*Everything you are faced with is common, don’t specialize it.
Give glory to God, let’s appreciate Him from the depths of our hearts, Give Him the praise, the glory and the honour, the adoration that is due unto His name. Celebrate the Faithfulness of God. Thank Him from the bottom of your heart for the privilege of being in His presence.
Father we have come to say thank You.
For the answers to prayers we say thank you.
Now ask Him to speak to you again. Thank You mighty God in. Jesus precious name we have prayed.
We began yesterday in our week of emphasis looking at this teachings for our midweek services all through the month titled
ENGAGING BIBLICAL COVENANT FOR PROFITABLE LIVING
We have established from Scriptures that we serve a Covenant keeping God not a Father Christmas God. The question really is what is a covenant? A covenant can be described as a spiritual deal that is based on well defined terms and sealed with an oath.
Hebrews 6:15-18
So when we talk about a Covenant we are talking about a spiritual deal between God the covenantor and you and I the covenantees. The deal has specific terms and the deal is sealed by an oath from God. What that simply means to you and to me is that whenever any individual engages the terms of that deal, the integrity of God is bound to perform and that is why it becomes so important for you and I to begin to look into the Word of God to find out the terms or the deals that we see in Scriptures.
So many today celebrate the promises of God but they forget that God is a Covenant God and what God is bound to is His Covenant.
Psalms 89:34
So behind every provision of promise of God there is a responsibility for man.
Matthew 7:24
So wisdom is the discovery of the terms of the covenant and engaging with them. That’s what it’s all about. So until we know what we’re required to do and do it we are not yet operating in wisdom. That is why all through this month God is taking us through this adventure so that we can uncover the Biblical Covenant visions and the terms that you and I must fulfill in order to enjoy what God has in store for us.
Tonight we are going to be looking at the
BIBLICAL COVENANT FOR TRIUMPHANT LIVING
1st John 5:4
So every child of God has a heritage of triumph. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. So if I am born again triumph is my heritage. But the question is how do I actualize it?
What are the push buttons that we must engage to see see triumph become a reality for me? We are going to look at a number of them this evening and I believe that the Spirit of God will give us light tonight.
1- No one triumphs over the battles of life without faith.
So faith is a foundational key for a life of triumph.
1st John 5:4
This is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith. So you cannot talk of triumph without faith.
Hebrews 11:33-34
So faith is the catalyst for victorious living. Until faith is in place triumph cannot be experienced.
Ephesians 6:12-16
So faith is the weapon that is above all. Anytime faith is in place every force bows.
For somebody I see your faith coming alive in the name of Jesus.
If there is a mountain that is yet to be surmounted it is not because it it is too big or the enemy is too strong, the thing is the faith may be too weak.
Mark 11:23
So it is not the mountain, it is the faith. It is not the opposition, it is the faith.
In other words the the opposition was asking a faith question. Whatever refuse to bow shows that there is something about your faith that needs to grow.
In this month your faith will change level.
That is why when you look at Jesus in His interaction with the Disciples you will discover something, anytime anything seems to subdue them He told them it is your faith. Peter walking on water began to sink, he said ‘Why did you allow your faith to fail? It is always a faith question.
That is why it is not about crying tears, it is about growing faith. When faith grows up the enemy bows out.
For somebody here every opposition to your life and your destiny, as your faith changes level I see them bowing out.
1st Peter 5:9
What you are facing is not special. It’s saying it is only asking a faith question. Everyone else is confronting the same matter. Don’t specialize your challenges, commonize them.
1st Corinthians 10:13
So everything you are confronted with is common don’t specialize it. Don’t begin to magnify it. Somebody asked me sometime ago after explaining some challenges that they were going through, looked at me and said ‘Pastor have you heard something like that before? When she was subdued with the issue she thought only her had faced it. I said ‘day before yesterday I heard something like that’. It is common. Just let your faith challenge it and you will come out with a testimony. So triumphant living simply requires the engagement of your faith. So our faith is what is being questioned when there is any challenge that seems to rise and when your faith rises up the challenges of life will bow.
