THE END TIME IS ORDAINED AN ENVIABLE SEASON FOR THE CHURCH.
EXPLOSIVE GROWTH IS GOD’s AGENDA FOR THE END TIME CHURCH.
THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THE KINGDOM WITHOUT CONDITIONS TO MEET.
THE ALTAR OF PRAYER IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF MULTITUDES IN THE KINGDOM.
IT TAKES TRAVAILING TO BIRTH SOULS INTO THE KINGDOM.
EVERY GROWING CHURCH MUST REMAIN A PRAYING CHURCH TO KEEP GROWING.
NOTHING OF VALUE IS EVER FREE.
YOU MAY COPY STYLES AND STRATEGIES, YOU CAN’T COPY POWER.
I WAS FULL OF JOY AS I HEARD A 70,000-SEAT CAPACITY CHURCH WILL BE DEDICATED IN THE PHILIPPINES THIS APRIL.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST WILL BECOME THE EMBASSIES OF WORTH IN THIS END TIME.
PRAYER AND FASTING STRENGTHEN YOU FOR CONQUEST.
PRAYER AND FASTING STRENGTHEN YOU FOR CONQUEST.
SOUL WINNING ENTHRONES AD MAKE STARS OUT OF BELIEVERS.
THE PRAYER ALTAR IS AN OPEN ALTAR. THE HARVEST FIELD IS AN OPEN FIELD.
THERE IS SPACE FOR ANYONE WHO DESIRES A PLACE.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘WHY THIS UNENDING DRIVE OR CRAVE FOR CHURCH GROWTH? 4’ at LFC 21 Days Annual Prayer and Fasting || Day Eighteen || 25th January 2024 || LFC Worldwide ||
‘WHY THIS UNENDING CRAVE FOR CHURCH GROWTH?’
So much had been said since the week began and so tonight we’ll just look at a few points and then we’ll be set to partake of the Communion for grace to put to work the things He has taught us, the things He has shown us, the things He has spoken to us as individuals.
WHY THIS UNENDING CRAVE FOR CHURCH GROWTH? Explosive growth is God’s agenda for the end time Church. So, it’s not some ambition of some ministries or denominations. We have that stated in Zechariah 8:20-23. There’ll be such a tremendous impact of prayers in the Church. Church Gist. The Church will become the center of attraction in the World. People will see what God is doing in the Church and say ‘Look, we want to belong there. Let’s put pride aside. It’s working on that side. Let’s get there’. Isaiah 44:3-5. It’s the sequel to an outpouring of the Spirit which is an agenda for the last days. Amen? Micah 4:1. So, the end time is ordained an enviable season for the Church where the Church begins to attract people into the Church without speaking to them. Praise God! Heavy glory!
– You won’t be missing out of it.
– You won’t miss your place in it.
– No one here shall miss his place in it in the name of Jesus.
That’s God’s agenda but what does it take to see it come to pass? There is no Heaven’s agenda without a part to play for delivery. There is none. He wants all men to be saved but you can’t be saved until you are willing to repent. Church Gist. Now, there is no manner of sickness and disease that faith in the finished work of Christ can not deal with. Even the dead in the grave. John 11:40. Even the dead. So, there is no provision in the Kingdom without conditions to meet for delivery. So, same with explosive growth agenda for the end time Church. There is what we must have to do for God to confirm His agenda in our midst.
We discover from scriptures that the Altar of Prayer is the birthplace of multitudes in the Kingdom. Isaiah 66:7,8. That means explosive Church growth agenda for the end time is impossible without people entering the labor room of prayer. But the Lord was speaking to me today that ‘Travail is only relevant where pregnancy is in place’. Church Gist. Without pregnancy in place, breathing hard will not deliver a child. Practicing travail will not deliver a Child. Travail is a sequel to pregnancy. Upon maturity, travail delivers it. Now in our case, vision is the pregnancy and prayer of faith is the travail. Not prayer of crying, prayer of faith. You are pregnant with a vision of what you desire to see and you engage the Prayer Altar as a labour room for delivery. But the prayer of faith, not counting hours. Church Gist. The prayer of faith. ‘Lord, I desire 10 established souls before the end of the first half of this year’ and you truly believe it. You even go further to itemize the list of the people around that are not saved yet they are greeting you every day. ‘Lord, save this soul’ with prayer of faith. ‘Grant me utterance in my approach with this young man. Show me the best approach to corner these individuals to the Kingdom and rescue them from perishing. The reason why the prayers of many will not deliver is because there is no pregnancy. Proverbs 29:18. Life without a vision is an adventure in frustration. ‘I don’t believe in that agenda’. Church Gist. You can’t be pregnant with it. You don’t only believe it, you are pregnant with your desperation to deliver your portion. You are not only satisfied to see it happen. You want to be a partaker of its happening. Habakkuk 2:1-4. Go after it and go after it in faith.
