Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland
- We are set for the planting 9,250 Rural Churches in Nigeria… we have all it takes to start everything.
- It is not what you earn that launches you to the realm of financial fortune, it is where you stand in the covenant!
“There is something going on in the Body of Christ, it is what I call Gospel Merchandise. They don’t buy this thing (Apostolic Grace) with money, no: it is a genuine crave and with a genuine motive.”
RECEIVING THE IMPARTATION OF GRACE
Gifts and grace are the same (Romans 1:11, Philippians 1:7). Every grace on this Commission is available for collection Today. When you are on board any flight going anywhere, whatever is served on that flight is your right, it is covered by your ticket.
You can call the air hostess anyhow, you can tell him or her, “I need tea, green tea, brown tea; I need cracker biscuits.” While he is going, you can say, “come back please, I need some little cake.” It is your right, he can frown. That is, it is paid for.
You will see a number of people at the International Airport who have never seen the inside of a plane, but they are there every day. They know the flight going to anywhere, but they have never been out of the shores of this country once. A number of them are touts, some are selling, but they’ve never been on board. You are not entitled to any service until you are on board. They don’t come to serve people that are selling, “yes, you have been selling here for long, this is what we are serving on the flight today.” You have to be on board.
The reason why the grace upon this Commission is not manifesting in many people’s life is they are not on board.
They just enjoy the choir singing, they enjoy good grammar from pastors, but they are not on board.
There are many in Church today that are not members of God’s own family, they are not members of God’s own household; but they are there every day, they are there before the Pastors arrive.
Get on board, salvation is not an ideology, it is an experience. GET ON BOARD!
- DON’T JUST BE ENTERTAINED, BE IMPARTED!
- Get On Board: this thing works. People on your right, on your left have experiences with God.
- Get on board! Don’t roam around the international airport area. Get on board.
- You can’t experience anything on the flight except you are on board.
The first time I got to Canada, I was wondering what they were teaching us about the perils of Canada. I discovered those teachers were never there. It was different from what they taught us, too different: they have not experienced it. - Information and experience are not the same.
You are in Church, you are stealing, you are changing books, you are defrauding, is that it? No!
You come out of Church, one minute, nobody would know that you went to Church: the language of your mouth, the way you think, the way you talk does not even show you heard anything.
You can’t experience God that way.
Many are not in church, they just attend: it’s like a club, “men, we need to go there today, we have our services one, two, three, four…” BUT NO MORE. - This will mark the dawning of a new day in everyone’s life.
- Whatever hand of God you see on another person is available to you, if you will stand in the same place. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation including your nation where you live, everyone that walks uprightly is equally accepted with Him (Acts 10:34-35).
It is also interesting to know that every grace upon God’s Apostles and Prophets is what flows through the mandate given to them. The oil upon the head of Aaron (Psalm 133:1-2). Take heed to know the state of your flock because the sheep are for your clothing, so the flock is the clothing of the priest; so the oil upon the head of the Priest is the one that runs to the flock.
The grace you see on this Commission is the grace that flows through the head of God’s Apostles and Prophets. It flows into the mandate that they carry. The grace upon the Commission is an evidence of the grace that flows through the Apostle that God has sent over it.
Watch: we have never suffered a setback in this Commission.
We will be 40 years in May: we have never begged from any source.
- Begging ends in your life today!
When I say, “we have”: I am talking about the Church. I have never begged since Jesus called: It is grace, it is not expertise, it is not strength, it is not experience. - That grace comes upon your life today.
We have never heard an evil report from this altar. So evil stays away from our territory.
Proverbs 27:23 - The Prophetic Mantle Impartation service of today, will deliver grace that is upon this Commission that is not manifesting in your life upon you.
WHAT IS IMPARTATION?
It is all about entering into the labour of another (John 4:37-38).
- I entered into the labour of Kenneth E. Hagin by a mystery of impartation.
- Elisha entered into the labour of Elijah by the mystery of impartation.
- You are entering into the labour of this Apostle bodily today. Amen. If you think you need it.
Do you know the reason why? You are not entitled to possess the grace that you do not covet (1 Corinthians 12:31). I craved for the grace upon Hagin with all craves. I couldn’t tell who sat on my right, who sat on my left on that trip. I could not remember the hotel that I stayed in and I remember a lot of things, but it wasn’t the hotel I came for: coming to prepare the room was a disturbance for me. I came for something and I got it. - Whatever you crave for Today, you will return with it.
He said, “get back from here”. Elisha: I will not get back (2 Kings 2:4, 9). He was craving something, he could not be deterred by the mockery of men, he got it. - You will get your own Today.
Something about empowerment is that it answers only to a crave (Isaiah 55:1). There is no casual access. The grace you don’t covet, you are not entitled to possess. I went through the Acts of Apostles for 5 days: sir, I was floating in the air.
