BISHOP OYEDEPO REACTS TO SHILOH TESTIMONIES:
IN ALL OF MY 41 YEARS OF MINISTRY, I HAVE NEVER SEEN 6 CHILDREN BORN AT A TIME.
WHAT YOU AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, GOD WILL MAKE HAPPEN AT THIS SHILOH.
NO FALLOPIAN TUBES, THE FIRST ONE RUPTURED, THE SECOND ONE REMOVED AND YET TWO CHILDREN. WHATEVER HAD BEEN TERMED IMPOSSIBLE, GOD WILL OVERTURN FROM THE ROOT.
THESE ARE THE DOINGS OF THE LORD AND THEY ARE MARVELLOUS IN OUR EYES
TILL FOREVER THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE:
THERE IS NO TECHNOLOGY AGAINST THAT
ANY HUSBAND THAT DOES NOT LOVE HIS WIFE HAS LOST HIS HOME
I SAW THE COVENANT OF CHURCH GROWTH AND I BEGAN TO SEE CROWDS OUTSIDE
NO MATTER WHAT WE BUILD INCLUDING 200,000 SEATER PEOPLE WILL STILL BE OUTSIDE
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE COVENANT IS KEY TO FULFILLING OUR GLORIOUS DESTINY
COVENANT HIGHWAYS ARE GOD’S SWORN VERDICTS CONCERNING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF OUR LIVES AS CONTAINED IN HIS WORD
WHEN WE CONNECT WITH THE CONDITIONS OF ANY PROMISE, IT HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A COVENANT
FAITH IS A UNIVERSAL CURRENCY THAT HOLDS THE SAME VALUE ACROSS THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
WE STARTED THE YEAR WITH A VISION TO GET INTO 70 NATIONS, TODAY WE HAVE ENTERED 83 NATIONS!
FAITH IS A MYSTERY.
EVERY TRUTH WE TRULY BELIEVE PROVOKES THE HAND OF GOD, BRINGS THE HAND OF GOD TO BEAR FOR DELIVERY.
GOD SAID TO ME THAT THIS SANCTUARY (FAITH TABERNACLE) WILL BE DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 18, 1999.
WE WERE NOT READY. NO BUDGET, NO PLAN FOR IT.
BUT GOD WAS READY. I BELIEVED WHAT HE SAID AND HE DELIVERED IT.
WHAT YOU BELIEVE CAUSES HIS HAND TO BEAR FOR PERFORMANCE
YOU CAN’T SEE A LION AS A GUARD AND BE AFRAID OF WOLVES.
YOU CAN’T SEE GOD WITH YOU AND STILL BE AFRAID
- Bishop David Oyedepo at SHILOH 2022 || COVENANT HIGHWAYS|| Day 2 Encounter Night|| Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland.
What eyes have not seen nor ears heard, what has not passed through the heart of a man by the testimony of tonight that is what awaits you at Shiloh. In all of my 41 years of ministry, I have never seen 6 children at a time. What you and I have never seen before, God will make happen at this Shiloh. She waited for 22 years (God is never late) but won’t let go of God. first, a set of twins and then God embarrassed them with a first child, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth. Church Gist. In the precious name of Jesus Christ whatever has been taken off you, God will restore supernaturally. Testimonies are our pointers to our heritage in Christ. Psalm 119:111. Watch out God is giving you an encounter of a lifetime tonight.
No fallopian tubes, the first one ruptured, the second one removed and yet two children. Whatever has been termed impossible, God will overturn from the root. Dead for 8 years came back alive and strong and ran from this altar, whatever has been called dead or dying in your life bounces back tonight. These are the doings of the Lord and they are marvellous in our eyes. Magnify the Lord for His mighty acts in our midst. Thank you Jesus. Church Gist. For in Jesus’ precious name we have prayed. Psalm 28:5. Always appreciate the act of God when you see it. It is the only way for yours to arrive. It is the only way to know yours when you see it. In the precious name of Jesus, on this mountain of change, somebody’s undeniable change from one level to another will take place.
Thank you Father for tonight. Visit us as you have said. Let no one return without a definite encounter with you by your word. Make every encounter tonight an encounter of a lifetime.
Hebrews 9:1-4.
