THIS CHURCH IS PRIVILEGED TO BE ONE OF THE CHURCHES WHERE MULTITUDES FLOW IN SUPERNATURALLY.
EVERYTHING IN THIS COMMISSION TODAY IS THE HAND OF GOD.
EVERY DIVINE AGENDA IS FOR AN APPOINTED TIME.
GOD’S AGENDA CAN NEVER BE STRANDED.
WE SERVE THE GOD OF TIMES AND SEASONS.
NO POLICY OF MAN CAN STOP HEAVEN’S AGENDA.
GOD HAS THE CAPACITY TO MULTIPLY ANY ASSEMBLY A THOUSAND TIMES AND MANY MORE.
STARS IN THE KINGDOM ARE NOT MADE OF STRENGTH, SKILL OR CAPACITY. THEY ARE MADE OF OBEDIENCE.
IN THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH, LIES THE GLORY OF EVERY ENGAGING BELIEVER.
HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES AND SEASONS WILL ALWAYS PUT US IN COMMAND.
I WAS GIVEN A PROPHETIC LANTERN BECAUSE OF MY COMMITMENT IN PLANTING A CHURCH AT THE AGE OF 19.
EVERY BELIEVER IS REDEEMED A STAR BUT YOU NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY TO EMERGE AS ONE.
DON’T LET THE STAR IN YOU GO TO THE GRAVE WITH YOU.
WE ARE IN THE DAYS OF INFLUX OF GREAT MULTITUDES.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘WHY THIS UNENDING CRAVE FOR CHURCH GROWTH?’ at 21 Days Annual Prayer and Fasting || Day Fifteen || LFC Worldwide ||
According to scriptural prophecies, in these last days, Churches shall be turned to towns without walls. Jesus hung on the tree among others to draw all men unto himself. John 12:32, Zechariah 2:4-5. The last days influx of souls into the Kingdom shall be purely the acts of God. God will be in the center of the event. Church Gist. He will be the one orchestrating the influx. And when Jesus was breathing the last breath, He said “it is finished” – mission accomplished. That means the purpose to draw all men is finished. It is concluded.
But every divine agenda is for an appointed time. Isaiah 2:2-3. So it’s not growth, it is influx. It’s a last day’s agenda. Acts 2:14-17. So, the last day began in the upper room. So we are moving towards the tail end of the last days. You find God bringing His Word to pass on all fronts. Acts 3:20-21. Church Gist. So Jesus is not coming until the Church begins to experience this strange order of influx of multitudes in the Church.
Your Church is privileged to be one of those ones on the Earth today where people are just flowing in by the supernatural hand of God. Can I hear your Amen? So we are on key with divine agenda. Church Gist. It is God’s agenda for the end time Church to transform Church growth to Church flow, influx of people coming into the Kingdom of God. Can I hear your Amen?
So the appointed time is now and we can see Jesus doing that all over the places. We used to be called mushroom Churches growing up from SU (Scripture Union) platform, FCS (Fellowship of Christian Students) platform – mushroom people. Church Gist. There was nothing to us but suddenly He came down and began to do what only Himself can do. So it is not expertise, it’s just the timing. “For He makes all things beautiful in His time.”
We serve the God of times and seasons. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2,11. We are in the time of massive influx of souls into the Kingdom. When the time of a thing is not yet, it’s always an uphill task. Jesus moved towards that fig tree to find fruit, He couldn’t find – for the time of the fig was not yet. So it was like a cursed time. Church Gist. But when the time of a thing comes, you find God stretched forth His hand to begin to make things happen.
Everything in this Commission today is the hand of God. It’s not any man, it’s not any group of people. It’s purely the hand of God working through available individuals. Amen! Church Gist. One day I asked people, I said, look, how many of you came here on your own that nobody invited? It was a crowd. Many among the pastors. Nobody invited them. Jesus went and picked them one by one.
