ENGAGING THE POWER OF PRAISE FOR FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY – Bishop David Oyedepo at Special Prophetic Service|| Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First Sunday Service

THIS IS THE CROWNING SEASON OF THE YEAR. THIS YEAR IS ENDING FOR US IN GRAND STYLE.

YOU ARE STEPPING INTO NEXT YEAR WITH LIFE, THE KIND YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

“I AM NOT YOUR LEADER, I AM YOUR SERVANT” SAYS BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO

I WAS IN THE OFFICE ON SATURDAY, AFTER SHILOH IMPARTATION. I WAS IN THE OFFICE ON SUNDAY.

I DIDN’T TAKE ANY BREAK. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CHART THE COURSE WITH GOD FOR NEXT YEAR.

YOU CAN’T SERVE GOD THE WAY I SERVE GOD AND NOT SEE WHAT I SEE. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE.

FOUR MONTHS AFTER I HAD THAT HEAVY VISITATION ON CHURCH GROWTH, WE WERE 90 PEOPLE STRONG IN CHURCH.

WE DANCED LIKE THE WHOLE CITY WAS IN THE PLACE.

IF YOU WILL GENUINELY PRAISE GOD AND REFUSE TO MURMUR LIKE YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE WHICH IS BREAKING YOU DOWN WITHOUT YOU KNOWING, THINGS WILL START CHANGING BECAUSE IT IS YOUR TURN AT LAST.

OUR GRASS CATHEDRAL WAS BUILT FOR #23,000 BUT BY 1990 WE BUILT FREDERICK K.C. PRICE HALL IN TWO WEEKS.

 IT DOESN’T TAKE TIME, IT TAKES THE APPLICATION OF THE TRUTH.

–      Bishop David Oyedepo at Special Prophetic Service|| Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First Sunday Service

Shall we lift our hands to heaven and bless God for bringing us to this last month of the year. Just two more Sundays and then we are in the new year. Thank you for bringing us to the crowning season of this year. Church Gist. Thank you for the diverse encounters at Shiloh. Thank you for change of story in different areas of our lives. Now ask Him to speak to you in person, Jesus I want to hear from you. Today I want to hear from you Jesus.

Lord Jesus thank you again for how far you have helped us since the year began. Thank you for your manifold grace experienced by every one of us. Receive our thanks in the name of Jesus. Thank you because of your word concerning the end of the year. You have covenanted to crown the year with your goodness. We expect to experience your goodness. That all our paths will drop fatness. Church Gist. We expect favour from heaven and let it be the experience of every one of us in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. This year is ending for us in grand style. No one shall sorrow or mourn. You are stepping into next year with life, the kind you have never seen before and so shall it be in the name of Jesus Christ. Speak to us again and let your name be glorified in Jesus name.

We live in a kingdom that thrives on knowledge. Isaiah 5:13. You shall know the truth and until then don’t expect to be free (John 8:32). Proverbs 4:7. The kingdom of Christ thrives on knowledge. Daniel 11:32. So we need a revelation of the covenant of God – knowing what is provided and knowing what it takes to experience them. That is what we tried to do at Shiloh 2022. To make every believer responsible for the outcome of their lives. If you won’t repent, you can’t be saved no matter how many times you are in Church. If you won’t stay in fellowship, you can’t grow from strength to strength, no matter how anointed you may think you are. Church Gist. If you don’t live on the Word you can’t live a healthy life, it is the balm in Gilead. Proverbs 4:20-22. If you are not interested in giving, then you are not interested in prosperity. There is no shortcut. If you are not interested in serving God, you are not interested in the rewards that accompany it. Everything about this journey demands that we take responsibility.

We are looking at ENGAGING THE POWER OF PRAISE FOR FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY.

