I ASKED THE LORD FOR WISDOM FOR TWENTY EIGHT SOLID MONTHS, “LORD, I DON’T KNOW THE WAY TO GO, SHOW ME”. THANK GOD FOR WHERE WE ARE TODAY BY THE GRACE OF GOD

WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING NO MATTER WHAT ELSE YOU GET, UNTIL YOU GET WISDOM YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN ANYTHING.

WHEN GOD SHOWED ME THE WISDOM CONTENT IN MATTHEW 6:33, I WROTE A COVENANT TO DENOUNCE ALL THAT I HAD AND GO AFTER IT. I CALL IT THE JACKPOT OF LIFE.

I WAS 22 YEARS OLD WHEN I SIGNED UP. 46 YEARS LATER WE ARE STILL CELEBRATING IT.

WHATEVER THE LORD SHOWS YOU IF YOU GO THAT WAY IT SHOWS IN YOUR LIFE.

MANY PASTORS STUDY TO PREACH, I STUDY TO FIND WHAT NEXT GOD IS SAYING

THE GREATEST BRAIN ON EARTH WILL NEVER GENERATE ANY RESULT THAT WILL COMPARE WITH DIVINE WISDOM

• Bishop David Oyedepo at October 2022 Week of Spiritual Emphasis, Day One || Canaanland, Ota.

We serve an ever reliable, ever dependable covenant-keeping Father. You can’t get to know what He says to do and do it without seeing His hand, always there, He can never deny Himself. There shall be a fresh baptism of wisdom upon every single worshiper in this church. Church Gist. This month shall be a month with a difference. It is not just the wisdom that speaks but the wisdom that shows. Talk is cheap. Matthew 13:54. The world is full of the wisdom of speech, talks, big grammar, and great applause but nothing to show. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. Not just something it, I will be showing myself in your life. Tonight marks a new dawn for you.

Prayers: lift your hands and ask God for your word tonight. I am here for an encounter with you, an encounter with the spirit of wisdom in church services, my devotion time, my time out reading anointed books.

Lord Jesus we are all waiting on you to receive from you, to be empowered by you in the school of wisdom this month. Let it be everyone’s experience this month.

Remember the prophetic focus for the month is WISDOM FROM ABOVE ENTHRONES and our teaching series for our Midweek Services is captioned UNVEILING THE WORTH OF WISDOM. The purpose is to create a thirst and a desperation for this virtue in everyone’s life. Church Gist. It is very easy to mistake this wisdom for intellectual wisdom but they are far apart. As far as the east is from the west. Isaiah 55:8-9. Awesome God! In the school of divine wisdom, there are no finish lines. A wise man shall hear and become wiser.

Proverbs 1:5. Proverbs 9:9. Romans 11:33.

Wisdom never loses a battle. It is better than all weapons of war put together. Wisdom is better than strength, it is better than all weapons of war. There are no finish lines in the school of divine wisdom. T. L. Osborn of blessed memory did a teaching series years ago ‘Wise Up and Size Up’. The wiser you are the higher you fly. Not abracadabra wisdom, inspired, instructional wisdom from the word. The Bible is God’s wisdom in print. Luke 11:49. Church Gist. Jesus was quoting from this book and He called it the wisdom of God. Matthew 7:24-25. It secures stability. It does not just obtain results, it stabilizes the result. Isaiah 33:6. Up and down is not His characteristic. Whatever result wisdom obtains, wisdom preserves. As we keep growing in wisdom, we keep growing in result and impact.

John 6:6. Wisdom always shows the right thing to do under all circumstances. So He fed 5000 minus women and children by knowing what to do, obtaining impossible order of results. Church Gist. So open up for an enduement of the spirit of wisdom all through this month. Knowing the right thing to do and doing it, you have committed God to confirm His word.

Prayers: lift your right hand and say Lord Jesus endue me with the spirit of wisdom like I never knew all my life till date. As your word goes forth let there be an entrance of your spirit that will set me upon my feet and keep me riding majestically all through my journey. It is done.

