THE DAVID OYEDEPO FOUNDATION 100 PER CENT SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE 1992
GIVING TO THE POOR SHOULD BE A LIFESTYLE NOT ONLY ON YOUR BIRTHDAY
OUR OFFERINGS ARE A MEMORIAL BEFORE THE LORD STANDING FOR US IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE AGAINST ALL SATANIC WICKEDNESS
GIVING TO THE POOR IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SET YOU FREE FROM ASSAULT OF SICKNESS AND DEATH
CHURCH IS NOT A LECTURE THEATRE, IT IS GOD’S POWERHOUSE
NO SPIRITUAL GIANT CAN STAY AWAY FROM CHURCH AND REMAIN ON THEIR FEET.
COME TO FELLOWSHIP WITH SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU HAVE COME TO BE SERVICED.
TITHING RESULTS INTO HEALINGS THAT MAKES YOU GROW UP AND GO FORWARD WHEN EVERYTHING IS BURNING DOWN
THE COVENANT OF SEEDTIME SECURES FOR US A GOOD OLD AGE.
KNOWING WHAT TO DO AND DOING IT DISARMS THE devil.
GOD PRESCRIBED THE COMMUNION FOR RESTORATION OF STRENGTH AND HEALTH AND CONFIRMATION OF LONGEVITY.
- Bishop David Oyedepo on ACCESSING HEALING WONDERS IN REDEMPTION 4 at LFC Midweek Communion Service || 21st August 2024 || LFC Canaanland ||
I WILL RESTORE HEALTH UNTO YOU. This God is not a joker, He says what He means and means what He says. Jeremiah 30:17. “I will restore health unto you and heal you of all your wounds.” Not one will remain. Psalm 132:13-16. Zion is the Church of Christ in prophecy. Hebrews 12:22-24 is a fulfillment of Psalm 132. So we have not come into a building, we have come into that heavenly realm called Jerusalem. What are the forces that are therein? Hebrews 12:23. You have those fiery prophets like Elijah, Elisha, Moses, they are all out here. The same way they came down on the Mount of Transfiguration, they are here. They are mandated to gather when we gather. They are here. Matthew 18:20. Hebrews 18:20. Among the healing wonders of the Church is commitment to fellowship with spiritual understanding of what is there. Psalm 84:7. Church Gist. They go from strength to strength. It is a place for renewal of strength. Fellowship is not to come and see one another, ‘long time we no see’. Fellowship is a centre from where we go from strength to strength. Every one of them that appears before the Lord, they go from strength to strength. Psalm 84:1. All I need is found in the tabernacle. That is why Obadiah said upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance from satanic assault and holiness from addiction and there God’s people shall possess their possessions.
Come to fellowship with spiritual understanding. You won’t get anything out of anything other than your level of spiritual understanding of it. The Word gets into the good hearts but they bring forth fruits at various levels based on the level of understanding. Matthew 13:23. The level of understanding is the only variable in that equation. The same good heart, honest heart but the level of understanding of each one is what determines the outcome. So in all your getting get understanding. Fellowship is not let’s come together. “You know they like us to come to Church all the time in our Church.” It is for renewal of strength. No matter the cost of your vehicle, if you don’t believe in maintenance service you will be grounded. Church Gist. The car costs you a fortune, you don’t know how to go to the filling station, you will be grounded. If you have an electric car and you need to charge it, if you don’t charge it you will be messed up. You may be going for an occasion and the car will stop and there is nowhere to service it on the road. No power backup like telephone. If your fuel finishes, it finishes. You can’t hurry, fuel has finished, you are grounded. So we go into church for service. For the things that are out of order to be serviced before your piston and ring will break down. They oil it. That is what it is. This is so vital, this is so important that you make it your own personal responsibility to walk on the waters that are drowning others by appearing before His presence with understanding.
Even about Praise, He said Sing ye praises with understanding (Psalm 47:7). It is not to be dancing and jumping up and down, what is He saying? We sing hymns in Church and I have my hymn already printed out and I am marking. Marking, He said speak to yourself in psalms hymns and spiritual songs, not just singing mindlessly. Church Gist. What is God saying in that song to me? Spiritual understanding is so vital. We all know that exams have no respect for age. It has no respect for husband and wife. If your wife understands and you don’t understand, you will just fail and your wife will pass. You cannot say, “Excuse me, I am the husband.” It doesn’t matter. Understanding is personal to individuals. There is healing power, health restoration power in fellowship.
