GET AWAY WITH ME: THE DELIVERY ROOM

 

Planning The Retreat

2024's Retreat was quite a different one in approach. I remember I had been praying towards the Retreat and waiting on God for instructions, not knowing what was next. During that period, I got some words on the 24th of July 2024.

I didn't know or understand, but I documented. 

On the 1st of August, just before I went to sleep, I heard another word:

"Shall a woman go to birth and there not be blood?" 

I traveled to Ikoyi Mountain on August 16 to pray and just get directions. I got some words also (attached from book), but it was still unclear what the theme was.

We began planning, praying and all, but something was missing, the theme of the Retreat. 

The way I approach our Retreat theme is that it points to the overall/blanket work that God wants to do in our midst. People were asking what the Retreat theme was, but I didn't have an answer yet, and I told them exactly that; we were waiting on the Lord.

September 3rd 

I got a word to announce the theme of the Retreat that weekend, and the instruction was simply "I will tell you." 

So I made an announcement to the admin that I would be announcing the Retreat theme that week, even though I didn't know what it was. I shared the words the Lord had told me and the recurring things I saw:

The Forging Place

The Delivery Place 

The Delivery Room

We prayed on it, but no one got a concrete direction. 

My visions, of course, continued to increase. I would see myself randomly in very huge ward rooms filled with pregnant people and everyone birthing at the same time, with me midwifing. In some of these visions, I was also pregnant and birthing even as I helped others to. 

Another vision I kept having was of a blacksmith forging a sword inside of fire. The visions just kept coming back. 

The night before the day I was meant to announce the theme (I had shared a date for the announcement as commanded by the Lord), I had a vision where I saw the delivery scene again:

A whole lot of pregnant people, having birth pangs in the same place and unable to put to bed. This time around, I was pregnant too and as I was trying to assist them. Then I saw the angels of the Lord fill up the room and begin to help people. 

I was transported back to the entrance of the room, and in front of it I saw: The Delivery Room 

I heard to recreate this in visuals for men to see. So we set out looking for hospitals. After days of searching, we finally found one at no cost. The doctor was also so gracious to us that she helped us understand certain things about birthing that shed more light on all the Lord had been telling us about the Retreat.

WATCH FULL VIDEO HERE.

Before this period, we had struggled with planning. More like we weren't planning, we were just praying. I would call the Admin and tell them they don't look Retreat-ready o, and nobody would say anything. We didn't even onboard the Retreat team until about a month to the Retreat. Announcements also came in September (the exact date God asked us to share). We just stayed praying and for some weird reason, we were not disturbed or moved by not knowing. There was just this assurance that when it was time, God would speak. And oh, when He did, everything just began to come together. 

When we onboarded the Volunteers, and it felt like a fresh fire was immediately poured on the Volunteers to cover grounds. We had testimonies of these people seeing switches in their spiritual life. Almost immediate switches!

Another thing that happened during the Retreat planning was that the Lord had placed me off fasts last year and insisted I wasn't going to do heavy fasting for the Retreat😂. Now this is very funny and I will try to explain it.

Remember, I had mentioned we didn't have anything planned physically, so the expectation would be that you are gaining spiritual traction where you can't get to yet physically. But God said "no fasting" last year, and it was for me alone. The team would fast, and they were even going to go on dry fasts. 

I struggled so badly with this instruction that I went to God to negotiate if I could have some days, because how am I gathering people to go on a dry fast while I'm eating and feasting? 😂  It didn't make any sense, but little did I know that God wanted to do the full heavy lifting. He didn't require help from anyone. He just wanted me praying. 

Another thing God kept emphasizing was to go back to the Retreat testimonials from previous years. I had heard this for the first few months when I was praying alone and assumed it was for just me, only to have people volunteer, and it was the same instruction I got again. So we shared with the volunteers and even with the general group. God promised that the Retreat was going to be a culmination of everything we had experienced in the previous Retreats and more. Like all major miracle highlights joined together and oh, how we saw this! 😭😭😭

All of the words we had gotten concerning the Retreat were now making sense, one after the other.

Please read the words HERE.

The Journey to Ikoyi and The God who funds His works

The week of the Retreat came, and it was time to travel down. I had two people join me on the trip to Ibadan (one of them was completely new to the Retreat volunteers team). 

We had a budget of around 10 million naira and we had not even raised up to 2 million.

We had to go to Ibadan without provision for a bus or a car to assist the planning team with moving around.

