SOME YOUNG PEOPLE SAY, “I AM AN APOSTLE,” AND EVERYBODY SPEAKS WITH AUTHORITY THAT THEY DON’T HAVE – THAT’S WHY PEOPLE ARE GETTING OFF THE FAITH
THE TASK IS THE MINISTRY; THE TITLE IS NOT THE ISSUE. MIND YOUR STEWARDSHIP IN THE VINEYARD
THERE IS NO WEEK MINISTERS FROM OTHER NATIONS DON’T COME HERE TO APPLY FOR ME TO BE THEIR FATHER IN THE MINISTRY
LEADERSHIP IS NOT BY CARRYING TITLES AROUND, IT IS BY IMPACT WHICH IS ENGENDERED BY SERVICE
TAKE LIFE STEP BY STEP, YOU HAVE MANY YEARS AHEAD OF YOU, THE devil CAN’T KILL YOU
GOD TOOK THE ISRAELITES THROUGH A LONG ROUTE TO SECURE THEIR FUTURE. GOD’S AGENDA DRIVES MORE OFTEN THAN NOT ON THE SLOW LANE OF LIFE
WE NEED THE HELP OF THE SPIRIT TO REALISE OUR GOLDEN DESTINY IN CHRIST
EMPOWERMENT OF THE SPIRIT IS NOT FOR SHOW, IT’S FOR SERVICE. IT DEMANDS A THIRST AND A LONGING FOR ACCESS
IMPARTATION IS OFTEN TRANSMITTED THROUGH PROPHETIC WORDS
MANY OF YOU HERE WILL SINGLEHANDEDLY FEED AND EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on “EXPLORING THE WONDERS OF IMPARTATION OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS” at Impartation and Thanksgiving Service || AYAC 2023 – Breaking New Grounds (Day 5, Morning Session || 26th August, 2023 || Faith Tabernacle Canaanland, Ota.
EXPLORING THE WONDERS OF IMPARTATION OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS. When these gifts begin to manifest in a man’s life he looks like a magician. Church Gist. John 3:8. He becomes a sign and a wonder to the world. Romans 1:11.
– By the Impartation of today, no one shall get off the back of Christ! You will follow till the end. Everyone will make Heaven in grand style!
First recognise that we belong to a ‘do it yourself’ Kingdom of Christ. Everyone is absolutely responsible for the outcome of his life. Isaiah 51:1-3. When the Holy Ghost came, he descended on everyone of them as cloven tongues of fire. In the parable of the 5 foolish virgins, “go to them that sell and buy for yourself.” Matthew 25:7-9. The oil in my lamp cannot lit your lamp. Every car that must be on the road must have fuel in itself. So don’t be lost in the crowd please. Church Gist. When it comes to empowerment and impartation, it is absolutely on individual basis. One of my one time staff was in that meeting in Tulsa so when I was sharing the testimony one day he said, “Sir, you know I was in that meeting?” He was there for something else – a tourist; just for the teachings but I went in for a touch and I returned with a touch. It’s what you go for that you return with. You better listen.
I’ve never seen any man shut up in prison and the father goes to stay with him – or the mother even though he is the only son. No, they leave you there and say bye bye to you. Everyone shall bear his own burden – that’s the adventure of life. My giving can’t prosper you, its your giving that will. You don’t prosper by what you receive, you prosper by what you give. What you receive is a waste asset. What you give is an investment to your future. Everybody should wake up! God said to me, My son, you are absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life – 42 years ago. So I took my destiny in my hand, not looking for who or what to blame. Church Gist. Luke 6:46; Matthew 25:9; Mark 2:4; Luke 19:3-4. Everyone took steps to secure their desires. Matthew 9:21-22. It’s time to press today to partake of the manifold grace of God that God will be releasing upon our lives in this service. Waiting on someone else can be a waste of one’s life. John 5:5. I said humorously that if I were by that pool, Jesus or the Angel will meet me at the water. Not that you came there first, the Angel will also know that I came before him. I don’t have that kind of patience. Many are so patient with failure; they just settle. “I know something will happen” – nothing will happen; you have to do something for something to happen. Please open up this morning. You’re responsible for what comes out of today’s service. Church Gist. Habakkuk 2:4. I can’t give you my heart to breathe; you need your heart. Somebody stops breathing and you love him so much but you can’t give him your heart otherwise, you stop to exist. Your faith is your spiritual heart. Only your faith will deliver your desire. Hebrews 11:1-2.
– the good news is: nobody goes out of this impartation service without a change of story! And it shall be a change of story for the better.
Exploring the wonders of impartation of spiritual gifts. In the Kingdom of God, everyone presses into his inheritance. Luke 16:16; 1 Corinthians 9:24; John 12:26. 1 Corinthians 9:24-26. Church Gist. I want you to leave here first and foremost with the mentality of personal responsibility. That will sort many things out in any man’s life. Every time you point your finger at someone as your problem, you’re pointing three to yourself. Every man is the capital problem of his life. All the assault you get from others, 25%, the one you give yourself, 75%, so if no one causes you trouble, you will still be a failure if you won’t take responsibility. Church Gist. Stop pointing your fingers at somebody else. Somebody has said that you’re not a failure until you look for who to blame for it. So, wake up and take responsibility! It will go a long way to keep you on the right path in life.
