Stephanie Ike Okafor - A Fool's Journey

Ladies, Let's give a warm uncome a woman conference. Welcome to Stephanie ike Apafo. Hello, thank you all, Thank you all. Now, can we give Jesus some praise in the house? Amen, am'am, come on, let's praise him like we know he's in the room. Hey man, Amen, you all may be seated. I am so blessed to be here with you all. This is truly truly exciting for so many reasons, but primarily because I know what the Lord wants to do and it's a blessing to be used as a vessel. Thank you, Pasta Chala for everything that you've done. Thank you for creating this space for these women as we come together for an encounter with God. You know, when I was coming, I came. I've been to London a couple times as a kid, but coming here from the US, I just remember then some people may you may have experienced this. I grew up in Nigeria and I remember anytime someone traveled and came back, they'll start saying, in it, is it? In it? And then you're like, oh, where did you go, Ghana? But if you got on the plane, you start saying in it. But now this is such a blessing. We're going to read the scripture and I'm going to be reading from First Corinthians one twenty six to thirty one, and if you don't mind, if we could stand again. It's a workout. You know, there's some squats First Corinthians as we read the word for you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame, the things that which are mighty, and the base things of the world, and the things which are despised. God has chosen, and the things which are not to bring nothing the things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of Him you are in Christ, Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sensification and redemption. That as it is written, he who glorifies, let him glory in the Lord, Heavenly Father. We are so grateful to be gathered in your name, Holy Spirit. Glorify Jesus through everything that we do, that your daughters would have a fresh encounter with you. I pray, o, Lord, that your kingdom would come on earth as it is in heaven. What you have written about this day, what you have written concerning the lives of your daughters. Lord, may it manifest unhindered. And so we thank you, Lord, Jesus, in Jesus Mighty name a man. Amen, you may be seated now. I want to bring you a little bit into my personal process anytime it comes to you know, preaching the word, and for me, it's a very serious thing, right because within a few moments you have with God's children, you can either leave them impacted or inspired, And there's a very thin line between the two. When someone is impacted, there is tangible fruit out of their lives. When someone is inspired, they have an emotional and intellectual response. And you could still have that when you're impacted. But you can be inspired by many things, right, Creation would inspire you. Just walking out and get in some fresh air, looking at an animal would inspire you. There are many things that can inspire an individual, but it doesn't always result in change. The fact that you're alive today. You have had so many opportunities to be inspired, and it didn't always produce fruit, but when you are impacted, there is something tangible that is seen as a result. And I believe as ministers, that thin line leans into what we not so much about what we preach, but so much so about what has the Lord ordained for that moment, because when Heaven is backing up what you're saying, it's the moments where I would have these experiences where someone will tell me what they received from the message and that's not what I said. And it's powerful because the Holy Spirit can take what you said and minister to a person in their individual situation. And so with this conference, why I got so excited about this conference is because the Lord kept revealing what he wants to do. The Lord kept guiding and revealing and showing me, the women in the room and the women who are watching online with us, what he wants to do in their lives. You said, I want to encourage you that any time you gather, anytime you're in a corpse gathering, whether it's a church, whether it's a conference, do not treat it uncommon okay common, women, don't treat it. Don't take it lightly because so often because we get used to routine. Right, as we become creatures of habit, we go to we hear about this next conference and that next conference, and it almost becomes like a thing we just do, like trying out food. Right. But when you gather in the name of the Lord, it has the power to radically shift your life. That if you don't treat it as you know, this uncommon thing. If you don't gather for a person, but you gather to encounter Christ, it would radically transform your life. I remember one of the most impactful moments I have had, apart from my personal moment with the Lord. I was going to a Bible study. This was years ago. A friend had invited invited me to a Bible study and I asked a couple of my friends. I was like, hey, let's go to this Bible study. It was in like just the woods. I mean, it was in the location that was undesirable, okay, and I remember, but we were going. We were excited, we were expecting. We're like, you know what, let's go for Bible study. That would be great. And on the way there there was just this overwhelming we haven't even got into the location, but we all had this expectation of what God will say. And on the way there, there was this overwhelming sense of the presence of God because we were open to who we were going to go meet. We were not We didn't even know who was teaching the Bible study. But there was just this expectation that, you know what, it's a I think it was like a Wednesday or something where we should go. And on the way I started crying in