Isaiah 54:1-3. I want to make you a fruitful mother and father but sing your way into it. So your breakthrough and my breakthrough requires singing our way there. Habakkuk 3:17-19. Do you want to get out of your valley? Sing your way out. We are redeemed as a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden but if you have found yourself in a valley and you must get out of that valley, you don’t murmur your way out. You can’t complain your way out, you sing your way out. It is also important for us to know that every statement of scripture is defined as the more sure word of prophecy. 2 Peter 1:19-20. So it is talking about prophetic scriptures, they are there to be fulfilled. Church Gist. They are not for us to be informed about and so, to see prophecies fulfilled one of the things to do is engage a lifestyle of praise. You can’t tell what you are doing against yourself by murmuring every day and complaining every time. You are just inviting the devil to come and destroy. 1 Corinthians 10:10.  You are inviting your enemy without knowing.

Psalm 67:5-7.

May everything murmuring and complaining in every one of us die finally today. You say ‘everything Papa says, I have not seen anything’, now how much of what this book (the Bible) says have you seen? This is more sure than anything that any prophet can proclaim. Is it not written of you here that you are redeemed for a glorious destiny? Romans 8:29-30. How much of that glory are you seeing now? That is from the mouth of God, my friend. We have been called unto glory and virtue. That is heaven’s verdict. Church Gist. How much of that are we experiencing in our lives? Isaiah 34:16. So every prophetic scripture is from the mouth of God. It is God saying, “this is my plan, this is my purpose, this is where you belong” but how many of them are we really seeing fulfilled? That is why we need to learn what it takes to see prophecy fulfilled. No complaining believer, no murmuring believer will ever see prophecies fulfilled. Well, Shiloh is over. What I expected I didn’t see it. That is why you can’t see it. Faith always calls those things that be not as though they were. Again I command every demon behind a murmuring and complaining life out of each one’s life. Heaven and earth will pass away but not a jot of my world will go unfulfilled. So His word is to be fulfilled, it shall not pass away. Matthew 24:35. But what does it take to see this happen?

To see prophetic words come to pass will start from you receiving it as the word from the Lord. Receive, believe and you have committed God to do what He says. John 1:12. Receive, believe and be empowered to become. Abraham received it, believed it and was empowered to experience it. If we are Abraham’s seed, we must do the works of Abraham – we must receive the prophetic word, believe it and then it will be our turn to experience it. James 2:18. So cheer up! If you want to see prophecies fulfilled, cheer up. It is proof that you believe it. Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God and then Isaac came. Every of your promised Isaac must arrive this time. But we must continue to water the seed of the prophetic word sown into a good heart with praise so as to bring forth fruit. Church Gist. Praise is required as God’s watering system on every prophetic seed if they must produce fruits. Proverbs 12:14. Hebrews 13:15. Sacrifice of faith continually. I can’t see but it is there, I can’t see it but God cannot lie. That is the fruit of our lips continually giving thanks to His name. Abraham believed that what God has spoken is settled in heaven. Therefore He began to water the prophetic seed with faith. Romans 4:18-20. He believed in hope, God can’t lie and then the word came to pass. So our sacrifice of praise is giving thanks to God continually and then we have the returns in our hands. No prophetic word will fall into the ground in your life anymore.

Nobody prophesied on me that I have been redeemed as a priest and a king. I got the prophetic word from the Bible. I was 16 years old when I saw royalty in my redemption. I am not a slave today. There was nothing royal about my life but I saw it here, I believed it, I received it, I began to behave like it because I know it is real and it began to be real. The word became flesh. I didn’t know I had a future but I saw it here in 1977 in Jeremiah 29:11 Revised Standard Version. “… to give you a future and a hope” I saw it here so I began to celebrate the reality of my future without anything in the physical to point to but I knew I had a future. Church Gist. God has a future for me and He has one for you. He has for all His children. The prophetic word in here is superior to any other one. It is in the book. I saw my prosperity here long before I met any of us. I saw it here by myself 40 years ago. It is becoming real gradually. I saw it here. If you don’t know how to see prophecies come to pass you never see them. May the joy of the Lord that facilitates the fulfilment of prophecy come over every one of us afresh today.

Let’s look at some prophetic lifelines laid for us in scriptures as believers.

