[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fhcjykpjhe51e":3},{"slug":4,"date":5,"title":6,"theme":7,"kind":8,"series":9,"seriesDay":9,"videoUrl":10,"hasTranscript":11,"hasSummary":11,"excerpt":12,"hasFast":13,"takeaway":14,"method":15,"note":16,"sourceTranscript":17,"sections":18,"verses":24,"related":184,"fasts":185,"newer":186,"older":191},"2025-03-23-divine-make-over-communion-service","2025-03-23","DIVINE MAKE-OVER [COMMUNION] SERVICE || SUNDAY SERVICE || 23RD MARCH 2025","DIVINE MAKE-OVER [COMMUNION] SERVICE","sunday",null,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=RfxutFHYwgk",true,"This was the Divine Makeover communion Sunday at Streams of Joy Abuja, the Sunday that opened the week of NSPPD's fifth anniversary. All four services ran on the same shape: worship, a prophetic \"speak into the week\"…",false,"It is your season of divine makeover: keep your book open, don't bow at the gate, answer every opposition with \"the Lord\", and the God who exchanges beauty for ashes will put the garment, the horse and the herald on you, \"Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delights to honour.\"","YouTube captions (en-orig, auto-generated)","Auto-generated YouTube captions (en-orig) of the whole Sunday livestream at Streams of Joy Abuja, about eight hours and four services. Names, numbers and some phrases are reconstructed from ASR and may be imperfect.","`NSPPD_Transcripts\u002F2025-03-23_NSPPD_DIVINE MAKE-OVER _COMMUNION_ SERVICE __ SUNDAY SERVICE __ 23RD MARCH 2025-yt.txt`",{"summary":19,"versesMarkdown":20,"information":21,"message":22,"asks":23},"This was the Divine Makeover communion Sunday at Streams of Joy Abuja, the Sunday that opened the week of NSPPD's fifth anniversary. All four services ran on the same shape: worship, a prophetic \"speak into the week\" declaration for Monday to Saturday, the 2025 call and response to El Roi (\"the God that sees me\"), fire prayers and words of knowledge, a sermon, communion, offering, announcements and a welcome for first timers. The cry of the day, repeated in every service, was Isaiah 61:3: \"Beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.\" In the first service Pastor Jerry led the house to \"wear\" the garment of their makeover by name, to shout \"From here to there!\" (\"Grace carried me\"), and to picture \"the one thing\" that would prove a makeover had happened.\n\nEach service took its own text. The first and fourth read Esther 6:1-11: the king could not sleep, the book of the chronicles was opened, and the honour Haman designed for himself was put on Mordecai. Pastor Jerry named the enemy of the day as \"a man\" called Haman, who shows up as a person, a policy, a structure, a system, a pattern or a cycle. Haman was awake at night too, plotting, and his plan failed only because the king opened his book: \"When you notice there's a Haman in the outer court, don't keep the book of your destiny closed.\" The second service read Luke 19:28-40 (the colt tied where no man had sat, loosed because \"the Lord hath need of him\"), and the third read 2 Kings 5:1-14 (Naaman told to dip seven times in Jordan).\n\nWords of knowledge ran through every service: a jaw tumour, a nose tumour, ovarian and breast cancer, cancer of the throat, a heart surgery that \"will not hold\", repeated miscarriages, memory loss, strokes passing through a family, mental illness in an extended family, spirit spouses, and an atmosphere of disappointment and struggle. The prophetic word over the congregation was exemption (\"people will not gather to tell you sorry\") and speed (\"things are going to happen so fast your head will swim\").\n\nThe testimonies centred on the same themes: broken stagnation and an \"emergency vacancy\" created for a sister after seven years; visa, scholarship and family exams answered from an anniversary prayer list; a marriage after nine years; a daughter kidnapped and released unharmed the same night the altar declared \"great mercy\"; survivors of a car crash, a tanker explosion and an armed robbery; a student revived in a nail class; healing of enteritis and gastritis; and a partial stroke healed in 2020.\n\nEvery service closed with communion over a named grace (flushing out, thrones and crowns, attraction, restoration and perfection), an offering made \"as a seed\" with the makeover in mind, the fifth anniversary instructions (fast 6 am to 3 pm, bring the list of the new and the old), the Psalm 91 declaration, and a charge to walk up to 15 or 21 people and scream \"Divine makeover\", \"Glory\" or \"I am on a higher level\".