SOMEONE ONCE TOLD ME TO CONNECT HIM TO SOMEONE FOR ASSISTANCE.
I TOLD HIM IF ONLY HE KNOWS THE NEED OF THAT PERSON, HE WON’T BOTHER BECAUSE HE HAD MORE NEEDS THAN THE PERSON SEEKING FOR HIS ASSISTANCE.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE REPLACED GOD WITH GODFATHERS, MAKING THEM HUMAN IDOLS, THEREBY MISSING THE HAND OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.
-Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
*Everybody on the streets has needs, you are not just privileged to know their needs.
*The Church of Christ is not a club, it is a family where the Father God instructs us on the rules of that family.
*Young people: this is the best time to tie up your life with God. If you miss this season, God have mercy.
*There are many Daniels here today, there are many Daniellas here today who will rule their world by the force of delightsome obedience.
*You will tell greater stories than some of us are telling you today.
Thank You Jesus for another great day, receive our thanks in Jesus name. We are all waiting on You, we are all at Your feet to receive from You, let no one return without an encounter with Your Word in Jesus precious name.
OBEDIENCE: GATEWAY TO CHANGE OF LEVELS
Isaiah 55:8-9
My commandments might not appeal to common sense because they are not common but within my commandments lies your continuous change of levels, continuous of story because My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
To obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fats of rams – 1 Samuel 15:22
Nothing moves the hand of God like our obedience of faith.
James 2:18
It is our work of obedience that validates our faith. Abraham moved in obedience to God’s Word and God sounded from Heaven twice in response to Abraham’s obedience. Nothing moves God in our favour like our obedience of faith.
-Grace to walk in obedience to God perpetually, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
Daniel was a notable man of God and a Word ruled his life: thou shall not have any other god with Me – Exodus 20:3-5
Thou shall not bow down thyself to them: no matter who built them, no matter who commanded so.
That (Exodus chapter 20) verse 5 ruled his life in the face of that arrogant decree that everybody must bow to the image that the king had set up. No, I am going for what the King of kings said, I am going for what the Lord of Heaven said, I will rather die than bow to any graven image. I am under a bond and God showed up.
“Daniel”: the first voice that would ever answer from the den of a lion, “is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver you from the paws of the lion?” – Daniel 6:20
He said: My God has sent his angels – Daniel 6:22
God will always respond to our obedience of faith to His Word, no matter what goes on, on the earth. Obedience gave Daniel his place in history. I will never bow to your graven image, no matter who you are. Never bow. So, he was cast into the den of lions and he came out unscratched.
Daniel walked in the fear of God, he was a faithful man and there was nothing that defiles that was caught with him – Daniel 6:4-5
A man in public office, they could not find anything against him. Wake up. Before Christ died, in the age of sin, he purposed his way out of it with a heart of obedience to God’s commandment and he prevailed. Now Christ has died, the reign of sin has ended and yet people are still wallowing in it. Church Gist. He (Daniel) began his journey as one of these children and until old age, he was on key with his God.
-Somebody is here today, your choice of obedience will follow you till the end of your life.
-The fear of God will rule your life till the end of time.
-Not one person here will miss his or her place in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ.
You know there are many gods that want to contest the place of the Most High God in our lives. There are godfathers, they are like human idols, people put all their trust in them by reason of their status, thereby missing the hand of the Most High God and struggling for survival on the earth. Church Gist. Every man on the streets has needs, you may not be qualified to know his needs but those who know his needs, know that he has needs.
Somebody asked me one time that he wanted to see someone for some assistance.
I said, “if you know his needs, you won’t come near him, but you are not in the class of those who can know his needs. His need now is more than your need.”
But the Most High God has no need and He is all out to meet your need. Is it not wisdom to camp with Him? For woe unto that trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, he shall not see when good cometh, he shall abide in the dry place of the earth. But blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord God.
This Daniel had no trust in man. The king even came to cajole him to ask him, to just bow even if it is in pretense. Maybe the king even wept because he was an asset. The king was sorry that he signed the decree, but he had signed it. He said, “the Lord delivered him because he believed in his God.” If God can’t do it, let it remain undone and God said, “I am up to it any day.” You can’t come to that point and miss God.
If you cannot do this, let it remain undone: God said, “I am up to it, if you keep your faith.”
Now there are those pseudo prophets and some agents of the devil the Chaldeans, the native doctors. You come to Church small, you go there small. Let not that man think he shall receive anything from God – James 1:7-8
Daniel looked nowhere else, his trust in God was absolute, his obedience to God was to the full and God manifested Himself supernaturally to him. We saw by his unreserved obedience how he scaled strange heights in a strange land. Church Gist. You can’t tell what is in obedience until you have obeyed.
