[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f9bykhunba8v8":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":211,"fasts":212,"newer":213,"older":218},"2026-10-18-the-generation-that-seeks-thy-face","2026-10-18","THE GENERATION THAT SEEKS THY FACE || SUNDAY SERVICE || 18TH OCTOBER 2026","THE GENERATION THAT SEEKS THY FACE","sunday",null,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=EN0vuxrxNhs",true,"The third Sunday of October, the penultimate Sunday before the church moves to its new site on 1 November, ran as four services under one theme: \"This is the generation of them that seek thy face, O Jacob\" (Psalm 24:6).…",false,"We are the generation that seeks his face: stretch your prayer, respond to every report with prayer, and if you can pray again, you can go again, until everyone connected to you stands perfect and complete in all the will of God.","YouTube captions (en-orig, auto-generated)","Auto-generated YouTube captions (en-orig) of the whole-day Sunday live, almost nine hours and four services at Streams of Joy Abuja. Names, numbers and some Scripture wording are reconstructed from ASR.","`NSPPD_Transcripts\u002F2026-10-18_NSPPD_THE GENERATION THAT SEEKS THY FACE __ SUNDAY SERVICE __ 18TH OCTOBER 2026-yt.txt`",{"summary":19,"versesMarkdown":20,"information":21,"message":22,"asks":23},"The third Sunday of October, the penultimate Sunday before the church moves to its new site on 1 November, ran as four services under one theme: \"This is the generation of them that seek thy face, O Jacob\" (Psalm 24:6). Each service opened with worship, a set of declarations over the week and an altar of prayer led by the ministers (\"revive, restore\"; \"Arroi, alter whatsoever is standing between me and my answers, my evidence and my manifestation\"), then a message from Pastor Jerry, communion, offering, announcements and a welcome for first timers. Day 18 of the 31 Days of Answers, Evidence and Manifestation fast fell on this Sunday, and every service pointed the congregation to Monday, day 19: \"My change has come\".\n\nFirst service (1 Kings 18 and James 5): Elijah was \"a man subject to like passions as we are\", yet he \"prayed earnestly\". Pastor Jerry took the Greek *ektenos*, an athlete stretching the last muscle, and had two people stand as the two Elijahs: the one in his feelings and the one who stretches. \"It is what you stretch into that you will become.\" From James 5:18 (\"he prayed again\") and 1 Kings 18:43 (\"go again seven times\") came the line of the morning: **\"If I can pray again, I can go again.\"** He added that Hannah's need served heaven's need. Ask how a blessing will serve the kingdom, because a breakthrough with no God inside it sabotages the next one. The abundance of rain after three and a half years of drought means everything lost comes back at once. Elijah did not keep the sound to himself, he announced it, and the communion was served as \"the sound of the abundance of rain\".\n\nSecond service (1 Samuel 1): \"And the Lord remembered Hannah.\" Do not seek God's hand before you have found his face. His face is fellowship, his hand is his might, and the proof of finding his face is not what he gives you but who he makes you (2 Corinthians 3:18). Prayer starts with the will, carries on with zeal, and has to end in the Spirit, where the Holy Ghost prays what your intelligence cannot see (Romans 8:26). He then taught on the three people in Hannah's story. Elkanah loves you enough to keep you where you are, Peninnah hates you enough to distract you, and Eli speaks a prophetic word and midwifes it into your future. \"I don't fear the enmity of Peninnah. I am always worried about the love of Elkanah.\" Hannah refused offence when Eli called her drunk, as the Syrophoenician woman did with Jesus. The communion was the \"communion of exemption\": no sudden evil emergency, and \"nobody's mother will die this week\".\n\nThird service (Acts 12): James was killed with no prayer recorded, but when Peter was jailed \"prayer was made without ceasing\", so the generation that seeks God's face responds to a bad report with prayer, not panic. The devil isolates before he kills: from fellowship, from the associations you need, and in your mind. That is why the church is Mount Zion with an innumerable company of angels, and why praying in tongues together can pray for someone else in the room. If you are the answer, keep knocking even when the gate is shut, and every praying church needs a Rhoda at the gate. Then the line that moved him to tears: \"Go show these things unto James\". One James died, but the report for the living James is a report of deliverance. \"What happened to them will not happen to you.\" The communion was for everything not of God to be flushed out, \"even if it is a small pain, small lump, small skin tag\".