- Many are called but few choose to engage.
- Endeavour to be one of the few.
- The Midst of the Year is a revival exam.
- It shall be a month of humbling testimonies.
- The favour of Heaven will locate and decorate You.
PROMPT RESPONSE COUNTS THE MOST IN OUR WALK WITH GOD.
Peter responded promptly to the heavenly vision that he received in the house of Simeon the tanner; went to Cornelius and that opened the door of the gospel to the gentiles (Acts 10:19-21).
The Lord said to him, “go with them, doubting nothing” and Peter gathered himself together and went; that was God’s ordained access to the gentiles with the gospel. Church Gist. Prompt response!
What happened, that did not even happen on the day of Pentecost? While Peter yet spake these things, the Holy Ghost fell on all of them.
Next Level of grace came through prompt response.
On the day of Pentecost, “men and brethren, what shall we do?”
Repent (Acts 2:38). Then they repented.
This one, they repented while they were hearing and were baptized in the Holy Ghost while they still…
Next Level of grace will always show up with our prompt response to every instruction from Heaven.
Thank God for Cornelius: as soon as he heard from an angel this is what to do, he called his 2 of his soldiers and sent them forth. They met Peter there. If they had waited 2 days, Peter would have left. His entire household, his kinsmen and all of his friends stepped into the Kingdom by his prompt response (Acts 10:24).
Prompt response to scriptural instructions count the most. You don’t strike when your iron is hot, your iron will get cold and you cannot change its shape anymore.
If you are not there on your marks for a race, you have lost your place.
“On your marks, set, go”
And it is after that, that you came. Thank God for you. You don’t think of the prize, you won’t be allowed to start.
Prompt response counts the most in the race of life.
Delayed response can be devastating
Luke 19: 41-44
It can be devastating missing your time of Visitation.
The Midst of the Year is prophetically a time of divine visitation that signals a revival ordained to level out all everlasting mountains on your path, clear off all perpetual hills; turn you to a living wonder among men; change your story in a way that no effort, no human connection, no skill can make happen (Habakkuk 3:6).
How could you have failed an appraisal test and then you now get a letter of promotion! (documented testimony). How? And the letter of promotion is such that it is not explainable.
No human effort, no skill, no strength, no connection can make happen what engaging with God and His instructions will make happen in your life.
-My prayer is that no one here will miss his place, in the name of Jesus.
We had this very interesting experience at the takeoff of WOFBI in 1986. A week to the time, my wife said to me, that Monday morning, “now, the Bible School is to start next week, admission letters had been given out. Where are they going to have their lecture?”
I said humorously, “is it your School? The Owner of the School should know where they would be.”
On the spot, the Lord opened my eyes, physically and I saw a building on a particular road in Kaduna, I don’t know the name of the road but I saw the building and I saw a Church that I know that I could use that Church to describe, there is one… Church opposite that building, that is where the Bible School would be. The Lord told me, “that is where the Bible School will be.”
I got to the office that morning, “hello”, I called the person. “Get down to that place that is where the Bible School will be.” Not ‘Go and find out’ ; that is where the Bible School will be.
The Landlord was standing in front, early in the morning.
“Hello Sir, are you the Landlord of this building?”
What kind of a question?
Do Landlords stand in front of the building to hire it!
He said: No. I am not the Landlord, Jesus is the Landlord, I am just a caretaker.
“We need it for Bible School!”
Bible School, then it is free.
We got the place for free sir. For free! If we had left it, we will check it up later, the man will not be in front, somebody else would get in there, take the building and we’ll start roaming about. Roaming about for the loss of time.
- No one here will suffer devastation.
- May each one receive the grace to lay hold of this season of divine visitation and make the most of it in the name of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:13
“… quit you like men”: get smart.
Move at the sound of the whistle. The only way to win a race, ‘on your marks, set, go’, at the shot of the gun. It is the only way to be a Prize Winner.
The Lord said to Phillip, “get down on the road going to Gaza” and he got there.
“Join yourself to that chariot”; he joined up and that brought salvation to the Ethiopian eunuch, you know the story. And brought Philip to another level of Ministry. He was caught up by the Spirit and found in Azotus. Holy Ghost flight, clean (Acts 8:26-40). If he had delayed, he would miss the Ethiopian eunuch, salvation will not penetrate that region and then he would have lost his place in it.
Quit you like men, be strong (1 Corinthians 16:13).
Let me conclude this morning from where we started from.
Genesis 22:1
Every instruction is an examination.
“Take now thy son, thy only son Isaac and offer him up for a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you” – Genesis 22:2
And Abraham rose up early in the morning (Genesis 22:3)
What came out of it? Generational blessing (Genesis 22:17).
There are many of us that will encounter a sworn blessing over our generations after us in this season.
“Because you have done this thing”, that was what God said, “and you have not withheld thy only son Isaac from Me”, by myself have I sworn that in blessing I will bless thee. In multiplying, I will multiply thy seed like the sand by the sea shore and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies (Genesis 22:16-18).