We continue in our series UNVEILING THE COVENANT HIGHWAYS OF LIFE. My prayer preparing for Shiloh is that God will make everyone return with the tables of the covenant in their hand. That is showing us what to do to access and take delivery of what Christ has done. When we do whatever He tells us to do, we have committed His integrity to confirm. What to do to access what has been accomplished on our behalf, take delivery of them and manifest their realities in our lives. They are the secrets of God that enable us access to God’s plan and purposes for our life. What redemption has offered us and interestingly it has offered us all things that make for life and godliness. 2 Peter 1:3. Access to the tables of the covenant that will provide us access to all things that pertain to life and godliness. Church Gist. Where all things will begin to work together for our good. He gave us Christ how much more will He give us all things that are there with Him. Freely available when the conditions are embraced. Jesus came to take away all sins but I have to repent to connect with that plan. He has given us power among other things but I have to connect to manifest the power. He has given us riches, I have to know what it takes to step into the plan of financial fortune. I need to know how to tap into the wisdom of financial fortune He has given to us. Daniel 11:32. ‘Ignorance is no excuse in law’ they say. I once drove on a one-way many years ago and they stopped me and I said I didn’t know. They said it doesn’t matter, you don’t need to know. I say Okay make e no vex. That you don’t know does not make it the right way. Isaiah 5:13.
Psalm 25:13. That is why the devil has gone all out to corrupt the one reason Jesus came: to destroy the works of sin, by saying that sin does not matter to block the eyes of God’s people to the efficacy of the covenant of scriptures which is not accessible without the fear of God.
I saw the covenant of hitch-free marriage from four verses. Ephesians 5:22-25. There’s nobody under heaven that engage with those four verses and still have crises at home. No. Church Gist. It’s all these psychology, philosophy that they’re mixing together that is causing them problems. Till forever, the husband is the head of the wife, there’s no technology against that, you can’t reinvent it. Forever, husbands that will not love their wives have lost their home, “as Christ loves the Church” – very simple thing. Isaiah 59:8. Church Gist. You can’t love your wife as Christ loves the Church without your wife being submissive to you. You can’t submit yourself to your husband as unto Christ without your husband loving you. Church Gist. So, the two of you don’t have to see it at the same time, let just one see it and walk in it and it’ll work out in the other person. I saw that and exclaimed, “yeah, I’m set for a hitch-free marriage”. Covenant.
I saw the covenant of Church growth, I began to see crowds outside. He’s a covenant keeping God, I saw it and I got myself on key with it and I began to see crowds outside. Church Gist. Sir, if you build a 200,000 capacity sanctuary, people will be outside, what I saw was outside, people were outside, no matter what you build, they’ll be outside. It’s so interesting. The knowledge of the covenant is key to fulfilling our glorious, enviable, mountain-top destiny. Key. That’s how powerful the covenant is. I said “How reliable is this covenant?” He said, “except my covenant should not be the day and with the night, then may also my covenant be broken”. Church Gist. So, when you wake up in the morning and you see the day and the night, then God’s covenant is enforced, no Apostolic prayer can break it, no prophetic prophecy can break it. ” You shall be great”, that’s okay, if you know what it means, what it takes to be great. Your ministry shall be impactful if you know what it takes for your ministry to be impactful. Church Gist. So, it’s not about just having the Word spoken, it’s about taking responsibility on what it takes to make it happen. That’s all we have gathered for, to unravel the efficacy of the covenant of Scriptures to create the future you desire, no games.
- my prayer is that everyone of us will return with definite tables of the covenant that will rewrite our story before the eyes of all.
- let me hear your loudest Amen.
We are looking at the “Faith Covenant” tonight, and please, believe God to return with this table of the covenant. Everything about our lives in the Kingdom demands faith to experience. James 1:6-7. Nothing in the Kingdom delivers without faith. Church Gist. That’s why Faith has always been under attack from generation to generation. It’s the number 1 target of the devil in every conflict. Luke 22:31-32. He’s after your faith, if he gets hold of your faith, he has defeated you in battle. Luke 18:8. Church Gist. So, Faith will remain under severe attack before Jesus comes but those who understand the covenant of Faith will remain in command as they walk in it.
Covenant highways are God’s sworn verdicts concerning various aspects of our lives as contained in His Word. Church Gist. Sworn verdicts, “By myself have I sworn”. Covenants are not promised, they are sworn verdicts. Hebrews 6:15-18. Genesis 22:16-18. Covenant are not promises, they’re sworn verdicts. When we connect with the conditions of any promise, it has been upgraded to a covenant. We have connected to what God says to do for this promise to become a reality, it has become a covenant between us and God. Church Gist. So it doesn’t need Greek or Hebrew. Know what is offered, know what it takes to access and take delivery and connect if you’re interested.
