Man Has Now Become Like One Of Us by Apostle Femi Lazarus: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

You Are a Carrier of God's Healing Attribute

Romans 1:20 — since the creation of the world, the invisible attributes of God are clearly seen, understood by the things that are made. If a person is part of what God made, they are supposed to reflect certain aspects of his attributes.

Someone can get healed of emotional pain simply by holding hands with another person — not because that person prayed, but because they are a carrier of God's healing attribute. People do not get close and leave wounded emotionally when the carrier is functioning correctly.

A friend went through a painful season — locked away for about a year. In the isolation, he was introduced to new dimensions of God. There is an aspect of God that cannot be known until pain is known. There is an aspect that cannot be known until rejection is known. That is why the scripture says he is near to the broken-hearted.

While eating alone at a restaurant, a music team came in. One member — not knowing him — was led by the spirit, got up, walked to where he sat, held him by the shoulder, and said: "It is well." That was all. Tears that had been locked up for months gushed out instantly.

There is an aspect of God's glory that may never be seen by his people as a whole until he makes them whole again.

God Is Not Attempting to Make Sense

The prophetic does not always make sense. A prophet named Bob Jones, in a meeting, was led by the spirit to repeat the words "mac and cheese" over and over. The pastor became embarrassed and passed him a note to wrap up. He kept going. Later, an elderly woman in the congregation came forward to testify: her son had been sick, every medical option exhausted, multiple people had prayed and prophesied. God had told her he would heal her son in that meeting, in a language only she could understand. When the man of God began saying "mac and cheese" — the boy's favorite food — she received the code. The pulpit missed it. The boy was healed.

If you will move with God, certain things must be dropped, because they will not make sense. God is not busy trying to make sense to anyone. He is busy with his plan.

Prophetic navigation points people to jungles that become cities. The anointing that seeks to make sense is not the grace for pace-setting.

There are people fighting with what God has been saying because they need him to make more sense. He did not send a message to make more sense. What he said is still what he is saying.

God Is Not a Christian

John 3:16 says "God so loved the world" — not "God so loved Christians." There are people who have never called on Jesus in whom God finds it easier to demonstrate an aspect of himself because of their willingness and openness. While he spends enormous effort getting a believer to be flexible enough for what he wants to do, he can sometimes get an unbeliever to do the same thing immediately.

That is why he used Cyrus. That is why he uses people outside the church. Not every dimension of God can express itself through believers who are too holy and too grounded to move as he moves.

It is not always that the anointed person who looks the most spiritual is the carrier of God's greatest intention. Greatness is not always riding an expensive car.

Genesis Is a Book of Management

Genesis chapter one is not just creation narrative. It is a book of values — God's method, his approach, his organization. Science is not ahead of God. Science is discovering what he already did. What are called scientific laws are not human inventions — they are observations. Newton did not create the law of motion. He saw it. Gravity was not invented. It was observed.

The reason innovation is possible is because there is something already on the ground that does not change — and things are built around that faithfulness.

God is faithful whether you are righteous or unrighteous. He did not say "for God so loved good people." Many Christians can only build structures that change with their mood. If that approach is not corrected through learning from God's model, nothing sustainable will be built.

God made everything and called it good. Then he made man, and rested. Genesis 2:2. The rest was not from tiredness. It was the rest of a person whose maintenance protocol is in place. The system of maintenance for the universe is man. When things go badly, the question is not "where is God?" — it is "where is man?"

Man Is God's Insurance Policy

Genesis 1:26 — God said "let us make man in our image, our own kind, let them have dominion."

God made two things in the beginning: heaven and earth. One went bad. Heaven is standing because God himself and his host of angels are the maintenance system there. For the earth, he needed a system of his kind. He needed someone whose presence would ensure that the same things that kept heaven intact would keep the earth intact.

Man is God's insurance policy — his guarantee that the earth remains functional.

It takes a significant fall — both spiritually and mentally — for a person's jurisdiction to become just their job. The best a believer can imagine is food, rent, clothing, while waiting for people outside to develop things that they then use. If the available wisdom in God were truly accessed, they would be the light of the world — not just the light of the church.

