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God Has Been Waiting For You | Are You The One God Is Looking For | Pastor Sola Fola-Alade

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God Has Been Waiting For You | Are You The One God Is Looking For | Pastor Sola Fola-Alade

This sermon, titled "God Has Been Waiting for You," explores the spiritual journey from deliverance to dominion. It begins by examining Exodus 3:7-10 and Obadiah 17, distinguishing between the "gospel of salvation" (being freed from bondage, like Israel from Egypt) and the "gospel of the kingdom" (entering and possessing one's promised land with holiness and authority). The speaker argues that many believers remain stuck in a cycle of personal prayer requests, which delays collective and individual breakthroughs. He emphasizes that God is actively seeking individuals—modern "Moses" figures—who will intercede and act on behalf of others, standing in the gap as described in Ezekiel 22:30. The message challenges listeners to move beyond a self-centered faith to become instruments God can use to bring deliverance, holiness, and possession of blessings in their families and communities. It concludes with a call to strategic, persistent prayer to release people from spiritual bondage, illustrated by the command to Lazarus to "come forth" and be loosed.

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Okay, let's get into the word very quickly. Today's message is going to be an interesting one. And I think it's going to open up a new leaf in the life of many people. All right, are you ready? Let's turn our Bible quickly to Exodus 3. My time is already ticking. Amen, the 7 to 10. And this scripture verse, as I was reading it this morning, I actually felt and I'm knowing it. Why? Because it is one of the key strict scriptures for this church. It is a scripture that speaks about my mandate, hallelujah. It's an Exodus 3.7 to 10. And the Lord said, "I have surely seen the oppression of the people in the UK. I've seen the oppression of the people in various families who are in Egypt or on the bondage. And I have heard their cry because of their tastmasters, because of the creditors, because of the oppressive system. For I know their sorrows. God has seen your oppression. God has heard your cry. Tell some women, you said, God has heard my cry. If you have a Bible, you can underline the word, heard their cry. For I know their sorrows, verse 8, so I have come down to deliver them. God said he has come down out of the hand of the Egyptians. And then that's part one, the second part is to bring them up from the land, that land to a good and a large land. Tell somebody nice to you. This is Maya. Of entering into my promised land. And not just entering possessing it. To a land flowing with milk and honey. Verse 9, now therefore behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come up to me. Say that word again, say cry. It's important to take note of that. The cry came up to God. And he says, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them. So God first heard their cry, then he saw the oppression. And then he says, in verse 10, come now therefore and I will send you to Pharaoh. Tell somebody next to you. Say God is about to send you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Look for somebody specific. Don't point to the air. It's a prophetic dimension. Look for somebody. And then say God is about to send you. If you are sitting beside your wife or your husband, point to your wife, a point to your husband, say God is about to send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the mighty name of Jesus. The second scripture of us is a very short scripture of us, but very potent. There are some books in the Bible that don't have chapters. They only have verses. So this is a quiz. Do you know what books they are? Obadiah, filamon, Jude. Okay? If you didn't know that, go and read your Bible. Okay, Obadiah 17, there's no chapter just verses. It says, "But on Mount Zion, " on Mount Zion is the church. "They are shall be what? "Deliverance and they are shall be what? "Holiness and the children "or house of Jacob shall what? "Possess their positions." I decree and declare over your life that in your house, there will be what? Deliverance. In your life, there will be holiness. And in your life and family, there you will possess what? Your possessions. Those are three distinct things that God wants to see in our lives. Hallelujah. Father, Lord, we pray by your spirit that this morning you will open our eyes and our destinies shine light so that we can enter into a new dimension and enter into a new season. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Amen. Good morning, everybody. - Good morning. - Are you hanging? You all right? - Yes. - Okay. So this morning, the topic of the title of the message is called, God has been waiting for you. If you want to subtitle, it's essentially, "I you the one God is searching for." I believe that as we start out this new month, the month of March, for us, the month of March is the month of the supernatural. And the message I'm bringing you this morning is somewhat a bridge between the month of February and the month of March. So it just helped you cross over. And so I'm going to be addressing many things that have to do with family and relationships. But it's going to be focused on the supernatural. Now, when you listen to this message, you can listen to it on one level. But I will ask that you listen to it on two levels. One is the practical and the natural level. The second is the spiritual. You will get what I'm about to say right now. For some of you, if you feel lost in this spiritual, focus on the practical. Or whatever you do, yeah? Listen and listen intently. God told us that for us as a church that this year is a year of, that we will enter into a new dimension. That amen could have been much better. (audience cheers) But let me tell you what that means. It means that whatever, or wherever you've been operating prior to this year, God wants you to step up and move up. Now, let me say this. God essentially is saying to many people that he wants you to move out of the realm of deliverance and move into the realm of dominion. Now, what that means essentially, because some of you may say, "But my deliverance is not complete yet. You might be right." What that is saying is that there's an announcement that it is going to be complete soon. (audience cheers) That this year, you are going to break out. (audience cheers) And then you will step up from deliverance and what does that mean? Listen to this. If you look through the scriptures, you will see that the scripture is, it might not be clearly stated, but it is evident. There's what you call the gospel of salvation, okay? Have you heard of