GOD TOLD ME ‘DON’T RAISE MONEY, RAISE MEN AND YOU WILL HAVE MORE MONEY THAN YOU WILL EVER NEED IN MINISTRY’.
I AM NOT SENT BY THE PEOPLE. I AM SENT TO THE PEOPLE.
-Bishop David Oyedepo at Week of Spiritual Emphasis Day 2
Hallelujah
He is on the throne, ever reliable, ever dependable, you can always count on Him. Thank You Lord in Jesus precious name we have given thanks.
One genuine encounter with God is worth much more than a life time of effort. His leadings is our highway to our high places. When the Lord alone leads you, you’re bound to soar as an eagle. You’re bound to sail strange heights without sweat. Eagles don’t sweat. They just catch up with the direction of the wind and just keep gliding. The wind is carrying them. When the Holy Ghost begins to lead you, that’s how you soar.
Deuteronomy 32:9-14
Find any high flier, he is a man and a woman that is fully following the leading of God for his or her life. Stress free. The world is full of stress but you can locate your place in the stress free realm of life.
Hear this, the Lord said to me, “Don’t raise money, raise men”,1987. I heard Him clearly so I gave myself to the raising of men and He said “You’ll have more money than you ever need in this ministry, raise men”.
Someone here bought 3 luxurious buses, not yesterday, not day before yesterday. He could catch the way the Holy Ghost is going, to bring people to Church only. He brought another one to Church I’m told this evening, a long big bus for carrying people. Already taking delivery.
One of my sons met me last night, He said I already have 3 buses. “Don’t raise money, raise men and you’ll have more money than you’ll ever need for Ministry”. You know why? His voice just brings you to the next level of His agenda. Awesome God.
Don’t go from house to house, don’t lobby around any man’s resources, that’s God launching me to Ministry. I’ve never knocked on a door, “can you help? I’ve never had a need that I’ll call, can you help? 40 years.
May your ears be opened to the voice of the Spirit that always is in the part of peace, dignity, honour, serenity. All His ways are ways of pleasantness.
Do you know we were not taking offerings in our fellowships in those days? We just announce, “Hello brethren if you brought any seed unto the Lord, there’s a box out there, you drop it. God bless you, Amen”.
You’re not sent by the people, you are sent to the people. “They’re not responsible for your going, I am responsible”.
- You won’t miss God.
When you find people swimming against the tide, they have missed the direction God is leading. You won’t have to struggle to make marks. Just let God lead you. He goes before you to make the marks for you. - You will enjoy pleasantness from now.
- Every tension will go off your life.
Lord grant me an encounter tonight, pray that prayer. Grant me an encounter by Your Word tonight, I’m waiting to receive from You. Thank You Father in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
UNDERSTANDING THE WONDERS OF DIVINE DIRECTION
There is no problem of you standing because I’m standing too. You’re free to walk around when you’re standing. In every service you’re the one that sits the most and I stand the most. After five minutes prayer you sit down again. So bring me my chair so I’ll sit for five minutes and then stand again. We’re all children of God. Praise God.
Now don’t be bothered when they call you a child of God. God is the Ancient of Days so what can you be with your limited days? Your 120 days is like one day.
2nd Peter 3:8
We’re all children of light.
1st Thessalonians 5:5
Remember the prophetic focus for the month is
The Lord is My Shepherd I Shall Not Want.
Psalm 23: I
That means as He Shepherds my life, all good things will be answering to you favourably. I shall not want for peace, I shall not want for joy, I shall not want for health, I shall not want for progress, promotion, advancement, enlargement. I shall not want anything that makes for life and Godliness. As the Lord is allowed to shepherd my life I shall not want for any good thing.
They that seek the Lord shall not want for any good thing.
Psalm 34:10
Psalm 23:6
Just as a sheep we always need a shepherd no matter the age, experience, everyone of us will continue to need divine guidance all through our journey in life. The cow travels all the way from Sokoto down to Lagos under the guide of a shepherd no matter how tiny the shepherd. He can’t make his way from Ikeja to Canaanland. “Hello matured sheep, you’re required to be in Canaanland, kilometer 10, you hear? Before he gets to Iyana Ipaja cow thieves have stolen it. Amen.
I can’t make my way by myself, it’s a risk so going by our own ways is a risk. We don’t have the capacity, we remain His sheep forever, we ever need His guidance to make any meaning out of our lives. Therefore the Lord must remain our shepherd in order to make the most of our journey on the earth.
Isaiah 58:11
Among the benefits of fasting is accessing the leading of God continually. You can demand for the way to go in a fast.
Jeremiah 33:3
When God leads, He turns out wilderness to Eden and our desert like the garden of the Lord.
Isaiah 51:3
When God leads, thanksgiving is the conclusion because His leadings are ever forward and never backwards. Don’t try anything yourself. It’s a risk.
Proverbs 3:6
A great percentage of believers are constantly regretting because they will not do what they need to do.
