THE MYSTERY OF ROARING NATIONS (PART 1) – (DIGESTING THE TWO ROARING FEASTS OF PRAYERSFIRE MINISTRY THIS YEAR)

14820. The Mystery Of Roaring Nations (Part 1) – (Digesting The Two Roaring Feasts Of Prayersfire Ministry This Year)

Everlasting Father, we thank you for THE MYSTERY OF ROARING NATIONS. Teach us again tonight as we sit at your feet to learn knowledge of wisdom which is sweet as the taste of honey from the honeycomb. Thank you, our glorious Rabboni.

PSALM 46:6 (International Standard Version):

“THE NATIONS ROARED; the kingdoms were shaken. His voice boomed; the earth melts.”

14821. A ROAR IS A FULL DEEP PROLONGED AND BOISTEROUS UTTERANCE OR SOUND BY A LION, OR A BIG WILD ANIMAL, OR BY A CROWD, OR BY AN AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE OF A VEHICLE OR AIRCRAFT, OR THUNDERSTORMS…

EVERY ROAR CARRIES INTIMIDATING AND SCARY SOUNDS.

IF A ROAR IS A SOUND, JUST AS INDIVIDUALS CAN MAKE A SOUND BY SPEAKING, A NATION TOO CAN MAKE A SOUND OF A ROAR!

A ROAR IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF RECOGNITION!

A ROAR IS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF FAME, POWER, AND SURPASSING AUTHORITY

THERE ARE SILENT NATIONS

THERE ARE SPEAKING NATIONS

THERE ARE SHOUTING NATIONS

BUT THERE ARE ALSO ROARING NATIONS

A ROARING NATION IS:

1. A PROMINENT AND OUTSTANDING NATION RECOGNIZED FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, OR
2. ECONOMIC AND TOURIST DEVELOPMENT HUB, OR
3. EXPLOSIVE POPULATION WITH DEVELOPED MEGA CITIES, OR
4. SUCCESSFUL MILITARY EXPLOITS AND FORTIFIED AMMUNITION AND NUCLEAR POWER, OR
5. COMMERCIAL AND DIPLOMATIC INFLUENCER.

THESE ARE THE FEW DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A ROARING NATION IS.

BECAUSE A NATION IS ROARING NATION, MANY AVERAGE PEOPLE FIND IT DIFFICULT TO CATCH UP WITH IT’S FAST PACE AND ALSO FIND IT DIFFICULT TO SUCCEED IN SUCH NATIONS!

THE ROAR OF SUCH NATIONS MAY DROWN THE AMBITION OF MANY PEOPLE. THAT ROAR MAY ALSO SCARE AND INTIMIDATE MANY PEOPLE FROM ENTERING THE GATE OF THEIR SUCCESS IN LIFE!

MANY A TIME, MOST ROARING SUCCESSES IN LIFE COME FROM DWELLING IN ROARING NATIONS (PSALM 106:7-13)

IF YOU BOLDLY CONFRONT AND REFUSE TO FEAR THE ROAR OF A ROARING NATION, YOU WILL OVERCOME. YOUR FEARS AND THE THREAT TO YOUR ROARING SUCCESS IN LIFE.

HOMEWORK: WHICH ARE THE ROARING NATIONS FROM THE GLOBAL LIST OF THE 193 NATIONS OF THE WORLD?

14822. TONIGHT IS NEITHER FOR PREACHING NOR FOR PRAYERS.

IT IS A NIGHT OF TELLING OURSELVES HOME TRUTHS. SOME PEOPLE CALL IT BITTER TRUTHS.

IF YOU’RE ON THIS ALTAR AND A MEMBER OF THIS STRANGE MINISTRY, AND YOU LIVE THE LIFE OF AN AVERAGE PERSON, I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE IN A WRONG GROUP. AND YOU WILL NEED HEAVY DOSAGE OF DELIVERANCE PRAYERS TO FULLY CATCH UP WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE. THIS IS NOT YOUR NORMAL AVERAGE MINISTRY. THIS IS A MINISTRY OF EXCELLENCE, DOMINION, RULERSHIP AND, DISTINCTION!