I was quite quiet on the trip as the day of the Retreat was almost near (I think I'm mostly always like this on the week of Retreats. By Monday, I'm largely very quiet. I just find myself getting detached from physical activities, and my visions are instead filled with the things the Lord is about to do. 

We were here...

It didn't matter that we didn't even have half of the money needed. Money has never stopped me. I have seen God provide in all the ways provision can happen. I have seen Him send random men messages to send money to me, men that I didn't speak to about anything. I have seen Him miraculously multiply the money in my hands. So at that point, money wasn't a worry. My God would do it!

We arrived in Ibadan and proceeded to draw a food timetable and budget. From the budget, we needed about 6.7 million naira for immediate expenses. 

Two days before the Retreat, we had raised about 3.7m.

One thing I saw in the giving towards the Retreat was the tiny drops that made the ocean (I like to call them mighty drops). We had hundreds of people giving 1k, 2k, ₦500, 3k, 5k. Each amount on the surface almost looked small and insignificant, but I sensed God was about to do something with it. The reminder I kept having was the 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes that fed thousands. So I'd show really great excitement and really praise God for every 1k we received. I never complained or wondered if we'd get the full money at the rate we were going. I knew. 

So we set out to buy the things necessary with the money on ground. 

We got to the market and things were even way higher than what we had budgeted, but we were able to buy more things than the money we had at hand. Over 900k more. I remember at some point we stood in front of the garri seller's shop and were trying to do calculations. God was repeating miracles we had seen before. He was doing them again!

By the time we got home, we calculated the extra money we got and logged all into the Retreat accounting sheet but things weren't balancing. We had spent more than we had in our account, again (and there was still money). We kept trying to calculate afresh and the laptop would literally shut down every time we did. It felt like we were trying to understand the how of the miracle and God was saying to praise Him in that moment instead. I went on my knees immediately and we blessed God together before we slept. 

The day of the Retreat came, and we went to pick up the cow we had bought. For some weird reason, I began to throw up and had a very bad headache. I was tempted to stay back at home but I decided to go with them instead. 

We got to the market and while trying to kill the cow, someone in the committee came and claimed we didn't want to pay him, even though we had separated the cash immediately we were told and asked for him. 

He kept making a statement that he was the devil, and we will see what the devil can do. I knew what was happening was spiritual, so I just stayed back and prayed in the spirit. 

We would hear this exact statement about three times by the way, from different people across different locations.

The devil was angry, but there was nothing he could do beyond throwing tantrums. 

We'd get home and prepare to leave for the Retreat, only for more things to come up again. The driver who went to drop the first team refused to pick up the rest of us, even though he had collected over 70% of the money charged, which was overpriced in the first place. He dropped the contact person with him (Wale) in the middle of the road, and there was a heavy downpour. This was someone not familiar with Ibadan, stuck in the rain in the middle of nowhere. While he finally tried to reach us, his phone got bad. We could only pick the area he was in and not the exact location. We had to take an Uber down there (it was just about 4 of us left. Every other person was at the camp already), then began to search for him in a big town and shouting his name on the road😅. We finally found him, and God so good, he had found another bus willing to take us.

In the middle of all these, we kept getting calls from the Retreat team already at the venue that someone was threatening to leave and had made statements that he was the devil, and we'd see the devil. This was the 3rd time we heard this, the bus driver also said something like this. 

Again, the enemy throwing tantrums.

On our way, Bukky reminded me of a vision I had seen before the Retreat about the young man in question (I had never met him in person). I knew immediately that the devil wanted him to leave the Retreat ground. The Retreat was God's intervention and a way of saving him from death. So I begged that he should be pacified until I arrived. 

We got to the venue and I finally saw him. He kept insisting on leaving the next morning, so I just prayed and left it in the hands of God. By morning, he'd agree to stay back and later confirm some things that happened at home in his absence that would have taken his life if he were at home. The devil was crafty and had done all to ensure he was home that period. 

I got in on the first night and saw a crowd of over 200 people; with more people still set to arrive the next day. Looking around I saw a people God had come for. I saw a really heavy cloud, like it was about to rain heavily and lives were about to change forever. 

We gathered together and just worshipped. That night, the atmosphere tipped completely.

It had begun!

Saturday, Day 2

We went up the mountain to just worship. The mountain top was hot but everyone found their spot before the Lord and just bowed in adoration. We worshipped God. We hosted God. We hosted the angels of God. It was such a beautiful sight, every one of us from different denominations and backgrounds bowing before our God, doing what the angels were doing. Everyone, lost in worship before their God. 

