CHoP – Covenant Hour of Prayer
- In the name of Jesus, God is crowning this year for you with His goodness and its paths will keep dropping fatness for you in the precious name of Jesus.
- No one shall sorrow in closing this year. There shall be no evil report coming in your direction in the name of Jesus Christ. Every movement all through this festive period is covered by the Blood. There shall be no evil report from any quarters. Everyone within and outside the country will return back safely in the name of Jesus.
- The impact of Shiloh will begin to speak wherever anyone may be now and the year 2021 shall be a year to be much remembered.
ENGAGING THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING FOR FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY.
No anointed man or woman can effect fulfillment of prophecy. Whatever God says, only His hand has the capacity to perform. There is no Apostle or Prophet on this earth that has the capacity to bring God’s Word to pass. Whatever God speaks with His mouth, only His hand has the capacity to bring it to pass.
We must learn how to bring God in when it has to do with prophecies. Until God steps in, no prophecy ever sees the light of day (1 Kings 8:15). It takes the hand of God to fulfil the plan and purpose of God for our lives. Until we bring God in, we can’t have His hand.400 years had elapsed, God’s agenda to bring His people out was still farfetched until one day, God said, “I have seen the affliction of my people. I have heard their cry. They’ve turned to me. They were trying to get it done by themselves. They were watching the calendar, but they finally turned to me. I’ve heard their cry, therefore have I come down” (Exodus 3:7-10). Until God came down, the 400-year prophetic Word for them to be in Egypt will never see the light of day. God came down. “He brought them forth with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm…” (Deuteronomy 26:8). You can’t have somebody’s hand somewhere without having him there, so he has to be there before his hand can be there. His mighty hand came down with Him (God) because everybody goes about with his hand. Even if you are tired of waving your hand, can you leave it at home when you are going out? “This left hand has been so used, so wait, I’m coming” – your hand goes with you. Until God came down, His mighty hand could not come down that will bring them out.
It takes the mighty hand of God to fulfill the plan and purpose of God; we must just learn how to bring God’s hand. Now you wonder why we are thanking God all through the week? We’ve seen His hand, we want to retain his hand. All the prophetic themes that came forth during Shiloh, only the hand of God can bring it to pass, there is no other way; it takes praise to bring God down (Psalm 22:3).No matter how hard we pray, no fish will come to Faith Tabernacle for service, it can’t survive that environment. The most powerful fish in the ocean cannot survive that environment, it takes water to keep the fish alive. In the same vein, it takes praise to get God into your life. The more praiseful we are, the stronger His presence: Praise has to be there. The deeper the water, the larger the fishes, it is normal. You can’t find a dolphin in the streams behind the hostels of Covenant University. You can’t find it, you can only find Tilapia and Tadpoles…It takes praise to bring God into a man’s life and the midst of a people. That’s why He has made us a Praising Church since inception. When you become a Praising Believer, you carry God’s presence and so you’ll have His hand that will fulfill His Word in your life. Somebody asked me one day, “what do you think is the cost of this Youth Chapel, KHMS and Secretariat?” I said: you are going too far. I don’t know the cost of any one. If we did it, I will know because they’ll have to do it according to what we have on ground. If we did it, I would know but we didn’t do it. – You will see surprises in the year ahead. – The raw hand of God will be evident in every area of your life. – Your new Turnaround Identity will have practical expression. Everybody will know. That young family said, “we are not going to repeat this call, we must get it today. Is there any other outlet where the man will pass through so that my wife can stay in one and I will stay in one, but this trip, we are not going to repeat it” (documented testimony). They knew nobody here, if I see them on the streets, I don’t know them; they came to meet with Jesus and Jesus just chose to go through me to reach them, so it’s just like a microphone. I didn’t ask, “what’s your name sir? Where do you come from? How did you come? But here is a broken heart, “In the name of Jesus, it is settled”; so they left rejoicing: Triplets.- You will be surprised this year. – The year coming will be your year of greatest surprises as God begins to manifest His presence in your life by your permission: you have to bring Him in. All this complaining, murmuring will put God off. No. He needs our praise to survive our environment. So if you are not praiseful, you are saying, “God, we don’t need you”.- You won’t miss God.- No one here will miss God. – Don’t let joy breakers come near your environment. They get God off your back, they get God off your environment and that’s not safe for you. You can imagine if I was fighting somebody when I met those fellows (from today’s documented testimony). If I was fighting somebody from where I was coming from my office, “that I am going to deal with that man”; there is no way that thing will flow. No, it won’t flow.
May you never stop the flow of grace in your life. Keep those things off you, they are not part of baggage. Let the haters keep hating, you keep loving. Now what I am saying is this: you need God’s presence to see His Word come to pass in your life. It takes His hand to deliver His Word. If you won’t have Him, you can’t have His hand. Remember the Lord said, Israel would be in Egypt for 400 years. And now 400 years had passed and they were still engaging Political Pressure groups and all that stuff: No. There is no pressure group, no amount of population that can make it happen. It takes the hand of God and that hand of God, you will not miss. Paul and Silas were locked up in the Prison and we are told in scriptures that whosoever the Son of God has set free shall be free indeed (Acts 16:24, John 8:36). Now, they were in bondage indeed, so that Word had not been fulfilled. Paul said, “Silas you know what, until God comes down here, we can’t be free. We will die tomorrow. You understand what I am saying?”
