MANY UNBELIEVERS UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF GIVING MORE THAN CHRISTIANS.
IT IS NOT HOW MUCH YOU CAN SHOUT IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER BUT IT IS HOW MUCH COMMAND YOU HAVE IN YOUR MOUTH.
YOU CANNOT HAVE COMMAND IN YOUR MOUTH UNTIL YOU HAVE THE PRESENCE OF GOD
- Rev’d (Dr.) Philip Oyewale at Holy Ghost Convention 2021: Abundant Rain
Day 3, Evening Session
Praise the Lord
Tonight is a very special night, I know God has something special to give to each and everyone of you. Whether the devil likes it or not, God will give you your portion in the name of Jesus.
I want to sincerely thank our Father and our Mother, for the great work they have been doing for years and for this 39th Holy Ghost Convention. God bless you in Jesus name.
Father let Your word come tonight, breathe upon Your word in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Daniel 6:10
Daniel was a man that operated under the old covenant, yet he knew the significance of being in the presence of the Lord. The point I’m trying to establish here today is that there are certain laws that can never be changed until a higher law has been enacted. Church Gist. There is a law we called the law of gravity, there is a law of the spirit and there is a law of life and death; these laws can only be suspended, they cannot be altered. You need to understand the way law works. When you have that understanding, you will know that once a law is made, it must take its course. But like law, principles also cannot change, once it is engaged properly the result is guaranteed.
For example, the law of giving. The scripture says, give and it shall be given unto you. It is a principle of the Kingdom. If you give regardless of who you are, it shall be given back unto you. The Bible says, seek and you will find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you, ask and it shall be given to you. So, it is a principle.
For example the unbelievers, some of them understand the principle of giving and they are getting blessed because they give. Church Gist. Whosoever, regardless of who you are, if you are a giver, you can never lack, you can never beg. You don’t have to be a believer to be a giver, the principle will still work for you.
I am talking about laws and principles because if you understand that this abundant rain we have been talking about, there are laws that guides it. There is a particular principle you must engage with that will allow you to enjoy abundant rain perpetually.
- By the mercy of the Lord, you will enjoy abundant rain perpetually.
Abundant rain signifies open Heaven. This short message is to help everybody that is hearing me to know how you can secure abundant rain on a regular basis, it should not be a one-time experience. You are not designed as a child of God to be experiencing drought perpetually, that is not the plan of God for your life.
Let me tell you; there will be storms, they are part of the curriculum that will safeguard the building up of your spiritual stamina that will guarantee profitability and the maximum usage of the abundance of rain that you are waiting for. Church Gist. The pain that you are experiencing is to prepare you to be able to handle the abundance that is coming. If you have never experienced pain, you will never know how to manage pain.
I told somebody this morning, there are revelations that you will never get unless you have experienced some things. Do you know that pain is a place where experiences are born and revelations are been given? So when you are passing through storms and pains, they are not to destroy you; they are to prepare you, they are to build you up so that your spiritual muscle can be ready.
There are two public prayers that Elijah ever offered that was recorded in the Scripture: He called forth fire from Heaven and also prayed that there will be rain.
If there is anytime that our generation needs men and women that will call both fire and rain down, I think it is now. Fire on the wickedness of the wicked, fire on the attitude and all the atrocities of the people of darkness… ladies and gentlemen, God is waiting for somebody that will step into the shoes of Elijah. You don’t need Bishop Wale Oke to be praying for you all the time, you yourself have the opportunity to connect with Heaven and say let it rain and tonight, it will rain.
If you are going to enjoy perpetual rain, then you must know how to pray. If you are not ready to pray, the rain can only be seasonal and God does not want you to enjoy seasonal rain, He wants it to be perpetual.
Luke 3:21
You can only hear and see the rain if you take time to be in His presence. What you can not see, you cannot command, what you cannot command, you cannot enjoy. When you have the grace to be able to stay in His presence, let me tell you something; the secrets of the Lord are with those that fear Him.
If the Son of God Himself will pray, my friend you cannot succeed without praying. You can experience the rain and it will stop; it takes prayer to sustain and to maintain the rain. Do you want an open Heaven, then learn how to pray. Abundance of rain talks about open Heaven.
So many of us today we are only making noise, nobody is hearing us because Heaven has not endorse our work. What you didn’t get in the place of prayer, people will not hear you. They will hear you make noise but it will not enter the heart. Church Gist. How did Elijah prayed? Elijah prayed the will of God, he knew that God loves His people.
It is not how much you can shout in the place of prayer, it is about how much command you have in your mouth. You cannot have the command in your mouth until you have the presence of the Lord. You cannot command the angels to rise and they’ll rise until you know how to labour in the place of prayer. If you can labour in the secret, He will reward you in the public. So many of you don’t want to labour, so many people don’t want to pay the price. You want to be like Bishop Wale Oke, can you fast for days, can you do prayer walk by 4:00am? When you are ready to pay the price, then you are ready to be like him.
I went to see late Baba Obadare, I drove for five hours with my wife to go and see him so that he can pray for us and there was a long queue. After two hours it was my turn and he asked me; my son what do you want the Lord to do for you. I said, I just started a Church, I want the Church to prosper. He said it is done, go. In my heart, I said “five hours to come, five hours to go back, waited for two hours and all I could hear is go”. Ladies and gentlemen, these people are not longer praying, they have what we called command; when they say it, it comes to pass.
Let me close with this; if you want to pray like Elijah, then pray the mind of God. God loves his people, He does not want to destroy them. The only reason God permitted that there will be no rain was for them to come back to Him. If you want your heaven to be opened, pray the mind of God.
Number two, declare the mind of God boldly, don’t be afraid. Anybody’s story can change in a second because you are serving a God that there is nothing impossible for Him. When Elijah told Ahab that rain is coming, Ahab did not argue, he started running. Sometimes you become too familiar with the anointing that when the man of God is saying something, you are not following and then you are not enjoying it.
There is nothing Bishop Wale Oke say that I don’t believe. He raised my son from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit. Let anybody die now; somebody was dieing recently, I am not telling you testimony of last year and they told me that the person was dieing. I was in Nigeria and I said “can they allow you to use phone there”, they said yes. I said put the phone in the ear of the person: ‘Oh God that raised Emmanuel, raise you now’. Because I saw Him doing it before, nobody can stop Him from doing it again.
Pray like Elijah, have faith like Ahab
Rise up on your feet.
There is just one prayer point:
- Lord, increase my faith.
Receive your rain now. I pray that the spirit of prayer and supplication will rest upon you. You will not be weary in the place of prayer. As many of you that are discouraged, receive strength to go forward. Blessed be Your name our Father, in Jesus mighty we have prayed
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