SHILOH IS ENDING TOO FAST. WHAT A MOUNTAIN OF BLESSINGS IT HAS BEEN FOR US.
90 PER CENT OF THE FORCE BEHIND THIS CHURCH’S GROWTH IS THANKSGIVING.
YOU WON’T SUFFER LACK IN HARD TIMES IF YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF THANKSGIVING.
UNTIL YOU KNOW AND EMBRACE OBEDIENCE YOU DON’T KNOW HIS BLESSINGS.
SIN PENETRATES THROUGH THOUGHTS. IF YOU CAN’T STOP THE THOUGHT YOU HAVE CONQUERED THE SIN.
THE LORD CALLED ME TO MINISTRY AND STILL TOLD ME THAT I WILL NEED PRIESTLY BLESSINGS FOR MY JOURNEY
I’VE HAD SWORN BLESSINGS FROM GOD BUT I’VE HAD PLENTY OF PRIESTLY BLESSINGS ON MY LIFE
I HAVE BEEN UNDER PROPHETIC SHADOWS WITHOUT LOSING MY IDENTITY
GOD HAS RESERVED SOME PRIESTLY BLESSINGS FOR YOU ALONG CERTAIN LINES, FIND IT, CONNECT WITH IT AND COLLECT IT
CONFIDENCE IN GOD PUTS GOD’S PEOPLE IN COMMAND OF THE SUPERNATURAL
LIVING ONE’S LIFE FOR GOD ENHANCES OUR QUALITY OF LIFE
THERE’S NO BLESSING IN A PRIEST THAT CAN FLOW TO YOU WITHOUT RECEIVING THE PERSON OF THE PRIEST AND BELIEVE IN THE MINISTRY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN HIM
THERE WAS NO DAY I SAT IN THE FRONT ROW IN MY LIFE AT HAGIN’S MEETING. I DIDN’T NEED THE SEAT, I NEED THE FLOW, IT WILL FLOW ANY DAY.
BABA HAGIN WAS ALIVE WHEN THIS SANCTUARY WAS DEDICATED, WON’T I BE STUPID TO THINK THAT I’M NOW BABA HAGIN’S SENIOR?
I’VE FOLLOWED COPELAND SINCE 1977 NOT TO BE KNOWN, NOT TO BE SEEN. I JUST SAW GOD CONNECT ME AND I BEGAN TO LOOK OUT FOR WHAT GOD SHOWS HIM.
DON’T DESPISE THE FLOW OF VIRTUES INTO YOUR LIFE OR IT STOPS.
THE DAY YOU ARE HIGHER THAN THAT SOURCE, THE FLOW WILL STOP.
THE CHEAPEST WAY TO MESS UP YOUR ENEMIES IS TO TAKE A PROPHETIC COVERING AS GOD MAY DIRECT YOU.
DON’T FEEL THREATENED UNDER A PROPHETIC COVERING, IT IS FOR YOUR GOOD.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ENGAGING COVENANT CHANNELS OF BLESSINGS TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES at SHILOH 2023 Day Four, Hour of Visitation || Third Word Session || REDEEMED TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || 8th December 2023.
Do you know something? Hear this: God answers thanksgiving faster than He does intercession. Thanksgiving is not an accolade, it is not a conjunction in prayer. God hears thanksgiving faster than He does intercession. He never prayed over the five loaves of bread and two fishes. He gave thanks and the bread multiplied. Do you know why? Thanksgiving is the will of God. Intercession requires that you get the correct will of God from scriptures. Thanksgiving doesn’t need scriptures. You can pray amiss but you can’t thank amiss. Church Gist. Jesus got to where Lazarus was and as dead as he was, “Father, I thank you” not “Lazarus, come forth now.” Thanksgiving brought Lazarus out in a moment. Don’t play with thanksgiving, it is the will of God. Hebrews 10:36. Thanksgiving is not a thing you do as you feel or after you have prayed, it is a capital prayer project. You won’t suffer lack in hard times if you know the meaning of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving multiplies food supernaturally.
