YOU TAKE YOUR TERRITORY BY THE AUTHORITY OF FAITH.
YOU CAN’T WORK OUT FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY. IT IS BEYOND YOU; IT IS BEYOND ME.
YOU CAN’T ORGANIZE IT.
IT IS BY THE HAND OF GOD THAT WE SEE IT HAPPEN.
-Bishop David Oyedepo, 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
Covenant Day of Open Doors
ENGAGING THE POWER OF FAITH FOR FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECIES
Please note that no prophecy of scriptures or from an anointed prophet will ever see the light of day without your faith.
An Angel sent from God came and declare the Word of God and the Word says, “blessed is she that believeth for there shall be a performance.” It came direct from God. That doesn’t matter.
“Believe the Lord Your God and you shall be established”: It’s what shall be confirmed in your life. That is what it means.
Believe also His prophets and you shall prosper by what the prophets carry; when they are sent by God – 2 Chronicles 20:20
No prophecy of scriptures or of an anointed prophet will ever see the light of day without the active faith of the recipient. Church Gist. That makes each one of us responsible for the events of our lives because this whole thing (Bible) is called the more sure word of prophecy – 2 Peter 1:19
It means you will never see any word of scriptures come to pass in your life and in my life without our faith being at work. That makes faith a spiritual asset of inestimable value.
Everything is faith determined in the Kingdom. Church Gist. Everything! Everything is determined by faith in the Kingdom. Faith is the substance of our redemption. Faith is what substantiates the value of redemption in the life of a believer.
“If you can believe, all things are possible to those that believeth” – Mark 9:23
Nothing is possible without your faith.
It is to everyone according to his faith – Matthew 9:29.
It is your faith and my faith that determines the happenings in our lives.
Righteousness delivers by faith. The righteous which is by faith – Romans 10:6
We overcome by faith – 1 John 5:4
We are healed by faith – Matthew 9:28
You believe before your healing can be delivered.
They said, “Yea Lord.” He said, “according to your faith, you can get it” – Matthew 9:29
This is so crucial. Prayers are answered by faith.
Whatsoever thing you shall ask in prayers, believing, you shall receive them – Matthew 21:22
Let him ask in faith, let not that man think he shall receive anything from God – James 1:6-7
This is the reason why we must jealously guard and continue to build our faith, so that our redemption can be meaningful, valuable and impactful. You don’t build your faith, you will be enslaved by the faith of others or by the crookedness of others. Anybody can see vision for you and you will be running like a donkey. God forbid.
God’s more sure prophecy is right here (Bible). Church Gist. They just threaten you and you start dangling up and down. This (Bible) is settled in Heaven forever. I don’t know where the other person is coming from, you are not coming from the Word, you are worthy of attention.
“I have prayed for you that your faith faileth not”, Jesus said – Luke 22:32
When your faith fails, nothing works.
Luke 22:31-32
When faith fails, it’s like heart failure. When the heart fails, life ceases. When faith fails, redemption loses total value.
-No one’s faith here shall fail any more.
But it is very important for us to know that there are many storms that little faith cannot handle.
“Why are you so fearful? O ye of little faith” – Mark 4:40
Matthew 14:31
There are many prophecies that weak faith can never see fulfilled.
Romans 4:17-20
We can’t see prophecy fulfilled with weak faith. It takes strong faith, calling those things that be not as though they were. Strong faith.
You have to build strength by the Word into your faith.
1 Kings 19:8 – we build strength into our spirit man by the Word.
My friend, weak faith can’t come and dare Faith Tabernacle, by that matching order of one year. No. Not ‘j’eko j’eko’ faith, not chocolate faith. Church Gist. It has to be rooted, grounded faith, in the God that cannot fail. Not I believe, I confess.
There are many things God has in store for you that your weak faith can’t handle. And you don’t build strength in the course of the match, you build strength before a match.
You don’t start exercising when you are already in the ring for a contest. You have been doing that behind the scene.
Please build your faith.
He said I have many things to tell you but you can’t handle them now. I have many great things in store for you but you can’t pick them. Your capacity can’t receive them.
He said, “not all men can receive this thing.”
There are things God has in store for you and me that is waiting for us to build capacity to receive it. Church Gist. Build it. Life has no return match.
Don’t wish it; build it.
You don’t wish muscular development, you build it.
-There are many sitting down here today who will be a blessing to nations, but you have to build your faith capacity to match Heaven’s agenda.
