YOU KEEP SAYING ‘IT IS WHO YOU KNOW THAT MATTERS’. THAT IS WHY NOTHING MATTERS IN YOUR LIFE!
WE DID NOT HAVE TO KNOW ANYBODY EXCEPT GOD TO GET INTO CANAANLAND
LOVERS OF GOD ARE NEVER STRUGGLERS. LOVERS ARE ALWAYS HIGH FLYERS
CAN I TELL YOU WHAT THE LOVE OF GOD IS WORTH? THERE IS NO HUMAN HAND IN THIS CHURCH!
WHETHER PRESIDENT, MILITARY, POLICE OR MINISTERS. THERE IS NO SINGLE HUMAN HAND BEHIND THIS CHURCH.
GOD’S HAND IS MUCH MORE THAN ALL THE HANDS OF HUMAN BEINGS PUT TOGETHER. YOU SETTLE WITH MAN, YOU MISS GOD.
THOSE WHO DO KNOW THEIR GOD SHALL BE STRONG AND THEY SHALL DO EXPLOITS
WHEREVER THE SUN SHINES, GOD’S WORD APPLIES. HE IS THE KING OF ALL THE EARTH. NO TRUTH IS REGIONAL OR RACIAL.
I SHED TEARS MINISTERING TO LOST SOULS. I SHED TEARS WHEN I SEE PEOPLE GOING NOWHERE.
OUR LOVE FOR JESUS AS A CHURCH IS THE MYSTERY BEHIND WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES TODAY.
EVERY DAY “SAVE THEM” EVERY DAY “RESCUE THEM”. YOU WON’T HEAR “OH LORD BUILD THAT PROJECT” OR “OH LORD GIVE US MONEY” NOT ONCE!
ONE DAY I SAID TO GOD IN OUR COVENANT HOUR OF PRAYER “LORD GIVE ME A THOUSAND SOULS THIS MONTH” AND HE DID. THE NEXT MONTH, HE DID IT AGAIN.
I SAID “NOW GOD WAIT, GIVE ME A THOUSAND SOULS THIS WEEK” AND HE DID AND IT BECAME THE CULTURE.
I KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I WILL GO OUT TO DELIVER THAT AND IT NEVER FAILED. WHAT WAS THE REASON? MY HEART TO SEE THE DYING RESCUED, MY HEART TO SEE THE PERISHING DELIVERED.
IT IS GENUINE! IT IS NOT SO I CAN GET SOMETHING FROM SOMEWHERE.
IF SERVING GOD BROUGHT THIS CHURCH TO THIS LEVEL, SETTLE WITH IT. IF IT BROUGHT YOUR FATHER TO WHERE HE IS TODAY, SETTLE WITH IT
COVENANT UNIVERSITY HAS BECOME A MODEL TODAY NOT ONLY IN NIGERIA BUT AROUND THE WORLD. A MODEL OF SANCTITY, A MODEL OF DEPTH, THINGS NEVER HEARD OF.
WE LIVE IN A GENERATION THAT RESISTS AND DESPISES INSTRUCTIONS. THE QUALITY OF OUR LIVES IS A FUNCTION OF HOW MUCH WE ADAPT TO SCRIPTURAL INSTRUCTIONS
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Day of Open Doors Service || Second Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || 5th February 2023
The Word comes to us in different forms. Among others we have the principles of the Word, the revelation of the Word and the fire of the Word (Jeremiah 20:9). Church Gist. Lord, I want the fire of your word. That one puts you into motion. You can’t access the fire of His word and be docile. The fire of His Word sets you into motion and always culminates into diverse manifestations and encounters. Jeremiah 20:9.
Prayer: Lord grant me access to the fire of your Word that will set me in motion in the direction of your Word in my life. Go ahead and pray. Church Gist. Grant me access to the fire of your Word. In Jesus’ precious name we have prayed.
Lord, we look up to you today, let each one encounter the fire of your Word. Church Gist. Let it refine our lives, keep us in motion for you and bring us to realms of diverse manifestations of your grace and glory in Jesus name.
