- Aggressive Marketing is not pestering the lives of people but taking them up in prayers and enforcing their rescue on the altar of prayer.
- It demands intensive intercession for their total rescue and establishment in the faith.
- Out of the 68 people that were in the Powerhouse then, we have maximum 7 that are connected to this Ministry today.
- God is not a Democrat. No! You are tired, carry your luggage, somebody else takes your place.
- Every move of God moves His people forward.
*872 of my team’s new converts for the week were in Church last week Sunday.
*Make sure at least one person follows you to Church tomorrow.
My sincere prayer is that the grace to remain steadfast which is the only way to have a profitable, prosperous adventure with God, be granted each and everyone of us afresh Today.
1 Corinthians 15:58
-You will have a testimony. This Turnaround Year will answer in your life!!!!!!
-This Turnaround Year MUST answer in your life, in the name of Jesus Christ.
You will hardly see or hear a testimony without the Testifier having done something. Every miracle is a product of doing whatever He tells you to do.
“We have no wine”: Mary said, “Whatever He tells you to do, DO IT”
“Oh Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me”: Do you believe that I, the Son of man, am able to do this.
“Yes Lord”: Okay, according to your faith (Matthew 9:27-29).
I can’t go beyond your faith to reach out to you.
That woman said, “If I may touch the hem of His garment, I shall be made whole.” So she gathered herself and went through the crowd, in spite of her weakness, touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and immediately the flow of blood ceased (Luke 8:44-45).
What, somebody touched Me. Virtue is gone out of me: she came trembling, this is why I touched You, Jesus.
He said, “thy faith has been made thee whole.”
Everybody that has a testimony did something, did what was commanded, did what needed to be done to have it. You don’t sit down to have testimonies. Every testimony is a confirmation of our obedience. Every testimony is a confirmation of His Word which we have put to work. Every testimony.
They went forth, preached the Word, God also working with them confirming the Word with signs following (Mark 16:20). As the Americans will say, “there is no free lunch in life.”
That’s why the Bible says, “don’t be slothful” (Hebrews 6:12). You don’t go forward sitting down, you go forward taking steps.
Now somebody says, “what is for me in Church growth?” In the growth of the Church lies the glory of every engaging believer.
“I will multiply them so they shall not be few. I will also glorify them in the process so they shall not be mediocre” (Jeremiah 30:19).
That is the secret behind those dramatic change of story testimonies that we heard. They just got hooked up to Jesus, got into partnership with Him; so as He multiplies the Church, He glorifies the engaging ones.
“Their nobles shall be of themselves”: so He turns persons into nobles…for they engaged their hearts in their partnership with Me
Jeremiah 30:19-21
“Their children shall be as aforetime”: so it will impact on their children.
“I will punish all that oppress them”: because when I bless you, anyone who curses you I will curse (Jeremiah 30:20).
Some people thought they were serving me. A servant doesn’t have servants. Ask God when you meet Him when I started pursuing after souls for His Kingdom. Long, long before I ever knew that I would be a Pastor in my life. I worked my way into His Heart, I became God’s darling. Church Gist. You touch me, you touch the apple of His eye. I had no idea of being a Pastor, I’d been running crusades, open air crusades for souls to be saved since 1976.
In the expansion of His Kingdom lies the supernatural promotion of the saints.
In the growth of His Church lies the glory of believers that partner with Him.
No one can lift you like God will lift you. Any man you know, I don’t care who they may be, can only take you to where their hand can reach but when the everlasting arm of Jesus picks you up from far behind, from way out in the Prison, He throws you into the Palace without anybody finding out, “what is his profile?”
He has no profile: ex-convict, slave who became a rapist. All his antecedents forbid him to step the Palace but when the everlasting arm of God picked him (Joseph) up, a man who was already buried, he was dead. In fact, if they should see him in their village, they would stone because they would think it is his ghost. He had been buried long time about 13 years ago, to now see him appear, “Ahh! A ghost.” Those who sold him to slavery will be the ones to kill him, “we saw the ghost of Joseph.” So he was a dead man.
God took a ‘dead’ man and put him over the greatest Nation of those days.
-Something is about to happen to you.
Therefore, know that it is not serving a Ministry, a Church or a Leader; it is creating a future that no lifetime labour can secure and you have been seeing that all over.
“No interview, no seeing your face”: they say you are the one appointed (documented testimony).
How?
Family that has been separated for some time; Jesus brought them together like a dream of the night (documented testimony). Awesome God.