\n\nFourth service (Colossians 4:12-13): Epaphras, \"who is one of you\", laboured fervently (*agonizomai*, contend, battle, agony) that the believers would \"stand perfect and complete in all the will of God\". God plants one person in a family, a unit or a marriage as a deliverer. Do not wish yourself out of it, and do not become like them. \"This one will not be solved by WhatsApp.\" It is not a one-off or casual prayer, and one area doing well is not good enough. The day's communion and offering were declared \"perfect and complete in all the will of God\". Testimonies across the day included a global role offer, seven staff unhurt when their car somersaulted, a 33 year family pattern broken by a daughter's wedding, a seven year drug addiction broken, a sister rescued from post-surgery bleeding, a gunpoint robbery that fled at \"the blood of Jesus\", and a baby born through fibroids.\n\n---","| Passage | How it was used |\n|---|---|\n| Psalm 24:6 | The day's theme: \"this is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob\"; Psalm 24:7 (\"lift up your heads, O ye gates\") in the fourth service declarations |\n| 1 Kings 18:41-46 | First service reading: sound of abundance of rain, Elijah's face between his knees, \"go again seven times\", the little cloud, the hand of the Lord on Elijah |\n| 1 Kings 18:1 | \"In the third year... I will send rain upon the earth\" |\n| 1 Kings 17:1 | \"Neither dew nor rain these years, but according to my word\": God's word became Elijah's word |\n| James 5:17-18 | Main text of the first service: a man of like passions who prayed earnestly (*ektenos*, stretch), then \"prayed again\" |\n| Hosea 6:2 | Opening prayer on the third Sunday: \"after two days he will revive us, in the third day he will raise us up\" |\n| Luke 9:29 | \"As he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered\": prayer alters things; in the third service, what was meant for the future comes into the present |\n| Isaiah 9:8 (wording fits) | \"The Lord sent a word into Jacob\": prayer for his word to reach family and business |\n| Isaiah 60:1 | \"Arise, shine, for thy light is come\" with your own name |\n| Ezekiel 37:12 | \"I will bring you out of your graves\": career, ministry, expectation |\n| Isaiah 60:22 | \"A little one shall become a thousand\": \"you counted one, you counted two, the next one you count will be a hundred\" |\n| Jeremiah 30:19 | \"I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them\" |\n| Exodus 14:13 | \"The Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more\" |\n| Psalm 45:7 | \"Anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows\" |\n| Galatians 6:17 | \"Let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus\" |\n| Romans 3:4 | \"Let God be true, and every man a liar\" |\n| Deuteronomy 33:26, Luke 1:37, John 16:24, Hebrews 6:18, Psalm 68:11, Mark 16:20 \u002F Hebrews 2:4 | Confessions recited after the first service prayer |\n| Genesis 2:5 | No rain because there was no man to till the ground: prayer is tilling the ground in the spirit |\n| Ecclesiastes 10:5-7 | \"An evil under the sun\", princes walking and servants on horses: forces bigger than hard work |\n| Judges 14:14 | \"Out of the eater came forth meat\" |\n| 2 Timothy 1:12 | \"I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded\" |\n| Jeremiah 29:11, Joel 2:25, Romans 8:28 | What God said to the one who \"prayed again\" before going again |\n| Proverbs 28:1 | \"The righteous are bold as a lion\": I will send the email again |\n| Lamentations 3:37 | \"Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?\" |\n| Romans 8:33 | \"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?\" |\n| Psalm 91:1-2 | The closing confession of every service (\"I am dwelling in the secret place...\") and Pharaoh \"still wondering why you didn't break\" |\n| 1 Samuel 1:1-20 | Second service reading: Hannah, Peninnah, Elkanah (\"am not I better to thee than ten sons?\"), Eli, \"the Lord remembered her\" |\n| 1 Samuel 3:9 | Eli also guarded the evidence: \"Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth\" |\n| Matthew 6:33 | \"Seek ye first the kingdom of God\" |\n| 2 Corinthians 3:7-8, 3:18 | Moses' fading glory versus the ministration of the Spirit; beholding with open face, \"you are becoming his face\" |\n| Genesis 18:17 | \"Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?