BENSON IDAHOSA WAS SENT TO EMBOLDEN MY STAND FOR GOD. WHAT A BLESSING THAT IS TODAY.
KENNETH E. HAGIN WAS SENT TO HELP ME. HE HELPED MY FAITH TO GROW AND I GOT THE MANTLE OF THE SPIRIT OF FAITH FROM HIM.
T.L. OSBORN WAS SENT TO OPEN MY EARS TO HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT AND WHAT AN ASSET THAT IS TO MY LIFE TODAY.
KENNETH COPELAND WAS SENT TO OPEN MY EYES TO THE SECRETS OF KINGDOM PROSPERITY AND WHAT A BLESSING TO MY LIFE AND TO THIS MINISTRY TODAY.
I GOT A SWORN BLESSING FROM EACH OF THEM. PLEASE POSITION YOURSELF TO ACCESS HELP
EVERY TRUE PROPHET IS SENT AS A HELPER NOT AS A USURPER. NO TRUE PROPHET LOOKS FOR WHAT ANY MAN HAS, EVERY TRUE PROPHET LOOKS FOR WHAT TO ADD TO EVERY MAN.
LET’S BE COMMITTED TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH SO WE CAN STOP GROANING.
WHERE THE CHURCH HAS A PROBLEM TODAY IS THAT MANY OF US ARE NOT CURRENT IN OUR WALK WITH JESUS.
YOU HEAR SOMEONE SAY “I GOT BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST IN 1921” OKAY, GOOD LUCK! WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN?
WE MUST DESIRE TO GROW IN THE ANOINTING.
YOU CAN IMAGINE IF I AM STILL OPERATING IN THE ANOINTING I WAS OPERATING WITH WHEN JESUS CALLED ME, I WOULD BE GONE BY NOW.
WE MUST ENDEAVOUR TO BE CURRENT. AN ACADEMIC OF TODAY THAT IS NOT COMPUTER LITERATE WILL BE IRRELEVANT.
EVERY SINGLE SECURITY MAN IN MY ENVIRONMENT IS BORN AGAIN, BAPTISED IN WATER AND BY THE SPIRIT.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on UNLOCKING THE SUPERNATURAL 3 at Third Covenant Day of Open Doors Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland|| First Sunday Service
That which we have heard, which we have seen, which our eyes have looked upon and which our hands have handled, declare we unto you. You first hear, then you see, you look well to see well enough. Then you can command. Church Gist. In the precious name of Jesus, whatever anyone lacks to get you on this path of the supernatural, may each one’s ears be opened to hear and may each one’s eyes be opened to see and may you end up having it in command in the name of Jesus Christ.
The work of the house of the Lord was seized by force and by the power of the enemy. Ezra 4:20-24. Then the Prophet came forth and began to prophesy and there was a stirring and the building of the house of the Lord began and there were the prophets helping them. May you receive a help ordained for you today. Every true prophet is sent as a helper not as a usurper. No true prophet looks for what any man has, every true prophet looks for what to add to every man. Church Gist. That is the kind of prophets we have in our ministry. Prophets are not sent to people to help them. They are sent to whosoever they are sent to all through scriptures. Moses was sent to Egypt to bail them out of captivity. Elijah was sent to the house of the widow of Zarephath to rescue her from famine. Elisha was in the house of the Shunamite woman and her dead womb opened up. The devil tried to kill the child and the child came back to life. Prophets all through ages are sent as helpers to whatsoever they are sent. Church Gist. True prophets don’t look for human help, they are help from above. So when you see me crying, I am crying to see you helped. You have gone around collecting prayers enough. It is high time you took command. By the end of this month, no one here shall remain a prayer project.
Heavenly Father send us your help today as individuals and move us forward.
