[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f2902yw351y2lr":3},{"slug":4,"date":5,"title":6,"theme":7,"kind":8,"series":9,"seriesDay":9,"videoUrl":10,"hasTranscript":11,"hasSummary":11,"excerpt":12,"hasFast":11,"takeaway":13,"method":14,"note":15,"sourceTranscript":16,"sections":17,"verses":23,"related":231,"fasts":232,"newer":241,"older":245},"2025-08-17-rest-on-every-side-it-is-done","2025-08-17","REST ON EVERY SIDE [IT IS DONE] || SUNDAY SERVICE || 17TH AUGUST 2025","REST ON EVERY SIDE [IT IS DONE]","sunday",null,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=ll28SOvh-3U",true,"The whole day ran under one theme, \"Rest on every side: it is done\", drawn from Solomon's word that \"the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence\". Each of the…","Jesus said \"It is finished\", so the Lord has given you rest on every side with no adversary and no evil occurrence: don't argue with the serpent, don't rest in your rest, and remember the flood only lifts the ark higher. It is done.","YouTube captions (en-orig, auto-generated)","Auto-generated YouTube captions (en-orig) of the whole-day Sunday live at Streams of Joy Abuja, about 8.5 hours and four services. Names, numbers and some medical terms are reconstructed from ASR and marked where uncertain.","`NSPPD_Transcripts\u002F2025-08-17_NSPPD_REST ON EVERY SIDE _IT IS DONE_ __ SUNDAY SERVICE __ 17TH AUGUST 2025-yt.txt`",{"summary":18,"versesMarkdown":19,"information":20,"message":21,"asks":22},"The whole day ran under one theme, \"Rest on every side: it is done\", drawn from Solomon's word that \"the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence\". Each of the four services opened with worship, a set of declarations \"into our week\" (Monday to Saturday), and the 2025 confession (\"Nothing goes wrong around me. I walk in daily victory...\"). Every service carried its own message on rest, then the offering, the announcements for the birthday week, the welcome of first timers and new members, and the Psalm 91 benediction with the charge to walk up to 14 people and say \"Rest on every side.\" The day's cry, repeated across services, was: **\"I am in my rest. Nothing missing, nothing broken. It is done.\"**\n\n**First service (Acts 9:31-43, Tabitha).** Pastor Jerry taught that the first time Scripture records rest, God rested because creation was finished: \"the protocol for divine rest is finished work, not seen work.\" Jesus said \"It is finished\" while still bleeding on the cross, so the believer declares it finished before seeing it. The church in Acts 9 \"had rest\" and was multiplying when Dorcas died: unrest invading rest. The brethren sent for Peter \"not to delay\", because \"when God gives a man rest, there is no delay.\" Peter put the weeping widows out (\"in matters of rest, it is not emotional\"; rest is first a state of the mind), knelt (the posture of a man at rest is his knees before Abba), then spoke to the body as one who had already settled the matter: \"Tabitha, arise.\" She opened her eyes, saw Peter, sat up; he gave her his hand and presented her alive. His charge: be the one others see and sit up; give people your hand, not your fears; and what they hand you sick or dead, give back alive.\n\n**Second service (Genesis 1-2, the garden).** God's first idea of rest for man: he made light (nobody rests in darkness; \"negativity thrives when it is dark\"), formed the man (rest is for the man God forms, and in the new covenant the transformed man of Romans 12:2), moved by the Spirit over a dark deep (the man at rest keeps moving whatever the environment), said \"Let us\" (people whose second name is rest are coming into your life this week), made man in his image (the serpent offered Eve what she already had; you do not do things to become God's child, you already are), and put him in a garden with a charge to tend it. Unrest entered when Eve held a conversation with the serpent: \"Beware of snakes.\" And: \"God brought you to your rest, but don't rest in your rest.\" Samson is the warning.\n\n**Third service (John 2:1-11, Cana).** The miracle was done \"to manifest his glory\", and the glory waited for the wine to finish: crises are \"raw material for glory\" (Lazarus: \"this sickness is not unto death\"). The guests never knew; El Roi was fixing it while they could have gossiped, so \"my God is working\" where your hands cannot reach. \"My hour is not yet come\" (Amplified: my time to act and be revealed) shows faith can move God's timing, as with the Syrophoenician woman and the daughters of Zelophehad. The closing picture: the governor of the feast complaining that the good wine came late. \"Why did you only involve me after you had drunk nonsense? Start with me.\"\n\n**Fourth service (Hebrews 11:7, Noah).** Noah's name means rest. Five reasons believers labour: they do not understand what Jesus already did (we call forth the manifestation of finished works, John 9:3), they do not believe (faith rests on who God is, not on determination), they lack the revealed word for now, they underestimate spiritual warfare (we fight because we have won, \"more than conquerors\"), and fear. Noah \"moved with fear\" yet acted by faith; \"until faith frees you of anxiety, it has not yet become faith\"; faith is \"more about stature than answers\"; Philemon 6, the communication of your faith. Noah found grace. The close: the heavier the flood, the higher the ark rose. \"The flood has an assignment: lift the ark.