Fear of the Lord in Times Like This 110121

[Narrator] Church and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home for you. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 1] Let me tell you as I said last year, things will be going down because the earth is sinking. Nobody can hold it back from sinking. That is the determined end of the earth. The earth is gradually going and it's sinking, going to what it has been prepared for. The Bible says it is reserved for fire. So it's going on and on towards it. But as we open up this evening in looking at the fear of God in response to times like these, I just want to open up with this scripture. > Matthew 10:29-31 > “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Now, if you look at this same scripture in Luke chapter 12, verse 6 and 7, what does it say again in Luke chapter 12? It says, > Luke 12:6-7 > “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew recorded two sparrows sold for a copper coin. In Luke chapter 12, what did he say? "Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God. But your very hair of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows." I'm trying to show you that this matter was recorded in the synoptic gospel both in Matthew and in Luke. But there's a little variation in the record. One said five sparrows are sold for two copper coins. One said two sparrows are sold for a copper coin. But they both recorded that Jesus said that not one of the five or one of the two is forgotten before God. What do I want to call your attention to is that in both episodes, both of them show that if you say five, one out of five, or one out of two, the point in both of them is the same. The point is that one sparrow don't have any numerical value. There's no monetary value for one sparrow. If you bring one sparrow to the market, nobody will buy it. The smallest amount of money then cannot buy it. It's too small for it. So if you want to sell it, you must get at least two, or you get five for two copper coins, or two for one copper coin. But at the same time, Jesus noted that one of those sparrows is not forgotten before God. Which means even though one don't have a monetary value, it has a divine value. It is valued by God enough to give it attention. I want to ask you to compare that matter with your life. Look at it vis-a-vis your life. Do you think your life have any monetary value? If they want to sell you today, would people get money if they sell you? They will get a lot of money, those that traffic people. If you take human beings today, ritual killers, will they make money from it? They will make a lot of money, isn't it? Some parts of your body is some market that was discovered by police where they sell human body. There's an amount they sell the heart. There's an amount they sell the leg and all of that, because the heart and all of that are more valuable in those markets. I'm trying to show you something very important. I'm placing this vis-a-vis what Jesus said in Matthew 6, that “Look at the birds of the air, they neither toil nor spin, yet your Father takes care of them.” I'm trying to call our attention to something. That as difficult as the times are right now, and as difficult as it may eventually be, it is important for us to know that because of the divine value that we have, Jesus said that “you worth more than many sparrows.” Because of the divine value that we have, we can never be forgotten. It is impossible. You must settle something today in your heart in response to now, that “I cannot be forgotten.” Things may look sometimes like you will be stranded. It may look sometimes like is there a tomorrow? But I want to assure you that there is a thing that is expected of you as a child of God. Once you become hopeless, I can announce to you that at that instance, you became godless. Once you become hopeless. I'm just saying that as a background to what we want to discuss: the fear of God in times like these. You must never come to a point in your life where you become hopeless. Don't ever come to a point in your life where you begin to think about yourself that there is no tomorrow, where you begin to think, “Is God in my affairs? Is God in my matter? Am I sure that I've not been abandoned? Am I sure?” That point where you come to that point, what brought you to that point, that thing only made you to lose the help of God. It has brought you to a point where the help of God will be far from you. Jesus was trying to explain to them that it is impossible for the attention of God to be away from them, that God's attention is on them. It is impossible. He wanted them to know, so he tried to use something to explain it to them. And why is it this strong? I've made a statement one time in one of our meetings. Under the Old Covenant, what did God do with Israel so that he will not forget them? God said, “I did something so I cannot forget you.” What did he say? He said he had engraved them. Not that he wrote it. You know the meaning of engraved? Just like the lines here. So that if God wants to do something, God was just trying to use something to help them to understand the closeness he had, the proximity between him and them. There's no way to really describe it, so God will be using pictures to create it for us. Because the language of God is a