Category: Naijasermon Counselling Unit

When we talk about PRAYING FOR LONG at a stretch on a regular basis, many feel it is an additional demand to their insufficient time but it actually supposed to be a substitution.

Just take a little minute from the time you spend surfing the internet, take a little from the one you spend gossiping, a little from your oversleeping time, a little here and there, you have some hours!

7 am to 10 am is 3 hours. What did you do with those hours on Saturdays? A little more sleep or searching the internet?

9 pm to 12 midnight is 4 hours! I bet that many of us don’t sleep until midnight. What do you use that 4 hours to do? That is a good time to pray as well.

You’re having a sleepless night, tossing from one point of the bed to the other. Stand up and pray. Exercise in the place of prayer, and you will land on the bed again exhausted and experience a refreshing short but deep sleep.

You’re travelling in a bus, what do you use that time for? To reminiscence? To fantasize? But can you use a chunk of it to pray?

Why not PRAY now? Yes, Now. Pray! Pray!

You thought you had prayed for one hour but found out you only did 30 minutes, READ THIS

“Sincerely there a day I tried praying for an hour but when I reach like 30minut I thought is even more than one hour. But God will continue to help us to grow more”

REPLY: No. Don’t look at the time. Just tell yourself, I will check the time when I am very tired. When you check the time and you see 30 minutes, don’t say- so I only spent 30 minutes, say, I have just 30 minutes left. The first 30 minutes usually look long but the second 30 minutes is usually short.
Try it.

Do you use to imagine things in your head? Like when you have the money you will buy a car, go back to your old school and show that teacher…blah, blah, blah.

Do you usually dream and imagine yourself doing superhuman things? Fighting people, disappearing and appearing, etc all in your dream while you sleep?

Fantasy is an enemy of spiritual vision and revelation. Spiritual vision and revelation are communicated through your mind. Devil fills our mind with fantasies to make it drooling, heavy and dull. It can’t pick visions and meaning quickly. You can’t ascend easily.

Have you fantasised about an uncle paying your school fees, do they?

This happens a lot to young ministers: you fantasized about preaching a powerful sermon in your head? Was the delivery not the opposite of your fantasy?

What to do? Control.
If you are fantasising about an event and you remember, “I shouldn’t be doing this, this event can never happen anyway”. Suppress and stop it. It will take time but your will is strong enough.

Instead of fantasising that this post, for instance, will gather many reactions and bless a lot of people, I will just speak it in the form of CDA or prayer or say ” God is taking all the glory over this post”. That way I resist the long fantasizing and the usual disappointment that comes after it.

What of dreams? Even in those dreams, you used to know that you were dreaming, right? But you usually enjoy the Spiderman moves. Wrestle yourself to wake!

Tell me what your revelation and vision as well as hearing from God is like after a month of conscious effort to stop this habit.

Where is the place of good imagination and dreaming big in your mind? Those will take care of themselves but take note- meaningful imagination is usually short while long fantasies used to seem like a madman talking to himself for a long time. He will even be blushing, giggling and smiling.

Like, if Theophilus Sunday just gave me a surprise on my wedding day like this…

If this is you and you can relate with all I shared here, oya gather here, let’s confess and receive grace to MOVE UP HIGHER IN THIS NEW YEAR.

PROPHETIC POTHOLE
⚠️ 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 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 have 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. There are also trainings that can bring you closer. We do that in the School of the Prophetic.

So, 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.

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What to do with the devil
Let me tell you a story I read about Smith Wigglesworth.
Smith Wigglesworth was out one day, he saw a woman who was waiting for a bus with her dog following her. She said to the dog ‘Get back’ but the dog only shook its tail. She said the second time ‘Get back’ but it won’t obey. Then the bus arrived. This woman stamped her feet and shouted Gett….’ The dog tucked its tail under and ran off. Smith Wigglesworth forgetting himself shouted: that is how you have got to treat the devil!

You have been informed that you have authority over the devil but it may not easily succumb until you have stamped your feet or taken your stand on the Word.