“Lord, I want an experience of Pentecost”: I was invited to a meeting in the course of that session, I couldn’t tell how I floated to the back of the hall. I floated, I don’t think I walked. By the time I got to the back, they were not turning back, when I turned back, I saw them backing me, “oh, I have got to the back.”
You cannot access power without a crave. It’s not just mantle: “mantle on my head, Yes, thank You God, I got mantle again.”
When that thing hit me in Tulsa, I burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably in a crowd. We are talking about power, we are not talking about story. - Somebody’s story must change here today.
- How many are on board this flight? Whatever obtains here is your right! And you are going home with it today. Whatever obtains in this house is your right!
The 70 elders entered into the labour of Moses; they prophesied and bore the burden with him (Numbers 11:16-17, 25). Same grace, they stepped into Moses’ shoes while he was here.
- That is what is happening to you Today.
Grace is what makes the difference in the Kingdom; it is not power, it is not strength. It is grace (1 Corinthians 15:9-10). The grace that was given him (Paul) was not in vain because, “I give it value by doing what is expected of me, I laboured more abundantly than they all” (1 Corinthians 15:10).
Every grace upon God’s Apostle is freely available to anyone that genuinely craves for it (Matthew 10:8).
There is something going on in the Body of Christ, it is what I call Gospel Merchandise: you give, I buy into your anointing. It is a lie, it doesn’t work. I didn’t give Hagin one dime when I took the Mantle from him. They don’t buy this thing with money, no: it is a genuine crave and with a genuine motive.
I heard some things this week: someone came to me, he is a pastor. He said, he has been following me for years.
I said: Praise God.
He said: I appeared to him and said, “bring an offering and I will lay hands on him.”
I said: it is not me. Never! I said, “kneel down.” I laid hands on him.
I said, “take that offering and give it to the Lord or give it to the poor.” It is not me who told you to bring an offering and will lay hands on you.
You say, “how much did he bring?” I don’t check such things. I didn’t touch it. I laid hands on him.
They don’t sell these things. All this, “I buy into the anointing.” It is all jamboree, they don’t have any scriptural basis.
He said, “your money perish with” (Acts 8:20). What nonsense money are you carrying about?
All these games: they won’t work, they don’t work. You find those who are doing it, it is not working for them.
Go for what works. - Today is your day. Every grace you see on this Commission today is freely available to you if you are genuinely on board with Jesus and on board with this Commission. It is freely available to you. God has no special favourites, we are all equally favoured in the sight of God, we are all accepted in the Beloved. Today is your day.
- We don’t cry to see things done: YOU WILL NOT CRY TO SEE THINGS DONE ANYMORE IN YOUR LIFE.
WHAT IS IN THE PROPHETIC MANTLE?
A mantle is any clothing material taken from the hand of God’s Apostles and Prophets for the purpose of transmission of spiritual virtues. They took from Paul handkerchiefs and aprons to them that were sick (Acts 19:11-12). Any clothing material taken from the hand of God’s Apostles and Prophets for the purpose of transmission of virtue is what is called a prophetic mantle.
Today, all across our Churches, across the 6 continents of the world, they are all having an Impartation Service: all those things, I laid hands on for Shiloh and deployed to those places for the purpose of transmission of spiritual values.
- Today, every evil spirit tormenting any area of anyone’s life must get out of there. Amen.
- Today, strange healings and deliverances will take place here.
Whatever handkerchief you brought, as you touch that with this one, the virtue is transmitted and will deliver the same order of results.
They touched the hem of His garment because the anointing upon the head flows down through the garment and the flow of blood stopped (Luke 8:44, Matthew 14:36).
Any clothing material taken from an Apostle or a Prophet, not a self-styled Apostle, “I am an Apostle.” They don’t announce it, it announces itself: Grace.
Elisha took the mantle that fell from Elijah; smote the water and the water parted hither and thither (2 Kings 2:14). Whatever was working in the life of Elijah began to work through his mantle that fell from him. - Whatever clears the way for this Commission and His Apostle begins to clear the way for you from now.
We should all expect the release of the multi-faceted grace upon this Commission. It’s everywhere, it is all grace.
What grace can we identify today in this Commission today?
Open up to receive it:
- Grace for tireless engagement in Kingdom Advancement endeavours which bring believers into favour with God. That’s where our favour comes from.
Every day: God save the lost.
Every day: God establish the new converts in the faith.
Everyday: Let no one miss Heaven among your people
Grace for tireless engagement in Kingdom Advancement endeavours which bring believers into favour with God, unending favour: seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things that others are dying to get shall be added to you (Matthew 6:33).
We have been running around since He delivered the mandate, “COME AND SEE” since 1984 and we are still running today.
Grace for tireless engagement in Kingdom Advancement bring believers into favour with God (Psalm 102:13-15).
