EVERY DIVINE VISITATION REQUIRES OUR PREPARATION.
HOW PREPARED WE ARE AS INDIVIDUALS WILL DETERMINE THE ENCOUNTERS THAT WE SHALL EXPERIENCE AT SHILOH.
SHILOH IS A FEAST WHERE WE ACCESS OUR INHERITANCE WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST.
SANCTIFICATION HAS BEEN THE MOST B4ST4RDIZED SUBJECTS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST
IF YOU JUST DO ANYTHING, YOU WILL SUFF3R EVERYTHING
EVERY GLORIOUS DESTINY IN CHRIST DEMANDS SANCTIFICATION FOR DELIVERY
THE MORE OF HIS WORD AT WORK IN US, THE FREER WE ARE FROM THE AFFLICTION AND MANIPULATION OF THE POWERS OF DARKNESS
IF YOU FIGHT AGAINST SIN THE WAY YOU FIGHT AGAINST SICKNESS, EVERYBODY WILL BE FREE
NO ONE CAN LIVE A LIFE THAT PLEASES GOD WITHOUT FAITH IN GOD
GOD HAS VOWED TO EXEMPT THEM THAT FEAR HIM FROM THE PLAGUE OF THIS END TIMES WHICH INCLUDES FAMINE
WE CAN’T PLEASE GOD IN THE ENERGY OF THE FLESH. THERE IS NO STRATEGY FOR PLEASING GOD WITHOUT GOD HELPING OUT
UNGODLINESS DESTROYS DESTINY AND BLOCKS ACCESS TO HELP IN TIMES OF TROUBLE
- Bishop David Oyedepo on UNDERSTANDING THE PATHWAYS TO SANCTIFICATION 1C at Prophetic Entrance Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland|| 3rd November 2024 || First Sunday Service.
Now, the Prophetic Theme for the month is: Godliness Is Profitable Unto All Things’. 1 Timothy 4:8. Church Gist. Of all spiritual virtues, only godliness has these two-way benefits for us – The life in the now and the life hereafter. And the only guarantee for the life hereafter is godliness.
-In the precious name of Jesus, our journey will not end only on this Earth! May each one of us succeed to secure our place in eternity. May we be awake to take responsibility to secure our place in eternity in the precious name of Jesus! Church Gist. Thank You Father! Jesus said: “You’re now clean by the words I’ve spoken to you, let Your cleansing Word come down this morning, let it set free every captive and pave the way to our securing a place in eternity in Jesus precious name we pray!
Our teaching series for the month is UNDERSTANDING PATHWAYS TO SANCTIFICATION. Before then, just a little recap on Shiloh 2024. Every divine visitation requires our preparation. God announced to Israel: “I’d be coming down in your midst, wash your clothes, get ready for on the third day I will arrive here.” Exodus 19:10-11. So, every divine visitation demands man’s preparation. Everybody was called to the marriage as guests and then the king came in to see the guests and found one that had no wedding garment. Church Gist. He said: “How did you get down here?” Matthew 22:11. Preparation is vital, we need to keep our garment of Salvation, our robe of righteousness in place to maximize the King’s Feast at Shiloh 2024. Prophetically, we know that Shiloh is a great spiritual feast ordained for our dominion both as a Church and as individuals. Joshua 18:1. For all those who are fresh in Church. So, Shiloh is a feast where we access our inheritance which God has given us in Christ and we saw this picture in Isaiah 25:6. That is in summary what Shiloh is all about. It’s there to swallow up death in victory, wipe away tears from off all faces and take away the reproach of His people forever.
-You are coming into Shiloh, you’re not returning with any air of reproach around your life, around your family, around your health. You get ready for it!
We cannot ascend the mountain of the Lord without purging ourselves. 1 John 3:3. Psalm 24:3-5. As we get set to access God’s highway of life at Shiloh, we must put on our garments of Salvation and our robes of righteousness as we saw out there in Isaiah 61:10-11. We must be spiritually prepared by getting out all stones of blockade on the path of our spiritual life so as to maximize the blessings at the Feast. Isaiah 62:10-12. How well prepared we are as individuals will determine the encounters that each one of us shall experience at Shiloh. Church Gist. 2 Chronicles 27:6. Therefore, we must come awake to righteousness, out of our spiritual slumber and Christ shall shed lights on every dark areas of our lives at Shiloh 2024 in the name of Jesus! We need to be prepared! No matter how smart a student, if you’re not prepared for an exam you are most likely going to goose and become like a dummy. Not because you lack potentials but you’re unprepared. So, let’s get prepared to meet our God. Amos 4:12. What’s He out to do for us at Shiloh? He wants to impart us with the ever-winning wisdom so that the days of defeat, of failure, of stagnation will be over in our lives forever. And that’s what He wants to do, so let’s get prepared because the secret of God is only with them that fear Him and the fear of God is not phobia it’s to depart consciously from evil. We are going to return with this Kingdom secret that puts us on top of all life’s situations and circumstances. Get ready for it!