Do you want to be healed? Then, believe! If you don’t want to believe, even Christ can’t heal you. Mark 6:5-6. Do you want to enjoy breakthroughs, then walk in the light of Scripture that guarantees it. Isaiah 60:1-3. Church Gist. Walk in the light and you will be there. Daniel 11:32. So, don’t toy with those things you’re learning, take hold of them. Do you want to walk in favour? Then be committed to Kingdom advancement endeavours as a way of life, then, all these things by favour shall be added to you. Matthew 6:33. Everything about your life and my life demands that we take personal responsibility. Do you want wine in your marriage? Church Gist. Then, settle for the truth of Scriptures that keeps wine flowing in marriage. Don’t go the Western way. The rate of divorce is enormous and it’s creeping into our country and other parts of the world, you better don’t allow it. The culture of Scripture forbids it. Church Gist. Whatever God hates, it’s not good for us to do it, if God hates it, then we don’t need it.
– for everyone going through any crisis in their marriage, in the name of Jesus, by today’s impartation, peace shall be restored!
Everything that adds value to you requires your input to happen. Stop waiting for things to happen, only bad things happen like that. Church Gist. By the law of entropy, everything begins to go down when nothing is being added to it. Do you deserve to enjoy Divine presence? Then, continue to walk in the fear of God, otherwise you can’t have. Genesis 39:3,21. Genesis 42:18. Church Gist. Joseph had His presence all of the time because he walks in the fear of God. Those Hebrew boys will not bow down to worship any graven image, God was with them in the fiery furnace. Daniel will not pray to any other god or king or whosoever it may be and God was with him in the den of lions. Church Gist. Do you want to carry God’s presence? Then, walk consciously in the fear of God. Don’t allow all these things flying around the world get on your path. Walk consciously in the fear of God.
Nothing of value is free. Value is a function of cost. Don’t wait for value to be added, take appropriate steps to secure the addition of values to your life. Church Gist. I think this is enough impartation in my view, for someone to leave here and say, “I’m responsible!” Where you are today is not your father’s problem oh, it’s not your mother’s problem, it’s where you chose to be. I mean, they can only send you to class but can they go to class with you? Can they read for you? Can they study for you? Can they attend lectures for you? Can they go to workshops for you? Church Gist. They just pay your fees and go, if you like, go to workshop, if you don’t like, go to playshop, you just make your choice. No matter the impartation, without taking responsibility, it will add no value. You know where I’m coming from now?
Am I the only one that Hagin laid hands upon? Infact when I got that encounter I caught it by the Word. And now they have laid hands on many of you, no real value is added because you are not taking responsibility. I can’t lay hands on you David for prosperity than: ‘Son! Prosper’! That will be a language of conveniences, it’s not adding any value. You now take responsibility to walk in the covenant of abundance. Church Gist. What I’ve done is to impart the grace for you to walk in that covenant it is not a substitute. How can you have peace in your house when you don’t love your wife? You are the author of the confusion there, how can you have peace in your house when you cannot be submissive at all. Before your husband finishes talking you say: ‘Now, who are you’? It is not the devil, it is just you. Praise God! You choose to break it by yourself without knowing. Young people, this is it, it’s good for a young man to bear his yoke while he is youth Lamentation 3:27.
Only responsible youths become responsible adults. Someone said: As the morning shows the day, so the child shows the man. What you will be tomorrow is determined by what you are doing now! Nothing else! What you are doing now!!! You’re following vain people now, you become a vain person tomorrow. Your friends are telling you, what are you still going to do in Church? Church Gist. And you call him your friend. Are you sick? Tell me your friend, I can tell half of what you look like right there. You have an area boy for a friend, you will soon become an area believer, you will find yourself in all evils before you wake up to know it. Evil communication corrupts good manner no matter the anointing. 1 Corinthians 15:33. There are things you need to go and do on leaving this place that would help to open new chapters to your life.
You are wondering, why we are going this way on impartation, that’s what makes impartation work. Taking covenant responsibility on issues of interest to you. And divine presence is a master key to a world of supernatural breakthrough! You can’t stop God from having His way so when God is with you, the rest will open up on its own accord. Acts 16:25. Psalms 99:1. Do you want all things to keep working for you? Then stay in love with Christ. Romans 8:28. You want all things to keep working together for good for you? Then stay in love with Christ. Not loving in tongues or in words but in truth and in deed 1 John 3:18. Church Gist. All things will not work by wishing that they do. You want to live an overcomer’s life? Then be committed to building your faith. 1 John 5:4. There is a limit to where little faith can take you, there is another limit where great faith can take you but there is no realm where the Spirit of faith cannot take you. So you press from one realm to another. Daniel 3:28. Fiery furnace was messed up! Daniel believed in His God, the mouths of the lions were shut overnight, they were hungry but they couldn’t do Daniel any harm, there was no hurt on his body, he was toying with them like domestic dogs because of God’s majestic presence. You want to live overcomer’s life? Then keep developing your faith, not this one hour teaching we have on a Sunday oo even we who teach you we are studying daily.
