- Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr
(1st Charge, Hour of Visitation, Day 3)
Our Father we thank You today for the blessing of been in Your presence. We thank You Lord for we know that You have brought us today for an encounter with You. By Your word, let each one of us be changed. Let our lives be transformed and let Your name be glorified. Accept our thanksgiving in Jesus precious name we have prayed. Amen.
This morning I want to begin by appreciating God for this privilege given to me to stand upon this altar and I want to also appreciate my father, both in the flesh and in the spirit for laying for us an example. Church Gist. The Bible says David told Solomon, know that the God of your father and I believe that the greatest heritage that I and my siblings have been given is to be taught to know God and that has been taught to us not only be instructions but also by observation. Therefore I say thank you Sir.
Give Jesus a big hand.
We are going into God’s word this morning and I believe God that the Holy Spirit will give us light and understanding. The subject we are examining in this session today is:
SERVING GOD, A COVENANT REQUIREMENT FOR MAXIMIZING THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE PROMISED LAND
- For somebody here, the blessing of the promised land shall be manifested in your life.
We have been made to understand the reality of the fact that God is the God of times and season (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Church Gist. And with God, the number 40 years represent the entrance of His people into their land of promise and we have been told that all that we have experienced before now can be liken to the wilderness and what we are about to begin to experiencing is what will be our promised land.
If the wilderness has been this glorious, then watch out for what the promised land will be because somebody here will become a wonder to behold.
However we have been made to understand that the promised land is govern by laws and it is the laws of the land that determines our residency in the land (Deuteronomy 11:18). If you are going to be in this land, you must look at what He has commanded (Deuteronomy 11:22).
The question therefore is, what are the commandments that must be kept for your residency to be secured in the land of promise? Church Gist. Deuteronomy 11:11-13
…to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
If you are going to be resident in the land, this two commandments are principal in determining our stay. Church Gist. You and I both know that in every nation, nations have law that determine whether you can be resident there or not and when the law is violated, your residency is revoked.
In the same vein, the promised land has laws that must be kept and two of the principal laws are pointed to us in that Scripture.
- I pray this morning for each one of us, the grace to love God fervently and to serve Him passionately will come afresh each one of us.
Therefore serving God is a principal requirement for anyone to experience the blessings of the promised land (Exodus 23:25-26). If you are going to enjoy the blessing in the land, you must be committed to engaging in serving God in the land (Isaiah 1:19). Obedience to the commandments of stewardship is what allows you to position for the consumption of the good of the lord land.
I will like you to understand that when God tells us about the promised land, it is a good land. It is a land filled with goodies for His people but the condition upon which you and I can partake of the goodies provided is for you and I to line up with the commandments of serving Him (Job 36:11).
Loving God, serving God, vital commandments to enjoy the blessings of the promised land.
- I pray again for each one of us that by the encounter you are having upon this mountain, the grace to love God fervently and to serve God passionately will come afresh upon each of us.
Scripturally, you cannot love God and not love what He loves. You can’t claim to love God and not love what He loves (John 21:15-17). I love God is not an exclamation. Loving God is in demonstration and you cannot claim to love Him without loving what He loves. Every true lover of God will love what God loves and what does God love the most?
John 3:16
The word ‘so’ in this passage is a qualifier. It means that it is not just something that He is interested in, it is something that is priority. What God loves the most is,He loves the lost and if anyone is a true lover of God, there heart will go after the lost. In other words, the demonstration of the authenticity of your love of God is your fervency in pursuit of the lost. We find this all through the Scripture, anywhere you see a man on fire for God, you find a man that is in pursuit of the lost. Romans 1:16
Anytime you find a genuine lover of God, he is an excited advertiser of Christ. Church Gist. He introduces Christ everywhere He goes. Christ is his identity, Christ is his expression.
- From today I see that grace coming upon each one of us in the name of Jesus.
So if you are going to be a dweller in the good land, in the promised land, then you must be committed to advertising Christ (Deuteronomy 11:10, Ephesians 6:15). Church Gist.You must be a propagator of the gospel for you to walk comfortably in the good land. It is those that advertise Christ everywhere that enjoyed the promised land everywhere.
Further more, it is important that we understand according to Scriptures, soul winning is every believer’s responsibility. It is not for the selected few. Every child of God is ordained a soul winner (John 15:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17-20).
There is something in your mouth that can be utilised as an instrument of harvest. The moment you are a new creature, you are ordained by God to be a soul winner (John 4:29-39).
- Wherever you go, multitudes will be turned into the Lord.
WHAT ARE THE BLESSINGS THAT ACCOMPANYING SOUL WINNING?
- Soul Winning keeps us going in the faith. Our stability is determined by our productivity in the faith. The more fruitful you are, the more stable you are ( Acts , John 15:1-2). Our fruitfulness determines our usefulness and our usefulness determines our stability (Luke 13:7)
It takes an open commitment to advertising the Kingdom to be stable in the faith
- Soul winning secures us partnership with God which results in supernatural breakthroughs. Matthew 28:19-20. Any man that is on the go for Christ is on the go with God. Anywhere you find him, you find God with him and what happens when God is by your side? Is that every gate lift up their head ( Psalm 24:7-20)
There are doors that cannot open for you alone but no door will stay close for you and God. When God is by your side, there is no opposition that can stand before you (Psalm 114:1-7). You can’t carry God and suffer close doors in life. When you appear, the doors open because of the One that is standing with you.
Isaiah 45:1-3
You can’t carry God and it will not show. The doors must open on your behalf.
-As the grace for soul winning comes afresh upon you, every closed door shall open on your behalf.
We had one of us, standing on this altar yesterday, she shared her testimony, how she came to this Commission as a little one, broke without any kind of direction, nothing to look forward to but as she settled. As she began to engage with the Word of God: as she did that, miracle job landed. As she did that, husband arrived. As she did that, miracle child arrived.
Because no door can stay closed when God is by your side.
From today, I see grace coming upon you to sustain divine partnership by soul winning
- Soul Winning sows joy unto Heaven which returns heavenly joy to the soul winner on the earth (Luke 15:7). Heaven rejoices over the repentance of one soul and the law of the Kingdom is whatever you sow, you reap.
What happens when this joy comes? What is the effect of this joy?
i.Supernatural strength – Nehemiah 8:10
-I pray today that every hold of wickedness be destroyed in the name of Jesus
ii.Supernatural health -Proverbs 17:22
-I see every hold of sickness, every hold of disease being cleared off the way in the name of Jesus
iii.Access to revelation – Isaiah 60:1, 8
-You will never be cornered again.
With light you cannot remain on the ground, you take flight. When the joy of heaven is multiplied into you, there is a stirring of your wings to take flight.
-I see you taking flight in the name of Jesus.
As this grace comes upon you, you will no longer be found on the ground but you shall take flight supernaturally in the name of Jesus Christ.
Soul winning brings about supernatural wisdom which causes the star in us to rise. Proverbs 11:30, Daniel 12:3
Soul winners end up as stars on the earth.
-You may be in a corner somewhere, but your star is about to rise.
I don’t know if you have ever noticed where the sun is rising from, you discover that it is rising from the place of obscurity, you can’t see anything, it is in the corner, outside of observation but suddenly it begins to rise.
They are those who may be in a corner, nobody is seeing you but suddenly you’ll begin to rise
And when the sun rises, there is no eye that can claim not to see it.
As your star rises, no eye will be able to claim ignorance of it, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer: Lord, I receive grace, this soul winner’ grace, let it come afresh upon my life.
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