-Bishop David Oyedepo at Week of Spiritual Emphasis Day 3
Give Him thanks for who He is, celebrate Him, thank Him for answers to your prayers in Jesus precious name we have given thanks.
Light is coming your way.
Lord give everyone tonight a positive story to tell.
Let there be an outbreak of revelation in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
If you ever visit an orchard with freshly planted different kind of fruits, they all look alike until the time of bearing fruits. You can now identify which one is mango, which one is guava, which one is orange. The farmer knows which is which but we don’t know.
Serving God may not show now.
The sower went forth and sowed the seed and some fell by the way side ,some among the rocks, some among the thorns and some on good ground and that brought forth fruits.
Patience. It will show
tomorrow whether these things are according to the good ground of your heart or not.
We are all just green herbs, there is nothing unique about anyone. Zero identity.
Hosea 6:3
Some fellows just got started a year, ‘I think I’m done, tree uprooted, no opportunity to secure an identity. ‘Lets go and see how God will feel’. He won’t feel anything, He is the I Am that I Am. You join three cults, you go for one meeting at 9pm, one at 12 midnight and another one at 4am. He is the same yesterday. I think choir sang it tonight, I can tell them to sing it again.
What has got me pursuing after Jesus, profitably, productively, peacefully, restfully is that He doesn’t need me for anything. But I need Him for everything I don’t know whether you need Him because you are very important, we are all small small people coming up. He doesn’t need me for one thing.
When you say you give, I just laugh. Who gave you first? What have you that you have not received. What did you give out of what He gave you?
Can you imagine your small boy testifying, ‘I thank God I gave my father hundred naira today’. Even in children’s Church they won’t clap for him because it is from what the father gave him.
If you don’t belittle yourself before God you won’t grow. They want to advise God because they think they have so much knowledge, wisdom and insight that they seek to become God’s counselor. ‘God let me advise you, this is Nigeria, things don’t work like that in Nigeria, you know you live in Heaven you don’t know different nations, Nigeria, no it can’t work’. ‘God say thank you for teaching Me about My own creation, I really appreciate it. You know know more than I so teach Me, when I graduate let Me know’.
God does not need you for anything, you can disagree with God and show me where He said He needs you. Show me where God said I need you to help Me do something. You can’t follow God on without meekness. You can look meek and be very proud.
‘That man is very meek’. God says ‘You don’t know him’. You know Nebuchadnezzar never said those things out. He walked on top of the roof of his palace and somebody thought he was praying. He didn’t say one word. He was turned to an animal without speaking a word.
Nothing can move God again in this world, not your tears, not my tears. To obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams. You want rest, all round rest, rest at home, rest at work, rest in your mind, rest in your health, rest in your business and career, all round rest, Jesus is the way to anything that you and I will ever need. ‘I am the Way, not a Way ‘The Truth and the Life, no one can get across to the Father except by Me.
John 14:6
In Isaiah 59:8
Who is the I Am? The Word. John 1:1-4
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life, He dwelleth among us that we may see His glory. His name is Jesus. So the way to all round rest is the Word.
Isaiah 26:3
From today your peace will be like a river.
Perfect peace, He will keep that individual in perfect peace, He will be fast asleep in the midst of the storm and yet be in command. So we have to engage in the Word to enjoy perfect peace.
We get transformed by renewing our mind in the Word and so the fear, anxiety, that apprehension all become history.
Psalms 119:165
2nd Peter 1:2
So we have multiplied peace, we have great peace, we have multiplied peace all drawn from the dictates of Scriptures that we have renewed our mind with.
Therefore from today I see you enjoying great peace, multiplied peace and perfect peace.
We were laying down someday and my wife remembered from Abuja to Lagos, to Land Lagos was like landing on the moon. And the plane will come and the one thunder strike will come. We were in perfect peace because we trust Him, zero palpitations, zero concern. It’s not two attempts or three, I can’t count.
Your fears must go tonight because you have the answer to it in this Book.
Your fears must disappear tonight.
Your faith must be restored tonight because you have the answers in this Book.