Now, take it away from here: God hears thanksgiving faster than He does intercessions and supplications. Jesus, I thank you for my family. He says I hear, I will perfect whatever remains there. Jesus, I thank you for my business. Who am I that I should have a business? He says “Eh hen? I hear.” He hears straight. Thanksgiving is one of the addictions of my life. It is not something I am trying to practice. It is an addiction. Our daughter was down and I said “Thank you Jesus, I know you have a way out”. He said, “You got me, here is the way out”. When I say thank Him, you are praying lightly but when I say pray now and be free from the devil, you start praying fervently. Church Gist. Can I tell you this? 90 per cent of the force behind this Church’s growth is thanksgiving. This small church that we are in behind it is thanksgiving. Thanksgiving on two loaves and five fishes. Ceaseless genuine not scornful thanksgiving. Papa said we should thank you so thank you oh. If I don’t thank you they will say I am not a Winner, that I am not a son of the prophet. So thank you. Papa said we should thank you so I am thanking you oh but you know my condition. Genuine thanksgiving advances people. It is your turn for advancement.
Now, thank Him for what He has shown you since you came. As you thank Him, He multiplies it. Thanksgivers of the Word don’t run dry of revelation. May thanksgiving become your new spiritual addiction. Church Gist. Nothing will die around your life again. With genuine thanksgiving, you keep going forward all the way.
Thank you for the first Word, the second Word, thank you for the Choir Ministration, they are all your doings. Church Gist. Take all our praise in Jesus’ name. Speak to us again this time in the name of Jesus Christ.
Shiloh is ending too fast. What a mountain of blessings it has been for us. I will be speaking to what I have captioned “ENGAGING COVENANT CHANNELS OF BLESSINGS TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES”. Church Gist. His blessings, they make rich and add no sorrow with it. Covenant Channels of Blessings. What are the avenues of blessings ordained for us in scriptures? We are looking at four of them in this session.
1. Obedience
Obedience constitutes the principal channel of blessing. It brings us into the blessings and preserves the blessings. We saw Abraham’s flourishing destiny built on the stronghold of obedience. Obedience was the stronghold of Abraham’s walk with God. Obedience! We saw in Genesis Chapters 12, 13, 17 and 22. Tireless delightsome and cheerful obedience. If you are Abraham’s seed you do the works of Abraham. Abraham obeyed into the realm of sworn blessings. Genesis 22:16-18. Church Gist. Obedience is the covenant principal channel of blessing. Deuteronomy 28:1-7. It brings you to the blessings and preserves the blessings. Obedience is the covenant principal channel of His blessings. Until you know and embrace obedience you don’t know His blessings.
Can I tell you the weakness of sin? Sin penetrates through thoughts. If you can’t stop the thought you have conquered the sin. Mark 7:21-23. Instead of fighting something external, conquer the thoughts and you have conquered the vices. Stop the thought. How do I stop it? Engage the Blood against it. The Blood is the only access to our thoughts. The Blood! When the blood comes in, it cleanses us from every dead works or dead thoughts to serve the living God. Hebrews 9:14. It is the Blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel. What does it speak? Church Gist. Liberty! Zechariah 9:12. The blood of Jesus is our stronghold in battle. Zechariah 9:10-12. You can free your conscience not by tongues oh, by the Blood. You better apply the appropriate weapon. If they give you something as an eye drop and you put it in your ears, it will deafen your ears. Tongues can’t clear your conscience, it is the Blood. Diagnosis is of no use if treatment is not correct.
The Blood! That is a lifeline. No evil thought will survive in your heart again. I call that verse “Spirituality Made Simple.” Church Gist. Fight the thought, overcome the thought and you have overcome the act.
Second channel of blessings we are looking at this morning is the channel of Godliness. It unleashes His blessings supernaturally. 1 Timothy 4:7-8. Church Gist. There’s that popular Scripture in Isaiah 32:15-17. It is confidence that puts God’s people in command of the supernatural, confidence in God, not both face and righteousness is what inputs confidence. Proverbs 28:1. So, it turns our wilderness to a garden. Isaiah 51:1-3. So, there’s a turn around that righteousness stirs. Church Gist. Not appropriated righteousness like they are teaching right now, not reviewed righteousness that they are propounding right, Biblical righteousness. 1 John 3:7. Romans 8:6. It enhances our quality of life, living one’s life for God.
Number 3 channel that we are coming in to is Priestly blessing. God pronounced blessing on Abraham and still brought Melchizedek his way to proclaim a blessing that God will confirm. Church Gist. You know God is a God of protocols. Genesis 14:19. That was it. Numbers 6:22. That’s God’s priesthood command for the Priest. Numbers 6:24-27. Watch, “you’ll proclaim it, I will confirm it and with a seal, you put my name on them, it’s my property, this belongs to me. Satan stay off”. Church Gist. Many lack access to Priestly blessing. They just lack it, they don’t even think they need it.
