-Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
* I heard a lot of “Bro David, we have other things to do.”
*My response was “I don’t have any other thing to do.”
*I was not called to Ministry but I was gaining strength, going from strength to strength and it is showing today.
*When you are in a revival, going to Church is natural.
*You don’t see it as wasting time.
*I have been jumping like this since 1976, not 1981.
Give Him thanks for the mighty revival that is taking place out here. Give Him thanks for the revival in your life. Give God thanks for those amazing testimonies of the blessings and benefits of revival. Give Him thanks and give Him praise. There is no one like our God, thank You Lord Jesus and blessed be your name in Jesus precious name we have given thanks.
Ensure that revival fire is in step, every act of your life. Don’t murmur words in prayers.
Don’t stand and wonder, ‘what’s going on?’: Revival is going on.
Jesus speak again to me this morning; speak to me again this morning. Fire me up by your Word. Jesus, fire me up by your Word this morning!!!
Thank You Father, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Every wave of the sea brings along certain treasures to the shores. Every move of God is a wave of the sea spiritually, carrying treasures along with it and those who are interested will start picking whatever is of interest to you. There is no revival without treasures that add values to those engaging with it.
-May the values of this Revival Season be evident in the lives of everyone of us in the name of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, show up again this Morning, speak to us by Your Word, spark up a new beginning, let fire start burning on our prayer altar and make each one of us partakers of the great treasures that this season carries along. In Jesus precious name.
WHAT IS A REVIVAL?
Remember we are in the midst of the year where God is out to execute His revival agenda among His people. Habakkuk said, “revive thy work o God in the midst of the year” (Habakkuk 3:2).
It’s a season where God makes known His power when He unleashes His mercy and moves His people forward.
It’s a season where God clears off all everlasting mountains on our part and levels out all perpetual hills, thereby making a highway for us in the journey of life (Habakkuk 3:6).
It’s a season where God becomes our strength, He makes our feet like hinds feet and gets us upon our high places (Habakkuk 3:19).
Now that is the story of Habakkuk chapter 3 beginning from verse 2 to 19.
But what is a revival?
A revival is said to occur when the spirit of prayer and supplication is poured out on God’s people with accompanying testimonies. People being empowered by the spirit into next levels in their prayer life. People becoming addicted to Kingdom advancement prayers, thereby being empowered to operate in the supernatural.
Zechariah 12:10
He calls it the spirit of grace and supplication.
Zechariah 10:1
We are in a revival season, it’s the time of rain
“Lord, pour upon me the spirit of grace and supplication; revive my prayer life into next levels so I can experience the fullness of your agenda for me in this revival.”
Romans 8:26 – There is the help of the Holy Spirit. There is the need for the help of the Holy Spirit to remain fervently, consistent on the altar of prayer. Not praying aloud in Church and going to dead silence all the way through until you are back in Church.
“Lord, I desire the rain of prayer in my life.”
The latter rain has been mentioned to wipe away shame and reproach (Zechariah 10:1, Joel 2:26).
You can engage the outpouring of the latter rain to wipe away every trace of shame and reproach in our lives.
A revival is said to occur when there is a raw manifestation of the spirit of grace and supplication upon God’s people. When praying Kingdom Advancement prayers become their new lifestyle. Where engaging with fervency becomes their new way of life. When they pray with focus, they pray with target, they pray to see the hand of God.
A revival is also said to occur when going to Church becomes a way of life for God’s people. People in a revival don’t get coerced to go to Church.
Church going becomes their lifestyle, they are not struggling with it. Their heart rejoices at every time to be in God’s presence.
Acts 2:46 -47
When a revival broke out in the Upper room, this was their experience. Going to Church entitles us to baptism of favour (Acts 2:47). When you are in a revival, going to Church is natural. Going to Church does not make you look, you don’t think you are wasting time, you are gaining time. You are gaining time.
“I don’t have time!” Now, you are dying gradually without knowing. Dying gradually without knowing!
It’s just like auction: going, going, going, gone.
You don’t go at once, you’re just going, going, going…gone.
Psalm 84:1 – How amiable are thy tabernacles. What an attraction, what a privilege are thy tabernacles O Lord of hosts. You see that decoration all the way, (Psalm chapter 84 verses) 1 to 11.
That is the blessedness of the House: You go from strength to strength (Psalm 84:7). Every time you appear before the Lord, you are strengthened as you are going out. You go from strength to strength.
Awesome God. That’s what happens when going to Church becomes a delight.
Not “Let’s go, ‘I’m coming.’ I’m going. You see, we have other things to do.”
I heard many of that growing up: “Bro David, we have other things to do.”
Response: I don’t have any other thing to do.
I was not called to Ministry but I was gaining strength, going from strength to strength and it is showing today.
Please note as we round up, we are in a race. No one wins the prize in any race without adequate exercises. You don’t win in a race sleeping all the way: eating all ‘eatables’, sleeping all ‘sleepables’.
I don’t like walking in the night: That is when there is no examination. Church Gist. Every student likes it. You don’t have to like it, you are to exercise yourself in it or you fail flat.
