GATEWAYS TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE PART 4 – Bishop David Oyedepo at Second Covenant Day of Favour Service || First Sunday Service || Faith Tabernacle Canaanland

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WE JUST SAW THE WONDERS AT THE ARK PROJECT, IT IS NO MAN’S WORK.

THE ROOF ISSUE IS SETTLED, THE AIR CONDITIONERS ARE SETTLED, MANUFACTURING IS COMPLETE AND SHIPMENT TO BEGIN. ESCALATORS AND ELEVATORS CONCLUDED. WHAT KIND OF MYSTERY?

 THE WORD BROUGHT IT TO BE WITH PLEASURE, ZERO PRESSURE. NO GAMES, NO GIMMICKS.

 WHATEVER THE WORD DECLARES THE WORD CREATES WHEN RECEIVED AND BELIEVED.

WE CAME UNDER AN OPEN HEAVEN THROUGH THE MYSTERY OF CORPORATE TITHING.

 THAT IS THE STORY BEHIND OUR UNEXPLAINABLE BUT UNDENIABLE FINANCIAL FORTUNE

STOP GOING TO GREEK AND HEBREW (TRANSLATION) BECAUSE YOU DON’T WANT TO DO WHAT GOD SAYS.

ONLY PEOPLE WITH GENUINE KINGDOM DREAMS EXPERIENCE A FINANCIAL BOOM IN THE KINGDOM.

GENUINE KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT DREAMS ARE THE COVENANT HIGHWAY TO REALMS OF FINANCIAL BOOM IN THE KINGDOM.

IF ONE IS NOT A GIVER, HE CAN BE A PRAYER WARRIOR HE WILL SOON BE WORN OUT. ONLY GIVERS ARE BY COVENANT ENTITLED TO ABUNDANCE.

I HAVE NEVER LEARNT ONE THING OF GREEK OR HEBREW. THIS “THUS SAITH THE LORD” IS HELPING MY LIFE, SETTLE WITH IT.

THEY HAVE WATERED DOWN TOO MANY THINGS JUST TO TRASH THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE SPIRIT.

–    Bishop David Oyedepo on “GATEWAYS TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE PART 4” at Second Covenant Day of Favour Service || First Sunday Service || Faith Tabernacle Canaanland

I pray against the assault of the spirit of slumber this morning because God has ordained your getting on the covenant highways this year. May you never be found sleeping when your light comes. Just imagine that Bartimaeus was asleep when Jesus was passing by. He would have died a blind man. Just imagine the paralytic who has kept his bed for 8 years was dozing when Jesus came to town. He would have died of his stroke. He was awake to seize the opportunity. 🎶Jesus is passing this way. He is passing this way today🎶 There are many sleepy giants in the Body of Christ who can’t see opportunity when they pass by them. Church Gist. We circulated a publication some time ago ‘Wonders of Divine Opportunities‘. Some may not have read it. May each come alive today to catch His Word. The Lord sent a word to Jacob, it transformed him into a nation. May you catch your own word today. When the word of Joseph came, he stepped into a realm of multiple changes of stories. We live in a kingdom of covenant realities, you can’t catch what he says to do and commit to doing it in faith without seeing what he says to bring about. Next to salvation, Word encounter is the most valuable asset in our kingdom adventure. A word in season, the Word that liberates, a word that enthrones.

Prayer: Lord deliver me from the spirit of slumber. I must make the most of my kingdom adventure. Church Gist. I must make it triumphantly and I must make it to the end. Let me be awake to catch that Word you have sent my way.

Lord Jesus speak to us today, let each one return with a treasure of your word in their hands. Church Gist. Let such words establish everyone’s future and let it culminate in eternity.

 It is word encounters that launches believers into the covenant highways of life. Isaiah 55:8-11. The ways of God launch you into the covenant highways of life. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. Stay awake! Stay awake! We just saw now the wonders at the ark project, it is no man’s work. The Word brought it to be with pleasure, zero pressure. No games, no gimmicks. Do you know why? Whatever the Word declares the Word creates when received and believed. Whatever the Word declares and a man receives and believes it, it creates itself.