\": answers are hidden in fellowship |\n| Romans 8:26 (KJV and TPT) | The Spirit makes intercession with groanings; prayer that \"starts praying itself\" |\n| 1 Corinthians 14:2, 14:14 | He that speaks in tongues speaks mysteries; understanding unfruitful while the spirit is edified |\n| Isaiah 30:21 | \"Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way\" |\n| Matthew 15:26-27 | The Syrophoenician woman refused offence: guard against offence when seasons change |\n| Psalm 121 | Sung and quoted: \"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills\" |\n| 1 Corinthians 2:9 | \"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard\" |\n| Acts 19:11 | \"Special miracles\": special graces on some lives |\n| Acts 12:1-16 | Third service reading: James killed, Peter in prison, prayer without ceasing, the angel, Rhoda at the gate, \"go show these things unto James\" |\n| 2 Kings 6:16-17 | Elisha's servant: \"they that be with us are more\"; you are in a different atmosphere |\n| 1 John 4:4 | \"Greater is he that is in you\" |\n| Hebrews 12:22-24 | Mount Zion, innumerable company of angels, church of the firstborn |\n| Matthew 16:18 | \"The gates of hell shall not prevail\" (also the midweek series title) |\n| Isaiah 54:15 | \"They shall surely gather together, but not by me... shall fall for thy sake\" |\n| Hebrews 1:14 | Angels are ministering spirits carrying your words to God's ears |\n| 2 Samuel 11:15 | David isolated Uriah in the hottest battle: the principle of isolation |\n| Isaiah 45:19 | \"I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain\" |\n| 1 Peter 1:23 | Born of incorruptible seed |\n| Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 34:10 | They that seek the Lord renew strength and shall not want any good thing |\n| Romans 8:30-31 | Called, justified, glorified; \"if God be for us\" |\n| Isaiah 35:10, Philippians 1:20, Daniel 11:32, Psalm 126:1 | Exhortations before the third service testimonies |\n| Psalm 42:1, Psalm 27:8, Psalm 40:7 | Fourth service prayers and songs: \"as the hart panteth\", \"thy face, Lord, will I seek\", \"in the volume of the book it is written of me\" |\n| Colossians 4:12-13 (KJV, MSG, NLT, TPT) | Fourth service text: Epaphras, \"who is one of you\", labouring fervently that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God |\n| Colossians 1:7 | Epaphras \"a faithful minister of Christ\": ministering Christ, not just filial attachment |\n| Obadiah 1:21 | \"Saviours shall come up on mount Zion\": you were sent into that family as a saviour |\n| 2 Corinthians 10:4 | \"The weapons of our warfare are not carnal\": treating spiritual battles with physical effort |\n| Hebrews 4:15 | A high priest touched with the feeling of our infirmities: why you know it firsthand |\n| John 2:17 | \"The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up\" |\n| Jude 3 | \"Earnestly contend for the faith\" |\n| James 1:17 | Every good and perfect gift: that is the will of God for you |\n| John 1:46 | \"Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?\" |\n| John 7:38 | \"Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water\" (closing song) |\n\nRelated gospel pictures (not always cited as verses): Jesus seeking Peter out after the denial; Moses before Pharaoh (\"who is the Lord?\"); Abraham separated from Lot; Isaac's word to Esau about breaking the yoke; Esther and Haman, David and Goliath, Joseph, Jehu and Jezebel, Philip's four daughters (weekly declarations).\n\n---","### Theme and timing\n- Sunday 18 October 2026, third Sunday of October and \"penultimate Sunday\" at the current Streams of Joy Abuja auditorium. Four services, each with its own message: Elijah and James 5 (stretch, pray again, go again), Hannah and 1 Samuel 1 (Elkanah, Peninnah, Eli), Acts 12 (respond with prayer, the other James), Colossians 4 (Epaphras).\n- 31 Days of Answers, Evidence and Manifestation continues. Monday 19 October is day 19: **My change has come**, divine turnaround, stop the stoppers, joyful new season. Operation Now, Operation Stop the Stoppers, Operation I Have My Evidence, Operation Higher Ground, Operation New Chapters, Operation Divine Laughter, Operation No More Bondage, Operation The Shackles Are Broken. A special healing and deliverance service.\n- Prayer themes for the week:\n  - Monday: My change has come (divine turnaround, stop the stoppers, joyful new season)\n  - Tuesday: My God has the final (and only) say\n  - Wednesday: Oh Lord, show me mercy\n  - Thursday: The pattern, cycle and battle has finally ended\n  - Friday: Throne room verdict\n  - Saturday: I pursue, I overtake, I recover all\n  - Sunday 25 October: The Most High showed up (communion service, all four services, last Sunday at the current church)\n- About 74 days of 2026 remained.\n\n### Fasting\n- Fasting runs through all of October, 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. \"Don't let the Lord hook your throat... follow through this fasting.\"\n\n### Communion\n- Communion is served in every service throughout October.\n- First service: \"the sound of the abundance of rain\", nothing missing, nothing broken.