I HAVE MORE TAPES OF PASTOR KUMUYI THAN ANY OTHER PASTOR
IN THE PAST I HAVE MADE FUN OF PASTOR ADEBOYE WONDERING WHAT HE IS SAYING TO PULL CROWD YET HE HAS THE LARGEST ALTAR IN THE WORLD.
MANY PASTORS HAVE ABANDONED THEIR CHURCH MEMBERS FOR MONTHS.
YOU WILL NEVER GET TO WINNERS CHAPEL ON A SUNDAY AND NOT MEET BISHOP OYEDEPO.
THAT IS WHY THE CHURCH IS LIKE THAT.
BISHOP ABIOYE GOES TO THE MARKET PLACE TO WIN SOULS. HOW MANY PEOPLE DO THAT?
WE WERE USING A HALL COSTING $8,500 WEEKLY IN DUBAI. ONE PERSON CAME AND PAID FOR A WHOLE YEAR
- Reverend Biodun Fatoyinbo at COZA Tuesday
Halleluyah! Come on, let’s celebrate the King of kings.
2 Corinthians 4: 1-7. Allow me to start from verse 3, the Bible does not say, ‘If our gospel be silent’. If it had said ‘If our gospel be silent’, then it would have meant that the power of the gospel is in noise, it is in how many times I preach on TV, it is in how many times I carry placards on which ‘Be saved or go to hell’ is written and people say, ‘Oh! I like that man. He is very straight. He gives it to you straight,’ but how many people has he won to Christ like that? The Bible does not say, ‘If our gospel be quiet’, which means the communication of the gospel, the full impact of the gospel is not felt. This is the reason why workers are frustrated, pastors are frustrated, people who are genuinely called, people believe in the man and the vision but people are not coming, things are not working.
First of all, I made up my mind because the church I was raised in, they call the pastor a walking bible. How we knew that someone could preach was the number of scriptures he quoted and most of the time, there was a show-off.
What did he preach?
Ah! O le ku. Brother yen deep. He’s deep.
God does not want you to be deep, God wants you to be impactful. One day, I sat down and I thought about it; there at least four churches I know that are preaching and the churches are exploding. First, if you don’t know Pastor Kumuyi very well, he is a deep teacher. I think I have more tapes of Pastor Kumuyi than any other pastor. Particularly, his trainings are very deep but in communicating the truth, he is very simple. You can hear it, you can understand it, even a teenager or a child can understand it.
Pastor Adeboye – I have been among ministers who are struggling and they are making fun saying, ‘What is he preaching?’, but he has the largest altar on earth.
Let’s look at Jesus, he told stories. Do you know why the Pharisees and Sadducees hated him? ‘Which school did he go to?’ He wasn’t even deep. ChurchGist. Someone like me, pastors don’t like me. One pastor came from one country, sat down and said, ‘Pastor Biodun! And people are trooping in. And your message is simple’. I was thinking, ‘Should my message be hard?’. People had Bibles in their home, they read it and don’t understand. Now, they come to church, should I then make what should be simple harder for them? Will God pay me? You see a teacher just teaching class 3 students Pythagoras theorem and saying all those things whereas those kids are just looking. If you are a principal with camera, will you not carefully remove that teacher? We are in a competition, we are trying to impress pastors. They do this to impress other pastors and these pastors they are trying to impress will only invite you to their church to preach, they will not join your church. When they call a labourer to come and work in a farm, you pay the labourer and wave them ‘bye’, you don’t call them when the harvest comes.
Somebody walked up to me two weeks ago, a worker and gave me a seed. The guy handed something to me that looked like twelve million naira and when I checked it, I was like, ‘Wow!’. I’m not a spendthrift. The way I live my life, I might not finish it this year and God said to my ear, ‘Where did you go?’ I said, “Workers’ meeting”. He said there are people that have left their church, abandoned their members, they took ‘adire’ to sell and they don’t have half what you have when they come back. Yesterday, somebody dealt with me again in the spirit, you know when they deal with you? He slapped me with money. God said, ‘Did you see this?’ I said, ‘Yeah’. He said everything you need will come to you where you are because you listen to me. So, handbill is not effectiveness in ministry, social media noise is not effectiveness in ministry. Why am I sharing this with you? Because how you see life is how you live it. I see people who hear when I preach in Ghana and they just say, ‘Congratulations’. Congratulations for what? The things people are pursuing are pursuing some other people. I’m sharing what works for us. You will never get to Winners Chapel on a Sunday and not meet Bishop Oyedepo, that is why the church is like that.
