I REFLECTED ON MY LIFE AND I DISCOVERED THAT I HAVE NOT HAD TO STRUGGLE FOR ANYTHING SINCE JESUS CALLED ME
ONLY THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD ARE LAUGHING NOW IN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD, PARTICULARLY IN THIS COUNTRY.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY SERIOUS BELIEVER WALKING WITH PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE GOING AND SUCCEED IN LIFE
GOD HAS A GREAT PLAN FOR YOU BUT HE HAS RULES THAT MUST GUIDE YOUR STEPS INTO IT.
WHEN GOD BLESSES, FORGET ABOUT ANY DEVIL. WHEN GOD BLESSES, NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN REVERSE IT. IN THE SAME WAY, WHEN GOD CURSES, NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN REVERSE IT.
GOD’S PRESENCE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE AND HIS PRESENCE IS PROVOKED BY A LIFESTYLE OF PRAISE
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland, Ota.
May Thanksgiving and praise become the new lifestyle of every one of us from now. May everything that complains leave each one of us from henceforth. May our heart become a heart of gratitude in the name of Jesus.
Ask the Lord to speak to you today, it is the last service in the month of September. He always reserves the best for the last. Whatever remains for this month to fully answer in your life receive it.
Lord Jesus, we thank you again. What a great month, a great month indeed. Receive our thanks in the name of Jesus. Tonight speak to us as families, let your word reposition us to access all that redemption offers in Jesus’ precious name.
UNVEILING THE BLESSINGS EMBEDDED IN PRAISE.
Genesis 13:14-15. You can only access what you see, what you can’t see you can’t access. If you can’t see it, you can’t get it. For instance, He has given us all that pertains unto life and godliness. Why are we in need of many things? Because we can’t see it yet. Until we see it, He will not deliver it. 2 Peter 1:3. Many of us are lacking many things because we cannot see what it takes. While we praise and bless the Lord for the things He has done, most importantly, we praise and thank Him for the integrity of His word. Psalm 56:4,10. Church Gist. What Abraham was celebrating was the integrity of God’s word. Romans 4:20-21. Praising the integrity of the word commits God to confirm it. I know you cannot lie, you are ever faithful, ever sure, I celebrate you Jesus. That commits Him to confirm His word in our lives. Most of us are stranded because we think praise is about what He has already done. Yes we owe Him praise for that, we owe Him appreciation and Thanksgiving for all things but we commit Him to do things we are yet to see by praising His word concerning those things. When you are doing what He says to do, I thank you God because you cannot turn back on your word. That commits His integrity to confirm His word in your life.
This is why we do not just praise God for what has happened. We are called to praise God for things to happen. Psalm 67:5-7. Praise the Lord and then shall whatever you have invested in advancing the courts of heaven on the earth yield her interest. Praising God brings us into realms of blessings. When God blesses, forget about any devil. Numbers 23:20. When God blesses, no force on earth can reverse it. In the same way, when God curses, no force on earth can reverse it. Church Gist. Obedience brings us under His blessings and disobedience brings us under His curse. No one shall come under the curse of God because there is no one on earth no matter how anointed who can reverse it. May you be under the showers of blessings for life by walking under obedience to His instructions.
As we close in this series we want to examine how praise makes believers more than conquerors. Praise makes believers more than conquerors. Romans 8:35-37. Psalm 50:23. 1 Corinthians 14:14-15. The secrets of men are in their stories. Paul was a praising addict. He was a thanksgiving addict. Philippians 1:15-18. You are under attack and you are rejoicing? It has become an addiction. That was his lifestyle. When praise becomes your lifestyle no circumstance can cast you down. Church Gist. You can’t cast down your head, you are just ongoing by the virtue that mystery releases. You give Him praise, the oil on your life renews, you are just bubbling with new strength. That is you from henceforth. Every time you cow, you cast your head down, you are asking God to leave you to your situation. Every time you stand up to praise God despite whatever He steps in. You won’t miss God’s intervention anymore.
