*Where expectation is absent, prayer is barren.
*We serve a timeless God of timely intervention.
*When you see 24 hours, God sees a thousand years. It means what will take a thousand years to do, God can do it in 24 hours.
*You will still enjoy multiple change of levels between now and August 1st (2021).
Father, we thank You this morning for the blessing of Your presence. We thank You Lord for the testimonies of your mighty hand at work in our midst. There is no doubt that your hand is mighty and we can see it in the testimonies that we are experiencing. We give You all the praise and glory. This morning, our eyes are upon You, we ask that You speak to us again today. Let Your Word transform each one of our lives and let Your name be glorified in our midst. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our line of exhortation for this week has been captioned:
ENGAGING THE GOD OF SPEED TOWARDS THE FULL DELIVERY OF OPERATION BY ALL MEANS.
We have discovered that the characteristic nature of God among other things is that He is a God of speed. The Bible says in Romans chapter 9 verse 28, we serve a God of speed. We discovered that He operates at the speed of light (1 John 1:5). That is why you see all through the scriptures that the Word of God makes clear that God hastens His Word for performance.
Jeremiah 1:11-12
God hastens or speeds up the delivery of whatever it is that He says.
We have also come to discover in the course of this week that God never runs out of time. That we serve a timeless God of timely intervention. The Bible tells us in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 8, we are told there that a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day before the Lord. He is a timeless God of timely intervention. When you see 24 hours, God sees it as 1000 years. In other words, what it will take a thousand years to do, He can do it in 24 hours.
That is the God we serve: A God of speed!
There is no time barrier that can stand before our God. We have been looking all through the scriptures particularly as it pertains to the full delivery of Operation By All Means. We have discovered a few things and I will take note of a few more this morning.
We see in the scriptures that God took over the whole of Asia through the ministry of Paul.
Acts 19:8-20
We have this picture of Paul going to Asia and the Bible says, we were told there that many hearts were hardened and they spoke evil concerning the faith; Paul took just 12 of them and went into the school of one Tyrannus. The Bible says, he disputed with them daily and within the space of 2 years, all of Asia heard the Word of the Lord (Acts 19:10). The scriptures describe it in (Acts chapter 19) verse 20, very, very clearly. It says, “so mightily grew the Word of the Lord and prevailed.” The entire territory was supernaturally taken over by the hand of God operating through one single vessel.
Can you imagine what it means for one vessel, one person to enter into an entire region and the whole region comes under the siege of the gospel within 2 years; by one person.
See how many we are today! If each one of us are such vessels, imagine what will happen at the brevity of time. If one individual in 2 years could see the whole of Asia subdued then the number of us that we are under the canopy of the Faith Tabernacle, can you imagine how much of a siege the entirety of Lagos, Ota and the environs will come under if we are such vessels.
What God is showing you is that time is not a factor. Please hear this, Paul did not have fliers, he did not have SMS, he did not have a phone but yet the whole of Asia came under the siege of the gospel. You and I have phones, we can send SMS, we are given fliers, we have tracts: we have too many instruments to ever have any excuses.
What God is trying to show you is that when it comes to the delivery of His plan, when He talked about August 1st, 2021, He knows what it means. He is saying that executing the Word is not a barrier to Him, He has the ability to bring it to pass cheaply if you and I can be vessels in His hand.
The Bible makes us to understand very clearly, that Paul was such a vessel and through Paul, the entirety of Asia came under the siege of the gospel. Multitudes turned to the Lord. They dropped all…all the people who were magicians, carried their curious acts, everybody submitted it, burnt everything at the same time and you know we have a new time example in that Church in Akwa-Ibom that we saw the testimony of a Pastor, just one person. Missionary Evangelist, entering into a particular place and the entire place coming under the siege of the gospel in a moment.
God is about to do something greater.
In every one of our various communities, we shall see those communities brought under the siege of the gospel.
What a joy that God has not only brought us to this season of Operation By All Means, but we also have this Operation to get the Ark on the move which is the spread of the nets. God said to His servant from Luke chapter 5 verse 4, He said, “launch out into the deep and cast your net for a draught.” He said those nets are through the Cells.
Every Cell is a harvest tool. What happened through Paul in Asia is what will be happening this tomorrow in all of those communities as we step out and the nets are cast and the souls are gathered.
-Somebody here will be like that Paul of a vessel. You will go out as such an instrument and there will be a mighty harvest.
Somebody says, “Paul, Paul. Such a mighty man, how can I say that I will be a vessel like Paul?”
Please hear this, that is how people saw Elijah and the Bible says, “Elijah was a man of like passion, just like you.” He said, “he prayed and the heavens were closed for 3 and a half years”, because he asked God for it (James 5:17). And he prayed again and the heavens opened (James 5:18). At his instance!