The Lord called me to ministry, I had a wonderful experience in that vision and then, “I would not have you go as others have gone”, He said, “I will have hands laid on you and you shall be filled with the spirit of wisdom after the order of Deuteronomy 34:9”. Church Gist. God told me directly, not that somebody told me. He told me, “you need Priestly blessing for this journey, so you won’t go struggling like others” and I obeyed. God orchestrated it sir, God orchestrated the whole thing, there was no human hand in it. Church Gist. You heard the story several times, Baba in Redemption Camp, I said to Him, I said, God said, because I asked who should lay hands on me, He said him. God has a right to do anything he wants to do. So, I said to him, “there’s a meeting coming on, you’re expected to be here”. What an invitation (laughs). Amen? Not, “are you chanced or you’re not chanced?” He said he’s busy that time that he’s somewhere else. I said to God, he said he’s busy. “He’s coming”. No games. He got through back to me and said, “I’m coming. God told me I must come”. Church Gist. Can’t you see the drama? Don’t fake this thing sir. The rest is history. The wisdom of God packaged for me through that channel is working everyday. One proof of wisdom is pressure-free life. All our ways are ways of pleasantness and all our paths are peace. Proverbs 3:17. Church Gist. When you see tension, it’s wisdom deficiency. Wisdom displaces tension. So, God has reserved some Priestly blessings for you along certain line, find it, connect with it and collect it. It’s so important. Church Gist. If Abraham needed Priestly blessing, you and me need it much more. Galatians 3:29.
I’m a bundle of Priestly blessings. I’ve had sworn blessings from God but I’ve had plenty of Priestly blessings on my life. “Fresh oil Lord, fresh oil”, it stuck. I’ve never known burn out. “Fresh oil, Lord, fresh oil”, that’s all. Hagin proclaimed, “this hand will never know dryness!” Archbishop Benson Idahosa proclaimed, “this hand will never know dryness!” Abraham paid the tithe and God said, “look, you need the blessing” and Melchizedek proclaimed the blessing. Church Gist. This generation is too much. Someone once said, “I don’t want to live under any man’s shadow”, then give birth to yourself. You’re under the shadow of your parents forever. Even when they are dead, you’re still bearing their name. Do you change your name because your father is dead? I have been under prophetic shadows without losing my identity. Church Gist. They are only adding to me, I’ve not added one thing to any of them. The less is blessed of the better. Hebrews 7:7. I’ve not added one thing that I know in my life to them. I don’t have what they need, it’s me that need what they have. “And here again and again, you have not seen anything yet. I’ll be hearing only good news from you, the family, the ministry”. Church Gist. That continues till now. By a raw act of obedience without anything offering connected. “Meet with me tomorrow in Makurdi”. “Yes sir”. Very inconvenient and I did. “So, you came?” “Yes sir”, with a smile. Not “yes sir” with (grunting). “Kneel down! From today, I impart to you the gift of on-time. Before the need arises, the supply will be waiting!” Priestly blessings, they stick to advance our destiny. Don’t bluff Priestly blessings, you can’t buy it in the market. Church Gist. Don’t bluff it in your life forever. They will show you sometimes The Ark projects, we are all watching, all of us, including myself. We are just watching. You have not roofed the building, all the chillers for central air conditioner are here? The chillers here is like a factory. Several tonnes. “Before the needs arise, the supplies (will be waiting)”. Church Gist. Simple obedience, no financial communication, no “when should I come?” There’s a test to pass to cross into obedience.
– may you pass that test!
Now, here is it. There’s no blessing in a Priest that can flow to you without receiving the person of the Priest and believe in the ministry that God has given him. Church Gist. There’s no way, forget about any offering. You receive and believe and then the blessing flows.
The Archbishop is gone to Heaven now about 25 years ago, I’m still there. The day you disconnect the pipe from the means, it will run dry. Hagin has gone to Heaven now, twenty years. I’m still there. Church Gist. So, it’s not enough to connect but to sustain the connectivity and then the grace that flows through that begins to flow. We need this revelation sir.
I never heard from God: ‘This hand will never know dryness’, I heard from a priest. I never heard from God: ‘Before the needs arise, supplies will be waiting’, I heard from a priest. I never heard from God: ‘Fresh oil keep him ever fresh’. Church Gist. I heard from a priest. So when I stand, so many graces are flowing. They call them: ‘The Spirit of Just Men Made Perfect’. (Laughing).