A covenant is all about God saying, “here are your birthrights in redemption but these are the things required of you to manifest them. These are your birthrights but you must engage according to the following to manifest your birthright”. Let your birthright be precious in your sight and not be like Esau. Church Gist. They are as real as the day and the night and will remain in force as long as the earth remains. Let these things be precious in your sight. I saw the wonders of Ezekiel 37, outright booms came alive and turned into a mighty Host, I said, “Lord, I need this”. I wasn’t called to ministry but I know that every child of God is empowered to be a sign and wonder to his world. Church Gist. So, I went on a 3 days, on the mountain and the third day, I was on my way down, He said, “behold I have touched your tongue with the coal of fire and from henceforth, as you say it, you see it”. I saw it, I wanted it, I went for it. “I have this for you if you’re interested”, “I’m interested”, “then, go for it”.
Somebody’s vehicle was stolen and came and mentioned that to me on phone, I said, “I command that vehicle, return!” It came back from outside the country. When it goes outside the country, that’s the end, it came back from outside the country. “You’re interested, go for it”. Church Gist. I was interested in God’s prophetic plan, I went for it, 3 days. A friend of mine came and said, “Bro. David, how do you pay for these things?” I said, “Faith”. Faith is a universal currency that holds the same value across the nations of the world. Faith doesn’t work better in America than it works in Nigeria, no. Faith doesn’t know white or black. Church Gist. You’re sitting in a faith-built tabernacle. Built in one year, debt-free, tension-free, God built. Works the same way. Once we truly believe according to the covenants of Faith, we have committed God to make happen. It looks so ordinary, but so powerful. You believe Him, you’re empowered to become what He says.
- tonight is your night, in the name of Jesus!
For instance, the covenant is about God saying, “supernatural breakthrough is my plan for all my children but there are things we must do to command breakthroughs”. Church Gist. It doesn’t come on your laps, we must come to learn what it takes to get it.
Why is the devil all out against Faith?
- It takes Faith to be saved
- It takes Faith to live an overcomer’s life
- It takes Faith to quench all the fiery darts of the devil.
So, it’s got some sense. It’s after your faith and after my faith so it can have its freedom.
- from tonight, the devil has lost the battle over your life!
Jude 1:3. It’s the same Faith, one Faith, one baptism, one Spirit, same Faith.
Now, let’s look at a few definitions of faith before we check out on the Faith that works. “If Faith is so powerful, why is it not working in my life? Are you sure they’re telling us the truth? Are there some other things behind the scenes that they won’t tell us? The Pastor said ‘believe’ and I believe”. Church Gist. I will tell you why your belief is not working from the Word of God. “Are you sure they have said everything? I don’t think so, there must be some things”.
One of my sons here was sharing testimony with me, somebody met him and said, “What did Papa tell you that is making things work for you?” He said, “the same thing he told us.” He said, “no, no, it can’t be the same thing, there must be something else he told it. Church Gist. Tell us na, there must be something somewhere”. I have not added one thing to faith since He called me. No agent of the devil has seen a dime from me and can never. I have no other God by a vow, I will never try another. Church Gist. This same God took me from keeping the sheepfold right behind the desert and began to add value to my life by Faith.
We started the year with a vision to get into 70 nations. By the grace of God today, we have entered 83 nations. Additional to the ones we had, virtually the whole world
Faith works in every generation. It can’t be copied. It’s everyone’s responsibility to build. Church Gist. The just shall not live by another man’s faith but his faith. It’s for very believer according to the capacity of his faith. Capacity of their faith. To receive what God is saying, believe and prove that they believe.
Not a dime of seed was raised in church for this explosion. God is God any day anytime.
Now, let’s go ahead and unravel what faith is. It’s not a belief system like what they teach in Psychology class.
What is faith?
Faith is not a religious doctrine but a mystery of the kingdom. Faith is a mystery.
1 Timothy 3:9.
What makes faith a mystery? Every truth we truly believe, provokes the hand of God, brings the hand of God to bear for delivery. Isaiah 53:1.
Every time Faith comes alive God stretches His hand to say Yes, I’m here to perform it.
Luke 1:45. That makes Faith a mystery. Every truth we believe brings the hand of God to performance.
God said to me this sanctuary shall be dedicated September 18, the exact day. 1999. We were never prepared, there was no budget under heaven. I believed what He said. I was hearing the same time you heard it, not that I heard it before.
