WHAT MAKES A MAN DANGEROUS IN THE SPIRIT |APOSTLE MICHAEL OROKPO

0:02 [music] >> IF POWER have not manifested, the compelling force [music] will not be there. THEY WILL HEAR YOU, THEY WILL enjoy your message, they will still go back doing what they are doing. The Bible said when David became mighty in God, he said daily [music] men joined themselves to David until his host became like the host of God. His host, THAT WAS A MAN. HIS HOST became like the host of God. Who was David? A boy in a family of eight that was forgotten. When God came to the family through the prophet, they didn't think he was worthy. They looked at him, they said, "No, if God wants to use everybody, it can't be David." David doesn't look like it. ELIAB HAD

0:48 STATURE, THEY HAD DIFFERENT CREDENTIALS. David had no credential. He was in the backside of the woods, but when the time came, he was the one God nominated. And when that power came on him, whether he was educated, it was not a factor. Whether he was popular, it was not a factor. Whether he was learned, it was NOT A FACTOR. POWER WAS THE FOUNDATION of reality. And when Saul wanted to kill him, David did not run looking for fraternity. He was in a cave called Adullam. And to make things worse, it was not soldiers that came to David. I thought the troop he commanded in the army of Saul would come to support him. They neglected him. He said, "400 BROKEN AND BATTERED MEN WHO WERE in debt."

1:35 400 [screaming] BROKEN AND BATTERED MEN WHO WERE IN DEBT. THESE WERE the kind of men that came to David. But when David saw them, he knew what made him. And if I can introduce them to what made me, they will become like me. And a point [music] came, 400 broken and battered men. The Bible said, "And Adino, who was OF THE TACHMONITE, ONE OF THE FIRST THREE in rank, he said he took a spear and he slew 800 men." How can a broken and BATTERED MAN TAKE OUT FEET? Something had entered him. >> [music] >> Something had entered him. Because the power we talk about IS NOT PSYCHOLOGY. THE POWER WE TALK ABOUT IS NOT

2:21 PHILOSOPHY. THE POWER WE TALK ABOUT IS NOT SOCIOLOGY. IT IS THE POWER OF GOD. Something came upon him. You see, Eleazar, the son [music] of Dodo, once upon a time, Israel was fighting to defend the land, and he said the whole army >> [music] >> of Israel ran, but [snorts] he stood his ground. A point came one of them was stronger than an army. So, you now discover when power come, number is not consequential. It is stature that matters. The men standing, what do they carry? I'm not talking about a system where people Let me leave that one. WHEN I TALK THE SUBJECT OF POWER, I TALK

3:08 IT PASSIONATELY, BECAUSE I did religious Christianity for a long time. Until in 5 years, six people died in [music] my house. 5 years. And I discovered power is not English language. I discovered power is not title. It is better not to have a title and have power than to have titles without power. The demon will make a mess. Six people died in 5 years. What was going on? I realized there was something lacking. The day power came, the gate was shut. >> [music]

3:53 >> You look at yourself, you say, "I don't look like." Forget it. Look alike is not power. It's not power. The disciples were with Jesus for 3 and 1/2 years. Jesus trained them. They knew how to lay hands. They knew how to lay legs, but it was different from power. It's not how hands are laid. It's not how legs are laid. It is what backs the action that matters. And the point came when they were threatened. They knew they needed power. So, they prayed for empowerment. That's what will change this world. Forget this complex English language

4:40 talking. FORGET THIS PACKAGING WITHOUT POWER. I'M NOT AGAINST EXCELLENCE. Come on, take a look at me. >> [applause] >> BUT, WITHOUT POWER, YOU ARE NAKED. NO MATTER HOW well arrayed you are, without power, you are naked. It may not be obvious to men, but in the spirit, it's very obvious. Every spirit will know. Because when you speak in the spirit realm, the first thing they say is by whose authority. By whose authority? >> [music] >> Who told you you can do what you are doing by talking? How dare you? Do you know the realm you are talking to? This is a realm of thrones. This is a realm of princes. This is a realm of dominion. This is A REALM OF POWER. WHO

5:26 TOLD YOU YOU can read a textbook and come to give command here? >> [music] >> By whose authority have you come? There must be something backing you up. And until you can touch that realm, you can shake nothing on ground. Job 28:9 said he put out the sun upon the rock. He overturned the mountains by the root. That's power. That's the power that compels. They sent men to arrest Jesus. They came and Jesus was talking normal. He didn't even know people came. And they went back and said, "No man ever speak like that man." There was a a power that arrested them.

