- God told me, He was launching me into the Apostolic Phase of Ministry for pace setting.
- Jesus will come to rapture a Church in the heat of a revival, so it’s not a regular Church
- Great names will be rising from the platform of stewardship.
- But not publicly announced stewardship, but extensive stewardship behind the scenes.
Lord Jesus, we are here again at your feet, first to thank You for waking us up this morning. We slept, we awoke because You sustained us. Receive our thanks in the name of Jesus. Lord, I pray that no one misses his own package in this Midst of the Year revival in the name of Jesus. I pray that no everlasting mountain or perpetual hill will survive in the lives of any of your children in the name of Jesus. I pray this will be a platform of signs and wonders for all in Jesus name. Thank You Father and blessed be your name in the name of Jesus Christ.
PROMPT RESPONSE COUNTS THE MOST IN OUR WALK WITH GOD
Revelation 3:20
A number of us ride vehicles that have seat belt alarm and it says “pam pam pam’, I am warning you, Police will catch you.” After 4 times, it stops, “between you and the Police, I have left, I can’t be sounding the alarm forever.”
May the spirit of each one be stirred up this time to enjoy his or her full package in this revival.
1 Kings 19:14-19
We saw Elijah was under some heavy pressure. Elijah, what are you doing here?
I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts. They have torn down thine altars, they have slain thy prophets. I only I am even left and they are out to slay me and the Lord gave him light from verses 15 to 19 (1 Kings 19). This is the way forward Elijah and Elijah departed (1 Kings 19:19).
This is the way and he (Elijah) responded promptly and the ministry of Elijah opened up into another level. Our prompt response is vital to making the most of our walk with God!
See how quickly that happened. He was passing by and he saw Elisha plowing with 12 yoke of oxen. He took his mantle and splashed it on him, that was it. If he had delayed, Elisha will not be there, he will be looking for where Elisha was. As he was passing, “that is the Elisha I told you about”; it’s not that they met before.
“That’s the Elisha I told you about” – he was just standing there.
Praise God, awesome God. That is how God works. It is time to quit like men and be strong. It is time to get smart in our response to every instruction, every vision.
Let him run, because it shall surely come to pass, it shall not tarry (Habakkuk 2:3).
I heard God lay out for us the way forward to Church growth 1984, waiting on the Lord with 3 of our co-workers. On the spot.
Very simple thing: Why is this Church not growing Jesus? Why are we like this?
And He showed me a layer of thick darkness on the roof of the Church. He said that is this blindfolding weapon that the enemy uses to misinterpret what He, Christ was doing in the Church.
As if He stood by and now said, “deal with it.”
(1) My Response: “You foul spirit of darkness, there is a light that shines in darkness, darkness cannot overcome it. Get off that roof.” I saw it roll away like a mat.
(2) He (Jesus) said, “when I came to the world, someone had to tell somebody to come and see. So get out on the street, tell people to come and see what I, Jesus, am doing in this Church” (John 4:29).
- Keep sowing the seed of the Word and as the grass grows, the sheep will come for it.
- Keep the grass green and the sheep will lie down there.
4 vital instructions. On the spot response. Prayer and fasting became our companion as a Church. That is how we came out in the pursuit of the vision, but He said, “now there is a force of darkness trying to stop the Church from going forward. Now break it up.”
Prayer and fasting has been on; Come and See has been on ever since. The first one came out the last week of March 1984 and you still have ‘Come and See’ in your hands right now. He laid it out and it was promptly responded to.
Most of the times, we are too slow for God’s plan. We are just too slow. He opens to you a revelation from His Word: no response, slow response, belated response then it is gone. You better strike when your iron is hot. It gets cold, you can’t give it anymore shape, it is over, you have to hit it all over again.
