MANY WHO ARE BORN AGAIN ARE STILL STRUGGLING IN SOFT TIMES; HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE IN HARD TIMES?
IN THIS SHILOH GOD WILL REWRITE YOUR STORY
THIS SHALL BE A BAILOUT SHILOH FOR EVERY ONE OF US
BEHIND THE DIVERSE MANIFESTATIONS AND TESTIMONIES THAT WE HEAR AT SHILOH IS JESUS.
EVERYTHING THAT IS MARVELLOUS AND ENVIABLE ABOUT THIS COMMISSION IS JESUS
NOTHING EVER TAKES GOD BY SURPRISE. HE IS AHEAD OF TIME.
BEHIND THE STRUGGLES OF THE REDEEMED IS LACK OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD
NOTHING FLIES IN HARD TIMES LIKE THE FEAR OF THE LORD
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE CUSTODIAN OF EVERY GREAT DESTINY IN THE KINGDOM
WE ARE IN THE TIME THAT EVERYBODY WILL NEED REVELATION TO ESCAPE THE HORROR OF THE DAY
GOD WILL BE REVEALING THINGS TO US HERE BUT YOU CAN’T ACCESS THEM EXCEPT YOU’RE ON KEY
THE SURE FOUNDATION OF EVERY GREAT DESTINY IN THE KINGDOM IS A DELIBERATE DEPARTURE FROM WHATEVER DISPLACES GOD
NO ONE CAN EVER COMMAND THE SUPERNATURAL ABOVE HIS SPIRITUALITY
ACTIVITY IS NOT THE SAME AS SPIRITUALITY
A CALLING IS NOT THE SAME AS SPIRITUALITY
WHAT THEN IS SPIRITUALITY?
A CRAVE FOR GODLY LIVING
A CRAVE TO PLEASE GOD AT ALL COSTS
WE LOSE EVERYTHING WHEN WE LOSE OUR PLACE AND STAND WITH GOD
THERE IS NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE WHERE SIN IS JUSTIFIED.
MANY ARE TEACHING AND PREACHING TO PLEASE PEOPLE. THEY GET THEM IN CHURCH, COLLECT THEIR OFFERINGS AND DON’T PREACH THE TRUTH.
WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
A FAITH-DRIVEN DETERMINATION TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE.
WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
DELIGHTSOME OBEDIENCE TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF SCRIPTURES
– Bishop David Oyedepo on GATEWAYS TO FLOURISHING IN HARD TIMES – A CALL FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL TOWARDS FLOURISHING IN HARD TIMES at SHILOH 2023 Day One, Opening Night || REDEEMED TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland.
Another Shiloh is here! The One who was at the first one some twenty five years ago is also here today.
– May His presence impact each one’s life in an unforgettable way.
– May everything reserved for each one of us here and around the world at this time come through without sweat.
We have seen things by the hand of God ever since Shiloh commenced. Confirmation of His Word and He is still here.
-May every Word that comes through in your direction enjoy speedy confirmation. Church Gist.
-This shall be a bailout Shiloh for each one of us.
– The sun shall no more smite thee by day.
– God will rewrite your story.
Lift your two hands and express your personal expectations to Him tonight. Church Gist. Let Him know why you are here, let Him know what you are looking forward to.
Let’s in acknowledgement of Jesus sing this our anthem of gratitude to God. All The Glory Must Be To The Lord. Behind everything good happening here till date is Jesus. Behind the diverse manifestations and testimonies that we hear at Shiloh is Jesus. Church Gist. Behind the light that came our way from time to time since Shiloh began is Jesus. Everything that is marvellous and enviable in our midst is Jesus. Everything great about your life is Jesus, everything great about this Commission is Jesus. All the glory must be to the Lord. Let’s worship Him with that song.
Thank you Jesus. We acknowledge you behind all of the glorious events. We have been experiencing God’s power. Church Gist. Now speak to us and let there be a mighty visitation tonight in the name of Jesus Christ.
By the prompting of the Holy Spirit, I will be taking us on a journey captioned GATEWAYS TO FLOURISHING IN HARD TIMES.
Nothing ever takes God by surprise. He is ahead of time. He knows the end from the beginning. Including the hard times and He has a plan to rescue His people from it. Church Gist. We shall be exploring in all of the sessions the way out of the horror, the key to our exemption from this heat.