Hebrews 10:25. Fellowship becomes more of your city of refuge as calamities begin to befall the world. Much more so. Somebody’s challenged and he kept away from church so he can be ditched. When you are challenged, you go to the hospital. Church Gist. When you are challenged in your life, you stay at home instead of coming to God’s clinic where those spirits of just men made perfect will be moving up and down and strengthening all the ones that are weak with understanding. So Church is not let’s gather. It is coming to the maintenance workshop. That family came battered and buffeted with tuberculosis, husband, wife and two sons. They sat in the clinic, nobody laid hands on them and the Master Physician showed up and said “We don’t cough here like this. Get up and they went back home clean at the service station.”
One of the first miracles that happened here at Shiloh was that my daughter that came in from Edo State, she had been crippled for 23 years and in the course of the meeting, something like dew fell on her body. She stood up. When she turned 60, she was here to testify. Church Gist. On her feet, a deaconess in the Church in Benin today. 🎵God has something to say, God has something to say. I will listen, pay full attention, for God has something to say.🎵 This is not a lecture room, it is a power house. Church is God’s powerhouse. We are all thronging you but they are not tapping because they don’t know it is a powerhouse. That Christ is the power of God, they didn’t know. Luke 8:47. Church is not a classroom, it is not a lecture theatre, Church is God’s powerhouse on the earth.
God’s power resides in His Word. Where the Word of the King is, there is power. So when they say come. It means what you are looking for is in coming. Peter said “If it is you Lord bid me to come”, He said “come”. That Word turned the water surface to a solid rock. When he saw the storm, he began to sink. The power is in “come”. “Come onto me oh ye that labour and are heavily laden and I will give you rest”. Church Gist. Where are you Lord? I am in Zion. I live there. He will always do what He said He will do. Matthew 8:8-10, 13. John 4:49-53. His power resides in His commandments. When you respond to what He commands, His power goes forth to make it happen. “Upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance and you shall possess your portion” Come! Not somewhere else, upon Mount Zion.
Just watch and keep away from Church for six months. I know you won’t try it. You will be so unsaved. You will become a concern to yourself. It is like going without water and bread for 6 months. That is gone. There is no spiritual giant in this world that walks away from Church and remains on his feet. You can’t garner strength anywhere else than where He said it is available. What God said, His power goes forth to make happen. Jeremiah 10:12. The kingdom of God is not in word but in power. So when God said, power went forth to make it happen. Church Gist. Nothing happens without the ability to make it happen. So what God says, His power goes forth to make it happen. I like you to come to fellowship from henceforth with the spiritual understanding that you have come to be serviced. My spiritual life, my social life, my career is to be serviced here. I have come to the workshop where anything that is smoking in my life can be stopped.
I had this experience and I think I have shared it before, whatever it was, I don’t know the name. I became so physically weak and it occurred to me that if I can only go to fellowship today, let me see the devil that will follow me there. I got there and they told me ”Brother David, you are leading prayer tonight” and Hagin has taught me not to say that I am sick, that I am weak. No! It is not part of the language I learnt. They didn’t know how I came, they said I was the one leading prayer. It is not the kind of prayer you do now for five minutes and you go and seat down. It is pray all night. So when I was asked to come forth, there was no microphone, nobody was using microphone then. Church Gist. I faced the wall and I said, “Jesus, I checked through the list of those that are allowed on Mount Zion. Satan, your name is not on the list. What are you doing here? Thank you Jesus for confirming your Word.” I stood there for 5 hours! That was the end forever! I’ve not seen anything like that again in my life. I wasn’t a pastor o, we were all fellowship members. You better wake up and pick an understanding of what God is saying.
You’re not doing nobody a favour by going to Church. This God is I am. You come to Church – I am; you don’t come – I am; you go to shrine – I am; you go to a brothel – I am; you go on armed robbery journey – I am; you go drinking – I am; you drink to stupor – I am; you don’t know the way to your house – I am. Church Gist. Anybody who thinks he is doing God a favour will fail; God doesn’t need your favour and my favour. Why is Papa always so hard? It’s for you! If I don’t tell you you may think, “eh I won’t come; I don’t have time.” You will have time shortly.
Now, that’s healing wonders in fellowship – a tireless commitment to fellowship with spiritual understanding of what obtains there will change your story forever.