\"\n\n**Ministry and testimonies.** Words of knowledge ran through all four services (cancers, eyes, skin, fertility, curses, minds, an age the devil planted, immigration papers). Eleven testifiers came forward across services 2 to 4, among them a law professor whose mucinous carcinoma, cardiomegaly, hypertensive heart disease and prediabetes were all reversed, a Lagos businesswoman selected by the US State Department, the EU and the ITC Geneva, a couple whose engagement and wedding came through the altar, a Namibian delivered from witchcraft, and a 70-year-old whose renal cell carcinoma report came back clean. The week ahead was announced as **five days of the Great and Mighty Works of El Roi**, Pastor Jerry's birthday week, with a 6am to 1pm fast.\n\n---","| Passage | How it was used |\n|---|---|\n| 1 Kings 5:4 | Anchor of the day: \"the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, neither adversary nor evil occurrent\"; declared in every service |\n| Acts 9:31, 36-43 | First service reading: the churches had rest; Tabitha dies, Peter puts out the mourners, kneels, says \"Tabitha, arise\", presents her alive |\n| Genesis 2:2 (wording fits) | \"God rested\" when creation was done: the protocol for divine rest is finished work |\n| John 19:30 | \"It is finished\" spoken while still bleeding on the cross: declare it finished before seeing it |\n| Romans 9:28 | \"A short work will the Lord make upon the earth\", cut short in righteousness |\n| Hebrews 11:1; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 11:3 | Faith as evidence of things not seen; walk by faith, not by sight; he that cometh must believe that he is; worlds framed by the word |\n| 2 Kings 3:17 | \"You will not see wind nor rain, yet your valley shall be filled with water\" (services 1 and 2) |\n| 1 Peter 5:8; Romans 10:8 | The devil goes about testing whether you know what has been finished; \"the word is nigh thee, in thy mouth\" |\n| Galatians 4:1; Galatians 5:1 | An heir who is a child differs nothing from a servant; stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free |\n| 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 1 Corinthians 16:9 | \"Satan hindered us\" (rest does not mean no attack); a great and effectual door with many adversaries |\n| Hebrews 4:9-10 (KJV, Message, TPT) | There remains a rest; he that has entered his rest has ceased from his works; TPT \"God's faith-rest life\": faith is the key word |\n| Colossians 3:3; Psalm 23:6 | Life hid with Christ in God; only goodness and mercy are allowed to follow you: \"Get out\" to everything else |\n| Proverbs 4:23; 2 Corinthians 5:17 | What contends with rest is mostly inside: keep your heart; new creature, old things passed away |\n| Philippians 2:10-11; Psalm 121 | Every knee shall bow; the posture of rest is knees before Abba; \"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills\" sung |\n| Exodus 14:13 | \"The Egyptians you saw before, you will see them no more\" (services 1 and 4) |\n| Romans 8:33; Isaiah 50:8-9 | \"Who shall lay any charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies\"; the Lord will help me, they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them |\n| 1 John 5:7-8 | Three that bear record in heaven and three on earth, called as witnesses (service 1); the Trinity behind \"Let us\" (service 2) |\n| 1 Peter 5:10 | \"The God of all grace... make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you\": divine settlement |\n| Psalm 27:1 | \"The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?\" |\n| Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 5:11 | Opening prayer: come to Mount Zion and an innumerable company of angels; ten thousand times ten thousand |\n| Genesis 1:1-5, 26; 2:6-8 | Second service reading: light, man in God's image, the man formed and placed in the garden |\n| Genesis 3:1-5 | The serpent's \"Has God said?\" and \"ye shall be as gods\": the door of unrest; you were already made in his image |\n| Hebrews 6:18; Matthew 24:35 | Two immutable things, impossible for God to lie; heaven and earth shall pass, not his word |\n| Psalm 68:11; Psalm 147:15 | God gave the word, great was the company that published it; his word runs very swiftly |\n| 1 Peter 2:9 | Chosen generation, royal priesthood: you are light to \"show forth\" his praises |\n| Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18 | Formed versus transformed man; changed from glory to glory |\n| Genesis 1:2; Psalm 23:4; 2 Timothy 1:12 | The Spirit kept moving over darkness; walk through the valley; \"I know whom I have believed\" |\n| 2 Kings 4 (Gehazi and the Shunammite) | People who step in and notice your need |\n| Psalm 82:6 \u002F John 10:34 | \"Ye are gods\": you do not need to \"eat something\" to be like God |\n| Matthew 11:28-30 | \"Come unto me... I will give you rest\"; his yoke is easy, yet still a yoke that steers you |\n| Judges 16 (Samson) | Warning: given rest, then careless; \"don't rest in your rest\" |\n| Psalm 63:1 | \"Early will I seek thee\": sons who still pray after arriving at rest |\n| Psalm 71:21 | Week declarations: \"increase my greatness and comfort me on every side\" (services 2 and 4) |\n| Habakkuk 3:19 \u002F Psalm 18:33 | Hinds' feet on high places (declarations) |\n| Genesis 26:13 | Isaac \"went forward and grew until he became very great\" (declarations) |\n| James 