Access to divine secrets is an asset of inestimable value. By the secrets of God, Job became the greatest businessman of his days. Job 29:4. Job 1:3. The wisdom that shows.

Why do I call it a secret? 1 Corinthians 2:6-9. The greatest brain on earth will never generate any result that will compare with divine wisdom. Those who have access to divine wisdom generate pacesetting, pathfinding, and trailblazing order of results. Pride is a destroyer, it is a killer. This man, they call him King Solomon. He said I am a child. I don’t know the difference between my right and my left. All the kings of this world came to hear his wisdom, a child. David said, “Solomon my son is a child. How will this boy carry this?”. He asked for wisdom and wisdom came from heaven and all the kings of the earth came to hear him. That is the supremacy of divine wisdom. Out of this world order of wisdom. Church Gist. You are stepping into that realm this time. It looks so ordinary but it commands extraordinary results that humble the proud. It will announce a man from any corner of the world. It located Joseph from the prison. Is that where you look for a solution? People are looking for how to come out and they found that he can interpret all dreams and He was shown the way out. Genesis 41:16. He said it is not in me, they are just praising me, God is in me oozing with that wisdom. That same God will come into you this time.

A man of God was teaching years ago, 1977. Great man, Rev Mike Oye and then as he was teaching from 2 Corinthians 3, something got fired into my system. Now I know it was the spirit of God that came from the word. Something must enter you this time. Church Gist. What you write in your note is okay but what enters your heart is what matters. Your note is okay, your children’s children will be reading it but what enters your heart is your asset. That precious virtue must enter into your heart this time. An asset of inestimable value.

Divine secrets of treasures of inestimable value embedded between the pages of scriptures with the capacity to create a most enviable future. Matthew 13:44-45. When you access it, it stirs joy inside you. You discountenance all that you have to go for it. Church Gist. When He showed me the wisdom content in Matthew 6:33, I wrote a covenant to denounce all that I have and go after it. I call it the jackpot of life. I was 22 years old. I signed up. 46 years later we are still celebrating it. Whatever the Lord shows a man if you go that way it shows in your life. Many pastors study to preach, I study to find what next God is saying. Awesome.

Every divine secret is an open secret. Matthew 10:27. This is not cultism, it is Churchism. Every divine secret is an open secret. It is not abracadabra, it is pure, easily accessible, easily interpretable. You are not struggling with it. We should know if it is divine wisdom. Church Gist. I knew when God said to me after I asked Him, who pays me? I am going into full-time ministry. He said you are in my employment and I am responsible for your pay, just stay on duty. Where did you find it? Luke 10:1. There is no volunteer in the kingdom, if you are serving Him, He pays you. He pays me. How do I know? I have never borrowed. He pays His servant.

That is how He communicates His wisdom, most of the time on demand. The wisest man in the world prayed for it. 1 Kings 3:1-13. Because of so much education, people don’t think they need it so they keep struggling because of the limitedness of natural and intellectual wisdom. Matthew 10:8. Church Gist. He gives His agents on the earth, He calls them apostles, pastors, prophets who communicate what they have seen. That others may see. Psalm 36:9. So there are beacons of light in the body of Christ. That God has revealed certain things to, that will help others who need it to plug in. So the proud has no place in it.

Paul said God chose me to make all men see what is the mystery… so it is open, you can’t say “No! You can’t know it”. What do you mean? I saw God’s agenda for prosperity through Copeland. I saw the mystery of faith through Hagin. I saw the reality of explosive Church growth through Yonggi Cho. Open to all who desire it. Trading divine secrets therefore will make a star out of any believer as we have in the examples of Joseph, Job, Daniel, Paul and many others. Church Gist. Trading with divine secrets, it is not just finding it but engaging with it will make a star of any believer because you are the one God is talking about. You have been ordained a star but you have to take responsibility to stir the star in you. Jesus, the wisdom and the power of God was said to be the bright and the morning star. That is how much virtue is loaded in divine wisdom.

