VALUE IS A FUNCTION OF COST
IF YOU ARE NOT DEDICATED YOU CAN’T BE DISTINGUISHED IN LIFE
NO ONE CAN BE A PARTNER OF THE GRACE HE DOES NOT CRAVE FOR
IF IT COSTS YOU NOTHING, IT WILL BRING YOU NOTHING
WHATEVER DOES NOT COST YOU A THING WON’T PAY YOU A THING
NO ONE CAN BE DEDICATED ON YOUR BEHALF
THE PURSUIT OF MATTHEW 6:33 IS WHAT DEFINES OUR INHERITANCE IN CHRIST
MONEY, PROTECTION AND FAVOUR HAVE NEVER BEING A SUBJECT OF NEED IN WINNERS CHAPEL
ANYONE COMMITTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF GOD’s KINGDOM HAS A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN HEAVEN
SERVING GOD AND THE INTEREST OF HIS KINGDOM MAKES A BELIEVER A WONDER TO HIS WORLD
SERVING GOD AND THE INTEREST OF HIS KINGDOM WARDS OFF DEFILEMENT
ZEAL IS A PRODUCT OF THE ‘ENFIREMENT’ OF THE WORD
DON’T SIT DOWN AS AN ESTABLISHED WORKER AND MEMBER, BE A WORKING WORKER
-Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘ACCESSING OUR ULTIMATE INHERITANCE IN CHRIST’ at the Leadership Empowerment Summit 2023 || Youth Chapel || 4th March, 2023
Every change of story in the Kingdom is triggered by encounters with His Word. Arise! Shine for your light has come! The glory of God will come in the place of shame and reproach Isaiah 60:1-3, Isaiah 9:8 and Isaiah 60:22. Church Gist. Something has gone forth since we came and I must believe it must turn into something surprising out of every life!
Ever since I got drunk with Matthew 6:33 it has never stopped adding value to my life, I saw what is required and what is to come out of it and I bought fully into it on 3rd October, 1984. Church Gist. I told our team of leaders that now that we are still at the same level, understand what I’m saying because a time will come when some people will be taken off in the air and you will start saying, ‘Eh! We don’t know what they are using’! Let me tell you what they are using- we are sold out to God.
Believing God for N3,000 to pay off our rent which was due and I said, ‘If I have this money, God won’t appeal to me to give it to Him’. But now that we are all at the same level, understand what I’m saying! ‘We were all at the same level, if anybody was higher I was the lowest’. Praise God! Church Gist. You can’t be sold out to God and not stand out in life! We have some powerful words of dedication- One towards Cell growth and replication and the other one towards the target for the season. If you are not dedicated you can’t be distinguished in life. If it costs you nothing, it will bring you nothing like we were told. Whatever does not cost you a thing won’t pay you a thing! Value is a function of cost! No one can be dedicated on your behalf.
-Today, you are going to receive power and an impartation of grace to live a dedicated life and stay dedicated to Him till the day of His appearing in the Name of Jesus!
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-Lord Jesus speak to us again in this last segment and let your Name be glorified in Jesus’ Precious Name!
Why Peter spake this Word, the Spirit of life came upon him.
-The Spirit of life will come upon you as we get through this last segment. Stay tuned and focused! ‘If you see me, Elijah said to Elisha when he was caught up, it shall be yours’. If you are not distracted, if you are on key, it shall be yours!
No one can be a partner of the grace he does not crave for. There are graces upon Churches, God’s Apostles and Prophets. Elisha said, ‘I won’t let you go, I must get it’. And he did. Paul said in Philippians 1:7 that you are all partakers of grace. You can’t be a partaker of the grace that you are not a follower of. He said, ‘Follow me as I follow Christ’ 1 Corinthians 11:1, 2 Corinthians 8:1. There are graces upon Churches that are evident! Church Gist. I saw the grace of depth in the Word from Kenneth Hagin and I saw the Spirit of Faith actively at work in him. I saw the restfulness, and serenity about his Ministry and I said, ‘Jesus, I love this! I don’t know the meaning or what it’s called but whatever makes Kenneth Hagin to be operating in this frequency, I want it!’
I pursued after that for ten years and Jesus honoured His Word! By reading and reading, I was tapping and I had no problem believing in what God says but finally in 1986, I got the baton. I saw grace upon the Church in South Korea and I began following it in 1985 and I began to see the replication of the same grace as the years went by. Glory to God! There is grace upon Churches.
‘ACCESSING OUR ULTIMATE INHERITANCE IN CHRIST’ is what I’m sharing this morning! Whatever provision that covers abundant life on earth and guarantees eternity in Heaven qualifies to be defined as our ultimate inheritance in Christ.
