MANY YEARS AGO IN MOST AFRICAN CITIES, UNTIL A BIG MAN OF GOD COMES YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO SEE CERTAIN RESULTS.
YOU COULDN’T SEE CRIPPLES WALKING OR THE BLIND SEEING, IT HAS TO BE A VERY BIG MAN OF GOD.
I RESPECT BIG MEN OF GOD. THEY HAVE IMPACTED MY LIFE – REINHARD BONNKE, BENNY HINN BUT THINGS SHOULD HAPPEN BECAUSE WE ARE HERE.
IF I AM IN A LAND AND GOD HAS TO LOOK FOR SOMEBODY FROM OUTSIDE THE LAND TO COME AND CARRY OUT AN ASSIGNMENT IN THE LAND THEN I AM NEEDLESS.
THAT MEANS MY MISSION IS UNNECESSARY, I SHOULD JUST FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO WITH MY LIFE
THERE IS A LIGHT YOU CAN GET THAT WILL MAKE YOU RECOVER DESTINY
YOU NEED MORE LIGHT FROM SCRIPTURE AND MORE LIGHT FROM GOD. IT WILL FUEL YOUR ACTION EFFORTLESSLY.
IF YOU WANT YOUR LIFE AND YOUR DESTINY TO BE FULL OF ACTION, IT MUST BE FULL OF LIGHT.
THERE IS A LOT OF GRACE INSIDE YOU, BUT THEY NEED TO BE POWERED BY LIGHT.
LIGHT COMES TO EMPOWER ACTION AND ACTIVATE POTENTIALS.
LIGHT IS AN ASSET IF ACTION IS DESIRED.
THERE SHALL BE THE RECOVERY OF YOUR DESTINY AS LIGHT IS COMING
WHEN I DISCOVERED THE LIGHT OF “SHADOW HEALING THE SICK” AND APPLIED IT, I PASSED AND ENTERED THE CHURCH AND SICKNESSES LEFT MANY. PEOPLE TROOPED OUT IN DROVES TO TESTIFY
THAT MANTLE WAS THERE (BEFORE) BUT LIGHT POWERED IT. LIGHT EXPLODED IT AND ACTIVATED IT.
GOD DID NOT GIVE MOSES ANY NEW THING. IT WAS WHAT MOSES ALREADY HAD (HIS ROD) THAT HE ACTIVATED
THERE ARE MANIFESTATIONS YOU MAY NEVER SEE UNTIL YOU ARRIVE AT SOME LIGHT
THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE IS DETERMINED BY THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIGHT. WHAT YOU KNOW DETERMINES WHAT YOU SHOW.
– Dr Pastor Paul Enenche on ACCESSING THE LIGHT at South Africa Healing and Deliverance Crusade || Johannesburg, South Africa || Day 2, Morning Session || 20th October 2023 ||
Light has come to South Africa.
I will be speaking on the subject ‘ACCESSING THE LIGHT’. Isaiah 60:1. Our objective this morning is twofold. Church Gist.
1. We shall understand the assignment of the light.
2. We shall understand our access to the light.
When we talk about light we are talking about the person of God because God is light. John 1:5, Psalm 36:9. When we talk about light we are talking about the Word, the depth of the Word and insight into the Word. Church Gist. Psalm 119:130. Isaiah 29:8. What is the assignment of the light? We saw four things last night.
1. Light dissolves darkness.
The assignment of light is the dissolution of darkness. Why is light necessary? Church Gist. To dissolve darkness. The powers of hell, the forces of darkness.
2. Light is to destroy ignorance and to facilitate understanding.
Hosea 4:6.
3. Light is necessary to uncover mysteries (hidden secrets).
4. Light is necessary to discover vision and direction to life.
Where there is no light there can be no vision, there can be no direction. Life is limited to random motion. Church Gist. We said all of that last night and because of time, we might not go over them right now. I am going to say three more this morning.
