DON’T JOIN A SERVICE GROUP AND BEGIN TO STRUGGLE SO YOU CAN BE MADE THE LEADER.
LET’S GET BACK TO SERVING GOD FROM THE DEPTH OF OUR HEARTS, NOT FOR POSITION NOR TITLE
-Pastor (Mrs) Faith Oyedepo
International Youth Convention 2021
Day Three, Evening Session
- To enjoy divine presence, you must be committed to walking in obedience. Obedience is the key to enjoying divine presence, obedience must be your choice.
Why? Obedience is the highway to walking in the high places of life.
Isaiah 1:19
Part of the good of the land is excellence, you must taste it. Not only taste it, you must enjoy it. Obedience is the key.
John 14:21
-From this conference, God will begin to manifest Himself unto you.
All the men of obedience in scriptures were men who enjoyed divine presence and you have a catalogue of them.
Father Abraham: we are very familiar with him, a man of uncheckered obedience. He enjoyed divine presence.
The widow of Zarephath through her obedience enjoyed divine supplies. You can read on and on in scriptures.
-Grace for uncheckered obedience, receive it in Jesus name.
Please remember that delayed obedience is the same thing as disobedience.
So grace to be right on time, receive it in Jesus name.
For instance, upon this mountain, several things I believe God must have spoken to you as individuals, through all the teachings, the workshops, the prayer sessions, the counselling session; God has spoken to you. Which of these have you chosen to obey?
By now, I think you should have been down all your action points, don’t wait and say, “well, when I get back home, I will begin to action.” No, your action points must be written down from here and you must from here begin to take action.
There are some of you, the kind of friends you keep, before you leave this mountain you must take a decision to separate yourself from them.
Some of you from the kind of places where you came into this convention, you must make up your mind because you must not return back there. You can’t afford to return back to your vomit, No. Your story must change for the better, the things you used to do, you must not be found doing them anymore.
🎶The things I do, I do them no more; the lies I used to tell, I tell them no more; the place I used to go, I go there no more; there is a great change since I found the Lord.🎶
-That great change will follow you back from here.
- Be committed to serving God in season and out of season.
Kingdom service is a must. Every dedicated servant of God enjoys divine presence. When you serve God dedicatedly, you will not lack divine presence. We have several scriptures and examples like that.
My question to you tonight is, “are you in Kingdom service?” Wherever you came from, there are several units and groups in Church where you can dedicatedly serve God from the depth of your heart, not for position, not for title because there is no entitlement in title.
Don’t join a service group and begin to cause problems there. Don’t join a Service group and begin to struggle so you can be made the leader.
God will not reward titles, He will reward our labour.
Let’s get back and begin to serve God more than ever before, committedly, dedicatedly.
I have always shared with people, thank God, I am on the Pulpit today, sharing and preaching the gospel but I didn’t start from here. In this same Ministry, I was once one of the people that used to sweep the benches and clean the floor and get it ready for people to come.
I used to be one of the people, then in those early days they were in charge of Believers Foundation Class. Don’t get to a service group and begin to struggle to hold the microphone. Only one person per time can hold it, wait, it will soon be your turn.
-Wait, it will soon be your turn. Tap your neighbour, “wait now”
God is not marking who is holding a big microphone, He is marking and recording who is serving Him.
Bend down and stoop down to serve. Church Gist. When you serve God with integrity of heart like David in the Bible did, keeping the sheepfold, he came to the limelight as a king.
-There are kings and queens under the sound of my voice tonight.
- Be Committed to the leading of the Holy Spirit
Isaiah 48:17
-From this moment forward, you won’t lack divine guidance anymore.
Divine guidance is a requirement if you must live a life of excellence. To enjoy divine presence, you must commit to the leading of the Holy Ghost.
I want to believe God here tonight that you are baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Are you?
In case you are not, don’t leave this convention before you do so. Make yourself available. You will be prayed with and you will receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit because you and I need Him.
The Holy Spirit is our GPS in the journey of life. He tells you where danger is available so you can avoid it.
He tells you where you can gain speed. Venture into this career, don’t go into that one. He shows you which way to go. He (Holy Spirit) helps you and I to navigate our way in life.
-From this moment forward, may you never lack the joy, presence and the guidance of the Holy Ghost anymore.
Take a look at this Commission. You have heard it shared over and again. Ministry began in Kwara State and then God said to his servant, Bishop Oyedepo, “arise, get down to Kaduna, the city of persecution.” So we left. The guidance of the Holy Ghost. After a while, He said, “arise, get down to Lagos and raise me a people.” Then we left, came to Lagos. Then got to Lagos. God said to him when they got to the gate of Canaanland, then just a forest, “this is the place.” See what God has done today.
This is not only the place, now The Ark project is on, over 100,000-seater, by divine guidance, by the leading of the Holy Ghost.
-There is a great future ahead of you. Where you are right now is the least place, you can ever be. You can never be lower than where you are again forever.
-The God of this Commission that has been leading us from one phase to another, from glory to glory, He is also your God, He will lead you.
-Your greatness is just at the door. You will get there.
Though your beginning may be small, don’t worry, your latter end shall be far greater. Therefore, don’t despise the days of small beginning – Zechariah 4:10
God has given you a go ahead by the Holy ghost, to start that little business, don’t say, “No, me I want profit in billions right now. I cannot wait, this is too small for me. “ No, don’t do that. Wait, your tomorrow shall be great.
- Be committed to a lifestyle of Praise
Psalm 22:3
Praise is God’s natural habitat, that is where God lives. What water is to fish is what praise is to God, there is no fish that can survive outside of water. In the same way, God cannot survive a ‘praiseless life’. Church Gist. What is it that you think that God has not done for you or in your life that is making you to complain every time, grumble all time? Remember you are what you are and I am what I am by the grace of God – 1 Corinthians 15:10
If you must get to the place where God has in store for you, that murmuring must die.
There are several youths, always complaining about everything: their parents are the worst parents in this world to them, their neighbours are the worst ones, their boss at work, don’t even ask about that one. Why? Ingratitude.
But that ingratitude and the spirit of it must drop from you on this mountain
-Therefore, everything that murmurs, complains and grumbles in your life, I curse it tonight in Jesus name.
-I decree in the name of Jesus Christ, that gratitude attitude becomes your portion.
Grace to continue to praise God at every moment, so He can continue to raise you in every area of life.
As you thank God for your health, He will perfect it in wholeness.
As you thank God for your job, He will open greater doors for you.
As you thank God for financial provisions, He will yet open the windows of heaven in your direction.
As you thank God for where you are right now, He takes you to where you ought to do.
Therefore, tonight the spirit of murmuring and complaining and grumbling comes to an end forever.
Ability to be thankful, to be grateful and to be praiseful like God has commanded us to, receive it in Jesus name.
When you get back from this Youth Convention, anyone that has been a blessing to you and making your coming here possible, appreciate them: “Oh thank you very much. I just appreciate you. I am grateful. I am not taking what God has used you to do for me, for granted.” As you do so, you will be surprised, greater things that will come your way.
In conclusion, remember God’s presence is what separates us from all the people on the earth. God’s presence will go with you from here and separate you from the people of the world, from henceforth in Jesus name.
The supernatural is ever at the command of divine presence. Therefore, as you leave this mountain, I see you begin to command the supernatural.
Prayer: Receive grace to be a hearer and a doer of the Word that you have received. Grace to put to work the things that you have heard tonight, in addition to what you have been hearing.
Heavenly Father, right now, I receive grace to be a hearer and a doer of Your Word, so help me God.
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