THE AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF THIS CHURCH IN 1984 WAS 81 BUT WHEN I GO OUT FOR 3 HOURS EVANGELISM TODAY, I GET NEARLY 300 PEOPLE.
IN 1987, THE TOTAL ANNUAL INCOME OF THE CHURCH WAS 573,000 NAIRA WHEN WE PLANTED THE FIRST 5 CHURCHES.
THIS GENERATION IS VERY WASTEFUL. JUST SQUANDERING THINGS ANYHOW.
THE NOWADAYS YOUTH HATE THE BOTTOM AND THEY WANT TO GET TO THE TOP.
THAT IS WHY THEY GO INTO DRUGS, COMPUTER SCAMS UNTIL THEY ARE CAUGHT AND JAILED.
-Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
Next Level Banquet Service
The prophetic focus of the month is ‘You are Redeemed for the Topmost Top’, but it starts from the bottom. The journey to the topmost top starts from the bottom. If you watch those folks that climb Kilimanjaro for instance, it is one calculated step, but from the bottom, not from the middle.
The nowadays youth: they hate the bottom and they want to get to the top. I don’t know how they want to get there. That is why they go into drugs, computer scams until they catch them and jail them.
‘Ibere lati gun ig , ko se oke’: you start climbing a tree from the bottom.
Studio: give them a picture of the bottom of where we are coming as a Church. Just pictures, motionless pictures. Now roll it, we have just 7 clips of it. We have been teaching all along, so let’s pass instructions.
1st Picture – Kaduna Church 1984: That is the Church in the beginning. That beginning is not month 1 oooo, it is not month 2. Nobody can carry camera there because there was nobody to take. That is white wood bench.
2nd Picture: That’s Communion Service around July, after 9 months. There is nothing out there today that didn’t start down there yesterday.
3rd Picture: Did you see that pew? That’s like what they use to sell cigarettes. That powerful ministry, worldwide.
4th Picture – The Church under Batcher: That is the batcher
5th Picture – 5,000 capacity Dominion Cathedral 1993: That is the Church in Kaduna. That is the office block.
5b: this is the main Church. One of the most fascinating facilities in the entire state today.
6th Picture – Lagos Church at the Beginning 1989: That is Lagos where we started from. Did you see that? You see that run-down story building?
7th Picture – 1990 to 1992: That was when we exploded, because we had left benches at this time
8th Picture: That is Lagos Church before we left.
9th Picture – Lagos Church Overflow: You see crowd outside, everywhere
10th Picture – Interior view of the Lagos Church: That is the inside of the Sanctuary then
11th Picture – That is the Church in Capernaum, Raji Oba area
12th Picture – The Faith Tabernacle: Now, that is Canaanland
13th Picture – Interior view of Faith Tabernacle.
We saw step by step. Church Gist. Average attendance, January 1984:6
February 1984: Heavens opened; 14
March 1984: We jumped up. Average attendance – 22.
Average attendance for 1984, we started 1983, was 81. Average attendance for the year. When I go out for 3 hours today, I get near 300 people.
Enjoy starting from the beginning. All this ‘girigiri’ won’t get you anywhere.
When we planted our first 5 Churches 1987, total income of the Church was 573,000 Naira for the year.
Very wasteful generation. Just squandering things anyhow.
We saw the first 1 million as a Ministry worldwide 1988. But you can now keep singing, redeemed for the topmost top, Hallelujah.
They say, “come and take a teaching job”: No. Redeemed for the topmost top.
“Come and work in a factory”: No. I already have a factory in the spirit.
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