THE END TIME CHURCH IS ORDAINED A PLACE OF ATTRACTION.
UNTIL THE RESULT OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE CATCHES MEN’S ATTENTION, IT’S NOT YET EXPLOIT.
YOU ARE NOT ORDAINED TO LIVE AN AVERAGE LIFE NEITHER ARE YOU ORDAINED TO BE ON THE GROUND.
THE END TIME CHURCH IS ORDAINED A CHURCH OF GIANTS.
OUR CHARISMA CAN GIVE US A PLACE ON THE EARTH BUT IT IS THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT THAT WILL GIVE US AND RETAIN OUR POSITION IN ETERNAL LIFE.
GOD RESISTS THE PROUD. IF MAN RESISTS YOU, YOU CAN RUN TO GOD BUT IF GOD RESISTS YOU, WHERE CAN YOU RUN TO?
YOU ARE PERMITTED TO START SMALL BUT YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO DIE SMALL.
WHAT GOD REVEALS TO YOU IS WHAT REVEALS YOU TO YOUR WORLD.
MEEKNESS IS A VITAL REQUIREMENT TO BE ENLISTED IN THE END TIME ARMY OF GIANTS.
YOUR LEVEL OF SPIRITUALITY IS WHAT DETERMINES THE QUALITY OF YOUR MEEKNESS.
MANY LADIES ARE STILL SINGLE BECAUSE OF THE SPIRIT OF PRIDE AT WORK IN THEM.
STOP PRAYING THAT GOD SHOULD MAKE YOU GREAT INSTEAD PRAY THAT HE SHOULD BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE SPIRIT OF MEEKNESS BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT MAKES MEN GREAT.
MEEKNESS DOES NOT QUESTION NOR ANALYZES GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS, IT SIMPLY OBEYS.
THE APPLAUSE OF MEN CAN BE DECEPTIVE. DON’T LET IT GET TO YOU.
WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO ARROGATE THE GLORY TO YOU, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE?
– Pastor Yinka Folorunsho (Vice President Church Network) on “THE MEEKNESS FACTOR IN THE SCHOOL OF EXPLOITS ” || SHILOH 2023 – Day 4 Hour of Visitation || REDEEMED TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES || 8th December, 2023 || First Word Session || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota ||
This morning, I want to share with us by the privilege I’m given on the topic “THE MEEKNESS FACTOR IN THE SCHOOL OF EXPLOITS.”
Every child of God is redeemed for a life of exploit not a mediocre.
What is Exploit?
Exploit simply means outstanding record breaking achievement. Everything about God is outstanding and to be outstanding simply means to stand out. Church Gist. Stand out from your contemporaries. To be singled out. To be distinct.
Mathew 5:13-15. So our life is destined to be outstanding.
– Wherever you have been hidden, after this Shiloh 2023, you shall come to limelight in the name of Jesus!
So every child of God is ordained for a life of exploits. Where you are now may be good but the good news is that it is not good enough. Church Gist. There is a new level waiting for you. Where you are is tired of you, your new level is waiting.
– After this Shiloh 2023, you are moving to that new level in the name of Jesus.
Until the result of God in your life catches men’s attention, it’s not yet exploit. Until your life, your family, your business, your vocation becomes an attraction, that’s not yet exploit. Church Gist. You are not ordained for the average life neither are you ordained to be on the ground. You have nothing to do on the ground. Your place up, your place in front is already waiting and I decree by the power of God, after this Shiloh, you will occupy it in the name of Jesus!
God wants every area of your life to be a positive reference. Isaiah 60:15.
– Wherever you have been neglected, wherever you have been rejected, as you get back, you will be accepted in the name of Jesus!
The end time Church is ordained a Church of giants according to Biblical prophecies. Church Gist. A Church of giants not a Church of dwarfs. We are in the family of giants, we cannot end up as dwarfs.
– We have been so inoculated with light on this Mountain, that’s why I know as you go back, your story must change for good in the name of Jesus!
