Give Die F OR

re Me I

Iyke Oriaku

GIVE ME FIRE OR I DIE

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I dedicate this book to my late parents, Rev D.U and Rev Lilian Oriaku whose
legacy of fire we the ten children they left behind are still keeping till date.

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 I acknowledge all the men and women whom God has used to help me come this far. I
am passionately grateful for all your gesture of fire. You shall not miss your reward.

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“Many people have read these messages you are about to read and God used the book to set their hearts
ablaze. Today, they are burning for God. May that be your testimony also after reading this book, in
Jesus Name, Amen!"

Rev. Stanley Oriaku Grace Tabernacle, Benin Republic (Authors' Elder Brother)
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Contents
Chapter Please, against correct Late 1 Arch me Bishop in love Benson if you think Idahosa. I am lying 1

Chapter This will take is the the 2 'name' mantle of From the man Papa god Uma Revealed Ukpai.” that 4

Chapter Before your ministry, you 3 start This praying is what for to Sponsor do. for 7

Chapter This was insulting is the 4 message Bishop I 'Preached' David Oyedepo. and They said that I 9

Chapter Anyone Embassy with 5 Pastor useful down information should please of How tell us. to track this Christ 14

Chapter Lord, give 6 me back my yesterday! 18

Chapter Many teach About you of the today's 7 what coming Prostitutes churches worldwide and taught revival! bible me Schools years

ago may never 23

Chapter When who are will depending 8. you get tired on men? of depending On men 33

Chapter Man of god, 9 let us pray! 36

Chapter This might 10 be why you are finding It hard to observe fasting! 39

Chapter That nonsense 11 must stop now! 43

Chapter What Hausa 12 people taught me About the power of God 52

Chapter 13 Before you challenge that witch In your village, read this! 54
Chapter 14 "Teacher, don't teach Me nonsense!” 62

Chapter 15 Incase you inherited ancient Family battles, this is for you! 67

Chapter 16 Any man that did not teach you About spiritual warfare has Not taught you everything yet. 72

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Chapter 17 Ask the Ooni of Ife, he Can teach us better 75

Chapter 18 Why the chief priest in a village Cursed my late father and gave Him seven days to die! 80

Chapter 19 Be careful before they Steal your fire! 90

Chapter 20 A message to those who wants To become popular in our time. 104

Chapter 21 This is to those genuine born Again believers in church who Have been crying for god to help Them stop falling into the sin

of Fornication. (don't read if you Have never fallen before) 108

Chapter 22 This is the message a homosexual Heard and repented. Now, he is on Fire. And false prophets are trying Every way to

blackmail him, So that he will stop exposing them... 113

Chapter 23 Ask a false prophet you know Very well, he will also confirm this story. 119

Chapter 24 When a revivalist Needs revival 122

Chapter 25 "Fright newspaper" Published this Week that all the young men of God in Nigeria are now using juju To do ministry... Please,

is it true? 124

Chapter 26 Whatever happened to the message of repentance in our time! 128

Chapter 27 This is a message to David, Papa Oyedepo's son. I pray he doesn't read this and Think that i am envying him. 131

Chapter 28 This is one of the secrets of our Fathers that has made them Phenomenal, which some of them Might never write in their

books. 137

Chapter 29 I see men building another Tower of babel? 143

Chapter 30 I wonder why they did not Teach me this in bible school Early enough. 147

Chapter 31 God, please, if you love me, Give me what you did not Give to any man alive now! 150

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 Iyke Oriaku Ministering: Eagles Convention, Umuahia under Pastor U.C Ohakam

Radical Evangelism in Benin Republic

 A Whole Street Renounced Voodoo Worship in Benin Republic During One Of The Evangelisms

Missionary Activity in Mosquitoe Village, Lagos State

Chapter01

PLEASE, CORRECT ME IN LOVE IF YOU THINK I AM LYING AGAINST LATE

ARCH BISHOP BENSON IDAHOSA. A bout seen once late 85 or twice? percent Arch

bishop There of ministers in Nigeria today have Benson Idahosa in their dreams is hardly a man of God

I have met that have not told me the encounters he had with him. I mean, even as he has died many
years ago.

My first encounter with him was on my birthday in 2006. I was just getting into Christ newly then. He
came with some faces of men and women who have ran their race and left the scene.

He gave me something like a stick and said to me: "HERE IS THE BATON, BUT GET READY FOR
THE BATTLES...”

My hands were shaking and he was laughing. As he tapped me at my back, I woke up. Several times
after that time, I have also seen him. Last week, a man of God called me for almost one hour, telling me
how he has been seeing late Benson Idahosa in his dreams.

And I am asking myself, that: "Among all the anointed men and women of God that lived in his days,
why is it him that God chose to be using to encourage young men of God in their dreams or
revelations?”

Friends, there must be something this man did that we are not doing. There must be some kind of prayer
this man prayed that

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we are too lazy to pray. This man must have seen some part of God my generation have been so
distracted to look for.

Lord, please show me what You showed this man that made him an eternal excellency and the joy of
many generations. Many years after he has gone to be with the Lord, his life is still impacting people.
Please, Lord, Give me the value my generation alone cannot finish eating from.

Give me OIL that will benefit the generation that will be here 200 years after. Distract every distraction
Lord and help my weaknesses. If you used Papa Idahosa in that capacity, I know there is a search in
heaven now, for men and women who will pay commensurate price in the place of prayer. To walk in
dimensions unknown to men.

Please, Lord, interrupt us from this pursuit of vanities. Bend us at all cost. And please, use us. So that
even after we have died, we will still be 'alive'.

I'm one of those praying this prayer. We can't only shout Fire and die and our children will have nothing
of eternal value to say about us. There are more prayers to make sir. Some of us, God told us that we are
going to become the next Benny Hinn. But because we have gotten tired in prayer, we have settled in
the little manifestations we see during our village crusades.

Where is that woman reading this? God told you that He is calling you into ministry to carry the kind of
Fire only men have ever carried. You were doing well before. But now, you have grown cold in prayer.
Can you go back to those days you used to pray and fast?

Man of God, please, you are too young to enter church politics. Leave them to keep dragging who will
carry bags for big men of God in your denomination, so that they will be 2
posted into big churches. Go and hide somewhere and look for God. When you find Him, both those
carrying bags and those they are carrying bags for will know that you have found GOD.

Lord, I am ashamed of the times I have wasted defending my doctrines. Let them win the arguments.
But please, don't leave us like this. Give us FIRE.

Friend, if that is your prayer too?

 Then, let us pray!

Chapter02
THIS IS THE ‘NAME’ OF THE MAN GOD REVEALED THAT WILL TAKE THE

MANTLE W hen praying even FROM Papa pray for above PAPA Uma 8 to 1 Ukpai 10 UMA

hour hours daily. was UKPAI.”

everyday. at your But age, you he can't was

When he was at your level in ministry, he was preaching without sleeping in hotels. And sometimes,
without honorarium. But when you preach, you rob people of their cars and landed properties.
You and your host fights in the hotel room everyday while sharing the money you raised from his gullible
members. And yet, you want God to make you have weight like Uma Ukpai. And every day, you run to
Uyo and sow seed into his ministry.
Anywhere he is ministering, you rush and take pictures with him. And come back home and start living a
prayerless life. You go to program and still continue to rob people of their salaries. Man of God, stop
wasting your fantasy.
The mantle Uma Ukpai is carrying doesn't belong to him. He does not have the right to give it to anyone.
That mantle is for separated men and women. The man that will carry that man's mantle in this generation
might never meet him till the day he will finish his work and go to be with the Lord.
The person that will carry his healing grace in our time might not even take pictures with him. That man
might be
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somewhere today crying day and night. Not for money, not for fame, nor for members. But for God to
use him in any way He wants to.

Others are looking for Uma Ukpai. But that man is looking for the God that made Uma Ukpai. Some
are bragging with the pictures they took with UMA Ukpai. But that man is somewhere now, bragging
with the bruises he has gotten in the place of prayer, in search of the God of Uma Ukpai.

Don't get it twisted, friends. There is nothing wrong travelling to see a man like Papa Uma Ukpai who
God has singled out among his equals. A man that drank raw acid and God converted it to tea, to the
amazement of the assassins is not a joker in the game of the spirit.

A man that lost his children in a day and watched them drown to death has paid a price for the grace he
is manifesting. There are many demons receiving punishments in hell today because they ran away
from communities the day Papa Uma came to minister.

A man that has carried the power of God for decades deserves to be honoured. If you know where I can
see him, tell me and I will go there now. But sir, the God that made Papa Uma Ukpai is not in Uyo,
Akwa Ibom State. That God is not a respecter of persons. That God is everywhere. That God is on our
knees.

That same God said that we shall seek Him and find Him when we seek Him with all our hearts. That
He will make us an eternal excellency and the joy of many generations. That what bows to Him will
bow to us.

That God does not want to make us to be like Papa Uma Ukpai. But greater than him. As that God is in
heaven, so shall we be on earth.
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The greatest joy Papa Uma Ukpai will have is if the coming generations will grow in power and in the

love of God more than him. He Will be happy when what could not bow to him will begin to bow to us.

But there is a Price to pay. Friends, there are still more prayers to make.
Anybody can carry microphone. But very few among us have touched some parts that has given them

pages in the chronicles of God.

There is no short cut to power. Forget the gospel of the crown without the Cross. Pentecost without

pains is a scam. There is nothing like Majesty if there are no wounds and scars. Let them not promise

you power without self abandonment. Any manifestation that did not come from the altar of separation

will evaporate when it is needed most.

Lord, please, help us to pay the commensurate price for the OIL You want us to manifest to our

generation! Destroy lethargy and laxity. Save us from the comforts of our beds and separate us from

appetites that has refused us to fast the way we used to.

Man of God, I am among those praying this prayer. The God that made Papa Uma Ukpai is still looking

out for another man to make. Is there anyone ready to pay the price?

Let us pray!

Chapter03
BEFORE YOU START PRAYING FOR SPONSOR FOR YOUR MINISTRY, I f

do to God the you crusade brings have THIS the sponsors ground? anointing IS WHAT to you to heal

for TO worldwide the DO.

sick they crusade will bring now,

Or will you go there to start preaching the messages of Pastor Paul Enenche you listened to?

You don't have money. You don't have anointing. And you don't even have any friend around that

motivates you to fast and pray in search for the supernatural. All your close friends are those who hangs

around Facebook involving arguments, from morning till night.

The only place they advertise knowledge is when it gets to insulting elders in faith. Is it not better you

announce your withdrawal from ministry and face other businesses, so that you will excel there

massively? If they bring a dying child to you now, do you have the anointing to save that family from

burying the boy? Or will you allow that child to die?

Man of God, the visions God showed you are true, but you have a part to play in bringing it to pass. God

is waiting for us to grow in character and in power. The level we are now in the miraculous is not enough

for Him to release the financial helpers we need. There is something MORE He expects from us. And

there is a price to pay for it.

