-Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
- Your authentic Help is in God
- For vain is the help of man
- Your destiny lies within you
- Belated response always leads to frustration.
- Every revelation has a 3-day lifeline.
- Over 1000 new Home Cells opened last Saturday.
Let’s sing Him this worship song: That is why you are called Jehovah, what You say You will do, that is what You will do and that’s why You are called Jehovah.
Seek ye out of the Book of the law and read, none of these shall fail, neither shall any want her mate. For my mouth it has spoken and my Spirit has gathered them – Isaiah 34:16
That’s why You are called Jehovah. Heaven and Earth may pass away but Your Word will never pass away – Matthew 24:35
That’s why You are called Jehovah; except my covenant be not with the day and with the night, then also my covenant with my servant David be broken (Jeremiah 33:19-20). That’s why You are called Jehovah.
Will you join me to sing that worship song with the praise team?
“Since 2004, everything shut down: my wife and I were squatting from house to house, children stopped going to school” (documented testimony). Then one day, I encountered light as I stepped into this Church. If you engage with every instruction you receive, expect a turnaround. So he said, “I engaged in Kingdom Stewardship with all my heart”, not just engaging Sir. With All My Heart!
Within 3 months: will you be in China for a business? Even for passport, I don’t have. Passport photograph! Not international passport. Well within 3 weeks, he was on a flight to China. Everything came back to shape.
I don’t know about you but those are the things that move me, when I hear of the acts of God in somebody’s life, I jump into it. I still remember one little short lady, came up in one of those meetings in America and said the Lord told her to give 80,000 dollars (USD); I said, “Jesus, that’s the kind of thing I want to be doing.” What that short lady did now, that’s the kind of thing I want to be doing. I have passed that longest time Sir.
Many are just too slow for the victory that belongs to them, they are just too slow. To them now, that young man was lucky, why are you unlucky? Why? Who made you unlucky? That one (from documented testimony) was smart. He was alive in the spirit. He caught the Word and ran with the Word with all his heart.
This is the only thing I have been doing, ask anybody on this earth, if I ever asked for help from any source. This is the only thing I do: He pays me, He rewards me, He decorates me. Sir, you can’t kill me, I am telling you the truth. I’ve bought my way into the heart of God. Touch me, touch the apple of His eye. I have bought my way consciously, deliberately, ‘un-assumably’.
-I know many people will secure a place in the heart of God for themselves in this prophetic season.
-This Turnaround Year must not pass you by.
-This Prophetic Season must not leave you behind.
Prayer: Ask God for grace to be smart at connecting with testimonies of the Lord with revelations from the Word. Receive grace to be smart to connect. To be smart enough to connect with what is yours.
Somebody is making his prayers right now for grace. Grace for spiritual smartness, grace to always quit like men in diving into every revelation of the truth and every testimony of the Lord. This is the doing of the Lord, what He will do for one, He will do for all. It’s all about you taking your strong position in responding to His Word. In Jesus precious name we pray.
Father, over to You. Engrace us as we have prayed and let no one miss out of every divine opportunity that your Word presents, that testimonies present. In Jesus precious name.
ENGAGING THE GOD OF SPEED THROUGH THE ALTAR OF PRAYER
You have not because you ask not (James 4:2). You ask and do not receive because you ask to spend it on your lusts: it is about you and God is conscious, so He won’t miss you. If all you are dying for is you, God is conscious, He doesn’t want your soul lost. He will wait for you to reposition so that whatever happens, whatever He adds to you will be engaged with in the fear of the Lord and for the promotion of His Kingdom.
Life is a complex but the Word makes it simple. The heart of man is deep, no one else can (know it) except the man and Myself, that’s what God said (1 Corinthians 2:11). God said, “I alone, I search the heart and I try the reins” (Jeremiah 17:10)
Please reposition your heart in this awesome season. We are not involved in this Church growth drive to make a name, we are there to lift His name and His name is Jesus by being in active partnership with Him in the pursuit of His heart beat. He wants all men saved and wants them in Church so they can come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). For I will give you pastors after my own Heart who shall feed you with wisdom and understanding so you can be established, increase and multiply (Jeremiah 3:15-16). So He wants them in Church where they shall be fed with knowledge and understanding, so they can increase and multiply in the knowledge of God and be established in the Faith.
Why do we need speed? Someone’s chance may be your quick response. Someone may have been marked for hell, like this young man, perhaps he would have ended his life in suicide but somebody stepped in and got rescued and decorated.
Others save with fear, pulling them out of fire (Jude 1:23). Some are just about to catch fire and then you step in and rescue such individuals.
That’s why we need speed.
Abject Poverty turned to Sudden Prosperity through engagement with all his heart. When God turns our captivity, it is always like a dream of the night (Psalm 126:1).
