1st Service, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland
ENGAGING THE REPRODUCTIVE POWER OF TESTIMONIES
Testimonies are ordained to reproduce themselves in the lives of those who believe. The reason being that testimonies are essentially prophetic (Revelation 19:10). Every testimony is essentially prophetic (Mark 13:37).
- What I say to one, it is available for all!
- What I do to one, it is available for all!
That’s why they are ordained to reproduce in the lives of those who receive and believe them (Psalm 119:111). Every testimony is a pointer to our heritage in Christ.
“See what Christ has done for that individual” – Oh yes, that shows me that He has it available for me, for He is no respecter of persons (Luke 1:45).
Every testimony is a pointer to our heritage and is ordained to replicate in the lives of those who receive and believe them. Testimonies show us the way to go, illuminate us just as the Word does: there is light in the Word and there is light in testimonies (Psalm 119:105, Isaiah 8:20).
“This is the way to go, to get at that my heritage in Christ” – that’s what testimonies are.
Don’t be slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12). It’s all about taking responsibility after the same order and then you reproduce the testimonies in your life.
Testimonies are simply a confirmation of the Word (Mark 16:20). They are raw confirmation of the Word.
“See how that scripture got fulfilled in that man’s life. It’s my turn.”
“See how God has confirmed His Word in that lady’s life, it’s my turn.”
That’s what testimonies are.
That’s why signs and wonders erupt once and again as you believe in testimonies shared. Signs and wonders keep erupting again and again.
A woman came to Jesus with an issue of blood (Matthew 9:20-22). By Matthew chapter 14 verse 34 to 36…, as many as followed the process, they came forth with the same product. - The good news is, it’s your TURN AT LAST!
Biblical Process of Seeing Testimonies Reproduced in our Lives.
- We must believe in the integrity of testimonies. Jesus appeared to Paul, “get out of this city because they will not receive your testimony of Me here” (Acts 22:18).
The testimonies you don’t receive cannot reproduce in your life. The testimony you doubt its reality cannot reproduce in your life.
“Well, that guy is just lucky”… Isaiah 8:20 - We must believe in the power of God that brought those testimonies to bear. God is just not up to it, God is more than it (Psalm 28:5, Mark 10:27).
- We must believe in the integrity of the testifiers. God does not look like man looks. Man looks on the outward but God looks into the heart (1 Samuel 16:7).
“There was no way she could get that job without knowing somebody” – that’s why you have not gotten one.
I heard a testimony read yesterday, her marriage that went down 7 years ago. The man had married twice, divorced. Now this woman met Jesus, became a member of this Church family and came to Shiloh with a cry in her heart, “Lord, let my husband return back to me.” She can’t even locate where the husband was and at the last day of Shiloh, the two of them met at the gate.
Do you know the crowd?
“Hello, are you now born again?” The man said, “I’m born again. I am in this Church.”
The 7-year broken marriage was re-united at the gate.
“Well, that’s just coincidence” – why don’t you have that kind of coincidence?
Believe in the integrity of the testifiers.
You know why many won’t do what we do? They don’t believe in what we are saying, “there must be something else there.”
The testimony you don’t believe in the testifiers cannot reproduce in your life.
You know when I had an encounter that my wage is not in your pocket, nor in the pocket of a group of people, nor in the pocket of a Church: 1982 – we had not started Church.
I knew my Employer, I knew what He employed me to do and I knew that He is a faithful Employer and He is responsible. Sir, I have never asked a man for any help in my life. I’m telling the truth. I’ve never gone to anybody’s house nor call anybody on phone to help Jesus: it will be an insult.
One encounter can redesign your life. One!!
Abraham had one as a man without identity. He became a nation as a result. He had an army, he left the land without any recognition. He was a solo man but by Genesis chapter 14, he had 318 men in his security team that could take on a nation by one encounter (Genesis 14:14).
People don’t have encounters, that’s why they are just moving anyhow. Can you ever confuse me about God? Too late:
- I’ve had Him touch me on the back by His hand.
- I’ve heard Him saying, “stand up and follow Me”…and I followed Him.