\n\n---","| Passage | How it was used |\n|---|---|\n| Esther 6:1-11 | Main reading in the first and fourth services: the sleepless king, the opened chronicles, Haman's self-designed honour put on Mordecai. Garment, horse and herald read as identity, speed and announcement |\n| Esther 3:2 | \"All the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed... but Mordecai bowed not\": \"Don't bow at the gate\", the place where decisions are made and destinies are traded |\n| Esther 6:13 | Zeresh and the wise men: \"If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews... thou shalt not prevail against him\" |\n| Esther 2:12-17 | Hegai the keeper of the women; Esther \"required nothing but what Hegai appointed\" and found favour; the house of the concubines; the king loved Esther above all and set the royal crown on her |\n| Esther 9 (wording fits 9:10-14) | Haman's ten sons were killed with him: wicked \"seeds\" left behind must be uprooted too |\n| 1 Samuel 15 | Saul spared Agag; Haman the Agagite shows the line was never finished |\n| Luke 19:28-40 | Main reading in the second service: the tied colt, \"the Lord hath need of him\", garments on the colt and on the road, the stones would cry out |\n| 2 Kings 5:1-14 | Main reading in the third service: Naaman the mighty leper, the little maid, the panicking king, Elisha's word, wash seven times in Jordan, flesh like a little child |\n| Isaiah 61:3 | Beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, garment of praise: the refrain of the day |\n| 2 Corinthians 3:18 | \"We all with open face beholding... are changed into the same image from glory to glory\": makeover is ever increasing glory |\n| 1 Corinthians 2:9 | \"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard\": God's next dimension is still to be unveiled |\n| Jeremiah 31:3 | \"I have loved you with an everlasting love\", in the makeup artist analogy |\n| Haggai 2:3, 9 | The glory of the latter house greater than the former |\n| Joshua 1:8 | \"This book shall not depart out of thy mouth\": your book of chronicles is the book of life; keep it open |\n| 1 Peter 5:8 | The adversary like a roaring lion: watch for a Haman in the outer court |\n| Psalm 91:1-2 | Closing declaration of every service |\n| Psalm 118:22 | The stone the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone |\n| Isaiah 66:8 | \"As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth\" |\n| Numbers 23:19 | God is not a man that he should lie |\n| Jeremiah 29:11 | Thoughts of good towards you |\n| 2 Kings 7:1 | \"By this time tomorrow\" in Samaria's famine |\n| Nahum 1:9 | \"Affliction shall not rise up the second time\" |\n| Isaiah 1:18 | Sins as scarlet made white as snow, in the altar call |\n| Romans 8:30-31 | Predestinated, called, justified, glorified; \"if God be for us\" |\n| Isaiah 34:16 | \"None of these shall fail, none shall want her mate\", for singles |\n| Psalm 127:3 | Children are the heritage of the Lord |\n| Psalm 46:4-5 | The river that makes glad the city of God; she shall not be moved |\n| Genesis 42:8 | Joseph knew his brothers but they did not know him: glory makes you unrecognisable |\n| Ezekiel 37 | Dry bones, prophesied over in worship in the second service |\n| Lamentations 3:22-23 | His mercies are new every morning: God never leaves you as he met you |\n| Psalm 27:1; Psalm 23:1; Proverbs 18:10; Psalm 20:7 | \"Shout the Lord\" when opposition comes |\n| Isaiah 53:5 | By his stripes, the reply to a bad medical report |\n| Isaiah 8:18 | \"I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders\" |\n| Hebrews 12:4 | \"Ye have not yet resisted unto blood\": don't shake when the word is tested |\n| Matthew 11:29-30 | \"My yoke is easy\": Jesus' yoke is for separation, not oppression |\n| Acts 10 | Cornelius recognised in heaven by his deeds |\n| Isaiah 6:1 | \"In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord\": God removes some people before a new level |\n| Psalm 121:1-2 | My help comes from the Lord |\n| Jeremiah 17:5 | Cursed is the man that trusts in the arm of flesh: honour men, trust God |\n| Judges 16:25-30 | Samson made to \"make sport\": my life will not entertain my enemies |\n| 3 John 2 | Prosper and be in health as your soul prospers |\n| Luke 4:5-6 | The devil offering the kingdoms: Haman spirits hijack systems |\n| Revelation 22:15 | \"Without are dogs\": don't be lured out of the inner court |\n| Zechariah 4:6 | Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit |\n| Malachi 3:10-11 | Windows of heaven and the devourer rebuked, in the offering prayer |\n| Ephesians 3:20 | Exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think, while preparing the offering |\n| Isaiah 60:1 | Arise, shine, for your light has come |\n| Isaiah 30:21 | A voice behind you saying \"this is the way\" |\n| Isaiah 62:2 | Called by a new name |\n| Psalm 126:1 | When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion |\n| Psalm 124:7 | \"Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare\", in a testimony about a family siege |\n| Hebrews 12:22-23 | Mount Zion, the company of innumerable angels, in the first-timer prayer |\n| James 1:21; Matthew 13 (sower) | Opening prayer: receive the engrafted word as good ground, not wayside, stony or thorny |\n\nRelated gospel pictures (not always cited as verses): the man born blind recognised by neighbours (John 9), the Gadarene demoniac clothed and in his right mind (Mark 5), water turned to wine at Cana, Lazarus' grave clothes torn off, Jacob renamed, Ruth's bitterness turned to favour, Esther preferred where others were rejected.