One man came out of his house (or a woman, I can’t remember) and he said as he drove out, the Lord said to him “start following those buses.”…and as he arrived here, he saw the picture of this Place in the night. He has never been here before in his life. Church Gist. As he was going to enter through the Faith or Grace entrance there, it was the picture he saw in the night. He (God) orchestrates this thing by Himself. When we are available, we are available to our benefit. Praise God!
God’s agenda can never be stranded. But sensitive people take advantage of it to their benefit. Church Gist. “If these ones keep quiet, I tell you stones will rise.” Are you angry at this as shouting? When you hear stones rising, you will run. Stones will be singing, you will be hearing. 🎵🎶Use me for your glory, don’t use stones to replace me.
Use me for your glory, don’t let stones replace me.
– Stones will not replace any of us.
– I said, stones will not replace you! Stones will not replace any of us!
So we are in the end time. Isaiah 2:2-3, Acts 2:14-15. So if you put those 2 together, you will know that we are in the days of influx of multitudes into the Body of Christ. Can I hear your Amen? Thank you Jesus!
So having an understanding of the times and seasons will always put believers in command. Having an understanding of the times and seasons will always put us in command. Church Gist. 1 Chronicles 12:32. I believe that’s a prophetic line for the Lord will do nothing to but He reveals His secrets to His servant the prophet. They know what to do per time. They know what God wants done per time. Thank you Jesus!
The good news is it’s time for the over ripe harvest of the World to be brought into the Kingdom. Can I hear your Amen? The time is now. Church Gist. We are right in the center of the time to see multitudes flow into the Kingdom. It shall be so in the name of Jesus!
That’s why the end time Church is ordained for continuous growth. Psalm 2:8, Ezekiel 36:37…you see the prayer dimension there? “Ask of me and I will give you the heathen for an inheritance.” So, it’s time to pray multitudes into the Kingdom. “I shall yet be inquired” – so it’s not a one time thing. Church Gist. Prayers shall be going up, multitudes shall be flowing in and as they flow in, we keep going up in prayers. As more are flowing in, we keep going on in prayers. Thank you Jesus!
We have that repeated in Micah 4:1-2. We are in the end time. No policy of man can stop Heaven’s agenda. “When He stretches His hand, who can turn it back?” No matter the gang up of hell, Jesus is taking over the center stage in the last days. Church Gist. He won’t come until He sends forth His rod of His strength to rule in the midst of thine enemies. Psalm 110:1-3. That’s where we are going. Thank you Jesus!
Therefore, as long as multitudes remain in the valley of decision, the Church of Christ is ordained for continuous growth and expansion. Joel 3:13-14. Church Gist. Multitudes are about giving up, some are just contemplating suicide right now. So we have a rescue mission to get them in. The harvest is ripe. Praise God!
So we are praying up and we are going forth on a rescue mission. We are praying them into the Kingdom bringing the hand of God to bear and we are going out to partner with Jesus reaching out to them.
This God has the capacity to multiply any assembly a thousand times and many more. Deuteronomy 1:11. He has the capacity to multiply any assembly a thousand times. Church Gist. He multiplied the Church in the upper room 25 times in one day – from 120 to 3,000. 25 times in one day. Don’t joke with God. When it’s time for His agenda, He delivers.
– May we all be beneficiaries of this glorious agenda in the name of Jesus! Thank you Jesus!
Be reminded that in the growth of the Church, lies the glory of every engaging believer – not lies the glory of believers…Lies the glory of every engaging believer. Church Gist. Jeremiah 30:19-21. So in the growth of the Church lies the change of story of every engaging believer. Wake up! Wake up!
Now, I will share this with you that I came back with from the altar of the Lord today.
Stars in the Kingdom are not made of strength, skill or capacity. Stars in the Kingdom are made of obedience, raw obedience, unreserved obedience, delightsome obedience, obedience to the full, obedience to the end, obedience of faith that never staggers. Church Gist. (Come again please) Stars in the Kingdom are not made of strength, skill or capacity. Stars in the Kingdom are made of raw obedience, unreserved obedience, delightsome obedience (not coerced), obedience to the full, obedience to the end, obedience of faith that never staggers at the Word. Deuteronomy 28:1.
