PROPHETIC WORDS ARE NOT THREATS BUT DIVINE DECLARATIONS OF THINGS THAT MUST BE.
SCRIPTURES TALK OF DEVASTATION AND DESPAIR HITTING THE WORLD IN A WAY IT HAS NEVER BEEN IN THESE END TIMES
THE BIBLE IS A PROPHETIC BANK. IT IS NOT HISTORY OR SOCIAL STUDIES.
WE ARE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND LIGHT WILL ALWAYS FLOURISH IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS.
POWER CAN’T CLEAR DARKNESS, IT IS LIGHT THAT CLEARS DARKNESS.
TODAY, WE HAVE PREACHERS PREACHING THAT ANYTIME YOU OPEN YOUR BIBLE AND SOMETHING CONDEMNS YOU, THAT IT’S NOT THE LORD SPEAKING TO YOU
THEY SAY YOU CAN’T SIN YOUR SPIRIT IS BORN AGAIN
I’VE NEVER SEEN ONE UNBELIEVER TO ENVY IN MY LIFE
IT’S TIME TO TAKE COVER AGAINST THE ASSAULT OF INIQUITY, SO YOUR LABOUR OF MANY YEARS WILL NOT BE WASTED IN hell
I’VE BEEN CARRYING MY SMILES FOR 53 YEARS. THERE’S NOBODY ELSE OUTSIDE CHRIST WHO CAN SAY THAT
PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES ARE NOT THREATS BUT POINTERS TO ESTABLISHED UPCOMING EVENTS
THERE’S NO POLICY OF ANY NATION, WHETHER CIVILIZED OR UNCIVILIZED THAT CAN ALTER GOD’S AGENDA
WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE SIN HAS BEEN REDEFINED WITH NEW FACES AND NEW MODELS
A NUMBER OF MINISTERS AROUND THE WORLD ARE MERELY GOSPEL MERCHANTS.
THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND ASK THEM TO PAY FOR PROPHECY, HEALING AND BREAKTHROUGHS.
THEY KNOW WITHIN THEMSELVES THAT IS FALSEHOOD.
GOD WILL NEVER NEED ANY ONE OF US TO BE GOD.
WE NEED HIM TO BE WHAT GRACE HAS PROGRAMMED US TO BE IN HIM.
INVEST IN BUILDING YOUR FAITH. OUR FAITH HAS UNLIMITED CAPACITY FOR GROWTH.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on A PROPHETIC GLIMPSE INTO THE EVENTS OF THE HOUR at SHILOH 2023 Day Two, Encounter Night || REDEEMED TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || 6th December 2023.
The good news is you are leaving Shiloh a brand new man or a brand new woman in the name of Jesus Christ. One thing we must hold is that the Bible is a prophetic bank. It is defined as the most sure word of prophecy because it came out of the mouth of God. Isaiah 34:16. Those who have a prophetic perspective from the Word don’t have problems believing God. Less than one year or about one year in the faith, I saw in this book that I have been redeemed as a king and a priest to reign on the earth forever. Church Gist. Not that somebody told me, I saw it. It entered into me and I began to take royal steps at my level. Will a king go out like this? No, David. Will a king behave like this on the street? Will a king behave like this to somebody else? Every Word of scripture are divine verdicts. They deliver into the life of anyone who cares to believe. Luke 1:45. He speaks by His Word.
I saw we are heading for hitch-free marriage from this book. I saw it and now we all see it. I saw that no weapon formed against me shall prosper but I will be the one to condemn and God will confirm. I condemn every tongue rising against me from the pit of hell, God says I hear and confirms them. God won’t condemn them. I will condemn them and He will confirm it. I saw that fifty years ago. It is all your perspective Sir. This is a prophetic bank. It is not History, it is not Social Studies. Isaiah 34:16. When I shouted that I cannot be poor, I saw it here. It is not what was in my body. What I saw here. I saw that prophetic word and what is required of me to walk in the realm of it. Church Gist. May you see from tonight, the prophetic dimension of the Word. It will change everything about you and me. This is God speaking to you and to me. Jesus found what was written of Him from the book. Everything said about Jesus came to pass from the book line by line and in toto. God said it. God confirmed it. In the midst of this gloominess a mighty army will rise, the kind that the world has never seen nor will there be any like them. Joel 2:3. May your own prophetic word come through tonight.