\n\n---","### Theme and timing\n- **Divine Makeover [Communion] Service**, Streams of Joy International, Abuja, Sunday 23 March 2025, four services.\n- This is the week of the **fifth anniversary of NSPPD**: \"5 Days of I Am in My New: It Is My Time and My Turn\".\n- **Next Sunday, 30 March 2025:** Divine Settlement Service, in all four services (7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:15 am and 11:45 am).\n\n### Fifth anniversary week\n- **Fast** all week from 6 am to 3 pm.\n- **Bring two lists to the altar:** the new things you want to see, and the old things you never want to see again. In the fourth service: \"be generational\", write 5 or 7 years ahead.\n- Prayer agenda for the week (\"operations\"):\n  - Operation Celebration Is Now\n  - The male (and female) members of my family must excel\n  - No obstacle, no hold-up, no obstruction\n  - My father's house will celebrate\n  - Shake It Off\n  - Revelation, insight and direction\n  - \"O Lord, give me that city and that nation\"\n  - Special prayers for businesses and careers\n- NSPPD is at 7 am Nigerian time.\n\n### Church announcements\n- **Midweek Word & Fire service** continues on \"The Rise of the Glory Generation\", 6 pm.\n- **Discipleship class:** Monday (tomorrow) 6 pm at the church premises.\n- **Thanksgiving and dedication** of babies, businesses, properties and assets: Sunday 30 March, fourth service.\n- **Premium singles (40 and above):** business summit \u002F meeting on 30 March at 5 pm, church premises.\n- **Streams Theatre (drama unit) audition** for new and intending members: Saturday 29 March, 10 am, church premises (the first service said \"26th\"; the later services said 29 March).\n- **Church building project** ongoing; account details on the screen.\n- Devotional books, MP3s of the messages and partnership forms available.\n- Testimony forms from the inquiry desk, to be submitted before the next service so you can be scheduled to testify.\n- First timers: fill in the form from the ushers and hand it to an usher or the inquiry desk. Pastor Jerry prayed over first timers and those joining the church in every service, with his \"virtual hug\". In the fourth service he also prayed over visitors who came from outside Nigeria for the anniversary.\n\n### Social \u002F sharing\n- **Pastor Jerry Eze WhatsApp channel:** a prayer drops at **8 pm Nigerian time** tonight. Scan the QR code on screen, or open Updates in WhatsApp and search \"Pastor Jerry Eze\"; pick the one with the blue tick (over 600,000 subscribers).\n\n### Weekly declarations (speak into the week)\nEach service declared a Monday to Saturday confession. Highlights:\n- **First service:** Monday the mantle of divine makeover is on my household; Tuesday I am the city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One, my afflicters bow; Wednesday powers that exchange beauty for ashes are liars, \"in the order of Mordecai you are exposed\"; Thursday in the order of Saul I am another man, the supernatural is natural to me; Friday in the order of Esther I am the preferred one; Saturday instead of shame, a thousand times better, called by a new name.\n- **Second service:** Monday Eloi has multiplied me; Tuesday my divine makeover has come; Wednesday in the order of Ruth bitter tears replaced by favour; Thursday what swallowed my riches vomits them by fire; Friday water to wine, a fresh start; Saturday my makeover is complete.\n- **Third service:** Monday my manifestation will never mock my prophecy, contrary writings torn out; Tuesday average is not my name, the best of me bursts forth; Wednesday I will not miss my kairos; Thursday in the order of Lazarus I tear off the grave clothes; Friday in the order of Barak my name will not be missing; Saturday no more rejections: scholarship, job, visa, promotion, proposal, contract payments and healing approved.\n- **Fourth service:** Monday I am the one the King has chosen to honour; Tuesday from ashes to glory, from oblivion to limelight; Wednesday like Ruth I see a glorious future; Thursday pulled out of the miry clay onto the mountain of visibility; Friday my Jubilee, restoration with compensation; Saturday like Joseph from the prison to the throne.