\n- Second service: \"the communion of exemption\", exempted from anything that brings tears and from every evil emergency.\n- Third service: everything not of God flushed out of body, spirit, soul and mind, down to small pains, lumps, skin tags, viral and bacterial infections, eye problems.\n- Fourth service: \"the communion of perfect and complete in all the will of God\".\n\n### Offering and partnership\n- Offering, tithe and partnership raised as a wave offering in each service. First service confession: \"Whatever I have, you are a part of it. From today I am deliberate, I am intentional in involving you in my every blessing.\"\n- Church building project still ongoing; account details shown on screen. Pastor Jerry thanked diaspora members (America, UK, Australia) and one donor who alone sponsored a solar farm and other parts of the new building.\n- Partnership forms at the inquiry desk.\n\n### Move to the new church (1 November)\n- Mega shift on Sunday 1 November 2026 at the new site: Streams of Joy Abuja, Yalam Ali Street, off \"Jerzi Street\" (caption spelling), by the Police Service Commission, Jabi. (The fourth service caption says \"near civil service commission\"; the first three say Police Service Commission.)\n- Guests that day: Pastor Nathaniel Bassey, Dunsin Oyekan, Mercy Chinwo and GreatMan Takit (caption: \"great man target\").\n- From 1 November only two services: 7:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. A typical service runs to about 6,000 people, so come early; there is overflow.\n- Midweek service this Thursday 22 October, 6:00 p.m., is a trial service at the new site, continuing \"The gates of hell will not prevail\".\n\n### Church calendar\n- Discipleship and membership class: Monday 19 October, 6:00 p.m., current church premises. Scan the QR code on screen to register.\n- Maturity class: Tuesday 20 October, 6:00 p.m., church premises (fourth service caption adds \"M&M event center\").\n- Men's fellowship prayer walk: Saturday 24 October, 7:00 a.m. sharp, from the current church auditorium to the new one (about two hours or less). Do not book a ride, do not have your driver follow; Pastor Jerry walks at the back. Wear sports attire.\n- Gems and Jewels singles (first service: 39 years and above; fourth service caption: \"39 years and below\"): friendship community weekend, Sunday 25 October, 4:00 p.m., church premises.\n- Premium singles (40 years and above): inter-friendship competition, Saturday 31 October, 10:00 a.m., Millennium Park.\n- Global church anniversary: Sunday 6 December 2026 at the new site (one announcement slipped to \"6th of September\"). Dress code: men black monochrome, women gold monochrome.\n- Devotional books and MP3s of Pastor Jerry's messages at the emporium.\n\n### Testimonies to send\n- Pick up a testimony form at the inquiry desk, fill and submit before the next service to be scheduled to testify.\n\n### Testimonies played \u002F recapped\n- **Global role (second service, name caption-mangled, introduced with \"Mrs. China\"):** joined NSPPD on 9 February 2026 praying for settlement in marriage, career and a home. Served at the NSPPD USA conference in August; on \"God will give you your own\" she received her own home the following week. At a global beverage company a hostile new boss later praised her and gave a bonus, then was moved in March; her role was cut in June. In the midyear fast she made her own announcement of a global role, did not apply when the Holy Spirit said not to, and on Thursday 15 October received an offer for a global role, fulfilling the 1 October word \"before the middle of October let my evidence silence the mockers\".\n- **Ojika, CEO of ICM Homes and Properties:** prayed against accident before a site visit; the third staff car somersaulted and turned upside down with seven staff. CT scans showed no broken bone and no internal bleeding, and the armed escort's gun did not go off. His visa for an international real estate programme also came through; his daughter born from this altar turned three today.\n- **Woman in the paramilitary, married 33 years:** after several failed promotion exams her name was not on the released list, but holding to \"your name is on that list\" she reopened the same list and found it. In a family where the devil said no one would marry, she picked a date in the January family congratulations fast; her daughter's suitor chose the same date. The daughter's registry was 13 October, traditional wedding 15 October and wedding 17 October.\n- **Engineer Bright, real estate developer:** came to Abuja two years ago with nothing; through the dominion mandate series and NSPPD he became number one in sales across his group of companies (Abuja, Lagos, the southeast). On \"Oh Lord, show me mercy\" Wednesday a client who had asked for a refund came and paid, double. Healed of a sickness by replaying the UK conference prayer \"awake, awake\".