-Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
*I am not looking for anything, anywhere.
*I entered into a covenant to make Matthew 6:33 my lifestyle. And God became the Lord of everything of my little life.
*Why am I shouting this morning? God has ordained the rise of giants in this Commission but dedication to God and to the interest of His Kingdom is key to getting there.
*All of us who have seen today (31st August 2021) shall see the last day of this year in our Turnaround status.
Heavenly Father, thank You for a brand-new day and thank You particularly for the last day in the month of August. Your grace brought us thus far and we return all the glory to You. All of us who have seen today shall see the last day of this year in our Turnaround status; becoming the envy of the world around us; becoming testimonials among men in the name of Jesus Christ. Let Your Word come through to us today, in Jesus precious name.
Obedience is key to Turnaround testimony. You can pray your life out, without obedience, there can be no Turnaround.
“We are faced with shame”: whatever He tells you to do, do it.
John 2:5
“They are coming to carry our 2 sons as collateral for the debt that my husband and I owed”: whatever He tells you to do, do it.
“God has blessed me, I am a commander of the Syrian army, but I am a leper”: whatever He tells you to do, do it.
“My only child is dead”: whatever He tells you to do, do it.
Every Turnaround testimony in the Kingdom is triggered by our obedience of faith. Everything.
“I was blind”: Go to the Pool called Siloam.
“How will I know?”: Go and find out
“How will I get there?” Over to you
Until you get to the Pool called Siloam, you remain blind for life.
Whatever He tells you to do, do it.
You don’t know the value of Obedience until you have obeyed. It may be costly; the end result is priceless. Obedience!!!
Obedience: better than sacrifice – 1 Samuel 15:22
Obedience: better than all weapons of war.
When your obedience is fulfilled, you will overcome, routing all oppositions – 2 Corinthians 10:6
Prayers: Jesus, endue me afresh today with the Spirit of Obedience.
No reason under heaven is tenable for disobedience with God.
OBEDIENCE: A COVENANT PLATFORM FOR THE RISE OF GIANTS
First, becoming a giant is not your ambition or my ambition, it is our redemptive birthright – Revelation 5:10
From every tribe, kindred, nation, so God is no respecter of colour, races, region.
Revelation 5:9-10
Emerging a giant is just normal because only giants beget giants and we are offspring of the gigantic God.
We are co-heirs with Jesus. He is not ashamed to call us brethren – Philippians 2:9-10
Every child of God belongs to the lineage of giants.
Deuteronomy 28:1
What does it mean to be a giant? To stand out in your field of endeavour.
John 20:21
We are redeemed as stars in our generation, so it is not our ambition, it is our birth right. We belong to the lineage of giants.
Psalm 110:1-3
It is God’s last days agenda to cause giants to emerge in Zion, the Church.
Daniel 7:27 – that is a celebration of the dominion of the end time Church. The Church of giants, the kind the world has never seen, neither will they see any after it.
But darkness shall cover the earth but in the midst of the darkness and gloominess, a great people will arise. There has never been their kind, neither will there be any after them until the years of many generations – Joel 2:1-2
Those are generational record breakers.
That is God’s picture of His Church.
How do I plug in to this Heaven’s agenda? Because it is for His people. Pride will rob anybody access; it takes meekness to learn.
I want to bring you to my plan, but He said, “come and learn of Me, for I am meek” – Matthew 11:29
No proud person can stay in my class.
He made His ways known unto Moses and Moses began to cause waves and the waves are still are still here with us today – Psalm 103:7
Access to His ways require meekness – Psalm 25:9
Numbers 12:3 – He can’t make His ways known to anybody except with meekness. He could confide in Moses the foundation of creation. Nobody was there but He said, “Moses, come. Let me show you how I created the world.” With meekness.
We live in a very proud generation Sir. People are not just proud to those around them, they are proud to God. Church Gist.
God, let me advise you, “what you are saying doesn’t fit to this new generation”
Who wants to be dedicated? For what! Be dedicated to your career my friend. God in case you are not aware, you know you live in Heaven and we live here, let me advise you. You need to be enlightened about what happens here.
Many arrogant believers, they have not changed position at all, they are just going round in cycles. They know everything already, even what God doesn’t know, they know. What God is yet to know, they already know, so they are educating God. Moses the meek became Moses with uncheckered access to the ways of God.
Numbers 12:3
Moses was very meek, very great because he was able to learn the way to greatness.
Exodus 11:3, Deuteronomy 34:10
Generational record breakers through the act of learning the ways of God, which is accessible through meekness.