6:12 And they went back. They would rather disobey their superiors [music] than dare touch that stranger. They would rather disobey THEIR PASTORS THAN DARE TOUCH THAT STRANGER. That's the subject we have come to consider. And if you know that this is one of the cardinal ingredients for advancing the kingdom in the last day, then you have to pay attention because I want to show you >> [music] >> three secrets that govern the operation of power. That's what I came to do this evening. If I show it to you, I will sit down here and I will be talking and things will happen. It's a definite. We must understand that Christianity must be practiced.

6:57 It must be practiced. This is not a fluke that happens once and don't happen the next time. This is reality that can be replicated over and over and over again if you know how to tap into it. Yahweh. Yahweh. >> [music] >> Yahweh. Yahweh. >> [music] >> I release the sounds of the heavens, the sounds of Yeshua.

7:43 Shakaina. >> [music] >> I release [singing and music] the sounds of the the sounds of creation. >> [music] [singing] >> We cry holy, holy, >> [music and singing] >> holy onto Yeshua. Yahweh >> [music] [singing] >> Yahweh >> [music and singing]

8:28 [music] >> In order to touch real power, the power that compels, >> [music] >> the first thing that governs it is an encounter with Jesus. >> [music] >> Encounter with Jesus is the doorway to power. A man who has no encounter with the Lord will end up speaking English language. And he will speak it for a long time. The indicator and the alarm system that will reveal to you how helpless you are are the circumstances of life. Every time a man is to be revealed TO HIMSELF, EVERY TIME the weakness and the helplessness of a man is to be revealed, the alarm that makes that happen are the

9:14 circumstances of life. And at [music] the same time, the ingredients for announcing a man are still the circumstances of life. So, the platform for manifestation in this realm is not the pulpit. They are the circumstances of life. Crisis is the platform for manifestation. But the question is what type of manifestation will men see? Is it defeat or triumph? The key IS POWER. EVERY TIME A MAN IS to step into another pedestal, a crisis CONFRONT HIM. THE DOORWAY INTO THAT REALM IS THE POWER that he can command. But if there is no power, then you now see how helpless you are. Let me tell you something. The things the devil The things the devil throw at us are

10:00 actually opportunities for us to manifest power. But when you see a thousand and one Christians running and looking for help, it's a testimony of the depravity of POWER THAT IS FOUND among the Christian civilization. The day power comes, everything the devil himself will advise himself to stop. The Bible said in Acts chapter 5 verse 15 that they put they that were made and sick by the roadside that by all means as Peter comes out [music] of the place of prayer that his shadow his shadow. There's no way you would have known that shadows heal the sick except as a MAN CARRIED POWER. EVERY TIME POWER IS PRESENT, crisis [music] of life becomes an avenue for manifestation. The reason why the crisis of life brings men down is because of a

10:46 lack of power. So if you want to bring a cure to the crisis of life, your pursuit should be an encounter with Jesus. >> [music] >> He said in John chapter 1 from verse 11, he came unto his own and his own they knew him not. He came to the world although the world was made by him, but the world received him not. He said, "But as many as received him, to them he gave the power, the right, the authority to become [music] the sons of God." And he didn't use the word sons because he didn't have many words to use. He used the word sons because in kingdom context only sons advance government. A child of God have access to plenty and abundance, but government is not for children. Government is for sons.

11:34 Government is for grown-up. That's why in Galatians 4:1, he said the heir, so long as he's a child, differed nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. So, he places him under tutors and governors. There are two things you need to know. When you have the life of God, you are the child of God. But when you begin to encounter God, you transform to become the son of [music] God. That's a man who can handle power. Sonship is not based on birth. Sonship is based on encounter. He said, "We all with open faces beholding as in a glass the image of the Lord, we are changed >> [music] >> into that image from glory to glory." In 1 John chapter 3 verse 1, he said, "When we shall see him, we shall be like him." Many have no encounter with the Lord. That's why they are helpless. Are they the children of

12:19 God? Yes. But how many times have they beheld him? How many times have they encountered him? This is not religion. This is why people are psyched. THEY THINK THIS thing is just a child's play. You shout and it's done. And they go to relax when Christ is come, it reveals to them that they are still babes. Power is a function of encounter. If you have no encounter with the Lord, you have no power. Because the more you see him, the more you become like him. That's what made Adam to rule in the garden. The Bible said in Genesis 3 verse 8, he said in the cool of the day the voice of God came walking. Came walking. And the more Adam saw that voice, the more Adam ruled from that realm. The things Adam did, you can't imagine

