Programme: United Kingdom Easter Retreat 2024 (Day 2 Morning)
Date: Saturday, 30th March 2024
Tongues and Interpretation
“For it is a transnational, it is a transcontinental project, even it is a project from coast to coast. From the beginning of one end of the earth to the end, Jesus will be glorified, Jesus will be seen, Jesus would be known. Even through the auspices, even through the umbrella of the working of Jesus Christ in this community, I will cause that the work will spread to the utmost ends of the earth, that men would come from far and wide to learn that which I have shown you, that which you have heard of Me, that which I have raised in you. Even that which I have worked in you would become a testimony. It would become a testament. It would become even an artwork upon the canvasses of the heart of men, even by the reason of the abundance of that which I have done. It is a global project! For I will announce Myself, I will proclaim and I will publish, even that which is of Me, even that which you have trapped, even that which I will yet show you unto Eternal Life. It is a global project.”
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God is interested in raising and building us. He wants to raise a formidable people and build us the same way He built Jesus against hell and death. Jesus is a work that was done, for God built Him in a way that death could no longer have dominion over Him. God built a man that beat death and all the arsenals of Satan. That is the kind of work God wants to do in us; He wants to raise men and women who will beat death. To beat death, one must be able to walk against the laws of death.
Romans 6:9-13
“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. [10] For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. [11] Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. [12] Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. [13] Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
For Him to be raised from the dead, a lot of work was done in Him. Building is tied to our legs. A man is only built when he walks in righteousness. There is no building without walking and the substances with which such a one walks is provided by the Lord.
Building is in stages and levels. If one does not cooperate with the revelation that is being brought to us, there will be no building. This can be likened to admiring materials for building on a piece of land without using them. Many times we are given revelation but we only use them for admiration, but no building goes up.
Meat is given to us to eat so we can grow. Meats are in stages: what qualifies one for different levels is what one has done with the previous one given. To qualify for meat, one must have used milk. There are things in milk to do in order to become a child. When milk comes to a person, the Holy Ghost gives such a one things to do. There is leading in this state such that if one yields to it, he/she will have the stature of a child. From the use of milk, this child is ready to take the first level of meat. There are some who have all the ‘faith talks’ but have no discipline of obedience to the leading and demands of the Holy Ghost because the allocation of milk is in the hand of the Holy Ghost.
God gives milk but He is still going to a far place, which is to raise a man that can beat death. The level at which the gospel met us was dust and all we could take at that level was milk. But people who cooperated with milk became children who could take the next allocation (Isa. 28:9). A child who is using milk cannot understand meat because they would see it as heretic. Such a one needs to be weaned otherwise, they would stick to their previous knowledge. Weaning for such a child can be very tough and the Holy Ghost would have to orchestrate situations or dealings that would make such a one understand that there is more to Christianity and the gospel than the doctrine of milk. There, the babe would be taken to a point where his present milk sense no longer works or yield results, as it previously did.
Isaiah 28:9
“Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.”
The first level of meat is knowledge. Meat is knowledge (revelation) that one is taught and through it, doctrine is understood. Every believer is started off with the meat of Christ after using milk. One would not do well with meat if such a one has not previously done well with milk. Meat is in levels. There are things which each allocation of meat is to take care of. The first allocation of meat is the meat of Christ, and it is meat indeed because it is meant to raise us. The first raising is to raise us above the laws of sin and death.
Christ is meant to make us holy. Holiness which is not borne out of the meat of Christ is false. Without partaking of the meat of Christ, one cannot be termed as holy. This holiness is the first level of holiness a man partakes of. The meat of Christ is meant to make a man holy and sanctified (Jn. 17:17). The meat of Christ is the truth that is in Jesus.
Ephesians 4:20-21
“But ye have not so learned Christ; [21] if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus…”
Christ is taught. After hearing preaching, the Spirit of Christ comes to teach one the truth which is in Jesus. There is teaching and there is leading. The meat of Christ will raise a body. Satan gave man plenty of meat to eat and it dissolved our bodies. The raising of the body by the meat of Christ will not only propel the body inside but would also affect the outward man. The external bodies of humans are falling because the inner bodies have been broken down.
