These prophetic words were given by Reverend Sam Ajibola and Pastor Ben Olokode at the 2022 Watch Night Service.
Rev Sam Ajibola
Hearken to the voice of your God and I’m glad to be clear to you that you are my people. You are my family. And I want to say thank you for your obedience in the year 2022. For your endurance and your faithfulness. Those of you are bereaved in the year, receive my strength, receive my grace, and receive my power. You are victorious because you are not alone. And you are moving on because I am your strength. Well done for upholding the faith, in your God and I want to say to you all. Well done for being obedient to my Word. When I asked you to raise up the banner, you obeyed My voice. And as a result of raising the banner in the year 2022, you are able to keep the territory, you are able to protect your territory, and you are able to defend your territory. But it doesn’t stop there. You are able to extend the territory where the people in the communities were blessed by you. Because you raised that banner of victory, the banner of joy, the banner of your God’s glory. Well done!
You have done very well in the year 2022, for the faith that you have in me concerning the building project, for your giving, for your commitment, for your faith. You have done very well.
As I will take you to the year 2023, a year of doing much more, a year of reaping much more, you must not abandon what is good, what you have achieved the year 2022. You need to take it forward, because the year 2023 to the World is going to be a very difficult year for the world. It’s going to be a year of a great challenges. That’s why I need you.
I’m speaking to the young and the old. To the young people, hearken to the voice of your God. It is a year you will need to come together to learn from the elders, because I want to bless the Nation through you. It is the year that you come together with determination to press on, to remain in Christ.
Unto you all, it’s the year God says I’m going to take you to another level, equiping you for the task ahead of you. Therefore, you cannot do it alone. You need my power. You need my authority. You need my directive. Therefore, I’m appealing to you to put on your Armour of God. The Armour of God to make you to be more powerful, to be more stronger, and to be and instrument in God’s hand. Put on the entire, whole armour of God. Do not be weary. Do not be discouraged because you have many journeys, you have many territories, to acquire for your God.
It is a year that you will need to understand the territory of your God wants you to know that the weapon of your warfare here are not carnal be strong in pulling down the stronghold. And you must remember you are my battle axe. Through you, I’m with you. I will extend your border, I will extend in your territory. I will transform your communities. Your home will know my peace. Yeah, my Church will march on.
By the time I bring you back in here 2023, Yay, you will stand as a soldier for Christ. Through you, I will fight. Through you I will bless. Through you I will expand, through you, My glory will come down. Yay, it will not be business as usual because the glory of your God will come among you when you return. It’s not just only the building but the territory of your God. When you return yay the place of Abode, when you bring your requests in to that sanctuary, yay, I will be waiting for you, because I will surprise you. I will take care of you.
Can I say, in that year, though the entire world will struggle, but you will not struggle, but in that year as you put on the whole armour of God, I want you to uproot, uphold, demonstrate the power of God. Be an instrument of love. Yay. Uphold, yay, the righteousness of your God. There shall be no self-righteousness. I am your righteousness in the year 2023. It is my desire for you to be an instrument of peace. I want to use you. I want you to have the spirit of love for one another for my world. Because I’ve put on the Whole Armour of God in that year. You are going to walk as a warrior.
And on a daily basis let the Word of God be your daily bread, for My Spirit will guide you on a daily basis. You will not walk alone. Can I declare to you that in 2023 your efforts will not be wasted. I will bless your effort. I will crown your efforts. And you will begin to see the fruits of your commitment, of your cooperation in the year 2023.
And I say to you my people it’s the year you need to come together as one body, one spirit, for one purpose, the purpose is of your God. It is a year that you need to be wise, that you will spend your time in a profitable way. Let no one allow any gossip in that year. In the year of focusing is the year that you will discuss what is profitable. Therefore, whatever you do in that year 2023Â let your God be at the centre.
I love you, I love you, I love you, and I will take care of you as you put on the whole armour of God. And as you will be the instrument of peace, the instrument of your God’s glory, and as you allow my Spirit to guide you into in that year, and as you are able to listen and be sensitive to me in that year, what you have achieved in year 2022 will not be compared with the greatness of God year 2023.
Well done, my people, for your patience, for being faithful, for your commitment, you are mine, I am yours. Peace be on to you? Says the LORD of hosts.
Pastor Ben Olokode
Indeed, the year has been as you have heard, a good year for some. And for others, they might say it has not been so good. But you can all together say, “if not because of the Lord, who has been on your side.” I have been your shield. I have been your defence. Your God has been your dwelling place. And underneath has been the everlasting arm, and I have driven out your enemies, though you do not see. But I have made a way, even for you where there had been no way.
In this year that you are leaving behind, you have called upon me and I have answered. I stood by you in the times of difficulties, and I’ve carried you along where the road was so rough. And where the road was so narrow, I have taken you through. I the LORD I have done great things for you.
So, be glad. Because you serve a living… a living God. The year might have been rough but you have gone through it. There are others who have seen the year as a year that has not given them that which they hope for. You have got that which no others have got. If you look back, you will realise that your God has been so good. And I have supplied all your needs according to my riches in glory because it is My riches you have received that which no man can give on to me.
So, I want you to have the heart of gratitude. Hearts of Thanksgiving. <tongues> Hearts that say “Indeed God. You have been God in my situation.” Have the hearts that uplift your God. I have the heart that says, “Indeed the Lord, you have done great things for me, for us as a family, for us as a church, wherefore we are glad.”
Let it be, when you look back, a time of rejoicing, because I have worked on your favour.
But the year you are going to I want it to be a year of coming together, a year of unity, because, in the place of unity, there, as you know, I commanded to you in a place where there is unity, there is an abundance, abundance of blessings that is commanded from me, your God. And when you stay in a place of unity, you will see the working of your God.
Lift up your eyes and see the God of glory, walking, passing and making a way for you. The year you are going will be a year in which I will show my grace. It is only my grace that will be sufficient for you wherever you find yourself. And that grace will work for you, in whatever situation you are. My grace is what you need.
In the time you are helpless, look onto my grace, and my Grace will be a help to you. In the time of hopelessness, My grace will come and renew your hope. In the time in which there is sickness, My grace will bring <tongues>Â healing into your situation. It will be a year of grace, but a year in which you need to seek that grace and as you seek, I promise that you will find and as you knock, knock the doors of grace, I will open the doors onto you, that you will know indeed that your God is doing something in your life.
As you lift your hearts onto me, I will open the frames of heaven and I will pour out onto you. That you might say that it will then be a year of abundance. Yes, it will be for those who look on to me. But for those who did not call on the name of the Lord, it shall not be a year of grace.
I want you to know that I sit at a place where I command a blessing on to my people. Those who knows their God shall be strong and they will do exploit. It is only those who knows their God. So come, come to me. Draw near onto me in the time that things are going well, draw near on to me. The time in which things are not as you expected, draw near on to me. and you will see my everlasting arms, lifting you up, when you are down; healing your diseases, when you are sick; providing for you, when you need a provision.
I know all that will be happening in the year that you have not entered. but remember it will be like opening a new calendar, you are opening a new page, make sure that that page is not empty. That page is full of the things that you want to do for your God. See, know and hear my voice, my people, because I will do great things in the life of those who draw near on to me.
Your children shall be exalted. The prayers that is being prayed for the children in particular in this year of 2022 will be a year in which I will begins to make known on to you, reveal on to you the, things that you do not know before because I will open your eyes, your eyes of understanding to see what you need to do and how you need to pray. So, open your hearts and received from the One who is able to give. Open your mouth and call upon the One who hears and the one who hears will answer, says your Lord.