WHATEVER IS CONTRARY TO THE REDEMPTIVE HERITAGE IN ANYONE’S LIFE IN THIS PLACE SHALL BE TURNED AROUND FOR A TESTIMONY TONIGHT
GOD ALWAYS RESERVES HIS BEST FOR THE LAST. THE LAST DAY IS EVERYBODY’S DAY
WHEN I WENT WITH A THIRST FOR AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD AT WORK IN HAGIN, MY FOCUS WAS INTENSE AND GOD FIRED THAT SPIRIT INTO ME
WE ARE CALLED TO CONTEND FOR THAT SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS
THE SPIRIT OF FAITH EMPOWERS THE REDEEMED TO BELIEVE ALL THINGS
OUR UNBELIEF IS THE ONLY PROBLEM GOD HAS CONCERNING HIS WORD
YOU CAN’T BELIEVE ALL THINGS AND NOT BE IN COMMAND OF ALL THINGS
ONE OF THE SUBTLE WAYS OF THE devil TO ATTACK YOUR FAITH IS THROUGH UNSPIRITUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BIBLE
THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE IS THE TRUTH DELIVERED THAT HAS DELIVERED AMAZING RESULTS
FAITH WILL BE THE TARGET OF ATTACK BY THE devil IN THESE LAST DAYS
YOU CAN’T BE FEEDING ON DILUTED WORD AND HAVE CONCENTRATED FAITH
WHEN OUR FAITH IS UNDER ARREST, WE ARE OUT OF THE RACE. IT TAKES FAITH TO RULE IN THE MIDST OF THE ENEMIES
RHEMA WILL ALWAYS FIRE INTO ANY INDIVIDUAL THE SPIRIT OF FAITH. BEHIND EVERY SCRIPTURE IS THE VOICE OF GOD
YOU NEED THE SPIRIT OF FAITH TO STRENGTHEN YOU ABOVE ALL DOUBTS, FEARS, KEEP YOU STABLE AT ALL TIMES
THE SPIRIT OF GOD AT WORK IN THE LIFE OF A MAN CAN REACH OUT TO MANY OTHERS AT THE SAME TIME
AMONG YOUTHS CONFIDENCE IS NOW BUILT IN STRENGTH, IN SKILL, IN CAPACITY, IN EXPOSURE AND IN PROFESSION.
CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH IS A DESTROYER. SELF CONFIDENCE IS A TRAP OF THE DEVIL.
YOU DO NOT NEED SELF-ESTEEM FOR ANYTHING. NO ONE’S FAITH WILL DELIVER BEYOND HIS CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
WHATEVER GOD SAYS, NO FORCE FROM HELL CAN ‘UNSAY’.
I HAVE MET SOMEBODY WHO SAID HE HAS READ THE BIBLE THROUGH THREE TIMES AND THERE WAS NO REFLECTION ON HIS LIFE.
IT IS NOT BY READING THROUGH, IT IS WHAT ENTERS YOU. THE ENTRANCE OF THE WORD GIVES LIGHT
THE WORLD NEVER KNEW WE EXISTED UNTIL WE GOT TO THE FOREST
GOD VISITED ME AND TOLD ME WHEN KENNETH HAGIN WAS ABOUT TO GO TO HEAVEN
DEAD FAITH CAN’T PRODUCE LIVING RESULTS
WE GOT OUR FIRST AIRCRAFT 6 MONTHS AFTER HEARING FROM GOD AND TAKING JUST ONE OFFERING
THE SPIRIT OF FAITH PUTS BELIEVERS ON AUTO FREQUENCY WITH CAPACITY TO RESPOND SPONTANEOUSLY TO THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE
TO ACCEPT THE SPIRIT OF FAITH, ONE MUST IDENTIFY A CARRIER. IF YOU WANT ANYTHING, FIND OUT WHERE IT’S AVAILABLE
YOU CAN’T ACCESS THE INHERITANCE OF A FAMILY TO WHICH YOU DON’T BELONG
EVERYTHING SPIRITUAL FEEDS ON THE WORD TO STAY ALIVE
– Bishop David Oyedepo on “COVENANT PATHWAYS TO RECEIVING THE IMPARTATIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF FAITH” || EYAC 2023 – A Chosen Generation || Day 3 Evening Session || Youth Chapel, Canaanland, Ota.
John 7:37. The last day is everybody’s day. He always reserves His best for the last. The last day is everybody’s day.
– Whatever area of anyone’s life that is contrary to being the chosen brand, Jesus will turn it around tonight!