Now that they are saying that God didn't call you. Some are even saying that God is not with you because

your church is still in rented space. Sir, this is time to look for God. 7

If the money comes now the way you want it, you will become too busy to pray. If you are finding it

hard to pray now that you have less than 5 people to counsel everyday, what will happen when you will

have 100 people to counsel daily?

If you can't pray and fast now that you are not married, what happens when you are married? God can

use this time of lack and want to add OIL to your life. Stop celebrating the level of manifestation you
have been on since last five years. I don't know about you.

Something is burning in our hearts. There is something some of us are looking for. And I bless God that

daily, I meet men who have abandoned all in search of this same thing. They are tired of 'horn speaker'

anointing.

How can we watch our neighbors going to native doctors for help because we have nothing that looks

like the supernatural to pass across to them? And yet, we are online forming superstars.

May God bring men your way who hates shadows without apology. May He connect you with guys

who have no eye on anything less than the power of God. This is time to pray for anointing. Don't

bother about your mockers. The shame you are suffering should send you back to your knees.

Not only for God to give you money. But for Him to give you something money cannot buy. Trust me.

When the power comes, everything else will follow. That delay is on a mission. May we not misuse it.

In Jesus Name.

Let us pray!

Chapter04
THIS IS THE MESSAGE I 'PREACHED' AND THEY SAID THAT I WAS INSULTING

S ome been when have in Shiloh BISHOP all read his first meetings. all started. DAVID his books

They OYEDEPO.
3 were times there each. in They Ota, 1999 have

They have received mantles he prayed on by himself.

They have sown seeds of cars and cash. But yet, there is nothing around them that looks like the glory
Papa is effortlessly manifesting. Tell them to go to Proverbs 18:1. That is where the mantle they are
looking for is waiting for them.
It says: "Through desire, a man having SEPARATED himself..." You have been in the crowd for a long
time. That is why you have not converted all your encounters into realities.
God has been trying to separate you from certain people, so that He can have unhindered access to your
life. But you are afraid of what people would say when they see that you and them no more flock together.
It means that you are not ready for glory yet. Stop sacrificing your assignment on earth on the platform of
ministerial relationships God wants you to suspend or abort.
During ministers conference, you can only get the handkerchief of the man of God. He might call you out
of thousands of people there and give you special prophecy. He might even give you his suit to put on.
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But after that, go inside and hide somewhere and start looking for God. If not, you will not see any trace
of glory. I have seen the enlargement picture of you and all the great men of God in our time in your
office. But why is it that what bows to them is not bowing to you? Sir, its time to separate yourself.

David prophesied. Saul also prophesied. But the difference between the both of them is that Saul
prophesied from the platform of association, while David functioned from the realm of separation.

Saul loved hanging out with happening ministers in town. While David loved being alone with God.
You and I knows the result their ministries had. I wish someone reading this will cry to God to help him
separate from whatever that is blocking him from God.

During vigils, God releases His fire for everyone. But in the place of separation, God releases Himself
to someone. Most of the errors I have recorded in my ministry was due to association when it should
have been for me time for separation.

Many times, fear of the cost of separation pins us down in terrible association that breaks God's heart.
But sir, whatever shame or hunger that is there to suffer for the sake of separation, suffer it. It will soon
pay. It is not everyone that was lucky to survive the banqueting in Egypt.

Many never recovered the OIL on their heads which they sacrificed on the table of 'pleasures of the
moment'.

If the OIL will not cost you anything, it will not lead you to anywhere. I am a Price preacher because, I
have seen it with my eyes, that truly: "No man taketh this honour unto himself...”
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There are certain areas of your life that will never encounter glory until you separate. Some of my boys
and girls have gone to hide. Some of them have deactivated their Facebook accounts and deleted every
number from their phones that is stopping them from encountering God.

To the glory of God, we are not raising people who are online 24hours insulting people hunting for likes
and comments, engaging in doctrinal arguments, which ends up in malice and bitterness.

I was taught how to lose argument but not to lose attention in the place of separation. And that is what

God is helping us to pass across to our few followers. And the news of the encounters I am hearing

from them is too much for this generation not to take note of them in the fullness of time.

I wish you will stop this busy body you do and look for encounters. Because it is no more far when

people will get tired of hearing what you are saying now. They would have started looking for where

they will listen to men that have listened to God in the place of separation.

Have you not bothered why God did not appear to Jacob while he was with his parents? Why will He

wait to meet him in the howling desert before He appeared to him? Why do you think God did not send

an angel to go and change his name while he was in the crowd, in Laban's house?

But he waited until he was left alone. Friends, I dont know too many bible verses, but the little ones I

know, I try to squeeze out wondrous things out of them. As long as God saw Jacob in the crowd, He

didn't show up. There is a level of depth you will never enjoy in Christ until you are left alone.

Shun this cliquing going on these days among unbroken young ministers who are struggling too hard to

prove a point

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that holds no eternal relevance. Go and hide and look for God.

Maybe I should be the one to tell you that why those friends suddenly turned to passionate enemies is

because God needs your full attention. Let me now tell you that why some of your helpers suddenly

started avoiding you is because God wants to see you more often than men sees you.
Can I tell you that why that relationship did not work out is because God have seen that you have been

distracted enough? Now, He wants you to give Him time to fine tune what He has started in your life.

The man you are running after separated himself for months and, if not, for years, before he got what he

is carrying for his generation. And one man of God somewhere is telling you to pay him money so that

he will lay hands on you to carry what he is carrying.

What a blasphemy!

If you are afraid to lose men, you have already lost God. Until you are ready to be left alone, there is no

change of name for you. Network. Make friends. Connect with people of like minds. But you need God

more than you need men.

You need encounter more than you need contacts. You need Oil more than you need honorarium.

International exposure cannot make you a Voice. But when God makes you a voice, international

community will start placing demand on what God has given you for your generation.

There is no man that has ever represented God's unusual dimensions on earth that was not a man of

unusual separation. Feeble men like us know not how to go begging men to like us.

We were 'cheated' from the foundation of the world, that we

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dont know how to do sycophant job for people, so that they will start inviting us following us. But we

were blessed to understand early that if you are carrying anything for your generation, you must love

separation.

Allow others to keep bragging with how many pulpits they preach on daily. Let them keep boasting

with how many likes and comments they have on Facebook. Go and hide and find God. A time is
coming when it will be impossible for this generation to ignore you.

I am talking to you, ma. I am talking to men like me whose heads are carrying heavy prophecies that

must not be delayed further. I am talking to those who have followed great men and women of God

faithfully throughout the years, and it seems, nothing is coming out from it.

Are you ready for separation? May God separate you speedily from whatsoever and whosoever that is

separating you from Him. If it takes hunger. If it takes betrayals. If it will take loneliness. Lord, if that is

the cost for the OIL You want us to manifest in our time. Please, give us grace to pay it in full.

Bow your head and, let us pray!13

Chapter05
ANYONE WITH USEFUL INFORMATION OF HOW TO TRACK THIS CHRIST EMBASSY

PASTOR DOWN SHOULD PLEASE TELL US.

W many hen university, His he students

name was Uturu, a is Amaechi campus of severaly, ashtma, pastor God Udeaku. diabetic, used in

Abia State him to heal partial blindness etc. Many people said he was wasting his time in school, doing

church when he should face the studies his parents brought him to school for.

Some said that he was not born again, because he was treating his hair. He was practically the most

castigated campus pastor in school then. But yet, he was the only campus pastor in our days in school
that cultists were afraid of. Because they have seen several boys who went to attack him with all

manner of weapons. Yet, without any arm, he spoke to them and on their own accord, they dropped

their guns and began to beg him for forgiveness.

Students who were serial rapists and arm robbers were more afraid of him than they were afraid of the

police and school security put together.

If you go to night clubs and bunks where students drink and smoke, they will be talking about him. If

you go to those surrounding mountains where cultists keep their bloody meetings, they were talking

about him. Some randy lecturers who were victimizing girls who didn't agree to sleep with them were

afraid to touch any of the girls that belonged to Believer's Love World. Because they were afraid of the

prayers of Pastor Amaechi. 14

Other students were so obsessed, looking for every means to have the highest grades, but he was

looking for anointing. Yet, as an architecture student, he graduated with one of the best results in their

department.

Who said it is not possible to look for God while looking for good grades in school? Who said those

who carry fellowship matters on their heads are carry over - bound students?

I am a witness that God can use a student to manifest incredible glory in the school campus. Ask

anyone that was in ABSU from 2003 till 2008, He was the talk of the town. Yet, he didn't allow the

praises of men and the aspersions of enemies to deter him. The more people criticised him, the more he

grew in power.

I 'lost' one of my guys to Christ Embassy when we went to see with our eyes this Pastor Amaechi

everybody was talking about. As we got in, during the ministration, he said:

"There is a banking and finance student here that came to see if what they said about us is true or not...
You are having a tooth ache that has lasted for 3days... But God is healing you now...”

Immediately, my friend fell under anointing, stood up 15 minutes after and was totally healed of that

tooth ache that has made him not to eat for over 3days. You dont know what it means for a young man

that doesn't believe in both God and anointing to stand up, in the midst of service, shouting.

That was how that guy started following Christ Embassy, till today. We never saw him in smoking

bunks and drinking joints again. He totally surrendered to Christ.

Still during our first year in the school, I took a girlfriend there for their praise night. As pastor

Amaechi was ministering, he

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said: "There are 30 female students here who have been having severe mensural pains before they

came... The power of God is healing you finally now".

Many ladies fell under the power of God. The girl I took to the program didn't fall, but the next day in
school, she told me that she followed me to that program with so much pains. But the moment pastor
Amaechi made that utterance, she felt a cool breeze all over her body, and that was the end of that pains.
And till we graduated from school, she became a pillar of Believer's Love world, the campus ministry
of Christ Embassy.

Our set in campus was the most rugged set, because all manner of depraved students were offered
admissions who were expelled from their different campuses for cultism and murder cases. They were
admitted massively into ABSU that year. Number of female and male cultists were too much.

Guys were competing with the kind of guns and dynamites to bring to school for wars. Every now and
then, students were being raped and killed in cold blood. You wake up to see corpses of fellow students
littered all over the places. Dynamites and all kinds of explosives were being seen in school that the
police had not even seen before.

For a student to stand against cultists and challenge them that time was so risky. But that was when
Pastor Amaechi used to challenge them and tell them to come and meet him if they are bold. And
severally, when they tried him, both their guns and their juju failed them and they knelt down, begging
him for mercy.
 He didn't grow in such power and anointing because he was preaching and rapping English language
like Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, but because he was looking for God. He was a 16
prayer addict.

I am writing to those who are still in the university. You can still manifest the power of God in your
Campus. Your fellow students can still be afraid of you because of the tremendous grace you manifest
in school. You must not be a pastor. But you can still preach in your department and God will use you to
demonstrate incredible dimensions of His power.

