WHERE YOU SEE YOURSELF TODAY DETERMINES WHERE YOU FIND YOURSELF TOMORROW
DECISION WITHOUT VISION IS DECEPTION AND DELUSION
DECISION MUST BE BACKED WITH VISION IN ORDER TO TRANSLATE INTO MANIFESTATION
AT AGE 9-12, NELSON MANDELA HAD THE VISION TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA. IT CAME TO PASS AFTER MANY YEARS.
WHEN GOD SPEAKS, HE EXPECTS YOU TO SEE. DON’T JUST HEAR WHAT HE SAID.
PASTOR DR PAUL ENENCHE MENTIONS COUNTRIES TO BE VISITED FOR CRUSADES…SAYS PAKISTAN AND INDIA IS CALLING!
VISION PUTS YOU ON THE RUN WHERE NO devil CAN STOP YOU FROM REACHING THE TOP.
YOU WILL NOT LIVE A WASTED LIFE; LIVE WITH A HEART LOADED WITH VISION TO HAVE A LOADED FUTURE.
WHEN YOU’RE TOO LAZY ABOUT LIFE, IT MAY BE A POINTER THAT THE HEART IS EMPTY
TIME IS AVAILABLE IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE
THE ABSENCE OF VISION IS THE ABUNDANCE OF INACTION AND STAGNATION
WHEN YOU HAVE VISION AND IMAGINATION, YOU DON’T NEED EXTRA VOICE FOR GOD TO HEAR WHAT YOU’RE SAYING
- Pastor Dr. Paul Enenche on “ABOVE ONLY BY VISION” || Midweek Power Communion Service || Dunamis International Gospel Centre || Glory Dome, Abuja.
I welcome everyone to the midweek service. Actually, this is more like a global midweek service because we are connected all around the world. Pre-convention week. And I believe that the Lord will do great things. Church Gist. The Sunday Service was intense, we had calls from all around the world how people were impacted. Some people said, “please can a book come out of that message and so forth?” We are trusting God that that will happen.
Today, we are going to move one step forward. Genesis 13:14-15. Today, We are looking at “ABOVE ONLY BY VISION”. Our objective is understanding the place of vision for existence at the top. Church Gist. If I want to exist at the top spiritually and at the top in life. On Sunday, we looked at ABOVE ONLY BY DECISION. Today, we are now looking at ABOVE ONLY BY VISION. What is the difference? Decision is choice while vision is sight. Decision is what you choose, what you want whereas vision is what you see. ‘This is my choice but this is what I can see”. They are different things. So, decision, what you want is not enough, it must translate into what you see. Church Gist. You don’t only want it, you must see it coming for it come. So, decision without vision is deception, it’s delusion. When you have decided and you say, ‘this is what I want’ and you can’t see it, it is delusion, it is deception, it will amount to nothing. If you want it but you can’t see it, you won’t have it. You can’t see its possibility, yet you want it but you can’t see that is possible, you can’t have it. Church Gist. So, decision must be backed with vision in order to translate into manifestation. Decision must be backed with vision so it can lay the foundation for manifestation.
We are going to look at some examples in Scripture of people who started with vision and where it ended them.
- Abraham. Genesis 13:14-15.
The geographical territory of what is called Israel today was what Abraham saw afar and he possessed it, he took delivery of it and his children and grandchildren because if you start with vision, you must end with possession. - Joseph. Genesis 37:3-5,7-9.
Before Joseph reached the palace, he saw the palace. He saw himself in authority, he saw himself in charge. Before he reached the palace, he saw himself there. Church Gist. You cannot find yourself where you don’t see yourself. Where you see yourself today determines where you find yourself tomorrow. - David.
David killed Goliath in his vision before he killed him with his action. Did you hear what I just said? David killed Goliath in his vision before he killed him with his action. 1 Samuel 17:45-50. He was saying, “I will cut off your head”. With what? Church Gist. He now showed us what he saw in his vision before he told the Philistine, “I will cut off your head”. Verse 51. David had no sword in his hand when he saw himself cutting the man’s head. So, as far as I am concerned, David saw the whole process. He saw himself catapulting the man. He saw the man crashing. He saw himself running to where the man was. He saw himself took the man’s knife and saw himself cut off the man’s neck. When the picture was clear, the venture was there. Church Gist. He could venture because he carried a picture. He was rehearsing and saying what he has practiced in his mind. What is not in your mind cannot be in your end. This is very important. There are people who wait for things to happen by chance, no! The things won’t happen by chance, they happen by force and it is the force of vision.