“The same way I open the heaven over individuals through tithing, I open the heaven of institutions, companies and including churches”. The Word came to me on September 4th 1987 and God opened the heavens over this church. We were worth less than a million in a year when the word came. Through faith, we understand that worlds were framed by the Word of God. Nothing creates your world like the Word encounters you have. We came under an open heaven through the mystery of corporate tithing. Church Gist. ‘No! Don’t tell me that’ God told you that, if you like don’t get it.  I can tell the time, the date and what happened. Word Encounters are real, don’t sit down religiously in Church. That is the story behind our unexplainable but undeniable financial fortune. We just got the key to an open heaven and we engaged the key and the heavens opened. You can’t be angry about that. Any devil angry about that can go for it.

The Word came to me on my personal prosperity on March 22 1982 and I knew I can never be poor. I understood what the terms of the covenant was and I committed myself to engage with it. I have never begged or borrowed. 41 years have come and gone and I have never fasted for lack of food to eat. What I sow today by grace in offerings, ‘who dash monkey banana’. Church Gist. You better be faithful from where you are and see God changing your story. Anybody who says I cheated him, let him go to hell. On what? People have cheated you and we have helped you to pay, what did I cheat you for? Somebody’s story is changing. I cannot receive the Word for you and I can not believe the Word for you. The just shall live by his faith not by the faith of his pastor. You shall know the truth, it is not what your pastor knows. He tells you what He knows, if you care for it, you adopt or, if you don’t care you trash it.

Years ago by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, I said life is a product of an individual’s adventure. The Lord told me “you are absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life” not one woman in the village, not one white woman or black woman. Everybody in the kingdom is absolutely responsible for the outcome of his life. Our greatest asset is the Word after we are saved. Church Gist. It is what creates your future and delivers your desire. It is your only access to your inheritance in redemption. Acts 20:32. You can’t get it outside the Word. So let the Word of God have a hold on you and watch how gorgeous the future will be.

Now, Operation Hit Your Target is a word from the Lord. You may embrace it, you may reject it. It is all a choice. I got some folks around yesterday in my house and seven of them gave their lives to Christ. You could see the eagerness. Let me tell you this, many don’t know the proof of salvation. They don’t know so they can’t tell whether they are saved or not. Acts 3:19. Until you repent you cannot be converted, many have not repented so when will they be converted? And a time of refreshing has never come, they are still under the same old pressure. I got saved 54 years ago. I knew the meaning of time of refreshing and the time of refreshing hasn’t gone. Church Gist. The kingdom of God is not in meat and drink but in righteousness, in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. That is the time of refreshing. When you get into the kingdom, doing things that please God becomes your desire, then the peace that passes all understanding comes your way and joy unstoppable and full of glory. If you have not repented, you can not be converted. You cannot experience a time of refreshing. The proofs of salvation are all there in Galatians 5:22-23. Church Gist. Those are the fruit. The components of the fruit of the spirit are that when your spirit is now born again it begins to manifest these characteristics. Not only God knows that I am saved. You should know, others around you should know. It is a brand new day. Fourteen people working in our premises went through Foundation Class through Operation Hit Your Target and got baptized in water and eleven of them got baptized in the Holy Ghost. Your target around you. While you are grumbling, the opportunity is passing you by. Jesus is passing this way. 

Open up, God has no other way of reaching you and me other than outside His Word. God has no other way of reaching us. It is His Word that connects us to His blessings. All these blessings will come to you when you hearken to my voice and observe to do it. All these blessings will overtake you. So access to His blessings is His word at work in your life. Some will never line up with corporate tithing so they keep on struggling corporately. Church Gist. The roof issue is settled, the air conditioners settled, manufacturing is complete, shipment to begin. Escalators and elevators concluded. What kind of mystery? From now the favour of heaven will start rewriting your story. Your obedience of faith will launch you into realms of blessings that cannot be explained. 

