# The Furnace of Affliction Apostle Joshua Selman Nimmak

An episode of [Apostle Joshua selman Messages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1798706992), 29 Oct 2026, 1 h 01 min.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Say there is a prophecy upon my life. Say it
[0:03] Speaker 1: one more time. There is a prophecy upon my life.
[0:06] Speaker 1: You must believe that. You are not ordinary. Listen. You
[0:10] Speaker 1: are coming to koinonia. Whether you are inside or outside.
[0:13] Speaker 1: Everything that is happening. Is leading you towards prophecy. It
[0:18] Speaker 1: may not look like it. You came for koinonia with pains.
[0:22] Speaker 1: You came to Zaria maybe as a student. Or you
[0:25] Speaker 1: came to Zaria maybe to serve. Or you came to
[0:27] Speaker 1: Zaria because you got a job. Or marriage brought you.
[0:31] Speaker 1: In the midst of all of these confusions. I want
[0:34] Speaker 1: you to know that there is. A line of prophecy.
[0:37] Speaker 1: There is something happening in your life. That is bringing
[0:40] Speaker 1: you towards prophecy. Praise the Lord.
[0:44] Speaker 2: And it's important for us to know.
[0:46] Speaker 1: But then, how does God make men? Because it's not
[0:50] Speaker 1: enough to just know that there are reformers and revivalists,
[0:55] Speaker 1: the making of reformers. What is the spiritual process? This
[1:00] Speaker 1: will explain to some of us the happenings in our
[1:02] Speaker 1: lives right now. And it will help and encourage us
[1:05] Speaker 1: to stay true as God is working on us. Hallelujah.
[1:09] Speaker 1: When the Lord began to show me this, my eyes
[1:11] Speaker 1: were opened and I said, my goodness, can you imagine?
[1:14] Speaker 1: 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 12, please. Are you there?
[1:33] Speaker 2: Everyone read this project.
[1:34] Speaker 1: I want to read. Beloved, think it not what?
[1:39] Speaker 2: Hold on.
[1:39] Speaker 1: That means, don't think it is a surprise to you.
[1:44] Speaker 1: Don't act as though it were something strange. He said,
[1:48] Speaker 1: think it not strange concerning the what? Fiery trial. Which
[1:53] Speaker 1: is to try you as though some strange thing happened
[1:57] Speaker 1: to you.
[1:58] Speaker 2: That's what the Bible is saying. I'm showing you the process.
[2:02] Speaker 1: The mystery of the furnace of affliction. That furnace with
[2:08] Speaker 1: which God makes men mighty.
[2:10] Speaker 2: Please listen to me.
[2:12] Speaker 1: God is ministering to us right now. There is no
[2:19] Speaker 1: making of a champion without a process that will require pain, discipline,
[2:27] Speaker 1: pruning and alignment. Please don't forget this. There is no champion.
[2:33] Speaker 1: I said it, I think it was last week or
[2:34] Speaker 1: the week before last. Nobody wins the Olympic by mistake.
[2:39] Speaker 1: No man of God just happens.
[2:41] Speaker 2: To be anointed by mistake. There's no such thing as that.
[2:44] Speaker 1: No one just carries the glory of God by mistake.
[2:48] Speaker 1: I want you to know that there is a spiritual
[2:50] Speaker 1: pathway to accessing true power, to accessing relevance and strength
[2:57] Speaker 1: in the spirit.
[3:00] Speaker 2: To be a steward of God's finances.
[3:03] Speaker 1: To be a steward of God's glory. To be a
[3:05] Speaker 1: steward of God's grace. Very important. And one of that
[3:10] Speaker 1: mystery is the mystery of the furnace of affliction. You
[3:15] Speaker 1: may not like what this is but I want you
[3:17] Speaker 1: to listen to me very carefully.
[3:23] Speaker 2: The furnace of affliction. It was Job that began to
[3:28] Speaker 2: speak to us.
[3:29] Speaker 1: And he began to communicate the tragedy that came upon
[3:33] Speaker 1: his life. Hallelujah. It was Paul that began to speak
[3:37] Speaker 1: to us about a thorn in his flesh. It was
[3:40] Speaker 1: Moses and all of these people, Joseph, that went through
[3:44] Speaker 1: certain things. Listen to me please. Tonight I want to
[3:48] Speaker 1: change your understanding and your interpretation of affliction and triumphs. Now,
[3:55] Speaker 1: I know that I've done a teaching on that.
[3:57] Speaker 2: I think spiritual timings are there about.
[3:59] Speaker 1: You can listen to it. There are certain things that
[4:01] Speaker 1: happen to men that are orchestrated by darkness. I personally
[4:05] Speaker 1: do not believe that God willingly takes evil or darkness
[4:09] Speaker 1: or trials or this and puts upon people. However, I
[4:13] Speaker 1: believe that according to the system of his wisdom and sovereignty,
[4:18] Speaker 1: he is able to take advantage of situations.
[4:21] Speaker 2: In our lives and orchestrate that through them.
[4:25] Speaker 1: They are used as school masters to prune and bring
[4:29] Speaker 1: us to a point of stature and strength.
[4:33] Speaker 2: And relevance and usefulness in the spirit. I believe that.
[4:37] Speaker 1: Absolutely. I don't know how many other people got their
[4:43] Speaker 1: anointing and their grace, but let me tell you, there
[4:45] Speaker 1: is no spiritual champion. There is no principality in the kingdom.
[4:51] Speaker 1: That did not go through the mystery of the furnace
[4:56] Speaker 1: of affliction. You must understand this. You don't have to
[5:00] Speaker 1: pray against it. There's nothing to bind there. Are you
[5:03] Speaker 1: getting my point? The only thing that happens for you
[5:07] Speaker 1: or happens in your life at that point is grace.
[5:09] Speaker 1: The sustaining power of the spirit to go through it
[5:13] Speaker 1: and finish well. Isaiah 43 verse 1 and 2 says,
[5:17] Speaker 1: Fear not, I have redeemed you. He said, I have
[5:20] Speaker 1: called you by name, you are mine. He said, when
[5:23] Speaker 1: you pass through the waters, I will be with you.
[5:25] Speaker 1: He said, through the river, I shall not overwhelm you.
[5:27] Speaker 1: But he said, when you.
[5:28] Speaker 3: Walk through the fire, not run to it, when you
[5:32] Speaker 3: walk through the fire, you shall not be burned. When
[5:36] Speaker 3: you walk through the fire, listen to me, it's very important.
[5:42] Speaker 3: The way they make the anointing in Israel, they still
[5:44] Speaker 3: do that.
[5:44] Speaker 1: I have I have anointing oil straight from Israel with myr,
[5:50] Speaker 1: spiknad and all of these things that were used. Ancient ingredients.
[5:55] Speaker 1: The spices that were originally used. It smells the exact requirement,
[6:01] Speaker 1: the ingredients God gave. I have a bottle of anointing
[6:06] Speaker 1: oil like that and every time I just put a
[6:09] Speaker 1: little of that on my hand, I keep looking at
[6:10] Speaker 1: it and the fragrance is nice, the smell is But
[6:14] Speaker 1: then I studied a bit on how they make that olive.
[6:18] Speaker 1: They have what they call a crushing stone, right? And
[6:22] Speaker 1: they take that olive and they pour it there.
[6:25] Speaker 2: And they put a heavy stone upon it. And they
[6:28] Speaker 2: start turning round. And it puts pressure.
[6:32] Speaker 1: And it begins to crush that olive. And as it
[6:36] Speaker 1: crushes the olive, it begins to squeeze out the oil.
[6:40] Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
[6:42] Speaker 2: It is that weight. That God will make you become
[6:44] Speaker 2: a man of true power.
[6:49] Speaker 1: Afflictions are not there to kill us. The furnace of
[6:52] Speaker 1: affliction reveals the spiritual system that brings us to the
[6:56] Speaker 1: point of obedience. Jesus said he learned obedience by the
[7:01] Speaker 1: things he suffered. He learned it.
[7:04] Speaker 2: It was not an impartation. He learned obedience. There were
[7:07] Speaker 2: orchestrations in his life that compelled him to walk in obedience.
[7:13] Speaker 1: You will not align yourself to spiritual things just by default.
[7:17] Speaker 1: There is an operation of the spirit. There are happenings
[7:21] Speaker 1: and orchestrations around your life that are aimed at bringing
[7:24] Speaker 1: you to a point where you begin to see from
[7:27] Speaker 1: God's perspective.
[7:28] Speaker 2: And if you do not know that this is.
[7:30] Speaker 1: A pathway to carrying grace, you will run and allow
[7:34] Speaker 1: the devil to mock God in your presence.
[7:37] Speaker 2: Say after me, God forbid. Hallelujah.
[7:41] Speaker 1: The first thing I want you to know About challenges.
