-Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
Covenant Day of Restoration
*23,000 plus have appeared in this church for the first time in their life.
*I know how much of His resources in my hand is being expended in driving it.
*You always find 1 Million, 1.5 Million on SMS to capture all our converts. You just must be captured.
*I knew I was set for a ride 1976 from Matthew 6:33. It was difficult to teach but it became my lifestyle.
*Experience does not count in the Kingdom, it is light that counts
Spiritual ignorance is the worst enemy of the Redeemed. Spiritual ignorance is our worst enemy in the Kingdom.
Isaiah 5:13
Not because there is one terrible devil: because they have no knowledge.
My people are gone into captivity, their honourable men have lost colour because they have no knowledge.
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free from every form of captivity” – John 8:32
Let’s all declare war against spiritual ignorance as individuals, coming to discover what to do, to see God’s Word come to pass in our lives. That’s Revelation.
Information is knowing what God has promised, revelation is knowing what to do, to see the promise translate to reality.
Whatever He tells you to do: don’t quote it, Do It! – John 2:5
Whatever He tells you to do: don’t recite it, Do It!
Whatever He tells you to do!
We must understand the covenant stand of God.
“My covenant will I not break, no matter what anybody is going through, neither will I alter those things that have gone forth out of my lips” – Psalm 89:34
We serve a covenant keeping God. Until my part and your part is played, God is not committed.
UNDERSTANDING HOW GOD LEADS
So agents of the devil will not lead you into the wilderness. You must, I must understand how God leads.
Psalm 45:3-4
The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. We ride in majesty on the wheels of revelation. We are out of captivity on the wheels of revelation.
Jesus knew what He would do, so He rode majestically in providing food for 5,000 men minus women and children – John 6:6
We ride prosperously and in majesty on the wheels of revelation.
Isaiah 60:1-3
“Arise, shine, for thy light has come…kings will come to the brightness of thy rising” – that’s the power of light.
What is light? The entrance of thy Word gives light, the understanding of Your Word gives light – Psalm 119:130
Sir, we don’t ride on the wheels of fasting. Fasting without light leaves anybody in his frustration.
Light and nothing but light.
Fast and pray to access light. Gather relevant materials that will help your understanding of the Word, then you ride on prosperously and in majesty.
…He (God) said, “buy the truth and sell it not” – Proverbs 23:23
Not preach the truth, buy it: engage with the truth.
When I caught the light on prosperity, I bought into it: hook, line and sinker. I was too sure of a prosperous ride. Church Gist. No matter who prays for you, ignorance will always torment.
My people perish from lack of knowledge, not from lack of laying on of hands – Hosea 4:6
Somebody is troubled in his health, he has never read any book on healing, he has never listened to any teaching on healing. He knows everything. In fact he knows what God does not know. You need meekness to learn.
What you don’t know, you don’t know.
What you won’t learn, you can’t know.
And what you don’t know, you will pay for it.
-God wants to do something in your life.
There is nothing we are teaching now that we have not taught before…so go and find out yourself. It is what you know that you take to the exam hall, not what the teacher knows. He wants to find out what you know out of all that he taught you.
You now go there (exam hall), you start looking at the sky because you don’t know it. This is the skull, you can’t touch the brain. You can hit till tomorrow. What you don’t know, you don’t know.
I knew we were heading for a huge Church when we were 24 by coming to know what to do. You know why we do what we do?
“continue to teach life applicable Word and as it begins to generate testimonies, the sheep will come for it. Keep doing so and the sheep will lie down there.”
Go out and tell them, “come and see what Jesus is doing in this Church” and we have been doing that up till now. You will still get fliers today. Next Sunday, you will get.
By going out, by the grace of God, my team brought 111, 000 plus to Jesus this year. 23,000 plus have appeared in this Church for the first time in their life. Capture, real life capture, not that guess work. While He showed me what to do and we won’t stop doing it until Jesus returns. I know how much of His resources in my hand is being expended in driving it and I’m excited. You always find 1 Million, 1.5 Million on SMS to capture all our converts. You just must be captured.