It wasn’t out of my preparation, I would never prepare like that in my life. We were prepared to distribute this place to farming in our church. To be farming till when we were ready. Church Gist. We were not ready, but God was ready! Amen! September 18 exactly!
He delivered it!
Faith brings the hand of God to bear on any truth we truly believe for performance. That makes faith a mystery.
Somebody’s husband was dead after 3 years in the hospital. Confirmed dead. The wife stood by and said, “Honey, you can’t go. Honey, you can’t go.” Was calling the husband. Thank God for godly women. He jumped back to life. They were both on the altar here.
…brings the hand of God to bear for performance. It’s the hand of God at work. God wrought special miracles ‘by the hand of God’.
God behind the scene, that makes faith a mystery. God behind the scene is what makes a faith a mystery.
Who pays me? You are in my employment. I’m responsible. Go now from house to house and greet no man on the way. I believed Him hook, line and sinker. His hand came and began to pay me by Himself. He hasn’t stopped.
Stay on your job! I stayed on my job, I’m a laborer not a tenure staff. The tenure staff might not come to work, will still be paid. A laborer that does not go to work won’t be paid.
Hello?
Every one of us – fathers, pastors, senior pastors – we are all daily paid laborers. The day you finish working is the day you stop being paid.
He’s paying me everyday what all of you here can’t pay me. Jesus pays me. Church Gist.
What you believe causes his hand to bear for performance.
That’s what makes faith a mystery. Faith is not a principle. Faith is not an ideology, faith is a mystery. The God factor is what makes faith a mystery.
This is the faith of our fathers. Church Gist. Our God who we serve is able to deliver us. They went into the fiery furnace, He turned it into a cold room. The fourth person showed up! He was the first. They just called him the fourth, he arrived there before them. He cooled the fire before they came, their faith brought God into it. And God came in to shame the devil.
In the same vein, your faith on this mountain will put the enemy to shame.
-That attack of hell stops here in your life tonight!
- Faith is a spiritual force that establishes our active partnership with the invisible thereby empowering us to command the impossible.
Partnership with the invisible to command the impossible!
Enoch walked with God. And he was not because God took him.
We walk by faith and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7. Moses endured as seeing God who is invisible and we saw him command the impossible in the land of Egypt. By faith, God divided the Red Sea. Fed this army of people for 40 years, breakfast and dinner. Conquered all their enemies on the way. Hebrews 11:24-29.
Faith sees the visibility of the invisible God. God is as real to the faith filled man as his flesh. Church Gist. Partnership with the invisible God that enables us to command impossible.
I said “God said!”
Did you sleep on the same bed?
No. He talks to me.
There’s not one thing he has told me – there are things I didn’t hear -but the things I heard properly and understood what He said, each one came to pass.
God is real. Only the eyes of faith sees it.
You can’t see a lion as your guard and be afraid of wolves. No. Church Gist.
You can’t see God with you and still be afraid.
Every door opens to you if their own accord with God on your side.
Lift up ye heads, O ye gates and ye everlasting doors! Can’t you see Him with me? What’s wrong with you?
Impossible doors open to a man or a woman who can see the invisible through the eyes of faith.
This is what makes faith our access to a world of unlimited possibilities.
Can you say with me, Faith is my access to the world of unlimited possibilities.
Mark 9:23. John 11:39-40.
Faith is not waiting for God to work, it is putting God’s Word to work so as to commit God to make do His promise. Church Gist. Whatever he tells you to do, do it. James 2:18. Faith without motion will never deliver. What is Faith? It’s being fully persuaded of the truth, the prevailing circumstances notwithstanding. Romans 4:17-21. Believing what is written commits God’s integrity for performance. What we believe cause into being what does not exist. Church Gist. Faith carries a creative force with it. It creates our desires as drawn from the Word that we believe. Romans 4:19. They say somebody has low sperm count, Abraham had zero sperm count, sperm has disappeared from his body when he was about a 100 years old. (Sarah had) no ovulation, nothing to ovulate from. Dead womb, dead sperm, living Isaac. Church Gist. The prevailing circumstances notwithstanding, Faith is being fully persuaded of what is written and spoken, and that proposes the Hand of God to make it happen.
- it shall happen for us.