1:17 | Father of lights, no shadow of turning, over the children (declarations) |\n| Jeremiah 1:18 | Defenced city, iron pillar, brazen walls (declarations) |\n| Psalm 30:11; Isaiah 65:24 | Mourning turned to dancing; before I ask, he answers |\n| Isaiah 7:7; 2 Chronicles 20:20 | Exhortation before testimonies: it shall not stand; believe his prophets and prosper |\n| Isaiah 25:6; Joel 2:25; Lamentations 3:37 | Feast of fat things for the birthday week; restoration of the years; who is he that saith and it cometh to pass |\n| Exodus 33:14; 2 Chronicles 5:14; Exodus 23:23 | Third service opening prayer: my presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest; glory filled the temple; angels driving out the Hivites and Jebusites |\n| Romans 8:30-31; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Psalm 127:3 | Exhortation: if God be for us; always triumph; children an heritage of the Lord |\n| John 2:1-11 (with 2:4 Amplified) | Third service reading: water into wine to manifest his glory; \"my time to act and to be revealed has not yet come\" |\n| John 11:4; John 12:24 | \"This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God\"; a grain of wheat falls and dies |\n| 2 Peter 1:4 | Partakers of the divine nature |\n| Matthew 15:21-28 | The Syrophoenician woman pressed past \"I am sent only to Israel\" |\n| Numbers 27:1-7 | Daughters of Zelophehad: God said \"they speak right\" and the law changed |\n| Isaiah 31:3 | \"The Egyptians are men, not God; their horses flesh, not spirit\"; when the Lord stretches his hand both fall |\n| 2 Chronicles 20:30 | The realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, God gave him rest round about |\n| Psalm 124:4-7 | The waters had overwhelmed; not given as prey to their teeth; escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers |\n| Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 20:7; Exodus 15:4 | Fourth service declarations: God in the midst of me; not in horses and chariots; Pharaoh's chosen captains drowned |\n| Luke 1:35 | The power of the Highest overshadows you |\n| Hebrews 11:7 | Fourth service anchor: Noah, warned of things not seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark, heir of the righteousness which is by faith |\n| Genesis 5:28-29; Genesis 6:8 | Lamech names Noah, \"this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil\"; Noah found grace |\n| John 9:1-3 | \"That the works of God should be made manifest\": God has already worked |\n| Matthew 7:9-10 | You will not ask for fish and get a serpent: faith rests on knowing him |\n| Philippians 3:10 | \"That I may know him\" |\n| Romans 8:37; Psalm 44:3 | More than conquerors; they got not the land by their own sword |\n| Philemon 1:6 (KJV, Message, TPT) | \"The communication of thy faith\": why faithless people think you have gone mad |\n| Ephesians 4:27 | Neither give place to the devil |\n| Hebrews 11:35-37 | By faith some did not receive answers: faith is about stature |\n| Romans 6:1 | Grace is not liberty to sin |\n| Psalm 46:10 | \"Be still and know that I am God\": rest is an identity, not a situation |\n| 2 Thessalonians 1:6 | God remembers and recompenses tribulation to those who troubled you |\n| Hebrews 11:11 | By faith Sarah received strength |\n| Genesis 7:11-17 | The flood rose and the ark rose higher: the flood has an assignment |\n| Isaiah 59:19 | When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit lifts up a standard (service 4 close and a testifier) |\n| Job 19:25 | \"I know that my redeemer liveth\" (sung) |\n| John 4:35 | Bishop Florence's word: say not there are yet four months, the harvest is now |\n\nRelated gospel pictures (not always cited as verses): Jesus sitting as a guest while the governor praises the late wine; Lazarus left three days for glory; the man born blind; the cross and the empty tomb.\n\n---","### Theme and timing\n- Sunday, 17 August 2025, Streams of Joy Abuja, four services, theme **\"Rest on every side: it is done.\"**\n- The coming week is Pastor Jerry's birthday week and **five days of the Great and Mighty Works of El Roi** on NSPPD (Monday 18 to Friday 22 August). He said he has fasted and prayed for this week since January; \"my birthdays are no longer birthdays, they are God days.\"\n- Each day announced as a day of transition, crossover and exploit, the miraculous, overturning, alignment, restoration and outpouring. \"This is not the week to watch later.\"\n- **Friday is Pastor Jerry's birthday** and the grand finale; all birthday prayer requests are prayed over on Friday. The first service also mentions receiving \"the ministry of BMI\" on Friday (caption phrase, meaning unclear).\n\n### Declarations into the week (one set per service)\n- **Service 1:** Monday rest on every side, a great and effectual door; Tuesday angels announce my new season, I cease from labour; Wednesday not tied down where I have outgrown, delivered from repeated battles; Thursday my family has arrived at our rest, what we lost is restored; Friday every power working against my rest, fire, my warfare is accomplished; Saturday marital, career, family, ministry and financial rest, wasted years restored.\n- **Service 2:** Monday greatness increased and comforted on all sides, marketplace champions; Tuesday hinds' feet, pending immigration applications, files and cases come out \"with the speed of lightning\"; Wednesday like Isaac, my greatness is in me; Thursday the Father of lights perfects his work in my children; Friday the presence goes ahead, defenced city and iron pillar; Saturday the battles are over, the mantle of ease, mourning into dancing.