language outside time, when God speaks as God, we will not be able to understand God. Like somebody said, God said he's coming soon. He said, “Be sincere, what's the meaning of soon?” He said, “I should be sincere, I should not try to argue anything. What's the meaning of soon?” He said, “I'm coming soon” in that prophecy. “So where is he now? He's a liar.” That was the understanding of that unbeliever. He was looking at eternal time like man's time. So for him, he said one thing why he cannot believe Jesus is that there is a clear thing he said that the angel said in Revelation, that he's coming soon. And look at when Jesus said, look at now. He said, “It tells you that God's words don't come to pass.” That is what he understood. And so it's very difficult to believe the scripture, very difficult to accept Jesus Christ. Why? The devil have carefully sidetracked him from life. The devil just used a simple word of God to confuse him. Why? God speaks eternally. Soon with God could be millions of years. It could be anything. Soon is not the same type of soon even in human beings. Some people say soon, they mean two, three hours. This one say soon, they mean thirty minutes. Even in human beings, soon have different implications. I've called people before and say, “Please, I will call you soon.” They will now call me around 9:00 or 10:00. They want to finish everything in a meeting, so when they finish the meeting then they call me back. That was what they meant by soon. And I call somebody else and say, “I will call you soon,” and after about ten minutes, he said, “You know I said...” then he was talking. So you can see, even in human beings soon differs. But the point I'm trying to explain is that Jesus did not know how best to explain where God places the believer, the value they have before God. If eternal words are used, maybe they will be more confused, maybe it will not be clear. So he brought something that they can easily relate to. He said, “Are not five, if you gather five sparrows together, how much will you sell it? Two copper coins.” Okay, if you bring two, how much will they sell it? One copper coin. What happened to one? That one we cannot sell it. If you don't have two, it means you have to keep your bird because it has no monetary value. That one that does not have monetary value, do you know that that one is not forgotten by God? Even the hair of your head are numbered. You worth more than many sparrows. What was he trying to say? Another way I want to explain it to you is what I was trying to say about Israel. Under that covenant, which the Bible says is a shadow of what is to come, another way they call it is a covenant of condemnation. Are you aware? It was a covenant of condemnation under which God was condemning men. The law was not given to justify anybody. It was given to show man how sinful he is. Now, under that covenant, what God did for those people was that they were engraved in his palm. Now, what do you think God would have done under the Covenant of Life? Please, what would God have done under the Covenant of Life? So what exactly? You know it's very difficult for us to get what he would have done, but we know it's something greater and better. That is why I quickly want to say this in the midst of these difficult times. Even when it appears that you are working somewhere and for the past eight months salaries have not been paid. You are working somewhere, they say they are going to promote you, and for the past three years the promotion has not come. Maybe you are somewhere and it looks like, “Ah, this my marriage, am I sure God can do anything about it?” Whatever pushes you to that point where you become hopeless, I can now announce to you that that thing is satanic. Whatsoever pushes you to a point where you become hopeless as a believer, whatever makes you come to a point where you begin to say, “Ah, God must have forgotten me,” “Can there be a solution to my situation?” That's why I made that statement: hopelessness is a sign of godlessness. There is no godly person that will come to the point of hopelessness. And I am saying that when you come to that point of hopelessness, the operation that brought you to that point is Satan's agenda. Do you know why? Without faith it is impossible to please God. So what has the thing done to you? It has made you far from help. The second thing I want you to have as a background in looking at the fear of God in response to times like these. Let's go to Ecclesiastes chapter 8, verse 11 to 13. [Speaker 2] > Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 > “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” The condemnation for wicked acts isn't carried out quickly. That's why people dare to do evil. When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong. [Speaker 1] Do you get that? What makes perilous times to persist? People feel it is safe. If you tell lie about your certificate to get a job, it is safe. If you change your age so that you can enter into a job, even though you are five years older, you say you are five years younger, it is safe. People feel it is safe. No wahala. Nothing. Even if you bury somebody alive for ministry to prosper, it is safe. Are you understanding it now? I'm making you understand why perilous times goes on. If you throw away your