It’s only the prayer of faith that works, not the prayer of counting days. ‘You want all men saved. Jesus, grant me just these 5. In the name of Jesus, I break off the holds on their lives. I decree their liberty from long time terrible habits. Jesus, visit them tonight on their bed’. You pray this prayer with all intent and purpose, you are set to deliver. Church Gist. Labour room without pregnancy is wasting away. It’s pregnancy that will result into childbirth. Only pregnancy. Galatians 4:19. Travail. That brings it down to the New Testament that it takes travail to birth souls into the Kingdom. But travail is sequel to pregnancy. That’s why every praying Church is ordained a growing Church. No Church can experience growth behind prayer.
In my place, there is a very humorous proverb that ‘A wife that you get from a dancing hall will dance away’. (Laughter). Church Gist. You don’t dance into growth. You dance to celebrate the birth.
– Can I hear your Amen?
Jeremiah 30:19. Nothing of value is ever free, nothing. Value is essentially a function of cost. Church Gist. There are many categories of cars in town but the value differs one from another, depending on how much you are willing to pay. Psalm 2:8. ‘I won’t give until you ask’. James 4:2.
Every growing Church must remain a praying Church to keep growing. No break. Prayer engenders the growth and prayer sustains the growth and prayer keeps growing the growth. Whenever a Church stops praying, it stops growing. Church Gist. Whenever a woman is tired of pregnancy, she stops giving birth. Whenever pregnancy does not result into maturity, it’s called abortion. No shortcuts. Colossians 4:12. So, it is not enough to see them saved, we must pray them to the point of establishment.
It’s prayer before, prayer in the process, prayer to generate product and prayer to sustain the product. Luke 18:1. Everybody has a part to play, Sir. Matthew 6:6. Imagine if every Church member would stand in the place of prayer for every service before they come, ‘Jesus, show yourself today. Lord, envelope our pastor with your grace. Church Gist. Let the Word of fire come from his mouth. Let it prick the hearts of the sinners to the point of repentance and conversion. Let it strengthen the saints to move out of that service today knowing that God has added to them. Let all sinners that appear in Church today find you. Jesus, do it’. You see, when you see them rise up, ‘Thank you, Jesus. You answered it again’.
– Can I hear your Amen?
No shortcuts!
Some fellows went from the West in those days in their numbers to South Korea. They were learning the principles. They didn’t take time on the power backup. The Prayer Mountain was the power backup for that national awakening. Church Gist. Prayer Mountains were the order of the day across South Korea then and the Church was flaming fire. You can’t copy power. You may copy styles, approaches, strategies. You can’t copy power.
– It’s a brand new year for us.
Every growing Church must remain a praying Church to keep growing. Ezekiel 36:37. God came down on the day of Pentecost by the Holy Ghost and the Church was born like a dream of the night. From 120 fearful group heading somewhere, 3,000 invaded the place same day and then miracle broke out in chapter three and then 5,000 were added. Church Gist. Acts 4:4…and they prayed again that they might be filled with the Holy Ghost for next level of growth and then we saw multitudes of men and women added to the Church. Acts 5:14. Acts 6:7. So, it’s on and on and on.
– Somebody’s story is changing.
In case you don’t have the physical strength to be out, anybody who can eat can pray. If you are still eating, you can pray. Church Gist. Until you stop eating, you have all it takes to pray if you choose to.
– This will be a most fruitful year for every one of us.
– There shall be no downtime spiritually in anyone’s life.
So, when you are praying, ask yourself, am I pregnant with this? I can’t deliver what I’m not pregnant with. Am I truly pregnant? When we are talking about prayer of faith, you are praying up and acting it out. Church Gist. James 2:18. If I’m praying for you to be saved, what steps am I taking toward your salvation? So, it’s not the prayer of dogma. ‘Oh Lord, come and do’ No. He tells you what to do, you ask for grace to do it and then He confirms it.
– There shall be no barren single winner throughout this year.
– Between now and June you will be surprised at how fruitful your life has been made to be.
– Your converts will also bring their converts.
– Their converts will bring their own converts too and you’ll become a spiritual grandparent.
– You’ll become a spiritual great-grandparent.
– You’ll see them coming like this!
Can I hear your Amen?
Thank you, Jesus.
God is not looking for the great. No one can make God any greater than He is. Every soul belongs to God. Souls on the Street, under the bridge. They are the ones I’m even after. I’ve never knocked on anybody’s door and said ‘Can I talk to you?’ No. The people I talk to, they don’t need any knocking, they are free. Praise God! I mean, God is changing their lives. Church Gist. There’s nothing wrong in contacting your colleagues and all that stuff, but you don’t have to wait and somebody is saying ‘Wait, I’m coming first’. Coming to where? There are people on the streets who don’t know where they are going. Ezekiel 18:4.
We were dazed this last year or the year before. 52 young boys in Primary School, met Jesus from our outreach team. You can’t believe, Sir. They waited one day for help to get to Church from out of town, they couldn’t get. So, they told themselves. ‘Look, any gift you get this week, don’t spend it. Church Gist. Let’s save it for transportation to Church’. Young children. Every soul is valuable to God, So, refuse to be stranded. Pray it, act it and God will confirm it. Believe in it, be pregnant with it, travail to birth it. Pray up, act out. God will confirm it. This is the way it works.