-Somebody’s story is changing.
One of them said to me: ‘You will end up doing twenty times more than where I stopped’! Come on now! (Laughing). You can’t get that for free oo. It’s genuine followership that provokes all things. The day you are higher than that source, the flow will stop. Water never flows uphill, it flows downhill. Only the better blesses the lower. Hebrews 7:7. Church Gist. When you raise up yourself above that source, well done! Baba Hagin was alive when this Sanctuary was dedicated, won’t I be stupid to think that I’m now, eh, Baba Hagin’s eh senior? They say: ‘Why? How many people are in Rhema Bible Church, what’s the capacity? What is nonsense? Is it not from him that it flows? That’s where the problem is. People just raise themselves above their source and the flow stops. (Laughing). They raise themselves above their source and the flow stops.
-Somebody’s connecting right now.
Don’t despise the flow of virtues into your life, don’t despise it or it stops. Don’t ever despise it or it stops. Matthew 10:41 is the control room for that. That’s what enhances the continuity of the flow that never stops. One day, one of them said to me: ‘From today, my sword is your sword and my breastplate is your breastplate’. What kind of breast! (Laughing). Amen! Church Gist. From today, my sword is your sword and my breastplate is your breastplate’. I began to unravel that with time and I discovered that there is nothing that works in their hand that will not work in my hand. Nothing that ever works in their hand, that will not work in my hand. The Sword of the Lord and the Sword of Gideon. Whatever God conquered through him, He will conquer through me. Can I hear your Amen?
There is a place for priestly blessing every believer needs to locate such sources as it relate to their lives. And be reminded, they are not getting nothing from you, sir. Nothing! You sow seed is to lift you, it’s a seed of honour for your honour. They are already honoured, it’s from their honour you are tapping. So, it will help you! But don’t ever think you can use offering to connect. ‘He that receives a prophet…, not he that gives an offering’. Matthew 10:41. Amen! Church Gist. By His grace, we have an hanger at the Airport, we never built it. We never built it! We just called one of us, please erm, have you ever worked at the Airport before? Any construction there? He said: ‘It’s all Civil Engineering’. I said: ‘Okay’! Send us your bill. He came back, he said: ‘God told me to build it’. I said: ‘No! We have the budget for it’! He said: ‘God told me to build it, do not rob me the blessing’. So, we own an hanger we didn’t build. Somebody is confession, I didn’t confess, I didn’t pray, I didn’t do anything!
-God will decorate your life.
From today, He said: ‘My sword is your sword and my breastplate is your breastplate’. Those are blessings you can’t pick in the Market. Church Gist. There is no intercessory prayer that can bring you to that, they come through priestly blessings as ordained by God! As ordained by God! Sir, there was no time they introduced me at Hagin’s meetings, I mean, for what? This short man? How? There was no day I sat at the front row in my life.
-Somebody’s story is changing!
I didn’t need the seat, I need the flow, it will flow any day.
-Somebody’s story is changing.
That does not only just release blessings, it brings a covering. What do I call it? A covering. In these terrific days, we need prophetic covering over our life. Saul was in hot purchase after David to kill him, David fled to Samuel. There was no way the missiles of Saul could get There, as he gets close to the Place, they started prophesying, he just got converted. Saul waited: ‘Ha! They are not here’. ‘Ah! They are already priests oo’! Church Gist. He sent the next one, they started prophesying’. Saul said: ‘I will go there by myself, what nonsense’. He stripped himself naked and was prophesying, live! 1 Samuel 19:24. He was prophesying naked, all day. He was being met by the Holy Ghost under that covering. The cheapest way to mess up your enemies is, take a prophetic covering as God may direct you. Praise God! I’m heavily covered, heavily! Heavily covered! He taught me very early, I didn’t read a book, He taught me very early.
I’ve followed Copeland now since 1977 not to be known, not to be seen, I just saw God connect me and I began to look out for what God shows him.
-Somebody’s story is changing!
Priestly blessings are assets.
-You will not miss it.