AVERAGE MEDIOCRITY HAS NO PLACE IN THIS MINISTRY. BY THE TIME I’M DONE HERE, YOU WILL REALIZE YOU EITHER BUCKLE UP OR CRUMBLE OUT!

MEDIOCRITY CAN’T STAND THE SALVOS OF HEAVENLY DISTINCTIONS BEING SERVED ON THIS ALTAR.

GOD IS GLORIOUS IN HIS MAJESTY! HE DID NOT CREATE YOU TO LIVE THE LIFE OF AVERAGE MEDIOCRITY! HE CREATED US IN HIS EXCELLENT IMAGE AND LIKENESS.

14823. WHY I CALLED THIS MESSAGE BITTER TRUTH IS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WILL WEEP 😭😭😭 BITTERLY ABOUT THEIR PARLOUS STATE AND CONDITIONS TODAY.

I WILL NOT PAMPER YOUR IGNORANCE. YOU MUST ROAR FOR A CHANGE OF YOUR CONDITIONS TO BE BETTER TODAY.

LAST MONTH DURING OUR 7-DAY EUREKA FRUIT FAST, I WAS RUDELY SHOCKED BY A DISCOVERY I NEVER PAID ATTENTION TO.

IT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME THAT A FRUIT FAST IS A MONETARILY COSTLY FAST. I HAD EVEN THOUGHT IGNORANTLY THAT A FRUIT FAST IS CHEAP, SINCE ONE WOULD NOT BE BUYING FOODSTUFFS AND COOKING.

I WAS SHOCKED BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO NOTIFIED ME THAT FRUIT FAST WAS AN IMPOSSIBILITY FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T AFFORD THE COST OF FRUITS FOR 7 DAYS😭😭😭

OOH HOW I WEPT😭😭😭 WHEN I REALIZED MY IGNORANCE! IT WAS A KNOCKOUT DISCOVERY FOR ME, I COULDN’T FATHOM IT, NOR WAS I ABLE TO THINK CLEARLY BECAUSE OF THE SHOCKING DISCOVERY.

IN MY “FOOLISHNESS” I LOST COUNT OF HOW MANY PEOPLE I SENT MONEY TO BUY FRUITS THAT WILL LAST THEM 7 DAYS OF THE FAST. TRUST ME, I COULDN’T JUST SEND THEM ONLY FRUIT MONEY, I HAD TO, OUT OF COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS, MULTIPLY THE MONEY MANIFOLD TO TAKE CARE OF OTHER ESSENTIAL UPKEEPS THAT CARRIES THEM BEYOND THE 7 DAYS!

I CALLED IT FOOLISHNESS BECAUSE, I WAS PERPLEXED, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO IN MY TEARFUL😭😭😭 STATE. SO, I TOOK THAT STUPID DECISION BASED ON EMOTIONS, AND SENT OUT MONIES TO MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE IMPECUNIOUSLY STRANDED DURING THE FRUIT FAST.

NOW THAT I KNOW THIS CRUDE TRUTH, AND I HAVE RECOVERED FROM THAT TEAR-JERKING😭😭😭 SHOCK! I WILL NOT BE CAUGHT NAPPING NEXT TIME!

NO AMOUNT OF MONETARY GIFTS WILL EVER SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY UNLESS THE POOR IS TAUGHT HOW TO CATCH FISHES!

GIVING FISH TO THE POOR WILL NEVER SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY, BECAUSE ONCE THEY FINISH EATING THE FISH, THEY WILL COME BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND, SINCE THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO CATCH FISHES.

TEACHING THE POOR TO CATCH FISH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON AND BEST GIFTS YOU CAN GIVE TO THE POOR.