\n- **Service 3:** Monday longstanding battles end in my favour; Tuesday every wicked altar that says I will not rest, your end has come; Wednesday I break out of every dungeon, new chapters of congratulations; Thursday my rising and celebrations will not be hindered; Friday my name in the heart of kings, a wall of fire; Saturday already anointed, chosen, elevated, new thrones call my name.\n- **Service 4:** Monday not bound by any negativity; God in my midst, the oil of ease, an unsolicited promotion; Wednesday brought into my wealthy place, my prophecy becomes my provision; powers that make me \"walk like an elephant and eat like an ant\", fire; Friday no more great effort and few results; Saturday in partnership with El Roi, appointments and approvals replace disappointment.\n\n### Birthday week instructions\n- Send prayer requests to **birthdayprayerrequests@streamsofjoy.org** (spoken \"birthday prayer requests at streamsofjoy.org\") all through the week.\n- Come to the altar every day with your **mantle**, a **duplicate copy of the prayer points** you emailed (\"at some point we're going to do something prophetic on it\"), and **downloaded pictures of what you desire** of the Lord (\"If I were you, I'd go and download new ones\").\n- **Fast Monday to Friday, 6:00am to 1:00pm.**\n\n### Next Sunday and church calendar\n- **Next Sunday (24 August): \"Reign of Answers\" service** in all four services, 7:00am, 8:30am, 10:15am and 11:45am.\n- **Pastor Jerry's prayer WhatsApp channel:** transition prayers all week (\"transition, forward and perfection prayers\"), each day themed (vocation, finances, health, family). QR code shown on screen; follow and turn on notifications.\n- **Midweek service, Thursday (Word and Fire):** series \"Understanding the times and seasons of your life\", 5:00pm.\n- **Discipleship class:** Monday (tomorrow), 6:00pm, church premises.\n- **Maturity class (Streams of Joy School of Ministry):** begins September, taught by Pastor Jerry; only for those who completed discipleship class (bring your certificate); register via QR code; do not miss a class until you finish.\n- **Lead pastor's appreciation service:** Sunday 31 August, all four services.\n- **Combined singles programme \"Worship and Warfare\":** this evening (17 August), 4:30pm, church premises (singles church, Premium Singles, Gems and Jewels).\n- **2025 Children's Summer Meeting:** 26-28 August 2025; free registration by QR code or at the junior church.\n- Church building project ongoing (account details on screen); devotional books, MP3s and materials at the Streams Emporium; partnership forms and testimony forms at the inquiry desk.\n- First timers fill the usher form; those making Streams of Joy their church were prayed for; in service 4, visitors from outside Nigeria (several came for the birthday week) were called out and prayed for.\n\n### Offering\n- Offerings, tithes and partnership as a wave offering in every service, with the prayer that \"the devourer is rebuked\" and the windows of heaven open; service 2 added \"that business that has been idle will receive a quantum leap this week\" and \"wherever your papers, documents, contract letters are, let them be supernaturally activated.\"\n\n### Testimonies played \u002F recapped\n- **Adink (Streams of Joy East London, UK), service 2.** First visit to Nigeria in 15 years. During the 2021 birthday week Pastor Jerry wept asking God to bless the members; in October she got two jobs and moved into IT. In April 2022 (\"pick a date\") she was offered an April driving test after five failures and a COVID backlog, and passed. Four family members joined her in the UK on work permits (CoS). A crippling pain (caption \"right nail\") healed while watching NSPPD America.\n- **Safiatu (South Sudan, works in Uganda), service 2.** Joined during the August 2022 birthday; wrote a transition note in 2023 and moved her family from Liberia to Uganda by September 2023. Son Henry won a chess competition, a science bronze in the Netherlands at 12, a FIRST Lego League research and robotics award, passed the DELF French exam, won four medals at the World Scholar's Cup (three gold in essay, one silver in debate) and a maths silver in the UK in June 2025. Son Justin (football) hit his head on a steel rail in a hotel lobby on a June European tour after a word that \"they will not call you to come and take your child\"; five days later he played and a German coach wants to scout him at nine. Youngest, Miguel, started drawing. Her brother, with an advanced degree from Switzerland and five years jobless, got a five-year manager contract. She herself met the UN Under-Secretary-General and travels as a staff representative.\n- **Dr. Chioma (caption \"Choma\"), law professor from Awka, Anambra State, service 2.** On the altar since September 2020. Mid-2024, at 41, diagnosed with mucinous carcinoma, confirmed by a second opinion at JUTH (caption \"Jud\"\u002F\"JT\", uncertain), plus cardiomegaly, hypertensive heart disease and prediabetes. She lay on the altar at the 22-23 August 2024 birthday, downloaded every carcinoma testimony, and kept the 21-day fast with no prayer request, only thanksgiving. On 27 January 2025, the day after the fast, her case was called; CT scans on 21 February were clear. On 24 July 2025 the mucinous carcinoma \"of the breast\" was named again; a full review (10-17 August) showed fasting sugar 4.3, HbA1c 4.7, normal lipids, cardiomegaly and hypertensive heart disease reversed: \"a clean bill of health.