the gospel of salvation? Which is where we are preached to and we are brought out of the world into the kingdom of God, in it. All right. Now, with the gospel of salvation, in the scriptures, the anti-type, or the symbol, because the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, does that make sense? It's a symbol of what is to come, okay? And so, the gospel of salvation has to do with you and I coming out of Egypt. Everybody say deliverance. On that, the strong bondage of Pharaoh, that God had to send a Moses to bring judgment, 10 plates before what's his name. Pharaoh released the children of Israel. Pharaoh was the head of the occult. And the price was that it was until Pharaoh's first son who was killed or judged that what's his name. You are dealing with a stubborn enemy. And many at times, it will not be at one command that you will come out in deliverance. Many times, it will have to be with some persistence. Is this making sense? So that is what you call the gospel of salvation. But there's another gospel. And that's what you call the gospel of the kingdom. And what is the gospel of the kingdom? This is what Jesus preached. Many of us think that all that Jesus preached was the gospel of salvation. In fact, it was only in one place that he actually talked about that. And that was when he preached to Nicodemus that he must be born again. Now, that is important and central. But Jesus Christ always preached about the kingdom of God. He says, "Now you know the kingdom of God has come upon you." He says, "If I cast out demons by the spirit of God, that means the kingdom of God has what come." What is the gospel of the kingdom? This is where you are taking into the promised land. And somebody here is about to enter their promised land. Oh, can that be better? [AUDIENCE CHANTING] Listen to this. There's no point just coming out of Egypt. Just having salvation and speaking in tongues if you are not possessing anything. Yeah. So when Jesus Christ preached the gospel of the kingdom, he was saying that you need to move from deliverance to dominion where you take over land, you take over territory, you get married, you have children, and then you have influence, you have income for the kingdom. It's about rulership and governance. Well, listen to this very carefully. Before you can experience the gospel of the kingdom, you will have to experience fully-- well, let me put it this way-- essentially the gospel of salvation. You have to experience deliverance. And we read of Badaya 17, he says, "What? Who remembers it?" On Mount Zion, there shall be what? Deliverance. Somebody say deliverance. You see, that scripture, "Morless gives you a road map." On Mount Zion, there will be what? Deliverance, gospel of salvation. And then he said holiness. And then he says, "And then the children of shall do what possess their possessions." It gives you a clear road map and you can point where you are. Without the holiness, you can't possess that possession. Somebody here is going to possess their possession. But there's something called prophetic timing. When he has to do with deliverance. And we see in scripture that the Lord told Abraham in a vision in Genesis 15. Are you here this morning? He said to him, he said that, "I'm going to bless you. I covenant with you. I will give you this land for you and your descendants." And the Lord swore to him. He says, "Bot. Your children or your descendants will be in captivity for 400 years." But the issue was that they were not there for 400 years. They were there for 430 years. Which means it can be your time for deliverance. And you can experience it daily. Why? Satan, because it is your time, is not a gentleman. Listen to this. It's not with your Satan. Bankers are like that. That's what you're worth. Whatever I'm sure. And you can't take the money out. They won't tell you. Will they tell you? Or you are landlord and the tendency in terms of-- it's time to connect with your-- the talent will remind you. You haven't connected the length. Now, Satan is like that. You see, Satan did not mention anything. Why? Because he does not like your deliverance. He does not want it. So what God had to do was that he had to raise a deliverer to deal with him. I believe very strongly that God is raising a deliverer to bring deliverance in your life. Or that man is too weak. But there was a delay of 30 years. So it's possible for a person to have prophecy. But the prophecy not come to pass. Not because God doesn't want it. It's because somebody has not a reason. What am I trying to say to you? Listen to this very carefully. Whenever there is a delay in the answers to your prayers, it is likely that it is because God has not found a man he can use. Whenever there is a delay, it means that a deliverer has not been found. And it took God time to make Moses to prepare him. Remember Moses messed up and they threw him into the deliverance for another 40 years as it were. So the Moses' lack of preparedness was a result in the delay of the children of Israel stealing bondage. And listen to this. Many of you are in the season of delay. And many of you are in the cause of other people's delay. Tell your neighbor, say, tell yourself, you need to rise up. Stop keeping me in the season of delay. Listen to this carefully. The charge of today is raising people that use God and not people that God can use. This is the reason why many things are delayed. Given in God's prophetic timing, there are things that the church should be doing right now. But the diet that we feed on in church is one where we use God. God, where we lay money. God, where we lay life change, which is why God I want to come now, you've married. God, I want to job now. God, I need twins. God, all of that is good. But our prayers are prayers that are focused on trivial things. Important. But God is looking for people who will take their prayers beyond themselves. Why? Like a Moses. Like a Moses. Who would say, Lord, you said a man's son, they'll be what? Deliverance. And there shall be holiness. And the children of Jacob shall possess their possession. The problem is that the instrument of deliverance, they are not ready yet. I'll tell you a neighbor, say, God has been waiting for you. Say, that's the title of this message. God has been what? Waiting for you. If you look, some of you will say, Pastor, how do you know that? He said it can in the Zechel 22 verse 30. So I sought for a man and the woman. When he says, man is talking about human. And amongst them, who will make a wall and stand in the gap? Before me, on behalf of the land that I should not destroy, but I have found what? None. Or no one. You see, people will remain in bondage until somebody arises. Somebody in this place is going to get very, very indignant with the status quo and arise in their