IT’S NOT ALL THE POOR THAT WILL ABSORB AND LEARN TO CATCH FISHES! SOME ARE SLOW LEARNERS, SOME LOVE THEIR CHAINS AND WILL NEVER EXCHANGE THEIR CHAINS OF BONDAGE AND OPPRESSION FOR KNOWLEDGE THAT SETS FREE! SOME HAVE GIVEN UP AND WILL NEVER ASPIRE TO PROSPER, NO MATTER WHAT IS DONE TO UPLIFT THEM. I JUST LOST A SPIRITUAL DAUGHTER WHO GAVE UP ON LIFE FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, AND I NEVER KNEW UNTIL JANUARY WHEN SHE CUT ME OFF! NO AMOUNT OF ENCOURAGEMENTS, AND PRAYERS, AND COUNSELLING CAN SAVE A PERSON WHO HAS MADE UP THEIR MIND TO COMMIT SUICIDE! YOU CAN ONLY TRY TO HELP THE POOR, BUT RABBONI WARNED US THAT THE POOR WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US. (MATTHEW 26:11; MARK 14:7; DEUTERONOMY 15:11)

LIFE IS A COMPLEXITY OF CHOICES AND THE FREEWILL GOD GAVE US CAN NEVER BE TAMPERED WITH. IF HE WHO GAVE US THE GIFT OF CHOICE NEVER FORCES HIS WILL ON US, NOBODY CAN TAMPER WITH YOUR FREE CHOICE IN LIFE, NOT EVEN ME TOO!

14824. I HAVE WALKED THROUGH THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE HOLY BIBLE AND THERE IS NOTHING AS SWEET AS THE GOSPELS! FOLLOWING RABBONI FROM RIVER JORDAN, THROUGH THE DUST OF CANA OF GALILEE, TO CAPERNAUM, TO SAMARIA, ALL OVER JERUSALEM, JUDEA, AND OTHER CITIES OF ISRAEL IS MY SWEETEST ENCOUNTER NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN!

I HEARD HIM PREACH THE BEATITUDES ON THE MOUNT😭😭. I HEARD HIM PREACH FROM THE BOAT OF SIMON PETER BY THE LAKE OF GALILEE. I SAW HIM DEMONSTRATE FAITH WHEN HE HEALED THE LEPER, THE CRIPPLED AND THE BLIND.

I SAW HIM GROANED AND ROARED IN THE SPIRIT MANY TIMES AS HE RESURRECTED THE DEAD. I SAW THE SWEETNESS OF GREAT FAITH IN ACTION WHEN HE MET THE CENTURION AND THE SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN! AAAAAAHHHH!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

THEN, I READ AND HEARD HIM SPAKE TO ZECHARIAH SAYING: “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.” (ZECHARIAH 1:17)

THE MYSTERY OF GOSPEL PROSPERITY IS WHEN THE MISSION SPREADS ABROAD.

YOU’RE A POOR VISIONARY AND MISSIONARY IF YOU HAVE NEVER STEPPED OUT OF YOUR NATION TO GO TO OTHER NATIONS IN THE PURSUIT OF THE GOSPEL!

“…MY CITIES THROUGH PROSPERITY SHALL YET BE SPREAD ABROAD…”

I AM NOT SAYING IT IS COMPULSORY TO TRAVEL ABROAD FOR THE GOSPEL’S AND KINGDOM’S SAKES. BUT I AM SAYING, YOU WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE WILL OF GOD IN GOSPEL PROSPERITY IF YOU DON’T COMMIT YOURSELF TO MISSIONARY TRIPS AND OUTREACHES OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

THIS MINISTRY IS A GLOBAL MINISTRY WITHOUT A LOCAL LIMITATION! THAT’S WHY WE CONSTANTLY ORGANIZE RABBONI DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING CONFERENCES (RDT) IN MANY NATIONS AND ALSO THE ANNUAL CONVENTION AMD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (CIC)