Because, every child of God is a Chosen brand in his generation. Church Gist. So, whatever is contrary to that redemptive heritage about anyone’s life in this place shall be turned around for a testimony tonight. “Lord, I’m set for my portion in this last hour”.
When I went with a thirst for an encounter with the spirit of God at work in Hagin, I didn’t know who sat next by me either on the right or on the left. My focus was intense and God fired that spirit into me. Church Gist. If you see me, no casual engagement, when I’m caught up. It shall be yours. As I stayed glued to that altar, I saw with my eyes, His face was turned to that of a little baby and I saw oil dripping down from His head, down to His cheeks and something electric was fired into me, and God said, “my son, David, the baton has been passed over to you’.
– There are quite many people here tonight who will return home with a baton. Church Gist. That equals transference of grace; that equals the same spirit at work. Tonight, is your night.
– Grace to stay focused, not to miss the catch up moment in this awesome memorable night.
– “Lord make this night a night of nights in my life. Engrace me with the discipline of absolute focus this hour”. Go ahead and pray.
—Prayers
– Lord Jesus, grant everyone tonight the desires of each one’s heart.
– let every thirsty soul return with the quenching of their thirst, in the name of Jesus.
– thank You for the amazing revelations all through this conference across board. Thank you for the Word in season. Thank you for the right Word; thank you for the sent Word. Yes, we are sure or harvest of testimonies from every session, in the name of Jesus.
– give the Lord the biggest hand or praise.
By His Grace, I shall be ministering to you tonight on the Call of My Mandate. Church Gist. In that glorious vision, a truly Heavenly vision, I saw pass before me an array of battered, broken, beaten, deformed men and women fly past me and weeping and wailing and groaning for rescue. The groaning was so intense that I began to cry, “why Lord?” I saw them in agony. Church Gist. “Why Lord?” And He said, “but from the beginning, it was not so and now the hour has come to liberate the world from all oppressions of the devil through the ministry of the Word of Faith and I will send the youths to undertake this task”.
Tonight, I will be taking us on the journey, “Covenant Pathways to Receiving the Impartations of the Spirit of Faith”.
– everyone set under the sound of my voice around the world tonight, you will have your share!
2 Corinthians 4:13. We are called to contend for that same spirit (of Faith) that was once delivered to the saints. Jude 1:3. Luke 1:17. Church Gist. The same spirit, from generation to generation, having the same effect, command the same order of results. When Elisha returned from that adventure with Elijah, the Bible said, the people marveled saying ‘the spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha’. Same spirit and produced exactly double what Elijah experienced.
Among other things, the Spirit of Faith empowers the Redeemed to believe all things. Church Gist. God has no problems bringing His work to pass in our lives, He only has problems with our unbelief. Our unbelief is the only problem God has concerning His Word. Acts 24:14. Church Gist. And, It was Paul who said, we having the same spirit of Faith. So it empowers people to believe all things. It destroys the seed of unbelief in a man’s life. Philippians 4:13. You can’t believe all things and not be in command of all things.
This spirit is the same for all generations. Psalm 145:4. They call it the Spirit of Just men made perfect. They just move from one generation to another into the lives of those who opened up to receive them. Hebrews 12:23. Church Gist. The Spirit of God at work in the life of a man can reach out to many others at the same time. Numbers 11:16-25; Philippians 1:7.
Why do we need the Spirit of Faith?
Faith will be the target of attack by the devil in these last days. You know it’s a very subtle personality. Genesis 3:1; 2 Corinthians 11:3. He’s a most subtle person. He knows that without faith, God’s end time agenda will not deliver so he goes for what will make it to deliver. When your weapon is captured, you become a war prisoner – can’t perform, your weapon is seized. Luke 18:8. So faith will be the number one target of the devil to capture. Luke 22:31-32. Church Gist. Can I tell you one of the subtle ways he is going? There are diverse unspiritual interpretations of the Bible today that waters down most of the vitals of Scriptures. Most interpreters are not born again. They don’t have the Holy Ghost. The Bible is delivered by the Holy Ghost moving inside men. There was a verse I read some times from one translation – zero, over diluted. Be careful! They have changed righteousness now to behaviour. The place of the blood has been substituted for something else. You can’t be feeding on diluted Word and have concentrated faith. This one (referring to his Bible) is the truth delivered that has delivered amazing results across the nations of the Earth. Be careful what you do with various translations. Church Gist. They will justify your dirty living to establish your place in hell. Jeremiah 6:16. He’s not coming gbuu (directly), “I want your faith.” He goes behind, comes through the windows. So we need the Spirit of Faith to discern.
