04/11/2023
MLR 2023 Burden and Vision
“Hereafter You shall see heaven open…”
“Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”” John 1:50-51 NKJV
All we have seen and heard God declare to us since we entered into this decade has been very prophetic and all the words He has sent to us and the various themes He led us into for the MLR 2020, 2021 and 2022 have all been directional. They are not topics per se, they are prophetic directions and guideposts to what we must do now in this season of His visitation. While disciples must multiply from nation to nation, it is clear that the time has come for the Lord to have mercy on Zion and to visit the nations; our day has broken and the Lord is still holding the sceptre to us in mercy to rise and shine His light into the nations of the earth.
Hence, this year again, He has taken away the veil to show us what we must hereafter enter into even as the season of our Rehoboth continues with a very strong assurance and declaration: “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” This has come to us as we waited upon Him seeking His wisdom and further strategy of the “Pursue, overtake and you will surely recover all” which has guided our steps since the beginning of this year.
As we knew this year 2023 to be a year of prayer and of seeking the oneness of the Body of Christ, He has come again to declare to us with utmost assurance that henceforth, we shall see the heaven open and we shall see the traffic of the heavenly on the Son of Man who indeed is our stairway to glory. It is on Him that we shall see the move of God and the release of the outpouring of the showers of blessing from heaven to overrun and overwhelm our earth.
To operate under open heaven as He Himself saw the heaven open to Him at the baptism of John which flung open to Him effectual doors, the testimony of the Father and the outburst of God’s power on Him is our expectation beginning from this year’s MLR. We perceive the Lord is about to open the heavens unto us corporately more than we have ever known in all our years of labouring with Him and particularly to you. Several of us are the “Nathaniel(s)” of our day, who are seeking genuine visitation from on high, who cannot make do with mere stories and routine religious activities… We have mused in our hearts over and over again, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”. We have been drawn into discipleship seeking to see the reality of Christ’s life and His work in our lives and in our generation… We have come to know Him in a way and we could say, He is our Lord and our God, He is the King of our lives… But He is taking us into the next dimension of His dealing with us. Most assuredly, I say unto you, “Hereafter, henceforth, from now on, you shall see heaven open…”. Whatever He will do to open the heavens over our heads and for us to walk daily under the open heaven and minister under the open heaven, experiencing divine carriage ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, we shall sit at His feet in this year’s MLR to experience. Our hearts are full of expectation of what the Lord is surely bringing us into. There are several instances in the word of God when it pleased the Lord to open the heavens to a person or a people and the result is unmistakable.
As we gather together at His feet for this encounter, just like our Lord had to go to Jordan, to be baptized of John for the heaven to open unto Him, for the Spirit to come like a dove to rest upon Him and for the voice of the Father to be heard authenticating Him and commanding men to hear Him, such that He could finish the work His Father gave Him to do in the years allotted for Him, we trust Him to help us get down to the place where we can individually see heaven open unto us, empowering us and opening the door for us to also accomplish the greater task laid on our lives in this our day.
Jacob came to Bethel and saw it as a dream but could not enter into it then, as he went into many conflicts because of his nature. It only remained a mirage or a faint promise in his heart. He could not perpetuate that experience until He came back, twenty years after, to Peniel where God finished with the “Jacob” in Jacob and then the heaven opened unto him and the sun rose upon him and he walked the rest of his pilgrimage with the sun rising upon him, leaning on the staff of grace.
You may be the one whom God has signalled to use since several years, but you have not been able to enter the promise due to your own ‘Jacob’ nature. I perceive this MLR may be your ‘Peniel’ where we look unto God to permanently deal with your personal hindrances and set His sun to rise upon you, so that you can then walk into Isa. 60:1-3 and all the promises that prophecy holds for us: “Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:1-3 NKJV
It is the time. The day now breaks… Your heaven must open to you and your light must shine now and the glory of the Lord must rise upon you now in this your day and in this your time of visitation. May the Lord help you and may you not miss out. Hereafter, you shall see heaven open… After here, after this MLR, you shall see the Sun rising upon you. You shall see heaven open and angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. Do not come after the event! May the Lord help you to be at the right place at the right time in Jesus name.
Details are as hereunder:
Date: Wednesday, December 6 - Sunday, December 10, 2023 (Meeting ends on Saturday)
Venue: Onsite MLR Centres all over the nations with online inputs from our several studios all over the world.
Feeding and Accommodation shall be freely provided except you desire a private arrangement in any hotel of your choice
Pray, plan and prepare to come and come you yourself apart to meet Him who is waiting on top of this ladder to open His heaven unto you. God bless you.
Your brother,
Gbile Akanni