Manna had its effect on the bodies of the children of Israel. They ate it so much that it affected their bodies and none was feeble among them (Ps. 105:37). Though confession is good, God is bringing resources which when we agree with them would have an effect on our physical bodies. The effect of manna on the bodies of the children of Israel was such that their clothes and shoes were also growing on their bodies. They ate the food of angels and it affected their bodies. Therefore, we should not joke with what God is offering us.
John 6:48-49, 51
“I am that bread of life. [49] Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead… [51] I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
If a man yields to the giving of the meat that is Christ, that meat is meant to transform such a one from carnality to spirituality.
1 Corinthians 10:3-4
“And did all eat the same spiritual meat; [4] and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”
Christ is a spiritual meat which is meant to make us spiritual. The meat comes by understanding and seeing Christ. This sighting of Christ is not in visions but by having an insight into the laws that framed Him. Those laws that framed Him are the meat. God is a fabrication and a weaving of laws. So whenever God gives Himself, He gives the laws that made Him up. The giving of Christ is the giving of the laws that fabricated Him. Those laws are potent and lively. The laws that Satan gave man killed him because Satan has death in his pouch. All that Satan offers is death.
John 10:10
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
Satan steals, kills and destroys by his laws and he has things to offer. Satan is death personified; he died and was thrown out of heaven. He died completely without any chance of repentance. All evil spirits died the second death the day they rebelled. Every demon is twice dead, so we ought not to joke with what they offer. They persuade one about the things they hold but we should be aware that every demon is not looking to take man to hell but to make him die the second death.
Demons are second death agents, so their offerings should not be joked with or entertained. They come as friends to sympathize with one and show one his/her rights. When Satan shows you your right, be sure that he is showing your right to die. As long as it is coming from him and not the revelation of the Lord, he is ministering death.
Satan weakened nations by giving them bread to eat. He gave them of himself; he gave them what he became. He turned all the laws that God used to frame him (Ezek. 28:15-16). He turned all the laws of life inside him to laws of death and started giving man to eat of it, not as an enemy but as a friend. He serves death by giving his thoughts and we have lived by it for so many years that it has become a lifestyle. Death is sweet to live by because it is sweeter to die than to live. To live is an uphill task but to die is like an easy descent.
Every human being has been brought to a state of stupor because of the meat that they have partaken of. The meat has closed the eyes of man; it has reduced and broken down man as far as his thought pattern. This is why we ought to allow God to use His words to wash our thinking pattern. Satan can give a person a beautiful thought and such would run with it feeling justified and correct. This is why we have to take the meat that the Lord is offering.
The first meat is the meat of Christ which is to take us from carnality to spirituality. To be spiritual is a raising because the meat that Christ gives contains the laws that are inside him. There is a life in Christ Jesus that one can partake of only by the laws of that life. We know the law by revelation and understanding and through teaching, our eyes would be opened to see Christ. You cannot see Christ without coming in contact with the laws inside Him.
Romans 8:1-2
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Freedom in the scripture above refers to a raising. A free man is a raised man; he is a stature and building. The meat of Christ breaks the hold of sin and death. When a man is being freed, his building is going up. All the promises of God are life. One cannot disobey the laws of sin and death except the grace of the laws of life rests on such a one. This is because those laws of sin and death have become part of us, as we were weaved and framed by them.
It is not a walk in the park to become spiritual but grace (to come into this estate) comes with understanding. One is able to judge death with the understanding of Christ because not all rational things are spiritual. The devil flaws us with our minds because the mind is unspiritual. As such, reasons are usually projected to us through it. But in the beginning, it was not so.
