Category: Faith Life

  • 2023 OPERATION GATHER PRAYER CARD

    2023 OPERATION GATHER PRAYER CARD

    OPERATION GATHER PRAYER CARD [FEBRUARY FAST]

    1. . Worship God for His covenant and word that wherever and whenever, we gather to seek his face, His presence will be manifested. Praise him in his mighty heaven! Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness. Psalms 150:3.

    2. Decree that Leaders will be anointed afresh with Anagkazo zeal and fire this week as we wait on Him in Jesus Name. But you have made me strong as a wild bull. How refreshed am I by your power. Ps 92:10.

    3. Magnify God for his blessings evident upon the lives of all committed Leaders. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. Psalms 72:17-18.

    4. Declare that multitudes shall come unto Ignite and Prophetic Shower this week to be blessed. For I had gone with the multitudes, I went with them to the House of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept a holy day Ps 42:4

    5. Decree divine strength and wisdom upon all Leaders to align with the mandate of Operation Gather this month in Jesus Name. But those who wait upon the lord, he shall renew their strength; they will rise on wings like eagles; they will rise run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak” Isa 40:28.

    6. Bind every altar of darkness working against the unity and development of all Sadozites in Jesus Name. I tell you this: Whatever you prohibit on earth is prohibited in heaven, and whatever you allow on earth is allowed in heaven. Matt.18.18

    7. Declare that all who have been faithful to the fast will be in everything they do, so they will be a wonder among their peers. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do. Deut 15:10

    8. Declare God’s breathe upon all our retreat fliers and messages to convince people to be present at the retreat centers this week in hundreds in Jesus Name. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Ezek.37.10

    9. Pledge; I will be faithful to the mandate of Operation Gather throughout this month of fast, so help me God.

    10. Bind every ordinances and voices speaking contrary to fulfillment of Operation Gather in SADOZ and lives of Sadozites. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Rev.12.11

    11. Decree that fresh zeal and empowerment be release upon all Koinonia leaders to be effective with Operation Gather in Jesus Name. This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Zech 4:6b

    12. Give Glory to God for giving us our Koinonia Groups as a green pasture where lives are well taught and nourished. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. Ps 23:2

    13. Magnify the Lord for miracles, signs and wonders gathered during the deliverance night 2022. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. Ps 89:1

    14. Decree that the words from the mouth of your servant at Deliverance Night this year will liberate heal and deliver souls. The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand. Ps 119:130.

    15. Decree that multitudes will be added and blessed through Operation Gather in Jesus name. No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said. Ps 89:34.

    16. Declare that miraculous testimonies shall follow Operation Gather, thereby establishing lives forever in this commission.

    17. Declare that multitudes will come into our Retreat Centers by the winds of the spirit in this year of Supernatural Encounters. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved. Acts 2:47.

    18. Decree that every heart desire and expectation be met by the hand of God during this year’s Deliverance Night.

    19. Declare that all attendee of Prophetic Showers and KBI students will continue to grow in power and undeniable wisdom. Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of the heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever” Daniel 12:3.

    20. Declare that the hearts of all leaders are divinely spurred to be involved in Operation Gather this month.

    21. Decree that every life involve in Operation Gather will indeed witness Supernatural Encounter as God’s word to us in this year. But those who wait upon the lord, he shall renew their strength; they will rise on wings like eagles; they will rise run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak” Isa 40:28.

    22. Decree strength upon all SPs as they go around retreat centers this month, thereby signs and wonders shall follow them. And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. Mark 16:17.

    23. Decree wisdom and creative mind upon the media team and image editors as they labor in Operation Gather and Healing Live this month. Now I have sent a skilled man, endued with understanding, even Huram-abi, my trusted counselor. 2 Chr 2:13

    24. Decree supernatural restoration for those faithfully involved in operation Gather and Power Monthly Retreat, so they can abide in this commission for life this month. The LORD says, “I will give you back what you lost to the stripping locusts, the cutting locusts, the swarming locusts, and the hopping locusts. Joel 2:25

    25. Decree monumental increase of all Leaders in this season of Operation Gather in Jesus name. But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. Exod.1:7.

    26. Declare that SADOZites be willing to turn harvesters, driving people into SADOZ retreats and online activities this month in Jesus Name. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke 14:23

    27. Decree that the burden in the hearts of men (laborers) who are fasting and travailing for the Kingdom be answered speedily in Jesus Name. The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! John 4:36.

    28. Command that your members will be present and comment on your groups on Anagkazo day, throughout this season of Operation Gather in Jesus Name. Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. Josh.24.1.

    29. Declare supernatural blessings upon everyone committed to the mandate of Operation Gather this week in Jesus name. “The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. Deut.28.8.