Now we look at healing wonders in the covenant of seed time and harvest. The covenant of seed time and harvest secures the supply of all our needs including our healing and health needs. Philippians 4:15, 19. Can I say this? Next to salvation, health is the greatest need of man. Everything loses value when your health is challenged – true or false? Can you be planning business expansion when you’re under oxygen? Church Gist. That’s why the world will say, Health is Wealth. Everything loses practical value when one’s health is challenged. 3 John 2 – so God knows the crucial place of health in man’s adventure on the Earth.
For example: through the mystery of tithing, God pours out blessings on us and his blessings makes rich and adds no sorrow. Proverbs 10:22. So his blessings terminate sorrows and the things that cause sorrows. I can tell you this: health is the contrary of sorrow. Church Gist. That’s why nobody laughs in the hospital except believers who can see the end of the tunnel.
“How are you? (Grunts)
What’s happening now? I don’t know
Is he talking? No
Is he eating? Eating?”
But his blessings does not only make rich but forbids sorrow. Malachi 3:11. Malachi 3:10.
Now, how does the covenant of seed time and harvest heal, deliver and make whole?
- This covenant averts curses including the cross of sickness with long continuance. When Noah reared the first recorded sacrifice, God smelled a good savour … Genesis 8:21 – “I avert the curse I placed on man.” Among the listed curses in Deuteronomy 28:59-60 is sickness of long continuance. Every persistent sickness must crash tonight! Why? We have been redeemed from the curse and by the mystery of seed time and harvest, we activate that redemption right for our escape. Church Gist. (Galatians 3:13) Malachi 3:18; Malachi 4:1-2. Did you see healings? So, tithing results into healings that makes you grow up and go forward when everything is burning down like we saw during COVID – 19. We were growing up and going forward and COVID was burning around the world. The Covenant of seedtime and harvest holds your healings and my healings within its grips.
- The Covenant of seedtime and harvest secures divine protection against all satanic assaults. Psalm 20:1-3. It’s what he remembers that brings you out of your trouble and my trouble. Our offerings are a memorial before the Lord. Numbers 10:10. They stand for us in the day of trouble. Church Gist. To be defenceless is a risk in this wicked world. Job 22:21-24 – you know, that’s the law of giving and receiving that launches men into realms of financial fortune. Job 22:25. So he defends you. The Covenant of seedtime and harvest secures our protection against all satanic wickedness that fill up the world in which we live.
- The Covenant rescues and keeps us alive from the assault of sickness and death. Psalms 41:1-3 – don’t you like what’s going on in the covenant care platform? It’s an opportunity to set you free from assault of sickness and death. By considering the poor, he has committed God to deliver him in time of trouble. People just lay by and wishing that things change. Understanding what the word says brings about the changes you’re looking for. Church Gist. The poor does not depend on you and me, it’s an opportunity. Proverbs 28:27 – that “lack” covers everything: shall not lack bread and water, what keeps life growing which includes health. You know why? He needs people to be doing it so for those who are doing it, he’s committed himself to keep them alive. Somebody’s story is changing! Not that you’re doing birthday, you start going around – no! It’s a lifestyle.
You heard them announcing today, scholarship something…that has started since 1992. You don’t need volume, you just need heart – “how could somebody be out of school when there’s someone else who can help?” It’s your turn! The interesting thing about the covenant of seed time and harvest is that, you start from where you are. There is no point posing to God; he knows your level, he knows my level. Church Gist. You start from where you are. If you know what the scholarship sum was that time, you will laugh but that was what was available. It says, from the place where you are, begin the journey. Start from where you are not where you are going. But now you consume everything you have. Everything is (for the mouth). You are sharing with the needy, you are getting yourself out of need. You have these keys in your hand therefore, go and use it. Devourer is not permitted around your life as a tither, no! As far as you consider the poor, he will not deliver you to the will of your enemies.
When David reared an altar of sacrifice, the plague ceased. 2 Samuel 24:24-25. We do that in my family a lot. Church Gist. My wife saw that in the days of her ordeal, reared an altar of sacrifice, the plague ceased. She bolted out of where she was in UK, came down to Nigeria to Zion and the plague ceased.
Finally, it secures for us a good old age. The Covenant of seedtime secures for us a good old age. Psalm 92:13-15, Isaiah 65:20-22. So you can work out your good old age. Church Gist. There is a time to plant and time to pluck up that which is planted. God owes nobody. So there is nothing you sow that you will not reap. So we elongate our days through the mystery of the covenant of seedtime and harvest.