wife and marry another, it is safe. What I'm trying to say, please listen. The way God works make it appear as if there is safety in evil. Do you understand me? I'm giving you some background on the fear of God in response to times like these, so that as you journey in 2021, I want you to be looking at this matter. How Christian workers ought to live at a time like this. Today we are looking at the fear of God in response to times like these, but I'm setting some background for us. It looks safe. When people beat their wives and still go to church to give offering, what do they feel? It is safe. Even though Jesus spoke very clearly that even if your brother has something with you, before you give your sacrifice, what do you do? Drop it. First go and reconcile with your brother before you give your offering. People feel it is safe to be unfaithful to their wives and yet they say they are faithful in God's work in church. You can see how confused they are. It looks safe. The way God works make it to look today that there is a safe place for men who do wrong. And that is why they march on. Perilous times keep moving. I'm telling you as a believer, you need to understand that that is how God works. Until we meet Jesus, you'll still be seeing this kind of operation. That's why the Bible warns us: don't fret yourself because of the evildoers. And don't envy their accomplishing. Don't want to be like them. I remember some times back as an undergraduate, there are these groups of students, they don't read when people go to read. In fact, you don't even see them in class the way you come to class regularly to come and read, to come and take lectures. And then sometimes when you have rushed early to class to make sure that you sit down. That's why I'm praying this resumption just even from around the late 80s to early 90s, our institutions were becoming overcrowded. Today I don't know the level of overcrowdedness. I don't know the level of preparedness in our society. And I don't know how by way of infrastructure, except perhaps we want to say 100 level students should first resume, they finish this session, then the facilities will take them. Then when they are through, the following year 200 level come and resume. I know we will not do that. Everybody will go together to school. God will give our leaders wisdom at such difficult times as this. But what I'm trying to say is that those days, when you have rushed very early to class to make sure that you sit down, you see some of these boys we call the big boys. They'll just march into class conveniently, conveniently, conveniently. And they just wait a little to see what the lecturer is doing. They are jesting, they are your colleagues, you're in the same level. They'll just jest a little, jest a little, jest a little. And when they look here and there that there is no seat to sit down, they just say, “I'm coming, I'm coming.” You just see them go again. They are through with those lectures for that day. And by the time you are to go to the board to check results, you'll be surprised that they have good results. How do they do it? For some of them, when you are writing the exam, you will see them, all the notes and everything that is needed is on their palm and they are writing the exam. Many times they are not caught. I'm trying to make you understand because judgment against evil work is not punished immediately. That's the way God works. You need to understand that. And for some of us who are writing the exam, you too maybe, “Let them catch this boy, let them.” No, they will do 100 level, 200 level, they will graduate, they were not caught. And you wonder, “Why didn't God make them catch this person?” It's like God did not answer your prayer. For some of them that was not their level. Their level is that while you are a subordinate to your lecturer, some of these girls are lecturers' colleagues. While you are saying, “Doctor this, sir,” they are saying, “Yinka, how are you?” and you're in the same class. You'll be wondering what is it that could reduce Doctor to ordinary Yinka? Bottom power. You'll be surprised by the time you have been sweating to write exam, you see A plus, A plus, even though you didn't see them writing anything. And then by the time the result is out, “We will meet there” and you see them and it looks like— I'm trying to explain that perilous times, wicked times, things that provoke to do evil, they are not new things. They are only taking another dimension, they are getting darker, it's getting more difficult and it is moving. Why? I want you to understand that it is the way God works. Judgment upon evil work is not punished immediately. That's the way God works. You need to understand that. And you need to also get something in the midst of these things also. I don't know which of the weeks we'll be coming to that: understanding wickedness and the wicked man. What should be the response of the believer, the disciples of Jesus to many of these things? How should we respond to these things? Some things you need to understand because honestly it's a time when things are really giving people headache, serious concern. But please just get it clear, what I said at the beginning: that for those who are his own, don't ever think they are forgotten. Don't ever. Anything that brings you to that