- Fearful favour that makes kings tremble is coming your way.
- Grace for delightsome obedience which is gateway to generational blessings. You are not under pressure, you are not being coerced, you just enjoy obeying His instructions even when they look ‘one kind’.
For instance, we came to this forest, a forest located in a place going nowhere at His commandment, but with delight, no tension, “oh God, what if it does not work, what will I say.” NO.
You (God) said it, it is done. There are people God speaks to, He doesn’t concern Himself whether he will do it or not; He knows he will do it (Genesis 18:19). God knows you.
Sir, I came to this place not minding who comes or does not come. I didn’t think of it once. I just enjoyed it. There was no private discussion with my wife, about what do think about going somewhere: No, I had gone. I have gone sir.
Delightsome Obedience.
When He said, “get down to Lagos”: not in the programme, everything in Kaduna was contrary. We were looking for where to locate ourselves. Am I not running away, won’t they think I am running away? They can think anything, what God says is final. Anybody can think anything, you can think anything.
We have a home in town, I was not there for 2 years! There was security, gardener: 2 years I wasn’t there. I didn’t think about it.
- Grace for delightsome obedience to God and His instructions that come to you in your private devotions, meditations, as you hear the Word in Church, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 112:1-3
For those who are delighted in His commandments, they enter into realms of generational blessings, that’s where you are entering into.
Abraham: Delightsome obedience. No tension. You are carrying your son to sacrifice, you didn’t wake up your wife to say, “excuse me, God told me something ohh, I am on my way now.” The wife will stone you.
Delightsome: see the generational blessing that came along. That’s where you are entering into.
I don’t negotiate God’s instruction with anybody in the world. No, it is beyond you and it is beyond me. Your input is unnecessary. Absolutely so. - From today, your delight in obeying God will be for life.
Do you know what it means to move the Church from Capernaum, Iyana Ipaja (Lagos State) to this forest, without a branch because He said one Church and yet He confirmed His Word. God never leads backward, He leads forward. - Every commandment is God showing you the way forward, your next level: You won’t miss it in Jesus name.
- Grace for absolute confidence in God which keep believers in command of the supernatural.
- That grace is coming upon you Today.
- Anything that you see that is marvellous in your sight, it is the grace of God at work.
He said, you have two eyes: can you make one to look up and another to look down. You can try it, try it where you are and it didn’t work. He (God) said, anytime you are looking unto man, never claim to be looking unto Me, but if you fix your eyes on Me, you will never be ashamed (Psalm 34:5). 6th of September 1983, it was in a fast: from that day on till tomorrow sir, I’ve never considered me or anybody on this earth in respect to whatever God says He wants to do.
I said, we as a Church never put a dime in planting 10, 000 Churches last year and yet He did it. Maybe you don’t know the weight of it: 10,000 Houses, 10,000 Meeting Places. - Looking here and there ends in your life today (Psalm 34:5).
I’ve told you this before: whatever God cannot do in my life, let it remain undone. Whatever God cannot give me, may I never have it. Wherever God cannot take me to, may I never get there. - May you never get to where God cannot reach you again.
- May you never get to where God can never reach you again.
- Thank God for where we are, it is too temporal to miss your eternal place of rest. It is too temporal to sell off for your eternal place of rest. You must make Heaven.
The good news is that, there is nothing on this earth that God cannot give to His people (Deuteronomy 28:1). Just obey what I tell you to do, I will set you on high above all nations of the earth. - That’s where you are going.
When I take your hand, I can only lift you to where my hand can reach. But when the everlasting arm takes you, He throws you to everlasting heights. - That’s where He is taking you this year.
I can’t take you beyond where my hand can reach but by a mighty hand, an outstretched arm, He picked Israel, He picked Israel out of Egypt (Deuteronomy 26:8). All the hosts of Israel went up out of Egypt – one night. He is able to take all of us out one day.
We are here as products of absolute confidence in God which empowers the believer to command the supernatural.
We are set for Rural Church and whatever is restricting us is to find the land as we have in a number of places, but we have all it takes to start everything. I am not telling you any story…Awesome God.
I thought I knew Him (God), now I know that I don’t know much about Him (1 Corinthians 8:2). Now, I know that I don’t know anything about Him. He is too awesome.
By His Grace, we are starting THE ARK Project this Year. OUR 100,000 SEAT CAPACITY SANCTUARY.
A new campus has been built for Faith Academy: they are resuming there tomorrow.
It is a multi-billion project. It will match any campus of a university in Nigeria, by the grace of God. Was any offering raised for it? No. Don’t play with God.
*This year, God will surprise every area of your life.
Just to know what Grace you are going home today: YOUR REST HAS COME.
- Grace for tireless commitment to praying Kingdom Advancement prayers which continues to deliver open rewards. God who sees your prayer labour in secret rewards you with open favour outside (Matthew 6:6).