What a sight!

What a moment!

We were there for about 3 hours just doing what they did in Heaven. 

I saw the Lord ride on our worship and He began to distill the atmosphere and people. That session felt like a preparation. I saw an unburdening happening. God just taking people's gazes off the needs they came with and refocusing on Himself. At some point, I saw a bright light appear over us and it covered everyone and formed a fire that poured on us all. 

After a while, the bright light began to disperse into a thin line like a jet line, and as we descended the mountain that day, the line began to fade. 

We headed back home, had lunch, bonded and rested for the next session in the evening. 

Saturday Evening Teaching

It began to rain early so we had to use somewhere else unplanned for the next session. 

We got access to a church opposite the hostel, but had some challenges. There was no light and it was already getting late. 

We went in still and used our torchlights and phones. 

We first worshipped as a family. PS, one thing I have learnt in ministry is hosting God. You want God in a meeting? Worship Him with all your heart, He will come down to receive His worship. And because God will never go anywhere alone, neither will the angels and the hosts of heaven miss out on the opportunity to worship God with those of us on earth, they show up alongside.

After worshipping, I shared the teaching the Lord had laid on my heart. The Lord had specifically told me that the teaching was to happen before the vigil. It was to prepare men for the work He was about to do:

 People who had missed the timing of their lives

People who had been stuck inside of endless cycles

One minute it looks like they are coming out and the next minute they are back. 

People who had been trying to birth but had been unable to. 

My initial plan was that we prayed, actually. We travailed in the place of prayer but God wanted to speak to men about something else. The title of the teaching is: How to Birth the Visions of God for your Life (WATCH HERE)

That teaching was such a liberating one. 

God taught us Himself!

He showed us what had stopped delivery all this while.

He showed what had caused delays and gave instructions on what to do.

He showed us the trick of the devil with delay. You know how we say 'Delay is not denial'? Oh, with the devil, the endgame for delay is denial. 

That is exactly what he aims for, and he just needs a little bit of complacency here and there. He needs men to just accept the delay until they are denied entry completely. He needs us to tolerate those things. God began to show us how we had been tolerating the devil and his whims. No more. No more!

And then He crowned it by reminding us of His mercy. 

You will have to actually watch the teaching to understand it. 

At some point, we all couldn't hold it in,

Grown men were crying like babies 

That teaching was life! I believe it still carries the same anointing. Please do go back and watch!

We were there for about 3hours and 30 minutes, after which we took a short break so we could go to the main hall for a vigil. 

Something had happened during the teaching. God had prepared His children for what was to come.

He had laid the ground properly. 

Hearts were now ready for the water that had been stirred.

I had a couple of people speak to me after the teaching; people who felt like I was talking about them directly for everything shared prophetically. 

I had a case of 2 people who came to the camp suicidal, and the teaching carried exactly what they needed to hear. 

One of them came to me just crying for a long time, and he couldn't say anything. 

God had done something

The first prep was done!

Night Vigil 1; Hosting the Lord

We gathered at 11pm for the first night vigil. 

I knew that God didn't want me to speak much at this meeting. I didn't teach. We worshipped, Bukky gave a short exhortation and then, we allowed God.

Oh! We Allowed God!

This is the part I really love about doing ministry. 

God, being God

God, Doing!

God, doing God things. 

First, it is how He inhabits the praises of His people,

How He makes Himself visible to us. 

Jesus was in the room and He came for everybody 

I saw Jesus with His eyes blazing with fire

I saw God in a way I had never seen Him before,

I saw Him dancing first with a very few people. They who knew how to host their God. 

And then all of a sudden, like wildfire, I saw it all spread. 

We were before His throne room

We were before His throne room 😭😭😭😭

I wasn't a worship leader or a preacher, I was a worshipper before her God 

I was a child before her Father.

Then the atmosphere switched. I saw myself fall forward and my hands touched people's legs. One of them would later tell me that I grabbed her leg the very minute she grabbed the legs of Jesus for mercy. Another would share that that was when fire came down.

For Saturday night, God said something: it was an outpouring and then deliverance 

Delivery from oppression

Delivery from the wrong mindset and mentality

One on One before God 

I saw God fighting battles for men,

I saw the cherubs with drawn swords. 

They were fiery and looked like they had come to fight and win for all.

