EVEN THE ENEMIES OF THIS MINISTRY KNOW THAT I AM BLESSED.
WHAT IS ANNOYING THEM NOW IS THAT I AM BLESSED BUT THEIR ANNOYANCE IS JUST BEGINNING.
IF YOU ASK ME, ‘HOW DID YOU SUCCEED IN PLANTING 10,000 CHURCHES IN A YEAR?’ I WILL TELL YOU HIS WISDOM CAME DOWN TO LEAD THE WAY
HOW DO YOU RUN A SYSTEM OF THIS MAGNITUDE WITHOUT CRISIS? THE WISDOM OF GOD! WE ARE AT PEACE AS WE WERE WHEN WE HAD 5 CHURCHES.
EVERY CRISIS IN HOMES AND BUSINESS ARE TRACEABLE TO WISDOM DEFICIENCY.
THE REASON WE ARE STRANDED IS THAT WE KNOW TOO MUCH.
NO ONE KNOWS. EVERYBODY DEMANDS FOR WISDOM FROM GOD.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Showers of Blessings Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First Sunday Service
Heavenly Father, thank you for another day. Take all the glory. By your word this morning move everyone forward, let your favour locate each one and let your name be glorified.
Philippians 4:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:16.
Let joy and rejoicing become your new lifestyle because of the amazing hidden blessings that are therein. Philippians 3:1.
Very importantly, it takes joy and rejoicing to retain God’s presence. No one ever loses a battle with God’s presence with him. So what this ancient strategist full of subtlety does is to get God off your path so he can make a meal’s meat of the individual. He can’t handle you and me with God on our side. So he wants God off our sight so he can trample us under feet. He has such a capacity for deception that he can deceive the whole world. Church Gist. He grounded the world to a standstill under the guise of Covid-19. All lingering economies just crashed. We had our share of it. He is so old in the stuff that you have to be spiritually smart not to become his victim. He couldn’t deal with the prodigal son until he got him off his father’s house. He is very used to the business. That is the only thing he does. He has lost all the power, he is left with deceptions, devices, and tricks. You better rejoice always.
If God can really help you, He should have helped you by now. You better come on my side. You know my own is not like what they are preaching, when you bring a human head, you bring one leg of a boy, one leg of a girl and I grind them together, you just excel in life. Poor devil! He can’t get that done without stealing your joy and tricking you into negative reflections. Philippians 4:4. Church Gist. Psalm 11:4:4-7. Troubles tremble at His presence. The author of troubles trembles at His presence. He wants God off your back so he can have free access to torment, torture and humiliate you. Get smarter my friend. No one under the sun can manage your life better than the one who gave it.
Satan has a manifesto and you should be aware of it. His mission is to kill, steal and destroy. He cannot steal without deceiving you. Wake up my friend and rejoice. Somebody once asked me Brother David do you have any problems, I said maybe it came and I didn’t know. During the construction of the Faith Tabernacle three of the trusses, one evil wind came and pushed all three. They came down at the same time. Now each of them is equal to a building. I said I hope no one is hurt, they said no one is hurt. I said praise the Lord. Hallelujah!. How much will it cost? I don’t know till today. This Tabernacle will be dedicated on September 18th. Church Gist. Why worry about the cost if you are not the one paying for it? Your only way forward is to keep God on your side. Your only way forward is to retain God’s presence with you. Satan is so frustrated down here because nobody recognizes him. I said many years ago I said God said I am the reason why you have not lost anything. So come on now, celebrate and don’t lose any more. Somebody stole my thing, I said I thank God I am not the one who stole somebody’s thing. Which one is better to have your thing stolen or for you to steal somebody’s thing? No joy no devil must be allowed to take away.
It takes joy and rejoicing to commit God to opening our prison gates. If you don’t want to die in prison then praise your way out of it. Paul and Silas prayed as they sang, the Holy Ghost came down. He came down and turned them into celebrities overnight. If you want to come out of that unwanted situation, God’s covenant prescription is to praise your way out of it. Habakkuk 3:17-19. Do you want a change of story? Praise your way into it. Do you want next levels of breakthroughs? Praise your way into it. Acts 16:25-30. We saw how Paul and Silas came out of the prison in grand style and the jailer said “Sir, what must I do to be saved”. Church Gist. They became Sirs. Sorry, you are not in Anglican. When you become Sir. You have arrived. That is the peak of the spiritual hierarchy. Not all these Sir they throw around in the office. Real Sir, Sir John… You have escaped. God is changing your name, changing your level.
