AND PEOPLE WILL STILL SIT OUTSIDE.

EVEN IF WE DO THREE SERVICES, PEOPLE WILL STILL BE OUTSIDE. THE LORD TOLD ME THAT TILL THE END OF THIS MINISTRY, THEY WILL BE PEOPLE OUTSIDE EVERY TIME.

ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT TITHING AND GIVING IS NOT THE WAY HASN’T SEEN IT. THERE ARE SOME PREACHING IT BUT WERE NOT DOING IT.

IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ANYBODY’S TESTIMONY, BELIEVE THE ONE IN THE CHURCH.

THIS IS A TITHING CHURCH. WE ARE ONE OF THE MOST COMFORTABLE CHURCH INSTITUTIONS ON THE EARTH TODAY. GOD IS JUST CONFIRMING HIS WORD.

I AM AMAZED AT WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE ARK PROJECT.

GOD IS NOT PLAYING ON YOU, DON’T LET ANYBODY TRY TO REWRITE THE BIBLE IT IS TOO LATE. PSYCHOLOGY IS NOT CHRISTIANITY.

ONE DIVINE SECRET CAN TURN ANY DUMMY INTO A GLOBAL PHENOMENON

• Bishop David Oyedepo at July 2022 Week of Spiritual Emphasis, Day 3

Acts 10:44. Stay tuned as the word goes forth, the Holy Ghost will come down. Be one of the Lydias tonight, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things that were spoken by Paul. May God’s word find a way into your inside tonight and transform your life forever. Church Gist. One of the senior ministers who is over 80 is here right now. He was ministering in those days several years ago and while the word was going on, I was experiencing sparkling in my head. The following day, I began to understand things I didn’t understand before. It was an opening that came as the Holy Ghost fell. Something must fall on you tonight.

Thank you Father, take all the glory in Jesus name.

Some time ago, July 15th 1997, the following words came to me by the Holy Ghost “I have made Lagos your first headquarters from where you will shake the world” we were at a corner. “Build with me a people to be envied” so you are here as one of those people ordained to be envied “a people of honour and by them, I will storm the world. Build with me a people in terms of depth”, depth in terms of insights in the word of God “a revolutionary army by the depth of revelation and by them I will take this world by storm”. So you are not in a regular church, you are in a military training camp. “Walk with me my son as I raise a new generation of saints by your hand”. New generation, people commanding things never seen or never heard. Church Gist. One divine secret can turn any dummy into a global phenomenon. Job 29:4. That was the testimony of Job. Job 1:1-3. The Holy Ghost is the custodian of all of God’s secrets. John 14:26. One secret turned a prisoner into a Prime Minister. Do you remember Joseph? What God showed him turned into a show. Please don’t let any devil devalue kingdom secrets. Every star in the kingdom rose from the platform of kingdom secrets. Kingdom stars are made out of divine secrets. God raised or made stars never go down. Joseph was there till 110 years reigning in a strange land.

Daniel 2:19,30
Access to divine secrets and that king by name Nebuchadnezzar bowed down and worshipped him. One divine secret turned a captive to an amazement in a strange land. Bible historians claim that he was there for 65 years, from one king to another Daniel was Daniel all the way. One divine secret catapulted him to unfathomable heights.

Ephesians 3:1-3. Mysteries are divine secrets embedded in scriptures. Acts 14:11. This man was stoned to death and he rose back again by himself. Acts 14:19-20. That demon said “Jesus I know, Paul I know” Acts 19:15. Those barbarians saw him in Acts 28 that the venomous viper came out of the fire and wound itself around Paul and bit him. Church Gist. They waited for him to be swollen and fall and die and nothing happened. They changed their mind. Acts 28;1-6. Access to mysteries establishes our mastery over principalities and power. That is what makes divine secrets an asset of inestimable value. It can transform anyone’s life to great heights.

The Bible is the book of divine secrets. Psalm 25:14. This is the book of His covenants, old and new covenants. Interestingly every divine secret in the new testament is an open secret. You know business secrets have trade secrets and you make a vow not to open them to anybody else. Kingdom secrets are open secrets. 1 Corinthians 15:9 – to make all men have access. Church Gist. Every divine secret under the new testament is an open secret. There are men placed by God to whom some secrets are opened to help other men see them. Ephesians 4:11-13. They are there to help other people see what they have seen. Every divine secret in the kingdom is an open secret. Matthew 10:27. No secret.

