Built To Last Part 3 Word And Fire, September 2026 by Pastor Jerry Eze: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Acts 27:14 to Acts 27:25

Acts 27:41 to Acts 27:44

There will be no loss of life

• I love the word of God
• It is the compass for my living
• As I hear the word, as I declare the word, great and mighty things happen in my life

There shall be no loss. You are built to last

Buildings that did not last

We are still on the journey of being built to last. Let me journey with you through a few buildings in the scripture to prepare the foundation

Tower of Babel Genesis 11:4

One reason God scattered that building: they wanted to make a name for themselves

If you want to make a name for yourself, it may not last

Wall of Jericho Joshua 6:26

There was a proclamation over Jericho

That building did not last because it was against the will of God

What is against the purpose of God, chances are it will not last

Samson's house Judges 16:25 to Judges 16:30

Samson asked the lad to help him put his hand on the pillars. The Philistines had brought him there to do comedy for them

Samson pushed the pillars and the building caved in

My serious worry: how do you finish building and put what carries the building on top of the stage? Anybody can hit the pillars and the building comes down

Let it never be said that all that you are is all that people can see. If all that you are is all that we can see, you will not last

Let there be something else behind the scene that is powering you. You cannot afford to be ordinary

Let it never be said that all that you are is that person who wakes up every morning, goes to work, school or business and comes back

The house on the sand Matthew 7:26 to Matthew 7:27

Beautiful house, but the foundation was wrong

There is a high probability that your building will not last if what is holding it is sandy

Count the cost Luke 14:28

You start building and you are not able to finish, and people walk around saying, "Ah, that's Clement's house. That's Baba Famous' house. He started this house but he was not able to finish"

A house that will last has a cost

Don't let them lie to you. If you are going to last, you will do the prayer it requires and you will do the work it entails

You will run away from relationships that are likely to corrode your ability to last

You will get connected to sent men and sent women that will enable you to last

Perception is not the voice of God

The wind is called Euroclydon. Other translations call it the northeaster. Very bad wind

Paul and the other prisoners were on their way to Rome when they encountered it

Acts 27:10

What Paul perceived before they set out on the journey did happen

There is perception, there is knowing and there is the clear voice of God

You can perceive a thing, but your perception does not mean what you perceive is the voice of God

Paul said, I perceive there will be a crisis that will involve our lives. The angel appeared and said, there will be no loss of life

Acts 27:21 to Acts 27:24

The thing you perceived is happening. However, no matter what you are perceiving, life is not part of it. Nobody's life will be lost

Paul declared death. The same way he declared death, he stood up again and declared life

• My Father, any wrong thing I have said, any perception I have spoken as my reality that is not in line with your will for my life, I change it.
• I reverse it.

Thank God for your perception, but nobody will die. He had already proclaimed it, but there was a need to go back and say it a second time

I don't know what your perception was about your destiny. There is a word for the now: Proverbs 4:18

There is another word for the now: Psalm 46:4 to Psalm 46:5

• I am built to last.
• I am not cursed.
• I will not end my journey on the way.
• No storm will swallow me or my family.
• They will gather, but because their gathering is not of the Lord, they scatter for my sake.

The perception was in order, but the Lord had to come with a few corrections

God is holding you responsible

The angel's word to Paul Acts 27:24: I didn't bring you into this ship to make predictions. I brought you here because I am handing over the life of everybody into your hands

He didn't bring you into that family to be counted as number three. He brought you there because he is handing over many things into your hands

You are the only one praying. You understand more than others. There's a level of discernment God has given you

Paul said, I perceive there will be problem. Where is the God dimension? Nothing

You are acting like I'm not concerned. Be assured of one thing: God is holding you responsible

The day God chose you was the day he broke the backbone of poverty in your father's house

The day God brought you to a place where you began to understand prayer was the day God removed a covering cast over your father's house

Remember I gave them into your hands. The brother whose door has not opened yet. The sister still on a journey. Your son on a journey. Your daughter on a journey

So you are not going to give up now. Don't just say, "This is what is going on". Don't just make predictions. Reverse the order

Only you and God know what you are reversing

I reverse it.

