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There is something the Lord brought you into this world to tear down because light exposes darkness. >> Jesus will not call you the light of the world if you were only supposed to be around other lights. >> There was something that your light was called to expose.

Because it's until you tear it down that then the glory of God can shine through it. Can we just pray into this moment as we keep our eyes stayed on Jesus? Heavenly Father, I thank you because you've been doing heart surgery throughout this conference and you will continue even now.

I thank you Lord God that even as we worship you and ask of you Lord God to search us that Lord whatever is in us that is not pleasing to you whatever ways we have partaken of that is not pleasing to you whatever we are tolerating in our lives that is not pleasing to you that you may search our hearts oh God there are things in our hearts that we have not yet acted ed upon. But the very fact that it is in our heart, belief systems that are not pleasing to you, that you will search us, oh God. And I thank you, Lord, for you are already in this room.

I thank you that the Holy Spirit is already here. And Holy [music] Spirit, I ask that you glorify Jesus as you do best. Continue to do a mighty work in each and everyone [music] here, the women who are in this conference.

And Lord, you began to show me even the musicians here because when you are in the room, you are in the room. Anyone who is willing to believe, anyone who is willing to engage, it is a moment of encounter. So I thank you for the volunteers that came just to be in the back room.

I thank you for the musicians who came just to serve. I thank you for the people outside who might be dropping in and out. the people tuning in from various places in this building and various [music] places around the world that Lord all they need in this moment in time it's not necessarily the proximity it's the belief that you can touch them right where they are and so heavenly father have your way in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

Can we just lift up a mighty praise to Jesus? Amen. Amen.

I'm so excited for what the Lord wants to do in this place. Um it it's going to be so beautiful just to see how the Lord really just puts a bow. There's been I've been hearing so much that's been taking place and you know even just walking into this space meeting your pastor there's such a sweet presence of the Lord and so I could sense his pleasure but at the same time there are things I believe the Lord wants to address and let's just journey in the word and see where the Holy Spirit takes us.

So we're going to start in first Kings chapter 13 from verse 1 to2. And it says, "And behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethl by the word of the Lord." This man of God is not even named because the word he's carrying, I I believe that the word he carried was so weighty that it did not even need to be mixed in with his identity. that it was not just about what he is about to relay but what it would echo for generations to come about how God moves the ways of God.

So it just says a man of God went from Judah to Bethl by the word of God and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. Then he cried out against the altar. He was not even crying out against a man but against the altar.

What he is erecting to invite deities, false deities. What he is erecting to invite idolatry. So he says that then he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, "Oh altar, altar, thus says the Lord." You see, it it's interesting because later on in the New Testament when there would be this mystery unraveled that we battle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers.

And then it goes into this whole ranking of the kingdom of how the kingdom of darkness operates because your battle is never with a person. >> So even when the Lord was bringing a word through this prophet, it was not just about the king, it was a word to the altar >> because the king is moving under the influence of something that is more ancient than him. And so the rebuke is not just to the person but the altar.

>> So he says, "Oh altar, altar, thus says the Lord, behold a child Josiah by name shall be born to the house of David, and you and on you he shall sacrifice the priest of the high places who borne incest on you." and men's bones shall be burned on you. Now you see in the scripture it's very rare when there is a prophecy about a person that goes forth by name. We will see that with the Lord Jesus but you know and we'll see that with people where it was maybe directly to the parents.

You will have a son and you will name him John. But this is a prophecy about a child that would not even been born until 300 years later. >> And so the Lord sees what is happening because so to give you a little bit of a backstory here, the reign of King Jeroboam was he was the first king of northern Israel when there was a split.

And so in northern Israel, this was more of a political move, not even based on what he really believed. But you see, Satan would use whatever vulnerabilities you have >> to use you for his own plans. So the king's what where he was vulnerable was in the fact that he wants to keep his kingdom.

He wants to keep the people. But he noticed that the people are going to the south to worship because that is where the temple that Solomon built is. So he's like wait if they keep going to the temple soon I might lose them and if he loses the people he will lose his kingdom.

And so what he engineered to do was to literally create a false sense of worship. He says okay the people want to worship. Let me give them something to worship.

They they have a need to go to the south and worship the Lord. But let me create something else that they can worship. So literally the king erects two golden calves and he says to the people, he says, "Oh Israel, these are the gods that brought you out of Egypt." And so the Lord sees what this king is doing and then sends a word against the altar that he is building.

But you see this is so there there's so many layers to this because first of all you see that a king is making a move that will bring idolatry in the land and it's actually just for his benefit. It's not because he has a conviction that these gods are true but it is for the benefit for the people to not leave him. And the enemy catches that.

You see, Satan works the same way. It's just different faces. That is why you have to be careful.

You You have to take an inventory of your time. The things you give yourself to, the things you give your worship to, the things that you give your mind to, because all of these things are a form of worship, especially the most subtle. Because the Bible will tell us something as as a man thinks, so is he.

But then what is what shapes what informs how you think the things that you expose your mind to knowingly or unknowingly. I remember hearing someone share how the former CEO of Netflix when they asked him what like who is your biggest competitor and they were waiting for him to say you know another streaming company but he responded with sleep that Netflix biggest competitor is your sleep >> when you think of it that way you understand their model better. >> So, they're they are presenting a new a new series comes out, you cannot wait.

>> You're so excited to binge watch. >> But the MINDSET BEHIND YOUR BINGE WATCHING, was never to entertain you. Was never to say, "Man, we can't wait to just give them another show that they could gather as a family and talk about." It was because what is standing in between them and making more money is your sleep.

>> And so while you're binge watching into the night, but then can't wake up to pray, >> you're binge watching into the night, YOU'RE GOING ABOUT your week restless. >> And one of the best ways to make the worst decision is when you're tired. So there are subtle ways the enemy knows how to creep in without you having to bow to him.

>> He looks for what are the vulnerabilities even in companies in in the brands that serve you. How can he violate their why? So that he can gain more of your time and more of your attention.

The king was not trying to start this new system of worship because he believed it will serve the people better. You have to be careful about the things that you consume because is it actually consuming you? Be careful about where you're giving time to because what is the agenda behind its source?

The king was after his own gang. But what is so beautiful here is that this man of God prophesies about this child 300 years prior. He prophesies about this child before his parents even met.

