GOD IS NOT SLOW, GOD IS NEVER LATE, GOD IS ALWAYS RIGHT
WHEN YOU LOCATE YOURSELF IN GOD’S PLAN, YOU HAVE COMMITTED HIM TO CONFIRM HIS WORD IN YOUR LIFE
ASSUMPTION IS THE MOTHER OF ALL FRUSTRATIONS
CREATIVITY EMPOWERS YOU TO CREATE SOLUTIONS IN THE MIDST OF IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES
THIS GENERATION NEEDS TO HEAR THAT, “YOU CANNOT DETERMINE YOUR PURPOSE.” ALLOW GOD TO LEAD YOU!
THE ANOINTING DOES NOT MAKE YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT; WE ARE ONLY PARTAKERS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
I AM IN THE CENTRE OF THE WILL OF GOD FOR MY LIFE. I AM NOT GUESSING DOING WHAT I AM DOING
ONLY MEN AND WOMEN OF VISION CAN SECURE THEIR PLACE IN SPACE IN THIS ENDTIME
WE HAVE NEVER BORROWED. WE HAVE KEPT PACE WITH GOD.
THOSE WHO KEEP PACE WITH GOD DON’T LOSE THEIR PEACE.
WHEN GOD IS LEADING THE WAY ALL BARRIERS CLEAR OFF THE WAY.
BEHIND THE MAKING OF STARS IN THE KINGDOM IS ACCESS TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD
THE ARK IS THE GREATEST PROJECT WHICH THIS COMMISSION EVER EMBARKED UPON AND THE CHEAPEST INSPITE OF NAIRA COLLAPSE
NO ECONOMIC SITUATION ON EARTH CAN AFFECT HEAVEN.
IF WE HAD BUILT THE ARK IN 2016, WE WOULD HAVE BUILT NON$EN$E WITHOUT ANYBODY WORSHIPING THERE
THIS CHURCH IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY BY FOLLOWING THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD
- Bishop David Oyedepo on “EMPOWERED TO OPERATE IN THE REALM OF VISIONS AND REVELATIONS” at AYAC 2024 Day Five Impartation and Thanksgiving Session || Annual Youth Alive Convention 2024 || “EMPOWERED” || Faith Tabernacle Canaanland || 17th of August 2024.
Someone heard me say something in Church in 2002, he didn’t have a green card, he was said to be on his way. According to him, what he heard changed his plans and said no to green card and located where God wanted him to be. Church Gist. He brought me a picture of his new office building, 12-floor storey. His sister that got angry with him that time for not using that green card or not traveling over to America, that family needed his help during Covid-19 saga. Church Gist. Helping from here to there. Just locate yourself in God’s plan, you have committed Him to confirm His Word in your life.
- May today be a date you’ll much remember in your life.
- Guess work will cease in your life.
Because assumption is the mother of all frustrations. - no more assumption in your life.
- You’ll be empowered this morning to operate in the realm of vision and revelations. Church Gist. You’ll be very definite about every step of your life by your access to the voice of the spirit.
- so shall it be! Thank you Father, take all the praise in Jesus’ name.
- give the Lord a big hand of praise and be seated please.
- for the huge impact of AYAC till date since we began on Tuesday, give Jesus a big hand of praise.
- for the diverse Word encounters in all of the sessions, do we have a witness in the house? Church Gist. Including the workshops, now, give the Lord a bigger hand of praise.
- For diverse change of story testimonies, instant healings and deliverances, opening of doors, give the Lord another big hand of praise.
- Now, for opening up your future, give the the Lord the biggest hand of praise.
Back in 1990, I had the privilege of staying in a room where Dr. Copeland once stayed and I said, “Jesus, whatever is in Copeland that’s not in me, I want it as we sleep on this bed tonight”. Church Gist. In the night, I saw a vision, I saw an amputated arm and worms were coming out of it, it would not be healed, compassion swept all over me and I said, “in the name of Jesus”, then a brand new hand grew out. And the Lord said to me, “I have brought you to the creative realm of your ministry today”. Now, watch, what you have seen in all of the presentations are divinely inspired creativities validating your root. Church Gist. You don’t get stranded with creativity. Creativity empowers you to create solutions in the midst of impossible circumstances.
- Therefore, not one of you will be stranded in the journey of life.
- the creative nature of God which indwells in His Word has been entering to you since you came, you’ll never lack access to the way forward.
- Let me hear your loudest Amen.
In this impartation, we’ll be examining a very interesting subject as we’re told last night, even at the prayer session right now, impartation is primarily released through definite Word encounters. Church Gist. I attended my first Christian conference in 1970, month of March, 54 years back and I had an encounter with the Word, “God is not slow”, what a blessing that has been to my life till date. “If you were here, our brother would not have died”. Church Gist. He said, “No no, anytime I come, the answer comes”. God is not slow, God is never late, God is always right. Amen!
You must take note of your takeaways from this mountain. There’s a lot of difference between note writing and note taking. Church Gist. You must take note of your takeaways from this conference, otherwise, it’ll fizzle away. He said, “take heed”. 1 Timothy 4:16. You take heed, you take note. Always prepare for a takeaway from every meeting. “What is God saying to me?” Don’t dwell only on the principles, dwell on the facts that apply to you for your desired change of story. Church Gist. Don’t trash the encounters you have, you can’t tell how much is loaded in them.
We are looking at “EMPOWERED TO OPERATE IN THE REALM OF VISIONS AND REVELATIONS”. Church Gist. Nothing can be more frustrating than spiritual blindness and deafness. Isaiah 42:19-20.