Spontaneous prayer response to issues delivers the most in prayers. Nehemiah heard of the deplorable situation of those people left out of captivity in Jerusalem. On the spot, he began to pray, to intercede for 3 weeks (Nehemiah 1:4). God responded on the spot, had unusual favour. Church Gist. Prompt prayer response to issues of concern to us delivers the most on the altar of prayer. Be instant in prayer, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord (Romans 12:11). Don’t give it room to settle. Be fervent serving the Lord, not slothful in business, fervent in spirit…continuing instant in prayer (Romans 12:12).
Instant response, don’t let it land talk less of settle. You see something that is unwanted around your life, instant response delivers the most on the altar of prayer.
We saw how the giant in Nehemiah came out through instant response.
David got to the war front to pass some food to his brothers and he heard one man there just brawling and taunting the army of Israel. He said, “wait a minute, what is that?”
They said: that is someone there, he is Goliath of Gath, the head of the Philistines army, nobody can stand him oh David.
He (David) said: Tell me, what are you going to give to the person who kills this man because this man must die! Instant. He didn’t go home to go and find out. Instant. “What an insult, to the armies of the Living God. No. Let me die than watch it continue.”
That was how a teenager became a national hero.
Instant response to issues of concern to you delivers the most.
Don’t watch this last lap of this revival pass by without your response. Don’t wait for a regret tomorrow when you have a chance to make things happen today.
No one here has an excuse: he that soweth and he that reapeth are one. You are not on the field reaping the harvest, you are on the altar of prayer, praying up salvation of souls into the Kingdom.
You are immobile: I mean your kind of job has no opportunity for you to go out but everybody has a closet including the toilet.
Everybody has a closet. He said, “enter into thy closet” (Matthew 6:6).
There is a break time in your place of work: that is a closet.
Everybody has ample opportunity for genuine engagement that will lead to a supernatural advancement in a revival. God knows there are the old, the young, there are those who don’t have capacity to move around but everybody can pray up. Anybody that can eat can pray. If you can pray, “give us today our daily bread”, you can pray, “let thy Kingdom come” (Matthew 6:10-11). So if everyone in this Church is either praying or going or young men like me praying and going at the same time, you don’t have no excuse.
Everyone, no matter which part of the revival you engage with, you are entitled to same order of rewards.
Somebody’s story is changing.
That’s how things work. It takes prompt response to make the most of our walk with God. Prompt response to every instruction from scriptures. Prompt response!
Back in 1970 as a young chap, I was going through my Bible and I saw Lamentations chapter 3 verse 27, that it is good that a young man should bear his yoke in his youth. My childlike faith, I went and knelt down under one tree and said” Jesus, whatever yoke I will need to bear when I am old, let me bear it now. You said it is good for a man to bear his yoke in his youth.” Anything God shows me, I want to respond.
Who is he that says and it comes to pass when the Lord has not commanded it? “My boy, don’t run helter-skelter, run with only what I command.” Praise God.
When I saw the mystery of Kingdom Prosperity, I shouted, “Yea, I can never be poor.” I plugged into it on the spot, before I left the room, after a 3-day prayers, searching and having that encounter, I knew it was over and it is over forever.
The Lord showed me the way forward for corporate prosperity. I dived into it: September 4, 1987. See where we are today.
-Something is breaking forth in your life.
Your prompt response is your greatest asset in your walk with God. Prompt response! Before He withdraws, before He turns His back, wake up. You have an opportunity, open ended opportunity in this revival, don’t let it pass you by.
Yesterday, 29th of June 2021 made it 29 years exactly when the Lord delivered to me the ‘Signs and Wonders’ Mandate. Now hear what He said:
It is time for change. Prepare yourself for the imminent phase of change I have talked about over the years. It is era of signs and wonders.
(We are seeing some!)
It is a new dimension of a higher order. Can you see what God has been doing? A new dimension of a higher order. Begin to declare total war against the Kingdom of darkness.
(So it is not my fault).
Proclaim liberty, emphasize power and step into the realm of Anointings.
Usher in this new era with Me, it is time for the restoration of all things which the mouth of the Lord has spoken. It is time to administer the forces of the Spirit that will enable the saints take up their inheritance in Christ. I am launching you into the Apostolic phase of your Ministry for pace setting today.
