Apostolic spot

23/08/2025

It may not be the popular path, and certainly not the easiest, but when a man truly accepts the Word of God as his highest authority and learns to tarry in the presence of Jesus, a boldness begins to rise from his spirit.

This is not natural courage born from personality or background. It is spiritual stamina, a holy audacity that defies fear, systems, and the applause of men.

You see, encounters birth convictions, and convictions birth courage. When a man has seen the Lord, he can stand before anything.

This was the secret of Daniel in Babylon and the resolve of Stephen before the Sanhedrin. They were not merely well taught, they were well built. The fire of God's presence had burned away timidity, and the Word had become their compass, not an opinion.

So, refuse to be casual with the Word. Refuse to treat the secret place as optional. What the world needs now is not more gifted men, but men of stature, men who have been with Jesus and have emerged with an unshakeable courage.

A man who kneels before God can stand before anything.

23/08/2025

TRAPPED - FINDING YOUR WAY OUT OF DARK PLACES [PART 2 ] || REV KESIENA ESIRI
Episode 6.
Why will Christians be thinking that they will be found in such a compromised situation at the return of the Lord? It's because people have refused to admit that they have a problem. And this is why we keep saying, you can't sway away your salvation. You can't sway away your salvation, giving people a false sense of security that has led to people sleeping deeper and deeper into the boils of dark places.

So, people are addicted to p**n, addicted to all kinds of sexually explicit content, and right now their hands are in chains, they are yokes on their necks, they are fetters on their feet, and they do not know how to get out. I'm saying to you, the first step to walking out of dark places, finding your way out of dark places, is that a light must dawn on you where you say to yourself, "I have a problem and I need help."

Young lady, it's not normal to be sleeping around. Using your body as a tool for making money is an abomination. It is an abomination. Some Christian, so-called Christian sisters have even begun to my life—sleeping with other people's husbands—and they carry their Bibles and walk into church on Sunday and say they are having fellowship with a God who is holy.

It is a plague. There's a pandemic, and we need to be honest enough to say people are sick and they need help. They need help. Pastors need to begin to get serious about being able to address same-sex attraction, address ma********on issues, address fornication issues. They must get serious. It's not normal. It's not normal.

The Bible says every one of us must know how to possess our vessels in sanctification and honor, for this is the will of God. It is the will of God. God will not say it is His will if He has not provided capacity for us to be able to meet His will.

The reason He communicates His will is because He knows that He has given us the tools to be able to live in absolute obedience to His will. He would not have told Adam, "Don't eat of the fruit that is in the midst of the garden," if He did not know that Adam had the capacity to obey Him. The Bible says He will not put on us more than we can bear.

So, if you are struggling and you are a blood-bought, blood-washed, Holy Ghost-filled believer, you need to be able to admit first there is a problem and say, "I need help. I need help."

And you see what I found out when I struggled—because I, I, I’m passionate about these things because I have experienced this struggle myself. I looked at my first p**nographic magazine when I was 12 years, 10 years old, and I know how long it took for me to be able to get out of that cycle. I stopped watching p**n, but the images lingered in my mind for a long time before I got to the point where all the images were taken away.

If God can do it for me, He can do it for you. He can do it for you. But you see, I had to come to a place where I told myself, “I’m sick. I need help. I need help. I need help.” I was like you—fasting, praying, fasting, praying, fasting, praying—trying to do everything within my power to break free. And now I found out that no matter how hard you try in your own strength, you cannot win that battle.

And that’s what I’m going to be talking about when we come in episode 3. Because remember, I’ve just begun to speak about the first step—how you can walk out of the darkness of addiction. The first step is to admit that you have a problem. You have a problem.

In subsequent episodes, I’m now going to show you how to take advantage of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit to live above the addiction. Because that’s part of why the Lord gave us the Holy Ghost. He said, “And you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you.” I found out—find out—I found out that many Christians, when they read that scripture, the power they are only thinking about is the power of signs and wonders to perform miracles and all of that. But the Holy Spirit coming upon us also gives us the power to live above sin, the power to walk out of our dark places, and live in the brightness of His light.