I knew I was set for a ride 1976 from Matthew 6:33. It was difficult to teach but it became my lifestyle.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. If you find it Sir, you won’t feel anybody is deceiving you. If you find it by yourself. You are telling a blind man something, he wonders, “I hope he is telling the truth, his mouth looks very smooth. I hope this is the road.”
Why? Because he cannot see.
But when he can see and says, “I am going to Ota, you say I should go this way, No I am not mad. This is the way…’Atan’ is this way, ‘Iju’ is this way. I am going to Sango…”
-I therefore pray that every confusion ends in your life today; that your spiritual sight be fully recovered.
There are 3 main avenues through which we access light: The Holy Ghost is the facilitator of light – John 16:13
But He operates on 3 main platforms:
- Through Personal Search:
Call it study. - Through the Church platform – Psalm 73:17
The Church is God’s illumination centre, you step in and light breaks forth.
Somebody has caught something this morning. True or false?
That you can only have a ride with light. In fact not just a ride, a flight.
“Who are these that fly as a cloud?”- Isaiah 60:8
They are lighted people, majestic ride.
Understanding blossoms in Church because Jesus said, “come unto Me” and He dwells in Church – Matthew 11:28, Hebrews 12:23-24
“Come unto Me and I will teach you” – You will be hearing from a man but I am the One teaching you.
“And you will find rest for your soul.”
Light is sweet – Ecclesiastes 11:7
One of the platform through which we encounter light is the Church platform. - Through the Teaching Priests:
Via their resource materials – their books, their DVDs, YouTube, anyTube.
Kenneth Hagin taught my life into light.
Kenneth Copeland taught my way out of lack and want mentality.
T. L Osborne taught me to hear the Voice of the Spirit.
Oswald J. Smith led me to where Matthew 6:33 was.
Through the ministry of Teaching Priests. Church Gist. Experience does not count in the Kingdom, it is light that counts!!
You think I don’t have enemies, there is none of us who doesn’t have, but I should have more than you do, because of the way I am privileged to be troubling the kingdom of darkness on daily basis, night and day, when I am sleeping, they keep seeing me going around. My Angel doesn’t sleep, He goes around to slap people who are misbehaving.
One elderly woman came to me, very sorry case. She said, “she said a lot of things against me and she just saw people slapping her, but she can’t see them.” She said, “please forgive me.”
I said, “I don’t even know what to do but you are forgiven.”
She said, “they are slapping every day.”
It is my Angel who called some other Angels that there is somebody to slap somewhere.
I taught on Angels one day in Kaduna and armed robbers came into a place. The person said, “angels of God show up” and they started hearing loud noise on the ceiling. The robbers took heed.
He caught the Word and at that time, there was nobody to call, there was no mobile phone.
“Angels of God show yourself” and then on the spot, loud noise on the roof.
Light is sweet. I am too conscious of my own Angel because each one has but you may not be conscious of them. You may run away while your Angel is standing by to deliver you.
2 Chronicles 15:3, 5
“…great vexation” – because they had no place for the teaching priests
Can you imagine, somebody bought 2 books, no teacher, no nothing. You will so ‘pass.’
They say, “this is Mathematics book, this is Physics book. You know I paid money to buy it, so settle down. I can’t pay school fees. You must pass your GCE, SSCE, anything.” He will just run away from the house.
Because he can’t access it without some teachers.
…Say with me, “Knowledge is power.”
He said those who do wickedly against the covenant of knowledge He will corrupt with flatteries. But those who do know their God, they shall be strong and they shall do exploits.”
“Well, he is just lucky, there is nothing there. We have been in this Church all along.”
Why are you not lucky? There is no believer that is less luckier than the other. We are all equally accepted in the Beloved. It is light that makes the difference. Nothing makes the difference like light and that light beginning from today will be restored back to your life.
That testifier said he heard me say, “any faith that seeks to make God absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life is an irresponsible faith.” There is always what I must do: I must study; I must be in Church, the centre of God’s illumination; I must open up to the Teaching Priests that God has sent to the body of Christ. As light comes, great vexation, tension, disorder will find their way out.
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