1.    Every believer has a royal destiny.

 We don’t belong to slavery. Jesus came and rescued us from slavery to sin and Satan. He brought us into royalty. Now by redemption, we are now a royal priesthood. We are chosen to manifest the praises of God upon the earth. People should be saying to you, see what God is doing in that woman’s life. See what God is doing in that man’s life. 1 Peter 2:9. Revelation 5:9-10. So no regional or racial discrimination. Church Gist. That is God’s prophetic lifeline for every believer to reign on the earth. So I see the new year coming to terminate every trace of slavery in every one’s life because that is your prophetic heritage in redemption.

2.    We have a destiny of health and wholeness.

Jesus took our infirmity and bore our sicknesses. A translation said, “he took away our sickness and bore our pains”. A state of no sickness and no pain is a healthy state. Surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrows. He did it on our behalf so we can enjoy a super healthy lifestyle. I have a destiny of health and wholeness in Christ. Church Gist. You do! 3 John 2. God’s utmost will is for us to be in health even as our soul prospers. Therefore every torment on our health is declared off today. It doesn’t belong to you because you belong to Christ.

3.    We have a wealthy destiny in redemption.

2 Corinthians 8:9. Redemption has brought us to our wealthy place from the pit of lack and want. All we need to do is to know what is required of us and as we keep doing that we are praising God for His faithfulness to confirm His word. What does it take for instance to enjoy a glorious destiny? Now listen to me. Proverbs 3:35. Delightsome obedience in putting His word to work is what makes wise. Psalm 41:1, 112:1-3. Delightsome obedience to the commandments of scripture is what is required to access our glorious destiny. Our destiny of health and wholeness requires sustainable word consumption. That is where our health is secured. Proverbs 4:20-22. Jeremiah 15:16. Proverbs 17:22. Church Gist. We can’t experience health and wholeness without a sustainable commitment to word consumption. Feeding on the word. We have the story of John G. Lake in those days in South Africa. Years back I mean, there was this plague that came to town, they call it bubonic plague. People foaming in the mouth and if you contact the foam you are dead, you will catch the virus. He was using his hand to wipe off the foam from the victims. They tested why he was not infected or contaminated under the microscope and they found out that all the viruses were dead that was taken from his hand. His body has been divinized. God’s word has eaten him up. Divine nature resides in the Word. So the more Word we consume, the more divinized we become and we are immune to sickness and diseases by it. Don’t open your Bible only on Sunday, you might be opening the door to germs and viruses. You can get healed in a service but to sustain your health, you need the word! Man shall not live by bread alone. Matthew 4:4. This is so important. It is not that you know what the plan is, you must know what it takes to get in there. When you receive this and you begin to praise God, you are committing God’s faithfulness to perform His word. Praise God!

There is no sign that you receive and believe it without doing what He says to do. There is no sign that you receive and believe it without doing what He says to do. I receive the word, okay! Have you repented? No! I am thinking about it. Then you can’t be saved. We have a wealthy destiny in Christ but He told us what to do. I will only empower you for wealth on the platform of my covenant. Not your idea, my covenant. Deuteronomy 8:18. It is His covenant! We have to come on the platform of His covenant to be empowered for wealth. That covenant is the covenant of seedtime and harvest. Genesis 8:20-22. He swore upon the sacrifice of Noah not to destroy the earth as He did before, Now everyone determines whether He is destroyed or not. So we can only be empowered for wealth on the platform of His covenant, not our ideas. His covenant of seedtime and harvest. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8. So giving is sowing. So it is not something you wait and say I know it will happen someday. It won’t happen any day until we start doing what is commanded and sustain in doing it. Nobody has ever seen a dime from you in your life. Is that how to prosper? He blesses us so as to make us a blessing to the world around us. Some fellows are hanging around your cell, their children are not going to school. Primary School for God’s sake, Public School for God’s sake. Church Gist. You can’t even feel that there is a way to help out. No! Only givers ever prosper in the kingdom. Forget it! Even Papa lay hands on me. Can Papa break the covenant? If Papa lays hands on you and Copeland lays hands on you, Oral Roberts came down from heaven and lay hands on you. It won’t make a difference. These are prosperity prophetic agents on the earth if they lay hands and legs on you. It won’t make a difference. Nobody can break the covenant, you better brace up. The word you don’t receive will never germinate. Luke 8:11. The word you don’t believe, there is no point singing. Singing won’t bring it, it won’t make anything you have not sown to grow. This is so important, it is not the Church doctrine. This is God’s agenda. I have a prosperity plan for you but it will be delivered on the platform of my covenant. You come on it if you want it. If you are interested in it come on it. He showed me this 40 years ago and 40 years after I am still in it enjoyably, delightsomely without having to beg for one day in my life. There are many in this Church on that frequency today. Many! Many! Unfortunately, some also retired and things began to go down. You will not retire. You will not retire from following the covenant of your Father.

