SUCCESS IS NOT ACCIDENTAL, NO ONE SUCCEEDS BY ACCIDENT OR BY CHANCE!
LUCK IS THE EXCUSE OF FAILURES.
IT IS INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE EMBRACED FAILURE AND MEDIOCRITY THAT EXPLAINS SUCCESS AS LUCK.
FAILURE OR MEDIOCRITY HAS NO PLACE AMONG KINGDOM ENTITIES
THE ORDINATION OF GOD IS FOR THE ENDTIME CHURCH TO BE AN EXHIBITION OF HIS GLORY
INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL BE GENERATIONAL SHAKERS WILL BE EMERGING FROM THE CHURCH OF CHRIST!
MANY WANT TO ‘JAPA’ THINKING THEY ARE SALVAGING DESTINY BUT THEY ARE DAMAGING DESTINY.
NOT EVERY OPEN DOOR IS GOD’s DOOR, SOME ARE TRAPS IN DISGUISE.
UNTIL WE ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT, WE CANNOT LEAD IN OUR WORLD.
LIFE IS A WILDLIFE PARK, THERE ARE DANGERS LURKING IN EVERY CORNER!
IF GOD IS LEADING YOU, EVEN IN THE DESERT YOU CANNOT SUFFER!
IF SUCCESS MUST BE A REALITY, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IS A NECESSITY
TOMORROW WILL NOT BE DIFFERENT FROM TODAY IF SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS NOT DONE TODAY FOR TOMORROW
DISCIPLINE IS THE CAPACITY THAT RESTRAIN DESIRES AND DELAY GRATIFICATION
IT IS NOT EVERYTHING THAT IS AVAILABLE THAT IS NECESSARY.
TIME IS A CURRENCY, YOU CAN SPEND IT OR YOU CAN INVEST IT!
DISCIPLINE IS THE CONTROL VALVE OF DESTINY
MAN’s MIND IS LIFE’s FACTORY
YOUTHS! YOU CAN’T SPEND THE WHOLE DAY WATCHING SERIES/NETFLIX!
SPEAK RIGHT AND THINGS WILL GO RIGHT!
EVIL ASSOCIATION DAMAGES GOOD DESTINIES!
NOTHING WORKS WITHOUT SOMEONE WORKING!
THOSE WHO ARE NOT READY TO WORK WILL NOT SEE THINGS WORK.
YOU CANNOT DISSOCIATE DILIGENCE FROM EXCELLENCE IN DESTINY!
IT TAKES A GREAT STRETCH TO REACH GREAT HEIGHTS!
SUCCESS REQUIRES INCONVENIENCE TO PRESS TO THE PLACE GOD HAS ORDAINED FOR YOU!
NO MAN’s DISCRIMINATION CAN BE A LIMITATION WHEN YOU ENGAGE THE COVENANT KEYS!
-Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr “HOUR OF VISITATION” || SHILOH 2022 || COVENANT HIGHWAYS || December 9th 2022 || Day 4, Morning Session
Shall we lift our hands to Heaven this morning and let’s give glory to God. One more time from the depth of our heart for the privilege and the blessing of being in His Presence this morning! Lord, I have come today to give thanks and praise to Your Name! Church Gist. Thank you for all that You have done, for all that You are doing and for all that You are set to do!
Accept our thanksgiving! Blessed be Your Name, in Jesus’ Precious Name we have prayed! Amen! Church Gist. Lord Jesus! We thank You for the privilege that You have given us this morning on this fourth day, here at Shiloh. We ask that You will send us Light. Let Your Word transform each one of our lives! Open our eyes to the tables of the covenant in the Precious Name of Jesus Christ!
Shiloh 2022! Covenant Highways and Covenant Highways! Shiloh 2022!
I want to thank God this morning for the privilege granted to me to stand on this altar this morning. I want to also thank God for my father, the Apostle over this Commission, Bishop David Oyedepo whom God has used to shape me in every way- Shape and form! The truth is this, I am a product of his instructions and a product of his examples. Church Gist. And I believe God that whatever that God has used him to do and deposit in my life a few of those God will release in our direction.
This morning, my assignment is on the ‘COVENANT OF SUCCESS’
-Somebody here is emerging as a super success! Somebody in Shiloh 2022 is emerging as a super success!
