ANYBODY IN HIS RIGHT MIND IS ATTRACTED TO BLESSINGS.
EVERY SUCCESSFUL PERSON HAS MANY RELATIONS, WHETHER 1ST COUSIN, 3RD COUSIN, 6TH COUSIN, 9TH COUSIN, THEY ARE ALL CONNECTED.
THAT IS THE ATTRACTION OF BLESSINGS.
PRAYING FOR OTHERS IS A DIVINE STRATEGY FOR YOUR NEEDS TO BE MET.
AS WE PRAY DOWN THE BLESSING ON GOD’S PEOPLE, HE TURNS US INTO SUBJECTS OF COMPELLING ATTRACTION OF MEN AND WOMEN INTO THE KINGDOM.
ANY GOOD THING YOU INVEST INTO THE LIFE OF ANOTHER MULTIPLIES BACK TO YOU, BY HEAVEN’S DECREE.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
Heavenly Father, thank You again this morning for the privilege of seeing another brand-new day. Receive our thanks in the name Jesus. Thank You for the grace granted everyone: 1st, 2nd and the 3rd day. Now, let this 2nd 3-day module be much stronger, let Your grace be much greater, let our prayers enjoy more express answers from Heaven, in Jesus precious name. Speak to us again this morning, in the name of Jesus Christ.
KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT PRAYER IS EVERY BELIEVER’S RESPONSIBILITY
The Lord’s prayer makes it explicit: When ye pray, say, “Our Father which art in Heaven, I worship You, I praise You, I celebrate You. Let Your Kingdom come” – Matthew 6:9-10
“Let Your Kingdom come”: and that means let Heaven be made real on the earth; save the masses; let Your family on earth keep enlarging. Church Gist. Keep advancing Your Kingdom as You have ordained her.
When we read from scriptures, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”: it connotes an ever-moving body, an ever-advancing body that no force of hell can stop, no force of hell can resist.
Matthew 16:18
An ever-moving body, an ever-advancing ark. So the Church is ordained an ever-advancing ark, because the Church is the habitation of God, the dwelling place of Christ.
Advance Your Kingdom: that is the meaning of that prayer.
Enlarge Your Kingdom, expand Your Kingdom, let more souls be saved, let more souls be preserved, do a new thing: that is what that prayer connotes and it is very simple for us to appreciate because every child of God is the justified of the Lord and the path of the justified is like a shining light that shines more and more to the perfect day – Proverbs 4:18
The Church is an assembly of the justified, so it is ordained to shine more and more unto the perfect day.
-May you be part of advancing that Kingdom.
I mentioned earlier that God is committed only to advancing those who are dedicated to advancing His Kingdom on earth.
“Seek ye first the expansion, the enlargement of My Kingdom and all these things that others are dying to get, I will be adding them to you, to keep advancing your life” – Matthew 6:33
This is enough to drive anybody into it.
In prayers: seek Me first.
In budgeting your time: seek Me first.
Defining your priority: make Me first.
And all these things that others are dying to get, I will be adding them to you, to keep advancing your life. That is so important.
David the King prayed 3 times a day – Psalm 55:17
And God stepped in to advance his life from behind the desert into the palace. From the palace into the army of Israel and the Chief of Army staff as a teenager and from that to the Heavens, because Jesus today, is of the seed of David.
“Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy.”
The Word identifies prayer with the passion of Eliah. Elijah went forward, seized the land by divine authority, went to Heaven in a casket of fire: Advancement!
Job was said to be a prayer warrior. Maybe you have never seen that in Ezekiel chapter 14 verses 13 and 14
Ezekiel: 14:13-14,16,20
The essence of it was that they were praying, they were recognized as prayer giants in scriptures and you saw their advancement into the Heavens.
He prayed himself into realms of strength that the adversity he went through could not shake him. He went from strength to strength, into realms of glory and he lived 140 years more, for full restoration of all that he had left – Job 42:16
He had twice much more than he had before the challenge.
-Something is breaking forth.
Now, but what should we pray? Very quickly.
WHAT SHOULD WE PRAY?