Finally, it allays all fear. Say it with me, “Faith allays all fears”. In the ministry of Christ, everytime they became jittery, anxious, rattled, “where’s your faith? Have you not no faith?”. Faith destroys fears. The faith of scriptures destroys fears. Church Gist. When it’s Bible Faith, fear has no place. Bible Faith has no place for fear, it launches whosoever believes into the realm of rest, unrattled rest, unshakable rest, rest in the storms. One great evidence of Bible Faith is rest. Hebrews 4:10. It brings people into rest and you know what that means? It puts God to work. Exodus 14:14. Church Gist. When you enter into the rest of Faith, you have put God in the rings.
My wife is here tonight, I’ve never been around when we had any of our children, that I waited around. Rest. I’ll be reading Revival by Charles G. Finney, she’s the one to have the bath, it’s not me. Rest. Church Gist. The authentic Biblical proof of true faith is rest, anxiety-free life, apprehension-free life.
- you have entered there!
When we first came here, our first Sunday, we were on this aisle because how many people believed that it’ll work? And I said, “listen, we’ll soon start second service”, somebody said his heart cut, because I believed the one who said, “this is the place”. He doesn’t lead backwards, he leads forward.
- say with me, “God doesn’t lead backwards, He leads forward”.
It may be like you stepped back a bit, it’s to scale a higher height. Church Gist. When you follow what God says, you’re scaling a higher height.
- you’re scaling a higher height!
Rest, which puts God to work, and when God steps in to work, things work. Take your rest, the rest of Faith and let God take over your battles and you’ll only be victorious.
- can I hear your loudest Amen?
- give the Lord a big hand of Praise everyone.
Now, listen, if people still see answers to their prayers today by Faith, it means Faith is still in force. You can’t receive answers to prayer without Faith. Church Gist. If people still get saved by faith today, it means Faith is still a force to reckon with on the earth. If people still get healed by faith today, it means that the mystery of faith is still in command on the earth today. Whatever the Bible says faith can do, Faith will do because there’s no impossible case with Faith, there’s no irreversible case with Faith. Church Gist. The world works and Faith is what makes it work.
What does it take for my Faith to work?
- Recognize that Faith is a personal asset. Habakkuk 2:4b. Romans 1;17. Galatians 3:11. Hebrews 10:38. So, it’s our personally built Faith that works. So, we are responsible for whether our faith works or not. Church Gist. Nobody else’s faith can be a source for your faith. Mark 6:5-6. Even when you are prayed over and prayed for, without your faith, nothing happens. Faith is a personal asset of every believer and everyone is personally responsible for building his faith or breaking his faith. I can’t believe for you to happen what you don’t believe will happen. I can’t pray for you and believe for you for it to happen what you don’t believe will happen. The Faith that works is the personally built Faith. Church Gist. That’s why you’re in a Church of a thousand people and 500 are just flowing in the blessings, others are wondering whether these things are real or fake. You have a team of 12, some are triumphing and flying, some others are just crawling behind and talking behind. I told our leaders years ago, I said, “now that we’re all at the same level, understand what I’m saying”. Church Gist. October 3, 1984, we were believing God for #3,000 to pay for our Church facility. I said, “if I had this money, God won’t appeal to me to give it but now that we’re all the same level, understand what I’m saying”.
Isaiah 51:2. Faith is a personal asset. Abraham believed God, it was counted to him for righteousness. Church Gist. What you won’t believe, another man’s faith cannot make it happen in your life. You have to believe it to connect with any declaration you hear. “Are you sure this thing about faith is real?” You won’t know whether it’s real or not until you engage with your personally built Faith. Church Gist. A child can’t grow on his own, he has to be fed. Your faith is a living spirit because it’s the spirit of Faith. Anything Spirit feeds on the Word. You don’t feed your Faith, your Faith will die. You have to feed your Faith to strengthen your Faith. Weak Faith can’t stand the things happening today. The whole world is begging to burn like an oven, weak Faith can’t stand the storms of the hour. Build your faith and you’ll know how faith works.
Now listen, another man’s unbelief cannot make your faith of no effect. They don’t need to agree with you sir. Pastors listen to me, another man’s unbelief cannot make your faith of no effect. Church Gist. You think everybody believes in what we’re doing here? But why is it working? The Faith of the set man disannuls the unbelief of others. Those who don’t believe will believe along the line when they see things working. If God is counting those who didn’t believe about what this ministry is doing, we won’t be anywhere, no, I believe, your unbelief won’t change it, it won’t affect it, it’s your own cup of tea, your unbelief is your thing, it’s not mine. Church Gist. So, stop playing games my friend, it’s the faith of the captain, the skill of the captain that flies the plane, not the passengers. The time of “brethren, let us go” is over, instead, “I’m going, if you’re interested, you follow”, you must be personal in your work with God or you don’t go far. You hear me say, “except God has not sent me*, I know what He said to me and I believe it hook, line and sinker and I have His hand on my life. Church Gist. You mess up, you pay for it.