Matthew 24:12. Faith delivers by love; it works to the level of our love for God. So when our love waxs cold, our faith becomes defective or ineffective. Now people are just shouting, repeating some Scriptures, they are not celebrating relationship with God. So all they believe, nothing is coming out of it. Galatians 5:6. All hell is out against the faith of the saints, out to resist the fulfilment of God’s end time agenda because everything from the mouth of God will only deliver by faith. So when our faith is under arrest, we are out of the race. Church Gist. Psalm 110:1-3. It takes faith to rule in the midst of the enemies. The 3 Hebrew boys became rulers in Babylon by faith. Daniel 3:16; Daniel believed in his God, the lions could not eat him up and they handed the Kingdom over to him. Daniel 6:23. God’s agenda is to deliver all the Kingdoms under Heaven to the saints of the Most High God. Daniel 7:27. But that’s impossible without the shield of faith at war. Ephesians 6:16.
The answer to all satanic assaults is the Spirit of Faith. Daniel 6:23-26.
Why do we need the Spirit of Faith?
When you know the “why” of a thing, your passion for it comes alive.
1. The Spirit of God strengthens our inner man with might. Ephesians 3:16. The Spirit of Faith strengthens our inner man for stability in season and out of season. Makes you Spirit man unshakeable in the face of eminent failure. Church Gist. When the Spirit of Faith comes alive in a man, it strengthens him above all doubts, fears, keeps him stable in season and out of season. Daniel 3:16; Proverbs 24:10. Every battle of life must be won within before you can win it without. Mark 11:13. The reason many things we say won’t come to pass is because we doubt in our heart.
I never muted an option on dedicating the Faith Tabernacle – not for once. It keeps you stable in the face of obvious impossibility. Church Gist. I had passed through the valley of shadow of death many times, no shaking on the inside. The Spirit of Faith fortifies your inner man against the intrusion of doubts and fears.
– Tonight you are returning with it.
Somebody said, when your wife was under tha attack of the Spirit of death, did you think she died? Not once – no space! Matthew 14:26-28. Church Gist. Until your faith fails within, you can’t fail without. Romans 4:20. All weather faith requires the empowerment of the Spirit of Faith. Let’s examine one hidden access to the Spirit of Faith:
1. When God speaks to one, the Spirit of Faith enters into him. Ezekiel 2:2; Psalm 29:3-4. He speaks behind every statement of Scriptures. We call it Rhema. You find the voice of God coming through to you and when that happens, the Spirit of Faith enters into you. Church Gist. Psalm 29:4-9. The voice of the Lord will always culminate in testimonies because he stirs faith. It provides access for the Spirit of Faith to enter into us when we hear his voice behind his Word.
We were in this prayer stuff about 6 of us – September 6, 1983. We were on a 3 day camping with Jesus, getting set for the next phase of the ministry. We were on that floor and the Lord opened unto me, Psalm 34:5. He said, my son you have 2 eyes – (that’s Rhema), can you make one to look up and one to look down? Church Gist. I tried it he said, anytime you are looking unto man never claim to be looking up to me but if you fix your eyes on me, you never be ashamed. Immediately, I knew no one is any relevant to God’s agenda in my life than God. I have not checked on anybody’s house for help – 1983 till date. Rhema fires the Spirit of Faith.
“My son David, my prosperity plan is not a promise, it doesn’t answer to prayer – don’t waste your life praying. It has no respect for fasting – don’t kill yourself fasting. My prosperity plan is a Covenant. Until your part is played, I am not committed. Church Gist. You can go from Jamaica to Australia to Malaysia, it doesn’t equal prosperity. You can’t fabricate nor manufacture it. You can earn a million dollars in a month and still be a pauper. Proverbs 10:22.
March 22, 1982 – Rhema greeted me from Deuteronomy 8:18. Faith came alive and I screamed, “Ye, I can never be poor!” Rhema will always fire into any individual the spirit of faith. Church Gist. Isaiah 34:16. Behind every Scripture is the voice of God. But why am I not hearing? Simple. 1 Corinthians 2:14.
– You can’t be in the flesh and access the things of the Spirit.
– You are not a man of the Spirit. Revelation 1:10.
– You are not even listening so how will you hear what you are not listening to? You have blocked your ears with all kinds of nonsense and following all kinds of news that only depress your life. Yet you won’t leave it.
I believe the Spirit of Faith entered into Abraham and he couldn’t think otherwise. Church Gist. Genesis 12:1-4; Genesis 22:1-3.
