- Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo at COZA Mid Year Thanksgiving Service.
- The secret of consistent triumph is living a dogged life of thanksgiving
- No matter what, there is only one time appropriate to praise God? It is ‘All the time’.
*Thanksgiving should become your lifestyle. It should be thanksliving.
In Deuteronomy 28:13
‘The LORD’ here means the owner, the final word, the sovereign Lord. In other words, God wouldn’t have said He would make them if they were heads already. I always say this when I quote this scripture because there are lots of people whose heads reject prophecies because the moment the Prophecy is mentioned, they immediately conclude, ‘That’s not for me. I’ve been through this, I’ve been through that’. The people the Lord spoke to here were tail, tail, tail. Calculate the poverty in your family and all the things you are struggling with in your family, tops maybe 100 years. These ones for 430 years had been in bondage. Nobody earned salary for 430 years, they almost believed that they were made to be at the background. ChurchGist. He says to those kind of people, ‘I will make you the head, I’m going to take you from the back and put you in front’. How is that easy to believe? These ones were not only poor, they were slaves, they were owned, they were properties. What else could demean you? Do you know if you are frustrated, you could go to the Milenium Park, just sit down there. These ones couldn’t do it.
God said, ‘I will make you’. They didn’t exist in that address. He is a maker. Jesus said to Peter, ‘Follow me, I will make you’. Now if it is true that we serve the maker, from this day henceforth, let your life begin to go above. The reason I just taught what I did was so that you could connect with the prophetic word. I’m not here to just teach, I’m here to endue, I’m here to empower. If your Amen would be loud, from this day henceforth, begin to go up.
Then He says, “I’m going to make you go above”. If he said above sometimes, you know just go up and then come back. Some of us go to club when we were unbelievers, and we would get high, and we have hangover the next day because we came down lower than we were when we went high. In life people go up, Satan offers people to go up then he removes the ladder for them to drop and break. The ultimate Jesus, he said to Him, ‘I want to take you up’, and showed him what he wanted to give to him, and said, ‘If you will bow to me, I will give you the kingdoms of this world’. There are several kingdoms, in the political sphere, in the educational industry, entertainment industry, there are kingdoms.
If you know anything about kingdoms, there are thrones, there are rulership, there are heights, level upon levels. He says, ‘I will give it to you, if you bow to me’. Listen to me, Jesus Christ told him, ‘Whoever takes you to the mountain will need to maintain you there’. So he waited for the one the Lord did. Ladies and Gentlemen, I prophesy to you, your life begins to reflect this word I’m sharing with you. I prophesy to you, no matter your situation before you came to church today, begin to go up now. By all means, everything that when they begin to happen to you, you will go up, let them begin to happen to you now. You don’t go up and down like a Yo-yo, you will be above only.
Job 8:7. God doesn’t care if your beginning be little, by the life on your inside, because you are now in Christ Jesus, what heaven expects, what the demons know should happen is that your end will be greater than where you started from. Therefore I prophesy to you in the name of the Lord Jesus, your end will increase. Your end will not only increase, from this day forward, you will begin to increase greatly.
There are people that are rich right now, doing well in their career, but everyday of their life, they are scared.
‘Ah, things may go down. Where else can we buy a house’
Have you driven through Asokoro road before, and see houses that are big, gigantic in proportion. ChurchGist. The problem now is the maintenance of those houses. Some of them are cracked, some of those siblings are fighting everyday on the same property that when they bought it, they thought they secured their future.
‘Asekunlowo’ – Listen, let me tell you the interpretation. Anything you kept, that is not added to, will start going down. It is only what the Lord blesses that is sustained. So don’t indulge in all those rat race. When the devil wants to deal with you, he sends you fear. By our design, if your latter end be little, your latter end should increase greatly.
Wherever you are now, I speak against the spirit of fear in your life. Everything pumping fear in you, making you do the wrong things, I curse the root of it right now.
Let me start to build from 2Corinthians 2: 14. See the design of the life you carry on your inside. The keyword here is ‘always’. Guys, believe me when I tell you, no battle, no challenge, no impediment, should torpedo a child of God, by the life you carry on your inside. We don’t win sometimes, we win always, and He uses that triumph as an advert. He says, we diffuse His knowledge everywhere, because people will say ‘Ahah, how come you were able to come out of that stuff?’. Then He uses us as adverts, He doesn’t make us lose, He sets us on the path of righteousness because His name is involved. Therefore in the name of Jesus, from this day henceforth, let your life begin to advertise His power, let your business begin to advertise His power, let your ministry begin to advertise His power.
Some people use to spend there entire life not getting it. I used to have someone in this church, very gifted, very charismatic but when you meet him, day, morning, night, for the 3 years he was in this church, you meet him at the shopping mall, he’s like, ‘Ye, Pastor….this life. And he’s okay, he’s rich. One day I took him out, sat him down, bought him food. ChurchGist. I said, ‘This thing you are doing will affect your destiny’. He said, ‘No,No,No. I’m just telling you because I trust you’. I said, ‘No, you complain too much’. He was richer than me, He was a seed sower. Always complaining, he felt it’s modernity.