- This morning, by the anointing, the siege of spiritual blindness and deafness shall be broken. The siege of spiritual deafness and blindness shall be over.
We are in the last days, we are in the days of vision and revelation of the Lord. Joel 2:28-30. “I will begin to distinguish my people from the rest of the world around them in the last days”. Church Gist. The days of vision and revelations. So, we discovered that the Holy Spirit is the custodian of visions and revelations. Acts 2:14-17. So, the last day began on the day of Pentecost, so, we are in the later end of the last days. We are in the days of great visions and revelations of the Lord. Church Gist. John 16:12-14. So, He (Holy Spirit) is the custodian of the visions and revelations of the Lord. On this mountain of AYAC, whose theme is ‘EMPOWERED’, I see everyone of us empowered today to walk in the realm of vision and revelation of the Lord.
If you check this endtime army in Joel 2:1-2, a pace-setting, trailblazing army, (till) end of time. How did he get there? Joel 2:7. They will be men and women of vision, they gain access to God’s purpose for their lives, they are not guessing about life. Joel 2:8. Church Gist. You locate your place, that’s your place of security, dignity, honour… may none of you become a wandering star where you are jumping from one place to another until you are nowhere.
The one thing I know that I know that I know is that I am in the centre of the centre of the will of God for my life. Church Gist. I know that beyond anything that I am not guessing doing what I am doing.
- May today mark the end of guess work in your journey!
The giant in you will never have any expression outside your place in terms of what you do, where you do it. 2 Samuel 7:10 – that’s your place of honour, your place of dignity. Proverbs 27:8.
- May you not miss your place!
To miss your place means to be displaced. A displaced man is a pitiable man. He has his own palace where he was living, now for crisis or war or whatever, he is now in a dormitory – no toilet, nothing. He has been displaced from his place. God has a place for you – Jeremiah 1:5. Church Gist. You don’t determine the function of a product in the market; it is determined in the factory. Before you and I were born, he knew us. He had a plan in place, our job is to discover that plan and if we choose to, abide in that plan. Jeremiah 1:5. He has a place for you – that’s where vision comes in. Vision unfolds his plan and purpose for you and I. Revelations show the way to go to accomplish it.
Like that my son was testifying, God said, “Barber shop.” He said, “no, barber for what?” He opened the barber shop and went through his first degree in barber shop and now going to the Law School from barber shop. Church Gist. He can end up having barber shops across the nations. It’s not about what you want, it’s about his plan for you.
- May you never miss his plan!
He would have been roaming about today – no barber no barber and lose out.
Only men and women of vision can secure their place in space in this endtime. Proverbs 3:5-6; Proverbs 14:12; Lamentations 3:37. No product determines its purpose in the market; it’s determined in the factory. I can’t use this piece (his pad) as tie – that’s not the purpose, that will be madness. You can’t determine your purpose. Your generation needs to hear that you cannot determine your purpose. Church Gist. It might be on the highway of death. Allow God to lead you. Therefore, locating God’s vision for one’s life and following suit is the highway for the emergence of giants. Joel 2:11. So it’s not a thing that we do, it’s a thing that we discovered and by that discovery we commit him to do it. When we walk in his ways, we have committed him to confirm his Word – “yes, I told you go there, yes I told you to do that.” You know what Elijah said? “Let it be known that I have done all these things according to thy word.” I am not trying to show up as a prophet, I have done all these according to thy word – and the fire of the Lord fell because he told him to do what he did. So you clap for a number of people, thinking they are …no no no, it’s the one backing them that does it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24. Church Gist. So those things become marvellous because the one who called them to do it is the one doing it. Psalm 118:23. Welcome to the marvellous realm of your life where you are on course with divine agenda and God is confirming his Word in your life.
According to Scriptures like we all are aware, by strength shall no man prevail – 1 Samuel 2:9. We saw how the strength of Moses failed him. He wanted to use his military strength to rescue Israel from bondage. He failed and went to self exile – 40 long years. Strength failed him! Most people are in pursuit of their strength – you can’t survive it. Church Gist. 1 Samuel 2:9. Most celebrate their skill; your skill may kill you. Let God’s agenda, gain access to God’s agenda, your skill will now have more meaning. You carry your skill to a wrong place, it will die – it won’t have expression because you are off his agenda. Please take note of this: we are in the endtime, things have changed. Things are changing. The strategy of Absalom failed. He has done plenty of networking to overthrow his father – he died a shameful death. God hanged him! It was God who hanged him. The hair of his head got him tied up to a branch of an Oak tree – dangling in the air. His strategy failed him. 1 Samuel 2:9; Ecclesiastes 9:11. Church Gist. You just have to know what God is saying for you to do before his blessings and graces on your life begin to have an expression.
- No one will miss God’s agenda!
We saw how Solomon crashed under the weight of his wisdom. He said I have appeared to you for this reason twice, you’re going your way; let’s see how far you can go. Solomon fought wars throughout his life from that time forward. His wisdom failed him. We saw how the strength of Samson failed him, a one man army of Israel – entered into a city, the whole city is shaking. Church Gist. He was deaf to Heaven’s instructions – he crashed. Now, very fearfully, the anointing of Paul failed him. Acts 22:18-22. The anointing does not make you the Holy Spirit; you and I are only partakers of the Holy Spirit. We are not the Holy Spirit, we are partakers of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Paul saw the horror that followed.
- No one here will fail, no one will end his journey in regret!