\n- **2025 call and response** (every service): \"2025: nothing goes wrong around me, I walk in daily victory, my enemies scatter before they gather, before I ask he answers, no detail of my life escapes his watchful eyes, I am not afraid of the devices of the enemy: the God that sees me.\" Then a vow to El Roi and the agreement: \"Hear us again, heaven and earth, our case is different, we have seen the God that sees us.\"\n\n### Salvation\n- In the second service, before the testimonies, an altar call used Isaiah 1:18 (\"though your sins be as scarlet\"): \"come, let us reason together\". The captions carry no full sinner's prayer or follow-up email.\n\n### Communion\n- **First service:** whatever is not of God in your destiny, career, body, soul and spirit is flushed out.\n- **Second service:** a communion of **thrones and crowns**, in industry, the marketplace, your father's house and every area.\n- **Third service:** **attraction**: men of substance, great wealth and great things drawn to you; the bands of hell broken; \"between Tuesday and Friday you would have crossed over to the other side.\"\n- **Fourth service:** **restoration and perfection**, \"nothing missing, nothing broken.\"\n\n### Offering\n- Put the offering together while picturing what your makeover will look like (Ephesians 3:20), give it intentionally as a seed, and make it a wave offering. Prayer: the devourer rebuked, the windows of heaven open; \"the barren pregnant, the jobless employed, the unmarried getting married soon.\"\n\n### Testimonies played \u002F recapped\n**First service**\n- **Princess Johnson:** seven years of career stagnation. Joined in 2023. In September 2023 a former manager had her send and correct her CV. She interviewed in March 2024, passed the second stage, then the company went cold. On Thursday 11 July, around 7:39 during NSPPD, Pastor Jerry said \"you are the chosen one, God is creating an emergency vacancy for your sake.\" The company called that morning; she interviewed the next day and then met the head of the organisation on the Friday, who asked about her breakfast and sent her home. The congratulations email came on Monday. The role was newly created; nobody had held it before. \"What I achieved in the last 7 months I could not achieve in seven years.\"\n- **A sister in a service unit** (joined through the choir, 2022-2023): wrote a fourth anniversary list in March 2024. Her sister passed a medical exam; her father passed a professional exam in July after two years of mishaps; two cousins married in the same week in August after years without a family celebration. She had been depressed and isolated; words on 9 July and 8 August about \"someone feeling isolated\" landed, and a visa letter she had chased for two years arrived after the 8 August service. The visa was ready on 30 December. On 13 January PTDF Nigeria approved a scholarship and refunded her 2023-2024 master's costs.\n- **A sister, nine years waiting for marriage:** after the mid-year fast Pastor Jerry told women in their 20s, 30s and 40s to carry their wedding gowns. She met her husband on 10 October 2024, dreamt of deliverance, and he proposed one month in. Introduction was on 27 December, and she married on 8 March 2025; the finances came through private practice (\"what I made in a calendar year in civil service, I make in a month\").\n\n**Second service**\n- **A mother:** on Wednesday 12 March, during \"O Lord, answer your name in my life\" week, when the word was \"great mercy\", her daughter entered the wrong car around 7:30-8 pm coming from Central Area. Kidnappers called more than 20 times, threatening to take her to Kaduna and harvest her organs. Mother and daughter shouted \"Arroi\". After the police report she prayed over the ground that her daughter's blood would not spill. The daughter called from a strange number and was picked up around 1-1:30 am on Thursday, unharmed. The mother contrasted it with a family who paid 11 million in ransom and lost their son.\n- **Faithful:** in Abuja since 2023. The previous Sunday (second service) Pastor Jerry prayed against death \"before Wednesday\". On Tuesday morning, riding with two colleagues while listening to NSPPD, their car swerved, somersaulted and landed in a ditch with the airbags out and engine oil leaking. All three walked out; her X-ray showed nothing broken, only soft tissue swelling in her hand.\n- **Princess (career siege):** a high performer whose career always stalled at a certain level. At a Thursday service the Holy Spirit told her that someone in her mother's house had laid a siege; her mother confirmed it and had gone to Prayer City three times this year about it. She dreamt of an elder servicing an altar who said \"I don't know you.