My life, my soul, my heart belongs to Him. Can you lift up your two holy hands to the Lord and just say thank You; I worship and I adore Your name, what a great and a good God that You are. The very Son, the very Father – loving Father, glorious Father, forgiving Father, dependable Father, let’s worship and adore Him.
Oh, what a glorious God! We just worship and adore You; ah, what a great God! The Ruler of the universe, the Unchangeable Changer, the ever loving, ever faithful, ever dependable, ever reliable; the deepest, the tallest, the highest, the Most High; our Redeemer, our Savior, our Coming King, our Friend, Way Maker, burden Bearer, Pathfinder, we say thank You. Oh, what a good God that You are, thank You Father, hallelujah!
I’d like you to ask the Lord, Lord I’ve come before You, turn my frustration to felicitation, turn my frustration to celebration, turn my pain to pleasure. Lord, I am here before You, whatever it is agitating with Your peace in my life, anywhere around me, Lord, turn it; and please Father, I’ve come to You, Jehovah God, loving Father, just remove every form of pain in my life, remove it, You have done it before, You can do it again, thank You Jesus, we worship You Lord; just remove our pains Lord.
Thank You, because You are the solution to multidimensional problem of our generation, we worship You, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Eternal Father, You are the only One that is worthy to be worshipped, You have the exclusive monopoly of our lives because You are the eternal Creator, we say thank You. Thank You loving Father, thank You dependable Father, thank You reliable Father, we want to say blessed be Your holy name.
Ever loving Savior, we say glory be to Your name! What else can we give unto You that will come directly to You other than our worship, that’s what we have come to do today, we ask that every one present here in this place of worship, we pray that You will receive our thanks and praises in the name of Jesus.
Lord, You are the solution to multidimensional challenges of our generation, and You are the One we can hide in, You are the Rock that never fails, You are the Water of Life that never stops, You are the Healer, the Savior, oh Lord we say thank You, the Way, the Truth and the Life, You own the glory, we give it to You Lord, please receive our thanks and praises in the name of Jesus Christ.
Every area in our lives where we are hurting, where we have pain, where we have frustration, we ask that today You will turn it around in the name of Jesus.
And we pray for that individual who is sorrowful that the comfort of the Lord will be over their lives in the name of Jesus. We pray for the man of God in this house and his family, from glory to glory you will go, from anointing to anointing you will go. All our ministers on the altar and those ones who are busy around the service of today, God’s glory and favor will never depart from your life in the name of Jesus.
Every worker, layman here and members in this house, that which God alone can do, He will do it in your life in the name of Jesus.
I came to this altar as someone who is a fool and know nothing, please take possession of my head, my mouth and my heart that I will not do violent on this holy altar, but You will deliver that which You want all of us to know in the name of Jesus.
Thank You Father! Everyone who came here sick, I declare by the authority in the name that is above every other name, may you receive healing in the name of Jesus. Every family crisis, minor or major, hear the word of God, clear and let peace reign in the name of Jesus.
Every challenge over your profession, I declare by the authority of the name that is above every other name, let it be clear in the name of Jesus. Every struggling student and they don’t know how to pass that exam, we declare distinction because you belong to the order of the heir, your mark will be distinction in the name of Jesus.
All unmarried, this year will be your year; those who are trusting God for the fruit of the womb, this year is your year. Whatever is your desire is yours for taking in the name of Jesus. Father we thank You, we give You all the glory, blessed be Your holy name in Jesus mighty name we pray.
Once again, man of God I want to appreciate you for the opportunity to come and stand on this exalted altar, God of heaven will continue to move you forward, forward ever backward never; you will never have a better yesterday. The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 3:18, as they look unto Him, they are moved from one level of glory to another, that will be your story; Psalm 34:5, they looked unto Him, they were lightened, their faces we’re not ashamed, that will be your story and it shall be well with you and your wife, God bless you sir and ma.