She said, “Matthew 6:33 is a bomb.” So when you throw in the camp of your enemies, it explodes on them and then you walk into freedom. Somebody’s story is changing!
The commandment to ‘Go’ is absolutely to your benefit and my benefit.
The commandment to go after souls, to see them saved and established in the Kingdom is absolutely to your benefit and my benefit.
You know as you step out, you graduate from being a believer to an ambassador for Christ, wrapped with Heaven’s immunity (2 Corinthians 5:20).
“Even devils are subject to us in your name”: Yes, you are my ambassadors (Luke 10:19).
You think police can just arrest an ambassador? No. Demons will just be looking at you, “if you were not an ambassador, today I would have dealt with you”, but they can’t.
Not every believer is a believer, there are Ambassadorial Believers with Heavenly security around them, with power over all the powers of their enemies, because they are ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17-20).
Every new creature that is engaging in reconciling the world back to God is recognised as an ambassador for Christ.
Like it was mentioned yesterday, marketing is a must for any product to sell. No matter the quality of a product, it takes marketing to enhance the sales thereof. Most manufacturers worldwide have heavy votes for marketing their products. I grew up to see Coca-Cola adverts on billboards, in every nation, you’ll find them. You can’t tell how much they pay, when they stop it, other drinks will take over and then they go extinct.
Marketing: A must for any product to keep making waves in the market, but aggressive marketing is key to making great sales. With marketing, we make sales; with aggressive marketing, we make Great Sales.
This aggression is not pestering the lives of people but taking them up in prayers and enforcing their rescue on the altar of prayer.
We have the testimony of a woman that was led to Christ and the Soul Winner said to her, “In the name of Jesus, very soon your house will become a house fellowship (center).”
She said, “don’t go to that area. My husband is a scholar in the Islamic religion. That can’t happen.”
He went for a 3-day prayers and fasting: the husband was the one who said, “I am going with you to Church on Sunday.” He came here: saved; all members of their family saved. They are solid members of this Church today.
That is the aggressiveness in the marketing that we do. Church Gist. It is not pestering the life of an individual, it is breaking the hold on him, breaking the hold of the wicked off his life so he can be rescued for salvation.
Why? When a strong man fully armed keeps his goods, his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he takes from him all his armour wherein he trusts and then let go his captives (Luke 11:21-22). That is where the aggressiveness comes in.
“Before she travailed, she brought forth. Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child” (Isaiah 66:7-8).
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day or a nation born at once? But as soon as Zion travailed Aggressively in prayers, she brought forth her children.
Remember the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent takes it by force (Matthew 11:12). That force is the force of faith and we engage with that force on the altar of prayer to quench all the fiery darts of the devil so as to let go those captives of the powers of darkness.
Aggressive Marketing goes beyond talking to people on the phone, goes beyond reminding them of Services; it demands intensive intercession for their total rescue and establishment in the faith.
-It is your turn for a change of story.
Get on the Go and Stay on the Go: something beyond your wildest imagination is awaiting you!!!
We must keep sowing the seed of the Word as we reach out to the lost and watering the same by prayers if we must continue to experience supernatural church growth.
Paul plants, Apollos waters: it is not enough to plant, we must go ahead to water, otherwise the seed will die in the ground (1 Corinthians 3:6).
Going about, reaching out to them and witnessing is planting the seed of the Word (Luke 8:11).
Watering is praying them to be saved and established in the faith.
The two must go hand in hand for us to see increase and to continue to see increase. That shall be our portion!
How will I get time for this? You can’t have a heart for God and not have time for Him.
Wherever your treasure is there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:21). Church Gist. You can’t truly have a heart for God and not have time for Him.
So the man, David, King of Israel, President of the Nation was in prayers 3 times a day (Psalm 55:17). He was in praise 7 times a day (Psalm 119:164). He was ever unashamed to share the testimony of the Lord among kings (Psalm 119:46).
In spite of his heavy responsibility, he had time: 3 times a day in prayers, 7 times a day in praise and sharing testimonies with other kings.
Who was David? A man with a heart for God. When you hear, “a man after God’s heart”, it simply means a man with a heart for God.
Everything in Babylon revolved around Daniel. Everything! Yet he prayed his prayers 3 times a day as he did aforetime (Daniel 6:10). That was his schedule: 3 times in God’s presence, a day.
You can’t have a heart for God and not have time for Him.
Somebody once asked me, “how did you get time to read?”