You found me now checking my slides? I worked it through the night. You can’t build your faith just going about doing Church, wearing tag. I’m still feeding on faith books even though I’m an author of faith, I’ve authored quite a few of them. But you sit down there, you have not read anything in your life on issues bothering you, you are just speaking empty tongues, that’s not the way to go. Church Gist. You don’t overcome by tongues, you overcome by faith, you overcome by faith. When faith comes alive, now! This is what I say to one of my sons, I said: When anything strikes and you are not moved it means your faith has grown beyond it. When you are confronted by any situation and you are not moved, it means your faith has grown beyond that. But when the storm rises: ‘Heeeey’! Your faith needs attention, develop it. Little faith can’t handle the storms. Praise God! Amen!
I’ve been in the midst of all kinds of things that looks like. I mean, will this thing come out well? The plane will be… and I say: ‘Peace, my friend! Peace! The Jesus on board cannot drop! He can’t drop’! The consciousness of His ever abiding presence relaxes you. In the midst of danger, you are at peace. No free lunch in the Kingdom, no free lunch – Whatever He tells you to do, do it and then you will see Him in action. John 2:5. You can’t experience His manifestation without the obedience to His instructions. John 14:21. They could not find solution in Babylon, the world power of that time except in Daniel Micah 4:1-2. Zechariah 8:2, many strong nations shall come to seek the Lord in Jerusalem! Many strong nations! What are you talking about!
The strongest Kingdom then was the Kingdom of Babylon. They couldn’t find a solution except in Daniel. We are in the last days, the golden days of the Church. Isaiah 44:3-6. I have the joker of the last days in my hand. That is what He says. He is ahead of time. We serve a God that is ahead of time. He is ahead of seasons, we serve a God that declares the end from the beginning. Church Gist. That is the God we serve. They will come and be changing their names. You know we are seeing it here, names are changing by the day. They will be changing their names as the glory of God begins to decorate the church. May you not be left out of it. Zechariah 8:20-23. Strong nations will come bowing to the Church.
I have been seeing this in bits since 1977. There was nothing that looked like it around. Churches were in run down primary schools, big conventions were 300 people. Musical instruments? Never! We were just clapping. He says many strong nations will come. How? It is no longer far-fetched. Many strong nations are jostling for jobs at the Ark. Wake Up! What a joy that you are born when God is decorating His Church. That is God’s golden agenda for the end time Church. That is God’s end-time agenda for you and me. Psalm 87:1-7. The Church will be in command of all sectors of human endeavour. Watch out and you are a part of it. I see great employers of labour here. I see men and women that will be custodians of nations. Not by struggling to be but by just following God. Matthew 4:19. Just follow me, don’t try to play games or carry balloon dreams, just follow me. I have never had a dream of someday we are going to do something just following Him. Humorous God! He said He would build a Church of 50,000 and we just left it there and continued following Him. When they were doing the design I said how much have you got? I remember he said something then, let’s check the books. Church Gist. Don’t follow vision follow God. He showed me that we were flying, I mean where am I going? If He left us to plan when to fly, it wouldn’t enter our budget in 10 years at the time He gave it. To know that He gave it, people don’t fly for long. You fly for a while and when the cost is tormenting you, you throw it away but we are just changing planes like changing bicycles because His blessings make rich and add no sorrow. I didn’t pray, I didn’t confess any plane forever. Pray for a plane to do what? They asked me which kind of plane and I said any kind. I don’t know the name of any plane because I was shopping for it. Somebody is not sleeping now because he wants to fly. Oh God, Jesus hear me. See all of them are flying what about me? Don’t kill yourself, even if they give you a plane you better sell it before you testify. By the time they bring you the bill per month, you will say oh God what is this? That is what you are looking for. When it is your turn, it is your turn. I can tell you your turn is sure. If you won’t stop following Christ, your crown is sure. If you won’t stop serving Christ, your crown is sure.
While it is a golden era for the church it shall be a time of horror for the world, it is unfortunate but that is the agenda. Joel 2:1-3. Isaiah 51:3. Church Gist. A day of horror for the world that is why we are going there to rescue them. Come out here, darkness is about to torment the world. Come out!
But we need the help of the Spirit to realise our golden destiny in Christ. Zechariah 4:1-6. Our golden destiny cannot be realised in the energy of the flesh. Caution please! That you take a Ph.D course in leadership does not make you a leader. Those that taught you are they leaders? You serve your way upward to the point of enthronement. Philippians 2:6-9. Leadership is not by certificate but by service. Luke 19:17. Church Gist. Take your stewardship in the Vineyard seriously that is what creates your future. I’ve not had one regret doing what I’m doing. I signed up for it long before I became a full time minister, ling before I had a vision. Serving God was part of my destiny – I just chose to, I enjoy it.