God kept speaking to Moses “I speak to Him as a man speaks with a friend, mouth to mouth”. There was nothing God said to Moses that he had to think about. God said go and meet Pharaoh, “Pharaoh, I know you are very stubborn-hearted.” Is that the way to speak? Anything God said to him, there is no review. Why? The Spirit of faith enters as God speaks. The voice of God is powerful, the voice of God is full of majesty. May you begin to enjoy the overflowing spirit of faith as you get to the Word from henceforth. A.W. Tozer wrote in his book ‘The Pursuit of God’ and he said, he quoted Psalm 63:8. Church Gist. The Holy Ghost said to me “The harder you follow me, the higher you fly”. So every commandment of God began to soothe me in a new dimension. In 1977, I wasn’t called to ministry. Rhema! You can imagine “Tell them to go forward” and Moses said “Go forward” and he led in front not that he was coming behind so after they had drowned, he would run away. He went forward and the sea saw them and fled because God said. After God said, the spirit entered and the Red Sea gave way.
I have met somebody who said he has read the Bible through three times and there was no reflection on His life. It is not reading through, it is what enters you. The entrance of the Word gives light. Psalm 119:111. John 6:63. So when the Word enters you, the spirit of faith enters you and it puts you on your feet doing what God says without looking back. I was reading the book ‘The Man God Uses’ by Oswald J. Smith and then at a point, Matthew 6:33 just caught fire. That statement is not in that book. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness and all these things that others are saying to get, they shall be added on to you. It is a Master key to a world of favour. Unstoppable favour. Fearful favour, King threatening favour. Church Gist. Since 1976 till date, it is still driving me. The Spirit of faith stays with you when you have caught it. Even Elisha’s dry bones quickened the dead back to life.
Paul heard the voice of Christ, the spirit of faith entered into him in no mistakable terms. A man of raw faith. Unfettered faith. Faith that works all the time. Christ told his disciples “I am sending you forth, don’t carry no purse, don’t carry no script, don’t carry no money.” And they went. Why? The spirit of faith entered into them. Luke 22:5. I found my rest for supplies in ministry when God answered my question of who pays me. I saw ministers struggling for survival, torn shirts, worn out shoes, going from house to house. Church Gist. No! Who pays me Jesus? And he took me to Luke 10:1. You are in my employment, I am responsible for your welfare. Just stay on duty because the labourer is worthy of his hire. Sir, I have never called anybody on the phone or in a letter “Sir, can you please help?” till date. Spirit of faith! It is entering you right now.
Quickly, we will look at the characteristics of the Spirit of Faith. What are the features of the spirit of faith?
– The spirit of faith is heart rooted.
Abraham hardly said anything, he just believed everything. If you watch from the scriptures, you won’t find Abraham recounting and confessing. God said it, Abraham believed it, Abraham moved to prove that He believed it and God confirmed it. Heart rooted. He never staggered in his heart. Heart-rooted faith. Church Gist. It is a vital characteristic of the spirit of faith. It is in the heart. Romans 10:6-10. The spirit of faith strengthens that heart with the grace to believe whatever God says. That woman said in her heart, “If I touch the hem of his garment I will be made whole” and God heard and showed up and terminated that shame.
– Word confident faith.
Like we saw in Abraham. Romans 4:17-20. It is anchored on what God says. Church Gist. Whatever God says, no force from hell can ‘unsay’. You have that also. Acts 27:25. Let God be true and all men be liars.
– God confident faith.
Then we have the third one which we all need today, particularly the youth. Where confidence is now built in strength, in skill, in capacity, in exposure and in profession. The spirit of faith is a God confident faith. Jeremiah 17:5-6. Philippians 3:3. Confidence in the flesh is a destroyer, woe unto him. Because he had no confidence in the flesh “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. Church Gist. Self confidence is a trap of the devil. Throw it off. You need self-esteem, before who? That no flesh will glory in His presence. No one’s faith will deliver beyond his confidence in God. God confident faith is one of the characteristics of the Spirit of faith. “Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us and He will deliver us.” God confident faith as demonstrated by those three Hebrew boys.
– Daring faith.
I mean you have the wall of Jericho just standing before you and you are to walk around it for 6 days and they know you are walking around it, can’t they shoot you from the top? Daring faith! Church Gist. God said so, let’s go ahead. The walls of Jericho fell down flat. Let’s go forward! Daring into the Red Sea and the sea gave way for them. I read all of that in Hebrews 11:24-29.
– Authority conscious faith.