>> He prophesies about this child before his grandparents even met. And the child's responsibility in the time that he would come to this earth was against an altar. Because the person who erected the altar would be long gone.

It was not just about the person, but it was against an altar. You see, one thing I know for a fact, every child born, every child the Lord sends into this earth came as a solution to something. >> We are on this journey with the Lord.

That's why the Bible says that your life is hidden in him. It is the more you know the Lord Jesus, the more he starts to unfold the scrolls concerning you. But before you ever got here, that is why he will say to Jeremiah, before I formed you, I already knew you.

There was something I already ordained you to do. And again, similar to Jeremiah, he would have to first tear down and destroy some things before he can build. There are things the Lord sent you in your generation, in your time to demolish.

And sometimes, here's the unfortunate part. What he sent you to demolish are things that could be in your family. If you see it wrong, you look at your family as the enemy, not knowing that because God looked into that family and all he saw was darkness that he sent you to bring down the altar of self, the altar of destruction, the altars that have been serving the enemy to keep people in the family in bondage.

If you see it wrong, you start to have a feeling that you need to set boundaries around your family. You intercede for them, but then in your heart, you're bitter. >> And sometimes you even experienced what it is to be a part of that family.

You have the scars to prove it. You have the stories to prove it. But could it still be that for that reason the Lord sent you?

There is something the Lord brought you into this world to tear down because light exposes darkness. >> Jesus would not call you the light of the world if you were only supposed to be around other lights. There was something that your light was called to expose because it's until you tear it down that then the glory of God can shine through it.

Thank you, Holy Ghost. >> Oh, the Lord is going to do something special tonight. So, this man of God shows up and he prophesies about Josiah.

And then we even see, look at what David would even say in Psalms 139:16. Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

You know, it's so fascinating when my mom was pregnant with my older brother. I have two older brothers, but the one right before me and she was going like it was like she was 10 months pregnant and nothing was shaking. He was just comfy as can be.

And she was pray she was like, "Lord, this baby needs to come out." So she literally drove to her pastor says, "This child needs to come out." And the pastor starts to speak to her about my brother and he said he will have a sister and they will both serve the Lord together. So he begins to prophesy about him but then started to prophesy about the sister that will come after. And then he prays for her and he says, "Go to the hospital." And as she's driving to the hospital, her water breaks.

And so it was literally the word of God that finally gave him the permission to come forth. [cheering] This is why I say this. When we were growing up, my brother and I were very close.

You would I mean, we should have just been twins. But when we were growing up and we would both have encounters, my encounters with the Lord drew me closer to him. But my brother's encounters made him question things more.

He backed away. So we were moving in different directions, still tied at a hip, but in re in regards to our walk with the Lord, we were moving in very different directions. And anytime in the family someone wants to feel like man what's going on here I said no no no no there is prophecy over him >> there is a we are not here to contend with what he's doing >> we are here to contend with the prophecy concerning him >> and so eventually I remember one day this was actually my daughter was getting dedicated at the church and my brother came into town and like in the middle of the night he calls me and he says, "Will you baptize me tomorrow?" >> And we had this beautiful conversation because no matter the how whatever he was doing in life, I would always call him I said apostle [laughter] and he couldn't stand it.

But all of a sudden the Lord gripped his heart and it's about what you do in that moment >> because in hum if he was to stay in a place of arrogance then time would be running out >> from you being who you're called to be. You see, I say this because hearing that people were being baptized here. Because what is gripping your heart is what has always been known in eternity, trying to communicate to you in time that you are more than who you think you are.

Eternity is reaching out to you saying before the Lord formed you, he knew you. Before your parents GOT TOGETHER, BEFORE YOU went through that trauma, there was something that God has written concerning you. There is literal prophecy over your life.

That's why David tapped into the mystery. He said, "All my days that you ordained for me," you see, there is the days that God ordained for you, and there are days you walk out in your own arrogance or ignorance, >> but the days he ordained for you are written in his books. You see, when we meet the Lord, he will look at his books and look at the books of what you did.

>> How much alignment was there? >> Never get caught up in just being so daytoday and routine about life. Even when you're doing things THAT OTHERS WOULD APPLAUD you about that, man, you are really doing.

never get comfortable even the applause of people because they did not make you. >> So their applause can never be the measurement of your alignment. You have to stay in the place of humility because today the Lord could just decide and say next year bear conference is in a different country.

Now, I'm not trying to say this as a prophetic word, but who knows, >> okay? But I'm just giving an example because EVERYTHING COULD BE GOING SO WELL RIGHT HERE IN CHARLOTTE. >> If you measure it by the testimonies, if you measure it by the applause of people, you will keep it in Charlotte.

But if you stay humble >> and say, "Lord, so far this is what we have done. So far, this is what my life has produced for you. Is there anything else?

Is there something I'm missing? Is there something written in your books concerning me that my eyes and my heart has not been open to?" It is when you stay in that posture then you can hear when the Lord says now take it to five cities. >> You can hear when the Lord says move.

You can hear when the Lord says leave the thing that is working and do something else that you don't know about. >> It's in that posture of humility >> that we begin to hear the word of the Lord. So let's go back to the scripture.

Josiah was prophesied about 300 years earlier. Now he is born. 2 Kings 22:1-11.

It says Josiah was 8 years old when he became king and he reigned 31 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedodiah, the daughter of Adia of Bkath. Now what is interesting is because the reason that Josiah became king at 8 was due to the assassination of his father.

And so the moment his father was assassinated immediately they have to bring the heir to be king. Now you see sometimes there are things that happen to you in life that feel unfortunate and it's not that God was the one who it was not the perfect will of God concerning your life but because of the fallen nature of humanity there are certain things that may be allowed to preserve the will of God through the next generation. Josiah loses his father at 8 years old.

But who was this father? Let's even start with his grandfather. You're talking about people from the lineage of David, but yet the the lineage is very messy.

Josiah had a grandfather that was known as King Manasse. He did great evil in the eyes of God. Manasse was one who not only you know was was serving a lot of these altars he would even establish altars to false deities in the temple of the Lord.

He would consult mediums. He did all manners of things even to the degree that he sacrificed his own son to a god named Molech. his own son.

He put his son in the fire >> and sacrificed him. >> And many of the Israelites followed that practice. They started sacrificing their sons and daughters to Molech.