Now, success is the heritage of every child of God! Deuteronomy 28:13, It said, ‘You shall be above only! And not beneath!’ This means that as far as God is concerned, failure or mediocrity has no place among Kingdom entities Isaiah 60:22. Church Gist. Infact, the End time Church is ordained to succeed where the previous generation failed Isaiah 61:4. I have good news for somebody hearing me this morning, where others failed, you will succeed!
And that is because, the ordination of God is for the Endtime Church to be an exhibition of His Glory! 1 Peter 2:9. So everyone that is a child of God is ordained to be a wonder to the world. For someone hearing me this morning, you are emerging from Shiloh as a wonder to your world. And like we have been told by prophecy, the End time Church is a Church of giants- That means, men and women of renown! Church Gist. In Psalm 87:5-7, we have the pictures painted so clearly that this and that man was born in her and the Highest Himself shall establish her. It means that the names of people in these last days- Individuals that will be generational shakers will be emerging from the Church of Christ!
-And I believe that there are such individuals represented here this morning, if you believe that you are one of them, say a louder Amen!
Success is not accidental, no one succeeds by accident, no one succeeds by chance! Hear this and hear it very well, Luck is the excuse of failures it is individuals that have embraced failure and mediocrity that explains success as luck. Everyone that is enjoying success in the Kingdom is complying with specific covenant demands. Church Gist. And that is why it becomes important for us to position appropriately in order to align with the demands of the covenant that are behind God’s success plan that is ordained for the End time Church. And that’s going to be our focus in this teaching this morning!
What are the demands of the covenant of success?
And we are going to be extracting this from the book of Ecclesiastes 10, we read a few verses from verse five to ten and also from verse fifteen to eighteen.
So all of the errors that are described are the product of breaking of the hedge- Breaking of certain specific covenants Ecclesiastes 10:10 and Ecclesiastes 10:15-18. Church Gist. From these passages of the scriptures, we are going to be extracting the details of the covenant of success.
What are the details of that covenant?
1.Direction. He said, ‘Wisdom is profitable to direct’! Success commences from the foundation of direction. When one goes as led by God, he is bound to stand out in life Isaiah 48:17 and 21. The key to standing out is being led by God. When God is the one directing your steps, you end up as an individual on the cusp of success. So success occurs for you and I at the instance of direction.
And that is why the Word of God tells us in Proverbs 3:5-6, ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart… So direction is our heritage in redemption and it is the pathway to experiencing the success that God has ordained for us! Church Gist. If you look at the Scriptures in the Book of Romans 8:19, it says, ‘The earnest expectations of the creation waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God! So the world is waiting for the sons of God to manifest!
Is somebody here going to manifest? Say with me, I’ll manifest! Say it louder!
But what is the prerequisite for these manifestations of the sons of God?
Romans 8:14, For as many that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God’! So, it is the leading of the Spirit that brings about the manifestations of the sons! Church Gist. Until we are led by the Spirit, we cannot lead in our world. For anyone to emerge as a success in this Kingdom, there is a demand for direction from the Spirit of God.
And this is so vital and so critical because not every open door is God’s door, many of them are traps in disguise. So many people are jumping into opportunities and damaging destinies. Church Gist. It is not every door that opens that is God’s door. This is so important and this is so vital. And we must recognise that! And this is one of the safeguards that will protect us in the journey of life.
God’s servant, our father has said over the years that, ‘Life is a wildlife park there are dangers lurking in every corner’! And that is why we need the guidance of the Spirit 1 Corinthians 2:9, John 16:12-13. So, don’t jump at every opportunity so as not to damage destiny! Follow the leading of the Spirit of God! This is a critical demand for success! Church Gist. There are so many great destinies that have been written off into mediocrity and failure because of absence of connectivity to divine direction. This is a critical demand!
-I pray that for all of us upon this Mountain of Shiloh, our spiritual ears and eyes would be opened afresh!
It is important that we are reminded that it is those who can hear what others cannot hear and those that can see what others cannot see that can stand where others cannot stand. Church Gist. And it is the direction of God that provokes the elevation of man. In this part of the world, for example here in Nigeria, you will discover that there is a movement many of us who are youths know that they call it, ‘Japa’- People running out of the country anyhow thinking that they are salvaging destiny but for many, they are damaging destiny.
Individuals who should be high flyers and kings are now found in low places. Individuals who should be princes riding on horses, they are now walking on foot as servants- Destinies written off! Because running in seemingly open doors that end up damaging destinies. Please, hear me and hear me well, if God is leading you, even in the desert you cannot suffer! It doesn’t matter what the terrain looks like. The terrain is not what defines your experience.
