THE GREATEST PROJECT IN OUR MINISTRY SINCE ITS INCEPTION IS THE ONE GOING ON NOW.
THE ARK PROJECT IS THE CHEAPEST WE HAVE EVER DONE AND IN THE MIDST OF THE HOTTEST ECONOMIC HEAT.
PRAISE IS NOT JUST FOR RELIGIOUS ENTERTAINMENT, IT IS A WEAPON OF WAR.
IF GOD GAVE satan ROOM TO DEFEND himself FOR ALL THE LIES YOU ARE TELLING AGAINST him
THE BUNDLE OF LIES SOME BELIEVERS TELL AGAINST him ARE UNBELIEVABLE.
YOU BEAT UP YOUR WIFE AND SAY IT IS THE devil, DID he CARRY YOUR HAND? WHY DIDN’T HE MAKE YOU BEAT SOMEBODY ON THE WAY BEFORE YOU GOT HOME?
WAKE UP! EVERYONE’S NEGATIVE SITUATION IS A FUNCTION OF HIS IGNORANCE
WE SO LOVE TO CELEBRATE THE LITTLE WE KNOW WHICH IS NOT CHANGING OUR SITUATION, IGNORING THE MUCH WE DON’T KNOW
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland, Ota.
This shall be to you the beginning of months. As you grab what the Holy Ghost is saying this time, you shall be singing songs of triumph all through life. Because God never loses any battle and praise is a covenant medium through which we transfer our battles to God, the last battle you lost is the last you will ever lose. Never see prophetic words as motivational speeches. You receive a prophet as a prophet, you receive a prophet’s reward. You receive a prophet as a motivator, you just get informed without being transformed. Wake up, everyone’s negative situation is a function of his ignorance. My people perish for lack of knowledge. If you got 30 per cent in an exam, you got something not that you didn’t get anything but you didn’t get enough. You can’t change class. We so celebrate the little we know which is not changing our situation, ignoring the much we don’t know. Nothing makes a failure like pride. “I have done all I need to do, ask God now”. Okay, take Him to court so you can judge between you and Him. If God gave Satan room to defend himself for all the lies you are telling against Him: “God you know all things. Church Gist. Was I not in Malaysia during that time yet they say I am the one causing problems for their family in Agege”. Just that his case was closed. If he had access He would make heaven because the bundle of lies believers tell against Him is unbelievable. You beat up your wife and say it is the devil, did he carry your hand? Why didn’t you beat somebody on the way before you got home?
Prayers: Father open my eyes to behold the wonders in your word and not remain a victim of ignorance.
Spiritual ignorance is tormenting. It is a risk, it makes a victim. Let God be true and all men liars.
Somebody graduated in 2015 and was just patching through life. He heard the word of the Lord this month and engaged in two nights of praise. Somebody has not sung one song since this thing started. Somebody has not taken one dancing step since the light on praise and Thanksgiving began. He is still looking for a change of story, how? Change of story follows our obedience. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. Change of story will be coming to you after you have obeyed not you going around to look for them. Church Gist. That is the realm God is launching you into. Please cooperate with Him. It is your season of change. Cooperate with Him and you will see His glory. Psalm 149:5-9.
- God will judge your enemies, in the midst of high praises he will turn them against themselves.
See yourself in the dance tonight as transferring your battles to God and then you will be watching your victory on the film. They say you have won but you are on your bed, why? He took over your battle.
Prayers: Lord take over my battle tonight.
Lord Jesus we all look up to you to open our eyes to behold the wondrous things out of thy law. Do it tonight and help us to see the wonders out of praise and thanksgiving. Help us to see brighter, help us to see adequately in the name of Jesus Christ.
UNVEILING THE BLESSINGS EMBEDDED IN PRAISE.
He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness but they are transmitted through the knowledge of Him that has called us unto glory and virtue. One of the facilitators of God’s blessings is praise. Psalm 67:6-7. Fearful blessings are released through praise. In the name of Jesus, yours is the next testimony of fearful praises. She danced her way out of kidney failure. They look so simple, we engage in some of these things so casually. There is nothing expected to come out of it. Church Gist. I got into some rigorous dancing one night and an unusual presence of God came upon my life. New order of strength came upon my system. I knew it. So even when prophetic words come from you and you don’t align, you won’t get anything out of it. When God speaks, He speaks for all who are interested to line up with the demands.
We have said this before, praise focuses on the efficacy of the word. Psalm 56:4-10. What we do in praise is a celebration of the efficacy of His word, the integrity of the word. The infallibility of the word. It is not religious entertainment, it is a weapon of war. Church Gist. 2 Chronicles 20:20-22. As they began to praise, God took over the battle and they had a great victory over three kings, each one was stronger than Judah. You are winning that impossible war this time.
