>> Hello, my name is Tomi Arayomi,
and for the past 20 years,
I've had the privilege of serving God as a prophet
to nations and founder of a ministry called Rig Nation,
which saw its inception in 2007.
I want to share a story that happened to me many years ago
that set a course and trajectory
for what has now become an international ministry.
I was 16 years old when I went to a friend's house
called Crispin, and myself
and Crispin were just talking together about Jesus
and you know there's that wonderful scripture in Malachi
that says that there was a book
for those who thought about the Lord
and talked often about his name.
And my friend Crispin and I love talking about the Lord,
two things, making music together
and talking about Jesus.
So we start talking about the Lord, and all of a sudden
I get this revelation of the cross
that I have never got before.
For the first time in my life, I understood why Jesus died.
I understood the blood. I understood the cross.
I understood every - It was like in clear, HD detail.
The Lord began to explain it to me
as the words were coming out of my mouth.
I don't know if you've ever had one of those moments
where you feel like you need to sit down
and take notes on what you're saying.
But it was one of those moments. Crispin was wowed. I was wowed.
And as we were sharing this,
the power of God came into the room
and knocked us both flat on our backs.
As I hit the floor, immediately, I was caught up in the sky
and I was traveling so fast
that all I could see was like, when you're in a car
and the scene is whooshing past you.
It was like things were just whooshing past me
and I landed and I hit the floor upwards.
And as I hit this floor,
I became immediately enamored at the movements of the floor
I was on. It was like a pearly sea floor
that was moving like white marble,
but it looked like an ocean.
And I stood up on my feet because I could hear a noise,
and I realized that I was at this great big supper
in this banqueting hall.
I was fully in control of my body.
I was fully cognizant, fully aware of my surroundings.
I knew this was not a dream.
And I knew somehow I was in Heaven.
All of a sudden I motioned to the table
where I saw an array of people
all dressed in different color clothing.
And they were all eating and drinking
and laughing together. And there were these butlers
that would come out with trays of food out of the kitchen.
And just as a piece of fruit left the table,
another piece of fruit would replace it.
I was amazed at the excellence. I was amazed at the motion.
I was amazed at the service that was happening.
But something caught me.
I realized maybe I won't be here very long
and I need to find Jesus.
So I ran around the room, around the table trying to see
if perhaps he was at the center of the party.
And he wasn't there.
So I asked somebody next to me, I said,
Excuse me, I'm looking for Jesus.
Can you tell me where he is? But the guy couldn't hear me.
The room was so loud. I went to somebody else and said
Excuse me, I'm looking for Jesus.
Can you tell me where he is? Again,
this man didn't listen. And then all of a sudden,
this gentleman who overheard me trying to find
Jesus came up to me and said,
Excuse me, are you looking for Jesus?
I said, Yes, yes, I'm looking for him. He said
He's over there.
To my utter amazement, this man pointed at the kitchen.
Out of the kitchen came this butler.
He was always there, walking in and out, serving food,
asking if everybody was OK. And he walked right past me
and he went up to this person, said,
Is everything okay? Can I get you anything else?
And I stood there frozen, eyes
wide open, mouth wide open, staring at him,
and all of a sudden he approached me
and his clothing changed right in front of me.
And he looked up at me and he said, Look at me.
And I couldn't look at him. He was brilliant white light.
So I looked down and I looked down for shame.
I looked down for the fact
that he was serving me, and he said,
Do you see what I'm doing? I said, yes,
Jesus, you're dressed as a butler serving me food.
And he laughed and he grabbed me by the side of my face, like a,
like a father would his child, and he smiled, and he said,
go back and do that for my people.
And he motioned my head backwards,
and I opened my eyes,
and I'm back in the room and my friend
Crispin is hovering over me
and he looks down at me and he says,
You were out for ages. I said, How long? He said,
It's been a long time. He said, I said what, he said,
What happened? As I'm laying on the floor,
looking up at him, he's a big six foot guy,
I said, Crispin, I just saw
Jesus dressed as a butler serving me food.
And Crispin kind of looked at me like
I hit my head on the tea table on the way down to the floor.
And he helped me up like, you poor thing,
and he helped me to my chair.
I said, Crispin, get me my Bible.
And he brings my Bible, and I put it on my lap.
And all of a sudden, this wind,
I don't know if the window was open or not,
but this wind came and just blew the pages of my
Bible open and I looked down
and it was open to the book of Luke
Chapter 12. And it says,
To the one that overcomes and keeps watch to the end,
I will grant him to sit at my supper
and I myself will serve him.
I didn't even know that scripture was in the Bible,
and I broke down in tears. And I pointed, I said,
Crispin, look, it's in the Bible right there.
And I realized when Jesus is a butler serving you food,
you can't unsee that.
You know, Jesus isn't in heaven trying to serve,
he embodies the servant heart.
And listen to what the Bible says:
I go to prepare a place for you.
Jesus is making that place ready.
And all of a sudden, as I saw
Jesus just as a butler serving me food,
I realized that a servant is no greater than his master.
And if the master is serving, then we are also to serve to.
Thanks for listening.