[7:45] Speaker 2: That is that number one. Affliction and trials.
[7:51] Speaker 1: Are not necessarily an indication of lack of faith. Let
[7:56] Speaker 1: me deliver somebody right away. There are many of us
[7:59] Speaker 1: who are going through all.
[8:01] Speaker 2: Kinds of situations right now. From finance.
[8:04] Speaker 1: To your health. To maybe marriage. To whatever it is.
[8:08] Speaker 1: And we have been made to think. That the entire
[8:12] Speaker 1: reason why everything is happening to us is because of
[8:15] Speaker 1: lack of faith. Let me tell you something. I have
[8:18] Speaker 1: learned by experience. Especially for students. It's not every student
[8:22] Speaker 1: who is suffering in class that is as a result
[8:24] Speaker 1: of chaliceness or laziness. It's easy to conclude that people
[8:29] Speaker 1: look at them and say your CGPA is on one
[8:30] Speaker 1: point something. You know, it's a terrible thing. You are
[8:33] Speaker 1: an embarrassment to redemption. However... It may not be everybody,
[8:37] Speaker 1: but let me tell you, there are a few people
[8:40] Speaker 1: that there is a strange pathway in the spirit that
[8:44] Speaker 1: is taking them to where they themselves do not know.
[8:47] Speaker 1: Just follow me. There are many families that may not
[8:53] Speaker 1: understand why in spite of their righteousness and their love
[8:56] Speaker 1: for God, their tithing and giving and their commitment to
[9:00] Speaker 1: spiritual things, It looks like there are certain orchestrations that
[9:05] Speaker 1: just seem to draw them back.
[9:06] Speaker 2: It's like a circle of woes and pain.
[9:12] Speaker 1: I'm telling you this, that there are dimensions of the
[9:15] Speaker 1: dealings of the spirit that are not demonic. It is
[9:18] Speaker 1: called the mystery of the fullness of affliction.
[9:22] Speaker 2: This teaching is not for babes. It's not just receive, receive.
[9:25] Speaker 1: Because I'm explaining to some of you the mystery behind.
[9:29] Speaker 2: What is happening in your life.
[9:31] Speaker 1: In spite of your prayer, you hear God about everything
[9:35] Speaker 1: but not that situation.
[9:37] Speaker 2: And God looks silent. Lord, what is all this?
[9:44] Speaker 1: And it looks like you receive a prophetic word for
[9:47] Speaker 1: others but for you. You are fasted for one week
[9:50] Speaker 1: at the end of the prayer. All the scriptures you
[9:53] Speaker 1: had were about comfort. I want you to know that
[9:55] Speaker 1: there is a school you are passing through. And what
[9:58] Speaker 1: you are.
[9:58] Speaker 2: Receiving is a lecture.
[9:59] Speaker 1: Pay attention. attention. Hallelujah.
[10:04] Speaker 2: Moses did not know why he ran away.
[10:07] Speaker 1: And for 40 years, there were certain processes he was
[10:10] Speaker 1: going through. He did not understand until the God of
[10:14] Speaker 1: Israel called him and told him that there.
[10:18] Speaker 2: Was a prophecy upon his life.
[10:20] Speaker 1: Prophecies do not just manifest just because you love god
[10:23] Speaker 1: there is a pathway it may not be for everybody
[10:28] Speaker 1: but everyone who truly wants to be used by god
[10:31] Speaker 1: goes through this pathway the furnace of affliction like a
[10:35] Speaker 1: blacksmith right that melts metals to remove their impurities and
[10:41] Speaker 1: now begins to carve them there are several um expressions
[10:47] Speaker 1: in the bible that are used to describe this process
[10:49] Speaker 1: the potter and the clay the blacksmith there are all
[10:53] Speaker 1: kinds of processes the bible begins to tell us about
[10:56] Speaker 1: the potter and the clay how that he picks up
[10:58] Speaker 1: the clay smashes it right and now begins to mold
[11:03] Speaker 1: it into fashion.
[11:08] Speaker 2: The fullness of affliction.
[11:11] Speaker 1: Is a it's a pathway in the spirit Is the
[11:15] Speaker 1: root that leads you to Galatians 2.20. That realm called
[11:19] Speaker 1: I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet
[11:24] Speaker 1: not I but Christ that lives in me. And this
[11:27] Speaker 1: life that I live in the flesh.
[11:29] Speaker 2: That is the body.
[11:30] Speaker 1: I live by the faith of the son of God.
[11:33] Speaker 1: Who loved me and gave himself for me. You come
[11:37] Speaker 1: to a point where you have no life in your own.
[11:41] Speaker 1: Your ego is stung until there is nothing to sting
[11:44] Speaker 1: it again. There are all kinds of things that happen
[11:47] Speaker 1: to you. I want you to know that there are
[11:49] Speaker 1: people sitting right now.
[11:51] Speaker 2: Right here.
[11:52] Speaker 1: That are going through that pathway in the spirit. You
[11:55] Speaker 1: prayed and you said God use me. Anoint me and
[11:58] Speaker 1: make me mighty. And God said amen to that prayer.
[12:01] Speaker 1: You just did not know that what is happening to
[12:03] Speaker 1: you is amen to your prayer. Lord make me that
[12:06] Speaker 1: multi-billionaire businessman.
[12:08] Speaker 2: I will advocate for the kingdom. And God said amen.
[12:12] Speaker 1: It shows that we have not been taught how God.
[12:15] Speaker 2: Answers our prayers.
[12:17] Speaker 1: We have only been taught that result is the only
[12:19] Speaker 1: proof that God has answered your prayer. But let me
[12:22] Speaker 1: tell you, when you begin to mature in the things
[12:24] Speaker 1: of the Spirit, the fullness of affliction can be an
[12:27] Speaker 1: answer to your greatest prayer. Is God speaking to us?
[12:40] Speaker 1: So number one, afflictions and trials are not necessarily an
[12:48] Speaker 1: indication of lack of faith. Please look at me. Many
[12:51] Speaker 1: of you have been fasting and have been saying, Lord,
[12:53] Speaker 1: I don't have faith. I don't have faith. We thought
[12:55] Speaker 1: on faith, I think it was last week or week
[12:58] Speaker 1: after last. Many of us have been taught, if you
[13:00] Speaker 1: pray about something and it does not happen, you never
[13:02] Speaker 1: had faith.
[13:03] Speaker 2: If you had faith, it would have happened.
[13:05] Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I honor and I respect those teachings,
[13:09] Speaker 1: but it depends on the dimension you are standing in
[13:11] Speaker 1: the spirit for you to be able to say some things.
[13:13] Speaker 1: Are you getting what I'm saying? Not every affliction is
[13:19] Speaker 1: as a result of lack of faith. There are men
[13:21] Speaker 1: who you are going through the fire right now because
[13:24] Speaker 1: you have faith. That's the reason why you are going
[13:27] Speaker 1: through it.
[13:30] Speaker 2: I feel God is ministering to people. Hallelujah.
[13:35] Speaker 1: You stand on that board and you see what you
[13:37] Speaker 1: did not want to see. And tears rolling down your eyes,
[13:41] Speaker 1: you say, Lord.
[13:42] Speaker 2: You are faithful.
[13:43] Speaker 1: And other people look at you and say, when will
[13:45] Speaker 1: you stop your laziness? There's no need.
[13:47] Speaker 2: Trying to explain to them. It's a pathway, you don't
[13:51] Speaker 2: go in group.
[13:52] Speaker 1: You go alone. It's a lonely road. No matter how
[13:56] Speaker 1: men love you, when you get to the end of
[13:58] Speaker 1: that road, they must leave you. You can be in
[14:00] Speaker 1: a relationship with your darling and sweetheart, you will part ways.
[14:05] Speaker 1: The furnace of affliction is customized with your name on it.
[14:09] Speaker 2: Nobody can help you to take the fire out of love.
[14:12] Speaker 2: You know that thing they used to say?
[14:14] Speaker 1: No way. It doesn't work.
[14:16] Speaker 2: When you are passing through the furnace of affliction.
[14:19] Speaker 1: You pass alone. Please listen to me. Hallelujah. Are you
[14:32] Speaker 1: getting what I'm saying? Number two, your tears and expressions
[14:38] Speaker 1: of pain do not necessarily reflect unbelief. Your tears and
[14:44] Speaker 1: your expressions of pain do not necessarily reflect unbelief. You
[14:50] Speaker 1: must learn this. There are so many people who have
[14:53] Speaker 1: been stopped from crying in the church.
[14:55] Speaker 2: Why are you crying?
[14:57] Speaker 1: Rejoice. Look, let me tell you. It's not every seed
[15:00] Speaker 1: you sow crying. There is He that weepeth. Very precious seed.
[15:06] Speaker 1: It's not everything in life that happens with joy. Please,
[15:09] Speaker 1: are you hearing what I'm saying? Don't let anyone fool you.