13:05 it. THAT'S THE FIRST ADAM. WHAT HE DID was unimaginable. It was Adam that went Adam was literally functioning as a god on the face of the earth. It was the fall of Adam that necessitated Romans chapter 8 verse 19. He said, "The earnest expectation of creation [music] waited for the manifestation of the sons of God." Because when creation looked at Adam, what they saw was glory. When he said, "Let us make him in our own image and likeness." The word nature is the word glory. So, Adam was an emitter of the glory of God. So, when the birds look at him, they see God. When trees If Adam passes close to a tree, he increases the lifespan of that tree. The mosquitoes came to Adam to sing songs of worship because of WHAT HE

13:50 CARRIED. ADAM COULD SIT IN EDEN and command the galaxies and the constellations. Every manifestation you see before the coming of Jesus Christ were packets of things Adam did. It was Adam that brought that witness to the face of the earth. If Joshua could tell the sun to stand, it's because it was captured in Adam's record because it was Adam THAT CREATED THAT ALLOWANCE TO THE face of THE EARTH. IF MEN could name things, IT WAS BECAUSE ADAM NAMED THEM. IF ADAM HAD NOT REVIEWED THE POSSIBILITY of giving nomenclature to things that God created, you wouldn't have dared to eat. Adam was the patriarch that ordered the first order of manifestation on the face of the earth. But, the reason was because in the cool of the day, he kept looking at him. He kept looking at him. And the more he saw him, the more he became like him. The key of power is

14:37 encounter. This is why we stay long in the place of prayer. It's not because we want to brag that we pray for 10 hours. If it was about time, it would have been a waste. IF IT WAS ABOUT TIME, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE. WE PRAY INTO ENCOUNTERS. WE DON'T PRAY BECAUSE WE WANT TO PRAY LONG. We pray long because there are gates in the heavens. And as we journey prayer, we ascend. THAT'S WHY HE SAID, "HAVE YOU NOT HEARD? HAS IT NOT BEEN SAID TO you that the everlasting God fainted not, neither is he weary. He give it POWER TO THE FAINT. AND NOT to them THAT HAVE NO MIGHT, HE INCREASES STRENGTH. EVEN THE YOUTH SHALL FAINT AND THE YOUNG MEN SHALL UTTERLY FALL." He said, "But they that wait upon the Lord, they mount up with wings like the eagles. They run, they are not weary. They walk, THEY DO NOT FAINT." WHAT HAS HAPPENED? THEY HAVE BEGUN TO SEE something that is not WITHIN HUMAN CIVILIZATION. ONCE UPON A

15:24 TIME, THE GUY COULD FAINT, BUT when he began to mount up, he started seeing something else. He started seeing something and the Bible said Jesus was weak and he went to Gethsemane and there he knelt down in fear and he was praying and suddenly he said angels came and strengthened him. HE SAID IN JOHN MATTHEW CHAPTER 17 VERSE 2, HE SAID AS he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered. His raiment glistened and there stood there appeared before him MOSES AND ELIAS. WHEN WE BEGIN TO ASCEND, WE BEGIN to see heavenly realities and when you see it, you will come out with him. Because when we shall see him, we shall be like him. If you have not had encounter, you have no power. My brothers and sister, don't use your life for experiment. Instead of confronting the mountain, labor in the

16:10 spirit to have encounter. DON'T BEGIN FROM the mountain because a motivational preacher told you things. Don't begin there. This is not psychology. You cannot labor in the spirit to catch a glimpse of reality. But you want to go and labor with the mountain. You know that our labor is in futility. [music] A man who cannot stay with God until he touches him wants to go and command the mountain to move. So instead of spending time with God and commanding things on earth, you don't spend time with God and you come to earth and things command you. >> [music] >> Because what you see is what controls you.

16:57 You are weak. Can I tell you why you are weak? It's because of the things you have seen and the things that you have not seen. You have only seen fear. You have only seen intimidation. You have only seen corruption. But he said who shall stand upon the mountains of God? Who shall ascend his holy hills? Who shall ascend? Because when you ascend that mountain, >> [music] >> you can control things on earth. Men don't change because our message is sweet. Men don't change because our message is intelligent. Men change because our message commands change. It com- No, please, sit down. IT COMPELS THEM. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE HEARING, yet they can't deny it. Somebody played my message for one elder in the village. He said, "This man,

17:56 I don't know what HE THEY TALK, BUT AS I THEY HEAR AM I say spirits don't speak English. Spirit speaks spirit AND LIFE. SO, WHAT YOU are hearing is spirit and life. And when that life enters you, ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT'S called endunamoo. You mount up with wings. I am SAYING THIS TO SOMEONE SO THAT WHEN YOU LEAVE THIS MEETING, YOU WILL go and labor in the spirit. See, we have abused impartations. Because people cannot wait on God for 3 hours, but they wait on men for 3 weeks. And then there comes struggling to cut button to touch you. You are WASTING YOUR TIME. WHEN YOU SEE HIM, THEN YOU SHALL BE LIKE HIM.

