Evening Session, Day 7
7days of Glory 2021
*I told my son, I am ‘money miss road’. I have no decorum before God. I am one of the fools that God gave money to and I am not that rich, but I am comfortable.
*There is nobody in this room that should praise God more than me:
*When God does not hand you over to the intent of your adversaries, You must do extra.
*How can your praise be more than mine? I don’t only dance, I give secretly
*What secures your breakthroughs is praise.
*If you are not praising God, you are going down into silence
*I am not talking about thanksgiving but thanks-living; as a lifestyle.
When you watch their worship, they are lost, they are sincere. Those guys can’t be broke ohhh, I am telling you. They don’t have your fiery prayer, but their hearts are there. When they are in Church, they are in Church
Psalm 50:23 (NKJV) – “Whoever offers me praise…”: This person is glorifying Me. Do you know the ultimate prayer Jesus prayed on the cross, “glorify Me with the glory I had before the world began.” If you begin to praise God now, you are decorating God, you are adding splendor to His royalty. I know that when David said, “magnify the Lord with me”, he wasn’t saying that we can magnify God. Who are we to magnify God? God is bigger than our imagination and our concept, but you can magnify Him over your circumstance. You can magnify His presence, His potential, His sovereignty in the circumstance.
He says, “whoever offers me praise”, He says, “they glorify Him.” He said something, “to him who orders his conversation or conduct aright I will show the salvation.” The word, ‘salvation’ here means deliverance.
There is a way you must order your conduct when you are around God, particularly when you are in the congregation of the saints. What you do to God privately and God thinks it is great that you have a private relationship with Him, but you (that) He delivered from the gate of death that you may declare His goodness at the gates, not privately.
One of the reasons Moses died was God said, “you didn’t not hallow Me before the people.”
The word ‘hallow’ or ‘holy’ does not mean purity even though when you are holy, you will be pure, but it does not literally mean purity. Holiness means you are different, you are outstanding.
God said, “you didn’t treat Me like an outstanding person before the people”
When you notice you are a billionaire, in front of people, be kneeling down. Try it. Deliberately do somethings because God is watching.
God is like, “Wow, so this guy, this woman is telling everybody that I am the One that made her like this. Give her more.”
It doesn’t matter what you do privately: before the people. What you know is that every leader has people following them. When I say Leader, I am not talking about position, I am talking about influence. You can’t be rich in Nigeria because of the rate of poverty and not be an influencer, it is not possible. Even when you don’t want to influence, people will say, “Oga, I want to put myself under you”, because of the rate of poverty. So you are able to draw people.
What did Abraham know that made 318 servants be trained in his house and he defeated 4 kings, 4 presidents?
Why did God choose Abraham? Because he could pray, because he could fast? He said, “he is going to raise everyone around him and point them to Him.” That was why He chose him and made him rich.
There are somethings you must do deliberately. Once you catch those things, I tell you, it doesn’t mean you are not going to have trials but the number of your challenges shall be the number of your victories.
You have followers on Instagram, everybody hails you, you are a politician, you have something: deliberately do somethings.
I know a Politician in this country that sings praises and people laugh at him and he is becoming richer.
I have been privileged to see him when he was in certain trouble, this guy except if he is lying, he fasted non-stop for like 14 days. I am telling you the truth, everybody has witnesses, but when I saw the way this guy moved towards God. You know when people have trouble, sometimes, the enemy has a way of penetrating them. He fasted and as far as I am concerned, the intent did not come to pass. Once in a while, he comes online and sings some praises, people are laughing at him but he is richer every day. He left position but his money didn’t go down. Some people, take them away from a position, that is the end of their life. I don’t know anything about him but I’m telling you the truth, it doesn’t take long before you know. If someone like me is broke, you will know in 2 weeks, because of the bills, the things that need to be done. There is a level you get to, you can’t hide it when you are broke.
You must order your conversation aright: the salvation here is not receiving Jesus, it is deliverance. What swallows everyone in your family, you will be salvaged, that is what I am talking about.
The one that orders his conversation aright.
Every man in this place, you are the Pastor of your home. Church Gist. That is God’s original intention. You don’t bring your kids to Children’s Church and say, “we don’t know what they are teaching them.”
What are you teaching them at home?
Do you lay hands on them?
“I thank God, it is my wife that prays. It is my wife that prays”: that is not the way God designed it. You are the Pastor of your home and you must order your conversation aright.