So, dear brother, dear sister, you who are watching, have you admitted that you have a problem? Have you come to the place where you have called fornication what it is? It is a sin. It’s still a sin.

Let me read one last scripture as I attempt to bring this episode two to a close—something you can meditate on while you look forward. Ephesians chapter 5, let’s begin at verse 3. It says:

“But fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.”

So, therefore, if you’re a child of the light, sexual addiction should not be named within your space. But since now you have fallen within that vicious cycle, how do you break free? First step: admit I have a problem and I need help.

You, young preacher—you are chatting with young ladies, members in your church, members in your fellowship—and you are destroying them with sexual immorality, and yet you will not sit down and admit that you have a problem. If you cannot control your sexual appetite, what you need is not public ministry. You don’t need a microphone. You need to sit down and be discipled. Sit down and ensure that that seed of that immoral appetite is uprooted from your vessel, and your vessel is made pure.

Oh, in those days, I used to read and I used to see how people would break down before the Lord and confess their sins and say, “I have a problem, help me,” even publicly. But nowadays, people are covering ma********on with tongues. They come from their boyfriend’s house to minister in the choir. People’s wives go to church to sleep with their pastors. The Christian space has become a den of sexual immorality.

And I’m saying to us, the first step to our healing as a people, as a generation, is that people must not be afraid anymore to say, “I have a problem and I need help.” That is the first step to walking out of your dark place.

If you’d like to pray and ask God for help, I’d like you to bow your heads and just speak to the Lord:

“Lord, I pray that you help my brothers and my sisters, that as we journey in this series, the yoke of addictions will be broken off people’s lives, and people will be set free.”
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝.
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22/08/2025

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19/08/2025

Simple prayer to pray when in need and you lack the right words. "FATHER, HELP ME! in Jesus name." - Pastor Nathaniel Bassey
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14/08/2025

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14/08/2025

As God's child, you must ensure that your spiritual fervency and passion for the things of God do not reduce. The word of God is a potent tool for recharging your spiritual battery, and this is why you must spend quality time studying, memorising, and meditating on the Scriptures daily.

Nowadays, many Christians do not memorise Scriptures because everything is now digital. If someone needs to refer to a Bible passage, the fellow can just search for it through Google and other search engines. Once the fellow types a bit of the verse as a search term, immediately, the passage comes up on the screen. While digitisation is good, it is important to meditate on Scriptures and know some of them by heart, as this will prepare you to face anything the enemy brings your way. In Matthew 4:1-11, Jesus overcame the devil's temptations by quoting Scriptures. There were no search engines at that time, and He didn't need them - He knew God's word by heart because He had meditated on them and memorised them. My Father in the Lord wasn't formally educated, yet he knew a lot of Scriptures by heart. If he could memorise the Scriptures, so can you.

~Pastor E.A Adeboye

14/08/2025

ALWAYS REFILL 3

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” - (Galatians 5:16)

READ: Galatians 5:13-25

I will continue this series by discussing one more reason it is very important to get refilled with the anointing.

Sometimes, the reason you need to get refilled is not that you are exhausted or the anointing has been depleted after a period of intense spiritual activity but that your flesh rose above your spirit for a moment. When you are angry, for instance, you may not hear God speak because your flesh has risen above your spirit. In such a period, you can cause some harm, as Elisha did in (2 Kings 2:23-24). Therefore, if you have been well-trained by God, the anointing will likely be dormant for that season to avoid causing a problem that you will later regret.

In (2 Kings 3:11-16), some kings came to meet Elisha, and he got angry with one of them. Afterwards, when he needed to prophesy, he had to call a minstrel to play so there could be a refilling. Before long, the man of God could say, "Thus saith the Lord" again. I have observed that whenever the flesh rises above the spirit, there will be a need to retreat into an atmosphere of worship. In that atmosphere, as the Lord descends on you, He will refill you again.