For all my leaders on this altar too numerous to mention, what can I do without reporting to you, if you didn’t permit him, he wouldn’t have – my biological father warned me, he said when you are greeting your elder, remove your cap and bow, I remove my cap and bow, the color of your glory will not fade; everywhere you go and you knock on one door, several doors shall be open; all your unrepentant enemies will perish without remedy. Those who plan evil against you will enter into their own trap; anywhere you go, men will look at your face and will bless you; everyone that says amen gets double blessing.
Luke 18:38-43, “And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. 39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, 41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God”. The Lord bless the reading and His words in the name of Jesus.
From frustration to felicitation; there are many issues in the generation we live that could frustrate, but you may choose to react so that you can be moved from that point of frustration to where you can celebrate. Situation may come but situations are not bound to remain, nothing comes to stay, everything come and pass, so you can choose how to react to situations you are going through.
The story we read to us is a very instructive story; a man who never had a supporter, a man that nobody was willing to help, but he made up his mind, no, I can’t do this anymore, I can’t stay like this. Nobody knows where Jesus was going, nobody knows what He’s going for, but this man was blind, he wasn’t able to see but his spiritual antenna is very sensitive to pick signals of miracle.
Nobody was there to help him, they were even rebuking him but he refused.
What is frustration? It’s an emotional response that occurs when a person is blocked from reaching his desired goal. What is frustration? A feeling of annoyance because certain things didn’t happen. What is frustration? It’s a feeling of disappointment.
When you say that person was frustrated, you are saying he was blocked from reaching his goals, and frustration can be very devastating, frustration can kill if it lingers, it is very terrible.
Then what is celebration? It’s a feeling of achievement, feeling that you have achieved the result you envisaged, feeling that something or something you didn’t expect for good happened to you.
Let me quickly download seven things, the causes of frustration and I will tell you how you can tackle it. What are the causes of frustration?
- Repeated reoccurring problem. Woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5: 25-34 had a repeated problem, nobody was there to help her, she was frustrated with life and when she didn’t know what to do, she determined I’m going to do something
- Unmet expectations, when your expectation is not met. Luke 5:1-9, Simon Peter and his colleagues fished all night, they caught nothing. Maybe your situation is like that, when they say Nigeria is hard, everything is hard, I pray it will not be hard against you. They tried and put in every effort they knew how to, but they never caught anything until the Master came in.
- Conflict and perennial affliction, affliction that has refused to go. In John 5:1 – 9, a man was on the same spot, affliction for 38 years, Jesus came to him and said man, do you want to be made whole? He looked at Him and said that is very insulting, you this young boy, how can you be asking me such a foolish question? The affliction had been very long but all the same, he got his miracle.
- Rejection and experience of hatred. In 1st Chronicles 4:9 – 10, they said the mother of Jabez named him, we don’t know the name the father called. In Africa, it’s the father that names a child, not the mother, so he was carrying the stigma until one day he said I’m tired.
And I’m praying for someone, today will mark the expiry date of whatever problem – minor or major, spiritual or physical in the name of Jesus Christ. He refused and the Bible says that I hear you, he went to the house of God and the man was talking, and he said man, I don’t like what you are saying and they said look at the constitution of God, what is written there for you is that you are honorable, where this dishonor came from, we don’t know and his destiny was changed.
Who said your situation cannot change, are they God? Who is it that saith a thing when God has not approved it? No one has the finality of the final, only God has the finality of the final, and until the One who has the finality finalized it, nothing is final, no one, not the medical doctor .
Thirty something years ago, they said I will die in four months, I’m still alive and i didn’t go through anything, because the power of Jesus is alive, anyone who says He’s not alive again is dead; they said the days of miracles are over, let’s bury them alive. Jabez was more honorable.
- Hope deferred. The Bible says in the Book of Proverbs 13: 12, ‘hope deferred makes heart sick, when the desire comes to pass, is a tree of life’. Moses was delayed on the mountain and before he came down, Aaron, (read the account in Exodus 32: 3 – 5) had carved golden idols for them. God took them from Egypt but now they are worshipping idols because their master delayed.
