- Sleepers don’t have a place in the race of life.
- The faster our response, the faster the delivery
- Wonder Double is not only about Church Growth only.
- It is also about the Wonder Double Glory of your life.
- You can’t stir joy in Heaven and lack joy on the earth
- I have been grievously challenged both within and without, but nothing can take away my joy.
- I have lived depression free these past 40 years.
Jesus, give me a start off today in my engagement in this Operation ‘Who is on the Lord’s Side?’
Lord, fire me up by your Word, move me forward today. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
No one truly sees what will change his story and ignore it. It’s not being able to see it that keeps people docile. You can’t see the help you are looking for and ignore it. You can’t recognise the key to the door you want to see open and despise it.
Prayer: Lord, open my eyes, all through this prophetic season to see what you have in stock for me in this operation. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Low sperm count, damaged womb yet came forth a miracle child (documented testimony). No circumstance can render His covenant ineffective, no situation can render the Word of God ineffective.
-Whatever thing has been resisting you over time must bow. Amen.
-Every concern that may still be hanging around anyone’s life must be turned Now. Amen. And so shall it be.
That first testifier said, “he has not been serious in the previous operations. So he decided for once let him me take my destiny in my hand because that’s what I heard the Word of God say”(documented testimony). He stepped into it and God honoured His Word.
-God will honour His Word in the life of every one of us.
Every instruction from God requires promptness for maximum delivery as we found in the life of Abraham. Prompt response to divine instructions as found in scriptures or by the spoken Word by His prophets.
“Get thee out of thy country” – and so Abraham departed (Genesis 12:2,4)
“Take thy son, thy only son Isaac” – He rose early in the morning, he went ahead (Genesis 22:1-5, 15-18)
In the same vein every revelations of scriptures require a dive for delivery.
Belated response can be costly
Song of Solomon 5:4-7.
By the time she opened the door, it was too late, it won’t be too late for any of us.
John 5:1-4
An angel comes in once a while to stir the pool and whosoever first steps in after the pool is stirred is made whole of whatsoever disease.
There is the demand for a dive to maximise the blessings of any revelation received. You don’t wait, you dive into it.
One man was hanging on there, 38 years, he wouldn’t dive. He was looking for excuses, “there is no man” (John 5:5). Anytime I want to get into the pool, somebody gets in there before me (John 5:6).
It means that anyone’s situation can remain the same for life if he will not respond to what God is saying to him from His Word.
That’s why procrastination is one of the greatest enemies of destiny as we saw in Reuben (Genesis 49:3-4).
“Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel” – to go or not to go; to move or not to move
Now we want to quickly understand what that means in Judges chapter 5 verses 15 and 16.
…To go, not to go
Well, let me think about it. I don’t think this demands this urgency, I can always get 4 people (in) the last week.
Like you got last year?
Procrastination!
“…there were great searchings of heart” (Judges 15:16) – I will go, I will not go. I cannot go, I can’t try.
RUNNING WITH THE PRIZE IN VIEW
Not just running as a participant, running with a determination to be crowned a Prize Winner.
Running with the prize in view!!
As we all know, every vision demands a run for delivery (Habakkuk 2:1-3).
“For the vision is for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak”: you don’t win prizes at the beginning of a race, you win the prize at the end of a race.
Though it tarries, wait for it; it shall surely come to pass. As you keep running, it shall not tarry. Every vision demands a run for delivery. The faster our response, the faster the delivery. Every vision demands a run for delivery.
Life is a race and it answers only to committed runners (Hebrews 12:1-2). Life is a race and it answers only to committed, dedicated runners. Church Gist. Sleepers don’t have a place in the race of life.
People besieged by the spirit of slumber don’t have a place in the race of life. Everyone that will win a prize must be awake and strong and dedicated to win the race.
1 Corinthians 9:24-26
Only runners are ever entitled to prizes. You can imagine a race is flagged off and somebody walks away first, then came back after about one hour to join the race. He knows he is out of the place.
We need to move with the sound of the whistle. Before the whistle landed, you have left. You are trained to respond at the sound of the gun not when the sound is over.
A great start therefore is vital in determining who wins the prize. There is need for a great start, that has been the hallmark of the grace of God upon us in this Ministry.