- somebody say Amen.
- lift your hands everywhere you are and say “Father, open my eyes and put in my hand all that is required to make vision come to pass in Jesus’ name”.
Let us take the journey a bit further. I remember the story of an American President, the previous President of America when he was in… I think Primary 3 I mean, Elementary 2 or 3 or Grade 2 or 3 and they asked him: “What do you want to become in life?” This one says: “I’m a doctor, this one says I want to become…” They say what do ‘you’ want to become? Church Gist. He said: “America President”, small child in Grade 2! Eventually, he became. Nelson Mandela, I heard was around the age of between 9 and 12 thereabout in a Methodist Church in South Africa when he heard the clergyman preach and right in that Church he developed the vision to become the President of South Africa. Even though it was difficult and it was many, many long years but even though the vision tarried yet it shall come to pass.
At the age of 12, God’s Servant Bishop David Oyedepo went to the village carpenter and he said: “Make me a rod” and he said: “What would you like to do with this Rod?” He said: “With this Rod, I am going to deliver… This is the Rod of Moses. I’m going to deliver God’s people from captivity.” Is he delivering people now or not? Globally, en masse. What does not cross your mind may never cross your life. This is vision! I can tell about myself in several visions. Church Gist. While as a child I spoke spontaneously, I even told my mother the name to call me! From childhood! A name of leadership, a name of royalty, a name of dignity. From childhood! And then by the time we stepped into Ministry, vision was placed everywhere in terms of where we were going. When we came to town, Church hadn’t started. Someone asked me saying: “What are we…” I told them: “We came for revival work. it’s not normal Church work, it’s not normal pace.” By our first anniversary, we already had canopies outside. First anniversary celebration! The question now is:
What is vision?
Very quickly, what is vision about? The simplest way I can define vision;
- Vision is seeing tomorrow today.
You haven’t arrived at tomorrow yet but you can see it today. That was what happened to Joseph. Genesis 37:5-9. - Vision is possessing clarity regarding a desirable future.
It’s clear to you. Church Gist. That was what happened to Abraham. Genesis 13:14-15. There’s no ambiguity, it’s clear! - Vision is thinking in pictures and images regarding the future.
Thinking in pictures, thinking in images. Ephesians 3:20. It is thought in pictures, thought in images. An imagination comes from images. Church Gist. Imagination is from images. Thinking in pictures, thinking in images regarding the future. In this case, your thought about tomorrow is not in words, your thought is in pictures. Your thought is in images. - Vision is turning Scriptures into pictures of both the present and the future.
God spoke it, you saw it. Habakkuk 2:1-2. God is speaking but you are seeing the picture. I saw when Jesus was going somewhere in Mark 6:33. Let me say and Jesus said: “Our next crusade is in Nyanya”, the people arrived at the venue before Jesus arrived – I saw the picture. When we went to Jalingo for crusade, the Stadium was filled before opening prayer. The people outwent Him, they arrived at the venue before Him, they outwent Him. So when God speaks, He expects you to see. Church Gist. Don’t just hear what He said, see it – Concerning the present and concerning the future. He said: “Your children shall be olive plants round about the table.” What I see is that olive plants carry oil so I cannot have a child that lacks anointing, I can’t! Not one! If they are hundred; all of them are olive plants, all! So you see the olive? The leaf of the olive is oily, it’s shiny, it’s glossy! And that is why God gives descriptions so that you can see the picture. Somebody say Amen!
-I prophesy to somebody here today, in the name of Jesus! You shall see the picture! Say a louder Amen! Shout the loud most Amen!
So that is vision!
- Vision is insight into purpose.