Once a man doesn’t put himself under God, his wife will have a problem, then the kids will have a problem. Once there is no divine order, guess what will happen: chaos. Chaos is the opposite of order. The moment you don’t put yourself under God, wife also won’t put herself under you, then the kids begin to go left. It starts with you, the man listening to me right now. You must be the type that in all the etcetera of who you are, you must learn how to put yourself under God.
You can’t even tell what God can do when you begin to sacrifice the sacrifice of praise.
Herod had taken his brother’s wife and John the Baptist in the spirit of Elijah would not just take that. So he would go and stand where his convoy would pass and when he is passing with a woman; he would start preaching to her, preaching doom, “you would go to hell. You didn’t see women all over: your brother’s wife? You are a viper, you are this…” He would be cursing and talking.
Herod did not care, “What is his own?” He got home and took his booze, he said, “leave the man alone.” But Herodias could not stand the shame, so she had been plotting for him. Told the daughter, “listen, there is something the King cannot resist. When you dance in front of him, he is going to ask you what you want, because there is no king that does not like honour.”
That King did not budget it, he was just so impressed, he said, “call my daughter for me, what do you want?”
They put the microphone in her mouth, it shocked him that this little girl was already tutored to ask for the head of John the Baptist and in those days, kings words were sovereign, they couldn’t pull it back. She said, “I want it on a platter.” The moment she said that, that was what happened to John the Baptist. It was out of a dance, out of praise that she caught the favour of her father.
-As we begin to dance in this place today, what escaped prophetic words; escaped prayers; escaped fasting; will not escape this praise.
Say it louder, “Nothing will escape my praise. My praise is taking me up. If I lift Him up, He will draw me to Himself.”
Acts 16 – when they praised, when they sang, they did not need an angel to enter.
-I don’t know where you are right now, in the mid-night hour of your life, you say, “Pastor Biodun, if God sorts me out, I can praise God properly”: No!!! In the situation, the Bible does not say for everything, “in everything”, in the situation, give thanks.
-As you begin to worship the Lord in this place, everyone on TV, everyone on YouTube, even those who will re-watch it, everyone under the sound of my voice: anything that is holding you back from fulfilling destiny, will fall into one million pieces.
WHO SHOULD WORSHIP GOD?
In every Church, you see, I have been a Church boy, it is the poor people that dance.
The rich: don’t dance.
There is no dance you dance, that I don’t dance privately. My kids are laughing because they can tell you. I play all sorts of games. I started learning some songs, I started learning some steps. They are not pastoral steps. When I did it for my children yesterday, one of them said, “Daddy, please don’t do it in the Church.” People like me, I am telling you the truth, I wished I could dance like some people. I watched a brother here today, I said to myself: If I could dance like this guy. I will touch God. God will say, “Biodun, what do you want?”
Do you know what people used to do in Ekiti in those days? I don’t know how it is in your village. When someone dances like that, the king would say, “go and call that person.” They would dash them land. The king cannot even tell what he would do.
I am telling you a deep secret: a deep Kingdom secret. It doesn’t make sense. If you are understanding it, it is the Holy Spirit that is making you to understand it.
Some people would say, “he should people principles. He should teach people how to manage. He should teach people how to write proposals. He should teach people.”
If you get this one I am saying, they will be writing proposals to you. So shall it be.
-Receive what you don’t deserve.
Who should worship God and who is the person who should not worship God?
Psalm 150:6 (NKJV)
Everything: He didn’t say everyone. So trees have breath. Adam understood what trees said. How do you respond if something doesn’t talk to you, He (Jesus) came in the capacity of the first Adam so He heard what the tree said.
Trees clap their hands for God. Everything that has breath.
Where I am from, traditionally when they see dogs begin to howl, they will say, “haaah, a spirit is around.”
I had an old prophet. They told me the story, a protégé of mine, the Prophet was his grandfather, he sees the Prophet. He was walking and a dog told him to enter a house, he heard the voice of a dog. It told him to enter the house, that a woman had been labouring for days. He got there, put the woman’s back on the wall, commanded the baby to come out. The dog told him, “please go and help the woman inside”; he heard.
This is the way the Holy Spirit taught me years ago, “Biodun, if you don’t want to be breathless, you must be praising God.”
THOSE WHO SHOULDN’T PRAISE GOD
Psalm 115:17 – When you are not praising God, you are dead. You are going down into silence.
They are praising God, you are posing? Who are you? I didn’t come here to harass you, but if something happens to you, I am the first people would call. Then you will know how important I am in your life and I am not bragging, because your spiritual authority is very important.