The spirit of faith is authority conscious based. Jesus was speaking as one that has authority, not as the scribes. They asked him who gave him this authority. Authority! He gave you and me His name as a seal of authority in dealing with issues. We saw this picture clearly in Matthew 8:8-13. Authority conscious faith. I am not trying to do something, I have a backing for it. I saw from Wigglesworth’s testimony what gave me light into Ephesians 2:6 and Ephesians 1:20-21. Not near above, far above. I didn’t raise myself, He raised me. Church Gist. I didn’t seat myself up there, he sat me there and for the Church to exercise authority in that realm. In 1979, I have told you the story before that I was asked to represent one of my elder ones in a meeting that he could not go to and after a call for salvation, I said “Hey! Wait a minute. How many of you are witches, stand up.” Authority conferred via the revelation of the Word concerning my new status in Christ. Authority not exercised is authority wasted.
– Action-driven faith.
Hebrews 11:7. We saw Abraham, action and action. James 2:18-25. What you believe that does not move you is fake. Whatever you claim to believe and does not move you into action is fake. You have heard so many things in this conference, in all the sessions. Church Gist. The move you make is what defines your faith to the things you have heard. Action driven! God says it and it gets you into motion.
James 2:26. Dead faith can’t produce living results; dead faith can never produce living result. Action-driven faith is a vital characteristic of the Spirit of Faith. Church Gist. Now, watch, I was getting set on a Saturday like this in the morning for the Anointing Service in March ’96 and Jesus walked to my room in the office, “it’s time to get the aircraft”. What? That spirit of Faith will believe anything heard from God. Church Gist. You must know how to hear from God, sometimes you can be hearing from the devil and think it’s God. I have come to know His voice by grace since ’76. I can identify His voice if He speaks to me in a dream. We got to the meeting and after we finished doing what God sent us to do, I said, “God spoke to me this morning, it’s time to get the aircraft”. Maybe some of you who are here were there then. Church Gist. I said, “it’s time to give an offering. You give according to what you have not according to what you don’t have. God is not in need”.Is that how to raise an offering for an aircraft? We never mentioned it one more time, there was no reminder on Sunday service, never reminded anywhere or in a letter. Church Gist.The plane arrived 6 months after.
– come on, give God praise.
The spirit of Faith does not put God’s Word on the shelf, it runs with it. “September 18, 1999, the Tabernacle shall be dedicated”. What? I was hearing it at the same time you were hearing it Sir. Church Gist. There was no time to negotiate. As I was saying it, you were hearing, I was hearing. Yet, we moved. Monday morning, 18th of September, we came here, we started drawing the line, September 18, Glory, Heavens came down. Please hear me, whatever you claim to believe and does not move you is fake. Church Gist. Do you believe in prosperity? Then, tithe your income, commit to Kingdom promotion investment, commit to the wellbeing of the needy around you, honour your parents, it’s the commandment of the law, that it may be well with you. Church Gist. Not going about town with your trouser below your buttocks. Look after your family, my friend! Whatever you won’t do, you’re yet to believe.
Testimony quickening Faith. The spirit of Faith captures the testimonies of the Lord and is confident in its capacity to reproduce itself. Church Gist. David confronted Goliath drawing from the testimony of the Lion and the bear that he slew. He said, “even today, this shall be replicated. This big for nothing Goliath will come down today”, and God made it happen. 1 Samuel 17:34-37,41-50. These are His raw manifestations. We’re leaving characteristics, now to manifestations of the Spirit of Faith.
The Spirit of Faith puts believers on auto frequency with capacity to respond spontaneously to the challenges of life. “If you bow, it is well with you, if you don’t bow, immediately you will be cast into the furnace”. “No! No! No! We are not careful, you can’t harrass us, we know where we are going”. Church Gist. Auto response, not, “okay, we will think about it”. So, you will not need to bother what to say at that time. Matthew 10:20. The spirit of Faith is the one that speaks in you when you’re confronted and challenged. Again, believing all things contained in His Word, it’s not stress, it’s with utmost delight, you’re not struggling with it. Church Gist. The spirit of Faith believes all things that are contained in His book. It speaks the unspeakable. They will say, “what’s wrong with him? What’s he talking about?” Makes incredible moves. No one else believes it except the man who has the spirit.
Now, watch, “you’re going to plant 5,000 Churches this year” and then Coro came on the way in March, what an agenda and yet He delivered it. Incredible moves. Church Gist. “Now, you’re going to build 10,000 new Churches this year”, coro was still raging, He delivered it in the year 2020. “Double all cells in the Church” and He did. Lagos Church had about 21,000 cells added in one year. “You’re entering 75 new nations this year”. What? And He did. Incredible moves. A manifestation of the Spirit of Faith and He brought us into 83 new nations in one year.
– come on, give God praise.