🎶Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna in the Highest. Lord, we lift up your name. With a heart full of praise. Be exalted oh Lord my God, Hosanna in the Highest🎶
As they began to sing Hosanna, He took a whip and began to flush out all that buy and sell from the temple, overturned the table of the money changers and they brought to Him the blind and the lame and he healed them. Matthew 21:7-14. They sang Hosanna in transferring their battle to God. He cleared off all the junk buying and selling in their life. As a word addict, in 1979 I saw that scripture and it had such an impression on me, I hosted the first Hosanna Night. I was not a minister. I was just a servant and a lover of God and His word. We danced like no man’s business for God to step in and chase away all the devils confronting any of us. It is not cheap dance oh. Church Gist. They were cutting palm fronds and throwing them around. They were almost dancing naked. That’s how you say enough to everything tormenting your life. Today is just 21st so we have a few days more to go but if you just keep sleeping all through, you find yourself where you started from. You can invoke your change of story. 2015 till now, joblessness and then they invite you for a job interview and give you the job and say resume now, after two nights of praise. Haba! They have been waiting for you. So we do not just praise God for things that have happened, we praise God to provoke things to happen. That man returned with a loud voice glorifying God and He said you are made whole, others are cleansed. When others remember to give thanks they will also be made whole.
One core content of praise is that it provokes manifestations of signs and wonders. Praise provokes manifestation of signs and wonders. Exodus 14:11. Praise provokes Him to do wonders. Fearful order of wonders. In Kaduna, we were having one of those wild praise sessions. There was a woman that had a domestic accident and had burns all over her. It was a kitchen problem, the gas cooker exploded. She sat down helplessly in pain in that service. As the praise changed gear, Jesus who will always step in came through. An invisible guest walked up to her and said “stand up and embrace me”. All the effects of the burns disappeared. All the pains vanished right there in that service. She must have been someone looking up to God wishing that she could dance and He said I see your heart, move now. Somebody else had an industrial accident, he was working for NEPA. He fell from the pool and his hand became withered. Church Gist. Someone walked up to him in that service, the same invisible guest and took his hand and stretched it forth. He testified immediately, not the following day. We were in one of those wild praise times in the old church, someone’s child had a growth on the forehead. She danced and danced and when she checked, the growth was gone. They told her it was a 50/50 chance. Jesus removed the thing, no blood spillage. No water, nothing. Praise is an atmosphere for signs and wonders. You want to experience signs and wonders in their raw form, receive grace to be a praise addict. You won’t lack it.
Remember our breakthrough heritage in redemption is often contended with by principalities and powers. Ephesians 6:12. The more reason we need to engage a platform that transfers our battles to God because you can’t see them but they are there and they are fighting you day and night. So give it to the one who they can’t stand. Let God arise and His enemies be scattered. Psalm 68:1. How do we arouse Him? In praise. They ganged together and locked up Paul and Silas, they just switched over. You know Paul was a man pregnant with revelation, He said Silas you know what? Let’s stop praying, let’s praise. As they began to sing the Almighty came. Church Gist. You know He said the Lord reigneth let the earth tremble. As He stepped into the prison, the foundation of the prison trembled. Psalm 99:1. He was the one that came because He inhabits the praises of His people. Every man’s bounds were loose, the jailer wanted to kill himself, they said stop that, we are here. We know how to make it happen again, that is why we didn’t run. We are not running anywhere.
- Impossible doors must open to you this time. Every case concluded against your destiny must be won this time
1 Corinthians 16:9. You better let God arise by arousing Him with your praise. Deuteronomy 2:24. You can’t tell where they are, so bring the One who knows and whose presence they cannot stand and you have won the war. Church Gist. You must win that war. The enemy shall not rejoice over you.
- Everyone appointed unto death under the sound of my voice, you have won that war. The forces trying to push you to the grave will go there in your place.
When Israel went out of Egypt, God was in their midst. The sea saw them and fled. Psalm 114:7. When you succeed in bringing God into your affairs, everything that troubles others trembles in your case. They shiver, they jitter, they are restless, why? Because the Almighty has stepped in. That is what praise is about. That is why the devil always wants to push you to murmur, so you can chase away His presence so he can make a meal’s meat of you. He will not succeed. Church Gist. Psalm 114:1-7. I am trying to prepare you for violent dance, not gellinking American dance. “Oh God, I thank you” – as if you are teaching phonetics. You better dance raw dance. Sing raw songs, sing your father’s tongue, sing your mother’s tongue. Sing any tongue you know.
