*Human beings may reward titles
“You don’t know I am a Pastor, you call me brother”: that’s okay, sorry Pastor
“You don’t know I am an Elder, you call me Deacon.”
You call some people Chief, they say, “No, I am a High Chief…I am not an ordinary Chief.”
*God only rewards dedicated stewardship
*It takes passionate prayer of faith for the God of speed to show up.
“The Best Decision we have ever made” (documented testimony): May someone else here today who is yet to make that decision of trading Matthew 6:33 based on the validity of God’s integrity, the diverse testimonies we have heard, may such individuals make their decision today.
May those who have made that decision remain true to that decision the remaining days of their lives, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Give God thanks for bringing us to another fresh, new working week.
Give Him thanks because this week is your week, everything is answering in your favour this week.
Thank Him for keeping you sound, alive and well.
Thank Him for answering your prayers even this morning. Give Him thanks and praise. Celebrate this great God!!! Magnify this great God.
SPEAK TO THE WEEK: This brand-new week must answer to you in all respects and answer favourably to you.
Speak to the week and do that with faith: It shall be your most resourceful, most productive, most profitable week.
Elijah was a man of like passion: passion is a requirement for answered prayers Sir. Casual prayers hardly secure Heaven’s attention. There was no way Jesus could ignore the passionate cry of Bartimaeus. He came out of the company of the blind through fervency, not drowsy prayer…
“What am I actually praying? What are we praying” (while he/she checks the clock).
Did you see the kind of way he (Elijah) prayed in 1 Kings chapter 18?
“Oh God hear me. Oh God hear me so that all the people will know that I have done this according to your Word”
And then the fire of the Lord fell.
Prayer: Grace for fervency on the altar of prayer. Go ahead and pray fervently.
You want fervent grace, pray fervently. Grace for fervency on the altar of prayer, not religious sententious on prayer items. Fervency on the prayer altar, fervency that secures Heaven’s attention. It takes fervency in prayers to secure Heaven’s attention.
Lord, fervency on the altar of prayer, passion on the altar of prayer. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Say with me, “It takes passion for my prayer to secure Heaven’s attention!!! For prompt response like Elijah. It takes passion.”
So when they say Elijah is of like passion, it means engage passionately after the order of Elijah: not casually, not drowsily, not forgetfully, not absentmindedly.
Engage fervently, engage passionately.
It takes revived men to bring revival and it takes revived men to sustain revival.
It takes fervency in prayers to call down the fire from Heaven. You won’t lose the fire because you won’t lose the passion.
We better observe the protocols of Heaven or we will just be playing religious activities all along. Let’s observe Heaven’s protocol if we want to secure divine intervention. Let’s embrace Heaven’s protocol, let’s embrace it!!!
When they ask for quiet prayer when we were growing up: it is take a nap session. At times, they have to tap the Pastor that the time is up…’adura ida ke je’ (that is sleep a little, catch a nap, this prayer is too much). That’s how revival died.
You have the language of the Spirit to keep the fire burning, so pray intensively in the Spirit holding the subject matter on your heart and then you are securing Heaven’s attention.
First His attention, before you can secure His intervention. You don’t get His attention, you can’t secure His intervention. It is one step after another.
-The good news is that we serve a God of speed.
He created the entire Universe in 6 days. Through faith we understand that the world was framed by the Words of God and the things we see now do not come out of things that do appear. So He created all that we see by His Word and got it done in 6 days. What a speed!
You know our God is light (1 John 1:5). He operates by the speed of light. God is light and operates by the speed of light.
“Go, thy servant is made whole” – and his servant was made whole that self-same hour. As the Word ‘Go’ went forth, it landed there same hour. Some translations say ‘same moment’. That is, it travelled from His mouth and happened right there at the same spot on the other side (Matthew 8:5-13).
As He speaks the Word only (John 1:1).
We serve a God of speed, but prayer of faith is one way to provoke the intervention of the God of speed.
ENGAGING THE GOD OF SPEED THROUGH THE ALTAR OF PRAYERS
-There shall be supernatural speed on the path of every engaging Winner this year.
Let me hear your passionate Amen! Say it with all the confidence you can muster.
-I said, the God of speed is visiting every Winner this year. Amen
-Somethings that may not have come through the next 20 years of your life, will come through this year.
-The God of speed will fast forward His agenda in your life.
Abraham’s servant prayed for speed and the God of speed showed up (Genesis 24:12-19).