He said, ‘They thirsteth not when He led them through the desert’! Church Gist. The number one risk through the desert is thirst because you will always find yourself vulnerable to overheating and dehydration. But He said, when God was the one leading, the condition was not their personal situation, because He was the one guiding them. For somebody here today, by the encounter you are having this morning, the God of this Commission will begin to guide your steps!
2.The ‘know-how’. We see this in verse fifteen of Ecclesiastes 10, he doesn’t have the know-how’ to go to the city! The know-how here represents the working knowledge or the skill for a thing. It is important for us to understand that we must cultivate our capacity by commitment to development. Church Gist. If anyone will be a success, they must cultivate the capacity, the potential within them to make themselves candidates for the success that God has ordained for them.
We look at two examples from the Scriptures: Church Gist. First of all, the examples of Jesus. In the book of Luke 2:40, the Bible says, ‘And the Child grew and He waxed strong in the Spirit…’ Jesus didn’t come to the earth as a full grown man and He didn’t come to the earth with full blown capacity. He came in seed form, He came as a child and He grew into what God has ordained Him for.
There is a demand for development, there is a demand for building the know-how in any area of endeavor where God has sent you. The Bible tells us in the second example here, the example of David. Look at what the Bible tells us about David Psalm 78:70-7. Capacity! Developing capacity! Church Gist. We must understand that if success would be a reality then capacity development is a necessity! Developing our potentials! Cultivating the know-how! It is a critical demand for success!
God’s servant our father shared this story many times. Church Gist. He said he discovered that he was weak as a young boy with communication, and so he took time off and began to read and document things of various writers! Just trying to sharpen his communication skills over one holiday season.
By the time he returns back to school, communication has changed levels. You see, the truth is that, the tomorrow that everyone is expecting requires that there are preparations going on today! Please hear this, tomorrow will not be different from today if something different is not done for tomorrow today! This is so important! Church Gist. Everyone who can see tomorrow, does something with that tomorrow today!
It is the preparation of today that becomes the creation of tomorrow. This is so important, so there must be a cultivation of capacity by developing know-how. That requires that we are reading all that is required- Necessary materials from proven authors that will help us in the areas of our need.
That requires that we are examining ourselves- Discovering whatever gaps that may exist in our current development in order to ensure that we are moving from one level to another. The Bible says, ‘Let us examine ourselves to see we are in Faith… 1 Corinthians 13:5. So, there is a requirement for each one of us to examine ourselves. Church Gist. We are also told in 2 Timothy 2:15. Church Gist. Study to show yourself approved! If you are going to have proofs, then you must commit yourself to studying! Developing yourself! Cultivating the know-how.
3.Discipline. Now, in that same Ecclesiastes 10:16 and 17. You see, the covenant of success demands that you and I should adhere to the way of discipline. What is discipline? It is being able to distinguish between the lawful and the expedient 1 Corinthians 10:23. It is not everything that is available that is necessary.
We must be able to distinguish between the lawful and the expedient. We must be able to distinguish the one that is available and the one that is necessarily obtainable! This is critical! It is being able to distinguish this that positions you and I for success! What is discipline? It is the capacity to restrain desires! And delay gratification! 1 Corinthians 6:12. All things are lawful but I would not be brought under the power of any!
Not being enslaved by anything! You must know and I must know how to restrain desires and delayed gratification! That is discipline! God’s servant our father said over the years that discipline is the control valve of destiny! How great a destiny becomes is defined by how disciplined that life has become. And discipline covers various areas of life!
I give us a few of them:
- You must discipline time! Time is a resource of equal availability. It is the currency of the Spirit, available to everyone of us but it requires wise allocation to provoke right manifestations! Wise allocation! Church Gist. Psalm 90;12, Teach us to number our days… Time is a currency, you can spend it or you can invest it! Investing time creates greatness in destiny but spending time depletes greatness in destiny! Time!
We must be disciplined in our time! For youths that are here, you can’t spend the whole day watching a series. You find out that you are sitting down there one hour, two hours, three hours and four hours! Watching a series! Sitting down on Netflix from morning till night! Your data finished, you bought more with the money you don’t have. Church Gist. That is the lack of discipline of time! Discipline time!
- Discipline taste. Your taste must be appropriately disciplined Proverb 23:2. There are some people that, it’s everything that they like, not everything good for you tomorrow is good for you today! Like your level and God will change your level! This is so important! Like it! Discipline taste!