\" In one year she had 11 global and 5 local interviews with no offer. An international company (headquartered in Beijing, China) went quiet after a December 2024 interview. Then, after declarations on 23 February and 13 March (\"there can never be a manifestation of glory without a burden\"), a staff member found her on LinkedIn for an Abuja role. She was contacted on 3 March, and the Africa vice president said \"welcome to the team\" on the call. The budget beat the figure her husband told her to ask for. She had resigned her old job on 14 February and asked God for her letter before 15 March; it came on 14 March, at five times her old pay, in foreign currency, with global travel. She vowed her first salary to the building project: \"10 years in one.\"\n- **A brother, an only child who lost both parents:** dreamt he was walking in a cemetery and Pastor Jerry led him out by the hand. On the first Sunday of March Pastor Jerry declared that anything meant to cause pain \"on the 19th\" was reversed. On Wednesday 19 March, driving home near Karu bridge (caption \"Caro bridge\") with three customs officers, a trailer smashed his side mirror and then ploughed into the cars ahead; six explosions followed and people burned. He turned his car and escaped.\n\n**Third service** (testifiers introduced as Prince Ao, Andrew Obi Okoli, and Chib Jennifer Chukwu; names uncertain)\n- **A beauty business owner** (14 years in business in Abuja this week): on Tuesday 18 March a student from Port Harcourt in his nail class collapsed, her eyes rolling back and her jaw stiffening. He shouted \"Arroi\", prayed \"you will not die in my shop\", gave her a \"spiritual slap\" as the Holy Spirit prompted, and she revived. He credited the \"08\" prayer, \"nothing missing, nothing broken.\"\n- **A brother attacked by armed robbers:** he had been praying the \"08\" prayer (my blood will not spill, my bones will not break). On a Thursday evening in Garki Area 11, after a haircut and buying yoghurt, gunmen hemmed him in at his car, struck his elbow with a pistol and fired in the air while demanding the key. He threw the key, lay down confessing \"what God cannot do does not exist\", and walked away alive; the car was taken.\n- **A young man (name unclear):** in February he began shaking after meals. Hospital treatment followed, and a scan showed enteritis and gastritis. He came to Abuja two weeks ago and joined the altar. Pastor Jerry called \"small intestine\" and later \"gastritis, go and check, they will not see it\"; the repeat scan was clear.\n- **A sister, partial stroke:** in August 2020, after sleeping on a new fibre pillow, she could not turn her neck; over three weeks it spread to her back and one hand went lifeless. An orthopaedic hospital diagnosed partial stroke. A friend whose genotype changed from SS to AA (Briana's testimony) sent her the link. Pastor Jerry described her case exactly (\"three weeks\") and she lifted the dead hand and poured water with it. In December 2022 her mother in the village had darkened and carried a corpse-like smell, feeling \"an arrow\" moving in her body; the word came during NSPPD and it left her. Her father, whose hand had been lifeless for about 50 years after an accident in Gabon (three days in water), began to feel life and see his veins moving.\n\n### Words of knowledge \u002F healing declarations\n**First service**\n- Someone told they will remove one of their eyes: reversed.\n- Three children who suddenly started having seizures at the same time.\n- Urinary and faecal incontinence at the same time.\n- Ovarian cancer and now a breast cancer report.\n- Someone locked out of their industry (\"who has the keys of your industry\"): they will see you enter.\n- \"An irrigation machine used to dry up water\" around someone's life.\n- Cancer of the throat (caption \"cancer of the Thru\").\n- \"On the last day of March your destiny will not be used as a demonic transaction.\"\n\n**Second service**\n- A tumour in the jaw: disappear.\n- A woman who lost twins, then triplets, with no child since: receive your babies.\n- Any form of memory loss: reversed.\n- An arrow of stroke passing from one family member to another.\n- \"When it comes to your turn they always give it to another\": pattern reversed.\n- Starting things and never completing them: siege broken.\n- Eyes opened against a wrong decision tomorrow.\n- A spirit spouse that comes at night: covenant terminated.\n- No pregnant woman will die with her baby.\n- Something \"shaking in the middle of the head\" for two weeks, as if going mad: broken.\n- An extended family with one mentally ill person in each household, \"five\": all healed within seven days.\n- Family members under manipulation, \"anything given to eat\" that controls them: broken.