point is satanism. It's Satan. Remember what the Bible says? It says, “Cast not away your confidence which has a great recompense of reward.” Don't cast that confidence away, that God is with me and I know it shall be well. Don't cast that confidence away. Do you know why? It is what God is still coming to reward. God is coming to reward that confidence. Please note my word. This year is a year of reward. God will reward and God will punish. He will reward. He's going to reward. And there's also punishment. But I want you to get some of these things clear. But these are life dynamics. Do you understand it? They are life dynamics. You don't need a prophet and say, “Fear not, fear not,” you don't need all those things. It's just for you to understand the nature of things. Things are getting darker and darker in the midst of it. Certain believers, certain Christians, if they are not careful, their love will wax cold. What will make it wax cold is that they are thinking, they are coming to a point once to envy the wicked, two to fret themselves because of the wicked, three to ever think that they have been forgotten. That's why the Bible warns of “many will wax cold.” Do you get what I'm trying to say? So you don't need a prophet to come and tell you that Christians, people's love will wax cold, it's going to happen. But we are telling you how these things be. You don't need a prophet. If you understand these things, it's to get it clear. And I'm telling you concerning 2021. One thing that makes the love of Christians to wax cold is hopelessness. And I'm telling you that hopelessness is godlessness. That's what I'm trying to show you. Understand that. But also understand that the way God works is such that judgment upon evil work is not executed speedily. It's not. So the heart of man thinks it is safe to do wickedness. Do you notice something? Let me show you about African tradition and our cultural practices around us here, our cosmology, our belief. Do you notice that if there is controversy over land, most times in Nigeria, what do people do? They will go and bring this traditional mariwo, this palm leaf and tie it round the place. And when they tie it, what is it that people do? They will stay away. Why would they stay away? Because there is the belief generally that if you cross that palm leaf and enter that land, people know it is not safe. Do you get it? That is why sometimes you see people preferring traditional belief to God's way of working. They say, “No, let us use God sharp-sharp, God quick-quick, Olorun kiakia, Olorun wa wa wa.” We want the thing fra-fra. And if it is not fra-fra like that, they turn to diabolical power. But I want you to get something clear too as a believer. That the way God works is such that judgment upon evil work is not executed quickly. That's the way God works. Understand it. So don't let it bother you. Don't let it grieve you. Don't see any reason to think that you have been forgotten or that God has forgotten judgment. No, he has not. Now, look at what the Bible says. A background we are giving ourselves again. It says that verse 12 now. It says, > Ecclesiastes 8:12 > “Though a sinner does evil a hundred times...” Please, why must a sinner do evil a hundred times? I'm trying to make you understand why perilous times will move from bad to worse to worst. It's moving. What is making it to move? You say though a sinner does evil a hundred times and I want to ask you, where is God when he's doing it two times, three times, four times, five times? Where is God? Somebody said, “On his throne.” That's what my wife said and that is the truth. It's on his throne. He said though he does it a hundred times and his days are prolonged. Do you know what that means? Can we check another translation for that? “And his days are prolonged.” What's another word for that, “his days are prolonged”? Another translation please. “And still lives a long time.” Jesus did righteously and he lived a very short time. Later I'm trusting that God will bring us to the point of what we'll be discussing: understanding fulfillment. Understanding fulfillment from a biblical point of view. We'll be looking at the biblical point of view on fulfillment. What is fulfillment? A sinner does evil a hundred times and he lives long. Jesus did good, good, good all going about doing good, could not live long. You say though a sinner does evil a hundred times and live long. What did the Bible say? It says, > Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 > “...yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before him. But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days which is as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” Please, is that not a contradiction? Is that not like a contradiction? Look at verse 12 and verse 13. Say though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days are prolonged. Yet I know surely that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before him. But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days. So how is it that the days are prolonged, and the days are not prolonged? That is not what I want to answer for today. When I come to understanding wicked men and wickedness, we'll be dealing with that. But I want you to see that he said the days are prolonged, again he said the