*It may take time but patiently wait.
*Stay at it, the mockery will be turned to divine making
Make that clap loud for Jesus.
Please join me lift up your hands to the Lord in holy adoration. Let’s thank him from the depths of our hearts. Let’s give him the glory due to him, no one like him. Jesus we are gathered together to you again. For unto you shall the gathering of your people be and you never ask anyone to seek you in vain. Our being here tonight shall not be in vain. It shall be for our gains. In the precious name of Jesus, we thank you, blessed be your name. In Jesus glorious name we have prayed.
Heavenly Father it is unto you that we have gathered. We have gathered unto you the light, the wisdom, the enlightenment, the empowerment. Tonight reach out to everyone. Let your word run swiftly. Let your word be effectual. Let utterance be given. Let every soul be blessed. Thank you mighty father.
Tonight it is my privilege to bring this first word in the encounter night – Day 4.
UNDERSTANDING THE WONDERS OF DEDICATION
John 12: 23-26
Every child of God is a seed after the order of Christ. Jesus came as a seed and his glorification was not known until he died. So death is passage to life. If you don’t want to die, God does not reckon with you. If you pity a seed not to sow it to the ground, it has no future. The hope of the seed is the soil. The helper of the seed is the soil. So also the helper of our destiny is dedication. In this subject, we want to see how powerful a seed can become, how great a seed can become if only it is willing to die.
Now before Jesus left he said “as the father as sent me, so send I you.” So if he came as seed, he sent us to be seeds and he expects us to follow the process that he went through. Without contact with soil, seed cannot be maximized and that is why the tiniest seed has the potential of becoming a great tree. If you see a seed, inside this is a great tree. Church Gist. So inside every believer is potential to be great. Jesus came potentially as great but the greatness did not emerge until he contacted death. When you sow a seed, you have literally sentenced it to death in the soil. And that is what destiny is about.
We can never maximize destiny without dedication. Just any seed no matter how little or ugly it looks can become great and that is why no matter how low you are as a child of God, pushed to the corner, thrown in the gutter, beaten and battered, you can change the course of your life by dedication. We just heard testimony tonight of those three young men, beaten, battered, the one who led the testimony, called all kinds of name- one trouser preacher, because he was recognized by that one trouser he wore everytime, but he was sold out. Not one month, not one year, two years, three years! Before the seed came out as a tree. It may take a while in your dedication but your end is distinction. It may take a while being dedicated, being lost but your end is distinction. Genesis 8:22.
Just anything can be made out of you if you are dedicated. If you know no man, if you have no contact with anyone other than being dedicated, your destiny is sure to be distinguished. Every one of us who have been dedicated to serving God, very shortly your world will tell your story. Mark 4:30-33. Every time Jesus mentioned seed, he mentioned about sowing it. Because what makes the seed is about sowing it. If you sow your seed, you will grow up, birds will come to find shadow. If you don’t sow your life as a seed, birds will eat you up. Seeds unsown is at a risk of being eaten by birds, but when it is sown it becomes a shade for the birds that should have eaten it. So our security lies in our dedication. Dedication is key to maximizing returns on our stewardship.
Dedication is the spiritual soil for fruitfulness of destiny. Just as soil is a necessity to a seed, so is your dedication a necessity to your destiny. It’s not what you like to do, but a necessity to your soul, it’s not convenient but it’s a necessity to your destiny.
WHAT THEN IS DEDICATION?
- Dedication is serving God without reservation. Matthew 22:37-38. Serving God without reservation. Not holding back anything. Been dedicated is the great commandment that leads to man’s greatness. If you want to become great, sow your life as a seed dedicated unto the Lord.
- Dedication means to be dead to self and alive to God. In the pursuit of any kingdom task. Philippians 1:21, 1 Corinthians 9:16. Necessity is the language of dedication. It is not the language of convenience. There are those who are serving God in convenience. It won’t take you far.
