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How to wait on God - Part 3 by Bro. Sadhu Sundar
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Turn your bibles with me to the book of Isaiah 40:31,
but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not
faint. The bible says in Psalm 46:10, Be still and know
that I am God. If you cannot still, you cannot know God
is standing infront of you. If all that is within you
are disturbed and agog how can you see him who is
standing right before you? Let me give you a simple
illustration, if you go and stand infront of a pool of
water, if you look down, you can see your reflection, am
I right? If you take a pebble and throw into the waters,
the fall of the stone cause ripples into the waters. And
when the waters are disturbed, then when you look down,
you can no more see your face, because it is all
disturbed. But when the waters are calmed back and when
you look down you can see your reflection in the waters.
It is the same. When your heart is so disturbed, so
disquieted your are so busy within you, you are rushing,
you want to quickly finish the Lord’s prayer from the
first word to the Last word and you need to rush
because, you want to go somewhere, you need to go to
McDonnell’s or you need to watch your favorite movie or
you need to sit down and talk, all kinds of grandmother
fairy tales. If your heart is so disturbed, you cannot
hear God, You cannot see God and you cannot be invited
into his house. That is the purpose God is calling you
to wait on him because he wants to invite you into his
house. If you are a child of God, are you? Then you
should know your father’s house. The Lord Jesus said, in
my Father’s house there are many mansions, what does
that mean many mansions? Just a house or like the big
house that the queen lives in Buckingham palace? Is that
what mansion means? No. Old theology. Change your old
theology. Mansions doesn’t means mansions, it means
plains of existence. Many many many not one or two. Only
3 heavens are mentioned in the bible but there are many
heavens. Plains of existence. Each people group, each
saint group, each Angelic group in different plains of
existence. Now, let me tell you, to you is granted to be
at the highest place, it is granted. But it is where
will you be you are choosing. You choose but let me
repeat one more time. To you is given the highest
blessing that you could come and be and abide at the
highest rem that is given unto you. But you choose, it
is not an automatic privilege. You can choose to be at
the highest place or at the lowest place. How you live
your life on this earth determines where you will be in
the next life. Do not be fooled my dear brothers and
sisters, you can lose your salvation and end up in hell.
Don’t you ever be fooled by the Old theology, once saved
always safe. The real bible does not teach like that. He
that endures till the end for he shall be saved. If you
don’t endure till the end, you backslide half way or if
you give up the faith half way have been gone and enjoy
all the world hoping that one minute before death you
will confess all your sins, it doesn’t work. Remember
you cannot fool God. You can fool anybody under the sun
except the living God. When he looks at you, his eyes
are deep unto your naked heart. All things are naked.
Two weeks ago I was In Edmonton for a series of
conference. On the Last night the Lord Jesus told me,
tonight I want to bless the young people. Tell them
those who truly want to consecrate their life, come
forward and surrender themselves. About 100 -150 young
people came running to the front. And as they knelt
down, some were lying on their faces, they were beating
upon their breasts and crying out to God. The Lord Jesus
Christ appeared to me and he said, and he had a lamb in
his hand those they use in the olden days you know. He
took the lamb in his hand and went before one by one at
the young people. As he went beside one by one, all
their hearts became naked and transparent to my eyes.
And when I looked into their hearts, many of them, their
sins are all written in their hearts. Some of them have
good things written there, some of them, all their
hidden sins are written. They were 150 of them. I saw
all their hearts what the Lord Jesus Christ was seeing,
he allowed me to see and some of them I have told them,
this is what your problem, this is what your problem.
See, all are naked before the eyes of the living God.
So, don’t fool. When you sincerely repent you don’t give
excuses. If you give excuses to why you sin, it is not
repentance. This was the problem with Adam and Eve.
Instead of humbly admitting, Yes LORD we sin, they were
pointing their finger at each another and what our
forefathers did those days we are still doing it today.
We are giving God a good logical reason why we sin
hoping that by our reasoning we can buy his pardon. It
doesn’t work like that. Forgiveness is freely given to
you by the Lord Jesus Christ when you humbly fall on
your face and admit that you have sinned. Shortcut to
forgiveness is by falling on your face and admitting
that sin and not giving any excuses. You know all the
sins and the adulterous lifestyle that the King David
lived, why the bible says, he is a man of the God’s own
heart? Because Firstly, He was always willing to obey
whatever God tells him to do. Secondly, he will always
fall on his face and repent whenever his sins are
pointed out. You will never find him giving any excuses.
He was quick to repent and no justifying of his sins.
Thirdly, he loved the Lord God with all his heart.
Granted he had weakness in his flesh. The Lord saw the
pureness of his heart and that is why he said the man of
my own heart. My dearly beloved brothers and sisters,
the entrance into the throne room of God is humility. If
we cannot humble ourselves, if we always think that we
are somebody great, that we always know better than
others that is the first step keeping you far away from
the kingdom of heaven. You know if you ever meet a truly
saint man of God, who really walks with God and if you
ask them how much do you know about God and the true
saint will always say nothing. You know why every time
you get one step closer to God, you realize you know
nothing. Something new opens up to discover, when they
realize that they know nothing it brings a crushing blow
to their knowledge and then they fall on their faces ‘O
Lord give me grace to know you more, know you more, know
you more’. Have you heard of Saint Francis of Assisi. A
remarkable remarkable saint of God, next to Moses he
must be the meekest man on planet Earth. The most
meekest man on planet earth. That is how God sees him.
Next to Moses, the meekest man on planet earth. And he
was a richest man in his town. The richest man, he
surrendered everything and gave away to the poor adopted
a life of celibacy and then he went about like a
homeless man. Don’t write people off because they are
catholics. I tell you many of the catholic saints are
more Godly and Holy than the charismatic ones. You want
to say a big Amen to that. They are more Godly and more
Holy than this tongue talking spirit filled charismatic
preachers. Such a passion, such a love for the Lord
Jesus Christ. That is why many of them always had a face
to face encounter with the living God. I told you about
Mother Theresa 2 nights ago how she had such a deep walk
with God. She truly had, she had a deep walk with God.
That is why in all the people in history she was the
only one who was canonized the quickest. Heaven moved on
her behalf. I guess so. And then again a big sin has
been committed because they started praying to her. We
don’t want to do that, do you? They that wait upon the
Lord, So that you need to learn to wait upon the Lord.
So when you wait upon the Lord, the bible tells us 4
different kinds of results that will takes place. Look
at the scripture, they shall renew their strength, they
shall mount up with eagles, they shall run and not be
weary, they shall walk and not faint. Tonight I am going
to share with you what are the results that can takes
place when we wait on the Lord. So that with proper
knowledge and understanding we can properly position
ourselves with wait on the Lord and as you may enter
stage by stage from the outer chord to the holy place to
the most holy place and then beyond the most holy place
you can understand what is happening because the bible
says with knowledge make walk. So, we must know where we
are walking. Let us look at the 1st blessing ‘Renew
their strength’. Now the word renew in the original
Hebrew language is ‘exchange’. So when you wait on the
Lord, the 1st blessing that takes place in your life is
your weaknesses, your ugliness they are removed, they
are taken away from you and they are exchanged in return
for something new. Now the eagle maintains its youthful
strength till it dies to the continual process of
moulting. So every time when it feels weak, it loses its
strength, it loses its power it goes into the mountain
top and just moults by stretching forth its wings and
looking directly to the sun. It will never take its eye
from looking at the sun. It will keep on standing at the
mountain top and just stare at the sun for weeks and
weeks and weeks until it is totally renewed and its old
feathers had dropped off and new feathers grow and the
strength is reestablished. Psalm 92: 10 says, you shall
be anointed with fresh oil. When you wait upon the Lord
this is the 1st miracle that takes places. You see,
Christ likes giving energizing power flows within your
body and it flows within every fiber, every vein in your
body to invigorate, to replenish, and to strengthen the
physical body from all damage whatever that may have
been done. It is a total DNA repair work. All the cells,
this is not a spiritual miracle that is taking place, a
real physical miracle. Even the damaged cells in your
body, you talk about all the anti wrinkling cream or
anti aging cream. Don’t waste your money buying all the
cream, give it to me; I will give you better secret. You
practice waiting on God, I tell you, and you will lose
20 years of your life. This is guaranteed, if not come
and see me. You know what the secret to Moses being full
of strength is and he did not lose power in his eyesight
even when he was 120 years old. This was his secret,
waiting on God. Continuously abiding in the holy of
holies was continuously changing his body. This is what
how the Lord told me about his life. I saw him entering
into the pillar of fire and the fires of holies were
burnt through his body. The bible says, his skin was all
shining with light right? You don’t need any radiance
cream. Give me your money I am teaching you secrets. You
see, the Lord Jesus says, you are the light of the world
and the spirit of man is the candle of Lord. There is a
candle within you when you wait on the Lord, the light
that is within you will increase in brightness. It will
increase in brightness and it will keep on increasing,
increasing, increasing. One fine day the light will
pierce through your skin and shine through. This is what
the Lord Jesus taught me which I wrote in my book ‘into
his lightness, a step by step process how it is takes
place. It is possible for every ordinary believer. You
don’t have to be in full time ministry, you don’t have
to be a great saint of God. Any ordinary believer, who
practices waiting on God, can enter into the fullness of
all that God has for you. Do you believe that? For such
purpose, Jesus Christ died on the cross to give you all
the rich inheritance. So why are we living like turkeys?
