WE REMAINED ON THE PRAYER ALTAR. GOD PLANTED 5,000 CHURCHES IN 2019 AND 10,000 CHURCHES IN 2020.
BE SPECIFIC WITH YOUR DEMANDS. GOD CREATES ANSWERS.
THERE IS NO KINGDOM AGENDA BEYOND GOD’s CAPACITY FOR DELIVERY.
THERE IS NOTHING GOS SAYS THAT HIS HAND CANNOT DELIVER.
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO KEEP YOUR FAITH ALIVE!
IT’S YOUR TURN FOR ENDLESS ADVANCEMENT FROM ONE LEVEL OF GLORY TO ANOTHER!
WHEN YOU COMMIT TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF GOD’s KINGDOM, YOU HAVE COMMITTED HIM TO YOUR ADVANCEMENT.
EVERY GROWING CHURCH MUST REMAIN A PRAYING CHURCH TO KEEP GROWING.
THE LABOUR ROOM OF PRAYER IS THE MYSTERY BEHIND SUPERNATURAL CHURCH GROWTH.
WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD OF FORTUNE. AN END TO EVERY TRACE OF MISFORTUNE!
MIND THE AGENDA OF GOD AND HIS KINGDOM, HE WILL TAKE OVER YOUR AFFAIRS.
TO GET INTO FORTUNE, YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR POSITION AND OBEY GOD.
AS YOU DELIGHT IN OBEYING GOD, HE WILL SMILE ON YOU.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘ENGAGING THE WONDERS OF SPECIFIC DEMANDS ON OUR PRAYER ALTAR’ at 21 Days Annual Prayer and Fasting || Day Nine || LFC Worldwide ||
‘ENGAGING THE WONDERS OF SPECIFIC DEMANDS ON OUR PRAYER ALTAR’.
‘Hitherto you have asked me nothing specific’. That is why you keep asking and asking and nothing seems to be happening. John 16:24. ‘You have asked me nothing’. They are praying but He said they have asked nothing, you have said nothing. Church Gist. Bartimaeus said nothing but crying, ‘Jesus, Son of David’. He knew His address. ‘Have mercy’. He said, ‘What is the matter?’ They said ‘We don’t know’. He said ‘Call him. What exactly are you looking for?’
– No one’s prayer altar will be barren again!
Elisha demanded for the double portion of the Spirit upon Elijah and got it. 2 Kings 2:9-15. We can afford to be specific. Church Gist. Jeremiah 32:27. Mark 10:27. He is never in short supply. He doesn’t look for answers, He creates them. He creates the answers.
The King said to him, ‘Nehemiah, what exactly do you request for? What are you asking for’. He said, ‘Wait a minute. Let me go and pray first’ and made an impossible list that nobody should make of a king. Church Gist. The King said, ‘Look, I can see the hand of God upon you’. He secured the hand of God on those writings, he listed them one by one and he got it.
There is no Kingdom agenda beyond God’s capacity for delivery. All we need is to take our position in the pursuit of it. There is no divine agenda beyond God’s capacity for delivery. Church Gist. All we need to do is to take appropriate position in the pursuit of it. 1 Kings 8:15. There is nothing God says that His hand cannot deliver.
Hear what He said, ‘Within 8 weeks, I the God of wonder will visit you’ and He showed it. Within 8 weeks we were heavily visited, all the devils in hell knew. Churches doubled supernaturally and He went on and said in October of the year, ‘I will be in your midst until you don’t want me again’ ‘Oh! Jesus we want you’ ‘Then keep doing what you should do for me to keep doubling and redoubling’. So, we kept doing it and 2019, He planted 5000 Churches, exactly twice and a little above where we were. Church Gist. 2020 He said He will still plant 10,000 Churches. ‘How?’ He did. We remained on the prayer Altar, our faith kept on fire. What never happened between 1987 and 2018 happened in one year. There is nothing God says that His hand cannot deliver. All we need to do is to keep our faith alive and take our position in that agenda.