[15:12] Speaker 1: There are things that will happen in your life, no
[15:14] Speaker 1: matter how anointed you are, it will bring tears out
[15:17] Speaker 1: of your eyes. Tears and expressions of pain are not
[15:21] Speaker 1: a sign of unbelief. Learn this. And Jesus wept. The
[15:29] Speaker 1: Bible didn't say, and he wept. It mentioned the name
[15:32] Speaker 1: of the person who cried. And your Jesus wept. It's
[15:37] Speaker 1: alright to cry and express pain. You get to a
[15:40] Speaker 1: point in your life where it overwhelms you. There are
[15:44] Speaker 1: times that lack of finances will eat you up. And
[15:47] Speaker 1: you stand and you are saying, I can follow one
[15:50] Speaker 1: allergy somewhere and be blessed. But I love God and
[15:53] Speaker 1: I stay. But the truth is, the reality at the
[15:56] Speaker 1: moment is that there is no food. It's not like
[15:58] Speaker 1: somebody is bringing food in the evening. There is nobody
[16:02] Speaker 1: that is sending you money anywhere. The fullness of affliction
[16:07] Speaker 1: The place where mighty men are made. That's where reformers emerge.
[16:16] Speaker 1: For David, it was the cave of Adulam. He ran
[16:20] Speaker 1: and he stayed there. On asylum, he ran away.
[16:25] Speaker 2: Ran away from civilization. And he hid there.
[16:28] Speaker 1: It was the place where he was made. The wilderness
[16:31] Speaker 1: was one place where he was made again. You see
[16:34] Speaker 1: it all through scriptures that men were separated in unpleasant places.
[16:38] Speaker 1: Read your Bible and see prophets who God made to
[16:42] Speaker 1: sleep on one side of the bed. Have you read that?
[16:45] Speaker 1: Read of prophets that God made to mix animal tongue.
[16:50] Speaker 1: Read of prophets who were made to marry prostitutes. After
[16:54] Speaker 1: suffering to keep themselves for decades, God said, the nature
[16:58] Speaker 1: of my dealing with you will necessitate you marrying a prostitute.
[17:02] Speaker 1: So long. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I know
[17:07] Speaker 1: that many of you may not appreciate this teaching. But
[17:09] Speaker 1: this is the kind of teaching that will make you powerful. Hallelujah.
[17:16] Speaker 1: Mysteriously at a point in my life, I've shared my story.
[17:20] Speaker 1: When I was diagnosed with a fungal infection. I prayed
[17:23] Speaker 1: every prayer I know how to pray. Let me tell you.
[17:27] Speaker 1: If you say I didn't have faith, you are joking.
[17:29] Speaker 1: I had the whole faith in the Lord. They took
[17:32] Speaker 1: me from hospital to hospital to hospital to hospital. Took
[17:37] Speaker 1: samples of my head. I became an object of experiment.
[17:41] Speaker 1: In that darkness, I began to feel the pain of
[17:46] Speaker 1: what it means to have a seemingly... They couldn't find
[17:51] Speaker 1: out what was wrong. That's the painful part. I've shared
[17:55] Speaker 1: with you the story.
[17:56] Speaker 2: My mom has been here.
[17:58] Speaker 1: When she had to use iron sponge, what you use
[18:01] Speaker 1: to scrub the back of your pot. That's what was
[18:05] Speaker 1: used on my head.
[18:07] Speaker 2: It's called the furnace of affliction.
[18:11] Speaker 1: That's why when some people come.
[18:13] Speaker 2: Out of that furnace, nothing moves them again.
[18:15] Speaker 1: You just shout and they are looking at you. After
[18:18] Speaker 1: I went... See, look, let me... A sign. Let me
[18:21] Speaker 1: tell you a proof that you are passing through that.
[18:23] Speaker 1: What made you cry yesterday makes you laugh today. You
[18:26] Speaker 1: think about it. Somebody just says, are you going to
[18:29] Speaker 1: sleep with me as before for the money? And you laugh.
[18:31] Speaker 1: They carry your money and go. And they say there
[18:33] Speaker 1: is no food. And you say, Lord, I give you glory.
[18:36] Speaker 1: You sit down in the midst of fire and you
[18:39] Speaker 1: lie down and sleep. You and the fire have become one.
[18:45] Speaker 1: The Bible says you walk through it. Are you getting
[18:47] Speaker 1: what I'm saying? A time comes in the furnace of
[18:52] Speaker 1: affliction where all your fears happen to you and there
[18:56] Speaker 1: is nothing to fear in it. The fear of lack
[19:02] Speaker 1: of membership happened. The fear of lack of money happened.
[19:06] Speaker 1: The fear of the carryover happened. At the end of it,
[19:09] Speaker 1: when you say, God, you are faithful, there is no
[19:11] Speaker 1: strings attached. You suspected the relationship would break. Yes, it broke.
[19:19] Speaker 1: But in all, you have planned to be strong. Look,
[19:23] Speaker 1: let me tell you. That's the secret of courage. You
[19:27] Speaker 1: see some men go and see the devil. Even the
[19:29] Speaker 1: devil doesn't know how to disturb them again. Because he
[19:32] Speaker 1: doesn't know which part of their life he will touch.
[19:35] Speaker 1: Satan is not a fool. I've taught you this. He
[19:38] Speaker 1: will touch your finances and see your reaction. If you
[19:41] Speaker 1: do audacious, he won't touch it again. Because it means
[19:43] Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to him. Then it will touch your health.
[19:46] Speaker 1: There is an aspect of your life you will touch.
[19:48] Speaker 1: The way you will react today. will sing praise and
[19:51] Speaker 1: worship and dance around and say i found it i
[19:54] Speaker 1: found it for many of us every party touches you
[19:57] Speaker 1: shout and so god says no you are a baby
[20:00] Speaker 1: You may be the president of your ministry, but that
[20:03] Speaker 1: furnace of affliction touches every area of your life until
[20:08] Speaker 1: you become dead. A dead man doesn't have feelings again.
[20:12] Speaker 1: So they just call you and say, Mr. Man, your
[20:14] Speaker 1: car had a ghastly motor accident.
[20:16] Speaker 2: And you laugh.
[20:17] Speaker 1: You say, please, can we continue what we are discussing?
[20:22] Speaker 1: And people say, it's like you didn't hear me. Your 2.5
[20:25] Speaker 1: million car just crashed. Say, Lord, I give you grace.
[20:30] Speaker 1: Let's continue. The furnace of affliction has done something to you.
[20:34] Speaker 1: You are not a pure human being again. Something spiritual
[20:38] Speaker 1: has altered your humanity.
[20:40] Speaker 2: It has made you strong.
[20:43] Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Absolutely. This is the
[20:47] Speaker 1: kind of furnace of affliction that can make women to
[20:49] Speaker 1: carry their dead children. They say, Madam, your child just died.
[20:53] Speaker 1: And they look and tears are coming out of their eyes.
[20:56] Speaker 1: And they are saying, Lord, you are faithful. When is
[20:57] Speaker 1: the burial date?
[20:58] Speaker 2: And you are saying, what sort of insensitive person?
[21:01] Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The opposite
[21:03] Speaker 1: of what I'm telling you is excessive emotionalism. And that's
[21:08] Speaker 1: what the system of darkness is doing. So people send
[21:12] Speaker 1: every picture on Facebook and Twitter. You are angry. you
[21:17] Speaker 1: snap yourself and say, I'm hungry. And then five minutes later,
[21:21] Speaker 1: you eat and say, now yam has come. You see,
[21:24] Speaker 1: that bad attitude is as a result of lack of
[21:27] Speaker 1: the fullness of affliction. There is a way you are built.
[21:33] Speaker 1: They look at you and they say, after next week,
[21:36] Speaker 1: they are coming to pack up your ministry and you laugh.
[21:39] Speaker 2: My God is faithful.
[21:40] Speaker 1: You become unperturbed. You are not touched by anything. May
[21:45] Speaker 1: God take us to that right. If you don't get
[21:48] Speaker 1: to that realm, worry alone will kill you. Are you
[21:51] Speaker 1: hearing what I'm saying? If you do not get to
[21:54] Speaker 1: that realm, I guarantee you, worry will kill you. Have
[21:58] Speaker 1: you seen men who just sit down on their veranda
[22:00] Speaker 1: and die? Are these the people like that? They just
[22:04] Speaker 1: sit down, bring me a stool and they sit down
[22:06] Speaker 1: and die. A man will go to a mango tree
[22:15] Speaker 1: and Put rope by himself. Right?
[22:19] Speaker 2: And put the rope from under up and hang himself. Ready?
[22:23] Speaker 1: Go and lift the rope and hang himself on a tree.
[22:27] Speaker 1: The fullness of affliction makes you a spiritual man. Please
[22:31] Speaker 1: hear me.