Aren’t you living like that? Aren’t most people living
like turkeys? Contended with only the filth of this
world when you can soar like eagle in the heavenlies.
This is your rich call. In the year 1991, when I was
writing this book ’women are special to God’ I was
continuously writing for 12 hours everyday nonstop. For
12 hours and on the 3rd day every bone in my body was
crying in pain. The only time I take a break is the time
when I go to have the lunch or dinner and sleep for few
hours in the night. Other than that I will be sitting in
my office for 12 hours everyday and writing the book. On
the 3rd day when I felt that all the bones in my body
was going to break into pieces, I thought to myself let
me just go and lie down on the bed and rest for a while.
So I lied down, then suddenly a thought came into my
mind, why am I wasting my time lying down when I can
wait on the Lord? Because the bible says they shall
renew their strength. I have been preaching that. So
what is the use if I don’t practice what I preach?
Agreed. So I got up from my bed and I knelt down and I
just bowed and practice waiting on God for 45 minutes.
That is when I last opened my eyes I saw 45 minutes have
passed by. But the moment when I opened my eyes I never
felt any tinge of tiredness or pain in my body. It was
as if I was never exhausted in the first place. Totally
exchanged. All the tiredness, all the exhaustion totally
exchanged for brand new strength. So, don’t waste time
sleeping. Don’t waste time going on a vacation and get
more tired. Don’t you end up doing that? You get more
exhausted on a vacation than your normal life. The next
time you want to go on a vacation practice waiting on
God. You will totally be exchanged and when you come out
of your closet you will be 10 years younger. Then
remember to send me all your offerings. So this is the
first miracle that takes place. Secondly, we will skip
mount up with wings like eagles, I will keep it for the
last because that is a big topic. Now, look at the 3rd
one, they shall run and not be weary, run and not be
weary. Now, this will very specifically applied to all
the ministers who are in the auditorium to all those who
are in the ministry. Ofcourse it applies to everybody
but more specifically it applies to those who are in the
ministry. Now what does run and not be weary. So, in the
Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of the Covenant represents
waiting on God. You need to read the book ‘prayer
secrets in the tabernacle that will give you the aspect
of waiting on God that which we are not covering in this
aspect. So, the Ark of the Covenant represents waiting
on God. So in the ark there were 3 things, the golden
pot of manna, the 10 commandments, the tablets of stone,
and Aaron’s rod that budded. Those are the 3 things kept
in the ark. So, when you wait on God, so run and not be
weary from the golden pot of manna, Gods RHEMA word will
come to you. His RHEMA word will come to you. Now look
at the life of the Apostle Paul, the greatest of all the
New Testament Apostles, even upto our present times.
Acts 26:19 says, I have not been disobedient to the
heavenly vision I saw. How could he say that after so
many years, that I was not disobedient to the heavenly
vision? How is it possible? If you read Philippians 2:16
and 2 Timothy 4:8, it says, I ran the race that was set
before me, I kept my faith and I did not lose it. Since
now the Olympics is going on, this is a good time to say
a good illustration about the Olympics. In the ancient
Olympics, the runner, you know they will be running a
race holding a torch in their hand. The winner is not
necessarily is always the one who crosses the finishing
line first. The winner is he who crosses the finishing
line with the torch still burning in his hands. So, if
you cross the finishing line with no flames in your
torch, you are disqualified. You must cross the
finishing line with the torch still burning in your
hands. The Apostle Paul said, I have kept my faith, the
torch was burning, till he cross the finish line he did
not lose his faith, he did not lose focus of his call.
He did not lose sight of his vision, passion that which
God called him. So many times you get so defocused, lose
your grace, lose your anointing, lose your vision
because you get sidetrack as you are running the race.
Why? Because you turn to look to the left, you turn to
look to the right, you turn to look to the back, You
turn to look to the front but you never look right on
top. You look at everywhere around you to copy methods.
It doesn’t work like that. So many years ago, I was
preaching to a very charismatic church in Singapore. And
the Pastor of the Church is a University professor. So
after the service that morning he invited me to lunch to
a very posh country club. I felt so uneasy to walk into
the country club because everybody was nicely dressed
except me. So every face was turning and looking at me
what is this strange priest coming into a country club.
They thought the priest should not be in a country club
they should be in the country. So we sat for lunch,
while we were eating, this professor asked me a
question. He asked how you relax. I said I relax by
waiting on God. He said, I know you wait on God but how
do you really relax? I said yes pastor; I relax by
waiting on God. He said yeah, that is what the bible
says, how do you really relax, relax? I must honestly
confess, I really did not know the meaning of the
question. Because how can it be so strange to say I am
waiting on God. So then I turned and asked before I
could answer him the third time to understand his
question, So, Pastor how do you relax? He said, Oh, I
come thrice a week and play Golf in this club. Ah I see,
no wonder you are so defocused. I told him that. No
wonder you do not know what is happening in your church.
No wonder you need to invite me and tell you what is God
thinking about your church. My dearly beloved ministers
of God, you have been called to serve the Almighty God,
not serve an organization. If you believe that Jesus
Christ is your boss, then you must get guidance and
counsel from your own boss not from your own plans. You
don’t make your own plans. You know at the end, at the
beginning of every year I always fast for 40 days and
ask the Lord what the Lord wants me to do for this year
and the blueprints or the plans that he gives me is what
then I do for the rest of the year. So, even when the
Lord give me that for 3 times, I fasted for 40 days. 3
times, seeking clearly from God, how to do this work.
See, there are so many Christian TV stations in the US
and in Europe. When God calls us to do something it is
not to duplicate what something else already exists. So,
if God wants to duplicate, why God need you? He doesn’t
need you. He can call that same man and do that work.
Each one of you has a specific call on your life. Don’t
run to the east, don’t run to the west, don’t run to the
north, and don’t run to the south to look for what you
can copy. Lift up your up your eyes and look to where
your help comes from the hills from above. From above
you will get your plans. Look at Exodus 25:40, where all
the blueprint of the making of the tabernacle was given
to Moses. Such a thing never existed before and if you
read 1 Chronicles 28:12, King David received the
blueprint to built Solomon a temple for God. It was King
David who received the blueprint not Solomon. But God
did not allow King David to build the temple but it was
Solomon who built the temple. It was the Father who
received the blueprint from God and he gave to the son
and does it. You know in heaven, our dear brother Keith
Davis has written a very good book called ‘Book of
destiny’. They gave me a copy this morning and I was
reading the 1st few chapters. It’s a wonderful book.
Don’t leave this conference without that book. And in
which he talks about the treasure houses in heaven, the
library in heaven where many many books are kept. I want
to tell you, among the many books that are kept in
heaven, there is also on big room or a big Jaw where
blueprints for ministries, for churches, for
individual’s life kept there. Even if God wants you to
build a building, church building or whatever building,
even the architectural blue prints are all kept there.
When you wait on God, the Angels will bring those
blueprints and give it to you. A few months ago when I
was once fasting and praying for the TV channel God
wants me to do, an Angel of the Lord appeared to me and
he had a scroll in his hand and he gave me the scroll
and he said take a look. And I opened the scroll; it was
an architectural blueprints how I should construct our
studio. Every dimension, how the entire building should
look like. All the architectural draughtsman, like a
draughtsman who draw it like the exact last iota it was
shown to me. So it was all are kept there waiting for
the people of God to come and take it. If you will go
about doing something that is not according to God’s
perfect will for you in heaven, at the end of your life
if you come and stand before him, be careful, you may
hear him saying, I do not know who you are or he may say
Did I ask you to do all that? I did not ask you to do
all this. I did not ask you to go to China, I did not
ask you to go to India, and did I ask you to do that?
No. You wanted to go, you wanted to go that is your
desire, did I ask you to do that? One of the Godliest,
saintliest man that ever lived in the US or the US has
produced is Brother Kenneth Haggin. One of his books I
read that once the Lord appeared to him in the 50s and
this was about 16 years after he was pasturing a church.
