Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland.
Be personal in your walk with God Someone said while we were constructing Faith Tabernacle: “we are going to know his pride now. Let us see who will follow him to that forest. He is a Minister of the Gospel, I don’t know what he will be thinking now.” Those who give thanks never suffer empty tanks. To be Thankful is to be Tankful. Your tanks will never run dry again. Those who murmur empty their tanks without knowing but those who give thanks keep filling their tanks. The tank of the Ministry is being filled day in, day out because of our addiction to giving thanks. Yes for everything we give thanks but He also said IN everything: it may not look like what you want, but in everything give thanks because He is the One managing your life; no one can manage it any better (1Thessalonians 5:18). It is beautiful to see fulfillment of prophecy days, but it is more humbling to hear the prophecies when they don’t look like near or possible.
Here we are, inside a ‘fulfillment of prophecy’ Tabernacle.- Here we are, planting Churches in the year of global lock down across 35 Nations of the world. He said, “this Ministry is not limited to this country but to nations of the earth were vibrant Churches shall be planted.” We didn’t have one when He was saying that: now behold the raw fulfillment of prophecy by the raw hand of God. There is something that must go with you that no matter how far fetched the prophetic Word you have truly received and believed; it must come to pass in your life. A number of our friends in the Power House left because the thing was like going towards insanity. The statements had no landing place, they looked like a day dreamer talking about things that would never happen. The Lord spoke to me that He would storm the world by men and women in this Commission. He said, “I have given you the people, Raise them with Me. Impart visions to them, school them into exploits and by them I will storm the world.” Remember those prophetic Words. – Jump out of school or you will never graduate. God doesn’t need you and me for anything sir, you need Him for everything. Have people not left this Church? Oh Yes. Did they leave Jesus? Oh Yes. Is He still Lord of all today? Yes! What happened to those who left? They are on their own.
I am married to Jesus, satan leave me alone, My Husband is coming to take me away, to everlasting home. I’ve been running with this madness since 1969. It is a very tasteful madness. Last year, we were reaching 145 Nations and this year 170 Nations: so we have covered virtually the whole world. Last year, we had 40 major languages, this year we had 62 major languages. By staying on! If we stayed in Capernaum (Lagos), we would end there – God is no respecter of persons, no matter your anointing. When you stop following His leading, you miss out of His blessings. Sir, I never checked on anyone when we left Capernaum to come here, that “I didn’t see you”: Never! I’ve followed Jesus forever. It became ill with Moses because of the people (Psalm 106:32). I want to make heaven ohhh. So if you are not interested, God bless you as you go your way. I love you with passion but I won’t let you make me miss my may. I love Jesus.
When God said, “as you pastor this one Church” – some were very upset: they didn’t send me, they were upset behind, not to me. They don’t talk to me, when I speak what God says, my wife knows, my long range associates know: you don’t come near it. Your input can be very dangerous. God said, ”Move”: I Move, if you are not interested, God bless you! Please learn to obey God, there is no group lifting with God. God lifts people one by one. Stop gang-ups: it won’t help you to anywhere. From this forest, we are reaching 170 Nations. We had only one beetle car that was sold for 1000 Naira when God said, “He would buy Himself aircrafts” Ask Aviators for God’s sake “what it takes to keep running an aircraft since 1996 till date?” When you stop following Him, the agenda stops. As you keep following, the agenda is working all the way. He said, “don’t you toy with this altar. It is serving a generation. It’s a part of a worldwide awakening.