The Lord began to highlight people who had been eating in their dreams to me. They all came out, and we laid hands on them. 

At some point during the meeting, tongues began to switch. People were drinking from God. There was a drunkenness in the spirit...

Everyone had entered!

Everyone had entered!

I heard groaning and tongues that I had not heard before

Fire literally erupted

And then came the move of the prophetic 

So many people heard God speak for the first time

So many spoke in tongues

So many operated in the gift of prophecy and interpretation of tongues. 

The glory of God filled the room. Everyone was before God and we stayed this way till the session ended around 8am. 

People left that session filled and full!

Sunday, Day 3

Before the Retreat, one of the words we got was that we would feed the community. We got this word whilst we were praying for provision. There was literally nothing in the account at that time.

It didn't make sense in any way.

But that was my proof of provision.

That was how I knew.

In fact, it was immediately after that day that I started asking for the price of a cow. I told the team we'd kill a cow for the Retreat. I probably sounded wasteful and unserious to some people because where was the money? 

But I knew

God will not tell you to feed a whole community if He had not already provided. 

So Sunday came, we had cooked for everyone at the Retreat and made 200 extra plates of food. 

The instruction was to plate the food as though we were serving kings—huge portions, which we did. 

Everyone at the Retreat was to make sure they gave at least one plate of food out and if people asked why we were sharing we were to tell them that our day of Joy had come. 

It was an opening to our season of congratulations. This is how people celebrate in our world: they share food. God was pointing us ahead.

We took the food and shared it all over the community. 

It wasn't enough. We came back and packed what we had cooked for ourselves and shared it out also. 

People began to pray and dance with us as we gave out the food, and I heard the Lord begin to speak that seasons of loss were now over. We had entered the season called Joyous Celebration, the one where men rejoice with us unfailingly. And how true these words have come to be!

How true they have been! 

The people in the community prayed for us so randomly, but with the very individual promises we had heard from God.

During this, we got a word that the pregnant women in our midst should buy biscuits for the children in the community, and the Lord used this as a seal for them.

We danced before God, then ended with prayers and went back to the hostel. 

Later that night...

We were meant to have the spiritual pool (a meeting where we just sit with God and hear Him speak), but that didn't happen. I already started sensing the Holy Spirit wasn't done from the previous vigil.

So I handed over the agenda of the meeting to Him. It was His meeting, I was fine with plans changing and things going the way the Lord wants.

Little did I know that this was the main night. Whatever we had experienced before now was child's play.

We came into the church and just started worshipping. 

And as we worshipped, the glory of the Lord overshadowed us. God's presence filled the room and filled His people. And then there was an eruption. 

It started with one of our sisters. The Lord had highlighted her to me. She had sown so faithfully towards the Retreat. She started giving from the previous Retreat almost every week. God told me she was about to enter into rewards, wealth, and dominion. She was coming into the place where doors can no longer be shut against her. I called her out to just stand and worship beside me, as she is one of our worship leaders.

My eyes went to her, and she suddenly fell down, breaking my jar of anointed oil. 

I had brought 2 bottles out and released God's anointing on them to bless people with. 

She fell on it and broke one of them, pouring all from her body to the floor. 

And I heard immediately that the overflow had begun!

She gave and poured her alabaster box on the Lord

He was about to begin an overflow in her life, and that was her sign.

We all took from the oil and rubbed it on ourselves as led by the Lord.

During the planning, the Lord had mentioned to me that I would lay hands on everyone at the meeting.

I kept that to myself at first, but someone else raised it that they got that word.

We got to the Retreat and had over 200 people, and I was wondering how I'd lay hands on about 250 people, considering all the work I had already done.

After the jar of oil poured, a prophetic atmosphere opened up and the Lord began to call out situations one after the other. 

The God who sees and meets ALL, one on one!

There were cases of people with fibroids, God asked to lay hands on them, and they ALL came back days after to share that the fibroid had disappeared!

Then there were 3 cases of people whose periods were flowing and had refused to stop. I prayed for them and 2 of them had their period stopped right there at the Retreat. The 3rd person whom I had prayed for on the first day, had hers stop 2 days after the Retreat. All of these people have had their periods regulated since then. 

There was a lady with sores on her private parts. God brought up her case and after we prayed for her, they literally disappeared forever!

We had people who were waiting on God for babies and marriages, 

God asked that they come out and we prayed for them.

EIGHT (8) of them have had their babies this year (still counting) 

SIX (6) of them have gotten married after the meeting (still counting). All 6 of them miraculously. 

