THIS COMMISSION IS NOT BUILT BY STRENGTH OR BY SKILL, THE RAW HAND OF GOD AND THE GRACE OF THE FATHER.
GRACE IS BEHIND EVERY MARVELLOUS ACT OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE.
NO ORDINARY MAN HAS THE CAPACITY TO DO MARVELLOUS THINGS.
PEOPLE OVERESTIMATE THEMSELVES. PEOPLE WHO WORKED LIKE YOU NEVER SAW THE THINGS YOU ARE SEEING. STOP CELEBRATING YOUR SKILL
THERE IS NO END TO CHANGE OF LEVELS FOR ANYONE GENUINELY DEDICATED TO CELEBRATING GOD.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Hour of Prayer || 26th September 2022.
Thank God for another working week, thank Him for what you believe God has prepared for you this week. Thank Him for the prophetic word that has come to pass in your life this month. In Jesus’ precious name we have given thanks.
Jesus speak to us again this morning and let your name be glorified in Jesus’ precious name.
We must understand why we should continue to praise God, how to praise God and what to expect in return. A man that despises spiritual understanding shall abide in the congregation of the dead because what you don’t understand you cannot access. Church Gist. Acts 8:30-31. It is our spiritual understanding that determines the level of results we obtain from any scriptural instruction. Matthew 13:23. Understanding is the principal to determining our worth in our work with God. Spiritual understanding. Psalm 119:144.
Why must we be committed to a lifestyle of praise? God allocates our inheritance for us in praise. Psalm 47:7. We must have an understanding of praise to maximize its effect in our lives. In the midst of praise, He shall choose our inheritance for us. Psalm 47:4. He allocates inheritance in the midst of praise. Psalm 65:4. We need that understanding to access our allocation. Our inheritance is packaged in Revelation 5:12. Church Gist. Those are redemptive packages in Christ. It is your turn to experience God’s fearful blessings. For our praise to be acceptable, it must come from the heart. Isaiah 29:13. Malachi 2:1-3. Giving glory to God is not just moving your body, is your heart connecting in acknowledging God that He is the one behind every good thing in your life. He is the one behind all the future holds for you from the depth of your heart.
So our exhortation line this week is PRAISE IS KEY TO OUR DESIRED SUPERNATURAL TURNAROUND. We serve a turnaround God. Psalm 126:1-2. We serve a turnaround God and praise happens to be one of the vital platforms that provoke our desired supernatural turnaround. Church Gist. When our praise goes up, God comes down in person into our situation and that stirs a turnaround. When God steps into our situation, a turnaround results. Our God dwells in the midst of the praise of His people so He comes down when His praise goes up.
Isaiah 64:1-4.
The things that look as though they are barriers staring you in the face and insurmountable challenges, will melt as if they never existed. When you praise Him down, what eyes have not seen nor ears heard, nor entered the heart of any man becomes the order of the day in your life. That’s why we praise Him to invoke His turnaround power in our situation. Church Gist. 1 Corinthians 2:9. We see praise as one of those triggers of what eyes have not seen nor ears heard and they will become the order of the day in your life as you subscribe to a lifestyle of praise. Psalm 34:1. It is your turn and my turn.
When our praise goes up, the glory of God comes down to terminate all issues of shame and reproach around us. 2 Chronicles 5:13-14. When we praise Him, His glory comes down and that terminates all forms of shame and reproach in our lives. Watch! You never know shame again. You never see shame again as praise becomes your new lifestyle. Zephaniah 3:17-19. When God comes down, shame and reproach pack their luggage. You never suffer the plague of shame and reproach anymore in your life and your family. Zephaniah 3:20. He turns captivity when He comes down. Church Gist. He rolls away shame and reproach. Stop celebrating your skill, don’t kill yourself. No ordinary man has the capacity to do marvellous things. People overestimate themselves. “I did …, I did…”. People who worked like you never saw the things you are seeing. Grace is behind every marvellous act of God in your life. This commission is not built by strength or by skill, the raw hand of God, the grace of Father. You never suffer shame and reproach anymore.
Isaiah 54:1-2. When you break forth into singing, you begin to enjoy breakthroughs on all sides. Sing yourself out of your downtrodden time and you begin to see breakthroughs of all kinds. That’s the God we serve.
No casual thanksgiving, no casual praises anymore. You praise Him. He comes down and the mountains melt.
We are going to praise Him with the understanding that He is a turnaround God. Whatever needs to turn must turn the few days remaining. Whatever you desire to see, turn must turn.
…… PRAISE SESSION…..
Lift your two hands and in words glorify the name of God. New dawn in your career, new dawn in your career, give Him glory there is none like Him.
A number of our pastors were there at the Ark Project yesterday and I said we have not come to see what we have done, we have come to see what He has done. There is no end to change of level for anyone genuinely dedicated to celebrating God. Church Gist. No end to change of level. You keep swimming from glory to glory, you keep scaling new heights every day.
- May thanksgiving and praise become your new lifestyle.
- May this love become your new love of your life.
No mountain can stand His presence, they melt like wax. When God shows up, the enemies flee. Every form of torture on anyone’s life or family or business, children or career, I see them all melt like wax. As we succeed in retaining His presence with a heart of gratitude, praise and celebration, No mountain will survive in your situation again.
The week is declared a week of the fulfilment of prophecy. Somebody died for three days, after living in the hospital for three years. Jesus still brought Him back. Turnaround God. Church Gist. Turnaround God. In the precious name of Jesus, everything tagged dead, everything tagged impossible in anyone’s life, this week as we conclude God’s instructions for the month, they will turn into testimonies.
A man could not stand to give His testimony. He was in tears of joy. He got married in 1995, He is now 68 and his wife is 55, they gave birth to their first son. Everything that they termed too late for you, God will show up in your favour. God’s presence is the master story changer. Church Gist. When God steps in, everything turns in our favour. We serve a turnaround God, He stepped into the prison and changed everything in a moment, brought Paul and Silas out dignified. They called them Sirs, criminals became Sirs. As you press this battle of praise to the end God will show up for you.
Another day is here, another day of testimonies for you. So shall it be.
Prayers: Lift your hands and take hold of this week. I am taking hold of this week to access all that God has in store for me.
Thank you, Jesus.
Yesterday, over 1500 of our new converts and first-timers signed up for membership. No assumption, it is worthy of celebration. God is a good God. Church Gist. The addition, the multiplications, all the glory goes to God.
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More grace papa, am actually blessed with the messages.