NOW TO THAT LIST, WE HAVE ADDED THE ANNUAL CROSSOVER NIGHT, AND THIS YEAR’S CROSSOVER WILL BE TAKING PLACE IN A ROARING CITY CALLED DUBAI, AND IN A ROARING NATION CALLED U.A.E

14825. BEFORE I SPELL OUT AND SHOW YOU THE TREASURES OF LAGOS AND DUBAI. LET ME TELL YOU A TEAR-JERKING😭😭😭 AND PATHETIC STORY. THIS STORY, IF YOU CATCH THE REVELATION IN IT, CAN SHORTEN YOUR BREAKTHROUGH JOURNEY OF 20 YEARS INTO 2 MONTHS😭😭😭

OVER 2 DECADES AGO WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BELIEVER. I LIVED IN A SLUM. I GO TO WORK DAILY FROM THERE. MY SALARY WAS “FROM HAND TO MOUTH” THAT WAS A SALARY THAT LEAVES NOTHING AS SAVINGS OR SURPLUS AT THE END OF THE MONTH. MOST MONTHS, SALARY HAS FINISHED BEFORE MONTHEND, AND YOU JUST HAVE TO JUGGLE TAKING AN ADVANCE LOAN FROM THE OFFICE, WHICH WOULD BE DEDUCTED FROM YOUR PAYCHECK ON PAYDAY.

 

 

THERE WAS NO COMELINESS, NO ATTRACTION, NO INSPIRATION, NO VISION! NO MISSION! NO THINKING! NO MENTORSHIP! I WAS BEATEN BLACK AND BLUE BY LACK AND WANTS!

I WAS SITTING AND SPITTING ON A TREASURE BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS TREASURE BENEATH THE TRASH OF THE DUNGHILL.

 

 

ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS WHICH WERE FREE DAYS. MY FLATMATE WHO WAS ALSO A CHRISTIAN BROTHER LIKE ME. WE WOULD SIT DOWN AND GISTS, SHARE SCRIPTURES, GO TO THE SLUM MARKET TO BUY THINGS TO COOK.

WE WERE SO MUCH IN LACK THAT WE COULD NOT THINK PROSPERITY THOUGHTS, MUCH LESS TAKE PROSPEROUS ACTIONS! THAT SLUM ERASED OUR AMBITIONS AND VISIONS! THERE WAS NO INSPIRATION, MOTIVATION AND NO MENTOR TO GUIDE US!

THAT SLUM WAS BESIDE A SPACE OF LAND THAT WAS GRADUALLY DEVELOPING TO BE ONE OF THE BEST MEGA BILLION ESTATES IN LAGOS MEGACITY.

EVERY DAY ON OUR WAY TO WORK, WE PASSED BESIDE THAT PIECE OF LANDMASS, BUT WE WERE TOO CONSUMED BY OUR POVERTY TO THINK. WE WERE ALWAYS IN A HURRY TO GET TO WORK, RUNNING ERRANDS AS SLAVES AND SERVANTS OF POVERTY, SO WE WOULD NOT BE LATE. BUT, WHAT OF WEEKENDS WHEN WE WERE AT HOME? WE NEVER VENTURED OUT TO TAKE A STROLL OF FEWER THAN 10 MINUTES TO THAT LANDMASS EITHER FOR INSPECTION, INTROSPECTION OR EVEN FOR MEDITATIONS.

18 MONTHS LATER, I RESIGNED AND VENTURED INTO THE BUSINESS WORLD. I MADE GOOD MONEY IN MY BUSINESS THAT COULD HAVE BOUGHT 20 PLOTS FROM THAT LAND, WHICH COULD HAVE MADE ME A MULTI-BILLIONAIRE TODAY. BUT BECAUSE, ACQUISITIONS AND POSSESSION NEVER CROSSED MY MIND IN THE DAYS OF POVERTY, WHEN A LITTLE MONEY, CAME TO BEGIN ACQUISITION, I NEVER ACQUIRED, I WAS BUSY BEING A PROSPEROUS BUT GLORIFIED TENANT IN DUPLEXES, AND SHOUTING “HALLELUIA I HAVE ARRIVED!”