    30. Decree that upon Mount Zion at the IGNITE, this year and forever, all Sadozites will possess their possessions. But Jerusalem will become a refuge for those who escape; it will be a holy place. And the people of Israel will come back to reclaim their inheritance. Obadiah 1:17

  • SEEING MEN OF GOD IN A DREAM – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    SEEING MEN OF GOD IN A DREAM – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    Question: I SAW YOU IN MY DREAMS, we talked but I didn’t remember the things you told me.

    I receive such questions all the time about seeing a great man of God whom you revered in your dreams talking to you but didn’t remember a thing from your discussion.

    Many feels something is wrong with them for not remembering. The thing is, what you heard in the dream, you must get it in the real life and that would only come from intimacy. So, when you see such dreams, it’s more of a leading for intimacy and relationship with the man of God than getting what your discussion in the dream was.

    Those whom you remember things they say to you means that attention should be given to those instructions you heard. Where you didn’t remember, give attention to your relationship with the person.

  • SUPERNATURAL ABUNDANCE IN FAMINE – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    SUPERNATURAL ABUNDANCE IN FAMINE – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    One of the mandates God gave to me and SADOZ as a whole is to raise unto Him billionaire
    It is to move people from poverty to prosperity!
    2Co 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
    I may not have all the money to give you but you see, I have what it takes for you to have a financial change of story and I am going to teach you.

    FACTS ABOUT KINGDOM PROSPERITY

    1. God wants you to prosper
    I am sure that is not strange to you
    But I love the way it makes me feel
    I knew God wanted me to live in DIVINE HEALTH, this is my 9th year of no sickness, no drugs!
    Whenever I discovered God’s wish for me, I am ready to go for it stopping at nothing
    Glory!
    I discovered that God wanted me to prosper big time in my very low moments in 2016
    So, whatever God says it’s a possibility for me, I just want to have it and I haven’t missed any
    I was squatting with a family back then
    Our house had no toilet or bathroom
    I just resigned to the full time ministry
    I had no hope or help in any man
    I was searching my scriptures
    I pray for you, PROSPER IN JESUS NAME
    can you see this?
    2Co 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
    Jesus became a sinner that you may be HOLY
    He became sick that you may be HEALTHY
    The Bible here telling us that JESUS BECAME POOR so that you may be MATERIALLY RICH
    I think you should like it too!
    I love it

    Zechariah 1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem

    You see, there is a limitation placed on one’s life if POVERTY is involved!
    There is also a limitation placed on there kingdom of God where there is poverty
    The kingdom of darkness is spreading fast through prosperity
    Every limitation placed on your life by poverty is hereby lifted.
    They are ready to kill, steal, drug just to have money to promote atrocities
    But believers are complacent
    Your eyes are opening
    God plan for you and I is prosperity
    Deu 15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over there

    It is never to borrow but to be a giver
    You will not borrow again!
    You emerge a giver!
    You shall not lack anymore!

    2.The Prosperity scheme of God is no respecter of famine
    And this is our focus tonight
    There is famine in Nigeria today
    Another one has just being stirred
    I am not so happy to inform you that, this is not the end of inflation
    It will come to an end but surely not now!
    Between now and then, God has a plan of escape for you
    Famine is when there is dryness!
    Inflation!
    Hyperinflation!
    Recession and so on.
    Is like a Pilot getting worried about Lastma
    God’s plan has nothing to do with all this
    Or road safety
    There’s no correlation on their route
    Thus is a believer who is worried about things getting expensive around him
    God planned that it would be NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
    It will interest you to know that most people God turned their story from POVERTY TO PROSPERITY in the Bible, IT WAS DURING FAMINE.
    Gen 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
    It was during SCARCITY and WANT
    That was chapter 12
    See, Chapter 13
    Gen 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold
    It doesn’t take time. It takes light
    It takes the understanding of knowing what the Lord wants you to do and doing it
    The same thing with Isaac
    That was verse one
    Gen 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar
    In verse 12-
    Gen 26
    12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
    13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
    I don’t know how you start the first month of this year, but by the 12th month, you are emerging very great!
    The same with Jacob, Joseph and the rest!
    In fact as the price of food was getting high, Jacob was paying
    As things goes high in this country, you will meet up paying in Jesus’ Name.

    3. It responds to covenant
    God’s prosperity plan recognizes one authority COVENANT
    Deu 8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he *may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
    The blessings will respond to COVENANT and covenant only
    It’s about the COVENANT
    What I will be doing this week and the next is to hight to you the COVENANT that works with KINGDOM PROSPERITY
    if that is truly what you desire

    1. The Covenant of Sowing & Reaping.
    You see, another word for earth is soil
    You’re not permitted to take a thing from the SOIL until you have PUT something inside
    This is the Principle of God
    Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease
    I know this is the part you don’t like but this is the ONLY PART THAT WORKS
    SADOZ as a ministry does all of it.
    There are various kinds of Sowing. I DO ALL OF IT ALL THE TIME
    Jacob sowed in the time of famine
    I guess he risks it all and went to sow it
    Phi 4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning *giving and receiving,* but ye only.

