WE LABOURED 6 YEARS IN KUMASI, IF WE DIDN’T TURN, WE’LL BE SWEATING AND WE WON’T MOVE FORWARD.
I VOWED NEVER TO BE IN LAGOS FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE. I WAS VOWING AGAINST DESTINY, I DIDN’T KNOW.
I HAVE NOT HAD TO COMPETE WITH ANYONE IN MY LIFE.
I THANK GOD FOR OTHERS, I HAVE NO COMPETITION.
HOW WE GOT THE ACRES Of LAND FOR CANAANLAND.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on UNDERSTANDING THE DEMANDS OF SUCCESS: THE DIVINE DIRECTION FACTOR at Covenant Day Of Exemption Service || 1st March 2026 || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First Sunday Service || Part C
As mentioned, Abraham was divinely led to a World of exploits and the Bible said: “Look! If you are Abraham’s seed, you do the works of Abraham.” John 8:39. Galatians 3:29. Submit yourself to be led. No one has capacity to lead himself in the future he does not know. Let the One who owns the future lead you there. You won’t know how empty you are when God is out of the equation of your life. Church Gist. We went on our own to Kumasi in 1987 and we laboured for 6 years without anything to show. Then I began to say to God in 1993: “Jesus! Why is nothing happening in Kumasi?” He said: “I am not there.” “Eh? No wonder! We have been struggling and struggling and nothing is working!” I called to call it ‘shut down’! Shut down! Because God told me He is not there! Amen! There are men working like that in their lives where God is not. God is off the scene, they are just struggling and swimming against the tides.
-The end has come.
You are entitled to His leading as a child of God if you will subscribe to it. The Lord said to me: “I am committed to leading You if you are committed to following Me.” – 1st October 1983. “I am committed to leading You if you are committed to following Me.” God does not lead Jack and Harry, He leads only those who are committed to following Him. Some are so full of themselves that they even advise God. “God! Can I tell You why I need to do this? It’s my area of specialty. That’s my area. Everybody in the World knows me for it. I’m just advising You. Church Gist. When You are leading me, lead me in that way.” He will say: “Lead yourself! Just carry on!” I’ll never be in Lagos for anything in my life, I vowed.” I was vowing against destiny, I didn’t know. “Arise! Get down to Lagos! With your head! And raise me a people!” Against all my disposition, my aspiration, my assertions, my verdicts. Allow God to lead you. Don’t say everybody has heard I said: “I won’t go to Lagos!” Who is everybody? You have your life to live. Some are on a wrong path but they won’t turn. The arrogance in them won’t let them turn. We laboured 6 years in Kumasi, if we didn’t turn, we’ll be sweating and we won’t move forward. This God? If you disobey Him in one place you are not qualified for the next. You know we paid some money along LASU road for a property, 50-acres! We paid deposit but when I got there I couldn’t see God. Clean land oo. I said: “No! Let’s go!”
-Somebody is here! Access to divine correction will put you on a flight.
You see? People like direction, they hate correction. A co-factor in divine direction is correction. You better pick it! The Endtime army will be distinguished by following each one the path ordained for him by God. Joel 2:7. Church Gist. I’ve not had one person that I have had to compete with in my life. He has his race, I have my race. Let me keep to my race as he keeps to his race. I thank God for him, no competition. 2 Corinthians 10:12.
How do I connect with divine direction? We are going to go into it in a moment and that will help you and I to keep scaling new height by the day.
-No more stagnation! No more going about in cycles.
Deuteronomy 2:3. Misdirection can be most costly if not destructive. Misdirection. Isaiah 30:1-3. “Come! Ask Me!” “Am I okay? Is this the way to go? Church Gist. Is this Your plan for me?” Ask. Isaiah 42:22-25. He can’t tell! He’s off! Off God! Off God’s agenda. Now struggling for survival.
-That’s not you anymore.
The good news is that divine direction is an asset any day, any time, any where because when God leads, I’ll follow.
-Only goodness and mercy are permitted to follow us.
When God leads and you choose to follow, only goodness and mercy is permitted to be following you.
-Therefore from this Month on, what will be staying behind you all the time is goodness and mercy.
How? Among others. When God leads, He goes before the led to clear all barriers off his path. God leads you? He goes before you to make the crooked path straight. Isaiah 45:1-3. Now! God said: “Arise! Get down to Lagos” and same day we moved. I sent someone here. Within 2 weeks, we got all the properties needed by going to the area He said to go to. Can I hear your Amen? Church Gist. All within walking distances, you don’t need to drive to move from house to Church, move from Church to the staff house, everything! The same way! He goes before you to make the crooked path straight. When God leads, He goes before you. When the Lord said: “This is the Place.” I said to the people, I said: “Can you get 100 acres?” They said: “We will try?” Now they said: “We got 100 acres.” I said: “Can you get 200?” They said: “Yeah! We got 200.” Ah! I said: “Okay! Try to get 300.” We were just getting! Why? God led to break the barriers.
-In the name of Jesus, your days of sweating and struggling to make things happen is over, they are over.
When God leads, He goes before the led to make the crooked path straight. Church Gist. He levels all the barriers on the way.
-In the name of Jesus, that will become your new experience.
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