2 Corinthians 4: 2-3. If it is about hearing, the adjective would have been ‘quiet’ or ‘silent’. If I tell you that I am hiding something from you, am I keeping you from hearing it? Or from seeing it? So, the gospel that transforms peoples’ lives is not the one they heard but the one they saw. I have called a son of mine before who wanted to prosper and I said to him, ‘Believe me. This is what I do. You know me when I started church’. So, I counted some money, gave it to him and told him to sow a seed to me. I think I gave him maybe a hundred thousand naira and this guy just gave me about five thousand naira. He heard me; it was my money I gave to him but he wasn’t seeing it.
I used to have a friend among some of my friends, when we go to greet a man of God, I used to give him a seed after my own seed and he would say, ’Pastor Biodun, I have house rent to pay, I have things to do’. He was close to us and he was on the same spot because he never saw it. Do you know what I found out, everyone that was raised where he was raised, I also was raised there, but somehow, I changed my pastor from the campus, every pastor that was raised around there have a problem with finance, have a problem with giving, they just don’t see it. When you don’t see it, you have an itching ear looking for someone to validate your level because Satan will keep you in bondage. So, I’m not giving to impress anybody, I give because I see.
You remember the story I told you that my office was at the back at a time and a prophet stood there at the foyer and said, ‘Man of God. I want you to father me’. I said, ‘Ah! The way you are talking, you are not looking like someone that could submit’. You know the boldness with which prophets talk. I said, ‘You are a prophet’, I function in the office of a prophet because I am an apostle, I can visit the five. When I give altar call, you think that I’m an evangelist, when I work in the miraculous, people always tell me, ‘We didn’t know you work in the miraculous’, when I say something on Sunday and seven people are saying on Tuesday, ‘it came to pass, he is a prophet’. In fact, one of the major prophets on this earth told me, he said, ‘Pastor Biodun, you are just shying away from this thing. I know that you are a prophet’. They asked Pastor Adeboye, ‘Who are you? Are you a pastor? Prophet? or what?’. He said, ‘Never! I won’t tell you who I am. I don’t want to use my mouth to limit myself. If I say I’m a pastor, what if God switches me because my mouth is powerful. So, just leave me. Because I seat over a church, call me Pastor Adeboye’. He himself is an apostle, he switches into these offices.
But you see, a pastor that is not a teacher, is not a pastor. The reason we have problems all over the world in churches now is that someone is an evangelist and can work miracles jumps into a city, pulls someone up from a wheelchair, everybody gathers. When that happens, people gather around him and say let’s start a church for you, whereas he can’t maintain a church. There was a prophet that asked me, ‘What are you telling the people?’. He said, ‘Pastor Biodun, what I have noticed is that when people have issues, they come to me but the moment the issue is done, they come to COZA and you know what they do? They put you as DP and wallpaper. I want to learn. My ministry is a roller-coaster, only problematic people come to me’. I said, ‘Problematic people also come here but after their problems are over, there is a life after that your ministry is not feeding. If I come to your children’s church, what does it look like?’ and then don’t let me go into all of that because that’s not what we are talking about.
2 Corinthians 4: 2. Now, I want to ask you a question. What will deliver those that are in darkness? The presence of light, not you telling them about the light. When you switch on the light, they will know where the door is. So, it is not in the talking; it is in the manifestation. I want to ask you a question as I proceed, ‘What does the devil fear? Does he fear the preaching? Cassette tapes? Tracts?’ What he fears is that he does not want your light to shine. He doesn’t mind if you have light, just keep it to yourself. Any church that is evangelistic, in terms of being strategic, the devil fears it.