Kenneth E. Hagin was sent to help me. I was open enough to receive the help. He helped my faith to grow and I got the mantle of the Spirit of faith from him. There is no help I rendered him, he was sent to help me. T.L. Osborn was sent to open my ears to hear the voice of the Spirit and what an asset that is to my life today. Kenneth Copeland was sent to open my eyes to the secrets of Kingdom prosperity and what a blessing to my life and to this ministry today. Benson Idahosa was sent to embolden my stand for God. What a blessing that is today. I got a sworn blessing from each of them. Please position yourself to access help. God brought you here because you need help and He sends His help through His prophets to bail you out of unwanted situations. Church Gist. Somebody from being a driver became a regional director of a company. Employed as a driver and just hit the top by the help of God. God will help you. Next Sunday, we are not just talking about how to secure open doors but how to sustain open doors for life. How to enjoy open doors of favour for life. That is the last part of our Open Doors Month and it shall be the beginning of open doors for your life.
UNLOCKING THE SUPERNATURAL 3.
John 3:3-8. To be born of the Spirit means to be born again. That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Every born again child of God is born as a sign and a wonder to his world. Isaiah 8:18. The supernatural is simply a product of our obedience of faith. Whatever he tells you to do, do it and the supernatural will be the end product. “Fill the water pots with water,” He told them at the Wedding in Cana of Galilee and as they did, it was turned to wine. Church Gist. “Go to the pool called Siloam and wash,” He told a man born blind, he went and washed and came back seeing. John 14:21. So the manifestation of the supernatural is a product of our obedience of faith. John 1:8. John 2:3-11. But the knowledge of who we are is what determines what we can do. That knowledge can be acquired from the Word. You have to be born again to see it.
Interestingly, you can be in Church for 10 years and not know the meaning of new birth. New birth is not about being in Church, it is about being in Christ. New birth is not about religious activities, it is about a new way of life. Walking in the newness of life. New birth is only accessible today by genuine repentance from the things that displease God in our lives. Church Gist. Which is missing today. Genuine repentance and accepting Christ as our Lord and Saviour leads to new birth and we begin to now grow in the faith to build our stand in God.
Now the big question is who am I?
1. I am redeemed as an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ. Romans 8:17
Every child of God is an heir of God. Why? He is a child of God and He is the King of Kings so he is an heir. Our Father is the King of Kings. I just returned from home yesterday, we were doing remembrance of our forefathers in our royal dynasty that began in 1908, my own maternal grandfather reigned in 1918. We had a very great time. This is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. So we have a Kingdom royal blood in us. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. That means we share the same authority as Christ when we are born again, we only have to grow and develop our spiritual lives to operate in that realm. It is in us potentially. Church Gist. We carry that in truth. My prayer is that in the name of Jesus, every one of us will come awake to this reality. You are not here to struggle for survival. A son or daughter of the president walks with some degree of liberty in his father’s country. Your Father is the King of all the earth. So you have some immunity on the earth. So you have heavenly immunity about your life against all satanic assaults. I have been redeemed as an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. Every effort to destroy Christ was impossible. Because he had an immunity about his life. No one took my life from me, I laid it down by myself. You can’t take it. I laid it down for the sins of the world but I am sure I will take it back again and He did that at resurrection. By this royal blood accompanied with royal immunity, I declare you an indestructible entity. Anyone that goes after you to hurt you will be hurt in your place. That makes the supernatural our natural lifestyle in redemption.