5. Light is necessary for discovery.
Things are recovered when light is turned on where there had been darkness. Missing things are found when light is turned on where there has been darkness. Luke 15:8. The Bible tells us about the woman who lost her coin and swept the room until she found it. Light is a secret of recovery. Recovery includes everything including the recovery of your destiny. There are two ways in which a destiny can be recovered. First, this is what I had and I lost. I had graces, I had giftings, I had manifestations of God in my life that got lost. Church Gist. All of a sudden they stopped. There is a certain light I step into that causes me to recover what I had that I lost. Another way I can recover my destiny is, this is where God wants me to be in my assignment and life and this is where I am currently. Out of 100 per cent of manifestations, I am just experiencing 10 per cent, by the time I eventually step into the realm where God wants me to operate, it is called destiny recovery. It is called becoming what I have been wired to become and there is a light you can get that can make you recover your destiny.
King Josiah was eight years old when he stumbled into the scripture that gave a prophecy with his name. A prophecy that was given almost 400 years before he was born. When God sent the man of Judah to go and prophesy in Bethel before Jeroboam when Jeroboam stood and was offering strange offerings. This man of Judah prophesied. You remember the story when Jeroboam wanted to slap him and his hand was suspended in the air and the man of God prayed and the hand came down. He told him a child shall be born by name Josiah, he shall tear down this altar and sacrifice the bones of the false prophets that worshipped here. Church Gist. His name is Josiah. That prophecy did not come to pass until almost 400 years when King Josiah was born. He was doing the normal babyish and childish things until the Prophet Hilkiah went into the temple and found the book of the Lord, he opened the book and found where it was written, how the false prophets and the false altars were to be dealt with. He found the name of Josiah in the book and he went to Josiah and said ‘King do you know your name is in the book?” when Josiah saw his name in the book and saw that a prophecy of almost four hundred years was on his life, he tore his clothes. Church Gist. He said this is what I am meant to be doing with my life and I am just here playing? That light arrived and that young man stepped into his assignment. He became who he was meant to be because he saw what he never saw before.
I don’t know who God sent me to here today but there is a Josiah here today that has been playing around the periphery, you have been dealing with the shadows but God said I have reality for you. Today the light is coming and you shall recover your destiny, you shall recover your assignment. There are those here today who will recover destiny, recover your mantle, recover your gifts, recover your favour. Church Gist. I am in my season of complete recovery by the power of light. I shall recover my destiny, everything God wants me to do, where God wants me to function, I shall function there by light.
Many years ago in our city and like it is in most cities in Africa, until a big man of God comes you are not permitted to see certain results. You couldn’t see cripples walking or blind seeing, it has to be a very big man of God. That reminded me of the days of the old prophet in Bethel and a new prophet in Judah. That old prophet couldn’t function and God had to look for a man of God from town to come and do what the old prophet could not do. I asked myself, if I am in a Land and God has to look for somebody from outside the Land to come and carry out an assignment in the Land then I am needless, I am useless, I am useful for nothing. If I am existing in a particular territory and there are things that cannot happen until somebody comes from outside, then my assignment is unnecessary. My mission is unnecessary, my placement is unnecessary. I should just find something else to do with my life. I respect big men of God. They have impacted my life – Reinhard Bonnke, Benny Hinn but things should happen because we are here.
So, if it was time to go to the Stadium we will go to the Stadium, it will be filled to the capacity, if it was to… Whatever needed to be done will be done per time. Church Gist. Anything that needs to happen will happen per time because we are there for such a time as this. Is God speaking to somebody here?
-I prophesy to you today, you will not occupy space for nothing! In the City where you are, God will depend on you! He will depend on you to carry out His assignment, He will not look for somebody else because you are there – Because you are in South Africa, because you are in Johannesburg, because you are in Durban, because you are in Cape Town, because you are in Swaziland, because you are in Lesotho! Church Gist. Zambia! Wherever you have come from, He will do what He needs to do because you are there! Somebody say Amen!
When the Rich Man told Abraham to send people from hell. You remember the Rich Man and Abraham? And Lazarus! When the Rich Man told Abraham to send Lazarus back to his father’s house so that if somebody left the dead, they will believe there is hell, Abraham said: ‘No! We won’t send anybody from here, there are people there already – Elijah is there, Moses is there, there are people there already. Church Gist. If they won’t hear them even if somebody leaves the grave they won’t hear him’. In other words, God is saying: ‘You are there’! That wherever you are positioned now, He said: ‘I am relying on you! I am depending on your presence, I am depending on your availability in your generation, in your community, in your nation to do what I need to do! I don’t need to send anybody from the grave, you are there’! And it shall be done!