That is, God happened to show you your purpose or a particular purpose in a particular direction. And then you began to see into that purpose – insight into purpose. The meaning of that is images and pictures of what you perceive to be God’s purpose for your life. Church Gist.That is vision! Seeing images and pictures of what you perceive to be God’s purpose for your life. What God wants you to do, what God wants you to be, where He wants you to occupy, seeing it in pictures and images is called vision. Where you perceive God wants you to be in life, seeing the pictures and the images of it is called vision.
Jeremiah 1:5. Today, I prophesy to somebody;
- A fresh baptism of clarity of purpose.
- A fresh baptism of vision.
- A fresh baptism of understanding.
- You will not live a wasted life!
If you’re saying Amen, shout the loudest Amen!
Look at your neighbour and say “Don’t live with an empty heart, live with a loaded heart, loaded with vision. Church Gist. To have a loaded future, you need a loaded heart”.
I was preaching the other day on the subject of ‘Ministering on a cutting edge’, it was a minister’s conference and I said, the difference between the impact of one person’s talk and another is the vision from where they’re talking, what is driving the talk. Church Gist. Maybe I’ll leave that for another day.
What is the impact of vision in placing somebody at the top? What is the impact of vision in existence at the top?
1: Vision brings light, insight and wisdom to life. Matthew 6:22,23. Ecclesiastes 2:14. There is a connection between vision and mentality. Church Gist. “The wise man’s eyes are in his head” Maybe the foolish man’s eyes are in his legs. Daniel 5:11.
- Somebody, shout hallelujah!
“Lord, my vision is to drop a million dollars every year or every quarter for the evangelization of the lost to rake in the harvest of souls and I am trusting you out of this property business, out of this commodities business to arrive at that resources. Church Gist. Lord, this is my vision” and you have the picture in your mind. One day, I signed the cheque in advance of how much I would like to give to God if I had such a money and placed it somewhere. I just stuck it here and there. It came to pass and came to pass. Church Gist. Now, see what happens. By the time that vision is intact, light begins to flood your head with what to do and steps to take to make this vision happen. Direction begins to flood, wisdom begins to flood. Am I communicating?
When you lack vision, you can’t have wisdom. Most visionless people, (I don’t want to say foolish) are wisdomless people. See the youths of these days, no vision for their lives. ‘Yo men’ They join cultism, they join gambling, they join alcoholism. Church Gist. Why? Because he doesn’t have a vision for his life. So he thinks all roads are roads. Vision gives you light, gives you insight, gives you wisdom.
When David had the vision of bringing down Goliath, he got insight that there was an opening in the forehead of Goliath and that opening was big enough to carry a stone. Vision gives you light and when you have light you shine. Isaiah 60:1. Church Gist. You just stand out. Vision gives you wisdom and when you have wisdom you reign. Proverbs 8:16. So, with vision, you step into light, light makes you shine. With vision you connect wisdom and wisdom causes you to rule. Vision brings light, insight and wisdom to life.
2: Vision births action and motion. Men of vision can’t rest. It births in you, action and motion. Church Gist. Habakkuk 2:1-3. When you are a man of vision, you are a man on the run and when you are on the run, no devil can stop you from reaching the top. Church Gist. That is how vision takes people to the top.
There is a time frame I am looking at. For certain things to happen, I’m looking at a certain time frame. Church Gist. I’m talking about myself now. I’m looking at a certain time frame within which certain things must happen. So, I’m on the run.
Two weeks time, we’re in Canada. 3 weeks after that, we’re in Canada and we’re in Baltimore, Maryland and 3 weeks after that, we’re in Houston, Texas and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Church Gist. That’s July and then we step into August and here we are in Bogota Columbia and Caracas Venezuela and then we back off from there into September and here we are in Angola Healing and Deliverance Crusade as well as (our neighbour here) Equatorial Guinea and then from there, we step into October, ‘Ola, Ola’ Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Malawi and from there, where else? Church Gist. We have homeland crusades, Sokoto, Gombe, Asaba, Anambra is pending and then Uyo. Pakistan is calling, India is calling!