\" **Second testimony:** after a 24 July word that \"your family will not gather for another obituary\", her 45-year-old brother-in-law lost consciousness after an injection on 7 August and was left immobile, like a partial stroke; the family had buried a sister at 46. On Thursday he drove himself home. She calls El Roi \"terminator of terminal disease.\"\n- **A woman (service 3, among Elizabeth Samson and Mr and Mrs Esobo, names uncertain).** In 2023 something struck her leg in her shop, which swelled and wept; she came to Streams of Joy, joined NSPPD at 7am and it healed. In September 2024 it struck the second leg after something was poured in her shop; she poured communion and anointing oil, and when Pastor Jerry said \"open wound, seal up\" (also at the Lagos programme) both legs dried and healed.\n- **Bishop Florence Saki (Tanzania), service 3.** Her birthday today; staying until Friday. Saw a vision of fire on 13 March 2024 and was told she would see it in six months; found NSPPD by September. After a 26 September word she fasted 14 days. Her husband, a pastor since 2001, began claiming to be God in 2018 and put her out; she started her own ministry in 2020. This year they acquired land, started building on 1 April and opened the permanent church on 8 June 2025. Her daughter's asthma attacks stopped. In July, the word \"do not say there are yet four months, it is harvest time\" (John 4:35) got her the ticket to come.\n- **Elizabeth (Lagos), service 3.** Joined December 2020; 10 of the 15 items she wrote in 2021 are answered. On 24 February 2021 she asked God to put her case in his servant's mouth; he paused reading testimonies to say \"you shall be preferred for that role about four people are contending for\", and in June she got the sales role. Later she became the least performer; after a testimony she invited the Holy Spirit to her desk, heard \"thrust in thy sickle\" in January, and now exceeds dollar targets in the millions as the top salesperson across English-speaking African countries.\n- **Lagos businesswoman (corporate gifts importer), service 3.** In October 2023 the dollar doubled and she feared jail; on 13 December she joined the altar and found peace. In the 2024 21-day fast he spoke of \"global visibility\"; the US Embassy nominated her, without application, for the International Visitor Leadership Program (over $20,000 per person); she got a passport in under 24 hours and spent three weeks in the US, including Harvard, on her first trip outside Africa. In 2024 an EU and German business grant; in 2025 the ITC (World Trade Organization) in Geneva selected her from 67,000 applicants for a cohort of 146 women-led businesses. Debts being paid off.\n- **Birthday testifier and her husband (\"Odogwu capacity\"), service 3.** A single mother with a fear of marriage, she found Streams of Joy in 2022 and wrote \"marital settlement\" in the January 2023 fast and again in the July fast. Dreams: Pastor Jerry, then Mummy Eno bringing her to him: \"It has been settled.\" She met a man that July; on 17 August 2023 in Lagos he proposed on a beach. Chaos followed and the 2024 wedding did not happen; she prayed with screenshots of their hashtag, a ring and a car. He had seen her at an airport in 2022, wrote her full name and printed their pictures for the altar, prayed at the 31 December 2024 crossover in the National Stadium, and they married in July 2025, with the car as a pre-wedding gift. Two days after the wedding he, a remote tech worker, was appointed Technical Assistant to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on ICT Development and Innovation.\n- **Doris (Namibia), service 4.** Years of witchcraft attacks on health, career, children's education, finances and marriage, worse after a job in Ethiopia (2018); \"anointed water\" from a tenant made things move in her and her daughters' bodies. From 2021 she played NSPPD fire prayers on every device in every room and the garden; after \"let every tree monitoring you dry up\" the trees died while the plants under them grew. The last movement between her shoulder and elbow stopped once she arrived in Abuja. After a dream of her certificates being taken, doors shut, then consultancies came via LinkedIn (Cameroon, Zambia, Nigeria). In March 2024 her grandchild in the UK was born by emergency C-section with the cord twice round the neck, healthy and needing no incubator.\n- **Progress Ala, service 4.** Breast pain from February; in March a cyst was found and surgery booked for a Monday. Her mother dreamed and told her to fast and come to Streams of Joy. At the third service Pastor Jerry said, \"someone here, you're booked for an operation on Monday; I cancel that operation.\" The hospital found it too small to operate, and later it was gone with no pain.\n- **Wife of a 70-year-old (service 4, possibly Eka Simono).