Again the prophetic focus for the month is GENUINE LOVE FOR GOD MAKES A LIVING WONDER. When we talk about genuine, that means there must be some fake. Everything genuine has its fake. Genuine love for God makes a living wonder. Solomon loved the Lord and he became a living wonder to the world of his days. Until he backed out of grace. All the kings of the earth came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, the boy who never knew the difference between the left hand and the right hand. He became a showcase to the entire world. 1 Kings 3:3. David, a youth with a heart for God emerged a national hero as a teenager. Genuine love for God makes the believer a living wonder. We have been trying to examine how to prove the genuineness of our love in our midweek services so endeavour to be part of it. Church Gist. You can’t be in love and not know but let’s check some biblical proofs of the genuineness of our love for God. You don’t have to pray about the food you love, you just know it. When they set it on the table you smile. “Only God knows those who love Him” is a lie. Everyone that loves God knows that He loves God. 1 Chronicles 29:3. Not that I was gifted, it is my choice to be in love with God’s agenda. Jesus asked Simon Peter “do you love me?” he answered “I love you Lord” not that I am thinking about it or I am praying about it. John 21:15-17. Church Gist. Whether you are in love or not is between you and God. I can’t know it. You should know what is in you. Genuine love for God is ordained to make a living wonder of any believer. Solomon said I don’t have the wisdom required for this task, give me wisdom so I won’t be put to shame. A living wonder. He loved the Lord, he went to validate His love and returned with a package that turned him into a living wonder. Many living wonders will emerge through these prophetic weeks of harvest. You will be dazed by the acts of God in your life.
Obedience: Proof of Our Love
John 14:21. Delightsome obedience is a proof of our love for God. Not trying to censor scriptural instructions. It doesn’t apply to us here, you know we are in Africa”. Wherever the sun shines, God’s word applies. He is the King of all the earth. No truth is regional or racial. Like we were told in the first teaching, living in love makes it simple to obey the laws. When you are in love, whatever He says soothes you. “You don’t know what you are talking about”. He built this Tabernacle in one year without stress, without financial struggles, without begging because He said so and love made you believe it even though it may look like shame or a reproach if it didn’t happen. Church Gist. “I, the God of Wonder Double is visiting you” and in 8 weeks the Church multiplied literally and most of our churches around the world. Because He said so. Obeying God becomes a delight when you are truly in love. What people say doesn’t move you. You are insensitive, you are dead to self and alive to God.
If we love Him, we will love what He loves the most. God’s greatest love on the earth is the salvation of souls. I call it “The Capital Proof of Our Love for God”. The passion to see souls saved and see them established in the faith. He came to seek and save those who are lost. His name shall be called Jesus, He shall save the people from their sins. John 3:16. There were all miracles in the Old Testament, He sent Him for the salvation of souls. Even the dead was raising the dead in the Old Testament. Elisha’s dry bone raised the dead. So it is not about raising the dead that He sent Jesus. Church Gist. So nobody can claim to be in love with God without being a lover of souls. Let’s stop playing games. He asked Peter three times so I call it the capital proof of our love for God. On the prayer altar, you are pumping fire to see people saved and see them established in the faith. Passionate invitation not if you like you can come. No! You must come, something is waiting for you. Passion! It is a capital proof of our love for God. Let’s stop faking it.
When we are truly and genuinely in love, all things keep working for us on their own accord. Lovers are never strugglers. Lovers are always highfliers. Church Gist. Genuine lovers don’t lack testimonies. Therefore from now, your life will never lack testimonies again.
You know some people can’t put the sticker of the Church on their car, they are big boys in town. “How can they see I am going to Church”. You better wake up. Can I tell you what the love of God is worth? There is no human hand in this church! Whether President, Military, Police or Ministers. There is no single human hand behind this Church. Church Gist. God’s hand is much more than all the hands of human beings put together. He stretched forth His hand and brought three million people out of Egypt. You settle with man, you miss God. Abraham said take this nonsense from me, lest you say you made Abraham rich. A covenant child! All this syndrome of ‘who you know is what matters’ that’s why nothing has mattered in your life. Stop that! Those who do know their God shall be strong and they shall do exploits. It is your turn. You will lay hold on jobs you never know where they came from. Just be intoxicated with the love of God and you find all things working together for your good.
