Faith and Imagination 3

[Speaker 1] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission aid. Our regular activities are: Discipleship class every Monday at 5:00 PM; Adolescent and Singles club every first Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Marriage forum every second Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Family life seminars, regular school outreaches, and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location: Life Camp by the first bridge, Ileri community, opposite [unclear: Verodoj] Filling Station along Ilesha Road, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles: familytent@yahoo.co.uk, familytentministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentministry.org. Our phone numbers are 080-3386-1136, 070-3361-3848. God bless you all. [Speaker 2] Our usual practice sometimes, we ask ourselves what have been our take-home so far on faith and imagination. So, for our brethren who are physically here—for our brethren who are online, you will not be able to tell us what is the feedback, but for our brethren who are physically here, they might be able to tell us what have been some of the take-home for them. So, just before we pray and move on today, I don't know if anybody has anything he wants to say as regards the take-home, what have been some of the major lessons from this faith and imagination that we have been considering for the past two, three weeks now, to conclude it today. Does anybody have anything to say? Okay. [Speaker 3] Yes, I've learned quite a lot, but the most important lesson I've learned about faith and imagination is about the way I think. I should be careful about depressing thoughts because that's one way that the devil gets things into my mind, and I should always ensure that my mind and my thoughts are always set on the word of God at all times, not on the appearance, but about what God actually says. Thank you. [Speaker 2] Thank you. Any other person have anything to say? Okay, Bro. [Speaker 4] Praise the Lord. I learned in the course of this lesson that our bondage is in our imaginations. At times our imagination can hinder our prayers. If our heart is not right or we have a bondage in our heart, it can hinder our prayers. If God wants to deal with us or God wants to help us at all, He will first work with our imagination. We could see the life of Gideon and other people that God dealt with in the Bible, how God first dealt with their imagination, their thoughts, the state of their heart before He was able to inspire them and lead them or impart the message He has for them. So, I now know the importance of the state of our heart and our imagination, and this lesson is now helping me to really examine the state of my heart. Not just be praying and praying when our heart is full of different things and we have another thing in our heart, and we thought that God will overlook that one. So, through that lesson, I learned a lot. Praise the Lord. [Speaker 5] Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. For me, I've learned that my imagination will help to build my faith. And for my imagination to build my faith, I must have the right perspective about life. My imagination must be correct. I must be careful of fantasy, what I think. I must be careful of that. I've learned to guard my heart with all diligence because out of it come the issues of life. Praise the Lord. Finally, to help my imagination, I've learned that the word of God must be my priority. Meditation on the word of God all the time must be one of my priorities in life. Praise the Lord. [Speaker 2] Yeah, we thank the Lord for that the brethren spoke about. Particularly the fact that our imagination is related to our faith. Beyond that, the fact, the eternal truth that whatever is the experience of bondage in the life of a man, that experience of that bondage is a product of the mindset. Whether you will be free or you will be bound is a product of your mindset. If the enemy wants to put a man in bondage, all he needs to work upon is the mind of that man. If God wants to set you free, all that God needs to deal with is your mind. So, liberty or bondage is a function of the mind. And it is so good to also remember what we added particularly last week: that just as God has access to our mind, Satan also has access to our mind. We saw what Satan did with Eve. He also has access. So, it is very important that the believer, who is a follower of the Lord, knowing that his or her faith rests upon the imaginations of the mind—unbelief is also a function of the imagination of the mind—the believer must be careful, must be watchful to be sure that they guard their heart against satanic imagination, satanic suggestion. And of course, you see the Bible telling us that, therefore, whatsoever things are good, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things of good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. Proverbs 4:23 speaks in another way. He said, "Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." The Lord Jesus said something nice again when they were talking about defilement and the washing of hands. They were saying that, "Look, your disciples are defiling themselves. They did not wash their hands before they started eating." And then He said, "Look, you don't understand. What goes into a man's mouth cannot defile him, because that will just go through the esophagus and then to the stomach and then through the large intestine and then the anus, it is off." He said, "But the things that defile a man are the things of the heart." So, defilement, purity, liberty, bondage, faith, doubt, all of those things, they are things that operate in the realm of the imagination. And last week, what we particularly saw is trying to relate what exactly Jesus was referring to as faith. And we saw the life of Gideon, all of that, but we got to Jesus and the centurion. That was where we concluded last week. Jesus and the centurion, where the man said that, "Look, for