I don’t know which area you have been delayed, delayed in marriage, delayed in securing employment, delayed in child bearing, delayed in building your house, delay in promotion, every delay today, with my eyes closed here, delay, terminate in the name of Jesus Christ.
- Unanswered prayers. In 1st Samuel 1: 7 – 9, Hannah had prayed, so the Bible says she was sorrowful and the husband said am I not better than ten children for you? She said you don’t know my emotional trauma, you don’t know what I’ve suffered, you don’t know how I’ve become an object of mockery, you don’t know what is paining me inside, you only see me smiling but God turned her situation around, your situation will be turned around.
- Refusal to take Godly counsel can lead to frustration. 2nd Chronicles 10: 4 – 15, Solomon is the wisest king that ever lives but there are certain things i couldn’t understand when I read the Bible, I thought I didn’t understand the Bible, I went and studying up to the peak of the degree but the more i studied, the more my knowledge about the things of the Bible become so unconnected, because the more I go, the more I know that there are things to learn.
He had 700 wives and 300 concubines, making 1,000, he had only one child and that child is a foolish boy, he’s the one who divided this, if he had gotten more children, the Bible would have given us the chronicle. I tried to find it out, I couldn’t get it, and that child, the elder went to him and said, my father beat you with cane, I will use scorpion; he said my finger will be thicker than the cane of my father, and the people said we don’t have anything in this place anymore.
I pray today, every form of frustration in your life shall be totally destroyed in the name of Jesus.
How do I prevail over frustration?
- You need to be sensitive to the move of God around you. Nobody was there to help the man (Bartimeus) we talked about in this story, but when you read the Book of Mark 10: 46 – 52, but he was sensitive, you have to be sensitive, everyday is not like every other day, every day is new with the challenges and blessings. And today, because you are here in this house, God rearranged it that I should come, maybe I’m not talking to everybody, I’m talking to somebody, God will turn your frustration around.
He was sensitive; you have to be sensitive to the move. The woman with the issue of blood was sensitive and she got her miracle – sensitivity to the move and to the power of God available.
- Carry the problem and give to Him, surrender that problem to Him. I know you know things, but there is a limit to what you know can do for you. Jesus said in Matthew 11: 28 – 30 that come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden; in 1st Peter 5: 7, He said cast your care upon Me, I will answer you, I will take care.
The burden of this world, the burden of this generation is too strong, too heavy for you to bear alone; the devil you are fighting with has been here for close to 8,000 years, don’t do this on your own but listen, the Master Himself, Jesus said in Matthew 28: 20, He said look, I am with you; you don’t know who is I am, check Exodus 16, I am that I am and He cannot possibly lie, cast your burden.
- Cry for mercy. God is a merciful God, every one of you, young, old, male, female, educated, illiterate, those who have achieved, the high, the middle, the low, we need to call on Him. In that Mark 10: 46 – 52 I quoted earlier on, he cried, Jesus of Nazareth, have mercy, you need to call on Him.
- Believe God’s promises and celebrate it before it happens. Isaiah 40: 8 says the grass withers, flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever. In that Psalm 89: 34, He says my covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips; believe Him, believe the promises of God for your life, not just one, believe Him.
He said I will heal you, believe Him; I will be your safety, believe Him; He said you will be the head and not the tail, believe Him; you will be above only, believe Him; He said no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper, believe Him, you need to believe. Sir, we are believers that’s why we are called believers, believe Him; there are many people who come to church but they never believe, believe the promises of God.
- Offer the sacrifices of praise. Three instances in the Bible: in Joshua 5: 13 – 15, they had the Jericho wall; but in Joshua 6: 1 – 20, now they have a problem and God said come on, boy, dance round the wall. Hey, celebrating problem? But as they celebrate, the wall came down. In 2nd Chronicles 20: 20 – 21, and so they wanted to fight a battle and they went to God, and God said arrange the choir, and the king said God, I don’t like what You are doing o, arrange choir or what, what are You talking about?