\n- **Pamela Godwin, Jos, Plateau State, 200 level at the University of Jos:** entered a skincare brand's 10th anniversary contest. A dream warned of being cheated, and Pastor Jerry prayed against \"arrows by day\". Instagram then deleted her account permanently, but on 14 October the brand told her she had won first place and on 15 October paid 1 million naira.\n- **Martin:** seven years of hard drugs, smoking up to seven times a day and heavy drinking since 2018. He gave his life to God before discipleship class, had a Holy Spirit encounter in the class \"The Holy Spirit and me\", and now prays for hours. No smoking, no urge.\n- **Noa Madu and her sister:** a scan showed an enlarged liver; she prayed over the results and anointed herself at communion, and later tests in Istanbul showed a normal liver. After a procedure on 12 September she bled heavily from the incision; her sister prayed \"Oh Lord, show me mercy\" and signed the risk form \"Elroy\". A second surgery found 700cc of blood but the source had dried up. The sister's four years of vasculitis pain lifted so she could walk alongside, and she recalled finishing an LSE masters with a merit during the 2022 UK conference season.\n- **Quineta Flora, protocol department:** obeyed a call to attend NSPPD daily and serve from September. On 13 October at about 6:10 a.m. at her junction, a man pulled a gun and demanded her phone; she screamed \"the blood of Jesus\" and he fled without taking anything.\n- **Mr and Mrs Adviso (caption spelling):** 11 and 10 years without work matching their certificates, family of five in Abuja. In August they travelled home as a family for the first time, and in September both got a lucrative remote job. They survived a layoff of about 80% of staff. On the May teaching about Peninnah and Samuel he prayed for something better, and was one of 50 chosen from over 4,000 applicants. His wife's failing work metrics turned around after the \"my joy is full\" week of 22-25 September.\n- **Mrs Crisel, from the UK:** NHS sponsorship refused, then a five-year visa after \"for your sake protocol will be broken\". A previous husband left her as \"barren\". She had 17 fibroids removed, remarried, prayed with baby clothes, served at NSPPD 2025 and wrote only one request at crossover. She conceived with three fibroids still present, delivered by caesarean in Canada, and the baby was born with no heartbeat and revived after a code pink. Now one month old, the first in her family with a Canadian passport; her sister is now pregnant too.\n\n### Words of knowledge \u002F healing declarations\n- First service: anyone stuck \"in between two seasons\" with an obstacle in transition, run to the altar or lay a hand on the device; \"it will be complete this week\".\n- \"The Lord will give you a new name this week\": reject addiction, perfection (likely \"affliction\"), reduction, manipulation, oppression as names.\n- \"You counted one, you counted two, the next one you will count will be a hundred.\"\n- Endless litigation and court cases: instant intervention. What they gave you and took away: reversed.\n- Fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cysts reversed; a fracture of the \"bic bone\" (caption; bone uncertain) reversed; losing blood reversed; tuberculosis and hole in the heart reversed; \"that miscarriage will not happen, that stillbirth will not happen\".\n- \"Your son will not die... by Monday morning before midday there will be a sound of good news.\"\n- Second service: \"Nobody's mother will die this week\"; exempted from evil emergencies concerning children, career, finances, car, house, fire outbreaks.\n- Third service: a lump found on waking, bleeding lasting over a month, a sugar level rising out of control while on drugs: reversed. Anyone whose father died prematurely: \"you will not die like your father\"; prognoses of five years' lifespan overturned.\n- Closing blessing: \"A king will send for you this week\"; \"your father's house will smile\"; walk up to 21 people and say \"congratulations\".\n\n### Weekly declarations\nEach service spoke into the week with its own set. Examples:\n- Service 1: Monday \"awake, my glory, my thrones and crowns, my next level\"; Tuesday \"my life is a house of prayer... I arise with a whip of fire\"; Thursday \"my good news will not be mixed with bad news... I will not mourn in Zion\"; Saturday \"they asked me what is the evidence of seeking the face of God, I show them my two tablets of testimonies written with the finger of God\".\n- Service 2: Monday Davidic generation against every Goliath; Tuesday Joseph generation; Wednesday Jehu generation against every Jezebel; Thursday Esther generation against every Haman; Friday the church militant; Saturday \"Abba, I am that generation that seeks your face, I will not turn back\".