I know you have all the powerful and wonderful messages of Apostle Aroma and Joshua Selmain. I
know you listen to Pastor Paul Enenche and Apostle Johnson Suleiman. Please don’t stop there. You
need a prayer life.

God is looking for someone among all the students in your school that will do mighty things for Him in
that school. Will you be available or do you just want to graduate from school and leave without any
one saying incredible things about your role in the move of God in that campus?

More than 10 years after, Pastors Amaechi's name is still being remembered in ABSU. Not because he
graduated with good grades. But because he stopped the mouth of Lions and by his hands, mighty
things were recorded to the glory of God. You can be the 'Pastor Amaechi' of your school.

Are you ready? Then, let us pray!

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I to warn miss LORD, go the me to Eke days not GIVE Okigwe to when come ME my BACK
market back pastor until and MY use I preach to YESTERDAY!

convert give for me 10 assignment 3hours people and to Jesus.

I miss the days when I will be forced to be awake every midnight praying, because if he calls and I didn't

pick it on time, he will know that I was sleeping when I should be praying and I will be punished for it.

I miss the days when my pastor will send me to some houses where there are sick people and he will tell

me to start praying for all of them one after the other. And I dare not leave there until I call him to tell him

that all of them have been healed.

I miss the days when I will be praying and fasting for God to touch my pastor to give me at least 2 days to

allow me go see my people during Christmas season, yet, sometimes he will decline.

I miss the days when he will call my name before the few members and pronounce me suspended. I will

start sitting at back seat, just because I came to church 10 or 20 minutes late. He knows that I use to wake

up very early and come to the church to bring out the generator, the speakers, the musical instruments and

chairs, wash the church and still rush back to get ready for service. But he didn't care.

People will come to church to see me sitting at the back seat and they will be wondering what I did. It

continued until God will touch his heart to lift the suspension. 18
I miss the days when he will send some youths to me, giving me deadline of when he wants all of them
to start speaking in tongues, that the next time he asks me about them, he wants to hear them preach to
him. So that he will know how much I have taught them. And that he wants to hear that hey have
healed, at least, five sick people each.

Everyday I was labouring in Word and in prayer for God to help me grow so that I will have enough to
give those guys. I really miss the days when he will have deliverance cases, and he will call me out and
ask me to pray for the people. And if I fail to deliver the people, he will take over and God will use him
to deliver them. Then, after service, he will give me punishment, to pray and fast for one week.

And he will start using me to preach for weeks. How Iyke is always the first person to arrive to church
and the last person to go, yet, I could not handle small demoned possessed girl.

Friends, many times, I got ashamed. Sometimes, I got angry. If they invite me to preach anywhere, I
will happily come to tell him. To my disappointment, he will refuse. And tell me that he want me to
follow him to a preaching engagement that same day they booked me for the program.

When that day comes, he will take me to the most interior village in Okigwe, IMO State and we will go
and start preaching to people inside their farmlands.

Some time, we will just be preaching into the thin air. Sometimes, we will win one or two people to
Christ, after spending a whole day there. When we will be coming back, the kind of happiness on his
face will make me wonder if he has mental problem.

But he will tell me: "Iyke, if the trees have not listened to you, 19
nations will not want to listen to you... It is these bushes here that will serve as witness before God that
you have paid your dues...Until these leaves of trees hear your voice, you can't be a voice...”

Thank God for the spirit of humility that was baptized on me. If not, I had many times I got tired and
wanted to leave. Thank God for my elder brother, Rev Stanley Oriaku, who often calls me from his
missionary field in Benin Republic, advising me to remain there and suffer.

Sometimes, when I go into town, people will not recognize me again. Because I had gone lean and
unkempt. That Iyke Oriaku that use to wear designers no more see even second handed clothes to put
on. I didn't know that God was using that man to kill every trace of pride and vain glory in me.

If I had entered ministry the way I was when I left the streets, trust me, I would have been among the
most terrible ninjas on the pulpit today. There are people I see today, I know that they were never under
any leadership. There are others I see today, I will know they were boss when they were serving under
some authorities. There are other people I see I know that they were mentored by big preachers they see
only on television.

Trust me, some men of God might never make impact in ministry. Because they were never broken
before they started travelling around for programs. If no one has ever used you, trust me, God will
struggle a lot while using you. Unfortunately, some of us thought anointing was enough and we became
General Overseers.

Now that we have seen that the chips are down, that is why we have a lot of young boys who are using
juju power to do ministry. They want 'mami water' to pay for what they lost in the place of service.

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If I have my way, I will go back to that church and serve that man again and let him embarrass me
before members once again. Speaking with him few days ago, I was almost in tears. Because I realized
that if not that man, there is nothing I am becoming today, that would have been possible.

Help me beg that young man that is looking for who will put his face on poster to go inside the bush
and preach to animals before he starts looking for governors to preach to. King Saul does not need the
music ministry of any man that has never sang to animals inside the bush.

Tell that boy that is looking for big church where he will go and shout fire. Let him go to village stream
and shout that fire to people who are going to hell from there. Tell that young lady that wants to start
dragging microphone in big cathedrals to go back and start singing in that choir where there are just
3members only.

Forget the noise going on everywhere. There are things God gives a man in the place of service. There
is something God makes men in the place of service that Bible Schools can never make that same man.

We have been around for sometime. We have seen men that got anointing, ran into bible schools, came
out and became General overseers. Some of them are begging around for pulpits today. They are tired
of the 'papa and mama' people call them.

We have seen those that can sing very well, as they grew up waiting for invitations to minister in big
churches. They never submitted their voices under a ministry. Today, we can see the difference. They
still sing only in wake keeping and burials.

It is not easy to wait. It is not easy to watch those you are older 21
than insult you in the name of choir rehearsals. It is not easy being the only person your pastor will be
attacking more when you make any little mistake.

There is grace for that, sir. I know you have prayed for fire and power. Please, also pray for God to give
you that grace to wait in the place of service. David had that grace. Joseph had that grace. Moses had
that grace.

Elisha had it. It is grace that makes insults to sounds like compliments in your ears. My brother, we
need it, else the flesh will push us out of the place of preparation and sponsor us into a ministry of
lifetime in error.

I am talking only to those like me who are not in a hurry to 'blow' in ministry. I mean those that wants
God to take His time and prepare them, no matter under which condition. If you are among us, may that
grace find its way into your life now.

In Jesus Name. Let us pray.

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Chapter07
MANY OF TODAY'S CHURCHES AND BIBLE SCHOOLS MAY NEVER TEACH YOU WHAT

PROSTITUTES TAUGHT ME YEARS AGO I ABOUT lived meetings slept in in forests the THE

in burial bushes COMING where grounds for they weeks WORLDWIDE and buried and, cemeteries,
cursed sometimes, people. REVIVAL!
under months. We the rain, held I

dancing around naked, not minding mosquitoes and other insects.

Sometimes, some of us were bitten by scorpions and snakes. And for those who were not lucky to survive
the poison, a shallow grave of three or four feet was dug and an emergency funeral ceremony organized
for them. And the meeting continued as if nothing had happened!
Nobody was paying us for our exertions. All we wanted was to be dreaded in the neighbourhood. And
there we were paying demonic prices just to be able to wield demonic powers. We were in every party and
club. We were dreaded at home and everywhere. Parents warned their children not to follow us. The
police were always looking for us.
Our parents and siblings were always arrested by the police for crimes we committed. By so doing, the
police hoped to pressure us to come out of hiding. We were popular in police cells, and yet we did not see
anything wrong with that. It all becomes quite clear when the Bible says thus at Isaiah 44:18 – ''He hath
shut their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand...'’
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After I gave my life to Christ, I needed to transfer to Jesus the zeal I had for Satan. I needed to be

surrounded by men and women as well as boys and girls who were zealous for God's work.

Unfortunately, in the church I was attending then, we were gathering every Sundays and midweek to

pray for money, to fight our enemies and to sow seed for visas and contracts and marriages.

Everybody needs money, of course, and the good things of life it makes available. But money was the

last thing I needed at that time. I needed where someone would give me some exposure and teach me

how to look into my friend's faces and tell them: “Jesus loves you; repent!”.

But, alas, all I had around me were people who were attending church only because of what they were

expecting from God. They were often afraid to disobey the pastor but not afraid to disobey God. They

were ashamed to participate in evangelism. And yet they were respected in the church. For a long time

after I joined the church, nobody preached about winning souls, or turning one's office into a healing

center. The messages of all the guest ministers were about how to sow and how to reap. And the

testimonies all those guest preachers shared were of how people sowed and reaped millions within a

few weeks.

As good as these things are, I needed to hear about the power of God. I had seen satanic powers,

executed Satan's agenda and seen how far fellow young people could go for demonic activities. I

wanted to hear testimonies of how some youths of the church invaded some ghettos and shrines and

turned them around for God. I was tired.

I saw the same people whom I met on the streets, and were into prostitution, singing in church choirs.

From the choir seats they would go back to their brothels. When they removed their choir robes, they

donned prostitution attires. They paid tithes regularly and punctually, bought anointed this and anointed

that. Yet, all the messages we were hearing every Sunday were 24
those messages that only centred on money and more money.
They were in church, not because they loved God but because they wanted people to see them as

Christians and recommend them for marriage.

There were no messages of salvation. Consequently, there were no penitence, no conviction, no tears,

no decision to serve God and no revival. Members went to church with charms in their pockets, went to

the well-decorated altars to drop their offerings and went back with their charms because there is was

no more any convicting power in the altars.

Sadly, very little has changed since then. The only power we have now is the power to make people to

sow all they have, but not to make them forsake their fraudulent businesses and sell out to God.

Shame on all of us! Shame on the churches which people are zealously going to Hell from! Shame on

the big churches that runs several services each Sunday, and yet nothing of eternal value is recorded in

the lives of any of their members. I am happy that God saved me from Hell. But I am happier that God

saved me from such a church that would have preserved me for Hell.

It is obvious that we have come to a point where we will not only be going to clubs and bars to look for

sinners, but inside some churches. More people are going to Hell from churches now than in any other

generation. It is time to go to our Bible Schools to host crusades because many of the student pastors

there are not born again.

They are in ministry work because there is great and widespread unemployment in the country. It is

time to look at some General Overseers controlling ten branches or more, and address them: “Bishop,

are you born again? If you are not, then repent, for Jesus is coming soon!” Brother, once again, after

God saved me from Hellfire, the next place He saved me 25

from was the church that would have led me there.

He saved me from a church that would have made me remain a Kingdom misfit; that would have
watched me still carrying about charms and guns and ladies as long as I paid my tithes and offerings.

I love being in the midst of people who are passionate about whatever they are doing, people who love

what they are doing to the point that they can die for it. But I did not see people of such calibre in the

church where I was. All I saw were people who only attended church on Sundays to shout AMEN and

will not be seen again until the next Sunday.

