THEY SAID, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE CREDIT THAT NIGERIANS BUILT THIS. YOU HAVE INCREASED OUR PROFILE.
DON’T LET THE GENERALITY LIMIT YOUR MENTALITY.
DON’T TRY TO SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO THINK, THINK WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE.
GOD WORKS WITH BIG THINKERS BECAUSE IN THAT REALM YOU ARE FUNCTIONING AT HIS FREQUENCY.
WHATEVER IS NOT A POSSIBILITY IN YOUR MENTALITY CAN NEVER BECOME A REALITY IN YOUR DESTINY.
- Pastor Paul Enenche at Kingdom Power and Glory World Conference 2021
Day Four, Morning Session
Lift your hands and give Him the praise.
It is a good way, to be wasted Lord on You. Thank You for the privilege. Thank You for this privilege, blessed be Your name. In Jesus precious name.
Give the Lord a big clap of hand and be seated in the presence of the Lord.
Every single testimony this morning has been a message and we are eternally grateful to God for speaking and preaching and ministering to us in diverse ways and we say to Him alone be all the praise in the name of Jesus Christ.
Exceeding Abundant Grace (Part 3)
Looking very quickly at the life of Jacob.
Our objective:
- To understand the help of God in the life of Jacob.
- To understand the secrets of such help or grace.
Genesis 25:24-26
This series we are dealing with, people who experienced the help of God where there was no hope from man, help in the absence of lack of hope. Church Gist. People who succeeded against resistance by the help of God, by the grace of God. People who broke through against all odds by the help of God, by the grace of God and then, to study what they did, what could be their secrets?
Looking at the life of Jacob, what were the odds:
- Jacob was born disadvantaged; born with a disadvantaged position in a covenant family. Abraham, Isaac, the next person on that line that should naturally inherit the covenant lineage would have been Esau because Esau was the first born.
- Jacob was born with the wrong identity. The name Jacob means supplanter, the wrong identity (Genesis 25:24). We have people today that move about with the wrong identity. People look at you, hate you without knowing you. Church Gist. They look at you, draw conclusions on you without any cause. You look young, but to many you are old. You are a woman, but to some, you look like a man. You are man, but some think you are a woman. It is a church but the devil make them see a signboard of a bakery.
It is a supermarket but in the realm of the spirit, they are seeing a barbing salon and they don’t want to barb. There are all manner of these things in the realm of the spirit. The wrong identity, he was born with the wrong identity.
- Jacob existed as the non-favourite child of the father (Genesis 25:28). Have you been in a such a position where the father who gave birth to you shows you that he doesn’t like you? Church Gist. You are the non-favourite child and in some polygamous homes, your mother is the non-favourite wife and so, it transfers automatically to the children. I grew up under such a climate and the odds are against you.
For some, it even progresses to the point where the father who doesn’t like you is also uttering words against your destiny and you came up like that and your Father in Heaven is saying, “Your father on earth may not like you, but I like you. Isaac, you love Esau and hate Jacob, Me, God in Heaven, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated”. Where man rules, God overrules ( Romans 9:13). Church Gist. So, Isaac was loving somebody that God hates and was hating somebody God loves. It exchanged perfectly. That is why, forever and ever, what should be important to you is not what a mortal man feels about you. What is important to you is what Jehovah feels about you and let it be clear to you forever now that if man stands against you, God stand with you.
You know, I said yesterday that God is permanently attracted to the rejected. He is permanently interested in the resisted. He is interested in the frustrated, the abandoned – that is what God just did for Jacob. Please parents, don’t have children you love and children you hate. It is devastating. You are showing this child you like him or her and you are showing this one, I hate you. Church Gist. That was how Isaac literally ruined his family except for God. Children, maybe you will tell me which one I love among all of you?
- There is someone here today, God will use you to prove a point!
What is a point? The stones the builders rejected is become the head of the corner. It is the Lord’s doing and it is marvellous in our sight.
- Jacob grew with a questionable character. There are people that, they just suspect you all the time. Church Gist. You don’t have to do anything, they just think that you are not good.
- Jacob became connected to a fraudulent man who frustrated his life. Have you ever served and got connected and associated with someone or a relation who frustrates your life (Genesis 31:7). There are some people, the only kind of people they keep meeting in life are fraudulent people, dubious, deceitful people.