Don’t assume it. Build it.
Though we have never seen it in our lives but He said, “He will build this thing (Faith Tabernacle) in one year.”
Carry on Jesus, no one can hinder you.
We came in stupidly: following day. Without any break or doubt in the course of the season.
It was difficult for anybody to approach for a possible change of date because I got the date from God – 18th September 1999 came from the mouth of God.
I have to choose between you and God, so to save your life, I built a hedge. I wasn’t accessible, so that you won’t think that, “Okay, I even advised.”
Advice! For what?
God said; then you advice what?
You need strong faith to secure your glorious agenda in God’s hand. You need it.
You are doing so well on your street, what if Heaven has ordained that you impact continents and then you will roaming around in the same place.
-You are going forward.
-More than conquerors are ordained to emerge here this year, who shall remain so for life.
So diligently hearken to what will birth it and then commit to it genuinely as an individual and watch how God will bring His Word to pass in your life without sweat.
-It’s your turn!!
Now very quickly:
Prophecies are the unveiling of God’s plan and purpose for us as a people, as an individual, as found in His Word or as spoken by His prophets.
He just unveils His plan. It’s my plan, if you are interested, line up.
You are interested: believe it and prove that you do by obeying what He says to be done.
Show me your faith without lining up with what He says to be done and I will show you my faith by my works. Line up! Stop waiting, it can be wasteful.
Line up with what He says to be done and you have committed His integrity to perform.
HOW POWERFUL ARE PROPHECIES?
- Prophecies carry inbuilt capacity for fulfillment.
There is inbuilt power within every prophetic Word for delivery. Inbuilt power because prophecies are sworn verdicts. God swears by His own integrity – Genesis 2:16
Isaiah 14:24
There is inbuilt power embedded in every prophecy for fulfillment. All it takes is your faith. Your active faith in receiving and believing the reality of those words because our God specializes in calling those things that be not as though they were. He calls them into being.
Isaiah 55:11 – My Word will not return to me void. That is, it has inbuilt capacity for delivery. Whatever God declares is a done deal.
It’s your faith that brings it to reality. - God speaks according to His capacity not our limitations.
He is the Almighty, is anything too hard for Him? He speaks according to what only He can do. Only Him can make a virgin bring forth a son and He did
Only Him can make the sun and the moon in one spot for a whole day and He did.
Only Him can divide the Red Sea and He did.
God speaks according to His own capacity to deliver. That is, this is Me saying this, nothing is too hard for Me if you can believe it.
-Every Word concerning you, concerning the year shall find open manifestations.
As your faith catches up with every statement thereof.
This time tomorrow, there shall be plenty of food on the streets of Samaria and that man said, “even if God opens the windows of heaven, can this thing be?” – 2 Kings 7:1
The Prophet reacted, “you will see it with your eye but your mouth will not touch it”- 2 Kings 7:2
He was comparing God with man.
Whatever God speaks, He creates. Church Gist. He is not looking for raw materials to work with. He says it, He creates it.
Which raw material produced light? God created it.
Which raw material produced plants? God created it.
Which raw material produced animals? God created it.
God said and it was created. So God and man are not in the same plane. Whatever He says, He creates. He doesn’t have a factory. God has no factory.
A woman came to our Crusade in Bauchi, many years ago. She came all the way from Jos and then went back home in the morning to her family and she told the husband, “I am pregnant.”
“Haah.” The husband said, just yesterday and now! And she was. She believed the prophetic Word, she declared it on getting home and she became pregnant.
Whatever God says, God creates.
-Somebody is leaving here with an outstanding testimony this morning, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- God speaks according to His integrity and not according to our unpredictability.
He speaks according to His own integrity. I mean, He is God that cannot lie. That means, He has no capacity to lie – Titus 1:2
Just like a man has no capacity to bear a child, I mean to be pregnant. Church Gist. He may be pregnant with food, but he can’t be pregnant with a child.
God cannot lie, just like a man cannot carry a baby in the womb. A man has no womb, so there is nowhere to even carry the baby.
It’s the same way, God cannot lie. He is not a man that He should lie – Numbers 23:19
He speaks according to His integrity. He is ever reliable, ever dependable, never-failing integrity.
It is our failed faith that makes it look like God failed.
Why is not everybody having testimonies? Not everybody believes.
Why is not everybody saved? Not everyone believes when they hear the gospel.
Why is Matthew 6:33 not working for everybody? Not everybody is doing it. everybody is saying but how many people are doing it?
