Bishop David Oyedepo
- There are no poor countries but there are poor people in every country.
- There are no rich nations but there are rich people in every country.
- The Higher your LOVE for GOD, the HIGHER YOU FLY
- The more you serve Him, the more honour you secure.
21-Day Prayers and Fasting
Day 5
One of the vital mysteries of the Word is to inspire us, to stir us up to love God, to partner with God, to relate with God.
May the Word coming your way tonight enhance the quality of your partnership with Jesus.
May it inspire a higher order of relationship with God.
May it set you on your feet serving God with utmost delight in the name of Jesus Christ.
KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT PRAYER IS EVERY BELIEVER’S RESPONSIBILITY
The big question is ‘What is Kingdom Advancement Prayer?
- It is engaging the altar of prayer for the wellbeing of God’s Kingdom on earth, which implies the wellbeing of the saints, the enlargement of His Kingdom until everyone has the privilege of hearing and responding to the gospel (Matthew 24:14).
- It is praying until His house is filled and there is nowhere anyone can hang. That is a tall order.
It is about partnering with Jesus for the harvest of souls of multitudes that are in the valley of decision for He wants all men saved, not most men (1 Timothy 2:4). He wants all men come to the knowledge of the truth as it is available in Church.
The House of God is the lighthouse of the world.
Kingdom advancement prayer is about demonstration of our passion for the advancement, enlargement, expansion of the Kingdom of God on the earth, among other things, on the altar of prayer.
The disciples were bothered about what Jesus was praying every day: every day, every time, ‘haba’
- Teach us the prayer you pray.
He smiled, “When ye pray…” : Worship the Father and then first, ‘Thy Kingdom come’
Matthew 6:33
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done on earth:
What’s your will? Not wishing that any should perish, that all should come to repentance.
Nobody ever gets engrossed with this at a loss.
God is not looking for who to use, but who to bless.
God is not looking for who to disgrace, but who engrace into new realms of breakthroughs.
God is not looking for who to shame, but who to honour.
This is every believer’s responsibility. Men, not Pastors, Teachers, Evangelists ought always to pray (Luke 18:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:17). It applies to every child of God. Not just that, it is said to be the priority of a flourishing prayer life.
Your prayer altar will never run dry again!
It’s not 21 days in a year, it is praying without ceasing.
I’ve tried to look back, I was asking myself questions and I write everything including what I ask myself.
“You’ve gone on quite a number of Prayer Expeditions with fastings, what exactly do you pray?” : I asked myself that question.
We are before the Most High God right now, I’ve never seen myself on a Prayer Mission, ‘Oh God, give me breakthrough that I will use to torment all these people; Give me a house”
Is it wrong? No, I just found a better way that will add the kind of house I cannot imagine for myself.
Is it wrong to pray for a house; is it wrong to pray for a car? No.
Whatever you desire, when you pray, believe, He will give it to you, but He is able to give you more than you are able to ask or think when you obey His commandments, in return for your obedience (Ephesians 3:20).
One of my sons came from the foreign field and came to our home in Gowon Estate: Haah, he said, ‘Sir, this must be a dream come true.’
I said: I didn’t dream. I was so dreamless about it that until when the house was completed that I said, ‘where is my room?’
They said: Haah, you would have put the bathroom there but we have finished.
The time to say this is my room and yet that’s my field, I didn’t have.
- If you make Kingdom priority your focus this year, God will over decorate you.
There was a particular year when Isaac sowed in the land. If you will invest your life this year, in seeking the advancement of the Kingdom of God as a priority, God will daze you with surprises that will keep you surprised.
It’s one thing for others around to be surprised at what’s happening in your life than for you to be saying, ‘is it true? What is this? Can this be true? Am I the one sitting down or somebody else?’ - That’s the kind you will hit this year.
This will help you a lot in your relationship with God.
He is not looking for who to molest, He is looking for who to make.
Matthew 4:19
Follow Me and I will MAKE You: what your efforts, skill and experience can never make of you.
Follow what I tell you to do and I will make you a wonder to your world and to generations after you.
There are many people that they died and buried them has not stopped them from living.
There are men and women who die and are still speaking. They are teaching the living. Their lives are directing the steps of the living yet they are said to be dead.
That’s the class you belong to.
- Your footprints shall be left on the sands of time before you leave here.
…our petty needs are real but what makes them a walk over is Matthew chapter 6 verse 33.
- You won’t have to struggle for survival anymore.
Just pray for a heart for God. You will mind the things of God more than you mind the things of yourself (Matthew 22:37, 40).
All deliverables in the Kingdom are from that platform.
That is the first and great commandment which makes first citizens of the earth and great names that generations will not forget.
Keep praying for increasing love for God so you can know the length, breadth, depth, height of His love and be filled with His fullness which is the ultimate of breakthroughs in life (Ephesians 3:18-19).
The earth trembles at your instance when you succeed in getting filled with all His fullness (Psalm 99:1). Maybe some of us are 10 percent filled, 3 percent filled: just walk at growing in love on the altar of prayer (Ephesians 3:17-19).
You don’t struggle with God’s presence (Psalm 114:3).
When God’s presence fills your heart, trouble trembles at your instance.
You can’t love Him without serving Him and you can’t serve Him beyond how much you love Him.
Kingdom advancement prayer is a mystery of the Kingdom that makes first class citizens of the earth any day, any time and anywhere.
There are no poor countries but there are poor people in every country.
There are no rich nations but there are rich people in every country.
It’s not about where you are, it’s about where you stand with God.
- It will be clear that you have found the truth.
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