Grace for tireless commitment to praying Kingdom Advancement prayers which usher believers into their realms of open rewards (Matthew 6:6, 9-10, 17-18).
- Grace to be addicted to praying Kingdom Advancement prayers that usher believers into the realm of open rewards, receive it TODAY, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- Grace for tireless engagement with the covenant of abundance which bring believers into realms of financial fortune: receive it now.
We had a service 1984 where our offering was 10 Naira. How many have heard the story before? Somebody in Church in Kaduna then had a need: the need was 10 Naira, so we gave him the tithe and the offering to go on a Sunday morning; we have remained so up till now. We didn’t not only service Nigeria during COVID-19 lock down, we serviced 14 other nations. Our Church is a tithing Church.
- Grace for tireless commitment to the covenant of abundance which bring believers into the realm of financial fortune, receive it now. Many people’s story is changing this morning. He said, as you abound in everything, see that you abound in this grace also (2 Corinthians 8:7). There is the giving grace, receive that giving grace this morning, in the name of Jesus.
It is not what you earn that launches you to the realm of financial fortune, it is where you stand in the covenant!
The first paycheck of John D Rockefeller was 7 dollars 50 cents. He began his tithing adventure from 7 dollars 50 cents a day from that level and kept it; kept growing. It is this hit and run that drives people off. Be consistent. - Grace for consistency in our commitment to the covenant of abundance will always launch any believer to the realms of financial fortune.
That brought our Ministry to where we are today. During the bomb blast in Ikeja years ago, what we gave, Red Cross said, they only saw that during the Civil War: what this Church gave to those who were affected. That’s how we got here. One thing we have never prayed for here is money.
You have been here, you saw all the prayer intercessory guideline, did you see money there?
You have been here, since the Kaduna days, did you ever see money? When we were 10, did you lift up your hands, “oh God, send us money”
Covenant practice puts us in command of financial resources. When you are consistently consistent. Not begging up and down; bowing under unbelievers…nonsense.
And any other grace, you see signs and wonders every day (Isaiah 8:18).
Remember the gifts and callings of God are without repentance (Romans 11:29). We have seen many dead raised back to life in this Church, that grace is going home with you today.
We have seen impossible cases bow in this Church, that is going home with you today.
Elisha died and was buried; they threw a dead body into that place when they sighted an army coming against them, when the dead body touched the dry bones of Elisha, it revived and stood up on his feet (2 Kings 13:21). Even the gift was speaking in his bones.
- The grace upon this Commission will speak in your life today. In the name of Jesus.
COVENANT DAY OF ALL-ROUND REST
We must recognise that all-round rest is the will of God for the believer (Hebrews 4:3; Matthew 11:28-29; John 14:27). Rest is your right in redemption, the question is how do I get there?
- Be Born again: until you are a Believer, you are not entitled to rest.
- Settle with God and in His House (Obadiah 1:17, 2 Samuel 7:10). Take cover in the House of God against the assault of the wicked. Consistently so, don’t be a passerby, don’t be someone running around an international airport, be part of it (Psalm 132:13-16; Psalm 65:4). Stay committed in appearing in God’s presence: there you go from strength to strength, you don’t go down, you keep going higher and higher in life.
- Enter into a covenant to serve God as Judah did under King Asa (2 Chronicles 15:12-15)
As long as you retain your place in the covenant of serving God with all your heart and with the whole of your desire, your round about rest is guaranteed by God.
God gave them (Judah) rest round about, because they covenanted to be sold out to God and He gave them rest round about in return. As long as they kept that covenant, their round about rest was intact.
There was no war for a spate of 20 years until King Asa broke the covenant (2 Chronicles 15:19). You won’t break the covenant.
Serving God pays! How many believe that? It pays the most, it pays the unmatchable. Serving God pays, you will experience that this year in strange dimensions, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- You never can tell the ways of God who makes all things (Ecclesiastes 11:5). He said, “I will give them a feast for one month.”
Moses said, sir I don’t think you know how many people I have. There are 600,000 foot soldiers and you say, you will make them a feast of flesh for one month.
God said: Moses, you don’t know me.
Moses: If you gather all the fish in the sea, can it satisfy them?
He said: Moses, keep quiet, you don’t know me. What you saw was not Me, it was a mirage. You don’t understand Me.
One wind blew, wind! Moses thought that God was going to fish and close down all the poultry farms. One wind blew and brought quails (Numbers 11:31).
You don’t know God, I don’t know Him: God is in His own class (Romans 11:33). - Just do what He tells you to do, leave the remaining to Him. Enter into a covenant today, to serve Him. I did that 1976, I am enjoying it forever. My life has very proper bearing, I could see a future in my future because God never lies (Matthew 6:33).
- Today as this Mantle touches you, a new day dawns on your life. So shall it be.
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