God is no respecter of persons Sir. Church Gist. What He does for one, He will do for another, if they stand on the same platform.
God is no respecter of persons. The Lord said, “tell them, some are questioning why is Matthew 6:33 not working. You are not working it.”
Sir, you are not working it. There is no one that genuinely works it that it doesn’t work.
The truth always works. There are people who are in this Church, that is their life wire: Matthew 6:33
They are just moving on and moving on and moving on. No set back, no step backward. They are just moving on and moving on.
You don’t work it, it won’t work. He said, “Work out your own salvation” – Philippians 2:12
Every provision of scriptures is required that you work your portion out.
What He says to do, do it
I mean you are not praying, you know you are not praying. Nobody needs to prophesy to you that you are not praying. You should know.
Not that, “thus saith the Lord, James you are not praying.” You know.
You just say, “James, are you praying?” Then he says, “I am still thinking about it.”
No. You should know.
If you invite anybody to Church today, you should know. If you pray for anyone to be saved during this week, you should know.
All that “I will add other things to you”, He is not talking to you. He is talking to those who are doing it.
“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and I will add all these things to those who are doing it”, not to those who heard it – Matthew 6:33
Now, I am here by grace. I have been eating Matthew 6:33 since 1976. I didn’t know you that time, so it wasn’t because of you that I saw it. I sold out to it the year I saw it. I have never regretted that I did.
-In the name of Jesus, your faith will no longer fail.
He speaks according to His integrity – Hebrews 6:18
-God will decorate you this year.
-All your mockers will join to worship your God.
-It shall be a year of dramatic change of story, in the name of Jesus Christ.
HOW DOES FAITH FACILITATE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY?
Three things happen when we receive and believe the prophetic Word. Please take note of this.
- The Holy Ghost goes into operation for delivery.
Luke 1:31-35
The Holy Ghost goes into operation every time we truly receive and believe a prophetic Word to engender its delivery. It goes into operation.
What do you see? I saw 7 golden candlesticks with 7 bowls…all of gold. He said, not by power nor by might, but by My Spirit says the Lord – Zechariah 4:6
It is our faith that provokes the operation of the Holy Ghost that works out the delivery of any prophetic word
Zechariah 4:6
You can’t work out fulfillment of prophecy. It is beyond you; it is beyond me. It is by the hand of God that we see it happen. Church Gist. You can’t organize it.
When you believe it, the Holy Ghost goes into operation to actualize it. - When we truly receive and believe a prophetic word, angels of God go into action
Because they excel in strength and they hearken to the voice of His Word – Psalm 103:20
Every Word from God receives angelic attention for delivery. When we truly receive and believe the Word, the angels of God responsible for that transaction go into action.
That takes it beyond you and beyond me. That is what happens when faith comes alive. - When we receive and believe the prophetic Word, God stretches out His hand to perform.
Whatever God speaks with His mouth, only His hand has the power to make it happen – 1 Kings 8:15
How do we secure the hand of God? Who has believed our report and unto whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? – Isaiah 53:1
Faith provokes the stretching forth of God’s hand that performs His Word in our lives.
There is no way anybody can substitute an Angel when it comes to spiritual transaction.
That is their job: they ascend and descend the ladder of Heaven, to ensure that things are in shape according to your faith.
These things deliver according to our faith as individuals.
-I know that I know that an army of giants will rise in this place this year, by engaging their faith in God and the prophetic Word for the year.
By engaging their faith in God who cannot lie and in the prophetic Word concerning us as a people this year.
This is vital, this is very important and I want to believe that no one will toy with it, in the name of Jesus Christ.
In addition, we must give ourselves wholly to the demands of every prophetic Word if they must come to pass in our lives.
Whatever He tells you to do, do it – John 2:5
That is the way to see whatever He says come to pass. Whatever He tells you to do, do it and you will see what He says come to pass. Just do it.
1 Timothy 4:14-15
Just give yourself wholly to the demands of the prophetic Word. Give yourself wholly to it.
“I am going to dedicate this place September 18th, 1999”: we came here September 18th 1998, to start measuring the foundation Sir.
It’s not the following day.
Give yourself wholly to them. I became General Manager of the construction. We were holding meetings 2 am, Sunday morning Sir and I would still preach. 3 am.
Just marking the hours and partnering with Jesus.
-May the Lord bless the souls of all those men who partnered with Jesus in the building of this place.