family. Somebody's family has been in bondage for so long. And God has been waiting for you to rise up in your family. Those things that have been happening in your family and taking lives before time or people divorcing and all of that is because somebody has refused to arise. People will remain in bondage until somebody arises. I remember when we went to Birmingham. I was in November, October, November last year. And we had the atmosphere of worship then. On the Sunday, we had the first Sunday service. And then I preached and then I started ministering in the prophetic. And some of the people I picked up, there was one that came with a little catcher in another one came from. I don't know how far those places are. But when I measured the distances of where those people were coming from, some of them traveled to ours. Some three hours to come to this service. And I thought to myself, if I didn't travel to two and a half hours to Birmingham, do you understand? So it's like, people need water and it's like, they've been watching the ministry and it's almost like as though they've been waiting for a church like this. And some of the people, one particular gentleman, I picked up the prophetic. It was so, I mean, from the place he was born where he lived. First, whatever, where his wife was from. I actually described the kind of thing. I said she'd come from a place by the river. I see man groups and I say, yes, yes, yes. I said, it's like Delta. He said, it says Delta. And then the Lord showed me he was called. And then I said, I mean, various things in his life. And then I thought to myself, what if I didn't to break the call? Call to ministry. Secondly, if I did not hear, go to Birmingham. Now, the other question is that, are there not people in Birmingham? And it's the same thing when I go to Lagos. And sometimes last year, I was in Lagos and there was so much need that at the end of the service, as I was, I started to cry. Why? Because God is looking for men. And not just anybody are men around. No, no, no, no. God counts men differently. Yeah. The fact that you stand when you pee in the toilet doesn't mean you're a man. In the in the in God's economy, a man is someone that God can use. And God can use to break bondages. I believe God will find a man in this house. I believe God will find a man in your family. But you see, the second is that the gospel rich child because somebody made big sacrifices. The gospel rich those people in Birmingham because I made the sacrifice. You made the sacrifice. I mean, we put money together. Many people in this year, Pastor MJ, who's gone there, made the sacrifice a short notice. And that is what the gospel is built on. The sacrifices of God and men. I mean, we're starting a church, a full church in Houston. And somebody's living here to go and make a sacrifice there. And where sacrifice stops then? Deliverance stops. Satan is happy keeping you using God so that God can never use you. Look at your neighbor said, I think that what might be about you. No, I said, please look at your neighbor and say, I don't think he's about me. It could might be you that he's speaking about. The problem is not with the harvest, but with the harvest. It starts. Bible says that the harvest is what? Much, but the laborers. When he says the laborer, he doesn't say the Christians. The laborers, the people that we can use are few. Ask your neighbor, say, are you one of the people that God can use? I want to show you something. And we're going to pray a prayer now. Or be brief. But I think it's a prayer that we should pray now. And then we will pray it. If you're going to move to your next dimension, start praying this prayer. Have you ever wondered why people are not getting married in shock like they should? Especially single ladies. How many of you? Yeah. If you've ever wondered, put up your hand. I have. OK, the rest of you, I'm going to pray for you. [LAUGHTER] Some of you are not being more than wondering you. Actually, say, God, why, why, why? Before you came and you are now posing like a step. And you know what that meant? Now let me say this to you. It's actually been a burden for me. That, why are there so many women and very few men? And even where they are men, it seems like, OK, well, some things are not fully there. Or the kind of men that are on believing, believing men. Who knows what I'm talking about? And then many women are first-- Christend ladies are first to compromise. Either picking the on believing, believing men in church or go out and go out and convert a man. It's a strategy. It's because Moses has refused to rise. Let me explain what I mean. Satan will do more work to keep men in bondage for this reason. Yeah, because he knows that once a man is truly delivered, as it were, he brings more than men. He brings a whole family. Now watch this. What the lotto means that if people-- if you want to see marriages, true kingdom marriages, we are going to actually have to take the offensive. Yeah, on Marzayyan, they shall be what? Deliverance and what? Holiness and the what? The children of Jacob Shawad possess their-- what possess their possession is a militant word. It's cut, we enforce it. We are going to take this thing what? By force. So the Lord showed me that where what single ladies and men, all of us should be praying, is this prayer. It's from this scripture. The Lord actually gave me this scripture to use. John 1143 to 44. He said, "Prayer to release Moses." And he says, "Now when he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice. Lazarus! Come what? Fourth." Yeah. So the first prayer point we're going to pray. For a second of time, we would actually not pray now, because at my time it's counting. But it's a prayer. It's actually worth passing the service to pray. It's what? Lazarus, what? Come forth. Hosts, bans, and you might not be a host, bannu. But you are praying that Lord send the men, because the men are still doing also some things in the nightclub. They are smoking, they are drinking. But it is because you and I have not shouted Lazarus! What? Come forth. It is a prayer we need to cross it. Why? Because Satan is not going to release them just like that. In fact, there is something that needs to be done before the night. I don't have the time to show it is to first of all remove the grave stone that has been blocking him. And then the first, the next prayer is what? Lazarus! Come forth. If we pray this for the next three months, you just ask him, "Man, come here." Then, sisters, don't know Mary then yet. I will tell you why. It is dangerous to marry them like that. Because you need to pray another prayer. And that prayer is to now begin to pray. Loose them and let them go. There are many men who have come forth, but they are still wearing griff clothes. They are in