Let’s check out on some of the listed wonders that are embedded in our genuine love for God.
First, let us note that everything that works in the kingdom requires the love platform for delivery. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. Everything that works in the kingdom requires love for delivery. Genuine love for God. It is so simple. The just shall live by his faith, it is to every one according to his faith. Faith works by love, whatever works by faith requires love to deliver. Healing works by faith and faith works by love. So healing works by love. Prayer works by faith and faith works by love, so prayer works by love. Church Gist. Everything that works in the kingdom. Through faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Giving works by faith and faith works by love, so giving works by love. 1 Corinthians 13:3. Love is behind the scene of everything that works in the kingdom. So He called it the first and great commencement upon which every other scripture delivers. Matthew 22:36-40. So without the love platform in place, things are bound to fall apart but charity never faileth. Nobody ever fails with sustainable, genuine love for God. You may be challenged but you come out triumphant. You come out gloriously triumphant. If you don’t back out of your love for God, you will end up a living wonder. Everything that works in the kingdom works by love and you can’t love God without knowing. Love is a choice, not a gift. You make a choice and God supplies the grace. You make the choice first.
Paul said for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. He made the choice and God supplied the grace. Woe is me if I preach not the gospel. He made the choice and God supplied the grace. 1 Corinthians 15:10. We make the choice first and then the grace follows. Make the choice and demand for the grace. It will be freely released. Today we have come with our covenant pact as individuals, I hope what you put down is genuinely from your heart. If it is, just simply call for grace and grace will back you up for speedy delivery. 1 John 3:18. There are these lip things that we do and call it love “I love you more than anyone”. Let us not love in words or in tongue but in truth and in deeds. If what you defined there is genuine, God will back it up with grace that will surprise you. One day I said to God in our Covenant Hour of Prayer “Lord give me a thousand souls this month” and He did. The next month, He did it again. I said “Now God wait, give me a thousand souls this week” and He did and it became the culture. I know how many times I will go out to deliver that. It never failed. What was the reason? My heart to see the dying rescued, my heart to see the perishing delivered. Genuine! It is not so I can get something from somewhere. I shed tears ministering to them. I shed tears when I see people go nowhere. Watch! Something unusual is breaking forth in your life this month. If serving God brought your Church to this level, settle with it. If it brought your father to where he is today, settle with it. Church Gist. No fears, no cause for alarm, no ill feelings, no threat, something must break forth in your life. May this season mark the beginning of everything working. With children, with your business, with your health, everything working. You are stepping into that realm right now.
It is also important for us to understand that the subject of love thrives on two major platforms. One leads to the other. There is the Spirit of love – the enabling power of the Spirit of God to keep us in love after we have chosen to love Him. Church Gist. Romans 5:5. He keeps the fire of the love of God alive in us. They call that the Spirit of love (2 Timothy 1:7).
Then we have the revelation of love. Which is the platform upon which love grows. The revelation of love (Ephesians 3:17-21). It is a thing to learn, it is a thing to know, it is a thing to discover. The Spirit of love fires the love of God in our hearts but the revelation of the love of God is what grows our love for God. 1 Corinthians 2:10. The love of God is one of those deep things of God that turns ordinary believers to living wonders. To comprehend, to know the love of God that passes all knowledge. What is in love, there is no research institute on earth that can unravel it. “that you might be filled with all the fullness of God” what! And become another Shedrack in the midst of the fire. Church Gist. Inconsumable, combustible. Become another Daniel in the den of lions, unscratchable! And enjoy unlimited open doors. The Red Sea gave way, the mountains were running. Where are you going? The presence of God, facilitated by the love of God. He that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him. 1 John 4:16. There is no fear in such love. It is unravelable. It is far beyond anything that any human mind can contain. Our love for Jesus as a church is the mystery behind where we find ourselves today. Every day “save them” every day “rescue them”. You won’t hear “Oh Lord build that project” or “Oh Lord give us money” not once! When you think we had no money we didn’t pray like that. Not once yet we have not lacked. My prayer is that the mystery of His love will start ruling your life from now.