So no one can ever outgrow walking in the plan and purpose of God for his life. Acts 26:19.
What are some of the wonders of walking in the realm of visions and revelations?
- When God speaks and we follow, he goes with us. Church Gist. You won’t miss his presence anymore! Luke 10:1-2; Mark 16:20; when He sends us, He goes with us.
- He goes before us to make the crooked path straight. Isaiah 45:1-3.
- He works with us. Mark 16:20. God was working with them, confirming with signs following.
- He works through us. Philippians 2:13. And then He works for us. 1 Thessalonians 5:24.
And so the summary is that, when God is leading the way; all barriers clear off the way as He goes before us. When God is the one leading, impossible things keep happening. Isaiah 48:21. Let’s see the humour of God. Exodus 13:17. People are busy looking for shortcuts, in most cases it cuts short their lives. God knows what you don’t know. Those who keep pace with God, don’t lose their peace. Keep pace with God. 🎶 My God knows the way through the wilderness, all I have to do is to follow 🎶 Although that was short! Your generation is looking for shortcuts every day and night. Although that was short! How many will agree not to borrow? How many? “Because of my status.” Church Gist. You’re starting a company you have not seen any business yet. You are fixing offices that your first, second year may not be able to handle to pay. What a strategist! God gave me a global vision and got us started with a two-room office at hundred naira a month. Global ministry but living in the Church office when we got to Kaduna. Those who keep pace with God don’t lose their peace. You remember the ‘little by little blessing system’. Little by little. Exodus 23:30. So you don’t get crushed under it. Little by little by little by little. Very few succeed not to abuse any high fame that’s put in their hand. Very few survive. You are the one that killed that business not the devil! You killed it! “No! Public image? One needs a car. You know? We’re talking about business in a corporate setting.” I know.
-The car you will buy and you won’t sleep. May you not buy the car.
We have never borrowed. We have kept pace with God. Appeared a long route? Very short! When God spoke to me about flying in that glorious 1982. I was the only one who was driving Beetle in that meeting. We were eating with plastic plate and spoon. Church Gist. Guess what? 14 years after only! 14 years only! 14 years after! The plane landed without any prayer, without any confession, without any profession. 17 years after He spoke the Word, Faith Tabernacle was built. Allow God to lead your way, you will have rest.
-You will have rest. No life here will be cut short.
To access the realm of vision and revelations, there must be a spiritual repositioning. Without network there can’t be communication. You must secure a network to have communication with Him. Church Gist. Remember, the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him and He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14. That is, be spiritual. Psalm 25:9. So there must be a repositioning.
Now let’s examine them specifically. Because from now you will be hearing from Heaven. You won’t miss the voice of the Spirit again. First, be born again and remain so. Every child has natural access to the mother’s tongue. Every child knows the voice of the mother and father when they step in. The Lord is my shepherd while I am His sheep. Only a sheep has a shepherd. Romans 8:14. So only the sons and daughters of God have been led by God. No games. John 10:4-5. Be baptized in the Holy Ghost. So, register in the School of the Spirit by being baptized in the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking with new tongues. The only authentic validation of baptism is Scripture. He enhances our access to the plan and purpose of God. Church Gist. Access to the voice of God is behind the rise of giants in the Kingdom with capacity to set anyone above the nations of the World. Deuteronomy 28:1. Access to the voice is the mystery to the rising of giants in the Kingdom. Access to the voice! If you watch it, beginning with Noah! Access to the voice! “The Lord said to Noah.” Access to the voice. “The Lord said to Abraham.” Access to the voice. “The Lord said to Moses.” Access to the voice. “He said to Gideon.” Access to the voice. “He said to Peter.” Access to the voice. “He said to Paul.” Access to the voice. Behind the making of stars in the Kingdom is access to the voice of the Lord and embracing the demand of walking in it. No shortcut! Access to the voice! Assumption is the mother of all frustrations. We need to secure access to the voice that defines His purpose for our lives. Habakkuk 2:1. Visions are spoken, write the vision. No guesswork! This was a huge forest and I was very angry coming here but the Lord said: “This is the Place.” And I told them the same day, January 1997: “God just spoke to me, this is the Place.” So He discovered the forest. He created solutions, chased away the devils; humiliated the Place.
-May you never miss the voice of the Lord.
From that Scripture of Deuteronomy 28:1, The Lord said to me, ‘There is a place for you on top if you are interested’. I said “Lord, I am” Then He said “Whatever I say to you to do, do it” So, the way to the top is access to the voice. What He’s saying for you to do, do it. Access to the voice, no guess work. That was 40 years ago, 1984. “If you keep doing what I said to you to do, I will set you on high above all nations of the Earth” Access to the voice. Church Gist. I announced in Church, “God told me whatever I tell you to do, do it, is your access to the top most top in life” 40 years ago. “What I say to one, I say to all”. Access to the voice will take you to a place where no skill, no strength, no association, no connection, no traveling from relation to relation will do for you. Access to the voice, staying where God says you should stay, doing what God says to be doing and you’ll be happy you did, you’ll be glad you did. Access to the voice.