Lord Jesus, thank you again for tonight. Your presence since morning has been very thick. We celebrate you Lord. The glory belongs to you. Church Gist. Thank you for tonight and how far we have gone. Take all the praise. Now speak your Word and let it have a prophetic inroad into our hearts and let your name be glorified.
When I say “Shiloh 2023” you respond what? Redeemed to Flourish in Hard Times. You shall have whatsoever you say. You know I am redeemed to flourish in hard times. We are children of light and light will always flourish in the midst of darkness. Light doesn’t struggle to flourish. The authority of light is unquestionable. Ephesians 5:8. Church Gist. We are not to beg darkness, we are to dominate darkness. Light doesn’t beg darkness to give way, darkness gives way at the instance of light. I see hardship clear off your path in the precious name of Jesus.
Tonight, we are speaking to the subject which I captioned A PROPHETIC GLIMPSE INTO THE EVENTS OF THE HOUR. A prophetic glimpse into the hour that we live. What is on with the eyes of prophetic scriptures regarding this hour in which we live? Church Gist. A prophetic glimpse into the hour in which we live. What is the agenda like from the eyes of scriptures? Where are we and how do we navigate our way into God’s agenda for our lives?
Jesus laid this out in Matthew 24:6-14. The spiritual challenges of the hour, the social challenges of the hour and God’s agenda for His people. Church Gist. We are going to look at that tonight and they are five-five. Five spiritual challenges, five social challenges and five great news for the church.
Light never fears darkness. Darkness exists at the mercy of light. As light shows up, darkness clears off. The strength of darkness is in the absence of light. I had an experience growing up after catching some light from the ministry of Smith Wigglesworth. I saw my new position in redemption that by redemption He raised me up together with Him and made me to sit together with Him in heavenly places and is located far above all principalities and power. Light! So I got to that meeting, I wasn’t invited. I went to represent someone. I was very excited about going. This light I want to demonstrate how this works. After ministering I said “Hey! How many of you are witches here? Stand up!” And they stood up en masse. En masse in those days was not up to one hundred people. Those meetings are 40-50 people. I said “Wait, a minute. I am not saying that somebody accused you of being a witch. If you are a practising witch, stand up!” Church Gist. And they stood up. I called one of them with authority. I knew that I was not on the same level that I used to be by light. I said tell me what you do with the devil. He said any time we want to suck blood, we cause the passing vehicles to somersault and we suck the blood of the victims. I asked what of when people like us are coming. 1979! Light is not about age it is about light. When a toddler turns on the switch, can the switch say No! Not people like you. Anybody that has the light has the light. He said when we sense a higher power on the way, we clear off the highway. Light makes darkness clear off. It is not power! Power can’t clear darkness, it is light that clears darkness. Anointing can’t clear darkness, it is light that clears darkness. Gifts and callings can’t clear darkness. Light only! Isaiah 60:1. Arise shine, not your power, not your calling, not your anointing but your light has come.
So it is the entrance of His Word that gives light. It is not the hearing, it is not the reading, it is not the studying, it is not the writing. Church Gist. You can write what you read from your understanding and interpretation of it but when it enters you it is turned to light that subdues the powers of darkness without stress. Somebody’s story is changing.
A prophetic glimpse into the hour in which we live. Please note that prophetic words are not threats but divine declarations of things that must be. Prophetic scriptures are not threats, they are declarations of the things that must be. Church Gist. Matthew 24:6-8. That connotes devastation and despair hitting the world in a way it has never been.
Luke 21:7-11. These are no threats, these are divine verdicts, things that must be. Things you see and you jitter, things you see and you’re sweating – fearful sights. Prophetic Scriptures are not threats, they are pointers to established upcoming events just like rapture. Church Gist. They are not threats. One would be taken, the other one would be left, it’s not a threat, don’t mistake it for a threat. They are not predictions oh, “it may happen, it may not happen depending on circumstances, not all things being equal”. They don’t have to be equal, this is God’s agenda, whether they’re equal or unequal, it doesn’t touch it. Equal or unequal, the sun is shining, the moon is going up, God’s agenda is settled in Heaven, circumstances can’t prevail against it. Church Gist. There’s no policy of any nation, whether civilized or uncivilized that can alter it. Governments of nations will be shaking, small and great.