As we were coming from Kenya, Dr. Mrs Enenche took a video of me and I didn’t know, in the aircraft. What was it? I’m not sure I can post it. You know we have a generation of people who misinterpret everything. Church Gist. A pile of books on the table, Bible, files for the four and half hours of the journey. The tonguing was on, all the files I carried were treated before the journey was over. The book was on, Sunday message was dealt with, Commanding the Day prayer point set. Wow. Those who did not preach were more tired than me. Some logged on to the ‘sleep net’, worldwide web dot sleep don com. Not dot com oh, don come. What is it that puts you under such a pressure? Church Gist. There is a vision with a time target – certain things that must be at certain times. Calls and messages were being sent home. Supervising at home while we were there. All manner of supervisions. There are certain projects we will talk to you about as the time approaches. Do you understand what I’m saying? Church Gist. When you’re too lazy about life, it may be a pointer that the heart is empty. Jesus said, “I must work the works of Him while it is day. The night cometh when no man work”.
- somebody say a loud Amen.
While we were there at the crusade ground, acoustic album was released on Friday online. We were still at the crusade ground. A Bishop called me and said, “how are you doing these things? How is it that you have time to (do these things?). Church Gist. You have the time for crusade, you have the time for midnight prayer, you have time for studio to record song”. It depends on what you want out of life. Time is available if you know what to do with your life. Is there anybody here who has not had time to bathe today? Or time to eat because you’re too busy or time to brush your mouth. Church Gist. The things that are important to your life, there’s time for them. Hallelujah! If they are important to you, there’s time. If they’re not important, there may not be time.
Vision gives birth to motion and gives birth to acceleration. Vision births action, it births motion. People of vision are people of action, motion and acceleration. Church Gist. Please take note of this; the absence of vision is the abundance of inaction and stagnation. If you can’t see where to go, you don’t leave where you are. Vision births action, motion and acceleration.
- Vision enlarges capacity. Genesis 30:37. We saw how Jacob painted some painting in front of his animals and the animals developed the capacity to deliver something that was almost contrary to their nature. You know the story. Church Gist. Black coloured sheep or purely white coloured sheep, he painted some colour in front of them and they were giving birth to the colour they were seeing. If it were stripes, they were giving birth to stripes, brown and white or brown and black. They were just giving birth according to what they saw. What happened? The vision the animals were seeing entered into their system and changed their capacity. Church Gist. It gave them to bring forth capacity beyond their natural ability. Do you understand what I’m saying? This is the best way I can describe it. You’re dealing with 10- 50 million range of money, suddenly, you developed a vision to deal with nations, multinationals in dollars. Church Gist. This is the range I trust God to occupy and dwell in because with this range I am now, I can’t do much for the Kingdom of God and I can’t do much for the lives of people. You developed that vision, all of a sudden, the capacity to deal in that range begins to develop. Now, somebody who is only used to 10 million naira, he saw a million naira, 10 million naira and 20 million naira, he’s comfortable, if you give him one billion, you’re the one who destroyed him, you just finished person for nothing. Church Gist. His normal terrain is 10 million, 50 million. Out of that 10 million, he will buy a car of 7 million or 8 million and then use some 2 million to buy some dress and buy wrist watch that he will be posing with. Then after a short while, he begins to look for money to fuel his car that he bought. You land him one billion, oh boy, you finished the man. He will run crazy at the spot. I’ve seen somebody like that before. Church Gist. He got some money, he drove a car, parked by the roadside, ‘all of you line up, take, you take’. You know the generosity of insanity? How a mad man can pull his clothes and say ‘take’. You know the benevolence of alcoholism, he ordered beer for everybody. It’s like ‘oh boss. Since this evening, have you drank anything? The way your mouth is, it looks like you have not drank anything. Manager, give him one bottle, just charge it to my account”. Church Gist. He won’t give the man money to buy food but as many bottles as he wants to drink, he will give him liquid fire, liquid hell fire. Because he doesn’t have the capacity to deal in that level, so when you push him to that level, you destroy him. It’s like a Pastor, when you say, come and pastor 20,000 people and his capacity is 500 people. He will abuse everybody away. Church Gist. He will just stand and say, “look at you, because I’m standing here you think I’m you’re age mate?” He will mispreach, misbehave. His spiritual stamina is not enough to accommodate 10,000 people, so he will so preach them away until they become the 500 people that his spirit is used to. But if you give 500 people to a man who has 10,000 capacity, he will grow them until they reach that level. That is the power of vision. Church Gist. All of a sudden, you become more mature than your age because you’re seeing things beyond your age. You’re thinking things beyond your size. Your mind is threading in terrains beyond your size and all of a sudden, your capacity is enlarged.