me, I'm a man under authority. I tell this one go, he goes; this one come, he comes; I tell this one stay here, he stays here. Nobody disobeys my authority. You don't need to come to my house. You also have such authority. You just speak the word, and my servant will be well." And then we noticed the utterance of Jesus. Jesus said, "Never in the whole of Israel have I not seen such a faith." So we said, therefore, what is faith? Faith is, therefore, the imagination of man centered on the person and the power of God. That man centered his imagination on the ability of Jesus. "Ah, Jesus, no, you don't need to come." And Jesus called it what? He said, "This is a great faith." So what is faith? What do you call faith? Faith is simply that ability of a man to center his imagination on the ability of God or on the person of God. That is faith. So when your imaginations is not centered on the ability of God or on the person of God, then you are not operating faith. So we want to move on this evening. We want to consider the other one today. So let us have a word of prayer and then we move on from that point. Precious Father, we are grateful unto You. We thank You for Your mercies and for Your love. We thank You for preservation. We thank You for comfort. We thank You for Your goodness towards us, our Father. We are grateful unto You, our God. We commit our fellowship again to Your hand this evening. For our brethren who are online, linking up with us, and for those of us who are gathered here physically, Lord, we are praying that God Almighty, grant understanding to our spirit man in the name of Jesus Christ. Precious Father, cause us to behold wondrous things out of Your laws in the name of Jesus. Thank You, Eternal Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. Now, I want us to—we have looked at the case of the centurion. I want us to look at this other popular story in the Scripture, which is the case of the woman with the issue of blood. That incident is in Mark chapter 5, from verse 25 to verse 34. The woman with the issue of blood. You know, one day I was just imagining—I can't remember which one now—that this woman with issue of blood, that is not her name. Her name is not—she was not named "the woman with the issue of blood." But that is what we use to call her now. She's not Beatrice or Funke, whatever the name was as of then. They say "the woman with the issue of blood." She was known by her challenges, because her challenges brought her challenge to a point where it became the miraculous. What I'm trying to say is that while some may not be able to make anything out of their challenges, a woman became known, became renowned in the records of Scripture by the challenges that she had. She did not die of it; rather she became popular by that challenge. Let's look at that story in Mark chapter 5. Let's see how it reads. I just want to establish this matter of imagination and faith. Our imagination and our faith. Faith, which is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of that which is not seen. Mark chapter 5, from verse 25, the woman with the issue of blood. I'm reading from the New King James Bible. "Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, 'If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.' Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, 'Who touched My clothes?' But His disciples said to Him, 'You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, "Who touched Me?"' And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.'" While He was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?" As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only believe." And He permitted no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. Then He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly. When He came in, He said to them, "Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping." I want to end my reading there. I just want us to look at this matter of faith and our imagination in this Scripture that we have just read. Now, if you look at the background, the Bible gave us a background that sometimes you will think this background is in isolation, but it is not. The Bible said, "Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from physicians. She had spent all she had and was no better, but rather grew worse." Why is the Bible giving us this background? The Bible, by this record, wants us to see that the woman had sufficient issues to set her mind upon. She has sufficient things. It's not twelve days; it's twelve years. Number one, that's number one. Number two, I had visited all known doctors. I've visited all known doctors. The Bible says that she had suffered many things from many physicians. Now, this woman had visited, if we want to relate it to our time, maybe one doctor in Ileri, another doctor in Shijua, another one had gone to India, came back, referred her again to Ife, referred her again. Different doctors. She had visited this, visited that. And what was the conclusion of those visitations to several specialists was that her matter was not getting better; instead her matter was getting worse. Now, ordinarily, this woman had enough to set her imaginations upon. Because as for Jesus, she was just hearing about Jesus. All the trusted people she knew she had visited them. The woman can stay at home and then when she heard about Jesus, "Forget about it, solution cannot be there." What I'm trying to make you see is that the Bible is making us to see that this woman had sufficient things that should make her mind not to stay on the Lord. Because normally, what the flesh, the devil, your adversary, used to take you off the Lord is your prevailing situation. I'm going to show you very soon. That's the last example we'll be looking at. What normally take your mind off the Lord is your present circumstance, the thing that you are—"Look at this, that, that, this, that." And the more you set your mind, your imaginations on these things, I may announce to you, the