So, let’s outline the 5 spiritual challenges of the hour, so we can know how to take cover against these arrows.
Matthew 24:12. That talks about the outbreak of sin, the kind the world never knew before. Church Gist. Where men have a vision to become a woman and where technology is helping them to become one. Where a man begins to carry breasts like a woman. They were not known before, they are new in cautions of “iniquity shall abound”. Where playing games is now seen as being smart. Where stealing had been redefined. Iniquity shall abound, new faces of sin, new models. When sin will be redefined, “you can’t sin, your spirit is born again. It can’t be un-born again, your spirit cannot sin sir. God is able to destroy the body in hell, it’s not the spirit, it’s the body”. Church Gist. Because iniquity shall abound. There are Preachers who are preaching it oh. Many. They don’t care about Heaven. Iniquity shall abound. “Your sins of the past are written off, sins of the present are written off, sins of the future are written off”. Somebody said one time and I heard that “anytime you open your Bible and something condemns you, that’s not the Lord speaking to you”. Church Gist. Sir, I heard it by myself, it’s not that they told me. That’s how depraved sin has become in Church.
It’s time to take cover against the assault of iniquity, so your labour of many years will not be wasted in hell. The hell of it begins from here. Church Gist. You know people say, “what a hell”, hell begins from here oh. It’s not a slang, it’s the Bible. You tell some people, “you’re going to hell”, he says, “I’m already in hell” and he’s telling the truth. Life without Jesus is hell on earth. Iniquity shall abound. That somebody will just wake and say God told them to do something unbiblical and it’s God. Which God? Is it God of the Bible or another god? No. Some will say, “the Holy Ghost told me”. Church Gist. You’re playing with death, He kills people, the Holy Ghost kills people. They lied against Him and they died. Say, “I perceive” and save your life, “I think” and save your life. You’re permitted to think, don’t lie. Holy Ghost? He doesn’t toy with people. If it’s Jesus, He’s full of mercy but Holy Ghost? “Who shall abide in the day of His coming?” I sat down here today and the Lord rebuked me and I told you (talking to Bishop Abioye), I said I had a rebuke from the Lord today. Church Gist. You better settle down. If you don’t wage war against iniquity, it will subdue you, cover you and God forbid, you’ll not be messed up.
Iniquity shall abound, will expand, will be enlarged, if possible, the very elect shall be deceived.
Number 2 spiritual challenge is that the love of many shall wax cold. How? They see unbelievers flourishing through games and gimmicks, “what is the profit that we are running after God?” He’s just showing them the glitter, not the doom underneath. Church Gist. Not all that glitters is gold. Can I confess to you? I’ve never seen one unbeliever to envy in my life. It’s going to be mischievous madness for a living man to envy a dead man. No. What does he carry? Does he have the hope of eternal life that dwells in you? The peace you enjoy for free? The joy that is overflowing? I’ve been carrying my smiles for 53 years. There’s nobody else outside Christ who can say that. Church Gist. You can’t talk to me on phone and not laugh under any condition. That’s the joy of salvation, you can’t buy it in the market. That’s the peace that passes all knowledge, you can’t define it and that’s God’s finger on your life that is creating and opening doors, impossible doors to you. Church Gist. When I had nothing in the physical, I had no unbeliever to envy. You’re quoting sinners as preachers. Learn the lesson of the fig tree, not vine. See what they’re going through and see how God has exempted you.
The love of many shall wax cold and that implies that you must keep your love on fire. Church Gist. Like said in the morning one of those teachings, the love of God entitles you to wear God’s presence and by the time we get to the social challenges, you’ll know that it’s beyond having things, it’s possessing God that guarantees your dominion in this endtime. Church Gist. Do your best to get all of the teachings at Shiloh, they’ll be lifelines for your escape from hard times.
David the Psalmist was growing cold at a time, “all that said there’s no God, see how they’re flourishing”. Church Gist. He said, “stop that! You’ll soon look for them diligently and you shall not find them. There’s nothing to look up to there, look on to me”.