I have a prompting to give us a foundation for what will be happening tonight. If the foundation is destroyed the righteous can do nothing. Our rescue begins with salvation but demands spiritual renewal for delivery. Hebrews 2:3. Our escape begins with salvation, we are rescued from the kingdom of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Church Gist. We are rescued but we have to maintain the required spiritual state to actualize it. That is why many people who are born again are still struggling for survival even in soft times. How will they survive hard times?
Part 1 of this series is captioned A CALL FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL TOWARDS FLOURISHING IN HARD TIMES. Proverbs 13:15. Isaiah 3:10-11.
Behind the struggles of the redeemed is lack of the fear of the Lord. Nothing flies in hard times like the fear of the Lord. Joseph flourished as a slave, flourished as a prisoner, on one platform – “but I fear God”. Genesis 42:18. Church Gist. Nothing flies in hard times like the fear of God at work in a man. The man Daniel was indestructible because he walked in the fear of God. Daniel 6:4-5. Daniel 1:8. So, the fear of God gave him his place in space. The King thought to put him over the whole realm. Remember Psalm 25:14. Church Gist. So, He showed him the secret, which took him on a flight and because he maintained the fear of the Lord, he remained in flight. Nothing flies in hard times like the fear of the Lord. This is why spirituality or the fear of the Lord is the custodian of every great destiny in the Kingdom. 1 Corinthians 3:11. 2 Timothy 2:19-21. Church Gist. Every great destiny in the Kingdom has its root in the fear of the Lord.
I’d like to tell you why we are starting this way. Revelation is inaccessible without the fear of the Lord. Revelation is short circuited without the fear of the Lord. Psalm 25:14. Church Gist. The secret things belong to God, only what He shows, you can access. Deuteronomy 29:29. He will only show His covenant to them that fear Him. What you hear and read is not the same thing as what He shows. That’s why you sit down in a place, the same meeting, somebody has caught some light that turns his life around like a dream of the night, somebody else didn’t know what was happening. Church Gist. He didn’t have an idea. He’s not giving him. It’s time to renew our spiritual altar. We are in the time that everybody will need revelation to escape the horror of the day. 1 Corinthians 2:14. You can’t be carnal and access these things. It’s time to clean up to secure your great future. Church Gist. Today, you hardly can differentiate between a Christian and a non-Christian anymore. In those days when you mess up, they say, “and you call yourself a Christian?” There’s no such thing anymore. People are just reading the Bible like newspapers, nothing is going in. There’s no refreshing, there’s no impact because they are only reading stories, they have no access to the mysteries. Psalm 25:14. Church Gist. It’s important to get back to the foundation sir. These games are too much. Now, “there’s nothing you do, God just loves you”. What a lie! He turned His back on Solomon, His lover. “Anything you do doesn’t matter”, wait (laughs). It’s time to return. God will be revealing things to us here but you can’t access them except you’re on key. You’ll hear it but you won’t see it and only what you see, He will give it to you. Church Gist
“As far as your eyes can see, unto you will I give it”. Proverbs 1:23. There’s need for a turning if you must have to see what God is showing you.
The sure foundation of every great destiny in the Kingdom is a deliberate departure from whatever displaces God. No believer’s life can ever be more fulfilling than his spiritual. Romans 8:6. No one can ever prosper and sustain prosperity beyond the spirituality. Church Gist. Please listen to me, there are too many “God blessed me yesterday, I can’t see it again today” (laughs). We need to reposition, we need a reorientation to sustain the blessings of God. 3 John 1:2. To the level of your spiritual prosperity. No one can command the supernatural than the spiritual. Those Sons of Sceva said, “come out in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches”. Church Gist. The devil pounced on them and messed them up. Now, watch; Gehazi was given a rod by Elisha to go lay on the dead. He came back and said, “he waketh not”. He can’t wake, he won’t wake. He was not a worthy vessel through whom that can happen. He wouldn’t wake and we saw why – his eyes were on money. “Ah, my Master has spared this man, I will run after him. I must take something from him”. Jeremiah 17:9-10. Church Gist. No one can ever command the supernatural above his spirituality. Let’s give appropriate attention to the foundation of our faith to secure the beauty and the colour of our destiny. Matthew 1:21. Church Gist. That hasn’t changed no matter who is preaching something else. Gehazi got Naaman’s leprosy back as his return.