- From today, any spell that brings you into contact with such people, that spell is broken!
- Jacob was a victim of perpetual struggle (Genesis 32:24). There are people who succeed but it come always with a battle. Church Gist. They break through but there must be a serious fight.
- Today, I decree, every battle that is always preceding the manifestation of your results and expectations, these battles are collapsing and crumbling right now!
WHAT DID THE GRACE OF GOD DO FOR JACOB?
- Jacob was the candidate of divine visitations. When God saw his situation, God began to give Jacob visitations (Genesis 35:9). When men give you frustrations, God gives you visitations. When you experience frustration, get set to receive visitations from God.
- There are people here today that will be experiencing visitations from God!
- Jacob was the candidate of Divine blessing and favour (Genesis 35:9). It doesn’t matter what you receive from man, what matters is what you receive from God
- Jacob became the candidate of Divine wisdom and creativity (Genesis 30:37).
- Jacob became the candidate of supernatural repositioning. God repositioned Jacob from the back to the front. He was the second born that became the first born. For many years, we learnt that Jacob stole the blessing of Esau. Church Gist. The true is, if that was the case, will the blessing have rested? Will God bless stealing? If Jacob was stealing the blessing of Esau and God saw that Jacob was telling a lie to get the blessing, will God approved that blessing for Jacob and make him to be blessed?
God cannot bless falsehood, wickedness and unrighteousness. But the blessing rested until it became the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So what happened? There was a transaction where Esau had already sold his birthright. So Jacob became the firstborn. So when his father wanted to give the firstborn blessing, Esau should have said, “I am no longer the firstborn. Church Gist. I already sold my birthright. My brother Jacob is now the firstborn.” When Esau came and the father said, are you my son Esau? And he said “yes, I am Esau.” He was both right and wrong. He was right because Esau was the firstborn, so in that case, he was Esau because he has gotten a firstborn right. He was wrong because, his name was not Esau. But God saw the transaction part and the covenant part and said, “yes. He got the birthright already. So, he is truly Esau.” He honoured that transaction and the blessing rested. So, who was trying to steal the other person’s blessing? Esau was the one trying to steal Jacob’s blessings because he was no longer the firstborn.
Listen to me my brothers and sisters, God repositions covenant people. There are people that had been kept in a certain position by men but your walk with God already changed your position. Church Gist. When you walk so drastically with God, people will think that they know you, they know where you used to be and erroneously assume that you are still there, mean while, position has changed.
- There is someone here that Jehovah is repositioning right now!
- Get ready for a supernatural reposition.
Listen when God repositions you, a second born can become a first born, a son can become a father easily. It is very, very deep. Between Mary and Jesus, who was carrying each other? Mary thought she was carrying the pregnancy but it was the pregnancy that was carrying Mary. He uphold all things by the Word of His power. Mary called Jesus towards the end of His life, “My Lord”.
- Somebody is about to be reposition!
- Jacob became the candidate of divine capacity enlargement. He was the person that shifted and became a nation (Genesis 32:28). God wants to do more things with your life. Church Gist. If you are pastor,an evangelist, businessman, political leader, whatever it is, God has more in stock for you than your wildest imagination (Ephesians 3:20).
Don’t let anybody clap for you in a hurry. Don’t let anybody celebrate you into smallness. Don’t arrive too soon because when you arrive too soon, you arrive too small. God has more in stock for Dunamis. I told people, we are just beginning, we are just starting. 25 years has been rehearsals. Get set for the journey. This last Sunday, we had five hours and it was the beginning of a phase.
WHAT ARE THE SECRETS OF THE JACOB EXPERIENCE?
- Value for the things of God, value for the Covenant. Value for spiritual heritage. When Jacob was transacting for the birthright, it was not a matter of birth position. No, it doesn’t mean anything. What is your value? It determines your virtue, the virtue you can get out of God.
God’s servant, Bishop David Oyedepo said, “Your sense of value determines the flow of virtue”. Church Gist. If you are trusting God for greater virtue or grace, you must fine-tune your value. What is on your priority list? For Esau it was food, for Jacob, it was heritage – the covenant heritage.