God only indwells the praise of His people, not their prayers. He hears us when we pray and comes down when we praise. Which one will answer faster? If a president gave you a note, you will still wait for them to examine if it is truly from the president it came from. But when the president comes himself, can he wait? Which reception will stop him? If the MD is in the toilet, he will jump out. Eh! Mr President! you draw your trousers straight. But if it is a note, you take time to check if it is a genuine note or a 419 note. When the Almighty steps in the battles are won. Church Gist. You better bring in the Almighty instead of struggling with impossible cases. Let God step in and you watch all your battles won. High praise has the capacity to clear off all barriers on the path of our destinies. All barriers – marital delays, career crisis, business frustration, health challenges, it has the capacity to clear off all barriers of our redemptive destiny.
Isaiah 38:20. A prophetic word came that God was going to heal him. Hezekiah said, my father taught me that when God speaks if you want to see it you better start singing your song. Do you believe what the word says concerning you? Then sing your song. Thanksgiving and praise is a proof of strong faith. A strong faith is a praise singing and dancing faith. Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in the faith giving glory to God. Romans 4:19-21. Strong faith is a thanksgiving faith. A praise singing and dancing faith. It is proof of strong faith. Everything was out of order but Abraham’s faith was intact and Isaac came. Your Isaac must come. Hezekiah sang his song and his healing came, your healing must come. I call this the law of advance Thanksgiving. Isaiah 54:1-3. Church Gist. Sing oh barren, that is where it begins and watch how supernaturally fruitful you become. You are stranded and stagnated? sing! Sing your way to your next level breakthrough. Instead of sitting down and saying “this economic situation”. No, it is a spiritual ignorance situation. It was so terrible in the days of Joseph that people were offering themselves as slaves but covenant people prospered supernaturally. Money failed in the land during that economic holocaust. The Covenant was their lifeline. The covenant was their bailout. They sang their way out of it.
The greatest project in our ministry since its inception is the one going on now. It is the cheapest we have ever done in the midst of the hottest economic heat. This thing works if you care to work it. If you don’t work it, it will never work. Coro came and we employed 6000+ people to join our workforce in the midst of a global lockdown. You have that exemption package in God if you know what He requires for you to do. Church Gist. Some fellows ran out of Nigeria because of the economic situation, they now met economic circumstances where they went. Many of them are confused. If I go home what will I say? When you left what did you say? You have only one life to live, better don’t waste it. Your prosperity is in you, not in a place. If you don’t do what God says no matter what, if you go to the moon you will still be poor. Somebody’s story is changing.
The purpose of this praise carnival season is to change your perspective and help you to reposition to maximize your redemptive privileges which the devil is trying to rob you of. It is time to praise God.
Prayers: Thank you for opening my eyes, Jesus. Thank you for opening my eyes to see the blessedness of praise and Thanksgiving. Thank you for engraving me to be a valuable partaker of these blessings. I am handing over all my battles to you tonight as they did in 2 Chronicles 20. Help me Jesus not to be casual about any of your instructions.
Whatever God cannot do cannot happen, and cannot exist. Whatever exists as a situation God can turn it around. For with God, nothing is impossible. John 11:41-44. You have prayed, there was no sound, now give Him thanks.
Hallelujah!
God had already taken over your battle.
- Your testimony has begun. It shall be clear that you have won.
Just like the just shall live by his faith, the just shall triumph by his praise.
We were coming in from the old church into Canaanland with a very great friend, Dr Mike Murdock and we got here and he said “you have said thank you Jesus or praise the Lord 72 times between the time we left there till now”. That is an addiction. Was there traffic on the way? Yes there was but it was not my business, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for these vehicles that are smoking. Thank you because they will soon buy new ones. Church Gist. People are fighting, thank God that only two people are fighting not three. You just find thanks everywhere. Something happened, thank God would have happened if not that God was there. In everything give thanks. Thank God it is only my hand that is paining me not my legs so I can still move. Every time you give God thanks He steps in, every time you give God praise He changes your level.
In the name of Jesus before the month of September is over, God has concluded your matter. It is concluded in your favour.
- Whatever is scaring you today is turned into a testimony.
Somebody danced and danced and he got a call “The Lord told me you need 10 million”. The exact money he needed to escape the wickedness of the wicked. It was a business failure. God sent somebody who never knew. That is the kind of news you will get. Like a play, your God will change your story.
Lift your hands and give Him thanks. He has shown you the way to go. You are bound to share your testimony.
- Everyone called jobless here must find a gainful employment.
- Every dying business here must pick up again
- Any challenging child troubling anyone will become a testimony.
- Every life-threatening disease afflicting anyone must become an open testimony.
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