\n- Service 3: Monday \"the secret place of the Most High has become my permanent address\"; Tuesday against powers that cause men to seek the blessing instead of the Blesser; Thursday \"I know there is more in God... I enter into my more\"; Friday a family of fire carriers after the order of Philip; Saturday \"I am finally in my answer season\".\n- Service 4: Monday \"my love for God will not wane\"; Tuesday \"I will not become a stranger to his voice... I burn and I shine\"; Thursday \"I carry the mantle for generational relevance\"; Saturday \"we raise an altar that cannot be silenced\".\n- The 2026 confession (\"Nothing goes wrong around me... I have seen the God that sees me, Elroi\") was led in services two, three and four.\n\n---","1. The generation that seeks God's face is the one that changes trajectories. No dispensation shifted without an intercessor, and there are forces bigger than hard work that only prayer deals with.\n2. Elijah was as frail as anyone, but he stretched. Feelings, reports and fear are real, yet \"it is what you stretch into that you will become\". Whoever can pray again can go again, and the person who looked broken last week rises because they prayed in between.\n3. God's word has to become your word, the way Elijah could say \"according to my word\" only because he had first prayed.\n4. Let your need serve heaven's need, as Hannah's did. If a blessing cannot serve the kingdom it is not a need; leaving God out of the last open door is what sabotages the next one. You have nothing to prove to anybody.\n5. The abundance of rain after a long drought means every lost year comes back together. When God lets you hear the sound, announce it.\n6. Seek God's face before his hand. Finding his face shows in who he makes you, not what he gives you, and the devil's real aim is to disconnect you from God. Every hidden secret of your destiny is in a fellowship you have been lazy about.\n7. Real prayer moves from will to zeal to the Spirit, until it prays itself and shocks you. The Holy Ghost prays against what your mind cannot see.\n8. Beware the comfort of Elkanah more than the hatred of Peninnah. Recognise your Eli by the future he creates, not the past he dwells on, and refuse offence when your season is changing.\n9. Respond to every report with prayer, never panic. The devil isolates before he destroys, so stay in fellowship. Mount Zion is full of angels carrying your words to God.\n10. If you are the answer, keep knocking; a shut gate can be a sign of what you carry. Every praying church needs people at the gate.\n11. There is always another James. What happened to others in your family, field or diagnosis is not your portion; you carry a report of deliverance.\n12. You were planted in your family, marriage, department or unit as an Epaphras: a saviour sent to labour until they stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Do not wish yourself out, do not become like them, and do not let one good area excuse the rest. A true Epaphras never uses another person's pain to validate his gift.\n\n---","**Today \u002F this season**\n- Stretch your prayer: \"No more 5 minutes prayer, no more 10, no more 15.\" If you prayed 30 minutes last week, stretch to an hour; pray until you pray by the Spirit.\n- Pray again and go again: send the SMS again, send the email again, knock again.\n- Include God in every blessing, open door and opportunity; check how each need serves the kingdom.\n- Respond to every bad report with prayer before you complain or panic. Even \"Father, I put this in your hand.\"\n- Stay in fellowship and do not let the devil isolate you, in your associations or in your mind.\n- Take up your Epaphras assignment for your family and people: fast and pray for them regularly, not with one-off or casual prayers.\n- Write \"perfect and complete in all the will of God\" everywhere and make it your personal proclamation.\n- Keep the October fast, 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.\n- Take communion as served, and honour God with offering, tithe and partnership.\n- Do not get used to what God is doing on the altar; stay consistent.\n- Pick up a testimony form and share your testimony. First timers: fill the forms and hand them to an usher.\n\n**Tomorrow \u002F upcoming**\n- Monday 19 October, NSPPD day 19, \"My change has come\", special healing and deliverance service: \"if there is a day to miss on the altar, it can never be tomorrow.\" Come with a written list of what your change looks like, and another list of every negativity or stopper you want stopped. Invite family and friends.\n- Discipleship and membership class Monday 6:00 p.m.; maturity class Tuesday 6:00 p.m.