Again, we are redeemed to enjoy a good old age. What do you mean? Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law to bring us under the blessings of Abraham. So whatever we see in Abraham is now our right in redemption. Genesis 25:8. Abraham, our father, enjoyed a good old age and full of years. Galatians 3:13-14. So now we are entitled to a good old age in God’s redemptive agenda for His people. How do we get there? Exodus 23:25-26. Psalm 92:12. So fruit-bearing, serving God and His interest secures a good old age not walking out on God my friend. “I don’t have time for that”. Serving God guarantees a good old age and so many platforms for it. Church Gist.  Engaging in soul-winning, maintaining an effectual prayer altar, inviting people to Church (1 Samuel 2:30), paying the way for people to get to Church. You wind up your car with only you inside and there are members of your cell that don’t have a way to church. You just look down on everybody. You are not going far, Sir. It is time to wake up. There are many people here who are equipped to buy a bus for their business and use it for church on Sunday but they won’t. How can somebody be riding my bus? Who gave you the bus in the first place? Life is all about a clean disposition to God. There are people here in this Church who will be more than 10,000 to God as they keep serving God and the interest of His kingdom with delight.

How many have heard me say I am not surprised where we are, grace brought us there. I would have been surprised if we are not there. You can’t be doing what I tell you to do and I will fail to bring you where I say. He can’t fail. God can’t fail. I was driving home in those early days here and I saw some buses standing and I said what is happening? They said they don’t have a driver. I said I will drive. I drove the buses. I am President and Founder here, what are you talking about? If I have the driver’s license it qualifies me for it. So it is not about walking around and looking down on people and trying to pose. I am not your leader, I am your servant. I was in the office on Saturday, after Impartation. I was in the office on Sunday. I have been coming around ever since trying to chart the course with God for next year. What are you looking for? I am looking for God. You can’t serve God the way I serve God and not see what I see. It’s impossible. You can’t serve God the way I serve God and not experience what I experience. It is impossible. God is no respecter of persons. Don’t see me as an entertainer, don’t see me as a motivational speaker, I am a prophet. I am bearing the mind of God to you. Church Gist. It is time to renew your relationship with God. You can’t be dedicated in truth and not be distinguished. All dedicated saints end up supernaturally distinguished in life and you are the next. Many destinies are tied to you. You will not disappoint God with your life. Many will feed under your hands, by the grace of heaven, you will not disappoint God. It is over to you. Where they pamper you is not where you should go, you can’t grow where they pamper you. You have to be instructed. May these instructions continue to lead to change of positions in our lives.

Whatever God said in His word is the truth, where you stand determines whether it comes to pass or not. Where we stand as individuals determines whether it comes to pass or not. Can anybody truly repent and not be saved? He wants all men saved. So you repent today, He saves you today. He can’t say it is too much today, I can’t save any more people. The day you repent is the day He saves. The day you decide to go for the covenant requirement is the day things begin to change.  God is no respecter of persons. In the year coming we are going to have an army of men and women, the kind the world has never seen before. Church Gist. ‘They are chasing after me’ you be chasing after God, every evil will get off your back. Psalm 34:10. Matthew 6:33. Seek ye first my kingdom and all these things others are dying for, I will be adding it to you without you having to ask for it. There is no second thing to seek, you just go after me and goodness and mercy will keep going after you. In the year ahead only goodness and mercy will keep coming after you. A good old age is your portion and is the portion of your children. No one young person shall be buried in your family anymore.