    Paul calls it GIVING & RECEIVING
    Jesus called it GIVE AND IT SHALL BE…..

    1. TITHING✅

    I will highlight just two tonight
    I have never seen a believer/unbeliever who doesn’t steals, cheat and HE PROSPERS.
    If you see one, tell me.
    Not even the richest man in Africa or in the world. Their records are not clean.
    It is only God that can bless a man and make him rich without stealing or cheating
    And that blessing is hinge on the Covenant of tithing.
    The second one is SACRIFICIAL SEED
    In January, some call it first fruit but not everyone is a salary earner
    So, such person can switch to sacrifice
    Some don’t want to give all their salary or more than that, they can also choose sacrificial giving
    In SADOZ-
    We receive a command from God to tell our members to give minimum of their three months salary to SADOZ MINISTRY
    We also have the FIRST FRUIT SACRIFICE or sacrificial seed at the beginning of the month
    These channels are opened for your blessings
    May the grace be released unto you in Jesus Name
    People are permitted to spread their sacrifice seed across maximum 3 months
    📖 Phi 4:17: “Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.”

    1. Via the Zion City Seed Furnished, I got an unexpected contract worth millions (was actually my first). I give Good all the glory. Bro Lucky.
    2. I glorify the name of the Lord for helping me to sow a seed of my salary and now, I live above it that I now have 2 businesses of my own
    3. I came to LFC 2021 as a first timer trusting God for marriage. I got engaged that same December even before I paid my seed and now I am married to God’s choicest man Halleluyah. O. Oyebimpe.

    But I pray to you, the heart that sows, RECEIVE IT
    the heart that reaps, RECEIVE it
    IN JESUS NAME

  • CAN A PASTOR ORDAIN A PROPHET – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    CAN A PASTOR ORDAIN A PROPHET – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    QUESTION: I know that God called me to be a Prophet. But my spiritual father is a Pastor. I don’t want him to ordain me.

    ANSWER:
    Smiles. First, who told you that your spiritual father is a pastor? He could be a prophet or even an apostle. He might have decided to take on the title of a pastor for many reasons. Many younger people think they are the only ones called into “big big offices” lolz. There’s no small office anyway, there can only be small minds.

    Second- who told you that you have to be ordained by a prophet?

    That’s by the way. Here’s the clarification-

    First- When you are ordained, you are ordained into the ministry and not into an “office”. That’s why in SADOZ, we don’t indicate office. You fill that space up yourself. Your first/initial/primary/ordination is into the ministry as a whole and not into an office in particular. Yes, there could be more than one ordination. The others can be targeted towards specific offices if you’re so led. David for example, was ordained thrice. He was first ordained by Samuel (a prophet and judge) into the ministry (kingship in this case). He was ordained again as the King of Judah and then as the king of Israel. You can be ordained by any title-carrier in the ministry. Just ensure that the person is in the ministry. (Advisably, a full fledged full-time minister).

    Second- Pastor is used as a generic term for ministers. It doesn’t necessarily typify offices. That a person is tagged a pastor either by the reason of his denomination or personal choice doesn’t mean he is. So, don’t “look down” on a pastor as someone who is unfit to ordain you just because he didn’t use a “bigger” title or wear two caps.

    Besides, why do you want to be ordained as a prophet or an Apostle? Does a year one medical student go about claiming to be a Medical Doctor? What will happen when he is asked to come and treat a patient? You are expected to GROW in your calling. When you go about with a title at an undue time, a “apostle” for instance, you may be under pressure to “perform” or demonstrate the signs of an apostle and that will weary you.

  • FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO CONNECT TO MY SPIRITUAL FATHER – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO CONNECT TO MY SPIRITUAL FATHER – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    Question: “I have a Spiritual Father, I don’t enjoy listening to his messages or reading his book. I am not just connecting, what can I do?”

    Firstly, the PRIMARY purpose your spiritual father is meant to serve in your life as a mature believer is not to teach you mysteries and algorithms of the cosmological exegesis parallelism.

    He is to BE YOUR COVER AND GUIDANCE (advice). You see all those mysteries and the rest, leave it to your mentors & teachers.

    In my case, what I know is that whenever my spiritual father prays for me, God answers. When I sow a seed to him, I see RAIN! Bishop Oyedepo loves to mention the kingdom principles he learnt from different mentors but rarely will you hear him say I learnt ABC from Baba Adeboye. But he would always say that when Baba laid hands on him, he receives the Spirit of Wisdom. So, as a culture every year, in May, Bishop Oyedepo would invites Pastor Adeboye to lay hands on him and the whole family.