Then like a dream in the night, boom! Number of cells multiplied at His Word. Like a dream of the night, entered 83 nations in one year. We have been entering and entering, we were only in 67 nations. One year came, He said ‘Enter 75 nations’ ‘Oh! Thank you, Jesus’. There is nothing God says that His hand cannot deliver. Church Gist. There is nothing God says about you that His hand cannot deliver. All you need is keep your faith alive and take your covenant position and jealously guard it. That’s all you need. So, He’s still very much with us. He’s still very much in our midst and this year He said, ‘Look, here is my agenda. Double the size of every local assembly in this Nation between now and the end of the first half of the year’. No guesswork. Guesswork hardly works in the Kingdom. Guess work hardly works. John 5:30. You heard Moses saying, ‘Thus saith the Lord’. Every action of Moses was triggered by ‘Thus saith the Lord’. No attempt to arrest him. Church Gist. He was too much for the gods of Egypt…and then He said ‘Minimum twice of WSF locations in every local assembly also before the end of the first half of this year’. That is, every cell will birth a minimum (of) one. Some super driven cells will birth 10 depending on the position that each cell minister takes.
– Praise God!
You better be driven by it. Now, can I say this to you? Jesus taught us to pray and here is what He said, ‘As you pray, come worshipping me or you don’t have access’. Let your first request be ‘Thy Kingdom come’. Matthew 6:10. Amen? You know what that means? Thy Kingdom come means fulfill all your prophetic agenda for your Church that must be before you come and that includes explosive Church growth. Church Gist. Micah 4:1,2. Isaiah 2:2,3. Explosive Church growth will see the end of this Earth. The Earth shall be filled with the glory of God as water covers the sea. All the proud will bow, Sir. All of them. Native doctors will carry their stuff and be coming to Church. You say why? He says ‘I want to drop it, I’m tired’.
– Can I hear your Amen?
Watch, it shall come to pass!
Psalm 110:1,2. That’s the Church for you. That’s the end time Church for you. We’ll be in command of the affairs of the Earth. No matter the civilization, no matter the gang up of hell. Watch it, He will not come until the Church is reigning in power. Church Gist. Until the church becomes the Breadwinner of the World, He will not come. ‘Thy Kingdom come’, then other things can follow. Matthew 6:9,10,33.
– He will decorate you beyond His decoration of Solomon in terms of fortune.
But, He will do anything He will do, as we mature in our engagement with Him. The heir when is a child is not different from a servant. Church Gist. So, you can’t get on there without increasing the quality of your walk with God, taking His commandments seriously, engaging genuinely with a true heart panting after God.
We serve a territory taking God and He has not changed. He has not changed and He will not change. Deuteronomy 2:24. That’s why we pray. We are contending with the opposition to deliver divine agenda. Matthew 16:18. So, we engage on the prayer Altar to stop the gate of hell from stopping the advancement of the Church. Church Gist. Deuteronomy 2:36. They contended and God delivered. They engaged the prayer Altar and God delivered. Psalm 2:8. Sir, no Church will ever taste growth without an effectual prayer altar. Just like no woman will ever give birth without passing through the labour room. The labour room of prayer is the mystery behind supernatural Church growth. Isaiah 66:7,8. Every growing Church till Jesus will come will be a praying Church. Don’t get tired. Church Gist. Take your portion in it…and every growing Church must remain a praying Church to remain growing, to keep growing. No shortcut. Where prayer stops is where growth stops. Where Kingdom advancement prayer stops in our lives, that’s where our advancement stops. He is covenant keeping God. Luke 6:46.
It was God who advanced Moses. 1 Samuel 12:6. He is still advancing people today. Church Gist. So, when you commit to the advancement of His Kingdom, you have committed Him to your advancement.
– It’s your turn for endless advancement from one level of glory to another!
Just keep what He says to do and keep doing them.