\n\n**Third service**\n- Three sisters with multiple miscarriages: the last one is the last.\n- Grandmother and mother died of breast cancer, and now a breast cancer diagnosis: reversed.\n- A running tap turned off by a hand: judgment on whoever stopped your flow.\n- A heart surgery that \"will not hold\".\n- \"In 3 days you will understand why this prayer was made\": hidden battles fought by the Lord.\n- An atmosphere that breeds disappointment; a family ordinance of endless struggle.\n- \"Between 8 and 10 pm tonight whoever placed the wrong thing in your house will confess and take it out.\"\n- Lost inspiration and creativity: restored.\n- Exemption from plane crashes, road accidents, \"entering the wrong vehicle\" and calamity.\n\n**Fourth service**\n- \"Whatever went wrong in 1995\", the Lord is correcting it.\n- A new tumour growing in the nose: dry up.\n- The devil contesting the word over a child of promise.\n- Seven angels assigned to someone's new season.\n- God opening someone's ears to hear clear instruction again.\n\n---","1. **God never leaves you the way he met you.** His mercies are new every morning and we are changed \"from glory to glory\". Divine makeover is the attraction and irresistibility of an ever increasing glory, and it keeps you from \"see finish\": the moment people find you where they last saw you and your relevance drops.\n2. **Haman is a spirit, not just a man.** He works through people, policies, structures, systems, patterns and cycles. He builds gallows or gets the king to sign a letter, then says \"it wasn't me.\" He operates at night, while you sleep, and he breeds an atmosphere of death around everything God is building.\n3. **Keep your book open.** Haman failed only because the king opened his book of chronicles. Your book is the Bible: if you keep it closed, Haman has his way.\n4. **Deal with the seeds, not just the man.** Haman had ten sons. Gossip, lies and whispered \"just be careful\" remarks are seeds that cost clients, friendships and proposals; they must be uprooted too.\n5. **Don't bow at the gate.** The gate is where decisions are taken and destinies traded. Behave like someone already wearing a crown, the way Mordecai did before any crown arrived.\n6. **When man opposes the word, reply \"the Lord\".** Jesus gave the answer before the owners of the colt asked. Answer a bad report, a disappointment or an arrow with what the Lord has said, not with man's reasoning.\n7. **Your tying may be separation, not confinement.** The colt was kept apart so it would be found when the Master sent for it. Seasons of fasting, lost friendships and restriction are incubation for visibility: \"It is not bondage, it is separation for a higher purpose.\"\n8. **Stay bendable and leave the familiar.** A colt is young and pliable; worry is pride, telling God you can manage your own affairs. Come out of \"the owners\": the people and the old mindset that only see you through yesterday's mistakes.\n9. **Carry Jesus and men will put their garments on you.** Favour, cheques and open doors come even from people who do not like you, \"not by might nor by power\".\n10. **The answer lies in the prophetic.** Naaman's warfare and two kings' titles could not heal him; the word of the Lord did. Honour men but trust God. Submit your methodology: it may not happen the way you pictured, but it will happen.\n11. **The mud is your makeover.** The Jordan was a muddy river; the back to back troubles are the seven dips. Thank the people who left or spoke against you. Some people must leave before you see the Lord.\n12. **Don't lose your sensitivity.** Leprosy kills feeling. The person you quarrel with in traffic may be the one who recommends you; remember how God brought you here.\n13. **Take it off.** Uncover what you have hidden before people who will not despise your nakedness, and drop the habits (anger, smoking, drinking, a compromising relationship) that do not fit a daughter or son of Zion.\n14. **Consistency over novelty.** Elisha gave one instruction to be done seven times. Keep doing the same prayer, quiet time and NSPPD altar again and again; the day you come out clean, you may not even notice.\n15. **Stay in the inner court.** While the king decides your favour in the inner room, Haman waits in the outer court. Do not be lured out of the secret place, because outside are the dogs.\n16. **Every generation needs an Esther in the palace and a Mordecai at the gate.** Intercessors at the gate and believers of influence in the palace both matter. If you are in the palace, keep one foot at the gate, and the other way round.\n17. **Your life is not for entertainment.** The king read the chronicles for entertainment, but Mordecai's life demanded action; like Samson's last prayer, your enemies will not laugh at you.