-Many people’s captivity shall be turned supernaturally like a dream of the night this year.
-Many will have their Turnaround package delivered supernaturally before the 40th Anniversary.
It is all determined by how well we position ourselves in God’s agenda for the hour.
We saw the God of speed in Acts chapter 9 verse 32 to 35. Then God of speed came in and all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him and turned to the Lord (Acts 9:35). He could save 2 towns in a swift by one miracle.
God of speed show up again in our midst tomorrow. Grant us that awesome privilege of seeing hundreds of thousands flock into your presence.
During the second phase of Wonder Double, we saw 108,000 humans flock into Church on a Sunday above the previous one. He is still very much at work. The God of wonders is still very much at work!!
We have prayed for speed since the week began, we are going to see the God of speed manifest Himself in our midst unmistakably tomorrow. If you are in a revival, let me hear your revival soaked Amen.
We also discover that the hand of God is what triggers divine speed (1 Kings 18:41-46).
He said to him go again 7 times: there must be something, when I pray, there must be something.
And the HAND OF THE LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ‘FLEW’ before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel (1 Kings 18:46). He overtook the chariots that left before him to get to the gates of Jezreel. 20 miles they say. By the Hand of God.
How do you secure the hand of God? Through Faith (Isaiah 53:1)
Who has believed our report, let him expect the arm of God to stretch forth upon him and the hand of God is the hand of speed. He reveals that hand to those who believe Him.
Are you sure you believe Him? Then express your faith in prayers. Please understand, faith is a non-negotiable requirement for answers to prayers (Mark 11:24, James 1:6,7). No prayer is entitled to answers without faith.
The most authentic evidence of faith is corresponding action (James 2:18).
Don’t tell me you believe in supernatural Church growth without taking steps. There is a Praying Up and there is a Going Forth. A dual requirement to see any Church grow. You Pray Up to rescue those fellows from demonic strongholds and you Go Forth to reap the harvest.
It is not our cry that matters but the faith content in our cry. Bartimaeus cried but Jesus said, “thy faith”, not thy cry: it is the faith content of our prayers that guarantee answers to prayers (Mark 10:47, 51-52)
Let me come this way, no one ever genuinely with his heart partners with God in advancing His Kingdom without things to show. No one, genuinely.
“And their nobles shall be of them”: I will change their status.
“Their governors shall proceed from the midst of them, for who is this that engage his HEART in seeking unto me saith the Lord”
Who is this that engage his HEART in seeking unto me? (Jeremiah 30:21)
You start from Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 19, you’ll see a revival, a kingdom advancement awakening that came and He said, “I am going to change the status of all those that engage with their hearts in seeking unto Me.”
It is time to quit like men and fight (1 Corinthians 16:13)
We secure the hand of God through the prayer of faith. Elijah said, “go check”. He said, “there is nothing.” He said, “go 7 times” and the Bible defines the prayer he prayed as the prayer of faith (James 5:17-18). It’s the prayer of faith that counts on the altar of prayer.
Among others, the prayer of faith secures for us the hand of God on our lives that engender supernatural speed in the pursuit of His plan and purpose for us.
Something came through by the Holy Ghost in the course of the week. Please take note of this. No one stays knocking on the door of another forever.
“Hello, anybody in the house? Hello anybody in the house?!!” Then you turn your back, otherwise, it will be equal to madness, hanging on there forever.
Nobody stays knocking on anybody’s door for 3 days but God gave us a 3-day lifeline. After 2 days, if you are open, I will quicken your system. On the 3rd day, as you open the door of your heart, I will change your story. So every revelation has a lifespan of 3 days for delivery. After 3 days, forget it, it is lost, you will wait for another time.
Hosea 6:2, Revelation 3:20
The same thing with testimonies, the same thing with divine instructions. People who make the most of this are those who respond promptly, after the order of Abraham: Prompt Response!!!
Grace for prompt response to every revelation that comes across to you, every testimony that seems to address the kind of situation you are in, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
Very quick illustration of how we need prompt response to maximise every divine visitation (Solomon 5:2-7)
“I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh…” – all kinds of religion.
“I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone…” – nobody keeps knocking on a door forever.
“…they smote…” – what are you doing outside, at this time, stop that nonsense. Because of belated response.
Belated response always leads to frustration.
As you catch the revelation of the Word, just jump in, just dive in, then you are sure to make the most of it.
Every revelation like I said from scriptures a 3-day lifeline.
You respond: good luck.
You shut down: good luck.
It’s all your choice.
When I saw Matthew 6:33, I jumped in.
I saw Deuteronomy 8:18: I dived in.
The choice is yours. I hear people talk about Destiny Helpers, that’s not scriptures; woe unto him that trusts in man and maketh the arm of flesh his strength (Jeremiah 17:5). Your authentic help is in the Lord. Send us help oh Lord, for vain is the help of man (Psalm 108:12).