If all I came here for today is for somebody to recover his destiny… You know what it means to have the destiny of an aircraft and you are functioning as a taxi cab? Did you see that picture? Did you know what it means to have the destiny… You know bulldozer? Grader? You have that destiny? And you are functioning like a lawn mower (Laughing). You are meant to be uprooting iroko trees and you are only cutting grass and you are only trimming the lawn. Church Gist. You are meant to be uprooting iroko trees, you are meant to be uprooting obstacles from the highway, you are meant to pull down concrete, hard concrete and yet what you are doing is with grass – Cutting grass. You are meant to be dealing with billions for the sake of pushing the Gospel around the earth and you are struggling with paying your mortgage. Are you hearing what I am saying here today?
-I see someone here today, there shall be the recovery of your destiny as light is coming!!! You believe that shout the loudest Amen.
6. Light comes to empower action and activate potentials.
Empower action! You know there is a limit to what you can do in the midst of darkness. In a dark room, there is so much on your mind to do, you want to move this table here, you want to move this chair here, but you are limited because darkness equals inaction. Illumination is necessary for action! Is God speaking to someone here? You know? I’m a medical doctor trained, my wife too is a medical doctor trained. Church Gist. If you are a surgeon or you are a dentist and you want to really really work and not make any mistakes, overhead lights! Even, there are times you put these forehead lights right there so you move your head and then it just goes into the field of vision, dentists use the light a lot to see all things – Ear, nose and throat surgeons, otolaryngologists, they use a lot of light to check the throat and check everything because you can cut a nerve, you can do the wrong thing and cause permanent damage if the light is not strong enough. Are you following what I am saying here today?
Light is an asset if action is desired. If you want your life and your destiny to be full of action it must be full of light. You must be full of revelation, you must be full of insight, you must be full of revelation of insight, you must be full of direction, if your life must be full of action. There are so many people who don’t know what to do so they can’t leave where they are. No light, no action! No illumination, no action. If you need more action, you need more illumination. Church Gist. You need more light from Scripture, you need more light from God, you need more light from the Word, it will fuel your action effortlessly. You need more light from Scripture! And there is something more I can tell you, if the light is not here, this light that is on here now, we will be in darkness here. If the light is not on and this mic is not on, then I will… (Illustrating without the microphone), answer me! (Laughing). Are you hearing what I’m saying now? That is the limitation of potential, where there is the absence of illumination. There is potential limitation where power is not available, there are many things inside you but they need to be powered by light. There is a lot of grace inside you!! But they need to be powered by light.
Pastor, one day I saw in Acts of the Apostles 5:13-15 that Peter passed through the street and the shadow of Peter healed the sick, that was light to me. I had read it before but I was seeing something very new, that there was something inside the shadow of Peter that overshadowed the sick. That word ‘overshadow’ to me means: ‘Swallowed it up’. Am I communicating? It means, ‘It just consumed it’! Something inside Peter’s shadow consumed, swallowed! Church Gist. Like the Rod of Moses that swallowed up the rod of the magician. I came into Service with that light, it was a Healing and Deliverance Service and I walked straight to the altar like this. From my office, I walked straight to the altar and I just walked like that and I stood and I said: ‘Friends, as I just walked here now, sicknesses have disappeared’. I had not prayed a prayer, I didn’t say anything because I saw that when Peter passed the streets, he didn’t pray a prayer.
You know, what happened was that as soon as his (Peter’s) shadow touched the cripple, the cripple started walking, the blind started shouting. That was what drew his attention the first time. “What’s going on here?” You just passed and this man started walking and this man started seeing. I saw that light and I said, “As I just passed here now, sicknesses just left. If you’re healed, come out.” Church Gist. Do you know what happened? They started trooping out in droves. I said, “wait a minute. I didn’t say if you need prayer for healing come out. I have not said, if you’re sick come and be healed. I am saying you are already healed.” When I finished that, they trooped out the more. “What happened to you?” “I came here with a cancer, a growth, it has just disappeared.” “What about you?” “My eyes were not seeing but I am seeing now.” All manner…we couldn’t take those testimonies that day. If we were to continue, we would continue day and night. That mantle was there but light powered it. Light exploded it, activated it. Light brought out the result that was striking.