No one can flourish in hard times than the spiritual. Psalm 37:18-19. Hypocrisy does not fly with God. Church Gist. We must get back on key to realize God’s agenda for these times of uncertainty.
Psalm 33:18,19. ‘His eyes are upon them that fear Him’ Not people playing games around.
– You won’t feel the heat o!
Somebody says ‘Now, let’s tell ourselves the truth. If the whole Earth burns like an oven, how can some people say they won’t feel it?’ Wait. Egypt burned like an oven under the wrath of God. Israel never felt it, God’s people never felt it. There was thick darkness in the same Nation and bright light in another part of it. They never felt it. All their crops were destroyed overnight, not one field of God’s people was destroyed. Church Gist. All their cattle were destroyed, but not one of their cattle was missing. Exodus 9.6. There are people who will never feel the heat, no matter the temperature, sir.
-God who brought Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, out of the fiery furnace, live, without the smell of fire on them, He has a plan for you. He has a plan for you!
I have zero fear about tomorrow, sir. We didn’t get here by tricks. Zero fear. What has not made me to beg in 41 years, or tempted to, my friend, it’s real. This thing is real.
– Your days of struggling are over!
What has not made me to pray for money? I have not prayed for money. This is my mouth, this is God. That ‘God, today, today, remember me’ Not once. The Moon has no light of its own. Church Gist. It only aligns to a particular angle to the Sun and what we call the moonlight is a reflection of the light from the Sun. Jesus is the Sun of righteousness, when we align with Him, we reflect His glory without sweat.
– In the name of Jesus, whatever is cutting short your access to God’s agenda for this hour, I command an end to it all.
– The good news is this, listen to me. If it is the Blessing of God, no devil can revert it.
Genesis 12:3. You don’t have to spend time saying, ‘I cast you out devil’ They cast themselves out. No! If it is the Blessing of God, it does not know reversal. God’s blessings know no reversal.
– You won’t suffer reversals anymore.
Is somebody blessed here tonight? Give the Lord a big hand of praise.
This is why the devil is trying to inject unrighteousness into the Church so as to keep us away from our inheritance and bring us under the same pressure of the World around us. No one can exercise spiritual authority above, or than he is spiritual. You can’t. You don’t achieve authority, it is conferred. Church Gist. ‘Well done faithful servant. You are faithful over very few things. Now have authority over 10 cities’ You don’t achieve authority, it is conferred on people. Amen. So, it is so important. We lose everything when we lose our place and stand with God. We lose everything.
Samson rose up from Delilah’s lap, wanted to stand up like before, the grace had departed. He was the one-man army of Israel. The grace departed and they took knife and ripped out his 2 eyes. The grace has gone, the grace left when the fear of God left. Judges 16:21. No one can be any more honourable in the Kingdom than he is spiritual. Church Gist. 2 Timothy 2:21. So, honour demands the fear of God for delivery. It’s our birthright, we are loaded with it. We can’t manifest it without the fear of God. No one’s stewardship can be any more profitable than he is spiritual. Matthew 7:21-23. Activity is not the same as spirituality, no. Sir, a calling is not same as spirituality, no.
God will be showing us great things on this Ground. He will be throwing lifelines in our direction, but to be able to see it, you need to clean up. We need to clean up.
What then is spirituality?
A crave for godly living. Exercising oneself unto godliness as a way of life. A crave for godliness. 1 Timothy 4:7,8.
A crave to please God at all cost. John 8:29. I retain His presence because I’m committed to doing things that please Him. That’s what Jesus said. Hebrews 12:4. It’s not a thing to toy…it’s not a matter of grammar and Hebrew and Greek. That’s not the thing. ‘He that doeth righteousness is righteous’ Forget about grammar because you are Hebrew and Greek. That doesn’t explain it in a way, no. I told you why we are doing all this, you may read it and not see it. What you read won’t change you, it is what you see. ‘As we behold Him, we are changed’ 2 Corinthians 3:18. We are not changed as we read, we are changed as we see. As we see what God is saying, we are changed from glory to glory. Church Gist. We are changed. What you read, what you hear, even what you preach does not change you. It is what you see that does. Praise God. It is what you see that does. Don’t you find people who are preaching soul winning and are not winning any soul? They preach so hard, they are very good at it. So, will that now bring them the reward of soul winning? No. Don’t you find so many people who are teaching and preaching fine prosperity messages, they almost eat their tongue when they are preaching, but they are living in poverty because what you preach does not change you. It is what you do which comes from what you see. We must see it first. I was already preaching prosperity before I saw it. I read it from Copeland’s place and I was helping him to propagate it. But I knew I had not seen it. I said ‘Jesus, show me this thing’ People are not sincere, sir.