You didn't just come to show up. You didn't just come to answer a name. You didn't just come to become a statistic. He put everything in your hands

As he begins to expound his word to you, that is when you realize what happens to the word you speak by the mouth of the Lord Isaiah 55:11

They may not understand the dynamics of spiritual warfare, but God has brought you there. He has put a lot in your hand

Don't stand up and say, things will spoil. That is not your mandate. Your mandate is, even if it has spoiled, I am here to reverse the order of what the enemy has done

Isaiah 8:18 applies to you and the children the Lord has given you

This is the heavy mandate on your life, because this is exactly what God is bringing you into

Thank you for your perception, however you are not here to perceive. You are here to take responsibility. Life must be saved, that's why I put you there

God cannot watch you die. That is why he put you in the midst of others, so that your presence will save them

You have a burden for it. That shows me it is your assignment. Your siblings may not be concerned, but you are the one

The responsibility of reversing the course is in your hands

I reverse it.

Eat in the storm

Acts 27:34

When Paul finished addressing them, he said, calm down, I want you to eat something. Eat for your health

The storm did not stop. God brought them to a level where they learn how to eat in the storm

Illustration: turbulence

You are flying, there's turbulence, all kinds of prayers are going on, "Father forgive us, we will not do it again"

Then somebody beside you asks, "Do you want meat pie? Do you care to have my drink?"

The mandate of heaven to someone who understands: you will laugh. You must learn how to eat in the storm

God knows the end from the beginning, and he is saying it will end well

There are those who will not believe God

By the time you get to the ending and discover it ended well, because you kept worrying from the beginning, you meet a good ending with bad health

Relax for your health. I don't want it said that by the time it ended well, you had developed high blood pressure or heart palpitation

God does not just want to give you a good ending, he wants to preserve you in the storm

Paul says, now we know how this thing is going to end. Can we just relax? Can we eat right in the storm?

When I say eat, I'm not saying go and find fufu. In the storm, eat the word

The storm is not yet calm. What will calm the storm is what I'm taking in

No life will be lost: the Zoe life

Paul said no life will be lost. The ship will scatter, but no life will be lost

What makes life life? Breath. Anything that is breathing, nothing will happen to it

Paul could not vouch for the one that has no life. But as far as you carry life, nothing will happen to you

The life I'm talking about is the Zoe life. For as long as Zoe is at work inside of you, would God put his breath inside of you and watch you go down?

He put his breath inside of you and said no life will be lost

Anytime the devil starts attacking the life of God inside of you:

• You are not giving the life of God expression
• You are letting your confession stifle the life of God you carry
• You are letting your behavior be antithetical to it
• You are letting your thoughts cloud it

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• You are using the life of God as a spare tire

The life of God is not a spare tire. It is your life, it is who you are

Zoe is not a second option. It is not your normal life first and Zoe second. Zoe comes first

The true you is not what your parents called you. The true you is your life as a believer

When you face a crisis, what is your automatic way of being, fear or faith?

Am I going to get scared? Am I going to panic? What does the life of God in me tell me?

The report does not look good, what does Zoe tell me?

A woman testified two days ago that they kept telling her, your baby is dead, and the baby was dead. But she kept saying, my baby is not dead

These are everyday people declaring from the life of God they carry

Your first response to anything that does not look like the word tells me whether you are alive or dead

The life of God in me rejects it Psalm 118:17

I cancel it.

If your first response is "I am depressed", you are not alive. If your first response is panic and anxiety, you are not alive

When you are alive, the word is alive in you. Your heart is burning in holy passion Colossians 3:16

Every time a situation comes, because of the life of God you carry, remember it is not a spare tire. It is who I am

I'm not expecting the world to understand me, because this life is higher than them. I'm not expecting the doctors to understand me. The life I carry, I cannot explain to you

How do I explain to you that as I declare it right now, it is happening? John 6:63

• I am alive.
• Devil, you bring depression my way, I throw it back at you. I am alive.
• You bring fear of tomorrow and your heart begins to shake, you are a liar. I am alive.
• Before the end of September you are going to go broke, things are going to go bad. Whose report will I believe? I am alive.

