When Zoe Takes Over by Apostle Emmanuel Iren: Sermon Notes

When Zoe Takes Over

Let me teach on when Zoe takes over. Some of the things I am about to share, I have never shared before.

God Watches to Elicit a Response

Genesis 2:18–21 — The Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone. He would make him a helper comparable to him. And immediately after, what does God do? Out of the ground He forms every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them.

There are times in the Bible where God watches to see your response — like with the burning bush, where He watches to see Moses' response. Now He is doing something to elicit a response, because there are some things God wants to do with you that will require that you position in a particular way. There are some experiences He brings you into to stir up a response, a disposition that will make you fitting for what will come next.

God wants a help comparable to Adam. And what does He do? Out of the ground He forms every beast of the field so that Adam will see what he calls them. When Adam began to name — tiger, tigress, lion, lioness — that was the moment the singleness dawned on him. Everybody has a spouse — only me.

There are some things the Lord does to put in you a desire. Paul put it this way: Philippians 2:13 — it is God who works in you to will and to do. Sometimes He just brings you in close proximity. Peter, whose 9 to 5 was literally in the water, never occurred to him that he could walk on water — until he sees Jesus walk on water and is never the same again. For the first time in his life it dawns on him he can do it too.

Prophetic examples are very powerful ways that God stirs up and nudges us.

Sometimes God even does this with your enemies. If you read the story of Hannah, she was okay with the fact that she did not have a child until that other wife started mocking her. And for once the consolation of her husband was not enough. She pressed to the extent that she got the prophet's attention, and he said the Lord has heard your petitions.

Not every consolation is good. Sometimes the Lord allows the anger to drive you into a new dimension of power and strength.

There is a reason that person in your office will not allow you rest, always frustrating you — because sometimes God allows your enemies to drive you into His will. God told the disciples, go into all the world. All of them camped in Jerusalem until persecution started. By the time they killed Stephen, they all scattered — and in that they fulfilled the original intention of the Lord.

God will not just give Abraham children. He needs to show you in the sky first: I can give you this many children. It is that Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. This is how God works.

This is why bad theology is dangerous. Creative miracles move in the direction of desire. God must first work in you to will before He works in you to do. So if your will is under attack, you are in trouble.

Experiences are not as strong as doctrinal convictions. Even John — he saw the heavens open and the Spirit descending on Jesus — and in a time of tribulation he sent home to ask, are you the one or should we wait for another? The same Elijah that is calling down fire will hide because of Jezebel.

1 Corinthians 15:33 — Evil communication corrupts good manners.

The Nature of Tardema

God wants to do something in Adam's life. First He sparks the desire. Then the next thing God does — the Bible says the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam. And he slept.

A deep sleep is one word in the Hebrew: tardema. Tardema does not always carry a deep spiritual significance — it can be just deep sleep, literal deep sleep. But more often than not in the Bible, tardema was something God Himself caused, and it was not ordinary sleep.

Tardema comes with heaviness. You are between awareness and non-awareness. Have you ever had a dream but it was not a dream? That is tardema. This thing happened — you know it happened.

Fallen angels try to take advantage of this state — that experience where you know someone is in the room, but you cannot move. These false spirits are imitating something powerful in God: heaviness, immobility, a God-induced condition where you are rendered inactive.

Look at Job 33:15–16: in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep — when tardema — falls upon men while slumbering in their beds, then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction.

What happens during tardema? Divine instruction or divine creativity. Out of Adam comes Eve.

The things of the spirit must be taught. Otherwise you may not see them. For instance, tardema works in divine protection. There are stories where someone is kidnapped, and all of a sudden God says, go — they will not catch you. They walk out and no one sees them. That is tardema, because deep sleep can happen while people are awake.

1 Samuel 26:12 — David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster, and they got away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awakened, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.

David went in where Saul and all his soldiers were, took everything, and none of them knew it or woke up, because a deep sleep from the Lord came on them.

Jesus — they wanted to kill Him, and He just walked in their midst and walked away.

These things must be taught. There are manifestations of the Spirit that will be lost if they are not taught.