Refuse to be offended with God, if you are offended with your helper where will your help come from? God is enough for anyone who cares to trust Him.
You are coming out of that depression now. Somebody’s story is finally changing.
I decree that every of your stewardship returns with blessings.
I decree the arrival of your days of open rewards. The Lord shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
Now begin to experience a fearful order of blessings in every area of your life. Church Gist. Fearful order of blessings in your business and career, fearful order of blessings in your family, fearful order of blessings in your health, fearful order of blessings in your finances.
Let me show you something that will help you all the days of your life. You won’t need to beg God if you walk in obedience to all He commands. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. Seek access to the realm where you don’t have to call for these things where they just come to you and overtake you. Many are in that realm in this church and many more will join them. The realm where things just come to you. There is no more fulfilling realm than that realm. I have checked all the things God has added to me over the years, there was none I asked for. One day I said won’t you be patient for someone to pray before you answer because I am amazed. Church Gist. This praise platform that ushers men into realms of fearful blessings becomes your new residence in the name of Jesus. We never had a budget when God built the Faith Tabernacle. We just give God thanks and 80 million will surface the following day, no service. These are not tricks. They are not tricks. When I was on #300 we didn’t pray for food. You diligently hearken to my voice and do what I say to do, all these blessings will come and overtake you.
I, therefore, decree your access to that realm of colour. That realm of beauty. Your life will not be a prayer project anymore. You can’t have God on your side who on His right hand there is pleasure forever and in His presence there is fullness of joy, no pressure. That presence resides with us with a lifestyle of praise. I pray this season marks the end of all forms of pressure around your life. Church Gist. One characteristic of God is that until you acknowledge Him for the present you are not on His list for the future. Were there not ten cleansed? They were only cleansed, they couldn’t be made whole because they won’t return but one returned with a loud voice glorifying God. The next is not in view until the last is acknowledged. What a God we serve. All these assuming God’s blessings are why we are where we are. To take God for granted is to be grounded.
Prayers: Lord, I want grace to access that realm where blessings come to people and they don’t cry for it. The realm where pressures are alleviated. Church Gist. I want access to that realm. Many believers around the world are in that realm already. This Commission operates in that realm.
Never get tired of obedience. We embarked on this journey in 1984 March. 2084 we will be there, 3084 we will be there, if Jesus returns we will be there. Until you are tired of breathing don’t ever get tired of obeying God. Church Gist. When you stop tithing, you find things just getting tighter and tighter. Before long you say I better try ogboni. Keep obeying, this obedience pays us.
- The day is declared your day.
- You are moving forward today, you are receiving good news today.
John 5:30.
Jesus said I can of my own self do nothing. What I see my Father do is the same thing I do. Somebody’s story is changing. So when He says praise me, praise Him. Anything He says to do is the wisest thing to do per time. Praying Kingdom advancement prayer is rewarding, pray it. Don’t assume it, no explanation. “I just came back from Dakar. Well done, so they don’t pray in a plane or are you the one flying it? All that nonsense you are only impressing yourself and disconnecting from God. You better obey God. I know where my tithing started from and I won’t tell you. But when they say the total income of the church was #18,000 my tithe and offering were there. Church Gist. I have been a diligent tither. Even the enemies of this ministry know that I am blessed. In fact, what is annoying them now is that I am blessed. But their annoyance is just beginning. You just walk with God and you see prophecies coming to pass in series one after the other. Someone’s story is changing. Just receive the word, believe the word and keep walking with God. He makes all things beautiful in His time. Receive, believe and keep doing what He says to do. John 8:29.