Let’s look at what we must do from the Word to enjoy perfect peace.
1- One must be born again and remain so to experience all-round peace. I’m using these words very cautiously, be Born Again and remain so. Once saved is not always saved.
Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling. Some people’s names might have been off the Book of Life for more than twenty years and they are pretending not to be aware. Be Born Again and remain so. Keep your salvation functional. Don’t pretend not to know in disconnect. Except a man is Born Again he cannot taste the blessings of the Kingdom. These are all summarizing the fruits of the Spirit which includes peace. Those are the characters of the new Kingdom that salvation has brought you and I into.
When you are saved Christ came into your heart and His name is Prince of Peace. So salvation creates a fountain of peace inside you.
Colossians 1:27
So whatever happens, Christ is come to be resident on you at new birth and He is the Prince of Peace.
May that fountain remain functional in everyone’s life.
The Word we do not receive and believe we can never manifest. So believe that at new birth you now possess a fountain of peace Jesus Christ on your inside. You are entitled to perfect peace, multiplied peace, great peace.
May this become your new experience from today.
2- Matthew 11:28-29
What you don’t know, you don’t know and what you wont learn you can’t know. What you don’t know you pay for it.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6
Isaiah 5:13
God multiplies His Spirit in us through knowledge. Knowing what it is and giving it what it takes.
Among others we are told that we can’t enter into His rest without faith. So it’s not enough to find the Truth, it is important, it is to receive and believe it.
Hebrews 4:9-12
There is a kind of rest that you’ll enter into that struggles leave you alone.
It is the kind you’re entering now.
It takes faith to enter into that rest. It is not enough to find those things, you must consciously receive and believe it.
So we must keep building our faith to be able to receive whatever He shows us with full assurance of faith because when your faith and my faith is alive we render the enemy helpless.
3- We must remain in love with God. Why?
Romans 8:28
When you dwell in love you dwell in God and He is in you. As He is in Heaven in His restful majesty so are we in this world. There is no fear in love.
When we walk in the realm of ever growing love with God our peace just keeps multiplying on every side. Whatever can’t affect God can’t move you.
Fear torments and love is the cure for it. The stronger our love for God, the further away fear is to our lives.
Somebody’s story is changing.
1John 3:18
Let’s keep proving the sincerity of our love for God.
John 14:21
When Paul was on the sea and the wind went contrary, he said ‘then appeared to me an angel of the Lord and he said fear not’. You are in love you have his manifestations, at any point of challenge He shows up and puts you in command.
You are going to see diverse manifestations from Heaven from henceforth.
Be in love and keep proving the sincerity of your love.
2nd Corinthians 8:8
It’s not about singing it, it is not about preaching it, it is not about writing it, it is about proving it.
John 21:15-17
You can’t love God and not know. ‘Only God knows who love Him’, it’s not true. Those who love Him know that they love Him. Don’t you know the food you love? When you seat around it you smile, and then when its going to your mouth, your mouth is also trying to meet it because you like it.
Somebody’s story has just changed.
Now watch, engage in soul winning and your peace will keep multiplying. Every soul winner is a distributor of peace and no one lacks what He gives.
Ephesians 6:15
Isaiah 52:7
Every soul winner is a publisher of peace.
Luke 10:5-6
So as they give peace, they receive back multiplied peace. As one soul gets saved, there is joy in Heaven and so you are entitled to Heavenly joy in return for stirring joy in Heaven.
Allow God to lead you, you will enjoy rest. People think we are faking it, thank you. We have been faking it now for forty years. It’s really fake. It is realer than reality, God’s Word.
Settle with God to make the most of your life. This is the secret of all round rest.
Let me close tonight. Just like it’s not just faith that guarantees fulfilment of prophecies,the faith that establishes our faith of all round rest must graduate to trust.
What is trust?
A resolute stand for God in the midst of conflict. Everybody disbelieved David. The three Hebrew boys came out of the furnace because they trusted in their God. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and said ‘Blessed be the God of Shedrak, Meshak and Abednego who has sent His angels and delivered His servants.