- I’ve had Him open the Bible for me Himself.
Encounters are real, it’s just that we are so disconnected. We are too natural to connect with the supernatural. We are too fleshy to access the things of the Spirit.
1 John 1:1
There are different levels of encounters: - There is a Hearing Level
- There is the Seeing Level
- There is a Handling Level: You have proved it. The things are real.
I had a very humbling experience when we were starting ‘Word of Faith Bible Institute’. My wife out of concern said, “the school is starting next week”: there was no venue where they would resume into and I said, “are you the Owner? The Owner should know where they would resume to. As I said that, He opened my physical eyes like this and said, “that’s where the Bible school will be.”
I got to the office and I said, “Jonathan, on your way to so and so place, what’s that place called?” He said it is called Katsina road. I said, “go there. That’s where the Bible school will be.” He got there and met the owner in front of the building.
“Hello Sir, are you the owner of this building.”
He said: No, Jesus is the Owner, I’m the caretaker.
We need it for Bible school. He said, “Bible school! Then it is free.”
Encounters are real, we are just too natural to connect with the supernatural.
Nothing stabilizes people in the faith like encounters with God. Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith. Nothing fortifies our confidence like our encounters with God. - The good news is your wishy-washy Christianity will come to an end.
- Being pushed to do the biddings of God will come to an end.
- You’ll remain self-motivated in your walk with God for life.
- You’ll be running after God without needing any encouragement from anywhere. That shall be your portion.
- Believe in the steps they took (Jeremiah 6:16-17). If you don’t walk the steps, you can’t get to the same place (Hebrews 6:12).
We have to walk the same steps to experience the same things.
Prove that you believe by taking same steps (James 2:18, 26).
“Why are you calling me Lord, Lord without doing what I told you to do?” (Luke 6:46).
You want solution to your situation – whatever He tells you to do, do it (John 2:5). That’s the way out. - Believe God to reproduce same order of testimonies in your life. Remember, it is to everyone according to his faith (Matthew 9:29). It is what we receive and believe, that we are empowered to experience, empowered to manifest. Believe God to reproduce same order of testimonies in your life (Hebrews 4:2).
- Return all the glory to God as He does it. No assumption. Return all the glory to God then you are set for the next miracle.
Please note that we can only attract the testimonies we celebrate.
The testimonies we despise, we dispel: I don’t need you, I don’t want you, go my friend.
You only attract the testimonies you celebrate.
I celebrated the hand of God upon Kenneth E Hagin. I yearned to have the same order of walk with God as he did and by His grace, I am one of the carriers of his mantle today.
I celebrated the integrity of the prosperity testimony of Kenneth Copeland, (with) my entire heart. When I hear prosperity, he was my interpretation. I desire that order of grace on my life and Jesus made it happen.
I celebrated the audacity of the faith of Smith Wigglesworth. His superiority mentality over principalities and powers, I got caught up with it. By the grace of God, I’m reproducing after the same order today.
You only attract the testimonies you celebrate, you will never access the one you despise. You will never see the one you despise come to pass in your life.
We were in a crusade many years ago and as we came back to the house where we were staying, I don’t have to tell you where we were staying: they were wonderful places. There were no beds. We came back from that very powerful night meeting and as we entered the room, about 5 of us were staying in the room; then a human sized, faceless structure (you’ve heard the story many times), rolled out from the door as we entered. Then a big bird like a vulture leaped from the window; you know the dark place of the earth are full of habitation of cruelty.
I said, “hello, the devil has no right to tell us when to pray. Go to bed. You wake up in the morning and find out someone else is not waking, touch him, don’t pray.” We slept on the devil’s head.
I said, “if you have what it takes, you would have waited for us, why are going out? Where are you going to?”
Audacity, reproducing after the same order. You just need to know how to attract testimonies and what makes you not to reproduce them so you can reposition your life.
Can I tell you this, you may choose to believe it, you may choose to doubt, that’s your problem! The testimony of my prosperity is clean: ‘no corner, corner there’. This man is a very prosperous man Sir. Clean!!! There is no game or gimmicks.