He dares the undare-able. You will find the catalog of that in the Heroes of Faith in Hebrews 11. Accomplishing the impossible. “You’re going to build the walls of Jerusalem”. Who are you? You’re a domestic staff here. Accomplishing the impossible. Church Gist. You saw how Nehemiah prayed and how favour landed from Heaven. I mean, he was led with convoy into Jerusalem. Provided with security What? A domestic staff. He led the rebuilding of that wall and it was completed in 52 days. Nehemiah 6:15. Accomplishes the impossible. Church Gist. You know what? The Spirit of Faith puts you ever at rest in the midst of storms. No shaking, no vibration, no jitters, “For they that believe have entered into rest”. Jesus was fast asleep on a pillow while they were troubled. Mark 4:40. Little Faith can’t stand the storms of life. You need strong Faith; strong Faith equals the Spirit of Faith. Inner strength boosted Faith is what can’t handle the storms of life.
We will round up tonight with How to Receive Transference of the Spirit of Faith;
Recognize God as the umpire of transferring such Spirit, so that no one would be selling it to anybody. Numbers 11:16-17,24-25. Church Gist. He’s the umpire, nobody can come and dash it to somebody, God is the umpire. “The Apostles I also commanded to release freely whatever the Lord has given them”, they release that by the Word. You believe in what they’re saying, you can access what the Word says.
To accept the spirit of Faith, one must identify a carrier. If you want anything, find out where it’s available. Matthew 25:9. Church Gist. You want oil in your lamp? Go to them that sell and buy for yourself. Identify the carriers of the Spirit of Faith, if you want it, that’s how you can get it. I saw it at work in Hagin, I went after it. Acts 3:6.
Receive the person and the ministry of the carrier. Matthew 10:41. The man Elisha identified Elijah and served in that spirit. “What do you want?” He said, “I want double of the Spirit that is upon you”. Church Gist. Identify, receive the person and ministry of the carrier. Other folks along with him were mockers of Elijah but he stood there to partake of what Elijah carried and he got it.
Crave for what he/she carries. You have identified him, you’ve received his person, now crave for what he/she carries. “As the Lord liveth, I will never leave you. No”. Why? “I’m craving for what you carry?” 2 Kings 2:4,9.
Engage in a sonship tie with the carrier. 2 Kings 2:12. A good man only leaves an inheritance for his children children. Proverbs 13:22. Malachi 4:6. You can’t access the inheritance of a family to which you don’t belong. Church Gist. You can’t partake of an inheritance to which you’re not connected. When Kenneth Hagin was going to Heaven, blessed memory, great influence on my life, the Lord visited me on this ground, “someone as close to you as your cloth is about coming over”. I said, “oh. My earthly father?” He said, “No. Hagin”. Church Gist. I told my wife, “the Eagle is about to soar, let’s run and catch up with him”. No sickness, no diseases, nothing, he just stepped out into glory with a gleam of smile on his wife. Church Gist. There’s no way to enjoy the flow from the means to which you’re not connected as a pipe. You have overhead water tank in your house you have not connected, sir, you can’t have a flow in the house.
I was in Asaba many years ago, I was in that meeting in the night, it was awesome. The spirit of Faith came down heavy and in the morning I came down to them and I said, “hey, folks, last night, Hagin spoke to you. This morning, Copeland will speak to you”. Church Gist. Conscious, I knew it. Then, his cloak came on me, explosive revelations on God’s prosperity agenda. You cannot partake of any grace to which you’re not genuinely connected to. Stay connected for continuous flow. One of those Precious people said one time, he said, “we still preach the same thing but we don’t get the same result anymore” why? because there’s no connectivity. Church Gist. The day you disconnect, the flow stops. I still celebrate the grace of God upon Hagin till now from ’76. When I read his book, he’s speaking to me. Can you be in this Church in your life and not hear about Hagin or Copeland or T. L. Osborne. Stay connected. It’s the only way to retain the flow.
Keeping feeding the Spirit of Faith with the Word. Everything spiritual feeds on the Word to stay alive. 2 Timothy 4:13. Church Gist. He (Paul) was a man of revelation by feeding on the Word. Ephesians 3:1-5. No matter how endowed, when you stop feeding on the Word, you’re starving your Spirit man to death, if you don’t stop it on time. 2 Corinthians 4:13. 2 Timothy 4:13. Philippians 4:13. Church Gist. You have the spirit of Faith? Goodluck. Feed that spirit on the Word, then you can do all things through Christ. According to the Word, “The Just shall live by Faith”, this implies that the Spirit of Faith is the spirit of life. I must continue to feed on the Word of God to stay alive. Romans 8:1-2. Ephesians 6:16. Church Gist. So, you keep feeding on the Word to keep that precious Gift alive or it dies. You will never find a self-made man in the Kingdom. Never. If you’re not humble enough to connect with the carriers of what you’re looking for, you will be looking for it for life. Ephesians 4:8-11. Stay awake. Church Gist. What you find working in me today, they are as connected to the carriers before me, so that I can carry the next to my generation.
