LISTENING TO BISHOP OYEDEPO’S TESTIMONIES…HE MADE MORE WRONG STEPS THAN RIGHT STEPS EXCEPT THAT HE RECEIVED CORRECTIONS AND THEN MADE A U-TURN IMMEDIATELY.
DON’T EVER BE TO PROUD TO SAY “I AM WRONG.”
WHEN YOU DO THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS NOT COMMANDED, IT REQUIRES YOUR COMMITMENT TO MAKE IT WORK.
THE REASON WHY THERE IS SO MUCH FRUSTRATION IN THIS WORLD IS BECAUSE MEEK PEOPLE ARE SCARCE.
THE MEEK IS THE ONLY ONE QUALIFIED TO BE TAUGHT THE WAY OF GOD.
BISHOP OYEDEPO SAID HE ASKED GOD ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE CURRENT CONSTRUCTION GOING ON; EVERYTHING WAS READY TO START THE CONSTRUCTION AND HE SAID TO GOD, “WHAT ABOUT THIS CONSTRUCTION?” GOD SAID, “DON’T ASK ME ABOUT IT AGAIN UNTIL I TELL YOU ABOUT IT”.
DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK QUESTIONS BECAUSE GOD IS LOOKING FOR WHO TO ANSWER.
ANSWERS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF QUESTIONS; UNTIL RIGHT QUESTIONS ARE ASKED, ANSWERS ARE NEVER ACCESSED.
-Pastor Paul Enenche at Dunamis International Gospel Centre on ‘POSTURE (POSITIONING) FOR DIVINE DIRECTION.’.
Dunamis International Gospel Centre.
Combined Service, Glory Dome.
Thank You Father for this morning, blessed be Your name for Your word. Thank You for the things we have seen this morning, we worship and honour You, in Jesus precious name.
Habakkuk 2:1
I speak very quickly on the subject: POSTURE (POSITIONING) FOR DIVINE DIRECTION.
Our objective is; understanding the right posture or positioning for divine direction. It has been made abundantly clear that divine direction is a vital necessity, not just for the Christian life but for existence as a whole. Church Gist. That is, God leading a person, guiding a person – very important and I want you to know the following reasons:
1). Life itself is at the mercy of direction from God. That is, people can die before their time because of something they didn’t hear from God.
2). People can be victims of the wrong and disastrous relationships for lack of direction from God. Talk of friendship relationships, business relationships, marital relationships, because there was something God was trying to say, they couldn’t hear; that this man is not a friend, this person can’t be your husband, this person can’t be your wife, but they never heard.
3). People become victims of massive losses in investment and other areas, for failing to hear from God. Church Gist. There are people who have lost millions and billions because God was saying something they never heard, either God was saying, “don’t put money here or remove this money from here now!” They didn’t hear.
4). Many are victims of chronic stagnation and delay for failing to hear God. That is, life on the same spot because until you know what to do, you don’t leave where you are.
5). Many are victims of labour without reward and labour in frustration because of labouring in the wrong endeavour; pouring their energy in areas that don’t need their energy at all.
It is very important to know what do I do to hear God. What is the right posture, how do I position my life, mind to hear God?
1). Be desperate to know the mind of God. Church Gist. Be desperate to know the will of God per time (Hosea 6:3). If we persist in knowing, we will know (Habakkuk 2:1).
I have said many times, you can’t have insight until you have interest; you can’t have insight where you don’t have interest. I have observed from my own experience and the experience of others that desperation is key to direction and God will not bother you with what does not bother you. If it doesn’t bother you to know the mind of God for various areas of your life, God will not bother you with what does not bother you. Church Gist. As a growing young man on fire for God, thirty something years ago, one of the things I feared the most was to miss God; miss God either in getting married, getting into ministry; there was such a level of desperation; “Lord, I can’t miss you.” It pushed me into three days fasting dry, seven days fasting without food – all manner, at various junctions and by the mercy of God, He helped at various junctions to step into what was His will.
- I prophesy upon somebody here today, you will not miss God in your life and destiny!