** After his 70th birthday in May, a June vacation and a health facility programme abroad (doctors in Germany) found a kidney mass and an MRI read cancer. Home on the 14th, a hospital here on the 15th suggested RCC (renal cell carcinoma). On the 16th, when he said \"tear your negative reports\", she tore the reports and broke the MRI CD. He took communion daily. On 13 August a German ultrasound found nothing; on Friday 15 August, the day of \"a clean bill of health\" communion, the CT showed no cancer. He wept in the doctor's office, and his doctors admitted they had been afraid.\n\n### Words of knowledge \u002F healing declarations\n- **Service 1:** someone whose time to rise keeps being shifted, by a demonic or physical hand; fingers decaying; a family where \"everyone has one big problem or the other\"; \"anybody dancing in the dark so you will mourn in public\" reversed; \"in less than 10 days your testimony will be: the Lord has ended it\"; skin outbreak not responding to medication; women desirous to carry babies, \"carry your babies\"; something in the nose (caption \"no mouth or bone in your nose\", uncertain); a mother who cursed her children even on her deathbed, the curse broken; someone's voice being imitated so people hear another person \"instead of you\" (understood this week); pins under the feet when walking; sudden loss of sight in the right eye; over 40 years of a mother's mental illness; \"this time it will work.\"\n- **Service 2:** an age the devil planted (\"you will die at this age\") that keeps coming back: \"get out\"; helpers who \"carry rest\" walking into your life this week.\n- **Service 3:** \"Before 6pm tomorrow you will scream for joy\" and, to new members, \"in 3 months your life will change.\"\n- **Service 4:** throat cancer disappear; memory loss; a liver condition and an aneurysm (caption \"liver and neurism\", uncertain); those who have outgrown where they are tied down, moved out; a spirit that controls the whole kindred broken; patterns that derail the young men of a father's house broken; \"may the Lord in 24 hours amaze you.\"\n\n---","1. **Rest is finished work, not seen work.** God rested when creation was done; Jesus said \"It is finished\" from the cross. My belief in the finished work is what causes the work to be seen.\n2. **Rest is first a state of mind.** Like Peter putting out the widows, send out doubt, fear, family history and the doctor's report. Most of what contends with your rest is inside, not outside.\n3. **When God gives a man rest, there is no delay.** Unrest will try to enter a season of rest, as death came for Dorcas while the church multiplied; you do not validate it.\n4. **The posture of rest is your knees before Abba.** Public boldness comes from private prayer; then you speak to the situation as one who has already settled it with God.\n5. **What they gave you dead, give back alive.** Be the one others see and sit up; give people your hand, not your fears or weaknesses.\n6. **Don't hold conversations with the serpent.** Unrest entered when Eve argued with \"Has God said?\" God cannot lie; \"God said it, I believe it, that settles it.\"\n7. **You are already his child.** Prayer is relationship, not proof; the only responsibility is growth. The man God forms is transformed by a renewed mind.\n8. **Don't rest in your rest.** God gives a garden and a charge to tend it; Samson grew careless. His yoke is easy, but it still steers you to your purpose.\n9. **Crises are raw material for glory.** The wine had to finish before the glory showed; El Roi is working where your hands cannot reach, and faith can move his timing.\n10. **Start with him.** Don't ignore him at the beginning and look for him in the middle; don't wait for cancer to stay on the altar.\n11. **Faith is rest.** We fight because we have won; we are more than conquerors. Until faith ends anxiety it is not yet faith, and faith builds stature more than it gets answers.\n12. **Rest is an identity.** Noah's name means rest, and the flood has an assignment: the heavier it comes, the higher the ark rises.\n\n---","**Today \u002F this season**\n- Declare: \"I am in my rest. Nothing missing, nothing broken. It is done.\" Say \"rest on every side\" to three neighbours, then to 14 people at the close.\n- Celebrate in advance: \"How will you shout?\"\n- Say \"Get out\" to doubt, fear, the age the devil planted and anything that is not goodness and mercy; speak \"I will not bow\" to limitation and evil reports.\n- Keep your knees before Abba; don't casualise your prayer life after God brings you to rest.\n- Involve Jesus from the beginning of the new season, not only when the wine runs out.\n- Give your offering, tithe and partnership as a wave offering.\n- First timers: fill the usher form and hand it in; new members: go for the discipleship class.\n- Pick up a testimony form at the inquiry desk and submit it before next Sunday.\n\n**Tomorrow \u002F upcoming**\n- Be on NSPPD every morning, Monday 18 to Friday 22 August, for the five days of the Great and Mighty Works of El Roi; don't watch later.\n- Email requests to birthdayprayerrequests@streamsofjoy.org.\n- Bring your mantle, a duplicate copy of your prayer points and downloaded pictures of what you desire.\n- Fast 6:00am to 1:00pm, Monday to Friday.\n- Follow Pastor Jerry's prayer WhatsApp channel (QR code) and turn on notifications for the transition prayers.\n- Attend the discipleship class (Monday, 6pm), the Thursday Word and Fire midweek service (5pm), and register for the September maturity class if you qualify.\n- Come to next Sunday's \"Reign of Answers\" services (7:00, 8:30, 10:15, 11:45) and the 31 August lead pastor's appreciation service; register children for the 26-28 August summer meeting; singles meet this evening at 4:30pm.