I’m in love, I’m married to Jesus. You don’t know the strength of a man until you touch his wife, then all the energy that he has and the one he doesn’t have, he’ll gather it together to launch an attack. when you’re married to Jesus, my friend, the world should take care.
- somebody’s story is changing.
The good news is, as you take responsibility to build your faith, you’ll be surprised and amazed at how much command you have gained over the affairs of life. Church Gist. It’s your personal faith that will make it work.
- give the Lord a big hand of praise.
“Why is my faith not working?” It’s either non-existent or weak or too little for the storm you’re dealing with – build up.
- The Faith the works is Word-triggered Faith. Faith without its anchor on the Word will never deliver. Abraham’s faith anchored on what was spoken. Romans 4:18. Church Gist. Faith is triggered by hearing and understanding the Word of God. So, the faith that works is the Word-triggered Faith. “How shall they believe on him whom they have not heard?” Any Faith outside what you have heard and understood from the Word is fake, it’ll never work. It is presumption, it will never work. The Faith that works is the Word-triggered Faith. Acts 8:30-31,37. When you understand the Word, Faith comes alive. Church Gist. Word lazy people can’t grow Faith. “Pray for me, pray for me” believers won’t go anywhere. The Word is the only authentic source of the Faith that works. The Word is at the root of every Faith that works. What God confirms is His Word that we believe. Word-triggered Faith.
- Heart-rooted Faith. “For with the heart, man believes”. Heart-rooted Faith. Hebrews 4:2. Romans 10:10. Mark 11:23. Heart-rooted Faith. Church Gist. These are the covenants behind the Faith that works. So, you keep your heart with all diligence, out of it are the issues of life. The Faith that works is the heart-rooted Faith. So, the human sense can’t affect it, it’s rooted in the heart. Church Gist. If I had to engage Church growth principles that I learnt, we’d never come here, never forever, but when the heart receives it, the head bows. It’s of the heart.
- The Faith that works is love-boosted Faith. Galatians 5:6. Faith works by love. You may have faith that can move mountains but without love, it profits you nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2. Church Gist. Faith delivers to the level of our love for God. When God is out of the equation, Faith is paralyzed, Faith becomes impotent. Everybody’s Faith works only to the level of his love for God. That’s why some people say it’s not working, “it’s about me, I must be like them, I must fly, I must run”. Church Gist. I said, you may have read all the little books I’ve written but until you have discovered my heartbeat for God, you have not discovered my secret. Church Gist. The wonders of life are reserved for only God lovers. 1 Corinthians 2:9. All these flamboyant, chocolate Faith is not what we’re talking about, Faith that has God at the centre of it.
Can I tell you what happened to me growing up? I said, “Jesus, if you ever bless me, I want to be part of building you Churches”. I didn’t have a bank account when I was saying it. Church Gist. By His grace, I have billions into Church building. Love-boosted Faith is the faith that works, not self. Promoting faith, “yes, I believe God, I believe God for a Mercedes, Mercedes 3000CC”, go and carry it. You know, we never prayed for an aircraft sir, we never believed for it, we never confessed it. We never prayed for, never thought for, never found out their names. When I said we were going to buy an aircraft, I didn’t know the name of anyone other than the ones that fly in Nigeria, Nigerian airways, okada, kabo. Church Gist. What works is God at the centre of your life. Faith will not work beyond God at the centre of your heart.
- somebody’s story is changing.
Let your love for God come alive and your faith will start working life fire. Those three Hebrew boys, their love God was stronger than the fiery furnace, so the fiery furnace bowed and the Bible said, “because they trusted in their God”. “We will never bow to your graven image, we’d rather burn than bow, we love God beyond what you’re talking about” and their Faith quenched the fiery furnace. Daniel said, “for me to pray to another God, I die for free” and God went in and stopped the mouth of the lion. Romans 8:35. Church Gist. Paul was lost in the sea overnight, he didn’t die. They beat Jesus once, they beat Paul three times. They stoned him to death, he came back. Love-boosted Faith will always deliver under all circumstances. The Faith that works is whatever God makes of you is for Him, when that becomes the platform of your Faith, it’ll always work.