    That’s why if you pick a man whom you have no physical contact with as your spiritual father, you are only playing.

    Your Father gives you SPIRITUAL COVERING & GUIDANCE. He is appointed over you not by what he has or knows but by God’s wisdom just like your earthly father.

    You will respond to your father by SERVICE (Physical- as opportune & Financial) and Honour.

    If your spiritual father is resourceful- has books and messages but you finds it difficult to connect to those materials. Then, you may have to change your approach. Maybe you felt you should listen to his messages and read his book just because he is your father. That’s not bad but where it seems that’s not working. You should approach his materials from the angle of “NEED“.

    Are there areas you need more exposure? Run through his materials and see if you can at least read ONE or listen to ONE. If you can’t find an area of need, then, run through his resources and see if you can find any that will attract you and give you a body of knowledge. Either way should do and gradually, you will enjoy doing so.

  • YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    One of my sons said: I thought when I began to tell visions, I will command a crowd. I told him that I thought when we begin to have signs and wonders, we will have a lot of people.

    There’s this pastor around my house. He kept repeating a miracle God did through him. He was saying it in a way like: “can’t you guys in this area see that God is here? Leave your churches and come here!”

    Okay, he didn’t literally say that but that was what he was insinuating. He actually said: “if I were those people, it is this Church that I would be coming to all my life”. You see, even the people that had the miracle didn’t become his members. A pastor friend told me how God used her to heal the mad and other miracles yet even the man that was cured of madness didn’t become a member.

    So, whenever I see someone who said: “he wants to major in calling names and all so that people can believe in his ministry. I know such a person is just kidding and being naive. The “people” you are trying to impress and make you lose focus- ask yourself, does it worth it?

    No one can receive a thing except it is given to him by the Lord. Use the grace God gives you to bless those he sent to you. Your audience needs what you have and what you have is what your audience needs.

    I am not discouraging you against the use and manifestation of the prophetic gifts. If you know me too well, I encourage and impart believers to manifest it even more. But when we talk about ministering, you should have the ability and God will use you in it but I am talking of “majoring”. If you try to major in a dimension but you keep struggling in it, it is simply not your place. Simply put: “I can drive but I am not a professional driver

    In my earlier post, I even state that you can be called a prophet but not flow in the prophetic dimension of calling names and phone numbers. Don’t struggle there or keep forcing it. God doesn’t think like man thinks. You are just a clay. YOU HAVE ALL YOU NEED.

  • Secret of successful marriage – MotherTreasure

    Secret of successful marriage – MotherTreasure

    What do you think a successful Marriage is
    Before anything, let’s see what a successful Marriage is

    If it is when you see people blush over each other

    Wear the same outfit

    Shout a couple of goals on the internet etc.
    Though they could be present they are not the core thing
    As beautiful as those this is, they don’t define a successful Marriage,
    Things
    Let’s see what a successful Marriage looks like

    ✍🏽Successful Marriage is staying happily in marriage, fulfilling purpose together, and walking in unity till old age or till death do you part.

    If any of these three is missing we can’t categorize such a Marriage as a successful one

    Staying Happily in marriage

    Fulfilling purpose together

    And walking in unity till old age or till death do you part

    Those three look very simple to achieve but there is so much work to put in to have those things surface
    These three are core things we should look out for before we conclude that marriage is a success

    So tonight I will be opening your eyes to the secret of a successful Marriage. You need to know that there is no single SUCCESSFUL marriage that happened by accident
    Though achievable you must put in the work.

    Are you married and looking for a way to make it a success?

    Are you a single brother or sister that aspires to a beautiful Marriage?

    Then you must pay full attention
    If your marriage will be a success, it must be founded in God

    ✍🏽Founded in God

    There is nothing good the devil or the flesh will give you
    Genesis 2:18–22:

    Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”…So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

    If you follow the devil’s instructions or your desires in choosing it will be a tough one
    It is important to allow God
    You must go to Him in prayers
    You must close your eyes to your self-desires and follow God promptly
    Else you will only be wishing and wishing
    Let God do the finding
    Allow God to give you the prepared one for you
    It usually gives a smooth ride
    2. Preparation

    You must be prepared
    Prepare yourself with knowledge
    You must be equipped with the right knowledge
    Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

    Proverbs 19:2
    Many people are caught in the web of fallacy
    Imagining the imaginable after watching a Korean movie
    Now let’s see the things that make up a good marriage
    Imagining breakfast in bed and many other irrelevant things
    Equip yourself with the knowledge of what to do and what not to do to have a successful Marriage