They worked like work. They worked!
-Their generations will not miss their blessings.
-The blessing will speak through all their generations.
-None of them will miss their steps.
-Each one of them will make Heaven, in the name of Jesus.
But you give yourself wholly to them. You don’t do what He says, what He says will never come to pass.
You do what He says, what He says comes to pass. You won’t do what He says: forget it.
Can I tell you this? No one will ever taste financial fortune in the Kingdom
They are not listening
No one will ever without lining up with what He says makes it happen. Be a committed Kingdom promoter from the place where you are.
God is not a taskmaster.
Sir, from 1 Naira position, you are taking strong position in obeying God.
The tithe of 10 Naira is 1 Naira. What is your problem?
He won’t give you 10 Naira and ask you to bring tithe of 2 Naira. No!
When I say such, I say it as God leads me.
My friend, instead of dropping 10 Naira in a Service and you are going to be in 2 Services, divide it into two: put 5 Naira in the first Service, put 5 Naira in the second Service. God knows your level, don’t pose. But to now look…it is not fair on yourself. It is not on anybody else, it is on yourself.
Do you know my tithes was part of what we counted in Kaduna when our income was 18,000 Naira? But He never failed once. He never failed once!
I was giving testimony of 1000 Naira a week. How many years ago?
But when you just sit down and be watching, “emm, God will open the windows of heaven.” He won’t open nothing.
There is what you must do, what I must do to keep the heaven open.
-But this year, whatever door you have shut against yourself, because people shut the door against themselves, or you don’t know.
You say, “Jesus heals”
Response: I don’t believe that.
You shut the door of healing to yourself.
“He died on the cross, He took away your pain.”
Response: I say I am sick
“Don’t say it again…”
You are shutting the door against yourself unknowingly.
Don’t say, “things are bad”
Response: Things are bad. Let me tell you the truth, things are bad.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue…you are just destroying the work of your hands by yourself without knowing.
-Nobody here will fall a victim.
You know how many people can build a rural Church in this place, of 14 million (Naira) or whatever. You know how many people can build it?
You know how many people will never build it? If they have 14 billion, they won’t build one. If they have 140 billion, they won’t build one.
Their heart is somewhere else. They are worshipping the coins.
It took me time to become a ‘Thousandnaire.’ I didn’t know when I became a millionaire. I became a billionaire without knowing by simply obeying God.
It’s all about you. I am so blessed that the devil is so disturbed. You know that! All the demons are so disturbed. How can a man be blessed like this?
He is not collecting money around. He is not prophesying for money.
How can his Ministry be so blessed? Ask what the ministry is doing. Ask what we are doing.
Nothing happens by chance, they all happen by choice.
-May you keep choosing aright in your life.
-In this highly prophetic family, no prophetic Word will fall to the ground in your life anymore.
-That is the good news.
Keep speaking faith filled words to see prophetic Words come to pass in your life.
You say to this mountain, be thou removed: you are not talking problems. You are speaking the Word as spoken by the Lord
Mark 11:23
What helped Abraham was that he was tied to that which was spoken. Church Gist. Be tied to it, what is happening around you notwithstanding.
Be tied to what God says.
Be tied to what He said in His Word.
Be tied to what He sent His prophets and you locate that in the Word and speak like that.
Whatever you believe, you freely speak. What you don’t believe, you don’t truly believe.
We have believed, therefore we have spoken – 2 Corinthians 4:13
Anything you truly believe, you freely speak. Anything a believer truly believes, freely speaks.
People ask me in those days, “how is today?”
Response: The greatest day of my life. I mean great, awesome.
Early morning, we have not done anything but great my friend. The day is great. The day is still very young but the day is great,
What you say today is what you find tomorrow.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue
“How is everything?”
Response; Well, well, well
That is not life.
“How are you doing Daddy?” Great.
You now say, “what about what is happening in town?”
Response: Great things are happening here my friend.
Great things always happen in the Kingdom. What is happening in town is irrelevant.
Great things are always happening in the Kingdom
-Great things won’t cease happening in your life.
You hear me say, “koro can’t enter here”, has it entered now?
You take your territory by the authority of faith. Wander where, to do what? How? The temperature is too high. If you are waiting for it to come in here, you will wait for eternity. It can’t.
Darkness can’t come into where light is. You can ask any darkness if he can try it. Come to where light is, you will stop being darkness forever.
-In the same vein, evil will never find its way to your household.
Thank You Jesus.
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