the car because it took over me. I was like, God, like, where are we going? And when I tell you, that shifted my life in so many ways. But it started with a hunger for God. And whenever you come to God hungry, whenever you come to gird God thirsty. God could even interrupt the schedule of the minister to meet your need. Because that day they were supposed to have Bible study as usual, and we were sitting in the back like the back row, and the lady teaching identifies myself and all of my friends. I came up with and called all of us to the front. I was not really I think I just started preaching at this time, like just maybe I have preached three messages right, called all of us to the front, and that was the most accurate prophetic words I've ever received because it spoke to the secret things God was telling me. I'm not talking about when someone just tells you your name and where you're from. I'm talking about when they speak the things that were hidden in your heart, only between you and Jesus, to confirm that indeed, this is what God is calling you to do. But what was it meeting? It was the hunger and the thirst. And I'm saying this to just set the tone not just for today, but in your every day that when you're in church, when you're in a conference, have a hunger and an expectation for God. Right, So we're here, We're here the Uncommon Woman Conference. To be honest with you, there was a point that I didn't know if I was going to make it to the UK. There were so many unexpected delays that was taking place, random things just happening, just you know, just out of the blue. Even when I tried to find another solution, there was another delay that took place. I remember calling Pastor Chealan. I was like, I just want to give you a heads up. I'm not sure if I'm going to be there, and we prayed, you know, and everything. And when I got off the phone, the Holy Spirit rebuked me, and I said, don't say that, because I'm the one who told you you should go. I told you to say yes. So even though everything in the natural was looking chaotic and the irony, the more things were looking challenging in the natural, the more clear the message was spiritually. So it was almost like God was unbothered with what was taking place. And I'm like, Lord, I don't know if I'm gonna make it. I did not. The day I traveled was the day my password came back in my hands. I'm just trying to tell you how crazy this was. But this was the interesting thing. The night before, so this was Thursday night, I had a dream. No, this is Wednesday night. I had a dream. And so times before I preach a message or you know, different things like that, I would have encounters. Either it's an encounter with the Lord or an encounter with an angel. Because Angel Gabriel and the angels that he commands, they operate through information. Right, they bring information to you. They tell you things that it's coming from the throne room of Heaven concerning your calling. So whenever there is Angel Gabriel and angel Michael. They function in two completely different ways. When you read about angels in the Bible, angels are real, right, there's nothing to be scared of. Angel numbers are false. I know it's trended sometimes in culture. I don't know how it is in the UK climate in the US, angel numbers are a thing. But you don't worship angels. You don't worship angel numbers. You worship Jesus. And these are messengers that carry out His will. Right. And so that night I had an encounter with an angel and he begins to speak to me about the conference. And he's talking to me about the first session, and he's given me these details because the theme of the conference is in his wisdom. And he says, your assignment is to speak about being a fool. I said what, I don't think we're supposed to say that in church. Okay, you're a fool. No, he says, no, talk about being a fool, talk about the fool's journey. This is your assignment, he says, because to walk in the wisdom of God requires you to look like a fool. And then he began to speak to me. He says, everything you have been experiencing is part of what you are supposed to minister. Because even though there were so many delays, I was still packed up, I was still in prayer, I was still studying. So it was not that I was waiting to get my passport back. It was that I was already in the position of God. Whenever you say go, we're rare to get out the door. So the angel said, everything you have been experiencing, it was actually the hand of God in it. This was not about the enemy attacking you. We were behind this because you should minister to people from a place of God is in control of the very things that you cause to question yourself out of the blessing. When you question yourself out of the assignment, God is behind the scenes, working things that you don't even know. And he says, you are going to speak about the fool's journey. So when we get back into the scripture in First Corinthians one twenty six to thirty one, it starts off by saying, for you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many nobles are called. What I love about that is because first of all, wisdom brings direction. The Bible tells us that wisdom is profitable to direct. So whether it is the wisdom of God, there is a directive for your life, and it has to do in the thing that God has called you to. You see, there's an information that God will reveal to you, and our problem is that we want it to make sense. We want everything to It is the idol of acceptance in our hearts. It is the idol of liability amongst our peers that prevents us from hearing the voice of God. There are many things that God wants to get to you, but it goes through the filters of your idols in the heart. This will make me look