church, but they are still looking for pornography. They are in church, but they are doing other things on the side. And listen to this. Let me tell you, this is the challenge of the church. Paul says that my little children of whom I travel in birth, again, until what Christ is from the youth, which means the first travel was a prayer of come forth. Come out of the world. The second travel was until Christ is from the youth. The first prayer was deliverance. The second prayer was holiness and possessing your possession. I didn't ask you to clap. So, if you want to clap properly, I'm going somewhere with this. How many of you would like to possess your land? How many of you would like to enter your land? Are you sure? Okay, I'm going to share some things with you. I think you will interest you. As I was reading the scriptures, this is why it's important. You see, some of us think we've read the scriptures before, so we don't need to read it again. You are making a big mistake. Because I've been reading the scriptures for the last 34 years. No, 36. And there are some scriptures that I read. I was like, how come I didn't see this? So, I found out that it is possible to have a promise. What never possess the promise. If you look at the scriptures, you will see that when God spoke to Abraham, the Lord said to him, he says, in Genesis 12, 17, the Lord appeared to Abraham and said, to your descendants, I will what? Give this land. And there he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him. This is very significant. A lot of people like this place, where the Lord gave you a promise. He says, I will give you so, so, so, so. And you say, yay! But you know what? You forgot to build an altar. This year, God says, this is the year you will enter and possess the land. He gives you the land, but you are still waiting for the land. The Lord said, this is, don't know what I said, possess your last said, that there is somebody who, the Lord said to you, this year, I didn't say everybody, you will get married. And you shout, hey, hey, hey, you go, I tell your mom, this is what my pastor said. And what you forgot to build an altar. I will show you why it's important to build an altar. He says, and the Lord appeared to Abraham. It's important to build an altar when God gives you the land. I will show you in a short while to secure it. And then when you build the altar, when the Lord appears, He will show you what is on the land. Second thing is, everybody say it, the promise. Now you can't have something by promise, but not take it by possession. The possession is in Joshua 1 to the witch says, every place that the soul of your foot will try to upon. What? That have I given unto you as I said to Moses. So the promise is conditional. No, you are not getting what I'm saying. It's saying, I give you the land, but it's saying that I am giving you the land, but your possession is, you need to step into it. I'm giving you IT. I'm giving you also what you are still working in law. That lady, a prophecy came about law. I said, but I see tech. She took the prophecy and started looking for it. Isn't it? Now, watch this. It says, any place where your foot will try to upon what I have given you. So that I have given you, still doesn't mean it is actually in your possession. Now you have to fight for it to take it. Now I don't know if this is true in all tribes, in my tribe, yeah, I am from Nigeria of your origin. When somebody wants to get married, they say it's going to take a wife. I mean, I bet you are. What does it mean to be a wife? A colleague, a wife, yeah. And you know, it's, it will be right to say you went to take a wife. Who else from your own tribe has that kind of depiction? When you say the person went to take a wife. Anybody? Any other, okay, from your, yes. So it means marrying a wife is like taking a land. Marrying a husband is also almost equivalent to taking a land. Every man or woman, yeah, it's like a land in itself. And so are you listening? Whether you are single or married, please listen. Because if you are married, you've already taken the land. And the likelihood is that you didn't build an altar before you took the land. So it brings up something different, which I will show you. So some of you are going to have remedial classes. I am showing you how to become. Everybody is called to be a prophetic intercessor. I'll tell you what I mean by that. Every single person. This is what it says, God said, I have given you what the land. That I have given you the land doesn't mean you have really taken it. Let me put it this way. If you ever know anything about land, that somebody gave you a land doesn't mean it's yours. I don't know about this part of the world. But I know many things about a part of the world I come from. They said somebody gave you a land doesn't mean that you own it because you can get them. I want to start building that. Some people say, what's happening here? You watch it saying that person is the only land. If they are places they will write on the world. Don't let Rashid, don't buy land from Rashid. He doesn't own this land. Who doesn't sing something like that before? Beware of tarju. Tarju didn't does not own this land. There are sorts of land schemes. And those kind of, what the puff up that even that you even bought it from the rightful owner will show you that the fact that you paid money for the land doesn't mean that it is still yours. The fact that you married that wife. Should I? Cause she's on tables. You find that. Even though you married her legally, there are some things that you may still wish we'll prove that she's not really yours. That's why you have to build an altar. Listen to this. Those of you who are not married yet, God might be doing you a favor. Let me tell you the favor is doing you. He's giving time for you to build your muscles. The Bible says, this is Egypt. This is Egypt. That's the promise that between Egypt and Promised Land is the wilderness. God deliberately put you in the wilderness. Why? To build your muscles. This is what he says in the book of Luke 1 verse 80. He says, and he remained in the wilderness, waxing strong until the time of his manifestation. So rather than complaining Lord, why am I still single? The Lord says, you are waxing what's strong or you should be waxing strong. Not complaining strong. Why? Because God is wanting you to build the altar before you enter the land. Look at you, I think God is talking to you. Why? Because God man, two things. That man or that land or that woman that God is giving you is a project. And God is still building him. Remember the Lord said, let us make. They are still making the man. They are still making the cake. If you buy it, you can run your belly. Listen to this and listen to this very carefully. People do not know that