My name is Ioato. I am from Benin City, Edeto State. I was initiated in a shrine in Yoya under a priestess, and for 19 years I served in that circle. I sat in meetings along Sappel Road in houses of Yuing compounds. I was one of the ones sent to look at people. So I am not guessing. I am reading a map I used to draw.
I want to start with a question and I want you to be honest. Do you keep dreaming about the house you grew up in?
Not the house you live in now, the old one, your father's house, your mother's compound, the place you were a child. Maybe it is in the village. Maybe it is in a face me I face you building in Ringro. Maybe you have not set foot there in 20 years. And yet three, four, five times a month, you are back there in your sleep. You know the corridor. You know the kitchen. You know the smell of the place.
Even though a smell cannot exist in a dream, and yet you wake up remembering it, you know which dog cries, you know where the well is, you know where your mother used to sit. And then you wake up and you feel heavy or tired, or you feel like you have been somewhere, like you attended something and came back. Most people dismiss it. They say it is because I am thinking about my childhood. But you are not thinking about your childhood. You have not thought about that house in months.
So let me tell you what is actually happening. And I am going to be very direct with you because you did not come here for stories. Your childhood home is not a place in your dream. It is a picture. It is the image your spirit uses for the foundation of your life. Let me repeat that because it is the whole confession in one sentence. The house you grew up in is how your spirit draws your foundation.
That is why you keep returning there. Not because you miss the house, but because something is happening at your roots and your spirit keeps showing you the roots in the only picture it has. Please understand this: in that world, we knew this when we wanted to study a person. We did not start with a person. We started with their roots, their family line, their father's house, their mother's lineage. We went back to the beginning because that is where the door was built.
And the childhood home in the spirit is the map of that beginning. So when that house starts appearing in your dreams again and again, it is not nostalgia. It is a report. It is your foundation asking for attention. asks a question that should have frightened all of us a long time ago. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? That is the question. And I am going to show you five things to look for in that dream so you can read the report yourself.
Five points, nothing more. And at the end of each one, I will give you three prayers. Say them as we go. But before we go further, let me say this. If these confessions have been opening your eyes, if they have been giving words to things you have been experiencing for years and could never explain, then do one thing for me. Hit subscribe and turn on the bell. These deep confessions come out here and I do not want you to miss the next one. It takes two seconds. Do it now and let us continue.
Point one: the condition of the house is the condition of your foundation. The first thing to look at is not the house, it is the state of the house. Listen carefully in your dream. Is the house standing or is the roof gone? Are the walls cracked? Is water coming in? Is the dust everywhere? Is the place dark even in the daytime? Is the compound overgrown with grass? Is the ceiling fallen? Is the house abandoned or is it clean? Is the light? Are the walls painted? Is the food cooking? Are people inside laughing?
The state of that house is the state of your roots, your foundation. I want to tell you a true thing that happened. There was a man in Benin City along Sappel Road. His name was Noakare. He sold spare parts. He was not a lazy man. He worked from morning to night, but his money never stayed. Every month money entered his hand, and every month something swallowed it. A sickness, a debt he had forgotten, a relative in trouble, a car problem. It was 14 years of that.
He was not poor in the sense of having nothing. He was poor in the sense of never keeping anything. And the whole time he kept having one dream, the same dream. He was standing in his father's house in the village, and the roof was gone. Rain was falling inside the house, on the floor, on the bed, on the chairs, on everything. And in the dream, he would be running around trying to cover things, trying to save what was inside, and he could never cover it all.
He came to me after I had left. He said, "I house following me." I asked him one question. I said, "No, Saka. Is that house still standing in the village today?" He said, "It has fallen down. Nobody has entered it in 15 years. The only thing still standing is the front wall." And I said that house is not following you. That house is you. That is your foundation. The roof is gone at your root. That is why everything you build leaks. You are not failing because you are lazy. You are building on a house with no roof.
Now hear me well because this is not just about buildings and money. A leaking roof in a dream is a leaking life. Water inside a house is what is inside you being poured out and lost. A dark house is a destiny with no light. A cracked wall is a broken hedge. A collapsed ceiling is something that came down over your head while you were too young to resist it.
And here is the part that will help you. We used this in our meetings. We studied family lines. We looked at where a family has suffered the same thing for three generations. Same sickness, same poverty, same pattern of men dying young, same pattern of women losing their husbands, same pattern of nobody finishing school. We called it the house. And when a family kept a pattern for three generations, we knew their foundation had a door in it. Something had been planted at the roots, and the people carrying that family name had no idea. They thought it was just how their family was.
So think about your own people. What is the pattern in your father's house? What is the thing that has never changed? Sickness, famine in the family, bars, early death, people never rising, anger that runs in the blood, marriages that always scatter. And now look at your dream. Look at the house in it. If the house is broken, then the pattern in your family line has a root. And it is not a curse from heaven. It came from somewhere. It was planted and it must be broken deliberately, not by shouting, but by standing at your roots and closing the door.