crazy. God, I don't want to do this because, oh my God, that sounds fool But then the Lord is talking about how he uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. Because if the Lord is giving you an assignment that makes sense to you, you will glory in yourself. You would say, oh, yeah, I understand why God will call me to do this. That makes absolute sense. And so the Lord has He has this pattern of calling you not according to your abilities, but according to his So anytime you find yourself in a situation where you're like, but God, you know I don't have the resources for this. I don't have the relationships for this. I don't have the wisdom for this. You are the perfect candidate for the job. Do you know? The first time God is angry in the Bible, the first time that the Bible reveals something that angered God, it was in response to Moses' question in God about why he's not the one to be used. Because every time you put yourself in a position to say, God, it's not me because I don't have fill in the blank, it is offensive to God because you're trying to tell him that the only reason he chose you is because of you, that he has no parts to play. It is offensive to him. So the first time we see God an expression of anger from God, it's when he's telling Moses his assignment and Moses is trying to reason himself out of it. He's like, but I can't speak, and he's talking to the one who created him, and he goes down this list. I don't know what your list looks like, but he goes down this list about all the reasons why he couldn't do what God was calling him to do, and the Bible tells us, and the anger of God was kindled against Moses. You will think the first time God got angry when when you're learned about the Bible, you will think it's the flood, right, God wipes out the earth, you know, except the family and all the animals, right well too of each kind. But you will think, oh, God was angry. He wasn't angry. The Bible says, yea, I was actually sorrowful. But when we see God angry for the first time, it was his anger was in response to humanity, saying they could not do what he spoke to them about because they didn't see it in themselves. You see, one of the things I've learned with God is that the shoes you're called to feel would always be bigger than you, because He feels it with you. You're not supposed to figure it out all on your own, but as you go there are things that are working behind the scenes that you have no clue about, working on your behalf. And then the more we go into the scripture, look at what verse twenty seven says, But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, And God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty, that no flesh should glory in his presence. When I think about a fool's journey, I see it all over the Bible. God encounters the man named Abraham and he says, Abraham, leave everything, leave your family, leave everything, and come to a land I would show you, Abraham, I would be your GPS. Now in a room full of people that could have control issues, we're driving, you say, God, you just want me to follow you, and I don't even know where I'm going. That looks foolish in the moment. You know what sounds crazy. It's when Mary is encountered by an angel and she's told a spirit will get you pregnant. You see, as believers, we're like, yes, oh, baby, Jee's resurrection, all the things, Easter, we get excited, Christmas, all the things right. But imagine an atheist when they hear the story. So you're telling me the woman as someone told her a spirit will get her pregnant with her creator, and she just said, let it be unto me as you will. Do you know how foolish that sounds. She's no one has ever experienced such a thing and she's just there having this nice poetic moment. Let it be onto me. Then you go to the life of Noah. You have a man who has never seen rain, and he is told to build an arc that there would be a flood, and they have never seen rain. Noah spense, He invests one hundred and twenty years of his life in building something he had no evidence for except the word. And you have to realize that because when we think about the story of Noah, we wonder, you know, but why why why did the people just you know, they were laughing at him. Of course they laughed at him. It sounded foolish. And the people they had boats because there was there was an ocean, so they're like, look, if we need something to float, and we could, we could float and survive. We have our own boats. But they had they had no There was no reference for a flood, There was no reference for what the Word of God was saying. But for one hundred and twenty years of his life it was committed to building something on the strength of a word. Now, Noah lived to nine hundred and fifty years, so a little bit over ten percent of his life was dedicated to this and in our generation, let's just say you live up to ninety right, ten percent of that is ninety years. We do something for two years and don't see evidence. We start complaining, God, did you really say you see? It's not just about giving God your tithe with your finances. Can you tithe your life? Can God? Can you give God ten percent of your life to build something and not have evidence for it only because he said it to you? Six months we do something and we don't see the fruit, and we're just panicking. But who spoke it? You see? The strength of a fool's journey is in his intimacy with the Lord, is in her intimacy with the Lord. I'm not talking about hope. I'm talking about faith. I'm not talking about the things that you want to create out of your own mind. The Bible says that we walk by faith, not by sight. And there is a difference between faith and hope because faith is marked the right by a revelation of God's word. Hope is marked by your expectation and God is not obligated to meet it because what could feed your expectation could be corrupted. Sometimes what feeds your expectation could be your pride. It could be ego, it could be jealousy, it could be envy. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when the Lord gives you a word. But then we are canceling out our own selves because it doesn't make sense, not realizing that if you are gonna walk in the wisdom of God their moments, it will require you to look like a fool. It doesn't always come in this manner that is packaged where everyone applauds you and everyone gets it. In the moment. There will be opportunities where people will look at you as foolish. It's in the end it makes sense. And as we are gathering and we are seeking God that God, this is time for women to arise, I'm telling you we are in it very interesting times. There is the call of the women in this times, the greatest revival in the earth. We're gonna see it through many women who would rise up in God. And I'm not saying this because it's a women's conference. I'm saying this because of what the Word of the Lord has been revealing. You see, there are people that I don't know how many people have heard about, like Catherine Coleman all around the room. How many people have heard of Amy simple Macpherson, And I want you to study something. Some of these women study women that were used by God to literally shake their generations because something even greater. There is an anointing and even greater that is going to be unleashed on women in these last days. But it's going to look foolish. The Lord is gonna call you to do things. And I'm gonna share with with you some of the insights that the Lord began to speak to me about the women in this room. And he said, Number one, there are many women who what is standing in their way is the idol of acceptance. You are more focused on being acceptanced by your peers than by God, and it is standing in your way. Can you imagine in your when you meet your maker and the books are open before you. There was an encounter I had one time with the Lord. I was praying for an individual in our church. There was a lot he was going through, and I began to intercede for him. And while I was interceding for him, I had this encounter where I was brought into a room and in that room there was a book given to me, and the book said, written on the book was the Book of Secrets. When I opened the book up, I saw this gentleman's life. Everything that the Lord had ordained for him was written in that book, and I'm looking at it, and the Lord allowed me to see it because I was interested. I was praying for him from a place where I'm like God, I don't want him to miss it. He's seeking you concerning clarity in key areas of his life. And so the Lord began to show me very intimate details about who he has called this individual to be. And he showed me that so that I can share with him and confirm to him what it died came from the Lord. Now definitely. I tried to find my page, okay, I said, well look at here, let me just skip over a few pages. And God will not let me see that. Why, Because we walk by faith, you have to in their moments. It's not everything you're allowed to know in present daytime. Your life is marked by times and seasons. So there are times and seasons that Lord, the Lord has marked for you to know a thing, and it would be up to you to give him your obedience or not. But why am I sharing this with you? Because there are books written about your life. There are books when when we pray on earth as it is in heaven. It's not. It's not as if you right now present you you know your life is like playing like a movie in heaven. There are things written about you in heaven. There is the counsel of God concerning you in heaven and the Lord, and the Lord Jesus says, now pray this when he's given the Lord's prayer, and part of that model is on earth as it is in heaven. You want your life to reflect what God wrote. You want your life to reflect the counsel of God concerning you. For your generation. You see, so many times were crippled by the acceptance by this need to be accepted by people that don't even matter. None of the people whose validation you're after can speak for you before God. No one will come and say, oh Jesus, my bad, it's my bad. Really, you're gonna have to stand before the Lord by yourself, and in that moment you would realize that everything else is an unworthy excuse. I was at a funeral this past week, and funerals are always a reminder to me about how you live your life is so important because no matter how much people loved you, no matter how much you impacted your life. Yes you carry them in your hearts, but you know that in the moment of the funeral, the best thing a person could do for you is give a speech, and after that they go on about their life. Do you want the reason that you did not follow the instructions of God well so that someone could give a speech about you that you are not even present to hear. That is the best thing is a speech, and you move on living your own life. So you cannot allow this need for validation to silence your voice for your generation. Right, the Lord began to show me that there's new things that you have built in your life, that it will be shaken and uprooted for the old thing to be established. Now this could sound backwards, but the Lord began to show me how there are many of you that have discarded the very things that he spoke to you for many years. Now, there were things that even before you knew him, he placed in your heart, and when you became a believer, he started to confirm to you what he has called you to do. But you threw it away, and then you