Somebody was here sometimes he said he received the first tract from me – 1969. That’s the year I got saved. He’s in Church here. But you can’t sit down and want to go forward. Nobody goes forward sitting down; you go forward taking steps – taking steps in stewardship. Church Gist. We never had opportunity for honeymoon in my marriage – appointment, appointment. In those days when there was no offering, offering was a taboo; they don’t give any minister any offering. Who has offering? Yet, I couldn’t hold down to miss those young primary, secondary school folks and small small camp meetings of 60 people. You sit down there waiting to be lifted, you’re wasting time. Matthew 20:25-26. You serve your way upward, you don’t stay waiting to go up.
Have I ever said in my life that I am now going on vacation? It may look absurd. It’s not part of my agenda. Serving God changes people’s story upward. They can call you Archbishop, Archpope, if you’re not a servant you never taste leadership. Last Sunday I was saying to some of the Associates – I said, you know there is no week where people from outside the country don’t come here – there is no week Sir and I mean ministers. Church Gist. People come to apply, we want you to be our Father in the ministry, that’s why we came. Where are you coming from? From America, Malaysia. Leadership is not by carrying titles around, it is by impact which is engendered by service. Nobody’s level will change without serving God. It’s your stewardship that results in your leadership.
This golden agenda delivers little by little. We live in a world of hurry. Even Jesus the second person of the God head came down here as a babe, became an adolescent, a son and then became an empowered son that the world must hear. It’s all in stages. After 11 years of stewardship in full time ministry the Lord said to me, I have brought you to the Apostolic phase of your ministry for pace setting. Church Gist. Today, you know how long that course is? You find some young people, “I am an Apostle,” Apostle of what? You think it’s a title? They were disciples till he left and after he left, they became Apostles. Everybody speaks with authority that they don’t have that’s why people are getting off the faith. The task is the ministry; the title is not the issue. Mind your stewardship in the Vineyard that is where your future is defined.
Exodus 23:30; Deuteronomy 7:22
– Therefore, receive a fresh baptism of patience today!
Hebrews 6:12. This agenda drives more often than not on the slow lane of life. When the Lord led them out of Egypt, he didn’t take them through the land of the Philistines, he led them by the Red Sea. Exodus 13:17-18. God knows the end from the beginning; he takes you through a path that is secure. He took them through the Red Sea so he could bury Pharaoh and his host there so that nobody will follow them anymore. Church Gist. Egypt could not recover from it so the idea of frustrating anybody won’t arise. They had been wounded to their core. They carried all their gods to pursue after them so both they and their gods were drowned. They would have pursued them forever but the pursuit ended there. He took them through a long route to secure their future. Enjoy it and go step by step.
You’re starting a business it has no footing. You’re buying a car that is worth more than the capital of the business – are you sick? Is that how to live? Church Gist. Why are you trying to impress somebody else and depressing yourself – what for? If there were phones in our beginning days in ministry, nobody will buy. No, we don’t have such account. Take it step by step, you have many years ahead of you, the devil can’t kill you. Ezekiel 2:2.
My salary as President and Founder of this ministry was #300. My wife the Executive Secretary was #140. Was that where we were? No, that’s where we had to be to get the job done because we must not borrow or beg. Church Gist. So we operate within what he makes available and he knows what to do; yet we didn’t borrow or beg. Take it easy. Those who are in a hurry always end up in horror. Luke 1:30. Your turn is sure.
We are in the days of supernatural change of story for the Saints. Joel 2:26; Zephaniah 3:17-20. We must covet earnestly the best gifts and contend for it. 1 Corinthians 12:31; 2 Kings 2:9. Spiritual gifts are impartable and transferrable. Numbers 11:17, 24-25. Church Gist. Empowerment is not for show, it’s for service. Romans 1:11. But the empowerment of the Spirit demands a thirst and a longing for access. Psalm 63:1-3; Isaiah 41:17-18. It takes a desperation to access this impartation. John 16:7; John 7:37. You can’t encounter power without a thirst. It’s your thirst that qualifies you for access.
I went to the mountain sometimes several years back and I was holding the book of Ezekiel in my hand- Jesus show me the secret behind the prophetic ministry of Ezekiel. Rain came down, but I came for a mission. No covering anywhere, by the third day I was returning and the Lord said to me, behold I have touched your tongue with a coal of fire and from henceforth, as you say it you see it. Church Gist. What is 3 days to do with that? A thirst will give you access to next levels of empowerment. Impartation is often transmitted through prophetic words. Ezekiel 2:2; 1 Timothy 4:14; Ezekiel 37:1-10. What the Holy Spirit does is to help is beyond our natural and spiritual rated capacity whenever we are confronted. The word, “Comforter” means helper. Helping you beyond you in dealing with issues of your life. Romans 8:26; John 15:5; 1 Samuel 2:9; John 16:7; John 14:17-18. So he goes with you wherever you go because he is now in you. We cannot realize our golden destiny without the help of the Spirit.
1. The Spirit of Faith: Mark 9:23-24. what the Spirit of faith does is to help our unbelief when confronted with things stronger than our present level of faith. Luke 18:8. Church Gist. The Spirit of Faith becomes a necessity for now.
– Everyone desperate for that baptism receive a fresh baptism of the Spirit of Faith!