This is by way of introducing us to what these midweek services entail this month. Access to divine secret and engaging with the same can make a hero out of any youth as we have in David. As a teenager, he became the envy of the King. The Bible records ”And David behaved himself wisely”. 1 Samuel 18:5. He behaved himself wisely and that put him on top of all the men of war in Israel. 1 Samuel 18:14-15. He was a teenager. When this wisdom comes upon a man it shows. Church Gist. Thank God for natural wisdom, we call it common sense. The best it can deliver is common results. Thank God for intellectual wisdom, the best it can deliver is natural results but this one breaks the limits. Shame to the devil, he is under the siege of diabolical wisdom. He can never catch up with it. He must bow to it. Daniel was a master to all magicians and soothsayers. Daniel 5:11. We will torment the devil as this wisdom comes alive in us.

As mentioned earlier, it will make a king out of a child as it did, Solomon. They are not things you are struggling to pose “I am a king”. It shows by itself. We have some young people today whose eyes are on top of their heads. They are too much in their own sight. You find balloon dreams of all kinds. What are you set to do? I want to be selling aircraft spare parts. All kinds of junk. Things that don’t even make common sense. What do you need for that business? Just about three million dollars. How much have you got? I am just trusting God. All the angels are laughing. What kind of child is this? This one doesn’t even know Himself. If God gives you three million dollars as a starter, you will die. You will just sit down and think what will I do? I will first marry three wives. One wife per one million dollars. Rent an office space of 250 million. Because He didn’t have time to think. God does not tempt people with evil. Somebody graduated from school and He wants to run for the presidency, not of a club, of the nation. He so believes in it, to counsel him, he thinks you don’t understand vision. I have a few of them like that. What they come for prayer for, anyone who prays for them is a curse. It won’t fly. Wisdom is needed for anything to work.

First, let’s understand that the Bible is the custodian of this hidden wisdom. Psalm 19:7. God’s word makes wise. Paul said to Timothy “and from a child”. So a child can know it. 2 Timothy 3:15. His word is His wisdom bank from where we go to draw. His Word makes wise. Psalm 119:97-100. God’s Word makes wise. As we keep His commandments and operate by His principles, it makes us wise.

It is out of this world order of wisdom. In Job 28:7-14,20, we have this declaration on the supremacy of divine wisdom. All these immovable mountains, when wisdom comes it overturns them. Wisdom is hidden from the eyes of all living, white, black, green – all living. You have it from the most corner country of the world, it will find you. It is hidden from all living. That’s the joker for the end-time church. The church will come forward with such endowment of the many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite varieties this end time. Wisdom solutions will announce the Church. The church of Christ will be blossoming when the world is cringing. You are one of us. Everyone hearing this word tonight is a part of it. Out of this world order of wisdom.

This wisdom is creative in nature. Proverbs 3:19. Psalm 104:24. It is creative in nature. Jeremiah 10:12. Divine discretion offers distinct direction, showing the right way to go at all times and backing it up that He is the one who shows it. No one among us shall be stranded again. The wisdom of God will pave the way forward, the way out and the way forward. No more ceiling on your destiny.

Divine wisdom uncovers divine secrets that make stars. There is no intellectual means of accessing the secrets that God revealed to Daniel. Somebody else slept and had a dream, forgot it and said you must tell him the dream and interpret it or you die. He said the thing you ask, no man can know it but there is a God in heaven that unravels secrets that can not be found on the earth. Daniel 2:23. The secret behind your challenges, God will reveal it. Not witch hunting about, that there is a woman in your village. That is not your problem. It is insight that you need. My people are not destroyed because there is a woman in their village. There is no man without a woman in their village. “There is a short man living behind your house”. You must have a short man and a tall man. There is a light-complexioned man, Yes! There are many because light is relative. Am I light now or dark? So you will be looking for your uncle He is the one who wants to kill you. Your adversary the devil, he is black, he is white, he is yellow, Satan is all colour. No devil manipulates any of us again. Church Gist. Do you know where the problem is? The person you say is your problem has died and the problem is still there, so what will you do? You live with it forever. The devil that keeps the problem going doesn’t die, his time has not come, and he is still on duty. So when you say it is someone trying to kill you, He will just laugh. This boy doesn’t know. He can even make you see your mother as trying to kill you or your son and then you turn your back and embitter your family line. Satan has lost out. What happened? The King bowed down and worshipped Daniel. That’s how God will be making known His manifold wisdom to principalities and power this end time. We are going to see wonders. Many will be called upon to take over in places where they never dreamt. Many will be located from far countries as having the solution of what they are looking for. It just comes by identifying the source of that wisdom. Church Gist. God through His word is the one that gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to men of understanding. God is the source, any other source is fake. God is the source of this order of wisdom; every other source is fake. It is our turn at last.