>> You see, in a room full of women like this, there's something that I must share. Even when I was in prayer and the Lord put this on my heart because you see when we read about gods in the scripture these you know false deities when we call them false does not mean that they don't exist they are false because they can never measure up to the one true God but don't confuse that them being false means that they are non-existent These were names of principalities >> that were revealed through time. >> And so Molech was a principality that governed over families.

And his agenda is to control the children that would be born through the generations. His appetite is children. >> So what he demands is child sacrifice >> because you see the same way there are things that we understand about how the kingdom of God functions the enemy knows the same.

Now remember Josiah was prophesied 300 years before he is born and it is spoken where the lineage he would come through. So when the enemy is looking for how to stop because you see the moment a spirit has a territory they don't want to let it go. So when the enemy finally found a way to establish his altar, he doesn't want to let it go.

>> So they reinforce help >> because the help they would need is the one whose appetite is children. Because we need to stop wherever this child would come from. >> Josiah's grandfather sacrificed children.

his father followed in the same footsteps. Could it be that the assassination OF HIS FATHER WAS THE VERY THING THAT WOULD PRESERVE Josiah's life? Because if Molech asked him for Josiah, he would put him in the fire.

[cheering] >> Now Molech has the same agenda, just different methods. Abortion is under the influence of >> Molech, >> abortion being legalized, abortion being this cultural thing, a cultural acceptance, women will have abortion in the morning and brunch in the afternoon. >> Is under you see sometimes people will say, "No, I didn't I I was never I didn't worship any god when I made the decision.

No, no, no. He doesn't just need you to directly worship him. >> He needs you to function under his influence >> because he is doing the same thing he's done for generations to control that by chance they would have terminated the child who was supposed to tear them down.

You see because this is altar versus altar. >> It is not about people. >> So they don't know who is the child THAT HEAVEN WILL BACK UP in such a way that they will come against our altar.

So Molech is a principality that works in hand with many of the workings of Satan to ensure no one takes us off our post. >> And if you have fallen under his influence, you have to repent of that way of thinking. >> It's not just saying, "God, I wouldn't do it again." Do you understand why it is evil?

>> Do you understand why it is murder? >> And you you have to be willing to see the standards of God against your own satisfaction >> BECAUSE MANY OF THE ARGUMENTS people want to make about abortion is not the reason why majority of the people do it. >> Majority of the people do it because they chose self.

not because it was a medical issue >> and you have to see it for what it is so that you can renew your mind. You see the word of God just as we were sharing earlier when the Bible says as a man thinkketh in his heart so is he. Jesus would say that if you have committed adultery in your heart you've already done it.

Jesus is not saying that if you just looked at somebody and had a quick thought of a quick thing meant that that was adultery in the heart. Jesus is talking about your belief system. >> If you don't personally you see there are many things we don't do not because we don't want to do it but we the circumstances of life will not allow us to do it.

The only reason some people will stay faithful is because they're afraid of getting caught. >> The only reason. SO JESUS IS not looking AT YOUR ACTION BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT GIVEN THE RIGHT OR WRONG CIRCUMSTANCES, what is in your heart will find expression.

>> And what is in your heart is based on what you believe about it. >> So you can say, "Man, I just felt so bad." And you know that this happens when someone says, "Well, that was just my conviction. I'm not saying it's about you." What does the word of God say?

If it's in THE WORD OF GOD, IT'S NOT ABOUT MY CONVICTION OR YOUR CONVICTION. It is the truth. >> So if you don't understand what is wrong with a thing in your heart, you will make room for it again.

So what is the belief system you have around the word of God? Do you know God's stand on these things? Because that is where true change begins.

You see some of these things are hard but you have to hear it because you have to know what you are coming in agreement with when you move under this influences to repent from a true place. And repentance also means when someone else comes to you and say, "Hey, I'm thinking about this, you would be bold enough, you will choose the truth over that friendship to say it what it like like it is and not trying to compromise based on culture. Not trying to compromise based on how every other person says things, but Lord, what is it you are saying about this?

This man's grandfather killed his own child in worship to Molech. But Molech is still at work. And even at the end of service, we will have a moment of true repentance.

Because if you have not changed how you think about it in your heart, there is still an open door of influence from the enemy. There is still a place of agreement he has with you. And that place of agreement is the door that he could still use to bring torment.

Josiah was eight. His father the same thing. I was reading this.

I thought about my own life. My father died when well really not just died. He was assassinated when I was eight months old.

And I remember asking the Lord after I finally encountered the Lord at nine. And I wanted to know why did this happen? I grew up in a I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria.

And I think out apart from me, maybe there was only other one other family I knew that had a single parent in their home. It was not normal then. It was not like a a casual thing.

Most people grew up in two parent homes. And so I'm just like, Lord, why why did this happen? And I can never forget a day that I had this encounter with the Lord.

And it was like a conference, literally a conference room. And the Lord Jesus were there. There were angels there.

And they began to explain to me, not that it was his will. They actually told me how old my father should have been when he would be, you know, move on. But they showed me that it was allowed.

And ultimately, a lot of the reasons they gave things I had no knowledge about in the natural that my mother would later on confirm, but it pointed to one key thing. that if this wasn't allowed because of the path your father was on, this would have terminated the assignment of God in his children. There are some things we may not understand why it happened.

There are relationships that never worked out. You gave so many of your years to it and nothing ever came out of it. There's heartbreak, betrayal, disappointments that you've been through, but you don't realize that some things were allowed to preserve the will of God for your life.

Because even though Josiah's background, his grandfather, his father were deep in evil and corruption and things that were against the way of the Lord. Look at what it says about Josiah in verse two. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in all the ways of his father David.

The closest they could trace to him his faithfulness was 14 generations apart. David to Josiah is 14 generations. >> They said, "But he walked in the ways of his father because his actual father, that's nothing close.

He did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left." Then in verse three, now it came to pass in the 18th year of King Josiah that the king sent Shapan the scribe, the son of Aelia, the son of Meulam, to the house of the Lord, saying, "Go up to Hilkaya, the high priest, that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people, and let them deliver it into the hand of those doing the work who are the overseers in the house of the Lord. Let them give it to those who are in the house of the Lord doing the work to repair the damages of the house. Josiah is invested because you see with all the idolatry and idol worship the house of the Lord was just kind of you know uh deteriorating and so he was invested in making sure that the house of the Lord is restored.

I mean so obviously it looks like there is external devotion. He sincerely is devoted to the Lord. He wants to follow the ways of the Lord.