Very quickly, five things that the love of God brings our way that turns us to amazement among men.
- Genuine love for God enhances our access to revelation.
What is in revelation? John 15:15. Let’s recognize that our inheritance is only accessible by revelation. Acts 20:32. We stand to be robbed of our inheritance in Christ without revelation. Church Gist. We need the love of God to access the deep things of God. 2 Peter 1:3. So we can’t access our inheritance without revelation and we are limited in access to revelation without the love of God. - Genuine love for God empowers believers to walk in dominion.
We are talking about being clothed by God. You dwell in love, God dwells in you. As you grow in love you are filled with all the fullness of God whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. You can’t be filled with God and be stoppable by any devil. You can’t be filled with God and live in fear. You can’t be filled with God and suffer defeat. So the stronger or hotter our love for God is, the greater our dominion on the earth. God came down in the midst of Israel and the sea saw them and fled. You get to a point that the things that used to trouble you begin to tremble at your instance. Church Gist. You appear and they tremble. They tremble because you are filled with His presence. You are filled with the fullness of God. That is the realm by which the Church will be ruling and reigning in the midst of her enemies because the enemy can’t stand them. The enemies cannot stand them. As we grow in love, everything we used to fear will start fearing us. He is called the Omnipotent God. No one can challenge His power or His authority. If you are filled with His fullness, then your dominion is established. In the name of Jesus, may this year mark the beginning of an ever-growing love for God in your life. May it take off from these prophetic weeks of harvest. May these twelve weeks become a turning point in your life. When you wake up in the morning, God! In the afternoon, God. In the evening God. At all times God.
I have passed through the shadow of death quite a number of times but interestingly there was no flicker of fear. Not even in a potential air crash there was no flicker of fear. When one of the engines in the plane failed, there was no flicker of fear. Perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torments. It is only the things you fear that befall you. Only things believers fear befalls them. Only the things we fear befall us. Job 3:24-25. Perfect love for God is the cure for all fears. 1 John 4:18. There were eight of us on the plane going to Kano and suddenly the plane was slowing down. I said what’s that about because they don’t park in the air. Church Gist. What’s going on? They said we just lost one engine. I said Relax. I am not an aviation engineer but relax. There is somebody on board, His name is Jesus. He can’t crash. So I came down and asked the other people will you like to have some snacks? They had no idea that any engine failed. Lest they start jumping up. We were eating snacks on the head of the devil. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I shall fear no evil, why? I am in love. Church Gist. It casts out all fear and it establishes all dominion. When our last daughter was dying, I was in my office and I smiled on my chair. I said, “Jesus there must be a way out”. Is that the way to respond to death knocking on the door? In a moment, four arrows came from heaven through scriptures. That silenced the harassment of death. Fear has one irresistible cure – perfect love for God. Perfect love for God will set you on the path of victory again and again forever and ever. Those boys were not afraid of the fiery furnace, they were in perfect love. Perfect love does not fear death, death fears love. No one shall die young here anymore. Anyone under the siege of untimely death, I command your instant healing and deliverance.
- Genuine love for God drives us to share the good news with others.
We saw that example in Paul, a tireless, selfless and passionate soul winner. He did that till the end of his time. (1.) He chose to (2.) He called for help to keep doing it. He called for grace to remain steadfast. 1 Corinthians 9:16-17,20, 15:10. He recognized the place of grace in His stewardship. Acts 26:22. 2 Timothy 4:5-8. You find your choice and the supply of His help. Can I give you this humour? If for instance, they promise you a million dollars for twelve souls, they say you can deliver at any time. Do you know how many will clear it this week? You will ask them if you can get more than twelve. They say yes! Any number of twelve you get. Some will get 144 this week. If they say he is sick, he will say I am not sick. Church Gist. He will get it for material things but watch my friend, you sow to the spirit you reap life everlasting. That is heaven on earth in terms of peace, joy, protection, supply, defence. You sow to the spirit and reap life everlasting, heaven on earth kind of life where war ceases. All round rest. It can’t be quantified with money. Wake up. Let’s have a renewed value for spiritual things and watch how things will start happening in our lives.
