wants your journey to be a testimony to another person. How do you think the Bible was written with the story of this man? What would we have learned? In Romans 15:4, he said, "The things that were written at all time, they were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scripture might have hope." So the things this man went through was a message to another generation. Hardship doesn't kill anybody. It trains those who are ready to grow and those who are not ready, it gives them an opportunity to compromise. One will enter destiny, another one will

24:41 fall out of destiny. Keep your consecration. There is something about consecration that becomes the basis for the lifting of men. There is something about consecration. There are seasons that come upon you. It becomes like a scene to watch a movie. When you sit down to watch a movie, the Holy Ghost in you will literally be griefed and you will feel it. If you don't respond to the burdens of that season, you will never rise. Those who know me know there was a season of my life every day 6 to 6 I fasted for 5 years. I never knew God was about to make me a voice to the nations. If there were days I didn't fast in those 5 years it was few but it was a season I didn't know something was happening in heaven. Election was going

25:27 on in heaven and they were looking for new apostles. They were looking for new voices and God needed me to align because my hunger was my way of responding that Lord I'm present. If I at those seasons I won't be here talking to you. If you miss your season what you should have done you will do it a thousand times outside of seasons will see no count. It's just like a farmer going to plant in dry season. If you like plant 10 bags of rice where you should plant 100 seed no rice will grow because you have missed your season. So people are putting extra effort because they are out of season. But the first indicator that a season has opened is boarding. The second indicator that a season has opened is encounters. Don't trivialize encounters. You went to sleep, you had a dream, the next day the

26:14 dream continued. You think it was normal and then you still go back and you relax. You are about to miss destiny. And the moment they have an encounter, even if that encounter is faint, they will put pressure on that encounter until something divine is born out of it. Go and ask some of the people with the greatest destiny. No angel appeared to them. They were just reading the Bible and a verse of scripture became real to them. As faint as that encounter is, they will carry that verse and go for 40 days fasting. Just a vest, they will go for 40 days fasting. And when they come back, a great business will be a great business will be born. I reading the whole Bible. And he got to Psalm 2:8. You have read that scripture a thousand times. But when he read it, something ministered to

27:00 him that God can give me nations as an inheritance. The guy went on a long fast. That was the scripture that beted the wealthiest man. I think he was from Zimbabwe at the time. Strife Masua. He was the one who pioneered Echonet mobile because he read Psalm 2:8. You an angel appear to you, all you are doing with it is to brag. You go up and say, "Yes, two angels came to me yesterday." And you talk away your season. Whereas those seasons are openers, those encounters are openers into great seasons. Isaiah 9:8, he said he sent his word to Jacob. He lightened upon Israel. Many times when God wants to lift men, he sends men to them. Paul encountered Jesus. Acts chapter 9 from verse 4 to 6

27:48 in his glory. And Jesus told him, "Go into the city. You'll be told what you must do." And Jesus went in verse 10 and troubled another man called Ananas to go and to ordain Paul into ministry. How can a man meet Jesus in glory and still need to meet another man? The reason many of us never rise is our arrogance. We think everything begins and end with us. Some years ago, I thought to myself that the world was missing not having met me until God opened my eyes that they are men that carry things. Even if you come to heaven, you'll go back to earth to find them. Because Paul saw Jesus in his glory, he needed to encounter Ananas. Do you know Ananas said, "Lord, why will I go to this man who is persecuting the church?" God said, "Just go." And the moment he entered, he said, "Brother Saul, the

28:35 Lord that you met on your way here have sent me to you." He said, "Now rise up." And that was how he laid hands on him. Scales fell off his eyes. He began to see and a great apostolic ministry was born. Does it not shock you that the Ananas that ordained Paul was not known. He didn't have a title. He was called a disciple. Our arrogance is that a man will sit with a person to open his destiny, but is waiting for an apostle from another nation to come and lay hands on him. is waiting for a father of faith to lay hands on him and let him be snapped so that the whole world will know. I have met many fathers and I don't despise desiring them to pray for you. But I'm telling you, don't miss the man God have sent to you. 1 Chronicles 12:22, you need to discern your respond to burdens