What does it do? It empowers you to believe all things. Acts 24:14. There are many things that God is saying to you but you don’t have the faith capacity to believe it but when the spirit of Faith comes to work, you’re enabled to believe all things. Church Gist. When God said to me that we will build this thing in one year, I had no problem, zero problem. He’s God, he’s up to anything He says. When He said that we will enter 75 nations in one year, my God, He’s God, He’s up to anything He says. “You will plant 5,000 Churches this year”, He’s God, He’s up to anything He says. Church Gist. It’s the spirit of Faith that says that.
– I decree that that same spirit of Faith comes alive in you right now!
What does it do? It quenches all the fiery darts of the devil. That’s what they call the shield of faith oh. Ephesians 6:16. No matter how wide and brutal the storm, the Spirit of Faith has capacity over it. Amen! Church Gist. “I and the lad will go and worship and come back to you”, the Faith of Abraham. “I’m not pretending, we are coming back to you. For God is able to bring him back to life. He can reconnect the neck after I have cut it”. That’s the spirit of Faith.
– receive that now in the name of Jesus!
Romans 10:12. There’s nothing in anybody’s complexion, He’s made the whole world of one blood. Church Gist. We are redeemed from every tongue and every nation, there’s no nation to envy, no colour to envy! It’s the way of Faith that makes you believe all things and you speak all kinds of things that are unspeakable. You dare the undareable by the spirit of Faith.
– somebody’s story is changing!
“Moses, go forward to the Red Sea!” How? By faith. What kind of Faith? Not chocolate faith. Church Gist. You’re heading for the Red Sea, are you going to drown them? Faith cleared the water sir.
– In the Precious name of Jesus, every harassment and resistance to your next chapter in life, by the next baptism of the spirit of Faith, I release your access right now!
Why do we need the spirit of Faith? The endtime is ordained a reigning Church and through Faith, they subdued Kingdoms. Hebrews 11:33-34. Church Gist. The devil knows that, so he’s all out against Faith. Luke 22:31-32. Satan is hunting for your life, he’s hunting to get hold of your faith, if you let him have it, you have lost your place. Glory to God! So, everybody needs the spirit of Faith to secure his place in this endtime. Luke 18:8. Faith will be under the world’s attack, Philosophers are now stage, they are preaching philosophy and psychology on the pulpit, no longer the Word. Church Gist. They are even using unbelievers as standards and illustrations. What?! We invaded Canaanland by faith, rugged faith! The spirit of Faith is the product of all that we see today in this ministry. What you don’t believe will never come to pass. Church Gist. Anything you claim to believe but you doubt in your heart is nonsense. So, to remain solid in your heart in spite of obvious possibilities, it’s the spirit of Faith at work.
– as you step out of here, every mountain that is yet to bow, as you speak to them in this service, they shall be leveled out!
– there’s no siege of the wicked that will follow you out of here, in the name of Jesus Christ!
– So, receive today a fresh baptism of the spirit of Faith.
Number two essential spiritual gift required for this endtime is the spirit of love. Why? Matthew 24:12. So, it takes the Spirit of love to remain in love, in season and out of season. Matthew 25:35. Church Gist. When they arrested Christ, all men left, everybody left, Peter remained but in the face of obvious danger, Peter’s love was drowned because it was not empowered, it was only a choice. A little girl said, “you’re one of them”, he said, “never! I don’t know him”. Another one came, “you’re looking like one of them”. “No, no, you’re making a mistake”. Church Gist. The other one came, he said, “I swear”. Then, suddenly, the cock crew and Peter wept bitterly when he remembered. Unempowered love cannot stand harsh situations but when you receive the spirit of love, you’re balanced in season and out of season.
When the Holy Ghost came upon Peter, nobody could silence. A little girl brought him down the other time but a whole council could not stand him. Acts 4:19-20. Church Gist. Acts 4:13. When you receive a baptism of the spirit of love, you become stable under all circumstances.
I’ve never spoken a thing against this nation and I was wondering what what I said. I have the God-given authority to say it, “you’re wrong!”, you’re wrong and you can’t do anything about that. Church Gist. One of my sons said to me, “even when you’re quiet, they are quoting you”. The spirit of love keeps you on your toes. I’m an eternal defender of the Faith. You can touch any other thing, not the Faith, don’t touch the Church, don’t! Church Gist. All the energy I have and the one that I don’t have, I will use it!
– receive right now a fair baptism of the spirit of love!
You know what that does? It secures Divine presence. 1 John 4:16-18. As your love grows, you’re filled with all the fullness of God; Ephesians 3:17-19 and that is a seal of unstoppable breakthrough. Church Gist. God’s presence is a master key to a world of unstoppable breakthroughs, you can’t stop it! Only what can stop God from having His way can stop. When you’re in love, you’re in God, you become unstoppable and unassautable. Amen! Church Gist. You’re wrapped in God, forget about any devil anywhere. So, smile at what you see around because you’re not part of it, your case is different!
Sir, God’s presence is the greatest asset of a believer. Romans 8:31.