I started missing my passionate friends in the streets who could stay up all night, in the cold and rain,

just to rob or rape or kill or even die. Every day, I asked God: “Is this all there is to salvation? I am

committed and punctual and regular in church services, but I don't hear anything here that sets my heart

on fire for You. Please, help me, I am backsliding. I am going down again!”

That was when God led me to a new church. The pastor and the wife, my friend and I were the only

members. In the sun, every day of the week, we were there. When they drove us out, we would locate

another tree.

From there, Christ began to be formed in me. It was a poor church but rich in the Word. There were no

car parks, rich members or signposts. But from that 'manger' God made Kingdom superstars. Thank

God for Rev. Okwandu and his wife whom God used to save me from a church that would have

bundled me straight back to Hell!

Brother, on the last day, we all will be surprised that those who built the most beautiful church

auditoriums in our cities and were pastors to Governors of states may not be recognized in Heaven. It is

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Presidents. The problem is when we begin to water down our messages to make them comfortable in

our churches.

Happily, there are men and women who are raising generals that will carry the end-time fire. Nobody
may know them in the cities and big towns. But they are among those Heaven will decorate. And those
are the ones I want to hear about.

Man of God, you know those who envy your big auditorium. But it is not people like us who were
failed by big auditoriums where people gather to contribute money for pastors who are in an unhealthy
competition with their mates and friends from their Bible School days. We want to see the impact of
your big auditorium on your members. Check the level of the spiritual hunger of your members. How
many of them call you to ask you how to grow in love, in obedience and in evangelism?

How many of them come to your office crying because, for over a month, they have not witnessed Jesus
to anyone? The only time they come to your office is to tell you about who is pursing them to kill them.
They are only telling you about the contract they are going for and the promotion they are praying

for.When will you start raising members who will come to your office every week to carry evangelism
tracts and tell you to pray for them, because they are invading some ghettos, and have made up their
minds not to come back until they have won many over to Christ? When will you start attracting
members who will sow millions into your life and tell you that they just want the work of God in your
hands to grow, and don't have any prayer request attached to the seed?

When will you start hearing boys and girls in your church praying and fasting, not for marriages or jobs
or visas, but for God to use them to cause revivals in their streets?

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The only language on your members' lips is jobs and marriage and contracts. None of them even cares
to carry the power of God to their neighbourhoods, to make a name for God. And you are celebrating
the anniversary of your church's founding?

We have seen the landed properties and cars that you have within one year. You are boasting your
services of three sessions every Sunday. But where is your evangelism team? How many of the people
following you will say you led them to Christ?

You are celebrating your anniversary of stealing members from other churches and of raising impotent
believers who are plagued with itchy ears. It is an anniversary of threatening people with their dead
relatives; of competing with your Bible schools friends, to show them that you are doing better than
them; of twisting scriptures to suit your avaricious motives; of raising funds from dying sinners without
any remorse as to what will happen to their miserable Christ-less souls;

It is an anniversary of bringing your demonic prophet friends to deceive your church members with
prophecies, and paying people to pretend they were mad but had been healed by you. Sir, you are
celebrating 1year anniversary of Pentecostal fraud and spiritual idiocy. What an ignominious spectacle!

If I cared so much about our relationship, or preaching in your big church, you would have known.
There is something we value more than your contact, sir. I remember when I used to kneel down in a
public place such as a mall, begging girls to give me their phone numbers. People would laugh at me.
To my hearing, everybody around would call me a fool. It is funny, brother. The way you are laughing
at me now is the way people were laughing at me then. Yet I never minded.

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If I could face public ridicule because of girls when I was in the streets, why will I be ashamed to go to

the streets and face public ridicule because of Jesus Christ today? If I could sleep in the rain, and in the

bush for a secret parole that paid nothing, why will I now want God to bless me with new shoes before I

get committed to His work? And why will you expect me to keep quiet when I see how we are

celebrating cathedrals filled to capacity with members who are not ready to be laughed at for God's

sake?

Apologies to our friends who were born born again! We beg forgiveness of our colleagues who are

ashamed to talk about where they are coming from because of the people they have met on the road. We

truly understand your position. If you are among them, sir, I apologize.

But there is something we remember. Why now should I be comfortable pastoring members who hide

their Bibles and are ashamed to tell their hostel mates that they are born again? The only thing that

brings them to church is because of their quest for miracles.

Prostitutes will travel for hours just to be with you. Like Ja Rule sang, they are “always on time.” They

do not come because they love you. Prostitutes do not want to know if you are a fine boy. They don't

care about your six-pack body. All a prostitute wants is money. Once she sees you, the first place she

looks at is your wallet.

That she is laughing inside the room with you is because she knows that you have money to pay her. I

know you did not touch a prostitute before you gave your life to Christ. But, please, sir, wait for some

of us who touched them to tell you what we learnt from them that is making us touch our generation

now that we have sold out to God.

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She might have travelled some distance to see you, but it is not to feel the pains 29

you are feeling. Rather, it is because of what you will give her. They can be beautiful; but no matter

how pretty they are, no man prides himself in them. Indeed, I have never seen a man boasting of a

prostitute.

How can you boast of someone who is only around you when you have money but far when you are
mourning?

Friend, how do you think God feels when He sees that the only thing that brings you to Him is your
problems? How do you expect Him to be proud of you when He knows that if you were not that you are
looking for a husband, a wife, a job or contracts you would not be in church?

Brother, this is the greatest set of prostituting Christians that have ever walked this earth. Many harlots
are our ushers: men and women who are only coming because they need jobs and visas and promotions.
They have been to over five churches in one year looking for miracles.

They don't care if there is an evangelism group in that church or an intercessions group. But they can
buy a bottle of 'anointing' oil at any price. They can buy 'anointed' water for 'assignments.' They can
sow any seed. All they want is miracle, not spiritual commitment.

They don't want to lose their fraudulent contacts. They don't want people to laugh at them because of
God, yet they want something from the same God. They are spiritual harlots. How can God be proud of
such a breed? Now I know why Jesus told the Samaritan woman that: “. . . The hour cometh and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seekers such to
worship him” – John 4:23.

Churches are everywhere; yet the Father is seeking for people 30

who will come to Him, not because of their needs but because of His needs. Unfortunately, many of our

Bible Schools are graduating young pastors who are entering the streets to raise more prostitution
centres in our generation in the name of church founding.

You will stay with them for one week and all they will be telling you is how much money they raised in
seeds when they ministered in some places. But you will never hear from them how many drunkards
they converted to Christ in the programme. All the members in their churches have needs. All of them
have people that wants to kill them. All of them are looking for jobs and marriages.
They don't have members who are zealously following Christ because of the fact that He hung on the
Cross and died for our sins. If there is no spiritual awakening in our time, then I wonder why God
brought people like us out in a time like this when, before our eyes, the church is tilting towards
Babylon.

Sister, you need a church where they will not only tell you about your needs and nothing about God's
needs. Satan protects prostitutes and blesses them daily with customers because they are not ashamed of
him. They can dance naked before hundreds of people. They can stand on the road for hours, luring men
to their doom, advertising Hell, doing the work of their evil master. But since you gave your life to
Christ, where have they laughed at you because of Jesus? Where have you advertised God? Where have
they called you a madman because of the gospel?

Prophets have been giving you assignments to buy water, buy apple, buy this and that for your problems
to be over. This year, let them start giving you the assignment of preaching in public places. You need
an assignment where they will start

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laughing at you because of the gospel of Jesus.

That's the assignment the early apostles gave their members; yet they lacked nothing. The early church
had money, and enough to spare. And they also had passion for winning lost souls, and even the least
among them manifested the power of God. But, in our time, we say we are rich; yet, this is the most
powerless generation of Christians that has ever carried the Bible.

Brother, you can step up your game this year. If your church is too big, it is not wrong. But there is
nothing wrong if you change to a smaller church where you will be relevant to God's work. Why you
rise and fall as a Christian is because you have not being going for evangelism.

Thank God that you have a good voice and are needed in the choir; but that's not enough. The Holy
Ghost is waiting for you to preach the gospel in your neighbourhood. You only sang in the choir last
year, but not this year again. You must step up. You only talked about your pastor and your prophet last
year; this year, talk about Jesus. He is the only message.

The end-time army will be a shameless army. Its members will not preach only when they are invited to
programmes, hotel reservations made for them and tastefully designed posters and handbills printed.
Anywhere they find themselves will be their crusade ground. They will be doctors that will be
conducting deliverance in their hospitals.

I know that the person reading now is already one of them. If that person is you, bow your head, and let
us pray!
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Chapter08

WHEN WILL YOU GET TIRED OF DEPENDING W ON MEN Obasanjo came hen to

WHO Nigerian discuss was ARE in with former DEPENDING the him, office, he President, doesn't
no matter ON give MEN?

Olusegun what you more you than 20 minutes, and some people use to travel from all over the world just
to see him.
Some used to lodge in hotels in Abuja, for weeks... While some for months, just to see him. And many
people that succeeded in seeing him never remained the same again. That 20 minutes' time with him gave
them contracts and offices and some got connections that made them billionaires.
If those that saw him for 20 minutes became as rich as that, what will happen to those that lived with him
or stayed with him daily? Imagine how rich they will become. If an ordinary President can change
someone's life financially because they spent just 20 minutes with him, what will happen when we spend
time with the God that made heaven and earth?
The mistake we are making is that we abandoned God and started looking for men. But sir, it's time to
look for God. It pays. If that vision has not driven you down to your knees, it must be a very small vision.
If that dream in your heart has not made you to see that you need God alone, please, wake up and dream
again. If you are talented enough to do it, God's glory might not speak expressly in that project.
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generations. Not because he could write or speak well. But because he could pray. Jesus did not fulfil
His great future because He was the Son of God. But because He was a praying man. We have been
depending on those we know, no wonder we cannot show evidence of the supernatural. Since we began
to trust in our smartness or powers, alas, we end up disillusioned.

Sister, there is something God will show you about where He is taking you to that will make you lose
appetite for sleep. If the vision of that ministry you have has not made you reject food and fast, you
might need to cry to God for a touch in your prayer life.

The first things Nehemiah did was not to design posters and start looking for guest speakers or looking
for hall to rent. The first thing he did was to pray and fast for the vision God has given him for his
people.

According to Hosea 10:12, he sowed to Himself in righteousness and he reaped in mercy. And with
those days of groaning and fasting, he was broke the fallow grounds. No wonder favour came from all
over the place. No wonder God used even the heathen to sponsor his vision.

Sir, there is a big difference when you depend on your contacts and when you depend on God. He hates
it when anyone will say: "I made Abraham rich".

Don't cut down the size of your God given vision because of the number of people in your life now. Go
ahead and keep watering that vision with prayer. Go back to that dream you had for that business. You
cannot be praying for 2 hours everyday and will not see the strange Hand of God in your life in no long
time.