It gets you preferred above others just like in the case of Daniel. Daniel 6:3. You are preferred, you appear at an interview and you are the one they want. Somebody was given a job and they now asked Him, did you fill any form? He said no. Church Gist. Did you sit for an interview? He said no. Okay, now they have given you the job, fill out the form. They sent from abroad that he is the one they want. That is how they will send for you. They will need you. The world around you will need you.

As we conclude, prayer and fasting sustain access to this realm of wisdom and sustain the flow of the same. James 1:5, Jeremiah 33:3. Proverbs 1:5. I have ordained fasting for the breaking forth of your light. Isaiah 58:8. Light breaks forth and then you break through. Why is this church not growing? Is a question of genuineness. No, this is not the way to do it and then He showed the way to go and we kept going that way from March 1984 till He comes. We keep going that way and that way keeps causing waves. Daniel was waiting on the Lord for three weeks to access a particular insight in fasting. My team and I went through fasting to locate the secret of church growth. I went through fasting to locate the secret of prosperity. Church Gist. I went through fasting to learn the secret of absolute dependence which is the beauty of our ministry today. “don’t look at yourself, don’t look at anybody else, look at me, you will never be ashamed”. Don’t sell your birthright for a morsel of meat. The thing is not working and you want it to work, “Jesus, show me how to make this thing work”. You have relevant books from authors with proof that they have found God. Sit down with those materials, get your Bible and ask God for the way out of this and he shows up. Paul said “in fasting often” he had revelation in abundance, wisdom – out of this world. It is one of those essential platforms for accessing wisdom and flowing in it. Somebody’s story is changing.

I asked the Lord for wisdom for twenty eight solid months. Lord, I don’t know the way to go, show me. Thank God for where we are today by the grace of God. Wisdom is the principal thing no matter what else you get, until you get wisdom you haven’t gotten anything. Church Gist. The wisdom of God, the waymaker of life. The womb that bears giants, is unmistakable when it is at work. I see this thing working in your life, in your families, in your businesses. Just open up to it.

Lift your hands and give God thanks for this opening night. Ask God “Lord this weekend must make a difference in my life, I will have a clean testimony of the wisdom of God”.

That testifier said to Him, I said to him you will have a clean testimony. So instead of amputating the leg, the leg came back on its own. Your destiny shall not be amputated. Church Gist. Your testimony shall be pure and clean, you will know Jesus did it. You will know following His instructions made it happen in the name of Jesus.

Can we say “The wisdom of God is my birthright in Christ because right now Jesus Christ the wisdom and the power of God resides in me. Church Gist. I have within me, the wisdom and the fountain of divine wisdom. So help me Jesus to allow your hand to stir this gift in my life for open manifestation”.

• Your question marks are turned into exclamation marks
• Men will say of you, “what wisdom is this”.
• You will never be stranded again.

By the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, we introduced a new dimension to our first-timers and new converts in July, we had 13,961 converts since that time. 17,921 first-timers and 13,123 people that subscribed for membership. I know you have testimonies but my team has brought 43,810 into the kingdom this year. We have had contacts with 101,543 souls this year. Some of them are in the valley of decision and we believe they will decide for Christ in the process of time. Short man, when did you start this? 1976, consciously, business likely, and without having to look back once. Church Gist. You are going somewhere. Hit and run has no business with God. How many saw the 100-year-old woman last Sunday? She still distributes 1000 flyers. After morning prayers, she goes to the road and takes a bus to Sango. Why won’t she be strong? God will renew your strength. This is not about growing a church, it is about expanding the kingdom.

The remaining part of the week is filled with testimonies for you.

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