*Prepare to meet your God at the 40th Anniversary.
-Bishop David Oyedepo
Lift up your two hands and let’s give Him praise for answered prayers tonight. Give Him thanks for the help He rendered you all through the day, for your personal prayers you prayed today, your Kingdom advancement prayers, your change of story prayers.
Why don’t you ask Him to speak to you tonight. I want to hear from You Jesus. Speak to me tonight. Amen. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Now next to salvation, the greatest asset of any believer is revelation. Until the time that His Word came concerning Joseph, the Word of the Lord tried Him, but when Word came there was a massive undeniable turnaround. The King sent for him by the Word that came and made him ruler of his house and his substance.
Lord send me my Word tonight. I want to experience my turnaround encounter with Your Word. Go ahead and pray that prayer. Send me Your Word tonight Jesus. I desire a turnaround after the order of Joseph tonight. Send me Your Word tonight. Thank You Jesus in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
“You know you have not because you ask not”. When I say pray and you mutter words, you’re not praying, nobody is hearing what you’re saying. It is fervency of Spirit to access the throne of grace. How many desire an access to the Word of the Lord tonight? How many truly desire an access? Lord Jesus send me my turnaround Word tonight. Thank You Jesus in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Heavenly Father thank You tonight for the privilege to be here in Your presence. Let no one here return disappointed. Reach out to each one here tonight with their own Word.
Those on ground and those at the various viewing centers tonight, reach out to them and everyone around the world today connecting to this service, let Your Word locate them. Thank You Father in Jesus precious name. So shall it be. Give the Lord a big hand of praise.
Only new things make news. Is that not true? Every encounter with the Word engenders new happenings that make news. Always crave for an encounter when you sit with the Word, when you sit under anointed teachings.
New every morning is His nature. There is news from Heaven every morning and when you engage with the news from Heaven, you start making news on the earth.
- So I see many news makers out here.
If you’re one of them let me hear your loudest amen.
We’ll be looking through demands or guarantee returns on our seeds sown.
Remember the running theme for the month in our midweek services is
FUNDAMENTALS OF KINGDOM WEALTH
We’ve been trying to look at demands or guarantee returns because there are many seed sowers that have not learnt how to ensure their returns and so they’re frustrated because of time. What you don’t know, you don’t know and what you won’t learn you can’t know and what you don’t know you suffer for it. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”. Don’t go after those who explain, go after those with proofs. It’s wisdom.
Hebrews 6:12
How do I ensure guaranteed returns on my seed sown? We’ve gone through a lot and it’s ending tonight and I will just share with you some three lines and then we’ll go to get ourselves set for the 40th anniversary prophetic feast. Can I hear your amen? Glory to God.
Not every seed sown is acceptable to God. At the beginning He had respect for the Sacrifice of Abel but had no respect for that of Cain. He is not a begger so He has a choice what to accept and what not to accept. What is it that makes our offering acceptable to God? It has to acceptable before it becomes rewardable.
Malachi 1:6-9
Your seed must become honourable before it becomes acceptable. Until it’s acceptable, return is not in view. It has to be honourable. What makes honourable is not the volume but the cost to you. He said “I won’t offer to the Lord that which cost me nothing”. God will not respect your leftover seed, no. He is not a begger, He doesn’t need your help. Neither does He need my help. Your seed must be honourable before returns are guaranteed. My God has a choice. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof”. “Of Him have we all received” so there’s nothing we have that is not given to us by Him”. So He doesn’t need it.
Now watch, there’s a kind of seed you will give your parents today for those of you who are yet to kill your parents that will provoke a curse. You drove in a convoy, you got to your home and you say “hello mum, I just love you, here is 10 naira to keep you going for the month”. If she doesn’t tear it in your presence, as soon as you turn your back she will tear it. “If I will never eat till I die, forget”. Why is because you have left that level. Can I hear your amen. Therefore as God has blessed everyone even so let Him give. So you give according to the blessing of the Lord upon your life. He knows what blessings He has put upon your life so you can’t pretend. He knows.
I love you so much such that if I give you 5 naira as a seed in your life now it will affect your respect for me. Why? You believe I’m beyond that. God knows the level of blessings in your life, stop playing games all around. I’ve never lacked returns on my seed sir. Never. Most of the time our seeds are not acceptable so the returns are not in view. People just take God for granted that’s why they’re grounded. They see God as a myth, not as a person. Until our seeds are acceptable no returns should be expected.
Deuteronomy 16:17
I know God will not take 20,000 from me for an offering but He will gladly take 2 Naira from me those days and commend me. Let’s enhance our quality of our Covenant walk with God.