Now, the one thing to note is that God’s voice will never run contrary to His Word, it’s the same. God’s Word is the voice of the Lord in print. Specifics are directed at you through the voice of the Spirit. There is no Lagos in the Bible. He said, “Arise, get down to Lagos and raise me a people.” You can’t find it in the Bible. “Whatever He tells you to do, do it”. That’s in the Bible. If He tells you to go to Lagos, go to Lagos. Can I hear your Amen? There is no America in the Bible, He said, “My son, you are going to know America” Because the things we see does not come from abroad, but from above. Church Gist. There is no America in the Bible that will say unto you directly. Is somebody hearing what I’m talking about? “It was not me you heard about going to Jos, you heard yourself” There is no Jos in the Bible. Is there Japan in the Bible? “Although, there is a need in Japan, you are not the one I’m sending”. So, the voice of the Lord that lays out the master plan of God is in the Bible, but the one that applies to you comes by the voice of the Spirit. Is somebody getting what I’m talking about? Come on, give the Lord praise.
- You are free already!
- Something has entered you already!
-I command your spiritual ears opened and your spiritual eyes opened!
We saw the list of blessings that the voice of the Lord commands. Deuteronomy 28:12,13. All those are at the command of responding to the voice of the Lord that you heard. If you don’t hear it, you can’t respond to it. Psalm 29:3-7. Church Gist. So, you saw hailstone mingled with fire in Egypt, but there was no hail where God’s people dwelt. It (the voice of God) divides. He said to them, “There will be hail all over Egypt, but there won’t be any one here” He did. The voice of the Lord divides the flame of fire. Praise God! Psalm 29:8.
- You’ll become one of the World shakers in your field of endeavor. Can I hear your loudest Amen?
Psalm 29:9. The voice of the Lord will always command glorious testimonies. Following what God says will always result in glorious testimonies. Church Gist. You can’t follow what He says and miss His backing. Following what He commands to do entitles us to His backing which will always, always make frontliners in the race of life.
-May you never miss the voice of the Lord.
Yes, that voice is also on many waters, the voice of the Lord. Isaiah 34:16. So, you can hear the voice of God from His Word in response to your questions. “Lord, are we moving to Kaduna as the base of this Ministry?” He said “Stand up” and I did, He said “Take your Bible” and I did and I said, “Lord, what shall we do?” He said “Arise and go down to Damascus” Then I told my wife, “Stand up, God has just answered us. He said we’re going to Damascus, the City of persecution” Amen. Church Gist. He spoke directly from the Word, Acts 22:10. “Stand up, take your Bible. Whatever you’re doing here. You’ll pray that prayer forever”. So, the voice of the Lord is upon the waters, the Almighty thundereth. “Lord, what else have you for us as instructions?” “You have 2 eyes, can you make one to look up and one to look down?” From the Word, the Word of the Lord thundereth and so my eyes went off every man, every woman, myself for God’s agenda, He’s up to it. Psalm 34:5. So, He speaks to us by His Word in response to questions or instructions that He may have for us. Can I hear your Amen? But you need a hearing ear to hear, either directly by the voice of the Spirit or by the voice of God behind the Word. You need an opened ear, so ephatha, my ears be opened! You need opened ears.
In my place, it is said that a dog that will be lost will not hear the whistle of the hunter. If you don’t hear, you just get lost, but when the hunter (whistles) they know and they gather to him.
- You won’t miss your steps.
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty, it never returns defeated. His voice never returns defeated. The battle may be fierce, triumph is at the end. Church Gist. Thank you, Jesus. The voice of the Lord maketh any barren life fruitful. “He makes the hind to calve” Any barren life, when God speaks, He speaks fruitfulness into people’s lives. Can I hear your Amen!
But the voice of the Lord is a still small voice. Your generation is a very noisy one. The noise continues on the streets, it continues to bed. Zero moments of quality quietness. Your generation will be praying with 2 telephones in front. “Heavenly Father, thank you. Hello, I’m praying now. Kilode (What happened?) Lord Jesus, I thank you. (Phone rings) Taniyen? Ani mon gbadura. Leave me. (Who is this? I am praying.) Do you pick calls in the court of law? You’ll be charged for contempt of court and we don’t know the prison where they’ll take you to. Church Gist. You are in a most noisy generation, you better separate yourself. Proverbs 18:1. It’s a still small voice. 1 Kings 19:12. Only men and women who are genuinely still can access it. 1 Kings 19:11, 12. “A still small voice” and God showed up and His Word opened up a new chapter in Elijah’s ministry. You need quietness. You need quality quietness to hear from God.
Hear what God said to me on the 1st of May, 1981. “Seek a quiet place, I want to talk to you” He doesn’t talk to people in a rouse. “Seek a quiet place, I want to talk to you” Your generation may sell off their heroes through this uncontrolled noise, unprofitable activities. “Yes, I’m likely to leave here at 11:40, but I’ll chat with you again” Church Gist. After sometime, “It appears I might stay here 30 minutes more” Kilode (What happened?) Who sent you? What are you gaining from it? When will you read? When will you pray? Can you have a timeout without telephone? You’re not winning anybody, what’s your problem? It’s time to do the needful. “Seek a quiet place, I want to talk to you” You need the ornament of a quiet and meek spirit which decorates destinies. 1 Peter 3:4. An ornament of a quiet and meek spirit, we need it to access the voice of His majesty that dignifies destiny.
- No one here shall be lost.
- No one shall miss out of divine plan. Can I hear your loudest Amen?
The noise is becoming too much. One must diligently hearken before he can hear. Exodus 15:26.
However, a quiet spirit is far more important than a quiet place. You can go to a quiet place with a rowdy spirit. You are in a quiet place but you are all over town. You are all over town in that quiet place. You are still calling everybody in the World. Church Gist. “Hello, I’m off today and tomorrow. You hear? Don’t call me o except if you somebody calls like this, then call me. You are in a quiet place but without a quiet spirit.