I have never heard a gunshot that I jittered. Maybe they are killing some rats somewhere. How can you point a gun at me and it will answer? Church Gist. Somebody’s story is changing oh.
- May these 12 weeks not leave you where they met you.
- May you create room for God to change your story like He promised.
- May it mark the end of ups and downs in your life.
You have struggled enough, God says let me take over. As God takes over your struggles will end forever.
Psalm 119:46. People won’t share the good news because they are ashamed. They are ashamed of what others will say. If you are ashamed of me I will be ashamed of you. That is what God said. Mark 8:38. Let us, therefore, go outside the gate bearing His reproach so He can roll away our reproach. He that winneth souls are wise. The wise shall inherit glory. Do you want shame? Go out, my friend. They find me in the rice market, on the streets with tipper garage people, with area boys and area men. I am enjoying myself. You go out there bearing His reproach, He rolls away your reproach because the wise shall inherit glory. They that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever. It is your turn for a change of story. Church Gist. You can’t love God and not love souls. You can’t love God and not despise the shame that may come along. Do you know why she is going about saying Jesus loves you? It is because she doesn’t have children. She got pregnant that same month. They were harassing her in her neighbourhood. She doesn’t speak one word of English. Yeye! If you have children, will you be doing that? She got her first daughter after 50. Jesus said you went out to bear my reproach? I will roll away your reproach. In the same vein, everybody here that cares to go out bearing His reproach, He will roll away your reproach.
I have never been in suit when going out. It may scare them. So I wear what they wear so I can reach them. I speak their language so they can listen. Becoming all things to all men so you can win some of them. I am not doing that officially, I am on a spiritual mission. Church Gist. Somebody’s story is changing. If you love Him you won’t care how people talk about Him. How they cast aspersion on Him. The reproach of them that reproached thee has fallen on me. The zeal of thy house has consumed me. When the zeal consumes you, you don’t mind the reproaches of men. Psalm 69:9.
- Genuine love for God enhances our access to wisdom from above.
Romans 11:33. This all-wise God, this omniscient God, you enjoy partnership with Him when you are in love demonstrated by your untiring service. You are walking with Him. You are in Him by love, you are walking with Him by service. Matthew 28:18-20. Mark 16:15. Luke 10:1-9. You can’t be walking with the only wise God and not be wise. Proverbs 13:20. The more active we are in service, the wiser we become in life. Church Gist. The more actively we engage with Him in the harvest field, the wiser we become by the day. Paul was a big wit in the early Church, why? He was actively walking with God in the field of soul-winning. So he gets wiser than the others. Peter confessed that this man’s wisdom is beyond what they know. 2 Peter 3:15. So walking with Jesus makes us wise.
Can I tell you this with all humility? The master plan of this place was delivered to me by God without any reference to topography and it fits in there. He reveals deep things. Walking with Jesus entitles you to unusual insights. Church Gist. Covenant has become a model today not only in Nigeria but around the world. A model of sanctity, a model of depth, things never heard of. Walking with Jesus makes smart. Watch certain lights will come your way this year that will turn your business several thousands above where you can imagine. Open up your career to new vistas, change your spiritual level forever by actively walking with Jesus. It is your turn at last.
Lift up your right hand and give God thanks for the word. It is the dawning of a new day. The days of failures, struggles and frustration are finally over. Church Gist. The answers are finally here. Celebrate God from the depth of your heart.
—— ALTAR CALL ———-
Now listen to this! Can any door be shut against God? The Bible says when you are in love, you dwell in God and God in you. Can any door be shut against you anymore? As you keep dwelling in love, every door keeps opening to you on their own accord. Church Gist. Take note of this. Psalm 24:7. No everlasting gate can be shut against God. As you grow in love you are filled with His fullness and every everlasting gate lifts for you.
- Therefore, every everlasting gate and door that may have been shut against you over the years is declared open today.