marriage is a ministry. And the first role in marriage is the ministry of intercession. The Lord said in Isaiah chapter 6, he says in verse 8 to 9. So I heard the voice of the Lord said, whom shall I send? And whom will go for us? Then I said, here I am, send me. And he said, go and tell this people, keep on hearing. La, la, la, la. See? I'm married to Rebecca Abembola for La La then. Yeah? Those of you who are married, put up your hand. God bless you. And those of you who are happy to be married, put up your hand. God better put up your hand. For your spice, tricks your eye. Now watch this. Before I married Abembola Rebecca, whether you know it or not, there was a call in the realm of the spirit, whom shall I send? Who will go for us? And when I saw, so nice girl, look, so nice. I was thinking, oh, man, see this girl, like this girl, propose this girl. In the realm of the spirit, it's like auction, like an auction. Property, for social, so blah, blah, blah. Said, you put up your hand. And they said, goes to social, so, so. In the realm of the spirit, I'm not saying, you get, I'm not saying your spouse is a property. But it's like an auction. Now, one of the things about that auction, even though you buy get houses for cheap there, one of the dangers of an auction is that you don't have the opportunity to find out about the house. So you don't know what you're getting. The house looks like it should be for a million pounds, but they are selling it for 60K. And everybody is beating. Find house. Swimming pool. Or you don't know what is in or around the house. Tell somebody next, you say, pastor is saying something, you know. Marriage is a ministry. If you are married into a certain family, there's a certain assignment you are sent, therefore. The question is, is it your assignment? The problem is that many of us marry at the auction. And it's an auction. AUCT, ION. We marry at the open market where they don't allow you to check. So you just take it on. But every marriage is an assignment. And I'm showing you, look, I was struggling with that, but the loss of this is what he wants me to preach. Because it is now high time for people to open their eyes. I have a couple of examples. Without taking a lot of time, there's a lady, I went to preach somewhere in Nigeria when I finished mainstream. I just noticed that was a whole queue based on the message I pray, a whole queue of people waiting. And this lady just sat down at the end, very calmly. Each person, by the time I choose, she would send the next lady, you say, you're not going to sit in there, she'll be the last. When I got to, I was like, what kind of computer? She said, ah, I have to be the last. I said, all that she goes preach right now is about me. I said, how? So I know you. She says, I know you very well. Anyway, long story short, she said, you went to my sister's church. You go there every year. You picked my sisters on two different occasions. You didn't know the sisters. I said, there's so many about your husband. We need to pray against. And even so that the husband doesn't die. I prayed for the first. The next year I went, picked up the other sister. There's so many about your husband. So the other one said, you didn't know the sisters, but you were very accurate. I said, what do you mean by that? Well, I am the elder sister and my husband died just before he turned 40. A few years after I got married to him. Said, my mother's husband, my dad died before he turned 40. A few years after they got married. My mother's sister's husband died just before they turned 40. She blistered about my grandmother's sister's dad before. So there was something about that family, about ladies. That when they married, the man thought he was taking away what he was taking his life. Not due to the wives, the wives don't know anything about it. But there was a person and she was like, I can give you stories upon stories. So those people took a wife, but the wife took their lives. Not literally. Which means essentially when you get married, you need to ensure that as you are getting married, you are making inquiries. Can I talk to you? Are you sure? Okay? That moves me to the four keys to revelation for intercession. Why? Because when the Lord told Abraham, I am giving you this man. What was the first thing Abraham did? What did he do? Talk to me now. He built. And all the time, he said, pray, and all the time, he said, pray where you interact with spirit. He said, Lord, this land you gave me. What is on this land? Let's talk about it very quickly. The Bible says in Humbercock 212, he says, I will start my watch and set myself on the rampant and watch to see what he will say to me and what I will answer when I am correct. Every time a land is given to you, don't just receive it. See, there is some land that they give you. Don't take it. You are not yelling me. The fact that a land is free doesn't mean this is yours. Both physically and spiritually. Some lands are not a blessing. So listen to this. Anything that is given to you, whether it's a property or you need to first of all go in prayer. And the first thing you will get in prayer is a feedback. If you are praying sincerely, it's a lot. You said, this is my wife. First of all, you said, you should be saying in prayer. It's not a lot. Are you following? Those of you who are married, you passed the question of this, this is my wife. The question is, Lord, you said, this is my wife. Now, now that I'm inside, what is on the land? The Bible says, the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So that Daniel blessed the God of heaven. There are some secrets that can only or will only be revealed to you in the night or by a dream or some revelation. These things I'm talking about, the serious business. I'm preaching it out of the many travails of canceling. Where people would say, if I had known, I would not have. So you don't say that or you friend up 20 years later, you married that nobody told me. This is why I'm preaching this message. For many of you, when you start praying, the first thing you would get is feedback. Everybody say feedback. All these feedback. You see, if you speak with God, he would talk back to you. If you know how to listen. This next week, we're going to have every year, we have something, you know, since my 25 year in ministry, we always do, we have 25 hours of prayer and praise. This year, again, from Friday to Saturday, we're having 24 hours of prayer and praise. Use it to, for some of you, for sexist to come and ask questions of the Lord. See, and when you pray, the feedback you will get is sometimes the feedback you will have a dream and you will hear a cry of a baby in the dream. Some of you, you have dreams and you will see certain things. And so the next thing you want to do is ask God, what is this? Many