[22:33] Speaker 2: It makes you a true spiritual man.
[22:39] Speaker 1: If you have never cried, You have not gone through
[22:42] Speaker 1: the furnace of affliction. I guarantee you. You have been
[22:45] Speaker 1: passing through AC and the rest. The furnace of affliction
[22:48] Speaker 1: will bring tears in. You will sit down one day
[22:52] Speaker 1: and the whole world will change. You will not find
[22:55] Speaker 1: value in anything. One day you will sit down and
[22:58] Speaker 1: you will look at your lecturer.
[23:00] Speaker 2: As his teacher, you.
[23:01] Speaker 1: Are thinking as if you are 70 years old. You
[23:03] Speaker 1: are just thinking about life. When that happens to you,
[23:06] Speaker 1: you are going through a fullness of affliction. You sit
[23:09] Speaker 1: down in the office and they even call your name
[23:11] Speaker 1: and you cannot answer again.
[23:12] Speaker 2: Not because you are depressed, you are.
[23:14] Speaker 1: Thinking about life. You come to a point where nothing
[23:19] Speaker 1: else makes meaning to you. Accept his majesty. Is God
[23:24] Speaker 1: speaking to us? As a man of God, you come
[23:27] Speaker 1: to a point where five months, nobody, you are praying
[23:31] Speaker 1: and fasting and it's during that time, no invitation, no honorarium. Right?
[23:37] Speaker 1: At that time, you come to your fellowship and you
[23:39] Speaker 1: find three people. Your sister, your uncle, the other guy
[23:44] Speaker 1: who is coming to beg you. Those are the three
[23:47] Speaker 1: people that are around. Yet, you are making tremendous progress.
[23:51] Speaker 2: In the spirit.
[23:52] Speaker 1: And you do not understand. You fall as a reflection.
[23:57] Speaker 2: You stand to bridge the generator of spoilers. Everything scatters.
[24:01] Speaker 1: Your ego has been stung. On top of that, you
[24:04] Speaker 1: pray for somebody who is sick and the person doesn't
[24:06] Speaker 1: get healed.
[24:08] Speaker 2: And they say, Pastor, this thing you are teaching us,
[24:10] Speaker 2: we are not getting it.
[24:13] Speaker 1: You come to a point where you just play songs,
[24:16] Speaker 1: you play hymns and you just sit down.
[24:20] Speaker 2: Remember all those country music.
[24:22] Speaker 1: This world is not my home.
[24:24] Speaker 2: You just sit there.
[24:25] Speaker 1: People say, why?
[24:26] Speaker 2: I mean, life doesn't make sense. Hear me.
[24:30] Speaker 1: Don't just laugh. It's the funnest of affliction. Don't think
[24:33] Speaker 1: it's happening because of lack of faith. If no one
[24:36] Speaker 1: has taught you, rejoice when you are going through those things.
[24:40] Speaker 1: Because sooner or later, it's a proof that you must
[24:43] Speaker 1: arrive somewhere. Your tears and expressions of pain do not
[24:49] Speaker 1: necessarily reflect unbelief.
[24:54] Speaker 2: God taught me this. God taught me. I didn't read
[24:57] Speaker 2: it in any book. God himself taught me.
[25:01] Speaker 1: That the fullness of affliction is part of the curriculum
[25:05] Speaker 1: in the school of the spirit. No matter how anointed
[25:08] Speaker 1: you are, I give you a guarantee under the name
[25:10] Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. You must pass through that school.
[25:14] Speaker 1: For you to be an approved man. That badge. You
[25:17] Speaker 1: don't buy it. You don't bribe your way through it.
[25:20] Speaker 1: The badge is a scar. A scar is a sign
[25:23] Speaker 1: that your wound has healed. It's also a sign that
[25:27] Speaker 1: there was once a wound. Let no man trouble me.
[25:32] Speaker 2: For I bear.
[25:34] Speaker 1: I went through it. Don't think I dropped the classes
[25:37] Speaker 1: in the spirit. I went through it. God told you
[25:41] Speaker 1: that you are going to become a financial prosperity giant.
[25:44] Speaker 2: Get set for times of hunger let me tell you a.
[25:48] Speaker 1: Day will come the heavens will shut on purpose please
[25:52] Speaker 1: hear me if you like tight fire some of us
[25:55] Speaker 1: that tight fire brigade fearful tight lord watch it oh
[25:59] Speaker 1: i'm dropping this thing if the heaven doesn't.
[26:04] Speaker 4: There's an army rising up There's an army rising up.
[26:17] Speaker 1: Listen. There was a time I gave everything that I had.
[26:22] Speaker 1: Nothing was happening. I've just said you. I could not
[26:25] Speaker 1: afford a suit. Let me tell you. And I feared God.
[26:30] Speaker 1: I used to go for ministrations. I will never forget
[26:32] Speaker 1: one time I went for a ministration. Rain beat me.
[26:35] Speaker 1: It was time for the ministration. No car to pick me. Right?
[26:39] Speaker 3: Right?
[26:40] Speaker 1: The church is around, if not too far from here,
[26:43] Speaker 1: this secondary school, somewhere there. One church that invited me.
[26:47] Speaker 2: It was raining and they were ringing my phone.
[26:49] Speaker 1: They didn't, that time there was no protocol, no nothing.
[26:53] Speaker 1: But I had prayed and fasted and I got up.
[26:55] Speaker 1: I said, Lord, no matter what it is, everywhere was
[26:59] Speaker 1: a pool of water and it was muddy. I came out,
[27:01] Speaker 1: held my Bible and I started praying in tongues. Let
[27:04] Speaker 1: me tell you, I said, I'm going there. I was
[27:06] Speaker 1: praying Sheikha Tabalala. I said, Lord, I pass through it
[27:10] Speaker 1: with joy. A day will come, people will hear me.
[27:14] Speaker 1: When I got there to make matters worse, it was
[27:17] Speaker 1: Steve Strings that saw me coming and he ran out
[27:20] Speaker 1: with an umbrella to help me and bring me in.
[27:23] Speaker 1: When I got to the church, they made me to
[27:25] Speaker 1: stay outside so that they would arrange a seat for
[27:27] Speaker 1: me to sit down. There was no seat. When I
[27:31] Speaker 1: got there, they were acting all kinds of drama and
[27:34] Speaker 1: they were laughing. And then after everything, they whisper to
[27:37] Speaker 1: me that please have 15 minutes. I should think of
[27:39] Speaker 1: how to pass the time so that I can be
[27:43] Speaker 1: snappy about it.
[27:46] Speaker 2: It's called the furnace of affliction.
[27:47] Speaker 1: Pre-taste fasting. Not nonsense. Fasting 6 to 6 with proper
[27:52] Speaker 1: spiritual exercises. To go for it. It's called the furnace
[27:56] Speaker 1: of affliction. Many of you have grace but nobody is
[27:59] Speaker 1: honoring you. A day will come they will honor you.
[28:01] Speaker 1: Don't run too fast. If you jump classes life will
[28:05] Speaker 1: bring you back. There were times I preached there was no.
[28:08] Speaker 1: After the preaching come Sam.
[28:10] Speaker 2: They said my brother. You said you are a young
[28:13] Speaker 2: man where?
[28:14] Speaker 1: They used to call me bro Josh then. Not apostle.
[28:16] Speaker 1: Apostle fire. Bro Josh. Where are you a young man?
[28:22] Speaker 1: May God honor you the way you are going. will
[28:24] Speaker 1: be a bright young man. May God bless you. I
[28:26] Speaker 1: just stopped a bike outside. Bike! And I climbed happily
[28:30] Speaker 1: and I go home.
[28:31] Speaker 2: No honorarium, no nothing. It was the funnest of operations.
[28:35] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Are you hearing me? It was building me so
[28:40] Speaker 1: that my motivation behind the pursuit of God would not
[28:43] Speaker 1: be money and honorariums. I didn't have money to buy
[28:49] Speaker 1: a shirt. I used to go somewhere. There was one
[28:52] Speaker 1: BLW guy He always used to dry clean his suit
[28:56] Speaker 1: and keep for me. So when there's any ministration, I'll
[28:58] Speaker 1: run to him and collect.
[28:59] Speaker 2: And then one of my friends, I'll go and collect
[29:01] Speaker 2: his shoes. That's how I will join everything.
[29:06] Speaker 1: My younger sister posted one of the pictures of one
[29:09] Speaker 1: of the crusades and I looked at myself. It was
[29:11] Speaker 1: as if I entered inside, I entered inside a tabloid.
[29:17] Speaker 1: I was linked to nonsense. I had fasted my life out.
[29:22] Speaker 1: Lean until I became like, look, don't just laugh because
[29:28] Speaker 1: it's happening to you. And the devil wants to deceive
[29:31] Speaker 1: you to stop the process.