Many a times, because Isaiah 55: 8 & 9 says My ways are not your ways, My thoughts are not your thoughts, as the heaven is higher than the earth, so is My way and My thoughts higher than your own, some of these little infinitesimal – something that is very little, how do you explain God in the Red Sea? How do you explain how 5 loaves and 2 fishes fed 5,000 people? Now how do you explain David with stone and sling ad that little boy came before Goliath and he was saying to him, bouncing, today, I’m going to kill you.
King Saul said, iwo abi awon ara ile e? (Literally) you or your family members? You can’t go, he said I will go, you Israelites, you are my witness, this young man, I don’t know his family, has determined to commit suicide, may God go with him; and he came before Goliath and he was talking, today, I will kill you, i will cut off your head. Goliath asked him, are you going to use your hand to cut my head? But he did it. Who said you can’t achieve what God has configured as your vision in life? They are not in the committee that created you, they are not the committee that configured your life’s destiny, who said you are going to be on the same spot, today, God will turn your frustration to felicitation.
Let me advise you before I go into the few things i want to say next before we pray; I’ve said to you on this altar if I remembered vividly, change the way you talk, the situation may be negative but learn how to enforce positivity. You know why? In the Book of Proverbs 18: 20 & 21, it says a man’s belly will be satisfied by the fruits, not the work of your hand, not how much you earn, not the position you occupy, but by the fruit of your mouth, your increase will come. And it now says in verse 21, death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Look, it will take many angels not to kill you if you say mo ku o (I’m dead). You know why you should change your vocabulary? It’s the fact that Psalm 82: 6, what did they call you, ordinary human being; as if that was not enough, the truth and life, remember in John 1: 14, and the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us; in John 14: 6, the Way, the Truth and the Life; He now said in John 10: 34, repeating what David said many years ago, He was talking to them, I am the Son of God, they said haha, we know You, You are the son of Mary, we know Your father. He said is it not written in your word that He has come, and we know God by authority; Jesus said in Matthew 12: 37, by your mouth, not by your pastor’s mouth, not by the people who curse you, not by people who went into their occult, by your words.
I cannot die prematurely, that’s me; God has lifted me; I cannot go down anymore, if you want to say he is proud, no problem, my Savoir said it, by my mouth I will be. Can you remind me Job 6: 25, how forcible are the right words.
When God intervenes in your frustration, what are the things that will come to manifestation?
- Mr. Nobody will become somebody; the unknown will become known. When David killed Goliath, he asked the chief of his defense, whose son is that? He said I don’t know, I’m seeing him for the first time – unknown became known. When Jabez carried all these evil stigma, nobody knew him, but when he became a honorable, people identified with him.
- Your name changes, your situation changes, how did I know that? Genesis 32: 24 – 28, the Bible says one man called Israel was wrestling with an angel; the angel said leave me alone, he said no, I won’t leave you; he asked what is your name, he said my name is Jacob; he said I checked the Book of heaven, I saw that you are Israel, you are not a person, you are a nation. Those of you I’m looking at today, you are too loaded to be local, you are too loaded to fail, too loaded to be unconnected.
And the Lord turned him around; each time you call Israel, it’s a name of a person that God changed.
- Ways are created where there is no way. They came to the Red Sea, they were crying, oh Moses, God said stop, what is in your hand? He said it’s a common rod, stretch it. Read Exodus 14: 1 – 26, who said you can’t make it in Nigeria? Did you beg God to make you a Nigerian? Be proud of your country, how can you go and be a servant in another man’s land? God is not an accidental God, you remember what He says to you in Jeremiah 29: 11, I know the thoughts I think towards you, the thought of peace and not of evil, to give you a celebrated end.