They were in the furnace relaxed, they even had their caps on. They were not running, But they that trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion that cannot be removed but abides forever. You grow from faith, then great faith, exceeding growing faith and then you go to trusting.
It is the realm of trust that turn believers to more than conquerors.
You are getting there.
When a believer sets the realm of trust, it means he has entered into his rest, what God does or does not do has nothing to do with his love for God. The realm of trust is the realm of rest.
Give thanks to God for light from Heaven tonight in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Now watch, the realm of all round rest is the realm of signs and wonders.
The Lord will fight for you as you hold your peace.
God takes over your concerns when your peace is in place. God takes over your battles when your peace is in place. When you put God off you struggle with life. As you hold your peace God takes over your issues.
The Lord shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace.
Now watch there shall be a massive flow of signs and wonders in your life.
Jesus is the way to secure divine intervention.
Isaiah 48:22
Examine yourself, is this fruit of peace evident in my life? Is this peace real? Multitudes here have experienced it and are experiencing it. Jesus loves you, you need Him for everything in your life.
Now be ye doers of the word and not hearers only. Be committed to working out your own salvation. Don’t let what is going on around the world today deceive you. Remain in God’s side. Remain in love with God and keep growing in your love for God.
Remain on the go after souls, God’s greatest asset on the earth and as you do so the peace of God, on the altar of prayer and reaching out to the poor and following them up, establishing them in the faith, you’ll find the peace of God growing in you and watch His manifestations in your affairs. It is real.
No matter how hard and hot the tears of your toddlers son, would you give him your car key?
Grow up. You have to grow up spiritually to gain stamina. So many matured believers now crying for what God will never try. He doesn’t tempt anybody.
Grow up. It is a strong man’s gospel. You have to grow up. Groaning won’t help you. Grow up. God is waiting for you to grow up for your next level of glory.
Ask God for grace to be committed to spiritual growth and development that will keep changing your level from glory to glory. Begin to make your demands.
No sickness escapes tonight.
Whatever you cannot imagine in your life will not be found in your life.
God has brought you to your realm of all round rest so take responsibility to remain there.
Grace to take that responsibility and allow God to work what only Him can work in your life.
The virtues required to make each one of us live more and more like Christ is released upon you tonight.
Every sickness is cursed from the roots.
Every oppression of the devil is destroyed finally.
Every satanic seige over your life and your family is broken finally in the name of Jesus Christ and so shall it be in Jesus precious name.
Give God thanks for showing you the way of peace. Give God thanks for getting you addicted to His Word that keeps activating the peaceful code in your life. Give God thanks for the light that has come your way tonight.
Watch the manifestation that will follow your compliance with the instructions of tonight. Just let God take over your battle and your enemies will become helpless. He prepareth a table before me in the presence of my enemies and my cup runneth over.
Peace like a river will become your portion from now.
You will be at rest in the morning, at rest in the afternoon and at rest in the night.
The plague of sleeplessness is over.
The plague of insomnia is gone forever.
I’ve watched God fight my fight for forty years all of the times. Awesome God. I’ve watched Him fight our fight as a Church for forty years. He never lies.
What you have struggled to see happen for years will happen like a dream before the anniversary in the name of Jesus.
Please don’t forget that tomorrow we have our monthly Leadership Empowerment Summit. Time is 7am. It is always an awesome time in God’s presence. All the categories of people needed there must ensure they are there. Only those who respond to commands will become commanders tomorrow.
You will hear something on Sunday, it will just straighten your life forever.
The child you pet today will pester you tomorrow.
May Heaven’s command suit you at all times.
Remember we have a mandate. Minimum double of cells this year as God is more than up to it and He will show us wonders in the next seven weeks.
For everyone partnering with Jesus in this Church in the pursuit of the agenda, this year is declared your year of open rewards.
Fearful favour will distinguish you this year.
Give God thanks for the three days we have spent in His presence. Thank Him for answers to prayers and for revelation that has come your way. Give Him thanks.
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