The early Church was birthed by prayer. Acts 1:14. Acts 2:1,46. ‘One accord’ connotes prayer. They were praying. Not that they were looking at themselves. They were in prayers. Acts 5:12. Eruption of signs. Now, watch what happened. Acts 2, 3000 added to the Church. Acts 3, they were going to the Temple in the hour of prayer. The outcome, Acts 4:4, 5000 was added to the Church. Church Gist. In Acts 5, multitudes were added to the Church. Acts 6, they gave themselves over to prayer, fully to prayer and then the number of the disciples multiplied greatly. So, if you look at growth trend, it was triggered and sustained by prayer. ‘And they were praying in the Temple’. My friend, not in their houses. Acts 3:1. So, Temple prayer continues. Don’t confuse yourself with online. Temple prayer continues till Jesus comes.
I mean, there are people who don’t have that opportunity by reason of their jobs but don’t play with God. Temple prayer continues. Look, it’s the devil’s strategy to replace gathering of people with online nonsense. Some have launched their ministry and what they call it is the Online Church. Church Gist. You can’t break scriptures. You checked all of those things, ‘They were in the Temple’. Now, they were doing that prayer daily in the Temple and from house to house. So, the Temple is primary. They were together praying, the Holy Ghost came. They were together praying, miracles began to happen and the Church began to grow.
– We will not be left behind.
Can I tell you the wonder? God instituted Covenant Hour of Prayer In March and He came to Visit of Wonder Double in May. Church Gist. He sets the prayer pace before He delivers the agenda.
– Can I hear your Amen? That’s where it happens.
– In the precious name of Jesus, this Kingdom priority lifestyle that has changed the lives of many must change your own too.
There is no concern of your life or my life that that strategy, that divine mystery cannot handle. There is not one.
– It’s your turn!
They were losing it and they said, ‘Hey! Wait a minute. We can’t go this way. We lose the fire, we lose our place. Let’s appoint men to look over these affairs. Church Gist. But for us, we will give ourselves fully to prayers and to the ministry of the Word’ and then the Church erupted into next levels. Acts 6:4.
‘Jesus, we believe you. Double this Church as you have said. Engrace me to take my portion in it. This is what I believe you for’ and then, you are talking. Can I hear your Amen?
-It’s your turn.
Can I conclude with this? Look at this Church. One thing, one thing only. Every other thing, forget. One thing only. There is no prayer you pray here now that is for somebody to be great and be small. No. Church Gist. ‘Jesus, confirm your Word. Jesus, save the lost. Jesus, establish the lost. Prepare us for Heaven. Keep us fit. Sanctify us’. We are just driving that same agenda and yet, we have not lacked anything.
– Your days of lack are over.
– Your days of want are over.
– Your days of struggling for survival are over.
1 Kings 17:13. He said, ‘Make for me first and watch what I’ll do with your life’ and for 3 and the half years she was feeding fat.
– You’ll never know famine.
– You’ll never know drought.
– You’ll never know dry seasons.
– You’ll never suffer hunger.
– You’ll never beg in the name of Jesus.
Is it within God’s capacity to double the size of every local assembly in this Church in one month? Is it within His capacity? The One who created the World in 6 days and the fullness thereof. Will He have a problem if you and I will take our position and obey Him? John 15:16. Church Gist. Simple commandment and then, I’ll bring you into favour. It will bring you into favour with me. It is a favour agenda. ‘If I’m to bring you into fortune. This is what to do to get in there’.
– No one will rob you of your place in this Fortune 2024 Agenda.
He wants to do it and He wants you and I to be beneficiaries of that agenda.
– You won’t miss your place.
– Another man will not take your crown in the name of Jesus.
– Every siege of misfortune will clear the way because God will smile on you.
– As you delight yourself in obeying Him, He will smile on you.
Let me hear your loudest Amen!
As a reminder while we close.
1: God said, ‘Mind my agenda and I will take over your affairs’. Psalm 35:27.