- I prophesy to somebody here today, in a short while from now, you’re shifting in capacity by the power and virtue of what you’re hearing, you’re shifting in capacity!
- if you’re saying Amen, shout the loudest Amen.
I have three or four more. Time is going but just permit me, let me finish this one tonight.
- Vision is a form of spiritual communication that God both hears and answers. I don’t know if you have heard that human beings speak with voice with sound but apart from speaking with sound, God speaks with pictures. Church Gist. God did this a lot with Abraham. Genesis 15:5. “I want to say something to you but the best way to say it is through pictures. In case I say your seed will be like the stars of Heaven and the sands of the seashore and you don’t know what it means, come out and see it”. Church Gist. God is communicating in pictures. Habakkuk 2:1-3. “I will watch to see what He will say”, so God speaks in pictures, He speaks in words. But that is not the most important thing now. What is the most important thing is that apart from God speaking in pictures, God listens and hears pictures, visions and imaginations. He speaks in pictures and He also listens to pictures. Church Gist. To God, your imagination is a communication, your vision is a communication. When you have vision and imagination, you don’t need extra voice for God to hear what you’re saying. Ephesians 3:20. So, God hears and does what we ask, He also hears and does .. that word ‘think’ is from the word ‘imagine’, the NIV calls it imagine. He is able to do what we imagine or what we picture. Church Gist. Let this transform your life. Isaiah 65:24. You haven’t spoken and He has answered. What is He answering? He’s answering your thoughts, answering your pictures and the images.
- somebody say a loud Amen!
Can I say this to you? Vision may be visible to man, but it is audible to God. When you picture things, when you imagine things, you may assume them to be thoughts or imaginations but God is receiving them as communication. Church Gist. Am I communicating? God is receiving them as communication. So, when you join vision to prayer, you’re talking to God twice. You’re talking through words, you’re talking through pictures. That’s why most of us are not at the same level because some of us, the vision, the pictures in our heart are plenty.
There are things we have not said so the people of the world… (Laughing). This Place (Glory Dome) was a picture before it became a reality. I gathered the architects together and I told them what I saw and what they should draw. About 8 drawings were brought and I looked at them from different quarters including the Coca-Cola Dome in Atlanta or so. And I said: “This, this, this, no! One, two, three, four, no! But this is the one but even this one, knock off this pillar, knock this, knock this out!!! This is not meant to be here, this is not meant to be there!” And they said: “Oh! No! The cost of construction will be so massive if there is no pillar anywhere at all. I said: “Yes, it is going to be a field where anywhere you stand you can see anybody, there’s no pillar blocking anybody’s view anywhere.” Church Gist. “The cost of construction will multiply many times.” I said: “Yes! The Owner of the Construction has enough money and He had told me before – spare no cost!” So each of this beam, the one with the hand like this; one trailer of cement – each one, like this. The one standing like this, the one you’re seeing with the golden, one! One trailer was buried, next one the burial of another trailer, the next one! Not to talk of iron rods. And the Owner of the Construction… Did you understand what I am talking about? And I’m going to talk about that later. So it was very clear I couldn’t have said: “Move this pillar or this or that if I didn’t see, if I didn’t know what they were to design. Where the pulpit was to be.” Everything was clear (including) capacity! Somebody say a loud Amen!
-From this moment I prophesy, the Lord will empower your vision and they shall come to pass.
- Vision brings man into alignment and agreement with God.