\n18. **Less is more, and the crown is for the kingdom.** Esther required nothing beyond what Hegai appointed and won everyone's favour before she met the king. Ask how your crown will serve the kingdom; a crown that does not serve it does not last.\n\n---","**Today \u002F this season**\n- Shout, dance and celebrate as if the makeover has already happened (\"How will you shout?\").\n- Name and \"wear\" the garment of your makeover prophetically (marriage, promotion, restoration).\n- Think of the five things that, when they happen, will prove your makeover has come.\n- Declare \"Don't bow at the gate\", \"I break out of the owners\", \"I leave the familiar\", \"the mud is my new season\" and \"I will not lose my sensitivity\", and tell your neighbour \"Take it off.\"\n- Keep your Bible open: read it and meditate on it day and night.\n- Take communion in each service with its named grace.\n- Give your offering and tithe intentionally as a seed while picturing your makeover, as a wave offering.\n- Walk up to 15 people and scream \"Divine makeover\" or \"Glory\", and in the last service walk up to 21 people and shout \"I am on a higher level.\"\n- Pray the Psalm 91 declaration over the week.\n- First timers: fill in the form and hand it to an usher or the inquiry desk.\n- Fill in a testimony form at the inquiry desk and submit it before the next service.\n- Subscribe to the Pastor Jerry Eze WhatsApp channel (blue tick) and pray the 8 pm Nigerian time prayer tonight.\n\n**Tomorrow \u002F upcoming**\n- Do not miss a single day of the NSPPD fifth anniversary week, \"5 Days of I Am in My New: It Is My Time and My Turn\", 7 am Nigerian time.\n- Fast from 6 am to 3 pm all week.\n- Bring to the altar a written list of the new things you want to see and the things you never want to see again, written 5 to 7 years ahead.\n- Come to discipleship class on Monday at 6 pm, and to the midweek Word & Fire service at 6 pm.\n- Next Sunday, 30 March, is the Divine Settlement Service: bring five requests you want the Lord to settle. Thanksgiving and dedication of babies and businesses is in the fourth service that day, and the 40-plus singles meet at 5 pm.\n- Streams Theatre audition: Saturday 29 March, 10 am.\n- Be part of the church building project.\n\n---",[25,28,31,34,37,40,43,46,49,52,55,58,61,64,67,70,73,76,79,82,85,88,91,94,97,100,103,106,109,112,115,118,121,124,127,130,133,136,139,142,145,148,151,154,157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181],{"passage":26,"used":27},"Esther 6:1-11","Main reading in the first and fourth services: the sleepless king, the opened chronicles, Haman's self-designed honour put on Mordecai. Garment, horse and herald read as identity, speed and announcement",{"passage":29,"used":30},"Esther 3:2","\"All the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed... but Mordecai bowed not\": \"Don't bow at the gate\", the place where decisions are made and destinies are traded",{"passage":32,"used":33},"Esther 6:13","Zeresh and the wise men: \"If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews... thou shalt not prevail against him\"",{"passage":35,"used":36},"Esther 2:12-17","Hegai the keeper of the women; Esther \"required nothing but what Hegai appointed\" and found favour; the house of the concubines; the king loved Esther above all and set the royal crown on her",{"passage":38,"used":39},"Esther 9 (wording fits 9:10-14)","Haman's ten sons were killed with him: wicked \"seeds\" left behind must be uprooted too",{"passage":41,"used":42},"1 Samuel 15","Saul spared Agag; Haman the Agagite shows the line was never finished",{"passage":44,"used":45},"Luke 19:28-40","Main reading in the second service: the tied colt, \"the Lord hath need of him\", garments on the colt and on the road, the stones would cry out",{"passage":47,"used":48},"2 Kings 5:1-14","Main reading in the third service: Naaman the mighty leper, the little maid, the panicking king, Elisha's word, wash seven times in Jordan, flesh like a little child",{"passage":50,"used":51},"Isaiah 61:3","Beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, garment of praise: the refrain of the day",{"passage":53,"used":54},"2 Corinthians 3:18","\"We all with open face beholding... are changed into the same image from glory to glory\": makeover is ever increasing glory",{"passage":56,"used":57},"1 Corinthians 2:9","\"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard\": God's next dimension is still to be unveiled",{"passage":59,"used":60},"Jeremiah 31:3","\"I have loved you with an everlasting love\", in the makeup artist analogy",{"passage":62,"used":63},"Haggai 2:3, 9","The glory of the latter house greater than the former",{"passage":65,"used":66},"Joshua 