-You’re out of that group.
Please note that a every step we take in life is either taking us closer or farther away from our glorious destiny in Christ.
Proverbs 3:5-8
By my understanding we will never be in Lagos for once, God forbid. This place, there’s no natural way to convince me that this is where to be, that’s where His plan is.
Isaiah 55:8-9
Somebody called me and said “Come and see the roof of Faith Tabernacle without using anything”. He already planned it sir.
One day I came across two people that I saw in a vision wearing what I saw them wearing. My God. He kept that building seven years unused. He sees the end from the beginning.
If I were asked where do you want to go to in Lagos, (VI) Victoria Island. There was no Lekki that time.
Now Evey decision we make is either to our advantage or disadvantage so be careful.
Jeremiah 2:14-17
When you forsake Him that’s what happens. Everything will be against you because God is not there but if God be for you who can be against you?
Romans 8:31
Allow God to lead you. “Lord if you don’t want me to go to America, why did they give me Visa? Why? I didn’t bribe anybody. Praise God.
- You won’t miss God.
There are those who are sent there, they are flourishing, there are those who went there, they’re struggling, there are those in ministry, they’re flying, there are others in ministry they’re struggling forever.
- Somebody’s story is changing.
Every decision we make is either to our advantage or to our disadvantage. Every step we take is either for our lifting or our down fall.
Isaiah 42:24-25
Not every open door is God’s door. We had a tremendous open door in Japan. It was so tremendous, so enriching and I just felt this is God. We had a building they gave to us for Bible School. My interpreter was crying because she haf never heard the kind of message she was hearing in that meeting. God gave unusual utterance. We worked and worked on the flight, detailed structure and then God stepped in, about the time to take off, *Although there’s a need in Japan, you’re not the one I’m sending”. Thank you.
When I told the pastor, he was already Japanized. I don’t have problem making a U-turn. I’ve never had that problem in my life. I’ve never crossed that nation from that year. Beware. Not every open door is God’s door. Many are traps in disguise.
Every move we make is either helping or hurting our destiny. It’s wisdom to cross check from the Lord. Are You in this? Engage a neutral gear when you’re doing that.
I’m very careful not to force words into His mouth so until I hear from Him, I can be as slow as millipede. But when I hear from God no devil can stop me. Please get to a point where you allow God to lead you. I thank God for grace that I didn’t turn back when we were coming to Canaanland. I was over tempted to turn back sir but it was only one lane, there was no way to turn back. I could imagine the devil saying turn back and angels are saying go. It was a Heavenly battle.
Don’t let the devil stop you. You’re almost hitting the thing.
- You will not run another man’s race.
Some have carried their Ministry to the forest, they think it’s the the way God is working. Let Him be the one that sent you to the forest otherwise you might be swallowed up there quick.
Psalm 32:8-10
If you won’t let God instruct you the way to go, you’ll enter into the realm of sorrows.
- You won’t live your life in sorrow so every move you make is either helping or hurting your destiny. God always leads right.
Some examples of giants in Scriptures who were divinely guided.
1- Noah
God saw the wickedness of the human race and was going to destroy it.
Genesis 6:13-14
Genesis 6:22
He was given details of that construction to work on. Noah was a farmer, not a carpenter. Noah followed this instructions in details and that became the rescue of the human race. The salvation of his own house hold. The preservation of the human race.
Hebrews 11:7
2- Gideon
There was a young man called Gideon and God appeared to him. He said “I’m not qualified”.
Judges 6:14-16
God went through an unqualified man and delivered Israel. God never calls the qualified, he qualifies the called.
- Somebody’s story is changing.
The land had rest for 40 years
3- Elijah
He was contemplating suicide.
1st Kings 17:9-20
God is still opening new chapters to people today.
- You’re the next in line
1st Kings 19:13-19
There is always a way out of every predicament you find yourself. Let God lead you. Leading yourself is a risk. The price can be very costly if not deadly. Allow God to lead you.
4- Paul the Apostle
He followed the leading of the Spirit to become the most impactful Apostle in Bible days.
Acts 14:11
Acts 13:44
Acts 19:11-12
Acts 19:15
He gained access to mysteries that were not known in ages past.
Ephesians 3:1-5
2nd Peter 3:15
Acts 16:8-10
He was ever guided. Following the command of the Spirit gave him his place.
Galatians 2:8
Abiding in your place will give you your place in destiny.
Proverbs 27:8
- You will not wonder from your place.
If this ministry missed her way to Benin Republic at the on set, we will never have expression till death.
Somebody will be doing what we’re doing now. There is no wasted crown in the Kingdom. If your head rejects it, another man will take it.
- May another man not take your crown.
By abiding in your place that is ordained of God. Your place of business, your place of dwelling. - Grace to abide in your place without looking here and there and another man taking your crown receive it now.
Lift up your right hand everyone and give God thanks for the Word if anything came across to you tonight in Jesus precious name.
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