more you remain in your bondage. Now, so the Bible makes us to see that the woman had sufficient things to take her mind off the Lord. That's number one. Number two is the fact that—something just came to my mind. Maybe I should say that before I move on to this number two. You know, immediately I said the woman had sufficient things to talk about, to look around, "I've visited this doctor, visited this specialist, visited this expert, no solution, so why should I visit just one man that you are talking about?" She had enough to focus her mind on. But again, I want you to look at this. Do you know that this pattern is consistent with the Lord? That's what just came to my mind. If you remember our discussion about the gospel and the cross—I don't know how many weeks ago we looked at that—when the snake was a matter in the wilderness, and the people went to God, they went to Moses and said, "Please pray to God to take away the snake." When God was to answer, God said, "Leave the snakes. Rather, make a bronze serpent, put it up. It will come to pass, if the snake bite them, let them look away from the bite." If something bites you, the natural thing is not to look away. The natural thing is to look at it. But God said, "Anytime there's an issue with the serpent, they should not look at the bite, nor the serpent." It is not natural. What you want to do is to—and the more you are doing that, what is happening to you? The more you are going down. You know, that's what just came to my mind, that the woman had a lot of things to look around: the doctors, this, that, growing worse. Some people talk sometimes about their life, they just conclude their story and conclude their case, even when there's no express word from the Lord about that matter. But because the thing has persisted for years—it's not twelve days—and the matter she was suffering is not something that is very, very—if you put it in the social situation, a woman cannot sit. I don't know how she normally lived those times. The blood keeps flowing. Is it that she was carrying cotton wool everywhere, or she has to be changing skirt or wrapper or the garment? Because the blood keep flowing. So when you sit down, you quickly stand up. You cannot stand. I'm just trying to look at that for her twelve years. And the thing was not getting better, it was getting worse. Someone then say that there is a Jesus passing by, there's one man that is passing by. You just wonder when you look at the magnitude of your problem, can there be a solution? That is one. But what I want to use to buttress this matter of imagination and faith is what the woman did. You would expect that the woman would want to book a special time to see the prophet so that—praise the Lord. [background noise] [Speaker 2] Praise the Lord. Let's move on. Sorry for the interruption, brethren online. Just a little technical problem here. Now, I was saying that ordinarily you would expect that the woman would want to book a special time with that man of God. Am I correct? Because for twelve years, no result. So she would look for a special time. "Man of God, I learned that this and this—you see my case, let me explain it to you. I had visited Akure, I visited—" You want to give a background. You remember the case of the man that Jesus healed by the sea? Said, "Will you be made whole?" He said, "You don't know my case. Let me explain the case to you, so that you can understand that it's not a small thing. Let me explain." You want to give a background. But what surprised me about this woman was that she did not even go and meet Jesus to say, "Lord Jesus, you see, I have a serious case. My case for the past twelve years has been a major problem." The woman just began something in her heart, just in her heart. She began to imagine. She began to imagine. "They said this man raised the dead. They said this man healed the sick. In my own case, I don't think I even need to see the man. A man like this, if I can just touch His clothes, my case is settled." What I'm trying to make you see is that the beginning of God's help to your life is your thinking pattern. When God wants to help your life, God begins to help the way you think. The way you imagine things, the way you think. Because you'll be thinking that this woman will begin to—"Man of God, how will it be for me? I hope he will have time for me. I hope I will just be with him at that time and then be able to spend time, you know, all of that." But the way help came to her was that God began to help the way she was thinking. "If somebody can do all of this, then even though my case has been for twelve years, this person can deal with it. In fact, this kind of person, I don't even need to seek a special attention. I don't know when he will be able to have my time. But if I can just pass through these people and just see how I can just touch his clothes, I know that everything will be okay." This person—and then with that imagination, something began to come up in her, and then she began to find her way through the crowd. She began to find her way through the crowd, find her way through the crowd, find her way through the crowd, and eventually she got to where she could touch Jesus. And in touching Jesus, my thinking was just that, what made the woman not to say, "Jesus, please pray for me"? Jesus, please pray for me, pray for me. You don't know the magnitude. This woman knew the magnitude. And so, seeing that, and look at what happened. There was no conversation between her and the Lord. It was a conversation between her imagination and the power of Jesus. It was an interaction—oh, Jehovah is great—it was an interaction between her imagination and the power of Jesus. I'm showing you the connection between your imagination and the power of God. The woman began to create images in herself. "This person, so mighty, so great, so powerful. A person like this, he doesn't need to speak. I don't even need to see him. This kind of person, ordinary His clothes should work wonders." She