[29:32] Speaker 2: Pass through it.
[29:34] Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Pass through it. Let
[29:38] Speaker 1: people mock you. you're a pretty lady nobody's even looking
[29:41] Speaker 1: at you you know that this is not the issue
[29:43] Speaker 1: of demons demons have been dealt with when will my
[29:47] Speaker 1: change come god says for others they can go but
[29:49] Speaker 1: you say god what did i do to you many
[29:51] Speaker 1: of you have been asking god god is saying it's
[29:54] Speaker 1: because you are different stay back The devil can tell
[29:59] Speaker 1: you there is an RNG we can do for you.
[30:02] Speaker 1: One brother that is roaming around looking for a wife.
[30:05] Speaker 1: If you are interested, we can come in and pretend.
[30:09] Speaker 1: All those things. People use those strategies and they compromise. Hallelujah.
[30:17] Speaker 2: They compromise. Say, I will not compromise. Say it one
[30:22] Speaker 2: more time. I will not compromise.
[30:24] Speaker 1: Job said, though he slay me, yet will I praise him.
[30:28] Speaker 2: He said, all the days of my appointed time.
[30:34] Speaker 1: I remember the day I got one proper honorarium. I
[30:37] Speaker 1: mean proper. You know what I mean by proper? Something
[30:40] Speaker 1: sizable enough for you to smile and say, this looks
[30:42] Speaker 1: like the anointing I carry. That day I went back
[30:45] Speaker 1: and I was smiling and God told me to show it.
[30:47] Speaker 1: I said, come on Lord. And I did gladly. Listen,
[30:57] Speaker 1: part of what some of you received tonight is not
[31:01] Speaker 1: an anointing to go and start a church or to
[31:03] Speaker 1: prove to your fellowship that I have arrived. It's going
[31:07] Speaker 1: to be a lonely road.
[31:08] Speaker 2: It's already happening to some of us.
[31:11] Speaker 1: Right? You graduated and you finished school and you're smiling
[31:14] Speaker 1: and You know that everybody can help you, but nothing
[31:19] Speaker 1: has happened. Brothers and sisters, don't let men look at
[31:23] Speaker 1: you and think that it's because you are lazy and foolish.
[31:26] Speaker 1: There is a deal in your spirit.
[31:29] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[31:31] Speaker 1: Come. Let me tell you something about this lady.
[31:36] Speaker 2: This lady is a graduate of banking and finance. Are
[31:40] Speaker 2: you seeing this? She's a graduate of banking and finance.
[31:44] Speaker 1: And has been in a dealing with the spirit. She
[31:48] Speaker 1: left Asaba. And she's going to be in Zaria.
[31:52] Speaker 2: For the next.
[31:53] Speaker 1: Probably the next. Maybe close to a year. Because there
[31:57] Speaker 1: is a prophetic dealing of the spirit. That is doing
[32:00] Speaker 1: in her life.
[32:01] Speaker 2: Are you getting me?
[32:03] Speaker 1: Satisfied and approved by her mother.
[32:06] Speaker 2: It takes crazy men.
[32:07] Speaker 1: To carry the anointing of the spirit. Against popular status quo.
[32:15] Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
[32:16] Speaker 2: Banking and finance with even French again.
[32:20] Speaker 1: Yes. For the excellency of that which he believes is
[32:24] Speaker 1: locked up in our spirit. Let me tell you. If
[32:27] Speaker 1: you want to be like everybody, you will suffer like everybody.
[32:30] Speaker 1: If you are afraid of being different because of what
[32:34] Speaker 1: you just try to be different, the accusations are fierce.
[32:38] Speaker 1: Everybody will say, we are not doing it like this.
[32:40] Speaker 1: Don't be a stupid person. Wisdom is profitable to direct.
[32:43] Speaker 1: When God is telling you, go left, all prophets, like
[32:47] Speaker 1: the ones in the Bible, would say, go right. It's
[32:50] Speaker 1: always the right.
[32:50] Speaker 2: God will say, you, go left.
[32:52] Speaker 1: It's a lonely road. But it's the furnace of affliction.
[32:57] Speaker 1: God is speaking to some of us here. There are
[32:59] Speaker 1: some of us seated here inside and outside. You trekked
[33:03] Speaker 1: from your house or from your, whatever, your office or
[33:07] Speaker 1: from school to come here. And if you don't get boss,
[33:11] Speaker 1: you are trekking back.
[33:13] Speaker 2: Don't complain. See it as the school. There is a
[33:16] Speaker 2: lecturer talking to you in the spirit.
[33:18] Speaker 1: Pay attention. Are you hearing what I'm saying? There's no
[33:24] Speaker 1: money coming from anywhere. Brother, if there is no money, relax.
[33:29] Speaker 1: Get a cup of water and drink and smile and
[33:32] Speaker 1: know that the world will celebrate you. There is nothing
[33:35] Speaker 1: happening in my life right now that is surprising me.
[33:38] Speaker 2: I'm only grateful about it.
[33:42] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Sister, when God is done with you, then you
[33:48] Speaker 1: will know why he trained you. When you see the
[33:50] Speaker 1: kind of man he brings, And the responsibility that is waiting.
[33:54] Speaker 1: You will know why your training was different. Are you
[33:58] Speaker 1: getting what I'm saying? Who is God speaking to? Many
[34:06] Speaker 1: of us are seated here. Although we are smiling.
[34:09] Speaker 2: Please play my music.
[34:11] Speaker 1: Listen. We are smiling. But there are wounded soldiers sitting
[34:15] Speaker 1: looking at me. There are many of you. This is
[34:18] Speaker 1: how you held yourself spiritually to come here. You pack
[34:22] Speaker 1: yourself and the remaining of you.
[34:24] Speaker 2: I came for koinonia.
[34:26] Speaker 1: A lady came. They brought her in from Kaduna. Gas
[34:28] Speaker 1: exploded on her. Gas. Cooking gas exploded on her.
[34:33] Speaker 2: Burned her face.
[34:34] Speaker 1: Burned her limbs. And I was calling this lady and
[34:37] Speaker 1: she said, When can we come and see you? I
[34:40] Speaker 1: said this morning. I thought they were joking. By 7 o'clock,
[34:42] Speaker 1: the whole family, they carried themselves and they came.
[34:45] Speaker 2: They carried the lady.
[34:46] Speaker 1: When I looked at that lady, And she was declaring
[34:49] Speaker 1: the faithfulness of God. Beautiful lady turned.
[34:52] Speaker 2: To nonsense as a result of gas.
[34:54] Speaker 1: Gas burned her, her feet. And she loves God. Right?
[34:59] Speaker 1: Many of you are touching your face. Nothing is happening
[35:01] Speaker 1: to you. Hallelujah. Do you know when I sat down
[35:06] Speaker 1: and I prayed with this lady, while I was praying
[35:08] Speaker 1: with her, her burned hands, she held my hand. And
[35:12] Speaker 1: as she was crying, I could see this lady's You
[35:15] Speaker 1: could sense what she was saying.
[35:17] Speaker 2: I'm not giving up, Lord.
[35:18] Speaker 1: You are faithful. When I finished praying, she said, I
[35:20] Speaker 1: should take her.
[35:21] Speaker 2: She said she wants to walk by herself. And she
[35:24] Speaker 2: told her mom, she said.
[35:25] Speaker 1: She wants to show the devil. She wants to put
[35:27] Speaker 1: the devil to shame.
[35:29] Speaker 2: That's what she said.
[35:30] Speaker 1: And this girl got up step by step. We're going
[35:33] Speaker 1: and she was walking. tomorrow you will see this woman
[35:37] Speaker 1: raising wheelchairs on crusade ground when she sees people with
[35:41] Speaker 1: wheelchairs the school she passed through created a memory and
[35:45] Speaker 1: that memory brings the anointing that's why sometimes you see
[35:48] Speaker 1: me sit down during miracle services i've gone through some
[35:52] Speaker 1: pain enough in my life we say we do not
[35:54] Speaker 1: have a high priest who cannot be touched when was
[35:58] Speaker 1: he touched During the furnace of affliction. There are many
[36:02] Speaker 1: preachers who are so innocent from what is happening to members.
[36:06] Speaker 1: They don't know what is happening so they don't know
[36:07] Speaker 1: how to preach. They don't know how to love. They
[36:10] Speaker 1: don't know how to be there. I've suffered hunger. There
[36:15] Speaker 1: are times that people come to me and say, Apostle,
[36:17] Speaker 1: as I am like this, I've not eaten. And I
[36:19] Speaker 1: look and I say, I understand. No matter what it is,
[36:22] Speaker 1: don't give. They are trying to fight tears in their eyes.
[36:26] Speaker 1: I said, don't give up. Don't be afraid. I told
[36:28] Speaker 1: you crying is allowed. In the furnace of affliction, crying
[36:32] Speaker 1: is allowed. Cry and wipe your tears and pastor. Your
[36:35] Speaker 1: father looks at you and says, you claim there are
[36:38] Speaker 1: people here among us.