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God wants to put ideas in your head that will shake the pillars of the earth and return all glory to Him
alone. Have the arms of flesh not failed you enough? How long will you keep waiting inside an office,
from morning till night, to see men, when God is waiting for you to call upon Him? May God revive
your prayer life this night. May He seize every appetite from you until you pray.

That demon of sleep that attacks you anytime you wake to pray is arrested from this night. You will not
struggle further in life. Heaven will set you up for divine help. Get ready for an idea that will put your
name in the list of relevant men in your community.

May your knee receive help from God now.

In Jesus Mighty Name. Let us pray!

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Chapter09

C heck the they MAN world were all the OF today, praying men GOD, of when 6 God to 7 they

LET who hours were God US every is young PRAY!

giving day. in Ask nations ministry, them. of Some of them abandoned their comfortable homes and
climbed dangerous mountains. And nobody saw them again, after many days.

They were there crying for God to use them in their generations. Some of them prayed and passed out for

long before God revived them again. Some prayed and fasted until their legs could not carry them again.

And today, they are reaping the fruits of the prices they paid in the place of prayer.

But unfortunately, my generation of ministers cannot even pray for 1 hour consistently, for one month. We

spend more hours searching for scriptures we will use on Facebook for arguments than to kneel down and

pray.
If this generation of ministers does not encounter genuine revival, I fear for what the church in the next

twenty years will look like when this prayerless generation of ministers would have taken over.

When I see young men who insult great men of God, who have gone through stuff for God, I don't feel

too comfortable with it. Whether they are wrong or right. What these men have gone through for the

Kingdom, we have not even dared it.

The insults, hunger alienation and loneliness some of them have suffered for God, cannot be told better

than themselves alone. Yet, after these years, they are still standing. 36
But just that someone made a comment on our facebook posts and called us fools, imagine how painful
it is. And in retaliation, we have made more than 20 posts in one day, directly and indirectly fighting
back. Carnality everywhere. Arrogance here and there. Obvious madness and we call it boldness.

If we face half of some of the things these generals have faced before they got this far, some of us
would have dropped bible long ago. And that is why the Bible said we should follow men who through
faith have obtained good report. When a man cannot pray, Satan can use him at will, to even fight
himself.

I don't want to talk about prayer. I don't want to read about prayer. I don't want to be around people that
can pray. I want to pray. Prayerlessness is the root of all the criminal activities and rivalries attendant in
the church in our days. Why young men go to sleep with queen of the coast to receive power to grow
their churches is because they don't want to pray.

A generation of ministers that doesn't have a prayer life cannot do much for God in our time. A
generation of preachers that fast and pray only when they have big programs will not lead this
generation anywhere. If my late dad could still be praying for four hours daily, at the age of 85, what
will be my excuse?

Friends, Facebook, Instagram and twitter can only give you phantom popularity. But Facebook cannot
give you power. Popularity does not heal the sick. And popularity does not cast out devils.

The world is plagued with too many questions. Families and destinies are bewitched and attacked
before our eyes. Popular men and women will not save the day. We need powerful men. The church
once again, needs men that will make a decree and it with stand.

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There is no other short cut to getting power except in the place of prayer. Man of God, let's go and fall
back to God in humility and expose to Him our emptiness. Let's tell God that we are tired of all these
packaging. We need the real thing. And we need it desperately.
 I thought you have seen the end of those that used juju for ministry. I thought you are seeing the
emptiness of those presently using demonic means to grow their churches. I thought you have sworn
never to bow to Baal.

I thought God showed you great things about your future when you first began. I thought there are
many prophecies hanging over your heads I thought some people have given you a date when they will
disgrace you and you will fold up that ministry. I thought you said someone swore that there will never
be a trace of glory in your life and ministry.

They saw you shouting fire in church. They came to your house and saw you playing gospel music.
Every day they see you going in and out of church. They think you have a prayer altar where you fall
back on, without knowing that you only come back from church to sleep, till the next day.

Now, they have gone to fortify their altars. Why are you surprised that things are happening the way
they are going around you? There is a price we must pay to carry the power we want to manifest. We
don't have any other option. We must pray.

Right now, I judge every spirit of weakness in the place of prayer in your life.

In Jesus Name. In case you are ready, let us pray!

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Chapter10

THIS MIGHT BE WHY YOU ARE FINDING Y ou hungry, observe IT can HARD stay

fasting, but from TO anytime morning hunger OBSERVE you will till make evening come
FASTING!
up from without your nowhere. mind feeling to I don't know about you. But it happens to me severally.
If there is nothing fasting adds to your spiritual life, Satan will not be trying hard to discourage you from

fasting. That miracle God uses your pastor to do, you too can do it. You don't need to go to Bible school
to begin to prophesy. You can lay hands on your sick mother and she will jump up, healed.
That fibroid can die on its own accord. Juicy contracts and jobs can start looking for you even without

you falling prey to a juju preacher, they are hiring to raise funds here and there. Satan knows those that
carries only Bible. But he also knows those that carries power.

You pay a lot for things that have been freely given to you because you have been spiritually lazy. The

cost of ignorance is alarming. Some people don't recover from it till they die. The greatest lie we have
told you is that we alone can be used by God. But you too can carry the power. You too can prophecy.
You too can heal the sick. There are little prices to pay. Praying and fasting is one of them. For Jesus, who
is God Himself to depend on fasting, it means, you and I have no excuse.
Adam never fasted. He was busy eating all the fufu and Sharwarma in Eden, morning, day and night. If he
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spiritual, the same serpent he named would not have being used to drive him out from glory.

When Jesus came, that same Satan rushed Him immediately. And took him to a restaurant. And told
him to start making order for food.

But Jesus remembered how the first Adam lost his honour... And he told him: "Man shall not leave by
bread alone..." Because the first man that lived by bread alone lost his dominion through food.

Friends, that was the first recorded victory Jesus had over Satan. And Satan has not forgotten what

Jesus did to him, because of His ability to fast. Till today, any time he sees God's child making up his

mind to fast, he gets afraid and release all his demons to make sure they disrupt the person.

That is why any time you are on a fast, suddenly, you will start remembering the fried rice you ate in a

party last year. Sometimes, you even start perceiving the aroma of food, even when there is no kitchen

around. (Smiles)

Satan is a bastard. He is a liar. He is wicked. But he is smart. Whatever that made God told us to go to

the serpent he cursed and learn must be a serious matter. Which means, even cursed things can be smart.

Since you became born again, you struggle to fast, because you don't understand the power in it.

I was not a pastor when different terminal sicknesses started dying by my hands. The day snake choked

to death inside my small room by itself, I was just a church member, only singing in the choir, as every
other person. When I used to go from Eke Okigwe to Abakpa Market, in Okigwe town, looking for sick

people to pray for and God was healing them instantly, then, I have never climbed any pulpit for once to

preach.

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I will gather some secondary school boys and girls and through me God will set them on fire. And they
will go back to their houses, looking for sick people to heal. Tomorrow, they will come back with
testimonies of different God's manifestations. Then, I was just a cleaner in our small church of less than
ten members.

It was a time of hunger, lack and wants. But, I converted it to fasting and God was adding grace, day by

day. When they call my pastor for emergency prayer, sometimes, he will send me to represent him

whenever he is too busy. And through my feeble hands, to the glory of God, the activities of wickedness

will end in those families whenever I enter. Yet, I was 'Brother Iyke... 'Not pastor Iyke.

I don't know about others, but, fasting and praying helped me. And it has not stopped. How can you say

you want to carry power in our time and you cannot loose meals?

Being worded is good. But fasting makes the Word of God in your mouth to come alive. Knowing the

Truth is good. But fasting sets the Truth in your mouth on fire.

Yes! Fasting is not only for power. But if you have a habit of studying the Word and adding it to a

fasting and praying life, snakes will come around you and die by themselves.

We have not arrived yet. We have not even begun. But in our little way, to the glory of His Name alone,

we have seen the a little of the power of God. And fasting has helped us. I am only talking to those that

wants to grow their game. I mean, those that wants to stay in their houses and set shrines in their

Father's houses on fire. Those that are tired of looking for prophets, from one city to the other. Those

that have gotten tired of being prayer projects in all the prayer ministries around.
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I mean those that wants to start manifesting the power of God by their own hands. Iyke Oriaku, I am

one of them. It is time to ask God to help us 'hate' food and give us grace to live a fasting life, because

we cannot remain like this. We must grow our fire!

Are you ready? Then, let us pray!

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O to THAT ne which Eke day NONSENSE I I Okigwe, needed was on to my close cook way

MUST some to to where the jollof STOP market I NOW!

to buy meat rice with. As I got lived, I suddenly started speaking in tongues.
While still speaking, I broke off briefly to tell the butcher to sell some meat to me. As he was about
slicing it, I resumed speaking in tongues and even raised my voice. Immediately, he covered up his meat
and would not sell to me again. I moved on to another person. I was still speaking in tongues. He had
started slicing the meat when I raised the decibel of my prayer. Again, out of fear, he decided not to sell
the meat to me.
I told him that I was just praying and that he should pay no attention to me. He rather accused me of being
an occultist on a mission to get some materials for ritual purposes.
He said that he also spoke in tongues sometimes but did so in church. But he was not taught that someone
could speak in tongues in the market or on the streets where worship was not going on. While arguing, he
raised his voice. This attracted his fellow meat sellers who teamed up to mock me and ended up branding
me a member of a notorious cult group in that area known as Pipe Men.

I ended up not cooking with meat as I intended. I had to use frozen fish which I bought elsewhere, away

from the market. By then, I had stopped speaking in tongues. As I got to the hostel where I lived, the wife

of porter, who was about six months pregnant, started shouting as soon as she sighted me:
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“Brother Iyke, thank you! Brother Iyke, thank you! If not for you, I would have been killed. How can I

thank you enough?”

She shouted this at the top of her voice. The occupants of the building rushed out to find out what the

matter was. I was surprised because I had no clue as to what she was talking about even though she

thought I knew what she was saying.

She said that after the birth of her first son, all other pregnancies would be terminated in the sixth month

as a result of demonic attacks. About seven demons will usually come to her in a dream and hit her
abdomen. This had happened twice consecutively, after which the demons told her they would kill her if

she got pregnant again.

When she got pregnant again, she went to her church and was given various anointed items to avert the

loss of her pregnancy. She also went to a prayer house where she was given similar items which she

kept in her room so they would ward off the demons.

That afternoon, exactly six months into her pregnancy, in spite of those anointed materials hanging

everywhere, the demons attacked her again. According to her, she was struggling with them and was so

weak that she could not even shout.

Nobody could hear her as she had started losing breath gradually and wondered what would become of

her son if she passed away. She was certain she would lose her baby and her own life as well.

It was at that time that I got back, still speaking in tongues. The demons fled immediately. According to

her, I was only speaking in tongues and they fled. She was revived shortly after they left her. She lost

neither her life nor that of the baby.

That was when she ran out and saw me. She held me and started shouting excitedly and thanking me for

coming to save her life and that of her unborn child.