3. The Faith of many shall fail. Jesus said, “When the son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8. The Faith of many shall fail. Luke 22:32. So, faith can fail. Weak faith can’t stand the horrors of the hour. Little faith can’t ride the storm of the day. “Why are you so fearful? Oh ye of little faith”. Church Gist. Little faith can’t ride the storm of the day. Invest in building your faith. Don’t wish, work at building your faith. Our faith has unlimited capacity for growth. It says ‘Thy faith groweth exceedingly’ It has unlimited capacity for growth. Invest in building your faith from no faith to little faith, little faith to strong faith, strong faith to supernatural faith. Invest in building your faith.
At the time I went to our minister’s conference here and brought my diaries. Good news, they’ve been turned into books. Amen. Volumes 1 and 2 will be declared during this Event. They are going to be up to 20 volumes, 500 pages, of my time in His presence and my writing fingers, no assumptions. Church Gist. I wrote it by my hand so, it can’t crash. Handwritten paper can’t crash. Amen. Paper can’t (crash). I write everyday o, everyday. Little faith can’t ride this storm. You will play games in the process. Even we preachers, you can preach yourself dry that there is nothing more to say than to make some noise.
Popular saying in those early days of Kenneth Hagin’s powerful ministry, ‘Build your faith and starve your doubt’ Build your faith, lay your doubt to rest. There are things God is telling you to do that you don’t have the faith capacity to step out. You don’t have it, not that you don’t want to. You don’t have it. Nobody can lay faith on you. Church Gist. The Spirit of Faith is all about grace to build your faith and put it to work. Even the Spirit of faith requires the Word to stay alive. It can be grieved, it can be quenched. By the time you start talking contrary to faith, you are grieving it. If you don’t stop, you kill it.
1 Timothy 4:1. Their faith can’t stand the storms. Faith in good times is not a problem, little faith can handle that. The Disciples were on the Sea, they were having a nice time. Church Gist. When the storm came, they said ‘Master, we perish, we don’t have capacity for this one’ Jesus said, ‘Where is your faith, my friend?’ Their faith couldn’t withstand the storm. Matthew 8:25,26. Don’t wait for faith to grow, grow your faith.
4: Many deceivers and false teachers shall arise. (This) is one of the challenges of the end time and in the hour that we live. Many deceivers and false teachers will rise. Matthew 24:11. 2 Peter 2:1-3. They come in their numbers. A number of ministers around the World are merely Gospel merchants. ‘If you have this crowd of people and they give just 5 dollars each, that’s a lot of money’ and then you come to the Church, you start prophesying to secure the 5 dollars per person. (laughter) Amen. Church Gist. ‘If you want to be healed instantly, make it 10 (dollars). You want God’s hand upon your life on the spot like you see in my life, my God! make it 20 (dollars). You want to ride the storms of life without any stress, a 100 dollars’ and they know inside their knowing, that it’s all games. They know within their knowing that it’s falsehood, because they are not in the Covenant. So, the only way to get through is to take advantage of people. We don’t have them in this Family.
– Come on, give the Lord a big hand of praise.
We believe in the dignity of the Gospel. The day I will take advantage of any man for Christ’s sake, you won’t meet me on the Earth. Grace has helped me to this point, I can’t sell off at this point. Church Gist. That I will come to you and paint a picture to access your pocket. No. One of my friends was taking an offering here years ago and I said ‘Shhhh’ (Stop talking). A very great friend, has a lot of insight in the Word of God, but no, no. You don’t need money to access my blessings.
God told me this morning, ‘I’m not asking you to give because I’m in need. I’m never in need. I’m asking you to give so I can meet your need’ Come on, will God ever be in need? ‘If I were in need, will I call you? Are you in the class that I can consult?’ That ‘Hey! David, I need o’ I say ‘What about?’ ’10 nations are in trouble. I need to sort them out. Church Gist. Can you help out?’ I say ‘Ehn? Help who?’ You and I are not in the class that God will require to consult if He ever has a problem. Psalm 50:10. He says ‘I’m not asking you to give because I’m in need. I’m asking you to give for me to meet all your needs according to my riches in glory. So, you are not giving to meet my need’
People want them (the crowd) to believe they are giving to meet God’s needs. ‘Haba’ That’s an insult. It’s an insult to your God. That God needs me to be God. ‘Haba’ ‘So, who will make me to be me?’ God will never need any of us to be God. We need Him to be what grace has programmed us to be in Him. So, when you give, don’t give as meeting God’s need, no. Church Gist. He says ‘Which house are you going to build for me that you are now bragging? Which house will you build? All these houses are mine. My hands hath made. Unto this man will I look, that He hath a contrite spirit, who trembles at my Word’ There is nothing you give to God to cajole Him. Nothing, sir. So, relax. Relax yourself. You know, today people say ‘I buy into the anointing’ Don’t you read chapter 8 of Acts of the Apostles? ‘Your money perish with you’ They don’t buy with money.