days are not prolonged. He says, “but which is as the shadow because he does not fear before God.” Now, what is this place assuring us? What is this place assuring us? That it will be well with who? With those who fear the Lord. Now, I don't know what particular thing, the situation where your life is, and what may be happening around you right now. But one definite message I see the Lord announcing for 2021 is that it will be well with those who fear the Lord. It will be well with those who fear the Lord. Now, what am I trying to say about that? What I'm trying to say is that we need to have this understanding. We need to get something very clear. We may not be able to describe explicitly how January will end, how February will go. Am I not correct? We cannot describe explicitly, can we? We cannot. But I also want to tell you, you don't need a soothsayer and you don't also need a prophet. By prophet, I mean prophet who foretells. You know in the Old Testament, prophecy were foretelling. In the New Testament, prophecy are forth-telling. Do you get my point very clear? I want to explain that concept a little. In the Old Testament, prophecy are talking about what is to come, what is to come. They were foretelling, F-O-R-E. They were foretelling what is to come. This is to come, this is to come. Eventually, what was to come, what they were foretelling came in Christ. Do you get it? So from Christ, it is no more foretelling. It is forth, F-O-R-T-H. Forth-telling. That is, making clear the mind of God based on what Christ have done. You are bringing the mind of God to clear. You are bringing it forth. What Christ has done. You are making it clear. You are bringing it to people. You are making it clear. You are declaring it. That is why we said the gospel. You are bringing forth the mind of God. That does not remove the gift of knowledge, the gift of wisdom. Do you understand me? But I'm trying to make you understand the New Testament prophecy. What I'm trying to say, for example, as we are here for instance, I normally give this just to illustrate what I'm trying to say. And I think I've said it one time in this meeting. As we are all here now, somebody just say, “Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. I am the Lord, thus saith the Lord. I am in your midst.” Please, what will be your response? You know that ordinarily if you are here before and you are not very serious, all of a sudden you become a little serious. Am I correct? Am I correct? Why do you become a little serious? God is here. God has not bypassed me. He has not prophesied. Ah, and I have gift. So God is here. and they will become God, meet with me too, meet with me Lord. God meet with me too. Seriousness will now come into the Am I telling a lie? Of course not. Why did they become very, very serious like that? Because again you don't realize he's in their midst. When God saw that you don't realize he's in their midst, God needed to do that because God saw that you did not realize he is in their midst. When God saw that, “Ah, these people, their heart is not here.” As they are stayed, some are wondering on what will they eat this evening? And the course they have tomorrow, the promotion that they have missed. “Ah, as we are going now, I hope I will get money to buy bread and take transport.” Their mind is just wandering. Their mind is not focused. And God saw the need to help them. And so what did God do? God only did that to get their attention. Ordinarily, what God expected from them is that anytime they gather in his name, they should know that he is there. That anytime they do like that, anywhere, “Father in the name of Jesus,” they should know that he is hearing them. But when God sees that the mind is just weak and God wanted to help the mind— you know when God want to help us sometimes, just like my wife was saying something sometimes. When God saw that Lot, you know the angel told them, “Run!” and they were considering. “Is it iPad that I will carry? Or ATM card? What do I take among my properties? Fire is coming. Okay, maybe let me carry the liquid cash. Cash is what I need. Let me go to my purse. No, no, no, let me take my phone so I can call someone.” While they were still considerando, the angel just pulled their hand and took them out of the city. What did the angel do for them? The angel only helped them to move away from their distraction. Then go and check that thing, he now gave them the same instruction again. “This city is about to burn. Run!” At this time around, they won't be thinking of is it my first degree certificate or my second degree? Or the visa to US? No, they will not think of anything now. They will be able to run. So sometimes God helps our infirmities like that. That's why you just somebody say, “I am the Lord who is in your midst, God, I am here now, I am here, I am here to bless you.” And people will start aligning themselves. “Ah, God has come.” God has always been there. God has always been there. And that's why sometimes when somebody brings that prophecy to you and says, “My child of God, Olorun wa pelu e.” Then you begin to, “Baba, what else do you see?” Do you need to know that God is with you? Do you need a— because again your mind, do you understand what I want to bring out? So many times when you see God use certain things, Bible