– your love for God will no longer be circumstantial! It will not be only when things are working but all the days of your life, in the name of Jesus!
Then, we have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God. Spiritual understanding is what makes the journey outstanding. Church Gist. That means, access to light from the word. That means spiritual illumination in the world. That means your supernatural and my supernatural change of story in life. Isaiah 60:1-3. Psalm 119:130. Why is it so necessary? Church Gist. The world is getting darker by the way, it takes light for anyone to have his way. The darkness coming on the world is the kind of darkness that came upon Egypt that could be felt. It takes light to make a difference and the entrance of His Word gives light and understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130. Psalm 19:7. Because in the last days, watch what will happen, Jeremiah 31:34. Isaiah 11:9. Church Gist. So, God has a heavy revelation package for the endtime and we will require the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him to step into that realm. John 14:26. That means, there will be that outpouring of wisdom and understanding in these last days. Colossians 1:9. We are in the era of manifold wisdom that imparts on all areas of life. So, we all need the spirit of wisdom and revelation, we all need it now than ever. Isaiah 60:22. Isaiah 60:8,15. Church Gist. Every true revelation is revolutionary in nature. It changes people’s story supernaturally and dramatically. Isaiah 60:15,22.
– there are individuals here today that will end up as strong nations! Strong nations will seek your help! Strong nations will send representatives to you!
That is by access to the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Daniel 11:32.
– Lift up your right hand and receive consciously right now and desperately a fresh baptism of the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Call for it yourself.
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It’s not just reading Bibles, it’s encounters with the mysteries of the Kingdom as you read and listen.
– Receive it now in the name of Jesus!
– Now, as you step out of it, this Book will open to you supernaturally.
– may the breath of Heaven that feeds this room come on you right now! In the name of Jesus!
God has a plan to decorate the Endtime Church with supernatural wealth. 2 Corinthians 8:1-3. So, there’s power beyond our power and it’s the Power of the Holy Ghost. 2 Corinthians 8:1-4. These were very poor people but they were empowered givers. They were empowered givers. The Bible calls that power ‘Grace’. 2 Corinthians 8:7. It is the empowerment for giving that we call the giving grace. Empowerment! You are empowered! In your state of lack, you are eager to give. 2 Corinthians 8:2-3. Church Gist. Their own suffering was more than the other people. Come on now! They were empowered givers, when you become an empowered lover, you love at all times. You become an empowered giver, you give at all times, it’s in you. You are doing it with joy. Joy! Willingness! They were willing of themselves, they were doing it with joy. It takes empowerment to do giving with joy when you are in need. It takes empowerment and that empowerment is what makes financial giants in the Kingdom. It takes empowerment! The giving grace of the giving spirit is required this Endtime for us to enter into God’s agenda of supernatural wealth for the Endtime Church.
-The Church shall become the breadwinners of the world.
-There are those sitting down here today, 5,000 will be feeding from under you, some 10,000, some will end up having a 100,000.
-Some major job employers in this Church will hire 500,000.
-Even the sons of the aliens shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers. Foreigners will be applying to work under you. Church Gist. So receive this hour.
-A fresh release of the giving grace. It starts manifesting from now in your life.
-You will not be a beggar while others are distributors. 2 Corinthians 8:7. They are constantly, just increasing in their giving life. That’s your life! That’s your new life!
Why is that so? This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached among all Nations. Matthew 24:14. Zechariah 1:7. Everybody needs it! Church Gist. It takes power to give substance instead of leftovers. Matthew 24:14. Everyone needs it. Proverbs 3:9. Substance, not leftovers! Not change from vendors of newspapers.
-You are just there in the name of Jesus.
And then the Spirit of joy, you know why? Sorrow would be multiplied in this Endtime and without the Spirit of joy any believer can be a victim. Everybody is looking around in town now with long faces: ‘Nothing is working! I’m sure everything is over, I can’t do anything now! They are all over. Matthew 24:8. Church Gist. So as sorrow multiplies, the joy of the Lord must multiply in our lives otherwise we become victims. To be joyful in the midst of uncertainties requires the oil of joy. Isaiah 61:3. So if you are not with the oil of joy you will be part of the horror, part of the sorrow.
-But not you!
Luke 10:21. Joy was in it! What’s in it? Strength. Nehemiah 8:10. What’s in it? Health. Proverbs 17:22. What’s in it? Access to revelation. Isaiah 12:3.
-By this anointing today, I curse every siege of depression in any life.
God said to me years ago, ‘If you have lost anything, I’m the reason why you have not lost everything’. Paul, a man of unusual revelation. Philippians 4:4, ‘Rejoice in the Lord again I say rejoice’! 1 Thessalonians 5:16. You know why? Joy secures divine presence and depression invites the devil. That’s why he injects suicidal thoughts into the depressed. John 10:10. Do you want to sustain God’s presence? Then rejoice in the Lord always and again I say what? Rejoice. Philippians 4:4. 1 Thessalonians 5:16. You can’t sustain God’s presence without joy. No! You can’t invite a shark to come for this Convention, he can’t survive outside water. God cannot survive in a joyless environment. You want His presence? Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say, rejoice!
