DON’T HANG AROUND PEOPLE WHO TALK LOW ABOUT THE FUTURE OF YOUR COUNTRY.
DEPRESSED PEOPLE HARDLY MAKE MARKS. DEPRESSED HARDLY ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING MEANINGFUL OR TANGIBLE.
THE PAST IS PAST, YOU DON’T PASS AWAY WITH IT. THE PAST IS IRREPARABLE. WAKE UP.
I OPERATE IN THE MADNESS ORDER OF JOY
- Bishop David Oyedepo on UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SUCCESS – THE FORCE OF JOY AND REJOICING at Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland
Better is the end of a matter than the beginning thereof, today is the last Midweek Service in the month of March. Whatever is remaining for God to deliver His agenda for you shall be delivered today in the name of Jesus Christ. The prophetic word for the month is “I am redeemed for the topmost top”. Any prophetic word that you don’t value never delivers. Every prophetic word carries a daystar within it. You take heed to the things that need to be done to see it come to pass in your life. My prayer is that no prophetic word will fall to the ground in your life anymore. Church Gist. The last days are the most prophetic days of the Church, we need to learn how to line up to see prophecies come to pass in our lives. Not just prophecies proclaimed by a prophet, the prophetic bank itself – The Word. If you don’t have value for prophetic words, the Bible will not profit you. Because it is highly prophetic, it is the surest word of prophecy. Too many people just watch prophetic words pass them by, they just think it will come on them by themselves. You will do well only when you take heed. You hold it fast, lest another man takes your crown.
- No prophetic word will fall to the ground in your life anymore.
I didn’t say you are redeemed for the topmost top, the word said so. You are a city set upon the hill that cannot be hidden.
- You won’t let any treasure from heaven turn to trash in your life.
We have been looking at UNVEILING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SUCCESS in our Midweek Services.
Psalm 11:3.
A faulty foundation equals a failed future for any building. 1 Corinthians 3:12. The foundation to every agenda of Heaven is as contained in the word because Jesus is the Living Word. The foundation of every provision of scripture is as contained in the word and a lot has gone forth since the month began. Church Gist. I believe tonight that one hidden thing remaining will be unveiled to us. Everybody that has an eye that can see knows that this commission represents the raw meaning of success. Just moving on from one level to another, no parking, no stopping. That is how your life is ordained to be. No one here, who will take heed to these words until it forms in you will not become a testimonial.
One hidden foundation of success that we are looking at tonight that doesn’t look that significant but can keep anyone at the same spot for life is The Force of Joy and Rejoicing. Depressed people hardly make marks. Depressed hardly accomplish anything meaningful or tangible. Church Gist. Depressed people are often defeated. Depression is an enemy of destiny, don’t you ever toy with it. Everyone that commands global impact is known to be an ever hilarious, joyful, excited individual and I will tell you why. What is in joy that enables a man to command exploits.
You can’t trace depression in Joseph. He commanded such a dimension of attraction to Potiphar’s wife whose husband was always depressed. He was in prison yet on the move, we are not told he cast his head down once. You don’t know what evil you are doing to yourself with depression. We saw how God took him through till he arrived on the throne of Egypt. Depression is evil. Church Gist. It is worse than what any witchcraft will do to you. Philippians 3:3, 4:4. 1 Thessalonians 5:16. Joy is what provides access to inspiration. Inspiration is the channel to insights and insights produce exploits. Those who know… they shall do exploits (Daniel 11:32).
Isaiah 12:3
Paul the Apostle, a man of uncheckered joy is reported to be a man of abundance of revelation. We saw how much impact his insights engendered. All of the scriptures are the product of inspiration and Paul wrote about half of the New Testament. By joy, he gained access to inspiration, by inspiration he gained access to revelation and by such insights he commanded that level of insights. Church Gist. Acts 19:15. You rob yourself of insights, you just unknowingly begin to wreck your own life by surrendering to unnecessary matters, immaterial things and allowing such things to weigh on your life. Till you are robbed of everything precious. Applied revelation is what equals wisdom and wisdom is the womb of exploits. Matthew 13:54, Proverbs 3:19.
By joy, we gain access to revelation and by applied revelation we command exploits. So you see where joy comes into the equation. I have been around some giants in my life and I observed one common denominator and that is joy and rejoicing. It flows with them naturally. You are working hard, you are serving God so hard but there is no return, why? It takes joy to access your reward in stewardship. Your lack of joy and gladness in stewardship has robbed you of your rewards unknowingly. Nobody can see the fact that you are serving God, it is not showing because all the harvest of the field will perish when joy withers from a man’s life. Joel 1:12. I wish people know what they are doing to themselves by subscribing to depression because of things that don’t matter. Church Gist. The past is past, you don’t pass away with it. The past is irreparable. Wake up. Somebody insulted you yesterday and you are still down today, doesn’t make sense. The people who heard the insult cannot be gathered together again so the insult is in their minds, what is your problem. If you sell yesterday’s newspaper for #1 Nobody will buy it. So if they insulted you in the news yesterday it has passed. I want to appeal to women because they are the most vulnerable, the slightest thing can get to them.