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Friends, I did not have a clue of what she was talking about but people had already joined her in
thanking me. They did not know what was going on in my mind while I stood there. When I found out
from her the exact time the incident began, I realized it was exactly the same time I was in the market
speaking in tongues, the same moment I was labeled an occultist.

Friends, how could I have known that what I while speaking in tongues, some blood-sucking demons
were about to snuff life out of a pregnant woman? God suddenly bestowed on me, the gift of bilocation
– being in the market and my house at the same time thereby helping avert the disaster that was about to
occur.

I lived in that compound until the woman gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. She went on to have a
third child by which time I had already moved out of the compound. To the glory of God, that attack
was the last one. Hallelujah!

If not that I was not ashamed to speak in tongues in the market, those demons would have killed her and
her unborn baby. They would have dead and become the subjects of a colourful obituary poster if not
for God's intervention. Maybe her family would have written of her: “To God be the glory”, while
others would have written: “God gave and God has taken.” But it would not be true. Indeed, God gave
her life, but demons took it.

There are many things that happen to you that are not caused by God. There are several things the devil
has stolen from you before now. Last year you were weak in prayer, ashamed to pray or preach in public
vehicles, you were not even bold enough to pray in tongues in your office, and you were afraid of being
mocked while praying as you strolled on the way to school.

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No wonder many things died around you. You lost opportunities that would have made your life better.
No wonder your relationship has crashed. No wonder you cannot explain why certain things keep
reoccurring in your life. Refuse to celebrate spiritual cowardice this year.

I wish you knew how many demons have been mobilized to frustrate your vision this year. All they
want to do is to stop you from getting help. They want to make sure you end up suffering in life. If you
are truthful to yourself, you will know that you are not where you are meant to be. Demons are getting
promotions and being decorated with new ranks because of the many disasters they have caused in your
life.

If I were you, I will make a vow now to set my altar on fire again. It's time to be labeled a mad man for
the sake of God.

Let your neighbors get used to hearing you speak in tongues to the point that they will mock you as a
result. Do not let your Christianity end at claiming divine blessings for yourself or sharing posts online
because of the blackmail that accompanies them.

Christianity transcends wearing sacramentals, and expecting miracles. Rather, it boils down to doing
good and thwarting the efforts of the devil and his agents. Your shadow falls on the sick and they are
healed; demons stop holding meetings in your area because of you; witches sneak out of town anytime
they hear you are around; and people come to you to pray for them even when they know you are not a
pastor.

Friends, much of this social media Christianity is a scam. There is something more. If the early
Christians did it this way, the world would not have christened them 'Christians' at Antioch.

This year, brother, ask God to give you evidence of His fire in 46
your life. I am not talking about material evidence. Cars, good jobs and marriage are not evidence that
you are born again. Cult members also have cars as well as good marriages. Some of them are staff of
big firms.

Unfortunately for most Christians, they have refused to appreciate the Holy Spirit which sets them
apart. How would you feel if you were not on talking terms with someone you were asked to help? How
would you feel if no member of your household spoke with you? This is our action towards the Holy
Spirit. The same power that disgraced the grave and raised Jesus from the dead is with you right now.

Regrettably, you have neglected Him. What we miss in our time in our pursuit of shadows! The church
will never see a genuine revival until it reconciles with the Holy Spirit. This generation of preachers
cannot usher in the coming revival until it reckons with the agency of the Holy Spirit. Until the church
emphasizes His work, we can as well forget about a global harvest. Without the Comforter, the church
is just a place where people gather to exchange ideas.

I WILL NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT I SAW IN THE CHURCH IN THE DAYS OF
MY FATHERS.

They were poor, did not build big auditoriums and did not have Bible school degrees. But that
generation had the Holy Spirit and because of that shrines did not survive in their environments, and
evil forests where villagers buried cursed people were converted to praying camps. Mere church
members stopped demons in their tracks and cast them out of their victims. It cannot be compared to
what we have today.

The Christianity of today cannot keep Satan at bay. I don't have any problem with the use of
sacramentals because God can manifest in various ways; but these are the things I saw did not see in the
church in the days of my fathers.

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That generation of preachers did not sell anointing oil to their members. It did not sell the Holy
Communion either. It did not build up the faith of members using anointed objects. Instead, it taught
them to stay calm in the face of storms because God had given His angels charge over them.

The generation of my fathers did not teach its members to attribute a bad omen to the mere sighting of a
living creature at a particular time of the day. They were taught to calm the storm instead of being
troubled by it.

Because of that boldness, the supernatural and the miraculous regularly occurred even in the Children's
Department of the church. Witches were afraid of believers anywhere they saw them. This was possible
because most people sitting on the pews manifested the power of God.

In our generation, only the pulpit wields that power. We have robbed the pews of the knowledge that
should have made them carry the power of God, because we want them to be dependent on us. No
wonder we parade a congregation that doesn't know about the promises of God to His children. What a
time we are in! If there is any time to preach to preachers, it is now!
Jesus told them: “And you shall receive power . . .” He did not say that you shall receive an anointed
item before you receive power – nor did He say the power was available to pastors only. The entire
membership of the church waited for it and got it at Pentecost. And, from that day, they began to make
news. Today, we enclose the power of God in an item and expect it to manifest without having at least a
functional prayer life. What a fraud!

Why do we promise them the power they are not ready to pay a price for? How can they carry what
they have not waited for? How long shall we keep deceiving these people? When are we 48
going to tell them that what they possess within them is more powerful than whatever anointed
materials they procure from their churches.

I am greater than Moses; so, don't make me bow to him. I am greater than Elijah; don't tell me to reduce
myself to his level. These men never possessed the Holy Spirit who only rested upon them occasionally.
Yet, they manifested the power of God. What about you and I that have the Holy Spirit living inside of
us?

Why do we neglect Him to travel from coast to coast in search of materials anointed by men of God?

I wish you can understand how Moses, Elijah, Elisha and other great prophets envy you and I now. The
Bible says that they would have loved to see this day! They would have loved to be alive in an epoch
when the Holy Spirit dwelt in them, and not having their faith tied to sacramental. No doubt, they would
have achieved far more than they did.

This present generation of Christians cannot withstand the smallest demon if we keep building their
faith on anointed objects. I don't how many of such items you have been asked to buy again this year.
You can go ahead if you must. And let it be unto you according to your faith. But let it be that you
already know that 'HE' that is in you is greater than whatever is in any item you were given.

That pregnant lady would have died at the hands of demons even with all the sacramental she
surrounded herself with. They could not prevent the demons from attacking her. Thank God for mercy!

How many automobile accident scenes have you seen that you did not find the anointed stickers of a
church on at least one of the totaled cars? Where was the power in the anointed sticker 49
when the accidents that claimed lives happened? Yet more people are still building their faith on
anointed church stickers, just because of testimonies, whether true or false, which some people gave
about those materials.

By the grace of God, the children we are raising will not buy even one of your anointed materials – not
because you are not powerful or anointed enough. But because they will not have any need for it. The
children of God in our time may wear your anointed wristbands, but it would strictly be for fashion, not
because they depend on it for divine protection.
Anointing embedded in various materials cannot make us giants. It cannot scare our enemies. We are
raising men that will possess the power of God.

You may not see them with big and impressive Bibles. But whenever they open their mouths, fire will
come forth. You will not hear them shout, “My daddy”, “My bishop” or “My pastor!” But when they
act, you will know they are being trained by giants of the faith.

It's shameful that we are bragging about adults that are spiritually immature. I don't understand why we
are not ashamed that those buying our anointed materials cannot sleep for a night without using them.
The greatest shame some pulpits are suffering in our day is that we don't have any more shame left.

Lord, the pulpit has become the mission field. Where are the few men who still have shame? Everything
is wrong with this generation of Christians who depend so much on anointed materials. I don't have a
problem with the use of sacramental as I also have mine. But there is something more.

Beside redemption through the blood of Jesus, the greatest gift that God has given to us is the Holy

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us. I believe in anointing oil; but you don't need to rely so much on it when you have God. Let no man

build your spiritual life up with anointed materials.

When you know your position in Christ, you don't need those things. There is power where the word of

the King is, and not where there are anointed materials. As one who is born again, you are already a

king.

All you need to generate power is to build up yourself in the faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. See Jude

20. That's why Jesus said that men ought always to pray and not to faint. Luke 18:1.

This is because, in the place of prayer, you are building your power bank. Don't let any other thing die

around you. Wherever you are right now should be conducive enough for you to pray in tongues. Let

them say you are a cultist and let them accuse you of making incantations.

You may not know what the Holy Spirit wants to achieve through you. “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth

our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
 intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” – Romans 8: 26.

This year, make a vow to grow in power. As you sit there now, promise the angels by your side that you

must make efforts to start depending on the Holy Spirit henceforth. He is listening to you right now.

Tell Him that you are sorry for not acknowledging Him all this while. Let Him see the fresh

determination in you to get Him involved in everything you do henceforth. This is the time He has been

waiting for to start a fresh work in your life that will usher you into a lifetime of the supernatural.

I welcome you to the fresh page of your life with the Holy Spirit! Let us pray!

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WHAT HAUSA PEOPLE TAUGHT ME I n Hausa for my money. country, and ABOUT

Yoruba. And Nigeria, they THE Igbo have there POWER men it. are Yoruba are three known OF men
major GOD
for are tribes: their looking search Igbo,

for education. And they have it. Hausa men are looking for power. And they have it.
But the Hausa men are controlling both the Igbo with money and the Yorubas with certificates, because
they have the power. They understood earlier on that a man in power can control a man with money and
degrees. You can hate a man with power, but you are still under him. You can speak grammar more than
him, but you are still under him. Just one decision he will make can affect your source of money.
If he gets angry and effects a policy, all your degrees might be useless in your hands. That is why all Jesus
promised His disciples was not money or scholarships. But He said: "And ye shall receive power..."
Because He understands that there are demonic powers.
Don't just pray for promotion in the office. Pray for promotion in the school of Power. They can raise your
salary, yet, a 9- year old girl with demonic powers can be controlling how you spend the salary. Your
father might have ended the way he did because of powers that fought him.
Thank God for your degrees and business ideas. But sir, look for the Power of God. As you go to church
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money as usual. Cry to God for His Power. How far could the Apostles have gone in life without the
endowment of the Power from on High?

The only language the devil understands is power. May your admission into the school of power be
granted this week. May God trust you with the Anointing. May you speak less and Pray more and may
the power come.

In Jesus Name.

Let us pray!

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BEFORE YOU CHALLENGE THAT WITCH IN YOUR VILLAGE, READ THIS!

 Y ou for fight are money, your in the yet, uncle city you sleeping who want sleeps to from go

back in one burial to man the grounds to village the other and for power.

Your pastor begs you to attend church every Sunday, and anytime you manage to do so, you would be
looking at your watch. Yet, you are challenging the witch in your compound who does not miss her
meetings on the high seas every night.