2). Possess the quality of meekness (Psalm 24:9). The meek is the only one qualified for guidance, not the proud, not the arrogant. The meek is the only one qualified to be taught the way of God.
When we talk about meekness, what are talking about?
i). Ability to be taught – teachability
ii). Ability to be corrected
iii). Ability to make a U-turn when you realize you have made the wrong turn and God sees the meek and He knows.
The reason why there is so much frustration in this world is because meek people are scarce. Nobody saw God like Moses, nobody heard God like Moses. God said if there was any prophet I spoke to in parables, in visions but my servant Moses is not like that. I spoke to him, face to face. Church Gist. What qualified Moses for that level of hearing God? Numbers 12:3 gave us an answer. He was Meeker than anyone in his generation and he heard God more than anyone in his generation. He saw God more than anyone in his generation.
Meekness means, this move I made is a wrong move, so I’m back. He said, no matter how far you have gone in the wrong direction, make a U-turn when you know that you are wrong. There are people who packed their loads out of this Country, arrived in UK and by the first day of their arrival, everything inside them said, “you are in the wrong place.” Peace is lost, joy is lost, everything is just like Sahara Desert but who are they to make U-turn: “what will people say if I go home? They will say I am confused, is it not America that people are succeeding? I will remain here.” Church Gist. They would rather die with the wrong step than to make a change. That is where there is a bankruptcy of meekness. They would remain there for 15 years, suffer for those 15 years and then said, “alright, let me just go back home.” That is 15 years wasted forever, 15 years that could have been applied in another direction more profitable; wasted forever because meekness was lacking.
There are people who are in relationship, after one week of interacting with this man or this woman, it is clear to them that they have missed it. This can’t be your wife or husband. Every single day of their lives remind them that they are with the wrong person. “But I’ve wasted too much time, I’ve been single for long. Let me just marry and even if it doesn’t work, at least let them say she got married before.” Wedding card is out, what is wedding card compared to destiny and to the fulfilment of your life’s assignment?
There was a time our Church in Area One, the Church – Dunamis Church worldwide was one only branch in Area One and they said, some people are coming from Nyanya, Mararaba and they were unable to cope, so let’s assist them with a branch there. At that time, God never spoke to us about branch. So, according to the leading of the people, not the leading of God, we took a branch to them in Nyanya. Church Gist. That branch lasted for only about five weeks. When the Lord showed to me that He was not involved and that He didn’t give us any direction to start a branch; I told the pastor that time, “return back to base on the spot.” He said, “what do I do with the equipment?” I said, “dash them to any church that is nearby.” What about the people? “Anyone who cannot come from there, they should find nearby churches there. So, we returned back to base and continued until the marching order came to now step into the City. Now there are over a hundred Churches scattered here and there, some running four, five services. We went when it was commanded and He became committed. But when you do the things that God has not commanded, it requires your commitment to make it work. This is very important; don’t ever be to proud to say “I am wrong.” As prophetic as Samuel was, he was wrong.
I listened to God’s servant, Bishop Oyedepo and from the testimonies I heard from him, I think he made more wrong steps than right steps except that he received corrections and then made a U-turn immediately. For example, when he was commissioned to Ministry, the address of the Headquarters of the Ministry was Jos. That was when they commissioned him in 1983, September by Pastor E. A Adeboye, laid hands on him and commissioned him. “Everybody, Jos is ready, people have been in Jos for one full year, they have secured an office, ready to move to Jos; “we release this servant of the Lord to go to Jos” and as the commissioning was over and he was praying, God said, “you are going to know Jos.” He said what? God said, “it was not me you heard. You heard your heart. Church Gist. Do you remember in 1974, when you were playing table tennis around the Jenta Area of Jos? At that time, you told yourself, ‘If I have the choice of where to live in the future, Jos will be the place.’ It is that choice you heard, not me. As for you, I will have you to remain here, at Ilorin there.” From there, what do we do from Jos? All of you return back. All the people who saw me, praying for me to go to Jos, when I tell them, I’m not going to Jos.” What will they say, won’t they say I am confused?” It is immaterial, we don’t move by sentiment, we move by His voice.