We also know that all men of exploit are men of unusual strength. It takes strength to command and sustain exploits. There is an enormous demand on your person, time and energy. It is doing something that others are not doing that puts you above them. You can’t run the same schedule and command greater results. Joy is a fountain of strength. Nehemiah 8:10. The joy of the Lord is a fountain of strength for everyone in the Kingdom, it strengthens you to sustain and command exploits. I was with T.L. Osborn who is gone to heaven now. Church Gist. He said he went somewhere where he went to 60 years before and the woman that was healed 60 years ago came forward to say she received her sight 60 years ago. Unusual strength, all these dragging feet at the age of 40 is not the way to go. The joy of the Lord is an energizer. It makes you go beyond your natural capacity. You can’t command exploits, talk less of sustaining it without strength. They went to town to buy food for them to eat, they came back and found him engaging with all his strength with the woman by the well.
Luke 10:21.
Jesus rejoiced in spirit, joy from the inside, not mechanized smiling. When there is joy in your heart it will show. You can’t say I am not smiling but there is joy in my heart. A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. We are going to heaven where all they do is laugh, laugh at the devil and all his plans. May God restore your laughter. Stop fighting the past, there is no wisdom in it. That’s just a bit of the relevance of joy in the school of success.
2 Samuel 14:20
David, the ever joyful king. He knew far from his generation. He was talking precisely about the crucifixion. He was outside his generation in knowledge and see how much impact he commanded. Psalm 16:11. Church Gist. God gave Solomon wisdom but it was transmitted through inspiration. He wrote 3000 proverbs and 1050 songs, so they call it Songs of Solomon. The man was swimming in inspiration. All the kings of the earth came to hear the wisdom of Solomon. That is the wonder of joy.
1 Kings 4:29-34, Matthew 11:11
He that is least in the Kingdom has a greater potential of access than Solomon but we need the joy and the gladness to access it. Heavy inspiration springing out of joy. Isaiah 60:1, 15, 22. We just need to be a company with joy to fulfill our destiny. I, therefore, pray tonight that by the power in this communion, everything that triggers depression is destroyed in anyone’s life. Church Gist. Everything that makes you remember what someone told you in 1992 in 2022, after 30 years! It is gone, never to return. The insult cannot be withdrawn. Some bemoaning your past, you can do nothing about it. You failed an exam 10 years ago, it doesn’t mean that if you pass now you didn’t fall that time. When they are counting those who failed that year, they will count you. I want you to enter the madness order of joy that I operate with. Don’t mind those things that are passed, you can’t undo them. Joy and rejoicing makes your serving God profitable tonight.
Joy and rejoicing guarantees health and wholeness. Proverbs 17:22, 18:14. The moment your spirit is wounded, your body gets wounded along. They check you but they can’t find anything yet your health is going down. What is not well cannot be seen in those machines, they can’t track depression in a machine.
- You will never suffer the plague of depression anymore.
You go to the hospital and they tell you, you have a condition and you just cast down your head. You drove there by yourself but you can’t drive home again. But you find a Winner who says “not me”, he goes to the office and takes the communion. The same situation, different reactions. One is reacting scripturally, the other is reacting naturally.
- I curse the siege of depression of everyone under the sound of my voice.
Somebody asked me, have you ever had any problem? I said maybe it came and I didn’t know. You can introduce yourself to someone and because you have no business together, you forget immediately. You can’t remember what his face looks like because there is no dealing. Something is breaking forth in your life. You have such an enviable destiny, you can’t blame the devil for haunting you. When Moses was born, he hunted him. When Christ was born, he hunted him. Every believer has a glorious, enviable destiny so don’t blame the devil for haunting you. So he will remind you of things that don’t matter anymore so you can cast your head down.
- Everything that does not edify is cleared off your system in the name of Jesus.
Joy and rejoicing are our covenant access to our high places in life. Habakkuk 3:17-19. Joy and rejoicing are your covenant height to your high places. You miss the flight when joy and rejoicing finish. Don’t toy with depression. Don’t hang around people who talk low about the future of your country. Don’t hang around people who talk low about the future of your profession. Just be yourself, rejoicing in the Lord always. I showed the clip Last Sunday of where we are coming from. Church’s average attendance of 6 people. There was outreach oh, there was evangelism. It became 14 in February – l lift. Then 22 and then 34 and then by the end of the year 81 – celebration Sir. We ended up at 90 and we ordained our seven deacons as a result, that number is too much not to have deacons. Rejoice in the Lord, income of Church worldwide -18,000. Joy you will think we are moving in billions. Then we grew tremendously, 324 people on average in 1985. 600+ 1986, you won’t believe it. There was no time anybody smelled depression on the altar. Then we graduated to the Grass Cathedral. I used to announce that if you see any larger Grass Cathedral in the world let me know but this one we had was the largest from all my research. It is fully wind conditioned, it can only stop the sun, it can’t stop the rain. So there is faith to stop the rain.
- You are going places.
It does not take as much time, it takes applied truth to gain speed to get to where God wants you to get to without stress or strain.
Stand to your feet and rise against everything that causes depression. Curse it in the name of the Lord. The past is irreparable, I am not going for it anymore.
• In the name of Jesus, nobody will have any reason to ask you what is wrong.
The day Hannah changed her countenance and was no more sad was the day God heard her. Joy is what welcomes His presence, depression dispels His presence.
• From tonight, it is joy in your family, your home, your business, your career.
Christ operated with joy and rejoicing in the Spirit, a very humorous master. He has nicknames for all His disciples. No dull moment around Him. I was on a Project which I called Lessons from Legends of Faith. I was writing about Kenneth Copeland and I said to him while we were on the phone that there is no dull moment around him. I have been around him very closely for 14 years. Laughter and joy all the time.
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