-Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
Covenant Day of Vengeance and Anointing Service
- Our secret behind our unending, ever increasing prosperity is active partnership with Jesus in the advancement of His Kingdom.
- Our Free Transportation is not a show of wealth nor a craze to see people in Church
- Neither is it an outlandish waste, but an investment into God’s capital interest.
- We are not only sent to the well-to-do, we are sent to the blind, the maimed, the downtrodden, the afflicted.
- You can’t treat God’s Word with levity and expect Him to treat you with dignity.
- Walk in the Spirit because one wrong step can wreck a whole destiny.
UNDERSTANDING HOW GOD LEADS
Isaiah 59:8
He leads us along the path of peace.
Psalm 23:1-5
He renders my enemies helpless as He leads me. They are gnashing their teeth but they can’t touch me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, as I follow Him, as I allow Him to lead me. He commands goodness and mercy to be following me all the days of my life.
-Today, the God of this Liberation will render your enemies helpless, by releasing vengeance in the camp of the wicked.
In the name of Jesus.
We know that there is a path that seems right to a man but the end thereof are ways of death, that is why we need to allow Him to lead us; we don’t walk our steps into the mouth of a lion – Proverbs 14:12
Isaiah 48:17
Life becomes supernaturally profitable when we follow His leading.
He leads us principally by His Word – Psalm 119:105
He instructs us from His Word, He reproves us, He corrects us, He shows us principles of the Kingdom that are ever profitable – 2 Timothy 3:16
Let His instructions be of interest to you, so you can make the most of your life.
HOW DO WE ACCESS DIVINE DIRECTION
Among others, we access divine direction:
- Through prayers and fasting.
Isaiah 58:6
-Today, every yoke of the wicked shall be broken off your life.
-God will render Vengeance upon your enemies.
-You will walk into liberty today in grand style.
-No more interferences in your sleep.
-No more fear and dread in the course of the day.
-This your eye shall see evil no more.
Then He began to unveil the benefits of fasting and in (Isaiah chapter 58) verse 11, “The Lord shall guide thee continually.”
We secure continuous guidance from the altar of fasting.
Jeremiah 33:3
Which way Jesus? Call upon Me and I will answer you.
What steps am I to take? Call upon Me and I will answer You.
Is this Your plan? Call upon Me and I will answer You.
Are You the One sending me to so and so place? Call upon Me and I will answer you.
“Lord Jesus, You have called me. Now who pays me?” – Call upon Me, I will answer you and He did.
“Lord, why is nothing happening in that station?” – I AM NOT THERE. Call upon Me and I will answer you. Otherwise you will be labouring in vain forever.
“Lord, why are there issues in this location in Kaduna?” – DID I SEND YOU? Call upon Me and I will answer you.
We have Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, Evangelists and all that: They are to teach us if we are teachable. Whatever God tells them to teach, they teach us.
They are to instruct us. On this Covenant Day of Vengeance, somebody smiles, somebody laughs, somebody scorns: each one makes his choice.
“Which Vengeance? Every day, every day” – He is not in touch, he is out of touch and so he keeps going round in cycles. God never forces His way into anybody’s life.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. You open, I come in. You shut the door, I pass on” – Revelation 3:20
Everybody!
I discovered that October 4,1981
Isaiah 51:2
For the Lord will deal with people in His Church after the same manner. So everybody is responsible for the outcome of his or her life, like Abraham.
If you are Abraham’s seed, you better do the works of Abraham.
He took personal responsibility in his walk with God.
Genesis 12:1
“Get thee out of thy country” – He moved.
Genesis 17
“Circumcise all male born in your family” – He moved.
Genesis 22:2-3
“Bring your only son, Isaac” – He rose up early in the morning.
He just accepted personal responsibility in the absolute sense of it.
2 Chronicles 20:3, 12
And so we saw trouble came to Judah and Jehoshaphat the King, gathered the whole of Judah together in a fast.
Why? They knew not what to do. We are hedged in on every side. We are like dead men.
Which way Lord? That’s what they prayed about – 2 Chronicles 20:12
A prophetic Word came and charted the course for them and then had supernatural victory without shooting an arrow – 2 Chronicles 20:17, 22-23.
They knew what to do through the platform of prayer and fasting.
