*Every soul winner is God ordained.
- God does not reward leadership, He rewards stewardship.
- That is why God passes the ‘ordained’ and rewards the un-ordained
- People over celebrate what they know at the expense of what they don’t know.
- What you know is what brought you to where you are.
- What you don’t know is what will take you to where you are going to next.
- We need to go after what we don’t know by asking the All-Knowing God.
- You block your way forward If you are not a genuine thanksgiver.
- Get set for diverse visitations in your walk with God.
Without Me, ye can do nothing (John 15:5). Anything that is worth a thing is the doing of the Lord. We are where we are today by the doing of the Lord. We are who we are as individuals and as a people, a Church family by the doing of the Lord. Furthermore, anything marvellous in a believer’s life, anything marvellous among God’s people is the doing of the Lord.
What we saw yesterday is the doing of the Lord.
Thanksgiving
Prayer: Thank You for your marvellous works in our midst. Thank You for your marvellous works in my life. Thank You Jesus for your doings in our midst and your doings in my life. I give you glory, I give you praise.
In Jesus precious name, we have given thanks.
You see giving thanks genuinely, deliberately, heartily always wins the heart of God.
“Were there not 10 cleansed, where are the 9?”
“If you don’t give glory to my name, I will curse your blessings”
So it touches the heart of God. Genuine Thanksgiving touches the heart of God, to preserve His blessings in our lives, to perfect His blessings in our lives and to keep multiplying His blessings in our lives. If you are not a genuine thanksgiver, you are the one blocking your way forward. Church Gist. The one that came back, He moved him forward: others were cleansed, now you are made whole.
Thanksgiving moves God’s people forward. What we saw yesterday is not the doing of this Church nor the doing of our leaders or the doing of your Leader, the Leader of the leaders: It is the doing of the Lord. He is worthy of thanks and praise.
Give Him Praise.
Give Him Glory and Praise.
Give Him a shout of Triumph.
Well what we had yesterday was 1st round dance. The real dance is on Sunday!! The real Foundation dance where all of the saints will be gathered is coming on Sunday because many had assignments here and there and I admonished that they stay on there, but we are coming on Sunday. The Foundation is on and dance the 2nd round dance, we can’t tell how many rounds of dance that will follow but we will dance the 2nd round dance on Sunday.
Are you excited about that, give the Lord the biggest clap offering.
It’s only in Heaven we are going to know what Thanksgiving has done in this Commission. We had a wonder 1 week long crusade, November 1983, 21st to 28th: City wide, Healing and Revival Week. The highest attendance was 63, what a crusade? Out of that 63, 24 came from our home base, so you can imagine the number that came to sympathise with us!
When we were done with that crusade: “All the glory must be to the Lord”
I said: Wait a minute, He has given us the city.
For He is worthy of our praise, no man on earth should give glory to himself. All the glory must be to the Lord.
We took it by Thanksgiving. We touched His heart, He said, “I give it to you.” All the demons in hell knew we took that city.
Please get addicted to a life of thanksgiving as He has made to be by grace in this Commission. The cheapest way to touch the heart of God is to appreciate the operation of His hand in your life.
“Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up” – Psalm 28:5
-No one here shall be destroyed.
Paul said, “I am what I am not because I am a lawyer. I am what I am” (1 Corinthians 15:10)
Some fellows thought Paul is so learned that is why he made such impact – Nonsense
Paul was so engraced, that was what resulted in that impact, nothing else.
You are not where you are because you are smart, smarter people than you have gone.
You are not saved because you are strong, grace just found you. Church Gist. Some fellows heard the same message you heard, the same day you got saved: it didn’t touch them, they even hissed and insulted the Preacher, “These fellows, they think we are …No I am not a…I am sound.” The same day you got saved and joy filled your heart; sorrow filled somebody’s else heart. Grace just found you.
Please let’s remain ever thankful. Without His grace, you will never be where you are, I will never be where I am. To Him be all the praise. Awesome God.
We sat in a meeting, Dr Frederick K.C Price was there at Durbar hotel (Kaduna) and the Lord said to me, “I want you to put a sanctuary at the new site.”
I said: Yes Sir.
We got to the airport, He (God) said, “I want you to go and lay the foundation NOW”
Yes Sir
Any budget? No. So we went and laid the foundation same day, set the something same day and asked them to do this Building in 2 weeks and He did.
Who gets the glory?
Who gave the commandment?
Who made the supplies?
Who gave the speed?
Okay, what have you done? Nothing
You say, “what did you give?”
Response: I can’t remember, what did I have?