Especially when you’re seeing what God wants you to see. Especially when you’re painting the picture of Scripture. You’re brought into agreement, into alignment. Jeremiah 1:11-12. When you see it well, the Word of God is in a hurry for performance. When you see what God wants you to see, when you see as God sees. That’s the same thing with Habakkuk 2:3. Amos 3:3. Matthew 18:19. You agree to touch this if two of you… How much more you and Jehovah God, you’re in agreement. “Lord! You want to save the lost? I have the vision for the Salvation of the lost, I want to join forces with You. Yes Sir! Here am I.” And God said you want to join forces with Me? Come child, let’s go together! Let’s go! Wherever you are, doors open, signs, wonders, miracles, supernatural supplies. Is it not amazing to you that we go for crusades around the World, no offering is taken on crusade ground and yet we’re going all the time? Church Gist. Without stress and pressure. Isn’t it amazing? It’s partnership with Jehovah. You came into alignment! I was speaking to someone the other day. About thirty-something years ago, he was a frontline evangelist in this Nation. Frontline! Healing, signs, wonders but disappeared out of the scene. Few days ago we were talking and he said: “I am seeing all the crusades. I saw what God is doing here and there.” He said: God is leading him back to the crusade field. I said: “Yes! The crusade field is deserted, very rare before you find up to four, five that are aggressively on the crusade field after the order of Reinhard Bonnke, that field is deserted.” And he began to ask me questions: “How do you do this and how do you do that?” You know what he said? He said: “I am ready to relearn. I’m ready to relearn, to learn again so I can do it.” I said: “Sir, I am available to be of any assistance, of any input.” Do you understand what I am saying? And I said to him: “When you’re about to do the first crusade let me know.” It’s in my mind to put massive money inside it so that God can help a giant to wake up and return back to the field. You don’t go down by helping somebody to go up. There are at least two evangelists on the crusade field that we give monthly financial release in six zeros every month, at least two. Do you understand me? Every month! Their account is with us, that’s from this Church, we wire it straight to help them be on the field. We are doing crusades too yet we are releasing money to others. People don’t understand life! One of them said: “I am praying for you daily.” He said: “You have made life easy for us. You have made us to be doing crusade every month.” Hallelujah!!!
Lift up your hands and say: Father! I am coming into alignment with you. I am coming into agreement with you. Church Gist. I cannot fail! I shall not fail in the name of Jesus.
When you catch the vision of God, you step into the same page with God. You’re moving in the same direction with God and it’s not possible to be stranded, it’s not possible to fail, it’s not possible to be cut short.
- Vision grants man access to the voice of God.
When you catch vision and the correct vision and you’re seeing what you’re meant to be seeing. God will say to you what you’re meant to hear. Acts 10:19. Matthew 1:20. The vision that Mary had, Joseph was thinking about it and the Angel of God appeared to him to give him direction. If you don’t have vision, why are you looking for direction? God speaks to those who think and who carry vision. Church Gist. Listen to what I wrote here, if the heart is empty the ear cannot be open, the spiritual ear can’t be open if your heart is empty (of vision). God should speak to you to do what? Some people will say: “God is not speaking to you”, to achieve what? There is no picture in your front. There’s nothing that is an obsession, there is nothing that occupies your heart to fulfill for God and for humanity and for eternity and you’re saying God should speak to you. To do what? Vision grants access.
I was on the way to London, England. My heart has been loaded with visions; how the Church must explode in Area 1. We were running 3 services – First Service filled to under the Gallery, Second Service filled up and down, Third Service halfway. “Lord! We need to move beyond.” And we have been there for a long time. God gave me a word: “When you return back, announce five services of grace. How many of you remember that? Five services of grace! Church Gist. One Sunday suddenly! Five services! From three services that were not completely filled. When that was announced, by the five services of grace boom!!! One, two, three, four services jammed. It was just the Fifth Service that one or two people were sitting on the Gallery, the rest filled. We never returned back from five services of grace. From that to six services, from six services to overflow in the premises, overflow outside the fence. But I couldn’t have heard that if there was no vision in the heart. One Sunday, 10,000 people above the last Sunday. God couldn’t have… And that was before the branches exploded in the City.
-I speak to somebody today, Jehovah God shall talk to you.
- Vision is the guarantee of both provision and possession.
When vision is present, provision can’t be absent. He told Abraham He said: “As far as your eyes can see I will give.” If man can see it, God will give it. Church Gist. Note it down! If I can see it, God will give it. Genesis 13:15. If man can see it, God will give it. Somebody say Amen.
Say, Father! Help me to see it clearly so I can receive it firmly. Church Gist. Father! I receive deliverance from the plague of visionlessness. I receive deliverance now!