– I prophesy to somebody here today, the light I am speaking about today is about to trigger a potential, a prophetic potential, an apostolic potential, healing potential, evangelistic potential, a financial potential!
You know, God is light isn’t it? When Moses came to that light, the light of the consuming fire, you know God is light and God is fire. Deuteronomy 4:24. The light of God is a department of his fire. I am sure that you know that fire carries light, fire is light and heat and the form of it. Moses came into this light and what he carried in his hand that was his stick became activated. God said, what is that in your hand? He said it is a stick. Church Gist. He said, are you sure? He said, yes, this is what I’ve been using to tend the flock, to drive animals. God said, okay, drop it and see whether it’s a stick. When he dropped it, it had life. What he had in his hand that was dead had life. It was moving, he ran back. God said, “pick it now. You were using this thing to tend flock, this is the destiny of a generation that is in your hand that you don’t know. This is an instrument of judgement. You carried it for 40 years without impact. But now that you have come into the presence of the light of the consuming fire, I have brought the potential of it out so that you can go and sink Pharaoh and set Israel free and perform any miracle you need to perform with what you thought was stick.”
– May God show you the potential of what you carry!
I always tell people, “God did not give Moses any new thing. It was what Moses already had that he activated.” Do you know that every little girl that is born today, all the eggs she needs for life were born with her? Church Gist. She has them already. All the babies that would be born by the baby were born with the baby. That is medically proven. About 250,000 eggs at birth, that is the potential of 250,000 children…and the devil says you shouldn’t born one?
Lift your hands and say, “Father, activate my potential, what is already in my hand.”
Finally, light is needed. There are manifestations you may never see until you arrive at some light. Finally, what is the purpose of light?
To upgrade life’s quality – the quality of life. The quality of spiritual life is upgraded – John 1:1-4. Life equals light; light equals life. So the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your light. If I have not said anything today, don’t forget this: the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your light. What you know determines what you show. If you’re not happy with the quality of your spiritual life, go for quality spiritual light. Church Gist. If you go to rural areas, I don’t know if they have such rural areas in South Africa, but they are there in many parts of Africa. Rural areas, some places where at times there is battle with electricity and so on and so forth and also there is high level of illiteracy which means that they don’t have even educational light. In those places, the life level is low – true or false? The life quality is so low, life is so basic and so low. Survival is just the mode. They just look for daily food. There’s nothing about tomorrow, about investment, future, anything; just eat, live and die because light is low, life is low. No light, no life.
When you go to most of the developed countries where you have uninterrupted power supply, where you have high level of literacy also and if you combine it with spirituality, life quality is high. Church Gist. That is, if you are toying with light you are toying with life. If you are unserious about light, you are unserious about life.
God’s servant Bishop David Oyedepo, he said he was the picture of poverty even though he was trying to preach prosperity, but he had no reflection. He had a car at that time, from what I heard, when the car was coming, service had to stop temporarily because of the sound of the car. All of a sudden, he said to God, “Show me light about Kingdom supernatural supply, show me light”. He took a 3 day fast, took the books of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and then settled for about 72 hours until light broke. ‘My prosperity plan is not a promise to claim but a covenant to walk in. When your role is played, my part is committed’. Church Gist. He saw and he screamed, ” I can never be poor again”. Today, he is a symbol of Kingdom prosperity and supernatural supply to the pain of the devil and the pain of religious people. Running two universities at the same time, private universities, all manner of the unimaginable. Faith Theater is in construction. That project, the basement alone can take over 16,000-20,000 people apart from the main sanctuary that is over 100,000 people. He said to the Church, he said, “If it is for this project don’t give any more, all the money to build it is ready. You can give for another thing” Now, everything including chairs, including sound, including AC, every single thing paid for because he saw light.