When you are married to your mistakes you continue to deliver regrets. There are people who want to remain married to the mistake and because of what will people say, they just remain with what is wrong and they continue to deliver regrets for life.
- That will never be your portion!
I have so many things I could say on this point; you are about to go on a wrong journey at the motor pack, you have paid the transport fare and you realized that you are not to take the trip and you said, give me back my money and they said, we can’t give you back your money because you took another person’s space. Church Gist. You said, okay, let me just go on the journey. For where? Make a U-turn. You don’t know what is ahead of you, it’s better to lose the transport fare, than to lose your life before time.
Every time there is a mistake, where possible, there can be a retake. If you miss the take, repeat the take. Only few areas where you have married the wrong person – very difficult. That one is like a fixed deposit.
3). Commit your steps to the Lord: “I am about to do this; Lord, I commit it to you.” (Proverbs 3:5-6), don’t trust your brain to give you direction (Psalm 37:5). Don’t take important steps or make important moves, major business decisions, marriage decisions, career, relocation decisions without checking it out with the Lord.
I heard from Kenneth Hagin that a businessman under his ministry once came to him and said, he had never made a transaction that he lost. He has never put his money in the wrong business before and Kenneth Hagin said, that cannot be possible. How can that be possible? The man said, it is very easy. I have a pent house in my house that is like my Holy of holies. If I have a business, I go before the Lord and I present it before the Lord; I commit it to the Lord. If I have the green light, I go ahead. If I have red light, that is no go area at all. If I have yellow light, I wait. For that purpose, I have never put my money in anything that is not of God, that God did not approve of.
We live in a world today where people are in a hurry, things must happen very fast. We want to do things in our own way and bring it to God to stamp it. God said, “I don’t operate like that”. But hear this: Not every good idea is a God idea; there are good ideas that are traps in disguise. Church Gist. The idea looks good but it is not God and it is better to be slow and sure than to be fast and fail. Committing things into the hands of the Lord may appear slow but it is sure. Doing things our own way may appear fast but it fails.
- You will not fail another time!
Sometimes ago, I got bothered about marital failure. Why is that we have so much marital failure in our generation? And as I enquired, I realized first of all that, not many marriages have any root in God. That is, people made their decisions without God involved. Secondly, most marriages today have foundations that are not clean, people have met with each other severally before officially coming to the altar to say, they are going to get married. Church Gist. Thirdly, many other marriages, there is no foundation of the Word. So, the things are just failing here and there. But it is very important to commit your steps to the Lord. If God knows that you don’t do anything until you hand it over to Him, He will guide you into the right things
4). Possess the attitude of enquiry, that is the capacity to ask questions (Jeremiah 6:16, Matthew 7:7-8). Answers are the products of questions; until questions are asked, answers are never accessed, especially the right questions. Don’t be afraid to ask questions because God is looking for who to answer. At the place of prayer, Abraham asked questions; Lord if you find so many righteous men in Sodom, will You still destroy it?” God said, no! David asked several questions: “Should I pursue this troop?”
Divine direction is the backbone of spiritual conquerors. Do you know the reason why David lost no battle? He was always asking God questions.
- You will miss it another time!
God’s servant, Bishop Oyedepo said, after they have been given the certificate for the opening of the University, Covenant University, while everyone was happy, he was still not happy. He held the certificate and he said; “Oh Lord, are you in this thing or we just want to open something? If you are not in it, I will tear it now” and God said, “I am the One, go ahead.” He said, at a point, they needed about two billion in the course of the construction and they brought some bank people to assist them and give them loan and he heard the voice of God said to him, (he was not going to take it anyway because he said, if God cannot build it, who can run it and then, God built it under seven months; facilities for people to come to the hostel, within seven months and he held the certificate and he told God, now we are dedicating, what do we do?) God said, “lie down on the bare floor, at the gate of the University and hand it over” and he laid down at the bare floor. He said, the heat from the ground entered his body as he laid down there. That was the last heat he ever felt regarding running that school – the school is moving smoothly because of hearing and asking.
