BISHOP OYEDEPO CELEBRATES ALL GODLY WIVES
MAY YOU CONTINUE BEING INSTRUMENTAL IN FAMILY BREAKTHROUGHS:
FOR THOSE UNMARRIED, THAT IS THE KIND OF WIFE YOU WILL BE
I HAVE SEEN THREE WIVES NOW THAT STOOD AT THE POINT OF DEATH WITH THEIR HUSBANDS AND WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING THEM OUT
THE SAME WAY THOSE WOMEN TOOK CARE OF THEIR SPOUSES, I AM CHALLENGING ALL THE MEN TO TAKE CARE WHEN THEIR SPOUSE IS CHALLENGED.
YOU WILL BE A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE BREAKTHROUGH OF YOUR FAMILY
OURS IS A DO-IT-YOURSELF CHURCH. IT IS NOT A “PRAY FOR ME, PRAY FOR ME” CHURCH
YOU STAND TO BE CHEAPLY DECEIVED IF YOU ARE A ‘PRAY FOR ME, PRAY FOR ME’ BELIEVER. THEY WILL PRAY FOR YOU AND SEE FOR YOU INTO TROUBLE
I THANK GOD, HE BROUGHT ME UP TO SEE HIM AS MY SOURCE.
ALL THIS ‘PRAY FOR ME, PRAY FOR ME’ SYNDROME DOESN’T MAKE A MAN. GIVE ME FEEDING BOTTLE ALL THE TIME, YOU CAN’T BECOME A MAN LIKE THAT.
THERE IS NO SIN GOD CANNOT FORGIVE BUT THERE IS NO SIN HE WILL FORGIVE WITHOUT GENUINE REPENTANCE.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Second Pre-Shiloh Encounter Service|| Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First Sunday Service
Shall we all lift our two hands this morning and give God thanks for another bright new day. Shall we give thanks for the second in the series of our Pre-Shiloh Encounter Services. Give Him glory for the privilege to be in His presence. Thank Him.
That humbling testimony we had this morning is a pointer that there is no closed case with God. There is no closed case with God. From wheelchair to running, there is no closed case with God. Heart problem, liver crisis, kidney challenge that is death and he is rolling on the floor. Church Gist. The good news this morning is that your case is not closed. Everyone’s spiritual trial shall be turned into spiritual triumph. Everyone’s spiritual disease shall be turned to spiritual health and wholeness. Whatever things that have come to stay in your life that are not of God must drop off today.
Hosea 6:2.
Prayer: Lord I am here to be revived, this is the second in the series of Pre-Shiloh Encounter Services. Lord revive my spirit, soul and body. Church Gist. Reenergize my soul by your word today. Renew me true and true. Grant me a brand new beginning today in Jesus’ precious name we have prayed.
When the sin barrier is removed, man’s breakthrough is established. Church Gist. Your long-awaited breakthrough will be part of your breakthrough today.
Heavenly Father, thank you for another day. Thank you for treating us to great manifestations of your presence, receive our thanks in the name of Jesus.
Now we are going to give the godly wives of this Church a big hand of praise to God because I have seen three now, wives that stood at the point of death with their husbands and were instrumental in bringing them out. So for all the virtuous women in this church, all the godly women who are standing by the truth, give the Lord a big hand of praise. Every one among these precious women that may be offside, today you are coming on the right side. Somebody stayed three years in the hospital, you heard the testimony. The wife won’t let go, “Honey you will not die” she stood there and he came back home with him. The two of them were here on the platform. Church Gist. Someone crashed in a motor accident and was confirmed dead. The wife sat down there anointing him. They were discharged that same night. Death sentence converted to life. In the precious name of Jesus for those who are yet to be married, that is the kind of wife you will be. You will never rejoice at the challenges of your husband. You will be a major player in the breakthrough of your family. For challenged homes this morning, I decree restoration of peace.