\n\n---",[24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51,54,57,60,63,66,69,72,75,78,81,84,87,90,93,96,99,102,105,108,111,114,117,120,123,126,129,132,135,138,141,144,147,150,153,156,159,162,165,168,171,174,177,180,183,186,189,192,195,198,201,204,207,210,213,216,219,222,225,228],{"passage":25,"used":26},"1 Kings 5:4","Anchor of the day: \"the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, neither adversary nor evil occurrent\"; declared in every service",{"passage":28,"used":29},"Acts 9:31, 36-43","First service reading: the churches had rest; Tabitha dies, Peter puts out the mourners, kneels, says \"Tabitha, arise\", presents her alive",{"passage":31,"used":32},"Genesis 2:2 (wording fits)","\"God rested\" when creation was done: the protocol for divine rest is finished work",{"passage":34,"used":35},"John 19:30","\"It is finished\" spoken while still bleeding on the cross: declare it finished before seeing it",{"passage":37,"used":38},"Romans 9:28","\"A short work will the Lord make upon the earth\", cut short in righteousness",{"passage":40,"used":41},"Hebrews 11:1; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 11:3","Faith as evidence of things not seen; walk by faith, not by sight; he that cometh must believe that he is; worlds framed by the word",{"passage":43,"used":44},"2 Kings 3:17","\"You will not see wind nor rain, yet your valley shall be filled with water\" (services 1 and 2)",{"passage":46,"used":47},"1 Peter 5:8; Romans 10:8","The devil goes about testing whether you know what has been finished; \"the word is nigh thee, in thy mouth\"",{"passage":49,"used":50},"Galatians 4:1; Galatians 5:1","An heir who is a child differs nothing from a servant; stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free",{"passage":52,"used":53},"1 Thessalonians 2:18; 1 Corinthians 16:9","\"Satan hindered us\" (rest does not mean no attack); a great and effectual door with many adversaries",{"passage":55,"used":56},"Hebrews 4:9-10 (KJV, Message, TPT)","There remains a rest; he that has entered his rest has ceased from his works; TPT \"God's faith-rest life\": faith is the key word",{"passage":58,"used":59},"Colossians 3:3; Psalm 23:6","Life hid with Christ in God; only goodness and mercy are allowed to follow you: \"Get out\" to everything else",{"passage":61,"used":62},"Proverbs 4:23; 2 Corinthians 5:17","What contends with rest is mostly inside: keep your heart; new creature, old things passed away",{"passage":64,"used":65},"Philippians 2:10-11; Psalm 121","Every knee shall bow; the posture of rest is knees before Abba; \"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills\" sung",{"passage":67,"used":68},"Exodus 14:13","\"The Egyptians you saw before, you will see them no more\" (services 1 and 4)",{"passage":70,"used":71},"Romans 8:33; Isaiah 50:8-9","\"Who shall lay any charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies\"; the Lord will help me, they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them",{"passage":73,"used":74},"1 John 5:7-8","Three that bear record in heaven and three on earth, called as witnesses (service 1); the Trinity behind \"Let us\" (service 2)",{"passage":76,"used":77},"1 Peter 5:10","\"The God of all grace... make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you\": divine settlement",{"passage":79,"used":80},"Psalm 27:1","\"The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?\"",{"passage":82,"used":83},"Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 5:11","Opening prayer: come to Mount Zion and an innumerable company of angels; ten thousand times ten thousand",{"passage":85,"used":86},"Genesis 1:1-5, 26; 2:6-8","Second service reading: light, man in God's image, the man formed and placed in the garden",{"passage":88,"used":89},"Genesis 3:1-5","The serpent's \"Has God said?\" and \"ye shall be as gods\": the door of unrest; you were already made in his image",{"passage":91,"used":92},"Hebrews 6:18; Matthew 24:35","Two immutable things, impossible for God to lie; heaven and earth shall pass, not his word",{"passage":94,"used":95},"Psalm 68:11; Psalm 147:15","God gave the word, great was the company that published it; his word runs very swiftly",{"passage":97,"used":98},"1 Peter 2:9","Chosen generation, royal priesthood: you are light to \"show forth\" his praises",{"passage":100,"used":101},"Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18","Formed versus transformed man; changed from glory to glory",{"passage":103,"used":104},"Genesis 1:2; Psalm 23:4; 2 Timothy 1:12","The Spirit kept moving over darkness; walk through the valley; \"I know whom I have believed\"",{"passage":106,"used":107},"2 Kings 4 (Gehazi and the Shunammite)","People who step in and notice your need",{"passage":109,"used":110},"Psalm 82:6 \u002F John 10:34","\"Ye are gods\": you do not need to \"eat something\" to be like God",{"passage":112,"used":113},"Matthew 11:28-30","\"Come unto me... I will give you rest\"; his yoke is easy, yet still a yoke that steers you",{"passage":115,"used":116},"Judges 16 (Samson)","Warning: given rest, then careless; \"don't rest in your rest\"",{"passage":118,"used":119},"Psalm 63:1","\"Early will I seek thee\": sons who still pray after arriving at rest",{"passage":121,"used":122},"Psalm 71:21","Week declarations: \"increase my greatness and