Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
- No devil can depress me.
*Depression will always lead to oppression
*The more thankful we are, the healthier we live
*Those who know how to think will know how to thank.
*Every year shall be a plus on the previous in your life.
Good understanding procures favour but the way of the transgressor is hard (Proverbs 13:15). What we call grace is divine favour and it multiplies by knowledge (2 Peter 1:2).
May each one experience a deeper depth today that will move him or her to higher realms of favour in the name of Jesus Christ.
Knowing what to do and doing it changed that young man’s story forever, without ever written JAMB in his life and being without any job for 4 years, suddenly invited, became General Manager, has a car, a driver, like a dream of the night.
-Favour will locate everyone under the sound of my voice today.
Knowing what to do and doing it will always provoke God and His integrity to perform His Word.
-Watch out, it is your turn. You have just entered your Promised Land and favour is the culture of that land.
Psalm 44:3 – “…because thou hast a favour unto them.” Favour!!! That is the culture of that land.
Ask the Lord: Open my eyes to behold the wonders in your Word that will bring me to new realms of favour in my life.
Pray that prayer from the depth of your heart, pray it believing. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Lord Jesus, watch over everyone of us here today and let no one miss the catching up moment in this Service. So let it be. Launch everyone into new realms of favour, surprise us with your favour this week in the name of Jesus Christ.
While we will be praying for the new converts later on in the Service, the ushers will make available to us the Prophetic Focus for the Month: Thanksgiving Preserves, Multiplies and Perfects our Blessings.
We are on with this Teaching Series this month: Understanding the Wonders of Thanksgiving.
Every genuine thanksgiving usually results in Praise which brings God’s presence that triggers a turn around.
Psalm 100:4
And then He envelops you with His Presence.
Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord: everything that troubles others tremble at His presence. It brings God’s presence down that stirs a turnaround in our lives. Every genuine thanksgiving will graduate into praise and praise will bring God’s presence down, God inhabits the praises of His people and that equals a turnaround, that will always result into a turnaround (Psalm 22:3). When God came down to that prison, the foundations of the prison was shaken, because God came down in response to the praise of His people and then every man bands were loosed, the doors were opened, supernatural turnaround came alive through the mystery of praise which must have termed out of thanksgiving (Acts 16:26).
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and then into courts with praise; then worship and you are there enveloped with His presence that will always equal a turnaround (Psalm 100:4).
-You will never be stranded anymore in your life.
This is why thanksgiving is vital to anyone that desires to experience a supernatural turnaround in life.
Psalm 24:7 – lift up your heads o ye gates
When you are enveloped with God, every impossible gate opens to you on their own accord.
If you want a turnaround, understand the place of thanksgiving and praise as a lifestyle.
We all know that until we give God thanks for the last, we are never qualified for the next. Church Gist. God is always waiting to be acknowledged for what He has done before He will be committed to do the next. So don’t get yourself grounded and don’t take God for granted. Don’t take His acts for granted. Respond spontaneously, instantly in thanksgiving if you must see the next hand of God in your life.
Has God been good to someone here?
Now my friends, who woke you up this morning?
What should you do in response? Praise Him.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6).
Who has kept you strong and healthy?
There are many, many people here today who have never slept on any hospital bed in the last one year…There are some who have never been there in the last 2 years. There are many who are not on any medication in this Church right now.
There are many who have never begged for food in their life.
Well, give the Lord praise if you believe that.
WHAT IS THANKSGIVING?
- Acknowledging God as the One behind all the good happenings around us. It is a way of acknowledging God (John 3:27).
Every good gift and every perfect gift comes from above (James 1:17). So every good thing around your life, every good thing around your family, every good thing around your business and career, they are the workings of the Lord and we need to acknowledge Him to keep them working. - It is the recounting of God’s lovingkindness in our lives (Psalm 103:1-5).
“…He redeems your life from destruction” – you can’t tell how many battles were fought over you to rescue you in the night.
“Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things” – Even when they put poison in the food, He neutralizes it for you, without your knowledge. Come on, give the Lord praise.
WHAT ARE WE THANKING GOD FOR?
- For all the benefits of redemption. You didn’t have to pay for it, it is freely given to you.
In Romans chapter 8 verse 32, “…how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Redemption offers us access to all things that make for life and godliness. We are thanking God for those things that make for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). They are ours but we need to understand what it takes to access them and take delivery of them. So they come through to us through knowledge.
We are giving God thanks for all the benefits of redemption (Revelation 5:12). He has given us power to tread upon serpents and over all the powers of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt us.