Praise warfare is vital in order to command supernatural victory in battle. Psalm 149:1-7. This is a mystery that applies to all the redeemed. This applies to every believer that as you sing His high praises and you dance to Him, that will become your constant experience. Isaiah 64:1-4. Psalm 22:3. God’s presence makes all the difference and His presence is provoked by a lifestyle of praise. He is with you, in the morning, in the afternoon, in the night. Always. That makes all the difference. My prayer is that you won’t trade off His presence anymore for any reason. Church Gist. May you not be found in the company of complainers again. May you not be found in the midst of murmurers again. These things are contagious, they have a way of holding you bound if you let them. Psalm 1:1. They are in trouble and you just go and join them. Only the redeemed of the Lord are laughing now in most parts of the world, particularly in this country. They are stressed. They have made themselves devices that don’t work. Isaiah 59:8. You better settle with God, until you settle with Him He can’t settle your case. I have never seen any serious believer walking with people who don’t know where they are going and succeed in life. Proverbs 13:20. Caution! Caution!! God has a great plan for you but He has rules that must guide your steps into it.
Habakkuk 3:17-19. He gets you out of your valley where the devil and the wicked one has put you like a dream of the night. You are coming out. Church Gist. Within now and the last moment when this month is over, something neither eyes have not seen nor ears have not heard will take place in your life.
We will look at these three biblical testimonies of the triumph of praise.
- The Red Sea gave way to His presence.
Psalm 114:1-3. That is what it means to be more than a conqueror. The battle couldn’t wait for you, the opponents couldn’t enter the ring so you were automatically crowned the winner. Becoming a champion without throwing a fist. Becoming a global phenomenon without throwing punches. Why? God was their sanctuary, the sea saw them and fled. When God steps in, your troublers clear the way on their own accord. You are not struggling. Can any barriers stop the president’s convoy? Can any barricade made of combined forces of Immigration, Customs, Mobile Police, Immobile Police, Military, Civil Defense, be gathered and the president is coming, they are wise enough to clear. Even if they see one hundred armed robbers following them, they must clear or they clear them. Church Gist. They will see them as coming to clear the president so they clear them. You carry God’s presence, troubles tremble at your instance. You appear and they disappear on their own. They clear the way, that is the secret behind your church. Troubles clear as we are coming. We arrive at a place and troubles check out on their own, why? God is in the midst of His people. So when you carry God like that on your life, troubles tremble. The lions couldn’t hold Daniel down. Daniel 2:23. It was coming from Him naturally not mechanically. Show me a believer that praises God’s presence naturally. Troubles see him and tremble and clear off the way. That’s you.
This (Canaanland) is supposed to be a notorious forest according to history but we came and the birds were dropping down on their own accord no catapult. It becomes a no-flight zone. God’s presence makes a believer more than a conqueror. You are the one God is talking to right now and you are getting there. I tried to reflect on my short life and I discovered that I have not had to struggle for anything since Jesus called me. Church Gist. I have never had to meet anyone on God’s behalf, please can you help God to pass? His presence makes all the difference. Look at these number of years, I have been privileged to be in ministry, I have never begged once. I have never borrowed once. I have never lived without food once. No visitor has ever slept without food in our home. Please carry His presence that is your strongest defence and your sharpest weapon of offence. He takes care of your enemies as if they don’t exist.
We were flying to Kano and then we lost one of our engines and there is no packing space in the air. I wasn’t perturbed, nothing shook inside me but I know if I told those fellows that were on that journey with me, I might have had more trouble but I saw the plane just slowed down and I went inside to ask what is going on and they said we just lost one engine. I said relax. You are not an engineer, you are not an aviator, relax for what? Relax with His presence. So I got back to the cabin and said “hey folks would you like to have some snacks?” they said yes. I gave them snacks. If I told them that we lost one engine I will lose all of them because they will just be jumping out. Nothing shook inside me, I wasn’t writing any will. I wasn’t thinking about death. It was far from where I dwell. Psalm 23:4. Church Gist. His presence makes a believer fearless. Nothing causes defeat in battle like fear. That is why they said “is anyone afraid let him return home” because he won’t return from the battle. That is what Gideon said. 22,000 out of 32,000 said, “excuse me, I am afraid”. That is how many believers are afraid. They are afraid of tomorrow, they are afraid of today, they are afraid of yesterday that has passed. Psalm 23:4-6. I was eating snacks with them on the plane. The captain was in trouble. His head was oozing forth sweat, you know the kind of sweat that Jesus had that was like droplets of blood and he had a bald head like me. It was just oozing forth like a fountain. He was afraid to his pants and we were eating snacks on the devil’s heads. Psalm 23:5-6. Jesus will decorate your life, just carry His presence. Isaiah 55:8.