You may not have killed and you don't use charms. But you don't have any covenant with God. Yet you
are doing business with men and women who have demonic covenants with pythons which they serve.

You know all the movie actors and actresses and how much they are worth, but you don't know any
scripture in the Bible. You can sit down and see movies for eight straight hours; but once it's time to
pray, you would start complaining that you want to sleep.

Once you hear, “open your Bible,” you would remember you had a hectic day and need to rest because
you'd have to be at work tomorrow. Sister, enemies are using your destiny to play snooker.

When you don't have new shoes and clothes, you don't go to church. When it's raining, you assume your
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understand that you cannot let water touch your hair. Yet, the enemies of your glory go about under the
sun and in the rain.

Many times, they go naked to fellowship with their kind, and to get more powers from the snake they
serve. Yes, a prophet has told you the names of your enemies and given you accurate prophecies. But
there is a price to pay. It is time to strike a covenant with God.

Impartation and anointing services start and end as mere rituals when they involve men and women
who have no covenant with God. Wearing anointed bangles, anointed this and anointed that is mere
fashion when you have not surrendered to the work of Christ on the Cross.

Considering that you are not known in Zion, how dare you point your finger at a man who does not
sleep all night but dances naked in graveyards to renew his powers? Do you not know it amounts to
suicide?

How dare you question that witch in your office when you know you have no covenant backing you up?
Do you want her to send you afflictions the way she sent them to others in that same office?

How can you be in the city, with all your degrees and connections, yet an illiterate witch in the village
controls how much enters your hands and what you do with it? The witch did not go to school, but you
did. Yet, she has sworn that the certificates you bagged would be useless to you and your family. And,
before your eyes, her words are playing out.

The witch has not been to the city, but you are in the city. Yet, from the village, she has sworn that
nothing good will come near you in that city. And, evidently, it is working out according to her threats.

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Sister, this is not just a matter of posting church stickers everywhere in your house or car. This is not a
matter of obeying a prophet, by observing days of dry fasting, after which you go back to sleep with
other women's husbands. This is time to surrender to God and to enter a covenant with Him!

In the game of the spirit, covenant is the password. What can you let go of for the altar you are bowing
to? What kind of painful sacrifice can you make to service the power behind your covenant?

Some people don't have sex with anybody, not even with their wives, for weeks and months. Some
sleep with dirty and stinking mad women. Some eat excreta. Some drink the blood from a woman's
mensuration – all because they want to grow in their demonic powers.

No wonder when they cast spells, Satan carries it out immediately. They can be far away but monitor
you easily. They know when you are about winning a big contract award, and they scatter it. They know
when a wonderful man wants to propose marriage to you, and they hijack it.

Sister, without a relationship with Christ, whether you like it or not, they are more powerful than you
are. No matter how promising a business proposal is, occult men never miss their cultic meetings.
Those of them who are busy politicians won't dare stay away from such meetings because they know
that their positions and political powers are at stake with their absence.

Unfortunately, Christians play with God. We play with fellowship days. We prefer travelling to attend
programs where they promise they would see visions for us. We go from city to city shopping for
answers and miracles.

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Yet, the Bible tells us: “not forsaking the assembly of ourselves, as manner of some is; but exhorting

one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” – Hebrews10:25.

But we want where they would push us down and bring microphones to start interviewing the demons

in us; and the next Friday night, we will be in another night vigil, where they would interview another

demon inside us.

You are not committed to any church, but you want power. How can it work? They only go “from

strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before Zion” – Psalm 84:7.

Brother, come down from that mountain where you have stayed since last year. Go back home, get

committed to a church and enter a covenant with God. You alone know those contacts in your phone

that are fighting your covenant with God. Delete them and new things will start unfolding in your life.

I know you have tried severally, but still see yourself going back to your vomit. Brother, there is grace

on this page now. Cry a new cry today and let fresh tears flow from your eyes. I see God empowering

your YES and your NO! You cannot continue living your life without tying it to a covenant.

You are inflicting wounds on your destiny, while the enemies of your father's house are glorying in your

stagnation in life. Before they pour another bottle of anointing oil on you, tell them to please reconcile

you with God. Before they tell you to buy another mantle and anointed this and that, please tell them

that you want to make peace with God first.

Your father did not know this. He was a nice and honest man but he did not have any covenant with

God. He thought that the battle of life is won by honest men. He did not know that in the things of the

spirit, men with strong altars win the day. No wonder he has nothing to show for his honest life in the

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Naboth was an honest man, but did not have any altar. How can you challenge a Jezebel when you don't

have an active altar? How can you stand in the way of such a highly demonic woman that drinks the

blood of the old and the young and go home to watch African Magic and Super Sports?

Jezebel gathered her demonic people and they declared a demonic fast over Naboth's head who, not

knowing of the forces massed against him, went home and was eating fufu and drinking Shawarma.

Every day he was inside barbing salons and boutiques, doing his best to look hip and trendy, whereas a
witch like Jezebel and her dedicated loyalists went foodless, sleepless and sexless for days over his

head. No wonder that man was wasted even in his honesty.

Friends, Elijah learnt a lot from Naboth; if he had not, Jezebel would have wasted him too. When he

embarrassed Jezebel and Ahab publicly, he became the most wanted man in all of Israel.

In the spirit, a bounty was placed on his head, reward for any witch that would bring him down. But

God's general withdrew himself from circulation and hid somewhere. And for three years and a half, he

was servicing the covenant altar he had raised for his God.

You cannot imagine all the sacrifices Jezebel made to destroy him. That witch shed the blood of goats,

fowls, boys, girls, men and women just to activate her altar against Elijah. And Elijah knew this; that

was why he was afraid. He surrendered to his superior altar, the one that created heaven and earth. That

was the Altar that took care of Jezebel and her false prophets. Alleluia!

Sister, I want to reconcile you with that same altar now. You don't have a choice. Jezebel is after you.

She and her hordes are after your academics and marriage. What is the condition 58

of your altar? Every morning that you dress up, looking more beautiful, it annoys your enemies. And

they are going back to provoke their altars against you.

Naboth was only a Sunday morning Christian. But Elijah was always happy when he was told, “let us
go to the house of the Lord.” Which of them are you like? Naboth would only go to church when there
is a poster and handbill, and when a big prophet is coming to church.

He did not have any personal prayer life. No covenant. He was just there, defending the property of his

father, without power from on high. But Elijah knew that you don't handle Jezebel if you depend on the
relationship your father has with God. He did not start wearing jeans and shirts going around town, so
that Jezebel would see he was doing well.

That would be very dangerous. He went back to his altar, where spiritual wars are fought and either won
or lost. He was just one man, but he made a name for God in Israel.

I don't know the witch you pointed a finger at in the village, compound, or office that has made the
battle against you to be more fierce. But there is nothing to be afraid of. Go back and repair your broken
altar. The stones of Jezebel will not see your head. If your father knew this, he would not have suffered
as much as he did.

Your siblings thought that going abroad was the answer. But Jezebel has networks all over the world. If

they tell you what they are facing abroad, you will understand really that we wrestle not against flesh
and blood.

Your destiny is at stake, my brother. It deserves more than typing amen on Facebook to the prayers you
see there! You have to enter a covenant with God and mean it that, henceforth, you will go God's way
for the rest of your life.

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The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. But how can a carnal man carry weapons he doesn't
understand or know how to use? That's suicide. My sister, the “Fire!” You are shouts in church is a
suicide attempt. You have been your own enemy all this while. And if that fire comes, it might start
from you. God wants you to grow in power before He releases His glory. But, you have remained in the
same spiritual spot.

Now that you are still trusting God for a miracle and they are fighting you, what would happen when
they see you carrying out big projects in the village?

Is that not why some boys who started building houses in their villages did not live long enough to
finish them? They were celebrating in the face of their enemies, mighty witches and wizards, when they
did not have any protective covenant with God. And they paid for their folly with their lives. That will
not be your portion in Jesus Name!

I understand your struggles. But you have to understand that you wrestle against principalities and
powers. Your careless lifestyle is empowering demons over your life. Don't give your enemies the
weapons they will use to destroy you. They are not afraid of you when they see you with new shoes,
new phones and new shirts. But they are always afraid of you whenever you draw close to God.

They get scared when you make up your mind to maintain your covenant with God. Why? They know
that there is no enchantment against Israel or divination against Jacob. That is why they want you to be
spiritually weak, so that you will never be powerful enough to neutralize their manipulations against
your life.

That is why you don't have a prayer life again. You cannot even tell anybody that you are a born again.
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you start operating from a repaired altar. Restoration, financial and spiritual revival will only answer
summons when your altar has been repaired.
 Elijah called down fire after repairing the altar. Stop shouting “Fire!” from a scattered altar. God will
not show up! Receive grace to rebuild your spiritual altar now. Receive grace to build your prayer life. I
cause enmity between you and whatever is distracting your relationship with God. Your phone and your
TV will no longer take the place of your Bible.

Receive grace to enter into a covenant with God that will drive you until your dying day.

I see you recovering all that the enemies have stolen from your father's house. What God will do in your
life from now on will surprise everyone that used to know you. The testimonies that will be coming out
of your mouth daily will choke your enemies and send them to their graves one after another. When you
meet your friends again, you will be surprised to see yourself preaching to them to repent.

That street you have not passed through for so long, because of the things you did there in the past, I see
you going back there to preach the gospel. Get ready to see your friends coming to apologize to you that
they had been the ones using witchcraft to scatter all of your life's efforts.

You will lose some friends who would no longer be comfortable with the fire of God that will be
coming out of you from now on. I know you are ready for the next level. I welcome you to a new lease
of life.

Let us pray!

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"TEACHER, DON'T TEACH T he at fasting. home first speaker He in the ME said name

came we NONSENSE!”
should of up studying and start told looking the us Bible, to stop for praying businesses sitting idle and

to invest in to raise money to help God's work in our hands.

The second speaker spoke on the need for young ministers to have international exposure early.
Accordingly, he advised us to start looking for visa to travel abroad, or people will not respect us.

Friends, I got home and stopped looking for God and started looking for money. I began to get involved in

every business that came my way – all to help the vision that God gave me. I started looking for visas and

international connections. Every day, I would go online looking for who would invite me abroad.

The money started coming. I began to dress better and more expensively. The international contacts

started coming. People began to say that I was doing well. Some began to envy me because of how I used

to spend money. They said the Lord was too good to me. But they did not know that the fire had gone. I

was no more a problem to Hell.

Apprentice witches and wizards began to toy with people around me. Before then, any time I grabbed the

microphone, within minutes, the heavens would open and the presence of God would envelop

everywhere. But when I began to have more money, nice shoes and suits, I would have to struggle for a

long time before the heavens would open just a little bit.
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When I used to go out with my simple clothes, I didn't have to preach to a sinner for long before they

became broken in spirit and let me lead them to Christ. But after I acquired my big phones, nice

perfumes and costly shoes, I began to struggle to win someone to Christ. There was money. There were

internationally open doors. But the fire had gone.