All those are free offers of redemption! We are acknowledging Him for all those blessings. - For His wondrous and marvellous works in our lives. This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvellous in our eyes (Psalm 118:23).
Remember, without Me, you can do nothing (John 15:5). People marvel at certain things in your life because God’s hand is at work in your life. - For continuous change of levels.
Somebody says, “my level is not changing”: That is not true. You were a particular age last year, you are now another age this year, are you not changing?
Yesterday was 15, today is 16: what did you pay to arrive at 16 (May 2021)? Praise God.
You had food to eat yesterday, you still have food to eat today.
Things are happening.
You don’t only have water to drink but you can drink the water.
Those who know how to think will know how to thank. We have thought of your lovingkindness, we are thinking, “this is God and nothing else.” Can I hear your loudest Amen!
When you thank Him for any little thing, He multiplies it back to you. Church Gist. It is a mystery.
You despise His acts, He withdraws His hand.
You acknowledge and celebrate His acts, He multiplies it back to you.
BENEFITS OF THANKSGIVING - You cannot be grateful without being joyful. Gratitude stirs joy and among the benefits of joy is health and vitality.
So grateful people enjoy health and vitality because the act of gratitude stirs joy and a merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 17:22).
The more thankful we are, the healthier we live!
Proverbs 18:14
That’s why depression will always lead to oppression. Who can bear? (Proverbs 18:14). It opens the door to the enemy, but the more grateful we are, the more joyful we become and the healthier we live.
Give the Lord praise.
Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God but was strong in faith, giving glory to God (Romans 4:20). That was a man giving birth to a child at 100, living to be 175. The secrets of men are in their stories. The more addicted we are to giving glory to God, the healthier we live because the more joyful we become and that’s a plus. - -No more emotional breakdowns for you.
-No more physical breakdowns for you.
-No more spiritual breakdowns for you. - We have also tried to examine the fact that thanksgiving is a spiritual platform for securing fulfilment of prophecies (1 Thessalonians 5:18, Hebrews 10:36).
You want to see prophecies fulfilled, be thankful. Even when it doesn’t look like anything coming, be thankful, that is the only way it will come. It won’t come except you are thankful. It won’t.
It secures fulfillment of prophecies. - Thanksgiving preserves God’s blessings in our lives (Malachi 2:2-3).
You didn’t lay it to heart – so I (God) cursed the blessing.
To preserve the blessing of God in your life, be thankful and be thankful from your heart so you don’t suffer a setback anymore in your life.
You are in this Commission, that even while we were in our wilderness years, there were no better last years, so from now in your life, there shall be no more a better last year. Every year shall be a plus on the previous in your life.
By being thankful, you cast your mind back not to be depressed, but to celebrate the good hand of God in several areas of your life. Your life is made up of several parts, several parts.
When you score an A in school, maybe you got 75 percent, so you missed 25 but it is an A. There are people now crying for missing 2 out of 1000 parts of their lives. They are crying.
Can you imagine a child crying and sobbing that He made a First Class?
Why?
Response: I got only 90.
Then he has a problem, he needs treatment. Urgent treatment, emergency. They need Red Cross, an ambulance to carry him because it is complete madness.
I once heard from a Peugeot management staff that a Peugeot car is made up of about 3000 parts. About 1000 parts, maybe 500, anyone that goes amiss among that 500, the car will be grounded.
Your car is moving, your complaining is continuing: I can’t understand it.
You’re almost blaming God for giving you a car: you look at it, you despise it.
You look at your house: you despise it – “Should I be living in this kind of place now? Think of it. People I brought to Church, look at where they are living?”
“Hmmmn, that man was my classmate, I was smarter than him when we were in school” – Go back to school, let them re-arrange you.
I will rejoice and be glad in Him. I will lift my voice to sing praise to the Lord, this is the day He has made.
No devil can depress me, I tell you. Every day, I wake up singing, rejoicing. I don’t see the troubles, those who look to the Sun, don’t see the shadows. I don’t see the troubles.
I pray for that same grace upon your life today, to always locate a reason to celebrate your God. Always locate a reason to acknowledge your God. It is of His mercies that we are not consumed (Lamentations 3:22). We are not here by our own power or by our own strength, it is all of grace.
May no one here abuse that grace.
May no one among us the grace of God in our lives in the name of Jesus Christ.
Give Him thanks, Give Him praise, Give Him honour.
Thank You Lord for light, in Jesus precious name we have given thanks.
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