What else is required in this this Covenant of triumphant living?
2- We need a far above mentality to live a triumphant life. If you want to be triumphant you need a far above mentality.
Ephesians 2:6
Ephesians 1:21
That is how far we are placed by redemption. You must carry that mentality. The mentality of being far above. I remember some years ago, we were traveling and going on a flight and I discovered that as the plane began to take off my eyes were set on the ground and as the plane began to go higher and higher everything on the ground began to become smaller and smaller. I understood what it means to be far. What was big on the ground, was small from the sky because I was far.
So now when I see an insect moving on the ground, that is how it looks like when you are in the sky. The things that were big become like ants in the ground. You don’t see an ant and begin to cry. When you are far above it what do you do with an ant? You step on it and move on. It is far below you, you are far above it. That’s the mentality you need. You must have a far above mentality to live a triumphant life.
The demons that are tormenting others are like ants on the ground. The afflictions that are resisting others, they are like ants on the ground. You are far above principalities, above powers.
Have the mentality of being far above. We have heard the testimony of God’s servant. He said he read the book of the Apostle of faith concerning Smith Wigglesworth and he saw how he woke up one night hearing a sound in the living room and entered into the place and saw a creature with horns sitting in the rocking chair rocking back and forth, satan likes looking for attention and he said it’s even you satan, he turned back and went to sleep, satan checked out. why? When he read that he understood what it meant to be far above. He said he went to a meeting representing someone who could not make the meeting. And he said ‘Are there anyone here that are witches stand up and they stood up. He asked them what do you do? They said when we want to suck blood we set our trap on the highway and cause vehicles to summersault and we drink the blood of the victims and he asked a question how about when people like us are coming? They said when we sense a higher power we clear off the highway.
There is something about being higher, that is what being far above does. It brings you to the realm of unquestionable victory.
I see that becoming somebody’s experience here in the name of Jesus.
3- As a child of light, darkness cannot hold us bound any longer. It is impossible for light to be covered by darkness,for light to be tied by darkness, for light to be restrained by darkness. Wherever light comes darkness goes. Have you ever noticed that we only have day break, we don’t have night break. Why? Because the only way for night to come is for the sun to go but the moment the sun comes the night must break and it breaks into day. That is the power of light. Light arrives, darkness disappears.
As a child of light we are not permitted to be bound by darkness, darkness cannot stop the way against the breakthrough of light.
Ephesians 5:8
There is something different about now if you are in Christ. To be bound by darkness means that you are under deception. If you are light, then walk like light.
We have a new identity by redemption.
2nd Corinthians 5:17
What is one of the things that passed away.
Colossians 1:13
Acts 26:18
When you are light you can no longer be under the power of satan. No. By light you have dominion over darkness.
You must become illuminated by the identity of your new reality. Come to the realization that I am not who I used to be. What could hold me before cannot hold me now by reason of my new identity in Christ. It’s all about being illuminated.
There is an illumination experience that is required for you and to walk in practical dominion over the powers of darkness. By redemption you have changed level, you are no longer chained down by the enemy. Refuse to be held captive. When a man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things, old experiences, old bondages, old chains are passed away and behold all things are become new.
For somebody here I see a change of experience for you. You are a child of light, you will no longer be bound by darkness.
4- Kingdom advancement endeavors supernaturally establishes our overcomers status.
Luke 9:1
No one is on assignment for God without being empowered by God. He gave them power and authority. It is a dangerous combination.
Authority has to do with placement, power has to do with ability. The combination was given to him. Power and authority because they went out on assignment.
Luke 10:17-19
Did you hear the testimony that we just heard this evening, of that woman who had gone everywhere, was told that she had to have IVF and she said before that there was this contention, she saw someone struggling with her for a baby and was laughing at her and ran away with the baby but then she began to engage and suddenly had a visitation. The thing that was running away from her was dropped beside her because the forces had been paralyzed, because of her engagement for the Kingdom.