One must be in the spirit to hear the voice of the Spirit. Revelation 1:10. I was traveling down from Zaira to Kaduna when I heard “the harvest of Africa is now overripe.” Church Gist. I was hungry, I was thirsty but my spirit man was awake and the voice came and today, see how many countries of Africa are here in AYAC.
One must be spiritual to embrace what the voice is saying. We had a property under development in Kaduna when we had a quit notice from the leased property of the Church. The natural thing was to go and quickly make some place ready and move there. And the Lord said to me, “should this Church move to that place, that will be the end of this ministry.” (August 1989) The Ministry you are in today would have ended there. You know God never lies. What if you didn’t hear, no problem. He won’t change His Word. It was normal to move to where we had our project going. He said, “if you move there, that will be the end of this ministry.” Church Gist. Guess what? I never stepped into the place till tomorrow – 1989 till date. I don’t want the Ministry to end. When they asked me some time back, I said, “sell off the property.” We had more than 50 acres of land there. You must be willing to embrace. Most of you have made up your mind before asking the Lord. He says, go ahead.
One must lay his reputation on the line to hear from God. Philippians 2:7, John 5:30. Lay your reputation on the line so you can hear. After the commissioning of this Ministry and we were going to Jos, it was announced, address was there and I went to say thank you Jesus. He said, “no, you are not going to Jos. It was not me you heard. Church Gist. You heard yourself.” What? Everybody gathered together, it doesn’t matter. I never questioned Him anyway. We stayed back according to the voice of the Lord. The Jos trip was cancelled, movement was cancelled on the spot waiting for the next order.
If you don’t lay your reputation on the line, you won’t hear from Heaven. What will people that heard say? They can say anything. Amen! But here is what I said, He said, “you heard yourself.” Your spirit has a voice that only God hears. He said, “when you were playing tennis in Jenta Area 1974, you said in your heart, if I have a choice at where to live in future, Jos will be that choice.” Church Gist. He said, “that was what you heard not me.” Jesus heard when I said that in my heart. I didn’t share it with anybody in the World. I just loved the weather and I said, I would like to live in this town.
Your spirit has a voice. Most people are following the voice of their spirit, not the voice of the Lord. Romans 8:14. This is advanced class in vision analysis. Church Gist. Separating between your spirit and the Spirit of the Lord. You have to know the difference or you run into trouble.
God is no respecter of persons. Only those who lay their reputation on the line can hear from God all of the time. “I don’t care what you say, Jesus, I will just follow it. You are never wrong, you are always right.” What am I saying, young people? Look before you leap. Don’t jump from frying pan to fire. Church Gist. Let God lead your way. You are getting set for marriage, clear from God. Clear from God lest you file for divorce the following week. Clear from God. You have access. He is your Father. These are all vital instructions that will enhance our access to the voice of the Lord. Thank you Jesus.
One must be dead to self to hear from God. “Arise, get down to Lagos.” I had always hated Lagos as a place to live. “Oh Lord, when you said that, that’s okay.” Church Gist. “Why is nothing happening in Kumasi?” “I am not there, if you like stay there.” I ordered the missionary to leave immediately.
But here is the good news. Access to the voice of God is the birthright of every child of God. Isn’t that good news? You have direct access to the voice of God. Church Gist. Samuel was hearing God from his childhood and God has not changed. Every child of God has the spiritual heritage of access to the voice of God.
- Therefore, one more time, I decree by the anointing of God today, that every siege of spiritual deafness be destroyed in everyone’s life!
1 Samuel 3:1-10…he had access to the voice of God from childhood. 2 Timothy 3:15. We have access to it. But because these 3 are One, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, when you hear somebody saying, “God said”, He is saying the same thing Jesus said, the Holy Spirit said – the same. Church Gist. The Lord said to me will mean God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God said to me will mean God said because God is a spirit; will mean Jesus said. 1 John 5:7.
This will now help us as we close. Jesus operated on these two platforms – what He sees and what He hears. We can’t fulfill our mission on Earth without seeing what God says (revelation) and hearing what God is saying to do (vision). John 5:19-20,30. Church Gist. So He operates as He sees (revelation) and as He hears (vision). “We won’t go to Lazarus place until 2 days later.” Why? He has not received a commandment to go. As He sees, as He hears.
- May every spiritual blindness be opened today!
Revelation 3:18. The anointing destroys the yoke of spiritual blindness. So the anointing empowers us access to revelation. Church Gist. He said, “the same Anointing will teach you all things.” 1 Corinthians 2:10.
- So by the anointing today, I decree the siege of spiritual blindness blasted!
What we see is called revelation and the Holy Ghost is our access to revelation. John 14:26. He is the One that enhances our access to the voice of the Lord and this is what we call vision. John 16:13-14…that’s His ministry. This goes to explain what Paul said, “I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.” Church Gist. Those are the two wheels on which to ride majestically through the journey of life – visions and revelations. Psalm 45:4. We ride prosperously on 2 wheels (the wheel of vision and revelations) to God’s ultimate plan and purpose for our lives.
- Be empowered to operate in that realm in the name of Jesus Christ!
Benefits of Following The Voice of The Lord.
- The voice of the Lord secures divine presence which is the ultimate channel of empowerment. Acts 10:38. The omnipotent God was with Him. “Because God was with Him.” Mark 16:20. Church Gist. The voice of the Lord secures His majestic presence that makes the journey great. Romans 8:31.