- give the Lord a big hand of praise.
You must have heard me say, “whatever God cannot do in my life, let it remain undone”. I will never check on an alternative source. Whatever God cannot give me, may I never have it.
🎶 I am satisfied with Jesus. I am satisfied with Him. My faith in Him has never failed. I am satisfied with Jesus. 🎶. Where Jesus cannot take me, may I never get there. You can’t be in love and lose command. It is your turn.
- The faith that works is the action-driven faith.
James 2:18. You look at the action faith of Abraham. That is what was diagnosed in that place from verses 14-24. God said to Abraham “move” and Abraham departed. Circumcise all males born in your home and as soon as He finished talking, he took the knife and started doing it. Sacrifice your son Isaac, he rose up early in the morning. The faith that works is the action-driven faith. A number of us were there that morning of 1996 when I announced with utmost relaxation that God just told me this morning that it is time to get the aircraft. If a man gives according to what he has not what he has not, shall we give now. Never mentioned again David, you were there. Never repeated in any service. It was a Saturday morning and yet the plane arrived six months after. Church Gist. He spoke to us on the 17th of September that He will dedicate the sanctuary on the 18th of September the following year. We came on the 18th to start drawing the rope. Action-driven faith. Arise! get down to Lagos, I sent someone out of Kaduna that very day. Action-driven faith. The faith that works is the action-driven faith, not the dragging faith. “I will think about it, I want to see the pros and the cons” it has gone. Action-driven faith. When it is from the Lord, move or it is lost. We were going to start the Ark Project in 2016 and I said Lord I am waiting for marching order. He was silent, at a point then He said don’t speak to me on it again until I tell you if I need to. When He said it, He said it. His hand is too clean on it. No mistake. Action-driven faith is the faith that works. This complacent faith won’t deliver anything. Wake up! This is the faith of our fathers that is lost today. People have just settled for confession till they are confused. They confess and confess to the point of confusion. It is time to wake up and take responsibility. The faith that works is the action-driven faith. Your faith will not fail again. You have heard some things on this altar if you don’t act on them it is gone. If you go back to your spiritual lapses, God have mercy. Go back to a prayerless lifestyle, God have mercy. Action-driven faith. - The faith that works is offence-free faith.
Luke 17:1. Matthew 11:6.
In 1986, I was teaching on “blessed whosoever is not offended in me”. One of the women in that place had some challenges and is upset with many people according to her testimony. She just gave up on those offences and God visited her. John was in trouble and he said to Jesus “I hope I didn’t make a mistake by declaring you as the Messiah. Have you not heard that I am in prison? What ministry are you doing?”. He was offended in Christ. He lost his place. Matthew 11:6. God is not to blame for the challenges of our life He is our way out of it. Refuse to be offended in God. Church Gist. If you are offended in your helper, where will your help come from? John was offended in Christ, he lost out in spite of the heavy prophetic word concerning him. No one will lose out here. God is never to blame for wherever we may find ourselves today. That is in Job 34. God is never to blame, refuse to be offended in your God, He is our only hope to come out of any mess in life. God is never to blame for the issues around my life. He is my only way out of it. I refuse to be offended in God. So offence-free faith is the faith that works.
Finally,
- Bold speaking faith.
Many of us are victims of that today. We hardly can declare in the open what we claim to believe on the inside. It will never turn to manifestation until it is boldly and openly declared. What you will not declare boldly, God will not make happen openly. Job 34:31-32. Church Gist. There are some things that are chastisement from the Lord to get us back on course. Don’t get offended. Lord, where have I missed it, help me out at this time. You are never to blame for where I find myself. I will never ascribe the blame of my life to you, you love me too much. That gets your faith on the go.
Acts 14:3. If you are ashamed to speak boldly, God will never confirm openly. I can never be poor and I looked like a symbol of poverty. Yes! Let them mock you, until they mock you God won’t make you. I started screaming it without a microphone. I can never be poor. One of my associates said to me that in their office in those days, they ask what bombshell has your pastor thrown today? What bombshell because they were bombshells. One of the deaconesses said Daddy you need to see the way they are talking about you in town. I said what are you afraid of?” She said please don’t say I will be rich again. I said ah! Don’t touch that area. I said in service that day, one of you was crying that I should not say I will be rich again. I will not only be rich, I will be the richest. Church Gist. I saw her and she burst into laughter. She wanted to steal my destiny “no!”. Boldly. So one day whether they were right or wrong they said I am the richest pastor in the world. I didn’t ask them to say so, they are the ones who said so but what they say I am worth is nonsense. They don’t know my worth. Nobody knows my worth. I am blessed according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Do you know the worth of that? So all these small small dollars they call millions that is not it. At the command of wealth through an addiction to covenant practice. Somebody’s story is changing. Bold speaking.