– The year will be a year of surprises for every one of us
Can I hear your loudest Amen?
I was full of joy today as I heard of a Church that will be dedicated in the Philippines this April. That Palace, my God! In the Philippines, not in the West. 70,000-seat capacity, state of the art facility and I told you before, I said, this end time, God will be building His sanctuaries as high palaces. Church Gist. The Church of Christ will become the embassies of worth in the World. It’s started. ‘I’ll call them my people which are not my people’. That’s the age we are in now and what a joy that this wave has come on our side in this part of the World. May we never abuse it by taking adequate spiritual responsibility to be in the center of God’s plan.
Everyone that does engage will experience a transformation. God never lies.
– Many stars will arise!
– I mean trans-generational stars. Church Gist. People with records that will be difficult to beat.
– You are one of them let me hear your loudest Amen.
We cannot sustain supernatural Church growth without engaging the Altar of prayer and fasting as a vital component of the Church. Not praying and fasting for a season and then you withdraw. Some kinds of devils will never move without prayer and fasting. Church Gist. Matthew 17:21. Not that they come and close the gate of the Church, no. They keep blinding the minds of them that believe not because they have dominion over them. They are in their Kingdom. So, it takes us going with the forces of the Spirit to disarm them.
– Can I hear your Amen?
2 Corinthians 4:4. Luke 11:21,22. That’s where the place of fasting comes in. Church Gist. We engage in prayer and fasting to keep the devil’s hand off the unsaved in our territory so they can find salvation in Christ and come out of darkness into light.
Praise God!
Matthew 16:18. Matthew 17:19-21. Thank God for the weapon of faith. Prayer and fasting strengthen you. Church Gist. You know, He said ‘Be strong’. It strengthens you for conquest.
Praise God!
– Can I hear your loudest Amen?
As we round up tonight, know that in fruitful soul winning endeavours lies the rise of stars in the Kingdom. Fruitful soul winning endeavours. Proverbs 11:30. Proverbs 8:15. So, soul winning makes wise which also enthrones. Church Gist. Daniel 12:3. Fruitful soul winning endeavours enthrone believers and make stars of believers in their diverse endeavours. It’s everybody’s mandate. John 15:1,2. So, He keeps you fit wherever you are found. John 15:16. So, He can bring you into favour with men and nothing flies like favour.
– It’s your year and my year.
Paul, an addicted soul winner was a generational star among the apostles of Christ. Every day, ‘Paul said, Paul said’. Paul has gone longest time. Acts 19:15. Who was Paul? 1 Corinthians 9:16. Philippians 1:21,16,18. Church Gist. He was an addicted soul winner and we saw him, a trans-generational star. You can’t preach the full Gospel till Jesus returns without ‘Paul said’. In the same vein, there are many stars out here.
– If you are one of them let me hear your loudest Amen!
Acts 26:22. 2 Timothy 4:5-8. Daniel 12:3. 2 Timothy 4:8. Church Gist. For this Gospel of the Kingdom must be preached before the end will come.
– Can I hear your Amen?
Anybody can take his position in this. The prayer altar is an open altar. The harvest field is an open field. Church Gist. There’s always a space for anyone who sincerely desires a place.
– It’s your year.
– All the things you have been chasing after in your life will be chasing after you from now.
– All the good things you have been trying to reach and they look so far fetched, they’ll be running after you.
– They will not only run after you. They will run after you, overtake you in the name of Jesus.
Can I have you say with me? ‘Soul winning makes stars’.
– Lift up your right hand to Heaven and give God thanks.
— Prayers —
— Altar Call —
John 4:34. He is King of all the Earth, working salvation in the midst of the Earth. That’s His work. Church Gist. God’s mission on the Earth is to see souls saved. ‘Lord, make Kingdom advancement my new meat. Let it remain my meat till the end of time’. Would you pray that prayer?
— Prayers —
– Whatever works in my life as grace will find a way into your life.
– Whatever has kept me following, 1976 till date without looking back will come upon your life.
– Whatever has kept this Commission focused on this one thing for these number of years will keep you focused.
– Whatever grace is changing the story of this Commission day in day out, every time testimony after testimony, no better yesterday, that grace will come upon your life.
– Every of your year shall be greater than the previous.
– From that encounter service, (Sunday Service) you’ll never recover in a hurry.
– You’ll remember that night (One Night With the King) for a long time to come.
– For the proofs shall keep showing in every step of your life in the name of Jesus.
Lift up your two hands and give God thanks.
This is the third day of the 6th module, leaving us with only one remaining, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and God’s best is always reserved for the last. So, reposition to make the last 3 days the greatest days of your life.
— Prayers —
Thank you, Jesus.
– Your star is rising.
– No devil in hell can stop it.
– The days of shame and reproach, they are over.
– He will give you a name and a praise in every place where you have been put to shame.
– Everyone that ever mocked you will come down to celebrate God with you because God will change your story forever.
– That’s your portion.
Lift up those 2 hands and give God thanks.
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