- All long-lasting generational curses that are ravaging anyone’s life under the sound of my voice, as you step into your new love walk with God I declare them finally open.
- The siege over your family is finally over.
- The siege over your children is finally over.
- The siege over your health is finally over.
So the answer to an adventure of open doors is staying in love with God. You carry His manifest presence. Church Gist. He said I will manifest myself to you and Jesus is the one that holds the Key of David, He opens and no one shuts. Revelation 3:7. - So today is declared your day of open doors.
- You will be receiving open doors order of testimonies from after this service.
- That burden of indebtedness is lifted off your life.
- That weight of having no job as a contractor, no supplies as a supplier, unending search for gainful employment, all those doors are declared open today.
- You will testify.
Also today we have that covenant pact where we define our covenant number of souls for these prophetic weeks of harvest. What that does is to secure your active partnership with God because everyone on His mission enjoys His companionship. He always goes with him. Matthew 28:20. Ephesians 3:21. So this is a selling point all through ages. You can’t be in love at a loss. I have proved it and I have found it so. You can’t be in love with God at a loss. Nobody ever gets to be in love with God at a loss and serving God is a proof of your love for Him. Church Gist. Serving His utmost interest in pursuit after souls, on the prayer altar, in going about, in offering invitations whichever way, your engagement will secure for you and me the active partnership of Jesus which will always make a difference. It makes you sharper, wiser, more intelligent and wiser by the day. It puts you in command of the affairs of life. They see Jesus in you, not just you, not just me, Jesus. It is your turn at last.
- May every blessing that accrues to those serving God genuinely begin to manifest in our lives.
If they obey… so it is a choice. Joshua said as for me and my household we will serve the Lord. Church Gist. He said choose ye this day. For everyone who has made that choice to engage with God in this prophetic weeks of harvest: - Watch! you never beg for bread and water again.
- Your seed after you will never beg for bread.
- He will take sickness away from you
- You shall not cast your young or be barren in the land.
- The number of your days, He will fulfil.
- No one engages during this prophetic season and has his life cut short.
- I decree your package of a good old age in return.
We live in a generation that resists and despises instructions. I should have my say. Nobody can just be telling me anything. When it is from the word of God, what you are saying is God you can’t be telling me anything. That’s my opinion too. That’s arrogance, that’s pride. Take fast hold of instructions. Let her not go. Keep her for she is thy life. The quality of our lives is a function of how much we adapt to scriptural instructions. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. If you observe to do all, not some. I will set you above all the nations of the earth. It hasn’t changed. Enjoy instructions, they are the highway to your distinctions. Every scripturally based instruction is to add value to our lives. Daniel 12:3. Turning people to righteousness makes stars. You don’t have to pray for it, you don’t have to cry for it. May this season mark a new dawn in everyone’s life. As long as your engagement is love motivated, the return is eternally guaranteed. As long as your engagement is love-motivated, not things motivated, the results will be enviable.
Men of prompt response make the most of their walk with God. Grace to respond promptly as this operation flags off tomorrow, receive it now in the name of Jesus. Grace to draw your operation schedule and to keep to it, receive it now in the name of Jesus. Grace to remain love motivated, receive it now in the name of Jesus. Grace to despise the mockeries of me, receive it now in the name of Jesus. In most cases, mockery always precedes glory. They spat on Jesus’ face before he was given a name above all names. In the name of Jesus, grace to despise the mockeries, the gainsaying of people around you, receive it now in the name of Jesus. I pray for divine speed, that your targeted souls will be delivered with the speed of light. Church Gist. I pray for divine direction to locate the souls wherever they may be. I pray for new fire on everybody’s prayer altar. Receive the new fire today. Every week of this operation shall be loaded with testimonies. Testimonies of supernatural manifestation, miracle jobs, miracle conceptions, miracle marriages.
As the Lord lives, on or before April 30th this Church and all our churches under this commission shall be a minimum of four times where we are today. By July 26th, this church became double. Church Gist. From the 8th of June to July 2026, we are going to see wonders again this year. It shall be awesome. Not only that, he will change your story. The star in you will emerge. He will turn you into a wonder among men. So shall it be.
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