Now we have too many preaching priests but very few teaching priests. Preaching only begets inspiration, it is teaching that conveys instructions. You hear so much preaching and at the end of it, you say “what do we do now?” because there is nothing to do there. It is preaching. Teaching unveils principles, reveals instructions, corrections, reproof that the man of God may be made perfect, thoroughly furnished unto every good work. Ours is a do-it-yourself church. It is not a “pray for me, pray for me” church. Ours is a school that is why we run a syllabus. We are running a syllabus on sanctification this month, we run it every year. They can call it godliness, holiness, it is the same thing. You stand to be cheaply deceived if you are a pray for me, pray for me believer. They will pray for you and see for you and run you into trouble. They will see that your wife is a problem and your husband is a devil. Most of you who go from place to place these are the kind of things you will hear. Church Gist. I thank God, He brought me up to see Him as my source. All this pray for me, pray for me syndrome doesn’t make a man. Give me feeding bottle, feeding bottle. You can’t become a man like that. Daniel 11:32. That is where you belong. That is where you will remain. She knew what to do, she did it and got her husband out of the theatre, heart working, kidney working, liver working. What did you use? I can’t tell you. I can’t breathe for you, it is a do-it-yourself system. I can’t eat on your behalf, I can’t go to the toilet for you, if you do it you mess up.
You better wake up and take responsibility, “I have been in this church nothing is happening to me”. You are not making anything happen. Learn to make it happen. You are here and you won’t repent, can you be saved? Can you be baptized in the Holy Ghost? You say “I have been believing God for the Holy Ghost” they don’t believe God for the Holy Ghost, you repent. Church Gist. When you turn, I will pour. You have not turned, how can I pour? It’s not Papa lay hands on me, he can even lay leg on you and nothing will happen.
Sanctification is a choice, not a gift or a calling. Everybody that has the hope of eternity must subscribe to it. It is a choice between heaven and hell to me, between joy and sorrow, between peace and crisis, it is a choice to make. There is no peace for the wicked, says the Lord, you can’t be cheating on people and be peaceful. Church Gist. Psalm 51:12. You can’t be in sin and flow in joy. It is a choice to make. Deuteronomy 30:19. The choice is ours. 1 John 3:3. Philippians 4:19.
Ezekiel 20:25. The law was not good because any aspect of it you break, you pay for it. In spite of that, Daniel purposed in his heart under that same law and God enabled his purpose to stand because his purpose was on God’s side that he will not defile himself and he didn’t. Up until Daniel 6, there was no thought or error sound in him because he was a faithful man. Church Gist. He purposed His way to sanctification. Under a law that everybody has to struggle to make things happen, his purpose prevailed. For anyone that genuinely purposes to live a life that truly pleases God today is declared the day of rescue for every such individual.
Romans 7:18-19. Philippians 2:13. Whatever we truly will we are empowered to do. When there is a will there must be a way. That’s the plus of the grace and truth that came by Christ. The capacity to will and to do now resides in us. Whatever you truly will you are enabled to do. He has built in us the capacity to will and to do. Anything you truly will, you are supernaturally empowered to do. Proverbs 23:26. My son, give me your heart. It is your heart so you decide who to give it to. You have the right to give your heart to wine or give your heart to the Holy Ghost, give your heart to filthiness or give your heart to holiness. Where your heart is, is what determines the issue of your life. Proverbs 4:23. Church Gist. That is the source of all the issues of your life and my life. Your heart is your heart, you can give it to cocaine or give it to Christ. My heart is my heart I choose where to give it to. That is why today we are absolutely responsible for our consecration or desecration. God won’t have the right to judge anyone if He has not given us the capacity to do the right thing. In a great house there are many vessels, some to honour some to dishonour. 2 Timothy 2:21. Today must mark the end of the dominion power of sin over anyone’s life. A verdict came from heaven, sin shall no more have dominion over you. Romans 6:14. Sin lost its dominion over us at the cross when Jesus said “it is finished”. Cursed be the dominion of sin over anyone’s life here anymore.
Every evil work thrives on evil thoughts. From within, out of the heart of man proceed evil thoughts which degenerate into evil acts. Mark 7:21. So until we stop the thought we can’t stop the acts and we can crush the thought by engaging the blood weapon. Church Gist. Every time a thought tries to rear its head, the blood of Jesus! The Blood of Jesus! Not here, no way. The blood of Jesus. If you don’t stop the thoughts you can’t stop the acts.
All we are doing is understanding pathways to sanctification. It is a choice and the power to choose is yours and mine. Church Gist. Whatever we will under the new covenant, we are empowered to do. Over your life and my life, Satan has lost it. Not one person here will lose his place in heaven.
Costs of Ungodliness
Let’s look at four gruesome costs of ungodliness. If you know the cost. When you see ‘BEWARE’ in an electrical installation anywhere you don’t need any advice if you are not ready to die. You don’t say how can I beware. Don’t beware, just go. BEWARE means watch it, death is in the pot. Church Gist. So they put a skull there, if you are not going to beware that is your skull. It is better if you see your skull before you die because after you die you can’t see your skull again. So they put the skull with a hole here, hole here, no cheeks, no flesh. That is why we said beware because that is your skull. This place makes skulls of those who will not beware.