\n- Thursday 22 October, 6:00 p.m., midweek trial service at the new site.\n- Men: prayer walk Saturday 24 October, 7:00 a.m., on foot, no driver.\n- Sunday 25 October: \"The Most High showed up\", last Sunday at the current church. \"Even if you don't plan coming to church on Sunday, come this Sunday.\"\n- Sunday 1 November: first service at the new site, 7:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; come early.\n- Support the building project through the account on screen.\n\n**UK \u002F other locations**\n- Testifiers came from the UK and Canada, and visitors from outside Nigeria were prayed over in the fourth service. The NSPPD USA conference (August) and the UK conference prayer were cited in testimonies.\n\n---",[25,28,31,34,37,40,43,46,49,52,55,58,61,64,67,70,73,76,79,82,85,88,91,94,97,100,103,106,109,112,115,118,121,124,127,130,133,136,139,142,145,148,151,154,157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181,184,187,190,193,196,199,202,205,208],{"passage":26,"used":27},"Psalm 24:6","The day's theme: \"this is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob\"; Psalm 24:7 (\"lift up your heads, O ye gates\") in the fourth service declarations",{"passage":29,"used":30},"1 Kings 18:41-46","First service reading: sound of abundance of rain, Elijah's face between his knees, \"go again seven times\", the little cloud, the hand of the Lord on Elijah",{"passage":32,"used":33},"1 Kings 18:1","\"In the third year... I will send rain upon the earth\"",{"passage":35,"used":36},"1 Kings 17:1","\"Neither dew nor rain these years, but according to my word\": God's word became Elijah's word",{"passage":38,"used":39},"James 5:17-18","Main text of the first service: a man of like passions who prayed earnestly (*ektenos*, stretch), then \"prayed again\"",{"passage":41,"used":42},"Hosea 6:2","Opening prayer on the third Sunday: \"after two days he will revive us, in the third day he will raise us up\"",{"passage":44,"used":45},"Luke 9:29","\"As he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered\": prayer alters things; in the third service, what was meant for the future comes into the present",{"passage":47,"used":48},"Isaiah 9:8 (wording fits)","\"The Lord sent a word into Jacob\": prayer for his word to reach family and business",{"passage":50,"used":51},"Isaiah 60:1","\"Arise, shine, for thy light is come\" with your own name",{"passage":53,"used":54},"Ezekiel 37:12","\"I will bring you out of your graves\": career, ministry, expectation",{"passage":56,"used":57},"Isaiah 60:22","\"A little one shall become a thousand\": \"you counted one, you counted two, the next one you count will be a hundred\"",{"passage":59,"used":60},"Jeremiah 30:19","\"I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them\"",{"passage":62,"used":63},"Exodus 14:13","\"The Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more\"",{"passage":65,"used":66},"Psalm 45:7","\"Anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows\"",{"passage":68,"used":69},"Galatians 6:17","\"Let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus\"",{"passage":71,"used":72},"Romans 3:4","\"Let God be true, and every man a liar\"",{"passage":74,"used":75},"Deuteronomy 33:26, Luke 1:37, John 16:24, Hebrews 6:18, Psalm 68:11, Mark 16:20 \u002F Hebrews 2:4","Confessions recited after the first service prayer",{"passage":77,"used":78},"Genesis 2:5","No rain because there was no man to till the ground: prayer is tilling the ground in the spirit",{"passage":80,"used":81},"Ecclesiastes 10:5-7","\"An evil under the sun\", princes walking and servants on horses: forces bigger than hard work",{"passage":83,"used":84},"Judges 14:14","\"Out of the eater came forth meat\"",{"passage":86,"used":87},"2 Timothy 1:12","\"I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded\"",{"passage":89,"used":90},"Jeremiah 29:11, Joel 2:25, Romans 8:28","What God said to the one who \"prayed again\" before going again",{"passage":92,"used":93},"Proverbs 28:1","\"The righteous are bold as a lion\": I will send the email again",{"passage":95,"used":96},"Lamentations 3:37","\"Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?\"",{"passage":98,"used":99},"Romans 8:33","\"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?\"",{"passage":101,"used":102},"Psalm 91:1-2","The closing confession of every service (\"I am dwelling in the secret place...\") and Pharaoh \"still wondering why you didn't break\"",{"passage":104,"used":105},"1 Samuel 1:1-20","Second service reading: Hannah, Peninnah, Elkanah (\"am not I better to thee than ten sons?