Ezra 8: 21-23
God showed up and showed them the path to go, to their desired victory.
Why? In the course of a fast, there is a breaking forth of light that shows the way through the wilderness and through the darkest region of life. There is always a way out.
- TO BE IN LOVE WITH GOD
John 15:15
Love is the cord of friendship. Just be in love with God, He shows you everything that pertains to you.
Everything: you don’t struggle for it.
You have your friend in Australia, you live in Nigeria, he knows everything about you than your next-door neighbour.
“Hello, just to let you know that I am going for the 1st Service: Oh Yeah”
Your next-door neighbour doesn’t know you are going to Ibadan, you are going to Abeokuta. He has no idea. He doesn’t even know where you work.
Your wife is travelling to Ibadan, you’ll call your friend in Australia, “my wife is travelling tomorrow after the 1st Service to Ibadan.” He is your friend, distance notwithstanding. He has access to your plans. So when you become his friend, you have access to His plans.
“Can I do this thing and hide it from my friend, Abraham? No” – Genesis 18:17
I shouldn’t do this without confiding in you – Genesis 18:21.
When you become his friend, you gain natural access, stress free access to His plan and purpose.
I Corinthians 2:9-10
When you are in love, you have access. You are in love, you have access. Don’t fake this thing ohhh and God’s love is not theoretical.
1 John 5:3
Enjoy His instructions, embrace them, don’t fake them.
Those that despise His Word can’t access His plan. You can’t treat God’s Word with levity and expect Him to treat you with dignity.
Sir, when God shows you the way to go, no devil can stop you.
Just remain in love with God, you won’t struggle to access His plans.
John 14:21 – “I will manifest Myself to you.” I will show up on all issues concerning you. You won’t struggle to find Me, I will be there.
John 21:15-17
Going after the lost is one capital proof of our love for God. That is God’s greatest love on the earth.
“God so loved the world, He ‘dashed’ us His only begotten Son to rescue the world” – John 3:16
So when you are in love with God, you are naturally in love with salvation of souls, establishment of souls in the faith.
Now listen, I was writing these things down some 2 days ago:
WHY ARE WE TRANSPORTING PEOPLE FOR FREE TO CHURCH?
“Is this not a display of wealth? Is this not a crave, a craze to see people in Church?”
Why?
- The worth of a soul in the sight of God is far greater than the wealth of the whole world put together. It costs Him the blood of His only begotten Son, to rescue mankind. So it is no deal with God.
- We are not only sent to the well-to-do, we are sent to the blind, the maimed, the downtrodden, the afflicted – Luke 14:21. There is no way they can get across, except somebody goes to bear them on their shoulders.
You saw 9 young chaps here, on this platform. There is no way they can make their way to Heaven, without somebody reaching out to them and somebody bringing them here.
We are sent to the homeless. There is no way you are homeless; how do you find your way down here? The closest Church you can’t get there. Even what to wear to get there, you don’t have.
It is not outlandish waste, it is an investment into God’s capital interest.
John 14:23 – “Compel them to come.” How do you do that? Provide the means of getting there and they will be there.
There are many wounded soldiers on the battlefield, you don’t leave them there.
Luke 10:31-34
There was this man that fell among robbers, a priest passed by, “this thing is very bad.”
A Levite passed by, “my God, see what is happening in Nigeria!”
Then a good Samaritan stood there and said, “No.” Went down, bound the wound, poured oil, poured wine and carried him on his own Ass into the Inn where he would be treated.
So we are carrying the wounded soldiers in the front, into Church where they shall be taken care of.
My problem is, “Did He ask you to do it?” He is only telling you what He will do it. Whether you are now involved or not, it doesn’t matter. He is just telling you what He wants to do. If you are interested, partner with Him. If you are not interested, goodbye and good luck.
When I see the way God is leading, Sir, I have never felt it that we are in partnership with Him. There are those who are here this morning that there is no way they could have been here, except that provision is made. They want to, they long to, but they don’t have the means to be there.
Many are jumping levels by being involved.
Now understand this, there are many members for long who have been providing free transportation for members of their Zone…there are families who buy buses, they don’t need it as a family, they need it just to carry people. There are those who are driving it, they leave their own cars and drive the bus to carry members. You think they will be doing that if they are not getting something from it?