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2. We have been redeemed to command dominion over death. Death shall be grossly humiliated in these last days as God’s people begin to rise up to take their place of authority over death. Deuteronomy 30:19. So it is a choice, it can’t be forced on you. We have the covenant right to choose to live. Someone got involved in a boat incident, the boat capsized. Jesus, I refuse to die. An invisible hand came down and picked him above the water until a rescue boat came and lifted him inside and disappeared. Jesus, I refuse to die. 1 Corinthians 15:26. Is that not the end of time? No! Isaiah 25:6-8. There is no mountain in heaven. He will destroy the face of covering that makes you feel that death has a final say. When I was 50 I tried to catalog the number of deaths I had died but not dead. He will swallow death in victory. I did a seminar in 1983 ‘Victory over Death’. Church Gist. What you don’t know you don’t know. What you won’t learn, you won’t know and what you don’t know you will pay for it. Fulfilling Your Days was originally captioned ‘Victory Over Death,’ but people were scared to read it. There are people who are here today who have never read ‘Victory Over Death’ or ‘Fulfilling Your Days’. They have never read it once and it is not common in town. You don’t find authors writing on it because they haven’t found it. Church Gist. I found it. If the devil could kill me, he would have killed me a long time ago. We belong to the class of people that witches beg to let them live. It is all light. Light will never run away from darkness, it is darkness that will clear the way for light. You better get lighted. Get lighted, my friend. From 1983 till now, how many years is that? 40! Stupid death! Oh Death where is thy sting? Oh, Grave where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin and the power of the grave is the law. Christ has abolished both on our behalf. Therefore in the name of the Lord, Jesus, no untimely death shall be recorded in your Household any longer.
Hebrews 2:14-15. The devil used to have the power of death but he lost it at resurrection. He was killing people at will but at the resurrection, he lost it. Now he can’t kill but he can inflict with the fear of death and when the fear of death comes on you, death takes over. It is said in WildLife Science that every time a lion roars and the prey gets inflicted with fear, they secrete certain hormones in their bloodstreams that the lions smell to know where the prey is. So fear is the bait of the destroyer. The things Job greatly feared came upon him. No matter how anointed you are, you live in fear, you are a victim. The only cure for fear is faith and faith won’t jump on you. You have to build it. I have seen death oh, severally but there is something inside me that knows it is too small. Church Gist. Not here! Build up lest you become a victim. Does it mean that those who die don’t have faith? I don’t know. I am telling you how to have it. 1 John 5:4. In the precious name of Jesus, no one here will bury his children. No one here will die young. Can I recommend it? Go and grab the book, Fulfilling Your Days and try to track the weakness of death. It is your turn. Revelation 1:18. Satan had the key, he lost it. Jesus got it at the resurrection, now He has it and He is holding it in your favour. He is holding that key in your favour. This assembly, The Winners Family Worldwide will have the oldest saints in this generation. People will climb here at 120 and say ‘I just turned 120 last week. I want to thank the Lord for my life’.
How then do I unlock what I carry? We discover from scripture that the Holy Ghost is the Grand Commander of the Supernatural. Joel 2:28-30. Great days are here. Not all these wonders of ‘I got a job’ blood, fire, pillars of smoke heralding the presence of God’s people. You step into a place and all the devils begin to shiver. The Holy Ghost came in Acts 2. Chapter 3, He began to blow hot with manifestations of signs and wonders and diverse miracles. The crippled man at the Beautiful Gate got up and walked, 5000 men were added to the Church for that reason. By Chapter 5, all kinds of wonders. Peter’s shadow was healing the sick, diverse manifestations of signs and wonders adding multitudes to the Church. The Holy Ghost is the mastermind of the supernatural. Church Gist. However, we must continue to desire an increase in our level of anointing. Anointing is in levels. We saw Power come on the day of Pentecost as God said. Acts 1:8. The Holy Ghost came in Acts 2:1-4 and by Acts 4:32-33, they prayed and with great power. So they had graduated from power to great power. That is where the Church today has a problem. “I got baptized in the Holy Ghost in 1921.” Good luck! You can imagine filling your car on January 1 and you have not refuelled it till now and you want to be using your car. Church Gist. The car is flat. No more fuel. They graduated from power to great power. In Luke 4:14, Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit and in Luke 9, they saw the mighty power of God. He has moved from power to mighty power. Luke 9:35, 43. We must desire to grow in the anointing. You can imagine if I was still operating in the anointing I was operating with when Jesus called me. I would be gone. We must endeavour to be current. You can imagine an academic that is not computer literate? He is off the scene. We must endeavour to be current. It took great power to silence the opposition and they did and took Jerusalem by storm.