Your destiny lies within you, so keep your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.
When I saw the Holy Ghost as the Guide of man’s destiny in 1976, the month of July, I dived into it. Then I took advantage of one opportunity that came my way, I went to check on some of my friends and couldn’t find them; I said, “Holy Spirit, if you are truly the Guide of man, I don’t want to ask anybody where they live or where they have moved to, lead me to where they are.”
And He guided my feet step by step:
“Make a left” and then “Make a left”. I’ve told you the story several times. He led me to where they were. From that time till tomorrow, I hear the voice of God clearly on all issues of significance in my life. Clean, from that day. As I rose up from that encounter was when I went out and I engaged immediately with who I saw.
“When He is come, He will guide you into all truth…He will show you things to come” – He guided in a town to where they (my friends) were living.
There is no other more efficient GPS under Heaven than the Holy Ghost. Your story is changing.
I saw in October 4, that those who know their God, you don’t need to know no man, they shall be strong and do exploits (Daniel 11:32). So I began to invest in the knowledge of God through anointed books; time out for prayers and fasting to search out topical issues. Light began to brood!!
-My prayer is that you will be awake and take full responsibility over your life.
He said to me, “look to me, Abraham your father, Sarah your mother, I called him ALONE and blessed him and increased him; I want to bless the Church after the same order, to turn your wilderness to Eden and your deserts to the garden of the Lord. So that joy and gladness alone will be heard in you, thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry.”
He said, “you are absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life” – I took it up and began to run with it. Having no one to blame for wherever I find myself.
It is over to you.
We are in a very highly prophetic season, you are awake, good luck!
You go into slumber: only you will bear it.
-In the name of Jesus, everybody’s positive package for the year shall be fully delivered.
-Everyone’s positive package for the year shall be duly delivered.
-No one shall end his journey in regrets!!!
- You shall not end your journey in regrets.
God does not reward membership, He rewards stewardship!
Everyone shall be rewarded according to his labour, not according to his membership, according to his stewardship (1 Corinthians 3:8)
Take it away from here:
God does not honour Title holders, He honours dedicated stewards.
John 12:24-26
Whosoever serves Me, let him follow this mystery of dedication so that where I am, there my servant will be also. If any man serves like that, ‘Him’ will my Father honour: not ‘They’, ‘Him’
God does not reward spiritual activities, He rewards productivity!!! John 15:1-2
His title notwithstanding: President and Founder, Archbishop, Arch Pope, Elder, Deacon, Deaconesses, Bishop. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away but every branch that bears fruit, He keeps fit so He can keep bearing more fruits.
-You are the one He will keep fit.
-He will keep you fit.
Luke 13:6-9
God does not reward title holders, He rewards labourers.
He does not reward spiritual activity, He rewards productivity.
God does not reward experience, He rewards faithful stewardship: Well done, thou good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a very few things, now have thou authority over ten cities
Luke 19:17-19
He said to another one, “Now you have been faithful over a few things, now have thou authority over 5 cities.”
God does not reward experience, He rewards faithful stewardship. Somebody’s story is changing.
-Many shall be openly decorated this year.
-This year will be to many among us a Year of Years. Amen.
-As you engage with Christ from a true heart, there will be no stopping your scaling of new heights this year.
The Lord said to me many years ago, I was in Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 1, “My son, there is room for you on top if you are interested.”
I said: Lord, I am interested.
God: Then whatever I say to you to do, Do It. You don’t have to appeal for it, just be doing it whatever I tell you to do and then watch me changing your levels.
That was far back in 1984. Church Gist. I saw from that scriptures that God has a place for us, above all nations of the earth if we will just be committed to doing whatever He commands at every point in time and responding quickly.
There is a pool of Bethesda, whosoever first steps in, not whosoever steps in, Whosoever First steps in. You only can catch your own when you just dive into it.
Well the good thing is your destiny and my destiny lies within us: make your choice!
“But as for me”, Joshua said, “and my house, we will serve the Lord”: This thing works.
-It will work in your life.
Do you believe in the explosive Church Growth agenda for the year? Now, pray the prayer of faith for the hand of God to be upon you, to do what you have never done before so you can see what you have never seen before.
Ask God: Lord, let your hand of speed be upon my life. I’ve heard my testimonies of dramatic turnarounds; I don’t want to sell off. Let your good hand be upon me.
Cry your heart out to God: Lord, I don’t want to be an onlooker, I want to be a bona fide partaker of the grace you are unleashing on the Church this time. I don’t want to be an onlooker, make me a bona fide partaker of what you are doing in this moment. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
I was having a chat with some of our people yesterday at Covenant (University), our Professors and all that: I saw years ago Simeon lifted up Jesus as a Baby and said, “this Child is set for the rising and the falling again for many in Israel and for a sign that shall be spoken against.”
