© Ayo Omolayo
Today was the last day of the program. For the past two days, the Holy Spirit had been the one taking charge of the meeting from the starting to the end. One way or the other, we have experienced the dramatic manifestation of the power Holy Ghost. The power of God had visited us for the past two days just like it did in the bible that the priests could no longer stand to minister. Yes, was the perfect description of what happened.
I stood up to begin my teaching when the power hit a woman at the back of the congregation and she started to scream. Everyone around her were taken by the sudden reaction and brought her to me at the front. Immediately they were bringing her, I was hearing in my spirit, deaf and dumb spirit. I was like, how could a deaf and dumb person scream like this in a meeting? But immediately, I had to cast the spirit out and that was how I was told it was the first time her voice was heard in the congregation. She had been deaf and dumb for over 6years.
I felt the healing anointing so strong on me that evening that I had to pray for all that were sick that night. That was how we spent day 4 and day 5, because more people came the next day with a lot of sick friends and relatives.
So today, I was really begging the Holy Spirit to allow me teach what I had to teach, because the crowd was becoming too much. I had so much to teach and so little time to do it.
We had been taking series of testimonies on how God had been touching many lives at the conference. A woman with paralysis on her right arm testified of a miraculous recovery when I touched her hand. A lady with partial blindness also testified. She couldn’t see clearly. She had to strain her eyes in order to see. Even glasses were not helping. And at times, she went totally blind for a few minutes and then start seeing again. She got healed when I waved my hands over her and she fell under the anointing.
A man with a fractured leg testified of a miraculous healing. He said immediately I touched the leg and left, the bones began to make strange sounds. Angels from the anatomy department of heaven started resetting his broken legs. Hallelujah!
A man with lungs infection also testified of how he got healed at the meeting. He struggled with his breath sometimes and had difficulty in breathing. But when I touched his head and walked pass him, he noticed his breathing became normal.
Wonderful things were happening. So numerous that I cannot narrate them all. We are about to learn the last of the 3 things that stops spiritual growth, INDISCIPLINE.
“Today, being the last day, we are going to look at the last thing that stops spiritual growth. I want us to turn our bibles to the book of Proverbs 23:21. I need the goodnews translation please”, I said and it was projected immediately.
“Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.
My focus there is not really the drunkards and gluttons there. Look at the B part of that scripture. It says, If all you do is to eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.
I hope you know there are people putting on rags in the realm of the spirit? Oh! You don’t know! Let’s look at the bible again. Turn with me to the book of Revelation 3:14″, I said and it was projected on the screen.
“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Verse 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Verse 16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Verse 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Verse 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
These people, most of them are stinkingly rich. They don’t even have prayer points. They are so loaded with the necessities of life. Some of them are not working sef. They have one daddy and one elder brother spoiling them with money. Broda! My airtime has finished oh. Broda will send. Broda! I ran out of pocket money! Broda will send.
They don’t see a need to pray. They are so comfortable and have everything they need at their finger tips. Take your spiritual life serious! No! Build your prayer life! I’m too tired to pray. If I want to pray, I need a very quiet place. My house is usually noisy, and I cannot pray in a noisy environment. So because my house is a noisy place, I will not be able to build my relationship with God. Just look at that kind of thinking.
I need a conducive environment to pray. A place where I will not be disturbed. A place that is not hot where I won’t be sweating because of prayers. A place with enough ventilation. And God would just be shaking his head. I’m not saying desiring a conducive place to pray is wrong, but using it as an excuse to go back to bed is horrible. There is a saying that where there is a will, there’s a way!
A lot of us don’t understand the meaning of that scripture which says, If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags. It simply means that If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags in the realm of the spirit.
No fasting! No time to pray! No time to study the word of God! But there’s always time to sleep every single day. There’s always time to eat 3 or 4 square meals a day and even snack in-between. It won’t take you long. Remember I taught you all on how God uses phone battery to describe your spiritual strength.
That’s the same thing we are describing here. The more prayerless and inconsistent you become, the more powerless you become towards sin and the less you grow. Because even the little height you climb up into, you’ll fall from it and start all over. Pity that Christian too lazy to pray. Pity that Christian who says prayer is too difficult to do. Pity that Christian that cannot sit down to read the word of God by herself. Pity that Christian that cannot maintain a consistent prayer life for one month.
He will live a defeated life. Sin will ride him like a horse. Use him and dump him and use him again and again. Such a Christian will continue to live in sin every single day of his life and will keep crying that the road to heaven is too difficult. It’s not that the road is not difficult, but prayers makes it easy.
Christians are expecting God to do something for them which he will never do. They want him to turn then into robots. Cause them to do his will like a programmed machine. Suddenly, they see themselves praying effortlessly. Suddenly, they find themselves reading the bible like magic.
I’m here to disappoint you that you will never change. You will remain like this for the next twenty years, if you don’t rise up. You will get married and have weak children like you and also end up transferring the kind of spiritual deficiency you carry into them.