says signs are for them that does not believe. Talking about forth-telling. What I am saying, I'm telling you concerning 2021. See, if you don't fear God, it will not be well with you. That's the truth. We don't know how January will end. We don't know how February will go. We don't even know whether by the time we'll be entering January we'll also be entering our existence here on earth, Jesus Christ will appear. We don't know. But we know and we are certain that if he said he's coming soon, I think now we'll be saying he's coming sooner. We know that whatever that time is in eternal time, we have spent so much out of it. Am I very clear? We know the coming is closer. What I'm saying is this, even though people feel a sense of safety in doing evil, I am telling you the people that it will be well with are those who fear God. How do we respond to times like these? How do we respond to these days? Days when people get all kinds of things. People don't want to work, yet they want to eat. People where— I don't know how best to describe so many things. But you see, what I'm trying to say is this. One confidence you must have about this season. I told you two things last week: trust in the Lord and do good. That was our emphasis last week. I'm showing you a third emphasis. What am I saying? Fear the Lord. Fear the Lord. Fear the Lord. Fear the Lord. If you will need to pray that, “God, lead my heart to your fear,” please pray it. If you will need to beg God that, “God, help my heart, awaken again a new reference for God in my life, so I don't just take the things of God for granted. I don't just take God for granted. I don't just behave as if...” You see, there are certain things in your life that it is the fear of God that gives you caution. The fear of man is a useless thing. When you do things because people are watching, many times you'll be living a double life. That's why you see people do eye service. When the boss is there, they will be the best person. Once the boss turn his back and is going, you know what they will do? Olo si. They go back to what they were doing. There are some people like that. And they are everywhere. They are everywhere. What is the life of those people? Their fear is what? The fear of man. That's why the Bible says that the fear of man bringeth a snare. It makes you to live double life. But the fear of God make you to live a consistent life. Whether man is there or man is not there, you are who you are. What I'm saying in response as we journey in 2021, the reason why I'm saying this thing, please listen. I'm saying it because we are not able to read exactly how God goes about things. Because the ways of God are windy. Do you understand me? But more and more, I want you to note something. If the wicked do evil a hundred times, if he has been doing it before, it looks as if 2020 was the 99th time. 2021 will be the 100th time after which his life will not be prolonged. And if you have been waiting, you have been waiting, it looks like how is it going to look like? The reason why you must be careful about becoming hopeless is that when God want to reward, God only reward diligent seekers. He is a rewarder of them that seek him diligently. Are you not getting the point? It is appearing to me, it is looking as we are looking at these things, it is appearing to me, it is looking more and more to me that see, there is planting time, there is also harvest time. It looks like for different categories of people in different ways, and in ways you may not be able to explain, harvest time is around the life of several people to harvest what they have been planting. I'm not cursing anybody, I hope you know. I'm only saying that harvest time. I was talking about the revelation in which I saw I was speaking with the singles. In which I saw the executioner just cutting off the head of young people, male and female, cutting off. “Baba, what is going on?” Then he took me to the scripture: honor father and mother. That is what the scripture says, that it may be well with you and that your days may be long. One sign of the perilous time is that they will disregard parents. He said so, there is going to be executions. Not because of anything. It's just like, you know, the word of God, they are eternal decrees. Do you understand me? For example, the law of gravity. If you jump up, what will happen? You will come down. Why? There is a law. It's not that God is just coming to enact that law. “As you're jumping down now, fall!” No, God have put that into life. Do you know when rain fall? God did not just say, “Oya rain fall now.” It's an eternal decree. He has set times and season. The same way when children's life are cut short or it is not well with them because they don't honor God. It's not as if somebody is just cursing them or God is just saying that. It is just a life matter. It has been pronounced. Do you get what I want to bring out? It's an eternal decree. It's something that God has decreed. So what I'm trying to say, it's like execution, punishment and reward, they are getting closer and closer. Punishment and reward, harvest, harvest, harvest are getting closer. Closer. Closer. Closer. But how and when? Bro, sis, I don't know. But what I know for sure that God said, it is important that in our response to this season, let us do what? Let