The Lord delivered the Mandate on the 2nd (May 1981). On the 6th (May 1981), the first platform was set. On the 29th of the same month, the fellowship opened up. Yet there was no premonition the previous week.
“Arise, get down to Lagos” – same day, somebody was on his way here.
“Harvest of Africa is now over ripe” – May 4. By May 6, mysteriously we dedicated the continent of Africa to Jesus. By 14th of June, office set up, previous week, no premonition.
The faster we respond to every signal like this, the faster the delivery of both the results and our rewards.
Wonder Double is not just there to address Church Growth but address your growth, your change of level, your change of story.
“He that winneth souls is wise” and the Bible says, “the wise shall inherit glory” (Proverbs 11:30, Proverbs 3:35).
The wise shall inherit glory – he will be free from shame and reproach.
What are you looking for there?
He that reapeth receiveth wages. Not that God receiveth wages nor the Church receiveth wages (John 4:36)
We are not talking about Wonder Double Church Growth only, we are talking about Wonder Double Glory of your life.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
We obtain an incorruptible crown because whatever the Lord doeth in a man’s life shall be forever (Eccelesiastes 3:14)
“but I keep under my body…” – body, behave. This is the task for the hour. My life is dependent on this, my next level is coming out of this. Body, behave. Church Gist. I don’t want to be a tout who tells others what is available and obtainable and never has anything to show.
It takes self-discipline to ever win a prize.
What then do I expect? Among others:
Returns on spiritual stewardship include joy unspeakable, joy unlimited (Luke 10:17). Every truth of scriptures we engage with stirs joy and rejoicing (Jeremiah 15:16).
Engagement in spiritual stewardship guarantees joy unspeakable that is full of glory.
How? There is joy in Heaven when a soul is saved and whatever a man sows that also shall he reap. Church Gist . You can’t stir joy in Heaven and lack joy on the earth. What you have in return is heavenly joy. By sowing heavenly joy into Heaven, you enjoy heavenly joy returns on the earth (Luke 15:7).
-No one here will ever know the meaning of depression anymore.
I must tell you this Sir, by the grace of God, I have gone through these past 40 years depression free.
Have you been challenged? Grievously so, by people within, people without but no, you can’t take away my joy.
You can’t keep engaging with the truth and lose your joy and joy is a major asset for living a fulfilling life.
There are many many depressed big names. They are on anti-depressants every day but that’s not your case anymore. Free forever.
Everyone engaging in spiritual stewardship ends up a giant. He may begin as a dwarf but he keeps changing level (Daniel 12:3). Ordinary stones becoming a star. We are lively stones, but we can be turned to a star by turning many to righteousness. Every believer is a lively stone but he can be upgraded to a star forever by among others turning many to righteousness.
The good news is many will be turned into stars before Operation ‘Who is on the Lord’s Side?’ is concluded.
The God of overnight turnaround will visit many.
You will deliver the kind of results that God will come down and say, “my son, it is your turn.” Amen.
Somebody engaged passionately, dedicatedly, selflessly, unashamedly for 2 weeks: everything turned.
You have 5 weeks before you, something must turn and it is turning in your favour and it is turning with speed.
-It is turning in your favour and it is turning with speed!!
Overnight, the shepherd boy became the hero. Overnight, in a matter of days. David has slain his ten thousand and Saul his one thousand. Overnight!
Prayer: Take forceful delivery of your supernatural turnaround package ordained for this operation.
It will impact on your family, impact on your children, impact on the works of your hands, impact on your health, impact on everything that concerns you.
Pray aloud. Pray the prayer that must be answered. Lord, I am set for my supernatural turnaround package ordained for this season in the name of Jesus. Pray it with confidence in God, pray it with faith in Him. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Do you know this Church can double in attendance Next Sunday? It doesn’t take time, it takes raw engagement with divine instructions. You will testify.
God does not bless people in secret, He blesses them openly.
-You shall be blessed openly.
-Even your mockers will see it that God has changed your story.
The week is declared your week.
You will be listed among those with great starts.
Your rewards will come with speed.
And the name of the Lord shall be glorified
Shame and reproach shall be wiped off your life, wiped off your family in the name of Jesus.
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