THIS COMMISSION ALSO STARTED FROM A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN KWARA STATE TO A GRASS CATHEDRAL IN KADUNA STATE.
THEN FROM A BIGGER CATHEDRAL AT RAJI OBA TO FAITH TABERNACLE AND NOW THE ARK.
EVEN WHEN YOU CAN’T PLACE YOUR FINGER ON WHAT IS HAPPENING, MULTIPY THAT NOTHING WITH THANKSGIVING.
THANKSGIVING IS HEAVEN’S MULTIPLICATION FACTOR. IT HAS CAPACITY TO MULTIPLY FROM ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SUPERNATURAL BREAKTHROUGHS.
WITH GOD, THE LATTER IS ALWAYS DESIGNED TO BE BETTER.
THESE LAST DAYS OF THE YEAR 2021 SHALL BE YOUR BETTER DAYS
-Pastor David Ndubueze at CHoP
Father, thank You for waking us this morning and causing us to approach Your glorious presence. By Your Word this morning, let every life be transformed. Let Your name alone be glorified, in Jesus name we have prayed.
It’s my privilege this morning granted by God and our father in the faith to bring us the exhortation line for our Covenant Hour of Prayer today. We began on Monday dealing with the subject:
THANKSGIVING: GATEWAY TO OUR NEXT LEVELS OF BLESSINGS
I want to begin this morning by announcing to everyone here that there is always a next level of blessing packaged for every true child of God.
-As the Lord lives, you shall not miss your portion.
There is no need to God’s glory in the life of a genuine believer. There is no boundary, no ceiling to God’s acts, His glory and His blessing in the life of every true child of God.
Colossians 1:27 – “…Christ in us, the hope of glory.” That means that the retention of Christ is in any life is the extension of God’s glory in that life. Christ in us, the hope, the expectation of God’s glory.
2 Corinthians 3:18 – “…from glory to glory.” Meaning that our alignment with God and His Word is our advancement from glory to glory. Church Gist. There is no end to God’s blessings in your life and my life as a believer. We serve a God of additions, a God of progressions, a God of advancement. With Him, there is no design for a better yesterday.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 – with God, the latter, the better. Life in God is designed to move from glory to glory; to get better and better; to shine brighter and brighter.
-From today, your health shall be from strength to strength.
-From today, in glory you shall move from glory to glory.
-From today, financially for you and I, it shall be more and more.
-Even your marriage from today, it shall be sweeter and sweeter.
Why? In God’s design: the latter the better.
-Therefore, there is someone here, you have not shared your testimony since the year began, this is God’s Word for you: the latter the better.
-You have not seen your marriage yet: the latter the better.
-You have not built your own house yet: hope is not gone, the latter the better.
-But the good news is this, your time has finally come.
With God, the latter is always designed to be better.
John 2 – Jesus brought the latter wine in that wedding at Cana and the Bible says that the latter wine was sweeter than the former wine.
Haggai 2:9
With God, it is always better; it is always more and more. That is our testimony as a Commission: from no cathedral at a Primary School in Kwara, to a Grass Cathedral in Kaduna, to a taller Cathedral in Barnawa, to a bigger one in Raji Oba, to Faith Tabernacle and before our very eyes, to another: Ark. Church Gist. It is always from glory to glory with God: no limit, no size, no end and that includes the year.
Psalm 65:11
-Therefore, I make bold to declare according to God’s Word, these last days of the year shall be your better days, in the name of Jesus Christ.
This is not just God’s plan for us as a Church and as a group, it is also God’s agenda for us as the Redeemed, individually.
Proverbs 4:18 – what God is saying is that by His agenda you and I are not permitted to have a better yesterday. Your present level shall be the least you will ever see.
-From this level, you will never know a better yesterday.
On Sunday, God’s servant, the First Vice President (Bishop David Abioye) began to share a testimony about DATSUN 180 K. He began from walking on foot and according to his testimony, God’s servant our father in the faith, we saw that sometimes they graduated to bike, flying like Elijah’s chariot on bike. Church Gist. From bike to car or motor Datsun 180 K. From motor, you know where they are now. And everyone in a plane is not permitted to fly at a lower altitude than the plane.