He is not looking for who to use, but who to bless.
The prosperity of this Church is not a myth. It is a Kingdom mystery. Active partnership with Jesus in the advancement of His Kingdom is the secret behind our unending, ever increasing prosperity. I mean people don’t understand it and they don’t have to, but they can’t doubt it.
In the same vein, when you know the way God is leading, you will just find yourself flourishing and flourishing.
-You will never suffer a setback anymore in your life.
Be in love with God, particularly as demonstrated in your passion for the lost to be saved and for them to be established in the Faith. Stay in love.
- Through Heavenly Visions
That is purely at God’s instance. I can’t work it out, you can’t work it out. God just shows up by Himself. He showed up to Peter by Himself, Peter was hungry. God showed up – Acts 10
He just showed up to Paul, that notorious nuisance. He called it heavenly vision. God showed up at His will – Acts 9
But you can’t doubt His showing forth, when He shows, you know this is God.
I was in the bathroom when I heard, “Arise, get down to Lagos, raise me a people” – He shows up by Himself.
Not in the plan, nobody had an idea of it, nobody is looking for it.
He showed up to deliver this Mandate, I didn’t ask Him. I was just going about my love for Him and then He showed up.
They call it Heavenly Vision, “God showing up, to show you, what next” and He does it at His own instance. He does it anytime, that is why we have to walk in the Spirit, not to miss the moment when He shows up, to unveil what next step to take in life, because one wrong step can wreck a whole destiny.
Summary, our taste and appetite for spiritual things is the platform for accessing divine guidance – 1 Corinthians 2:14
Revelation 4:1
We have to come out of our natural estate into our spiritual realm to access what tomorrow holds in God’s agenda for our lives. It is not for Jack and Harry, it is for the spiritual.
Romans 8:6
BIBLICAL PROOFS OF BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT.
- Supernatural Confidence
When God leads, His presence so dominates you that fear flees away.
The Lord is my Shepherd and though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil – Psalm 23:4
Supernatural Confidence accompanies everyone been led by God.
Though the whole Nation more or less, including many, many Christians and many, many big Pastors could not see what I saw and were talking all they needed to talk. It didn’t shake me one day. I didn’t pray about it, I didn’t for them, I didn’t pray against them, God knows. I was enjoying myself and then the following day, I would come again, “YOU DO THIS, YOU ARE HEADING FOR THIS!” And I go home. I am driving to town, I drive confidently. You do like this to me, I wave to you. Each one is using his own style, that is your of saying, “Thank You Sir. Though you spread your fingers, because you have some problems, you can’t close it and I wave my own.
Confidence.
You are perpetually beside the still waters.
Hebrews 10:35
It is your confidence in God that puts you in command of the affairs of life.
Acts 14:3
These things are very interesting, very true, just to line up.
Supernatural Confidence is the natural heritage of those that are led by the Spirit.
You are just confident, you are not guessing.
Exodus 13:17-18
This God is wonderful, you are taking your people, 3 million of them to pass through the Red Sea. Are they going to swim? Pregnant women, little babies: Hello folks, time to swim.
Unusual confidence, because God was leading them, He said, “Why are you crying to Me? Tell them to go forward. Stretch forth your rod” – Exodus 14:15
The sea parted, a highway was built by God in 1 second, because nobody was jumping into the ditch and yet it is not a stream, it is a Sea – Exodus 14:22.
You know the depth, I had the data somewhere, but I don’t think I can remember exactly the figures now: the width and the depth of the Red Sea. He built a highway in 1 second. Don’t play with God.
When He is leading you, He just begins to spring surprises
Psalm 114: 3 – Why? God’s presence clearing the barriers on your path.
Has God changed?
Please don’t build your adventure on guess work.
John 10:4 – I know my sheep and they know my Voice.
Which way Lord? What time Lord?
God is committed to leading all of His people.
“He leadeth His own sheep out”: if you are a sheep of His, then you are entitled to His leading.
John 10:4-5
As long as you are one of His sheep, it is your right to enjoy His leading and His leading will imbue supernatural confidence in you.
- Divine Strength / Divine Energy/ Divine Vigour.
Judges 6:14
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