1. It opens the door to sickness and disease
Mark 2:5-11. Jesus said this man’s trouble is caused by his sin. If I don’t destroy the root he can’t be free. After all the arguments he said, “arise take up your bed, your sins are forgiven you so be free”. Listen, not every sickness is a result of sin but many are. In John 5, Jesus met a man at the pool of Bethesda who has been sick for 38 years and mercy showed up and got him healed. John 5;14. Church Gist. That shows us the entrance of sickness and disease through sin. James 5:14-15. If! So there are those things that are caused by sin. It opens the door to sickness and diseases. You can go around the entire world from one specialist hospital to another and return the same.
2. It blocks access to supernatural breakthroughs.
You just keep struggling and struggling. Every breakthrough is triggered by applied revelation. You can’t access revelation without a craving for sanctification. Proverbs 1:23. When your word comes, your breakthrough comes. Your word and my word can not come except with a desperate hunger and thirst for righteousness. Church Gist. Psalm 105:17-22. Everything turned when his word came. That is you the Lord is talking about.
– Every way you have blocked your own breakthrough the end of it has finally come.
You can’t be cheating on people and robbing them and playing smart with them and expect breakthroughs, you will just be breaking down from time to time. Then pride comes in “time is not there to go to church. I work Sunday to Saturday. I attend so many board meetings”. Church Gist. Well done! Those who are 10 times your height have served God to the end and kept their legacy. You will because giants are rising up. The greatest challenge of this time is pride. The greatest challenge of this breakthrough era of the church is pride. You will not be caught with it.
3. It blocks access to eternity with Christ.
How many people want to make heaven? Let me start from here because I don’t know what is going on around the world today. How many believe that there is heaven? Jesus said, “if it were not so, I would have told you”. Heaven is real and we will all make it. We shall all make it. Church Gist. No one shall be left behind in the name of Jesus. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. We can’t make it with that baggage. We have to drop them off and let them go. Whatever won’t let any one of us make heaven, I curse it from the root today because you must make it. I must make it. We must make it together. There is no substitute.
Matthew 7:22-23. He has done marvellous things through you and me but if we go back to iniquity they will cancel. Ezekiel 18:20-22. Any time you turn you are welcome. So it is not about I have been doing it, you must keep doing it, I must keep doing it. The day you turn back, God turns His back and things go sour. So it is not a thing of the past, it must be present continuous tense. Living to please God must be a continuous present tense. Not I did, I was, ‘I was’ won’t count. The day you turn from righteousness to wickedness, your righteousness and my righteousness shall be forgotten. Church Gist. So receive grace from this communion table to press the battle to the gate. Those folks were doing all those things when they were right. God was doing it through them. If you are walking in iniquity now, you have retired from righteousness. The journey to heaven is a long trek but Peter got it through, Paul got it through, I will get it through. I just got back from one serious meeting at Landmark. We were having an executive advance and I was loading them with these foreign language proverbs. Wisdom is the master, not age. Let’s wake up and take responsibility. Past tense righteousness won’t count. Past tense sanctification won’t matter. It is either current or irrelevant. So repentance is not a new convert phenomenon. It is a lifestyle phenomenon for those who truly hunger and thirst after righteousness. As wicked as Ahab was, wrote off his sins when he turned. 1 Kings 21:25-27. When the judgement came, he turned and walked softly and God said see how he repented. This evil shall not happen in his times.
Steps to Sanctification
We must crave for the enduement of the Spirit of holiness. It is available, the Holy Spirit is our helper, He helps us to walk the holiness highway. Jesus was declared to be the Son of God by the spirit of holiness. Romans 1:4. Nobody encounters the power of the Holy Ghost without a genuine crave and thirst. Isaiah 55:1. It takes a thirst to have that. Romans 8:13. When the Holy Ghost comes in, He destroys the works of the flesh. Church Gist. He comes in as a refiner’s fire and He purifies the son of Levi so we can offer sacrifices in righteousness to God. Malachi 3:3. We need His help, without His help we are limited. I, therefore, decree today a fresh enduement of the Spirit of holiness upon every one of us. We have access to that Spirit of holiness, they call it the Spirit of the fear of the Lord. It enables people to walk in the fear of God as a way of life. We are returning home with that package today and it shall be with us for life.