us fear the Lord. Number two is draw away your life from what? Hopelessness. Run away from hopelessness. To be hopeless is to be godless. Always let it dawn on you that God is coming to reward my confidence in God. God is coming to reward it. “As many sparrows sold for two copper coin, one don't fall to the ground. I cannot be forgotten.” Someone will say, “Ah, maybe God will not treat your case. Maybe your life maybe you will be stranded. Ah look, you will be ashamed. Look, your life will not end well. Maybe this and that.” Can you announce to that thing inside you and say, “No, no, what God said is that having done the will of God, we have need of patience that we may obtain the promise. And I should not cast away my confidence. My confidence that God is a rewarder of them that wait for him. And that eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, it has not entered into the heart of men what God will do for those who wait for him. I will wait for God. I will be at my post. And I will receive a favorable answer because I will not be denied.” Can we rise up to pray? Can we rise up to pray? And what I want you to pray is what I've just said. Make it a prayer, that “Lord, I shall see everything turning around for my good.” Can you make it a prayer for yourself? Call your name. Just talk to God in your heart. Reach out to God in faith. Don't let the enemy attack your faith. That your confidence in God is the foundation of your life. That confidence you have in God. Don't allow it to be stolen. Don't allow it to be defeated. Talk to God. and say, “God, maybe there are some specific thing, there are some specific thing.” Look at those things and say, “They will turn around for my good. I will not be stranded. Because I fear the Lord, I cannot be forgotten. I cannot because sparrows are not forgotten. Lord, this thing will turn around for my good. It will turn around for my good. It will turn around for my favor. It will turn around, it will turn around, it will turn around.” Thank you, Father. Blessed be your holy name, our God. In Jesus' name we pray. Lord, as your disciples, we look into our life again as we move on in this 2021. Lord, our God, we are committing ourselves unto you. Precious Father, I particularly pray for us this evening, both we that are physically here, brethren linking in with us online, and everybody that might have been invited to listen, to follow us on this program. I pray wherever you are, you shall receive a favorable answer. I pray for you as you stand in the fear of the Lord. Things will turn out for your favor. I pray for you there, that as we stand, stand in God's fear, doors that have been closed to you before now, doors that you need to be open so that you can move on in life, as you stand in the fear of the Lord. I pray for you this 2021, those doors shall open for you in a way you will not be able to explain, in the name of Jesus. In a very unusual manner. Yes, as the tables of the wicked turn around to become their snare, the same way I pray, the table will turn around. It will turn around for you in such a way that you will be celebrated. I pray in the name of Jesus that everywhere you might have been waiting, as you stand in God's fear, as you remain in this fear, the Lord will answer you. The Lord will give you response out of Zion, in the name of Jesus. I prophesy according to scriptures, all other ground are sinking sand. It shall be well with you. It shall be well with you. It is well with your marriage. It is well with your children. It is well with your life. It is well with your career. It is well with your job. It is well with your endeavors. Can we just close with this prayer? I just feel you need to pray for yourself. Believe in your prayers. Believe in the prayers you pray for yourself. Many times when we pray, we don't believe that we will receive it, so we don't have it. Jesus said, “When you pray, believe that you have received it, then you will have it.” Don't let the enemy make you feel you have been forgotten. I want you to pray for yourself. I shall see everything turning around, but I want you to make it a prayer, that “Lord, I shall see everything turning around for my good.” Can you make it a prayer for yourself? Call your name into that prayer. Just talk to God in your heart. Reach out to God in faith. Don't let the enemy attack your faith. That your confidence in God is the foundation of your life. That confidence you have in God. Don't allow it to be stolen. Don't allow it to be defeated. Talk to God. And say, “God, maybe there are some specific thing.” Look at those things and say, “They will turn around for my good. I will not be stranded because I fear the Lord, I cannot be forgotten. I cannot because sparrows are not forgotten. Lord, this thing will turn around for my good. It will turn around for my good. It will turn around for my favor. It will turn around, it will turn around, it will turn around.” Thank you, Father. Blessed be your holy name, our God. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Lord, it will be unto you according to your expectations in the name of Jesus Christ. Let's 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 forever more. Amen. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. 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