In Ilorin, we got a list of fine boys on campus and I said, ‘Why is it only razz people that come to church.? What nonsense is that? Get me the list’. We organized an all-night party. Mummy Dee said, ‘Are you sure?’, I answered, ‘Mo sure pa’. The invite was a wine. ChurchGist. So, for every guy that was not saved, there was a saved lady that was put under prayer and fasting for two weeks and for every lady that was not saved, there was a guy under prayer and fasting and we got a D.J who didn’t know what was going on. That was the kind of church COZA was; you must be born-again. While the party was going on, my wife and I came down from where we had lodged in the hotel and I preached. I had trained them, I had told them, ‘When I was done preaching, engage each person’ and then it turned to a worship, the keyboardist just came out from nowhere. The devil is not afraid that you can quote Scriptures, he is not afraid that you can teach. How many people who go to the market place actually win souls? I’m not saying, ‘don’t go’. My great mentor, Bishop Abioye goes and he wins souls. Everybody has their own strategy, but how many people do that?
How many of you are shining on the Instagram? There is a lady, I won’t mention her name. She is well-dressed, she is well comported, she does business but she is an evangelist in this city. I checked her page; you see Davido’s girlfriend reaching out to her, you see actresses, reaching out to her. You want to be like them, you don’t know that they are frustrated every day, wanting to be like you. On our birthday, you go naked. When I look into your Instagram account, are you a Jesus-lover? Some Christians are actually confused, they just follow trends, some pastors are. Please, I want to beg you, the fact that nobody has talked about a pastor doesn’t mean that the pastor is straight, when you bend to their rules, they don’t talk about you. Jesus said, ‘Woe unto you if the world speaks well of you’.
Look at verse 5 and 6. This light is supposed to work in our hearts. It doesn’t matter the darkness that was your background. You may be the son of a herbalist, you may be the daughter of a soothsayer. Number one, you did not determine where you were born, God brought you out of that place for a reason. God put you there for a reason. The God who commanded light to shine in darkness wants light to start shining out of your heart.
John 1: 1-4. God designed that this life was what would bring men light. John 8: 12. God is looking for a life that in that life, He can bring light. A life that can shine. What is happening to Christians is that they are born-again, they come to church but their lights are not shining. God is looking for lives that can bring light out. ChurchGist. Moses was with God and he did not know anything was going on but was when he came back to the people that they said, ‘Please, cover your face’. John 5: 33-35.
- After this service, I name you a burning and a shining light
- You will stay in your royalty
I want to show you that John 8: 12 one more time. If our gospel be hidden, it is hidden from those whom the god of this world has blinded, lest they see. What have you been seeing? Are you seeing that if you don’t sleep with your fiancée, you can’t marry him? Are you bragging that the politician comes to your church? or the politician comes to you for prayer but your light can’t shine to him?
We wanted to buy this land; I don’t want to tell you the amount. When they mentioned the price for this land – 1.1 hectare, I passed out, the HolyGhost woke me up. There is a member of this church who was on my neck every day, ‘Papa, let’s quickly by this thing’. I said, ‘Oga, we don’t have the money. Let’s face our dome and build up’. He said, ‘No’. I said, ‘Lord, what should we do? Should we borrow money?’ God said, ‘No. Have you forgotten how I raised you?’. ChurchGist. As I aligned and began to confess, the more the desire was coming and the money came. Our Lagos Church debt-free, Ilorin Church debt-free, Gwarimpa Church debt-free, Mararaba Church debt-free, Lugbe Church debt-free, Dubai Church debt-free. We were using a hall in Dubai, it’s eight thousand, five hundred dollars. One person walked up to me and paid for one year. I can tell you about this thing. Going to sit in a senator’s office is not the solution. As a Christian, you must do some things to show, in character.
Revelations 21: 23. When you have Jesus, you have light. You are not to hid it; you are to beam it out. Ephesians 5: 8, Isaiah 60: 1-11. No rising, no shining. When you arise, you will shine. You are not the light, but you will shine. Without this light coming upon you, you are just a religious Christian. God is looking for lives that He will shine through.
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