1:8","\"This book shall not depart out of thy mouth\": your book of chronicles is the book of life; keep it open",{"passage":68,"used":69},"1 Peter 5:8","The adversary like a roaring lion: watch for a Haman in the outer court",{"passage":71,"used":72},"Psalm 91:1-2","Closing declaration of every service",{"passage":74,"used":75},"Psalm 118:22","The stone the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone",{"passage":77,"used":78},"Isaiah 66:8","\"As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth\"",{"passage":80,"used":81},"Numbers 23:19","God is not a man that he should lie",{"passage":83,"used":84},"Jeremiah 29:11","Thoughts of good towards you",{"passage":86,"used":87},"2 Kings 7:1","\"By this time tomorrow\" in Samaria's famine",{"passage":89,"used":90},"Nahum 1:9","\"Affliction shall not rise up the second time\"",{"passage":92,"used":93},"Isaiah 1:18","Sins as scarlet made white as snow, in the altar call",{"passage":95,"used":96},"Romans 8:30-31","Predestinated, called, justified, glorified; \"if God be for us\"",{"passage":98,"used":99},"Isaiah 34:16","\"None of these shall fail, none shall want her mate\", for singles",{"passage":101,"used":102},"Psalm 127:3","Children are the heritage of the Lord",{"passage":104,"used":105},"Psalm 46:4-5","The river that makes glad the city of God; she shall not be moved",{"passage":107,"used":108},"Genesis 42:8","Joseph knew his brothers but they did not know him: glory makes you unrecognisable",{"passage":110,"used":111},"Ezekiel 37","Dry bones, prophesied over in worship in the second service",{"passage":113,"used":114},"Lamentations 3:22-23","His mercies are new every morning: God never leaves you as he met you",{"passage":116,"used":117},"Psalm 27:1; Psalm 23:1; Proverbs 18:10; Psalm 20:7","\"Shout the Lord\" when opposition comes",{"passage":119,"used":120},"Isaiah 53:5","By his stripes, the reply to a bad medical report",{"passage":122,"used":123},"Isaiah 8:18","\"I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders\"",{"passage":125,"used":126},"Hebrews 12:4","\"Ye have not yet resisted unto blood\": don't shake when the word is tested",{"passage":128,"used":129},"Matthew 11:29-30","\"My yoke is easy\": Jesus' yoke is for separation, not oppression",{"passage":131,"used":132},"Acts 10","Cornelius recognised in heaven by his deeds",{"passage":134,"used":135},"Isaiah 6:1","\"In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord\": God removes some people before a new level",{"passage":137,"used":138},"Psalm 121:1-2","My help comes from the Lord",{"passage":140,"used":141},"Jeremiah 17:5","Cursed is the man that trusts in the arm of flesh: honour men, trust God",{"passage":143,"used":144},"Judges 16:25-30","Samson made to \"make sport\": my life will not entertain my enemies",{"passage":146,"used":147},"3 John 2","Prosper and be in health as your soul prospers",{"passage":149,"used":150},"Luke 4:5-6","The devil offering the kingdoms: Haman spirits hijack systems",{"passage":152,"used":153},"Revelation 22:15","\"Without are dogs\": don't be lured out of the inner court",{"passage":155,"used":156},"Zechariah 4:6","Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit",{"passage":158,"used":159},"Malachi 3:10-11","Windows of heaven and the devourer rebuked, in the offering prayer",{"passage":161,"used":162},"Ephesians 3:20","Exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think, while preparing the offering",{"passage":164,"used":165},"Isaiah 60:1","Arise, shine, for your light has come",{"passage":167,"used":168},"Isaiah 30:21","A voice behind you saying \"this is the way\"",{"passage":170,"used":171},"Isaiah 62:2","Called by a new name",{"passage":173,"used":174},"Psalm 126:1","When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion",{"passage":176,"used":177},"Psalm 124:7","\"Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare\", in a testimony about a family siege",{"passage":179,"used":180},"Hebrews 12:22-23","Mount Zion, the company of innumerable angels, in the first-timer prayer",{"passage":182,"used":183},"James 1:21; Matthew 13 (sower)","Opening prayer: receive the engrafted word as good ground, not wayside, stony or thorny",[],[],{"slug":187,"date":188,"theme":189,"title":190},"2025-03-24-i-am-in-my-new-it-is-my-time-and-my-turn-nsppd-week-day-1","2025-03-24","I AM IN MY NEW\u002FIT IS MY TIME AND MY TURN [NSPPD WEEK - DAY 1]","I AM IN MY NEW\u002FIT IS MY TIME AND MY TURN [NSPPD WEEK - DAY 1] || NSPPD || 24TH MARCH 2025",{"slug":192,"date":193,"theme":194,"title":195},"2025-03-21-throne-room-verdict-and-the-lord-said-yes-grand-finale","2025-03-21","THRONE ROOM VERDICT\u002FAND THE LORD SAID YES [GRAND FINALE]","THRONE ROOM VERDICT\u002FAND THE LORD SAID YES [GRAND FINALE] || NSPPD || 21ST MARCH 2025"]