And that is the mystery behind Matthew 6:33, ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness all these things shall be added unto you’… ‘All things’ here include all things that make for life and godliness! 2 Peter 1:3. ‘All these things’ also include the content of Revelation 5:12 …Power, riches, wisdom, strength, blessing and honour- That’s a celebrated life! Power- unmolestable and unassaultable! Church Gist. Riches- That distinguishes the poor! Strength- They shall be strong and do exploits! Glory- The wise shall inherit glory! Honour- Serve Me and I will honour you! They are all provided (Content of Revelation 5:12).
All these things include eternity with Christ in Heaven John 14:1-2, 1 Corinthians 15:19, 2 Timothy 4:11. Church Gist. Anyone committed to the advancement of God’s Kingdom, there is a reserve of a crown of righteousness waiting for them in Heaven. Not just getting there but getting there to wear a crown. So the pursuit of Matthew 6:33 is what defines our inheritance in Christ.
A Kingdom priority lifestyle built on the foundation of righteousness is the Covenant access to our ultimate inheritance in Christ. It’s not just advancing the Kingdom but advancing the Kingdom on the foundation of righteousness- A life that pleases God. Church Gist. We must detest iniquity to advance His Kingdom so that our labour will not be in vain and we will not miss out on Heaven, the ultimate Matthew 7:21-23.
As we all know that every Covenant of the Scripture to the redeemed is as constant as God’s Covenant of the day and of the night Jeremiah 33:20-21. It is an everlasting Covenant which endures forever. You can’t enter into that Covenant and be disappointed, you enter with what it entails just like every Apostle and Prophets carry definite graces. Church Gist. One cannot catch a Covenant with Matthew 6:33 and end up disappointed- It is God’s jackpot of life with unlimited capacity to rescue any destiny from drowning, getting stranded and losing colour.
-No one here shall miss it!
Going after God and the interest of His Kingdom at work in this Commission is evident. Church Gist. For example, things have never become issues of concern yet- We don’t lack things! ‘All these things shall be added to you’! You will just hear ‘The Kingdom’!!! Not yesterday, last year or 10 to 30 years ago yet we don’t lack things.
-The days of chasing after the shadow must end in everyone’s life this year. Before this season is over, you will no longer chase after the shadow!
Favour has not been a prayer point in this Commission yet we keep swimming in favour. Church Gist. How? Psalms 102:13-15.
-May we be delivered from chasing after the shadow.
Taking pleasure in the matters of the Kingdom launches believers into a world of favour- Fearful favour! The kind that you find in your Church!- Unexplainable yet undeniable and unstoppable! Church Gist. It is not about one short woman from your father’s house that is doing you, when God is making you, no devil can undo you! When God is behind you no devil can resist you! It’s time to take cover in the Covenant mystery of Matthew 6:33.
Protection has never been a thing of concern yet a wall of fire is built around us both as a Church and as an individual member. Church Gist. How? ‘I gave you power because you are on the go for me! You are after my affairs and you will tread upon snakes and scorpions and they shall not by any means hurt you! Everything that you ever need is in it! Luke 10:17-19.
Like we all know that money has never been a subject of need in this Commission yet before the needs arise, the supplies are waiting! Church Gist. How? ‘Because when I sent you and you are in pursuit of my purpose, lack ye anything’? Nothing! Luke 22:25, Phillippians 4:19, Matthew 6.33… All these things shall be added (Riches heavier than that of Solomon).
We don’t cry for miracles here oo yet miracles have continued to flow and to follow us all the way! Why? ‘If you go after my purpose, I will be confirming your word with signs and wonders for you’! Acts 16:15-20. Church Gist. Stop chasing the shadow! This is the substance for triumphant colourful living! But where are all these coming from? Matthew 6:33 is the mystery!- The code of life and life more abundantly! 1 Timothy 4:8.
-We shall not miss it! Every single Winners Chapel member will find his or her way to Heaven with our families. Church Gist. None of our children and grandchildren will be lost!
Anyone who cares to follow the Spiritual endowment upon this Church is sure to have the same experience in his or her life. Here is a mystery, listen now! When Christ speaks they are not mere words, according to Him, ‘They are Spirits and life’! John 6:63, John 17:18. Church Gist. The same way, the words of the anointed are Spirits and Life and when we commit to hearing the word of the anointed whose grace we covet then the Spirit of that grace enters into us either directly, in meetings or through any of the platforms of communication through prints, electronic media and so on.