When you are engaging in advancing the Kingdom of God you are empowered for dominion.
For somebody here today I see that dominion being exhibited practically in your life in the name of Jesus.
As you are busy advancing the Kingdom you find practical dominion manifesting on every side.
Acts 14:3
People looked at them and said these are not ordinary human beings, these are gods. They were on assignment for God and therefore were empowered by God.
For somebody here as you take in the responsibility of the harvest field I see divinity having brand new expression in your life today in the name of Jesus.
Kingdom advancement endeavors supernaturally establishes our overcomers status. You don’t struggle for it. You just begin to practically exhibit it.
That shall become your own experience in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
5- When we dwell In love we dwell in God and God dwells In us. As a result of that what begins to happen? No gate is able to shut itself against our continuous progress. When you are a God lover you are an unstoppable entity on the earth.
When your heart is burning for God there is no force that can withstand your progress.
1st John 4:16
Psalms 24:7-10
When you are dwelling in love you are saturated with God. Everywhere you appear, barriers see God and they bow. That’s what happens.
Isaiah 64:1
What God is saying is that no matter what is standing like a mountain before you it is meltable and what melts it is when you are soaked in God and saturated with Him. How do you do that? Living a life of love. Your love for God makes you unstoppable, unbeatable, insurmountable in the battles of life.
Romans 8:28
You can’t stop a God lover no matter how you try to orchestrate their frustration it will only result in their promotion.
Look at a man like Joseph, A man with a heart for God, burning after God. Everything they tried to stop him organized him for a change of level. His brothers took him and threw him into a pit and then somebody suggested l
‘let’s not kill him, let’s make him suffer. We will take his garment, we will kill a kid, out the blood of the kid on his garment and give the garment to his father to testify of the fact that he’s dead and he will send him to slavery’. They put him in a pit, spill the blood of a lamb which represents escape because according to Scriptures by the blood of the covenant I have rescued the prisoners out of the pit, they were organising his destruction, God was organising his promotion. He entered the house of Potiphar, the wife of Potiphar said I will sleep with you he said never, she organized for him to enter the prison as a sign of frustrating his promotion but it was a place for appointment. How will he get to the palace without the prison? He arrived at the prison and before they knew it he arrived in the palace. The ones who were formally antagonising him began saluting him.
You can’t frustrate a God lover. Can you imagine the brothers of Joseph coming to the palace seeing Joseph there and arguing among themselves, ‘It’s like he looks like the one, he is not the one’. Prostrating to him morning afternoon and evening without knowing, fulfilling the vision they were trying to frustrate because he was a lover of God.
When you love God no one can stop you. As they are organizing to frustrate God is organizing to promote.
Somebody’s story here is changing.
That is why your hear panting after God is central to living a triumphant life. You don’t need to play politics to enjoy progress when you are a lover of God. God organizes and orchestrates all things to work together for your good.
I’d like you to understand something, no matter how connected you are you can only work some things, only God can work all things and for all things to work there is one criteria, you must be a lover of God.
People may fight your progress but the fighting is to your promotion. That will be somebody’s experience.
Those who mocked you before will see God’s glory on you.
6- Praying for others secures answers to our prayers. These are all push buttons for triumph.
Proverbs 11:24
One of the expressions of watering is praying. Taking up the matters of others and praying on their behalf. Why is that so?
Ephesians 6:8
When you take the burdens of others you must have dropped your own for God to pick up. You only have one head so any load you drop from your head, it is God that will pick it up but in life you must always carry out a responsibility. So you take on the load of others to drop your own and whatever you drop God replace it.
There are issues around your life, challenges here and there, still pick up the matters of others. Particularly issues close to the one that you desire. You are waiting on God for the fruit of the womb pray for others that are waiting for the fruit of the womb. Pray till you know that God has heard you concerning them because God cannot hear you concerning them and ignore you.