- It engenders supernatural victory. 2 Samuel 5:19-20, 2 Samuel 5:23-24. The voice of the Lord commands supernatural victory. Church Gist. The same thing happened around Jericho, no sledge hammer was thrown, Jericho walls sank.
- It engenders supernatural favour. Psalm 23:1-6. Supernatural favour usually follows the voice of the Lord.
- It Allays All Fears.
Psalm 23:1,4. It allays all fears. When you hear from God, you are taller than all your challenges. When you hear from God, every Goliath looks like empty barrels. You hear from God, you are unstoppable. Church Gist. It allays all fears. Every man is a victim of what he fears. It alleys all fears. Following the voice of the Spirit allays all fears. - It Fires Up God’s Confidence In Us.
We become supernaturally God confident. God said to Moses “go forward.” To where? To the Red Sea and He went in front of them. Supernatural God confidence. God order of confidence. That is what the voice does. Psalm 114:3. Where are you carrying them to, how will they eat? It is not a short journey. What will they eat? This is a long way out. God provided for them twice a day. Plenty of water, plenty of power, plenty of protection. God confidence. You become supernaturally God confident. Unshakeable, unmovable God confident. God said He will dedicate this sanctuary in a year. You saw God confidence in action. There was no iota of doubt. There was no “Lets try”. We are not trying, God said it. Church Gist. Two months to the time of dedication we were still roofing, God said “It took me six days to create the world. I won’t need two months to finish an ordinary building. Two months, too much.” You become supernaturally God confident. The reason you shake is you didn’t hear from God. The reason you jitter is that you don’t hear from God.
I heard from God on Covenant University and I spoke the unspeakable. “This is new generation Harvard.” Before it started. I heard from God. He dictated to me the founding philosophy, I didn’t coin it. I stood before him and he defined the core values, I didn’t. He inspired me to create the custom built programs which are the highlight of our university. I therefore decree your access to this unshakable realm in your adventure in life. Church Gist. We started running some leadership certification courses at the African Leadership Development Centre in Covenant, the recent one that just concluded had participation from 50 nations of the world. 50! He said it and He did it. It is to raise a new generation of leaders across the nations, not Africa. The East, The West, The South, because He said it. May you gain access to the voice of the Spirit today and may you receive grace to sustain it.
As we round up, the end time Church is ordained a ruling and reigning Church. A Church of men and women of exploits. An army of pacesetters and trailblazers, an army of solution providers ruling in the midst of her enemies. Psalm 110:1-3, Psalm 87:1-7, Joel 2:7. While vision unfolds God’s plan and purpose for us, revelation dictates the steps to see God’s plan come to pass. Church Gist. We need access to the seeing eyes and the heating ears. If you look at the end time Church, you heard Him saying again and again, “Whosoever has ears let him hear.” As your ears pop open today may you take responsibility to what makes hearing easy. Access to hearing the voice of the Lord may you receive that.
Listen as I close, we were ready by His provision to embark on the construction of the Ark in 2016 and I said “Lord, we are set.” No sound, no voice. “Lord, we are waiting for your marching order.” No sound, no voice. Then He came to me and said “Speak no more to me on this matter, till I speak to you if I need to.” Sorry Sir. He never said a word until 2020. “Was it not you I told that is my place of appearance? If you had taken the project there, I would never have gone there with you.” We would have built nonsense without anybody worshiping there. Wake up my friend. Five years waiting but when He came down, inspite of naira collapse. God doesn’t know collapse. He makes His supplies according to His riches in glory. Church Gist. The Ark is the greatest project which this commission ever embarked upon and the cheapest. By the voice of His majesty, the greatest and the cheapest. Come back again to 1970, “God is not slow”. Oh we would have done this thing, you glory in yourself. Let them fly the naira to any point, I AM THAT I AM. That’s God. No economic situation on earth will ever affect heaven. I AM THAT I AM. Please be empowered to see and to hear. As your crowning takeaway from this convention.
- You will hear amazing things.
Some may seem to infringe on your reputation, let it be. Where did you get the reputation from? Let it be. Can I say this in closing? This Church is where we are today by following the voice of the Spirit of God. You can’t be where God has ordained you to be without accessing and following the voice of the Spirit. No one’s skill will match it. No one’s connection will equal it. Can you imagine that kind of gamut project going on without any private contact with any member of the Church or friends of the ministry. No private chat, no caucus meeting. That “look, all the timber and caliber come here.” In our church everybody is a timber and caliber because you have Jesus on your inside. Everybody! Church Gist. I think I have poured my heart out today and as you get anointed this morning, many will hear the voice of the Spirit for the first time today. This voice comes with joy unspeakable. Blessed are they that hear the joyful sound. Psalm 89:15. That voice comes with peace that passes all knowledge. Psalm 85:8. All those things that heighten people up or bring them under pressure, you don’t know it. No one among you will end your journey in regrets. You won’t end your journey with “Had I known” That is why you are knowing now.
With his presence that has been with us since Tuesday, your case is settled!
By this anointing, your spiritual ears are declared open!
While some have problems hearing from God, most of the times he tells us what not to do which you may want to do. He warns us of certain steps which you may be determined to take. Church Gist. He corrects us when we have gone on a wrong path which you may not want to listen to because of your reputation and he shows us the right way to go. We have that clearly defined in 2 Timothy 3:16-17. The words that I have spoken to you, they are Spirit and they are life and it comes in form of corrections, reproofs, instructions and doctrines. The charismatic is jumping at the doctrines, we celebrate a lot of it. “I just thank God for the revelation; I thank God also.” But that’s 25 per cent of the whole lot. Church Gist. To be thoroughly furnished, you must embrace the corrections, warnings, instructions, before the principles will have maximum impact.