Illumination is the elimination of frustration. Peter, “I have toiled all night”. Illumination is the elimination of frustration. Revelation is the elimination of frustration. ” I have toiled all night Master, nevertheless at thy Word, I will let down the net”. Church Gist. When that Word came, the struggle was over. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your light. This particular statement I have made now I’m not sure I have made it before. I have preached on light but directly like this, that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your light. When people look at you and you look enviable and they’ll be wondering why is this man not struggling about anything, why is this man just living like this. It is because there is a light you have. How can you organize crusades like this and you don’t take offerings on crusade grounds all over the world, in Nigeria, around Nigeria, all over the world. One man told me, he said, “How is this possible? Is it because many people have the zeal to go out but what about the means?”. The spirit is willing but the pocket is not willing. This was crusade ground, (referring to a picture). All these people were there two weeks ago, not a dime was taken from anybody as an offering because actually offering is not wrong but as far as our crusades are concerned we determined that we came for the souls of the people, not their money and then we decided and determined that we shall not be misunderstood…and then you travel with a team of people, there are times, so many times, 99% of the time you can’t go commercial because if you are going to go commercial you can’t meet the schedule and you can’t be back to Church on Sunday morning and then you calculate the cost. Church Gist. Do you understand what I’m talking about?…and you’re moving as if nothing is happening and you’re not looking beggarly or pitiably.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Today I prophesy to somebody, in the name that is above every name, hearing this word alone, your quality of life is shifting to the next level.
One servant of the Lord, minister of the gospel. He asked us sometime back, he said, “Are there other businesses you people are doing to be able to do all the things you are doing?”. We were building the Glory Dome at that time, I don’t know if they have the picture of it there and it was going on…I don’t want to even tell you how much we were spending on it a month at the time of the construction. Church Gist. This minister of the gospel said, “Is there any other business you are doing, what are the sources of income?”, I said, “It’s God, supernatural supply, the Word”. Do you know what the person said? He said, “Only? Is that the only thing?” This thing was running nonstop, spending heavily monthly nonstop until completion. He said, “Is that the only thing?”. The Word of God is enough, it’s more than enough. Philippians 3:19.
Pastor, Minister, Child of God, get set, your life’s quality is shifting levels. People are going to be shocked with what God will do in your life.
Very quickly before we round off this afternoon, how do I access light? What is my secret of light? What do I do if I need light?
1: Enquire of God for light.
Enquire, Lord, I need light. Daniel 2:17-18. When there was a need for light concerning the mystery that surrounded Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel went before God and enquired of God for light. Every area of your life where there seems to be darkness in charge, enquire for light. Church Gist. Especially areas where it looks like there are mysteries, enquire for light.
2: Explore the Word for access to light.
Settle down with the Word. Psalm 119:18.
– Lord, show me what I have not seen before.
What you see out of the Word determines what you will see out of life. What you see out of the Word is the determinant of what you will see out of life. Church Gist. What you see out of the Word determines what you will see out in the World. Because the Bible says God uses the Word to frame the world. He frames…He determined the edges of the world. Hebrews 11:1-3. You know a picture frame, God is saying the picture frame for this world is the Word. You determine the boundaries of your existence by the Word. The world in which you live can be decided by the Word. The world in which you live can be hedged, defined, demarcated by the Word. You are not permitted to live outside the boundaries of that demarcation by the Word. This is where I live, above, by my sides and below me is the Word. Anything outside this frame can’t be accessed here.
3: Wait on the Lord for light.
There are many times people are waiting on the Lord for marital breakthrough, financial breakthrough, this and that. You can sit down fasting to get light. When God’s servant, Bishop David Oyedepo went on that 3 day fast, 3 things happened. First of all, he was asking God in prayer, 2- he was studying the Word and 3- he was waiting on the Lord. ‘Why are you here pastor?’, ‘I am fasting so that God can show me something from the Word that will terminate this demonic siege’. Isaiah 58:6,8. You wait on the Lord to experience the breaking out of light. There are people who do 21 days fasting and didn’t see one light out of Scripture. What kind of waste is that? “I have been fasting for 20 days, for 30 days, for 40 days”, the only thing you came out with was loss of weight, not the gain of light. Don’t lose weight without gaining light. As far as fasting is concerned, don’t lose weight without gaining light. Now, if your fasting was for the purpose of weight loss, that is an objective and it’s a correct objective because excess weight can affect the body…that’s ok, that’s alright. But if it is spiritual, let it not just end with the loss of weight, let it end with the gain of light. At least one light of Scripture, one revelation, one insight, something you would hold on to and say ‘This is what I came out of this fast with and the devil must pay for whatever he has done against my life’. Church Gist. Sit down, open the Scripture, speak in tongues, pray (Lord, what are you saying, Spirit of God, I receive light on this matter), then you can consider the fast successful. By the time you get that witness in your spirit, you’ll see light that will make you shout, light that will make you look like a drunkard, light that will make you rugged, ruthless and spiritually reckless.