My God.
Those are products of prompt response to Heaven’s instruction. Now, please see it from now that every instruction is writing an exam. You don’t change class without passing an exam. You have to pass the prescribed test to change level. You can’t move from J.S 1 to J.S 2 until you pass the J.S 1 exam. You can’t move from 100 Level to 200 Level without passing the 100 Level exam.
If you say, “you are sick”: when you are well, come and write it. They don’t use, ‘I am sick’ to change class.
“You know I have quite a number of things”: be doing your number of things, when you finish doing your number of things, come and write the test.
You don’t change class without passing the prescribed test.
-Many will change class supernaturally this time.
Endeavour to be one of the few. It is always few Sir. Always few! Many are called but few chose to engage. Many! (Matthew 22:14)
32,000: only 300
Take it away from this day, the first of July 2021, every instruction of scriptures is an exam. Until we pass it, we are not entitled for a change of level.
The Midst of the Year is a revival exam, until you choose to pass that exam, it does not leave an impact on your life.
Until you start engaging with code 633, life remains a struggle (Matthew 6:33).
Somebody greet me, anytime Shiloh was coming, like we are going for a ceremony, are you hearing what I am saying! I get so grieved: Ceremony! We are going to a mountain of encounters and mountain of voices. We are not going there for a ceremony. It is not anniversary.
“And the land was subdued before them.” We are going to the front, the warfront, to secure our seal of dominion and regain command where we have lost it.
No one can change your class. Promotion does not come from the East or from the West, God is the Judge of all, He is the Chief Examiner. He sets one up and He brings another one down (Psalm 75:6-7).
-You are the one God will set up this time.
-You are the one that He will qualify for change of level as you engage in truth and in deed. That is what happens.
Revelation 22:12
Prayer: Pray a revival prayer to maximise these few weeks remaining. Pray that prayer, Lord, engrace me to maximise this season, engrace me to be awake. Engrace me to quit like men in my pursuit of the demands of this hour.
Lift up your voice and pray. No quiet prayer, pray for grace to maximise the blessedness of this season by engaging with the demands of this hour.
Take that grace, everybody. Take that grace from Heaven. Engrace me to stay awake.
Thank You Jesus, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
There were 4 times of enlistment in Matthew chapter 20: early in the morning, 3rd hour, 6th hour, 9th hour, 11th hour and closed the shop. There is a limit of time you have for enlistment. When that time is gone, it is gone.
In our case here, we have an eight-week operation:
First two weeks – early hour.
Second two weeks – third hour.
Third 2 weeks – sixth hour
And the last. You don’t get enlisted, you have lost that chance. Now I pray that the Lord will grant you grace to dive into the remaining days and secure your minimum two standing souls. You can be present in Services forever, it won’t make a difference.
That you went to an exam hall, does not qualify you to change class: you must pass. It is not that “I was present.” Your presence is not…they don’t mark presence, they mark your scores, your facts. You must get the marks to change your class.
-This season will not leave you behind.
-This month your most fruitful spiritual month.
-It will be your most humbling month of testimonies.
-Somethings will come your way this month that will cause you tears in the public. It shall be uncontrollable tears of joy.
-It shall be ‘What have I done to merit this?’
-It shall be ‘God what is this?’. O God, what is this?
You know Peter said, “depart from me, I am sinful man. I am not entitled to this kind of thing.’
God will make you to laugh and all that hear will laugh with you (Genesis 21:6).
So go after your target souls with passionate prayers, passionate pursuit, passionate calls.
Be part of the ongoing Cell Growth and Replication.
God told me, “tell them to embark on Cell based neighbourhood outreach. Fill the Cells, replicate again. Move them to the Zones, ultimately to the Church.”
Every new convert, every first timer, we will take responsibility to get them down to Church. Whether the devil likes it or not, on or before August 31st the wind of Heaven will blow and this Church shall be minimum twice its highest monthly attendance to the glory of God.
Thank God for the grace to be a partaker of this wave of glory. Thank You Lord. Give Him thanks for the privilege to be a partaker of this awesome wave of glory, of the Midst of the Year. Celebrate Him in Jesus Precious name.
-The month is declared your month.
-It shall be absolutely crisis free.
-It shall be a month of humbling testimonies.
-The favour of Heaven will locate You.
-The favour of Heaven will decorate You.
-Everyone around You will know you are not serving God in vain.
-My God is changing your story in response to your obedience.
-Whatever the Lord does shall be forever. You will never suffer a reversal and so shall it be.
-I decree your families blessed, your health blessed, the health of your household blessed, your business is blessed, your career blessed, your children blessed in the name of Jesus.
-All the proclaimed blessings of today will come to you and overtake you.
-As you continue to obey every instruction from Heaven, you will never lack a testimony to share.
Give God thanks.
Happy, Happy New Month to everyone. Give the Lord a big clap of praise. We made it. You made it to the month of July. Come on, give Him the biggest clap of praise.
You made it to the shame of the devil, to the month of July.
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