DON’T TOY WITH ANYTHING GOD PUTS IN YOUR HAND NO MATTER HOW LITTLE.
EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE IN THE KINGDOM REQUIRES THE HOLY GHOST.
WITHOUT HIM, THE JOURNEY IS NOT SAFE. EVERY BELIEVER IS VULNERABLE WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST.
AS A COMMISSION WE DON’T HAVE ANY STRENGTH, WE JUST TAP INTO HIS STRENGTH THROUGH OBEDIENCE
- Bishop David Oyedepo at LFC Leadership Empowerment Summit July 2022, Second Message.
A revival is simply a manifestation of divine presence in the midst of His people. It transforms lives, it changes people’s stories.
- May another man not take your crown.
Revelation 3:11. Somebody else took the crown of Judas. No one will take your crown.
1 Samuel 15:22. The value of our redemption lies absolutely in our obedience of faith. Deuteronomy 28:1-14. Look at all those catalogues of blessings, all stem out of one single thing – obedience. You diligently hearken and all these changes will come and establish your dramatic change of story in all areas of life. Where obedience stops is where the blessings stop. Where our obedience stops is where God’s blessings stop. May we receive grace for tireless, delightsome obedience. Church Gist. No one can fathom what is in obedience until he has obeyed. Obedience may be costly but the end result is priceless. As a commission we don’t have any strength, we just tap into His strength through obedience. Raw obedience, delightsome obedience, cheerful obedience in season and out of season.
You can’t step into this realm of sworn blessings without passing the test of obedience. He said to Abraham, “because you have obeyed my voice”. Genesis 22:16-18. That is how powerful our sustainable obedience can be. That is how humbling the outcome can be.
Psalm 112.
- Receive grace for murmuring free obedience, cheerful obedience.
Listen to this, there is the spirit of obedience. John 10:18. There is a power behind obedience. Ezekiel 36:27. There is a spirit of obedience. Can you lift your hand and cry out for the spirit of obedience. It is our greatest asset next to salvation.
Genesis 12:3. Every seed of Abraham is ordained a global citizen, to command global influence. Galatians 3:29. If you are born again, you are a seed of Abraham. Genesis 22:18. He went out in obedience and God transferred that to generations after him to which you belong. You are not redeemed as a burden to your world but as an asset. Church Gist. You are not redeemed as a concern but as a testimonial. This is what guarantees access to that realm. Psalm 22:30. When you serve God as a seed, you impact the lives of generations after you. Serving God as a seed is to impact one’s generation. This connotes surrendering to the will of God in season and out of season. Mark 4:26-28. Serving God as a seed secures your future and impacts your generation.
We are not only seeds of Abraham. We are also seeds after the order of Christ. John 12:23-26. Serving God as a seed secures the Father’s honour.
- No one here shall know shame and reproach again in life.
Romans 12:1-2. Until the seed sacrifices itself to the ground, it abides alone. It looks pitiable under the ground. If you plant anything in a transparent glass, you see the process of how the seed must first be messed up before it is made up. It first looks rotten before it shines forth. There is a necessary breaking up before there is a breakthrough. Church Gist. Serving God as a living sacrifice is what makes stewardship reasonable. Reasonable means profitable, profitable means impactful. Serving God as a living sacrifice makes life impactful.
Abraham was like a seed, Genesis 12:1 and suddenly a man without an identity became a business emperor. Genesis 14:14. He had an army to himself. He overcame that nation and rescued his brother. “A Syrian ready to perish was my father” is the story of Abraham and then God turned him into a nation. Deuteronomy 26:5. Church Gist. Serving God as a seed can make anything out of nobody. Mark 4:30-32. When you serve God as a seed, no matter your level today you will grow up and shoot out great branches and become a covering for many. John 20:21.
We are seeds after the order of Christ. Romans 8:35-37. 1 Corinthians 15:31. That’s Paul’s testimony. Galatians 2:20, Philippians 1:21. Now, Paul said, Paul said after over two thousand years that he left. Paul is still saying something. Serving God as seed impacts for generations. Church Gist. Abraham has been gone for thousands of years but when they mention Abraham you develop goose pimples. Impact keeps growing when you choose to serve God as a seed which implies as a living sacrifice. One’s life becomes generationally impactful.
I have said a number of times that there is no star without a scar. The scar of every star is sacrifice. Can I show you the scar of Christ before He became the bright and morning star? Isaiah 53:1-3. Scars all over him, the crown of thorns on his head. Bitterness for a drink. Revelation 22:16. A scar before a star. If you don’t want the scar, then you can’t become a star. A star will always precede a star. Church Gist. The scar of sacrificial obedience will precede your glory. You know one star exceeds another one in glory. Philippians 2:8-11. The scar is the star of sacrificial obedience. God said it, I believe it and that settles it.
1 Corinthians 15:41. Stars are in degrees. Daniel 12:3. The cost of stardom is the commitment to turning many into righteousness as a lifestyle. Grace to bear the scar to emerge as a star, grant it to me Jesus. Stand to your feet and pray that prayer from the depth of your heart.
What God is doing is trying to inoculate you and me with the grace required to run this race to the end. Prizes are won only at the end of a race, not at the middle, not at the beginning. Don’t treat your cells with levity, don’t let your cells become a burden to you. Take delight in the members, take delight in the growth and replication. Church Gist. He who is faithful in the least is the only one that is qualified to handle much. I won’t change your story without your proven faithfulness where you are. There is nothing small that cannot become great, there is nothing great that cannot become greater. Be committed to it.