He said this ministry is not limited to this nation, it shall spread across all nations of the earth. These 68 small-small boys are talking about nations. Do you know any nation? But one day I was in a car driving from Zaria to Kaduna and He said “arise, the harvest of Africa is now ripe. Rush in and preserve it from decadence. Church Gist. We had such a majestic entrance into Africa. A number of the largest Churches in those nations are of this Church by the doing of the Lord in His own time. Settle with Jesus, He will settle every prophetic word concerning your life. Settle with Jesus. Don’t do shakara for God. He doesn’t need you for all things, you need Him for all things. He doesn’t need fulfilment of prophecies, He is the fulfiller of prophecies.
- Your days of mourning and sorrow and struggling are finally over.
So to see prophecies fulfilled just maintain a quality walk with God. Whatever God said to Abraham he did. He didn’t just do it but promptly. Get thee out of thy country, he departed. Circumcise all the males born in your household, he began with himself. Church Gist. Bring your only son, he rose up early in the morning. A quality walk with God is a covenant guarantee for the continuous fulfilment of prophecies in our lives.
Let’s look at three prophetic lifelines for us in the kingdom:
- Every child of God is redeemed for a glorious destiny.
Shame and reproach are not part of God’s package for you. Romans 8:28-30. Everyone justified by the blood of Jesus is justified to be glorified. Therefore I curse the siege of shame and reproach around anyone’s life under the sound of my voice. Salvation is our escape from the realm of shame and reproach. Therefore your escape is established today. Church Gist. Whatever makes you a byword and a proverb among men shall be turned into a testimony this month. Whatever makes people ask where is your God shall become an open testimony this month. The showers are already falling. I am not entertaining you, I am one of God’s mouthpieces on the earth. Whatever makes people ask where is your God shall be turned into an open testimony this month.
Now listen, I mentioned it during the spiritual week of emphasis. Change of story in the kingdom usually follows a sudden trend. It just comes about. As big as this facility is, it came gbam! No premonition. No discussion. He didn’t even confide in me. I got on the platform and He said the tabernacle shall be dedicated on September 18th suddenly. In the same vein, the prophetic blessings being proclaimed on you will deliver suddenly. Church Gist. Stop looking at where you are coming from, look at what God is saying. I said no trace of shame and reproach will be left in your life after this month. When will you get a job, what a shame you are! They will celebrate with you this month. Where is your husband? They will see it this month. He woke up as usual the Head Boy of the prison and landed as the prime minister of Egypt. Suddenly something will turn in your favour.
You have a glorious destiny. What does that demand? Proverbs 11:30,3:35. Stay committed to kingdom advancement endeavours with a sense of mission and your glorious destiny will start unfolding one phase after another. Revelation 5:12. Glory is part of our package and you are going away with it today.
- We are redeemed to operate in divine wisdom.
- Every question mark on your life will be turned into an exclamation mark.
When Jesus came the people exclaimed, Matthew 13:54. That is what defines divine wisdom, it always engenders mighty works not the wisdom of grammar. Divine wisdom is defined by mighty works. Psalm 104:24. Mighty works are what validates divine wisdom not make belief kind of arrangement. Watch! things will start happening in your life by the operation of this wisdom which is our heritage in Christ. Matthew 11:19. God’s wisdom engine is in you. Christ in us the hope of glory and He is the wisdom and power of God. When that mighty wisdom is at work Sir, mighty works trail divine wisdom not grammar that they are looking for a dictionary to understand. Your grammar may not be correct but your works will be real. Church Gist. If you ask me, how did you succeed in planting 10,000 churches in a year? His wisdom came down to chart the course. How did you build this thing in one year? His wisdom came down to lead the way. How do you run a system of this magnitude without crisis? We are at peace as we were when we had 5 churches. All His ways are ways of pleasantness. Every crisis in homes and business are traceable to wisdom deficiency. “I am the husband” is anybody contesting? It is not an APC, PDP kind of thing.
You need to watch me when I am to sack anybody. I will ask you to sit down, take your note and tell you why you are sacked and tell you how to get yourself protected against such things wherever you are going next. Have a handshake and pray with you. No games. That was when I was in charge, I have left that area for the longest time. I am not a signatory of any account in this church. Church Gist. Ageing has no medication, wisdom is the only medication that ageing responds to. I can’t sit down and read bank statements. How do I have the time? In the name of Jesus, may your heritage of wisdom begin to manifest in diverse manners. Nothing goes down in your hand anymore.