[36:40] Speaker 2: One of us here was disowned by his parents completely.
[36:44] Speaker 1: There are a number of us like that on account
[36:47] Speaker 1: of our faith. I mean disowned for real. They have
[36:51] Speaker 1: been on their own. There are students here who are
[36:53] Speaker 1: sourcing school fees by themselves. Every one of them comes
[36:57] Speaker 1: by faith. I speak a word to you. Don't you
[36:59] Speaker 1: think God has rejected you? You are passing through what
[37:02] Speaker 1: will make you a principality in your time. That's how
[37:06] Speaker 1: great men are.
[37:09] Speaker 2: I fasted for many days with nothing to break the fast.
[37:13] Speaker 2: But I knew God was faithful.
[37:16] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[37:18] Speaker 3: God.
[37:18] Speaker 1: That's why today, if you like, bring, bring, bring a
[37:25] Speaker 1: bottle of drink that is one million and give me.
[37:27] Speaker 1: I'll drink it, drop it and continue what I'm doing.
[37:30] Speaker 1: Because I've passed through a furnace of affliction that gives
[37:33] Speaker 1: me the appreciation to love people at every level. Are
[37:36] Speaker 1: you hearing what I'm saying? Affliction. It makes you to
[37:42] Speaker 1: love people. I went through things in my life I
[37:45] Speaker 1: would never want anybody to go through. He creates the
[37:50] Speaker 1: spirit of love. This army are men and women that
[37:58] Speaker 1: for now, let me tell you, all over the earth,
[38:01] Speaker 1: they are not manifesting yet, brothers and sisters.
[38:04] Speaker 2: Many of them are still passing through the furnace of perfection.
[38:07] Speaker 1: Some of you, it was your pain and tears that
[38:09] Speaker 1: brought you to Koinonia. There is an evil in your
[38:13] Speaker 1: family waiting. And you are the one who is trying
[38:15] Speaker 1: to emerge. And you who is trying to bring your
[38:18] Speaker 1: family into victory and deliverance. The devil is making them
[38:22] Speaker 1: walk against you. Is that true? Some of you, after
[38:25] Speaker 1: this koinonia, you are going back home. And the spirits
[38:28] Speaker 1: have gone in advance to manipulate and orchestrate trouble. Some
[38:31] Speaker 1: of you, as you are reaching home with a slap,
[38:33] Speaker 1: they welcome you. They say you went to the guy's
[38:35] Speaker 1: house and they keep quiet.
[38:37] Speaker 2: It's not time to defend yourself.
[38:39] Speaker 1: Receive the slap but realize that a principality, a reformer
[38:44] Speaker 1: is on his way to rise. Who is God speaking to?
[38:50] Speaker 1: A reformer is on his way to rise. There are
[38:53] Speaker 1: many of you, people offend you and they do nasty
[38:56] Speaker 1: things but God tells you, get up and go and
[38:59] Speaker 1: apologize to them. And you say, God for what? I
[39:01] Speaker 1: think God says, get up, go and apologize to them.
[39:07] Speaker 1: Get up and go and apologize to them. There are
[39:11] Speaker 1: times God will tell you to get your best gift
[39:14] Speaker 1: and give your worst enemy. It's a fullness of affliction.
[39:17] Speaker 1: It's a place of beauty. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
[39:21] Speaker 1: You have the capacity to wax an album. You're about
[39:24] Speaker 1: to wax the album and God says you're on your own.
[39:26] Speaker 1: You're on your own with that album. You say, instead,
[39:29] Speaker 1: carry the money and go and show it to somebody
[39:33] Speaker 1: and remain. I wish what I was saying were a lie.
[39:38] Speaker 1: But it's true. You will pass through it. Some of
[39:42] Speaker 1: you are going through it right now. You will pass
[39:44] Speaker 1: through it. Brothers and sisters, the first crusade we went for,
[39:48] Speaker 1: I don't know if we were up to 50 or
[39:51] Speaker 1: more than 50. But I preached my life out. We
[39:54] Speaker 1: healed those we could heal. And we gave Jesus praise.
[40:01] Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. There is a prophetic word upon your life.
[40:06] Speaker 1: That is why your life is the way it is going.
[40:08] Speaker 2: Please listen to me. I'm speaking to you. There is
[40:12] Speaker 2: a prophetic word.
[40:13] Speaker 1: Some of you have written jam for years. Nothing has happened.
[40:17] Speaker 2: Your colleagues have gone ahead of you and even graduated.
[40:19] Speaker 1: Don't worry. There is a hand that is moving you.
[40:23] Speaker 2: You may not see it. You may cry through the night.
[40:26] Speaker 1: But I'm speaking to you. There is a hand that
[40:28] Speaker 1: is moving you. There is an anointing you will soon
[40:31] Speaker 1: encounter in the place of your pain. Where you sit
[40:36] Speaker 1: down and there is nothing to do, all of a
[40:38] Speaker 1: sudden you will find an anointing. There is a squeezing out,
[40:41] Speaker 1: a pressing, like what Mani will call it, a breaking
[40:44] Speaker 1: of the outer man and a release of the spirit.
[40:49] Speaker 1: There is a breaking. You are rising to a realm
[40:52] Speaker 1: in the spirit. Sister, continue the prayers. Continue the Bible study.
[41:00] Speaker 2: Don't worry.
[41:01] Speaker 1: You may look like a fool. Continue. I spoke to
[41:05] Speaker 1: a woman who told me that there was a time
[41:07] Speaker 1: she was using groundnut oil. God is my groundnut oil.
[41:10] Speaker 1: You know groundnut oil. To rub on her body. And
[41:15] Speaker 1: she said, it will be great and it will be
[41:18] Speaker 1: better for me one day. You want to be great?
[41:26] Speaker 2: The furnace of affliction is your passport.
[41:29] Speaker 1: This message may not be pleasant. It's a series we
[41:31] Speaker 1: are taking. It's called the imagines. We are looking at
[41:35] Speaker 1: the making of reformers. The mystery of the furnace of affliction.
[41:41] Speaker 1: Where men are made. It is the place you will
[41:44] Speaker 1: cry your cry till there is no tears to cry again.
[41:48] Speaker 1: It is the place you will call for help and
[41:50] Speaker 1: heaven is silent. It is the place where your challenges
[41:54] Speaker 1: keep multiplying before your face by the day. It comes
[41:57] Speaker 1: to a point where as the mountains surround Jerusalem, that's
[42:00] Speaker 1: how everything has surrounded you.
[42:03] Speaker 2: Where you are praying for something to be better, another.
[42:05] Speaker 1: Thing comes up. The Bible says they kept mounting themselves
[42:09] Speaker 1: on Job. First, his animals and everything died. Lightning came
[42:15] Speaker 1: and scattered his building. Then he was told that he
[42:18] Speaker 1: still one report after the other. And Job just sat
[42:21] Speaker 1: on the ground. He said, naked I came. And he
[42:25] Speaker 1: began to speak a lot of things. Let me tell
[42:27] Speaker 1: you something. The fullness of affliction will get you to
[42:30] Speaker 1: a point where you can't talk again.
[42:33] Speaker 2: Your silence becomes your prayer.
[42:35] Speaker 1: And God hears it. Because that is the time you
[42:38] Speaker 1: will be talking the loudest. You sit down. You can't
[42:43] Speaker 1: open your mouth to say God is unfaithful. But to
[42:46] Speaker 1: say God is faithful becomes difficult.
[42:49] Speaker 2: And it's not a sign of unbelief.
[42:52] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. That's the point where everything in your life does
[42:57] Speaker 1: not seem to work. Yet you are making spiritual progress.
[43:02] Speaker 1: Yet you are growing spiritually. You are suffering from a
[43:06] Speaker 1: sickness that you are healing others of.
[43:09] Speaker 2: You lay hands on them and the power of God
[43:11] Speaker 2: gets them free.
[43:12] Speaker 1: But you have prayed and fasted for months and this
[43:15] Speaker 1: thing does not go. I bring you a matured message
[43:18] Speaker 1: in the body of Christ. There is a making of
[43:21] Speaker 1: reformers across the entire.
[43:24] Speaker 2: These men, their dealings look harsh.
[43:27] Speaker 1: But my brothers, let me tell you something. Do you
[43:29] Speaker 1: know how the eagle trains the eaglets to fly? It
[43:33] Speaker 1: picks it up and throws it away. And just allows it.
[43:38] Speaker 1: And it keeps moving around and then eventually it comes back,
[43:42] Speaker 1: picks it up, takes it back and throws it away.
[43:46] Speaker 1: That's why the eagle does not just fly, it soars.