We saw how Christ commanded the supernatural all the way because God gave Him the Holy Spirit without measure. John 3:34. And as the Father has sent Him so has He sent us. He wants to bring us to that level. We saw the measures of the anointing in Ezekiel 47:1-5. Unfortunately, many of us just got to the brink of the water. That is Holy Ghost baptism. You need a thousand cubits to get to the ankle and you are at the brink, you think you are already swimming. People think they are already swimming. You say come out, the devil says I won’t come out. Jesus I know, Paul I know, who are you? At what level of authority? They were casting out one devil in Ilorin and the demon possessed got up and gave one of them a big slap. Church Gist. One night I took a notorious witch into the bush. We drove off into a no man’s land. I have never been there myself. Whatever I tell you to do, begin to do it. Lie down flat. I gave some brutal instructions. Now stand up and walk into that water. He said I will die, die now! I said why can’t the devil come here to help you. He said as long as you are here, he can’t come. You are going up. All these people chasing you in the night and you are jumping through rivers, it is enough. You should sleep when you sleep. In the precious name of Jesus, every satanic harassment on your life comes to an end finally. Church Gist. Just take responsibility, don’t wait for someone to take it for you. A coach can coach a wrestler but the wrestler has to wrestle. He won’t let you wrestle with him, he has wrestled before. That is what made him a coach, you can’t beat him again. But if you are not willing to wrestle, good luck. Lord, empower me to next levels. This level I am is not good enough, empower me to next level. He will.
Somebody has a boutique in Kaduna and it wasn’t selling. I was going to the airport and he said I should please stop by. So I stopped by and then I touched the clothes and said ‘Now, go!’. The following day, somebody came in and bought everything. What if he has that anointing by himself? You can’t be sitting down at a point and the devil is just keeping you on the floor. It is open to everybody. Church Gist. There is no special anointing for apostles or prophets. How much more will the Lord give the Holy Ghost to all them that ask him. Luke 11:13. Let’s be committed to spiritual growth so we can stop groaning.
How do I unlock what I carry? We must recognize that we have the authority to command the supernatural. Mark 16:16-20. They were conscious that they had the authority and they went forth. The authority to command signs and wonders is based on our commitment to serve God’s interest. Luke 9:1. It is power to… Not power to keep, power to serve. He gave them power and authority. You can pray for power but authority has to be conferred. You can’t pray for authority, it is conferred. Luke 9:6. That is why signs and wonders multiply in this Church, there are too many people genuinely on the go for Christ, serving God on the prayer altar. That my daughter said concerning her husband, ‘Let his service speak for him’ and God restored his life back. Let his service speak for him. You can’t be serving God and not know. You can’t be having fun and not know. Let his service speak for him and it did. Talking about serving God in terms of praying kingdom advancement prayers, going after souls to the point of establishment, giving to the course of the gospel. Church Gist. Many will be so supernaturally empowered for wealth that the wealth makes them a surprise to themselves by their tireless, delightsome investment in kingdom advancement opportunities. They just jump at it, they are not looking here and there, it soothes them. Colgate began his business in the U.K. before they had to flee to America. It was a soap business. The business failed. So he ran into a Christian brother, he is a Christian too, who took him to Bible Study and then he was shown that Jacob vowed at 10 per cent of all that God will give him. So he stepped into that covenant and everybody now uses Colgate toothpaste globally. His giving led him to 80 per cent of his profit. That is empowerment, my friend. You can’t be empowered for wealth without empowerment to give. Empowerment to give is what culminates in empowerment for wealth. It is not accumulating, it will dry up. In 1984, I told our Leaders that now we are all at the same level understand what I am saying so when some of us take off in the air you will say we don’t know what they are using. Let me tell you what I am using, I am sold out to God. We were believing God for 3000 naira. I said folks if I had this money, God won’t need to ask me to give it. Now we are all at the same level, understand what I am saying. I wish they did. Some didn’t, they got angry. There were only six of us in that room. Church Gist. My first investment in rural church building when we launched it here was 100 churches. Not 3000 naira. All our sons and daughters have their own. So to be angry with someone God has blessed is a curse. He said ‘I will curse him that curseth thee.’ He doesn’t need to know. He will just give you a dirty slap and your mouth will bend to one corner. When you find a man and a woman that God blesses, stay clear. Stay clear lest you incur the anger of God who blesses him. Nothing empowers like a commitment to serve God’s interest on the earth. Authority! Power! Is the exclusive reserve of those who are committed to serving God and the interest of His kingdom. Church Gist. God is more than enough! When He empowers you, he empowers you. When God empowers a man no devil can disempower him. All the forces of hell can’t stop the prosperity of this church as long as we keep on the covenant pathway. All these ‘one woman in my house’ there is nobody who doesn’t have one woman in his house. There is one short man and a tall woman in every house. You say somebody stole your glory, where did you keep it? We didn’t see the glory before, you can only steal what exists. Where was the glory before that somebody stole? They will see the glory of God in your life. Beginning from this season, they will not mistake you among them anymore. Authority is conferred based on our commitment to serve. You can pray for power, don’t pray for authority, it won’t answer. At one point, the Pharisees asked Jesus by what authority do you do these things? You can’t have authority without the enemies knowing. Matthew 21:22-27. Matthew 13:34-36.