The Priest Elijah appeared in the House of the Widow of Zarepheth as led by God to sustain her in famine. Sir, she received him and never knew the meaning of famine for three and half years. 1 Kings 17:15-16. Feeding fat from Heaven’s supplies. Matthew 10:41. That Widow of a prophet in 2 Kings 4:1-7. The husband didn’t go to look for any help so he died of debt. The two sons were collateral for their debt, the wife said: ‘Now, my husband is dead, I better look for help’. And then received a priest, obeyed the instruction of the Priest. She paid off all her debt and was asked to go and live on the rest. Matthew 10:41. Church Gist. One day the Lord said to me, all the seed you returned with with from this trip, give it to my servant. And I said: ‘Sir, for you’! Stretch forth your hand, I put this back in your hand! And from today, you will never know dryness’! They are not consumers! I’ve never had any of my God-sent prophet ask anything from me in my life! No!! He put it back in my hand, he said: ‘No’! Open your hand! I put this back in your hand! Those who are hunting for things they are not prophets sir. Come on now, they are not prophets sir. He didn’t take it sir yet he released the blessing.
Someone brought a vehicle here for a seed and I felt led to find out: ‘Who brought this car’? They brought her! And I said: ‘How are you’? She said: ‘I’m fine’! Your family? She said my husband is dead, I’m a widow’. How do you get children for school’? She said: ‘God is taking care of them’. I said: ‘The Lord spoke to me to put this back in your hand’! He has accepted your seed, there is gonna be an explosion of blessings! Six months after, she came back, ‘It has happened Sir, it has happened Sir’! Church Gist. God didn’t take that seed, it came from a pure heart, it’s not to me she gave, she gave it to the Church and I’m representing God in this Church. So I passed it back to Him as indicated by God and blessings exploded. These priests are not looking for things! No! Anybody looking for things is not a priest, he is a merchant! He is a merchant, sir! Merchant to the core! Let God lead you to where you belong, connect, stay connected and stay under the covering! It is to your benefit! It’s to your benefit nobody is benefiting from it! I’m speaking to you on channels of blessings, blessings are never too much. Malachi 31:10. That’s where you are entering into! That’s the realm you are entering into!
Most of the time they come with instructions from the Word to us. ‘Meet me so, so and so place’. That’s how it was directed and I went. So, you came? Then the blessings that was deserved was released. ‘What do you have in your house’? ‘Nothing’! Okay! Go away! Church Gist. Oh! Except a cruse of oil, can you pour that one? Get as many thing as you can get. Shut the door against yourself and then overflowing oil came. Marketable oil came! Destiny opened up!
-May you be sensitive to these instructions!
One of us, I was told just yesterday, he was erm, had nose cancer. You know? You can’t hear that! But here we were, going to have our monthly Leadership Empowerment Summit. He carries the nose there, as the Word was going forth on transmission, power hit him on that nose and it bursts and began to drop. He testified the Sunday that followed the Saturday. ‘See oo, what came out’! The nose went flat, cancer went dead by simple obedience. Now, somebody was well, he won’t come, he was very well, he was weller than being well but he won’t come: ‘Erm, I can’t leave on Saturday, this is the only time I rest’. Somebody brought his cancerous nose not minding the mockery. He said something like electric came through the screen. Church Gist. (Demonstrating). One day, I said: ‘Meet me in Lagos’ and you were not doing so well in the body at that time, ‘but he said I should come, I should come’, you know what happened in the night? Hei! I told one of our pastors, I said: ‘Leave that country by the next flight’! What’s happening? Have I committed an offence? Next flight’, get out of this Town! He left! Flight came that day around 2 pm, by 5 pm, rainbow struck on the Apartment. That’s a Nigeria missionary. He was a Nigeria Missionary! He was to be dead that night! They don’t threaten people, sir, they offer instructions as inspired by God to secure you.
-Somebody’s life is changed!
Don’t feel threatened under a prophetic covering, it is for your good. Amen!
One of our priests came when my wife was under that attack and he said “I want my daughter out of this town in five days”. I am also a small prophet but I didn’t see that, we packaged her in three days. She is alive today and well. If you truly receive a prophet when He proclaims a blessing your spirit man receives it. Church Gist. All those blessings I don’t have to document them, they are for life. They are inside my spirit. As they were releasing it, it was entering the right place. Whether they did it casually or they did it intentionally it does not matter. I received it because I received them as sent to me for my blessing.
Luke 4:25-26. He sends prophets our ways if we are sensitive to know whosoever He sends. That tells you He sends prophets the way of His people. May you not miss any prophet sent your way. Everyone they sent them to, their story changed. There is no go come about it. Church Gist. Naaman’s flesh was restored like that of a little baby, the Widow was feeding fat for three and a half years. They don’t take from people, they enhance people’s worth. Two things have come through here:
1. if you don’t receive and believe them, you can’t tap into what they carry.