4. Engage the Power of Worship, it activates light.
There was a time the prophet Elisha needed to hear from God in 2 Kings 3:15, He said “Get me a minstrel” and as the minstrel played the hand of the Lord came upon him and he said, “Make this valley full of ditches for thus saith the Lord.” As the minstrel ministered, his ears were opened to hear God. Psalm 89:15. There is a connection between the sound and the light. If you are a Science student and you are doing Physics or any of those things when you treat light, the next thing they will like you to treat is sound. Church Gist. They are just related. Sound stage light. All these people who do sound, they also do stage light. They are all connected. You can’t have the joyful sound and lack the joy of His countenance. That is why depression deprives people of light. Depressed people like darkness. You can find out. They hate light. They turn off the lights, they just like the night. They like dark rooms. Whatever tampers with your excitement tampers with your enlightenment.
I can tell you that joy is not a gift, it is a choice. Philippians 4:4. Rejoice in the Lord, again I say unto you rejoice. He didn’t say when you feel like rejoicing then you can rejoice. He didn’t say rejoice in your car, rejoice in your husband, rejoice in your house, rejoice in your job, no! Rejoice in the Lord. Because If you are depending on your car, there may be times when the car will not give you joy. There will be times when your husband will not give you joy, not intentionally but maybe you misunderstand yourselves. There will be times when your job will not give you joy. There is no time when your God will not give you joy. Isaiah 30:29-30. So you start with the song, you end with the light. I am not talking about you have a singing voice, I am talking about ventilating your atmosphere with worship. Ventilate your house, ventilate your life with praise. Ventilate your office, your room, let everything about you rise in worship. My wife said she has a way of knowing when I am around the corner, either the worship is on, either I am signing myself or my phone is singing or my iPad is singing. I am just arriving and the worship is coming or the tonguing is going on. I am not moving just quietly, there is something she will use to know that her husband is coming. You arrive and the atmosphere is charged, everybody is happy and laughing. There are those who arrive and everything is depressing. Beloved brothers and sisters don’t let your worship be restricted to service time. There are people who don’t understand worship except when they are in Church, there are people who don’t understand praise until they are in service. You waited too long.
I proceed with a frequency of inspirations on a permanent basis. I have my pen and paper ready all the time because I can hear God anywhere. I can receive insight in the car, I can receive insight… There are times I take book and paper to the restroom. I am still writing in the throne (Laughing) because the light is so striking and I know that it has a short lifetime, you know? I don’t want it to evaporate before I pen it down because the atmosphere is charged and light is flowing. Church Gist. Am I communicating? I came here today with two books – My Message book and my personal inspiration book to write. Oh yes! Because as I’m coming to talk to you, God is talking to me. On my way coming, I could write things that have nothing to do with this Service, that have to do with my life. On my way going I could be writing things that have nothing to do with you.
5. Finally, connect with carriers of light.
Do you want to walk in light? Connect with carriers of light. Carriers of genuine light, carriers of authentic light because we live in a world of plenty false apostles and false prophets and false false manifestations. Very very! And we live in a generation that is almost zero in discernment. Church Gist. You are seeing a native doctor operating, wearing a suit calling himself a Pastor and you can’t discern. In this generation there is such a bankruptcy of sensitivity, there are things you can discern under two seconds, you don’t need to watch for more than two – three minutes and you know this is not of God it has the clothing of God but it is not of God. And people are just watching and just deceived. To me, it is one of the most deceived generations! Do you understand what I am talking about? They can’t demarcate.