If you are not praising God, you are going down into silence, those are the only people who don’t praise God. Pride comes before a fall, you must order your conduct aright, it doesn’t happen, you are the one that will order it.
I was at the UCH (University College Hospital) in 1989, the man beside me, I was telling my son two days ago: I was dancing, he was looking at me. I was dancing, singing ‘Mo mo re’, with no decorum. I said, “son, I have no decorum before God.” He was looking like, ‘money miss road.’ I told him, “I am money miss road”, I am one of the fools that God gave money to and I am not that rich, but I am comfortable.
I said: Listen, I am ‘money miss road’. I have no decorum before God.
He was just looking at me, “what kind of man is this?”
Micah: the only woman recorded in the Bible as barren, someone who despises a ‘Praiser.’
It is more powerful than you think.
Isaiah 60:18 (NKJV) – What secures your gates? Praise
I was not like this before. Don’t think we are dummies, or we like music. NO. It is a weapon. I am not bragging, this thing I am sharing, I know a little about it.
The first time I sang like a Pastor in the city I was pastoring, they called me, “Pastors don’t…You want to water down your anointing?”
I went home, I said, “Lord.” God said, “Biodun, some are prayers, some are this, yours shall be worship.” I have a revelation of what I am saying.
You can never keep a Thanksgiver on a spot. God inhabits: the praise in the atmosphere, He steps on it; the praise in your house.
Salvation is a wall, that is why whoever breaks a hedge, the serpent will strike, but the gates that secures it is praise.
You just had a breakthrough, you are afraid it will go down: what secures it is praise.
You just got married: “in-laws, bad in-laws, outlaws” – Praise
We are not talking about thanksgiving, we are talking about thanks-living.
A lot of people owe God. There is nobody in this room that should praise God more than me. God has been so good, not in terms of me having more than you, but I am telling you the truth, when God does not hand you over to the intent of your adversaries, you need to be thankful. You must do extra. Just in case you don’t know, I am now a subject they study in Bible School: they have never seen anyone like me, they have never seen any Church like COZA, not in Nigeria, on earth. It is now a subject to be studied.
How can your praise be more than mine? I don’t only dance. Serious finance, I drop it secretly, make it happen. I was worshipping this afternoon and the Lord put it in my spirit to invite Gbenga Akinfenwa, he was told 2:30 pm today. He didn’t not know. Somebody bought his ticket, put them inside to be here. Whatever reason God said he should be here, I don’t know and I don’t want to know.
I sat down there, I said: this guy is good. He didn’t know. He had to change the names of those who would come with him, because 2:30, he had to run to the airport to be here. Let’s celebrate Jesus in his life.
Whatever He wants, just do it for Him: over your life, your marriage, your child.
Psalm 30:11 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 32:24
Could it just be you are not giving glory to God that the God that sees the heart, knows what you are giving to me is not commensurate to how I have helped you in life?
When I went to my hometown for the first time, I could count how many times I had been there actually, I was glad to have met my cousins. These guys grew up in the village. They were smart, they catch any animal. They put their hands in a hole, they could tell whether it was a snake, a rabbit. These guys saw scorpions and wanted to kill scorpions. When I saw a scorpion, I fled, they say, “No, don’t flee.” They took a broomstick, pinched its back. The scorpion wanted to attack what bit its back and stung itself and in 2 minutes, it died: by its own power, by its own strength.
Satan pinches you with pride, your shoulder is raised and you self-destruct. That is what he is doing and all of us are susceptible to this thing including the Preacher. That is why we must watch ourselves. If you lie to everybody, don’t lie to yourself. If your head is too big, your crown will fall down because it won’t size your anymore.
-I pray that every prophetic Word declared over us will come to pass.
-Every sacrifice you have offered in these 7 days, the Lord will reward them.
Please don’t get me wrong, it is not only rich people that are proud. It was when I got to Abuja that I know your gateman can be corky to you. It is a spirit, ‘he no get anything’, you don’t want to know what I did to this guy. Because there 4 terraces so I wasn’t the only person that employed him. If I horned for a long time, he would just come out, look at me.
I said: does this guy know where I am coming from?
He will open the thing, just walk away. Then he might not answer you. Don’t let me go there, but once I dealt with him, he sees me on the Billboard, he will say, “Haa, this man!”
What other way to give glory to God, other than give your life to Jesus Christ!
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