– Somebody is free tonight
Because if you don’t build yourself, the enemy is not the problem, it’s our own carelessness that he is taking advantage of.
– Thank you, Jesus.
Many deceivers will rise, they will be in their numbers. Titus 1:10. It’s not new. 1 Timothy 4:1,2. Dead conscience.
5: Many shall be offended and give up on God in this hour. ‘If God would do anything, He should have done it by now. By now, He should have done it. I understand by now He should have done it. The problem is they don’t understand what you are going through. Papa will just be saying give thanks, can I give thanks in this type of thing? I can’t give thanks. I think people should be talking to Papa himself to know we are going through something. He can’t be telling us to give thanks. Give thanks for what? I’m not giving thanks. Let God do His worse’
I preached a message in the early days of the Ministry ‘Blessed is he who is not offended on me’ A woman that was barren got her miracle from there. Whoever contended with God and hath prospered? You give up on God, you are giving up on your life. Who will help you if God does not help you? A time comes when the help of man will fail. That King said ‘If God does not help you, where will I help you from? I’m as much as in need as you. Church Gist. I came out of my house, there is (was) no food to eat in my house. You may think I’m King, but I had to go out. If God does not help you, where will I help you from?’ Many shall be offended in God. Can I see what makes me fear? Luke 17:1. Offences will come, things to offend you. To be offended in God is to sign up for failure, you become helpless in the journey of life. If God turns His back on a man that’s the end of him.
– I’m not giving up, I’m not down. I’m not giving up, I’m not down. My God will do it again just like before. I’m not giving up, I’m not down.
In case you are at the verge of giving up, you are not giving up on God oo, you are giving up on life because whether you give up or give in, God is still God (Laughing). Whether you disappear or appear, God is still God. There is nothing you and I do that will ever affect God nor tamper with His status. Refuse to be offended in God! You know what will keep you going? The joy of eternity that’s ahead of you. Hebrews 12:2. Church Gist. Just let that eternal goal be what controls your attitude. Amen! 🎶 Colourful and is bright I must get there, my future is bright I must get there, my future is bright I must get there 🎶. Heaven is colourful sir. There is always what to endure before you arrive at what to enjoy. There is always what to endure before you get to the realm of what to enjoy. There is always what to endure!! Before you arrive at what to enjoy. Refuse to be offended in God, it will keep opening new chapters to your life. Refuse to be offended in God.
When my wife came under that grievous attack of death. I never said once: ‘You know Jesus, You know I’m serving You! (Speaking a Yoruba Language and laughing). You know God I am Your servant and I pray for the sick and they are healed’. ‘Eh! What an expert you are’. It never came out of my mouth once and not in my heart once. If God does not help you, where will I help you from’? It is the beginning of offences! ‘God! You ought to have done this by now. Church Gist. Who told you? He told me sometimes, He said: ‘Hey! Listen! Your times are in My hand, My times are not in your hand’. Psalms 31:15. Our times are in His hand, His times is not in our hand. Ecclesiastes 3:11. In His times! In His times, stop gasping. If you don’t want to lose your peace, keep pace with God! To secure your peace in life, keep pace with God. We were once under a grass cathedral but before then we were in the Open Air, service had to start as at 5:30 (a.m) in the morning to beat the Sun. Once anointing comes, the Sun meets us here (Laughing). Outside! Open air, in a city not in a village and then someday, we built a grass cathedral in one week.