If Nigeria will not go bad, it is because God has men there. If Kenya will not go bad, it is because God has men there. Not because God comes down from heaven. The response of God to a problem is always a man.

The Woman Was Never an Afterthought

Genesis 1:27 — "male and female created he them." The woman was not an afterthought. She was in the plan from the same moment the man was. The difference was in the sequence of placement — the man was placed first as a foundation for leadership and responsibility, not superiority.

When God said in Genesis 2, "it is not good for man to be alone, I will make him a help," he did not say companion. Help. That is not a household assistant — that is someone who carries strength equivalent to or greater than what is needed for the assignment.

The destiny of a woman does not begin to speak only after marriage. If there is no capacity to help before marriage, there is nothing to bring into it.

The reason identity crisis causes people to struggle so hard to look like others is that they do not know who they are. There is a move of God coming on the face of the earth — God manifesting himself through Christians who do not lack awareness.

The Blessing Is Not What Most People Think

Psalms 1:1 (Amplified) — "Blessed: happy, fortunate, prosperous, enviable."

Happiness is an attribute of blessing. Fortune — the ability to be at the right place at the right time — is an attribute of blessing. Prosperity is the ability for things never to die in what is handed over to a person; what is given as two becomes ten, what is given as ten becomes thousands.

Enviable is also an attribute. Nobody envies the person who is not doing well. If someone is being envied, that is a sign something of God is moving on their life.

Jeremiah 30:19 — "Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, they shall not be few. I will also glorify them, they shall not be small."

The shout of a king in the house produces multiplication. That is what it means — not just acoustics, but principle.

Joy is not optional for the believer. Joel 1 describes everything withering — the apple tree, every plant dying — and traces the cause: joy has withered from the sons of men. Where joy is withdrawn, inspiration goes with it. Build structures around what brings joy. Stop feeding on bad news as the primary diet.

Healing Is God's Signature

One of the strong manifestations in the ministry has been healing. A spiritual daughter developed something close to her spine. Scans showed a malignant tumor. Seven days were set for walking in faith — confessing the word, praying, engaging scripture daily, listening to messages, not just sitting and waiting.

Day six — the growth was still there. She wept and prayed. She slept. Woke the next morning and began doing housework — sweeping, washing the restroom. At some point she realized she had been doing things she had not been able to do for some time. She touched her back. The hole had closed. She went to the mirror. Fresh skin where the tumor had been. Medical reports document such cases.

The length of the problem has nothing to do with whether recovery is possible. Whether one day or 12 years — it is the same power meeting the same person where they are.

Man Has Chosen

Genesis 3:22 — after the fall, God said: "Behold, man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything ranging from good to evil — capable of distinguishing between blessing and calamity." Man had become capable of manifesting either one.

Deuteronomy 30:19 — "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you — life and death, blessing and cursing — choose life."

Man has the capacity to manifest extreme good or extreme evil. The people controlling systems across the world are thinking about systems — not food, rent, clothing. God wants his children to have light, to walk in dominion, to understand what is happening, and to choose — actively — the blessing.

Deuteronomy 8:18 — "But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant."

The covenant is not about individual financial comfort. It is about blessing flowing through one person to nations — the way God intended when he called Abraham and said "in your seed all nations of the earth shall be blessed."

Wherever you are, whatever you dropped because something did not work — go back. Who asked you to stop? God has not changed his mind. The call on your life stands exactly as it was given. The wounded soldier is not buried — he is healed and sent back to the battle line. The battle line is not complete until you take your place. Let apostolic voices find their place again. Let prophetic voices find their place again. Let nation builders emerge. The heavens are open. Enter into a new paradigm. The front gates of heaven are open over you now.

Father, let mantles be restored. Let fresh fire come everywhere. Let intercessors find their place again. Let the function for creativity, the Daniel kind of function, the Joseph kind of function — let it come. Let solution providers emerge. Let those who have left the race because of wounds go back. Let the one who has been fighting alone know today that you never left. Man has now become like one of us — let your sons arise and choose the blessing, choose life, and let the earth be filled with the government of your kingdom through them. In Jesus' mighty name.