25 YEARS LATER, THAT SAME LAND HAS BECOME TODAY A MEGA BILLION ESTATE OF THE SUPER RICH AND NOUVEAU RICHE!

WE KNEW OF THE LANDMASS, WE KNEW ABOUT SPECULATIONS THAT THE PLACE WAS GOING TO DEVELOP INTO A HUGE WEALTHY ESTATE. WE KNEW MANY ACQUAINTANCES OF OURS IN OUR SLUM NEIGHBORHOOD WHO WERE LESS ENDOWED, MENTALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY THAN US, BUT WHO POSSESS INFORMATION OF HOW TO ACQUIRE PLOTS OF LAND THEREIN, WHICH WAS RIDICULOUSLY CHEAP THAT TIME. BUT WE DID NOT SEE A REVOLUTION IN THAT INFORMATION! WE WERE TOO BLIND AND TOO HUNGRY TO CARE ABOUT LAND WHEN WE HAVE NOT FILLED OUR STOMACH FIRST!

EVEN IF ONE HAS TO PAY BY INSTALMENTS. AND AS MIDDLE-LEVEL OFFICERS, WE COULD AFFORD A PLOT AND PAY INSTALMENTS WITHIN 3 YEARS!

BUT WE WERE TOO PREOCCUPIED WITH THE POVERTY OF SURVIVAL TO THINK OF THE FUTURE! WE WERE TOO HUNGRY AND TOO LACKING TO GIVE INVESTMENT IN THAT LANDMASS A THOUGHT, MUCH LESS, A STROLL ON A FREE WEEKEND TO CONSIDER ACQUISITION OR POSSESSION😭😭😭

18 YEARS AFTER THAT 18 MONTHS, AFTER I HAD LEARNT ALL THE RUDIMENTS OF PROSPERITY, I CAME BACK TO THAT LAND, ONLY TO PAY 300 TIMES THE VALUE-PRICE OF A PLOT, IF I HAD BOUGHT 20 YEARS EARLIER!

I HAD OPPORTUNITY TO BUY 20 PLOTS 20 YEARS EARLIER, BUT I CHOSE TO BE A GLORIFIED AND IGNORANT TENANT SOMEWHERE ELSE. 20 YEARS AFTER THEN, I COULD ONLY AFFORD A PLOT FOR 300-FOLD PRICE OF ONE PLOT! NOT 20 PLOTS!

WHAT IS THE DESTINY LESSON IN THIS?

THE LESSON HERE IS THAT: “WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH: BUT HE THAT KEEPETH THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE.” (PROVERBS 29:18)

THERE WAS NO MENTORSHIP TO OPEN OUR EYES TO THE TREASURE THAT WE CALLED TRASH OF THE DUNGHILL. NOBODY SCHOOLED US TO HAVE EAGLE EYES THAT GRABS CARCASSES AND TURN THEM INTO GOLD OR PRECIOUS STONES.

WHATSAPP IS A PATHETIC PLACE TO TYPE VISION AND IMPART PROSPEROUS MISSIONS. THAT’S WHY 3 YEARS ON THIS WHATSAPP ALTAR, DESPITE ITS EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONIES, CAN NEVER COMPARE WITH A 3-DAY LIVE ENCOUNTER AT ANY OF OUR CONFERENCES AND CROSSOVERS.

14826. POVERTY GIVES LABORIOUS ASSIGNMENTS TO ITS VICTIMS, AND BECAUSE THEY ARE BLIND, THEY CANNOT BUT CONTINUE RUNNING ERRANDS AS SLAVES AND SERVANTS OF POVERTY, AND THEY DON’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG IN IT.