Any leader who can’t say follow me the way I follow the Word, Jesus said, is not a leader. The covenant we have been struggling with since the month began, it was three days I got it. Three days of sitting down to read. Three days of praying for God to show me the secret and of learning at the feet of Jesus. We have been here one month and you just write notes and walk away. Church Gist. You can imagine if there were no exams in school, people would be writing junk in class. Like in church, there is no exam so I can be saying something and you are writing a note to your friend. Three days only. One early morning just worshipping Jesus, Hebrews 7:1-8 came alive.

Life is orderly, God created an orderly world. Be orderly in your life. Find out what God is saying about you and stay with it. You can’t fight God to go forward, He is the only Helper you have.

GATEWAYS TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE.

We are closing this series this morning but it is the beginning of a new phase of your life. Financial issues will become the least of concern to you from henceforth because God will visit you with favour in response to your obedience. Gateways to Financial Fortune, we have said over and again that God will only entrust his riches into the hands of those He can trust to use such wealth for His purpose. Church Gist. Luke 16:11. Only people with genuine kingdom dreams, experience a financial boom in the kingdom. It was in the heart of David my father to build God a house and God said “thou doest well”. 1 King 8:17. You always do well when kingdom advancement is genuinely in your heart. When your heart is full of kingdom advancement dreams, you step into realms of financial boom as he helped me to.

Before I got the first bank account in my life, I had already desired that “God if you ever bless me, I want to be part of building you churches”. Building churches? How? You don’t have a plot of land and you are talking of churches. How? That is all. And in enlarging my dream, Lord I want to honour you with 1000 churches before I leave this earth. Not the ones my children and grandchildren will be building, but me by myself contributing a thousand churches for your kingdom. Church Gist. So don’t blame God for enriching me. Genuine kingdom advancement dreams are the covenant highway to realms of financial boom in the kingdom. Write it down and quote it to yourself because that is where you are going. An army of financial giants is rising in this Church, may your place not be lost to another.

Can I trust you with my wealth? God is asking. Yes Lord, you can. Okay, what are your dreams? Silence. Okay, when you have one let me know. Our giving is not a financial donation to help a church, a ministry or a minister. Our giving is a spiritual transaction that releases heavenly blessings on our lives. Abraham and Noah reared an altar of sacrifice and God smelled a good savour in heaven and said I will no longer curse the ground for man’s sake. Genesis 8:20-22. Church Gist. Abraham took Isaac to offer him as a sacrifice and God answered from heaven twice and God swore a blessing. It was a transaction between the earth and heaven. David reared a sacrifice unto God at the threshing floor of Onan in 2 Samuel 24:24-25. God said to the angel “Enough! stay now thy hand”. There was a response from heaven. So our seeds are not contributions or donations to Churches, or dole out to the needy. You give to the needy, you lend to the Lord and what you have given He will give you back. When that is behind our minds, we are on our way to enjoying a lifestyle of giving. Because heaven is reckoning with our giving and determines the unleashing of his blessings in our lives.

How Powerful is the Covenant?

God’s covenant is eternally binding on all issues as His covenant of the day and the night. Until the day and the night stop being what they are, every covenant of scriptures remains in force. Jeremiah 33:20-21. Church Gist. That means ‘my covenant with the redeemed is as binding as my covenant with the day and the night’. Anytime you wake and you see the sun, know that my covenant is still in force. You look up in the night and you see the moon, know that my covenant is still in force. My God, I shouted, “Ye! I can never be poor!”. Is this reliable? Highly reliable. Awesome God!

So the covenant of wealth is God’s bailout agenda from harsh economic situations. Deuteronomy 8:18. God empowers His people for wealth on the basis of His covenant, not your views or my views. That one is preaching it does not guarantee its effect, the terms of the covenant must be kept not preached. We are empowered from wealth on the basis of His covenant. It is not a church doctrine, it is His covenant. Church Gist. Like we were told in the offering, in the days of famine you shall be satisfied. In the evil time when nothing is working, you shall be satisfied. That is the realm your Church is operating in. That is your realm that God has ordained for you. The days of thinking what to eat next for lack of those things are over in your life.

Let’s look at a few things to note as we embark on this covenant journey.

Terms of The Covenant of Financial Fortune.