What does asking questions do?
i). God loves to be asked. The way a father enjoys questions from children, God loves to be asked (Psalm 2:8, Matthew 7:7).
ii). Asking is proof of human helplessness and dependence on God. You are showing that you are helpless and God will never abandon the helpless.
iii). Asking opens up the mind and heart to answers (Proverbs 20:5).
What kind of question are you asking?
a). Lord, is there something You are saying and I am not hearing? Please say it in a language I can understand.
b) Lord, is there something I am doing that I am not meant to be doing? Please let me see, let know.
c). Lord, what is the mystery behind this struggle? Show me. Church Gist.
d) Lord, what do I do for this Church to move to the next level? What do I do to move my life and you are not asking in anger because there are people who are asking like they are quarreling with God. God is not your age mate so He can’t be threatened.
You ask revelation expectation questions. You ask with the mentality; I am going to hear something. He is going to say something. Even if He doesn’t say it now, in the course of studying the Word, soon I will hear something.
- I prophesy to somebody here, in the name of Jesus, before the next one week is over, every question you are going to ask God, the answers shall be released to you!
Lift up your right hand and say, “Father, I’m going to be asking You questions and I will receive answers. You won’t waste my time. I will ask You questions and I will receive answers. Thank You Lord, in the name of Jesus.”
There are times to be patient with God. God’s servant, Bishop Oyedepo said he asked God one question about the current construction going on, money is ready, everything was ready to start construction and he said to God, “What about this construction?” God said, “Don’t ask me about it again until I tell you about it” and he abandoned the subject completely. When it was time for me to think of marriage, God spoke to me and said, “I want you now to pray to me to show you who will be your partner, your associate in life and in ministry” and then, I separated myself. So, there are things that God will draw your attention to as you have the attitude and the posture of enquiry, He will draw your attention at the appropriate time and if your time is up and you are not yet hearing, I declare from today, your ear is opened and you shall not miss God another time!
5). Be charged with the Word of God (Ephesians 5:26, Psalm 29:3). The Word of God is the Companion of the voice of God. The voice of God is the container of the Word of God. Church Gist. Every time you are in church with the Word, you are potentially in touch with the voice. Whenever you are in touch with the Word, you are in touch with the voice.
When you know somebody and someone said, so and so person said this, you will be able to say yes, he can say such a thing. This is what the Word of God does for you:
i). The Word of God familiarizes a person with the voice of God. It helps you to recognize the voice of your Maker and different it from the voice of a stranger.
ii). The Word of God connects you to the Person of God (John 1:1, 1 Corinthians 14:10). I’ve told you my testimony before, when I was growing up as a Christian, almost everybody around me could see vision, prophesy and do things but I could see nothing. Church Gist. So, I felt maybe something was wrong with me. So, I made the decision to dive into the Word and then, out of the Word began to come His voice. The things I heard from the Word that I spoke, came with accuracy, force and power. From that Word of God, everything exploded. One day I was studying the scripture and I was studying 2 Timothy and in-between, I blinked a little bit, suddenly, I was seeing something. I have forgotten the realm where people were operating in. I decided to dive into the Word and from that Word, the voice of God came strong and loud.
- I speak to somebody here today, in the name that is above every name, in this season, the voice of God shall come strong for you!
- Pray abundantly in the Spirit. Praying in the spirit primes or stirs the activity of the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 1:6) and one major activity of the Holy Spirit is to give directions (Romans 8:14). Church Gist. When you pray abundantly in the spirit, you are stirred up and the leading of the Spirit can easily come.
When God said, “it’s time for Him to show me who to marry,” I stirred the spirit, praying abundantly in the spirit and as I would pray, one segment of my wife to be then, sister Becky showed up. The next day, another segment. All of a sudden, it came together. That was how it happened to me. The manner of the leading was very sweet. So, most times God will show you things one step at a time. It came together because I have seen her fervency in the Lord, preaching in buses, front of hostels, for one reason or the other, it never crossed my wildest imagination that she will be my wife. I was only wishing her well in her future and to wish her that a wrong man shouldn’t marry such a fire brand and I think God answered my prayers for her because I am not a bad husband. Church Gist. That is what praying in the Holy Spirit does for you.