18:43 >> [music] >> MAN MUST BE ENCOURAGED TO STAY WITH GOD. Because power in the spirit is not even ability to raise the dead. It's ability to stand in the presence. [music] To stand. To stand. Moses was able to stand there for 40 days. He stood at the age of 80 to tell you it's not physical strength. He [music] climbed Sinai. Sinai is over 9,000 ft tall. But there was something he was looking for. He knew the power he commanded was based on what he saw. And sometimes after climbing Sinai, God will not be waiting for him. He will still come there and wait for 6 days. Then Shekinah will come. And when the Shekinah come, as Moses leaves the mountain, you will think he

19:30 has left God on the mountain. And suddenly, the Bible will say, "And Moses wist not that his face shone." Because the God he thought he left, he didn't leave him. The God followed him out. When you wait on God, God follows you. >> [music] >> And then the guy comes. If he says A, A becomes law. Moses became so strong in this reality until the Old Testament was called the laws of Moses. They were not called the laws of God. They were called the laws of Moses. He had mingled with God so much that when he comes out, he flashes out divinity. How do you touch such a man? You dare him and say, "If I be a man of God, let the earth open its mouth and swallow you."

20:15 And then you will say, "Earth, where is the ear of the earth?" You are joking. If he says it, it will happen. "IF I BE A MAN OF GOD, LET THE EARTH OPEN UP." WHO has done it before? It doesn't need to be done. A man who carries power does not only command spirits. He commands nature. Did you not read about David? He said, "Cursed be the mountains of Gilboa, [music] for you were standing in the day that the Lord's anointing fell anointed fell." That means Moses goes to war with David goes to war with mountains. He doesn't only fight with men. He fights with invincible reality. He can cause the wind to poison you. And the wind will begin TO FIGHT YOU. BREATH WILL be withdrawn from you because a man of power comes and say, "Because [music] you refuse and rebel against God, I release I remove breath

21:03 from your nostril." And then you say he's proud. After a while, the person dies. You say, "What is happening?" That's the power that commands. But before you enter that power, you will become a creature of encounters. A creature of encounter. You must look upon him every morning. The culture of waiting on God, the culture of encountering God have left our generation. We are now a generation of preachers. But in the days when power invaded this earth, they were intercessors. They were men that knew how to wait on God. A man can stand up on the 1st of the of the month and say, "I'm coming." And he climbs the mountain and he's there until 30th of that month. And then he comes down, you say, "Where did you go to?" He

21:48 said, "I went to see the Lord." Which God are you talking about? The one I read in the Bible. You are the only person that your God is still trapped in the Bible. For some other people, their God has come out of the Bible. They can talk to him and they can hear him. >> [music] >> YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON THAT YOUR GOD IS A SET OF EXEGESIS THAT YOU TALK ABOUT AND YOU ARE NOT SURE OF. You preach on healing, when sickness come, then you discover you don't know what you're talking about. Because there's a difference between mental knowledge and experiential knowledge. It's called ginosko. There are some who have had encounters with that God. They have stayed with that God until that God have BECOME LIKE THEM. THAT'S WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE SAID, "THAT [music] WE MAY be in you as as I'm in you and you are in me." He says, "So that they will be in you and you in them." It's a journey

22:33 beyond theory. It's in tacos. It's encounter. TOO MANY CHRISTIANS are dry because they have NO ENCOUNTERS. NO ENCOUNTER. WE SHUFFLE MESSAGES FROM PEOPLE and then we preach messages from people. [music] The messages we preach, we don't even believe it. YOU ARE PREACHING POWERFULLY ABOUT POWER. SOMEBODY COMES AND SAY, "MY EAR, I have a problem." And suddenly the preacher of power say, "Go there. Go, let them pray FOR YOU." SOMEBODY IS DEMONIZED AND THEN YOU SEE 10 PEOPLE GATHER AROUND HIM. SHABA BABA SHABA BABA SHABA. Who told you they pray in tongues to demons? When a man of power comes he say in the name of Jesus [music] get out. I don't Why waste your time praying into Are you trying to to interact with the

23:18 demon? When you are praying in tongues to mingle with God, you see a demon you are praying in tongue. Do you want to mingle with the demon? LACK OF POWER AND THEN WE DO ALL KINDS OF TRY AND ERROR. EVEN us know that most of the people we say are healed, they took drugs. >> [music] >> NOW YOU CAN'T SAY WHEN WE PRAY AND GOD HELP NOTHING HAPPENS, SIR. If God help it will be without doubt. And if you don't labor, don't wait until the evil day comes. Because there is an allocation of an evil day for everyone. >> [music] >> But for we that have the power of God, the evil day becomes the day of manifestation. Don't wait.