Paul was a man, just like you.
It means that if God could use Paul, God can use you. In fact, if you look at the background of Paul, you will discover that you are a very useable vessel because Paul came from a terrible background. He was a terrorist to the faith, but yet God used him as an instrument for the faith. So you as a believer, you can be the next Paul that God is going to use in this season to bring about a mighty harvest.
-I see somebody here being that next Paul.
We must understand the necessity of the force of expectation. Expectation is what gives value to our intercession and supplication to see our desires come to pass. While it is true that God wants to use us as instruments, we know that God demands that we engage the altar of prayer because we must engage the God of speed to see speedy manifestation of what He has said. But for our prayers to have any effect, there is need for expectation. Expectation is the mother of manifestations.
Proverbs 23:18
The word, ‘end’ means there is a result, there is an outcome. There is a demand for us to engage the force of expectation.
Mark 11:24
A prayer begins with a desire, there must be expectation. So it means that you and I must not pray empty hearted prayers. As we prepare ourselves to be instruments in this harvest in order to see the God of speed manifest in our midst, we must pray with expectation.
For example, tomorrow, God has given us this assignment to go forth into our various locations, go in our teams to those Cell locations and release the blessings of God, that God has sent us to unleash and to see a mighty harvest in those places: You must pray concerning it and you must pray with expectation.
You are praying that, “as I go to these locations, Lord, let there be a mighty harvest, let the souls there surrender to Christ. Let Cells be opened as I arrive.”
You are praying and you are envisioning what you are praying about.
Expectation means you are foreseeing an end before you begin. You are foreseeing a conclusion before you begin. You are foreseeing an outcome before you begin. A woman that is pregnant is said to be expectant. She can see that it is not water that is inside her stomach but a baby. She foresees the end before the end comes. That is what expectation is in prayer.
It means that when you are praying, you are seeing the outcome, “I can see the result, even as I pray.”
I like each one of us to ensure that as we engage the altar of prayer, we must do so with a heart full of expectation because that is what gives value to our intercession.
You see your prayers are not answered by the quantity, it is answered by the quality of your expectation.
You can pray a prayer for long and never see an answer. Church Gist. It is the quality of your expectation that gives value to your prayer. Where expectation is absent, prayer is barren.
You and I must ensure that we engage the force of expectation.
Therefore, I will like each one of us to know, that it is no big deal for God to double the attendance of this Church on or before August 1st 2021.
If God only used one Paul to take the whole of Asia in 2 years; if you and I can become Pauls in our various locations, then you can be sure that God can take an entire region in one day. All that is required is that you and I surrender as vessels before God and we see what God makes out of us.
Jeremiah 32:17
God does not know difficulties, as far as God is concerned, what are considered human difficulties are divine simplicities. We will see God in an unusual way, over these next 3 Sundays. These next 3 Sundays are too much for God to fulfill His Word.
The good news is this, as He is multiplying His Church, He is glorifying the saints.
-Your story will be changing from glory to glory.
-There are many hearing me this morning that you will still enjoy multiple change of levels between now and August 1st.
-Multiple change of levels between now and August 1st.
Prayers: Lord, I want to be one of your Pauls in this prophetic season, for supernatural delivery.
I must be one of your Pauls in this prophetic season.
Why not speak into the Operation tomorrow, “Lord, as ‘Operation Get on the Move’ kicks off tomorrow, Lord help me to play my own part. Help me to play my own part in the name of Jesus Christ. I will not fail, I will not falter, I will not fall short. Help me Lord to play my own part. In the name of Jesus.
Thank You mighty God. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
As you have asked of the Lord, so shall it be done unto you. In Jesus precious name.
It is done in Jesus precious name.
Another day is here, another opportunity, I will like you to speak to the day right now, make your declaration concerning the day. What you decree is what God will deliver. Speak to it right now.
This day is blessed.
This day is loaded.
It’s a day of testimonies.
A day of open doors.
A day of productivity.
A fruitful day.
A day of productive engagement.
A day of results-filled engagement.
In the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank You mighty God, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
The fliers are here. Stretch your hand towards it right now.
Decree the breath of the Holy Ghost.
In the name of Jesus, I declare right now the breath of the Holy Ghost upon these materials: quicken them, make them instruments of harvest. Quicken them, make them sharp sickles. Every one material, every tract, every flier, goes out and returns with a mighty harvest.
Thank You mighty God, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Father, we send these materials forth and we declare that they return with a mighty harvest. Thank You for doing it. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
…Keep active for Jesus. Continue engaging, God is watching, God is marking and God is rewarding.
- He will reward you openly in the name of Jesus Christ.
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