started making yourself busy and occupied by new things, shiny things, exciting things according to you, and the Lord said that many things would be shaken in this season, so that you would revisit what he said, not just what you're doing. And I'm saying this to give you a comfort in the chaos when things begin to get shaken up, that you will not see it as an attack, but that perhaps God is only shaking it because he had no hand in it. You see, sometimes we have this obsession with purpose that we tend to create it for our own lives and not seeking the one that gave us life. To reveal, God, what is it that you want to do through me and not me just trying to do things? Because it's not enough to be known as a good person in society. Would God look at your works and say it is good? Because for God to call something good, it means it matches his counsel, it matches his vision concerning you, it matches what he wrote about you. Then the Lord began to show that there is treasure in the words revealed to you by the Holy Spirit, And just because you walked away from it does not mean he changed his mind about you. Because you said no to something. That does not mean that you are not still the person for the job. Just because you turned your back on building that thing does not mean God changed his mind about you. So don't allow the shame of the enemy to convince you otherwise. Yes, you may have wasted time, but there is something called mercy that is undeserved. But yet, given that God has not changed his mind concerning what he called you to do, don't settle for safe. It might look big to others, but to you, you know this is safety. To others, you're killing it. You're doing amazing, but you, deep down you know this is my place of comfort, and this is my place of safety. Then the Lord showed me that there are ventures that he will call some of you into and is going to require major financial investment. But don't operate from a lack mentality, but trust him to favor your path with increase. And as he was showing me this, he reminded me again of Noah, because you see, Noah did not only invest time, he invested resources. The Bible says that God gave Noah the blueprint, he told him exactly how to build the Ark, But the Bible did not say that the materials just showed up out of heaven. Noah had to invest resources, he had to labor. But the beauty is that he labored knowing that Heaven was backing him up. You never see Noah complain about lack. And so there's gonna be some major investments that the Lord is gonna ask you to do. And the beautiful thing is it may it will get you a little bit uncomfortable, but you have to know who's who is speaking, you see, And when I say this, the strength in any believer's life will always be the place of intimacy with God. When you can hear the voice of God for your life, it will bring accuracy to your life because when God, why does it talk about the Bible talks about you know, when we see our maker. It's like the judgment day. Why is it called judgment? You know? So harsh because there is something that has to be measured. The Lord is looking at what you did on the earth and comparing it to what he wrote, and what he wrote will reveal how aligned were you. You see, it's not enough to just wait for God to tell you something. You have to make yourself available to hear and to ask questions. We cannot be a generation of lazy Christianity that if it's important, God will find a way to get it to me, but that occasionally in every believer's life you have to embrace a lifestyle of prayer and fasting, and sometimes you're not fasting for for what you know. Oftentimes when a person is fasting, you know, it's almost like you can narrow it down to a few things. A job, a breakthrough, a marriage. God, I want to get married, let me go on the fast. God, I need a breakthrough, Let me go on the fast. God, I want the promotion. Let me go on the fast. What about fasting just to be open to God? Lord, is there anything in my life that is not in alignment with you? Show me God, is there anything? Because sometimes you see the Holy Spirit will tug on you and you don't even realize why he's tugging, because you have disciplined yourself to fast for the things you desire, the things that you can articulate. But there are times when you just feel this. It's almost like the Lord is calling you to be drawn to him in a new way. But then you ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit because you're like, well, I already needed a fast for the boom and I'm good at my job, so I think I'm good. Do you know that before I became a minister, I was very I was in real estate and I had no desire for ministry and I had this path played out in my mind. I was flipping properties at the time. I was making incredible money and I was like, you know what, and plus flipping, I should become an agent. I'm like, oh, this is money. Both ways, I was young and I was just having a time. I remember one time I called my mom. She's like, what are you doing. I said, oh, I'm going to the Rolex store. You know, I'm about to go get me a nice watch. She said, Stephan, you don't have problem. Do you know how many people in Nigeria are suffering? She said the way my mom almost cursed me out. I said, Mom, you know what, you are killing my vibe. He said, if you don't know what to do with money, send it to me. And I was like, maybe I'm mean irresponsible. I mean not by the watch. But during that time I was I was enjoying myself. My brother and I we were My mom used to get so frustrated. She's like, you people don't know what to do with money. Because my brother you call him, he's in Miami. Then he's at a Laker game, and then we're like, let's just meet somewhere. We were just enjoying ourselves, right, But