Another major route through which the flesh rises above the spirit in many ministers is in the area of overconfidence. Despite Jesus' warning that he would deny Him, Peter felt so confident in himself that instead of praying for spiritual strength to avoid that, he told Jesus that he could never do such a thing, and he eventually denied Him (Matthew 26:69-75). Whenever you start feeling overly confident in your abilities and attributing what you have achieved to your hard work and sacrifices, the enemy is setting you up for a great fall, and you need to retreat and retrace your steps.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)

Beloved, whenever your flesh rises above your spirit, run to God and ask for mercy, and He will graciously restore you. After Jesus' resurrection, He went to Peter's old place of work to refill him. He prepared a meal, fed him, and recommissioned him into the ministry (John 21:1-17). When your flesh rises above your spirit, go on a retreat and receive a fresh infilling of the anointing so that you can overcome the weaknesses of the flesh and fulfil God's purpose for your life.

KEY POINT:
Whenever your flesh rises above your spirit, run to God for a fresh infilling of the anointing.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Jeremiah 31-32

Open Heaven Devotional by Pastor E A Adeboye

14/08/2025

3 signs you might be drifting spiritually:

Prayer feels optional.

God’s Word feels unfamiliar.

Sin feels comfortable.

Come back before comfort becomes captivity. (Rev. 2:4-5)

14/08/2025

Instead of overthinking, pray.
Instead of panicking, pray.
Instead of stressing, pray.

14/08/2025

14/08/2025

For your own sanity, avoid someone who is not a Christian tell you what Christianity means.

14/08/2025

WATCHMAN ARISE ||DR GBENGA OWOTOKI

He saw it before the rest of the city felt it. The shift. Subtle, but dangerous. Like wind before a storm. The kind of change that doesn't knock—it slithers. Quiet. Familiar. And then all at once, everything has moved—boundaries, beliefs, convictions. But by the time the city noticed, it was already under siege.

That’s the cost of sleeping Watchmen.
You see, gates are not just made of wood and iron—they are spiritual thresholds. And not every invader wears armor. Some come clothed in ideologies, in compromise dressed as compassion, in doctrine void of fire. And when they pass through unchecked, it’s not because the enemy has become stronger—it’s because the watchmen were absent.
In every generation, Heaven searches for those who can see before others feel, who can hear before others speak, and who are willing to stand even when no one applauds. These are not trendsetters. They are not influencers. They are watchmen.

True watchmen are not manufactured in leadership labs or strategy rooms. They are born in weeping, in waiting, in holy unrest. They carry something this world has tried to forget—burden. Not the kind that breaks them, but the kind that builds walls in the spirit.

They are misunderstood, often dismissed. Because they don't move to visible rhythms. Their lives are not dictated by schedules, but by signals. When the Spirit stirs, they awaken. When the Lord groans, they weep. And when the city sleeps, they climb the ramparts.
But make no mistake, their presence is lethal to darkness. One awakened watchman can intercept what years of programming cannot. One prayer in the night can shift the climate of an entire territory. They are Heaven’s early warning systems—unseen, unheard, but always aligned.

And now, a new generation is being summoned. God is igniting their eyes, sensitizing their ears, and teaching their hands to war again. They are not loud, but they are lethal. They don’t chase microphones—they chase movements in the heavens. They know how to shut down satanic proceedings long before they become natural tragedies. They pray before others panic. They fast before others fear. They repent on behalf of cities before judgment knocks.
And when they arise, the strange fire dies. Manipulated revivals begin to wither. The stage clears. And the altar reignites.

This is not a romantic call to be radical. It is a dangerous call to be awake. Because while others are chasing shadows, watchmen contend for substance. They don’t need a crowd to keep them committed. The groan of God is enough.
You may not recognize them in the service, but you’ll feel the effect of their stand. Churches protected. Territories sealed. Portals reopened. Families covered. Clarity restored. Because when watchmen arise, breaches are mended. The walls breathe again.

If the night feels heavy, it’s not time to sleep—it’s time to ascend. The city does not need more sound—it needs more sight. It needs men who will say, “I will not come down from the wall until this land is covered in fire again.”

The trumpet is in the air. And God is not asking who can lead the crowd. He is asking, who is awake at the gate?