In the beginning, there were people who could be cheated. Satan used to be in the status of Michael (the Archangel) in terms of meekness until he turned himself to another state and started to teach man the same way. The term ‘No gree for anybody’ is a statement that represents ‘death’ (1 Cor. 6:7). The learning of Christ would teach one to let go of situations and agree to lose (1 Cor. 1:23). This may sound foolish because we were raised with the laws of death that magnifies our rights to us. Fighting for one’s right is smart and allowing one’s self to be cheated sounds foolish only because we were framed in that manner. Satan, who is an agent of death, sells death to people through thoughts, ideas and reasonings that keep men perpetually carnal.
Romans 8:6
“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
The reward of being spiritual is that one gains life and peace. To be spiritually minded, one has to obey the laws of the spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus. A man cannot come in contact with those laws except Christ is revealed to such through the laws that framed Christ. If we are learning Christ, then it means we are learning to be foolish (Eph. 4:20-21). Christ is foolishness but that is wisdom (1 Cor. 1:23-25) because when Christ is preached, the wisdom and power of God is preached. We ought not to let Satan teach us any kind of wisdom, because his wisdom has been corrupted and it takes revelation, the understanding of the laws that framed Christ, and the wisdom of God to escape that wisdom. When a man is learning Christ, he ought to put aside the wisdom of self (1 Cor. 3:18).
A holy man is a wise man. He is a man who has come in contact with the wisdom of Christ. Christ is the wisdom that gives life. When one is hearing, doing and having understanding of the meat that is being given, such a persoon ought to engage his ‘legs’ (in the spirit) with what is being taught, otherwise he would be like one who goes to a building site to only admire the materials and not build. It is possible for one to share revelation but not engage or live by it (Matt. 4:4). The things that God is speaking (the bread being given to us) are meant for us to live by. They are meant to define our steps in life and help us become converted. They minister life to us when we live by them and thereby, make us live.
Romans 8:13
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
When a man has this promise of life at the back of his mind, such a one would be careful about how he submits to the laws of death. Malice breaks the body down and when one decides to keep justifying his/her wrong malic nature, it becomes more strengthened. Malice comes by the feasting of the bread of Satan. We should be familiar with the laws of God to go above the laws of death but we can only achieve this through foolishness. God wants to free believers from the bread of Satan, and to be free from it, one must take part of the bread of God. The essence of the bread of Christ is to enlighten the eyes.
Psalm 119:98
“Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: For they are ever with me.”
The edge we have against the enemy is wisdom, just as that which the enemy is bringing against us is a perverted and corrupted wisdom through which he comes as a friend, sealing one unto death. The promises of God are life upon life, but we can only come into these things by engaging the laws of life. Satan also has bread, but much more, Jesus has said a man who does not partake of His bread does not have life in himself (John 6:53).
We eat by understanding and doing. To come to the promise of life, one must first understand, after which such a one does the things he has understood in order to have that life. Satan has death in his pouch. Therefore, when a man takes the bread of Satan, he dies. Satan is nobody’s friend; he hates us. But we were raised by the bread of Satan and easily do his bidding. However, when God is trying to turn us away from doing the bidding of Satan, we begin to cry. We cry because we have eaten the bread of sorrow. But the Lord wants to wean us from that bread, so that we can break into another realm of sorrow (godly). It is not everyone that can hear God at the level of being corrected from flesh and Satan is continually looking for ways to kill man .
John 10:10
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
To give life, the Lord gives Himself to us. He gives us the laws that fabricated Him and make Him to live. As believers, we are started off with the laws (understanding) of Christ and when we do these laws, we live. This is resurrection for man’s soul. Having this understanding, we would be quick to want to obey the Lord. The knowledge of being raised after obeying the doctrine of meat will prevent us from dying. Either death or life are responsible for our actions. We are spontaneous to react to situations because we have eaten the wrong bread which has shown the wrong lifestyle. The devil has served us this bread over the years and raised a wrong building, which narrows down to and flows into death. But God is trying to break down our structures of death. We age because of the kind of bread that we have eaten previously.
Psalm 103:5
“Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.”