- Discipline thoughts. Not every thought is permissible! That is why we are told we must guard our hearts with all diligence because out of it are the issues of life! The thoughts of a man are the product of that man tomorrow! Infact put it this way, man’s mind is life’s factory! Whatever comes out of the mind is what ultimately comes out of life! Discipline thoughts! That is why the Word of God gave us a syllabus for thinking! Philippians 4:2. And He asks us to cast down whatever that is contrary to His syllabus of thinking! 1 Corinthians 10:5. Church Gist. Casting down imaginations! This is so important! Discipline thoughts!
I remember as a student in school, you find out that there are people who are in class, they sit down in class and you find out that their hand is on the paper and their pen is in their hands and then they are looking at the teacher but after a while, the eyes are still open but the mind has travelled because the thought cannot be disciplined and it is so even in Church.
It is not everybody carrying a pen and writing is writing what is being taught. Some are writing their names forward, spelling it backwards! Writing it upward, writing it downward! Church Gist. Just carrying out documentation of experiments of no positive consequence. And at the end of the day, what is the problem? The thoughts are no longer disciplined.
But I pray for someone today, that every captivity of the mind be shattered in the name of Jesus!
The fourth thing with discipline is disciplined talk. Not every word is sayable! 1 Peter 3:10. If it is success that is expected, then it should be success that is declared! Speak right and things will go right! Discipline talk! Discipline your treasure! So many people are frivolous. The Bible says in the Book of Proverbs 10:4. Church Gist. Discipline your treasure! This is so important! The Word of God tells us that there is treasure and oil to be desired in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it all!
Some years ago, I heard our father, God’s servant, share with us. He said, someone came to him, entered into the office and began to explain to him how she needed capital to start her business. And she looked at her, gold everywhere! And he said to her, ‘You are wearing your capital’! Your capital is on you now! You are wearing your capital! Because of a lack of discipline in terms of the treasure that God has put in her hands!
4.You must discipline your team or your association. Proverbs 13:20, 1 Corinthians 1:33 …Evil communication corrupts good manners! Church Gist. Put it this way, evil association damages good destinies but I see rescue coming for somebody today! So, there is the covenant demand of discipline.
5.Diligence. If you look at verse eighteen of that Scripture, it says, through slothfulness, the building decays Ecclesiastes 10:18. The house in that Scripture can be described as destiny! Nothing works without someone working! Proverbs 22:29. Church Gist. So there is a demand for diligence if anyone is going to experience excellence in the journey of life! You cannot dissociate diligence from excellence in destiny! Diligence is a vital necessity! We live in the days and age now, where the world is selling the illusion of success without labour.
It is an illusion that is marketed widely in the world. We hear things like, ‘How to make money without working’! ‘How to become a millionaire with only one hour of labour’. Everybody is looking for how to have a shortcut to a great height! It doesn’t work. Church Gist. Those who are not ready to work will not see things work. It takes labour for anyone to ascend great heights!
-I see grace coming upon us for labour in the Name of Jesus Christ!
Every child of God is created for work! So refusal to work is a malfunction of destiny! Ephesians 2:10. Church Gist. Because of the desire to escape from work, you find many people today falling for Ponzi schemes, going into frauds and going into all manner of things to escape the channel of work! But today is a day of rescue!
- Finally, is sacrifice! No one can ascend great heights without a great stretch! In Luke 12:49-60, it said that I have come to set fire upon the earth, and what will I? If it is already kindled… It takes a great stretch to reach great heights! Stretching here means going beyond your best! No one can succeed from the place of convenience! Church Gist. Success requires inconvenience to press to the place God has ordained for you! If you look at Jesus- The pattern that He left for us was an example of stretching! And out of that stretch came the full manifestations of His destiny!
I close with this story, we are told of the story of a man, James Owen. He was a track and field athlete and he asked the coach what it takes to be a success and to become the best. And the coach gave him four keys: Determination, dedication, discipline and sacrifice. By engaging those four keys, he won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in Germany, 1936. That Olympics was held in Germany. James Owen was a black man and Adolf Hitler hated every other race but had to give him the medal because he had given the keys required to ensure his success.
Please hear this, no man’s discrimination can be a limitation when you engage the covenant keys that are being put in your hands.
-From today, I see your success becoming a reality!
Rise on your feet with me! Lift your hand to Heaven! Church Gist. Lord I receive grace to put these keys to work. Thank you Father in Jesus Precious Name we have prayed. I see each of our stars rising from Shiloh 2022, in the Name of Jesus!
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