So before we go on, pray these three prayers with me. Say them out loud.
Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask you to open the eyes of my understanding. Show me the true condition of my foundation and show me where it began. In the name of Jesus, Father, I break every pattern, every inherited failure, every repeated sickness, every repeated poverty, every repeated loss that has run in my family line from generation to generation. I cut it off at my roots. It will not pass to my children in the name of Jesus.
Father, I reject every evil inheritance handed down to me through my father's house and my mother's house. I renounce it. I receive a new foundation in Christ. I am built on the rock and the gates of hell shall not prevail against me in the name of Jesus.
Point two: who is waiting for you in that house. The second thing to look at is who is inside? Because when you dream of the childhood home, you are not alone. There are people in there and who they are tells you everything. Tell me in that dream, is your late mother inside? Is your late father sitting in the parlor? Is your grandmother cooking? Is your grand uncle calling you to come and sit down? Are there people you know that are dead and yet in the dream they are alive and well and talking to you?
I want you to listen very carefully to me. Now this is the reason so many people wake up from these dreams tired. When I was in that world, we did not have to visit some people. Some people came to us because their own line was already connected. They were already having meetings with them at night and they did not even know. They would call it a dream. We would call it attendance.
There was a woman. Her name was Oz. She was a hardworking woman. She sold fabric. She had three children. And every month she would dream the same thing. She would be in her grandmother's kitchen in the old compound. Her grandmother would be cooking. Her grandmother would serve her food in a clay bowl and say, "Come and eat. It is for you." And every time Oz ate in that dream, she would wake up with a heaviness she could not describe. Her body would be weak. Her business would slow down. And at that moment something would go wrong with one of her children.
She never discussed it with anybody because who do you tell that your dead grandmother is feeding you in a dream? When she finally opened up to me, I asked her one question. "Oz, in that dream, do you ever ask her what the food is for?" She said, "No, she is my grandmother. She loves me."
And I said, "Oh, in that house that is not your grandmother. That is a covenant that looks like your grandmother. That is the hardest thing I have to tell you today. Not everybody who appears in your dream as a relative is still your relative."
In that world, we use the dead. We use the dead because the dead do not argue. They do not feel pity the way the living do. And you will eat from the hand of your own grandmother before you will eat from the hand of a stranger. That is why they come in that form. And it is not always food. Sometimes they come to ask for something. Sometimes they come to tell you to do something for the family. Sometimes they come to hand you something. Sometimes they just stand and watch you and you wake up drained.
The Bible is very clear about this. And I want you to hear the verse properly. says that anyone who conjures the dead is an abomination to the Lord. That verse is not just about people who visit a shrine to speak to the dead. It is about a whole traffic of contact between the living and the dead outside of God. And many people are inside that traffic without ever choosing it. It was chosen for them at their roots before they were born.
And notice something in the book of . The prophet cries out and says, "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens." Read that again. Our houses to aliens. That verse is about a house that should have belonged to the family occupied by people who had no right to it. The prophet was not talking about buildings. He was talking about a generation that had lost his place.
So here is the question I want you to ask about that dream in that house. Are you receiving or are you giving? Are you being fed or are you serving? Are you the child in the dream or are you the adult in the dream fixing things, cleaning, carrying water, running errands for people who are dead? Because if you are the one serving, then you are not dreaming. You are walking and you have been working for a long time without knowing it.
Let us pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus, I renounce every fellowship I have had with the dead, knowingly or unknowingly, in dreams or in the spirit. I am not part of that gathering, and I will not attend again in the name of Jesus.
Father, I reject and vomit out every food, every gift, every message, every instruction I received in the spirit realm from any spirit that is not your Holy Spirit. Let every effect of it be cancelled in my body, my mind, and my destiny in the name of Jesus.
Father, I break every covenant between me and my family line that was built on the dead. I declare that the God of the living is my God and I belong to him alone. Every road that held me to that house, let it be cut in the name of Jesus.
Point three: the returning road. The third thing to look at is the road. This is the one that most people do not notice, but it is the one that reveals the most. I want you to remember your dream properly. In that dream, did you try to leave the house? Did you walk to the gates? Did you get into a car? Did you start going somewhere else? And then what happened? Did the road bring you back? Did you find yourself standing in front of the same compound again?
Did you wake up knowing you were about to escape but the door would not open? Did you keep going round and round, leaving and returning, leaving and returning until you woke up tired and frustrated? There is a name for that and I am going to give it to you. We called it the returning road.
A person on the returning road is someone who has left in the natural but has never left in the spirit. They have moved to Lagos. They have moved to Abuja. They have changed churches. They have changed jobs. They have changed their phone number. They have moved house twice. But every night they go back. And when a person keeps returning in the spirit, the same thing happens in their life. They keep returning.