That same anger you struggled with as a young man, you begin to see your children struggling with it. That same immorality you struggled with as a teenager, you begin to see your children masturbating as you did when you were a single. Everything you refused to rise up and deal with now, you’ll end up transferring to them.
I would love to talk more on this growth process. I would really like to talk about mentorship and it’s importance to the life of any christian who seriously desires spiritual growth. Mentorship is seriously important to anyone who really wants to grow. The truth is you will still be able to grow without a mentor. But those who grow up under the watch of a spiritual parent, grow with speed.
I have said it over and over again. Spirituality is discipline. I’m not denying the fact that we do not get to experience dramatic energy that helps us to pray. But in the spirit realm, there’s something called THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. It means you doing something consistently over time which draws the attention of a spirit. The same thing happens in the kingdom of darkness.
When you start watching porn, it may not be a problem at the beginning. You just watch it once in a while and the next time it happens may be two months time. But the more you keep doing it, very soon a time comes when you don’t want to watch it, you find yourself watching it. That’s what the law of attraction does.
Every action here on earth has the backing of a spirit or should I say, it has a spirit attached to it. The more you do it, the more you are sending an email to the spirit responsible for the action. By the time the spirit arrives that action moves from occasionally to addiction. So pornography becomes an addiction in the life of that person. Even when he wants to stop, he cannot stop.
The same thing goes with prayers. The more you keep forcing yourself to pray, the more your are emailing the spirit of prayer. By the time the spirit arrives, prayers become an addiction. You just cannot stop praying again. You have moved from struggling to pray to addiction to prayers.
How many of you would really love to become prayer addicts?”
Almost everyone in the congregation stood up.
“The spirit of prayer is going to descend tonight, if only you can pray. A lot of things that happened to you and your family would never have happened. That’s the reason why indiscipline is so dangerous. The more disciplined you are, the closer you are to being possessed by the spirit of prayer. From 30 minutes prayers to one hour. From one hour to 2 hours. From 2 hours of prayers to 3 hours. Before you know, whenever you hear, ‘let us pray!’ You get excited. Prayer becomes your hobby. You enjoy it.
You cannot go a whole day without spending at least, one hour with God in prayers. Infact, when you kneel down to pray, you won’t realize when one hour will pass. You’ll be like when did I spend one hour? I thought it was 5 minutes ooo! And after that, you open the bible. You become so addicted to the word of God. Bible starts making you go crazy like someone on hard drugs. Your friends will ask you, ‘Why are you looking somehow?’
You will say, ‘I have not read my bible today, the thing is doing me somehow!’ That’s the realm I want you to enter tonight. That’s the realm where your consistency has attracted the spirit of prayer to possess you. You sit down with the bible and you get lost. You kneel down to pray and Holy Ghost will be the one dragging you to get up and start preparing for work. While you’ll be the one telling him you are not leaving yet.
Who’s ready? Go ahead and cry to the Lord this morning!
Allover the auditorium, the congregation cried to God passionately for the visitation of the spirit of prayer.
“Let my heart be the temple
Of your spirit
Let my spirit feel the warmth
Of your embrace
Let me be a holy habitation
Where your spirit is pleased to dwell
Oh Lord I long to know your glory
I want to offer, the sacrifice of praise
Fill this temple Lord!
With your spirit once again!”
A lady screamed under the anointing and fell down. The building was electrocuted. I felt the energy within my spirit man.
“Ha! Spirit of prayer! Where are you? Descend upon these hungry vessels! One, two, three!”
You need to see how people were screaming and landing on the floor all over the place. Ushers were running around to hold down some people slain under the anointing.
To be continued……….
Your discipline and consistency in the place of prayers will make your spiritual life easy as it draws the spirit of prayer to your life.
No wonder you have been struggling all these while. You are not consistent with it. The more you do it, the closer you are to this encounter.
The bible says in the book of James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you….
That’s the principle, spiritual encounters are a product of consistent fellowship with God. That was what happened to Cornelius in Acts 10:1. NOW [living] at Caesarea there was a man whose name was Cornelius, a centurion (captain) of what was known as the Italian Regiment,
Verse 2. A devout man who venerated God and treated Him with reverential obedience, as did all his household; and he gave much alms to the people and prayed continually to God.
He prayed how? Continually! That was what sponsored the angelic visitation he experienced. No encounter without consistency! Even if you have an encounter by the mercy of God! It’s consistency that will keep that encounter.
Acts 10:3. About the ninth hour (about 3:00 p.m.) of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God entering and saying to him, Cornelius!
Verse 4. And he, gazing intently at him, became frightened and said, What is it, Lord? And the angel said to him, Your prayers and your [generous] gifts to the poor have come up [as a sacrifice] to God and have been remembered by Him.
How will God remember you when you are not consistent with what you have been doing?
Galatians 6:9. And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.
