Bishop David Oyedepo at WSF Leadership Empowerment Summit
(Part III)
“I’m supposed to be a man of faith and I think I am but why do I work the way I work: FAITH IS WORK.
We had a little break after the Covenant Hour of Prayer, I ran to my office in the honour entrance to do some work.”
*When you dedicate yourself to Him, He decorates you back in return.
Are their people who believe that their cells will replicate two times: does anybody believe that?
Go and prove that you believe it by checking through those testimonies; because they have their names, you can even call them, “excuse me, what should I do here? Those that I have done is not yielding.”
I gave an illustration yesterday at a meeting. I said you have hundred chickens or birds or hens in an enclosure. (Then you engage 3 persons) Maybe 100 each, 20 by 50 metres square, but they can’t see each other. You now give them 3 hours to see how many each one can catch. One succeeded in catching 23, another succeeded in catching 63, another one 83.
The one with 23 was sweating from head to toe because he was having sports with the birds. He would be running after the birds, the birds would be running, when they think he wants to catch them, they fly up a little.
The other man carried some grains along since we are to take birds and there is no restriction to what to come along with when you are coming. He throws the grains, they come, he catches them. So he got 63 within the same period.
The other one got 83. How? He carried water along with the grain: so if I throw the grain and I can’t catch you; I will put the water down and will catch you when you are drinking.
What is the difference? Strategy.
The other one got F13, one got B, the other got A within the same period; engaging unique strategies to deal with the task at hand.
You can get 83, if you employ the correct strategy for getting results.
- I pray that this time, it will be clear that Heaven has shown you the way forward, by making demand for it (Psalm 103:7, Exodus 33:13).
- People asked for it to get it: you make demands for it, to have it.
- It is not for free. You demand for it to have it.
When the lock down came, I said, “Jesus, there must be a way forward, there must be a way out of this.” The souls are perishing on the streets, they don’t have corona virus Church Gist but they need salvation.
“Show me now the way to go”; as He showed me, I knew this was the way to go. We went that way with every force within us and we returned with the kind of bumper harvest that never happened without a lock down.
- God will show you the way and may those testimonies empower you to replicate them.
Ask the Lord specifically: Show me now thy way to move the cell forward. Show me now thy way to see this cell grow supernaturally. Your ways are higher than our ways, your thoughts than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9).
Show me now thy way, your best approach in growing this Cell that is under my care.
He made His ways known unto Moses and he began to cause waves on the earth (Psalm 103:7).
A young man, Matthew Gold Ojo worked within 3 months (himself and 2 other members of his team) and saw the Cell grew to 41 from 3, in 3 months.
- Concerted, fervent prayer altar.
- Reaching out within that closed environment with zeal and zest. God said, “now, let me decorate you.”
- When you dedicate yourself to Him, He decorates you back in return.
Matthew Gold Ojo is in the US today. He had no money to buy JAMB form. Supernaturally God catapulted him to a height beyond his wildest imagination. Within 3 months, the cell grew from 3 to 41 (members) but A LOT OF WORK. Get back to that testimony, you will see the work done.
The God of 3 months is still here.
We got the same testimony from one of our Zonal Ministers: they grew the system from 20 Cells to 44 Cells in 2020, in the year of lock down. But if you go through the analysis of what they did: the spiritual investment, the material investment! Church GistWe will spend another time to do the analysis.
Faith is work. If you don’t know who to ask, ask me.
I’m supposed to be a man of faith and I think I am but why do I work the way I work: FAITH IS WORK.
We had a little break after the Covenant Hour of Prayer, I ran to my office in the honour entrance to do some work.
Faith is work: it doesn’t answer to lazy people.
Faith is work: it doesn’t respect idle people.
- May the work of faith that changes people’s story be your new lifestyle.
- That God says it and you choose to run with it, without looking back for any reason, until it delivers, that will be your portion in the name of Jesus.
- If your cell does not grow this year, you choose not to see it grow. It is not the devil. There is no darkness that can resist the authority of light. If you receive the Word and you receive the testimonies, every devil will clear off the path of that cell.
- In the name of Jesus, your Cells must grow and replicate.
We have this Mandate of ‘everywhere cell replication.’ A number of tradesmen and women, particularly in our Church: saloons, motor mechanics are always ever busy on weekends.
People want to make their hair before Sunday and get ready for work on Monday. Make their hair to be in Church.
They want to have their car fixed, so they can go to their Church and there are customers: so they are always there.
We have a job to ensure that the Ark does not leave them behind. Church Gist A number of these individuals want to be but they cannot be there. We are taking the Cell to where they live. Let’s locate in our various Zones, people in such areas and we hold very short meetings, maximum 30 minutes. They take 30 minutes off their time in that place, then we’ll have people assigned to such locations, then you can also have them spread over days.
But every week, every member of this Church, at every level has the opportunity of fellowship and to be part of what the Lord is doing in our various family units which we call WSF.
We will not again, we have been cheated over and again, attend to anyone on welfare ground without a root in the Cell. This place is too much for anybody to claim to know everybody.
We can only know people from their Cell root and that law has been passed in the Office: nobody attends to anyone that does not belong to a Cell in this place.
So that someone does not come to blow you on the face. I saw someone send some messages to me, I asked my son, check this one up. As he checked, he said, it is a scam.