2. You never outgrow them. Don’t let your size of life make you think you are now their equal. The flow will stop the day you think you are now above them. It is gravity. The power of God, the virtue of heaven is likened to a river when you lift yourself above the source of the river, the river can’t reach you anymore. Church Gist. You have entered into dry season. These men are forever above me and I enjoy it. I genuinely, continuously and untiringly enjoy it. I am the best for it, they are adding value to my life.
4. Parental blessings
Exodus 20:12. Parental blessings among others carry the seal of longevity with them. We saw Paul reference that passage in Ephesians 6:1-3. They carry blessings in their bowels for us. Those blessings among other things cause us to prevail where others struggle. Those blessings are even described as prophetic in Genesis 49:1. He is a God of protocol, He arranges blessings in them for us and will provoke the blessings by honouring them – your father and your mother. Let’s see the wonders of these blessings in Genesis 49:22-26. Church Gist. What you have never seen in our generation is coming your way because the blessings cause you to prevail where others struggle. It prevailed. Instead of killing him, they said No! Let us sell him. We need money. Potiphar’s wife said Joseph wanted to rape her. That equals death for the Captain of the Garrison but the blessings of the Lord prevailed. Isaiah 65:8. The blessing of the Father and the Mother preserve and cause men to prevail. Somebody’s life is blessed.
Don’t pull your shoulders against your parents. It is a curse. Don’t put your trousers below your buttocks. “What did you do for me? I can pay you all the school fees you paid.” Proverbs 20:20. You go just go into obscurity straight. Don’t do ‘yanga’ (pride) for your parents in the name of ‘I just came back from America’. Some folks are struggling today because they are using their being outside to disconnect from their parents. They work and work and nothing works. Bring me the venison such that I love that my soul may bless thee before I die. Genesis 27:4. You honour them with what adds value to them and their soul pours out a blessing in response. It is not about what you have, it is about where your heart is. Let honour begin from there. To get home as a student and tell your parents “Just to let you know how much I appreciate you for spending this much on me for my life. I thank you for all your labour” and they say “Come my son, be blessed.” Church Gist. Something jumps out of them for acknowledging their role in your life. I used to tell our University students when they are graduating, write a letter to your parents and if you have the means buy a pair of bathroom slippers so they can use that to go the bathroom. I just brought it for you, it will be quite a blessing as you go into the bathroom for a shower. Just do something that portrays honour from the heart.
Don’t sit in the house as a young lady and your mother is cooking, you are asking “Is my food ready”. You sit down as a young man in the house for six months looking for a job and your father has a business and you are not playing any part in it. Your mother has a business and you don’t have any part to play there. Church Gist. You are just chatting, “Things are tough. I will leave this country any time. Either by road or by ship.” The hardship is self caused. Without genuine honour to your parents, you have lost honour in your life. It is the seed you sow that you reap.
I was moved by God growing up as a little young man and I was led by God to buy some little furniture for my grandmother. Church Gist. The whole sum was 24 naira, that is some two seats and one central table, that was a lot of money. “You brought this for me?” I said, “yes ma”. “You will be great!” It jumped out of her intestine. I was 20 years old. You better know where the blessings lie and collect. You’re eating with 10 fingers, your parents are struggling with what to eat next. “Can I have non-alcoholic wine?” Even the well in your compound in the village is not working. Church Gist. The well where they are drinking water that is not pure. “Can you serve them please? I have some guests here. Serve them snacks”. Your office is now a restaurant. Nobody eats in my office oh, except you cough, they won’t give you anything. It’s not a restaurant, we have so many restaurants here, just go. “He wasted his substance on riotous living and afterwards he began to live in want”. Somebody is saying to me, “I thank God my parents have died” (laughs). Church Gist. There are people they left behind, you can’t kill all of them at the same time (laughs). Amen? In fact, you need to repent even if they’re dead. Repent of your dishonour while they lived. It has gone so bad today that parents pass on to glory, children won’t come. Why? “No flight ticket”. Church Gist. Then what are you doing there? No, you can’t put them together sir. it’s gross dishonour that they’re burying your father on social media for you to watch.
– somebody is free! You’re that individual, let me hear your loudest Amen!