🎶 Paul and Silas, they prayed, they sang, the Holy Ghost came down 🎶 And set them free. They were going to bring you out the following day to kill you but 🎶 Paul and Silas, they prayed, they sang, the Holy Ghost came down 🎶 The one that came down was God oo. Acts 16:25. Psalms 99:1. Church Gist. When God stepped to the prison the foundation was shaken and every man’s bands were loose. You want your bands to be loosed? Philippians 4:4. Rejoice evermore! We saw Christ in prophecy, He was anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows Psalms 45:12. Joy triggers the smell of favour, the joyful never loses favour. How many want to smell favour from now? It takes joy to carry the smell of favour. The joyful never loses favour.
-From today, the siege of misfortune is over in your life.
Now, let me just give you this joke, a young man that is always looking mournful, you approach a lady for marriage you say: ‘Thank you, God bless you’. He doesn’t want a situation like that, no! You are depressed at your age? Because a merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. Church Gist. You can’t be happy inside and be gloomy outside. Church Gist. If you are happy inside it will show outside. If your teeth is not coming out, you are not happy, true joy brings out your teeth. No young man will approach a depressed lady: ‘Good afternoon’, ‘afternoon’. ‘I’m greeting you’, ‘Eh’. You are just pushing favour away without knowing. I’ve been in a few interviewing panels, when you are gloomy I don’t look at you. I just take note of you: ‘This man is not the one we are looking for’.
-May the oil of joy, the kind that is at work in Christ and the kind that is at work in me come alive in you today.
When my wife’s health was challenged and she was between Heaven and earth, nobody had room to say sorry to me Sir. When you come around me you will find out that my joy overruns your own, you will just keep quiet and walk away. No! I didn’t hear sorry. Church Gist. No! I’m not sorrowful so carry your sorry somewhere else. Somebody asked one day: ‘Do you ever have problems’? I said: ‘Maybe it came, I didn’t know oo’. 🎶 The Joy of salvation is intoxicating me, glory glory! 🎶 Now! You have joy of Salvation, you have joy in the Holy Ghost! You have joy from the world. Jeremiah 15:16. So where is your place for depression, how did you get it?
-I curse it off your life today!
Now! This is Shiloh! This is God’s presence. This is God manifesting Himself to His people. You know what I see here? I see men and women with a great future. Church Gist. I see the future of this Commission in this place. I see firebrands in their thousands. I see men and women that God will be proud of.
We are coming to an end, the Spirit of prayer and fasting which moves our prayer and fasting life forward with the requires fervency and consistency on the altar of prayer. There are prayer infirmities which the devil hits at God’s people. Romans 8:26. You want to pray, before you know what is happening you don’t even know what you are to say next. Praise God! In spite of the prayer manual that you have. You don’t know what to pray but there is the Spirit of grace and supplications.
-May you receive that today.
Prayer and fasting opens new chapters to God’s people like we heard in the teaching.
-My prayer today is that the unusual will start happening in your prayer life. The fire on your prayer altar will never go out again.
So there is the Spirit of prayer. Zechariah 10:12. Romans 8:26-27. Matthew 6:17. When you pray, when you fast; they are companions, hands in gloves.
-Receive the Spirit of grace and supplications afresh on your life today.
-My prayer is that everybody’s prayer life shall be a surprise to you at the end of this Convention.
-No temptation will floor you again.
They said: ‘pray’ and they were sleeping so they all fell into temptation. They all departed from Christ, all of them. Not one could stand because when they were to pray, they wouldn’t pray, the help they needed didn’t come and so they were defenseless. Peter said I’ve bought a sword, Jesus said: Pray, it’s not the sword we are talking about, you need prayer.
-With your renewed prayer life, temptations will be clearing the way for you.
-Your prayer life shall be a mountain of transformation, a mountain of transfiguration.
-Your fervency and consistency will be sustained supernaturally in the name of Jesus.
-I pray that, that Spirit will come alive in everyone.
The Spirit of servanthood which is what enthrones a believer. Isaiah 42:1-4. That Spirit empowers you not to faint or be discouraged in your stewardship, it keeps you going like roller coaster. You can’t be checked out, you are not discouraged, you are just in motion for God. I call it the Spirit of servanthood, Jesus carried that heavily upon His life. Philippians 2:7.
We need the spirit of servanthood to sustain our stewardship faithfully, fruitfully and tirelessly. “I have put my Spirit within Him, He shall execute my agenda. He shall not fail or be discouraged until he has accomplished my task.” Isaiah 42:3-4. He will never sit down one day and say why am I serving God? What is in it? With that Spirit, He keeps going. I signed up to make God my reason for living in 1976 and I have not needed encouragement once. “Don’t worry, things will be okay.” Did I tell you it is not okay? There is a grace, a spirit that is behind it. May that spirit come upon you today. Because where your service stops is where your change of story stops. Where anyone’s service stops is where His change of story stops. Church Gist. He changes anyone’s level in return for our faithfulness in stewardship. When you stop serving, it stops. Simple! If you are working in an organization and you resign, can they put you on the promotion list? Can you remain on their payroll? So why do you think that you will remain on God’s payroll and promotion list when you resign? You have backed out. You are no longer part of the deal. The devil goes about trying to discourage people. Grace to continue to remain consistent in your servanthood in the name of Jesus. Jesus was highly exalted in returns for His selfless servanthood.