[43:48] Speaker 1: When other birds are moving around the eaglets, when I
[43:51] Speaker 1: was an eaglet.
[43:52] Speaker 2: I went to a lake.
[43:55] Speaker 1: There are things you go through in life that kills fear.
[43:58] Speaker 1: Somebody looks at you and holds a gun and says,
[44:01] Speaker 1: I will kill you. All of a sudden, you remember
[44:06] Speaker 1: how many in my life, too many things. Do you
[44:09] Speaker 1: know why I don't fear?
[44:10] Speaker 2: Cars jammed me.
[44:12] Speaker 1: One. You see all the things that have happened in
[44:15] Speaker 1: my life? No human being born of a woman can
[44:22] Speaker 1: kill me.
[44:23] Speaker 2: I'm telling you this. It's not private.
[44:25] Speaker 1: You don't know. I told you, I've entered car where
[44:28] Speaker 1: the Ambro bus were shooting. Okay, no, they didn't shoot.
[44:31] Speaker 1: We're coming from Port Harcourt, right? Ambro bus, I was
[44:34] Speaker 1: sitting on C2. Luxurious bus. You know C2.
[44:38] Speaker 2: The one that, the driver is down. You are the
[44:41] Speaker 2: one in front.
[44:44] Speaker 1: There are perils you go through in life that make
[44:47] Speaker 1: you mature. That's what releases the anointing. Life has squeezed
[44:51] Speaker 1: you so much, there's nothing to squeeze there again.
[44:54] Speaker 2: You are a dead man in Christ.
[44:56] Speaker 1: You have no reputation of yourself. And then, when you
[45:02] Speaker 1: never expect it, the light will shine. It will never
[45:07] Speaker 1: happen when Joseph never saw in a vision that.
[45:11] Speaker 2: By the next day he will be the prime minister.
[45:13] Speaker 1: Probably he now said, Oh Lord, let me be in
[45:16] Speaker 1: this prison for five more years. Five years is enough
[45:20] Speaker 1: for me.
[45:21] Speaker 2: Not knowing that that was the last night.
[45:23] Speaker 1: He would have been grateful if he was told that
[45:25] Speaker 1: he would stay just five more years. But that night,
[45:28] Speaker 1: he was at the entrance of another realm, living the
[45:32] Speaker 1: fullness of affliction forever. Hallelujah. I've shared with you how
[45:41] Speaker 1: the Lord instructed me to trek from that place, Netshekin Republic,
[45:45] Speaker 1: to Labiesham.
[45:46] Speaker 2: I was trekking like a fool on the streets of Zaria.
[45:49] Speaker 1: If I meet you with that madness and I say
[45:53] Speaker 1: I want to marry you, what will you go and
[45:54] Speaker 1: tell your father? You say, daddy, there is a madman,
[45:57] Speaker 1: there is an idiot that claims God is calling him.
[46:00] Speaker 1: Your father will say, not my daughter. Right? Lord, for you,
[46:06] Speaker 1: I will do it. I may look like a madman,
[46:08] Speaker 1: but so be it. Look, it takes unusual people. The
[46:12] Speaker 1: fullness of affliction makes you a human being plus something else. Right?
[46:18] Speaker 1: And that's what you need. A human being plus an anointing.
[46:23] Speaker 1: A human being plus a grace. We are going to pray. Hallelujah.
[46:28] Speaker 2: Let me stop.
[46:29] Speaker 1: Here because of our time.
[46:30] Speaker 2: The making. The making.
[46:33] Speaker 1: There is a making brothers and sisters. There are many
[46:37] Speaker 1: of us who have been bereaved. There are some of
[46:40] Speaker 1: us a lot has happened to you. There are some
[46:43] Speaker 1: of us, what you are seeing in the spirit and what.
[46:45] Speaker 2: Is happening in your life are east and west.
[46:48] Speaker 1: I bring you a word. It is a furnace of affliction.
[46:51] Speaker 1: If it has an entrance, it has an exit. You
[46:54] Speaker 1: may walk through it so slow, but the day you
[46:57] Speaker 1: will come out, you will be without information. You will
[47:01] Speaker 1: step into an anointing you will never recover from. You
[47:05] Speaker 1: will step into a level of grace you will never
[47:07] Speaker 1: recover from. The day Jesus appeared to me, I was
[47:11] Speaker 1: not prepared for that visitor. I just loved him. I
[47:14] Speaker 1: wanted him with my life. And then he appeared to me.
[47:17] Speaker 1: I perceive in my spirit that there are some of
[47:19] Speaker 1: us who are coming to the end. Of those seasons
[47:22] Speaker 1: of affliction. They have lasted years. Let me tell you.
[47:26] Speaker 1: When that season comes to an end. You don't need connection.
[47:29] Speaker 1: Everything works for you. Including your enemies.
[47:33] Speaker 2: It's a sign that that season has ended.
[47:36] Speaker 1: And so God stamps it upon your life. Jesus died
[47:41] Speaker 1: and was in the grave. All of a sudden. While
[47:43] Speaker 1: they were.
[47:44] Speaker 2: Discussing his death.
[47:47] Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ. He got up. He was on his
[47:49] Speaker 1: way to Emmaus. And two people were saying, have you heard?
[47:53] Speaker 1: This weekend was a bad weekend for the disciples. Jesus
[47:56] Speaker 1: died and the man said, really? He died, brothers and sisters,
[47:59] Speaker 1: but he only died for three days. What you are
[48:03] Speaker 1: passing through will not kill you. If he would have
[48:05] Speaker 1: killed you, you would have died since. This is how
[48:08] Speaker 1: you know it's a furnace of affliction. Because in it,
[48:11] Speaker 1: you never die. You go through everything that can kill you.
[48:15] Speaker 1: But when all the dust settles, you are still standing.
[48:19] Speaker 1: This is a message for you to preach to some
[48:21] Speaker 1: of our parents. They have done their best. Some of
[48:24] Speaker 1: you right now, you are the ones feeding your families.
[48:27] Speaker 1: Although you are students. It's you that sends money. Mommy,
[48:30] Speaker 1: take 2K. And your mother is saying, Lord, when will
[48:32] Speaker 1: you change our story? Tell her, Mommy, there is a
[48:35] Speaker 1: reformer rising in this house. That is the reason. Like
[48:38] Speaker 1: the blood that was put, there is a mark that
[48:41] Speaker 1: is upon this family. As we are sitting, there are
[48:45] Speaker 1: mega ministries that are rising.
[48:47] Speaker 2: But listen, it will not rise by claiming.
[48:49] Speaker 1: Your tears is what will qualify you to climb that altar.
[48:53] Speaker 1: That's what will make your altar sacred. That's what will
[48:56] Speaker 1: make your anointing uncommon. It is good to receive impartations.
[49:01] Speaker 1: But in the furnace of affliction, you dig your own
[49:04] Speaker 1: well by yourself. You dig that well until you find
[49:08] Speaker 1: the water. We are going to pray.
[49:12] Speaker 2: There is nothing that you are passing through that is forever.
[49:16] Speaker 1: I want you to know this. Are you hearing what
[49:19] Speaker 1: I'm saying? when you pass through it you will know
[49:21] Speaker 1: that god is a miracle worker when you pass through
[49:24] Speaker 1: it you will know that god is mighty rise up
[49:26] Speaker 1: on your feet and let's pray this is how the
[49:32] Speaker 1: reformers will emerge The first dimension of the dealings of
[49:36] Speaker 1: the spirit is the mystery that is shrouded in the
[49:39] Speaker 1: furnace of affliction.
[49:40] Speaker 2: You will pass through pain.
[49:42] Speaker 1: Will pass through rejection you will pass through criticism they
[49:46] Speaker 1: will misunderstand you you don't need to defend yourself you
[49:50] Speaker 1: will pass through all kinds of things the bible says
[49:54] Speaker 1: do not count it as though it's a strange thing
[49:56] Speaker 1: when you pass through fiery trials lift your voice and
[49:59] Speaker 1: begin to pray koinonia everyone pray i draw strength i
[50:06] Speaker 1: draw strength from the journey ahead i draw strength.
[50:09] Speaker 2: For the journey ahead pray.
[50:16] Speaker 1: I draw strength in the name of the Lord Jesus.
[50:21] Speaker 1: I draw strength for the days of criticisms. I draw
[50:25] Speaker 1: strength for the days of weaknesses. The days when there
[50:30] Speaker 1: is no result in my life. The days when there
[50:32] Speaker 1: is no result in my church. The days when there
[50:35] Speaker 1: is no result in my career. I draw strength. To
[50:40] Speaker 1: face the carryovers that I have. I draw strength. To
[50:46] Speaker 1: face the mockery. I draw strength. To face this pain.
[50:52] Speaker 1: This sickness in my body.
[50:55] Speaker 2: I've been married for five years.
[50:57] Speaker 1: No child. I draw strength.