– Those who thought nothing good can ever come out of your life, as you get back, they shall be ashamed in the name of Jesus!
Micah 4:1-2…That is Biblical prophecy that this end time, Zion will be a place of attraction. When He talks about Zion, He talks about you and me. Church Gist. That is to say, everything about our life will be attractive. People will flow by the testimony of God in your life.
– All those that have mocked you before, they will hear your testimony after this Shiloh! If you believe it, shout the loudest Amen!
Why will they not come? Because they know your situation before and now see how God is changing and beautifying your life.
– Everyone that have beat their chests and said: let me see how she will prosper, let me say he will marry, let me see how his business will prosper, they will be ashamed in the name of Jesus!
Zion is the place for giants. Psalm 87:1-7. That’s the birthplace of giants. By the Word of God we have been receiving on this Mountain since Shiloh began, I’m sure something has been stirred in somebody. Church Gist. Somebody has began to see his true nature and identity. Somebody’s mentality has changed. Hallelujah!
– You are going back not as you came!
– Oh, you came here defeated but you are going back victorious.
– You came here with your head down, now your head is up in the name of Jesus!
– Whatever was not working before, it begins to work in the name of Jesus.
– No more struggle in your life! If you believe it, shout the loudest Amen!
He said “men shall flow.”
– Do you know that by what God is doing in your life, every member of your family as the Lord liveth will follow you to Church!
– All those you have begged from them before, they will be the one begging from you now!
That is the Word of God. This last day, giants, saviours in different aspects of life, saviours, those who matter, those are the people that will be found in Zion.
– So in whatever area of life you find yourself, by the light that you have received on this Shiloh Ground, I decree: positions you have never handled before, they will call you in the name of Jesus.
– Volumes of businesses you have never handled before, they will beg you with it in the name of Jesus!
– People that matter in your profession, people that matter in your business, they will be seeking to see you in the name of Jesus! If you believe it, shout the loudest Amen!
Stop looking at where you are now, there is already a gene of giant inside of you. Where you are now cannot determine where you are going. Church Gist. You are permitted to start small but you are not permitted to die small. “A little shall become a thousand.”
– I decree, your position is changing in the name of Jesus!
That is the picture of the end time Church – a Church of giants. But a principal requirement to be enlisted in this glorious end time army is the virtue of meekness. Can I hear somebody say ‘meekness?’
This picture we have just painted from Scriptures is accessible but not to all – to the meek. Church Gist. Matthew 5:5…They shall be in charge. They shall take charge in their various endeavors in life. “Blessed are the meek.”
Truly meek people are blessed people. You can’t be meek and not be blessed. “They will inherit the earth.” Whatsoever Jesus died for, it will be their legitimate possession. The meek! Meekness is therefore, a vital requirement to be enlisted in this end time army of giants. Hallelujah!
What is Meekness?
It simply means humility – to be humble…and to understand the meaning of meekness, let’s look at what is the opposite. The opposite means to be proud. So it is either you are meek or you are proud.
Meekness is one of the fruits of the Spirit. So, it is a spiritual virtue, it’s not mechanical. It’s not what you can judge facially. Church Gist. No! Because some people look very pious from outside but they are very proud inside. Galatians 5:22-23. So meekness is one of the fruits of the Spirit which everyone of us needs in order for the fulfillment of our destinies. Meekness!
Let’s not be carried away by charisma. Charisma is good but much more, the fruit of the Spirit is what guarantees our position in Heaven, our place in Heaven. Church Gist. Our charisma can give us a place on the earth before people but our character (meekness – the fruit of the spirit) will give us and retain our position in eternal life.
So how spiritual you are is what determines the quality of your meekness. Meekness!
What is in Meekness that Engenders the Birth of Giants?
1. Meekness enhances our access to more grace. Man in himself is insufficient for any good thing except by the help of God which is what we call ‘grace.’ Church Gist. 2 Corinthians 3:5-6. We are not sufficient in ourselves. Can I hear you say “I am not sufficient in myself?” He has made us able – that’s what grace is. Divine enablement.