We spent 23,000 (naira) to build that Heavy Cathedral and you hear me say: ‘This is the largest grass cathedral in the World, if you see anyone, let me know’. What a joy! Instead of being angry: ‘This is the largest… ‘ Have you ever seen a cathedral larger? Grass Cathedral? No! You can’t find it! Amen! Church Gist. Now, are we still under the Grass now? We were there under the wind conditions you know? Because the Grass has perforations so the air comes in, natural air, very healthy. We were jumping and dancing in that Place. Some of you are here right now. One of us came up some two Sundays ago, he said: ‘I’m forty years in this Church today’! He was among the first members of this Church in Kaduna, so they saw it! Refuse to be offended in God so you don’t get stranded in life.
Say: Help me, Jesus!
If I don’t see anything, I can see eternity waiting for me. That’s more than enough. Give the Lord a big hand of praise! Hallelujah!
Now, let’s run through the social challenges of the Hour.
1. Wars and rumours of wars as nations continue to rise against nations.
The Earth is pregnant with war, people are building capacity for war. Some are over-set to take on other nations. Some nations are moving other nations against some nations so they can fight. And the challenges that come along with war, they are inestimable, do you know? We’ve known nations that have gone through wars in this part of the World and how long it took them to rebuild, many are still rebuilding up till now. Church Gist. Famine which connotes drought, hunger is coming to hit the World. At this time, the God you have is the only way to make a difference. Pestilences which connotes pandemic, plagues. Sir, at this point, divine presence is the only security, divine presence! When COVID-19 hit, so many lives went off, the fear of it killed many not the COVID itself, the fear of COVID. Pestilences connote global pandemics and plagues. The solution at this point is not material, it is divine. Without a divine covering, anybody will be lost, anybody can be erased. Exodus 11:1. Pestilences! All the cattles of the Egyptians died one day, their feet were destroyed one day. At that time, only His presence will count. That’s why he (the enemy) goes about to destroy the love of people for God because that’s the only way to wear His presence. 1 John 4:16. When your love goes cold, God goes out! Praise God!
-The same way He exempted you from the plague of COVID-19, He will do it again. So those pestilences are not targeted at you. Church Gist. No! They hit Egypt diversely, Israel was untouched. No matter what hits the World – as a pestilence, as a plague, it will be minus you. Can I hear your loudest Amen?
Ephesians 6:16. Your faith must be in place, your love for God must be burning hot to keep His presence and to silence the enemy.
-Somebody’s story is changing!
There shall be earthquakes in diverse places. That talks about natural disasters, they seem to come little, little but you find flood today, flood tomorrow, here tomorrow, there tomorrow. What they call the earthquake of the sea. There is earthquake in the Sea, earthquake on the Land – Everywhere is quaking. At that time, only His presence will secure our exemption. You are on the Sea and the Sea quakes, how do you go through? His presence will make the difference. You are in the Air and the Storm went wild, how do you escape? His presence. We can’t pray these things off but we can take cover against them, we can’t pray them off sir but we can take cover against them. Church Gist. Matthew 24:8. He said: ‘These are the beginning of sorrows which connotes devastation and despair. What can anybody do? Tomorrow we die!! We find heads of families calling them and saying: ‘Well, just to let you know, there is nothing more I can do, let’s get ready to die! I mean, you confess your sins and then; you could confess your sins and go to Heaven’. You find some hits that came, women were eating their own children! Women! The heart of women for children is too soft, than to say: ‘Okay, come, let’s eat your child and tomorrow we eat my own’. For how long will that last you’? Where people will come and say: ‘Buy us! We don’t have anything more to use to buy anything, buy us! We are available, enslave us! What are we doing with freedom? Enslave us’! Just give us food to eat – Beginning of sorrows!
-I see you exempted in grand style. Can I hear your loudest Amen?
Now, as we close, let’s go through the good news of the Hour. Matthew 24:14. ‘And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the World’. That talks about global spiritual awakening! That talks about, Gospel explosion (which) will take place before the End comes!! Ain’t you excited? That no challenge of life, spiritual and social can douse that agenda. The Endtime is the golden age of the Church. Oh my God! How else will I say this? The Endtime is the golden age of the Church. I had this visitation, it just got me lifted. Yes! It’s a time of horror for the World but a time of unquestionable honour for the Church. It’s a time of gloominess for the World but a time of glory that excels for the Church. It’s a time of crisis for the World but a crowning season for the Church (Laughing). Amen? Get excited!