UNDERSTANDING PATHWAYS TO SANCTIFICATION
Psalm 23:3. There are pathways to righteous living. Psalm 23:1-4. There are pathways to sanctification. As mentioned earlier, God will not tell us to do what He has not engraced us to do because His commandments are not grievous. Church Gist. 1 John 5:3. John 14:21. Please give ear today, this has been the most bastardized subject in the Body of Christ. Just do anything and suffer everything. People are struggling and they have not found out why all these struggles.
Sanctification is a choice and not a gift. Deuteronomy 30:19. Make your choice. Matthew 5:5. They choose to and the hunger and thirst after righteousness gets a believer continuously blessed. That is where you are entering into – a realm of blessings that is unstoppable. Church Gist. As we maintain and engage with a genuine hunger and thirst towards pleasing God in all that we do. It is a choice. They hunger and thirst by their choice after righteousness. They shall be filled with blessings. Matthew 5:6.
We understand from scriptures that sanctification is the foundation for every glorious destiny in Christ. 2 Timothy 2:19-21. Every glorious destiny in Christ demands sanctification for delivery. Psalm 11:3. You can’t determine the number of floors of a building after the foundation. It is all determined at the foundation. Church Gist. You can’t have a bungalow foundation and want to build a two floor storey building. It will crash. It will collapse. So the foundation is vital in determining the height of a building. We are God’s building (1 Corinthians 3:9) and God’s own sure foundation for every building who we are is sanctification.
Benefits Of Sanctification
What does sanctification offer us as believers? When you know what it offers, you are more than willing to subscribe.
- It Secures Access To Our Inheritance In Christ
Obadiah 1:17. It is a prelude to accessing our inheritance in Christ. Acts 20:32. Our access demands sanctification. Church Gist. Our inheritance is real but the demand is a non negotiable demand – sanctification to access our inheritance.
- Whatever pertains to you and me that is still hanging in the air, in the name of Jesus, in this month of sanctification, godliness and holiness, it shall be delivered.
- Sanctification Enhances Answers To Our Prayers
Psalm 66:18-20.
- You won’t pray in futility anymore.
Proverbs 28:13. If we say we have not sinned when we have sinned, we deceive ourselves and we keep paying the price. 1 John 1:9.
He met that man 38 years at the Pool of Bethesda, Jesus had mercy on him. John 5:14. John 5:1-8,14. It procures divine health. Church Gist. The man that was being brought through the roof, Mark 2:5. That means, what tied him down there was sin. “Thy sin be forgiven thee” and that was it.
Now, what are the demands for sanctification? Pathways for sanctification:
- We must purpose in our heart to live a sanctified life like Daniel. Daniel 1:8. And we saw him live through that purpose in Daniel 6:4-5. What a man. Church Gist. He purposed in his heart and the grace of God came upon him, he lived his purpose. Daniel 6:28. That’s God.
- You’re heading for next levels of prosperity in your life! If you’ll embrace this sure foundation and fortify it.
- We must watch and pray to stay sanctified. Matthew 26:41. 1 Peter 5:8-9. “No, in the name of Jesus, not here! By the Blood of Jesus, I overcome”. Matthew 17:19-21. Church Gist. Our spiritual week of emphasis is here. You better pray and fast away everything blocking your access to your inheritance. “No! Never! I’m free! I’m under the Blood! I’m settled!”. Matthew 17:21.
- We must engage the cleansing power of the Word. Ephesians 5:26. John 15:3. Psalm 119:9-11. Church Gist. The more of His Word at work in us, the freer we are from the affliction and manipulation of the powers of darkness. It’s time to engage in daily showers in the Word. Hebrews 3:13. The Word has power to cleanse. Church Gist. Let’s reach out for the cleansing power of the Word as we study by taking in to what we find.