We are not able. We do not qualify for any good thing but He made us able. It is the grace of God that makes people clap for you even at your error. The grace of God! “Not that we are able, let no man think, he is able.” Church Gist. If there is any good thing that you have seen happening in your life, it is not you or me, it is God. “For every good and perfect gift comes from God.” If it is good, it is God. So don’t mistake it for your capacity, ability. No!
Anytime they tell you “oh, this is great”, point their attention to God and say “it is God.” Don’t be like that woman that they looked at her and say “oh, you are looking beautiful.” She says “ehen, I didn’t even wear powder.” Church Gist. Anytime they tell you anything good around you, point their attention to God. The grace of God!
Grace simply means divine help. What meekness does, it enhances our access to greater grace. James 4:6. The way to enjoy continuous grace in our lives is to remain humble, to put down ourselves so that God can lift us. Church Gist. The one God lifts is the one that is truly lifted. When God lifts you, no man can bring you down.
So, to have access to more grace, stay humble. “God resists the proud.” That’s one of the dangerous aspects in Scriptures. Church Gist. If man resists you, you can run to God but if God resists you, where can you run to?
God resists the proud. God stands in the way of the progress of the proud because God knows if he succeeds, he will steal His glory and God says “I will never allow any man to steal my glory.” So, God stands in the way of that individual.
Some people have been binding satan to let them go but it could be that it’s God that is standing there because God sees their hearts. Church Gist. If He allows them, that thing they are asking, He will lose them. They will steal all His glory.
To have more access to grace, we must remain humble. Praise the name of the Lord!
2. Meekness enhances access to increasing revelation. Psalm 25:9. God will only teach the meek. It’s only the meek that is teachable. The proud knows everything. He has come to Shiloh now, he is just marking everybody. He says “this message, I heard it last 10 years – in Shiloh 1999, I was one of the people that was here.” Church Gist. He is not listening to anything because he knows everything. Even God can’t teach him because the last instruction God gave him, he argued and argued until God left.
“The meek will He teach, the meek will He show.” God shows the meek His secrets. Church Gist. What God shows you is what shows you to the World. What God reveals to you is what reveals you to your world.
Revelation enhances our elevation, our lifting in life. That’s what happens to the meek. He has access to increasing revelation.
When you contact revelation, you keep going up in life. Paul said “I went up by revelation.” Revelation takes people up.
– I decree: after this Shiloh 2023, everything concerning you will be going up in the name of Jesus!
3. Meekness enhances believer’s obedience. Meekness enhances our obedience, delightsome obedience. Meek people, they respond swiftly to God’s instruction. Church Gist. Psalm 112:1-3. Be delighted in obeying God swiftly. Meekness does not question God’s instructions, does not analyze God’s instructions, it simply obeys.
We’ve heard so many instructions given to us to by various lights that came our way that need instant obedience, that need us to go back and take definite steps of obedience. Meekness enhances our obedience.
The moment you see yourself struggling with God’s instructions then there is no meekness in the heart. Church Gist. The moment you see yourself contesting God’s Word because it does not suit you in that area, that is an expression of pride.
– I pray: the Spirit of obedience comes upon us in the name of Jesus.
– The meekness to take every step of obedience whether palatable or not, receive it in the name of Jesus.
4. Meekness makes great. Every meek person ends up great in life. Numbers 12:3. He (Moses) was very meek and very meek turned to ‘very great’. Exodus 11:3. Very meek results to ‘very great.’ He (Moses) was very meek, he ended up very great.
Stop praying “o God, make me great” instead “Lord, baptize me more with the Spirit of meekness.” There are people that we know who were great yesterday but today they are nowhere. Why? The moment God promoted them, their shoulders went up and God had no access to them anymore. Church Gist. These were people that were on the streets for every operation, in the forefront, very aggressive. But now, when God started promoting them, they saw it as children’s business. “How can I go there and just receive my…a whole me!” These were people that were very vibrant serving God in many units but the moment God promoted them, they felt they are too big for such places. They forgot where God took them to lift them and nobody could talk to them again. They call them “oh bro, we didn’t see you in the unit meeting.” “Is it me you came to look for in Church? What’s the problem? Nobody can talk to them again. They walk with their shoulders even to answer greeting is a problem, it’s work. Covenant greetings in Jesus name (demonstrating their response). Everything about them changed and even God became afraid. He says “I have not even given what I want to, I have not yet opened the real door and I am almost losing him. Let me leave him where he was before so that at least, I can retain his soul.”