Wisdom is a builder, not a breaker. Through wisdom is a house built, by understanding it is established. Proverbs 24:3-5. Isaiah 33:6. The wisdom of God stabilizes destiny. That will be your portion from now.
Thank God for Harvard School of Business, Oxford School of Business, and Covenant School of Business, if you don’t have wisdom you are limited. Through wisdom kings reign, so it is the covenant key to enthronement. Proverbs 8:15-16. The wisdom of God is the raw material that enthrones. Therefore be enthroned in various areas of endeavour.
Let me tell you this: no one has it. Everybody demands for it. Do you lack wisdom? ask from God. When Coro struck, I asked the Lord which way Lord because my kind of outreach cannot be accommodated by their new law of no gathering, long-distance relationship. Church Gist. The Lord showed me the way to go and we had 61,000 souls under lockdown by asking God which way to go. The reason we are stranded is because we know too much. 61,000 It is the highest my outreach team got in a year by asking God.
When we were about to take up this building, I said Lord, no contractor will take up this building, how do we go about it. He said send for your sons who are in related disciplines, who are in the field. This will require faith more than it requires skill. So we scanned through our list and we got 21 of them – Architects, Civil Engineers, no need for experience you will have experience here. Church Gist. He dedicated it as He said one year, no budget. Solomon the wisest asked for it. You can’t be wiser than you demand for it. All the questions I asked the Lord concerning Covenant University, I received from Him. Direct, we didn’t copy from anybody else. Ask God.
One of our daughters from Zaria came home and said her marriage was over. I said do you want the marriage to be over? Do you want to be farming cassava with your mother in the village? Church Gist. Church Gist. So I gave her one recipe as inspired by God, get back to Zaria wherever you see your husband fall on His neck. Two hours later, they called me. Marriage restored. Honeymoon began.
We are redeemed and will enjoy health and wholeness. Sickness is not part of your package in redemption. I want an inner reaction right now. The same day your sin was paid, your health and my health was paid for, therefore, sickness and diseases become illegal in your life. Mathew 8;17. Church Gist. Settled in heaven forever.
- Therefore, any assault on your health clears the way finally today. Whatever remains as a balance of the assault of the wicked on your health, as you partake of this communion, they clear the way forever.
Revelations 5:12. Among the blessings of our redemption is strength. Psalm 105:37. 2 Corinthians 3:11. Church Gist. So, God does not intend to have any one feeble person among us in redemption.
- Therefore, every weakness, some are not sick but they are not well , every attack on your strength, your agility, I command them crushed today in the name of Jesus.
You know why God has to do that? The endtime Church is ordained a church of men and women of exploits and it takes strength to do exploits. Daniel 11:32b. Church Gist. Christ will not eat, yet he won’t know. Somebody say strength. No weakling can command exploit. Exploit is exploitative. Church Gist. It exploits your strength.
I’m not taking any pride in it, it’s the grace of God but I’ve not been on leave. Church Gist. They say, “poor you”, that’s why I’m so poor, He supplies the strength, and the passion is burning and I’m riding on.
- from now, no more shutdown on your health. No one here will be slain by sickness and disease. The showers are falling. Today marks the end of “I’m tired, I’m weak, it’s not working”, in the name of Jesus Christ. If any of us is sick down home or in any hospital, I decree right now the healing power of God to locate them in the name of Jesus and set them free in the name of Jesus.
Healing, health and wholeness is our lot in redemption, so you have a destiny of strength and might. Church Gist. So, you can command exploits in different areas of your endeavour as ordained by God. Can I hear your Amen? Thank you Jesus.
As we close, we look at these characteristics of prophetic words;
Every prophetic word received and believed imparts confidence in God that secures its fulfillment. Hebrews 10:35-36. It imparts unusual confidence. Church Gist. Have you heard me say again and again and we say it everytime, “I’m not surprised that we’re where we are”, you know why? There was confidence built in when those words were released. One day, we were coming in from Warri and there was no more flight to Benin, I told my PA, because we saw one private plane on the tarmac and they look like they’re trying to go somewhere, “ask them if they’re going to Lagos, that we’re going and that it should better take us because our own is coming”. Church Gist. He laughed, I said, “tell him exactly what I said”, they told the man, the man laughed and said, “tell him to come”. (Laughs). Confidence in God.