There are some people, they have this sticker of this guy here another sticker here, the opposite. (Laughing). You know what I am talking about especially in these days of bangles or these rubber bands. They have the one of someone here and they have the one of the opposite person. In their eyes, those people are the same. One of the things we are about to pray for ourselves in this season is: ‘Lord! Sharpen my discernment, sharpen my sensitivity, give me the grace to demarcate from afar’. Church Gist. But let me tell you, John the Baptist in John 5:35, the Bible said: ‘The people of the generation of John were willing to rejoice in his light because he was a burning and a shining light’. Having said all that I have said, whenever you see authentic light pursue it, connect with it. Whenever you see light that the Spirit of God witnesses to you: ‘This is authentic, this is real, your heart bears witness, pursue it, connect with it, don’t sit down lackadaisically, pursue it, connect with it because the light you connect with is the light you are permitted to reflect.
Your connection determines your reflection! I don’t need to say more than this! Did you hear what I said? You know the Moonlight? Many of you say: ‘Moonlight’ and if you say ‘Moonlight’, it’s okay, you are giving the Moon the praise because the Moon was wise enough knowing that it doesn’t have light of its own. The Moon is a morbid surface, all that the Moon does is to be positioned at an angle to the Sun, the light comes from the Sun to the Moon and the Moon reflects it out. And you call it: ‘Moonlight’. No! It was originally Sunlight! But because the Moon was humble enough to connect to the Sun, it now has light of its own. I don’t know how you feel but I don’t care who God will use even if it’s my child, all I want is that I want to reach my destiny. We have an arrogant generation, they don’t want to submit to anybody, they want to be a father without being fathered. How can you give birth without being born? They want to be in authority without being under authority. The Centurion said: ‘I am a man under authority and I have Soldiers under me’. I myself, I am under authority and I have people under my authority; so you cannot be in authority until you have been under authority! Anybody you see manifesting authority that you cannot trace the authority he is under, that authority is questionable. The source of it is to be questioned.
If you mention someone like Benny Hinn, I can tell you at a point in his life he was hooked up to Kathryn Kuhlman and you can see the reflection on his life. If you mention someone like Archbishop Benson Idahosa, I can tell you T. L. Osborn influenced his life maximally. If you talk about T. L. Osborn he came out as a missionary from India – frustrated and the ministry of the healing revivalist, William Branham, affected him. If you talk of A. A. Allen, he watched Oral Roberts and he watched him for a while and the Spirit of God said, “you can do what that man is doing,” and he had an influence. Church Gist. Any where you turn, you will see somebody who has a reflection. If you ask me I will tell you, “God’s Servant Bishop David Oyedepo” – maximal impact that gives reflection. In the Crusade ministry, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, we had a lot of work together in several ways in the Crusade ministry and it was very very massive and very impactful. He was to fly for the dedication of the Glory Dome at dying minute – we almost got a jet for him to come but at the dying moment he was unable to come. Do you understand what I’m talking about? Your collection will affect your reflection and collection is a function of submission.
You’re not a pastor, you’re a Church member, identify who God has ordained as your spiritual father, your pastor and submit in humility. You’re a minister of the Gospel, submit in humility and let it be clear. If the golden cup must get water it must bow to the tap and the tap may be silver tap, may be rust iron. I’m sure you’ve seen some tap before – they’re not golden but the cup is golden. If it refuses to bow let it give itself water. It should attend to itself. Church Gist. You can make your journey of life short if you connect with light that is bright. Have you ever seen when you have the backing of a big vehicle that has bright light, is coming behind you, it will minimize the use of your own light because the light from behind flooded the road. I’m telling you from experience. It will flood the light, the highway in front of you and worse still, if you can just follow that light that is in front of you, just queue in, (you don’t have a lot of pot holes in South Africa – I have not seen one in Johannesburg here – but in places where the roads are pot holes) when that vehicle dodges a pot hole, you don’t need to know where the pot hole is, just follow it. Where there is bump, he slows down, you slow down too. You don’t need to see the bump, he saw it for you. Church Gist. That was how you effortlessly arrived at your destination without struggling the struggle of the car in front. Life can be easy. Many people made their life so complicated. The struggle you’re planning to struggle somebody struggled it. Just ask them and they will tell you how to avoid it. Say, Amen.
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