The Lord Jesus told him, now you are going to enter into
the first phase of my ministry for you. He was so
shocked, he looked at the Lord Jesus and said, what do
you mean first phase? What about the 16 years that I
did? The Lord Jesus had that smile and he said, I did
not ask you to pastor a church. You know when I first
read that 20 – 25 years ago, I was shocked, I put down
the book afraid to continue any further. For more than
an hour I just sat on my chair pondered deeply over and
over again 16 years of hard work and the Lord Jesus
Christ said, I did not ask you to do all this, you
wanted to pastor a Church, I did not ask you to do that,
it is never in my record. All you pastors, you know it
is never easy to pastor a church, big headache. I always
thank God I am not a pastor but I have great love for
all pastors because they carry so much of pain in their
heart, so much of pain, so much of brokenness. It is not
easy you know. It is easy to criticize a pastor but you
will never know the brokenness they go through before
the throne of God. The Lord has allowed me to see many
many times the hearts of pastors. I have seen them
broken and bleeding. They may be good or bad or ugly but
they are the best that God has given to you. Your pastor
may not be the perfect one he is the best God has given
to you. If you think he is not perfect heaven think that
you are not perfect. So the score is even right? So, I
was so shocked when I read that. The Lord said 16 years
of ministry is not in my records, I have not entered
into my record at all. Only now when you are going into
itinerant ministry this is the beginning of my perfect
will for you. So that reinforced further that I must not
make a mistake. SO that was the good reading I got early
in my ministry so that I don’t have to regret after 25
years. This is the reason why I emphasize so much about
praying and seeking the will of God. I have never done
in my ministry; I am not bragging please I am just
saying it as a testimony. I never do anything in my
ministry without the express perfect will and revelation
of God. I don’t want to be famous, I don’t wish to be
well known, I never asked for all these. I will rather
be well known in heaven than be unknown in heaven. So,
that is my ultimate goal. That should be your ultimate
goal. At the end of the day, the world is not going to
give you a Gold medal. You are going to stand before the
king of kings and the Lord of Lords and he will ask you
what have you done? And what will you say on that day?
All your degrees, your PhD 1,2& 3 whichever it is you
cannot bring it upto heaven, they don’t recognize it.
The only thing recognizable is the fruit of the Spirit.
That is the ultimate test. Not the great millions of
souls that you are going to bring to heaven. No no no.
Please remember the statement I have made earlier, where
you will be in the rems in heaven depends on how Godly
life you live on this earth. I was once praying with a
prophet friend of mine, a very very saintly prophet of
God. We were praying and I was caught up in the spirit
in a vision and I was standing in a certain place in
heaven and one of the elders in heaven came to talk to
me and on the other end where we was standing in heaven,
I saw another group of saints, they were just mingling
among themselves and having a fellowship among
themselves. So, this prophet friend of mine was just
standing a little distance between me and this elder and
the elder began to talk to me and said, he talked to me
about protocol in heaven. How there is a protocol in
heaven? The elders, then the brothers, then friends,
different different protocol in heaven and after seeing
all that, he pointed out at this prophet friend of mine
and he said, we are so happy that your friend has been
promoted to walk with the elders in heaven. So, hearing
that I was so overjoyed. So, only then I understood
something else about promotion in heaven how you can
walk in different rem or different glory in heaven. Even
among the saints and the believers in heaven, they are
divided according to the amount of Glory and the
holiness that you have developed on this earth before
you go into heaven. There is no more growth up there. We
are not going to conduct any crusade up in heaven, who
wants to get saved there? Everybody is saved. You are
not going to conduct a healing crusade because everybody
are well and hold. You are not going to conduct any
teaching conference because the word himself is there
and you shall know all things as you are known. Now this
is a mystery which we don’t have time to go deeper into
what it really means and you shall know as you are
known. Many many wonderful things God has kept in store
for his people but look what are we contended with,
fighting among ourselves, fighting for credit card
payments, fighting for a mortgage payment, fighting
husband’s and wife divorcing one another, young people
sleeping around with one another and you gave problems
in the church, you gave problems outside the world. Look
at all these mess and we get ourselves tangled with. The
bible says, a soldier who is in a war should not get
himself entangled with the affairs of this world. We are
pilgrims. This world is not your real world. We are
pilgrims so why are you living a life as if this world
is your permanent home. Why? You have no eternity in
your heart. Suddenly when you close your eyes, now
remember one thing, death does not send you an email
before it comes. You know about 2 weeks ago, one of the
widows that we were supporting in India suddenly died
and I was very grieved in my heart. This widow is the
mother of my closest associate in India and she was a
widow for 20 – 30 years. Suddenly she died because an
infected dog bit her so she died. Nothing we can do
about it. Now last night after the meeting, when I went
back home I was so blessed by Sister Hady, so I knelt
down and prayed for her and thanked to God for this
precious life. As I was thanking God 2 angelic beans
appeared before me and one of them gave me a message of
another aspect of a blue print that was revealed to me
concerning what I should do next year in Tibet, then
there was another Angelic bean and he told me, you know
that women she has gone to hell, a Christian, she has
gone to hell. She never entered into the kingdom of
heaven. All her life, I know this woman very well.
Whenever she comes to collect the little offering that
we give her, I always tell her, put your life right, and
don’t seek the things of this world. Seek after the
things of God. You know you are already advancing in
age. Who knows how long you will live? The remaining
years of your life, live unto God, live unto holiness
for God. She will just smile the same kind of smile you
know. But today see what happened, I was so grieved when
I heard that last night I was so grieved and there came
such a pain my heart because the way that the Angel told
me, he expressed that grief that pain in his own heart.
The only thing that short was the Angel weeping and
crying. He came so close to that when he said about that
woman. My dear brothers and sisters, where you will go
in the next world is determined by you in this world.
You can enter into outer darkness or you can enter into
the kingdom of righteousness. Even if you enter into the
kingdom of righteousness, you can stand at the fringes
at the kingdom of righteousness or enter into the most
holy of holies into the vastness of the glories. Look at
your hands please. Look at your hands and you say, in
these hands I have that power. You have the power to
decide. That’s why the bible says, in Colossians 3: 1-3,
Seek those things that are above. Do not put your heart
on the treasures of this world. Don’t put your heart on
this world. All the treasures, all the riches, all the
wealth god gives you are not for you to hold on to. God
gives you to give it away. If you don’t give it away you
will become Dead Sea. If you give it away you become
rivers of living waters and the more God treasures you
to bless others. You know early in my ministry the Lord
taught me to give the tithe of the tithes to other
poorer ministries. So 10% of our total income or even
15% of out total income I set aside and give it to other
poorer ministries. Even now we are raising 15 million
dollars for the TV channel that we are going to do, the
Lord told me, even before day1 we started raising the
fund he said, remember the poor. I will bless you but
remember the poor. So every time we get after in every
meeting we raise a fund as soon as I go back to office,
as soon as we send out all the receipts to all of you, I
will tell my staff, take 15% of it and give to other
poorer ministries. This is something I have been
practicing for the last 25 years of our ministry and all
these 25 years I have never entered into any debt. No
debt because I don’t believe in going into debt. If god
gives we will do, if he doesn’t gives praise the Lord.
Why should I do things out of my flesh? God is still
Jehovah-Jireh. He can give right? So, when you wait on
God, God can open the eyes of your understanding and
reveal to you his plans for your ministry, his plans for
your church, and his plans for your life. Several years
ago, a Pastor friend of mine came and asked me to pray
with him. I said, alright pastor, what I can agree with
you in prayer. He told me, his church has been so dry
averaging 80 members for the last 10 years. So he felt
that he must do something to increase the membership. I
said that is a very noble quest, so what do you intend
to do? He said, I want to go to Toronto and Pensacola
and study the secrets to church growth and revival in
all those places. So next week, he came to see me on a
Saturday, so the following Monday, he was going to fly
to Toronto first, spend a week there study all the
techniques that made Toronto a success and then fly to
Pensacola and learn the methods there what made
Pensacola so successful and then come back home to apply
all the methods to make his church successful. I said,
alright Pastor, so we knelt down to pray, As we knelt
down, the Lord Jesus Christ came and told me, tell him
for his church to grow he doesn’t need to go to Toronto
or to Pensacola, ask him to wait at my feet. If he waits
at my feet I will give him my plans for his church that
it can become a success. What works for Pensacola will
not work for you, what works for Toronto will not work
for you. Remember please, you cannot duplicate methods,
you can duplicate principles but you cannot duplicate
methods. So, the word was given to the Pastor, when the
Prayer was finished, the Pastor got up he looked at me
and said, Thank you brother for the Prayer. I will see
you after 2 weeks after I came back from Pensacola. I
couldn’t believe my ears. Nevertheless I kept my opinion
to myself. You know this is none of my business to tell
him what I feel. That is not my business. So he went
back and had a good vacation in Toronto and a good
vacation in Pensacola and he came back to his Church and
he was so excited to implement all the strategies. After
3 months he was kicked out from the Church. Why? It all
failed. It all failed. He was forcibly kicked out of the
Church and his Church board invited me to be a mediator
to that ceremony. So, how can I take sides right? So, I
tried to be objective as possible and I listened to the
Church board’s point of view and I listened to the
Pastor’s point of view, I said this is the best
solution. Today the same Pastor, he has got a PhD degree
in Theology, divinity, ministry all the things has only
10 members in his Church. And half the Church members
are his relatives. See what is the problem? The problem
is you are running to the east, to the west, to the
north, to the south except above. Why it is so
difficult? Why it is so difficult? He who call you is
faithful. You are not serving me, you are not serving
yourself, you are not serving your Church board, you are
not serving your denomination, and you are not serving
even the church that employs you. Dear ministers of God
don’t be bought by money. If God tells you to do
something, don’t let your Church board dictate to you
what you should do, what you should not do. I have good
givers, some people regularly gives to our ministry. But
I always tell all our partners, nobody can buy me. I
thank you for your giving but if you think you can buy
me to prophesy to you just because you give me 10000
dollars or 100000 dollars, it won’t work. I will rather
return your money to you. Last year when we were raising
funds for TV ministry one lady in St.Louis gave me a
cheque of 100000 dollars and she said please pray I am
going through a serious problem, I would like to hear a
word from the Lord. I said Ok sister let us pray. So I
prayed after receiving that cheque, so I prayed, Lord
Jesus bless this dear woman for her generous heart.