24:05 If I begin to talk about encounters now, talk about the things I've seen in heaven, this place will explode. People start screaming. HEY HEY HEY. AH. And we have not even began to look at these things. [music] There are men that live there. There are men A brother was telling us how that he went to a lot of rituals through a lot of rituals to be baptized into demonic power. And every night when he goes to the room, he just enters the water. And then he knows a lot of gears in that city that comes there. They are just in is their realm. And then I thought it was only the demonic until I started reading after people like Anna Roundtree. Anna Roundtree went to heaven.

24:53 Went to heaven. And She was in heaven downloading and then one young prophet that God began to help also ascended and then he came and saw Anna Roundtree. He was given access for moments. He entered and left and Anna Roundtree was still there. The next time God brought him after two years he still met Anna Roundtree there. So when he came to earth he thought Anna Roundtree was dead. He now went for a prophetic conference he saw her. Who is this? And he went and knelt down. I saw you in heaven. Meanwhile those who are around think the guy is going for impartation. They are talking about their meeting somewhere else beyond the skies.

25:40 I met you in heaven. What I thought you were dead. They said no, but I have two locations. I live there. Somebody came to Bob Jones when he joined and had an encounter with Jesus and he told Bob Jones no, he had an encounter and Jesus told him to go meet Bob Jones and he will tell him the things he needs to understand. How can I meet Jesus and I'm going to meet another man? Because there are some men that know mene mene tekel upharsin. They live there. That's why when Jesus encountered Saul he told him go to the city you'll be told what to do and Ananias told him and said brother Saul the Jesus that you met on your way to Damascus sent me to you. What do you mean? I had a glorious encounter. I thought it was a brother

26:26 Saul. That Jesus you met spoke to me. >> [music] >> So what you call an encounter have become my habitation. I live there. And God told Rejoiner go to Bob Jones he will tell you what to do. And when Rejoiner was coming in the morning Bob Jones looked at him and began to tell him about the encounters he had yesterday and told him what the five things God told him meant. Where were you, sir? Are we all on earth? No, we are not. I read about Pastor Chris. He was to go for healing meeting. They say healing meeting is thrown casually. No wonder all our testimony are pain on the leg, pain on the back, pain on the tummy. He was meditating on how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost

27:13 and with power, who went about to He was there for 4 hours. The meeting passed. When they came to tell him that it's time for meeting, they circumference around him, if you come near the power of God knock you down. Everybody who caught People were littered under the power. Meanwhile, the man was just meditating. Medi- He He was traveling. He was journeying. Meeting passed, he didn't know. I've gone for several conference many times. Sometimes you go to call him, he doesn't come. Why did you think Paul sent handkerchiefs? Do you think Paul was busy? It was in the place of intercourse. Sorry, I can't come out today. Take the hanky there. Anything my sermon of 2 hours can do, my lifeless handkerchief

27:59 can do. And for more than 10 centuries, some people have not yet been able to cast out demons, whereas handkerchiefs [music] have casted out demons. What is the difference? It's a lack of power. Yahweh. Don't just become one of one of the many people. How can you come into your own generation and you are lost in the crowd? And then you want to return to Zion and tell them you lived on the earth. That's an error. But what will distinguish you is the level of authority that you carry.

28:46 And the way to authority is an encounter with the Lord. Kill yourself on that mountain until the word of God comes alive or the Lord appears to you or something happens, you will not go back. Don't be a theologian. There are too many of them. THE SECOND THING THAT MAKES FOR SPIRITUAL POWER IS THE MOVE OF THE SPIRIT. >> [music] >> SEE, this is why power is scarce. I'm telling you because few people experience these things. And those who don't experience it come

29:31 out to argue. And they keep comparing notes. Notes don't cast out demons. I was sharing humorously in Kaduna. You see a man who have subdued the the the the darkness of his generation talking. And then somebody who has no encounter, no who has not touched reality will come and perch on the comment box. And he's talking what he doesn't know. Talking what they don't know. So he's on comment. Your platform is on comment box. And then he perches there. >> [music] >> I can gather. Bring his scriptures from left to right,

30:16 THROWING THEM LIKE ARROWS. HOW ABOUT THIS SCRIPTURE? How about You know all these scriptures. How come you're on the comment box? >> [music] >> Before you know, some of THEM WILL TAKE LAPTOP AND TYPE FOUR PAGES. QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK. NO WONDER YOU HAVE TIME. They will type four pages. They want people to read. After typing for two hours, it's only one person that will read it. And then you'll see one like. The like will hang like this. And then he will say, "Yeah, he has told them the truth." Who? >> [laughter] >> You don't know that even to hear you is a commandment in the spirit. THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I'M HERE PRAY, PLEASE. HEAR HEAR [screaming] HIM.