I’ve never seen a 50,000 seater sanctuary but I believed what He said and then we’re there. Praise God. Anything where you’re shaking, you haven’t received it, you have not believed it. Romans 4:20-21. Church Gist. How may are persuaded of their glorious destiny here, that no more shame or reproach. How many are persuaded of operating in the realm of divine wisdom here? It’s open to every child of God. How many are persuaded that sickness and disease is not part of their package. Church Gist. Now, be confident in God. Philippians 3:3. Not confidence in your ability, your revelation, your understanding – confidence in God.
Every time I’ve been faced with death, you know, attack, sickness, accidents and all that, I’m so at peace because I have my revelation of my old age heritage. So, I say, “peace, be still”. Church Gist. Those who who have been with me in such occasions know how I operate. Confidence. It triggers a great reward. It brings the word of God to pass in grand styles.
- You have overcome. Give the Lord a big hand of praise. Everything shaky inside you clears away today.
Finally, every prophetic word received and believed allays all fears. Romans 4:19. We’re only a victim of what we fear. What you refuse to fear, you dominate it. What you don’t despise, you cannot dominate. Every prophetic word received allays all fears
- I, therefore curse the plaque of the spirit of fear in anyone’s life in the name of Jesus. “Well that’s what God said, but hear what the doctor said”, I don’t want to hear what he said. Mathew 6:22. I don’t want to hear what he (the doctor) said, what God says is final. You’re walking out of that situation. Church Gist. The disease cannot kill you. God will destroy it today. As you’re partaking of the blood today, God will destroy the root of that disease in your life and so shall it be.
- Lift up your hands and give God praise, celebrate Him, magnify Him, glorify Him. Church Gist. It’s a brand new day for you! God will establish His covenant with you in Jesus’ name. Give the Lord a big hand of praise.
Very quickly this morning, you’re not born again, that is the starting point for experiencing God both in the now and eternity. Church Gist. That’s a requirement for your praise to be acceptable because only the living can praise God. Until one is saved, he’s spiritually dead. When one is born again, he’s a new creature, old things are passed away, all things are become new. God has a gorgeous plan for you but you step into it by first giving your life to Christ. Church Gist. Until one is justified, He cannot be glorified and we’re justified by the Blood of Jesus through repentance of our sins. If you’re here this morning and you want me to pray with you to be born again, become a child of God and begin to experience the fulfilment of God’s great plan for your life and secure eternity in grand style at the end of your journey, wherever you are stand to your feet and I’ll pray with you.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS
- Unusual strength will come upon your life
- Sickness and disease will flee away
- Light will shine forth from heaven on your heart
- Many will know what next step to take in this service
- Your glorious destiny will be unfolded
- He will turn your mourning into dancing
- As you partake of this communion, I decree a new spring of joy and rejoicing in your heart
- You’ll never know depression anymore in your life
- It shall be a new dawn all the way
- Every sickness is cursed through the mercy of this communion
- Growth will disappear from your body
- Pains will vanish away
- And you will testify
In the name of Jesus, lift up those two hands, the Lord said to me years ago, “I’ve touched your tongue with a coal of fire and from henceforth, as you say it, you see it”. I decree;
- Your access to end of unending showers. Dry seasons come to an end in your life today.
- Grace to become a resident in the house of God and not a visitor. Grace to be resident in the house of God where showers of blessings are reserved for His people, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
- Grace to keep obeying God in season and out of season, so He can keep bringing His words to pass in your life, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
- Grace to make the most of this season that will make it a landmark in your life. Receive it now in the name of Jesus.
- I proclaim your Household blessed.
- I decree an end to all air of shame and reproach in your family.
- The week is declared a week of testimonies for you
- every point of mockery around your life is turned to glory
- God has just turned your mourning into dancing
- your going out is declared blessed, your coming in is declared blessed
- May the blessings of this House be reflective in all areas of your life. In the name of Jesus.
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