Interestingly the Holy Ghost is the facilitator of our access to divine secrets. 1 Corinthians 2:10. Please have a sense of real value for the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:14. There is no intellectual capacity that can access the deep things of God. Without the Holy Spirit, we are utterly limited in access. John 16:12-14. Everybody needs the ministry of the Holy Spirit to realize his glorious destiny in Christ. 4 failed IVFs, one gruesome miscarriage, and brutal medical processes all to no avail and the Holy Ghost just showed them this is the way to go all for free. Divine secrets are powerful.

UNDERSTANDING THE PERSON AND MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. I have tried to unveil His capital ministry that will make a star of any dummy – access to divine secrets. He turns the word to flesh. You walk into the reality of the spoken or written word without any negative feelings. Access to divine secrets turns the word to flesh and the world begins to see the glory. John 1:14. When the Holy Ghost showed me the secret of kingdom prosperity, it was so tangible. It was not information, it was a tangibility. It was as real as the day, there was no doubt about it. Divine secrets turned the word of scripture into tangibility. 1 John 1:1. He turns it into a weapon in your hand. When He showed me the secret of Church growth, the church was so grown yet so small in the natural. One day I was screaming and I said “you think I am mad, I am not. I can see a crowd you cannot see”. These are all decorations of divine secrets. He turns the truth to flesh. He is more real to you than the flesh you carry. I screamed that I can never be poor. When someone is saying that tithing and giving is not the way, he hasn’t seen it. If you don’t believe anybody’s testimony, believe the one in the Church. This is a tithing Church. We are one of the most comfortable church institutions on the earth today. God is just confirming His word. You have not seen it, you have not seen it and you can’t pretend you have seen what you have not seen, it will show. Those who teach it, don’t do it. I have been in it forever, since He showed me. Since He showed me about corporate tithing in 1987, we have been doing it. Church Gist. You are not any more amazed than I am about what God is doing, I am equally amazed. Just walk down and see the Ark Project. We are also wondering what is going on here. I pray that no one here will trash any treasure of scripture. God is not playing on you, don’t let anybody try to rewrite the Bible it is too late. The word is settled in heaven forever. It is too late. You can’t create your own heaven, psychology and scripture are not the same. I said I was speaking to a crowd outside in 1985, in 1985 where were we? They were wondering what was wrong with me the way I was shouting. The 109,000 capacity sanctuary will soon finish and people will still be outside. If you do three services, people will still be outside. The Lord told me that till the end of this ministry, they will be outside every time. Divine Secrets.

It is not enough to access it but to keep trading it in truth. Doing what He says to do and doing it with delight.

Very quickly, we have five fundamental ministries of the Holy Spirit we are looking at tonight.

1. The Holy Spirit is a spirit of glory.

Isaiah 61:7. Joel 2:23-26. Job 22:29 The Holy Ghost is the spirit of glory. You need Him Sir. Don’t fake it. You need Him actively at work in your life. Zechariah 4:1-6. He is the spirit of glory that turns every ordinary life into a golden life. 1 Peter 4:14. People hate to be reproached for the name of Christ. Church Gist. Thank God there were no videos those days when people were casting aspersions on us for preaching Jesus here and there. All kinds of dirty words. The Holy Ghost is the spirit of glory. This is marketing the ministry and person of the Holy Ghost. This is telling you to see what you are missing when you think, it is just one Church doctrine. We are speaking glory.

2. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of love
   Love is what turns a believer into a generational phenomenon. 1 Corinthians 2:9. 1 John 4:16. This God does new things every day. When you are in love, you are in God and God is dwelling in you, you are just a natural pacesetter. Be naturally, unreservedly in love with God not for things but for who He is to you. Love is a spiritual virtue with unlimited capacity for growth. We can grow in love to the realm of the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19. It is a virtue with an unlimited capacity for growth, but the master grower is the Holy Ghost. Romans 5:5. He comes in to fire up the love of God in us. Romans 8:28, 2 Timothy 1:7. There is the spirit of love. All genuine lovers of God end up as high flyers in life. David was a man after God’s heart. At 17, he became a national hero. Church Gist. He became the head of the military of the nation without going to military school. He was just a wonder, everybody lined up behind him. That is what love can do, love is a transformer. You can’t love God beyond the help of the Holy Ghost in you. He is the one that stirs you up to keep going. Love is stronger than death. You see those three Hebrew boys in Daniel 3, it is love that is stronger than death, not faith. Faith can’t stand death. Songs of Solomon 8:6-7. Those boys were dwelling in God and God was dwelling in them. You can’t burn God, God is a consuming fire. When our love for God is established above our love for things and ourselves, unusual things will start happening.
3. The Holy Spirit empowers us to prevail in prayer.