But look at what happens right so verse six to the carpenters the builders the masons and to buy timber and and hon stone to repair the house. However they need to be you know let's just go to verse eight. Then Hilkaya the high priest said to Shapen the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkayiah gave the book to Shapen and he read it.

So Shapen the scribe went to the king bringing the king words saying, "Your servants have gathered the money that was found in the house and delivered it to the hand of those who do the work who oversee." Verse 10. Then Shapen the scribe showed the king saying, "Hilkaya the priest has given me a book and Shapen read it before the king." Now it happened when the king heard the words of the book of the law that he tore his clothes. This is really where we're going to get into.

You see, in that time when tearing of your robe was a sign of deep grief or repentance to the Lord, when the book of the law was read, Josiah, a man who externally shows devotion, who has sincere devotion, realizes the depth of disobedience they have actually been living in. >> He he he he's so moved in grief because then he's realizing that a lot of the things because you have to understand that for generations what was rebellion was what they called normal. >> What was rebellion was what they called culture.

So what he knew to do on his level was here's the house of the Lord. Let's repair it. Let's make sure everything is looking good.

But it was until he heard the book of the law that exposed the things that the Lord is against. And then he's looking, he's listening to what the Lord is against. And that is their norm.

>> Wow. >> And not only that because you know in Deuteronomy when it will talk about not just the rewards for obedience but the consequences of disobedience, >> the wrath of God, the judgment OF GOD. SO JOSIAH IS like wait is this what is coming upon us?

I I I you know one of the things study this whole chapter because he FURTHER GOES TO INQUIRE. HE SAYS, "INQUIRE of the Lord." And when they do inquire of the Lord, the Lord literally is telling them, "Yes, this will be destroyed. >> Judgment is coming.

But because you came to me with a sober heart and humility, then basically in your time there will be peace." But Josiah, it's so fascinating because when you think about it, how is it that on one hand, he is repairing the house of the Lord, but there is still active idolatry in the land. You see, there are many people that came to the Lord Jesus during this conference. There are many people that have been baptized and there are many people sitting here that you love the Lord.

There is sincere devotion that you have for the Lord. But if you don't know his word, >> if you don't know his ways, >> it would just be that you are adding, but there's nothing being subtracted. >> Because the Lord is not only invested in what you add to your life.

He's not only INVESTED IN YOUR PRAYER life that now you pray more that you start at fasting. He's not only interested that you go to church on Sundays, that you go to a conference when it comes around. He's not only interested in the groups that you're a part of, >> but what did you subtract?

>> What idols have been have been removed from your life? What ways in your life has changed because of your walk with the Lord? >> You see, when I was praying about this region, that's why I just love what I'm seeing in this church.

And what the Lord showed me is what a principality in this region is one that does not care about what you add as long as there's still idolatry >> hidden in your heart. and he showed it to me. The the the image I saw was literally like a graveyard that became a garden, >> but the bodies are still in the ground.

>> SO NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO COME THERE and play and make it feel like a park, it does not change the fact that it is still a graveyard. And so it's NOT JUST OUR ABILITY TO WORSHIP. >> It's not just our ABILITY TO STUDY.

IT'S NOT JUST our ability to pray and fast. But what has changed in your heart? >> Since you started walking with the Lord, >> what has changed in your lifestyle?

>> What what what are the things that are tangible? Is there still bitterness in your heart? >> Is there still a family member or a coworker or ex whatever that you cannot even stand being in the same room with?

>> Are you in relationships that don't reveal the ways of God? >> That you're engaging in activities that you know this is against the will of God, but then you just wrap it up. What are the things you're doing on a Saturday, >> on a Friday, on a Thursday night?

It's not enough that you added church to Sundays, but what did you change about your friend environments? >> What it what changed about your life? What changed about how you think, how you live, what you entertain, the kind of music you listen to, the kind of activities you get involved in.

What changed? >> Because the enemy will make you feel comfortable >> and make you feel on fire >> because of what you added. So you avoid to look at what remained the same.

>> And the Lord is after that idolatry. >> He's after the things that remained the same. I encountered the Lord at nine, but I lived a double life before I really locked in.

I know what it is to just add but not subtract. >> I knew the Lord and I joined the sorority, >> pledged and did all kinds of demonic incantations. >> And then it's just in the back of my mind like there's nothing wrong.

It's sisterhood. >> But what does sisterhood have to do with the things that we're saying? What what does sisterhood have to do with the deities that were calling on?

>> There was a way I lived my life. I knew the Lord. I would pray.

I would fast. But then I would be in the club on a Saturday. I would talk to the Lord on the way.

Hey, close your eyes. And Sunday morning >> I'm in church >> sometimes evangelizing. >> We brought people from the club to the church.

I felt effective. I said look we God needs people everywhere. >> Compromise.

>> Compromise to keep your dead things. While everybody calls it a garden, >> what have you subtracted >> from your life when you encounter the Lord? >> Jesus said, "If you're going to follow me, you're going to need to know how to pick up your cross." Because if you're really following Jesus, >> there is the daily consciousness >> that these ways are what is on.

These are the things that I am able to say, Lord Jesus, help me to die today of it. >> You would know the weight of your cross. >> It wouldn't be a guess if I'm carrying one or not.

Now the weight could shift at different times but you would know the weight of your cross. So Josiah he came to this place of grief because then he realizes that they have been living in deep disobedience. He realizes that his sincere devotion was not the same as informed obedience.

You have to know what is it that the Lord requires of you and to follow it. The book existed. It was just ignored and lost.

when it was recovered and he heard it. You see, throughout this conference, there are words you've heard. Some of the things you've heard, you may have heard before, but you ignored it.

You discarded it and the Lord brought it back to your hearing again. There are things that you study in the word that the spirit of the Lord is bringing to your hearing again. How you respond matters.

Are you going to be like the generations before Josiah that in their arrogance would ignore it? Or are you going to be like a Josiah that will tear his robe and say, "Lord, we've been living in rebellion and we did not even know it >> because we were so ingrained in what is happening in the culture and fighting for my race and fighting for my voice and fighting for my body, my choice, and fighting for all these things that we lost. sight that we were actually in rebellion.

>> And what you do with that information is what changes everything. Because you see Josiah, it is believed that Josiah did not know about this prophecy until later on when he actually went to Bethl. That if he ever knew about it, it would be when he went to Bethl.