– Somebody’s story is changing o.
What we are here to do tonight is to position ourselves to see what God is showing on this Mountain so it can become your lifeline. Since Jesus showed me who pays me, sir, I have not looked for it. ‘You are in my employment. I am responsible, just stay on duty’ Those 3 lines registered me on His payroll. Church Gist. Those 3 lines. I have never had to ask ‘Jesus, remember you said you will pay me’ No, He is more faithful than me. I’ve stayed on duty without any…I mean, you can’t be working and not know. I’ve stayed permanently on duty, enjoyably on duty, untiring on duty and He is paying me untiring.
– Something is breaking forth in your life.
Just to show you what. That’s it. The good news is, no one here will suffer a pinch in these hard times if you will care to stand in the rightful place..
There is a woman there by the name, Widow of Zarepheth. She had no feeling of the famine – three and half years. Church Gist. She was feeding fat from Heaven’s supplies by simply obeying the commandments of the Lord through His Prophet, by simply complying. 1 Kings 17:16. She had, I mean; her last meal became a meal for three and half years!!
-There is someone here sir, no matter the heat on the Earth, your family will never beg bread.
What is spirituality?
A faith-driven determination to live a holy life. Mind the words I used – Faith-driven. You can’t make it happen on your own, faith-driven, faith-driven determination to live a holy life. Faith driven. Church Gist. 1 Peter 1:15-16. What has been written has been written, His commandments are no grievous. If He said: ‘Be’ (ye holy) that means you can be, that means I can be.
-In the precious name of Jesus, I pray that each one’s thirst for holiness will come alive. Church Gist. It will open every other closed door around your life like a dream of the night.
Paul said: ‘Not that I’m perfect but one thing I do, I won’t go back from where I have finally arrived. I’m pressing towards what I have not reached and I’m gonna reach’. Philippians 3:14. So, it’s not about: ‘Somebody has been there’, we are all striving to keep pleasing Him till our time on earth is over. Church Gist. Philippians 3:13-14. Let me show a bit of these riddles people talk about. ‘We are under grace, we are not under the Law’, the demand under grace is far stronger and higher than the demand under the Law. ‘If you look at a woman lustfully you have committed adultery’. Under the grace, Jesus came full of grace and truth, that’s what He said. John 1:17. Just check those things from Matthew 5, you will see the higher level of demand under grace. People who need it, they won’t read it.
Many are teaching and preaching to please people – Get them in Church, collect their offerings, you don’t preach the truth sir, it’s a danger, it’s a risk! Okay, ask me, what is carnality? You don’t need any probing, just x-ray the Galatian Church. You know the meaning of carnality, there is no point going to Hebrew or Greek – ‘Are ye not carnal? Church Gist. Do you not work as men’? Okay! What is carnality? As bad as one having his father’s wife, He said: ‘No! Let me tell you something, no unrighteous man shall inherit the Kingdom’. So He tried to put them back to order. 1 Corinthians 3:3. Sir, people don’t read those things, ‘Are you hu-hu-hu-hu? What about’? And I ask them: ‘Show me your returns, what are you getting from it’? Nothing! The help of man is so short-lived but connect with the help of God, it is there forever.
-Somebody’s story is changing.
There is nowhere in the Bible where sin is justified, it’s an aberration. There is nowhere in the Bible where sin is justified. He that committeth sin is of the devil, is that not in your Bible? Church Gist. 1 John 3:8. Is that commemoration or justification?
-It’s time to renew our spiritual stands to maximize God’s agenda for our lives. Thank You, Jesus!
What is spirituality?
Delightsome obedience to the commandments of Scriptures.
Psalms 112:1-3. ‘He delights himself greatly in the commandments of the Lord’. It will impart on his generations after him. His generations will endure forever, no games! Church Gist. Delightsome obedience to the commandment of Scriptures. 2 Corinthians 6:17-18. There is where to stand, for God to be a father to you and give you the covering you need.
Hear what Christ who is full of grace and truth said: ‘Go and sin no more lest a worse thing than this happen to you’. John 5:14. John 1:14. That’s the Author of grace, grace came by Him. Church Gist. And He told that Man by the Pool of Bethesda when he was healed, ‘Go and sin no more lest a worse thing than this happen to you’. John 5:14. Full of grace!