Keep declaring I am alive, like someone who carries the life of God. I am in touch with the life of God inside of me 1 Corinthians 6:19

It is not recitation. It is my reality. It is not a scripture that exists in my head. It has become my operating system

I am alive.

• If they are alive, nothing will go wrong.
• If they are alive, their children will not be touched.
• If they are alive, they will call forth Romans 4:17
• If they are alive, no matter what the devil tries to scatter around them, God will cause it to align for his purpose in their lives.
• If they are alive, cancer will not last.
• Tumor will not last.
• Diabetes will not last.
• Hypertension will not last.

You are not going to last if you don't have his life, or better put, if you don't live his life. The life is for you to live

You know how to live a normal life, but you have never lived in the trueness of your identity in Christ

You know how to live like a Nigerian, like a Ghanaian, like a Zambian or Zimbabwean. You have never tried to live like a citizen of heaven

It is our automatic, whether something is wrong or nothing is wrong. We have learned how to behave that way, speak that way, talk that way Hebrews 5:14

So when there's a crisis, we are not trying to wake up. We were already awake, because that's the way we talk, that's the way we prophesy, that's how we live

We don't just become it because there's a challenge

Once life leaves, something can be lost

God can use broken pieces

Acts 27:41 to Acts 27:44

When the wind hit the ship, everything scattered. Some held on to boards, some to broken pieces of the ship, and they got to the shore

There are those God will use their own skill to deliver. Those who could swim were skillful and talented, and they swam out

But there are those who could not swim. All they did was hold on. God is going to use broken pieces

There are journeys where you will not have it together. The devil thought he broke it, but that broken piece was enough

May they never claim it was a broken piece that brought them to where they are. Before it happened, a word had already gone out: no life will be lost

Because no life will be lost, God can use anything to save you. He can use what was broken, what was scattered, what was despised

There is a prophecy over your life. God is about to use that thing man is not expecting, that thing you do not even value

At the end of the day, he will deliver your evidence. He will deliver your answer

Receive it right now.

Don't say, Lord, it is not complete. It may not be complete, but it will take you there

The God who let some people hold on to a broken part of the ship and took them safely to land

He is still in the business of using a broken dream, a broken expectation, to take men to the place of their destiny

I don't care what was broken or who broke it

I will still get there.

Thank God for those who can swim. I know you can't swim. You don't have their kind of money. You don't know who they know. Don't worry, they swim and get there

Your testimony will be: things broke but I still got there. It was not put together, but the Lord took me there

I will get there.

Perception is not enough, lay hold on clarity

Perception lets you know: I'm sensing the atmosphere is not right. I'm perceiving something is wrong somewhere. I'm perceiving this person might not be a good person

In divine direction, it can come by perception. But perception is not the same thing as the voice of God

When your journey with God matures, you do not stop at perception. Lay hold on clarity

Those who have perceived that a season is about to change: perception was not enough. You needed to hear God clearly, because there might be an instruction connected to that perception

I perceive an open door is coming my way. After your perception, did you get a direction? Perception is not enough. Clarity is all it takes

You perceive danger but you don't know where it is coming from or who

Paul perceived, and the Lord had to bring clarity: now that you have clarity, go back to where you said something will happen to our lives, and change it

If you must last, remember clarity. Even if you say it by mistake, cancel it

Even if you say, "I don't know whether this thing will work", open your mouth and say, it will work in Jesus' name

Don't allow people to joke and use their joke to introduce what is not in your life. Don't let anybody say something carelessly and you laugh

If they joke, as they are joking you jokingly cancel it

If you are built to last, keep this at the back of your mind: if you are alive, no life will be lost. No matter what happens, stay alive