Amen! She said ‘no word’. I said ‘no word’ Do you want
your cheque back? I came into this world with nothing
and if I have nothing it doesn’t bother me. I said, do
you want it back? She didn’t say but this year when she
was at that meeting in St. Louis, on the final afternoon
I was preaching, the Lord Jesus came, he pointed a
finger at that woman and he said ‘tell her this words’
(Pastor Lenny Baba is sitting there he is a witness to
all these words I am telling you,) he pointed a finger
and he gave her a wonderful word. She was at the lowest
point of her life in her ministry, that word totally
boosted up her faith, encouraged her soul, you know
after the meeting she came and she hugged and cried and
cried saying what a word it was, it was a healing bomb
to the broken heart. See God knows your heart. Amen! So
when you wait on God, he can give you the blueprints
that can be a guiding beacon for you to be successful in
the works that you do for the living God. Please
remember dear ministers of God, success in the ministry
are not how big the church you have. Success is doing
the perfect will of God. You know sometimes it is so
fashionable today when ministers in a pastor’s
fellowship they meet each other they will ask, how many
numbers are there in your church? Do you have this
disease her? You do? You see this is a worldwide
problem. They will ask how big your Church is. How big
is your Congregation? Tell them next time you are not
living in the book of Numbers but you live in the book
of Acts. Those who want to live in the Old Testament let
it be. You are living in exciting times in the book of
Acts. Amen! The third blessing you get after waiting on
God is ‘They shall walk and not faint’. They shall walk
and not faint – what does that mean? Isaiah 40:20 says,
God gives strength to the faint hearted. Those who are
discouraged, those who are about to give up, those who
are about to throw up their hands and throw up their
ministry and faint, resign their ministry, go back to
the world, psychological world, God gives strength. Now,
the 2nd thing that is in the Ark of the Covenant is the
stones – the tablet of stone. What is that? That is the
logos word of God, the written word of God. When you are
waiting on God, God can give you a word from the written
word that will strengthen your heart, that would enable
you to keep on walking and walking and walking and you
will not faint. When I was saved in June 1978, I tried
to keep my faith hidden from my family because my father
was a Hindu priest but I was caught and went to little
persecutions and then in 1979, after my baptism in March
1979, the Lord called me to the ministry. So I was so
afraid to go and tell my parents that God is calling me
to the ministry because I had build up all the
aspirations and their hope that I am going to become a
neurosurgeon. It is a big thing in the Indian families
for their son to become a Lawyer or an Engineer or a
Doctor. So I personally had that ambition to be a
neurosurgeon and when the Lord called me to the ministry
I was so afraid to tell them not knowing what is going
to happen. So finally when I broke the news all hell,
not even all hell, all that is within hell they broke
loose. My father was so mad at me and he shouted at me
and said I will not give you a single cent for what you
are going to do. So, I said alright, what else to do.
So, I went into my bedroom, I sat on my bed, almost at
the verge of weeping, now I need to go to a bible school
for some kind of training how to be a minister and I
have no money what to do now? So I was just lying on my
bed and reading the bible and I was reading Matthew 6.
When I came to verse 25, look at the birds in the air,
when I read that scripture, I saw a hand coming down
from heaven, a real hand came down and wrote verse 25
upto verses 33 in my heart. I really felt. If you take
your finger and write something on your heart how do you
feel that? I literally felt a hand writing all those 10
scriptures in my heart. When it reached the verse 33
every single thought for worry disappeared from my mind.
That is 1979 now it is 2004; I never know what it is to
worry for food, for clothes or for my personal need. I
do not know what it means because it is not inside me
anymore. If I don’t have I say alright praise the Lord,
God will give. I never stood in any pulpit in the 45
nations that I have been around the world and ever told
anybody my personal needs, never. This is a covenant I
made with the Lord when I accepted God’s call to serve
him full time. I said I will never open my mouth and
mention to anybody my personal needs. I will never do
that. Since it is your idea that I serve you resigning
my work from been a high school teacher, it was not my
idea, it was his idea. So therefore you are responsible
to take care of me. So the Lord said, Ok fine, no big
deal. Till today he has been faithful and true to his
part of the deal of the covenant and I have been true to
my part of the deal. So whenever I have a need, I don’t
have any medical insurance, sometimes some kinds of
sickness develop in my body, I just kneel down and pray.
I say Lord Jesus, this is your body, you are not paying
me a salary for me to buy a medical insurance, you don’t
do that, although the school I worked for did all that,
you don’t do that. So therefore if you think you need
this body heal it . This is how I always pray. If you
don’t want to heal it then why should I spend money for
medicines? Why? If the Lord has determined I doesn’t
need this body anymore why should I make this body well
and hold. So it is time to let this body down to the
ground. So, suddenly the Lord will think that is right,
we still need this body for some time, so let me
instantly heal this body right now. Instantly, I am not
exaggerating anything you know. I am just telling you
very frankly, very honestly the life that I live. Not a
single penny that people donate to our ministry goes
into my pocket. Not a single penny. Every cent is
professionally audited by charted accountants in all our
officers around the world. I don’t take a single cent
from the ministry. Till today I live by the grace of
God. That is the personal covenant I was made. It is not
wrong to get a salary but that is the covenant that
made. So, when you wait upon the Lord, God will bring
the word to you that will strengthen you, that will give
you a boost and you can keep on walking and walking and
walking and you will not faint, you will not
discouraged. Why are so many ministers getting
discouraged suffering burned out and retiring from the
ministry? Do you know that there is no such thing as
retirement? If you ever want to retire that is the day
you are going home to heaven. Sometimes it fascinates me
you know how is it the people can retire from the
ministry? When I read it in the American magazine it
always fascinates me, what do you mean I retire from
serving God? Do you understand brother? I cannot
understand it at all. S, which means God did not call
you. You just applied for a job. You applied for a job
and the job pays you a salary and when you reach 65
years old the job says you now retire and go on a
vacation to Bahamas which means God did not need you in
the first place. Can you imagine what will be the faith
of such a minister stands before the throne of Christ?
He will say, I do not know who you are. Who are you?