The walls of Jericho came down at the shout of praise. When the trumpet blew with a long blast, the people shouted and the walls came down flat and everyone went straight before them. Joshua 6:20. You can shout down the barriers on your path. You can shout them down. They just clear off. Psalm 47:1,4. Church Gist. Whatever belongs to you, He will release it. When you clap your hand and shout a shout of victory, He releases your inheritance. They took over the city of Jericho like a daydream, cleared in one moment when you shout praise, the defence of your enemy will collapse. They will surrender willingly
Through praise, the Lord took over the battle of Judah against the kings Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir. 2 Chronicles 20:20-22. These three great kings were smitten and not one person escaped in their army. Church Gist. God is taking over your battle. Allow Him to do it. He is not the one that set the battle in array. He is your deliverer, allow Him to do it. He wants to take over, when He takes over, it will be over. It is your turn.
Isaiah 65:6-8. Fearful blessings are in praise. When there is a blessing in what you are doing, no devil can destroy it.
Lift your two hands and give God praise everyone. There is no one like our God. All through this month, God has been passing to us the treasures in praise. Celebrate Him for access to those treasures. Ask Him for grace to keep putting them to work as a lifestyle.
- God has ordained this season, your season of change of story.
Last Sunday we had quite a number of humbling testimonies. Somebody died for three days and came back. Church Gist. A family had their first son at man 68, woman 55. Jesus stepped in and turned their trials into testimonies. In the name of Jesus, it is your turn. Tonight something must turn in your life.
——— Communion And Praise Session ———-
NEW YEAR BLESSINGS
What a season of commotion of blessings. Concerning Joseph, the Bible says “the blessings of thy father has caused you to prevail above thy progenitors”. I want to release my new year blessings on your life.
- You shall begin to prevail where others travail.
Proverbs every true son is entitled to the DNA of his father.
- Therefore, every spiritual DNA at work in me, I release them upon your life.
For every good and perfect gift cometh from above, from the Father of light in whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning.
- You shall not live an empty month in your life again.
- Every month shall begin to bring you its manner of fruit, its manner of proofs in the name of Jesus.
- You will not struggle for good things to happen anymore. Good things will be finding natural access to you.
- May the obedience virtue in me by grace, come alive in you today.
- You never be found at the bottom again.
- All your remaining days on earth in the name of Jesus shall be days of joy and rejoicing.
- No one will beg to eat. No one and their household will wear rags.
- The grace of ceaseless praise at work in me, I decree that it flows naturally into your life.
- May His presence that dominates this church, may the same presence dominate your life.
- May this month be to every one of us a month of new beginnings.
- All the battles that may be staring you in the face today will become testimonies tomorrow.
- Grace to maximize the remaining hours remaining for this month, receive it now
And so shall it be. Because praise brings believers into favour with God, from now favour which is a covenant story changer becomes your new experience.
- Favour from God becomes your new experience.
- Your life will never lack testimonies again. Testimonies of breakthrough on the right and the left, testimonies of going forward, testimonies of advancement, testimonies of enlargement shall be yours from henceforth.
I have a gift for you from God in scripture – Ecclesiastes 7:16. Until you know much before you know you don’t know anything yet. You need to know much to know that you don’t know anything yet where you are. Neither make thyself over wise like Ahithophel, that is how wise he was, he committed suicide. Solomon said I am wiser than all living, okay, let me show you how stupid you are. He laid a deadly record that no generation can break. He married 300 wives. Church Gist. Nobody has tried that. That is a generational record of failure because he was overwise. Daniel said this secret is not revealed to me by the grace of God. Many over wise pastors, many over wise leaders, many over wise people, anything contrary to what they say cannot work. Why? They are the wisest. What a gift for you for this season. When you become over wise no counsel passes you. In the name of Jesus, nobody’s life will suffer a reversal. 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.
Lift your hand and thank God for this precious gift from heaven. It will keep you and I growing in the knowledge of Him. I thank you for this gift from a father. Thou which I know not, teach thou me. You don’t do wickedness, you don’t stagnate anybody, you don’t push anybody down.
Be blessed. Again to the Winners family worldwide, I am praying to see you scaling heights I never touched just simply following the instructions of scriptures. It creates a great future. No one among us shall miss his place in heaven. At the end of all this, we shall be found on the streets of God, we will spend eternity with Him.
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