That is why you keep going back to the same problem, the same kind of man, the same kind of death, the same kind of failure, the same kind of business that collapses at the same stage. You are not repeating a mistake. You are repeating a journey. You keep driving down the same road.
There was a young man in Yubu. His name was Ify. He had a good job in Lagos. He had left Benin when he was 19 and never looked back. He was doing well, but he kept having this dream. He would be in his father's compound. He would open the gate. He would walk out. He would walk down the road. He would get to the junction. And then somehow he would look up and he would be standing in front of his father's gate again. Over and over in one night: open gate, walk, junction, back at the gate, open gate, walk, junction, back at the gate.
And in the same period, this was his life. He would get a new job, do well, and then lose the job. He would get a big contract, deliver it well, and then the payment will be cancelled. He would move to a new apartment, then have to move out again. Every year a reset. Every year back to the beginning. He was on the returning road. His body lived in Lagos. His spirit lived in Yuroy.
Now listen to me. The returning road is not a punishment. It is a sign. It means something at your root has a claim on you. It means your name is still in a register somewhere. And every time you climb, the register pulls you back to the level you were registered at. says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, not for lack of prayer, not for lack of fasting, for lack of knowledge." Because a man can fight for 20 years and never once fight the 10 that is actually holding him.
He will fight his neighbors. He will fight his wife. He will fight his boss. He will fight his village. And all along the thing holding him is a door at his root that he has never once closed. And here is the mercy in it. The moment you know the road, you can stop driving on it. So if this is you, hear this: stop fighting the road. Go back to the door. Go back to the register. Father, in the name of Jesus, pray that prayer.
I break every returning road in my life. Every cycle of progress and reset, every pattern of rising and falling back, every journey that leads me back to where I started, I terminate it tonight in the name of Jesus. Father, I withdraw my name from every register, every record, every register of the dead, every covenant book that has been holding my progress at the level I was registered. My name belongs to the Lamb's book of life. In the name of Jesus.
Father, I declare that I am moving forward and I will not come back. What I start will finish. What I build will stand. Where I go, I will stay and I will prosper. My road from today is a straight road in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Point four. The house no longer belongs to you. The fourth thing to look at is what the house has become and who is living in it. I want you to remember your dream in that house. Are there people inside that you do not know? Strangers, people who are not family? Is the house now a shop, a beer parlor, a hotel? Is somebody else living in your father's house and they will not leave? Has the compound been turned into a market? Are you standing at the gate and the gate looks different? Is there another family eating at your mother's table?
If this is what you are dreaming, then you need to sit down properly because this is one of the most serious signs there is. You are dreaming of occupancy. In that world, occupancy was a whole strategy. We did not always attack a person directly. Sometimes we went after the place because a person is only as strong as the ground they stand on. If you take the ground, the person will fall on their own.
I will tell you about a woman in Benin City near New Benin market. She is still alive, so I will not use her full name. I will call her Mrs. O. She had a big family compound that her grandfather built. Big land, big gates, the kind of compound that used to hold the whole family, brothers, cousins, grandparents, everybody. And for years, she kept having one dream. She would be standing at her grandfather's compound.
And in the dream, the compound had been turned into a beer parlor. People she did not know were drinking there. Music was playing. Somebody was selling food in her grandmother's kitchen and she would be standing at the gate shouting, "This is my father's house." And nobody would even look at her. They would just keep drinking.
Meanwhile, in her real life, this was happening. The family scattered. Her siblings stopped talking to each other. Two of her brothers died in the same year. The land was sold cheaply by one brother to a stranger. The compound was eventually knocked down. Her children moved to three different cities and none of them settled. Her own shop was demolished by the government. Everything her family had accumulated for a hundred years was gone. And nobody could point to the exact moment it left. But she knew because she had seen it in the dream first.
Listen to me. When strangers occupy your father's house in a dream, it means your inheritance has been hijacked. Not just money. Inheritance means your place, your position, your portion, your name, the thing that was supposed to be handed down to you. And notice that in the dream she was standing at the gate shouting and nobody listening. That is the worst part of it. She was locked out of her own place.
This is exactly what the prophet was talking about in Lamentations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. That verse is not poetry. It is a report and it sounds exactly like a dream.
But I want to give you hope because there is a version of this dream that is a promise. If you dream that you go into the house and the strangers run away. If you dream that you stand at the gate and the gate opens for you and the people inside are afraid of you. If you dream that you are taking back the keys, that is not a problem. That is a prophecy. That is God telling you your portion is coming back.
So which one are you dreaming? Are you standing outside the gate being ignored? Or are you walking in and taking your place? Because one is a warning and the other is a verdict in your favor.