So take heed of what you hear because what you hear is what enters into you. One of my sons testifies that while in the University of Lagos, he was in the room- He shared his room with someone who was playing some dirty music and he hated that music and there was no place to go to. Church Gist. Someday he found himself singing the song which he hated. The song entered him on hearing it and the next day he fled from the room and went to squat somewhere. Take heed to what you hear! I heard Kenneth Hagin until he entered into me- The grace that God gave him.
I began following T.L. Osborn since 1976, we met for the first time in 1990. It was from him that I heard the voice of the Spirit for the first time. The impartation is not just by the laying on of hands it is by opening your heart wide enough to the words of the Prophet, the grace of God upon whose life you covet and crave for. God spoke to me while reading the books of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland directly. Church Gist. My God! And it is speaking today, it was on 22nd March, 1982. All this emergency approach is not the way to do it. Let’s take responsibility! ‘And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me…’ That’s what He does.
In 1977, I found one vital truth from A.W Tozer, ‘My soul followeth hard after you Oh God and Thy right hand uphold him. The Lord said to me from that book, ‘The harder you follow me the harder you fly’. It was in the study of the book written by Oswald J. Smith, ‘The man God uses’ that I felt something that landed like a thunder from Heaven. Church Gist. There was a grace at work in him and the Spirit of that grace entered into me. What I heard was not written inside that book. You shall hear a voice behind you saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it’!
You want to be a carrier of the grace upon this Commission, get connected to the materials that emanate from here and you will replicate the same grace. Many are in that today both within the Commission and sons and daughters of the Prophets around the world! Church Gist. They are just replicating that grace through diligent sharpening and connectivity to the matters of the Spirit of Light. Therefore take heed to what ye hear.
As we close, let us see the demands of access in our ultimate inheritance in Christ!
- Serving the interest of the Kingdom of God as one’s priority for a living! Matthew 6:33. Can I tell you what that does? If you are dedicated to it, it wards off defilement because through slothfulness a building decay! Church Gist. You are actively engaging the Kingdom of God and being liberated from defilement Ecclesiastes 10:18. The word ‘Seek’ and ‘Serve’ are the same Psalms 34:10 is what Jesus called Matthew 6:33. When you serve God, you will find every other thing being added to you including a good lifestyle.
A parked vehicle gathers dust naturally, you can’t pray against it. If you pull a car before travelling, no matter how you shine it before you travel it will gather as much dust as you need to clean. Church Gist. The more active that we are for God in truth and in deed, the freer we become to the entanglement of this world. To seek implies to serve. Matthew 6:25, you cannot serve God and mammon.
- We must engage our hearts in stewardship to qualify for reward Ephesians 6:6, Jeremiah 30:19-21. That’s why serving God and the interest of His Kingdom makes a believer a wonder to his world Luke 18:28-30. Church Gist. Whatever you left for the Kingdom of God’s sake returns to you in manifold more in this present time and eternity.
-Every single worker in this Church will hit surprises in this season before the eight weeks is over. Something is bursting forth out of your life! Church Gist. You will wake up one morning and wonder if you are still the same person because favour will locate you as you begin to demonstrate your raw love for God.
- Going after souls for their Salvation is defined as wisdom and it makes stars of believers Daniel 12:3. Paul was a soul hunter, he’s now a star forever and ever because the Word of God lives and abides forever. Paul delivered about half of that new testament, the law came by Moses and grace by Jesus Christ. Paul took half of the grace and Jesus took half of it (Laughing). Awesome God! So there are people here Sir, whose names will keep ringing the bell in the Kingdom forever, they may look like without an identity today. Now, they don’t have to be Pastors. There were great names in the Scriptures that were not Priests but their dedication to God just gave them a place in the Eternal Book (The Bible).
-Many more people will enter that realm.
Those who are Presidents will begin to wonder, ‘Was he a President before’? When was it? Where was I? And then the star is gone! A star of football and athletics is forgotten tomorrow. But every soul winning star endures forever because they turn men to righteousness. So the eight weeks can help you to hit your many!
-Something is breaking forth right now!
The wisdom of soul winning commands all that one may ever experience in the Kingdom Proverbs 3:13-18. Church Gist. Amazing returns are gotten by engaging in the wisdom of God among which is, ‘He that winneth a soul is wise’! As we keep at the task of winning souls, we access an inheritance that fades not away forever and ever with a crown reserved for us in Heaven! 1 Peter 1:3-4, Acts 22:26.
-That’s an inheritance that we are getting into!
Paul tells Timothy to do the work of an Evangelist so as to make full proof of his Ministry 2 Timothy 4:5. We saw from the life of Isaac that any inheritance left for us by any man does not guarantee a future Genesis 25:5. Church Gist. Abraham gave Isaac some inheritance and after the famine, we couldn’t trace those things again. Isaac had to sow in the land to secure his destiny; because wealth gotten by vanity shall diminish but he that gathereth by labour shall increase Proverbs 13:11. You can’t have to wait for your father to die because whatever he leaves behind cannot add value to your life but by engaging whatever he needs to engage in, if he is a man that follows after God.