But all that is playing out was not in response to a prophecy. It was in response to his encounters with the word of the Lord. his genuine response and as a result prophecy is playing out.

>> You see, just because there is prophecy concerning your life does not mean it would 100% play out. You have a part to play. >> How you respond has a part to play.

I can never forget this. When I had my do, actually before I had my daughter, before I even met my husband, the Lord gave me a word and he says, "If you don't do what I've called you to do, I will have to pass it on to your daughter." And I didn't call her to do that. What was the Lord saying?

There is prophecy concerning you. There is my perfect will concerning you. But if you choose yourself over the truth, >> the word will not fall to the ground.

>> I will pick someone in the next generation >> to pick it up. But then what happens to your life? What what happens to the life you lived on earth that even though you were living but your life catered to dead works?

>> Is that what you want to stand before your maker >> that even when he gave you breath >> you served dead things? Wow. >> Because there is only there are two influences in this life.

There is the influence of the flesh and there's the influence of the spirit. And the Bible will say that the works of the flesh, the things of the flesh are against the things of the spirit. >> Flesh is what man became due to the fall.

Because the Lord told them the day you eat of this fruit in dying you shall surely die. >> And then all of a sudden one day the Lord says now that seeing that man has become flesh. That was when the Lord began to shorten the days of man because flesh has to do with the fallen nature.

This was never engineered in the plan and the will of God. Flesh is the place where Satan plants his seeds. Flesh is a dead thing.

Flesh is the evidence of death. In dying, you shall surely die. The death in the body, the death became that which we now called flesh.

And if all your life caters to the desires of the flesh and it doesn't cater to the desires of the spirit, then that means you served your life on dead things. There is a reason why a man came to Jesus and said, "Jesus, I will follow you, but let me first bury my father." >> This there's this doesn't sound like a bad thing. >> Jesus is a family person.

>> He goes to weddings, >> goes to tombs, and calls people back. Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead." Because in that moment, he wasn't being insensitive to the fact that someone needed to bury his father. But he was revealing that you cannot follow me and your mind is on dead things.

YOU CANNOT SAY THAT BECAUSE OF A DEAD THING, then just give me a little bit more time. >> Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead." >> So you understand what it means to follow him. The works of the flesh are dead things.

You think you're, you know, this this lust you have for that person is just you. No, no, no, no. It's a dead thing.

What are you going to serve when you know the word of God helps you? You see, I love what it says in Hebrews 4:12. It says, "For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit." When you don't know his word, soulish decisions, you call it the spirit of God.

Things that are against his will, you find language that say, "No, I just felt led by the spirit." No, no, no, no, no. Is there is there a word that can back this up? >> Is there something in the character and the nature of God that can back this up?

That's why many people will fall in depression because a woman will say that the Lord told me this person was my husband. And if you don't know the character of God, >> you will not know how to divide that. That was the soul >> speaking to you, not the spirit.

>> You have to know his word because it's in the knowledge of his word and the meditation of it your willingness to be open to it and meditate on it is where you realize if you're really in alignment >> or if you're far from him. You see, in Josiah's time, there were three key things that speaks to where we are in in the land today, in society today, idolatry was normalized. The law was ignored, right?

The the generations before him ignored it and forgot it. And spiritual compromise was what they called culture. Don't just follow trends.

Question them. What spirit is this serving? >> Whose kingdom is this advancing?

>> You see, your good intentions are not the same as God's instructions. >> Josiah had good intentions in restoring the temple. But when he heard the law, he would soon realize that God was not just invested in this external devotion, he was coming after the hidden loyalties of idols, of idolatry that he was not just after what things look like on the outside.

He was after the idol worship taking place in the land. You can have good intentions But good is only defined by God, not you. And so you want to know what is it the Lord is saying.

And he wants the exclusivity of your worship. That him alone is what defines your life. Him alone is your confidence.

So there are things you can walk away from, things that you may desire, things that you may like. But when you know this is not pleasing to my father, that's worship. Worship is not the only thing you do with your hands up.

It's your life on display. Thank you, Lord. And then let's look at this really quickly because we're going to pray.

You jump to 2 Kings 23 from verse 15 to 18. Moreover, the altar that was at Bethl and the high place which Jerobam the son of Nebat who made Israel sin had made both that altar and the high place he broke down. This is prophecy playing out because Josiah chose to approach the things of the Lord with humility.

He approached it in repentance. He took responsibility not because it was what he did but because he was in a position where he could tear it down. It says he broke down and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder and burned the wooden image.

And then all of a sudden it says Josiah turned and he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which ca which the man of God proclaimed. Who proclaimed these words? Then he said what great then all of a sudden there's a gravestone that stands out to him.

And he says, "What gravestone is this that I see?" So now pay attention. It says, "The men of the city," not his men. This tells you the level of ignorance.

They were walking into this. That it was not THAT JOSIAH WAS AWARE OF THE prophecy and just came into the city and say, "Let me fulfill the prophecy." He says, "What whose gravestone is this?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have actually done against the altar of Bethl." And then he said, "Let him alone. Let no one move his bones." So they let his bones alone with the bones of the prophet who came through Samaria.

Just stand with me. Thank you, Lord Jesus. See, my prayer is that when you would meet your maker and you begin to hear what the Lord ordained concerning you, it would be the playbyplay of the life you already lived.

that when you encounter the Lord and he opens up his books because when you read the book of Revelation you will learn that there's not just one book open it's not just the book of life there are books opened up books about your life but that when you have when you hear now some of these prophecies can come in in bits in puzzle pieces to you. Someone may come and give you a word about your life. You may have a dream seeing yourself doing things that you're like, "This is not I this is not my profession.

This is not me. I've never done this." It's the Lord giving. Sometimes you may be reading the word of God and the scripture jumps at you.

is the Lord giving you a puzzle piece. But the fullness of that prophecy is never shared to you at once because if if everything was given to you, then are you living a life to respond to it or be led by the spirit? But if you move in humility, if you choose life and not death, if you choose to serve the desires of the spirit, if you choose to give yourself to the word of God, if you choose to meditate on the word of God, that it will not just be random thoughts, but it will travel to your heart.

Because the heart is where belief is shaped. And whatever is in your heart is actually that which you do. You see something the Lord began to teach me is that free will is not really about the freedom of choice.

Animals have choice but their choice is based on instinct. We have choice but our choice is based on the belief. Your actions say what you believe.

