*Be instructed by testimonies, refuse to be entertained by them.
- People are so interested in the products, they don’t like the process.
- Find out the process, follow the process.
*You will have the same products. - It is only the Word that the Lord gives that produces results.
- Word increase equals Church increase.
I want you to please continue to remember testimonies are pointers to what God wants to do in your life. something unusual is happening, it is still ongoing: the supernatural replication of Cells this year. It all began with one study we did, harvesting testimonies from those who have succeeded in growing Cells. We put that together in what we call, ‘Proven Strategies for Cell Growth and Replication.’ What we have seen this year, by our regular cell growth system would have taken 4 years, but by harvesting these testimonies and breaking them down into ‘what and what they did to get the kind of results they got’, see what is happening. That’s how testimonies reproduce themselves in the lives of people. That is us learning from people that we taught, who have applied what they were taught to suit the places where they were scripturally and generating results.
There is no apartheid in knowledge, somebody has gotten a testimony, find out the process. You are interested, follow the process, you will have the same products.
Now over 9,000 Cells replicated in 8 weeks.
Follow the same process. People are so interested in the products, they don’t like the process. Follow the process.
You can’t be deliberate and intense, praying Kingdom Advancement prayers without being visited. No!
God who sees your labour in secret, He will reward you openly (Matthew 6:6).
You can’t be passionate about souls and not be rewarded. He that gathers shall receive wages, so there is a payback for every investment on the field (John 4:36).
And we can see those paybacks and those rewards being enumerated by people, live not stories that you are hearing from somewhere else. All those testimonies have telephone numbers, they can give you the telephone numbers to call them. They are swimming in God’s payback by their raw obedience to God’s commandment. - Something must turn loose in your life.
If somebody replicated 13 times in one year, we should learn from him. What did you do Sir? There is nothing wrong with that.
I will repeat again: Never just get entertained by testimonies, get instructed by them.
Psalm 119:144, 111
Get instructed by these testimonies.
Don’t sit down somewhere and say, “you see!!”
I can’t see. You want to see what they saw, do what they did.
-The turnaround package ordained for you this year shall not be lost to spiritual insensitivity and spiritual slothfulness.
Whatever He tells you to do, do it (John 2:5). Stop wishing, stop waiting. Whatever He tells you to do, do it. You don’t go forward sitting down; you go forward taking steps.
WHY MUST WE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR CHURCH GROWTH?
We all know that it takes the Word to sustain supernatural Church growth.
John 6:66-68
Jesus turned to His disciples, “will ye also go away?” It was at that time, that many of the disciples went back from Him after the mystery of the Communion was unveiled, it was too hard for them.
“You have the Word of eternal life” – John 6:68
It takes the Word to sustain supernatural Church growth. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles shall be gathered together (Matthew 24:28).
Wherever God is speaking life, people naturally gather. Wherever God is addressing issues and they are seeing results, people will normally gather. You can’t have the answer and not have the people. People have problems, they are looking for answers and Jesus said, “come unto Me all ye that labour and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Come and LEARN of Me the way out of your trouble and you will find rest for your soul” (Matthew 11:28-29). That is why they can’t come except the Word is there that helps them to know the way out of their trouble.
Come and learn of Me the way out of your predicament.
“I am meek and lowly in heart”: come with meekness, come with lowliness of heart. Stop bragging, “I have done everything that I should do.” No, you are yet to do the right thing. When you and I do the right thing, it will bring forth. God is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19)
“God show me the way to go, show me the way out’: you come with a heart crying to know the way out.
Many are so proud Sir. As far as they are concerned, God is at fault. As far as they are concerned, they have done everything that God said.
We must continue to pray for the flow of the Word to keep the Church growing and sustain her growth because only the Word that the Lord gives produces fruits. The Lord gave the Word and great is the company of them that publish it (Psalm 68:11). So the Word has to come from God.
“You have not because you ask not”: so we have to pray for the release of the Word that will speak to the issues of the lives of people and bring them out their troubles; turn their trials to testimonies (James 4:2). That’s why we must pray.
Matthew 7:8
“Lord, send us the Word that will generate answers to the issues of concern in the lives of people. Send us solution bearing Words. Send us your healing Words that will heal the broken hearted.”
That’s why we must pray. Watch, if everybody here today will pray for the release of fresh Word this coming Sunday, you will see wonders.
Paul, the great, said, “brethren, pray for us that the Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you” (2 Thessalonians 3:1).
Pray for us: that the Word of the Lord may flow freely. As God gives utterance, flow freely. Like in the day of Pentecost, flow freely; bringing solutions to long standing problems of people (Acts 2:1).