– I decree: the spirit of pride is cursed over your life in the name of Jesus!
Very meek always end up very great. Don’t let people’s applause deceive you. Don’t let people’s talk deceive you. Sometimes it’s a satanic trap. As they are saying all manner of big things concerning you, they want you to take the place of God and you are shaking your head. Church Gist. You may not talk but your heart is speaking and God sees your heart. As they are saying it, you are nodding in your heart. “Yes, that’s me. You know I have brain” and God is hearing because meekness is of the heart.
Some people have great destinies but they are nowhere. Why? Because of the spirit of pride. God has great destiny for you as a sister, you have been believing God for a husband. God has answered that prayer but you need to make a shift. This spirit of pride must go. Church Gist. It’s not the devil, it’s that spirit. A man calls you to talk to you and then you look at the man from head to toe. You have not yet spoken but the message is clear and the man becomes an automatic stammerer. He says “hallelujah, you are blessed, Amen! God God God, Amen, Amen! Hallelujah! It is well with you.” (Stammering) That’s why you are still where you are even when greatness has been ordained for you. Every word from your mouth is poisonous. When the man summons courage to speak, you look at him and say “ehen, wonders will never end. Is it because we are in the same unit? Please, please, please!” Hallelujah!
– I curse that spirit in the name of Jesus!
Husband and wife with great destiny in their home but they are so stagnated. Why? Because of the spirit of pride. Little little issues, nobody wants to come down. The man is saying “I’m the man of the house.” Church Gist. The woman is saying “I’ve been keeping quiet, now is my time.”…and before you know, they can’t speak in the house. The begin to talk in songs. “I’m not moved by what I see 🎶” and because the man also has no work, he will stay and be singing with the wife “I will exalt you Lord, 🎶🎵 for that has lifted me above my enemy (pointing to the wife).”
– Every such tension, every contest in your home is cursed today in the name of Jesus!
5. Meekness enhances access to divine guidance which makes a believer to ride triumphantly in life. Divine guidance! With meekness, God can lead you. When God leads you, He leads you to a place of safety. Church Gist. When God leads you, He leads you to a point of exploit. He knows the way. No matter the famine that is coming, no matter the hard time that is coming, just allow God to lead you. Be meek enough! It’s leading may not be conventional but it will take you to a place of surplus. Isaiah 48:21.
When God is leading you, He makes the impossibility to become possible. He makes water to come out of rock. Church Gist. That is, no matter how hard the situation is, no matter how hard the economy is, people may be going down but if God is leading you, you will be going up.
– I say: your business will be going up!
– Everything concerning you will be going up in the name of Jesus!
Even Jesus said “I can do nothing but as I hear, I do.” Let God lead you. Some years ago, I was on a privileged assignment in one of the Nations and we were going for an official assignment in one of our Churches. The road was so bad and before I left, somebody said that we have to be careful on that road because the road was bad. Here was the driver, he has been driving for years. As we got on that road, he started driving. I said “you don’t know this road no matter how long you have been driving, just understand you don’t know this road. You need somebody to guide you.” Church Gist. A vehicle just came to pass, a transporter and I said “follow this man, he looks that he knows the road the way he’s driving” and we followed that man. He moves, he will go on this side (demonstrating), I say follow him. Apparently, he knows everywhere there was potholes so he was not slowing down. He was just moving. I said follow him. Anything he does, do. He put pointer, I say put your own pointer. He moves this, I say move quickly. So right in front, policemen were waiting at the roadblock. This man just came, I thought he was going to stop, he just looked at them and put 2 fingers (demonstrating) and they shouted and they passed. I told my driver “put those 2 fingers.” He put the fingers and police said “oh, sir” and I said “yes sir” – we passed.