I ministered in our church of 4,8,10,19,28 the same way I minister today. The same dimension of preparation went into it. See serving God as your heavenly Father’s business. Never think that you are serving the leadership of your ministry. Church Gist. They serve masters, it is servants that serve. Your leader is still serving and deadly so. Last Sunday my outreach team brought in 752 people into Church. Be awake. Stars don’t just rise, they rise on the covenant platform of sacrificial obedience.
- You will tell your story.
Habakkuk 3:2. The midst of the year is June and July. Habakkuk 3:17-19.
- That is where you are going.
Prayers: Lord let the next four weeks establish me as a living sacrifice in the pursuit of the advancement of your kingdom. Pray in the Spirit, hook onto heaven.
Isaiah 54:5.
We are taking a journey through the mysteries of the kingdom. As salvation we are espoused to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:1-2. Revelation 21:9. The Church is the bride of Christ. Ephesians 5:31-32. What is it that establishes marriage? Matthew 19:4-5. By love you left, by next level development of love you cleave. Love and cleave are what secure our marriage to the lamb. Leave and Cleave. If you are not willing to lose sight of the shore you will never discover new island. Leave and cleave and watch what that will make of you. Deuteronomy 4:3-4. Church Gist. When you cleave, you two are now one flesh you become indestructible because your husband ever liveth. Deuteronomy 10:20, 11:22-25. Love and cleave. You are espoused in love, you get married by a cleave. He levels out all opposition before you if you are one with Him. Psalm 114:7. 24:7. Wherever you appear, He is there so everlasting gates lift their head to you. That is the wonder of this marriage. That is the great mystery we are talking about.
Let’s come down to our natural environment. The First Lady of any nation, whether she went to school or not. Whether she speaks French, English or Japanese, short or tall, black or white. She enjoys all the immunities of the presidency in the domain of that President. Can the Police arrest her? Can traffic officers stop her? Immunity in the domain of where her spouse is president. She enjoys all the privileges of the presidency, security, and free logistics. She is married to the first man so she became the First Lady. They call her “Your Excellency”. She didn’t stand an election but is the wife of the elected. Watch out for the decorations of your life as you get to the realm of cleaving. Church Gist. Watch out for new realms of beautification, glorification, and honour, as you truly get married to Jesus. Get married and you silence all your enemies. Amos 3:3. Buy into the heartbeat of Jesus. Agree with him. What is His heartbeat? 1 Timothy 2:4. Matthew 1:21. 1 John 3:8. John 21:15-17. That is the sole demand of this marriage. Just following the heartbeat of this marriage. Doing his heartbeat with utmost delight. He gave his life to redeem you, what are you giving to see others redeemed. Of your time, of your energy, of your resources.
1 Peter 2:21. I marry you is not just in words, are you in agreement with Him? On the day of the wedding, they will ask you “do you take him as your husband?” if she says no, that is the end. There is nothing a pastor can do. You have to answer. John 14:21.
Prayers: Thank you for opening my eyes to this mystery. Lord empower me into the realm of cleaving.
If you access this covenant realm of matrimony with Jesus then your battles are over. He is the King of all the earth.
None of these mysteries unveiled today is possible without the help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said I have taught you three years, don’t go anywhere without power. Your adventure will be an impossibility without this enduement of power. Matthew 24:49. John 16:7-14. He will silence the prince of this world. Without Him, the journey is not safe. Without Him, the journey is not safe. John 14:15-16. We need Him to line up, we can’t walk in obedience without His help. We can’t be effective on the prayer altar without Him. Acts 1:8. Isaiah 42:3-4. He keeps you going in stewardship. He is the Commander of the affairs of heaven on earth today. Without our linkage, we are vulnerable. Luke 19:10. He is our security. Isaiah 59:19. Nothing frustrates living like a lack of vision. There is as exciting as being able to see what is ahead of you. Hebrews 12:2. When He comes, He will lead you into all truth. You can’t see your future and still be downcast. His agenda is to receive from the Father His mission for our lives and guide us to get there. In this great season of revival, you can’t do without Him. Church Gist. From henceforth we shall be praying extensively in the Holy Ghost in all our services. Everybody in this Church must be filled with the Holy Ghost. It is a natural gift. In the house of Cornelius, they heard the word, turned their heart to God and were filled with the Holy Ghost at the same time. A young man took my book and got saved by himself in Chapter One, got filled with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues in Chapter Three. Nobody was there or laid hands on him. It is that free. Everything about life in the Kingdom requires Him.
Prayers: Holy Spirit, grant me a brand new experience with you this month. Pray in the Spirit.
Acts 1:8. James 2:26. John 6:63. You can’t go beyond the help of the Holy Spirit in your life. You will just be sleeping during prayer time and forgetting prayer points.
1 Corinthians 14:14-15. The Spirit is a source of strength. He keeps your prayer life alive. Romans 8:26-27. It is foolishness to be shameful of what is gainful. Please connect. From henceforth none of your prayers will return void.
For every one of us in this Commission serving God at one level or another, expect to be rewarded. Expect it to impact every area of your life, it will keep impacting your family life. It will impact your health. I curse the root of sickness and disease in the life of every steward in this Commission worldwide. Church Gist. Everyone whose business and career are crashing, I decree a rescue right now. Be blessed.
- Your impact will not stop at your departure.
- Your generations will keep drawing from the quality of your walk with God.
- May this second half of the revival wonder of the midst of the year deliver fully in your life.
- Not one of us shall faint or be discouraged.
- God shall exempt you from every evil of the day. When men will be saying there is a casting down, you will be saying there is a lifting up.
- God will make you laugh this month.
- The prayer you will pray that will terminate your dry season, you will pray it this month.
- God has turned you and your family into a surprise. Surprises will never end in your life.
- You are blessed by the Lord. May every blessing proclaimed upon your life by me today come to pass speedily.
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