The Wait Is Over First Service September 2026 by Pastor Jerry Eze: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Conversations will be held this week where your name will come up. When that time comes, may the voice of the Lord speak for you.

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

Mark 5:1-15

• Father, make your word and your will known to us. Let there be none of any man but all of you.
• Jesus, let only you be magnified and only you be praised.
• Make every part of our lives become testimonies.

The satanic wait

Through times and seasons, from one dispensation to another, from one move of God to another, from one outpouring of his grace to another, there is always a subtlety I have found in the scriptures

The enemy tries to introduce it in the lives of men, in seasons, in times, in a certain move of God

That thing is called a satanic wait

The devil capitalizes on different things to cause some people to wait

Reasons people are waiting

• Your mistakes. Because he is the accuser of our brethren, he goes to God and says, they did this thing, that is why they should wait
• Your ignorance. He says to God, they don't know they should do this
• Intense warfare
• A clear-cut lack of revelation. Where you would have passed 5 years ago, you have not paid attention to the revelation that should move you past where you are
• The wrong persons around you who tell you where you are is enough, because they have not seen anything better
• What has been transferred to you. That's how your mother waited, that's how your father waited, so to you it is not even a waiting, it is part of who you are
• The environment you have found yourself in
• Your career. In this career you wait 5 years, in that one 10 years, and 15 years is the minimum people usually wait

A lie is sold to you. You believe the lie, you walk the lie, you begin to live the lie

Unknown to you, you have accepted a waiting that is not of God

Until a man stands up and breaks a certain kind of waiting, the status quo continues for a generation that never knew

Even if you like delay, hate it because of your generation. For the sake of the sons and daughters coming after you, say to God, I cannot hand over this pattern to my son

The legacy we want to hand to our children is a God who answers when we call

There is nothing called waiting in the life of a believer

Don't get it twisted. Every divine waiting orchestrated by God is to build your capacity

If God orchestrates a waiting for you, you will be waiting without knowing you are waiting

What looks like waiting, you will see yourself being developed and growing. The devil thought I was waiting, but he didn't know my prayer life was growing

Those who came in with one, two or three problems, God has solved some and some are still there

Right now those problems matter less than knowing God

Your waiting is not as important as the relationship you have with God

Your tongue and what you agree to

On this side of eternity, one thing the devil engages to create an endless wait in your life is your tongue

The devil has no power to implement what you have not agreed to

If anything is happening in your life, step back and ask yourself, did I agree to this?

When you are frustrated you find yourself agreeing. When you are discouraged you find yourself agreeing

• My father, whatever I have agreed to that is against your will for my life, I reverse it.
• Every delay I have agreed to, I reverse it.
• Every wait I have agreed to that is against your will concerning my life, I reverse it.
• Call your name and say, come out of that delay. Come out of that waiting.

Dominion is integral

The devil looking for one man can destroy a city. The devil targeting your gate and your door can decide to close a city's door

Herod was looking for Jesus and decided children from two years down should be wiped out, even children who did not know whether Messiah was born or not Matthew 2:16

Sometimes in your office, because of you, they will bring out a policy

Some enemies will become friends because of you. They have never liked themselves and even when you are done with them they still will not like themselves, but because of you they become friends

Transition seasons and gates

In every life, believer or not, there are transition seasons

Transition seasons come with gates. Even heaven has several gates

Being in heaven does not necessarily mean you have access to different places until you understand what governs the gates

In transition seasons, without the revelation that opens that gate you will become average in that business until you understand the key that opens it

There are people in different cities who don't know the keys that open that city

The Lord did not stop at giving authority. He gave the keys Matthew 16:19

I have the keys.

September, October, November, December

Powers that say your 40 days will become your 40 years, be broken by fire.

The man at the tombs

The story of the man who waited with a demonic bondage for a very long time Mark 5:1-15

He would go to the mountain and to the tombs and hurt himself, crying out, while the demonic power held him down

Jesus asked him who he was, and they said, we are Legion. Then they asked Jesus not to cast them out of that country, to keep them there

They did not want to leave that environment. Jesus allowed them because there was nobody standing up to say, you are a liar, you will not stay in this environment

As soon as they entered the swine they killed the swine. Their intention was not the swine, it was to remain in that territory

• We can leave their health and enter their marriage
• Once we leave their marriage, we can enter their career
• Once we leave their career, we will enter their finances

Just leave us around there

But there is a generation that says, if you are leaving, you pack all your load. My health, my finances, my son, my daughter

Pack your load. Get out.

They want to leave one area and enter another. We have left the elder brother, now let us go to the younger sister

We have left this health, now there is an opening here, let us block it

Where there is a testimony, let us make sure it never sees the light of day. Wherever they escape to, they move to continue the battle for your life

They cannot leave your business and go face your son. They cannot leave one proposal and meet you at another place

• Any power of hell that wants to leave one area and enter another, let fire clear the way.
• You cannot stay here.