When God is leading you, there is no go slow, there is no stagnation, there is no distraction.
– Receive meekness to be guided in the name of Jesus!
We have several examples in Scriptures of meekness made giants who through meekness, they came to limelight. When you see such examples, it makes our journey easy in life.
Abraham is one vivid example. Genesis 13:1-15. There was a little strife between the herdsmen of Lot and his (Abraham) and then Abraham said no! Even though it was Abraham that brought Lot. Church Gist. Abraham said no, there is no reason for conflict. You just choose where you want. It’s not all about my right but a right standing with God and Abraham let it go. Lot chose where he wanted. At the end of the day, it was still Abraham that went to deliver his soul.
A meek man cannot be cheated. With meekness, you are not disadvantaged…and that’s why God blessed Abraham so much. Church Gist. In Genesis 22, you see God swore a blessing upon him because of a heart of meekness.
Isaac is another example. Genesis 26:12-14. Despite the famine in the land, it wasn’t a convenient time to sow but because of meekness, it was easy for him to obey God. Church Gist. It was not conventional. Nobody was sowing again because nothing was happening in the land. But Isaac, because of a heart of meekness, chose to believe God and obeyed.
Meekness will always enhance swift obedience…and Isaac obeyed and see how God made him great. Genesis 26:12-14…He (Isaac) was just moving and moving.
– From today that’s how you will be progressing in the name of Jesus!
Joseph was another example in Scriptures. A man with a meek heart. After interpreting the dream in the prison that Butler got to the palace, announced him to the King and Pharaoh sent for him and told him of his dream and he says “I heard that you are an expert.” Church Gist. “I have heard (about) your CV, expert in interpretation of dreams.” Joseph said “excuse me sir, it is not in me, it is God that does it.”
When people try to arrogate the glory to you, what is your response? He said “it’s not in me.” He was a meek man and no wonder God decorated him and made him the second in command to the King. Church Gist. One thing that amazes me most was the fact that when the King was decorating Joseph, he took his necklace and put it upon Joseph and removed his ring and wore it in the finger of Joseph and it wasn’t an oversize. Why? Because from the foundation of the earth, that ring belongs to Joseph. It was only kept in the hands of Pharaoh waiting to test his meekness until he was qualified to get to that point.
God will always prove us before He approves of us and when God approves of us, our promotion is sure.
– That will be your experience in the name of Jesus!
We have talked about Moses. Very meek, he ended up very great.
What more? Gideon. They were confronted with walls around them and the Midianites came against them and Gideon was so passionate, he was so concerned about the things of the Kingdom and then a message came to him “thou mighty man of valour.” Church Gist. He started looking around, “who is the mighty man, where is the mighty man?” And he gave God his correct credential “oh God, in case you have forgotten, my family is the poorest, I’m the least in that family. It couldn’t have been me for this assignment.”
God is not looking for the strong, He is looking for the faithful – the meek. He qualifies the ‘disqualifies’. Church Gist. When you know and you feel qualified, you can’t be found worthy for that lifting.
– I pray today, the Spirit of meekness upon you in the name of Jesus!
Paul the Apostle, an embodiment of grace. 1 Corinthians 15:9-10. What is grace? God in the race. Without grace, everyone of us suffer disgrace. If you take God from any good thing, what remains is zero. Church Gist. We are only products of grace. Let us remain meek. That is the only way to retain the grace of God that makes for exploit in life. Hallelujah!
As we all know, no one can ever outgrow knowledge. No matter how many years we have been in the faith, we will always need to know more. Church Gist. Ecclesiastes 4:13-14…and the only way to know more is to remain meek. No matter how long you have been there, no matter the breakthroughs that God has given to you and I, meekness – we will always require to know more especially when we come before the feet of those that God has sent to teach us the way out of hardship. We must be open and receptive.
Hear what a wise man says “he who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child, teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him.
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