31:02 WHO TOLD YOU THEY WILL HEAR YOU? I TOLD my friends you merely sleep. I don't fight for platforms and pulpits. Because even if they take you to Shiloh and you preach, nobody will remember you came. Unless there's power. There's a commandment in the spirit that say, "Hear hear him." If that commandment has not gone forth, if you like, go to TBN. They will forget that you ever came. You will finish preaching and come down. Even the people in the studio will say, "Yeah, how are you?" You're not saying, "Were you the one preaching now?" Wait on. Wait on. Don't join the bandwagon. Labor in the spirit.

31:48 It's an honorable thing. The Bible said the glory of the Lord is to conceal a matter. He said, "But the honor of kings [music] is to search out the matter." Said the Christians in Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica because when they heard the word, they went to search to see if the things said were so. Some people tell you you don't need encounter, just meditate. You are joking. Those who have it know. They can tell you every spot that there was a shift in their life because it is never by coincidence. It's definite and deliberate. They will tell you when the slaying anointing came on them. They will tell you when the anointing to pack crowds

32:35 and overflow came on them. They will tell you when the anointing to heal the sick, it is definite, it's not coincidental. The second thing that makes for the power of God is the move >> [music] >> of the spirit. Luke 1:35, he said, "And the Holy Ghost shall come upon you. And the power of the highest shall overshadow you. And that thing that will be formed in you shall be called the son of the highest. The Holy Ghost shall come." Now uh I was sharing with those of you 2 days ago, and he said, "What's striking about the scripture?" He said, "Mary asked, how shall these things be? Seeing that I know not a man."

33:21 >> [snorts] >> So, there is [music] a kind of power that comes upon you that everything that should be a disadvantage becomes the access point for manifestation. The impossible part of it is what makes the testimony beautiful. "How shall these things be? Seeing that I know not a man." And he said, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon you. The power of the highest shall overshadow you." If there is no move of the spirit in your life, there's no power. Everybody that commands authority in the kingdom is a man flooded with the move of the spirit. This is not psychology. This is not emotional. It's a definite reality. The move of the spirit in their soul is strong. And the move of the spirit is

34:07 NOT A FEELING. SIR, IT'S NOT A FEELING. It's not a feeling. >> [music] >> He said, "Not many DAYS FROM NOW, THE HOLY GHOST, THE SAME HOLY SPIRIT, YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME upon you." And then somebody say, "I have the Holy Ghost, so I have power." Acts chapter 4 verse 29. When they were flogged, beaten, and threatened, they went back to their own company. And as they prayed, the place where they were was shaken, and they were filled with the spirit again. And verse 33, "WITH

34:54 GREAT POWER." WITH GREAT POWER. IT WAS THE move of the spirit that made for power. There are many people that are dry. The Holy Ghost don't move in their lives. They come on the altar, and they know the songs to sing to spoil the people. I know my songs. If I begin to sing them, I will jack [music] up like a bed. I deliberately didn't sing them. Because it's not about the song. I want to show you something that you will deliberately practice, and then you will touch a sick person, he will be healed. >> Yes. It's not psychology. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. You will speak over something, IT WILL HAPPEN. IT'S NOT PSYCHOLOGY. BECAUSE THERE WILL BE AUTHORITY ON YOUR LIPS. AND THE HOLY GHOST FILLED THEM AFRESH,

35:40 AND WITH GREAT POWER gave testimony to the apostles of the resurrection. And great grace was upon them all. It was the move of the spirit that necessitated it. But how do you know the move of the spirit is in your life? There is a definite indicator for the move of the spirit. The indicator that the move of the spirit is in a man's life is not that he prays loud. It's not that when he carries the microphone, he's thundering like thunder. No. The indicator that the move of the spirit is strong upon a man's LIFE IS NOT THAT HE'S CHARISMATIC. It is an organic thing. A man that God is moving upon sustain one thing, is called hunger. There is hunger for the presence of God. [music] The day the hunger for the presence begins to die,

