WHAT ELSE COULD SHE SAY APART FROM PRAISE THE LORD? 😂
WE TOOK THE AIRCRAFT OFFERING ONLY ONCE AND NOT EVEN ON SUNDAY. WE DID NOT EVEN HAVE THE MONEY IN OUR ACCOUNT. WE HAD JUST FINISHED BUILDING THE COMPLEX AT RAJI OBA
WE’VE NEVER HAD ANY STRUGGLE RUNNING THE TWO UNIVERSITIES.
WE’VE NEVER HAD TO PRAY; ALL I NEEDED TO DO IS TO FIND OUT FROM GOD WHETHER IT IS HIS OWN OR NOT.
YOU MAY BE SURPRISED AT WHAT YOU SAY BUT NOT AFRAID WHEN SPEAKING IN FAITH
FAITH COMES ALIVE TO EVERYTHING GOD COMMANDS AND EMPOWERS TO MANIFEST IT
WE NEED THE SPIRIT OF FAITH TO DELIVER GOD’S MANDATE ON OUR LIVES WITHOUT STRESS AND STRAIN.
WHEN THE SPIRIT OF FAITH COMES, IT MOVES YOU IN DIMENSIONS THAT NO HUMAN EFFORT CAN TAKE YOU AND IT ALWAYS MOVES IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
- Bishop David Oyedepo
Evening Session, Day Three
Church Growth Conference, 2022
The Spirit of faith empowers us to believe all things and whatever you believe, you are empowered to become. Whatever you believe, you are empowered to manifest; as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God (John 1:12). So, you are empowered to manifest anything you believe. So, if you believe all things, it means to manifest all things (John 1:12).
Let me say this to you; we’ve never had any struggle running the two universities. We’ve never had to pray; all I need to do is to find out from God whether it is Him or not. The moment He says He’s the One, forget it my friend! Faith comes alive to everything God commands and empowers to manifest it; openly, stress-freely, begging-freely. Church Gist. That’s why we need the spirit of faith to deliver God’s mandate on our lives without stress and strain.
“Lord, this thing is coming, how do we go about it? What do we do, who do I go to meet?”
When the Spirit of faith comes alive, it’s just a trigger for Heaven’s intervention.
3). It speaks the unspeakable. God said “go forward.” Moses said to the people, “go forward” and he was in front (Exodus 14:15). To go forward to where? To swim across the Red Sea or dive into the depth of it? – speaks the unspeakable.
You find a small boy confronting Goliath and harassing him; “today, the Lord will give you into my hands. I will take your head off your neck and all the carcass of these your soldiers, I will give to the fowls of the air.” The man said, shuu, what assault! You know when insult graduates, the next level is assault. While he was still perplexed, David ran. You may be surprised at what you say but you are not afraid of it. Church Gist. You say it for free and go to bed. “The Tabernacle shall be dedicated September 18, 1999.” That’s what He said and that’s what I’m saying, since you can’t all hear Him. I’m saying to you what He said and that’s what He will do. So, following day, we went there; set the place up, activity began; He delivered it on time. We even planted flowers, shame on the devil!
The Lord said, it’s time to get the aircraft. I was preparing for seminar, I’d never thought about aircraft, yet He told us that He will do it but I’ve never prayed it into my life. He just walked to where I was preparing to move to that anointing service on Saturday morning; “It’s time to get the aircraft.” I smiled, you came into the room and I said, God just told me; it’s time to get the aircraft. You said praise the Lord! What can you say than to say Praise the Lord? Church Gist. I announced it that morning under such relaxed atmosphere, tension free; “the Lord spoke to me this morning, it’s time to get the aircraft. If anybody gives according to what he has is acceptable, not according to what he has not. So, you want to give to it; stand to your feet, give your seed.” That’s all – on a Saturday morning, not on a Sunday, never mentioned again. When faith comes alive, tension is gone. Sir, I’ve never asked what do you have in the account; He didn’t ask me to ask. He said, it’s time to go and collect it. We didn’t have that, we just completed the complex, December 1995, dedicated it and then you are telling me March. We have done our budget for the year, it’s not there. It’s You who said it, You know I can’t say it by myself and in six months, the plane arrived.
The moment He says, “say something.” Say it. Whatever He says, He create; He’s not looking for raw material. God doesn’t need raw material; whatever He says, all the things we see now did not come out of the things we see. Church Gist. No! God said let there be and there was. So, whatever He says, He creates, all you need is faith to take delivery. Don’t tell yourself those things ooo, let Him be the One that tells you. Don’t go into carnal competition with anybody. Let it be God that tells you that.
5). The Spirit of faith makes incredible moves (Hebrews 11:7). Incredible, unbelievable, unusual moves; what brought this church to this forest? Incredible move. Otherwise we would have sat down and begin to tell God about the geography of the place; “You know, You live in Heaven, let’s give You the details of what happens here; the traffic, the unavailability of vehicles, armed robbers on the way.” He said, “thank you for informing me. I thank you very much. Any other thing that I need to know?”
Whatever God says, He creates and when the spirit of faith comes, it moves you in dimensions that no human effort can and it always moves in the right direction.
Noah began building the Ark, they were mocking him. Suddenly, the rain came. Noah!!! “The place is shut already.” How can a farmer be asked to build an Ark? He gave him details – God of details. We serve a good of details. He gave him the details, the kind of wood that survived 120 years without rotting away, how was it treated? No leakage; show me your faith without your works and I’ll show you my faith by my works. Show me your faith without your moves and I’ll show my faith by my moves. If it is God who told you, show it.
5). The Spirit of faith dares the undareable. “There is nothing there, fiery furnace, nonsense. Heat it seven times more, seventy times, why not? Seven hundred times, why not?” The king was wondering whether they have run mad; are these human beings? There are like gods ooo. I am telling you fiery furnace; you are speaking grammar?
There are some people now, the Lord has located them in terms of the location of their church in their city, but they can’t move. The force needed to move them to the bigger place, they can’t release themselves; “this is the area we have always been, this area is our area” – just put a limit around your life because the force required to move is not there.
- Somebody’s destiny is taking a new shape!
Not by self-esteem, skills, power, strength; for by strength shall no man prevail. But there is that Spirit that empowers a man and a woman to dare the undareable. They can’t see consequences. No, they just see the hand of God.
- Somebody’s story is changing!
6). The Spirit of faith gets us at rest in the midst of the storms (Matthew 8:26-28). Men with spirit of faith are never fidgety. They don’t get scared; they are so much at peace whether they are conscious of what’s happening or not. So, much at rest, so must much at peace (Hebrews 4 3, 10).
- May your remaining days on earth which are very many if Jesus tarries, engrace you to be master of the storm.
So, it can’t be there without you knowing.
- We shall get in there tonight!
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