It is interesting that the same letter “d” starts the words devil and dog. I have always felt that the pronoun ‘he’ shouldn‘t be used for the devil, it should be ‘it’. Using ‘he‘ is an exaggeration because the devil is not worth much. If you see the devil, tell him I said that it is not worth much.

Everyone knows someone who is very lavish in giving. He seems not to care that people are taking him for granted. And though many people have shown him shege, he still gives and gives.

There’s this other person that gives but has principles. You don’t get his money if you’re not deserving it. For instance, if you have two hands and two legs and you’re begging for money, he won’t give you a dime. He is nice but he has principles.

If you are in the second category, I urge you not to allow your principles to block your blessing. Have you realized that the first person who seems stupid never went broke all these years? There is no money ritual like lavish generosity. They never go broke! Giving to the poor is not because of them but because you have a command and a responsibility to bless

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If you’re in the first category, you should learn some things:

1. Do things for yourself too and do it now. You’re not good at savings, so do things. Buy or build a house NOW. Buy a car(s). Buy good clothes. Take care of yourself too.

2. Plan for the future of your children especially their education. You’re the first Angel God is sending to them. Open a savings or an investment account in their names and put something there. You will not always work the way you are working now. God will take care of them but you’re the first person he is sending to them.

3. If you realize someone is taking advantage of your generosity, maybe God has substituted their name with another person. You may want to look elsewhere or only give to them when you like and not when they ask.

4. Learn to settle people, especially family members if you’re capable and let them know that you have terminated your appointment with them with that settlement.

5. You cannot help everybody and you cannot help everytime. Stop the guilt-givings.

We must all step up in our generosity this year. It is God’s way of enlarging us.

The devil has captured many people’s thoughts. So many believers are demon-oriented and overdosed with many testimonies of the devil’s exploits. They are poisoned with fear and have become prey to the devil.

They have lost their testimonies and battles against the powers of darkness because the signs and symptoms returned or refused to go. They have ordered the devil to get out of their lives but Satan checked back with the same symptoms, so they gave in and thought they had lost.

Jesus commanded the devil out of a young man but it was as if the case went from bad to worse but Jesus was not moved, He was resolute in faith and the next moment, the boy stood on his feet.

Many have said that the day they prayed the most was the day the devil came to visit them with very terrible nightmares and so they accepted defeat. What they don’t know is that the nightmare is just like a trick played by the devil as in the case of that young man.

it doesn‘t mean that you have lost the battle, it only points to your victory. All you need do is to stand on the word. I assure you if you would arise and say: ― “Devil, you are a loser because the Word of God says…” then you will see him tuck its tail and run off.

In this new year, you are walking in DOMINION over all the works of the devil!

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

The first thing the Lord ask me to tell you about the Year 2024 is that REMEMBER NOT THE FORMER THINGS.

I got another meaning to that prophetic word sometime last year. When God said “Remember not the former things”, He is talking about “old glory” and your “old testimony”. Whatever God did for you last year, it is just the tip of the iceberg besides what this year has in stock for you!

The last testimony you had that you thought was the best of God for your life, listen to me: it is NOTHING! BEHOLD A NEW THING! Behold, a new season! Behold, a new realm of Glory! Behold, a new beginning!

2024 is the 10th Year of SADOZ. 10 is 5 in two places. It means for you- DOUBLE GRACE! It means for you, DOUBLE HARVEST. It means for you, DOUBLE JOY!

Double Grace means Double Work. Apostle Paul said that he had more grace and so, he gave in double labour. Be intentional in your service, in your career and about your life generally this year because this grace shall not and must not be in vain over your life!

New Year Greetings
Caller: YEAR 2024
Respond: MY SEASON OF JUBILATION
Caller: LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO
Respond: IT IS MY SEASON OF JUBILATION

PYP: Welcome to the year 2024, your season of jubilation.
SADOZ IS OURS: Give thanks to God for bringing SADOZ into her 10th year.