began to create images, and that interaction released the power of God. Jesus had not spoken when the power of God was released. Am I correct from that story? The power of imagination. She was imagining, interacting, engaging the power of God in her imagination, engaging the ability of God, engaging the greatness of God in her imagination. She was engaging it, engaging it, engaging it. And what happened to the power of God? The power of God was released. What are you doing with your own imagination? What are you engaging? What are you engaging in your imagination? What are you engaging? And having engaged and engaged, she got there, and the Bible says instantly, right there, power left Jesus. Such that even the disciples, everybody, except that Jesus knew that power left Me. Something left Me. Something is not with Me. Something left Me. And so, He told the disciples, "Who touched My clothes? Who touched Me?" after He sensed that power left, but note what I want you to see in this thing is that the power left by the reason of the woman—the Bible said she thought in her heart. It was her imagination that released the power of God. She thought in her heart. And so, I'm saying these things for you to begin to appreciate the power of rightfully engaging our thought. That the way you think, the way you project the issues of your life can either cut off the power of God or let the power of God into your situation. You will say, "How is this so?" Do you remember that when Jesus got to Capernaum, the Bible said He could not do many miraculous work? What was the reason? Their unbelief. How did they express their unbelief? What were they saying? They said, "Is this not Jesus? We know His father, a son of a carpenter. Is that not the man that helped me to do one work the other time? Is that not the son of that Joseph? That boy that they even said was one spirit that gave birth to him, he just suddenly came now and said that he wants to do healing." That was what they were saying. And what did the Bible say? The Bible said Jesus could not. He could not. He then said, "Anyway, a prophet don't have honor in his own house." How was the power of God incapacitated? By their what? Imagination. And I'm showing you again how the power of God was activated and released. So when you are going through a situation as a believer, what are your imagination? "You remember Brother Ossandun? His was not like mine and he died. I wonder if I will live." You start building wrong imaginations. "This is similar to what happened to Sister Olatunji. It was just a similar thing. After about three, four years, everything was over." You begin to build vain imaginations. Vain imaginations. You are just building them. Building vain imaginations. But what I'm showing you is the power of God in imagination. What is an imagination that is right? That imagination that is centered on what? The power of God and what? The person of God. That's the correct imagination. That is what is actual. That is what is correct. That is what we should expect in our lives. Imagination and our faith. Imagination and our faith. Now, the woman—what the woman did that and Jesus said, "Who touched Me? Power left Me." Then the disciples were saying that, "No, it's not possible, Lord. People are around You. It's not possible." Jesus said, "No, somebody touched Me, something happened, somebody touched Me. Someone touched Me particularly. There's a particular touch." You know what is amazing to me in this thing about imagination and thought is that Jesus was insisting that there is a touch that was particular. That there was a touch that was particular, a touch was particular. So my question is, what makes the touch particular? What makes the touch of that woman particular? Her imagination. Her imagination was centered on the power of God and the person of God. That's what made her touch to be particular. So what I'm trying to say is this: what do you think will make your prayer to be particular? What will make your prayer to God to be particular? What will make your prayer to be different from the prayer of others? What will make your call upon God to be different from that of others? What will make the power of God to be something that is related to your call or to your prayers? What is it? The kind of imagination with which you came. For she said where? In her heart. In her heart, she said. She was engaging something. There was a conversation. She said it in her heart. And then what did Jesus later call that particular touch? What did Jesus call it? He said, "Your faith." Look at it. Jesus said, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction." So what was Jesus calling faith? That imagination that was set on what? The power of God and the person of God. That imagination. He said, "Go in peace, daughter. Your faith. Your faith. Your faith." And I want us to relate to it. Let's relate to it. Let's relate this matter. Will there be anything left for us? Will there be anything left for us? Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believe will not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son," isn't it? Now, what I'm trying to make you see—let's think back. If at that point too, at that time, because it is as he lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. You begin to imagine that "how will it be? This is cobra, fiery cobra, biting me. When it is coming, I should not run. I should not carry my leg. I should leave it and just look up. There will be no problem with the snake. How am I sure it will work?" And then that imagination goes on. It goes on like that, on and on like that. What will happen? Of course, the reality will be that the serpent that is lifted up will be of no value, of no relevance, of no effect, of no power, of no use in their life. But it is not because that serpent that is lifted up is powerless. It is because their imagination was not fixed on that serpent. Because if you also look at the matter of that serpent, Moses did