I am not talking to those that know what they are doing, but to those like us who do not. If God will not

provide for the assignment He has given me, I will not kill myself. If He will not sponsor it, then the

vision did not come from Him. I know we need money to build nice auditoriums for God. But we need

power more than we need money. A big and beautifully furnished auditorium where there is no power

of God would depend on drama groups and dancers to bring people back to church the next Sunday.

Let them keep looking for money. Sir, let's go and look for the power of God. Let them go online every

day, begging people to invite them to foreign countries. But let's keep bruising our knees, looking for
that thing money cannot buy. When God uses you to heal a known madman in the streets, people will

troop to your church the next Sunday, without minding if it has a gallery or not.

Jesus asked them: “When I sent you out, did you lack anything?” They did not go to buy and sell to

sponsor the work of God committed into their hands. They went with the power of God. A man who is

loaded with power from on high cannot lack anything.

At the last ministers' conference Jesus held with his disciples, He told them: “And ye shall receive

power".

He knew they needed money. But He also knew that money would not have helped Philip take revival

to heathen Samaria. He knew that the cripple at the beautiful gate had been receiving money from

pastors for many years, but was still a burden to his people. He knew that what Peter and John 63
needed to give him to change his story was power.

Jesus remembered that Prophet Jonah did not enter Nineveh with money. He entered with the power of

God and a whole city surrendered their shrines. Even newborns and animals prayed and fasted for three

days! No amount of money would have brought revival to Nineveh – just like no amount of money can

bring revival to our sin-addicted cities today.

The church of our day boasts in money. We make boasts with fireless auditoriums and unction-less

titles. But the early church boasted and gloried in the power of God. No wonder even native doctors

offered money in exchange for it!

Unfortunately, we now hire native doctors and invite them into our well-decorated auditoriums to raise

money for us. If we still had the fire, we would not need boys, that sleep in burial grounds for power, to

come to our churches to raise money from our members. Is that not why our members are the ones

patronizing all the false prophets in the area?

Is there any secret society in whose register one will not see the names of our committed members?

They are looking for answers since there is no more bread in the house of bread.

In churches in America and Europe, they now serve tea and bread so that people will not get bored and

leave. In some places, they even pay people to attend church. They worship in beautiful cathedrals with

nice interiors; but the fire is gone. What an Ichabod!

That is what happens when a generation of ministers abandons the fire in search of the praises of men.

Thank God for degrees, money, titles et cetera. But if these things will quench the little fire I have in my

heart now, please, away with them!

Man of God, Apostle Paul had a tent-making business at some point to enable him take care of his

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depended on it for all his missionary expenses. God raised people that supported the Kingdom work. If

you are the one paying the bills of all your meetings, it means God is not with you.

How long and hard would Evangelist Reinhard Bonke have had to work to raise the money for his

worldwide crusades that lasted for over three decades? What kind of business can give you such

money? But that man beseeched God for power and got it without measure. And God raised men to

carry the burden for him.

Apostle Paul went to the mountains of Arabia to look for God. And he grew in power. He had found it

before we saw him making tents for a living. He raised the dead, healed sicknesses and brought revival

to cities. Meanwhile, you are looking for a big car to drive when you cannot command small demons to

run. You have abandoned your prayer altar and, now, you are looking for money to do God's work. Go

back to your knees. Heaven will soon show up.

The Bible says that through the greatness of your power your enemies shall submit to you. And one of
your enemies is poverty. When that power comes, poverty will be broken – because it is God that gives

you the Power to make wealth. Stop being distracted. Look for God. When you find Him, a time will

come when you will have so much money that you will start investing in many other businesses. Many

politicians, especially those in public offices have a lot of money. Therefore, they won't follow you

because of your money, cars or international exposure. But when God uses you to heal their son or

daughter of an incurable disease, they will have no choice but to bow to the God you carry inside you.

Such testimonies were everyday occurrences in the days of my fathers. When members, not even their

pastors, used to raise the dead everywhere they went. And they were feared everywhere. 65
Unfortunately, we don't hear such testimonies again. This is because all everybody talks about in our

churches today is money. And some of us who saw what God used the generation of our fathers to do

are now asking: “Where is the power of God? If God is still with us, where are the miracles our fathers

told us of?”

Brother, go ahead and start looking for money. You can be online and offline looking for visas. But I

know that there are men and women who are crying day and night. They go foodless and sleepless,

waiting for the promise of the Father. They don't want to talk too much to this stubborn generation.

Take your church politics away. They don't care about such godless networks. You can transfer them

from one small church to an even smaller church. They will not be moved, because they are looking for

power.

They want what Peter had that made his shadow heal the sick. Kathryn Khulman carried that same

thing. Smith Wigglesworth was a commander of that same thing. Others were looking for big church

postings while T. L. Osborn separated himself in search of the same thing. And when he caught it, he

carried it to all the continents of the world, raising countless dead and healing all manner of incurable

diseases.
 Friend, when they bring a dying child to you, your business certificate will not be needed. Jesus was not

just the WISDOM of GOD. He was also the POWER OF GOD. Let's look for IT. I am sure that the

talkative will not have any place to stand on in this end-time. I am hungry for God's POWER and I am

gone in search of it.

If you have already gotten it, congratulations! But, please, remember Iyke Oriaku, your weak friend.

Let us pray!

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sk your parents about all the money they have been looking for since they were born. If it is by their

strength, they would have become the richest men in A your community.

Many of our parents struggled without knowing that they inherited battles. And those battles swallowed

them. That was why they were honest and hardworking, but they had very little or nothing to show for all

their sweat.

You have started looking for money the way they did. Waking up very early and sleeping very late. Good

as it is. But sir, if you don't conquer the battles in your father's house, you will end up the way they ended

up. Jesus spent the early days of His ministry, conquering powers that conquered His father's house. No

wonder, He didn't struggle.

I know you want to train your children in the best schools. You want to leave cars and mansions and

estates behind for your children before you leave this earth. But make sure you don't leave battles behind

for them. If not, those battles will swallow them and all the mansions you will leave behind.
Solomon fought no war, even in his mistakes and vanities. He enjoyed his reign. Because his father David
fought all the battles for him. Joab, the potential obstacle that was left, David also told Solomon to
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eliminate him if he must enjoy his reign. (1Kings 2:5) 15 INCASE YOU

INHERITED ANCIENT FAMILY BATTLES, THIS IS FOR YOU!

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I hope we are not praying to God for children that will come and suffer shame and delay in every area
of their lives? These are some of the things many of our African fathers did not know that is affecting
many of their children today. But thank God we now know that every family that has program of glory
has exceptional battles.

Why your family seems to be going through this present hardship and delay is because there is glory
ahead. It is not a curse. Because Jesus has made a way out. It is rather a curse not to have anything that
can make the enemy fight you.

But sir, we must wake up. If not this ancient battle will swallow us. Jesus saw the powers that would
have swallowed Him. And He took the war to the corridors of demonic powers. And declared to them:
"Lift up your heads oh ye gates and be ye lifted up oh ye everlasting doors. That the king of glory may
come in". And those ancient altars replied Him:"Who is this king of God...?" (Psalms 24:9)

Friends, you have gone to church to pray. You have sown seeds. You have made declarations. But hell is
asking you questions. "Who is that girl that wants to liberate her family from poverty?"It is in the place
of prayer that you send your reply to hell, that God has made you the head and not the tail. Therefore
your days of begging to feed your family is over; that God said that it is not good for that man to be
alone, therefore your marriage must come.

That God said strangers shall build up thy walls..."That as soon as they hear from you they shall obey
you... That a people you know not shall obey you...”

Satan is tired of hearing your words. It doesn't move Him. He only runs when you bring Gods words. I
want you to join me everyday of this week to pray for one hour, with any of the scriptures above or any
relevant scriptures in your arsenal.

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Ask your elder ones who are married. After wedding, there are still more battles inside that marriage.
Ask those who are gainfully employed. Even in their offices, there are still battles. For Jesus Himself to
tell us not to faint, but to pray often, it must be a serious matter. He must have seen obstacles on our
ways.

Yes. He must have seen the same things that stopped others positioned to stop us. If you are not aware
of it, sir, you will pay for it. When I see young men and women who are hungry for glory but not ready
to pay the price in the place of prayer, I shudder. You don't become a voice because of what you do
online. But because of what you do offline.
Guys are paying price. With fasting and groaning. Don't let Facebook, Instagram and snapchat distract
you. You must have time to hide and cry to God for the oil you want to carry. If talents and beauty were
enough, sister, you should have been more than where you are now. The price Jesus paid was to
purchase the freedom for us all. But it is in the place of prayer that we make demands for our own share
of the Redemption package.

And that's why the writer of Hebrew told us to come boldly to the throne of grace that we may receive
help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16. If there is nothing to take from the throne of Grace, the Bible would
not invite us there. For "He has not said to the seeds of Jacob, seek ye me in vain.." Isaiah 45:1

I am talking to only those who don't want to be swallowed by the same things that swallowed their
parents and elder ones. They carried bible but were still begging for food. They preached to people, but
yet, could not pay their children's school fees. They were honest and hardworking. But yet, they had
nothing to show. And now you are seeing resistance in every areas of your life.

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The same things that happened to others seem to be happening to you. My brother, stop pretending that
all is well. You need to wake up to your family responsibilities. And stand in the gap, in the place of
prayer. I have received testimonies of incredible move of God in many lives and families since we
joined faith online to pray together.

Some strong men fighting some people are already in the mortuary now after we prayed together. And
we return all the glory to God for the testimonies of miracles jobs started coming in after the death of
those evil men. Some marital proposals and wedding preparations are coming in like magic.

It is a disaster to sit under a man that doesn't understand the battles you are into. And he will be telling
you not to pray against your unrepentant enemies. That vengeance is of the Lord. You might be there
and those that killed your father might kill you and still come to your burial to eat rice.

Anyone sponsoring your tears; fueling the fire of pain and delay in your family, that has refused to
repent, I declare again, he will be in the mortuary before the end of this year. It has already begun.

The next witch that will die will be that one that has sworn that none of your siblings will see glory. I
raise a war cry against that wicked woman that has refused to die, rather she is renewing her life with
that of young people in your compound. This month, she will sleep and not wake up again.

Friends, we are only as far from solutions as far as we are from prayers. It might look as if it not
working but that is the best time not to stop praying. Are you ready to give Him no rest this week, till
He makes Jerusalem a praise on the earth?

Can you ask God to purge you of any sin that is going to supply evidence to Satan to accuse you before
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pray with relevant scriptures, as it appeals to what you are trusting God for? And I join faith with your
prophet that passionately prayed for you yesterday, and I pray that from next week, new things will
begin to happen for you.

That testimony you have been believing God for will be handed into your hands. We have already
vowed to return all glory to God.

If you are ready, then, let us pray!

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