Let us recognise that giving is the anchor law that launches believers into the realm of financial fortune. Job 21:22-23, 22:21-25. The Law is “while the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest shall not cease. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8. Giving is sowing. That is the anchor law, if one is not a giver, he can be a prayer warrior he will still be worn out. Only givers are by covenant entitled to abundance. Give and it shall be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over shall God mobilize to come in your direction. Luke 6:38. You can’t rewrite the scripture, you cannot rewrite the Bible so stop wasting your time. Stop going to Greek and Hebrew because you don’t want to do what God says. I have never learnt one thing of Greek or Hebrew. This “thus saith the Lord” is helping my life, settle with it. They have watered down too many things just to trash the truth because they are not of the spirit. You receive the law from His mouth, you lay up His Words in your heart, then you shall lay up gold as dust.

Our giving must be done according to the covenant rules for guaranteed returns. Lay up His words in your heart. This is what will make it work. Church Gist. This is the law but this is how to maximize the effect of the law. These laws include:

1.    Give willingly.

God is not in need. 2 Corinthians 8:12. Giving willingly, if you watch the first offering ever raised in scriptures in Exodus 35 “whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring an offering unto the Lord”. Exodus 35:21. God is not a beggar, He doesn’t need you or me. Church Gist. Let it be willingly done or it is wasted. I have never been under pressure to give in my life yet I am prospering. I give out of a willing heart. I am not trying to test God whether He will do what He says or not.

Give cheerfully, God loves a cheerful giver.

Those folks in Malachi 3:15 “we have walked mournfully before you”. Church Gist. Some were giving tithes, some were giving offerings but they were giving mournfully, no cheerfulness so everything is lost. Joel 1:12. Do it joyfully or you are wasting it.

3. Give tirelessly.

The year a farmer stops sowing is the year he stops harvesting. Keep at it. I told you before that in 1984, our total income in Church was 18,000+ my own tithe was there, my own offering was there. That was our level, every one of us. A number of us stayed on, a number of us backed out with time. Church Gist. Those who stayed on are reaping the blessings today. Stay on, start from where you are and stay on. Galatians 6:9. Only sowers become reapers. When you sow tirelessly, you are bound to reap it in due season if you faint not. Ecclesiastes 7:1.

4. Sow on a good ground

Deuteronomy 12:14. Find where God has chosen for your seed to grow and then you begin to get amazing returns. Good ground not where there is anger and avarice and ‘we don’t believe in prosperity’ then there is nothing you give that will work. Church Gist. That which fell on good ground went on to bring forth fruit, all the others that fell by the wayside, among the thorns and upon the rock, nothing came back but that which fell on good ground brought forth much fruit, so locate good ground for your seed.

5. Water your seed with Thanksgiving.

Proverbs 12:14. He will have returns when he engages the fruit of his mouth. Let’s find out what the fruit of the mouth is. Hebrews 13:15. It is not enough to be a seed sower, you must be a thanks giver for your seed to command effect. You must be a thanksgiver. Church Gist. There are many givers who are murmurers and complainers. They burnt off their harvest without knowing. Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin. Ecclesiastes 5:6.

We are just doing the summary of the teaching for the month. There are quite a number of other factors.

Lay up His words in your heart. Job 22:23-24. The second thing to take note of is that we must beware of enemies of financial fortune in the covenant. Church Gist. Ecclesiastes 10:15. Let’s mind enemies of our financial fortune heritage, so we don’t fall victim to them.

1.    Lack of financial integrity will rob anyone of his financial fortune heritage.

Jeremiah 17:11. God showed me that at the age of 20 and my simple understanding is that don’t take anything that is not yours or it will cut down on your lifespan. I was 20 years old when God opened this scripture to me. Now I am grateful to God today, not a dime of your church money is in my pocket. I got the signal long before I was called to ministry. As I was worshipping God in His Word. Luke 16:11. Church Gist.  You are working in a company, don’t drain the company, you are working with a relation, don’t drain the business. Live straight, my friend. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the thief. Zechariah 5:4. Don’t attract curses to your life. Be content with such things as you have and watch how God will keep changing your story.

