- Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr at CHoP
Offer qualitative thanks unto God this morning. Thank Him from the depth of your heart, appreciate Him and celebrate Him.
Our Father in heaven we have come to give thanks and praise for your marvelous acts. Thank you for the awesome testimonies we have heard, only you can rescue from death. As you speak to us today, let your Word transform us. Thank you because we know it is done in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
In scriptures God’s Word made it clear to us that the early Church were in daily fellowship and because of that no persecution could crush them.
Acts 2:46-47
As the Church engaged in fellowship, it was fortified against every attack of the enemy. Church Gist. It is also important that we understand that no believer can survive without a regular commitment to fellowship.
Hebrews 3:13
Our commitment to fellowship is a defence for our faith. If your faith will be defended, your life must be planted. If you don’t get planted in fellowship, you will dry out in isolation.
1 John 1:3,7
Our availability in fellowship ultimately affects our sanctity in life. That is why every time a man withdraws from fellowship, he begins to draw closer to sin. Church Gist. God’s servant has shared with us that in the early days of the Faith Liberation Fellowship, there was a man who suddenly stopped coming for fellowship and after two weeks he showed up and was already so far to point of taking alcohol, just after two weeks only of separation from fellowship. Our sanctification is affected by our consistency in fellowship.
This week our exhortation will be: UNDERSTANDING THE WONDERS OF BEEN COMMITTED TO REGULAR FELLOWSHIP
Hebrews 10:25
It is not safe to be alone, it is vital to continue to ensure that you are in fellowship. The lion is not the strongest of all beasts but the lion maximizes his strength by company. Church Gist. The lion in a pride can bring down an elephant, but the lion alone will not go near an elephant. It means therefore that our strength is amplified in fellowship, our strength is reduced in isolation.
The early Church gathered on two platforms – in the temple and house to house. (Acts 2:46, 3:1). In the early church there was a high regard for appearance in the temple, Please your house is not the temple. God is a God of details, every one of those expressions were vital for the fellowship of the Church – they gathered in the temple and also house to house.
1 Corinthians 16:19, Philemon 1-2
We also see the two platforms again: church in the temple and church from house to house. That is why we have our Church in the temple also and WSF gathering from house to house.
Let’s take notice of this, this morning: The church of Christ is ordained as a city of refuge to the redeemed.
Joshua 20:1-4, Hebrews 12:22-24.
You heard the testimony of that individual who was having headaches and went to the hospital and there was no way forward. Suddenly, from headache to comma. Then, you saw the Church – provincial pastors, fellowship members taking place to fight on that individual’s behalf. One lion may not bring down an elephant but a group of lions will surely do. Church Gist. What he could not bring down himself, because he was connected to fellowship the elephant was brought down. We see him today testifying because what he could not confront by isolation, he confronted by association. When you are connected to fellowship, you faith is defended. Fellowship is that defence, it is that city of refuge where there is preservation for the redeemed.
- None here, none hearing or connected this morning will ever fall to the assault of the enemy.
Obadiah 1:17
Zion is the city of refuge were there is liberty established for the saints.
- That shall be every one of us, every one of our new converts in this church in the name of Christ.
Now give thanks to God for His Word that you have received this morning. Lord thank you for your word that has come my way this morning.
Now take grace to maintain your place in fellowship. Church Gist. Pray that every one of your converts receive grace to remain in fellowship. None of them will be missing. That they may be defended in the faith and protected against every assault of the enemy.
Another day is here, the beginning of a brand new working week. Speak to the day and speak to the week right now.
- This day is declared blessed.
- For you this week is loaded with testimonies.
- Nothing will stop working for you this week. Whatever is not working as this new working week starts, it starts working for you.
- May God’s goodness and favour envelope you this week.
- I command right now the release of good tiding for you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- No mishaps, no breakdown, no accident.
- Your going out is blessed, your coming in is blessed.
- It shall be a week of victory and a week of peace that passes all understanding
In the name of Jesus Christ, so shall it be.
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CHoP is an acronym for Covenant Hour Of Prayer