Listen to this, no agenda of Heaven including all of His prophetic endtime agenda will see the light of the day without faith. Luke 1:45. Habakkuk 2:2. Habakkuk 2:1-4. Church Gist. Your Faith at work to secure your place in this endtime. It takes your Faith at work to secure your place of honour, glory and dignity in this endtime agenda. “This is the place!” “Oh yes, Jesus”. Did it look like it? Never. Church Gist. But God said it. God confident faith, Word confident faith. The world never knew we existed until we got to the forest. The place.
Stay where faith says to stay. Don’t be found a wandering star running helter-skelter. Proverbs 27:8. You have free access to this. You’re around the altar of faith where the Spirit of faith is burning day by day, night by night. Church Gist. Everyone whose heart is open tonight under the sound of my voice and so desire for a fresh enduement of the Spirit of Faith, jump to your feet. Psalm 63:1
Prayer: Lord endue me afresh with the Spirit of Faith
David was a Spirit of Faith made giant. “Today I will bring down your head” he was speaking the unspeakable. Church Gist. There was no doubt in his heart so Goliath came down – as a teenager. Daniel 1:17. They were youths – you’re in your best season to step into this realm.
When God said, this is the place, we never took an offering in Church to buy the entire land here. Church Gist. Many have lost so much to unbelief but tonight, with this enduement of fresh impartation of the Spirit of Faith, a new day dawns in your life!
– No more failure, defeat, depression.
– The evil heart of unbelief is crushed in your life.
– No more negotiating the truth.
– No more expressing your own opinion on the truth. 2 Corinthians 13:8. I am told some young men are going about teaching there is no tithing. Have they ever tasted prosperity? They don’t know the meaning. May be they just saw some 10 kobo somewhere. It’s not a Church doctrine; it’s a mystery of the Kingdom. Church Gist. Jesus validated it – Matthew 23:23; Hebrews 7:8. People are looking for money through very dirty ways. Line up with the Covenant and watch how God will start decorating your life. That you’re a pastor doesn’t make a difference. If you’re a pastor or founder of a Church you’re not a giver you can’t prosper.
– Somebody’s story is changing!
You don’t feed on the Word of Faith, you can’t sustain the Spirit of Faith. You won’t go to them that have it, you can’t get it. Church Gist. You don’t look to buy a car in a vegetable market. You have been looking for what is not found where you are looking for it.
My friend said to me one time: how do you pay for all these things here? I said, Faith! He said faith? I said yes, it’s a universal currency. It holds same value across the nations of the world. It delivers at the same rate; there is no crashing of its value. That’s why your Church is doing what has no external input and it is working by the input from Heaven. Church Gist. There is no prosperous nation in the world without poor people inside and there is no impoverished nation without rich people inside. So prosperity is not a citizen of any nation. Youths listen, Your greenest pasture is not in one country or another; it is in your stand in the Covenant. Until you establish your stand in the Covenant your prosperity is not in view. He empowers us for wealth on the basis of His Covenant. Proverbs 10:22.
Black is not synonymous with lack and white is not equal to wealth. Church Gist. You belong to a faith fired family; why should you be a wanderer in town?
One day I heard they said, that man is the richest pastor in the world. Richest pastor in a poorest country? It doesn’t make a difference. Church Gist. Never borrowed, never begged, never took over draft and never went down! Then what is wealth? You have problem with faith and God came down to solve it tonight.
– in the name of Jesus, you will not be found wandering from pillar to post anymore!
Genesis 12:1; God’s appointed place for you is the only secured place for you. That’s where your dignity, honour, destiny lies. You don’t transplant trees, it will die; you only transplant seedling. Church Gist. Many trees have transplanted themselves and they are dead. We are trees of righteousness we must locate our place of planting and keep your faith alive and you start flourishing there like the palm tree.
We met some trees on this campus. Some of them are may be a 100 years old, I can’t tell but some we planted here have been uprooted. When the wind just comes, it just blows them up. But the one that God planted is still there. Church Gist. God brought your Church to a forest and caused her to make global impact from the forest. Locate your place, stay in your place, let your faith stay alive there. You are a solution provider to the world, you are not supposed to be a burden to your generation.
– In the precious name of Jesus, the spirit of unbelief is cursed tonight.