    ✍🏽Forgiveness

    1 Peter 4:8: Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
    If you think those with successful Marriage didn’t offend each other at one point or the other, you will have to think again
    There will be an offense
    You must be able to look past your partner’s mistakes if you will have a successful Marriage
    You will commit error but you must be able to forgive each other
    There will be mistakes
    Forgive should be a gift you are willing to give at all times
    Whether they are sober or not, they deserve to be forgiven
    If you think they are not changing over time, you can forgive and move on
    Though the married can’t just walk away😹
    Forgive your wife
    Forgive your husband
    The other couple you see that appears like their home is Faultless has just learned one thing you didn’t learn, which is FORGIVENESS

    ✍🏻CLEAVE

    Matthew 19:4-6:

    “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said,

    ‘ For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
    You must learn to CLEAVE
    To cleave means, to become one with your spouse
    If you allow your family member no matter how close come between you, You have uncleaved
    If you allow your mother to come between you and your spouse, you have uncleaved
    Become one in everything
    Your partner first
    How they will feel over an issue first
    What they think first
    If any opinion will be welcomed from outside they it should be someone you both agreed to consult
    What they want first
    Many men are still sucking their Mama’s breast
    They put their mothers over their wives
    If you love your mother so much that you can’t imagine taking any meaningful step in your life without consulting her pls stay unmarried
    Before you mirror your wife’s character with the next-door or woman’s own, mirror yours with her husband’s too😒
    Before you say, didn’t you see how mummy Teresa honor and Respect her husband, check out how daddy Teresa makes his wife his priority🤷🏽‍♀️
    Cleave
    Everything
    Everything
    Every single thing
    Must be done by putting the other person first
    Make friends with your spouse
    Not after you have considered how you and one of your family members you take the dare to your heart will feel, you now drag your spouse along 👼🏽

    ✍🏽Friendship

    Proverbs 17:17: A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

    Be there for them
    It is very important
    Making friends with them makes it easy to forgive and discover who they are
    You will get to know them intimately
    What their views could be on a particular issue
    You get to rob minds together
    Create time to play, gist, and go out together, isn’t that what friends do?
    And before you know it you are 90% on the same page
    Let’s see more points on Thursday as God will be helping us

    Thank you, Jesus, for the light shared tonight

    It shall birth success indeed our lives in Jesus’ name

  • DESIRING THE PROPHETIC –  Pst. Ife ADETONA

    DESIRING THE PROPHETIC – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    ⚠️ you may not like the language of this post, but if you don’t mind, let’s go.

    First, I want you to know that the “prophet’s office” is a very large one. So big that every prophet is distinctive from the others. We can go further to categorize. Some see VISIONS and GIVE WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE & REVELATION as if they are drinking water. If you’re not close to them, you would think maybe they fasted or prayed to enter that realm but not so. It seems to them as natural as a talent just like calling someone gifted in songs. Even if they sleep all night while others keep vigil, when they wake, it is vision or word.

    If five of us enter a room. Those with this ability have already seen ten things in 10 seconds. While you are still trying to scan, they have given words of knowledge and wisdom. Again, I tell you, they didn’t necessarily “train” to be there. A day convert appointed for this role would see more than a 10-year prayerful pastor who is not pre-ordained for this. It is pre-ordination. They only fast, pray, train and live a holy life to keep it fine-tuned. The gift itself came to them by predestination.

    So, it is not all ministers that would be prophets and it is not all prophets that would be calling names and phone numbers. If you struggle to get visions and knowledge or it doesn’t flow naturally as you see in some people, do not force it. Do not blend your ministry or tilt it towards it. Do not think that because God said you’re a prophet, you must MAJOR in that dimension and do not feel inadequate if you are not.

    Your audience is waiting. They were selected right from heaven even before your ministry started. Forget about who or what is in the vogue. God knows what your audience needs and it is not what you think they want (visions). Let those who like visions go for it. Some are meant for what you offer, they will come.

    Look at great Ministers like Sam Adeyemi. Is his church scanty? Is he a prophet? How many times have you seen Pastor Kumuyi or Oyedepo call names or give words to specific people even when their congregation was few? How many words of wisdom/revelation does “prophet” Adeboye has in a 45-minute ministration? Are their ministries not blessed?

    Thank God for prophets who major in seeing visions and calling out people, especially those doing it in the right way.

    I have also not said God won’t use you in this dimension but if God does not ALWAYS or READILY use you in that dimension, don’t force it. Desire it, yes but don’t force it. A fish swims naturally in water even though it can still walk on land. Find your water and flow in it. Your faithfulness to your uniqueness will bring you closer to your desire than ambition.

    Shalom.