-Worse things won’t happen to any of us!
A woman was caught in adultery and Jesus said to her after everybody departed, they couldn’t stone her. ‘Neither do I condemn you but go and sin no more’. John 8:10. There is nowhere Jesus condones sin, He condemns sin in the flesh. John 8:11. Church Gist. The labourers are few that’s okay but Jesus said: ‘I know you not, depart from Me, ye that work iniquity’. Matthew 7:23. He is not just looking for labourers, no! Profitable labourers! So we must be profitable by doing things that make it profitable. Can I hear your ‘Amen’?
-The good news is: Every blindfold of the devil that makes anybody comfortable in sin is destroyed tonight!
Paul, the Apostle of grace as we call him, made the following outstanding statements on the place of consecration in our walk with God. 1 Thessalonians 2:10. That’s Paul! Not, ‘Live anyhow’! No! Romans 6:1. 1 Corinthians 9:27. ‘Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God’? Church Gist. Paul wrote that sir. And he listed what he means by unrighteousness. 1 Corinthians 6:10-11. Can I hear your Amen? If they don’t become past tense, they block your way to the future! If they don’t become past tense, they block our way to the future, they block our way to eternity! It’s time to reposition!!!
One can read the Bible through Genesis to Revelation twenty times and not see anything, and not see anything sir. I’ve seen people who read it and you can’t see the reflection. Church Gist. Some of them you can read it through and not see anything, you are just chanting, just chanting, can’t see anything!! But on this Mountain, He said: ‘He will destroy the face of covering that is cast over all people’. Amen!
-So, God is destroying that veil over everyone’s heart. Church Gist. You will see more clearly than ever in your life, in the name of Jesus!!
Anything He shows you from His Word will show in your life. Listen to me, I am not praying for you. I want you to see this. When God shows you any truth, it will show in your life. Whatever does not show He hasn’t shown you. 2 Corinthians 3:18. Church Gist. Everything He shows us changes us. If it is not changing you, He hasn’t shown you. Tell Him to show you, when He shows you it will change you. When He shows you the truth it will change your life. Whatever He shows changes people. Tonight, I curse every face of covering cast over any individual’s life.
That is the gateway to this great feast we have come into. Access demands that the face of covering be cast off. Church Gist. In the name of Jesus, as you respond to this Word of life, everything that is blocking your sight from seeing what God is showing you is off your life.
Paul jealously guarded his conscience in His walk with God. Acts 24:16. He jealously guarded his walk with God, he didn’t toy with it. 2 Corinthians 1:12. Everybody needs a testimony of His conscience. You can’t be proud and not know. One cannot be arrogant and not know. One cannot be stealing and not know. 2 Corinthians 4:1-2. It is a thing to be denouncing. You denounce everything that displeases God. You are not toying with it. You are not standing to say “Well, I know somehow it will go.” No! It won’t go. You stand to denounce it. Enough is enough and it will be gone.
– Everything you denounce tonight, you will not see it again.
We know that faith loses its potency where good conscience is lacking. 1 Timothy 1:19. Faith loses its potency where a good conscience is lacking. You can’t come around God on a Sunday morning and go around some native doctors in the evening and expect things to work. It won’t work. You can’t take your trust off God and put it on men and expect things to work, it won’t work. 1 Timothy 3:9. Church Gist. Pure conscience faith is the faith that works. It is not enough to pray not to be trapped, one must stay on the watch against the diverse tricks of the enemy to get believers out of the way. He wants you and me out of the way, He will not succeed. Satan will not succeed. Transformation begins with a renewal of the mind. Romans 12:2. That is where it begins.
Reposition so you can possess your possession.
– can I have you say with me, “I need to reposition spiritually so I can possess my possession”.
Obadiah 1:17. There’s a repositioning that will lead to your possession. Church Gist. We can’t possess our possession without repositioning according to His Word.
– somebody’s possession is coming through in the name of Jesus Christ.
Our inheritance demands sanctification for delivery. Acts 20:32. You don’t know what you’re losing, I don’t know what I’m losing when I misalign. Church Gist. When we are aligned, things begin to happen on their own accord.
– it’s a new day for you!
– your spiritual life is taking a new meaning now in the name of Jesus!
– say with me, “my inheritance demands sanctification for delivery”.