There was this whole thing about if you know better, you do better. But I really believe that it's when you believe better, you do better. There's a reason why often times it takes us 10 years to lose weight.

Can we just be honest? The method hasn't changed. We buy all the books and it's still the same method, but yet these books are still selling.

And the simplicity of the method hasn't changed because it's not about the knowledge of what you need to do to lose weight. And it's not always about the discipline, it's what do you believe? If you're fighting with unworthiness, you're not going to be disciplined to do that.

What do you believe? What has informed your belief system? Was it trauma?

Was it the word of the Lord? Was it pain? Or was it the word of the Lord?

You can never do something in your actions that was not already in your heart. If you've ever had an outburst of anger, it started in the heart. It's not just this random thing you don't recognize.

You may not recognize it. You see, I learned that free will, the Lord started to teach me about it. It's not as much freedom of choice like decision making, but it's freedom of the things you think about.

The freedom to choose what travels from your mind to your heart. That's where you have to be intentional. There is something unique that humanity has that no other creation has and that is metacognition.

the ability to think about what you think about. >> You have to know how to how to set a guard. >> When the Bible says, "Guard your heart with all diligence, >> for out of it flows the issues of life," that word issues actually speaks to boundaries.

>> That the posture of your heart sets the boundaries of your life. So even though the Lord wants to do great and mighty things through you, your capacity is based on your heart. If you're not intentional about what goes happens here, that's why the Bible will say while men slept, their enemy came and sowed tears among the weak.

This is also what happens in the spirit realm. The enemy would plant thoughts. And if you're not intentional and you're just having a pity party, you begin to meditate on his thoughts.

And sometimes you might say, "No, I'm not meditating." But guess what? Life is discipling you. Every time you're on social media scrolling, something is happening in your mind.

Every show you watch, there's a messaging that is coming across to your mind. That is why if you have a basement, the day that you if you ever watch that horror film that something happened in the basement, you stopped going to yours. You know why?

You didn't meditate on it. But it actually because you didn't take you you you even why would the Bible say take every thought captive? You need to arrest it and find out who sent you.

>> And if this does not align with the way my father thinks about me and that is why meditating ON THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT just this random command when he says med on this law you shall meditate day and night. It is to preserve and expand you because when you meditate on his word, it goes from thought to belief. It it begins to shape and that belief system is where your actions are produced from.

You can never do beyond what you believe you can. There are things the Lord requires from you, but there are practical disciplines he also requires from you. Study his word.

When you're in a gathering like this, you're come to a conference and people have spent time with the Lord to pour out. Write down the scriptures. Take time to meditate on it.

Don't become arrogant to think your heart is fertile ground. What if it's stony? And the enemy doesn't need much.

He just needs to bring up a little sun, a little tribulation, a little shaking, and he could uproot that word. So you want to take time and say, "Lord, I don't want to just read your word. I want it to read me." A walk with God is very intentional.

If you really want to be who God called you to be, it is very intentional. It doesn't happen by default. Think about the time you invest in engaging with shows.

Give some of that to the study of his word. It would radically shift and transform your life. Thank you, Holy Spirit.

Thank you, Lord. I see the angels of the Lord in this place. Thank you, Lord.

Just be in a space of prayer. The first thing I see the Lord wanting to deal with. If you're in this room, you you don't The Lord is he he already sees where you are.

This is not the thing I will call you out for. But if you have committed an abortion, take time right now and bring it. If you've never repented of it, this is not about shame.

There is no condemnation in the Lord. But that does not mean we don't speak the truth. Take the time to acknowledge that yes, Lord, what I I was ignorant in what I did, but what I did was evil before your sight.

I walked in direct disobedience with the child you wanted to bring forth. Thank you, Lord. You see, sometimes what people don't realize on that table wasn't just a child you aborted.

It was a piece of you that was left on that table. A fragmented part of you. Because I see the Lord now even making you whole, restoring you.

You see, there's a part in the scripture that talks about soul hunters. Satan is a soul hunter. The battle for your life is a battle for your soul because it's the place it's the place of your thoughts, is the place of your belief.

And by a product of that is the place of your decisions. And the Lord is showing me many who literally your souls have just been fragmented. Some were on the tables you chose and some was not.

Some was on the bed of rape and molestation. But you see, we serve a God. something the Lord taught me which so healing when we call him the beginning and the end it's just not another name is the fact that he can go to your beginning he can go to the little girl who felt abandoned who felt alone who felt like they didn't know who to turn to who to share who lost her sense of safety and that began to shape how she saw life.

But I see the Lord restoring you within the soul right now. Just be sensitive and stay in the place of prayer. I see an angel of the Lord who is moving around the room to purify you.

to cleanse you, to make you whole. There are some you will feel the love of God come upon you like a garment. You've had all the appearances of devotion, but there is something deeply broken within you.

Spirit of the living God, touch your daughters. Now, you don't know how to believe for yourself, but you cannot deny the existence of the God you serve. So, you keep going.

But something deep down But he is called the one that restores my soul. The Lord has a way to touch you. That just like he heals the body and you cannot explain where the tumor went.

that even now the spirit of the living God is going to begin to touch your soul and you will look for the pain but you the pain is not attached to the memory. Have your way Holy Spirit. Have your way Holy Spirit.

Thank you Jesus. And there were some I see the hand of God coming to set people free. There are some in this room because of the things that shaped you.

You came in agreement with the voice of the enemy in how you began to live. You started to live in a reckless way, in a way of promiscuity. And that only gave That only gave permission to demonic spirits to have more influence over your life.

And sometimes these spirits will visit you in your dreams. They will molest you in your dreams. Even in your waking they will you will feel what is happening in your body.

There are some that you will wake up and you will have markings on your body that were not there when you went to bed. But the hand of the Lord is coming to strike judgment on every demonic spirit that has placed deposits in you. Spirit of the living God, locate your daughters and begin to set them free.

Whatever they have been fed, whatever they have ingested, whatever was deposited that has been blocking rivers of living water to flow, purge them now. Purge them now in the name of Jesus. Wherever they are in this room, THOSE THAT WOULD BE WATCHING, wherever they are, spirit of the living God, would you locate them now?

Loose them from every bondage. Loose them in the name of Jesus. Every stubborn spirit, every demonic spirit hiding, THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD is upon you.