The good things are the things of God which He is bringing our way. Good things and good things of good are levels of bread. We need to participate in the eating of this bread, and the complete cycle is in our doing. When certain laws are done, other wrong laws are undone; we do the laws of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus to undo the laws of sin and death. After this doing, a stature is raised and such becomes a free man. Then one can inherit the spirit of Christ. If one has not obeyed the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, such a one can not claim to have the spirit of Christ inside him (Rom. 8:9). When Christ is raised in a soul, the spirit of Christ comes to indwell that raising because Christ is not the end. The raising of Christ is given to be able to connect to a higher bread.
John 6:51
“I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
The living bread is the bread of everlasting life. The journey is from a strata of life to another life and we go through this journey by eating the bread. After eating the bread of Christ, we move to the living bread. Eating is not just about sitting to listen; it also involves our doing. When understanding comes, crying stops. Bread enlightens our hearts. We ought to come to the state where we rejoice when we are served bread, that is, when understanding has dawned on a heart. When one is still struggling with carnality, such would constantly be in tears. This equates struggling to live. Constant application of doing makes a man become what he is obeying.
Sometimes it seems as though the Lord does not see our tears, even as we obey instructions against our convenience, but He is interested in giving us life. Over time however, that obedience becomes a settled matter in the heart because that person will find wisdom on how to do those things. This wisdom can be found in the leadings and trainings around the learning of Christ, otherwise, one would only be cramming Christ by knowledge. But this cramming of Christ does not add to one’s building (Eph. 4:20-21). The truth in Jesus is the bread that we eat, and as we eat it, we rise. We eat, become sanctified and separated, and we attain the first level holiness, which is a building. We are raised by doing truth.
A lot of people are bound and helpless by habits, but the Lord is able to help them out of those things by giving them bread which enlightens the eyes to see that the bondage is bad for the soul. Then, instructions and restrictions come and when one does them, the chains of darkness break.
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
People come under the power of things by doing them consistently. God does not want us to come under the power of anything because that is a service to other things other than God. Therefore, understanding comes for such a one to be led. There is nothing that is so strong that obedience to the power of God cannot break. No sin is as strong as what God has to offer for sin.
Romans 8:3
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh…”
Tongues and Interpretation (2)
“I brought you. I brought you bread. I brought you, I brought you My bread. I breathe upon you, I breathe upon you. It is a breath. It is a breath upon you, for to give you life, even for to give you understanding unto life, even to cause you to come up, to come up, to come up, to come up a building, to come up a building, a holy building. To come up a holy building! To come up a sanctified holy building, even a building that has come to peace, a building that can agree with the building of God, even for to raise a people that can agree with God, even in all its facets, in all its fears, in all its givings, even people that can receive the fullness of the Godhead.
I give you bread. I give you bread. I brought it even home to you, even in a peculiar way that you cannot miss your own breath. It is a breath for your turning. It is a breath for your turning that you may cut covenant. I will have you cut covenant even by walk, even by a response, a response of faith even to the grace that has been brought to you, even by the revelation of My breath. It is a breath upon you. I want a people, I will harvest a people, I will harvest a people of peace. I will harvest a people of God. I will harvest a people, even a people that can be a sanctuary, even a holiest people of God; a holy people unto God. A holy people, a holy people in whom I can dwell, a holy people in whom I can bring the fullness of My life, even men of the sanctuary, men of the holiest. Men that can be an edifice, even an example even to many. I want to raise men that can hold My principles, men that can hold even My life in the fullness, even in its fullness. Priest! Priest! Holy priests unto our God, saith the Spirit of God.”
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Ephesians 2:19-21
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; [20] And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; [21] In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord…”
This growth comes by eating (understanding) and doing. A man does not grow without understanding and doing.
Colossians 2:6
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him…”
Christ Jesus is received by the receiving of bread and the doing of it. Christ is received by revelation and understanding. We would understand revelation better when we see people living it out. God can raise and anoint men, and they would preach something higher than the stature they have acquired. However, after they have finished preaching, God wants them to settle down and align with what they have taught. It is possible to preach above one’s stature. This was evidently stated by Apostle paul.
