Category: Warfare

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.

I will be opening us to some FACTS ON PROPHECY:

1. Every believer can manifest it.

Normally, you’re not supposed to pray for it. It’s not something preserved for some believers. Moses even said long ago that he wanted everyone to prophesy (Num 11:29).

God said it in the book of Joel:

Joel 2:28-29
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters SHALL PROPHESY, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

2. Everybody can interpret their tongues which is tantamount to prophecy.

The Bible says when a person interprets their tongues, it is just the same as prophecy (1 Corinthians 14:5). The first thing you need to know about the interpretation of tongues is that it is called INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES and not translation of tongues.

It’s all about HOW MUCH YOU ARE ENABLED TO RECEIVE PER TIME. The interpretation can be shorter or longer than the tongues you speak.

Once interpretation wants to come, you will know. You will feel it.

3. You can prophesy to yourself privately.

Every time you pray, God has a message for you. Always practice the habit of prophesying in your private prayer life.

4. You can record or write your prophecy.

You can record or write down your prophecy. You are praying in your room, and a message wants to come, you can hold it while you look for a book or pen or grab your phone to press record.

5. You can also prophesy publicly, but it must not go against the law of prophecy.

Public prophecy must not work against those laws. When people hear the prophecy, THEY MUST feel EDIFIED at the end of the day.

6. Liars are likely to lie in their prophecies too – Mathew 7:20.

If you’re prophesying, by all means, avoid lying. If you can’t hold lies, it may influence your prophecy.

7. Knowledge of the word and sound doctrine will give quality to your prophecy.

Your prophecy will get better when you are exposed to quality teaching. Evaluate every prophecy with the word of God.

8. Judge prophesies with the word – 1 Corinthians 14:29.

In all the churches, we have extra and extremes. We should endeavor to bring every practice under the balance of the word of God.

9. You will not go unconscious – Acts 2:12-16.

Normally, when you prophesy, you won’t go unconscious.

10. You will not forget your tongues or prophecy.

11. Flesh can come in if your motive is not pure, including wanting to impress – James 1:14.

12. Your spirit is subject to you – 1 Corinthians 14:32.

If you want to activate the gift of prophecy in you, find a quiet place, start with worship or a song that makes you tune into the spirit, stir yourself by speaking in tongues, and let it flow.

Plan for 30 minutes. If it doesn’t happen the first day, try again the 2nd and third day. You don’t need to fast, just a quiet environment where you can speak

SADOZ is the HOME OF THE SUPERNATURAL. It is the HOME for the manifestation of SPIRITUAL GIFTS. When we talk about THE PROPHETIC, we are talking about a few things:

1. Prophesy
2. Vision
3. Knowing things by the Spirit
4. Hearing things by the Spirit.

But our emphasis tonight is PROPHESY.

The first thing you must understand is that, just as GOD wants everyone to SPEAK IN TONGUES, HE ALSO WANTS EVERYONE TO PROPHESY. Do you remember Joel 2:28-29?

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.”

Paul, in another place, said –

“I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied.”

The second thing you must know is that THE GIFT IS ALREADY IN YOU.

Prophesy is not a gift we need to pray for; it is a gift we need to stir and activate from within us. You birth it forth!

IT TAKES FAITH. When I say it takes faith, I do not mean some complicated thing. You believe that God can use you and that God is using you. But for you to say what God is putting in your mind means you have the faith.

Rom 12:6 says, “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.”

Here are two crucial points:

3. You will not go unconscious while you are prophesying.
4. You will not forget your prophecy.

Now, let me ask you – HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT THOSE THAT PROPHESY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING WHILE PROPHESYING???

You feel they are unconscious somehow, can you signify? I want to tell you that people used to feign as if they were unconscious, but the truth is that they are not. They think that if people know that they are in their senses, they will think what they are saying is fake.

If you can prophesy here, in the house, please tell us sincerely – DO YOU GO UNCONSCIOUS?

Remember, before you started speaking in tongues, you also thought that those that SPEAK IN TONGUES go unconscious. But you have realized now that you don’t go unconscious, right?

5 – People don’t forget their prophecy, and that is because they are not unconscious.

They can remember even though they can forget after some hours or days. This is the way prophesy comes – it’s like a hose or pipe. It can’t store water but water passes through it. The words you are speaking forth pass through your mind before coming out of your mouth.

I will show you in the Bible that the first PEOPLE that prophesied in the Bible did not go unconscious! In the book of Acts Chapter 2, we saw 120 people got baptized for the first time ever in the New Testament. They spoke in tongues and also PROPHESIED because people were ministered to.

The people hearing them started saying all kinds of things. They said maybe they were drunk. Tell me, if they were unconsciously or didn’t know what they were doing, HOW DID PETER HEAR THEM? But do you notice that Peter heard everything they were saying?

Acts 2:14 – “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.”