My counsellor asked me David what are you looking forward to in your marriage? I said hitch-free marriage. He said what? How do you mean? I said we have been in courtship for some years without problem. He said when you are not together it is different. It is difficult to step on each other’s toes but when you are together it is impossible. I said Sir but me and you and sitting on the seat in the same coach, why am I not stepping on your toes? He looked at me with a gaze. I said; (1.) I am not blind. (2.) I am not wicked. So he said Okay. That is the humour between my counsellor and me. It was so real to me that I can’t be quiet – hitch-free marriage. I wasn’t fighting before I got married, why should I start fighting now? When two are better than one. If I was not fighting before why should I start it now? What a career. So to all those men trying to enter into the ring with their wives, go to the Sports Council and register and fight for profit not fight for losses. Church Gist. You beat your wife and still carry her to the hospital. What gain are you making? They are looking for fighters in the council. Go there and register as a wrestler. Bold speaking is key to it. When I say one billion devils can stand on my way I know what I am talking about. I know I am seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus far above. So they are not near the place. You are also seated but you won’t say it, so you said Satan is pursuing you. Why? You look like pursuable. When we were growing up, you look at any child you want to engage in a fight with to see what he weighs. When you know that he is someone you can deal with, you just draft him out to the corner and then “you are very stupid, was it me you were talking to yesterday”. He looks like somebody you can beat.
Wake up if you are ashamed of me in this world. Mark 8:38.
Whatever you operate on these platforms, these are not all but these are vital covenants of faith, you are sure of delivery.
From now, don’t be ashamed of His word. Church Gist. Declare it boldly. They may call it arrogance, you are making your boast in the Lord. There’s a difference between making your boast in yourself and making your boast in the Lord. Whatever He tells me, I trust Him too much to say it boldly. You may laugh and mock, that’s your business. God is bound to confirm what I declare boldly by faith. So, let every one believing God for fruit of the womb be able to tell any devil, It is done.
You get back home, they say, How far? It is done!
Your business has been crawling, they say How far? You say, new order of breakthrough! It is done!
You say it boldly, God will confirm it openly!
Stand to your feet!
Give the Lord the biggest hand of praise!
Hallelujah!
Lift up your two hands everyone, give God thanks tonight, for the tables of the covenant of faith that he has delivered unto us.
Give Him praise! Give Him glory!
In Jesus Precious name.
Now listen to this: When I heard the testimony, I was wondering whether it was children from motherless babies home. So I said they should give me the paper where they wrote the testimony. So I asked one, go and check up whether they heard what they’re saying properly. He said, I counted them. I said, No, go and find out. Then the people who took testimony were already behind me. They said, That is the truth. I said, what is the truth, tell me?
A set of twins after 21 years? What do you call six? Sextuplets? Amen. Six at a time!
In all my life, I’ve seen 4. I’ve never seen 6. I don’t know if it still happens.
And I asked her, Are you the one?
She said she’s the one. She didn’t look it! How can that small body carry six children?
-Now what you never look like will be the order of happenings in your life!
By the authority of faith!
What the world can never imagine in your life will begin to happen as you depart from here!
But you see, they were engaging in Kingdom Advancement Endeavours. They were manifesting their love for God. And God stepped in to prove that their faith works.
In the Precious name of Jesus, you are returning from this mountain as another man! As another woman!
In the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus!
Lift up those two hands everyone and celebrate God for the light that has come your way tonight! Magnify God for the light that has come your way tonight!
There is nothing magical about faith. It’s a correct covenant positioning that makes it work.
Come on now, give Him thanks, give Him thanks and give Him thanks!
In Jesus Precious name we have prayed!
Get seated.
Tonight without any assumptions, the overcoming faith, the lion-mouth stopping faith, the fiery furnace quenching faith, they only apply to believers.
Whatever is born of God overcomes the world and overcomes by faith.
Faith does not work for the unsaved. Don’t assume your salvation, experience it.
Salvation is not an ideology, it’s an experience.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
ALTAR CALL.