We must expect all the prophecies released at Shiloh to come through in our lives as we maintain a vibrant attitude of praise as Abraham did. Romans 4:17-21. He believed in the spoken word. Everybody said it is over, Abraham said I believe. Against hope, I believe. This same Abrahamic system will bring home your Isaac. I believe in His word, I believe in His prophet sent to bring His word to come and no matter what is happening around me, I won’t stop going from strength to strength. After I had that heavy visitation of Church Growth. We were still growing and God was very faithful. By 4 months after that visitation, we were 90 people strong in Church. We danced like the whole city was in the place. This God is good! We were 90 when those men like Bishop Aremu, Abioye and others were ordained deacons in church. We were 90 people. We had 7 deacons to manage the crowd. You say what is wrong with these people, nothing is wrong you should ask what is right with us. He taught us how to do it. Church Gist. You made a profit of 10,000 and you say what is this? He said Okay, look for the next. Look for the next one on your own. Our Grass Cathedral was built for 23,000. We bought ‘zanna’ (grass in Hausa)  from Funtua to Zaria, everywhere to build it. 23,000! But by 1990 we built Frederick K.C. Price Hall in two weeks. It doesn’t take time, it takes the application of the truth. If you will genuinely praise God and refuse to murmur like you have always done which is breaking you down without you knowing. Things will start changing because it is your turn at last. I said it is your turn at last. It has been some people’s turn over and again but finally, it is your turn. A peaceful, joyous, harmonious family life is your turn at last. A supernatural breakthrough order of experience is your turn at last.

Young people there is no new generation truth. There is no new age Bible. It is the same thus saith the Lord. You don’t do what those that are ahead of you had to do to experience the kind of breakthrough they have, you can’t experience it. All these games of turning things into child’s play. People are just playing games in the name of going to Church, that won’t help anymore. Core scriptures, old rugged cross, still defining testimonies of men and women today. It is the thing we need. A life of honour and dignity is the thing we need, not dressing half-naked in the name of the new generation. Church Gist. No Bible no nothing, chatting in church. Where are you going? I got saved at 15, nobody ever asked me to be quiet in Church. No! I was never heard discussing with people in the church in my life. Nobody here will end up in regret. The pursuit of God is what secures every great destiny. A heart panting after God cannot miss His portion on earth. People who will change the course of events in this nation are in this church. Young men and women who are too smart to run away but are bound by a commitment to provide solutions are rising in their numbers.

Lift your right hand to heaven and thank God for the light because God’s prophetic agenda will come to pass in your life with speed. It is your turn at last. Give Him thanks. God is out to redecorate my life. My story is changing, it is my turn at last.

–    The year 2023 shall be a year of new things in your life. Not just new, my agenda is for the path of the justified to shine more and more. Church Gist. So the year 2023 shall be a year of better things in your life.

–    Everything about your life gets better.

–    Everything about your home gets better.

–    Everything about your business and career gets better.

–    Everything about your walk with God gets better.

–    Everything about your spiritual life gets better.

–    Your delightsome obedience gets higher.

–    Murmuring and complaining that is damaging many people’s destinies is completely off your life.

–    From this time onward and all through 2023, the sound of joy only shall be heard in your habitation.

My wife is here, you may choose to ask her if I ever complained about anything to her since this ministry began. One ministry was attacking us for seven years. One day my wife said she heard that somebody was talking against us, I said they don’t understand me. She said he was saying something. I said can you be on the TV and not say something, you pay to say something. It ended there Sir not ‘can you see what this man is saying against me’. He has his ministry and I have my ministry. Each one is facing his assignment. Church Gist. Somebody insults you, you now went home to tell your wife “can you see the way that man, a member of our unit said I am not wise”. Are you wise by what you are doing? To injure the heart of your wife is that wisdom? I am not going to that church again. Good luck on your way to the shrine. We never met in our council meeting to say “can you see what somebody is saying about us on TV?”. Not once!