Your name is not in my book. There are many many books
in heaven. I have seen the martyrs’ role of honor. All
the martyrs beautifully they have signed in the
parchment scroll. Every martyr. There are many of the
books in heaven. Your name will not be there who are
you? I do not know who you are. My dearly beloved
brothers and sisters, but God is a good God, very good
God. He has made all provision for you. There should
never been such a thing called burn out whether you are
in the ministry or not in the ministry. There is no such
this as this thing called a burn out. If you are
continually renewed and renewed and renewed where can
there be such a thing called a burn out? I honestly do
not know the meaning of the word burn out in my life. I
don’t know. The vacation that I always take is waiting
on God. I have never ever gone on what you people call
vacation. The only vacation that I take whenever I get
an off day or a free day I always fast and pray and wait
on God. Maybe you may call me boring. But you know the
moment I close my eyes I am somewhere else. I am
actually on a real vacation. You tell me one thing if
you get the privilege to talk with Michael and Gabriel
and all the saints in heaven what will you exchange that
for? Tell me what will you exchange that for? Each time
you close your eyes and the Lord Jesus Christ comes and
stands before you and then when you intercede just
looking at his face for all the people who write to you
what is that you can exchange it for tell me. There is
nothing you can give me that I can exchange this all for
that. You know early in my ministry I was a little
ignorant about all that I was quite envious of other
ministers who are comfortable with a married life,
children and a fine houses they have and I am here
celibate accepted the call of the Lord and no home, no
property, nothing to my name and just if I have to sleep
on the streets that is my home, sometimes I don’t even
know what address I give to people when they ask me
where do you live. So, one day when a few minutes I
began to talking like this I began to feel what a
pitiful state I am in? At the end of the day there is no
home for me to go to and there is no wife, no kids, even
if there is no wife that is not a problem but at least
some loving nice kids. You know children are Angels,
don’t you agree? Sweet adorable Angels. I said what a
miserable my life is!! I felt like this you know. Now,
the Lord came and told me you have sinned in your heart
today I said what is it? Self pity. So I fell on my face
and I repented before God, please forgive me Lord, and
Please forgive me. Then the Lord Jesus came and said,
stand up to your feet, I stood up and he said because
you have left your physical home, see what I have for
you in heaven. When he said, the heavens opened and I
saw the place that God has for me to dwell in. He said
look and then its just like the encounter between Job
and God you know. He said because you gave up your
father and mother and just followed me on the streets, I
have become your father and your mother and because you
gave up your relatives, your sisters and your brothers
and your friends to follow me look what I have given to
you. And all the special Angels that they are appointed
to look after me and all the wonderful saints in heaven
I have given you such a precious gift to commune with
them that which so many other people are deeply desires
what more do you want. What will you answer him? So I
just fell on my face and repented again, Lord please
forgive me for my foolishness, I didn’t know what great
riches you have preserved for me Lord. So there is
nothing in this world you can exchange for the riches
God has preserved for you. Probably your eyes may not
see that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. They are all
there. I know one precious family in Cincinnati, Ohio,
they are great givers. Once, the carpet in their living
room all faded, worn out and torn and holes all over. So
their children felt so embarrassed for them. So, I think
the eldest daughter in law gave some money to buy a
brand new carpet for the living room. So they were about
to go to buy a carpet. Suddenly they received a call
from a missionary in Romania and the missionary went on
to say how much they praying to God for finances to
built a house for all the orphans there. Immediately the
lady, instead of going to the shopping mall to buy a
carpet went to the bank to transfer the money their
daughter gave for carpet to Romania. They said we are
too old, why do we need a carpet, if people don’t want
to come to our house for the carpet, fine so be it. So,
one day I was praying for them, as I was praying for
them I was taken upto heaven. When I was in heaven, the
Lord Jesus said, come with me, let us go for a walk. So
we were walking down in the golden streets in heaven and
then we were passing by several houses. He said this
house belongs to that person, that house belongs to that
person he was introducing me one by one. Then we came to
one particular house. He said this house belongs to the
people with whom you were staying in Cincinnati. I said
that is very nice Lord, when I took a very close look at
that house, you know in this world we make house with
bricks after bricks right? But in heaven the houses are
not made with bricks but they are made of precious
stones. One stone above another stone above another,
different different kinds of precious stones Sapphire,
rubies what else do you have? Ok, all those things, all
were made up into a huge house. Then the Lord Jesus
pointed to one particular precious stone he said this –
(Before I tell you that, do you like to hear? You know
all the stones that make up your house is a
representation of your sacrifice. Whatever you sacrifice
on this earth they are translated as spiritual
substances of a precious stones in heaven. So, let us
see for example, you are giving sacrificially that gift
you give, I heard pastor Sweet said that they had to
take a loan for 5400 dollars to give to this ministry,
and this is a sacrifice. That act is translated into a
precious stone in heaven in your house). So the Lord
pointed to one particular stone, this stone represents
the money they gave for the carpet to the missionary. It
was an exquisite precious stone. And that family, the
couple that I am talking to you they live a sacrificial
life. They live a sacrificial life. So, if you are going
to withheld your giving when you go up there you may be
homeless. A good place to shout hallelujah! And remember
there is no welfare system in heaven. So if you are
homeless - rebate. We have seen the three results that
can take place when you wait upon the Lord. Now the
final result, ‘they shall mount up with wings like
eagles’. Now what does it mean to mount up with wings
like eagles? It means deep spiritual experiences. That
is what it means; mount up with wings like eagles. Now
let me tell you one truth before we proceed any further.
This phrase or this scripture does not talk figuratively
about anything; it literally means what it says.
Mounting up with wings like eagles, you will actually
mount up with wings like an eagle; you know when the
eagle reaches its weaker state and then it goes into
this molting period; it loses all its strength, it
cannot walk anymore; it will just fix in a position; all
the feathers are fallen off from its body, it is a naked
ugly bird and it cannot move anywhere; so, how it is
going to survive the molting process if it is not going
to eat food. So, during the period of molting other
older eagles that have gone through the molting
experience will fly around and congregate near the eagle
that go through the molting period will bring them food.
So the eagles bring them food to eat whereby the eagles
that are going through the molting experience eat the
food that is brought by the other eagles and they are
encouraged and strengthened to complete the molting
experience. Likewise when you wait on the Lord, God
sends his other older eagles to come and feed you. Let
me give you 2 biblical proofs for that how can get
supernatural visitations. In 1 Kings 19:4-8, you see
when Elijah was waiting on God, an Angel came and
brought him food to eat and in Matthew 4:11 it is
written at the end of the 40 days of the fast Jesus went
through, Angels came and ministered unto him. See, you
are so hungry, so tired when you didn’t eat food and
water for 40 days and 40 nights. You know your body is
almost to a point of parallelism, you cannot move
anywhere, and you are so weak, worn out almost dead. The
Angels came, brought food and water and ministered to
the Lord Jesus Christ. In the year 1984, I was
ministering to the villages in South India; so one day
Jesus Christ told me I have got a special work for you
to do, I want you to fast for 7 days. Don’t eat any
food, no tea, no coffee only drink milk once a day at
the end of the day. I said alright Lord, the whole day I
only slept for only 3 or 4 hours every night. The whole
day I will be just waiting on God, fasting and praying
in tongues, meditating the word. On the 4th day, the
Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me and he said ‘Are you
feeling hungry’? I said how I can feel hungry when I am
fasting. He just smiled at me -Good smile – and he said
I have brought food for me. When he said that he
stretched out his hand and a plate appeared in his hand
and there was some rice and some curry – have you eaten
curry? See, spiritual food – and the Lord Jesus said, I
have brought this for you and I said Lord Jesus how can
I eat that? I am fasting. You see how stupid when all
can be when the creator is standing there before you and
he looked at me, you know I saw the face of the Lord
Jesus such a tender love like a loving mother, like a
mother who is so concerned for her son who is not eaten
food for so many days. That was the look I saw on the
face of the Lord Jesus. He came and sat beside me and he
said ‘Let me feed you’. You know I remember the scene
how my mother used to feed me when I was a small little
boy. He took a scoop of the rice in his hand tenderly
and loving he said open your mouth now and he fed me.
When the food came into my mouth I literally, physically
felt the food in my mouth, I could chew it but it was
spiritual food and I finished the whole food and he said
now you take a good rest and I will see you tomorrow and
the Lord Jesus disappeared and I slept. Then the next
day he came brought another kind of food, you know from
the 4th day, 5th, 6th and 7th day every dish that he
brought was something that looked n the natural to be my
favorite dishes. How in the world he knew. All the 3
days you know like a tender loving mother, he sat beside
and feed me and he say Eat it, eat and he never told me
the significance of the food. He never said anything he
just said eat and I ate. On the 7th day and then he
said, now I have strengthened you for 3 days for a very
big demon that you encounter, I want you to go and set
this family free that have been troubled by this demon.
Thousands of demons came to attack me that was attacking
that family. So to battle those demons the Lord came and
gave me food to strengthen the body so that to verge a
warfare against all those demonic forces. See those
foods that the Lord gives you, that is not food but that
is an impartation of authority and impartation of grace
that will strengthen you to verge the good warfare that
you need to fight. So when you are going through the
waiting period when you wait on the Lord you will be
fed. There was a other time when I was waiting on the
Lord, the Lord Jesus came, he cad a small cup which
looked like grape vine and he had a small plate that
looked something like a flesh. He said ‘kneel down right
now’. See, there is protocol how you should appear
before God and every time the Lord Jesus Christ came,
whenever it is going to be something very important he
will say ‘kneel down now’. See, although you can sit
down and pray, walk and pray, today in Americans it is
so fashionable that you lie and pray. I don’t know from
where you learn all these, certainly not from heaven
because I have never seen any heavenly beans doing like
that in heaven. They lie down and saying that I am
drinking the Holy Spirit. I am sorry. Am I hurting you?
Am I insulting you? But Am I pinching you? Yes. So he
said, kneel down and he said ‘I have brought you my
blood and my flesh’ and I received communion from the
Lord himself, his very blood, his very flesh. Quite
regularly in my life I used to have this experience. The
Lord will come and serve me his very own flesh and it
really tastes like blood and flesh. Then the scriptures
in John 6 became very meaningful and very real to me. It
says he who drinks my blood that is what the Lord said
right? He who drinks my blood and eats my flesh – No,
all our old theology tells you it is figurative
language, who told you that? Not Jesus Christ, they are
as real as how he spoke it. If he says my blood, it is
my blood; it is not grapevine representing his blood.
You know let me tell you a very very mysterious things
that takes place when you godly partake the Lord’s
Supper. When it enters into your body, the spirit
receives it as the very blood of Lord Jesus Christ. When
you partake the bread, when it goes into your body
becomes the very flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is
the mystery in the Lord’s Supper that is why the
scriptures admonish us ‘Be careful how you partake it,
don’t partake it unworthily’. If it is just bread and
grape juice what is so unworthily about all that? Why
will you die prematurely? Why would you sick? Why would
you have to suffer if it is just bread and grape juice?