1 Timothy 4:7-8
“They are just lucky, there is nothing there.”
Exercising oneself to spiritual things is profitable unto all things because to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Romans 8:6). It takes exercise to win the prize in any race. Therefore, step out and begin to exercise yourself on the altar of prayer.
The Church has made it easy for us by the help of the Holy Spirit, you have all of this Prayer outlines:
-Personal Spiritual Awakening: Make sure you pray this prayer every day to keep your spirit man on fire and not just be a religious Church member. Become a spiritually robust member of the body of Christ whose spirit man is on fire all the day.
-Supernatural Church Growth Intercessory Prayer Outline: Every revival culminates in massive salvation of souls and supernatural Church growth. That’s the evidence of a revival.
So you have these prayer outlines, you exercise yourself. Exercise yourself! You may not start at that great speed but as you exercise yourself in 10 minutes consistent focused prayer, it will soon graduate to 15 minutes, then to 20 minutes. then to 30 minutes, then to 1 hour. Then you are going. No exercise for an athlete, no future. The future of every athlete is commitment and dedication to required exercises. No one excels in sports without exercise. No one excels in any sport without exercise.
1 Corinthians 9:24
So run: it’s a race, it is not a club.
“I therefore so run” – that’s Paul’s testimony (1 Corinthians 9:26-27).
“But I put my body under”: “Come on now, WAKE UP. You must do this.”
We have to exercise ourselves or we are going nowhere. Paul said, “herein I exercise myself to always having a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men” (Acts 24:16).
You can’t be godly without exercise. You can’t win the prize in a race without exercise.
Let us therefore run the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:2). It’s a race. We are running a race, we need to exercise ourselves in it.
-Praying for Life Transforming Word in our Services: “O Lord, let your Word come alive today in our Service. Do the unusual today. Let your Word have an entrance today.”
They are all here.
You don’t have to pray all those lines the same day. You can hang on one and the spirit of prayer and supplication comes on you; you are pressing and pressing; you get to Church, you see exactly what you are praying coming to happen. That’s the way it goes.
Again, my prayer is that no one here will remain a prayer project, where everybody is praying for you, let’s pray for him. You become a prayer project among people. That’s not your rank, that’s not where you belong.
My prayer is that everyone here will experience a massive spiritual transformation in the course of this Midst of the Year.
-Praying for Church Members: Because in praying for them lies the answer to your own prayers.
-Praying for Fruitful Outreaches: Getting on the massive Operation beginning from Monday and you are intensely praying. You see, if you can eat, you can pray. That you are not going out, doesn’t mean that ‘okay, you don’t have time.’
You don’t have time to eat? So you don’t have to time to pray!
You are not praying, you are not going out: you are not in a revival! Stop pretending, you are not in a revival.
“You know I am not able to go about. You see, my legs”: Okay, what of your mouth? Your leg! What of your mouth? You use that mouth to eat every day.
You can’t frustrate a man in a revival. God’s presence strengthens him, stirs him up day and night. Church Gist. I want to thank God for grace, but I have been jumping like this since 1976 not 1981 sir. I have been jumping about like this since. I have not seen one time in my life that I went to the mountain to pray and I’m praying for things. You can ask God when you meet Him.
That I sat on the mountain and said, “God, what I need now is a house!” Never.
And as I keep pressing His Kingdom forward, He keeps value to me day and night.
There are many like that in this Church today: singleheartedness. They were eating their bread with single heart. They were focused.
Watch the wonders of God this time: you will be amazed that your God is so much alive only that you didn’t know. You have not engaged Him. You will see Him in action.
Whatever is a concern to your life, He will level them out as if they never existed as you stay focused, doing what He says to do.
Let this week be a week where there will be clear evidence of the outpouring of the spirit of grace and supplication on your life.
Let this week mark a turnaround in your prayer life.
Prayer: Ask for the outpouring of the spirit of grace and supplication! Ask for grace to exercise yourself into next levels on the prayer altar. Pray that revival prayer.
Don’t mutter words, don’t look around: You were doing that before, don’t do that anymore. Don’t do that anymore.
Demand for grace! In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Many will graduate into the realms of praying without ceasing in the course of this revival and it shall become their lifestyle for life. That is beholding His face. Hallelujah. Gaining new power to work in the day. Lord I want to be shut in with you, that is every time you are just carrying about the spirit of prayer and supplication in your heart, in advancing the Kingdom of God. You are going to see wonders. You are going to see wonders.
-You will never see shame again
-You will never know reproach again.
-God will re-decorate your life.
-God will re-beautify your life and you shall remain beautiful all the days of your life.
-Before you call, Heaven will answer you. While you are yet speaking, He will perform.
-May this two months of great revival bring about a massive turnaround in everyone’s spiritual life.
Give God thanks, give Him thanks in words, give Him thanks in the spirit and seize the day.
Seize the day, it’s your day.
Seize Today: it’s your day. Thank You Jesus.
Take command of the day. Your prayer life changes level today.