Everybody needs parental blessings. No matter the anointing you carry, it won’t be a substitute. Church Gist. Now, let me tell you the game of the hour, there are some disconnect devices of the devil in these last days to rob us of these avenues of blessings. We have them listed out in 2 Timothy Chapter 3. 2 Corinthians 2:11. He’s full of subtlety, he can deceive anybody. A disconnect from these sources will limit the worth of our lives in several ways. Church Gist. One among the things listed there is, perilous times shall time, troublesome times shall come, turbulent times shall come because men shall be lovers of their own selves. 2 Timothy 3:1. Nobody else matters. “I can approach God directly”. There’s a people here in Judges 18:7-10. They saw a people here that dwelt carelessly. So, they were easy to invade, there were no connections. They invaded Laish and turned the name of the city to Dan. They were written off permanently because they dwelt carelessly and had no business with any man. Judges 18:27. Church Gist. Nobody to rise to help them, so they lost their heritage permanently. The Danites took over the place and changed the name of the city after overrunning them. The people dwelt carelessly, no business with any man, they were lovers of their own selves. “Me, me” like the rich fool. “I will build, I will eat till I die”, he didn’t even mention his wife, nobody could imagine whether he was married or not. “I will eat, I will drink. I have enough to eat and drink, myself alone”. Church Gist. God said, “people like you should not live here. Tonight, I’m taking your soul from you”. They have no business with any man.
Some people’s parents don’t weigh this much to them. I had a friend many years ago in the US and I asked him, “how are your parents doing?” He said, “fine”. I said, “where’s your father?” “Yeah, erhmm, he used to live in this city but he has moved”. I said, “your father?” The trouble of life, people don’t know where it is. Church Gist. You know how they do diagnosis in the hospital to find out where the disease is, this man cannot state specifically where his father was, the father that born him (laughs) and he was in ministry. There’s no Western Bible oh, don’t say, “I’m an American”, American what? The commandment of the Lord is the same, there’s no Western Bible. You don’t honour your parents, you’re losing honour. Church Gist. He said, these folks, these last days people will be lovers of their own selves, whatever they want is final, what you think about them is nothing, they don’t have any business with you. “Are you the only that trained children in school? What’s that? What should you do afterall? Shouldn’t you train me in school?” You’re harassing your parents? Haba! May your children not harass you. Church Gist. So, you find those vices listed, they are determined to disconnect God’s people from their channels of blessings.
People can say, “That God said that doesn’t matter, I have my mind, I know what I’m doing. God can’t force his way on anybody, Papa said so, you just do what you like. What you don’t like, you don’t do it”. 2 Timothy 3:2-4. Church Gist. That’s how people get disconnected from these channels of blessing. Those vices of the endtime, just get them disconnected. Some will talk about their parents and you’ll be wondering, “is that your parent or your guardian?” You can’t pick honour.
– that’s not you!
I’m speaking to all the young men here, you better mind it.
– you’re changing levels!
Please note, prophetic blessings are prophetic in nature. Church Gist. God honours it, God oredered it. When you connect with it, God confirms it.
– May every blessing proclaimed on any of us by our parents find full expression!
– may the honour that brought the blessing never be disconnected from!
– somebody believe that, let me hear your loudest Amen!
Jesus, the Prophet prophets had these 12 folks around him, not one broke down once under that covering. Deuteronomy 18:15. Church Gist. They stood under his covering, they were covered from all the horrors of the hour. “Arise! Let us go”. There was no, “oh, but this one is sick. Let us wait a bit for him”. They were just on the go, 3 and a half solid years with unbelievable schedule. Church Gist. They were on the go, under that canopy, under that covering.
– may you not miss his covering.
You have heard amazing testimonies around the world of people that are under some Priestly coverings in their lives and how much God has used that to rescue them from danger spots.
– you won’t miss your place!
– may the cloud of glory ordained for you under such covering never be despised!
Someone was captured here by kidnappers and suddenly, someone called him, his phone rang and here was I speaking on the phone in tongues. Church Gist. They said, “who is that?” “My father, Bishop Oyedepo”. “Ah! Park! Park! Please tell him we didn’t touch you oh” and they gave him money to go back to where he was coming from.
– someone say “covering!”
– somebody’s destiny is preserved in the name of Jesus Christ.
Not that they are anything of themselves but it is what God made them to be to us.
– may we never miss it!