Pray with all your heart and in doing so you begin to see God stepping in concerning any matter that concerns you. It is a cheap avenue for triumph. Pray consistently, pray continuously, pray fervently for others. It will always give you access to victory.
I remember some time ago a woman shared a testimony, her son was living outside the country and suddenly his job was revoked on a Friday and his papers that he was using to work were also revoked. It looked as if everything was upside down. She came down to Canaan Land and began to pray round the tabernacle. She was not praying for her son. She began to pray for everybody that was looking for a job. She was pouring her heart to God. She had a matter that required attention but she dropped it to pick other matters and gave it attention and on Monday the job was restored, papers returned, the man continued working gloriously, why? because she understood that pathway to triumph.
This is a push button that gives you access to triumphant living.
I see the grace for this coming afresh upon us in the name of Jesus Christ.
As we conclude this evening
7- Fear is an enemy of our triumphant destiny in Christ. So refuse to give it place.
Judges 7:1-5
The Bible says that the Lord led Gideon to take them by a particular lake and as he got there a question was asked.
‘Whosoever is fearful among you let him return’. The Bible says there returned from the people 22,000, they disappeared because of fear. Their heritage of triumph was lost to fear.
One of the great robbers of triumph is fear.
Job was a righteous man, an upright man, a man that loved God and shunned evil but one major flaw of Job was fear.
Job 3:24-25
Fear will always attract the attention of the enemy and bring you to the place of defeat but I pray that from today the spirit of fear will never have a hold upon you again in the name of Jesus Christ.
Mark 4:35-49
Jesus arose and spoke to the wind, peace be still and turned to the people why did you fear?
Don’t surrender your victory to fear. Refuse to give it a place and by the encounter you have had here tonight the spirit of fear will no longer have the foothold in you.
As you begin to push these seven buttons, expect to see victory on every side in the name of Jesus Christ.
Bishop David Oyedepo
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
You are redeemed to live a triumphant life and the buttons have been exposed tonight if you are interested.
A great coach does not make a star otherwise Jesus coached twelve, one got lost to suicide under the master coach of coaches.
One was an apostle of unbelief and yet he stayed with Him for three and half years. Others just disappeared into thin air, we never never heard a word about them after the Upper room.
A great coach does not make a star but the discipline, the dedication and the sacrifice of every sports man is what determines whoever becomes a star.
You can coach a wrestler to wrestle, he will do the wrestling, you can coach a boxer, you won’t ask him to be boxing you.
Grace to take responsibility for unquestionable triumph in my journey in life go ahead and receive it.
Receive the grace to be that sportsman that will emerge a star.
Receive that grace to engage with the truth of triumphant living.
Thank You Father in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Take responsibility, you have no one to blame if you end up a failure. You have no one to blame if you end up as a man or a woman to be pitied. Take responsibility.
I’ve never gone around for anyone to prophesy to me. The one He prophesied in the Bible is more than enough.
Stop shifting responsibility, nobody goes far in life with that.
You can’t graduate without writing exams. Nobody changes class until he has written the prescribed test.
Grace to take responsibility early before things go off, go ahead and receive it.
Your triumph will be unquestionable, it will be sweatless in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Every sickness is cursed tonight.
Any plague that followed you to this place will not return back with you.
From now on you are living a triumphant life so shall it be in Jesus precious name.
Stop hanging around scorners, they are robbers of destiny. Wake up, God does not reward groups, He rewards individuals.
As the Lord lives, anyone serving God in truth and in deed in this Church this year is declared your year of open rewards.
Your mockers will know that God your rewarder has finally come to reward you openly.
May every house provider begin to enjoy the Obed-Edom order of blessing.
Many people will become global news makers during this season.
The plague of untimely death is over in your family.
No one here will ever bury their children.
You will live long with your spouse.
You will eat the fruit of your labour.
The seal of triumphant living upon your life today will be there for life.
No devil messes around with you anymore.
The battle over your destiny is won.
Thank God for the revival today.
It is your turn take it.
Your story must end differently this year.
It must show to everyone around you.
Give Him glory and praise.
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