You are not struggling in prayer. He helps our infirmity. You are solid, you are focused, your language is strong, and your spirit man is awake. He does that. Matthew 26:41. Romans 8:26-27. He wants to pray but he doesn’t know what to pray, he kneels and sleeps there. He is dozing. That is where the Holy Ghost comes in to fire up our prayer life and keep us burning on the prayer altar. They call that the Spirit of grace and supplication. As we pray in tongues we are praying on the frequency of the will of God. Church Gist. You are lining up heavenly forces in prayer. 1 Corinthians 14:15. If you read that whole scripture, you find the protocols of praying in the Holy Ghost. 1 Corinthians 14:18. Praying in the Holy Ghost keeps us on fire on the prayer altar and unusual things begin to happen. Ephesians 4:4-5. Don’t let this month pass without you enjoying it, you don’t need a prequalification more than you being born again. He is your natural right.

4. The Holy Spirit is our ever-dependable companion.

He is there all the time. John 14:16-17. He is an ever-present help in times of need. Psalm 46:1. You don’t need to coach Him, he is there. All you need to do is stir Him up by praying in the Holy Ghost. You pray in the Holy Ghost and an armed robber will just be weakened. Church Gist. Witches will flee. Isaiah 59:19. It is a sign to the unbelievers. That’s what the Bible says. “Keep off! The Holy Ghost is here. If he descends on you, you are finished”. Let anybody on the sick bed pray extensively in the Holy Ghost, He comes alive in you and quickens your mortal bodies.

5. The Holy Ghost destroys yokes.

• Whatever represents a yoke in your life, that yoke is destroyed by the power of the Holy Ghost tonight.
• That yoke of remaining on one spot is destroyed tonight.
  Isaiah 61:1. Whatever represents any form of captivity that came with any one of us tonight is turned to testimony in the precious name of Jesus.

To receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost is simple. Man is complex, this is not. It carries no cost other than a thirst, a genuine thirst. Church Gist. You can’t tell how much ground you are losing without Him. Too much, too high but no more.

I like you to believe God for consistency in the race. No star in the field of sports emerges a star overnight. It is always over time. Consistency in the pursuit of a sporting career. It took David 13 years to see the throne after he was anointed. He was anointed at 17, he emerged king of Israel at 30. It took Joseph 13 years to realize his bogus dream. People are in a hurry, this thing happens over time not overnight. Consistency as a result. Check our prayer life from the beginning “oh God save them, oh God heal them, oh God deliver them” not oh God give us money, oh God give us position. Church Gist. Consistency is the rule of the game. If we backed out on church growth drive in Kaduna, we will still be there. God is no respecter of persons, where you back out is where He backs out. Everyone here is redeemed a star, may your star not go to the grave with you at the end of your journey. The bright and morning star Jesus lives in you. You are redeemed as a star. What’s your excuse?

• No one here shall be part of the problems but forever a part of the solution.
• No one shall miss his place in this wave of glory.

For 46 years I have never had a rethink, “Oboi are you sure you are doing the right thing”. Insult is a catalyst to me. It just stirs me up. I think the devil is feeling what I am doing now. All by the help of the Spirit of God. I have attempted to go on leave once in my life, but it didn’t work. I have been doing this mad thing, for 46 years running. No break, no jam. Have you ever been discouraged? No! The Holy Ghost won’t let me. I don’t know what discouragement is. I have inbuilt encouragement in my blood cell. There is no frowning face, if I minister and you don’t see me smile you better run away. It is part of my gifts. Today marks the end of your struggling to walk with God, as the Lord lives, none of your labour shall be wasted again. The Holy Ghost is the spirit of joy, they call Him the oil of gladness. It keeps your stewardship alive and ever rewarding. Deuteronomy 28:47-48. Serving God does not guarantee automatic returns, it is serving God with joy and gladness that does. Church Gist. May the help of the Holy Spirit required to keep you joyful and glad be upon you now. God is not looking for who to stress, He is looking for who to bless. God doesn’t need you for anything, we need Him for everything. Whatever He commands is for our own good and towards our own profit. In the name of Jesus I curse the siege of depression, the siege of murmuring and complaining, that’s in your life. Nothing is working but you are working. You are the one talking. Is your breath working? Are your lungs working? Is your liver working? How much were you charged for it? Have you paid any bills for it? If you have lost anything, He is the reason why you have not lost everything. When your breathing stops, what have you lost – everything. Celebrate Jesus for the privilege to be called to serve Him.

• Your star must rise, your star will shine. Another man will not take your crown. Your tomorrow is great.
• Your eternity is awesome. No more distraction, no more depression.

People who have been insulting me are tired. Even before they retired I don’t hear what they are saying. I don’t have that time. Celebrate Jesus.

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