29:21 to your interpret faith without works is dead. The company appeared it will happen. God shows you you are an apostle to the nation. Start preaching in your neighborhood. People can say you are BM go for hospital visitation. In fact sometime God told me I'll be a voice to the nations country school. The woman say all this we don't want to lose them. And she was defending her business. Meanwhile that was a Christian when I left there my heart broke. People say don't move us. Our skin was now they think you'll be offended. You come out the next day more fireful than the previous day. because this skin is now thick. There were times when I was rejected and I my heart to be broken. After two years, God inspired me. I

30:08 started again. But this time I left primary school and went to secondary school. And the way I entered secondary school, I entered now as a teacher. So when I'm teaching chemistry, after a while we pause. When I call an atom, I will now use an atom to teach about the invincible realm. Since you cannot see an atom and atom is not the only thing you cannot see there about Gabriel when I start talking about the angelic host then children they will become interested their ears will open then I will come to Jesus when I finish I'll do a call they will be healed they'll be saved the next day I enter another class I'm teach I say why are you feeling pain on your head he will shout how did you know I'm having headache I said don't worry it's called

30:54 the prophetic And so I begin to tell them about radiation the way the prophetic works and then I start talking to them about knowing things without reading how to read but you can also at that level even the principle cannot kick me out ghost with fire because it's not my fault that I was teaching and the atmosphere changed sometimes when I'm talking I'm talking then I will just call Elijah a student is called Elijah then I'll tell him do you know the tribe of Elijah do you know about the tish fight and then I'll start talking about the possibility of calling down fire from heaven fire and I enter here I enter there and students are cheering my class nobody

31:39 misses it meanwhile the way I teach I don't carry lecture note I give them notes of 20 pages from my head equations I'm solving so they are looking at me they say what is this I say there is an elevated realm in the Holy Ghost there are some teachers that use note There are other teachers that angels whisper to I'm giving notes. I'm giving notes. They will be copying notes from my head. They will go and tell their friends. Before you know the whole host is on fire. They said there's a teacher. This man was with me there now. They used to call him man of God. They said there's a teacher here. There's a teacher. He doesn't use note. So when I'm in SS 3A, people are coming from B. I said no. There's a teacher in your class. Go back. go back to your class.

32:26 They started loving God. They started loving God because you must take action. That was why we went to many secondary schools. Not just because of the salary, we needed to take action. And when God saw that we knew how to maximize season, he opened more seasons because the the branch that produces fruit, he pronounce much more. I went to the place of prayer and God showed me a vision of Dr. Pastor Paul. really in that season as God will have it. I didn't even know how to access it and it's not in my repertoire to start pursuing men. I prefer to search them in the spirit but God was leading me to a man. It was that same season that he asked of me. Where is this young man? I hear of him. Tell him to come and see me. Really? Immediately I went there. I prepared

33:13 myself. And when I showed up, the man laid hands on me. My body melted. Me that thought I have interacted with glory. [Music] Intensities are different. Oh, the man laid hands. It was not in the service in his office. Take that power. I stood up. I was walking out. I collapsed. Uhhuh. I I checked myself. I stood well. Hh. I have traveled in the spirit. What's going on here? I've contacted some dimensions. I've touched some weights of glory. I was walking. And I fell again. Ah dy had to roll me. And that was how they carried me from the office. He told me go and do a 3 days fast. Come back. After fasting for 3 days, he took me to

33:59 the altar. And that was when he spoke as a patriarch. He said every every tongue that have risen against you, I cancel it. You don't know secrets. You don't know secrets. Do you know the battles that I have fought in two years, I would have crashed. But a man of rank, he said, "Every tongue that have risen against you, I cancel it." He said, "Every gang god against you, I scatter it." He said, "Every negative desire about your destiny, I stop it." And he was giving prophecies, commandments, and laws in the spirit. When he was done, he said, "Now here it is. I plant into your destiny new dimensions. I open this city to you. I