- May this anointing destroy every siege of pride in anyone’s life!
That’s why only the meek can secure their place in space. Matthew 5:5.
- By this anointing, that enemy of meekness that blocks people’s access to hearing the voice of the Lord is hereby destroyed!
I have been so severally corrected by the voice of the Spirit, diversely warned by the voice of the Spirit and always instructed on what to do, some of which may not be to your liking, but it’s instructed.
- Now I decree today, anything blocking your access to fulfillment of your destiny be brought down!
Somebody can see that there is fire in the marital relationship you are into, you can sense it, your spirit has come alive here now and to still go ahead means you don’t care – that is costly.
Therefore in the name of Jesus, every warning that has come your way on this altar of AYAC 2024, may you embrace them!
Every instruction that has been passed to you by the Word of the Lord in this convention, may you put them to work!
May you take heed to every warning you have heard!
No one among us will perish in battle!
No one shall become a prisoner of war!
You will not suffer displacement in the name of Jesus!
You won’t start in Church and end in shrine!
The same spirit of God that has been guiding me all these while, I pray that same Spirit comes upon your life today!
May his voice come clear to you from henceforth!
May you never leave your life to guesswork any more!
May you be free from assumption from today!
Don’t pack your bag and ask the Lord: “Should I go?” When you have gone. That’s self-deception, that’s tempting God. “God, say what you see oo my bag is packed. I’m already gone.” God will say: “Well done! Bye-bye.” Matthew 4:7. Don’t ask God to bless your plan, seek for His plan, His plan is already blessed. God’s plan is already blessed, you don’t have to pray: “Oh! God! Come and bless!” If it is His plan, it’s already blessed. “Go to the Place I will show you and there I will make you great. Church Gist. Your name shall be great, I shall bless you and you shall be a blessing.” So God’s plan is already blessed. Don’t ask Him anymore, “Come and bless my plan.” Seek for His plan because your future and my future is in His plan, not our plans. (Speaking in tongues). Many have just, they have refused to bend. They are struggling to make happen what never happens by power or by might.
-But from today, your days of sweating and struggling are declared over.
Some of our precious graduates from CU (Covenant University), from Landmark; what they find themselves doing is far away from what they studied yet they are flourishing there. They are flourishing as if they’re trained for it. A number of them are in fashion designing; many! And are making waves in there. They caught the vision by the Spirit of God and they went ahead. One of them packed something for me the other time. If they brought it from Canada, from U.S., from Japan, you wouldn’t doubt it. It’s his company, he was doing his 10-year anniversary. By locating what God wants him to do. Church Gist. I have some of them now who are captains in aviation industry. We don’t have School of Aviation here, they caught the vision; went for it and got it. And became captains at record time. There’s something about your life, it should not be boxed to what you studied, open it up to the Holy Spirit: “What would you have me to do? What would you have me Jesus, to do?” One of us is involved in vegetable farming – amazing profit! By listening to God! The wealthiest man on earth some years back is in furniture business. Furniture! Furniture business! Not furnishing, furniture! (Speaking in tongues). We live in the midst of diverse opportunities but the eyes of many are blind. But when God opens your eyes, you will see precious things in the midst of trash.
-Therefore, I release you with open eyes. I release you into finding hands. Between now and AYAC 2025, no one will lack a testimony of access to the voice of God. The empowerment in this Mountain will last you your lifetime. Church Gist. Grace to keep the fire burning, receive it now!!!
-Everyone who has been set free from any addiction, you will never go back there again.
-Anyone that is yet to be fully delivered, your full deliverance is established today.
-By this anointing, the yoke of addiction shall be destroyed forever.
Now listen! You heard it before, when God opened my ears in 1976, I was reading a book of T.L. Osborn: “The Purpose Of Pentecost.” The first time I saw the Holy Ghost as a person that He speaks and He guides. “Holy Spirit, if you’re anywhere (I went to a Town to check on my friends, I couldn’t find them where they were living) lead me to where they are. I don’t want to ask anybody” and I heard Him say for the first time in my life, “Go forward” What? And I moved. Church Gist. It was a sweet fellowship. I could understand what the ancient fathers would say sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. It was so soothing. I got to a T junction, “where do I go from here?” “Make a left” Ah! I did. The journey was sweet and then I got to another T junction, “Make a left” I said “Holy Spirit, check it here. Maybe GPS is confused” He withdrew. I felt the emptiness. I said “Okay” and then He came back. Disobedience puts Him off. If He tells you today, do this, you refuse, tomorrow, do this, you refuse. “Bye Bye. Carry on by yourself”.
- May this anointing destroy the siege of disobedience.
He guided me to where they lived without a human help. I was about to get to the last building but one. I turned my left and I saw some clothes on the ground, including on the dryer, I could pick it as belonging to one of them. Church Gist. Before asking anybody, one of them jumped out, screamed, “Bro. David, how did you know we’re here?” The Holy Ghost came on me. From that time, I’ve never missed that majestic voice.