comfort me on every side\" (services 2 and 4)",{"passage":124,"used":125},"Habakkuk 3:19 \u002F Psalm 18:33","Hinds' feet on high places (declarations)",{"passage":127,"used":128},"Genesis 26:13","Isaac \"went forward and grew until he became very great\" (declarations)",{"passage":130,"used":131},"James 1:17","Father of lights, no shadow of turning, over the children (declarations)",{"passage":133,"used":134},"Jeremiah 1:18","Defenced city, iron pillar, brazen walls (declarations)",{"passage":136,"used":137},"Psalm 30:11; Isaiah 65:24","Mourning turned to dancing; before I ask, he answers",{"passage":139,"used":140},"Isaiah 7:7; 2 Chronicles 20:20","Exhortation before testimonies: it shall not stand; believe his prophets and prosper",{"passage":142,"used":143},"Isaiah 25:6; Joel 2:25; Lamentations 3:37","Feast of fat things for the birthday week; restoration of the years; who is he that saith and it cometh to pass",{"passage":145,"used":146},"Exodus 33:14; 2 Chronicles 5:14; Exodus 23:23","Third service opening prayer: my presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest; glory filled the temple; angels driving out the Hivites and Jebusites",{"passage":148,"used":149},"Romans 8:30-31; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Psalm 127:3","Exhortation: if God be for us; always triumph; children an heritage of the Lord",{"passage":151,"used":152},"John 2:1-11 (with 2:4 Amplified)","Third service reading: water into wine to manifest his glory; \"my time to act and to be revealed has not yet come\"",{"passage":154,"used":155},"John 11:4; John 12:24","\"This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God\"; a grain of wheat falls and dies",{"passage":157,"used":158},"2 Peter 1:4","Partakers of the divine nature",{"passage":160,"used":161},"Matthew 15:21-28","The Syrophoenician woman pressed past \"I am sent only to Israel\"",{"passage":163,"used":164},"Numbers 27:1-7","Daughters of Zelophehad: God said \"they speak right\" and the law changed",{"passage":166,"used":167},"Isaiah 31:3","\"The Egyptians are men, not God; their horses flesh, not spirit\"; when the Lord stretches his hand both fall",{"passage":169,"used":170},"2 Chronicles 20:30","The realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, God gave him rest round about",{"passage":172,"used":173},"Psalm 124:4-7","The waters had overwhelmed; not given as prey to their teeth; escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers",{"passage":175,"used":176},"Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 20:7; Exodus 15:4","Fourth service declarations: God in the midst of me; not in horses and chariots; Pharaoh's chosen captains drowned",{"passage":178,"used":179},"Luke 1:35","The power of the Highest overshadows you",{"passage":181,"used":182},"Hebrews 11:7","Fourth service anchor: Noah, warned of things not seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark, heir of the righteousness which is by faith",{"passage":184,"used":185},"Genesis 5:28-29; Genesis 6:8","Lamech names Noah, \"this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil\"; Noah found grace",{"passage":187,"used":188},"John 9:1-3","\"That the works of God should be made manifest\": God has already worked",{"passage":190,"used":191},"Matthew 7:9-10","You will not ask for fish and get a serpent: faith rests on knowing him",{"passage":193,"used":194},"Philippians 3:10","\"That I may know him\"",{"passage":196,"used":197},"Romans 8:37; Psalm 44:3","More than conquerors; they got not the land by their own sword",{"passage":199,"used":200},"Philemon 1:6 (KJV, Message, TPT)","\"The communication of thy faith\": why faithless people think you have gone mad",{"passage":202,"used":203},"Ephesians 4:27","Neither give place to the devil",{"passage":205,"used":206},"Hebrews 11:35-37","By faith some did not receive answers: faith is about stature",{"passage":208,"used":209},"Romans 6:1","Grace is not liberty to sin",{"passage":211,"used":212},"Psalm 46:10","\"Be still and know that I am God\": rest is an identity, not a situation",{"passage":214,"used":215},"2 Thessalonians 1:6","God remembers and recompenses tribulation to those who troubled you",{"passage":217,"used":218},"Hebrews 11:11","By faith Sarah received strength",{"passage":220,"used":221},"Genesis 7:11-17","The flood rose and the ark rose higher: the flood has an assignment",{"passage":223,"used":224},"Isaiah 59:19","When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit lifts up a standard (service 4 close and a testifier)",{"passage":226,"used":227},"Job 19:25","\"I know that my redeemer liveth\" (sung)",{"passage":229,"used":230},"John 4:35","Bishop Florence's word: say not there are yet four months, the harvest is now",[],[233],{"slug":4,"serviceDate":5,"theme":7,"startDate":234,"endDate":235,"startMinutes":236,"endMinutes":237,"hoursLabel":238,"notes":239,"source":240},"2025-08-18","2025-08-22",360,780,"6:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. WAT",[],"Fast Monday to Friday, 6:00am to 1:00pm.",{"slug":242,"date":234,"theme":243,"title":244},"2025-08-18-great-and-mighty-works-of-el-roi-day-1","GREAT AND MIGHTY WORKS OF EL-ROI [DAY 1]","GREAT AND MIGHTY WORKS OF EL-ROI [DAY 1] || NSPPD || 18TH AUGUST 2025",{"slug":246,"date":247,"theme":248,"title":249},"2025-08-15-furnace-of-answers-day-5","2025-08-15","FURNACE OF ANSWERS [DAY 5]","FURNACE OF ANSWERS [DAY 5] || NSPPD || 15TH AUGUST 2025"]