  • FORMING NEW HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS 2 – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    FORMING NEW HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS 2 – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    In the place of New Year Resolution and goal settings that often fail us
    We are talking about how to CHANGE OUR HABITS
    You can approach things in a better way
    We mentioned various things but tonight, I will emphasize what we can IDENTITY BASED CHANGES
    Let’s say you struggle to read books before now
    Your goal for the new year is TO READ 10 BOOKS

    That approach is called OUTCOME BASED APPROACH
    And then, you begin to make efforts and pursue reading 10 books.
    Who reads BOOKS…a reader.
    But look at it this way
    Are you a READER?
    There is a difference between a person that says…. AM POOR AT READING, I am going to set a goal to read 10 books this year
    And a person who says I AM A READER, and so, I am going to read 10 books
    Nothing changes on the outside until you have changed the person on the inside

    And it all starts with WHO YOU ARE
    And that should start with changing your IDENTITY
    You are not trying to change how you behave but changing you

    Now, once you believe and confess your new identity always, you should begin to provide EVIDENCE for your new identity
    Okay, you are a READER…every day you read even if it’s a page on the principle of 1% change. You are affirming that you are a reader
    So, you must stop saying NEGATIVE IDENTITY
    I Am lazy
    I laugh in the public
    I sleep too much
    I am not living healthy
    I live healthily
    Into new ones
    I am hardworking.
    I control my laughter
    I sleep adequately
    The more your identity is cemented, the better you get in your new nature

    And then, everything you do toward that goal cement your identity.
    To form a new habit, let’s check

    HOW HABITS ARE FORMED IN THE FIRST PLACE

    Let’s talk about HABIT FORMATION
    When you are bored, what do you do?
    psychologists believe in a 4-way process of forming new habits-

    CUE👉🏼CRAVING👉🏼RESPONSE👉🏼REWARD
    Some people play games
    Some people scroll the social media
    Some people watch movies
    Etc

    The next time you got bored, after thinking for a while, you do the same thing
    How did you think it started?
    One day, you got bored CUE
    You were looking for a way out of the boredom CRAVING
    You picked up our phone to play games RESPONSE
    You feel satisfied REWARD

    It has now grown beyond just spending a little time but you can’t wait to escape work and start to play games
    The third time, without thinking, you just do it
    You become addicted!
    There are several habits like that going on around us
    I am supposed to have drank up to two bottles of coke or malt in the just concluded week or at least today

    Whenever I feel stressed and didn’t eat CUE
    I just want to eat something because I wasn’t ready to rest CRAVING
    So, I will drink coke or male RESPONSE
    and feel relieved REWARD

    but because I had ca ough and soft drinks aren’t good for coughs, somehow I went through the week without DRINKING A SOFT DRINK
    I didn’t realize that I had formed a habit of tasking soft drinks without knowing.
    Even though I have the same feelings I used to have
    They didn’t come automatically, you LEARNT them
    Same way, several habits rule our lives
    When you get in from outside, I am sure the first thing you do is cut off your clothes and wear comfortable ones
    When you feel sexually aroused and you watch pornography or masturbate it was a habit you FORMED over time
    No one has to remind your brain, you just found yourself doing it!
    You have formed the habit
    Why?
    How?
    To now unlearn a habit, you can follow the same pattern
    That is the process of HABIT FORMATION

    Let’d break it down
    If I want to form a new habit today…

    CUE makes the cue VISIBLE
    CRAVING makes the craving ATTRACTIVE
    RESPOONSE Make the response EASY
    REWARD make the reward SATISFYING

    I want to start waking up EARLY.
    That’s my goal or my new habit
    How can I make it VISIBLE?
    To attach identity to it, I would just say I AM A SUCCESSFUL PERSON and every successful person wakes up early.

    1. Write it on the wall of my bedroom.
    2. Change my phone password to “early riser”
    3. Tell me every night and morning.

    And many more…
    Making my cue visible makes it possible for me to always remember and see it.
    Once the alarm rings, I SEE IT ON MY PHONE
    I can set activity on my alarm for 55 amand labels it “early riser”

    Step 2, Craving… MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE
    Calling myself a successful person has made it ATTRACTIVE already!
    Meanwhile, I can attach it to something I enjoy doing.
    I have observed that when I wake up, I enjoy going through my phone. It makes my face get lit and cleared.
    So, I told myself one time, when I woke, up I will go through my phone
    Meanwhile, I always snooze my first alarm unless I am fully awake or disturbing someone
    So, before the next alarm, I have risen because my face is now cleared
    That way, I have made waking early attractive to my body
    Once I roll out of the bed, that’s it!