– my prayer tonight is that everyone here will see a need to his back on everything that displeases God.
Sin is not a friend, it’s an enemy. It destroyed Amnon, one of the sons of David. It destroyed Samson. It always has a bitter end.
– no one will suffer bitterness.
– my prayer is that we are coming through with it.
Let’s close tonight as we read from Isaiah 25.
– The same way Godliness enthroned Joseph, it will enthrone you!
– it enthroned Daniel, it will enthrone you!
Isaiah 25:6-8.
– everything dying or dead in you will come alive here!
– the Lord will wipe away tears from all faces!
– all your secret tears shall be wiped off here!
– every issue of shame or reproach that came with you, you see them no more again!
– thank you Jesus!
– you will not suffer hardship anymore!
It’s not enough to be born again, we must endeavour to stay alive in Christ by staying off everything that kills and destroys. The wages of sin is still death. Church Gist. It’s not just when you’re born again, after you’re born again, the wages is still death. We saw that severally. I mean, we were told about Judas, he was among the 12. Jesus said, “there are 12 thrones in Heaven, each of them has one” but he lost his own. He didn’t stay alive in that ordination and arrangement. He lost it, another man took his place. Church Gist. Revelation 3:11. It’s not enough to be born again, we must endeavour to stay alive in Christ by denouncing sin in all its ramifications. 1 Timothy 5:6. Sin can be pleasurable, if you live in it, you’re dead. You may be walking about but you’re dead. It calls some people twice dead in the Book of Jude. Twice dead. Church Gist. They are twice dead. They are more deadlier than dead.
– Amen.
Sin can kill, sin can destroy. satan didn’t kill Samson, sin killed him. satan didn’t kill Absalom, sin killed him. Sin still kills! When you see ‘beware’ in an electrical installation, you stay off. They even put a skull there to know ‘that is your skull if you come in’ That’s your skull. People don’t know it kills. That you are walking does not mean you are alive. There are many walking corpses. I want your hatred for sin to come alive. I want you to hate sin like you hate shit (feces). Church Gist. It will take more than one billion demons to make you eat your shit (feces). To turn back and carry your shit (feces) and be eating. When it turns to that sir, you’ll be free from it.
– In the precious name of Jesus, everywhere the devil is hiding to torment any destiny here, by his subtlety to make us enjoy what displeases God, that siege is over tonight!
God destroyed the entire World except Noah, the Preacher of righteousness.
– You will not be destroyed. No one here shall be destroyed.
The big thing is this as we close tonight. In these days of gross darkness, light is the only way out. Isaiah 60:2,3. Church Gist. So, as you clear the barrier, the log in your eyes, you are able to see light and with that Light, you begin to shine in the midst of darkness and their kings will come to the brightness of your rising. So, the brighter you see, the greater the glory. Isaiah 60:1. That’s why the enemy is trying to block our access to light and he has failed.
– I said he (the enemy) has failed!
So, for every one of us who is born again already, we are going to get before the Lord when it’s time and engage the Blood of Jesus to clear every barrier on our access to light by rescuing us from everything that defiles. Amen. 2 Corinthians 7:1. That will make all the difference, sir. It’s time to start feeding, not reading, feeding on the Word. Church Gist. It’s time to start feeding on the Word. Matthew 4:4. It’s time to start feeding instead of reading. People are reading, how many are feeding? People are reading different translations, how many are feeding? They are reading, are they feeding? You can’t read to feed your stomach, you feed to feed your stomach.
– The phase of covering is over!
You know how powerful light is? One night, I saw me in a coffin in my sleep and I replied in the sleep. You know, when these things enter your spirit, it’s in the spirit. Your spirit doesn’t sleep. I said: ‘satan, you must be a dummy. There is no wisdom, nor counsel, nor knowledge in the grave’, in my sleep, I was responding. Church Gist. No one sees himself in the grave and stays there. ‘I didn’t know you know’ I would have died that early morning. Let this thing enter your spirit man, you will be free.
– Lift up your right hand everybody.
Would you thank God for light? Thank God for light tonight. Spirituality is the anchor of every great destiny in the Kingdom.
– Prayers.
In Jesus’ precious name, we have given thanks.
Give the Lord a big hand of praise everyone. Amen.
In these days of gloominess and darkness, everybody needs light, not just to survive, to thrive. Light to thrive.