I said, “well, how do you get time to eat?”
“Oh you see, my office. My office, my office”: people in your class go to the drinking bar every day. When they don’t see them, they call them, “Hello Sir, are you not coming again?”
Response: I am coming. I am just rushing out to finish a meeting now. He goes every day, there is no timetable, there is no agenda. You will just sit down in the drinking bar, “Yes, one more bottle. Bring me some little gin” and you are in the same group. He is a Group Managing Director like you but that is where he does his group every day. He has time for it because he has a heart for it. That makes all the difference.
My prayer again is that grace to remain on the go in your partnership with Christ be released upon your life. May that grace be released upon your life.
-This will be a Year with a difference in your life in the name of Jesus.
Prayer: Ask God for grace, for steadfastness, for continuity, for undying passion to see souls saved and established in the faith. Pray that prayer over your life.
No matter how long your membership, it will never weigh what your stewardship weighs. You are not rewarded for membership; everyone shall be rewarded according to his own labour. It is stewardship that entitles believers to rewards, not membership. One of our Pastors testified that he has been part of this Commission for 8 years but what broke forth in 3 months of engagement was worth far much more than his 8 years of membership.
God does not reward membership, He does not reward ordination, He does not reward ‘Foundership’. There are many Founders who are confounded, who are beggars. God rewards stewardship (Malachi 3:17-18).
“Thou shall serve the Lord your God and He shall bless in response to your service. I will take sickness away from you, He said” (Exodus 23:25).
If they obey and serve Him Not if they obey and attend Service: If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures (Job 36:11).
When a believer becomes a servant at heart, it shows in all that he does.
Come May, we are 40 years in this Ministry and I can tell you out of the 68 people that were in the Powerhouse then, we have maximum 7 that are connected to this Ministry today. God is not a Democrat. No! You are tired, carry your luggage, somebody else takes your place. Very simple.
- May no man take your crown. God has a crown for you, you won’t die in the Prison.
- No matter the state of your life now, like He picked up Joseph from far behind to the fore in front, God will change your story.
Prayer: God I need your help. You gave your help to Paul, he continued to the end. I need your help. Send me your help Jesus.
Tomorrow’s service as we have prayed, every tension, every threatened service, every gruesome separation shall be visited for a turnaround.
-Every spell of marital delay shall be broken.
-Every intruder of the wicked into anyone’s family shall be exposed and cast out.
-Everyone shall find rest.
-The storm in every home shall be over.
Stretch forth your hands and release the breath of the Holy Ghost upon this flier: those who already have it and those who will have it today. Release the breath of the Holy Ghost that will draft them in here to find answers to their bugging questions.
Holy Ghost, breathe upon these materials. Let it bring about massive convictions and conversions to the glory and praise of your name.
We have our Special Miracle Service: it now holds every Sunday.
Father, we release these tracts today and we decree that the breath of the Holy Ghost comes upon it and draft all the people appointed to death, to meet You, the Life and the Resurrection. Lord, open doors to every captive and let tomorrow’s service be one of a kind. Let your presence be strong and mighty, to the glory and praise of your name, in Jesus precious name.
Well, I must share this testimony to stir your faith: Last Sunday, my team had 872 of our converts of the week in Church. Make sure at least one person responds to your call and to your prayer tomorrow. Today we have our WSF, that is closer to you, it is closer for everybody, it is in your neighbourhood, get somebody along with you to your cell meeting.
We are running a Cell Growth and Replication Mandate for the year and we are trusting God to make it happen before the Anniversary, be a part of this great move of the Spirit, it will move you forward.
Every move of God moves His people forward.
-You are moving forward!!!
Be blessed in the name of Jesus.
- I decree that your engagement will translate to open rewards.
For those who are yet to get on board, grace to get on board right now, receive it in the name of Jesus. - I curse every attack of sickness and disease on God’s people. Be Free in the name of Jesus.
- I cast out every demonic oppression harassing God’s people in this Church in the name of Jesus.
- For anyone that may be sick on their sick bed, wherever they may be, in the hospital, in their homes, now in the name of Jesus, the God of this Commission reaches out to you right now and BE FREE FOREVER in Jesus precious name.
Give God thanks for His mighty presence in our midst. Celebrate Him.
SPEAK TO THE DAY:
- It shall be a day of testimonies for you.
- No distractions.
- A day of good news.
-Somebody is receiving good news today.
Speak to the day, it is your day.
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