Let us pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, I take back every portion, every inheritance, every place, every ground, every blessing that was stolen from me on my family line by strangers, by unknown hands, by occupying powers. I take it back now in the name of Jesus. Father, I command every strange occupant sitting on my inheritance to be removed. Every power eating from my father's table, every hand drinking from my portion, every presence enjoying what belongs to me. Leave now in the name of Jesus.
Father, I receive my keys back. I receive my gate back. I receive my place back. From today, my portion will answer to my name and no stranger will enjoy what belongs to me and my children in the name of Jesus.
Point five. You are renovating the house and that is the promise. The fifth thing to look at is the dream where you are fixing the house because there is another version of this dream and it is the most beautiful one in the whole list. In this dream, you are sweeping the compound. You are fixing the roof. You are painting the walls. You are repairing the gates. You are cleaning out a room that was full of dirt. You are buying the house back. Somebody is giving you the keys. You are locking the door behind you and walking away in peace. You are standing in that house and it is full of light and nobody strange is inside.
I want to tell you something and I want you to receive it. That dream is not just a dream. That dream is work. Your spirit is renovating your foundation. And what you do in the spirit in your sleep, God is confirming on the earth in your waking life.
There was a man in Ira. His name was Monday. He was a driver. He had been delivering other people's goods for 20 years. While his own life went nowhere, his father had died when he was a boy, and the family land had been taken by his uncles. He had nothing. He was not even bitter about it. He had just accepted that his portion was small.
And then he began to have a dream. Every week the same dream. He was in his late father's compound and he was sweeping, just sweeping, clearing grass, taking away rubbish, opening the windows and it went on for months. He came and asked me if it was a bad dream. And I told him the truth. I said, "Monday, that is not a bad dream. That is the beginning of restoration. Do not stop. Do not just dream it. Do it in prayer. Go and stand on that land in prayer. Claim it. Thank God for it before you see it."
He did. He started praying at that compound once a month. He fasted. He forgave his uncles. He forgave them properly. Not with his mouth, but with his heart. And within 2 years, everything shifted. His uncles began to worry among themselves. One of them came to him and said, "Come and take your father's part. We do not want trouble." He got the land. He built on it. His children finished school. His life changed.
And you know what happened to the dream? The dream changed. He no longer dreamt of sweeping. He dreamt of standing in the house with the roof finished and light inside.
I want you to hear the verse for this. says, "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." That is a promise for the person whose dream shows them renovating. And notice how practical God is in that verse. The renovation of a ruined place and the restoration of a family line are in the same sentence because that is exactly what it is.
So do not sleep on that dream. It is an instruction. When you dream that you are cleaning that house, that is your spirit being told what to do. Get on your knees and do it in the spirit. Take back the ground at your roots. Pray over your family name. Forgive your father. Forgive your mother. Forgive the relatives who took what belonged to your family because forgiveness is the only way you can carry the keys home without carrying a wound home.
And here is the last thing I will say on this. Do not despise a small beginning. If all you can do is clean one room in the dream, clean one room. God will meet you in that room and he will build from there.
Let us pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, I receive every renovation, every restoration, every rebuilding you are doing at the root of my life. I align myself with it. I will not resist what you are repairing in the name of Jesus. Father, I forgive my father. I forgive my mother. I forgive every relative who took what belonged to my family. I release them fully so that I can carry my portion without a wound. In the name of Jesus.
Father, I declare that I am the repairer of the breach. I raise up the foundation of my family line from my life. A new pattern begins. Generations after me will not suffer what I suffer. It ends with me in the name of Jesus.
Now, let me close quickly because I have said what I came to say. But before I go, let me say three things briefly.
First, do not be afraid of these dreams. Fear is a trap. A dream is a report, not a sentence. A report tells you what is happening. And now that you know what is happening, you can pray about it deliberately instead of praying in circles.
Second, write them down. Get a notebook and keep it by your bed. Every morning, write what you saw, even if it is small. Within one month, you will see the pattern and the pattern will tell you which door to close. A person who does not keep a record will fight for 10 years without ever knowing what they are fighting.
Third, if you are struggling with fear or heaviness that will not lift. If you cannot sleep and it has gone on for months, please see a doctor as well as praying. There is no shame in it. God gives wisdom and wisdom uses every tool he has provided.
And finally, hear this. The whole reason this confession matters is not so you can identify an enemy. It is so you can go to the roots and close the door. You were not created to be the last chapter of an old family pattern. You were created to be the first chapter of a new one. Your childhood home is your foundation. So let the foundation be repaired.
I'm Eva Ete, former priestess in that circle. Now by mercy, a servant of the living God. If this has spoken to you, subscribe, share it, and type one word in the comments: "Repaired"—for you, not for me, because your own mouth is the first witness of what God is doing at your roots. Thank you for listening. Go and fix the foundation.