My wife said, a time came in our lives and I don’t know whether we have come out of that time where there was nothing like tithe anymore. Everything was tithe. A time came, wow! I called her and said, this amount just arrived. Not N10, N20, not 10 million, not 20 million, not 30. This amount just arrived. I think it can handle this particular project. Nothing for your own spending and people will be wondering, what is the secret of increase of oil or anointing?
One day I told them at Destiny Christian Academy, “why can’t the school fees be free? They said, how do we pay staff salaries and all that? Okay, the missionaries that brought us school, what were they doing and the school fees was free? Well, we have to think of what to do but salary must be paid. Alright, we will pay the salary. This amount, take it. Let them build this block”. Not that we get one shishi from school. God forbid! Church Gist. Even Church is not getting money from school. School is running itself. When our children were in school, we are always the first to pay school fees while paying other children’s school fees in the same school. If we say this child is on scholarship, it doesn’t mean it is free. We are paying from our pockets. We are talking about value.
When you see us looking like this, “Oh, he has so much money, he’s buying a lot of plots”. For where? I don’t know where this watch came from but I know somebody gave it to me. I don’t know of the shoe but I know it came without paying for it because we sow money, clothes, everything so it returns back permanently. There are people who say, can I have your account number? I said, I don’t know you, I can’t give you my account number.
Value, that was what differentiated Jacob from Esau. God said, two manner of people are in your womb and the elder shall serve the younger. So what differentiates us is manners (Genesis 25:22).
- Value for altars and sacrifices (Genesis 35:1). Jacob was a man of altars, sacrifices and vows. Prayer altar, fasting altar, worship altar, service altar, sacrificial giving altar. The first time God encountered Jacob in Genesis 28, he made a vow on the spot.
Let me tell you a story;
During the Reinhard Bonnke crusade in 2005 in Makurdi in Benue state. The chairman asked me, can I please assist to arrange protocols and vehicles to bring Reinhard Bonnke to Makurdi for her from Abuja. I said, “assistance?” Thank you for assisting me with the opportunity of bringing him to Makurdi. Church Gist. I am the one to thank you. So we went to the airport in Abuja here, picked Reinhard Bonnke and then we booked the Sheraton hotel and lodged there overnight before going to Makurdi. In the morning, I brought him a little seed and gave it to him. I asked him to pray for me and then, he laid hands on me and said, “Lord, whatever was in Your heart before You allow Jesus Christ to die, put a little of it in his heart. Jesus, whatever You were thinking on the cross while dying for the world, give him a little measure of it”. He prayed very serious prayer and then, I booked the hotel and told them, “look, no cleaner should near that room”. Don’t change the pillow, the bedsheet. Just leave it like that. I extended the booking till next day. Dived into the bed and prayed in tongues for hours upon hours. Slept, woke up, continued.
The offering I have him, he said I should give it to his crusade director in dollars. So, I said to the crusade director, this is for him, not for the ministry (CFAN). He said, pastor Paul, there is nothing for him. Everything you gave him goes into the accounts of the ministry.” He told me that one day, they went somewhere and somebody gave him $100,000 and then gave the crusade director, $10,000 dollars and then Reinhard Bonnke said, just pay it into the evangelistic account. They said, “Okay Sir but excuse me Sir, I won’t pay my own. I don’t have such a heart.” I can never recover from that experience, 100 per cent. He moved with a host of angels, physical crusade crowds like no other in history.
Do you want God to enlarge your capacity? Then increase your sacrifice, your prayer altar, your giving, worship, fasting, physical service for God, the things you do for God. That was the secret of Jacob. There are people who have been growing but their offerings never grow. There are times I will look at my envelope and told my wife, this, I am not comfortable with this. In fact, I told her about certain denominations that should never branch my giving envelope (N200, N100 must never enter the envelope). The amount per offering is fixed but some denominations can’t enter the envelope and the amount is growing, it doesn’t stay static and changes within the year. At times within the service. Church Gist. One day I was in a meeting in Canaanland, sacrifice was called and the Lord showed me what to give on behalf of the whole of Dunamis. “Give this amount” Yes Sir. What about me? He showed me, I will give half of what I’m giving for the whole church on my personal note. What? That was massive. Yes Sir. I am under commandment and I went and obeyed. I have not recovered from the obedience.