The taste of the pudding, they say is in the eating. Come and taste and you will know that the Lord is good – Psalm 34:8
The Holy Ghost once said here, “obedience may be costly but the end result is priceless and pricelessly priceless.”
Therefore, awake thou that sleepest – Ephesians 5:14
100 days of prayers will not be a substitute for obedience. Don’t kill yourself.
If you won’t stop unrighteousness, you can’t stop your way to hell. You have to stop one to get the other. Be not deceived, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God – 1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you want the Kingdom of God? Now, don’t be listed among the unrighteous. Put up a fight as someone who is determined to make heaven. Church Gist. No matter who is preaching something else, he that doeth righteous is righteous – 1 John 3:7
-You must make Heaven.
For avoidance of doubt, He listed what He calls unrighteousness. There is no ignorance there, that you don’t know that God has forgiven you all your sins, the one you have committed, the one you will commit. He didn’t list that there.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
“such were some of you but now ye are washed”: that is your new level.
“You were”: sometimes there.
You are no longer there. Something has turned.
Everybody will end this month with clear definition of things that have turned in the name of Jesus.
Strange heights: the king bowed down and worshipped Daniel, in a strange land, as a captive. Dramatic change of level – Daniel 2:46
The king thought to put him over the whole realm. He was above all the other presidents – Daniel 6:1-3
Somebody’s story has just changed.
God is simply saying, “prove me now with your obedience if I will not manifest Myself to you in all areas of your life” – John 14:21
Our obedience is the capital proof of our love for God and the resultant effect is:
I will manifest Myself to him. I will show up in his affairs. I will be there in all areas of his life. I will never leave him nor forsake him. I will always make a difference in his life.
Well, that is God speaking to someone here. The Church of Christ is not a club, it is a family where the Father God instructs us on the rules of that family so as to make the most of your membership of that family.
-No one shall be an outcast.
I know there are many Daniels here today, there are many Daniellas here today who will rule their world by the force of delightsome obedience, by the force of obedience of faith. Who will follow their God in season and out of season.
Prayers: Receive grace to walk in delightsome obedience to your God. Receive grace to walk in delightsome obedience to His commandments as contained in His Word for you. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
One tall commandment is ‘Occupy Till I Come’ because nature abhors vacuum. Church Gist. If you are not occupying with Me, the enemy will occupy you.
Luke 19:13
Occupy till I come: remain actively in partnership with Me till I come. It is for your security, it is for the preservation of your destiny.
Matthew 12:43-45
Prayers:
Grace to occupy your life with God, till the end of your life: receive it.
Grace to occupy your life with matters of the Kingdom, till He comes: receive it.
To remain occupied with God and the interest of His Kingdom till He comes: receive it.
In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
“…Carry his cross daily”. How often? Daily.
Spiritual vacation is a risk.
Walk in My Word daily. Let him pray daily.
Give us our daily bread: daily
Deliver us from evil: daily
Matthew 6:11
Grace to be a daily worshipper of God, a continuous servant of God, receive it now. Your unoccupied day is a risk because nature abhors nature. Any day you put God aside is a risk.
-You will not have such a day again in the name of Jesus.
A lot of young people are here, this is the best time to tie up your life with God. If you miss this season sir, God have mercy.
1 John 2:14 – This is your season to demonstrate strength and commitment to the Word of God, then it lives with you all the days of your life.
-You will tell great stories as you awake to your responsibilities today.
-You will tell great stories.
-You will tell greater stories than some of us are telling you today in the name of Jesus Christ.
Next Sunday is our Enough is Enough Service. Whatever you don’t want, must end that day. So make your list of ‘Enough is Enough’ and look up to God with faith to bring an end to it.
He said to that Angel that destroyed the land, “Stay now thine hand, it is enough.” That verdict will come on every item of your ‘Enough is Enough’.
2 Samuel 24:16
The forces behind those unwanted situations will be silenced permanently.
“Take off thy filthy garment from him. Enough is enough” – clothe him with a new garment. Put a crown on his head. Enough is enough
Zechariah 3:4
Every habit you hate to see, God’s verdict of enough is enough will come on it.
Fliers: Ask the Lord to breathe on these fliers, turn them to spiritual magnets, drafting multitudes into the Kingdom, bringing them out of darkness into light, establishing them in the faith, to the glory and praise of our God.
Go in peace.
-May the Word this morning change your level again.
-May your decision today secure your glorious destiny tomorrow.
The sessions today at the Youth Alive Convention will be great. God’s mighty presence shall be there. Today shall be greater than yesterday. Every day shall be an improvement of the previous.
-Your purpose for coming shall be fully realized.
-Excellence shall be your new identity in the name of Jesus.
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