Walk before Me and be thou perfect and I will perfect every Word of mine in your direction.
Last Friday, one of us was travelling in from a trip. Got to a place, they had a breakdown in the vehicle, they had to change the tire. Suddenly a vehicle just appeared, started shooting in the air, it was kidnappers/ ritual killers’ kind of squad. They commanded all of them to line up. They started checking their bags and found in one of them, a Bible with a sticker, ‘I am a Winner with my picture on top of it’.
“Excuse me, who has this?”
”I am the one.”
“Come this side first.” They were 13 in the vehicle.
Who is this? He mentioned his father’s name, my father.
“Please stay here.” After they carried their other victims, because they touched their backs according to the story and they became unconscious. They carried them like cows to the vehicle.
They now came down and said, “please tell him we didn’t touch you ooo!! We didn’t touch you ooo” Gave him one thousand Naira to get a vehicle back to town.
Higher order, no guess work.
Let me tell you this:
-Any devil that dares you as one connected to this Commission has lost it.
This was last Friday (25th June 2021), not last year, last Friday.
(God): I am launching you into the Apostolic Phase of your Ministry for pace setting, things that never happened in years past, things that have never been recorded, I am going to start to make them happen. He is the One making it happen. It is not anybody’s skill, not anybody’s expertise.
Sir, you better plug in. God is up to something.
Somebody was sharing fliers and then someone came up and assaulted him. He slept, he didn’t wake up sir. Area boy, he slept, he didn’t wake up. The second person, the following day a vehicle hit him, his hand was turned back
We are not having fun sir. This is a move of the Spirit, you don’t toy around when God is moving.
Lift up your two hands because your life is safe, your life is secured. No assault anymore.
-No more assault on your life.
Thank God for making you part of this great army. Do that consciously, do that deliberately.
Thank You Jesus.
You have seen surgeries been cancelled in theatres, seen the dead coming out of the mortuary after embalmment.
When God speaks, He means it. As you respond, God performs it.
Let me you this: everybody that is set for a turnaround this year, no devil from hell can stop it.
Your turnaround is God’s agenda for the year and your turnaround shall be your manifestation. Everyone set for a turnaround, just obey what He commands you to do. Don’t stand there as a chartered member. Obey Him. Every miracle is a product of man’s obedience of faith.
Whatever He tells you to do, do it. Then you have committed Him to perform His agenda in your life (John 2:5).
So wake up and be part of this ingathering army of Jesus.
Can I tell you this, so get ready: Jesus will come to rapture a Church in the heat of a revival, so it’s not a regular Church. A Church in the heat of a revival. A Church that is living clean, living powerful, living great, that is the Church is coming for and you are part of that.
Get excited, we will be doing this till He comes. We will be doing what we are doing now till He comes. We will be doing till He comes. If you travel to Jamaica, you will be doing it. If you go to Australia, you will be doing it. It will be inside you, it will be driving you. Wherever you are, Christ will be found there. That is where you are going.
Prayers: Grace to make the most of this week. Receive it now. Grace to engage with the altar of prayer. Grace to engage in passionate pursuit of souls, receive it now. Receive it now!
Let me say this to you, the giants of the end time will rise from the platform of Kingdom Advancement stewardship.
Malachi 3:18 – I will distinguish them that are serving Me
The giants of the end time are going to rise on the platform of stewardship. So wake up. Lift up your hands that hang down and strengthen your feeble knees. This is the way up. This is the only way up, there is no other way. If they will obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures (Job 36:11). Job arose because there is none like him on the earth, a man that feareth God and eschewed evil and serves God till the devil knows that he serves God; he became the greatest of all men in all the East (Job 1:8, 3).
The greatest in all areas and spheres of endeavours in human life will be rising. They will be rising from the platform of stewardship. Not publicly announced stewardship, but extensive stewardship behind the scenes and God who sees it in secret will reward it openly.
Give Him thanks.
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