We’re permitted to start from where we are.
Now 19th May 1982 our income was 120.75 Naira. My own offering was inside it. That’s our level, all of us. Praise God. Now May 19th 1983, we had a conference, it was a big one. Total income in that camp meeting was 508 Kobo. That’s where we were going to go round the world, we were going to build 50,000 thousand sanctuary and we’re going to have aircrafts flying in the air and printing press at an industrial scale. 508 Kobo. You’re permitted to start from where you are. None starters don’t have a future. Get started. Get started demanding grace for continuity and consistency.
Now what’s the liberal nature of your Church? April 1st 1984 we has 15 Naira. It was a very awesome service and somebody came up needing 10 Naira. Amen. In May we had in that service, 13th May 1984, we had 31 Naira 8 Kobo and 10 Naira given to a brother in need. There was also a sister in need that was given 5 Naira. Now July 1st 1984 when we ordained our first deacons, there were 7 of them, the now Bishop Aremu was one of those deacons, income in that service was 111 Naira 20 Kobo. Give the Lord a big hand. Amen. Why am I saying this? You can start from where you are and stay on trusting God for continuity and consistency. Awesome God.
A lot of humourous records that we have here for testimonies. Total income 1984 was 18,656 Naira. 1986 the Heavens opened. 272,000 Naira and 1987 was 523,000. We broke the seige in 1988, 1,300 000. Now we have left the realm of millions long time, we’re walking towards accessing the realms of trillions now. That’s how God works. Start from where you are. Nobody starts climbing the tree from the top. Your 2 Naira may hold more value to God than my 50,000. Please learn to sow honourable seeds according to the level of blessings upon your life. Including giving to the needy. Give to the level that you’re in.
Honour thy Lord with thy substance, not thy leftovers.
Proverbs 3:9
You can preach it, it won’t make a difference. You have to do it to experience it.
We must continue to give tirelessly. Wherever you stop sowing is where you stop harvesting. Don’t be weary.
Galatians 6:9
Every time you fill your cloud, the rain pours out. As you keep filling the cloud, the rain will keep falling down. After every rain, cloud has to be gathered for another rain to come so you can’t say I’m tired. When you’re tired, you’re off.
- No one here will be off.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
You want that rain to keep falling in your life? Then keep filling your cloud. Keep doing it, it’s the only way to keep going up.
We must continue to water our seed with thanksgiving.
Proverbs 12:14
Proverbs 13:2
Hebrews 13:15
Sacrifice of praise is a guarantee of returns for your seed. Giving thanks to Him always.
Some asked me. What do you do between the time you give and the time you receive? I said I’ve never thought about it. I’m in a Covenant walk with a faithful Father. I don’t check out on His integrity. He’s to faithful to fail. I was too sure of Him and His Word. I could see a future in obeying Him.
Joel 1:12
You can destroy your harvest when joy withers away from your soul. So keep your joy alive and prove that by tirelessly giving thanks to God for His faithfulness. You may not see anything practical but you are very confident that whatever God says is there. You have not seen but you know it’s coming. Can I hear your amen? That you begin to operate in the reality of His Word, living in the reality of your future. Glory to God.
With these three lines added to the things you have learnt in the course of the month, expect no more wasted seed in your life. Hallelujah.
- No more wasted seed in your life.
- Something will be breaking forth in manners that you yourself will not believe.
Lift up your right hand and give God thanks. Thank Him for showing you the way forward in your Covenant walk in Jesus precious name we have prayed. Give the Lord a big hand of praise. Amen.
I want us to please take some time here to understand that the Word prophetic feast is not a slogan. It carries heavy Scriptural weight and I’d like to just unveil to you what that means as it relates to this forth coming 40th anniversary prophetic week. It’s going to be the most awesome experience in your Spiritual adventure till now. Can I hear your loudest amen.
It is the custom of kings to make feasts and we have the King of kings in our midst. His name is Jesus. We saw many parables of feasts in Scriptures to show that that is His custom, that is His lifestyle. He prepares a feast for His people.
Isaiah 25:6-8
A feast that fattens people. That raised roburst people out of skeletons, that brings out the beauty and colour of people. A feast of wines on the lease well refined.
Now God’s Word comes in four different forms.
It comes as water, of food, of wine and of milk and then we have the fifth one honey.
God’s feast is always served with wine. You have food to eat and you have wine to drink. It’s customary for kings to have cup bearers for their wine so they come in with a little, go back and come back again when they see a little is taken.