There was no trace of that inheritance oo. Famine came and consumed it. Isaac had to start again and he was stronger than the nation he lived in. Church Gist. So no matter our background, it has no relevance here, just secure a place and a heart for God and then you are going places!
-Everyone should get set for the best with God before this Prophetic season is over!
One grace upon this Commission that everyone should crave after is found in Isaiah 41:17 and 18, Isaiah 44:3-5, ‘I will water upon those that are thirsty… ‘Do you want it? Go after it’. I photocopied the whole textbooks from David Yonggi Cho when we couldn’t get a copy of the textbooks to buy. The photocopiers then were so faint, you had to open your eyes wide to see some things. Church Gist. I was thirsty for an experience that I saw God do in South Korea. ‘I will change their stories and turn them into an attraction to their world Isaiah 44:3-6. You know what David said, ‘I’m as a wonder to men’! Psalms 71:7. Can I tell you something? The grace upon this Church is not my grace but His grace.
-Lord, the grace that is evident upon this Commission, I want to experience it!- A pressure-free life, a begging-free life, a sweatless-triumphant life in its full measure! Church Gist. The passion, tireless pursuit and advancement of the Kingdom in this Commission, I want to experience it! No games here oo
We are not perfect but we have maintained a perfect heart in our pursuit of God. We are going on to perfection. When you crave that grace, you will get it! I was at Oral Roberts University several times and every time that I was on the field, I would say, ‘God! This is You but it can happen anywhere’! Church Gist. I was celebrating God for His mighty Hand. Has it happened or not? There was no prayer for it Sir! ‘Oh God! Are you giving us a University? I never asked that once! I just said, ‘God! What do you want to use this land for? And I meant what I was saying! And He marshalled it out and called a section of it ‘Hebron’- My University is Hebron’.
Every grace that you genuinely crave after, you will partake of it without stress or strain. In the month of October before T.L. Osborn went home the following year in February, he published his last book on his way to Heaven (Smiling) Amen! He said, ‘David, this is the book’! Church Gist. I said, ‘What is it? ‘Fifty-one reasons why you must be born again’. So he did that till he breathed his last breath!
-Something is breaking forth in our lives! May today be a day of impartation of grace upon every worker in this Commission!
Stand to your feet!
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Let me tell you the secret of zeal. Zeal is a product of the enfirement of the Word Jeremiah 20:9
-Lord, turn the Word of today into a fire in my bones that will keep me going in season and out of season.
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-Several people will encounter rest before this season is over!
Again you remember my story in that village, ‘Lord, may I never leave this village the way I met it’! That there is no name of Christ in this place? Church Gist. Never! I have seventy-two days to leave and I won’t leave without Jesus being planted in this village! Because my heart was pursuing that, He gave me the insight on what to do! Within forty days, we had secured land from the village head and built a shade, it was a grass Church!
I wasn’t called into the Ministry nor was I planning to be called into Ministry in my life but I have a heart for Jesus! There I encountered destiny: ‘The Light you brought to our village let it shine round the world’! I would have been sleeping away oo by saying since there is no Church here let’s get to another village! Church Gist. Why? There must be a Church here! I had a language barrier but there must be a Church here! The zeal of the Lord! You need it!
We are driven absolutely by Matthew 6:33 inoculation and addiction. All that you see in this Commission around the world is borne out of Matthew 6:33. God has a plan for you that no effort of yours or mine can ever attain. Just do what He says, ‘Seek your first… and watch what He will do with your life! I never took a dime from that place. Church Gist. Am I looking for a dime today? They gave me a lantern, ‘The light that you brought to our village let it shine round the world’! I remember that one day in Maryland and I burst into tears when I saw people clamoring to get the books and the books were not enough! And I remembered the lantern!
-Before the eight weeks are over you will encounter destiny!
Don’t sit down as an established worker and member, be a working worker! A passionate Cell leader. Don’t say, ‘Well! They are coming again at 5 pm, anyway I need to go somewhere and return as soon as I finish’! Church Gist. There is no preparation, is that how to get results? Do you read for an exam on the bed?- Chemistry exam! You will just sleep off! Don’t toil with life!
-Sir, many destinies shall be recovered right now!
-Your life will no longer be in slow motion!
-It’s your Covenant Highway year! You are hitting the highway finally!
-No more to be found on the byways and street corners!
-It’s your turn to be found on the highways of life and you are getting there!
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