— Altar Call —
Genesis 22:12. God said: ‘Now, I know that thou fearest Me, I’ve told you a costly thing to do and you went ahead. Now, I know you fear Me’. He went further and said: ‘Because you have obeyed My voice, by Myself I swear’. Church Gist. Genesis 22:26. So there is no other way to prove the fear of the Lord – By doing what He says we should do, by obeying His voice whatever the cost.
-In the precious name of Jesus, because nothing flies like the fear of God in hard times, you will never be grounded. Church Gist. As you strive to maintain the fear of God, God will turn your seeming prison to a palace.
I said to my God sometime back: ‘Lord! Whatever you cannot do in my life, let it remain undone. I’m looking nowhere! Wherever you can’t take me Jesus, may I never get there. Church Gist. Whatever you can’t give me, may I never have it’.
It’s time to settle in with Jesus! And stop looking here and there, it’s time to settle in. You can’t settle with Jesus without living a settled life.
-It’s your turn to live a settled life.
Until God knows that you fear Him, you don’t fear Him yet. ‘Now! I know that you fear Me’, how? ‘You are going ahead to do what I asked you to do’. Now I know! Hold it! I know you fear Me now, now I know. Church Gist. So there will be thirst for the fear of the Lord as we go from here. God will test whether you truly fear Him or not.
-In the precious name of Jesus, every baggage you have denounced, you will not pick them up again.
Apart from the wonders here below, there is the Eternal Wonder in Heaven.
-No one shall miss his place there in the name of Jesus!
Everybody should be on guard! Therefore, everybody should be on guard – Leadership of the Church, pastors, apostles, prophets, everybody should be on guard; ‘Lest I become a castaway’. It is not just doing the work that works, it is walking with God that works – (It is) walking with Jesus, that works. Church Gist. ‘Walk before Me and be thou perfect’! Not work for Me, walk before Me and be thou perfect’. Working for Him is secondary, it is our walk with Him that is primary – Walking with Jesus! Everything works when you sustain a quality walk with Jesus. Everything works!
Romans 8:28. ‘Whosoever hears my commandment and keeps it, is the One that loves Me’. So, love for God is not singing it, it is not dancing it, it is doing it. John 14:21. Church Gist. So it is keeping His commandments that authenticate our love for Him, keeping His commandments as a way of life is what authenticate our love for Him.
-In the precious name of Jesus! May you never get weary following Jesus! No matter how hard the time, you and your household shall be exempted! Church Gist. Your latter days shall be better than your before. No one here will wear rags in old age. No one will beg for bread in old age in the name of Jesus.
Walking with Jesus may be slow but it is sure. It is better to be slow and sure than to be fast and fall. It may appear slow, it took 13 years for Joseph to walk out of that Place but he reigned for 80 years. 13 years of incarceration, 80 years of reign. He was held captive at the age of 17, he took the throne at 30 (years). He went to Heaven at 110 (years). It may appear slow but it sure is. Church Gist. It is better to be slow and sure than to be fast and fall. Many have gone to the grave, they are too fast, God is too slow for them. They’ve gone to the grave, they’ve joined armed robbery, ganging, joined drug cartel, you know? Computer scam, they are in prison. They are incarcerated, they are there for life. God is too slow for them.
-But in the name of Jesus! The grace to work with patience of faith in your walk with God, receive it right now. You are going places!
-Everybody will know a change has occurred in your life. Church Gist. You are arriving from Shiloh to dismantle every installation of hell around your life. Dismantle them!
After King Asa heard the Word of the Lord, he cleared the place of all abominations, he removed his mother from being queen. He just cleared the ground for God to work and God came down. Mehn! They were walking with rest, roundabout! He cleared the abominations, he cleared them off, he cleared them all. Church Gist. There are things you need to delete on your phone, you don’t need them forever, you don’t need that forever. They will keep defining your system until you are back to where you are coming from. He cleared it! King Asa went and cleared the ground; when he heard the Prophetic Word, he went and cleared. There are some individuals here, you can’t afford to return where you came from, no! It will be going back to fire again. There must be a change!
-Every evil things around your life that won’t let you go forward, grace to dismantle them, receive it right now! Church Gist. Now that we have repositioned, may the revelations reserved for this Place, for Shiloh 2023, flow freely into your life.
-I pray that nobody will miss what God is showing this time.
-And in the name of Jesus Christ, it will be clear that God has exempted you from the hardship of the hour.
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