34:46 write a commandment go forward and prosper. In 2 Timothy chapter 2:1 19 he said the standard of the lord standeth sure. He said therefore the lord knoweth them that are his. He said they that name the name of the lord must depart from iniquity. Few years ago when I was teaching in a secondary school they were paying me 25,000 naira. When w comes you'll see many teachers collecting bribe writing w for this one writing w for that one most of those students now are my disciples imagine if I was cheating for them in wk and then I will come now and say apostle they will say apost they will say is this how porous the altar is that means anybody can become anything oh

35:31 but they knew there was a testimony some of the teachers I was working with when they come to work somebody will come to work 8:30 he will write 7:10 because he doesn't want TSB to query him. And when some of us are coming to write our name, they'll say, "Wait, oh, pastor, wait, wait, wait." They will come and write because they know if we come 8:40, we write 8:40. And when we write, no other person can write. Or wait, wait, wait. You will line up, people are writing. All of those people know today that I'm an apostle. Imagine if I was compromising with them, which message will I be preaching? But God was watching. God was watching from that secondary school as a HOD chemistry. [Music] You need to see my office. When I enter

36:17 my office, my size too was tall. So when I sit on it, I lean on my table like a king with 25,000 naira doing well. And suddenly from there a revival broke out during break time. I'm talking the students are packed out. They are not going for break. What is happening? There's a preacher who is now a chemistry teacher and the windows will be clustered and the power of God is hitting them. The power of God is hitting them. From there doors began to open. I will preach one message it goes viral because God has commanded an angel when he's talking be blowing a trumpet. And when we talk the angel will blast a trumpet and somebody will hear in Congo, somebody will hear in Brazil, somebody will hear in Ghana, somebody and he was just blasting trumpet. From there a

37:04 point came. I went to the principal and told him I love this job but you see we can't be here anymore. We we the nations are calling us. The nations [Music] hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. Sir, I appreciate your leadership. But you see, we can't be here again. Nations are calling. Nations. Those days you will gather 300 scripts on WK and mark. They'll be paying you 6 N 50 coobo for one one book. When you finish marking for 5 days without sleeping, they will now give you 15,000. And God was

37:50 watching. You had opportunity to compromise. A big man son will come and the father will say help my son if he pass I'll give you this you'll say no and when we left there what we were earning sometimes in 10 years we started earning in one month [Music] 10 years in one month today sometimes I went to a place to preach they didn't they had not given me an already somebody who had the message was so blessed and he wouldn't sleep his his bing was to to change the status of my account and one alert one alert was more than my 10 years salary 3 years ago and then you asking what's going on consecration when God lifts you the difference will be like night and day

38:37 but one thing God will look at is whether he can trust you with power behind consecration is your you proving to god that he can trust you with power because where he wants to take you to there are many contentions air. And so when you are keeping your consecration, you are telling God, I can be trusted. You are telling God, I am reliable by the help of your grace. And so a point comes, God raises you without thinking because he knows anywhere you go, you represent his interest. Consecration. The second mystery for rising. Sit down. The third mystery for rising is seasons. I was on the floor. He emptied a bottle of oil on my head. And when he finished, he walked away. It doesn't need to be

39:22 there. He has finished his work. See, if you despise men, you are finished. That's why some of the battles that should have pulled off down, when they come against us, they see another mantle. Because when a man puts his spiritual credibility on you, his angels begin to defend you. It's a law in the spirit. See, some people think why we honor men is because of relevance by association. Church is not politics. Relevance by succession may happen in the world, not in the kingdom. In this kingdom, it is the spirit of God that he takes from a man and puts on another man. If God does not invest that grace on you, if you like hug them everywhere, it will translate to nothing.