Why? Because it is the very blood of Jesus and the very
flesh of Jesus Christ, that is why ‘Come with trembling
and fear and receive it’ because it is not an ordinary
thing. Please remember this the next time you partake
the Lord in your Church. Don’t take it playfully; Don’t
take it unworthily; you are the handling the very
eternal life. Eternal life represented in 2 things, the
blood and the flesh. Now, mount up with wings like
eagles, once in the year 1984, I am always going back to
the year 1984 because that was the year I had really
breakthrough in all the spiritual experiences. So, I am
always bringing you back to the beginning how I had the
first experience so that you can learn and find some
similarity of principles. So one midnight, I just bowed
my head in prayer, waiting on God and I said Lord, now I
have come to wait for you. As soon as I closed my eyes
deep within me I heard the sound of flapping of wings of
a bird, I turned to my left, I turned to my right to see
where it was coming from. It was not coming from
anywhere outside but deep within me I could literally
hear, have you ever heard the flapping of wings? It was
as real and tangible and audible like that. So when it
began to flap I quieted and all that is within me into
oneness and the next moment my spirit came out of my
body and I turned back and I saw my body still bowed
down in the prayer position and my spirit stood up and
as soon as I stood up, from my back 2 gigantic wings
just stretched out. It was as real as a real eagle’s
wings. Have you seen an eagle’s wing? You know, science
tells us eagle’s wings can stretch from anywhere 6.5
feet to 8 feet in length and that was exactly how long I
saw those wings. It was really like a real eagle’s
feathers. When I saw that for the first time I just
opened my mouth and said ‘My God!’ Isaiah 40:31 is real.
It is not figurative anymore. It is real real and when
the wings stretched out I flapped, when it flapped I
flew above the house in which I was flew across the town
and entered into someone’s house – not trespassing you
know. I entered into the house and there was another
Angel already there, he said stand here and see and
there was the occupant in the house who was sinning in
secret and he thought nobody was watching. Don’t you
ever think that nobody is watching? Next time when you
are alone, think of this story and I saw that and the
Angel was watching. Our job was to pray and to help the
person sinning to overcome the sin. So your will then
comes into question – to whom you will sight whether the
prayers that are prayed for you or the impetrations that
heaven is sending to you not to sin or your flesh pulls
you and you want to sin and that man ended sinning. On
the judgment day we will stand witness against him that
he did sin. So it is real that you flap up with wings
like eagle and that is the experience that sticks you up
to the heavenly rem. Now let me tell you something, if
you read Deuteronomy 32:11, it says when the eagle stirs
up its nest and teaches the young to fly so does the
Lord take you. You know the mother eagle teaches the
baby eagle to fly like this. When the baby eagles are
small and ready to fly the mother eagle will carry the
baby on her body and fly high up into the sky and the
mother fly high up into the sky and the little bird
enjoys the first flight then when it is up in the sky it
will just flip over and the little bird will drop fast
at great speed to the ground and the mother bird will
just be watching what the baby will do and the baby
doesn’t know how to flap its wings to fly. Just before
it can hit the ground the mother comes sweeping and the
little one will sigh ‘praise the Lord’. And the mother
carries the little one and all danger is gone and the
little one is so happy and the mother assures saying
that ‘mommy still loves you, mommy has never forsaken
you’ and it flies and flies and goes up again and flips
over and this process is repeated and repeated until the
little one learns how to fly. Now this is exactly how
the Lord Jesus Christ also does. When you are first
learning how to wait on the God, when you stretch out
your wings, see all these will never take place over
night; it takes weeks and weeks because the real art
comes how you can still all that is within you. I tell
you one truth if you never forget this conference for
the rest of your life if you learn to practice it. The
day the spiritual world opens to you, you are going to
thank me for the rest of your life for teaching you this
food because it is a marvelous marvelous beautiful world
when you step over the other side. Shall I continue? So
the Lord Jesus Christ will come and carry you, the Holy
Spirit will come and lift you up in the spirit and bring
you to places. If you read Ezekiel 8:3 and Ezekiel 11: 1
& 24 this 3 scriptures tells us, Ezekiel was praying and
waiting and he says a hand from heaven came, caught him
and lifted him up and took him. So Ezekiel’s experience
was always been carried by the Holy Spirit. Carried by
the Lord and he was taken into the temple. He was taken
as spirit into the temple and he saw the priests of the
temple sinning in the secret. Have you read that? Read
the book of Ezekiel and you see, now that is the early
stage of the eagles like. When you mature, when you
become well experienced in the art of waiting on God
then you hear a voice saying, ‘Come up’, then you know
how to fly yourself and this was the experience John the
revelator had. If you read Revelation 4:1, he hears a
voice saying ‘Come up’, you will never find him saying
the hand of the Lord came and lifted me up. No. John was
a very matured believer exile in the island of Pathmos
and all his life he was practicing waiting on God- Very
matured experience. Now when mounting up with wings like
eagles is a translational experience in the spirit. You
are translated in the spirit. Let me reveal to you a
mystery that took place in the Bible. You read in the
Bible that Moses was fasted for 40 days and 40 night’s
right? He went up to the mountain, the bible tells us in
Exodus 24:15 upto 25:8, he was in the mount waiting on
God and the Glory of God came. Now what actually
happened on that day? This was what the Lord Jesus
Christ when he appeared as an eagle to me 2 days ago
revealed to me what happened on that day. When Moses was
waiting on the mountain, when the clouds of God’s glory
came and covered him; on the 7th day he was translated
to heaven; he was translated to heaven and he was shown
the pattern of things in heaven that he should make on
this earth. That was how it happened that is why the
bible keeps on saying, As you saw the things in heaven
in Hebrews 8:5, as according to the patterns that were
shown to you in heaven, now you do it. And in Revelation
11:19, you will read about the Ark of the covenant and
in Revelation 6:9, you will read about the big altar of
sacrifice of all the Martyr souls and in Revelation 8
you will read about the Altar of incense and in
Revelation 22:1 you will read about the river of life
that is the level of washing. So everything is in heaven
was given to Moses, he was taken there, he was
translated there, in a little while I will explain how
the translation takes place. He was translated there yet
he was in the mountain, how this was possible? He was in
the mountain also he was in heaven, it’s difficult to
explain this you know, it’s difficult to explain. It is
something you must experience to yourself for you to
know what it means. This very afternoon I had this
experience, one moment I was bowed in my hotel room, the
next moment just with in a snap of a finger I was
somewhere else and I was shown something that was coming
against our ministry. But the first impression I thought
in my mind was how did I get here and I should come back
because I am preaching tonight. Those are the initial
things that went on in my mind you know. Ok then I saw
all that I need to see after that I just opened my eyes
I was back in my room. I was out I was in. It is a
supernatural thing this translation. So when Moses was
in the Mount waiting on God, the next moment he was
translated surrounded with the eternal glories in heaven
- instantaneous translation. That is why the Apostle
Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12:1-4, whether I was in the
body or out of body I don’t know. See, it was real body.
But what the experience I had this afternoon I know, I
had a bodily translation, I was not in the spirit that I
know the differences. See there is a big difference
between translated in the Spirit and translated in the
soul and translated in the body. They are
distinguishable, all the experiences are different you
know. So Moses was bodily translated in heaven, John was
bodily translated in heaven, they all have this
experience – bodily translated and Paul had this
experience. Paul had 2 kinds of experience, in the first
experience he was caught up to paradise; in the 2nd
experience he was caught up to the 3rd heaven. They are
not the same, if you read 2 Corinthians 12:1-4 very
carefully you will find him explaining 2 experiences and
in the 1st instance he was in the Spirit not in the body
and in the 2nd instance he was in the body. It was quite
confused – what am I now? Spirit or body? If its real
body how did all the molecules got translated? Have you
seen star trek movies ‘Beam me up Scotty’? All the
molecules disintegrate and they form against somewhere
else right? It is not how it is in the real world. You
don’t even see the disintegration. They are here they
are gone, and they appear. My dearly beloved brothers
and sisters, how does this translational experience take
place? How are you translated? There are 5 steps or 5
ways or 5 experiences whereby this translation takes
place. How your Spirit, your soul, your body is
translated? When you step into the Spirit rem, what you
see that translates into the heavenly rem. 5 means or
mode of transport. 1. A pure ladder of pure light
appears from heaven and it appears connected from earth
to heaven and you just walk up the ladder. Now you read
of this in Genesis 28:11-12, Jacob saw a ladder come
down from heaven and he saw Angels coming and going. Now
this ladder is made of pure light; all the light that
you see on this earth, I don’t mean this artificial
light. The light that comes from the sun and the stars
they are not pure light because they are tainted by sin.
The whole creation is tainted by sin. Light travels
186000 miles/sec. But the pure light in heaven travels
faster than the speed of light. They travel at the speed
of thoughts. That is how pure light travels and that’s
how you travel in the spirit rem, the speed of thoughts.