When David saw the vision of bringing down Goliath, God gave Goliath into his hand.
In conclusion, what do you do for vision to become a reality?
- Paint the picture of the Scripture in your heart. Ensure that you have vivid picture of what you’re trusting God for. Habakkuk 2:1-2. And if there are physical pictures that assist your vision, place it around yourself. I hear Mike Murdock call something ‘vision board’ where he puts the various pictures of things that are in his future that he is going to step into. Church Gist. If God would bring Abraham out to see something so that it can be fixed in his mind, there is a place for picture. I place Reinhard Bonnke Crusade crowd pictures everywhere around me, I look for them – Ogbomoso Crusade, Lagos Crusade, that crusade! I place them everywhere. Today, when Reinhard Bonnke Crusade people see our crusade pictures in some places, they say “This is like our crusade” Church Gist. Reinhard Bonnke Crusade Director said “Even though Reinhard Bonnke is dead, I am happy that the Spirit of mass evangelism has not left Africa” Pictures….somebody, say a loud Amen!
Even some of our own crusade pictures, I’m about to print them and still put them all around me so that they can just remain there in the overflow, our own crusade pictures. Even Glory Dome overflow pictures. Church Gist. Am I communicating? See yourself and your wife and children worshipping God together, paint the picture and place it somewhere. Where you see such happening and that’s what you desire, just get the pictures. You can use literal pictures to assist your spiritual vision, you can. Church Gist. Literal pictures, because the eyes affect the heart. Lamentation 3:51. So, what the eyes see affects the situation of the heart. Observation can internalize vision.
2: Assist in the fulfillment of the vision of others. Anywhere possible, assist the fulfillment of the vision of others as led by the Lord. Church Gist. Joseph interpreted the dreams of the Butler and the Baker and that made his dream and his vision to come to pass. Genesis 40:5-8. Matthew 7:12. Anything you want people to do for you, do for them. Somebody say, Amen!
Why are we putting money into the Crusade of other evangelists? We want God to give us money to fulfill our own. It’s a life principle many people don’t understand. I don’t want to be stranded anywhere in the World. The other year, (you were there) where NIFES (Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students) came for…they said can we give them our facility for their annual student’s conference, NIFES, Dunamis Church, the Glory Dome, can they use it? I said “You have used it since. Church Gist. Any obligation? Zero. Can we make accommodation available for the students? Guaranteed. So they were here for 3 days, slept on camp here. Brother Gbile Akani was part of their speakers, I was a speaker and then other people. They enjoyed their life here. When the Conference finished on Saturday, they didn’t want to go, the children. Christian Medical and Dental Association, they said they want to do their conference here this year, you’re welcome. Church Gist. I just finished talking with someone here, said they want to have a one day program, it’s a music program and they want to do a program to see how they can help the refugees of terrorism, find a place for them, just an awareness program. Welcome. “How much are we to pay? Are we to buy diesel for the place or NEPA bill?” I said, Zero.
If you go to town to look for a sanctuary that is one-tenth of this size, ask them how much you’ll pay and you people, I don’t need to tell you our NEPA bill right now. What do you call that place? Is it Band A? You don’t want to hear about NEPA bill right now. Right now, Band A, here? NEPA bill in tens of millions. Church Gist. You know, people are on the watchout for what we say here, so I will just spare the amount. It’s unbelievable. Bill that can build houses, that can buy storey buildings. Every time you have paid the bill, you have bought another storey building, one or 2. Do you understand? Nevertheless, come and use the place free of charge. Church Gist. The NEPA bill that we are using and all of that, free of charge. Why will that be done? God will make a way for us worldwide, anywhere we go worldwide, make a way for us. Somebody, say a loud Amen.
There are so many people there, they are just so busy with themselves. Me, myself, I. They don’t have any business with nobody under Heaven. A life that is self centered and self absorbed, self focused. Don’t do like that. Just develop a little interest in somebody’s life, just little, not too much and just be involved a little in somebody’s life and see how God changes your life. Church Gist. Assist in the fulfillment of the visions of others as led by the Lord. I said as led by the Lord because there are some who will present you vision that is not of God at all or who are just trying to see how they can dupe you.