2. We must continue to engage the power of the blood for our rescue.
When challenged or confronted, the blood of Jesus. Not here! Not here! No more! Never again. Zechariah 9:12. We are to turn to that stronghold when confronted. When he wants to push you into a pit, turn to the stronghold, the blood for your rescue. Church Gist. Turn! Turn! The blood of Jesus. Hebrews 9:14. Revelation 12:11. So we have the blood weapon at our disposal but we hardly use it.
3. We must continue in fellowship with the saints so we can keep growing from strength to strength.
Hebrews 3:13. We have that responsibility to be committed to fellowship. The farther you are from fellowship, the more vulnerable you are told defilement. Don’t try it but if you ever allow the devil to cheat you and not be in fellowship for three months, it will show on your language. Your language will be defiled, your thoughts will be defiled. You have been off the fireplace so you have become chilly and frozen. We must continue in fellowship.
4. A sanctified life is impossible without faith.
Hebrews 11:6. How many want to live a life that pleases God? That is the gateway to your own pleasure in life. Church Gist. Those who live to please God enjoy His pleasures on earth. Matthew 21:22. Faith is a must for anyone to live a life that pleases God.
Prayers: Lift your right hand and desperately crave for the spirit of holiness upon your life.
In this Pre-Shiloh Encounter Service, please take note of this. We will run through it very fast and then we pray.
Sanctification secures access to our sevenfold inheritance which according to Revelation 5:12 includes riches, power, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessings. Each of these blessings requires the fear of God for manifestation. For instance, Proverbs 1:23. Until you turn I can’t pour. Do you know what old engine oil does to a car, when it loses its viscosity then there is a crowd. Luke 5:37-39. God hates waste. No one will be endued or anointed with fresh oil with an old lifestyle. It takes a renewal to access the new anointing. Now, this is a prosperity church but let me tell you this: acquaint now thyself with God and be at peace. Do you want to enjoy my prosperity agenda? Get to understand the way I relate to people. Job 22:21-26. It takes financial integrity to walk in financial fortune. It takes financial integrity to operate in the realm of financial fortune with God. He that maketh haste to be rich by all means shall not be innocent. Jeremiah 17:11. It takes financial integrity to operate in God’s riches. Proverbs 9:10, 8:15. So one can die a slave living in sin as a way of life. It is righteousness that restores our royalty. 1 Peter 2:9. So it takes commitment to live a life that pleases God to have our royalty restored. We don’t die as slaves to sin. The strength of Samson was gone as if it never existed. He lost his strength to sin. Sin is a destroyer of strength. He has obtained supernatural strength for us but it takes the fear of God to walk in it. Proverbs 31:3. That is what the man Samson did in Judges Chapter 16, he shook himself but no more power, strength is destroyed.
– Honour.
2 Timothy 2:21. Honour demands a purging. Every trace of shame and reproach around anyone’s life shall be there no more.
– Glory
Sin brings reproach. Proverbs 14:34. Sin is a reproach to any people. Beware of the error of Uzziah who was walking right following the revelation of Zechariah and he was marvellously helped until he was very strong. When he became strong his heart was lifted up within him and he ended his journey a leper. The glory has departed – Ichabod. Church Gist. Sin brings reproach, beware of the sin of pride. It stops access to grace, when grace is no more there disgrace replaces it because nature abhors a vacuum. No one’s blessings will turn into shame. No one’s lifting will end in shame.
– Blessings
We know that blessings usually trail the believer’s obedience. Obedience is what facilitates access to God’s blessings. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. We must observe to do what He commands us to do for all those blessings to come upon us and overtake us. John 14:21. Church Gist. We can’t see His blessing more than we respond to His commandments. My prayer again is that no one misses his place in this awesome season that He has brought us into the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This sevenfold package is in one. It is the fear of God that causes each of them to blossom. The fear of God causes their manifestations in our lives. If they are not there, they are not there. There is no time we need power more than now oh. The wicked are doing more wickedly because the devil knows his time is short so we need to take cover under the power of God. There is a way you look that kidnappers will run when they see you. There is a way you wear God that armed robbers will see you and take cover. There is a way you will know God that armed robbers will see your house and know this is not a place to go. Therefore look at that sevenfold package and say I am going home with this one today. I refuse to live a powerless life. Therefore I am committed to a continual renewal of my spiritual life. To be found worthy of the fresh oil. I said some can be talking but God does not bless the crooked. The God that I know doesn’t bless the crooked. We are not blessed because we are doing something, we are doing the right things. God does not bless the crooked. Find out what they do and go and do it. He is no respecter of persons. I can testify of the blessings in my life because there is no game in it. I am blessed, very blessed even the devils know because I tell them too. Something must break loose in everyone’s life today.