Some day, the Servant of Elisha saw an army of men, horses and chariots around the Mountain, “Alas Master, what shall we do?” Jittering. Elisha said, “They that be with us are more than they that be with them. Lord, open the eyes of this my son”. Then he saw the Mountain filled with horses and chariots of fire. That one is of flesh, this one is of fire. Church Gist. 2 Kings 6:20. And so they came and Elisha said: ‘Smite them with blindness and they went blind’. With eyes open, they were still able to follow the troop on the track they were leading them, they led them to the camp of their enemy straight on. 2 Kings 6:20. He said: ‘Lord! Open their eyes’! You know what it means? Surrender! Total surrender!
-Your enemies will surrender! Under your God-ordained covering, your enemies will surrender. Church Gist. Your enemies will surrender to you! In the name of Jesus Christ.
Stand to your feet, everybody! Give the Lord a biggest hand of praise! Thank You Jesus!! No one is up to this journey on his own. Church Gist. Woe unto him that is alone. God has put in place people around us, people over us, people with us to make this journey great.
-May we not be trapped by this Endtime vices.
-May we see values in whatever God leads us to do.
-May no one rehearse the truth of Scriptures anymore.
-May these channels of blessings keep flowing in your lives.
-May your pipe and the channel never run dry.
Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God that in due time, He may exalt you! Humble yourself first. Under the mighty hand of God that in due time, He may exalt you. Humble yourself, humble yourself. 1 Peter 5:6. Church Gist. We have talked of that amazingly today, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God that in due time, He may exalt you. Lift up your two hands everybody, speak to the Lord right now!
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In Jesus’ precious name, we have prayed! Blessings in the Kingdom are never too much. For in thee shall of the families of the Earth be blessed. Church Gist. Genesis 12:3. And here we are, even our village is not being blessed yet to the point that we can be called a blessing of the people in the village where we came from. Yet, God has an agenda for us to be a blessing to the World.
-You are going somewhere!
He went ahead to say: ‘You shall lend to many in nations and you shall not borrow’. Church Gist. Ah! So, where are we now? The blessings will never be too much if your heart is open to where God is taking you to.
-My prayer is that no one will miss his place from these channels of blessings. Church Gist. No one will miss his place from these channels of blessings!!
-Lord! Help me to see where you are taking me to so I can remain on track with You. Church Gist. Help me to see where you are taking me to in the covenant so I can remain on track with you!!!
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Many have not impacted on their street, talk less of their town where they live. Very few have impacted on their nation and God is saying: ‘I’m taking you somewhere’! Church Gist. You shall be a blessing to many nations of the Earth. Help me to see where You are taking me to!
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In Jesus’ precious name, we have prayed! Just before we close, prophets among others are sent as fathers to whosoever they are sent. Church Gist. Elisha, the Son of Shaphat said to Elijah: ‘My Father’, my father, the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof’. 2 Kings 2:21. So, prophets are sent as fathers to whosoever they are sent. So there is no fatherless human being on the Earth. Can I hear your loudest Amen? There is no fatherless human being on the Earth. If God has sent any priest along your way, he is also sent as a father to you.
-In the precious name of Jesus, wherever Abraham got in his walk with God, we shall all get there and go beyond there.
That’s a lot of potentials here. Matthew 11:11. John had plenty of potentials that was wasted to carelessness. Wasted! You are sent to the Wilderness, what are you doing in the Palace? Church Gist. ‘King, why should you marry Herodias? How dare you? My name is John, the Baptist’. He just overstepped his boundaries and he was slaughtered by the will of a girl, not that he was in adultery. Slaughtered! Potentials, one! Realization of potential is another.
-Lord! Help me to realize the potentials of redemption that you have put in my life.
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In Jesus’ precious name, I was praying in the morning and I said something, God said: ‘Shut up’! I said: ‘Keep me focused on You’! He said: ‘No! I can only help you to stay focused’! I can’t keep you focused! (Laughing). Lord! Keep me focused on You, are you hearing me’? ‘No! I can only help you to stay focused. I can only help you if you choose to be focused. I can’t choose for you to be focused and I can’t keep you focused but I can help you to stay focused. Church Gist. (Speaking a Yoruba Language). There are things you ask God to do, He will just be looking at us: ‘What are you talking about’? Me, keep you focused? Don’t focus! (Laughing). ‘Lord! Keep me tithing’! Eh? I will be checking you, your account, you know I’m an accountant. I will be checking your book. (Laughing).
Now, will you pray, help me to stay connected to every prophetic channels of blessings on my part. Church Gist. Help me to stay connected to every prophetic channels you have laid up for me. Help me to stay connected!!!
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In Jesus’ precious name, we have prayed. Give the Lord a big hand of praise and get seated, please.
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