The good news is that the difference between you and the world will be so clear this end time because everything will be responding to you at a supernatural frequency. Matthew 28:19-20. There is no genuine commitment to Christ and the interest of His kingdom that does not launch a believer into the realm of the supernatural because of his manifest presence. Acts 10:38. Authority is not conferred on children but on adults. Isaiah 9:6. Galatians 4:1-2. Let’s be committed to spiritual growth. It is what determines the level that we can be entrusted with. You never find an adolescent on a throne in any village. Who went to school and came back to sit on the throne, a Primary 4 pupil. No! Jesus operated in the consciousness of the authority given to Him by the Father. John 5:25-27. John 11:21-26, 38-44. Authority on display. In the precious name of Jesus, no devil will shut your mouth when it is time to exercise authority. Now, watch! Every time you hear me say except God has not sent me you should know I am drawing from the authority given to me by the Sender. When God sends a man who can send him back. Daniel 4, he said when He stretches forth His hand who can turn Him back? That is when the jungle matures, you find me saying ‘Except God has not sent me’. How dare you? Where are you coming from? Jesus told me on June 24th 1996, “Stand for what I have called you to do. I am with you always.” So I am not talking about a man just roaming around the street, I am talking about a man in active partnership with Jesus. I saw it in the Bible and I heard it with my ears when He spoke. He told me what and what and what, I am with you always. He is also with you. Church Gist. You only need to know that you are serving God commits His presence. He said “Maintain a strong focus,” July 19th 1996 “on the Commission. Behold I am with you always.” What else do you need? “I have sent you…” – July 6th 1997, “as a shepherd to your generation. As you pastor this one church, the world will become your parish for I have appointed you.” Who can disappoint anyone God has appointed? “Caution! I have appointed you to serve your generation, not your nation. Your nation is just part of it. Stand over this church with me as you begin to reap the overripe harvest of the world together.” Now you can’t tell how many pastors around the world today are in this service in preparation for their own service. To the glory of God. We had the International Ministers Conference just last week or the week before, ministers from 92 nations registered. Do you know why? ‘I have appointed you to serve your generation.’ You can’t appoint yourself. You can’t wake up and say I am the Federal Minister of Agriculture. You can’t appoint yourself.