attempts, the feedback comes in some interesting ways. I remember when I was, you know, before I got married to my wife, every girl I met, I asked one girl, I saw a cobra. She asked me what is this, then she said, actually, it led to something. Another one, I saw her castigate. You know, now it's not every day, some of you, because you ate too much pizza or something. But if you are in a real season of prayer, listen to this, you will get feedback. What kind of feedback? It says in the book of Genesis chapter 4, from verse 9 to 10, it says, "And the Lord said to King, where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. I'm my brother's keeper." And he said, "What have you done?" He said, "A bell, you can't watch him, man." "What are you saying, man?" He don't know the man. And then he said what the Lord said. He said, "What have you done?" Then he says, "Why?" Because I'm getting some feedback in heaven. The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from what? What God was saying, "I haven't seen it yet, but I have heard something." And what I am hearing is saying that you've spilled your brother's blood. So it means blood can cry out. And you can be trying to get married to somebody or you are hearing blood cry. When people get married, if you are praying, the body is so kind, it will show your science. And it comes in different ways, listen to this. And so God was hearing the cry. And what was God's response? Even though it's God, He says, "I have come down now to see." When you hear feedback, you better make inquiries. Listen to this. I know I've been pastoring for a long time and I know many young girls who were getting feedback for the idea inside. I know young guys who are dating, lovely girls that say about pastor. I can't marry. I said, "Why?" Because I keep having this dream that so, so, so, so. I keep having this dream that someone might be coming to fight me and saying, "This is my wife." I want you to say that, "Well, you are actually right. You need to make further inquiries from that lady." So when you get feedback spiritually, the second thing you want to do is do what? You want to. And they are also, for a second of time, you know, apart from dream, another way feedback comes is, "This is a prophetic church, in a prophetic meeting. If you are wanting to date somebody or you are already dating somebody and they pick the person up, listen to the prophecy." It doesn't mean that you shouldn't marry the person. It just means it will give you an idea of feedback. See, there's one of my spiritual daughters. She's very close to myself and my wife. She had a dream where she met this guy and they were talking and she had a dream that the Lord told her to pause. So what does it mean? I said, "Well, pause is not stop. Pause means what? Pause. Wait." She told me, "Oh, the guy, she hadn't brought the guy to me. I didn't know the guy. We had a prophetic meeting. A few weeks after, and I started to prophesy to this one job. I just noticed some of the people around me were doing like, "Ah, I just kept on prophesy anyway, long story short." It was after the meeting came to me and said, "That's the guy." I said, "Well, that's your answer." Because the things that I went, she went to check the things that I prophesied about, it was true. And some of those things, he hadn't mentioned it to Hyatt. No, not out of deceit. It just had not come up. What's the feedback you want to do is survey? Feedback is, once you guess it's when you do research. See, I want you to follow this. God said in Genesis 18, 19 to 20, and the Lord said, "Because they outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is what? Great." And because their sin is very grave. I will go what? Down now and see whether they have done all together according to the outcry against it that has come to me. And if not, I will know. If God got feedback of a cry, is this making sense? If God, the grace of the heaven and earth, that knows everything, that after feedback, he still went down and did research. He actually came down, I see in Scripture, in the form of three, three, three spiritual beings, one of them was the Lord himself, and he told Abraham, "I'm going to go and do research and find out what that is because one noise is coming up." How much more you? Now, when you are getting feedback, you should do research. See, the problem with Lord is that Lord was not an altar builder. When they had an argument, you know what? Abraham said, "Look, you know what? I don't want any trouble." He said, "You, you want to choose? Good to have you back." He said, "Look, look, look, look." Abraham said, "Look, look, look, look, look." "Let's not wear a veil. Let's not wear a veil. Let's not wear a veil." "Choose any land." You choose. It was his name. "Lots, just looked." He saw the land was lost. He saw it when he just went. He didn't build altar. When he went there, he didn't know that that land was crying out. That land was a land of God was about to go to the max exonies. This land is for destruction. And this is how Kenna Christians do. Joseph Bebes says, "Cici Bebes." Even our moves. You know what I mean? You don't know what your marion is, what? Joseph Dom and Gomorrah. No feedback, no research. Are you here? Then number three. See, let me say something about research. Okay, you know I said, "If you cannot receive this marion's exonies, receive it what? Practically." In it. How many of you here will receive free land? Free land. Okay, God wants to give people land this year. How many of you are taking it? Okay, the land, somebody comes to you and they give you free land. I just say, "Take this land, take this property. What will you do?" You take it. Okay, you will take it with sense now. Ask the land people. Let me tell you why this is important. See, before you buy a land, before you take a land in the practical sense, you would need to do land searches. Let me show you a few things that will come up on the land search. Is it a lawyer that does this search? Yeah. See, a free house or land can be a burden and not a blessing. The land search checks the legal status of the property. What it involves is checking official land registry records. Yeah. And that land that was given to you, but the quiz is for whatever that you bought, you need to first of all confirm who legally owns the land. I show you a lawyer that it depends on the part of the world. The person selling the land to you might not even own the land. Even in the UK. The other thing the search will do is that it also shows you past ownership history. Who previously owned the land? Now there are spiritual implications for this when you are dealing with somebody who has this passing detect. Remember when Jesus made the summaries and when I say you, there's just like I have no one's not. And