Do you know what it means to give water to camel? It is like draining the well.
Answer on the spot.
Lord, the same way this man prayed, grant me the grace to pray after the same order that the God of speed shows while I am still speaking.
Has God changed? He just manifested Himself as the God of speed that we saw in Genesis chapter 1. He just showed up again. Church Gist. He will show up in our midst beyond all we ever knew this month and it is starting from today.
The God of speed will show up.
That was how Rebekah became Isaac’s wife, by the hand of the God of speed provoked on the altar of prayer!!
We serve the God of speed who can make the earth bring forth in one day and a Nation to be born at once through the altar of prayer (Isaiah 66:7-8).
For as soon as Zion invoked the intervention of the God of speed through travailing prayer, she brought forth her children.
Through passionate prayer, she brought forth her children, not casual prayer, not absent-minded prayer, not ‘what am I even praying about?’
The prayer conveyed with passion that God could not resist, prayer accompanied with the passion to drive it.
And the next Sabbath, almost the whole city came together, to hear the Word of God (Acts 13:44). We are going to have such Sunday this month by invoking the intervention of the God of speed in drafting multitudes into His Kingdom and into this Church.
Sir, you will know when God has heard you. You will know when you have mentioned the ideas to God. You will know!!
It is time to be spiritually alert enough to know when God has heard you. We can’t be babies forever!!
It’s no big deal for God to double the attendance of this Church on or before May 2nd 2021. It is no big deal.
Mark 10:27
It’s no big deal. He (Abraham’s servant) prayed and he took steps. The prayer of faith is the prayer that invokes the God of speed into action (James 2:18).
“Oh God as I go out today, whosoever, whatever contact I make, let there be instant conviction. Let the man and the woman be waiting. Let him say, ‘I have been waiting, this is my moment. Thank you for talking to me.’ Get ready to pray.”
Invoke the hand of the God of speed.
Rebekah fetched the water and she was on her way, he (Abraham’s servant) went to her, “Excuse me, can I have some water?”
If he stayed there, God’s speed show up. He has showed up, are you taking steps?
I had this romance with Heaven this morning:
God does not reward membership, He rewards stewardship.
God does not reward leadership, He rewards servanthood.
God does not promote experience, He promotes only faithful and fruitful stewardship. Church Gist.
God does not honour titles, human beings may: ‘Archbishop’, ‘Arch Pope’. Human beings may.
“You don’t know I am a Pastor, you call me brother”: that’s okay, sorry Pastor
“You don’t know I am an Elder, you call me Deacon. Haba. You better go and find out how to know who Elders are”: Thank you Elder.
You call some people Chief, they say, “No, I am a High Chief. You go and call Chief, you don’t put High. How can you, you think eehhh, I am not an ordinary Chief. I am a High Chief”: Well done.
God does not reward titles, He rewards dedicated stewardship: Him will my Father honour (John 12: 24-26)
God does not reward spiritual activity, He rewards productivity (John 15:2)
My prayer is that no one here will miss the heavy prophetic package reserved for every Winner in the Year 2021.
Again, take delivery of a new order of passion on the altar of prayer. No casual praying. No drowsy praying, not praying for praying sake but praying for answer sake.
Prayer: Lord I receive a fresh passion on the altar of prayer that will make a difference in my life this week as I begin to demand for the intervention of the God of speed in my engagement in Kingdom advancement which will result in my supernatural advancement.
God is not counting days, He is counting results on the altar of prayer. Church Gist. The days you have prayed is irrelevant, the answers you have gotten is what matters.
Pray from the depth of your heart, everybody pray:
Passion. New order of passion after the order the Elijah, I receive it!
SPEAK TO THE WEEK
It is your week
Your prayer altar has been transformed, your prayer altar has been translated, it is a new day. It has been transfigured.
You are not just going on, you are not just patching on: you are making progress, you are taking steps.
Thank You Father. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Well we are in the phase on the earth today where businesses are crashing by the day.
Next Sunday is our Covenant Day of Business Breakthrough, God wants to make a difference in the life of every Winner and all of our new converts and our invitees.
Do that with utmost excitement. We have long packages of testimonies over the years that show that God opens up business destiny in this Church and we are going to see it again this coming Sunday.
Pray that this week will be a fruitful week for you. That at least one soul, minimum one soul: don’t be hearing it as if I am singing.
No. I live with this, I sleep with this. I don’t have any other way of living and it is working for me. It is working for many others in this Church, it must work for you this time.
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