36:27 the move of the spirit is beginning to wane. >> [music] >> And the things you could command before, you will be shocked. You will try it, it will not happen. For most of us who are preachers, we are most we are at a most risky place on this subject. Because you keep dispensing. You keep dispensing. You I told my brother, I'm not supposed to be here. I came here on the base of relationship. Up until yesterday, I was lying down helpless. I say, "Lord, Lord, I'm strengthened with might by your spirit in the inner man. I should be recovering." I can't even feel myself. But there is a truth I need to release into your hands. And that's why I came. If a move If a man is If the move of the spirit is upon a man, it's not a feeling. It is unending passion for [music] the

37:13 present. I was talking with a a brother, and he told me something. He said the best gift of the spirit and the first gift of the spirit is not one of the nine gifts that the world have taught. He said the Bible said in 1 Peter 2:2, "As newborn babes desire desire the sincere milk The word there is desire. The ability to continually hunger for God and for his things. That's the best gift a spirit [music] can give to you." IF A MAN CONSTANTLY DESIRES GOD, HE DOESN'T EVEN NEED TO GO around preaching. He can kneel in his room and HE CAN PROVOKE REVIVAL over eternity because he's talking. Did you not read?

38:00 When Jesus came, who provoked the revival? It was Simeon and Anna. They were not part of the preachers of that generation. They were just in the synagogue praying. And the moment they brought Jesus to the temple, the Bible says Simeon moved by the spirit. The Holy Ghost himself went to meet him. He said, "This thing you have interceded for has come. So, you come and announce it." The guy was NOT A PREACHER. NOBODY KNEW HIM, but he could not leave the presence [music] of God. The men that shake territories are not necessarily the ones that travel about. [music] The men that shake territories are the men that will never back off from the presence. There is something that keeps them there. In John chapter 2 verse 17, he said the zeal of my father's house, THE ZEAL. IT'S NOT ZEAL FOR PREACHING. IT'S NOT ZEAL FOR

38:45 MIRACLE. He said the zeal of my father's house has consumed me. Jesus will leave a crusade and go to the mountain and he will be there from night till morning. How come he's never tired? There was an energy on his inside that pulls him to God perpetually and David knew it firsthand. He knew it. He said as the deer panted as the deer panted as the deer panted. You look at David, he fought 44 battles, he won. You think it's about bows and arrow. He has nothing to do. He said as the deer panted after the Lord, so my soul longed after thee in a dry and in a thirsty land where no water is. At some point HE SAID EVEN WHILE I am on MY BED, THY THOUGHTS AND THY WORDS ARE THE

39:31 MEDITATIONS OF MY HEART. THAT'S A WARRIOR. SO THE POWER THAT DAVID USED TO FIGHT WAR was not skill, it was hunger. When God wanted to punish David, he said you can do anything [music] to me but take not thy spirit from within me. I can afford to lose the throne. I can afford to lose everything but your presence never, never, never. And so long AS DAVID SOUGHT AFTER THE LORD, the hand of God was perpetually upon him. Every time a man begins to seek the presence of God, he begins to [music] unlock the heavens. He begins to unlock the heaven. This is the secret of Elijah. Many people thought Elijah was just powerful because he was a man of faith. Elijah was more a man of intimacy than a man of faith because everything

40:17 you see Elijah does, he does it from the place of intimacy. He told the king, "Put your house together. There will be an abundance of rain." And then you would think he declares and he goes to eat and he went to the mountain and knelt down seven times. MANA KADA MANA KADA UNTIL HE SAID, "GO AND CHECK." GO AND CHECK. SO, HE KNEW TO UNLOCK the heavens, you do it on your knee. And as he was groaning there, at the seventh time, the servant came and said, "I saw something that looked like the fist of a man." So, Elijah created that fist in the cloud. The [music] fist was nowhere. He created it because he knows the secret of power. When Jesus was about to begin ministry, it was the season of temptation for him. The Bible said the

41:04 spirit led him into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. But when Jesus went there, he changed his season. He was engaging God because before the devil came, he went 40 days and 40 nights in prayer and fasting. When the devil came, that was a walkover. What Jesus did on that mountain that was supposed to be a season of temptation became a season of announcing and affecting his work. But how did he do it? By engaging God. By pressing into God. And as he was groaning there, the writings of the spirit began to change. >> [music] >> We say, "Come to the mountain to be tempted, but because of what you are doing now, it will no longer be temptation that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah as the prophet. The land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