    Step 3: RESPONSE, make it easy.
    I used to hold my urine cos I know once am up even if it was 1hr before my waking time, I can’t get proper sleep again
    Make it easy for yourself to take the first step
    In your case, it could be throwing away your blanket!
    Your own could be removing the pillow
    So, this time, your aim is not to WAKE EARLY but to throw away your blanket at 5:30 am
    Just look for an easy way to start
    Someone wanted to be s reader and so he said “at least do 2minutes”
    If you plan to read your Bible daily. The day you were supposed to miss, just do *2-minutes*.
    Soonest, you will find yourself befriending your Bible more than ever
    You can write it in a book. And marked yourself as a success
    Of you succeeded in waking up. Do something for yourself that looks like a celebration

    Step 4- Make it satisfying.
    Is someone getting me?
    Such a thing will make your mind wants to go for it again and again
    So, ask asking Yourself.

    Step One- HOW CAN I MAKE IT VISIBLE

    step two- HOW CAN I MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE

    Step three- HOW CAN I MAKE IT EASY

    Step four- HOW CAN I MAKE IT SATISFYING

    If you study the process of HABIT FORMATION, it can help you to form and unlearn habits
    Receive grace and help in JESUS’ NAME

    Titus 2:
    11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, note

    12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

    13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,

    Father we thank you for your word tonight help us to be that e doer, empower your son the Jesus’in Jesus’ mighty name I have prayed

  • FORMING GOOD HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    FORMING GOOD HABITS, KILLING BAD HABITS – Pst.Ife ADETONA

    In periods like this, what we usually consider is GOAL SETTING for the New Year
    Our topic for TONIGHT is-

    FORMING GOOD HABITS
    KILLING BAD HABITS
    Even though many of us feel bad as a result, but am sure many of us are already giving up on goal setting because the ones we set in the previous years didn’t materialize and we didn’t follow through. Many have decided not to set goals again or to just set hopeless ones
    But tonight, I am going to show you a better way to achieve great goals whether you set one or not.

    Honestly, goal setting is not the problem but our approach to meeting those goals is.
    And in actual sense, if we work on our approach, we may not need to set any goal. Imagine an Athlete who didn’t plan to come first in the race but decided to make certain changes to his habits and routines. He wakes at 5 am every day to work out and exercise till 8 am
    If he continues like that without breaking for a whole year, by the time competition comes, do you think he’s going to come last
    In eating healthily and keeps himself in a good mental condition
    A student who goes to class.
    Study well.
    And revise rightly is not going to fail.That is if he doesn’t come first.
    Not at all
    They are beautiful goal
    What am I saying, I don’t know the goals you have set for the years either in your work life or family or otherwise.
    Do not throw them away
    But I need you to take another sheet and look into YOUR HABITS.

    Habits are the tiny dots and routines that we do almost automatically
    You may not like routines are the bedrock of habits but are a product of your habit either good or bad.
    So, FORMING POSITIVE HABITS will culminate sooner or later in achieving great goals!
    From the time you wake from bed to the hours you spend aimlessly on the phone to what you eat and the movies you watch, they are all HABITS that you live on daily a basis
    If I do not set a goal to have As in all my courses but I do what successful people do daily then, my DISTINCTION is sure

    KILLING BAD HABITS that you have also taken on over time will also culminate into making you a more fulfilling person
    And if I set goals for As and I do what is right, I will also have the right result

    LAWS OF HABIT FORMATION

    1. Respect 1% Changes and celebrate your 1% Result

    So, let’s focus on the process.
    On the HABIT FORMATION
    I know many of us to wish to make a big change all at once.
    You want to lose 20kg!
    But you can make a big difference by adjusting your habits just by 1%
    You want your C-looking results to become A-parallel
    If you would just improve your prayer life by 1% DAILY, your prayer life would have improved by 37% before the year ends
    It is said that if you adjust by 1% daily, you would have a 37% change by the time the year ends
    So, it’s good to look forlfor for ffor adjusters you can make here and there
    In Japan manufacturing companies at the time, made just a little change
    They cleared out every junk and dirt so much that workers don’t have to look for their tools and nothing else but their tools would be in the room. Every other unnecessary thing would be out
    As the result, they delivered a better design.
    Little adjustments like making your bed before you leave the room
    Placing dirt in a waste bin
    Those little things can make you AN OVERALL ORGANIZED PERSON which had being your long-term pursuit
    Returning your shoes, pen, and all to where you picked them from
    Saving 100 a day won’t be a big deal.