Nothing beats that you know. You don’t need a time
machine. The moment you think about something you are
instantly there. That’s how thoughts. Thoughts travel
faster than lights. So the 1st method is ladder, a pure
ladder appears. Secondly, Angels will come to escort
you. In Revelation 17:1-3, 21:9-10, you will read that
Angel will carry John and bringing from different
different places in heaven, he was bodily carried and
brought to different part in heaven. Thirdly, a chariot
can come down from heaven. This is a very famous example
in the bible where Prophet Elijah was caught up in a
Chariot in 2 Kings 2:11. Fourthly, the Holy Spirit can
come and carry you wherever he wants you to go. In Acts
8: 39-40 where Philip was bodily carried and that also
happens in the Spirit. In Ezekiel’s experience where the
Spirit of the Lord came and lifted him up in Spirit.
Fifthly, Jesus Christ can issue a summon, ‘Come up’ and
immediately you are translated there in the next moment.
Please turn with me to Psalm 65:4, this is a beautiful
scripture in the bible, please don’t forget that,
underline it, and remember it. It is a very important
scripture that will give good guiding point, a guide to
this translational experience. Psalm 65:4, ‘Blessed is
the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto
thee, that he may dwell in thy courts; we shall be
satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of the
holy temple’. Now look at the first part of the
scripture, Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and
causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy
courts. So God chooses you, you can volunteer. Some
people are chosen and blessed with the gifts because of
some work they need to do. Do remember one thing; God
does not have favorites. Why some people are overly
blessed? It is not that they are overly blessed; they
have been equipped to do a work. Let us see an example;
Most of the seer prophets, there are different class of
prophets. An ordinary prophet is just an ordinary
prophet; they get revelations through visions and
dreams. Now the seers they belong to different high
class, everything to them takes place in a vision. They
see everything; it is no more just inspirational
revelation. It is no more seeing. But most of the seers
are always intercessors, always intercessors. So to them
God gives all this gifts abundantly; to them seeing the
Lord Jesus Christ is not a big problem, to them caught
up in spirit rem is not a big deal, to them having all
these spiritual experiences that we envy is not a big
deal because it is required for them to be equipped with
all this for to fulfill the work to which they have been
called. So don’t envy them, they are just doing their
simple duties. That is why they are caught up in the
spirit to be stand before God and God gives some
instructions to come and give to the world or they are
taken from place to place to pray for people. This is
one thing that I do; sometimes I have been taken in the
spirit to people’s house and pray for them and sometimes
go and give them an instruction to pray for them or
prophesy to people. Many people have written to me that
they have seen me in their dreams prophesying to them or
preach to them. Many times I will be what I think was I
may be lying down to sleep but I am no more sleeping. I
am somewhere and preaching the Gospel to some people. So
these are all some responsibilities that come with
certain calls. My dear brothers and sisters, worship
enhances the experience of translation. Psalm 84:4 says
when we praise and magnify God his house is built around
us. This is where the church is largely missing the
mark. We are not praising God – we are praising God but
we do not know really how to worship God. The church is
just displaying too much of flaky flesh you know. One of
the flaky flesh that is exhibited too much is the
clapping of the hands. There is a proper place to do
that not all the time. This is one common problem I see
in this congregation. At the time when you should be
lifting up your hands bless the living God, you are
whistling and you are scaring all the Angels away (Don’t
laugh). This is exactly what is happening. I first saw
this in 1993 in a church conference in Perth, Australia.
One day the worship they did brought the congregation
into such a holy atmosphere of God and the whole
congregation was one heart, one mind, lifting up their
voices to heavenly, at that moment I saw a thick cloud
of God’s glory coming down upon the congregation, at
that moment, just as that was a few feet away from
coming upon the congregation, the worship leader said,
common let us give a clap offering to God. Everybody
clapped their filthy hands and the whole (Don’t laugh
please, I am not joking. Do you think this is funny?
Don’t laugh please, there is time to laugh, don’t laugh
all the time) they clapped their hands and the whole
glory lifted up. I have never felt so angry in my life.
When I went up to the pulpit I rebuked the congregation
and the senior Pastor of that Church went on his knees
and repented before God because he felt it but he did
not correct it. The whole thing just lifted up. You know
if you look at the birds in the air, before the birds
fly up in the sky they flap their wings, they keep on
flapping their wings until they reach a certain height,
then when they are in certain altitude, they are no more
beating their wings, they are gliding, they are soaring.
This is what you must learn in worship. First you praise
God, you beat your wings and climb up, once you are up
you no more praise God, you worship God in the beauty of
holiness. Then you are just soaring in the heavenlies
until you enter into the most holy place. Almost all
worship leaders that I have seen around the world, they
do not know how to enter into the holy of holies. The
congregation they don’t know. You know we have wonderful
anointed singers, wonderful anointed psalmists,
wonderful anointed instruments today which the Old
Testament saints did not have. But the Old Testament
saints had something that we do not have, that is every
time that they worship God in the Spirit and truth, the
Glory of God came down. You read that in the Bible,
don’t you? So, why it is that today everyone is spirit
filled; we are not seeing the Glory of God. In 1989, I
had 2 visitations from the Lord Jesus and he spoke to me
about ‘how the Church should truly worship God’ and I
wrote a book about ‘The art of worship’, that the Lord
taught me about the revelations that he gave me. The one
thing he said that is missing today is the Church does
not know how to worship God in the beauty of holiness.
That is the missing thing today. She does not know how
to worship God in the beauty of holiness. It is only
your flesh that you are presenting to God and it is
thinking. That is what I saw before I begin my message
today. The Lord was walking down this aisle and he just
closing his nose and turning his face because of the
stinking flesh here- stinking flesh. When Noah offered
the sacrifice, Bible says and God smelled the sweet
savor offering. You read that, don’t you? Today he
smells the stinking flesh. I tell you one truth my
dearly beloved brothers and sisters, God does want to
withheld his holiness from you. He does not want to
withheld the riches of heaven from you, he wants to
freely give but we do not know how to come. We do not
know how to approach unto him. There is a place for
clapping you know. You cannot give the clapping to the
king of kings. How can you do that? The New Testament
way of doing that is lifting up hands and blessing God
not clapping of hands. This is one of the Charismatic
evils in charismatic church. The flakiest thing in the
charismatic Church is giving a clap offering to God. How
can you do that? You cannot do that. You know who God is
– The Holy God? Just a tiny bit of his Glory came down
on Mount Sinai and the whole mountain quaked, there was
an earth quake. And all the Israelites fled away and
they cried to Moses, No, we don’t want to hear God. You
talk to God, you do all this, you die, you go to hell
but we don’t want to hear that but we hear you. That is
a tiny whiny revelation of God’s Glory. Can you imagine
how much more when he becomes with all his Glory. That
is your God, a God of holiness and how should you appear
before that God? Not with your flesh but with fear and
trembling. God is in his holy temple that all flesh be
silent. That is what the bible says. But what do you do?
Yow chew gums. You come with a very irreverent attitude
with the Church. Cell phones go off in the Church
services. Isn’t God more important to you? Is your
contact on your friends very important to you? You must
have your cell phones on? Can’t you give just one hour
by switching off your cell phones or keeping them at
home? You see when you bring such an irreverence into
the house of God, what is there that we are presenting
before God. Strange fire, strange fire. We should thank
God that we are not destroyed for all the strange fires
that we are offering into him, for all the stinking
flesh that we are offering unto him. Please do not feel
that I am scolding you. I am sticking it out of Love. Do
you feel that I am scolding you? Please don’t feel that
way; I speak on behalf of the living God with love for
you. It is my desire that you should enter into the holy
of holies whatever goodies that I have been privileged
to enjoy I like to share it with you. I told you on the
1st night, I am telling all these to provoke you to
jealousy. Never in my mind have I had the intention to
break about my spirituality. Never, far be it, only to
provoke you to jealousy and to prove to you that all
these are real and it is available for you. Anybody can
come to where I am and can go higher. It is possible. So
we should learn to worship God. If we learn to worship
God in the beauty of holiness then the glories of heaven
surrounds you, the cloud of Glory comes down. Psalm 22:3
says, God inhabits on the praises of his people, he
surrounds you. When the cloud surrounds you, the fire of
holiness from the cloud of God’s glory will begin to
purify and refine your heart. Malachi 3:1-3 says, it
purifies and refines you so that you can offer a pure
sacrifice unto God. When you offer pure sacrifice unto
God, you are translated into the holies of holies.