- Now expect to be served with the wine of this feast.
What’s peculiar about wine? Wine is long lasting in it’s potency. You go to some stalls today, places like Europe and United States, you’ll find some wines that are 200 hundred years old, 250 years old. That’s how long lasting wine can be.
He served me the wine of
Matthew 6:33 in 1976, it’s still intoxicating me till now. That’s wine.
He served me with the wine of
Deuteronomy 8:18 in 1982 and it’s still intoxicating me till today. That’s wine.
- Expect encounters with the wine revelation of the Word that will stay with you for your entire lifetime.
The impact of wine can be long lasting or call it life lasting. The wine of the Word.
My team brought in 51,848 souls between January and now to Jesus. Amen. Last week 1380 of our converts of the week were in Church. That’s from the wine of 1976.
- You will encounter His wine that will keep you going for life.
I’ve never needed encouragement and you can’t discourage me. Just get a man that’s properly wined, with any truth you can’t stop him.
I’ve never needed any encouragement to pay my tithe and give sacrifices. It’s a lifestyle, no pressure.
- Now many of us will receive the baptism of longevity.
I’m talking about the wine of the Word.
Now watch what will happen as a result.
Isaiah 25:7
- Every trace of shame and reproach shall be wiped off the life of people.
- Every secret tears that no one knows about will be wiped off from your faces.
Ezekiel 37:1-7
- No matter how dry things may be around your life, under this prophetic feast God will give you a new story to tell.
- Whatever has been broken in your life will come together.
- Many many men of valour will rise from this feast.
- People that don’t seem to amount to anything will come out of this feast as mighty men of valour.
- God will humble the pride of the world but outcome of this prophetic feast.
- Many great names that the world has never known before will rise from this great feast.
All you need to do is to just open your heart and get get ready for an encounter with your God. Prepare to meet thy God. If you don’t know what to ask the Lord, ask Him for whatever grace that is upon this commission.
1986 I was on my way to the United States to Kenneth Hagins convention with a desire. Whatever makes Hagin I want it. Now two days to the time my car caught fire, the devil wanted me to miss it. No I’m on my way somewhere. It’s more important than any car. I never saw the car in it’s burnt state in my life. I pushed it aside. I must get what I’m looking for and I returned with it.
- You will return with any genuine desire of your heart from this prophetic feast.
- Your own Word will come practically as if you discussed with anyone ministering.
I needed desperately to know the secret of Kingdom prosperity. I’ve read but I’ve not seen it. You may be confused on the things you have read but you can hardly be confused about what you see.
Lord show me the secret of Kingdom prosperity. So I took my mentors book, Kenneth Copeland, the law of prosperity and Mama Gloria, God’s Prosperity and my Bible and went on a three days prayer, fasting and searching. On the third day, March 22nd 1982 the Heavens opened. God came down and spoke to me directly. I spun with excitement, I can never be poor, I have found it”.
Position yourself to find what is missing in your life in this feast and I can tell you, you will sing a new song. Let me hear your loudest amen. You can’t see what I saw and still be poor. No. God can’t show you His secrets on anything and you still miss it so set yourself to meet your God. It shall be an awesome time in His presence. Can I hear your loudest amen. Give the Lord a big hand of praise.
- This is ordained our time of visitation.
Also know that 40 years is once in a lifetime. It will never repeat itself. This ministry will not be 40 years again. It’s not like Shiloh where you’ll come next year. Once for life. Don’t miss it for anything. There’s something packaged for you. Don’t let the devil deceive you out of it. Two and half tribes of Israel didn’t need the Promised Land they said.
Numbers 32:1-3
The tribe of Reuben, of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh. Today they’re the missing tribes of Israel. They allowed the present to run them of their future. God is saying I have prepared access to your Promised Land in this prophetic 40th anniversary feast. Don’t miss it for anything. Now they were only three days to entry when they said they won’t go. After 40 years sir.
- You will not be missing in God’s agenda.
Prepare yourself to meet your God. It’s only once in a lifetime.
- So expect once in a lifetime encounter.
- You will not miss it.
The things in store for you is far greater than where you are. Put everything aside and reach out for it. - You are in for the best of time.
- You are coming out from this prophetic feast a transformed man.
- You’ll become the envy of your world without sweat.
- You’ll be scaling new heights without struggle because of the light in the prophetic Word that will be coming your way in the name of Jesus.
Lift up your right hand and give God thanks. So much is loaded into this week long event. Ask God to give you grace to maximize it in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
#BishopDavidOyedepo
#MidweekCommunionService
#ChurchGist