Prayers: Jesus I want a new beginning, I know I am losing out without responding to the demand for sanctification. Jesus help me today. I don’t want to sell my birthright for a morsel of meat. Help me, Jesus. If there is anything you know in your life that does not please God turn from it right now, ask God. I am turning, I have heard your word I am turning.
There is no sin God cannot forgive but there is no sin he will forgive without genuine repentance. Take that home. Lord, I am sorry, if you are truly sorry He empowers you to overcome it. 1 John 1:9. Brand new day! Church Gist. Watch the flow of God’s presence in all areas of your life. Watch the unrest of your life disappear like a dream of the night. Isaiah 32:17. All the anxieties and apprehensions of your life, will disappear as if they never existed. When you are at peace, you have provoked supernatural manifestation.
—– ALTAR CALL ——
1 Timothy 4:7-8. Exercise yourself unto godliness. You don’t wait for it, you constantly develop capacity for it. It is not just about heaven, it is about the best of life here and heaven to match that is what godliness implies. What does exercise imply? Engage in spiritual workout. Take a walk, reflect on your life. Must I end my journey like This? One leg in, one leg out. Is this the way forward? What I am doing, is it leading to heaven? Not all things make for heaven, is this one leading to heaven? Have a spiritual workout. You don’t guess your way through, you think through for a way forward. Without spiritual exercise, nobody can live a sanctified life. Spiritual exercise, consciously. Leave momentary and temporal things, when you grab this, it will decorate your present, secure your eternity. All that feared God in the scriptures excelled. Not just that we are going to heaven, we are having the best of life here. Ask many people here, best of life, ever smiling, ever rejoicing. Best of life. We must stop waiting for it to happen. We must start working to make it happen. Church Gist. It is a desperation to please God and engaging in required exercises to make it happen. The power to will and to do is now available to you and me. The battle is won, we now take our position if we are interested. Heaven is sweet and hell is real, no one here will go there. There are people that are in hell right now. People say “what the hell!”. They are already feeling the heat. Can you imagine when that kind of word came out of your mouth last? No! You are not there, you have been translated from the kingdom of darkness. Hallelujah. We shall be so distinguished from the rest of the world as if we don’t live there anymore.
As we partake of this communion today, let’s aim at the holiness of Christ. John 17:19. Grace to live a life that pleases God comes afresh on us through this communion today. Every by-product of sin ravaging everyone’s life drops off your finally. The sevenfold package is the embodiment of Christ who now lives in you and me. Church Gist. So the fountain of wisdom, riches, power, strength, glory, blessings now resides in you. As we partake of this communion, I see them now begin to manifest in a new way. No sick soul leaves this service sick today, no oppressed soul leaves this service oppressed today.
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Give God glory and praise in Jesus’ precious name.
Also, be reminded about the books recommended, they are for our profiting. Maybe it is good to mention that the church has never taken a dime from books. We are doing a project, we are building rural churches, bring money from books. No! We keep reproducing to bless mankind. Neither has any of the authors taken royalty in our publishing house. Some have problems believing those things because of the evil heart of unbelief. How can they say they are giving us Bibles for free? Church Gist. Are you the one making the paper or the one printing it? Or are you the one paying the workers? People are just careless. Caution my friend. It is time to clean up. I have not benefited a dime as salary from this Church since January 1988, where were you? I never knew you then. It was between me and my God. I am blessed, super blessed. Walking in the truth blesses people. But I see something breaking forth in your life because you will testify.
– This week is declared another week of commotion of testimony.
– Breakthroughs in your family, business, career, children, that shall be your testimony in the name of Jesus.
The same way those women took care of their spouses, I am challenging all the men to take care when their spouse is challenged. You are the priest of your house, get committed. I saw this army rising on November 29th 1983 after our seemingly failed crusade in Kaduna. I saw an army rise after the order of Joel 2 and I was vomiting it prophetically. Now the army is here. Women stopping by where a child is called dead and by the grace of God upon her life bringing the child back to life and going to her workplace. You are the one God is talking about. From now things will be happening in your life that will cause tears of joy from your eyes. Go in peace. Next Sunday is the third in the series of Pre-Shiloh Encounter Services, in all areas of your life God will change your level. No more shame, no more reproach, no more stagnation, no more reproach, no more living under generational curses.
– The net is broken, you have escaped. You have escaped.
So shall it be.
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