Silas: Yes
Paul: Let’s sing. Hallelujah, Hallelujah praise the Lord Silas, sing aloud: HALLELUJAH, PRAISE THE LORD. Then God came down. How do I know? He said, “the Lord reigneth, let the earth tremble” (Psalm 99:1). God just stepped in and the foundation of the prison was shaken, every man’s bands were loosed, the prison doors were opened and they walked into dignified liberty (Acts 16:26-27). They invoked that prophetic Word by bringing God into their situation. You find their jailer saying, “sirs, what must I do…” they had become ‘Sirs’. He (Jailer) washed their wounds, got them into his jacuzzi and so they had their bath, had their towel and all that stuff: their dignity was redeemed, the Word was confirmed in their lives because they knew how to do it. Do you know why they didn’t run? Because they knew how to make it happen again. Otherwise, they would have ran. The Jailer… “No don’t kill yourself, we are here.” They knew how to do it again. If they didn’t know how to do it again, they would have run. Now you know what to do, make it your new lifestyle. You know what we are doing as a Church: make it your personal new lifestyle: Just celebrating God all the way. There is no single miracle anybody saw at Shiloh that was my hand. NO (Acts 19:11). I am speaking through the microphone, have you ever given thanks to the microphone this week, as addicted to thanksgiving as we are: “Father, thank you for the microphone, the microphone was such marvelous, did marvelously.” The microphone did nothing. It’s just a channel through which people hear, it didn’t contribute anything to it. That’s why we owe God thanks. When you see your life as it is an achievement, how did you wake up this morning? God. He didn’t sleep nor slumber, all the time we were snoring. All the time you were dreaming and travelling to your village and coming back. God didn’t sleep, He didn’t wink His eye. He just sat down, using hand fan to fan you, waiting for whosoever wants to destroy you all night. Then you woke up and said, “you know something, through out this year, God didn’t do anything because I don’t understand. I didn’t see any ‘Breaking Limit” Response: How did you wake up? You broke limits to wake up. There were pestilence moving about at noon day and arrows flying in the night and you still escaped without fighting. You are just sleeping and then you say, “What has God done?” God: Me, what have I done? I didn’t sleep. I sat with you all night. You were dead 7 times during the year, I didn’t let them bury you. Be Thankful, Be Praiseful, God is worthy of all praise. He is worthy of all adoration.
In conclusion, no Church under Heaven grows without thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the mystery every multiplication including the Church (Jeremiah 30:19).Jesus gave thanks for 5 loaves and 2 fishes; it multiplied supernaturally, God hasn’t changed. Nothing multiplies without a heart of thanksgiving. The way you grumble over your salary: that’s why it is not growing. You grumble over your house: that’s why nothing is changing there. “See this house, is this a house? I mean, I know where my colleagues are? Is this a house? Tell me now, is this a house?” You are harassing your wife as if she is the one…“People are building houses in this Church, is this a house? I’ve built this 2-bedroom house for the past 15 years, is this a house?” It is God’s fault who let you build a house at all, don’t let God regret blessing you. Give Him thanks. If you can just think deep enough what grace has made of you, you will be thankful till death.
We are who we are as individuals all by the grace of God. The One that holds your breath is the One that is worthy of celebration. Let everything that has breath, he may not have a suit, tie; let everything that has breath praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6). Then He will keep adding and adding and adding by grace to the breath that He has given you. Please understand that we will not change position until we embrace the mystery of thanksgiving. Multiplication answers to thanksgiving, they were praising God and He was adding to the Church daily such as to be saved. There is always an addition that comes when you are committed to celebrating the source of where you are; He keeps adding more and more to it.- We are going to experience unusual explosion of Church growth next year.- There shall be an outbreak of growth in the Cell system.- It will be said of this Church, “they have filled the whole country with their doctrine.” Every house will become a Liberation Centre in the name of Jesus Christ.- Your life will never see stagnation again. – The hand of God will keep changing your life from one level of glory to another beginning from now and all through the year 2021.How many want to see the raw hand of God in their lives? Thank Him for showing you how to secure His mighty hand by securing His presence with a heart of gratitude. You cannot be Grateful and not be Joyful. There is no genuine Thank You that does not come along with a smile. How many agree with that? When you see somebody with a long face (saying), “thank you”, you already know the meaning: I am not thanking you for anything. Any thanksgiving that is not accompanied with smiles, it is fake. You cannot be Grateful and not be Joyful. You cannot be Joyful and not be Praiseful You cannot be Songful and not be God-full God dwells in the praise of His people, it has to begin with gratitude. If you are not grateful, you can’t be joyful “Well, Papa said we should be grateful. Lord, I thank You. I thank You, I thank You. You know the way You have treated me Yourself. If not Papa said so, there is no way I can’t say ‘Thank You’ but I thank You, I thank You, I thank You. I thank You oooo. You know what I mean Lord, I thank You. You too, you know the meaning, I thank You.” Every thanksgiving that is not from the heart is fake. They call it, ‘a Heart of gratitude’ not a mouth. – How many are truly grateful to God for the year 2020?- Are you really grateful to God? Thank You for Grace that found me, thank You for Grace that saved my soul, thank You for the grace that has kept me on my feet, thank You for the Grace that put me on my feet up till now. From your heart: express your thanksgiving, express your gratitude.
Thanksgiving is fundamental to having any prayer concerning 2021 answered in your life. – You must thank Him adequately for 2020 before you are duly qualified to see His hand in 2021.- Has God been good to you? You better demonstrate that because I know when the year is ending, people are always counting what they want to see in 2021. – If you want to see anything at all, you’ll make a list of what you have seen and thank Him for it adequately. Then you have prepared the ground for what 2021 holds for you but it will be Your Year To Be Much Remembered. – It will be a year to be much remembered in your life, in the precious name of Jesus.