- You are going places!
We have cornered sickness and disease. We have got them arrested so you can be free. By knowing what to do and doing it, you disarm the devil. Because there is power in His Word to make happen what He says. Church Gist. He doesn’t just speak for it to happen and if it’s not resisted, when He speaks, His power goes forth to make happen what He says.
So our genuine spiritual commitment to fellowship and delightsome commitment to the Covenant of seedtime and harvest holds our restoration of health within them. We have come to His presence tonight; in His presence, there is fullness of joy. In His right hand, there are pleasures evermore. Church Gist. That means, you can’t go back with pressure. You have come to His presence where there is pleasure. You can’t go back with sorrow. You have come to His presence where there is fullness of joy. Psalm 16:11. So watch out for it.
I’m not in Church as usual, I have to come to Heaven’s Service Station. I’m not in Church because it’s midweek. I have come to Heaven’s Service Station. “This is heavenly Jerusalem, the City of the living God. Church Gist. This is where Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament resides who said come and I have come and when He says come, it means whatever you come for, I’m committed.” You have come, He is committed.
—PRAYERS—
Now before we go forward, “Lord, service this area of my heart.” You saw that person with a brand new heart in that testimony or you didn’t hear? Did you hear the testimony read? I’m not sure you heard. Are you sure you heard? God still has spare hearts to replace the damaged ones. Church Gist. All you need is recognize that He does and you know where He does it and you know what it takes for Him to keep doing it.
So whatever needs servicing…when you come to a doctor, he asks you “what is wrong?” You say, nothing is wrong. He says, okay, you can go. Where do you want Him to service? This confused state of your life, Lord service me. Amen! Church Gist. These pains all over you day and night, you have said, you will restore health unto me. I am here to be restored. Go ahead and mention to Jesus what you came for.
—PRAYERS—
Remember, your expectation and my expectation defines the end of affliction. That man said, ‘today na today.’ You say, there is no room to enter. There is roof. Let’s jump down. Church Gist. Jesus saw their faith and brought an end to that affliction.
- Tonight in the name of the Lord Jesus, whatever your expectations are, is delivered for a testimony!
—ALTAR CALL—
“You eat my flesh, you drink my blood, you have eternal life. You live above natural limitations. You eat my flesh, you drink my blood, you live like me.” (Speaks in tongues) Church Gist. That’s what He said and when He speaks, His power goes forth to accomplish what He says. When this God speaks, His power goes forth to accomplish what He says.
He prescribed the communion for restoration of strength and health and confirmation of longevity. 1 Corinthians 11:30.
—COMMUNION MINISTRATION—
You are here because He called you and you answered because He wants to do something in your life. Church Gist. Thank God for it. Thank you Jesus.
“Speak the word only. You don’t have to come under my roof. Speak the word only.” The Word went forth, his servant was made whole. God’s Word has gone forth, so He has made you whole. All you need is stretch out your faith and tap into it. Don’t watch out, don’t be looking. Tap into it. God has no other way of reaching you. Church Gist. He said, “if they won’t listen to the prophets that are with them neither will they listen if somebody should rise up from the dead.” So He can’t reach you without His Word sent through His messengers to change your story.
- Therefore I see you whole!
- I see you set free!
- I see your story changed in the name of Jesus!
- By the Word of the Lord, no one crosses to the month of September with any trace of sickness or disease on his life!
- You believe it, you are empowered to become it. Therefore, sickness is cursed already!
- Disease is cursed already in the name of Jesus!
A great multitude came, one woman got her healing. No free lunch, it takes your faith to have your healing. One woman with the issue of blood got her healing. Great multitude thronging Jesus, one woman got it. The week is running out, the month is running out, you better be that one woman. Church Gist. You better be the woman whose story will change forever, who will be free from plagues forever. You better be that woman. Now, this is that woman (pointing to the lady who came for instant testimony). You will be that man next Sunday. You will be that woman next WSF (Winners Satellite Fellowship).
Over to you. No free healing. No faith, no healing. “Do you believe?” They said, yes. Now according to your faith. Church Gist. So we receive our healing according to our faith not according to how you look. According to your faith.
- Therefore in the name of Jesus, no one crosses over to the following month with any baggage of sickness, with any baggage of disease in the name of Jesus!
God speaks and His power goes along His Word to accomplish.
- In the name of Jesus, not one Word from Heaven to you this month shall drop to the ground!
- Your healing is permanent in Jesus name!
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