Did that stop on any food on your table? No. Nobody felt it in my house. We were building, we were plastering at the same time. God of wonders!
-God will surprise you.
Get set for diverse visitations in your walk with God. It is never ending if you won’t stop working. It is never ending, His ways and acts are new every morning.
-The next few weeks before this Operation is over, you will have definite encounters with God in the name of Jesus Christ.
What is happening is NOT my doing, it is Not our doing.
ENGAGING THE WISDOM FROM ABOVE TOWARDS MASSIVE HARVEST OF SOULS INTO THE KINGDOM
We are fishers of men and fishing requires strategy. You don’t just go to buy nets and go to the sea and be throwing it. You need to know how to make up the net, where to cast the net so you don’t get drowned, when to cast the net, you study the conditions on the sea and when it is calm enough for you to cast your net so you won’t cast yourself into the sea and get away. Strategy!
No one succeeds as a fisherman without engaging fishing strategies!! We need heavenly wisdom to maximise our fishing enterprise, we are fishers of men.
He that winneth souls must be wise (Proverbs 11:30).
The Word says they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament because they will succeed in turning many unto righteousness. They turn many to righteousness and they emerge as stars for ever and ever (Daniel 12:3).
It takes wisdom. God gave me a Word that just fired up the output of our outreaches in 2015.
Acts 3:26 – I read Acts long time, I read it fasting, I read it praying but I never saw it.
“Unto first, God having raised up Jesus, SENT Him TO BLESS YOU in turning away every one of you from his iniquities” – Acts 3:26.
He sent Him first to Bless you: So He (God) said, I have given you the gospel of blessing. So I get a place and say, “God sent me to bless you.” You know as my Father has sent Me, so send I you (John 20:21).
“God sent me to bless you, in the name of Jesus, the year will be your best year”: You will be hearing Amen from every corner. From covered heads, opened heads, everybody.
“Affliction shall no longer become your companion” – Amen
I begin to release those blessings from the heart, not just let’s talk.
We got to a place, you need to see how powerful the strategy was. Nobody was on the way coming, I said, “turn on the microphone or public address system.”
I said: I’m here today, sent by God to proclaim a blessing on people who live in this area. In the name of Jesus, your days of struggles are over.
They started coming from everywhere, everybody left what they were doing, they were just coming.
You know what the bait does to fishes? It attracts them.
By the gospel of blessings, people got out of drug addiction.
wisdom from above is what makes you a sharp threshing instrument.
-The Lord is going to put in your hand the Word that will enhance your output. Church Gist. You will have that Word today.
Then He (God) gave me the Word of light.
“You are once darkness now are ye light in Christ.”
Can darkness stop the way against light? No
Can darkness torment light? No
So when you are born again, you are translated from the kingdom of darkness, you have now become children of light and so darkness cannot torment you anymore. (Do) you want to be saved?
Response on the harvest field: Ahhh my God, I want to be saved.
It is not just preaching, it is the Word in season. Not the gospel of condemnation, NO. The gospel of acceptability: God is looking for you, so He sent me to come and tell you, He has been looking for you, He has been longing for you. It is your opportunity to be saved.
How do we get it? By asking from the Lord. If any man lacks wisdom, you don’t know what else to do, to improve your lot, let him ask of God (James 1:5). If any man lacks wisdom on what next to do and how better to do what He is doing, let Him ask of the Lord.
Don’t sit down there and say, “yes I have done my best”
Look, you fail an exam, you’ve failed. ‘You’ve done your best’ is not tenable. ‘You’ve done your best’, does that equal to pass mark?
-Many A class people will emerge in Kingdom Advancement output this season by just simply asking the Lord.
You know the reason why remain at the same spot for so long is ‘We too know’: we know too much.
“What should I do that I have not done?”
We over celebrate what we know at the expense of what we don’t know and what we know is what brought us to where we are. What we don’t know is what will take us to where we are going to next. So we need to go after what we don’t know by asking the All Knowing God. By simply asking the All Knowing God.
“Father, You are All Knowing. What to do next I don’t know. 2 Sundays have passed, I have not been able to bring one person. What must I do? Which way should I go? Where is the harvest field waiting? What must I do?”
We ask God and He shows us!!
We devised new strategy in my Outreach team this last week because we are constantly improving on how better, how much we can get better results, which way to go and all that…standing in God’s presence and receiving insight from above that will improve our lot.
-You will not labour in vain.
If you take a stick and your task is to fell a tree, the stick will break, your hand will pain you: you take another one. You can take 50 sticks, it won’t cut that tree, it won’t bring it down.