[50:59] Speaker 2: Go ahead and pray.
[51:00] Speaker 5: He said, and Elijah went in the strength of that bread.
[51:04] Speaker 1: 40 days journey.
[51:06] Speaker 2: And Elijah went in the strength of that bread.
[51:09] Speaker 1: Pray.
[51:24] Speaker 5: Pray i draw strength from my family they may be persecuted.
[51:46] Speaker 1: My father has lost his job. Mother lost her job.
[51:49] Speaker 1: But I draw strength. The storms do not come to
[51:53] Speaker 1: kill me. They come to make a reformer out of me.
[51:57] Speaker 2: I am part of.
[51:58] Speaker 1: The program of God.
[52:01] Speaker 2: I am part of.
[52:02] Speaker 1: The program of God. I may cry for now. I
[52:06] Speaker 1: may weep for now. I may not have a helper.
[52:11] Speaker 1: But I lift my eyes unto the hill. From whence
[52:14] Speaker 1: cometh my help. I may pass through the fire. It
[52:20] Speaker 1: will prune me. It will discipline me. It will teach
[52:25] Speaker 1: me obedience. But in the name of Jesus I will
[52:28] Speaker 1: not give up. Hallelujah. Prayer point number two. Make a
[52:39] Speaker 1: vow with destiny. That I will not give up. Until
[52:42] Speaker 1: I become a reformer. I will not give up. The
[52:46] Speaker 1: sword of God.
[52:48] Speaker 2: Is waiting for those who finish to be given.
[52:51] Speaker 1: That mantle. That anointing. For your ministry. For your business.
[52:57] Speaker 1: Pass through it. Lift your voice and pray. I'm not
[53:00] Speaker 1: giving up. I'm not giving up. No matter what happens.
[53:07] Speaker 1: I may cry. But I will not give up. I
[53:11] Speaker 1: may weep. There is an anointed man rising from this pain.
[53:19] Speaker 1: Out of these ashes. out of these ashes there is
[53:33] Speaker 1: a general a custodian of the mysteries of the kingdom
[53:38] Speaker 1: the reward for the pain is the anointing the reward
[53:43] Speaker 1: for the pain is the anointing the reward for the
[53:47] Speaker 1: pain the reward for the scar the reward for the.
[53:51] Speaker 2: Crying is a new song he will give.
[53:54] Speaker 1: You a sword in the spirit you will do great
[53:57] Speaker 1: business for the kingdom Therefore arise. Pass through it.
[54:02] Speaker 2: I bring you a prophetic word.
[54:05] Speaker 1: Pass through it. It will not kill you. The storms
[54:09] Speaker 1: will rise. The storms will rise. You will forget but
[54:14] Speaker 1: pass through it. You will cry many times. Pass through it.
[54:19] Speaker 1: You will endure. You will let your heart shift. You
[54:22] Speaker 1: will let your hunger pass through it.
[54:29] Speaker 6: I won't give up I refuse to give up There
[54:37] Speaker 6: is a reformer There is a principality There is an
[54:41] Speaker 6: anointing Coming out through my pain There is an anointing
[54:46] Speaker 6: I'm writing history Yeah Yeah Yeah.
[54:56] Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
[54:57] Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
[54:57] Speaker 5: Listen.
[54:58] Speaker 1: The last prayer point.
[55:10] Speaker 2: Is we are going to declare the faithfulness of God.
[55:12] Speaker 1: Some of you are crying. Don't let it embarrass you.
[55:15] Speaker 1: You are going to say, Lord, through the pain, I
[55:18] Speaker 1: say to the heavens, you are faithful. I've been mocked,
[55:22] Speaker 1: but you are faithful. I saw the carryover, but my God,
[55:26] Speaker 1: you are faithful. They called me a failure. They sucked
[55:31] Speaker 1: me from the job. But Lord, you are faithful. You
[55:36] Speaker 1: are faithful.
[55:40] Speaker 2: He said he will marry me.
[55:42] Speaker 1: After introduction, he knocked me. God, you are faithful. God,
[55:47] Speaker 1: you are faithful. I lost my brother through the pain.
[55:52] Speaker 1: You are faithful. I lost my father through the pain.
[55:55] Speaker 1: You are faithful. I lost my faith. You are faithful.
[56:02] Speaker 1: my integrity has brought me trouble you are faithful my
[56:07] Speaker 1: intention has brought me pain you are faithful you are
[56:12] Speaker 1: faithful my integrity has brought me a carryover you are
[56:17] Speaker 1: still faithful My integrity ministry Has relegated me to the
[56:24] Speaker 1: background You are faithful For I will like an edifice
[56:29] Speaker 1: Though he slay me Yes will I praise him On
[56:33] Speaker 1: all the.
[56:33] Speaker 2: Days of my life I will.
[56:36] Speaker 1: Wait But I will wait I will be misunderstood But
[56:41] Speaker 1: I will wait When all is said and done The
[56:44] Speaker 1: purposes of the kingdom Will be granted to me Hallelujah.
[56:55] Speaker 2: We have one minute. I'd like you to pair yourselves.
[56:58] Speaker 1: Into two and speak strength into your brother. You may
[57:03] Speaker 1: be holding the hands of someone who came to this
[57:07] Speaker 1: place ready to give up. I'd like you to speak.
[57:11] Speaker 2: Strength and say there is a supply of the Spirit.
[57:14] Speaker 2: I speak to you.
[57:16] Speaker 1: You saw your result yesterday. Several carryovers. You don't know
[57:21] Speaker 1: where you will start from. But I speak strength from
[57:24] Speaker 1: the throne. They threw you away from the job. And
[57:27] Speaker 1: they said what you study cannot give you a living.
[57:35] Speaker 1: Your ministry seems to have died. No one is recognizing
[57:39] Speaker 1: your grace. But I speak strength. Speak strength.
[57:53] Speaker 5: Speak strength.
[58:06] Speaker 1: Prophesy strength don't give up I release strength upon you
[58:12] Speaker 1: you can't give up at this time you have gone
[58:14] Speaker 1: through too much you have gone through too much you
[58:18] Speaker 1: are already getting to the end don't give up I
[58:21] Speaker 1: supply spirit power I supply strength from the throne in
[58:27] Speaker 1: the name of Jesus hallelujah Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now look at me.
[58:40] Speaker 1: Very quickly.
[58:43] Speaker 2: I want to pray specially.
[58:44] Speaker 1: And I just want you to indicate by lifting your hands.
[58:47] Speaker 2: You don't need to come out here.
[58:49] Speaker 1: There are people who came tonight. And all you came
[58:52] Speaker 1: to do is to receive strength. You have come to
[58:55] Speaker 1: the end of your road. Please, not everybody. I just
[58:59] Speaker 1: want you to lift your hands as I minister to you.
[59:01] Speaker 1: Things have happened. You had news in your family. Humanly speaking,
[59:06] Speaker 1: there's no strength to continue. This thing has wearied you
[59:09] Speaker 1: you can't even pray again you have prayed every prayer
[59:12] Speaker 1: you know how to pray in the name of the
[59:14] Speaker 1: Lord Jesus receive a supply of.
[59:16] Speaker 2: The strength of the spirit I speak to.
[59:19] Speaker 1: You you are coming out of this you are coming
[59:22] Speaker 1: out generals before you have passed through it they didn't
[59:26] Speaker 1: die you will not die in it Your redeemer still lives.
[59:31] Speaker 1: He may look silent but he will speak. He may
[59:35] Speaker 1: look silent but he's preparing a table before you. You
[59:38] Speaker 1: may not have money in your pocket. But I want
[59:41] Speaker 1: you to know that you shouldn't compromise. The hand of
[59:44] Speaker 1: your God is coming for you. In the name of
[59:47] Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray for families here represented.
[59:52] Speaker 1: Who have come to the end of the road. You
[59:55] Speaker 1: have done all you know to do. And nothing seems
[59:58] Speaker 1: to be working. I want to announce to you that
[1:00:00] Speaker 1: there is prophecy at work in your life. There is
[1:00:03] Speaker 1: the making of a reformer. It's part of the birthing process.
[1:00:07] Speaker 1: Zion does not give birth without travailing. Instead as soon
[1:00:11] Speaker 1: as Zion travails. There is a labor pain in the spirit.
[1:00:19] Speaker 1: And it's because of what is about to be birthed
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: in your life. pass through the pain like a woman
[1:00:24] Speaker 1: passes through the pain it may last for hours for
[1:00:27] Speaker 1: some women it may last for days others it may
[1:00:30] Speaker 1: even require surgery but make sure the baby is not
[1:00:33] Speaker 1: lost make sure you keep it because that baby represents
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: your prophetic destiny keep that vision cry but keep the
[1:00:42] Speaker 1: vision in the mighty name of jesus christ lift your
[1:00:47] Speaker 1: hands and begin to thank god

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