3: Define action plan. “This is what I’m trusting God to achieve in my life” Habakkuk 2:2. That running part, what steps am I going to take in achieving vision? Church Gist. I think we will descend on this probably by Sunday practically. What action? Okay, this is my decision, this is my vision, what action? What should I do? Define the action.
4: Step into action. Habakkuk 2:2. Run. Step into action massively, act massively at every given opportunity, step into action. Church Gist. Action that requires urgency, again we’ll talk about that by Sunday.
I don’t need any confirmation from you to know that you are already blessed. Do you need to confirm it? I know you are blessed. I know something has changed. Church Gist. I know your life is turning around and before this year is over, you will be bigger than your size. Before this year is over, those who know you will be shocked at what God has done in your life in a short time.
You know, the Word you hear and the people you come into contact with, they affect your life. I shared a testimony in Ethiopia and the person about whom I shared the testimony posted the testimony on Instagram in America. His name is Evangelist Jonathan Shuttlesworth. He posted what I said about him in Ethiopia, he cut it and pasted it on his page, all the details. Now, this man has ministered for about 20-something years in ministry. Church Gist. He has heard about me. I just kept hearing that he kept playing our testimony in his Church. The sister that disappeared from the camp of the kidnappers, the one that they took them to shoot them and the gun of the terrorist couldn’t work, all those kinds of strange testimonies, he kept sharing it with his Church all the time. Long story made short, people told me about him and he heard I was coming to America. He said, “Can you come and preach in our Church for one day?” He fixed a whole convention to coincide with the time of my coming. Church Gist. That is, the convention was fixed with my presence as the determinant of the convention. He titled it “Eyes have not seen, Ears have not heard” So, he invited others like Bishop Dag from Ghana and several others to come for the convention. All I want is just one day and I stepped in there, prophesied, ministered brutally. At the end, he demanded for impartation. I pulled my suit, laid it on him, that’s the Pastor of the Church, overall big pastor of the Church. He was under power for about one hour. Church closed and left, he was there. Long story made short, I told him I’d like to come there again. The hunger was too much. I’m sure we have the clip of the people there. Hunger was so much. I said “Can you get a Stadium? Let’s do a crusade” and that town is the Town of Katherine Kuhlman, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. So, it’s very very historic and to me, it’s an ancient well of revival that needs to be redug. Church Gist. We passed through her street where her office was. So, I made declarations to him, everything changed, everything changed for Pastor Jonathan. Service began to explode, he would text me, he’d say “We have crossed so and so number of thousands today for the first time in America” He has gone to Dallas Texas. “Do you have any need for any meeting in Dallas? I have so and so much hectares or acres of property they have just given to us, our Church” and then now, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, a group of billionaires called him and said “We have so and so property, take a look at it whether you like it” Worth 15 million dollars. Church Gist. It has a hotel inside, big space for crusade, for anything, all facilities. “You like it? You can have it.” “For how much?” “Free of charge” “For how long?” “For ever” He sent me the pictures on the spot. You have heard nothing yet. He said “When you come you don’t need to ask for a Crusade venue anymore, we already have a place where the Crusade can hold” Do you know what he said? He said, “Pastor, thank you for imparting me.” Church Gist. Under one year, the same with Pastor Zenzo in Michigan, under one year. Now, one man came and said, “Do you like this Falcon 50 Aircraft? (This one is not free of charge) Have it and use it for all programs you want. I will maintain the aircraft, all you need to do is to fuel it and I can put your ministry’s logo on it if you desire” Unction real oh! There is oil oh! Not water oh! Don’t be too familiar with it oh!
This story I’m sharing now, I shared it in Ethiopia and the man cut the story and pasted it on his page to confirm “I am the one they are talking about and what the man is talking is true” I won’t be shocked if he cut this one now. Church Gist. Our meeting is not one year yet with that man, maybe 8 months. We met for the first time in August, it’s not one year yet.
- and that’s why I’m saying, before this year is over, as you run the path of vision, there are drastic things that will happen in your life that will take your generation by surprise.
- If you’re saying Amen, shout the loudest Amen!
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