- I prophesy on somebody, the grace for giving, for sacrifice of your time, energy, is released in the name of Jesus.
I have been invited as guest minster and given my car to the person who invited me. One day I was invited as a guest minister to a church and the man came to pick me from the airport with a Taxi. I said, where is your car? He said, he has sold his car for church project and I was having the same kind of car. You sold your own and put the money into church project? Church Gist. Send somebody next week to pick my own for you, to replace what you sowed. I was so touched. I went into a town for a ministration and the pastor came and he was like the foremost pastor in town. His car that he was using to drive us was broken with one headlamp and you are the one they are celebrating in town. Come and pick my car next week. You can’t make show with such things, it just come effortlessly. Papa told us that grace flows with giving (2 Corinthians 9:6-8). The way of sacrifice is the way of grace.
- Possessing a fighting spirit.
When you come to the point where you refuse for any situation to break your spirit or keep you down, then you attract, help and Grace from God.
I grew up with a mentality that between me and the devil, it is the devil that will give up. Because what is working for me is more than what is working for the devil. Went to Lokoja for crusade, rain didn’t know when to fall until crusade ground was jammed. I stood inside the rain and said, if you came here with crutches, lift it up. If I cannot preach inside the rain, at least I can clear off some devils. Church Gist. You are deaf and dumb, come out. I think it happened until rain advices itself. All manner was cleared. There was no attention to the weather until the weather advices itself and left and then we returned back for return match.
You need a fighting spirit not a crying spirit.
Evangelist Rob, please come. I want representation from as many continent as available here to deal with this devil called coronavirus.
Lift your voice people and say after me;
“In the name of Jesus, oh you anti-Christ COVID agenda ravaging the earth today, your tenure expires!”
- Isaiah 45:1-2
Father we command the gate of the Nations to be unconditionally opened to the gospel in this end.
- Revolutionary mentality and thinking. Jacob was the man who thought out of the box (Ephesians 3:20). From the tip of that gate to the tip of the other gate is 274 meters. A football pitch round is 90 meters. That is about two and half to three fields and I told them, no pillar in the middle. Church Gist. The Architects said, it is not possible. I said, “possibilize it. Make it possible”. He said, okay, at least these pillars there, let there be pillars at the tip of it where the beams stopped. I said, “still that is not permitted.” What do we do? I said, calculate what to do”.
When they finished the calculation, they said, it will be very expensive. The beam will have to be very deep. We have to cantilever, just take the weight back instead of resting on the pillars. But it is going to be very deep and it will cost a lot. I told them, “What is the money meant for other than to achieve purpose?”. Church Gist. They took the calculation to a professor of structural engineering, ancient professor of structural engineering in one of the foremost universities in Nigeria and when he saw the calculations, he said accurate. In fact, it is almost over designed. That is, it can sit more people that what it was designed for. But to clear your doubts, if you want, you can brace it and it was made possible.
Nigeria Society of Engineers came on a tour and understudied the structure and were shocked at what they saw. They said, thank you for giving us the credit that Nigerians built this. You have increased our profile. They said, there is an expo of structures in Dubai, can you permit us to take this there to show as one of the things we also did in our Country? “Go ahead, take it”.
Don’t let the generality limit your mentality. Don’t let the society or even the availability of things to limit your mentality. Don’t try to see what you want to think, think what you want to see. It must cross your mind if it will ever cross your life. That was Jacob.
God works with big thinkers because in that realm you are functioning at His frequency. Oral Roberts placed on his table, make no small plan here. Whatever is not a possibility in your mentality can never become a reality in your destiny. God does not only hear your prayers, He hears your thinking (Ephesians 3:20). I never failed one medical exam because I never thought I should fail. I didn’t dream it.
PRAYERS:
- Father, thank You for Your Word to us today. To You be all the glory Lord, in Jesus’ name.
-Father, I ask for the baptism of a fighting spirit. I ask for the impartation of the spirit of a fighter; I receive it now, in Jesus’ name.
-Father, help to think like You think; help me to think beyond my limitations and human limitations; help me to think revolutionary thoughts. I receive that grace Lord, in Jesus’ name.
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