The Spirit of Discernment
Particularly now that many anti-Christs have arrived in the world. Particularly now that we have doctrines of devils flying all over, everybody needs the spirit of Discernment to escape. That is your spirit man reacting against unscriptural things when you hear them or watch them. Though the sources know much more better than we know but in our spirit we can pick it. With that spirit, a scripture will just come to write off what you are hearing. Not just one scripture, another scripture and another scripture will come until you have five scriptures to disagree with it. That is not the way to go. Everybody needs the Spirit of Discernment. Paul said I perceive that this voyage shall be with much danger. Discernment! We call it witness of the Spirit also. Your spirit man saying no! Church Gist. That is not how to do it, that is not the way to do it. The Spirit was saying check it, don’t do it. Stop that. No one here will fall a victim of error. 1 Timothy 4:1-2. We need the Spirit of Discernment not to be trapped. 1 John 2:18. Church Gist. The last days require discernment not to mistake the anti-Christ for Christ. 2 John 1:7-8. If there is any time we need the Spirit of Discernment, it is now. Many deceivers are gone into the world. They are off the scriptures, they are just quoting scriptures to secure audience. Many of them may not be aware but they are speaking not for the kingdom but for something else. Caution! Caution! Caution! No one knows everything but the Spirit of Discernment will tell you, not there. That is not the way to go, check it. Watch it. I bought a book one time because I love reading, the title was so beautiful. When I got inside, I was just crossing it with red biro. Charles Darwin that caused the world a lot of trouble was in the seminary, he bought a wrong book and went on a wrong path. I can’t tell how many went to hell through his philosophy. We need the spirit of discernment to escape the traps of the end time. Church Gist. We need to be men and women of the Spirit who are sensitive to the leading of the Spirit at all times. We can’t escape without it. In the precious name of Jesus, no one here shall be a victim of the spirit of error. You never lose your place with God. Your personal relationship with God will not become sour. This is the last time and God is on our side, we shall make it to the end.
You can’t be truly connected to a vine and not be a partaker of the roots and the fatness of the olive. Genuine connectivity entitles you to the free flow of the roots and the fatness of the olives. Church Gist. You are not mimicking, you are just manifesting a free flow of the replication of the same grace.
———- IMPARTATION DECLARATIONS ————-
– In the name of Jesus, every grace I have encountered from everywhere I have had an encounter and the one that God gave me by privilege, I decree the release of this into your life.
– Your faith will no longer cower before obstacles.
– Your love for God will not be determined by your environment.
– The giving grace at work in our covenant fathers and at work in me, I release that into your life right now. Church Gist.
– The joy of the Lord that keeps a man going and secures God’s presence receive it right now in the name of Jesus.
– That spirit of depression, I cast it out of every life that is being besieged. Church Gist.
– Your health will never be cast down again, not even behind closed doors.
The angel said weep not for the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed.
– Weeping is not your portion. Weeping behind closed doors is not your portion.
– Your marital destiny is settled today. A number here will get married before the year is over.
Maybe that God chosen spouse has been around you and you have been around her for a long time and your eyes are closed. Those disciples were with Jesus for three and a half years but when he showed up, they didn’t know him because their eyes were closed. Church Gist. That person is just around, maybe you go to fellowship together. Maybe you do things here and there together but you couldn’t see it and suddenly your eyes opened.
– Everything blocking your access to your settled married life is declared open today.
– May your eyes also be opened when a stranger shows up. No one will fall into the hands of a stranger.
– No one will fall into the hands of a stranger.
Don’t marry a profession, marry a person. Don’t marry money, marry a man. If you marry a profession and they lose it, then your marriage is shattered. If you marry money and the money goes, then your marriage goes. Marry a man, marry a woman. Growing together makes living comfortable.
– No one of you will enter into slavery.
Don’t scatter somebody’s home to build your own, it won’t stand. Don’t try it.
In the same vein, no devil will succeed in breaking your home.
Do you know why this Church cannot be broken? We are not a breakaway church. So it can’t be broken. We started from the beginning where they start from. After a week-long crusade in Kaduna which had a maximum attendance of 63 people. Church Gist. City Wildfire Crusade, power was burning. 63 maximum attendance. Church started with 4, I call it 3 and a half. We saw it grow 6,10, 12,13 rejoicing, excitedly, no concern.
– Your life will take on full colour.
– I pray every stranger off your path.
– The Spirit of Discernment is released into your life.
– The Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God is released into your life.
– The grace to take personal responsibility, receive it now.
– You will never give up on your stewardship.
– You have it today, the spirit of joy. Church Gist.
– The same Spirit of faith working in this commission is released into your life.
– Your days of struggling to make things happen are over.
– No one should be a docile member in your various churches. Grace to be an active value adding member receive it now.
– Receive your package now.
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