-No one will miss his place in destiny.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
“Old path, it won’t work. We are a new generation people.”
“We will not hearken. What trumpet are you blowing?”
That’s why this generation is fast losing her heroes. Unwillingness to learn. You work under a Master and you don’t see him as your Master, you see yourself as his Master because opportunity gave you. That’s why!
-Pride has undone many destinies, yours will not be part of it.
I have learnt from Jesus by grace this year things I never knew in my 52 years of salvation. I have written about 100 titles, things I never knew in my life, coming my way on daily basis because of my open heartedness to learn.
“Stand ye in the way and see and ask for the old path” – Jeremiah 6:16
There is no new generation truth. As long as there is no new generation laws of nature: breathing continues; eating must continue or you die; going to toilet continues forever no matter how much civilization you have. It continues for life, so how do you think that the laws of the Spirit have to change with new generation. You are wasting your time.
Forever, you will have to plant seed to reap a harvest. Otherwise you will go hungry, suffer drought and die.
There is no laboratory of preparing food. The seed must go to the earth, so you can bring forth.
One of the fundamental laws of the Spirit concerning your birthright of greatness is Dedication. You don’t want it, you can’t have it.
No seed will ever become great until it is sown: the parable of the Mustard seed, the tiniest of all seeds. When it is sown, it grows up.
Mark 4:32
Until it is sown, its greatness cannot emerge.
Dedication!
Dedication: it is the unchangeable law behind the rise of giants. Dedication to God and to the interest of His Kingdom is key.
No seed can be sown on behalf of another. Whatever seed will not be sown will remain at the same spot for life.
The father cannot be sown as a seed for the son.
The son cannot be sown as a seed for the father.
The husband cannot be sown as a seed for the wife.
I got interested and got a bottle of mustard seed from Israel and I kept it on my shelf. It is still there. That is a whole plantation wasting away in my bookshelf. It’s about 10 years, it is still there.
You can be 50 years in the Church Sir, if you are not dedicated, nothing will change.
I think I should stop here, so you can go. You can just go and be reflecting on it. Until you choose to be dedicated, you are not ready for a change of story. Nobody will know that you belong to a lineage of giants.
Mark 4:30-31
You have to be sown first as a seed before the giant in you will come alive.
All the stories of change you are getting here are rooted in the dedication of individuals to God to His Kingdom: That’s what brought about the change.
Moses was a sold out, dedicated soul to God, at the interest of His people.
Exodus 2:11-12
He fled from Egypt and God found him after 40 years and said, “come now and go to Egypt.”
And Moses departed with his wife and his 2 sons: “If I perish, I perish” – that was the meaning.
He was a fugitive, they were looking for him.
“If I perish, I perish” – Exodus 4:20-21
And Moses landed in Egypt and God said, “I have made you a god unto Pharaoh” – Exodus 7:1
Dedication changed his status forever. Strange thing came out of him, through uncheckered dedication to God and to the interest of His people. Every truly dedicated soul ends up supernaturally distinguished.
I thank God for the day I was baptized into Matthew 6:33 45 years ago and I entered into a covenant to make that my lifestyle. And God became the Lord of everything of my little life. I don’t belong to any social group in my life, I belong to a spiritual group for life. I have nothing looking for anywhere. At the beginning, when there was nothing to show but where I stood, I stood there.
Only those who are truly sold out to God, in truth and in deed will ever stand out in life. That is the law of the Spirit regarding the rise of giants.
Can your husband eat for you?
“Hello, I am so busy. Please eat for me today I won’t have time to eat.”
I know many men are extremely busy, but can you be busy so much that you tell your secretary, “please go to the toilet for me: I can’t stand up. Just go to the toilet for me.” You will mess up, the room will be smelling, people will enter (covering their nose), ‘sorry’
Nobody will go to the toilet for you.
Nobody can eat for you.
Can anybody breathe for you?
If you don’t get dedicated on your own, by yourself, you are wasting your time. Wasting time.
“Give me, give me bread, give me butter. Give me groundnut.”
Every day: Give me, give me
Never asking, “God, what do you have me to do? I just love You” – it makes a world of difference.
Why am I shouting this morning? God has ordained the rise of giants in this Commission, the kind the world has never known. But dedication to God and to the interest of His Kingdom is key to getting there.
Prayers: Give God thanks. Speak to the day, receive that engrafted Word with meekness. Receive that engrafted truth with meekness and renew your dedication to God. It is the only way to take delivery of your own heritage.
Speak to the Lord, don’t keep your mouth shut.
Lord, I renew my dedication to You and the interest of Your Kingdom
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