Stay over this Church with me as I continue to reap the overripe harvest of the world together” – direct, not edited. Can you imagine 145, 150 Nations: you want to accept Jesus, they lift up their hands across the nations because God said so. It is not expertise, it’s not experience; it is ‘God said so’. Don’t stop following on God’s agenda for you. If we stopped in Kaduna, He will stop there. We won’t reach anywhere more than the North. If we stopped in Nigeria when He said, “Go to Africa”, we will stop there. We moved to Africa, He said, “Now, move to the world”: August 2000, we stepped out to the world. Grace to keep following so as to see every prophetic agenda of God for your life come through, receive it Now. We call you because we love you; you heard me say yesterday, “don’t put your telephone on your sacrifice because nobody will call you.” Has anybody called you before? There is no point putting your telephone, “which one will I put now so that they won’t be disturbing me?” IN fact, apart from the blessing I was telling my son in the gospel, “I want them to go with their paper home so they can be reminded of what they wrote” and the Lord said, “Okay, proclaim a blessing on their sacrifice”, otherwise you go home with your paper. Sir, nobody will read those papers (Shiloh sacrifice). I’m telling you the truth. Who has time? It’s between you and God. You do it: Good, you are the one who said it. It’s between you and God…you didn’t say it to me. Billions were expended last year in Church planting, we didn’t take an offering from anybody. Caution!!! Be personal in your walk with God; that has helped me sir, so personal.
When God speaks to me, the whole world can’t change it. When God says what to do, there is no authority under heaven that can change it. I knew Shiloh will hold no matter who is saying what! Did it hold or not? God called a meeting, you said, “you are so and so person.” Who are you? God called a meeting, you said, “I’m Mr.. so and so” Response: Mr. what! Stand on the way!*God is saying something in your life. I’ve never called any authority in my life, “will you allow God to do what He wants to do?” No! Never. To ask man to allow God have his way: Never. Please follow Jesus, my passion is to see people married to Jesus. All this, “somebody stepped on me, I’m not coming to Church again”: Go away, go to the shrine. Which leg are they stepping on? Somebody stepped on my leg, stomach, head for 7 years: It didn’t touch my life and I still loved him. All this, “somebody has offended me in my service group, I’m not coming again until they come and beg me”: Don’t beg anybody. Go and start your service group in your house. Life is about, “are you determined to follow?” He said, “FOLLOW ME and I will MAKE You” (Matthew 4:19)Don’t discuss Me, follow Me. All this, “in my opinion”. Your opinion is irrelevant sir, your opinion is your cup of tea. Jesus reigns here.
If you (Bishop David Abioye) say you are not following Him tomorrow (God forbid); it won’t touch me. I will just say, “what did I hear? You are not following Jesus again, be careful ohhh. Heaven is real.” The same way this Ministry is exploding and exploding: do you know in some locations, we had overflow in our viewing centres, they were looking for screens to put everywhere. – That’s how your life will start overflowing with God’s blessings. Somebody said, I was told by one of my sons in the gospel, “we are going to know his pride now. Let us see who will follow him to that forest.” He is a Minister of the Gospel, I don’t know what he will be thinking now. We were under the construction of this building, “the world will know the pride of this man now because this will be the end of this ministry, ”A friend of mine came and planted a Church by Capernaum (Lagos) and they put a banner somewhere, ‘You Don’t Have To Go Far’ Sir, that Church closed down before it ever started well. You know the humorous God: we bought the property. I called him one day, I said, “hello, it’s like I heard your voice over the microphone!” Response: It’s one of my sons that has a church there. I said: you don’t come near this kind of place without talking to me. He denied it…You want to know the kind of person your Pastor is? I paid for a property for one of my sons that was starting Ministry in that area while we were still there. You know the Church of Christ is one. He said he got a property. I said, “where is it? Okay, how much is it? I paid.” It’s that area…Please be spiritual. Every Word that God spoke concerning me: one by one, they are coming to pass. One by one, I see them coming to pass.
I didn’t bring a dime to Ministry and I never took Ministry money for one thing in my life and I’m blessed. I’ve never earned a dime from books; I’ve never seen the money from tapes or DVDs in my entire life, but I’m blessed. Just walking purely in the covenant and following after God.*My prayer is that the same order of grace you received yesterday will not be in vain. It will speak in the lives of your children, your children’s children. We saw things at Shiloh that I can’t even tell you now! You will be told hereafter. That is the global import of this event, it’s not meant for the public because God said so. Receive grace for continuity and steadfastness in following God. Receive that grace in celebrating God at all times, no matter what, in pressing your way to the fulfillment of prophecy.