I knew when He met, I knew what He told me and I knew how I will position myself in it so I can tell what is happening today.
- It’s the same way, God will meet someone here today!
I’ve not had a dime from books in my life, I don’t know how they sell the CDs, even when they were selling cassettes. I didn’t know how much they were selling it.
I am not on the board of any company under heaven, neither am I a shareholder in any company. I am just blessed by genuine, tireless covenant practice.
You can reproduce any testimony you celebrate, the ones you despise you’ll never taste it.
*Beginning from this morning, something has turned in your life.
Have you heard from this altar, people saying, “I heard someone said…and I did the same thing and so so happened. How many have heard that here?
Most testimonies here are just reproductive. People just reproduce those testimonies in their lives by doing the same thing.
Wigglesworth heard some noise in his room. In those days, there were no electricity, so he had his lantern in his hand and went to check what was happening. He saw one ugly creature with a horn on the head, rocking on the chair. He (Wigglesworth) snuffed, “I didn’t even know it was you the devil” and went back to bed.
Sir, I couldn’t recover from that testimony. It was like wine in my spirit. It was turning me on. I went to minister after that encounter.
I called for an Altar call for witches: witches here, stand to your feet. They stood in their number.
I said: Okay, sit down. Maybe you don’t understand what I am saying. I’m not saying that somebody called you a witch. If you know you are a practicing witch, stand up now!
They stood up in their numbers. It was a community of witches. I demonstrated authority over them and I asked one of them, “tell me what you do with the devil?” (you’ve heard the story before).
That was a reproduction of the testimony of Wigglesworth, a man I never met but I believed in the integrity of his testimony, I believed in the integrity of his person, I believed in the calling of God upon his life, so I’m enjoying that today.
I imagine without that, how we will survive it here. This is a colony of wickedness. You need to know how many birds fell from the sky on this ground: countless. They were just dropping and dropping.
I had a bird one time, hit the door of our house and fell down dead with blood coming out.
But that testimony changed my status, changed my level. I was 25 years old when I got it. It’s not old age we are talking about. It’s light age. - Somebody’s story is changing!
Watch: I’ve never met the great man of God, David Yonggi Cho in my life. I’ve never been in that Church in my life but I became his life student in 1985. I read all ‘read-ables’ about that magnificent Church and how God was growing the Church. I believed in the integrity of the growth of that Church and the integrity of the man of God. See where we are today.
You can reproduce any testimony you genuinely celebrate.
Is not this once and for all miracles we are talking about. It’s that miracles follow you all the days of your life, that’s what we are talking about. You are just on key with the Word of life, so God keeps confirming His Word in your life. That will be your testimony.
Testimonies are the raw acts of God that validate the verdicts of scriptures. It is God at work that we call testimonies (Mark 16:20). When we celebrate them, we commit God to reproduce them in our lives.
PRE-SHILOH ANOINTING
I want to believe God that as this Oil comes on your head, the grace of God will reposition you to make the most of ‘Jesus in Town on a Special Mission’ at Shiloh 2020.
*Your spiritual life will take a dramatic new turn.
When God initiated the mystery of the Holy Anointing Oil, He said amongst other things, this shall be an Holy Anointing unto me throughout your generations (Exodus 30:31). We are spiritual Israelites as believers (Galatians 3:29).
The Holy Anointing Oil is ordained a mystery for our generation as believers. It applies to you and I today. If you look at it, that was unveiled in Exodus chapter 30 and then you find its manifestation on and on: - Samuel with a vial of Oil (1 Samuel 10:1, 1 Samuel 16:13).
- Kings and prophets anointed to stand in their offices (1 Kings 19)
- We saw Jehu anointed to destroy the house of Ahab (2 Chronicles 22:7)
- The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing (Isaiah 10:27)
- You go forward and you’ll see Jesus with the Oil as He gave to the Apostles on their Mission (Mark 6:7, 12-13).
- We saw the disciples carry on with the Oil (James 5:15).
It’s a trans-generational mystery. It’s as applicable today as it was when it was unveiled. Its effect and impact are as potent as when it was put in place.