-You are in your crowning season at last!
2. The Church shall occupy a central stage in the affairs of the World in these end times.
Micah 4:1-2. The Church will become the City of Refuge for the World. Authority shall be vested on the end time Church. Nations will seek solutions from the Church. The Church of the end time will be at the centre of global affairs. I am not a contributor to this prophetic word, He just gave me insights into it. In the last days… There are no two last days. Micah 4:1-2. Wait a minute! In those days when we say a convention was full in any major ministry, we were talking about 500 people. Church Gist. When it is 1000, that is there is no space in the inn. That is everything is overflowing. That is the largest you can ever imagine. Church Gist. None of these precious people from across the nations was paid for by any Church, they came on their own to seek the Lord in Zion. They were not there before. Those things were not there before. We were called mushroom churches. Churches that won’t last. Mushrooms don’t last. We were the stone rejected by men but we see with our eyes open, Jesus’ empire growing in their numbers. Righteously so, biblically so, no games no gimmicks. It is a brand new day. We are in the last days.
I was telling them at the Ark, let’s create baptisteries not outside but in the basement because national leaders will come down here for water baptism. I saw it! In 1986, I gave a word that a Nigerian President would come on our platform and say Praise the Lord. In 2000 that Word came forth. The President came here and the first word that came from the president then on this platform was “praise the Lord.” It was spoken forth in 1986. The end time Church is leading global affairs.
The only way out for the world is to resort back to the Church, that is the light of the World to deal with the darkness of the day. Don’t listen to Papa, what is he talking about? Deuteronomy 18:18. He puts His Word in the mouths of His servants. Prophets don’t speak what they want to speak, He puts His Word in their mouth. Church Gist. I speak to you by the authority of scriptures. The Church of Jesus Christ will occupy the centre stage in the end times. The Church of Christ will become the solution centre of the world. Is somebody excited?
Among the good news: There shall be an outbreak of revelations. Teach us His ways, we can see it working in your lives and we will walk in His path. Outbreak of revelation is coming to the Church. Isaiah 11:9. Jeremiah 31:34. That is God’s agenda – They shall all know me. People will be flowing in revelation like water. Church Gist. I am sure the Church is already experiencing that but the tempo will be on the increase. God’s people will be able to say God told me from Luke 1:1, not from some funny dreams. God told me from Matthew 21:2. People will be flowing in revelation.
In 1984, some forty years ago we were in that prayer meeting preparing for the next phase of the ministry and on the 6th of September from Psalm 34:5, we were on the mat in that prayer room and the Lord said to me “My son, you have two eyes. Can you make one to look up and the other one to look down? Church Gist. Any time you are looking up to man, never claim to be looking up to me.” Psalm 34:5. What is that one with two eyes? Revelation! That is what we are calling tangible biblical revelation. Tangible! It is coming to reposition you for the next phase of your life. It is your turn at last.
Revelation will be flowing like springs of water inside God’s people in the end time. Like I said earlier, revelation is the cure for all frustration and devastation. Life will shatter any level of darkness any day, any time, anywhere. Light will shatter any degree of darkness any time, any day, anywhere. We shine with light, we don’t stink with light. We fly with light, we don’t get grounded with light. Isaiah 60:8. It is a flight by light. Light came in verse 1 and flight took off in verse 8. Isaiah 60:15, do you know what that means? I will turn you into breadwinners. Eternal excellency, the joy of many generations. Isaiah 60:22. Church Gist. Men and women like nations will start rising. Isn’t that good news? Men and women like nations will start rising in the Body of Christ. National and global breadwinners will start rising. The employers of labour in the world will be from the Church. The Church will command the economy with authority. They will command the education sector with authority. All the springs of life shall be domiciled in Zion. Psalm 87:1-7. The Almighty Himself shall establish her. It is not a political arrangement. That is the time in which we are living so get excited about life. Horror is coming for the world, honour is coming for you. Shame and reproach are coming for the world, glory and honour is coming for you. Hunger is coming for the world, you will be feeding many. Giants the kind never known will be rising from the Church.