Wherever you came from, whatever invited you, even the actions of the people of God, BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORD JESUS, I SHUT the doors and we loose you now. I speak liberty over this room. Loose them.

Loose them wherever they are. Let every demon that has found a way to hide as your personality, if it is not in the word of God, IT IS NOT YOUR PERSONALITY. It is the expression of a spirit.

>> Lord, as your angels move through THIS BUILDING, >> LET THEM set these people on fire. >> I [music] open up my heart. No music.

No music yet. No sound. No sound.

Not Not yet. Everyone in this room should be praying. >> Don't worry about what is happening next to you.

>> If you're not helping, you should be praying because the Lord wants to visit your home. >> Be sensitive to the voice of the spirit. Thank you, Jesus.

There must be a cleansing work BEFORE THE LORD WILL begin to release mantels in this place. Thank you Jesus. >> Begin to ask the Holy Spirit, what is what how have I been living?

What do I call a personality that is not me? Don't be ashamed OF THE FACT THAT YOU MIGHT BE IN THE intercessory team and there is a demon influencing what you call personality because it is in your honesty the Lord will set you free. It is in your humility it will be exposed and expelled.

Anger is not a personality. >> Outburst of rage and wrath is not a personality. Any form of addiction, there is a spirit that is invited to sustain it.

There are women. >> You've been defiling yourself because you don't know how to It's like you can't control your own urges. SO EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY NOT BE DOING anything with somebody else, you do it to yourself.

And I see the hand of the Lord to set you free. >> Hallelujah. Because the spirit of lust has many ways it exos itself.

Spirit of the living God. Any woman in this building, anyone listening, locate them now that is dealing with addictions they don't have control over, locate them now. Let the HAND OF GOD COME UPON them and loose them.

Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. Let it break.

Every spirit of death that has AN ASSIGNMENT AGAINST GOD'S CHILDREN BEFORE THEIR TIME, >> the judgment of the Lord is against you. You've been having suicide ideation. It was not you.

There is a there is there is this quota that I see over families that the enemy wants to sustain. People in the FAMILY HAVE NOT LIVED. THERE IS A PARTICULAR family I see and I WILL USE YOU AS A point of contact.

NO ONE IN THE FAMILY LIVES past 60. And you think that YOU ARE SOCIETAL JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE SOCIETAL, just because you're a little bit depressed. There is something trying to keep a stronghold over the bloodline.

Jesus, I use this lady as a point of contact. Let the spirit of God locate her and everyone under the sound of my voice that the spirit of death has marked before their time and loose them now in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord.

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

Thank you Lord. You see even coming here. Oh, thank you Jesus.

There are people that come to church because it's like you only feel sane when you're here. Because I saw demons that were waiting at the door. They know they CAN OPPRESS YOU HERE.

BUT THE MOMENT you leave, they join to you. BECAUSE THERE ARE AGREEMENTS IN YOUR HEART. You see why the heart matters that they know they have legal grounds, but you must choose to decide how you're going to live.

Spirit of the living God, whatever is engineering lukewarm behavior in the lives of your daughters, separate them from it now in the name of Jesus. Nothing will meet you at home. Nothing will oppress you any longer.

I come against every tormenting spirit against your life. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. I see this angel that is bringing purification still moving.

Be sensitive to what the Lord wants to do. Lord, altars that were erected generations before their birth and those spirits are looking for them. It wants to continue.

It is still demanding a life. Thank you, Holy Spirit. I disconnect you from it now in the name of Jesus.

I see a lady. There are things that the Lord is doing, but I see a lady on this side. Thank you, Lord.

And I see the Lord cutting the strings. There is a spirit that has been coming to you, has been showing up in your dreams, asking you to serve because there was an agreement that was made generations before you. You don't know anything of this, but yet you're tormented at night because of what is demanding you to do.

But I see the hand of God cutting the strings. Cutting the strings. And this spirit is always trying to draw you to the water.

Spirit of the living God, set that lady free. Set her free. Set her free.

Set her free. Loose her from every generational stronghold. Set her free.

Stand as the Asian of days and go where where our feet can never take us, your blood can reach. Loose her from that demonic contract. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

I see some other people that what that's why I'm happy there's the trash bags. There are things that they literally fed you in your dreams. And if you trace it, there are some of you that from the moment you started seeing someone feeding you in the dream, there was a lot of inactivity in your life where all of a sudden you just started hitting this roadblocks by the hand of God.

Whatever they fed you will come out of you. Thank you Jesus. Purge them.

Purge them. Purge them. Purge them in the name of Jesus.

Purge them. Oh God, purge them. Purge them.

Purge them. Purge them. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Satan, you have no place. You have no place.

Not now, not ever. You have no place. Your hand has been exposed, and never again will you torment God's daughters.

Even the men in the room, there are things that are resonating. Receive it wherever you are. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. What the enemy meant for evil, God will work it for your good. You see, I want you to pay attention because in the same spaces of things that the Lord has brought deliverance to many from, he is sending you to bring others with you.

And that's why in just a moment, thank you, Holy Spirit. You see, there is a posture you must have for certain mantels of the Lord to come upon you. But it's not just enough for a mantle to come upon you.

A mantle is the help of the Lord for the supernatural things of God to come to you naturally. that there are things that require supernatural abilities but it will flow through you naturally and the mantle is always connected to your ordination in God that according to who God has called you to be because he is the supernatural to your natural that's why you know when when the Lord calls you in any however he calls you whenever you see a man or woman of God. Now, in the context of ministry, whenever you see a man or woman of God that is compromised repeatedly, run don't try to make excuses for them.

This is why because it reveals that they have confused the anointing to be them. And so, the fear of the Lord goes out the window. You are not the anointing.

This is what keeps you at the cross. It's what keeps you humble. It what keeps you in the place where your only desire is him.

Because you know that without him, you cannot even effectively be who he's called you to be. And so never confuse the anointing or the mantle of the Lord as you. No.

And I say that because what sustains it is a consecrated life. There are some that you're going to feel the hand of God come upon you so strongly in just a few moments. Spend time with the Holy Spirit tonight and ask him, Lord, what do you desire of me?

And keep that posture not just for a day. Live a Ed life that maybe once a week whatever you you you you see there is something you know when the Bible talks about 30fold 60fold 100fold different degrees of how you can receive from God 100fold comes in when there is a word of the Lord that comes to you you respond to that word you do it exactly according to the way the Lord shows you a hundfold But 30, 60, I don't want to go too deep into this. You can be the one to start.