In fact, for 2 of these people they were both in their 40s and 50s, respectively. God settled them so beautifully and miraculously.

People waiting on God for jobs,

I remember making this call and people were shy. I kept insisting that I had seen people who lost their sources of income and were asking God, and they should come out.

They finally did and we prayed with them. The last person who came out literally got a call to resume a job that same day as we left the hall. Not even after the Retreat. 

People came out and surrendered their lives to Christ. 

A part of this healing night that humbles me every time I remember was when God made a call for his children dealing with suicidal thoughts, depression, hurt, and so on.

A whole lot of people came out

Some confessing they had actually attempted suicide just days before the Retreat.

There was a first timer who had just come to the Retreat because his friend dragged him down, and he had planned to go back to finish the suicide mission after the Retreat.

And there was God, compassionate 

Full of love and mercy

I saw the heart of God for His children that night and it broke me completely. We felt what Heaven felt that night. Every other person in the room. We felt those burdens and everyone just burst into tears. I remember hugging each of them and feeling the weightiness of what they carried and how God didn't want it for them.

It didn't even make sense because I knew some of them and they were so bubbly. How were they planning to commit suicide and we would not see them again?

But for God, compassionate; full of love and mercy.

But for God, El roi; He who sees all of His children!

He truly came for all

He healed wounds

He attended to deep-seated hurts 

He answered questions 

I remember one of the attendees kept asking questions. He thought God had forsaken Him, and right there God began to speak to him. Right there. With answers.

So many miraculous things happened at the Retreat and even overflowed from the Retreat. I could go on and on. 

God was really merciful. He promised us Mercy and Mercy we got.

We didn't finish the vigil until about 11am the next morning. 

We ended with high praise and worship to God Almighty 

For what do you give to a God that showed up for us in such a manner? 😭

We gave Him our worship and praise. High praise!

What is a Word Alive Retreat without an Overflow

Remember, I had said God promised us all of the miracles we had seen in the past Retreats put together.

One of them is multiplication/overflow. 

We had counted the number of meat we cut from the cow we bought so we could portion properly and know what else to buy to complement. 

For each meal serving, we had an allocated portion, and the cow meat was meant to be finished at the end of the Retreat. 

We had over 300 pieces of meat left, from one cow!

We were taking from it, and it wasn't going down.

Everything we had bought and portioned accordingly, multiplied in our hands. 

The sachet milks we counted and gave out as needed. We knew the exact amount we needed and bought exactly that, only to find the very items we had given out, still intact. 

This was a meeting we didn't have 30% money for just 2 days before.

We did not just get provision for enough, we got an overflow!

I say it a lot that God funds His own project, and I truly mean it. I have seen it over and over again. 

Inside of the guidance of God lies His provision, always. Just follow His lead. He will show you where He kept the provision. 

We kept receiving seeds until the day the last group (planning team) left the Retreat ground.

The instruction was to share the items left amongst the team that served, for the husbandman would be the first partaker.

One of the things we shared was the items from the first aid box. 

One of the people who was given got asthma meds. Unknowingly to us, her husband had asthma. She took them home and told him that was what was shared to her at the Retreat. I am sure he found it strange. How do you go to such a powerful retreat, and what you bring back for me is a drug?

He took out of the medication she brought home, only for her to give a testimony in one of our meetings a few months later, that after taking that medication, her husband had not had an attack in months. This was someone who had symptoms weekly. 

God truly works in mysterious ways!

Post Retreat

I wish I could share here all of the testimonies that ensued from this one encounter crammed into 4 days. Testimonies still ongoing

Yes, still ongoing

Every single day, I get new reports and I'm wondering what a God! 😭

The Retreat ended, but you see, God is still at large. 

God is still at hand!

My God!

I know this because He has promised me concerning the release of this testimonial. 

As you read through, dare to believe my God.

Testimonies await you also!

I see the wonders of God being released again as a result of these recountings .

You experience all of God!

And for those waiting on God for one thing or the other, this is the activator. 

Pause right here and ask God. Take this as an instruction from God, please.

Dive into these stirred waters 

DIVE IN!

There is a testimony waiting for YOU. 

Please do share with us here: sermons.wordalive@gmail.com

I am believing God for you also, and I can't wait to see the wonders of my God in your life. 

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Thank you once again.

God bless you.

Love eternally,

Olúrèmí Akinfaderin.

Pastor, Word Alive Ministry.

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