they say you you spoke it to you. Five. The land entered the land registry. And the one you are with now is not yours. The next thing that the land search will do is identify our standing debts secured on the property. Bankruptcy entries. This guy bankrupted on paid taxes, court judgments. It identifies disputes and claims tied to the land. That's one land in Lagos. I'm looking, you know, voraciously for a land for our church in Lagos. If you want to give us, we'll take it. Don't worry about this spiritual endeavor to navigate the territory. Now watch the land that's one land I saw. Serious called Reckland. Good place. And then they found out that the guy somebody I know. So even they may just discount over dinner, whatever. You just say, you know what after the dinner, I said, look, I need to declare someone. I said, there's a dispute on this land. It's in court. I went to go out and do my own side. I got the lawyer to do searches. I found out if we buy the land, it doesn't mean it is our because the dispute is not over yet. If I buy it, if we buy the land, yeah, because the thing is still in court, the court tried whatever passes on to us. He's relieved of it. If the guy proves that he's his own. Bross. I said, it's okay. So you can buy land and it's still not yours. There are disputes on that guy. Also, it will show flood risks. The land may be contaminated. There was one land. One place wanted to buy it. Is it that for green? There was the blue water. Love me house. When they did the search, it came out that it was a landfill with radioactive. They said it's not my children's children that would not be coming out with it there. Because I bought one land. Conservation restrictions. Planning history. I can go on and not so many things. Conventional restrictions. You know, or you buy a land and it has a covenant restriction that only one dwelling allowed. Maybe they are four of you. Or you buy a land and the writer who says the neighbor can pass through your garden. Or not, or not. So number one, what feedback? Number two, what? Number three, inquiries. Search is when you go to the library. It's when you go on Google. You search the guy online. Search and you see the guy is toasting girls on the. Even on the captions. What they call you in the. What they call that thing? In the comments section, they say, "I'm liking you." That's the guy that just proposed to you. You have to search his history. And inquiries is when you look for somebody that knows them and sit with them and ask them questions. This is what the scripture says. I'm not pulling these things out of the air. In Deuteronomy 32 verse 7, he says, "Remember the days of old. Consider the years of manager. " Whatever you are doing, whether you remember the days of old. Remember, but I wasn't there. Well, you see how. And consider what the years of many generations ask your father and he will show you. Your elders and they will tell you. Then the most high-divided, they inherit us to their nations. When they separated the sons of Adam, he sets the boundaries of the people. What are the boundaries of this family you are entering into? See, our end with these two stories. First one is, they'll say, "Lady, I. One of the number of ladies I was, you know, I dated. I was a lady. I almost could have married. Lovely lady, very good lady and everything. But I'd already started getting some feedback." So I was still checking. "Don't just go on feedback. You need. You know, even God went to verify. So I was praying to the Lord. "Lord, please tell me, I don't want to make a mistake. Is a lovely lady." So anyway, long story short, I went to preach somewhere. And after I finished preaching, I just noticed that one lady came up to me. And I said, "Oh, that's the world." And I said, "I had the clothes to my sister's one." And I was thinking of getting married. It was a very close relative of me. I said, "Don't marry them." I said, "I told you, she now gave me some stories." "I don't know if this is the right or whatever. It's also no bar. What does that mean?" It's been meaning. What does it mean? Oh my God. Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! What a shame! And I was like, "What is this?" You know, she literally sat me down. Almost like the sister of the person said, "We lived with them." And this is what this is what this is. No, not small things. I left her place pondering. It was a long drive back. "Sella, today, till today, that lady is fighting me." Because she doesn't know. I didn't even ask, "Did Lord brought the inquiry to me?" I end with this story. Every time I'm with her, she's my friend. You fell to her, okay? He said something online, I was shocked. I finally was married before. And he said, "It was his bishop, that. He looked out of the window. He said, "See that girl, see that girl." He said, "You must marry that girl." That's your wife. You must marry that girl. And then, anyway, he said, "Bring that, bring that." Anyway, a bishop said, "Married that." And he said, "This girl was five, Brazilian, whatever. Blood, different." And then she was walking for a very lovely company. "I don't know if I'm not studying this or that." "Impicable." If you know someone who did it, you're like, "Impicable." And this guy married. He didn't mention what was the ability and all that. And then he said, "From when they married, this girl was very sickly." And he was spending most of the time in the hospital. Anyway, long story short, to call the long story short. The lady, one of them, in the, in the, he said, as he was entering the hospital one day, somebody just said, as he was entering this hospital, said, "The Lord showed him that, "Let's, don't fight for that girl." "Don't fight, let her alone." He was like, "What are you saying? Leave her alone. Don't fight for her. He didn't know this person." "Are you okay? To be girl in the girl died." Said, "If you let her out, found out that the guy had a dream." And he saw what he said, "That guy, girl, was going to die." Anyway, long story short, when the girl died, was crying and everything. The mother was crying. And then he went to go out and see, out of whatever, the girl's died. You know, like, "Sorry, the daughter, I can't." And the guy, the daughter said, "Ah, what are you doing, so whatever." "I didn't tell you." The, the parents were divorced. Said, "Ah, you mean the mother didn't tell you?" Said, "Tell me what?" Said, "Ah, she should have, from the age of 11, we should have died." Yeah, it's like, "Send what you mean?" Said, "Ah, your mother didn't tell you that the way she got that, that she went to a fetish piece." And asked for the child. And they said she got a stand in one place called, "Ori-Tameffa Faggi" or something like that. I don't know what that means. Said, "Stand at the junction. Do this, do this, and