    But that’s 700 a week
    Even if it is one of them that you do daily, it will have a culminated effect.
    Like, instead of taking a bike, you woke early and took a cab and then save the money
    Instead of buying two types of meat, you bought one and saved the money for one
    Instead of drinking coke, you drank water
    In all, you saved up 100/per day
    Then, in a year, 36,000
    In a month, what will it be? 3000
    That’s still it much right?
    This is 2023, if you started doing that in the year 2020, you will have how much today?
    Imagine you have a 36k somewhere right now that you don’t need?🙅🏽‍♂️
    You can decide to save up that way or begin to rationalize the example I give but that’s not where I am going
    What I am showing you is How Powerful 1% changes here and there can do for you
    If you adjust in every area of your life just by 1%, and you do it daily. You will become a different person
    In neatness, 1%
    Social interaction, 1%
    Savings, 1%
    Prayer life, 1%
    Chat up 1 member daily….and so on.
    Imagine what you would become before the year ends!
    Now, let’s flip that rule to another side…
    I just explained using it to form a new habit

    What about killing a bad habit

    Many people would tell you big things they want to stop a bad habit but they find it difficult to do.
    Meanwhile, making little adjustments can form a big change in the overall
    Somebody who gets angry on impulse could say- “I WILL SWALLOW MY SALIVA BEFORE I TALK”
    If she does that every time and every day before uttering a word, before the year ends, anger would have subsided big time.
    Imagine someone who says, I have a bad reading habit but I will read a page of a book each day.
    As little as putting your DRESS, SHOES, WATCH, etc by your bed before you sleep every night can help you get to work early every day!
    Do you know how I formed the habit of bathing every night before I sleep?
    I used to have a lot of bumps on my face. My wife told me to watch my face with soap every night.
    To do that, I have to get to the bathroom.
    After some weeks of putting water on my face. I Kuku ma bathe the whole body
    If your kitchen is always untidy and you don’t like it.

    You can start by washing one plate before you go to sleep
    Today, my body calls for it on its own no matter how cold
    Do that every day and tell me what happens after some weeks or months
    Or washing just one plate before you rush out
    Look for tiny things to change or adjust and you will see the bad habit erode away
    And then, CELEBRATE YOUR LITTLE WINS
    Because we don’t see success at all or big success we soon give up
    It means if you putin thee some effort every week, you can always have 4+1
    In 52 weeks, that’s 4+52
    You chat up 70 members this week but only 4 shows up. Celebrate it!
    By the time you got to have 59 members, many things would have worked for you that it will be easy for you to get 95 Members
    Let me tell you some of those things
    If you do it constantly for 10 weeks.

    You would have learned how to convince members FASTER
    And so in
    You would have identified the type you should spend a lot of time with and the ones you should not bother about
    I talked about celebrating your little wins
    On*
    You may not have gotten there but Celebrate the fact that you are doing what YOU WISH TO DO. You are in charge!
    Celebrate that you could wash a plate out of the whole stake. Your kitchen is still messy but yeah, you have done something about it however little.
    But if you was a plate every night before you sleep, soonest, you will find a way to clear them all out as a habit!
    Don’t wait for an hour you will wash all at once and your kitchen would be sparkling.

    Only for it to go messy for another week

    2. IDENTIFY WITH YOUR NEW HABIT

    Seems we will only have two or three laws today.
    I know many of us to find it hard to bathe at night before we sleep.
    But just imagine if bathing at night could add to your beauty by 37%
    I know you would do it
    A man had a bad habit to use his teeth to cut his nails.

    Many won’t accept that it’s a bad habit 🫣
    He is a grown successful man but still does that all the time
    So, in a way to stop the habit
    He asked that a pedicure come to work on his nail.
    He got a pedicure and he saw how beautiful his fingers were through the treatment
    That added to his self-esteem
    And so, he wants to look that way all the time.
    I mean a manicure*
    He started paying attention to not ruining his nails
    Now…if you’re trying to form a new habit, ask yourself, WHO ARE THOSE WITH THIS HABIT?
    And begin to see yourself as one
    DISCIPLINED PEOPLE don’t sleep for 12 hours….you know you have a bad sleeping habit but from today, WHO ARE YOU?
    Organized people always have their space tidied up…begin to see yourself as organized and stopped calling yourself clumsy
    Successful people wash their teeth, at least twice a day, WHO ARE YOU?.
    Stop saying, I AM VERY BAD AT REMEMBERING THINGS OR NAMES. Smart people are not forgetful.

    The new habit you target to form, PUT THE IDENTITY ON.

    The bad habit you are quitting, stop identifying with it
    The Bible talks about a rich young man
    He said he has kept all the commandants since he was young.
    Mathew 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up:
    That’s a habit.

    And that habit pays off in a few years.

    He became a very rich man!
    I thank the Lord for the way this teaching went tonight.

    This is my first time teaching along this line.

    Don’t miss the second part of this teaching, there lies your deliverance, it link is here https://healingnexusblog.com/forming-new-habits-killing-bad-habits-2-pst-ife-adetona/

    I want to believe that you found it impactful
    FATHER, we thank you for your word and enables tonight.

    We receive the grace to apply it to our own lives. And rightly teach it tomorrow for maximum impact in the life of everyone in Jesus’ Name