Joel 2:1-4.
What is he talking about? Joel 2:11. In the midst of gloominess and darkness, there shall be an army of saints, the kind the world has never seen before. Church Gist. The Lord gave me that Word, November 29, 1983. He said, “an army is rising, the kind the world has never seen before” and it’s happening. You can’t have a Church member just say, “rise up and walk”, no, only Pastor and Evangelist do that before. Praise God! You’re going to work and you hear them crying and you say, “what happened?” They said a child just died. “Clear the way”. You’re going to work oh. Then you bring your oil out, “in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise”. The child rose. “Okay, God bless you. Bye”. Church Gist. On your way to work, not that you’re just coming from the prayer room. A great army is rising in the midst of the darkness and the gloominess. Aren’t you excited about that?
– it’s your turn at last!
Let this excite you to the point of greater dedication to God, the only way to secure your place on this positive side. Church Gist. The big question to answer, “who is on the Lord’s side?” Who is on the Lord’s side?!
– Come on, give the Lord a big hand of praise!
Now, the good news is, as God begins to promote and lift His people, the anger of the wicked will keep rising as we saw there in Psalm 112:10. How? Luke 21:18. Church Gist. The anger of the wicked notwithstanding, for great is He that executes His Word. He’s the one executing the agenda, it’s not our smartness, our strength or our skill. Joel 2:11. Numbers 23:20. When God executes an agenda, it is irreversible. So, relax regarding the anger of the wicked. Not an hair of your head shall perish! That is, “I will place a seal of preservation on your life”. Isn’t that good news? When people rise in the world, it’s always at a risk. Church Gist. The enemy is hanging on, “eh, never! Not here. Lie lie” and then suddenly he brings tussles.
– the desire of the wicked concerning you shall perish! They shall melt away!
It is lifting with security. Do you think the enemy is happy about the explosion of the Church of Christ on earth today? Okay. Church Gist. Why was the Church the first one to shut down because of COVID-19? They didn’t shut down the market. The most orderly human system in the earth, the Church, was the first one to shut down. That tells you what the agenda was. I saw it oh! God stirred me up to stand against him and the Church of Christ rose and COVID-19 was messed up. Church Gist. We were among the major players of making it happen. If we sit nail to nail, leg to leg, feet to feet, COVID-19 can’t come. All the people that came in here for conference and convention, they returned back covid-free. Psalm 112:10. What a joy tonight!
We have seen the challenges, spiritual and social and we are seeing the good news from Heaven concerning you and I. What a joy.
– nothing will go down in your life!
– nothing will go down in your hand.
– a thousand may fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand but they will not come near you!
– because you have set your love upon Him, therefore will He deliver you! He will set you on high because you have known His name!
– with long life, He will satisfy you and show you His salvation.
– now lift up your two hands and give God heavyweight thanks for light and for showing you and I how to position to be part of this crowning age of the Church.
– thank you Jesus! Amen!
Five things to do to get on God’s side at this time:
1. Keep building the faith that works. Build your faith out of weakness to strength. Romans 4:20.
2. Continue to wage war against sin in all its ramifications. Continuous war, not once in a while. Continuous war against sin to be found worthy in this crowning age of the Church.
3. Begin to grow in your dedication to God and the interest of His Kingdom.
4. Begin to do works against spiritual deceptions by growing in the revelation of the truth, lest you be deceived. Adam was deceived out of the Garden of Eden into the wilderness. Church Gist. The only way out of deception is revelation. Keep building your revelation bank that will expose falsehood as they come near where you are.
5. Continue to build our love for God so we can emerge as more than conquerors over the oncoming challenges. You wear His presence.
If you’ll do these things, I think you’re okay and to continue to do them, not just do them for once. James 1:22-25.
– may we succeed to remain on God’s side.
– may those who are offside be repositioned tonight!
This is the ever winning side of life, being on God’s side. It’s the failure-proof side of life – being on God’s side. Church Gist. It’s the enviable part of life – being on God’s side.
– may each one receive the grace required to remain on God’s side permanently.
– may you never go off God’s side!
– may God never turn His back on any of us in the name of Jesus Christ!
– so shall it be!
– one more time, help me give the Lord a big hand of praise with a heart of gratitude.
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