in the midst of that, I remember the moment where I could feel God was far from me, and I was like, no, something is wrong. I didn't have There was nothing I could articulate that I I had need of in that time. But something was wrong with my alignment. And I wasn't doing anything like crazy in an evil way. I was just living my life right. But something was off with my relationship with the Lord. And I went on the fast. I said, God, this, this doesn't feel right, This doesn't sut you. You feel far from me. And I went on the fast and I said, Lord, show me if there is anything I am doing that is displeasing to you, if there is anything that I'm doing that is not in alignment with what you know concerning me. Now, I didn't have I didn't want to be a pastor, but the Lord became my father. At nine years old. That was when I first encountered the Lord and so I grew up with him as I always called him Dad. Even til now there are times in my prayer I'm like, Daddy, this is what's happening. Right. But I knew him as Dad, I knew his voice in my life, and so when I felt him far from me, that was different. I said no. And at this point I had I had also received him as savior, which took me a couple of years, but I received him as savior as well as father. And I said something, something does not feel right. And when I I went on a fast and I said, God, you've shown me because I could be living one way, thinking I'm doing amazing, and in your books you have this is not even written in your books. I'm not even close to what you wrote concerning me. And it was during that fast that changed my life because I came out of that fast and the Lord says, I want you to walk away from real estate. I want you to walk away from everything, your security. And he wasn't calling me to walk away from it forever, but in that moment, the instruction was walk away from it because I had put my identity in money. He said, your security is your finances and anything that is your security outside of God is God to you. If it's a person, if it is money. Whatever you find safety in outside of Christ is a God in your life, even though you don't call it that. He says, your safety is in your finances. I'm gonna strip you off it, but you need to agree. It wasn't that things got chaotic and the business went bad. No business was thriving. I was twenty three at the time of twenty two, twenty three, and I was doing great. He says, no, you would have to agree. This would require your consent, and he says walk away from everything. And I did because it was more important to me now and then that I was close to my dad, then closer to the pleasures of this world and far from him. I didn't want his spirit far from me. And he didn't even tell me exactly what was gonna happen. He just said, I want you to walk away from it all. I want you to move to this city, and I'll give you the next instructions when you move. Talk about foolishness. It was absurd to my family because you don't even have a plan. I was living off savings without a plan, but I knew a voice when the voice of God is in your life, that is your safety. It's not your resources, it's not your relationships, it's not what you know, it's not who you can call. It is knowing that the creator of all is the one that you can call on. He is your safety, and that becomes the strength in your life that even when you look like a fool, it doesn't mean it will not hurt. I had many nights I cried because I was so confused about the journey God had me on. But every time he would encounter me, he says, I am with you. If you stay the course, then you will see my hand in it all. I could have chosen to say, nah, that's crazy, that's foolish, and I will not be here in front of you, because that was the path that led me to the revealing that who He had called me to be was a minister of the gospel. Many of you don't even have a clue what is written about you as compared to where you are. Being successful in the thing does not mean it is validated by Heaven as your identity. Just because you know how to thrive in something does not mean it is connected to your purpose for your generation. You want to say, God, what is it you know about me? And I want to pray for you because what the Lord showed me in this first session is that he is going to bring back to your memory. You see many of you pass talking about dreams earlier and have a book on dreams coming out. I'm so excited about him, But many of you, they're download you have received in your dreams, but you don't because simply because you forgot the dream did not make it less important. You see, one of the things I've learned about the enemy, the enemy thrives in your habits. That's why he infuses himself in culture, he infuses himself in what you listen to, what you watch. He thrives when he can get into the rhythm of your habits and your routines, and so with your dream life. Many of you don't remember because your routines do not create space with the Holy Spirit. And just because you forgot the dream does not mean it lost its value. There's some of you that say you don't even dream, but you actually do. There was a time that there was a dream. Here's a crazy thing, and God does this to teach me the significance of things. I woke up and I knew I forgot a dream, and he showed me you need to remember the dream. I said, well, if you're telling me, tell me the dream. But I went into prayer and as I was praying, the dream comes back to mind, and the details of that dream was so critical. Why am I sharing this with you? There are many words that God has released in your life that were discarded or forgotten, but it did not lose the weight of what is supposed to do in your life. And what I saw the Holy Spirit doing in this first session is that he is going to bring back to your memory who you are. And so if you're believing for that, just meet me at this altar and we're gonna pray. Thank you, Jesus. Just stand to your feet. Stand to your feet, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. You see there are some of you, and your heart, your heart feels like it's on fire, like it feels like there's this burning sensation on your chest. And if that's you, come come down. I want to meet you. Come down. We're gonna pray together. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Just come down quickly. We have a few minutes. We're gonna pray, come down quickly. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Lord, Holy Spirit. The people that you're speaking to, cast their hearts to be on fire. Let there be a burning sensation right now on their chest. Lord. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Have your way, Jesus, have your way, have your way, have your way, have your way. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Do it, Lord, do it. Lord. You see, there are some of you, and I want you to come down quickly, quickly, feel the urgency of what God is doing in the now. There's some of you and you are terrified, and you're literally terrified by the thought of change, like the idea that God will ask you to walk away from something it terrifies you. If that is you, I want you to run run to the altar, Run to the altar quickly, quickly, because what you don't realize is that that thing that has you are almost on a chokehold, has become a God in your life. And it's what is filtering your decision making. It filters your actions, It filters how you live and how you move. You see good things God does not God wants you to have of every good thing on this planet, but he does not want it to have you. God is not trying to hold things back from you. The problem is that it has a hold on you. And until he works out the idols in your hearts, that's when he begins to release things to you. But God will have no part to play in giving you something that will become an idol. That's why I always tell women this. I said, if God revealed to you who you would marry, and it turned you into a stalker, it did not come from God. If all of a sudden you have fake Instagram pages monitoring what the person is doing, it didn't. I will tell you this right now to set you free. That did not come from the Lord. Because God will not give you a word that will produce fruit outside his nature. If it said it causing you to have depression anxiety, that we did not come from God. I don't care how many times you saw it in your dream dreams. Could cold also come from you? Why am I sharing this the Lord? When the Lord has your totality, when nothing can no longer sway your movements or your decision making, then you would rise up in a way that when people see your light, they see Jesus see. The scripture says that no one would glory in his flesh, but if anyone would glory, let him glory in the Lord, Heavenly Father. Have you away. I'm gonna pray really quickly, and I just want everyone to close your eyes and just open your hands like you're about to receive something. Holy Spirit. It is undeniable that you are with us and what you have for your children, Release it to them right now. Release it to them right now. Release it to them right now. Bring back to their memory, Lord God, bring back to their hearts, bring back to their minds for good in treasure, forgotten words that everywhere that their life is not marked by alignment. O God, that you will cause a sensitivity in their hearts to seek after you, Because Lord, you said that when we seek first your kingdom, everything else would follow. May we not follow the everything else that is beneath what really matters. But I pray, Lord God, that we will get back to the heart of the matter, and that is you, Jesus, and so have your way. I thank you for the testimonies that even in this moment, there are things that you're bringing back to their heart and their memory, the things they didn't think that they had the ability to do. I thank you, Lord God, you're bringing it back. You're bringing the back. You're bringing it back, and you're saying that, yes, that shoe was supposed to be too big for you because it needs to make room for you. Lord, it's supposed to be too big for your daughters because you need to join them in it. And so Lord, I thank you, and I thank you. Right now you're showing me, Thank you Jesus, you're showing me even there is there are women who are going through infertility, infertility, infertility, and Lord that I break every demonic chain in the name of Jesus. And I thank you, Lord God that as they come into the place of alignment with you, because that would also prepare the way for the children they are called to raise. There is a manner and an order you have called those children to be raised. And so I thank you Lord that they would know they don't even need to compromise for the things that you commanded belongs to them. Your command to the woman is be fruitful and multiply in many ways, including children. So every word that comes against that, we cancel that now in the name of Jesus, have your way, Lord God. And I thank you Lord that even in that they would not lose hope, even in that, Oh God, where they have tried to throw things away, And the Lord is showing me that you see, the enemy said the Word of God says about the enemy. He has come to steal, kill and destroy, and that is progressive. He starts by steel, Heavenly Father, wherever the enemy has stolen words from your children, stolen the very essence of things that speak to their identity. O God, we thank you that there is a restoration happening right now in Jesus' mighty name.