“Thou shall anoint Aaron and his sons…that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office” (Exodus 30:30). - It enables us to stand in the place that God has called us to be.
It’s interesting to know that this mystery simply implies the power of the Holy Spirit because when David was anointed with Oil, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him from that day forward (1 Samuel 16:13).
Among other things, it is to set a seal over our lives against the assault of the wicked one (Ephesians 1:13).
*As this Oil comes on your life, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall see evil no more. Not only at Shiloh but the remaining days of your life.
I’ll like you to just embrace the trans-generational dimension of this mystery. It’s not a church doctrine, it’s a mystery of the Kingdom ordained to secure our lives and destinies on the earth.
WHAT IS IN THE OIL?
Among others:
- The yoke destroying power of God resides in the Oil. After it is declared the Holy Anointing Oil, it becomes the yoke destroyer.
Isaiah 10:27
- Whatever represents yoke in anyone’s life, as this Oil from the altar touches your head, that is the end of it.
- Depression will be destroyed.
- Evil imaginations will be destroyed.
- The siege of the wicked following you around will be destroyed.
- Every strange movement over your body will be destroyed.
- Whatever makes people ask, “where is your God?”, you will see them no more.
- Luke 10:17-19
The Oil is a seal of protection against all assaults of the enemy. - Also, it is a seal of favour. In the Oil resides the favour of God. Remember, “thou shalt compass the righteous with favour as with a shield” (Psalm 5:12). In Psalm chapter 45 talking about Jesus in prophecy (Psalm 45:7,12)
- After this anointing on your forehead, favour will keep oozing forth from your life.
- The Healing power of God is in the Oil (Mark 6:13, James 5:14-15).
- Every sickness goes off this morning.
- Every discomfort ends this morning.
- Every infirmity disappears this morning in the name of Jesus and so shall it be.
Please note that what we are doing today only happens once in a year. Being anointed from the altar happens only once in a year and it is in the Pre-Shiloh encounter service. - Expect your once in a year order of encounters in this service.
- Many destinies have experienced massive turnarounds over and over again from this kind of service: YOURS MUST HAPPEN NOW!
- Every unwanted situation in your life must give way right now and so shall it be.
- Jesus, I am not returning the same way I came. My Pre-Shiloh encounter must be established via the mystery of this Oil right now.
Zacchaeus said, “I must see Him.” They said, “you short man, how are you going to see him?” He said, “wait”; he went and climbed the sycamore tree (Luke 19:4). Jesus looked at him, he said, “Zacchaeus, come down…” (Luke 19:5).
How many want to see Jesus? It may require some form of tree climbing to see Him (Amos 6:1).
But just one encounter can turn anyone’s life around forever. - You won’t miss that kind of encounter at Shiloh.
- You shall not miss that kind of encounter at Shiloh.
Even though I celebrated the testimony of Yonggi Cho, it was an encounter that opened up the Church growth destiny of this Church. One encounter, 3 days only and I saw a Church that will always have people outside forever. I saw a Church that will always have people outside, no matter how big the Church is, we will always have people outside forever.
*The kind of encounter that will turn your life around forever unforgettably, you will have it at Shiloh 2020.
Come unto me and I will give you rest
Who? Jesus
Where are you? Wherever 2 or more are together in my name, there I am in their midst.
Endeavour to be gathered together where Jesus is, so you can access the Special Mission He has for you during these few days.
Identify those locations where you are and get your invitees to be there, for those who cannot make it down here and just focus your eyes on Jesus.
God appears through His Word all the time because the Word and God are the same (1 Samuel 3:21, John 1:1). As the Word goes forth, God keeps appearing to His people. - He will appear to you this time.
- Shiloh 2020 shall be the most robust Shiloh till date; the most impactful Shiloh till date.
- You will be part of the story of this new phase.
- The grace required to maximize your portion at Shiloh, receive it now.
Therefore, anoint all that belongs to you. Anoint your vehicles, anoint your home. Anoint your sons and daughters who are not around, anoint their pictures: the same power of God that covers you here will cover them wherever they are in the name of Jesus Christ.
*Your eyes shall see evil no more.
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