But get a proper cutlass and you sharpen it. Some may think you are a fool when you are sharpening it and then you come back: “hmmnnn, thank You Jesus!!”
While the man using stick is dying, the tree is down.
-You won’t labour in vain, your energy will not be wasted in the name of Jesus.
All this will happen if you truly have a passion to see souls saved.
We attract wisdom from above among others through meditation (Psalm 119:97-100)
“Thy testimonies are my meditation.” I am not being entertained by your testimonies, I am meditating on them to know which way to go myself – Psalm 119:100
“I understand more than the ancients” – because I keep my findings that I make through my meditations.
We attract wisdom from above by the wisdom from above that others have engaged with and have gotten results.
Help me say this, “My God is a lover of multitudes. As I continue to make my contribution to bringing multitudes, I am honouring Him and he that honours Me, I will honour” (1 Samuel 2:30)
-Your Year of Honour has finally come.
-No one will identify you with any form of reproach anymore. Your Year of Honour is here.
He said in the multitude of people is the King’s honour (Proverbs 14:28). He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, when you engage with the task of bringing people to His house, to turn the place into multitudes, you are honouring Him and he that honours Him, He will honour (Revelation 19:16).
-Your time of honour is here.
Now God does not reward membership, He rewards only stewardship.
Everyone shall be rewarded according to his membership: NO, according to his own Labour (1 Corinthians 3:8).
God does not reward membership, He rewards only stewardship.
Just imagine… that only 50 percent of the people in this Church are committed to bringing one person, we need 2 Sundays to double the attendance. We need how many?
If 25 percent only are genuinely committed and under necessity bring 4 people, we are double the number in 1 Sunday. In how many?
That tells you the level of engagement of individuals in a Kingdom task.
Somebody is praying, another has never prayed. All the prayer manual given to them is just kept neatly for their children and children’s children to know they were ‘Winners’.
Some have never invited anybody: Invitation only sir, (they) have never invited anybody. They think they are doing it for Papa. My God, they think so but not you. You are thinking right now!!
I have been jumping like this virtually all my life, I wasn’t a Pastor of a Church: Jumping. I am not jumping for crowd to come to Church, I am jumping to get people into the Kingdom and it is working for me. Church Gist.
I have never begged. If I do, ask anyone, “Did he beg from you?”
-Somebody’s story is being rewritten right now.
All we are doing is we are on a rescue mission, to get people out of the torture and torments of the wicked, bring them to the Lover of their soul so they can live a life of fulfillment, a life of meaning and make Heaven at the end.
Say with me one more time:
God does not reward membership, He only rewards stewardship!!
Listen, God does not reward leadership. Say it with me, “He only rewards stewardship.”
God does not reward ordination, “I’m ordained, I’m ordained”: we are all ordained.
Every fruit bearer is an ordained member of the Body of Christ. There is no harassment, ‘I am ordained’!
Are you more ordained than anybody else because…
Every soul winner is ordained by God, not by Papa. By God.
Which ordination is stronger, the one by God or the one by Papa?
Every Soul Winner is God ordained. God
That is why He passes many ordained and goes to reward the un-ordained.
We had a funny thing, some of our brethren that went to pastor some of the Churches, they say, “they are brothers”
I said: are the other ones sisters?
I said: Where are they from? They said, “they are not ordained”
I said: Who told you?
He called me to the Apostolic Ministry without me knowing there is a need for any ordination in my life. If you check our Accounts, you will find ‘Brother David’, you will find the account there. It is not Apostle David.
-God will surprise you.
You don’t need to be known by any man. Whatever He sees you doing in secret, He will reward openly.
Prayer: Speak to these next 2 days, today and tomorrow. Lord, make me an effective, sharp threshing instrument. Grant me access to heavenly wisdom that will enhance my output. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our Covenant Day of Protection is next Sunday. Everybody is looking for how to be shielded from the arrows of the wicked. Market it with all your being.
Fliers: Call for the breath of the Holy Ghost to come afresh upon these fliers. Turn them into effective sickles of harvest in drafting multitude into the Kingdom, to the glory and praise of our God. In Jesus name.
The same goes over all of our tracts, everyone holding them now is coming under conviction. Everyone that will yet receive between today and tomorrow will come under conviction.
Tomorrow evening, there shall be mammoth ingathering at the WSF centres and on Sunday, there will be no room in the inn. It shall be a holy invasion in the name of Jesus.
Be openly rewarded.
Before this Operation is over, you are a man and a woman to be wondered at.
Give Him thanks and praise
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