Protect your mind

Mark 5:15

From the narration it seems to me that before the legions spoke through this man, the first level of attack on him was his mind

The more you allow ungodly things into your mind, you are inviting legions

All the devil tried to do was unset the settings of his mind, rattle his mind, speak lies to his mind

The more you believe the lies, the more it looks like you are blowing a whistle. Start coming, start coming, and they start coming

When the devil begins to attack your mind, faith is lost. The legions step in

A time came when he had no control over what came out of his mouth because the legions were the ones speaking

He was in his right mind, so before he ever went to a wrong mind there was a right mind. It was lost because of the invasion of negativity

Proverbs 23:7

Your mind is a magnet. It can attract spirits you didn't pray about

There are things you don't need anybody to remind you to rebuke. Rebuke it out of your mind. Get out of my mind

The devil never knows what is in your mind. He knows what you are thinking by what you do

One formidable way the devil knows what is in your mind is by what you see. When he cannot track what you say, he pays attention to how you react

Every attack that comes to you begins with what is on your mind

What if I die now? Take out that nonsense from your mind. What if I meet shame on my way? Why are you thinking about that?

2 Timothy 1:7

What if something goes wrong? My question is, what if something goes right?

2 Corinthians 10:5

If you do not want to invite these things, keep your heart Proverbs 4:23

Carry victory, not warfare

A legion is a Roman military formation. What was inside him was a formation of demons programmed for warfare

This man was carrying warfare wherever he went. That he was crying means he was not enjoying it. A part of him was saying this is painful, but the legions were there for warfare

If you must end this wait, you have not been mandated to carry warfare. You have been mandated to carry victory

You are not excluded from warfare, but your mindset is a mindset of victory. I don't confess my warfare, I speak my victory

John 16:33

They will gather against you. They will see your light shining and look for a way to put it off

Don't speak about what you are going through. Speak about the victory you have

Declaring the victory you have scatters the devil's head

Never say, my life is finished, when it is still starting

I know I am fighting. I know I am going through things Psalm 23:4, 2 Timothy 1:12

I am more than a conqueror.

Romans 8:37

We know how it will end.

Your mindset tells your story, not your scars

He took weapons and wounded himself all over. If he heals from those wounds, what is left on his body? Scars

In verse 15 the Lord was not trying to fix his scars. What the Lord fixed was his mind Mark 5:15

As you journey through life there are things the Lord will leave with you as scars. But your mindset should tell your story, not your scars

Every day the devil wants to leave you with a scar so that the scar becomes your identity. The scar is not who I am. Who I am is what is in my mind

That is why we never forget to renew our mind Romans 12:2

When your mind is renewed you look at your scars and say, see what I survived. My scars don't depress me, they become my thanksgiving

I look at my scars and I am not asking God where were you when I got them. I say God is faithful. God, if not for you who was on my side

God of the 11th hour, I should have been in the mortuary. Thank you for keeping me, thank you for guarding me

It started from my mind

If God does not fix your mind, your scars will depress you

Insist that experiences can never be the same

Whenever the legions came, they either took him to the mountain or to the tombs. Whether mountain or tomb, he was going to cry. Different places, the same experience

If you are interested in breaking every wait, insist that experiences can never be the same

Never lose your identity to what is happening to you

This man lacked an identity. Jesus asked him who he was, and who responded were the legions speaking through him

No matter what is happening in you, don't let it become your confession

Life will ask you who you are. Never tell life what is going on. Tell life what God has said

You will find beautiful beginnings and be tempted to recount the things that have gone on in you. No. God wants you to tell him who you are, not what you have gone through

Mark 5:6-7

He was the one who ran to Jesus, yet by verse 7 he is asking Jesus, what have I to do with you

He loved to worship but did not know how to be close to him. Something in him was running for help, another thing was pulling him away from God

If your wait has to be over, let your pull to the Master be stronger than what wants to take you out

One spirit, many manifestations

Jesus spoke, commanded that spirit to leave him, and the man was free

Every time God wants to break a thing, you have to lift your voice and speak to the satanic spirit. The Bible calls it an unclean spirit

The workings of this unclean spirit led it to the formation called Legion, which is in thousands. It is one unclean spirit with a thousand manifestations

There are things happening around you that are not different spirits. They are different manifestations of the same spirit

The same spirit that wanted you to die at birth is still monitoring you to see if it has succeeded. The same spirit that closes doors for you is still monitoring

Anyone under the sound of my voice being monitored negatively, I decree and declare, let it be broken in the name of Jesus. Break right now.

In the name of Jesus, I decree over your life, the wait is over.

This week there will be a harvest of answers, a harvest of evidence, a harvest of the wonders of God.

The Lord will show you that the wait is over. Things will align very fast.

Yokes are already broken. The Lord is transiting you to where you truly belong.

A new season is open over your life. You will not cry where you cried the last time.

The Lord is releasing helpers in your life. The heavens over your head are open.

The hand of the Lord is being made good in your life. Receive it of the Lord. I decree it is done.