🎶🎶🎶 Arugbo ojo, Baba mi Agbalagba🎶🎶🎶
The voice is gorgeous and ancient. I heard Him. It’s the same voice I heard at this gate, “This is the place” The same voice I heard, “Arise, get down to Lagos to raise me a people”. The same voice, “The harvest of Africa is now overripe, rush in and preserve it from decadence” Same voice. The same voice I heard, “You are planting 5,000 Churches this year” and He did and I heard it again the following year, “You are planting 10,000 Churches this year” Inspite of COVID 19 lockdown saga. Church Gist. We saw 10,400 Churches planted in Nigeria and 1,300 planted in 35 nations of the World. What an assault to COVID 19. When God speaks, He breaks the cedar, He breaks the barrier. “You are entering 75 nations this year” 75 nations? And now, we gathered people that we were going to send and we had a first night of meeting, He said “These are not the people I’m sending” so I told them God said you’re not the people He’s sending, you have to go back and He found people by Himself. He didn’t tell us, He put them there by Himself. We entered 83 nations in one year by the voice of the Lord.
Please, open up. Your next chapters will remain far fetched except you open up. So, open up. Don’t be stranded in your life. Open up. Church Gist. You know what it means to gather people and God says they’re not the people I’ll be using? What will they think? Is this Man confused? No, I’m just directed, I’m corrected, I’m not confused.
- You will hear from Heaven and grace to obey, receive it now!
- In the same vein, every trace of sickness and disease, remaining in anyone’s life, by this anointing, I call them destroyed.
- You will not know the meaning of sickness or disease.
- You will testify in AYAC 2025 in the name of Jesus!
Open your bottles, lift it up before the Lord.
- The content of these bottles is hereby declared the Holy Anointing Oil.
- This anointing goes forth to open every spiritual deaf ear, every spiritual blind eye in the name of Jesus.
- So shall it be.
- I decree that every mark of the devil, by this anointing, gets destroyed in your life.
- Every hereditary disease is cursed from the roots!
- By this fresh anointing, none of us here will die young!
- Your days shall not be cut short!
- There shall be more fire on your life than we, your parents!
- You will be a plus to this generation and not a minus!
- You shall be a blessing and not a burden in the name of Jesus!
- Now I decree that by this anointing, the spirit of excellence comes on your life!
- He shall make you of quick understanding!
- You will be a surprise to yourself in all trainings in the name of Jesus!
Now, you belong to a pacesetting Commission, a trailblazing Commission, all by grace. Church Gist. Because you belong to this family…the child of an elephant does not pray to be big. The DNA of largeness is in it.
- Therefore, I decree the pacesetting unction, the trailblazing unction upon this Commission comes upon your life!
The child of a lion does not pray for dominion in the woods. Church Gist. It has dominion DNA in it.
- I therefore decree that the dominion seal on this Commission starts speaking in your life!
- For everyone set for marriage, the siege of marital spell is destroyed by this anointing!
- The siege of marital delay is destroyed by this anointing!
- For every troubled soul, every troubled life, by this anointing, the root of that crisis is cursed!
- For everyone about to take a wrong step, a step of regret, by this anointing be corrected!
- For everyone about taking the wrong decision in marriage, by this anointing be warned!
- For anyone about missing his step into ministry when you are not called, be corrected!
- For everyone called who is looking back here and there, be directed!
- By this anointing may God’s plan for you always suit your life!
- May God’s purpose for you always suit your life in the name of Jesus!
- For all the leaders of this platform who have joined hands to make this be what it is, be openly rewarded!
- From the Excos to the other levels including the National Pastor, be openly rewarded!
- I therefore decree that between now and AYAC 2025, you shall be a wonder to behold!
- You shall be a testimonial!
- If you are in school, your mates will be surprised at you!
- Your teachers will be surprised at your performance in the name of Jesus!
- So shall it be!
The child of a goat is a goat. The child of a dog is a dog. The child of a cow is a cow. The child of an elephant is an elephant, the child of a lion is a lion. You carry the nature of the Most High in you, you belong to the high places of life.
- Therefore, by this anointing, I decree the emergence of the giant in you. Receive it in the name of Jesus.
The whole creation is waiting for you to start manifesting who you are. - Therefore I release you to a world of manifestation.
They are waiting because you bear their solution in your hand. Church Gist. - I pray that God will not regret over any one of us.
You are not a part of the problem, you are a solution bearer. - I release you into the world as solution bearers.
- Your spiritual ears are now open. Your spiritual eyes are now open.
- No more walking in the path of regret.
- You are now made whole. No more assault of sickness and disease on your life.
- Untimely death is destroyed. By this anointing receive the grace of a good old age.
The truth of God’s Word is eternal. Any truth you receive and believe, you are empowered to manifest. Therefore, go forth and manifest the blessedness of this Impartation.
- Many will be hearing God immediately.
- Before the first seven days is over, you are already on key. You are already on the correct frequency.
- As you read your bible, you will hear from Him. Church Gist. As you read anointed materials and listen to messages, you will hear from Him.
- You will not miss your steps to heaven.
- You won’t miss your place in space on the earth.
- You will not live your life in sickness and disease but in health, vigour and vitality.
Just before we close, a note of warning. Be careful what you hear. There are diverse teachings today parading the church market. God’s standard never changes with time. His Word lives and abides forever. Criteria for eternity has not changed. “Just do anything that you feel good about” “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?” and then he made a list. Please be careful what you hear. Church Gist. One of us was listening to a number of those things, he said his life just went down. He went back to those sins he used to commit. Until he said where am I? What is happening to me? Be careful what you hear. Don’t allow junk to be sown into your spirit. You will not survive it. Be careful! And on hearing from the voice of the Spirit, be careful how you hear. Don’t hear yourself, hear from God. May these two warnings keep you on the path of righteousness, on the path of exploits in the name of Jesus. I love you all.
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