Years ago in the testimony of God’s servant, he said concerning some people they said “brother David, you are taking this thing too hard, you are taking it too hard its not as serious.” Those who didn’t take it serious then are on the floor. Those who took it serious like him are enjoying the beauty and the glory of it. If you don’t take it hard, you will never fly. - Dedication is all about making one’s life a seed unto God after the order of Christ. Dedication is all being sold out to God and to the advancement of His Kingdom. Dedication also means in the word of God’s servant, being deadly committed to a course. Church Gist. Tie your life to it. If you sink, you sink. If you survive, you survive. Not having an alternative, burning the bridge, no turning back. That is dedication.
I also define dedication as been sold out to a course at a cost. If it cost you nothing, it will pay you nothing. Church Gist. Any assignment that will not cost you something including shame and reproach will never pay you anything. If you have not been mocked for serving God, query your dedication.
If you have not been abused for following Jesus, perhaps you are yet to be dedicated because God will allow people to mock you before He will make you. They will laugh at you the laughter of jest before God will glorify you with the laughter of joy.
- Very shortly people will surround you to laugh at your victory.
- They will laugh with you for the liftings of your life.
When I was growing up, specially coming up in the ministry, I never heard any message from any of my relations to even find out how are you doing there? But when the glory began to come from the six zone, calls were coming in from left and center; just to know how you are doing, when can we come and see you? I said wait first.
Nobody checks the seed in the soil. The seed is paying the price for its glorification. When people don’t check on you, they mock you, they think you are crazy for serving the Lord they way you are, just tell them to wait because very soon they will see your glory.
- For every true believer in this assembly and beyond serving the Lord, very shortly your glory will show
- Binding yourself to a course. Tying your life to serving Jesus. Jesus all the way, come sun, come rain, morning, afternoon, evening, Jesus all the way. Church Gist. No one ever regret following after Jesus if he truly does so.
Until your life becomes a seed and willingly sown to the kingdom heart, you can never experience supernatural fruitfulness.
In this kingdom, dedication to God and the interest of His kingdom is the mistery behind the rise of giants (Isaiah 51:1-3).
Jesus Christ is our perfect example on the subject of dedication (John 10:17-18). Do you want to win the love of God? Lay down your life. It is lives that are dedicated that gets the attention of God. If you watch every seed down, it has capacity to come out by itself. Nobody helps the seed to come out of the ground as plant. Church Gist. So it is natural, once you sold yourself as a seed to the soil, you leave it there. What follows dedication is distinction. When it is time for the seed to become plant, no matter how hard the surface of the soil is, it cannot be stopped.
Once you pay the price for dedication, the next class is distinction but this calls for patience (Hebrews 12:1-2). Many believers miss it because they cannot wait. Cross represent dedication.
Thrones await the dedicated.
- You will get there
- You will not miss your throne
When you pay your due of dedication, what is the next level? Enthronement
People look at the beauty of this ministry today, you need to find out the patient that was been engaged.
When it is looking longer and longer for you in your dedication without seeing the harvest, stay on in the soil. That means He is not done with you yet. Because when the soil is done with, it spring you forth. Mark 4:28.
Patience is required. If you are not patient then you cannot be dedicated. If you are in a hurry, you cannot be distinguished. The moment a farmer goes to open the soil to check out how the seed is doing, it has already killed it. Many of us go back to check over and over again unnecessarily. It is not your duty, the earth bringeth forth fruit of its own.
You are not the owner of the soil, you are just a seed. Yours is to throw yourself in the belly of the soil, leave the remaining to the soil. Throw yourself into the hand of God. He knows what He is doing. Church Gist. He is aware they are mocking you, He is away they are jesting you. He is aware you are under the sun, somewhere under the bridge preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is watching.
It may take time but patiently wait. So get dedicated.
- Very shortly, all who have despise you will come under the shadow of your branches.
- They call you unemployed today, very soon you will employ them.
- They mocked you for not having enough food to eat today, just stay on dedicated to the Lord, they will come to bow and bend at your feet in the precious name of Jesus
James 5:7
-Lift up your hands and receive grace for dedication and patiently sown
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