Isaiah 29:10 — For the Lord had poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and had closed your eyes. Part of protection is also restraint. The Lord can stop somebody's mouth from speaking things against you — not just physical protection, but restraint of enemies.

Tardema also works with prophecy. Job 4:12–13 — a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little thereof in the thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men. Secrets are brought in sleep.

Have you woken up singing? Secrets are brought to you in your sleep. You cannot have the Holy Ghost and every sleep of yours is normal. It is not right.

Someone slept, dreamed, saw a product, woke up and learned how to produce it, and began selling more than 1,000 pieces daily. That is how secrets work.

Many dreams that are from heaven happen this way: an angel of the Lord stands by your bed and beams something like light from a projector — and that is how you receive information.

Tardema is for protection. It is for prophecy — to know things that will happen, to have insight and understanding. And the one to dwell on: creativity.

Eve, Chava, and Zoe

In Genesis 3:20 — Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. The Hebrew word for Eve is chava, which means to live — a derivative of the word for life. Chava in the Hebrew is synonymous with zoe in the Greek. They both mean life.

So when Adam was in tardema, there was a need — and the answer came from inside him. Out of him came Eve. Out of him came Zoe.

There is a need on the outside that has an answer on the inside. You have been looking for an uncle to help, a neighbor, someone in government. But the answer is on the inside. Whether you need a job, a child, a breakthrough — the answer is life.

The one who can bring Eve out of Adam can remove cancer. He can.

This is where Eve came from. This is how multiplication happens. This is how capacity is expanded. Something from the inside of you.

Tardema Works with Prophecy and Creativity

Genesis 15:12–13 — When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and lo a horror of great darkness fell upon him. And He said to Abram, know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in the land that is not theirs.

This is how the future can be revealed. Abraham in tardema received what was going to happen for the next 400 years. Even pagan kings experienced tardema — Pharaoh saw what would happen in the next 14 years. The same word was used for Pharaoh.

Promotion comes not from the east, not from the west, not from the south — but God is judge. Job 8:7 — though your beginning be yet small, your latter end shall greatly increase.

Even what you are celebrating is yet small. Even what they are clapping for you about is yet small.

2 Kings 3:17 — you shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain, yet the valley shall be filled with water that you may drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts. Life does not look at your network. It does not look at your bank account. The capacity is of the spirit — not by power, not by might, but by my spirit.

1 Kings 17:14 — for thus says the Lord God of Israel, the bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain.

You shall not see wind. You may not see rain. But the valley shall be filled.

This Is How Tardema Is Confirmed

When it eventually happens — when you get the job, get into that nation, and everyone is congratulating you — it does not look new to you. You have been there before. It feels very familiar.

You first visit the promised land as a stranger, to peruse it with the eyes of the spirit — so that when it eventually happens, you have been there before. You go into the promised land like a prophetic spy. God first allows you to taste it before you take it.

From tonight, your sleep will not be normal. Visions of heaven. Visions. Clarity. Signs. Wonders. This is where clarity comes from. What to do. Places to go. With whom they must be done. By the anointing of the Holy Ghost.

Secrets are brought to you in your sleep. Secrets about your future. Secrets about your family. Secrets about your health. Your sleep will not be normal again.

By the anointing of the Holy Ghost, I prophesy increase. Though your beginning be yet small, your latter end shall greatly, greatly increase.

Every embargo hindering your favor has been lifted. By the grace and the anointing of the Holy Ghost, be sponsored.

Father, what You started in visions — perfect it in the lives of these ones. Let it be evident that they met with You. That which You had set in motion, by Your fire and by Your grace, let it come into fruition, come into maturity. Every dormant vision that the Lord has given to you is sponsored by the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Let the mantle of grace rest upon you. Any one of you sick in any way, I call you healed in the name of Jesus. I command spirits of sickness and infirmity to leave now. Every one of you tormented by demon spirits, I command those spirits to let you go right now. For every one of you who has a call to ministry — receive your impartation. Every embargo hindering your favor has been lifted. Be sponsored. Teaching grace, by my spirit. Increased spiritual capacity, by my spirit. New graces unlocked, by my spirit.