- You are no longer a victim but a victor. It doesn’t matter what happen, you know end has been decided; I like to watch replay, (I love Nigeria o, I’m not an Arsenal, Chelsea fan, no, I pretend to be one but Green Eagle, Golden Eaglets are my – honestly, I love them, those guys are powerful) because I don’t want to get tension when some people are getting the dollars.
Excuse me sir, you serve a good God, you serve a wonderful God, the One that knows the end from the beginning, let me pray for somebody, I’m not a prophet but I’m a son of one, everyone here whose destiny and life is going through frustration, if their amen is loud enough, take them from the frustration level to celebration level in the name of Jesus Christ.
When frustration clears, it will be obvious that something has happened in your life; obvious that God has changed your story. Those people who are mocking you will become part of the crowd that celebrates you. You know there’s a boy called Gideon, God met him and said, you are a mighty man, he said God, stop it o, I don’t like this joke, maybe you don’t know the story, my family are the least, our tribe is the least, I am the least, I came to this least place to get least food for the least people. He said we check our record in heaven, what we saw there is mighty man.
Some people were watching an action film and everybody was tensed up that the main character is about to be captured, but there was a man there he was eating popcorn and drinking soda and they said they want to capture the actor and you are not moved, he said they cannot capture him; they said why not, he said I wrote the script and I wrote there he should not be captured.
God wrote the script of your life, you cannot possibly come down; He wrote the script of your life and what He put there is that in life and destiny, you will be a celebrity; He wrote in the book of your life that in your life, I will finish what I started with you; He’s the Alpha and the Omega, being confidence of this very thing, He who has begun the good work in you, He will finish it; what God has started in your life, God will finish it, it doesn’t matter where you are, you will find yourself at the top; every battle racing against you, you will win in the name of Jesus.
Every evil finger pointed at you, the hand will be cut off; every evil premeditation will return back to sender; every unfriendly friend shall be disappointed; every friend-enemy will be put to shame; those who are holding your blessing will never rest, they will never sleep until they perform. Every burden of the enemy, the burden Bearer will carry for you; every crisis around you, the One who declared ‘Peace, be still’, the One that is called the Prince of peace will give you peace in the name of Jesus.
Lift up your hands and begin to say thank You, I’m moving from frustration to celebration, I’m moving from pain to pleasure, Lord, I’m moving from not enough to more than enough, I’m moving from the low level of ground to the peak of the mountain, I am not for the dunghill, I am for the mountain, I am not for the valley, I am for the throne, not a chicken but an eagle, I am form the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
Yes, begin to ask Him, You wrote the script of my life, I will never end badly, it is going good for me, the enemy will not make it bad, I will move from glory to glory, from joy to joy, from anointing to anointing, from favor to favor in the name of Jesus. The battle I don’t know, God will fight; the one I know, God will take over in the name of Jesus.
My family will not break, my children will not become irritants; no, my work will not work against me, my health will work, my finances will never go down; whatsoever looks like a lost, God will restore to me seven fold, thank You Father, in Jesus most precious name we pray.
Please kindly bow your heads, close your eyes…
[Altar call]
Eternal Father, thank You, I asked You before I left home, not just today that I asked what do You want me to speak and You asked me to go and You will give me word, thank You for everyone by this altar who have responded and I have laid hand on them, I ask that every guilt of sin, every iniquity will depart from your life in the name of Jesus Christ. God will re-input your name in the Book of Life and the power to serve God till the end, God will give unto you.
I pray for everyone under the sound of my voice, whatsoever may be your frustration, I command that frustration to depart in the name of Jesus. Frustration in any area, from the altar to the pew, receive celebration in the name of Jesus. The battle you cannot fight, the Lord of hosts will take over for you in the name of Jesus. After this service, you are the next on the line of celebration, when Jesus comes, we’ll be there to reign with Him, thank You for hearing us, in Jesus mighty name we prayed.