you will get your child." And that, from the, when the child, that that child has always had something that he knew, that there's a covenant. So, said, "From 11, he knew he had lost the child." Now, I said all of that to say, "This is a pastor." Be careful who your bishop pushes you to marry. If your bishop is like a lot. Let's stand up as we pray. [Applause] [Laughter] Did you get what I said at the beginning? Can I just look at it from the spiritual? Or just look at it. If you say, "I don't believe in all that." At least, do, when you're buying land, do searches. I want you to spend one minute just praying to God. Say, "Lord, wherever I have tried to possess a land, or taking a land without building an altar, help me, Lord." Open your mouth and begin to pray. Say, "Lord, help me, help me." Some of you is that you're entering into businesses without making inquiries. "Oh, you made inquiries and you did not take heed. And then you got stuck." You see, there's so many God's sense, always sense things. You refuse to hear and it is costing you. Many of you, listen, there is not every transaction you should enter into. There is something called spiritual covering. But be careful that your covering is not like that bishop. Who just looks by the sight of the eyes. Some of you say, "You want to begin to pray." Say, "Lord, sharpen my feedback, magnesium." Make me a prophetic intercessor. Make me a prophetic intercessor. If you're here today and you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord, I'll say, "Lord, I'm saying, "Pastor, please pray with me. "Pray for me. I want to give my life to Jesus." This is the time to do so. You are saying, "You cannot say for certain that if you die today, "you are going straight to heaven." You know, you are at risk. Hell is not a good place to want to go to. And so, you know, to make the assurance doubly sure that it is heaven you are going to, you want to make that decision right. You want to make the decision right now. And listen to this. If you do not make that decision, you will not have this spiritual instrument to begin to build all of us and get feedback from the Lord. If you're here today, I mean, I know Lagos is with us joining us. Listen to this. This message is for you. You need to hear and make this decision. It is incredibly important. Don't leave it here tomorrow because you never know. Yes. If you want to make that decision, just lift up your hand and somebody will slip a card into your hand. Or you can, there's a QR code on the screen and just scan it and just put your name and somebody will reach out to you. One or two details. Very quickly. This is integral. Hallelujah. Amen. Can you just spend 30 seconds and say, God, fix me how to build an altar this month, this month. There are people here that God is this year you will get land. This year. This year you will be giving property. But you want to pray. You want to make sure that the Lord is this man. This year contracts will come to you. Transactions will come to you. That will be juicy. Another transaction. Something came to me recently. I looked at it. I have to ask my pastor. I said, please help me look at this thing. It's so juicy. And it's a livitelone. livitelone. Me, I've lent. When do I pastor says livitelone? I don't ask why. I left it. Said, don't worry. Another one will come to you. Hallelujah. Lord, we thank you. For those of us who have already taken on land and there, there are wild beasts. Lord, help us. Give us the grace, strengthen us so that we can contend. We ask for your mercy. Like lots. But for the rest of us, we are asking Lord, make me Abraham to build the altar. You can, with the altar, you can appear to me and tell me there is an outcry from Sodom. Don't build there. Thank you, Father Lord, in Jesus' mighty name, we pray. You may be seated. Was this message helpful? Yes, sir. Okay. That's the Lord.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The sermon discusses two key biblical concepts
  2. A central theme is that many people experience delays in their breakthroughs because God is searching for prepared individuals ("deliverers" like Moses) who will stand in the gap and intercede for others, rather than just focusing on personal needs.
  3. The speaker calls the congregation to shift from merely "using God" for personal requests to becoming people "God can use" to bring deliverance and holiness to their families and communities, emphasizing proactive, militant prayer (e.g., "Lazarus, come forth") to break spiritual bondage.

Summary:

This sermon, titled "God Has Been Waiting for You," explores the spiritual journey from deliverance to dominion. It begins by examining Exodus 3:7-10 and Obadiah 17, distinguishing between the "gospel of salvation" (being freed from bondage, like Israel from Egypt) and the "gospel of the kingdom" (entering and possessing one's promised land with holiness and authority). The speaker argues that many believers remain stuck in a cycle of personal prayer requests, which delays collective and individual breakthroughs.

He emphasizes that God is actively seeking individuals—modern "Moses" figures—who will intercede and act on behalf of others, standing in the gap as described in Ezekiel 22:30. The message challenges listeners to move beyond a self-centered faith to become instruments God can use to bring deliverance, holiness, and possession of blessings in their families and communities. It concludes with a call to strategic, persistent prayer to release people from spiritual bondage, illustrated by the command to Lazarus to "come forth" and be loosed.

FAQs

The gospel of salvation focuses on deliverance from bondage, like coming out of Egypt. The gospel of the kingdom is about moving into dominion, possessing your promised land, and having influence and rulership.

Delays often occur because God is preparing a deliverer or has not yet found someone He can use to bring about the change. It can also be due to spiritual opposition or a lack of readiness in people.

Moving from deliverance to dominion means stepping up from being freed from bondage to taking authority, possessing your blessings, and exercising influence and governance in your life and for God's kingdom.

This prayer symbolizes calling people, especially men, out of spiritual bondage and into freedom and purpose. It's a plea for God to raise up individuals who are trapped in sin or delay.

Holiness is a necessary step after deliverance. Without holiness, you cannot fully possess what God has promised you, as it prepares you to enter and claim your blessings.

God looks for individuals who will stand in the gap and intercede for others, not just those who use God for personal gain. Delays in breakthroughs can occur until such people arise.

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