1 Corinthians 9:27
“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
One can be made a cast away if such a one has not done what it takes to measure up. We are qualified by doing. Many are interested in taking the word to all nations but are not so keen on working on themselves. In speaking to Timothy, Paul admonishes that he takes heed to himself and to the doctrine (1 Tim. 4:16). Doctrine is to be obeyed, and by doing so you save yourself first. We ought to be particular about building ourselves first.
Matthew 7:22-23
“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
This does not mean he does not know them literally but that He has never communed with them, as they have not allowed Him to instruct them. One can refuse to do instructions but still cast out devils because these signs shall follow those that believe (Mk. 16:17). Those people can believe and have not been built.
Matthew 7:21
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
John 6:39-40
“And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. [40] And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
We see the Son by revelation and we believe Him by agreeing. When revelation comes, we see and when we do them, we are believing— that is the will. The will is to have life, so when we engage in things that bring life, we are doing the will. We qualify for entrance by gaining life. A man cannot gain life except such a one sees the Son and believes in Him — having everlasting life, which is the will of God. Doing the will of God is not doing ministry. Ministry if not well managed can pull one from the will of God. Satan has hijacked ministry so as to ruin men. Some preachers have become more devilish in the doing of ministry because he does ministry in coming to sell another will, which one can use ministry to do and die. We have to be careful in serving God. We should serve God according to the will.
We should not do things just because someone else is doing them, otherwise, one would not be innocent. Through leadings and dealings, we do things, not because others do it but because God says to do them and it is time to do them. It takes the discipline of the spirit to wait and not be distracted. Satan has entered into ministers to ruin them because they choose to run the race that has not been given by God. Waiting for the timing of God can be termed as humiliating but God wants us to be solid. It takes a raised man to stand and not run the race of another. The path God takes people through differs from person to person because the things in one are different from the things in the other.
We need to be built. A built man is standing solid because he is being fed with meat. Satan has fed us with the meat of competition, which is the bread of sorrow. But God is interested in giving us life. This may take the form of one marking time on a spot because such a one is obeying laws that would not make him diminish and perish.
When a holy man is made from the learning and doing of Christ, he qualifies for the building of God. Then, He is given the meat of God because one must eat the meat of the Holy Place and the Most Holy. There is the bread of the Holy Place that makes one holy and raises one as a house of the Lord. If one has not trained his soul with the bread of the Holy Place, such would term the bread of the Most Holy place (strong meat) as heretic. The bread of the Most Holy gives one the name of the Father.
Hebrews 2:12
“Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.”
His brethren are those who have been raised with the meat of the Holy Place and can take the name of the Father. Life is in levels. Bread is also in levels till one graduates. When Jesus declares the name to His brethren, they can do the demands of the name. This is because the essence of the name is for doing. The brethren do the name of His Father until it appears on their foreheads. When they constantly and continually do the name, He will teach them the nature of His Father, which is divine nature. As divine nature is being declared, a stature is being raised which is an incorruptible image.
Revelation 14:1
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.”
When the name of the Father was declared, some people obeyed it until it appeared on their foreheads. For the name to appear on one’s foreheads, such a person has to have borne the fruit of that name by doing.
Revelation 14:2-3
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: [3] and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”
Joy broke in heaven because a people bore fruit of the name. God is waiting for men and women who will come up with the name of the Father by eating the bread of the Most Holy. The song is not sung by those who had the name on their foreheads. The bread of the Most Holy is to redeem men from earth and make them heavenly, after which they qualify to learn a new song. People who have just done Christ cannot learn this song because it is an eternal song. That song is another bread — the eternal bread. If one has not eaten the everlasting bread, such a one cannot understand this song or learn it.
Some may see the song as being complicated but it is because such people do not have the stature to learn the song. The song is for those who have been redeemed from the earth. Earth cannot allow one to learn high songs. We have to eat meat from heaven and the living bread to give us the stature of men that can learn that song. That song is the eternal song, eternal bread, eternal conversation, even the Eternal Life song.
Blessings!