DATE: 06 September, 2026
TOPIC: THE POWER OF GOD AS IN THE DAYS OF OLD
WHY ARE PREACHERS CALLED
By Rev Michael Benson Ajayi
- Preachers are not called to have church members, but raise disciples.
- If your target is to have church members, you will be unable to preach righteousness openly.
- Jesus preached the truth, and he had 72 disciples and 60 resigned. There were 3000 people in church that day, and Jesus ended it with 12, and he still asked them if they were also going to leave as well.
- Why is this so? Value for a thing is gotten from pursuit? Why are crude oil and gold so sought for? Because it is so valuable people have died trying to attain it.
- Things fell apart in Nigeria the moment pastors started chasing membership instead of discipleship.
- In the pursuit of membership, you will compromise.
- So as a parent and a teacher, teach them to be disciples, not members.
- A disciple is an embodiment of the gospel; if someone does not understand a certain thing about the gospel, you must be able to explain it.
CHRISTIANS VS BORN AGAIN
- Christians are a liability to a nation, while Born-Again people that change nations
- Another word for faith is loyalty. While the person is sick or poor, you remain there. Why? Because you can pray to change those situations.
- To be born again is to be led by the Spirit of God, and be ready to die for the truth.
- The born again is fearless and not afraid of dying because they are aware Heaven is far better than here, and because they are DEAD in Christ. A dead man is not afraid of death. They live without fear because God created all things, including Satan.
- The born again is called to be a witness; a martyr, a person ready to die for what you believe in. That is why they run from situations when things get tough.
- Complaining is for those not born-again. Born again people issue commands.
- The Born again christians starts the journey and never withdraws.
WHY YOU RECEIVE POWER
- Power is only for those who will live their life completely along what the word says.
- Only for those willing to lay down their lives for the Gospel.
- The world is sick and tired of talk, they need POWER.
- Corinthians say that the word of God is not about words but the demonstration of power.
Luk 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
- Luke 6:38 is not talking about money, but surrender. The same way you surrender to God is the same way power surrenders to you. Ezekiel was told to get into a river, and he walked up to ankle at the beginning. The born again christian would dive in immediately.
- What we are told to give is your LIFE, and so if you serve God 30%, what you see will be 30%. God wants your life completely.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
- Here is why Paul is begging you. A person goes to a doctor and says they are sick, the doctor
- He is begging because his and God’s reputation is at stake.
Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
- Faith is the belief in an unseen reality.
- The soul of God is the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
- The essence of being given power if for the purpose of righteousness.
A SLIGHT DIGRESSION TO SHOW HOW FOOLISH CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE.
Job 5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- The Asset Recovery Committee that will be formed after the elections will be formed of people that HATE corrupt politicians, looking for an opportunity to revenge, and GOD will give them that opportunity.
- There are people trapped in Benin Road for TWO WEEKS, and you are saying God will not punish these men? They will not be forgiven. Meanwhile the person in charge of that is traveling around the world in expenses of over billions of Naira.
- And as for those who are praying for these people to succeed, how can God answer the prayer of these people? God will never answer their prayers; if they ARE being answered, it will be by Satan.
- In less than one month of the inquisition beginning, that stolen money will be coughed up.
Eze 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
- These 25 men have assistants, children and people backing them out. So multiply that to around 2,500 people killing Nigeria.
Eze 11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
- The money for roads? They are using it to build houses in Dubai.
Eze 11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- They will all of a sudden go on a vacation to somewhere they will be waiting for them. Why? Because if it is within Nigeria, their boys will gather to save them.
- “And I will cause foreigners to pick you up and jail you”.
- We need to go back to the ways our ancestors did things. In Abua, someone who stole something like yam, would have that yam tied around their neck, and children would parade them around the village. Some other sins were met with the elders placing a curse on you and exiling you from the village. Others resulted in death.
- We need to fight corruption, because it is witchcraft. How do we do this? Here are the consequences for such; reading and praying about it to these people will bring them upon them.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
- What is the truth of God? John 17:17 says “For your word is truth”. This means they turned the Word of God into a lie, saying that the proof that you are blessed is to have money. This is why christians are so desperate to make money to prove that they are ‘blessed’. What makes you rich is not money, but that you have God. You can cast out demons, lay hands on the sick and they recover. You can work miracles.
- Meanwhile, Revelations 3:17 says that the so called rich people in Nigeria are poor; “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: ”
- Now is it true that Nigerian christians worship their pastors? The pastors will come in and people will kneel down?
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
- Those that use words like “I pray by the God of pastor A or B” are guilty of the Sin of Samaria, an abomination of God.
- SIDENOTE: THE SIN OF SAMARIA
Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amo 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amo 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Amo 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
-- The famine is hearing the word of God. God says he will give them churches of foolishness in abundance, so that Born Again Christians will use them to learn.
-- Look at the way the world is laughing at Nigeria today; they now see everyone as a potential drug-pusher, chasing you from various countries and having your visas rejected and being deported.
-- God will make you run from program to program. Is that not what is happening in your prayer ministries?
-- At that time, there will be no 1 on 1 interaction; it will be a luxury. The pastors will be too busy to work with you. So cherish your relationships, because just like the prodigal son, when you lose it, you will never get the same kind of treatment ever again.
-- Those who say the “God of Bishop Dan” will FALL, because that is idol worship. Never you see yourself lesser than your pastor.
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- This is talking about homosexuality in the church.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- They have only one crime; hating God’s Word. These people SHOULD NOT be your friend, because you will teach you something wrong.
- A reprobate mind means that you CANNOT correct these people. Unbelief is a choice. Believing God is a choice because it requires responsibility and they do not want to be responsibility. They are not unbelievers, they are simply immoral.
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
- Can you see that they are immoral? See all the things things they do. What is the judgement for all these things? DEATH. So parents, no matter how painful, be quiet, and do not decree against, curse or insult them because Satan wants to kill that child. Instead, go and buy suya and makes sure there is plenty pepper and onion. This will make you cry and at the end of it, you will feel better. When you are going home, take small steps so it sinks well into your body.