- Faith is a must to live a sanctified life not by power, not by might. Hebrews 11:5-6. Without faith, it’s impossible to please God. So, we need faith to succeed in pleasing God. Church Gist. We need faith, we need to believe in God’s grace to live a life that pleases God consistently. By faith Enoch lived a life that pleased God all the way. Hebrews 11:5-6. So, we need faith. For instance, “be you holy as I am holy”, you have to believe it first . Luke 1:45. Do you know why people preach what they preach today? Church Gist. They’ve tried in their energy and it didn’t work, they’ll say, “it doesn’t work”. No, we need faith to make it work. If you fight against sin the way you fight against sickness, everybody will be free. If you fight against sin the same way you fight against failure in business.. “It’s not possible”, they say. You know why? Church Gist. They were trying in their energy. 1 John 3:7. Not “he that preacheth righteousness”, “he that doeth”. There’s a doing. Sanctification is a doing what pleases God as a way of life. Letting the old ways become past tense. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. Church Gist. No one can live a life that pleases God without faith in God. What faith in God does is to tap in divine virtues that makes impossibilities possible.
- Whatever you choose to be free from today, because the price has already been paid, I decree your liberty in the name of Jesus!
- whatever you truly purpose and choose and determine to be free from today, I decree divine virtue to make it a reality!
Philippians 3:3. It is this self confidence that destroys. You can’t free yourself and I can’t free myself. If you’re in a pit, it takes someone to throw you a lifeline to come out. So it takes faith in the lifeline to come out of the pit. Church Gist. We can’t please God in the energy of the flesh. There is no strategy for pleasing God without God helping out.
- In the precious name of Jesus, every unwanted issue of your life, everything you know that God hates that’s still working in your life, I decree an end of it today!
“Be ye perfect…” Matthew 5:48. “Is that possible?” No, you believe first then you will be going on to perfection, be moving closer by the day. Philippians 3:13-14. Can I have you say with me, “I believe you Lord to be free from every entanglement of hell that is out to disqualify me for triumphant living and eternity. Church Gist. I believe you Lord to set me free from this and that and this.” Lift up your right hand, call that thing to God – between you and God.
— Prayers —
Now, let’s look at the cost of ungodliness. 1. Ungodliness blocks access to help in times of trouble. A death sentence was passed on Hezekiah and he turned to the wall and said, “Lord…” Isaiah 38:2-5. He received help in time of trouble because of his quality walk with Jesus. Psalm 33:18-19 – This must be high selling product at this time because there is global drought. Church Gist. Some parts have it harder than the others but it’s the same effect. But God has vowed to exempt them that fear him from the plague of this end times which includes famine. Psalm 33:18-19; Psalm 37:18-19. The days of the upright are secured. Grace to be listed among the upright by God may we all receive it today!
- Ungodliness destroys destiny. We saw Gehazi a man overtaken by the god of gold. While Elijah asked Naaman to go, “we are not in ministry to collect things from people, you can’t pay for what God does,” Gehazi said, I won’t let him go. Church Gist. He ran after him and ended his journey there. He returned a leper – who would have taken the mantle from Elisha returned a leper. It destroys destiny; he wasn’t dead but he was not alive. He was merely existing. It destroys destiny.
In 1 Timothy 6:10-11. They pierce themselves with many sorrows, life becomes an adventure in frustration – gasping everyday: Money money money. Church Gist. Herod made an oration, he was out to compete with God, Acts 12:21-24. Ungodliness destroys destiny.
- It blocks access to divine secrets. Ungodliness blocks access to divine secrets and access to divine secret is at the root of stars in the Kingdom. As a youth, by access to divine secrets, Job became the greatest of all men in the East. Job 29:4. Church Gist. There is no skill under the sun that will compare to access to the secrets of God. There is no knowledge, no skill under the sun that will ever compare to access to divine secrets. Psalm 25:14. What key could Joseph have acquired that will make him Prime Minister of Egypt? Not an ex convict, a current convict, involved purposedly in rap£, maximum prison and suddenly, “In as much as God has shown you all these, take over”. Church Gist. Access to divine secrets gave Joseph his throne. Genesis 39:9; 42:18. You can’t fear God and not know. Access to divine secrets make stars. Daniel 1:8; 2:19,23,30. So, this is not my intellectual acumen, this is God revealing that secret. Daniel 2:46. He took over by access to divine secrets.
- We are in for the best of time at Shiloh. Amen? The best of time at Shiloh. We are in for the best of time at Shiloh.(x5) and it’s starting now!
Divine secrets are master keys in the adventure of life. Church Gist. You have it, it opens all doors.
- I see every closed doors around your life opening up again!
But ungodliness blocks access to divine secrets and keeps believers struggling like others around them. Genesis 41:39. The secret thing belong to God, but what He reveals belong to us. No one can gate crash into God or His agenda. He’s a just God. He’s no respecter of persons. Church Gist. It takes the fear of God to access divine secrets and divine secrets will make star of any dummy any day, any where. It will bring anyone out of any prison where the enemy has put him unjustly. Divine secret is the hardest of all currencies. Its purchasing power is inestimable. Divine secret is the hardest of all currencies. Its purchasing power is unmatchable.
