- Bishop Taiwo Adelakun at COZA’s 7DG2021 Day 5: Empowerment Day of Expansion (Evening Session)
I pray for you, today will be the day of your salvation. The greatest miracle is not the healing you are seeing here but the salvation of your soul. Lazarus that rose from the dead, where is he? Dead again. It is only the miracle of salvation that is eternal.
Tonight, if you are not yet saved, don’t fake it, it is not worth it, surrender your heart to Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17, If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away and behold all things have become new.
This night is the night of expansion, I want to say the God we serve is the God of expansion.
If you are not yet saved, it is not safe for you to be enjoying our music, if your name is not in the book of life, you are not saved. The Bible says the Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God. All you need to do is believe. If you have not given your life to Christ, today is your day, tonight is your night. Stand up on your feet wherever you are. If you want to rededicate your life to Christ, stand up too. Say, Jesus, write my name on the Book of life, from this day, I will serve You.
Lord please save their souls and let the guilt of sin disappear.
We’re now ready.
THE AGENTS OF EXPANSION.
It is not the will of God for you to be static, God wants you to expand, to multiply and He has stationed three agents for our expansion.
- Many times we do not understand the Ministry of the Holy Spirit and it is the major agent of expansion.
I was in a ministers meeting and Pastor Adeboye was teaching us the ministry of time and season, he said, the time of God the Father started from Genesis. When it was time for man to be saved, an arrangement had to be made and the Son came. That is the first calling, not the final calling. He came to carry out the assignment of the Trinity. We are now in the Era of the Holy Spirit, we must understand the Ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 1:1-3, John 1:1
The Spirit was there at the beginning but until the Word was spoken nothing came into existence. As we are today, this is the era of the Holy Ghost, a church without the Holy Spirit is a dead church.
The language of the Spirit is foreign, the Bible says we don’t know how to pray as we ought to pray but the Spirit of God helps our infirmities.
Jesus when he was going explained some things to us.
John 14:16, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7
The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. It is the Holy Spirit that touched those people with the Hand of Jesus. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit is the agent of expansion.
Don’t we see the presence of the Holy Spirit in our midst? If you want to go forward in life, you cannot belittle the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is not a force, the Holy Spirit is the only one that can save a soul.
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit is different from the Ministry of Angels. The Holy Spirit is the principal agent of expansion.
Acts 2:37, Peter preached, people heard and something touched their heart, that was not Peter but the Holy Spirit. Some of us are not having results in winning souls, it is because we are not having the Holy Spirit. You must understand the Ministry of the Holy Spirit and with that, you will have more results in soul winning.
I was at the University of Lagos, I use to go and preach from one place to another. I got to one room and I saw my coursemate in the room and she said Taiwo I saw you in the faculty and I told you to leave me alone, you now came to my room, I said yes, you must be born again. I didn’t know that was her room, I was just going from one room to another and we have been told we can not take no for answer. She said, leave me alone, I said to her, today is the day, you must be born again. She went to the socket and switched off the light, the way I ran out of that place, Hallelujah. She became a member of our church.
I used to preach to one of my classmates and I will tell her you are very worldly so we declare fasting and I went to the Lagoon front to be praying and I saw this girl and a boy laying down together, I was grieved in my spirit so I went to them and said, you are going to hell, that was not from the Holy Spirit but my spirit. In annoyance I left them, I went on these boats they tie by the river and was praying in tongues, I didn’t know the boat was losing little by little and before I knew what was happening I was already in the Lagoon, I shouted Jesus help me. The young boy that was with the girl entered the sea, swam and drew me out and when we came out I said, you are not going to hell again. That was the day the sinner saved the saint.
Listen to the Holy Spirit, understand the Ministry of the Holy Spirit, it is the major prime of expansion.
- The Ministry of Angels. Acts 10:1-6, Angels cannot save any soul, it will only take the Holy Spirit. The Angels can direct you to where the Holy Ghost will convince and convert you. Salvation is the Ministry of the Holy Spirit not the Ministry of the Angels.
Acts 12:1-7, Peter was at the Pentecost but they arrested him. Angels cannot win soul, the Holy Spirit cannot break chains, the Holy Spirit can give instructions but He does not break chains. When Peter was arrested, the Holy Spirit was there. The reality of the Ministry of Angels, it took an Angel of the Lord to free Peter.
When the Holy Ghost is inside of you, you cannot dress shabbily.
Hebrews 1:14, says Angels are ministering spirits. Holy Spirit is your boss, angels are your servant. There are different angels: - The warring Angels, 2 Kings 19:33-35, Daniel 10:12-14
-Fruitfulness angels, those of you looking for the fruit of the womb, this is your time, you will carry your bundle of joy because I am giving instructions to those angels to visit you.
One woman was delayed for ten years and being a nurse herself, she knew how critical her case was but there is no critical case with God. I dispatched the Angels of fruitfulness and today she has a girl and a boy.
May angels of fruitfulness visit those who have delays.
That Angel visited Abraham in Genesis 18:10, that Angel visited Manuel’s wife that resulted to Samson in Judges 13, that Angel visited Mary in Luke 1:28-30, that Angel visited Elizabeth in Luke 1:11.
In Luke 1: 19, the Angel revealed his name as Gabriel. This is why the first blessing of man is to be fruitful.
Everyone looking for the fruit of the womb, by this time next year, you will be carrying your bundle of joy.
I decree expansion in fruitfulness. I dispatch the Angel of fruitfulness to execute the Words I have spoken in the Name of Jesus Christ.
- Guardian angels, God told the Children of Israel, this Angel will lead you.
- Worship angels, any angel that clamour for worship is fake. True worship angels, Revelation 14:10-11
Many of us because of ignorance, our angels are idle, dispatch your angels ahead of you. I use to see pictures of Angels as small ‘oyinbo’ boys with wings, angels are not white people, Satan is not a black man. Psalms 103:20, Angels excel in strength.
I was living with my brother before the onset of our Ministry, because of shortage of rooms, they said I should be managing the same room with my mother and I just finished university. I decided to go to the uncompleted room because of privacy and the harmattan was so serious that year, this was in 1987 or so. I came out, I went under the bed because of the breeze it was in that place that the Angel of the Lord brought me out. I was terrified, he put my knees on the ground and without talking, there was a signal behind me to look at the wall and the wall became a screen and He showed me where He will take me to, to preach the Gospel. Some of you are going to encounter angels for your expansion, you are going to have angelic encounter for your next level. What eyes have not seen or ears heard, this is the time you are launching into it.
We have seen the Angels of expansion, the Holy Spirit, the Angels of God.
- Say, I receive Your word Lord, I activate my angels for my needed expansion, for my desired expansion in the name of Jesus Christ. I dispatch my angels to work for me, to carry out the will and purpose of God for my life right now.
Between now and tomorrow night testimonies will abound in your life. Some of you before you get home, miracle alerts. You shall be remembered. God says I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hidden resources in secret places.
One man came to our church to see me and they told him I am very busy he can’t see me. He said okay, I will wait, he waited four hours and when I was going out, I saw someone running and following me, he knelt and said, hey, I hate you, I just hate you but yesterday God told me to come and give you this. I said and you hate me? Before you change your mind, bring the thing first.
When the ways of a man please God, He will make his enemies be at peace with him.
Your angels are activated, angels of favour bringing God’s blessings your ways. The treasures of darkness, the hidden resources of secret places, take them now in the Name of Jesus
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