Somebody was living with his sister, married with four children in a room and parlour and suddenly heavens came and launched him into a three-bedroom detached house, fully furnished. Church Gist. How? Your time is coming. If you check that young man, he has not cheated on his sister’s business and God gave him a shop six times the size of his sister’s. Mark a faithful man today, He shall be fruitful tomorrow.

2.    Slothfulness.

A state of doing nothing. It confers poverty, lack and want. Oh! I have not found a job. Whatever your hand finds to do now, do it. Be doing what your hand finds to do now then what you are looking forward to and beyond it will come your way in the process. Church Gist. Don’t be caught doing nothing. Ecclesiastes 10:18. Proverbs 20:4. If you are not a worker, you end up a beggar. Whatever your hands findeth to do, do it with all your might.

A young man in Liberia read one of those Wisdom Diaries clips that we had and caught on page 4 of it that when you are not working, you are dying without knowing. It struck him, he had 100 Liberian dollars, he bought polish, bought a shoe brush and became a shoe shiner. God changed his story because he had finished computer training and all that but no job. Church Gist. His story changed dramatically, from that point he began to grow. He had a storey building in that place. A storey building at that time was a treasure. He became a big-time giver in the kingdom because of waging war against doing nothing, there is nothing in doing nothing. Proverbs 6:6-11. Poverty won’t come your way.

3.    Covetousness

Beware of covetousness for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of what he possesses. Go and grow at His pace so you don’t lose your peace. You just watched your Church now building a 100,000 sanctuary, we were in a batcher. Not just batcher, grass-built batcher in Kaduna. We used to excite ourselves by saying ”this is the largest grass cathedral in the world”. Church Gist. It was a grass cathedral that gradually became a building and then became buildings and became outstanding estates. From a batcher! Start from where you are and enjoy every phase of your life. Don’t run another man’s race. “All my mates have built houses,” they say “come and join us we push drugs. You can’t be doing all these things you are doing and expect to have fortune. If they catch you good luck, if they don’t catch you good luck”. You just follow them into hell straight.

Achan said, “I saw two talents of gold, I coveted it and I took it”. The entire lineage was destroyed. No one here will destroy their lineage. Godliness with contentment is great gain. Contentment is the cure for covetousness.

4.    Nonchalant attitude to kingdom advancement opportunities.

‘What concerns me? Am I a pastor? What is my business?’. Pay somebody’s transportation to church, no! If they can’t go to church, they shouldn’t come. Lack of genuine commitment to kingdom advancement opportunities. They come our way over and again, many ignore them. Only few embrace it. Church Gist.  I know one of our precious people who was paying for their Zonal transportation from the U.S. He relocated and was committed to paying it. Haggai 1:5-14. Don’t let opportunities of kingdom advancement endeavours elude you, rise up to it, embrace it at your level per time.

Finally, let’s look at some Fringe Benefits of Covenant Practice.

The covenant of abundance does not only guarantee financial returns but terminate all issues that create sorrow in our lives. For the blessings of the Lord maketh rich and adds no sorrow with it. Philippians 4:15-19. Church Gist. Our commitment to covenant practice guarantees the supply of all our needs and all our needs are not money. Health is a greater need than money. Money loses value when your health is challenged, how many believe that?

Among the fringe benefits of covenant practice, we have:

1.    It secures a healthy life. Divine health.

Psalm 41:1-3. Can money deliver anyone in the day of trouble? For considering the poor, somebody is challenged in his health and you rise up to the occasion as enabled by God. Church Gist. He said “do you know what you are doing? You are committing me to meet all your needs that money can’t buy. Money can’t buy health.

2.    It averts curses and plagues.

Most of us around the world today are under certain generational curses and plagues that are working against us continuously. When you are saved you are rescued but to stay free, plug into the covenant. Noah reared an altar of sacrifice, God averted the curse on the earth. Every generational curse will go flat when you plug into covenant practices. Church Gist. When David reared an altar of sacrifice the plague ceased, the destroyer could not continue. Every generational sickness and hereditary disease tormenting anyone’s life will cease under the covenant because His blessings maketh rich and add no sorrow. It is your turn to rejoice.

3.    It guarantees divine protection.

Psalm 20:1-3. Your prosperity can not lead to destruction. It guarantees protection.