-The God that did it for them is arriving your destination today.
From scriptures, we deduce that God does not only reveal His agenda for His Church and for His people. He also unveils the pathway to attain that agenda.
Psalm 103:7 – When you capture His ways, you will begin to make waves in life.
Isaiah 30:21 – He does not only show you His agenda, He shows you the way to actualize it.
Jeremiah 6:16 – You shall actualize the rest that is promised you and from the scriptures, I believe everyone in this Commission agrees that God’s Word is His ways. Church Gist. God’s ways are contained in His Word.
John 14:6, John 1:1 – God’s Word is God’s way and from the Word of God, we can pick very clearly that thanksgiving is the gateway to next levels of blessings.
Let me hear somebody shout: Next Levels.
-That shall be your experience from today.
Thanksgiving is God’s ordained gateway to next level of blessings.
Jeremiah 30:19
“…I will multiply them, they shall not be few”: Next Level
“I will also glorify them, they shall not be small”: Next Levels
Thanksgiving is God’s ordained pathway for next levels in destiny. Permit me to call it Heaven’s multiplication factor. It has capacity to multiply from absolute nothing to supernatural breakthroughs. It can take a destiny from nothing, absolute nothing to unprecedented breakthroughs, to supernatural next levels.
In Mathematics, no matter the factor that is in use, whatever multiplies zero reduces to zero, but not God, not thanksgiving. Church Gist. Thanksgiving multiplies zero to hero.
Habakkuk 3:17-19
From no place to high places – Habakkuk 3:19
Just like this Commission, from nowhere, borrowing a Primary School Hall, no window, to everywhere: palaces.
-There are people here, you have no landed property, but as the Lord lives, within one year, your presence is everywhere.
-Before the end of this year, somebody is arriving Next Levels
But the pathway is thanksgiving.
What is my charge this morning therefore? Even while you may not place your finger on what is happening, use the factor of thanksgiving. You may not place your finger on what is happening now, on what God is doing now, the devil may be deceiving you, to give up hope: No, multiply that nothing with thanksgiving.
There is always a reason to thank God for the living. As long as you have breath, let everything that has breath use this multiplication factor – Psalm 150:6
From breath to bread.
From bread to butter!
From butter to better. The latter the better. But you must use this factor of thanksgiving. You didn’t wake up by your alarm. The Resident Pastor will always share, “if the alarm could wake everybody, there is no need for prayer when somebody dies. Carry your alarm clock to the mortuary, everybody will wake up.”
But each time you wake up, the Lord woke you and God is not a God of vanity. If out of everybody on earth this morning, He had time to come and wake you this morning, there is a good plan for you and for that you return to Him with thanksgiving.
Shout: Thank You Jesus
Know this: As we start thanking Him, things will start happening. Church Gist. It’s like multiplication:
2 x 2 = 4
4 x 2 = 8
8 x 2 = 16
16 x 2 = 32
As you start thanking Him, things will start happening. But don’t stop. As you keep thanking, things will keep happening and that is what keep on a triumphant procession.
2 Corinthians 2:14
-There is good news for somebody here, nothing goes down with thanksgiving and no matter how stinking a situation is, thanksgiving will bring it to life.
John 11:39
Lazarus was a stinking situation, actually a stinking wonder: dead, buried for 4 days
John 11:41 – Jesus engaged the factor of multiplication: Thanksgiving and that stinking wonder became a living wonder. That is what makes thanksgiving good. It can multiply absolute nothing to supernatural breakthroughs.
Will you want to engage that factor this morning: Rise with me wherever you are, lift up your voice, lift up your hand and begin to engage this factor.
Prayers: let’s bless Him for the breath of life. Keep thanking Him. Let’s thank Him for the opportunity we have in His presence. Celebrate Him for the assurance of His Word.
Do your part, God is doing His part.
#PastorDavidNdubueze
#CHoP16Dec21
#ChurchGist
CHoP is an acronym for Covenant Hour of Prayer
Join any of our Telegram Channels.
t.me/ChurchGist
t.me/CGWitness