We must continue for the needs of Church members to be met.
“Bear ye one another’s burdens” – Galatians 6:2
It is a law of Christ to take on the challenges of others in prayers for divine intervention.
Why is this so important? Zechariah 8:20-23
As we pray for them and challenges of their lives clear off, their trials turned to testimonies, many followed them to serve God.
-This year, many will follow each of us to serve our God.
-As they see the hand of God on our lives, it will compel them to see the reality that we serve a living God who is also there to change their story, in the name of Jesus.
Let’s see the effect in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 3 to 5
The effect of the blessing: One shall say, I am the Lord’s and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord and surname himself by the name of Israel – Isaiah 44:5
That is, you just become a compelling force of attraction to God, through His blessings on your life. Church Gist. As we pray down the blessing on God’s people, He turns us into subjects of compelling attraction of men and women into the Kingdom.
There are those people today who are in the faith because of the hand of God upon your life.
-But this year, at least 10 people will follow each one of us to serve our God.
-If you are one of those that will see the hand of God, that others will see the hand of God upon and follow them to serve God, let me hear your more than conqueror’s Amen!
Anybody in his right mind is attracted to blessings. Every successful person has many relations, whether 1st cousin, 3rd cousin, 6th cousin, 9th cousin, they are all connected. That is the attraction of blessings.
-This year, God’s blessing as you pray them down upon God’s people will attract multitudes to the Kingdom.
It works!
When we were in the old Church, someone’s tenant had a problem, so the landlord who happens to be an Alhaji said to him, “I see people coming out of that Church, everybody smiling, every day. Go there, maybe God will solve your problem ooo.”
The debtor came to Church, turned his life over to Christ, within 3 months, things turned for him.
The second tenant, he (landlord) said, “I sent your neighbour to that Church and God changed his life. Go there, maybe God will change your life too.”
He came, within 3 months, God changed his story. The Alhaji said, “I am going to.” Now, he is an elder in this Church.
That is the attractive, magnetic power of changed stories.
-God will yet change your story.
-You have seen changes before, but we are ordained for changes from glory to glory, not change once. Change from glory to glory, changes in phases. Phase 1 change will lead to phase 2 change. Phase 2 change will lead to phase 3 change and each change will attract somebody else.
-Every change will attract some more people. More people and more people, until you become an object of attraction: “Go and see what the Lord has done in his life” and you will be saying it to them too.
“The Lord has done great things for us. I know where I was before. I know where He has brought me to, today.”
Great attractions: that is why we pray for members for change of stories so they can become a magnet in drafting people into the Kingdom.
-You will not be left out.
-No one here shall be left out.
-You shall not be left out.
-You are changing to another level of glory this year.
-God is changing you to another level of glory this year.
-My God who also is your God is changing you to another level this year as you engage the revelation that He is unveiling to you.
It is not by sitting down somewhere and waiting for it. As you are engaging in it.
This is enough to set anybody running praying for others and more importantly every good thing a man does to anybody in the world, the same he shall receive from the Lord.
“Lord, turn their challenges to change of story testimonies; turn the trials of their lives to testimonies; turn their struggles to triumphs; turn their breakdown to breakthroughs.”
Ephesians 6:8
It is an investment that has guaranteed returns, guaranteed dividends. You make it happen for others; you have committed God to making it happen for you.
Anyone that secures his breakthrough through your prayers this season will qualify you for your next level of breakthrough.
You got him out of homelessness and God says, “look, I will build you another house.”
You pray for someone else, he has breakthrough with his children, He says, “I will give you rest over your children.”
Any good thing you invest into the life of another multiplies back to you, by Heaven’s decree.
Say with me, “praying for others is a divine strategy for my own needs to be met. So help me Jesus, to engage passionately in praying for the needs of others to be met.”
Prayers: Take that grace from God right now. Take it on. Pray that grace down on your life.
“You have done it for any of this, you have done for Me” – Matthew 25:40
Praying for others is Kingdom advancement prayers, magnetizing more people into Kingdom.
Thank You Jesus.
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