4.    It engenders longevity

We are all the seed of Abraham by faith (Galatians 3:29). Abraham went to the grave as an old man full of days. Genesis 25:8. Church Gist. Your seed sowing elongates your life. In the name of Jesus, no one dies young among us. From henceforth, no one dies young in your lineage. There are things that money cannot buy but they are offered to us in the covenant.

5.    It stimulates joy unspeakable, full of glory.

There are quite a number of people that have a lot of means but they don’t have one trace of joy in them. Always looking morose, carrying long faces, they use antidepressants every day. You can’t be smiling under constipation. You can’t be. But giving stimulates joy. 2 Corinthians 8:1-2. Joy in the midst of poverty leading to abundance. I wish we could catch some pictures or videos of the early days of this church. Just jumping and dancing because there was no floor, so the dust was praising God as we were praising God and everybody with some hair on his head just gets brown in the service. Church Gist. Joy unspeakable, you know what? That cathedral was built with #23,000. We were all turned to builders and architects. In spite of what the world calls poverty, there was joy unspeakable full of glory. You can’t see a future and be depressed. Jesus who for the cross that was before him endured the cross, despised the shame. Now seated at the right hand of God, Majesty on High. There is a future in seed sowing, keep seeing it and you will never suffer depression in your life in the name of Jesus.

As we round up this morning, it is our last part of our Covenant Day Of Favour. Listen to this. One of the ways God blesses people is through the works of their hands. Whatsoever he doeth he shall prosper. If you multiply nothing by a thousand, it equals nothing. Multiply nothing by a million, it equals nothing. By redemption every child of God is a seed of Abraham and we saw how God blessed the works of the hands of Abraham and He is the same God today. Church Gist. Abraham departed at God’s instructions in Chapter 12, by Chapter 13, He was rich in cattle, in silver and in gold. He didn’t depart to go and sleep, He was engaging in the cattle business and God prospered the cattle business. By Chapter 14, he had an army of his own of 318 men who could take up the army of another nation. Abraham became an emperor from a nonentity. He had nothing, there was nothing to pack when he was leaving. The blessings upon Abraham are still speaking today because God blessed the work of his hand.

Every child of God is also a child of destiny like Isaac who fulfilled his glorious destiny through the blessing of God upon the work of His hand. Genesis 26:12-14. The Philistines envied him, in verse 16 they said depart from us, you are mightier than us. Church Gist. God blessed the works of His hand so that he became mightier than the nation where he lived. In the same vein, God will bless the works of your hands. Galatians 4:28.

God wants the works of our hands blessed. God still blesses the works of the hands of His people today. Malachi 3:6.

For one to experience favour on the works of his hands:

1.    One must continue to walk with God with integrity of heart and purpose.

Don’t play smart in the kingdom, it never works. Jeremiah 17:10. Don’t try to play smart with God. Don’t try to rob anybody around you. Let your life portray integrity. Psalm 112:1-3. Psalm 1:1-3. Integrity is required. Psalm 5:12. We need to endeavour to keep pleasing God in our dealings. Psalm 112:1-3. That is how to secure favour on the works of our hands.

2.    We must continue to pant after God and the interest of His kingdom with passion.

Romans 8:28. 1 Corinthians 2:9. Psalm 102:13-15. Church Gist. Fearful favour will always come the way of those who are committed to kingdom advancement endeavours.

By the prophetic blessings of the word today, expect to begin to enjoy next levels of favour from the Lord both upon your hand and the works of your hand.

Prophetic Declarations

–    The favour of God will speak on your step this week!

–    None of your businesses will crash!

–    Your career will not suffer frustration anymore!

–    The favour of God on this land will start manifesting in your life and the works of your hand!

–    The week is declared a week of recovery! It shall be a week of a brand-new beginning!

–    Your business shall experience a change of levels today!

–    As you leave this service today, you shall be receiving calls of favour!

–    God will settle every unsettled area of your life, unsettled area of the lives of your children, unsettled area of your family members, unsettled area of your spiritual life.

–    The week is declared your most fruitful week!

Be blessed. The covenant of abundance works, it will work for you.

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