We serve a problem-solving God: He solves our problems through His Word. So as we pray for the Word, you’ll find people’s problems just tearing apart. You find God turning their trials into testimonies.
Say with me, “I serve a problem-solving God and He solves problems through His Word”
Psalm 107:20
It is the sent Word that heals. It is the sent Word that delivers.
Job 6:25 – How forcible, powerful are the words from the Lord.
Isaiah 50:4 – we have this prophetic Word concerning Christ
“…a word in season to him that is weary”: A Word to bring life back to him that is weary. The Word in season stirs hope, opens up the future.
So what are we doing? We are praying for the right Word in every Service. We are praying for the sent Word in every Service. We are praying for the Word in season in every Service. As that comes through, we find results everywhere.
When goods increase, they increase that eat it (Ecclesiastes 5:11). As the Word increases, the multitudes increase.
Acts 6:7
Word increase equals Church increase.
“Lord, send your Word in increasing dimension that will keep this Church on the path of growth for life.”
You know it is what we ask that we receive, so let’s go ahead and engage in demanding for life transforming, ever increasing dimension of the Word coming from our altar and the husbandman that labour must be a first partaker of the fruits. Church Gist. When you pray, you become a first partaker of the blessings that flows through it. Put that to work, today, tomorrow and watch what will happen on Sunday.
Malachi 3:6 – I am the Lord, I change not.
Specially take the ‘Intercessory Prayer Guideline on Life Transforming Word’: it is one of our packages and engage intensively; that everyone coming on Sunday will return with His Word.
You know until the time that his word came, talking about Joseph, the word of the Lord tried him, but when his word came, the king sent and loosed him (Psalm 105:19).
Everybody’s word must come this Sunday.
Everybody: new converts, old members, invitees. Everybody’s Word that will open up the next chapter of their lives must come down this Sunday.
Pray from the depth of your heart: send us your Word, your solution bearing Word, your healing Word, your deliverance Word, your life transforming Word, your chapter opening Word, your problem solving Word, your hope stirring Word. Send us your Word this Sunday like never before. Let your Word come in increasing dimension this coming Sunday. Surprise us by your Word this Sunday.
Pray for all the altars of this Commission around the world: let your Word go forth with power this coming Sunday. All around the world, let your Word go forth with power this coming Sunday. Do only what You alone can do this coming Sunday.
In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
I heard this statement from the sage, T.L Osborne of blessed memory, he said, “when you stop learning, you start dying.” I heard it from him direct in 1990: when you stop learning, you start dying.
We were in Kenneth Hagin’s office and we saw him reading the book of T.L Osborne: The Faith that Works. Now this is the father of faith (Kenneth Hagin), he is reading from an evangelist the ‘Faith that Works.’ Light can break forth from anywhere.
These precious people sharing those testimonies that we categorized, I mean, they were teaching me a lot of things. They don’t know anything about Cells, it is me who taught them but now they have put it to work; have seen how it applies and it is working. So it is wisdom to say, “hey folks, see what people have done with the Word. See how it has worked where they are. Put it to work, it will work too in your life.” Amazing things. Now I can’t tell how many thousands God is taking us to this year, I can’t tell.
-God will change your story!
Refuse to be entertained by testimonies. God has destroyed cancer before. He has destroyed every kind of disease you can imagine; just find out what they did. You know what we did in ‘Signs and Wonders Today’: it is a compendium of testimonies. Whatever you want, go to the section, check it through, carefully find out what they did, plug yourself into it, you are okay. Glory to God.
The testimony of Church growth of Yonggi Cho is a major factor in the growth of this Church. I kept searching for it since 1985, I kept studying it since 1985. We started seeing it and we are still seeing it till tomorrow.
-It’s your Year of Turnaround. Don’t wait for it, work at it. Don’t wish for it, put it to work. Whatever has refused to turn hitherto must turn this year.
We are very close to the 40th Anniversary, that prophetic feast: prepare yourself like never before because God must visit you there by opening your heart to receive Him.
SPEAK TO THE DAY AND TOMORROW: Ask the Lord to engrace you on the prayer altar, to pray like never before and see the results of your prayers this coming Sunday.
“I must see the results of my prayers this coming Sunday!! In the name of Jesus Christ.”
Tomorrow is Saturday, we are going to be having our Prayer Mountain: we’ll have 30 minutes extension in prayers and we will be taking on also prayers for the 40th Anniversary. It shall be awesome. So get ready for it.
What a day. It is your day. Today is your day. Take hold of it, take hold of the day. It must respond to what you desire.
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