When I was at a junction of my life; “am I to go to the United Kingdom because we had openings, my wife and I? Am I to do somethings in Nigeria here, my interest is in the surgery area? Am I to go somewhere in the middle East where they said they would be paying doctors five thousand dollars in a month, twenty something years ago? These were three openings, Lord where should I go? So I stepped into the bush, to the mountain and prayed in the spirit. The whole of the first day, twenty-four hours, nothing was heard. The next day, morning till evening, about the evening of the second day, around 36 hours, then, “what I told you about ten years ago concerning my assignment for your life, this is the time.” I thought I would practice medicine and then preach by the side. Still praying in the spirit, where is it? “Abuja City, Nigeria.” I don’t know anybody there. If I go there now, I don’t know where to sleep.” But it was coming and coming – detailed. The challenge of people is, if they start praying now and they don’t hear anything from morning till night, then God is not talking. It’s a enough.
- I announce to somebody, before this week is out, clarity shall come for somebody!
i). Praying in the Spirit sharpens our spiritual sensitivity, your ability to pick signals.
ii). Praying in the Spirit helps you to tap into the frequency of mysteries and mysteries are hidden secrets (1 Corinthians 14:2). They include things about your future, your martial destiny, career, assignment – you are tapping into that realm as you pray abundantly in the spirit.
iii). Praying in the Spirit irrigates the spirit of man with information and understanding. Oral Roberts said, it was by praying in tongues and understanding what he was praying that he realized that he was to build Oral Roberts University (1 Corinthians 14:15). Church Gist. The prophetic realm especially prophesying directly began to operate in my life many years ago from the closet. I prayed so much in the closet until I now began to speak things in English that I didn’t mediate on that was coming like tongues. So, you pray in the spirit and then you pray in the understanding and then, you hit the road running.
Someone, get set because you will not miss it another time!
Go ahead and appreciate God, worship Him, honour Him, adore Him.
A major way into the realm of unbelievable wealth is divine direction. That is, money that will shock you and shock your world (Isaiah 45:1-3). Hidden riches are not found carelessly. Church Gist. There are treasures inside darkness; under the cover of darkness, there are things there and God is revealing and unveiling them to us right now.
PRAYERS:
- Father, I am ready, I am available. Led me, give me access to the treasures of darkness. I am ready to be led, guided and directed in my life and in my destiny. I surrender my life to You; lead me Lord, guide me Lord, direct me Lord, in the name of Jesus.
- Father, I put my hands into Your Hands oh Lord, lead me by Your hand into the treasures of darkness and into the hidden riches of secret places; I receive Your leading now.
- Zachariah 1:17
God empowers His people who will spread His Kingdom with wealth; buy evangelism Airbus like you are buying a bus. We just got a rural evangelism truck, trailer house. That is, if we get to a village where there is no decent place to sleep, we came with a house that we can sleep in – room, toilet, things inside – acquired for rural mission work. Building churches like water everywhere; “Lord, see me, I am available.” It begins with tithing. You can’t do such a thing if you are struggling with paying ten percent. Church Gist. All these things are anchored on the law of sowing and reaping. I cannot remember that I have been in marriage for 27 years and for one month, we forgot to tithe. Neither can I remember forgetting about tithing since the year of 1986, which is like 36 years now. I was not a pastor, I was not planning to be one. I was just a Christian but I knew that a tenth of what enters my hand belongs to God because I saw it from scripture and I practiced it and it worked. From pocket money of N 30 in the higher institution that I was given by my father then.
There are those who they are consistent today, disappear tomorrow and then they start again. We’re talking about record of no break. As far as I am concerned, it’s better I sleep hungry than not to pay my tithe.
Lift your hands and ask for grace for consistency in the practice of the covenant. Grace for consistency in doing the right thing; I receive that grace now.
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