–    May you live above murmuring and complaining from today.

Have you ever spoken to me on the phone in your life without laughter?

–    May your laughter be settled for life from henceforth.

Do you know why? He that sits in heaven shall laugh. When you are saved, you are now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Church Gist. What do they do there? They laugh. Do you know how many people are insulting God this particular Sunday, God you are a fool, God you don’t exist and God is still laughing.

–    May the laughter grace that accompanies redemption be every one’s portion from now.

–    I curse everything that depresses everyone’s life.

You find people always laughing, it doesn’t mean they don’t have challenges, they are only smarter than their challenges. Although the fig tree may not blossom yet I will rejoice. Church Gist. It is the only way to make it blossom. It can’t blossom without my rejoicing. I will rejoice in the Lord. Grace to be smarter than your challenges, receive it now.

For the one on the line for miracle children, Hannah has to rejoice for Samuel to come. Grace to keep your joy alive and well and deeply rooted in the heart, receive it now. Your breakthrough and my breakthrough are not in view without singing our way out of breakdowns. Church Gist. Everyone on the line for a miracle marriage as the Lord liveth whose I am whom I serve, 2023 will be your year of settlement.

Every breakdown business and career, grace to sing your way through to your next level breakthrough, receive it right now.

The Lord told me while I was in the closet, therefore put up the Cross Over Night where I will have you speak to the destiny of my people and wash their feet to their high places. We don’t have problems with changes in this church. When God instructs, we just change gears. We are having the Crossover Night, it is 10pm and it will cover for the New Year Service because we are ending in the morning. Get ready for a prophetic release. Things will be happening right on the spot. I am privileged to be one of the messengers of the covenant. Church Gist. I am not the only one we are very many but I am privileged to be one of them. I can always show you by what He shows me on how to get at God for any issue of your life. So come prepared. There is nothing He has shown me that has not come to pass before. So get prepared. Everything He says concerning you will come to pass in your life.

Go home with a brand new garment of praise. Christmas is a season for new garments and all the tailors are busy in town right now. Church Gist. So go home with a brand new garment of praise that will destroy every air of depression, every air of complaining and murmuring and open up your destiny.

Go in peace.

All the ones who travelled have arrived there safely.

–    All those who will travel, you are going in peace and you are returning with joy. Church Gist. All of us who are staying back are staying with joy and staying in peace.

–    No one ends this year in sorrow. No one ends this year mourning.

Don’t eat away the agenda of God this season. God has given us tentacles around the world, almost every village in this country has this church in the place. Be part of the fellowship with the saints. Ensure to remain tied to Jesus wherever you may find yourself.  Online emphasis of worship is a trap of the devil, don’t be trapped by it. Don’t go on spiritual vacation, it is a risk. Don’t open the door for the devil to arrest you. Just stay actively alive in your walk with God and watch how this year will end in grand style. It is time to sit before the Lord and watch what He will have you do in the year ahead. Sit before the Lord in what He will help you do in promoting His kingdom. Settle down. Church Gist. For the first time for many of us, settle down and budget your life for the year ahead. Let’s take responsibility. It always works. Any faith that seeks to make God absolutely responsible for the outcome of our lives is an irresponsible faith. We have to take responsibility. We have to be sure we are on key with God.

–    In the name of Jesus, no waste of time, energy and resources in your life next year.

–    Everything shall fall into place. There shall be wasted plans this year.

That young man in his testimony said God unveiled a business plan as it were in a video. Has God changed? He is still moving people forward who choose to come with Him. Church Gist. He is still moving people forward who choose to align with Him. God will show you the pathway to your next level breakthrough before this year is over in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

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