On this Covenant Day of Open Doors. First, recognise that you are redeemed to enjoy open doors as a way of life. Revelation 3:7-8. You have kept my word, you have not denied my name. You are not hiding your identity. You are coming from Church, you are hiding your Bible. Nonsense! You are praying and somebody knocks at the door ‘What are you doing?’ I was talking to my wife. How? Do you know why God likes me? You can’t make me cower when it comes to Jesus. No man on this earth can make me cower. Not yesterday, not two days ago. No man! You better get openly identified, that is how to maintain an open door. You have little strength but you have kept my Word, you have not denied my name. “Where are you coming from? I went towards Ota.” Say I am coming from Church. I am a bona fide Winner. Born, bred, buttered Winner. When God becomes your helper, no agent of the devil can dishelp you. Church Gist. From home to villages, to the next country, I am a Jesus man in and out. He is enough for me. He is enough for me. The man of Galilee is enough for me. You better wake up. What are you looking for that you put Jesus in your pocket? In 1990, a governor gave me an envelope and I said I hope it is your money. I don’t need government money. He said in my honour, it is mine. Who can give me today what God is giving me? You have a company today and you can’t pray in your company. What kind of company is that? And you are the owner. God will leave it to you. They are not all Christians. How did they get there? If they are not, lead them to Christ. Are you, not a Winner? Every genuine Winner is a soul winner. Church Gist. Every single security man in my premises is born again, baptized in water and the Holy Ghost. You say ‘this thing is tough oh’ that is all. That is what you need to do to enjoy open doors. You have little strength but keep my word and never deny my name. One with God is an ever-winning majority. You are going to begin to see new things. Anybody that tries to shut a door against you, seven will open. At the shutting of one door, seven will open.
Isaiah 45:1-3. The anointing is one of the instruments God uses to enforce open doors. To open impossible doors to His people. That is the enormous power that the anointing of the Holy Ghost carries. For example, as Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit in Luke 4:14, his fame spread abroad. Anointing opens impossible doors. Many of us sitting down here today will be having your names in places you least imagine. The apostles were in hiding for the fear of the Jews but when the Holy Ghost came upon them, impossible doors began to open for them. Church Gist. Peter stood up as the Rock and 3000 religious people turned their life to the Lord. Next day 5000. Acts 5:28 – they took over the whole of Jerusalem. That is the door opening power of the anointing. God gave us this land but He used the anointing to subdue the enemies there. The barriers of your way forward shall be removed because of the anointing. It shall be to every one of us the dawning of a new day. Any devil that seeks to close a door at you, God will close a door at them.
The new anointing can only be put into a new wineskin. The newness of life is a covenant requirement for the anointing. You can’t change your level without changing your lifestyle. Proverbs 1:23. Young people be careful, today sin has been redefined and justified. So you find anointing dry young people walking the streets just guessing. Without a turning, it is not your turn. There must be a genuine turning from the things that displease God to access the next level anointing. Luke 5:37-38. To move anybody forward beyond the quality of his spiritual life is to destroy him and God does not tempt anybody with evil. If you must step up, clean up. Clean up to step up. Church Gist. Next level anointing demands a thirst and a longing. Isaiah 44:3-5. The anointing decorates destinies that turn individuals to wonders to the world around them. You need to know how many people are listening to our messages who are not believers. It is a crowd of people. One top leader in this country, he is not a Christian. He told one of his proteges ‘There is one man you must listen to if you want to keep your career alive – Bishop David Oyedepo’. He has kept on with it. He might be in this service now or the second service. Your life becomes an attraction.
– No one will end up a byword and a proverb in this Church.
– As the Lord lives, God’s glory on this Church will reflect freely on your life.
– Nothing goes down in your life anymore.
– Your days of ups and downs are finally over.
Anointing Ministration
– The content of your bottle is declared the Holy anointing oil. It shall deliver its mission!
– By this anointing, I command the opening of doors in your life!
– As this anointing comes on you, I decree the shattering of every iron gate on your path!
– I pray for the quickening of your understanding to grasp things of the Spirit with ease and to be brought to the remembrance of the same when required.
– As this oil comes on you, every mark of the devil on you shall return to where they came from.
– Everyone appointed to death, the appointment goes to the person who appointed.
– Just as nothing could stand in the way of this Commission for 42 years. By this anointing, no gang up of hell will succeed on your path!
– I pray that this anointing will turn you loose to serve God continually!
– Receive today grace for tireless, productive and fruitful stewardship.
– May your crave for next level empowerment be increased.
– The burden of sickness, disease, crisis in homes is rolled off and yoke is destroyed in your life!
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