What was he saying: “Daddy, Daddy.” He said, I am suspicious, a genuine Winner will not say what he is saying in this note. By the time we checked on the net: scam, beware.
For that reason, our size of Church demands that we have a grassroot identity of anyone we are dealing with.
If you had an accident and your house caught fire: naturally, anyone with a heart for God wants to jump at it, but it was a scam.
We will never be anymore committed to anyone without a root in the Cell. With that we receive messages from the Cell, to the Zone; the Zone to the Office or to the Provincial Centres.
But we are all out to be part of the joy of every single member of this family, no matter what the need may be. We are committed to your spiritual needs; we are committed to your material need and any kind of help that Jesus offers His children. It is available to members of this Household.
- The year will be a most fruitful year for every one of us.
- In our Kingdom stewardship, it shall be a most fruitful year.
- In our businesses and career, it shall be a most fruitful year.
- Serving Jesus impacts on every part of a man’s life: This year, your stewardship will impact on every aspect of your life. It will impact positively on your children, it will impact on your home, impact on the works of your hand. In the name of Jesus.
- My God will set order into every area of your life. As you are working His work, He will ensure that all things keep working together for your good.
- It shall be a year of Testimonies from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
- No one will suffer any form of spiritual dry season among us this year.
- Your spiritual life will keep blossoming and blossoming like a palm tree in the name of Jesus.
What kind of replication are you looking forward to this year?
Do you want to see God bring about growth that will make you replicate once or twice?
Do you want to take advantage of the Cell planting model, in areas that you know around you that need Jesus? There are people on hard drugs, there are street girls?
What kind of growth are you asking for? You have not because you ask not (James 4:2)
Prayer: Make your specific demands over your Cells.
God is going to surprise you. You ask specifically what you want to see and He will visit you by Himself.
You are in a unique place; He has a special package for you to make it happen.
There is a unique package for you, to make it happen: ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU WANT.
Make demands for heavenly strategies to see that desire deliver.
Show me the way to see this happen Jesus. Show me to make this happen.
Ask Him what you want to see between now and the middle of this year: ask Him specifically what you want to see in that cell between now and the end of June.
Can I tell you something that will help you: every demand that targets Kingdom advancement enjoys speedy answers from God because that is His heartbeat.
What ever you have asked for, now is declared answered in the name of Jesus.
He is the One who said, ‘seek ye first’: now you have asked what you want to see happen to His Church and the unit of it under your care; IT IS DELIVERED IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
- I pray for the blessings that accrue to those who advance His Kingdom, to start speaking in your life!
- The blessings that pertain to those who are committed to advancing His Kingdom, begin to experience them right now.
- Before the end of June, your supernatural turnaround package is becoming clearer by the day.
- Everyone will see the hand of God upon your life.
- You will be surprised at the acts of God in your life.
- The strange works and the strange acts of God will be all around you.
God has never failed to reward me once and I am speaking before Him in truth, since I signed up for Matthew 6:33. God has never ceased to reward me for my engagement at various levels. - From this year onward, you’ll never lack automatic rewards for your labour again.
Grace to remain worthy of His reward, by doing it willingly, doing it joyfully, doing it faithfully, doing it diligently, doing it sacrificially and doing it tirelessly. May that grace for doing it acceptably, be released upon everyone’s life
Hebrews 12:28
Grace to serve God acceptably and with godly fear: what you say outside is what you are doing inside.
Grace to serve God righteously, in the fear of God
Grace to serve Him acceptably, that makes our stewardship rewardable, receive it.
Grace to serve Jesus acceptably and ‘rewardably’: receive it.
Grace to serve Him with joyfulness and gladness of heart; not murmurings and complaining: receive it now.
Grace to serve Him ‘focusedly’: receive it now.
Grace to serve Him diligently: receive it now.
Grace to serve Him sacrificially: receive it now.
Grace to serve Him dedicatedly: receive it now.
It is done.
You know what I saw in those testimonies? I know a number of them: some are youth, some are fathers, one or two are grandfathers. It covers everybody. - Grace to serve God with results this year, is your portion.
- Grace to serve God with proofs is your portion.
IMPARTATION
Put your right hand on your forehead:
- I decree the release of this multi-faceted grace that we have decree by prophecies, to be released into your life.
- It shall be a year with a difference.
- There shall be no concerns in your homes.
- There shall be no concerns over your spouse. No concerns over your business, no concerns over your career.
- It shall be a year dedicated to Jesus and it culminate in your distinction. It will result in your turnaround testimonies in the name of Jesus.
- It shall be your year of all-round testimonies.
- The God of this Commission will decorate you. As you dedicate yourself to His cause, He will decorate you in return.
I will like to remind you of the special opportunity that we have at the 3-day special WOFBI course from Tuesday to Thursday (2nd to 4th February 2021).
We are on this very vital subject: Covenant Business Startups
A right start will always lead to great results. Let’s see how God says we should embark on any venture profitably from the onset.
That applies to all those that have begun some new businesses and want to find a firm foundation in the covenant for it;
For those who are about starting a new business.
It will be a lot of blessing for you. We have 15 modules of presentation in each course and it will be a lot of blessing because light is sweet, it is a beautiful thing for the eyes to behold the sun.
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