You know people in London or America, they are like, ‘Oh, the weather today’.
What’s the weather today? I came to London to feel the cold.
You know when I knew there was a spirit? I went during the summer
‘Oh, it’s hot today’
I said, ‘What do you want?’
No matter what, there is only one time appropriate to praise God? Who knows the time?
- All the time
The secret of consistent triumph is living a dogged life of thanksgiving. Deliberate.
Myself and my friend were so into this thing, growing up as a child of God, that we picked up the Tongues of Kenneth Hagin when he was ministering, “Masikalete- Thank you Jesus”. So, I get into my house, I say, “Masikalete, thank you Jesus”. He has seen Jesus thrice so he must understand that language.
2Timothy 3: 1-2. I want to tell you one thing about the devil. He understands that the moment he puts pressure on human beings, the best hidden will come out, that’s the reason for scarcity, that’s the reason for problems. Gratitude is a disposition. The Security in my house came to me and said to me, He is one of the police officers that they got for us, they don’t talk to me, I greet them, I sow in their lives and I walk into my house. One ran after me some weeks ago and said,
‘Pastor, I have a testimony’.
We just came back from Mararaba Church. I said ‘Testimony, what happened?’
He said, ‘When we go to Mararaba, I listen’. He said, ‘My wife told me to thank you. I don’t womanise again, I don’t do this again, I don’t do that again. Just watching you’.
He said, “You know the one my wife said I should thank you for? When they wanted to post us here, I was supposed to go to a politician’s place, because there will be more money.I didn’t want to come to a Pastor, but my wife said, ‘Ah Ah, go to a pastor’ “.
He said, “Before we went to church on Tuesday, your son brought your suit for you. You opened the door, called him back and thanked him. I said, ‘What? Thank your son? No be you dey give am food’ “.
He said, “Do you know what I did Pastor? I got home, thanked my wife, thanked my son, and they were like, ‘Something just happened right now'”.
The greatest mystery in the spirit realm now, is thanksgiving. You are a prayer warrior? Do you think it is your shout that changes God’s mind. ChurchGist. There was a King called Herod, he was doing his anniversary and a girl danced, and the King’s head scattered. Do you know what he said? He gave her an open cheque, ‘What do you want?’. Do you know that happens in the place of prayer? Mark 11: 23 is exactly this thing I’m sharing with you. Whatever you want in the place of worship, that you demand for, believe and you will receive it.
2Chronicles 32: 24-25. This issue of thanksgiving is not something to joke about. When you see someone who is struggling, that is a blessed man, he doesn’t have some temptations, but when you see someone who is a blessed man, to pray in the morning, you ask yourself, ‘What am I praying for? What need do I have? I am an answer to people’s prayers’. It takes humility, it takes faith, in the morning to raise up your hands, and say ‘Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you, you are the doer of all these things’.
Isaiah 14: 12- 14. This was an old demon that attacked the anointed, because Lucifer was the anointed cherub that covereth. If you want to be above only, and you don’t want to fall, you need to have a handle of this. Satan’s preoccupation is to weaken the nations. How did he weaken Adam and Eve? ChurchGist. By making them do what He did. Most presidents you are attacking, even though they are supposed to make better choices, there is somebody weakening them. Everything Satan is doing, he is selling it through pride. Does it not interest you to know that Satan’s interest is to sit on worship, that’s why you see that till today, he wants to control the church. I just don’t know why church is important to some people. They just watch, whatever we say, whatever we do, they just want to takeover, they want pride to takeover, they want things to be done in a certain way, just the way they think it should be done. What drives everything the devil does is that he wants thanksgiving and worship to come to him.
I round up by telling you this, the ultimate human being born on the surface of the earth was not Adam, it was Jesus. Satan is not afraid that you are anointed, in fact the anointing attracts him. David killed Goliath, but Goliath had 4 other brothers, they didn’t come after him, all the years he was struggling, they didn’t touch him. ChurchGist. They waited till he became a king, they knew he did not fast again, he had so much to drink, so much to eat, so much women around, so much comfort around him. If you are being lifted, that is the time to be more careful, and the Philistines still exist, it’s not a group of people, it’s a spirit, giants’ spirit.
That the devil is quiet now does not mean you should go to sleep. So, he waited to Jesus came into the fullness of power, and said to him, ‘I will give you the Kingdom of this world and its glory, if you will bow to me’. I round up by telling you this, who was he talking to? The Bible says, nothing was made that was not made by Jesus. He came to his maker, telling his maker to bow. What he wanted to give him, he was the one that made it. That’s why we need to be careful, if you think you are wise, you are smart. Whoever hears this saying of mine and does them, he is a smart man. I pray for you, you will not say, this is the way I’ve always been, that these few words of mine have convinced you and not confused you that thanksgiving should become thanks-living. It should be your lifestyle.
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