Finally, a warning, please do not build your life on
spiritual experiences, don’t seek experiences unless and
until you are build on the word of God. Why do I say
this? If you read Matthew 4: 5-8 says, during the
temptation of the Lord Jesus, the devil came and carried
the Lord Jesus, that is what the scripture says you
know, he literally carried the Lord Jesus first into the
temple and he said, look at all the temple, then he
carried him to an exceedingly high mountain. That is
what the bible specifically says, exceedingly high
mountain, carried him up. See what is all that, a
translation experience, who gave that? The devil. The
devil can show visions to you, the devil can imitate
like Lord Jesus Christ, the devil can take you to a
place and show you heaven, and the devil can do all
things. So, if you are not grounded in the word of God,
how will you know, if this spiritual experience is a
real experience? So first establish your life on the
word of God. It is good and dangerous that is why when
we are young in the spirit, you will have some
experiences, don’t run after the experience. But wait;
build your life on the word. You know a wild horse or a
wild ass runs wildly in the jungle eating wind, they are
uncontrollable, they won’t know where to go, they run
everywhere. That is why the Bible says, the horse must
be bridled so that it can be controlled where it must be
running. Only the word of God can balance your life, can
strengthen you and guide you. Now let me tell you this,
if you forget everything else that I shared with you,
please don’t forget this important thing, which is
warning. I have seen the devil impersonating the Lord
Jesus Christ. I have literally seen him stand before me;
I thought this was the Lord Jesus. So I got up from my
bed, I wanted to kneel down and worship the Lord Jesus.
Suddenly I just felt an Alarm go off in my spirit, don’t
do that then I took a step back, and I was looking if it
was Jesus Christ standing in front of me why would I
alarm? There is always a great peace flood when the Lord
Jesus Christ comes and the Holy Spirit said, take a good
look at his hands, when I looked there were no nail
prints. Ok. I took another step backwards and then the
Holy Spirit said take a good look at his eyes. You know
the Lord Jesus Christ has beautiful deep blue eyes. You
know not only he has blue eyes but his eyes with such a
love. The very look at the eyes you can see love is
flowing out from his eyes. When I saw his eyes, one of
the eye popped out, now it is a good time to laugh, one
of the eyes popped out and it was dangling. OK I took 3
steps back and then the Holy Spirit said this is Lucifer
impersonating the Lord Jesus Christ. Now you rebuke him.
I said in the name of Jesus Christ I rebuke you satan.
Instantly he disappeared. That was the time the Holy
Spirit gave me this teaching about Matthew 4, where the
devil can give you spiritual experiences. If you are not
established and grounded in the word of God, you don’t
have an warning system inside you then you will fall but
if you are build up on the word, you have a warning
system inside you and the word will guide you. That is
what the Lord Jesus said right; the Holy Spirit will
guide you into all truth. How will the Holy Spirit guide
you into all truth? Through the word of God because
God’s word is truth. Now I am going to finish, finally,
in conclusion let me show you a biblical example to
justify and prove to you all these things that I have
just taught you that they are avail and there is a
scriptural example and all that. Turn with me to 1 Kings
19: 4-12, now in this passage of scripture you will find
the prophet Elijah very discouraged and going somewhere.
These 4 experiences that I have shared with you in
Isaiah 40:31, renewed, running, walking and mounting
with wings like eagles. All these 4 experiences you will
find in this passage of scripture. Those who don’t have
your bible you can read from the screen there. Aren’t
you happy for the saints who are putting up the
scriptures for you? Anyway look at verse 4 & 5, but he
himself went on a day’s journey into the wilderness and
came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested
for himself that he might die and as he lay and slept
under a juniper tree, Let’s pause here. Elijah was
waiting on God, can you see this principle here. He came
and sat under a tree; he was lying down; please don’t
quote Elijah and sleep in the meetings. You are not
getting it up? Ok, now let’s look at point no 2, verses
6 & 7, And the Angel of the Lord came again the second
time and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because
the journey is too great for thee. Verse 6 & 7 he gave
him food to eat and said now you run because the journey
that you are going to go is very far, you need this
food. So the Angel came and gave him food to eat.
Thirdly, walk and did not faint, verse 8, and he arose,
and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that
meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of
God. He walked for 40 days and 40 nights; now who can do
that in the natural strength? Nobody can do that in the
natural strength. He walked and did not faint. Fourthly,
mounting up with wings like eagles, verses 9 – 12, he
have spiritual experiences with God where he saw God
coming unto him in a whirlwind, God coming in a fire,
God coming in an earthquake and finally a still small
voice. All this 4 principles in Isaiah 40:31, you can
find this in Elijah’s life. This passage of scripture in
the bible is a perfect proof of what I have just taught
you for 2 hours now about this waiting on God
experience. Do you believe that you can have the same
wonderful experience? Anybody doesn’t believe? You
believe that? Do you want that? Common stand up for a
vote of prayer now.
O great and gracious loving God, thank you, Holy Father,
you had all your children’s Lord patiently sitting for
last 4 hours. Some have been tired and they have left
lord. These who have continued, your word says ‘Blessed
are they those who are hunger and thirsty of
righteousness for they shall be filled’ and you use your
daughter Hadey Baker to strongly preach about this last
night ‘Blessed are they who thirst and hunger of the
righteousness’. Holy Father, all these saints of God who
have continued for the last 4 hours waiting to hear this
word, I pray Lord Jesus, that every one of them who have
endured, they all come into this blessed mounting up
with wings like experience for how can they be your
children if they cannot see their Father’s face? How can
they be your children if they cannot hear the Father’s
voice? And how can they be your children if they do not
know where their Father is staying? But your word says,
you have poured out into us the Spirit of Adoption
whereby we are your sons and daughters and not only that
you have caused us to sit in the heavenly place in
Christ Jesus. And I pray let it not only be a positional
experience in Christ but a tranfigurational,
translational experience in their spiritual life. I know
you desire to do that Lord, I know you are desire
because you have made your heart known to me and now I
pray that these your saints will apply this principles
in their lives and take hold of you by waiting at your
holy feet whereby you can embrace them to yourself, they
can be gathered and bounded to you and become one with
you Lord and enter into you that they may know the
mystery of the word ‘The kingdom of heaven is within
you’. This I pray you will reveal to them Lord. Father,
they have continued for 4 hours Lord, their bodies must
be so tired and weary. I ask you very specially if they
go to their rooms and lay their bodies down, stretch
forth your hands Lord and take away all the physical
tiredness and weariness from their bodies and exchange
it with your strength and when they get up in the
morning let none of them feel an ounce of tiredness in
their mortal bodies. This I command and speak according
to the word and authority that you have given unto me
and I command let their bodies will be rested and
refresh that every fiber, every blood vessels in their
bodies will be refreshed and every dead nerves will be
resurrected, every damage nerves in their bodies I
command it in Jesus name to be recreated and I command
in Jesus name that your life giving blood and your
energies will flow all within them, energizing them,
renewing them, changing them, I command all those who
have a hair problem, the hairs that are dropping down in
the name of Jesus Christ I command that hair to stop
falling down and I command the hair to be recreated and
grow right now. I command let them experience a
recreative power working in their lives that will renew
them, refresh them and restore them. Thank you wonderful
Jesus, and when they lay down their bodies to sleep,
Lord Jesus showing me there is someone here, you have a
nerve problem in your hand and the Lord Jesus Is healing
you right now. Thank you wonderful Jesus, you used to
have a tingling kind of sensation and a shaking kind of
experience in your hands and the healing power of Jesus
Christ is flowing into your hands right now. Thank you
wonderful Jesus. And there is also another person who
have a problem in your leg and you used to limb in your
leg and the doctors have told you that they are damaged
nerves in your leg. Jesus Christ’s healing virtue is
flowing into your legs right now to resurrect those
damaged nerve. Thank you wonderful Jesus. In the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ I now command them be healed right
now. Thank you wonderful Jesus. I see the eyes of the
Lord Jesus Christ looking at some people here who have
eye problem and his compassion is flowing out to heal
you right now. Lord Jesus, according to your word I
command every blur vision be healed, I command every
damaged cataracts, retinas and iris in their eyes, I
command them be healed right now. I command every double
visions, every crooked visions, I command the lenses in
their eyes be recreated and get whole in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you wonderful Jesus. Lord, let
your healing anointing now flow all over this church
right now. Let your healing anointing flow all over
right now. Lord Jesus, there is a woman there praying
like this, O how I wish he will pray for my back pain,
Lord Jesus now hear the cries coming from your daughter
Lord, I command in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
that pain that is related to the kidneys I command it to
be made whole right now in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. I pray Lord let every weaknesses in their bodies
be healed in Jesus name. Thank you wonderful Jesus. Let
your healing anointing sweep all over this auditorium
right now. Let your waves of healings flow all over them
right now. Who is this person with an Asthmatic problem?
I see a healing anointing of Lord Jesus Christ coming
upon you now in the name of Jesus Christ I command the
lungs to be healed right now and I rebuke the spirit of
infirmity causing this Asthma, in Jesus name I command
it to come out of the body right now in Jesus name. Let
your healing anointing flow, flow Lord all over them,
let it flow all over them. Let them tangibly feel your
power flowing all over their bodies right now. Thank you
wonderful Jesus. Lift up your holy hands and bless the
name of the living God for blessing you, healing you.
Common open your mouth and give thanks to God.
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