So every move of God has the rising and the falling in it. Church Gist.
-You will rise.
“Why are we having replication twice? For what?”
“Did they ask you?
Does God need your support to unveil His agenda?
Why cause yourself trouble?
That man put his mouth against the prophetic Word and he was trampled to death. “Even if God opens the windows of heaven” – we are not dummies. I studied in Harvard, I went to Yale, branched in Cambridge. I am a diplomat of renown, look at this bush prophet, he didn’t go to school.
Okay: don’t let your grammar send you to your grave.
Just say, “God, thank You. You are up to anything You say.”
Is He not up to anything He says? The Red Sea was 3040 (something) deep, He threw an overhead bridge, nobody dropped, children were walking. He is up to anything, He said, “Go Forward”
Response: No, No we are not fools. They went forward.
The Bible says, the sea saw them, it fled but the Bible records that He made a highway across the sea. So there is nobody climbing ladder to go down. As soon as they were gone, He removed the bridge. Pharaoh and his demons got drowned.
God is up to anything He says.
“I am not Papa, He can’t be driving us like that”: The Word is what is driving us. When you are too smart for the Word, get off!!! Don’t let your mouth cause your flesh to sin (Eccelesiastes 5:6).
Mind your heart, mind your mind if you must make the most of this Prophetic Season.
This man you are looking at, I have been running like that, long before I ever had the slightest idea of being a Pastor. I have been holding crusades to see souls saved. I am not doing what I am doing so I can be a Pastor, No. It’s been in me, I signed a vow with God 1976. I didn’t know you that time, so you couldn’t have been the person I wanted to impress. Church Gist. I signed a deal with God to make ‘Seeking First His Kingdom’ my lifestyle. I have not had the first regret, Jesus is sweet!
It’s over to you. Be careful!!! You have the choice to make the most of this time and don’t just invoke trouble on your life.
Every move of God always results in the rising of many and in the crashing of others.
-May you be on the positive side of this!!
-My prayer is that every grace I have touched as a person will be replicated in higher dimensions in your life.
-I have not wasted one moment of my life, your life will not be wasted.
What I am doing is paying me on regular basis. I have never had to seek, ‘Please what am I to eat?’ even before I was called to Ministry. Doing this thing has been fulfilling for me and it is ordained to be fulfilling for every child of God.
-You will see the difference this year.
Connect with it.
Tomorrow is our Covenant Day of Business Breakthrough: go ahead and ensure that your converts are in Church. Ensure that your invitees follow you to Church. Offer them compelling invitations. Jesus wants them rescued, for those who are not saved. Those who are saved, He wants to open up their destiny and you are one of God’s agent to make it happen. So reach out to them in faith, reach out to them in prayers and watch what He does with you.
SPEAK TO THE DAY: To make it a day of blessing to someone else.
A day of recovery to somebody else.
Stretch forth your hands to these fliers, ask for the fire of the Holy Ghost to keep burning wherever they are now in the hands of people and compelling them to be in God’s presence tomorrow for their Next Level Change of Story.
Holy Ghost, breathe upon these materials, let it go forth to deliver according to your Word. Thank You Father in Jesus precious name.
The same goes for all of our tracts that have gone forth: Lord, let it be that everyone that encounters these materials turn up tomorrow for an encounter with you, for their change of story. Let those who are not saved among them be saved. Let those who are saved be established in the faith and in this Church for life. Thank You Father, in Jesus precious name.
Now, be blessed!
-For your labour in the vineyard, be openly rewarded.
-For your genuine commitment for advancing His Kingdom, expect supernatural advancement.
-I pray peace upon your family.
-I pray progress on the works of your hand.
- I pray divine covering over you and your household.
-There shall be no evil report all through this year!!
-There shall be no emergency calls to you and no emergency calls from you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Lord let everyone connected to this service today come under the same blessing.
Thank You Father.
Lord, in the name of Jesus, the same way you changed the testimony of those we are hearing, change everybody’s story supernaturally.
Thank You Father. In Jesus precious name.
Last Saturday, we had over 1000 new Cells planted. It shall be more this Saturday.
All Cell leaders, all Cell Ministers and Assistants and all Cell Officials, ensure you are on duty to see souls drafted into the various cells so we can realise God’s agenda and you also realise your reward from Heaven.
All Cell members, it’s our corporate responsibility to move people in your neighbourhood to the Cells for God to keep changing their stories.
Every Cell is declared a Solution Centre!!!
I pray for grace upon all the Cell Ministers, unusual grace for powerful deliveries and ministrations in the name of Jesus.
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