1 John 5:3. Faith can’t work in the hand of the unsaved. No dead man can hold a weapon. Faith is a spiritual weapon, it is not a belief system. Can the dead hold a weapon? Until one is born again, he can’t hold a spiritual weapon because he is spiritually dead. Church Gist. Young people, this is the best time to turn your life over to Christ. Don’t play away your future, don’t sell it off for a morsel of meat.
Acts 3:19. It comes in the form of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. It is never late to be right.
— ALTAR CALL —-
We have a lot of faith resources in this Commission. A lot of materials on faith with undeniable proofs. So you have a rich inheritance in building your faith. We have materials on the faith of our fathers, they are all resources that will help you. Keep feeding the precious gift you have got tonight so you don’t lose them. So you don’t lose the precious gift of the spirit of faith you have gotten tonight. Do you know why we did these Legacy Publications? There was a book I read years ago from Oral Roberts and couldn’t find it anywhere. I travelled to Tulsa to look for it, but they couldn’t find it in their archives. The Lord told me, “Put all your writings on various subjects into one pack. You won’t be looking for it.” Church Gist. It is all online, unlike those days when you will be looking for books around the world. It is all online. You can check out all of those things. Spend more of those resources than you spend on waste assets. No one can build your muscle for you. You have to engage personally to build your muscles. No one can build your faith for you, he can only tell you what it takes to build your faith.
I told you a story that I came back from one trip from the U.S. My wife said what did you bring? I said come to my study. She came and I opened the first box, books from top to bottom. Same with the second and third box. She said ‘Okay what else?’ I said that is all I brought. If I can grasp the content of these materials it can make me the manufacturer of the things I could have bought. Church Gist. Your sense of value matters in securing your glorious destiny. Not buying books as decoration in your offices. ‘I got all Papa’s books. I got all Bishop Abioye’s books, I got all of Hagin’s books. These are for show”. You swallow it, you feed on it, it fires faith in you and your life becomes more robust. That is how to build your spiritual muscles.
Such as I have freely given to me by God, I release upon everyone under the sound of my voice tonight.
– I decree that your faith will remain on fire, the remaining days of your life.
– You shall no more lose any battle in life.
– The overcomer’s seal comes upon your life.
– Your journey from now shall be from glory to glory. No more stagnation, no more setbacks.
The spirit of faith never returns defeated from any battle.
– so your days of defeat are over.
The spirit of faith will always have its way.
– Today, no devil will succeed to block the road against your life.
– By the spirit of faith, I decree the release of academic excellence.
– I decree the release of business explosions and career advancement in the name of Jesus.
I knew by the spirit of faith that we will not have any issues in my marriage before we got married. I heard it from God’s Word. It fired into my spirit. Church Gist. Our counsellor said, “David, what are you looking forward to?” Hitch-free marriage. I never heard that word from anywhere else in my life. It has been hitch-free all these years.
– Every tension in anyone’s family clears off finally tonight.
– Every barrier on your path of childbearing is finally over.
A friend of mine said “Brother David, let us start praying for life partners” I said I don’t need that, it is in Matthew 6:33 for me. Jesus did it without any struggle.
– every marital spell under the sound of my voice, by this fresh enduement of the Spirit of faith, it is overturned to testimonies.
– Everyone set for marriage among you, this is April, the year 2023 is declared your year of marital settlement.
– Every tension that may be holding on in any family is doused finally tonight.
Place your right hand on your forehead. He said to his disciples, “Freely you have received, freely give”. Church Gist. I never gave a dime to any of these giants who came my way by grace. They can’t buy this gift with money.
– I, therefore, decree that the same spirit of faith at work in me which I connected with those ahead of me, be released in your life.
– No more murmurings, no more grumblings, no more complaining in the name of Jesus.
– You will always have the way out, the way up, the way forward, all the days of your life.
– Your path shall be from glory to glory. From strength to strength.
– So shall it be.
I am glad because I can see the next generation.
– You will scale higher heights than we ever tasted. I will be alive to see you soaring in the skies.
– Because like begets like. You belong to a globally relevant mandate, in the name of Jesus, not one of you will end your journey as a local entity.
– You belong to a global commission, as the Lord lives God is bringing each one of you to the limelight.
– May pride never get on your way. No one here will suffer a crash. May it be that the higher you go, the humbler you become.
– I pray in the name of Jesus, no one of you shall be overtaken by pride.
– May your God confidence be sustained to the end. May your Word confidence be sustained to the end.
– The world will hear your testimony, it will be said of you “What manner of man or woman is this”.
Congratulations. I love you all. Your August convention shall be one of a kind. Prepare for it. Church Gist. You have the whole campus to yourself. Prepare for it and you are coming with your testimonies.
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