- It’s your turn!
By every sense, Canaanland was no place for Church, but by divine sense, it is the place. Come on now! What? Nothing will ever compare in value, no intellectual capacity will compare in value with access to divine secrets, no. You ask any technical man, it’s impossible to fix these things in one year, he will tell you that bluntly, when this Tabernacle was not completed. Church Gist. He’ll tell you bluntly, “forget it, my friend. We are not dummies”. We dominate by divine secrets. We dominate by what? We dominate by divine secrets. Did He do it or not? Was anybody under pressure? Except you put yourself under it. I wasn’t under pressure. I wasn’t.
- In the precious name of Jesus, may your access to divine secrets become and remain open!
Only revelation transforms. What information does is to add to your vocabulary. Information only adds to your vocabulary, it doesn’t bring a change at all. But when God reveals any truth, you triumph without sweat. When God reveals any truth, we triumph without sweat. Church Gist. Psalm 25:14. He will show them what they need to do for His plan and purpose to be realized, He will show them. What will become a matter of business struggles, He will show them. What to do to come out of marital crisis, He’ll show them. “He will show them His Covenant”.
One of the most subtle dimensions of ungodliness is pride. It has killed many people and it’s still killing people today. People pose to do what they don’t know. Whatever you claim to know that has no proof, you don’t know it yet. Church Gist. Maybe you know some bit of it, you don’t know enough to engender a proof. 1 Corinthians 8:2.
You and I are where we are today by reason of the little we know. If we know any more, we go steps high up; we go high up. It’s time to come sober. It’s time to become humble. It’s time to remain a searcher, searching out the mind of God on issues and the best place to start is the beginning. Church Gist. The journey to accessing divine secrets begins with the fear of the Lord as a lifestyle. Abraham said, “I will not take anything from you lest you say, you made Abraham rich.” Neat!
- It’s a brand new day!
The cure for pride is to know that every good and perfect gift manifesting in your life is from the Lord. Every result obtained in your life is by grace from God. That will set you free from pride. 1 Corinthians 4:7…that sets you free. 1 Samuel 2:9…so you are prevailing by the help of God. Pride is a k1llër, it destroys instantly. It has destroyed too many people. Church Gist. The whole of Nebuchadnezzar walked into the bush as an animal by saying “this great kingdom which I have built by my might” and while the word was still in his mouth, he was turned to an animal.
Many believers are victims of pride today. They are stagnated and stinky in one place because they made it. Church Gist. “I made it. All these things they are talking about faith, no, no! I made it” and suddenly it all disappears. John 15:5.
- You are going places!
Let me tell you where God is taking us as we close. “If you hearken to my voice, observe to do all that I command you; I, God will set you on high above all nations of the Earth.” That’s where you are going. So why are you pulling shoulders when you are still on the street? Church Gist. Even on your street, there is no impact of your business and God is taking you above all nations of the Earth. Don’t cut short your life. Don’t place a ceiling on your destiny. Refuse to allow pride get on your way. It’s a deadly sin.
But the good news is, God never holds our past against us but He will only write them off when we truly repent. God will only write them off when we truly repent. To repent means among others to back out from the wrong path; to make a u-turn from the deadly path. Ezekiel 18:20-24…that’s where we come in. Church Gist. That you have been doing right is not a guarantee for the future. You have to keep doing the right. That you have been doing wrong, it’s not the end of your life, you can return. God has no pleasure that anyone dies.
- So all the beating of your chest in the night, may it stop today!
- All the saying that I am the only one there, may it stop today!
- That in all my village, there’s nobody like me, may it stop today! Church Gist. What’s your village? It’s not on the map and God is taking you above all nations of the Earth!
- There are many global breadwinners in this House!
- May you not cut short God’s agenda for your life!
Never mind the famine, it’s not targeted at you. Walk in the fear of God, you will be smiling at the storm. Maintain your walk with God, you will be smiling at the storm. Keep obeying God by choice; gladly and joyfully, you will be smiling at the storm. Church Gist. Let doing the will of God become the pleasure of your life, you will be smiling at the storm. The great question is, God has not targeted the horrors of this season at you. No! You are redeemed to be different and in Jesus name, you shall be!
You have seen the benefits, you have seen the demands and you have seen the costs. Church Gist. Now you can make your choice. It’s the journey we are taking on all through this month.
- In the precious name of Jesus, before the month is over, your balance of Fortune 2024 package that is still hanging in the sky will be delivered to you!
It’s never late to be right. Whatever displeases God disconnects you from your blessings. So get rid of it and do it today.
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