You carry an Abrahamic global DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) inside you but you need to walk the steps of Abraham which is raw obedience, unreserved obedience, obedience to the full, obedience to the end, obedience of faith that never staggers at the Word…and today, Abraham is the father of all that believed today. Church Gist. Jesus said, He saw him in Heaven. He saw Lazarus sitting at his foot. Luke 16:23.
Not everyone making Heaven has a crown
Some are going to make it as passing through fire. But there are crowns reserved for everybody. Church Gist. But there’s what to do to earn it. There’s what to do to wear your crown.
– You will wear your crown!
Whatever God told Abraham, he did and he did promptly and I believe he did smiling. If Abraham was grinning, those men would not let him go alone – If he was under stress. He said “folks wait down here, we are going there to worship, we will come back to you.” Delightsome obedience! Church Gist. If he was groaning in the morning, Sarah would follow him. “Never! I don’t know where you are going with this firewood.” Amen! Delightsome obedience! Obedience to the full. He doesn’t adjust anything God tells him to do. Obedience to the end.
“It came back to pass after these things that God did test Abraham” after all the tests he has been writing all his life. Church Gist. By simple calculation, we saw that at 114 (years old) and he has been writing tests since 75 (years old). So, he was still writing test – ‘post doc’. (Laughs)
You don’t emerge a sport star from the corner of your room. You get to the field. One young man told me, he said “he has finished his course in flying.” Church Gist. I said “how?” He said on the computer. I said, God have mercy (Laughs), you are really finished. You can only fly yourself, not anybody else.
Can I tell you this? Everyone is redeemed a star. The Bible talks about Jesus, the Bright and the Morning Star. Revelation 22:16, John 17:18. So every child of God is redeemed a star. Church Gist. But we must now take responsibility of what makes a star and that is raw obedience to every instruction of Scriptures, unreserved obedience, dogged obedience, obedience to the full, obedience to the end, obedience of faith that staggers not at the promises of God no matter how far fetched it may appear.
Then He came down again and defined it in another form in Daniel 12:3. So what an opportunity to engage in the business of turning many to righteousness so that the star in you can find expression. Church Gist. Amen! Obedience! John 15:16…It brings you into favour with God. Don’t let the star in you go to the grave with you. No! You have all the opportunities in the World to give it expression.
We are in the days of influx of great multitudes. Take a strong covenant position, don’t allow another man take your crown.
– It’s your turn!
The Lord said to me “my son, there’s a place for you on top if you are interested.” I said, “Lord, I am.” He said “whatever I tell you to do, do it.” Church Gist. He was speaking to me from Deuteronomy 28:1. So doing what He says sets you on high above all nations of the World.
– Get ready, it’s your turn!
– May this year be a year of years for you!
– As you reposition to engage tirelessly on the prayer altar for influx of souls, retention of new converts, divine intervention on behalf of the new converts so they can be free from age long bondages and curses that are holding them down and praying for wisdom that as you go forth, you come back with fruits. God does not reward efforts, he rewards results.
– It shall be a year of results for you!
Now, I close with this. I was 19 when with passion, I said to God “I must not leave this village where I met it.” He heard me. He heard my little, my young prayer. I was 19 years old and He led me the way to go and He backed it up. Church Gist. I saw folks surrender their lives to Christ and He got a Church built within 40 days. A boy that had no calling, just a heart for God.
– May your passion for God come alive!
On my departure day, we had a Service on Sunday and they handed to me a lantern and they said “the light you brought to our village, let it shine round the World.” Church Gist. I secured destiny without knowing what I was doing.
– May you encounter destiny this year!
How many know that one soul is not many? Is one soul many? One soul is not many. “They that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever.” Church Gist. So we are talking about many, we are not talking about one…and I have relaxed you enough to know that whether you and I do it or not, when it is His agenda, He does it. There is nothing as beautiful as something whose time has come.
– May this be your time!
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