Brother Gbile Akanni

Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 10m

#songboko2019 Summit of Nations 2019 Theme: A Light for your Nation… Making the Most of God’s Presence Gbile Akanni May the Lord bless you as you view. Amen.

Dec 21, 2023 • 31 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 47m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 21m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 25m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 56 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 51 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 31 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 24m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 48 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 21m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 33m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 47 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 50 min

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 24m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 23m

MLR' 2023 || Ministers Leadership Retreat 2023 Theme: Hereafter You Shall See Heaven Open John 1:50-51 BURDEN AND VISION “Hereafter You shall see heaven open…” “Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree,’do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”And He said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.””John 1:50-51 NKJV All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various MLR themes He led us into for 2020 (Fill the earth, subdue it: Preach the word), 2021 (Rehoboth: Abiding, Abounding and Abundant Fruitfulness) and 2022 (Pursue, overtake and recover all: maximizing our Rehoboth) have all been directional. They are not topics perse, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come, our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth. Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year. The Lord has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately and particularly to you as an individual more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. He says, “Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, you shall see heaven open…”. “Hereafter” means, “henceforth; from now on.” Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result was unmistakable.As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just as our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heavens to open unto Him, and for the Spirit to come as the dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding people to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted to Him, we trust God to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our Day.Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went his way into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God terminated the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage on earth with the sun risen upon him, while leaning on the staff ofgrace. You may be the one whom God has signalled to use for the past several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own “Jacob” nature.........

Dec 3, 2023 • 2h 21m

Bible Study 46: Becoming Like Jesus & Understanding The Concept And Conditions For Discipleship - Summary (Panel Discussion)

Dec 1, 2023 • 2h 27m

SPECIAL WORD SERVICE_NOVEMBER 24TH, 2023 Isaiah 12 1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 39m

SPECIAL WORD SERVICE_NOVEMBER 24TH, 2023 Isaiah 12 1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 39m

SPECIAL WORD SERVICE_NOVEMBER 24TH, 2023 Isaiah 12  1  And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.  2  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.   3  Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.   4  And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.   5  Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.  6  Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.