41:49 The people that SAT IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT." AND HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN AND HIS FAME >> [screaming] >> WENT ABROAD. >> [music] >> THE POWER TO CAUSE CHANGE IS RESIDENT upon hunger. How much of it do you carry? How much of it? There are many Christians that are dry. Even when they are in church, they are already tired. 1 hour one they are frustrated. And then they are sleeping in the thing, they are tired, they are not. >> [music] >> There's no capacity for the move of God. So, the moment they step out, they were dozing in church, but as they enter the road immediately, they become agile. Because the god of this world still has a place in their heart. So, no matter how tired they were in church, WHEN THEY STEP OUT AND THEY BEGIN to interact with the one they have intimacy with on the internet, on the television, with their

42:36 friend, they come alive. HUNGER FOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD. THESE ARE ancient realities, but they are no longer taught. I read the story of Brother Lawrence and God told him that >> [music] >> a servant in the kingdom of God is more important than a general. Because a servant is always there to attend to his voice. Some generals are given away to commanding, so they are too used to the battlefield that they forget the sounds of Zion. They never return. They never return. They are obsessed with commanding the army and they forget. [music] They forget. So, in the Exodus 28:1-2,

43:23 he said to anoint Aaron and his son to minister on to me in the priest office. So, before legislation, there is intimacy. If you can't minister to him, you have no power to legislate over your territory. The reason we are handicapped is because hunger for God have diminished. Many things have truncated it. It is dwarfed. There are no men anymore that yearns after God. People are asking for the mantle of Babalola. Did you know that every 3 hours they prayed in tongues for 1 hour in Babalola's house for close to 40 years? Did you know that during the early part of the year, for the first 4 months, the man goes to the mountain to spend 40 days in prayer? Are you aware of the labors of Babalola in the spirit? Do you have his hunger?

44:10 If that unction rest upon you, do you have the capacity to accommodate it? I was standing on the altar, an unction came upon me, I almost collapsed. That was when I knew that instead of praying for for dimension, we we need to pray for capacity. Because what is coming, it can't rest on men. They are too shallow. There's no depth, THERE'S NO CAPACITY for the Holy Ghost to rest upon. We receive impartations, they don't last for 2 weeks. Because we don't have the capacity to nurture the concentrate consecration for that impartation. You go to receive an impartation from a man that spend the first 6 hours of his day in prayer. Do you know the level of appetite that that impartation rest on? And then your own appetite is 5 minutes. And then how can you accommodate that impartation?

44:56 When the spirit comes, it will lift. That's why all the BIG MEN HAVE IMPARTED US, YET there's no manifestation, because appetite is not there. Appetite, it is the volume of your appetite that determines the degree of your manifestation. When you have no appetite for a spirit, you can't host the dimensions of that spirit. You may hear things and desire it, it will end in the realm of desire, until hunger drives you there. And when you come before that spirit, he will allow you for a long time, because he wants to he wants to enlarge your appetite. You will come, you will pray for 5 minutes, you will go, he won't say anything. You will increase it to 3 minutes, to 3 hours, to Did you not read about the Azusa Street Revival? They prayed in tongues for 7 hours for 8 months, and

45:42 they told them to increase it to 9 hours. What is coming, the urgency of the spirit, their capacity have not yet been enlarged, and he needed to work on it, to work on it. So they increased, and when they began to enlarge their appetite, suddenly the move of the spirit came. That's why I say tarry in Jerusalem until you are endued. >> [music] >> He didn't say tarry for 10 days. He didn't say tarry for 20 days. Tarry until you are endued. When you come to that gauge of the spirit, where you can accommodate him, then the wind of the spirit will move. Many people have no appetite for God. They have appetite for many things. The guy can sit and watch four matches. The guy can sit and watch three seasonal movies in three weeks. But when you say come to God's presence, suddenly he begins to window. He begins

46:28 to dwindle. He begins to to to drown. But they said, "They that journey to the deep, they are the ones that qualify to see the wonders of God." You have not journeyed enough. Your appetite is too shallow. The measure that you are looking for, IT TAKES APPETITE TO ACCOMMODATE IT. How much of God can you accommodate? This is what we do when we beseech him. Because when you want to increase hunger, you dump yourself on God. And as you keep pressing, as you keep pressing, you may not see light in the sky. You may not see an angel walk into your room. You may NOT HEAR A VOICE SAYING, "NATHANIEL, MY SON, YOU ARE A PROPHET." You may not hear that. But after 40 days, you will discover that what you were doing for 1 hour that looked like Mount Sinai, suddenly 12 hours you are That's when you are

47:14 beginning to charge. At that point, you can begin to interact in the heavens. And when the spirit comes down, >> [music] >> it will come He will come down in measures unquantified.