not really need to pray. They did not really need to shout. They only need to look. Am I correct? That was instruction. Look, and everything will work out well. Just look. Now, what I'm saying is that if the imagination—I just tried to imagine something one day and I just imagined that somebody as at that time, having any issue with the serpent, could not see—was just trying to think about it, Moses and the serpent, who is more powerful? Moses by his rod parted the sea. Moses, by him God brought us here. And the person being bitten by the serpent ran to Moses and said, "Man of God, just lay your hands on me and all will be well." And Moses too lay his hand and begin to pray for the man to get well. Would the man get well? All I am playing out in this thing is that when our thought and imagination don't rest on the instructions of Scripture, we are not likely to experience the reality of God. Our imagination, our thinking, if they don't rest on the instructions of the Scriptures. For example, the Bible says ask, it shall be given; seek, you will find; knock, it will be opened to you. That's the Scripture. The Bible says ask, receive; everyone who seek, find; unto him that knock, it shall be opened. That's instruction of Scripture. And then I go to God in prayer and then my imagination is that, "I hope God will hear. I just pray God will listen. Maybe God is not even interested in this case. Anyway, let me just pray, perhaps God will do something. I hope it will work out." And then I pray. And as I'm praying, I'm doubting. "I hope this prayer came to Him." Will anything make the power of God the reality? I'm trying to explain what faith is. What God calls faith is actually your thinking pattern. What you are imagining. Faith is not what you are telling people. Jesus, look at it. Some things happened. It happened many times at those times when, for example, I want to travel. And then as we want to enter the car and then we want to pray. "Oya oya, ah, let's pray oh, let's pray oh. You know different kinds of things are happening now. Oya, oh, somebody pray a power prayer, pray power prayer." I'm not against the prayer, but what is calling for that prayer? Fear. It is not, "Ah, we are children of God, our God can keep us. Our God says that the angel of God encamp around those who fear Him. Father, we thank You because You are with us." It is not that. It's like, "Oluwa, Oluwa, ah, angels, angels, the blood of Jesus, He's going to protect. Now, this, that." Why are you—the intensity of the prayer is judged by the level of your fear. Why the prayer look so intense is not because you really believe, but because you are afraid. I'm not saying that it is wrong to be intense in prayer. Please understand me. But I'm saying that some of these intensified prayer is actually an offshoot of fear. That's why sometimes you notice that when they say, "Ah, let us pray for revelation of God in our lives, let us talk to God for this and for that," some people pray. But when they say, "Ah, as I was coming from this place, there was this information that I got, that Fulani men have been sent out to kill all Christians along Akure-Ibadan road. So we must need to pray. Look at that thing! That's not my blood!" Just imagine how people will pray that prayer. I'm not saying it's wrong to have information to pray, but what will be bringing that prayer is fear. But I imagine that information comes to you and you say, "Eh-heh, a thousand will fall by my side, ten thousand to my right, it will not come near me. Surely, goodness and mercy is my portion. Lord, I trust in You. Lord, I believe You for Your word." You know, that's another thing. It's also prayer. What I'm trying to say is that go and check your engagement with God. Check the imaginations of your heart and the things you say, because what I'm trying to make you see is this: there is a release of God's power that is tied to our imagination of the ability of God. Because Jesus had not said anything when power of God was released. The same thing Jesus had not done anything in Capernaum. They were just thinking and thinking and thinking, and He could not do anything. He could not do anything. All of this has to do with imagination, thought. And I deliberately read down, even though we have looked at this package before, but I want you to look at it from another angle today. Jesus and Jairus. As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only believe." Why? There was an imagination that brought the man. "This man can heal my dying girl." Now, another information came to counter that imagination. "The case at hand is beyond His power." And if the man begins to believe that the case at hand is beyond His power, what happens? The power of God will be incapacitated because the man came on behalf of the girl. He was going at the instance of the faith of that man. As we pray this evening, brethren, because our time is almost 6:30 and I want us to pray little. I don't know, but I just want you to talk to God for your own life. I want you to talk to God about your own life. What we are looking at is our imagination. Our faith, our imagination, the power of God, the person of God. There's this interconnectivity. There's a connection. All of these things are connected. Vain imagination will also produce a storm where the power of God cannot be active in our life. What are your imagination? What are your thought about that your situation? Look at the woman with issue of blood. While you are thinking now until somebody lays hand and pull me out, then I cannot come out of this, somebody just said, "If I can touch His garment." And it was to her according to her faith. It was to her according to that faith. I don't know what you are imagining. That woman did not seek any special attention. She did not begin to look for any special ceremony to deal with her case. She just imagined in her heart that "look, if I touch His garment," and Jesus was yet to say something and the power of God went forth to do the