Peter even said – “LOOK AT THE TIME.”

No.6 PROPHESY is like a bottled coke.

I will explain. If you understand this analogy and you have faith, you will prophesy in less than 20 minutes from now. Prophecy is like a bottled coke. When you SHAKE A BOTTLE of coke rigorously and you OPEN the lid, what’s going to happen?

Thank you. It will gush out. How many of us have been praying in tongues one time, and you felt as if God wants to use you to give prophecy? You even hear the first line like: ‘I AM THE LORD’ coming to your mind. But you refused to speak it because you feel maybe you are the one thinking it or that since you were still conscious?

That first common statement you’re hearing in your mind is the LID of the bottle! If you can speak out that FIRST WORD by faith, THEN THE REST WILL START GUSHING OUT.

Do you get it? Yes, the first STATEMENT is usually the common statements around you. It may be slightly different or the same.

HOW PROPHESY HAPPENS.

1. A son or daughter of Zion who wants to prophesy should find a quiet place or where he is alone.

2. He should start with a worship or song that makes him tune into the spirit.

3. He should begin to STIR himself by speaking in tongues.

4. As soon as he hears the first word like “I AM THE LORD” rumbling in his mind, He should begin to speak.

5. The rest will start gushing out.

Plan for 30 minutes. If it didn’t happen the first day, round up your prayer once it’s 30 minutes and go again the 2nd and third day. You don’t need to fast, just a quiet environment where you can speak.

It is important that you understand yourself or you call it the concept of prime time, this is the time in which you are most active, it is the time when you are always energized to perform some certain tasks. I have been opportune to counsel some people about their prayer lives. And very often, they come up with complaints such as; they sleep off whenever they are set to pray, some would even say they don’t know why their prayer life is under attack, and claim that the devil is after them. One time, I was counseling someone and he said: “my day time is meant for praying normal prayer while my night time is meant for warfare prayer, and because I’m waging war against the devil, he attacked my prayer life as a means of fighting back.” I was so amazed and guess what? As we continued further in our discourse, I discovered that he is a farmer who works rigorously in the day. Then I was prompted to ask him who told him day time is meant for normal prayer and night time is meant for warfare prayer, I even found myself asking him whether there is a difference between normal prayer and warfare prayer. I told him to kindly cite an example of a normal prayer, but he could not give me a sound explanation. Likewise, so many people have been under the shackles of this mentality that if they cannot pray in the night between 12 am to 3bam every day, they have not prayed yet, or their prayer life is not fire branded. Even if they have time in the day, they will not pray because they have been held bound by that mentality that it is at night God answers prayer. This is a capital NO!

It will surprise you to know that the number of times Jesus prayed all night inside the Bible was just twice. Although it may seem more than that because it appeared throughout the Gospels. Meanwhile, I will like you to bear in mind that I am not talking against praying at night. In fact, I pray twice in the midnight in a week and I’ll encourage you to buy the idea because you have been given the ability to do so. But what I am emphasizing on is the fact that “You should not allow condemnation or Guilt” to set in. Don’t think that if you do not pray in the night, the prayer you pray during the day is not effective, do not see yourself as someone who is bad or lazy. lt is God Himself that does not sleep, Psalm 121:4 rightly affirms that. It says “they that keepeth you never sleep nor slumber.”

Can you keep yourself? Or do you think it is the prayer you offer in the night time that is keeping you? If it is, then it is synonymous to you not sleeping at all, all the days of your life. You might be thinking about where Jesus says “while men slept,” Jesus was talking in parable at that time and Jesus wasn’t addressing that we shouldn’t sleep, in fact the Bible records it that Jesus (Himself) slept at night.

WHAT TO DO.

Mark 1:35;

“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.”

The prime time is the time which you are having much capacity to pray, and you must understand yourself in doing that. For some people, they may find it easy to pray without dozing around 4 am to 5 am, or 4 am to 6am, but such may find it difficult to pray around 12 am to 1am, they may sleep off and not be active.

This is a principle practiced by Jesus during the day. He would go around to heal the sick, deliver the oppressed, travel from one region to another region, but during the night time, he sleeps. Meanwhile, this does not mean He did not understand that He needs to pray, but He would sleep so as to conserve energy to pray before day break and that’s usually around 4 am in the morning, and by doing so, He tried praying by the time. He only rests for the day, because he would not be active.

INTRIGUE OF THE SPIRIT.

Do not forget that we have addressed the switching by the Spirit which leads to unstructured prayer. And when this occur in the middle of the night, or when you are about to rest in bed, the extra energy to pray will be made available, you can partner with the Holy Spirit to maximize that moment. For you to have an effective prayer life, you must understand yourself and understand the concept of prime time.

ACTION:

Sit down and think about your prayer life (time.) Are you always active during those times? If yes, congratulations! If no, think of a better time you can fix which will be of immense help to you personally.