\"), Eli, \"the Lord remembered her\"",{"passage":107,"used":108},"1 Samuel 3:9","Eli also guarded the evidence: \"Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth\"",{"passage":110,"used":111},"Matthew 6:33","\"Seek ye first the kingdom of God\"",{"passage":113,"used":114},"2 Corinthians 3:7-8, 3:18","Moses' fading glory versus the ministration of the Spirit; beholding with open face, \"you are becoming his face\"",{"passage":116,"used":117},"Genesis 18:17","\"Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?\": answers are hidden in fellowship",{"passage":119,"used":120},"Romans 8:26 (KJV and TPT)","The Spirit makes intercession with groanings; prayer that \"starts praying itself\"",{"passage":122,"used":123},"1 Corinthians 14:2, 14:14","He that speaks in tongues speaks mysteries; understanding unfruitful while the spirit is edified",{"passage":125,"used":126},"Isaiah 30:21","\"Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way\"",{"passage":128,"used":129},"Matthew 15:26-27","The Syrophoenician woman refused offence: guard against offence when seasons change",{"passage":131,"used":132},"Psalm 121","Sung and quoted: \"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills\"",{"passage":134,"used":135},"1 Corinthians 2:9","\"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard\"",{"passage":137,"used":138},"Acts 19:11","\"Special miracles\": special graces on some lives",{"passage":140,"used":141},"Acts 12:1-16","Third service reading: James killed, Peter in prison, prayer without ceasing, the angel, Rhoda at the gate, \"go show these things unto James\"",{"passage":143,"used":144},"2 Kings 6:16-17","Elisha's servant: \"they that be with us are more\"; you are in a different atmosphere",{"passage":146,"used":147},"1 John 4:4","\"Greater is he that is in you\"",{"passage":149,"used":150},"Hebrews 12:22-24","Mount Zion, innumerable company of angels, church of the firstborn",{"passage":152,"used":153},"Matthew 16:18","\"The gates of hell shall not prevail\" (also the midweek series title)",{"passage":155,"used":156},"Isaiah 54:15","\"They shall surely gather together, but not by me... shall fall for thy sake\"",{"passage":158,"used":159},"Hebrews 1:14","Angels are ministering spirits carrying your words to God's ears",{"passage":161,"used":162},"2 Samuel 11:15","David isolated Uriah in the hottest battle: the principle of isolation",{"passage":164,"used":165},"Isaiah 45:19","\"I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain\"",{"passage":167,"used":168},"1 Peter 1:23","Born of incorruptible seed",{"passage":170,"used":171},"Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 34:10","They that seek the Lord renew strength and shall not want any good thing",{"passage":173,"used":174},"Romans 8:30-31","Called, justified, glorified; \"if God be for us\"",{"passage":176,"used":177},"Isaiah 35:10, Philippians 1:20, Daniel 11:32, Psalm 126:1","Exhortations before the third service testimonies",{"passage":179,"used":180},"Psalm 42:1, Psalm 27:8, Psalm 40:7","Fourth service prayers and songs: \"as the hart panteth\", \"thy face, Lord, will I seek\", \"in the volume of the book it is written of me\"",{"passage":182,"used":183},"Colossians 4:12-13 (KJV, MSG, NLT, TPT)","Fourth service text: Epaphras, \"who is one of you\", labouring fervently that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God",{"passage":185,"used":186},"Colossians 1:7","Epaphras \"a faithful minister of Christ\": ministering Christ, not just filial attachment",{"passage":188,"used":189},"Obadiah 1:21","\"Saviours shall come up on mount Zion\": you were sent into that family as a saviour",{"passage":191,"used":192},"2 Corinthians 10:4","\"The weapons of our warfare are not carnal\": treating spiritual battles with physical effort",{"passage":194,"used":195},"Hebrews 4:15","A high priest touched with the feeling of our infirmities: why you know it firsthand",{"passage":197,"used":198},"John 2:17","\"The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up\"",{"passage":200,"used":201},"Jude 3","\"Earnestly contend for the faith\"",{"passage":203,"used":204},"James 1:17","Every good and perfect gift: that is the will of God for you",{"passage":206,"used":207},"John 1:46","\"Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?\"",{"passage":209,"used":210},"John 7:38","\"Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water\" (closing song)",[],[],{"slug":214,"date":215,"theme":216,"title":217},"2026-10-19-my-change-has-come","2026-10-19","MY CHANGE HAS COME","MY CHANGE HAS COME || 31 DAYS OF ANSWERS, EVIDENCE & MANIFESTATION || NSPPD | 19TH OCTOBER 2026",{"slug":219,"date":220,"theme":221,"title":222},"2026-10-16-congratulations-and-celebrations-jesus-did-it","2026-10-16","CONGRATULATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS - JESUS DID IT","CONGRATULATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS - JESUS DID IT || 31 DAYS OF AE&M || NSPPD | 16TH OCTOBER 2026"]