2: He said, ‘Mind the agenda of my Kingdom on earth and I will take over your affairs in life’. Psalm 102:13-15. Favour that catches the attention of Kings. Church Gist. Kings are saying, ‘Let’s go there. What’s going on there?’. Some fellow that you never believed would knock on your door this year. ‘How are you doing it?’ Amen.
3: ‘Give me the priority place in your life and you will secure my priority attention that will lead to your enviable decoration in life’. Church Gist. Luke 19:17. Enviable decoration. From one pound to 10 cities. Enviable decoration.
4: ‘Seek first the advancement of my Kingdom in righteousness and it will be your launching path to a world of fortune’. Matthew 6:33. Don’t sit, seek. Church Gist. Don’t watch, seek. Don’t wait, seek. No one goes forward without taking steps. No one goes forward sitting down. No one goes forward waiting. You take steps to go forward.
5: ‘Make me first to secure your flourishing in hard times’. 1 Kings 17:13-16. Your Church has never known hard times. We’ll never know it till Jesus comes until we stop seeking Him first. Church Gist. The widow of Zarephath never knew hard times. All her relations were feeding fat I believe under the unending flour and unending cruise of oil.
6: ‘Mind my own first and I will take care of your own’. Many mind the things of their own and not the things that be of Jesus Christ. Philippians 2:21,22. Colossians 3:2.
7: ‘Invest in my own first and you’ll never know dry seasons in life’. Church Gist. Mark 10:28. Matthew 19:29.
– Lift up your right hand to Heaven.
We are in a spiritual repositioning season. Lift up your right hand and ask God, ‘Help me to align up with your agenda for my life so I can secure my place in your Fortune 2024 Agenda for me as a member of this household of faith’.
— Prayers —
— Altar Call —
There is nothing dark about Christ. It’s an open faith. Church Gist. You can’t be in it without knowing. Nobody needs to tell you that you are in it. You will know whether you are in or not.
— Prayers —
– Welcome to your world of fortune. An end to every trace of misfortune.
– You know, from this time on, you’ll never know the meaning of a setback.
– Nothing goes down in your life anymore.
– The days of mourning are over in your life.
Whatever He says to you to do, do it. You’ll always return with a smile. Whatever He tells you to do, do it. It will always culminate in a smile, explosive laughter.
– In the name of Jesus, grace to walk in the steps of Jesus, the steps of obedience even until death is ours tonight.
– There is nothing God tells you to do from His Word from tonight that will be difficult for you anymore.
– Doing His bidding will remain your delight for life.
– and I proclaim your family is blessed!
– The works of your hands blessed!
– and I declare this year as your year, your turnaround year, your Isaac order of year, your year of laughter in the name of Jesus.
– Your own portion of Fortune 2024 prophetic agenda will not be lost!
– Another one will not take your place.
– and your prayer life will not stop here.
– Your study life will not stop this month.
– Your pursuit after souls will not stop.
– This year will be a year of new beginnings in all areas of your life.
– and I curse every root of sickness and disease.
– There shall be no feebleness, no weakness, no sickness, no pains, no discomfort.
– It’s declared your year of wholeness! Spirit, soul and body wholeness. Spiritual wholeness. Mental wholeness. Physical wholeness.
– So shall it be!
Well, today marks the end of the third day 3-day module and tomorrow we start the 4th one. Define your targets on the Altar of prayer. Give Kingdom issues a priority. Yes, we are permitted to ask for other things but make Kingdom matters a priority. Church Gist. It’s the end time joker for the rise of giants. These next 3 days, define your target of souls that you’ll bring to Christ. Pray for wisdom to get at your target. Pray for utterance that will prick their hearts. Pray down the Holy Ghost upon your life who is the Master harvester. He is the Lord of the harvest. Engage in every way that will help you deliver your Kingdom targets so He can decorate you with what you can never achieve by labour.
– It’s your turn in the name of Jesus.
Now, for renewal of strength for the first 9 days, give God thanks.
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