work and completed the assignment. The power of God can be released to you. What are you imagining? What is the imagination of your thought? What are you building in your heart? And Jesus said, "Woman, your faith. Your faith has made you well." Your faith released you from this situation. Oh tonight, can your faith release you from your situation? Can there be this imagination of your thought where the Lord will say, "Whoa, go in peace, your faith make you well"? Is there something in you tonight that the Lord Jesus can see? Is there something that is building up in you? Is there something standing up in you and you want to say, "Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, my case, my case, I'm not calling for any special attention. I have made You too small in my heart, oh Lord, forgive me. I have believed a lie that You are unable to help me. And now, oh Lord, I see my wrong. Oh Lord, heal my heart, oh God. And in my heart and in my faith, oh Lord, be magnified. Be magnified, oh Lord, be magnified." Can you tell the Lord this evening that, "Lord, Lord, I have believed a lie. I have been looking for some special things to look into my case. I have been looking for some special waters, special this, special mountain, special—no, the woman just imagine in her heart that look, if I touch His garment," oh Jesus was yet to say something and the power of God went forth. Tonight, by the power of the word of God, everywhere the power of vain imagination have limited you, today I decree by the word of the Lord. The Bible says He sent His word and His word healed them and delivered them from their destruction. I send the word of the Lord this evening. By the word of the Lord, the Bible says who decree a thing and it come to pass when the Lord has not ordained it? But when God has ordained it, we can decree it and it will come to pass. The Bible says God is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent. Will He say it and will He not do it? Or has He spoken it and will He not make it good? Tonight, by the power of the word of God, everywhere the power of vain imagination have limited you, today I say breakthrough your limitations in the name of Jesus! Yes, tonight, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, move in our midst. Holy Spirit, yes, I begin to erase by the power of the Holy Ghost. Not by power, not by might, it is by the Spirit of the Lord. By the power of the Spirit, I begin to erase. I begin to erase the negative consequences of vain imaginations in the life of the people of God. I begin to erase them tonight. I begin to erase them tonight. I begin to erase them tonight. I begin to erase them tonight. Receive a lifting beyond your limitation in the name of Jesus! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank You, Father. Blessed be Your holy name, our God. Thank You for Your visitation tonight. Thank You for Your word. Thank You for Your Spirit. Thank You for Your help. Thank You for Your grace. Blessed be Your name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank You, Father. There's this word again that just coming to me now, just I should tell somebody that look, blessed is he that believeth, because there will be a performance. Yes, blessed is he that believeth because there will be a performance of those things which were told him or told her by the Lord. There will be a performance tonight. I decree oh Lord, as Your people lift up their heart in faith to You, let performance begin to break forth in the lives of men in the name of Jesus. Lord God Almighty, the eleventh hour miracle, the twelfth hour miracle, the miracle of the eleventh month, the miracle of the twelfth month, the year is closing up, a crowning miracle, a crowning miracle that takes men beyond their limitation, that takes men beyond their boundary, that makes men breakthrough. Lord, I pray this evening, a release of eleventh hour miracle, of twelfth hour miracle into the lives of Your people in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! There shall be performance. This eleventh month, this twelfth month, be waiting for performance. Be waiting for performance. There shall be performance. There shall be testimony. There shall be performance, there shall be performance of those things which are told you by the Lord in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! [singing in background] Oluwa etobi, etobi o, etobi. Oluwa, Oluwa etobi, etobi o, etobi. Olorun wa koseni ta le fi sakawe re o, etobi. Olorun wa koseni ta le fi sakawe re o, etobi. Oluwa. I speak concerning your life, this song shall become your personal song. You will sing this song as a result of performance. It will become a special song to you. This eleventh and this twelfth month of the year, it will become a special song in your life. Thank You, Father. Blessed be Your holy name, our God. Thank You for Your visitation tonight. Thank You for Your word. Thank You for Your Spirit. Thank You for Your help. Thank You for Your grace. Blessed be Your name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Can we share the grace in fellowship? The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and forevermore. Amen. Thank You, Father. [background noise] [Speaker 1] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission aid. Our regular activities are: Discipleship class every Monday at 5:00 PM; Adolescent and Singles club every first Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Marriage forum every second Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Family life seminars, regular school outreaches, and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location: Life Camp by the first bridge, Ileri community, opposite [unclear: Verodoj] Filling Station along Ilesha Road, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles: familytent@yahoo.co.uk, familytentministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentministry.org. Our phone numbers are 080-3386-1136, 070-3361-3848. God bless you all.