You don't only fast when the spirit prompts you to fast. Jesus said when you fast, when when you pray. Do you only pray when the when the Holy Spirit says pray?

You wake up, you pray, you're going to bed, you're in prayer, you're in communion with the Lord. You have to keep a place of Lord, I want to live a fasted life. Why?

Because there's so much distractions in this life. That is my intentionality of my communion with you. That once a week, a week, one week, every month, something like let it be a part of who you are because There's only God.

You You see, God is so big, so grand that some of the best words you will get from the Lord, some of the best revelations you would receive from the Lord concerning you are connected to the questions you ask him. Because the question means your heart is prepared. But there are things the Lord has been waiting to share with you if you will come up higher because there are things you can never see on the level of flesh.

The Lord has no affiliation, no agreement, no communion with dead things. So there is a place you must come up higher in order to see. Moses didn't always need to go up the mountain, but the Lord will ask him, "Come up." Was not just about the mountain.

Even the actions are speaking of the ways of God. You can't encounter him always on your level. On your level, he would encounter you as a child for you to know he loves you, right?

For you to know he's there. For you to know he called you. But what did he call you to do is not at that level.

You have to come up higher to know it. So live a life of fasting, of prayer. Ask the Holy Spirit what else does he desire of you.

There are things the Holy Spirit will desire of you that is not sin to your neighbor. That is when you know your walk with God has started. That he goes beyond good and bad.

And then it's about good and God. There are times the Lord will say to you, "Don't eat this for one year. There's nothing bad eating it." There were times where the Lord would literally stop me from eating meat.

It wasn't because I needed to go on a, you know, vegan protest. It had nothing to do with that. It didn't change my love for me.

One time I remember I was like okay because the you know you start trying to justify things. That is why in the garden I was trying to justify it to make it make sense to me. I started researching about vegans.

Then I was like wait this is a bit too much and I was like Lord I really still love me. He says yes but you will give it up for this time period. Actually, he didn't even tell me when.

But I was so happy when he said, "You know what? Have a snack." [laughter] But even at that time, I already lost the appetite for it. Now, I do eat meat.

Okay? I'm just trying to tell you, there are times where the Lord will tell you to not do something for six months, for one year, not because you need to justify it as evil. No, no, no, no, no.

But to you it is what he requires. And when you know what to do and you do not do it, it is sin to you. Just be in a posture of prayer.

I see mantels that the Lord wants to put on people. Thank you, Holy Spirit. I see eight mantels in this place.

Let's just worship a little bit. Spirit of the living God, the daughters in the room that it is their time and their season. Understand this.

Never feel like you the Lord passed you by. No, times and seasons belong to the Lord. Seasons are not corporate [music] events.

Not everything is about affects everyone the same way. Now, there are corporate words that can go out to a nation and to a people, but there are times where there's specific things God wants to do. And it doesn't mean that because he touched one and he didn't touch you meant he passed you by.

No, it just means that your timing will come. But when it comes, make sure he finds you ready. And he finds you ready by what you start today.

Not just what you add, what you subtract, the way you live your life. So spirit of the living God, I thank you. Wherever these women are, begin to locate them now.

Let this mantles come upon them and let it come upon them with fire. Let it start now. Let it come upon them with And let it be stronger.

Let it be stronger. Equip them, oh God. Equip them, oh heavenly father.

release it. Oh God, all eight mantels be released upon your daughters wherever they are in the room. the one that has disqualified herself.

But you know her heart, oh God, and you have weighed the motives of her heart, and you say this one is pure. I see some that the Lord is anointing your hands with fire and this mantle is coming upon YOU FOR HEALING. THERE IS ANOTHER I SEE THE GRACE OF AN intercessor is coming upon you.

You will begin to have encounters with the angels of the Lord concerning territories. They will begin to give you the counsel of the Lord. I see a woman that the Lord by his hand would bring you into heaven's courts.

Let the prophets arise in the name of Jesus. Let the mantle OF THE PROPHETS THAT INDEED it is your time to arise no more hidden in a cave. LET THE PROPHETS OF GOD BEGIN TO ARISE in this place.

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

Oh have your way. Have your way. Have your way.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Let the evangelist begin to arise.

[music] The Lord is opening up the nations to you. [music] The Lord will begin to encounter you and give you visions and begin to reveal where he wants to send you, what you must say. you will know that you are not going by yourself.

You are not an orphan in this thing. [music] Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you [music] Jesus. If you know that the Lord has touched you in one way or the other, just draw near to this altar. Thank you Lord.

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

[music] Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. I see one mantle left.

Let it locate that which the Lord has purposed [music] for it in the name of Jesus. Signs and wonders will follow you. Signs and wonders will follow you.

this person that I see, it feels like the more you pray for people, you begin to question, God, where are you? You've interceded for many people in their [music] hospital beds, but yet they passed away. And you've been wondering, God, where is Jehovah Rafa?

Why is it that you're always encountering cases [music] where the people you pray for pass on? And I see signs and wonders [music] begin to follow you. They will begin to follow you.

Spirit of the living God, locate that woman. Locate [music] her now. She started to lose her faith.

She started to feel weary, but she still stayed on her post. And for that reason, the Lord says, "I have found you [music] faithful." Thank you, Jesus. Lord, I pray for healing in the bodies of your people that wherever [music] they need healing in their body, if you need healing, just place your hand on that part of your body or just touch your head.

Let [music] the healing power of God flow through this room. There are women whose wombs have been locked up in the spirit and the Lord is unlocking [music] your wombs now in the name of Jesus. Regardless of what the doctor has [music] said, I see pregnancies and about literally the announcement [music] of pregnancies about to flow.

The unlocking of [music] wombs. No longer would you have miscarriage after miscarriage. Thank you [music] Jesus.

And women who have just been in the place of waiting, good news [music] is coming and you would be the one sharing it in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord. There is a woman that I see.

You're actually already 3 months pregnant, but you don't know. The Lord will confirm it to you. Then go to the hospital.

Lord, I thank you that you bypassed her mind so she would not even talk herself out of it. She's been wondering what is happening to her stomach, but all along she's been pregnant. Just didn't know.

and you didn't know because for so long you haven't actually seen your period. So that was not an indicator for you and the Lord is touching you now. Thank you Holy Ghost.

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