SOME OF THOSE BLINDFOLDING ERRANDS MAY BE THE TYPE OF “HAND TO MOUTH JOBS” THAT LEAVE YOU NO SURPLUS FOR SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS. NO TIME OF VACATION OF PLEASURES AND SPLENDOURS!

FOR 9 YEARS AFTER BEING BORN AGAIN AND BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST, I WAS A LAZARUS BELIEVER – VERY SURE OF HEAVEN, BUT HAD NOTHING TO SHOW! HAD NO EARTHLY ACQUISITION OR POSSESSIONS TO SHOW AS SURPLUS ON THE EARTH.

EVEN WHEN I MADE GOOD MONEY, WITHOUT BEING SCHOOLED AND MENTORED IN THE COLLEGE OF PROSPERITY, I ENDED UP SQUANDERING LITTLE RICHES THAT CAME MY WAY WITHOUT COUNSEL, WITHOUT MENTORSHIP. THAT WAS 9 YEARS OF EPILEPTIC RICHES MIXED WITH CHRONIC POVERTY.

UNTIL ONE DAY IN 2001, WHEN I SAT DOWN WITH MY BIBLE, UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR 18 MONTHS, TO DISCOVER THE EUREKA MOMENTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN STUDY, IN MEDITATIONS AND IN INTROSPECTIONS!

I HAVE TAUGHT YOU DEEPLY ABOUT THE GREATNESS OF ABRAHAM. I RECALLED THAT HIS GREATNESS BEGAN ON THE DAY HE DEPARTED FROM HIS COUNTRY, AND FROM HIS KINDRED, AND FROM HIS FATHER’S HOUSE. (GENESIS 12:1)

SOME OF US HAVE NEVER LEFT THE STARTING BLOCKS OF GREATNESS! UNLESS YOU OBEY THAT FIRST LAW OF GREATNESS, (TO DEPART FROM THOSE 3 LOCATIONS) YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE NEAR TRUE GREATNESS!

START PLANNING AND THINKING AND WORKING HARD TO ATTEND ANY OF OUR GREAT MEETINGS ABROAD (CIC, RDT, AND CROSSOVER), ANYTIME WE ANNOUNCE THEM, THAT’S WHEN YOUR TRUE GREATNESS BEGINS INDEED! GREATNESS IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY WITHOUT GREAT ENCOUNTERS!

SOMEONE WHO CAN’T AFFORD TO BUY FRUITS FOR A 7-DAY FRUIT FAST WOULD BE SO PREOCCUPIED ERRANDS AND LABOURS OF POVERTY TO CONTEMPLATE THE COST OF FLIGHT TICKET AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ONE WEEK VACATION IN A ROARING CITY OR NATION!

THERE ARE TRUTHS TOO DEEP TO SHARE ABOUT LAGOS CIC IN OCTOBER AND DUBAI CROSSOVER IN DECEMBER. MAY GOD GRANT ME GRACE TO SHOW YOU THE TREASURE BENEATH THE TRASH OF THE DUNGHILL, THAT YOU CAN’T SEE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME

THE CLOUD OF GLORY IS MOVING, COME WITH YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS AND JOIN OUR EFFECTUAL, FERVENT AND RIGHTEOUS PRAYER ALTAR AT WHATSAPP NUMBER +234 8071685531, SEND YOUR WHATSAPP NUMBER, NAMES, GENDER AND COUNTRY TO OUR WHATSAPP PRAYER ALTAR TO ENLIST YOU IN MIDNIGHT ARMY OF THE LORD, WHERE TEARS ARE TURNED INTO JOY THROUGH PRAYERS EVERY MIDNIGHT! MAY THE LORD MEET YOU AT THE POINT OF YOUR NEEDS AS YOU JOIN IN JESUS NAME. AMEN!

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